It’s MLK weekend, I don’t wanna hold your long weekend with too much information so I figured we’d kill o I dunno 2, 3 or even 4 birds with one stone, not possible in real life but very possible here. So here’s a quickie.. Read the rest of this entry »
New York – November 5th, 2009 – The Wagner/Cuban Companies’ Magnolia Pictures announced today that it acquired US rights to Dagur Kári’s THE GOOD HEART, starring Brian Cox, Paul Dano and Isild Le Besco. The film, which bowed recently at the Toronto Film Festival, stars Cox as Jacques, the curmudgeonly owner of a gritty New York dive bar that serves as… Read the rest of this entry »
The new thriller starring Tom Cruise has gone through a couple of working titles. TROUBLE MAN and for a while it was called WICHITA or as I called it.. WICHIWhat!! The other suggestion I had for the film was: ‘The return of the eye-patched wannabee German!’ but my gut says 20th Century Fox wouldn’t take kindly to it.
Variety has spoken that the James Mangold-directed action comedy spy thriller will now be called KNIGHT & DAY.
That WICHITA title sounds pretty good right about now.
KNIGHT & DAY starring Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz, is about a lonely woman whose seemingly harmless blind date suddenly turns her life upside-down when a super spy takes her on a violent worldwide journey to protect a powerful battery that holds the key to an infinite power source. Maggie Grace is also part of the cast.
Paul Dano is going to co-star as a charming but mysterious scientist whose invention is at the center of the chase. (Check out the set videos)
KNIGHT & DAY opens July 2, 2010 release.
I’m about to head out to Whittier for business but before I go, I figure we’d take the time to quickly familiarize ourselves with the following development. The adaptation THE WETTEST COUNTY IN THE WORLD based on a true story novel by Matt Bondurant has been housed at Columbia for a while with John Hillcoat (The Road) set as the director but the project was put in a turnaround. According to Hollywood Reporter, producers Douglas Wick and Lucy Fisher of Red Wagon (Jarhead, Girl Interrupted) want to reconfigure the process and finance it as an Indie gig and this has attracted A-list names.
Talented names like Shia LaBeouf, Scarlett Johansson, Ryan Gosling, Paul Dano and Michael Shannon have expressed their interest. The production hasn’t started yet, the cast hasn’t been confirmed yet, this is just to tell you where this project is right now at this very moment but if this does move forward, I think it will be the next big thing that we need to keep an eye on.
Here’s the official synopsis of the story…
“Based on the true story of Matt Bondurant’s grandfather and two granduncles, The Wettest County in the World is a gripping tale of brotherhood, greed, and murder. The Bondurant Boys were a notorious gang of roughnecks and moonshiners who ran liquor through Franklin County, Virginia, during Prohibition and in the years after. Forrest, the eldest brother, is fierce, mythically indestructible, and the consummate businessman; Howard, the middle brother, is an ox of a man besieged by the horrors he witnessed in the Great War; and Jack, the youngest, has a taste for luxury and a dream to get out of Franklin. Driven and haunted, these men forge a business, fall in love, and struggle to stay afloat as they watch their family die, their father’s business fail, and the world they know crumble beneath the Depression and drought.
White mule, white lightning, firewater, popskull, wild cat, stump whiskey, or rotgut — whatever you called it, Franklin County was awash in moonshine in the 1920s. When Sherwood Anderson, the journalist and author of Winesburg, Ohio, was covering a story there, he christened it the “wettest county in the world.” In the twilight of his career, Anderson finds himself driving along dusty red roads trying to find the Bondurant brothers, piece together the clues linking them to “The Great Franklin County Moonshine Conspiracy,” and break open the silence that shrouds Franklin County.
In vivid, muscular prose, Matt Bondurant brings these men — their dark deeds, their long silences, their deep desires — to life. His understanding of the passion, violence, and desperation at the center of this world is both heartbreaking and magnificent.”
Director James Mangold’s next movie, starring Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz, has been described action comedy and spy thriller. The plot is about a lonely woman whose seemingly harmless blind date suddenly turns her life upside-down when a super spy takes her on a violent worldwide journey to protect a powerful battery that holds the key to an infinite power source. Maggie Grace is also part of the cast.
Variety reported actor Paul Dano is going to co-star as a charming but mysterious scientist whose invention is at the center of the chase. I’m assuming that invention is the so-called powerful battery.
The project was initially titled WICHITA, production starts next month in Boston.
First Independent Pictures has sent me a new clip from the upcoming GIGANTIC starring Paul Dano, Zooey Deschanel and the ever hilarious John Goodman. Don’t forget to check out the official trailer, poster and synopsis for the movie that will open limited in New York theatres April 3rd, Los Angeles theatres April 17th and then expanding!
