By Abe Friedtanzer
There’s a reason that there are so many films about the Holocaust. The attempted conquest of Europe and the whole world by the Nazis resulted in millions of innocent lives lost and countless others irreversibly altered. Fortunately, there were more than a few people who made the brave decision to stand up for those who couldn’t advocate or fight for themselves. These stories typically make for poignant cinematic tales. The latest is Irena’s Vow, which stars Sophie Nélisse as a Polish nurse who risked her life to safeguard a group of Jews…
Like La Rafle, The Zookeeper’s Wife, and A Hidden Life, this film centers on someone who was not Jewish but who found herself significantly disenfranchised when the Nazis invaded her country...
There’s a reason that there are so many films about the Holocaust. The attempted conquest of Europe and the whole world by the Nazis resulted in millions of innocent lives lost and countless others irreversibly altered. Fortunately, there were more than a few people who made the brave decision to stand up for those who couldn’t advocate or fight for themselves. These stories typically make for poignant cinematic tales. The latest is Irena’s Vow, which stars Sophie Nélisse as a Polish nurse who risked her life to safeguard a group of Jews…
Like La Rafle, The Zookeeper’s Wife, and A Hidden Life, this film centers on someone who was not Jewish but who found herself significantly disenfranchised when the Nazis invaded her country...
- 9/10/2023
- by Abe Friedtanzer
- FilmExperience
It’s the third film in the World series, and the sixth Jurassic film overall.
World Box Office June 3-5
Rank
Film
(distributor)
3-day
(world)
Cume
(world)
3-day
(int’l)
Cume
(int’l)
Territories
1.
Top Gun:
Maverick
(Paramount)
167.7m
548.6m
81m
257m
67
2.
Jurassic World
Dominion
(Universal)
55.5m
55.5m
55.5m
55.5m
15
3.
Doctor Strange
2
(Disney)
20.7m
909.4m
11.4m
520.4m
50
4.
The Bad Guys
(Universal)
12.2m
218.3m
8.9m
131m
72
5.
The Round Up
(Independent)
10.7m
65.1m
10.6m
64.5m
5
6.
My Blue
Summer
(various)
7.2m
8.5m
7.2m
8.5m
1
7.
Bob’s Burgers:
The Movie
(Disney)
4.9m
23.9m
0.4m
1.7m
9
8.
Sonic The
Hedgehog 2
(Paramount)
4.7m
392.8m
3m
204.5m
56
Credit: Comscore,...
World Box Office June 3-5
Rank
Film
(distributor)
3-day
(world)
Cume
(world)
3-day
(int’l)
Cume
(int’l)
Territories
1.
Top Gun:
Maverick
(Paramount)
167.7m
548.6m
81m
257m
67
2.
Jurassic World
Dominion
(Universal)
55.5m
55.5m
55.5m
55.5m
15
3.
Doctor Strange
2
(Disney)
20.7m
909.4m
11.4m
520.4m
50
4.
The Bad Guys
(Universal)
12.2m
218.3m
8.9m
131m
72
5.
The Round Up
(Independent)
10.7m
65.1m
10.6m
64.5m
5
6.
My Blue
Summer
(various)
7.2m
8.5m
7.2m
8.5m
1
7.
Bob’s Burgers:
The Movie
(Disney)
4.9m
23.9m
0.4m
1.7m
9
8.
Sonic The
Hedgehog 2
(Paramount)
4.7m
392.8m
3m
204.5m
56
Credit: Comscore,...
- 6/6/2022
- by Charles Gant
- ScreenDaily
It’s the third film in the World series, and the sixth Jurassic film overall.
World Box Office June 3-5
Rank
Film
(distributor)
3-day
(world)
Cume
(world)
3-day
(int’l)
Cume
(int’l)
Territories
1.
Top Gun:
Maverick
(Paramount)
167.7m
548.6m
81m
257m
67
2.
Jurassic World
Dominion
(Universal)
55.5m
55.5m
55.5m
55.5m
15
3.
Doctor Strange
2
(Disney)
20.7m
909.4m
11.4m
520.4m
50
4.
The Bad Guys
(Universal)
12.2m
218.3m
8.9m
131m
72
5.
The Round Up
(Independent)
10.7m
65.1m
10.6m
64.5m
5
6.
My Blue
Summer
(various)
7.2m
8.5m
7.2m
8.5m
1
7.
Bob’s Burgers:
The Movie
(Disney)
4.9m
23.9m
0.4m
1.7m
9
8.
Sonic The
Hedgehog 2
(Paramount)
4.7m
392.8m
3m
204.5m
56
Credit: Comscore,...
World Box Office June 3-5
Rank
Film
(distributor)
3-day
(world)
Cume
(world)
3-day
(int’l)
Cume
(int’l)
Territories
1.
Top Gun:
Maverick
(Paramount)
167.7m
548.6m
81m
257m
67
2.
Jurassic World
Dominion
(Universal)
55.5m
55.5m
55.5m
55.5m
15
3.
Doctor Strange
2
(Disney)
20.7m
909.4m
11.4m
520.4m
50
4.
The Bad Guys
(Universal)
12.2m
218.3m
8.9m
131m
72
5.
The Round Up
(Independent)
10.7m
65.1m
10.6m
64.5m
5
6.
My Blue
Summer
(various)
7.2m
8.5m
7.2m
8.5m
1
7.
Bob’s Burgers:
The Movie
(Disney)
4.9m
23.9m
0.4m
1.7m
9
8.
Sonic The
Hedgehog 2
(Paramount)
4.7m
392.8m
3m
204.5m
56
Credit: Comscore,...
- 6/6/2022
- by Charles Gant
- ScreenDaily
‘Jurassic World Dominion’ chomps off 55m box office in early markets; ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ nears 550m
It’s the third film in the World series, and the sixth Jurassic film overall.
World Box Office June 3-5
Rank
Film
(distributor)
3-day
(world)
Cume
(world)
3-day
(int’l)
Cume
(int’l)
Territories
1.
Top Gun:
Maverick
(Paramount)
167.7m
548.6m
81m
257m
67
2.
Jurassic World
Dominion
(Universal)
55.5m
55.5m
55.5m
55.5m
15
3.
Doctor Strange
2
(Disney)
20.7m
909.4m
11.4m
520.4m
50
4.
The Bad Guys
(Universal)
12.2m
218.3m
8.9m
131m
72
5.
The Round Up
(Independent)
10.7m
65.1m
10.6m
64.5m
5
6.
My Blue
Summer
(various)
7.2m
8.5m
7.2m
8.5m
1
7.
Bob’s Burgers:
The Movie
(Disney)
4.9m
23.9m
0.4m
1.7m
9
8.
Sonic The
Hedgehog 2
(Paramount)
4.7m
392.8m
3m
204.5m
56
Credit: Comscore,...
World Box Office June 3-5
Rank
Film
(distributor)
3-day
(world)
Cume
(world)
3-day
(int’l)
Cume
(int’l)
Territories
1.
Top Gun:
Maverick
(Paramount)
167.7m
548.6m
81m
257m
67
2.
Jurassic World
Dominion
(Universal)
55.5m
55.5m
55.5m
55.5m
15
3.
Doctor Strange
2
(Disney)
20.7m
909.4m
11.4m
520.4m
50
4.
The Bad Guys
(Universal)
12.2m
218.3m
8.9m
131m
72
5.
The Round Up
(Independent)
10.7m
65.1m
10.6m
64.5m
5
6.
My Blue
Summer
(various)
7.2m
8.5m
7.2m
8.5m
1
7.
Bob’s Burgers:
The Movie
(Disney)
4.9m
23.9m
0.4m
1.7m
9
8.
Sonic The
Hedgehog 2
(Paramount)
4.7m
392.8m
3m
204.5m
56
Credit: Comscore,...
- 6/6/2022
- by Charles Gant
- ScreenDaily
Korean TV powerhouse Jtbc is upping its game and changing its name in order to stay at the forefront of the worldwide Korean content explosion.
While the parent broadcast group will keep the Jtbc monicker, its 15-strong cluster of production companies have been renamed Studio LuluLaLa, or Sll, instead of the prosaic Jtbc Studios. The word ‘Lululala’ is used in Korea to express joy and adventure. And it translates easily enough.
More persuasive is the KRW3 trillion (2.4 billion) that Sll is now promising to put into content production over the three years 2022-2024.
That number, revealed at a press event this week, compares with the 500 million that Netflix committed to spending in Korea in 2021 and the 4.4 billion that Cj Enm says it will spend over the five years between 2021 and 2025. (Regional research firm Media Partners Asia this month forecast that Netflix would increase its investment and pump 750 million into Korean content in the current year.
While the parent broadcast group will keep the Jtbc monicker, its 15-strong cluster of production companies have been renamed Studio LuluLaLa, or Sll, instead of the prosaic Jtbc Studios. The word ‘Lululala’ is used in Korea to express joy and adventure. And it translates easily enough.
More persuasive is the KRW3 trillion (2.4 billion) that Sll is now promising to put into content production over the three years 2022-2024.
That number, revealed at a press event this week, compares with the 500 million that Netflix committed to spending in Korea in 2021 and the 4.4 billion that Cj Enm says it will spend over the five years between 2021 and 2025. (Regional research firm Media Partners Asia this month forecast that Netflix would increase its investment and pump 750 million into Korean content in the current year.
- 4/24/2022
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Rebranded studio to produce TV and film content for global audience
Major South Korean drama production studio Sll – formerly known as Jtbc Studios – is set to invest 2.4bn (KW3 trillion) in TV and film production over the next three years.
At a press conference in Seoul yesterday (April 19), CEO Jung Kyung Moon said he aims to rival BBC Studios as a leading production entity by the end of 2024.
Expanding Sll’s business in the US and Asia, he aims for the company to generate revenues of about 1.6bn - of which 40 would come from overseas - in that year with 50-60 titles.
Major South Korean drama production studio Sll – formerly known as Jtbc Studios – is set to invest 2.4bn (KW3 trillion) in TV and film production over the next three years.
At a press conference in Seoul yesterday (April 19), CEO Jung Kyung Moon said he aims to rival BBC Studios as a leading production entity by the end of 2024.
Expanding Sll’s business in the US and Asia, he aims for the company to generate revenues of about 1.6bn - of which 40 would come from overseas - in that year with 50-60 titles.
- 4/20/2022
- by Jean Noh
- ScreenDaily
The relentless 15-year hunt for Adolf Eichmann, the notorious high-ranking Nazi criminal who fled Germany at the end of WW2 and hid in Argentina with his family, will be charted in a thriller series by Rose Bosch.
Titled “The Capture,” the six-part English-language series is being produced by Marc Missonnier and Christine de Bourbon-Busset at Lincoln TV, the Paris-based banner behind “Mirages” and “Cheyenne & Lola.” The script is now completed and the veteran producers are getting ready to introduce the project to potential partners, including broadcasters and streamers.
Bosch, a former investigative journalist who is passionate about history, previously wrote the script of Ridley Scott’s Christopher Columbus film “1492: Conquest of Paradise,” as well as penned and directed “The Roundup” which depicted the infamous Vel’ d’Hiv Roundup (Rafle du Vel’ d’Hiv) in Paris. The 2010 movie, which sheds light on the lesser-known mass arrest of Jews, including children,...
Titled “The Capture,” the six-part English-language series is being produced by Marc Missonnier and Christine de Bourbon-Busset at Lincoln TV, the Paris-based banner behind “Mirages” and “Cheyenne & Lola.” The script is now completed and the veteran producers are getting ready to introduce the project to potential partners, including broadcasters and streamers.
Bosch, a former investigative journalist who is passionate about history, previously wrote the script of Ridley Scott’s Christopher Columbus film “1492: Conquest of Paradise,” as well as penned and directed “The Roundup” which depicted the infamous Vel’ d’Hiv Roundup (Rafle du Vel’ d’Hiv) in Paris. The 2010 movie, which sheds light on the lesser-known mass arrest of Jews, including children,...
- 2/18/2022
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
The death earlier this month of Chin Doo-hwan, the most hated of South Korea’s three military dictators, who ruled for nearly a decade until 1988, is a timely reminder of the foundations of the country’s present economic might.
Today, South Korea combines global prowess in electronics, semiconductors and shipbuilding (industries boosted by the old regime’s strategic plans) and in culture and services, such as entertainment, cosmetics and food. The latter were born of the cultural flowering that followed the end of oppression.
The country’s contradictory currents of light and dark, paternalistic conglomerates (known as chaebols) locking horns with creative startups, and artistic freedom that butts up against enduringly rigid hierarchies, have left their mark on Korean movies including “Old Boy,” “Snowpiercer” and multiple Oscar-winner “Parasite.”
This duality allows K-pop stars to be built into idols by bootcamp-like talent agencies and then propelled by technologically advanced forms of fandom.
Today, South Korea combines global prowess in electronics, semiconductors and shipbuilding (industries boosted by the old regime’s strategic plans) and in culture and services, such as entertainment, cosmetics and food. The latter were born of the cultural flowering that followed the end of oppression.
The country’s contradictory currents of light and dark, paternalistic conglomerates (known as chaebols) locking horns with creative startups, and artistic freedom that butts up against enduringly rigid hierarchies, have left their mark on Korean movies including “Old Boy,” “Snowpiercer” and multiple Oscar-winner “Parasite.”
This duality allows K-pop stars to be built into idols by bootcamp-like talent agencies and then propelled by technologically advanced forms of fandom.
- 12/15/2021
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Don Lee, who stars as an Asian superhero in Marvel’s “Eternals,” will next be seen at the head of Korean franchise movie “The Roundup.”
The film is a sequel to “The Outlaws,” a 2017 crime actioner that took $51 million at the Korean box office. That performance confirmed Lee’s star status, which had been freshly minted with his role in the previous year’s zombie action sensation “Train to Busan.”
Lee, who is alternatively credited as Ma Dong-seok, was born in Seoul, but was educated in Ohio and is a naturalized U.S. citizen. His acting career, which has almost entirely been in Korea, has frequently involved tough-guy roles. But a cheeky persona and a quick wit have earned him an army of diehard fans. “Eternals” is his first mainstream Hollywood role.
In “The Roundup,” Lee reprises his role as “Beast Cop” Ma Seok-do who heads to a foreign country to extradite a suspect.
The film is a sequel to “The Outlaws,” a 2017 crime actioner that took $51 million at the Korean box office. That performance confirmed Lee’s star status, which had been freshly minted with his role in the previous year’s zombie action sensation “Train to Busan.”
Lee, who is alternatively credited as Ma Dong-seok, was born in Seoul, but was educated in Ohio and is a naturalized U.S. citizen. His acting career, which has almost entirely been in Korea, has frequently involved tough-guy roles. But a cheeky persona and a quick wit have earned him an army of diehard fans. “Eternals” is his first mainstream Hollywood role.
In “The Roundup,” Lee reprises his role as “Beast Cop” Ma Seok-do who heads to a foreign country to extradite a suspect.
- 11/3/2021
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
‘One Win’ is about a female volleyball team that finally gets a new coach.
South Korea’s K-Movie Entertainment is launching sales on three new titles for the Cannes market led by comedy drama One Win, starring Song Kang-ho from Parasite.
Directed by Shin Yeon-Shick, whose credits inlcude The Avian Kind, the film follows an unsuccessful coach who is paired up with a losing female volleyball team that only needs a single win for the owner to keep it going. Park Jeong-min, Park Myung-hoon and Jang Yoon-ju also star.
The film is produced by Luz y Sonidos and is in post-production.
South Korea’s K-Movie Entertainment is launching sales on three new titles for the Cannes market led by comedy drama One Win, starring Song Kang-ho from Parasite.
Directed by Shin Yeon-Shick, whose credits inlcude The Avian Kind, the film follows an unsuccessful coach who is paired up with a losing female volleyball team that only needs a single win for the owner to keep it going. Park Jeong-min, Park Myung-hoon and Jang Yoon-ju also star.
The film is produced by Luz y Sonidos and is in post-production.
- 6/22/2021
- by Jean Noh
- ScreenDaily
‘The Roundup’, which is shooting now, again stars Don Lee (aka Ma Dong-seok).
South Korea’s K-Movie Entertainment has pre-sold The Roundup, a sequel to 2017’s The Outlaws, to a raft of territories led by Japan, where Hian has picked it up.
Starring Don Lee (aka Ma Dong-seok from Train To Busan), The Roundup has also sold to Taiwan (MovieCloud), Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and Vietnam (Clover Films), Hong Kong (Edko Films), Mongolia (Mongol Films Distribution) and France (Metropolitan Filmexport).
Hian is also producing a Japanese remake of The Outlaws, while an Indian remake starring Salman Khan is set for release...
South Korea’s K-Movie Entertainment has pre-sold The Roundup, a sequel to 2017’s The Outlaws, to a raft of territories led by Japan, where Hian has picked it up.
Starring Don Lee (aka Ma Dong-seok from Train To Busan), The Roundup has also sold to Taiwan (MovieCloud), Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and Vietnam (Clover Films), Hong Kong (Edko Films), Mongolia (Mongol Films Distribution) and France (Metropolitan Filmexport).
Hian is also producing a Japanese remake of The Outlaws, while an Indian remake starring Salman Khan is set for release...
- 3/1/2021
- by Jean Noh
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Adèle Exarchopoulos, who in 2013 became the youngest winner of the Cannes Film Festival’s Palme d’Or for her co-starring role in Blue Is the Warmest Color, has signed with UTA.
The move comes as the French-born actor has several projects in the works. In film, that includes the French crime drama Bac Nord directed by Cédric Jimenez and Quentin Dupieux’s fantasy comedy Mandibles. On TV, she co-starred with Jonathan Cohen on the recent first season of the Canal+ reality TV dating spoof comedy La Flamme.
Exarchopoulos was just 19 when she, co-star Léa Seydoux and director Abdellatif Kechiche in a rare feat shared the top Cannes honor for the drama. That led to roles including in Sean Penn’s The Last Face with Charlize Theron and Javier Bardem, Michaël R. Roskam’s Racer and the Jailbird, Ralph Fiennes’ The White Crow and Justine Triet’s Sibyl.
Her credits...
The move comes as the French-born actor has several projects in the works. In film, that includes the French crime drama Bac Nord directed by Cédric Jimenez and Quentin Dupieux’s fantasy comedy Mandibles. On TV, she co-starred with Jonathan Cohen on the recent first season of the Canal+ reality TV dating spoof comedy La Flamme.
Exarchopoulos was just 19 when she, co-star Léa Seydoux and director Abdellatif Kechiche in a rare feat shared the top Cannes honor for the drama. That led to roles including in Sean Penn’s The Last Face with Charlize Theron and Javier Bardem, Michaël R. Roskam’s Racer and the Jailbird, Ralph Fiennes’ The White Crow and Justine Triet’s Sibyl.
Her credits...
- 12/12/2020
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Hard hit by the coronavirus pandemic, the Korean film industry, which celebrated its centenary with Bong Joon-ho’s history-making Academy awards for “Parasite” earlier this year, has been in an unprecedented crisis since February.
Since the South Korean government adopted tough social-distancing measures in late February, when the coronavirus was at its peak, cinema business has been largely affected due to local audiences’ growing fear of physical contact with strangers, including theater staff and other audience members.
Major Korean films that were set for theatrical release in March and April had to push their schedules. Cinemas tried to fill up their screening slots with reruns, which have lower marketing costs. Films that delayed their release include “Time to Hunt,” which premiered in Berlinale right before the coronavirus crisis; Lee Chung-hyun’s feature debut “Call”; novelist-turned-director Son Won-pyung’s thriller “Intruder”; and mother-daughter drama “Innocence.”
Not being able to release films in physical cinemas,...
Since the South Korean government adopted tough social-distancing measures in late February, when the coronavirus was at its peak, cinema business has been largely affected due to local audiences’ growing fear of physical contact with strangers, including theater staff and other audience members.
Major Korean films that were set for theatrical release in March and April had to push their schedules. Cinemas tried to fill up their screening slots with reruns, which have lower marketing costs. Films that delayed their release include “Time to Hunt,” which premiered in Berlinale right before the coronavirus crisis; Lee Chung-hyun’s feature debut “Call”; novelist-turned-director Son Won-pyung’s thriller “Intruder”; and mother-daughter drama “Innocence.”
Not being able to release films in physical cinemas,...
- 6/25/2020
- by Sonia Kil
- Variety Film + TV
Hard hit by the coronavirus pandemic, the Korean film industry, which celebrated its centenary with Bong Joon-ho’s history-making Academy awards for “Parasite” earlier this year, has been in an unprecedented crisis since February.
Since the South Korean government adopted tough social distancing measures in late February, when the coronavirus was at its peak, cinema business has been largely affected due to local audiences’ growing fear of physical contact with strangers, including cinema staff and other audience members.
Major Korean films that were set for theatrical release in March and April had to push their schedules. Cinemas tried to fill up their screening slots with re-runs, which have lower marketing costs. Films that delayed their release include “Time to Hunt,” which premiered in Berlinale right before the coronavirus crisis; Lee Chung-hyun’s feature debut “Call”; novelist-turned-director Son Won-pyung’s thriller “Intruder”; and mother-daughter drama “Innocence.”
Not being able to release films in physical cinemas,...
Since the South Korean government adopted tough social distancing measures in late February, when the coronavirus was at its peak, cinema business has been largely affected due to local audiences’ growing fear of physical contact with strangers, including cinema staff and other audience members.
Major Korean films that were set for theatrical release in March and April had to push their schedules. Cinemas tried to fill up their screening slots with re-runs, which have lower marketing costs. Films that delayed their release include “Time to Hunt,” which premiered in Berlinale right before the coronavirus crisis; Lee Chung-hyun’s feature debut “Call”; novelist-turned-director Son Won-pyung’s thriller “Intruder”; and mother-daughter drama “Innocence.”
Not being able to release films in physical cinemas,...
- 6/25/2020
- by Sonia Kil
- Variety Film + TV
Gaumont has acquired French distribution and international sales rights to Melanie Laurent’s period mystery thriller “The Mad Women’s Ball” which is being produced by Alain Goldman’s Legende Films.
Based on the award-wining novel by Victoria Mas “Le Bal des folles,” “The Mad Women’s Ball” will be headlined by up-and-coming French actress Lou de Laâge (pictured) and Laurent, the popular actress of “Inglorious Basterds,” “Enemy,” and most recently “6 Underground” and “Operation Finale.”
The pair last worked on Laurent’s critically acclaimed feature debut “Breathe” which world premiered at Cannes’ Critics Week in 2014. Now a well-established helmer, Laurent is getting reading to shoot the WW2 drama “The Nightingale” with Elle and Dakota Fanning.
The story of “The Mad Women’s Ball” takes place at the end of the 19th century in Paris, at a time when women deemed too rebellious or difficult were frequently labeled as insane and institutionalized.
Based on the award-wining novel by Victoria Mas “Le Bal des folles,” “The Mad Women’s Ball” will be headlined by up-and-coming French actress Lou de Laâge (pictured) and Laurent, the popular actress of “Inglorious Basterds,” “Enemy,” and most recently “6 Underground” and “Operation Finale.”
The pair last worked on Laurent’s critically acclaimed feature debut “Breathe” which world premiered at Cannes’ Critics Week in 2014. Now a well-established helmer, Laurent is getting reading to shoot the WW2 drama “The Nightingale” with Elle and Dakota Fanning.
The story of “The Mad Women’s Ball” takes place at the end of the 19th century in Paris, at a time when women deemed too rebellious or difficult were frequently labeled as insane and institutionalized.
- 6/15/2020
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
The film’s star Ma Dong-seok (aka Don Lee) has returned from shooting on Marvel’s The Eternals.
South Korea’s K-Movie Entertainment has announced pre-sales on fantasy action film Spiritwalker and changes to The Outlaws sequel, newly titled The Roundup, with the film’s star Ma Dong-seok (aka Don Lee) returned from shooting on Marvel’s The Eternals.
Previously known as Out Of Body (working title), Spiritwalker sold to Taiwan (Catchplay), Cis and the Baltic States (New Film), Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and Vietnam (Clover Films Distribution), India, Middle East and Thailand (Paragon Films), the Philippines (Viva Communications) and world...
South Korea’s K-Movie Entertainment has announced pre-sales on fantasy action film Spiritwalker and changes to The Outlaws sequel, newly titled The Roundup, with the film’s star Ma Dong-seok (aka Don Lee) returned from shooting on Marvel’s The Eternals.
Previously known as Out Of Body (working title), Spiritwalker sold to Taiwan (Catchplay), Cis and the Baltic States (New Film), Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and Vietnam (Clover Films Distribution), India, Middle East and Thailand (Paragon Films), the Philippines (Viva Communications) and world...
- 2/22/2020
- by 134¦Jean Noh¦516¦
- ScreenDaily
The Roundup (La Rafle)
by Rose Bosch (Isa: Legende). U.S. Menemsha. France: Gaumont, TF1, Canal +, France Television
Until the 1990s when then-Prime Minister Jacques Chirac officially accepted the idea of French complicity for the Vichy regime of France, all Frenchmen seem to have claimed to have been part of DeGaulle’s Resistance Movement. Recently, the new Prime Minister Hollande apologized again for France’s role in rounding up the Jews, especially 13,000 in Paris who were herded into the Vel’ Hive (The Winter Velodrome). Because of the acknowledgement, filmmaker and former journalist Rose Bosch could raise private equity to make the feature The Roundup (La Rafle) on the same subject. With a 47% increase in Anti-Semitism in France, when the film aired on TV, Twitter was inundated with Anti-Semitic remarks and jokes which is frightening today to those whose ideals remain on the side of democratic multi-culturalism.
No Place On Earth (The Cave)
by Emmy Award winning director Janet Tobias (Isa: Global Screen GMBh). U.S. contact Submarine
The longest recorded underground survival story in human history was 511 days. This record was set when 5 Jewish families in the Ukraine who descended into a pitch black cave to escape the Nazis.
The Third Half
by Darko Mitrevski, Macedonia's submission for Oscar Nomination for est Foreign Language Film (Isa: The Little Film Co.).
Determined to build the best football club in the country, Dimitry hires the German coach, Rudolph Spitz, to galvanize his rag tag team but when the first Nazi tanks roll through the city in 1939. When Rebecca, the beautiful Jewish daughter of a local banker, elopes with his star player, all Dimitry’s plans must change. The Third Half was born twelve years ago, while the director Darko Metrevski was digging up forgotten stories for a historical TV series. "I remember that, while I was seeking witnesses of various historic periods, someone mentioned the old Mrs. Neta Koen, recently interviewed by the Shoah Visual History Foundation. Soon I found myself in her apartment listening to her stories: She was one of the few Holocaust survivors in Macedonia, a country in which 98% of the Jewish population was brutally wiped out during the WW2. I remember I couldn’t resist asking: “Pardon my curiosity, but how did you survive?” She answered with equal sincerity: “Well, I eloped with a poor football player, and my family renounced me, so my name was not on the lists for deportation. My forbidden love saved my life and the continuity of my family tree as well.” And of course, as in every big, important, monumental event – there is a woman behind all of that.
"Finally, it is a story of my grandfather Vlastimir, a soccer referee and a Holocaust survivor whose written remembrances were the first horrible experience of my childhood.This movie is dedicated to the loving memory of my father, who taught me that creating art is like playing sports – one should never give up as long as his feet stand on the pitch."
Upcoming: Sylvain Bursztejn of Sequoia Films in Paris is now shooting The Last Man in Cologne directed by Pierre-Henry Salfati.
by Rose Bosch (Isa: Legende). U.S. Menemsha. France: Gaumont, TF1, Canal +, France Television
Until the 1990s when then-Prime Minister Jacques Chirac officially accepted the idea of French complicity for the Vichy regime of France, all Frenchmen seem to have claimed to have been part of DeGaulle’s Resistance Movement. Recently, the new Prime Minister Hollande apologized again for France’s role in rounding up the Jews, especially 13,000 in Paris who were herded into the Vel’ Hive (The Winter Velodrome). Because of the acknowledgement, filmmaker and former journalist Rose Bosch could raise private equity to make the feature The Roundup (La Rafle) on the same subject. With a 47% increase in Anti-Semitism in France, when the film aired on TV, Twitter was inundated with Anti-Semitic remarks and jokes which is frightening today to those whose ideals remain on the side of democratic multi-culturalism.
No Place On Earth (The Cave)
by Emmy Award winning director Janet Tobias (Isa: Global Screen GMBh). U.S. contact Submarine
The longest recorded underground survival story in human history was 511 days. This record was set when 5 Jewish families in the Ukraine who descended into a pitch black cave to escape the Nazis.
The Third Half
by Darko Mitrevski, Macedonia's submission for Oscar Nomination for est Foreign Language Film (Isa: The Little Film Co.).
Determined to build the best football club in the country, Dimitry hires the German coach, Rudolph Spitz, to galvanize his rag tag team but when the first Nazi tanks roll through the city in 1939. When Rebecca, the beautiful Jewish daughter of a local banker, elopes with his star player, all Dimitry’s plans must change. The Third Half was born twelve years ago, while the director Darko Metrevski was digging up forgotten stories for a historical TV series. "I remember that, while I was seeking witnesses of various historic periods, someone mentioned the old Mrs. Neta Koen, recently interviewed by the Shoah Visual History Foundation. Soon I found myself in her apartment listening to her stories: She was one of the few Holocaust survivors in Macedonia, a country in which 98% of the Jewish population was brutally wiped out during the WW2. I remember I couldn’t resist asking: “Pardon my curiosity, but how did you survive?” She answered with equal sincerity: “Well, I eloped with a poor football player, and my family renounced me, so my name was not on the lists for deportation. My forbidden love saved my life and the continuity of my family tree as well.” And of course, as in every big, important, monumental event – there is a woman behind all of that.
"Finally, it is a story of my grandfather Vlastimir, a soccer referee and a Holocaust survivor whose written remembrances were the first horrible experience of my childhood.This movie is dedicated to the loving memory of my father, who taught me that creating art is like playing sports – one should never give up as long as his feet stand on the pitch."
Upcoming: Sylvain Bursztejn of Sequoia Films in Paris is now shooting The Last Man in Cologne directed by Pierre-Henry Salfati.
- 11/9/2012
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Title: La Rafle (The Roundup) Menemsha Films Director: Rose Bosch Screenwriter: Rose Bosch Cast: Jean Reno, Mélanie Laurent, Gad Elmaleh, Hugo Leverdez Screened at: Broadway, NYC, 8/23/12 Opens: October 5, 2012 Many people are aware that the Holocaust was perpetrated on Jews by Germany but not so many realize that the roundups could not have been so efficient if the Germans did not have help from people in the occupied territories. Perhaps the worst case of collaboration between Germans and locals was that involving the French police, whose rationalization may have been that they were following orders of the people in authority but in reality could have refused to obey [ Read More ]...
- 8/24/2012
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
Film attempts to recreate the terror of the 1942 Rafle du Vel d'Hiv, in which 13,000 Jews were rounded up in Paris
When, in 1995, Joseph Weismann reflected on the chances of a film being made about the horrors he witnessed in the thick heat of a Parisian summer more than 50 years earlier, his answer was uttered through tears: "I don't think that anyone would ever dare."
Tomorrow, 15 years after his words were broadcast on television, and almost 70 years on from arguably the most terrible and taboo episode in modern French history, Weismann will be proved wrong. For the first time since 19 July 1942, when about 13,000 French Jews were rounded up by members of their own country's police force and locked inside a velodrome in western Paris, before being taken to concentration camps, a film director has attempted to recreate the terror of the Rafle du Vel d'Hiv.
A harrowing drama following the events...
When, in 1995, Joseph Weismann reflected on the chances of a film being made about the horrors he witnessed in the thick heat of a Parisian summer more than 50 years earlier, his answer was uttered through tears: "I don't think that anyone would ever dare."
Tomorrow, 15 years after his words were broadcast on television, and almost 70 years on from arguably the most terrible and taboo episode in modern French history, Weismann will be proved wrong. For the first time since 19 July 1942, when about 13,000 French Jews were rounded up by members of their own country's police force and locked inside a velodrome in western Paris, before being taken to concentration camps, a film director has attempted to recreate the terror of the Rafle du Vel d'Hiv.
A harrowing drama following the events...
- 3/9/2010
- by Lizzy Davies
- The Guardian - Film News
France's Gaumont Pictures produced the 2010 highly ambitious — and potentially controversial — movie The Round Up, written and directed by Roselyne Bosch (who also wrote and directed the 2005 psychological horror film Animal). The Round Up (La Rafle) will tackle the subject of French collaboration with the atrocities of The Holocaust...
Budgeted at E20 million ($26.4 million) and set during the second World War, The Round Up is about a French police operation involving 9,000 officers, which rounded up 13,000 Jews, mostly the elderly, women and children, on the night of July 16, 1942. Most were kept at Paris' Velodrome d'Hiver sports stadium; many were sent on to Auschwitz. The operation was ordered by France's Vichy government.
"America has a lot of movies, about Vietnam, the CIA, the Iraq War. This round-up is probably the biggest tragedy in French history, but it's never been told in film," producer Alain Goldman said.
The Round Up stars Jean Reno and...
Budgeted at E20 million ($26.4 million) and set during the second World War, The Round Up is about a French police operation involving 9,000 officers, which rounded up 13,000 Jews, mostly the elderly, women and children, on the night of July 16, 1942. Most were kept at Paris' Velodrome d'Hiver sports stadium; many were sent on to Auschwitz. The operation was ordered by France's Vichy government.
"America has a lot of movies, about Vietnam, the CIA, the Iraq War. This round-up is probably the biggest tragedy in French history, but it's never been told in film," producer Alain Goldman said.
The Round Up stars Jean Reno and...
- 11/4/2009
- by Superheidi
- Planet Fury
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