“‘Alexander’ hurt, you know — and again people are going to say ‘Get over it, you were well paid’ and all that. But ‘Alexander’ hurt … It was a film that was made to be seen by many people. Not many people saw it and they weren’t particularly fond of it, and that was shit, it was really shit.” — Did Oliver Stone’s mega-failure, “Alexander” lead to Colin Farrell’s breakdown into alcoholism and drugs? Man, it sure sounds like it shamed him enough to go into a drug spiral. Hey, get over it. You got to tap Rosario Dawson, it couldn’t have been that bad, but someone needs to tell him about the new non-haircut. It’s kinda terrible. [ Yahoo]
Despite two bombs in a row, director Gavin O’Connor is being given another chance and another chance a comedy despite a pretty stellar disaster in Vince Vaughn’s “Wild West Picture Show,” traveling stand-up film which he helped write. Vaughn and O’Connor are teaming up again for “Sunny and 68,” a drama about an alcoholic, superstar poker player whose arrogance and recklessness cause him to fail in a burst of flames on national TV. Wiped out and majorly in hock, he returns home to a mother with cancer, a daughter he didn’t know he had and a former girlfriend who becomes a caretaker. “It’s a story of how three generations of women teach this character to become a man,” O’Connor said. [Variety]
Jon Favreau says “Iron Man 2” won’t shoot in IMax and claims James Cameron’s “Avatar” will revolutionize cinema from a technical stand-point. [AICN]
William Friedkin, the arrogant director of the ’70s who shined brightly with films like, “The Exorcist” and “The French Connection” before flaming out too soon, has compiled a Halloween-themed, best-of horror film list. His list is near-perfect and highlights less celebrated, but equally amazing horror like, Henri-Georges Clouzot 1955 film, “Diabolique.” “You’re never quite sure. It’s totally realistic, and has the biggest surprise at the end of any of these films. It’s a wonderful conceit, brilliantly realized,” he writes. BTW, while we’re here, Friedkin’s 1977 film with Roy Schieder, “Sorcerer” has some horror elements to it and it’s vastly underrated.[EW]
The director of porrrno “Deep Throat,” evidently one of the most successful movies of all-time, if not all time, considering it’s low, low cost is dead. [CHUD]
Shot of Sam Raimi’s “Drag Me To Hell,” We could care less, but it is Halloween soon, so we suppose it fits. [MTV]
Another, we don’t care: M. Night Shyamalan will oversee horror flick “Devil” as part of some three-picture deal (who gives him a 3-pic deal, that we can’t fathom). The supernatural film is based on an original Night idea and will be written by the guy who wrote “30 Days Of Night” (not a bad horror in all honesty) and the director of “Quarantine,” a film we’ll probably never bother renting. [Variety]
Danny Elfman developing a Broadway show based on the life of famous escape artist Harry Houdini? Umm, ok. [Collider]