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7th October 2006 Photo gallery update: Guerrilla set pics
Photos of Benicio Del Toro as Che on the Guerrilla NY set in January 2006 have been re-added to the gallery.
Ellen Barkin on Ocean's Thirteen From an article about Ellen Barkin: She ascribes her recent career upturn to luck and the generosity of the film's director, Steven Soderbergh, and one of its producers, Jerry Weintraub. She was sitting on the beach at a friend's vacation house after her divorce, mulling over her own contribution to the failure of her marriage, when the phone rang. "It was Jerry asking, 'How are you doing?' I said, 'Not so good'," she recalls, her eyes welling. "He said: 'You're going to feel better in about 30 seconds. You're the female lead in Ocean's Thirteen.'" Solaris mention From an article about Hollywood remaking foreign-language films: Marketing is an issue too, since studios are generally more anxious to hide a story's highbrow foreign pedigree than to use it as a selling point. Despite excellent reviews, Steven Soderbergh's elegant version of Solaris, the metaphysical mystery by the Soviet director Andrei Tarkovsky, crashed spectacularly after being sold by Twentieth Century Fox as a sci-fi blockbuster starring sexy George Clooney with his trousers off. It makes one fear for The Departed, which has been promoted as a Leonardo DiCaprio teenpic. Posted on 7th October 2006
4th October 2006 The Good German: Cate Blanchett, Best Actress
From an article about potential winners at next year's Oscars: Best actress: Cate Blanchett, “The Good German”: Only last year Blanchett pocketed an Oscar as best supporting actress for “The Aviator” (2005), but Steven Soderbergh's complex tale of love, money and politics in postwar Berlin, starring George Clooney as an American reporter, might be enough to make her two-for-two. Posted on 4th October 2006
3rd October 2006 The Good German: George Clooney on Cate Blanchett
From Contact Music: Oscar winner GEORGE CLOONEY has lavished praise on his co-star CATE BLANCHETT, insisting she is so talented he found her "intimidating" to work with. The pair both star in director STEVEN SODERBERGH's upcoming movie THE GOOD GERMAN, and Clooney is convinced Blanchett is a dead cert to win the Best Actress Academy Award next year (07). He says, "I will tell you right now - she will win the Oscar. "She's the best actress working today. Not actress, she's an actor. Intimidating, in a way, to work with an actor that good." Posted on 3rd October 2006
1st October 2006 Soderbergh mention
From an interview with Martin Scorsese: "The real hope of American cinema is the younger, more independent filmmakers who want to make it fresh again," he says. "I feel a great sense of hope for the younger filmmakers. For them it's not about consumer product and by that I mean a film that is consumed in a day or a weekend. Then you forget about it forever. "That's extremely dangerous," he says. "But once you've made $200 million on a movie, why should you tell a studio head not to make that again. Make those if you must, but also make films by Paul Thomas Anderson and Steven Soderbergh. Let someone with a personal vision make a film." Posted on 1st October 2006
30th September 2006 Casey Affleck on Ocean's Thirteen
From iFMagazine: Now recognized primarily for his acting work, instead of being a famous brother, Casey Affleck is having the time of his life. Last week he had a stand-out performance as an unhappily married man in THE LAST KISS and currently the 31-year old actor is working on OCEAN’S THIRTEEN where reprises the role of Virgil Malloy that he played in the previous two installments of the hit franchise directed by Steven Soderbergh. Affleck is taking a practical approach to his role. “My part is still the same,” he says. “[It] gets whittled away at a little bit, but it's always been what it is -- just a color in the rainbow.” And what a colorful rainbow OCEAN’S THIRTEEN will be. Many of the stars of the first two films are back for the third (including star George Clooney), and Affleck is enjoying the easygoing camaraderie. “It’s a lot of fun to do,” he says. “I’m really happy to be included and hang out with those guys, and work with them.” When the cameras aren’t rolling on the set, some of the cast members – including Affleck – relax Vegas-style with a few hands of poker. Even with all the high-priced talent involved in the card games, Affleck swears the setup isn’t as swanky as rumors have implied. “It sounds bigger than what it is,” he admits. “We’re shooting on a stage with tons of rooms everywhere. We had a deck of cards, pulled up chairs and a table, put a red tablecloth in it, and said, ‘It’s a lounge!’” And, given the results at the table, Affleck’s color in the OCEAN’S THIRTEEN rainbow should now be a deep green. “Oh, I killed them,” he says wickedly. “Yeah, I took all of their money!” And also, perhaps, provided a good starting-off point for an OCEAN'S FOURTEEN, should there be one. Bubble released on Blu-ray format From High-Def Digest: With little fanfare, Magnolia Home Entertainment has jumped into the Blu-ray format with its first release, Steven Soderbergh's 'Bubble.' Hitting stores quietly this past Tuesday, September 26, Magnolia has released no press info on the Blu-ray 'Bubble,' though oddly the release is currently available at major online outlets, including Amazon.com. Magnolia previously announced support for the HD DVD format in April of this year, pledging an initial slate of three theatrical titles that was to include 'Bubble.' However, those releases never appeared, which makes the almost covert appearance of the film on Blu-ray a bit of surprise. The Bubble premiere From The New York Times: One of the more extreme uses of small-town intimacy occurred last January with the premiere of Steven Soderbergh’s “Bubble” in Parkersburg, W.Va., near where the film was set. The sold-out Smoot Theater swelled with 800 viewers, while hundreds of spectators watched Mr. Soderbergh, the Oscar-winning director, and his local, nonprofessional cast walk the red carpet. An NBC affiliate broadcast the proceedings live from beginning to end. Eamonn Bowles, the president of Magnolia Pictures, said he wanted the event to reflect the micro-budgeted film’s distance from the mainstream. “This wasn’t going to be a premiere in L.A.,” he said. “The actors — Debbie Doebereiner and the rest of the crew — it was on their turf. And it was great. The people who were involved in the film just had a fantastic time there, and positioning-wise it made it very apparent that this was not typical Hollywood business as usual.” Graham King / Traffic From The Hollywood Reporter: At a time when many movies were getting banked in foreign markets on the basis of landing a star, King insisted on backing strong scripts. "For me, it was about being proud of what you were making," he says. After Zeta-Jones brought him the script for "Traffic," King told Fox Searchlight chief Peter Rice that he was interested in taking foreign rights on the movie, which had director Steven Soderbergh and Harrison Ford attached. Two days later, Rice called to offer him the deal. When Ford dropped out, King suggested Jones' then-boyfriend, Michael Douglas. Then Fox got cold feet. King took on the whole $50 million budget, knowing it would be hard to presell internationally off a script. So he found a domestic buyer in USA Films, which launched it late in fourth-quarter 2000, hitting the Oscar zeitgeist perfectly -- it earned five noms and won all but best picture. The week before the Oscars, "Traffic" was an easy sell all over the world. Soderbergh mention From indieWIRE: Since the mid-1990s, the first generation of scrappy, mostly male writer-directors (like Steven Soderbergh, Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez, and Richard Linklater) have flourished in studio gigs (like Erin Brockovich, Spy Kids, and School of Rock). They've proven that an outsider sensibility can be turned to a studio's advantage. Posted on 30th September 2006
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