RoryCulkin Tagged Articles at Cinematical
Schumacher Grabs Eclectic Cast for Drug Drama
Filed under: Drama », Casting », Deals », Scripts »
We've already had The Wackness, which dealt with NYC and drug-dealing, but while that had some scary lip-on-lip action, it didn't have a murder twist -- not like this new drug drama. Variety reports that Joel Schumacher is directing Jordan Melamed's adaptation of Nick McDonell's novel Twelve. It's a book that's been compared to both Less Than Zero and Kids, and there's a pretty eclectic cast attached: Chace Crawford, Emma Roberts, Rory Culkin, 50 Cent, Ellen Barkin, and Kiefer Sutherland.Written in 2002 by a then-17-year-old McDonell, the book follows a high school dropout and drug dealer whose life derails when his cousin is murdered on an East Harlem playground and his best friend is arrested for the crime. So we've got a gritty tale of drugs and affluence, murder, dysfunction, and it'll star a pretty boy from Gossip Girl, the girl who keeps a hotel for dogs, and her Lymelife co-star ... plus a rap star, a woman who started her career with Up in Smoke, and Mr. 24.
I imagine this will be the sort of project that pulls Crawford and Roberts firmly into a different cinematic world, or gently pushes them back to lighter fare. But what's more interesting is what Schumacher will do with this material. He's certainly not the first name that would pop up for this sort of project, but re-teaming with Flatliners and The Lost Boys Sutherland might just be the reinvigoration Schumacher needs. Maybe?
The film hits production soon and is slated for a winter 2010 release.
Sundance Exclusive: 'Lymelife' Poster Premiere
Filed under: Comedy », Drama », Sundance », Movie Marketing », Images », Posters »
.jpg)
Cinematical has just received this exclusive poster for the film Lymelife, which will enjoy its US Premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on Saturday, January 17th. Starring Alec Baldwin, Cynthia Nixon, Emma Roberts, Kieran Culkin and Rory Culkin, Lymelife -- which first premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival to some pretty good buzz -- follows the trials and tribulations of a family from Long Island during the late 70's. Variety called it "violently funny" -- a "leaner and meaner American Beauty" that "gradually reveals itself as a film about the pressures and consequences of upward mobility and ordinary adolescence." Lymelife will also hit theaters in New York on April 8th and Los Angeles on April 17th before expanding to other cities. Click in the box below to view the full poster.
Gallery: Lymelife Movie Poster
_thumbnail.jpg)
Alec Baldwin and Emma Roberts Like the 'Lymelife'
Filed under: Comedy », Drama », Casting »
The big screen is about to get lymey. Variety reports that Derick and Steven Martini's dramedy Lymelife is finally getting made, and it's got a solid cast along for the ride. Alec Baldwin and Emma Roberts lead the pack, followed by Cynthia Nixon (Sex and the City), Rory Culkin (Zodiac), Kieran Culkin (Igby Goes Down), Jill Hennessy (Crossing Jordan), and Timothy Hutton (The Last Mimzy).A retro piece taking place in late '70s Long Island, the coming-of-age project focuses on "two families who fall apart when precarious relationships, real estate problems, and Lyme disease converge in the heart of suburbia." It's a film that the brothers have been trying to get made for years. The project was developed during the 2001 Sundance Filmmakers Lab, and experimental scenes were even shot with Kieran. (He's since been replaced by Rory, as he's grown too old for his original role. He'll now play an older brother.) Heck, even Baldwin has been attached to the project for years, so while the film might have struggled to get to this point, there's something in it that has a long-term hold on two of the main players.
Filming gets underway next week in New Jersey, and the picture has a tentative release date for January 2009.
Review: Down in the Valley
Filed under: Action », Drama », Romance », ThinkFilm », Theatrical Reviews »
It took me a long time to appreciate the western. I had no interest in John Wayne or "The Man with No Name" or gunfights at high noon. It all seemed a bit hokey to me. I think the first time I actually gave it fair attention I was in my mid-20s, when I pretty much forced myself to watch the classics, such as The Searchers, High Noon, Stagecoach and The Wild Bunch.
The same is or would be true for most people of my generation. The western has little significance to anyone born in the last 35 years, not just because the genre was pretty much invisible from the mid-70s to the early 90s and has been scarce still since, but also because its conventions have become more clichés than standards, and because new perspectives on its subject matter have weakened its glorification. Today films set in the same time period are more likely to be categorized as and have the appeal of historical fiction rather than that dead brand of "cowboys and Indians."
Jeremy Renner Wants To Be An Avenger
Directors We Love: Jim Jarmusch
Indie Roundup: 'Sweetgrass,' 'Clarkworld,' 'Broken Embraces'
Shelf Life: Fight Club_thumbnail.jpg)
Watch: Famous 'Matrix' Scene Re-Created with LEGOs
_thumbnail.jpg)
