The European Film Market at the Berlin Film Festival marks the first major film market of the year, and is one of the few events where nearly everyone from the global movie business comes together to network and launch new projects.
Read More: 5 Exciting Films in the 2017 Berlin Film Festival Competition Lineup
This year’s Efm will draw more than 1,600 buyers from roughly 70 countries into a deal-making bonanza for films in every stage of development and production, much like the American Film Market in Los Angeles and the Marché du Film in Cannes. Efm will include around 730 screenings this year, more than 600 of which will be market premieres.
What are the movies and screenplays already on executives’ radars? Here are 10 hot projects that could be prime targets.
“Borg/McEnroe”
Summary: This sports drama stars Shia Labeouf as John McEnroe and Sverrir Gudnason as Björn Borg. The movie focuses on the pair’s 1980 Wimbledon tennis championship,...
Read More: 5 Exciting Films in the 2017 Berlin Film Festival Competition Lineup
This year’s Efm will draw more than 1,600 buyers from roughly 70 countries into a deal-making bonanza for films in every stage of development and production, much like the American Film Market in Los Angeles and the Marché du Film in Cannes. Efm will include around 730 screenings this year, more than 600 of which will be market premieres.
What are the movies and screenplays already on executives’ radars? Here are 10 hot projects that could be prime targets.
“Borg/McEnroe”
Summary: This sports drama stars Shia Labeouf as John McEnroe and Sverrir Gudnason as Björn Borg. The movie focuses on the pair’s 1980 Wimbledon tennis championship,...
- 2/9/2017
- by Graham Winfrey
- Indiewire
Marion Cotillard and her partner Guillaume Canet have reteamed to star in the film “Rock’n Roll.” This time the duo, who previously worked together on “Blood Ties” and “Little White Lies,” portray themselves in this meta showbiz comedy.
After Canet is told by a young co-star that he’s not “rock’n roll” enough and can’t sell films anymore, the actor then tries to prove her wrong by getting help from his wife and actress Marion Cotillard. The first trailer (via The Playlist) doesn’t include subtitles but it has enough fun scenes that show the actors in sticky situations, and helps you understand the narrative.
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Directed by Canet, “Rock’n Roll” also co-stars Gilles Lellouche, Philippe Lefebvre, Camille Rowe, Kev Adams, Ben Foster and Maxim Nucci, among others. There’s no word yet on when,...
After Canet is told by a young co-star that he’s not “rock’n roll” enough and can’t sell films anymore, the actor then tries to prove her wrong by getting help from his wife and actress Marion Cotillard. The first trailer (via The Playlist) doesn’t include subtitles but it has enough fun scenes that show the actors in sticky situations, and helps you understand the narrative.
Read More: ‘Allied’ Featurette: Marion Cotillard and Robert Zemeckis Discuss Finding Humanity in Their War Story — Watch
Directed by Canet, “Rock’n Roll” also co-stars Gilles Lellouche, Philippe Lefebvre, Camille Rowe, Kev Adams, Ben Foster and Maxim Nucci, among others. There’s no word yet on when,...
- 12/13/2016
- by Liz Calvario
- Indiewire
After working together on Little White Lies and Blood Ties, for the third time this decade Guillaume Canet has directed his partner Marion Cotillard. The film, titled Rock’n Roll, doesn’t have U.S. distribution yet, but it’ll arrive in France early next year and so it’s time for the first international trailer.
A drama with a meta spin, Canet and Cotillard play themselves, with the latter telling the former he’s not rock ‘n’ roll enough, so he “freaks out” and goes to learn from the French king of rock, Johnny Hallyday. While the first trailer is free of subtitles, one can see the meta elements at play with awards shows and studio back lots. Canet, whose last film was co-scripted by James Gray, hasn’t quite had the U.S break-out that some other French contemporaries have had, but hopefully this one gets some attention here.
A drama with a meta spin, Canet and Cotillard play themselves, with the latter telling the former he’s not rock ‘n’ roll enough, so he “freaks out” and goes to learn from the French king of rock, Johnny Hallyday. While the first trailer is free of subtitles, one can see the meta elements at play with awards shows and studio back lots. Canet, whose last film was co-scripted by James Gray, hasn’t quite had the U.S break-out that some other French contemporaries have had, but hopefully this one gets some attention here.
- 12/12/2016
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Marion Cotillard's partner Guillaume Canet is speaking out against rumors that Cotillard had an affair with her Allied costar Brad Pitt, or that she had any role in his divorce from Angelina Jolie. "I don't usually make it a habit to comment on rumors made about us," the actor-director, 42, wrote in French on Instagram Friday, alongside a picture of a "Danger" road sign. "I also don't usually talk about my private life which until now I've always protected attentively ... But the fury of the tabloids, the venal stupidity of some people calling themselves journalists, the haters who feel braver behind a keyboard,...
- 9/23/2016
- by Peter Mikelbank and Michael Miller
- PEOPLE.com
Amazon
To celebrate the release of The Connection, out now on DVD, What Culture are giving 2 lucky winners the chance to win a copy of the DVD.
The Connection follows young investigating magistrate Pierre Michel (Jean Dujardin) who arrives in Marseille, a city riddled with organised crime, in 1975 with his wife (Céline Sallette, House Of Tolerance, Rust and Bone, Marie Antoinette) and children. He sets to work tackling the French Connection, a mafia organisation that exports heroin around the world. Despite protests from his family and colleagues, he sets his own safety aside to embark on a personal crusade against Gaëtan Zampa (Gilles Lellouche, Little White Lies, The Players, Point Blank), the iconic underworld figure and untouchable godfather of the French Connection. But as he delves deeper into the case, Pierre realises his old methods no longer apply.
A blend of style and intensity, The Connection is a visually stunning...
To celebrate the release of The Connection, out now on DVD, What Culture are giving 2 lucky winners the chance to win a copy of the DVD.
The Connection follows young investigating magistrate Pierre Michel (Jean Dujardin) who arrives in Marseille, a city riddled with organised crime, in 1975 with his wife (Céline Sallette, House Of Tolerance, Rust and Bone, Marie Antoinette) and children. He sets to work tackling the French Connection, a mafia organisation that exports heroin around the world. Despite protests from his family and colleagues, he sets his own safety aside to embark on a personal crusade against Gaëtan Zampa (Gilles Lellouche, Little White Lies, The Players, Point Blank), the iconic underworld figure and untouchable godfather of the French Connection. But as he delves deeper into the case, Pierre realises his old methods no longer apply.
A blend of style and intensity, The Connection is a visually stunning...
- 10/20/2015
- by Laura Holmes
- Obsessed with Film
Considering the acclaim that French director Guillaume Canet has rightly received for his previous endeavours, Tell No One and Little White Lies, it became increasingly likely that he would make the move across the Atlantic, and test his abilities in the States – a move he has now made with his first English production, Blood Ties. However here is a film overwhelmed by its influences, feeling more like a homage to the work of Sidney Lumet and John Cassavetes, rather than find its own, unique voice.
Blood Ties is a remake of the 2008 production Les Liens Du Sang – which Canet himself took s starring role in – and the director has since moved this story to New York in the 1970s, where we meet cop Frank (Billy Crudup), who unwittingly puts up his brother Chris (Clive Owen) following the latter’s release from a lengthy jail sentence. The pair have a distinct conflict of interests,...
Blood Ties is a remake of the 2008 production Les Liens Du Sang – which Canet himself took s starring role in – and the director has since moved this story to New York in the 1970s, where we meet cop Frank (Billy Crudup), who unwittingly puts up his brother Chris (Clive Owen) following the latter’s release from a lengthy jail sentence. The pair have a distinct conflict of interests,...
- 8/14/2014
- by Stefan Pape
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Still the Chill: Zwick Assembles Fine Cast for Routine Exercise
Jesse Zwick, son of director Edward Zwick, has amassed a fine cast of young actors for a revamp of what will inevitably compared to Lawrence Kasdan’s The Big Chill (1983), where a reunion of old friends transpires over the death (in this case, near death) of one of their old group members. While Kasdan’s film represents the pinnacle of this dramatic formula, there have been plenty of films since then that benefit greatly from its influence. A glossy, less dire example would be the more recent Channing Tatum headlined 10 Years (2011), while Guillaume Canet gets dibs for the best thing since Kasdan with his 2010 Little White Lies. With About Alex, Zwick has a written a smartly observed treatment to define the trials and travails of a new generation of quickly aging twentysomethings, a group of young adults already greatly at...
Jesse Zwick, son of director Edward Zwick, has amassed a fine cast of young actors for a revamp of what will inevitably compared to Lawrence Kasdan’s The Big Chill (1983), where a reunion of old friends transpires over the death (in this case, near death) of one of their old group members. While Kasdan’s film represents the pinnacle of this dramatic formula, there have been plenty of films since then that benefit greatly from its influence. A glossy, less dire example would be the more recent Channing Tatum headlined 10 Years (2011), while Guillaume Canet gets dibs for the best thing since Kasdan with his 2010 Little White Lies. With About Alex, Zwick has a written a smartly observed treatment to define the trials and travails of a new generation of quickly aging twentysomethings, a group of young adults already greatly at...
- 8/9/2014
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Blood Simple: Canet’s English Language Debut an Enjoyably Prostrate Epic
For his English language debut, actor/director Guillaume Canet arrives with Blood Ties, a remake of Rivals, a 2008 French film of which he was the star, from director Jacques Maillot. While it’s original running time has been cut by about half an hour after a premiere at Cannes (aligning it with its predecessor’s running time), the film is undeniably a slow burn. Set in 1974 vintage heavy Brooklyn, Canet’s film has drawn mostly unfavorable comparison to the works of Sidney Lumet and Martin Scorsese that were actually made in the era. While it’s not on par with similar masterworks it evokes (maybe more of a Harold Robbins version of Lumet), it does manage to be an engrossing faux saga, nonetheless, despite a handful of foibles that work against its success.
After serving a 12 year prison...
For his English language debut, actor/director Guillaume Canet arrives with Blood Ties, a remake of Rivals, a 2008 French film of which he was the star, from director Jacques Maillot. While it’s original running time has been cut by about half an hour after a premiere at Cannes (aligning it with its predecessor’s running time), the film is undeniably a slow burn. Set in 1974 vintage heavy Brooklyn, Canet’s film has drawn mostly unfavorable comparison to the works of Sidney Lumet and Martin Scorsese that were actually made in the era. While it’s not on par with similar masterworks it evokes (maybe more of a Harold Robbins version of Lumet), it does manage to be an engrossing faux saga, nonetheless, despite a handful of foibles that work against its success.
After serving a 12 year prison...
- 3/19/2014
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Exclusive: Breaking Bad alum Christopher Cousins has joined sophomore NBC drama Revolution as a recurring. The actor, repped by Sdb Talent and manager Lisa Disante-Frank, will play high-ranking Patriot Victor Doyle, who’s on a collision course with Tom Neville (Giancarlo Esposito). French actress Louise Monot and Sam Littlefield have been added to Chris Carter’s Amazon drama pilot The After. Produced by Georgeville TV, it takes place at the moment of apocalypse. In her first Us TV role, Monot, repped by Olivia Bell Management in London, Artmedia in Paris and Radius Entertainment in La, will play Gigi, a woman caught up in the midst of the action. Her feature credits include Michel Hazanavicius’ Oss 117: Lost in Rio, Guillaume Canet’s Little White Lies and German pic Girl On A Bicycle. Littlefield, repped by Bold and attorney Chad Christopher, will play the mysterious Dark Shadow.
- 10/14/2013
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Now that the dust has settled and the behemoth Tiff is in our rear-view mirror, the Ioncinema.com team are comparing notes, grading films and looking back at our personal experiences, our rapport with the films we saw and the characters that vividly remain with us. Among our favorite fest recaps, our discerning fivesome (Eric Lavallee, Jordan M. Smith, Nicholas Bell, Leora Heilbronn, Caitlin Coder) have created a Top 20 List of New Faces from the 2013 of up-and-coming actors and actresses (of all age demos) that stole some thunder in lead or supporting player roles. Here they are:
#20. Zoe Levin (Palo Alto, Beneath the Harvest Sky)
Unlike the characters of Emily and Tasha in Gia Coppola’s Palo Alto and Aron Gaudet & Gita Pullapilly’s Beneath the Harvest Sky, Zoe Levin‘s future is a a bright one. Respectively playing a teens suffering from suburban and country-setting ennui, in Palo Alto...
#20. Zoe Levin (Palo Alto, Beneath the Harvest Sky)
Unlike the characters of Emily and Tasha in Gia Coppola’s Palo Alto and Aron Gaudet & Gita Pullapilly’s Beneath the Harvest Sky, Zoe Levin‘s future is a a bright one. Respectively playing a teens suffering from suburban and country-setting ennui, in Palo Alto...
- 9/19/2013
- by IONCINEMA.com Contributing Writers
- IONCINEMA.com
Final batch of Tiff titles were announced today and among the international hodgepodge of items trickling we find Berlin (Golden Bear winner Child’s Pose), Cannes (The Selfish Giant – Europa Cinemas Label winner and Stranger by the Lake by Alain Guiraudie), Karlovy Vary (Crystal Globe winner Le Grand Cahier ) and Locarno (Corneliu Porumboiu’s When Evening Falls on Bucharest or Metabolism) Film Fest items added to the Toronto Int. Film Festival’s Contemporary World Cinema lineup. Alongside those that have already premiered elsewhere, the titles that have got our attention are world premiere offerings from the likes of award-winning Icelandic helmer Ragnar Bragason (Metalhead), Revanche‘s Götz Spielmann (October November – see pic above) and Mexican filmmaker Fernando Eimbcke’s Club Sandwich. Here’s the added titles to the section which already includes: Catherine Martin’s A Journey (Une Jeune Fille), Ingrid Veninger’s The Animal Project, Terry Miles’ Cinemanovels, Bruce Sweeney...
- 8/13/2013
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
The titles just keep coming as we are now just over three weeks away from the start of the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival and they have gone and added 90 new feature length titles to the program and it's not as if they are titles you haven't heard of. New to the Galas selection is Guillaume Canet's Blood Ties which premiered at Cannes earlier this year (read my review here) and Words and Pictures starring Clive Owen and Juliette Binoche. In the Special Presentations selection you find the bulk of the more noted titles including Alex Gibney's new documentary The Armstrong Lie about cyclist Lance Armstrong, Johnnie To's Blind Detective which also premiered at Cannes, James Franco's Child of God based on the Cormac McCarthy novel, John Turturro's Fading Gigolo which features Woody Allen in one of the roles, Kevin Macdonald's How I Live Now...
- 8/13/2013
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
World premieres of Kevin Macdonald’s How I Live Now, Fred Schepisi’s Words And Pictures and John Turturro’s Fading Gigolo are among the Tiff line-up of galas and special presentations.
The Contemporary World Cinema strand includes first views of Jan Hrebejk’s Honeymoon, Donovan Marsh’s iNumber Number and Fernando Coimbra’s A Wolf At The Door.
The Toronto International Film Festival is scheduled to run from Sept 5-15.
Wp = World premiere
IP = International premiere
Np = North American premiere
Cp = Canadian premiere
Tp = Toronto premiere
GALASBlood Ties Guillaume Canet (France-us) NAPBright Days Ahead (Les Beaux Jours) Marion Vernoux (France) NAPWords & Pictures Fred Schepisi (Us) Wpspecial Presentationsa Promise (Une Promesse) Patrice Leconte (Belgium-France) NAPThe Armstrong Lie Alex Gibney (Us) NAPBlind Detective Johnnie To (Hong Kong) NAPChild Of God James Franco (Us) NAPThe Face Of Love Arie Posin (Us) WPFading Gigolo John Turturro (Us) WPThe Finishers Nils Tavernier (Belgium-France) WPHow I Live Now Kevin Macdonald (UK) WPThe...
The Contemporary World Cinema strand includes first views of Jan Hrebejk’s Honeymoon, Donovan Marsh’s iNumber Number and Fernando Coimbra’s A Wolf At The Door.
The Toronto International Film Festival is scheduled to run from Sept 5-15.
Wp = World premiere
IP = International premiere
Np = North American premiere
Cp = Canadian premiere
Tp = Toronto premiere
GALASBlood Ties Guillaume Canet (France-us) NAPBright Days Ahead (Les Beaux Jours) Marion Vernoux (France) NAPWords & Pictures Fred Schepisi (Us) Wpspecial Presentationsa Promise (Une Promesse) Patrice Leconte (Belgium-France) NAPThe Armstrong Lie Alex Gibney (Us) NAPBlind Detective Johnnie To (Hong Kong) NAPChild Of God James Franco (Us) NAPThe Face Of Love Arie Posin (Us) WPFading Gigolo John Turturro (Us) WPThe Finishers Nils Tavernier (Belgium-France) WPHow I Live Now Kevin Macdonald (UK) WPThe...
- 8/13/2013
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
World premieres of Kevin Macdonald’s How I Live Now, Fred Schepisi’s Words And Pictures and John Turturro’s Fading Gigolo are among the TIFF line-up of galas and special presentations announced on Tuesday [13].
The Contemporary World Cinema strand includes first views of Jan Hrebejk’s Honeymoon, Donovan Marsh’s iNumber Number and Fernando Coimbra’s A Wolf At The Door.
The Toronto International Film Festival is scheduled to run from Sept 5-15.
Wp = World premiere
IP = International premiere
Np = North American premiere
Cp = Canadian premiere
Tp = Toronto premiere
GALASBlood Ties Guillaume Canet (France-us) NAPBright Days Ahead (Les Beaux Jours) Marion Vernoux (France) NAPWords & Pictures Fred Schepisi (Us) Wpspecial Presentationsa Promise (Une Promesse) Patrice Leconte (Belgium-France) NAPThe Armstrong Lie Alex Gibney (Us) NAPBlind Detective Johnnie To (Hong Kong) NAPChild Of God James Franco (Us) NAPThe Face Of Love Arie Posin (Us) WPFading Gigolo John Turturro (Us) WPThe Finishers Nils Tavernier (Belgium-France) WPHow I Live Now [link...
The Contemporary World Cinema strand includes first views of Jan Hrebejk’s Honeymoon, Donovan Marsh’s iNumber Number and Fernando Coimbra’s A Wolf At The Door.
The Toronto International Film Festival is scheduled to run from Sept 5-15.
Wp = World premiere
IP = International premiere
Np = North American premiere
Cp = Canadian premiere
Tp = Toronto premiere
GALASBlood Ties Guillaume Canet (France-us) NAPBright Days Ahead (Les Beaux Jours) Marion Vernoux (France) NAPWords & Pictures Fred Schepisi (Us) Wpspecial Presentationsa Promise (Une Promesse) Patrice Leconte (Belgium-France) NAPThe Armstrong Lie Alex Gibney (Us) NAPBlind Detective Johnnie To (Hong Kong) NAPChild Of God James Franco (Us) NAPThe Face Of Love Arie Posin (Us) WPFading Gigolo John Turturro (Us) WPThe Finishers Nils Tavernier (Belgium-France) WPHow I Live Now [link...
- 8/13/2013
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Forget your body clock: any time of day finds film fans watching Nicolas Winding Refn's tense, brutal thriller, Sorrentino's beguiling look at fading beauty or Soderbergh's tremendous Liberace biopic. Then there's the Coens' hoot of a movie and Carla Bruni's sister's comedy. But which will win the big prize?
At 7.30am on Cannes's main strip people wearing dinner jackets and cocktail dresses held handwritten signs that read "Only God Forgives", triple-underlined, and "Please! Only God Forgives!" They might have been members of a doomsday cult, one with an imperious dress code, but no: a Ryan Gosling film was about to premiere in the Grand Théâtre Lumière and this lot were ticketless, hoping by dressing smartly to pick up last-minute invites. They looked on while several hundred of us filed in for 90 minutes of early-morning ultra-violence.
Moviegoing at the festival runs round the clock. There are marquee screenings not...
At 7.30am on Cannes's main strip people wearing dinner jackets and cocktail dresses held handwritten signs that read "Only God Forgives", triple-underlined, and "Please! Only God Forgives!" They might have been members of a doomsday cult, one with an imperious dress code, but no: a Ryan Gosling film was about to premiere in the Grand Théâtre Lumière and this lot were ticketless, hoping by dressing smartly to pick up last-minute invites. They looked on while several hundred of us filed in for 90 minutes of early-morning ultra-violence.
Moviegoing at the festival runs round the clock. There are marquee screenings not...
- 5/25/2013
- by Tom Lamont, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy
- The Guardian - Film News
The first trailer for Blood Ties has been released.
Guillaume Canet's Brooklyn-set crime drama stars Clive Owen as a man who has been released after several years in jail for his part in a gangland murder.
His return sparks conflict with several members of his extended family, including his straight-laced younger brother (Billy Crudup), his ex-wife (Marion Cotillard) and his father (James Caan).
Zoe Saldana, Mila Kunis and Matthias Schoenaerts round out the film's ensemble cast, with Cotillard and Schoenaerts reuniting following last year's Rust and Bone.
Canet, whose last film was 2010's Little White Lies, co-wrote the script with James Gray (Two Lovers, We Own the Night). This will be his English-language debut.
Blood Ties will be released later this year, and plays out of competition at this year's Cannes Film Festival.
Gallery - Cannes Film Festival 2013...
Guillaume Canet's Brooklyn-set crime drama stars Clive Owen as a man who has been released after several years in jail for his part in a gangland murder.
His return sparks conflict with several members of his extended family, including his straight-laced younger brother (Billy Crudup), his ex-wife (Marion Cotillard) and his father (James Caan).
Zoe Saldana, Mila Kunis and Matthias Schoenaerts round out the film's ensemble cast, with Cotillard and Schoenaerts reuniting following last year's Rust and Bone.
Canet, whose last film was 2010's Little White Lies, co-wrote the script with James Gray (Two Lovers, We Own the Night). This will be his English-language debut.
Blood Ties will be released later this year, and plays out of competition at this year's Cannes Film Festival.
Gallery - Cannes Film Festival 2013...
- 5/22/2013
- Digital Spy
Guillaume Canet's Cannes thriller (and English language debut following "Tell No One" and "Little White Lies") "Blood Ties" has landed with Lionsgate. The studio will release it through its sister company Roadside Attractions. Directed by Canet from a screenplay written by Canet and James Gray (who has "The Immigrant" up for a Palme d'Or this year), the film is based on the screenplay “Les Liens du sang” by Jaques Maillot, Pierre Chosson, and Eric Veniard, and the novel "Deux Freres, un flic, un truand" by Michel and Bruno Papet. Clive Owen, Billy Crudup, Marion Cotillard, Domenick Lombardozzi, Mila Kunis, Matthias Schoenaerts, Zoé Saldana, and James Caan all star. Set in Brooklyn during the early 1970s, "Blood Ties" concerns two brothers, a cop and a convict forced to reconcile their differences.
- 5/22/2013
- by Nigel M Smith
- Indiewire
Guillaume Canet earned the goodwill of many with his immensely potent 2006 thriller Tell No One, before the misjudged – and like this film, much too long – Little White Lies came along and eroded plenty of that promise. However, Canet returns with his latest feature, and the busload-full of skilled actors he has brought with him damn near ensures a compelling sit, even if the film’s ponderous pacing and resulting length do detract somewhat from its finer qualities. A remake of 2008′s French film Rivals – which starred Canet himself – Blood Ties begins in 1974 New York as Chris (Clive Owen) is released from prison after a 12-year-stint for murder. While welcomed warmly by his father (James Caan), Chris is received less so by his brother, Frank (Billy Crudup), a respected policeman who is nevertheless called upon by his family to take him in. Adding to the drama is the litany of anguished lovers sitting on the periphery; Chris shacks...
- 5/21/2013
- by Shaun Munro
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Once upon a time, two brothers called Bruno and Michel Papet wrote a book called Les Liens Du Sang. In 2008, this was adapted into a movie by Jacques Maillot called Les Liens Du Sang, and now, in 2013, actor-turned-director Guillaume Canet (of Tell No One and Little White Lies fame) has taken the French tale and transported it to 1970s New York for his English language debut, Blood Ties, casting Clive Owen, Billy Crudup, Mila Kunis, James Caan, Zoe Saldana and Marion Cotillard (his missus) in the process.Owen plays Chris, an ex-con who's just come out of prison to be greeted by his grumpy cop brother Frank (Crudup) and his happy-but-not-long-for-this-world father (Caan). Chris' ex-wife, Monica (Cotillard), is a prositute and a drug user, somehow keeping their two kids in cereal and underwear despite her shaky situation. Instead of making up with Monica, Chris begins a relationship with Natalie (Kunis...
- 5/21/2013
- EmpireOnline
Friday morning saw the first heavyweight contender for the Palme d'Or unveiled, with Asghar Farhadi's follow-up to A Separation playing to a packed house in the Lumiere Theatre. Continuing that film's themes, The Past is another story of divorce, this time in a French setting, as the Tehran-based Ahmad (Ali Mosaffa) returns to the suburbs of Paris to sign the end of his marriage to Marie (Bérénice Bejo). At 130 minutes, it was certainly a long haul, but the film received an overwhelmingly positive reception and immediately became a frontrunner for awards glory. Slightly reminiscent of Guillaume Canet's Little White Lies (a similarity that would have been more obvious had not original star Marion Cotillard dropped out), The Past is an elegantly scripted family drama that plays out almost like a Nordic noir, uncovering details and secrets that hinge on Marie's somewhat chaotic love life. As Ahmad finds out,...
- 5/17/2013
- EmpireOnline
#20. Guillaume Canet’s Blood Ties
Gist: Written by James Gray, with the ensemble cast of Clive Owen, Billy Crudup, Mila Kunis, James Caan, Marion Cotillard, Zoe Saldana, Matthias Schoenaerts and Lily Taylor owning the screen, this is a remake of Jacques Maillot’s Les lien du sang. Canet’s Blood Ties is about 2 brothers, one a criminal, the other a cop, face off over organized crime in Brooklyn in the 1970s.
Prediction: Un Certain Regard but leaning toward the Main Comp if Gray’s Lowlife somehow does not crack the line-up, Canet – the actor who moonlights as a director would be making his first trip to Cannes after monster domestic successes of the mention worthy Tell No One (2006) and Little White Lies (2010). Blood Ties is tagged with a June 13th release, so this would be a timely launching pad.
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Gist: Written by James Gray, with the ensemble cast of Clive Owen, Billy Crudup, Mila Kunis, James Caan, Marion Cotillard, Zoe Saldana, Matthias Schoenaerts and Lily Taylor owning the screen, this is a remake of Jacques Maillot’s Les lien du sang. Canet’s Blood Ties is about 2 brothers, one a criminal, the other a cop, face off over organized crime in Brooklyn in the 1970s.
Prediction: Un Certain Regard but leaning toward the Main Comp if Gray’s Lowlife somehow does not crack the line-up, Canet – the actor who moonlights as a director would be making his first trip to Cannes after monster domestic successes of the mention worthy Tell No One (2006) and Little White Lies (2010). Blood Ties is tagged with a June 13th release, so this would be a timely launching pad.
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- 4/13/2013
- by Moen Mohamed
- IONCINEMA.com
You already had a chance to watch the first teaser and full trailer for the upcoming action-thriller Mobius, which comes from director Eric Rochant and has quite interesting cast on board. Today, we’re here to share some great images from the whole thing, and here’s your perfect chance to take a better look at Jean Dujardin, Cécile De France and Tim Roth who will lead us through this pretty intense spy-story.
Written and directed by Eric Rochant, the movie centers on a Fsb officer named Moise who falls in love with his agent Alice – an American woman who works as a trader in a Russian bank.
Beside Jean Dujardin who plays Moise and Cécile De France who stars as Alice, the rest of the Mobius cast also includes Tim Roth and Émilie Dequenne. The movie is already set to hit French theaters on February 27th, 2013.
Moise, the leader...
Written and directed by Eric Rochant, the movie centers on a Fsb officer named Moise who falls in love with his agent Alice – an American woman who works as a trader in a Russian bank.
Beside Jean Dujardin who plays Moise and Cécile De France who stars as Alice, the rest of the Mobius cast also includes Tim Roth and Émilie Dequenne. The movie is already set to hit French theaters on February 27th, 2013.
Moise, the leader...
- 2/2/2013
- by Jeanne Standal
- Filmofilia
Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: Feb. 5, 2013
Price: DVD $24.98, Blu-ray $29.98
Studio: Mpi
Marion Cotillard in Little White Lies.
Oscar winners Jean Dujardin (The Artist) and Marion Cotillard (Contagion) star in the 2011 French import, Little White Lies, a comedy-drama film written and directed by Guillaume Canet (Tell No One).
Following a motorcycle accident that leaves a charismatic member (Dujardin) of their group in an intensive care unit, a close-knit circle of friends embark on their annual summer getaway to Cap Ferrat in southeastern France. The friends’ sunny beachside idyll quickly becomes the backdrop of heated tensions and outbursts among the old acquaintances as the little white lies just beneath the surface of their relationships reach a boiling point. Among the group is Marie (Cotillard), a bi-curious music scholar; the wealthy Max (Cluzet), who tries to buy the others’ affection; and Eric (Gilles Lellouche, Mesrine: Killer Instinct), an actor whose pompousness hides boyish insecurities.
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Marion Cotillard in Little White Lies.
Oscar winners Jean Dujardin (The Artist) and Marion Cotillard (Contagion) star in the 2011 French import, Little White Lies, a comedy-drama film written and directed by Guillaume Canet (Tell No One).
Following a motorcycle accident that leaves a charismatic member (Dujardin) of their group in an intensive care unit, a close-knit circle of friends embark on their annual summer getaway to Cap Ferrat in southeastern France. The friends’ sunny beachside idyll quickly becomes the backdrop of heated tensions and outbursts among the old acquaintances as the little white lies just beneath the surface of their relationships reach a boiling point. Among the group is Marie (Cotillard), a bi-curious music scholar; the wealthy Max (Cluzet), who tries to buy the others’ affection; and Eric (Gilles Lellouche, Mesrine: Killer Instinct), an actor whose pompousness hides boyish insecurities.
- 1/14/2013
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
Blood Ties
Director: Guillaume Canet
Writer(s): Canet, James Gray, Jacques Maillot, Pilar Anguita-MacKay, Frank Urbaniok
Producer(s): Alain Attal, John Lesher, Hugo Sélignac, Christopher Woodrow
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Mila Kunis, Zoe Saldana, Marion Cotillard, Clive Owen, Billy Crudup, James Caan, Lili Taylor, Matthias Schoenaerts
Who knew that the veteran French actor Guillaume Canet would establish himself as a top ranking director, and more recently a working relationship with a man who the French audiences/critics adore in James Gray. In his filmography of four films – Tell No One claimed critical acclaim and made crazy box office in the U.S. (I recall seeing the film in its 4th month playing in NYC) and I’m one of the very few who connected with his previous item – a saga in itself called Little White Lies – an ensemble drama, hell bent on exploring every possible mid-life...
Director: Guillaume Canet
Writer(s): Canet, James Gray, Jacques Maillot, Pilar Anguita-MacKay, Frank Urbaniok
Producer(s): Alain Attal, John Lesher, Hugo Sélignac, Christopher Woodrow
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Mila Kunis, Zoe Saldana, Marion Cotillard, Clive Owen, Billy Crudup, James Caan, Lili Taylor, Matthias Schoenaerts
Who knew that the veteran French actor Guillaume Canet would establish himself as a top ranking director, and more recently a working relationship with a man who the French audiences/critics adore in James Gray. In his filmography of four films – Tell No One claimed critical acclaim and made crazy box office in the U.S. (I recall seeing the film in its 4th month playing in NYC) and I’m one of the very few who connected with his previous item – a saga in itself called Little White Lies – an ensemble drama, hell bent on exploring every possible mid-life...
- 1/13/2013
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Review by Barbara Snitzer
Little White Lies (Les Petits Mouchoirs) is a uniquely French ensemble film that thinks it.s the Gallic version of The Big Chill. Those who love French films will be entertained, but I couldn.t get past one early improbable scene that buttresses one of several plot lines. Tant pis.
The movie follows a group of middle-aged friends who follow through on their vacation plans after one of them, Ludo (Jean Dujardin, who has about as many lines as he did in The Artist), is critically injured in a car crash. Their dilemma is very inconvenient and quickly resolved. They rationalize that a beachside toast to Ludo will have a greater net benefit than keeping vigil in Paris so off they go.
Regular fellow Movie Snobs know I don.t write book reports so I.m not going to break down each character and plot point.
Little White Lies (Les Petits Mouchoirs) is a uniquely French ensemble film that thinks it.s the Gallic version of The Big Chill. Those who love French films will be entertained, but I couldn.t get past one early improbable scene that buttresses one of several plot lines. Tant pis.
The movie follows a group of middle-aged friends who follow through on their vacation plans after one of them, Ludo (Jean Dujardin, who has about as many lines as he did in The Artist), is critically injured in a car crash. Their dilemma is very inconvenient and quickly resolved. They rationalize that a beachside toast to Ludo will have a greater net benefit than keeping vigil in Paris so off they go.
Regular fellow Movie Snobs know I don.t write book reports so I.m not going to break down each character and plot point.
- 10/12/2012
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Chicago – The landmark ensemble film “The Big Chill” (1983) featured seven former college friends reuniting for the funeral of one of their own. The French film “Little White Lies” takes that concept a step further, as friends go on a yearly retreat without one of their own, because he is in the hospital. Francois Cluzet, Marion Cotillard and Jean Dujardin co-star.
Rating: 4.0/5.0
Cotillard (“The Dark Knight Rises”) and Dujardin (“The Artist”) have broken through to American audiences recently, so this 2010 film is ripe for a stateside release. Set at a seaside resort, the ensemble interact, argue, get drunk, make love and wonder where all the relationships are going in this absorbing and revealingly cultural view on French friendship. Real emotions go much deeper here, and honest reactions seem more prevalent with this group of “Big Chillers.” It’s not fair to compare the two films nearly 30 years after the first BC,...
Rating: 4.0/5.0
Cotillard (“The Dark Knight Rises”) and Dujardin (“The Artist”) have broken through to American audiences recently, so this 2010 film is ripe for a stateside release. Set at a seaside resort, the ensemble interact, argue, get drunk, make love and wonder where all the relationships are going in this absorbing and revealingly cultural view on French friendship. Real emotions go much deeper here, and honest reactions seem more prevalent with this group of “Big Chillers.” It’s not fair to compare the two films nearly 30 years after the first BC,...
- 8/31/2012
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Title: Little White Lies Director: Guillaume Canet Starring: Marion Cotillard, Francois Cluzet, Benoit Magimel, Gilles Lellouche, Laurent Lafitte, Jean Dujardin, Valerie Bonneton, Pascale Arbillot Finally arriving in American theaters almost two years after its Toronto Film Festival premiere, generational ensemble dramedy “Little White Lies,” from French filmmaker Guillaume Canet, proves itself a bloated, melodramatic and ultimately emotionally impenetrable affair. Centering around a collection of close-knit Parisian friends whose bonds are tested over the course of a summer holiday when one of their group is involved in a horrible automobile accident, the movie feels a bit like a French-flavored all-star tribute to Lawrence Kasdan, given the roster of notable performers, but its [ Read More ]...
- 8/28/2012
- by bsimon
- ShockYa
French star Guillaume Canet is probably best known for his acting chops (The Beach, Last Night) - and for his fruitful relationship with French actress Marion Cotillard. But Canet is also developing a nice filmography behind the camera - for his first film, Whatever You Say, Canet was nominated for Discovery of the Year at the 2003 European Film Awards. He followed that up in 2006 with the taut thriller Tell No One, based on a bestseller by American crimewriter Harlan Coben. Tell No One earned 4 Cesar Awards (the French Oscars), including Best Director, and was nominated for five more. Not bad for a sophomore effort! Canet's latest film, Little White Lies, also has American roots. Starring a who's who of French film stars, including two Oscar winners - Cotillard and Jean Dujardin - as well as Gilles Lellouche and Francois Cluzet, the film is quite reminiscent of Lawrence Kasdan's The Big Chill,...
- 8/25/2012
- TribecaFilm.com
Consider this a weekend to indulge at the movies. The 70mm documentary "Samsara" is a gorgeous, spiritually rich experience to let wash over you, while "Wild Horse, Wild Ride" examines the equine-and-man relationship and delivers a moving result akin to last year's "Buck." Guillaume Canet ("Tell No One") returns with the unabashedly French "Little White Lies," which requires antsy Americans to accept its slow pace and self-indulgence in order to appreciate its fine acting, particularly Marion Cotillard and Benoît Magimel. Writer-director David Koepp turns "Premium Rush" into a streamlined visceral 99-minute shot of adrenaline, carried ably by rising star Joseph Gordon-Levitt, who took stitches from a bike accident that wound up in the film. Michael Shannon also makes a memorable bad cop villain. And standup comic Mike Birbiglia and This American Life producer Ira Glass should stick to their day jobs;...
- 8/23/2012
- by Sophia Savage and Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
The Big Chilly Summer Vacation: Canet’s Latest an Exemplary Drama
For his third outing as director, actor/screenwriter Guillaume Canet looks to have been heavily influenced by Lawrence Kasdan’s American classic, The Big Chill (1983) when he penned Little White Lies. Originally premiering at the Toronto Film Festival in 2010, the film now has two cast members with Oscar statues. Whatever the impetus that has vanquished the delayed release of this title, we should be thankful to have the chance to see such a finely wrought and engrossing drama about adult relationships. And while it may indeed share similar themes with an aforementioned title, this is the type of intelligently written and engaging cinema rarely produced for American audiences.
Concerning a large group of close friends residing in Paris, their lives are altered when one of their most affable members, Ludovic (Jean Dujardin) is involved in a tragic accident...
For his third outing as director, actor/screenwriter Guillaume Canet looks to have been heavily influenced by Lawrence Kasdan’s American classic, The Big Chill (1983) when he penned Little White Lies. Originally premiering at the Toronto Film Festival in 2010, the film now has two cast members with Oscar statues. Whatever the impetus that has vanquished the delayed release of this title, we should be thankful to have the chance to see such a finely wrought and engrossing drama about adult relationships. And while it may indeed share similar themes with an aforementioned title, this is the type of intelligently written and engaging cinema rarely produced for American audiences.
Concerning a large group of close friends residing in Paris, their lives are altered when one of their most affable members, Ludovic (Jean Dujardin) is involved in a tragic accident...
- 8/23/2012
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
It's taken a while to make its way to the States following its premiere in Toronto back in 2010, but Guillaume Canet's "Little White Lies," a sprawling follow-up to his arthouse crossover hit "Tell No One," finally hits select theaters Friday after doing blockbuster-style business in his native France (it came close to grossing as much as "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1"). Calling to mind "The Big Chill," "Little White Lies" stars Canet's partner Marion Cotillard and a stellar ensemble cast that includes Francois Cluzet, Gilles Lellouche and Jean Dujardin in a story about a group of friends who decide to continue their tradition of an annual beach vacation despite a recent tragedy involving one of their own. Read More: The 12 Indie Films You Must See This August The drama marks a 180-degree turn from his breathless thriller "Tell No One," which itself bore few similarities to his.
- 8/22/2012
- by Nigel M Smith
- Indiewire
The nature of what keeps a long-term friendship together over the years is somewhat ephemeral. There is the trust and confidence that comes with knowing someone intimately, seeing them at their best and worst, and being there for them without judgment. But it's also built on shared values, small moments and significant times shared, building a collective history that binds dates and places with deep emotional resonance. But, everyone also has their secrets, and even the best of friends will often keep their own fears or secret desires to themselves, not only for the sake of a friendship but for their own private reasons as well. Now take all of that and multiply it a few times for a circle of friends, who have know each other for years and are now in their mid-thirties and you enter the world of Guillaume Canet's "Little White Lies," a sprawling dramedy...
- 8/21/2012
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Title: Little White Lies (Les petits mouchoirs) Mpi Pictures Reviewed for Shockya by Harvey Karten Grade: B Director: Guillaume Canet Screenwriter: Guillaume Canet Cast: François Cluzet, Marion Cotillard, Benoit Magimel, Gilles Lellouche, Jean Dujardin, Laurent Lafitte, Velerie Bonneton, Pascale Arbillot Screened at: Review 2, NYC, 8/8/12 Opens: August 24, 2012 The most shattering climax in the movies this year is not Aaron Cross’s motorcycle chase in “The Bourne Legacy.” Words often have more impact than mere physical mayhem. Points of greatest blockbuster tension can speed the heart and raise the blood pressure, but they rarely draw intentional laughter or tears from an audience. In “Little White Lies,” written and directed [ Read More ]...
- 8/9/2012
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
The trailer for director Guillaume Canet‘s film Little White Lies starts off with some rock ‘n’ roll and a party atmosphere. A boat cuts through beautiful waves, a group of friends yells with delight while celebrating each other on the beach, and then a motorcycle is demolished by a speeding service truck. That terrible accident acts as the catalyst for a host of secret feelings and emotional outbursts that emerge to threaten friendships. However, it sounds more like dramedy than all out melodrama. Starring Oscar winners Marion Cotillard and Jean Dujardin alongside the impeccable talents of Francois Cluzet, Benoit Magimel, Gilles Lellouche and others, the movie from the man behind Tell No One looks like a stunner of an ensemble achievement. At the very least, it looks like it will be at home during awards season. Check out the trailer for yourself: Little White Lies is in theaters August 24th. It...
- 7/31/2012
- by Cole Abaius
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Check out the trailer for Guillaume Canet's ensemble drama "Little White Lies," starring wife Marion Cotillard, Francois Cluzet and pre-"The Artist" Jean Dujardin as friends whose relationships are thrown into confusion after a near-fatal motorcycle accident besets a member of the group. This is Canet's follow-up to 2008's critical and commerical success "Tell No One," also starring Cluzet. (The actor also gives a terrific performance opposite Cesar-winner Omar Sy, who beat Dujardin, in TWC's must-see current release "The Intouchables.") Like many foreign films these days, "Little White Lies" has taken its time to get to American theaters; it premiered at Toronto in 2010. It has a limited release on August 24 via Mpi.
- 7/27/2012
- by Beth Hanna
- Thompson on Hollywood
If you are a fan of The Big Chill, then this is definitely a movie you should check out. If you have never seen The Big Chill, you are missing out on a great eighties movie. Kevin Costner played a corpse! Little White Lies comes from acclaimed French actor/director Guillaume Canet (Tell No One). Featuring a cast of excellent actors, most prominently Oscar winners Marion Cotillard and Jean Dujardin, this is an adult film that deals with adult topics: love, life, death, and friendship....
- 7/26/2012
- by Alex Maidy
- JoBlo.com
Before French charmer Jean Dujardin was hoofing and heartbreaking in the Oscar-winning silent romance The Artist, he joined a cast stacked with incredible French film stars including The Dark Knight Rises's Marion Cotillard and The Intouchables's François Cluzet for the 2010 ensemble dramedy Little White Lies. Actor turned filmmaker Guillaume Canet wrote and directed the feature, which focuses on a tight-knit group of friends who annually share a jubilant extended vacation together. However, the light-hearted joy of these festivities is shattered when one of their group suffers a horrible car accident. With his survival uncertain, the others begin assigning blame, bringing to light the many truths they'd long kept hidden. To bring an intimacy to the cast and a familiarity to their environment, Canet had the performers live together in the house that would be the principal shooting location for three days. The move paid off, as Little White Lies...
- 7/26/2012
- cinemablend.com
Following yesterday’s premiere of a nice little poster, we’ve received the first U.S. trailer for Guillaume Canet‘s dramedy Little White Lies. Despite a French premiere back in 2010, it was only with the recent surge in profile on the part of its two leads (Marion Cotillard and Jean Dujardin) that this actor’s latest turn behind the camera would come our way.
That should tell you something, yet it’s still with a little hesitation when I say that, judging by this trailer, Lies seems a bit familiar and overwrought — or, the kind of movie we’d instantly scoff at if it wasn’t subtitled. (I imagine any scoffing, if necessary, will come after the film’s been seen.) A good cast (including The Intouchables‘ François Cluzet) don’t change that all too much, I’m afraid, though it’s possible — if not necessarily a great possibility...
That should tell you something, yet it’s still with a little hesitation when I say that, judging by this trailer, Lies seems a bit familiar and overwrought — or, the kind of movie we’d instantly scoff at if it wasn’t subtitled. (I imagine any scoffing, if necessary, will come after the film’s been seen.) A good cast (including The Intouchables‘ François Cluzet) don’t change that all too much, I’m afraid, though it’s possible — if not necessarily a great possibility...
- 7/26/2012
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
You've seen her in Nolan's movies, Contagion, Midnight in Paris, and as Edith Piaf, now get another look at Marion Cotillard in a French drama. This premiered at Tiff two years ago and is just now getting a Us release, but some of you might be interested. Little White Lies is written & directed French filmmaker Guillaume Canet (Whatever You Say, Tell No One), and it tells the story of a group of friends bonded by love, and how their lives change when one friend ends up in the hospital. Marion Cotillard stars, plus The Artist's Jean Dujardin, and one who looks like a French Dustin Hoffman - he is François Cluzet. Enjoy! Here's the official Us trailer for Guillaume Canet's Little White Lies, originally from YouTube: A near-fatal accident leaves one friend in the hospital while the rest go on their annual vacation. But their secrets and personal...
- 7/25/2012
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
This project snuck up on me. I’m sure I had heard of Little White Lies some time before today — given the multitude of talent, it’s nearly impossible that I hadn’t — but a nice poster from ThePlaylist has suddenly made this one to watch out for. Actor-writer-director Guillaume Canet is behind the dramedy, which stars Marion Cotillard, recent Best Actor winner Jean Dujardin, and The Intouchables star François Cluzet.
It opened in France back in the fall of 2010, but the recent fame influx on the part of its leads has made way for a late summer limited release. The plot has earned multiple comparisons to The Big Chill, as it centers on a group of friends whose recent traumatic experience doesn’t dissuade them from taking their yearly beach trip. Over the course of their stay, however, the various falsehoods of their lives begin to crumble around them.
It opened in France back in the fall of 2010, but the recent fame influx on the part of its leads has made way for a late summer limited release. The plot has earned multiple comparisons to The Big Chill, as it centers on a group of friends whose recent traumatic experience doesn’t dissuade them from taking their yearly beach trip. Over the course of their stay, however, the various falsehoods of their lives begin to crumble around them.
- 7/24/2012
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
French actor and filmmaker Guillaume Canet worked steadily prepping for his ‘70s-set crime thriller Blood Ties and his patience paid off with a dynamite cast. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Avatar and Star Trek star Zoe Saldana, who recently joined Out of the Furnace with Christian Bale as co-star and Scott Cooper as director, Marion Cotillard, who worked with Canet on Little White Lies, Mila Kunis, James Caan, Billy Crudup and Clive Owen all signed on to for the film. Canet wrote the script with filmmaker James Gray, adapting the French novel Les liens du sang, the story of a brother (Crudup) who asks his older sibling (Owen) to return to a life of crime in order to help out their family.
- 3/15/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
French actor and filmmaker Guillaume Canet worked steadily prepping for his ‘70s-set crime thriller Blood Ties and his patience paid off with a dynamite cast. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Avatar and Star Trek star Zoe Saldana, who recently joined Out of the Furnace with Christian Bale as co-star and Scott Cooper as director, Marion Cotillard, who worked with Canet on Little White Lies, Mila Kunis, James Caan, Billy Crudup and Clive Owen all signed on to for the film. Canet wrote the script with filmmaker James Gray, adapting the French novel Les liens du sang, the story of a brother (Crudup) who asks his older sibling (Owen) to return to a life of crime in order to help out their family.
- 3/15/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
French actor and filmmaker Guillaume Canet worked steadily prepping for his ‘70s-set crime thriller Blood Ties and his patience paid off with a dynamite cast. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Avatar and Star Trek star Zoe Saldana, who recently joined Out of the Furnace with Christian Bale as co-star and Scott Cooper as director, Marion Cotillard, who worked with Canet on Little White Lies, Mila Kunis, James Caan, Billy Crudup and Clive Owen all signed on to for the film. Canet wrote the script with filmmaker James Gray, adapting the French novel Les liens du sang, the story of a brother (Crudup) who asks his older sibling (Owen) to return to a life of crime in order to help out their family.
- 3/15/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
It has been a long wait for the stateside release of Guillaume Canet's "Little White Lies," his followup to the smash sensation "Tell No One." And it's bit baffling why it's taken this long. The picture premiered at Tiff way back in 2010, and became a bit hit in its native France, and the film soon found releases in Canada and the U.K., but a U.S. deal didn't seem to materialize for whatever strange reason. We can only guess its lengthy 154-minute running put folks off (it's hard to get people to sit and watch a subtitled movie, let alone one that's two-and-a-half hours long), but now that it's coming, you should make some time to catch up with it. ScreenDaily reveals that Mpi has taken on the movie, with a spring theatrical and DVD/VOD release in the works. Starring Marion Cotillard, "The Artist" star Jean Dujardin,...
- 1/5/2012
- The Playlist
New stills from The Hunger Games, new photos of Robert Pattinson making out with various women in Bel Ami, the first photo of the time machine in Looper, the first photo of Jemaine Clement in Men in Black 3, and the posters for Safe House and Return.
"Paramount has locked an October 19th release date for "Paranormal Activity 4"…" (full details)
"Composer Thomas Newman will score the upcoming 007 film "Skyfall", his first James Bond film and his fifth Sam Mendes effort. Regular series composer David Arnold's commitments to the 2012 Olympic Games in London has ruled him out for returning…" (full details)
"Mpi Media Group has acquired North American rights to writer-director Guillaume Canet’s "Little White Lies", starring Marion Cotillard. The tale follows a group of friends on a seaside vacation who confront the lies they tell each other. It will be released theatrically during the first quarter of this year…...
"Paramount has locked an October 19th release date for "Paranormal Activity 4"…" (full details)
"Composer Thomas Newman will score the upcoming 007 film "Skyfall", his first James Bond film and his fifth Sam Mendes effort. Regular series composer David Arnold's commitments to the 2012 Olympic Games in London has ruled him out for returning…" (full details)
"Mpi Media Group has acquired North American rights to writer-director Guillaume Canet’s "Little White Lies", starring Marion Cotillard. The tale follows a group of friends on a seaside vacation who confront the lies they tell each other. It will be released theatrically during the first quarter of this year…...
- 1/5/2012
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Mpi Media Group has acquired North American rights to writer-director Guillaume Canet’s Little White Lies, starring Marion Cotillard. A co-production of Les Productions du Trésor, EuropaCorp, Caneo Films and M6 Films, the comedy-drama, which had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, also stars Francois Cluzet, The Artist’s Jean Dujardin and Benoit Magimel in the tale of a group of friends, on a seaside vacation, who confront the lies they tell each other. It will be released theatrically during the first quarter of this year. The deal was negotiated by Greg Newman, executive vp of
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- 1/5/2012
- by Gregg Kilday
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Kirsten Dunst, Melancholia Lars von Trier's Melancholia is the clear favorite at the 2011 European Film Awards. Nazi joke or no, Cannes Film Festival ban or no, the von Trier-directed apocalyptic drama received eight nominations in seven categories, among them Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay (also von Trier), and Best Actress (Kirsten Dunst and Charlotte Gainsbourg). Melancholia failed to be shortlisted only for Best Actor and Best Composer. [European Film Awards 2011 Nominations.] Five films tied in second place, with four nominations apiece: Aki Kaurismäki's Le Havre, Finland's submission for the 2012 Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award; Susanne Bier's In a Better World, this year's Best Foreign Language Film winner; Tom Hooper's The King's Speech, this year's Best Picture Oscar winner; Michel Hazanavicius' The Artist, which is already considered one of the top contenders for the 2012 Best Picture Oscar; and Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne's The Kid with a Bike,...
- 11/6/2011
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Guillaume Canet has attracted the attention of international audiences through performances in films like Love Me If You Dare, The Beach, and this year’s Last Night, but he’s also an accomplished filmmaker in his own right. Having helmed Tell No One and Little White Lies, his career behind the camera is a budding, promising one to take note of.
ScreenDaily (via ThePlaylist) is now reporting on his fourth feature, Blood Ties. His planned remake of 2008′s Les Liens Du Sang (which he starred in) is being co-written with James Gray, and has attracted Mark Wahlberg, Zoe Saldana, and Canet‘s wife, Marion Cotillard. This is expected to follow the plot of the original, which was “a 70s-set drama about two brothers, one a cop, the other a criminal fresh out of the joint”; the location is being switched from Lyons to Philadelphia.
When it comes to who’s playing who,...
ScreenDaily (via ThePlaylist) is now reporting on his fourth feature, Blood Ties. His planned remake of 2008′s Les Liens Du Sang (which he starred in) is being co-written with James Gray, and has attracted Mark Wahlberg, Zoe Saldana, and Canet‘s wife, Marion Cotillard. This is expected to follow the plot of the original, which was “a 70s-set drama about two brothers, one a cop, the other a criminal fresh out of the joint”; the location is being switched from Lyons to Philadelphia.
When it comes to who’s playing who,...
- 11/2/2011
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
French actor Guillaume Canet (Love Me If You Dare) has made waves in his homeland by moving on to directing films such as Tell No One (which will be remade by Ben Affleck) and his most recent film Little White Lies. Now ScreenDaily reports the filmmaker is set to make his English-language directing debut with the help of filmmaker James Gray (We Own the Night) working with him to write a remake of Jacques Maillot's 2008 film Blood Ties a film in which Canet originally starred in back in 2008. In addition, Canet's partner, the lovely Marion Cotillard, Zoe Saldana and Mark Wahlberg are all slated to star. Though Canet starred in the original film, it's not clear if he'll step in front of the camera again to tell the story of two brothers, one a cop, the other a pimp and convicted criminal fresh out of prison who somehow manages...
- 11/2/2011
- by Ethan Anderton
- firstshowing.net
James Gray's 'Low Life' With Joaquin Phoenix, Jeremy Renner & Marion Cotillard Aims To Start Shooting In January 2012 Given the Hollywood-friendly slickness of his directorial efforts to date, it was only a matter of time before French actor Guillaume Canet made a film in the U.S. The star of "The Beach" and "Love Me If You Dare," among many others, stepped behind the camera to much acclaim with 2002's Cesar-nominated "Mon Idole," the 2007 thriller "Tell No One" (which Ben Affleck is planning to remake), and followed it up with 2010's "Little White Lies," all of which showed an…...
- 11/2/2011
- The Playlist
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