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Harvey Weinstein,the producer behind the Oscar winning The Artist,has a new French movie on his hands with buddy comedy

Harvey Weinstein,

the producer behind the Oscar winning The Artist,has a new French movie on his hands with buddy comedy The Intouchables. And even if it fails to set cash registers ringing at US. box offices,the Weinstein Company has a Plan Ban English-language version is in the works. Were happy to have The Artist and now to work on The Intouchables, The Weinstein Co.s David Glasser told Reuters. Harvey has always been a lover of foreign films. And obviously this year,we have a lot of French films which are incredible. Based on a true story,The Intouchables follows an inner city petty criminal,played by Omar Sy,who is hired to care for a quadriplegic aristocrat,portrayed by Francois Cluzet.

Walter Salles

is the first director to finally wrestle Jack Kerouacs On the Road to the big screen more than five decades after its publication caused a literary sensation and launched a thousand road trips,not to mention innumerable road movies. Salles answer was to endear himself to virtually every living Beat poet,artist and philosopher with a stake in the books legacy while retracing Kerouacs crisscrossing of the country with a Super 8 camera. In other words,if you cant beat em,join em. Among the Kerouac contemporaries Salles interviewed were the poets Gary Snyder,Lawrence Ferlinghetti,Michael McClure,Diane di Prima and Amiri Baraka,as well as the Kerouac biographers Gerald Nicosia and Barry Gifford.

Morgan Freeman

turned 75-years-old on June 1,but hes not slowing down a bit. This summer hell be seen in the blockbuster Batman movie The Dark Knight Rises,and is currently shooting sci-fi epic Oblivion with Tom Cruise. But somewhere in his busy schedule,he finds time for his pet project,the television show Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman,which begins its third season. Freeman is executive producer and host of the series. With episodes titled What is Nothing? and Can We Resurrect the Dead? filmmakers interview physicists,biologists,astronomers and other academics who explore cutting edge theories on many of lifes big questions.