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Entries in Kathryn Bigelow (2)

Monday
10Aug2009

Daily news dose: 'Hangover' writing duo sells script; Kathryn Bigelow to develop 'Triple Frontier'

Here's your dose of film news for August 10, 2009:

• Jon Lucas and Scott Moore, the writing team behind the brilliant "The Hangover" (pictured above) and the not so brilliant "Ghosts of Girlfriends Past" and "Four Christmases," have sold a script entitled "Change Up" to Universal. In the film, a serious guy with a wife switches bodies with a lazy man child. David Dobkin is attached to direct. (Variety)

• Kathryn Bigelow, who recently directed "The Hurt Locker," will team with the film's writer Mark Boal for "Triple Frontier," an action adventure set in the border zone between Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil. Details about the plot are kept under wraps at this stage. (Variety)

• You may not have seen her on the big screen recently, but Tara Reid is still making movies. The "American Pie" actress is joining Greg Garthe's upcoming comedy "Last Call," about two cousins forced to run a family pub. Travis Van Winkle, Ryan Hansen, Christopher Lloyd, Tom Arnold, Dave Foley and Diora Baird co-star. (THR)

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Friday
05Sep2008

'The Hurt Locker' premieres at Venice

After a six-year absence from the big screen, Kathryn Bigelow returns with "The Hurt Locker," a drama about the dangerous work of an elite Army bomb squad in Iraq. Starring Ralph Fiennes, David Morse, Guy Pearce, Sam Reford and Jeremy Renner, the film premiered at the Venice Film Festival this week. Here's what the press is saying about the film:

Shane Danielsen at Times Online: "Like the men it depicts, 'The Hurt Locker' never rises above its own limitations."

Deborah Young at The Hollywood Reporter: "For a film purporting to be about soldiers' psychology, 'The Hurt Locker' makes little in-depth analysis of its characters."

Variety's Derek Elley: "The major problem with the script by journalist Mark Boal, who was embedded with a bomb squad in Baghdad four years ago, is that it's unclear where the drama in 'Locker' really lies."

Richard Corliss at Time: "The appearances by some familiar faces — Fiennes, Guy Pearce, David Morse — are all too brief."