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Steven Spielberg Developing Stanley Kubrick’s ‘Napoleon’ As TV Miniseries

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Sunday March 3, 2013 @ 2:09pm PSTTags: Napoleon, Stanley Kubrick, Steven Spielberg

It was a screenplay first written by Stanley Kubrick back in 1961 and now Steven Spielberg says he’s working with the late filmmaker’s estate on the project. “I’ve been developing Stanley Kubrick’s screenplay, for a miniseries not for a motion picture, about the life of Napoleon,” Spielberg recently told the French TV network Canal+. Kubrick left behind extensive research archives - location photos, notes and boxes of other details which provided a book on the subject. But studios balked at the expensive project. (Kubrick eventually made Barry Lyndon which takes place 15 years before the Napoleonic wars.) Spielberg’s 2001 A.I. began as a Kubrick project. The Napoleon news comes after Spielberg delayed Robopocalypse. Recently named jury president for the Cannes Film Festival in May, he’s producing Jurassic Park IV in 3D for June 2014, and developing another HBO series with Tom Hanks. Still pending is whether he’ll take on the Moses epic Gods And Kings for Warner Bros.

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Stanley Kubrick To Be Honored By Motion Picture Academy

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Monday October 29, 2012 @ 2:19pm PDTTags: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Stanley Kubrick

BEVERLY HILLS, CA – The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will celebrate the life and career of filmmaker Stanley Kubrick on Wednesday, November 7, at 7:30 p.m. at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. Hosted by Malcolm McDowell, the evening features film clips and personal remembrances by his friends and collaborators, including Paul Mazursky, Ryan O’Neal and Matthew Modine. The salute is presented in association with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), leading off its retrospective screening series “2012: A Kubrick Odyssey,” and in conjunction with its exhibition “Stanley Kubrick.”

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Global Showbiz Briefs: Fox’s Spanish-U.S. Series, Kubrick Restoration, Dinard Festival

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday September 12, 2012 @ 11:29pm PDTTags: Stanley Kubrick

Fox Developing Thriller With Paco Plaza For Spain, U.S. TV
Paco PlazaFox Television Studios has entered into a development deal with acclaimed Spanish writer-director Paco Plaza for the series Hamelin, a one-hour horror/thriller to air in Spain. Concurrently, Plaza will work with Fox to adapt the project in English for the U.S. market. Hamelin, inspired by the tale of the Pied Piper, follows a team of FBI agents trying to solve the disappearance of five children in a small town. In the process detectives uncover a terrifying series of supernatural threats. Plaza is perhaps best known for writing and directing one of the most successful global horror movie franchises: REC and REC2. The Plaza-directed prequel REC: Genesis screened earlier this year at South By Southwest.

Kubrick’s Rarely Seen First Film Restored For Home Video
Blu-ray and DVD editions of a restored version of Stanley Kubrick’s first feature Fear And Desire will be released in late January 2013 as one of Eureka Entertainment’s Masters Of Cinema Series. The restoration carried out by The Library of Congress in conjunction with Kino Lorber marks the movie’s home video debut in the United Kingdom. Fear And Desire is the story of a mysterious war between unidentified forces in which a plane carrying four soldiers crashes behind enemy lines. The Eureka edition will also see a fresh release of Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange.
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1st Kubrick U.S. Museum Retrospective

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday August 16, 2012 @ 10:53am PDTTags: Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, Stanley Kubrick

(Los Angeles-August 16, 2012) The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (The Academy) are pleased to co-present the first U.S. retrospective of filmmaker Stanley Kubrick, developed in collaboration with the Kubrick Estate and the Deutsches Filmmuseum, Frankfurt. The exhibition provides access to the director’s extraordinary vision and working methods while illuminating the network of influences and conditions that came together to make his films universally regarded as modern masterpieces. The Los Angeles presentation is made possible by a generous gift from Steve Tisch.

“By featuring this legendary filmmaker and his oeuvre in his first retrospective within the context of an art museum, Stanley Kubrick will reevaluate how we define the artist in the twenty-first century, and simultaneously expand upon LACMA’s commitment to exploring the intersection of art and film,” said Michael Govan, CEO and Wallis Annenberg Director of LACMA. “We are also pleased to honor Kubrick’s impact on film and art history at our 2012 Art + Film Gala, along with artist Ed Ruscha, on October 27.”

“Stanley Kubrick represents the perfect opportunity to collaborate with LACMA on the presentation of film in a museum setting,” said Dawn Hudson, Academy CEO. “It is a taste of things to come when we open the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in the historic Wilshire May Company building on the LACMA campus.”

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IFC Midnight Picks Up Stanley Kubrick ‘Shining’ Documentary ‘Room 237′

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Monday April 23, 2012 @ 11:09am PDTTags: IFC Midnight, Stanley Kubrick, The Shining

Stanley Kubrick Room 237New York, NY -April 23 2012 – IFC Midnight announced today that the company is acquiring North American rights to director Rodney Ascher’s highly acclaimed documentary ROOM 237 which concerns the theories surrounding and within Stanley Kubrick’s film THE SHINING. The film, which was produced by Tim Kirk and scored by Jonathan Snipes and William Hutson, recently played at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. IFC Midnight plans to release the film theatrically this year.

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Sundance Kubrick Doc ‘Room 237′ Lands At IFC Films

By BRIAN BROOKS | Wednesday February 8, 2012 @ 10:00am PSTTags: 2012 Sundance Film Festival, Stanley Kubrick, The Shining

Exclusive: IFC Films has picked up Sundance ’12 Stanley Kubrick doc Room 237. A world premiere in the festival’s New Frontier section, the experimental documentary directed by Rodney Ascher explores the numerous theories about the “real meaning” of … Read More »

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