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China Lion Embraces ‘A Beautiful Life’
China Lion have picked up the rights to A Beautiful Life - a damn expensive drama romance from a director we normally associate with action/crime thrillers. With a May 20th release date already set (this includes 30 plus screens spread out in key Asian friendly markets in the U.S, this Andrew Lau directed pic stars the eternally gorgeous Shu Qi alongside Liu Ye...
More 2011 Cannes Projections: Antoniak, Kwon-Taek, Zvyagintsev and Hong-jin Na
WKW is definitely not ready. Pedro isn't feeling the pressure to deliver and according to Screen Daily, Terence Davies, Andrea Arnold and Philippe Garrel would apparently still be stuck in post and would be tipped for a Fall premiere.
Weekend Watch: Not Necessarily a ‘Win Win’ Weekend
This week gives us few potentially watchable flicks but nothing great. It’s mid-march, which means nothing will be very exciting (to be fair, the noteworthy Greenberg did come out same time last year, but there’s a particularly large amount of mediocrity going on. If you want a decent dramedy that has something for everyone, Win Win, starring Paul Giamatti, is probably your best bet.
Strand Picks Up Berlin Film Fest Entry ‘Service Entrance’
Strand Releasing have been plucking select French cinema titles over the years (Breillat's Bluebeard, Ozon's Le Refuge and Téchiné's The Girl on the Train) but their latest pick-up in Philippe Le Guay's comedy definitely goes against their usual targeted title...
We Have a Trailer! Nanni Moretti’s We Have a Pope
We're about one month away from the April 14th date when the Cannes Film Festival announce their line-up and we're exactly 54 days from what should be one of the better competition line-ups in years (here is an idea of what & who might turn up on the Croisette in 2011). Among the titles we figure we should be seeing in the Main Comp is the latest from Nanni Moretti. To be released in Italy weeks before it plays out to international critics, we've got the Italian trailer below for Habemus Papam (We Have a Pope).
