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Williams not a typical ‘Tourist’
Back in August Production Weekly reported that Hugh Jackman and Ewan McGregor were booked for the project and now the duo becomes as trio as Michelle Williams has signed onto star in what might be an eye full of a project. Put in turnaround by Fox and then financed independently, the production for The Tourist begins in New York on Oct.13th.
Weinsteins’ Get Grundy
The Weinstein Co. is hiring quite a bit this week under their international banner. Signing a pact to release eight U.K. pics a year, they have been busy assigning projects to various (mostly U.K. based) directors. Their most recent (and in my eyes, most exciting) employee is Danny Boyle who will take on Lee Hall and Robert Nelson Jacobs' Solomon Grundy.
Viva La ‘Bamako’ for New Yorker
A quick weekend announcement before showcasing the film at the 44th annual New York Film Festival, New Yorker Films announced they picked up the dramedy.
Haynes takes Route 66′
The connection between music and filmmaking stems all the way back to his debut in Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story and later on reflected with Velvet Goldmine – for Todd Haynes film and music are the creative outlets and the soundtrack of his life. The Bob Dylan-inspired I'm Not There – a Montreal (and outskirts of Montreal) based production is in its last week of production and since the moment I found out that they were filming in my backyard, I was hoping to somehow get a peak of the production.
This week’s Eye Candy: Claude Lelouch
Every Saturday we feature a collection of works from some of our favorite filmmakers - the kind of works that you sometimes catch on the tube, on the net or when wasting away in front of MTV. IONCINEMA.com's Eye Candy of the week are ...
