Olivier's Blog – February 2010 Archive (11)

CJ Entertainment have announced the Korean DVD release of 'I Come With The Rain' for the 3rd March 2010. Hailing from acclaimed French-Vietnamese director Ahn Hyun Tran ('The Scent of Green Papaya'), the film is a neo-noir thriller that brings together top stars from America (Josh Hartnett) and Asia (Lee Byung Hun,…

I am currently business travelling in Spain. And had the sound inspiration to check out the local movie sites. To my great suprise I found out that Josh Hartnett's fantasy actioner - Bunraku- has a spanish distributor called TriPictures which also distributed in the past Josh's crime thriller…

Bunraku will be a very interesting film. Guy Moshe, who also directed, wrote what I thought was one of the strangest scripts I’d ever read, especially because the story takes place in an in-depth CGI universe. It’s very allegorical — a mixture of a samurai film and a western in a virtual origami universe where everything is made of folding paper, and there’s a lot of martial arts in it. My first…

The average audience member might not know production designer Alex McDowell by name, but they certainly have never forgotten his work on such films as Fight Club, Fear &…

In faraway Cambodia, beyond the confines of most Israelis, shocking incidents of child prostitution are taking place. This is the subject of Guy Moshe's first film, "Holly", which will make its Israeli premiere today at the Tel Aviv Cinematheque.



"A few hours after I landed in Cambodia, I was offered the opportunity to sleep with an 11-year-old girl for five dollars,"…

I Come with the Rain will released under the title Přicházím s deštěm on March 29, 2010 in Czech Republic and on April 7, 2010 in Slovakia. The distributor for Josh Hartnett's thriller over there is MagicBox…

The European Film Market (EFM) runs for nine days - February 11-21, 2010 - as part of one of the most important film festivals in the world, the Berlinale. As the first major film event of the year, it is a magnet for international industry professionals…

I went to Romania to visit the set of Bunraku (TBD 2010) a while back. It was a fun trip and all the people working on the movie were really cool… that said, I have no idea what it’s going to look like. It’s a highly stylized revenge tale. Think Sin City crossed with a Stephen Chow film crossed with a Sergio Leone movie and you’re close, I think. There’s…

It seems Bunraku is showing today to selected audiences at the block of Orange (AMC Theatres) in California at 7:15 pm. People who will attend those previews of Bunraku have to sign a non disclosure agreement so they can't talk about the film publicly. This is pretty good news because it means that…

At the occasion of the DVD release of I Come With The Rain in Japan, the local distributor of the film has set an official site where the fans who ordered the DVD before december 25, 2009 could win presents including ICWTR's kimono !

Check it…