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ReviewsDean Spanley (2008)
Dir. Toa Fraser. New Zealand/UK. 2008. 99mins. New Zealand director Toa Fraser’s Dean Spanley overcomes an uncertain and sketchy opening section to register as a moving and visually wondrous evocation of magic and imagination. The movie’s tonal shifts are fairly abrupt and the first third ...
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Dean Spanley goes to US with Miramax
Miramax Films has taken US rights to Toa Fraser' much feted comedy-drama Dean Spanley starring Sam Neill, Jeremy Northam and Peter O'Toole. The UK/New Zealand coproduction, which screened at the Toronto, London and Pusan festivals last year, was produced by Matthew Metcalfe and Alan Harris, with David Parfitt, ...
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Atlantic berth for Sundance director Toa Fraser
Alan Harris, the ex-head of finance for Grosvenor Park, has several new projects in his slate at Atlantic Film Group, the UK-based company he runs with Nicole Dade. The first new film to shoot will be New Zealand director Toa Fraser following up his Sundance hit No. 2 with ...
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Paramount on board for local distribution of Fraser's Dean Spanley
Paramount Pictures will distribute Toa Fraser's Dean Spanley in Australia and New Zealand.As previously reported, Toa Fraser will direct the whimsical father and son tale to star Peter O'Toole and Jeremy Northam.The film will start shooting Nov 12 on location in the east of England. Delivery is set for mid-2008.The ...
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Toronto reviews
Gala Presentations Burn After Reading (Joel and Ethan Coen) Dean Spanley (Toa Fraser) The Duchess (Saul Dibb) Fifty Dead Men Walking (Kari Skogland) La Fille De Monaco (Anne Fontaine) The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond (Jodie Markell) Nothing But The Truth (Rod Lurie) ...
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Toronto: The Buzz Films
THE BUZZ FILMS GALA PRESENTATIONS Dean Spanley (UK-NZ) Dir: Toa Fraser The story : Based on Lord Dunsany's novel My Talks With Dean Spanley , this charts the relationship between a stiff Englishman and his son. The cast : Peter O'Toole plays opposite Jeremy Northam as his son and ...
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Buzz Films - Toronto 2008: the lowdown
GALA PRESENTATIONS Dean Spanley (UK-NZ) Dir: Toa Fraser The story: Based on Lord Dunsany's novel My Talks With Dean Spanley , this charts the relationship between a stiff Englishman and his son. The cast: Peter O'Toole plays opposite Jeremy Northam as his son and Sam Neill as an eccentric dean. ...
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O'Toole and Northam gear up for Dean Spanley's UK shoot
Peter O'Toole, Jeremy Northam, Sam Neill and Bryan Brown have lined up to start shooting Dean Spanley on Nov 10 in eastern England.Kathleen Drumm at NZ Film is handling sales for the Atlantic Film Group and General Film Corporation project.New Zealand film-maker Toa Fraser, who won the world cinema audience ...
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