Have a little backlog of posts due to the starting of a new job. Will post a couple of recent insights to sate the palate, and be back on a regular schedule next week.
So the jury's still out as to whether it was Summit's decision to kick Catharine Hardwicke out of the director's chair, or Hardwicke's decision to turn down directing the next installment in the Twilight series (based on what's she's described as a too-limiting budget). Either way it's a disappointment, especially since since the budget for the first movie was 37M and grossed 70M on opening day weekend (setting a new record for highest opening weekend gross for a film directed by a woman), and it's rumored that the modest budget planned for New Moon was increased upon hiring of America Pie helmer Chris Weitz to direct.
But now Nikke Finke reports that Summit is closing a deal for a third movie, director tbd, making it a little more bitter that Hardwicke's no longer in the director's chair.
And speaking of women directors, Defamer today railed against EW for its top 25 directors list, citing among other problems the lack of femmes at the top. They go on to post 26-50, and Sophia Coppola tops out at no. 26, ahead of Mira Nair (46) and Mary Harron (49).
Sophia Coppola at 26? Mary Harron at 49? Where's Karen Kusama (director of Girl Fight, Aeon Flux, and the forthcoming Jennifer's Body)? Jane Campion? Jodie Foster? Sally Potter? Mimi Leder? Kathryn Bigelow? Kasi Lemmon? Patty Jenkins? There's a serioiusly flawed rubric behind the present list, one that I don't understand and that celebrates celebrity in foregrounding Coppola at the expense of some more seriously acomplished directors, both critically and commercially. Ugh.
But
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