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		<title>Mark reviews STATE OF PLAY, possibly the last of it&#8217;s kind&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 23:31:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Clark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If there’s a hard sell in our day to day lives it’s the concept of the heroic journalist, the character State of Play director Kevin MacDonald calls his ‘truth-teller’. The common snap judgement is journos equal sleaze, bombarded as we are with tabloids, weekly mags, blogs that seem less concerned with getting the facts straight than with cause célèbre. Somehow though, when we’re confronted with a journalist on screen, especially a die-hard newspaper man, there’s a tacit acceptance, even a desire, that this one is here to do the right thing.

The ultimate example of this is the godfather of filmic investigative journalism All The President’s Men, something to which State of Play aspires, but MacDonald and his talented, albeit partially last minute team muddy the waters with a murky layer of conflict of interest between friendship and getting to the truth.



Based on the BBC series of the same name the film transplants the action from Britain to the political corridors, and the common or garden streets, of Washington DC. Cal McCaffrey (Russell Crowe) is the senior metro reporter at the Washington Globe, an old school newspaper veteran, who investigates the murder of a young Washington aide in the office of ...]]></description>
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		<title>Two promo pics for STATE OF PLAY!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 09:41:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[OWF'S Mark Clark has given me the heads-up on some promo pics from next month's thriller, STATE OF PLAY which he found over at Image.net.

It's the first movie from Scottish helmer Kevin Macdonald since his brilliant THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND and is based on the rather excellent British mini-series that aired a few years ago. 

In this remake, Russell Crowe and Ben Affleck play two old college room-mates, one a congressman (Affleck) whose mistress has been murdered, and the other (Crowe) an investigate reporter who works alongside the police to solve the case. 

The original series is really gripping but the very mediocre trailer and the huge mis-casting of Crowe and Affleck, made the trailer seem rather mediocre. 

Simply put, we liked this project much better when it was a FIGHT CLUB reunion with Edward Norton and Brad Pitt. 




Rachel McAdams, Viola Davis, Jason Bateman, Helen Mirren, Jeff Daniels, Robin Wright Penn make up what is a stellar cast. 

And Tony Gilroy (MICHAEL CLAYTON, THE BOURNE SERIES) wrote the screenplay, so I'm dumbfounded why this looks so, blah. 

STATE OF PLAY is out in the U.S. on April 17th and a week later in the U.K. ]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;The newspapers can slant this any which way they want this&#8221; &#8211; STATE OF PLAY trailer!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Dec 2008 10:10:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The whole shape of the crime thriller STATE OF PLAY changed when the FIGHT CLUB duo Edward Norton and Brad Pitt bailed out at the 11th hour just before filming was to begin and the juicy hook of a movie about two former best friends who are on the opposite ends of a hideous crime no longer had that initial spark of seeing two actors who we know have great chemistry back together on screen again.

Now we have Ben Affleck and Russell Crowe, who are both damn fine actors but that Norton/Pitt duo was what sold this movie for me for such a long time. Affleck and Crowe don't quite have the same chemistry.



Based on the excellent BBC T.V. mini-series from 2003, Universal Pictures adaptation of STATE OF PLAY has been co-written by two screenwriting heavyweights Matthew Michael Carnahan (THE KINGDOM, LIONS FOR LAMBS) and Tony Gilroy (MICHAEL CLAYTON, THE BOURNE series) and it follows a team of investigative reporters who work alongside a police detective to try to solve the murder of a congressman’s mistress.

Rachel McAdams, Jason Bateman, Helen Mirren, Robin Wright Penn, Viola Davis and Jeff Daniels make up the rest of what is an impressive cast.

And if ...]]></description>
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		<title>Miramax, Aaron Stockard and Ben Affleck making THE BLADE ITSELF</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2008 15:10:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gone Baby Gone was an incredible directorial debut from the multi-talented Ben Affleck who in the past two years has finally started to put those terrible low brow comedies behind him and has really stepped up his game as an interesting voice in the industry once again.

Smartly, the news today is that Affleck is teaming once again with Gone Baby Gone screenwriter Aaron Stockard and Miramax Studio's to produce (and possibly direct but the trades don't say that) another film noir/crime novel in The Blade Itself, a well reviewed first time novel from Marcus Sakey.


"Blade" revolves around two Chicago childhood friends who made their reputation committing petty crimes as kids before choosing different paths in life. When they are reunited years later, one is forced to decide how far he will go to protect the secrets of his past. Esquire magazine named the novel one of the five best of 2007.
Affleck currently has no directing projects in the works so I guess with him producing that it's his flick if he wants to direct it.

I would love to see Affleck become the crime novelist specialist, adapting dark and grim books that your never likely to read and transforming them into ...]]></description>
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