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‘Monkeys’ See and Do: Zeitgeist Picks up where New Yorker Films Left Off
There is some "good" news in last week's "bad" news announcement. Stateside fans of Nuri Bilge Ceylan and his latest film (one of my favorites from Cannes) Three Monkeys as the now defunct New Yorker Films has passed on the picture to film with subtitles specialists Zeitgeist Films.
Donnersmarck takes the ’28th Amendment’
Following in the path of 2005's Best Foreign Picture Oscar winning director Gavin Hood (he would go from Tsosti to Rendition), it is now Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's turn to take on what will be a huge Hollywood project if Tom Cruise decides to finally make this project among his acting gigs for 2009.
DR: Ramin Bahrani’s Goodbye Solo
With stops at SXSW, Cleveland, Portland and opening in theaters at the end of the month of March [Roadside Attractions 03.27], Goodbye Solo will receive the kind of praise that has been synonymous with the film since it preemed at Venice.
Miramax and Rudin Make a ‘Believer’ out of Marber
After having Patrick Marber successfully adapt Zoe Heller's Notes on a Scandal, Scott Rudin is setting the scribe to adapt Heller's latest best seller - a dysfunctional family drama that would probably see two actresses play the same role in separate timelines. Variety reports that The Believers will be a Miramax-based project.
Braga, Rourke and Cassel in for only ’11 Minutes’
I was beginning to think that it would be the bring screen treatment of Paulo Coehlo's classic, The Alchemist that would get a green light first, after all The Weinsteins put in a huge announcement at Cannes that it was among their top priorities. It is instead 11 Minutes (re-named and not to be confused with the recently released docu film about a fashion designer's nightmare in Gotham) that will see the day of light with an international cast in hometown girl Alice Braga, France's Vincent Cassel, Italy's Riccardo Scarmarcio and Mickey Rourke on board Coehlo's other classic.
