Topic: HOLLYWALD - on June 4, 2004 at 3:33:00 PM CEST
IMDB user ratings for Fahrenheit 9/11
the film you don't need to see to review.
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Topic: HOLLYWALD - on May 31, 2004 at 12:40:00 AM CEST
Welcome to Planet Pixar
How the pixel-packing upstart became an animation superpower and left Disney in the dust.
When Brad Bird arrived at Pixar in 2000, the first director ever recruited from the outside, he was skeptical about the company's reputation as an animator's paradise. You can't blame him. Already an industry legend for getting The Simpsons and King of the Hill off the ground, Bird was furious with Warner Bros. for botching the release of his labor of love, The Iron Giant. "They were closing down the animation division while we were still working on it," he says. "Every week there another exec would be gone. When they released the film, we didn't even have a poster!" So on Bird's first day at Pixar he showed up with a video camera and recorded everything, from the reception desk to the view from his office. He wanted evidence Pixar wouldn't disappear beneath his feet.
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Topic: HOLLYWALD - on May 30, 2004 at 12:28:00 PM CEST
Disney verkauft Moores neuen Film
Nach dreiwöchigen Verhandlungen um Michael Moores Anti-Bush-Film "Fahrenheit 9/11" haben sich der Disney-Konzern und die beiden Chefs der Produktionsfirma Miramax, Harvey und Bob Weinstein, geeinigt. Wie das Fachblatt "The Hollywood Reporter" am Freitag berichtete, kauften die Weinstein-Brüder als Privatpersonen aus eigener Tasche die Rechte an dem Film auf. Dabei soll es sich um eine Summe von rund sechs Millionen Dollar (fünf Millionen Euro) handeln.
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Topic: HOLLYWALD - on May 30, 2004 at 12:26:00 PM CEST
Weinsteins buy Moore movie rights
Michael Moore's documentary Fahrenheit 9/11 has moved a step closer to being released in US cinemas after the rights were bought by Miramax's founders.
The studio's founders, Harvey and Bob Weinstein, personally bought back the rights from parent company Disney, which had refused to distribute it.
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Topic: HOLLYWALD - on May 26, 2004 at 11:13:00 AM CEST
Sex and the City movie shelved
Samantha says no to more sex in the city
Plans to bring sitcom Sex and the City to the big screen have been shelved after star Kim Cattrall, true to the free-spirited Samantha she played in the show, said she could not commit to the project.
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Topic: HOLLYWALD - on May 24, 2004 at 3:55:00 PM CEST
H'wood hot for Moore's 'Fahrenheit 9/11'
Despite (or because of) controversy, film expected to be hit.
The White House calls the film "outrageously false," but Hollywood is hot for "Fahrenheit 9/11," documentary filmmaker Michael Moore's caustic broadside at President Bush.
A day after the film won the top Palme d'Or prize at the Cannes Film Festival in France, industry observers Sunday predicted the controversial movie would be a box office hit, even if some early reviews have hardly been favorable.
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Topic: HOLLYWALD - on May 23, 2004 at 10:50:00 PM CEST
Fahrenheit 9/11 wins the Palme D'Or!!!
Last night, the jury here at the 57th Cannes Film Festival awarded the Palme D'Or, one of the highest honors in filmmaking, to Fahrenheit 9/11. Michael and everyone who worked on the film were completely blown away. Four of the nine festival jury members were American, and only one of the jurors was French. Fahrenheit 9/11 is the first documentary to win the Palme since Jacques Cousteau's "The Silent World" in 1956.
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Topic: HOLLYWALD - on May 19, 2004 at 11:51:00 PM CEST
Miramax Bosses Seek Complex 'Fahrenheit' Deal
In the wake of Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11" world premiere Monday, a new drama is developing behind the scenes as Miramax chiefs Harvey and Bob Weinstein set about locking down a new distributor for the film, which their Disney parent has forbidden them from releasing.
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Topic: HOLLYWALD - on May 11, 2004 at 11:56:00 AM CEST
Fears for Cannes as unions plan festival protests
Organisers and politicians were scrambling yesterday to head off the threat of the Cannes film festival being wrecked by protests from showbusiness workers.
Officials at the event, which runs from tomorrow until May 23 with a guestlist that includes Brad Pitt, Cameron Diaz and Michael Moore, insisted yesterday there was no risk of it being called off.
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Topic: HOLLYWALD - on May 8, 2004 at 2:23:00 AM CEST
Disney set to U-turn on Miramax
DISNEY boss Michael Eisner is believed to be negotiating to sell 'independent' film studio Miramax back to its founder, Harvey Weinstein, only months after he failed to renew Walt Disney's lucrative contract with another movie partner, Pixar.
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Topic: HOLLYWALD - on May 7, 2004 at 10:40:00 AM CEST
Disney says Michael Moore row is 'PR stunt'
The company, which says it stopped Miramax from releasing the film on the grounds that it did not want to become embroiled in politics, said yesterday its decision was made back in May 2003.
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Topic: HOLLYWALD - on May 5, 2004 at 7:05:00 PM CEST
Disney Forbidding Distribution of Film That Criticizes Bush
The Walt Disney Company is blocking its Miramax division from distributing a new documentary by Michael Moore that harshly criticizes President Bush, executives at both Disney and Miramax said Tuesday.
The film, "Fahrenheit 911," links Mr. Bush and prominent Saudis — including the family of Osama bin Laden — and criticizes Mr. Bush's actions before and after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
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