| If you are now, or have ever been, a young person, you're probably familiar with Madeleine L'Engle's classic anti-Communist allegory A Wrinkle In Time. If not, you should be. It's a classic of Christian literature. Now the trippy fantasy novel is coming to the big screen courtesy of Disney and screenwriter Jeff Stockwell, who previously adapted a film adaptation of the beloved young adult novel A Bridge to Terabithia. According to an article in the Hollywood Reporter, a feature film adaptation of Robert C. O'Brien's Mrs. Frisby and The Rats of Nimh is also ... Read it at AV Club .... |
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| Next month, one of my favorite independent and more outspoken directors of late, Ti West, will begin shooting a follow-up to last year's breakout hit about Satanic Panic The House of The Devil. Filming on location in Connecticut (where THotD was also shot) and entitled The Innkeepers, the film is said to follow "the last two staffers at a hotel that's going out of business"---a hotel that may have ghostly occupants. When I previously emailed West to see if The Shining would be an influence and whether the film addresses "reality" tv shows like Ghost Hunters, he wrote back: "This movie incorporates and comments on the trend of those type shows etc. but is also a very classic ghost story. I'm psyched. I think it blends the classic ghost story style with a solid modern twist. It will be really fun, fresh and scary."In a new chat with FearNet at SXSW, where West ... Read it at Slash Film .... |
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| From left to right: Focus Features president Andrew Karpen , writer/director Noah Baumbach, and actors Greta Gerwig, Ben Stiller, and Rhys Ifans at the March 18th special screening of their new movie "Greenberg." "I’m always interested in how people, myself included, have ideas of themselves, of how they thought they would be, or of how they want to be seen," Baumbach said in an interview published on indieWIRE earlier this week. Photo courtesy of Focus Features. Read it at indieWIRE .... |
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