David Cronenberg Inks Deal to Adapt Don DeLillo Novel
David Cronenberg will write and direct Cosmopolis, an adaptation of the Don DeLillo novel about a 28-year-old millionaire’s day-long travels through Manhattan in pursuit of a haircut.... read more
Found in: Movies, NewsCronenberg's Videodrome to Get Remake Treatment
If you made it through all 87 minutes of David Cronenberg's disturbing 1983 sci-fi/horror nightmare, Videodrome, you'd know it's an odd selection for a remake. Not because it's bad or anything, but because, like many of Cronenberg's films, it just doesn't make sense to the average or even slightly above average viewer.... read more
Found in: Movies, NewsEastern Promises 2 may reunite Mortensen and Cronenberg
If, like most people, you had the feeling that the movie Eastern Promises had a lot of potential, but rushed the ending (spoiler coming up soon), then a resolution to that problematic conclusion may have presented itself. In an unprecedented move, director David Cronenberg announced that he's moving towards a sequel. (Cronenberg has never directed a sequel to any of his movies, although The Fly and Scanners both had sequels.)... read more
Found in: Movies, NewsDavid Cronenberg to direct Denzel Washington thriller
David Cronenberg’s twilight career shift from the director of aberrant art-house exploitation to traditional crime dramas has turned more than a few heads, but it also happens to have led to some of his most accomplished films. Now the 65-year-old director of Eastern Promises and A History of Violence is on the verge of helming what would be his most mainstream project yet, The Matarese Circle, an adaptation of Bourne Identity author Robert Ludlum’s 1973 novel, with Denzel Washington set to star.... read more
Found in: Movies, NewsDavid Cronenberg's The Fly headed for the opera
Are you ready for The Fly: The Opera?... read more
Found in: Culture, NewsEastern Promises
David Cronenberg isn’t done writing his history of violence. Leaving a seemingly idyllic postcard Americana behind, the director found a different milieu for his latest film, Eastern Promises—a suspense-driven drama set in London’s once-obscure Russian underworld... read more
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Where Have All The Weird Girls Gone?…
