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Jersey Girl DVD Extras
...Disc Extras Static menu with music Scene Access with 18 cues and remote access Subtitles/Captions in English, Spanish with remote access 5 Other Trailer(s) featuring Raising Helen, Finding Neverland, Shall We Dance?, Dear Frankie, The Alamo.10 Deleted Scenes ......
DEAR FRANKIE
(U.K.) A Miramax Films (U.S.)/Pathe Distribution (U.K.) release of a Pathe Pictures presentation in association with U.K. Film Council, Scottish Screen of a Scorpio Films production in association with Sigma Films, Inside Track Prods. Produced by Caroline Wood....
TENTH ANNUAL LOS ANGELES FILM FESTIVAL AWARD WINNERS ANNOUNCED
LOS ANGELES – Dawn Hudson, Executive Director of IFP/Los Angeles, announced today the winners for the Tenth Annual Los Angeles Film Festival including the winner of the Target Filmmaker Award (for Best Narrative Feature), which went to Ferenc Toth for "Unknown...
Star Turn: First, the Stranger, then stranger still
Scot Gerard Butler plays a guest father in 'Dear Frankie' before becoming the Phantom. [img]http://www.gerardbutler.net/4images/data/media/20/latimes_092604.jpg[/img] Few actors can do the "tall, dark and handsome" thing well enough to pull off a character known...
Dear Frankie Review
This moving Scottish drama has a strongly emotional punch that, nicely, never turns sappy or sentimental at all. Lizzie (Mortimer) is on the run again, moving with her 9-year-old son Frankie and her cantankerous mother (Riggans) to a new flat so her ex doesn't find...
FILM PRODUCERS TOUR SCHOOLS IN SEARCH OF DEAF BOY FOR STAR ROLE
A SCHOOLBOY is to get a chance of film stardom with a leading role in a pounds 3 million feature film to be shot in Scotland in the spring. The lucky youngster will follow in the footsteps of such recent discoveries as Martin Compston and Kathleen McDermott, who won...
Foreign films outshine American entries at Idaho International Film Festival
The Egyptian theatre was one of three venues in down town Boise participating in this years Idaho International Film Festival. The Flicks and Boise Center on the Grove were also participants . Over fifty films filled three theaters for four days as Boise residents...
THE RAZZ: MOVIE REVIEWS: FILM FESTIVAL THE HIGHLIGHTS
SCOTLAND is well represented at this year's 58th Edinburgh Film Festival - and it's probably just as well. Insiders claim there will be announcements next week about stars coming to the capital. But, for the moment, the films don't boast many big guns, leaving room...
Dear Frankie en el 2005
Vista estrenará en abril del próximo año el drama Dear Frankie. Lizzie (Mortimer) lleva años huyendo del padre de su hijo Frankie un niño sordo, a través de Escocia. En su huída, Lizzie ha creado una historia ficticia en la que el padre está permanente embarcado en un...
Interview – Cannes – Gerard Butler
His last two big movies have been Tomb Raider 2 and Timeline, but don’t hold that against him. Gerard Butler was the best thing in both those movies, and the tall, dark and handsome Scottish actor is on the verge of big things. Refreshingly down-to-earth, the 34...
Greenock reel outsider to be shown at Cannes
A LOW-budget Scottish film shot in Greenock is to be shown at the Cannes Film Festival next month, making a dramatic late entry to one of the world's most prestigious events. The appearance of Dear Frankie, starring Emily Mortimer and Gerard Butler, alongside the...
Tribeca festgoers cross the party line
NEW YORK --- Tribeca bashes finished off with full downtown flair this past weekend, with slick back-to-back soirees at some of the neighborhood's grooviest destinations. Friday night featured a 20th anni bash for U.K.-based indie Working Title ("has it really been 20...
SCOTS’ CANNES-DO ATTITUDE
ALTHOUGH it is not necessarily a strong year for British film at Cannes, there will be a Scottish presence in the south of France this week, determinedly keeping the country's film industry foremost in the minds of distributors and directors. One Scottish filmmaker...
US studio snaps up British tearjerker
A GENTLE low-budget British film could be one of the surprise hits of the year after being seized by Miramax, the American movie giant, for initial screening in the United States rather than Britain. It is extremely rare for a British film to be shown in America...
Dear Frankie goes to Hollywood ;Acclaim for simple family drama shot in Greenock
HOLLYWOOD has embraced a low-budget Scottish film about a deaf boy from Greenock - in contrast to British reviewers who dismissed it as sentimental. Film reviewers from Hollywood, where Dear Frankie has already won a major distribution deal, loved the simple tale. In...
A Cannes debut that’s straight from a Hollywood script
TO have your debut feature film in the Un Certain Regard section at Cannes is achievement enough. To attract rave reviews from influential US critics, and a standing ovation from your first paying audience, is verging on the unheard of. Little wonder that the director...
Hollywood comes to Glasgow as Gerard brings film home
Gerard Butler, tipped by some to be the new James Bond, is to star in Natural History, which starts filming in the city later this month. The 34-year-old actor will star with Emily Mortimer and fellow Glasgow actor Sharon Small in the family drama. It also marks a...
Lake Placid Boosts Number of Films for Fifth-Annual June Event
Kyle MacLachlan in Ian Iqbal Rashid's "Touch of Pink," which will play on opening night at the Lake Placid Film Festival. Photo courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics. The fifth-annual Lake Placid Film Festival has announced this year's lineup, with a conscious effort to...
Notting Hill star filming in to
Emily Mortimer on location filming Natural History WELL-KNOWN actress Emily Mortimer is shooting a film in Greenock, Gourock and Port Glasgow over the next seven weeks. In the movie, called Natural History, she plays a single mother who bizarrely hires a father for...
The unknown Scots who stole the Cannes Festival
AS RAGS-to-riches tales go, this is one of the more remarkable of British cinematic success stories. It is, after all, the film from nowhere, made by unknowns for a pittance, that yesterday stunned the Cannes critics and stole the heart of canny Miramax supremo Harvey...