Chris Sparling Archives - The Playlist

‘Lakewood’: Naomi Watts Works Overtime In This Ill-Conceived School Shooting Drama [TIFF Review]

Marya E. Gates — Sun, 12 Sep 2021 18:00:00 +0000

I’m not entirely convinced everything needs to be a movie. In this case, I don’t know that there is any way to make a film about the journey of a parent as they hear their child’s school has an active shooter without it feeling exploitative of our nation’s current epidemic of violence. That didn’t stop director Phillip Noyce (“Dead Calm,” “Rabbit-Proof Fence”) and screenwriter Chris Sparling (“Buried”) from trying.

Continue reading ‘Lakewood’: Naomi Watts Works Overtime In This Ill-Conceived School Shooting Drama [TIFF Review] at The Playlist.

Ed Zwick To Direct Manga Adaptation ‘Soul ReViver,’ Fatih Akin Drops Hrant Dink Project And More

The Playlist Staff — Fri, 01 Aug 2014 22:22:23 +0000

Ed Zwick To Direct Manga Adaptation 'Soul ReViver,' Fatih Akin Drops Hrant Dink Project And More

Continue reading Ed Zwick To Direct Manga Adaptation ‘Soul ReViver,’ Fatih Akin Drops Hrant Dink Project And More at The Playlist.

Review: ‘ATM’ Is An Impossibly Implausible, Hilariously Bad B-Movie

The Playlist Staff — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 21:16:46 +0000

Review: 'ATM' Is An Impossibly Implausible, Hilariously Bad B-Movie

Continue reading Review: ‘ATM’ Is An Impossibly Implausible, Hilariously Bad B-Movie at The Playlist.

Mandy Moore & Rodrigo Santoro To Star In ‘Falling Slowly’ From ‘Buried’ Writer Chris Sparling

The Playlist Staff — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 06:50:12 +0000

Mandy Moore & Rodrigo Santoro To Star In 'Falling Slowly' From 'Buried' Writer Chris Sparling

Continue reading Mandy Moore & Rodrigo Santoro To Star In ‘Falling Slowly’ From ‘Buried’ Writer Chris Sparling at The Playlist.

M Night Shyamalan Teaming Up With ‘Buried’ Writer For ‘Night Chronicles’ Project ‘Twelve Strangers’; Plus More Details Emerge On Secret Script

Oliver Lyttelton — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 22:40:00 +0000

We’re only a week away now from M. Night Shyamalan’s “The Last Airbender,” which the filmmaker hopes will salvage his reputation after his disastrous last couple of pictures (and signs are there it could well do that, commercially if not critically). He’s already moving on; details broke earlier in the week about the director’s secret new script, which is currently making the rounds around town, with Bruce Willis, Bradley Cooper and Gwyneth Paltrow attached.

Shyamalan clearly isn’t content with just that, however, as Deadline are reporting that the writer/director is currently setting up the second movie in his “Night Chronicles” series, which like Sam Raimi’s Ghost House or Guillermo Del Toro’s Double Dare You, sees the helmer producing a series of low-budget horror pics.

Continue reading M Night Shyamalan Teaming Up With ‘Buried’ Writer For ‘Night Chronicles’ Project ‘Twelve Strangers’; Plus More Details Emerge On Secret Script at The Playlist.

Beyonce Remaking ‘A Star Is Born’? Johnny Depp Directs Music Video

Oliver Lyttelton — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 08:39:00 +0000

Warner Bros. are trying to push ahead with their long-in-development remake of “A Star Is Born.” The project, which has had previous drafts written by Stephen Rivele & Christopher Wilkinson (“Ali”) and Reggie Rock Bythewood (“Notorious”), has a new scribe in the shape of Will Fetters, the writer of the upcoming Robert Pattinson vehicle “Remember Me.” Beyonce Knowles is linked with the lead role of the picture, which, like the 1976 Barbara Streisand version, will focus on the record industry rather than Hollywood.

Continue reading Beyonce Remaking ‘A Star Is Born’? Johnny Depp Directs Music Video at The Playlist.