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The Soloist (2009) More at IMDbPro »
2009 | 2008
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‘Eat, Pray, Love’ gets Dario Marianelli score
5 hours ago | MovieScore Magazine | See recent MovieScore Magazine news »
Ryan Murphy’s film adaptation of Elizabeth Gilbert’s memoir, Eat, Pray, Love, will be scored by Dario Marianelli, the Academy Award-winning composer of Atonement, Pride and Prejudice, The Brothers Grimm, The Soloist and the current Agora and Everybody’s Fine. The film, which tells the story of a woman who embarks on a journey around the world when she realizes that she needs a change of direction in life, stars Julia Roberts, ... »
- Mikael Carlsson
Joe Wright to Tackle Action With 'Hanna'
17 November 2009 3:15 PM, PST | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
The director of Atonement, The Soloist, and Pride & Prejudice is jumping into the action pool? That's what The Hollywood Reporter indicates: Director Joe Wright, best known for Oscar-friendly drama, is about to sign on the dotted line to helm Hanna, which THR describes as a La Femme Nikita style project: "The story centers on a 14-year-old Eastern European girl who has been raised by her father to be a cold-blooded killing machine. She connects with a French family, forms a friendship with their daughter and goes through the pangs of adolescence. When the girl is dragged back to her father's world and discovers that she was bred as a killing machine in a CIA prison camp, she must fight her way to a free life."
Sounds to me like a fairly conventional, rather familiar tale -- so then why were Danny Boyle and Alfonso Cuaron both (briefly) attached to the project? »
- Scott Weinberg
Wright directs Hanna
17 November 2009 3:20 AM, PST | JoBlo.com | See recent JoBlo news »
So The Soloist may have landed with a bit of thud, but Joe Wright is still the man behind Atonement and Pride And Prejudice, so the announcement of his next project is rather ear-catching. Wright is reportedly about to be set to helm Hanna, which features a fourteen year old Eastern European girl, born and bred to be a ruthless assassin. Yeah, quite the change from his previous projects indeed. Hanna tries to escape her life of murder by befriending a French family, but is soon pulled back... »
- Paul Tassi
Joe Wright Trains a Teen Girl Assassin in ‘Hanna’
17 November 2009 1:23 AM, PST | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
Concepts that will always stop me in my tracks: when a visually compelling director (in this case, Atonement's Joe Wright) takes on a project that is being described as having shades of La Femme Nikita and the Bourne movies. That is how Borys Kit at Heat Vision is describing Hanna, the next project for Wright. It is a project that has been kicked around by several directors since it was set up at Focus Features in 2007, including Danny Boyle and more recently, Children of Men director Alfonso Cuaron. The story revolves aroudn a 14-year old Eastern European girl who has been raised by her father to be a cold-blooded killing machine. She connects with a French family, forms a friendship with their daughter and begins going through the norms of adolescence. But when she is dragged back into her fathers world, she discovers that she was bred as a killing machine in a CIA prison camp »
- Neil Miller
Atonement Director Joe Wright Looking for Action with Hanna
17 November 2009 12:16 AM, PST | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »
Joe Wright may have faltered recently with The Soloist, but his Pride and Prejudice and Atonement were strong enough to convince me to follow his rising career. He was slated to take on Indian Summer with Cate Blanchett, but now that that project has been put on hold due to budgetary concerns, it seems that Wright is eying an action-adventure thriller, Hanna. Action is an entirely new genre for Wright, but it's one I think he'll take to quite nicely given his propensity for luscious visuals. According to the THR Heat Vision Blog: The story centers on a 14-year-old Eastern European girl who has been raised by her father to be a cold-blooded killing machine. She connects with a French family, forms a friendship with their daughter and goes through the pangs of adolescence. When the girl is dragged back to her father’s world and discovers that she was »
- Devindra Hardawar
Joe Wright to Direct New Action-Adventure Thriller 'Hanna'
17 November 2009 12:12 AM, PST | firstshowing.net | See recent FirstShowing.net news »
Director Joe Wright is switching genres once again. Heat Vision announces that Joe Wright is in talks to direct Focus Features' new action-adventure thriller titled Hanna. Wright last directed The Soloist as well as Atonement and Pride & Prejudice before that. Hanna is described as similar in tone to La Femme Nikita as well as the ever-popular Bourne movies. Newcomer Seth Lochhead wrote the script that was also revised by David Farr (of BBC's "Mi-5" series). This will be Wright's very next project, not the originally slated adaptation of Indian Summer, which was put on hold due to rising budget concerns. Read on for the plot. The story in Hanna centers on a 14-year-old Eastern European girl who has been raised by her father to be a cold-blooded killing machine. She connects with a French family, forms a friendship with their daughter and goes through the pangs of adolescence. When »
- Alex Billington
Atonement Director Joe Wright Raises 14-Year-Old Girl/Killing Machine for Hanna
17 November 2009 12:00 AM, PST | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
Director Joe Wright has developed some serious cred when it comes to dramas with Pride & Prejudice, Atonement, and this past April’s The Soloist. However, none of those films had a fourteen year old girl killing lots of people, although I certainly wanted lots of people to kill the fourteen year old girl in Atonement (not the actress, but the character). Wright will throw a serious change-up into his filmography with Hanna, an action-adventure film described as a mix of La Femme Nikita and the Bourne films*. However, the protagonist’s nationality is more Nikita and the people she’s fighting look more like Jason Bourne. Hit the jump for more details.
Wright was originally slated to direct the period drama Indian Summer, starring Cate Blanchett. However, as the budget ballooned and the filmmakers realized that period dramas aren’t exactly smash hits at the box office, they put the project on hold. »
- Matt Goldberg
Joe Wright Will Direct Hanna
16 November 2009 11:44 PM, PST | EmpireOnline | See recent EmpireOnline news »
After the costumed, Oscar nominated, drama-y successes of Pride & Prejudice, Atonement and to a lesser extent The Soloist*, Joe Wright is taking a very different turn for his next film, Hanna: an action-adventure-thriller story about a teenage assassin.The plot sounds very much like the premise to the TV series Alias. Hanna is a 14 year-old Eastern European girl who has been raised to become a "cold-blooded killing machine". She finds a new life when she "connects" with a French family, and in particular befriends their daughter, but her father soon pulls her back into his world. She learns then that she was "bred as a killer in a CIA prison camp" (which shouldn't have come as much surprise given her previous training) and then tries to fight her way to freedom and a normal life.The script was written by Seth Lochhead and David Farr, and has had a lot of buzz around it, »
For His Next Project, Joe Wright Goes With Teen Girl Assassins
16 November 2009 9:16 PM, PST | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »
Lately all the news about Joe Wright has been what he's not working on-- not making a romance in India, not remaking My Fair Lady. After so many rebuttals, Wright finally seems ready to say yes to something. According to THR, he's got his eye on Hanna a spy thriller about someone resembling the teenage girl version of Jason Bourne. Oh yes, such an awesome movie can actually exist., particularly with someone as in tune with girl power as Wright directing. The movie has been at Focus Features since 2007 and has even had Danny Boyle and Alfonso Cuaron interested, but apparently they're more interested in going with someone less experienced in action, but maybe more up for a chance following the disappointing results of The Soloist. The plot alone sounds like a major departure for Wright: "The story centers on a 14-year-old Eastern European girl who has been raised by »
Foxx and Lawrence are ‘Sheneneh and Wanda’
9 November 2009 6:08 AM, PST | Atomic Popcorn | See recent Atomic Popcorn news »
Do you remember when Martin Lawrence was funny? Neither do I.
Do you remember when he was talented? Trick question.
Do you remember when Jamie Foxx had a supremely promising career track? Yes, I do.
And that’s why the news of Foxx and Lawrence being paired together in the comedy vehicle Sheneneh and Wanda is so frustrating to me. I look at Foxx and I think of his great turn in Collateral and Ray, and just weep for his future. He’s dropped off the face of the earth, only to resurface this way?
Apparently, Sheneneh and Wanda are female comic characters that the duo played in their old days, and they’re making a comeback. Foxx is writing the script for the film himself, with Lawrence producing. According to Variety, “the project originated as a parody of a movie trailer for a film called “Skank Robbers,” which Foxx »
- John Cooper
Joe Wright Not Directing 'My Fair Lady'
30 October 2009 3:33 PM, PDT | GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news »
Well, here's a spanner in the works: Joe Wright directly contradicts reports from this past weekend that he'll be directing My Fair Lady. For the better part of two years, Keira Knightley has been the odds-on choice to update Eliza Doolittle, and we wrote that she had beaten out Scarlett Johansson for the role just a few days ago. As part of that announcement, Wright's name was dropped as the new director. But not according to him.
You can see in the video below (from Screenrush) that Wright isn't making the movie, plain and simple. It's a natural connection, though, because his first two films - Pride and Prejudice and Atonement - both starred Knightley. Plus, after the disappointing returns of The Soloist, Wright might have been reaching for a sure thing.
No such luck, though: »
- Colin Boyd
Keira Knightley and Joe Wright Reteaming For My Fair Lady Remake
25 October 2009 9:00 AM, PDT | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »
Keira Knightley has been informally linked to a remake of My Fair Lady for some time now. It was always something of a no brainer to see her as the most likely candidate, and I suspect some of the previous stories were nothing more than guess work based more upon her cheekbones than any inside information. Now, however, she's been more concretely linked to the project once again and Joe Wright has been named as the director. You'll likely recall that he collaborated with Knightley previously on Pride and Prejudice and Atonement before tarnishing his Adademy cred a little with The Soloist. Some rumors had Danny Boyle pegged as the director, but he's got an ever growing pile of his own stuff to be getting on with anyway. According to The Telegraph's Mandrake, Knightley was in a two-horse race for the role alongside Scarlett Johansson. Personally, I wish it had »
- Brendon Connelly
Unreliable Indian Summer – A Wright Disaster!
20 October 2009 10:00 AM, PDT | FilmShaft.com | See recent FilmShaft.com news »
Spare a thought for British filmmaker Joe Wright whose last film, The Soloist was ushered into cinema screens with barely a poster or trailer to announce its arrival. As a sign of the increasingly troubled economic times facing Hollywood, Universal has put his next project “on hold”.
A co-production with Working Title starring Cate Blanchett – Indian Summer – was to be set amongst the aristocracy in colonial-era India before its independence from Britain in 1947.
According to Variety, Universal “balked” at the measly (by Hollywood standards) $ 30 – 40 million budget earmarked for the film. In an age of expensive flops and reliance on sequels and effects-heavy pictures, adult-orientated drama appears to be victim to studio cuts. The film once green-lit for production is now in limbo.
It remains to be seen what Joe Wright will do next. With the wonderful one-two punch of Pride and Prejudice and Atonement under his belt, his moving to »
- Martyn Conterio
Universal Puts Joe Wright's Next Movie On Hold
20 October 2009 9:54 AM, PDT | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »
Joe Wright's last attempt at tasteful, upscale adult entertainment, The Soloist, was a mess in pretty much every sense-- first it was pushed back from an awards season slot in 2008 to an April dumping ground, then it managed to only gross $31 million domestically for its efforts. It was really to be expected that the onetime boy wonder, whose first two features were the gorgeous Pride & Prejudice and Atonement, would have to cool his heels before taking off on his next cinematic adventure. So while it is a shame that Universal is calling off his next drama Indian Summer, because they're not willing to pay $40 million to finance it (this is the same studio that handed Land of the Lost a $100 million budget, remember), it's probably to be expected. Variety writes that Wright has decided not to cut the budget down to $30 million in order to start shooting on location »
Blanchett's 'Indian Summer' shelved
20 October 2009 4:19 AM, PDT | digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news »
Cate Blanchett's period drama Indian Summer has been shelved by studio Universal. Director Joe Wright (The Soloist) was to direct the film, which centred on Edwina Mountbatten, wife of India's last viceroy of the British Indian Empire Lord Mountbatten, and her alleged affair with India's first post-independence leader Jawaharlal Nehru. According to Variety, budget constraints and objections from the Indian government (more) »
- By Simon Reynolds
No Summer for Uni
20 October 2009 2:35 AM, PDT | JoBlo.com | See recent JoBlo news »
Cate Blanchett has been nominated for an Oscar four times in the past four years but her chances for 2010 have taken a hit. Universal has put the kibosh on her upcoming Indian Summer, which was scheduled to begin filming early next year. The project, set to be directed by Joe Wright (The Soloist), follows Edna Mountbatten who was the last viceroy of the British Indian Empire and oversaw the country's transition to.....zzzzzzzzzzzzz. Wait, they put the movie on hold?? I can hardly... »
- Mike Sampson
The Gotham Awards 2009 Noms Include 'Big Fan,' 'Serious Man,' 'Hurt Locker'
19 October 2009 2:02 PM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
IFP's Gotham Independent Film Awards kicks off the awards season in November each year with an impressive list of nominees, and this year's list is no different. While it includes big names like the Coens for A Serious Man and buzzy films like The Hurt Locker and Big Fan, it also gives deserving nods to smaller films like Amreeka, a wonderful film about a mother and son from the West Bank who move the Illinois. The awards also include tributes to the careers of Natalie Portman, Stanley Tucci, and The Hurt Locker's director Kathryn Bigelow, as well as producers Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner, who both worked on A Serious Man, The Soloist, State of Play, and a slew of other projects.
Previous Gotham winners include Frozen River, Trouble the Water, Into the Wild, Sicko, and Half Nelson, just to name a few. Check out Cinematical's preview coverage of the awards here. »
- Jenni Miller
Law Abiding Citizen Movie Review
19 October 2009 7:14 AM, PDT | Atomic Popcorn | See recent Atomic Popcorn news »
I tend to think of good stories as ones that take you somewhere, with someone to root for along the way. You may not like where it goes, but there is always a purpose in mind for the hero or heroine. Underdogs, rags to riches, triumph over evil, the prevailing of the human spirit, conquering the odds, etc., etc. Even in horror movies, where it’s all about death, you want to see the person getting chased find a way to get away – no matter how dumb they are. So, can a film be good without a champion to follow?
Law Abiding Citizen is implausible, discordant and although it is a suspense thriller, leans more towards the Saw horror franchise than something like last year’s Taken (Liam Neeson). And yet, I really liked it. It’s a pure revenge story that doesn’t let common sense or morality stand in its way. »
- Matthew
Jamie Foxx Eager to Bring The Funny With 'Hangover' Team
16 October 2009 12:00 PM, PDT | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »
Wasn’t “The Soloist” hilarious? Remember all those crazy scenes of Robert Downey Jr. spilling urine on himself, and Jamie Foxx acting like he might be insane? Ah, good times, good times.
Oh wait, “Soloist” was a drama? Well, now that you mention it, maybe I shouldn’t have been laughing so much. Either way, the good news is that Foxx and Downey Jr. are reuniting for a real comedy from the director of “The Hangover.” And this time, I’m pretty sure it’ll be okay to laugh.
“Yeah, it’s called ‘Due Date,’” Jamie Foxx said of the film, issuing some high praise for director Todd Phillips, who also made “Old School” a frat-house classic. “He is the funniest guy in the world.”
The flick will reunite Phillips with his “Hangover” leading man Zach Galifianakis to tell the story of a father-to-be (Downey Jr.) who is forced to »
- Larry Carroll
Where the Wild Things Are
16 October 2009 8:53 AM, PDT | The Scorecard Review | See recent Scorecard Review news »
Directed by: Spike Jonze
Cast: Max Records, James Gandolfini, Catherine Keener, Catherine O’Hara
Running Time: 1 hr 40 mins
Rating: PG
Release Date: October 16, 2009
Plot: Written by Jonze and Dave Eggers, and based on the children’s novel classic by Maurice Sendak’s. Where the Wild Things Are tells the story of Max (Records) and the magical world he encounters when he runs away from home and encounters a place where the wild things are, and he becomes king.
Who’S It For? Tough, tough call. If you’re all about the visuals then get in line. It’s a child’s perspective movie, but not necessarily a kid’s movie.
Expectations: Just like you, I have fond thoughts of Sendak’s kids book. But at the same time, I know that story doesn’t have much to it. I was expecting to be visually dazzled, »
- Jeff Bayer
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