Stuff.
I watched Joe Cornish's Attack the Block recently, and loved it. The best description of it that I've come across is "The Wire meets Alien". It stars some recognisable faces like Nick Frost (Hot Fuzz), Luke Treadaway and Jodie Whittaker, but it's the young newcomers cast as a gang of project kids who make the biggest impression. The standout for me was Alex Ismail, with his fantastic comic timing, but also impressive was John Boyega, who is clearly destined for great things. Spike Lee has recently cast Boyega as the lead of his new pilot for HBO, Da Brick.
Written and produced by Doug Ellin (Entourage), Da Brick is a drama loosely based on the youth of Mike Tyson, set in modernday New York. According to THR:
The premium network has cast Attack the Block star John Boyega to play the project’s titular character. Boyega will play Donnie, who, after his release from juvenlie detention on his 18th birthday begins an exploration of what it means to be a man for himself and those around him.
Milauna Jemai (NCIS) will play Lynette, Donnie’s mother, with him he reconnects with following a 14-month separation.
Julito McCullum (Namond on The Wire) will play Kevin, Donnie’s best friend and the one person he can’t leave behind, no matter how much he may want to.
Kamahl Naiqui Palmer (Gossip Girl) is set as Malik, the moral center of Donnie’s tight group of friends who is looking for direction between his middle-class upbringing and the harder realities of his environment.
Check out this YouTube channel for press conference interviews from the Venice International Film Festival, including this one with Benedict Cumberbatch (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy).
For reviews on the films that just premiered at Venice and Telluride (Tomas Alfredson's Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Cronenberg's A Dangerous Method, Andrea Arnold's Wuthering Heights, Steven McQueen's Shame), a good source is Awards Daily.
4 clips from Andrea Arnold's Wuthering Heights, starring James Howson and Kaya Scodelario (Skins).
Ben Whishaw on Cloud Atlas:
"Everyone in the cast [which also includes Tom Hanks, Susan Sarandon, Halle Berry, and Jim Broadbent] is playing at least three parts, some big and some small. I’m doing three: Frobisher in the thirties; a female American in the seventies, in the Luisa Rey section; and a smallish role, where I’m basically an extra, in a modern-day nursing home, in the Timothy Cavendish section. Everybody’s swapping race and gender, so it’s very ambitious and quite fun. I’ll really love playing a woman!"
Caleb Landry Jones (Banshee in X-Men: First Class) has landed the male lead in Neil Jordan's Byzantium, a fantasy drama about a mother and daughter, played by Gemma Arterton and Soirse Ronan, who are both vampires. Jones plays a teenager dying of leukemia which in turns forces him to struggle with his mortality, causing Saorsie Ronan's character to struggle with her own immortality. The screenplay was written by Moira Buffuni (Cary Fukunaga's Jane Eyre).
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Written and produced by Doug Ellin (Entourage), Da Brick is a drama loosely based on the youth of Mike Tyson, set in modernday New York. According to THR:
The premium network has cast Attack the Block star John Boyega to play the project’s titular character. Boyega will play Donnie, who, after his release from juvenlie detention on his 18th birthday begins an exploration of what it means to be a man for himself and those around him.
Milauna Jemai (NCIS) will play Lynette, Donnie’s mother, with him he reconnects with following a 14-month separation.
Julito McCullum (Namond on The Wire) will play Kevin, Donnie’s best friend and the one person he can’t leave behind, no matter how much he may want to.
Kamahl Naiqui Palmer (Gossip Girl) is set as Malik, the moral center of Donnie’s tight group of friends who is looking for direction between his middle-class upbringing and the harder realities of his environment.
Check out this YouTube channel for press conference interviews from the Venice International Film Festival, including this one with Benedict Cumberbatch (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy).
For reviews on the films that just premiered at Venice and Telluride (Tomas Alfredson's Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Cronenberg's A Dangerous Method, Andrea Arnold's Wuthering Heights, Steven McQueen's Shame), a good source is Awards Daily.
4 clips from Andrea Arnold's Wuthering Heights, starring James Howson and Kaya Scodelario (Skins).
Ben Whishaw on Cloud Atlas:
"Everyone in the cast [which also includes Tom Hanks, Susan Sarandon, Halle Berry, and Jim Broadbent] is playing at least three parts, some big and some small. I’m doing three: Frobisher in the thirties; a female American in the seventies, in the Luisa Rey section; and a smallish role, where I’m basically an extra, in a modern-day nursing home, in the Timothy Cavendish section. Everybody’s swapping race and gender, so it’s very ambitious and quite fun. I’ll really love playing a woman!"
Caleb Landry Jones (Banshee in X-Men: First Class) has landed the male lead in Neil Jordan's Byzantium, a fantasy drama about a mother and daughter, played by Gemma Arterton and Soirse Ronan, who are both vampires. Jones plays a teenager dying of leukemia which in turns forces him to struggle with his mortality, causing Saorsie Ronan's character to struggle with her own immortality. The screenplay was written by Moira Buffuni (Cary Fukunaga's Jane Eyre).
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