Eddie Cibrian has reportedly proposed to girlfriend Leann Rimes for real following their joke Halloween engagement over the weekend. The Blue hit-maker sparked speculation the couple had cemented...
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Friday, November 5, 2010
Eddie Cibrian And Leann Rimes To Tie The Knot?
Westlife Debut Music Video for Single 'Safe'
Video Premiere: Natasha Bedingfield's 'Strip Me'
Thursday, November 4, 2010
Movie Review | 'A Marine Story': A Stoic Marine Undone by Don't Ask, Don't Tell
Closeted, forced out of the service, and now facing identity issues at home.
FilmDistrict Takes Distribution Rights to Nicolas Winding Refn's 'Drive'
The first big sale out of the American Film Market is for Drive, the first big American film directed by the creator of Pusher, Bronson and Valhalla Rising, Nicolas Winding Refn.
Deadline reports that FilmDistrict picked up distribution rights for a late summer or early fall 2011 release. What is FilmDistrict? That's the new company put together by Graham King and Tim Headington of GK Films and run by Peter Schlessel and Bob Berney, who exited Appartition right before Cannes this year. The idea behind FilmDistrict, says Deadline, is to pick up and distribute well-cast films that can play runs of 1500 to 2000 screens.
Drive certainly has a great cast. Ryan Gosling stars as a stuntman by day, getaway driver by night who has to flee for his life after a heist goes wrong. The supporting cast features Carey Mulligan, Bryan Cranston, Albert Brooks and Christina Hendricks.
If you're confused and thinking, "hey, wasn't this a Universal film?" don't worry. It was at one point, when Neil Marshall was going to direct. But it is being shot as an indie right now. And that's where FilmDistrict comes in. Hopefully this company will prove to be more stable than Apparition was; this is a great pickup and a film that we've been excited to see.
James Sallis wrote the original novel, the synopsis of which is below, and Hossein Amini wrote the script draft that got Nicolas Refn on board; the director has done rewrites.
"I drive. That's what I do. All I do." So declares the enigmatic Driver in this masterfully convoluted neo-noir, which ranges from the dive bars and flyblown motels of Los Angeles to seedy strip malls dotting the Arizona desert. A stunt driver for movies, Driver finds more excitement as a wheelman during robberies, but when a heist goes sour, a contract is put on his head and his survival skills burn up the pavement.
In Drive, [Sallis] combines murder, treachery, and payback in a sinister plot resembling 1940s pulp fiction and film noir. Told through a complex, cinematic narrative that weaves back and forth through time and place, the story explores Driver's near-existential moral foundations while revisiting its root cause: his hardscrabble, troubled childhood.
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Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Is Ashlee Simpson-Wentz Too Skinny?
We spotted Ashlee Simpson-Wentz at the Decades Denim Launch Celebration in Beverly Hills yesterday, and it seems like she's turning into a waif. What do you think?
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Legendary Pictures Launches Legendary Comics with Bob Schreck as Editor in Chief
The line between some movies and comic books is getting more blurry. Disney is using Marvel comics to promote Tron, and Marvel plans comics set the the Marvel Movie Universe. DC Entertainment seems poised to bring the DC comics and movie universes closer together, too. Other comics companies seem to exist solely to create comics that will be raw fodder for film.
So of course big production companies are launching their own comics lines. Legendary Pictures, the company behind films like 300 and The Dark Knight, is launching Legendary Comics, with the intent to release six to eight graphic novels per year. The company has celebrity endorsements from Frank Miller, Neil Gaiman and Max Brooks, but even better, has hired ONI Press co-founder Bob Schreck, also a veteran of Dark Horse, Comico, DC, and IDW Publishing, to run the imprint.
The press release from Legendary announces that the company plans four to six original graphic novels per year, for print and digital distribution. Who are the creators? What are the stories? Will these be intended as testing grounds for film? Those questions are only partially answered now.
The company "will, as warranted, look to bring the newly-created comic-based IP produced by the venture to other entertainment platforms such as film and television."
And the release quotes Bob Schreck saying "We have a real opportunity to deliver hard-hitting characters and exciting, innovative storylines to comic book aficionados. We are in the fortunate position of already having major support from the community and collaborations lined up with world-class creators."
Who are the creators? That isn't specified, but the inclusion of quotes from Neil Gaiman, Frank Miller and Max Brooks is clearly meant to suggest that they'll be on board.
So is this a good thing? Bob Schreck is certainly a name that calls up favorable memories from my more dedicated years of comics fandom, so that's a start. Legendary has a good track record when it comes to respecting the source material for comics to film adaptations, and creators seem to do well with them. (Those two things go hand in hand.) Beyond that, it's probably good business sense to publish comics in-house that might become future films. Let's see what stories Legendary will publish, and who will tell them, before going any further.
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Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Lil Wayne's Ex-Wife 'Writing Tell-All Book'
Lil Wayne's ex-wife is preparing to tell all about her relationship with the rapper in an upcoming autobiography. Antonia 'Toya' Carter is putting pen to paper to write Priceless Inspiration, whi...
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