David O. Russell ("I Heart Huckabees") and Tony Kaye ("American History X") are both fearsomely talented directors and, from most accounts, extremely difficult human beings; their projects attract trouble on a regular basis. Both had the bad luck to get tied up with Capitol Films...
As someone who spends plenty of time trolling the coming soon calendar for our seasonal previews, I'll see many films that look intriguing, but are pulled at the last minute by their distributor. Or worse -- they end up like "The Marc Pease Experience," a Ben Stiller-Jason Schwartzman comedy...
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Filed under: Biz, Ben Stiller, Anna Kendrick, Jessica Biel, Tenderness, Margaret, Russell Crowe, Maiden Heist, David O. Russell, Nailed, Matt Damon, Todd Louiso, Jason Schwartzman, Kenneth Lonergan, Christopher Walken, Marc Pease Experience
By Steven Zeitchik We know David O. Russell is most heralded for "Flirting with Disaster" and "Three Kings." And they're plenty good. But for our money his best work is his first work, "Spanking the Monkey," that at once...