// March 7th, 2009 // 2 Comments » // Film News
Leonardo Di Caprio will be the star of the new film by Christopher Nolan, Inception. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the new project of the director of The dark Knight and Batman Begins is an action science-fiction set in the ‘architecture of the mind. ” Written and directed by Nolan, produced by Warner Bros., Inception be set in the summer and release in 2010.
// March 5th, 2009 // No Comments » // Possible Projects
Leonardo DiCaprio will star in “Inception,” the science-fiction film that Christopher Nolan (“The Dark Knight”) wrote and will direct as his next pic at Warner Bros.
The project shoots this year and is slated to be released in summer 2010, with Nolan and Emma Thomas producing. DiCaprio’s deal is in final negotiations.
Script has been kept under wraps but the studio calls it a contemporary sci-fi actioner set within the architecture of the mind.
DiCaprio, coming off “Revolutionary Road” and “Body of Lies,” will next be seen starring in the Martin Scorsese-directed “Shutter Island” at Paramount.
// March 3rd, 2009 // No Comments » // Possible Projects
Fortunately, Brown’s creator, the novelist (and doctor) Josh Bazell, is an unusually talented writer. Most of the many digressions in “Beat the Reaper,” his first book, are genuinely entertaining, and the few that don’t work — the footnotes are the most common culprit — annoy primarily because the story is so engaging that you don’t want to be yanked out of it even for the time it takes to glance at the bottom of the page.
Bazell’s protagonist, né Pietro Brnwa, used to be a contract killer for the Mafia, as mentioned. But eight years ago, following a work-related dispute that involved throwing his best friend out a window, he had a change of heart, entered a witness-protection program and enrolled in medical school. Now he heals people instead of murdering them — although, as the incident with the mugger shows, he hasn’t entirely given up his old ways.
While on his morning rounds, Brown is recognized by a mobster named Eddy Squillante who has been hospitalized with stomach cancer. Squillante’s prognosis is dire, but he’s determined to beat the odds. He offers Brown a simple proposition: keep me alive and I won’t tell your old bosses where you are; let me die (or kill me) and my associates start making phone calls.
Brown’s darkly comic struggle to save Squillante — not just from the cancer, but from the ministrations of a quack surgeon named Friendly — is intercut with highlights from his previous career. This blend of criminal and medical drama works well, and the back-and-forth between timelines keeps things moving.
// March 3rd, 2009 // No Comments » // Possible Projects
Now that it looks like Soderbergh and his crew are finished with the Ocean’s series, perhaps some Scorsese veterans can pick up the torch and roll with it. The New York Post’s Page Six reports that during a recent Oscar party hosted by Bob and Harvey Weinstein, Robert De Niro, Leonardo DiCaprio and Joe Pesci were off huddled in a corner talking shop. What kind of shop, you ask? Well, supposedly they were discussing a possible film they’d all co-star in; an “Italian-flavored heist” is how Page Six puts it.
It’s hard to imagine these three guys coming together for a film without Marty Scorsese behind the camera, but the director seems pretty busy with other projects (like Silence), though one imagines nothing is set in stone until, well, it’s set in stone. Then again, maybe they’re coming together for another director (De Niro, perhaps?), without Scorsese? Either way, I’m definitely intrigued to not only watch De Niro and Pesci reteam on the big screen, but also to see DiCaprio (who co-starred with De Niro in This Boy’s Life) thrown into the mix. And for a slick heist film, no less. Of course it’s all rumors and speculation right now, but we’ll let you know if any more news comes our way.
// March 3rd, 2009 // No Comments » // Site News
The Romeo and Juliet Section is now completed.
Titanic is the only section, I still need to do.
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