After the success of Taken and Gran Torino, Hollywood has been on a vigilante kick. And right now, Bryan Singer (along with studio execs all over town) has been seriously considering getting his revenge on with The Prisoners, a much-sought-after thriller script to which Mark Wahlberg is attached to star as a Boston dad who takes the law into his own hands when his young daughter is kidnapped. The screenplay, which has been compared to The Silence of the Lambs and Seven, has been buzzed about as a calling card for its unknown writer, Aaron Guzikowski, and as a rare project targeted at adult audiences but with real commercial potential. When asked whether The Prisoners will be his next movie, Singer told EW: 'I don't know yet. But I'm definitely intrigued. It's a great script. And I'd love to work with Mark.' source: EW
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The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus Clip

May 23, 2009 | Posted by Staff in Movie Trailers,Clips, Video| 0 comments
A 1 min clip of  Terry Gilliam’s The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus which premiered in Cannes on Saturday. Reviews have been surfacing  and most of them, unsurprisingly, focus on two key factors – that this film containsHeath Ledger’s final performance and that a Gilliam film is somehow difficult or appeals only to a few. Her are some: The Hollywood Reporter: The first big question about Terry Gilliam’s The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus involves how the filmmaker managed to complete the film when his star Heath Ledger died in the middle of shooting. The answer is with great imagination and skill. Variety: Especially considering the trauma and difficulties stemming from Heath Ledger’s death during production and the fact that Terry Gilliam hadn’t directed a good picture in more than a decade, the helmer has made a pretty good thing out of a very bad situation in The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus.

Pic’s second half is resplendent with ever-changing CGI backdrops for the imaginary world the doctor has created with his gift . “Original designers and art directors” Dave Warren and Gilliam no doubt played a dominant role in conceiving the film’s look, which is ornate without being a riot of detail, but production designer Anastasia Masaro, visual effects supervisors John Paul Docherty and Richard Bain and costume designer Monique Prudhomme certainly made major contributions as well. Other production values are strong across the board

BBC: …memorable performances come courtesy of singer Tom Waits, who is a beatnik Satan known as Nick, and Verne Troyer – best known as Mini-Me – who plays the tiny Fool to Christopher Plummer’s Lear-like Parnassus character. In a movie shifting between reality and the imagination with every scene, he is the only voice actually talking sense.

There’s no doubt that the imaginary world he’s created is awe-inspiring, but it’s ultimately designed for an art house audience. The critics at Cannes loved it, but most cinema-goers would need to see it more than once to start untangling the multiple themes.

The LA Times: Terry Gilliam went to the movies the other night, and this is what he saw. “Trailers from Transformers, G.I. Joe, Harry Potter; they all had the same explosions, the same sound mix, the same rhythms, it was all the same film,” the director says, still not quite believing it. ” Hollywood’s been doing this for 20 years. When’s it going to end?”

It ends right here and now at Cannes’ Festival du Film, where Gilliam’s The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, a work as exceptional and unusual as its title, premieres out of competition today. A tale of good and evil battling for souls that’s made with Gilliam’s fantastic and fantastical visual imagination, Imaginarium is the director’s best, most entertaining film in years.
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