Patrick Wachsberger’s Picture Perfect Entertainment is launching international sales on Jan Kounen’s “The Incredible Shrinking Man” starring Jean Dujardin, the Oscar-winning actor of “The Artist.”
The ambitious film is a modern adaption of Richard Matheson’s science fiction novel, which was previously brought to the big screen by Universal Pictures in 1957 with Jack Arnold’s “The Shrinking Man.”
The French movie is being produced by Alain Goldman at Pitchipoi Productions and Picture Perfect, the vehicle launched by Wachsberger, the former co-chairman of Lionsgate who won a best picture Oscar for “Coda” in 2021.
Slated to start shooting in May 2024, the movie tells the story of a man who gradually shrinks to less than an inch tall after an exposure to a combination of radiation and insecticide. With medical science powerless to help him, brushes with cats, mouse traps and spiders become a matter of life and death, and he...
The ambitious film is a modern adaption of Richard Matheson’s science fiction novel, which was previously brought to the big screen by Universal Pictures in 1957 with Jack Arnold’s “The Shrinking Man.”
The French movie is being produced by Alain Goldman at Pitchipoi Productions and Picture Perfect, the vehicle launched by Wachsberger, the former co-chairman of Lionsgate who won a best picture Oscar for “Coda” in 2021.
Slated to start shooting in May 2024, the movie tells the story of a man who gradually shrinks to less than an inch tall after an exposure to a combination of radiation and insecticide. With medical science powerless to help him, brushes with cats, mouse traps and spiders become a matter of life and death, and he...
- 11/3/2023
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Disney’s “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse Of Madness” opened atop the U.K. and Ireland box office with a mighty £19.5 million (24.3 million), according to numbers released by Comscore.
Last week’s top ranking film, Universal’s “Downton Abbey: A New Era,” collected £1.5 million in second place and now has a total of £7.6 million after two weekends. In third place, Paramount’s “Sonic The Hedgehog 2” took £630,391 for £23.5 million after six weekends.
Another Paramount title, “The Lost City,” collected £468,402 in fourth place for a total of £8.6 million after four weekends.
Rounding off the top five was Warner Bros,’ “Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets Of Dumbledore” with £401,449 and now has a total of £19.5 million after five weekends.
The lone debut in the top 10 was Trafalgar Releasing’s filmed opera “Turandot – Met Opera 2022,” which bowed in ninth place with £110,203.
The upcoming weekend sees several keenly anticipated releases including A24’s action film “Everything Everywhere All at Once,...
Last week’s top ranking film, Universal’s “Downton Abbey: A New Era,” collected £1.5 million in second place and now has a total of £7.6 million after two weekends. In third place, Paramount’s “Sonic The Hedgehog 2” took £630,391 for £23.5 million after six weekends.
Another Paramount title, “The Lost City,” collected £468,402 in fourth place for a total of £8.6 million after four weekends.
Rounding off the top five was Warner Bros,’ “Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets Of Dumbledore” with £401,449 and now has a total of £19.5 million after five weekends.
The lone debut in the top 10 was Trafalgar Releasing’s filmed opera “Turandot – Met Opera 2022,” which bowed in ninth place with £110,203.
The upcoming weekend sees several keenly anticipated releases including A24’s action film “Everything Everywhere All at Once,...
- 5/10/2022
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Producer credits included Dobermann, La Pirogue, Fast Convoy, and Suburra.
French producer Eric Névé, whose varied credits included Jan Kounen’s Dobermann, Cannes Un Certain Regard title La Pirogue, and Italian organised crime thriller Suburra, has died at the age of 57.
Paris-based international sales company Indie Sales, which Névé co-founded with Nicolas Eschbach in 2013, put out a statement on Tuesday (23) announcing the producer’s sudden and unexpected death on July 21.
Having graduated in business finance from France’s Sciences Po and Paris-Dauphine universities, Névé got into cinema working for historic film company Ugc, state broadcaster film arm France 3 Cinéma,...
French producer Eric Névé, whose varied credits included Jan Kounen’s Dobermann, Cannes Un Certain Regard title La Pirogue, and Italian organised crime thriller Suburra, has died at the age of 57.
Paris-based international sales company Indie Sales, which Névé co-founded with Nicolas Eschbach in 2013, put out a statement on Tuesday (23) announcing the producer’s sudden and unexpected death on July 21.
Having graduated in business finance from France’s Sciences Po and Paris-Dauphine universities, Névé got into cinema working for historic film company Ugc, state broadcaster film arm France 3 Cinéma,...
- 7/24/2019
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Hotel Artemis is a stylish crime thriller with a grab bag of pulpy characters, cool quips, and teeth rattling action.
Whoa, after five years Jodie Foster comes out of her self-imposed acting semi-retirement to star in writer-director Drew Pearce’s debut passion project centring on a rogues’ gallery of wacky criminals hiding out in Hotel Artemis. It’s an old-school Hollywood boarding house, which doubles up as a members only and black market hospital. Foster brings her trademark steeliness underpinned by a haunting melancholy that has been her bread and butter since Taxi Driver (1976) to the almost nameless role of an agoraphobic nurse scraping by in the shadows of a riot-torn Los Angels in 2028. Yeah, it’s an interesting high-concept idea, but is it any good? Well, Pearce, who’s proven his action and cool quip mettle co-writing the Marmite of Marvel films Iron Man 3 (2013), delivers a stylish crime...
Whoa, after five years Jodie Foster comes out of her self-imposed acting semi-retirement to star in writer-director Drew Pearce’s debut passion project centring on a rogues’ gallery of wacky criminals hiding out in Hotel Artemis. It’s an old-school Hollywood boarding house, which doubles up as a members only and black market hospital. Foster brings her trademark steeliness underpinned by a haunting melancholy that has been her bread and butter since Taxi Driver (1976) to the almost nameless role of an agoraphobic nurse scraping by in the shadows of a riot-torn Los Angels in 2028. Yeah, it’s an interesting high-concept idea, but is it any good? Well, Pearce, who’s proven his action and cool quip mettle co-writing the Marmite of Marvel films Iron Man 3 (2013), delivers a stylish crime...
- 7/21/2018
- by Thomas Salmon
- The Cultural Post
Director Jan Kounen has been a favorite here at Twitch pretty much since the site's inception. Coming from an art school background and beginning with animated short films, Kounen has since carved a completely personal and unique career path, and proved himself impossible to pigeonhole. He established a cult following with his first feature, the hyper-stylized, ultra-violent gangster film Dobermann, but rather than following that up with more of the same, he has since made documentaries about Shaminism and Eastern spiritual figures, created a singular, mystic reworking of the Western with Blueberry (Aka Renegade), taken on the modern advertising world in 99 Francs and (deep breath) and chronicled an infamous love affair with the chamber-drama Coco Chanel and Igor Stravinsky.It's no surprise then that L'Etrange...
- 9/12/2012
- Screen Anarchy
Jan Kounen ("Coco Chanel and Igor Stravinsky," "Dobermann") is attached to direct the €18 million animated sci-fi 3D feature "Windwalkers: Chronicle of the 34th Horde" for Forge Animation says Variety.
Adapted from Alain Damasio's bestseller "La Horde du Contrevent", the English-language feature is set in a world buffeted by terrifying winds and follows an elite team's attempt to reach the land of Upper Reaches, where they believe the winds are generated.
Marc Caro ("Delicatessen," "The City of Lost Children") is serving as vfx and art supervisor while producters are currently in talks with another screenwriter.
Adapted from Alain Damasio's bestseller "La Horde du Contrevent", the English-language feature is set in a world buffeted by terrifying winds and follows an elite team's attempt to reach the land of Upper Reaches, where they believe the winds are generated.
Marc Caro ("Delicatessen," "The City of Lost Children") is serving as vfx and art supervisor while producters are currently in talks with another screenwriter.
- 6/8/2011
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Funs of the Sci-fi, this epic animated fantasy will blow your minds! It is a stunning adventure flick mixing 3D realism and 2D graphics, a hybrid of hard science fiction and heroic fantasy. What else to say besides Windwalkers — Chronicle of the 34th Horde is just what the doctor orders!
Jan Kounen (Dobermann) develops $26 mil adventure feature from Alain Damasio’s sci-fi novel La Horde du Contrevent that won Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire back in 2006.
Magali Helle wrote the initial script and the producers are now in negotiations with another screenwriter. Kounen has kept busy and helmed a teaser for the film as well. And, wow! Marc Caro (Delicatessen, The City of Lost Children) came on board to art direct the visual effects for the entire film.
Damasio has designed a world in which the wind is ever-present. The narration is not told from a single point of view...
Jan Kounen (Dobermann) develops $26 mil adventure feature from Alain Damasio’s sci-fi novel La Horde du Contrevent that won Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire back in 2006.
Magali Helle wrote the initial script and the producers are now in negotiations with another screenwriter. Kounen has kept busy and helmed a teaser for the film as well. And, wow! Marc Caro (Delicatessen, The City of Lost Children) came on board to art direct the visual effects for the entire film.
Damasio has designed a world in which the wind is ever-present. The narration is not told from a single point of view...
- 6/7/2011
- by Nick Martin
- Filmofilia
It’s a pretty good week to be Vincent Cassel.
Following the announcement that he would be starring in the awesomely titled sequel Dobermann 2: Arm Wrestle (sequel to Dobermann, a crime film starring Cassel), Cineurope has revealed that the actor will be starring in a new film, Le Capital. The kicker? It’s a financial drama being helmed by Costa-Gavras (Missing, Z).
The film is based off of a novel by Stephane Osmont, and will be “a behind-the-scenes look at the higher echelons of the banking world, where the thirst for money and power is masked as managerial rationality. Here we move in the circles of the economic elite and the international jet set between Paris, London, New York, Davos and Tokyo, basking in the artificial paradise of drugs, the artificial images of the Internet, the artificial bubble of fleeting fortunes, the artificial time of different time zones and...
Following the announcement that he would be starring in the awesomely titled sequel Dobermann 2: Arm Wrestle (sequel to Dobermann, a crime film starring Cassel), Cineurope has revealed that the actor will be starring in a new film, Le Capital. The kicker? It’s a financial drama being helmed by Costa-Gavras (Missing, Z).
The film is based off of a novel by Stephane Osmont, and will be “a behind-the-scenes look at the higher echelons of the banking world, where the thirst for money and power is masked as managerial rationality. Here we move in the circles of the economic elite and the international jet set between Paris, London, New York, Davos and Tokyo, basking in the artificial paradise of drugs, the artificial images of the Internet, the artificial bubble of fleeting fortunes, the artificial time of different time zones and...
- 5/28/2011
- by Joshua Brunsting
- CriterionCast
In fact, Vincent Cassel has a talent agent because we recently revealed that Cassel, who played the title character in the original Dobermann 1997 movie, is in talks to reprise his role as fascinating crook Yann Le Pentrec. Cineurope just reports that Cassel has signed on to star in the Kg Productions project and famous [...] Busy Vincent Cassel Signed on to Star in Costa-Gavras Financial Drama is a post from: FilmoFilia...
- 5/26/2011
- by Nikola Mraovic
- Filmofilia
It looks like Vincent Cassel's agent has had a busy week. Just two days after it was revealed that the actor was set to star in the sequel "Dobermann 2: Arm Wrestle," Cassel has lined up yet another project. Cineurope reports that Cassel is set to team with legendary filmmaker Costa-Gavras ("Z," "Missing") for the financial world drama "Le Capital." Unlike recent films like "Too Big To Fail," "Margin Call" or "Inside Job," this project will expand it's scope well beyond the borders of the United States taking "a behind-the-scenes look at the higher echelons of the banking world, where…...
- 5/26/2011
- The Playlist
My first introduction to Vincent Cassell was in 1997 when I saw him in Mathieu Kassovitz brilliant and controversial black and white French film La Haine, one of my ten favorite films of all time. That same year I decided to also check out Jan Kounen’s Doberman which also starred the famous French actor. These two films served as my gateway to contemporary French cinema. Doberman (based on a series of novels by Joël Houssin), was fantastic, an over the top, highly stylish but extremely entertaining heist film following the criminal known as Dobermann (Vincent Cassel), who leads a gang of brutal robbers with his beautiful, deaf girlfriend Nat the Gypsy (Monica Bellucci).
Now fourteen years later, Screen Daily reports that the star is in talks for a sequel to the crime flick, with Marco Polo Productions and Acteurs Auteurs Associés (also behind the international heist flick Sleight of Hand)backing the movie.
Now fourteen years later, Screen Daily reports that the star is in talks for a sequel to the crime flick, with Marco Polo Productions and Acteurs Auteurs Associés (also behind the international heist flick Sleight of Hand)backing the movie.
- 5/24/2011
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
A capoeirista who married Monika Bellucci – respect! Oui, c’est lui, Vincent Cassel. Yep, producers Richard Rionda Del Castro and Gilles Thompson reportedly said that Cassel, who played the title character in the original Dobermann 1997 movie, is in talks to reprise his role as fascinating crook Yann Le Pentrec. Turkey-born Tchéky Karyo will also [...] Cassel in Talks to Reprise Role in Dobermann Sequel is a post from: www.FilmoFilia.com...
- 5/23/2011
- by Nikola Mraovic
- Filmofilia
A sequel to the popular 1997 French action film Dobermann starring Vincent Cassel was announced at Cannes Film Festival this weekend. Variety reports that producers Richard Rionda Del Casto and Gilles Thompson revealed that they had teamed up to begin work on a new film called Dobermann 2: Arm Wrestle. Black Swan star Cassel is said to be in negotiations to reprise his role as the criminal mastermind Dobermann, while Tchéky Karyo is likely to return (more)...
- 5/22/2011
- by By Tom Ayres
- Digital Spy
It is our very sincere opinion here at Twitch that French director Jan Kounen (Dobermann, 99 Francs) has never really received the international recognition that he deserves. Perhaps the failure of his English language western Blueberry (aka Renegade) turned the international market against him or perhaps people are simply confused by his long standing fixation with shamanism but for whatever reason Kounen's potent blend of visual skill, flair for action and sheer audaciousness has never really made the impact that many though it would.But regardless of what the world at large may think, we love the guy and anxiously await whatever he may choose to do next. And, at the moment, that appears to be a television adaptation of Jean-Christophe Grange's novel Flight Of...
- 4/25/2011
- Screen Anarchy
Dobermann
Stars: Vincent Cassel, Tchéky Karyo, Monica Bellucci | Written by Joël Houssin | Directed by Jan Kounen
In 2008, Vincent Cassel starred in the Mesrine double bill, portraying the eponymous and legendary French criminal. Cassel inhabited his role and his stunning performance was one of the cinematic highlights of that year. In Dobermann, Cassel portrayed another French criminal, albeit a fictitious one. Released eleven years before Mesrine, Dobermann sees Cassel play the once again titular character, a resourceful and dangerous criminal, who was gifted with his first gun at his Christening. Together with his deaf girlfriend Nat the Gypsy and his motley crew of felons, Dobermann plans a daring bank robbery and the film follows the heist and the aftermath as sociopathic policeman Christini hunts down the gang.
If Mesrine was a detailed painting of a character by Cassel, Dobermann is an outrageous caricature. The film too, is stylistically garish, characters are paper thin,...
Stars: Vincent Cassel, Tchéky Karyo, Monica Bellucci | Written by Joël Houssin | Directed by Jan Kounen
In 2008, Vincent Cassel starred in the Mesrine double bill, portraying the eponymous and legendary French criminal. Cassel inhabited his role and his stunning performance was one of the cinematic highlights of that year. In Dobermann, Cassel portrayed another French criminal, albeit a fictitious one. Released eleven years before Mesrine, Dobermann sees Cassel play the once again titular character, a resourceful and dangerous criminal, who was gifted with his first gun at his Christening. Together with his deaf girlfriend Nat the Gypsy and his motley crew of felons, Dobermann plans a daring bank robbery and the film follows the heist and the aftermath as sociopathic policeman Christini hunts down the gang.
If Mesrine was a detailed painting of a character by Cassel, Dobermann is an outrageous caricature. The film too, is stylistically garish, characters are paper thin,...
- 4/15/2011
- by Jack Kirby
- Nerdly
It would have been easy for Vincent Cassel to become a glamorous movie star early on in life -- as the talented son of the French actor Jean-Pierre Cassel, he could have just waited for the leading man roles to come to him. "There was a path for me early on," says the 43-year-old actor. "A very clear path. I would have been these jeune premieres, these romantic leads. And I totally refused it."
Instead, the younger Cassel took a variety of darker, more diverse roles -- most notably as a young skinhead in Mathieu Kassovitz's breakthrough feature "La Haine (Hate)." In the process, he became identified with unhinged, physical, often brutish characters -- in films like Jan Kounen's "Dobermann" and Gaspar Noé's "Irreversible." (It carried over to Hollywood as well, with parts in films like "Ocean's Twelve" and "Eastern Promises.") And it could be argued that...
Instead, the younger Cassel took a variety of darker, more diverse roles -- most notably as a young skinhead in Mathieu Kassovitz's breakthrough feature "La Haine (Hate)." In the process, he became identified with unhinged, physical, often brutish characters -- in films like Jan Kounen's "Dobermann" and Gaspar Noé's "Irreversible." (It carried over to Hollywood as well, with parts in films like "Ocean's Twelve" and "Eastern Promises.") And it could be argued that...
- 8/24/2010
- by Bilge Ebiri
- ifc.com
Among France's great younger actors, Vincent Cassel gained a fan base for portraying his nation's disenfranchised. Playing a rageful character living an aimless existence (the drama "La haine") or playing a literally lifelong criminal (the action film "Dobermann"), Cassel excelled at the quintessential angry young man. But those who have observed the skills underpinning his characterizations should not be surprised to learn that Cassel first trained at a circus school in France, at age 16, and that his earliest performances were as a street dancer and acrobat. Of course those skills came in handy for his role as the bendy burglar François Toulour in the "Ocean's" franchise. But Cassel's brilliant tour de force acting is now fully on view: "Mésrine: Killer Instinct" opens Aug. 27 in Los Angeles and New York after already winning Cassel a host of best-actor awards. (Part two of the saga, "Mésrine: Public Enemy No. 1," follows...
- 8/20/2010
- backstage.com
In his stylish new chamber drama Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky, which closed the 2009 Cannes Film Festival, Dutch-born filmmaker Jan Kounen (Dobermann) observes the hothouse affair between married modernist composer-in-exile Igor Stravinsky and legendary French couturier Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel (played by Audrey Tautou in last year’s Coco Before Chanel). Based on a novel by Chris Greenhalgh, the film depicts a collision of oil-and-water egos: the brooding composer meets his obscure object of desire in the fiercely independent-minded Chanel, who proves to be forward-thinking about love and as fully immersed in her own art. Prior to tackling this period story of fraught passion and creative fecundity, Kounen was best known on the...
- 6/9/2010
- by Damon Smith
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Director: Jean-Francois Richet. Review: Adam Wing. Few would dispute the fact that Jacques Mesrine lived an eventful life, last of the great French gangsters; police officers gunned down Mesrine in broad daylight in 1979. Jean-Francois Richet’s (Assault on Precinct 13) enthralling four-hour biopic is split into two parts, Killer Instinct and Public Enemy Number One. Vincent Cassel (La haine, Dobermann) takes lead duties, joined by the likes of Gerard Depardieu and Cecile De France in supporting roles. I say supporting roles, Jean-Francois Richet’s exhilarating journey squeezes in so many bank robberies, prison escapes, kidnappings and murder; I’m surprised there was room for any support at all. Both films are available together on Blu-ray, which means you wont even have to get off your sofa, and believe me when I say it, you wont want to miss a thing. Richet’s movie opens at the end of Mesrine’s journey,...
- 1/19/2010
- 24framespersecond.net
Good news here for fans of French maverick Jan Kounen, long frustrated in their search for a decent DVD release of his debut film, the cult action picture Dobermann, with Vincent Cassell and Monica Bellucci as the leaders of a hyper-violent gang of thieves. Until now Dobermann has been the subject of a series of substandard DVD releases - cropped, edited, poor video quality, etc - but there’s finally a version out there worth having. Coming out of Russia, of all places, the new release features a remastered transfer of the film, presented anamorphically in the proper ratio with the original French audio track and optional English subtitles. Heck, the producers obviously know they’ve got a title with an international audience here: the DVD is region free and includes the option of an entirely English friendly menu. It’s not my favorite Kounen film but it’s a...
- 4/8/2009
- by Todd Brown
- Screen Anarchy
A bio-pic of a classical composer and fashion maven may not be what you’d expect from French director Jan Kounen but it’s what the hyper stylized and unpredictable helmer is turning in next. While the promo shows that this is entirely a more subdued Kounen than the one who made Dobermann, Blueberry and 99 Francs – not to mention one who has seemingly left behind his typical obsessions – he’s obviously lost none of his visual flair. Production design and cinematography are simply gorgeous and the performances look to be spot on. Which, of course, you’d fully expect from a film with Mads Mikkelsen in the lead. Now that these two have hooked up is it too much to hope for some sort of action collaboration between the two of them in the future?...
- 2/10/2009
- by Todd Brown
- Screen Anarchy
Say what you will about director Jan Kounen but his career has certainly never charted a boring or predictable course. Since making his feature debut with the ultra-violent Dobermann the Frenchman has gone on to create a psychedelic western (Blueberry), shoot documentaries on shamanism and the life of a modern Indian (as in from India) saint, and direct a hyper-stylized adaptation of stinging anti-consumerist cult novel 99 Francs. And how do you follow that up? With a biopic on the relationship between fashion icon Coco Chanel and composer Igor Stravinsky, of course.
Paris 1913, Coco Chanel is devoted to her work and madly in love with the handsome and very wealthy Arthur ‘Boy’ Capel.
At the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Igor Stravinsky premieres his “Rite of Spring”. Coco attends the premiere and is mesmerised. But the revolutionary work is too modern, too radical: the enraged audience boos and jeers. A near-riot ensues. Stravinsky is inconsolable.
Paris 1913, Coco Chanel is devoted to her work and madly in love with the handsome and very wealthy Arthur ‘Boy’ Capel.
At the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Igor Stravinsky premieres his “Rite of Spring”. Coco attends the premiere and is mesmerised. But the revolutionary work is too modern, too radical: the enraged audience boos and jeers. A near-riot ensues. Stravinsky is inconsolable.
- 11/4/2008
- by Todd Brown
- Screen Anarchy
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