Talk To The Poster, 'Cause The Cheadle 'Aint Listening

Mike 'Genius' Markus found a poster for Talk to Me. Click to make bigger.

Not With A Bang But A Stinker

Danny Boyle's Sunshine will be the closing film at this year's LA Film Festival, on July 1st.

The opening film looks much better: Kasi Lemmons' Talk to Me, a biopic of "Petey" Greene starring Don Cheadle and Chiwetel Ejiofor. If you haven't seen Lemmons' previous films, I'd particularly recommend Eve's Bayou, but also to a lesser extent, I suppose, The Caveman's Valentine - both of which were brilliantly shot by Amy Vincent.

Redbelt Readying

Variety have spliied the beans regarding David Mamet's Redbelt, and it sounds delicious. Here's the summary as they posted it:

Redbelt stars Chiwetel Ejiofor as a Jiu-Jitsu master who has eschewed prizefighting to operate a self-defense studio. When he is conned by a cabal of movie stars and fight promoters, he must enter the ring to fight in order to regain his honor.

David Mamet and 'conned by a cabal of movie stars' go together like cussing peas and tautly plotted carrots.

Variety assume Ricky Jay and Rebecca Pidgeon will be in the cast somehwere. Don't we all.