Tag: The American

  • Anton Corbijn on Squaring the Circle, Hipgnosis, Album Covers & Kurt Cobain

    Anton Corbijn on Squaring the Circle, Hipgnosis, Album Covers & Kurt Cobain

    From Dutch director and photographer, Anton Corbijn, Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis) tells the history behind Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey “Po” Powell, the creative minds behind one of the most iconic design studios in musical history, Hipgnosis. No stranger to the musical frontier, Corbijn has worked with numerous influential artists, namely Depeche Mode,…

  • Film Review: ‘Siberia’

    Film Review: ‘Siberia’

    Matthew Ross’ “Siberia” is the rare film involving diamond smuggling, international intrigue, double-crosses and Russian gangsters that might have actually been better off jettisoning all of those elements. Starring Keanu Reeves as Lucas Hill, an American diamond dealer who winds up in a remote corner of Siberia trying to salvage a botched deal, the film…

  • Bradley Cooper’s Leonard Bernstein Biopic Gets the Edge on Jake Gyllenhaal’s Competing Movie

    Bradley Cooper’s Leonard Bernstein Biopic Gets the Edge on Jake Gyllenhaal’s Competing Movie

    Right now, there are dueling Leonard Bernstein biopics. The first is from True Detective director Cary Fukunaga and is set to star Jake Gyllenhaal as the famous composer and conductor in The American. But just ten days later, Bradley Cooper announced he was doing his own Bernstein biopic, titled Bernstein, and he had Steven Spielberg…

  • Bradley Cooper to Star in and Direct Leonard Bernstein Biopic

    Bradley Cooper to Star in and Direct Leonard Bernstein Biopic

    As buzz builds on his directorial debut, “A Star Is Born,” Bradley Cooper looks to have found his next directing vehicle. The A-lister will helm and star in the Leonard Bernstein biopic “Bernstein,” sources tell Variety.Paramount Pictures and Amblin Entertainment will co-finance the film from a script by Josh Singer. Cooper — through his Joint…

  • Jake Gyllenhaal Starring In Leonard Bernstein Biopic From Director Cary Fukunaga

    Jake Gyllenhaal Starring In Leonard Bernstein Biopic From Director Cary Fukunaga

    Recently, we were excited by the first look for director Cary Fukunaga’s upcoming Netflix series “Maniac,” and we wondered what was next for the filmmaker. Well, now we know, and the project is shaping up to be something special.Fukunaga is teaming up with actor Jake Gyllenhaal for a film titled “The American.” Gyllenhaal, who is…

  • Cary Fukunaga to Direct Jake Gyllenhaal in Leonard Bernstein Biopic ‘The American’

    Cary Fukunaga to Direct Jake Gyllenhaal in Leonard Bernstein Biopic ‘The American’

    Jake Gyllenhaal will portray “On the Waterfront” and “West Side Story” composer Leonard Bernstein in “The American,” the next film from director/producer Cary Fukunaga. Nine Stories, the Oscar-nominated actor’s (“Brokeback Mountain”) production company, will produce the biopic with financier Bron Studios. International sales will commence at this month’s Cannes Film Market; shooting starts this fall.A…