New Films in Production, v.2

[Brian C]

Jared Leto Making Directing Debut With Patty Hearst Thriller ’77’ for Paramount

Sometimes I wish I was stupid rich just so that I could lure unsuspecting filmmakers into my office with hopes of funding, only for me to laugh in their stupid faces.

[flyonthewall2983]

Paramount just seems like a mess, with exceptions like Arrival and Fences seeming to pass by.

[beamish13]

Paramount just seems like a mess, with exceptions like Arrival and Fences seeming to pass by.

Like MGM, Paramount is running on fumes these days, and it wouldn't surprise me if Viacom eventually sold off the whole thing.

[doh286]

Amazon has acquired the North American rights to Leos Carax's upcoming film Annette and Rooney Mara has dropped out of the cast.

[domino harvey]

Ten years after the Savages, Tamara Jenkins is finally back with Private Life

[domino harvey]

Amazon has acquired the North American rights to Leos Carax's upcoming film Annette and Rooney Mara has dropped out of the cast.

Rihanna has now dropped out as well

[domino harvey]

Amy Adams expected to return for Enchanted sequel

[domino harvey]

Robert Redford to likely retire from acting after filming David Lowery's the Old Man and the Gun with Casey Affleck

[Magic Hate Ball]

I'll be severely disappointed if that isn't just 90 minutes detailing Casey Affleck going into the ocean in a boat and shooting a fish in the head.

[domino harvey]

Kechiche's followup to Blue is the Warmest Color has become two films in the edit and he's been legally blocked from completing the edits by his funders

[The Narrator Returns]

Edgar Wright to direct adaptation of YA book Grasshopper Jungle -- If you are not familiar with the source text, it is simultaneously the most insane book to try to describe and yet it's all surprisingly intuitive in its normative weirdness (for lack of a better term) if you actually read it. I can't imagine anyone better to capture the tone than Wright

Three years and one Wright film later, it finally looks like Wright will be making the film, with New Regency backing it

[domino harvey]

John C Reilly as Oliver Hardy

[FrauBlucher]

John C Reilly as Oliver Hardy

Holy crap, how good does he look....

[Brian C]

I dunno, to me he looks like a guy wearing pounds of makeup. Not as bad as Anthony Hopkins in HITCHCOCK, but still not at all natural.

[flyonthewall2983]

Vince McMahon bio pic now in the works at Sony

[DarkImbecile]

Paul Verhoeven toning things down a bit with a drama about the persecution of a lesbian nun in the 1600s.

[domino harvey]

Anne Hathaway, Keanu Reeves, Jeff Goldblum and Daniel Radcliffe among others join the cast of Shane Carruth's The Modern Ocean

Despite the cast, Carruth's film still hasn't managed to get off the ground according to Tom Holland. A 200 page script probably didn't assuage investors

[flyonthewall2983]

Borg/McEnroe, never thought I'd use "Shia LeBeouf" and "perfect casting" in the same thought, but there you go.

[willoneill]

James Mangold to direct a remake of Disorder. Maybe he'll make a version that isn't dull and inconsequential.

[domino harvey]

Fear Street of all things is getting an intriguing production and roll out-- three films filmed back to back and released in theatres a month apart for "binge" theatrical viewing

[domino harvey]

Broad Green has shuttered and halted its production slate

[knives]

To the surprise of no one.

[domino harvey]

Their existent slate in that article could be tl;dr-ed as "A fool and their money are soon departed"

[FrauBlucher]

It's a matter of moments before they shut the door on the whole operation.

[dadaistnun]

Variety reports on two new Todd Haynes projects: a Velvet Underground documentary, and an Amazon limited series that will "“re-examine a figure who maybe we forget how radical they were in their thinking because they were so incorporated into our culture and outlook as a modern society."

Haynes doesn't say who the subject of the Amazon series is, but when I saw him at a Q&A for I'm Not There back in 2008, someone asked him what his next film would be about and he said (in an admittedly somewhat joking tone, and I'm paraphrasing here), "Oh, I don't know, something easy like Freud."