February 27, 2006
I’m glad to tell you that the site now is open! :tongue: After a long time and a lot of hard work it’s finally finished! I hope you’ll like it and that you’ll find what you were looking for. The site will be kept updated with daily news and lots of new photos will be coming in the new future.
Let me know what you think!
February 26, 2006
The 2006 release date is still TBA for Chilean director Raoul Ruiz’s Klimt, staring John Malkovich in the title role, but word is that the film is tied up by behind-the-scenes disputes. According to Variety, Ruiz — who last directed an adaptation of the Marcel Proust’s unfilmable Time Regained — has transformed the life of the decadent Vienna Succession artist into what is described as less a biopic and more of a “phantasmagoria.”
The feature about the notoriously strong-willed Klimt has apparently had its share of production kinks as a result of its auteur. It was written originally by Ruiz in French, who then had its script translated into German before retranslating it into English for the final draft, a process that has left its mark in the form of some strangely foreign sounding dialogue (”Kisses anywhere other than the lips is like smoking without inhaling,” is one reported line.)
Aside from Malkovich, the film features Nikolai Kinski as Egon Schiele, Stephen Dillane as a British diplomat and Saffron Burrows as the artist’s muse, Lea de Castro. According to Variety’s lukewarm advance review, the story begins on the artist’s death bed and flits back and forth through time, including recreations of the Paris 1900 exposition, “a bizarre gilded cage sequence in a brothel” and lots of heady on-camera debates about form versus function.
Source: http://artnet.com
February 21, 2006
The cast of the Mike Bender drama “Reign O’er Me” is filling out. Adam Sandler and Don Cheadle have already committed to starring roles in the Columbia Pictures film and now Liv Tyler, Saffron Burrows, and Jada Pinkett Smith are in talks to join the project.
Bender (”The Upside of Anger“) wrote and will direct the film which follows Sandler as a man whose family perished during the terrorist attacks on 9/11 and is having a difficult time coping with his grief. Cheadle plays his college roommate, now a psychiatrist, who tries to help him recover.
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Saffron Burrows, Jada Pinkett Smith, and Steven Tyler’s daughter Liv are in line to join Adam Sandler and Don Cheadle in the cast of ”Reign O’er Me,” about a man who turns to his college roommate to help him cope with losing his family in the Sept. 11 attacks.
The Woody Creeker, a magazine coedited by Hunter S. Thompson’s widow, Anita Thompson, debuted yesterday on the first anniversary of the gonzo journalist’s death. Thompson shot himself in his home following health problems.
Source: http://boston.com
February 11, 2006
MCC will replace a Neil LaBute play with a Neil LaBute play. The previously-announced Swallowing Bicycles has been dropped from the season line-up; Some Girls, in its American premiere, will replace it. The latter show will run from May 17th through June 24th at the Lucille Lortel Theatre; June 8th is the opening date.
Some Girls will also keep Swallowing Bicycles’s director -J o Bonney (A Soldier’s Play, On the Mountain). In the May 2005 London production, David Schwimmer (”Friends“) headlined the caustic relationship drama that also featured Saffron Burrows, Lesley Manville, Sara Powell and Catherine Tate. Schwimmer, who will soon appear in the upcoming Broadway revival of The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, will not be with Some Girls for its American premiere; casting is currently underway.
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