The aim is to attract major international productions.
The Faroe Islands is dramatically raising its film reimbursement cap per year, going from a paltry €25,000 annually to €540,000 (Dkk 4m).
A new government elected in December is still putting the final touches on exact rules for the reimbursement, but it is expected to be in effect from March. It offers a rebate of 25 for budgets up to €500,000. For larger-budget productions, a 35 incentive may be possible.
Located halfway between Scotland and Iceland in the Northeast Atlantic, the Faroe Islands - population 53,000 – are an archipelago of 18 mountainous islands.
Tina i Dali Wagner had been...
The Faroe Islands is dramatically raising its film reimbursement cap per year, going from a paltry €25,000 annually to €540,000 (Dkk 4m).
A new government elected in December is still putting the final touches on exact rules for the reimbursement, but it is expected to be in effect from March. It offers a rebate of 25 for budgets up to €500,000. For larger-budget productions, a 35 incentive may be possible.
Located halfway between Scotland and Iceland in the Northeast Atlantic, the Faroe Islands - population 53,000 – are an archipelago of 18 mountainous islands.
Tina i Dali Wagner had been...
- 2/18/2023
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
Faroese-born emerging director Andrias Høgenni, winner of a Canal+ award at Cannes Critics’ Week in 2021 with his short film “Illi illa meint,” just got married this summer.
His project “Anything for Her,” introduced at this year’s Nordic Co-Production Market in Haugesund, is precisely about a wedding, and much more. Family conflicts, especially with step-parents involved, and the uniquely chaotic nature of a Faroese wedding set in a tightly-knit community of 52,000 souls.
Spearheaded by Danish production partners Johannes Rothaus Nørregaard of Studiocanal-backed Sam Productions (“Borgen”) and Rikke Tambo Andersen of Tambo Film (“The Penultimate”), the project has secured co-production partners from France and the Faroe Islands, Variety has learned.
La Rochelle-based In Vivo Films, behind the 2022 Toronto-bound “Autobiography” and 2019 Rotterdam entry “La Fortaleza,” has come on board at script stage, together with the leading Faroese producer, Jón Hammer of “Trom” backer Kyk Pictures.
Tambo Andersen, set to pitch the...
His project “Anything for Her,” introduced at this year’s Nordic Co-Production Market in Haugesund, is precisely about a wedding, and much more. Family conflicts, especially with step-parents involved, and the uniquely chaotic nature of a Faroese wedding set in a tightly-knit community of 52,000 souls.
Spearheaded by Danish production partners Johannes Rothaus Nørregaard of Studiocanal-backed Sam Productions (“Borgen”) and Rikke Tambo Andersen of Tambo Film (“The Penultimate”), the project has secured co-production partners from France and the Faroe Islands, Variety has learned.
La Rochelle-based In Vivo Films, behind the 2022 Toronto-bound “Autobiography” and 2019 Rotterdam entry “La Fortaleza,” has come on board at script stage, together with the leading Faroese producer, Jón Hammer of “Trom” backer Kyk Pictures.
Tambo Andersen, set to pitch the...
- 8/24/2022
- by Annika Pham
- Variety Film + TV
More than 300 industry delegates from top shingles including Warner Bros Discovery, Viaplay, Germany’s Constantin Film, The Match Factory and France’s TF1 Studio are expected on the shores of Haugesund, Norway, over Aug. 23-26, for Scandinavia’s major film showcase, New Nordic Films.
Ruben Östlund’s Palme d’Or winner “Triangle of Sadness” will both open the film confab festivities and screen alongside 18 new Nordic finished films at the market. But for the avid buyers and programmers of Nordic content, the biggest draw will be the 18 works in progress – half of them looking for sales and distribution – and 23 pics in development available for co-production and financing.
“We’ve noticed a shift in recent years, with buyers and sellers favouring the Works in Progress and Nordic Coproduction Market over the market screenings. These seem to be more valuable for the industry,” said Gyda Velvin Myklebust, head of New Nordic Films.
Ruben Östlund’s Palme d’Or winner “Triangle of Sadness” will both open the film confab festivities and screen alongside 18 new Nordic finished films at the market. But for the avid buyers and programmers of Nordic content, the biggest draw will be the 18 works in progress – half of them looking for sales and distribution – and 23 pics in development available for co-production and financing.
“We’ve noticed a shift in recent years, with buyers and sellers favouring the Works in Progress and Nordic Coproduction Market over the market screenings. These seem to be more valuable for the industry,” said Gyda Velvin Myklebust, head of New Nordic Films.
- 8/12/2022
- by Annika Pham
- Variety Film + TV
Orange Studio and pay TV group have boarded “Fahrenheit,” an international sci-fi series produced by Noor Sadar’s Mediawan-owned White Lion Films.
“Fahrenheit” was created by Guillaume Lemans, whose credits include “Anything For Her” and “Point Blank,” as well as Magali Rossitto and Mathieu Delozier. Orange Studio is a co-producer and will handle international sales with Mediawan Rights.
The eight-part series, which blends action and suspense, is set in the near future and follows small groups of hard-line eco-activists who carry out multiple destructive actions, attacks and targeted murders. These are mostly idealistic young people who believe the world is being threatened by ultra-capitalism. Mateo, a young and impetuous CIA recruit, is sent to Los Diablos, in Latin America, to infiltrate one of these activist groups, the Mandrills, and track down its leader, Adam, a charismatic yet dangerous man.
Lemans will be showrunner of the original series that will shoot in English and Spanish.
“Fahrenheit” was created by Guillaume Lemans, whose credits include “Anything For Her” and “Point Blank,” as well as Magali Rossitto and Mathieu Delozier. Orange Studio is a co-producer and will handle international sales with Mediawan Rights.
The eight-part series, which blends action and suspense, is set in the near future and follows small groups of hard-line eco-activists who carry out multiple destructive actions, attacks and targeted murders. These are mostly idealistic young people who believe the world is being threatened by ultra-capitalism. Mateo, a young and impetuous CIA recruit, is sent to Los Diablos, in Latin America, to infiltrate one of these activist groups, the Mandrills, and track down its leader, Adam, a charismatic yet dangerous man.
Lemans will be showrunner of the original series that will shoot in English and Spanish.
- 12/2/2021
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
As plans for ending lockdown and gradually getting society back to normal come and go, we know that a lot of you are feeling frustrated – but you know that plenty of people in the movies have it worse. That’s why we decided to shine this week’s spotlight on films about escapes. There are a lot of great ones to choose from, and it was difficult leaving out favourites like The Grand Budapest Hotel, Terminator 2: Judgement Day and Anything For Her, but we think you’ll agree that this list gives you some great entertainment to choose from as you look forward to enjoying a little more freedom yourself.
Chicken Run
Chicken Run - Google Play, YouTube
Amber Wilkinson writes: War PoW films like the Great Escape get a feathered makeover in this family adventure - which marked Nick Park and Peter Lord's step up from Wallace and Gromit shorts to feature-length.
Chicken Run
Chicken Run - Google Play, YouTube
Amber Wilkinson writes: War PoW films like the Great Escape get a feathered makeover in this family adventure - which marked Nick Park and Peter Lord's step up from Wallace and Gromit shorts to feature-length.
- 4/9/2021
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
At a standstill since March, the director has resumed filming on his film starring Daniel Auteuil, Gilles Lellouche and Sara Giraudeau, a Vendôme production sold by Pathé. First started on 20 January and halted mid-March as a result of the Coronavirus lockdown, filming on Fred Cavayé’s Farewell Mr Haffmann started up again yesterday to enter into its final two-week film shoot. This will be the filmmaker’s 6th feature following on from Anything For Her, Point Blank, Mea culpa, Penny Pincher! (2.9 million in 2016) and Nothing to Hide (1.63m viewers in 2018). Shining bright at the head of the cast are Daniel Auteuil (Best Actor award in Cannes 1996, nominated 14 times for the Best Actor César – including this year for La Belle...
Film noir. What is it? What are its defining characteristics? What films best express its qualities? Sex appeal, violence, cynicism, anti-heroes, femmes fatales, bleak commentary on modern society, maddening twists of fate that perpetuate one’s misery, running away from danger yet never making any ground…noir is and represents a wide variety of things, so much so that film experts do not even agree on whether it is a genre unto itself. (Two of the leading voices, James Ursini and Alain Silver, agree that it represents a movement rather than a definable genre.) For well over two years now, Sound on Sight has hosted the Friday Noir column which, on a near-weekly basis, has covered a great many noir entries of the commonly recognized classic period (1941 to 1959) as well as sizable portion of neo-noirs. Slowly and steadily, the column has explored the extremely exhaustive catalogue of titles with still many to come.
- 5/2/2014
- by Edgar Chaput
- SoundOnSight
Russell Crowe is back with his best movie in years. And we've got an exclusive clip from The Next Three Days to prove it. Paul Haggis' modern remake of 2007 French thriller Pour Elle teams Crowe with Elizabeth Banks in a story that finds Crowe's loving husband John Brennan becoming obsessed with attempting to break his wife (Banks) out of prison for a crime she says she never committed.
- 5/7/2013
- Sky Movies
When I say: “Hey, dirtbags!” – that means you! You people are going to hate my guts for the rest of your lives, because I’m here to report that Police Academy remake is, unfortunately, moving forward. I say unfortunately because I know, I just know that they will ruin the whole thing. But no, New [...]
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- 6/11/2012
- by Fiona
- Filmofilia
Casino Royale director Martin Campbell and award-winning writer Paul Haggis (Crash, Million Dollar Baby) have been brought onboard the thriller called Umbra for Endgame Entertainment. The film centers on a business man who finds a mysterious package in the mail and gets caught up in a secret government agency conspiracy. Haggis has been hired to [...]
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- 1/7/2012
- by Nick Martin
- Filmofilia
So much for the classiness of a bygone era. "The Artist" star Jean Dujardin and director Michel Hazanavicus are back together next year in the omnibus sex-com "The Players" (or "Les infidèles") and just as their silent movie was of a certain time and place, so too is this film. The French film is very much in the current vein of contemporary relationship/sex comedies, and is going to be just as crude and outrageous as anything cooked up by Judd Apatow if these two clips are anything to go by. The omnibus comedy -- described as a mix of "Viva Italia!," "The Hangover," "Desperate Housewives" and "Sex And The City" -- was penned by Dujardin along with Gilles Lellouche (both pictured above) and will present seven sketches, each helmed by a different director, riffing on the theme of infidelity. The directors getting behind the camera are Hazanavicius, Dujardin, Lellouche,...
- 12/22/2011
- The Playlist
Bilal Ahmed of Oregon files lawsuit against film-makers for using his likeness in scene showing wanted terrorists
An Oregon man is suing the makers of the Russell Crowe thriller The Next Three Days claiming they used his image in a scene showing wanted terrorists.
Bilal Ahmed says he has been forced to change his hairstyle and cut his facial hair following the release of the film, which was directed by the Oscar-winning film-maker and screenwriter Paul Haggis. He fears he may struggle to find future work and is claiming more than $300,000 for "impairment to future earning capacity, damage to reputation, mental anguish and suffering, humiliation and embarrassment".
In his suit, filed at Los Angeles superior court last week, Ahmed states that he was "depicted as a wanted fugitive along with other known or alleged terrorists or fugitives, including Osama Bin Laden". Nothing, he says, could be further from the truth.
An Oregon man is suing the makers of the Russell Crowe thriller The Next Three Days claiming they used his image in a scene showing wanted terrorists.
Bilal Ahmed says he has been forced to change his hairstyle and cut his facial hair following the release of the film, which was directed by the Oscar-winning film-maker and screenwriter Paul Haggis. He fears he may struggle to find future work and is claiming more than $300,000 for "impairment to future earning capacity, damage to reputation, mental anguish and suffering, humiliation and embarrassment".
In his suit, filed at Los Angeles superior court last week, Ahmed states that he was "depicted as a wanted fugitive along with other known or alleged terrorists or fugitives, including Osama Bin Laden". Nothing, he says, could be further from the truth.
- 11/11/2011
- by Ben Child
- The Guardian - Film News
Evertt Gilles Lellouche in “Point Blank”
French director Fred Cavayé’s newest film “Point Blank” is set in Paris. But you’d be hard-pressed to find a single shot of the Eiffel Tower, the Seine or the Arc de Triomphe.
Instead, Cavayé shot a gritty, street-level view of the outer arrondisements of the French capital, giving his film a sense of reality that a thriller set on the Champs Elysee just wouldn’t have.
“I avoided the shots of postcard Paris,...
French director Fred Cavayé’s newest film “Point Blank” is set in Paris. But you’d be hard-pressed to find a single shot of the Eiffel Tower, the Seine or the Arc de Triomphe.
Instead, Cavayé shot a gritty, street-level view of the outer arrondisements of the French capital, giving his film a sense of reality that a thriller set on the Champs Elysee just wouldn’t have.
“I avoided the shots of postcard Paris,...
- 8/1/2011
- by Nick Andersen
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Three new movies are opening wide this weekend:
Opening in most theaters is the sci-fi western Cowboys & Aliens directed by Jon Favreau, produced by Steven Spielberg and starring Daniel Craig, Olivia Wilde, Harrison Ford, Paul Dano and Sam Rockwell. The film’s music is composed by Harry Gregson-Williams. A soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score is now available to download on iTunes and will be released on CD on August 16. To check out the details of the album, visit our soundtrack announcement.
Also opening wide is the romantic comedy Crazy, Stupid, Love. directed by Glenn Ficarra and John Requa, written by Dan Fogelman and starring Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Julianne Moore, Emma Stone, Kevin Bacon and Marisa Tomei. Christophe Beck and Nick Urata composed the movie’s score. A soundtrack album featuring twelve songs from the film has been released on Watertower Music. To listen to audio clips and learn more about the soundtrack,...
Opening in most theaters is the sci-fi western Cowboys & Aliens directed by Jon Favreau, produced by Steven Spielberg and starring Daniel Craig, Olivia Wilde, Harrison Ford, Paul Dano and Sam Rockwell. The film’s music is composed by Harry Gregson-Williams. A soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score is now available to download on iTunes and will be released on CD on August 16. To check out the details of the album, visit our soundtrack announcement.
Also opening wide is the romantic comedy Crazy, Stupid, Love. directed by Glenn Ficarra and John Requa, written by Dan Fogelman and starring Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Julianne Moore, Emma Stone, Kevin Bacon and Marisa Tomei. Christophe Beck and Nick Urata composed the movie’s score. A soundtrack album featuring twelve songs from the film has been released on Watertower Music. To listen to audio clips and learn more about the soundtrack,...
- 7/30/2011
- by filmmusicreporter
- Film Music Reporter
"French thriller" is one of those phrases, like "German chocolate" and "Swedish pop record," that inspires enthusiastic excitement even when, perhaps, it shouldn't. Take, for example, this week's "Point Blank," directed by Fred Cavayé (whose "Pour Elle" was remade as Paul Haggis' pitiable "The Next Three Days"), which from the outset seemed to carry with it all the trademarks of a great French thriller – energetic, stylish, edgy. It's being marketed as the next "Tell No One," Guillaume Canet's massive crossover hit. But unlike that film, "Point Blank" isn't based on a best selling American novel and also, it's just…...
- 7/28/2011
- The Playlist
Time for another Hollywood remake of a successful French thriller from the last few years back, you say?
Early this year saw the 2008 French film Pour Elle (Anything for Her) remodelled for an Us audience and retitled The Next Three Days. Starring Russell Crowe and Elizabeth Banks, the film did extremely modest business in the States and over here, but that hasn’t stopped Warner Bros and Universal Pictures from acquiring the rights to the novel which was the source material for another hit French mainstream drama/thriller, Tell No One.
To be fair, the book was written by popular Us mystery writer Harlan Coben before being sculpted into a rather cracking foreign-language film in 2006, and The Hollywood Reporter claims that the book was originally set up at Sony as far back as 2002.
To further ease any worries, Hollywood’s newly rechristened golden child, Ben Affleck, is attached to direct,...
Early this year saw the 2008 French film Pour Elle (Anything for Her) remodelled for an Us audience and retitled The Next Three Days. Starring Russell Crowe and Elizabeth Banks, the film did extremely modest business in the States and over here, but that hasn’t stopped Warner Bros and Universal Pictures from acquiring the rights to the novel which was the source material for another hit French mainstream drama/thriller, Tell No One.
To be fair, the book was written by popular Us mystery writer Harlan Coben before being sculpted into a rather cracking foreign-language film in 2006, and The Hollywood Reporter claims that the book was originally set up at Sony as far back as 2002.
To further ease any worries, Hollywood’s newly rechristened golden child, Ben Affleck, is attached to direct,...
- 6/17/2011
- by Adam Lowes
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
From opening chase to brilliant climax, Fred Cavayé's gripping follow-up to Pour elle is well worth travelling for
One of Time Out's movie critics, David Jenkins, began a piece last week by asking: "How far would you travel to see a film?" In his case, the answer was a day trip to Lille to see The Tree of Life, Terrence Malick's Palme d'Or winner. Owing to some dispute over distribution rights, it wasn't being shown in Britain, and the Calais multiplex was only screening a French-dubbed version. Fortunately, the rights problem has been resolved and the picture opens here on 8 July.
Well, I'm just off on holiday to a remote corner of Värmland, a Swedish province largely denuded of cinemas. Torsby, Sven-Göran Eriksson's hometown to the north of where I'll be, has a main street called Biografgatan but no longer has a biograph. So I was ready...
One of Time Out's movie critics, David Jenkins, began a piece last week by asking: "How far would you travel to see a film?" In his case, the answer was a day trip to Lille to see The Tree of Life, Terrence Malick's Palme d'Or winner. Owing to some dispute over distribution rights, it wasn't being shown in Britain, and the Calais multiplex was only screening a French-dubbed version. Fortunately, the rights problem has been resolved and the picture opens here on 8 July.
Well, I'm just off on holiday to a remote corner of Värmland, a Swedish province largely denuded of cinemas. Torsby, Sven-Göran Eriksson's hometown to the north of where I'll be, has a main street called Biografgatan but no longer has a biograph. So I was ready...
- 6/11/2011
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
Kaboom (15)
(Gregg Araki, 2010, Us) Thomas Dekker, Haley Bennett, Juno Temple, Chris Zylka, Roxane Mesquida. 86 mins
This could be the best teen movie of the year, or at least the horniest, surely. Set on a sunny Californian college campus with a "beautiful people only" admissions policy, it's a poppy pick'n'mix of uninhibited bi-curious couplings (and triplings), hallucinogenic drug experiences and strange, supernatural events, but none of this is treated as in any way edgy or shocking. Instead, it's warm, witty and guilt-free, even as it gets increasingly, apocalyptically bonkers – prime cult material!
Kung Fu Panda 2 (PG)
(Jennifer Yuh, 2011, Us) Jack Black, Angelina Jolie, Dustin Hoffman. 90 mins
Does the sequel do what you'd expect? Do pandas defecate in the bamboo forest? Actually they don't in this anthropomorphised action animation, but it's a fun and lively tribute to old-school martial arts movies with some darker shadings than its predecessor.
Mother's Day (18)
(Darren Lynn Bousman,...
(Gregg Araki, 2010, Us) Thomas Dekker, Haley Bennett, Juno Temple, Chris Zylka, Roxane Mesquida. 86 mins
This could be the best teen movie of the year, or at least the horniest, surely. Set on a sunny Californian college campus with a "beautiful people only" admissions policy, it's a poppy pick'n'mix of uninhibited bi-curious couplings (and triplings), hallucinogenic drug experiences and strange, supernatural events, but none of this is treated as in any way edgy or shocking. Instead, it's warm, witty and guilt-free, even as it gets increasingly, apocalyptically bonkers – prime cult material!
Kung Fu Panda 2 (PG)
(Jennifer Yuh, 2011, Us) Jack Black, Angelina Jolie, Dustin Hoffman. 90 mins
Does the sequel do what you'd expect? Do pandas defecate in the bamboo forest? Actually they don't in this anthropomorphised action animation, but it's a fun and lively tribute to old-school martial arts movies with some darker shadings than its predecessor.
Mother's Day (18)
(Darren Lynn Bousman,...
- 6/10/2011
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
French director Fred Cavayé has been on Hollywood's radar for a while now. His new thriller Point Blank offers plenty of the same ingredients as his last, Pour Elle: a damsel in distress, a race against time and a man increasingly out of depth. That one was remade with Russell Crowe as The Last Three Days and nobody would be surprised to see this go the same way. This new clip sets the movie up neatly. Hospital nurse Samuel (Tell No One's Gilles Lellouche) has woken up to discover that his pregnant wife has been kidnapped by some shady underworld types. They'll only spare her life if he hands over a patient in his care (Roschdy Zem), and not because they want to tend back to full health. All in three hours. Zut alors.If this was Liam Neeson, we'd expect a lot more by way of gravelly threats...
- 5/23/2011
- EmpireOnline
Black Swan; Biutiful; The Next Three Days; Benda Bilili!; The Ward; Gulliver's Travels
It's hard to keep up with the genetic origins and influences of Darren Aronofsky's Oscar-winning Black Swan (2010, Fox, 15), a full-blooded psychodrama in which Natalie Portman's uptight "sweet girl" must embrace her dark side to play the dual lead in Swan Lake. Early scenes owe a debt to the choreographed ordeals of A Chorus Line, giving way gradually to the ghosts of Powell and Pressburger's dance of death The Red Shoes. Barbara Hershey seems to be channelling the spirit of Joan Crawford as the ballerina's suffocating mother, while Cronenberg's The Fly looms large as Portman's nails crumble and her shoulders sprout feathers, hotly pursued by the fractured personality riffs from Lynch's Mulholland Drive.
But by far the strongest DNA strain comes from Italian giallo maestro Dario Argento, specifically Suspiria and Terror and the Opera, which...
It's hard to keep up with the genetic origins and influences of Darren Aronofsky's Oscar-winning Black Swan (2010, Fox, 15), a full-blooded psychodrama in which Natalie Portman's uptight "sweet girl" must embrace her dark side to play the dual lead in Swan Lake. Early scenes owe a debt to the choreographed ordeals of A Chorus Line, giving way gradually to the ghosts of Powell and Pressburger's dance of death The Red Shoes. Barbara Hershey seems to be channelling the spirit of Joan Crawford as the ballerina's suffocating mother, while Cronenberg's The Fly looms large as Portman's nails crumble and her shoulders sprout feathers, hotly pursued by the fractured personality riffs from Lynch's Mulholland Drive.
But by far the strongest DNA strain comes from Italian giallo maestro Dario Argento, specifically Suspiria and Terror and the Opera, which...
- 5/14/2011
- by Mark Kermode
- The Guardian - Film News
Point Blank, the French action thriller, was one of the best films I saw at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival. Exciting and well-crafted, I said in my review that it more or less does right what so many recent American action films have been doing wrong. It’s difficult to describe why that’s the case, but it provides a lot of what you want from an entry into the genre. It’s directed by Fred Cavayé, who helmed Pour elle, which was remade into Paul Haggis‘ The Next Three Days starring Russell Crowe.
Now, there’s a trailer up at HeyUGuys, which manages to show off some of the better moments throughout the film. And while it gives off almost no idea of what the film is about, it (thankfully) manages to not spoil too much in terms of thrills. In fact, I’d say that just seeing...
Now, there’s a trailer up at HeyUGuys, which manages to show off some of the better moments throughout the film. And while it gives off almost no idea of what the film is about, it (thankfully) manages to not spoil too much in terms of thrills. In fact, I’d say that just seeing...
- 5/13/2011
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
Source: FilmShaft - UK Trailer For French Thriller “Point Blank”
Pour Elle was recently made into a fine thriller by Paul Haggis as The Next Three Days and we're wondering how long it'll take Hollywood to remake director Fred Cavayé new flick Point Blank. The new UK trailer has been sent over to us and it looks pretty cool stuff indeed.
So if you're a fan of French cinema and cracking thrillers with twisting-turning plots, this one's definitely pour vous!
Take a gander at the new UK trailer below and go and see it when it opens from 10th June.
Synopsis:
Everything is going well for Samuel (Gilles Lellouche; Tell Know One/ Sherlock Holmes/ Mesrine/ Little White Lies) and Nadia (Elana Anaya; The Skin I Live In/ Sex and Lucia/ Van Helsing/ Talk to Her/ Mesrine), his beautiful wife. He is studying to become a registered nurse and she is expecting their first child.
Pour Elle was recently made into a fine thriller by Paul Haggis as The Next Three Days and we're wondering how long it'll take Hollywood to remake director Fred Cavayé new flick Point Blank. The new UK trailer has been sent over to us and it looks pretty cool stuff indeed.
So if you're a fan of French cinema and cracking thrillers with twisting-turning plots, this one's definitely pour vous!
Take a gander at the new UK trailer below and go and see it when it opens from 10th June.
Synopsis:
Everything is going well for Samuel (Gilles Lellouche; Tell Know One/ Sherlock Holmes/ Mesrine/ Little White Lies) and Nadia (Elana Anaya; The Skin I Live In/ Sex and Lucia/ Van Helsing/ Talk to Her/ Mesrine), his beautiful wife. He is studying to become a registered nurse and she is expecting their first child.
- 4/20/2011
- by Martyn Conterio
- FilmShaft.com
If you're still feeling a bit sleepy after the weekend, here's something to wake you up: a trailer for French action/thriller Point Blank (aka À bout portant in its original tongue). Coming from director and screenwriter Fred Cavayé, who previously got his thriller on with Pour Elle (aka Anything For Her), it's another race against time for a man in love.This time the star is Gilles Lellouche as Samuel, who's a male nurse charged with treating a man run over by a motorbike (Roschdy Zem). Unluckily for him, his patient is a thief and underworld figures kidnap Samuel's pregnant wife (Anaya) and order him to hand over his charge in order to get her back. Oh, and he only has three hours. Cue a lot of running and quite a smattering of violence.Point Blank is out on June 10 here in the UK. See it before the probably inevitable remake.
- 4/18/2011
- EmpireOnline
Werner Herzog gets the Simpsons treatment, while French director Fred Cavayé experiences a feeling of deja vu
Herzog and Homer
After driving Christian Bale and Klaus Kinski to distraction and tangling with Nicolas Cage, Werner Herzog has finally made it. The Bavarian film-maker has become a character on The Simpsons. Visiting London for the premiere of his latest poem/documentary Cave of Forgotten Dreams, Herzog told me he'd never seen a single episode of the show before but was very impressed when he went for a live read-through of his episode with the rest of the cast. In "The Scorpion's Tale", Herzog voices a demented German pharmaceutical executive taking an unhealthy interest in Grampa. "It was a very amusing experience and a very professional one," he told me over dinner in Brixton. "I very much like to use my voice for performing and although I at first wanted to play myself,...
Herzog and Homer
After driving Christian Bale and Klaus Kinski to distraction and tangling with Nicolas Cage, Werner Herzog has finally made it. The Bavarian film-maker has become a character on The Simpsons. Visiting London for the premiere of his latest poem/documentary Cave of Forgotten Dreams, Herzog told me he'd never seen a single episode of the show before but was very impressed when he went for a live read-through of his episode with the rest of the cast. In "The Scorpion's Tale", Herzog voices a demented German pharmaceutical executive taking an unhealthy interest in Grampa. "It was a very amusing experience and a very professional one," he told me over dinner in Brixton. "I very much like to use my voice for performing and although I at first wanted to play myself,...
- 3/27/2011
- by Jason Solomons
- The Guardian - Film News
Jason Solomons attends the Rendez-vous French cinema event at the Ciné lumière in London to consider the state of French cinema and whether it's really better than British.
He meets some of the leading figures in French film, including directors Bertrand Tavernier, Luc Besson and François Ozon to discuss similarities and differences in cinematic culture and both nations' sometimes fraught link to Hollywood.
Some representatives of the new generation of French acting and directing talent are also on hand. We meet Fred Cavayé, the director of Pour Elle (Anything For Her), which was remade for Hollywood as The Next Three Days, starring Russell Crowe. Tahar Rahim, the star of Jacques Audiard's A Prophet and currently appearing in The Eagle, also pops in to chat.
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He meets some of the leading figures in French film, including directors Bertrand Tavernier, Luc Besson and François Ozon to discuss similarities and differences in cinematic culture and both nations' sometimes fraught link to Hollywood.
Some representatives of the new generation of French acting and directing talent are also on hand. We meet Fred Cavayé, the director of Pour Elle (Anything For Her), which was remade for Hollywood as The Next Three Days, starring Russell Crowe. Tahar Rahim, the star of Jacques Audiard's A Prophet and currently appearing in The Eagle, also pops in to chat.
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- 3/25/2011
- by Jason Solomons, Jason Phipps
- The Guardian - Film News
Chicago – Two equally ignored Oscar bait contenders from 2010 centered on the same basic question: to what extent would you go to free your beloved from prison? Tony Goldwyn’s “Conviction” and Paul Haggis’s “The Next Three Days,” are less interested in the characters behind bars than they are about those on the outside looking (and breaking) in. While neither film is Best Picture material, both are certainly worth a look.
Goldwyn and Haggis collaborated on 2006’s “The Last Kiss,” and it’s interesting to note the similarities in their most recent projects. “Conviction” and “Days” center on protagonists who are absolutely convinced of their loved one’s innocence, despite evidence to the contrary. Almost no information is revealed about the crime itself, and very few scenes take place in a courtroom. The plot focuses solely on the protagonist’s single-minded, self-sacrificing pursuit of justice, regardless of the personal toll.
Goldwyn and Haggis collaborated on 2006’s “The Last Kiss,” and it’s interesting to note the similarities in their most recent projects. “Conviction” and “Days” center on protagonists who are absolutely convinced of their loved one’s innocence, despite evidence to the contrary. Almost no information is revealed about the crime itself, and very few scenes take place in a courtroom. The plot focuses solely on the protagonist’s single-minded, self-sacrificing pursuit of justice, regardless of the personal toll.
- 3/17/2011
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Director/writer: Paul Haggis.
The Next Three Days released on DVD, Blu-ray and VOD formats March 8th, through Lionsgate and this film is based on another, titled Pour Elle (Sf Gate). The film reviewed here hosts an all-star cast including Russell Crowe, Elizabeth Banks, Olivia Wilde, and Brian Dennehy. Travelling the gamut of genres from thriller, to action, and to drama, The Next Three Days has all the facets of a heist film, without the bank robbery. However, there is a prison escape and director Paul Haggis (Quantum of Solace) shows an instinct for writing challenging moral dilemmas.
You have likely seen the trailers for this blockbuster and you may know the basic plotline. For those unaware, Crowe plays John Brennan, a husband separated from his wife. Wrongly accused of murder, Lara Brennan will spend the rest of her days in prison and her stay is not a pleasant one...
The Next Three Days released on DVD, Blu-ray and VOD formats March 8th, through Lionsgate and this film is based on another, titled Pour Elle (Sf Gate). The film reviewed here hosts an all-star cast including Russell Crowe, Elizabeth Banks, Olivia Wilde, and Brian Dennehy. Travelling the gamut of genres from thriller, to action, and to drama, The Next Three Days has all the facets of a heist film, without the bank robbery. However, there is a prison escape and director Paul Haggis (Quantum of Solace) shows an instinct for writing challenging moral dilemmas.
You have likely seen the trailers for this blockbuster and you may know the basic plotline. For those unaware, Crowe plays John Brennan, a husband separated from his wife. Wrongly accused of murder, Lara Brennan will spend the rest of her days in prison and her stay is not a pleasant one...
- 3/11/2011
- by Remove28DaysLaterAnalysisThis@gmail.com (Michael Allen)
- 28 Days Later Analysis
"The Man From Nowhere" (2010)
Directed by Lee Jeong-beom
Released by Well Go USA
Matt Singer said there's a sequence in this Korean revenge thriller that has "already taken up permanent residence in the Movie Hall of Fame section of my brain," so what more do you need? "Mother" star Won Bin stars as the man who is framed by local gangsters and seeks to retrieve the young girl he lives next door to after she's been kidnapped.
"Abducted" (2011)
Directed by Jon Bonnell
Released by Brain Damage Films
Originally called "Match.Dead," this 2009 thriller details the perils of online dating when a teen girl (Kathleen Benner) arranges a date with a man she soon learns is a psychopath (James Ray). Alan Smithee is the credited screenwriter on IMDb, so one might not want to go in with high expectations.
"Babysitters Beware" (2011)
Directed by Douglas Horn
Released by Phase 4 Films
If you're the...
Directed by Lee Jeong-beom
Released by Well Go USA
Matt Singer said there's a sequence in this Korean revenge thriller that has "already taken up permanent residence in the Movie Hall of Fame section of my brain," so what more do you need? "Mother" star Won Bin stars as the man who is framed by local gangsters and seeks to retrieve the young girl he lives next door to after she's been kidnapped.
"Abducted" (2011)
Directed by Jon Bonnell
Released by Brain Damage Films
Originally called "Match.Dead," this 2009 thriller details the perils of online dating when a teen girl (Kathleen Benner) arranges a date with a man she soon learns is a psychopath (James Ray). Alan Smithee is the credited screenwriter on IMDb, so one might not want to go in with high expectations.
"Babysitters Beware" (2011)
Directed by Douglas Horn
Released by Phase 4 Films
If you're the...
- 3/5/2011
- by Stephen Saito
- ifc.com
By Bryan Buss
(March 2011)
March 1
“127 Hours” (Fox Searchlight, R) — This true story of a mountain climber who gets pinned in a crevasse by a boulder earned raves (and an Oscar nomination) for star James Franco’s tour de force performance (in addition to nabbing noms for Best Picture, adapted screenplay, original score, editing and original song). The realism and intensity — not to mention the gore — in one particularly brutal scene led to patrons fainting, which may have kept some viewers away, as the film grossed only $15 million.
“Burlesque” (Screen Gems, PG-13) — This pairing of songstresses Cher and Christina Aguilera could have been camp nirvana, but despite the story similarities (small-town girl goes to the big city to become a star and learns life lessons the hard way), this derided musical didn’t cross the line from bad to entertaining often enough the way “Showgirls” did. Critics found the story timeworn,...
(March 2011)
March 1
“127 Hours” (Fox Searchlight, R) — This true story of a mountain climber who gets pinned in a crevasse by a boulder earned raves (and an Oscar nomination) for star James Franco’s tour de force performance (in addition to nabbing noms for Best Picture, adapted screenplay, original score, editing and original song). The realism and intensity — not to mention the gore — in one particularly brutal scene led to patrons fainting, which may have kept some viewers away, as the film grossed only $15 million.
“Burlesque” (Screen Gems, PG-13) — This pairing of songstresses Cher and Christina Aguilera could have been camp nirvana, but despite the story similarities (small-town girl goes to the big city to become a star and learns life lessons the hard way), this derided musical didn’t cross the line from bad to entertaining often enough the way “Showgirls” did. Critics found the story timeworn,...
- 3/1/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
By Bryan Buss
(March 2011)
March 1
“127 Hours” (Fox Searchlight, R) — This true story of a mountain climber who gets pinned in a crevasse by a boulder earned raves (and an Oscar nomination) for star James Franco’s tour de force performance (in addition to nabbing noms for Best Picture, adapted screenplay, original score, editing and original song). The realism and intensity — not to mention the gore — in one particularly brutal scene led to patrons fainting, which may have kept some viewers away, as the film grossed only $15 million.
“Burlesque” (Screen Gems, PG-13) — This pairing of songstresses Cher and Christina Aguilera could have been camp nirvana, but despite the story similarities (small-town girl goes to the big city to become a star and learns life lessons the hard way), this derided musical didn’t cross the line from bad to entertaining often enough the way “Showgirls” did. Critics found the story timeworn,...
(March 2011)
March 1
“127 Hours” (Fox Searchlight, R) — This true story of a mountain climber who gets pinned in a crevasse by a boulder earned raves (and an Oscar nomination) for star James Franco’s tour de force performance (in addition to nabbing noms for Best Picture, adapted screenplay, original score, editing and original song). The realism and intensity — not to mention the gore — in one particularly brutal scene led to patrons fainting, which may have kept some viewers away, as the film grossed only $15 million.
“Burlesque” (Screen Gems, PG-13) — This pairing of songstresses Cher and Christina Aguilera could have been camp nirvana, but despite the story similarities (small-town girl goes to the big city to become a star and learns life lessons the hard way), this derided musical didn’t cross the line from bad to entertaining often enough the way “Showgirls” did. Critics found the story timeworn,...
- 3/1/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Magazine
From favela to fabulous at the Oscars, and how the French have turned the 'remake' tables on America
From trash to triumph
Tonight's Oscars sees a rags to riches tale to rival that of the kids from Slumdog Millionaire in 2008. British documentary maker Lucy Walker is nominated for Waste Land, about the rubbish pickers of Jardim Gramacho, a favela on the world's largest rubbish dump, just north of Rio de Janeiro. Lucy's using her "date" ticket to invite one of the stars of her film to the Oscars. Tiao Santos will travel from his favela to the Kodak theatre after a frantic battle for visas and a panic to get him a black tie outfit. Tiao is now president of the Association of Pickers, a society his mother helped form and one which has seen the health of the favela workers improve immeasurably. Born in the favela, Tiao has been...
From trash to triumph
Tonight's Oscars sees a rags to riches tale to rival that of the kids from Slumdog Millionaire in 2008. British documentary maker Lucy Walker is nominated for Waste Land, about the rubbish pickers of Jardim Gramacho, a favela on the world's largest rubbish dump, just north of Rio de Janeiro. Lucy's using her "date" ticket to invite one of the stars of her film to the Oscars. Tiao Santos will travel from his favela to the Kodak theatre after a frantic battle for visas and a panic to get him a black tie outfit. Tiao is now president of the Association of Pickers, a society his mother helped form and one which has seen the health of the favela workers improve immeasurably. Born in the favela, Tiao has been...
- 2/27/2011
- by Jason Solomons
- The Guardian - Film News
Paul Haggis scripted Clint Eastwood's Million Dollar Baby and his Iwo Jima diptych, co-wrote the last two Bond movies and won two Oscars for Crash, his feature film debut as writer-director. The Next Three Days is his first disappointing movie and has the dubious distinction of being the first Hollywood remake to reach our shores in 2011. It's a version of Fred Cavayé's Pour elle (aka Anything for Her), a French thriller about a teacher who sets about springing his wife from jail where she's serving a 20-year sentence after being wrongly convicted of murdering her female boss. The setting is now Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the husband has become Russell Crowe and the wife Elizabeth Banks. Haggis has added nearly 40 minutes to the duration, and a different French cinematographer has been engaged (Stéphane Fontaine, who shot A Prophet and The Beat That My Heart Skipped). Otherwise, the changes are insignificant.
- 1/11/2011
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
(review re-posted as the film is in U.K. theatres from today)
The latest from Academy Award winning Crash scribe Paul Haggis, The Next Three Days is a remake of the 2008 French film Pour Elle (released over here last year as ‘Anything For Her’). Like the original, the film sees an everyday, middle-class, law abiding citizen descend into a world of seedy criminality after his wife is accused of a murder he is certain she did not commit. After losing the final legal appeal against his wife’s life sentence, school teacher John Brennan (Russell Crowe) resolves to take the law into his own hands and break his wife (Elizabeth Banks) out of a maximum security prison, or else face a joyless future without his love – and the mother of his young son. To make matters more urgent, Brennan has to pull off this audacious escape...
(review re-posted as the film is in U.K. theatres from today)
The latest from Academy Award winning Crash scribe Paul Haggis, The Next Three Days is a remake of the 2008 French film Pour Elle (released over here last year as ‘Anything For Her’). Like the original, the film sees an everyday, middle-class, law abiding citizen descend into a world of seedy criminality after his wife is accused of a murder he is certain she did not commit. After losing the final legal appeal against his wife’s life sentence, school teacher John Brennan (Russell Crowe) resolves to take the law into his own hands and break his wife (Elizabeth Banks) out of a maximum security prison, or else face a joyless future without his love – and the mother of his young son. To make matters more urgent, Brennan has to pull off this audacious escape...
- 1/5/2011
- by Robert Beames
- Obsessed with Film
We’ve been sent over a brand new clip by the lovely PR peeps at Thinkjam from the frankly ace Russell Crowe thriller, The Next Three Days, which also boasts direction from Paul Haggis and is released today. This remake of French flick, Pour Elle (For Her), sticks its middle finger up to shoddy Us adaptations. You can read our review here.
Start the year with a cracking piece of mainstream cinema and you’ll get a bloody good reminder of why Russell Crowe is a belting acting, too. Co-starring is Elizabeth Banks, Olivia Wilde and the one and only Liam Neeson. Oh, and the legendary Brian Denehy.
Synopsis:
Life seems perfect for John Brennan until his wife, Lara, is arrested for a gruesome murder she says she didn’t commit. Three years into her sentence, John is struggling to hold his family together, raising their son and teaching at...
Start the year with a cracking piece of mainstream cinema and you’ll get a bloody good reminder of why Russell Crowe is a belting acting, too. Co-starring is Elizabeth Banks, Olivia Wilde and the one and only Liam Neeson. Oh, and the legendary Brian Denehy.
Synopsis:
Life seems perfect for John Brennan until his wife, Lara, is arrested for a gruesome murder she says she didn’t commit. Three years into her sentence, John is struggling to hold his family together, raising their son and teaching at...
- 1/5/2011
- by Martyn Conterio
- FilmShaft.com
The Next Three Days (12A)
(Paul Haggis, 2010, Us) Russell Crowe, Elizabeth Banks, Liam Neeson, Olivia Wilde. 133 mins
What kind of a schoolteacher would stage an audacious prison break to spring his unjustly accused wife? One played by Russell Crowe, of course. Remade from French thriller Pour Elle, this supposedly everyday thriller suffers somewhat in the plausibility department, with Crowe gleaning the requisite logistical and criminal knowledge from a few Google searches and Neeson's helpful ex-con (while fulfilling single-parent duties). But after a long, slow build up, the suspenseful climax is at least well-handled.
Out from Wed
The Big Sleep (PG)
(Howard Hawks, 1946, Us) Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Martha Vickers, 114 mins
Sacrificing plot clarity for wisecracking dialogue and smouldering seduction (the producers removed a big chunk of explanation in favour of more Bogart-Bacall smooch time), the definitive Chandler detective movie is still wildly enjoyable. Bogey's Marlowe shows shades of vulnerability...
(Paul Haggis, 2010, Us) Russell Crowe, Elizabeth Banks, Liam Neeson, Olivia Wilde. 133 mins
What kind of a schoolteacher would stage an audacious prison break to spring his unjustly accused wife? One played by Russell Crowe, of course. Remade from French thriller Pour Elle, this supposedly everyday thriller suffers somewhat in the plausibility department, with Crowe gleaning the requisite logistical and criminal knowledge from a few Google searches and Neeson's helpful ex-con (while fulfilling single-parent duties). But after a long, slow build up, the suspenseful climax is at least well-handled.
Out from Wed
The Big Sleep (PG)
(Howard Hawks, 1946, Us) Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Martha Vickers, 114 mins
Sacrificing plot clarity for wisecracking dialogue and smouldering seduction (the producers removed a big chunk of explanation in favour of more Bogart-Bacall smooch time), the definitive Chandler detective movie is still wildly enjoyable. Bogey's Marlowe shows shades of vulnerability...
- 1/1/2011
- by The guide
- The Guardian - Film News
Paul Haggis is one of Hollywood’s most sought-after writers, showing great diversity through many genres and is responsibly for award-winning films like Million Dollar Baby, Flags of our Fathers and the Bond reboots (Casino Royal and Quantum of Solace). He also proved he was a more than capable director with Crash and the impressive In The Valley Of Elah.
The Next Three Days is a very different film from what generally comes out of Hollywood. It has the conflict and intensity of a great action film while maintaining the patience and subtlety of a moving character drama.
It opens up with the promise of action and danger as a crazed-looking Russell Crowe drives an unknown dying man through the streets of Pittsburgh, but before any context can be acquired we’re taken back three years.
Within moments the audience is acquainted with Russell Crowe’s character, John Brennan, his...
The Next Three Days is a very different film from what generally comes out of Hollywood. It has the conflict and intensity of a great action film while maintaining the patience and subtlety of a moving character drama.
It opens up with the promise of action and danger as a crazed-looking Russell Crowe drives an unknown dying man through the streets of Pittsburgh, but before any context can be acquired we’re taken back three years.
Within moments the audience is acquainted with Russell Crowe’s character, John Brennan, his...
- 12/28/2010
- by Michael Brooks
- FilmShaft.com
We’ve just been sent over a brand new clip from Paul Haggis’ cracking thriller, The Next Three Days, starring Russell Crowe, Liam Neeson and Olivia Wilde. It opens in the UK from 7th January and we’ll be going live with our review right after the chaos of Christmas has settled.
In the mean time check out this great clip featuring Liam Neeson and Russell Crowe and see what you think. Although a remake of the French movie Pour Elle (For Her), Haggis gives it is own spin and Crowe delivers another committed performance as a man who’ll do anything for his convicted wife. Some scenes will have you gnawing on your hands because your finger nails will have been bitten off! Talk about suspense!
Synopsis:
Life seems perfect for John Brennan until his wife, Lara, is arrested for a gruesome murder she says she didn’t commit.
In the mean time check out this great clip featuring Liam Neeson and Russell Crowe and see what you think. Although a remake of the French movie Pour Elle (For Her), Haggis gives it is own spin and Crowe delivers another committed performance as a man who’ll do anything for his convicted wife. Some scenes will have you gnawing on your hands because your finger nails will have been bitten off! Talk about suspense!
Synopsis:
Life seems perfect for John Brennan until his wife, Lara, is arrested for a gruesome murder she says she didn’t commit.
- 12/23/2010
- by Martyn Conterio
- FilmShaft.com
By Pete Hammond
HollywoodNews.com: This week in movies there is one story and it looms large. Every conceivable “Harry Potter” record was broken by Warner Bros. massive worldwide launch of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part I.” With an estimated $125 million total domestically and a whopping $330 million combined figure globally the box office spell has been cast . ‘Potter’ fans turned out in force starting at Midnight on Friday and gave this first part of the big finale an encouraging ‘A’ grade on Cinemascore. Of course this is the faithful talking, the can’t –wait-to-see-it-even-though-i-have-read-the-book-12-times-and-know-everything-that-is-going-to-happen bunch. To give you an idea of just how front-loaded this thing was there was a fairly significant drop from Friday to Saturday but in the scheme of things that drop was in a bucket. This is why Warner Bros has decided to get even deeper into the movie tentpole blockbuster business, threatening...
HollywoodNews.com: This week in movies there is one story and it looms large. Every conceivable “Harry Potter” record was broken by Warner Bros. massive worldwide launch of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part I.” With an estimated $125 million total domestically and a whopping $330 million combined figure globally the box office spell has been cast . ‘Potter’ fans turned out in force starting at Midnight on Friday and gave this first part of the big finale an encouraging ‘A’ grade on Cinemascore. Of course this is the faithful talking, the can’t –wait-to-see-it-even-though-i-have-read-the-book-12-times-and-know-everything-that-is-going-to-happen bunch. To give you an idea of just how front-loaded this thing was there was a fairly significant drop from Friday to Saturday but in the scheme of things that drop was in a bucket. This is why Warner Bros has decided to get even deeper into the movie tentpole blockbuster business, threatening...
- 11/22/2010
- by Pete Hammond
- Hollywoodnews.com
Reviewed for Arizona Reporter
By Harvey Karten
Grade: B-
Directed By: Paul Haggis
Written By: Paul Haggis from the film "Anything for Her" (Pour elle) by Fred Cavayé, written by Fred Cavayé, Guillaume Lemans
Cast: Russell Crowe, Elizabeth Banks, Liam Neeson, Brian Dennehy
Screened at: 57th Street, NYC, 11/16/10
Opens: November 19, 2010
When a loved one is imprisoned for life, whether you think that person guilty or not, you may be determined to take radical action to get him or her out of jail since, after all, you.re family. You can go the route that Betty Anne Waters utilized to get her husband, Kenny, out of prison in Tony Goldwyn.s "Conviction." Rather than do the normal thing and hire a lawyer, Betty Anne, who had barely a high-school education, put herself through college and then law school without even a thought of practicing the legal trade except for a single...
By Harvey Karten
Grade: B-
Directed By: Paul Haggis
Written By: Paul Haggis from the film "Anything for Her" (Pour elle) by Fred Cavayé, written by Fred Cavayé, Guillaume Lemans
Cast: Russell Crowe, Elizabeth Banks, Liam Neeson, Brian Dennehy
Screened at: 57th Street, NYC, 11/16/10
Opens: November 19, 2010
When a loved one is imprisoned for life, whether you think that person guilty or not, you may be determined to take radical action to get him or her out of jail since, after all, you.re family. You can go the route that Betty Anne Waters utilized to get her husband, Kenny, out of prison in Tony Goldwyn.s "Conviction." Rather than do the normal thing and hire a lawyer, Betty Anne, who had barely a high-school education, put herself through college and then law school without even a thought of practicing the legal trade except for a single...
- 11/19/2010
- Arizona Reporter
Paul Haggis is kind of fucked as a director. It's hard not to feel like, after this best picture win for Crash, that critics and the like will spend the next decade trying to correct a mistake, like a ref throwing half a dozen unnecessary flags after he blew a huge call that allowed a hack who used ineffectual narrative devices to defeat overblown stereotypes score a touchdown. At least The Next Three Days is smart not to feature opening credits so the refs don't put their hand on the flag before the movie even gets started. But critics know, and everything with Haggis' name attached is going to be held against him, reviewed with more scrutiny, and picked apart like Jack Donaghy ripping open a microwave oven.
It's too bad. Haggis managed to redeem himself to an extent with In the Valley of Elah, but since no one saw it,...
It's too bad. Haggis managed to redeem himself to an extent with In the Valley of Elah, but since no one saw it,...
- 11/19/2010
- by Dustin Rowles
The Next Three Days is a new film from Academy Award winning writer/director Paul Haggis (Crash, Million Dollar Baby). The film, adapted from the 2008 French film Pour Elle (released in English as Anything For Her), tells the story of a community college professor, John (played by Russell Crowe) obsessed with breaking his wife, Lara (played by Elizabeth Banks) out of jail after believing she has been wrongfully arrested, tried and convicted of murdering her boss.
I had the chance to sit down with Haggis last night after a screening of film here in Toronto. Here's what the Canadian export had to say...
I had the chance to sit down with Haggis last night after a screening of film here in Toronto. Here's what the Canadian export had to say...
- 11/19/2010
- by Rob Lazar
- Cineplex
After a rare spike in the Paul Haggis filmography with an under-whelming Quantum of Solace, the three-time Oscar winning writer/director is back to his successful formula of gritty drama interspersed with action set-pieces. The Next Three Days is a picture that develops slowly, springing to life in a pulsating, white-knuckle finale, a ‘will he, won’t he’ scenario that will have you gripping the edges of your seat.
The story starts innocently enough: John and Lara Brennan (Russell Crowe and Elizabeth Banks) are out to dinner with Lara’s boss and her husband. What begins as a friendly meal soon turns ugly as the two women become involved in an argument about, frankly, very little at all. Five minutes later and Lara is locked up for twenty years for a murder she denies committing. Whether she was guilty is never contended by English teacher John, who three years later,...
The story starts innocently enough: John and Lara Brennan (Russell Crowe and Elizabeth Banks) are out to dinner with Lara’s boss and her husband. What begins as a friendly meal soon turns ugly as the two women become involved in an argument about, frankly, very little at all. Five minutes later and Lara is locked up for twenty years for a murder she denies committing. Whether she was guilty is never contended by English teacher John, who three years later,...
- 11/19/2010
- Shadowlocked
Plot: John Brennan's (Russell Crowe) family is torn apart when his wife Lara (Elizabeth Banks) is arrested, tried, and convicted for a murder she didn't commit. Desperate to reunite his family, John hatches a daring plan to bust her out of prison, but first he'll be pushed to do things he never thought himself capable of, such as murder. Review: The Next Three Days is Paul Haggis' long awaited return to the director's chair. A remake of a recent French hit, Pour Elle, Three Days is a...
- 11/19/2010
- by Chris Bumbray
- JoBlo.com
Elizabeth Banks and Russell Crowe in The Next Three Days
Photo: Lionsgate Paul Haggis may have been bitten by the action bug when he was hired to polish up the scripts for both Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace. With his latest film, The Next Three Days, he moves from his more melodramatic work on films such as the Best Picture-winning Crash and In the Valley of Elah to a so-so prison break thriller that suffers from too many highs and lows as Haggis was never able to get a handle on the tension of the film. This film stutters in 5-10 minute bursts, each coming to a close only to ask the audience to start over again with the very next scene. These jagged ups and downs never allow it to find a balance.
The Next Three Days is an adaptation a 2008 French film titled Pour Elle, which I...
Photo: Lionsgate Paul Haggis may have been bitten by the action bug when he was hired to polish up the scripts for both Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace. With his latest film, The Next Three Days, he moves from his more melodramatic work on films such as the Best Picture-winning Crash and In the Valley of Elah to a so-so prison break thriller that suffers from too many highs and lows as Haggis was never able to get a handle on the tension of the film. This film stutters in 5-10 minute bursts, each coming to a close only to ask the audience to start over again with the very next scene. These jagged ups and downs never allow it to find a balance.
The Next Three Days is an adaptation a 2008 French film titled Pour Elle, which I...
- 11/19/2010
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Summary: Some screw-tightening and mood-darkening would suit it well, but this thriller still packs a punch.
There are few legitimate missteps in Paul Haggis' intricate new thriller, but the dang thing certainly takes its time to hit a solid stride. Based on the French film Pour Elle, The Next Three Days tells the story of Pittsburgh couple John (Russell Crowe) and Lara Brennan (Elizabeth Banks). He's an English professor at a community college and she's a convicted murderess. When, despite her claims of innocence, Lara's final appeal is rejected, she becomes suicidal. John, who is already have a difficult time balancing teaching and raising their son, decides there is only one option: break Lara out of jail.
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There are few legitimate missteps in Paul Haggis' intricate new thriller, but the dang thing certainly takes its time to hit a solid stride. Based on the French film Pour Elle, The Next Three Days tells the story of Pittsburgh couple John (Russell Crowe) and Lara Brennan (Elizabeth Banks). He's an English professor at a community college and she's a convicted murderess. When, despite her claims of innocence, Lara's final appeal is rejected, she becomes suicidal. John, who is already have a difficult time balancing teaching and raising their son, decides there is only one option: break Lara out of jail.
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- 11/18/2010
- by Benny Gammerman
- Filmology
Adapted from the 2008 French thriller Pour Elle, Paul Haggis’ The Next Three Days runs nearly half an hour longer, and in genre movies like this, every extra minute is a lost one. Attempting to pivot from the weighty self-importance of his last two efforts, In The Valley Of Elah and the Oscar-winning Crash, Haggis tries to fashion a straightforward, relatively unpretentious prison-break thriller, but old habits die hard. What might have been a simple, propulsive story about a man’s single-minded mission to bust his wife out of jail instead feels needlessly cumbersome, burdened by moral questions that don ...
- 11/18/2010
- avclub.com
“The Next Three Days” is yet another dip in the remake gravy train. It is based on the French thriller “Pour Elle” (“Anything for Her”). The good thing for “The Next Three Days” is very few people in the U.S. have seen the original film, so there won’t be many comparisons between the two. The remake unfortunately has almost 30 minutes of extra screen time and you feel every minute of it. Some judicious cuts would have made the film much more palpable. Russell Crowe stars as John Brennan, a professor in Pittsburgh. He has a seemingly blissful family life with his wife Lara (Elizabeth Banks) and their young son. That changes when Lara gets charged with the murder of her boss. Lara’s innocence or guilt is kept under wraps until the end. You get bits and pieces of the crime throughout the film, but it is never all that compelling.
- 11/18/2010
- Upcoming-Movies.com
“The Next Three Days” is yet another dip in the remake gravy train. It is based on the French thriller “Pour Elle” (“Anything for Her”). The good thing for “The Next Three Days” is very few people in the U.S. have seen the original film, so there won’t be many comparisons between the two. The remake unfortunately has almost 30 minutes of extra screen time and you feel every minute of it. Some judicious cuts would have made the film much more palpable. Russell Crowe stars as John Brennan, a professor in Pittsburgh. He has a seemingly blissful family life with his wife Lara (Elizabeth Banks) and their young son. That changes when Lara gets charged with the murder of her boss. Lara’s innocence or guilt is kept under wraps until the end. You get bits and pieces of the crime throughout the film, but it is never all that compelling.
- 11/18/2010
- Upcoming-Movies.com
When you hear about a film in which Russell Crowe stars as a man who tries to break his wife out of prison, odds are, you expect to see a standard action thriller. That.s far from the case in The Next Three Days. Crowe.s character is a well-meaning English teacher and while he does attempt to spring his wife, Lara (Elizabeth Banks), the process is far more thoughtful and methodical than you.d expect. Of course The Next Three Days isn.t devoid of action, but writer-director Paul Haggis certainly aimed to make this one more character driven rather than your basic thrill ride. Taking a cue from the French film Pour Elle, the two-time Academy Award winner developed a script that aims to create suspense and tension through character exposition and the gravity of his situation. In honor of The Next Three Days. November 19th release, Haggis,...
- 11/18/2010
- cinemablend.com
The remake of French thriller Pour Elle, The Next Three Days, Paul Haggis's third feature as a director, screened last night at the Directors Guild of America. A round-up of early reviews and the trailer are after the jump. Haggis proudly announced the film (he cast two of his daughters and his son in it), and thanked composer Danny Elfman and leading man Russell Crowe (both in attendance), the latter of whom presumably took off his sunglasses once the lights went down. In the few seconds of darkness before the screen lit up, Haggis joked "this is the suspense part." There were a few chuckles, then 133 minutes of film (around half of which are slight variations of this photo). Applause followed, despite a movie ...
- 11/17/2010
- Thompson on Hollywood
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