It has been said that in literature and film there are really no more than about seven distinct stories that are retold again and again. I have found that this is mostly true, though most good films add new elements and alter enough to keep things fresh and original. But sometimes, Hollywood writers get lazy. [...]
The second teaser trailer for “The Social Network,” the latest film from top director, David Fincher, that chronicles the meteoric rise of social networking site, Facebook, and its creator, Mark Zuckerberg.
When it was first announced that David Fincher, the man behind pitch black films like “Se7en,” “Fight Club” and “Zodiac,” would be turning his attention to the story of how Facebook was developed it raised a lot of eyebrows — including mine. Well, the story of “The Social Network” just keeps getting more interesting. Yesterday, [...]
Hollywood is notorious for its bandwagon tendencies. Notice how many vampire flicks surfaced immediately following the success of the “Twilight” films? This time around the trend centers on Jules Verne’s classic undersea adventure, “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.” And since it’s in the public domain, studios won’t have to embarrass themselves with cheap and transparent [...]
With Hollywood mining comic books, toys, board games and established film and pop-culture properties like there’s no tomorrow, it was only a matter of time before Captain Nemo and his Nautilus would surface again. Development has been underway at Disney for months on an updated screen version of the classic Jules Verne story, “20,000 Leagues [...]
David Fincher, director of “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” “Zodiac,” and “Fight Club,” has teamed with Media Rights Capital to adapt the popular British miniseries, “House of Cards,” for American audiences. THR reports that Fincher will executive produce with writer Eric Roth (“Benjamin Button”) and that the political drama will be condensed into a [...]
David Fincher, director of “Fight Club,” “Se7en,” and “Zodiac,” is in advanced talks with Columbia Pictures to direct Aaron Sorkin’s screenplay about the formation of Facebook called, “The Social Network,” according to Variety. The film’s focus will be the formation and evolution of social networking site, Facebook, from its creation in 2004 by Harvard sophomore, [...]
David Fincher’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button was recently released to wide acclaim garnering a staggering 13 Oscar nominations. When I saw this film I noticed, like many others, the unprecedented similarities to 1994′s Forrest Gump. I mentioned this in my review (read the review here) and pointed out that both films share the [...]
Director David Fincher’s (Fight Club, Se7en) latest offering, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, curiously reminds me of Kevin Costner’s monumentally mediocre Waterworld (1995). Let me first make the point that Benjamin Button has almost nothing in common with, and is far superior to Costner’s bloated tale of self-aggrandizement; however, these two films do share [...]
