Friday, November 03, 2006
Cruise to Run United Artists
Tom Cruise and his producing partner Paula Wagner have found a new home in movieland following the rather public split from Paramount Pictures. Tom Cruise and Wagner are due to run competitor studio United Artists, a division of MGM Pictures that deals with speciality films.
Paramount attributed the lower than expected box office takings of Mission Impossible 3 to Cruise’s erratic behaviour of late, with this new deal it seems that Tom Cruise rides again albeit for a different studio.
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Impressed by Flushed Away
In a year of countless forgettable CGI animated features, FLUSHED AWAY from the British Aardman Studios (that made Chicken Run and last year’s Oscar winner Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were Rabbit) arrives with a bang of a surprise.
A very ‘fluid’ comedy animation all round, check out the full review here.
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Thursday, November 02, 2006
Babel Reviewed
Three connecting stories set in Morocco, Tunisia, Mexico and Japan. The film begins with a tragedy striking a married couple on holiday.
This is ‘Babel’, the new film by Alejandro González Iñárritu and starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett. Read the full review here.
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Wednesday, November 01, 2006
Halo Movie Delayed
Software giant Microsoft have stopped production on a feature film version of the popular Xbox video game Halo.
The film was being produced by studios Fox and Universal, who both pulled away from the project just last month, but the film-makers were determined to continue with the Halo project.
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The Films of Roberto Rossellini
Cinematheque Ontario is currently presenting an exhaustive retrospective of the films of Roberto Rossellini – the director of cinema classics as ROME OPEN CITY, GERMANY YEAR ZERO, STROMBOLI and VOYAGE IN ITALY. Included in the series are the ones listed above as well as his lesser known films such as BLAISE PASCAL, DOV’E LA LIBERTA (reviewed below) and a few of his short works.
“I am a simple man. I’d rather not be a lonely man.” This is a quote from Rossellini. His films will surely have fulfilled his wish in life.
The retrospective begins appropriately with an interview at the Jackman Hall, Toronto with Rossellini’s daughter, Isabella Rossellini. The spirit of his films will be shared by countless and forever.
For screening times, list of films and prices, check the cinematheque website at:
http://cinemathequeontario.ca/
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