The Oscar-winning producer and CEO of Voltage Pictures launched into an impassioned attack on IP theft at an industry discussion in Toronto.
Chartier, in Toronto with festival selection A Tale Of Love And Darkness and sales title The Headhunter’s Calling, argued that piracy debilitates filmmakers’ capacity to work on worthwhile projects.
“The more that movies will be pirated, the fewer movies we’ll be making, and the more boring content you’re going to get, because we’re not going to take risks. We’re going to go for the lowest common denominator and we’re going to make movies that for sure will sell.
“Your culture is going to diminish. You’re going to have fewer quality movies because these are the risky ones,” Chartier said during an on-stage conversation with Screen International Us editor Jeremy Kay.
Chartier’s disdain for piracy is well documented. Back in 2010, Voltage Pictures filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against...
Chartier, in Toronto with festival selection A Tale Of Love And Darkness and sales title The Headhunter’s Calling, argued that piracy debilitates filmmakers’ capacity to work on worthwhile projects.
“The more that movies will be pirated, the fewer movies we’ll be making, and the more boring content you’re going to get, because we’re not going to take risks. We’re going to go for the lowest common denominator and we’re going to make movies that for sure will sell.
“Your culture is going to diminish. You’re going to have fewer quality movies because these are the risky ones,” Chartier said during an on-stage conversation with Screen International Us editor Jeremy Kay.
Chartier’s disdain for piracy is well documented. Back in 2010, Voltage Pictures filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against...
- 9/13/2015
- ScreenDaily
'Emmanuelle' movies producer Alain Siritzky dead at 72 (photo: Sylvia Kristel in 'Emmanuelle' 1974) Emmanuelle franchise producer Alain Siritzky died after what has been described as "a short illness" on Saturday, October 11, 2014, at a Paris hospital. Siritzky, whose credits include dozens of Emmanuelle movies and direct-to-video efforts, several of which starring Sylvia Kristel in the title role, was 72. Ironically, Alain Siritzky didn't produce the original, epoch-making 1974 Emmanuelle. He became involved in that Yves Rousset-Rouard production via his Parafrance Films, which distributed Emmanuelle in France. 'Emmanuelle': 1974 movie sensation A couple of years after the release of Deep Throat and The Devil in Miss Jones (not to mention Boys in the Sand and Eyes of a Stranger), and the year after Marlon Brando and Maria Schneider sparked a furor by having simulated sex in Bernardo Bertolucci's Last Tango in Paris, the 1974 French release Emmanuelle still managed to become a worldwide cause célèbre.
- 10/15/2014
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Alain Siritzky, best known for producing the Emmanuelle series of erotic films, died Saturday in a Paris hospital after a short illness, his family told The Hollywood Reporter. He was 72. In the early 1970s, Siritzky acquired the audiovisual rights to the popular 1959 novel Emmanuelle by Frenchwoman Emmanuelle Arsan. He then distributed Emmanuelle (1974), which starred Dutch actress and model Sylvia Kristel as the promiscuous wife of a French diplomat. See more Hollywood's Notable Deaths of 2014 The “soft-core” movie, filmed in Bangkok, was an immediate sensation in France and would play on the Champs Elysees for 13
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- 10/14/2014
- by Mike Barnes, George Szalai
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Before there was such horror spoofs as Scary Movie starring Anna Faris. Before there was such self referential horror films such as Scream from director Wes Craven. After there was Student Bodies. There was Rolfe Kanefsky's independent horror spoof of "There's Nothing Out There". There's Nothing Out There arrives to DVD today in a 20th Anniversary Edition courtesy of Troma Team Video. There's Nothing Out There went virtually ignored when it first came out, but over the years this trend setting film has went on to find an audience with multiple DVD and video releases over the years. There's Nothing Out There is a criminally underrated film that is still attracting a slow, but surely following. What was especially noteworthy about There's Nothing Out There was the fact that it featured a character who had seen every horror film there was out there and realizes that the actions that...
- 1/11/2011
- by Big Daddy aka Brandon Sites
- Big Daddy Horror Reviews - Interviews
Kathryn Bigelow and co gave him a loving shout-out on Sunday evening as they picked up the Academy Award for best picture; Chartier delivered his own acceptance speech from Malibu yesterday. But who is the man Oscar stopped at the door?
Nicolas Chartier, the Academy Award-winning producer of The Hurt Locker, was a 20-year-old janitor at Disneyland in Paris when he sold his first screenplay to a Us film producer. It didn't get made, but it paid enough to buy a one-way ticket to Los Angeles. He scraped a living writing soft-core porn for cable TV, then become a foreign sales agent.
Fast-forward 16 years. On Sunday night, Chartier should have completed his unlikely ascent into the Hollywood aristocracy by climbing onstage to accept his Oscar alongside Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal and Greg Shapiro.
Except the Frenchman wasn't allowed in the building. Instead he was watching on TV at party in Malibu,...
Nicolas Chartier, the Academy Award-winning producer of The Hurt Locker, was a 20-year-old janitor at Disneyland in Paris when he sold his first screenplay to a Us film producer. It didn't get made, but it paid enough to buy a one-way ticket to Los Angeles. He scraped a living writing soft-core porn for cable TV, then become a foreign sales agent.
Fast-forward 16 years. On Sunday night, Chartier should have completed his unlikely ascent into the Hollywood aristocracy by climbing onstage to accept his Oscar alongside Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal and Greg Shapiro.
Except the Frenchman wasn't allowed in the building. Instead he was watching on TV at party in Malibu,...
- 3/9/2010
- by Adam Dawtrey
- The Guardian - Film News
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