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Music Box Owns the Millennium Trilogy
Having grossed about nine grand per theatre in 34 locations was either enough for a deal to take place, or a pre-existing deal to be announced, but regardless - Music Box films have landed parts II and III to the Millennium Trilogy. No decisions have been made as to when The Girl Who Played With Fire and The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’s Nest will be released, but I'm guessing that a logical release pattern would see The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo continue with its theatrical and the homevid runs, and then pull out a quick two step by the end of the year.
Baumbach Confirmed to Direct The Emperor’s Children; Knightley, Bana and Gere Attached
Noah Baumbach had invested a considerable amount of time penning The Emperor's Children and his TLC might have convinced Imagine Ent. to logically go with the Greenberg director instead. Production begins as soon as this Summer.
Hot Docs 2010: Focus Features’ Babies Opens Fest, Best from Sundance Fills Slate
Hot Docs is well-positioned between Sundance and Silverdocs, this year's edition features tons of Sundance items such as Gasland, Bhutto, Joan Rivers - A Piece Of Work, My Perestroika, 12th & Delaware and hopefully an edited down version of Casino Jack and the United States of Money. Also making their international premieres we have Slamdance's And Everything Is Going Fine, SXSW's The People vs. George Lucas and a pre-Tribeca showing of Feathered Cocaine.
Joe Cornish’s ‘Attack the Block’ is Out of the Blocks with Jodie Whittaker
To those who thought making films with Star Wars figurines was a tad too infantile, today principle photography will begin on Joe Cornish’s alien invasion comedy feature film debut. The Adam & Joe Show creator who got his start by toying around, will re-team with Nick Frost on what is also being dubbed as an action adventure film, and the non-zombie flick lead and leader of a pack comes in the shape of Jodie Whittaker, whose body of work includes some feisty characters in Venus (the film that Peter O'Toole was nominated for at the Oscars - see pic below) and more recently, the horribly plain gangster film Perrier's Bounty.
Rithy Panh, Shinji Aoyama and Pablo Fendrik Among Cannes’ 2010 L’Atelier Edition
Proving that the most difficult cinema to find financing for is national cinema (usually comprised with long takes, non-actors, low-budgets, cultural uniqueness, 35mm, and sublime cinematography), Cannes' 2010 L'Atelier Edition, now in its 6th year, contains some surprising names in vets Shinji Aoyama (middle), Nabil Ayouch, Jaime Rosales and Rithy Panh (left).
