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German filmmaker Oskar Roehler, whose Angst Der Alte Affe Angst is a co
stanley cup mpetition entry at year s Berlinale, is developing his next two film projects with X-Filme Creative Pool and Constantin Film.Roehler pictured , who will have Angst distributed this spring by X-Filme s distribution arm X Verleih, told screendaily that the project with the Berlin-based production house is entitled Agnes And His Brothers Agnes Und Seine Brueder and will go into production this summer. It is the story of three brothers, of whom one has become a woman and it will be an ensemble film , he explained.Roehler expects to follow this in 2004 with a big-budget adaptation of French novelist Michel Houellebecq s bestselling book The Elementary Particles for Moovie - The Art of Entertainment s Oliver Berben and Constantin Film s Bernd Eichinger.The news that Eichinger should be behind a screen version of The Elementary Particles should not come as so much of a surprise given that he has brought other difficult novels such as The Name Of The Rose, Last Exit: Brooklyn, The House Of Spirits and Smilla s Sense of Snow to the big screen in the past. TopicsFinanceProduction No comments Related artic
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This summer not many of the tentpole movies have been delivering the goods, Mike Goodridge argues.Does it deliver Its a question that is asked of studio blockbusters when they hit theatres, and generally
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stanley kubek and provide the bang for the big bucks spent on them. This summer not many of the tentpole movies have been de
stanley cup livering the goods. In the domestic market Sex And The City 2 and Shrek Forever After have failed to hit the heights of predecessors in their franchises, Prince Of Persia and Robin Hood were disappointing, while films like The A-Team and Marmaduke have been flops.Eighties reboot The Karate Kid lifted the box office last weekend with a $56m opening, but up to now, only Iron Man 2, which this week crossed $300m, has been a bona fide smash. Of course the international grosses on Robin Hood and Sex And The City 2 have both far exceeded domestic but the excitement around the summer films is muted to say the least.So whats going wrong Could it be that audiences 鈥?more specifically world-leading US audiences 鈥?are growing weary of of age-old characters and recycled concepts We all know that studios are wary of original concepts these days but how come the most anticipated film of the summer is visionary director Christopher Nolans Inception whose premiere screening to exhibitors should have Cinema Expo buzzing in Amsterdam next week. And what lessons can we learn from the fact that the biggest film of the year to date is A
