By Ray Pride Pride@moviecitynews.com
Sundance 2006 premieres: Sneaks
Seventeen movies, including world premieres, starting with one of at least three Sundance entries concerning themselves with sleeeeeeep, Michel Gondry‘s The Science of Sleep, in a world premiere. Here’s the incomplete official site.
Baltasar Kormakur‘s followup to 101 Reykjavik, the Wisconsin-set mystery A Little Trip to Heaven. with Forest Whitaker and Julia Stiles. Here’s Variety’s bio of Kormakur, as well as the trailer for the new film.
Nick Cassavetes‘ Alpha Dog stars Emile Hirsch and Sharon Stone; the Russian trailer is here. It’s a drama about a suburban drug dealer, Jesse James Hollywood, who became one of the youngest men ever to be placed on the FBI’s Most Wanted List.
Terry Zwigoff‘s Art School Confidential is a second collaboration with graphic novel whiz Dan Clowes, after Ghost World.
Here’s a production profileof Zwigoff from the Reporter.
Trailer for Clive Gordon‘s Cargo here.
The camera supply house behind Finn Taylor‘s The Darwin Awards, with Winona Ryder, gives some background here and SF Chronicle has a making-of
Wim Wenders has a page on his personal site for the Sam Shepard collaboration, Don’t Come Knocking; the trailer is here.
Variety describes the deal-making behind opening night’s Friends with Money, by writer-director Nicole Holofcener.
The British Films catalogue synopsizes Kinky Boots, directed by Julian Jarrold. BBC Northamptonshire does a polish on “the feature film about Northampton’s boot and shoe industry”; the trailer is here.
Prodco Bona Fide‘s latest is Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris’ Little Miss Sunshine.
Paul McGuigan works to get Quebec’s Wicker Park out of his system with a NYC mob murder thriller; here’s the Russian trailer for Lucky Number Slevin
Here’s the official site for Jonathan Demme‘s Neil Young Heart of Gold, including the trailer for the two-night perf at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium.
For the $17 million The Illusionist, Neil Burger was talking it up while promoting his 2002 Interview with the Assassin; here’s the Sundance catalog copy.
The Business of Strangers director Patrick Stettner collaborates on an adaptation of Armistead Maupin‘s novel, The Night Listener, starring Robin Williams. Maupin’s site is here; prodco Hart-Sharp describes the movie like this.
Spanish director Isabel Coixet collaborates again with Sarah Polley in The Secret Life of Words, in which “a nurse forgoes her first holiday in years, opting to travel to a remote oil rig, where she cares for a man [Tim Robbins] suffering from severe burns.
Here’s the trailer on Coixet’s site.
Plus: the trailer for Jason Reitman‘s Thank You For Smoking.