It would be ungracious to deny that David Fincher’s “Gone Girl,” lengthy as it is, whizzes past, keeping us highly entertained throughout. I haven’t read the book on which it is based so I don’t know if the structural change that has apparently caused an uproar is for the better or not. Anyway, both book and screenplay are by the same author so she’s entitled to doing what she wants with ... more >
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DAVID FINCHER CROWD-FUNDS NEXT PROJECT
Being a renowned filmmaker is not nearly enough to guarantee financing, this has been a fact of life in Hollywood for decades. David Fincher was nominated eight times for an Oscar in 2011 for “The Social Network” but this hasn't given him carte blanche as demonstrated by his latest project, entitled “The Goon.” Fincher had been trying to raise funds for two years in order to adapt Eric Powell’s ... more >

Tree of Life HOW-TO Guide on Youtube
As Terrence Malick's "The Tree of Life," which opened in major cities at the end of last month, is getting ready for its nationwide rollout, a how-to featurette has been released by distributor Fox Searchlight Pictures in the hopes that it will help shepherd the meditative film across the dusty trails that await. Because in order for a movie to make money, as Mike Fleming of Deadline New York ... more >

Zodiac
After Wong Kar-Wai’s My Blueberry Nights (starring Jude Law and Norah Jones) opened the 60th festival yesterday, David Fincher’s Zodiac screened for an international delegation of journalists early this morning at the Grand Theatre Lumiere. Zodiac, which already got its release in the US, is about the namesake serial killer who terrorized San Francisco’s Bay Area in the 70s only to disappear into ... more >