Even death won’t stop Ashley Greene from attempting to control Anton Yelchin in Joe Dante’s new film, Burying the Ex, according to the Wrap. Based on a screenplay by Alan Trezza, the film follows a newly single twentysomething guy whose romantic life becomes even more complicated when his ex-girlfriend rises from the dead after a freak accident, and starts trying to disrupt his burgeoning relationship with a new girl (Alexandra Daddario). Nicolas Chartier’s Voltage Pictures has come aboard to finance and co-produce the movie alongside Scooty Woop Entertainment; production commences Monday, in Los Angeles.
Daily Archives: November 16, 2013
Lisa Gay Hamilton Talks Go For Sisters
Lisa Gay Hamilton has had a successful career spanning stage, film and TV, and played more than her fair share of characters of authority — principals, attorneys and the like, including Rebecca Washington for 145 episodes of The Practice, from 1997-2003. But on screen, at least, she hasn’t had a lead role, she says. That changes with the release this week of writer-director John Sayles‘ Go For Sisters, a complex border drama about friendship, redemption and moral relativism. I recently had a chance to talk to Hamilton one-on-one, about the film and working with Sayles. The conversation is excerpted over at ShockYa, so click here for the read.
About Time
The enormous success of 1994’s Four Weddings and a Funeral, both the highest-grossing British film in history at the time of its release, as well as a $245 million worldwide box office smash, made a star of its screenwriter, Richard Curtis. He was nominated for an Academy Award, among other plaudits, and went on to pen the scripts for Bean, Notting Hill and Bridget Jones’s Diary. In 2003, with the kaleidoscopic ensemble comedy Love Actually, Curtis was pushed into directing as well as writing, resulting in another huge hit.
The British-set, time travel rom-com About Time, starring Domhnall Gleeson and Rachel McAdams, is his third film behind the camera, and it presents an amplified version of the triumphs and shortcomings most characteristic of Curtis’ work. There is abundant charm, as well as a genuinely sweet-spirited view of the world; it is also dependent on plot turns that don’t withstand much scrutiny. While studded with moments of amusement and delight, About Time feels very much like the mangled film adaptation of a much richer and more rewarding novel. For the full, original review, from Paste, click here. (Universal, R, 123 minutes)