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We Need To Talk About Kevin in 2010
There is some movement in the We Need To Talk About Kevin dossier. In development since 2006, here is one more piece of goods news: the production wheels for Lynne Ramsay are turning. Smelling that the production is underway (Tilda Swinton was added to the project during Cannes), Screen Daily reports that distributor Artificial Eye (a world cinema specialist in the U.K) has bought the rights.
Sundance 2010 Shorts: Jonze, Sachs, Jasenovec and Sundance Alumni Fill Shorts Sections
One look at the filmmaker names below, and it appears as if the Sundance alumni have come out in droves. We find a known variety of filmmakers such as Spike Jonze (Being John Malcovich), Ira Sachs (Married Life), Nicholas Jasenovec (Paper Hearts), James Franco and the Zellner bros. who have dabbled this year in the short form while working in between their feature film projects.
Dano Joins Indie Project ‘For Ellen’ and for So Yong Kim
Not sure if it was his fatherly touch in Matt Aselton's Gigantic that helped nab him this role, but indie veteran thesp Paul Dano is, according to Production Weekly, top-lining So Yong Kim's third feature film titled For Ellen. Having Dano onboard will be a first for Yong Kim, as she is known for having employed non-actors in her previous two, the little seen In Between Days and Treeless Mountain (which was distributed by Oscilloscope Laboratories earlier this year).
1st Look: Joel Schumacher’s Twelve
When Joel Schumacher made Tigerland in 1990, he plotted a future that would include a film such as Twelve - an indie-priced film funded by French money (Gaumont). The pic which resembles The Rules of Attraction and Alpha Dog on the surface, will close this coming edition of Sundance.
Cinema Guild Contemplates Relationship with ‘Everyone Else’
Almost a full year since it had its premiere in Berlin, despite stops in Seattle, NYFF and AFI, Maren Ade’s Everyone Else might, at least in my eyes, be the title with the most clout this year that is still flying low on the radar. The Cinema Guild folks might change that perception as they've picked up the rights to the pic for release sometime next year.
