As Oscar season picks up, we are beginning to see more trailers for fall films that will most certainly be in the running for the little golden statue. Whether or not Tommy Lee Jones's upcoming Western The Homesman ultimately makes the cut, its latest trailer makes it look like a breath of fresh air for the always difficult Western genre.
Not content with making movies out of the books of William Faulkner and Cormac McCarthy, James Franco apparently has plans to expand his repertoire to include the work of Chuck Palahniuk, as reports have surfaced that Franco just purchased the rights to Palahniuk's novel Rant.
With the Toronto International Film Festival continuing apace, we in the outside world are beginning to get more tantalizing glimpses of the critical winners (and losers). In the winning category, the critics seem to enjoy Phoenix, a so-called Hitchcockian thriller set in post-World War II Berlin. The film concerns a concentration camp victim searching for her husband and discovering more than she bargained for. Today, the first trailer hit the web and it certainly makes Phoenix look intriguing.
Last week we brought you the information that Benedict Cumberbatch refused to deny rumors about his possible involvement in either Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice or a Justice League movie. This week, we can inform you that Mr. Cumberbatch is having a great time with those rumors, and wants us all to keep them coming. Your wish is our command, Benedict!
While I'm sure we're all just incredibly, overwhelmingly excited for the release of Fifty Shades of Grey on Valentine's Day, it has been a long and tormenting journey to bring E.L. James's so-called "S&M" tome to the big screen. One of the more surprising switches occurred when Charlie Hunnam dropped out of the film not long after signing on for it. While Jamie Dornan has stepped in to fill the Hunnam-shaped void, the truth is that Charlie still feels pretty bad about the whole thing.
One of the more intriguing films to open in a limited run this month has got to be Ari Folman's The Congress. It stars Robin Wright as a version of herself, agreeing to sell her image to major studio Miramount (hehe) and undergo digitization to preserve her image for future productions. The film has already prompted a split in critical opinion, but it looks like a provocative story about more than just the possession of a star's image.
Director David Fincher and writer James Ellroy sound like a match made in heaven. Fincher has produced some of the most memorable crime dramas in the past twenty years, while Ellroy's credentials as a writer of 1950s-based noir novels cannot be disputed. It was really only a matter of time before these two came together on a project, and now they're hoping to do it for HBO.
Not content with being a race-car driver, an action-fantasy hero, and a god, Chris Hemsworth continues to flex his acting muscles (and a few other muscles too) in several films that will have their premiere at the start of next year. With the appearance of several new images of Hemsworth in his latest roles, we can once again say, without a doubt, that this is one attractive man.
Martin Scorsese has been making movies in one form or another for almost fifty years now. He's made feature films, shorts, documentaries, and has had his hand in a multitude of productions as a producer, editor, and co-director. He's also not stopping any time soon. Since his latest triumph with The Wolf of Wall Street, Scorsese has been preparing for his next feature film Silence, but before that we'll get to see his next HBO documentary The 50 Year Argument.
Although the crime thriller Felony premiered in its native Australia (as well as premiering at last year's TIFF), the United States have still not been favored with the film, which stars Joel Edgerton, Tom Wilkinson, and Jai Courtney. This has at last been remedied, and we're finally going to see it stateside in October. Before then though, we have to be reminded what it's about, hence a US trailer that introduces us to the players in what looks like a complicated game.
