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SPC finds new celebrity in ‘Sleuth’
Production was stalled a couple of times, but now with a U.S distributor on board its full steam ahead for Kenneth Branagh’s contemporary take on the 1972 film. Sony Pictures Classics has boarded the production which starts later this month.
Most anticipated of ’07: 10-01
The “auteurist theory” is put into practice in our final TEN – and not surprisingly, 4 of the top 10 projects I’d wait in a line to see on opening day have no distributor in place for the U.S market. The ten filmmakers (make that 11 with the Coens) represent a global sampling of what one might consider challenging cinema. I hoped that you enjoyed this top 10, and same time next year we should have some talk backs/forums so you guys can tell me what was omitted. Bon cinema!
THINKFilm emphasizes the ‘dance’ at Sundance
Either a late announcement or an early pre-Sundance buzz, but ThinkFilm have passionately conjoined themselves to the docu film directed by husband and wife Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine.
Most anticipated of ’07: 20-11
Getting ever so closely to the Top 10, our top 20 is filled with an interesting mix of heavyweights (Tarantino, Cronenberg, Boyle and Wes Anderson) and up-and-comers (Sachs, Gillespie, Tarsem, Perelman). Enjoy!
Weinsteins like the sound of Dylan biopic
Currently in the post production phase, a familiar finder has swooped up the rights to the imaginative Todd Haynes’ Bob Dylan biopic. The Weinstein bros. who were big on his glam rock flick Velvet Goldmine back during the Miramax days, have picked up the North American and U.K. rights to I'm Not There. The company plans to release the movie later this year in the U.S.
