October 7, 2009
Paul Schrader Moves to Xtrme City
Paul Schrader has always followed his own path as a filmmaker -- and now that path has led him to Bollywood, where he's working on "Xtrme City," a bilingual collaboration with Mushtaq Shiekh about "a former U.S. ranger who joins forces with an Indian commando to rescue the ranger's sister-in-law, who's been kidnapped by a crime lord in Mumbai's underworld."
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May 31, 2009
Five Favourite Films with Renny Harlin
Finnish director Renny Harlin has one of the most schizophrenic CVs in movie-dom. He's directed some of the most beloved action films of the last 20 years, including Die Hard 2, Deep Blue Sea, The Long Kiss Goodnight and, of course, Cliffhanger. His latest, the faintly-ridiculous but always-enjoyable 12 Rounds continues this tradition. He's also, however, responsible for two of the most reviled movies of recent times -- for notorious flop Cutthroat Island and for taking a hatchet to Paul Schrader's The Exorcist: The Beginning. For someone with such a varied back catalogue, we had no idea what his five favourite movies would be. So we asked.
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September 13, 2005
Schrader to Resurrect "Adam"
Variety reports that writer/director Paul Schrader will helm the Holocaust drama "Adam Resurrected," from a screenplay by Noah Stollman, beginning next summer in Germany, Israel, and Romania.
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August 12, 2005
WB Slices into a "Yakuza" Remake
Warner Bros. and producer Billy Gerber plan to mount a remake of Sydney Pollack's 1975 thriller "The Yakuza," says The Hollywood Reporter.
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April 14, 2005
Schrader's Exorcist Prequel Gets a Release Date
Remember all the hoopla that surrounded last year's "Exorcist: The Beginning"? How the execs didn't like Paul Schrader's cut so they hired Renny Harlin to do the whole movie pretty much from scratch? And how the movie ended up, well, pretty bad, even after all that trouble? Well now we can see how "unreleasable" Schrader's original version actually is, because WB will be releasing it (in limited release) on May 20th.
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December 9, 2004
Schrader's Shelved Exorcist Sequel to See Limited Release in '05
Moviehole chimes in with an exclusive scoop update on Paul Schrader's version of "Exorcist: The Beginning": "Why isn't Paul Schrader's cut of "The Exorcist: The Beginning" listed as an extras component on the soon-to-be-released DVD? Easy: His version is set to be released as a stand-alone movie all of its own.
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