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1 July 2008 9:17 AM, PDT | From screeninglog.com | See recent screeninglog news

The cast of Drew Barrymore’s directorial debut “Whip It!” is growing, and the latest to join Barrymore and Ellen Page are Marcia Gay Harden, Juliette Lewis, Kristen Wiig and Zoe Bell.

Based on the novel by Shauna Cross, the film centers on Bliss Cavendar (Page), a Texas teenager who finds a way of dealing with her misery after she discovers a roller derby league in Austin. Barrymore stars as her teammate.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Harden plays Bliss’ mother, a former beauty queen who would prefer to see her daughter compete in pageants. Wiig is set to play Bliss’ mentor, while Lewis appears as the star of Austin’s top team. Bell plays a derby star known as Bloody Holly.

Barrymore is directing a script by Cross. Shooting for “Whip It” will kick off later this summer.

Franck Tabouring

30 June 2008 8:15 AM, PDT | From ifc.com | See recent IFC news

By Stephen Saito

It's hard to say whether it's been the stifling heat or former Warner Independent chief Mark Gill's much-talked about "the sky really is falling" speech (published in full at indieWire here) that gave attendees of this year's Los Angeles Film Festival a sense of their own mortality. Then again, it could just be the way in which the effects of life-altering events have been examined in several of the festival's films, particularly in the narrative section.

When Gill, now heading up the indie shingle The Film Department, spoke at the adjoining film financing conference on the first Saturday of the festival, he decried the indie film marketplace as standing on the brink of oblivion, saying, "if you decide to make a movie budgeted under $10 million on your own tomorrow, you have a 99.9% chance of failure." On that basis, it's possible that "Winged Creatures," an ensemble drama

Stephen Saito

20 June 2008 12:12 AM, PDT | From GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news

I interviewed Quentin Tarantino once, three days after Kill Bill Vol. 1 was released. He was very excited, naturally, because the film debuted very well. We talked about a few things (for instance, he'd pick karaoke over Carrie Fisher, which I thought was surprising), and among the topics of discussion lo those many years ago was his war movie, Inglorious Bastards.

Qt said at that time that it would be his next film (Kill Bill Vol. 2 was already filmed, because they were originally one mammoth production, later cut in two). Well, his next film, as it turned out, was the extremely bad Death Proof, a film apologists tried to defend with shots like, "It'll become a classic on DVD" and "It suffers because it's at the end of a double feature."

Well, the DVD has been out for a while and I'm not sure it's become more legendary and

Colin Boyd

3 articles from 2008