Want to vacation among Hollywood’s most glamorous? Just head to the Hôtel du Cap.
With the 2017 Cannes Film Festival kicking off May 17, stars are gathering at what is often dubbed the most exclusive hotel on the French Riviera — its full name is the Hôtel du Cap-Eden-Roc — to mingle and party throughout the nearly two-week long fest. And People Deputy Editor J.D. Heyman is giving you an inside look.
“This has been a Hollywood hotel since the beginning of the 20th century,” explains Heyman.
The hotel is a hot spot during Cannes. Last year, Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom all...
With the 2017 Cannes Film Festival kicking off May 17, stars are gathering at what is often dubbed the most exclusive hotel on the French Riviera — its full name is the Hôtel du Cap-Eden-Roc — to mingle and party throughout the nearly two-week long fest. And People Deputy Editor J.D. Heyman is giving you an inside look.
“This has been a Hollywood hotel since the beginning of the 20th century,” explains Heyman.
The hotel is a hot spot during Cannes. Last year, Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom all...
- 5/16/2017
- by Jodi Guglielmi
- PEOPLE.com
This story first appeared in the May 16 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. F. Scott Fitzgerald famously immortalized the breathtaking Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc, perched on a rocky promontory in the Mediterranean midway between St. Tropez and Monaco, when he wrote in his 1934 novel Tender Is the Night about "the large, proud, rose-colored hotel" on the French Riviera that "has become a summer resort of notable, fashionable people." Photos: Inside the Hotel du Cap For once, Fitzgerald understated it. For much of the past century, the world's most celebrated artists, writers, film stars and politicians
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- 5/11/2014
- by Dana Kennedy
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
From Siegfried Sassoon and Ivor Novello to Gore Vidal and Fred Astaire, a surprisingly large number of writers have paired off with film stars
On Monday, a raunchy letter from Ernest Hemingway to Marlene Dietrich – a surreal fantasy about her, reflecting what he called an "unsynchronised passion" that endured for more than 25 years – is part of an online auction of Dietrich's possessions. Although their relationship remained platonic, many other authors did have movie-star lovers …
F Scott Fitzgerald – Lois Moran
Fitzgerald's affair in the 1920s with this Zelda lookalike, a silent screen actor who was 17 when he first met her, infuriated his wife – she once threw a jewellery gift from him out of a train window while raging about Moran – but inspired Dick Diver's romance with the actor Rosemary Hoyt in Tender Is the Night.
Siegfried Sassoon – Ivor Novello
The war poet's relationship with Novello – now remembered mostly as a songwriter,...
On Monday, a raunchy letter from Ernest Hemingway to Marlene Dietrich – a surreal fantasy about her, reflecting what he called an "unsynchronised passion" that endured for more than 25 years – is part of an online auction of Dietrich's possessions. Although their relationship remained platonic, many other authors did have movie-star lovers …
F Scott Fitzgerald – Lois Moran
Fitzgerald's affair in the 1920s with this Zelda lookalike, a silent screen actor who was 17 when he first met her, infuriated his wife – she once threw a jewellery gift from him out of a train window while raging about Moran – but inspired Dick Diver's romance with the actor Rosemary Hoyt in Tender Is the Night.
Siegfried Sassoon – Ivor Novello
The war poet's relationship with Novello – now remembered mostly as a songwriter,...
- 3/14/2014
- by John Dugdale
- The Guardian - Film News
The 2013 Polaris Prize long list was announced today, June 13, in Montreal, revealing the forty Canadian albums that made it through the first round of the $30,000 critic-voted best Canadian album award.
“This year's Long List is all over the map, but in the best possible way,” said Polaris Music Prize founder Steve Jordan in a press release. “A lot of our jury expressed that this was the most difficult Polaris ballot they’ve ever submitted. The results of this careful and passionate deliberation will make for some truly engaging listening for music."
Indeed the music prize long list is incredibly eclectic, a testament to the diversity of Canadian music, and ranges from the popular electro-rock of Metric and noise-rock of Metz to electric powwow crew A Tribe Called Red and turntablist Kid Koala to the art-pop of The Luyas and the pop-pop of Tegan and Sara. While not entirely unexpected, the...
“This year's Long List is all over the map, but in the best possible way,” said Polaris Music Prize founder Steve Jordan in a press release. “A lot of our jury expressed that this was the most difficult Polaris ballot they’ve ever submitted. The results of this careful and passionate deliberation will make for some truly engaging listening for music."
Indeed the music prize long list is incredibly eclectic, a testament to the diversity of Canadian music, and ranges from the popular electro-rock of Metric and noise-rock of Metz to electric powwow crew A Tribe Called Red and turntablist Kid Koala to the art-pop of The Luyas and the pop-pop of Tegan and Sara. While not entirely unexpected, the...
- 6/13/2013
- by HuffPost Canada Music
- Huffington Post
The critics rained on Baz Luhrmann's parade but a star was born in Young and Beautiful, and Sofia Coppola hit a nerve with a film about a teen gang robbing the homes of Hollywood stars
Nicole Kidman is here in Cannes, so is Ang Lee, and Audrey Tautou, and a second-generation Jagger, and Justin Timberlake, and Cindy Crawford, and Cheryl Cole, and Pelé, and all of them have been rained on, stubbornly, for days. Rain at Cannes used to be rare, regulars say. Russell Crowe has an anecdote about sitting in a screening wearing sodden zip-ups back in 1991, and Bruce Willis got splashed by a freak wave in 2006 – but for a couple of decades straight, at least, this festival was a dry deal, screenings and parties staged outdoors, everyone "cooked to a turn" (as F Scott Fitzgerald described the local way of sunbathing). Then last year the roof of the Soixantième theatre blew off.
Nicole Kidman is here in Cannes, so is Ang Lee, and Audrey Tautou, and a second-generation Jagger, and Justin Timberlake, and Cindy Crawford, and Cheryl Cole, and Pelé, and all of them have been rained on, stubbornly, for days. Rain at Cannes used to be rare, regulars say. Russell Crowe has an anecdote about sitting in a screening wearing sodden zip-ups back in 1991, and Bruce Willis got splashed by a freak wave in 2006 – but for a couple of decades straight, at least, this festival was a dry deal, screenings and parties staged outdoors, everyone "cooked to a turn" (as F Scott Fitzgerald described the local way of sunbathing). Then last year the roof of the Soixantième theatre blew off.
- 5/19/2013
- by Tom Lamont
- The Guardian - Film News
As Baz Luhrmann's adaptation of F Scott Fitzgerald's classic bursts on to our screens, it's not hard to see why this cautionary tale of the decadent downside of the American dream has returned to haunt us, writes Sarah Churchwell
They called him an "ultra-modernist" and dismissed his books as overrated and forgettable, just "so much unnecessary evanescence travelling first class". When his third novel was published, on 10 April 1925, a characteristic review complained: "The boy is simply puttering around. It is all right as a diversion for him, probably … But why he should be called an author, or why any of us should behave as if he were, has never been satisfactorily explained to me." At the last minute, he had asked his editor if they could change the new novel's title to Under the Red, White and Blue, but it was too late. F Scott Fitzgerald's ultra-modernist...
They called him an "ultra-modernist" and dismissed his books as overrated and forgettable, just "so much unnecessary evanescence travelling first class". When his third novel was published, on 10 April 1925, a characteristic review complained: "The boy is simply puttering around. It is all right as a diversion for him, probably … But why he should be called an author, or why any of us should behave as if he were, has never been satisfactorily explained to me." At the last minute, he had asked his editor if they could change the new novel's title to Under the Red, White and Blue, but it was too late. F Scott Fitzgerald's ultra-modernist...
- 5/3/2013
- by Sarah Churchwell
- The Guardian - Film News
Baz Luhrmann's film of The Great Gatsby looks set to entertain, but it's Fitzgerald's life story that has to be seen to be believed
You can't open a newspaper these days without finding someone writing about F Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. I'm not complaining. Gatsby is the novel – almost a prose poem – I reread every year, and I never tire of its backstory. Although everything I've seen about Baz Luhrmann's forthcoming film fills me with anxiety, I'll be among the first to go and see it. Cinema and Fitzgerald could make an ideal marriage. Why shouldn't a movie director re-imagine 1920s West Egg and give us his reinterpretation of what Fitzgerald christened "The Jazz Age"? It can't, or won't, be the novel, but it might capture something of the madness in which Fitzgerald found himself.
The writer was great that way. A party animal with a...
You can't open a newspaper these days without finding someone writing about F Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. I'm not complaining. Gatsby is the novel – almost a prose poem – I reread every year, and I never tire of its backstory. Although everything I've seen about Baz Luhrmann's forthcoming film fills me with anxiety, I'll be among the first to go and see it. Cinema and Fitzgerald could make an ideal marriage. Why shouldn't a movie director re-imagine 1920s West Egg and give us his reinterpretation of what Fitzgerald christened "The Jazz Age"? It can't, or won't, be the novel, but it might capture something of the madness in which Fitzgerald found himself.
The writer was great that way. A party animal with a...
- 5/1/2013
- by Robert McCrum
- The Guardian - Film News
It seems Hollywood is in the full blown grip of F. Scott Fitzgerald fever, or they're at least reading "The Great Gatsby" again. Of course, there is Baz Luhrmann's ambitious adaptation dropping next month, but if you're looking to catch up with the source material without having to actually read anything, Jake Gyllenhaal is here to help. The actor has lent his pipes to a new audiobook edition of the novel that is just the first in what is described as a series of "definitive recordings of the Fitzgerald canon in association with the Fitzgerald Estate." And yes, this is an official tie-in with the movie, with the audiobook dropping on May 7th -- just three days before the multiplex version hits theaters. But we presume this won't be accompanied by a Jay-z produced soundtrack. Take a listen to the samples below and if you dig it, "Tender is the Night...
- 4/15/2013
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Jake Gyllenhaal's reading of The Great Gatsby for Audible.com is coming out at a time when there's a lot of attention being paid to the book and to Hollywood.
It's the first in a series of what the Amazon-owned company calls "definitive recordings of the Fitzgerald canon in association with the Fitzgerald Estate." Successive titles will include Tender is the Night and The Love of the Last Tycoon.
Hear a clip from Gyllenhaal's portrayal below:...
It's the first in a series of what the Amazon-owned company calls "definitive recordings of the Fitzgerald canon in association with the Fitzgerald Estate." Successive titles will include Tender is the Night and The Love of the Last Tycoon.
Hear a clip from Gyllenhaal's portrayal below:...
- 4/10/2013
- by Andrew Losowsky
- Huffington Post
Los Angeles, CA (February 19, 2013) – Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment today introduced 23 new films to its manufacture-on-demand (Mod) series, Fox Cinema Archives. Designed for true collectors and film aficionados, Fox Cinema Archives goes deep into the studio’s vault each month to bring classic films featuring some of the biggest stars of the twentieth century to DVD for the first time. Launched in 2012, Fox Cinema Archives has seen the release of more than 140 films from the Studio’s library. Movie lovers can purchase previously released and new films from the Fox Cinema Archives series at major online retailers and at www.foxconnect.com. New titles available today include: Warlock (1959), 122 min. The town of Warlock is plagued by a gang of thugs, leading the inhabitants to hire Clay Blaisdell, a famous gunman, to act as marshal. Clive of India (1935), 94 min. In the mid-1700′s the East India Company has power over commerce...
- 2/22/2013
- by ComicMix Staff
- Comicmix.com
Composer and pianist whose work included film scores, opera and jazz cabaret
The composer Richard Rodney Bennett, who has died in New York aged 76, pursued multiple musical lives with extraordinary success. He was one of the more distinguished soundtrack composers of his era, having contributed to some 50 films and winning Oscar nominations for his work on Far from the Madding Crowd (1967), Nicholas and Alexandra (1971) and Murder on the Orient Express (1974).
But it scarcely seemed credible that this knack for writing for a mainstream audience in a melodic, romantic style co-existed with his mastery of serialism and 12-tone techniques. From 1957 to 1959, Bennett was a scholarship student with Pierre Boulez in Paris and soaked up the latter's total serialism techniques as well as his infatuation with the German avant garde. He also attended the summer schools at Darmstadt, the mecca for diehard atonalists.
His tremendous facility as a pianist would prompt the...
The composer Richard Rodney Bennett, who has died in New York aged 76, pursued multiple musical lives with extraordinary success. He was one of the more distinguished soundtrack composers of his era, having contributed to some 50 films and winning Oscar nominations for his work on Far from the Madding Crowd (1967), Nicholas and Alexandra (1971) and Murder on the Orient Express (1974).
But it scarcely seemed credible that this knack for writing for a mainstream audience in a melodic, romantic style co-existed with his mastery of serialism and 12-tone techniques. From 1957 to 1959, Bennett was a scholarship student with Pierre Boulez in Paris and soaked up the latter's total serialism techniques as well as his infatuation with the German avant garde. He also attended the summer schools at Darmstadt, the mecca for diehard atonalists.
His tremendous facility as a pianist would prompt the...
- 12/28/2012
- by Adam Sweeting
- The Guardian - Film News
Flat Rock Playhouse is teaming with veteran Broadway composer Frank Wildhorn For The Glory, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Wonderland and lyricist Jack Murphy on a brand new jazz age musical set in Asheville, North Carolina. Loosely based on F. Scott Fitzgerald, the hot Jazz Age novelist who wrote This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, The Great Gatsby, Tender Is the Night and The Last Tycoon, and his wife, Zelda. BroadwayWorld has a complete look at the show below...
- 10/11/2012
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Flat Rock Playhouse is teaming with veteran Broadway composer Frank Wildhorn For The Glory, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Wonderland and lyricist Jack Murphy on a brand new jazz age musical set in Asheville, North Carolina. Loosely based on F. Scott Fitzgerald, the hot Jazz Age novelist who wrote This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, The Great Gatsby, Tender Is the Night and The Last Tycoon, and his wife, Zelda. BroadwayWorld has a first look behind the scenes of the show, featuring interviews, show clips and more, below...
- 10/9/2012
- by BroadwayWorld TV
- BroadwayWorld.com
Flat Rock Playhouse is teaming with veteran Broadway composer Frank Wildhorn For The Glory, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Wonderland and lyricist Jack Murphy on a brand new jazz age musical set in Asheville, North Carolina. Loosely based on F. Scott Fitzgerald, the hot Jazz Age novelist who wrote This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, The Great Gatsby, Tender Is the Night and The Last Tycoon, and his wife, Zelda. BroadwayWorld has more photos of the show below...
- 9/28/2012
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Flat Rock Playhouse is teaming with veteran Broadway composer Frank Wildhorn For The Glory, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Wonderland and lyricist Jack Murphy on a brand new jazz age musical set in Asheville, North Carolina. Loosely based on F. Scott Fitzgerald, the hot Jazz Age novelist who wrote This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, The Great Gatsby, Tender Is the Night and The Last Tycoon, and his wife, Zelda. BroadwayWorld has a sneak peek at Lauren Kennedy and Tony Award Winner, Jarrod Emick. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the show below...
- 9/19/2012
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
Flat Rock Playhouse is teaming with veteran Broadway composer Frank Wildhorn For The Glory, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Wonderland and lyricist Jack Murphy on a brand new jazz age musical set in Asheville, North Carolina. Loosely based on F. Scott Fitzgerald, the hot Jazz Age novelist who wrote This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, The Great Gatsby, Tender Is the Night and The Last Tycoon, and his wife, Zelda. BroadwayWorld has a sneak peek at Lauren Kennedy and Tony Award Winner, Jarrod Emick. Check out the photos below...
- 9/5/2012
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
New stage and film adaptations of The Great Gatsby attest to Scott Fitzgerald's enduring brilliance and his relevance to our boom and bust age
In one of his most famous and personal obiter dicta, F Scott Fitzgerald once bitterly observed: "There are no second acts in American lives." The author of The Great Gatsby, arguably the supreme American novel of the 20th century, knew what he was talking about.
Few writers have ever enjoyed a more brilliant first act. Fitzgerald's 1925 debut was sensational in a way that's only possible in a feverish, self-inventing society such as the Us. This Side of Paradise was a first novel whose language, characters and attitude haunted the Jazz Age (Fitzgerald's phrase) like a hit song. A five-year creative spree followed, culminating in the book originally titled "Trimalchio in West Egg". As The Great Gatsby, it was a novel that had awestruck critics, led by the young Ts Eliot,...
In one of his most famous and personal obiter dicta, F Scott Fitzgerald once bitterly observed: "There are no second acts in American lives." The author of The Great Gatsby, arguably the supreme American novel of the 20th century, knew what he was talking about.
Few writers have ever enjoyed a more brilliant first act. Fitzgerald's 1925 debut was sensational in a way that's only possible in a feverish, self-inventing society such as the Us. This Side of Paradise was a first novel whose language, characters and attitude haunted the Jazz Age (Fitzgerald's phrase) like a hit song. A five-year creative spree followed, culminating in the book originally titled "Trimalchio in West Egg". As The Great Gatsby, it was a novel that had awestruck critics, led by the young Ts Eliot,...
- 2/5/2012
- by Robert McCrum
- The Guardian - Film News
Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris is a cinematic tour of a golden age of art and literature. But who are the characters and why do they matter?
Gertrude Stein was a wealthy American art collector and writer who – by her own account in The Autobiography of Alice B Toklas – dominated the Paris avant garde in the days of Picasso. She was undoubtedly one of Picasso's boldest collectors, his only real female friend (her being gay got him past his normally tyrannous libido) and the object of one of his most revolutionary paintings. Picasso's Portrait of Gertrude Stein, which hangs on her wall in the film, gives her the face of a stone idol. She wears a mask of her own in her modernist literary classic that portrays herself through the eyes of her lover Alice B Toklas. Stein embodies, in her own writings and Picasso's painting, the severity of high modernism.
Gertrude Stein was a wealthy American art collector and writer who – by her own account in The Autobiography of Alice B Toklas – dominated the Paris avant garde in the days of Picasso. She was undoubtedly one of Picasso's boldest collectors, his only real female friend (her being gay got him past his normally tyrannous libido) and the object of one of his most revolutionary paintings. Picasso's Portrait of Gertrude Stein, which hangs on her wall in the film, gives her the face of a stone idol. She wears a mask of her own in her modernist literary classic that portrays herself through the eyes of her lover Alice B Toklas. Stein embodies, in her own writings and Picasso's painting, the severity of high modernism.
- 10/12/2011
- by Jonathan Jones
- The Guardian - Film News
Ralph Bellamy, Greer Garson, Sunrise at Campobello Ralph Bellamy was what many would call a "dependable" player: always there (nearly 100 movies), always capable, (almost) always losing the girl. Why Bellamy never became a major movie star is beyond me — especially considering that guys like James Stewart, Fred MacMurray, Dick Powell, Don Ameche, Joseph Cotten, etc. were top leading men of that era. Perhaps Bellamy was just both too good-looking and too intelligent-looking to keep Ginger Rogers from Fred Astaire (Carefree), Irene Dunne and Rosalind Russell from Cary Grant (The Awful Truth and His Girl Friday, respectively), and Anna Sten from Gary Cooper (The Wedding Night). All four films — in addition to 11 other Ralph Bellamy movies — will be presented on Turner Classic Movies on Sunday, August 14, as part of TCM's "Summer Under the Stars" film series. [Ralph Bellamy Movie Schedule.] Unfortunately, there are no TCM premieres, but included are a few lesser-known titles, e.g.
- 8/14/2011
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Whether hosting a Paris bash for Stravinsky’s latest ballet, visiting the Cole Porters in Venice, or summering with Picasso on the Riviera, Gerald and Sara Murphy brought their incandescent American energy, passion for art, and substantial fortunes to the playgrounds of 1920s Europe. As a new exhibition focuses on the couple, and Gerald’s painting, John Richardson explores the shadows of their gorgeous life, immortalized in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Tender Is the Night.
- 3/22/2011
- Vanity Fair
Van Johnson, Elizabeth Taylor in Richard Brooks' The Last Time I Saw Paris (top); Alice Terry, Antonio Moreno in Rex Ingram's Mare Nostrum (middle); Gina Lollobrigida (bottom) F. Scott Fitzgerald, Rex Ingram, and Gina Lollobrigida. No, not together again — or ever, for that matter. But samples of their individual works can all be found this evening on Turner Classic Movies. Right now, TCM is showing Henry King's Tender Is the Night (1962), Jennifer Jones' swan song as a major movie star. Jones was criticized for being too old to play the film's young heroine Nicole Diver — and at 42 or so she surely was. Having said that, let me add that I enjoyed her performance all the same. Coincidentally, I'm currently reading Richard Buller's biography of silent-film actress Lois Moran (the young daughter in the 1925 version of Stella Dallas), who befriended F. Scott Fitzgerald in the late 1920s...
- 12/6/2010
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Jesse Wigutow, the writer of It Runs in the Family , has been hired to draft Summit Entertainment's The Osterman Weekend , reports Variety . The film, based on the espionage thriller by Robert Ludlum, was previously adapted into a film by Sam Peckinpah (his final work) in 1983. Wigutow also worked, uncredited, on the script to 8 Mile and is currently working on the F. Scott Fitzgerald adaptation Tender is the Night and the Steve McQueen biopic, Divorcees .
- 9/3/2010
- Comingsoon.net
By Peter McAlevey
Who said American lives (or those of transplanted Englishmen) have no second acts?
That’s right, it was F. Scott Fitzgerald, after his most acclaimed novel, “The Great Gatsby.” Just a few years later, he published what he considered his best novel, “Tender Is the Night.” Unfortunately, at the height of the Depression, America was less interested of the travails of the rich. It sank without a trace. Hence his melancholia.
If Scott Fitz had lived only a couple more years, he might have revised his opinion. His posthumous Hollywood novel “The L...
Who said American lives (or those of transplanted Englishmen) have no second acts?
That’s right, it was F. Scott Fitzgerald, after his most acclaimed novel, “The Great Gatsby.” Just a few years later, he published what he considered his best novel, “Tender Is the Night.” Unfortunately, at the height of the Depression, America was less interested of the travails of the rich. It sank without a trace. Hence his melancholia.
If Scott Fitz had lived only a couple more years, he might have revised his opinion. His posthumous Hollywood novel “The L...
- 4/28/2010
- by Lisa Horowitz
- The Wrap
Keira Knightley and Matt Damon look set to star in a movie version of F Scott Fitzgerald's novel Tender Is The Night.
David Nicholls, who wrote the scripts for Starter For 10 and Simpatico, has adapted the screenplay and 20th Century Fox has offered Keira and Matt the lead roles, according to Pajiba.
The story follows the psychological disintegration of a young married American couple on the French Riviera in the 1920s.
Matt would play Dick, a promising young doctor living off the money of his wealthy wife Nicole, played by Keira.
There is currently no director attached. The book was previously adapted for the big screen in 1962.
David Nicholls, who wrote the scripts for Starter For 10 and Simpatico, has adapted the screenplay and 20th Century Fox has offered Keira and Matt the lead roles, according to Pajiba.
The story follows the psychological disintegration of a young married American couple on the French Riviera in the 1920s.
Matt would play Dick, a promising young doctor living off the money of his wealthy wife Nicole, played by Keira.
There is currently no director attached. The book was previously adapted for the big screen in 1962.
- 4/23/2010
- by David Bentley
- The Geek Files
At the same time Hollywood is digging up old movies and TV shows for big screen updates, some studios are having trouble keeping the properties they've already established. For example, because MGM owes billions of dollars, we're not getting a James Bond movie for quite a while. Hard to figure that the most enduring movie franchise ever (without any question) can't get made right now.
Then there's Inside Man 2. The first one was very good and profitable. Somehow, that's not enough for a sequel. but hey, at least we'll get an I Dream of Jeannie movie. That's a plus, huh?
No 007 until MGM sorts out its financial mess
Speaking of financial messes, Kick-Ass scored a pyrrhic victory at the box office
More Men in Black
Video: The Onion takes a good-natured jab at Gwyneth Paltrow
Spike Lee confirms that there won't be an Inside Man 2
Also from the taketh away...
Then there's Inside Man 2. The first one was very good and profitable. Somehow, that's not enough for a sequel. but hey, at least we'll get an I Dream of Jeannie movie. That's a plus, huh?
No 007 until MGM sorts out its financial mess
Speaking of financial messes, Kick-Ass scored a pyrrhic victory at the box office
More Men in Black
Video: The Onion takes a good-natured jab at Gwyneth Paltrow
Spike Lee confirms that there won't be an Inside Man 2
Also from the taketh away...
- 4/23/2010
- by Colin Boyd
- GetTheBigPicture.net
Mama always said, "Casting Tidbits was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get." First up, Robert De Niro may reunite with Sean Penn for the first time since they worked together on the disastrous comedy We're No Angels. The potential reunion would have them star with Frances McDormand in This Must Be the Place, the next film from writer/director Paolo Sorrentino (of Il Divo). The story follows a retired rock star who decides to track down and kill the ex-Nazi war criminal who executed his father. Though we know De Niro is up for a character named Mordecai Levi, we don't know much else yet. Next, Pajiba reports Matt Damon and Keira Knightley have both been offered the lead roles in Tender is the Night, a film based on the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel of the same name. The film doesn't sound like anything...
- 4/22/2010
- by Ethan Anderton
- firstshowing.net
You remember Keira Knightley, right? Thin, attractive British girl with those unreal cheekbones? She hasn't been on screen in the Us in over a year and it'll be a little while longer before she shows back up, but the Oscar nominee is quietly putting together some more heavy duty projects, which I've said many times before most actresses her age and with her name recognition probably wouldn't do.
Instead of Thingee Blah Blah 4, she makes Atonement or The Duchess and pushes herself. Kudos.
She has six projects in various stages of production at the moment, one of which is The Beautiful and the Damned, in which she'll play Zelda Sayre, the troubled wife of novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald. Now Pajiba reports that Keira and Matt Damon have been offered starring roles in an adaptation of that same F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender is the Night.
Instead of Thingee Blah Blah 4, she makes Atonement or The Duchess and pushes herself. Kudos.
She has six projects in various stages of production at the moment, one of which is The Beautiful and the Damned, in which she'll play Zelda Sayre, the troubled wife of novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald. Now Pajiba reports that Keira and Matt Damon have been offered starring roles in an adaptation of that same F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender is the Night.
- 4/22/2010
- by Colin Boyd
- GetTheBigPicture.net
With the passing of F. Scott Fitzgerald, the author’s work has become immensely popular adaptation fodder for Hollywood CEOs.
The Great Gatsby has had a hell of a road trying to get to the big screen, but now, according to Pajiba, the follow up to that legendary novel, Tender Is The Night, has reportedly found its two leads. The outlet is reporting that Matt Damon and Keira Knightley have been offered the lead roles in 20th Century Fox’s adaptation of the novel, which follows a young psychoanalyst who lives in a villa on the French Riviera with his heiress patient-turned-lover.
Read more on Matt Damon and Keira Knightley in talks to take leads in Tender Is The Night…...
The Great Gatsby has had a hell of a road trying to get to the big screen, but now, according to Pajiba, the follow up to that legendary novel, Tender Is The Night, has reportedly found its two leads. The outlet is reporting that Matt Damon and Keira Knightley have been offered the lead roles in 20th Century Fox’s adaptation of the novel, which follows a young psychoanalyst who lives in a villa on the French Riviera with his heiress patient-turned-lover.
Read more on Matt Damon and Keira Knightley in talks to take leads in Tender Is The Night…...
- 4/21/2010
- by Joshua Brunsting
- GordonandtheWhale
It might be time for more F. Scott Fitzgerald. While Benjamin Button didn't allow fans to revel in the author's literary mind very much, this new brew should change that. According to Pajiba, 20th Century Fox is prepping a new adaptation of Tender is the Night, which was last tackled in 1962 by Jennifer Jones and Jason Robards. David Nicholls (And When Did You Last See Your Father?) is said to have written the script, and the actors who have been offered (but haven't agreed to) the lead parts -- Matt Damon and Keira Knightley.
Tender follows an American couple living in the French Riviera in the 1920s. Dick is a doctor and psychoanalyst, and Nicole is his wealthy patient and partner (a story surely fueled at least in part by Fitzgerald's struggles with Zelda and her schizophrenia). It would be a treat to see Damon in the gig, but his...
Tender follows an American couple living in the French Riviera in the 1920s. Dick is a doctor and psychoanalyst, and Nicole is his wealthy patient and partner (a story surely fueled at least in part by Fitzgerald's struggles with Zelda and her schizophrenia). It would be a treat to see Damon in the gig, but his...
- 4/21/2010
- by Monika Bartyzel
- Cinematical
· Coming Soon found the first still from the upcoming Stephen Frears comedy Tamara Drewe, featuring Gemma Arterton as a sexy flirt.
· Slow your roll, everyone: Ken Marino wants a third season of the rapidly depleted Party Down, too, but Starz has to pull the trigger.
· Why does The Early Show hate weatherman Dave Price so much?
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· But is it a more intriguing pairing than Matt Damon and Keira Knightley in an adaptation of Tender is the Night?...
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· Al Pacino and Meg Ryan in Pretty Woman? That's hardly the weirdest example in Moviefone's 15 posters "re-imagined with the stars originally cast."
· But is it a more intriguing pairing than Matt Damon and Keira Knightley in an adaptation of Tender is the Night?...
- 4/21/2010
- Movieline
Matt Damon and Keira Knightley have been offered the lead roles in a film adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1934 novel "Tender Is The Night" for 20th Century Fox reports The Playlist.
Fitzgerald's last completed novel and his follow-up effort to literary classic "The Great Gatsby", 'Tender' follows the rise and fall of Dick Diver, a promising young psychoanalyst and his wealthy wife and patient Nicole who live on the French Riviera in the 1920's.
The novel explores both the power play and parasitic nature of relationships where one person becomes stronger by gradually destroying the other.
Damon and Knightley would play the Divers. Author David Nicholls is adapting the script but no director is yet attached.
The property has previously been adapted into a 1962 film with Jason Robards and Jennifer Jones, and a Dennis Potter-scripted 1985 BBC mini-series with Mary Steenburgen and Peter Strauss.
Fitzgerald's last completed novel and his follow-up effort to literary classic "The Great Gatsby", 'Tender' follows the rise and fall of Dick Diver, a promising young psychoanalyst and his wealthy wife and patient Nicole who live on the French Riviera in the 1920's.
The novel explores both the power play and parasitic nature of relationships where one person becomes stronger by gradually destroying the other.
Damon and Knightley would play the Divers. Author David Nicholls is adapting the script but no director is yet attached.
The property has previously been adapted into a 1962 film with Jason Robards and Jennifer Jones, and a Dennis Potter-scripted 1985 BBC mini-series with Mary Steenburgen and Peter Strauss.
- 4/21/2010
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Matt Damon is all set to star alongside Keira Knightley for a new period drama Tender Is The Night. The movie is an adaptation of F Scott Fitzgerald's classic of the same name. The Invictus star will reportedly play the role of a talented young doctor called Dick Diver, living on the French Riviera in the 1920s with his wife. A director is yet to be attached to the project, which will be produced by 20th Century Fox, Contactmusic reported. The movie, which so far has only a script written by David Nicchols, tells the tale of Dick as he ...
- 4/21/2010
- Hindustan Times - Cinema
A new 20th Century Fox conquest will see an adaptation of the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel Tender Is The Night and pretty young things Matt Damon and Keira Knightley are rumoured to be taking on the two central characters. The plot will closely follow the original story, set in the 1920s, of an American doctor called Dick Diver and his wife, who live on the French Riviera. The script will be adapted by David Nichols, best known for 2006's Starter For Ten.
The novel has been made into a film before: Jennifer Jones and Jason Robards starred in the 1962 version, which didn't make as big a splash as Fox will be hoping this new adaption will. It follows hot on the heels of another recent Fitzgerald adaptation - The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button - which was taken from one of the novelist's short stories.
However, neither actor has officially...
The novel has been made into a film before: Jennifer Jones and Jason Robards starred in the 1962 version, which didn't make as big a splash as Fox will be hoping this new adaption will. It follows hot on the heels of another recent Fitzgerald adaptation - The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button - which was taken from one of the novelist's short stories.
However, neither actor has officially...
- 4/21/2010
- Screenrush
Matt Damon is set to star in a new period drama alongside Keira Knightley. The 'Invictus' star - who already has three movies in the pipeline this year - has reportedly been offered a role in the movie adaptation of the F. Scott Fitzgerald classic 'Tender Is the Night', even though no director has been chosen yet by 20th Century Fox. The 39-year-old actor would play a talented young doctor called Dick Diver who lives on the French Riviera in the 1920s with his wife Nicole. The movie, which so far has only a script written by David Nicchols, tells ..
- 4/21/2010
- Virgin Media - Movies
20th Century Fox is developing a movie based on the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel Tender is the Night. David Nicchols (Starter for 10, Simpatico) wrote the script.
The top choices for the the central characters, and the two actors who have been offered the parts, are Matt Damon and Keira Knightley. Both, actually, are great for the parts: In the vein of Atonement and Revolutionary Road, it's about the psychological disintegration of a young married American couple on the French Riviera in the 1920s. Damon would play Dick, a promising young doctor and a husband to Nicole (Knightley), whose wealth puts him in a lifestyle not his own, and whose growing strength highlight's Dick's traumatic demise.
I've read the book (though I have not seen the 1962 version), and Damon and Knightley would be ideal. Will they actually accept? It certainly seems the sort of project Knightley cottons to; she was,...
The top choices for the the central characters, and the two actors who have been offered the parts, are Matt Damon and Keira Knightley. Both, actually, are great for the parts: In the vein of Atonement and Revolutionary Road, it's about the psychological disintegration of a young married American couple on the French Riviera in the 1920s. Damon would play Dick, a promising young doctor and a husband to Nicole (Knightley), whose wealth puts him in a lifestyle not his own, and whose growing strength highlight's Dick's traumatic demise.
I've read the book (though I have not seen the 1962 version), and Damon and Knightley would be ideal. Will they actually accept? It certainly seems the sort of project Knightley cottons to; she was,...
- 4/20/2010
- by Dustin Rowles
I’m right in the middle of a two-week trip to Maui. Anytime I go on a trip, I always bring classic books I never got around to – this trip I brought Tender is the Night and Master and Margarita – and I also bring along a few DVDs to watch on the plane and in my down time. My plan is to fill in the substantial cinematic gaps that I, like every cinephile, have.
- 6/1/2009
- Movie City News
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