Martin Scorsese Leaves Bob Marley Project May 22, 2008
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- <b>Martin Scorsese</b> has dropped out of the Bob marley project according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The Academy Award winning director has quit the project due to ’scheduling conflicts’.
Taking his place in the director’s chair is The Silence of the Lambs and Philadelphia filmmaker Jonathon Demme.
The film is expected to be released early 2010 and will commemorate the 65th anniversary of Bob Marley’s death.
- Iron man writing team <b>Art Marcum</b> and <b>Matt Holloway</b> will pen the new Highlander screenplay.
Summit Entertainment have picked up the remake rights and will have Peter Davis, producer on the original film, returning in a production role.
Filming is expected to get underway in 2009 and Summit Entertainment hopes that the new film will revitalise the Highlander franchise.
-Academy Award winner <b>Ang Lee</b> has signed on to direct 1949, an epic love story set in the final years of the Chinese Civil War.
The $40 million Chinese language production will star Chang Chen and Korea’s Song Hye-kyo and shooting will start in December.
- <b>Dreamworks</b> are jumping on the Pirates band wagon as they bring the story of legendary pirate Blackbeard to the big screen.
Gladiator writer David Franzoni has been bought in to pen the script and Enchanted’s Barry Josephson is also aboard the project to produce.
- Hellboy director <b>Guillermo Del Toro</b> will co-produce the big screen adaptations of David Moody’s 2006 novel Hater.
The story revolves around an epidemic of random violence that breaks out where people are lashing out without warning.
Del Toro was originally expected to direct the project but his new commitments in New Zealand on The Hobbit has forced them to look elsewhere.
Cannes Film Festival Day 8 May 22, 2008
Posted by movies in : Cannes Film Festival 2008 , add a commentPop star Madonna made her debut at Cannes Film Festival as a filmmaker last night as she graced the red carpet for the screening of her documentary I Am Because We Are.
Directed, written, produced and narrated by the star I Am Because We Are shows the devastating effects of Aids in Malawi.
In southeastern Africa, the landlocked and densely populated country of Malawi is under severe distress.
In a country of 12 million people, an unprecedented one million-plus children have been orphaned by AIDS, and malnutrition and inadequate medical treatment still run rampant.
The film features interviews with former U.S. president Bill Clinton and shows children living in desperate poverty as well as highlighting how the education system can ease the situation.
Madonna was joined on the red carpet by a whole host of stars on the red carpet including director husband Guy Richie. Sharon Stone and ex-husband Sean Penn.
Madonna and Guy are currently in the middle of court proceedings to adopt a three-year-old Malawian boy.
Entering the theatre to a round of applause she said: “To say that this film is a labour of love is true, but that’s kind of trivial because really what it is, is a journey of a lifetime.”
Elsewhere in Cannes Angelina Jolie walked down the red carpet for a second time as she turned out with Brad Pitt and director Clint Eastwood for their new picture The Changeling.
Los Angeles, 1928: On a Saturday morning in a working-class suburb, Christine said goodbye to her son, Walter, and left for work.
When she came home, she discovered he had vanished. A fruitless search ensues, and months later, a boy claiming to be the nine-year-old is returned.
Dazed by the swirl of cops, reporters and her conflicted emotions, Christine allows him to stay overnight. But in her heart, she knows he is not Walter.