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Cannes 2013: ‘Silence’ On the Biz Front
20 May 2013 11:17 PM, PDT | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Cannes—This year’s Cannes saw a deluge of new titles brought onto the market.
But, through Monday afternoon at least, there had not been a deluge of deals snapping them up.
One day before the pre-sales market wound down, with major distributors planning to pack their bags Tuesday, most major U.S. and European sales companies had little to crow about in contrast to previous years where by this time a flurry of activity would have already been announced.
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A L.A. based buyers rep said there was both a lack of quality and “ big mainstream commercial product with guaranteed wide USA theatrical release.”
“Sales are taking longer and have also been scattered: Many movies on the market have sold to most of Asia, Latin America, Germany, Scandinavia and the U.K. but that’s it.” added Constantin’s Martin Moszkowicz. »
- John Hopewell and Rachel Abrams
James Schamus and Andrew Karpen Are Now Co-CEOs of Focus Features
15 May 2013 8:42 AM, PDT | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
James Schamus has signed a new contract as CEO of Focus Features -- but now he has a co-ceo in Andrew Karpen, who has been promoted from his prior role as president. Karpen, who joined Focus in 2003 and became its president in 2006, will continue reporting to Schamus. While both men oversee all aspects of the company, Karpen oversees global business strategy and digital initiatives. In Cannes, Focus Features International will be selling Mike Leigh's next film, an Amy Winehouse documentary, Michael Cuesta's upcoming "Kill the Messenger" and "Black Sea" starring Jude Law. Another Ffi title, "The Last Days on Mars, starring Liev Schreiber and Olivia Williams, will premiere in the Directors' Fortnight. »
- Indiewire
Focus Promotes Andrew Karpen to Co-ceo
15 May 2013 7:35 AM, PDT | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Focus Features has promoted president Andrew Karpen to co-ceo, and has signed a new multi-year contract with CEO James Schamus.
Karpen has served as president of Focus since 2006 and joined the company in 2003. For the past seven years, he has overseen the global business strategy and will continue to spearhead digital initiatives.
Karpen will continue to report to Schamus, but both men will now run all aspects of Focus, which Schamus co-founded with David Linde in 2002 (Linde now runs Lava Bear Films).
Focus is revving up for Cannes, where the international sales and distribution prexy will be repping Jeremy Renner-toplined “Kill the Messenger” and “Black Sea” starring Jude Law. Other Focus Features International titles include Mike Leigh’s pic about watercolorist J.M.W. Turner and an Amy Winehouse docu directed by Asif Kapadia.
Focus plans to unspool true life dramatic thriller “Kill the Messenger” next year and has »
- Rachel Abrams
European Petition to Exclude Film From U.S. Free-Trade Talks Reaches 5,000 Supporters
14 May 2013 10:16 AM, PDT | The Hollywood Reporter | See recent The Hollywood Reporter news »
Cannes - More than 5,000 directors, writers, technicians, producers, distributors, exhibitors across Europe have backed efforts to take film funding off the table in upcoming free-trade negotiations between the U.S. and the European Union, organizers of a petition said Tuesday. In Europe, the movie industry is heavily subsidized. Most films rely on forms of national or regional financial support. Story: European Film Academy Wants Movies Excluded From U.S. Free-Trade Talks Dozens of leading European filmmakers, including Michael Haneke, Mike Leigh, Michel Hayanavicius, Aki Kaurismaki, Stephen Frears and Pedro Almodovar, as well as international directors that rely
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- Georg Szalai
Belfast-set thriller The Fall joins the few dramas to tackle the Troubles
14 May 2013 7:02 AM, PDT | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
Throughout the 30 years of the Troubles – and even after – TV was reluctant to explore the divisions of Northern Ireland. Can the new BBC2 crime drama face up to the issues?
In The Fall, which began on Monday night, Gillian Anderson, displaying her Streepian facility with accents, plays an English detective from the Metropolitan police who is sent to review an unsolved murder investigation in Belfast. And Alan Cubbitt's five-part thriller marks the latest phase in one of the most historically fraught issues in British broadcasting: the question of how Northern Ireland should be depicted on screen.
At various times in its history, it has been a piece of luck for the BBC to be generally known by its initials rather than the full trading name: the British Broadcasting Corporation. A current problem, for example, is what it means to be an officially British broadcaster in an era of increased independence for Scotland, »
- Mark Lawson
My inspiration for The Liability: Cohen and Tate and its brilliant screenwriter
14 May 2013 4:44 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
A British hitman movie, starring Tim Roth, owes a debt to a little-known 1980s Us noir thriller, superbly crafted by Eric Red, which deserves to be better known
Twenty years ago, when I first started reading credits of movies I loved to see who'd written the screenplay, one name leapt out at me: Eric Red. In the space of three years in the late 1980s he wrote the terrifying Rutger Hauer road movie The Hitcher and two brilliant genre movies for a young director called Kathryn Bigelow: the trailer-trash vampire movie Near Dark, and Blue Steel, a feminist cop movie with Jamie Lee Curtis as a rookie up against an amorous serial killer. The first two of those have gone on to become bona fide cult classics. But Red remains little known – as does the film of his I really loved, one he wrote and directed in 1988, Cohen and Tate. »
Family Tree Review: “The Box” (Season 1, Episode 1)
13 May 2013 3:28 AM, PDT | We Got This Covered | See recent We Got This Covered news »
Alright, let’s get this party started. “Why would you consider?,” you may ask. Well, anything created by Christopher Guest (This is Spinal Tab) and starring The It Crowd’s Chris O’Dowd is widely considered to be a party. Alright, fine, maybe not “widely” considered, but being a fan of both, it’s definitely a party to me. The Irish comedian is an up-and-coming star, who is currently getting some decent roles in Hollywood flicks (most notably in Bridesmaids) and will hopefully establish himself as a solid leading man in the future. He truly deserves it. Nevertheless, the character he plays wasn’t even the funniest character in the series premiere of Family Tree, which is Guest’s newest mockumentary. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the director’s work, he’s well-known for writing outlines instead of screenplays and letting his actors improvise the dialogue — think »
- Paulo Lazo
“Sightseers” will tow you right into the dark heart of love
9 May 2013 6:53 PM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
Directed by Ben Wheatley
Written by Steve Oram, Alice Lowe & Ben Wheatley (with additional material from Amy Jump)
2012, UK
Either Ben Wheatley is a boiling pot of pent-up rage, or he is the complete opposite and thus finds perverse pleasure in humouring the rage fantasies and violent tendencies of the frustrated working-class white English male. Even last year’s grit-fest, Kill List, is not entirely void of something approximating humour, even at its bleakest, blackest moments. But with this his third narrative feature, humour takes centre stage and everything springs forth from and brings forth comedy: the gory violence, the psychotic romance, the meat-and-potatoes relationship drama, the deranged road trip through northern England with a caravan in tow.
Thirty-something Tina (Alice Lowe) lives with her possessive, borderline personality mother in a house filled with countless photographs and sketches of their beloved deceased terrier Poppy, whose death by knitting needle »
- Tope
'Sightseers' Director Ben Wheatley Discusses His Black Comedy and Asks Marvel to "Phone me up!"
9 May 2013 10:06 AM, PDT | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
Acclaimed British helmer Ben Wheatley is back in theaters this Friday after terrifying audiences last year with the sinister "Kill List," with a decidedly different film that's still no less twisted. Unlike "Kill List," his new effort "Sightseers" is a laugh-riot, albeit an extremely dark one. The film, which premiered in Cannes this time last year, follows a young couple (Alice Lowe and Steve Oram -- both of who also collaborated on the screenplay) on a holiday through the British Isles who murder anyone that rub them the wrong way -- that includes litterers. Think of it as "Serial Mom," filtered through a Mike Leigh lens. Indiewire called up Wheatley to discuss the macabre comedy and his upcoming gonzo period film "A Field in England," and find out whether he'd ever go down the Marvel route if the studio were to call. IFC opens "Sightseers" in select theaters May 10. It »
- Nigel M Smith
'Sightseers' Director Ben Wheatley Discusses His Black Comedy and Asks Marvel to "Phone me up!"
9 May 2013 10:06 AM, PDT | Indiewire Television | See recent Indiewire Television news »
Acclaimed British helmer Ben Wheatley is back in theaters this Friday after terrifying audiences last year with the sinister "Kill List," with a decidedly different film that's still no less twisted. Unlike "Kill List," his new effort "Sightseers" is a laugh-riot, albeit an extremely dark one. The film, which premiered in Cannes this time last year, follows a young couple (Alice Lowe and Steve Oram -- both of who also collaborated on the screenplay) on a holiday through the British Isles who murder anyone that rub them the wrong way -- that includes litterers. Think of it as "Serial Mom," filtered through a Mike Leigh lens. Indiewire called up Wheatley to discuss the macabre comedy and his upcoming gonzo period film "A Field in England," and find out whether he'd ever go down the Marvel route if the studio were to call. IFC opens "Sightseers" in select theaters May 10. It »
- Nigel M Smith
Movie News - Ugly Roles for Eva Mendes?
7 May 2013 8:55 AM, PDT | National Ledger | See recent National Ledger news »
Movie News - Ugly roles for Eva Mendes? The beautiful actress may drive men wild with her exotic looks, but she says she has a secret for landing the ugly roles - look a little rough around the edges. The sultry star is known as one of the sexiest women in the world, but she has made a conscious decision to try and appear as raw and unattractive as possible on screen in a bid to land more gritty and interesting roles. She told The Guardian newspaper: ''I just made a decision. I said, 'I am not working with the Mike Leigh's of the world and I want to. When it comes to being an actress I actually really love coming from a very raw place. ''Any opportunity I get to not wear make-up on set, I take. I really don't care about looking beautiful in a film unless »
Is European cinema under threat at trade talks?
6 May 2013 4:00 PM, PDT | eyeforfilm.co.uk | See recent eyeforfilm.co.uk news »
With European-us trade talks expected to start in late June or July, a group of directors has come together to protest the removal of the Cultural Exception that protected European cinema. Led by Michael Haneke, the list includes such luminaries as Bela Tarr, Aki Kaurismäki, Catherine Breillat, Bertrand Tavernier, Pedro Almodovar, Jane Campion and David Lynch. British signatories such as Mike Leigh, Ken Loach and Stephen Frears share concerns that, if film is treated like any other commodity, the diversiy of European cinema will be lost, with potentially devastating cultural consequences.
Introduced by the French in 1993, the Cultural Exception was designed to provide special protections for good and services that "encompass values, identity and meanings that go beyond their strictly commercial value." It enables member nations to insist that a certain proportion of films shown in cinemas are native in origin and, in effect, prevents them from being swamped by. »
- Jennie Kermode
In May, Criterion has Men in Hats, Snacks, and Protests
2 May 2013 1:36 AM, PDT | JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news »
If you're a cinephile then you don't mark the coming and going of months by birthdays, holidays, or any of that nonsense, you go by the monthly slate of new releases from the Criterion Collection as they push on in their mission to preserve classic and modern films deemed artistically and culturally deserving of preservation for future generations. For May 2013, Criterion unleashes upon Blu-ray two westerns by Delmer Daves (3:10 to Yuma, Jubal), Haskell Wexler's Medium Cool, Mike Leigh's Life is Sweet, and Jean-Luc Godard's Band of Outsiders. For the full details on each of these Blu-ray releases, just keep reading.
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- Lex Walker
Are actors just puppets?
1 May 2013 7:36 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
With an increasing divide between 'cast' and 'creatives' in productions, how much input can actors have nowadays?
"Acting," said Sir Ralph Richardson, "is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing." Katharine Hepburn was equally dismissive, declaring it "the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four."
If actors themselves have such a low opinion of what they do, perhaps it's not surprising that many argue that acting is a craft, not an art. Watch film actors Colin Firth, Morgan Freeman, Nicolas Cage, Christoph Waltz and others debate the subject here in the first of a series of YouTube videos.
But is acting always merely interpretive? The increasing trend – one borrowed from the Us – in which the "cast" and "creatives" are listed separately in theatre programmes, suggests a »
- Lyn Gardner
Television producer Tony Garnett: 'I'm only interested in love and politics'
28 April 2013 4:05 PM, PDT | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
As the BFI celebrates his 50 years' work, the man behind Cathy Come Home reveals the tragedy that changed his world
Television has treated Tony Garnett well over the past 50 years. He lives in an apartment close to the Ritz Hotel, where Margaret Thatcher died, a far cry from his working class childhood roots in Erdington, Birmingham. His local cafe is Fortnum & Mason, where he wields a silver teapot with aplomb, but he still declares: "I am a revolutionary socialist. I think our society would benefit from fundamental change."
Charming, kindly, but still angry after all these years, Garnett, 77, was a leader of the generation of radical TV creatives who addressed big social and political issues in their influential BBC dramas of the 1960s and 70s. His work is about to be celebrated in a two-month season, Seeing Red, at London's BFI.
The season opens with his explosive dramas for the BBC's Wednesday Play, »
- Maggie Brown
Television producer Tony Garnett: 'I'm only interested in love and politics'
28 April 2013 4:05 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
As the BFI celebrates his 50 years' work, the man behind Cathy Come Home reveals the tragedy that changed his world
Television has treated Tony Garnett well over the past 50 years. He lives in an apartment close to the Ritz Hotel, where Margaret Thatcher died, a far cry from his working class childhood roots in Erdington, Birmingham. His local cafe is Fortnum & Mason, where he wields a silver teapot with aplomb, but he still declares: "I am a revolutionary socialist. I think our society would benefit from fundamental change."
Charming, kindly, but still angry after all these years, Garnett, 77, was a leader of the generation of radical TV creatives who addressed big social and political issues in their influential BBC dramas of the 1960s and 70s. His work is about to be celebrated in a two-month season, Seeing Red, at London's BFI.
The season opens with his explosive dramas for the BBC's Wednesday Play, »
- Maggie Brown
Trailer Trash
27 April 2013 4:07 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
British films start to emerge in the run-up to Cannes, and Sundance makes an uncertain return to London
Out of the Cannes
Following the exclusion of British films from the main competitions at Cannes, a couple of silver linings did appear, with The Arbor director Clio Barnard's follow-up, The Selfish Giant, being picked for Directors' Fortnight and Paul Wright's debut, For Those in Peril, produced by the ever-edgy Warp Films, settling into Critics' Week. In an interview with Cannes boss Thierry Frémaux, it even emerged that he quite fancied Barnard's film for the main competition but couldn't (or wouldn't) nab it back from the Quinzaine selectors. So that's good. Other strong British titles bubbling under – though they won't be at Cannes – include Richard Ayoade's The Double, Jonathan Glazer's Under the Skin, Steve McQueen's Twelve Years a Slave, the latest new Michael Winterbottom movie (there's always »
- Jason Solomons
Focus Adds Marvin Gaye Project To Cannes Slate
26 April 2013 10:48 AM, PDT | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Rounding out its Cannes slate, Focus Features International has come on to handle worldwide sales on director Julien Temple’s unititled Marvin Gaye biopic.
Jesse L. Martin stars as Gaye along with Brendan Gleeson , Vicky Krieps and Dwight Henry. Frederick Bestall of Auric Entertainment Pty. Ltd. and Jimmy De Brabant from Delux Productions are producing.
The film is currently shooting in Luxemburg and Belgium.
Focus announced earlier in the week that it introduce Asif Kapadia’s untitled documentary on the late singer/songwriter Amy Winehouse at Cannes.
The Focus slate at Cannes will also include “Kill the Messenger,” Mike Leigh’s film about painter J.M.W. Turner; Woody Allen’s “Blue Jasmine,” psychological thriller “Oculus,” John Crowley’s “Closed Circuit”; Kevin Macdonald’s thriller “Black Sea” with Jude Law starring; and Ruairi Robinson’s thriller “The Last Days on Mars,” which is world-premiering in the Directors’ Fortnight. »
- Dave McNary
Amy Winehouse Documentary Planned by ‘Senna’ Director
24 April 2013 1:28 PM, PDT | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
“Senna” director Asif Kapadia is developing an untitled documentary on the late singer/songwriter Amy Winehouse with Focus Features introducing the project to buyers at Cannes.
Winehouse died of alcohol poisoning in 2011, five years after rising to international fame with her “Back to Black” album.
“Senna” producer James Gay-Rees will produce through Playmaker Films, Gay-Rees and Kapadia’s new production entity. The film will be co-produced by Universal Music.
“This is an incredibly modern, emotional and relevant film that has the power to capture the zeitgeist and shine a light on the world we live in, in a way that very few films can,” Kapadia and Gay-Rees said. “Amy was a once-in-a-generation talent who captured everyone’s attention; she wrote and sung from the heart and everyone fell under her spell. But tragically Amy seemed to fall apart under the relentless media attention, her troubled relationships, her global success and precarious lifestyle. »
- Dave McNary
Simon Killer - Brady Corbet and Antonio Campos Interview
22 April 2013 5:01 PM, PDT | movies.about.com | See recent About.com Hollywood Movies news »
Filmmaker Antonio Campos (Afterschool) directs one of the most intriguing films of the year with the independent drama, Simon Killer. Brady Corbet, who co-wrote the film with Campos, stars as an American who travels to Paris to try and recover from a break-up. There, he hooks up with a prostitute (Mati Diop) and begins a twisted relationship that ultimately spirals out of control.
In our exclusive interview with writer/director Antonio Campos and writer/actor Brady Corbet (Martha Marcy May Marlene), the Simon Killer creative team discussed their collaborative process and the freedom of working off an outline that allowed for improvisation.
Brady Corbet and Antonio Campos Exclusive Interview
How difficult was it to put this story together and not have the audience automatically judge this guy 10 minutes into the movie?
Antonio Campos: "It was tricky in some ways. We thought all about that. We made sure that when »
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