News on my Most Anticipated Films of 2005
+The trailer for #2 - George Romero's Land of the Dead - will be debut this weekend attached to most prints of XXX: State of the Union. Expect it online later in the week with the poster shortly to follow.
+James Lipton has a cameo as himself in film #3 - Bewitched. In case you forgot, Will Ferrell used to do impressions of him on Saturday Night Live. My favorite was the one where Kate Hudson played Drew Barrymore on Inside the Actor's Studio. Sample question: what profession would you not like to attempt? Kate as Drew: "I wouldn't want to burn monkeys."
+The trailer for #4 - In Her Shoes - is rumored to debut along with Kingdom of Heaven. Both films are from Fox and Ridley Scott is involved with both - director of KOH, producer of IHS. Shirley MacLaine also stated in an interview with Entertainment Weekly that of her three movies coming out this year, IHS is the one that is Oscar material. (Not a real surprise, but nice to hear it from her.)
+A test screening review of #6 - Syriana - is up at AICN. Read it here.
+The internet is abuzz trying to explain the omission of #1 - Brokeback Mountain - from the Cannes lineup. My money is on it was submitted after the selection committee had most of the festival planned out. But Dark Horizons put up an article today that might explain another reasoning:
"Ang Lee's upcoming film Brokeback Mountain about two young cowboys (Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal) who tumble into love while herding sheep through the Wyoming mountain range during the early '60s, was excluded from the Cannes screening schedule altogether reports AfterElton.
Given Ang Lee's track history, the elimination from the running at Cannes is of note, especially since the contenders this year are helmed by indie cinema darlings like Lars Von Trier, David Cronenberg, Wim Wenders, Jim Jarmusch, and Gus Van Sant (who was originally slotted to direct Brokeback). However, Cannes has also never accepted a film of Lee's for competition, and reportedly don't particularly like him. (DARREN SIDENOTE: He reportedly bitched after The Ice Storm only took home a Screenplay prize.) So the film's rejection from the lineup may have nothing to do with the movie itself, rather with who's directing it.
Why the project didn't measure up at Cannes remains unknown, though the trades reported two weeks earlier that Brokeback Mountain was "looking wobbly for Competition," and confided that the film reportedly "underwhelmed the selection committee."
This comes at odds with other recent reports that many studio executives were "moved to tears" at a recent screening of it. "It's a great American love story," says a source to the paper who confirmed it is unabashed about the gay relationship that is central to the film and there are sex scenes. Whether the famous Heath Ledger skinny dipping photos that surfaced last year were part of the film is unsure though they won't be in the movie's final edit.
One of my most reliable sources who also happens to be one of Dark Horizons' greatest supporters (and a really good friend) also confirmed that people were crying and loving the film at a recent US screening. In fact the move to December 9th seems primarily for Oscar chances and that both Brokeback and Cameron Crowe's Elizabethtown (DARREN SIDENOTE: Elizabethtown is most anticipated movie #8) are looking likely to be big contenders for awards next year."
Larry McMurtry - the co-screenwriter of Brokeback - wrote the source material for The Last Picture Show and Terms of Endearment. Both were also rejected from Cannes. Conspiracy perhaps?
(I had a dream last night I ran into Anna Faris who was about to shoot the movie. Apparently, we were in a high school setting and she got my digits. I was also in the movie somehow because I was very surprised that she was filming a scene tomorrow and I wasn't set to arrive till next week. Later on in the dream, I kept high-fiving the neighbor kids. Probably shouldn't eat peanut butter before I go to bed anymore.)
+James Lipton has a cameo as himself in film #3 - Bewitched. In case you forgot, Will Ferrell used to do impressions of him on Saturday Night Live. My favorite was the one where Kate Hudson played Drew Barrymore on Inside the Actor's Studio. Sample question: what profession would you not like to attempt? Kate as Drew: "I wouldn't want to burn monkeys."
+The trailer for #4 - In Her Shoes - is rumored to debut along with Kingdom of Heaven. Both films are from Fox and Ridley Scott is involved with both - director of KOH, producer of IHS. Shirley MacLaine also stated in an interview with Entertainment Weekly that of her three movies coming out this year, IHS is the one that is Oscar material. (Not a real surprise, but nice to hear it from her.)
+A test screening review of #6 - Syriana - is up at AICN. Read it here.
+The internet is abuzz trying to explain the omission of #1 - Brokeback Mountain - from the Cannes lineup. My money is on it was submitted after the selection committee had most of the festival planned out. But Dark Horizons put up an article today that might explain another reasoning:
"Ang Lee's upcoming film Brokeback Mountain about two young cowboys (Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal) who tumble into love while herding sheep through the Wyoming mountain range during the early '60s, was excluded from the Cannes screening schedule altogether reports AfterElton.
Given Ang Lee's track history, the elimination from the running at Cannes is of note, especially since the contenders this year are helmed by indie cinema darlings like Lars Von Trier, David Cronenberg, Wim Wenders, Jim Jarmusch, and Gus Van Sant (who was originally slotted to direct Brokeback). However, Cannes has also never accepted a film of Lee's for competition, and reportedly don't particularly like him. (DARREN SIDENOTE: He reportedly bitched after The Ice Storm only took home a Screenplay prize.) So the film's rejection from the lineup may have nothing to do with the movie itself, rather with who's directing it.
Why the project didn't measure up at Cannes remains unknown, though the trades reported two weeks earlier that Brokeback Mountain was "looking wobbly for Competition," and confided that the film reportedly "underwhelmed the selection committee."
This comes at odds with other recent reports that many studio executives were "moved to tears" at a recent screening of it. "It's a great American love story," says a source to the paper who confirmed it is unabashed about the gay relationship that is central to the film and there are sex scenes. Whether the famous Heath Ledger skinny dipping photos that surfaced last year were part of the film is unsure though they won't be in the movie's final edit.
One of my most reliable sources who also happens to be one of Dark Horizons' greatest supporters (and a really good friend) also confirmed that people were crying and loving the film at a recent US screening. In fact the move to December 9th seems primarily for Oscar chances and that both Brokeback and Cameron Crowe's Elizabethtown (DARREN SIDENOTE: Elizabethtown is most anticipated movie #8) are looking likely to be big contenders for awards next year."
Larry McMurtry - the co-screenwriter of Brokeback - wrote the source material for The Last Picture Show and Terms of Endearment. Both were also rejected from Cannes. Conspiracy perhaps?
(I had a dream last night I ran into Anna Faris who was about to shoot the movie. Apparently, we were in a high school setting and she got my digits. I was also in the movie somehow because I was very surprised that she was filming a scene tomorrow and I wasn't set to arrive till next week. Later on in the dream, I kept high-fiving the neighbor kids. Probably shouldn't eat peanut butter before I go to bed anymore.)
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