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Heather Graham Replacing Uma in ‘Vengeance: A Love Story’?
Maria Bello was replaced by Uma Thurman, and now according to another mini blurb on Production Weekly, Heather Graham might have taken over the victim role in Harold Becker's Vengeance: A Love Story.
Remains of the Day: Americans in Deauville…Japan, Soviet Union and Vietnam
Look for just about every major trade to get into Fall film preview season (EW already started). We are completing that along with multiple special features for September coinciding with further TIFF preparation. Here are the news bits we didn't have a chance to cover in depth.
Claude Demers’ Les Dames en bleu to open 38th ed. of the Festival du Nouveau Cinéma
Canada's most avant-garde film festival will once again open with some homegrown produce, selecting Quebec helmer Claude Demers' Les Dames en bleu (Ladies in Blue) as the opening film of the 38th edition which runs between the 7th and 18th of October.
Lucky 8 Added to Film Independent’s 2009 Screenwriting Lab Edition
Apparently Sundance isn't the only kid on the block for Screenwriting Labs, Film Independent (the non-profit arts organization that produces the Spirit Awards and Los Angeles Film Festival) have announced eight lucky projects that get to take part in...
Kiarostami’s Certified Copy Banned in Iran (Duh)
Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami's latest film, his first filmed outside his native country, will be banned from Iranian cinemas. THR reports that Iranian Cultural Ministry officials won't allow Certified Copy to show in theaters which only means that cinephiles will go the common route of watching the film and the Italian countryside by sharing underground, DVD copies of the film.
