Welcome to the debut of a new semi-regular feature here on TLR called Up And Down. Basically it's gonna be a post showcasing a few industry people places and things that deserve to be highlighted or indeed low lighted...And if any of you want to share something film related either good or bad that I have not covered yet or if you disagree with my picks Tell me in an email thelastreel@comcast.net
Let's get started!
Up: Actress
Elizabeth Olsen got raves at the
Sundance Film Festival for her performance in "
Martha Marcy May Marlene", will co star for director
Rodrigo Cortés' (
Buried)) thriller
Red Lights says
Risky Biz Blog.
She joins
Robert DeNiro,
Sigourney Weaver and
Cillian Murphy
The film will follow a psychologist (Weaver) and her assistant whose study of paranormal activity leads them to investigate a world-renowned psychic (DeNiro). The psychologist attempts to debunk the psychic’s work after he steps back into the limelight after 30 years.
She will play Weaver's assistant and love interest for Murphy
Not bad for someone who has had to live in the shadow of older sister twins
Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen.
Red Lights has a nine week shoot planned that kicks off shortly in Spain and Canada.
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Up: The unreleased film
The Other Side of the Wind from the great
Orson Welles may soon be dusted off for all to see says
The Guardian
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“A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet."-Welles |
The Welles' estate is closer to a resolving an ownership dispute that has kept it out of theaters
The film began shooting in 1969.
Oscar winner
John Huston stars as Jake Hannaford, an aging Hollywood director modeled after author
Ernest Hemingway. The story uses Hannaford's 70th birthday party and conversations there as the central framing device for a non-linear narrative exploring his life.
Most of the film was shot in
Peter Bogdanovich's own Beverly Hills house. Producer
Jacqueline Boushehri, and co-star/co-writer/Welles’ former lover,
Oja Kodar, are both now prepared to sell their interests in the film, giving hope it will see an eventual release.
Yes!!!!
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Down: But not a shock given the way foreign markets work--
Marvel's "
Captain America: The First Avenger" will shorten its title to just "
The First Avenger" in several key international territories when it's released later this summer says
The Los Angeles Times.
Wait! Now it's Back
Up This is only happening in three countries - Russia, Ukraine and South Korea. The decision was made based on market research results with issues of 'brand management and consumer awareness' listed as the official reason rather than cultural or political sentiment towards The USA
The suits were pleasantly surprised only those three countries will be affected. Whatever the global political sentiment about the U.S. is right now, the Captain America character has very strong brand name recognition in most international markets which override everything else. As a result the original title will be kept in all other markets.
Uniquely American Indeed!
The film is slated to be released throughout the world during the last two weeks of July and the first week of August.
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Up:
Duncan Jones talks about his next pics An as yet secret-titled adventure-driven sci-fi yarn and the long gestating sci-fi thriller
Mute to
We Got This Covered
"
One thing I can tell you about my next project is that I'm determined to do a future city film. I want it to be my homage to Blade Runner, even if it's a bit bigger, it will be a city based future film" The filmmaker is otherwise playing it close to the vest
"Mute" "
is in a bit of a limbo actually. I've always loved the script and felt it was a film worth making, but it's a tricky one. It's a sci-fi film, and one of the drafts of the scripts got leaked a while back. The reaction was mixed. Most people didn't get the fact that yes it is sci-fi but it's a futurist film...that was the whole idea, to tell a film that can be based in any period, but just HAPPENS to take place in the future" says Jones.
He adds "
People just say, why can't it be in a contemporary setting? But no, it's about mood and atmosphere as much as anything else. It's also quite dark so it's been a tough sell. Also, it's not a big film, it has been designed to be sort of a smaller and more independent film. Budget wise, it's in between Moon and Source Code"
Jones promises to "
come back to it one day and hopefully it'll work the way I see it working."
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Up: Work has begun on a sequel to this year's action/comedy flick
Red says
Collider.
Jon and
Erich Hoeber, who adapted the first film from the
Warren Ellis' comic
books are back to write the sequel.
There's no word yet if any actors from the original are likely to return though.
The film has grossed $90 million domestically and nearly as much internationally since its release last October
The first film is a blast--Just a whole lotta fun folks! It was released on
DVD & Blu-ray this past Tuesday Watch it!!
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That's all for now....
