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North American filmmakers have a strong presence in this year’s competition
At a press conference earlier today in Paris, artistic director Thierry Fremaux revealed the list of films that will be part of the 65th Annual Cannes Film Festival. Opening the festival this year will be Wes Anderson’s 1960s drama, “Moonrise Kingdom,” starring Bruce Willis, Bill Murray, and Frances McDormand. Other North American films that made the lineup include David Cronenberg’s “Cosmopolis” starring Robert Pattinson, Lee Daniels’ thriller, “The Paperboy,” with Nicole Kidman, Andrew Dominik’s crime film, “Killing Them Softly,” starring Brad Pitt, and Jeff Nichols’ fugitive drama, “Mud,” featuring Reese Witherspoon and Matthew McConnaughey.
Of the 1,779 films that were submitted for consideration, Fremaux chose 54 films from 26 countries. “A Cannes selection is a trip through the cinema and through the world,” he said at today’s press conference. Click here for a complete list of the films that will be part of this year's celebration. The official poster for the 65th Festival de Cannes features screen icon Marilyn Monroe. The jury for the main competition will be headed by Italian director Nanni Moretti with British actor Tim Roth assuming that role for the festival’s “Un Certain Regard” section. Recent Oscar nominee Bérénice Bejo will host the opening and closing ceremonies. Stay tuned for more on this prestigious event which will take place in the south of France from May 16 to May 27.
It's...spectacular
You may have noticed a common theme when it comes to our recent reportage of rising star Shailene Woodley (beyond, of course, today's news that her role and maybe even her full involvement had been chopped from the upcoming "The Amazing Spider-Man 2"), and that's a near-constant mention of her wonderful work in the upcoming "The Spectacular Now." And, yes, it will probably be in 3D
These days, if a beloved film franchise isn't getting rebooted with an all-new "reimagining," it's soon to be saddled with a shoehorned-in "sequel." Case in point? "Jurassic Park." Do you love "Jurassic Park"? Obviously. You may even love its two sequels (though probably not), but you probably haven't spent the last twelve years since "Jurassic Park III" hit theaters wishing for yet another sequel.But she will appear in the third film
Here's to you, Leonardo DiCaprio
Joe Dante's werewolf movie gets the special edition treatment
The same year that "An American Werewolf in London" opened up the possibilities of the werewolf horror with a mix of black comedy and horrific transformations, Joe Dante went a different direction with "The Howling" (Shout Factory). Working on lower budget, Dante discarded the usual lone wolf route to frame the drama in terms of the wolf pack. His wolves weren't mad dogs on the rampage, but a primal force balancing survival with primal urges.
Dee Wallace, just a year before making "E.T.," stars as an investigative TV reporter recovering from a brush with a serial killer in a retreat called "The Colony," a mix of new age commune, primal therapy, and red meat culture. It also happens to be the hub of a werewolf pack that quickly adds her husband (Christopher Stone) to their ranks, transforming the easy-going vegetarian into an aggressive, meat-eating hunter in the process.
It's more clever than compelling, to be fair, an interesting take with inventive effects (thanks to Rob Bottin), impressive moments of horror, an undercurrent of dark humor, and an earthy, feral sensibility. John Sayles (who previously wrote "Piranha" for Dante) came with Dante from the Corman movie factory and contributes a clever script (adapted from a novel by Gary Brandner) with some character nice touches in the supporting roles (many of them played by his B-movie heroes and genre character actors, from Kevin McCarthy and John Carradine to Roger Corman and Forrest J. Ackerman) and a modicum of wit in the dialogue.
It's a real film buff feast but Dante also uses the opportunity to stretch himself.
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Laurence Fishburne and Bill Paxton star in this thrilling story of survival
Years ago, winter came and never went away. Beneath the surface of an ice-covered world, survivors in Colony Seven struggle to keep their fragile society from collapsing as food dwindles and temperatures drop. Already plagued by illness and internal conflict, the colonists suspect the worst when they lose contact with the only other known settlement. A small group decide to go on a dangerous expedition to discover what happened and what they find is worse than they could have ever imagined. Now the fight for survival really begins.
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See more exclusive photos from "The Colony" opening in theaters August 23 after the break.
But nobody has any idea why
Here's some sad and/or indifferent news. According to Coming Soon, Robert Rodriguez's upcoming "Sin City" has been delayed from this fall until August of next year. Why? Well, probably because the movie's not finished yet, but maybe the glut of superhero movies this year also had something to do with it?And...it's not heinously awful!
When we first heard that they were making a "Lego" movie, we thought that it was some sort (very) poorly timed April Fool's joke. And/or a "Producers"-like scheme to bilk money out of unsuspecting investors, since a "Lego" movie is too obviously preposterous to actually be real. But lo, today brings us the film's first trailer, courtesy of ENTV. And—unlike certain other franchises based upon cheap plastic children's playthings, we're looking at you, "Transformers"—at least this one has a sense of humor.
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