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One Borgia film makes it to the finish line
Filed under: Drama », Foreign Language », Deals », Berlin », Distribution », Movie Marketing », Cinematical Indie »
Martha wrote earlier today about how Neil Jordan has been trying to get the
film Borgia made forever, to no avail, and how the project has once again been shelved. But we have good
news for all you film buffs who have been anxiously awaiting a film about the scandalous Renaissance dynasty - Los Borgia, helmed by Spanish director Antonio Hernández (who is also in production on Cervantes),
has
been acquired by Spanish company Filmax for worldwide rights outside Italy and Spain.
Hernández's version of the film stars Lluís Homar as notorious pope Alexander VI, Sergio Peris-Mencheta as his ruthless son César, and María Valverde as César's sister Lucrezia, who, depending which account you believe, was either a wicked femme fatale as ruthless and cunning as her brother and father, or a pawn of both in their unquenchable lust for power.
Jordan's Borgia collapses again
Filed under: Drama », Thrillers », Deals », Newsstand », Scarlett Johansson »
Neil Jordan has been trying for
years to make a movie about the scandalous Borgia clan (creatively entitled Borgia),
the best-known members of which - nasty little Lucrezia and conniving Cesare - are the focus of his story. After a
version starring Ewan
McGregor and Christina
Ricci fell apart in 2002 because of budget problems ($50-60 million just wasn't going to do it, apparently), the
movie went back onto Jordan's personal "to be made" pile, and he moved on to other things. Then, last year,
the project was revived, albeit with an even smaller budget and more limited scope, and Scarlett Johansson and Colin Farrell were signed to star. Because of the nonavailability of its
stars, the start of production was pushed back from this spring to September of 2006, but the film was still a go - in
fact, European distribution rights had already been sold.Now, though, it's fallen apart again: last week Jordan himself has pulled out of the movie, "having concluded that he could not make it work with the proposed budget and logistics." It is unlikely, however, that he won't eventually give the project another try - we'll just have to wait a bit longer for our 15th century opulence and debauchery. Jordan, meanwhile, will head off to Hollywood to direct Terrence Howard and Jodie Foster in The Brave One.
Oscar hype? Out of control? Never!
Filed under: Awards », Oscar Watch »
It's true - along with everyone else who covers the movies in any capacity, we here at Cinematical are officially in
an Oscar Frenzy. Questions and speculation are flying around our lovely Manhattan office - Is Brokeback
Mountain peaking too soon? Why is Munich
not getting any awards? Will a giant
ape rule the world? And are those bitches at the Academy going to stiff The
Squid and the Whale just because it's small and sort of difficult? It's fun but, you know, also a little
mind-numbing. But there is an alternative - if you feel like you'll kill the next person who says the phrase "gay cowboys" but can't get enough of Academy Awards speculation, head on over to to the Los Angeles Times' Oscar blog and talk about next year's front runners. Yes, it's true: everyone has completely lost their minds. On what are they basing their beliefs that Dreamgirls - which has yet to EVEN START FILMING - is going to be good enough to get nominated? Or Borgia? At this point, who knows if Colin Farrell will even make it out or rehab? I mean, come on, people. Fun is fun, but this is insane.
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