Film News (11/04/09)

Easter has effectively made it a four day week so you would have thought news would slow down - wrong I'm afraid. In fact there's been some great stuff about and all for films which are completely new to me.

Dream House and Scarpa

Morgan Creek, the production company behind such hits as True Romance and Ace Ventura have had a poor couple of years, but this week their new figurehead Rick Nicita annouced 3 films which are being worked on. Two of which may be worth seeing. Scarpa is about Greg Scarpa Sr, the FBI highest level informant. I'm also fascinated by Dream House, set to be directed by Jim Sheridan. I love iot when serious directors slum it for the money and this is about a family who move into a house where the previous father went a bit crazy and killed the family, and now he wants his house back... Sounds like some serious slumming, and eerily similar to Cold Creek Manor which gave us Stephen Dorff putting his snakes around his old home. If Dream House is anything close to that I'm there.



Stephen Dorff - snake not pictured.



Box of Delights

The kids classic from John Masefield is getting the big screen treatment. The plot is somewhat convoluted concerning a magic box that gives the user powers of flight, time travel, ability to shrink etc which a small boy has to protect from an evil wizard. I remember loving this book 20 something years ago - much more than I remember the book itself so the adaptation may be something to really get the kids interested in.

Morning Glory

It's been rumoured for a while but this week Diane Keaton and Jeff Goldblum signed to join Harrison Ford and Rachel McAdams in Morning Glory. Keaton and Ford will play warring co-anchors with McAdams and Goldblum trying to keep the peace. Hopefully a Broadcast News for the Noughties.

Twelve

Amazingly Joel Schumacher still has a career directing (although his last effort Town Creek has yet to score a release), what's more he can still assemble interesting casts for his projects. Chace Crawford, Emma Roberts, Rory Culkin, Ellen Barkin, Keifer Sutherland and 50 Cent have all signed up to Twelve, all about a NY small time drug dealer whose best friend is arrested for his cousin's murder. Interestingly 50 Cent was the star of Get Rich or Die Trying, which is the last film Jim Sheridan did for the cash, linking us back to the first story.