I’d love to post more, but for now I’ve got time for these:
1. Production Weekly says Danish bad boy Lars von Trier is finally going to shoot Antichrist next summer. He’s been talking about this project — which is “based on the theory that it was Satan, not God, who created the world” — for at least the past two years, but Cinematical says he had to ditch an earlier version of the script after one of his producers talked too freely about its contents.
2. Is Emma Watson, the now-16-year-old girl who plays Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter movies, thinking of leaving the franchise? With only two more films to go? That is certainly one way to read her recent comments in Newsweek. Then again, producer David Heyman says Watson went through this same questioning process before the third and fourth films, too.
3. The New York Times says the budget for Evan Almighty, the sequel to Bruce Almighty (2003), has swelled to $175 million, and Jeffrey Wells thinks this spells doom for the film’s funniness.
4. Variety reports that the sequel to Alien vs. Predator (2004; my review) starts shooting here in Vancouver next week. They’re calling it Alien vs. Predator 2, though a Hollywood Reporter story back in June said the new film would be “a complete reinvention of the 2004 horror film”. If it comes out in 2007 as planned, it will mark the shortest gap between Alien movies — easily beating the five years between Alien³ (1992) and Alien Resurrection (1997).
5. Variety reports that Jean-Jacques Annaud is developing a “mythic comedy” called Sa majeste minor, or Her Majestic Minor:
“Minor” takes place on an Aegean Sea island, before the founding of Ancient Greece, and mixes people and myths.
Pic toplines French thesps Jose Garcia and Vincent Cassel and Spanish actor Sergio Peris-Mencheta.
Screenplay was written by Gerard Brach, who died Sept. 9 in Paris. Brach penned Annaud’s “Quest for Fire” and “The Name of the Rose.”
Sounds just different enough to grab my attention, at least.
6. The theme song for Amazing Grace is now available on the new Chris Tomlin CD, See the Morning. Click here for more info.
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