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Cannes Film Festival 2012: Lawless - The Upcoming


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Cannes Film Festival 2012: Lawless
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This year's Cannes Film Festival is abundant in American productions — six of them in the whole program. Today, an epic American gangster tale — Lawless, directed by John Hillcoat (The Road, The Proposition) — was screened for the first time, ...
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'Lawless' Director John Hillcoat Fires up Cannes 2012 Wall Street Journal (blog)
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EuropaCorp, Relativity ink for co-prods - Variety


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EuropaCorp, Relativity ink for co-prods
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Under the pact, EuropaCorp will continue to fully finance film development. First up is a Besson-penned and -directed gangster thriller, with the working title "Malavita," toplining Robert De Niro as a retired American gangster living with his family ...

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Cannes 2012: How British actors are dominating Hollywood like never before - Telegraph.co.uk


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Cannes 2012: How British actors are dominating Hollywood like never before
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The three major US films in competition all have British actors playing American leads. Tom Hardy is the star of Lawless, a Prohibition-era gangster film in which he plays the toughest of three bootlegging brothers in rural Virginia.

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'Snow White and the Huntsman' director wanted real feeling at its core - Los Angeles Times


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'Snow White and the Huntsman' director wanted real feeling at its core
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"For every Ridley Scott, there's 20 guys who don't make it," said "Snow White" producer Joe Roth, referring to the commercial director who went on to make films including "Gladiator," "Black Hawk Down" and "American Gangster.

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In 'MIB3,' Smith and Jones get suited up again - Boston Globe


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In 'MIB3,' Smith and Jones get suited up again
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Brolin's blown some minds himself in recent years, stepping into a string of remarkable portrayals in “No Country for Old Men,” “True Grit,” “American Gangster,” Woody Allen's “You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger,” Oliver Stone's “W” and “Wall Street: ...

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Cannes critics say Aussie film The Sapphires a gem - NEWS.com.au

Cannes critics say Aussie film The Sapphires a gem
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"It's amazing" he said of his inclusion in the world's most prestigious film festival. The Sapphires tells the story of a group of Aboriginal singers who travel from a mission in Victoria to war-ravaged Vietnam to sing for American troops, following in ...

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Film review: The Dictator - Auckland stuff.co.nz


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Film review: The Dictator
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It is 14 years since British comic Sacha Baron Cohen created his first alter-ego, dimwit wannabe gangster Ali G. Then came male model Bruno and the peripatetic Kazakh, Borat. No longer, you suspect, is there anyone in the western world ready to be ...

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'Stinger' scenes after film credits need to come to an end - Chicago Sun-Times

'Stinger' scenes after film credits need to come to an end
Chicago Sun-Times
The Darth Vader breathing stinger for “Phantom Menace” was probably better than anything in the actual movie. In the stinger for “American Gangster,” Denzel shoots us. But do we really need the stinger that pops up after the credits for “Battleship”?

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Love and rain dominate as Cannes hits half-way mark - AFP


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Love and rain dominate as Cannes hits half-way mark
AFP
Another Palme contender creating a buzz was Australian John Hillcoat's "Lawless", a Prohibition-era rural gangster movie scripted by rocker Nick Cave, which the director said was a parable for the "failed" war on drugs. The film by "The Road" director ...

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'Gangster Squad' Trailer Aims to Be a Mob Hit - Wall Street Journal (blog)


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'Gangster Squad' Trailer Aims to Be a Mob Hit
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Could the 51-year old actor be starring in a boxing film? Tell us it isn't so. Happily it isn't. Penn quickly picks up a gun–this is a gangster film, and all is right with the world. Drawing from “LA Confidential,” “Scarface,” “American Gangster,” “The ...
Trailer Critic: Gangster Squad Slate Magazine (blog)

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