weblogs.variety.com - 11/4/2008
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I ran into Steven Soderbergh this weekend at the AFI Fest Che party. He's going to start filming Cleopatra in April. "What's your favorite musical?" I asked him. Pause. He said his inspiration for the 3D musical was Rita Hayworth as Gilda. That's the stylized, ripe tone he's going for, he ...
hollywoodreporter.com - 11/4/2008
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hollywoodreporter.com —
"Che" collaborators Peter Buchman and Steven Soderbergh are
reteaming for "Making Jack Falcone," an undercover mob story...
that has been set up at Paramount. Buchman is writing the script, and Soderbergh will executive produce the project, which tells ...
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Paramount plans a hit on 'Falcone'
hollywoodreporter.com - 11/4/2008
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hollywoodreporter.com —
"Che" collaborators Peter Buchman and Steven Soderbergh are
reteaming for "Making Jack Falcone," an undercover mob story...
that has been set up at Paramount. Buchman is writing the script, and Soderbergh will executive produce the project, which tells ...
(more)
Paramount plans a hit on 'Falcone'
blog.spout.com - 11/5/2008
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blog.spout.com —
Che director Steven Soderbergh recently told Anne Thompson
that his eyebrow-raising 3D musical about Cleopatra is going...
to be tonally inspired by Gilda , King Vidor’s 1946 noir starring Rita Hayworth. Which is … interesting. ...
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Soderbergh’s CLEO Inspiration
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... As for critics who saw the film in L.A., Anne Thompson seemed slightly put off by the length, but still impressed by the achievement. "I still think Soderbergh could have wrestled 'Che' into submission at a more audience-friendly length. But all power to him. He's never, ever dull." ...
Soderbergh’s CLEO Inspiration
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Che director Steven Soderbergh recently told Anne Thompson that his eyebrow-raising 3D musical about Cleopatra is going to be tonally inspired by Gilda, King Vidor’s 1946 noir starring Rita Hayworth. Which is … interesting.
Obviously, Gilda is not really a musical. Hayworth performs a couple of memorable numbers in the film, such as the “Put The Blame on Mame” scene above, but these numbers don’t musicalize the ...
Newsbites: The history and religion edition!
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Here are a few more items that came up in recent days. 1. Steven Soderbergh says Cleo, his recently-announced 3-D musical about the ancient Egyptian queen Cleopatra, will be inspired on some level by the classic film noir Gilda (1946). -- Anne Thompson, Karina Longworth 2. Malek Akkad, whose father directed the Mohammed biopic The Message (1976), says the recently-announced Mohammed biopic The Messenger of Peace will not be a remake of his father's film, ...
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