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Searchlight’s makes post-Sundance buy not twice but ‘Once’
A very popular title at Sundance, Fox Searchlight Pictures made a post-fest pick up of the Irish musical drama titled Once.
Vantage wants part of the ‘Experience’
Jacob Koskoff and Louiso penned the screenplay that has Schwartzman play Marc Pease, a man 10 years out of high school and still living in the past when he was the star in his high school's musicals. During the course of one day, as Pease's former teacher/mentor Mr. Gribble (Stiller) oversees the opening night of another show, Pease finally exorcises his demons and realizes there's more to life than Broadway artistry.
Review: Puccini for Beginners
"Maggenti gets many parts of the formula right - the pacing is shrink-wrap to sustain the interest, the dialogue is appetizing in an intellectual Manhattan highbrow kind of manner, the narration and the comic timing are relatively witty..."
Von Trier sells his soul to the ‘Antichrist’
After Danish language comedy The Boss Of It All, Lars von Trier is taking on the horror genre with Antichrist - this time as Screen Daily reports he has asked the help from Anders Thomas Jensen to help complete the script. What is curious about this headline is that apparently von Trier once made a point at claiming that Jensen's work as a screenwriter was too contrived and trivial.
