At this year's Cannes Film Festival, the Best Actor award went to Javier Bardem for his performance in Biutiful, directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu. Though Bardem also won considerable praise from the press for his work, Iñárritu's movie as a whole wasn't embraced quite so heartily. That might be part of the reason that a US distribution deal has taken some time to come together. But now Roadside Attractions seems to be stepping up to the plate. Deadline says the small company is working on 'a complicated deal' that should get the film into theaters in time for awards consideration. Biutiful also appears at the Toronto Film Festival next month.(You might remember that Focus Features put out a trailer for the film not long ago, but that was an international trailer, as Focus is distributing outside the US.) The film is the first Iñárritu has made without his collaborator Guillermo Arriaga, from ...

One of the films that has generated the most interest and buzz at Cannes this year is Biutiful, directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu and starring Javier Bardem. This time, the director of Amores Perros, 21 Grams and Babel wrote the film himself, having parted ways with creative partner Guillermo Arriaga. Despite mixed reception, the film may still be a Palme d'Or contender, and will likely find distribution in the States. Until that happens, we've got an early promo trailer. After seeing the film at Cannes, Peter summarized the plot: Biutiful is a story about a man involved in a bunch of illegal dealings who learns that he might be dying of Cancer. He is a single father of two children, dealing with issues of mortality and legacy.  His former wife is a druggie who is not responsible enough to take care of herself, nevermind the children. And his brief review said that Javier Bardem’s performance ...

Hollywood star Brad Pitt is teaming up with Darren Aronofsky to film novel adaptation "The Tiger", scripted by "21 Grams" writer Guillermo Arriaga.

Hollywood star Brad Pitt is teaming up with Darren Aronofsky to film novel adaptation 'The Tiger', scripted by '21 Grams' writer Guillermo Arriaga.

Front Page: Adventure thriller set up at Focus Features -- Guillermo Arriaga has been tapped to pen the script.

Director Darren Aronofsky, writer Guillermo Arriaga and Brad Pitt are teaming up to bring adventure thriller The Tiger to the big screen at Focus Features.

Film News: Adventure thriller set up at Focus Features -- The thesp and director have set up the adventure thriller "The Tiger" at Focus Features and have tapped Guillermo Arriaga to pen the script.

In what will truly be a test of the old saying, "The third time's a charm," it looks like Darren Aronofsky and Brad Pitt are making a third attempt at a collaboration together. Previously Pitt had left The Fountain before production began, and then both he and Aronofsky ended up leaving The Fighter for Christian Bale and David O. Russell to take over. Now Deadline and THR report an adaptation of The Tiger, a upcoming non-fiction book by John Vaillant might be the project that finally brings them together as the two have been developing this project on the down-low for almost a year as a new potential starring vehicle for Pitt. Another reunion would also manifest itself with screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga penning the screenplay. Arriaga wrote Babel (which featured Brad Pitt in the ensemble cast) and the other two films (21 Grams and Amores Perros) in Alejandro Gonzalez Innaritu's dramatic ...

Darren Aronofsky is still willing to work with Brad Pitt. Despite the fact that their collaboration on The Fountain went south, with Pitt departing before production began and Aronofsky eventually downscaling and recasting the movie. And despite the fact that Pitt also bailed on The Fighter, before Aronofsky left that movie and David O. Russell took over. Now the pair are both attached to a Focus Features film called The Tiger, which is based on a forthcoming book called The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival. The film is being groomed as a starring project for Pitt, and Aronofsky is attached to direct. Variety and Deadline both have details, the most significant of which is that Guillermo Arriaga will write the script. He wrote Babel, which was a Pitt project in 2006. John Valiant's book is nonfiction, and Variety describes the feature pitch like so: [The Tiger] takes place on the Siberian ...

Remember that Michael Douglas/Val Kilmer movie called The Ghost and the Darkness about a couple of lions who would attack villagers and everyone thought they were mystical creatures when in fact it was just two big ass lions who hated the planet?This Aronofsky/Pitt team up kind of sounds just like it. Here's the deal-io from the trades: Brad Pitt and Darren Aronofsky are teaming up in the wild. The thesp and director have set up the adventure thriller "The Tiger" at Focus Features and have tapped Guillermo Arriaga to pen the script. Project, which is based on an upcoming nonfiction book by John Vaillant, takes place on the Siberian plain, where human development is encroaching on the tigers' habitat -- and one tiger turns on the intruders. With townspeople being tracked and hunted with an almost supernatural power, a conservationist game warden must face down the tiger. It is a fight that only one of them can win. "The Tiger," which will be produced by Pitt's Plan B and Aronofsky's Protozoa Pictures, is being developed as a potential starring vehicle for Pitt. Project marks a reteaming for Pitt and Arriaga, who worked together on the multi-arc drama "Babel." Pitt and Aronofsky have long flirted with making a pic together. The pair were previously attached to "The Fighter" before both dropped out, and Pitt nearly starred in Aronofsky's "The Fountain," but he eventually abandoned that project. Vaillant's "The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival" will be published by Knopf in August. "This is the first time I have adapted a screenplay, since I have previously only written original screenplays," said Arriaga, who previously worked with Focus on the drama "21 Grams." "I chose to adapt this story, first, because I have a profound love for the outdoors and the intense tension between man and nature which the book reflects; and, second, because of the great privilege of working with such accomplished filmmakers as Darren Aronofsky, Brad Pitt, and James Schamus." Producers on the pic will be Protozoa's Mark Heyman, Ari Handel and Aronofsky; and Plan B's Jeremy Kleiner, Dede Gardner and Mr. Pitt. Deal is part of a multi-year filmmaking partnership between Random House Films and Focus. Knopf is a division of Random House. I hope they make a Brad Pitt Big Game Hunter version of the movie for the Wii.Source: the trades

The grand experiment between Focus Features and Random House to co-finance films from the publisher's books continues to put some interesting projects in development. The latest: Brad Pitt and Darren Aronofsky have attached themselves to produce The Tiger, a drama based on the upcoming book by John Vaillant that will be adapted by Babel scribe Guillermo Arriaga. Pitt produces with Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner for Plan B and Aronofsky will produce  with Protozoa cohorts Mark Heyman and Ari Handel. The book, to be published Aug. 24 by RH imprint Knopf, is a fact-based story that takes place on the Siberian [...]

Reuters - Guillermo Arriaga is getting ready to crack the whip.

Jose Maria Yazpik has been cast in a pair of indie roles. The Mexican actor, who recently appeared in Guillermo Arriaga's "The Burning Plain," will star in Jorge Fons' "El Atentado" and Rodrigo C...

Jose Maria Yazpik has been cast in a pair of indie roles. The Mexican actor, who recently appeared in Guillermo Arriaga's "The Burning Plain," will star in Jorge Fons' "El Atentado" and Rodrigo C...

Charlize Theron on the reassembly line. Charlize Theron in "The Burning Plain" I think everybody likes a good WTF movie - remember "Memento"? But director Guillermo Arriaga, who specializes in this sort of thing as a screenwriter , has scrambled the narrative of "The Burning Plain," his first feature, to no very interesting purpose.

PageBreak --> OPENING BRIGHT STAR Reviewed this week in The Current Cinema. Opening Sept. 16 (in limited release) and Sept. 18 (in wide release). THE BURNING PLAIN In this drama, directed by Guillermo Arriaga, a troubled woman changes her identity and seeks to revisit her past. Starring Kim Basinger and Charlize . . .