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10 articles from 2009
Sony Picture Classics Embraces Mother and Child
2 November 2009 1:18 PM, PST | Makingof.com | See recent Makingof.com news »
New York, NY (November 1, 2009)- Sony Pictures Classics announces its acquisition of United States’ rights to Rodrigo García’s Mother And Child from Wme Global. The film debuted at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival as a Gala Presentation, where it was actively pursued by several Us distributors.
Mother And Child is the moving tale about the choices we make, the chances we miss, the opportunities we seize and the power of the unbreakable bond between a mother and her child.
The film was written and directed by Rodrigo García (Things You Can Tell Just By Looking At Her and Nine Lives) and produced by Lisa Maria Falcone through her Everest Entertainment and Julie Lynn via her Mockingbird Pictures. The films’ director of photography is Xavier Grobet (City Of Ember, The Woodsman, Nacho Libre,) Steven Weisberg edited (Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, Permanent Midnight), with music by Ed Shearmur (Wings Of The Dove, »
American Rust Adaptation In The Works
20 October 2009 10:16 AM, PDT | FilmShaft.com | See recent FilmShaft.com news »
Brazilian director Walter Salles and his screenwriting partner Jose Rivera have committed to bringing Philip Meyer’s brilliant debut novel American Rust to the big screen.
The pair have many productions in the works including The Brief Life Of Oscar Wao and On The Road, both of which are complex pieces of literature that won’t be easy to adapt at all.
American Rust is about two friends from Pennsylvania who leave home in search for the American dream, what they find instead is a world full of violence, mistrust and downright degradation. The book is set in 2002 when America is still reeling from the tragic events of 9/11. It’s a beautifully written story that shifts between the effects of modern paranoia and the general feeling of depression era America.
Author Philip Meyer has been rightly compared to Cormac McCarthy and there really couldn’t be a better time to adapt American Rust than now. »
- Alex Wagner
American Rust For Guevara Duo
20 October 2009 12:34 AM, PDT | EmpireOnline | See recent EmpireOnline news »
Director Walter Salles and his screenwriting partner Jose Rivera have signed on to adapt Philip Meyer's debut novel American Rust, possibly coming to the screen via Universal, who get first look at the completed script.The novel is about two friends from a derelict Pennsylvanian mill town who hit the road in search of something better, but only encounter violence, mistrust and urban degeneration. Set in 2002, it nevertheless taps into the tradition of depression-era Americana, from authors like William Faulkner and John Steinbeck. Some critics have compared Meyer to Cormac McCarthy.A downbeat story certainly, but with John Hillcoat's hotly anticipated The Road (from McCarthy's novel) finally approaching, it may be that that's not the gloomy prospect for a major studio that it once might have appeared. Salles and Rivera previously brought us the excellent Motorcycle Diaries, which might give some indication of the tone and approach we'd see here. »
Motorcycle Diaries Duo to Adapt Novel American Rust
19 October 2009 8:37 AM, PDT | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »
The novel American Rust is on track to be turned into a film, and while the subject matter and tone are called "unrelentingly downbeat," reporting on the forward movement gives me hope. Because I see a cousin to films like Days of Heaven in this story of friends trying to escape both an accidental murder and their a decaying Pennsylvania town. With the writer/director duo behind The Motorcycle Diaries tackling the book, I hope the eventual film will have some of the same uncanny beauty that made the downbeat films of several decades back so great. Variety reports that Walter Salles and Jose Rivera are attached to direct and write the script from Philipp Meyer's debut novel. Scott Stuber is producing and he's got a first-look deal with Universal, though if the book and eventual film are as downbeat as most say, I'd be surprised if Universal picked up »
- Russ Fischer
Motorcycle Diaries’ Walter Salles and Jose Rivera to Adapt American Rust
19 October 2009 4:28 AM, PDT | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
While Steven Soderbergh released his epic-that-no-one-saw, “Che”, I found 2004’s “The Motorcycle Diaries” to be an intimate and compelling of Che Guevara before he became Che Guevara. It rarely felt like an origin story and it made Guevara’s tale one of “I succeeded and you didn’t because I was me and you are you.” The duo of director Walter Salles and writer Jose Rivera made that film work (along with a terrific performance by Gael Garcia Bernal) and I’m thrilled to report that they’ll be re-teaming to adapt the novel, “American Rust”. Hit the jump for details.
According to Variety, Salles and Rivera will tell the story of “two longtime friends from an economically depressed steel town in Pennsylvania whose dreams of escaping to California are dashed when they’re implicated in a crime.” That sounds like a pretty solid premise although reviews of the book »
- Matt Goldberg
Walter Salles and Jose Rivera Re-Team for American Rust
18 October 2009 5:39 PM, PDT | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »
According to Variety, Scott Stuber has picked up the screen rights to American Rust. This is the debut novel from Philipp Meyer. Walter Salles and Jose Rivera (The Motorcycle Diaries) will be directing and writing the script.
Universal Pictures will get first look at this film via Stuber Productions.
The book follows two longtime friends who live in an economically depressed steel town in Pennsylvania. They long to go to California but that takes a turn "when they're implicated in a crime."
American Rust was just "short-listed for the 2009 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize."
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'Where The Wild Things Are' Gives Hope To Other 'Unfilmable' Books
12 October 2009 4:02 AM, PDT | MTV Movie News | See recent MTV Movie News news »
While 'Watchmen' and 'Fear and Loathing' made it to the big screen, 'On the Road' and others are still Hollywood headaches.
Photo: Warner Bros.
This weekend, "Where the Wild Things Are" finally comes to the big screen after being considered "unfilmable" for decades. But what, exactly, does that word even mean? And with this year's adaptations of "Wild Things" and "Watchmen," does it even still apply?
Below is a list of the books that have given Hollywood headaches for decades. Some have been filmed, some currently linger in development hell, and others will never be touched by any sensible filmmaker. Read on, and ask yourself the two questions that always seem to come up with such projects: "Why not?" or "Why bother?"
"Where the Wild Things Are" (2009)
It's a 20-page book with nine sentences in it. Massive parts of the "plot" are »
Paris, je t'aime
1 September 2009 10:32 AM, PDT | The Culture Post | See recent The Culture Post news »
Once in a while, one has to try something new when it comes to films. Unlike Toronto Stories, which is another anthology movie I'd recommend, Paris, je t'aime uses a rather different approach while showing as much audacity as its Canadian counterpart. All in all, the film is a rather enjoyable gem.
First of all, to put it shortly, Paris, je t'aime uses 18 short segments directed by internationally acclaimed directors. Of course, each segment takes place in a different district of Paris. In each segment, the directors, through their own vision, offer their own interpretation of the meaning of love in none other than the most romantic city in the world.
Obviously, the first praise that you'd like to offer for this film is certainly its photography. Without looking like a postal card, Paris, je t'aime has no difficulty to capture the city's beauty in order to fit it into »
- noreply@blogger.com (Anh Khoi Do)
MovieWeb's 2009 Fall Movie Guide!
1 September 2009 7:54 AM, PDT | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »
Labor Day weekend is coming up, and it's a holiday that marks the end of the summer movie season along with summer itself. All the kids are heading back to the classroom for another dreaded year of school and (for those in L.A. like myself) the weather starts to cool... hopefully. While fall usually isn't seen as a cinematic hotbed, with the blockbuster summer season over, there are still plenty of quality films to check out at the box office. This year we have Megan Fox's possessed body, a sensational animated film and a new zombie adventure. There's a lot more that I'm looking forward to this fall, so here is a comphrehensive look at what you can expect from this fall movie season.
Starring: Gerard Butler, Kyra Sedgwick, Michael C. Hall, Chris "Ludacris" Bridges, John Leguizamo, Amber Valletta, Terry Crews, Logan Lerman, »
Interview: Gotz Spielmann (Revanche)
30 April 2009 | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »
- [Editor's note: This was originally published during the 22nd Edition of the AFI Film Festival.] The 22nd edition of the AFI Film Festival opened with Doubt, a last minute replacement for The Soloist which Dreamworks pulled from its November release date in the midst of a very crowded award season. Along with the Nyff and London’s BFI film fest, the AFI Fest acts as a year-end festival that benefits from being set in a easily maneuverable city and is set during a strategically interesting time of the year. These festivals celebrate the best in cinema from previous Euro fest heavyweights such as Cannes, Berlin and Venice but they carry their own clout – adding some world premieres of their own to the mix. Located in Hollywood, the fest acts as a great launching pad for award season, and for obvious reasons is a place where you could run into Hollywood's major players -- at any given screening you could be sitting next to a prominent voice in the industry, »
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10 articles from 2009
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