Former Working Title executive Johanna Byer to oversee. English-language slate includes Train To Busan, Barbarella remakes.
Johanna Byer (pictured below) has been brought in as vice-president of creative affairs to run the unit in Los Angeles as the French giant introduced the latest plank in its Us expansion strategy.
The division kicks off with a development slate comprising: Train To Busan, which is based on the South Korean hit and will be fast-tracked; Point Blank, the thriller that Gaumont recently bought back from Working Title; comedy Dead Tired; and Barbarella, which was originally conceived as a TV remake and has been reconfigured as a feature project.
Byer will work closely with Paris-based head of international production Cecile Gaget and Adam Fishbach, who was recently promoted to senior vice-president of creative affairs to head creative affairs at Gaumont Television Us.
Together the team will exploit Gaumont’s 1,100-title film library to develop and produce English-language films for an...
Johanna Byer (pictured below) has been brought in as vice-president of creative affairs to run the unit in Los Angeles as the French giant introduced the latest plank in its Us expansion strategy.
The division kicks off with a development slate comprising: Train To Busan, which is based on the South Korean hit and will be fast-tracked; Point Blank, the thriller that Gaumont recently bought back from Working Title; comedy Dead Tired; and Barbarella, which was originally conceived as a TV remake and has been reconfigured as a feature project.
Byer will work closely with Paris-based head of international production Cecile Gaget and Adam Fishbach, who was recently promoted to senior vice-president of creative affairs to head creative affairs at Gaumont Television Us.
Together the team will exploit Gaumont’s 1,100-title film library to develop and produce English-language films for an...
- 2/1/2017
- ScreenDaily
Following the successful launch of its TV division in the U.S., France’s Gaumont is launching a feature film division.
Former Working Title exec Johanna Byer will oversee the division as vp creative affairs, geared toward producing English language films.
The studio’s slate already includes a remake of South Korean hit Train to Busan, Point Blank, Dead Tired and the Barbarella project it has been developing with Nicolas Winding Refn. The company previously produced his The Neon Demon and Only God Forgives.
Byer will be scouring the legendary film company’s 1,100-title strong legacy library for new English-language projects to develop, working closely with head...
Former Working Title exec Johanna Byer will oversee the division as vp creative affairs, geared toward producing English language films.
The studio’s slate already includes a remake of South Korean hit Train to Busan, Point Blank, Dead Tired and the Barbarella project it has been developing with Nicolas Winding Refn. The company previously produced his The Neon Demon and Only God Forgives.
Byer will be scouring the legendary film company’s 1,100-title strong legacy library for new English-language projects to develop, working closely with head...
- 2/1/2017
- by Rhonda Richford
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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The group is forced to separate in the latest episode of The Walking Dead prequel, Fear The Walking Dead...
This review contains spoilers.
2.7 Shiva
One of the things The Walking Dead does every season is scatter the survivors to the four winds for mid-season finales, then they bring them back together over the course of the next half of the season. Taking a page from Hershel's farm once again, Fear The Walking Dead ends the episode with the cast scattered around the Mexican countryside. On one side, there are zombies. On the other side, angry workers looking to get revenge for their dead relatives. In the middle, as always, Victor Strand and his allies, who find themselves on the outs after wreaking a little havoc in the supposed safe zone.
The cracks appeared almost immediately. After all, Celia worked pretty hard at extracting Nick, the most vulnerable one of the group,...
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The group is forced to separate in the latest episode of The Walking Dead prequel, Fear The Walking Dead...
This review contains spoilers.
2.7 Shiva
One of the things The Walking Dead does every season is scatter the survivors to the four winds for mid-season finales, then they bring them back together over the course of the next half of the season. Taking a page from Hershel's farm once again, Fear The Walking Dead ends the episode with the cast scattered around the Mexican countryside. On one side, there are zombies. On the other side, angry workers looking to get revenge for their dead relatives. In the middle, as always, Victor Strand and his allies, who find themselves on the outs after wreaking a little havoc in the supposed safe zone.
The cracks appeared almost immediately. After all, Celia worked pretty hard at extracting Nick, the most vulnerable one of the group,...
- 5/26/2016
- Den of Geek
Willem Dafoe and Gael Garcia Bernal also among those called up for jury service at the 67th Cannes Film Festival.
The Cannes Film Festival has named the jury for its 67th edition, comprising eight world cinema names from China, Korea, Denmark, Iran, the Us, France and Mexico.
Jane Campion, the New Zealand filmmaker who won the Palme d’or for The Piano, was previously announced as the president of the jury, which will include five women and four men.
Cannes 2014: films
Those selected include Nicolas Winding Refn, the Danish director, screenwriter and producer who won Best Direction at Cannes in 2011 with Drive. His most recent film, Only God Forgives, played in Competition at Cannes last year.
Also chosen is Sofia Coppola, the Us director and screenwriter whose debut The Virgin Suicides was selected for the Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes in 1999. Coppola, who won a screenwriting Oscar for Lost in Translation, made it into...
The Cannes Film Festival has named the jury for its 67th edition, comprising eight world cinema names from China, Korea, Denmark, Iran, the Us, France and Mexico.
Jane Campion, the New Zealand filmmaker who won the Palme d’or for The Piano, was previously announced as the president of the jury, which will include five women and four men.
Cannes 2014: films
Those selected include Nicolas Winding Refn, the Danish director, screenwriter and producer who won Best Direction at Cannes in 2011 with Drive. His most recent film, Only God Forgives, played in Competition at Cannes last year.
Also chosen is Sofia Coppola, the Us director and screenwriter whose debut The Virgin Suicides was selected for the Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes in 1999. Coppola, who won a screenwriting Oscar for Lost in Translation, made it into...
- 4/28/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Melanie Schiele’s Butterfly Children has won the $50,000 Slamdance 2013 Writing Competition grand prize and $10,000 in cash presented by JuntoBox Films.
Competition organisers said they received a record number of more than 2,500 submissions this year. The ceremony took place at the Writers Guild Of America headquarters in Los Angeles on October 9.
In the Feature Screenplay category Mary F Unser’s The Ecdysiasts claimed first place, while Clayton Sakoda’s Swine finished second and Elliot and Teresa Sutherland’s Terrestrials shared third place with Wallingford by Lisa Rubin.
Exquisite Corpses by Mark Strassel and Rebecca Rudell (pictured) took first place in the Horror Screenplay section, followed by That Time Of The Month from Joe Hauler and Dead Tired by Geoffrey Uloth.
In the Short Screenplay category first prize went to Think Ink by Emily Hu followed by The Substitute from Madeleine Sims-Fewer and Tannaz Hazemi and James Grimaldi’s Before The Bomb.
Slamdance 2014 will...
Competition organisers said they received a record number of more than 2,500 submissions this year. The ceremony took place at the Writers Guild Of America headquarters in Los Angeles on October 9.
In the Feature Screenplay category Mary F Unser’s The Ecdysiasts claimed first place, while Clayton Sakoda’s Swine finished second and Elliot and Teresa Sutherland’s Terrestrials shared third place with Wallingford by Lisa Rubin.
Exquisite Corpses by Mark Strassel and Rebecca Rudell (pictured) took first place in the Horror Screenplay section, followed by That Time Of The Month from Joe Hauler and Dead Tired by Geoffrey Uloth.
In the Short Screenplay category first prize went to Think Ink by Emily Hu followed by The Substitute from Madeleine Sims-Fewer and Tannaz Hazemi and James Grimaldi’s Before The Bomb.
Slamdance 2014 will...
- 10/11/2013
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Melanie Schiele’s Butterfly Children has won the $50,000 Slamdance 2013 Writing Competition grand prize and $10,000 in cash presented by JuntoBox Films.
Competition organisers said they received a record number of more than 2,500 submissions this year. The ceremony took place at the Writers Guild Of America headquarters in Los Angeles on October 9.
In the Feature Screenplay category Mary F Unser’s The Ecdysiasts claimed first place, while Clayton Sakoda’s Swine finished second and Elliot and Teresa Sutherland’s Terrestrials shared third place with Wallingford by Lisa Rubin.
Exquisite Corpses by Mark Strassel and Rebecca Rudell (pictured) took first place in the Horror Screenplay section, followed by That Time Of The Month from Joe Hauler and Dead Tired by Geoffrey Uloth.
In the Short Screenplay category first prize went to Think Ink by Emily Hu followed by The Substitute from Madeleine Sims-Fewer and Tannaz Hazemi and James Grimaldi’s Before The Bomb.
Slamdance 2014 will...
Competition organisers said they received a record number of more than 2,500 submissions this year. The ceremony took place at the Writers Guild Of America headquarters in Los Angeles on October 9.
In the Feature Screenplay category Mary F Unser’s The Ecdysiasts claimed first place, while Clayton Sakoda’s Swine finished second and Elliot and Teresa Sutherland’s Terrestrials shared third place with Wallingford by Lisa Rubin.
Exquisite Corpses by Mark Strassel and Rebecca Rudell (pictured) took first place in the Horror Screenplay section, followed by That Time Of The Month from Joe Hauler and Dead Tired by Geoffrey Uloth.
In the Short Screenplay category first prize went to Think Ink by Emily Hu followed by The Substitute from Madeleine Sims-Fewer and Tannaz Hazemi and James Grimaldi’s Before The Bomb.
Slamdance 2014 will...
- 10/11/2013
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Nb: Films by Robert Beavers, Peter Hutton, and Luther Price were unavailable for preview. However, I said some very nice things about these men and their work in general over at The Dissolve.
In years past, I have attempted to present this extended article as a preview; my aim has been to send it off into the world either the day before of the day of Tiff's kick-off. That has proven impossible this year, and, dear reader, I am heartily sorry for having offended thee... But the fact that Wavelengths is a beat that is becoming harder and harder for one person to adequately cover is undoubtedly a sign of good health. Since last year, when Tiff enfolded the former Visions section (a space for formally adventurous narrative features) into Wavelengths (Tiff's experimental showcase), not only has interest in the section grown exponentially. The section can now more fully reflect...
In years past, I have attempted to present this extended article as a preview; my aim has been to send it off into the world either the day before of the day of Tiff's kick-off. That has proven impossible this year, and, dear reader, I am heartily sorry for having offended thee... But the fact that Wavelengths is a beat that is becoming harder and harder for one person to adequately cover is undoubtedly a sign of good health. Since last year, when Tiff enfolded the former Visions section (a space for formally adventurous narrative features) into Wavelengths (Tiff's experimental showcase), not only has interest in the section grown exponentially. The section can now more fully reflect...
- 9/9/2013
- by Michael Sicinski
- MUBI
Festival organisers announced the Discovery, Mavericks and Masters sections, details of the David Cronenberg: Transformation exhibition, a tenth Midnight Madness entry and introduced the Glenn Gould Studio to the festival’s stable of venues.
The programming strands feature new work from Catherine Breillat and on-stage conversations with Spike Jones, Irrfan Khan, Harvey Weinstein and Ron Howard.
The final entry in Midnight Madness will be the world premiere of Alex de la Iglesia’s Witching & Bitching (Las brujas De Zugarramurdi) (Spain-France).
The Glenn Gould Studio will serve as a venue for various public and industry programming during the festival and will function as a main location for the Tiff Industry Conference, set to run from Sept 6-12.
Programming will include the industry conference keynote session, Master Class, Moguls, Mavericks, Telefilm Canada Pitch This! on Sept 9 and the Doc Conference from Sept 10-11.
“As the jewel of the Canadian Broadcast Centre, Glenn Gould Studio...
The programming strands feature new work from Catherine Breillat and on-stage conversations with Spike Jones, Irrfan Khan, Harvey Weinstein and Ron Howard.
The final entry in Midnight Madness will be the world premiere of Alex de la Iglesia’s Witching & Bitching (Las brujas De Zugarramurdi) (Spain-France).
The Glenn Gould Studio will serve as a venue for various public and industry programming during the festival and will function as a main location for the Tiff Industry Conference, set to run from Sept 6-12.
Programming will include the industry conference keynote session, Master Class, Moguls, Mavericks, Telefilm Canada Pitch This! on Sept 9 and the Doc Conference from Sept 10-11.
“As the jewel of the Canadian Broadcast Centre, Glenn Gould Studio...
- 8/20/2013
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Sneak Peek all of "Monster High: Fright On!", the second animated "Monster High" TV special.
The film promotes Mattel's "School's Out" and "Dead Tired" "Monster High" teenage monster dolls, based on Universal's most Famous Monsters of Filmland.
Characters in the film include 'Don of the Dead', Hoodude Voodoo','Heath Burns', 'Iris', 'Scarah Screams', 'Frankie Stein', 'Clawdeen Wolf', 'Lagoona Blue', 'Ghoulia Yelps', 'Cleo de Nile', 'Toralei Stripe', ''Purrsephone', 'Meowlody' and 'Draculaura'.
Also appearing are 'Clawd Wolf', 'Bram Devein', 'Gory Fangtell', 'Brocko', 'Gillington Webber', 'Mr. Rotter', 'Ms. Bloodgood', 'Howleen Wolf', 'Abbey Bominable', 'Deuce Gorgon', 'Operetta', 'Jackson Jekyll', 'Manny Taur', 'Spectra Vondergeist', 'Eyera', 'Ms. Crabgrass', 'Nightmare', 'Ricky', 'Glitterati', 'Nefera de Nile', 'De Nile servants', 'Dougey', 'Romulus', 'Mr. Hackington', 'Holt Hyde', 'Van Hellscream', 'The lunch lady', 'Memphis Longlegs' and 'Skullastic Superintendents'.
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Monster High: Fright On !
The film promotes Mattel's "School's Out" and "Dead Tired" "Monster High" teenage monster dolls, based on Universal's most Famous Monsters of Filmland.
Characters in the film include 'Don of the Dead', Hoodude Voodoo','Heath Burns', 'Iris', 'Scarah Screams', 'Frankie Stein', 'Clawdeen Wolf', 'Lagoona Blue', 'Ghoulia Yelps', 'Cleo de Nile', 'Toralei Stripe', ''Purrsephone', 'Meowlody' and 'Draculaura'.
Also appearing are 'Clawd Wolf', 'Bram Devein', 'Gory Fangtell', 'Brocko', 'Gillington Webber', 'Mr. Rotter', 'Ms. Bloodgood', 'Howleen Wolf', 'Abbey Bominable', 'Deuce Gorgon', 'Operetta', 'Jackson Jekyll', 'Manny Taur', 'Spectra Vondergeist', 'Eyera', 'Ms. Crabgrass', 'Nightmare', 'Ricky', 'Glitterati', 'Nefera de Nile', 'De Nile servants', 'Dougey', 'Romulus', 'Mr. Hackington', 'Holt Hyde', 'Van Hellscream', 'The lunch lady', 'Memphis Longlegs' and 'Skullastic Superintendents'.
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Monster High: Fright On !
- 4/8/2013
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
Red faces on the jury … Derek Malcolm explains why the jury got it all wrong in the piece originally published on 26 May 1994
The 47th Cannes Film Festival is likely to be remembered not for its films, though there were some genuinely good ones around in every section, nor for its bevy of attendant Hollywood superstars, including Mel Gibson, Robert De Niro, Bruce Willis and, of course, jury president Clint Eastwood, but for a series of decisions by its international jury that seemed to defy logical analysis. This was a pity, since Eastwood, the jury's president and Catherine Deneuve, its vice-president, made a glamorous couple, feted everywhere and adored by the crowds. Nobody could say that they lacked intelligence. Unfortunately, they seemed to carry the rest of the jury - an undistinguished lot in film terms - towards some very odd conclusions indeed.
It was not just that they gave the...
The 47th Cannes Film Festival is likely to be remembered not for its films, though there were some genuinely good ones around in every section, nor for its bevy of attendant Hollywood superstars, including Mel Gibson, Robert De Niro, Bruce Willis and, of course, jury president Clint Eastwood, but for a series of decisions by its international jury that seemed to defy logical analysis. This was a pity, since Eastwood, the jury's president and Catherine Deneuve, its vice-president, made a glamorous couple, feted everywhere and adored by the crowds. Nobody could say that they lacked intelligence. Unfortunately, they seemed to carry the rest of the jury - an undistinguished lot in film terms - towards some very odd conclusions indeed.
It was not just that they gave the...
- 11/9/2011
- by Derek Malcolm
- The Guardian - Film News
This French sex comedy from actor-turned-director Michel Blanc (Grosse Fatigue) had audiences in francophone Montreal chuckling from start to finish.
Jettisoning plot in favor of exploring a network of differing relationships, Blanc uses crisp dialogue to pilot a lighthearted trawl through the infidelities of the French middle class. As dramatic as it humorous, this film certainly should hit with sophisticated audiences who've been around long enough to laugh at life's myriad imperfections, inconsistencies and contradictions. See How They Run (Embrassez qui vous voudrez) received its world premiere out of competition here in Montreal.
The slimline story revolves around a group of competitive pals taking a well-needed summer vacation. The slightly snobby Elisabeth (Charlotte Rampling) takes off for the beach, leaving her caring but philandering husband Bertrand (Jacques Dutronc) behind. At the hotel with man-hungry friend Julie, Elisabeth runs into her downwardly mobile neighbors Vero and Jerome, who are so broke they're holidaying in a trailer park. The women are soon joined by the glamorous Lulu (Carole Bouquet), who's having trouble with her violently possessive lover, played by Blanc. The resulting entanglements gradually intermingle to illustrate the proverbial tangled web of life.
This film's verbal humor is a cracking barrage of parry and thrust. The girl talk is especially feisty, with Lulu and Elisabeth wondering what it's like to "come all over the place and orgasm like a man" and Vero adding that she'd settle for knowing what it's like to orgasm as a woman. But there's far more going on here than just comedy. The jokes are Blanc's way of bringing out the drama.
See How They Run is a compassionate film that likes its characters in spite of their many peccadilloes. It's not easy to be happy, asserts director Blanc, and there's nothing wrong with telling a big white lie if it helps everyone get through the day. Husband Bertrand is a master of all this domestic duplicity, having an affair with both his wife's friend Julie and his shy transsexual housekeeper. Bertrand's advice that life is hard and you just have to "ziz-zag your way through it" is at the core of the film.
Rampling's performance is multidimensional -- at once haughty and vulnerable. As Elisabeth, she conceals her anguish at Bertrand's detached attitude toward their marriage and decides that it isn't necessarily a rejection of her. Dutronc plays it with mild amusement -- a man so comfortable with his secretive way of life that he feels no guilt about it. Blanc the actor adds some physical humor, continually searching for wife Lulu's suspected lover and always punishing the wrong man.
Blanc finds the hidden undercurrents in these relationships and pushes them up to the surface. It's testament to his skill as a comic and dramatist that he can use humor to bring to light such deep and human duplicities without ever appearing crude or crass.
SEE HOW THEY RUN
UGC Presents
Credits:
Director-writer: Michel Blanc
Based on the novel "Summer Things" by: Joseph Connolly
Producer: Yves Marmion
Co-producers: Julie Baines, Franco Vincenzo Porcelli
Director of photography: Sean Bobbit
Production designer: Benoit Barouh
Costume designer: Oliver Beriot
Editor: Marilyn Monthieux
Music: Mark Russell
Cast:
Elisabeth: Charlotte Rampling
Bertrand: Jacques Dutronc
Lulu: Carole Bouquet
Jean-Pierre: Michel Blanc
Running time -- 103 minutes
No MPAA rating...
Jettisoning plot in favor of exploring a network of differing relationships, Blanc uses crisp dialogue to pilot a lighthearted trawl through the infidelities of the French middle class. As dramatic as it humorous, this film certainly should hit with sophisticated audiences who've been around long enough to laugh at life's myriad imperfections, inconsistencies and contradictions. See How They Run (Embrassez qui vous voudrez) received its world premiere out of competition here in Montreal.
The slimline story revolves around a group of competitive pals taking a well-needed summer vacation. The slightly snobby Elisabeth (Charlotte Rampling) takes off for the beach, leaving her caring but philandering husband Bertrand (Jacques Dutronc) behind. At the hotel with man-hungry friend Julie, Elisabeth runs into her downwardly mobile neighbors Vero and Jerome, who are so broke they're holidaying in a trailer park. The women are soon joined by the glamorous Lulu (Carole Bouquet), who's having trouble with her violently possessive lover, played by Blanc. The resulting entanglements gradually intermingle to illustrate the proverbial tangled web of life.
This film's verbal humor is a cracking barrage of parry and thrust. The girl talk is especially feisty, with Lulu and Elisabeth wondering what it's like to "come all over the place and orgasm like a man" and Vero adding that she'd settle for knowing what it's like to orgasm as a woman. But there's far more going on here than just comedy. The jokes are Blanc's way of bringing out the drama.
See How They Run is a compassionate film that likes its characters in spite of their many peccadilloes. It's not easy to be happy, asserts director Blanc, and there's nothing wrong with telling a big white lie if it helps everyone get through the day. Husband Bertrand is a master of all this domestic duplicity, having an affair with both his wife's friend Julie and his shy transsexual housekeeper. Bertrand's advice that life is hard and you just have to "ziz-zag your way through it" is at the core of the film.
Rampling's performance is multidimensional -- at once haughty and vulnerable. As Elisabeth, she conceals her anguish at Bertrand's detached attitude toward their marriage and decides that it isn't necessarily a rejection of her. Dutronc plays it with mild amusement -- a man so comfortable with his secretive way of life that he feels no guilt about it. Blanc the actor adds some physical humor, continually searching for wife Lulu's suspected lover and always punishing the wrong man.
Blanc finds the hidden undercurrents in these relationships and pushes them up to the surface. It's testament to his skill as a comic and dramatist that he can use humor to bring to light such deep and human duplicities without ever appearing crude or crass.
SEE HOW THEY RUN
UGC Presents
Credits:
Director-writer: Michel Blanc
Based on the novel "Summer Things" by: Joseph Connolly
Producer: Yves Marmion
Co-producers: Julie Baines, Franco Vincenzo Porcelli
Director of photography: Sean Bobbit
Production designer: Benoit Barouh
Costume designer: Oliver Beriot
Editor: Marilyn Monthieux
Music: Mark Russell
Cast:
Elisabeth: Charlotte Rampling
Bertrand: Jacques Dutronc
Lulu: Carole Bouquet
Jean-Pierre: Michel Blanc
Running time -- 103 minutes
No MPAA rating...
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