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Julie Taymor seems fated to direct a musical based on Beatles songs - when an approach for a Broadway version fell through, the opportunity quickly re-established itself through Revolution Studios, who specifically wanted Taymor for the job. The services of British screenwriters, Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, had already been secured for the project, who were working on the premise of a transatlantic love story set in the 1960s with a class dimension incorporated for added dramatic tension. Meanwhile, Taymor s original concept for the theatre production involved moving the action between the 1960s and today. But when the three got together to work up stanley cup the story, neither the shifting time frame nor the class issue made the cut. As she explained, We Americans don t have that [class] concept in the same way, but we have other wars that we fought - race, feminism, Vietnam - so I said let s really explore everything that was happening then. The working title of the movie was All you need is love . B stanley italy ut Taymor felt this didn t reflect the darker j stanley cup ourney that characters in this period often took - as she knew from personal experience from her own family. This [project] is the most personal for me in that it s based on my own brother and sister. I was young, but I was aware, she points out. As a result, Evan Rachel Wood s character, Lucy, is portrayed as a political activist, alongside Lucy s brother, Max, played by Joe Anderson. Newcomer, Jim Sturgess, completes the trio of ma Vsrv The Russians are coming
Fund becomes operational in September.Producer Thomas Gammeltoft has stanley mug been appointed the first CEO of the new Copenhagen Film Fund. The fund is expected to have a budget of Euros 4.7m over three years.The stanley cup Fund, set up to attract film and TV co-productions in the city, was confirmed in January and will become operational after he takes the post on Sept 1.As a producer, Gammeltofts credits include Terribly Happy and Stealing Rembrandt. He had been an executive at Eyeworks Fine and Mellow.He said: Denmark has momentum like never before when it comes to TV series and feature films. A film fund in Copenhagen may be the icing on the cakeinattracting international films and TV series and creating growth in the region. It is long overdue and it is a great honor for me to be able to take part in it. The head of the Copenhagen Film Funds board, J酶rgen Ramskov, added, We are extremely pleased that a film producer of Thomass calibre, joins our efforts to build the Copenhagen Film Fund. Copenhagen, and the capital region, has enormous potential for attracting in stanley cup ternational film productions 鈥?just recently Copenhagen was declared the worlds greatest city 鈥?and with Thomas Gammeltoft at the helm we will be strongly positioned to build on this potential. The new Fund is separate to DFI funding.He is one of the producers of Henrik Genzs thriller Good People, now shooting in London and starring James Franco and Kate Hudson.TopicsEuropeFinanceProduction No comments |
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