It’s almost impossible to compare a small, independent film with today’s no-holds-barred superhero blockbusters. However, if there’s one thing that Noah Baumbach’s “Frances Ha” manages to have in common with, say, “The Avengers,” is secrecy.
For the film — which was shot in secret during 2011 and 2012 — Baumbach decided to withhold parts of the script from the cast, providing them with only the scenes in which their characters appeared… Continue reading Noah Baumbach's 'Frances Ha,' or How to Make a Movie in Secret

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Imagine Entertainment has set screenwriter Noah Oppenheim to adapt their big screen remake of George Orwell’s dystopian sci-fi classic Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Paramount Pictures and New Regency Productions jointly announced today that Academy Award-nominated director Darren Aronofsky (Black Swan) will direct the feature film Noah, with Academy Award-nominated screenwriter John Logan (Gladiator, The Aviator) coming aboard to re-write the script by Aronofsky and Ari Handel.