Weekend Recap: Abrams May Direct Lance Armstrong Biopic, Sundance News, 'Lovelace' and 'Stoker' Clips, 'Les Mis' Cast to Perform at Oscars and More

 - J.J. Abrams is developing a film regarding disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong. Bad Robot, Abrams' production company, secured the rights to a HarperCollins' book proposition "Cycle of Lies: The Fall of Lance Armstrong." The book are going to be posted by NYT reporter Juliet Macur, that has covered Armstrong to get more than just a decade. Sony Photos possess reportedly deserted their Armstrong show in light of Armstrong's recent confession. Even more TOH reporting regarding the Armstrong scandal and also how it impacts on the movies here.

- Clips! Click here to watch Nicole Kidman in Park Chan-wook's "Stoker" and Amanda Seyfried in a sweet first clip from "Lovelace."

- Director Paul Thomson Anderson has revived some lost performance footage of late indie songwriter and performer, Elliott Smith. Anderson uploaded the VHS footage to YouTube on Thursday, to the delight of Smith's fans. Watch here or below for 43 minutes of wonderful music.

- Anne Hathaway, Hugh Jackman, Eddie Redmayne and Samantha Barks might sing onstage at the Oscars --exact songs remain unconfirmed. (Also, reportedly, Russell Crowe will not join his co-stars.)

- Weinstein Co. possess quizzed toy maker NECA todiscontinue their "Django Unchained" action figures, soon after issues the dolls trivialized the history of slavery in America. 

Sundance News:
- Brooks Barnes at the NYT goes for it -- and also calls Park City's festival "Porndance." Barnes quotations a Hollywood executive: “I’ve seen 5 movies now, and it was nonstop. Im virtually no prude, however it s a quick much.” 

- Daniel Radcliffe is confused by all of the attention that gay sex scene in "Kill Your Darlings" is receiving -- especially soon after "Equus," a really sexualized play in which Radcliffe appeared naked onstage. See the actor handle these concerns maturely within the video below.

- Head in this case for a clip from Sundance movie "Emanuel and also the Truth Regarding Fishes" with Jessica Biel and also Kaya Scodelario from manager Francesca Gregorini ("Tanner Hall"). The movie applies a troubled kid who ends up being preoccupied having a following doorway neighbor. 

- Not in Park Region? Here's a great article regarding six ways to enter with the Sundance action.

- Casting watch: Tom Hardy and also Noomi Rapace are really going to squad up for "Animal Rescue" directed by Michael Roskam ("Bullhead") based on top of a brief tale by Dennis Lehane ("Mystic River," "Gone An infant Gone"). The film centers upon a forlorn bartender in New York, which happens on a pup in a rubbish can and also ends up being the target of the dog's harmful former owner.

 
- Check out Brian Stelter's review of David Fincher's "House of Cards" at just NYT. The Netflix adaptation of the 1990 BBC mini-series (regarding Parliament around there) is among one of Netflix's initial significant attempts to create their own personal broadcasting. Every thirteen of the shows, which Stelter calls a bit of the modern "Macbeth," could be available February 1st.

Source: blogs.indiewire.com