variety.com - 10/20/2009
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Cate Blanchett starrer 'Indian' put on back burner In a mark of how challenging the environment for upscale, adult-oriented drama has become, Universal Pictures has put Working Title's Cate Blanchett starrer "Indian Summer" on ice. Helmer Joe Wright had been prepping the pic, an adaptation of ...
theplaylist.blogspot.com - 10/26/2009
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It's not going to be such an "
Indian Summer " for Joe Wright or Working Title...
Films , as their adaptation of Alex von Tunzelmann 's book " Indian Summer: The Mountbattens, Nehru and the Dying Days of the Raj ," about the end of British rule in ...
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Joe Wright's 'Indian Summer' With Cate Blanchett Put On ...
atomicpopcorn.net - 10/20/2009
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You know you’re working in the bizarre world
of Hollywood when your film is delayed even with...
a name like Cate Blanchett attached to star. Your movie can have everything going for it, but one little shift in the tide and it will be iced indefinitely. That’s what has happened to ...
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Cate Blanchett’s Indian Summer Delayed
filmshaft.com - 10/20/2009
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Spare a thought for British filmmaker Joe Wright
whose last film, The Soloist was ushered into cinema...
screens with barely a poster or trailer to announce its arrival. As a sign of the increasingly troubled economic times facing Hollywood, Universal has put his next project “on hold”. A ...
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Unreliable Indian Summer – A Wright Disaster!
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Universal pushes off Summer
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Universal Pictures is the most recent of many movie studios to cut back on particular projects due to these trying times. One of these casualties is in the form of the Cate Blanchett starring film “Indian Summer”
Helmer Joe Wright had been prepping the pic, an adaptation of Alex von Tunzelmann’s book about the last days of Britain’s colonial rule of India and the symbolic end of Blighty’s status as a world superpower. Blanchett was cast as Edna Mountbatten, wife of Lord Mountbatten, who was the last viceroy of the British Indian Empire and oversaw the country’s transition to independence in 1947 ...
Joe Wright's 'Indian Summer' With Cate Blanchett Put On Backburner
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It's not going to be such an "Indian Summer" for Joe Wright or Working Title Films, as their adaptation of Alex von Tunzelmann's book "Indian Summer: The Mountbattens, Nehru and the Dying Days of the Raj," about the end of British rule in India in 1947, has been indefinitely delayed. Cate Blanchett was set to play Lady Mountbatten, the wife of the last viceroy of India, who oversaw the transition to independence in the country. Von Tunzelmann's book alleges that she had an affair with the first independent prime minister of the country, Jawaharlal ...
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