Bob Yari Tagged Articles at Cinematical
That Cage Guy is One Crazy Dog
Filed under: Action », Drama », Thrillers », Casting », Newsstand »
I don't know what's gotten into Nicolas Cage, but the guy is making movies at an insane rate -- after averaging a movie or two per year for most of his career, Cage currently has three films (including World Trade Center) due out in the second half of 2006, four in 2007, and three already slated for 2008. He must be building, like 14 new homes, or something.And, to that considerable list of upcoming projects, Cage just added Crazy Dog, a Bob Yari project in which he's agreed to star. Directed by Joe Ruben (The Forgotten, Return to Paradise), the film "revolves around a New York City cop who causes the death of a friend in a moment of cowardice. Consumed by guilt, he goes on a self-destructive spree but then seeks redemption." Ah, redemption. It wouldn't be Hollywood without the guy seeing the light and apologizing for all of his sins, right? I bet he reconciles with his wife, too. As irritatingly cliched as the story sounds, though, its writers -- Henry Bean and Nicholas Kazan -- have, between them, some fairly impressive credits including At Close Range, Deep Cover and Internal Affairs, so perhaps there's hope for some real tension and depth. (If we ignore the fact that Bean wrote Basic Instinct 2, that is.)
Release Date Magic for Norton's Illusionist
Filed under: Drama », Romance », Sci-Fi & Fantasy », Casting », Distribution », Newsstand »
Man, I'm totally falling down on the job, here --
there are FOUR magician movies due out in the next 18-24 months, not three. I'm so sorry to have misled
you the other day. The fourth, entitled The Illusionist, actually already premiered at Sundance, but it somehow
slipped through our collective net while we were there, and we failed to even register its existence. That all changes
here and now, however: The Illusionist stars Edward Norton
as a magician in Vienna in 1900, and is an adaptation of a short story by Steven Millhauser called Eisenheim the
Illusionist. (Just so you know, I just watched some clips and read the review
at Variety and, despite the fact that Rufus Sewell is
sporting some truly frightening facial hair, I'm now so excited about this movie that I almost wish I still didn't know
about it. Dammit. All this wait!) In the movie, Norton's character falls in love with a woman above his proverbial
station -- played, boys, by one Jessica Biel -- and when she marries
a prince (that's Sewell), instead of giving up he "uses his powers to win her back and undermine the stability of
the royal house of Vienna." Mmm ... political intrigue.The movie is in the news today because producer Bob Yari (you remember him) has elected to distribute the film himself (via Yari Film Group) rather than sell the rights to an outside company; he plans to have it in theaters this August.
All is not so rosy for Crash team
Filed under: Celebrities and Controversy », Newsstand », Politics », Oscar Watch »
The long-simmering dispute over production credits for Crash exploded Wednesday - which, not coincidentally, was the day
after Oscar voting ended. Funny how the sainthood falls away the moment the ballots are in, huh? The conflict between
producers Cathy
Schulman and Tom Nunan and real estate mogul/denied producer Bob Yari is incredibly ugly, filled with lawsuits, accusations of theft,
and personal attacks.
Yari is suing both the Producers Guild of America and the Academy, both of whom denied him production credit for the film - oh, and he also took out a full page ad in the trade papers yesterday, proclaiming that the Academy "abdicated its responsibility and impartiality and in so doing, put its reputation and the worldwide telecast of our industry's most anticipated award show at risk." Why, he's just interested in the Academy's reputation - really, the lawsuits are for the industry's own good. Poor, misunderstood mogul.
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