Get ready for another Shakespearean film adaptation
Recent news coming out of the
Cannes Film Festival (courtesy of the UK's Telegraph): there will be a
new big-screen adaptation of Shakespeare's King Lear, this time starring Sir Anthony Hopkins, Keira Knightley and Gwyneth Paltrow.
Daddy's Little Girls
Sir Anthony will naturally assume the role of King Lear, while Keira will portray his daughter Cordelia. According to the article, "Gwyneth Paltrow is tipped to take the role of Regan, Lear's treacherous middle daughter.
All of the new DVD releases hit stores (and
Netflix) on Tuesdays. So each week in
What to Netflix: New DVD Tuesday, I sort through the best of the batch and tell you what to add to your queue. In addition to these three creepy thrillers that join the others on video store shelves today,
Wild Hogs also comes out on DVD, as well as David Lynch's
Inland Empire.
Speaking of Comic-Con, apparently there was a screening of 20-minutes from Robert Zemeckis' computer-generated version of the epic tale
Beowulf, starring Angelina Jolie and Anthony Hopkins, among others. MTV's movie blogger
was there, and reported this:
"This is the oldest story in the English language," [Neil] Gaiman told the crowd of press and VIPs. "And it’s told with the most modern technology available," [Roger] Avary finished.
"I. Am. BEOWULF!" 
