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Lars Von Trier Making A Disaster Movie Next
Cinema Blend News —
... may be as popular, or at least infamous, as he's ever been these days, with Antichrist playing the New York Film Festival and everyone curious, if not horrified, by what they're seen in it. So the Danish provocateur is taking the success and running with it, moving on to his next project, a "psychological disaster film" called Planet Melancholia . Yes, only von Trier, or perhaps Roland Emmerich, could embark on a psychological disaster film with a straight face. According to THR , it's an English-language film budgeted at $7.4 million, which means we probably won't get to ...
Lars von Trier to Make a Sci-Fi Disaster Film Called PLANET MELANCHOLIA
Collider —
... THR reports that von Trier will be collaborating with his usual crew to make this $7.4 million English-language film which is currently being described as a “psychological disaster film”. The psychological aspect isn’t surprising given that it’s von Trier that we’re talking about, but I’m still trying to wrap my mind around what a sci-fi disaster film by the auteur will even look like ...
Next From Lars Von Trier: Planet Melancholia, a Psychological Sci-Fi Disaster Film
/Film —
... is currently listing it. The trade says the title is illustrated in their press release by ‘an enourmous planet…that looms threateningly close to Earth.” THR says that Von Trier is “moving into Roland Emmerich territory” with Planet Melancholia, but also calls Antichrist an “art house mash up of the slasher horror genre,” so I’m not sure I trust the Emmerich description. ...
Lars von Trier Next Is 'Planet Melancholia'
FlicksNews.net —
... THR have detail for Lars von Trier next project 'Planet Melancholia.' Not much detail on the plot emmerged but its said to be a psychological disaster. Von Trier will write and direct the $7.4 million-budgeted English-language feature. Shooting is scheduled for next summer in Germany and Sweden. ...
Lars Von Trier Returns to Sci-Fi. Today in Film Bloggery 10/09/09
SpoutBlog —
... And neither, I’m sure, will be his next venture, a “psychological disaster” film titled Planet Melancholia. I’ll ignore the Hollywood Reporter’s reference to “Roland Emmerich territory,” especially since it follows the equally asinine description of Antichrist as being in some way related to a slasher film, and stick to comments from Von Trier and his partner at Zentropa Entertainment, Peter Aalbaek Jensen. ...
'Toy Story 3' Trailer Details And Sam Raimi's For-Kids Horror Flick 'Burst 3D' In Today's Dailies -- 10/9/09
MTV Movies Blog —
... --The first bit of info has emerged on director Lars Von Trier's follow-up to the genital-mutilating art-horror flick "Antichrist." Next up is "Planet Melancholia," which is described as a "psychological disaster film." In the words of Zentropa's Peter Jensen, it is "romantic, in a Lord Byron sort of way." In the words of Von Trier himself: "No more happy endings!" (The Hollywood Reporter) ...
Lars von Trier Goes Next to Planet Melancholia
Film School Rejects —
... is saying that Planet Melancholia will center around “an enormous planet.. that looms threateningly close to Earth.” The Hollywood Reporter adds that Von Trier may be “moving into Roland Emmerich territory.” ...
von Trier Suffers "Melancholia"
Dark Horizons - News —
... Controversial director Lars von Trier ("Antichrist," "Dogville") has announced his next project, a psychological disaster film entitled "Planet Melancholia" says The Hollywood Reporter. ...
Saturday film news web roundup: Lars von Trier picks next film; Roland Emmerich talks projects
The Screening Log —
... again, and here's a brief entry with short descriptions and links to film news we either missed or quite honestly didn't have time to add. Here's what you need to know on October 10, 2009: Filmmaker Lars von Trier will next write and direct a disaster film titled "Planet Melancholia." Plot details are kept under wraps, but I'm sure we're in for a visually stunning film. Trier last helmed "Antichrist." "Planet Melancholia" should be ready by the time Cannes rolls around in 2011. ( The Hollywood Reporter ) Roland Emmerich recently talked to ...
Von Trier Goes from 'Antichrist' to End of the World
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... The Hollywood Reporter gives some financial details (a $7.4 million budget, healthy by von Trier's standards) as
well as some production information (the film will shoot next summer in Germany and Sweden). But specific
details about the project itself are hard to come by. ...
Lars von Trier on disaster film
Filmstalker —
... otherwise now would it? Hopefully though he might reign it in and give us something controversial, but not just plain disgusting, out of context with the film, and deliberately confusing. The story is typically vague on what is exactly going to happen, as Trier is about his projects, but his business partner Peter Aalbaek Jensen did say a little something about the film. He said through The Hollywood Reporter that it would be... ”...romantic, in a Lord Byron sort of way.” That really isn't much to go on. Trier is set to write and direct the film and it's believed that it ...
Movie Genres Lars von Trier Has Already Pwned
Cinematical —
... has revealed that his next film will be Planet Melancholia, a science fiction-romance-disaster movie that will combine von Trier's Dogme-style leanings with minimal special effects, and involve a plot that producing partner Peter Aalbaek Jensen called "romantic, in a Lord Byron sort of way." (Von Trier would only comment, "No more happy endings!" Because really, he's made way too many cheerful films.) ...
