By Katey Rich
If Sarah Jessica Parker is trying to move away from her defining role as Carrie on "Sex and the City," she sure isn't doing a good job of it. The Reporter says her next role will be in a movie called The Ivy Chronicles, about a woman struggling with being single while part of New York City's elite society. No, nothing at all like Carrie Bradshaw. The Warner Bros. project is based on Karen Quinn's novel. Yet another nail in the coffin for the New York that doesn't resemble the glitzy world of these types of movies.
Perhaps inspired by his most acclaimed recent role, Nicolas Cage will be mimicking his Adaptation character and playing a screenwriter once again. He'll star in Roman Polanski's next project, The Ghost, about a political ghostwriter hired to write the British prime minister's (Pierce Brosnan) memoirs after the original writer turns up dead. Variety reports that Tilda Swinton will play the prime minister's wife, which makes the erstwhile James Bond and the recent Oscar winner one of the stranger onscreen pairings I've heard of recently. But that can be a good thing!
More bad news for foreign films hoping to get a leg up in America. The acclaimed Brazilian drama Elite Squad was picked up for distribution by The Weinstein Company after it won the Golden Bear award at the Berlin Film Festival, but now it will only see distribution through IFC's simultaneous theatrical and on-demand release program. According to The Reporter, that's a disappointment for a film that could have benefited from the Weinsteins' legendary skill at promoting smaller films. The Weinsteins retain the rights to the film, and IFC Entertainment wouldn't disclose the terms of the deal.
Every few years a movie about dogs doing work in snowy climates-- Iron Will, Eight Below, and don't make me bring up Snow Dogs-- shows up in theatres, so I guess it's time for another. Variety reports that Chronicles of Narnia producer Mark Johnson will help Walden Media adapt the nonfiction book The Cruelest Miles: The Heroic Story of Dogs and Men in a Race Against an Epidemic, about a 1925 diphtheria outbreak in Alaska. Cuba Gooding, Jr. does not appear to be involved, so they're already off to a good start.
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