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That story about Mike Nichols doing a low-budget film in the Hamptons is a bogus embarassment. It started with Dark Horizon's' Garth Franklin linking to a column item by Hamptons.com's Jennifer Tuesday claiming that the "Oscar-winning" Nichols is about to shoot a "teen horror film" in the Hamptons area called Breadcrumbs. It turns out that (a) it's another Mike Nichols (a guy who happens to have the same name) directing this thing and (b) Tuesday is a brilliant reporter. It feels wonderful to have wasted time on this thing.
Posted by Jeffrey Wells on April 11, 2008 at 03:32 PM
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televisiontears ![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/nav-commenters.gif)
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Interesting. Could be a breath of fresh air in a genre in desperate need of it, or could be a complete embarrasment. Nichols is such a hit-or-misser that there's no way to tell. At the very least, it's always a curiosity when respected directors journey into genre masturbations. For now, I'm keeping faith that this will be a bit more watchable than Wolf. Yeah... remember Wolf... anyone...?
Posted by televisiontears at April 11, 2008 04:10 PM
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MiraJeffAICN says ...
Very interesting news. Children of the Hamptons sounds pretty fucking scary to me.
Posted by MiraJeffAICN at April 11, 2008 04:13 PM
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actionman says ...
Wells: Garth FRANKLIN runs Darkhorizons.
And Televisiontears: If this is true, this seems less like "genre masturbation" and more like genre experimentation. Nichols, as far as I recall, has never made a teen slasher/horror film. So, given his typically cerebral approach to filmmaking and storytelling, I'd suspect that this project would be extremely different than Prom Night or any of the other recent horror flicks that have saturated the marketplace. Since he's not an Eli Roth or Rob Zombie, I wouldn't describe this project as filmmaker masturbation.
But let's see if this is even true...
Posted by actionman at April 11, 2008 04:18 PM
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Aladdin Sane says ...
The Graduate was on AMC today. I put up with their rotten commercial breaks for the last 1/3 of it or so. I hadn't watched it in a long time. It's so good.
As for him doing a teen slasher flick, well I'm interested.
Posted by Aladdin Sane at April 11, 2008 04:39 PM
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lazarus says ...
Who knew that the organist/keyboardist for The Band was a huge movie geek?
You would have thought "Movies From Big Pink" would have been a better website name.
Posted by lazarus at April 11, 2008 05:05 PM
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televisiontears says ...
Actionman- I didn't mean "masturbation" in a deragatory sense, only in the sense that it can be fun for a filmmaker to step outside his or her comfort level, and to leave it at that. Masturbation is fun (usually), and can yield otherworldly benefits. You should try it.
Posted by televisiontears at April 11, 2008 05:09 PM
Posted by actionman at April 11, 2008 05:13 PM
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Mgmax says ...
Mike Nichols is directing a Garth Marenghi script? Awesome!
(I had to come up with something as obscure as Sir Digby Chicken Caesar...)
Posted by Mgmax at April 11, 2008 05:48 PM
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R. Hunt says ...
If I was trying to sum up Mike Nichols' career in 3 films, I'm not sure that those are the ones I'd choose...
(Why not What Planet Are You From?, The Birdcage and Gilda Live?)
Posted by R. Hunt at April 11, 2008 07:35 PM
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btwnproductions says ...
Mike Nichols is in previews with THE COUNTRY GIRL on Broadway. Now, he could be spending the next three weeks shooting a horror film in the mornings and afternoons, but I suspect stars Morgan Freeman and Frances McDormand might be a little peeved; it opens 4/27. The IMDb shows that there are 15 "Mike Nichols" out there, including two who have dabbled in horror films, so this may be a case of crossed wires. If not,well, interesting...
Posted by btwnproductions at April 11, 2008 07:42 PM
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MiraJeffAICN says ...
UPDATE: Dark Horizons is now saying it's a different Mike Nichols so you were right btwnproductions. It was a fun idea while it lasted. I guess that's why Hamptons.com doesn't break more stories...
Posted by MiraJeffAICN at April 12, 2008 01:26 AM
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corey3rd says ...
wasn't ex-porn stars trying to adapt to the real world an SNL skit?
Posted by corey3rd at April 12, 2008 07:29 AM
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nemo says ...
Wasn't April Fools Day almost two weeks ago?
Posted by nemo at April 12, 2008 09:00 AM
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