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  • Cate Blanchett to make directorial debut with The Dinner

    Cate Blanchett to make directorial debut with The Dinner

    MUMBAI: The film adaptation of Herman Koch’s novel The Dinner will see Cate Blanchett behind the cameras. The movie is produced by Cotty Chubb and the executive producers are Eva Maria Daniels and Olga Segura.

     

    The novel is about two families who are struggling to make a tough decision about their teenage childrens’ lives. The whole movie will happen over a dinner. The book became a bestseller in Europe in 2009.

     

    Oren Moverman who worked on ‘The Messenger’ is adapting the script. He is repped by WME and New York Office. Blanchett received acclaim for her movie ‘Blue Jasmine’, directed by Woody Allen. She is repped by CAA and RGM Artists.

  • ‘The Monuments Men’ commences production in Germany

    ‘The Monuments Men’ commences production in Germany

    MUMBAI: Columbia Pictures and Twentieth Century Fox have announced that ‘The Monuments Men‘, a Smokehouse production directed by and starring George Clooney, has started production in Berlin, Germany. The action-thriller is written by Clooney and Grant Heslov, based on the book by Robert M. Edsel with Bret Witter. Clooney and Heslov also produce the film through their Smokehouse Productions. It is their first production since winning the Academy Award for Best Picture for their work on ‘Argo‘.

    Barbara A. Hall is executive producer. ‘The Monuments Men‘ is a co-production with Germany‘s Siebente Babelsberg Film, a subsidiary of Studio Babelsberg AG. Charlie Woebcken, Christoph Fisser and Henning Molfenter serve as co-producers. Sony Pictures will release the film domestically, with Twentieth Century Fox handling international territories.

    The film stars Clooney, Matt Damon, Bill Murray, Cate Blanchett, Jean Dujardin, Bob Balaban, Hugh Bonneville, and John Goodman.

    Based on the true story of the greatest treasure hunt in history, ‘The Monuments Men‘ focuses on an unlikely World War II platoon, tasked by FDR with going into Germany to rescue artistic masterpieces from Nazi thieves and returning them to their rightful owners. It would be an impossible mission: with the art trapped behind enemy lines, and with the German army under orders to destroy everything as the Reich fell, how could these guys – seven museum directors, curators, and art historians, all more familiar with Michelangelo than the M-1 – possibly hope to succeed? But as the Monuments Men, as they were called, found themselves in a race against time to avoid the destruction of 1000 years of culture, they would risk their lives to protect and defend mankind‘s greatest achievements.

    Clooney‘s crew on ‘The Monuments Men‘ includes director of photography Phedon Papamichael, ASC, Oscar nominated production designer Jim Bissell, Academy Award winning editor Stephen Mirrione, A.C.E., costume designer Louise Frogley, and five-time Oscar nominated composer Alexandre Desplat.

    ‘The Monuments Men‘ films in Germany and the UK through the end of June. It is scheduled for release in the US on 18 December, 2013.

  • Cate Blanchett in talks to play evil grand mom in Cindrella remake

    Cate Blanchett in talks to play evil grand mom in Cindrella remake

    MUMBAI: It has been reported that Oscar winner Cate Blanchett is in talks to play the evil stepmother in Disney‘s live-action Cinderella remake produced by Simon Kinberg. The film will be directed by Mark Romanek (Never Let Me Go) with screenplay by Chris Weitz (A Better Life, About a Boy).
    The Cinderella project was first set up at Disney in May 2010, in the wake of the studio‘s success with Alice in Wonderland, the live-action adaptation of the Lewis C. Carroll book that starred Johnny Depp, Ann Hathaway Mia Wasikowska and Helena Botham Carter and was directed by Tim Burton. Devil Wears Prada writer Aline Brosh McKenna wrote the initial draft of the script.
    Blanchett was once set to play the evil witch in Disney‘s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs but that project failed to take off.
    The Australian actress‘ next appearance will be in The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, which hits the theatres on 14 December. She also has two Terrence Malick films and a Woody Allen project on the anvil. She has recently joined the star-studded cast of George Clooney‘s The Monuments Men.

  • The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug releasing on 13 December, 2013

    The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug releasing on 13 December, 2013

    MUMBAI: The final installment of Peter Jackson‘s Hobbit trilogy, officially titled The Hobbit: There and Back Again will release in July 2014.

    The film will open in two years time, just seven months after the release of the second film, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, it is understood. 

    “We wanted to have a shorter gap between the second and third films. Opening in July affords us not only the perfect summer tentpole, but fans will have less time to wait for the finale of this epic adventure,” Warner Bros President of domestic distribution Dan Fellman has been quoted to have said.

    Averred president of international distribution Veronika Kwan Vandenberg, “The Hobbit: There and Back Again will be an action spectacle and an emotional conclusion for this already much-anticipated trilogy. Opening in the summer will maximise playability for what promises to be an event film for fans the world over.” 

    The much anticipated adaptation of JRR Tolkien‘s epic novels about the adventures of Bilbo Baggins, which are set 60 years before The Lord of the Rings, will begin with The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug on 13 December, 2013.

    The film boasts an all-star cast including Martin Freeman, Sir Ian McKellen, Elijah Wood, Cate Blanchett and Orlando Bloom.