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Christophe Gans Takes On ‘Beauty And The Beast’ With Vincent Cassel, Léa Seydoux

By NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor | Friday February 10, 2012 @ 12:17am PSTTags: Lea Seydoux, Vincent Cassel

Beauty And The Beast is having quite the resurgence these days. There are 2 TV pilots in the works with the fairy tale as source material and now there’s going to be a new film adaptation courtesy of Christophe Gans. The picture marks a return to the big screen for the Silent Hill director after a six-year absence. France’s Eskwad and Pathé are teaming on the project to star Vincent Cassel and Léa Seydoux (who’ve both found steady work at home and in Hollywood). Richard Grandpierre is producing with principal photography to start in October this year. Gans has a pretty big cult following. He was part of a “new” new wave back in the late ’90s in France with Brotherhood Of The Wolf. On this film, he says he wants to “unleash” his imagination and “surprise the audience by creating a completely new visual universe never experienced before.” Pathé will sell the film internationally.

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‘Trance’ Scribe Joe Ahearne Makes Thriller Pitch Deal To Warner Bros

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday October 14, 2011 @ 12:40pm PDTTags: Dan Lin, Danny Boyle, Idris Elba, John Hodge, Rawson Thurber, Rosario Dawson, Stephen Moyer, Vincent Cassel, Warner Bros
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Hot off co-writing Trance for director Danny Boyle, Joe Ahearne has sold an untitled supernatural thriller pitch to Warner Bros. Dan Lin will produce under his Lin Pictures banner. Lin’s veep Jon Silk came up with an idea they are keeping under wraps and Ahearne expanded it before they … Read More »

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Rosario Dawson And Vincent Cassel To Join James McAvoy In Danny Boyle’s ‘Trance’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday July 27, 2011 @ 1:00pm PDTTags: Christian Colson, Danny Boyle, David Cronenberg, James McAvoy, John Hodge, Rosario Dawson, Trance, Vincent Cassel
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Rosario Dawson has won the hotly contested female lead in the Danny Boyle-directed Fox Searchlight drama Trance. She is poised to join James McAvoy and Vincent Cassel, who are both in negotiations to play the male leads in a film that will start production in September. McAvoy’s in talks to play the inside man in an art heist that goes wrong. He runs afoul of an accomplice (Cassel), and Dawson will play a woman who develops an unusual relationship with both men in a thriller that is as moderately budget and edgy as Shallow Grave and Trainspotting. Joe Ahearne and John Hodge wrote the script.

Deadline was first to reveal Trance in early May, when Boyle decided to work in a follow-up to 127 Hours even as he prepares to direct the opening ceremonies of next summer’s Olympics in London. He’s re-teaming with frequent producing collaborator Christian Colson. They will shoot the movie in the fall in London, then put it on a shelf while Boyle devotes himself to the Olympics beginning in January. When the games are over, Boyle will start cutting the film in August 2012 with the goal of having the picture ready for Fox Searchlight to release it in March 2013. Read More »

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Hot Trailer: ‘A Dangerous Method’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday June 23, 2011 @ 6:34am PDTTags: A Dangerous Method, Keira Knightley, Michael Fassbender, Movie Trailer, Sony Pictures Classics, Viggo Mortensen, Vincent Cassel
Mike Fleming

A new international trailer is up for A Dangerous Method, the drama involving psychiatrists Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud. Sony Pictures Classics releases the film later this year. It stars Keira Knightley, Viggo Mortensen, Michael Fassbender and Vincent Cassel.

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Venice Confirms ‘Black Swan’ As Opener

By TIM ADLER in London | Thursday July 22, 2010 @ 4:58am PDTTags: 67th Venice International Film Festival, Ballet, Black Swan, Black Swan Venice Film Festival, Darren Aronofsky, Fox Searchlight, Mila Kunis, Natalie Portman, Psychological Thriller, Venice Film Festival Opener, Venice International Film Festival, Vincent Cassel, Winona Ryder

Darren Aronofsky’s ballet psychological thriller will open the 67th Venice International Film Festival on September 1. Natalie Portman stars as a ballerina who finds herself locked in a web of competitive intrigue with new rival Mila Kunis. Vincent Cassel, Barbara Hershey and Winona Ryder also star in the Fox Searchlight … Read More »

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France Mulls Film Tax Break Clampdown

By TIM ADLER in London | Wednesday July 7, 2010 @ 4:50am PDTTags: President Nicolas Sarkozy, Vanessa Paradis, Vincent Cassel

eurosThe government is talking about reducing the total amount people can write off their tax bills by 10%. France is trying to tackle its national debt crisis just like every other European country. This would be bad news for France’s Sofica … Read More »

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