Paul Verhoeven gets funding for his film about Jesus
Paul Verhoeven is make a secular movie about Jesus, which obviously won’t be controversial at all. Jesus of Nazareth, based on a book ...
Tag: adaptation
Cloud Atlas comes out stateside on October 26th
For a while it appeared that the ambitious adaptation of Cloud Atlas from Tom Tykwer and the Wachowskis was going to come out ...
Paramount wants Justin Timberlake for Baywatch
Because nobody was asking for it, Paramount is reportedly after Justin Timberlake for the lead in a Baywatch film. Long in development, the ...
Trailers
Trailer: Anna Karenina
Video: Anna Karenina – trailer All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. That introductory aphorism to ...
Reviews
Japan Cuts Review: Chronicle of My Mother
[For the month of July, we will be covering the New York Asian Film Festival and the (also New York-based) Japan Cuts Film ...
Attack The Block’s Joe Cornish logs on for Snow Crash
Cyberpunk can seem ridiculously dated in our age of constant connectivity, but works by authors like William Gibson and Neal Stephenson are so ...
Michael Bay’s Ninja Turtles reboot pushed back to 2014
We’ve been keeping tabs on the Michael Bay-produced Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reboot for some time. This includes the alien-origin kerfuffle and Bay’s ...
Reviews
Japan Cuts Review: Asura
[For the month of July, we will be covering the New York Asian Film Festival and the (also New York-based) Japan Cuts Film ...
Nineteen Eighty-Four finds a screenwriter
“Now I know why you’re depressed,” my ninth grade math teacher said after he spotted me reading Orwell’s 1984 at my desk, making what ...
First footage from Ang Lee’s Life of Pi
Holy crap, a tiger! Life of Pi is Ang Lee’s upcoming adaption of the bestselling book by Yann Martel about a boy who ...
Bored to Death could get a film, says Danson
HBO’s Bored to Death was unceremoniously canceled following its third season last year, leaving fans of the unapologetically yuppieish noire-comedy as unsatisfied as ...
Jim Henson Company animating Frog and Toad
The Jim Henson Company may be returning to filmmaking after half a decade. They’ve announced that they’ve acquired the rights to adapt Arnold ...