http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/screengrab/archive/2008/07/11/take-five-psychics.aspxs Death Defying Acts opens in limited release this weekend, and so far, it hasn&#39;t generated much advance buzz. It&#39;s hard to figure out why: It comes on the heels of other successful movies involving magicians, including The Prestige and The Illusionist;enCommunityServer 2007.1 (Build: 20910.1126)http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/screengrab/archive/2008/07/11/take-five-psychics.aspx#108995Sun, 13 Jul 2008 00:56:47 GMTbd485f5c-a45b-491f-8e52-c79e7f680fc3:108995privateivan<p>After The Fury came out, it was announced (in Starlog, I think) that De Palma would be tackling Alred Bester's The Demolished Man, a book about a man plotting the perfect murder in a future where all the cops are mindreading telepaths. The book is great pulp, but of course the movie never got made. </p> <img src="http://nerve.com/CS/aggbug.aspx?PostID=108995" width="1" height="1">http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/screengrab/archive/2008/07/11/take-five-psychics.aspx#108762Fri, 11 Jul 2008 21:16:42 GMTbd485f5c-a45b-491f-8e52-c79e7f680fc3:108762Hecubusbb<p>How about &quot;Don't Look Now&quot; and Altered States by Cronenberg? Aren't you online? Sigh.</p> <img src="http://nerve.com/CS/aggbug.aspx?PostID=108762" width="1" height="1">http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/screengrab/archive/2008/07/11/take-five-psychics.aspx#108731Fri, 11 Jul 2008 19:40:21 GMTbd485f5c-a45b-491f-8e52-c79e7f680fc3:108731kaymar<p>Cronenberg didn't make &quot;Altered States.&quot; That film was directed by Ken Russell from a screenplay by Paddy Chayefsky, who also wrote the novel it was adapted from.</p> <img src="http://nerve.com/CS/aggbug.aspx?PostID=108731" width="1" height="1">