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True Grit Full Length Trailer

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True Grit Trailer

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Barry Pepper Joins True Grit

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Barry Pepper is joining the cast of True Grit.  He will reprise the role of “Lucky” Ned Pepper a notorious outlaw.  “Lucky” was played by Robert Duvall in the 1969 version of the film.  Pepper is perhaps best known for his role as Private Daniel Jackson the crack sniper in Saving Private Ryan. 

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Steven Spielberg Joins Forces With Coen Brothers?

Just looking at the IMDB.com entry for True Grit and I noticed a surprise producer.  See below.  Anyone have any info on how this came about? 

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A Coen Brothers Star Wars

Thanks to Angel Diaz

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Mattie Ross role cast

haileysteinfeld Newcomer Hailee Steinfeld has been cast in the lead role of Mattie Ross in the Coen Brothers upcoming retelling of True Grit.  Filming starts this month and the picture is due out by years end. 

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Own a piece of A Serious Man

4045_D003_00943 4045_D003_01007R 4045_D003_01012 4045_D005_02254 R Larry Gopnik’s 1966 DODGE CORONET is being auctioned off for charity.  The auction will benifit Variety – The Children’s Charity of Southern California.  After 8 bids and with 6 days to go it’s at $5000.  A steal if your interested in extremely dull cars used in extremely great movies. 

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Want to be in True Grit?

Do you have horse riding skills?  Can you be in New Mexico in March and April?  Perhaps you should through your hat in the ring and register at egcasting.com or mail contact information with riding experience, sizes and photos to: Elizabeth Gabel, 304 Washington SE, Albuquerque, N.M. 87108.  I can barely ride bike so I won’t see you there. 

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Coen Brothers Mop up at Cinephile Society Awards

Even though I’ve never heard of the International Cinephile Society I thought I’d report on the outcome of their 2009 awards since A Serious Man won their Best Film prize.  They also won in the directing and original screenplay categories.  The “ICS” was formed in 2003 and is made up of 60 journalists, scholars, and historians.  Blah, blah.  All I know is they have good taste. 

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A Woman, A Gun and Noodle Shop

zhang_yimou The Chinese remake of Blood Simple debuted that the Berlin Film Festival.  Zhang Yimou replaced small town America with the Gansu province of northwestern China.  Instead of a bar owner it’s a noodle shop owner.  Sounds pretty amusing.  Yimou first saw Blood Simple at the Cannes film festival but without subtitles he couldn’t follow what was going on.  It wasn’t until years later that he saw it again with Mandarin and decided he had to remake it. 

Joel and Ethan saw the film and were so amused that they sent Yimou an email explaining “They were amazed their film had been turned into a noodle story.”

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