All articles by Mike Goodridge – Page 32
-
News
Verhoeven attached to direct The Forgotten Soldier
Paul Verhoeven, whose last film Black Book was one of his most acclaimed in years, has become attached to another World War II story The Forgotten Soldier based on the memoir by Guy Sajer.The story follows Sajer's harrowing experiences as a teenager as a French recruit in the German army ...
-
News
Amy Israel out, Guy Stodel in as Vantage changes direction
Paramount Vantage has undergone a further sea change this week with the announcement yesterday that Amy Israel is leaving the company and Guy Stodel has been appointed in her stead as executive vice president of production and acquisitions.The move appears to confirm speculation that Vantage is moving away from the ...
-
News
In Focus: Fox Filmed Entertainment
When New Regency's adventure movie Jumper opened through Fox in Korea in February, Fox co-chairman and co-CEO Jim Gianopulos called New Regency president of filmed entertainment Sanford Panitch to deliver the good news.The film had grossed $4.8m to score Fox's seventh biggest ever opening in the territory.But, Panitch recalls, that ...
-
-
Reviews
Hellboy II: The Golden Army
Dir: Guillermo Del Toro. US. 2008. 115 mins. Trust Guillermo Del Toro to deliver a summer action adventure which is gleefully unpretentious in its desire to entertain while filled with some of the season's most inventive visual effects and creature designs. This bigger-and-better sequel should be a solid hit for ...
-
News
Francis Ford Coppola finishes 63-day shoot of Tetro
Francis Ford Coppola has wrapped on his latest feature Tetro after 63 days of principal photography in Buenos Aires and Patagonia. A spring 2009 release is anticipated.Additional shooting of a ballet by Ana Maria Stekelman will still take place in Madrid but the main leg of the shoot is complete. ...
-
-
News
Wesle's Atrix takes on sales for Kyrgyzstan love story Tengri
Beatrix Wesle's Munich-based sales agent Atrix Films has picked up international rights to Marie Jaoul de Poncheville's Tengri - Blue Heavens, a love story set in Kyrgyzstan in Central Asia which has its world premiere at the Munich Film Festival this week.The film will then be screened for buyers at ...
-
News
Academy welcomes 105 new members including Cotillard, Haneke
The Academy Of Arts & Sciences has welcomed 105 new members into its hallowed ranks representing 'artists and executives who have distinguished themselves by their contributions to theatrical motion pictures.'Among the new members were Oscar winners from 2007 such as Marion Cotillard (best actress), Diablo Cody (best original screenplay), Didier ...
-
News
Patricia Clarkson takes lead in Ruba Nadda's Cairo Time
Patricia Clarkson is starring in Ruba Nadda's romantic drama Cairo Time which started shooting this week in Cairo, Egypt.The Canada-Ireland co-production co-stars Alexander Siddig, Elena Anaya and Tom McCamus and will shoot through to July 13.Producers on the film are Daniel Iron of Foundry Films (Away From Her, Manufactured Landscapes) ...
-
News
Interview: Kung Fu Panda director John Stevenson
It has been a long-term ambition for John Stevenson to direct his first animated feature and Kung Fu Panda is a pretty good start - bearing in mind it recently screened in official selection at Cannes.Co-directed by Stevenson and Mark Osborne for DreamWorks Animation, the film is expected to be ...
-
Reviews
The Happening
Dir: M Night Shyamalan. US. 2008. 90 mins. The phenomenon that was M Night Shyamalan is further diminished by The Happening, a paranoia-fuelled disaster movie which will leave audiences scratching their heads. Less dramatically convincing than his previous efforts and lacking the heart-thumping momentum or stunning revelations you'd expect, it ...
-
News
Second Cinema Verite to focus on intercultural understanding
The second Cinema Verite, the international rendezvous for socially conscious cinema, will take place this year in Geneva on Oct 9-10 and then in Paris on Oct 11-12. This year's theme is 'Intercultural Understanding And Dialogue Between Peoples' to coincide with and celebrate the first anniversary of the UN Declaration ...
-
News
Interview:Oliver Stone
'America has defined itself in the early 21st century as a cowboy state. George W Bush has hyperbolically expressed all the cowboy mentality the world holds of America.'So says Oliver Stone from Louisiana, three days before he starts shooting W, his serio-comic look at the 43rd president of the USA ...
-
News
Interview: Walter Salles
Brazilians Walter Salles and Daniela Thomas have an agreement to co-direct films every few years which take a close look at life in Brazil.They have two films to their joint credit - Foreign Land in 1996 and Midnight in 1998 (as well as the Loin Du 16eme short from the ...
-
News
Brandauer joins cast of Coppola's Tetro as Gallo's father
Klaus Maria Brandauer is the latest addition to the cast of Francis Ford Coppola's Tetro which is in its ninth week of shooting in Buenos Aires.He plays Carlo Tetrocini, a symphony conductor and the father in the story. 'The father is a man of great complexity, arrogance and cruelty,' explained ...
-
-
-
-
News
Warner Bros, Overbrook to remake Bienvenue Chez Les Ch'tis
Warner Bros Pictures has acquired remake rights from Pathe to the French blockbuster Bienvenue Chez Les Ch'tis (aka Welcome To The Shticks) for Will Smith and his Overbrook Entertainment to produce. Pathe International will handle the sales rights to the film.James Lassiter, Smith and Ken Stovitz will produce for Overbrook ...