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Werner Herzog: The Thinking Man’s James Cameron
8:05AM Richard Rushfield | Sanity is a relative term in the realm of Hollywood directors who generally function on a mental health continuum ranging from borderline OCD cases on the benign end to paranoid schizophrenic megalomaniacs on the deeper end. More »
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Oprah Battles Clooney For The Toronto Spotlight
1:25AM Richard Rushfield | It’s on in Toronto. Despite pre-festival buzz about the death of independent film and grown-up distribution, turns out there’s still enough hype to light up on Canadian city. More »
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Awful Looking Nic Cage Remake May Find An Audience After All!
10:50AM Natasha VC | Remember how you emailed a friend that trailer for some failed movie? One that by all appearances looked like a total misfire and couldn’t get a distributor? Even though thespian powerhouse Nic Cage was the lead? Remember how you laughed? More »
‘He Can Die in Hell’: Werner Herzog vs. Abel Ferrara Moves to Round 3
5:40AM STV | We swear we didn’t mean to throw a bucket of gas on the smouldering crash site where Werner Herzog collided a while back with Abel Ferrara, leaving the legendary auteurs fighting for their lives over Herzog’s plans to remake Ferraras’s 1992 masterpiece Bad Lieutenant with Nicolas Cage. But thanks in part to our revealing audience with Herzog last summer, the fire is back to uncontained levels today as Ferrara picks off his Bavarian contemporary one vicious shot at a time in Filmmaker Magazine: More »Ellen Page Hoping Endeavor Can Make Her More Famous
6:05AM Seth | In a defection sure to cause at least one WMA partner to disembowel their assistant, then themselves, with the nearest People’s Choice Award, Ellen Page has left the agency for Endeavor’s Ariesque embrace. All-purpose power-lesbian Kelly Bush will continue to oversee management and publicity duties. [Variety] Apparently there’s a shortage of prestige material so far for the 2008 Oscar race, but that could change just as soon as the Academy drastically alters the rules to give Camp Rock full eligibility in all categories. [Variety] More »
Charitable ‘Bad Lieutenant’ Director Wishes Hellish, Explosive Death on Werner Herzog and Nicolas Cage
6:10AM Defamer Hollywood | The ongoing, skull-melting hallucination yielding visions of Werner Herzog micromanaging Nicolas Cage’s masturbation technique abated slightly today when, at a Cannes press conference for his new film Chelsea on the Rocks, director Abel Ferrara raised his first public objection to duo’s planned remake of his 1992 effort Bad Lieutenant: More »
Werner Herzog, David Lynch’s ‘Random Dealmaking’ Quotas Filled For ‘08
9:00AM Defamer Hollywood | It was cute way back yesterday when we heard that Werner Herzog and Nicolas Cage are remaking Bad Lieutenant for a new generation of prurient cinephile wonks, but the novelty of Herzog’s random-arse pairings requires a certain period of recharging to retain maximum effect. Which is perhaps why the potency of his other forthcoming, newly announced collaboration with David Lynch (!) on “a horror-tinged murder drama” doesn’t have us positively reeling with anticipation.
