Movies
Hopefully ‘Mandy Lane’ Won’t Be Too Old When Released
I wanted to see Senator’s MANDY LANE when she was young and sexy, not an old hag. Some interesting news was sent to us this morning by B-D regular Joey M. who pointed us to a website that had some interesting news about Jonathan Levine’s All the Boys Love Mandy Lane, which has been sitting on the shelves here in the US collecting pounds of dust. Read on to see what the latest is on this popular teen slasher pic…Mark Urman has left ThinkFilm to become head of distribution at Senator Entertainment, reports Pro Networks.
“Why does this matter to independent film fans? Well, word is that one of his first major tasks will be to get ALL THE BOYS LOVE MANDY LANE out of limbo and get this film into the 1000+ theaters that Senator originally promised when they bought the film from the Weinsteins over a year ago following an auspicious debut at the 2006 Toronto International Film festival (no, that’s not a typo — 2006). One needs only to look back on this blog to see why this is such a “big deal” and why it matters to this reporter.”
So for those of you who haven’t already seen the film, there’s still hope that we’ll get to catch a 35mm print of this baby sometime in the near future. Until then, click here for stills, posters, trailers and more.
In the film a group of high schoolers invite Mandy Lane (Amber Heard), a good girl who became quite hot over the summer, to a weekend party on a secluded ranch. While the festivities rage on, the number of revelers begins to drop quite mysteriously.
Described as “Ted meets ET,” David Mikalson’s raunchy comedy Goblin is being brought to life over at A24, and Will Forte (“The Four Seasons”) is now in talks to star.
Deadline first reported the news this afternoon.
Kenneth Branagh has been cast to voice the titular Goblin in the upcoming A24 movie, with the character said to be “green-colored” as well as “anatomically correct.”
Skyler Gisondo (Superman) is reportedly playing the Goblin’s human best friend.
The mysterious project sounds a bit like films including A Gnome Named Gnorm and more recently, Frankie Freako, though it’s important to note that it’s not billed as a horror movie.
Deadline details, “After [Mikalson] hatched the idea to make an outrageous buddy comedy about a goblin, using a practical puppet and operating outside the Hollywood system, his script quickly got him a rep team. While others might have eyed the raunchy comedy as a writing sample or planned to wait to see the micro-budget version Mikalson has been directing in Kentucky, A24 jumped all over it. The hot indie essentially has agreed to finance a full feature.”
“There was a lot of interest, but A24 came with what Mikalson really wanted, after spending all his money crafting the puppet title character: they acquired the movie and agreed to let him make it with a significantly increased budget than what he had left after creating the anatomically correct title character,” Deadline’s report goes on to explain.
What does the titular Goblin actually look like? Well, a cake that Mikalson had whipped up for his reps might give us our first look at what to expect. Deadline explains the photo you’ll see down below, “Take a look at the cake he commissioned with Marc Gravelle at Cake Art in West Hollywood, to present to his reps as thanks for making his dream come true.”
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