A few more updates to end the week.
Let's start with Alessandra Torresani. The horror she is filming with Morgan Fairchild won't be called Paranormal Initiation, but American Horror House. She tweeted that they start shooting this week in Louisiana (Baton Rouge).
Mama Cylon has another new credit on the IMDb, for a thriller called The Moment, shot late last year. Here is the description from the official Fb page:
The film is a smart and sexy thriller about a war photographer (Lee) who returns to Los Angeles to rehabilitate after narrowly escaping death. While in the hospital she meets John and they develop a friendship that turns romantic. And then John goes missing. As Lee begins to investigate what happened, she begins to suspect that she killed him, and as she investigates further, she begins to suspect that her daughter killed him. The journalist in her wants to discover...
Let's start with Alessandra Torresani. The horror she is filming with Morgan Fairchild won't be called Paranormal Initiation, but American Horror House. She tweeted that they start shooting this week in Louisiana (Baton Rouge).
Mama Cylon has another new credit on the IMDb, for a thriller called The Moment, shot late last year. Here is the description from the official Fb page:
The film is a smart and sexy thriller about a war photographer (Lee) who returns to Los Angeles to rehabilitate after narrowly escaping death. While in the hospital she meets John and they develop a friendship that turns romantic. And then John goes missing. As Lee begins to investigate what happened, she begins to suspect that she killed him, and as she investigates further, she begins to suspect that her daughter killed him. The journalist in her wants to discover...
- 4/15/2012
- by fanshawe
- CapricaTV
What I'm about to tell you doesn't matter. You've already made up your minds on what your thoughts are on the film and of Ayn Rand. Conservatives and Christians are so fucking paranoid as to their own personal worldviews that anyone disparaging a product in line with their own ideologies are trashing it solely because they harbor a bias. It can't possibly be because the final product is actually inferior. You're not interested in my dimestore second-hand interpretation of the Puritanical Gordon Gekko crackpot movement Ayn Rand hatched called Objectivism, but by virtue of her infusing her novel Atlas Shrugged with it I need to delve somewhat. I know going in, it's a fruitless endeavor -- like Emily Dickinson wrote, "Haters gonna hate." But regardless of whether you feel that America is a welfare state bleeding the rich to slake the slavering laggard poor, or that no matter if it's...
- 4/18/2011
- by Brian Prisco
Atlas Shrugged Part I is a movie brimming with so much frustration that you almost expect the screen it’s playing on to have an aneurysm. It’s an honest attempt at adapting difficult (frankly, non-cinematic) material, and it fails spectacularly on almost every level. Dagny Taggart (Taylor Schilling) is the brains behind a legacy railroading corporation that faces the internal dim-wittedness of its President, James Taggart (Matthew Marsden) and the external hell of a government bent on regulating businesses into non-existence. It’s a Dystopian 2016, but Taggart is on the verge of a sexy and profitable partnership with steel head Henry Rearden (Grant Bowler). He provides an incredible new metal product for her to reform her lines in Colorado, and the day might be saved. But with the government actively trying to redistribute the wealth, will success even matter? The profound problems of the movie are rooted in its structure. It...
- 4/16/2011
- by Cole Abaius
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
In spite of, or perhaps because of, Ayn Rand‘s Atlas Shrugged’s status as one of the most acclaimed novels of all-time, a film version has eluded Hollywood for decades. Partially due to the economic collapse of 2008, interest in the novel has re-surged, which led to the possibility of another go at taking the book to screens. Things seemed like they were falling into place with Charlize Theron almost line up to star as lead character Dagny Taggart. She’s since moved on to other things, but a movie has been made based off the novel, despite a small budget and a cast of relative unknowns.
Anyway, the trailer’s shown up on the movie’s YouTube page, found over at ComingSoon. The film, which is the first of a planned trilogy, is directed by Paul Johansson and stars Taylor Schilling as Taggart, Grant Bowler as Hank Rearden, Matthew Marsden as James Taggart,...
Anyway, the trailer’s shown up on the movie’s YouTube page, found over at ComingSoon. The film, which is the first of a planned trilogy, is directed by Paul Johansson and stars Taylor Schilling as Taggart, Grant Bowler as Hank Rearden, Matthew Marsden as James Taggart,...
- 2/12/2011
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
Filming has now started for 5 weeks on the $5 million big screen adaptation of author Ayn Rand's 1957 novel "Atlas Shrugged".
Shooting in Los Angeles, "Atlas Shrugged Part One" is directed by Paul Johansson from a script by Patrick O'Toole, for producers John Aglialoro and Harmon Kaslow.
The book explores a dystopian United States where leading innovators, ranging from industrialists to artists, refuse to be exploited by society. Protagonist, 'Dagny Taggart', sees society collapse around her as the government increasingly asserts control over all industry, while society's most productive citizens, led by the mysterious 'John Galt', progressively drop out. Galt describes the strike as "stopping the motor of the world" by withdrawing the "minds" that drive society's growth and productivity; with their strike these creative minds hope to demonstrate that the economy and society would collapse without the profit motive and the efforts of the rational and productive.
The novel,...
Shooting in Los Angeles, "Atlas Shrugged Part One" is directed by Paul Johansson from a script by Patrick O'Toole, for producers John Aglialoro and Harmon Kaslow.
The book explores a dystopian United States where leading innovators, ranging from industrialists to artists, refuse to be exploited by society. Protagonist, 'Dagny Taggart', sees society collapse around her as the government increasingly asserts control over all industry, while society's most productive citizens, led by the mysterious 'John Galt', progressively drop out. Galt describes the strike as "stopping the motor of the world" by withdrawing the "minds" that drive society's growth and productivity; with their strike these creative minds hope to demonstrate that the economy and society would collapse without the profit motive and the efforts of the rational and productive.
The novel,...
- 6/15/2010
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
The feature adaptation of Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged" has started filming in Los Angeles. Shooting will last for around five weeks on the $5 million-budgeted independent film produced by John Aglialoro and Harmon Kaslow. "Atlas Shrugged Part One" is being directed by Paul Johansson from the screenplay by Brian Patrick O'Toole. "Atlas Shrugged" was first published in 1957 and tells of a dystopian version of the U.S. where society has collapsed as the government gains increasing control over industry. This decline takes place while the most productive citizens, led by John Galt, start vanishing. Paul Johansson of "One Tree Hill" plays Galt, Taylor Schilling will play the railroad executive Dagny Taggart, Grant Bowler ("Ugly Betty") has been cast as Henry Reardon, Michael Lerner ("A Serious Man") plays lobbyist Wesley Mouch and renowned helmer Nick Cassavetes is in as Richard McNamara. Other cast members include Matthew Marsdan as James Taggart and Graham Beckel as Ellis Wyatt.
- 6/14/2010
- Upcoming-Movies.com
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