In what comes as the least surprising
piece of film news this year, Daniel Craig has confirmed that he will indeed be returning as James Bond for a 5th and final -LRB-?!)
In one of the week's biggest
pieces of film news to filter down through the regular internet channels, The King's Speech «s Colin Firth joined The Kids Are All Right «s Mia Wasikowska and Rabbit Hole «s Nicole Kidman in the mysterious feature (with the ladies replacing the earlier cast of Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps «s Carey Mulligan and The Brave One «s Jodie Foster), which heralds from a script written by Prison Break star Wentworth Miller.
Not exact matches
This
piece of news confirms our post from March 2016, where we told you that one
of the characters named Gaylen would be featured in the
film, seeking revenge for her dead son, Kenny Brandon:
Oddly, the
film's satire
of local
news plays better than most
of the divine stuff, with pod people broadcasters (including a faux - ethnic newswoman about as Hispanic as Davy Crockett) covering borderline psychotics in soullessly cheerful puff
pieces.
Pitting the value
of soft entertainment
pieces against gritty, hard - hitting stories, the
film also addresses the changing dynamics
of broadcast
news.
In today's second
piece of potential Aquaman casting
news, Nicole Kidman is in early talks to join the cast
of the
film, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
If you've ever wanted to look up some
news about a
film, be it a
piece of casting info or movement on a long - awaited sequel, the odds are better than not that you made your way to Dark Horizons.
While we all patiently wait for Todd McFarlane «s R - Rated Spawn flick to debut, we have another
piece of news to bring you today regarding where the
film is...
«Captain America: Civil War» has screened for critics (our review arrives tomorrow, so keep a look out), and Marvel and its various heads, producers, writers and artistic coalition forces have been doing interviews for the
film and various
pieces of news are flying fast and furious.
Just over ten days ago we learned via producer Jason Blum that a first cut
of director David Gordon Green's new Halloween
film should be complete within 6 weeks, which fits perfectly with today's latest
piece of news.
One
of the big
pieces of news out
of this year's SXSW
film festival was the announcement
of a new aggregate movie review and ratings site, meant to answer many
of the issues people have with Rotten Tomatoes.
The bad
news is that Basic is essentially a prospective comeback picture for the principals — a glossy prestige
piece that seems like a lot
of other
films and doesn't make any kind
of sense and therefore must be good.
Depp Town Not much information here besides a few interesting
news pieces, contact info and a page
of film quotes.
Yesterday
news hit that Lupita Nyong» o was in talks to join Marvel's Black Panther, and now we have another
piece of exciting casting, as Creed star Michael B. Jordan has joined the upcoming superhero
film as well.
The Atlantic
piece ends by reminding us that «the absence
of women
film critics has been in the
news recently thanks to Meryl Streep, who questioned in October how having so few women writers might affect the reception
of female - centric
films,» while noting that «There are no headlines recently about the representation
of other races or sexual orientations, though they deserve many
of their own.»
Just last month the Museum
of Modern Art acquired a major «Modern History»
piece from 1979, Movie - Television -
News - History, made
of 27 prints showing papers the day after the murder
of television journalist Bill Stewart by the Nicaraguan National Guard, with the newspaper images pulled from a
film taken by Stewart's cameraman.
[Update, Sept. 11, 8:30 a.m. Zahra Hirji
of Inside Climate
News has written an interesting
piece on the viral success
of the
film that includes a section on the ad agency that created it, Barton F. Graf 9000.