Out with this year's male Oscar winner....in with this year's other male Oscar winner. According to Variety, Daniel Day-Lewis will potentially take Javier Bardem's recently renounced starring role of Guido Contini in Nine.
Well that didn’t take long. The 61st Festival de Cannes is just underway and the first major pickup has already been made. IFC Films has ponied up for the domestic rights to Arnaud Desplechin’s A Christmas Tale (Un Conte de Noel).
The brothers W are certainly trying… all that’s missing is a signature picture that can represent the studio in the same way Pulp Fiction or The English Patient did for their old shingle. With Shanghai they just may have that movie.
Moore is saying "bye-bye" to the Weinstein Company for his next feature, a sequel to the 2004 documentary Fahrenheit 9/11, referred to informally as Fahrenheit 9/11 1/2. The fraternal studio giants had previously handled the distribution of both Fahrenheit and the 2007 healthcare doc Sicko.
Those Weinstein fellas are surprisingly no stranger to kiddie flicks. The Weinstein company released Hoodwinked! in 2005, the all-star Shrek-a-like; an anachronistic and satirical telling of the classic fairy tale, Little Red Riding Hood.