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Orange of the Week: James Franco on Daytime Television
You have to appreciate an actor willing to go down to the minor leagues to learn more about the craft. James Franco is about to make a stint on the ongoing soap series General Hospital, and is more accurately, going this route not for a paycheck or lack of work but to research a future role...
Sony Pictures Classics Makes First and ‘Last’ Post Telluride Pick-Up
Sony Pictures Classics have picked up North America and Latin American rights to Michael Hoffman’s The Last Station starring Helen Mirren, Christopher Plummer, James McAvoy and Paul Giamatti.
Strand Offer Refuge to Gallenberger’s ‘John Rabe’
Adding to their collection of films picked off from Berlin, Strand Releasing have acquired the U.S. rights to Florian Gallenberger's John Rabe - a big budget German feature that looks at the Nanjing massacre of 37-38 from a Schindler's List perspective.
Lorber Films Famished over ‘Kimjongilia’
I'm sure that my parents who used the famine in Ethiopia guilt trip on me when I didn't want to finish my plate had no idea that they could throw in North Korea in their discourse.
Lorber Films Find ‘Nobody’s Perfect’
Newly reconfigured, rebranded Lorber Films are hoping to join the Oscar pool with what on paper sounds like a throat-clearing type of doc film, but this uses a Calender Girls-ish premise to discuss human body deformity. Winner of 2009 Lola (German Film Award) for Best Documentary, Niko von Glasow's Nobody's Perfect will receive a December release.
