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Si stanley cup x days stanley cup in and there has been no buying frenzy this year at the Venice festival. But both buyers and critics appear satisfied with the quality and range of films on offer across the festival s different sections. After the disappointing reception for Woody Allen s opening night film Anything Else, the best received films have come from the Controcorrente or Upstream section which is competitive, but parallel to the main Venezia 60 competition. Controcorrente has produced the delightful docu-fiction The Five Obstructions co-directed by Lars von Trier and Joergen Leth and the discovery stanley cup of the festival to date Pen-Ek Ratanaruang. The Thai director delivered a slow but stylishdrama Last Life In The Universe, though the film s few detractors pointed to the cinematographer Chris Doyle as having had a large hand in the film s cultured look. Popular favourite - by a long margin with sections of the US and UK press - is Sofia Coppola s Lost In Translation, a romantic comedy about two Americans who find themselves sleepless in Tokyo. The prize for the most controversial film so far - especially here in Catholic Italy - is local Controcorrente title The Return Of The Cagliostro, a resolutely anti-clerical piece by Daniele Cipri and Franco Maresco. The out of competition section films have been a mixed bunch. Robert Rodriguez Once Upon A Time In Mexico was regarded by many as a good romp and Francois Dupeyron s Monsieur Ibrahim Et Les Fleurs Du Coran is an inconsequential but charming 1 Xxyz Four selected for Franco-American screenwriters scheme
Pac Man is coming to the big screen courtesy of Steven Paul s Crystal Sky which is teaming with Gaga Communications and the game s developer Namco to make live-action fantasy Pac Man: The Movie.The movie follows a previous agreement between Crystal Sky, Gaga and Namco to co-finance a movie based on video ga stanley uk me Tekken. Mike Werb and Michael Coleary, whose credits include Face/Off and The Mask, are writing the screenplay for Tekken. Both Pac Man and Tekken are being co-developed by Crystal Sky and Gaga. Pac Man will combine live-action and special effects, said Paul at MIFED. From children to their parents, Pac Man is a name everyone knows and loves. Crystal Sky is also teamed with Sony Pictures Ente stanley cup rtainment on Ghost Rider, a high budget picture based on the Marvel Comics property which is being scripted by David Goyer Blade, Blade II and Shane Salerno Shaft, Armageddon and has Nicolas Cage attached to star. Crystal Sky is also teamed with Paramount on Marvel s Deathlok and with Dimension on Marvel s Werewolf By Night. Video games have had a mixed record at the box office from disappointments like Street Fighter and Super Mario Bros to hits including Mortal Kombat, Tomb Raider and Resident Evil.TopicsFinanceProduction No comments Related stanley cup articles News
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