Sight and Sound reveal their picks for the Top 11 Films of 2012

Top Ten season has begun and UK magazine Sight And Sound recently announced their 2012 poll results which surveys over 90 critics, film programmers and academics. The list in an interesting one, balancing predictable top ten fare with some genuine dark horse appearances. The Master, unsurprisingly, takes top spot, and appearances by Amour, Holy Motors, […]

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Robert Pattinson to play Lawrence of Arabia for Werner Herzog

Robert Pattinson will play T.E. Lawrence in Werner Herzog‘s upcoming indie flick Queen of the Desert. According to Variety, Pattinson joins Naomi Watts, who will play English writer Gertrude Bell. T.E. Lawrence was, of course, the subject of David Lean‘s iconic 1962 film Lawrence of Arabia, where he was portrayed by Peter O’Toole. Lawrence befriended Bell in the […]

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Eastern Promises 2 scrapped by Focus Features

Eastern Promises 2 is no more. While doing press for Cosmopolis, director David Cronenberg told The Playlist that Focus Features have pulled the plug on a sequel to his Oscar nominated gangster flick. “We were supposed to start shooting ‘Eastern Promises 2’ in October…. [But] It’s done… If you don’t like it talk to James Schamus at Focus. It was […]

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Safe from penetration – Cosmopolis review

Cosmopolis – Starring Robert Pattinson, Paul Giamatti, and Sarah Gadon. Directed by David Cronenberg. Rated MA. By Simon Miraudo. A young genius discovers a series of patterns in the stock market, condenses it to an equation, and capitalises on it. A billionaire by twenty-something, his abilities to predict the world’s finances are undone by the […]

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Robert Pattinson denies casting in Hunger Games sequel

Last week the internet, as well as the hearts of all women and most men, were aflutter with rumours that two beloved YA universes were colliding: Robert Pattinson had scored a role in The Hunger Games sequel Catching Fire. Not so, says Pattinson. The Twilight star told USA Today from Cannes – where his new film Cosmopolis debuted – that even he briefly […]

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Robert Pattinson to play “mastermind” behind Saddam Hussein’s capture

Deadline has confirmed Robert Pattinson will star in Mission: Blacklist, to be directed by Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire and to be sold at the upcoming Cannes Film Market by Embankment Films. Erik Jendresen, who wrote and produced Band of Brothers, has adapted the screenplay from the Harper Collins novel Mission Black List #1: The Inside Story of […]

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Teaser Debut: Cosmopolis

Don’t call it a comeback! The French teaser trailer for David Cronenberg‘s Cosmopolis indicates a return to form for the director, who has spent much of the last decade “normalling”, particularly in contrast to the body-horror films he specialised in during the 1980s. Based on Don DeLillo’s novel of the same name, Cosmopolis follows Robert Pattinson young billionaire over the course of […]

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Robert Pattinson to star in Cronenberg’s Cosmopolis

Hold onto your underwear ladies! Deadline has confirmed Robert Pattinson will replace Colin Farrell in David Cronenberg’s Cosmopolis. Cosmopolis, based on the novel of the same name by Don DeLillo, is the story of a young, newlywed billionaire who, over the course of 24 hours, manages to not only lose his entire fortune but cheat […]

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>Giamatti in talks for Cronenberg’s latest

>Paul Giamatti is in talks to join David Cronenberg’s new film Cosmopolis, according to The Playlist. If successful, Giamatti will join Colin Farrell and Marion Cotillard who both signed on earlier in the year. Cosmopolis is based on the novel of the same name by Don DeLillo. The story follows a young, newlywed billionaire (Farrell) […]

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