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Adapting Denis Johnson, Claire Denis Debuts ‘Stars at Noon’ | Entertainment News
By JAKE COYLE, AP Film Writer CANNES, France (AP) — Just times eradicated from ending her most up-to-date movie and several hours just after arriving in Cannes, Claire Denis sat down in a poolside resort cafe and warmly pronounced herself “a mess.” Denis’ most recent, the Denis Johnson adaptation “Stars at Midday,” has been percolating in her for much more than a 10 years. She was compelled to make it just after the author’s loss of life in 2017. But there have been hurdles together the way. The pandemic, for just one. (Masks look in the movie.) Robert Pattison, star of Denis’ 2019 sci-fi movie “High Everyday living,” had to…
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Denis Villeneuve to Tackle Sci-Fi Classic Rendezvous with Rama, and More Movie News
This week’s Ketchup brings you more headlines from the world of film development news, covering such titles as Blue Beetle, The Masked Singer, and the Kanye biopic. This WEEK’S TOP STORY DENIS VILLENEUVE TO TACKLE SCI-FI CLASSIC RENDEZVOUS WITH RAMA (Photo by Jan Thijs/©Paramount Picture) In many ways, science fiction authors in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s were decades ahead of what Hollywood could adapt. Classics like Isaac Asimov’s Foundation (now an Apple TV+ series), Robert A. Heinlein’s Stranger in a Strange Land, and Arthur C. Clarke’s Childhood’s End all have development histories that date back to the 1970s itself. Another such sci-fi classic that has eluded adaptation is Clarke’s…