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Steven Soderbergh perks up...?

By Vadim Rizov on 09/11/2009

Filed under: Coming attractions

It's been a rough summer for Steven Soderbergh. "The Girlfriend Experience" folded domestically at under a million. "Che," despite netting $2.5 million in the U.S., barely made back half its reported $58 million budget worldwide. And, despite best-selling source material and Brad Pitt set to star, "Moneyball" collapsed a mere three days before shooting was supposed to start. An upcoming Vanity Fair feature will supposedly vindicate Soderbergh from studio charges of irresponsibility, but at the time, in late July, it looked as if his career of hopscotching between indie and studio work was in jeopardy. In a despairing interview with... MORE »

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It's a mad, mad, mad, mad People's Republic.

By Vadim Rizov on 09/08/2009

Filed under: Abroad

Earlier this year, the Chinese government's media authority -- the China Film Group -- announced plans for 50 movies to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Chinese Revolution. Worker heroes like "Iron Man Wang," a nation's moment of unity in the face of last year's earthquake in Sichuan Province, and many more cultural touchstones from the last 60 years will receive the motion picture treatment. (I'm particularly keen to see the intriguingly titled "College Entrance Examination of 1977." Maybe it's a wacky college sex comedy.) But the centerpiece is undoubtedly "The Founding Of a Republic," a Chairman Mao biopic focusing... MORE »

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"Che" goes to IFC Films.

By Alison Willmore on 09/10/2008

Filed under: In the works

It looks like those rumors that Steven Soderbergh's "Che" was going to be released by Magnolia Pictures were just that -- this is from the freshest press release: IFC Films has acquired all North American rights to Steven Soderbergh's epic "Che" starring Benicio Del Toro, produced by Laura Bickford and Benicio Del Toro and written by Peter Buchman. The film had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival where Benicio Del Toro won the Best Actor Prize. It is currently screening at the Toronto International Film Festival and will be screening next at the New York Film Festival. "Che"... MORE »

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Odds: It's the shoes.

By Alison Willmore on 09/04/2008

Filed under: Odds

Wonkette's Liz Glover caught up with Spike Lee at the DNC and posed to him the Mars Blackmon question. He reacts pretty well, considering. The New York Post's Lou Lumenick claims that Magnolia Pictures has signed to distribute Steven Soderbergh's "Che," with a December 12th release date. Meanwhile, Jeffrey Wells at Hollywood Elsewhere has heard that the fatally bad Danny Glover voiceover narration has been dropped from Fernando Meirelles' "Blindness." There are deep flaws in the film beyond that, but wow, was it awful. Michael Moore will release his new film "Slacker Uprising," which follows his 62-city, 2004 tour to... MORE »

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The 46th New York Film Festival lines up.

By Alison Willmore on 08/12/2008

Filed under: Festivals

And it's Cannes-tastic! As previously announced, Laurent Cantet's Palme d'Or-winning "The Class" is the opening night film, with Clint Eastwood's "Changeling" (a film I couldn't stand) as the starry centerpiece, and Darren Aronofsky's "The Wrestler," post premiere at the Venice Film Festival, closing things out. Also in there, as rumored, Steven Soderbergh's "Che," as well as Arnaud Desplechin's "A Christmas Tale," Mike Leigh's "Happy-Go-Lucky," Kelly Reichardt's "Wendy and Lucy," Olivier Assayas' "Summer Hours" and Hong Sang-soo's "Day and Night." The festival kicks off September 26th, full line-up after the jump.... MORE »

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Trailering: Bootleg "Che," "What Just Happened."

By Alison Willmore on 07/31/2008

Filed under: Trailering

For those of you dying for even the slightest glimpse of Steven Soderbergh's "Che," JoBlo.com has surfaced a bootleg, flickery, unsubtitled Spanish-language trailer for "The Argentine," the first half of the four-hour film, here. The trailer, as trailers are wont to, siphons off only the most dramatic and actiony scenes, making the film look far more romantically revolutionary than it actually plays out. As Gregg Goldstein at the Hollywood Reporter wrote today, the $65 million film remains without a US distributor: Soderbergh wants to release the two-part, four-hour-plus film as one movie in limited December openings. He'd then like to... MORE »

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Cannes 08: "Che."

By Alison Willmore on 05/23/2008

Filed under: Festivals, Reviews

The noxious thing to say would be that when Steven Soderbergh's "Che" is whittled down and divided up into two solid-sized features for realistic theatrical consumption, it's not going to be nearly as good as it is in the Brobdingnagian, barely finished form that screened here at Cannes — 268 minutes, with no credits but with an intermission, during which the festival staff proffered brown bags stamped with "CHE" containing a bottle of water and half a sandwich, and smokers and non-smokers alike crowded onto the balcony to feverishly light up. And to be sure, there are resonances between part... MORE »