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  • Mauritanian ‘Timbuktu’ sweeps Cesar Awards; Sean Penn gets honorary award

    Mauritanian ‘Timbuktu’ sweeps Cesar Awards; Sean Penn gets honorary award

    NEW DELHI: Abderrahmane Sissako’s foreign-language Oscar-nominated Timbuktu swept the 40th Cesar Awards in France with seven awards including the Best film and director prizes.

     

    The film also received awards for original screenplay (Abderrahmane Sissako, Kessen Tall), cinematography (Sofian el Fani), editing (Nadia Ben Rachid), sound (Philippe Welsh, Roman Dymn, and Thierry Delor), and music (Amin Bouhafa).

     

    Timbuktu was curiously overlooked at Cannes where it world premiered in competition. Although the movie is considered to be the first Mauritanian film in the running for a foreign-language Oscar, it was financed in France, produced at Sylvie Pialat’s Paris-based Les Films du Worso and distributed/sold by Jean-Labadie’s Le Pacte.

     

    Kristen Stewart was chosen supporting actress for her performance as Juliette Binoche’s assistant in Clouds of Sils Maria, becoming the first American actress to win a Cesar trophy.

     

    Xavier Dolan’s French-Canadian Mommy won best foreign film and the best actor and actress wins went to Comedie Francaise-trained Pierre Niney for his performance in Jalil Lespert’s film on the famed French designer Yves Saint Laurent and Adele Haenel for her role in Love at First Fight.

     

    Another picture on the designer by Bertrand Bonello, Saint Laurent, won best costumes award for Anais Romand.

     

    Love at First Fight, an unusual romantic comedy that takes place in an Army boot camp, also won best directorial debut for Cailley and male newcomer for Kevin Azais. The film also marks the first film of its producer, Pierre Guyard at Nord-Ouest. The film has been sold to all major territories and will be distributed in the United States by Strand Releasing.

     

    Up-and-coming thespian Reda Kateb, who previously starred in Zero Dark Thirty and Lost River, won best supporting actor for his performance as an intern in a Paris hospital in Hippocrate.

     

    Eric Lartigau’s dramedy blockbuster La Famille Belier, the most mainstream contender of this year’s race, earned its star Louane Emera a best newcomer award. La Famille Belier is still playing in theaters and has so far totaled more than 6 million admissions.

     

    Well-known American actor and director Sean Penn was presented an honorary Cesar award.

     

    Other awards were: Adapted Screenplay – Cyril Gely, Volker Schlondorff, Diplomacy; Set Decoration – Thierry Flamand for ‘The Beauty and the Beast’; Animated Film – Minuscule and Documentary – Salt of the Earth, Wim Wenders.

  • Javier Bardem may play the villains role in Warner Bros Peter Pan

    Javier Bardem may play the villains role in Warner Bros Peter Pan

    MUMBAI: Javier Bardem, the baddie from Skyfall and No Country For Old Men may soon be playing another negative character. Reports suggest that the actor has been approached by Warner Bros. for the role of the lead villain, Blackbeard for its untitled Peter Pan project.

     

    The actor was recently seen in Ridley Scott’s The Counselor along with his real-life wife Penelope Cruz and among others like Michael Fassbender, Cameron Diaz and Brad Pitt. He will next be seen in The Gunman with Sean Penn and Idris Elba.

     

    Warner Bros. is also in talks with Joe Wright to direct the film from the Jason Fuchs script. While till now the plot details are being kept under wraps, the announcement has garnered a lot of attention. The film is certain to bring back the characters created by Scottish novelist and playwright J. M. Barrie about a boy who can fly and never ages.

  • Sean Penn may don the director’s cap again

    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.

  • Sean Penn gets Peace Summit award

    Sean Penn gets Peace Summit award

    MUMBAI: Sean Penn, actor and founder and CEO of J/P Haitian Relief Organization has been presented with the 2012 Peace Summit Award at the recently held 12th World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates.

    Said Honorary co-chair of the World Summit Host Committee Mayor Rahm Emanuel “Chicago is honored to be the first North American city to host the World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates, and we look forward to welcoming distinguished guests from around the globe in April. The decision to host this event in Chicago reflects the profile of our city as an international leader in civic dialogue and community involvement. While the Summit is a global event, it will have a local impact and leave a lasting legacy on our city.”

    Penn has been honoured for “making an outstanding contribution to international social justice and peace,” according to a press statement.

    The three-day event was scheduled for April 23-25 in Chicago, IL, with eleven Nobel Peace Prize-winning individuals and nine Laureate organizations in attendance. Penn thanked the organization for its recognition of his efforts to assist the victims of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, and “his ongoing advocacy for peace and human rights protection worldwide.”

    “IThis is an extraordinary honor in an extraordinary moment on Earth. I‘m very grateful,” said Penn.

  • Sean Penn organizes charity for Haiti

    Sean Penn organizes charity for Haiti

    MUMBAI: 51-year-old Sean Penn recently hosted a benefit for the J/P Haitian Relief Organization. The event, called Cinema for Peace, was on the occasion of the second anniversary of the earthquake in Haiti.
     
    Subtitled Help Haiti Home with Sean Penn & Friends, the event was supported by Penn‘s friends that include Bryan Lourd, a partner at CAA; Jeff Robinov, the president of Warner Bros. Pictures Group; Oprah Winfrey, Bill Clinton and film stars like Demi Moore, Leonardo DiCaprio, George Clooney, Josh Brolin and Diane Lane, James Gandolfini, Hilary Swank, Orlando Bloom, Mel Gibson and Julia Roberts.
     
    Ms. Roberts said that Mr. Penn wrote her a “very long, eloquent letter” inviting her to participate in the evening. “At the end of the letter, he wrote, ‘So, wouldya?‘ How could I say no? You can‘t say no. And this is nothing compared to what Sean does for all these people.”
     
    In one of the more reported moments of the evening, Penn was named an Ambassador-at-Large to the country.

  • Toronto critics vote Tree of Life best film

    Toronto critics vote Tree of Life best film

    MUMBAI: The Toronto Film Critics Association (TFCA) has declared Terrence Malick‘s The Tree of Life as the best film of 2011. The director also received the best director trophy.

    The closest competition came from Michel Hazanavicius‘ The Artist and Alexander Payne‘s The Descendants, both major award contendersthis year.

    The Tree of Life, which stars Brad Pitt and Sean Penn, in the last week received best film honors from the San Fransisco and African-American film critics associations.

    While Michael Shannon was voted as the best actor for Jeff Nichols‘ Take Shelter, Michelle Williams lapped up the best actress award for her role as Marilyn Monroe in Simon Curtis‘ My Week With Marilyn.
     
    Christopher Plummer won for best supporting actor for his role in Mike Mills‘ Beginners while Jessica Chastain clinched the best supporting actress crown.

    The TFCA award for best screenplay went to Moneyball (Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin), while the best foreign-language film honor was given to the late Chilean director Raul Ruiz for Mysteries of Lisbon. Patricio Guzman‘s Nostalgia for the Light won for best documentary feature.

    British writer-director Joe Cornish‘s Attack the Block won the award for the best first feature while the best animated feature prize went to Steven Spielberg‘s The Adventures of Tintin.

  • PVR prepones release of The Tree of Life

    PVR prepones release of The Tree of Life

    MUMBAI: Going back on its earlier announcement that it would release Terrence Malick‘s The Tree of Life in August, PVR has now confirmed that it will release the film on 29 July all over India.


    Starring Brad Pitt, Sean Penn and Jessica Chastain, the film deals with the questions of the origin and the meaning of life.


    The American film won the Palme d‘Or at the 64th Festival de Cannes this year where it received mixed reactions from the audience and the press at Cannes.


    The Tree of Life happens to be the fifth film of Terrence Malick in his filmmaking career that spanned four decades.