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Real-life siblings Rooney and Kate Mara are set to appear in Werner Herzog's upcoming movie. The film is titled Bucking Fastard, and it is being presented to potential distributors at this year's Cannes Film Festival. The sisters will be playing twins in the movie, marking the first time they have ever appeared on-screen together. Orlando Bloom and Domhnall Gleeson are also set to join the Maras in the film.

Per the report by IndieWire, the Mara sisters will play Jean and Joan Holbrooke, twin siblings who have a strange relationship that puts them in the spotlight. Herzog has said that the film is based on the true story of the Chaplin sisters, Freda and Greta, who became international sensations after standing trial in a harassment case. The Chaplin twins were known for dressing identically and speaking in unison.

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Set in both the contemporary urban...

U.K.-based MetFilm Sales has acquired worldwide sales rights, excluding the U.S., Germany and France, to Thomas von Steinaecker’s feature documentary “Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer” and is representing the project at Berlin’s European Film Market.

With exclusive behind-the-scenes access into the legendary German film director’s everyday life, rare archive material and in-depth interviews with Herzog and his collaborators — including Christian Bale, Nicole Kidman and his wife Lena Herzog — the film provides a glimpse into his work process and his personal life.

The documentary is presented by Emmy-winning film studio Wavelength, produced by Spring Films and 3B-Produktion in association with Hot Docs Partners. It is produced by Andre Singer, Bernhard Von Hulsen and Maria Willer. Executive producers include Jenifer Westphal and Joe Plummer for Wavelength, Figs Jackman and Chris Smith for Spring Films and Vijay Vaidyanathan.

The film had its world premiere at Telluride and has...

The Wavelength title debuted at Telluride.

UK-based sales firm MetFilm Sales has acquired worldwide sales rights excluding US, Germany and France to Thomas von Steinaecker’s documentary Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer.

The German-uk co-production had its world premiere at Telluride Film Festival in September, before going on to play Cologne, IDFA, Cork and Santa Barbara film festivals.

Radical Dreamer combines archive material and interviews with both German director Herzog, and collaborators including Christian Bale, Nicole Kidman and Werner’s wife Lena Herzog.

It is presented by US studio Wavelength, and produced by the UK’s Spring Films and Germany’s...

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Pedro Almodóvar, "Pain and Glory"

Photographed by Nico Bustos in Madrid for TheWrap

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Abel Ferrara, "Tommaso"

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Jérémy Clapin, "I Lost My Body"

Photographed by Hélène Cica in Paris for TheWrap

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Editor’s note: Kim Voynar and Nathaniel Luke Pinzon are co-founders of Xr content and consulting studio WonderTek Labs, and are co-producers on Lena Herzog’s 2019 New Frontier selection “Last Whispers.”

Sundance Film Festival began featuring Vr content at its New Frontier section in 2012, but the first wave of Vr development began when cinematographer Morton Heilig filed his 1962 patent for the Sensorama. It gave viewers the passive experiences of riding a bike, a helicopter, or a go-kart, with full-color 3D video, stereo sound, haptic vibrations, scent, and wind effects.

A half century later, his technology’s promise is still waiting to be fulfilled. Head curator Shari Frilot always intended New Frontier to disarm and disrupt, and on that count the 2019 lineup ably delivered. However, if the Vr industry is still yearning for its version of “The Jazz Singer” — the project that could catapult a once-fringe technology into a world-changing sensation — that was not on display.

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans Directed by: Werner Herzog Written by: Willam M. Finkelstein Starring: Nicolas Cage, Eva Mendes, Shawn Hatosy, Irma P. Hall, Val Kilmer, Xzibit There was a lot of confusion when it was first announced that Werner Herzog would be directing a remake of the 1992 film Bad Lieutenant starring Harvey Keitel, and even more confusion when a trailer finally surfaced online last year. As it turns out, the movie is not a remake of Abel Ferrara's original at all, and shares little more than a title and the same general premise. But if it isn't a remake and it isn't a sequel, the question remains... what exactly is it? Somehow the folks at Millennium Films (Rambo, Brooklyn's Finest) managed to scoop up the rights to the original, and thought that it might make a good starting point for a franchise. Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans...

Chicago – 2010 is clearly the year of New Orleans with a Saints Superbowl victory, HBO’s highly acclaimed “Treme” debuting this Sunday and the highly underrated and somewhat excellent “Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans,” starring Nicolas Cage and Eva Mendes, debuting on Blu-ray and DVD tomorrow, April 6th, 2010.

Blu-Ray Rating: 3.5/5.0

Expertly directed by one of the best living filmmakers, Werner Herzog (“Grizzly Man,” “Rescue Dawn”), this bizarre remake/spin-off of the Abel Ferrara/Harvey Keitel drama defies all expectations that rebooting a film that didn’t really demand a reboot was a really bad idea. When most of us heard that Nicolas Cage was doing another remake (after the disastrous “The Wicker Man”) and given his recent track record, we approached Herzog’s “Bad Lieutenant” with a raised eyebrow.

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans will be released on Blu-ray and DVD on April 6th, 2010.

Photo credit: First Look Entertainment

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Welcome back to another edition of Insert Caption -- the game that, on a good day, is as bad as a corrupt, drug-addicted lieutenant from New Orleans. Oh, you don't wanna know what it's like on a bad day. Last week we asked you to torture us with captions for a photo from the latest Saw installment, Saw VI (in theaters now). Over 300 folks came out for this one, but unfortunately only three survived our evil, sadistic tests.

1. "Introducing ABC's new fall game show- "Extreme Simon Says" -- Shannon T.

2. "Hang out with Jigsaw, they said." -- Jordan K.

3. "Jerry seemed very upset when someone showed up to his Halloween party after having copied his marionette costume idea exactly." -- Abigail M.

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This week we're celebrating Werner Herzog's wild and crazy kinda-sorta remakeof Abel Ferrara's dark, cold and twisted 1992 film Bad Lieutenant.