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Tatum, De Niro, Howard and Gandolfini Set for Montiel’s ‘Son of No One’
I guess this means that The Brotherhood of the Rose is on ice. Dito Montiel is instead pegging The Son of No One as his next project, his third film following 2006's A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints and this year's Fighting.
Close to 100 Films in Contention for the 2010 Cinema Eye Honors
I'm glad that the organization, (now in year three I believe?) has a set in stone manner in which to evaluate the best of the best in doc films, something in which the Oscars have proved to be inadequate in acknowledging.
2009 Cinemania Film Fest: Mouret’s Please Please Me and Mihaileanu’s The Concert
Opening the fest is the North American premiere of Emmanuel Mouret's French sex comedy Please Please Me! (which I think should logically be picked up for the U.S. market - see trailer here) and the ten day fest will be closing with the North American premiere of Radu Mihaileanu's The Concert - a Weinstein Co. title starring Melanie Laurent that will most likely open sometime early in 2010.
A Prophet’s Tahar Rahim Lands in ‘Eagle’ Nest
When spoke to Tahar Rahim (the lead in Jacques Audiard's A Prophet) in Toronto and ended my brief interview with him by asking him the "what are you working on next?" question, he threw out so many names and titles that I almost wished I had never asked him the question. Among the names and titles he didn't mentioned was today's signing.
The Hurt Locker and Big Fan Lead the Gotham Indie Award Noms
Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker (Best Feature, Ensemble, Breakthrough Actor) and Robert Siegel Big Fan (Best Feature, Breakthrough Director and Actor) managed to pick up three mentions each for the 19th Annual Gotham Independent Film Award nominations, but the big winner on November 30th might actually be The Coen Bros. A Serious Man who have noms in the Best Feature and Best Ensemble Perf. categories.
