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16th December 2006 The Good German now on limited release
43 stills from The Good German and a few production/set photos have been added to the photo gallery, courtesy of Warner Bros. Clips from the film are online at Yahoo! Movies. The Good German website has been updated with cast and crew information, a 'Berlin 1945' section and a 'making of' section, which includes an interview with Steven about the film. There are lots of interviews with Steven about the film online: • Steven Soderbergh: The Good German (Variety) • Interview: Steven Soderbergh on The Good German (Can Mag) • Clooney, Soderbergh on 'The Good German': They are both Oscar winners and best pals: Meet Hollywood's biggest power couple (Jam! Showbiz) • The Noir connection (Whittier Daily News) • Nothing clear-cut in noir-style 'Good German' (Daily Bulletin) • Steven Soderbergh's Shades of Grey (Coming Soon) • 'German' takes hard look at World War II aftermath (USA Today) There are lots of reviews of the film online, including reviews at Variety and The Hollywood Reporter. RottenTomatoes.com has a summary of all the reviews. Canada.com has a write-up of The Good German premiere, which was held on December, and IESB.net has video footage and photos from the event. Oscar Watch has posted 8 'For Your Consideration' adverts for The Good German, which include 3 Soderbergh ones - an advert for 'Best Director: Steven Soderbergh', and listings for 'Best Cinematography: Peter Andrews' and 'Best Film Editing: Mary Ann Bernard'. Ocean's Thirteen The publicity for Ocean's Thirteen has started! The first still from the film has been released (thanks Kimber) and MovieFone have posted the film poster. Bigger versions are available here.
There's an interview at ComingSoon.net with Steven discussing Ocean's Thirteen, and George Clooney talks about the film to IFMagazine. There's an article here about an actress's experiences of working on Ocean's Thirteen. Steven nominated for an Independent Spirit Award The nominations for the 2007 Independent Spirit Awards were announced recently, and Steven is one of the nominees for 'Best Director' for Bubble. The Independent Spirit Awards will be presented on February 24th 2007. IFP Gotham Awards Steven attended the 16th annual IFP Gotham Awards on November 29th to to introduce a tribute to Mark Cuban and Todd Wagner: Beyond the competitive prizes, special recognition was also paid to industryites during the evening. As previously announced, Kate Winslet and Edward Norton were both feted, as were Marc Cuban and Todd Wagner who received their salute from Steven Soderbergh. (indieWire) Steven Soderbergh paid brief tribute to Robert Altman, who died last week, to much applause, and his HDNet partners Cuban and Wagner, who have shaken up the industry as day-and-date releasing pioneers. Wagner acknowledged his missing partner Cuban and said, "The process of the production and distribution of movies all needs to be rethought. When Hollywood does silly things and continues to be broken, you can count on us to call bullshit." (Hollywood Reporter) Soderbergh on The Argentine and Guerrilla being released a week apart The interview with Steven at ComingSoon.net discusses the possibility of releasing The Argentine and Guerrilla a week apart: CS: With that in mind, why did you decide to do two Che Guevara projects ("Guerilla" and "The Argentine") back to back? Soderbergh: Well, "Kill Bill." Those were two movies. What's the quickest thing I can say? I think the reason for it being two films will be apparent to anyone who sees them. I think the biggest issue is going to be how far apart to put them out. I would like them to go out a week apart. That specific thing hasn't been done yet. The Clint Eastwood movie just got moved up, but I don't know that anybody has ever made two movies that were released a week apart. I think that would be really cool, but we'll see. The Informant mention From an interview with Matt Damon: After wrapping the third Bourne next year, Damon plans to shoot the long-simmering drama The Informant with Soderbergh. The same interview has a coupe of quotes from Steven about Matt: Much of that contentment is due to his low-key marriage to Lucy, 30, a bartender he met in Miami in 2003 while shooting the comedy Stuck on You and quietly wed in New York's City Hall last December. Their relationship, says Steven Soderbergh, who directed Damon in all three Ocean's capers, "seems like a really good thing all around. He met someone he really cares about. He just follows his emotion and his feelings. He seems like one of the least neurotic actors I've ever seen, that's for sure. He has great equilibrium." Says Soderbergh: "Anybody who has worked with him respects him and knows he's a terrific actor. He's going to put together a pretty significant body of work. He's going to just get better as he gets older." New Steven Soderbergh commentary The Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? DVD, which is part of a 5 disc Taylor & Burton Collection, contains a commentary by Steven and Mike Nichols. The DVD set was released on December 5th and costs $41.49 from Amazon. Soderbergh mention From an article about Robert Altman: Directors as diverse as Steven Soderbergh and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu all owe him a serious debt of gratitude; you can look at any ambitious, large-scale film with intertwined story lines _ from "Traffic" and "Syriana" to this year's "Bobby" and "Babel" _ and call it Altmanesque. Posted on 16th December 2006
19th November 2006 Steven Soderbergh on The Good German
There's an interview with Steven discussing The Good German online here at the New York Times website. Accompanying the interview is a new still from the film. (The interview is also online at IHT.com if you don't have a log in for the NY Times site). The Good German official site The Good German official website has been updated and now contains lots of stills from the film, the trailer in different formats and downloads (wallpapers, AIM icons, poster). Twin Cinema: The False Binary of Hollywood and Independent Explored within the Films of Steven Soderbergh Drew Morton's paper on Steven Soderbergh films (called 'Twin Cinema: The False Binary of Hollywood and Independent Explored within the Films of Steven Soderbergh') has been accepted for the 'American Independent Cinema' panel discussion at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference in March 2007. Further details about the conference can be found at CMStudies.org. Congratulations Drew! The Good German screening From LATimes.com: Steven Soderbergh showed up for a glass of red wine and a good laugh at a special screening of his astonishing new film "The Good German," at the Clarity Theatre in Beverly Hills Thursday. Before the film began, Soderbergh, who looks quite handsome without his trademark heavy black glasses (thanks to Lasik, I hear) opened and read aloud a short passage from a small book he was carrying. "The content of a film should reflect the personality of the characters, and the features of the time period of which they live and in this way the setting, costumes and hand props assist people in understanding the personalities of the characters and the material and cultural aspects of life in a particular age." The audience sat in stunned silence. "This is from a book called 'On the Art of the Cinema' by Kim Jong Yong Il," he continued straight-faced, to chuckles of nervous relief. "And when you find a book that has such passion on the page, you just have to share it." "Where did you get it?," one critic asked Soderbergh, who clearly consulted no one’s textbook for his ground-breaking film that seamlessly weaves historical footage for an eerily classic '40s feel. "On Amazon," replied Soderbergh as he made his exit. He wasn’t kidding. The book was published in 1973 and it’s $27.50 with free Super Saver Shipping. Everyone knows Soderbergh’s a flipping film genius. But who knew the guy was this funny? Ocean's Thirteen From SpokesmanReview.com: Kelly Gneiting is 36 years old, 6 feet tall, weighs 400 pounds and sumo wrestles for a living. But the Rigby native can still feel somewhat like a kid and star-struck at times. On Sept. 24, Gneiting was filming a scene in the coming movie "Ocean's Thirteen" – the third of a series that started in 2001 with a remake of the 1960 movie "Ocean's Eleven." The two-time U.S. National Heavyweight Champion in sumo wrestling had some interesting spectators: Al Pacino and George Clooney were ringside as he filmed the scene. "I've never really seen a movie star before," Gneiting said. "My first thought was, 'My, oh my, this is a day I'll never forget.' I look in the front row and I see these good-looking women hovering around Al Pacino." "Ocean's Thirteen," starring Pacino and Clooney, along with Brad Pitt, Matt Damon and Bernie Mac, will hit theaters in 2007. The movie is directed by Steven Soderbergh. In Gneiting's scene, Pacino's character, who owns a casino, is hosting a sumo wrestling tournament. And Gneiting did make one guarantee about the scene. "It wasn't acting," he said. "I wasn't sure exactly what was going to happen," he added. "It was fun, one of those once-in-a-lifetime experiences. I got caught up with everybody in the room. These movies stars were watching me sumo wrestle. That was a crazy experience." Gneiting said when the movie does come out, he will be in the credits and has a good chance of being invited to attend the premiere. "That would be really cool," he said. Bill Pohlad on Guerrilla From an article about producer Bill Pohlad: In the next year, he hopes director Steven Soderbergh will start shooting "Che," a two-part biopic, and director Sean Penn will put the finishing touches on "Into the Wild," a drama based on Jon Krakauer's book about an adventurer who trudged into the Alaskan wilderness and never came back. Pohlad is clearly excited about "Wild," which he refers to as "one of the great experiences I've had in film," and "Che," a project with which he has been involved for six years. From Alaska to South America, from personal tragedy to international political movements, the two films do not sound like they have much in common. And Pohlad is characteristically fine with that. Scott Burns on PU-239 / The Half Life of Timofey Berezin From The Philadelphia Inquirer: Also, the first of three Kalfus short stories optioned for movies - "Pu-239," the title story of his second collection, which was a 2000 finalist for the PEN-Faulkner Award - will be released as either a theatrical or HBO movie next year. Its executive producers are Oscar-winning director Steven Soderbergh and actor George Clooney. "Pu-239" limns a Russian technician fatally radiated during a nuclear plant accident who tries to leave his family a financial legacy by selling weapons-grade plutonium on the black market. Between 1994 and 1998 the widely traveled Kalfus lived in Moscow with his wife and daughter, Sky, while Saffron was The Inquirer's correspondent there. "There hadn't been an American movie made about post-glasnost Russia," says the film's director and screenwriter, Scott Burns, who produced Al Gore's global-warming documentary, An Inconvenient Truth. "I thought it was fascinating to see this deteriorating Soviet world and this kind of corrupt influence of Western influences playing off each other. It was funny and tragic." Kalfus, a consultant during last year's filming in Romania, is quite pleased with the result, even though the film is not too similar to his short story. "I gave advice, most of which they ignored," he said with a laugh. Solaris mention From an article about musician Britt Daniel and Stranger Than Fiction Music Supervisor Brian Reitzell: Now while chance meetings are something of legend within the entertainment industry, the main reason that Daniel and Reitzell hit it off so swimmingly was due to a mutual admiration for Cliff Martinez' score to Steven Soderbergh's remake of Solaris. "We both discovered that we were obsessed with the soundtrack to Solaris," says Daniel. "I was really obsessed with that soundtrack at that time and I hadn't been able to convince anyone that it was any good. I tried to convince my band that it was cool. I tried to convince my girlfriend and they all kind of just laughed at me and they didn't really understand why I thought it was so great. Brian was blown away by it, too, so it was sort of the thing that we bonded on." Soderbergh mention #1 From an article about John Henson: He is working as a producer to develop a film with director Steven Soderbergh. Soderbergh mention #2 From an interview with Fast Food Nation author and screenwriter Eric Schlosser: I was on a book tour in Austin [Texas] and Jeremy Thomas had approached me and when I think of the directors, the contemporaries of this country, the work I really respect and admire, there is just a handful who really are the great ones. And one of them is Rick Linklater, another one is Alexander Payne, another one is Paul Thomas Anderson, Steven Soderbergh takes very bold risks. Soderbergh mention #3 From an interview with Robert Pollard: Steven Soderbergh and I have done work together [on “Bubble”] and I’m going to continue to do that. He’s a fan, but he works the same way; he’s got two or three projects going on at the same time at all times. That’s just how some people work. Posted on 19th November 2006
4th November 2006 'Che' movies: The Argentine and Guerrilla, and documentary
From Variety: Steven Soderbergh is finally ready to make his long-gestating biopic of Latin American revolutionary Che Guevara. And the film's backers are betting that Guevara, who continues to sell books and T-shirts almost 40 years after his execution in Bolivia, has an aura large enough to sustain two films. Soderbergh will shoot them back to back, using mostly Spanish dialogue. Production begins next May in Mexico and other South American locations. Benicio Del Toro will play Guevara, and Javier Bardem, Franka Potente and Benjamin Bratt are in talks to play key roles. Producer is Laura Bickford, who began working on the project with Del Toro and Soderbergh right after they made "Traffic" together. Lead financier is Paris-based Wild Bunch, which also hung in through twists and turns that included Terrence Malick committing to direct and then dropping out to make "The New World" in 2004. Wild Bunch will co-finance and shop the pictures at AFM. The films will be made as Spanish co-productions, with Spain-based Morena Films and broadcaster Telecinco in final talks to be co-producers. Combined budget for the pic pair is less than $70 million. Talks are under way with domestic distributors. Both films pick up after the formative Guevara years captured in the Walter Salles-directed "The Motorcycle Diaries" in 2004. First film, "The Argentine," begins as Che and a band of Cuban exiles (led by Fidel Castro) reach the Cuban shore from Mexico in 1956. Within two years, they mobilized popular support and an army and toppled the U.S.-friendly regime of dictator Fulgencio Batista. The second film, "Guerrilla," begins with Che's trip to New York, where he spoke at the United Nations in 1964 and was celebrated in society circles. Soderbergh has already shot that opening footage with Del Toro and Julia Ormond, who plays TV journo Lisa Howard. Journalist acted as an informal intermediary between the Kennedy White House and Cuba. Guevara disappeared into the jungles of South America. When he tried to use Bolivia as the catalyst for more revolution, he was captured and executed. Both scripts were written by Peter Buchman, who, with Del Toro, has been working with a translator to put the dialogue into Spanish. Filmmakers also have been shooting a companion documentary while researching the film, including interviews with many of those who fought alongside Guevara in Cuba and in Bolivia. Soderbergh recently completed Europe-set WWII film "The Good German." Buchman scripted one of the unmade Alexander the Great pictures and most recently wrote the Fox fantasy film "Eragon" and the currently casting "The Piano Tuner" at Focus. Along with "Diaries," Guevara was the subject of another recent pic, 2005's "Che Guevara," directed by Josh Evans. The Good German screening The Aero Theater in Santa Monica will screen a double feature of The Good German and Casablanca on November 12th. The website says that there will be "discussion in between films with director Steven Soderbergh". Thanks Drew! David Holmes From an interview with David Holmes: Top director Steven Soderbergh had heard David's album Let's Get Killed and was impressed. While in LA DJing, David got a phone call from Danny DeVito's production company Jersey Films in Hollywood to come along for a meeting. David obliged. "I was told Soderbergh wanted me to do the score for his movie Out Of Sight. At that stage he had no idea that I'd already done the music for the film Resurrection Man, he just liked the album," he says. "Next thing I know I'm on the way to LA in Soderbergh's private jet, with DeVito and Rhea Perlman (DeVito's wife). We're sitting in these big armchairs, drinking whiskey, watching the movie and it's so surreal. "But I remember thinking that this was a really great opportunity for me. There was a bit of game-playing on my part. I kept thinking: 'I don't want to lose this one'." Soderbergh liked his ideas for the score and signed him up. Following the success of Out Of Sight, David was invited back to record the soundtrack to the Oceans series. The full interview is here. 2007 Oscar Preview From an article looking at potential 2007 Oscar nominees: Another Academy favorite, Steven Soderbergh was nominated twice in 2001 for directing Erin Brockovich and Traffic, winning an Oscar for the latter. Five years later, he returns to more Oscar-worthy fare with The Good German, a black and white war tale starring longtime collaborator George Clooney, who was also nominated twice last year, once for directing and winning one for his supporting role in Syriana. Posted on 4th November 2006
30th October 2006 The Good German trailer analysis
There's an interesting analysis of The Good German trailer at Premiere.com: Trailer Stash - New trailers for The Good German and Bug deconstructed. Soderbergh mention From an interview with Joe Carnahan: White Jazz may not be Carnahan’s next film, since he’s considering doing something in the year before he starts filming. “There’s discussion of potentially doing a remake of the Preminger film Bunny Lake is Missing,” he told me. “Why that interests me is because it’s completely the Ang Lee choice. What I love about Ang Lee is that Sense and Sensibility is nothing like The Ice Storm is nothing like The Hulk is nothing like Crouching Tiger is nothing like Brokeback. It’s amazing. Soderbergh’s the same way.” Posted on 30th October 2006
27th October 2006 Ocean's Thirteen
From an article at the Niagara Gazette about 'third' films: Ocean's Thirteen - Most of the gang will be back for the third (and final, according to director Steven Soderbergh) chapter of this fun-loving criminals franchise. “Ocean’s Thirteen,” expected out June 8, follows the criminal conclave as its members seek revenge on behalf of one of their own, Elliott Gould’s Reuben Tishkoff. The Los Angeles Times reported in September that a new character, a casino billionaire portrayed by Al Pacino, got the best of Tishkoff, and the gang would get payback by rigging a nine-minute window during which every gambler at his casino would win. Julia Roberts opted out of the third film, with Ellen Barkin joining the ensemble, which is led by George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon and Don Cheadle. Bringing back a cast like this, which also features Bernie Mac and Andy Garcia, for not one but two sequels is truly remarkable — of course, the blockbuster success of the first two films ($181.4 million and $125.4 million, respectively) doesn’t hurt. Soderbergh mention From an article about McG and the film We Are Marshall: McG said it took him three scouting trips to Huntington, W.Va., where that tragedy is still remembered, to convince him to do the picture. And then a little pep talk from guys he was on a Director's Guild of America panel with (Michael Mann, Steven Soderbergh, Frank Marshall, among them) nagging him about "growth" as a director after the Angels fluff. Posted on 27th October 2006
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