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Vulture (Free subscription) | yesterday
"We are working our asses off trying to get Oscar nominations, and he is so abusive that it's crushing," says a Paramount "insider." After a screening of David Fincher's The Curious Case of Benjamin Button , the director "hit [former Paramount chief John] Goldwyn in the chest with his hand and hurt him and said, 'That's for you, for not greenlighting the movie when you had a chance … If we never hear...
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Best Movies 2008 (Free subscription) | yesterday
Remember that item we ran last week — David Fincher to direct Keanu Reeves in a movie about a Chef? We didn’t know much about the project back then, but an anonymous scooper has filled me in. The Untitled Chef Project is a screenplay by Steven Knight, the screenwriter behind Dirty Pretty Things, Amazing Grace, Eastern Promises, and Martin Scorsese’s upcoming Dennis Lehane adaptation Shutter Island....
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Defamer (Free subscription) | yesterday
The rimjob ecstasy of that first Benjamin Button screening has worn off for director David Fincher, who is said to be tormenting Paramount underlings just in time for the film's Oscar push. Studio...
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Jossip (Free subscription) | yesterday
David Fincher is the director of such dark cult classics as Se7en, Fight Club, and the new Oscar contender The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Dude sure loves him some Brad Pitt, but then again, who doesn't? But Fincher is not helping out his award-winning cause by becoming the biggest diva director in Hollywood since [...]
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Rotten Tomatoes (Free subscription) | yesterday
It comes from one of those dreaded unnamed sources, but /Film's got some more details about that rumored David Fincher/Keanu Reeves chef project, said to come from a Steven Knight screenplay.
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Film Junk (Free subscription) | 30/11/2008
It was a pretty laidback week around the movie blogosphere, with our good friends south of the border primarily cooking up turkey dinners rather than cooking up major headlines. The Screen Actor’s Guild strike is still being discussed and drawing ever closer, meanwhile some details leaked out about a new Michael Cera movie that may [...]
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Screenhead (Free subscription) | yesterday
Following word that David Fincher was teaming up with Keanu Reeves for a new project, Slashfilm is reporting that the feature is Steven Knight’s The Untitled Chef Project. The script has been written by the aforementioned Knight and was featured on the 2007 Black List and is now set up at Paramount. It follows a Michelin-level [...]
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This is ShowBiz (Free subscription) | 30/11/2008
Keanu's a Chef, Dude: David Fincher will direct Keanu Reeves in a movie about a chef, according to Production Weekly . That's pretty much all anyone knows about the Sony-backed project, but we're guessing it's about a chef who must keep his oven above 350 degrees, lest it explode and kills dozens of innocent people. Again, just a guess. [ Production Weekly via /film ] Domestic Trouble: Eddie Izzard...
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Brokedown Palace (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
DIRECTOR ACTS LIKE A DOPE : In Internet speed time this is a day late and a link short, but it bears mentioning DIRECTOR David Fincher is not helping his movie “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” with his imperious ways. “We are working our asses off trying to get Oscar nominations, and he is so abusive that it’s crushing,” said an insider at Paramount. “Whatever we do, it’s not enough.” After an...
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New York Post (Free subscription) | yesterday
DIRECTOR David Fincher is not helping his movie "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" with his imperious ways. "We are working our asses off trying to get Oscar nominations, and he is so abusive that it's crushing," said an insider at Paramount...
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Film Junk (Free subscription) | yesterday
0:00 - Intro / Jay’s Driving Test Results / In-House Stuff 9:35 - Headlines: David Fincher’s Chef, Impending Actor’s Strike, Criterion Collection Online 23:35 - What We Watched: The Pixar Story, Special, Man on Wire, Role Models, C.S.I., The Shield, Journey to the Center of the Earth 3-D, Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. [...]
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Just Jared (Free subscription) | 30/11/2008
USA Today has a great new article on Brad Pitt and David Fincher, the director for their upcoming age-reversing film The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Here are two of the most interesting paragraphs from said piece: “To play Button as a senior citizen, [Brad] had to be caked in makeup and wear prosthetic noses [...]
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Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 29/11/2008
BRAD PITT is filmmaker DAVID FINCHER's muse - because the pair is so easygoing, according to the actor's THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON co-star TARAJI HENSON. The ...
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SoundtrackNet (Free subscription) | 29/11/2008
David Fincher's first PG-13 film, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button , is based on a short story by noted author F. Scott Fitzgerald. A rather interesting biographically-laid out story told through flashback, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is about the life and times of a Mr. Benjamin Button (Brad Pitt) - who was "born under unusual circumstances". Dying from cancer in 2005, the very elderly...
