Sundance Film Festival - The Salt Lake Tribune (Free subscription) | yesterday
If the Sundance Film Festival is like the eBay of independent film - a big auction site - then Sony Pictures Classics is in the process of hitting the "Buy It Now" button, getting a jump on acquisition eight days before the festival starts. According to The Hollywood Reporter, SPC is in talks to buy the distribution rights to "Rudo y Cursi," a Mexican soccer comedy directed by Carlos Cuaron (
The Hollywood Reporter: Risky Biz B (Free subscription) | yesterday
By Steven Zeitchik The old trend: buy Sundance movies moments after the premiere screening ends.The new trend: buy Sundance movies a week before the premiere begins.With the big buildup leading to bigger letdowns at the past few festivals, agencies have...
Israelity (Free subscription) | 02/01/2009
There’s plenty of buzz surrounding the possibility that Israeli animated documentary Waltz with Bashir may end up nominated for a Foreign Language Oscar. The official Academy Award nominations won’t be announced until January 22, leaving us plenty of time to focus instead on how the movie has already helped a great deal with putting Israeli [...]
DeepGenre (Free subscription) | 31/12/2008
I have just watched The Seeker: The Dark is Rising, a year after it came out (DVR is your friend, except maybe in this case) and I’m gasping in horror at how bad it was, and for no good reason. You’ve got all the elements that would seem to make a great movie: Beloved children’s [...]
Hindu (Free subscription) | 28/12/2008
Manjula Padmanabhan, whose latest novel Escape is out, tells AYESHA MATTHAN that reality and experience are important, not geography
From the Front Row (Free subscription) | 08/12/2008
is reporting that Catherine Hardwicke, who just delivered the highest grossing opening weekend ever for a female director with Twilight, has passed on directing the sequel, New Moon, slated for release late next year or early 2010.Hardwicke (right) with Robert Pattinson on the set of Twilight.Sources cite the rushed production schedule as well as previous engagements as reasons for Hardwicke's departure.The...
Film School Rejects (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
Guillermo del Toro (Pan's Labyrinth) might just be the energizer bunny of film directors. He's got projects lined up through 2010 and now is ready to direct The Witches based on Roald Dahl's childrens book. Nicholas Roeg did a good version of the book in 1990, but del Toro sees this ...
Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE star GERARD WAY's graphic novel THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY is set to be turned into a major movie. Movie executives at Universal have reportedly jumped on ...
GreenCine Daily (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
"What is it about the film Vertigo that compels people to pay $585 to take a ten-hour tour of the remaining landmarks and locations from that film (or, if they're on a budget, $285 for a five-hour tour)?" asks...
Best Movies 2008 (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
We have news today of a stop animation film based on the book The Witches by Roald Dahl. We get word of this project thanks to our friends over at MTV: Guillermo del ToroTwo years ago, it was announced that Alfonso Cuaron and Guillermo del Toro would be teaming up to remake Roald Dahl’s classic [...]
[CinemaRatty] Lattest Articles (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
We have news today of a stop animation film based on the book The Witches by Roald Dahl. We get word of this project thanks to our friends over at MTV Guillermo del ToroTwo years ago, it was announced...
FEARnet: News & Reviews (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
When I think about Roald Dahl's The Witches, I can't help but be overcome with fond memories of my childhood. Angelica Huston used to freak me out in that movie. Bad. Maybe that's...
Filmstalker (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
We heard some time ago that Guillermo Del Toro and Alfonso Cuarón were set to adapt another Roald Dahl story when Del Toro suggested The Witches, and even produced a script in lightning time. Cuarón loved the script and the project moved forward with Cuarón set to direct. However news today suggests that Del Toro is adding to his already burgeoning slate and is going to direct the film as well....Visit...
The Latin Americanist (Free subscription) | 28/11/2008
Today is the 47th birthday of Mexican director-producer Alfonso Cuarón . "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" and "Children of Men" are two of the films he’s best-known for, yet for my money his best work was 2001’s " Y tu mamá también ". Below is the trailer for that movie , one of my favorite films: Sources- imdb.com, YouTube
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 28/11/2008
Director Jonás Cuarón, 29-year-old son of Alfonso Cuarón, has had an interesting idea. He has made a movie about a Mexican kid and the hopeless romantic crush he gets on a twentysomething American student staying with his family. The twist is that everything is presented as a narrative "slideshow" succession of still photographs taken by Cuarón himself. Friends and family act out the roles, with characters'...
