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Ru Signs On For Herzog’s Bad Lieutenant

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Ms. Balk has just made an enemy of Abel Ferrara, the director of Bad Lieutenant (who recently said of all involved in the remake of the film “I wish these people die in Hell. I hope they’re all in the same streetcar, and it blows up” which was met with a  “I have no idea who he is. Is he Italian? Is he French? Who is he?” from the difficult to faze Herzog – this is, after all,  a man who brushed off being shot with an air rifle with a nonchalant “It was not a significant bullet. It does not surprise me to be shot at.”) by signing on for an as yet unknown role in Herzog’s film. Val Kilmer and Brad Dourif who have appeared alongside Ru in The Island of Dr. Moreau and Humboldt County respectively are also on board. Now just stay offboard those streetcars.

Magnolia Buys Humboldt County

Variety has reported what first appeared in the director’s blog about Humboldt County being sold to Magnolia Pictures and what appeared in an HD Net press release about the film’s premiere to be by video on demand and that plans are then for a theatrical release in September starting in Austin, TX and, of course, Eureka, CA (the director’s blog doesn’t quite jibe with this saying the opening weekend will be San Francisco, Seattle, Portland, Chicago and Austin)

Update: Official Press Release at the directors blog

 

Fairuza Joins “Thicker”?

Not much hard information aside from Ru showing up on the IMDb page for this feature length version of a short film entitled Enfants Terribles (trailer), identified as playing a character named “Lonely”. Confirmed cast include Peter Facinelli,  Jason Lee, Alison Pill, Peter Stormare, Amanda Plummer, Bobby Cannavale, Christopher Lloyd and James LeGros.

Grindstone Road Trailer

Peace Arch Entertainment has put up a trailer for the movie which you can see here. The DVD is set for release on May 20 and can be pre-ordered from Amazon here. 

RHI Entertainment has a small factsheet with five picture gallery here. 

The Natural

Darren Grodsky at the Humboldt County director’s blog has composed a lengthy tribute post to Ru entitled “The Natural”.  It discusses in some detail the audition process and praises Ru on her professionalism and includes this large pic.  Earlier this month they put up a video on casting generally in which they indicate that Ru’s screen time will be small but that she will be seen doing something different than she’s done in the past.

Humboldt County Website Full Launch

http://www.humboldtcountymovie.com/ now has a snazzy new look, some new pics of Ru, many pictures of a mysterious green weed of some sort about which I know nothing, a synopsis and the promise of a trailer to come.

UPDATE: Trailer now up at the above link.

Grindstone Road Update

ITV Inter Medya, the distribution company for the film, have put up a Grindstone Road page that gives a few more details. For one the movie is directed by Melanie Orr and co-stars Greg Bryk (Shoot ‘Em Up, Weirdsville, A History of Violence), Joan Gregson (Hollywoodland, The Good Shepherd) and Walter Learning (His official site). There is also a more detailed synopsis and this poster:

Grindstone Road Poster

Grindstone Rd.

According to a press release from Peace Arch Entertainment Group Fairuza is to star in a film called Grindstone Rd. about “a young mother who moves her family into a newly purchased farmhouse, where the seemingly friendly neighbors next door may have sinister motives”

Read the full article here

Wild Tigers I Have Known DVD

Cam Archer’s Wild Tigers I Have Known has been set for DVD release on July 10. Click here to preorder and see the attractive cover graphic. Read more about the movie in the forum here.

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