Move over Prince Harry, another European royal is getting the feature doc treatment.
Pauline Ducruet, the daughter of Princess Stephanie of Monaco and granddaughter of Grace Kelly, is set to star in a new documentary from Calabasas Films and Media about her glamorous life.
Calabasas Films’ partners Paul Beahan and Kapil Mahendra will produce the doc, which is titled “Forming,” alongside Golden Globe-winner Sandy Climan (“The Aviator”), Nathalia Pizarro and Ducruet.
“Forming” will focus on Ducruet’s fashion brand, a gender fluid and sustainable clothing line inspired by the women of the Monaco royal family, as well as Ducruet – an Olympic diver and 16th in line to the Monaco throne – herself.
After studying styling at the Instituto Marangonis in Paris and fashion design at Parsons School of Design in New York, Ducruet interned at Vogue and Louis Vuitton and in 2019 designed her sister-in-law Marie Chevallier’s wedding dress. Her creations...
Pauline Ducruet, the daughter of Princess Stephanie of Monaco and granddaughter of Grace Kelly, is set to star in a new documentary from Calabasas Films and Media about her glamorous life.
Calabasas Films’ partners Paul Beahan and Kapil Mahendra will produce the doc, which is titled “Forming,” alongside Golden Globe-winner Sandy Climan (“The Aviator”), Nathalia Pizarro and Ducruet.
“Forming” will focus on Ducruet’s fashion brand, a gender fluid and sustainable clothing line inspired by the women of the Monaco royal family, as well as Ducruet – an Olympic diver and 16th in line to the Monaco throne – herself.
After studying styling at the Instituto Marangonis in Paris and fashion design at Parsons School of Design in New York, Ducruet interned at Vogue and Louis Vuitton and in 2019 designed her sister-in-law Marie Chevallier’s wedding dress. Her creations...
- 6/22/2022
- by K.J. Yossman
- Variety Film + TV
The company is partnering with All Nippon Entertainment Works (Anew), Nippon Television and Chris and Paul Weitz’s production company Depth Of Field.
EuropaCorp holds worldwide rights and will join its partners to develop, finance and produce the English-language remake of Takashi Miike’s Japanese thriller and 2013 Cannes competition selection.
Shield Of Straw centres on five police officers tasked with protecting a killer who has been targeted by his victim’s wealthy grandfather.
Olympus Has Fallen and London Has Fallen screenwriters Creighton Rothenberger and Katrin Benedikt are writing the screenplay.
The producer of the original work, Nippon TV’s Naoaki Kitazima, reprises his role alongside Depth Of Field’s Chris Weitz, Andrew Miano and Dan Balgoyen, and Anew CEO Sandy Climan and EuropaCorp.
“We are thrilled at the prospect of bringing the remake of the Japanese thriller Shield Of Straw to American audiences and the worldwide market,” said EuropaCorp president Lisa Ellzey, who made Monday...
EuropaCorp holds worldwide rights and will join its partners to develop, finance and produce the English-language remake of Takashi Miike’s Japanese thriller and 2013 Cannes competition selection.
Shield Of Straw centres on five police officers tasked with protecting a killer who has been targeted by his victim’s wealthy grandfather.
Olympus Has Fallen and London Has Fallen screenwriters Creighton Rothenberger and Katrin Benedikt are writing the screenplay.
The producer of the original work, Nippon TV’s Naoaki Kitazima, reprises his role alongside Depth Of Field’s Chris Weitz, Andrew Miano and Dan Balgoyen, and Anew CEO Sandy Climan and EuropaCorp.
“We are thrilled at the prospect of bringing the remake of the Japanese thriller Shield Of Straw to American audiences and the worldwide market,” said EuropaCorp president Lisa Ellzey, who made Monday...
- 10/24/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Plus: Paul Haggis keynore set for Script To Screen summit in Toronto; Cartagena Film Festival announces 2017 dates; and more…
Ellen Shanman will adapt Tiger & Bunny for Imagine Entertainment, All Nippon Entertainment Works (Anew) and Bandai Namco Pictures.
The live-action English-language feature is based on the Japanese anime series and feature films set in a near-futuristic city where professional superheroes known fight crime.
Shanman is the author of the novels Right Before Your Eyes and Everything Nice, which she adapted for Charlize Theron’s Denver & Delilah Productions.
Brian Grazer, Ron Howard, Anew CEO Sandy Climan and Annmarie Bailey will produce with Masayuki Ozaki on behalf of Bandai Namco Pictures.
Paul Haggis will deliver the keynote address at Winston Baker’s Script To Screen Summit in Toronto on September 9. Panel participants include Telefilm Canada feature film executive Stephanie Azam, ICM Partners head of international and independent film Jessica Lacy, Elevation Pictures head Laurie May, Covert Media founder...
Ellen Shanman will adapt Tiger & Bunny for Imagine Entertainment, All Nippon Entertainment Works (Anew) and Bandai Namco Pictures.
The live-action English-language feature is based on the Japanese anime series and feature films set in a near-futuristic city where professional superheroes known fight crime.
Shanman is the author of the novels Right Before Your Eyes and Everything Nice, which she adapted for Charlize Theron’s Denver & Delilah Productions.
Brian Grazer, Ron Howard, Anew CEO Sandy Climan and Annmarie Bailey will produce with Masayuki Ozaki on behalf of Bandai Namco Pictures.
Paul Haggis will deliver the keynote address at Winston Baker’s Script To Screen Summit in Toronto on September 9. Panel participants include Telefilm Canada feature film executive Stephanie Azam, ICM Partners head of international and independent film Jessica Lacy, Elevation Pictures head Laurie May, Covert Media founder...
- 8/11/2016
- by govi2016@lawnet.ucla.edu (Alec Govi)
- ScreenDaily
Imagine Entertainment, All Nippon Entertainment Works and Bandai Namco Pictures are teaming up to produce an English-language live action adaptation of the hit Japanese anime series "Tiger & Bunny".
Launched in 2011 as both a manga and anime series, the story follows a pair of heroic augmented crime fighters operating in Stern Bild, a near future version of New York City. One is a veteran, the other a rookie and both are initially forced by their employers to work together.
The success of property has seen two feature anime movies and a stage play being produced. Brian Grazer, Ron Howard, Sandy Climan, Annmarie Bailey, and creator Masayuki Ozaki will produce the film.
Source: Variety...
Launched in 2011 as both a manga and anime series, the story follows a pair of heroic augmented crime fighters operating in Stern Bild, a near future version of New York City. One is a veteran, the other a rookie and both are initially forced by their employers to work together.
The success of property has seen two feature anime movies and a stage play being produced. Brian Grazer, Ron Howard, Sandy Climan, Annmarie Bailey, and creator Masayuki Ozaki will produce the film.
Source: Variety...
- 10/9/2015
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
The Hollywood and Japanese producers are joining forces on a live action, English-language version of the hit anime TV series.
Imagine Entertainment is partnering with Tokyo- and Hollywood-based All Nippon Entertainment Works (Anew) and Japan’s Bandai Namco Pictures to develop and produce Tiger & Bunny, an English-language live action feature version of the Japanese anime series and movies.
The film is being produced by Imagine’s Brian Grazer and Ron Howard, Anew’s Sandy Climan and Annmarie Bailey, and, for Bandai Namco, Masayuki Ozaki. Ozaki produced the original Japanese Tiger & Bunny brand for anime studio Sunrise, from which Bandai Namco was spun off earlier this year.
With characters designed by manga artist Masakazu Katsura, Tiger & Bunny first appearedin Japan in 2011 as a late night TV series. Two animated features films followed in 2014. The stories take place in a near-future city where professional superheroes fight crime and old school veteran Tiger is forced to collaborate with cocky rookie...
Imagine Entertainment is partnering with Tokyo- and Hollywood-based All Nippon Entertainment Works (Anew) and Japan’s Bandai Namco Pictures to develop and produce Tiger & Bunny, an English-language live action feature version of the Japanese anime series and movies.
The film is being produced by Imagine’s Brian Grazer and Ron Howard, Anew’s Sandy Climan and Annmarie Bailey, and, for Bandai Namco, Masayuki Ozaki. Ozaki produced the original Japanese Tiger & Bunny brand for anime studio Sunrise, from which Bandai Namco was spun off earlier this year.
With characters designed by manga artist Masakazu Katsura, Tiger & Bunny first appearedin Japan in 2011 as a late night TV series. Two animated features films followed in 2014. The stories take place in a near-future city where professional superheroes fight crime and old school veteran Tiger is forced to collaborate with cocky rookie...
- 10/9/2015
- ScreenDaily
Former Ticketmaster executive Fred Rosen has joined the board of advisors for Prima Cinema, which provides those with home screening rooms the opportunity to watch films on opening night, The Hollywood Reporter has learned exclusively. Rosen will consult on content agreements, as well as the company's business and marketing activities. “Fred’s unique ideas and expertise in service and technology will be a tremendous addition to Prima Cinema’s Board of Advisors,” said Prima Cinema CEO Jason Pang. Rosen joins Sid Ganis, Peter Farrelly, former Twentieth Century Fox executive vp Ira Rubenstein, Tk Theaters founder Theo Kalomirakis, Sandy Climan and Lauren
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- 8/8/2013
- by Philiana Ng
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Guillermo del Toro's next film Pacific Rim is getting a lot of love from the fans these days, and it looks like it inspired Gale Anne Hurd and Valhalla Entertainment to finally move forward on their own giant robot vs. monster movie, a live-action adaptation of Toei Animation's Japanese anime Gaiking. Hurd is currently a producer on The Walking Dead series, and has worked on other films such as Terminator, Aliens, and The Incredible Hulk.
The story follows "a young man who is recruited to serve as the lead pilot for the Super Robot Gaiking. When Earth is threatened by an alien race intent on taking over the planet, he emerges as the only one who can pilot the massive robot. Together with his fellow co-pilots he must fight off the alien force in order to save mankind."
The world doesn't have enough giant robot movies, and I...
The story follows "a young man who is recruited to serve as the lead pilot for the Super Robot Gaiking. When Earth is threatened by an alien race intent on taking over the planet, he emerges as the only one who can pilot the massive robot. Together with his fellow co-pilots he must fight off the alien force in order to save mankind."
The world doesn't have enough giant robot movies, and I...
- 12/19/2012
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
With all of the hype surrounding Guillermo del Toro’s Pacific Rim, it’s no surprise that others are looking at bringing more giant robots to the big screen. After the success various studious have had with comic book adaptations, we’ve been expecting more people to look toward anime properties, and it has been announced that Gale Anne Hurd’s Valhalla Entertainment will be producing a live-action version of Gaiking:
“Gale Anne Hurd’s Valhalla Entertainment (“The Walking Dead”) and Toei Animation have teamed with All Nippon Entertainment Works (Anew) to develop Toei’s iconic anime property Gaiking. This marks a new push for Toei into the U.S. marketplace and the first development deal for Anew.
Gaiking follows a young man who is recruited to serve as the lead pilot for the Super Robot Gaiking. When Earth is threatened by an alien race intent on taking over the planet,...
“Gale Anne Hurd’s Valhalla Entertainment (“The Walking Dead”) and Toei Animation have teamed with All Nippon Entertainment Works (Anew) to develop Toei’s iconic anime property Gaiking. This marks a new push for Toei into the U.S. marketplace and the first development deal for Anew.
Gaiking follows a young man who is recruited to serve as the lead pilot for the Super Robot Gaiking. When Earth is threatened by an alien race intent on taking over the planet,...
- 12/19/2012
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
Gale Anne Hurd’s Valhalla Entertainment (“The Walking Dead”) and Toei Animation have teamed with All Nippon Entertainment Works to develop Toei’s iconic anime property Gaiking. This marks a new push for Toei into the U.S. marketplace and the first development deal for Anew.
Gaiking follows a young man who is recruited to serve as the lead pilot for the Super Robot Gaiking. When Earth is threatened by an alien race intent on taking over the planet, he emerges as the only one who can pilot the massive robot. Together with his fellow co-pilots he must fight off the alien force in order to save mankind.
“I’m extremely excited to be working on Gaiking,” said Hurd, “which marks a huge step forward in adapting one of the best Japanese IP for a global audience.”
Valhalla Entertainment recently announced their USA Network pilot Horizon for Universal Cable Productions.
Gaiking follows a young man who is recruited to serve as the lead pilot for the Super Robot Gaiking. When Earth is threatened by an alien race intent on taking over the planet, he emerges as the only one who can pilot the massive robot. Together with his fellow co-pilots he must fight off the alien force in order to save mankind.
“I’m extremely excited to be working on Gaiking,” said Hurd, “which marks a huge step forward in adapting one of the best Japanese IP for a global audience.”
Valhalla Entertainment recently announced their USA Network pilot Horizon for Universal Cable Productions.
- 12/19/2012
- by Philip Sticco
- LRMonline.com
Gale Anne Hurd and her Valhalla Entertainment are teaming up with Toei Animation and All Nippon Entertainment Works to develop the giant robot property Gaiking into a feature film. No writer is on board but Hurd will produce the project along with Toei’s Yoshi Ikezawa and Joseph Chou. Sandy Climan, Tim Kwok and Kozo Morishita of Toei Animation are executive producing. Story: USA Orders World War II Sci-Fi Pilot From 'Walking Dead's' Gale Anne Hurd Valhalla’s director of development, Kris Henigman, will oversee development as will Annmarie Bailey of Anew. Gaiking was a short-lived Japanese animated series that
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- 12/19/2012
- by Borys Kit
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
It’s sad enough that Sharon Waxman’s failing entertainment & media website can’t get any traction. But her desperation knows no bounds. A group of six Hollywood moguls are furious that she took their names without their knowledge or permission, put them on a bogus “Advisory Board” for her website’s undersubscribed conferences, then distributed news of this advisory board to the sponsors she was seeking for these confabs. “Board bait,” is how one executive’s disgusted PR rep scorned what Waxman did. After a tipster sent me the Advisory Board’s list for TheWrap.com latest confab, I contacted each exec’s office and asked if they knew they were on the panel. No one knew. Not Sony Pictures Entertainment Chairman/CEO Michael Lynton. Not Warner Bros Television Group President Bruce Rosenblum. Not News Corp Chief Digital Officer Jon Miller. Not Creative Artists Agency Partner Bryan Lourd. Not Relativity Media CEO Ryan Kavanaugh.
- 9/19/2011
- by NIKKI FINKE
- Deadline TV
It’s sad enough that Sharon Waxman’s failing entertainment & media website can’t get any traction. But her desperation knows no bounds. A group of six Hollywood moguls are furious that she took their names without their knowledge or permission, put them on a bogus “Advisory Board” for her website’s undersubscribed conferences, then distributed news of this advisory board to the sponsors she was seeking for these confabs. “Board bait,” is how one executive’s disgusted PR rep scorned what Waxman did. After a tipster sent me the Advisory Board’s list for TheWrap.com latest confab, I contacted each exec’s office and asked if they knew they were on the panel. No one knew. Not Sony Pictures Entertainment Chairman/CEO Michael Lynton. Not Warner Bros Television Group President Bruce Rosenblum. Not News Corp Chief Digital Officer Jon Miller. Not Creative Artists Agency Partner Bryan Lourd. Not Relativity Media CEO Ryan Kavanaugh.
- 9/19/2011
- by NIKKI FINKE
- Deadline Hollywood
iCARLY Duo Jerry Trainor And Jennette McCurdy Star As Brilliant Gamers Set To Compete In The Ultimate Virtual Showdown In Nickelodeon Original TV Movie Best Player, Premiering Saturday, March 12, At 8 P.M. (Et/Pt)
From the Press Release:
Santa Monica, Calif., Feb. 23, 2011 – Jerry Trainor and Jennette McCurdy, stars of the mega-hit comedy series iCarly, go head-to-head as video game rivals in Nickelodeon’s brand-new original TV movie, Best Player, premiering Saturday, March 12, at 8 p.m. (Et/Pt). The two-hour, primetime movie follows Quincy (Jerry Trainor) and Chris (Jennette McCurdy), two online video game junkies who inadvertently learn that the real world can be just as exciting and rewarding as the virtual one.
“Jennette and Jerry bring the same great comedic sensibility to this movie that has endeared them to leagues of iCarly fans,” said Marjorie Cohn, President, Original Programming and Development, Nickelodeon. “Both are hugely talented and versatile actors and...
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Santa Monica, Calif., Feb. 23, 2011 – Jerry Trainor and Jennette McCurdy, stars of the mega-hit comedy series iCarly, go head-to-head as video game rivals in Nickelodeon’s brand-new original TV movie, Best Player, premiering Saturday, March 12, at 8 p.m. (Et/Pt). The two-hour, primetime movie follows Quincy (Jerry Trainor) and Chris (Jennette McCurdy), two online video game junkies who inadvertently learn that the real world can be just as exciting and rewarding as the virtual one.
“Jennette and Jerry bring the same great comedic sensibility to this movie that has endeared them to leagues of iCarly fans,” said Marjorie Cohn, President, Original Programming and Development, Nickelodeon. “Both are hugely talented and versatile actors and...
- 2/23/2011
- by brians
- GeekTyrant
Entertainment industry veteran Sandy Climan is stepping down as CEO of the 3D technnology company 3ality Digital, the company announced on Tuesday.
Climan, who has been CEO for the past four years, will be moving into a strategic advisor role, according to a company news release.
3ality Digital is owned by the Modell family, with David Modell the chairman of the board.
Climan, who has been CEO for the past four years, will be moving into a strategic advisor role, according to a company news release.
3ality Digital is owned by the Modell family, with David Modell the chairman of the board.
- 10/5/2010
- The Wrap
Two weeks after unveiling six new series orders and 16 series renewals at its upfront presentation in New York, Nickelodeon on Wednesday made more programming announcements at its first Los Angeles upfront.
Three movies will be joining the network's lineup this season: "Fred: The Movie," "Boy Who Cried Werewolf" and "Best Player."
-- "Fred" is inspired by the Fred Figglehorn character created by YouTube sensation Lucas Cruikshank. It focuses on Fred (Cruikshank) as he finally succeeds in making it to the house of long-time crush Judy (London native Pixie Lott), only to discover she has moved. He embarks on a journey to find her and hatches a grand scheme that makes him cooler than his classmates could ever imagine.
Jennette McCurdy ("iCarly") and WWE star John Cena co-star. The movie is written by David A. Goodman, directed by Clay Weiner and produced by Brian Robbins and Sharla Sumpter Bridgett of Varsity Pictures...
Three movies will be joining the network's lineup this season: "Fred: The Movie," "Boy Who Cried Werewolf" and "Best Player."
-- "Fred" is inspired by the Fred Figglehorn character created by YouTube sensation Lucas Cruikshank. It focuses on Fred (Cruikshank) as he finally succeeds in making it to the house of long-time crush Judy (London native Pixie Lott), only to discover she has moved. He embarks on a journey to find her and hatches a grand scheme that makes him cooler than his classmates could ever imagine.
Jennette McCurdy ("iCarly") and WWE star John Cena co-star. The movie is written by David A. Goodman, directed by Clay Weiner and produced by Brian Robbins and Sharla Sumpter Bridgett of Varsity Pictures...
- 3/24/2010
- by By Nellie Andreeva
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Caucus for Producers, Writers and Directors bestowed honors during its 27th awards ceremony Sunday at the Beverly Hills Hotel.
Stephen J. Cannell was named producer of the year, with awards also going to director Alex Rudzinski, writer Matt Nix and actor Steve Carell.
Special awards, previously announced, also were presented during the black-tie gala celebrating achievement in the television industry. Honorees included NBC Universal's Angela Bromstad as executive of the year; 3ality Digital toppers Sandy Climan and Steve Schklair, who received the New Visions award; executive producer Frank von Zerneck for lifetime achievement; executive producer Charles Floyd Johnson, who received the chair's award; and producer-writer-director Albert Fisher for distinguished service.
Robert Mandel, dean of the American Film Institute, was presented with a Special Educator Award, and The Hollywood Reporter editor Elizabeth Guider was cited for journalism.
David Hasselhoff hosted the event, which drew more than 300 industry professionals.
Stephen J. Cannell was named producer of the year, with awards also going to director Alex Rudzinski, writer Matt Nix and actor Steve Carell.
Special awards, previously announced, also were presented during the black-tie gala celebrating achievement in the television industry. Honorees included NBC Universal's Angela Bromstad as executive of the year; 3ality Digital toppers Sandy Climan and Steve Schklair, who received the New Visions award; executive producer Frank von Zerneck for lifetime achievement; executive producer Charles Floyd Johnson, who received the chair's award; and producer-writer-director Albert Fisher for distinguished service.
Robert Mandel, dean of the American Film Institute, was presented with a Special Educator Award, and The Hollywood Reporter editor Elizabeth Guider was cited for journalism.
David Hasselhoff hosted the event, which drew more than 300 industry professionals.
- 12/7/2009
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Nickelodeon will begin production in Vancouver, BC this week on its new original TV movie Best Player featuring iCarly's Jerry Trainor and Jennette McCurdy. Set to bow on the network in 2010, the movie revolves around two cyber athletes that inadvertently discover life in the real world is as good as in a virtual world. Executive produced by Jessica Horowitz, Lauren Levine and Marjorie Cohn, as well as Sandy Climan and Christine Foy, Best Player is directed by Damon Santostefano.
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- 10/20/2009
- by gwen@cynopsis.com
When U2 performed in South America in 2006 after an eight-year hiatus, they decided to bring some high-tech goodies along with them to mark the occasion.
The resulting souvenir, U2 3D, takes the well-traveled concert film to exhilarating new heights.
Billed as the first digital 3-D, multicamera, real-time production, this feature-length feast for the eyes and ears (thanks to the all-enveloping 5.1 Surround Sound), re-creates the U2 live experience without interruptions by the intrusive, talky backstage filler that seems to have become obligatory in the recorded "live" genre.
Instead, the docu serves up prime U2 in a startlingly rendered, state-of-the-art arena that truly raises the bar for headache-free 3-D technology.
Previewed last year at the Festival de Cannes in a version that was about a half-hour shorter, the finished edition will ensure both the fans of the band and the high-tech geeks will find what they are looking for when it follows its Jan. 19 Sundance screening with a limited release through National Geographic Entertainment starting Jan. 23, exclusively in 3-D digital and Imax theaters.
From the opening one-two punch of Vertigo and "It's a Beautiful Day," both the band and directors Catherine Owens and Mark Pellington effectively set the elevating tone.
Blending together performances from Vertigo Tour stops in Buenos Aires and Sao Paulo as well as Mexico City and Santiago, the filmmakers succeed in ripping down that wall between and stage and the audience, and, in the process, create a team atmosphere that's perfectly in keeping with the band's "we're all in this together" philosophy.
Even with those sky-high Jumbotron screens and those fully dimensional mike stands that appear to take on a life of their own here, the mood is remarkably intimate.
Co-directors Pellington (before he became a feature director, he helmed U2's "One" video) and Owens are careful not to overplay the 3-D card -- utilizing advanced technology developed by 3ality Digital -- too early in the game.
They reserve the best effect for what is arguably the film's centerpiece, in which the band's early hit, Sunday, Bloody Sunday becomes an impassioned prayer for world peace with Bono (in fine vocal form) extending an outstretched arm over the crowd and, seemingly, through the screen, hovering right in front of the theater viewer in a plea for Christians, Jews and Muslims to put aside their differences.
In lesser hands, what might have come across as overly theatrical, packs a quietly potent impact.
Somehow, after experiencing U2 3D, the old iPod starts looking a little yellow around the edges.
U2 3D
National Geographic Entertainment
A National Geographic Entertainment presentation of a 3ality Digital production
Credits:
Directors: Catherine Owens, Mark Pellington
Producers: Jon Shapiro, Peter Shapiro, John Modell, Catherine Owens
Executive producers: Sandy Climan, Michael Peyser, David Modell
Director of photography: Tom Krueger
Director of 3D photography: Peter Anderson
Editor: Oliver Wicki
Running time -- 85 minutes
MPAA rating: G...
The resulting souvenir, U2 3D, takes the well-traveled concert film to exhilarating new heights.
Billed as the first digital 3-D, multicamera, real-time production, this feature-length feast for the eyes and ears (thanks to the all-enveloping 5.1 Surround Sound), re-creates the U2 live experience without interruptions by the intrusive, talky backstage filler that seems to have become obligatory in the recorded "live" genre.
Instead, the docu serves up prime U2 in a startlingly rendered, state-of-the-art arena that truly raises the bar for headache-free 3-D technology.
Previewed last year at the Festival de Cannes in a version that was about a half-hour shorter, the finished edition will ensure both the fans of the band and the high-tech geeks will find what they are looking for when it follows its Jan. 19 Sundance screening with a limited release through National Geographic Entertainment starting Jan. 23, exclusively in 3-D digital and Imax theaters.
From the opening one-two punch of Vertigo and "It's a Beautiful Day," both the band and directors Catherine Owens and Mark Pellington effectively set the elevating tone.
Blending together performances from Vertigo Tour stops in Buenos Aires and Sao Paulo as well as Mexico City and Santiago, the filmmakers succeed in ripping down that wall between and stage and the audience, and, in the process, create a team atmosphere that's perfectly in keeping with the band's "we're all in this together" philosophy.
Even with those sky-high Jumbotron screens and those fully dimensional mike stands that appear to take on a life of their own here, the mood is remarkably intimate.
Co-directors Pellington (before he became a feature director, he helmed U2's "One" video) and Owens are careful not to overplay the 3-D card -- utilizing advanced technology developed by 3ality Digital -- too early in the game.
They reserve the best effect for what is arguably the film's centerpiece, in which the band's early hit, Sunday, Bloody Sunday becomes an impassioned prayer for world peace with Bono (in fine vocal form) extending an outstretched arm over the crowd and, seemingly, through the screen, hovering right in front of the theater viewer in a plea for Christians, Jews and Muslims to put aside their differences.
In lesser hands, what might have come across as overly theatrical, packs a quietly potent impact.
Somehow, after experiencing U2 3D, the old iPod starts looking a little yellow around the edges.
U2 3D
National Geographic Entertainment
A National Geographic Entertainment presentation of a 3ality Digital production
Credits:
Directors: Catherine Owens, Mark Pellington
Producers: Jon Shapiro, Peter Shapiro, John Modell, Catherine Owens
Executive producers: Sandy Climan, Michael Peyser, David Modell
Director of photography: Tom Krueger
Director of 3D photography: Peter Anderson
Editor: Oliver Wicki
Running time -- 85 minutes
MPAA rating: G...
Hollywood, perhaps a bit spoiled by easy money in its past, has been teaming with savvy investors who demand more advantageous deal terms before they'll finance movies, and more of that kind of cautious behavior is to be expected, a panel of experts said Tuesday. Sandy Climan, president of Entertainment Media Ventures, joked that in the 1970s dentists were financing films, but nowadays private equity hedge funds are extremely systematic about their investments in film. "They're not looking to put their girlfriend, mistress, child in a movie; they are smart enough to look at it as a business," Climan said at the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills. As such, Climan said, "The sellers' market for talent changed more to a buyers' market with fewer buyers and real budgets that have to be adhered to."...
- 4/26/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
A producer of The Aviator credited with persuading Leonardo DiCaprio to play Howard Hughes has been ditched from the Oscar nominations because of over-crowding. Charles Evans Jr., who claims the biopic of the eccentric maverick was his brainchild, has been dumped as a producer for the Best Picture award at this year's Academy Awards because of a limit imposed on the number of nominees. Only two of The Aviator's four producers - Michael Mann and Graham King - are now in the running to receive a statuette. Up to three producers can be nominated per film, but The Aviator and Million Dollar Baby failed to trim their credits so the Academy Of Motion Pictures Arts And Sciences (Ampas) has had to be ruthless, and decided to axe both Evans Jr. and Mann's former deputy Sandy Climan. Evans Jr. sued Mann in 2001 claiming he was excluded from the project after coming up with the original idea and convincing DiCaprio to take the lead role. The case was settled out of court and Evans was named as a producer.
- 2/8/2005
- WENN
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, whose rules allow no more than three producers to take the stage to accept a best picture Oscar, has issued a list of the producers eligible to accept this year's award. Three of the nominated films had more credited producers than available slots. In the case of The Aviator, which lists 18 individuals who served in capacities that ranged from co-producer to executive producer, the Academy ruled in favor of Michael Mann, who initially developed the project, and Initial Entertainment Group CEO Graham King, who raised the foreign financing, among other roles. The two credited producers who failed to win the Academy's approval are Charles Evans Jr. and Sandy Climan. For Million Dollar Baby, which lists seven producers and exec producers, the Academy opted to recognize Clint Eastwood, Albert S. Ruddy and Tom Rosenberg, omitting the name of Paul Haggis, who served as both producer and screenwriter.
After years of being relegated to small-screen renderings ("The Amazing Howard Hughes") or quirky supporting roles ("Melvin and Howard"), the inimitable billionaire industrialist finally has been provided with a canvas expansive enough to contain his numerous larger-than-life personae courtesy of Martin Scorsese and "The Aviator".
Working with many of his previous collaborators, Scorsese has crafted a rip-roaringly gorgeous-looking, beautifully acted biographical epic that is certain to garner Oscar nominations across the board.
But while firing on all cylinders, there's something oddly distancing about the picture that ultimately prevents the viewer from being taken along on its emotionally turbulent journey.
Still, if we have to be content to wave admiringly from the sidelines, there's an embarrassment of cinematic riches to appreciate, and Miramax should have little problem translating the inevitable awards season goodwill (Warner Bros. is handling the film internationally) into highflying numbers.
Long before Donald Trump, Richard Branson and reality TV, there was the man who wrote the book on driven, compelling billionaire businessmen, and Leonardo DiCaprio nails his subject with an assured bravado and focused energy. It's the actor's most accomplished turn to date and easily quells skeptics' worries that he wasn't the right man for the part.
Following a brief but character-defining childhood prologue, the script by John Logan ("Gladiator") dives right into the filming of "Hell's Angels" in the late 1920s, the costly aerial epic the naively ambitious heir financed with earnings from the family company, Hughes Tool.
The picture would make Hughes, barely in his mid-20s, a celebrity who would often be spotted courting glamour girls at the famed Cocoanut Grove nightclub. But despite counting Katharine Hepburn (a perfectly pitched Cate Blanchett) and Ava Gardner (a similarly adept Kate Beckinsale) among his steady supply of amorous interests, none would be able to compete with Hughes' one true love -- aviation.
Given that Scorsese is known for a lifelong fear of flying, the director (who took on the project after Michael Mann stepped down) throws irony to the wind, and, introducing some impressive digital effects work late in his career, delivers a series of spectacular sequences, from recreations of that "Hell's Angels" footage to Hughes' devastating plane crash into a Beverly Hills neighborhood.
Despite all those lofty events, which are propelled along with the help of newsreel audio, Scorsese and Logan manage to keep the storytelling grounded, moving some events around when necessary to incorporate Hughes' disturbing behavior as it progressed above and beyond mere eccentricity.
With the exception of some of those later scenes in which he physically fails to appear convincing as a man in his 40s, DiCaprio turns in a robust, fully realized performance.
Aside from Blanchett and Beckinsale, there also are colorful turns by Alec Baldwin as Hughes' rival, Pan Am visionary Juan Trippe; Alan Alda as Hughes' adversary, Sen. Owen Brewster; and the always reliable John C. Reilly as his loyal if beleaguered right-hand man, Noah Dietrich.
Technical attributes abound, from Robert Richardson's dazzling, Technicolor-approximated cinematography to Dante Ferretti's lavish production design to Sandy Powell's stellar costumes and Howard Shore's rich but never intrusive score, all impeccably strung together by Scorsese's longtime collaborator, editor Thelma Schoonmaker.
The Aviator
Miramax
Warner Bros. Pictures and Miramax Films present
a Forward Pass Inc./Initial Entertainment Group production
A Martin Scorsese picture
Credits:
Director: Martin Scorsese
Producers: Michael Mann, Sandy Climan, Graham King, Charles Evans Jr.
Executive producer: Chris Brigham
Screenwriter: John Logan
Director of photography: Robert Richardson
Production designer: Dante Ferretti
Costume designer: Sandy Powell
Editor: Thelma Schoonmaker
Music: Howard Shore
Cast:
Howard Hughes: Leonardo DiCaprio
Katharine Hepburn: Cate Blanchett
Noah Dietrich: John C. Reilly
Juan Trippe: Alec Baldwin
Ava Gardner: Kate Beckinsale
Errol Flynn: Jude Law
Glenn Odekirk: Matt Ross
Johnny Meyer: Adam Scott
Jean Harlow: Gwen Stefani
Professor Fitz: Ian Holm
Jack Frye: Danny Huston
Sen. Owen Brewster: Alan Alda
Faith Domergue: Kelli Gardner
MPAA rating: PG-13
Running time -- 169 minutes...
Working with many of his previous collaborators, Scorsese has crafted a rip-roaringly gorgeous-looking, beautifully acted biographical epic that is certain to garner Oscar nominations across the board.
But while firing on all cylinders, there's something oddly distancing about the picture that ultimately prevents the viewer from being taken along on its emotionally turbulent journey.
Still, if we have to be content to wave admiringly from the sidelines, there's an embarrassment of cinematic riches to appreciate, and Miramax should have little problem translating the inevitable awards season goodwill (Warner Bros. is handling the film internationally) into highflying numbers.
Long before Donald Trump, Richard Branson and reality TV, there was the man who wrote the book on driven, compelling billionaire businessmen, and Leonardo DiCaprio nails his subject with an assured bravado and focused energy. It's the actor's most accomplished turn to date and easily quells skeptics' worries that he wasn't the right man for the part.
Following a brief but character-defining childhood prologue, the script by John Logan ("Gladiator") dives right into the filming of "Hell's Angels" in the late 1920s, the costly aerial epic the naively ambitious heir financed with earnings from the family company, Hughes Tool.
The picture would make Hughes, barely in his mid-20s, a celebrity who would often be spotted courting glamour girls at the famed Cocoanut Grove nightclub. But despite counting Katharine Hepburn (a perfectly pitched Cate Blanchett) and Ava Gardner (a similarly adept Kate Beckinsale) among his steady supply of amorous interests, none would be able to compete with Hughes' one true love -- aviation.
Given that Scorsese is known for a lifelong fear of flying, the director (who took on the project after Michael Mann stepped down) throws irony to the wind, and, introducing some impressive digital effects work late in his career, delivers a series of spectacular sequences, from recreations of that "Hell's Angels" footage to Hughes' devastating plane crash into a Beverly Hills neighborhood.
Despite all those lofty events, which are propelled along with the help of newsreel audio, Scorsese and Logan manage to keep the storytelling grounded, moving some events around when necessary to incorporate Hughes' disturbing behavior as it progressed above and beyond mere eccentricity.
With the exception of some of those later scenes in which he physically fails to appear convincing as a man in his 40s, DiCaprio turns in a robust, fully realized performance.
Aside from Blanchett and Beckinsale, there also are colorful turns by Alec Baldwin as Hughes' rival, Pan Am visionary Juan Trippe; Alan Alda as Hughes' adversary, Sen. Owen Brewster; and the always reliable John C. Reilly as his loyal if beleaguered right-hand man, Noah Dietrich.
Technical attributes abound, from Robert Richardson's dazzling, Technicolor-approximated cinematography to Dante Ferretti's lavish production design to Sandy Powell's stellar costumes and Howard Shore's rich but never intrusive score, all impeccably strung together by Scorsese's longtime collaborator, editor Thelma Schoonmaker.
The Aviator
Miramax
Warner Bros. Pictures and Miramax Films present
a Forward Pass Inc./Initial Entertainment Group production
A Martin Scorsese picture
Credits:
Director: Martin Scorsese
Producers: Michael Mann, Sandy Climan, Graham King, Charles Evans Jr.
Executive producer: Chris Brigham
Screenwriter: John Logan
Director of photography: Robert Richardson
Production designer: Dante Ferretti
Costume designer: Sandy Powell
Editor: Thelma Schoonmaker
Music: Howard Shore
Cast:
Howard Hughes: Leonardo DiCaprio
Katharine Hepburn: Cate Blanchett
Noah Dietrich: John C. Reilly
Juan Trippe: Alec Baldwin
Ava Gardner: Kate Beckinsale
Errol Flynn: Jude Law
Glenn Odekirk: Matt Ross
Johnny Meyer: Adam Scott
Jean Harlow: Gwen Stefani
Professor Fitz: Ian Holm
Jack Frye: Danny Huston
Sen. Owen Brewster: Alan Alda
Faith Domergue: Kelli Gardner
MPAA rating: PG-13
Running time -- 169 minutes...
- 12/30/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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