A Scanner Darkly
Reviewed by: Joshua Starnes
Rating: 10 out of 10
Movie Details: View here
http://www.comingsoon.net/news/reviewsnews.php?id=14720

Cast:
Keanu Reeves as Fred/Bob Arctor
Winona Ryder as Donna
Robert Downey Jr. as Barris
Woody Harrelson as Luckman
Rory Cochrane as Freck

Review:
No one knows who Bob Arctor (Keanu Reeves) is, including himself. He
could be a deep undercover officer of the Orange County Sheriffs
Department, codenamed Fred, posing as a supplier and trying to find
the source of the new super-narcotic Substance D. Or he could simply
be Bob Arctor, a man who left his life behind for the warm embrace
of drug addiction. His personal breakdown is compounded when 'Fred'
is assigned to investigate 'Bob' who is suspected of being the major
supplier of Substance D. His breakdown of identity is compounded by
a breakdown of perception caused by his increasing use of Substance
D, to the point where he no longer knows what he is seeing and
reacting to.

Based on his own personal and self-described 'immense' drug
experiences, "A Scanner Darkly" was Philip K. Dick's attempt to
describe the use of drugs as both a personal and social experience.
Particularly it's use in bandaging the gulf of humanity and dulling
the pain of the essential loneliness of the human condition; and the
irony of the fact that it actually caused the very thing it was
being taken to deal with. Layered within that is Dick's own potent
and very personal paranoia. In his world-view the institutions of
man are very much out to get you and everything you fear is true.
The very thing that claims to be trying to help you is actually
causing the pain you need saving from, just like drugs. Human
institutions become a form of social drug. The only thing that
stands against this intrusion are the personal connections between
human beings; hope rises from the same place despondency does, and
it is up to each person alone to decide for themselves which they
will choose.

Richard Linklater's film version of "A Scanner Darkly" is the most
truthful and accurate adaptation of a Philip K. Dick story to date.
Dick, with his often extremely complex investigations into the
nature of identity and reality has never been the easiest author to
approach much less adapt into a visual medium, but Linklater pulls
it off with high style. He once again uses the roto-animation
technique of "Waking Life" to add a heightened sense of unreality to
a fairly real world, and in so doing creates just the right level of
unease for the audience to feel what Arctor himself is feeling.

Reeves plays Arctor as a man confused and lost to the point where he
hopes the scanners that have been implanted in his home - so that he
can surveil himself - can see him clearly because he no longer can.
Bob lusts for human contact but is no longer really capable of it.
He merely views the world instead of taking part in it, a tool for
other people to use. He has become a living scanner himself. He's
desperately trying to reach out to Donna (Winona Ryder) but can't
because, in the typical Dick conundrum, she is trying to reach out
to him but in a completely different manner and for a different
reason, and they keep missing each other. If they could find each
other, if just two people could connect in an awful world, then
everything would be saved and worth saving. But, "A Scanner Darkly"
asks, is that type of connection still possible, or has it been
subverted by the drugs of every day life, both the real ones and the
imaginary ones?

In the end, it offers only the slightest of answers and the slimmest
of hopes, because that is often all life offers as well. Whether
anyone grasps that hope it leaves open for the audience to
determine. The open-endedness and general slowness of the plot
make "A Scanner Darkly" a bit of a difficult pill to swallow, but
not an unpleasant one. As difficult and painful as it can be for
humanity to face the darkest sides of itself, the fact that it can
still ask those questions is cause for hope, and that might be all
anyone can ask for.

Keanu Reeves Sheds His Ultra-Private Skin
June 7, 2006

Keanu Reeves may be a mega-movie star, but he's also known for being
an ultra-private man.

Now the star of the upcoming film, "The Lake House," is bursting out
of his protective shell for next week's Parade Magazine, opening up
about finally owning a home and wanting to share it.

"He says he wants to get married," revealed Dotson Radar, Parade's
contributing editor. Radar also said the 41-year-old actor recalls
leaving a "vagabond" life for a more stable one.

In the article, Keanu opens up about his darkest days, like the
death of his best friend, musician River Phoenix. "It made him very
cautious about emotional involvement," Radar said.

More personal pain followed for Keanu when he and his girlfriend
lost a child in 1999. "He's been in love once in his life to a woman
named Jennifer Sim," Radar revealed.

The baby was still born when Jennifer was eight months pregnant.
Just a year and half later, Jennifer died in a horrific car crash.

Keanu told Parade, "I miss being a part of their lives and them
being part of mine. I miss all the great things that will never be."

"He had to come to terms with a lot of sadness, and decide to go
on," Radar said.

But it looks like the grass is greener on the other side. "He woke
up at 40 and realized he was all grown up," Radar told us.

"You just want to forget it all and start again," the star
told "Extra" back in 2003 when he turned 40.

Keanu said he's trying not to be alone so much these days. "I don't
want to flee from life," he told Parade. "I want to get married. I
want to have kids."

"He's a sweet, surprisingly open man," Radar said of the newly freed
Keanu Reeves.

Catch Keanu when "The Lake House" opens June 16.


Inlcudes a video:

http://extratv.warnerbros.com/v2/news/0606/07/3/text.html

Keanu Reeves: 'I Want to Get Married'
http://people.aol.com/people/articles/0,19736,1201197,00.html
Tuesday Jun 06, 2006 10:50am EST
By Stephen M. Silverman
Keanu Reeves
CREDIT: KEVIN MAZUR / WIREIMAGE.COM

Keanu Reeves, a self-described "vagabond," is ready to settle down,
he says – and that includes having a family.

"I'm trying not to be alone so much," the actor, 41, who costars
with Sandra Bullock in this summer's The Lake House, tells Parade
magazine in its June 11 issue. "And man, it's a struggle. I want to
get married. I want to have kids. That's at the top of the mountain.
I've got to climb the mountain first. I'll do it. Just give me some
time."

In the interview, Reeves talks about his father, who abandoned the
family when Reeves was a toddler, and his much-married mother, who
moved the family numerous times – a lifestyle Reeves adopted
himself.

"I've had a vagabond life," he says. "There is a bit of the gypsy in
me, and living that way seemed to make sense. I couldn't settle
down. I liked going to new places – renting apartments, staying in
hotels. Then I turned 40. That birthday is hard, perhaps because you
know you're grown-up. So now it's a makeover for me. I have bought
my first house. I wanted a home."

Reeves has faced a number of tragedies in his life. His best friend,
River Phoenix, died of a drug overdose in 1993 at the age of 23, and
Reeves's sister, Kim, 39, is battling leukemia.

He also talks about his late girlfriend Jennifer Syme, whom he met
in 1998 and who later gave birth to their stillborn baby daughter.
Reeves and Syme remained best friends until April 2001, when Syme
died in a car crash.

"Damn it! It's not fair! It's absurd," Reeves tells the
magazine. "Grief changes shape, but it never ends. People have a
misconception that you can deal with it and say, 'It's gone, and I'm
better.' They're wrong. When the people you love are gone, you're
alone."

He goes on to say, "I miss being a part of their lives and them
being a part of mine. I wonder what the present would be like if
they were here – what we might have done together. I miss all the
great things that will never be."

2006 MTV Movie Awards - MTV.com Show
6/3/2006

Pictures of Keanu
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Keanu Reeves on a Constantine Sequel
http://www.superherohype.com/news.php?id=4335
Source: ComingSoon.net June 4, 2006

Despite earning $230.4 million worldwide, a sequel to Constantine is
still up in the air. ComingSoon.net caught up with the film's star,
Keanu Reeves, this weekend and he said a follow-up is still possible:

"It's kind of in the air. Maybe. I'd love to, but I don't know if the
producers would want to do it... It's a long story. We've got to
figure it out."

Let's hope they do, as there are many fans of the first film.

In the Future: Sandra Bullock
http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=14829
Source: Heather Newgen June 4, 2006


There's already been one movie made about Truman Capote which, as
you know, earned Philip Seymour Hoffman an Oscar for best actor.
But, what you may not know is that Sandra Bullock is also in a film
about the illustrious writer's life which was actually being made
the same time as Capote.

At a press day for Warner Brother Pictures' romantic drama The Lake
House, which stars Bullock and Keanu Reeves, she talked a little
about the difference between her version, titled Infamous, and
Hoffman's film.

"I love the fact that the studios didn't say, 'Oh, we're nervous
about this.' It's a great time to show cinematically and the levels
to which that story could be told are so deep," Bullock told
ComingSoon.net.

"Anyone who knows any history about that time, the writers of Truman
and all that stuff that went on, there's so many points of view and
what's nice about both films is that they both took a strong point
of view on a time. And what happened? What did happen? Was every
word true? Did this situation really happen? Based on George
Plympton's book, it's the recounting of his associates and friends
and people he burned that remembered him, part of the literary
community that are recounting that time. It's beautifully done," she
continued.

As for following an actress who has already played Harper Lee so
recently, she isn't too worried about it.

"Catherine Keener is the greatest since sliced toast. We both did it
and no one once thought, 'Oh my God, we can't do both of these.' No
one thought, 'What is she doing?' I'm sure none of the Trumans were
thinking, 'What is the other one doing?' It's a great story."

Bullock must really have a passion right now for starring in films
that are based on the lives of writers, because she is currently
developing another movie which is about Grace Metalious. A housewife
in the '50s who lived in New Hampshire with her three kids, she
shocked the nation with her scandalous novel "Peyton Place."

The success of the book, which was partly based on the sex and
scandals in the small town of Gilmanton, where she lived, instantly
gave her notoriety and eventually ruined her life. The pressures of
such triumphs caused her marriage to end, her children were teased
and harassed and she received calls and letters. As a result, she
died at age 39 from alcoholism.

"We're still developing it. We've been developing it for a couple of
years. We're still working on it," Bullock explained.

"There's so many things that people don't know and the media made up
that aren't truths. The research has been astounding… the situation
is tragic. And it's also inspiring. Again the tragedy sells more
paper than actually the accomplishments and the overcoming of
massive hurdles of that time. The accomplishments and all those
things get overridden by 'oh my God, she died so young.' See that's
tragic. But, again that's what sells rather than listing the
accomplishments and heralding someone. We're still working on it and
we don't want to put anything out until it's just right."

As for her co-star, Reeves isn't quite sure what his next project is
going to be, but Bullock had some advice for him when we asked about
a Constantine sequel.

"I suggest you don't do that," she said sarcastically.

"What should I do?" asked Reeves.

Still bitter from doing Speed 2: Cruise Control and upset her pal
didn't warn her not to do the sequel, she shot back, "I don't know,
just as a friend I thought you shouldn't do a sequel, I'd call you
or tell you. I think in the next 'Constantine' he gives up smoking.
There's a whole anti-smoking campaign," Bullock laughed.

Reeves added, "It's kind of in the air. Maybe. I'd love to, but I
don't know if the producers would want to do it... It's a long
story. We've got to figure it out."

The Lake House opens June 16 and Infamous is slated for October 13.

Hollywood renews its long-standing affection for foreign filmmakers
in an era when international box office is crucial.

By Rachel Abramowitz, Times Staff Writer


On May 1, Alejandro González Iñárritu skipped out on the final mix
of his film "Babel" to take his family to the immigration rallies in
downtown L.A. While his absence might have given heartburn to the
production staff hurtling to get the Brad Pitt-Cate Blanchett film
ready for the Cannes Film Festival, to González Iñárritu, it was
worth it.

"It was like Simón Bolívar's dream — people from all over Latin
America," says the 42-year-old Mexican director. "I didn't feel any
rage or any anger. It just felt like 'Hey, you depend on us. We
depend on you. We have to work together.' "

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Talent is the one universal passport, and Hollywood has always had a
place for immigrants — from German maestro Fritz Lang, who headed
west when Hitler's minister of propaganda pressured him to take over
Germany's top studio, to Polish Roman Polanski, who directed Los
Angeles' definitive film noir, "Chinatown," and Taiwan-born Ang Lee,
who became the first nonwhite to win an Academy Award for directing
for "Brokeback Mountain," his reinvention of the western.

As Hollywood tries to stave off commercial stasis, the industry has
been undergoing another chapter in its love affair with foreign
writers and directors, particularly those from the Far East and
Latin America. The international box office now accounts for more
than 60% of a film's box office gross, boosting the street cred of
such players as Lee and Brazil's Walter Salles, whose respective
foreign-language films "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" and "The
Motorcycle Diaries" were international hits. Although the studios
still tend to Hoover up foreign directors and turn them into the
purveyors of such glossy fare as "Mission Impossible
2," "Independence Day" and "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of
Azkaban," the indie divisions at least want the auteurs to retain
the individuality that made them attractive in the first place.

Of course, in this age of globalization, it's unclear what it even
means to be a Hollywood immigrant anymore. "It doesn't matter where
you live," says Paramount Classics chief John Lesher. "We all talk
on the phone. We see each other at film festivals. You can edit a
movie in Brazil, and your editor can be in London, and you can put
it together seamlessly in perfect time."

González Iñárritu, whose riveting first film, "Amores Perros"
(2000), was nominated for a foreign language Oscar, moved here five
years ago as he began working on "21 Grams." He thinks in Spanish
and writes with his longtime collaborator, Guillermo Arriaga, in
Spanish, which is then translated into English. He says he moved for
practical reasons: "I have two small children. Traveling would have
been harder on them. I'm a director in exile."

Conversely, Arriaga stays home in Mexico City, except when he's
filming. "Hollywood is very tempting," says Arriaga, who also wrote
Tommy Lee Jones' directorial debut, "The Three Burials of Melquiades
Estrada." "It's tempting in the sense that you can be meeting
interesting persons all the time. Living in Mexico allows me to be
more down to earth, to see regular people, life itself bubbling."

Like the independent film movement, which was initially fostered by
actors like Harvey Keitel who were willing to work in small,
surprising films, the recent boomlet in foreign directors has been
led by actors willing to work for directors for whom English is not
a native language, and often for a fraction of their studio
prices. "Thank God for the actors," says Lesher.

From its genesis, Hollywood has thrived on creative outsiders.
Almost all the studios were founded by immigrants, from the Russian
Louis B. Mayer to the Hungarians William Fox and Adolph Zukor. In
the '20s, their nascent businesses lured F.W. Murnau and Ernst
Lubitsch, already stars of the European cinema. In the '30s came
many Jews fleeing Hitler.

With the affectionate but detached perspective of the newly arrived,
the immigrants famously reimagined America, from Otto Preminger's
definitive courtroom drama "Anatomy of a Murder" to Fred Zinnemann's
paeans to Americana, "High Noon" and "Oklahoma!," to Billy Wilder's
witty deconstructions of Hollywood ("Sunset Boulevard") and the
media ("Ace in the Hole").

The next generation of European cinéastes — Godard, Truffaut,
Herzog, Fassbinder, Bergman and Fellini — pointedly stayed away from
America, disgusted by the strictures of the studio machine. And then
came the Reagan generation — the Paul Verhoevens and Wolfgang
Petersens of the world — who embraced the Hollywood ethos and the
competition for blockbusters.

Today, Hollywood still remains a kind of Faustian bargain — money
for your individuality. Or at least, with the money, comes the
bureaucratic headache of all those studio executives trying to help
you achieve your vision. But now, many of the studios' indie
divisions seem keen to help the auteurs retain their distinctive
points of view.

But the beast is what the beast is. Writer-director Alejandro
Agresti, who's made films in his native Argentina and Europe, is now
living in the Beverly Wilshire Hotel finishing up his first
film, "The Lake House," for Warner Bros. It's a total global mash-
up, a remake of a popular Korean film, written by an American,
reworked by an Argentine (Agresti) and starring two spanking
American movie stars: Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves.

"It's nice to work with great actors, to use all the technical
facilities you can get here, to do the dream shots. When you come
from a country like Argentina, where your lawyers have to count the
money, this is great. You really feel like you're in paradise," says
Agresti. "People tell crazy stories about Hollywood, but I have to
say they gave me the freedom I needed to make the film."

Still, it took some adaptation. "What I found difficult is to
concentrate with so many people around," says Agresti. "You have to
adapt yourself to the process here where you have an infinite number
of executives and people giving an opinion. If you start to try to
please 12 people, you forget what it is you wanted to do. You can
become completely crazy." Still, Agresti is planning to move to the
U.S. when the film is completed.

As is Yam Laranas, a 37-year-old Filipino director and
documentarian, whose small horror film, "The Echo," is being remade
here with producer Roy Lee and writer Stephen Susco, who last worked
together on the highly profitable remake of "The Grudge," part of a
wave of Asian horror films that have been reformulated for Americans.

Laranas, who will be directing, had publicized his film through
blogs, which is how Lee heard about it. Laranas admits that when Lee
first approached him, he thought it was a joke. "If you look at the
globe, from L.A. to Manila, it's like the moon to Mars. Thank God
for e-mail and my Mac."

Unlike the German refugees from World War II, the latest immigrant
directors know they can go home again physically and cinematically —
and they exercise that option. Indeed, many use a cinematic journey
to their native regions to revitalize their creativity. After the
disappointment of "Ride With the Devil," Ang Lee returned to East
Asia to make his first Chinese-language film in years, "Crouching
Tiger, Hidden Dragon." Alfonso Cuarón suffered through the making of
the modern update of "Great Expectations," returned to Mexico to
make the gritty "Y Tu Mamá También" before directing the third
successful installment of the "Harry Potter" franchise. He now
maintains two companies, one to make English-language films with
Warner Bros., the other to make Spanish-language and independent
films.

Salles, whose 1998 film "Central Station" was nominated for a
foreign film Oscar, has bounced back and forth from his native South
America to the United States. He's slated next to make "On the
Road," Jack Kerouac's ode to the road trip. "The independent arena
is where I come from and intend to stay," says Salles. "But this
doesn't prevent me from also investigating other territories. It's
as if you're leaving home for a short while to visit a foreign
country. But you should always come back to your roots."

González Iñárritu says his latest film was influenced by his own
experience of being "a Third World citizen living in a First World
country." Specifically, the Mexican woman who cleans González
Iñárritu's house inspired one of the stories in "Babel," but such is
the way of the artist that he and his screenwriter subvert the
audience's expectations. His character, a Mexican nanny, gets
perilously stuck in the desert, stealing back into Mexico with her
two American charges in tow. "Conventionally, the film is about
borders and immigrants, but it's really about how fragile and
vulnerable human beings are, what little animals we are," he
explains. "We tend to talk about borders as a difficult space — but
the real most dangerous frontiers are within ourselves. That's what
is happening around the world. The otherness creates a potential
threat."

Although "Babel" boasts major Hollywood movie stars, González
Iñárritu says it's not just another American movie. He notes that
his seven key collaborators are all Mexican. "I consider ["Babel"]
Mexican. Beyond the words, the brains and soul are Mexican."

Rachel Abramowitz, author of "Is That a Gun in Your Pocket?: The
Truth About Women and Power in Hollywood," writes about film for
Calendar.

Secret 'Scanner' screening
OK, so here's what I didn't mention earlier: As I was leaving the
comic shop today, I met two animators who worked on Richard
Linklater's upcoming film, A Scanner Darkly. They recognized Patton
Oswalt and told us about a "secret" screening of the movie today at
4 p.m. They were as excited about it as we were: "I've seen a rough
cut and that's it," one of them said. Suddenly, I knew how I was
going to spend my afternoon.

The movie was received very well -- I sat behind Harry Knowles and a
cluster of his Ain't It Cool News gang, so expect to see a review on
that site soon. (Update: Here it is!
http://aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=22747) Afterward, I stopped by
the after-party at a nearby bar and had a drink with Linklater in a
quiet room downstairs.

"I wish it were opening Friday," he told me. (The flick doesn't come
out until July.) Making the movie has been an incredibly long
process, with a 23-day shoot taking place in 2004 and animators hard
at work since then. Today's world-premiere screening was prefaced by
the phrase "a work in progress," but Linklater told me the only work
left to do is the final sound mix and some music mixing.

One thing that really struck me about this movie is how captivating
and comfortable these particular actors -- Robert Downey Jr., Keanu
Reeves, Woody Harrelson and Winona Ryder -- are as animated
characters. Linklater said he didn't have to do much
coaching: "Woody's a very silent-movie comedian," he said. "Robert's
very cerebral, but also incredibly physical." As for Reeves, he said
he'd had him in mind for the part for awhile, but it wasn't until he
was out of "the sci-fi world" of the Matrix trilogy that he came
aboard.

Around the same time Scanner hits theaters, Linklater's Fast Food
Nation will be released. "I think it's countercultural programming
whenever it comes out," he says of Scanner. Only time will tell if
the counterculture is ready to embrace his mind-bending, intricate
take on the Philip K. Dick novel. Personally, I think the odds are
in his favor. Sent wirelessly via BlackBerry

http://blogs.usatoday.com/popcandy/2006/03/secret_scanner_.html

DiCaprio returning as Howard Hughes?
Posted by Clint Morris on February 28, 2006
How much will it take to get Leonardo DiCaprio to reprise his role as
Howard Hughes? If only for five minutes?

That's what the makers of the upcoming Lana Turner biopic, starring
Catherine Zeta Jones, are asking themselves.

Talking to Sky Showbiz, the "Mask of Zorro" babe says they're trying
to get Di Caprio to make an appearance as Howard Hughes in the film.

"It would be awesome to get him to reprise the role, even for just a
cameo, as he (Leo) was so like him (Howard)".

The film will tell of Turner's many love affairs, with aviator Hughes
being just one of several.

YOU CANNOT GET TOO EXCITED FOR THIS FILM
02.20.06
By Devin Faraci
Contributing sources: Warner Bros
A month or two ago we ran a story about how Radiohead had been
approached to do the score for Richard Linklater's A Scanner Darkly,
based on the Philip K Dick novel. The story was either false or the
band was too busy in the studio – the short and not so sweet was
that they won't be doing the score. Which is too bad more than ever,
especially since the poster for the movie looks like something that
would be right at home in a Radiohead video. It perfectly captures
the quirky and paranoid vibe that this film has been giving off
since day one. That's one of the few modern posters I would be happy
to own.

It's been a good week for people who are looking forward to this
film – there's also a great new trailer that you can see here. I
love every second of that thing, but especially the parts with
Robert Downey Jr. The Scramble Suit looks amazing, and the guy with
the eyes all over his head - sweet!

This movie has been a long time coming, and it's my most anticipated
film of this summer. If this isn't one of the best movies of the
year, I'll vote Republican in the mid-terms.

http://wip.warnerbros.com/index.html

For Scanner Darkly

http://keanuweb.com/en/reports/display_kr2de9a6.html

http://keanuweb.com/en/reports/display_kr12fd57.html

http://www.joblo.com/index.php?id=10383

"A Scanner Darkly" Movie Trailer To World Premiere On Amp'd Mobile
Handsets
Warner Bros. ( United States) - February 13, 2006


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THEY ARE WATCHING. THEY ARE RECORDING. NOW THEY ARE ON CELL PHONES.


Los Angeles - February 13, 2006 - For the first time ever, mobile
customers in the U.S. get the first look at a feature film trailer
before it hits theaters or the web. Warner Independent Pictures will
debut its trailer for "A Scanner Darkly" on Amp'd Mobile handsets
beginning today.

The trailer premiere will give Amp'd Mobile subscribers an advanced
look at this highly anticipated new film starring Keanu Reeves,
Robert Downey Jr., Woody Harrelson, Winona Ryder and Rory
Cochrane. "A Scanner Darkly" is set in suburban Orange County ,
California in a future where America has lost the war on drugs. When
one reluctant undercover cop (Reeves) is ordered to start spying on
his friends, he is launched on a paranoid journey into the absurd,
where identities and loyalties are impossible to decode. It is a
cautionary tale of drug use based on the novel by Philip K. Dick.

Found on the Amp'd Live deck as a stand-alone "A Scanner Darkly"
entertainment channel, the full-length theatrical trailer will
appear on Amp'd Mobile handsets through the film release July 7. As
additional promotional mobile content is created for the film it
will be added to the channel.


"The audience for films like this is technologically light years
ahead of most," said Laura Kim, EVP of marketing and publicity at
Warner Independent Pictures. "And if you know anything about 'A
Scanner Darkly' and Philip K. Dick, who also wrote Blade Runner ,
this partnership is a really cool way to let people know about the
film."


"We've made a commitment to deliver a wide range of exclusive,
coveted entertainment video that's optimized for our broadband
wireless service ," said Seth Cummings, senior VP, content and
Internet services. "We're thrilled to be building a relationship
with Warner Independent Pictures. We know this film in particular
will be intriguing to our members."

Releasing this summer, "A Scanner Darkly" was written for the screen
and directed by Richard Linklater. Like a graphic novel come to
life, the film uses live action photography overlaid with an
advanced animation process (interpolated rotoscoping) to create a
haunting, highly stylized vision of the future. The technology,
first employed in Linklater's 2001 film "Waking Life," has evolved
to produce even more emotional impact and detail.


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A Scanner Darkly: This is gonna be awesome. Richard Linklater works
his weird animation-on-top-of-famous-actors thing--you saw Waking
Life, right?--and this time, he's got Keanu Reeves and an actual story
to go with the beautiful visuals. Based on Philip K. Dick's brilliant
novel about an undercover cop who loses sight of whom he's watching,
this film is set to blow our minds.

Keanu Reeves to Make Oscar Show Appearance
Oscars.org (USA)
Keanu Reeves will be a presenter, March 5, 2006 at the 78th Academy
Awards®, producer Gil Cates announced.

A RELEASE DATE DARKLY
01.19.06
By Devin Faraci
Contributing sources: Warner Independent Pictures
A Scanner Darkly could be a very cool film, and is almost certainly
exactly what Richard Linklater needs post-Bad News Bears. The only
problem with the movie is that it seems like it's never coming out.
The release date keeps getting pushed back further and further - now
the film is scheduled to hit July 7th, almost a solid year after I
saw some great footage (and "interviewed" the Philip K Dick android)
at San Diego ComiCon.

That opens the film directly against Pirates of the Caribbean 2, but
I get the feeling that the target audience ain't quite the same. I
don't really know who the audience for this animated take on a Dick
tale is, but I do hope that they come out to the theaters in droves,
because no matter if this film is great or a misfire, A Scanner
Darkly is exactly the kind of movie all of us movie geeks should be
supporting with our money.


http://www.chud.com/index.php?type=news&id=5729

Scanner Delayed Again

Warner Independent Pictures has bumped the release date of its much-
delayed SF film A Scanner Darkly yet again, to July from its most
recent release date in March, a spokeswoman told SCI FI Wire's
sister publication Science Fiction Weekly. No reason was given for
the move.

A Scanner Darkly, based on the novel by Philip K. Dick, was
scheduled to come out last September, then was moved to March 31 of
this year. In the film, director Richard Linklater overlays live-
action photography with advanced animation, as in his 2001 movie
Waking Life. Delays in the sophisticated animation process were
cited when the movie was pushed to March from September last year.

Set in suburban Orange County, Calif., in a future where America has
lost the war on drugs, A Scanner Darkly stars Keanu Reeves as an
undercover cop who is ordered to start spying on his friends. He is
launched on a paranoid journey into the absurd, where identities and
loyalties are impossible to decode, Warner said. The cast also
includes Robert Downey Jr., Woody Harrelson, Winona Ryder and Rory
Cochrane.

13. Constantine (CHUD Review) (Buy the DVD)


If I had any balls this would be in my top ten above Batman Begins.
I absolutely love this movie and it's one that I revisit on DVD more
than just about any other comic adaptation. It's probably because
while I like the comic, it has too many cooks involved in the broth
for me to really care all that much anymore. This thing may have
taken the book's "outside the box" formula and slightly boxed it,
but I'll be damned if this isn't a good R-rated flick with some
really amazing filmmaking tossed in for good measure.


Keanu is above average here, something that got lost in the mix for
some, but the real hero is Francis Lawrence. We might have the next
spectacle filmmaker on our hands with this cat provided he doesn't
fuck it up. It's cool, mean, and a heck of a lot of fun to watch
unfold.


No apologies here.


Current Rating: 8.3 out of 10


Contributing Factors: Great mood, terrific visuals, Djimon Hounsou,
Peter Stormare, unique vision of Hell.


Performance to Savor: This isn't a performance piece, but I'll go
with the overacting gnashing monstrosity known in some circles as
the 'Mare.


P.R. CHUD.com Pull-Quote: "No shit, this is just about as good as
the comic!"

http://www.chud.com/index.php?type=news&id=5479

Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with a trinity of reviews for Richard
Linklater's adaptation of Philip K. Dick's A SCANNER DARKLY. We may
get more reviews sent, but for now there are three. One doesn't like
it much, but the other two are very happy with it as it stands. Can't
wait to see it my own self, especially with that rumor that recently
surfaced about Radiohead doing the score! Here's review number one!

http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=22029

Warner Bros. Moves The Lake House to Summer
December 9, 2005


According to Variety, Warner Bros. Pictures has relocated
romance "The Lake House," starring Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock,
from Super Bowl weekend to a competitive summer slot dominated by
two testosterone-laden pics.

Bowing on June 16 are Universal's "The Fast and the Furious 3: Tokyo
Drift" and 20th Century Fox's Viking adventure Pathfinder.

"The Lake House" was originally set to bow Feb. 3, but the studio
needed to find a new release date because of additional post-
production work. Studio decided to counterprogram the pic on June
16.

"The Lake House" hits theaters on June 16, 2006.


[sources: Box Office Mojo; Coming Soon; MovieWeb]

http://www.darkhorizons.com/2006/lakehouse.php

Keanu looks great!

DVD (Region 1; NTSC) to be released by Columbia Tristar Home Video:
January 24, 2005. Confirmed extra: Audio commentary with
writer/director Mike Mills. Available for pre-order.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000C20VVE/ref=nosim/103-0355578-
4391857?n=130

This is so sad.  It would have been nice to see Keanu
Reeves in a role like this.


--- jk3ebsrm20lit <no_reply@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

> Sinbad Plug Pulled
> Source: Los Angeles Times November 14, 2005
> http://www.comingsoon.net/news/topnews.php?id=11986
>
>
> In a Los Angeles Times article talking about the
> performances of
> Sony's recent films, the newspaper reports that the
> studio will no
> longer make The 8th Voyage of Sinbad, which Keanu
> Reeves was set to
> star in.
>
> "Sinbad" would have been directed by Rob Cohen and
> produced by Neal
> Moritz. Cohen's $135-million Stealth was a summer
> flop, grossing just
> $32.1 million in domestic theaters and generating a
> Sony loss of
> almost $50 million. "It didn't seem like a good idea
> for us to make
> that movie after 'Stealth,' " Pascal said of
> "Sinbad."
>
>
>
>
>
>





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Sinbad Plug Pulled
Source: Los Angeles Times November 14, 2005
http://www.comingsoon.net/news/topnews.php?id=11986


In a Los Angeles Times article talking about the performances of
Sony's recent films, the newspaper reports that the studio will no
longer make The 8th Voyage of Sinbad, which Keanu Reeves was set to
star in.

"Sinbad" would have been directed by Rob Cohen and produced by Neal
Moritz. Cohen's $135-million Stealth was a summer flop, grossing just
$32.1 million in domestic theaters and generating a Sony loss of
almost $50 million. "It didn't seem like a good idea for us to make
that movie after 'Stealth,' " Pascal said of "Sinbad."

http://www.moviesonline.ca/movie_gallery.php?id=6517

Fishing for Moonlight (2006)

THIS PROJECT IS IN AN EARLY STAGE OF DEVELOPMENT, ALL DATA COULD
CHANGE IN TIME

Directed by: Roger Michell

Writing credits: Stephen Schiff [source: IMDb]; Jack Olson [source:
Variety]

Producers: Bruce Berman (executive), Jesse Ehrman (executive),
Bernie Goldmann (executive), Dylan Sellers, Erwin Stoff

Production Companies: Dylan Sellers Productions; Village Roadshow
Pictures

Synopsis: True story of a stockbroker who risks life and career to
liberate a Russian woman enslaved in prostitution, falling in love
with her in the process.

The story is based on an article of the same name by Daniel
Jeffreys, published in The London Times. The story was also
published in The Moscow Times where it had the title "Beauty and the
Banker."

IMDb mentions the shooting location is New York City, USA.

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20th Annual American Cinematheque Award (2005)

Honoring Al Pacino. Friday, October 21, 2005.

Keanu Reeves made a speech on stage.

Black-tie dinner followed by a multi-media award show that took place
at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, Beverly Hills, California, USA.

The show will be televised on AMC (USA) in January 2006.



Pictures at www.wireimage.com

http://www.suntimes.com/output/movies/cst-ftr-lana20.html
Zeta-Jones will try to fill Turner's sweater in biopic

October 20, 2005

BY CINDY PEARLMAN

Catherine Zeta-Jones confirms to GLARE that she's definitely going
to play sultry screen legend Lana Turner in a big-screen biopic
called "Stompanato."

So we asked: Is Sharon Stone (who supposedly coveted the role for
years -- and is already blond) a little ticked off at her? Is Sharon
getting out her ice pick?

Zeta-Jones adopts a petulant voice. "Guess what?" she poses. "I
really really wanted to do 'Basic Instinct 2!' "

She'll have to settle for the sultry Turner, whose basic instinct
was to date a mob guy named Johnny Stompanato, who was then knifed
in the Turner home by her daughter -- at least, that's the official
story. Many still think Turner did the slice-and-dice work on her
lover.

Who will play Johnny? "Keanu Reeves is still on to do it," Zeta-
Jones says. "I think he'll be great."

Meanwhile, Zeta-Jones says she always wanted to play Turner. "It's
just a great, great role," she says, admitting she's also a bit
nervous about it. "I've got it in my head that the studio will turn
around halfway through filming and go, 'She doesn't look like her!' "

The film will be directed by Adrian Lyne ("Fatal
Attraction," "Unfaithful"). Zeta-Jones says the role of daughter
Cheryl hasn't been cast.

Zeta-Jones is not only watching all of Turner's old movies, she has
a secret weapon in the research department -- and he often sits
across from her for Sunday dinners at the Douglas pad.

"My father-in-law, Kirk Douglas, is going to be my research engine,"
she says. "He's my Google when it comes to Lana Turner." (Douglas
starred with Turner in the 1952 film "The Bad and the Beautiful.")

Zeta-Jones says they won't shy away from the rougher bedroom scenes
that reportedly were part of the Turner-Stompanato heat fest. "It
will make for some great screen moments," she purrs.

Meanwhile, Zeta-Jones locks lips with Antonio Banderas in "The
Legend of Zorro," due out Oct. 28.

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