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Shelton ‘Weisz’ly’ Picks DeWitt As Replacement
Who has time for low budget indie films when you're being offered lead parts in the latest for Terrence Malick's latest project, Terence Davies' The Deep Blue Sea and will reteam with Fernando Meirelles on 360. This happens to be the case for Rachel Weisz, who is forced to vacate from the Seattle indie, but in her place we find perhaps a better casting choice in Rosemarie DeWitt.
!Women Art Revolution Finds Distributor and is Headed to Sundance
Lynn Hershman's 40 years in the making docu which I missed at TIFF this year, has not only been acquired by Zeitgeist Films and is set with a June release date, but !Women Art Revolution will have a further festival date in the U.S premiere at the Sundance Film Festival. The mention of this being at Sundance is good news, because it may also confirm this Sundance forecast of mine, that Miranda July who is among the artists featured in this doc film, will undoubtably premiere her sophomore film, The Future.
Leon Gast Being Sent Back into the Ring; To Document the Golden Fists of Pacman Manny Pacquiao
Producers Ken Mayer, Ryan Moore and exec producer Christine Peters are throwing docu-helmer Leon Gast back into the ring, essentially setting him up for his third boxing-related film. The doc film on Manny "Pacman" Pacquiao might fall into the realms of When We Were Kings - I expect the majority of the doc to focus on Pacman's story outside of the ring, but let's hope that they grab some mean footage from fight night.
Sion Sono is ‘Guilty of Romance’
We find Japanese helmer Sion Sono embarking on a new project that, according to the film's sales agent, promises to include "hard sex scenes". The AFM sold Guilty of Romance will star a little-known unnamed actress, and will obviously become one more example of how the filmmaker behind recent TIFF preemed Cold Fish and Strange Circus continually works with a poetic curriculum that provokes.
Haneke’s ‘Ces Deux’ Not Allowed to Get Old
Earlier in the year, Michael Haneke was contemplating a pair of film ideas and the one that we thought was temporarily "shelved", has according to Haneke's muse Isabelle Huppert, been thrown back on the burner. A film project that Haneke had mentioned as early as 2006, Ces Deux had financial backing and already had thesps Huppert and Jean Louis Trintignant confirmed, but Haneke's "internet" project would take the lead.
