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Scalpello shooting ‘Here Comes The Summer’ this September
Commercials/video filmmaker Ron Scalpello is breaking into feature filmmaking by reverting back to early 1980's London. To be more specific, it will be the marriage of Prince Charles and Lady Diana 1981 with the backdrop of The Clash, The Undertones and The Jam, with the Brixton Riots fueling up the storyline.
Weekend Rental: Alex Cox’s Sid and Nancy
Zooey and Joseph got together with helmer Marc Webb for a piece of viral of self-promotion for 500 Days, which reminds us of a film worth pointing to in our Weekend Rental suggestion.
Weekly Eye Candy: Commercials Director Fredrik Bond
Earlier this week, commericials director Fredrik Bond signed up to helm comicbook to Rogue Pictures' film adaptation of Hack/Slash. Bond has been attached to the remake The Host and a remake of The Hunger clearly labeling the director as a hot commodity. So who is Bond? He is this week's Eye Candy.
Frears Writes Down Arterton for ‘Tamara Drewe’
After directing Cheri, Stephen Frears would return to a more contemporary format and I imagine he might have personally come across Drewe when it was being published as a comic strip for the Guardian before it eventually became a non-graphic novel.
Claire Denis, Sokurov and Greenaway Fill Out Film Forum’s Fall Schedule
The Film Forum (209 W Houston St, New York, NY) have released their Fall schedule packed with foreign film and documentary film which includes offerings from the master filmmaker core of Claire Denis (35 Shots of Rum), Alexander Sokurov (The Sun) and Peter Greenaway (Rembrandt's J'accuse). The September to December slate also includes documentary films that preemed at Sundance (The Yes Men Fix the World) and Tribeca (American Casino).
