Happy Birthday to
Robert De Niro
65 today
Yes Robert, we are talking to you when we say happy brithday to a screen legend. Why not celebrate with Bob by watching the trailers for his upcoming films Righteous Kill or What Just Happened?. Or better still look yourself in a room with the Scorcese/De Niro films and watch them to remind yourself of how good an actor he really is.
Showing posts with label What Just Happened. Show all posts
Showing posts with label What Just Happened. Show all posts
Sunday, 17 August 2008
Robert De Niro
Friday, 15 August 2008
Trailers - What Just Happened?
In the UK What Just Happened? opens on the same weekend as Body of Lies. Strangely enough though I actually want to see both. In fact I'm curious to see whether this Player lite manages to make Hollywood talent agents as sympathetic as sports agents were after Jerry Maguire.
Tuesday, 15 July 2008
Coming Soon (Definitely - Cannes edition)
I've been looking at Box Office Mojo again, and there's a few new scheduled opening dates that I that you may like to share.
Blindness
A UK opening date of 14 November has been announced. Despite the lukewarm reaction at Cannes I'm still quite keen on seeing Meirelles' latest opus, the trailers have indicated a dreamy quality in the cinematography very different from the tone of the book and this should be a good enough reason to rush to see it.
What Just Happened
Actully this looks a bit rubbish - like a poor man's The Player - however I'm willing to give this fading Hollywood producer tale a try if only because Barry Levinson and Robert De Niro have both gone 10 years without a decent film and maybe their Wag the Dog reunion may be something interesting.
Like Blindness and What Just Happened this slice of life drama also debuted at Cannes, with significantly better press and the best actress award for Sandra Corveloni. The plot - four boys from the slums try to improve their lives in different ways - may be as old as time, but I'm hoping for a fantastic work from Walter Salles and Daniela Thomas.
The Argentine/Guerilla
We in the UK now have relaease dates for Steven Soderbergh love letters to Che Guevara 02 January and 20 February respectively. Benicio Del Toro won the best actor award at Cannes for the combined "Che" and it will certainly be interesting to see these films. Perhaps most interesting about these dates is whilst Optimum has announced them for here there is still no distributer for the US market in any form. You would have thought this was a guaranteed best actor oscar nomination - biopic, well liked star, he dies at the end - however if Focus Features don't pull their fingure out and organise a relaease strategy it could end up being a wasted opportunity.
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