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Magnet Seal Off Balaguero and Plaza’s Rec 2
Magnet Releasing has been shelling out a significant amount of dough picking up some titles that come with a certain amount of cred (Centurion, SXSW's Monsters), these pick-ups along with today's announcement tells us that the label has created a great niche for itself with fantasy and horror fair. The co. picked up Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza's sequel and are prepping it for a July release.
63rd Cannes Chooses Juliette Binoche as Poster Child
The actress whose left an imprint on cinephiles for her turns in Leos Carax's Les amants du Pont-Neuf, Kieslowski's Three Colors Blue, Anthony Minghella's The English Patient, a pair of Haneke films, and recently worked for Hou Hsiao-hsien and Olivier Assayas is such an integral part of the Cannes film festival that he make sense to plaster her all over the Croisette. Juliette Binoche is already making the trip to the festival for Abbas Kiarostami's Certified Copy (not confirmed, but a sure thing), so it just makes sense to celebrate the actress via and make her Cannes poster child.
Carlos Trying to Block the Release of Carlos the Jackal?
I'd be surprised if Carlos, aka Ilich Ramirez Sanchez has developed a taste for art-house cinema, say Irma Vep or Demonlover. I'm guessing that the reason why he would like to see Olivier Assayas' Carlos the Jackal before it receives it release is because it is a film based on his own life....and well, he probably doesn't have that much to do behind bars.
David O. Russell’s ‘The Fighter’ Gets Nailed with Reshoots?
Don't worry folks - this won't go the way of the uncompleted Nailed -- the abandoned David O. Russell project. ThePlaylist makes the logical connection that new paparazzo images showing Mark Wahlberg without the washboard stomach are just the final shots required for the sequences that demonstrate the character of Mickey Ward getting into shape.
Arnaud Desplechin’s Next Project: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian
Arnaud Desplechin has completed the first draft for his next film, Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian (expect a title change). This is a book adaptation but not from the novel kind, instead it's the findings from one George Devereux an American - French ethnologist and psychoanalyst (one of the pioneers of ethnopsychoanalysis and ethnopsychiatry) who published Reality and dream: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian in 1951.
