Two-time Oscar nominated Willem Dafoe may be setting himself up for another Best Suppoting Actor role. Dafoe's reps have just announced he will be starring opposite Jeff Goldblum in screenwriter-turned-director Paul Schrader's new film Adam Resurrected.
Four new feature projects have been announced as being funded by Film Finance Australia Corp., the funding agency, for production next year. Two of the films mark a return home for two critically acclaimed Australian filmmakers while another is set to be helmed by Australia’s most exciting up-and-coming.
Voted by a jury of 16 members,Pascale Ferran's Lady Chatterley won the 64th Prix Louis Delluc for best feature of the year while the eighth Prix Louis Delluc for first film went to thesp Jean-Pierre Darroussin for "The Premonition" (Le Pressentiment).
Okay let's get one thing straight. It's not Ralph Nader's fault that George W. got elected. It's the X million number of people who voted for him that are to blame. Opening January 31st @ the IFC Center New York, An Unreasonable Man is a doc film (that preemed at Sundance 06') that looks at the career of consumer advocate Ralph Nader from wannabe presidential candidate to public pariah.
Pulitzer and Tony Award winning playwright John Patrick Stanley has teamed up with Miramax and producer Scott Rubin to bring the Catholic school drama Doubt to the big screen. Stanley will pen and helm the 2007 project, which is set to lens in the fall in Gotham. The project started as an Off-Broadway 4-man show before moving on to the main strip and garnering four Tony’s and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The play completed its run last summer after more than 500 perfs.