Tag: In The Bedroom
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Tom Cruise Helped Todd Field Save ‘In The Bedroom’ From Harvey Weinstein’s Scissorhands
If you don’t know the story of filmmaker Todd Field, who directed the critically-acclaimed “Tár” (our review) this year with Cate Blanchett, it goes a little bit like this. An actor in small indies, and some blockbusters (Jan De Bont’s “Twister”), Field moved up to writing and directing and knocked it out of the park…
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Todd Field Explains How Tom Cruise Helped Save His Debut Feature From Harvey Weinstein’s Recuts: ‘It’s Going to Take You Six Months and You’ll Beat Him’
It had been nearly 15 years since Todd Field released a film when his critically acclaimed drama “Tár” hit festivals last fall. Now running the gauntlet of the awards circuit, Field has opened up about the difficulties he’s encountered in realizing his projects, including the obstacles that faced his debut feature, 2001’s “In the Bedroom,”…
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Tar Director Todd Field Helped Invent Big League Chew
Everyone in Hollywood had to get their start somewhere, and it’s always fascinating when we hear a story outside of nepotism. Actor Danny DeVito had worked as a hairstylist in a mortuary for a brief period of time, Christopher Walken was a former lion tamer, and legendary horror director Wes Craven cut his teeth in…
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‘TÁR’ New Trailer: Cate Blanchett Stars in Todd Field’s Comeback Movie
Sixteen years since his last film “Little Children” peeled back the malaise and psychosexual dysfunction of suburbia, director Todd Field is back on the film festival stage with “TÁR.” Field has paddled around a suite of projects over the years, from a 20-hour Showtime limited series take on Jonathan Franzen’s tome “Purity” with Daniel Craig…
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‘In the Bedroom,’ ‘Little Children’ Director Todd Field Sets First Film in 15 Years, Starring Cate Blanchett
Three-time Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Todd Field has emerged with his first film in 15 years since the release of “Little Children,” and it’s set to star Cate Blanchett. The “In the Bedroom” director and Blanchett have paired for “Tar,” an original drama that Field wrote and will direct for Focus Features. While the plot details…
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Cate Blanchett Teams Up With Director Todd Field On ‘Tar’ For Focus Features
You know those features the Playlist has done in the past, The Lost, Forgotten, Unmade projects of Stanley Kubrick, David Fincher, Quentin Tarantino, etc., etc., looking at big-name feature filmmakers and the various projects they tried to get off the ground that never happened? Well, even though he’s only ever made two films, “In The…
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Daniel Craig reportedly set to star in Todd Field’s ‘The Creed of Violence’
Daniel Craig has been James Bond for well over a decade, but the actor is already making plans for his future without the secret agent. According to Collider, Craig’s first post-Bond film will be The Creed Of Violence, an adaptation of Boston Teran’s novel of the same name which will be helmed by Todd Field…