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Weekend Newsreel: April 28, 2006
Compiled by the FilmBuffOnLine.com Staff
Silent Film Mystery: A 50 foot strip
of a mid-1920s silent film is set to be the subject of an episode of
the PBS television series History Detectives. Discovered in a
Cincinnati, Ohio attic, the film was in a canister labeled
“Dangerous Hour- Eddie Polo.” Set in Arizona, Dangerous Hour
tells the story of a group of filmmakers who come to the aid of some
trapped miners. The film has been thought to be lost. The Library of
Congress Motion Picture Conservation Center at Wright-Patterson Air
Force Base in Dayton, Ohio supervised the research of the 38-second
film clip, but is keeping silent on their result until the episode
airs. The episode is not yet scheduled, but should air sometime over
the summer.
Deja View: Director Brad Anderson
has announced plans to develop an English language version of the
German political drama The Edukators. Anderson will both
script and direct the adaptation, moving the story’s action from
Berlin to the United States. . . The 2003 Takashi Miike film One
Last Call becomes the next Japanese horror film to be adapted
into English. French director Eric Valette will helm the project
while Andrew Klavan scripts. . . Constantine director Francis
Lawrence is set to helm I Am Legend, a remake of the Charlton
Heston film The Omega Man (1971), which in turn was a remake
of the Vincent Price vehicle The Last Man On Earth (1964).
All films are based on the Richard Matheson novel I Am Legend.
Will Smith is slated to star in this last version, which had been
originally developed for Arnold Schwarzenegger . . . First time
feature director Douglas Buck will be overseeing a remake of Brian
DePalma’s Sisters (1973) with Chloe Sevigny, Stephen Rea and
French actress Lou Doillon heading up the cast. Buck will also
co-script the adaptation with John Freitas.
Screen To Broadway: Mel Brooks is
hoping that lightening strikes twice. In this case, he’s hoping that
the creative lightening that made the Broadway adaptation of his
film The Producers a runaway hit will bring similar life to his 1974
comedy Young Frankenstein. Brooks has announced that he is
currently working on the score for a stage adaptation of his monster
comedy and will make a formal announcement seeking backers for the
project once he’s done writing the score.
In Remembrance
Alida Valli-
The
Italian actress who appeared with Orson Welles in
The Third Man (1949) has passed away at age 84.
Raj Kumar-
One of
India’s most beloved movie stars has passed away at
age 77.
Vilgot Sjoman-
The
Swedish director of the controversial 1967 film I
Am Curious (Yellow) has passed away at age 81.
Amanda Duff Dunne-
The
former supporting actress and widow of writer Philip
Dunne has passed away at age 92.
Gary Gray-
The child
actor who appeared in MGM’s last Lassie film The
Painted Hills (1951) has passed away at age 69.
Polly Burson-
The
renowned rodeo trick rider and one of Hollywood’s
first stuntwomen has passed away ay age 86.
Gretchen Rau-
The
Academy Award winning set designer of Memoirs Of
A Geisha (2005) has passed away at age 66.
Richard Fleischer-
The director of the classic 20,000 Leagues Under
The Sea (1954) has passed away at age 89
Opening This Week
April 28
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Akeelah And The Bee
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Army Of Shadows (NY)
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Clean (NY, LA)
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Guys And Balls (limited)-
website
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Hard Candy (wider)-
website
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Killer Diller (limited)
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Lady Vengeance (NY, LA)-
website
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The Lost City (NY, LA,
Miami) -
website
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Revolution (LA)-
website
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Stick It-
website
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United 98 (formerly Flight 93)-
website
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Water
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The Whore's Son (NY)
May 4
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