My Best Friend’s Wedding 2: Celine Song to write sequel to hit comedy

The Past Lives and Materialists writer-director is set to pen a follow-up to the dark, Julia Roberts-led 1997 favourite A sequel to 1997 comedy My Best Friend’s Wedding is in the works with Celine Song tapped to write the screenplay. According to Collider , the playwright turned writer-director, who broke out with Oscar-nominated drama Past Lives , has reportedly been hired by Sony as the film enters early development. Continue reading... from Film | The Guardian https://ift.tt/yP2qNA8 via IFTTT

The Fabelmans review – Spielberg’s beguiling ode to a life made by movies will leave you on a high

The director’s 1950s-set semi-memoir brilliantly examines how we edit our own life stories, and the repercussions

Steven Spielberg’s utterly beguiling fictionalised movie-memoir is his new adventure in Panglossian optimism, and offers us a stunning critical insight into his own work and how and why artists cauterise childhood pain and rewrite their youth. Movies are not exactly a matter of “escapism” – a lazy and misleading word – but all about intervening in real life, reordering the landscape, addressing frailty and vulnerability candidly, but from a position of strength.

Young Spielberg is reborn as Sammy Fabelman, a little kid in 1950s New Jersey who is hit by cinema as by a bolt of lightning when he sees Cecil B DeMille’s The Greatest Show on Earth; he is stunned by the train crash scene, which he obsessively re-stages at home with a toy train set and an 8mm camera. Like most of the movie, this is based on a real event, or anyway a real memory, and Spielberg may also want us to think of Orson Welles’s comment that a movie studio is the “biggest electric train set any boy ever had”. The one movie legend Sammy eventually does get to meet in the flesh is John Ford, played here by another movie legend that it would be unsporting to reveal in a wonderfully funny and inspirational final scene.

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