Black Swan - possible new project

[eagle-rare]

 She looks so comfortable in those pictures.  Hey, maybe Chris B. can get a couple of shots of her on the toilet.

[vulcannonibird]

@Lunis

Maybe they'll add Beth to the casting-scenes searching for her successor - hopefully adds some screentime.....

Her scenes seem to be quite important though - but haven't really read them, don't wanna ruin the fun of watching it - was just counting scenes and pages....

But you'ew right, Lunis: I so wait for a lead-role in a major movie for Winona....

[Lunis]

@ Vulcannonibird

I also would like him so much!!

I hope that with "Black Swan" is moving something.

Hollywood wake up.

[Christopher81]

hey

I was at white street / lafayette today. I saw some roadblocks I guess they used on Friday. Damn I was too late .  I arrived from oslo on saturday, so I was too late anyway. would have been a dream come true to have seen her in RL. anybody else saw the shooting of black swan?

[Lunis]

Get Cast with Winona Ryder & Natalie Portman!
Expires on: 1/29/2010
 

"Grant Wilfley Casting is seeking SAG and NON-SAG men & women to portray Ballet Dancers at a professional Ballet school for the feature film BLACK SWAN. You must have some actual ballet training, be in..."


http://www.instantcast.com/parts/29942

I know how to dance the waltz ... i' ts okay?

[vulcannonibird]

Filming seems to paused for the holidays. On the picture boards you can see Natalie bathing in the carribean and Winona arriving at LAX.

[Jacob]

 Dear winona fans,

I would like to greet all of you. I dont know anything about the black swan movie so post me in order to remind me some things about iy.

[Gary]

There's 4 pages of stuff to read.

[vulcannonibird]

I've only browsed thru it to count scenes and pages....hopefully Winona has more screentime in the current script they use for filming.

[J.D. Casten]

I agree with Chris B... the Beth Macintyre posters are reminiscent of Norma Desmond.

Paste Magazine.com listed “Black Swan” via:

15 Masterful Directors with Films in 2010

I’m looking forward to more than a couple of these films!

[CHRIS B]

Fresh off the mat from The Wrestler, Darren Aronofsky's psychological thriller Black Swan (with Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis, Vincent Cassel and Winona Ryder), about a ballerina dancing with delusion, is scheduled for fall.

http://www.vueweekly.com/article.php?id=14034

[Don]

Love that trailer of yours WW. Did you make that yourself?

Before Europeans traveled to the Southern Hemisphere, they believed that all swans were white. After all, nobody had ever observed a black swan, so therefore people assumed they didn't exist. When the first explorers entered the mouth of the Swan River in Western Australia, they were in for a surprise. Black swans!

There is a larger point here about the limits of human knowledge, and the danger of predicting the future based on past events. That inspired a recent book by Nicholas Taleb, called "The Black Swan."  He is a mathematician, who had spent a career working on Wall St. The Wall St banks assumed that because there had never been a nationwide decline in house prices in the past, that it would never happen in the future. They were wrong.

I don't know if this has anything to do with the film, but it wouldn't surprise me if it did.

[Don]

As usual WW, you are hard to follow! 

Aronofsky's films tend to be interesting and philosophical. I just hope that the story isn't too difficult to follow. I quite liked The Fountain, but I think a lot of people found it too hard to understand.

[CHRIS B]

Exclusive: The Latest on ‘Black Swan'

Mike Medavoy and Brad Fischer's names may not be as well-known as Martin Scorsese's, but the two Shutter Island producers deserve props from anyone who values a solid thriller. As co-founder of the late lamented Orion Pictures, Medavoy played a role in bringing (among many other films) The Silence of the Lambs, The Terminator and Robocop to the screen. And his partnership with Fischer in Phoenix Pictures has resulted in David Fincher's Zodiac as well as Scorsese's latest. We'll have a lot more on that film in the next week, since we caught up with Fischer and Medavoy at the Shutter Island junket in New York this weekend (along with Scorsese himself). But while we were there, we made sure to ask the two about the many other thrillers and genre flicks they have in the works. Hit the jump now to get the latest on about a half dozen of the most intriguing-sounding movies of the new decade -- Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan, Mile Zero, Grudge director Takashi Shimizu's next fright flick, the Robocop remake, Simple Machines, and what sounds like the coolest project of all – The Last Voyage of the Demeter, a new look at a blood feast of Count Dracula that's only hinted at in Bram Stoker's classic vampire novel.

Can you talk a little bit about Black Swan? Can you talk about what stage of production you're at?

Fischer: It's shooting right now. It's in production, we're getting kind of toward the end of photography. It's shooting here in New York City. (I'll probably pop by the set – Mike and I are gonna go by before we head off to Europe.) It's going great. The dailies look amazing; it's Darren Aronofsky and Natalie Portman [both pictured above on set] and Mila Kunis.

What do you think it offers thriller fans?

Fischer: It takes a very kind of dark and disturbing journey – in this case Natalie plays a ballerina who has dreams of becoming a star. And she gets that opportunity, and there's a lot of elements that play out for her, where she starts to wonder if she's gonna be basically undercut by somebody else, by Mila Kunis's character in the film. So you're not sure how much of it is paranoia, how much of it is reality. She starts to work through some of that as the twists and turns start coming. It's a very cool piece.

Medavoy: Darren actually took it from what it was into the world of ballet, which I thought was a really interesting way to infuse it.

And something you might not expect from the director of The Wrestler.

Medavoy: Yeah, going from a wrestler to a dancer is pretty interesting. And examining that world with a psychological thriller set in that world.

Are you set for a fall release?

Fischer: I don't think Fox has set the release date yet, Fox Searchlight. But I would expect it'll be sometime in the fall.

http://www.fearnet.com/ne...t_on_lsquoblack_swan.html

[oinone]

I think this pic is funny..