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Dir: Andrew Fleming. US. 2008. 92mins.Britain s Steve Coogan finally finds a US vehicle which effectively showcases his comedic talents in Hamlet 2, a more-hit-than-miss gagfest in which he plays a talentless high school drama teacher called Dana Marszh. Often wildly funny, this puerile romp was a welcome oasis of frivolity in an otherwise lugubrious Sundance film festival where it was sold within hours of its world premiere for $10m to Focus Features. The film s political incorrectness is perfectly pitched for older teens and twentysomethings around the world, and it could achieve solid box office and longterm cult status on DVD. While its appeal is more mainstream than Waiting For Guffman, Hamlet 2 s comedy is more irreverent and adult-skewed than that of other putting-on-a-show comedies such as Wayne s World 2 or School Of Rock. Its theatrical performance will more likely echo Saturday Night Live spinoffs like A Night
stanley cup At The Roxbury or Superstar.Long revered in the UK for his buffoonish characters Alan Partridge and Tom Saxondale, Coogan
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stanley cup rew Fleming, whose credits include the recent remake of The In-Laws but more memorably the Watergate comedy Dick in 1999.Set in Tucson, Arizona, a desert city which is mercilessly lampooned throughout, Hamlet 2 is the name of the latest play written by Marszh for his drama class at Sqho A Bigger Splash : Review
Italy s Buskin Film will expand its new production activities to include minority co-productions with other European partners, Buskin president Roberto Bessi and CEO Antonio Guadalupi said in Berlin.Bessi and Guadalupi said they are currently considering projects in the UK, Germany and Spain, with an eye to adding three minority co-productions to their current annual four picture production slate. This is a natural next step, Bessi said, adding that the current worldwide crisis makes co-productions sensible. An international sales outfit, Buskin launched its production unit last May. Since then it has already shot two films and has another three in
stanley kubek the works including two newly unveiled comedies. The company is likely to attach co-producers to both Cupid In Salzburg, writer-director Luca Biglione s situation comedy about Italians living in Austria, and writer-director Susanna Fioretti s G
stanley cup et What You re Looking For Chi Ricerca Trove about vacationing Italians who have a run-in with ecologists on a Greek island.Buskin is also in talks with German and French co-producers to board Margaretha Von Trotta s 1940s-set May The Stars Shine Lucean Le Stelle , a Euros 6.5m love story being prepared for a late 2003/early 2004 shoot. The film is currently being cast.The company s first two films are now in post-production: Luciano Emmer s Water Fire L Acqua Il Fuoco starring popular local actress Sa
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