Film producer Martin Poll has died at age 89. Poll started in the film industry producing Flash Gordon shorts in Europe before moving to New York and renovating the old Biograph Studio and renaming them Gold Medal Studios. For a time, the facility was very successful and became known as the largest film production facility outside of Hollywood. However, it was as a producer that Poll found his greatest success, including his classic film adaptation of The Lion in Winter. The acclaimed 1968 film, directed by Anthony Harvey, won an Oscar for Katharine Hepburn. Other film credits include The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing, The Possession of Joel Delaney, Night Watch, Nighthawks, Love and Death and The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea. Poll also served as commissioner of motion picture arts for New York City. For more click here...
- 4/17/2012
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
Congratulations to Wesley Morris of the Boston Globe, winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. The judges have cited "his smart, inventive film criticism, distinguished by pinpoint prose and an easy traverse between the art house and the big-screen box office." And the Globe's collected his nominated reviews. "Journalism's highest honor has only been bestowed upon a film critic a few times," notes Eugene Hernandez of the Film Society of Lincoln Center. "Previous recipients include Joe Morgenstern of the Wall Street Journal in 2005, Stephen Hunter of the Washington Post in 2003 and Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times in 1975. 'I was just doing my job and this is what happened,' Morris offered modestly during an emotional newsroom speech that was recorded and edited for the Globe website."
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- 4/17/2012
- MUBI
Peter O'Toole, Katharine Hepburn, The Lion in Winter Martin Poll, best known for producing Anthony Harvey's 1968 Best Picture Oscar nominee The Lion in Winter, starring Katharine Hepburn as Eleanor of Aquitaine and Peter O'Toole as King Henry II, died of "natural causes" on April 14 according to various online sources. Poll was 89. An Avco Embassy release, The Lion in Winter was considered the favorite for the Best Picture and Best Director Oscars. The film had won the Best Film Award from the New York Film Critics Circle, while Harvey was the year's Directors Guild Award winner. However, Carol Reed's Columbia-distributed musical Oliver! turned out to be the winner in both categories. (Curiously, the previous year another Embassy release, Mike Nichols' The Graduate, unexpectedly lost the Best Picture Oscar to Norman Jewison's United Artists-distributed In the Heat of the Night. But at least Nichols came out victorious.
- 4/17/2012
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Veteran movie and TV producer Martin Poll died between Friday night and early Saturday morning of natural causes at a care facility on the Upper Westside in New York City. He was 89. Poll was nominated for an Academy Award as producer for Best Picture of 1968 for The Lion In Winter, which won three Oscars — Best Actress Katharine Hepburn (tied with Barbra Streisand for Funny Girl), Best Original Score for John Barry and Best Adapted Screenplay for James Goldman — out of seven nominations. He began his career in Europe where he served as a co-producer on feature films and produced more than three dozen half-hour episodes of the classic Flash Gordon TV series in Germany and France for international release. After moving to New York City, Poll bought and reopened the famed Biograph Studio and rechristened it Gold Medal Studios. Productions during his time at Gold Medal included Elia Kazan’s A Face In The Crowd,...
- 4/16/2012
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
It's been years since Legendary Pictures announced that they had a big screen adaptation of John Milton's epic "Paradise Lost" in the works. The tale of Lucifer's failed rebellion in Heaven and his involvement with Adam and Eve's fall from grace was going to be a big budget spectacle directed by Scott Derrickson of The Exorcism of Emily Rose and The Day the Earth Stood Still remake fame. Since the project was first announced in 2006, little has been heard about the status of the production which lead me to believe that perhaps it had died in pre-production. Turns out I was wrong.
News today via Variety, is that Legendary is still working to have the project made and they've moved on from Derrickson and found themselves a new helmer for the film. The new man in the driver seat? None other than Dark City and The Crow director Alex Proyas.
News today via Variety, is that Legendary is still working to have the project made and they've moved on from Derrickson and found themselves a new helmer for the film. The new man in the driver seat? None other than Dark City and The Crow director Alex Proyas.
- 9/16/2010
- QuietEarth.us
I may have suggested once that Hansel and Gretel head for the big screen, but I never imagined it would be as witch hunters. The Hollywood Reporter posts that Norwegian writer/director Tommy Wirkola is cooking up Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters, for Will Ferrell and Adam McKay's Sanchez Prods. to produce. Set 15 years after the incident at the tasty house, Hansel and Gretel are now "specialized bounty hunters looking to put down the cackling black-hat set."
McKay says: "It's a hybrid sort of old-timey feeling, yet there's pump-action shotguns. Modern technology but in an old style. We heard it and we were just like, 'That's a freakin' franchise! You could make three of those!' " Hansel and Gretel, the franchise. That'd be the day! Hold onto your hats though -- Wirkola is still working on the outline, so we've got a long wait ahead.
Meanwhile, it's time for dueling Paradise Lost features.
McKay says: "It's a hybrid sort of old-timey feeling, yet there's pump-action shotguns. Modern technology but in an old style. We heard it and we were just like, 'That's a freakin' franchise! You could make three of those!' " Hansel and Gretel, the franchise. That'd be the day! Hold onto your hats though -- Wirkola is still working on the outline, so we've got a long wait ahead.
Meanwhile, it's time for dueling Paradise Lost features.
- 4/30/2009
- by Monika Bartyzel
- Cinematical
It's time to brush up on your John Milton because the 17th century English poet's "Paradise Lost" is suddenly on Hollywood's radar.
Veteran producer Martin Poll has joined with Granite Entertainment and Stv Networks to mount an indie version of "Paradise" that has been gestating for nearly four decades and could enter production as early as the summer. If so, it could find itself going up against a competing version of "Paradise" that Legendary Pictures and Vincent Newman Entertainment have been developing for several years.
Poll began pitching a film version of Milton's epic poem in the late '60s.
Although he couldn't interest a studio at the time to make a movie about Satan's fall from grace, his temptation of Adam and Eve and the first couple's subsequent banishment from the Garden of Eden, Poll began working with British author and screenwriter John Collier, who wrote a screenplay,...
Veteran producer Martin Poll has joined with Granite Entertainment and Stv Networks to mount an indie version of "Paradise" that has been gestating for nearly four decades and could enter production as early as the summer. If so, it could find itself going up against a competing version of "Paradise" that Legendary Pictures and Vincent Newman Entertainment have been developing for several years.
Poll began pitching a film version of Milton's epic poem in the late '60s.
Although he couldn't interest a studio at the time to make a movie about Satan's fall from grace, his temptation of Adam and Eve and the first couple's subsequent banishment from the Garden of Eden, Poll began working with British author and screenwriter John Collier, who wrote a screenplay,...
- 4/29/2009
- by By Gregg Kilday
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Producer Martin Poll and screenwriter Larry Cohen filed a copyright infringement lawsuit Thursday against 20th Century Fox for the alleged theft of the ideas behind the 2003 release The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. The suit, filed in Los Angeles federal court, seeks at least $100 million in damages from the studio, Fox Filmed Entertainment and parent Fox Entertainment Group. Fox officials said they had not yet seen the complaint, but denied the claims of copyright infringement, breach of an implied contract and breach of confidence. "This is absurd nonsense", Fox studios spokeswoman Flo Grace said. "Our movie is based directly on the graphic novel by Alan Moore." According to the lawsuit, the bulk of the plot, pacing and all of the key characters depicted in League were originally laid out in Cohen's 1992 screenplay Cast of Characters.
- 9/26/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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