Entertainment and Showbiz! (Free subscription) | yesterday
Oscar-winning American director Steven Soderbergh is planning a rock ‘n’ roll 3D musical about Cleopatra. He is teaming up with Hugh Jackman and Catherine Zeta-Jones for the musical. “Our version (of the Cleopatra story) will be like an Elvis musical in 3D. It’s a total rock ‘n’ roll, 1966 aesthetic - like ‘Viva Las Vegas’ [...]
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Film News: Soderbergh biopic to be released in two parts -- Based on early box office returns, IFC Films will continue to play Steven Soderbergh's two-part biopic "Che" in its entirety, versus releasing the two films -- "The Argentine" and "Guerrilla" -- separately.
Biz (Free subscription) | yesterday
by Peter Knegt (January 8, 2009) IFC Films will take the "Roadshow Edition" of Steven Soderbergh 's " Che " on the road once again with 9 additional markets opening next Friday, January 16th. This follows considerable success of the film's screenings in New York and Los Angeles, where in three weeks and from single theater engagements with only two shows a day, the film has grossed $244,857. Additionally,...
OpenMarket (Free subscription) | yesterday
In a new interview, Steven Soderbergh, the incredibly overrated Hollywood director whose new paean to the disgusting Che Guevara is getting a lot of attention these days, claims an ignorance of history that, if willful, smacks of seeking to avoid ugly facts — and if not, is just plain dumb. When I started, though, I had [...]
Entertainment Weekly (Free subscription) | yesterday
Owen Gleiberman on Steven Soderbergh's studiously eccentric drama. Plus: ''Bride Wars,'' ''Bashir,'' more
This is ShowBiz (Free subscription) | 07/01/2009
If you're one of those squeamish moviegoers who'd like to spend four and a half hours appreciating Benicio del Toro's mesmerizing performance in Che — Steven Soderbergh's excellent new Spanish-language film on the adventures of Argentine revolutionary Che Guevara — but were wary of doing it all in one sitting , you're in luck! This Friday, IFC films will split the movie into two halves, The Argentine...
DVD Times (Free subscription) | 06/01/2009
Cinema Review: Gary Couzens reviews Che, Steven Soderbergh's four-hour, two-part film about Che Guevara. Part One is on release in the UK now, while Part Two is released on 20 February.
A.V. Club (Free subscription) | 06/01/2009
StevenSoderbergh's 1989 breakthrough sex, lies, and videotape put him at the forefrontof the nascent American independent movement, but no one could have predictedthe eclectic career he's put together in the two decades since. After...
Hollywood Elsewhere (Free subscription) | 05/01/2009
David Poland is calling Steven Soderbergh's Che his #1 film of the year. I'm afraid that makes two of us, as I said the same thing 28 days ago. (I hadn't seen Gran Torino or Waltz With Bashir at the time, but I've seen added them to my list of the year's Top 15.) Here's Poland's piece with a few quips and quibbles from yours truly: "When the chips are down, Che is as Old Hollywood as it gets. "From...
Sunday Tribune (Free subscription) | 04/01/2009
Everybody but nobody knows Ché Guevara. No truth can match his myth. The brilliance of Steven Soderbergh's Che is that it makes no attempt to reconcile the T-shirt revolutionary icon of popular imagination with the asthmatic Argentinian doctor who was introduced to Fidel Castro in Mexico City in 1955 and sailed with him and a group of 80 rebels – only 12 of whom would survive – to liberate Cuba from...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 04/01/2009
Steven Soderbergh's four-hour Che Guevara biopic is being released in two halves in Britain, with the second segment due in February.
SOCIALIST UNITY (Free subscription) | 03/01/2009
Che Guevara along with Fidel Castro travelled to Cuba by boat from Mexico during late 1956. Of the 82 people on that boat only a handful saw the revolution of 1959. Steven Soderbergh’s sympathetic portrayal of the revolutionary, which frankly, I would have given the film more than the 3 stars Guardian’s film critic Peter [...]
Harpymarx (Free subscription) | 03/01/2009
Che Guevara along with Fidel Castro travelled to Cuba by boat from Mexico during late 1956. Of the 82 people on that boat only a handful saw the revolution of 1959. Steven Soderbergh’s sympathetic portrayal of the revolutionary, which frankly, I would have given the film more than the 3 stars Guardian’s film critic Peter [...]
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 02/01/2009
Steven Soderbergh's biopic is arid, peculiar but gripping, writes
WatchersWatch.com (Free subscription) | 02/01/2009
Hugh Jackman has dropped out of Steven Soderbergh's upcoming film, which is a rock musical version of Cleopatra starring Catherine Zeta-Jones. No deal had been signed as the ambitious $30 million project is completing its financing, but Soderbergh asked his "Traffic" star Zeta-Jones to play Cleopatra and wanted new Oscar host Jackman to play her lover, the Roman general Marc Antony. Discussions are...
