July 2005
July 26th, 2005
World premiere of Harsh Times at the Toronto International Film Festival
David Ayer's Harsh Times, starring Christian Bale, Freddy Rodriguez and Eva Longoria, will have its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival (September 8 - 17, 2005).
"HARSH TIMES (USA), the directorial debut of screenwriter David Ayer (TRAINING DAY), is a world premiere and has also been added to Special Presentations. The film tells the story of two unemployed friends, Jim (Christian Bale), a war veteran, and Mike (Freddy Rodriguez), a computer programmer. When Jim persuades Mike to join him in search of excitement and adventure through the streets of South Central L.A., things take a turn toward disaster and the two unwittingly sow the seeds of their own destruction. The films also stars Eva Longoria."
July 21st, 2005
Bale, Zahn capture roles in Dawn
LOS ANGELES: Christian Bale and Steve Zahn will star for director Werner Herzog in Rescue Dawn, an action drama based on the filmmaker's acclaimed 1997 documentary, Little Dieter Needs to Fly.
The project, which has been coming together in fits and starts during the past year, begins shooting in Thailand in mid-August.
The film recounts the true story of German-born Dieter Dengler, who dreamed of being a pilot and eventually made his way to the United States, where he joined the military during the Vietnam War era. He was shot down over Vietnam and captured. Eventually he organized an escape with a small band of captives.
Bale will play Dengler, and Zahn will play an ill-looking and bent POW. The film has no domestic distributor.
Herzog's latest film, Grizzly Man, is a documentary on grizzly bear activists Timothy Treadwell and Amie Huguenard, who were killed in October 2003 while living among grizzlies in Alaska.
Bale, currently in theaters with Batman Begins, next appears in Terrence Malick's upcoming The New World.
Zahn voices Disney's upcoming animated feature Chicken Little and appears in the feature Bandidas, opposite Salma Hayek and Penelope Cruz. He most recently starred in "Sahara."
July 5th, 2005
Batman's New Lady?
Sequel rumor mill kicking into overdrive.
Batman-on-Film has the latest skinny on the inevitable sequel to Batman Begins,
which slipped to the number two spot at this past holiday weekend box office
but has shown better than expected legs.
BoF claims that relatively unknown actress Isla Fisher is being considered by Warner Bros. as Bruce Wayne's next love interest. The studio is said to be high on Fisher after seeing her in New Line's forthcoming comedy Wedding Crashers. (New Line, like Warners, is owned by AOL Time-Warner.) Whether Fisher is really in the running or if this is just her reps trying to drum up interest in her remains to be seen.
The site also reports that there has been some recent "activity" at the Cardington Hangers in Bedford, England where the sets for Batman Begins (particularly The Narrows) are housed. The nature of this activity wasn't elaborated on, however.
Until there are deals in place for director Chris Nolan and perhaps screenwriter David Goyer to return, all sequel rumors need to be viewed as just that: rumors. It doesn't mean they won't pan out. But for right now the major element (Nolan) that would galvanize this project hasn't been re-signed.
By Stax
Source: Filmforce.com
July 2nd, 2005
By now, comic book fans have had time to see "Batman Begins" once, twice or maybe even more. The ending of the film can't help but excite audiences about the villain of the next installment, and star Christian Bale says he's as excited as anyone else. "I want to see the Joker, because I think it will be a very different kind of Joker than people have seen before," he said. "I think even the card that you see at the end of the movie shows that it is a darker, more sinister-looking Joker than anything I have seen depicted before. I think it would be a good adversary." Names like Sean Penn, Paul Bettany and Crispin Glover are already ricocheting around Hollywood, but it's doubtful that the Joker card will be dealt anytime in the near future.