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This Must be the Place for Frances McDormand
After doing a double take when it was announced she'd be joining Transformers part trois, Frances McDormand is back into more familiar genre items as she has just joined a project that has been "dormant" since it was announced at last year's Cannes film festival. McDormand will be joining Sean Penn (he hasn't bailed on this one yet) in Paolo Sorrentino's English language directorial debut.
Frammartino’s Le Quattro Volte: The Must See Docu at this Year’s Cannes?
Among the films that I'm expecting to see selected for a place on the Croisette this year is what can be called an "ethnographic" docu-fiction account. Reading up on the filmmaker's approach, you'd think that the film was helmed by a mainland Chinese filmmaker or a Latin American director, but Italian born Frammartino simply located himself in his own familiar surroundings, more specifically the place that foreigners would know as the "toe" portion of the boot shaped Italy.
Versatile Jackman Spreads Himself into ‘Butter’
He can do drama, super-heroes, broadway, rom coms and now Black List scripts too. The very busy Hugh Jackman is the latest, and probably the last announcement in what has been a busy two weeks of casting for the Jim Field Smith directed, Jason Micallef penned, Weinstein comedy which will begin lensing later this month.
SPC Chants We Want Sex…Equality, Grabs Cole’s Made in Dagenham
Sony Pictures Classics have pre-emptively picked up the rights to Made in Dagenham, Nigel Cole's foray into the women's movement in the heyday of 1968 - a Norma Rae or North Country type project. Formerly going by the more poignant, catchier title of We Want Sex, the project is destined for multiple film festival appearances and a release in the Fall, but most likely SPC will wait until Cannes buying is completed before attaching a date to the progressive, fact-based story.
Iron Man 2 Pair of Johansson and Rockwell Might Travel Towards ‘Lunatic At Large’
Sam Rockwell might take on a perfectly suited role of ex-carnival worker with serious anger-management issues and Scarlett Johansson will play a specialist in suds and the nightlife in a project that is based on an original story by novelist Jim Thompson and the great Stanley Kubrick. The Iron Man 2 mentioned duo are the first signs of life in a while for this project, we can now suppose that commercials director Chris Palmer is edging closer to an eventual start date on Lunatic At Large.
