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Coens’ ‘Inside Llewyn Davis’ To Tour Canada With Mongrel Media

By ERIK PEDERSEN | Thursday May 16, 2013 @ 2:35pm PDTTags: Inside Llewyn Davis, Joel and Ethan Coen, Mongrel Media, Scott Rudin

TORONTO, CANADA (May 16, 2013) – Mongrel Media announced today that the company
has acquired all Canadian rights to INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS.  Written and directed
by Oscar winners Joel and Ethan Coen, and produced by Scott Rudin, and Joel and
Ethan Coen, the film stars Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan, John Goodman, Garrett
Hedlund, F. Murray Abraham and Justin Timberlake.

INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS follows a week in the life of a young folk singer as he
navigates the Greenwich Village folk scene of 1961.  Llewyn Davis (Oscar Isaac)
is at a crossroads.  Guitar in tow, huddled against the unforgiving New York
winter, he is struggling to make it as a musician against seemingly
insurmountable obstacles—some of them of his own making.  Living at the mercy of
both friends and strangers, scaring up what work he can find, Llewyn’s
misadventures take him from the basket houses of the Village to an empty Chicago
club—on an odyssey to audition for music mogul Bud Grossman—and back again.
Brimming with music performed by Isaac, Justin Timberlake and Carey Mulligan
(as Llewyn’s married Village friends), as well as Marcus Mumford and Punch
Brothers, INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS —in the tradition of O Brother, Where Art Thou?—is
infused with the transportive sound of another time and place. An epic on an
intimate scale, it represents the Coen Brothers’ fourth collaboration with Oscar
and Grammy Award-winning music producer T Bone Burnett.

Previous collaborations between the Coen Brothers and Rudin include the
Oscar-winning Best Picture of 2007 No Country for Old Men and the multiple
Oscar-nominated True Grit.

INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS makes its world premiere on Sunday, May 19, when it plays in
Competition at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival.  CBS Films will release the film
in the U.S. beginning in New York and LA on December 6, with an expansion on
December 20.  Mongrel Media will open with a limited release on December 20,
followed by expansion on January 10, 2014.

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OSCARS: Nervous Anticipation To The End

By PETE HAMMOND | Sunday February 27, 2011 @ 4:11pm PSTTags: 83rd Academy Awards, Academy Awards, Black Swan, Brad Grey Paramount, Colin Firth, Darren Aronofsky, David Seidler, Gwyneth Paltrow, Hans Zimmer, Helen Mirren, Joel and Ethan Coen, Movies, Natalie Portman, Oscars, Pete Hammond Oscar Coverage, The King's Speech, The Weinstein Co
Pete Hammond

There’s no question this was Hollywood’s biggest week of the year. But now it’s all coming to a close tonight — and not a moment too soon for a lot of nominees at the end of a looooong campaign trail. “Thank God,”  said … Read More »

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‘True Grit’ Co-Financier Skydance Targets ‘Star Blazers’ For Christopher McQuarrie

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday February 21, 2011 @ 10:26am PSTTags: Barbra Streisand, Charlize Theron, Chris Pine, Christopher McQuarrie, Dan Fogelman, David Caspe, David Ellison, Ethan Coen, Jack Bender, Jack Ryan, Joel and Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, Larry Ellison, Legendary Pictures, Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol, Seth Rogen, Shane Salerno, Skydance Productions, Steve Zaillian, Thomas Tull, Tom Cruise, True Grit
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: David Ellison’s Skydance Productions is negotiating a rights deal to turn the 1970s animated science fiction TV series Star Blazers into a large scale live action feature. Ellison will hire Christopher McQuarrie to write the script, with Ellison and … Read More »

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Cameron Diaz Joins Colin Firth In ‘Gambit’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday February 1, 2011 @ 12:09pm PSTTags: Adam Ripp, Cameron Diaz, Colin Firth, Colin Firth Gambit, Joel and Ethan Coen, Michael Caine, Michael Hoffman, Mike Lobell, Movie Deals, Movies, Rob Paris, Shirley MacLaine
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Cameron Diaz is attached to star with Colin Firth in Gambit, the Joel and Ethan Coen-scripted remake that will be directed by The Last Station’s Michael Hoffman. The 1966 original starred Michael Caine and Shirley MacLaine. Mike Lobell is … Read More »

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OSCAR: Joel And Ethan Coen Q&A On ‘True Grit’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday December 22, 2010 @ 3:21pm PSTTags: 83rd Academy Awards, Academy Awards, Coen Brothers True Grit, Hailee Steinfeld, Jeff Bridges, Joel and Ethan Coen, Movies, No Country For Old Men, Oscar Best Picture Category, Oscar Contenders, Oscars, The Coen Brothers, True Grit
Mike Fleming

Considering they’ve rubbed out characters memorably by feeding them through a wood chipper (Fargo) or with a pneumatic cattle slaughtering gun (No Country For Old Men), setting Joel and Ethan Coen loose with a revenge story in the Old West seems a recipe for mayhem. In fact, True Grit turns out to be the most mainstream audience-friendly film they have made in years. Sticking close to the 42-year Charles Portis novel and not even watching the first movie that won John Wayne his Oscar in 1969, the Coens have made a PG-13 adventure film that gives the starring role to teenager Hailee Steinfeld, and surrounds her with such seasoned actors as Jeff Bridges as salty U.S. Marshall Rooster Cogburn, Matt Damon as the blowhard Texas Ranger LaBeouf, and Josh Brolin and Barry Pepper as the ornery outlaws they are chasing. The film opens today, and could add intrigue to the Oscar race.

DEADLINE: How did you find your way to a 40 year old book you’d have been hard pressed to find in a bookstore?
ETHAN COEN: We both knew the book, and we’d both read it, amongst other Charles Portis novels. A few years ago I read it out loud to my son and that was the point we began talking about it, thinking this might be interesting to do.
JOEL COEN: Fully aware there of course there had been this previous movie. But we hadn’t seen that since it came out, and didn’t really remember it very well.

DEADLINE: The book focuses more squarely than the film did on young Mattie, the bright, headstrong teenager determined to see the man who shot her father swing from a rope. What potential did you see in that that overcame the inevitable comparison to a film considered somewhat iconic?
ETHAN COEN: That is what we liked about the book, that it was told in the first person narrative told by the 14-year old character, Mattie Ross. It’s just a very funny book. It has three really great, really vivid characters. Her, Rooster Cogburn and LaBeouf, the Texas Ranger. And it’s a simple pursuit revenge story. It all just seemed promising material for a movie. Which might sound funny because, as you say, there was this iconic movie. Which we were aware of but which we didn’t remember very well.
JOEL COEN: We didn’t revisit it, either.
ETHAN COEN: And in the course of remaking the movie, we didn’t watch the first one. We weren’t much worried about it, though. You say it’s iconic, and that’s very true. But on the other hand, I must say it’s probably iconic for people our age and older. And we’re not the moviegoing demographic anymore. I don’t think younger people have much of a connection to John Wayne, at all. So it didn’t feel like we were trespassing and we didn’t worry about it. We just had this enthusiasm for the novel.

DEADLINE: I should qualify iconic. It’s called that because John Wayne won an Oscar, but many feel that statue was a reward for a career and not that role.
JOEL COEN: That’s what I’ve read about it too, that it was a kind of valedictory thing.
ETHAN COEN: You’ve been around a long time, we love you, here’s an award.

DEADLINE: How did adapting a book like True Grit compare with adapting Cormac McCarthy’s No Country For Old Men?
ETHAN COEN: Not dissimilar, actually. In the Cormac book that we did, we had this similar issue. Read More »

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Colin Firth In Talks For ‘Gambit’ Redo

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday December 13, 2010 @ 11:04am PSTTags: Colin Firth, Colin Firth Gambit, Gambit, Gambit Remake, Joel and Ethan Coen, Mike Lobell, Movies, The Coen Brothers
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Colin Firth is in talks to star in Gambit, the Joel and Ethan Coen-scripted remake of the 1966 British action comedy that starred Michael Caine and Shirley MacLaine. The Last Station’s Michael Hoffman is directing.

Firth is again in the … Read More »

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OSCAR: Coen Bros ‘True Grit’ Enters Race

By PETE HAMMOND | Wednesday December 1, 2010 @ 1:04pm PSTTags: 83rd Academy Awards, Academy Awards, Deadline Hollywood Pete Hammond, Jeff Bridges, Joel and Ethan Coen, Josh Brolin, Matt Damon, Movies, Oscar Best Picture Category, Oscar Buzz, Oscars, Pete Hammond Oscar Coverage, True Grit
Pete Hammond

UPDATE: True Grit doesn’t open until December 22nd but started screenings this week just under the wire of critics groups and SAG nominating committee deadlines. It’s the last unseen film of this awards season thought to have a serious … Read More »

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‘Gambit’ Remake Gets Funding And Director

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday November 18, 2010 @ 12:22pm PSTTags: Gambit, Gambit Remake, Joel and Ethan Coen, Michael Hoffman, Mike Lobell, Movie Deals, Movies
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Things are finally looking up for Gambit, the Joel and Ethan Coen-scripted remake of the 1966 British caper comedy which originally starred Michael Caine and Shirley MacLaine. Upstart company Crime Scene Pictures has signed on to finance the … Read More »

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