Bigelow Headed to HBO Pilot
HBO has snagged the hottest film director at the moment, Oscar nominee for “The Hurt Locker” Kathryn Bigelow. The helmer has come on board to direct “The Miraculous Year,” a drama pilot by top feature...
View ArticleHigh Brow Pair Circling “Serena” Adaptation
Angelina Jolie and Darren Aronofsky are in discussions to develop a big-screen adaptation of Ron Rash’s 2008 period tome “Serena: A Novel.” The project would be a starring vehicle for Jolie, while...
View ArticleFNB Editorial: The Much Anticipated Oscar Preview!
Well, it’s here, the column to which you’ve all been anxiously looking forward, yes, it’s our big, nay huge, Oscar preview edition here at FNB, the one in which we somewhat confidently predict who will...
View ArticleFNB Editorial: Independent? In Spirit, Maybe
We watched the Independent Spirit awards the other night and were not exactly blown away by them, not just because of how predictable they were (come on, it’s not like we were expecting a whole lot of...
View ArticleBigelow on ‘The Hurt Locker’
Oscar winning Director Kathryn Bigelow discusses her film, ‘The Hurt Locker’ in a video from Makingof.com, a behind-the-scenes Web destination, founded by Natalie Portman and Christine Aylward.
View ArticleFNB Editorial: The End for M. Night? We Think, Um, Not
With this past weekend’s release of “The Last Airbender,” there have been a fair amount of epithets hurled in the approximate direction of writer-director-producer M. Night Shyamalan, along with the...
View Article“Year” Adds Even More Impressive Actors
HBO’s “Miraculous Year” is adding more recognizable faces to its already impressive roster. Lee Pace of “Pushing Daisies” and “Law & Order” ADA Linus Roache have been tapped to join the drama,...
View ArticleHBO Signs Sarandon Up for a “Year”
HBO’s “The Miraculous Year” is piling on an already star-studded cast, adding Susan Sarandon. Sarandon will play Patty Atwood, the “director/choreographer of the play-within-the-show.” Earlier this...
View Article“Hurt Locker” Lawsuit May Have Hit a Speed Bump for Plaintiff
Remember on the eve of the Academy Awards when Master Sgt. Jeffrey Sarver, an Army bomb disposal expert, sued producers of “The Hurt Locker” claiming that the film ripped off his life story and defamed...
View ArticleHanks Signs On To Bigelow’s Latest Project
What do we know about Kathryn Bigelow’s follow-up to her Oscar sweeping “The Hurt Locker”? We know that it’s titled “Triple Frontier,” named after the point where the borders of Paraguay, Argentina and...
View ArticleBoy, That Bigelow-Boal Team Is Darn Prolific!
Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal are shopping an international thriller that would likely film before the fall 2011 start of Paramount’s “Triple Frontier.” Sources said the new indie project is timely,...
View ArticleGood News for Kathryn Bigelow Fans: Her New Film’s Been Bankrolled
As previously reported here, Oscar-winning pair Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal are now working on a small-scale film based on the true story of a U.S. military black ops mission in the Middle East...
View ArticleMark Boal’s Bin Laden Movie Script Was on the Mark
Don’t count out that Osama Bin Laden from Oscar-winning team Mark Boal and Kathryn Bigelow yet: Turns out Boal was tracking the very same team that performed the surgical strike. It’s a lucky break for...
View ArticleSony Snatches Up Rights for Osama bin Laden Film
Columbia Pictures has snapped up U.S. distribution rights to Kathryn Bigelow’s film account of the black ops mission to capture and kill Osama bin Laden, the studio announced on Tuesday. Mark Boal, a...
View Article“Hurt Locker” Gets Slammed
An Iraqi war veteran’s lawsuit against the producers of “The Hurt Locker” continues, but may be trimmed to its “essence,” a claim about whether the film about a US bomb squad in Iraq was based on the...
View ArticleWait, They’re Remaking “Point Break” Now? Sorry, But We Just Cannot Support This
“Point Break,” the 1991 thriller set against the world of surfing, is getting an extreme-sports make-over, courtesy of Alcon Entertainment and Warner Bros. In the original film, directed by Kathryn...
View Article“Hurt Locker”Lawsuit Gets Dismissed
A U.S. District Court judge has dismissed the lawsuit alleging that the makers of “The Hurt Locker” improperly used the story of a real Iraqi bomb-disposal expert in their Oscar-winning film. Sgt....
View ArticleWell, Of COURSE There’s Another Bin Laden Flick Coming!
Look out, Kathryn Bigelow; you’re about to have company. John Stockwell is set to direct an Osama Bin Laden movie called “Code Name Geronimo.” Bigelow has already gotten a head start with her project,...
View ArticleWhoa, Doggie! Soderbergh's Deal With Annapurna Ain't Finished Yet
Word is that the recently announced deal for Annapurna Pictures and Open Road Films to partner to produce Steven Soderbergh's “Side Effects” has hit a snag. The film was set to start shooting in April....
View ArticleThe Non-Bigelow Bin Laden Flick Just Got More Cast
When it comes to films depicting the death of Osama Bin Laden, Kathryn Bigelow’s still-untitled action thriller has been receiving most of the attention. But there is another movie out there looking to...
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