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Under discussion:
The Happening (2008)

Under discussion:

The Happening (2008)

The Happening had a much better opening weekend than expected (or is it feared?), coming in at third place with $32.1 million domestically, and actually beating The Incredible Hulk overall overseas. Meanwhile, Universal and Marvel insist that their superhero movie is a hit, even though it mad six million dollars less in its opening weekend than Ang Lee’s supposedly disastrous Hulk five years ago.
Werner Herzog’s “don’t call it a remake” remake of Bad Lieutenant has found a female lead in Eva Mendes, who previously starred opposite new Bad star Nicolas Cage in Ghost Rider. So, to recap: Werner Herzog is restaging an Abel Ferrara movie in New Orleans, with the cast of a comic book movie about a guy on a motorcycle with a fireball for a face. Sounds about right.
Everything is Fine, one of my favorite films from Cannes, won the grand jury prize in the New Directors sidebar at the Seattle Film Festival this weekend.