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"Boogie Woogie", co-produced by Leonid Rozhetskin, is supposed to be relaesed this Year. Currently the movies status is in "post production" and there arent a lot of details yet. But just have a look at the casting and find all these famous names such as Christipher Lee or Heather Graham and I think you will waite as desperate as me for the final release.
Directed by | |||
| Duncan Ward | | ||
Writing credits(in alphabetical order) | ||
| Danny Moynihan | novel | |
| Danny Moynihan | screenplay | |
Cast (in alphabetical order)
| Heather Graham | ... | Beth Freemantle | |
| Amanda Seyfried | ... | Paige Prideaux | |
| Gillian Anderson | ... | Jean Maclestone | |
| Christopher Lee | ... | Alfred Rhinegold | |
| Stellan Skarsgård | ... | Bob Maccelstone | |
| Alan Cumming | ... | Dewey | |
| Charlotte Rampling | ... | Emille | |
| Danny Huston | ... | Art Spindle | |
| Jaime Winstone | ... | Elaine | |
| Joanna Lumley | ... | Alfreda Rhinegold | |
| Alfie Allen | ... | Photographer | |
| Gemma Atkinson | ... | Charlotte Bailey | |
| Simon McBurney | ... | Robert Freign | |
| Jack Huston | ... | Joe | |
| Meredith Ostrom | ... | Joany | |
| Stephen Greif | ... | Bobs Lawyer | |
| Rosie Fellner | ... | Rachel Leighton | |
| Michael Culkin | ... | Beth's Father | |
| Jenny Runacre | ... | Mrs. Havermeyer | |
| Sidney Cole | ... | Cabbie | |
| Jan Uddin | ... | Art's Partner | |
| Gaetano Jouen | ... | Himself |
Cinematography by | |||
| John Mathieson | | ||
Film Editing by | |||
| Kant Pan | | ||
Casting by | |||
| Gary Davy | | ||
Production Design by | |||
| Caroline Greville-Morris | | ||
Art Direction by | |||
| Nick Dent | | ||
Production Management | |||
| Emma Pike | .... | production manager | |
| Alex Sutherland | .... | production supervisor | |
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director | |||
| Alexander Fielding | .... | floor assistant director | |
| Caroline Hatchman | .... | floor assistant director | |
| Mark Hopkins | .... | second assistant director | |
| Alex Oakley | .... | first assistant director | |
| Emily Perowne | .... | third assistant director | |
Art Department | |||
| Joe Borowski | .... | stand-by props | |
Sound Department | |||
| Ken Lee | .... | sound mixer | |
Camera and Electrical Department | |||
| Sam Garwood | .... | camera operator | |
| Paul Hatchman | .... | key grip | |
| Mark Tillie | .... | still photographer | |
Other crew | ||
| Lorraine Edwards | .... | production secretary |
| Daniel Fellows | .... | location manager |
| Lewis Partovi | .... | production coordinator |
| Alex Sutherland | .... | production supervisor |
| Brigitte Ward-Holmes | .... | assistant accountant |
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Leonid Rozhetskin | L+E Productions Film Production
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After the huge succes of Hamlet2 at the sundance film festival.
Leonid Rozhetskin co-founded Production Company L+E Productions
announces to produce " Three Wolves" a tale of the Russian Mafia.
We are excited!
Full Acting Credits for Three Wolves »
Production Credits
Screenplay - Matthew Michaud
Story By - Zach Jerome
Producer - Eric D. Eisner
Producer - Leonid Rozhetskin
Full Production Credits for Three Wolves »
Company Information
L+E Productions - Production Company
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'Hamlet 2' is big buy at Sundance Fest
AP Entertainment Writer
Actress Elisabeth Shue poses for a portrait during the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah on Monday, Jan. 21, 2008. Shue is at Sundance promoting the feature film "Hamlet 2" in which she has a starring role.
PARK CITY, Utah
Steve Coogan is the toast of Sundance. The British actor stars in the biggest acquisition of the film festival, "Hamlet 2," a bawdy comedy directed by Andy Fleming that takes politically incorrect jabs at inspirational teacher flicks like "Mr. Holland's Opus."Focus Features bought the film for a reported $10 million in the wee hours of Tuesday after a premiere the night before at which it was greeted with loud laughter.
Catherine Keener co-stars as Coogan's unhappy wife, and Elisabeth Shue plays herself, under the concept that she has given up on Hollywood and moved to Tucson, Ariz., to become a nurse.
"Choke," starring Sam Rockwell, sold to Fox Searchlight with trade papers putting the deal at $5 million. Actor-director-writer Clark Gregg adapted the screenplay from "Fight Club" author Chuck Palahniuk's 2001 novel.
In announcing the buy, the studio described the dark comedy's themes as "mothers and sons, sexual compulsion, and the sordid underbelly of Colonial theme parks."
"Henry Poole is Here," a spiritual comedic drama starring Luke Wilson, sold for a reported $3.5 million to Overture Films. "We think we managed to find a little gem," Overture CEO Chris McGurk said Wednesday.
Before the festival, filmmakers and sellers had hoped the halt in production due to the writers strike would put pressure on buyers. It turned out that distributors were actually more reticent than usual.
"There did seem to be more caution this year, I guess, as opposed to prior years," McGurk said. "There were some instances of buys that were made last year that with 20/20 hindsight, that amount of money shouldn't be paid."
Among documentaries, HBO Documentary Films purchased "Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired" for U.S. distribution, while the Weinstein Co. got international rights. "The Black List" sold to HBO, and "American Teen," a cinema verite crowd favorite tracking four high school seniors, went to Paramount Vantage for about $1 million.
The Sundance Film Festival runs through Sunday.
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Focus Features Acquires Hamlet 2
Written by on January 22, 2008 – 2:35 pm -
Focus Features has acquired worldwide rights to Andrew Fleming’s comedy Hamlet 2,
a world premiere at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. Focus Features
CEO James Schamus and president Andrew Karpen made the announcement
today.
Directed by Andrew Fleming (Dick, Threesome) from an original screenplay he wrote with Pam Brady (”South Park,” Team America: World Police), Hamlet 2 is produced by L+E Pictures’ Eric Eisner & Leonid Rozhetskin and Aaron Ryder (Memento, The Prestige). The movie was executive-produced by Bona Fide partners Albert Berger & Ron Yerxa (Election).
In the irreverent comedy, a failed actor-turned-worse-high-school-drama teacher (Steve Coogan of Night at the Museum) rallies his Tucson, AZ students as he conceives and stages a politically incorrect musical sequel to Shakespeare’s “Hamlet.” The film also stars David Arquette (the “Scream” movies), Melonie Diaz (soon to be seen in Be Kind Rewind), two-time Academy Award nominee Catherine Keener, Amy Poehler (”Saturday Night Live”), and Elisabeth Shue as herself.
Schamus and Karpen commented, “Andrew Fleming and an extraordinary filmmaking team have brought everyone at Focus an amazing New Year’s present. We can’t wait to share this riotously inventive movie with the whole world.”
Eisner said, “We’re extremely excited to work with the talented Focus group on ‘Hamlet 2,’ and we look forward to a bright future for the movie after what was an exceptional response at Sundance.”
Rozhetskin added, “‘Hamlet 2? is the most auspicious imaginable launch for L+E Pictures.”
L+E Pictures was formed in 2007 by Eisner and Rozhetskin with a mission to finance and develop feature-length films. L+E Pictures provides equity financing for films with budgets in the range of $5 to $30 million dollars.
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Sundance BuzzCheck™:
The festival’s top seller, ‘Hamlet 2′
Jan 23, 2008, 07:48 PM | by Pop Watch
Categories: Sundance Film Festival 2008
To sell or not to sell? That has been the question dogging every fledgling filmmaker at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, where sales have been remarkably slow. But it wasn’t a concern for the producers of Hamlet 2
— the bizarro comic farce about an about an eccentric high school drama
teacher (Steve Coogan, pictured) who tries to save his drama program
and his marriage to his fed-up wife (Catherine Keener) with his
production of a sequel to Shakespeare’s masterwork. Their quandary was
more about how much to sell their movie for, and to whom.
The raucous comedy had been the subject of tremendous buzz coming into Sundance…before it was even completed, and without a mere mention in the event’s catalogue. Indeed, the unfinished film was such a late entry into the festival that Park City’s primary premiere location, the Eccles Center, was fully booked. But that didn’t stop Hamlet 2 from knocking Sundance out of its mid-festival doldrums with a rowdy debut screening Monday night at the Library Center theater. The room erupted in hysterics about two minutes into the show, and things stayed that way for nearly two hours.
Afterward, Harvey Weinstein hovered by the door, ready to kick off the deal-making. He was far from alone. Producer Eric Eisner and Leonid Rozhetskin, whose L+E pictures financed the film, fielded offers “from all the usual suspects,” including Fox Searchlight and Lionsgate. But it wasn’t until after he spent the whole night hashing things out at the bargaining table in his condo that he finally settled on a deal to sell the worldwide rights to Focus Features for an astronomical $10 million — one of the highest sums ever fetched by any movie in the history of Sundance. Eisner insists it wasn’t simply Focus’ deep pockets that helped that distributor win the bidding war. “We love their whole overall approach to marketing and filmmaking,” say Eisner and Rozhetskin, who will confess that Hamlet 2 outperformed even his high expectations. “It’s been quite a ride. Now it would be nice to get some sleep.” —Christine Spines (with additional reporting by Missy Schwartz)
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Sundance, Day 7:
Why Hamlet 2 Is Hot, Hot, Hot
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Finally, there’s a huge sale at Sundance. Hamlet 2 is a satirical comedy about a failed actor turned high school teacher (Steve Coogan) who stages a musical sequel to Hamlet. And it screened so well that Focus Features snapped it up for $10 million. That’s the second-biggest sale in history, the first being Little Miss Sunshine.
So, what are the ingredients to the most appetizing Sundance spread?
1. Set the Table with Mickey Mouse-Themed Place Mats! Hamlet 2 producer Eric Eisner has a dad named Michael Eisner. You might have heard of Michael? He worked for some company called Disney or something. Anyway, Eisner didn’t make the deadline for Sundance. But he used his pull to secure a last-second screening of the rough cut so that the film could be shown. Well done, Eric.
2. Break Open a Bottle of Superexpensive 1787 Château Lafite! Hamlet 2 is classy. Even common folk moviegoers will hear the title and think, Dang, Shakespeare, that’s probably good.
3. Open Up a Box of Twinkies! Hamlet 2 sends up Dangerous Minds. Phew. It’s not all about Shakespeare.
4. Garnish with Eight Packs of NutraSweet! Everyone at Focus should send a fruit basket as a gesture of gratitude to Paris Hilton. The reformed party girl has been ditzing about, helping remind buyers we need Shakespearean-themed entertainment to distract us from, well, Paris.
5. Laugh So Hard That You Spit the Wine All over the Twinkies! Hamlet 2 star Elisabeth Shue had this to say to the New York Times: “I just got the script and it said, ‘A famous actress who’s a has-been, lives in Tucson and is a nurse.’ I had to do it.” Ha.
6. Light Estrogen-Scented Candles! Catherine Keener costars, which is reason enough to think seriously about buying or seeing any movie. Plus, Hamlet 2 is cowritten by South Park vet Pam Brady. And while less than 30 percent of the WGA is women, fortysomething percent of this year’s Oscar-nominated screenwriters are women. Neat!
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iW NEWS | Focus Gets “Hamlet 2″ for $10 Million
- highest Acquisition ever achieved at Sundance! -
Andrew Fleming’s “Hamlet 2” has been acquired by Focus Features in a $10 million worldwide deal swiftly sealed within 12 hours of the film’s world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival. The film was produced by L+E Pictures‘ Eric Eisner & Leonid Rozhetskin and Aaron Ryder, from an original script by Fleming and Pam Brady. In the words of a description, “In the irreverent comedy, a failed actor-turned-worse-high-school-drama teacher (Steve Coogan) rallies his Tucson, AZ students as he conceives and stages a politically incorrect musical sequel to Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Cast joining Coogan include David Arquette, Melonie Diaz, Catherine Keener, Amy Poehler and Elisabeth Shue
(appearing as herself). Calling the film “an amazing New Year’s
present,” in a statement, Focus’ James Schamus and Andrew Karpen,
added, “We can’t wait to share this riotously inventive movie with the
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