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Although his incredible High-Rise has yet to be acquired, Alchemy has picked up Ben Wheatley‘s next film Free Fire for a likely 2016 release, Deadline reports.
Michael Haneke guides us through his storyboards for Code Unknown, now on Criterion:
Bong Joon-ho will executive produce a Snowpiercer TV show, adapted by Josh Friedman (Avatar 2 and 3, War of the Worlds), THR reports:
The potential series will be based on the 2013 film that was written and directed by Bong Joon Ho in his first English-language production. The movie, which starred Chris Evans and Tilda Swinton is set in a post-apocalyptic Ice Age where the only remaining life on the planet survives aboard a train that travels around the globe. Bong and feature co-producer Dooho Choi are attached to executive produce alongside Adelstein and producing partner Becky Clements. Chan-wook Park, who produced the feature, is also attached as an EP.
Watch Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words director Stig Björkman and Ingrid Bergman‘s daughter Pia Lindström discuss the film at NYFF:
At The New Yorker, Andrew Bujalski discusses his unified theory on the Rocky movies:
Though every actor claims to fear typecasting, and many wriggle spectacularly at its encroachment (Johnny Depp has been wriggling for twenty-five years now), I suspect that most understand that it results from an ecstatic harmony between actor and character that is, in fact, their vocation’s pinnacle. Not every would-be Shatner finds his Captain Kirk, and fewer still, as Stallone did with Rocky, create and control that character themselves. Stallone wrote the six original “Rocky” movies and directed four of them. (“Creed” will mark the first time he has handed the reins of his universe to another writer.) Consequently, he has been in a remarkable position to shepherd himself through a shadow life, and to write large a fantastical autobiography of the man he might wish to have been.