Name directors love them some HBO. Martin Scorsese launched "Boardwalk Empire" by helming the pilot episode. Todd Haynes did his take on "Mildred Pierce." The latest to join the club is recent Oscar-nominee Darren Aronofsky, who's going to direct the pilot for series-hopeful "Hobogoblin" (and walked...
Read More »True story: Two friends in the film industry. One lives in New York, the other Los Angeles. They're discussing how the Tim Burton exhibit will do at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, after its huge success at MOMA.
Read More »Today on indieWIRE, celeb spawn and up-and-coming indie darling Emma Roberts talked about her roots and her new film "The Art of Getting By," director David Robert Mitchell chats up "The Myth of the American Sleepover", Fox Searchlight uses big-name auteur cred to sell "The Tree of Life" and much mo...
Read More »Sony Classics has acquired the US rights to David Cronenberg's much-anticipated "A Dangerous Method." The film - which stars Viggo Mortenson, Keira Knightley, Michael Fassbender, and Vincent Cassel - is a biopic of the relationship between Dr. Jung (Fassbender), Sigmund Freud (Mortenson) and an unba...
Read More »U.S. rights to "Puncture" by Adam Kassen and Mark Kassen have been picked up by Millennium Entertainment, the company's CEO Bill Lee said Thursday. The film, starring Chris Evans, will be released theatrically this fall.
Read More »Strand Releasing has acquired all North American rights to Sabine Bernardi's romantic drama "Romeos," which details the relationship between a young and a person in the midst of transforming from woman to man. Strand plans for a late 2011 release.
Read More »Full disclosure: The Indiewire staff has a significant Canadian population. And in defense of our over-exuberant friends in Vancouver, where all hell broke loose after the Boston Bruins took home the Stanley Cup Wednesday night, we decided to lighten the mood and share our picks for the five worst h...
Read More »Winners of the Aruba International Film Festival's newly-expanded Spotlight Series Competition, which showcases films from Aruban and Caribbean filmmakers, were announced Tuesday night in Gold Coast, Aruba.
Read More »A total of 25 films which screened this May in Cannes will make their way down under for the 2011 Melbourne International Film Festival, including some of its most prominent successes. "Drive," a high-octane speed triller with Ryan Gosling and Carey Mulligan which won the Director's prize for Danis...
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