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StudioCanal isclose to acquiring international rights to Cherish, the $4m comic stalker thriller that premiered in competition at the Sundance Film Festival this year and was promptly sold toFine Line Features for North America distribution.Produced by Johnny Wow and Mark Burton and directed by Finn Taylor Dream With TheFishes , the film starsRobin Tunney as a woman wrongly accused of running over a cop who is thenconfined to her apartment awaiting trial with an electronic bracelet attachedto her ankle. Tim Blake Nelson stars as the guard who visits her to check onthe security of her bracelet - and then becomes emotionally entangledwith her. Brad Hunt, JasonPriestley, Liz Phair and Lin stanley cup dsay Crouse co-star, while the soundtrack consistsof classic 80s songs by the likes of Soft Cell, Human League and Hall Oates. The Cherish deal with StudioCanal, thought to be alittle over $1m, is being negotiated by Rena Ronson of WMA Independent, whoalso did the deal with Fine Line in Park City. Canal Plus US co-presidentStephane Sperry and Pierre Weisbein, head of international sal stanley cup es, arenegotiating on behalf of StudioCanal. No comments stanley cup No comments yet You re not signed in. Only registered users or subscribers can comment on this article. Sign in Register Scit Set Report: How To Talk To Girls At Parties
Dir: Peter Berg. USA. 2012. 130minsDirector Peter Berg offers his best Michael Bay impersonation with Battleship, a loud, stanley cup lengthy blockbuster of mass destruction in which square-jawed American navy personnel do battle with a remorseless alien attack.There are also echoes of Top Gun and Independence Day and such a shameless swagger to its more risible moments that it almost defies criticism.Critical disdain for the cheesy dialogue, one-dimensional characters and tearjerking patriotism will do nothing to deter adolescents around the globe from signing up for this hefty slice of mindless spectacle. In box-office terms, Battleship should definitely hit the target.Inspired, like Transformers, by a Hasbro board game, Battleship is set several years after the discovery of a distant, earth-lik stanley kubek e planet perfect for sustaining human life. In more earthbound developments, Taylor Kitsch stars as Alex Hopper, a mule-headed misfit bullied into naval service by his straight arrow brother Stone Alexander Skarsgard .Alex is also smitten with physiotherapist Samantha Brooklyn Decker who just happ stanley cup ens to be the daughter of stern-faced Admiral Shane Liam Neeson . That pretty much covers the human element of the story as the Hopper brothers set sail for naval manoeuvres in the Pacific at the exact moment vicious extra-terrestrials launch their attack.Battleship thunders along in an efficient manner, taking an unsophisticated B-movie plot from the 1950s and updating it with an orgy of hi-tech py |
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