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‘Cosmopolis’ Actor Mathieu Amalric Directing ‘The Red and the Black’ Next
25 May 2012 11:52 AM, PDT | The Film Stage | See recent The Film Stage news »
Most of us regular folks would only know Mathieu Amalric as “that Roman Polanski-looking* fellow in Quantum of Solace,” but the French multi-hyphenate proved himself behind the camera when, in 2010, he took home Cannes’ Best Director prize for On Tour. In making his feature film follow-up, Variety informs us he’s decided to adapt Stendhal‘s 1830 novel The Red and the Black — which was translated to film in 1954 — a (oddly untitled) project that producer Laetitia Gonzalez claims will be Amalric‘s “most ambitious directorial effort” to date.
The original book revolved around Julien Sorel, an energetic teacher whose attempt to step outside societal lines — an attempt instigated with an affair — causes a stir and threatens to bring everything crashing down. Dramatic meat: it’s here in spades. Now, I’m obviously speaking out of turn, making predictions on a project that’s still in the early days, but it’s probable that Amalric, »
- jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
Does The Palme d'Or Ever Equal Box Office Receipts?
25 May 2012 6:47 AM, PDT | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
Whatever wins the Palme d’Or this weekend at the Cannes Film Festival, statistics say that the prize offers no assurance of box office success. The last 10 winners totaled just $173.9 million in North America, with a whopping $119.2 million (69%) coming from Michael Moore’s 2004 winner “Fahrenheit 9/11.” Other than “9/11,” the only other Palme d’Or winners to gross over $4 million in North America are Roman Polanski’s “The Pianist" and last year's winner, "The Tree of Life." Buoyed by Oscars for best director and best actor, the former took in $32.6 million back in 2002. "Life," meanwhile, grossed $13.3 million domestically last summer It's a risky set of numbers for potential Stateside distributors. To date, the international mix of Palme d’Or winners have done much better outside North America. Internationally, the films' combined grosses are $399.8 million, only »
- Peter Knegt
Morning Watch: Hour-Long Damon Lindelof Interview, Great Getty Images Ad, and Roman Polanski Short
24 May 2012 9:37 AM, PDT | Movies.com | See recent Movies.com news »
In case you haven't had a chance to watch this fantastic Damon Lindelof interview yet, take some time off today and give it a shot. From The Verge, Lindelof discusses lots, including almost 30 minutes on the Lost finale. Definitely a must watch for fans of the writer and his shows/movies. Here's a wonderful Getty Images ad made up of 873 Getty images. The amount of painstaking research that must have went into this kinda blows our minds. Finally, Roman Polanski shot a short film for Prada called A Therapy, starring Helena Bonham Carter and Ben Kingsley.
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- Erik Davis
Roman Polanski Makes Prada Film With Bonham Carter And Kingsley
23 May 2012 3:06 PM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Moviemaker Roman Polanski has shot a new short film for fashion house Prada.
A Therapy features Brits Sir Ben Kingsley and Helena Bonham Carter playing psychiatrist and client.
The Dark Shadows star is dressed head-to-toe in Prada finery in the arty film.
Polanski, Kingsley and Bonham Carter aren't the only revered movie names taking part in the Prada-sponsored film - Oscar winners Ronald Harwood and Alexandre Desplat provide the script and music, respectively.
Polanski tells Britain's Telegraph, "I had the opportunity to reunite my favourite group of people on set and just have fun... It's very refreshing to know that there are still places open to irony and wit and, for sure, Prada is one of them." »
Roman Polanski Shoots Exclusive Short Film For Prada
23 May 2012 8:03 AM, PDT | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »
You don.t have to travel all the way to the south of France to see Roman Polanski.s new short film, shot for Prada and starring Sir Ben Kingsley and Helena Bonham Carter. You can stay in your pajamas and watch it from the comfort of your own living room, because we.re attaching it here Polanski.s film, titled A Therapy, finds Bonham Carter.s Prada-draped protagonist venting to her psychiatrist, played by a curious Kingsley. It.s an exquisite clip, one whose colors and styles call attention to the fashion. And, of course, there.s the punchline about a special coat. But all of this focus could be because we know going into the clip that it.s sponsored by Prada. The credits on the short are pretty impressive. Ronald Harwood, Oscar-winning screenwriter on Polanski.s The Pianist, lends his words to the clip. Alexandre Desplat writes »
Watch: Roman Polanski's Prada-Funded Short Film 'A Therapy' With Ben Kingsley & Helena Bonham Carter
23 May 2012 5:00 AM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
Last year's "Carnage" might have been something of a disappointment, but it hasn't fazed Roman Polanski: the director's already gearing up for his next film "D," about the famous Dreyfus Affair in France in the 19th century, which will see the director reteam with his "The Ghost Writer" scribe Robert Harris. The plan is for the film to shoot at the end of the year, but Polanski's not been idle in the meantime: he's been in Cannes this week with a threefold purpose: the screening of the documentary "Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir" (read our review here), another screening, of his 1979 picture "Tess," and the unveiling of a new short film that he's directed.
The film, essentially a commercial for Prada, who funded it, is entitled "A Therapy," and is seemingly shot on a left-over set from "Carnage," with Polanski's "Death And The Maiden" and "Oliver Twist" star Ben Kingsley »
- Oliver Lyttelton
Ben Kingsley slips into Prada for Polanski in Cannes
22 May 2012 11:32 PM, PDT | AwardsDaily.com | See recent AwardsDaily news »
thanks to Telperion, who tells us that this short Prada ad directed by Roman Polanski, starring Ben Kingsley and Helena Bonham Carter, was a surprise that debuted in Cannes just »
- Ryan Adams
Roman Polanski/Prada Ad A Therapy
22 May 2012 4:55 PM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Ben Kingsley: Roman Polanski Prada commercial A Therapy Roman Polanski is everywhere at the Cannes Film Festival. Polanski is the subject (and interviewee) of Laurent Bouzereau’s documentary Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir. He unveiled a restored print of his 1979/1980 Best Picture César and Oscar nominee Tess, starring Nastassja Kinski. And he is the director of the short film / Prada commercial A Therapy. Starring Helena Bonham Carter as a poor little Prada-clad rich woman and Ben Kingsley as her therapist and Prada aficionado, A Therapy was shown prior to the Tess screening. (Please scroll down.) Co-written by Polanski and The Ghost Writer‘s Ronald Harwood, A Therapy boasts music by The Queen‘s Alexandre Desplat, gorgeous cinematography by Girl with the Pearl Earring‘s Eduardo Serra, production design by The Godfather‘s Dean Tavoularis, and editing by The Pianist‘s Hervé de Luze. Ah, and costume design by, I guess, »
- Andre Soares
Box Office: The Avengers Surpasses Star Wars?
22 May 2012 4:08 PM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
The Avengers: Chris Hemsworth as Thor, Chris Evans as Captain America With a cume of $463.35m after 18 days, Joss Whedon’s The Avengers has surpassed George Lucas’ Star Wars ($460.99m) at the domestic box office, thus officially becoming the fifth biggest blockbuster in history. By next weekend, The Avengers should surpass Lucas’ Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace ($474.54m) to become the fourth biggest domestic blockbuster in history. Impressive? Of course. Any way you look at it, The Avengers‘ box-office performance, whether in North America or abroad, has been phenomenal. The Disney / Marvel actioner has surpassed the expectations of most — if not all — prognosticators. Now, having said that, The Avengers is not a box-office phenomenon on a par with Star Wars. Not even close. Studio/media spin and p.r. b.s. aside, the true barometer of a movie’s success is how many tickets it has sold, »
- Zac Gille
Cannes 2012 diary: day seven
22 May 2012 6:56 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Given the relentless rain pounding the Croisette, it's small wonder Nastassja Kinski would rather stay in bed than keep our interview date
Ahead of my scheduled interview with the actor Nastassja Kinski, I sit down to watch the restored version of Tess, the film she is in Cannes to discuss. Roman Polanski's 1979 epic drifts on a summer breeze of hay wains and dairy farms, bumps for a spell in the frozen mud of the potato field and then fetches up at Stonehenge, where our fugitive heroine has fled with her milksop husband, Angel Clare (Peter Firth). The bobbies come to arrest Tess but it turns out that they must wait their turn. "She's still sleeping," Angel whispers. "Just a little longer." Somewhere, very distantly, alarm bells start ringing.
Screenings in Cannes run to an immaculate clockwork precision. Interviews, however, are something else entirely; like confetti tossed to the wind, »
- Xan Brooks
Roman Polanski directs Ben Kingsley and Helena Bonham-Carter in Prada 'anti-commercial'
22 May 2012 3:09 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
The French-Polish filmmaker surprised Cannes with a short film for the Italian fashion house
Roman Polanski introduced the premiere screening of his collaboration with Italian fashion giants Prada on Monday (22 May) by telling the audience the three-minute film was an "anti-commercial".
In his speech, delivered in French, the director added that he wanted to prove he "can make short films as well as long films." The film, titled A Therapy, was announced as a complete surprise before the screening of his 1979 film Tess, which was showing as part of the Cannes Classics section.
At odds with the majority of fashion shorts, Polanski's film is heavy in dialogue.
A suave, melodramatic Helena Bonham Carter, draped in a fabulous purple fur coat, swans into the office of Ben Kingsley, who plays her silent psychoanalyst.
She removes the coat, kicks off her Prada shoes, drapes across a chaise lounge and recounts a dream »
Box Office: The Avengers Behind The Dark Knight Ticket Sales
21 May 2012 4:35 PM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
The Avengers: Chris Evans / Captain America, Robert Downey Jr / Tony Stark / Iron Man The Avengers easily topped the North American box office this past weekend, grossing $55.64m according to box-office actuals found at Box Office Mojo. At a distant second place with $25.53m was Battleship, a $209m Universal release that has turned out to be a major bomb domestically. On Sunday, The Avengers passed the $450m mark in North America. It is the fastest movie to reach that milestone: 17 days. At no. 2, Christopher Nolan / Christian Bale’s The Dark Knight reached $450m after 27 days. (Adjusted for inflation, The Dark Knight reached that milestone on Day 21.) The Avengers vs. The Dark Knight: Ticket Sales Now, which movie has sold more tickets, The Avengers or The Dark Knight? On Day 17, The Avengers‘ cume stands at $457.66m; The Dark Knight‘s was $393.75m. Adjusted for inflation, The Dark Knight‘s take goes up to approximately $429m. »
- Zac Gille
Photos: Now It's Kelly's Turn...
21 May 2012 2:57 PM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
As one door closes, so another opens... and Kelly Brook walks through it.
On the same day that Cheryl Cole jetted out of Cannes, having made her presence felt in a gown that merged effortlessly into the red carpet, Kelly Brook turned up to delight the photographers on La Croisette.
Kelly was at the screening for Vous N'Avez Encore Rien Vu (You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet) at the 65th Festival, where she joined other stars, including controversial director Roman Polanski.
Kelly does Cannes
The British model was dressed in a striking one-sleeved metallic silver dress, with a sneaky thigh-high split, and an accompanying clutch bag.
Kelly was in town to help promote Keith Lemon: The Movie, in which she ends up in bed with the British comedian - due to a dry spell, she joked.
But the Daily Mail reported that she'd received another off-screen offer while she was »
- The Huffington Post UK
Roman Polanski Returns to Cannes - With a Prada Ad
21 May 2012 2:13 PM, PDT | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
Roman Polanski came to Cannes on Monday to show an old film, and also to debut a new one. But the new Polanski film is an oddity in the controversial director's career: It's an ad for Prada, though Polanski described it as "an anti-ad" afterwards. The short, which screened before a restored version of Polanski's 1979 film "Tess," features Helena Bonham Carter as a Prada-wearing patient and Ben Kingsley as a psychiatrist who finds himself distracted by the beauty of the purple fur coat his patient has hung on a rack. "Prada Suits »
- Steve Pond
Cannes 2012: Diane Kruger, Joshua Jackson, more hit the red carpet
20 May 2012 6:59 PM, PDT | Hitfix | See recent Hitfix news »
Continuing a run of glamorous premieres at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, Michael Haneke's latest film "Amour" debuted on a rainy Sunday in the French resort city, with attendees including Diane Kruger, Joshua Jackson, Bond Girl Berenice Marlohe (Skyfall"), Cheryl Cole, Roman Polanski, Isabelle Huppert and David Cronenberg. Speaking of Cronenberg, his son Brandon's first feature-length film "Antiviral" also had a presence at the festival today, with stars Caleb Landry Jones (Banshee in "X-Men: First Class" ) and Sarah Gadon (who also appears in the elder Cronenberg's "Cosmopolis") in attendance. Check out the gallery below for all the photos. »
- Chris Eggertsen
Peter Weir Returns With Adaptation Of Jennifer Egan's Contemporary Gothic Thriller 'The Keep'
20 May 2012 8:45 AM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
With his last effort, the ambitious road film "The Way Back," largely coming and going, we were dreading another long absence from veteran helmer Peter Weir. After all, he's only made two films in the last decade, with a seven-year gap between his 2010 effort and "Master And Commander" back in 2003. Thankfully, though, it looks like the wait won't be as long this time around, as a new project has been lined up by the Australian director.
Weir has signed up to adapt "A Visit From The Goon Squad" author Jennifer Egan's best-selling contemporary gothic thriller "The Keep," which previously had CBS Films teaming with 'Dragon Tattoo' helmer Niels Arden Oplev. That iteration of the project, which was scripted by Ehren Kruger, had been described as "'The Ring' meets 'Inception'" but with Weir tackling the screenplay himself, we imagine he's starting from scratch with a very different take in mind. »
- Simon Dang
Cannes Review: 'Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir' A Fascinating Look At The Director As Told By The Man Himself
20 May 2012 6:45 AM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
Who is Roman Polanski? That's the question at the center of "Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir," a deeply fascinating look at the life and (sort of) career of the controversial filmmaker as told by the man himself. But this isn't a hagiography -- the documentary doesn't shy away from the more tabloid-worthy elements of his life (you know what we're talking about), and is more about the events that made Polanski into the man and director we know him as. 'A Film Memoir' doesn't dive into the making of his movies so much as contextualize them with where he was personally and professionally at the time. And this perspective, particularly with the participation of Polanski himself, offers a refreshing look at the filmmaker you thought you might have known.
Polanski's longtime producing partner Laurent Bouzereau "directs" the film, and interviews the filmmaker as well, sitting down with him in Gstaad, »
- Kevin Jagernauth
Cannes rolls out the carpet for a bumper 65th year
19 May 2012 4:12 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
A vintage Cannes offers a whale of a drama, a Chinese mystery, and a dainty slice of dysfunctional family life from Wes Anderson. Meanwhile, Woody Allen and Roman Polanski have some explaining to do
Like the Godfather of film festivals that it is, Cannes keeps its friends close and its enemies closer. Over the 65th edition's early days, Cannes clawed back any deserters or doubters with a storming selection, confirming it as the best showcase for challenging cinema from around the world.
Andrea Arnold, the British director whose career Cannes nurtured by promoting her films Red Road and Fish Tank, showed her version of Wuthering Heights at Venice last year. Cannes immediately installed her as a member of this year's jury.
Regulars such as Woody Allen and Roman Polanski, neither of whom have a film showing here, have instead been rewarded with warmly respectful documentaries, made and populated by high-profile friends and fans. »
- Jason Solomons
Jennifer Lopez/What To Expect, The Dictator: Box Office Duds
19 May 2012 2:57 AM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Jennifer Lopez, What to Expect When You’re Expecting Still going strong, The Avengers is on its third weekend out. Yet, the domestic box office is expected to be down 18% compared to last year because of three weak new entries: Peter Berg / Taylor Kitsch’s megabudgeted Battleship barely managed to stay afloat on Friday, while Sacha Baron Cohen‘s The Dictator (which opened on Wed.) and Kirk Jones’ all-star ensemble (Jennifer Lopez, Cameron Diaz, Chace Crawford, etc.) What to Expect When You’re Expecting performed below expectations. [See Box Office: Battleship bombs.] The Dictator grossed an estimated $5.5m at 3,008 theaters on Friday, for an expected weekend total of $16m, as per Deadline.com. Sacha Baron Cohen’s R-rated comedy will thus reach a cume of $23m after five days. For comparison’s sake, Bruno — which was considered a major box-office disappointment following Borat — opened with $30.61m on its first weekend out in July 2009. Supporting Baron »
- Zac Gille
Cannes film festival set to honour the bookworm
18 May 2012 4:11 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Coveted Palme d'Or likely to go to a screen adaptation, with many of this year's entrants borrowing from literature
The Cannes festival is, famously, the keeper of the flame of the auteur tradition. The ritual of honouring the overarching vision of a single writer-director is entrenched in its history – from Federico Fellini and Michelangelo Antonioni to Jane Campion and Andrea Arnold. Since the turn of the millennium, only two winners of the Palme d'Or have been literary adaptations: Roman Polanski's The Pianist, and Laurent Cantet's The Class. Of the remaining films, only one – Ken Loach's The Wind that Shakes the Barley – was not written by its director.
This year, however, things are different: it is a bookworm's Cannes, with directors as likely to have had their noses buried in novels as dreaming up original ideas.
All eyes are on Walter Salles's adaptation of Jack Kerouac's modern classic On the Road, »
- Charlotte Higgins
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