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Zeitgeist Sign an ‘Oath’ for May
Part of a double docu Sundance and New Directors/New Films selected pick-up, Zeitgeist have acquired The Oath from helmer Laura Poitras and have pegged it with a release sometime this May. This makes it two for two between the distributor and Poitras - they last paired on the release of My Country, My Country in 2006.
Walter Salles’ ‘Wild Life’ Brings Him Back To Hollywood
I guess this means that the adaptation of Jack Kerouac's On the Road is proving to be more of a perilous project, as Walter Salles appears to be moving onto a Hollywood biopic in the interim.
Murder Mystery Taps a Sleuth in Kevin Macdonald
Now he returns to Zodiac-lite territory with a script that goes the direction of the mystery comedy sub-genre. Aptly titled Murder Mystery, this project reminds me of how much I hated the Clue film. Screen Daily reports that free-range director Kevin MacDonald will direct.
Baise-moi’s Virginie Despentes Says Bonjour to Dalle with ‘Bye Bye’
Now, almost a decade later, those films might have crossed paths, as Despentes has cast Beatrice Dalle (she starred in Trouble Every Day) in the lead role for Bye Bye Blondie.
Cronenberg Finds ‘Cure’ by Reteaming with Viggo Mortensen
Christoph Waltz will want to make sure that his next moves are the goods ones, or else the good fortune of Inglourious Basterds will wash away. The Austrian actor has according to Deadline.com, dropped out on a chance to play with David Cronenberg’s The Talking Cure for an antagonist role in Francis Lawrence's Water For Elephants.
