*CONFIRMED* Olivier Assayas's "Idol's Eye" with Robert Pattinson and Robert Pattinson is cancelled.....

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Makes me soooo sad...!

from TheFilmStage

Production Cancelled on Olivier Assayas’ ‘Idol’s Eye’ With Robert De Niro and Robert Pattinson 

After building a career on the international circuit, director Olivier Assayas was finally set to make his biggest-profile feature yet with Idol’s Eye, a crime drama starring Robert De Niro, Robert Pattinson, and Rachel Weisz. In fact, we spoke to him just last month as he confirmed a shoot would be underway soon. Now, disappointingly, just as filming was beginning, the production has been called off. 

Word of trouble arrived this morning and now Deadline confirmed that Benaroya Pictures has shut down the shoot. “Due to the criteria for financing not being met by producers, Benaroya Pictures has formally decided to discontinue financing the motion picture titled Idol’s Eye,” they revealed in a statement. “The company cannot continue to put its investment at risk and has been forced to stop cash flowing the production. This is something all of us wanted to avoid, but due to the producers missing a number of financing criteria deadlines that were mutually established by all parties, we were left with no other options.” 

For those hoping that the same creative team will return somewhere down the line once the issues are resolved, it doesn’t look likely. They say they plan to “retain the rights of the film and move forward with production on the picture after we generate a revised script and assemble a new filmmaking team.” We’ll have to wait and see how this shakes out, but hopefully Assayas is already planning an Irma Vep-style feature surrounding the events.

from The Playlist

First you get the money, then you get the casting, then you start shooting.... but the folks behind Olivier Assayas' "Idols Eye" didn't get that first part figured out. 

Due to have been shooting by this point, Deadline reports that production on the gangster flick has been axed, with Benaroya Pictures shuttering the movie. Here's what they said in a statement: Due to the criteria for financing not being met by producers, Benaroya Pictures has formally decided to discontinue financing the motion picture titled IDOL’S EYE. The company cannot continue to put its investment at risk and has been forced to stop cash flowing the production. This is something all of us wanted to avoid, but due to the producers missing a number of financing criteria deadlines that were mutually established by all parties, we were left with no other options. Benaroya Pictures plans to retain the rights of the film and move forward with production on the picture after we generate a revised script and assemble a new filmmaking team. 

And it's disappoint, because the picture was a promising one. Robert Pattinson, Robert De Niro and Rachel Weisz, were slated to star in the French auteur's film, based on a 2007 Playboy article called "Boosting The Big Tuna" by Hillel Levin and is inspired by actual events, about a bunch of regular criminals who accidentally rob a porn store backed by Chicago mafia boss Tony Accardo. 

Perhaps someone can step in and save the movie with financing, but even if so, these are all actors with busy schedules, so it remains to be seen if this movie will be made with this particular cast involved. A disappointment to sure, particularly as it would've marked a pretty fascinating gear change by Assayas, but it seems we can't have nice things, when it comes to this project.

from @GossipCop

from Gossip Cop

Here’s an exclusive statement from producers to Gossip Cop: 

“Due to the criteria for financing not being met by producers, Benaroya Pictures has formally decided to discontinue financing the motion picture titled IDOL’S EYE. The company cannot continue to put its investment at risk and has been forced to stop cash flowing the production.”

It continues, “This is something all of us wanted to avoid, but due to the producers missing a number of financing criteria deadlines that were mutually established by all parties, we were left with no other options. Benaroya Pictures plans to retain the rights of the film and move forward with production on the picture after we generate a revised script and assemble a new filmmaking team.”

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*UPDATE* Is Olivier Assayas's "Idol's Eye" with Robert Pattinson and Robert Pattinson cancelled.....???

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Idol's Eye was supposed to start today (after being postponed a few times)...
that's what some actors tweeted earlier...
for now, we still don't know if it is true or not, and why as there is NO official indication...
but it seems it is for real.... HOW SAD...!!
and I just hope everybody's fine...

from @shanedaly

 

from @MrAaronAbrams

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from Gossipcop

UPDATE: A rep for Daly confirms to Gossip Cop that he was informed early Monday that Idol’s Eye isn’t going forward now. We will have updates.

source: @lurker1510
source update: @GossipCop

*UPDATE* "Maps To The Stars"... Rachel Weisz no more (never been..??) attached to the project anymore...

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from belfasttelegraph

Rachel also denied stories that she will be working with David Cronenberg in 'Maps To The Stars' with Robert Pattinson and Viggo Mortensen. 

"I'm not in that. I'm unemployed for now," she joked.

petite trad...

Rachel a nié également les histoires/rumeurs disant qu'elle allait travailler avec David Cronenberg dans "Maps to the Stars" avec Robert Pattinson et Viggo Mortensen. 

"Je ne suis pas là dedans. Je suis sans emploi pour le moment," a t elle plaisanté.

Ooh well....

source: belfasttelegraph via Spunk Ransom

*DETAILS* about "Maps to the stars"... with Robert Pattinson and David Cronenberg...

Production and filming date... 

from Cineuropa

David Cronenberg and French production companies decidedly seem to be getting on very well. After his Cosmopolis, produced byAlfama, the Canadian director is now to work with France again.  

According to Le Film Français, SBS Productions (directed by Saïd Ben Saïd) is to lead production on his next feature, Maps To The Stars. The film is to star Rachel Weisz, Viggo Mortensen, and Robert Pattinson. Co-produced by Germany (Integral Films) and Canada, the film, to recount the misadventures of two child actors caught up in Hollywood's dark side, is to start shooting next May.

hé hé... tite trad. ...

David Cronenberg et sociétés de production françaises décidément semblent très bien s'entendre. Après son Cosmopolis, produit by Alfama, le metteur en scène canadien va travailler à nouveau avec la France à nouveau.

Selon Le Film Français, les Productions SBS (dirigé par Saïd Ben Saïd) vont diriger la production de son prochain long métrage, "Maps to the stars". Le film aura pour têtes d'affiche Rachel Weisz, Viggo Mortensen et Robert Pattinson. Co-produit par l'Allemagne (Films Integral) et par le Canada, le film, qui raconte les mésaventures de deux enfants acteurs pris dans le côté sombre de Hollywood, devrait commencer son tournage en mai prochain.

source: LeFilmFrancais & Cineuropa via Pattinson Art Work

*UPDATE* Maps of the stars... with Robert Pattinson... David Cronenberg...

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Me... Happy happy happy... because, Rob will shoot again with David Cronenberg...!!

Rachel Weisz joins Robert Pattinson and Viggo Mortensen in David Cronenberg’s ‘Maps to the Stars’... Set For Spring 2013 

From TheFilmStage

Breathe another sigh of relief, for David Cronenberg is assembling his next film. As was reported just when Cosmopolis had a world premiere, Canada’s best-known cinematic artist is making another endeavor with that film’s star, Robert Pattinson, and his newest favorite collaborator, Viggo Mortensen, on a Hollywood satire called Maps to the Stars. Already good, right? Well, there’s even more too add. 

French site Allocine report that Rachel Weisz is now the cast’s third member — who, however, it has not been said — while a production start is being eyed for next May.Described as “very acerbic and satirical” by Cronenberg himself, Maps to the Stars, from what we understand, is a Bruce Wagner-scripted film which revolves around actors and agents, with a specific focus on “two child actors ruined by Hollywood’s depravity.” This central content, no matter if what we’ve heard is even true, has made this a difficult-to-implement project — movement actually began in early 2006, for instance — but when you get (for lack of a better term) stars in line, it can fall together. Respected producer Saïd Ben Saïd doesn’t hurt, either.

They’re good stars, too. Cronenberg has already shown an ability to coax wonderful and unexpected performances from Maps‘ male stars, while, on the other side of the gender coin, I think Weisz has already secured her own image. It’s still a little while off until cameras begin rolling here, but the news should be coming in on and off for the next six months. Tune in, because I think this has a chance of being something special.
Saïd Ben Saïd will be producing.

 via AlloCine

Maps to the stars, prochain film que réalisera David Cronenberg en mai 2013 pour un budget de 15 millions de dollars, aura pour têtes d’affiche Viggo Mortensen, Robert Pattinson et Rachel Weisz. Les deux premiers sont habitués du metteur en scène, puisque Mortensen était présent dans A History of Violence (2005), Les Promesses de l'ombre(2007) et A Dangerous Method (2011), tandis que Pattinson a porté Cosmopolis sorti cette année. Sur un scénario de Bruce Wagner, Maps to the stars se centrera sur un sujet très cinématographique : Hollywood. A noter également que, pour la deuxième fois (de suite) de sa carrière, Cronenberg est accompagné par un producteur français (Paulo Branco avait produit Cosmopolis) : Saïd Ben Saïd, qui a récemment produit, via SBS Films, Carnage et Cherchez Hortense.

from The Playlist

Brewing since 2006, not much has really been known about David Cronenberg's "Map to the Stars." In May he described it as, "very extreme. It's not obviously a very big commercial movie, and even as an independent film it's difficult. 'Maps to the Stars' is completely different [from 'Cosmopolis'], but it's very acerbic and satirical, it's a hard sell." But Cronenberg has made a career out of mounting one "hard sell" picture after another, and thanks to three major stars on board, this one looks like it's getting made. 

Allocine (via The Film Stage) reveals that Rachel Weisz has joined Robert Pattinson and the now-confirmed Viggo Mortensen in the upcoming film. Penned by Bruce Wagner, Cronenberg previously explained: "You could say it's a Hollywood film because the characters are agents, actors and managers, but it is not a satire like 'The Player.' Hollywood is a world that is seductive and repellent at the same time, and it is the combination of the two that makes it so potent. I won't fall back on some clichés or simplistic sloganeering, because the culture and what it reveals about Western culture and the rest of the world is very complex."

The movie, oddly enough, will be his first picture shot on U.S. soil, with the filmmaker revealing earlier this year that it will lens in Los Angeles. No word yet on the roles the trio will play, but this one appears to be moving along nicely. Plans are underway for production to begin in May all on a budget of $15 million.

It will be interesting to see how the methodical Mortensen and young upstart Pattinson work together, and Weisz is always a treat. As usual with Cronenberg, we're curious to see what he brings to the big screen next.   

source: RPL

Latest official production info on "Unbound Captives"...

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HYDE PARK ENTERTAINMENT
STATUS: Spring 2012
LOCATION: New Mexico
PRODUCER: Ashok Amritraj – Gil Netter
WRITER/DIRECTOR: Madeleine Stowe
LP: Grant Hill
CAST: Hugh Jackman – Rachel Weisz – Robert Pattinson
GIL NETTER PRODUCTIONS
ATLAS ENTERTAINMENT

The year is 1860 and a turbulent America is on the brink of a civil war. The story tells the volatile, epic tale of Tom, a white frontiersman, raised Comanche and his love for May, a woman whose son and daughter are kidnapped by Indians. Their parallel lives intersect as they battle through a vast and violent landscape, bound together by their deep love and haunted pasts, their willfulness, and a relentless search to find her disappeared children.

source: @Larry411 via ToR