While we’re all checking out Will Ferrell’s latest acts of undying shamelessness in Semi-Pro (left), Ferrell’s latest project begins filming today: the long-planned movie adaptation of the 1970s Sid and Marty Krofft TV show Land of the Lost. Yeah, sleestacks, monkey dwarves, bad science, the whole thing.
Ferrell plays paleontologist Rick Marshall, mistakenly whisked away with […]
Last night marked the television premiere of a 2005 documentary by the legendary Maysles Brothers: The Gates, the tale behind the enormous fabric-paneled steel art installation created by Christo and Jeanne-Claude in Central Park, New York.
Albert and David Maysles began filming the artists’ passionate process back in 1979, chronicling initial opposition and bureaucratic fear (Art […]
Sunday’s Academy Award winners and losers will be discussed ad nauseum, so we’ll avoid all the obvious stuff here at The Lobby. Instead, we’re really interested in the Oscar win for Taxi to the Dark Side, the Best Documentary Feature from director Alex Gibney.
Acquired by HBO just three days before the big win, this festival favorite brings Gibney […]
You can have the Oscars. We dig today’s Independent Spirit Awards. Yeah, there’s some crossover (Juno, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly), but the Academy Awards don’t have something as cool as The John Cassavetes Award. And they definitely don’t have Dennis Hopper making Rainn Wilson his indie bitch.
As we watch now (5:45pm et) Todd […]
In a sinful omission, composer Jonny Greenwood’s score for P.T. Anderson’s There Will Be Blood will be missing from Sunday night’s Oscar ceremony. But more on that later. Think about the type of score you’d create for Goethe’s Faust. For Dostoyevsky. Jonny Greenwood (below) is the way to go.
His score for There Will Be Blood […]
Wednesday night, Sony Pictures succesfully won the bidding war for Roland Emmerich’s end-of-the-world spec script, 2012, according to Variety. The director of Independence Day (so-so), Godzilla (ick) and The Day After Tomorrow (good fun) definitely loves this apocalypse stuff — and apparently, so does the rest of Hollywood.
Studios had just one day to read the […]
