Tag: Fever
-
‘Fever’: Todd Haynes Says “The Interest Hasn’t Gone Away” In Making His Peggy Lee Biopic Starring Michelle Williams
Getting a film made when it doesn’t involve superheroes or isn’t part of a larger franchise is growing more and more difficult in Hollywood. Even when you have an Oscar-caliber people attached, such as director Todd Haynes and star Michelle Williams, getting financing for a film is just increasingly hard to do. So, in the…
-
Todd Haynes Open to Reviving Scrapped Peggy Lee Biopic with Michelle Williams: ‘The Interest Hasn’t Gone Away’
Todd Haynes has spent a large portion of the past decade trying to make “Fever,” his planned Peggy Lee biopic that never materialized. Haynes originally boarded the project in 2014, when Reese Witherspoon was attached to play the legendary crooner. She was eventually replaced by Haynes’ “I’m Not There” and “Wonderstruck” collaborator Michelle Williams, who…
-
‘The Worst Ones’ wins top Un Certain Regard prize at Cannes
Other prize winners in the section include Joyland, Metronom and Mediterranean Fever.The Worst Ones, from French directors Lise Akoka and Romane Gueret, has won the top prize in the Un Certain Regard section of this year’s Cannes Film Festival.Also awarded honours by the section’s jury were Joyland, Metronom and Mediterranean Fever.The Worst Ones (Les Pires)…