A film crew climbed Wilson Mountain yesterday to shoot a new Martin Scorsese flick based on the 2004 novel “Shutter Island” written by Dennis Lehane, who also penned the popular “Mystic River.”
Parks and Recreation Department Administrative Assistant Millie Smart spotted “Goodfellas” director Scorsese from her office window yesterday morning in the parking lot using the back of her car as a makeshift desk to study scripts and maps.
And Assistant Director of Parks and Recreation Robert Stanley caught a few glimpses of the legendary director sitting in a black Mercedes in the parking lot of the Wilson Mountain recreation area off Rte. 135.
The Paramount Pictures production company was using the state-owned land to film a scene with actors Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Ruffalo, playing two U.S. marshals in the wooded area. Read more…
From Hollywood Reporter:
Mark Ruffalo and Amy Adams are attached to star in writer-director Noah Baumbach’s next feature, “Greenburg,” for producer Scott Rudin.
Plot details are under wraps for the film, which is said to be a relationship comedy-drama. UTA is shopping the project in Cannes and financing is currently being assembled. While no timetable is set for principal photography, Rudin is aiming to shoot later this year.
Rudin produced “Margot at the Wedding,” Baumbach’s 2007 follow-up to his breakthrough drama “The Squid and the Whale.”
Adams is now shooting another Rudin project, Columbia’s “Julie and Julia,” and is set to wrap “Night at the Museum 2: Escape from the Smithsonian” by this fall. Ruffalo is filming Martin Scorsese’s “Shutter Island” for Paramount.
Fernando Meirelles did boys with guns in “City of God” and murderous corporations in “The Constant Gardener.”
With “Blindness,” the opening night entry at the Cannes Film Festival, the Brazilian director exposes the world’s ultimate savages: your friends and neighbors.
A terrifying fable about how low people might go to stay alive when a plague of blindness turns them into helpless internees, “Blindness” presents an unnerving reflection of real tragedy and bureaucratic heartlessness, from Hurricane Katrina to global food shortages to the cyclone in Myanmar, where the military government has severely restricted relief efforts. Read more…
Reed Johnson to The Sydney Morning Herald
MARK RUFFALO and Julianne Moore are traipsing through a rubbish-strewn urban wasteland, scavenging for salvation. All around them, dozens of pitiful humans dressed in filthy, mismatched clothes grope their way past wrecked cars and graffiti-splattered highway ramps, like dancers in some grotesque ballet of the damned.
It is not a pretty sight, but it is impossible to avert your eyes – which is exactly the point. The director, Fernando Meirelles, and his camera crew are gearing up to shoot another take of Blindness, a feature film based on the harrowing 1995 parable about an unnamed city stricken with a plague of sightlessness, by the Portuguese Nobel Prize-winning author Jose Saramago. Like nearly everyone in the film, Ruffalo’s character, an ophthalmologist known simply as “the doctor”, is afflicted with a terrifying malady in which the eyes appear normal but are coated with a milky whiteness that blocks out vision. Read more…
Blindness (2008)
The Brothers Bloom (2008)
What Doesn't Kill You (2008)
Margaret (2009)
Shutter Island (2009)
