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RT @larry411: New Moon director Chris Weitz ready to shoot his next film http://bit.ly/60tLIG 11/23/2009 |
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Wish Weitz only the best! RT @larry411 New Moon director Chris Weitz ready to shoot his next film http://bit.ly/60tLIG 11/23/2009 |
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YAY he's not quitting :D http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118011732.html?categoryid=13&cs=1 11/23/2009 |
New Moon Director to Helm Gardener
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... director Chris Weitz is reteaming with Summit Entertainment for his next project, titled The Gardener , written by Eric Eason. The film is about a hard-working Mexican gardener who lives in Los Angeles and his efforts to protect his son. Production will begin in March or April. In the Variety interview where he revealed this project, he also addressed the rumors that he was quitting directing and talked about what happened to ...
Weitz wants to be a Gardener
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Chris Weitz has been one of the more popular people in the Tinseltown circuit within the past week. The most obvious reason being that he helmed the record breaking sequel called Twilight Saga: New Moon, but the other towards the end of the last week was his rumor mill. It was spinning about over murmurs of the director jumping ship on his job after the release of this film entirely, but Summit Entertainment seem to be persistent to keep Weitz under their wing and working.
Weitz is in the middle of negotiations to helm The Gardener with Eric Eason penning the script. The picture is about a hard-working immigrant who ...
New Moon's Chris Weitz Gets A New Project
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... New Project Its insane how the tables can turn for a director in Hollywood in the blink of a wolfs eye. After a monstrous opening weekend for Chris Weitzs The Twilight Saga New Moon , the former American Pie all-star has gone from being the dude whose Golden Compass franchise flopped like a fatty in a pool to the dude who doubled the return of an already insanely popular series. Of course, Summit Entertainment is smart enough to keep their new talent happy and according to Variety , have already signed Weitz up for a new picture. Its called The Gardener , and it ...
NEW MOON Director Chris Weitz is Hiring THE GARDENER
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Right on the heels of rumors of his retirement, New Moon director Chris Weitz has announced he will be teaming up with Summit Entertainment again to make The Gardener. The film is about a Los Angeles immigrant trying to protect his son, and it begins production early next year. More ...
Chris Weitz's NEW MOON Reward: He Gets To Remake BICYCLE THIEVES?
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Beaks here... First off, please join me in congratulating director Chris Weitz for guiding TWILIGHT: NEW MOON to an extraordinary $1 kalillion dollar opening this weekend. I've always heard he's a decent guy, so "Huzzah!" to a seemingly decent guy finding success in an industry populated by Rothman-wannabes. Now that Weitz has done Summit Entertainment a solid, it looks like they're gonna do him one right back by financing THE GARDENER, a smallish father-son drama which he claims will be his homage to Vittorio De Sica's BICYCLE THIEVES. According to Variety , the film is about "a hard-working [Mexican] immigrant who lives in Los Angeles" and ...
Weitz Follows "New Moon" With "Gardener"
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Chris Weitz has announced that his first film post-"The Twilight Saga: New Moon" will be "The Gardener" for Summit Entertainment reports Variety.
Eric Eason's script follows a hard-working Mexican gardener who lives in Los Angeles and his efforts to protect his son. Filming kicks off in March or April.
Weitz also dispels recent rumors of his early retirement, saying the quote was lifted from an interview he did after "The Golden Compass" on which he got a rough treatment from the studio. He says however he's been reinvigorated by the work on "New Moon".
New Moon Director Plants Seed for ‘The Gardener’
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Chris Weitz Blames New Line For 'The Golden Compass' -- Do You?
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Now rolling in New Moon millions, Chris Weitz is being more open about his troubles with New Line and The Golden Compass, a film that sank one studio and sent him into a tailspin. Rumors abounded as to what went wrong on that film, and as recently as last week, New York's Page Six was claiming that residual stress was causing him to leave the industry.
Weitz denied any such thing to Variety, and announced he was leaving the world of the supernatural behind with his next film, The Gardener. The film centers around a hard working Mexican gardener and his efforts to protect ...
Weitz Definitely Not Retiring, Lines Up 'The Gardener'
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[image] The quickest way to quash rumors that you're retiring is to sign on to another project , and fresh off the mind-boggling box office success of " New Moon ," Chris Weitz is teaming up with Summit again for a much smaller film. Last week, Weitz's comments to MovieMaker magazine, in which he spoke about the energy drain directing a movie is, and that he may only have on more film left in him, were quickly spun in stories (yes, including one from us ) that wondered aloud if the director was finished. Weitz quickly responded saying the comments were overstated , and came at the tail end of an exhausting "New Moon" shot. While he ...
'New Moon' Director Signs Up for 'The Gardener'
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... is going right back to work for Summit on his follow-up, The Gardener. "There are no werewolves or vampires, just a Mexican gardener in Los Angeles," Weitz told Variety, thereby stripping a cozy $120 million away from his opening weekend. ...
