Expect the unexpected is the rule with prolific Japanese director Takashi Miike, and his latest offering to reach DVD and Blu-ray is a match for anything in his oddball filmography. Set in 1972, it's a musical (more Bollywood than MGM) centring around Taiga (Satoshi Tsumabuki), a poor kid with a chip on his shoulder who comes to Tokyo and almost immediately winds up in reform school as a punishment for rumbling in the street. But not before he bumps into the beautiful Ai (Emi Takei), scion of a well-to-do family, whom he rescued from a nasty skiing accident when they were both little kids some twelve years before. Still overwhelmed with gratitude, she pulls some strings and gets him sent to the same exclusive prep school as her. Bad idea. Class, meet the exchange student from hell.
"Yours in great depression" was F. Scott Fitzgerald's solemn and devastated response to news that his third novel had under-performed both critically and commercially on its release in 1925. It wasn't until after Fitzgerald's death in 1940 that the novel captured the zeitgeist and forged a positive consensus amongst critics. Baz Luhrmann's Gatsby is the fifth adaptation of the great novel, and bizarely, is the fifth adaptation to receive widespread condemnation.
Focus Features have announced that filmmaker Asif Kapadia will direct a documentary on the late soul singer Amy Winehouse. The Hackney-born Kapadia was previously responsible for 2010's magnificent Senna biopic, which chronicled the untimely but seemingly inevitable demise of Formula One wunderkind, Ayrton Senna.
A new version of the musical Guys and Dolls may be soft-shoeing its way to the big screen as 20th Century Fox have closed the deal for the rights, with the studio looking to cast the rather winning combination of Channing Tatum and Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
The makers of upcoming Jeff Buckley biopic Greetings from Tim Buckley, Tribeca Film, have just released the first trailer for the movie.
To distract us from the pain of knowing that the hilarious comedy series 30 Rock has now aired its last episode, creator Tina Fey has announced the greatest news ever – the ridiculously quotable Mean Girls is going to be a musical!
Coen fans rejoice! The trailer for the highly anticipated Inside Llewyn Davis has arrived, and hey man, it looks, like, totally groovy daddio.
Guillermo del Toro and Paul Williams have teamed up to make a staged musical production of Pan’s Labyrinth, it has been reported this week.
Les Misérables is a hugely popular and beloved stage musical that's about to be brought to life once again on the big screen. It's had many previous outings, notably the brilliantly performed 1998 film starring Liam Neeson, Geoffrey Rush and Uma Thurman.
The King’s Speech Oscar award-winning director Tom Hooper has created a new take on the story that boasts an all-star cast and comes complete with the much-loved songs from the musical.
Susan Boyle took the world by surprise and ended up winning its collective heart, with her rendition of Les Miserables' I Dreamed A Dream on Britain's Got Talent in 2009. Her story was widely reported, both the highs and lows, and for a time you just couldn't escape her.
Now that her star shines a touch less brightly, it seems Fox Searchlight are eager to apply a bit of polish with the announcement that they are developing a biopic about Boyle's life.
