Rainer Fritz
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The Argentine / Guerrilla excerpts screened at the Berlin Film Festival
From Variety: For buyers, the most talked-about screening at this month's Berlin Festival lasted just 10 minutes, and it wasn't even in English.
Showcased by France's Wild Bunch, the excerpts of Steven Soderbergh's stylish, action-packed "Che," with Benicio Del Toro as Guevara, was being talked up afterwards as a potential modern classic. The two-part, four hours-long Spanish-language Che Guevara bio speaks volumes about the tastes of Paris-based production-sales shingle Wild Bunch, a pacesetter on Europe's film scene.
And it shows one road the high-end international indie biz is taking, into distinctive, director-driven event films, where star helmers and sheer artistic ambition are sought after.
Shot with a revolutionary Red One HD camera, the action-packed pic features brutal scenes like Che's cold-blooded executions -- and a "Traffic"-like style shifter. Wild Bunchtopper Vincent Maraval evokes Sam Fuller's "The Big Red One," "Zorro," John Ford, John Huston and Raoul Walsh, "but shot through with Soderbergh's ultra-modern style, which makes us think we have a classic," he says.
The pic sold in most major territories worldwide. For the U.S., Wild Bunch is asking in the $20 million range, buyers say. Berlin reports suggested three U.S. buyers are circling the film, though Maraval says Wild Bunch was in no hurry to close a U.S. deal.
Budgeted at $61.5 million, "Che" has been a big gamble, which seems to be paying off.
The Informant to shoot in Decatur in April / May
From WTHITV.com: Film crews working on a movie about price-fixing at agricultural processor Archer Daniels Midland in the 1990s will come to Decatur this spring.
A spokeswoman for "The Informant" says parts of the movie will be filmed in Decatur in April and May. The movie is based on the 2000 book of the same name by Kurt Eichenwald (EYE'-ken-wald) and stars Matt Damon as an ADM executive who was an informant for the FBI.
Decatur-based Archer Daniels Midland was fined $100 million for conspiring to fix the prices of food additives lysine and citric acid. Three ADM executives, including informant Mark Whitacre, were sent to prison.
The movie is being directed by Steven Soderbergh. He won the Oscar for best director in 2001 for "Traffic."
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Posted on 8th March 2008
found at:
http://www.stevensoderbergh.net/
regards
rainer
From Variety: For buyers, the most talked-about screening at this month's Berlin Festival lasted just 10 minutes, and it wasn't even in English.
Showcased by France's Wild Bunch, the excerpts of Steven Soderbergh's stylish, action-packed "Che," with Benicio Del Toro as Guevara, was being talked up afterwards as a potential modern classic. The two-part, four hours-long Spanish-language Che Guevara bio speaks volumes about the tastes of Paris-based production-sales shingle Wild Bunch, a pacesetter on Europe's film scene.
And it shows one road the high-end international indie biz is taking, into distinctive, director-driven event films, where star helmers and sheer artistic ambition are sought after.
Shot with a revolutionary Red One HD camera, the action-packed pic features brutal scenes like Che's cold-blooded executions -- and a "Traffic"-like style shifter. Wild Bunchtopper Vincent Maraval evokes Sam Fuller's "The Big Red One," "Zorro," John Ford, John Huston and Raoul Walsh, "but shot through with Soderbergh's ultra-modern style, which makes us think we have a classic," he says.
The pic sold in most major territories worldwide. For the U.S., Wild Bunch is asking in the $20 million range, buyers say. Berlin reports suggested three U.S. buyers are circling the film, though Maraval says Wild Bunch was in no hurry to close a U.S. deal.
Budgeted at $61.5 million, "Che" has been a big gamble, which seems to be paying off.
The Informant to shoot in Decatur in April / May
From WTHITV.com: Film crews working on a movie about price-fixing at agricultural processor Archer Daniels Midland in the 1990s will come to Decatur this spring.
A spokeswoman for "The Informant" says parts of the movie will be filmed in Decatur in April and May. The movie is based on the 2000 book of the same name by Kurt Eichenwald (EYE'-ken-wald) and stars Matt Damon as an ADM executive who was an informant for the FBI.
Decatur-based Archer Daniels Midland was fined $100 million for conspiring to fix the prices of food additives lysine and citric acid. Three ADM executives, including informant Mark Whitacre, were sent to prison.
The movie is being directed by Steven Soderbergh. He won the Oscar for best director in 2001 for "Traffic."
0 Comments
Posted on 8th March 2008
found at:
http://www.stevensoderbergh.net/
regards
rainer
