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Actress Michelle Nolden Recalls ‘Time Travelling’ With Eric Bana - CityNews

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

CityNews - Actress Michelle Nolden was thrilled to get a part in the big screen adaptation of The Time Traveler’s Wife, based on Audrey Niffenegger’s bestselling 2003 novel. It’s too bad the day she filmed her big scene opposite star Eric Bana she was under the weather.

“Eric was such a gem to work with. He was really sweet. I was sick as a dog that day we were filming and I think he was afraid that I might barf on his shoes,” Nolden relates to CityNews.ca in a recent interview at the Birds and Beans café in Etobicoke, recalling the day-long shoot aboard Chicago’s L train.

The Brantford, Ont.-born actress plays Annette de Tamble, mother to Bana’s time-travelling protagonist Henry de Tamble. Though the story is set in The Windy City much of the filming was done in the GTA, notably around the University of Toronto campus. Rachel McAdams also stars in the film, which is expected to screen at the Toronto International Film Festival in the fall before a Christmas Day opening [Full Story]


Check Out the First Official Production Photo from ‘Milk’ - Cinematical

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

Cinematical - I’m itching to see Milk. It’s not because of the cool initial production still above, which comes from Entertainment Weekly. It’s not because of Gus Van Sant, since he has disappointed me many times. It’s because of Sean Penn — but not because of fandom. He does so many heavy roles, and is so known for his seriousness, that it’s hard to remember sometimes that he is Jeff Spicoli. But now he’s also Harvey Milk.

Playing the first openly gay man to win an election in a major U.S. city, Penn has got to get happy, and as producer Dan Jinks explained to EW, he “is playing a guy who’s not at all like him, way beyond the sexuality of the character. Harvey was this guy who wants everybody to love him, and he loves everybody else. Sean just completely became that guy. It’s a real transformation.”

If he really hits this out of the ballpark, it’ll be a change to see a serious man get award cred for getting happy, rather than vice versa. Now if we could only get him in another Ridgemont sort of flick [Full Story]


Villeneuve short picked for Cannes competition - Globe and Mail

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

Globe and Mail - Two Canadian-made shorts have been chosen to screen at International Critics’ Week, a parallel event of this month’s Cannes Film Festival.

Next Floor, by Montreal’s Denis Villeneuve, will screen in competition. It’s about an opulent banquet where guests are shaken by a series of events. Villeneuve is the director of Polytechnique, about the 1989 Montreal massacre. It will reportedly screen at the Toronto International Film Festival.

The other Canadian film at critics’ week will be L’ondée, by David Coquard-Dassault, an animated France-Canada co-production that screens out of competition [Full Story]


Following Up Fairies - Film Stew

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

Film Stew - In between working as an extras or location casting director on films such as The Road to Perdition, The Good Shepherd and the second and third Pirates of the Caribbean, Thomas Gustafson wrote and directed the 2003 musical short Fairies. This tale of a gay teenager bullied in high school who imagines a better version of his life while performing as Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream has now, five years later, been remade by Gustafson into the feature-length film Were the World Mine. After winning the Best Narrative Feature Audience Award at the recent Florida Film Festival (March 28th – April 6th), Were the World Mine screens next this Friday, April 18th at the Nashville Film Festival. The storyline has been tweaked a little, as in this case gay high school student Timothy (Tanner Cohen) – while starring in the same Shakespeare play – discovers hidden within the script the recipe for the story’s magical purple-pansy love potion. Once he unleashes it on his small town, a very different version of the community begins to take shape. As in, much of the town turns gay. Co-starring alongside Cohen in the Chicago-shot film is Judy McClane (Broadway’s Mamma Mia!) as Timothy’s door-to-door cosmetics selling mom who, after Timothy comes out, must similarly out herself as the parent of a gay son. Others in the cast include Wendy Robie (Twin Peaks) and Jill Larson (Opal on All My Children). Fairies, which won a short film competition sponsored by the cable network LOGO, is currently available for purchase on iTunes. Meanwhile, Were the World Mine, which is booked all the way into the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival, has on paper all the ingredients of a festival darling hit. Stay tuned… [Full Story]


Some people 'really didn't want this movie made' - Globe and Mail

Saturday, April 12th, 2008

Globe and Mail, Canada - Director Denis Villeneuve says the shoot gave him nightmares.

His latest feature, Polytechnique, wrapped a week ago. The bad dreams Villeneuve suffered during its filming did not emanate from a tight budget or the logistics of the production, but, maybe predictably, the subject matter.

Almost 20 years after Marc Lépine entered Montreal’s École Polytechnique on Dec. 6, 1989, and shot 28 people, killing 14 women, Villeneuve is attempting to recount the story on the big screen. “This film was very complicated to do,” Villeneuve says, between sips of a latte at a coffee shop. “We felt a responsibility in every frame. Every shot felt like a moral decision. Each camera angle felt like it had a moral weight to it.”

In Polytechnique, Villeneuve recreates the shooting in detail, telling the story through six fictional characters - three women and three men - all of whom are connected to the massacre. Villeneuve says he was fully aware making a film on this subject would be hugely contentious, but won over his skeptics after committing to a year of research.

“I spoke with victims, to go through the tragedy from different angles: students, teachers, police officers. People were very generous. I spoke with several women who were shot by Lépine and also to men who had been shot by him.” And while Villeneuve did not talk to families of those who were killed, he did meet with their representative, who said the families have given their blessing to the project. “They have been holding events every year to maintain attention on the shooting, but they are perhaps a bit tired of it. They see the film as a way of making sure people don’t forget what occurred.” Currently in the editing process, he says he hopes the film would be ready to submit for screening at September’s Toronto International Film Festival… [Full Story]


Really Creepy Teaser for ‘Blindness’ Surfaces - Cinematical

Friday, April 4th, 2008

Cinematical - MSN has posted a teaser trailer for Blindness, Fernando Meirelles’ apocalyptic thriller based on the novel by José Saramago, and it creeps me out. The movie is about a blindness epidemic that sweeps through a city, afflicting everyone except one woman (Julianne Moore) who is apparently immune. She’s then forced to feign blindness (Why? If no one else can see, what’s the difference?) to care for her husband (Mark Ruffalo) as everything around them goes to hell. The tonal shift at the beginning of the teaser is genuinely startling, maybe because the upbeat music doesn’t stop playing as you’d expect, or maybe because it deals with something that is one of this cinephile’s worst nightmares.

Blindness is expected to play the Toronto Film Festival this September, with a US release slated for October… [Full Story]


More attendees drawn to toon conference - Hollywood Reporter

Saturday, March 8th, 2008

Hollywood Reporter, United States - Most projects came from Germany and France — not surprising given both countries traditionally healthy subsidies for animated entertainment. Many professionals questioned, though, agreed that the most entertaining pitch came from well-respected Danish production company A.Film, whose teaser for Denmark-goes-to-outer-space epic (”Journey to Saturn”) had audiences already in stitches during the traditional croissants-and-cartoons breakfast.

When it came to the main event two hours later, the audience was asked if anyone had not been personally insulted by the politically incorrect clip (which includes a shot of two Danish-flag-burning Muslims being incinerated themselves). One person raised her hand and was told that A.Film’s Karsten Kiilerich would remedy the problem later — and the collection of hilariously offensive outtakes that followed did the trick. The film will be completed in July, and the company hopes to show it at the Toronto International Film Festival, with a Danish release Sept. 26… [Full Story]


Indiana Jones and the Cannes Film Festival? - /Film

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

/Film - Rumor has it that Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull will make it’s worldwide premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, which runs from May 15th - 25th 2008. Fox News reports that Spielberg’s representatives are currently in negotiations with officials of the festival to have Indiana Jones 4 open the festival, with the whole cast and crew making appearances on the red carpet at Cannes’s Palais. From what I understand, Parmaount isn’t doing a junket or prescreenings for the film, so this would be the first public screening of the new film. The rest of us will have to wait until May 22nd 2008 when Kingdom of the Crystal Skull hits theaters worldwide [Full Story]


Sony Classics is new habitat for Carter docu - Hollywood Reporter

Monday, August 20th, 2007

Hollywood Reporter, United States - North American rights to producer-director Jonathan Demme’s docu “Jimmy Carter Man From Plains,” a chronicle of the former president’s recent book tour, have been acquired by Sony Pictures Classics from Participant Prods.

“Plains” follows Carter on the tour for his book “Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid,” using the trip to shed light on his quest for international peace.

The film will be shown at this month’s Venice Film Festival and is rumored to be among the films on next month’s Toronto International Film Festival slate. ICM, which reps Demme, negotiated the deal on behalf of Participant and is handling worldwide sales on the project.

Demme produced the film through his Clinica Estetico shingle with Neda Armian (”The Truth About Charlie”). “Plains” is executive produced by Participant’s Jeff Skoll, Diane Weyermann and Ron Bozman [Full Story]


Celebrity spotting? Watch for Clooney, Foster and Pitt - Globe and Mail

Saturday, August 18th, 2007

Globe and Mail, Canada - George Clooney is expected, as is Jodie Foster. Publicists are already beginning to plan their itineraries. Ewan McGregor and Colin Farrell are also as confirmed as they can be at this point.

Woody Allen will be around, although likely keeping a low profile, say those involved with his film, Cassandra’s Dream. If she wanted to, Cate Blanchett could well walk away with the spotlight. But it’s looking like her public appearances may be limited to a red-carpet walk and a crowded press conference - if, that is, she shows up in Toronto at all.

That’s the kind of confirmation celebrity-gawkers have to make do with, as they gear up for the Toronto International Film Festival. Even TIFF officials, and the legion of publicists working next month’s festival, aren’t 100-per-cent sure yet who will be appearing at what events or when.

But prior to Tuesday’s announcement of which celebrities and filmmakers are at least expected to attend, most publicity insiders have at least some idea of who may be showing up [Full Story]

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