Right now, Woody Allen's actually very underrated, for once in his life. His reputation has slipped and he's still making smart films, and making them fairly well. I honestly think they're all worth a space in any decently sized DVD collection.
Download the trailer for his latest, Cassandra's Dream. I'm very interested in how he's using Colin Farrel here.
- Anne of Green Gables is coming back. There's a very now casting call out: upload yourself to YouTube if you want to be in it. I saw this story at Cinematical.
- The full list of cinemas showing the new digital rerelease of Goldfinger across the UK has been unveiled.
- The poor chimpanzee actor cast as Chim Chim in Speed Racer doesn't seem to be having a good time. He bit a human actor and was allegedly beaten. PETA are on the case, but their protests seem to be yielding no results so far.
- The new Spider Baby DVD sounds pretty good.
- Danny Boyle is chewing the Slum Dog Millionaire plot over again. Nothing has changed since we last heard about it.
- A selection of Larry Sanders episodes have gone on sale through iTunes. Perhaps if they're a huge success, the remaining installments (the majority - this is a meagre sampling) will get unleashed.
- Michel Gagne is offering a nice insight into the development of just a moment of Ratatouille.
- Woody Allen has revealed a number of cast members from his next film: Scarlett Johansson, Javier Bardem, Penelope Cruz, Patricia Clarkson, Kevin Dunn, Chris Messina, Zak Orth, Carrie Preston, Pablo Schreiber, Abel Folk, Lluis Homar, Joel Joan, Julio Perillan and Mireira Ros.
- The Grey Gardens musical (yep - derived from the Maysles' documentary - what next? A can can version of W.R - Mysteries of the Organism?) is to close at the end of July. Will Drew Barrymore's fiction film adaptation ever happen?
- The Flash Gordon promotional panel has been videotaped and uploaded.
- The trailer for Resurrecting the Champ is now on YouTube. Wonder who uploaded that? Anyway, it'll be nice to see Sam Jackson as a down-and-out and a boxer in the same film.
- Jimmy Fallon has told Howard Stern his I Dream of Jeannie film is off. I found the link at Cinematical.
- Rockstar have responded to the BBFC's banning of their Manhunt 2 game. Can they appeal and turn this around?
- Steve Miner's Day of the Dead rehash is getting some reshoots. Hopefully the entire film, hopefully reshot by a completely different director.
- The Guardian are calling Woody Allen's next Midnight in Barcelona. It starts filming next month. In Barcelona. At Midnight. Possibly. Javier Bardem, Penelope Cruz and Scarlett Johansson - two out of three ain't bad.
- Katie Holmes is pregnant again. Possibly. Her best years were ahead of her.
- Neil Gaiman doesn't think Shia LaBeouf is necessarily young enough (or young looking enough) to get the part of Sexton in Death and Me. He also suggests that Warner Independent might be bankrolling the film, not New Line...
- MySpace have launched their Miniside Network today. It's a repository of shortened episodes of old TV shows and... er... that's about it.
- The NYTimes piece on Marvel Movies is a must-see, if only for the picture of The Hulk, David Maisel and Iron Man.
- More details of the Twin Peaks Gold Box are surfacing.
- JoBlo have a pretty darn good Dark Knight set report.
- Cartoon Brew have linked to an interesting video. An abandoned cave in Cody, Montana apparently bears the signature of Walt Disney. Could it really be real?
- Amy Pascal at Sony is softening us up for the future of the Spider-Man franchise: stand alone narratives with different creatives and, every now and then, a new actor in the lead. Spider-Man 4 is to be the On Her Majesty's Secret Service of the series, I suppose.
- Regal Cinema's Complain-o-tron is finally going wide.
- Mark Verheiden has the job of writing a Teen Titans movie. Who do you get to direct that? Not Victor Salva, obviously... but who?
- The remake of Midnight is to be written by Michael Arndt and will star Reese Witherspoon in the Claudette Colbert role. The original is really very, very, very good so, of course, I'm nervous about this but, well, Arndt and Witherspoon? Seems to be working out very well so far.
- After finishing Sugar, Ryan Fleck will adapt Special Topics in Calamity Physics from Marisha Pessl's novel. He's also attached to an adatation of Ned Vizzini's It's Kind of a Funny Story. I really have to track down Half Nelson and see if all of this is something to get excited about or not.
- The Weinsteins are to release Woody Allen's Cassandra's Dream. It was looking pretty hairy for the film for a while with no buyers stepping up (or at least, not as far as anybody knew) but at least it should get a decent release now.
- The remake of The Women is finally set to go ahead. I'm quite disappointed Todd Haynes isn't directing, but fingers crossed for Diane English anyway, despite her suspicious cast list: Meg Ryan, Eva Mendes, Jada Pinkett Smith, Anette Bening, Candace Bergen and Debra Messing.
