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17 articles from 2009
Will Gerard Butler and Gabriele Muccino 'Slide'?
27 October 2009 5:33 PM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
The Scottish sensation otherwise known as Gerard Butler was able to add "successful producer" after his Evil Twins' Law Abiding Citizen enjoyed a fair amount of box office success. Not content to rest on his laurels, he's working on getting several projects off the ground and was happy to describe a few of them to Film School Rejects. While the previously announced Teacher Man and A Hanging Tale remain on his plate, Butler was eager to talk about Slide. Let's let him take it away, shall we?
"There's a few different projects that we've been working on, but there's one in particular - it's a movie called Slide about a former baseball player who goes back to try and patch things up with his child and estranged wife and ends up coaching the kid's baseball team," Butler said. "He becomes the subject of fascination and [longing] by every bored housewife in the town. »
- Elisabeth Rappe
Butler Sets Sights on ‘Slide,’ Hopes for ‘Happyness’ Director
26 October 2009 9:14 PM, PDT | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
Last week I got to talk with Gerard Butler, a man who your mother probably has up in poster form above her bed, on the occasion of Law Abiding Citizen hitting theaters and taking a lot of people's money. That film is the first that his production company Evil Twins, alongside manager Alan Siegel, has put out, and they are already getting the ball rolling on several others. Add Slide to that list. Straight from the Scottish horse's mouth: There’s a few different projects that we’ve been working on, but there’s one in particular – it’s a movie called Slide about a former baseball player who goes back to try and patch things up with his child and estranged wife and ends up coaching the kid’s baseball team," Butler said. "He becomes the subject of fascination and longer by every bored house wife in the town. And »
- Dr. Cole Abaius
Helen Mirren wins Rome prize for The Last Station
25 October 2009 11:11 AM, PDT | AwardsDaily.com | See recent AwardsDaily news »
Helen Mirren takes Best Actress honors at the Rome Film Festival: Helen Mirren won Rome’s Silver Marc’Aurelio award for best actress for her performance as Leo Tolstoy’s devoted wife in Michael Hoffman’s The Last Station. Gabriele Muccino presented the honour to Mirren, who brought the house down with an acceptance speech in Italian in which she [...] »
- Ryan Adams
Rome Film Fest Winners: Brotherhood, Helen Mirren, Giorgio Diritti
24 October 2009 12:13 AM, PDT | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
The Danish film Brotherhood is the big winner at the International Rome Film Festival. Helen Mirren won Best Actress for The Last Station and The Man Who Will Come grabbed two top prizes, including the Grand Jury award. - - -
- - - Reports from Screen Daily:
The fourth edition of the International Rome Film Festival awarded the Golden Marc'Aurelio Award for best film to Danish-Italian Nicolo Donato's feature directorial debut Brotherhood (Brotherskab).
Donato's film delves into the unexpected love that erupts between two young men in a radical right wing group. Trust Nordisk is handling world sales on the project.
The award was chosen by an international jury presided over by Milos Forman. "This is a dream come true, thank you, thank you, thank you Rome," Donato said, accepting his prize. Giorgio Diritti's The Man Who Will Come won two top prizes. The 1944-set film depicting »
- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
Rome Film Fest Winners: Brotherhood, Helen Mirren, Giorgio Diritti
24 October 2009 12:13 AM, PDT | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
The Danish film Brotherhood is the big winner at the International Rome Film Festival. Helen Mirren won Best Actress for The Last Station and The Man Who Will Come grabbed two top prizes, including the Grand Jury award. - - -
- - - Reports from Screen Daily:
The fourth edition of the International Rome Film Festival awarded the Golden Marc'Aurelio Award for best film to Danish-Italian Nicolo Donato's feature directorial debut Brotherhood (Brotherskab).
Donato's film delves into the unexpected love that erupts between two young men in a radical right wing group. Trust Nordisk is handling world sales on the project.
The award was chosen by an international jury presided over by Milos Forman. "This is a dream come true, thank you, thank you, thank you Rome," Donato said, accepting his prize. Giorgio Diritti's The Man Who Will Come won two top prizes. The 1944-set film depicting »
- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
Rome Film Fest Winners: Brotherhood, Helen Mirren, Giorgio Diritti
24 October 2009 12:13 AM, PDT | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
The Danish film Brotherhood is the big winner at the International Rome Film Festival. Helen Mirren won Best Actress for The Last Station and The Man Who Will Come grabbed two top prizes, including the Grand Jury award. - - -
- - - Reports from Screen Daily:
The fourth edition of the International Rome Film Festival awarded the Golden Marc'Aurelio Award for best film to Danish-Italian Nicolo Donato's feature directorial debut Brotherhood (Brotherskab).
Donato's film delves into the unexpected love that erupts between two young men in a radical right wing group. Trust Nordisk is handling world sales on the project.
The award was chosen by an international jury presided over by Milos Forman. "This is a dream come true, thank you, thank you, thank you Rome," Donato said, accepting his prize. Giorgio Diritti's The Man Who Will Come won two top prizes. The 1944-set film depicting »
- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
Rome Film Fest Winners: Brotherhood, Helen Mirren, Giorgio Diritti
24 October 2009 12:13 AM, PDT | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
The Danish film Brotherhood is the big winner at the International Rome Film Festival. Helen Mirren won Best Actress for The Last Station and The Man Who Will Come grabbed two top prizes, including the Grand Jury award. - - -
- - - Reports from Screen Daily:
The fourth edition of the International Rome Film Festival awarded the Golden Marc'Aurelio Award for best film to Danish-Italian Nicolo Donato's feature directorial debut Brotherhood (Brotherskab).
Donato's film delves into the unexpected love that erupts between two young men in a radical right wing group. Trust Nordisk is handling world sales on the project.
The award was chosen by an international jury presided over by Milos Forman. "This is a dream come true, thank you, thank you, thank you Rome," Donato said, accepting his prize. Giorgio Diritti's The Man Who Will Come won two top prizes. The 1944-set film depicting »
- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
Rome Film Fest Winners: Brotherhood, Helen Mirren, Giorgio Diritti
24 October 2009 12:13 AM, PDT | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
The Danish film Brotherhood is the big winner at the International Rome Film Festival. Helen Mirren won Best Actress for The Last Station and The Man Who Will Come grabbed two top prizes, including the Grand Jury award. - - -
- - - Reports from Screen Daily:
The fourth edition of the International Rome Film Festival awarded the Golden Marc'Aurelio Award for best film to Danish-Italian Nicolo Donato's feature directorial debut Brotherhood (Brotherskab).
Donato's film delves into the unexpected love that erupts between two young men in a radical right wing group. Trust Nordisk is handling world sales on the project.
The award was chosen by an international jury presided over by Milos Forman. "This is a dream come true, thank you, thank you, thank you Rome," Donato said, accepting his prize. Giorgio Diritti's The Man Who Will Come won two top prizes. The 1944-set film depicting »
- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
Gay neo-Nazis Perk up otherwise Lackluster Rome Film Festival
23 October 2009 2:12 PM, PDT | IndieWIRE | See recent indieWIRE news »
The International Rome Film Festival, which comes to a close tomorrow, announced its winner tonight in an awards ceremony in the Parco della musica, the festival’s labyrinthine main hub on the outskirts of the Eternal City. This year’s jury included president Milos Forman as well as Italian director Gabriele Muccino, Italian architect Gae Aulenti, French screenwriter Jean-Loup Dabadie, Russian director Pavel Lungin and Austrian actress Senta Berger. It is the first … »
Blu-Ray Review: ‘Seven Pounds’ With Will Smith is Manipulative Melodrama
2 April 2009 10:05 AM, PDT | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Blu-Ray Rating: 2.5/5.0 Chicago – There’s arguably no bigger star on Earth than Will Smith but even the greats need a misfire to bring them crashing to the ground. “Seven Pounds” is a mess, a film of conflicting tones and arguably offensive themes, a movie that moves beyond traditional melodrama in just the first few minutes and keeps flying into the over-the-top stratosphere. The Sony Blu-Ray release is impressive, but the movie itself is not.
If you focus solely on the excellent work by Rosario Dawson and are impressed by gorgeous HD picture quality, there may be enough weight in “Seven Pounds” to warrant a rental, but most people will be shocked by this somber melodrama that somehow also tries to be a crowd-pleaser.
Seven Pounds was released on Blu-Ray on March 31st, 2009.
Photo credit: Sony
Ben Thomas (Smith) opens the film by calling 911 and announcing that he needs an ambulance for his own suicide. »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
DVD Review: Seven Pounds (2008)
30 March 2009 7:00 AM, PDT | The Hollywood News | See recent The Hollywood News news »
Answer: 2001.s Ali. Question: what was the last Will Smith movie that failed to make at least $100 million?
Until 2008.s Seven Pounds, that is. Although this flick reunited Smith with director Gabriele Muccino, his collaborator on 2006.s hit The Pursuit of Happyness, Pounds failed to find much of an audience. It stalled at $69 million, a rather tepid take for a Smith movie.
In Pounds, Smith plays Ben Thomas, an IRS agent. In the wake of tragedy, Ben tries to reward good in the world, a quest that leads him to intersect with a mix of strangers who require various forms of help.
Yes, that may be the shortest story summary I.ve ever committed to a review. The nature of Pounds means that less is more in this circumstance; if I provide greater detail, I risk spoiling different elements and I also may dumb down the tale too much.
Often when I wrote plot synopses, »
Cinema release inspirations including Seven Pounds
16 January 2009 2:08 AM, PST | Boxwish.com | See recent BoxWish news »
Morning Boxwishers and welcome to the end of another week. Yes, you’ve made it through the long slog and now can look forward to two days of downtime, and to help you choose how to spend it we’ve got the skinny on all the exciting new releases hitting your local cinema from today. There’s Will Smith on I’m-a-serious-actor form, a punchy comeback and dogs in clothes (yes, you heard me – Dogs In Clothes!) So whatever tickles your fancy, choose from one of these movie morsels…
If you see… Will Smith reunite with his The Pursuit of Happyness director Gabriele Muccino for Seven Pounds, the story of how one man looks to change the lives of seven strangers.
Why Not Catch The Pursuit Of Happyness and some of Big Willy’s other, more meaty attempts at drama such as Ali, The Legend Of Bagger Vance and 6 Degrees Of Separation. »
London Gives Will Smith a Warm Welcome
15 January 2009 4:00 PM, PST | Popsugar.com | See recent Popsugar news »
Will Smith and the promotional train for Seven Pounds kept on chugging at the London premiere last night before he stopped by a studio today. With such a large group of excited fans and his name in huge lights, it's no wonder Will looked happy as can be on stage. As he continues to flash his grin around the world, his son's rumored Karate Kid remake is getting more buzz now that Jackie Chan has supposedly signed on in Mr. Miyagi's role. There's already been a bit of friendly competition in the Smith household, but it might be a few more years before Jaden is touring the world like his dad. To see more photos of Will and Gabriele Muccino just read more. splashnewsonline.com »
- PopSugar
Smith: 'Jaden Is Destined For Stardom'
15 January 2009 11:09 AM, PST | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Will Smith knew his son Jaden would follow in his footsteps and become an actor - because he has a natural instinct for role play.
The Hancock star's 10-year-old son is set to play the lead in the forthcoming movie remake of the Karate Kid and his father is sure the talented youngster will be perfect - because he is destined to be an actor.
Smith says, "He just naturally has a joy, a love, for people and for emotion so it's the perfect combination to be an actor. He is so inspired to do it."
The pair emulated their father-son relationship in 2006 movie The Pursuit Of Happyness - and Smith was astounded to see his son's acting ability.
He adds, "The director of The Pursuit Of Happyness, the same as Seven Pounds, (Gabriele Muccino), he didn't speak English too well so the direction would be mumbled: 'Jayden... I need to... okay, action!'
"It worked, somehow. Jaden, he understands emotion, he's really sensitive. The business is a little scary for me with him." »
The Best Films You’Ve Never Seen – James Napoli’s rental of the week -- This week: The Last Kiss (Original Italian Version, 2001)
8 January 2009 | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
I teach screenplay and film analysis to college-level film students. Since they are among the most voracious moviegoers in the world, my weekly challenge is to choose films for class study that many of them are unlikely to have already seen. The result is a tour through cinema past and present that, I hope, introduces work that may have slipped through the cracks, but is nonetheless remarkable for a variety of reasons. It is in this spirit that I offer this ongoing second look at some intriguing and worthwhile films well worth renting. This Week: The Last Kiss (Original Italian Version, 2001) Nobody does unapologetically passionate like the Italians. Writer/director Gabriele Muccino’s L’Ultimo Bacio (The Last Kiss) is a freshly-lit fuse of a film. Its story is utterly alive, authentically human and masterfully orchestrated—a ... »
List of 40th Naacp Image Awards Nominees in Motion Picture
7 January 2009 6:34 PM, PST | Aceshowbiz | See recent Aceshowbiz news »
The nominees for the 40th Naacp Image Awards have been announced. During a press conference at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on Wednesday, January 7, it was uncovered that "The Secret Life of Bees" and "Cadillac Records" have led the fields with multiple counts. Southern-set drama "Secret Life" collected 8 nods, while musical drama "Cadillac" received 7 gongs.
Both "Secret Life" and "Cadillac" will have to compete against each other for many categories including, Outstanding Motion Picture and Outstanding Writing. In the run for Outstanding Motion Picture, the two were joined by Spike Lee's "Miracle at St. Anna", Gabriele Muccino's "Seven Pounds" and Tyler Perry's "The Family That Preys". Meanwhile, for the writing category, they are up against "Rachel Getting Married", "A Raisin In The Sun" and "Noah's Arc: Jumping the Broom".
Beside the two categories, "Secret Life" and "Cadillac" have also brought their stars nominations. Dakota Fanning and Queen Latifah got Outstanding Actress nod, »
- AceShowbiz.com
Seven Pounds Foreign Movie Poster
31 December 2008 11:20 PM, PST | toxicshock.tv | See recent toxicshock news »
Columbia Pictures released a brand new foreign movie poster from the upcoming drama “Seven Pounds” by director Gabriele Muccino (The Pursuit of Happyness) and starring Will Smith (Hancock, I am Legend), Rosario Dawson (Sin City 2, Death Proof) and Woody Harrelson (Zombieland, No Country for Old Men). Synopsis: Ben (Will Smith) is an IRS agent who is depressed and guilt-ridden about mistakes from his past. He sets out to make amends by helping seven strangers. When he meets Emily (Rosario Dawson), a beautiful woman with a heart condition, he falls in love with her, thereby complicating his plans. Woody Harrelson also appears as a blind pianist who befriends Ben. Stay tuned to [...] »
- Brian Corder
2009 | 2008 | 2007
17 articles from 2009
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