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French Film 'You Are So Handsome' Getting Remade
Filed under: Drama », Foreign Language », Romance », Deals », Remakes and Sequels », Cinematical Indie »
The subject of mail-order brides could make a decent Hollywood romantic comedy. But thanks to the disappointing box office of Birthday Girl, which was especially surprising given the film stars Nicole Kidman, I'm sure that no big studios are interested in the idea. One U.S. producer, though, is banking on the chance audiences may still go for the concept. Diane Nabatoff (Narc) has made a deal to remake the French film You Are So Handsome (aka You Are So Beautiful -- the original title is Je Vous Trouve Très Beau). The little film, which was a sleeper hit in France and which played the 2006 Seattle International Film Festival, starred Michel Blanc as a widowed farmer who purchases a new bride to help out with the chores. If you understand French -- or even if you don't, I guess -- you can check out the film's trailer and see if you'd like to see an American version.In some ways the pic looks similar to one of my favorite films of last year, Sweet Land. It also seems a little like an older film I didn't see, but which was also produced by Nabatoff, titled Holy Matrimony. However, neither of those films were specifically about mail-order brides, and neither of them made a lot of money. Other recent mail-order bride movies that nobody saw include Mail Order Wife (interesting tidbit: this was made by Cherry Road Films, which is also making Joe Carnahan's White Jazz, which Nabatoff is producing) and Mail Order Bride, which stars Danny Aiello. Hopefully, at least for Nabatoff's sake, this remake will be much more popular.
Making Films Environmentally Friendly
Filed under: Drama », Independent », New Releases », Tech Stuff », DIY/Filmmaking », Newsstand », Politics », Cinematical Indie »
There are plenty of ways to promote a movie, but Sweet Land by Ali Selim might be the first to try and use the label "Environmentally Friendly" as a selling point. The real question is: Do audiences even care?The environmental impact of movie making is something most of us have never given any thought to -- after all, it's not exactly the sexiest topic in the industry. Yahoo! News spoke to Sweet Land director Ali Selim about the decision to run a "carbon-neutral" production. What that means is that the production calculated all of the carbon dioxide emitted during the production. The total was measured against the productions investment in renewable energy -- Selim chose to invest in a reforestation project in Germany and a windmill project in Jamaica. The emissions report cost the filmmakers five thousand dollars to perform plus the cost of their investments. Selim extended this eco-friendly way of shooting into all aspects of the production. He encouraged the crew to carpool, maximized location shooting to limit traveling, and even used natural light whenever possible.
Sweet Land is not the first film to use this model, both Syriana and An Inconvenient Truth commissioned similar reports. As admirable as Selim's method might be, is "environmental friendliness" the best marketing strategy? It seems pretty unlikely that an audience would flock to a movie because it got great "emission reviews." Would a film's impact on the environment impact your decision to see it?
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