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Birds Remake Director Martin Campbell Flies the Coop
5 December 2009 1:36 AM, PST | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »
In the case of Platinum Dunes' remake of Hitchcock's classic The Birds, you'd think that all the various delays, rewrites, etc., might have the producers reconsidering their plans; but no, it appears to be full steam ahead with the project despite the fact that it recently lost its director, Martin Campbell, to The Green Lantern redux.
Pajiba got the scoop that although Campbell, who's best known for revitalizing the Bond franchise via his updated Casino Royale, is out, Platinum Dunes has talked to [The Last House on the Left director Dennis] Iliades about taking over the $60 million produced movie, and he’s driving the new direction of the film, which, under Campbell’s direction, was geared toward a PG-13 release. Iliades is more interested in amping up the horror and making it an R-rated affair although at this point they’re looking to do another rewrite tailored toward Iliades’ vision. The script has passed through a lot of hands over the last year, »
- The Woman In Black
2010 Sundance Film Festival Spotlight: First Images from Mother & Child Starring Naomi Watts, Annette Bening, Jimmy Smits, and Samuel L. Jackson
4 December 2009 6:10 PM, PST | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
Yesterday, we reported the list of films playing in the Spotlight category at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. As we approach the beginning of the festival, first images and additional images are coming online for the films which playing in-and out-of-competition. Today, the first images for Rodrigo Garcia’s (Passengers) new film Mother & Child came online and we’ve put them after the jump.
Mother & Child stars Naomi Watts, Annette Bening, Kerry Washington, Jimmy Smits, and Samuel L. Jackson, and tells the story of three women - a physical therapist, the daughter she gave up at birth three decades ago, and an African American woman seeking to adopt a child of her own - and how they intersect in surprising ways.
The 2010 Sundance Film Festival will run from January 21-31st.
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- Matt Goldberg
Sundance Reveals 2010 Non-Competition Slate
4 December 2009 5:24 PM, PST | newsinfilm.com | See recent newsinfilm news »
On Wednesday the Sundance Film Festival unveiled the films competing in late January 2010. Yesterday they announced the rest of the line-up of independent films vying for attention for industry types and the curious public.
The entire list of 53 films is below, but here are a few that stood out to me from the premieres alone:
Mumblecore directors the Duplass Brothers, have a new, untitled movie starring an unusually high-profile cast compared to their usual improvisational crew. John C. Reilly, Marisa Tomei, Jonah Hill, and Catherine Keener. Reilly and Keener are actually in two films at the 2010 festival.
The Company Men, starring Ben Affleck, Kevin Costner, Maria Bello, Tommy Lee Jones, Chris Cooper, Rosemarie DeWitt about corporate downsizing.
Rodrigo Cortes’ Buried, starring Ryan Reynolds as a man buried alive in a coffin. I’ve read the script and its great. More on that as soon as I can.
The Runaways, the »
- Jeff Leins
Despite Being a Bad Idea, The Birds Remake Moves Forward
4 December 2009 3:19 PM, PST | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
Once upon a time Daphne Du Maurier wrote a neat little short story about birds run amok called The Birds. In 1963 Alfred Hitchcock adapted the short story into a film starring Tippi Hedren. I saw it as a mere sprout when it was on a small screen, in other words, television and had nightmares. By today's standards some corpses missing their eyeballs is pretty tame stuff, but gore was never Hitchcock's M.O. It then came to pass that Martin Campbell, Casino Royale, was to direct Naomi Watts in a remake. I wonder if she was set to revive the icy cool blond with the blond updo that seemed never to get frazzled on Tippi even as she fled screaming from flocks of belligerent birds. Or was she to be a more down to earth bird plagued heroine. Campbell has now left the project and it looks like Watts has as well. But »
- Robin Ruinsky
'The Birds' Remake Hires New Director
4 December 2009 12:13 PM, PST | GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news »
The remake of The Birds, which we learned several months ago had hit a brick wall, may have found a way around it. Martin Campbell (Casino Royale, the upcoming Green Lantern) is no longer the director of record, having been replaced by Dennis Iliadis. Campbell is obviously too entrenched in the DC Comics movie to remake Hitch, so the director of the remake of The Last House on the Left has been tipped for the project by Platinum Dunes.
Pajiba filed the report yesterday, adding that Naomi Watts is probably also out of the running now. There was talk for a while that George Clooney would play the Rod Taylor role, but that was always bullroar. There, I said it: Bullroar. Clooney has zero to gain from doing something like this, however, if they were remaking North by Northwest...
I didn't care much for the original Birds, so remaking it affects me not one iota. »
- Colin Boyd
The Birds Remake Gets The Last House on the Left Director
4 December 2009 6:20 AM, PST | FilmJunk | See recent FilmJunk news »
Some potentially distressing news this week for fans of Alfred Hitchcock. It looks like that long-rumoured remake of The Birds from Michael Bay's Platinum Dunes production company is still happening, despite the fact that the previously attached director Martin Campbell has since left the project for Green Lantern pastures. According to Pajiba [1], a new director is settling into Campbell's place, and that man is Dennis Iliades, who helmed this year's remake of Wes Craven's The Last House on the Left. Now, I actually didn't mind the new version of The Last House on the Left, but the reason I find this news distressing (aside from the fact that they are remaking The Birds!) is the fact that Iliades reportedly wants to amp up the gore and turn the movie into an R-rated horror flick. It is also getting yet another rewrite, having already gone through Scott Derickson (The Exorcism of Emily Rose, »
- Sean
New director for remake of Hitchcock classic The Birds
4 December 2009 2:30 AM, PST | The Geek Files | See recent The Geek Files news »
It Looks like the planned remake of Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds is about to spread its wings again.
Production company Platinum Dunes - created in 2001 by filmmakers Michael Bay, Brad Fuller and Andrew Form - has been developing a new version for several years as part of its catalogue of horror reimaginings.
In Hitchcock's classic - based on Daphne du Maurier's 1952 novella - birds inexplicably gather and attack in a California town.
Tippi Hedren, star of the film, criticised plans for the remake in 2007, telling MTV: "Why would you do that? Why? I mean, can't we find new stories, new things to do?"
In June this year, producers Form and Fuller admitted to Collider that they were having problems with the idea.
Fuller said at the time: "Birds... What do they do? They peck and poke...so there's not a lot of variety as to what can happen.
"We keep trying, »
- David Bentley
'The Birds. Remake Gets Helmer
3 December 2009 9:35 PM, PST | CinemaSpy | See recent CinemaSpy news »
How do you make an interesting movie out of killer birds? That’s what the executives at Platinum Dunes have been trying to figure out.
But since it’s ostensibly a remake of The Birds, the Alfred Hitchcock suspense classic, perhaps one way is hiring a director experienced with rehashes?
According to Coventry Telegraph’s The Geek Files, the production company run by Michael Bay, Brad Fuller and Andrew Form has hired Dennis Iliadis, director of the recent remake of The Last House on the Left. Iliadis is expected to deliver an R-rated horror film at a budget of approximately $60 million.
Screenwriter Scott Derrickson has already turned in a script, which like the Hitchcock classic, is based on Daphne du Maurier’s 1952 novella about birds that gather and attack in a California town. Billy Ray and Peter Craig are reportedly doing rewrites on it—and maybe that’s a good thing, »
2010 Sundance Film Festival Out-of-Competition Films: Spotlight
3 December 2009 6:27 PM, PST | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
Yesterday we gave you a list of all the films playing in-competition at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. We now have the list of the films playing out-of-competition and they’re divided up into four categories: Premieres, Next, Spotlight, and Park City at Midnight. Since combining these lists would be a lot to read for just one article, we’ve broken it up to make it easier on your eyes. You’re welcome.
Films in the Spotlight category include Louis C.K.: Hilarious; Rodrigo Garcia’s Mother & Child starring Naomi Watts, Annette Benning, and Kerry Washington; the great-sounding documentary Winning Time: Reggie Miller vs. The New York Knicks; and Enter the Void, the new film from Gaspar Noé (Irreversible). Films in the Park City at Midnight category include High School starring Adrien Brody; and Buried starring Ryan Reynolds.
Hit the jump to check out synopses for all of the films playing in these categories. »
- Matt Goldberg
Martin Campbell Flies from ‘The Birds’ Remake
3 December 2009 5:17 PM, PST | newsinfilm.com | See recent newsinfilm news »
Martin Campbell is through with Universal’s remake of the Alfred Hitchcock classic The Birds. The Casino Royale director has long been attached to the sacrilegious ideas, but he has signed to make The Green Lantern for Warner Bros and is moving on to bigger and better things.
The good folks at Pajiba have the scoop from the inside, who says Dennis Iliades (Last House on the Left, another remake) is interested in becoming the replacement.
Campbell’s departure was confirmed shortly after by horror site Bloody-Disgusting, but their source denies Iliades’ involvement. Nothing seems to be signed there while the studio tweaks the script one more time (this makes at least 3 or 4). I took a peek at an early version of the screenplay and it read like a flock had dive bombed a keyboard.
Naomi Watts has also been attached for years, but with Campbell peacing out she may come to her senses too. »
- Jeff Leins
Sundance 2010 Non-Competition Line-Up Looks Strong
3 December 2009 3:30 PM, PST | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
Yesterday we got the list for the films playing in competition at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival and today we get the rest of the films that will be featured and there are quite a few that make 2010 look much stronger based on pedigree alone than I have seen in quite some time. Variety has a big write-up detailing the categories and more on the festival right here, but I am just going to offer up the titles and let you sort it all out.
The titles already in the RopeofSilicon database are linked.
Premieres
All films are from the United States unless otherwise noted Abel (Mexico-u.S.), the directorial debut of actor Diego Luna, written by Luna and Agusto Mendoza, about a peculiar young boy who, as he blurs reality and fantasy, takes over the responsibilities of a family man in his father's absence. With Jose Maria Yazpik, Karina Gidi, »
- Brad Brevet
Full Sundance line-up announced...and it's a doozy!
3 December 2009 2:08 PM, PST | QuietEarth.us | See recent QuietEarth news »
In addition to the competition titles which were announced yesterday, Sundance has announced the remainder of their line-up and it includes some titles we’re already familiar with along with a huge number of premieres.
Also on the docket are two new series: Next which showcases low/no budget films and Spotlight which highlights films which festival programmers deem worthy of extra love including Enter the Void (review) and Lourdes (the trailer for which I really liked).
I’m particularly excited to see some of the titles in the New Frontier program but overall, the line-up is an impressive one but the Kristen Stewart fan in me is excited to see her turn as Joan Jett in The Runaways and I think it’s fair to say we’re all dying to see Vincenzo Natali’s hotly anticipated Splice (trailer).
In the Midnight section, Adam Green's Frozen is sounding mighty find, »
Sundance 2010 Film Lineup *Updated*
3 December 2009 1:00 PM, PST | LatinoReview | See recent LatinoReview news »
Sundance released their slate for 2010. It includes:43 documentaries on the Middle East12 films about friends who 'discover' something33 movies about people you've never heard about1 comedyHopefully the lineup this year is strong but it doesn't look that way compared to last year. Last year we had Push (Precious), that Lil Wayne documentary that never went anywhere, Mystery Team which might make my top ten, Moon, Mike Tyson documentary, Cold Souls. Just so much last January that was excellent. I hope I don't go out therer and freeze my tail off just to see...I don't know, a documentary about a former Pakistani prime minister or something silly like that.Here's the lineup so far: Premieres To showcase the diversity to contemporary independent cinema, the Sundance Film Festival Premieres section offers the latest work from American and international directors as well as world premieres of highly anticipated films. Presented by Entertainment Weekly. »
In Pictures: 'amfAR Presents World AIDS Day'
3 December 2009 9:50 AM, PST | Monsters and Critics | See recent Monsters and Critics news »
Naomi Watts, Susan Sarandon attending as amfAR Presents World AIDS Day "Light For Rights" in New York City. Photo copyright by Janet Mayer / PR Photos. Ban Ki-Moon attending as amfAR Presents World AIDS Day "Light For Rights" in New York City. Photo copyright by Janet Mayer / PR Photos. Naomi Watts, Susan Sarandon attending as amfAR Presents World AIDS Day "Light For Rights" in New York City. Photo copyright by Janet Mayer / PR Photos. Susan Sarandon attending as amfAR Presents World AIDS Day "Light For Rights" in New York City. Photo copyright by Janet Mayer / PR Photos. 12/01/2009 - Naomi Watts - amfAR Presents World AIDS Day "Light For Rights" - Washington Square »
- James Wray
‘The Birds’ Remake Gets A New Director?
3 December 2009 8:49 AM, PST | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »
The last time we reported on the completely unnecessary remake of Alfred Hitchcock’s classic The Birds, it looked to be dead on the ground, at least for the time being. Sadly, however, it appears the remake is still on its way, and it may have found a new director.
Casino Royale director, Martin Campbell, had been attached up until this point to direct The Birds. However, a little project called Green Lantern came along, and evidently The Birds got brushed to the side and almost forgot about. According to Pajiba, their inside source in The Hollywood Cog says that Campbell is no longer helming the $60 million project, which is set up at Michael Bay’s horror remake-prone production company, Platinum Dunes (the studio responsible for the remakes of A Nightmare on Elm Street, The Amityville Horror, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Friday the 13th, amongst others).
However, a project »
- Ross Miller
Birds Remake Up In The Air
3 December 2009 8:47 AM, PST | FilmShaft.com | See recent FilmShaft.com news »
Hollywood proves yet again the words: sacred and classic translate as: old and remake needed. The man who revitalised the Bond franchise twice (sounds like one of its title) – Martin Campbell – has jumped ship on this re-do of Alfred Hitchcock’s avian horror, The Birds.
Word on the grapevine (according to Pajiba) is that Last House on the Left’s Dennis lliades is circling the project (I will try and get as many bird-related puns in here as possible). Does this Greek filmmaker have a penchant for remakes? Or is it the only work he can get at present. There was a rumour that Naomi Watts was looking at this, but that hardly seems likely now. It gets even worse: Michael Bay is on producing duties.
Hitchcock’s 1963 chiller nested in the pop cultural conscience despite it not being the auteur’s best. Indeed, the first half of the film, »
- Martyn Conterio
Martin Campbell Drops The Birds Remake, Last House on the Left Remake Director Taking Over?
2 December 2009 9:33 PM, PST | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »
We haven't heard much about the Michael Bay-produced remake of The Birds since Comic-Con, where we were told that Martin Campbell (Casino Royale, Goldeneye) would be directing the film, and that Naomi Watts wanted to star. Now according to the folks over at Pajiba, and their increasingly reliable Hollywood-insider source, Campbell has left the director's chair. In his stead, it appears that the studio has gone with someone else familiar with remakes---Dennis Iliades, director of the recent Last House on the Left. While news of Iliades getting the job isn't official yet, Pajiba notes that he's the one currently shaping the new direction of the film. Campbell was apparently aiming for a PG-13 release, but apparently Iliades has more extreme plans: Illiades is more interested in amping up the horror and making it an R-rated affair, although at this point, they’re looking to do another rewrite tailored toward »
- Devindra Hardawar
Martin Campbell Off The Birds, Dennis Iliadis Replacing Him?
2 December 2009 3:31 PM, PST | firstshowing.net | See recent FirstShowing.net news »
Remember that remake of Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds that Naomi Watts was going to star in? Well, as much as I'm sure everyone wishes that project were dead, according to Pajiba it's alive and well. However, they're saying that Martin Campbell, who was originally attached to direct, is now off of it because he took on another much bigger project known as Green Lantern. But since Universal still wants this to get made, they quickly found a replacement - Greek director Dennis Iliadis, who directed The Last House on the Left remake from last year. Pajiba is also guessing that without Campbell, Watts is no longer involved either. They also say that the budget will be upwards of $60 million and instead of going the PG-13 route as was originally planned, Iliadis now wants to amp up the horror and make it R-rated. As anyone with common sense knows, Hitchcock's »
- Alex Billington
Lisa Loeb Welcomes Baby Girl
1 December 2009 12:06 PM, PST | Extra | See recent Extra news »
Singer/songwriter Lisa Loeb and her husband Roey Hershkovitz welcomed their first child last weekend.
People magazine reports Lyla Rose Loeb Hershkovitz was born Sunday morning at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
Loeb, 41, and Hershkovitz, 31, first announced they were expecting in September.
The Grammy nominee and "The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien" music supervisor met in 2006 and married last January.
Celebrity BabiesBeach Bums
Surfer dude Matthew McConaughey totes son Levi during a sandy walk in Malibu. »
Spectacular Gala Line-up Headline's Dubai International Film Festival 2009
1 December 2009 3:17 AM, PST | Filmicafe | See recent Filmicafe news »
Flashbulbs, red carpet, star spotting and the first-ever screening of a much-awaited movie . the line-up for the much-anticipated Diff celebrity Galas at Madinat Arena has been revealed.Rob Marshall.s Nine, a sumptuous multi-layered adaptation of the popular stage play will open the 6th edition of the week-long Festival on December 9. Starring Daniel Day Lewis, Nicole Kidman, Penelope Cruz, Marion Cotillard, Judi Dench, Kate Hudson and Sophia Loren, the film depicts the midlife crisis of a director struggling with creativity which leads him into a series of complicated romantic entanglements- including his wife, his mistress and his muse. The acclaimed director of Chicago (winner of six Oscars including Best Picture) and Memoirs of a Geisha, Marshall is scheduled to direct the next installment of Pirates of the Caribbean. .Joining the opening film are some of the finest and eagerly awaited movies including world premiere of City of Life, the first »
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