Posts Tagged ‘LA Times’

Directing his first feature film since 2006’s “Idiocracy,” (and only his second since 1999’s “Office Space,”) Mike Judge returns in September with “Extract,” a workplace comedy starring Jason Bateman.

Donald Clarke of The Irish Times visits the set of “Sensation” — the latest film from Tom Hall, the director of this year’s Arthur Mathews (”The Fast Show” and “Father Ted”) penned “Wide Open Spaces” — to find Sex, Violence, Perversion…in Bray.

Coming to U.S. theaters next month, Oliver Hirschbiegel’s “Five Minutes of Heaven” is based on a 1975 teenager’s murder in Northern Ireland and a fictional present-day meeting engineered by a television program between the youth who committed the crime (Liam Neeson) and the victim’s brother (James Nesbitt).

Geoff Boucher of the LA Times reports that the oft-rumored “Ghostbusters III” may start filming this winter while the NY Post’s Reed Tucker scores details after speaking with several of the project’s major players. (No word from Ernie Hudson, though.)

One Film Wonder: In a film career spanning a mere 13 movies, Rik Van Nuttter was credited with using not one but three distinct screen names: Rik Van Nutter, Rik Von Nutter and…Clyde Rogers. Married to Anita Ekberg during her international bombshell heyday, Rik reportedly snagged the role of CIA agent Felix Leiter in “Thunderball” as a favor to Edberg by Bond producer Albert “Cubby” Broccoli for using her poster image from the 1963 film “Call Me Bwana” in a well-crafted action sequence in “From Russia With Love.”