Donnie Darko Sequel Starts Filming May 18

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'Donnie Darko' sequel starts filming May 18th
Published 5/9/2008 at OH NO!!
Screen Daily reports that UK-based sales company Velvet Octopus will be launching sales in Cannes for S. Darko, billed as the sequel to the 2001 cult hit Donnie Darko. Fox has already taken North American rights for the $10 million-budgeted film. Chris Fisher, who ...

It’s the end of the World: Donnie Darko the Sequel.
Published 5/9/2008 by Nick Plowman at Fataculture
  ComingSoon says that on the 18th of May, filming will begin on “S.Darko” which is to be directed by Chris Fisher, and is the supposed sequel to the 2001 hit “Donnie Darko,” which is incidentally one of my favourite films of all time. The cast includes Daviegh ...

Cult Film Sequel to Anger Emo Kids
Published 5/9/2008 by Cord Jefferson, MollyGood at MollyGood
UK-based sales company Velvet Octopus will be launching sales in Cannes for S. Darko, billed as the sequel to the 2001 cult hit Donnie Darko. Fox has already taken North American rights for the $10 million-budgeted film. … The story picks up seven years after the first film when little sister Samantha Darko and her best friend Corey are now 18 and on a roadtrip to Los Angeles when they are plagued by bizarre visions. We can’t decide whether to file this one under W for “Why?” or C for “Certain to be garbage,” so we’ll just put it into the ...

Satan's Bloodthirsty Minions Prepare to Sell 'Donnie Darko' Sequel at Cannes [The End Of Ideas]
Published 5/9/2008 by STV at Defamer
A particularly virile, voracious flock of vultures is apparently en route to Cannes, where next week we're told they plan to pre-sell territories to a sequel to Richard Kelly's revelatory 2001 cult classic Donnie Darko. Leading the charge are the sick, sick fuckers at Velvet Octopus, a UK-based sales agency/Faustian hellhole where ideas go to be tortured, mutilated, disemboweled and beheaded in return for an advance against foreign box office. Screen Daily notes that the horrible film S. Darko, set to start shooting May 18 at a location reeking of infernal sulphur and the dead, bloated ...

Eternal Plame
Published 5/9/2008 at Radar: Fresh Intelligence Blog
Spies' revenge : Outed CIA agent Valerie Plame and some dude claiming to be her husband (for now) resurrect lawsuits against alleged press whisperers Vice President Dick Cheney , his former chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby , former White House political adviser Karl Rove , and former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage . Arrivederci, Vito? : Top New York Republicans say that embattled Rep. Vito Fossella will take the first option , and resign by Monday. Evil liberals : Fox News reports that members of Code Pink, an anti-war group, will use tactics like witchcraft to rally against the Iraq ...