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The Walt Disney Company to Make High School Musical: China

22 November 2009 5:30 PM, PST | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »

The Walt Disney Company has announced that Disney Studios has started production on a Chinese version of High School Musical for release in theaters in summer 2010:

The Walt Disney Company in China today announced the start of production on its third local co-production project in just two years, Disney High School Musical: China. Working with local partners Shanghai Media Group (Smg) and Huayi Brothers Media Corporation, the movie is planned for cinematic release in summer 2010.

Under development for over a year, and created uniquely for Chinese audiences, Disney High School Musical: China is the story of a new student who meets a gifted young man with whom she shares a secret passion for singing. With the help of their friends they overcome the odds to win an inter-school singing competition, and discover their true calling in the process.

"Disney's ongoing commitment to local content development underpins our …

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New Czech Films

17 November 2009 2:12 PM, PST | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »

A Well Paid Walk by Milos Forman (top); Vaclav Havel in Citizen Havel by Pavel Koutecký and Miroslav Janek (middle); The Karamazovs by Petr Zelenka (bottom) New Czech Films at New York’s BAMcinématek. The series includes works by two-time Academy Award winner Milos Forman and Jan H?ebejk, whose Divided We Fall (2000) was nominated for a best foreign language film Oscar. Václav Marhoul’s war drama Tobruk, which is supposed to show that there’s "a very thin line between heroism and cowardice," sounds particularly intriguing. All films in Czech with English subtitles. Schedule and film information from the BAMcinématek website: A Well Paid Walk (Dob?e Placená Procházku) (2009) 85min Wed, Nov 18 at 6:50*, 9:40pm *Q&A [...] …

- Andre Soares

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Now in Theaters: "Chelsea on the Rocks" (Abel Ferrara, USA)

9 November 2009 5:58 PM, PST | The Auteurs | See recent The Auteurs news »

Above: Abel Ferrara directs Bijou Phillips on the set of Chelsea on the Rocks.

If you think of Chelsea on the Rocks, the new movie by Abel Ferrara, as an “informative documentary,” then it probably seems like a total failure. Interviewees are never identified; when famous faces pop up, the reason for their “importance” is never explained. As far as the movie’s concerned, Ethan Hawke is just a divorced father, Dennis Hopper is just a Dylan Thomas fan, Milos Forman is just some guy who knows how to tell a good story. Any attempts Ferrara makes to explain the change in the famous building's management that's supposedly the reason for the movie are at best half-hearted. If you wanna learn about that, you're better off reading a magazine. Yes, it's a documentary, but not one about the Chelsea Hotel. The history here, the famous names and events, are just wallpaper. …

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Woody Harrelson

26 October 2009 11:08 PM, PDT | Interview Magazine | See recent Interview Magazine news »

Woody Harrelson could so easily have remained the adorable goof behind America’s favorite bar forever. It’s hard to believe now, but for a while playing Woody Boyd on the sitcom Cheers seemed like the summit of Harrelson’s career. (Is there a quicker way for an actor to become typecast than to share a name with a character?) But the Texas-born yearling made quick work of landing choice film roles in Hollywood after the iconic Boston bar shut down operations in 1993. Harrelson went from starring in one of the most violent, experimental, and relentlessly criticized films of the 1990s (Oliver Stone’s Natural Born Killers, 1994) to starring in one of the most violent, experimental, and universally praised films of the 2000s (the Coen brothers’ No Country for Old Men, 2007), with an Oscar-nominated turn as Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt (in Milos Forman’s The People vs. Larry Flynt, …

- By Owen Wilson Photography Niko Tavernise

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Cool Stuff: City Secrets Movies: The Ultimate Insider’s Guide to Cinema’s Hidden Gems

26 October 2009 6:00 AM, PDT | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »

City Secrets guides have been called "the best literary gift to travelers since the Baedeker and Henry James" by the Financial Times, providing charming travelers’ companions to the world’s most fascinating cities. What made them different than the usual travel guides is that City Secrets offers reflections and discoveries from the authors, artists, and historians who know each city best. Earlier this year City Secrets released a book titled City Secrets Movies: The Ultimate Insider's Guide to Cinema's Hidden Gems, which promises to take an "intimate, insider’s approach to the arts, featuring brief essays and recommendations by esteemed figures in the film industry—including actors, directors, producers, and critics—and other writers and figures in the arts." Contributors of the book include Wes Anderson, Ken Auletta, Alec Baldwin, Adam Duritz, Milos Forman, John Guare, Arthur Hiller, Anjelica Huston, Barbara Kopple, Sidney Lumet, Simon Schama, Martin Scorsese, and Kenneth Turan, …

- Peter Sciretta

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Rome Film Fest Winners: Brotherhood, Helen Mirren, Giorgio Diritti

24 October 2009 12:13 AM, PDT | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »

The Danish film Brotherhood is the big winner at the International Rome Film Festival. Helen Mirren won Best Actress for The Last Station and The Man Who Will Come grabbed two top prizes, including the Grand Jury award. - - -

- - - Reports from Screen Daily:

The fourth edition of the International Rome Film Festival awarded the Golden Marc'Aurelio Award for best film to Danish-Italian Nicolo Donato's feature directorial debut Brotherhood (Brotherskab).

Donato's film delves into the unexpected love that erupts between two young men in a radical right wing group. Trust Nordisk is handling world sales on the project.

The award was chosen by an international jury presided over by Milos Forman. "This is a dream come true, thank you, thank you, thank you Rome," Donato said, accepting his prize. Giorgio Diritti's The Man Who Will Come won two top prizes. The 1944-set film depicting …

- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)

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Rome Film Fest Winners: Brotherhood, Helen Mirren, Giorgio Diritti

24 October 2009 12:13 AM, PDT | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »

The Danish film Brotherhood is the big winner at the International Rome Film Festival. Helen Mirren won Best Actress for The Last Station and The Man Who Will Come grabbed two top prizes, including the Grand Jury award. - - -

- - - Reports from Screen Daily:

The fourth edition of the International Rome Film Festival awarded the Golden Marc'Aurelio Award for best film to Danish-Italian Nicolo Donato's feature directorial debut Brotherhood (Brotherskab).

Donato's film delves into the unexpected love that erupts between two young men in a radical right wing group. Trust Nordisk is handling world sales on the project.

The award was chosen by an international jury presided over by Milos Forman. "This is a dream come true, thank you, thank you, thank you Rome," Donato said, accepting his prize. Giorgio Diritti's The Man Who Will Come won two top prizes. The 1944-set film depicting …

- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)

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Rome Film Fest Winners: Brotherhood, Helen Mirren, Giorgio Diritti

24 October 2009 12:13 AM, PDT | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »

The Danish film Brotherhood is the big winner at the International Rome Film Festival. Helen Mirren won Best Actress for The Last Station and The Man Who Will Come grabbed two top prizes, including the Grand Jury award. - - -

- - - Reports from Screen Daily:

The fourth edition of the International Rome Film Festival awarded the Golden Marc'Aurelio Award for best film to Danish-Italian Nicolo Donato's feature directorial debut Brotherhood (Brotherskab).

Donato's film delves into the unexpected love that erupts between two young men in a radical right wing group. Trust Nordisk is handling world sales on the project.

The award was chosen by an international jury presided over by Milos Forman. "This is a dream come true, thank you, thank you, thank you Rome," Donato said, accepting his prize. Giorgio Diritti's The Man Who Will Come won two top prizes. The 1944-set film depicting …

- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)

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Rome Film Fest Winners: Brotherhood, Helen Mirren, Giorgio Diritti

24 October 2009 12:13 AM, PDT | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »

The Danish film Brotherhood is the big winner at the International Rome Film Festival. Helen Mirren won Best Actress for The Last Station and The Man Who Will Come grabbed two top prizes, including the Grand Jury award. - - -

- - - Reports from Screen Daily:

The fourth edition of the International Rome Film Festival awarded the Golden Marc'Aurelio Award for best film to Danish-Italian Nicolo Donato's feature directorial debut Brotherhood (Brotherskab).

Donato's film delves into the unexpected love that erupts between two young men in a radical right wing group. Trust Nordisk is handling world sales on the project.

The award was chosen by an international jury presided over by Milos Forman. "This is a dream come true, thank you, thank you, thank you Rome," Donato said, accepting his prize. Giorgio Diritti's The Man Who Will Come won two top prizes. The 1944-set film depicting …

- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)

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Rome Film Fest Winners: Brotherhood, Helen Mirren, Giorgio Diritti

24 October 2009 12:13 AM, PDT | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »

The Danish film Brotherhood is the big winner at the International Rome Film Festival. Helen Mirren won Best Actress for The Last Station and The Man Who Will Come grabbed two top prizes, including the Grand Jury award. - - -

- - - Reports from Screen Daily:

The fourth edition of the International Rome Film Festival awarded the Golden Marc'Aurelio Award for best film to Danish-Italian Nicolo Donato's feature directorial debut Brotherhood (Brotherskab).

Donato's film delves into the unexpected love that erupts between two young men in a radical right wing group. Trust Nordisk is handling world sales on the project.

The award was chosen by an international jury presided over by Milos Forman. "This is a dream come true, thank you, thank you, thank you Rome," Donato said, accepting his prize. Giorgio Diritti's The Man Who Will Come won two top prizes. The 1944-set film depicting …

- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)

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Gay neo-Nazis Perk up otherwise Lackluster Rome Film Festival

23 October 2009 2:12 PM, PDT | IndieWIRE | See recent indieWIRE news »

The International Rome Film Festival, which comes to a close tomorrow, announced its winner tonight in an awards ceremony in the Parco della musica, the festival’s labyrinthine main hub on the outskirts of the Eternal City. This year’s jury included president Milos Forman as well as Italian director Gabriele Muccino, Italian architect Gae Aulenti, French screenwriter Jean-Loup Dabadie, Russian director Pavel Lungin and Austrian actress Senta Berger. It is the first … …

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The Forgotten: Checking Out

22 October 2009 6:18 AM, PDT | The Auteurs | See recent The Auteurs news »

 

"The imagination is a muscle, and it must be exercised."

This was agreed between screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière and director Luis Buñuel when they started to collaborate in the 1960s (six films in total, plus a screenplay for The Monk, which sadly Buñuel never got to shoot). Meeting in quiet bars, they would work on the current script in the morning and then separate for lunch. When they reunited in the afternoon, each would have to tell the other a story. Not necessarily anything to do with the film at hand. Just something to keep the creative fires banked. (One suspects that Bunuel's penultimate movie, The Phantom of Liberty, may be composed in part of several of these throwaway tales.)

The Nail Clippers, written and directed by Carrière in 1969, could well have grown from one of these lunchtime anecdotes, but whatever its origins, it's the perfect short film. Carrière's only work as director, …

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Eddie Murphy Out, Marlon Wayans In As Richard Pryor

7 October 2009 7:04 PM, PDT | GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news »

If they could make a great (but admittedly mostly fictional) movie about Mozart, as Milos Forman did with the brilliant Amadeus, then I guess they can make a movie about another one- of-a-kind performer like Richard Pryor. That's the plan, and somehow it involves Marlon Wayans.

Now, Pryor, if you're younger than, say, 30, is just about everything you need to know about contemporary stand-up comedy. He's kind of the Beatles of that art form, incorporating everything that came before him, turning it into something completely new, and inspiring everything that came after him as well as his contemporaries. So his life story is certainly worthy fodder for a bio-pic, so I have no problem with that.

Bill Condon, who directed Dreamgirls, has a script, which previously had Eddie Murphy attached as his mentor. The screenplay wound up at Sony and Happy Madison, but Murphy did not. Why? Probably because Paramount …

- Colin Boyd

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Spotlight: Revelations about Ádám Balázs

3 October 2009 12:11 AM, PDT | Daily Film Music Blog | See recent Daily Film Music Blog news »

I wish I had the chance to interview more compatriot composers here, but fact is there are very few Hungarian film composers I could talk to. Adam Balazs is one of them - although he lives in Los Angeles, he recently completed his first score to a Hungarian movie: Szíven szúrt ország is a documentary about the murder of a handball player whose tragic death brought forward many unresolved issues within the country. In addition to this new documentary, Ádám's new movie The Butterfly Effect 3: Revelations will have a soundtrack CD released pretty soon, which is a first for the composer (although several of his scores are available through download options). We discussed these and a number of other projects in the following interview:

How did your interest in music begin?

I grew up in a fully musical environment — my father is a distinguished classical composer and before her retirement, …

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Exclusive Interview: Director Of Zombieland

30 September 2009 6:38 PM, PDT | ScreenStar | See recent ScreenStar news »

Ruben Fleischer never particularly cared for zombie films, and he's not much of a horror film aficionado, either. But when he signed on to make his feature directing debut with Zombieland, Fleischer -- who's graduating from commercials, music videos, and documentaries -- turned to a trio of hip flicks for inspiration: 28 Days Later, Shaun of the Dead, and the Zack Snyder version of Dawn of the Dead. "I was definitely intent on making a modern zombie movie," Fleischer said during a recent exclusive telephone interview. "The big reference points, from a scary perspective, were 28 Days Later and Dawn of the Dead, and from a funny perspective, it was Shaun of the Dead. [28 Days Later director] Danny Boyle kind of reinvented [the zombie genre] with the fast-moving zombies and the more viral-based history of the disease, as opposed to being more supernatural. I think Zack Snyder made a really fun movie and visually [took a] step forward with Dawn of the Dead. …

- ianspelling@corp.popstar.com (Ian Spelling)

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Savannah Film Festival Includes Gala Screenings Of Feature Films

29 September 2009 7:06 AM, PDT | icelebz.com | See recent iCelebz news »

The 12th Annual Savannah Film Festival will be including gala screenings of feature films, including "The Young Victoria," "The Men Who Stare at Goats," and "Broken Embraces" among many others.

The film fest will also be attended by past guests and honorees, such as Peter O'toole, Michael Douglas, Jane Fonda, Sidney Lumet, Kathleen Turner, Norman Jewison, Tommy Lee Jones, John Waters, David Benioff, John sayles, Brett Ratner, Charlie Rose, George Segal, James Franco, James Ivory, Jeff Daniels, Alec Baldwin, Peter Bart, Army Archerd, Roger Ebert, Terrence Malick, Sydney Pollack, Vanessa, Lynn and Corin Redgrave, Alan and Marilyn Bergman, Malcolm McDowell, and Milos Forman.

22 professional films and 12 student films will be showcased in competition, in addition to the special screenings.

The Savannah Film Festival will be held from October 31 to November 7.

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Zombies, Lies and Videotape

28 September 2009 7:40 PM, PDT | ifc.com | See recent IFC news »

This week's offerings give us the choice of walking with death or battling the undead. For those taking it easy this week, there's also roller skating with Ellen Page and having fun playing God (or inventing him, at any rate) with Ricky Gervais.

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"Afterschool"

After making a name for himself at Cannes with his award-winning shorts, Nyu film grad Antonio Campos took his feature debut there last year. "Afterschool" earned its share of controversy during its festival run, along with as a Spirit Award nomination for best first feature. Reminiscent of Gus Van Sant and Michael Haneke, this hazy story of digital detachment blends viral video and prep school tragedy in its story of a paranoid internet junkie (Ezra Miller) who witnesses the death of a pair of classmates who overdose on drugs, and …

- Neil Pedley

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Endangered Cinema Nolita Struggles To Stay Afloat

10 August 2009 12:19 PM, PDT | Filmmaker Magazine - Blog | See recent Filmmaker Magazine news »

At 11:30 tonight Cinema Nolita will screen Milos Forman's 1971 comedy Taking Off, the Czech wildman's first American feature, in its semi-regular screening series, as the store's future hangs in doubt. Its a crowded marketplace for specialty film this weekend in Manhattan (Sophie Barthes' pedigreed Cold Souls, Louie Psihoyos' astoundingly financed and all too relevant The Cove, Anthology Film Archives' sure to please, William Lustig curated "Buried Treasures" of 70s B cinema, and Andrew Bujalski's pleasing mumbler Beeswax), but I doubt any of the venues playing the films I just mentioned craves your support as much as the ailing video store at the northern end of Little Italy will late tonight. Rarely have the winds of economic and …

- Brandon Harris

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Free Flick Fridays: Hair

3 July 2009 4:00 AM, PDT | TribecaFilm.com | See recent Tribeca Film news »

Hair Dir. Milos Forman (1979) Congratulations to 'Hair' for winning the Best Musical Revival at the 2009 Tony Awards! The original 'rock-musical' made its Broadway debut in 1968, yet its political and social messages ring as true today as they did back then. Brimming with youthful exuberance and idealism (and some really fabulous music), it is a classic not to be missed. Of course, Broadway tickets are not cheap or easy to get; as an alternative, we present the 1979 film version as our pick of the day. With a stellar cast that includes John Savage and Beverly D'Angelo, Hair transcends time, with songs you know and love. Ignore the continual Summer 2009 downpour and 'let the sun shine in' with a movie sure to awaken your internal hippie. Available on Hulu: …

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Milos Forman Says Movie Pirates Are Communists

10 June 2009 8:11 PM, PDT | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »

At today's World Copyright Summit, director Milos Forman (One Flew Over The Cukoo's Nest, Amadeus) blasted individuals who pirate movies via the web, saying they aren't engaging in democratic or capitalistic enterprise. What they're "really doing is promoting a communist ideology," he said. Forman was the keynote speaker at the summit, which (as the name implies) focuses on protecting creators' rights. Piracy was a huge topic at the event, and Forman blasted the ethos behind it. "Pirates also think everything on the Internet should be free," he said. "But that is like going into a department store or supermarket, and just because you got a shopping basket for free, everything in the basket should be free, too." Ok, that's boilerplate (and quite legit) anti-piracy screed. It's the Communism comment (and the opportunity it affords to mention some of Forman's rarely discussed older movies) that is interesting. After his breakthrough film …

- Russ Fischer

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