News Simon Brew 13 Mar 2014 - 12:10
It's definite: Michael Bay's Platinum Dunes is remaking Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds...
This one's direct in from our 'you can't make this shit up department'. It was marked urgent, but it's still taken us a week or two to get around to writing it up. We hope you understand.
So: you know the Alfred Hitchcock masterpiece The Birds? The 1963 thriller with Tippi Hedren in the lead role? Well, firstly there's a remake coming (which has been chatted about for a while). Secondly, Michael Bay is producing the remake.
We'll give you a minute.
Better? Er, okay. Variety has broke the news that The Birds remake is happening, and that Michael Bay's Platinum Dunes is producing it. Bay will be one of the film's producers.
The director of the new The Birds will be Diederik Van Rooijen, a Dutch helmer with several credits...
It's definite: Michael Bay's Platinum Dunes is remaking Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds...
This one's direct in from our 'you can't make this shit up department'. It was marked urgent, but it's still taken us a week or two to get around to writing it up. We hope you understand.
So: you know the Alfred Hitchcock masterpiece The Birds? The 1963 thriller with Tippi Hedren in the lead role? Well, firstly there's a remake coming (which has been chatted about for a while). Secondly, Michael Bay is producing the remake.
We'll give you a minute.
Better? Er, okay. Variety has broke the news that The Birds remake is happening, and that Michael Bay's Platinum Dunes is producing it. Bay will be one of the film's producers.
The director of the new The Birds will be Diederik Van Rooijen, a Dutch helmer with several credits...
- 3/13/2014
- by simonbrew
- Den of Geek
News.
According to Abbas Kiarostami, Jafar Panahi has wrapped his second feature under house-arrest. Eric Kohn reports via Indiewire. Steven Spielberg's long-anticipated Lincoln debuted on Monday at a secret screening at the New York Film Festival. Fandor has collected some of the first reactions. Lynne Ramsay has secured financing with Scott Pictures for her follow-up to last year's We Need to Talk About Kevin. The film is Mobius and The Hollywood Reporter describes it as a "psychological action thriller set in deep space [in which] a captain consumed by revenge takes his crew on a death mission fueled by his own ego and will to control an enigmatic alien." So yes, it's Moby Dick in space. The Guardian has the full story. Indiewire reports that Olivier Assayas is already mounting his follow-up to this year's Something in the Air. Reuniting with Juliette Binoche, the film is tentatively titled Since Maria.
Finds.
According to Abbas Kiarostami, Jafar Panahi has wrapped his second feature under house-arrest. Eric Kohn reports via Indiewire. Steven Spielberg's long-anticipated Lincoln debuted on Monday at a secret screening at the New York Film Festival. Fandor has collected some of the first reactions. Lynne Ramsay has secured financing with Scott Pictures for her follow-up to last year's We Need to Talk About Kevin. The film is Mobius and The Hollywood Reporter describes it as a "psychological action thriller set in deep space [in which] a captain consumed by revenge takes his crew on a death mission fueled by his own ego and will to control an enigmatic alien." So yes, it's Moby Dick in space. The Guardian has the full story. Indiewire reports that Olivier Assayas is already mounting his follow-up to this year's Something in the Air. Reuniting with Juliette Binoche, the film is tentatively titled Since Maria.
Finds.
- 10/10/2012
- by Notebook
- MUBI
Oh...my...God. This is currently running on the internet front page of The Guardian, one of London's most influential newspapers:"Tippi Hedren Tells Jackson Tigers Of His Death"One other Jacksonian thought. Since wherever Michael Jackson will be buried will become a circus, why not bury him somewhere in a rust belt city/town that could use an economic boom? Think of it. Fans and tourists will flock to see him from around the world. Hotels will fill up. Restaurants and stores will do a booming business. I vote for Detroit or Gary, Indiana. Look what the Baseball Hall of Fame has done for the small town of Cooperstown. Support the USA! Visit Michael's final resting place!You're welcome. ...
- 7/1/2009
- by Stu Kreisman
- Huffington Post
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