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Empire The London Film Festival has commenced with Benedict Cumberbatch opening the festivities
Kenneth in the (212) Harrison Ford in 1978
Logolog This one is for the linguistics and trivia nerds: Last week's box office top ten featured the first ever "pangram" -- I didn't know what that was but the article explains it
Film School Rejects will "Vs" movies be the next franchise trend? God help us all
Guardian claims that The Imitation Game might be the queerest film for the mainstream in ages. I don't want to do that math because, if so, how depressing because it's not all that queer
/Film a Labyrinth sequel in development?
Pajiba Jennifer Garner talks about Ben Affleck's penis on the Ellen show. Hold me. Why, Jennifer, why?
Esquire Gone Girl as the story of Ben Affleck's career. Undeniable connections!
Vulture theorizes on how all the seasons of American Horror Story could be connected. I guess they mean, besides the famous actors?
/Film First images of Margot Robbie and Will Smith in Focus. Hey, do you remember when there was a movie with that title with William H Macy and Laura Dern? Anyone?
Guardian So, you guys, it turns out that that Effie Gray movie starring Emma Thompson and Dakota Fanning does actually exist and its now playing in the UK
HitFix Sean Durkin of Martha Marcy May Marlene fame will direct a film version of Little House on the Prairie. Bizarre.
Casting News
The Playlist Léa Seydoux is your next femme fatale Bond girl. YAS! Great choice, 007 team
Variety Gabriel Luna joins Ellen Page in Freeheld
The Playlist Jennifer Jason Leigh takes the largest (only?) female role in Quentin Tarantino's Hateful Eight.
Retweet
I take it you've heard about American Crime Story, a new Ryan Murphy series that will take on true uh... American crime stories.
Theory: Ryan Murphy keeps making tv about gruesome murders (AHS, soon ACS) because he secretly wants to murder the GLEE cast
— Nathaniel Rogers (@nathanielr) October 8, 2014
True crime instead of the freaky supernatural fiction crime that American Horror Story traffics in, right? I had to have my say on Twitter, you know? Hee
Weekend Watch
James Franco's "Making a Scene" a comic mash-up series, fuses Beetlejuice and Batman together. What would Michael Keaton say? Probably "who cares" given his recent comments about the Batman franchise post him.
While we're on the topic of Batman, The LEGO Movie is going to have a solo Batman sequel in 2017. Exactly when do we approach maximum saturation of all things Batman? You'd think it would have been awhile ago. I worry for the the 2020s
Finally
For Towleroad, I wrote up a piece on films of LGBT interest in the big Foreign Film lineup with their trailers and such. Check it out. I'm dying to see Switzerland's The Circle. And I didn't realize until researching this piece that Concrete Night is made by a writer/director pair who are famous lesbians in Finland. How about that?
Stay tuned for more coverage on this category and of course all the others too, right here. Interviews and events are already starting off blog and soon we'll start sharing them. Let's consider Monday/Tuesday the official grand opening of this new awards season here at TFE.
Reader Comments (10)
It's interesting, because it's not at all obvious (at least it wasn't to me at first), but "Concrete Night" absolutely has gay subtext.
Imo Adele Exarchopoulos couldve been a more interesting Bond girl pick but still not a bad choice
I'm weirdly ecstatic that Jennifer Jason Leigh has (what sounds like) a major role coming up. When was the last time she had anything remotely interesting to do? Existenz?
Also exciting to look forward to Seydoux as a Bond girl but not I'm dying to see Exarchopoulos do the same.
"Sean Durkin of Martha Marcy May Marlene fame will direct a film version of Little House on the Prairie. Bizarre."
Is it?
If it's done right, without the corniness and sentimentality of the TV show, it could be great.
Re: this complaining about a Lea Seydoux Bond movie........it takes the Seydoux roles or it gets the hose again! Adele is cute, but she's a child. Weird to me that anyone would want her to be in a role that called for grown up sexuality. Weird to say about a Bond movie, but it's kinda true. Even campy Bond went for tigers, not sex kittens.
Léa is a great choice. Now, will they be able to create a mildly interesting character? Bond girls are so dull.
The whole discussion regarding Ben's penis is quite refreshing. By the way, what do you think about the movie? I had a ball.
What's up with Sean Durkin's Exorcist film? Kind of strange that he didn't seem to do much after Martha Marcy.
Nat: Batman is the pizza superhero. The only way to really make an inaccurate adaptation is to entirely ignore the fantastical elements (wink).
I love that panagram article!
I know it's light-hearted, but I do find a small conundrum in the fact that Garner starts out by reclaiming her body as her own, whatever shape it comes in, but then proceeds to claim a stake in Affleck's penis.