Lars Von Trier stops doing interviews, facing charges
We should all be thankful for freedom of speech. Lars Von Trier has a tendency to court controversy, as anyone who has sat through Antichrist can attest. But earlier this year at Cannes, he made a few poorly chosen remarks in response to a question about his heritage: “For a long time I thought I […]
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Paul W.S. Anderson’s Three Musketeers to take the world by storm (updated!)
Just a week after the 2010 Festival de Cannes started, a clear heavy-weight has emerged between the two new versions of The Three Musketeers in pre-production. The winner is Summit Entertainment and director Paul W.S. Anderson (Resident Evil, Death Race), whose version with the following stars attached will also be filmed in 3D: Logan Lerman […]
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Running down the Cannes news
We here at GeekingOutAbout.com are not at the 2010 Festival de Cannes but that’s not going to stop us from bringing you the news about which films are being picked up for international distribution and which films to keep your eye on: Hanna: Saoirse Ronan (The Lovely Bones) stars as a teenage assassin in a […]
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Painted Skin to come with sequels, TV spinoffs
The Hollywood Reporter has announced the development of a trilogy of feature film adaptations of famous Chinese ghost stories. The first, titled Painted Skin (no relation to the 1992 film of the same name by King Hu), is due out September 28 in China, Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand. According to Kathy Lan of Golden Sun Films, each […]
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