News for the Nerds

So for the last ten or eleven years I've been addicted to reading about upcoming movies. One of the biggest ways that I kill time is logging to a handful of the same sites frequently throughout the day to see if there's any news. Here are some of my favorite sites:

Twitchfilm

CHUD

Ain't It Cool News

Coming Soon

There's a few others, too, but those are the main ones. And because I'm such a nerd, I figured I might as well pass on some of the interesting info that I find and relate it to Citizen Video in the hopes that it might turn some of you viewers on to some stuff you might've never bothered to check out. So here's a few things from this week:

Kim Ji-Woon, one of the best directors out Korea and responsible for the Foul King, A Bittersweet Life, A Tale of Two Sisters (all of which we have in the store, all of which are great), and whose The Quiet Family (which we don't have) was remade by Japan's great Takashi Miike as Happiness of the Katakuris, has a new film that just played at Cannes entitled The Good, the Bad, the Weird. So far Ji-Woon has tackled a different genre with every picture, and it was just announced that he'll be making his English-language debut with a remake of the French Noir from 1971, Max et les Ferrailleurs, with John Woo producing. The original isn't available in the US, but going off of Jean-Pierre Melville's great Le Samourai and Le Cercle Rouge (which Woo has talked about remaking for quite a while), I'm guessing it's great. Here's a dubbed trailer for it.


Brad Anderson, director of Happy Accidents (in store!) among others, has a new thriller out soon. Transsiberian follows an American couple, Woody Harrelson and Emily Mortimer, on a train in Russia who come across a stash of molded heroin and are then suspected of being the dealers. Ben Kingsley stars as the investigator unwilling to let them off.

Darren Aronofsky of Pi, Requiem for a Dream and the Fountain has a new movie,
The Wrestler, starring Mickey Rourke as an aging wrestler reduced to low-rent, dignity-robbing entertainment work.

Jason Segel, of Freaks and Geeks and Undeclared, Knocked Up, and most recently Forgetting Sarah Marshall, is making a new Muppets movie with his co-conspirator Nicholas Stoller.

Did you know that Spike Jonze has been filming an adaptation of Where the Wild Things Are?, scripted by Dave Eggers? Well, apparently the studio isn't too happy with it because, supposedly, it's too dark and Max in the film is too much of a brat, so it looks like they're going to do massive reshoots. I suspect we could have another masterpiece on our hands if they were to just leave it be. Is this going to be Jonze's Brazil? Here's some test footage that leaked a while back.


I'll leave it at that for now, but I'll be sure to post again soon. Enjoy your weekends.

--co