It’s been ten years since Korean director Park Chan-wook released Oldboy, his cult-hit surreal thriller about a man who is suddenly released after fifteen years of mysterious solitary imprisonment. This October, Spike Lee directs Josh Brolin in a Hollywood version of Oldboy — also based on the Japanese manga series as the original. Details about the new movie have been kept under wraps, but a poster just appeared at CinemaCon. And you thought fifteen years was a long time… READ FULL STORY »
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2013
12:18 PM ET
Nov 5
2012
08:08 PM ET
Q&A: James Ransone talks Spike Lee's 'Oldboy' remake, Josh Brolin's transformation
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With his deep, dark eyes, thin face, and history of working with Spike Lee, James Ransone has all the makings of a perfect fit for Lee’s remake of South Korean revenge classic Oldboy, currently filming in New Orleans with Josh Brolin as a man going after his captors after being imprisoned for more than a decade. But Ransone, who replaced Nate Parker in the part of a doctor working with co-lead Elizabeth Olsen’s character, goes totally against type. He plays a good guy, different from other well-known twitchy parts he taken on, such as drunken, delinquent Ziggy on HBO’s The Wire, or a robber in Lee’s 2006 thriller Inside Man.
EW spoke to Ransone by phone in Los Angeles after Hurricane Sandy hit New York City, where he lives. The actor, who said he found out about his part in the movie “super last minute,” shot down those criticizing Lee even remaking Park Chan-wook’s beloved 2003 thriller, and talked about he and Lee getting along “because we’re both antagonistic,” witnessing Brolin’s drastic weight gain and weight loss for the part – 35 pounds gained in one week, then 19 pounds dropped – and being a (our opinion: refreshingly down-to-earth) middle-class actor in Hollywood. READ FULL STORY »
Oct 19
2012
03:41 PM ET
Spike Lee's 'Oldboy' remake set for release October 2013
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Spike Lee’s English language remake of South Korean director Park Chan-wook’s 2003 classic revenge thriller Oldboy is set for wide release on Oct. 11, 2013, announced FilmDistrict, the independent film company distributing the movie, on Friday.
Aug 14
2012
06:00 PM ET
Toronto Film Festival adds Michael Jackson doc, films from Brian De Palma, Nick Cassavetes
New films from Spike Lee, Nick Cassavetes, and Brian De Palma are among the 29 titles joining the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival slate, the festival announced today. Lee’s documentary Bad 25 commemorates the 25th anniversary of Michael Jackson’s Bad, including footage shot by the pop superstar. Cassavetes’ Yellow focuses on a woman whose Vicodin habit plunges her into a high style fantasy world; it stars Sienna Miller, Gena Rowlands (i.e. Cassavetes mother), Ray Liotta, David Morse, Lucy Punch, Heather Wahlquist, and Melanie Griffith. And De Palma’s Passion pits Rachel McAdams and Noomi Rapace (pictured) against each other as a high-powered business woman and her protégé. READ FULL STORY »
Jun 28
2012
01:34 PM ET
Spike Lee's 'Red Hook Summer' trailer: Back to Brooklyn -- VIDEO
Spike Lee’s latest exploration of Brooklyn life — following up films such as She’s Gotta Have It and Do The Right Thing, among others — is Red Hook Summer. It’s the story of a teenage boy (Jules Brown) who comes up from Atlanta to spend the summer with his religious grandfather (Clarke Peters). The film premiered, with controversy, at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, and will be released in theaters Aug. 10.
Watch the trailer below: READ FULL STORY »
Apr 12
2012
08:09 PM ET
Casting Net: Brad Pitt, Javier Bardem circling Ridley Scott's 'The Counselor.'
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• Brad Pitt and Javier Bardem are in talks to join The Counselor, about a lawyer (Michael Fassbender) who gets pulled in too deep after flirting with the illegal drug trade. Ridley Scott is directing the thriller, from a screenplay by Cormac McCarthy. Which is all to say that this movie is getting seriously cool, seriously fast. [Deadline]
• District 9 star Sharlto Copley is in early talks to play the main villain in Spike Lee‘s English-language version of the South Korean cult classic thriller Oldboy. He’d join Josh Brolin and Elizabeth Olsen. [Variety]
• Kevin Hart is considering joining the comedy Con Ed, about two escaped cons who evade capture by posing as college frat boys. Charles Stone III (Drumline) will direct. [Variety]
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Jan 30
2012
02:07 PM ET
Sundance 2012: The 12 biggest stories of the indie film fest
Sundance 2012 took place over 10 days, featured 117 movies, marked the debut of 45 first-time filmmakers, and for film lovers there was no better place to be than Park City, Utah — even if not all the news coming out of the festival was happy.
Studio sales were strong, which means many of the most buzzed-about titles will make it to theaters, and — as usual – a few previously unknown storytellers emerged as stars, while a handful of Hollywood veterans faceplanted in the snow.
One high-profile death cast a sense of mourning over the gathering, but a particularly upbeat lineup of movies managed to keep spirits high overall.
Here’s a wrap-up of what went down at Sundance 2012. READ FULL STORY »
Jan 25
2012
09:30 PM ET
Sundance: Chris Rock and Julie Delpy on '2 Days in New York,' a 'Before Sunset' sequel, and Spike Lee's infamous tirade -- VIDEO
Of all the leading men writer-director Julie Delpy could have cast to play her boyfriend in 2 Days in New York — a sequel to her 2007 indie 2 Days in Paris, in which Adam Goldberg played Delpy’s other half — Delpy insists that she only had Chris Rock in mind. Which came as a bit of a surprise to Rock, as he explained in my interview with the duo at EW’s Sundance studio. We also discussed whether Delpy would ever make a companion film to the beloved Before Sunrise/Before Sunset movies, and what Rock’s role really was in sparking Spike Lee’s now-infamous post-Red Hook Summer screening tirade.
Check out our interview below: READ FULL STORY »
Jan 25
2012
01:31 PM ET
Sundance: EW's Owen Gleiberman assesses the festival's first half -- VIDEO
The 2012 Sundance Film Festival is entering its sleepy second half, when the crush of celebrities and traffic and gifting suites and party buses have all evaporated into the crisp Utah air, and nothing is left but the movies themselves. If the final films playing at the festival are as good as EW’s Owen Gleiberman found the first half’s films to be, then this year’s Sundance will definitely be remembered as one of the best in recent memory. Check out our far-ranging conversation about the Sundance highlights (and a few lowlights) below, including Richard Gere in Arbitrage, the Kennedy-family doc Ethel, and Josh Radnor’s Liberal Arts: READ FULL STORY »
Jan 24
2012
07:01 PM ET
Sundance: Spike Lee on 'Red Hook Summer,' George Lucas, and Tyler Perry -- VIDEO
A day after the Sundance premiere of Spike Lee’s Red Hook Summer — and Lee’s fiery post-screening Q&A — the filmmaker was far more subdued when he stopped by the EW studio with his co-screenwriter James McBride and star Clarke Peters. But that doesn’t mean Lee was reticent to discuss his film’s controversial third-act plot twist, his apparent dig at the films of Tyler Perry, and how that post-show outburst ties back to George Lucas and Red Tails. Far from it.
Check out our discussion below (and warning — some SPOILERS follow): READ FULL STORY »
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