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Strand Take ‘Leap’ of Faith on Cannes Camera D’or Winner and Jack Cardiff Doc
After IFC and SPC, it's now up to Strand Releasing to fill up their coffers with films from last month's Cannes festival. They just announced the pick up of the Cannes Classics selected Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff, and less than 24 hours later comes one more pick up - this time in a Mexican film directed by a first time Australian filmmaker. Not to be confused with the comedy Leap Year, Año bisiesto was the lucky film that won the Camera D'or this year - which is given to a first time work and 2010 all three sections excluding the Main Comp for full of first time efforts.
Somewhere Trailer: Coppola’s 4th Comes Across as Deja Vu and Aromatic
Francis. This one's for you. Not sure how many biographical elements have been put in the genetics of this screenplay, but the 120 seconds worth is telling about where Sofia Coppola might go with Somewhere - perhaps a Valentine's card to her father the legendary director, and another clever way of tapping into the class and life of what common folks would find extraordinary, the privileged find ordinary.
Frammartino to Turn TV Junkie Past into ‘Viale Aretusa 19’
Michelangelo Frammartino, the helmer of one of the best films coming out of Cannes this year in Le quattro volte, will be making his animation feature film debut (perhaps in the watercolored CGI 3D form) taking his own biographical story of what it was like to live during the Riflusso years...
Tony Kaye’s Black Water Transit: Out of the Courts & Into the Theaters?
In many ways, Tony Kaye's shot in New Orleans production was rattled by its own "wrath" of unforeseen events and circumstances and by the looks of it, the clean up crews are out by this Hollywood Reporter mention assessment of the damage. By the gist of the article, it looks like a rob Peter to not pay Paul type of situation - where the fate of Kaye's film is not necessarily in better hands, but is closer to seeing the day of light at a theater or festival setting.
Weinsteins Take in the ‘Reign of Assassins’
It appears that there's a little bit of the old Weinstein mentality left over from the Miramax days in today's pick up. The Weinsteins have bought the North American and South African rights to the martial arts pic stamped with John Woo's name on it. Reign of Assassins, a set in 428AD pic that may recall of Crouching Tiger days - as Michelle Yeoh toplines this project currently in post-production which will be ripe for a Winter release.
