Barry Levinson will direct “Train,” an “L.A. Confidential”-like noir based on the novel by Pete Dexter. [Hollywood Reporter]
Everyone’s inner-pre-pubescent film critic, Sexman has an announcement for all those haters out there, he’s finally got Braces, fuckers! Great, now all he has to do is dig through the yellow pages for a voice coach and tanning salon and he will be on his way to filing in the vacant slot on Ebert and Roeper.[Filmdrunk.com]
Surprise, goth-Queen Helena Bonham Carter discussed her role in next years “Terminator Salvation,” and guess what she isn’t playing someone good. “I kind of play a baddie, definitely a baddie.” [
Cinematical.com]
As if the Captain America’s sexuality wasn’t ambiguous enough, producers on the up-coming film adaptation have reportedly pegged one of the oil laden men from American Gladiators to fill the role. [
Slashfilm.com]
Brett Easton Ellis’s (“American Psycho” “Less Than Zero”) meta-filled universe continues to grow, the adaptation of his novel,”The Informers” about, you guessed it, excess and emptiness in 1980’s LA, has released its first trailer. [
Cinemablend.com]
Drunk off the success of “Mad Men,” AMC is in talks to develop Francis Ford Coppola’s 1974 classic “The Conversation” as a television series. That movie is fucking brilliant and one of our faves. Don’t do it, you’ll fuck it up. [
Variety.com]
It is possible that due to injuries sustained in a car accident last week, actor Shia Lebeouf could be facing the possible amputation of one of his pinky fingers? That’ll fuck up “Transformers 2” a little bit, no? Maybe the accident will force this kid from being such a jagoff already. [
starmagazine.com]
The Toronto International Film Festival added 10 high-profile Spanish-language titles and 13 Asian pics recently including Jose Luis Cuerda’s Spanish Civil War-era “Blind Sunflowers,” starring Javier Camara (“Talk to Her”) and Maribel Verdu (“Pan’s Labyrinth”). [Variety] TIFF also has Phawat Panangkasiri’s “In the Shadow of the Naga,” and the Thai film is described as thus: “It’s a commercial film, but it has monks that commit violence and use guns that they point at the heads of people.” Ok! [Hollywood Reporter]
