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Weekend Newsreel: April 28, 2006 Compiled by the FilmBuffOnLine.com Staff
Silent Film Mystery: A 50 foot strip of a mid-1920s silent film is set to be the subject of an episode of the PBS television series History Detectives. Discovered in a Cincinnati, Ohio attic, the film was in a canister labeled “Dangerous Hour- Eddie Polo.” Set in Arizona, Dangerous Hour tells the story of a group of filmmakers who come to the aid of some trapped miners. The film has been thought to be lost. The Library of Congress Motion Picture Conservation Center at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio supervised the research of the 38-second film clip, but is keeping silent on their result until the episode airs. The episode is not yet scheduled, but should air sometime over the summer.
Deja View: Director Brad Anderson has announced plans to develop an English language version of the German political drama The Edukators. Anderson will both script and direct the adaptation, moving the story’s action from Berlin to the United States. . . The 2003 Takashi Miike film One Last Call becomes the next Japanese horror film to be adapted into English. French director Eric Valette will helm the project while Andrew Klavan scripts. . . Constantine director Francis Lawrence is set to helm I Am Legend, a remake of the Charlton Heston film The Omega Man (1971), which in turn was a remake of the Vincent Price vehicle The Last Man On Earth (1964). All films are based on the Richard Matheson novel I Am Legend. Will Smith is slated to star in this last version, which had been originally developed for Arnold Schwarzenegger . . . First time feature director Douglas Buck will be overseeing a remake of Brian DePalma’s Sisters (1973) with Chloe Sevigny, Stephen Rea and French actress Lou Doillon heading up the cast. Buck will also co-script the adaptation with John Freitas.
Screen To Broadway: Mel Brooks is hoping that lightening strikes twice. In this case, he’s hoping that the creative lightening that made the Broadway adaptation of his film The Producers a runaway hit will bring similar life to his 1974 comedy Young Frankenstein. Brooks has announced that he is currently working on the score for a stage adaptation of his monster comedy and will make a formal announcement seeking backers for the project once he’s done writing the score.
In Remembrance Alida Valli- The Italian actress who appeared with Orson Welles in The Third Man (1949) has passed away at age 84. Raj Kumar- One of India’s most beloved movie stars has passed away at age 77. Vilgot Sjoman- The Swedish director of the controversial 1967 film I Am Curious (Yellow) has passed away at age 81. Amanda Duff Dunne- The former supporting actress and widow of writer Philip Dunne has passed away at age 92. Gary Gray- The child actor who appeared in MGM’s last Lassie film The Painted Hills (1951) has passed away at age 69. Polly Burson- The renowned rodeo trick rider and one of Hollywood’s first stuntwomen has passed away ay age 86. Gretchen Rau- The Academy Award winning set designer of Memoirs Of A Geisha (2005) has passed away at age 66. Richard Fleischer- The director of the classic 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea (1954) has passed away at age 89
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