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Cannes Market: Weinstein Co. Lands Jeunet's 3D 'Young and Prodigious Spivet,' Olivier Assayas to Helm First Us Film
12 hours ago | Thompson on Hollywood | See recent Thompson on Hollywood news »
More news is coming in from the ever-busy Cannes Market. The Weinstein Company has snapped up the latest Jean-Pierre Jeunet film, 3-D epic "The Young and Prodigious Spivet," while French director Olivier Assayas is set to helm his first Us shoot, true-crime drama "Hubris." -In what will be one of the highest-profiled deals inked at the Cannes Marche this year, the Weinstein Company has picked up Us rights to Jean-Pierre Jeunet's ("Amelie") latest directorial endeavor, the 3D adventure epic "The Young and Prodigious Spivet." Adapted from the novel by Reif Larsen, the English-language tale follows the cross-America adventure of a 12-year-old Montana boy (Kyle Catlett) to receive a prize at Washington D.C.'s Smithsonian Museum. Helena Bonham Carter and Kathy Bates also star. Watch the trailer below. -Meanwhile, the Weinstein Co.'s genre-oriented boutique label Radius has snapped up North American rights to Keanu Reeves' directorial debut "Man of Tai Chi. »
- Beth Hanna
Cannes: The Weinstein Co. Nearing Deal for 'The Young and Prodigious Spivet'
21 May 2013 2:40 PM, PDT | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
The Weinstein Company is closing in on U.S. rights to Jean-Pierre Jeunet's 3D adventure movie "The Young and Prodigious Spivet," which is one of the hottest available titles at Cannes. A spokesperson for TWC didn't immediately respond to TheWrap's request for comment, but an individual close to the negotiations confirmed that a deal was likely to close. "Spivet" stars Kyle Catlett as the title character, a gifted 12-year-old boy who leaves his family in Montana and sets out across the country in order to receive a prize in Washington D.C. "Spivet" is Jeunet's »
- Jeff Sneider
Cannes: The Weinstein Company Circles U.S. Rights to ‘Spivet’ (Exclusive)
21 May 2013 11:41 AM, PDT | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
The Weinstein Company is in advanced negotiations to acquire all U.S. rights to Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s 3D adventure pic “The Young and Prodigious Spivet,” in what will be one of the highest-profile deals inked at Cannes.
Adapted from Reif Larsen’s novel by Jeunet and his scribe partner Guillaume Laurant (“Amelie”), the English-language “Spivet” centers on a 12-year-old boy (Kyle Catlett) with extraordinary skills who leaves his family in Montana and takes off on a cross-country adventure to the Smithsonian Museum in Washington, D.C. to receive a prize.
Helena Bonham Carter and Kathy Bates star in the film, Jeunet’s first English-language pic since 1997′s “Alien: The Resurrection.”
It’s also the director’s first 3D pic and he said that he studied movies including Tim Burton’s “Alice in Wonderland” and Martin Scorsese’s “Hugo” to prepare “Spivet.”
Pic will be digitally remastered by Imax and will be released in France Oct. »
- Elsa Keslassy
News Shorts: May 20th 2013
20 May 2013 11:16 AM, PDT | Dark Horizons | See recent Dark Horizons news »
New shots of Orlando Bloom in Zulu, Tilda Swinton and Tom Hiddleston in Only Lovers Left Alive, Henry Cavill in Man of Steel, Natalie Portman and Christian Bale in Terence Malick's Knight of Cups, Colin Farrell and Jessica Chastain in Miss Julie, Clive Owen and Mila Kunis in Blood Ties, Brit Marling in The East, and Nicole Kidman in Grace of Monaco.
Set photos of Peter Dinklage and Jennifer Lawrence on the "X-Men: Days of the Future Past" set, and Hugh Jackman filming The Wolverine from a few months back.
Posters for Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom, Man of Steel, Riddick, Everybody Has A Plan, Rapture-Palooza, Blood Ties, Last Passenger, Drinking Buddies, The Internship, About Time, and The Lone Ranger.
"The upcoming 3D Blu-ray release of 'Star Trek Into Darkness' will come with a limited edition phaser (non-working of course). No official date has been announced, though unofficially »
- Garth Franklin
Weekend Trailer Watch: 'A Touch of Sin,' 'The Young and Prodigious Spivet,' and 'Jimmy P.'
19 May 2013 4:27 PM, PDT | Thompson on Hollywood | See recent Thompson on Hollywood news »
A trailer from Jean-Pierre Jeunet's "The Young and Prodigious Spivet" has emerged, and it seems seems that the director is once again aiming to capture the lovely and curious quirks of an introspective mind, as he did with "Amelie." Adapted from Reif Larsen's debut novel, "The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet," it follows a brilliant 12-year-old cartographer who hitchhikes alone from his home in Montana to Washington D.C. to accept a prestigious award. The text was praised for its extensive use of maps, charts, sketches, and images accompanying the text--a visual device that the film seems to employ as well. The movie stars Helena Bonham Carter, Kathy Bates, Dominique Pinon, and newcomer Kyle Catlett as the young Spivet. Then two trailers from Cannes give a glimpse of two competition features on the Riviera. Arnaud Desplechin's talky "Jimmy P," stars Benicio del Toro as a Native »
- Maggie Lange
Fun and Quirky Trailer for The Young And Prodigious Spivet
19 May 2013 10:00 AM, PDT | GeekTyrant | See recent GeekTyrant news »
Here's a wonderfully beautiful trailer for Jean-Pierre Jeunet's new film The Young and Prodigious Spivet. The movie is based on the novel The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet, which is the debut novel by Reif Larsen.
The story follows a 12-year-old cartographer who "secretly leaves his family's ranch in Montana where he lives with his cowboy father and scientist mother and travels across the country on board a freight train to receive an award at the Smithsonian Institute."
If you're not immediately familiar with who Jean-Pierre Jeunet is, he's the director of the amazing French film Amelie. The movie stars Kyle Catlett (The Following) in the lead role, Helena Bonham Carter, Judy Davis, and more.
This is an international trailer. There's no word on when the movie will be released in the U.S., but is looks fantastic! I love Jeunet's visual style.
Here's a description of the »
- Joey Paur
Watch: 'The Young and Prodigious Spivet' Gets Quirky, Rustic Trailer
17 May 2013 3:18 PM, PDT | firstshowing.net | See recent FirstShowing.net news »
Late last year we got our first look at The Young and Prodigious Spivet, a family film based on The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet, the debut novel by American author Reif Larsen. Jean-Pierre Jeunet (Amelie, Micmacs) co-wrote and directs the film which follows a 12-year old mapmaker named T.S. Spivet, who lives on a ranch in Montana, as he receives a prestigious award and accepts it, hitch-hiking on a freight train for the acceptance speech in Washington D.C. Kyle Catlett ("The Following") leads the film which also features Helena Bonham Carter, Judy Davis and more. It looks original and quite charming Watch! Here's the first trailer for Jean-Pierre Jeunet's The Young and Prodigious Spivet from YouTube: The Young and Prodigious Spivet is directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, who also co-wrote the film with his Amelie and Micmacs writer Guillaume Laurant. A 12-year-old cartographer (Kyle Catlett of »
- Ethan Anderton
The Young And Prodigious Spivet Trailer & First Pics
17 May 2013 1:47 PM, PDT | Filmofilia | See recent Filmofilia news »
The Young and Prodigious Spivet, the latest family drama from Amélie helmer Jean-Pierre Jeunet is still without an official Us release date, but at least we have the very first trailer to share with you today. Some say it’s charming, some say it’s worth our attention ’cause Helena Bonham Carter stars in it, and we say – take a look & let us know what you think! Based on Reif Larsen‘s book The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet, the movie revolves around a 12-year-old cartography enthusiast in an eccentric family, who travels across country hidden on board a freight train after being invited to the »
- Jeanne Standal
Watch The First Trailer For Jeunet's The Young And Prodigious Spivet
17 May 2013 10:00 AM, PDT | Twitch | See recent Twitch news »
Are you ready to see what happens when Jean-Pierre Jeunet delivers his particular vision of Americana? Because that's what's coming in his first 3D film, an adaptation of Reif Larsen's The Selected Works Of T.S. Spivet starring Helena Bonham Carter, Kathy Bates, Judy Davis, Callum Keith Rennie, Dominique Pinon and Kyle Catlett. A 12-year-old cartographer secretly leaves his family's ranch in Montana where he lives with his cowboy father and scientist mother and travels across the country on board a freight train to receive an award at the Smithsonian Institute.The first trailer for the film has arrived in France and it's every bit as charming as you would expect. Take a look below....
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Watch: Charming Trailer For Jean-Pierre Jeunet's English-Language Return 'The Young & Prodigious Spivet'
16 May 2013 3:03 PM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
Given that his sole film in the English-language to date was "Alien: Resurrection," it's not surprising that French filmmaker Jean-Pierre Jeunet has preferred to stick to homegrown fare in the fifteen years since (bar a brief flirtation with making "Life of Pi," eventually filmed to great success by Ang Lee). But the director's back Stateside at last, with "The Young And Prodigious Spivet," and a trailer's just arrived, courtesy of The Film Stage. Based on Reif Larsen's "The Selected Works Of T.S. Spivet," the story follows a young inventor who leaves his eccentric family after being invited to the Smithsonian. And fingers crossed, this looks like a much more successful venture into the English language than his 'Alien' movie -- there's a real sense of Americana, but it's also clearly a Jeunet film, with the promo looking closer to his most celebrated hour, "Amelie," than anything he's made since. »
- Oliver Lyttelton
From Pre-History to Ancient Greece and the Arabian Nights: Harryhausen's Latter-Day Efforts
7 May 2013 11:33 PM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Raquel Welch wigs vs. Ray Harryhausen monsters: One Million Years B.C. [See previous post: "Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan Dies."] Without Charles H. Schneer as producer, Ray Harryhausen created the visual effects for the 1966 camp classic One Million Years B.C. — though, admittedly, his work in that movie played second fiddle to Raquel Welch’s physical effects as a blonde-bewigged (?) cavewoman parading around Earth’s pre-history in a cleavage-enhancing fur bikini. Whereas in producer Hal Roach’s 1940 effort One Million B.C., lizards made up as dinosaurs made life difficult for Victor Mature and Carole Landis, in the creationist-style pre-history of the 1966 (sort-of) remake, Raquel Welch and fellow caveman John Richardson had to square off against Harryhausen’s stop-motion models of giant reptiles. (Photo: Raquel Welch One Million Years B.C.) [Please scroll down to check out TCM's beautiful Ray Harryhausen tribute.] Starring James Franciscus and featuring Earth vs. the Flying Saucers‘ Richard Carlson, The Valley of Gwangi (1969) was Harryhausen’s next-to-last mid-level effort. Both The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1974), with John Phillip Law, »
- Andre Soares
Top Ten Tuesday – The Best of the French
30 April 2013 11:00 AM, PDT | WeAreMovieGeeks.com | See recent WeAreMovieGeeks.com news »
The French film industry has always been among the worlds most important……at least to film studies professors. Most French movies are either funded by the French government or made with the support of government-linked media companies. Filmmakers face little market pressure in the creative process. That helps explain why they’re so boring!
Starbuck opens this weekend so we here at We Are Movie Geeks have decided to post this article about our favorite French films. Okay, so Starbuck is technically a Canadian film shot in Quebec, but its French language so, in our eyes that makes it French! The Hollywood remake is already in the can. It stars Vince Vaughn. The remake was originally tilted Dickie Donor but they’ve changed it to Delivery Man, so you just know they’ve screwed it up bad. This list may not line up with that of your typical French Cinema scholar. »
- Movie Geeks
Winona Ryder Is Nerdier Than You Think
30 April 2013 5:19 AM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
There was definitely some nervous apprehension on my part before meeting Winona Ryder -- which, having done this sort of thing hundreds of times before, doesn't happen often. This most likely stems from my preexisting notion that she's shy or reserved -- or, at the very least, media shy and reserved in front of the press. Soon after meeting the petite actor -- who still doesn't look all that different from the person who danced to Harry Belafonte's "Jump in the Line" at the end of "Beetlejuice" -- I discovered something that would have put my nervous mind at ease: Winona Ryder is, well ... a bit of a nerd.
Okay, that might be a slight exaggeration, but she is a fan of the original "Star Trek" television series and used to have a life-size poster of Ellen Ripley on her wall.
Ryder's new movie is "The Iceman," the latest »
- Mike Ryan
Efa Gets Inspiration from Bfca? Introducing the Euro Comedy Category
23 April 2013 2:08 AM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Possibly having gotten its inspiration from the U.S.-based Broadcast Film Critics Association (Bfca; the critics group that hands out the Critics Choice Awards) or, just as possibly, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA; the organization that hands out the Golden Globes), the European Film Academy has added a new category to its European Film Awards roster: European Comedy. As per a press release, the new category was decided by Efa's board at its latest meeting in Berlin to “pay tribute to a genre which has proven that it is able to unite and entertain audiences across Europe and beyond.” (Pictured above: Daniel Brühl in Wolfgang Becker's 2003 comedy Good Bye, Lenin!, winner of that year's Best Film trophy.) The release adds that this year's three nominations for in the new category "will be decided by a special committee," while the eventual winner "will be voted for by the »
- Andre Soares
Mathieu Kassovitz: 'I'm not proud to be French'
18 April 2013 4:06 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Mathieu Kassovitz was hailed as the heir to Truffaut after making La Haine in 1995. So why has he renounced French cinema after making his latest film, Rebellion?
Any doubts over Mathieu Kassovitz's feelings towards his national film industry were cleared up last year when he tweeted: "Bugger French cinema. Go fuck yourself with your shitty films." He's done with France. He's moved to Los Angeles. The tweet was in response to the César nominations, France's equivalent of the Oscars. In a field dominated by The Artist and Untouchable, Kassovitz's sober political thriller, Rebellion, received just one nomination, for best adapted screenplay.
"I wasn't hurt because they didn't want to give me a César, I was hurt because they didn't care about that kind of movie any more," says Kassovitz, who has previously won three Césars and never turned up to collect them. "It's a French story. It's craftsmanship. We »
- Steve Rose
Joss Whedon: 'Firefly axe, Alien: Resurrection were my lowest points'
18 April 2013 8:45 AM, PDT | Digital Spy | See recent Digital Spy - Movie News news »
Joss Whedon has discussed his work on Alien: Resurrection.
The Avengers director has a writing credit on the poorly-received Alien franchise film.
"In all seriousness, Alien: Resurrection was, I thought, the lowest I could ever feel," he told Total Film magazine.
"And then they cancelled Firefly. 'Yup, there you go. That's me feeling even lower.'
"Let me quote King Lear - 'The worst is not, so long as we can say, "This is the worst".'"
He complained about the miscasting of Brad Dourif and Je Freeman in the two characters he wrote for the Jean-Pierre Jeunet-directed 1997 movie.
"You don't ever get over it," he added. "When you are making a movie you are making something that is going to last forever, especially now with the internet.
"So there is always going to be a s**tty Alien movie out there. A s**tty Alien movie with my name on it. »
Joss Whedon Reflects On What Went Wrong With Alien: Resurrection
18 April 2013 6:08 AM, PDT | ComicBookMovie.com | See recent ComicBookMovie news »
Geek God Joss Whedon has done very little wrong over the course of his remarkable career as a writer and director, but Alien: Resurrection was definitely a hugely disappointing addition to his résumé. In a recent interview with Total Film Magazine, Whedon was asked to share his thoughts on Prometheus and to reflect on his own contribution the franchise. "Yes, I did see Pro-meaningless," he joked. "In all seriousness, Alien: Resurrection was, I thought, the lowest I could ever feel. And then they cancelled Firefly. 'Yup, there you go. That's me feeling even lower.' Let me quote King Lear - 'The worst is not, so long as we can say, "This is the worst.'" "Casting is storytelling," he added when asked about what his experience working on the Jean-Pierre Jeunet helmed movie taught him. "I wrote two characters for Alien: Resurrection and their arc was that you would »
Audrey Tautou: how the French learned to love the star of Amélie
14 April 2013 2:50 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Next month Audrey Tautou will host the opening ceremony of the Cannes Film Festival, an honour only given to a select few. Is she finally overcoming the curse of her most successful film?
For someone as shy and discreet as Audrey Tautou, the next few weeks will be feel uncomfortably like putting her head above the parapet again, exposed to potshots from her Gallic critics.
On the other hand her British fans, who remember her as the pixie-faced heroine of The Fabulous Destiny of Amélie Poulain, one of the most successful French films of all time, can look forward to a feast after the famine.
Next month the film Thérèse Desqueyroux, an adaptation of the François Mauriac 1927 classic released in France last November, in which Tautou plays the title role of a repressed wife who poisons her domineering, misogynistic husband, will open in British cinemas.
Around the same time, Tautou »
- Kim Willsher
First Official Images From Jean-Pierre Jeunet's 3D 'The Young & Prodigious Spivet' Featuring Helena Bonham Carter
8 April 2013 1:20 PM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
One movie we pegged as a longshot to make the Cannes deadline was Jean-Pierre Jeunet's "The Young & Prodigious Spivet" but the latest pictures suggest we should be revising that guesswork. The latest from the idiosyncratic filmmaker, who at this stage of his career is basically French cinematic royalty, has been under lock and key, but a brand new selection of official images suggest that the project is much further along than we might have guessed. Based on the best-selling novel "The Selected Works Of T.S. Spivet" by Reif Larsen, the story follows a young amateur cartographer, the titular Spivet, who travels cross-country on a freight train to visit the Smithsonian Institute in Washington. An eclectic cast features Helena Bonham-Carter, Callum Keith Rennie, Judy Davis, Kathy Bates and Jeunet regular Dominique Pinon, with newcomer Kyle Catlett in the lead role. Basically, it's another distinctively Jeunet-looking joint »
- Kevin Jagernauth
2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s The Young and Prodigious Spivet
3 April 2013 6:30 AM, PDT | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »
#79. Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s The Young and Prodigious Spivet
Gist: Spivet is a 12 year-old prodigy with a passion for cartography and scientific inventions. One day, he receives an unexpected call from the Smithsonian museum telling him that he is the winner of the very prestigious Baird prize for his discovery of the perpetual motion machine and that he is invited to a reception where he is expected to give a speech. Without telling anyone, he sets out on a freight train across the U.S.A. to reach Washington DC. Cast includes Helena Bonham Carter, Judy Davis, Rick Mercer and Callum Keith Rennie.
Prediction: This promises to be more along the vein of Amelie (which the festival Gilles Jacob regretfully passed up on when it was offered to the Croisette in an uncompleted form) and though Jeunet doesn’t make regular appearances at the festival (his first was 95′s The City of Lost Children »
- Moen Mohamed
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