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Capote director Bennett Miller is in talks for his second feature film project, coming in to relieve Steven Soderbergh on Moneyball. Brad Pitt is still on board in the starring role. Moneyball is based on Michael Lewis’ nonfiction book about the Oakland A’s general manager Billy Beane, who put together a competitive franchise on a [...]
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Bennett Miller on deck for MONEYBALL
Posted by Dan Stasiewski on December 6th, 2009
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No Comments »Sherlock Holmes sequel in the works – TFC Morning Report
Posted by Dan Stasiewski on September 22nd, 2009
Top Story: Talk about a vote of confidence in Guy Ritchie’s upcoming holiday blockbuster Sherlock Holmes. Warner Bros. is already moving ahead with a sequel, tapping Kieran and Michele Mulroney to pen the second installment of the franchise. Also, reviving a rumor that had started on the web a few weeks ago, Brad Pitt is [...]
Posted in Random Tags: brad pitt, get low, glee, guy ritchie, john malkovich, lebanon, lee daniels, precious, secretariat, sherlock holmes No Comments »Movie Review: Inglourious Basterds
Posted by Dan Stasiewski on August 23rd, 2009
Inglourious Basterds (2009)–**** All of Quentin Tarantino’s films are about cinema, but Inglourious Basterds may be his first to harness cinema’s power to show us cinema’s power. This isn’t just a film about a group of Jewish-American soldiers killing Nazis guerrilla-style. Basterds is a film about movies–and one of the greatest at that. From the [...]
‘Green Lantern’ casting down to three – TFC Morning Report
Posted by Dan Stasiewski on July 10th, 2009
Top Story: And then there were three. The Green Lantern casting rumors have once again gone into overdrive with news that Warner Bros. has narrowed the field down to three. Bradley Cooper, Ryan Reynolds and Justin Timberlake were brought in for a second round of screen tests. Of the three, each is favored by either [...]
Pitt and Soderbergh’s ‘Moneyball’ tipped foul – TFC Morning Report
Posted by Dan Stasiewski on June 22nd, 2009
Top Story: Columbia abruptly pulled the plug on Steven Soderbergh’s baseball drama Moneyball. The film was scheduled to begin shooting this week with Brad Pitt in the lead. Studio co-chair Amy Pascal apparently wasn’t happy with the shooting script. THR is reporting that “Pascal was leery, the sources said, fearing the film lacked emotion.” Hmm. [...]
It’s easy to get Brad Pitt in your movie.
Posted by Dan Stasiewski on May 21st, 2009
Want Brad Pitt in your movie? Well, Quentin Taratino has a surefire way to get the megastar to agree. From the UK’s The Independent: “Quentin came to visit some time at the end of the summer, we talked about back story, we talked about movies,” Pitt explained. “I get up the next morning and see [...]
TFC Morning Report – Friday, Feb. 6, 2009 – Coming soon: Sex and the City 2
Posted by Dan Stasiewski on February 6th, 2009
Top Story: From Variety, the ladies from Sex and the City have all signed on for a sequel, which is set for a summer 2010 release. Now can we get an actual film director to helm the movie? In Other News: Ocean’s Eleven helmer Steven Soderbergh and one of those eleven, Brad Pitt, are “circling” [...]
Final Oscar 2008-2009 Nomination Predictions
Posted by Dan Stasiewski on January 21st, 2009
Will The Dark Knight get its Best Picture nod? Will Slumdog nab the most nominations? Will Woody Allen spoil the day for another director? Will Kate Winslet get the two nods she deserves? What’s going to happen?! Tomorrow at 8:30 a.m. EST/5:30 p.m. PST the Academy will announce the Oscar nominees. Anyone who has watched [...]
Posted in Random Tags: academy awards, angelina jolie, anne hathaway, brad pitt, burn after reading, changeling, christopher nolan, clint eastwood, danny boyle, david fincher, dev patel, doubt, frank langella, frost/nixon, frozen river, gran torino, gus van sant, heath ledger, james franco, josh brolin, kate winslet, marisa tomei, melissa leo, meryl streep, mickey rourke, milk, penelope cruz, philip seymour hoffman, rachel getting married, revolutionary road, richard jenkins, robert downey jr., sean penn, slumdog millionaire, taraji p. henson, the curious case of benjamin button, the dark knight, the visitor, the wrestler, tropic thunder, vicky cristina barcelona, viola davis, wall-e, woody allen No Comments »Movie Review: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Posted by Dan Stasiewski on December 29th, 2008
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)–**** Zemeckis, an undisputed master of film technology, shows off an equal aptitude for vivid storytelling in bringing Winston Groom’s picaresque novel to screen. –Rita Kempley’s 1994 Washington Post review of Forrest Gump Seriously? I hated Forrest Gump. Hated, hated, hated Forrest Gump, as Roger Ebert would say. Every [...]
Spielberg joins Pitt in fight against CA gay marriage ban
Posted by Dan Stasiewski on September 24th, 2008
Steven Spielberg is the second high-profile celeb to donate money to fight California’s proposed state constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. Brad Pitt, who is turning into Bono-esque crusader, already donated $100,000 (the maximum donation?) to fight Proposition 8. Upon announcing their $100K donation, Spielberg and his wife Kate Capshaw issued this statement: By writing discrimination [...]
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