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16 ❘ eNtertainment CONTACT US AT: 8351-9329, [email protected] Fri/Sat/Sun November 24~26, 2017 JUDE LAW is in negotiations to join Brie Larson in “Captain Marvel.” Filmmaking duo Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, who directed 2015’s “Mississippi Grind,” are helming the pic. The most recent draft for the 1990s-set feature comes from “Tomb Raider” writer Geneva Robertson-Dworet. The comic book movie will follow Carol Danvers (Larson), an Air Force pilot who gains powers after her DNA becomes fused with an alien after an accident. Samuel L. Jackson will play (a two-eyed) Nick Fury in the film and Ben Mendelsohn is set to play the film’s villain. “Captain Marvel,” the studio’s first female-fronted standalone, is set to hit theaters March 8, 2019. It is currently unclear on what role Law will play. The English actor is set to star in Warner Bros.’ “Fantastic Beasts” sequel and will join Blake Lively in Paramount’s spy thriller “The Rhythm Section.” (SD-Agencies) Jude Law to join Brie Larson in ‘Captain Marvel’ STUDIOCANAL, fresh off the U.K. box-office success of “Pad- dington 2,” is building on its slate of family titles. The growing studio is set to adapt Enid Blyton’s “Magic Faraway Tree,” having teamed with Neal Street Productions, the All3Media-owned company behind TV shows such as “Penny Dreadful” and “Call the Midwife” and films including “Revolution- ary Road” and “Jarhead.” Simon Farnaby — who co- wrote “Paddington 2” with director Paul King — will pen the adaptation, with Neal Street’s Pippa Harris and Nicolas Brown producing. “Magic Faraway Tree,” which will be the first-ever feature film based on Blyton’s “Magic Faraway Tree” series, is set in an enchanted wood, in which the titular tree grows tall enough to reach the clouds and large enough to contain small houses. At the top of the tree is an ever-rotating series of fantas- tic worlds, everything from the Land of Birthdays to the Land of Topsy-Turvy. Blyton — one of the world’s best-selling authors with sales in excess of 500 million copies — wrote four “Magic Faraway Tree” novels between 1939 and 1951. All have been optioned by Neal Street from Hachette Chil- dren’s Group, brand owners of Enid Blyton Entertainment, for development with StudioCanal. “The ‘Magic Faraway Tree’ books are a firework display of the imagination. The pages are lit up with wonderful characters, humor, peril and adventure,” said Farnaby. “Most homes have a well worn jam fingerprinted volume somewhere on their shelves. I’m very much looking forward to bringing the likes of the Old Saucepan Man and Dame Washalot to the big screen for fans both old and new.” StudioCanal’s U.K. chief Danny Perkins added: “We very much look forward to bringing enduring family classics to audi- ences worldwide.” (SD-Agencies) StudioCanal to adapt ‘Magic Faraway Tree’ RUSSIAN baritone Dmitri Hvo- rostovsky has died after a long battle with cancer. He was 55. Diagnozed with a brain tumor in 2015, Hvorostovsky had all but given up live performances. In June, the Vienna State Opera announced that he had canceled all upcoming appearances. The acclaimed singer died peacefully early Wednesday morning and was surrounded by family near his home in London, his office said in a statement. “May the warmth of his voice and his spirit always be with us,” the statement said. One of the most prominent opera singers of his generation, Hvorostovsky topped the bill at the world’s leading opera houses. The opera world cheered in May when Hvorostovsky made a surprise appearance at a Metropolitan Opera gala to sing an impassioned account of Rigoletto’s big solo, “Cortigiani, vil razza dannata,” one of his trademark parts. Hvorostovsky’s elegant, burnished voice that had been heard at the Met 182 times before brought some in the audi- ence to tears. Outpourings of grief were coming from all over Russia. “It’s a disaster,” Vladimir Urin, director general of the Bolshoi Theater, told the Tass news agency. “The person with a wonderful voice, unique musi- cality and an incredible artistic ability has passed away.” Urin said he had invited Hvo- rostovsky, who had never sung at the Bolshoi, to make an appear- ance but that never happened. “He was an absolute raw talent, an absolutely, incredibly kind soul,” Russian pianist Denis Matsuyev said in comments to the RIA Novosti news agency. “I would call him a Siberian knight who broke through onto the global stage.” The Kremlin offered its con- dolences to Hvorostovsky’s family with presidential spokes- man Dmitry Peskov calling the baritone “a treasure not only of the Russian but also world culture.” Born in Siberia’s Krasnoyarsk, Hvorostovsky embarked on a successful career in the West in the late 1980s. He was also known and loved at home for performing World War II-era classics. Hvorostovsky is sur- vived by his wife and four chil- dren. (SD-Agencies) Russian Opera Legend Dmitri Hvorostovsky Dies at 55 ‘Death on the Nile’ in works AFTER first taking the train, 20th Century Fox is now ready to hop on a riverboat cruise. On the heels of “Murder on the Orient Express,” Fox is staying in the Agatha Christie business by putting into development “Death on the Nile” its next Hercule Poirot mystery. Michael Green, who adapted the screenplay for “Orient Express,” is penning the script, and while there is no deal cur- rently in place, five-time Oscar nominee Kenneth Branagh is expected to return as director and reprise his role as Poirot. “Death on the Nile,” first published in 1937, saw the detective on a vacation in Egypt and becoming involved in a love triangle gone murderously bad. The novel once again featured socialites, social climbers and high society’s help in the cast. Just as “Orient Express” was previously adapted into an all- star 1970s movie featuring Albert Finney as Poirot, so, too, was “Death on the Nile.” The 1978 pic featured Bette Davis, Mia Farrow, Maggie Smith, Angela Lansbury and David Niven, among others. The story remains one of Christie’s most popular works. “Orient Express,” which was made for US$55 million, has chugged its way to almost US$150 million worldwide since Nov. 10. (SD-Agencies) Zhang Yimou to support young directors FILM director Zhang Yimou has been appointed chairman of the third China Film Direc- tors’ Guild Young Director Sup- port Program, according to the organizers. The China Film Directors’ Guild launched the annual program in 2015 to help young directors raise money and recruit casts. Feng Xiaogang, the direc- tor who’s known for a series of commercially successful hits, was the first chairman. In the following year, the chairman’s seat was handed to Jia Zhangke, an internationally recognized director known for arthouse dramas. The program stipulates that applicants should be younger than 38. This year, the program will offer new incentives for win- ners, including an acting class, inviting celebrities to coach as mentors and providing profes- sional training. (SD-Agencies) Jude Law Jude Law Brie Larson Brie Larson Dmitri Hvorostovsky Dmitri Hvorostovsky Zhang Yimou Zhang Yimou
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JUDE LAW is in negotiations to join Brie Larson in “Captain Marvel.”
Filmmaking duo Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, who directed 2015’s “Mississippi Grind,” are helming the pic. The most recent draft for the 1990s-set feature comes from “Tomb Raider” writer Geneva Robertson-Dworet.
The comic book movie will follow Carol Danvers (Larson), an Air Force pilot who gains powers after her DNA becomes fused with an alien after an accident. Samuel L. Jackson will play (a two-eyed) Nick Fury in the fi lm and Ben Mendelsohn is set to play the fi lm’s villain.
“Captain Marvel,” the studio’s fi rst female-fronted standalone, is set to hit theaters March 8, 2019.
It is currently unclear on what role Law will play. The English actor is set to star in Warner Bros.’ “Fantastic Beasts” sequel and will join Blake Lively in Paramount’s spy thriller “The Rhythm Section.” (SD-Agencies)
Jude Law to join Brie Larson in ‘Captain Marvel’
STUDIOCANAL, fresh off the U.K. box-offi ce success of “Pad-dington 2,” is building on its slate of family titles.
The growing studio is set to adapt Enid Blyton’s “Magic Faraway Tree,” having teamed with Neal Street Productions, the All3Media-owned company behind TV shows such as “Penny Dreadful” and “Call the Midwife” and fi lms including “Revolution-ary Road” and “Jarhead.”
Simon Farnaby — who co-wrote “Paddington 2” with director Paul King — will pen the adaptation, with Neal Street’s Pippa Harris and Nicolas Brown producing.
“Magic Faraway Tree,” which
will be the fi rst-ever feature fi lm based on Blyton’s “Magic Faraway Tree” series, is set in an enchanted wood, in which the titular tree grows tall enough to reach the clouds and large enough to contain small houses. At the top of the tree is an ever-rotating series of fantas-tic worlds, everything from the Land of Birthdays to the Land of Topsy-Turvy.
Blyton — one of the world’s best-selling authors with sales in excess of 500 million copies — wrote four “Magic Faraway Tree” novels between 1939 and 1951. All have been optioned by Neal Street from Hachette Chil-dren’s Group, brand owners of
Enid Blyton Entertainment, for development with StudioCanal.
“The ‘Magic Faraway Tree’ books are a fi rework display of the imagination. The pages are lit up with wonderful characters, humor, peril and adventure,” said Farnaby. “Most homes have a well worn jam fi ngerprinted volume somewhere on their shelves. I’m very much looking forward to bringing the likes of the Old Saucepan Man and Dame Washalot to the big screen for fans both old and new.”
StudioCanal’s U.K. chief Danny Perkins added: “We very much look forward to bringing enduring family classics to audi-ences worldwide.” (SD-Agencies)
StudioCanal to adapt ‘Magic Faraway Tree’
RUSSIAN baritone Dmitri Hvo-rostovsky has died after a long battle with cancer. He was 55.
Diagnozed with a brain tumor in 2015, Hvorostovsky had all but given up live performances. In June, the Vienna State Opera announced that he had canceled all upcoming appearances.
The acclaimed singer died peacefully early Wednesday morning and was surrounded by family near his home in London, his offi ce said in a statement. “May the warmth of his voice and his spirit always be with us,” the statement said.
One of the most prominent opera singers of his generation, Hvorostovsky topped the bill at the world’s leading opera houses. The opera world cheered in May when Hvorostovsky made a surprise appearance at a Metropolitan Opera gala to sing an impassioned account of Rigoletto’s big solo, “Cortigiani, vil razza dannata,” one of his trademark parts. Hvorostovsky’s elegant, burnished voice that had been heard at the Met 182 times before brought some in the audi-ence to tears.
Outpourings of grief were coming from all over Russia.
“It’s a disaster,” Vladimir Urin, director general of the Bolshoi Theater, told the Tass news agency. “The person with a wonderful voice, unique musi-cality and an incredible artistic ability has passed away.”
Urin said he had invited Hvo-rostovsky, who had never sung at the Bolshoi, to make an appear-ance but that never happened.
“He was an absolute raw talent, an absolutely, incredibly kind soul,” Russian pianist Denis Matsuyev said in comments to the RIA Novosti news agency. “I would call him a Siberian knight who broke through onto the global stage.”
The Kremlin offered its con-dolences to Hvorostovsky’s family with presidential spokes-man Dmitry Peskov calling the baritone “a treasure not only of the Russian but also world culture.”
Born in Siberia’s Krasnoyarsk, Hvorostovsky embarked on a successful career in the West in the late 1980s. He was also known and loved at home for performing World War II-era classics. Hvorostovsky is sur-vived by his wife and four chil-dren. (SD-Agencies)
Russian Opera Legend Dmitri Hvorostovsky Dies at 55
‘Death on the Nile’ in worksAFTER fi rst taking the train, 20th Century Fox is now ready to hop on a riverboat cruise.
On the heels of “Murder on the Orient Express,” Fox is staying in the Agatha Christie business by putting into development “Death on the Nile” its next Hercule Poirot mystery.
Michael Green, who adapted the screenplay for “Orient Express,” is penning the script, and while there is no deal cur-rently in place, fi ve-time Oscar nominee Kenneth Branagh is expected to return as director and reprise his role as Poirot.
“Death on the Nile,” fi rst published in 1937, saw the detective on a vacation in Egypt
and becoming involved in a love triangle gone murderously bad. The novel once again featured socialites, social climbers and high society’s help in the cast.
Just as “Orient Express” was previously adapted into an all-star 1970s movie featuring Albert Finney as Poirot, so, too, was “Death on the Nile.” The 1978 pic featured Bette Davis, Mia Farrow, Maggie Smith, Angela Lansbury and David Niven, among others. The story remains one of Christie’s most popular works.
“Orient Express,” which was made for US$55 million, has chugged its way to almost US$150 million worldwide since Nov. 10. (SD-Agencies)
Zhang Yimou to support
young directorsFILM director Zhang Yimou has been appointed chairman of the third China Film Direc-tors’ Guild Young Director Sup-port Program, according to the organizers.
The China Film Directors’ Guild launched the annual program in 2015 to help young directors raise money and recruit casts. Feng Xiaogang, the direc-tor who’s known for a series of commercially successful hits, was the fi rst chairman. In the following year, the chairman’s seat was handed to Jia Zhangke,
an internationally recognized director known for arthouse dramas.
The program stipulates that applicants should be younger than 38. This year, the program will offer new incentives for win-ners, including an acting class, inviting celebrities to coach as mentors and providing profes-sional training.
(SD-Agencies)
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