Shout! Factory and CarpeDiem Film & TV have entered into a film deal to distribute the new animated feature “Snowtime!” in the United States, it was announced Wednesday by Shout! Factory’s founders Richard Foos, Bob Emmer and Garson Foos and CarpeDiem Film & TV president Marie-Claude Beauchamp. Produced by Beauchamp (“The Legend of Sarila”) and directed by Jean-François Pouliot (“La Grande Séduction”), the family adventure film will premiere at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival. “Snowtime!” features an English-language voice cast of Angela Gallupo (“Being Human”), Lucinda Davis (“Winx Club”), Sonja Ball (“The Legend of Sarila”), Don Shepherd (“Blue Mountain State”), Jenna...
- 12/9/2015
- by Jeff Sneider
- The Wrap
Set in Newfoundland (even though some of the accents veer towards bad Irish at times), The Grand Seduction, based on the 2003 French/Canadian film La Grande Séduction, sees a small fishing village of lovable, unemployed rogues, led by Murray French (Brendan Gleeson), desperately wooing an oil company looking for a place to build their new 'repurposing' factory. To seal the deal they need a doctor, and when plastic surgeon Dr. Paul Lewis (Taylor Kitsch) is sent to the village, Tickle Head, for a month, in exchange for the dropping of a drug possession charge, where the residents attempt to tailor the small community to his needs, and thus convince him to stay. The Grand Seduction is a charming farce when you get down to it. The gentle humour is perfectly pitched, providing plenty of chuckles and laughs as the residents of Tickle Head set their plan into the motion, be it quickly learning,...
- 8/30/2014
- by noreply@blogger.com (Tom White)
- www.themoviebit.com
This could have been the year that Taylor Kitsch became one of the biggest working actors on the planet. He already had a cult following for playing the dreamboat, bad boy role on TV’s Friday Night Lights coming into 2012, and that was before two of the biggest studios in Hollywood put him in the position to star in their big budget, tentpole summer releases. By starring in Battleship and John Carter, Kitsch experienced a few months of marketing blitz and media saturation that have only been matched by rare names like Will Smith and Tom Cruise. If his movies had become hits, he would be seen as one of the hottest faces in the movie industry today. But his movies weren’t hits. Kitsch got back-to-back shots at breaking into the world of blockbuster superstardom, and he experienced back-to-back failures. If anything, studios must be looking at the kid like he’s box office poison. So...
- 7/30/2012
- by Nathan Adams
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
You've got to admire Taylor Kitsch's moxie. The Vancouver native was the star of two of the summer's bigger critical disappointments and despite possessing talent that saw him win over fans as bad boy Tim Riggins on TV's "Friday Night Lights," he couldn't seem to find the same level of success on the big screen.
Undaunted, and after trading mega-budget movies for Oliver Stone's gritty Savages earlier this month, The Hollywood Reporter revealed that Kitsch has signed on for a distinctly Canadian indie directed by national treasure Don McKellar.
Kitsch will star in an English-language remake of Quebec flick La grande séduction as a young doctor who is lured by the local residents of a tiny fishing village who implore the medic to stay and practice in their remote community.
Undaunted, and after trading mega-budget movies for Oliver Stone's gritty Savages earlier this month, The Hollywood Reporter revealed that Kitsch has signed on for a distinctly Canadian indie directed by national treasure Don McKellar.
Kitsch will star in an English-language remake of Quebec flick La grande séduction as a young doctor who is lured by the local residents of a tiny fishing village who implore the medic to stay and practice in their remote community.
- 7/30/2012
- by Andrea Miller
- Cineplex
Taylor Kitsch and Brendan Gleeson have joined the cast of The Grand Seduction. The upcoming comedy is a remake of the 2003 French film titled La Grande Séduction directed by Jean-Francois Pouliot and written by Ken Scott, who is credited with writing the remake with Michael Dowse, reports Deadline. The Grand Seduction tells the story of Tickle Cove, a small harbour town in financial decline. Murray French (Gleeson) leads the search for a resident doctor so his town can land a contract to get a factory (more)...
- 7/30/2012
- by By Kristina Bustos
- Digital Spy
The Quebecker comedy La grande séduction will have an English Canadian, French and Italian remakes.
The film La grande séduction will have 3 remakes shot in Canada, France and Italy. However, the remake in English will be shot before those from France and Italy. Besides, Ken Scott will direct the English Canadian version.
The English Canadian version will be shot in Newfoundland-and-Labrador, an Atlantic province of Canada and will be known as The Grand Seduction. This film with a budget of $11 M will be shot between August 28 and November 15.
Michael Dowse (Fubar) was supposed to direct The Grand Seduction, but he left "because of an artistic divergence" with producer Roger Frappier. This is why Ken Scott, the scriptwriter of the original film, will direct the film.
Unlike the original film from 2003, The Grand Seduction will take place in a city called Dunfield rather than Sainte-Marie-la-Mauderne. However, the story might be about...
The film La grande séduction will have 3 remakes shot in Canada, France and Italy. However, the remake in English will be shot before those from France and Italy. Besides, Ken Scott will direct the English Canadian version.
The English Canadian version will be shot in Newfoundland-and-Labrador, an Atlantic province of Canada and will be known as The Grand Seduction. This film with a budget of $11 M will be shot between August 28 and November 15.
Michael Dowse (Fubar) was supposed to direct The Grand Seduction, but he left "because of an artistic divergence" with producer Roger Frappier. This is why Ken Scott, the scriptwriter of the original film, will direct the film.
Unlike the original film from 2003, The Grand Seduction will take place in a city called Dunfield rather than Sainte-Marie-la-Mauderne. However, the story might be about...
- 6/21/2011
- by anhkhoido@gmail.com (Anh Khoi Do)
- The Cultural Post
TORONTO -- French-language Quebec films and Hollywood actors dominated nominations for the Genie Awards, Canada's film awards, which were revealed Tuesday. Jean Francois Pouliot's La Grande Seduction, a Quebec boxoffice hit and a comedy about a Quebec fishing village, pulled in 11 Genie nominations, including best picture, best director and best original screenplay. Close behind was Denys Arcand's The Barbarian Invasions, which grabbed nine Genie nominations after capturing the Oscar for best foreign-language film and dominating the Jutra Awards, which honor Quebec films.
- 3/16/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
TORONTO -- French-language Quebec films and Hollywood actors dominated nominations for the Genie Awards, Canada's film awards, which were revealed Tuesday. Jean Francois Pouliot's La Grande Seduction, a Quebec boxoffice hit and a comedy about a Quebec fishing village, pulled in 11 Genie nominations, including best picture, best director and best original screenplay. Close behind was Deny Arcand's The Barbarian Invasions, which grabbed nine Genie nominations after capturing the Oscar for best foreign-language film and dominating the Jutra Awards, which honor Quebec films.
- 3/16/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Wellspring has acquired all U.S. distribution rights to Jean-Francois Pouliot's Seducing Doctor Lewis, winner of the world cinema audience award at the Sundance Film Festival. Wellspring is planning a theatrical release for late June followed by a video/DVD release. The film, which topped the boxoffice charts in Canada last year with a take north of $8 million, was produced by Max Films' Roger Frappier and Luc Vandal. Guirgis negotiated the deal along with Cinetic Media's Matt Litton on behalf of the filmmakers.
- 3/12/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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