A few thing happened yesterday when we were out sick.
If he doesn’t die first from a syrup-induced coma, Lil Wayne – the baby rapper who likes to dress in suits – will star alongside Forest Whitaker in in the post-Katrina basketball story, “The Patriots.” Maybe Weezy can get some more ‘Wild Things’ secrets out of the Academy Award winning actor. [All Hip-Hop]
Writer Michael Cunningham (“The Hours”) let it out of the bag that he’s writing a Dusty Springfield biopic as a vehicle for Nicole Kidman. Variety confirms this news and also says Universal is developing its own Dusty Springfield biopic with theatre, film and television actress Kristin Chenoweth attached to star (ironically, she was in “Bewitched” with Kidman in 2005). The race is on! [Variety]
Remember that Woodstock film we briefly mentioned by director Ang Lee? Well, it looks like comedian Demetri Martin is going to star in it which is great cause the funny little fuck is hilarious and it’s about time someone hired him for a proper movie gig. [Variety]
Music soundtrack supervisor extraordinaire. Meet the guy who scored 214 songs for the new Grand Theft Auto game. ‘GTA,’ more than any game, helps people discover new music and become aware of old music and break bands and all that,” GTA music pmIvan Pavlovich said. [MTV]
Everyone loves Hollywood drama, right? So, was it Peter Jackson who’s the difficult prick and not Ryan Gosling? Trouble is a brewing over on the set of “The Lovely Bones” which has shut down production due to some – wait for it euphemism – “creative differences.” You’ll remember Gosling left the project due to differences with Jackson. Susan Surandon, another actor on the project, delicately tip-toed around saying Jackson is a total dick. “Peter Jackson is really a nice guy and very interesting. It was really a very different way of working. We had a good time, I’m really curious to see what it’s like because he kept pushing me to be more and more extreme and sometimes that’s when you make your big mistakes so I’m not sure how it will come off – it will be interesting to see it from the point of view of the audience.” [Defamer] The debacle may be so bad that the release date of the film may have been delayed.
Remember that Roman Polanski doc, “Roman Polanski: Wanted And Desired” about his exile from the United States for his statutory sexual assault crimes in the ’70s? ThinkFilm has bought it. Welcome to extremely limited release (though we do love ThinkFilm; just wish they could get it out to more pps). [Variety] It opens July 11 in NY, two days after it airs on HBO.
One for them and then one for me. Or is it rather, one big budget one for me and fug, lo-fi, no budget one for me? Steven Soderberg is following his “Che” epic with “The Girlfriend Experience,” which will likely be for the three unemployed people that saw “Bubble” and “Full-Frontal,” during the day while they were drunk and had nothing better to do during their 3-day theatrical run [ed. he’ll actually be doing “The Informant” with Matt Damon first] [Living Cinema] Meanwhile, Jeffery Wells is calling the two Che films (“The Argentine” “Guerilla,”) a “Latin Lawrence Of Arabia”-style epic.
Oh, and an ‘Iron Man 2’ film coming in 2010? Well, with “‘Iron Man” looking to blow past the $100 mil mark this weekend, you can probably bet they’ll rush this one into production. [/Film]