We’re told that the first live- action feature film super-heroine was the marvelous Helen Slater, whose fine presence redeems this last film in the Salkind Superman franchise. CineSavant likes it for the right reasons — his very young kids adored it — but can see its turnip screenwriting and frayed corners showing through. The release combines a 125-minute Blu-ray with an overstuffed 139-minute DVD.
Supergirl
Blu-ray
Warner Archive Collection
1984 / Color / 2:40 widescreen / 125 (Bd) & 139 (Sd) min. / Street Date July 24, 2018 / available through the WBshop / 21.99
Starring: Faye Dunaway, Helen Slater, Peter O’Toole, Mia Farrow, Brenda Vaccaro, Peter Cook, Simon Ward, Marc McClure, Hart Bochner, Maureen Teefy.
Cinematography: Alan Hume
Film Editor: Malcolm Cooke
Visual Effects: Derek Meddings
Original Music: Jerry Goldsmith
Written by David Odell
Produced by Timothy Burrill, Ilya Salkind
Directed by Jeannot Szwarc
I got caught up short about ten years ago when doing extras for the movie Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
Supergirl
Blu-ray
Warner Archive Collection
1984 / Color / 2:40 widescreen / 125 (Bd) & 139 (Sd) min. / Street Date July 24, 2018 / available through the WBshop / 21.99
Starring: Faye Dunaway, Helen Slater, Peter O’Toole, Mia Farrow, Brenda Vaccaro, Peter Cook, Simon Ward, Marc McClure, Hart Bochner, Maureen Teefy.
Cinematography: Alan Hume
Film Editor: Malcolm Cooke
Visual Effects: Derek Meddings
Original Music: Jerry Goldsmith
Written by David Odell
Produced by Timothy Burrill, Ilya Salkind
Directed by Jeannot Szwarc
I got caught up short about ten years ago when doing extras for the movie Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
- 7/21/2018
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Producer of award-winning documentaries and short films
The producer Anne Balfour-Fraser, who has died aged 92, oversaw the making of some 100 short films between the mid-1950s and mid-80s. Very varied, their common thread was an artistic, humanitarian sensibility and a sensitive cultivation of directing, camera and editing talent. Among those who at some point worked at her premises in Brewer Street, London, were Kevin Brownlow, John Krish, Mamoun Hassan, Peter K Smith, the German theatre director Peter Zadek and the eminent producer of Polanski and others, Timothy Burrill.
She was born in Woking, Surrey, into an illustrious family. Her grandfather was the Conservative politician Gerald Balfour, who succeeded as Earl of Balfour on the death of his brother Arthur, the Conservative prime minister; her grandmother Lady Betty (nee Bulwer-Lytton) was a leading moderate suffragist; and her great-aunt was the more militant suffragist Lady Constance Lytton, who was imprisoned several times.
The producer Anne Balfour-Fraser, who has died aged 92, oversaw the making of some 100 short films between the mid-1950s and mid-80s. Very varied, their common thread was an artistic, humanitarian sensibility and a sensitive cultivation of directing, camera and editing talent. Among those who at some point worked at her premises in Brewer Street, London, were Kevin Brownlow, John Krish, Mamoun Hassan, Peter K Smith, the German theatre director Peter Zadek and the eminent producer of Polanski and others, Timothy Burrill.
She was born in Woking, Surrey, into an illustrious family. Her grandfather was the Conservative politician Gerald Balfour, who succeeded as Earl of Balfour on the death of his brother Arthur, the Conservative prime minister; her grandmother Lady Betty (nee Bulwer-Lytton) was a leading moderate suffragist; and her great-aunt was the more militant suffragist Lady Constance Lytton, who was imprisoned several times.
- 8/21/2016
- by Patrick Russell
- The Guardian - Film News
Apa is at the Afm touting North American rights to The Butterfly God, which Jay Russell of Ladder 49 fame has come on board to direct.
Ian Wilson of Sandstone Films produces the story of a young man forced to join an knight on a doomed mission to the Holy Land.
The film, which Apa says is budgeted at $22m, is set to shoot in Germany and Morocco in 2015. No international sales agent was attached at time of writing.
Timothy Burrill and Deborah Sheppard serve as executive producers.
Jean Diamond brokered the deal on behalf of the producers with Will Lowery for Apa.
Ian Wilson of Sandstone Films produces the story of a young man forced to join an knight on a doomed mission to the Holy Land.
The film, which Apa says is budgeted at $22m, is set to shoot in Germany and Morocco in 2015. No international sales agent was attached at time of writing.
Timothy Burrill and Deborah Sheppard serve as executive producers.
Jean Diamond brokered the deal on behalf of the producers with Will Lowery for Apa.
- 11/10/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Summit Entertainment has picked up North American distribution rights to "The Ghost Writer", the project that director Roman Polanski was in the final stages of work on before his arrest a few months ago.
Here is the full press release.
Summit Entertainment announced today that the studio will distribute the thriller The Ghost Writer, directed by Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Roman Polanski, in North America. Polanski produced the film along with long time collaborators Robert Benmussa and Alain Sarde. Summit International, which has a long-standing relationship with Polanski representing the sales of the rights to his films outside of North America, acted as sales agent for The Ghost Writer. Sales have been made in all major territories around the globe. The North American rights to the film were represented by Icm. Current plans call for Summit to release the film during the first half of 2010.
The movie thriller tells the...
Here is the full press release.
Summit Entertainment announced today that the studio will distribute the thriller The Ghost Writer, directed by Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Roman Polanski, in North America. Polanski produced the film along with long time collaborators Robert Benmussa and Alain Sarde. Summit International, which has a long-standing relationship with Polanski representing the sales of the rights to his films outside of North America, acted as sales agent for The Ghost Writer. Sales have been made in all major territories around the globe. The North American rights to the film were represented by Icm. Current plans call for Summit to release the film during the first half of 2010.
The movie thriller tells the...
- 12/13/2009
- by Kellvin Chavez
- AMC - Script to Screen
Cologne, Germany -- Studio Babelsberg producer Henning Molfenter, scheduled to attend the Zurich Film Festival as a member jury judging German-language films, is boycotting the festival to protest Saturday's arrest of director Roman Polanski.
Fellow jury members -- actor Til Schweiger and composer Niki Reiser -- are expected to follow suit.
"There is no way I'd go to Switzerland now. You can't watch films knowing Roman Polanski is sitting in a cell 5 km away," Molfenter told The Hollywood Reporter.
Zurich's international jury -- headed by actress Debra Winger -- will make a statement on Polanski's arrest at 12:30 p.m. local time.
Swiss police arrested the 76-year-old Polanski on Saturday night as he entered Switzerland to attend the Zurich festival. He is being held on a U.S. warrant connected to a decades-old charge of unlawful sexual intercourse with a 13-year-old girl.
Studio Babelsberg is a co-producer on Polanski's latest,...
Fellow jury members -- actor Til Schweiger and composer Niki Reiser -- are expected to follow suit.
"There is no way I'd go to Switzerland now. You can't watch films knowing Roman Polanski is sitting in a cell 5 km away," Molfenter told The Hollywood Reporter.
Zurich's international jury -- headed by actress Debra Winger -- will make a statement on Polanski's arrest at 12:30 p.m. local time.
Swiss police arrested the 76-year-old Polanski on Saturday night as he entered Switzerland to attend the Zurich festival. He is being held on a U.S. warrant connected to a decades-old charge of unlawful sexual intercourse with a 13-year-old girl.
Studio Babelsberg is a co-producer on Polanski's latest,...
- 9/28/2009
- by By Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Filmmaker Peter Webber is set to direct the big-screen adaptation of Paul Bowles’ novel “The Spider’s House,” according to Variety.
The trade says the film follows two American former lovers whose paths cross in Fez, Morocco, as clashes between pro-independence insurgents and French colonial overlords escalate.
Webber, whose credits include “Girl with a Pearl Earring” and “Hannibal Rising,” is directing a screenplay by Laurie Cooke.
Timothy Burrill (“La vie en rose”) produces the project, which is scheduled to launch production next year.
The trade says the film follows two American former lovers whose paths cross in Fez, Morocco, as clashes between pro-independence insurgents and French colonial overlords escalate.
Webber, whose credits include “Girl with a Pearl Earring” and “Hannibal Rising,” is directing a screenplay by Laurie Cooke.
Timothy Burrill (“La vie en rose”) produces the project, which is scheduled to launch production next year.
- 10/1/2008
- by Franck Tabouring
- screeninglog.com
- Brit filmmaker Peter Webber is embarking on his third straight novel to film adaptation, translating Paul Bowles' Moroccan-set novel. Screen Daily reports that the director of Girl With a Pearl Earring and Hannibal Rising, will direct The Spider's House sometime in early 09'. To be produced by Timothy Burrill's production house, newcomer Laurie Cooke wrote the screenplay which was developed by Matrix Film Finance. Bowles' novel is set in Fez, Morocco, during that country's 1954 nationalist uprising, and explores the outsider in an alien society, and the gap in understanding between cultures. It follows two former lovers who meet by chance in the medieval city just as insurgents attempt to destabilize the country. Bowles is best known for penning The Sheltering Sky. ...
- 9/30/2008
- IONCINEMA.com
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