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Annette Bening, Terry Gilliam and Gregg Araki will add star and stripe power to the 36th annual Deauville American Film Festival, organizers said Monday.
Bening, Gilliam and Araki will be in the spotlight when the seaside fest pays homage to their respective careers complete with screenings of their older and more recent films. Araki’s latest feature “Kaboom” will screen as part of “Generation Araki: A look at the filmmaker’s work” and Lisa Cholodenko’s recent U.S. summer release “The Kids are All Right” starring Bening alongside Julianne Moore and Mark Ruffalo will host its French premiere.
This year’s festival won’t be lacking for other star power – on screen at least.
High-profile premieres will include Richard Levine’s “Every Day” starring Live Schreiber, Helen Hunt and Eddie Izzard; Aaron Schneider’s “Get Low” with Robert Duvall, Sissy Spacek and Bill Murray; Don Roos’ “Love and other Possible Pursuits” with Natalie Portman and Lisa Kudrow; John Wells’ “The Company Men” starring Tommy Lee Jones, Ben Affleck, Chris Cooper, Maria Bello and Kevin Costner, plus John Madden’s “The Debt” with Helen Mirren and Sam Worthington.
Other titles screening in the out of competition premieres category include Floria Sigismondi’s “The Runaways” with Kristin Stewart and Dakota Fanning as Joan Jett and Cherie Currie; Joel Schumacher’s “Twelve” with Chace Crawford, 50 Cent and Kiefer Sutherland; Woody Allen’s Festival de Cannes title “You will meet a Tall Dark Stranger”; Banksy’s “Exit Through the Gift Shop”; Eric Mendelsohn’s “3 Backyards” with Edie Falco, and Universal’s 3D animated film “Despicable Me.”
The seven-film documentary section Uncle Sam’s Docs will include Josh Fox’s “Gasland,” Lucy Walker’s “Countdown to Zero, Elijah Drenner’s “American Grindhouse” plus Entourage star Adrian Grenier’s “Teenage Paparazzo.”
Prolific author Joyce Carol Oates will head to town to accept the Deauville Literary Prize for best book of the year and the Michel d’Ornano award for best French first film will go to Alix Delaporte’s “Angele et Tony.”
The Villa Cartier will once again open its doors for chic soirees and Deauville will modernize this year with a new Faecbook page dedicated to the festival.
The Deauville American Film Festival runs Sept. 3-12 in Normandy.
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A new trailer for The Company Men has been released, and according to a mention on RopeOfSilicon.com, the film will be released on October 22nd. No doubt this date will change (as they always do) but I’ll keep you posted with updates as always!
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The Weinstein Co. has acquired domestic rights to corporate downsizing drama “The Company Men,” the first feature helmed by John Wells.
Deal includes a mid-seven figure P&A commitment as well as a “substantial” theatrical release. CAA set up financing for the film, which TWC plans to release later this year. Deal was announced Wednesday by TWC toppers Harvey and Bob Weinstein.
“The Company Men,” which premiered at Sundance, stars Ben Affleck, Chris Cooper, Kevin Costner, Maria Bello and Tommy Lee Jones. Wells wrote, directed and produced along with Claire Rudnick Polstein and Paula Weinstein.
International rights are being handled by IM Global, which had pre-sold many territories prior to Sundance.
“?’The Company Men’ was a real labor of love for all of us involved,” said Wells, best known for TV skeins “ER” and “The West Wing.” He is also prexy of Writers Guild of America West.
TWC also announced a July 16 bow for French comedy “The Concert,” starring Melanie Laurent; an Oct. 8 opening for John Lennon biopic “Nowhere Boy”; and a Nov. 26 bow for Brit drama “The King’s Speech.”
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“Company Men” offers grim reality in recession
“The Company Men” looks at corporate downsizing squarely in the face — that is, the faces of startled men, some still relatively young but others much older whose whole self-image crumbles in a matter of moments. American movies rarely catch the American male so nakedly powerless and shattered.
Writer-director John Wells, after a long career as a major force in television, brings the quiet muscle and energy of the small screen to the large one with this, his first feature as a director.
Naturally, Wells attracts top-flight talent, so this “first-timer” has Ben Affleck, Chris Cooper, Kevin Costner and Tommy Lee Jones to head his cast. That ought to help out a film that could meet considerable box office resistance. Those who have been laid off know all about this and those hanging on probably don’t want to hear about it.
A distributor can expect only modest returns, although the film may show up in college courses in a decade or two when students study the calamitous recession of the early 21st century. No, it’s not the great Depression and this is not “The Grapes of Wrath.” This is about middle- and upper-class men and their families who bought into the American dream and the greed-is-good mentality only to have a corporate run pulled from under them.
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ou know that feeling you had watching the downsizing sequences in Up in the Air — the dread mixed with empathy mixed with outrage mixed with the chilling sensation that anyone could be next, including you? That’s the feeling that extends through every minute of The Company Men, a shrewd, juicy, timely, and terrifically engrossing big-cast Sundance drama that marks the feature directorial debut of John Wells (best known as the executive producer and head writer of ER). Unlike Up in the Air, however, this movie doesn’t offer a glimpse into the plight of tossed-aside middle managers. It is, rather, about the high-rolling executives who’ve pigged out on the capitalist gravy train — the men swimming in stock options and country-club memberships and $500 lunches.
Why, you may ask, should we give a damn if they lose their jobs? Have no fear: That skeptical class resentment is built right into the movie. The Company Men draws on our innate compassion for anyone in trouble, yet at the same time the movie is cannily and intimately aware that the smugly gilded corporate aristocrats it’s about are the very sorts of self-invested, short-term-profit players who helped to get this country in such trouble in the first place. As they watch their jobs disappear, we watch their suddenly traumatized lives with an arresting mixture of sympathy and Schadenfreude. The message of the movie might be: Greedy, scum-sucking executive parasites are people too.
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A mostly positive day of films at Sundance concluded at the Eccles theater Friday night with the directorial debut of John Wells’ “The Company Men.” Wells, the creator of such critically acclaimed TV shows as “ER” and “The West Wing,” also wrote the original screenplay which focuses on the systematic dismantling of a giant construction corporation in the Boston, Mass. area. While a tad long, the strength of the film lies in the performances of leading men Ben Affleck, Tommy Lee Jones and Chris Cooper and will surely lead to a swift acquisition from any number of major players.
All three men suffer from corporate downsizing during the film, but Affleck’s character, who is living the high life as a VP of Marketing (he drives a porsche, enjoys his golf club, etc.), is the first to be let go and deal with the ups and downs of trying to find a new job in the current economy. What’s refreshing about his storyline is that his wife, played by “Rachel’s Getting Married’s” Rosemarie DeWitt, is the only one in the family who realizes how difficult his search will be and that their rich lifestyle will have to drastically change. It’s hard to have sympathy at first for Affleck’s ego-driven character, but Wells puts him through a realistic enough ringer that a good chunk through the movie you’re hoping he can turn it around (at least for his family’s sake). It also helps that Affleck avoids the “woe is me” card as much as possible in his portrayal. The frustration is there, but this is no Daniel Day-Lewis as Guido in “Nine” whining going on.
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The Company Men will premiere at Sundance later this month.
One of the first casualties of a corporate downsize is Bobby Walker, a hot-shot sales executive who is living the idyllic life — complete with two kids and a mortgaged picket fence. His boss, and founder of the company, doesn’t take Bobby’s severance well, and he storms into the boardroom to demand a reprieve of the severe measures. He learns quickly that some choices are out of his hands, and this is only the beginning. We embark on a journey that is all too familiar in today’s recessionary economy: one that will test friendships, loyalties, and family bonds.
EDITED ON JAN 14TH: Find more on The Company Men at the Sundance Film Festival page & the Official Site.
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Sundance Institute today announced eight films from the 2010 Sundance Film Festival scheduled to screen in eight different cities nationwide on the night of Thursday, January 28, 2010. The screenings are part of the inaugural Sundance Film Festival USA, a ground-breaking initiative designed to highlight the ability of art, specifically film, to introduce new concepts, challenge ideals and spur debate. The Sundance Film Festival opens January 21 and runs through January 31, 2010.
Courtesy of Official Airline Sponsor Southwest Airlines, filmmakers will be dispatched from the Sundance Film Festival in Park City to cities across America, where they will introduce and screen their original films and engage in Q&As with local audiences. In addition to premiering their work at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, most of these artists have a previous connection to the non-profit Sundance Institute, whether as advisors to the Institute’s directors’ or screenwriters’ labs, or as participants in past Festivals. In each city an introduction video featuring Robert Redford and highlights from the Festival will precede the screenings. Tickets for the January 28 screenings are available through each individual theater’s box office.
Films screening as part of Sundance Film Festival USA are:
The Company Men — Brookline, MA — Coolidge Corner Theatre www.coolidge.org
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Katie Holmes, Ben Affleck, 50 Cent and Dakota Fanning are among the A-listers taking their films to the Sundance Film Festival.
The festival’s premieres section includes 13 films screening out of competition, among them The Company Men, a corporate-downsizing tale starring Ben, Kevin Costner, Maria Bello and Tommy Lee Jones.
Katie joins John C Reilly and Kevin Kline for the gigolo story The Extra Man, while 50 Cent appears with Chace Crawford, Emma Roberts and Kiefer Sutherland in the crime drama Twelve from director Joel Schumacher.
Dakota and her Twilight co-star Kristen Stewart team up for director Floria Sigismondi’s The Runaways, a portrait of rocker Joan Jett as she forms her band in the 1970s.
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Whilst updating the sidebar, I noticed that a lot of Maria’s recent movies are a bit up-in-the-air and haven’t had proper releases … so I thought I’d have a look around to check their status’s and post a round-up of release dates.
• Towelhead
US – Out now on DVD
UK/Europe – No known distributor, no theatrical or DVD release date
Aus – Out now on DVD
• Downloading Nancy
US – Received limited release in June, no DVD release date known yet
UK/Europe – No theatrical release date known yet
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• The Yellow Handkerchief
US – Straight to TV in 2010
UK/Europe – No release dates known yet
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• The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
US – To be released in cinemas on October 23rd
UK/Europe – Received a limited theatrical release in the UK in July, released on DVD November 2nd.
Aus –
- Visit the official site: Official UK Site #1, Official UK Site #2 & Official US Site.
• The Company Men
US – February 2010 theatrical release?
UK/Europe/Aus – No release dates known yet
• Grown Ups
US – Released in cinemas June 25th 2010
UK/Europe – Released in German cinemas on July 22nd 2010
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