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Vulture (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
On Wednesday night, the National Arts Club awarded its Medal of Honor in Film to director Ang Lee and his longtime collaborator, Focus Features president James Schamus. It was, the two frankly admitted, probably the only accolade they’d get this year, given critics’ — and audiences’ — tepid reaction to Taking Woodstock , which Lee directed and Schamus wrote. The two of...
Cinematical (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
The Brontes are all the rage for adaptation right now. It's undoubtedly due to Edward and Bella bestowing their favor on Wuthering Heights , and had they chosen Great Expectations , perhaps we'd see Dickens adaptations flinging themselves to the big screen. I love corsets and cravats, so I'm not going to complain, and I'm certainly not going to whine if Cary Fukunaga gets this cast for Jane Eyre ....
ComingSoon.net (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Mia Wasikowska ( Alice in Wonderland ) and Michael Fassbender ( Inglourious Basterds ) are in talks to star in Sin nombre helmer Cary Fukunaga's feature adaptation of Charlotte Bronte's classic novel, Jane Eyre . Variety says the project is a period piece but will play up the gothic elements of the story about Jane (Wasikowska), a demure governess who discovers her surly employer Rochester (Fassbender)...
Mobile Tips Tricks Hacks Cracks Reviews (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
The Nokia N97 Mini is a compact 3G smartphone & it comes with a wide range of smartphone features. And in comparison, the Samsung I8000 Omnia 2 is a gorgeous looking 3G touch screen phone. The Nokia N97 Mini has been designed with a 3.2 inches TFT QVGA touch screen that comes with the ability to display 16.7 million colors at 640 x 360 pixels resolution. Comparatively the display of Samsung I8000...
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
International News: Rights include U.K., Germany, LatAm, Oz, NZ -- Focus Features Intl. has snapped up multi-territory rights to Brit helmer Matthew Vaughn's superhero pic "Kick-Ass."
Double O Section (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Tradecraft: Joe Wright Seeks Some Action The Hollywood Reporter's Heat Vision blog reports that director Joe Wright ( Atonement , Pride & Prejudice ) is looking to direct his first action movie, and he's leaning toward an action/spy script called Hanna . The script, written by Seth Lochhead and David Farr and set up at Focus Features, must be pretty good, because it's attracted some top directors....
Cinematical (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
The director of Atonement, The Soloist, and Pride & Prejudice is jumping into the action pool? That's what The Hollywood Reporter indicates: Director Joe Wright, best known for Oscar-friendly drama, is about to sign on the dotted line to helm Hanna , which THR describes as a La Femme Nikita style project: "The story centers on a 14-year-old Eastern European girl who has been raised by her...
The Screening Log (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Focus Features CEO James Schamus recently announced the studio's release slate for 2010, and right now, he confirmed the releases of six new films, including "Greenberg," "Babies" and "Somewhere." “Next year’s Focus slate follows one of the company’s best years ever – our eighth profitable year in a row since our inception, and the year in which...
Cinematical (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Tethered to reality by only a slender thread, Pirate Radio quickly cuts loose and floats off into its own imaginary layer of the Earth's atmosphere, where only good-hearted, pleasant-thinking, die-hard romantics can survive. Welcome home, Richard Curtis , where have you been? Writer/director Curtis rose to fame on the basis of his screenplay for Four Weddings and a Funeral , featuring an ensemble...
Mobile Marketer (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Focus Features is using Metaio’s new Junaio augmented reality iPhone application to advertise films such as “9” and “Coraline.”
Shooting Down Pictures (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Another video for the Focus Features “Rewatch” series. This one took me a while, as I played a bit with the footage (both original as well as from the film) to tie into some of Laura Muley’s theories about sexual identification in film. But when this work involves watching Ludivine Sagnier semi- or fully nude [...]
Rotten Tomatoes (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
James Schamus might be a workaholic. If it's not enough that he's the head of Focus Features -- the independent imprint of Universal -- he's also an established producer and screenwriter best known for his collaborations with Ang Lee. This week sees the release of the pair's latest, Taking Woodstock, a comedy about a family integral to the birth of the infamous Woodstock concert of 1969. And if that...
Entertainment News - MovieWeb.com (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
The roster includes films by Sofia Coppola, Anton Corbijn, Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden.
AppShopper.com: Price Changes (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
9: The Mobile Game 1.0.0 Category: Games Price: $3.99 -> $0.99 ( iTunes ) Description: ==================================== ON SALE FOR LIMITED TIME ONLY! ==================================== 9: The Mobile Game is a side scrolling action-platformer game based on the animated epic adventure film 9. Designed to be a side story that parallels the movie, you will assume the role of the nine stitchpunk...
RopeofSilicon: Latest Headlines (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Philip Seymour Hoffman in Pirate Radio Photo: Focus Features Richard Curtis's Pirate Radio features a collage of misfits played by some of the U.K.'s greatest comedic actors with Philip Seymour Hoffman bringing a taste of America to the story. The story isn't true, but is loosely based on a very real situation in the 1960s when the [...]
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orsola536if | 10/23/2009
HONG KONG – Ang Lee says he's baffled by the poor box office results of "Taking Woodstock" the Oscar-winning director's worst-performing English-language movie in the U.S. in 10 years. The Focus Features comedy, which chronicles the buildup to the 1969 rock 'n' roll gathering that drew half a million fans, had earned $7.4 million in the U.S. as of Monday, according to the box office tracking Web...
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