Tag: The Player
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Hot Finnish Teemu Nikki Adventure Comedy ‘Snot & Splash’ Unveils Trailer (Exclusive)
In the lead up to its January theatrical release in Scandinavia and in Italy next Spring, Finnish adventure comedy “Snot & Splash: The Mystery of Disappearing Holes” (“Räkä ja Roiskis”) is sharing its trailer exclusively in Variety.FilmSharks CEO Guido Rud, who picked up world sales rights to the children’s film at the Locarno Film Festival…
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The Robert Altman Film That Paul Thomas Anderson Almost Directed
It’s a rarity in Hollywood that a director will be honest about borrowing stylistic devices from another filmmaker. But unlike most in the business, Paul Thomas Anderson and Robert Altman had a uniquely different kind of relationship. And when Anderson came out and admitted that he had been “ripping off Altman for years” it was…
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Italy’s I Wonder Pictures Boards Finnish ‘Super Pitch-Black’ Comedy ‘The Player’ (Exclusive)
Italy’s I Wonder Pictures has boarded Finnish comedy “The Player” as a co-producer ahead of its bow at Haugesund’s industry sidebar New Nordic Films.The company will also handle local distribution. The project is directed by Teemu Nikki and produced by It’s Alive Films’ Jani Pösö.“I consider Teemu Nikki as one of the best European directors.…
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‘The enemy is the audience’: Robert Altman’s The Player at 30
The director’s razor-sharp Hollywood satire offered up a horribly prescient look at an industry turning away from creativity and toward commercialismWatching Robert Altman’s The Player nearly 30 years after its release is like buying a ticket for a time-traveling Hollywood tour bus. There’s Jack Lemmon playing piano at a party and Martin Mull eating lunch…
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Sally Kellerman, Oscar-Nominated as ‘Hot Lips’ Houlihan in ‘Mash,’ Dies at 84
Sally Kellerman, who was Oscar nominated for her supporting role as Margaret “Hot Lips” Houlihan in Robert Altman’s “Mash” feature film, died Thursday in Woodland Hills, Calif. She was 84.Her publicist Alan Eichler confirmed her death, and her daughter Claire added that she had been suffering from dementia for the past five years.Among her other…
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Sally Kellerman, Oscar-Nominated as ‘Hot Lips’ Houlihan in ‘Mash,’ Dies at 84
Sally Kellerman, who was Oscar nominated for her supporting role as Margaret “Hot Lips” Houlihan in Robert Altman’s “Mash” feature film, died Thursday in Woodland Hills, Calif. She was 84.Her publicist Alan Eichler confirmed her death, and her daughter Claire added that she had been suffering from dementia for the past five years.Among her other…
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Peter Gallagher: ‘One of the most toxic things in the world is success’
The actor on 40 years in show business, why he channelled Donald Trump in American Beauty – and having a face that makes directors sickThe director Robert Altman used to tell Peter Gallagher, the suave star of his 1992 movie The Player: “Gallagher, you’re so good-looking it makes me sick.” To hear Gallagher impersonating the…