Time for another round-up.
1. First, a reminder that I will be introducing Jesus of Montreal at Granville Chapel this Sunday night.
2. Second, a reminder that the African female-circumcision movie Moolaadé is now playing in Vancouver.
3. One of the things that has made Pixar so much better than all the other animation outfits out there is its devotion not just to technical brilliance, but to good stories. So it is with some sadness that animation buffs heard the news that the head of Pixar’s story department, Joe Ranft, died in a car accident last Tuesday.
4. The Hollywood Reporter has picked up the story about Cloud Ten’s plan to release Left Behind III on October 21 at thousands of churches, instead of theatres, as a “revenue source”.
5. The Globe and Mail and the CBC review Karla, the true-crime movie that got yanked from a Montreal film festival due to pressure from a corporate sponsor.
6. October 18 is Batman day — that is when Batman Begins comes out on DVD, plus Warner will release two-disc sets of the Burton and Schumacher films, plus Sony will release Batman: The 1943 Serial Collection, “a two-disc set that features all 15 segments in the Caped Crusader’s first screen appearance.” Yippee!
7. Reuters says there are three films about September 11 in development right now: Oliver Stone’s working on one for Paramount, Paul Greengrass is working on one for Universal, and Columbia is developing one too.
8. The Hollywood Reporter says Kenneth Branagh is preparing to direct an adaptation of Mozart’s The Magic Flute that he wrote with Stephen Fry.
Ad-Free & Subscriber Log-In