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King of cool
5 December 2009 4:05 PM, PST
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Jacques Audiard's new prison thriller is the most stylish film to come out of Europe for years, following up on the promise of his previous movies Read My Lips and The Beat that My Heart Skipped and confirming his place among the greats of French cinema. Jason Solomons talks to a director who wants his audience to fly with him
Jacques Audiard wears a hat. It's a trilby that, the 57-year-old director says, keeps him warm in the winter and cool in the summer. He was wearing it in the heat of Cannes last May when I first met him, on a blazing roof terrace; and he's wearing it again today, in London, on an autumnal Monday when I catch him smoking his pipe outside the hotel where we're due to meet.
With horn-rimmed glasses, smart jacket and a cravat, he looks a bit like an English gentleman, a
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- Jason Solomons
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Nimród Antal Gushes Over His Armored Cast
2 December 2009 9:11 AM, PST
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Nimród Antal 's latest movie, Armored, boasts an impressive cast for a relatively unknown director. Antal was born in Los Angeles, but he got his start working on movies in Hungary. His Hungarian movie Kontroll, which he wrote as well as directed, earned him international acclaim and the directing gig for Screen Gems' Vacancy, his first American movie.
Armored is Antal's second movie for Screen Gems, and he recently told Coming Soon that he accepted the job without a cast attached. Because of this, Antal was initially star struck by the talent assembled for Armored.
I can't speak for their reasons [for starring in the movie], but Matt Dillon ... to me Drugstore Cowboy was a huge movie for me when I was a young guy ... or a younger guy, and obviously, from all the Luc Besson films, Jean Reno was ... I mean, La Femme Nikita, when he shows up as the cleaner, that's forever embedded in my mind.
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- BrentJS Sprecher
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Joe Wright to Tackle Action With 'Hanna'
17 November 2009 3:15 PM, PST
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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 father to be a cold-blooded killing machine. She connects with a French family, forms a friendship with their daughter and goes through the pangs of adolescence. When the girl is dragged back to her father's world and discovers that she was bred as a killing machine in a CIA prison camp, she must fight her way to a free life."
Sounds to me like a fairly conventional, rather familiar tale -- so then why were Danny Boyle and Alfonso Cuaron both (briefly) attached to the project?
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- Scott Weinberg
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And Now For Something Completely Different: Joe Wright Directs Hanna
17 November 2009 3:33 AM, PST
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Joe Wright has earned a reputation for directing films like Atonement and Pride & Prejudice, but after his latest production Indian Summer with Cate Blanchett fell into budgetary disarray, he decided to halt the production and jump ship to an action film, the assassin flick Hanna. Heat Vision has the details:
The project has garnered considerable attention in director circles since getting set up at Focus in 2007, with Danny Boyle kicking its tires as a directing vehicle at one point and Alfonso Cuaron circling it in recent weeks.
The project is described as having shades of “La Femme Nikita” and the “Bourne” movies. The story centers on a 14-year-old Eastern European girl who has been raised by her father to be a cold-blooded killing machine. She connects with a French family, forms a friendship with their daughter and goes through the pangs of adolescence. When the girl is dragged back to
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- Jacob
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Joe Wright Trains a Teen Girl Assassin in ‘Hanna’
17 November 2009 1:23 AM, PST
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Concepts that will always stop me in my tracks: when a visually compelling director (in this case, Atonement's Joe Wright) takes on a project that is being described as having shades of La Femme Nikita and the Bourne movies.
That is how Borys Kit at Heat Vision is describing Hanna, the next project for Wright. It is a project that has been kicked around by several directors since it was set up at Focus Features in 2007, including Danny Boyle and more recently, Children of Men director Alfonso Cuaron. The story revolves aroudn a 14-year old Eastern European girl who has been raised by her father to be a cold-blooded killing machine. She connects with a French family, forms a friendship with their daughter and begins going through the norms of adolescence. But when she is dragged back into her fathers world, she discovers that she was bred as a killing machine in a CIA prison camp
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- Neil Miller
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Joe Wright to Direct New Action-Adventure Thriller 'Hanna'
17 November 2009 12:12 AM, PST
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Director Joe Wright is switching genres once again. Heat Vision announces that Joe Wright is in talks to direct Focus Features' new action-adventure thriller titled Hanna. Wright last directed The Soloist as well as Atonement and Pride & Prejudice before that. Hanna is described as similar in tone to La Femme Nikita as well as the ever-popular Bourne movies. Newcomer Seth Lochhead wrote the script that was also revised by David Farr (of BBC's "Mi-5" series). This will be Wright's very next project, not the originally slated adaptation of Indian Summer, which was put on hold due to rising budget concerns. Read on for the plot.
The story in Hanna centers on a 14-year-old Eastern European girl who has been raised by her father to be a cold-blooded killing machine. She connects with a French family, forms a friendship with their daughter and goes through the pangs of adolescence. When
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- Alex Billington
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Atonement Director Joe Wright Raises 14-Year-Old Girl/Killing Machine for Hanna
17 November 2009 12:00 AM, PST
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Director Joe Wright has developed some serious cred when it comes to dramas with Pride & Prejudice, Atonement, and this past April’s The Soloist. However, none of those films had a fourteen year old girl killing lots of people, although I certainly wanted lots of people to kill the fourteen year old girl in Atonement (not the actress, but the character). Wright will throw a serious change-up into his filmography with Hanna, an action-adventure film described as a mix of La Femme Nikita and the Bourne films*. However, the protagonist’s nationality is more Nikita and the people she’s fighting look more like Jason Bourne. Hit the jump for more details.
Wright was originally slated to direct the period drama Indian Summer, starring Cate Blanchett. However, as the budget ballooned and the filmmakers realized that period dramas aren’t exactly smash hits at the box office, they put the project on hold.
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- Matt Goldberg
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Joe Wright Raising Hanna
16 November 2009 7:42 PM, PST
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Atonement director Joe Wright is in negotiations for Focus Features' action-adventure thriller Hanna, which has had Danny Boyle and Alfonso Cuaron circling it in recent weeks.
Heat Vision describes the project as La Femme Nikita meets Jason Bourne. The story centers on a 14-year-old Eastern European girl who has been raised by her father to be a cold-blooded killing machine. She connects with a French family, forms a friendship with their daughter and goes through the pangs of adolescence. When the girl is dragged back to her father's world and discovers that she was bred as a killing machine in a CIA prison camp, she must fight her way to a free life.
Seth Lochhead and David Farr worked on the script.
No production date has been set.
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10 Most Fascinating 'End of the World' Movies
8 November 2009 4:59 AM, PST
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There are many theories, ideas or should I say 'schools of thought' on how the world would end. At the height of the Cold War, nuclear annihilation ranks at the very top. While others argue it will not be man who will destroy the world (directly) but - an epidemic of global proportions (most probably from a potent strain of virus - think: I am Legend) or severe climactic change (another ice age perhaps? That would be Day After Tommorow right?) or mechanical uprising (The Terminator, anyone?) or even attack from the outside - conquering aliens (Mars Attacks!) or perhaps an asteroid. And let's not forget zombies!
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Inspired by the upcoming release of Roland Emmerich's latest disaster epic 2012, tMF listed down 10 of the most fascinating 'end of the world' movies.
Before looking at the list, you need to know that it's not based
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- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
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10 Most Fascinating 'End of the World' Movies
8 November 2009 4:59 AM, PST
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There are many theories, ideas or should I say 'schools of thought' on how the world would end. At the height of the Cold War, nuclear annihilation ranks at the very top. While others argue it will not be man who will destroy the world (directly) but - an epidemic of global proportions (most probably from a potent strain of virus - think: I am Legend) or severe climactic change (another ice age perhaps? That would be Day After Tommorow right?) or mechanical uprising (The Terminator, anyone?) or even attack from the outside - conquering aliens (Mars Attacks!) or perhaps an asteroid. And let's not forget zombies!
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Inspired by the upcoming release of Roland Emmerich's latest disaster epic 2012, tMF listed down 10 of the most fascinating 'end of the world' movies.
Before looking at the list, you need to know that it's not based
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- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
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10 Most Fascinating 'End of the World' Movies
8 November 2009 4:59 AM, PST
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There are many theories, ideas or should I say 'schools of thought' on how the world would end. At the height of the Cold War, nuclear annihilation ranks at the very top. While others argue it will not be man who will destroy the world (directly) but - an epidemic of global proportions (most probably from a potent strain of virus - think: I am Legend) or severe climactic change (another ice age perhaps? That would be Day After Tommorow right?) or mechanical uprising (The Terminator, anyone?) or even attack from the outside - conquering aliens (Mars Attacks!) or perhaps an asteroid. And let's not forget zombies!
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Inspired by the upcoming release of Roland Emmerich's latest disaster epic 2012, tMF listed down 10 of the most fascinating 'end of the world' movies.
Before looking at the list, you need to know that it's not based
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- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
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10 Most Fascinating 'End of the World' Movies
8 November 2009 4:59 AM, PST
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There are many theories, ideas or should I say 'schools of thought' on how the world would end. At the height of the Cold War, nuclear annihilation ranks at the very top. While others argue it will not be man who will destroy the world (directly) but - an epidemic of global proportions (most probably from a potent strain of virus - think: I am Legend) or severe climactic change (another ice age perhaps? That would be Day After Tommorow right?) or mechanical uprising (The Terminator, anyone?) or even attack from the outside - conquering aliens (Mars Attacks!) or perhaps an asteroid. And let's not forget zombies!
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Inspired by the upcoming release of Roland Emmerich's latest disaster epic 2012, tMF listed down 10 of the most fascinating 'end of the world' movies.
Before looking at the list, you need to know that it's not based
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- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
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10 Most Fascinating 'End of the World' Movies
8 November 2009 4:59 AM, PST
| The Movie Fanatic
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There are many theories, ideas or should I say 'schools of thought' on how the world would end. At the height of the Cold War, nuclear annihilation ranks at the very top. While others argue it will not be man who will destroy the world (directly) but - an epidemic of global proportions (most probably from a potent strain of virus - think: I am Legend) or severe climactic change (another ice age perhaps? That would be Day After Tommorow right?) or mechanical uprising (The Terminator, anyone?) or even attack from the outside - conquering aliens (Mars Attacks!) or perhaps an asteroid. And let's not forget zombies!
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Inspired by the upcoming release of Roland Emmerich's latest disaster epic 2012, tMF listed down 10 of the most fascinating 'end of the world' movies.
Before looking at the list, you need to know that it's not based
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- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
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Is Jean Reno making a comeback? 22 Bullets (L'immortel) suggests so!
5 November 2009 5:55 PM, PST
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Oh hello? Is it possible? Could Jean Reno be making a come back? You know, that Jean Reno, the one that once starred in Nikita, The Professional and Ronin before going on to make a load of films so bad they’re not even worth mentioning.
It looks like there is light at the end of a very long and dark tunnel. Reno is signed on to star in 22 Bullets (L'Immortel) an actioner being directed by actor-turned-director Richard Berry (who is no stranger to working with Reno - the two have appeared together in a number of films) and adapted from Franz-Olivier Giesbert's bestselling novel. But why all the excitement? This is why:
After a long, brutal and successful career in the Marseille mafia, Charly Matteï has gone straight. For three years, he has lived a quiet life devoted to his wife and two young children. Then, one winter morning,
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French-Belgian Pulp Heroine Gets Movie
26 October 2009 9:10 PM, PDT
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If and when another 'Indiana Jones' movie comes out, it should have better competition than 'The Mummy' franchise. Luckily, French director/producer Luc Besson may be attempting his own action-adventure film based on old comic book serials: "Les Aventures Extrodinaire d’Adele Blanc-Sec", based on a series of comics by Jacques Tardi.
I am not familiar with the work of Tardi, but the film takes place in pre-World War I Paris, and involves a hatched pterodactyl terrorizing the carefree city from the skies. Adele Blanc-Sec is described as "an intrepid young reporter," who will "go to any lengths to achieve her aims, including sailing to Egypt to tackle mummies of all shapes and sizes."
The character was first serialized in 1972, and her career has included tackling crime and the occult.
Besson, meanwhile, is no slouch as a director, as his resume includes Le Femme Nikita, Leon, and The Fifth Element.
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Early Details on Rubicon from Relativity and Atlas
28 September 2009 2:07 PM, PDT
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"Revenge Thriller" -- two words that can mean horror or just an action-packed heavy drama, but considering the pedigree of the people involved in the recently announced Rubicon, we thought we'd pass on the info just in case it leans more toward the former than the latter.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Relativity Media is partnering with Atlas Entertainment for Rubicon, a revenge thriller from Ric Roman Waugh and Michael A. Lerner. Waugh (pictured here with Val Kilmer) will also direct. Plot details are being kept submerged, but it is female-driven and set in Mexico.
Waugh's background is in stunt work, having appeared in films ranging from John Carpenter's They Live to The Crow to the 1988 remake of The Blob. Most recently he wrote and directed Felon starring Stephen Dorff, Marisol Nichols, and Val Kilmer. Lerner is a former war correspondent who previously wrote and co-directed Deadlines starring Stephen (True Blood
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- Uncle Creepy
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Steven Soderbergh Lands a 'Knockout'
15 September 2009 5:15 PM, PDT
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The acclaimed director Steven Soderbergh may be one of the most respected men in the business, but even he seems to have trouble finding a little extra cash these days. Now we all know what happened with is true-life sports tale, Moneyball, but by all accounts that isn't the only film that he is having trouble securing funding for. But on the bright side, it turns out it was much easier to sell studios a sexy spy thriller than it was a tale of number-crunchers. According to Variety, Lionsgate has snapped up Soderbergh's next slated flick, Knockout and secured financing for the action drama with Relativity Media offering to foot the bill.
The film is being described as in the "vein of La Femme Nikita" and will star Gina Carano. Soderbergh will be working with Lem Dobbs, who also worked on The Limey to write the script. Now Carano might
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Lionsgate Lands a Knockout
14 September 2009 2:07 AM, PDT
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Though shopping for completed films at Toronto Film Festival, Lionsgate has decided to also pick up Steven Soderbergh's next project, Knockout, that he will get started on after The Informant completes its run.
Soderbergh's Knockout to Lionsgate
The cool thing about Knockout is that it has that hot-ass American Gladiator as its star. You know, Gina Carano, the mixed martial arts fighter. Relativity Media has already committed to finance the spy thriller, which is being compared to La Femme Nikita, and production has already been set for January.
Soderbergh will direct off a script by Lem Dobbs.
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Lionsgate will distribute Soderbergh's 'Knockout'
13 September 2009 11:20 PM, PDT
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Lionsgate is set to distribute "Knockout" domestically. Stephen Soderbergh will direct the film which stars Mma circuit fighter Gina Carano.
Written by Lem Dobbs ("Dark City"), the film stars Carano as a girl from the wrong side of the tracks who is given a second shot to use her skills for a better purpose. Similar to what the classic 'La Femme Nikita' and "Point of No Return" starring Bridget Fonda and Gabriel Byrne
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Soderbergh's Knockout Gets Distribution
13 September 2009 9:54 PM, PDT
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Steven Soderbergh is one of the biggest hit or miss filmmakers in Hollywood. The thing is, it.s almost fair to grade him on curve considering he does his best to be innovative with his material. Whether it.s a six-hour Che Guevara epic released in a climate that isn.t exactly communist-friendly or simultaneously releasing a film in the theatres, on DVD, and On Demand, Soderbergh is constantly trying to change the industry, so a subpar movie can be forgiven.
And even though Soderbergh had a bit of bad luck with Moneyball his next movie, Knockout, has already officially been picked up by Lionsgate. According to Variety, the film will star martial arts fighter Gina Carano and will be a spy thriller .in the vein of La Femme Nikita.. For those who never saw the show, it followed a homeless girl who was mistaken for a killer by a
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