Following the recent success of Rob Zombie's Halloween reboot, Dimension Films is resurrecting Clive Barker's Hellraiser, says the Hollywood Reporter.... Burn Notice's Jeffrey Donovan, Colm Feore and John Malkovich have joined Angelina Jolie in Changeling, the Clint Eastwood-directed true-life drama about a woman whose son goes missing in 1920s Los Angeles.... Oscar winner Hilary Swank has signed on for a biopic about (Spoiler alert) ill-fated pilot Amelia Earhart, says Page Six.
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Per Variety, Edward Norton will set aside his indie cred to play Dr. Bruce Banner in The Incredible Hulk, a more fun follow-up to Ang Lee's Eric Bana-fronted venture.... Christina Ricci is Speed Racer's girlfriend, Trixie.... Per the Hollywood Reporter, Lost's Evangeline Lilly will make her feature debut opposite John Malkovich in the supernatural thriller Afterwards.... Ted Danson has joined Mad Money, the heist comedy starring Katie Holmes, Diane Keaton and Queen Latifah.... Harvey Weinstein tells the New York Post that he's hot to round up Paltrow, Kidman, Dench, Zellweger, Zeta-Jones and Hathaway for a big-screen take on Nine.
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Question: In the "Meeting Mr. Kurtz" chapter of Adam Hochschild's King Leopold's Ghost, he writes that of the three movie versions of the book Heart of Darkness, two weren't even set in Africa. He notes Apocalypse Now as one and I e-mailed him asking whether Werner Herzog's excellent Aguirre, The Wrath of God (1972) was the other. He said it wasn't but couldn't remember the other title, though he said it was set in the time of the Spanish Civil War. Do you know what Hochschild was referring to?
Answer: I don't know and my research didn't turn up what I would call a definitive answer. But I think it might be Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón's El Corazón del Bosque (1979), which is set 10 years after the Spanish Civil War. It revolves around a young man who sets out on a journey deep into the heavily forested Spanish hills in search of a legendary loyalis
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On the big screen, John Malkovich has been tapped to play a 23rd-century Trump in the upcoming sci-fi thriller The Mutant Chronicles, the Hollywood Reporter informs us.... On the small screen, American Dreams' cutie-pie Sarah Ramos (she was prickly sis Patty) has been added to the cast of Runaway, CW's proposed drama about a family of fugitives.... Charmed head-turner Kaley Cuoco has been adopted as Marisa Coughlan's sib in ABC's untitled sisters pilot.... The Mountain man Oliver Hudson will yuk it up in The Weekend, a potential CBS laffer.... Marion Ross — that's Mrs. C to you — is doing Community Service for NBC.
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Surface"I thought it was gonna kill me. I really did." Are you referring to the talking monkey girl, or this episode in general? 'Cause if it's the latter, well then, Crazy-Eyed Rich, I'm right there with you. What the hell is going on? We've got two, count 'em, two episodes left to get all this business wrapped up before the "finale" (be it season or series), and we're choosing now to introduce the idea that creepy Agent Lee is actually an ageless genetic-engineering pioneer? What? No, really. What? And to top it all off, he's gonna have my girl Martha Plimpton whacked? But she just got here! With her geeky little outfits and delightfully spunky haircut and the having of actual answers! Now I'm never gonna get the chance to thank her for drugging Dr. Laura and lea
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