Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Today's Film News: Dark Cash


By Katey Rich

Dk_2This is kind of yesterday's news, but why not open the day on a happy note: The Dark Knight in fact grossed $3 million more than initially reported Monday, bringing its three-day total to $158.3 million. Variety adds that the new figure takes the overall weekend haul to $260 million, a titanic amount that far outpaces the previous record of $218 million.



Charlie Kaufman's Synecdoche, New York premiered to mixed results at Cannes in May, but it may finally find an American distributor with Sony Pictures Classics, which The Hollywood Reporter says is in advanced negotiations to acquire the film. Philip Seymour Hoffman stars in the movie as a theatre director who builds a recreation of New York City inside a soundstage.



BaroncoheSacha Baron Cohen can add "Hispanic lawyer" to his long list of shape-shifting characters, with the upcoming comedy Accidentes. The actor will star in the film written by Peter Baynham, who also co-wrote Borat with Baron Cohen. The character, according to Variety, is an ambulance-chasing lawyer who has a change of heart and becomes a crusader for the working class of Los Angeles.



And finally, Night at the Museum director Shawn Levy intended to make the jump to independent, personal filmmaking with The Way Back, but he will now only serve as a producer on the project, which has switched from Fox Searchlight to Mandate Pictures. The Reporter says that no director is yet attached to replace Levy.



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