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stanley website ce s top film-making talent away from rival production houses in lining up a slate of big budget projects for Cannes - led by Ruby Et Quentin, a $25m action comedy starring Gerard Depardieu and Jean Reno, and directed by Francis Veber.The high profile slate is representative of a new strategy at UGC International, according to CEO Patrick Binet: This is in sync with parent company UGC Images will to be involved in French films which have the potential to be not only hits in the French-speaking market but also to be hot sellers in European, American and Asian territories. UGC International s 2002 slate also demonstrates UGC Images new aim of taking on major French production outfits such as Gaumont, Pathe and Luc Besson s Europa Corp. Until now, Veber has been associated with Gaumont, where he was responsible for two of its biggest hits: The Closet and The Dinner Game.As well as Ruby Et Quentin working title , which starts shooting in the autumn, the outfit will also start pre-selli
stanley cup ng The Great Challenge, an $11m action/adventure film featuring the athletic Yamakasi team, who starred in last year s hit French title of the same name, produced by Luc Besson.UGC Images and UGC International have also boarded two other big budget-projects, Shadow Chasers aka Blueberry and Fantomas, both produced by La Petite Reine s Thomas Langmann, the producer of current French hit Le Boulet. Shadow
stanley cup Chasers, an action/adventure period title whi Hxpy Jumper and Vantage Point build US exports as they expand this weekend
Dir: James Ponsoldt. US. 2014. 106minsStories about writers rarely make for good cinema. But this charming and sensitive film about a five-day encounter between acclaimed late author David Foster Wallace and a Rolling Stone journalist is a transfixing human drama. While fans of Wallace widely known for his 1996 novel Infinite Jest may expec
stanley usa t some insights into the authors creative life, The End Of The Tour is more about capturing the tentative connection between these two men, and the emotional honesty for which the author strived.The End Of The Tour may seem like a modest, talky affair, but its also a rich and enveloping journey.Starring Jesse Eisenberg The Social Network as journalist and budding novelist David Lipsky and Jason Segal
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stanley mug ing Sarah Marshall as Wallace, The End of the Tour is largely an intimate two-hander between the two actors. And although little happens in the way of plot, the fabulous script鈥攁dapted from Lipskys memoir by Pulitzer-Prize-winning playwright Donald Margulies鈥攊s propelled forward by the witty repartee between the two leads and their complex, evolving relationship.With critical support and a solid US launch from distribution A24, who picked up local rights at Sundance, the film should go onto play moderately well in international markets open to smart, well-written cinema.The film begins with Lipsky learning of Wallaces untimely death and called upon to speak about him on National Public Radio. Flashback 12 years earlier, and Lipsky
