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Miramax picks up 'The Boys Are Back'

29 September 2008 7:26 AM, PDT | From The Hollywood News | See recent The Hollywood News news

Miramax Films have acquired the rights to Scott Hicks's film The Boys Are Back. The film stars British actor Clive Owen, and is an adaptation of Simon Carr's seriocomic novel "The Boys Are Back in Town."

The Hollywood Reporter says that Owen plays a widower struggling to raise his two sons. Laura Fraser and Emma Booth also star in the film, which is directed by Hicks (Shine).

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Miramax to release ‘Boys Are Back’

29 September 2008 7:12 AM, PDT | From screeninglog.com | See recent screeninglog news

Miramax Films picked up the rights to distribute Scott Hicks’ drama “The Boys Are Back,” according to the Hollywood Reporter.

Adapted by Allan Cubitt from Simon Carr’s novel “The Boys Are Back in Town,” the plot centers on a widower (Owen) trying to raise his two sons.

"I had been wanting to continue the relationship with Scott Hicks I had started so long ago on 'Shine,' " Miramax’s Daniel Battsek told THR.

Hicks’ directing credits include “Hearts in Atlantis,” “No Reservations” and “Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts.”

As for Owen, he recently starred in “Shoot ‘Em Up” and “Elizabeth: The Golden Age.” He will next be seen in Tom Tykwer’s “The International.”

Franck Tabouring

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Clive Owen is Back

29 September 2008 5:25 AM, PDT | From JoBlo.com | See recent JoBlo news

Miramax have acquired the rights to The Boys Are Back, a drama by Scott Hicks and starring Clive Owen. In the adaptation of Simon Carr's novel 'The Boys Are Back In Town', Owen will play a widower who struggles to raise his two sons. I didn't read the book so I don't know how he eventually deals with the problem but I figure it's by revisiting his past as a delta force commando with an bad attitude, and gunning down all those who had a hand in his wife's fate. Because I mean, it's Clive Owen....

James Thoo

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Miramax picks up Owen's 'Boys'

29 September 2008 3:54 AM, PDT | From Digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news

Miramax has picked up the distribution rights to the Clive Owen drama The Boys Are Back. The film, an adaptation of Simon Carr's novel The Boys Are Back in Town, revolves around a sports writer who struggles to raise his two sons following the death of his wife. Laura Fraser and Emma Booth co-star, with Scott Hicks directing (more)

By Simon Reynolds

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Miramax's to distribute Clive Owen starrer "The Boys Are Back in Town"

29 September 2008 1:32 AM, PDT | From Movie Jungle | See recent Movie Jungle news

Miramax Films has picked up North American and Western European distribution rights to "The Boys Are Back in Town" which stars Clive Owen. Scott Hicks helms the Allan Cubbitt adaptation of the Simon Carr novel which follows Owen as a widowed man who tries to raise two sons. Also in the cast are George MacKay, Emma Booth and Laura Fraser. Producers are Tim White and Greg Brenman and principal photography starts today in Australia. Owen was last seen in "Elizabeth: The Golden Age" starring Cate Blanchett and can be seen next in "The International" with Naomi Watts, Armin Mueller-Stahl and Jack McGee.

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Glass: A Portrait Of Philip In Twelve Parts

17 April 2008 2:05 PM, PDT | From avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news

Intentionally or not, Scott Hicks' documentary Glass: A Portrait Of Philip In Twelve Parts makes a good companion piece to his breakthrough film, Shine, right down to the way that Philip Glass even looks a little like Shine star Geoffrey Rush. But where Shine was about a musician battling mental illness and an up-and-down career in order to share his interpretation of the classics, Glass is about a down-to-Earth, commercially successful composer who made his reputation by creating a signature sound that once seemed avant-garde, but has now been absorbed into the mainstream. Also, where Shine was visually beautiful and aspired to the poetic, Glass looks flat and feels scattered. Those looking for a cohesive documentary portrait of Philip Glass will have to hope that some other filmmaker comes along someday and makes better use of Hicks' footage. In the meantime, Glass should suit those willing to accept a.

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Noel Murray

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Opening This Week

14 April 2008 6:55 AM, PDT | From ifc.com | See recent IFC news

By Neil Pedley

With such variety this week, we could be tempted to go nuts and combine them into one super movie. Osama Bin Laden would have 88 minutes to paint an anamorphic picture that disproved Darwinism while riding the winner of the Kentucky Derby through ancient China with his gay lover who is also an Oscar nominated composer moonlighting as a zombie stripper...we smell a Golden Globe!

"Anamorph"

Utilizing the painting technique of anamorphosis, whereby the nature of an image changes depending on the viewer's vantage point, filmmaker Henry Miller marks his directorial debut with this intricate and cerebral thriller that reads like "Saw" by way of "The Da Vinci Code." Willem Dafoe stars as the dogged but haunted Detective Aubray, on the trail of carefully placed clues and elaborate puzzles, trying to catch a serial killer whose crimes bare a striking resemblance to an old

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Neil Pedley

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7 articles from 2008

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