Monday at the MOVIES
MTV Makes VALIANT Effort
MTV Films has picked up the movie rights to Holly Black's teen novel VALIANT: A MODERN TALE OF FAERIE.
The story centers on seventeen-year-old Valerie Russell who runs away to New York City, where she tries to escape a life that has utterly betrayed her. Sporting a new identity, she takes up with a gang of squatters who live in the city's labyrinthine subway system. But there's something eerily beguiling about Val's new friends. They talk of monsters in the subway tunnels and shoot up an amber-colored powder. When a bewildered Val allows one of her new "friends" to talk her into tracking down the hidden lair of a creature, Val finds herself bound into service by a troll named Ravus. EDITOR'S NOTE: A TROLL NAMED RAVUS, HUH? SOUNDS LIKE MY OLD BOSS AT THEPLACETHATSHALLNOTBENAMED. (NAME WASN'T RAVUS, BUT THE TROLL PART SURE FITS).
Chuck Roven and Alex Gartner will produce.
Visnjic confirms 007 rumours
A few weeks back it was rumoured that "E.R" doc Goran Visnjic was being eyeballed for the role of the ever-transforming James Bond. According to MI6, the actor has confirmed that he is indeed in the running to be Pierce Brosnan's proxy, with another screen test booked for next Wednesday for "Casino Royale". S
ounds like the Franchise fathers like him.
Meantime, and surprisingly enough, John Cleese and Judi Dench might be returning to the franchise they assumed they had also - like Brosnan - been booted from. Not so, says Yahoo! with Cleese and Dench signed to appear in "Casino Royale".
Happy to hear they're at least keeping some successful elements. EDITOR'S NOTE: YAWN. (A BETTER MOVIE WOULD BE SOMETHING WITH CLEESE AND DENCH AND SKIP THE WHOLE BORING BOND THING. UNLESS IT'S CLIVE OWEN, OF COURSE.).
Latest Ripley film never to see light of day?
He may be Talented, but no one seems too interested in a demo of Patricia Highsmith's boys' gift.
"Ripley Under Ground", another book to film transfer featuring the devious character Tom Ripley, and starring Barry Pepper in the role previously played by sandy-haired Matt Damon in "The Talented Mr Ripley", may never be released, says one of the film's stars.
"Batman Begins" star Tom Wilkinson filmed the movie quite a few moons back, he tells Hit, and there's no sign of a release anytime soon. "It doesn't even have a distribution deal and it doesn't look like it will get one, so that's that", says the actor.
Granted, "Under Ground" did have a home at one stage. Lions Gate Intl. had picked up international sales rights to it at one stage.
The film, which also stars Alan Cumming, Jacinda Barrett, Claire Forlani, Ian Hart and Willem Dafoe, was acquired from German media funder Cinerenta GmbH.
Directed by Roger Spottiswoode, "Under Ground" tells of a hot young artist who is killed and a resourceful Ripley, livng in London, who covers up the crime and tries to keep the friend's name alive in order to exploit his legacy and reap millions in the process. Those that have caught the film say it's almost a dark comedy in contrast to the other "Ripley" films which were more edge-of-the-seat suspense thrillers.EDITOR'S NOTE: GOOD CAST. AND THEY'VE BOTHERED TO FILM IT, SO WHY NOT SHOW IT? I MEAN, WHAT ABOUT CABLE AT LEAST?
Both Alfie's unite for Sleuth
Batty butler Michael Caine is eyeing a remake of his classic "Sleuth" (1972).
The "Batman Begins" star will team with Jude Law - who ironically starred in a remake of another of Caine's classics, "Alfie" - for the retool.
"Jude Law and I want to remake Sleuth. We have a very good rewrite by Harold Pinter and we might do that", Caine tells The Winnipeg Sun . "I figured everybody else is remaking my movies. I'll remake one. And Jude's already remade one of mine". EDITOR'S NOTE: AND IT SAVES ALL THAT MONEY ON WRITERS, JUST RE-DOING THE OLD STUFF!
MTV sheds some more light on the project, saying Caine would play an older character in the film, and the younger version of himself would be played by Law.
The Mystery Thriller tells of a man who loves games and theater and invites his wife's lover to meet him, setting up a battle of wits with potentially deadly results.
Bettany is all Smiles
His wife's done the comic book thing, and now the one that wears the pants wants his cut of superhero stardom too.
Paul Bettany - gifted actor and the lucky sod that shares a doona with "Hulk" star Jennifer Connelly each and every night - has emerged as a surprise contender for the role of The Joker in the "Batman Begins" sequel.
An insider tells Batman-On-Film.com that the "Beautiful Mind" and "A Knight's Tale" star is now officially in the running to play the killer clown. His competition are Australian actor Lachy Hulme and the wizard of Weird, Crispin Glover.
The same scooper debunked rumours that ex-Jedi Knight Mark Hamill is also being considered for the role of the Joker. According to the tipster, Warner believes the actor is 'too old' for the part.EDITOR'S NOTE: AWWW....HE LOOKED SUPER AT THE AFI AWARDS SALUTE TO UNCLE GEORGE. AND IT'S A LOSS TO THEM NOT CONSIDER HIM, SINCE HIS VOICE-WORK JOKER WAS A-PLUS.
In the next "Batman" film, the Caped Crusader and Harvey Dent (rumoured to be played by "Scream" star and Naomi Watts beau' Liev Schreiber) hatch a plot to catch the sinister Joker.EDITOR'S NOTE: OK, I'M LOSING MY BATMAN BIBLE SENSE....HARVEY DENT ENDS UP BECOMING WHICH BAD GUY?
AND SPEAKING OF CLIVE OWEN (WHICH WE WERE A COUPLE OF ITEMS AGO.)........
Clive Owen to star in Elizabeth sequel
Well, it's not quite Bond, but it's still her Majesty's service - if only, a little less secret than the going's on at MI6.
According to The Telegraph, 007 contender Clive Owen has signed to share screen time with Cate Blanchett in the "Elizabeth" sequel.
The Brit plays Sir Walter Raleigh in the $20 million dollar follow-up, "Elizabeth: The Golden Age", which will detail the Tudor monarch's tempestuous relationship with Raleigh and suggest that Elizabeth was infatuated with the courtier and adventurer.
The exact nature of the Queen's relationship with Raleigh, which was the talk of the Elizabethan Court, continues to fuel speculation. Some historians believe that the Queen's extravagant largesse towards the former soldier, by granting properties and trading monopolies, was proof of a deep infatuation. There is also ample evidence to suggest that she was jealous of his relationships with other women. He was thrown in the Tower for a time when it emerged that he had seduced one of her ladies in waiting.
A source close to the film, which will be directed by Shekhar Kapur, who also directed Elizabeth, said the casting of Blanchett and Owen was the stuff of cinema magic. "These are two stars who are capable of generating some real electricity," he said. "We are talking about two of the most beautiful people to grace the big screen." EDITOR'S NOTE: YES. YES WE ARE. A TALENTED TOO, DRAT THEM.
The new film will also show the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588 and the execution of Mary Queen of Scots.
ELIZABETH AND ELTON:
It's been ages since Harry Knowles's Ain't It Cool News site coughed up anything worth a click. A dearth of genuine scoops and a flood of fanboy drooling long ago turned AICN into another dead end in cyberspace
.
But like a zombie rising from the grave, Knowles has come up with something that recalls the AICN glory days of yore.
It's a seven-minute trailer for Cameron Crowe's new movie, Elizabethtown, that reveals much about both the film and Crowe's mindset.
Scheduled for an Oct. 14 release (wanna bet it will be at the Toronto International Film Festival before that?) Elizabethtown stars Orlando Bloom as a suicidal designer for a trendy Oregon shoe company. A failed product launch and the sudden demise of his father sends him on a voyage of personal growth to his hometown of Elizabethtown, Ky.
Enroute he meets flight attendant Claire (Kirsten Dunst), who, rumour has it, proves to him that life is still worth living. EDITOR'S NOTE: BLOOM AND DUNST....TALK ABOUT PRETTY PEOPLE ON SCREEN, HUH?
You can figure out as much by watching the extra-long trailer made especially for AICN, or so Knowles claims, at http://www.aint-it-cool-news.com.
The trailer is cut to the strains of "My Father's Gun," a 35-year-old Elton John tune, making this at least the second song by the piano man to be given prominent placement on a Crowe movie soundtrack. Remember "Tiny Dancer" from Almost Famous?
Not sure why Crowe is still jonesing for John, but the trailer suggests he's also found inspiration in the films of Paul Thomas Anderson and the TV series Six Feet Under. The Elizabethtown website (http://www.elizabethtown.com) is particularly reminiscent of Anderson's Magnolia, with its emphasis on grim faces and ensemble acting.
Fox Headed to BABYLON
20th Century Fox and Canal Plus will co-finance the futuristic thriller BABYLON A.D. Mathieu Kassovitz wrote the script and will also direct.
Set in the near future, the story centers on genetic manipulation. A mercenary, who is charged with delivering a young woman from Russia to Canada, learns that she has been manipulated by a synthetic virus and what lies inside her could doom the human race. EDITOR'S NOTE: MAYBE SHE JUST HAS THE FLU. (BETTER SHOOT HER ANYWAY, JUST IN CASE)
The script was inspired by Maurice Dantec's novel Babylon Babies.
The film looks to be budgeted around $70 million.
Madsen tuned to 'Companion'
Virginia Madsen and L.Q. Jones are headed for Robert Altman's "A Prairie Home Companion."
They join Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, John C. Reilly, Woody Harrelson, Lily Tomlin, Maya Rudolph and Lindsay Lohan. EDITOR'S NOTE: GREAT CAST!
Garrison Keillor, host of the celebrated radio show of the same name, will play himself in the film.
Based on a script by Keillor, the fictionalized story unfolds backstage during a fateful broadcast of the show, which the players discover is to be their last. Madsen will play a dangerous woman, while Jones will play a musician who's been a regular on the show for years. Streep and Tomlin play the last two sisters remaining from a five-sister country act, Lohan plays Streep's daughter, Harrelson and Reilly are singing cowboys Dusty and Lefty, Rudolph plays the stage manager, and Kline plays the show's security guard.
MTV Films has picked up the movie rights to Holly Black's teen novel VALIANT: A MODERN TALE OF FAERIE.
The story centers on seventeen-year-old Valerie Russell who runs away to New York City, where she tries to escape a life that has utterly betrayed her. Sporting a new identity, she takes up with a gang of squatters who live in the city's labyrinthine subway system. But there's something eerily beguiling about Val's new friends. They talk of monsters in the subway tunnels and shoot up an amber-colored powder. When a bewildered Val allows one of her new "friends" to talk her into tracking down the hidden lair of a creature, Val finds herself bound into service by a troll named Ravus. EDITOR'S NOTE: A TROLL NAMED RAVUS, HUH? SOUNDS LIKE MY OLD BOSS AT THEPLACETHATSHALLNOTBENAMED. (NAME WASN'T RAVUS, BUT THE TROLL PART SURE FITS).
Chuck Roven and Alex Gartner will produce.
Visnjic confirms 007 rumours
A few weeks back it was rumoured that "E.R" doc Goran Visnjic was being eyeballed for the role of the ever-transforming James Bond. According to MI6, the actor has confirmed that he is indeed in the running to be Pierce Brosnan's proxy, with another screen test booked for next Wednesday for "Casino Royale". S
ounds like the Franchise fathers like him.
Meantime, and surprisingly enough, John Cleese and Judi Dench might be returning to the franchise they assumed they had also - like Brosnan - been booted from. Not so, says Yahoo! with Cleese and Dench signed to appear in "Casino Royale".
Happy to hear they're at least keeping some successful elements. EDITOR'S NOTE: YAWN. (A BETTER MOVIE WOULD BE SOMETHING WITH CLEESE AND DENCH AND SKIP THE WHOLE BORING BOND THING. UNLESS IT'S CLIVE OWEN, OF COURSE.).
Latest Ripley film never to see light of day?
He may be Talented, but no one seems too interested in a demo of Patricia Highsmith's boys' gift.
"Ripley Under Ground", another book to film transfer featuring the devious character Tom Ripley, and starring Barry Pepper in the role previously played by sandy-haired Matt Damon in "The Talented Mr Ripley", may never be released, says one of the film's stars.
"Batman Begins" star Tom Wilkinson filmed the movie quite a few moons back, he tells Hit, and there's no sign of a release anytime soon. "It doesn't even have a distribution deal and it doesn't look like it will get one, so that's that", says the actor.
Granted, "Under Ground" did have a home at one stage. Lions Gate Intl. had picked up international sales rights to it at one stage.
The film, which also stars Alan Cumming, Jacinda Barrett, Claire Forlani, Ian Hart and Willem Dafoe, was acquired from German media funder Cinerenta GmbH.
Directed by Roger Spottiswoode, "Under Ground" tells of a hot young artist who is killed and a resourceful Ripley, livng in London, who covers up the crime and tries to keep the friend's name alive in order to exploit his legacy and reap millions in the process. Those that have caught the film say it's almost a dark comedy in contrast to the other "Ripley" films which were more edge-of-the-seat suspense thrillers.EDITOR'S NOTE: GOOD CAST. AND THEY'VE BOTHERED TO FILM IT, SO WHY NOT SHOW IT? I MEAN, WHAT ABOUT CABLE AT LEAST?
Both Alfie's unite for Sleuth
Batty butler Michael Caine is eyeing a remake of his classic "Sleuth" (1972).
The "Batman Begins" star will team with Jude Law - who ironically starred in a remake of another of Caine's classics, "Alfie" - for the retool.
"Jude Law and I want to remake Sleuth. We have a very good rewrite by Harold Pinter and we might do that", Caine tells The Winnipeg Sun . "I figured everybody else is remaking my movies. I'll remake one. And Jude's already remade one of mine". EDITOR'S NOTE: AND IT SAVES ALL THAT MONEY ON WRITERS, JUST RE-DOING THE OLD STUFF!
MTV sheds some more light on the project, saying Caine would play an older character in the film, and the younger version of himself would be played by Law.
The Mystery Thriller tells of a man who loves games and theater and invites his wife's lover to meet him, setting up a battle of wits with potentially deadly results.
Bettany is all Smiles
His wife's done the comic book thing, and now the one that wears the pants wants his cut of superhero stardom too.
Paul Bettany - gifted actor and the lucky sod that shares a doona with "Hulk" star Jennifer Connelly each and every night - has emerged as a surprise contender for the role of The Joker in the "Batman Begins" sequel.
An insider tells Batman-On-Film.com that the "Beautiful Mind" and "A Knight's Tale" star is now officially in the running to play the killer clown. His competition are Australian actor Lachy Hulme and the wizard of Weird, Crispin Glover.
The same scooper debunked rumours that ex-Jedi Knight Mark Hamill is also being considered for the role of the Joker. According to the tipster, Warner believes the actor is 'too old' for the part.EDITOR'S NOTE: AWWW....HE LOOKED SUPER AT THE AFI AWARDS SALUTE TO UNCLE GEORGE. AND IT'S A LOSS TO THEM NOT CONSIDER HIM, SINCE HIS VOICE-WORK JOKER WAS A-PLUS.
In the next "Batman" film, the Caped Crusader and Harvey Dent (rumoured to be played by "Scream" star and Naomi Watts beau' Liev Schreiber) hatch a plot to catch the sinister Joker.EDITOR'S NOTE: OK, I'M LOSING MY BATMAN BIBLE SENSE....HARVEY DENT ENDS UP BECOMING WHICH BAD GUY?
AND SPEAKING OF CLIVE OWEN (WHICH WE WERE A COUPLE OF ITEMS AGO.)........
Clive Owen to star in Elizabeth sequel
Well, it's not quite Bond, but it's still her Majesty's service - if only, a little less secret than the going's on at MI6.
According to The Telegraph, 007 contender Clive Owen has signed to share screen time with Cate Blanchett in the "Elizabeth" sequel.
The Brit plays Sir Walter Raleigh in the $20 million dollar follow-up, "Elizabeth: The Golden Age", which will detail the Tudor monarch's tempestuous relationship with Raleigh and suggest that Elizabeth was infatuated with the courtier and adventurer.
The exact nature of the Queen's relationship with Raleigh, which was the talk of the Elizabethan Court, continues to fuel speculation. Some historians believe that the Queen's extravagant largesse towards the former soldier, by granting properties and trading monopolies, was proof of a deep infatuation. There is also ample evidence to suggest that she was jealous of his relationships with other women. He was thrown in the Tower for a time when it emerged that he had seduced one of her ladies in waiting.
A source close to the film, which will be directed by Shekhar Kapur, who also directed Elizabeth, said the casting of Blanchett and Owen was the stuff of cinema magic. "These are two stars who are capable of generating some real electricity," he said. "We are talking about two of the most beautiful people to grace the big screen." EDITOR'S NOTE: YES. YES WE ARE. A TALENTED TOO, DRAT THEM.
The new film will also show the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588 and the execution of Mary Queen of Scots.
ELIZABETH AND ELTON:
It's been ages since Harry Knowles's Ain't It Cool News site coughed up anything worth a click. A dearth of genuine scoops and a flood of fanboy drooling long ago turned AICN into another dead end in cyberspace
.
But like a zombie rising from the grave, Knowles has come up with something that recalls the AICN glory days of yore.
It's a seven-minute trailer for Cameron Crowe's new movie, Elizabethtown, that reveals much about both the film and Crowe's mindset.
Scheduled for an Oct. 14 release (wanna bet it will be at the Toronto International Film Festival before that?) Elizabethtown stars Orlando Bloom as a suicidal designer for a trendy Oregon shoe company. A failed product launch and the sudden demise of his father sends him on a voyage of personal growth to his hometown of Elizabethtown, Ky.
Enroute he meets flight attendant Claire (Kirsten Dunst), who, rumour has it, proves to him that life is still worth living. EDITOR'S NOTE: BLOOM AND DUNST....TALK ABOUT PRETTY PEOPLE ON SCREEN, HUH?
You can figure out as much by watching the extra-long trailer made especially for AICN, or so Knowles claims, at http://www.aint-it-cool-news.com.
The trailer is cut to the strains of "My Father's Gun," a 35-year-old Elton John tune, making this at least the second song by the piano man to be given prominent placement on a Crowe movie soundtrack. Remember "Tiny Dancer" from Almost Famous?
Not sure why Crowe is still jonesing for John, but the trailer suggests he's also found inspiration in the films of Paul Thomas Anderson and the TV series Six Feet Under. The Elizabethtown website (http://www.elizabethtown.com) is particularly reminiscent of Anderson's Magnolia, with its emphasis on grim faces and ensemble acting.
Fox Headed to BABYLON
20th Century Fox and Canal Plus will co-finance the futuristic thriller BABYLON A.D. Mathieu Kassovitz wrote the script and will also direct.
Set in the near future, the story centers on genetic manipulation. A mercenary, who is charged with delivering a young woman from Russia to Canada, learns that she has been manipulated by a synthetic virus and what lies inside her could doom the human race. EDITOR'S NOTE: MAYBE SHE JUST HAS THE FLU. (BETTER SHOOT HER ANYWAY, JUST IN CASE)
The script was inspired by Maurice Dantec's novel Babylon Babies.
The film looks to be budgeted around $70 million.
Madsen tuned to 'Companion'
Virginia Madsen and L.Q. Jones are headed for Robert Altman's "A Prairie Home Companion."
They join Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, John C. Reilly, Woody Harrelson, Lily Tomlin, Maya Rudolph and Lindsay Lohan. EDITOR'S NOTE: GREAT CAST!
Garrison Keillor, host of the celebrated radio show of the same name, will play himself in the film.
Based on a script by Keillor, the fictionalized story unfolds backstage during a fateful broadcast of the show, which the players discover is to be their last. Madsen will play a dangerous woman, while Jones will play a musician who's been a regular on the show for years. Streep and Tomlin play the last two sisters remaining from a five-sister country act, Lohan plays Streep's daughter, Harrelson and Reilly are singing cowboys Dusty and Lefty, Rudolph plays the stage manager, and Kline plays the show's security guard.
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