Maverix Studios blog is running a series of profiles with interviews showcasing the artists for their coming Root Branch exhibit....fun short read and very inspiring ;) The first one up is Patrick Awa . Born in Santa Monica, California , Patrick grew up in Tokyo and began his career working for a Japanese CGI production studio where he rose through the ranks to direct various commercials and short...
Focus Features has released the first trailer for director Noah Baumbach's upcoming film Greenberg, which stars Ben Stiller as a jobless guy who doesn't really want to do anything with himself.
[Press Release - Released by Focus Features] KEIR GILCHRIST, ZACH GALIFIANAKIS, EMMA ROBERTS, VIOLA DAVIS, ZOE KRAVITZ, AASIF MANDVI, LAUREN GRAHAM, JIM GAFFIGAN CAST IN FOCUS FEATURES' IT'S KIND OF A FUNNY STORY FOR WRITER/DIRECTORS ANNA BODEN & RYAN FLECK NEW YORK, November 2, 2009 – Acclaimed writer/directors Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck's new film It's Kind [...]
Oprah Winfrey 's production company Harpo films is teaming up with HBO to launch a sensual and steamy pilot. This news comes after Winfrey's announcement last week that she's leaving her show. The hour long show is about a woman who leaves her perfect nuclear family in Santa Monica, Calif. to fulfill her secret fantasies and desires in the grimy parts of Los Angeles, Variety reports. Winfrey, Harpo...
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...
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 ....
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)...
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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...
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."
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....
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...
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...
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...
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