Hysteria

By Billy Tatum at 5:19 PM on May 21, 2012

Walk into any comedy club or check out any sitcom, and at some point, a guy will question a woman’s sanity. Women and men both dismiss it as lighthearted fun, but what if there existed a world where people actually believed that women are just inherently nuts? That world was Earth in the 1800s, and the romantic comedy Hysteria shows how a few of the planet’s inhabitants set out to change it with the help of … the vibrator?...  read more

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HBO Passes on Adaptation of Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections

By Ross Bonaime at 9:05 AM on May 2, 2012

“The Corrections”, Jonathan Frazen’s National Book Award winner, which was being developed for HBO, will not be going any further, according to The Hollywood Reporter.  read more

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James Franco Pulls Out of The Iceman

By Adam Vitcavage at 1:30 PM on October 20, 2011

Renaissance man James Franco has just pulled out of an upcoming biopic about notorious mafia hitman Richard “The Iceman” Kuklinski. The film, which is called The Iceman is based off of Anthony Bruno’s biography of Kuklinski and is to be directed by Ariel Vroman.  read more

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Listen Up: Crazy Heart Ain't No Place

By Rachael Maddux at 8:00 AM on March 1, 2010

Crazy Heart certainly has done well for itself...  read more

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Fox Searchlight Picks Up Jeff Bridges Flick About Fallen Country Singer

By Jeffrey Bloomer at 7:20 AM on July 24, 2009

The Jeff Bridges drama Crazy Heart, which we've told you about previously, has picked up American distribution with Fox Searchlight. ...  read more

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More Details Surface About Sam Mendes' Away We Go

By Rachel Dovey at 2:15 PM on May 7, 2009

The information keeps pouring in about director Sam Mendes' previously untitled film, which, we now know, will be called Away We Go. ...  read more

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The Dark Knight

By Robert Davis at 2:30 PM on July 18, 2008

Of the recent attempts to reset a moribund Hollywood franchise...  read more

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Bridges, Gyllenhaal, Duvall and T-Bone get Crazy

By Henry Freedland at 10:07 AM on July 18, 2008

Be warned: isolated coincidences aside, this is not Walk Hard 2. No, Crazy Heart, which will begin shooting this August in New Mexico, is a somewhat more serious tale, based on Thomas Cobb's much-hailed novel of the same name....  read more

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Maggie Gyllenhaal replaces Collette in Mendes/Eggers film

By Julia Reidy at 10:35 AM on May 5, 2008

Question: How do you live up to a legacy like American Beauty? Answer: Cast as many great actors as possible. The forthcoming, still-officially-untitled Sam Mendes-directed movie, penned by McSweeney's helmsman Dave Eggers and wife Vendela Vida (co-editor of The Believer), has attracted a new cast member. Maggie Gyllenhaal will play the role originally claimed by actress Toni Collette in the Focus Features film, recently vacated by Collette becuase of scheduling delays, Variety reports. Filming recently began in Connecticut on the romantic comedy, which will star actors John Krasinski of The Office and Maya Rudolph of SNL fame, and explores a...  read more

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