“I’ve referred to it as the ‘Valley of the Dolls‘ Pee-wee movie,” Paul Reubens said about the “dark” Pee-Wee Herman movie he’s been hoping to make for a few years. “It’s about fame.” Last year, news came out the Reubens, the creator and character of Pee-Wee Herman, had approached “Uncut Gems” filmmakers the Safdie brothers, Benny and Josh, if they wanted to direct the film, and apparently, they were considering it.

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You may remember that Paul Reubens, aka Pee-wee Herman, attempted a film comeback several years ago in the Netflix original, “Pee-Wee’s Big Holiday.” The film received mixed reviews, embraced by mainly those that have some nostalgia for the character. But according to a new interview with THR, ‘Big Holiday’ isn’t the film that Reubens wanted to originally make. He actually had something much darker in mind.

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Steven Soderbergh attempted to push everyone into the future last fall with his interactive app based narrative “Mosaic.” However, it doesn’t seem like many people took the plunge, so if you prefer your murder mysteries laid out in a more linear fashion, you’ll get just that with the series version of the show.

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Starring Sharon Stone, Garrett Hedlund, Frederick Weller, Jennifer Ferrin, Beau Bridges, Paul Reubens, Devin Ratray, James Ransone, Jeremy Bobb, Michael Cerveris and Maya Kazan, the story follows popular children’s book author and illustrator Olivia Lake, whose literary success makes her a local celebrity in the tight-knit community.

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Quietly in the works for the past few years, there has been more rumor than fact when it comes to Steven Soderbergh‘s “Mosaic.” The director has bristled when his technology driven, ground-breaking project has been described as a Choose Your Own Adventure style project, which allows viewers and users of his unique type, to engage with the story. But now, he’s finally revealing what it’s all about.

Starring Sharon Stone, Garrett Hedlund, Frederick Weller, Beau Bridges, Paul Reubens, Jennifer Ferrin, Devin Ratray, Michael Cerveris, James Ransone, Jeremy Bobb and Maya Kazan, “Mosaic” will be both an interactive storytelling experience, available as a free download in November, and a six-part limited series of the same name that will air on HBO in January 2018.

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SXSW Review: ‘Pee-Wee’s Big Holiday’ Starring Paul Reubens, Alia Shawkat & Joe Manganiello

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Watch: First Teaser For Judd Apatow-Produced 'Pee-wee's Big Holiday'

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His latest picture, “Life During Wartime,” — which hits in limited release and VOD this Friday, July 23 — is a quasi-sequel to his films, “Happiness” and “Welcome To The Dollhouse” — which essentially picks up with several characters from these previous films (though mostly “Happiness”) years later and inhabits them in a new milieu (the sunny domesticity of Florida) with the theme of forgiveness filtering throughout (we made a handy cheat sheet last year to tell you the entire new cast and who was playing who).

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Also as our review from TIFF 2009 notes; while “Life During Wartime” wasn’t completely successful front to back, it is a interesting picture and one worth not only seeing, but discussing.

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Ugh, this is your first look at the feature-length live-action adaptation of “The Smurfs” which pretty much looks akin to “Alvin & The Chipmunks” so maybe we shouldn’t groan cause it’s not for our audience or adults at all (though if you read some sites who took this seriously and at face value, you’d think otherwise).

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Directed by Raja Gosnell (“Beverly Hills Chihuahua,” “Big Momma’s House”), Reubens joins Neil Patrick Harris, George Lopez, Katy Perry, Alan Cumming, Sofia Vergara, Hank Azaria, Jonathan Winters, Fred Armisen, Anton Yelchin, and Jayma Mays.

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From what we understand (and or based on what we’ve written in the past), the film centers on the lives of several of the characters in “Happiness,” plus a few from 1995’s “Welcome To The Dollhouse” (Solondz’s crowing achievement thus far in this writer’s opinion) and revolves around the themes of forgiveness, which was once the working title of the film.

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Sales at TIFF 2009 were pretty slow this year and that was a given in this shaky film climate. Buyers were tentative and took a wait and see approach, but with a new fiscal year on the books, distribs do seem to have some extra cash at hand.

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At one point circa 2006/07 it was supposed to star Emma Thompson, Demi Moore, Hope Davis, Paul Dano and Faye Dunaway several other name actors, but obviously that one never happened.

It went from being titled “Life During Wartime,” to untitled, to “Forgiveness,” and then back to the original (based of a famous Talking Heads song).

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The conceit of this one is old characters from the Solondz milieu — “Happiness,” “Welcome To The Dollhouse” — and casting entirely new actors to play the parts (who’s who?

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The pictures feature Allison Janney, Paul “Pee-Wee Herman” Reuben, Ciarán Hinds, Ally Sheedy and Shirley Henderson. Not pictured, but still in the film are Charlotte Rampling, Michael Kenneth Williams, Michael Lerner and Paris Hilton (though curiously enough she’s not listed on the IMDB page; not that they’re completely fallible or anything, but when someone gets mentioned in the trades…).

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Well, for one, the project formerly titled, “Life During Wartime,” is now listed on IMDB as “Forgiveness” and ScreenDaily is reporting that Fortissimo Films has has acquired international rights from Werc Werk Works for the film which they also label by the new title. Sounds like this is the one.

Paris Hilton, Allison Janney, Ciaran Hinds, Charlotte Rampling, Shirley Henderson, Michael Kenneth Williams and Paul Reubens are among the cast as previously reported.

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Once named,”Life During Wartime,” the still untitled film also now boasts the inclusion of Allison Janney (“The West Wing”) and iconic European actress Charlotte Rampling (who worked with many of the greats in her 40+-year career, including Woody Allen, Luchino Visconti, Sidney Lumet, etc., she’s particularly great in “Stardust Memories”)

A project that had a long-gestating period, Paul Reubens (aka Pee Wee Herman) was set to be a part of concept years ago, but the last time there was an update on the film, he was no where mentioned, but now he is officially back on board (or he never left).

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