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DVD Playhouse--July 2009
8 July 2009 1:32 AM, PDT | From The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news
DVD Playhouse—July 2009
By
Allen Gardner
Do The Right Thing: 20th Anniversary Edition (Universal) Spike Lee’s groundbreaking fable about race relations in an ethnically mixed Brooklyn neighborhood during a sweltering New York summer remains as potent, timely and prescient as it was in 1989. Lee is among the cast, which also includes John Turturro, Danny Aiello, Samuel L. Jackson, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, and Rosie Perez (to name a few), that provide the tableaux-like framework for this stunning work. Criminally ignored by Oscar (it wasn't even nominated for Best Picture, but did garner nods for Supporting Actor Danny Aiello and Lee’s screenplay), it endures as a timeless classic. Also available on Blu-ray disc. Bonuses: Commentary by Lee, Ernest Dickerson, Wynn Thomas, Joie Lee; Documentary; Deleted and extended scenes; Featurettes. Widescreen. Dolby and DTS 5.1 surround.
Coraline (Universal) A young girl moves into an old Victorian house with her parents
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Cool Stuff: More Crazy4Cult 3D Art - Goonies, Pee-Wee, Army of Darkness, and Weird Al
7 July 2009 10:00 PM, PDT | From /Film | See recent /Film news
As you probably know by now, Gallery1988 will be holding their third annual pop culture art show Crazy4Cult 3D from July 16th to August 8th in Los Angeles. Over the past couple weeks we've featured a couple of the fantastic art that will be on display at the show, including Jeff Boyes' take on Luc Besson's 1994 film The Professional, and Jim Horwat's Back to the Future Tribute. We should have a couple more exclusive looks in the coming weeks, but lets first take a look at some of the other fantastic art which has begun to appear around the interwebs. We've featured some of Tom Whalen's art in past editions of Cool Stuff (posters, Dark Knight magazine cover, Watchmen art, The Shining and The Warriors, Predator, 80's super villains). Whalen has created two pieces for the Crazy4Cult 3D show, the first of which is this poster for
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Peter Sciretta
Katrina Kaif to Produce French Remake
6 July 2009 7:12 AM, PDT | From Bollyspice | See recent Bollyspice news
Katrina Kaif has announced that she will be stretching her wings into the field of production and hopes to do a remake of a French movie from 2006. She expects to star in the movie herself. “My role in the film has dark shades to it. I play a conniving, ambitious woman. It’s a gloriously grey character, the kind I haven’t played before.” However, at the moment, the deal for the rights has not been finalised so she has been cagey about the title.
The film buffs here at Bollyspice have been scratching their heads in an effort to pin down the movie in question. It could well be the amazing Tell No One – a labyrinthine thriller about murder and corruption that you really need to see twice to understand fully. The film stars Francois Cluzet and Marie-Josee Croze. Produced by Luc Besson, and based on a novel by Harlan Coben,
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Cool Stuff: Jeff Boyes’s The Professional Art
3 July 2009 11:27 AM, PDT | From /Film | See recent /Film news
Gallery1988 has provided us with another exclusive look at one of the many art pieces which will be on display at the third annual pop culture art show Crazy4Cult 3D. Jeff Boyes has done a nice piece inspired by Luc Besson's 1994 film The Professional, which starred Natalie Portman as a 12-year-old who is taken in by a Professional assassin (Jean Reno) after her parents are killed. Click on the image above to enlarge. Gallery1988 will be selling limited edition prints of this piece at the show, which opens on July 16th and runs until August 8th in Los Angeles. Cool Stuff is a daily feature of slashfilm.com. Know of any geekarific creations or cool products which should be featured on Cool Stuff? E-Mail us at orfilms@gmail.com.
Peter Sciretta
It’s Tony Jaa Versus Crocodile In the French Trailer For Ong Bak 2!
3 July 2009 7:15 AM, PDT | From TwitchFilm.net | See recent Twitch news
While in New York a week or so back I had a friend ask if I’d seen the new French trailer for Tony Jaa’s Ong Bak 2. As with the original Ong Bak Luc Besson’s Europa Corp have gotten their hands on this one and while the rumor is that there has been a mild re-cut of the film to tighten things up a bit - I’m hearing six minutes have been removed - and some changes to the score - though nothing as drastic as the hip hop version done for the original - the new French trailer, I was told, makes Ong Bak 2 look like “the greatest action film ever made”. I hadn’t seen it at the time, but now I have and I have to say I pretty much agree.
What do you say? Was it the argument between Tony Jaa
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Todd Brown
Besson's Company Fined For Manslaughter Charge
29 June 2009 6:31 PM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news
French director Luc Besson has been forced to pay $140,000 (£93,330) via his production company after a Paris appeals court found executives responsible for the death of a cameraman on the set of Taxi 2.
Alain Dutartre, 41, died after he was struck by a car when a stunt went tragically wrong in 1999.
Bosses at Besson's firm EuropaCorp were initially cleared of all charges when Dutartre's family took them to trial in 2007. Instead, stuntman Remy Julienne, was held solely responsible for the botched scene and handed a suspended 18-month prison sentence.
But the Paris court of appeal reversed the ruling on Monday and found EuropaCorp heads guilty of manslaughter. Julienne's punishment was reduced to six months, and his fine was slashed by $15,460 (£10,300) to just $2,810 (£1,870).
EuropaCorp producers were criticised for rejecting Julienne's offers to trial the car scene in question for a price, which the stuntman claims would have prevented the tragedy.
Europacorp Fined Over Death Of Cameraman
29 June 2009 4:08 AM, PDT | From HollywoodNorthReport.com | See recent HollywoodNorthReport.com news
A Paris appeals court has fined French filmmaker Luc Besson's movie company $140,000 over the death of a cameraman who was hit by a car during a 1999 stunt shoot. The court also handed stunt director Remy Julienne, 79, a six-month suspended prison sentence. A lower court had originally acquitted Besson's company, Europacorp, of wrongdoing in the case and had given Julienne an 18-month suspended sentence. The appeals court convicted Europacorp of manslaughter. In addition, the company and Julienne were ordered to jointly pay each of the cameraman's parents and to each of his two brothers. Alain Dutartre, a 41-year-old cameraman, was hit during the August 1999 shooting of Taxi 2, a French car chase film, written/produced by Besson. EuropaCorp was created by Besson, with the intention of it being a French alternative to Hollywood, located on properties in Normandy and Paris owned by Besson. Productions are financed through reinvestment of box
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Cool Poster & Trailer Sent ‘From Paris With Love’
25 June 2009 8:06 AM, PDT | From ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news
From Paris With Love is a new action movie produced and co-written by Luc Besson (The Fifth Element) and directed by Pierre Morel, the guy who gave us the Liam Neeson film Taken, and the French free-running flick, District 13. It stars John Travolta as a U.S. agent who is teamed up with a lower ranking younger agent (Jonathan Rhys Myers) to stop a terrorist attack in Paris.
There was already a short trailer released for From Paris With Love last year, but today we have the very cool first teaser poster for it. It seems like one of those ideas that someone should have thought of before (maybe they have, correct me if I’m wrong). Very simple and clean, I like it. Check it out:
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Apart from a generic title (did anyone think it was a romantic comedy before you read the plot?), From Paris With Love
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Ross Miller
From Paris With Love Gets a Poster
24 June 2009 2:44 AM, PDT | From TheMovingPicture.net | See recent TheMovingPicture news
Lionsgate has released the first teaser poster for the John Travolta and Jonathan Rhys Meyers action flick From Paris With Love. Directed by Pierre Morel (Taken), the film follows an intelligence operative (Rhys Meyers) in the office of the U.S. ambassador in France who's partnered with a high-ranking U.S. agent (Travolta), who's been sent to Paris to stop a terrorist attack. Writing partners Luc Besson (The Transporter, Danny the Dog) and Adi Hasak penned the screenplay. The film opens February 19, 2010.
James Cook
Taken 2 is Now in Development
23 June 2009 9:00 AM, PDT | From WorstPreviews.com | See recent Worst Previews news
Producer Luc Besson has announced that EuropaCorp has initiated development on "Taken 2," the follow-up to this year's Liam Neeson starrer. The first film revolves around a former spy (Neeson) using his skills to rescue his estranged daughter, who is kidnapped and forced into the slave trade. There is no word whether Neeson will return for the second installment. "Taken" took in $145 million domestically and another $77 million internationally for a total of $222 million. And it also became a huge hit on DVD and Blu-ray, topping both the sales and rental charts. Click here to read our "Taken" review.
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'Taken 2' Moves into Development
22 June 2009 9:25 PM, PDT | From CinemaSpy | See recent CinemaSpy news
Producer Luc Besson has announced that EuropaCorp has initiated development on Taken 2, the follow-up to this year's action/suspense/thriller starring Liam Neeson.
The first film revolves around a former spy (Neeson) using his unique skills to rescue his estranged daughter, who is kidnapped and forced into the slave trade.
There is no word yet, however, whether Neeson will reprise his role of Bryan Mills for the second installment, though we're not quite sure what the filmmakers have in mind if he does not.
Taken grossed $145M domestically and another $77M internationally for a combined total of $222M. The film has also gone on to become a hit on both DVD and Blu-ray, topping both the sales and rental charts.
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Taken 2: Retaken?
22 June 2009 2:52 PM, PDT | From JoBlo.com | See recent JoBlo news
Lots of people showed up earlier this year to watch Liam Neeson shoot, punch and generally stomp the guts out of the Euroscum who kidnapped his daughter in Taken. The expected response to a $145 million box office take is, of course, a sequel. Screenwriter Robert Mark Kamen already mentioned he was kicking around story ideas, but Luc Besson and EuropaCorp have officially initiated development on a follow-up. No details have been mentioned, but we'll assume that Neeson's globetrotting badass...
Dave Davis
Besson's mega studio
12 June 2009 6:47 AM, PDT | From JoBlo.com | See recent JoBlo news
I love Luc Besson. I should put that out there before I get into this. The French film director/writer/producer/banger of Milla Jovovich will be building the $42 million Paris Studios, the first French "mega studio" hopefully, to rival Pinewood in London and Babelsberg in Berlin, as home to major Hollywood productions. With nine soundstages, including one at 23,680 square feet, Paris Studios will be part of the ambitious La Cite du Cinema film complex, located in Saint Denis,...
James Thoo
Win Home on Blu-ray
10 June 2009 9:51 AM, PDT | From TheHDRoom | See recent TheHDRoom news
The Luc Besson-produced Earth documentary Home is now available on Blu-ray Disc and DVD. With the launch, we have three copies of Home on Blu-ray to be awarded as prizes in this contest. For a chance to score Home on Blu-ray, send in the completed entry form below. You can optionally return any or every day the contest is running to enter again. About Home: In 200,000 years on Earth, humanity has upset the balance of the planet, established by nearly four billion years of evolution. The price to pay is high as humankind has barely ten years to reverse the trend, become aware of the full extent of the Earth's riches and change its patterns of consumption. Following in the tradition of Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth, Home sets out to shift people's perceptions, inspire action and lay a foundation for the edifice that must be rebuilt.
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What's Old is New Again
8 June 2009 7:31 AM, PDT | From ifc.com | See recent IFC news
This week sees a couple of golden oldies trotted out alongside the customary summertime family fun, docs on science both good and bad, and another lesson from the Tony Scott school of flash-bang filmmaking.
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"Betty Blue: The Director's Cut"
Having inspired everything from ardent film student party chatter to the pure cinematic showmanship of Luc Besson, Jean-Jacques Beineix's 1986 Oscar-nominated romantic drama has a legacy that reaches far and wide. This new print of Beineix's definitive 1991 cut of his oh so artsy tale of an aspiring writer Zorg (Jean-Hugues Anglade), his wild, volatile muse Betty (Béatrice Dalle) and her gradual descent into self-destruction contains more than an hour of additional footage that stretches out Betty's madness and embellishes it with such antics as Zorg's cross-dressing crime spree. In French with subtitles.
Opens in New York.
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Neil Pedley
Daily Rec: Yann Arthus-Bertrand's Home
8 June 2009 | From ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news
- While nothing beats the big screen, you have to admire a documentary film that respected its own carbon footprint and isn't profit-driven, as is the case when the Yann Arthus-Bertrand directed Home – the first simultaneous online and offline film debut that pulled in some impressive numbers via its YouTube channel. Click here to view. The doc film's aerial photography is impressive even on a laptop screen and the 'mother earth' narration offers informative bits (did you know that Costa Rica said screw the army, put that money towards its natural resources instead?) and not a complete downer as a reality check doc film. I'll admit to skimming thru this one (will watch the rest in portions this coming week) but its strength is in taking the numbers and making concrete prognostications – if Americans are worried about Mexicans crossing the border wait until “climate refugees” are trying to make it into JFK airport.
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Home: A Truly Global Event Celebrating Planet Earth
6 June 2009 10:32 AM, PDT | From Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news
Today saw the release of Home, a new film by acclaimed filmmakers Yann Arthus-Bertrand and Luc Besson. What makes this event exceptional is that it is the first film to be released simultaneously in the cinema, on TV, on DVD and via the Internet across the globe. This evening even saw a free screening at the Eiffel Tower, in Central Park and Trafalgar Square. Watch It Now Shot in 54 countries, Home takes us on an journey all around the planet, to contemplate and understand how humanity has upset the balance of the planet, established by nearly four billion years of evolution. View the May 5th press release: View the trailer: If you would like to watch the 90 minute documentary for free online you can see it here until June 14th. Watch it in HD for truly beautiful footage. Watch It Now ...
Cameron Sinclair
YouTube to Begin Premiering Movies
4 June 2009 2:02 PM, PDT | From Cinematical.com | See recent Cinematical news
"We're more than just dogs on skateboards." YouTube plans to premiere their first * movie, Reuters says (via The Hollywood Reporter), in an apparent bid to increase revenue, reach profitability, and, perhaps, appear more appealing to advertisers. (The opening statement was made by the company's Paris-based partner development manager.) Yann Arthus-Bernard's documentary Home, produced by Luc Besson, will debut simulatenously in theaters and on YouTube, evidently in the near future.
As I'm writing this article, I'm also watching Werner Herzog's Little Dieter Needs to Fly on YouTube. (I have a 19-inch monitor adjacent to my laptop, which makes it easier to watch and work simultaneously.) The quality is good, though the commercial interruptions are jarring, the same as they are with other free, online viewing sites. The ads are played at pre-determined, timed intervals, and so often appear in the middle of a scene.
YouTube gained its fame from user-submitted content,
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Peter Martin
Giveaway: Go ‘Home’ on Blu-ray for World Enviromental Day
2 June 2009 3:25 PM, PDT | From FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news
Just as we wrap up our two most recent Caption This entries -- one for Terminator Salvation and another for The Hangover -- it is time to give away yet another awesome little prize to you, our beloved readers. 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment has hooked us up with two (2) copies of Home, a beautifully delivered documentary from director Yann Arthus-Bertrand, on Blu-ray to give away to some of our lucky readers. All you have to do is leave us a comment answering the question at the bottom of this page. Directed by internationally renowned French photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand, produced by world famous director Luc Besson and narrated by five-time Academy Award® nominee Glenn Close (Dangerous Liaisons), Home aims to change the way people see the planet and their impact on it. Shot in high definition in 54 countries and 120 locations over 217 days, the unique and first-time ever all-aerial filming style highlights the Earth’s wonders as well
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Neil Miller
DVD’s I Bought This Week: June 2nd
2 June 2009 10:14 AM, PDT | From FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news
Rob Hunter loves movies. He also loves signing up for random medical trials and psychological experiments. These two joys come together in the form of cash money payments that he receives every week and immediately uses to buy more DVD's. So join us each week as he takes a look at new DVD releases and gives his highly unqualified opinion as to which titles are worth BUYing, which are better off as RENTals, and which should be AVOIDed at all costs. Click on any of the titles below to magically head over to Amazon.com and pick up the DVD. Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog Pitch: Evil has a new name, and it's Doogie Howser MD Why Buy? Joss Whedon's short internet musical packs more humor and heart into it's forty-two minute running time than most feature length films can manage. The story about an evil scientist trying to enter the Evil League of Evil while simultaneously
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Rob Hunter
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