Steven Spielberg will screen his Oscar contender in the U.S. Senate. Also in Thursday’s round-up of news, Casey Affleck is eyeing a crime thriller; Tron is making another return; records were released surrounding TDKR Colorado shooter James Holmes; and Glenn Beck & Vince Vaughn are developing a documentary filmmaker competition.
Lincoln Invited to Screen U.S. Senate
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has invited Steven Spielberg to screen Lincoln in the Senate chamber later this month. The film screened by invitation of President Obama at the White House on November 15th, Deadline reports.
Casey Affleck Eyes Boston Strangler Pic
Affleck hopes to star in the thriller about the desperate search to find the mass murderer who gripped Boston in fear in the early ’60s. Warner Bros. picked up the thriller, Deadline reports.
New Tron Back in Development
A Tron 3 sequel to 2010 reboot Tron: Legacy is back on track. Plot details are being kept secret, but Joseph Kosiniski, who directed Legacy is attached to direct the new pic, THR reports.
TDKR Shooter’s Records Released as Theater Is Set to Re-open
The documents reveal a romantic relationship accused killer James Holmes had and one of his professors feared for her students’ safety. The theater where the shooting occurred is set to reopen January 17th during a ceremony that will be attended by Colorado’s governor, THR reports.
Glenn Beck and Vince Vaughn Teaming for Documentary Filmmaker Competition Show
The conservative personality is working to start a reality show called Pursuit of the Truth with Vince Vaughn in which 20 documentarians will compete for financing and distribution of their films and is accepting “filmmakers of all walks of life,” Indiewire reports.
Each Sunday on the AFI campus in Los Angeles, a loyal group of industry pros and movie lovers gather to celebrate rare or forgotten genre cinema with a weekly screening series dubbed Reel Grit. For Reel Grit’s 100th film, six AFI alumni — editor Howard E. Smith (The Abyss), writer Jacob Forman (All the Boys Love Mandy Lane), DP Amy Vincent (Black Snake Moan), production designer Todd Cherniawsky (Avatar, Alice in Wonderland), director and AFI Dean Robert Mandel (School Ties), and producer Stuart Cornfeld (Tropic Thunder) — selected films that influenced their work and careers, sharing anecdotes and appreciations over the course of a free 12-hour movie marathon.
Screened in order throughout the day were Tim Hunter’s 1986 drama River’s Edge, starring Crispin Glover and Keanu Reeves; Michael Ritchie’s 1972 mob enforcer vs. meat packer pic Prime Cut; Sydney Pollack’s 1975 Oscar-nominee Three Days of the Condor; James Foley’s 1986 thriller At Close Range, starring Christopher Walken and Sean Penn; Adrian Lyne’s 1990 psychological thriller Jacob’s Ladder; and the 1993 Corey Yuen-directed martial arts pic The Legend of Fong Sai-Yuk, starring Jet Li.
Among the day’s revelations: A River’s Edge continuity complaint from editor Smith (who recently finished working on The Knights of Badassdom and, coincidentally, edited both River’s Edge and At Close Range); the macho insanity that is Prime Cut, starring Lee Marvin, a very naked Sissy Spacek, and Gene Hackman as a…
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