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Natasha Richardson (1963-2009): A Life in Posters
My first thoughts of Natasha Richardson are wrapped up in how much of a spectacle it was to see an adult daughter play alongside legendary actresses in her mother (Vanessa Redgrave) and her aunt (Lynn Redgrave) in James Ivory' The White Countess.
‘From Paris’ to Lionsgate for Morel’s Action Flick
Today, Lionsgate Films have picked up Pierre Morel's From Paris with Love (the third collaboration with Besson as the writer and Morel as director) and have pegged the action flick with car crashes for a February 19th release, which happens to be not that far off Morel's successful domestic release of Taken (starring Liam Nesson) this past January.
Killer Films is Looking to be Beat Again, Add Trio to ‘Darlings’
Will Killer Films once again find themselves in one of them conundrums where they come out second in dueling biopics portrayals? When Capote was first to be released theatrically, it sealed the fate for Killer Film's Infamous (WIP gave it the quick death in theaters). Though Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman's Howl focuses mostly on Ginsberg's later-in-life trials and tribulations, there is enough narrative overlap here and perhaps filmland can only have enough room for one Allen Ginsberg interpretation and not two.
From Nature Films to Amreeka for National Geographic
After slowly testing the grounds of the theatrical distribution game with a trio of documentary titles (March of the Penguins, U23D), National Geographic Entertainment have picked up a comedy?! Yes, a comedy. The company that we would normally associate with nature films and beautiful photography in its nearly century-old gold border magazine has picked up a bit of fiction in Cherien Dabis’ Amreeka.
Bent-Jurgen Perlmutt and Alex Rivera Receive Sundance’s Alfred P. Sloan Grants
If you are working on a screenplay/feature that has some mention of, or features anything related to the sciences or the sci-fi realm then, you'll want to do what Alex Rivera (see pic) has done for a second project in a row. The Sundance Institute's Alfred P. Sloan Grant has been awarded to Rivera and Bent-Jurgen Perlmutt this year while the Sloan Lab Fellowship Awarded Avi Zev Weider.
