René Carson

Originally Published: June 2, 2005 With the release of Batman Begins right around the corner, I wanted to give a quick update on other super hero properties that will be hitting theaters very soon. IN THE WORKS Captain America: Possibly with Brad Pitt. Green Lantern: Rumoured at one point to star; you guessed it, Jack ….

Originally Published: February 27, 2005 Director Michael Caton-Jones and the producers of Shooting Dogs said at the Berlin International Film Festival the film’s world premiere will be in Rwanda, the African country that provides its backdrop. Caton-Jones’ movie stars John Hurt and Hugh Dancy and details the story of a school massacre during the Rwandan ….

Originally Published: December 15, 2004 Avid Technology today announced that postproduction teams for the recently released feature film Closer, as well as five upcoming films – Dark Water, Brothers Grimm, Cave, Ice Princess and Prizewinner of Defiance, Ohio – chose the Avid Unity LANshare EX system for real-time collaborative postproduction. Postproduction facility Orbit Digital, which ….

Originally Published: December 3, 2004 Another inspirational story on Apple’s website is about Kerry Conran’s Skycaptain. It’s been posted for some time. I know, the film didn’t perform as expected, but it’s still amazing how persistence works. Besides, I really enjoyed the movie. It was a niche film made for a broad audience. That’s always ….

Originally Published: December 21, 2004 The Hollywood Reporter recently reported that Madonna will lead the voice cast of the big-budget CGI pic Arthur, directed by Luc Besson, who’s previous work includes the original La Femme Nikita and The Professional. The director’s own comany, Europa Corp. will produce the movie. Arthur is an adaptation of a ….

Originally Published: June 2, 2005 DC Comics, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company and the world’s largest English-language publisher of comics, unveiled a new DC Comics company logo recently, that will appear on comic books, graphic novels and, for the first time ever, on films and television series based on DC properties. The new DC logo ….

Originally Published: March 13, 2005 Here are the just announced NY, NY Competition Selections, for those keeping track. Featured films in the two NY, NY categories are as follows: NY, NY NARRATIVE FEATURE COMPETITION: Adam and Steve, directed and written by Craig Chester (U.S.A.) – World Premiere Alchemy, directed and written by Evan Oppenheimer (U.S.A.) ….

Originally Published: May 3, 2005 Michael Bay’s Platinum Dunes production label is in negotiations with producer Peter Guber and Mandalay Pictures to develop a remake of Alfred Hitchcock’s classic 1963 horror film The Birds, according to The Hollywood Reporter. As in the original, the new version would be based on a short story by Daphne ….

Originally Published: May 3, 2005 Oscar winner Denzel Washington (Training Day and The Manchurian Candidate) has signed on to star in the time-travel thriller Deja Vu for director Tony Scott and producer Jerry Bruckheimer, Variety reported. The trio previously teamed up for the submarine thriller Crimson Tide. The script, by Terry Rossio (writer of Pirates ….

Originally Published: March 28, 2005 How cool is David Cronenberg? The Fly, Crash, Rabid, The Dead Zone, Spider…The list goes on. He is a genius in my humble opinion. He seems to choose the subjects no one else looks at, but are so obvious. His style haunts me long after I leave a movie theater. ….

Originally Published: March 24, 2005 According to Variety, Warner Independent Pictures and Mission Entertainment have closed a deal with Canal Plus for the rights to remake the 1996 Andre Techine-directed French thriller Les Voleurs, also called Thieves. Andre Techine’s ambitious crime drama starts with a prologue in which a little boy is awakened in the ….