Friday, October 26

• Ed Burns movie going direct to iTunes

  Ed Burns' new dramedy, Purple Violets, will be the first feature to release directly to iTunes--bypassing the theater, video store, or TV options for its premiere.

  Burns is exploring the new iTunes release option because of the challenge he has faced in getting audiences into the theater, saying "My style of filmmaking is dying on the vine."

  Purple Violets, which stars Burns, Selma Blair, Debra Messing, and Patrick Wilson, will be available for iTunes download on Nov. 20 for $14.99, and will move to other platforms later.

  Source: Variety.

  
  

  Posted 10/26/2007 by reelz

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Sunday, July 29

• Movie news: Depp's Dark Shadows and Burns' Dock Walloper

  Some of Hollywood's hottest leading men are laying plans to try their luck in the fanboy arena.

  Johnny Depp's production company is partnered with Warner Bros. and GK Films to adapt the 1960s horror soap, Dark Shadows, for the silver screen. Depp has been quoted as saying that he was obsessed with the show and wanted to play series vampire Barnabas Collins. Looks like he might get his wish.

  And equally dishy Ed Burns (The Brothers McMullen, Saving Private Ryan) is venturing into comic books with Dock Walloper, a Prohibition-era gangster story. Like Guy Ritchie's The Gamekeeper, Burns is road-testing the concept as a serial for the Virgin Comics label to see if it has the legs to make it as a feature film.

  Burns, who plans on starting to write the script for Dock Walloper this fall, will cast himself in the role of fading crime lord, Mad Dog Madden, and look for someone else to play the lead.

  Source: Variety. 

  
  

  Posted 07/29/2007 by reelz

  Related: Johnny Depp | Ed Burns | Dock Walloper | Dark Shadows