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.
“True Blood” is back next year but it ends its first season on the same weekend that gives us “Twilight.” Will we learn who made Lizzy Caplan fly away like Superman? And what Michelle Forbes wants with Tara?
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.
