Production Notes: 2/6/09
: Pre-production, ProductionOnce again it’s time for LiC’s weekly survey of production news. Keep reading for updates on Martin Scorsese, Julia Roberts, Julian Schnabel, Aaron Sorkin, Dev Patel, Al...
View ArticleDavid Fincher took the “10 Stupid Movie Ideas” quiz…
: RumorsFincher! Facebook! Yawn!(Read more...)
View ArticleJust when I think I’m out of Moneyball…
: DevelopmentAaron Sorkin signs on to rescue Moneyball.(Read more...)
View ArticleBehold: The Social Network
: DevelopmentIt's official: Jesse Eisenberg, Justin Timberlake and Andrew Garfield will star in David Fincher's Facebook movie The Social Network written by Aaron Sorkin(Read more...)
View Article‘Capote’ director Miller to manage ‘Moneyball’
: DevelopmentMoneyball finds a director. I could barely care less.(Read more...)
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The Social Network (2010)
: ReviewRooney Mara and Jesse Eisenberg in The Social Network If director David Fincher and screenwriter Aaron Sorkin set out to make a smart, funny, engaging and wholly entertaining movie around the...
View ArticleSorkin/Social Network win Scripter and WGA awards
: AwardsBen Mezrich and Aaron Sorkin accept their USC Libraries Scripter Awards Aaron Sorkin and Ben Mezrich won the USC Scripter award last night for Sorkin’s screenplay The Social Network based on...
View ArticleChicago Film Critics: The Tree of Life
: CriticsI know this is gone way beyond ridiculous, but I forget every year that once you start it’s hard to stop posting these things even long after any meaning they might have had is lost in the...
View ArticleOklahoma Crickets: “The Artist”
: CriticsNot much to say about these picks from the Oklahoma Film Critics Circle other than to ask what they mean by “no-so-obviously worst” and how it is that The Hangover Part II‘s awfulness is not...
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Kansas City: We Heart The Descendants!
: CriticsPlease enjoy this fine collection of award from the Kansas City Film Critics Circle. I can’t criticize them for elevating a mediocrity like The Descendants as the “Best Film of the Year”...
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Aliance of Women Film Journalists’ EDA Awards: The Artist, Hazanavicius
: CriticsThe Most Egregious Love Interest Age Difference Award special mention is kind of silly, but then I think it was sort of meant to be. Plus, the AWFJ’s positive recognition of Melancholia makes...
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Critics’ Oscar Predictions… er Choice Awards: The Artist, Hazanavicius,...
: AwardsThe Broadcast Film Critics Association played it completely safe with their Critics’ Choice Awards tonight, but that’s better than playing it completely stupid. With the exception of that...
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