Who watches the Watchmen? Plenty of people do and the buzz around the big-screen adaptation of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ popular, award-winning graphic novel has just been turned up a notch with a slew of Watchmen goodies hitting the net.
The Mail Online has a feature on the true-life circumstances and events that led to the murder of socialite Barbara Daly Baekeland at the hands of her son Antony Baekeland in 1972.
When a hotshot reporter (Jennifer Salt) suspects a beautiful model (Margot Kidder) of a brutal murder, she becomes dangerously ensnared in the insidious sibling bond between the model and her separated Siamese twin.
Great Britain’s Channel 4 has painstakingly recreated the set of Stanley Kubrick’s horror masterpiece “The Shining”, complete with look-a-likes of the crew and cast members including Shelley Duvall, for a TV ad to promote a season of the director’s films.
The 65-second promotional spot has been filmed as a one-take tracking shot through the recreation of “The Shining” set. Click here to revisit the Overlook Hotel.
In related Kubrick news, Typographica has an article on Kubrick’s favorite font, Futura. The font, which Kubrick used for the posters and title sequences of “Eyes Wide Shut” and “2001″, is said to have been one of the master filmmaker’s favorite typefaces. The article quotes from an original story published at The Guardian.
The trailer for Woody Allen’s upcoming film “Vicky Cristina Barcelona” is out.
The film features several steamy love scenes, including a threesome between it’s stars, Scarlett Johansson, Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz, as well as a lesbian scene between Johansson and Cruz. “Vicky Cristina Barcelona” opens September 5th, 2008.
Director Breck Eisner (“Sahara”) talked with ShockTillYouDrop about Universal’s long in development remake of “Creature from the Black Lagoon”.
Variety reports that Nicole Kidman will play British pop superstar Dusty Springfield in a biopic currently being written by “The Hours” novelist Michael Cunningham.
Kidman will also produce the film through her Blossom Films banner which is in a race against Universal Picture’s own Dusty Springfield project, in which Kristen Chenoweth (“The West Wing”) is attached to star.
Husky-voiced Springfield, became a huge star in the 1960s before battles with drugs, alcohol, mental illness and her own lesbianism took their toll. She was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1995 and died in 1999.
Source: Variety
“The Incredible Hulk” gets a poster, more “Wolf Man” photos surface, “The X-Files” sequel has a name and Dreamworks acquires “Ghost In The Shell”…
Shia LaBeouf, Orlando Bloom, Ethan Hawke, Julie Christie and John Hurt are set to star in the late Anthony Minghella-scripted segment of short film anthology “New York, I Love You”.
“Love” is being helmed by a who’s-who of directors, including Natalie Portman (in her writing and directing debut), Mira Nair, Wen Jiang, Allen Hughes, Brett Ratner and Scarlett Johansson. The film follows on the heels of “Paris, je t’aime” in what’s called the “Cities of Love” franchise.
24-year-old Henry Cavill (“The Tudors,” “Stardust”) has joined the cast of Woody Allen’s upcoming, untitled, romantic comedy.
Cavill will play a man who is set up with Evan Rachel Wood’s character by her mother. Larry David stars as Wood’s love interest. Allen is co-starring, directing and also penned the script, which is being kept under wraps. The film is currently shooting in Queens.
