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"I'm going to Bollywood!"
Tue, Nov 25 2008 11:31 AM

Paul Schrader, who actually has a movie coming out this year -- "Adam Resurrected," whose circus/Holocaust combo dooms it to "The Day the Clown Cried" associations -- is going with the latest trend and heading to Bollywood. "I've been getting indie movies made for 20 years," he told the Hollywood Reporter. "But I take a... Read More...

by IFC.com - Indie Eye

Filed under: In the works, Incredible Love, Singh Is Kinng, Paul Schrader, Adam Resurrected, Slumdog Millionaire, Danny Boyle, Trendspotting, Hisss, Jennifer Lynch

In the works: Opposite George Clooney.
Mon, Nov 24 2008 1:39 PM

Who's starring opposite George Clooney in Jason Reitman's new film "Up in the Air," about a man in pursuit of his millionth frequent flier mile? Variety says Vera Farmiga will play "will play a businesswoman who develops a romantic relationship with Clooney's character through meetings in airports and hotels around the country."... Read More...

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Filed under: In the works, Martyrs, Twilight, Vera Farmiga, George Clooney, New Moon, Serge Gainsbourg (vie heroique), Vengeance, Sylvie Testud, Up in the Air, Details, Johnny Hallyday, Anna Kendrick, Johnnie To, Eric Elmosnino, China Miéville, Jason Reitman, Pascal Laugier

In the works: David Lynch's new web series.
Tue, Nov 4 2008 10:44 AM

In the works: David Lynch has signed with digital media company On Networks to make a new web series! Unfortunately, it'll be based on his book "Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness and Creativity," so it's best to be ready for more transcendental meditation rantings than strange narratives. Lynch has offered up online videos before... Read More...

by IFC.com - Indie Eye

Filed under: In the works, Keira Knightley, David Lynch, Three Stooges, Gore Verbinski, Franka Potente, Last Night, Farrelly brothers, Herb and Dorothy

The week on IFC.com: Mickey Rourke, soundtracks and post-Iraq road movies.
Fri, Oct 3 2008 6:18 PM

This blog should be back to its regular self next week or so. In the meantime, a round-up of what's been happening on the rest of IFC.com: + Review: "Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist" - Matt Singer wonder why, for a movie that supposedly revolves around music, no one in this teen rom-com seems to like it all that much. + Video: "The Wrestler"... Read More...

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Filed under: In the works

"Che" goes to IFC Films.
Wed, Sep 10 2008 10:55 AM

It looks like those rumors that Steven Soderbergh's "Che" was going to be released by Magnolia Pictures were just that -- this is from the freshest press release: IFC Films has acquired all North American rights to Steven Soderbergh's epic "Che" starring Benicio Del Toro, produced by Laura Bickford and Benicio Del Toro and written... Read More...

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Filed under: In the works, Che, Steven Soderbergh

In the works: John Lennon, the movie; "The Strangers 2: Strangerer."
Fri, Aug 29 2008 10:42 AM

There've already been two recent films about his assassin, so it seems to be time to take on the considerable challenge of the man himself -- Turner Prize-nominated artist Sam Taylor-Wood will make her directorial debut with John Lennon biopic "Nowhere Boy," written by "Control" screenwriter Matt Greenhalgh and apparently focusing on his... Read More...

by IFC.com - Indie Eye

Filed under: In the works, Liv Tyler, Ben McKenzie, Voltron, Sam Taylor-Wood, John Lennon, Ole Christian Madsen, Nowhere Boy, Dalton Trumbo's Johnny Got His Gun, Amos Gitai, The Strangers, Flame & Citron, AJ Schnack, One Day You'll Understand, Convention, Control, Max Makowski

In the works: Aaron Sorkin and Facebook are now friends.
Wed, Aug 27 2008 1:43 PM

Aaron Sorkin has a Facebook page. It says that Aaron Sorkin is writing a Facebook movie: Welcome. I'm Aaron Sorkin. I understand there are a few other people using Facebook pages under my name--which I find more flattering than creepy--but this is me. I don't know how I can prove that but feel free to test me. I've just agreed to write a movie for... Read More...

by IFC.com - Indie Eye

Filed under: In the works, Connected, Benny Chan, Aaron Sorkin, Coco Chanel, The Amazing Truth About Queen Raquela, Audrey Tautou, Cellular, August, Facebook, Olaf de Fleur, Christophe Barratier, Anne Fontaine, The Chorus, Austin Chick, Coco Avant Chanel, Shirley MacLaine, Paris 36

In the works: "Pump your brakes kid, that man's a national treasure."
Tue, Aug 19 2008 4:37 PM

In the works: Paul Hogan has a new film -- "Charlie & Boots" will follow "a father and son who travel from Victoria to Cape York to fulfill their lifelong ambition to fish off Australia's northern tip." Hogan's last, 2004's "Strange Bedfellows," found him and Michael Caton pretending to be a gay couple in order to... Read More...

by IFC.com - Indie Eye

Filed under: Joel Coen, In the works, Thomas Turgoose, Paul Hogan, The Scouting Book for Boys, Sam Raimi, Terry Bradshaw, Sleeper, Diane Keaton, Ethan Coen, Charlie & Boots, Walking on Dead Fish, Smother, Tom Cruise, Tom Harper, A Serious Man, Franklin Martin

In the works: Willem Dafoe does "Antichrist."
Wed, Aug 13 2008 9:55 AM

In the works: "Antichrist," Lars von Trier's $11 million English-language horror flick, having gotten its funding down late last month, now has a cast -- Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg "will play a couple who retreat to an isolated cabin in the woods following the death of their child." Dafoe's actually coming back for more... Read More...

by IFC.com - Indie Eye

Filed under: In the works, Rinko Kikuchi, Antichrist, Lars von Trier, Map of the Sounds of Tokyo, Katsuhito Ishii, Hilary Swank, An Omar Broadway Film, The Wheel of Time, Willem Dafoe, French Women Don't Get Fat, Isabel Coixet, Robert Jordan, Charlotte Gainsbourg

Remakesploitation.
Tue, Aug 12 2008 1:36 PM

I'm catching up from a few days off the grid, so it's still news to me that the Telegraph reported last week that Britney Spears may or may not have been picked by Quentin Tarantino to play Varla in a remake of the Russ Meyer's 1965 "Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!" that may or may not be happening: A source said: "Quentin is convinced... Read More...

by IFC.com - Indie Eye

Filed under: In the works, Inglorious Bastards, Quentin Tarantino, Switchblade Sisters, Russ Meyer, Tura Satana, Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, The Fountainhead, Rumors, Jack Hill

In the works: Murakami's "Norwegian Wood"?
Thu, Jul 31 2008 11:04 AM

In the works: A great bit of news from indirectly, Screen Daily: French-Vietnamese director Tran Anh Hung, of the acclaimed "Vertical Ray of the Sun" and "The Scent of Green Papaya," will next been working on a Japanese-language adaptation of Haruki Murakami's "Norwegian Wood." The only work of Murakami's to be adapted to... Read More...

by IFC.com - Indie Eye

Filed under: In the works, Two Lovers, Tran Anh Hung, Norwegian Wood, Rock 'n' Roll High School, Choose Connor, Alex Winter, James Gray, Haruki Murakami, Luke Eberl

Ingloriously yours, possibly even by Cannes 2009.
Tue, Jul 29 2008 3:27 PM

"Universal Lands Tarantino's 'Inglorious Bastards' Despite Hatred Of Harvey" headlines Nikke Finke at Deadline Hollywood Daily. And that's all she's got as I'm posting this. Still, yay....? Over at the New York Sun, Grady Hendrix compares Enzo Castellari's 1978 film with Tarantino's proposed remake, writing: Mr. Tarantino... Read More...

by IFC.com - Indie Eye

Filed under: In the works, Inglorious Bastards, Quentin Tarantino, Enzo Castellari

In the works: "Cocaine Cowboys" the feature, "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" the remake.
Thu, Jul 24 2008 11:51 AM

In the works: Journalist and screenwriter Evan Wright, best known for penning the book on which "Generation Kill" is based, has been hired to write the screenplay for a feature version of Billy Corben's guilty pleasure doc "Cocaine Cowboys," about Miami and the rise of the Colombian cocaine barons. Mark Wahlberg will star, and the in-demand... Read More...

by IFC.com - Indie Eye

Filed under: In the works, Mark Wahlberg, Phillip Noyce, Peter Berg, Synecdoche New York, Captain Blood, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Evan Wright, Ciao, Yen Tan, Kelly Reichardt, Wendy and Lucy, Charlie Kaufman, Cocaine Cowboys, Errol Flynn

Bollywood -- so hot right now.
Thu, Jul 10 2008 2:59 PM

Not so long ago, taking roles in mainstream films overseas was pretty much the domain of faded stars who needed some cash and figured the flicks were likely never going to see the light of day in the U.S. -- Coolio playing an over-the-top villain in "China Strike Force" is just a less dignified version of Jodie Foster doing a Japanese cosmetics commercial... Read More...

by IFC.com - Indie Eye

Filed under: In the works, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Snoop Dogg, Coolio, Incredible Love, Singh Is Kinng, Akshay Kumar, Sylvester Stallone

But what will become of "Princess"?
Wed, Jul 9 2008 4:54 PM

Palisades Media, which Variety describes as a "Gotham-based securitization and P&A financing specialist," has picked up most of the UK Tartan Films library, having snagged Tartan USA's library back in May. Palisades' chairman-CEO Vin Roberti has some promising things to say: Roberti said that he will continue to buy titles for both territories... Read More...

by IFC.com - Indie Eye

Filed under: In the works, Lake City, Frontrunners, Tartan