Up-n-coming, 2/7.

Can't help but note yet another Werner Herzog item, this one once again via Wiley Wiggins, this time by way of Harmony-Korine.com. For the TOMB (that's the Time Out Movie Blog; cute), Kaleem Aftab interviews the German director and reconfirms that he'll be acting in Korine's next film, Mister Lonely - playing, the fan site adds, an Abraham Lincoln impersonator. Naturally.

At Cinema Strikes Back, Blake points to Michael Fleming's piece in Variety on David Cronenberg's next film. Two interesting things here. First and foremost, of course, is the film, which will be Maps to the Stars, "a Bruce Wagner-scripted darkly comic drama about Hollywood excess and intrigue." The second thing is that, online, Variety seems to be going the Salon route, meaning that previously inaccessible pieces to us non-subscribers if we're willing to watch an ad. I, for one, am.

Sienna Miller will soon be portraying Edie Sedgewick in George Hickenlooper's Factory Girl. Andrew Wilson retells the tale in the Independent.

More up-n-coming news from the Hollywood Reporter: ThinkFilm will be releasing Strangers With Candy (Gregg Goldstein), Steve Buscemi will likely star in We're the Millers (Borys Kit) and Magnolia's got the North American rights to Nicolas Winding Refn's Pusher trilogy (Goldstein).

And Cinematical's Jay Allen has the latest on the next Pixar project, Ratatouille, "about a rat who lives in a French restaurant."

At Twitch, Wolf has found a sneak preview of Flushed Away, a collaboration between Aardman and DreamWorks Animation. Also: Todd's not sure what The Three Trials is, exactly.

Posted by dwhudson at February 7, 2006 3:04 PM