Odds: Von Trier's "Antichrist," the Coens' collaborator.

2008-07-29 20:00:01

Lars von Trier's English-language horror flick "Antichrist" is a go, reports Variety -- funding's in place and casting will be announced soon. The film's apparently "about a couple who move to an isolated cabin after the death of their son, only to find sinister forces at play." Those cabins, always trouble. Von Trier claimed depression was preventing him from working on new projects last year, but has, one would guess, since bounced back to his usual ebullient self. Stu VanAirsdale at the Village Voice writes on the occasion of MoMA's "Collaborations in the Collection": Barry Sonnenfeld is known to tell the story of that day in Texas 25 years ago when he walked onto the set of Blood Simple--the Coen Brothers' debut and his first feature film as a cinematographer--and couldn't turn on the camera. Things seemed to work out OK over the next month and a half--and over the...

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