• Tom O’Neil takes back Gold Derby, prepares re-launch of GoldDerby.com on November 1. [Gold Derby]
• Grilling a Harvard grad on the accuracy of final club depictions in “The Social Network.” [Vulture]
• Cole Abaius chats with Armie Hammer about his performance(s) in the film. [Film School Rejects]
• Sitting down with Best Supporting Actress nominee Linda Blair as “The Exorcist” makes its way to Blu-ray. [Bloody Disgusting]
• Jeffrey Wells begs to differ with himself, maintains that “Let Me In” should be an awards contender. Should’s (like deserve’s) got nothing to do with it. [Hollywood Elsewhere]
• Wes Anderson picks his 12 favorite Criterion releases. [Criterion]
• Steve Pond weighs in on Oscar’s potential move to January in 2012. [The Odds]
• Billy Ray set to direct the remake of Oscar-winning “The Secret in Their Eyes.” [Deadline]
• Todd McCarthy heads over to The Hollywood Reporter as Anne Thompson doubles down. [Thompson on Hollywood]
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8 responses to “10/7 OSCARWEB ROUND-UP: O’Neil relaunches Gold Derby, sticking up for ‘Let Me In,’ remaking ‘The Secret in Their Eyes’”
When I was looking over the Playlist, I thought it said Billy Ray Cyrus. Now my day is a little less weird.
All these f**king remakes, of foreign films that have barely been out a year. It’s really getting offensive. Good god.
I just hope they don’t touch A Prophet or A Christmas Tale. I doubt any studio would put up the money for a remake of the White Ribbon, either.
As much as I hate the idea of remakes, I sold the remake rights to my film without thinking twice so it’s worth remembering that the original artists don’t seem to mind too much.
Chad, I hear you from that standpoint. It’s the cultural malaise I’m irate with. There’s a level of respect that’s lost when folks don’t get a chance to discover a film before a more convenient (ie English) remake swoops in for the money.
But it does help to know the artist is getting paid.
Who really cares. The original wasn’t good, the creators get an extra paycheck, and a larger audience gets a film.
I can’t really comment on the remake issue. But it’s obviously that their best effort at filmmaking is to remake films, foreign or domestic made, and even a recently released one.
Billy Ray is a better director than Juan Jose Campanella (from what i’ve seen of the latter), so there is that going for the remake. And Ray’s films are hardly Hollywood pap, so he could perhaps improve upon the originals interesting-yet-dull bones and put some real meat on it. Make that ending feel legitimately BIG instead of the mere “is it over now?” limpness that the original has (for me).