He’s been a Hollywood star since his teens, when he starred in Class, Sixteen Candles and The Sure Thing, but thankfully John Cusack was never like the characters in David Cronenberg’s Maps To The Stars. A brutal satire about the players, wannabes and has-beens of Hollywood, Cusack plays Stafford Weiss, a self-help guru who peddles his therapies to the weak-minded. Father to the foul Benjie (Evan Bird), a rehab-hopping teen star of the ‘Bad Babysitter’ franchise, Stafford is just one of the soulless ghouls that haunts the Hollywood Hills in what is the Canadian Cronenberg’s first real foray into Tinseltown terrain.
For Cusack, it represents yet another impressive notch in a career that’s seen him work with Stephen Frears (The Grifters, High Fidelity), Woody Allen (Shadows and Fog, Bullets Over Broadway), Spike Jonze (Being John Malkovich), Terence Malick (The Thin Red Line) and Clint Eastwood (Midnight In The Garden of Good and Evil...
For Cusack, it represents yet another impressive notch in a career that’s seen him work with Stephen Frears (The Grifters, High Fidelity), Woody Allen (Shadows and Fog, Bullets Over Broadway), Spike Jonze (Being John Malkovich), Terence Malick (The Thin Red Line) and Clint Eastwood (Midnight In The Garden of Good and Evil...
- 2/2/2015
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
“An interesting look at the work of Ralph Steadman, whose grotesque, ink-splattered art
provided the ideal complement to Hunter Thompson’s gonzo writing..
. Gary Thompson, Philadelphia Daily News
Johnny Depp, Terry Gilliam, Richard E. Grant, Tim Robbins & Jann Wenner
Join Famed British Cartoon Artist Ralph Steadman
On Blu-ray. Combo Pack & Digital HD Sept. 2
Featuring Commentary, .Cherrywood Cannon. Animated Short,
Q&A with … Continue reading →
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provided the ideal complement to Hunter Thompson’s gonzo writing..
. Gary Thompson, Philadelphia Daily News
Johnny Depp, Terry Gilliam, Richard E. Grant, Tim Robbins & Jann Wenner
Join Famed British Cartoon Artist Ralph Steadman
On Blu-ray. Combo Pack & Digital HD Sept. 2
Featuring Commentary, .Cherrywood Cannon. Animated Short,
Q&A with … Continue reading →
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- 7/7/2014
- by Horrornews.net
- Horror News
If Johnny Depp had given a buzzy, funny, scene-detonating performance in The Lone Ranger that was clearly superior to the rattletrap Western around it, then perhaps the movie’s bleak showing at the box office wouldn’t count as a strike against him. As it stands, Depp’s black-and-white face paint and studiously deadpan acting as Tonto fitted all too snugly into the film’s overly fussy, not-entertaining-enough landscape. Depp, surely, will survive the wreckage (yes, Pirates of the Caribbean 5 is on the docket, as is his role as the Wolf in a film adaptation of Stephen Sondheim’s...
- 7/15/2013
- by Owen Gleiberman
- EW - Inside Movies
How do you feel about La Gay Pride? Some people are loudly ashamed.
Oh, good. Another gay-shaming, slut-shaming, condescending, ageist, humorlessly dismissive appraisal of La gay pride. Right. That’s what the community needs. Once again.
La Weekly has a “new” article (though you always see some version of it from year to year) about how the La gay pride parade is lame, gross, slutty, outdated and — worst of all, apparently — not hot enough. It’s filled with offensive generalizations and doesn’t present a new point of view, but hey, the parade is this Sunday. I’m responding.
Let’s enjoy this intro paragraph together: “Muscled go-go boys shaking their booties on one parade float after another, cock-ring tosses to win a stuffed animal, Bud Light and Bacardi sponsoring an event for a community with consistently high rates of alcoholism and drug addiction — and the same damn music with the same tweaker beat.
Oh, good. Another gay-shaming, slut-shaming, condescending, ageist, humorlessly dismissive appraisal of La gay pride. Right. That’s what the community needs. Once again.
La Weekly has a “new” article (though you always see some version of it from year to year) about how the La gay pride parade is lame, gross, slutty, outdated and — worst of all, apparently — not hot enough. It’s filled with offensive generalizations and doesn’t present a new point of view, but hey, the parade is this Sunday. I’m responding.
Let’s enjoy this intro paragraph together: “Muscled go-go boys shaking their booties on one parade float after another, cock-ring tosses to win a stuffed animal, Bud Light and Bacardi sponsoring an event for a community with consistently high rates of alcoholism and drug addiction — and the same damn music with the same tweaker beat.
- 6/6/2013
- by Louis Virtel
- The Backlot
While many might feel this article is a violent blast from the past, the intense theatrical and creative expression Limp Bizkit encompasses through their delivery, message, stage presence and theme remain unmatched by most. Of course, the music industry would still thrive without them and the presence of hundreds of other bands that also “kick holes in speakers” prove that the art remains alive, but no one quite does it like Limp Bizkit.
Having established themselves as a trusted brand for the dark art lovers, their work also elicit an openly adventurous mind and some dynamic perception; their music (their best work at least) come as a reflection of a broken inner self themed around existentialism and individualism. Lb’s works usually capture the strife modern patterns of life puts the individual through, and how unforgiving the philistine mind state of many can cripple those of others with a different...
Having established themselves as a trusted brand for the dark art lovers, their work also elicit an openly adventurous mind and some dynamic perception; their music (their best work at least) come as a reflection of a broken inner self themed around existentialism and individualism. Lb’s works usually capture the strife modern patterns of life puts the individual through, and how unforgiving the philistine mind state of many can cripple those of others with a different...
- 4/27/2013
- by Danny J. DPurb
- Obsessed with Film
There's a new poster for Spring Breakers, a new comedy-drama-thriller, and Vulture has laid hands on it. As the title suggests, the movie is set during the time of year when American students go a bit Hunter Thompson in Florida, Mexico and a variety of other peace-loving locales and seven shades of carnage ensues. Four college girls - Selena Gomez, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Benson and director Harmony Korine's wife, Rachel Korine - make up a posse of troublemakers who rob a restaurant, fall in with bad company (James Franco's drugs and arms dealer), and probably end up in wishing they'd just done beer bongs like everyone else. Click below for a closer look.You might imagine that with a title like Spring Breakers, this would be an American Pie-meets-Superbad feast of booze, bikinis and bad behaviour. Well, up to a point. Korine's previous - Gummo and Trash Humpers...
- 1/10/2013
- EmpireOnline
On a recent summer afternoon, Johnny Depp walks into a luxury suite at the Chateau Marmont in Los Angeles. Oddly, he is dressed like a pirate. A faded paisley do-rag is tied around his head. Smaller strips of cloth are braided into his hair, and he has gold caps on several teeth. His loose white T-shirt, with its blue horizontal stripes, maybe more sailor than pirate, but it's definitely in the nautical family.
We should note that Depp has not come directly from the set of his latest film Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest...
We should note that Depp has not come directly from the set of his latest film Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest...
- 11/12/2012
- Rollingstone.com
Welcome to another installment of It Came From 1980X where I tackle the 80′s like a running clothes line fresh off the turnbuckle. Tonight we have a double feature for you straight from Continental Video. Don’t know Contintental Video? I’m not surprised, but I assure you by the end of this whole thing you most certainly will know them, fear them and maybe enjoy them a bit better. They’ve put out so much of what you love, but I don’t think they were marketed nearly as well as Midnight, Wizard, Canon or Media. For Christ’s sake somebody get me a T-shirt of this beautiful company. The double feature in question comes courtesy of Vhsps as is often the case. The Slayer and Scalps were released as a part of a special promotion as is stated on the cover of the VHS (or in this case handsome DVD rip).
2 Films.
2 Films.
- 6/25/2012
- by Jimmy Terror
- The Liberal Dead
Thirty years after making his debut, John Cusack is still a Hollywood outsider. Now 45, the star of Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven talks about mortality, his Brat Pack past – and why he wishes he could work a room
John Cusack is puffing on a fat cigar. It's incongruous, seeing him dressed all in cool, casual black, sucking on a Cohiba, like a goth who has crashed a Hollywood mogul's house party. "Yeah, maybe we shouldn't mention the cigar," he says. "I don't want people to think I'm this movie cliche. I'm certainly not a mogul – in fact, nothing could be further from the truth."
I don't think there's any danger of Cusack being mistaken for a movie mogul. But the cigar begins to feel somehow appropriate. The more he smokes it, the more at ease he becomes with it, until he owns that damn cigar and waggles it like a spare,...
John Cusack is puffing on a fat cigar. It's incongruous, seeing him dressed all in cool, casual black, sucking on a Cohiba, like a goth who has crashed a Hollywood mogul's house party. "Yeah, maybe we shouldn't mention the cigar," he says. "I don't want people to think I'm this movie cliche. I'm certainly not a mogul – in fact, nothing could be further from the truth."
I don't think there's any danger of Cusack being mistaken for a movie mogul. But the cigar begins to feel somehow appropriate. The more he smokes it, the more at ease he becomes with it, until he owns that damn cigar and waggles it like a spare,...
- 3/19/2012
- by Jason Solomons
- The Guardian - Film News
“I’ve got a great story and I’ve been looking for, it’s a ‑‑ it’s a great story and it needs to be a graphic novel and a graphic novel TV show. And I’ve been looking for the right person to write it.” – Glenn Beck on Frank Miller, 2011.
Being a ‘fan’ means many things to many people. To a troublingly large section of the population, it apparently means dressing as Knuckles the Echidna and sobbing alone in front of a mirror, while to others it simply means an interest that goes slightly beyond the causal. One thing common to all fans, from those who carve “Qt Rox U3 Sux” into the side of a burning dog before throwing it through a friend’s window, to those who just happen to know slightly more about Batman than most, is the willingness to let their interest – at least partially – define who they are.
Being a ‘fan’ means many things to many people. To a troublingly large section of the population, it apparently means dressing as Knuckles the Echidna and sobbing alone in front of a mirror, while to others it simply means an interest that goes slightly beyond the causal. One thing common to all fans, from those who carve “Qt Rox U3 Sux” into the side of a burning dog before throwing it through a friend’s window, to those who just happen to know slightly more about Batman than most, is the willingness to let their interest – at least partially – define who they are.
- 11/23/2011
- Shadowlocked
The Rum Diary (my review here) is out this week. It’s based on an early Hunter S. Thompson novel about a journo who goes to Puerto Rico, where he lives on rum, lust and righteous indignation as he stumbles through the incendiary environment. But the most exciting thing about ‘The Rum Diary’ is that it brought director Bruce Robinson out of retirement.
The man behind the funniest British film ever (this has been scientifically proven by boffins at the University of Svalbard) is an enigma. After ‘Withnail & I’, his first major foray into Hollywood directing, ‘Jennifer 8′, was such a horrific experience that he vowed never to direct again.
Johnny Depp, it seems, was the man to tempt him from his cinematic celibacy. But the experience hasn’t been a whole heap better in many respects, a clearly-troubled and pleasantly candid Bruce Robinson explained to us last week.
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The man behind the funniest British film ever (this has been scientifically proven by boffins at the University of Svalbard) is an enigma. After ‘Withnail & I’, his first major foray into Hollywood directing, ‘Jennifer 8′, was such a horrific experience that he vowed never to direct again.
Johnny Depp, it seems, was the man to tempt him from his cinematic celibacy. But the experience hasn’t been a whole heap better in many respects, a clearly-troubled and pleasantly candid Bruce Robinson explained to us last week.
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- 11/11/2011
- by Michael Edwards
- Obsessed with Film
Against the classic humanist code of 'to thine own self be true', Hunter S Thompson proposed a new liberty: keep making yourself up
There was a real man, Hunter Stockton Thompson, born in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1937. It was apparently the same person, or the same legal entity, who shot himself in the head in 2005 at his home in Woody Creek, Colorado, at the age of 67. Such evidence is not to be ignored, but I'm not sure how much help it is in the story of a plain human being who was bent on becoming a legend, a fictional being or a ghost. He was called a journalist (in official descriptions) and maybe a studious count could have been kept on the amount of alcohol and other substances that he consumed – if anyone was of a mood to credit those numbers. But it's more to the point that his dedication to "mind altering" went further.
There was a real man, Hunter Stockton Thompson, born in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1937. It was apparently the same person, or the same legal entity, who shot himself in the head in 2005 at his home in Woody Creek, Colorado, at the age of 67. Such evidence is not to be ignored, but I'm not sure how much help it is in the story of a plain human being who was bent on becoming a legend, a fictional being or a ghost. He was called a journalist (in official descriptions) and maybe a studious count could have been kept on the amount of alcohol and other substances that he consumed – if anyone was of a mood to credit those numbers. But it's more to the point that his dedication to "mind altering" went further.
- 11/4/2011
- by David Thomson
- The Guardian - Film News
Bruce Robinson brings Hunter S Thompson's The Rum Diary to the big screen, with a bit of help from Johnny Depp. Here's our review...
With two and a half unpublished novels under his belt, Paul Kemp (Johnny Depp) is definitely a writer. Unfortunately for Kemp, his best and most creative writing work is on his resume, which is full of lies, half-truths, and exaggerations.
However, the work is good enough to get Kemp a job with the San Juan Star, an English-language paper in Puerto Rico catering mostly to tourists and staffed by a motley assortment of flotsam and jetsam. After all, editor in chief E.J. Lotterman (Richard Jenkins) has no better options, and Kemp is young and +fiery enough to add a little spirit to a dispirited news room which features a heavy-drinking photographer named Sala (Michael Rispoli) and the deranged Moburg (Giovanni Ribisi) among many other colorful characters.
With two and a half unpublished novels under his belt, Paul Kemp (Johnny Depp) is definitely a writer. Unfortunately for Kemp, his best and most creative writing work is on his resume, which is full of lies, half-truths, and exaggerations.
However, the work is good enough to get Kemp a job with the San Juan Star, an English-language paper in Puerto Rico catering mostly to tourists and staffed by a motley assortment of flotsam and jetsam. After all, editor in chief E.J. Lotterman (Richard Jenkins) has no better options, and Kemp is young and +fiery enough to add a little spirit to a dispirited news room which features a heavy-drinking photographer named Sala (Michael Rispoli) and the deranged Moburg (Giovanni Ribisi) among many other colorful characters.
- 10/30/2011
- Den of Geek
Hunter Thompson's The Rum Diary is a strange book. One of the first novels he ever wrote but one of the last published, in many ways it's a precursor to the gonzo journalism style he would become famous for in his Fear And Loathing books. The plot's very similar to Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas on the surface- a writer working for a newspaper trying to score drugs and women while making money however he can- but it's nowhere near as bizarre and drug-influenced as his later work....
- 10/27/2011
- by Alex Riviello
- JoBlo.com
The Rum Diary holds a special place in the heart of Johnny Depp. It was the actor who found the manuscript for what would prove to be one of Hunter S. Thompson's final books. Depp sits down and talks to Movie Fanatic about how full his heart is now that The Rum Diary is set to hit the big screen.
The Rum Diary (don't miss this clip starring Amber Heard and Depp) is an origins story in the legend of Thompson's Gonzo self. His fictional alter ego, Paul Kemp, is an aspiring novelist who lands in Puerto Rico to take a position at a San Juan daily newspaper. To say chaos ensues undermines and minimizes the author's penchant for mayhem. The Rum Diary also stars Giovanni Ribisi and Aaron Eckhart.
Depp also discusses his friendship with Thompson and what the author would make of the promotional circus that is...
The Rum Diary (don't miss this clip starring Amber Heard and Depp) is an origins story in the legend of Thompson's Gonzo self. His fictional alter ego, Paul Kemp, is an aspiring novelist who lands in Puerto Rico to take a position at a San Juan daily newspaper. To say chaos ensues undermines and minimizes the author's penchant for mayhem. The Rum Diary also stars Giovanni Ribisi and Aaron Eckhart.
Depp also discusses his friendship with Thompson and what the author would make of the promotional circus that is...
- 10/27/2011
- by joel.amos@moviefanatic.com (Joel D Amos)
- Reel Movie News
Gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson and actor Johnny Depp had a close relationship. So close that the writer felt he could wake Depp up at 6:30 Am on the phone to discuss the making of The Rum Diary — which hits theaters this Friday. The film is based on Thompson's story about a journalist (Paul Kemp) who moves to Puerto Rico to work for a newspaper. The usual alcohol and women drama ensues. Depp plays Kemp, and Thompson was clearly more than anxious to discuss the production as evidenced in the videos below from Hunter Thompson Films. These clips are a great behind-the-scenes view not only at the colorful character that Thompson was, but just how much the film has changed since the beginning stages. As Htf explains on their website: "Others constantly...
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- 10/26/2011
- by Alison Nastasi
- Movies.com
Filed under: Movie News
Hunter S. Thompson grew fairly close with Johnny Depp during the later stages of his life, so much so that he had no qualms about waking the world's biggest movie star up at the crack of dawn. The gonzo journalist and author -- who penned 'The Rum Diary,' which Depp leads this weekend -- once woke Depp up at 6:30 a.m. to discuss the production of the 'Rum Diary' movie. Thanks to Hunter Thompson Films, there's video of this wonderful exchange, which shows that Depp wasn't too bent out of shape about having to get out of bed so early.
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Hunter S. Thompson grew fairly close with Johnny Depp during the later stages of his life, so much so that he had no qualms about waking the world's biggest movie star up at the crack of dawn. The gonzo journalist and author -- who penned 'The Rum Diary,' which Depp leads this weekend -- once woke Depp up at 6:30 a.m. to discuss the production of the 'Rum Diary' movie. Thanks to Hunter Thompson Films, there's video of this wonderful exchange, which shows that Depp wasn't too bent out of shape about having to get out of bed so early.
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- 10/25/2011
- by Alex Suskind
- Moviefone
If you've read Hunter Thompson's The Rum Diary you'll know that while it's many things - riotous, chaotic, colourful - what it isn't is an obviously 'filmy' book. There's not a lot of conflict, little need for resolution and no big villain to have audiences hissing at the screen. Then again, something similar was said about Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas and that ended up winning a spot in cult movie heaven. This, we suspect, is where Bruce Robinson comes in. It's a hugely welcome return for the Withnail And I director, coaxed out of semi-retirement by Johnny Depp to write and direct. The humour and none-more-quotable patter that made Withnail great, combined with Thompson's acid prose, should make for a feast for fans of smart scriptwriting and blackly comic moments. These two new clips from the film, courtesy of Yahoo! Movies, set the scene for Paul Kemp...
- 10/25/2011
- EmpireOnline
Johnny Depp dressed up for the premiere of The Rum Diary at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art last night. He joined costars Amber Heard, Aaron Eckhard, and Giovanni Ribisi on the red carpet and later at the Chateau Marmont afterparty. Johnny spoke about the movie, which opens in the Us two weeks from today, and how it was the brainchild of his friendship with the late author Hunter S. Thompson. Johnny said of The Rum Diary, "It started out as sort of a dream project for Hunter Thompson and myself - it's something Hunter suggested we do, so we started on that road many years ago. When I lost my partner Hunter in 2005, I got refueled and said, 'You know I've got to do this for Hunter, I got to make this happen.' I dove in as deep as I could, followed through, that's what it's all...
- 10/14/2011
- by Allie Merriam
- Popsugar.com
Busy actor Johnny Depp opened up to "Extra's" Mario Lopez about his new film, "Rum Diary," the making of another "Pirates of the Caribbean," and his role in "The Lone Ranger."
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Johnny, who has starred in four "Pirates" movies as Jack Sparrow, said, "I love playing the character. I would keep making them as long as the screenplays are good, and as long as people want to see them.
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Johnny, who has starred in four "Pirates" movies as Jack Sparrow, said, "I love playing the character. I would keep making them as long as the screenplays are good, and as long as people want to see them.
- 10/13/2011
- Extra
We all know that we Brits love a good deal – you only have to look at our seemingly unquenchable love for all things Groupon or our addiction to a TV show where a bearded millionaire conducts imaginary conversations about empty boxes to realise that. So what if I told you you could buy yourself six full seasons of the greatest sitcom ever made for under eighteen quid? I think I already know the answer when I ask (with a respectful tip of the cap to Entourage’s Bob Ryan) – is that something you might be interested in?
Trailer Park Boys is set, as the name suggests, in a run-down trailer park in Halifax, Canada. Shot in a faux-documentary style (this was before The Office made it ubiquitous) the show follows the exploits of the inhabitants of Sunnyvale Trailer Park and their various misadventures.
The show is centred around two ex-cons,...
Trailer Park Boys is set, as the name suggests, in a run-down trailer park in Halifax, Canada. Shot in a faux-documentary style (this was before The Office made it ubiquitous) the show follows the exploits of the inhabitants of Sunnyvale Trailer Park and their various misadventures.
The show is centred around two ex-cons,...
- 9/6/2011
- by Jez Gee
- Obsessed with Film
If you've read Hunter Thompson's "Rum Diaries," then you're aware that Puerto Rico has more to it than just Chupacabras. Anyway, the trailer for the movie is finally here after being in production for about a decade or so! Huzzah!
There's a bunch of stuff in this trailer I don't remember from the book. Oh, well. It's been a while since I've read it. Maybe I'm just senile.
There's a bunch of stuff in this trailer I don't remember from the book. Oh, well. It's been a while since I've read it. Maybe I'm just senile.
- 8/30/2011
- by noreply@blogger.com (Kevin, Mark & Parker)
Johnny Depp continues his exploration of the life and work of gonzo journalist Hunter Thompson starring in The Rum Diary, the adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson’s first novel. The film went into development and shot in 2009.
The film stars Johnny Depp as Paul Kemp a divorced alcoholic who heads down to San Juan to work as a journalist for the newspaper. The film has a great supporting cast that includes Aaron Eckhart, Richard Jenkins, Amber Heard, and Giovanni Ribisi. The Rum Diary arrives in theaters on October 28th. Watch the trailer below:...
The film stars Johnny Depp as Paul Kemp a divorced alcoholic who heads down to San Juan to work as a journalist for the newspaper. The film has a great supporting cast that includes Aaron Eckhart, Richard Jenkins, Amber Heard, and Giovanni Ribisi. The Rum Diary arrives in theaters on October 28th. Watch the trailer below:...
- 8/26/2011
- by Graham
- City of Films
Hunter S. Thompson has been portrayed onscreen a couple of times. First, there was Bill Murray in Where the Buffalo Roam, and Murray was fine. He had the mannerisms and speech patterns down, but he was still Bill Murray playing Hunter Thompson.
But in Terry Gilliam's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Johnny Depp was Hunter Thompson. Depp wholly embodied Thompson's sly gonzo intellect in a movie that wasn't perfect, but felt a lot like the book on which it was based — at once curious, weary, disenchanted and hopeful.
Now, Depp is back as Thompson. Well, not Thompson per se, but his alter ego. In The Rum Diary, Depp plays Paul Kemp, a burnt-out journalist who leaves the confines of 1950s America to work at a newspaper in Puerto Rico and ends up involved in crazed adventures with offbeat characters. The film is based on Thompson's book of the same name,...
But in Terry Gilliam's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Johnny Depp was Hunter Thompson. Depp wholly embodied Thompson's sly gonzo intellect in a movie that wasn't perfect, but felt a lot like the book on which it was based — at once curious, weary, disenchanted and hopeful.
Now, Depp is back as Thompson. Well, not Thompson per se, but his alter ego. In The Rum Diary, Depp plays Paul Kemp, a burnt-out journalist who leaves the confines of 1950s America to work at a newspaper in Puerto Rico and ends up involved in crazed adventures with offbeat characters. The film is based on Thompson's book of the same name,...
- 8/26/2011
- by Theron
- Planet Fury
Finally, after years of waiting, Johnny Depp is back in Hunter Thompson territory, but this ain't no trip to Bat Country.
After the actor killed it playing Thompson's alter ego Raoul Duke in Terry Gilliam's legendarily bonkers adaptation of "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas," he befriended the late writer in a big way and made it his mission to bring to life another one of the father of Gonzo's books.
A decade in development purgatory later we have a trailer for "The Rum Diary" (via ComingSoon) that promises a wild alcohol-fueled trip, though not in the same vein as "Fear and Loathing." The book, originally written in the early sixties but not published until 1998, was Thompson's first novel, created before he began tinkering with the signature substances that made him the outlaw journalist he became.
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After the actor killed it playing Thompson's alter ego Raoul Duke in Terry Gilliam's legendarily bonkers adaptation of "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas," he befriended the late writer in a big way and made it his mission to bring to life another one of the father of Gonzo's books.
A decade in development purgatory later we have a trailer for "The Rum Diary" (via ComingSoon) that promises a wild alcohol-fueled trip, though not in the same vein as "Fear and Loathing." The book, originally written in the early sixties but not published until 1998, was Thompson's first novel, created before he began tinkering with the signature substances that made him the outlaw journalist he became.
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- 8/26/2011
- by Max Evry
- NextMovie
(Thanks Jun!) Amazon review by Tim Appelo: “Disgusting as he usually was,” Hunter Thompson writes in this, his 1959 novel, “on rare occasions he showed flashes of a stagnant intelligence. ...
- 8/26/2011
- by Ryan Adams
- AwardsDaily.com
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What led William Boot, the bumbling hero of Evelyn Waugh's Scoop, to try his luck in print journalism? Was it idealism, the joy of writing – or a fateful trip to an American movie? "He had once seen in Taunton a barely intelligible film about newspaper life in New York," writes Waugh. "Neurotic men in shirt-sleeves and eye-shades had rushed from telephone to tape-machines, insulting and betraying one another in circumstances of unredeemed squalor."
I'm betting the film was The Front Page, the evergreen ur-text for all fictional stabs at the fourth estate. Adapted in 1931 from a Broadway farce by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, this rat-a-tat yarn established the newspaper reporter as a rough-and-ready huckster, cousin to the Chicago bootlegger, always happy to break the rules to get the scoop. And sometimes, inevitably, they go too far. Pete Dexter's Florida-set crime novel...
What led William Boot, the bumbling hero of Evelyn Waugh's Scoop, to try his luck in print journalism? Was it idealism, the joy of writing – or a fateful trip to an American movie? "He had once seen in Taunton a barely intelligible film about newspaper life in New York," writes Waugh. "Neurotic men in shirt-sleeves and eye-shades had rushed from telephone to tape-machines, insulting and betraying one another in circumstances of unredeemed squalor."
I'm betting the film was The Front Page, the evergreen ur-text for all fictional stabs at the fourth estate. Adapted in 1931 from a Broadway farce by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, this rat-a-tat yarn established the newspaper reporter as a rough-and-ready huckster, cousin to the Chicago bootlegger, always happy to break the rules to get the scoop. And sometimes, inevitably, they go too far. Pete Dexter's Florida-set crime novel...
- 7/13/2011
- by Xan Brooks
- The Guardian - Film News
Johnny Depp is coming off of one of his biggest hits ever with Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, and while we hear tell the actor is in talks for a fifth installment, he’s got plenty of other projects charging ahead. Depp is starring in Tim Burton‘s Dark Shadows, which is currently filming, he’ll be playing Tonto in Gore Verbinski‘s Lone Ranger opposite Armie Hammer (that one releases on December 21st, 2012), he’s supposedly set to remake The Thin Man with his On Stranger Tides director Rob Marshall, and now we have reports of a bunch of new projects involving the Depp.
The Playlist reports that artist/director Julian Schnabel (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, the recent and controversial Miral) has been approached by Depp to helm an adaptation In The Hand of Dante, a book by Nick Tosches. Depp bought the rights to...
The Playlist reports that artist/director Julian Schnabel (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, the recent and controversial Miral) has been approached by Depp to helm an adaptation In The Hand of Dante, a book by Nick Tosches. Depp bought the rights to...
- 7/12/2011
- by Anthony Vieira
- The Film Stage
How Robert Lipsyte, author of the new memoir An Accidental Sportswriter, stood athwart the sports page yelling, "Stop!"
When a young man on the make tells me he wants to be a sportswriter, I tell him to read one book. It's called SportsWorld by Robert Lipsyte. Starting next month, I'll tell him to read another: An Accidental Sportswriter, which is functionally Lipsyte's sequel. In sportswriting's cosmic baseball card set-Jimmy Cannon! Dan Jenkins! Charlie Pierce!-you can find men who wrote as pretty as the former New York Times columnist. But Bob is the five-tool sportswriter. His beat is the ballpark, the '60s, African-American history, women's lib, Muslim theology, sports as metaphor, and-most interesting for you, young sportswriter-the craft of sportswriting itself.
Related story on The Daily Beast: Four Missing New York Times Journalists
Lipsyte is the guy who makes us ask the pencil-stopping question: Are sportswriters wasting their careers?...
When a young man on the make tells me he wants to be a sportswriter, I tell him to read one book. It's called SportsWorld by Robert Lipsyte. Starting next month, I'll tell him to read another: An Accidental Sportswriter, which is functionally Lipsyte's sequel. In sportswriting's cosmic baseball card set-Jimmy Cannon! Dan Jenkins! Charlie Pierce!-you can find men who wrote as pretty as the former New York Times columnist. But Bob is the five-tool sportswriter. His beat is the ballpark, the '60s, African-American history, women's lib, Muslim theology, sports as metaphor, and-most interesting for you, young sportswriter-the craft of sportswriting itself.
Related story on The Daily Beast: Four Missing New York Times Journalists
Lipsyte is the guy who makes us ask the pencil-stopping question: Are sportswriters wasting their careers?...
- 4/26/2011
- by Bryan Curtis
- The Daily Beast
Rango may very well be the weirdest big-budget animated movie marketed towards children in the history of cinema. Gore Verbinski's desert critter, wild west tale is gorgeous to look at. It's loaded with self-referential zingers, baffling non-sequitirs and is bursting with frenetic, exuberant joy. It loosens the shackles of a post-Pixar/post-Blue Sky animation landscape, where family entertainment must either be an emotional roller coaster or mindless slapstick. It is a trailblazer that, if financially successful, could mark a real change in cinema.
Rango begins, unexpectedly enough, with an actor-in-search-of-an-author soliloquy in the form of a goofy chameleon in a glass tank. His world is literally shattered after a bump in traffic, and our innocent lizard searches for meaning in a larger universe. After a run-in with shamanistic guides (“it’s a metaphor,” croaks the wounded armadillo in the middle of the road) and vicious natural elements (the first...
Rango begins, unexpectedly enough, with an actor-in-search-of-an-author soliloquy in the form of a goofy chameleon in a glass tank. His world is literally shattered after a bump in traffic, and our innocent lizard searches for meaning in a larger universe. After a run-in with shamanistic guides (“it’s a metaphor,” croaks the wounded armadillo in the middle of the road) and vicious natural elements (the first...
- 3/3/2011
- UGO Movies
A few months ago, we had filmmaker Bob Ray to the Alamo to present his newest film, Total Badass. It was fantastic having this Austin-based director premiere his new work, the film about Austin’s most depraved citizen, Chad Holt. This documentary takes what is possibly the sleaziest subject to ever come out of Austin and it creates something both hilarious and touching. Holt is showed in all of his glory – is that the right word? – and while Ray doesn’t hold back, he also doesn’t judge. The underground is brought to full view and we can laugh and cringe until it goes back down.
And now, we’re excited to bring the film back to the Alamo for an encore presentation. If you accidentally missed seeing the film a few months ago, now you can make it up to yourself and your loved ones by coming to the Village this Sunday at 10pm.
And now, we’re excited to bring the film back to the Alamo for an encore presentation. If you accidentally missed seeing the film a few months ago, now you can make it up to yourself and your loved ones by coming to the Village this Sunday at 10pm.
- 12/15/2010
- by Daniel Metz
- OriginalAlamo.com
Johnny Depp is a chameleon. I’m not referring to his acting abilities, but to his character in the upcoming animated film Rango. The new trailer for the Gore Verbinski-directed film looks, well, Deppian. With that loud shirt and saucer eyes, Rango even resembles Hunter Thompson a tad, though Depp’s lizard is as timid as the Doctor was daffy. The story is set in the West, but don’t call it a Western. Verbinski has said that he considers his film a commentary on the Hero, with Rango being a lonely chameleon with an identity crisis. I love the look of the film,...
- 12/14/2010
- by Jeff Labrecque
- EW - Inside Movies
Douglas Brinkley photographed in Homer, Alaska. Historian Douglas Brinkley has taken to heart the most important lesson of ancient and modern affairs: If you’re going to do it at all, go big. The stakes are higher, the characters richer, the successes and failures more spectacular, the stories much more interesting. Brinkley himself—author, Rice University professor, and Vanity Fair contributing editor—circulates, Zelig-like and eclectic, in the high-profile present. He was pals with Hunter Thompson, ran the Eisenhower Institute in New Orleans, has written biographies of Rosa Parks and Henry Ford, John Kerry and Jack Kerouac, and is the editor of Ronald Reagan’s literary trove. Brinkley likes his historical subjects as outsize as they come. Such as: the worst natural disaster in American history (Hurricane Katrina), the nation’s longest river (The Mississippi), the strategy and execution of World War II (Eisenhower, D-Day), the biggest personalities and most...
- 12/7/2010
- Vanity Fair
I had a perfect introduction to Elaine’s, Elaine Kaufman’s legendary New York City restaurant: I was first brought there in what must have been the winter of 1980 by the late, great Claudia Cohen, then editor of the New York Post’s Page Six. Claudia knew everybody, from Elaine’s favorite strays, seated at what was known as the Family Table, across from the bar, to all the regular bold-face names. We got our own table, not far from one that included Claudia’s recent paramour Albert Finney, then starring as Daddy Warbucks in Annie. Plunging into the banter among the tables,...
- 12/4/2010
- by Cyndi Stivers
- EW.com - PopWatch
You know what keeps looking weirer and weirder? This Rango movie with Johnny Depp. Don't get me wrong: The animation in the first feature trailer is really good (as promised a long time ago by director Gore Verbinski), but your kids may not get it...unless they're really, really stoned.
I'm not just saying that because there's an thinly veiled Hunter Thompson reference in the way Rango - Depp's character - is dressed or because there's an obvious Thompson reference about two minutes into the trailer; I'm saying that because anytime you have owls outfitted as a mariachi band in the middle of the desert and a fairly menacing young opossum (I think that's what she is), you know things are a little off.
The story seems pretty basic, based on the trailer, but then, most animated films have followed the fish-out-of-water blueprint from Toy Story to Toy Story 3.
I'm not just saying that because there's an thinly veiled Hunter Thompson reference in the way Rango - Depp's character - is dressed or because there's an obvious Thompson reference about two minutes into the trailer; I'm saying that because anytime you have owls outfitted as a mariachi band in the middle of the desert and a fairly menacing young opossum (I think that's what she is), you know things are a little off.
The story seems pretty basic, based on the trailer, but then, most animated films have followed the fish-out-of-water blueprint from Toy Story to Toy Story 3.
- 6/30/2010
- by Colin Boyd
- GetTheBigPicture.net
The humble chameleon, condemned for so long to sitting in trees, sticking its tongue out from time to time and undergoing tiring colour changes, has finally made it to the big time in the animated shape of Rango. The Gore Verbinski-directed animation sees Johnny Depp play the titular lizard and, thanks to First Showing, here's the movie's protagonist in all his Gonzo-like glory. After one of the year's most deliriously leftfield teasers, it's our first look proper at Rango himself. The household pet embarks on a journey of self-discovery that will take in the western town of Dirt and, if this picture is anything to go on, industrial amounts of Pcp. Hunter Thompson would be proud. Depp is joined by a cast that includes the vocal talents of Ray Winstone, Abigail Breslin, Timothy Olyphant, Isla Fisher and Rango's nemesis, Bill Nighy. More intriguing still is the promise of...
- 6/29/2010
- EmpireOnline
We've seen one very brief teaser trailer for Rango, the CGI animated film from Gore Verbinski that features Johnny Depp as the voice of the main character. That teaser was just an animated fish swimming across the frame, against a desert highway background. So, not much to go on there. A new teaser or trailer is evidently in the offing tomorrow, but now we've got the first full look at the character Depp voices. I kinda love this little guy. Almost looks like Depp as Hunter Thompson as chameleon, and I can get behind that. Now I'm really curious to see more footage. Previously from Peter: Based on an original idea by Verbinski, Rango is scripted by The Aviator scribe John Logan. Johnny Depp stars as a “chameleon with an identity crisis.” Previous information has stated that Rango is “a oddly charismatic household pet that goes on an adventure ...
- 6/28/2010
- by Russ Fischer
- Slash Film
Toy Story embarked on a big weekend this past Friday, setting a record for a Pixar debut, and it could just lead to the largest film of the summer. Top three seems very, very likely, at the very least.
Looking past the box office numbers, though, we got another good trailer for Resident Evil, our first glimpse at Johnny Depp in the Hunter Thompson adaptation The Rum Diary, and even a glimmer of hope for the three or four people who want a Catcher in the Rye movie sooner than later. Although if you have wanted that movie, "sooner" hardly seems an appropriate word.
The Toys are back in town: Toy Story whomps the box office
Check out Depp in The Rum Diary
Not surprisingly, Neill Blomkamp is now a candidate to direct The Hobbit
Another great Resident Evi: Afterlife trailer
The good news about this Buffy movie rumor is...
Looking past the box office numbers, though, we got another good trailer for Resident Evil, our first glimpse at Johnny Depp in the Hunter Thompson adaptation The Rum Diary, and even a glimmer of hope for the three or four people who want a Catcher in the Rye movie sooner than later. Although if you have wanted that movie, "sooner" hardly seems an appropriate word.
The Toys are back in town: Toy Story whomps the box office
Check out Depp in The Rum Diary
Not surprisingly, Neill Blomkamp is now a candidate to direct The Hobbit
Another great Resident Evi: Afterlife trailer
The good news about this Buffy movie rumor is...
- 6/21/2010
- by Colin Boyd
- GetTheBigPicture.net
Today we have two new photos from "The Rum Diary," which is based on Hunter Thompson's novel and stars Johnny Depp, Aaron Eckhart, Ambert Heard, Richard Jenkins and Giovanni Ribisi. Plot: The film tells the increasingly unhinged story of itinerant journalist Paul Kemp (Depp). Tired of the noise and madness of New York and the crushing conventions of late Eisenhower-era America, Kemp travels to the pristine island of Puerto Rico to write for a local San Juan newspaper run by downtrodden editor Lotterman (Jenkins). Adopting the rum-soaked life of the late '50s version of Hemingway's "The Lost Generation," Paul soon becomes increasingly obsessed with Chenault (Heard), the wildly attractive Connecticut-born fiancee of Sanderson (Eckhart), a businessman involved in shady property development deals. "The Rum Diary" is directed by Bruce Robinson (Jennifer Eight) and has yet to be picked up for domestic distribution. It is, however, scheduled to appear in Europe later this year.
- 6/18/2010
- WorstPreviews.com
Prisoner of Denver, about the gonzo reporter's campaign to free a Colorado woman wrongly convicted of murder, is to be turned into a film
Terry Gilliam's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Art Linson's Where the Buffalo Roam and Bruce Robinson's forthcoming The Rum Diary all feature lead characters based on the late Hunter S Thompson. Now the original gonzo reporter looks set to get a fresh turn on the big screen after one of his final written works was optioned by Hollywood. And this time he has a sidekick.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, Prisoner of Denver will be based on a Vanity Fair article from June 2004, which was co-written by Thompson and the magazine's contributing editor Mark Seal, a long-term fan who grabbed a late opportunity to work with his idol. The piece highlighted the plight of 21-year-old Lisl Auman, a Colorado woman who was...
Terry Gilliam's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Art Linson's Where the Buffalo Roam and Bruce Robinson's forthcoming The Rum Diary all feature lead characters based on the late Hunter S Thompson. Now the original gonzo reporter looks set to get a fresh turn on the big screen after one of his final written works was optioned by Hollywood. And this time he has a sidekick.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, Prisoner of Denver will be based on a Vanity Fair article from June 2004, which was co-written by Thompson and the magazine's contributing editor Mark Seal, a long-term fan who grabbed a late opportunity to work with his idol. The piece highlighted the plight of 21-year-old Lisl Auman, a Colorado woman who was...
- 5/4/2010
- by Ben Child
- The Guardian - Film News
One of Hunter S. Thompson's last works has been picked up for feature treatment that could see Thompson onscreen again, this time as a crusader for justice.
Motion Picture Corporation of America, led by CEO Brad Krevoy, has acquired rights to "Prisoner of Denver," a June 2004 Vanity Fair article co-written by Thompson and the magazine's contributing editor Mark Seal.
"Prisoner" focused on the injustice and abuse of Colorado's legal system that saw 21-year-old Lisl Auman charged with murder when the crime occurred while she was in the back of a patrol car, already in police custody. She was handed a life sentence with no possibility of parole.
While behind bars, she began a correspondence with Thompson. His unrelenting grass-roots activism -- which included enlisting celebrity pals including Johnny Depp, Jack Nicholson, Benicio Del Toro and Woody Harrelson -- and the Vanity Fair piece helped overturn Auman's sentence in 2005.
Seal...
Motion Picture Corporation of America, led by CEO Brad Krevoy, has acquired rights to "Prisoner of Denver," a June 2004 Vanity Fair article co-written by Thompson and the magazine's contributing editor Mark Seal.
"Prisoner" focused on the injustice and abuse of Colorado's legal system that saw 21-year-old Lisl Auman charged with murder when the crime occurred while she was in the back of a patrol car, already in police custody. She was handed a life sentence with no possibility of parole.
While behind bars, she began a correspondence with Thompson. His unrelenting grass-roots activism -- which included enlisting celebrity pals including Johnny Depp, Jack Nicholson, Benicio Del Toro and Woody Harrelson -- and the Vanity Fair piece helped overturn Auman's sentence in 2005.
Seal...
- 5/3/2010
- by By Borys Kit
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
A scene from Alex Gibney's Untitled Eliot Spitzer Film
Photo: Nina Berman
Alex Gibney is on a roll since he won the Oscar for his documentary Taxi to the Dark Side. In 2008 he released the excellent Hunter Thompson doc Gonzo and this year he is bringing not only Casino Jack and the United States of Money to theaters in May, on April 24 his other new 2010 documentary, the currently Untitled Eliot Spitzer Film, will debut at the Tribeca Film Festival and the first clip and image from the film has arrived online.
Magnolia will release Casino Jack and I will be seeing it in just a couple of weeks and the Eliot Spitzer doc is up for acquisition at Tribeca and based on Gibney's pedigree I don't think it will be long before it is snatched up.
The film takes an in-depth look at New York governor and 'Sheriff of Wall Street' Eliot Spitzer,...
Photo: Nina Berman
Alex Gibney is on a roll since he won the Oscar for his documentary Taxi to the Dark Side. In 2008 he released the excellent Hunter Thompson doc Gonzo and this year he is bringing not only Casino Jack and the United States of Money to theaters in May, on April 24 his other new 2010 documentary, the currently Untitled Eliot Spitzer Film, will debut at the Tribeca Film Festival and the first clip and image from the film has arrived online.
Magnolia will release Casino Jack and I will be seeing it in just a couple of weeks and the Eliot Spitzer doc is up for acquisition at Tribeca and based on Gibney's pedigree I don't think it will be long before it is snatched up.
The film takes an in-depth look at New York governor and 'Sheriff of Wall Street' Eliot Spitzer,...
- 4/16/2010
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
More Afm news
The American Film Market just wouldn't be the Afm without the so-called lobbyists.
They are the guys who've earned that moniker because of their use of the Loews hotel as one all-mighty pitching floor. And this year's potpourri of players is as mixed and as colorful as ever.
An urban Kung Fu fighter, a fully finished juiced-up rap drama with Fredro Starr and a yet-to-be-made horror flick about a half-woman, half-spider are among the titles boosted by the lobbyists.
Penned by L.A. based martial arts expert and filmmaker Mark Hoadley, "Mark of the Cobra" is being put together by husband and wife team Mark and Sheila Hoadley. The married duo is busy here pulling together the financing for their $2.5 million passion project.
Sheila Hoadley said she felt there was "more respect" for the producers presenting to people from the lobby.
And her project has something else on its side.
The American Film Market just wouldn't be the Afm without the so-called lobbyists.
They are the guys who've earned that moniker because of their use of the Loews hotel as one all-mighty pitching floor. And this year's potpourri of players is as mixed and as colorful as ever.
An urban Kung Fu fighter, a fully finished juiced-up rap drama with Fredro Starr and a yet-to-be-made horror flick about a half-woman, half-spider are among the titles boosted by the lobbyists.
Penned by L.A. based martial arts expert and filmmaker Mark Hoadley, "Mark of the Cobra" is being put together by husband and wife team Mark and Sheila Hoadley. The married duo is busy here pulling together the financing for their $2.5 million passion project.
Sheila Hoadley said she felt there was "more respect" for the producers presenting to people from the lobby.
And her project has something else on its side.
- 11/8/2009
- by By Stuart Kemp
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Traffic writer Stephen Gaghan, is working on an adaptation of famed journalist Hunter S. Thompson's "The Hell's Angels" for director Tony Scott. " I've got 'Hell's Angels' - I've owned the Hunter Thompson book for 12 years and Steve Gaghan is writing the script right now," Scott told ComingSoon. "Angels" is Thompson's first published book and comprises an up-close and uncompromising look at the Hells Angels motorcycle club, during a time when the gang was accused...
- 6/17/2009
- by James Thoo
- JoBlo.com
ComingSoon.net just spent nearly an hour talking with filmmaker Tony Scott about his new movie The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 , which comes out tomorrow. At the same time, we had a chance to ask him about some of the other movies he's been developing, including a sequel to his 1983 breakout vampire film, The Hunger , a movie based on Hunter Thompson's novel about the motorcycle gang "The Hell's Angels," being written by Stephen Gaghan ( American Gangster ), and another project called Potsdamer Platz . We also got a few more words on his version of The Warriors and that rumored prequel to Alien , which seems to be caught up in negotiations on who should make it. As far as that sequel to the 1983 horror movie, which starred Catherine Deneuve, David Bowie and Susan...
- 6/11/2009
- Comingsoon.net
Credit booze for bringing Christopher Hitchens and Hunter S. Thompson together. In his introduction to "Ancient Gonzo Wisdom," a collection of Thompson interviews due out in July, Hitchens, who covered a summit between Margaret Thatcher and George H.W. Bush, says he was denied a double gin at a cocktail party at the top of the slopes because it would be twice as strong at such a high altitude. So he hightailed it to Aspen's Owl Farm, where he met Thompson,...
- 4/19/2009
- NYPost.com
More fun from the set of the Rum Diary, the Hunter Thompson adaptation, where Johnny Depp as Paul Kemp drives a “classic” Fiat 500. The man in the car with him isn’t named in the photo credits, but my best guess is that it’s Michael Rispoli, who plays Bob Sala in the film.There’s something very comical about two big men in a little car! Check out the images below, and just click for the larger versions.<center><a href="/media/images/rum_diary1.jpg"><img src="/media/images/rum_diary1s.jpg"></a> <a href="/media/images/rum_diary2.jpg"><img src="/media/images/rum_diary2s.jpg"></a> <a href="/media/images/rum_diary3.jpg"><img src="/media/images/rum_diary3s.jpg"></a> <a href="/media/images/rum_diary4.jpg"><img src="/media/images/rum_diary4s.jpg"></a> <a href="/media/images/rum_diary5.jpg"><img src="/media/images/rum_diary5s.jpg"></a> <a href="/media/images/rum_diary6.jpg"><img src="/media/images/rum_diary6s.jpg"></a> <a href="/media/images/rum_diary7.jpg"><img src="/media/images/rum_diary7s.jpg"></a> <a href="/media/images/rum_diary8.jpg"><img src="/media/images/rum_diary8s.jpg"></a></center>...
- 4/16/2009
- Films N Movies
The Hunter Thompson adaptation, The Rum Diary is quickly becoming one of those projects to keep your eye on. We knew that Johnny Depp would be involved a while ago, but over the past couple months, the cast has expanded to include Aaron Eckhart, Richard Jenkins, Amber Heard, and most recently, Giovanni Ribisi, who signed on this week.
Also this week, we got our first look at Depp as Paul Kemp in the period piece set in 1950s Puerto Rico. Kemp is, of course, a thinly veiled version of Thompson, who wrote the novel back in the 1960s but didn't publish it until 1998. PopSugar snapped a shot of Depp in Miami, although I thought the production was being shot entirely in San Juan.
Also this week, we got our first look at Depp as Paul Kemp in the period piece set in 1950s Puerto Rico. Kemp is, of course, a thinly veiled version of Thompson, who wrote the novel back in the 1960s but didn't publish it until 1998. PopSugar snapped a shot of Depp in Miami, although I thought the production was being shot entirely in San Juan.
- 3/29/2009
- by Colin Boyd
- GetTheBigPicture.net
- The word during the Sundance film festival was that Tom Dicillo's narration was a little overbearing -- it was this negative buzz that made me eventually lose interest in catching the documentary film as scheduled and perhaps this is part of the motivation behind Dicillo picking Johnny Depp to do some of the same. When You're Strange is currently playing at the Berlin Film Festival, and at this point I'm not sure whether it will be an entirely new narration or just a re-recording with Depp. The actor last voiced some excerpts from the work of his dearly departed pal Hunter Thompson for Alex Gibney’s docu Gonzo: The Life and Times of Hunter Thompson. The dopcu enters the dark and dangerous world of one of America’s most influential bands using only footage shot between 1966 and 1971....
- 2/9/2009
- IONCINEMA.com
DVD Links: Release Dates | New Dvds | Reviews | RSS Feed One quick note regarding Criterion Collection's initial wave of Blu-ray releases. The company has delayed their first wave by nearly a month as Bottle Rocket, Chungking Express, The Third Man, and The Man Who Fell to Earth will now release on December 16 and The Last Emperor has now been set for January 6. However, there is some good news on the Criterion front... They have a sale going on right now giving you 40% off of everything on their site. Click here to take advantage. Now to today's DVDs and Blu-ray releases. Wall-e I just reviewed the Blu-ray version of this and I have to say, it is a very long review. So let me give you the short version: Buy It... On Blu-ray if you were wondering. Clicking the Buy Now button will give you a look at all the buying options over at Amazon.
- 11/18/2008
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
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