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Updated: Eli Roth's 'Cotton' Announced, New Yorkville Ripper Film

6 November 2008 10:20 AM, PST | From bloody-disgusting.com | See recent Bloody-Disgusting.com news

StudioCanal is adding genre fare to its traditionally arthouse-oriented lineup for Afm. They've scored the rights for two films that will be of interest to Bloody-Disgusting readers. The first is Red Riding, a thriller featuring "the Yorkshire Ripper," while they'll also be getting behind Eli Roth's latest horror venture, Cotton, which was inspired by Cloverfield's success. The Paris-based sales company has nabbed international rights to "Red Riding," a three-part thriller penned by Tony Grisoni ("Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,") and co-produced by Channel 4 and Andrew Eaton and Michael Winterbottom's Revolution Entertainment. Adapted from David Peace's novel, the trilogy is based on the six-year police investigation of Peter William Suttcliffe, aka "the Yorkshire Ripper," who killed 12 women in Northern England in the 1970s. The three pics will be released separately and will be directed by three different helmers: Julian Jarrold, James Marsh and Anand Tucker.

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Movie Review: Brideshead Revisited

3 November 2008 12:46 AM, PST | From The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news

Starring: Emma Thompson, Matthew Goode, Ben Whishaw Director: Julian Jarrold Release Date: July 25, 2008 Running Time: 133 min MPAA Rating: PG-13 Distributor: Miramax Films - - - Brideshead Revisited is a film adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s acclaimed novel of same name. The novel was first published in 1945 and has been regarded as one of the British literary classics. David Yates was originally assigned as the director of this film. When he was attached to his project, he secured Jude Law, Jennifer Connelly and Paul Bettany as Sebastian, Julia and Charles respectively. However, Yates had to step aside when he was offered to direct Harry Potter The Order of Phoenix. Julian Jarrold (Becoming Jane) took over the project, along with Jeremy Brock (Last King of Scotland) and Andrew Davies (Bridget Jones Diary) as the screenwriters.

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Movie Reviews: Brideshead Revisited

8 August 2008 10:32 AM, PDT | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

Hoping to present itself to that segment of the moviegoing audience that prefers to see a little more class on screen, director Julian Jarrold's film adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's novel Brideshead Revisited is expanding to 364 theaters this weekend. As Claudia Puig observes in USA Today, it's a movie for "those who are weary of summer's bawdy comedies and superheroes." Unfortunately, despite its impressive pedigree, it has not been welcomed enthusiastically by critics. A.O. Scott in the New York Times, who compares it with the PBS miniseries that aired in 1982, says that while the new production is "more cinematic" than the older one, "it is also tedious, confused and banal." Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun-Times observes that while the TV series was "inspired," the movie is "somewhat less inspired." He concludes, "While elegantly mounted and well acted, the movie is not the equal of the TV production, in part because so much material had to be compressed into such a shorter time." Like most of his colleagues, Joe Morgenstern in the Wall Street Journal compares the movie with the TV series and can't figure out why anyone even attempted to make the movie. "If it's a choice between the movie's 135 minutes or the 659 minutes of the miniseries (which has been re-mastered and re-released in a lavish four-disk edition), I'd say it's no choice at all. The shorter version is the one that seems long," he writes. And Kyle Smith in the New York Post simply dismisses the entire production as a "well-polished relic."

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List: Ten Novels and Short Stories That Would Make Good Movies

1 August 2008 2:49 PM, PDT | From ifc.com | See recent IFC news

By Maud Newton

Adapting fiction for the screen has always been a tricky endeavor. For every "Apocalypse Now," "The Big Sleep" or "Rebecca," there are scores of butchered classics and box office duds, and in recent years, Hollywood has only continued to perfect its reverse-alchemy process, transforming narrative gold into the dullest, heaviest lead, topped off with a giant packet of saccharine.

For details, see Roland Joffe's "The Scarlet Letter," featuring a pearl-bedecked, shiny-bodiced, utterly vacuous Hester Prynne, or the soul-sucking "Love in the Time of Cholera," which drove the Guardian's John Patterson to call for a ban on the making of all movies based on books. It's easy to sympathize. We're talking, after all, about the machine that reduced Zoë Heller's brilliantly satirical "Notes on a Scandal" -- a teacher's obsessive chronicle of her female colleague's affair with her young male student -- to a cautionary tale with

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Maud Newton

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Brideshead Revisited

24 July 2008 4:06 PM, PDT | From avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news

Although it will doubtless find detractors among fans of both Evelyn Waugh's novel and the 1981 PBS miniseries, Julian Jarrold's Brideshead Revisited succeeds handily on its own terms. It lacks the visual pyrotechnics of Joe Wright's Pride & Prejudice, but Jarrold's movie is otherwise a kindred spirit, stripped of voiceover and other markers of literary bona fides. It's a movie of its own, not merely an attempt to cram as much of its source as possible within the confines of a theatrical feature. Jarrold—who previously risked the wrath of the Jane Austen faithful with Becoming Jane—joins screenwriters Jeremy Brock and Andrew Davies in departing radically from Waugh's plot, boiling the dramatis personae down to three central characters: Julia Flyte (Hayley Atwell), the eldest daughter of a wealthy Catholic family; her brother Sebastian (Ben Whishaw), the family's bibulous black sheep; and Charles Ryder (Matthew Goode), a middle-class Londoner who becomes.

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Trailer: Brideshead Revisited Movie Trailer

24 July 2008 1:02 AM, PDT | From toxicshock.tv | See recent toxicshock news

Miramax Films released a brand new theatrical movie trailer for the upcoming film “Brideshead Revisited” by director Julian Jarrold (Nineteen Seventy-Four) and starring Matthew Goode, Thomas Morrison, Anna Madeley and David Barrass. Synopsis: A provocative and suspenseful drama, “Brideshead Revisited” tells an evocative story of forbidden love and the loss of innocence set in the pre-wwii era. In the film, Charles Ryder (Matthew Goode, “Match Point,” “The Lookout”) becomes entranced with the noble Marchmain family, first through the charming and provocative Sebastian Flyte(Ben Whishaw, “Perfume: The Story of a Murderer”), and then his sophisticated sister, Julia (Hayley Atwell, “Cassandra’s Dream” and the upcoming “The Duchess”). The rise and fall of Charles’ infatuations reflect the decline of a decadent era in England [...]

Brian Corder

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Opening This Week: Docs on teens, tightropes and tradition

21 July 2008 7:21 AM, PDT | From ifc.com | See recent IFC news

By Neil Pedley

With blockbusters taking a week off after "The Dark Knight" so thoroughly conquered the box office and its core audience descends upon Comic-Con in San Diego, an outstanding array from the indie scene offers plenty of alternative viewing.

"American Teen"

Her longtime collaborator Brett Morgen may be out of the picture, but "The Kid Stays in the Picture" co-director Nanette Burstein infiltrated the cliques, classrooms and hallways of an Indiana high school for her first solo doc, which netted her a directing award at Sundance earlier this year. Burstein follows a cross section of Warsaw High's senior class for 10 months in pursuit of their respective ambitions and priorities, and discovers that bonding at the library during Saturday detention is no way to communicate when text messaging and Im can be just as intimate.

Opens in limited release.

"Baghead"

Mumblecore alumni Jay and Mark Duplass celebrate their favorite

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Neil Pedley

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Ripper Trilogy in the Works

8 July 2008 12:02 AM, PDT | From DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news

Over in the UK Channel 4 is prepping three of the four books in David Peace’s “Red Riding Quartet” for films, all adapted by Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas penner Tony Grisoni, according to Variety. Julian Jarrold, James Marsh and Anand Tucker will direct.

Why only three of the four? Maybe because trilogies are easier to sell than quartets? With a budget totaling $10 million, Nineteen Seventy-Four (Jarrold), Nineteen Eighty (Marsh) and Nineteen Eighty-Three (Tucker) will be filmed, following the long search for the infamous Yorkshire Ripper, aka Peter Sutcliffe. The hunt lasted from 1974 to his capture in 1981. Sutcliffe is currently serving multiple life sentences.

The films are being made as a TV series in the UK with a possible theatrical release to follow, but they will be packaged as strictly theatrical everywhere else so assuming they do well, there’s a good chance we’ll be seeing them all.

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Johnny Butane

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2008 | 2007

8 articles from 2008

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