Brian DePalma News

January 27, 2011
Brian De Palma Commits a Remade Love Crime
Brian De Palma has signed on to direct a remake of Alain Corneau's "Love Crime," which he says will "combine eroticism, suspense, mystery and murder into one spell-binding cinematic experience." More...

June 23, 2008
Kim Newman on... Hex
RT Obscura, the exclusive column by renowned critic Kim Newman, sees the writer plumbing the depths of the RT archive in search of some forgotten gems. In his 18th column, Kim uncovers Hex, a 1973 film in the "Weird Hippie Shit" genre starring everyone's favourite Carradine - Keith, and the one, the only Gary Busey. More...

June 4, 2008
De Palma to Helm The Boston Stranglers
Brian De Palma will direct The Boston Stranglers, a new film to be based on the real-life story of Albert DeSalvo's conviction for a series of early '60s murders. More...

April 24, 2008
Fox 2000 Still Feeling De Palma's Fury
Fox 2000 has hired Brian McGreevy and Lee Shipman to write a remake of The Fury, Brian De Palma's 1978 film adaptation of the John Farris novel. More...

March 7, 2008
Guide of the Dead - An RT Romero Retrospective
As Diary of the Dead hits cinemas, we sit down with George A. Romero to talk retrospectively about what has come from his zombie opus, the Dead series, and what the future has in store... More...

February 18, 2008
RT on DVD: Cram For The Oscars With Michael Clayton, In The Valley of Elah, And More Out This Week
Ready those Oscar ballots! With the Academy Awards around the corner, it's time to start catching up on what you missed in theaters. Snap up this week's offerings for award-nominated performances (George Clooney and Co. in Michael Clayton, Tommy Lee Jones in In the Valley of Elah) and a handful more notable titles of 2007 (American Gangster, Lust, Caution, Margot at the Wedding, Redacted). More...

November 15, 2007
Critical Consensus: Beowulf is Certified Fresh; Magorium Short on Magic; Cholera is Under the Weather
This week at the movies, we've got epic poems come to life (Beowulf, starring Ray Winstone and Angelina Jolie), a magical toy shop (Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium, starring Dustin Hoffman and Natalie Portman), and romance in the midst of infectious disease (Love in the Time of Cholera, starring Javier Bardem). What do the critics have to say? More...

November 15, 2007
Brian De Palma on Redacted: The RT Interview
Brian De Palma fans beware: his most recent film will make you think that the veteran director has -- to borrow a line from "Full Metal Jacket" -- been "born again hard." More...

October 12, 2007
De Palma Fights Redacted Edits
In a classic example of irony in film, Brian De Palma has found that portions of his war drama Redacted have been...well, redacted. More...

September 9, 2007
Ang Lee, Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett Earn Venice Festival Honors
The Venice Film Festival awarded top honors to Ang Lee, Brad Pitt, and more as festivities came to a close Saturday. More...

May 25, 2007
The Weekly Ketchup: "Dark Knight" Update, New "Transformers" Trailer, New Director For "Punisher 2," And More!
In this Week's Ketchup, the "Dark Knight" official site got a slick update, the "Transformers" latest trailer kills, and the sequel to "The Punisher" has a new director (now about that Frank Castle role...). More...

May 18, 2007
Gerard Butler Joins "Capone Rising" Cast
Gerard Butler, of bearded "300" fame, is the latest to join the cast of "The Untouchables: Capone Rising," Variety reports. Butler will topline the film, playing one of the leads. More...

May 11, 2007
Nic Cage Cast As Capone In "Untouchables" Sequel
Nicolas Cage is set to slide into the role of mobster Al Capone in a prequel to 1987's "The Untouchables" that will examine the gangster's early years and rise to power. More...

February 22, 2007
De Palma Directing That "Untouchables" Prequel?
I know we've probably talked about this one before: Apparently there's going to be a prequel to Brian De Palma's "The Untouchables," and in a recent interview with AICN, moviemaker Antoine Fuqua mentioned that De Palma may actually be directing this prequel. Hmmm. More...

October 31, 2006
Update on the Jackie Chan/Jet Li Project ... Plus: Untouchables 2!
A while back we shared the news that Jackie Chan and Jet Li would be co-starring in an epic adventure based on the legend of The Monkey King. And now we have an update on that project. Also, in semi-related news, it looks like that "Untouchables" prequel is getting ready to roll. More...

September 25, 2006
Toronto Wrapup: Senh, Jen And Tim's Raves And Rants From The Festival
We saw some great movies, some of them big ("Babel") and some tiny ("The Patterns Trilogy"). We saw some interesting failures ("The Banquet") and some outright bombs ("All The King's Men"). We caught glimpses of big stars (Jude Law, Kate Winslet, Reese Witherspoon, and Sean Penn, among others) and important directors (Brian De Palma, Paul Verhoeven, Darren Aronofsky, and John Waters). (Check the photo gallery for more.) More...

September 21, 2006
Box Office Guru Preview: Jackass Crashes into Theaters
Four new films open wide, but they may not be enough to stop the North American box office from suffering its third consecutive down weekend. More...

September 18, 2006
Box Office Wrapup: Gridiron Gang #1, but Box Office Still Fumbles
Wrestler-turned-actor The Rock suffered the worst opening of his career with the football drama Gridiron Gang, but thanks to weak competition, it was still enough to capture the number one position at the North American box office. More...

September 14, 2006
Critical Consensus: "Black Dahlia" Wilts; "Gridiron Gang" Fumbles; "Last Kiss" Just Like the First; "Everyone's Hero" Not
This week at the movies, we have De Palma's latest thriller ("The Black Dahlia"), Zach Braff whining about growing up ("The Last Kiss"), The Rock teaching young criminals about the reformative nature of football ("Gridiron Gang"), and the late Christopher Reeve's brainchild ("Everyone's Hero"). What do the critics have to say? More...

September 14, 2006
Box Office Guru Preview: Rock's "Gang" Aims to Score Big
Following the worst box office weekend in three years, Hollywood has nowhere to go but up. It hopes. More...

August 25, 2006
Weekly Ketchup: "Transformers," "Indiana Jones" rumors, ?The Incredible Hulk? and More!
In this week's Ketchup, we found out which Autobots and Decepticons will appear in "Transformers," and George Lucas gave some more hints about the new "Indiana Jones?"flick. More...

July 28, 2006
Trailer Bulletin: Hartnett, Scarlett & Swank in De Palma's "Black Dahlia"
Master of suspense / veteran storyteller / admirer of Hitchcock / Brian De Palma has a new film on the horizon, his first since 2002's "Femme Fatale," and it looks to be a pretty good one. Starring Josh Hartnett, Scarlett Johansson, and Hilary Swank, "The Black Dahlia" is an old-school Hollywood murder-mystery based on the novel by James Ellroy. And there's a trailer. More...

April 13, 2006
Newcomer Takes a Stab at a "Sisters" Remake
One of Brian De Palma's earliest (and most effective) creepers was 1973's Sisters (which starred Margot Kidder, Jennifer Salt, and Charles Durning), a flick which now seems primed for the remake pump. According to Variety, first-timer Douglas Buck is already shooting his remake up in Vancouver. More...

April 7, 2006
Josh Hartnett Takes the Wheel with "Slevin," "Dahlia"
Josh Hartnett is still in his twenties, but he's already taken a sabbatical from the Hollywood rat race; now he's come back refocused, with the neo-noir comedy "Lucky Number Slevin," and a batch of promising projects on his slate. RT's Jen Yamato speaks with Hartnett about "Slevin," "The Black Dahlia," his career, and more. More...

March 30, 2006
New Line Returns to "Land of the Living"
Following a hotly-contested bidding war, New Line Cinema stood victorious with the film rights to Nicci French's "Land of the Living," a fairly intense-sounding story of horror, survival, and ... skepticism. Celebrated author James Ellroy is attached to adapt Ms. French's novel into screenplay form. More...

December 12, 2005
Teaser Time: Mission Impossible 3
Fans of the "Impossible" can check out the early teaser for "MI:3" by heading on over to Yahoo! Movies while wondering if J.J. Abrams can follow the act laid down by Brian de Palma and John Woo. More...

October 10, 2005
Uwe Boll Talks Dungeon Siege, Bloodrayne, and More.
Director Uwe Boll was kind enough to take time away from filming "Dungeon Siege" to answer a few questions about projects, past, present, and future for Skewed and Reviewed. More...

June 28, 2005
De Palma Signs On for an "Untouchable" Prequel
Variety reports that celebrated director Brian De Palma will return to old-school Chicago to direct "The Untouchables: Capone Rising," which will be a prequel to his 1987 hit "The Untouchables." More...