Lifetime nod bestowed at festival By Pamela Rolfe and Scott Roxborough / The Hollywood Reporter SAN SEBASTIAN, Spain — Richard Gere received the Donostia Lifetime Achievement Award on Sunday at the 55th San Sebastian International Film Festival and set off a frenzy in the streets as crowds chased his car. Earlier in the day, Gere…
“Eastern Promises” and Michael Radford’s “Flawless,” will bookend the 55th annual San Sebastian International Film Festival, festival organizers announced Tuesday. Cronenberg’s “Promises,” his follow-up to “A History of Violence,” will open the festival’s main competition. Set in London’s organized crime world, “Promises’ ” tale of a Mafioso and an innocent but determined woman stars Viggo…
Following the global success of March Of The Penguins, animal films are the hot new genre. But is there a market for theatrical wildlife documentaries? Melanie Rodier reports. From meerkats to elephants, turtles to polar bears: in the post March Of The Penguins marketplace, a host of animal-based nature documentaries are trying to recreate the…
Patrick Stewart will narrate the English-language version of the upcoming feature documentary “Earth,” which is being co-produced by BBC Worldwide and Greenlight Media. “Earth,” which is due for theatrical release this fall, tracks three animal families — polar bears, elephants and hump-backed whales — on epic journeys across the world’s most demanding and spectacular landscapes….
Forget Depp and Maguire. Step aside Knightley and Dunst. Here are the big beasts tipped to transfix film fans later this year. Earth, the cinematic spin-off of the award-winning BBC television series Planet Earth, stars three families of polar bears, elephants and whales. The 90-minute film shows the extraordinary bond between mothers and their newborn…
The hosts of this year’s Cannes film festival appear to be faced with a major dilemma. Should they turn the red carpet over to the likes of George Clooney, Brad Pitt and Matt Damon? Or should they offer centre-stage to a polar bear, a humpback whale, and an elephant? The Hollywood Reporter suggests that Cannes…
UK singer Lisa Stansfield and actor Mackenzie Crook will lend their voices to Quest For A Heart, a $7.7m (Euros 6m) fully-animated feature shortly to wrap a five-year production schedule for Finland’s MRP Matila Rohr Productions. Stansfield will also perform the theme song. “It will be the jewel of the crown,” said Finnish producer Marko…
BERLIN — Lionsgate has acquired U.S., U.K. and Australian distribution rights to ambitious documentary feature “Earth” from BBC Worldwide and Greenlight Media, the companies said Monday. Five years in the making, “Earth” takes audiences on a journey around the planet, using the sun as a guide to follow the migratory journeys of an elephant, a…
The Jesus-Christus-Kirche in Berlin’s tony Dahlem district was the venue for Sunday’s recording session by the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra for the BBC Worldwide and Greenlight Media feature-length natural history documentary, “Earth.” Helmed by Alastair Fothergill, “Earth” follows polar bears, elephants and humpback whales as they face a migratory existence in a world that is fast-changing….
Wendy Mitchell in Berlin Lionsgate has acquired the US, UK and Australian distribution rights for BBC Worldwide’s documentary feature Earth. The 90-minute documentary project, shot in 35mm and HD, has been in the works for five years and is due for an autumn 2007 release. The film looks at the influence of the sun on…