On the way from Level 33 Entertainment is the horror movie Belle, a brand new reimagining of the classic tale of Beauty and the Beast that’s headed home later this summer.
Written and directed by Max Gold, Belle will be released in select theaters July 14 and On Demand August 22.
The film will be playing at Hawkins Theatres Gateway Pavilions 18 in Avondale, Arizona this Friday, July 14, with more theaters to be added throughout the week.
Watch the official trailer for the Beauty and the Beast horror movie below…
In the upcoming film, “Belle would do anything to save her ailing father so she journeys in search of a mythical rose believed to be a cure. As payment for the rose, Belle must surrender herself to a vicious beast and battle his spell.”
Andrea Snædal (“Silicon Beach”), Ingi Hrafn Hilmarsson, Hana Vagnerová, Gudmundur Thorvaldsson, Helga Braga Jónsdóttir, and Sigurður Sigurjónsson star.
Written and directed by Max Gold, Belle will be released in select theaters July 14 and On Demand August 22.
The film will be playing at Hawkins Theatres Gateway Pavilions 18 in Avondale, Arizona this Friday, July 14, with more theaters to be added throughout the week.
Watch the official trailer for the Beauty and the Beast horror movie below…
In the upcoming film, “Belle would do anything to save her ailing father so she journeys in search of a mythical rose believed to be a cure. As payment for the rose, Belle must surrender herself to a vicious beast and battle his spell.”
Andrea Snædal (“Silicon Beach”), Ingi Hrafn Hilmarsson, Hana Vagnerová, Gudmundur Thorvaldsson, Helga Braga Jónsdóttir, and Sigurður Sigurjónsson star.
- 7/10/2023
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
The box office success of Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey poses the question of which other public domain tales are best suited for the horror genre…
A good story remains paramount to a successful horror movie, but the heightened genre has also found considerable success through chilling adaptations. A major hurdle in any adaptation of an existing work is securing the copyright or license to legally be allowed to reinterpret this source material. Plenty of horror movie pipe dreams couldn’t come to fruition precisely because the rights for certain properties couldn’t be acquired. But an interesting wrinkle when it comes to the acquisition of rights is stories that have entered the public domain.
Written works typically enter the public domain seventy years after the death of their latest living author. It’s a situation that means that certain texts, like Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein are free to be tackled...
A good story remains paramount to a successful horror movie, but the heightened genre has also found considerable success through chilling adaptations. A major hurdle in any adaptation of an existing work is securing the copyright or license to legally be allowed to reinterpret this source material. Plenty of horror movie pipe dreams couldn’t come to fruition precisely because the rights for certain properties couldn’t be acquired. But an interesting wrinkle when it comes to the acquisition of rights is stories that have entered the public domain.
Written works typically enter the public domain seventy years after the death of their latest living author. It’s a situation that means that certain texts, like Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein are free to be tackled...
- 2/21/2023
- by Daniel Kurland
- bloody-disgusting.com
From the beginning, Kim Kardashian West knew Serena Williams had found her prince in Alexis Ohanian.
The Keeping Up With the Kardashians star, 37, told Vogue that the couple were meant to be during cocktails after their wedding ceremony Thursday in New Orleans.
“I’ve known Serena for so long and am so happy she’s found her prince,” Kardashian West told the magazine. “From the moment she told me she met Alexis in Rome, it was like… she’s been so happy and has this light about her that is so special to see.”
The reality star continued, “You just know it is so real.
The Keeping Up With the Kardashians star, 37, told Vogue that the couple were meant to be during cocktails after their wedding ceremony Thursday in New Orleans.
“I’ve known Serena for so long and am so happy she’s found her prince,” Kardashian West told the magazine. “From the moment she told me she met Alexis in Rome, it was like… she’s been so happy and has this light about her that is so special to see.”
The reality star continued, “You just know it is so real.
- 11/18/2017
- by Alexia Fernandez
- PEOPLE.com
Forget Disney’s recent reiteration of the classic fairy tale and instead look back at where the tale’s magic began on film, with Jean Cocteau.
The self-titled Belle and her captor-turned-prince Beast have returned to cinema screens around the world. In Disney’s latest live-action reiteration of one of their much-loved animated fairytales, Bill Condon’s live-action Beauty and the Beast has reintroduced contemporary audiences to the pair. With their return has come explorations of Disney’s representations of gayness, the question of modern viewing habits, and record-breaking box office success (the film has broken the March record for best opening with a $175m domestic gross).
This multiplicity of films on the same tale has been seen before, with the reintroduction of Snow White in 2012 arriving in the form of three very different films. 2012 brought the strong and defiant rebel ‘Snow’ in Snow White and the Huntsman, while Mirror Mirror restyled the classic tale. Pablo Berger...
The self-titled Belle and her captor-turned-prince Beast have returned to cinema screens around the world. In Disney’s latest live-action reiteration of one of their much-loved animated fairytales, Bill Condon’s live-action Beauty and the Beast has reintroduced contemporary audiences to the pair. With their return has come explorations of Disney’s representations of gayness, the question of modern viewing habits, and record-breaking box office success (the film has broken the March record for best opening with a $175m domestic gross).
This multiplicity of films on the same tale has been seen before, with the reintroduction of Snow White in 2012 arriving in the form of three very different films. 2012 brought the strong and defiant rebel ‘Snow’ in Snow White and the Huntsman, while Mirror Mirror restyled the classic tale. Pablo Berger...
- 3/23/2017
- by Sinéad McCausland
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Close-Up is a column that spotlights films now playing on Mubi. The retrospective The Many Sins of Walerian Borowczyk is showing February 12 - June 18, 2017 in the United States and in many other countries around the world.As the reverberation of horses fervently neighing and clomping their hooves begins to permeate the opening credit soundtrack of The Beast, one may recall the similarly orchestrated donkey brays that introduce Robert Bresson’s Au hasard Balthazar (1966). Or, given its title, and the very basic concept of a young woman becoming enamored with an savage creature, one may be tempted to compare this 1975 feature to the many variations of Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve’s classic fairy tale, La belle et la bête. One would be more than a little confounded, however, by making either inadequate association. If Walerian Borowczyk’s semi-porn-semi-art-semi-monster movie bears any resemblance to another film or story, it would be...
- 3/21/2017
- MUBI
Now that Beauty and the Beast has danced into the record books with huge audience numbers and a record $170 million opening weekend box office haul, it’s fair to say that the “tale as old as time” has struck a chord with moviegoers.
Those songs! That talented cast! Those incredible costumes! The spectacle stuns, but the live-action Disney reboot leaves us wondering about a few things: How did they get all of that magic into one movie? Who had to learn to sing? How many people and animals were in that huge opening number? What kind of hair was Beast-turned-Prince...
Those songs! That talented cast! Those incredible costumes! The spectacle stuns, but the live-action Disney reboot leaves us wondering about a few things: How did they get all of that magic into one movie? Who had to learn to sing? How many people and animals were in that huge opening number? What kind of hair was Beast-turned-Prince...
- 3/21/2017
- by Kara Warner
- PEOPLE.com
Disney wants us to know that Bill Condon’s “Beauty and the Beast” is a vital live-action remake of its own 1991 animated classic. Alan Menken and Tim Rice wrote three new songs for the film, and in interviews, Condon promised the first “exclusively gay moment in a Disney movie.”
They succeeded on one point: The film’s most Broadway-like thrills come from the Menken-Rice tune written as the Beast’s soliloquy. As for that gay moment, it’s tough to know which one he meant. There are a few winks and nods, the most apparent being a gag at the end where Wardrobe dresses three intruders in women’s clothes. In what could have been another tired cross-dressing gag (two men run away in disgust), a third stares directly into camera, beaming. Condon also might have been referring to another blink-and-you’ll-miss-it moment, when Monsieur LeFou (Josh Gad), right-hand man to Belle’s suitor Gaston,...
They succeeded on one point: The film’s most Broadway-like thrills come from the Menken-Rice tune written as the Beast’s soliloquy. As for that gay moment, it’s tough to know which one he meant. There are a few winks and nods, the most apparent being a gag at the end where Wardrobe dresses three intruders in women’s clothes. In what could have been another tired cross-dressing gag (two men run away in disgust), a third stares directly into camera, beaming. Condon also might have been referring to another blink-and-you’ll-miss-it moment, when Monsieur LeFou (Josh Gad), right-hand man to Belle’s suitor Gaston,...
- 3/3/2017
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
Just a little change, small to say the least (that change? it’s live-action!). The final trailer for the brand-new “Beauty and the Beast” has arrived and, yes, it really is a tale as old as time, no matter the medium of the storytelling.
Read More: ‘Beauty and the Beast’ Trailer: Emma Watson Sings ‘Belle (Reprise)’ in New TV Spot
The new feature stars Emma Watson as Belle (yellow dress intact) and Dan Stevens as the so-called Beast (lush hair still flowing) in a retelling of the classic Disney tale. We’ve long heard that this take on the story will play up more of Belle’s forward-thinking personality, and this new trailer makes it plain that she’s ahead of her time (or, at least, a bit more enlightened than the “small-minded” people who populate her village).
While the Bill Condon-directed feature does move the action outside the hand-drawn space,...
Read More: ‘Beauty and the Beast’ Trailer: Emma Watson Sings ‘Belle (Reprise)’ in New TV Spot
The new feature stars Emma Watson as Belle (yellow dress intact) and Dan Stevens as the so-called Beast (lush hair still flowing) in a retelling of the classic Disney tale. We’ve long heard that this take on the story will play up more of Belle’s forward-thinking personality, and this new trailer makes it plain that she’s ahead of her time (or, at least, a bit more enlightened than the “small-minded” people who populate her village).
While the Bill Condon-directed feature does move the action outside the hand-drawn space,...
- 1/31/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve’s classic fairy tale “The Beauty and the Beast’ has been adapted to film and television numerous times. There’s Jean Cocteau’s 1946 version, the 1987 CBS TV series starring Ron Perlman and Linda Hamilton, and of course, the 1991 animated Disney musical film. While there’s a highly-anticipated live-action Disney adaptation of the fable, starring Emma Watson and Dan Stevens as Belle and Beast respectively, set to be released next year, audiences can check out a different adaptation very soon. Christophe Ganz’s French-language “Beauty and the Beast,” starring Léa Seydoux and Vincent Cassel, will be ready for theaters this week.
Read More: ‘Beauty and the Beast’ Trailer: Vincent Cassel & Léa Seydoux Ignite An Unexpected Romance In The French Adaptation
The film follows the original tale’s story: A widowed, financially-ruined merchant (André Dussollier) is forced to flee into the woods after a debtor threatens to harm...
Read More: ‘Beauty and the Beast’ Trailer: Vincent Cassel & Léa Seydoux Ignite An Unexpected Romance In The French Adaptation
The film follows the original tale’s story: A widowed, financially-ruined merchant (André Dussollier) is forced to flee into the woods after a debtor threatens to harm...
- 9/20/2016
- by Vikram Murthi
- Indiewire
Obviously, everyone is really excited about the new live action Beauty And The Beast movie. But how excited are they for the new live action Beauty And The Beast movie? That is, the other new live action Beauty And The Beast movie. The one that does not star Emma Watson or that guy from Downton Abbey. Oh, are you unfamiliar with that one? It stars Léa Seydoux (Spectre, Blue Is The Warmest Color) and that guy from Black Swan.
Well then, just to fill you in, a French-German production of the classic fairy tale by Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot De Villeneuve premiered at at the Berlin International Film Festival back in 2014. Directed by Christophe Gans (Silent Hill), it contains some stunningly beautiful visuals that only veer slightly into Jack The Giant Slayer territory. It received generally positive reviews and raked in $49 million when it was released in Europe, but it ...
Well then, just to fill you in, a French-German production of the classic fairy tale by Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot De Villeneuve premiered at at the Berlin International Film Festival back in 2014. Directed by Christophe Gans (Silent Hill), it contains some stunningly beautiful visuals that only veer slightly into Jack The Giant Slayer territory. It received generally positive reviews and raked in $49 million when it was released in Europe, but it ...
- 7/27/2016
- by Dennis DiClaudio
- avclub.com
Shout! Factory has secured all Us rights to Christophe Gans’ Beauty And The Beast (La Belle Et La Bête).
Cliff MacMillan handled the acquisition for Shout! Factory and David McIntosh negotiated the deal with Pathé’s evp of international sales Muriel Sauzay.
Pathé International holds rights outside the Us to the classic fantasy romance starring Vincent Cassel and Léa Seydoux that premiered at the Berlinale last year.
Eskwad, Pathé, TF1 Films Productions, Studio Babelsberg and 120 Films produced Beauty And The Beast, based on Madame de Villeneuve’s story of a young girl who encounters a cursed creature and discovers true love.
André Dussollier, Eduardo Noriega, Myriam Charleins, Audrey Lamy, Sara Giraudeau, Jonathan Demurger, Nicolas Gob, Louka Meliava and Yvonne Catterfeld round out the key cast.
Gans and Sandra Vo-Anh adapted the screenplay. Richard Grandpierre and Jérôme Seydoux produced while Frederic Doniguian served as executive producer.
Shout! Factory has secured all Us rights including theatrical, VOD, digital...
Cliff MacMillan handled the acquisition for Shout! Factory and David McIntosh negotiated the deal with Pathé’s evp of international sales Muriel Sauzay.
Pathé International holds rights outside the Us to the classic fantasy romance starring Vincent Cassel and Léa Seydoux that premiered at the Berlinale last year.
Eskwad, Pathé, TF1 Films Productions, Studio Babelsberg and 120 Films produced Beauty And The Beast, based on Madame de Villeneuve’s story of a young girl who encounters a cursed creature and discovers true love.
André Dussollier, Eduardo Noriega, Myriam Charleins, Audrey Lamy, Sara Giraudeau, Jonathan Demurger, Nicolas Gob, Louka Meliava and Yvonne Catterfeld round out the key cast.
Gans and Sandra Vo-Anh adapted the screenplay. Richard Grandpierre and Jérôme Seydoux produced while Frederic Doniguian served as executive producer.
Shout! Factory has secured all Us rights including theatrical, VOD, digital...
- 1/12/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
The author behind The Perks of Being a Wallflower is reportedly being lined up to pen the script of Disney's live-action Beauty and the Beast movie.
According to Entertainment Weekly, Stephen Chbosky will write the adaptation of the 1991 animated classic.
The news comes after it was confirmed that Twilight's Bill Condon would bring the live-action movie to the big screen as director.
Disney is hoping to capitalise on re-imagining some of its greatest movies, following the success of Maleficent starring Angelina Jolie and Elle Fanning, based on Sleeping Beauty.
The next live-action project planned by the studio is Cinderella, which will focus on the tale's famous lost slipper.
Meanwhile, Warner Bros is planning a Beauty and the Beast movie of its own, which is rumoured to star Emma Watson. Its adaptation is currently without a director, after Guillermo del Toro pulled out.
The traditional Beauty and the Beast fairytale was...
According to Entertainment Weekly, Stephen Chbosky will write the adaptation of the 1991 animated classic.
The news comes after it was confirmed that Twilight's Bill Condon would bring the live-action movie to the big screen as director.
Disney is hoping to capitalise on re-imagining some of its greatest movies, following the success of Maleficent starring Angelina Jolie and Elle Fanning, based on Sleeping Beauty.
The next live-action project planned by the studio is Cinderella, which will focus on the tale's famous lost slipper.
Meanwhile, Warner Bros is planning a Beauty and the Beast movie of its own, which is rumoured to star Emma Watson. Its adaptation is currently without a director, after Guillermo del Toro pulled out.
The traditional Beauty and the Beast fairytale was...
- 9/30/2014
- Digital Spy
Disney’s quest to re-imagine the contents of its back catalogue continues, with confirmation that Bill Condon will direct a live-action version of the studio’s 1991 Oscar nominated animated feature, Beauty And The Beast. The great modernisation of Disney classics has thus far been well-received by audiences, who embraced updated versions of Alice In Wonderland and The Wizard Of Oz (aka Oz the Great and Powerful), and most recently carried Maleficent to a $170 million opening weekend. With this latest project, the studio is clearly hoping to capitalize on that success.
The story – based on the traditional fairy tale first published in 1740 from the pen of Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve – has been filmed many times since Jean Cocteau’s 1946 version, La Belle et la Bete. Disney’s own 1991 animation of the tale was directed by Kirk Wise and Gary Trousdale from a screenplay by Linda Woolverton. Billed as a musical romantic fantasy,...
The story – based on the traditional fairy tale first published in 1740 from the pen of Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve – has been filmed many times since Jean Cocteau’s 1946 version, La Belle et la Bete. Disney’s own 1991 animation of the tale was directed by Kirk Wise and Gary Trousdale from a screenplay by Linda Woolverton. Billed as a musical romantic fantasy,...
- 6/5/2014
- by Sarah Myles
- We Got This Covered
Update: A couple of new details here. You might be wondering, since the original report doesn't mention any story details, how exactly this thing is going to play out. Sources tell HitFix that Condon won't only be drawing from the 1991 Disney film. In his pitch to the studio, the director said he would also include most, if not all, of the Menken/Rice songs from the Broadway musical that ran for 13 years from 1994 to 2007. It will be a "straight-forward, live action, large-budget movie musical," we're told. See below for the earlier story. Earlier: With "Maleficent" hitting big (though, contextually, not as big as the breathless media seems to think), and an "Alice in Wonderland" sequel on the way, it's clear Disney is interested in testing the stamina of the company's intellectual properties in the live action space. Add one more to the schedule: "Beauty and the Beast." Variety reports that...
- 6/5/2014
- by Kristopher Tapley
- Hitfix
★★☆☆☆ Christophe Gans invites you to be his guest for yet another adaptation of classic French fancy La Belle et la Bête (2014). Attempting to capture the enchantment of Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve's fairytale, Gans' overcooked adaptation stars Lea Seydoux, Vincent Cassel and a menagerie of furry critters. After losing his fleet, le marchand (André Dussollier) is forced to move his family to the countryside. His youngest daughter, Belle (Seydoux), is delighted to be swapping the pomp of the big city for this rural idyll. Her sisters, on the other hand, are dreadfully superficial, only concerned with fine clothes and jewels.
- 2/17/2014
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
This is the first trailer for the Christophe Gans-directed live-action adaptation of Beauty and the Beast, and it looks like a visually stunning film. Gans is the director hat brought us such movies as Brotherhood Of The Wolf and Silent Hill, and it looks like he did an incredible job with this one. The movie stars Léa Seydoux as Beauty and Vincent Cassel as Beast. The trailer is in French, and there are no subtitles, but I'm sure you'll still enjoy it. Here's what the director had to say about the film in a previous statement,
Beauty And The Beast is the adaptation of a story by Madame de Villeneuve. Published anonymously in 1740 as La Jeune Américaine et les contes marins, it paints a portrait of Belle, a joyful and touching young girl who falls in love with the Beast, a cursed creature in search of love and redemption.
Beauty And The Beast is the adaptation of a story by Madame de Villeneuve. Published anonymously in 1740 as La Jeune Américaine et les contes marins, it paints a portrait of Belle, a joyful and touching young girl who falls in love with the Beast, a cursed creature in search of love and redemption.
- 12/3/2013
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
I'll admit it, I'm still a sucker for a good costume drama/folk tale. Not the Disney-fied ones that sanitize, but ones that harken back to the dark underbelly of those tales are warnings and cautions about morality and behaviour. And so I was very excited when I first heard that Christophe Gans (Brotherhood of the Wolf, Silent Hill) was going back to original original story by Madame de Villeneuve l for his version of Beauty and the Beast, my expectations starting rising.Now, we have the first trailer. It certainly looks like a Gans film: full of rich colour, a creepy castle, a dark villain (This time around, Vincent Cassel seems to be getting the whole lion's body), a beautiful maid, intrigue, and hefty historical context...
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- 12/3/2013
- Screen Anarchy
Today we have an international poster for the upcoming live-action "Beauty and the Beast" film, that's directed by Christophe Gans (Silent Hill), and stars Vincent Cassel (Black Swan) and Lea Seydoux (Mission: Impossible- Ghost Protocol). Check it out below. The French-language movie is an adaptation of a story by Madame de Villeneuve. Published anonymously in 1740, it tells the story of Belle, a joyful young girl who falls in love with the Beast, a cursed creature in search of love and redemption. In 1760, a condensed children's version was published. It was from this version that Disney created its famous animated version. This is the first time the original version is being turned into a movie. "Beauty and the Beast" is currently set to hit theaters in France on February 12th, 2014. It has yet to get a Us release date. Poster: (click to enlarge)...
- 9/28/2013
- WorstPreviews.com
A fairy tale from Christophe Gans, the director behind "Brotherhood of the Wolf" and "Silent Hill," leads the imagination to some vivid places, which might be why we're slightly bummed by the release of the first poster for his "Beauty and the Beast." Starring Léa Seydoux and Vincent Cassel, a dream team pair up if there ever was one, the folks involved have long promised a more "modern" spin on the story, and one that will be more faithful to the original story by Madame de Villeneuve and address "the power of dreams and love over materialism and corruption." And that's cool and all good stuff, but this poster—which also gives us our first glimpse of the Beast—is a bit uninspiring, and looks like any number of similar movies from years past. We dare to be proven wrong though. While there is no stateside home yet, "Beauty and the Beast...
- 9/27/2013
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
At the Cannes Film Festival, Pathé International released the first image for Christophe Gans' adaptation of the fairy tale Beauty And The Beast, featuring a first look at Lea Seydoux (Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol) as the beauty and Vincent Cassel (Black Swan) as the beast. Coming from the French director behind Brotherhood of the Wolf and Silent Hill, it wouldn't seem far-fetched to assume his take on the source material will contain a much darker tone compared to the Disney version. Here's his statement on the film:Beauty And The Beast is the adaptation of a story by Madame de Villeneuve. Published anonymously in 1740 as La Jeune Américaine et les contes marins, it paints a portrait of Belle, a joyful and touching young girl who...
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- 6/8/2013
- Screen Anarchy
Here's our first look at Vincent Cassel and Lea Seydoux in director Christophe Gans' big screen adaptation of the classic fairytale Beauty and the Beast. You might not know it, but you are familiar with Gans' previous work. He's directed films such as the live-action manga adaptation Crying Freeman, Brotherhood Of The Wolf, and the insane adaptation of Silent Hill. Here's a statement from the director in which he discusses the film that he's making...
Beauty And The Beast is the adaptation of a story by Madame de Villeneuve. Published anonymously in 1740 as La Jeune Américaine et les contes marins, it paints a portrait of Belle, a joyful and touching young girl who falls in love with the Beast, a cursed creature in search of love and redemption. In 1760, a condensed children’s version was published. It was from this version that Jean Cocteau and then Walt Disney drew their famous adaptations.
Beauty And The Beast is the adaptation of a story by Madame de Villeneuve. Published anonymously in 1740 as La Jeune Américaine et les contes marins, it paints a portrait of Belle, a joyful and touching young girl who falls in love with the Beast, a cursed creature in search of love and redemption. In 1760, a condensed children’s version was published. It was from this version that Jean Cocteau and then Walt Disney drew their famous adaptations.
- 5/30/2013
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
Today we have the first photo of Vincent Cassel (Black Swan) and Lea Seydoux (Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol) in a new live-action adaptation of "Beauty and the Beast," which is directed by Christophe Gans (Silent Hill) and is currently in post-production. The French-language movie is an adaptation of a story by Madame de Villeneuve. Published anonymously in 1740, it tells the story of Belle, a joyful young girl who falls in love with the Beast, a cursed creature in search of love and redemption. In 1760, a condensed children.s version was published. It was from this version that Disney created its famous animated version. This is the first time the original version is being turned into a movie. "Beauty and the Beast" is currently set to hit theaters in France on February 12th, 2014. It has yet to be acquired for distribution in Us. Photo: (click to enlarge)...
- 5/29/2013
- WorstPreviews.com
French director Christophe Gans (left) is the director of “Brotherhood of the Wolf”, “Crying Freeman” and “Silent Hill”, so yeah, when you hear that he’s directing a live-action take on “Beauty and the Beast”, you should probably not expect it to look like a Disney movie. And this first look at the film, featuring stars Lea Seydoux (as the beauty) and Vincent Cassel (as the beast, of course) certainly doesn’t dispel that initial response to the film. While over at his native Frogland promoting the film at Cannes, Gans released this director’s statement about the movie: Beauty And The Beast is the adaptation of a story by Madame de Villeneuve. Published anonymously in 1740 as La Jeune Américaine et les contes marins, it paints a portrait of Belle, a joyful and touching young girl who falls in love with the Beast, a cursed creature in search of love and redemption.
- 5/29/2013
- by Nix
- Beyond Hollywood
First announced a year or so ago, Christophe Gans' adaptation of the classic fairytale Beauty And The Beast is now in post-production. The film stars Lea Seydoux and Vincent Cassel, and as the 2013 Cannes film festival winds down, the first still has emerged from the movie market, courtesy of Pathe International. Seydoux is Beauty and Cassel is the beast, just in case there was any confusion.Gans previously directed the live-action manga adaptation Crying Freeman, the mind-bending genre crossover Brotherhood Of The Wolf (a pre-French-revolutionary monster kung-fu horror mystery with Native Americans and Monica Bellucci), and the surreal Silent Hill movie that got an awful sequel last year from Michael J. Bassett. An amazing visual stylist, he's promising great things for Beauty And The Beast, as outlined in the statement that accompanies the image:"Beauty And The Beast is the adaptation of a story by Madame de Villeneuve. Published...
- 5/29/2013
- EmpireOnline
While Disney currently has plans to reimagine their own "Beauty And The Beast," it's probably safe to say that Christophe Gans -- the guy behind "Brotherhood Of The Wolf" and "Silent Hill" -- will have a more interesting take. Now in post-production, Pathé International took to the movie market at the recently wrapped Cannes Film Festival and brought with them a first look that positively glows with romance, or cannibalism. It has Vincent Cassel looking as though he wants to eat your face off, or maybe kiss it. Or maybe both. Lea Seydoux is the Beauty (duh) in a movie that Gans hopes will have some contemporary resonance when it's all done and dusted. Here's the director's statement: Beauty And The Beast is the adaptation of a story by Madame de Villeneuve. Published anonymously in 1740 as La Jeune Américaine et les contes marins, it paints a portrait of Belle, a...
- 5/28/2013
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Guillermo del Toro began developing his new take on “Beauty and the Beast” with Harry Potter actress Emma Watson this past July, and now a Variety update informs us that the monsterific Mexican helmer is moving full steam ahead on the fantasy re-imagining, setting it up at Warner Bros.
Del Toro will now not only produce but he will also direct (awesome!), with scribe Andrew Davies (“The Three Musketeers”, “Bridget Jones’s Diary”) set away to write a script from Del Toro’s treatment.
Based on the beloved Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve fairy tale that has already been adapted a thousand times with at least two classic productions (the Disney animated musical of the early 90′s and the 40′s Jean Cocteau directed French B&W magical film) that tells the story of Belle, the innocent young girl who finds herself trapped in the grotesque palace of a hideous beast, who...
Del Toro will now not only produce but he will also direct (awesome!), with scribe Andrew Davies (“The Three Musketeers”, “Bridget Jones’s Diary”) set away to write a script from Del Toro’s treatment.
Based on the beloved Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve fairy tale that has already been adapted a thousand times with at least two classic productions (the Disney animated musical of the early 90′s and the 40′s Jean Cocteau directed French B&W magical film) that tells the story of Belle, the innocent young girl who finds herself trapped in the grotesque palace of a hideous beast, who...
- 2/14/2012
- by Matt Holmes
- Obsessed with Film
Even before learning, through Dan's review, that "Beastly" is mostly an unsuccessful attempt at modernizing the "Beauty and the Beast" story, I wondered about other updates of the classic fairy tale (originally written in 1740 by Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve with changes made later by Jeanne-Marie Le Prince de Beaumont). I was sure there had been plenty. But all I could immediately think of was the campy 80s TV series starring Linda Hamilton and Ron Perlman (which in retrospect looks like a mash-up of "Thundercats" and "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles") and of course "King Kong," which isn't really that direct…...
- 3/4/2011
- Spout
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