MUMBAI: Keira Knightley is said to be in talks to join actor-director Kenneth Branagh‘s upcoming film Jack Ryan. It stars Chris Pine in the titular role while Knightley would play the leading lady.
Said to be a prequel to Tom Clancy‘s Jack Ryan novel series, the forthcoming film follows Pine‘s titular character who is a Moscow-based financial analyst.
In the race to bag the role, the actress beat several Hollywood beauties like Evangeline Lilly and Felicity Jones among others. This is the first time that Knightley will be collaborating with Branagh, who will also play a supporting role in the yet-untitled project.
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Keira Knightley bags leading lady role in Jack Ryan
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Danny Boyle set to make DVD of Olympics
MUMBAI: Slumdog Millionaire filmmaker Danny Boyle is working on a feature-length version of his London 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony that he wishes to bring out on DVD. The DVD will also try to shed light on some of the open questions surrounding the event.
“I hope to make things clearer on the DVD, giving people time to spot additional cultural references in the opening ceremony that people may have missed on TV,” he has reportedly said.
The DVD is also expected to include further video clips from a montage Boyle used, but had to cut short. “It will make more sense in this version,” he added.
Among other things, the DVD is also expected to include video clips from a montage Boyle used, but had to be cut short. “It will make more sense in this version,” the director vowed.
It wasn‘t immediately clear when Boyle would finish the DVD and when it would be available for sale. The long procession of the Olympic athletes during the opening ceremony will be accelerated on the DVD. -
The Girl From Nowhere wins Locarno’s Golden Leopard honour
MUMBAI: Jean-Claude Brisseau‘s low-budget and self-financed self-discovery drama La fille de nulle part (The Girl From Nowhere) won a cash award that came along with Locarno‘s prestigious Golden Leopard honor.
While Bob Byington‘s comedy Somebody Up There Likes Me won the special jury prize, the Cate Shortland‘s war drama Lore won the honour as the best film to screen at the fest.
Chinese director Liang Ying‘s Wo Hai You Hua Yao Shuo (When Night Falls), the true story of a man who killed six Shanghai policemen after being beaten for riding an unlicensed bike, was the only film to win two major awards: one for Liang as best director and one for Best Actress for An Nai, who played the killer‘s mother.
Walter Saabel won the award as Best Actor for his role in Der glanz des tages, while Camille Redouble (Camille Rewinds), a story about a middle-aged woman who mysteriously falls back in time to her high-school days from Noemie Lvovsky, won the Piazza Grande Award for films that screened in Locarno‘s main square. Lvovsky, who is a member of the main jury that awarded the prize to Brisseau‘s La fille de nulle part, directed and starred in her film.
Jury president, Thai auteur Apichatpong Weerasethakul described the film as “bold and entertaining.”
Among the festival‘s other awards, the main jury made a special mention of the character Candy, played by Cindy Scrash, in A ultima vez que vi Macau (The Last Time I Saw Macau) from Jo?o Rui Guerra da Mata and Jo?o Pedro Rodrigues. The jury applauded her “powerful presence through absence, which resonated.” -
The Dark Knight Rises still at No. 1 with $34.2 mn intake
MUMBAI: Fighting the hot temperatures in the UK and the Olympics, The Dark Knight Rises remained at the No. 1 spot with an intake of $34.2 million.
According to Warner Bros., the film is tracking 46 per cent ahead of the comparable take of its predecessor The Dark Knight “at today‘s exchange rates.” The Christopher Nolan film has grossed $445.3 million in foreign locales to date, $23.7 less than the overseas total amassed by the first version.
The film‘s top weekend markets included the UK, France and Brazil.
Opening in 13 foreign territories day-and-date with its No. 1 US debut was The Bourne Legacy, the fourth episode of the espionage franchise. The film drew $7.8 million from 694 locations — averaging nearly $11,300 per site — in Eastern Europe, India, the Caribbean and in Asia (Hong Kong, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Taiwan and Vietnam).
The film‘s top debut market was the Philippines followed by Singapore, while its No. 2 take was in Taiwan with an intake of $1.2 million from 67 sites for a per-location average of nearly $18,000.
The three previous Bourne titles had grossed a total of $419.6 million on the foreign circuit with the 2007‘s The Bourne Ultimatum leading with an overseas tally of $215 million. 2004‘s The Bourne Supremacy collected $112.3 million offshore while 2002‘s The Bourne Identity registered $92.3 million. -
Louis Tomlinson comes to financial rescue of his former football team
MUMBAI: Louis Tomlinson, who is known for his film One Direction, has purchased his former financially struggling soccer team Three Horse Shoes in Yorkshire.
“The team was struggling to get a new kit together for the new season, and it filtered back to Louis,” thesun.co.uk quoted a source as saying.
“He decided to put his hand in his pocket as long as he can be called the owner and get the odd game when One Direction‘s diary allows,” the source added.
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Locarno film fest honours Gael Garcia Bernal
MUMBAI: Gael Garcia Bernal, known for his film Motorcycle Diaries, has become one of the youngest actors to win a career achievement award at the Locarno International Film Festival in Switzerland.
The Mexican actor, whose career spans more than 20 years, said he still feels inexperienced as he accepted the Excellence Award at the annual movie event on Wednesday, according to a report.
A similar honour was given to veteran British actress Charlotte Rampling earlier in the festival that kicked off on 1 August.
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Justin Theroux to debut helm Swear to God
MUMBAI: Actor-writer Justin Theroux will helm Swear to God for Warner Bros. He will also rework on the script before hitting the floor of his directorial debut.
Will Ferrell and Steve Carell will star in the film. The former will play a narcissistic hedge fund manager who believes that he has seen God. Carell was recently seen in Seeking a Friend for the End of the World and Hope Springs.
The original script was penned by Alan Cohen and Alan Freedland who had earlier written for Due Date.
Theroux also wrote the script to Zoolander 2, with a view to directing the comedy sequel.
He also worked on the script to Rock of Ages and was last seen alongside girlfriend Jennifer Aniston in Wanderlust.
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Sean Penn may don the director’s cap again
MUMBAI: Penn, who last directed Into the Wild in 2007, is reportedly in talks to helm Crazy for the Storm, Warner Bros‘ adaptation of the survival memoir by Norman Ollestad.
The film tells the story of Norman‘s unique relationship with his father who forced him into the world of extreme surfing and competitive downhill skiing beginning at the age of three. But it was those close skills that allowed a 11-year-old Norman to survive a plane crash in the midst of a blizzard in the San Gabriel mountain.
Will Fetters has written the script for the adaptation that is being produced by Billy Gerber, Robn Weisbach and Fonda Snyder.
Penn, who is starring in Warners‘ Gangster Squad, has several projects in hand. Among them are The Comedian, a dramedy that stars Robert De Niro and Kristen Wiig. -
Brenda Camden of Fox Searclight no more
MUMBAI: Breena Camden, a veteran publicity and marketing executive of Fox Searchlight and 20th Century Fox , expired on 6 August in Rocklin, California after battling breast cancer. She was 49.
The executive worked in marketing and publicity for the studio and its Fox Searchlight division, on films like Sideways and 28 Days Later. During her career at the studio, she held a number of positions, which included posts in home entertainment and at the studio‘s specialty films division, Searchlight.
Camden was born in Chicago, Ill. on Oct. 1 in 1962. A graduate of Enterprise High School and a Bachelors Degree in Fine Arts and Communication, she began her career in the newspaper industry in Fullerton and then worked at both the Orange County Register and the Los Angeles Times.
Camden joined Fox as a senior publicist for domestic marketing in 1992 after stints at MGM and Orion Pictures.
She was promoted to executive vp, publicity and field marketing for Fox domestic theatrical marketing in March, 2006 and served in that position until she left the studio on Sept. 28, 2007.
Films that she was involved with included Searchlight titles 28 Days Later, Sideways, Napoleon Dynamite and Garden State as well as such Fox hits as The Simpsons Movie and Marley and Me.
Camden is survived her two sons, twelve-year-old Rayne and nine-year-old Trinity, along with her father Tom Jones, mother Penny Jones, sisters Kimberly Parks and Kari Giampaoli, brother-in-law Marty Giampaoli and several nieces and nephews. -
James Cameron in JV in China for developing 3D
MUMBAI: Filmmaker James Cameron has entered into a joint venture in China for developing and expanding the technology in the country.
The filmmaker‘s Cameron/Pace Group (CPG), that specialises in 3D technology, has partnered with two Chinese firms from the city of Tianjin, Tianjin High-Tech Holding and Tianjin North Group, it is learnt.
“The future of entertainment is 3D and we believe that the future of 3D is right here in China,” said Cameron in a statement adding that he was in the Chinese capital not as a director but as a businessman.
The noted director, who is convinced that the transition of the film industry from 2D to 3D is inevitable, believes that “China is the most fertile soil to plant that seed”.
“We are here to make movies better by working with film-makers here in China,” said Cameron. “We are here to give them the tools and the techniques to make the transition from 2D to 3D,” he added.
Cameron hopes to take advantage of a box-office explosion in China, where the film industry is booming and the number of cinema halls is on the rise, potentially offering one of the most lucrative markets in the world.
Cameron‘s Titanic and Avatar, incidentally, broke all records in China.