Sunday, November 8
Actress Gwyneth Paltrow has just wrapped filming on director Jon Favreau's second installment of Iron Man, in which she plays Tony Stark's top assistant and love interest Pepper Potts. Now she's preparing to star opposite Nicole Kidman in Tomas Alfredson's follow-up to Let the Right One In,The Danish Girl.
An adaptation of the David Ebershoff book of the same name, The Danish Girl is based on the true story of the relationship between the world's first post-operative transsexual, Einar Wegener, and his artist wife, Greta. When Greta asked her husband to stand in for one of her models one day, the experience led the two of them down the road to transformation that changed both of their lives forever.
The script is by Lucinda Coxon and producers include Gail Mutrux, Anne Harrison, Linda Reisman, Per Saari and Kidman, who replaced Charlize Theron in the title role.
Next Showing: Iron Man 2 opens May 7, 2010
Posted 11/8/2009 by BrentJS
Related: Gwyneth Paltrow | Nicole Kidman | Iron Man 2 | Let the Right One In | The Danish Girl | Tomas Alfredson
Tuesday, November 3
Let Me In, the American remake of the Swedish vampire flick Let the Right One In, starts production today, transporting the coming-of-age tale from the cold and blustery Stockholm, Sweden to the dry and hot Albuquerque, New Mexico. Director Matt Reeves (Cloverfield) is returning to the source material for Let the Right One In, the Swedish novel of the same name by author John Ajvide Lindqvist, to help inspire the story about a young boy (Kodi Smit-McPhee from The Road) who befriends a mysterious new girl in town (Chloe Moretz from the upcoming Kick-Ass), who happens to be a vampire.
With Richard Jenkins already cast as Moretz's caretaker, the new cast additions announced are Elias Koteas as the policeman, Cara Buono (The Sopranos) as Smit McPhee's mother, and Sasha Barrese (The Hangover) as Virginia, the character who survives a vampire attack in the Swedish original.
Reeves intends to pay homage to the Swedish version in Let Me In, but wants to take the story in his own direction. "This project is very personal to Matt as it is to the many passionate fans of the original story," said producer Simon Oakes. "The brilliance of that story deserves to be seen by audiences on a wide scale and we are excited that the pieces are in place to make that a reality."
When foreign horror movies do well critically, they're often remade in America, but time will tell if Let Me In will work as well as The Ring, or become a debacle like Quarantine, which couldn't do justice to the Spanish zombie movie [Rec] it was based on.
Shooting on Let Me In will start in Albuquerque and travel to various parts of New Mexico. With a projected end for the shoot sometime in January, we expect to see its original release date of January 15, 2010 pushed back.
Posted 11/3/2009 by Ryan
Related: Richard Jenkins | Cara Buono | Elias Koteas | Sasha Barrese | Matt Reeves | Chloe Moretz | Let the Right One In | Let the Right One In | Kodi Smit-McPhee
Tuesday, October 20
Halloween is the time of year when horror movies are dusted off, rented from a video store, or placed in the queue for some late-night, pitch-dark viewing. But there are scary movies and then there are scary movies.
Check out 13 Actually Scary Movies for the top choices if you're looking for a true fright this season.
Posted 10/20/2009 by reelz
Related: The Shining | The Exorcist | Suspiria | A Nightmare on Elm Street | Session 9 | The Thing | The Descent | 28 Weeks Later | Trick 'R Treat | Rec | Drag Me to Hell | Let the Right One In | Paranormal Activity
Thursday, October 1
Variety reports that Richard Jenkins has joined the cast of Let Me In, a remakeof last year's Swedish vampire flick Let the Right One In, which was released to very high acclaim from both audiences and critics. The movie won Best Narrative Feature at the Tribeca Film Festival and the Audience Award at the Toronto After Dark Film Festival, among many other accolades.
Also joining the cast are Chloe Moretz, who starred in (500) Days of Summer, and Kodi Smit-McPhee, who can be seen opposite Viggo Mortenson in The Road, which arrives in late November. Moretz will play a pre-teen girl vampire who moves to a new neighborhood and befriends Smit-McPhee's character, a boy about her age. Jenkins will star as the girl's caretaker.
Cloverfield director Matt Reeves will helm Let Me In, which is scheduled to begin production this fall in New Mexico. The movie is currently slated for a January 15, 2010 release.
Posted 10/1/2009 by Rich Z
Related: Richard Jenkins | Matt Reeves | Chloe Moretz | Let the Right One In | Kodi Smit-McPhee
Saturday, October 25
Before Edward and Bella, there was Oskar and Eli. Weeks before Twilight is set to arrive in theaters, another tale of tween vampire romance is generating heaps of buzz. Let the Right One In, Swedish director Tomas Alredson's horror-drama about a bullied 12-year-old boy who forms an unlikely bond with his peculiar new neighbor, is being hailed as one of this year's best films by prestigious outlets like CHUD and Film Threat.
Let the Right One In opens this weekend in L.A. and New York before expanding to other cities in November. If you've got a yen for some undead romance and don't mind subtitles (and no Robert Pattinson), then Let the Right One In could be right up your alley.
Posted 10/25/2008 by reelz
Related: Twilight | Let the Right One In