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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.
Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood to Open Cannes
No official press release has been issued yet, but all arrows (and insiders) are pointing to Ridley Scott's Robin Hood as the Cannes Film Festival opener. Ridley Scott presented his 1977 film The Duellists for which he won the Jury Prize for Best First Feature at the festival, and only returned for an Out of Competition slot for Thelma and Louise (1991), so this would be an attention-getting, timely premiere opening for Universal Pictures who release the film worldwide two days later on the 14th.
Trailer for Im Sang-soo’s The Housemaid
I'll be terribly disappointed if Im Sang-soo's pristine looking remake of Kim Ki-young's classic doesn't find its way to Cannes. The chances that Sang-soo's version of The Housemaid doesn't make it on the Croisette are extremely low - Jeon Do-yeon won for Best Actress at the festival for Secret Sunshine, Sang-soo has been an invited guest on several occasions, and the film is receiving its domestic release in the same month and by the looks of this trailer, it's got Midnight screening stamped all over it.
At the Movies Cancelled: Who Should Reopen the Balcony?
I think it was in 1988 when I first started getting into Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert who took great pleasure in ripping into films and each another. If tonight's announcement tells us anything, it's that, when everyone is chummy, and agreeing to agree or disagree, it makes for boring television and what I imagine was a ratings falloff for several post-Ebert years now.
