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Christopher Walken to Play a Conman in 'Five Dollars a Day'
Filed under: Comedy », Casting », Scripts », Cinematical Indie »
I just don't know... Christopher Walken as a conman? He's Annie Hall's suicidal brother. He's the dancing pimp from Pennies from Heaven. Sometimes, he even sees the future. Walken is the farmer looking for Sarah, Plain and Tall. He's known for his uber comedic roles like zany inventor Calvin Webber in Blast from the Past. He's not a criminal. When has he ever done something like that? Heh, I kid. While it is entirely not surprising that Walken has just signed on to play a conman in a new film, it is nice to see him get a starring role.Walken and Alessandro Nivola (Laurel Canyon) have signed on to star in Five Dollars a Day. It's a road movie about an older conman (Walken) who is proud that he can life on $5 a day, and his son (Nivola) who has gotten thrown in the slammer for one of his dad's crimes. Variety says that the con artist is pitted "against his more conservative son," so perhaps Nivola will try to bring his dad down in exchange for his own freedom? According to IMDb, the flick's about them reuniting and going on a cross-country road trip together, so we'll see. Nigel Cole, the man who brought us Calendar Girls, will direct the feature, from a script by Neal and Tippi Dobrofsky. The movie will head into production in New Mexico and Atlantic City next month.
Nigel Cole to Take a Stab at Eloise
Filed under: Classics », Deals », Family Films »
As a kid, I left a trail of grandoise plans at my heels, and one of them was Eloise, en Français. Having just started to learn the language, and being able to say little more than "Quel temps fait-il?" and a barrage of numbers and colors, I found the French version of Eloise. It was to be my first fully-read and comprehended foreign language book, sure to be followed by many other French masterpieces. Well, my French classes turned into Spanish, and I was never able to read the book cover-to-cover.Of course, Eloise has stuck around, and is now finding her way to the big screen to mock me and my unfinished French education. The freshly re-launched Handmade Films, which was originally set up by George Harrison, is picking the tale of the energetic young girl as their first movie back in the biz, according to Variety. Nigel Cole, who recently directed the Helen Mirren-starring Calendar Girls, has signed on as director of Eloise in Paris. Kay Thompson's classic has been adapted by Janet Brownell and Erin Joslyn -- the former has had experience writing for Eloise's television treatment, and this is Joslyn's first screenplay. While the television series remained Liza Minnelli-free, it would be nice to see the actress make an appearance, since she is Thompson's god-daughter, and sometimes rumored to be a model for Eloise.
The Secret Movie of Adrian Mole
Filed under: Comedy », Drama », Independent », Deals », Family Films », Newsstand », Cinematical Indie »
A The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole
movie! Woo hoo! Honestly, I'm really surprised it took this long - as Variety points out, the book, in
addition to spawning about three billion sequels, has also been the source for two TV series and a stage musical that
played London's West End. Who would would have thought that film would be last medium to take on the story? For those
of you who totally missed out, Sue Townsend's The
Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4 is a hilarious young-adult novel (and it's more than appropriate for
the old-adult, thanks very much) about the "delightfully self-centered" Adrian Mole as he struggles through
adolescence in 1980s, working-class England. As previously mentioned, the book's popularity led Townsend to write a
series of sequels (of varying quality) that take Adrian well into adulthood, but it sounds like only the rights to the
first book have been acquired.Newcomer Bradley Wood wrote the screenplay, and Fortress Entertainment has hired Nigel Cole (A Lot Like Love, Calendar Girls) to direct. When the fun will really start, of course, is at casting time - I'm having visions of an open English casting call, complete with lines fill of zitty, awkward teenage hopefuls.
[via Coming Soon]
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