– After botching the remake of his own film “Nightwatch,” Danish director Ole Bornedal is letting “(500) Days of Summer” helmer Marc Webb take the reins for the Hollywood reboot of his 2008 film “Just Another Love Story.” The thriller, which premiered at Sundance last year, is a bit like a darker retread of “While You Were Sleeping,” about a photographer who convinces an amnesiac woman that he is her boyfriend. Webb is also attached to a new version of Andrew Lloyd-Webber’s “Jesus Christ Superstar,” and the sci-fi movie “Age of Rage,” described as “Children of Men” meets “Lord of the Flies.” Webb’s one of the good guys (as he demonstrated to us here), and it’s good to see him busy.
– Rumor has it that Sony Pictures Classics are picking up Michael Hoffman’s “The Last Station,” which premiered to rave reviews at Telluride at the beginning of this month. The film, based around the last few months of Leo Tolstoy’s life, and which stars Christopher Plummer, Helen Mirren, James McAvoy and Paul Giamatti, will be released before the end of the year to qualify for an awards run. If you haven’t seen it already, we talked to Sony Pictures Classics’ Tom Bernard last week.
– Finally, writer-director Roger Avary (“The Rules of Attraction”) has been sentenced to a year in prison for vehicular manslaughter and drink driving, following a car crash last January which killed Avary’s best friend, Andreas Zini. It’s a desperately sad story, and Jeffrey Wells, a friend of Avary, put it better than we ever could a few months back.