Remember the controversial German film “Der Baader Meinhof Komplex,” which is Deutschland’s Foreign Oscar entry this year, that went so far with its embargo-fascism, it made German journalists seeing the film in August sign waivers that said they’d be sued up the wazoo if they printed early reviews? Well, it’s getting pretty bad reviews in the U.K. and the U.S. press that have seen it. Here’s a collection of six very-lukewarm reviews [In Contention].
French director Luc Besson is making a sc-fi film last year? One that he hopes to be a trilogy? Wish we could say we liked “The Fifth Element” much. We supposed we do appreciate some of the campier elements of it, but it’s not one to be really taken too seriously. [FirstShowing]
“The Departed” sequel still happening? Well, hmm, kinda, sorta. “They were talking about bringing in a couple of new guys like [Robert] De Niro, maybe Brad Pitt or someone like that playing the bad guy, a corrupt politician or something,” Mark Wahlberg said. “Then, like the Hong Kong trilogy that the movie is based on, come back and do a prequel and bring everyone else back who was in the first.” [DigitalSpy]
“The Wrestler” composer Clint Mansell talked at the recent at the recent Hollywood Reporter/Billboard Film & TV Music Conference last week. “People never want you to make mistakes, but I find it much better to get it wrong,” Mansell said, who added that he doesn’t work with a template. “You immediately define what you want and what you’re lacking.”
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Frodo, we mean, Elijah Wood wants part of the second ‘Hobbit’ film if there’s a part for his character. He wisely doesn’t want to the filmmakers to force it. [MTV]
