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The one and only Martin Scorsese just joined MySpace!

Check out his profile here (http://www.myspace.com/martinscorsese) for an exclusive look behind the scenes of the forthcoming “Shine a Light” movie – can you let your peeps know? Just hit reply and I’ll do the search if you can (or if you are feeling extremely generous include a link!) – would love to know what you think of the profile – it’s a swanky looking profile no? LOVING the personalized intro!!!

Filed under: Action & Adventure, Drama, Cannes, Mystery & Suspense, Newsstand, Remakes and Sequels

What’s going on over there in Cannes? Apparently they don’t exactly have a handle on security. Graham King, producer of The Departed, Next, Blood Diamond, and The Aviator, was recently assaulted and robbed by unknown assailants at the Hotel Du Cap, one of the festival’s top hotels that’s housing, among others, Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, Martin Scorsese and Harvey Weinstein. According to the WENN news service, King returned to his private villa on hotel property just as robbers were rifling through his things, which prompted them to spray him with some kind of gas. What is this, a movie? They then made off with his money, passport and “other personal items,” which could be a script for that new Departed sequel we keep hearing about. Maybe this was a gang of online movie people trying to get the first read.

Anyway, the good news is that our own Cannes correspondant has not fallen victim to this gang of vicious robbers. So far, James has filed 18 reviews as well as photoblogs, interviews, roundtable discussions and there’s more stuff on the way, including a review of the much-talked about re-cutting of Death Proof, with Vanessa Ferlito’s apparently fantastic lap dance scene that got cut from the original. So stay tuned to Cinematical for all the latest.

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Filed under: Horror, Thrillers, Casting

What safer way for Lindsay Lohan to put her wild, partying, panty-less days behind her than by jumping from rehab into a movie about drug addicts? La Lohan has just announced she intends to star in Hippy, a new project from director Chris Siverston. Lohan loved working with him so much on the upcoming I Know Who Killed Me that she made a deal for Hippy even though it’s only in its “embryonic stage.” Lohan told Entertainment Weekly: “I have so much faith in (Siverston), just as a person, and I just love working with him. I love him (so much) as a person, that while we were on set, I was like, “Let’s make a deal right now.” I love the double use of the phrase “as a person” — you can imagine her publicist sitting right there pointing to a sign with those words on it.

Hippy is said to be about a group of kids who take a cross-country trip. One of the kids drops acid, goes nuts, and according to Lohan “starts, like, killing people.” Like, whoa! Lohan’s co-star in Hippy will be Marc Senter, who also appears in I Know Who Killed Me and who previously starred in Siverston’s The Lost, the film that drew Lohan to the director. Lohan thinks that this Siverston guy “is going to be huge.” You know … as a person! EW asks Lohan if her working relationships with Siverston and Senter could be a new Hollywood team a la Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio and she responds “I’m all for it. Not that I wouldn’t love to work with Scorsese also.” Here’s hoping Mr. Scorsese doesn’t read that article.

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Filed under: Action & Adventure, Drama, Thrillers, Casting, Warner Brothers

I’ll admit I was surprised as the next person to hear about the possibility of a Leonardo DiCaprio movie that was not being made by Martin Scorsese. Variety has reported that DiCaprio is in talks to star in Body of Lies for Ridley Scott. The film is based on the novel by Washington Post columnist David Ignatius, with a story that focuses on a CIA agent who’s sent to Amman to work with Jordan’s intelligence force in helping to track down an Al Qaeda leader who is planning an attack against America. The script is being adapted by William Monahan who also worked on The Departed, so it looks like DiCaprio could have at least one familiar face around on the film. Monahan has also worked for Scott before as a writer for Kingdom of Heaven and is working with DiCaprio on an American remake of Confessions of Pain.

DiCaprio is still negotiating his deal for the project, since he has a pretty packed schedule to try to fit this in. We have already had word that DiCaprio was re-uniting with his Titanic co-star Kate Winslet in the Sam Mendes film Revolutionary Road, and talks are still in progress for Scorsese and DiCaprio for The Wolf of Wall Street (among their other project ideas.) Luckily Scott is still scouting locations in the US and in the Middle East, so Leo has some time to figure out his schedule for the next year or so.

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Filed under: Action & Adventure, Comedy, Documentary, Drama, Foreign Language, Independent, Cannes, Distribution, Exhibition, Quentin Tarantino, Michael Moore, Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig

I brought you news yesterday that Martin Scorsese will be teaching a Masterclass, presenting an award, and unveiling a new film preservation foundation at the upcoming Cannes festival. Today brings more confirmation that this is going to be a pretty amazing year for Cannes, which kicks off on May 16th. Guest of honor Scorsese will also be putting his Rolling Stones documentary up for sale, and more rocking will be heard at the screening of Catherine Owens and Mark Pellington’s 3D U2 documentary U2 3D. New Line will be premiering scenes from the highly anticipated The Golden Compass with Daniel Craig and Nicole Kidman. James Gray’s We Own the Night with Mark Wahlberg and Joaquin Phoenix, (who also co-starred in Gray’s last film - The Yards), will premiere. And there will also be a screening of No Country for Old Men, which is written and directed by the Coen Brothers and therefore moves it to the tippity-top of my “must-see” list.

Ocean’s Thirteen and Tarantino’s Death Proof had already been announced for the fest, and Robert Rodriguez may do a special midnight screening of Planet Terror. The rest of the lineup is still unconfirmed, as the Cannes team still has many films to watch, but insiders are reporting that strong contenders include: Gus Van Sant’s Paranoid Park, Woody Allen’s Cassandra’s Dream starring Ewan McGregor and Colin Farell, Todd Haynes’ Bob Dylan project I’m Not There, Michael Winterbottom’s Angelina Jolie film A Mighty Heart, City Of Men - a sequel to the mindblowingly excellent City of God from a different director - Paulo Morelli, Harmony Korine’s Mister Lonely (with a cast that includes Werner Herzog and David Blaine!), Michael Moore’s health care documentary Sicko - which Moore is racing to finish in time, and Julian Schnabel’s Diving Bell and Butterfly. It is rumored that David Fincher’s very cool Zodiac will be the closing-night film. Of course Cannes can’t only be about American films and there are a lot of exciting foreign contenders as well, including the new movie from celebrated Chinese director Wong Kar-Wai: My Blueberry Nights, which has a phenomenal cast. So, ah — anybody got an extra Cannes ticket? Maybe I’ll try Craigslist.

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Filed under: Classics, Foreign Language, Independent, Cannes

I can think of no one in the world better suited to teach a class on film than Martin Scorsese. Not only is he one of the most knowledgeable film buffs out there, he talks so fast I’d imagine you get three or four times the information in the same amount of time! Organizers of the Festival de Cannes (let me just grab my French/English dictionary…ah yes…Cannes Festival) just announced that Scorsese will be presenting a “Masterclass” at the 60th annual event. Scorsese will teach the class for students and film fans on Thursday, May 24th. Others who have taught the course are Wong Kar Wai, Nanni Moretti, Stephen Frears, and Sydney Pollack, who I don’t imagine was bombarded with questions about Random Hearts.

Scorsese’s got a busy trip planned, he will also present the Camera d’Or to the director of the best first film in competition at the closing ceremony. And most excitingly, he will be announcing the launch of his World Cinema Foundation, which will be “devoted to the preservation and restoration of cinematic masterpieces from across the globe.” God, I love this guy. Scorsese won the Palme d’Or at Cannes in 1976 for Taxi Driver - amazingly, he wasn’t even nominated for the Best Director Oscar for that film - and was president of the Cannes jury in 1998. If you’d like to get the experience of being taught by Mr. Scorsese and can’t afford a trip to France, let me highly recommend the DVD A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies. It is absolutely fantastic and you can get it cheap.

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