Early last month, Brett Ratner did an interview with MTV regarding BEVERLY HILLS COP 4.
A particular quote in the interview lead many to the logical conclusion that the new BHC project would have a considerably softer tone/rating than its predecessors.
When asked what is biggest challenge would be, Ratner seemed to indicate that his new film would be geared towards a very PG audience.
For those of you worried that Greg Mottola might succumb to the sophomore slump after SUPERBAD, two things: 1) he already beat it with SUPERBAD (we'll take that new DAYTRIPPERS DVD whenever you're ready, Sony), and 2) this new trailer for ADVENTURELAND (currently attached to TWILIGHT) is pretty goddamn irresistible.
Timothy Olyphant, so promising in DEADWOOD and so devoid of gravity in everything else, has signed on to play the lead in a remake of George Romero's THE CRAZIES (a project previously covered HERE).
A few weeks back we learned that Will Smith and Steven Spielberg were teaming up for a remake of Chan-wook Park's 2003 film OLDBOY (more details HERE). This news had many imagining a dramatically sissified, thoroughly neutered commercial vehicle. WHICH...could still be the case.
I spoke to Ron Howard recently as part of the big FROST/NIXON push, and I'll have the full interview for you you shortly. But when I saw the item that Hercules posted about "Arrested Development" mastermind Mitch Hurwitz signing on to write and direct the feature film version of the fan favorite, I felt like I should run this little snippet of my conversation with Howard just to add fuel to the "AD" fire, before the news is dated.
One of the pure joys of the Chicago Film Festival this year was A CHRISTMAS TALE, the latest work by French writer-director Arnaud Desplechin (KINGS & QUEEN, ESTHER KAHN, MY SEX LIFE...), a film less about the holidays and more about how even the most demented, dysfunctional, back-stabbing family members can pull together in times of crisis... if only they then can get just a little more screwed up than they were before.
TheNorthlander deserves a lot of credit... he was the first one to call it on LET THE RIGHT ONE IN. He’s been talking about that movie for what seems like at least a year now, way before anyone else was, and he was right.
As a result, I’m really pleased to have him at the Stockholm Film Festival, weighing in on everything he’s going to be seeing over the next ten days. He started with a big batch of press screenings, and let’s see what he checked out:
Vern is the greatest writer about film writing about film anywhere that film is written about. If you disagree, I will pay a big guy to punch you in a soft place.
I haven't seen TRANSPORTER 3 yet, but thanks to this review, I feel like I have. Every word's a gem, Vern. Thanks for the huge Friday morning belly laugh.
A strange thing happened on my way to ridicule my wife’s love for TWILIGHT… I kinda sorta fell a little in love too.
I’m a softy, I admit it. I love romance, be it silly or serious… momentary or eternal. I’m a sucker for stories about people that shouldn’t be together that just… despite the order of the food chain, find a reason to fight their natural instincts and… well… get it on.
Greetings. I thought I'd take a break from my temporary AICN sabbatical ("Who are you supposed to be?" asks most of the readership) to drop in a review. I've been sitting on a half-finished FROST/NIXON review for about a month -- for reasons I'll go into when I finally submit my review -- but as AICN's Australian correspondent, it's fitting that I should return to review the largeness that is... AUSTRALIA.
