The news conference, billed as a way for Diallo to thank her supporters, was nearly derailed when she left after her brief speech. Photographers and TV cameras chased her out the door, tripping over cords and each other, while Dr. Mohammed Nurhussein, chairman of the United African Congress Inc., tried to speak.It’s nearly unheard of [...]

But that source of income ended four years ago, Mr. Struve said, when the city condemned the living spaces. Despite the club’s exterior renovation in 2004, the apartments were considered not up to building codes in 2007. Without enough funds to refurbish the apartments, the club has relied on membership fees and renting out the [...]

A new version of the classic story Bonnie and Clyde is set to be made, with Limitless director Neil Burger helming the project.It will be a less romanticized version than then 1967 film, and will be written by Up in the Air’s Sheldon Turner and produced by Sean and Bryan Furst and Marissa McMahon.The film [...]

This film will paint the two of a little bit more of a Sid & Nancy-esque duo: according to the book, Parker was apparently a prostitute before she hooked up with Barrow. Yeesh. Certainly grittier than the stories we’ve heard before. Are you guys excited for this redux? Or do you think the story’s a [...]

When it hit theaters in 1967, the Warren Beatty-Faye Dunaway action/romance Bonnie & Clyde> sent critics in a tizzy. It was sexy, violent and a gateway flick for breaking Hollywood taboos. Many critics panned it, but eventually it became one of the most celebrated films of all time.And the critical rollercoaster just might happen again.According [...]

… Another remake! How unoriginal!” we hear you cry. Though many indeed see the 1967 Arthur Penn film, which starred Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway as the thieving twosome, as the definitive Bonnie and Clyde film, this version is likely to be very different. Whereas Penn’s film was heavily romanticised, Burger and Turner seem to [...]

He made Bradley Cooper look smart in Limitless this year, so it’s hard to fault director Neil Burger for taking it comparatively easy with his next movie: He’s in talks to remake the 1967 classic Bonnie and Clyde. Burger’s de-glamorized update — which will be written by Up in the Air’s Sheldon Turner — would [...]

He’s just committed to directing Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune, and now Limitless director Neil Burger is in talks for a remake of Bonnie and Clyde.Deadline report Burger could be working with screenwriter Sheldon Turner (Up in the Air) on a new take on the infamous outlaws. Producer Marissa McMahon has acquired the rights to Go Down [...]

Limitless director Neil Burger will make a new movie based on the Bonnie and Clyde story.Burger’s project, to be written by Up in the Air’s Sheldon Turner, will reportedly be a less romanticised interpretation of the Depression Era outlaws than the 1967 film that starred Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway.The first person Clyde Barrow murdered [...]

While you could argue that the 1967 Arthur Penn film, which saw Warren Beatty as Clyde Barrow and Faye Dunaway as Bonnie Parker, remains the seminal treatment of the thieving, tragic, twosome, it was a more romanticised version of their real-life story (yes, even with them dying in a hail of hot lead.)Burger and Turner [...]

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