Mickey Rourke and Christopher Walken in "Homeboy".
Cinema Retro has received the following press release from Dillon Kastner, who represents the estate of his late father, producer Elliot Kastner:
Hollywood Classics has signed a new distribution agreement with Dillon Kastner of Cinema Seven Productions to represent the Elliot Kastner library for all rights.
Titles in the library of the Hollywood producer include comedy musical A Chorus of Disapproval, starring Jeremy Irons and Anthony Hopkins, and Us sports drama Homeboy with Mickey Rourke and Christopher Walken.
John Ramchandani, MD of Hollywood Classics said: “I am delighted to work with Dillon Kastner on the wonderfully eclectic and adored selection of his father’s features.
“Throughout his extensive career Elliott worked with the highest calibre of world-renowned actors, screenwriters and directors including Peter Ustinov, Jeremy Irons, James Spader, Pierce Brosnan, Alan Ayckbourn and Donald Cammell.”
Dillon Kastner of Cinema Seven Productions Ltd said:...
Cinema Retro has received the following press release from Dillon Kastner, who represents the estate of his late father, producer Elliot Kastner:
Hollywood Classics has signed a new distribution agreement with Dillon Kastner of Cinema Seven Productions to represent the Elliot Kastner library for all rights.
Titles in the library of the Hollywood producer include comedy musical A Chorus of Disapproval, starring Jeremy Irons and Anthony Hopkins, and Us sports drama Homeboy with Mickey Rourke and Christopher Walken.
John Ramchandani, MD of Hollywood Classics said: “I am delighted to work with Dillon Kastner on the wonderfully eclectic and adored selection of his father’s features.
“Throughout his extensive career Elliott worked with the highest calibre of world-renowned actors, screenwriters and directors including Peter Ustinov, Jeremy Irons, James Spader, Pierce Brosnan, Alan Ayckbourn and Donald Cammell.”
Dillon Kastner of Cinema Seven Productions Ltd said:...
- 9/25/2014
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
Exclusive: Titles include A Chorus of Disapproval, Homeboy.
Hollywood Classics has signed a new distribution agreement with Dillon Kastner of Cinema Seven Productions to represent the Elliot Kastner library for all rights.
Titles in the library of the Hollywood producer include comedy musical A Chorus of Disapproval, starring Jeremy Irons and Anthony Hopkins, and Us sports drama Homeboy with Mickey Rourke and Christopher Walken.
John Ramchandani, MD of Hollywood Classics said: “I am delighted to work with Dillon Kastner on the wonderfully eclectic and adored selection of his father’s features.
“Throughout his extensive career Elliott worked with the highest calibre of world-renowned actors, screenwriters and directors including Peter Ustinov, Jeremy Irons, James Spader, Pierce Brosnan, Alan Ayckbourn and Donald Cammell.”
Dillon Kastner of Cinema Seven Productions Ltd said: ‘It is a pleasure to be working alongside the team at Hollywood Classics.
“My father had many ups and downs in his career, and independent...
Hollywood Classics has signed a new distribution agreement with Dillon Kastner of Cinema Seven Productions to represent the Elliot Kastner library for all rights.
Titles in the library of the Hollywood producer include comedy musical A Chorus of Disapproval, starring Jeremy Irons and Anthony Hopkins, and Us sports drama Homeboy with Mickey Rourke and Christopher Walken.
John Ramchandani, MD of Hollywood Classics said: “I am delighted to work with Dillon Kastner on the wonderfully eclectic and adored selection of his father’s features.
“Throughout his extensive career Elliott worked with the highest calibre of world-renowned actors, screenwriters and directors including Peter Ustinov, Jeremy Irons, James Spader, Pierce Brosnan, Alan Ayckbourn and Donald Cammell.”
Dillon Kastner of Cinema Seven Productions Ltd said: ‘It is a pleasure to be working alongside the team at Hollywood Classics.
“My father had many ups and downs in his career, and independent...
- 9/23/2014
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Complex and avant-garde French film director best known for Night and Fog and Last Year in Marienbad
Alain Resnais, who has died aged 91, was a director of elegance and distinction who, despite generally working from the screenplays of other writers, established an auteurist reputation. His films were singular, instantly recognisable by their style as well as through recurring themes and preoccupations. Primary concerns were war, sexual relationships and the more abstract notions of memory and time. His characters were invariably adult (children were excluded as having no detailed past) middle-class professionals. His style was complex, notably in the editing and often – though not always – dominated by tracking shots and multilayered sound.
He surrounded himself with actors, musicians and writers of enormous talent and the result was a somewhat elitist body of work with little concern for realism or the socially or intellectually deprived. Even overtly political works, Night and Fog,...
Alain Resnais, who has died aged 91, was a director of elegance and distinction who, despite generally working from the screenplays of other writers, established an auteurist reputation. His films were singular, instantly recognisable by their style as well as through recurring themes and preoccupations. Primary concerns were war, sexual relationships and the more abstract notions of memory and time. His characters were invariably adult (children were excluded as having no detailed past) middle-class professionals. His style was complex, notably in the editing and often – though not always – dominated by tracking shots and multilayered sound.
He surrounded himself with actors, musicians and writers of enormous talent and the result was a somewhat elitist body of work with little concern for realism or the socially or intellectually deprived. Even overtly political works, Night and Fog,...
- 3/3/2014
- by Brian Baxter
- The Guardian - Film News
Nigel Harman has been cast as a character based on Simon Cowell in the upcoming X Factor musical.
The former EastEnders star will channel the music mogul in the comedy theatre project from Harry Hill.
I Can't Sing! will be directed by Olivier Award-winner Sean Foley, and will premiere at the London Palladium on March 26, 2014 after previews.
Harman will play a character based on X Factor boss Cowell, while The Color Purple actress Cynthia Erivo and Holby City's Alan Morrissey will also appear.
The actor has recently appeared on the West End in shows including A Chorus of Disapproval and Shrek the Musical.
Simon Cowell will appear at the musical's press launch on Monday (September 2).
Actor Alexander Hanson was previously linked to the role of Simon Cowell in the production.
Watch X Factor stars discuss their dream casting choices for the musical with Digital Spy below:...
The former EastEnders star will channel the music mogul in the comedy theatre project from Harry Hill.
I Can't Sing! will be directed by Olivier Award-winner Sean Foley, and will premiere at the London Palladium on March 26, 2014 after previews.
Harman will play a character based on X Factor boss Cowell, while The Color Purple actress Cynthia Erivo and Holby City's Alan Morrissey will also appear.
The actor has recently appeared on the West End in shows including A Chorus of Disapproval and Shrek the Musical.
Simon Cowell will appear at the musical's press launch on Monday (September 2).
Actor Alexander Hanson was previously linked to the role of Simon Cowell in the production.
Watch X Factor stars discuss their dream casting choices for the musical with Digital Spy below:...
- 8/30/2013
- Digital Spy
Death Wish: Michael Winner’s movie vs. original novel [See previous post: "Michael Winner Dies."] "The point of the novel Death Wish," adds author Brian Garfield, "is that vigilantism is an attractive fantasy but it only makes things worse in reality. By the end of the novel, the character (Paul) is gunning down unarmed teenagers because he doesn’t like their looks. The story is about an ordinary guy who descends into madness." (Photo: Death Wish Charles Bronson.) A few years ago, Sylvester Stallone had plans to remake Death Wish, which (probably not coincidentally) has elements in common with Stallone’s (perhaps even more brutal and more pro-vigilantism) Cobra (1985). Stallone’s Death Wish remake, however, never came to fruition. Early in 2012, The Grey‘s director Joe Carnahan stated that he was planning an updated version of Death Wish. Michael Winner’s other ’70s movies: Directing Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon, and more Charles Bronson Among Michael Winner...
- 1/22/2013
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Quentin Falk writes: Although he was always polite to the point of being obsequious with his stars, Michael Winner could be a bully when it came to minor actors and humble craftsmen on his film sets. While researching my biography of Anthony Hopkins, I witnessed at first-hand, during the filming of A Chorus of Disapproval (1989) in Scarborough, Winner's verbal assault on a young actor who was required to knee Hopkins in the groin and who was understandably nervous about about how he should weigh the blow.
"You're not a bloody ballet dancer," Winner screamed at him after a few duff takes. Hopkins, who relished racing to the rescue of fellow thesps threatened by despotic directors, bellowed back: "Don't get after him, Michael. He's doing the best he can." Winner giggled nervously and drew back. On the next take, the young actor went for it with a vengeance, leaving his saviour Hopkins in some distress,...
"You're not a bloody ballet dancer," Winner screamed at him after a few duff takes. Hopkins, who relished racing to the rescue of fellow thesps threatened by despotic directors, bellowed back: "Don't get after him, Michael. He's doing the best he can." Winner giggled nervously and drew back. On the next take, the young actor went for it with a vengeance, leaving his saviour Hopkins in some distress,...
- 1/22/2013
- The Guardian - Film News
Flamboyant film director, best known for Death Wish, and later an outspoken restaurant critic and bon vivant
Michael Winner, who has died aged 77, supplied interviewers with a list of more than 30 films he had directed, not always including the early travelogue This Is Belgium (1956), mostly shot in East Grinstead. But his enduring work was himself – a bravura creation of movies, television, journalism, the law courts and a catchphrase, ''Calm down, dear", from an exasperating series of television commercials.
He was born in London, the only child of George and Helen Winner, who were of Russian and Polish extraction respectively. His builder father made enough money propping up blitzed houses to invest in London property. The profits funded his wife's gambling, which, her son complained, so distracted "Mumsie" that he was never paid due attention. She left him in the bedroom with the mink coats of guests who came to his...
Michael Winner, who has died aged 77, supplied interviewers with a list of more than 30 films he had directed, not always including the early travelogue This Is Belgium (1956), mostly shot in East Grinstead. But his enduring work was himself – a bravura creation of movies, television, journalism, the law courts and a catchphrase, ''Calm down, dear", from an exasperating series of television commercials.
He was born in London, the only child of George and Helen Winner, who were of Russian and Polish extraction respectively. His builder father made enough money propping up blitzed houses to invest in London property. The profits funded his wife's gambling, which, her son complained, so distracted "Mumsie" that he was never paid due attention. She left him in the bedroom with the mink coats of guests who came to his...
- 1/22/2013
- by Veronica Horwell
- The Guardian - Film News
Michael Winner, director of the Death Wish movie series and A Chorus of Disapproval, who later found fame as a restaurant critic, has died at the age of 77.
Michael Winner, bon viveur, restaurant critic and arguably one of the best known British film-makers of the 20th century has died at the age of 77. "A light has gone out of my life," his wife Geraldine Lynton-Edwards said. "Michael was a wonderful man, brilliant, funny and generous."
Winner had been in ill health for a number of years and almost died after contracting a bacterial infection while holidaying on Barbados in January 2007.
Born to a wealthy family in north London, Winner cut his teeth at the BBC before making his debut as a writer-director with the 1960 crime thriller Shoot to Kill. His freewheeling 1964 sex comedy The System established him as a key chronicler of swinging 60s London and gave rise to a...
Michael Winner, bon viveur, restaurant critic and arguably one of the best known British film-makers of the 20th century has died at the age of 77. "A light has gone out of my life," his wife Geraldine Lynton-Edwards said. "Michael was a wonderful man, brilliant, funny and generous."
Winner had been in ill health for a number of years and almost died after contracting a bacterial infection while holidaying on Barbados in January 2007.
Born to a wealthy family in north London, Winner cut his teeth at the BBC before making his debut as a writer-director with the 1960 crime thriller Shoot to Kill. His freewheeling 1964 sex comedy The System established him as a key chronicler of swinging 60s London and gave rise to a...
- 1/21/2013
- by Xan Brooks
- The Guardian - Film News
As the festive period came to a close, London played host to many celebrities getting back into the swing of things on Friday night. Lindsay Lohan enjoyed a night at China Tang, while former Pussycat Doll Kimberly Wyatt was seen leaving Roundhouse. In Soho, Kelly Brook and Preeya Kalidas visited private members' club The Groucho Club with Kelly's partner Thom Evans. Ashley Jensen left the Harold Pinter Theatre after performing in A Chorus of Disapproval. The actress is currently appearing in the Alan Ayckbourn play alongside former EastEnders (more)...
- 1/5/2013
- by By Donna Cini
- Digital Spy
Trevor Nunn Helms Alan Ayckbourn's A Chorus Of Disapproval in The West End; Nigel Harman et al. Lead
Trevor Nunn is to direct a cast including Rob Brydon, Nigel Harman and Ashley Jensen in Alan Ayckbourns A Chorus of Disapproval opening at the Harold Pinter Theatre later this year. Joining the trio on stage will be Teresa Banham, Daisy Beaumont, Georgia Brown, Rob Compton, Matthew Cottle and Steven Edis, who is also the shows Musical Director. The production runs September 17, 2012 January 5, 2013, with an opening night scheduled for September 27, 2012.
- 6/28/2012
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
An Aardman Production For Sony Pictures Animation Martin Freeman, David Tennant, Imelda Staunton, Jeremy Piven, Salma Hayek, Brian Blessed, Brendan Gleeson, Russell Tovey, and Ashley Jensen Also On Board
Culver City, Calif. – Hugh Grant will voice the lead role alongside an all-star cast in The Pirates! Band Of Misfits, the new stop-motion, 3D, animated film produced by Aardman Animations for Sony Pictures Animation. The film, which will be distributed by Columbia Pictures, will be released March 30, 2012 in North America.
Hugh Grant, starring in his first animated role, is the luxuriantly bearded Pirate Captain – a boundlessly enthusiastic, if somewhat less-than-successful, terror of the High Seas. With a rag-tag crew at his side (Martin Freeman, Brendan Gleeson, Russell Tovey, and Ashley Jensen), and seemingly blind to the impossible odds stacked against him, the Captain has one dream: to beat his bitter rivals Black Bellamy (Jeremy Piven) and Cutlass Liz (Salma Hayek) to...
Culver City, Calif. – Hugh Grant will voice the lead role alongside an all-star cast in The Pirates! Band Of Misfits, the new stop-motion, 3D, animated film produced by Aardman Animations for Sony Pictures Animation. The film, which will be distributed by Columbia Pictures, will be released March 30, 2012 in North America.
Hugh Grant, starring in his first animated role, is the luxuriantly bearded Pirate Captain – a boundlessly enthusiastic, if somewhat less-than-successful, terror of the High Seas. With a rag-tag crew at his side (Martin Freeman, Brendan Gleeson, Russell Tovey, and Ashley Jensen), and seemingly blind to the impossible odds stacked against him, the Captain has one dream: to beat his bitter rivals Black Bellamy (Jeremy Piven) and Cutlass Liz (Salma Hayek) to...
- 5/17/2011
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
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