This week on Indiewire, Sundance unveiled the last of their lineup, we sat down with Tilda Swinton and David Gordon Green to talk about their latest projects, Variety made a surprising announcement and much more. News Variety Launches IMDb Competitor Want the name of the second assistant hair stylist on "Hairspray"? The sound recordist on Lynn Ramsay's 1996 short film "Kill the Day"? Continuity errors in"Charade"? The list of characters played by Frank Oz in "The Great Muppet Caper"? You should go to IMDb. (Perhaps you've heard of it.) Now, Variety is launching an alternative. Montclair Film Festival Hits the Ground Running with Colbert and the Doc NYC Team Montclair, NJ, has 37,669 residents - one of them is Stephen Colbert - but no film festival. Until now, that is. This Year's EFPs Shooting Stars For the past 15 years, European Film Promotion (Efp) has showcased ten young actors who have...
- 12/9/2011
- Indiewire
Want the name of the second assistant hair stylist on "Hairspray"? The sound recordist on Lynn Ramsay's 1996 short film "Kill the Day"? Continuity errors in "Charade"? The list of characters played by Frank Oz in "The Great Muppet Caper"? You should go to IMDb. (Perhaps you've heard of it.) But since IMDb isn't always quick at updating projects, Variety thinks talent agencies or production companies will pay $1,000 per "seat" for access to Variety's Flix Tracker, which has a team of 150 people to investigate film credits and production information. Fast Company reports that Flix Tracker (which follows on the heels of Variety's acquisition of TV Tracker) is a database that doesn't trust crowdsourcing. Flix Tracker intends to compete with the internal tracking departments in Hollywood agencies and production companies. With Flix Tracker, Variety wants to use the reporting it already does,...
- 12/8/2011
- Indiewire
Lynne Ramsay won the 1996 Cannes Prix de Jury for her graduation film, the short Small Deaths. Her second short film, Kill the Day, won the Clemont Ferrand Prix du Jury; her third, Gasman, won her another Cannes Prix du Jury in addition to a Scottish BAFTA for Best Short Film. Ramsay’s debut feature Ratcatcher, won critical acclaim and numerous awards. She also won the Carl Foreman Award for Newcomer in British Film at the 2000 BAFTA Awards, the Sutherland Trophy at the London Film Festival and the Silver Hugo for Best Director at the Chicago International Film Festival. Morvern Callar made my list of the 100 best films of the aughts and she was rated number 12 in Guardian Unlimited’s list of the world’s 40 best directors working today. So yeah she sort of rocks.
Three clips have been released for her upcoming feature We Need To Talk About Kevin, starring...
Three clips have been released for her upcoming feature We Need To Talk About Kevin, starring...
- 5/9/2011
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
Production begins this week in Connecticut on the psychological thriller We Need To Talk About Kevin, which is being directed by acclaimed filmmaker Lynne Ramsay (Ratcatcher, Morvern Callar) and produced by Jennifer Fox (Michael Clayton, The Informant!), Luc Roeg (Mr. Nice) and Robert Salerno (21 Grams). We Need To Talk About Kevin was written by Ramsay and Rory Kinnear based on the novel by Lionel Shriver. The film stars Tilda Swinton, John C. Reilly and Ezra Miller. Presented by BBC Films and the UK Film Council in association with Footprint Investments Llp, Caemhan Partnership Llp and Lipsync Productions, the film is an Independent / Jennifer Fox production in association with Artina Films and Forward Films. The announcement was made today by Independent, who also holds the international rights to the film.
The film was developed by BBC Films¹ Creative Director Christine Langan (The Damned United, Bright Star) with Paula Jalfon (In The Loop,...
The film was developed by BBC Films¹ Creative Director Christine Langan (The Damned United, Bright Star) with Paula Jalfon (In The Loop,...
- 4/23/2010
- by Staff
- Hollywoodnews.com
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