All Screen articles in 18 December 2009
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NewsUK welcomes Nowhere Boy, [Rec] 2 scares up France
ScreenDaily’s weekly round up of the local and independent releases in key markets this week.
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FeaturesJane Campion
Jane Campion fell in love with Andrew Motion’s biography of John Keats, and knew that to do justice to a cinematic rendering of the ailing Romantic poet’s chaste love affair with the headstrong, rebellious Fanny Brawne she would have to study hard. “I fell to my ...
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FeaturesPeter Jackson
It was always going to be a risk for Peter Jackson to make a film of a novel as beloved as Alice Sebold’s 2003 classic The Lovely Bones.“There is no such thing as a perfect movie. There is no perfect screenplay and there is certainly no ...
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FeaturesRob Marshall
“When you’re working on a film musical, you really have to make it work as a film,” says Rob Marshall, the Oscar-nominated director of Chicago, whose latest movie, Nine, is based on the 1982 Broadway musical hit. “Bob Fosse threw away two of the main characters ...
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FeaturesJim Sheridan
Jim Sheridan has coaxed some of the best performances from some of the finest actors in the business, so it is no surprise that he elicits career-best work from Tobey Maguire, Natalie Portman and Jake Gyllenhaal in his US remake of Susanne Bier’s Brothers.“I think one ...
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FeaturesQuentin Tarantino
When he started writing Inglourious Basterds, Quentin Tarantino wanted to come up with a “bunch-of-guys-on-a-mission movie”. “It was a sub-genre of Second World War movies,” he says, “like The Guns Of Navarone. They hadn’t been made in a long time and I thought that would be ...
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FeaturesKathryn Bigelow
For many, Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker is one of the most tense cinematic experiences of the year, but Bigelow insists she is merely reflecting the real lives of the US bomb-disposal units in Baghdad.“A day in the life of a bomb ‘tech’ in Baghdad, where ...
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FeaturesJason Reitman
Jason Reitman came across Walter Kirn’s novel Up In The Air at the famous Sunset Boulevard shop Book Soup. He had written his first screenplayThank You For Smoking, based on the novel by Christopher Buckley, but could not get it financed and was looking for new ...
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FeaturesLee Daniels
“When I read the book [published in 1996], I thought it was just for me,” says Lee Daniels of the novel Push by Sapphire, on which his award-winning film Precious is based.
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FeaturesJulie & Julia
Director Nora EphronProducers Amy Robinson, Laurence Mark, Nora Ephron, Eric SteelProduction companies Easy There Tiger Productions, Scott Rudin ProductionsUS distribution Sony PicturesInternational distribution Sony Pictures Releasing InternationalUS release date August 7Worldwide gross $128.1m to December 13Best picture chancesA feelgood film for the adult crowd, Julie & ...
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FeaturesBright Star
Director Jane CampionProducers Jan Chapman, Caroline HewittProduction company Jan Chapman ProductionsUS distribution ApparitionInternational sales Pathé InternationalUS release date September 18Worldwide gross $6.3m to December 13Best picture chancesAlthough Bright Star did not perform at the box office with the success of Jane Campion’s 1993 breakthrough The Piano, ...
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FeaturesThe Road
Director John HillcoatProducers Nick Wechsler, Paula Mae Schwartz, Steve SchwartzProduction companies 2929 ProductionsUS distribution Dimension PicturesInternational sales Magnolia Pictures/2929 InternationalUS release date November 25Worldwide gross $6m to December 13Best picture chancesIt may be too bleak for some but The Road is also one of the year’s ...
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FeaturesThe Lovely Bones
Director Peter JacksonProducers Carolynne Cunningham, Fran Walsh, Peter Jackson, Aimée PeyronnetProduction companies Wingnut Films, DreamWorks Pictures, Film4US distribution Paramount PicturesInternational distribution Paramount Pictures InternationalUS release date December 11Worldwide gross to date n/aBest picture chancesJackson leaves the fantasy milieu for which he won his Oscars and tackles ...
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FeaturesIt’s Complicated
Director Nancy MeyersProducers Nancy Meyers, Scott RudinProduction companies Waverly Films, Scott Rudin ProductionsUS distribution Universal PicturesInternational distribution Universal Pictures InternationalUS release date December 25Worldwide gross to date n/aBest picture chancesMeyers has so far failed to snag Oscar nominations for herself or her films as a director ...
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FeaturesNine
Director Rob MarshallProducers Marc Platt, John DeLuca, Harvey WeinsteinProduction companies The Weinstein Company, Relativity MediaUS distribution The Weinstein CompanyInternational sales The Weinstein Company InternationalUS release date December 18Worldwide gross to date n/aBest picture chancesRob Marshall’s second big-screen musical after 2002 best picture Oscar winner Chicago, Nine ...
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FeaturesA Serious Man
Directors Joel Coen, Ethan CoenProducers Joel Coen, Ethan CoenProduction company Working Title FilmsUS distribution Focus FeaturesInternational sales Focus Features InternationalUS release date October 2Worldwide gross $15m to December 13Best picture chancesA Serious Man has its detractors but its supporters are passionate, and the Coens have an ...
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FeaturesBrothers
Director Jim SheridanProducers Ryan Kavanaugh, Sigurjon Sighvatsson, Michael De LucaProduction company Relativity MediaUS distribution LionsgateInternational sales Relativity Media/Mandate InternationalUS release date December 4Worldwide gross $17.7m to December 13Best picture chancesSheridan has a knack of making intense character dramas that catch fire with Academy voters. My Left ...
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FeaturesThe Last Station
Director Michael HoffmanProducers Chris Curling, Jens Meurer, Bonnie ArnoldProduction companies Egoli Tossell Film, Zephyr Films, Andrei Konchalovsky Production CenterUS distribution Sony Pictures ClassicsInternational sales The Little Film CompanyUS release date December 4Worldwide gross to date n/aBest picture chancesA sprightly period piece that is both amusing and ...