Also in Friday morning's round-up of news briefs, Jodie Foster will be this year's recipient of the Golden Globes' Lifetime Achievement Award; Jack and Diane and A Late Quartet are among this weekend's previewed Specialty Release newcomers; And Showtime set for new Roman Polanski doc.
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Thirty-four years after he fled the U.S. after being convicted of having sex with a teenager, the now 47 year-old who was at the center of the firestorm is writing a memoir that promises to reveal more details about the encounter that has lead to Roman Polanski's virtual exile in France.
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Roman Polanski will go French in his next project based on a Tony Award-winning stage-play and he's tapping his wife to play the star. Polanski is adapting Avid Ives' stage play Venus in Fur, relocating the setting to Paris from New York, casting his spouse Emmanuelle Seigner who auditions a role in a sadomasochistic drama.
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Online film investment site Slated is touting its entrée into the cyber-marketplace with its first two projects since its formal launch at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival: The Seagull and a follow up to award-winning doc Roman Polanski: Wanted And Desired both raised "significant portions" of their production resources through Slated and headed into production.
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What happens when you let Academy Award winner Roman Polanski confine three Oscar winners (and one lonely nominee) in a single house to film an entire argument-driven black comedy? Carnage, the upcoming feature from the controversial filmmaker which stars, on one side, Kate Winslet and Christoph Waltz, and on the other side, Jodie Foster and John C. Reilly, as two sets of parents who meet to calmly discuss -- and then outright argue -- over their sparring school children.
Adding another layer of intrigue to the saga of Oscar-winning director Roman Polanski and his notorious 1977 criminal case, previously documented in 2008's Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired, is a new documentary featuring testimonial from Polanski himself. Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir was helmed by showbiz documentarian Laurent Bouzereau and was revealed to be the secret screening set to follow the director's lifetime achievement award ceremony Tuesday at the Zurich Film Festival. Two years ago, Polanski was arrested while en route to the fest. Expect he'll make it through unscathed this time around? [THR]
Few details are known about Neill Blomkamp's Elysium, the science fiction follow-up to Blomkamp's Oscar-nominated District 9 that's currently in pre-production for a 2013 release. But Elysium co-star Jodie Foster, who'll star alongside Sharlto Copley, William Fichtner, and Matt Damon in the film, shared a few details of her character and the film's CG element with Movieline during a recent sit-down in Los Angeles.
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