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'Predators' Footage and '13: Tzameti' Remake at SXSW!
Well, they promised us big news on Wednesday, and lo and behold, here it is. SXSW has just announced that Robert Rodriguez' reboot of the Predator franchise, entitled Predators, will screen footage as part of a special "First Look" event at the film festival next week. Directed by Nimród Antal (director of last year's Armored) and conceived and filmed at Rodriguez' own Troublemaker Studios in Austin, the film stars Adrien Brody, Topher Grace, Alice Braga, and Laurence Fishburne. Co-stars are Walton Goggins, Danny Trejo, Oleg Taktarov and Mahershalalhashbaz Ali, who has one of the longest first names I've seen in my life.
The film follows Brody as Royce, "a mercenary who reluctantly leads a group of elite warriors who come to realize they've beenbrought together on an alien planet... as prey. With the exception of a disgraced physician, they are all cold-blooded killers – mercenaries, Yakuza, convicts, death squad members – human "predators" that are now being systemically hunted and eliminated by a new breed of alien Predators." Translation: there's going to be a lot of killing in this movie.
Also, the super secret screening that was teased as part of SXSW & Fantastic Fest has been revealed: it will be Géla Babluani's 13, a remake of his own film Tzameti, which won the World Cinema Jury Prize at Sundance in 2006. This version is in color, stars Jason Statham, Mickey Rourke, Ben Gazzara, and Alexander Skarsgard, and is about a man who unwittingly becomes involved in a degenerate, clandestine world of mental chaos behind closed doors. Sort of like The Game, with a lot more bloodshed and Russian roulette. SXSW already has a fantastic lineup of films this year, so these announcements are like putting a second layer of icing on a mouth-watering cake.
Mendes, Krumholtz are Live!
Filed under: Drama », Independent », Casting », Newsstand », Cinematical Indie »
According to Production Weekly, David Krumholtz has found a way to spend his summer break from Numb3rs. Originally slated to be hanging out in Paris with Michelle Williams and Woody Allen, the actor suddenly found himself with a whole lot of free time when Allen dumped that project and headed back to London. Now, though, word comes that Krumholtz has landed on his feet, albeit with a slightly smaller budget: He's going to star opposite Eva Mendes in Live!, an indie thriller from Oscar-winning short-subject documentary director Bill Guttentag.The movie is a mockmentary that follows Medes' character, an "ambitious president of [television] programing," as she tries to raise ratings with a reality show in which people play Russian Roulette for a "Yay, you're alive!" prize of $5 million. Gee, think someone's seen 13 (Tzameti)?
The movie begins filming in LA later this month.
[via MovieWeb]
Cinematical Seven: Kim Voynar's Sundance picks
Filed under: Independent », Sundance », Festival Reports », Cinematical Indie »
Two things you can be sure to see at Sundance (well, besides rich celebrities loaded down with tons of free swag we mortals will never lay eyes on) are snow - lots of snow - and films. Lots of films. Over the next 11 days, each of us on the Cinematical Sundance team will be watching films until our eyeballs burn, and faithfully reporting on what we think about them, which films score the hottest buzz, and which ones have the biggest walkouts. I considered a couple ways of compiling this list, including choosing a film from each category, so as to cover a wide spectrum, and just randomly opening the film catalog with my eyes closed and pointing. Ultimately, though, although there are lots of films on my "want to see" list, these seven are the ones I'm really psyched about.
Come Early Morning - The directorial and writing debut by Chasing Amy's Joey Lauren Adams stars Ashley Judd as a woman in her 30s searching for love. The catalog description isn't terribly descriptive: Come Early Morning is about life transitions, the search for love, and the burdens we carry with us", which could describe pretty much anything from Brokeback Mountain to The Wedding Crashers, so I'm not really sure what to expect from this one. The film stars Ashley Judd, who can be a talented actress given the right material, with a supporting cast including Jeffrey Donovan, Tim Blake Nelson, Diane Ladd and Stacey Keach.
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