62nd Festival de Cannes line-up filled with cult, arthouse favorites and veterans

Arthouse favorites Quentin Tarantino, Ang Lee, Pedro Almodovar, Johnny To, Lee Daniels, Jane Campion, Lars Von Trier and Terry Gilliam are among the directors, whose projects will be screened at Cannes, when the festival kicks off next month. Festival co-chairmen Gilles Jacob and Thierry Fremaux unveiled the entries at a press conference in Paris earlier ….

Vintage-looking photos from Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds

CanMag has posted some promotional photos from the set of Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds, featuring the cast, crew and a lot of Brad Pitt. Pitt plays Lieutenant Aldo Raine, who’s in charge of the ‘Basterds’, who’s only mission is to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis during World War ….

Mickey Rourke and Sam Rockwell in talks for Iron Man 2

Variety reports that Mickey Rourke, who is currently enjoying success from his role in Darren Aronofsky’s The Wrestler, is in negotiations to play the main baddie in the upcoming Iron Man sequel, which Jon Favreau starts shooting this spring. Sam Rockwell (Frost/Nixon, Choke) is also in talks to play another villain in the film, which ….

First photos from Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds surface

JoBlo has posted two of the first stills from Quentin Tarantino’s upcoming war epic Inglourious Basterds. The attached pic features Pitt sporting a nifty little moustache, playing Lt. Aldo Raine, who leads the “Basterds”. He’s a Jew from the mountains of Tennessee, that is known to the German army as Aldo the Apache. The “Basterds” ….

Ennio Morricone in talks to score Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds

Italian music composer Ennio Morricone, whose resume includes some of the greatest action films of the 1960s through today, including such cult classics as The Good, the Bad and the Ugly with Clint Eastwood, A Dollar a Head with Burt Reynolds, A Fistful of Dynamite with James Coburn, Night Flight from Moscow with Yul Brynner, ….

Jackson in Quentin Tarantino war film and Last Dragon remake

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Samuel L. Jackson is set to star as yet another bad guy in Columbia Pictures’ remake of Berry Gordy’s 1985 cult classic The Last Dragon. Jackson is taking on the role of Sho’nuff, the Shogun of Harlem, originally played by the Julius Carry. Gordy’s son Kerry Gordy and Davis Entertainment ….

Nokia-sponsored web film collaboration hinting at future of grassroots filmmaking?

I was contacted a few days ago with a request that Film Fetish play a prominent role in a Nokia-sponsored, Spike Lee-helmed film premiere that’s taking place in a few weeks. WOM World a Nokia-sponsored blog that covers what’s being said online about Nokia devices and projects Nokia gets involved with. With my affinity towards ….

Kill Bill on Blu-ray this week

From the Academy Award winning writer of Pulp Fiction (Best Original Screenplay, 1994), Reservoir Dogs and Jackie Brown, comes Quentin Tarantino’’s action-packed Kill Bill Volumes 1 and 2 to Blu-ray™, on Tuesday, September 9, 2008 from Miramax. This also marks the first time this wild cinematic rollercoaster ride of furious action, martial arts mayhem and ….