Exclusive: Miramax’s high-profile TV series remake of Robert Altmann’s Prêt-à-Porter has shifted development from Paramount+ to the BBC.
Deadline understands the project from The Great writer Ava Pickett is now in early-stage development with the British public broadcaster and Paramount+ is no longer involved. The BBC project is in its early stages and hasn’t yet set cast.
Titled Ready to Wear in the U.S., Altmann’s Prêt-à-Porter celebrates its 30th anniversary next year and the movie featured an ensemble cast including Sophia Loren, Kim Basinger, Lauren Bacall, Julia Roberts, Tim Robbins, Forest Whitaker, Katarzyna Figura, Anouk Aimée, François Cluzet, Marcello Mastroianni and Tracey Ullman. The Miramax-distributed film chronicled the interconnected lives of a group of people in the lead-up to the Paris Fashion Week, where models, designers, reporters and fashion editors gather to present next year’s trends.
The BBC version is understood to be seeking...
Deadline understands the project from The Great writer Ava Pickett is now in early-stage development with the British public broadcaster and Paramount+ is no longer involved. The BBC project is in its early stages and hasn’t yet set cast.
Titled Ready to Wear in the U.S., Altmann’s Prêt-à-Porter celebrates its 30th anniversary next year and the movie featured an ensemble cast including Sophia Loren, Kim Basinger, Lauren Bacall, Julia Roberts, Tim Robbins, Forest Whitaker, Katarzyna Figura, Anouk Aimée, François Cluzet, Marcello Mastroianni and Tracey Ullman. The Miramax-distributed film chronicled the interconnected lives of a group of people in the lead-up to the Paris Fashion Week, where models, designers, reporters and fashion editors gather to present next year’s trends.
The BBC version is understood to be seeking...
- 10/23/2023
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
On the JoBlo Movies YouTube channel, we will be posting one full movie every day of the week, giving viewers the chance to watch them entirely free of charge. Every movie we shared in the month of October was in the horror genre, but now that Halloween season has passed we’re drifting into another genre with today’s Free Movie of the Day. Today’s selection is the Polish action movie Diablo: The Ultimate Race, and you can watch it over on the YouTube channel linked above, or you can just watch it in the embed at the top of this article.
Directed by Daniel Markowicz and Michal Otlowski, who also crafted the screenplay with Michal Kasprzyk, Diablo: The Ultimate Race has the following synopsis: A young man with a passion for fast cars tries to earn money for his sister’s medical care by participating in underground car races.
Directed by Daniel Markowicz and Michal Otlowski, who also crafted the screenplay with Michal Kasprzyk, Diablo: The Ultimate Race has the following synopsis: A young man with a passion for fast cars tries to earn money for his sister’s medical care by participating in underground car races.
- 1/27/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
A scene from the Polish drama Girls To Buy. Courtesy of Vmi Worldwide
The lurid title and poster for Girls To Buy, a mostly-subtitled Polish dramatic film, are rather misleading. This tale about sex workers is less erotic than suspenseful, playing out a lot closer to a Scarface than to an Eyes Wide Shut. The screen is filled with attractive women in alluring attire but there’s relatively little sex and nudity, compared to what one might expect from the subject being explored.
For those still interested, the action begins in 1999. Our protagonist, Emi (Paulina Galazka), wants to break into the high-end escort business, rather than spend her life like her mom – running a small drab shop in a small drab village. She finds a mentor with a gorgeous daughter already in the biz and hits the ground running.
Emi may look like a naive country girl but her brains...
The lurid title and poster for Girls To Buy, a mostly-subtitled Polish dramatic film, are rather misleading. This tale about sex workers is less erotic than suspenseful, playing out a lot closer to a Scarface than to an Eyes Wide Shut. The screen is filled with attractive women in alluring attire but there’s relatively little sex and nudity, compared to what one might expect from the subject being explored.
For those still interested, the action begins in 1999. Our protagonist, Emi (Paulina Galazka), wants to break into the high-end escort business, rather than spend her life like her mom – running a small drab shop in a small drab village. She finds a mentor with a gorgeous daughter already in the biz and hits the ground running.
Emi may look like a naive country girl but her brains...
- 7/11/2022
- by Mark Glass
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Robert Altman’s 1994 fashion industry satire Prêt-à-Porter is getting a TV series adaptation. Paramount+ is developing a series based on the feature comedy-drama, sources said. It comes from Miramax Television.
Co-written, directed and produced by Altman, the Miramax-distributed film, released in the U.S. as Ready to Wear (Prêt-à-Porter), chronicles the interconnected lives of a group of people in the lead-up to the 1994 Paris Fashion Week, where models, designers, reporters and fashion editors gather to present next year’s trends. (Watch the film’s trailer below.)
Written by Ava Pickett, I hear the series will focus on the next generation, revolving around young people on the first rung of success’ ladder. It is envisioned as an aspirational series about ambition thwarted, youth culture and identity in crisis, and fighting for what you want. Reps for Paramount+ and Miramax TV declined comment.
Like the movie, which featured a star-studded international ensemble cast including Sophia Loren,...
Co-written, directed and produced by Altman, the Miramax-distributed film, released in the U.S. as Ready to Wear (Prêt-à-Porter), chronicles the interconnected lives of a group of people in the lead-up to the 1994 Paris Fashion Week, where models, designers, reporters and fashion editors gather to present next year’s trends. (Watch the film’s trailer below.)
Written by Ava Pickett, I hear the series will focus on the next generation, revolving around young people on the first rung of success’ ladder. It is envisioned as an aspirational series about ambition thwarted, youth culture and identity in crisis, and fighting for what you want. Reps for Paramount+ and Miramax TV declined comment.
Like the movie, which featured a star-studded international ensemble cast including Sophia Loren,...
- 8/25/2021
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Polish Days is the industry event for the Wroclaw-based New Horizons International Film Festival (August 12-22).
Anna Jadowska’s Woman On The Roof was the winner of the third annual Screen International Best Pitch Award presented at this year’s Polish Days, the industry event for the Wroclaw-based New Horizons International Film Festival (August 12-22).
The €1.4m production, by Warsaw-based Donten & Lacroix Films with Paris-based Blick Productions and Sweden’s Garagefilm, is Jadowska’s latest feature film after Touch Me (2003), It’s Me (2005) and Wild Roses (2017).
She directed the Netflix series Ultraviolet 2.0. The Bear and a segment of its mini-series Erotica 2022,...
Anna Jadowska’s Woman On The Roof was the winner of the third annual Screen International Best Pitch Award presented at this year’s Polish Days, the industry event for the Wroclaw-based New Horizons International Film Festival (August 12-22).
The €1.4m production, by Warsaw-based Donten & Lacroix Films with Paris-based Blick Productions and Sweden’s Garagefilm, is Jadowska’s latest feature film after Touch Me (2003), It’s Me (2005) and Wild Roses (2017).
She directed the Netflix series Ultraviolet 2.0. The Bear and a segment of its mini-series Erotica 2022,...
- 8/18/2021
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
Never Gonna Snow Again (?niegu ju? nigdy nie b?dzie) Kino Lorber Reviewed for Shockya.com & BigAppleReviews.net linked from Rotten Tomatoes by: Harvey Karten Director: Malgorzata Szumowska. Co-director: Michal Englert Writer: Michal Englert, Malgorzata Szumowska Cast: Alec Utgoff, Maja Ostaszewska, Agata Kulesza Weronika Rosati, Katarzyna Figura,Andrzej Chyra, Lukasz Simlat Screened at: Critics’ link, NYC, 7/16/21 Opens: […]
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- 7/25/2021
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
"I heard you had great abilities, sir." Kino Lorber has released an official US trailer for the strange Polish drama Never Gonna Snow Again, which first premiered at the Venice Film Festival this year. We ran a teaser and a full trailer last year in the fall. On a gray, foggy morning outside a large Polish city, a masseur apparently from Ukraine named Zhenia enters the lives of the wealthy residents of a gated community. With his hypnotic presence and quasi-magical abilities, he is able to get a residence permit and starts plying his trade. The well-to-do residents in their own cookie-cutter suburban homes seemingly have it all, but they all suffer from an inner sadness, some unexplained longing. The attractive and mysterious newcomer's hands heal, and Zhenia’s eyes seem to penetrate their souls. Starring Alec Utgoff, Maja Ostaszewska, Agata Kulesza, Weronika Rosati, Katarzyna Figura. I'd say that comparison...
- 6/17/2021
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Wealthy, curtain-twitching suburbanites have formed the basis for many a TV show, but the Polish feature Never Gonna Snow Again proves the setting can be profoundly cinematic and esoteric, as well as darkly funny. Co-directing and writing with director of photography Michal Englert, Malgorzata Szumowska revels in blending genres in this acutely observed festival hit that is Poland’s submission for the 2021 International Oscar race.
Most of the action takes place in a gated community made up of identikit white mansions. We enter along with Zenia (Alec Utgoff), a quiet but charismatic Ukrainian masseur. Arriving in Warsaw with his massage bed slung over his shoulder, he hypnotizes an official into a slumber before rubber-stamping his own permit. As Zenia leaves the man’s office, the camera pans to show the needle of a record player, which magically springs into action.
The music? Shostakovich: the waltz that Stanley Kubrick used memorably in Eyes Wide Shut.
Most of the action takes place in a gated community made up of identikit white mansions. We enter along with Zenia (Alec Utgoff), a quiet but charismatic Ukrainian masseur. Arriving in Warsaw with his massage bed slung over his shoulder, he hypnotizes an official into a slumber before rubber-stamping his own permit. As Zenia leaves the man’s office, the camera pans to show the needle of a record player, which magically springs into action.
The music? Shostakovich: the waltz that Stanley Kubrick used memorably in Eyes Wide Shut.
- 12/6/2020
- by Anna Smith
- Deadline Film + TV
Malgorzata Szumowska and Michal Englert’s “Never Gonna Snow Again,” one of the buzziest titles out of the Venice Film Festival, has found distribution in the U.K., Italy and Germany.
Following what’s understood to have been a competitive process with wide interest, Picturehouse Entertainment has swooped for U.K./Eire rights. I Wonder has bought the film for Italy, and Real Fiction are on board for Germany. The film is sold internationally by The Match Factory.
“Never Gonna Snow Again” world premiered in Venice on Sept. 7 to critical acclaim. The film tells the story of masseur Zhenia, who hails from the Ukrainian city of Pripyat, which was deeply affected by the nearby Chernobyl blast. Zhenia enters the lives of the rich but troubled residents of a bland, walled-off community in Poland, where he begins to heal them with his hands and companionship, and changes their lives for good.
Following what’s understood to have been a competitive process with wide interest, Picturehouse Entertainment has swooped for U.K./Eire rights. I Wonder has bought the film for Italy, and Real Fiction are on board for Germany. The film is sold internationally by The Match Factory.
“Never Gonna Snow Again” world premiered in Venice on Sept. 7 to critical acclaim. The film tells the story of masseur Zhenia, who hails from the Ukrainian city of Pripyat, which was deeply affected by the nearby Chernobyl blast. Zhenia enters the lives of the rich but troubled residents of a bland, walled-off community in Poland, where he begins to heal them with his hands and companionship, and changes their lives for good.
- 9/9/2020
- by Manori Ravindran
- Variety Film + TV
The film is shooting in and around Warsaw and stars Stranger Things’ Alec Utgoff. Principal photography has commenced on Malgorzata Szumowska’s Wonder Zenia on location in and around Warsaw. The film stars Alec Utgoff in the title role, alongside Agata Kulesza, Maja Ostaszewska (Body), Weronika Rosati and Katarzyna Figura. "I’m really excited to work on this project with Malgo,” said Alec Utgoff. “Her passion and persistence are what attracted me most. I saw her most recent film — The Other Lamb — so beautifully shot and directed. I think this film is going to be striking and original, a real eye opener for audiences.” The screenplay is by Szumowska and her regular writing collaborator (and cinematographer) Michal Englert. The film tells the story of Zenia, an industrious Ukrainian migrant worker in Poland. Zenia works as a masseur who makes house calls...
- 12/18/2019
- Cineuropa - The Best of European Cinema
Malgorzata Szumowska, best director winner at the Berlin Film Festival for “Body,” has started shooting “Wonder Zenia,” starring “Stranger Things” actor Alec Utgoff, on location in and around Warsaw.
Utgoff, who played Alexei in the third season of Netflix’s “Stranger Things” and also appeared in “Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit,” stars in the title role in “Wonder Zenia.” The film also stars Agata Kulesza, who played “Red Wanda” in Oscar-winner “Ida,” Maja Ostaszewska (“Body”), Weronika Rosati and Katarzyna Figura.
Zenia, the film’s protagonist, is an industrious Ukrainian migrant worker in Poland who makes house calls as a masseur to the needy and aspirational residents of a middle-class gated community near Warsaw. He is privy to all of their problems, anxieties and secrets – and something of an unwitting guru figure. Zenia’s grounded spirituality, apparent healing powers and broad shoulders make him an object of lust for many of the lost souls in the community.
Utgoff, who played Alexei in the third season of Netflix’s “Stranger Things” and also appeared in “Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit,” stars in the title role in “Wonder Zenia.” The film also stars Agata Kulesza, who played “Red Wanda” in Oscar-winner “Ida,” Maja Ostaszewska (“Body”), Weronika Rosati and Katarzyna Figura.
Zenia, the film’s protagonist, is an industrious Ukrainian migrant worker in Poland who makes house calls as a masseur to the needy and aspirational residents of a middle-class gated community near Warsaw. He is privy to all of their problems, anxieties and secrets – and something of an unwitting guru figure. Zenia’s grounded spirituality, apparent healing powers and broad shoulders make him an object of lust for many of the lost souls in the community.
- 12/16/2019
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Robert Altman's murder tale reeks of insider access and Hollywood hipster Bs; its main claim to greatness is its fifty-plus star cameos. It may no longer seem as smart as it looked in 1992, but they don't make 'em any slicker than this. The Player Blu-ray The Criterion Collection 812 1992 / Color /1:85 widescreen / 124 min. / Available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date May 24, 2016 / 39.95 Starring Tim Robbins, Greta Scacchi, Fred Ward, Whoopi Goldberg, Peter Gallagher, Brion James, Cynthia Stevenson, Vincent D'Onofrio, Lyle Lovett. Cinematography Jean Lépine Original Music Thomas Newman Written by Michael Tolkin from his novel Produced by David Brown, Michael Tolkin, Nick Wechsler Directed by Robert Altman
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
Robert Altman's filmography is undergoing what looks like a full retrospective through Criterion; even the 1975 title Nashville came out not long ago. This very successful later picture marks a revitalization of the director's career. It's sort of a Kafkaesque spin on Hail,...
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
Robert Altman's filmography is undergoing what looks like a full retrospective through Criterion; even the 1975 title Nashville came out not long ago. This very successful later picture marks a revitalization of the director's career. It's sort of a Kafkaesque spin on Hail,...
- 5/31/2016
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
New films by Jerzy Skolimowski, Filip Bajon and Marcin Wrona are among selected titles.
The 40th Gdynia Film Festival (September 14-19) will feature a total of 18 titles in its main competition this year.
Jerzy Skolimowski’s Polish-Irish co-production 11 Minutes, starring Richard Dormer, Agata Buzek, Beata Tyszkiewicz and Mateusz Kościukiewicz follows the same 11 minutes in the lives of several different characters, while the action of Bajon’s Panie Dulskie is set in 1914, 1954 and the 1990s, with a cast including Krystyna Janda, Katarzyna Figura and Maja Ostaszewska.
Wrona will be in Gdynia with his surrealistic third feature, the Polish-Israeli co-production Demon, starring Itay Tiran, about a Polish gangster whose body is possessed by the spirit of a young Jewish girl.
The competition will also include Kinga Dębska’s My Sister and Bartek Prokopowicz’s Chemo, which are both showing in closed screenings at next week’s Polish Days during Wrocław’s New Horizons Film Festival (July 23 - August 2) as well...
The 40th Gdynia Film Festival (September 14-19) will feature a total of 18 titles in its main competition this year.
Jerzy Skolimowski’s Polish-Irish co-production 11 Minutes, starring Richard Dormer, Agata Buzek, Beata Tyszkiewicz and Mateusz Kościukiewicz follows the same 11 minutes in the lives of several different characters, while the action of Bajon’s Panie Dulskie is set in 1914, 1954 and the 1990s, with a cast including Krystyna Janda, Katarzyna Figura and Maja Ostaszewska.
Wrona will be in Gdynia with his surrealistic third feature, the Polish-Israeli co-production Demon, starring Itay Tiran, about a Polish gangster whose body is possessed by the spirit of a young Jewish girl.
The competition will also include Kinga Dębska’s My Sister and Bartek Prokopowicz’s Chemo, which are both showing in closed screenings at next week’s Polish Days during Wrocław’s New Horizons Film Festival (July 23 - August 2) as well...
- 7/21/2015
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
VENICE, Italy -- The first Pierogi Western, Summer Love is such an observant sendup of the Spaghetti variety that it falls into the trap of parody in becoming almost too serious for its own good. Shot on location in southern Poland and featuring mostly Polish actors but with English dialogue, the film is written, directed and produced by Warsaw-born first-timer Piotr Uklanski.
Screened out of competition at the Venice Film Festival, the picture will appeal to fans of Westerns and buffs who like to see movie conventions skewered.
Following the bare-bones structure of the Spaghetti Westerns, the film has the Stranger (Karel Roden) who brings the Wanted Man (Val Kilmer) into town to collect his bounty only to lose his reward in a bizarre bet with the Sheriff (Boguslaw Linda). There's the Woman (Katarzyna Figura) causing trouble and the Big Man (Krzysztof Zaleski) full of spite, and sundry other stereotypes.
Director of photography Jacek Petrycki (who has worked with Agnieszka Holland and Krzysztof Kieslowski), editor Mike Horton ("The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers") and composers Karel Holas and India Czajkowska make everything look and sound authentic.
There is plenty of violence, and lots of close-ups and strange angles as Uklanski has fun with the formula, though it's not trying to be Blazing Saddles. Typical of the filmmaker's dry sense of humor is that Kilmer, as the big Hollywood guest star, is dead throughout the picture.
Screened out of competition at the Venice Film Festival, the picture will appeal to fans of Westerns and buffs who like to see movie conventions skewered.
Following the bare-bones structure of the Spaghetti Westerns, the film has the Stranger (Karel Roden) who brings the Wanted Man (Val Kilmer) into town to collect his bounty only to lose his reward in a bizarre bet with the Sheriff (Boguslaw Linda). There's the Woman (Katarzyna Figura) causing trouble and the Big Man (Krzysztof Zaleski) full of spite, and sundry other stereotypes.
Director of photography Jacek Petrycki (who has worked with Agnieszka Holland and Krzysztof Kieslowski), editor Mike Horton ("The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers") and composers Karel Holas and India Czajkowska make everything look and sound authentic.
There is plenty of violence, and lots of close-ups and strange angles as Uklanski has fun with the formula, though it's not trying to be Blazing Saddles. Typical of the filmmaker's dry sense of humor is that Kilmer, as the big Hollywood guest star, is dead throughout the picture.
PALM SPRINGS -- Jerzy Stuhr, a great Polish actor who has made acclaimed films with Krzysztof Kieslowski, Agnieszka Holland, Krzysztof Zanussi and Andrzej Wajda, makes his ambitious second film as director a tricky but successful comic fable in which he plays four characters.
"Love Stories" is a visual delight and was a crowd-pleaser at the recent Nortel Palm Springs International Film Festival, but it faces tough competition as Poland's candidate for a foreign-language Oscar nomination. Still, the film deserves to go the select-site route domestically for savvy moviegoers unfazed by subtitles and nonlinear storytelling.
In each of the four short, engaging stories woven together like a cinematic quilt, a 45-year-old man is faced with unexpected turmoil and choices because of love: A university teacher becomes involved with one of his students, a sweet, pretty lonelyheart; an army colonel with a dreary life rekindles his passion for a former flame, a pretty Russian woman who then threatens his career; a teenage girl announces she is the daughter of a priest, forever changing his life; and, in his most colorful incarnation, Stuhr boisterously plays a passionate petty criminal in prison with an untrustworthy lover who lies to and blackmails him.
Stuhr, with the help of costume changes but no elaborate makeup, plays the four leads with subtle differences and broad strokes; he has rarely been more entertaining.
Inserted throughout are curious scenes in which the four men are interviewed by a pollster and reveal their feelings and convictions. The film becomes a morality play, in which some characters are punished and others are not, but Stuhr stays with a whimsical approach. His direction is superb, and excellent editing keeps the puzzle pieces smoothly into place.
LOVE STORIES (Historie mitosne)
Zebra Film Prods.
Canal Plus Poland, WFDiF
Credits: Writer-director: Jerzy Stuhr; Producers: Juliusz Machulski, Jacek Moczydlowski, Jacek Bromski; Director of photography: Pawel Edelman; Set designer: Allan Starski; Music: Adam Nowak; Editor: Elzbieta Kurkowska. Cast: Jerzy Stuhr, Katarzyna Figura, Dominika Ostalowska, Irina Alfiorowa, Karolina Ostrozna, Jerzy Nowak. No MPAA rating. Running time -- 87 minutes. Color/stereo.
"Love Stories" is a visual delight and was a crowd-pleaser at the recent Nortel Palm Springs International Film Festival, but it faces tough competition as Poland's candidate for a foreign-language Oscar nomination. Still, the film deserves to go the select-site route domestically for savvy moviegoers unfazed by subtitles and nonlinear storytelling.
In each of the four short, engaging stories woven together like a cinematic quilt, a 45-year-old man is faced with unexpected turmoil and choices because of love: A university teacher becomes involved with one of his students, a sweet, pretty lonelyheart; an army colonel with a dreary life rekindles his passion for a former flame, a pretty Russian woman who then threatens his career; a teenage girl announces she is the daughter of a priest, forever changing his life; and, in his most colorful incarnation, Stuhr boisterously plays a passionate petty criminal in prison with an untrustworthy lover who lies to and blackmails him.
Stuhr, with the help of costume changes but no elaborate makeup, plays the four leads with subtle differences and broad strokes; he has rarely been more entertaining.
Inserted throughout are curious scenes in which the four men are interviewed by a pollster and reveal their feelings and convictions. The film becomes a morality play, in which some characters are punished and others are not, but Stuhr stays with a whimsical approach. His direction is superb, and excellent editing keeps the puzzle pieces smoothly into place.
LOVE STORIES (Historie mitosne)
Zebra Film Prods.
Canal Plus Poland, WFDiF
Credits: Writer-director: Jerzy Stuhr; Producers: Juliusz Machulski, Jacek Moczydlowski, Jacek Bromski; Director of photography: Pawel Edelman; Set designer: Allan Starski; Music: Adam Nowak; Editor: Elzbieta Kurkowska. Cast: Jerzy Stuhr, Katarzyna Figura, Dominika Ostalowska, Irina Alfiorowa, Karolina Ostrozna, Jerzy Nowak. No MPAA rating. Running time -- 87 minutes. Color/stereo.
- 1/27/1998
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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