A new version of A Star Is Born is finally, officially on its way. Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga will star; Cooper will make his directorial debut. Production is scheduled to begin early next year, according to Deadline. This will be the fourth big-screen version of the story, which follows a woman on the rise to stardom who falls in love with an actor on his way down. The original 1937 version, starring Janet Gaynor and Fredric March, established the tragic trajectory of a doomed...
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- 8/17/2016
- by affiliates@fandango.com
- Fandango
A director is born. Bradley Cooper is in talks to make his directorial debut with Warner Bros.' long-gestating remake of the musical A Star Is Born. The film, based on the 1937 film starring Janet Gaynor and Fredric March, centers on a movie star who helps an aspiring young actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral. Cooper also will produce, along with Jon Peters, Bill Gerber and Basil Iwanyk. Warner Bros. has been working on a remake of A Star Is Born for years. Cooper's American Sniper director, Clint
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- 3/23/2015
- by Rebecca Ford and Borys Kit
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
By winning the Best Cinematography Oscar for a second year in a row, "Birdman" director of photography Emmanuel Lubezki has joined a truly elite club whose ranks haven't been breached in nearly two decades. Only four other cinematographers have won the prize in two consecutive years. The last time it happened was in 1994 and 1995, when John Toll won for Edward Zwick's "Legends of the Fall" and Mel Gibson's "Braveheart" respectively. Before that you have to go all the way back to the late '40s, when Winton Hoch won in 1948 (Victor Fleming's "Joan of Arc" with Ingrid Bergman) and 1949 (John Ford's western "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon"). Both victories came in the color category, as the Academy awarded prizes separately for black-and-white and color photography from 1939 to 1956. Leon Shamroy also won back-to-back color cinematography Oscars, for Henry King's 1944 Woodrow Wilson biopic "Wilson" and John M. Stahl...
- 2/23/2015
- by Kristopher Tapley
- Hitfix
President-in-peril thriller White House Down deserves a second chance, while Computer Chess is nerdy but nice
I am writing this week's column from a temporary perch in the Hollywood Hills, so you could be forgiven for thinking that Tinseltown – and, indeed, America in general – has got to me when I say that the best DVD out this week is White House Down (Sony, 12). But I've been championing Roland Emmerich's splendidly daft president-in-peril thriller since its cinema release last year – one that was greeted with disappointing indifference from mainstream audiences already full from the gung-ho pleasures of the identically premised Olympus Has Fallen.
That's a shame, since White House Down is, in every sense, the superior meathead movie. The narrative – a paramilitary terrorist group seizes the White House, and it's up to One Good Man, sturdily named Capitol cop John Cale (Channing Tatum), to save the day – is a scrawled-on-the-back-of-a-matchbook...
I am writing this week's column from a temporary perch in the Hollywood Hills, so you could be forgiven for thinking that Tinseltown – and, indeed, America in general – has got to me when I say that the best DVD out this week is White House Down (Sony, 12). But I've been championing Roland Emmerich's splendidly daft president-in-peril thriller since its cinema release last year – one that was greeted with disappointing indifference from mainstream audiences already full from the gung-ho pleasures of the identically premised Olympus Has Fallen.
That's a shame, since White House Down is, in every sense, the superior meathead movie. The narrative – a paramilitary terrorist group seizes the White House, and it's up to One Good Man, sturdily named Capitol cop John Cale (Channing Tatum), to save the day – is a scrawled-on-the-back-of-a-matchbook...
- 1/19/2014
- by Guy Lodge
- The Guardian - Film News
Jean Dujardin as George Valentin, The Artist In the Oscar 2012 Best Actor category, Gary Oldman, Demián Bichir, and Brad Pitt are dark horses for, respectively, their performances in Tomas Alfredson's Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Chris Weitz's A Better Life, and Bennett Miller's Moneyball. That leaves George Clooney, who plays a befuddled father in Alexander Payne's The Descendants, and Jean Dujardin, who plays a mix of Douglas Fairbanks, John Gilbert, and A Star Is Born's Fredric March in Michel Hazanavicius' The Artist. This awards season, Clooney has been the Us critics' favorite, and would've been the favorite for the Academy Awards as well if it weren't for Dujardin's SAG Award victory. Though not exactly a total shock, the outcome was unexpected because Clooney was technically the sentimental favorite — he has never won a Best Actor SAG Award. Then enter Dujardin, a star in France but...
- 2/24/2012
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
George Valentin (Jean Dujardin) has had it with the movies in "The Artist"Over at Fandor's Keyframe blog I'll be musing about the Oscar race on a biweekly basis. This week's topic is the unusual abundance of movies about movies in this year's Oscar race from Marilyn Monroe (My Week With Marilyn) to George Melies (Hugo) to Hollywood's seismic sound shift in the late 20s (The Artist). But one thing I didn't dwell on too much in the article (which I hope you'll go and read!) is the lack of Oscars won for movies about movies.
Everyone predicting a win for The Artist (2011) before the nominations are even announced should consider the following list and sobering fact: No movie about movies has ever won Best Picture.
Movies About Movies: How Do They Do With Oscar?
(Best Picture Nominees are in red)
Janet Gaynor (already an Oscar winner) was nominated again...
Everyone predicting a win for The Artist (2011) before the nominations are even announced should consider the following list and sobering fact: No movie about movies has ever won Best Picture.
Movies About Movies: How Do They Do With Oscar?
(Best Picture Nominees are in red)
Janet Gaynor (already an Oscar winner) was nominated again...
- 11/23/2011
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
HBO is developing a film based on the life of legendary film producer David O. Selznick reports The Los Angeles Times.
"The Messenger" director Oren Moverman is re-writing an early draft from Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Donald Margulies and could potentially direct (though that's not confirmed yet).
Ben Stiller is executive producing and has met several times with both the network and with Moverman to potentially star.
Based partly on Selznick's own correspondence, the film will follow the ladies man who worked in the studio system at MGM, Paramount and Rko in the 20's and 30's on such films as "King Kong" and "Dinner at Eight".
In 1935 he started his own company and was the creative force behind the epic "Gone with the Wind" along with "The Prisoner of Zenda," "A Star is Born" and Alfred Hitchcock's Oscar-winning first Hollywood film "Rebecca". He also produced "The Third Man" and "Duel in the Sun"
Stuart Cornfeld,...
"The Messenger" director Oren Moverman is re-writing an early draft from Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Donald Margulies and could potentially direct (though that's not confirmed yet).
Ben Stiller is executive producing and has met several times with both the network and with Moverman to potentially star.
Based partly on Selznick's own correspondence, the film will follow the ladies man who worked in the studio system at MGM, Paramount and Rko in the 20's and 30's on such films as "King Kong" and "Dinner at Eight".
In 1935 he started his own company and was the creative force behind the epic "Gone with the Wind" along with "The Prisoner of Zenda," "A Star is Born" and Alfred Hitchcock's Oscar-winning first Hollywood film "Rebecca". He also produced "The Third Man" and "Duel in the Sun"
Stuart Cornfeld,...
- 10/5/2011
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
There have been talks of a remake of A Star is Born since the beginning of Hollywood-- almost literally. The film first made in 1937 with Janet Gaynor and Frederic March has been remade twice since then, and the latest round of rumors have had Russell Crowe quite possibly romancing Beyonce as a washed-up star who shepherds a young actress and musician to fame. When Clint Eastwood signed on to direct earlier this year the project seemed more real than ever, and now Eastwood might be wrangling one of his actor favorites to sweeten the deal for Warner Bros. to finally go ahead and get it made. Deadline reports that Eastwood has been working to convince Leonardo DiCaprio, who's starring in Eastwood's next film J. Edgar, to play the older male role once filled by Crowe. It's unclear exactly how far along he is in convincing the actor, but if Deadline...
- 6/27/2011
- cinemablend.com
Updated through 5/18.
Salon's Andrew O'Hehir: "One of the first films to be picked up for American distribution out of the main competition here this year has the following qualities: It's French, and unless you're a fan of Gallic comedy, and specifically the recent Oss 117 spy spoofs, you've never heard of either its star or its director. It's in black-and-white. It's not merely a silent film but one that both imitates and spoofs the Silent Age dramas of the late 1920s, movies that relatively few living people have even seen. That's at least three strikes — if not four or five — against The Artist, an exceedingly weird and delightful new film from writer-director Michel Hazanavicius that premiered on Sunday in Cannes to a rapturous, uproarious reception."
"For the first half-hour I suspected The Artist would end up being nothing more than a flaky, if enjoyable, gewgaw," writes Movieline's Stephanie Zacharek. "But by the end,...
Salon's Andrew O'Hehir: "One of the first films to be picked up for American distribution out of the main competition here this year has the following qualities: It's French, and unless you're a fan of Gallic comedy, and specifically the recent Oss 117 spy spoofs, you've never heard of either its star or its director. It's in black-and-white. It's not merely a silent film but one that both imitates and spoofs the Silent Age dramas of the late 1920s, movies that relatively few living people have even seen. That's at least three strikes — if not four or five — against The Artist, an exceedingly weird and delightful new film from writer-director Michel Hazanavicius that premiered on Sunday in Cannes to a rapturous, uproarious reception."
"For the first half-hour I suspected The Artist would end up being nothing more than a flaky, if enjoyable, gewgaw," writes Movieline's Stephanie Zacharek. "But by the end,...
- 5/18/2011
- MUBI
Clint Eastwood has been tapped to direct a remake of A Star is Born with Beyonce as the lead actress, Deadline reports.
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- 1/21/2011
- by Gina DiNunno
- TVGuide - Breaking News
Sofia Coppola's familiar tale of a lost and lonely Hollywood actor is brought to life by two superb central performances
Writing to his agent in 1936, F Scott Fitzgerald claimed that back in 1920 he'd attempted to persuade Dw Griffith, then the world's most famous movie director, that "people were so interested in Hollywood that there was money to be made in a picture about that and romance in the studio". Griffith, however, "was immediately contemptuous of it", and despite the success four years later of the comedy Merton of the Movies, Hollywood was reluctant to look seriously at itself. Well, things certainly began to change shortly thereafter. In 1937 there was A Star is Born, one of the most downbeat movies about success in Tinseltown, and then came several major novels, including Fitzgerald's unfinished and posthumously published The Last Tycoon and two highly critical works of fiction by friends of his:...
Writing to his agent in 1936, F Scott Fitzgerald claimed that back in 1920 he'd attempted to persuade Dw Griffith, then the world's most famous movie director, that "people were so interested in Hollywood that there was money to be made in a picture about that and romance in the studio". Griffith, however, "was immediately contemptuous of it", and despite the success four years later of the comedy Merton of the Movies, Hollywood was reluctant to look seriously at itself. Well, things certainly began to change shortly thereafter. In 1937 there was A Star is Born, one of the most downbeat movies about success in Tinseltown, and then came several major novels, including Fitzgerald's unfinished and posthumously published The Last Tycoon and two highly critical works of fiction by friends of his:...
- 12/12/2010
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
Fans of "Gone with the Wind" obviously do give a damn about Scarlett O'Hara's extravagant dresses with a museum appeal for funds to restore gowns from the 1939 movie meeting its target in three weeks.
The Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin, which acquires and preserves cultural materials, launched a public appeal earlier this month to raise $30,000 to restore five dresses worn by Vivien Leigh in the Oscar-winning film.
The costumes, from the collection of filmmaker David O. Selznick who produced "Gone With The Wind" as well as "A Star Is Born" and "Rebecca," were described as being in a fragile condition and in bad need of restoration.
The museum said more than 600 people from 44 U.S. states and 13 countries contributed to the appeal.
"These generous donations confirm that the film's legions of fans do, in fact, care," Steve Wilson, film curator at the Ransom Center, said in a statement.
The Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin, which acquires and preserves cultural materials, launched a public appeal earlier this month to raise $30,000 to restore five dresses worn by Vivien Leigh in the Oscar-winning film.
The costumes, from the collection of filmmaker David O. Selznick who produced "Gone With The Wind" as well as "A Star Is Born" and "Rebecca," were described as being in a fragile condition and in bad need of restoration.
The museum said more than 600 people from 44 U.S. states and 13 countries contributed to the appeal.
"These generous donations confirm that the film's legions of fans do, in fact, care," Steve Wilson, film curator at the Ransom Center, said in a statement.
- 9/2/2010
- by By Belinda Goldsmith, Reuters
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Hollywood screenwriter Budd Schulberg, best known for his Oscar-winning screenplay for On The Waterfront, has died at his home on Long Island. He was 96.Born in 1914 in New York into a movie family - his father was Paramount production head B.P. Schulberg and his mother was sister of movie powerbroker Sam Jaffe - Schulberg wrote his first screenplay aged only 19. His entree into Hollywood came in 1937 with an uncredited contribution to David O. Selznick's A Star Is Born. He received his first credit on Little Orphan Annie a year later.During the war Schulberg served in the Oss, the fledgling espionage agency. Fittingly, his war years had a distinctly cinematic flavour: he was assigned to John Ford's documentary unit, helping record Us combat operations from D-Day to the liberation of the concentration camps and Nuremberg trials, and was involved in the arrest of German filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl in Austria.
- 8/6/2009
- EmpireOnline
Budd Schulberg, who won an Academy Award for the screenplay for "On the Waterfront" and penned the definitive portrait of a Hollywood hustler in his novel "What Makes Sammy Run?" died Wednesday. He was 95.
His wife Betsy told the Associated Press that he died of natural causes at his home in Westhampton Beach, N.Y. He was taken to a nearby medical center, where efforts to revive him were unsuccessful.
Alternately scorned and lionized by Hollywood during the course of his career, Schulberg, the son of a powerful studio executive, was a writer of varied forms, including magazine articles, novels and screenplays. He adapted his short story "Your Arkansas Traveler," about the rise and fall of a popular entertainer, for the screen as "A Face in the Crowd," which Elia Kazan directed in 1957.
Called before the House Un-American Activities Committee investigating allegations of Communism in the motion picture industry, Schulberg...
His wife Betsy told the Associated Press that he died of natural causes at his home in Westhampton Beach, N.Y. He was taken to a nearby medical center, where efforts to revive him were unsuccessful.
Alternately scorned and lionized by Hollywood during the course of his career, Schulberg, the son of a powerful studio executive, was a writer of varied forms, including magazine articles, novels and screenplays. He adapted his short story "Your Arkansas Traveler," about the rise and fall of a popular entertainer, for the screen as "A Face in the Crowd," which Elia Kazan directed in 1957.
Called before the House Un-American Activities Committee investigating allegations of Communism in the motion picture industry, Schulberg...
- 8/5/2009
- by By Duane Byrge and Gregg Kilday
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
William "Wild Bill" Wellman was always more renowned for his reportedly rough and tumble extra-cinematic resume (delinquent, pilot, stuntman) than for his mostly orthodox films -- from his nearly 40-year career, only a handful of astute genre epics remain lodged in the cultural front-brain today: "Nothing Sacred" and "A Star Is Born" (both 1937), "Beau Geste" (1939), and "The Ox-Bow Incident" (1943). They're all beautifully judged, visually eloquent and delicately acted films (compare Fredric March in "A Star Is Born" to the rest of his mannered '30s work, and you get a taste of Wellman's touch), particularly "Ox-Bow," wherein Dana Andrews and Henry Fonda are unnervingly in touch with the wages of frontier violence.
Still, Wellman worked long enough in the studio system to assure a certain homogeneity to most of his work, and so the payload of early Wellmans delivered in Warner/TCM's new Forbidden Hollywood Collection Volume Three have as...
Still, Wellman worked long enough in the studio system to assure a certain homogeneity to most of his work, and so the payload of early Wellmans delivered in Warner/TCM's new Forbidden Hollywood Collection Volume Three have as...
- 3/31/2009
- by Michael Atkinson
- ifc.com
Beyonce is one busy bee! She just announced plans for her world tour this morning, and now we hear she’s just landed another acting gig! Married life definitely isn’t slowing her down, it’s just making her busier! Although, we must say, we’d love to see her take a break in a couple years to have a couple mini B’s and Jay Z’s! Beyonce’s latest role will be in the upcoming film remake A Star Is Born. This will be the fourth time this film has been made: first in 1937, starring Janet Gaynor;...
- 12/11/2008
- Hollyscoop.com
Will Smith is in a sticky situation - his actress wife wants to appear opposite him in a new film, but movie bosses want Alicia Keys instead. Jada Pinkett Smith has her heart set on starring opposite her hunky husband in a third remake of A Star Is Born, about a failing singer helping a promising youngster secure a record deal. But studio executives are keen on multi-Grammy winning singer Keys, who is good friends with Smith after meeting him while recording a song for his new movie Ali.
- 1/11/2002
- WENN
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