After a less than stellar The Brothers Grimm, Terry Gilliam has announced that his next project will be a film based on Anything For Billy, a novel loosely chronicling the young gun-slinging Billy the Kid by Larry McMurty, co-writer of Brokeback Mountain.
I'm a sucker for biopics, retro design and pin-up girls. The combination
of all three results in immediate popping of my cerebellum. At first glance
this trailer doesn't seem to offer much in terms of storyline (even if
we all know the story) but I realized of course that that's for the best.
The ol’ rumor mill is in full swing! Don’t worry though, this doesn’t fall into any gossip category, this is actually cool interesting stuff if it could actually be confirmed. Some crazed fan ran into Michael Keaton at a restaurant in Disney Land, California, and overstepped a few social boundaries by asking for an autograph and about future projects that lie ahead for our favorite underrated actor.
German writer-director Werner Herzog, who’s latest documentary Grizzly Man was touted as the cream of the crop at the Sundance Film Festival this year, was shot during an interview with the BBC’s Mark Kermode by a sniper with an air rifle.
A week ago, to celebrate the release of Manderlay (the latest Lars von Trier controversial cinematic accomplishment), the IFC Center in New York held a complete retrospective on the Danish Filmmaker, and, most of all, a video conference with the world’s most reclusive director. It was also the first experiment of iQ&A (video Q&A through an ipod device), which will be followed in the upcoming months by long distance interviews with directors Hou Hsiao Hsien and Wim Wenders. IONCINEMA.com was there.