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
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
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
Concept art of what Bradley Cooper would've looked like in The Crow reboot, the first photo of Jeremy Irvine as Pip in Great Expectations, the Batwing on an NYC skyscraper rooftop on the set of The Dark Knight Rises, and the first photo from the new "Toy Story" short Small Fry.
Posters for Underworld: Awakening, Carnage, Goon, The Flowers of War, Coriolanus, Beauty and the Beast 3D, Think Like a Man, Red Tails, Journey 2: The Mysterious Island, Texas Killing Fields, Contraband, and four character posters for Snow White and the Huntsman.
"Activision has announced that "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3" has set the record for the biggest entertainment launch of all time in any medium with 6.5 million copies sold and more than $400 million in revenue garnered from North America and the United Kingdom alone in the first 24 hours of release…" (The Guardian)
"Lionsgate has announced that the trailer for...
Posters for Underworld: Awakening, Carnage, Goon, The Flowers of War, Coriolanus, Beauty and the Beast 3D, Think Like a Man, Red Tails, Journey 2: The Mysterious Island, Texas Killing Fields, Contraband, and four character posters for Snow White and the Huntsman.
"Activision has announced that "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3" has set the record for the biggest entertainment launch of all time in any medium with 6.5 million copies sold and more than $400 million in revenue garnered from North America and the United Kingdom alone in the first 24 hours of release…" (The Guardian)
"Lionsgate has announced that the trailer for...
- 11/13/2011
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Rating: 1.5 out of 5 stars
Darren Lynn Bousman probably has a lot to answer for – first he starts off Saw’s inglorious demise by making the ever-decreasing sequels II, III, and IV, and then he pretends he’s come out of the woods by making the genius Repo! A Genetic Opera, before throwing a curve-ball in the shape of this Rebecca De Mornay starring remake of the Troma horror Mother’s Day. It’s difficult to know where to stand here: on the one hand it’s a horror remake, so the laws of precedence suggests an aversion to quality from the get-go, but on the other, the original isn’t exactly well-known and it star the still-delicious De Mornay as a murderous matriarch of a criminal family. Like Tony Soprano with tits. Sorry, bigger tits.
The film opens (after a silly little diversion that will become important much later on) on a party,...
Darren Lynn Bousman probably has a lot to answer for – first he starts off Saw’s inglorious demise by making the ever-decreasing sequels II, III, and IV, and then he pretends he’s come out of the woods by making the genius Repo! A Genetic Opera, before throwing a curve-ball in the shape of this Rebecca De Mornay starring remake of the Troma horror Mother’s Day. It’s difficult to know where to stand here: on the one hand it’s a horror remake, so the laws of precedence suggests an aversion to quality from the get-go, but on the other, the original isn’t exactly well-known and it star the still-delicious De Mornay as a murderous matriarch of a criminal family. Like Tony Soprano with tits. Sorry, bigger tits.
The film opens (after a silly little diversion that will become important much later on) on a party,...
- 6/11/2011
- by Simon Gallagher
- Obsessed with Film
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