Hollywood often produces two films on one subject, but the six movies based on the Battle of Çanakkale are a sign of a healthy domestic market for Turkish products
Maybe one sign of a fully matured film industry is when it's capable of spewing out an Olympus Has Fallen and a White House Down at the same time – coinciding films with identical subjects. One of those little zeitgeist clots that suggest creative minds running in parallel, in a highly evolved community driven by the relentless background hum of close competition – and also, all those scripts passing between studios, with ample opportunities for intellectual-property theft. Mostly, these weird convergences seem to come in pairs: Deep Impact and Armageddon, A Bug's Life and Antz, and so on.
So what does it say about the emerging Turkish industry that it has six movies on the same subject either recently on release or imminent?...
Maybe one sign of a fully matured film industry is when it's capable of spewing out an Olympus Has Fallen and a White House Down at the same time – coinciding films with identical subjects. One of those little zeitgeist clots that suggest creative minds running in parallel, in a highly evolved community driven by the relentless background hum of close competition – and also, all those scripts passing between studios, with ample opportunities for intellectual-property theft. Mostly, these weird convergences seem to come in pairs: Deep Impact and Armageddon, A Bug's Life and Antz, and so on.
So what does it say about the emerging Turkish industry that it has six movies on the same subject either recently on release or imminent?...
- 5/9/2013
- by Phil Hoad
- The Guardian - Film News
Violent, witty and peppered with references to past pop culture, Tarantino's film-making style has its own dictionary entry. Do any other modern directors have the same clout?
Tarantinoesque (adj) – referring to or reminiscent of the work of the American film-maker and actor Quentin Tarantino (born 1963), known for the violence and wit of his films.
No one these days, not even the Collins English Dictionary, doubts how influential Tarantino has been over his 21-year career. Any lippy thriller featuring pop culture-fried dialogue and flip violence in the wake of Reservoir Dogs – 8 Heads in a Duffel Bag, The 51st State, the works of Guy Ritchie – were branded you know what. And, impressively, it cemented into an enduring idiom: Joe Carnahan was still painting from the palette in 2007's Smokin' Aces, and reviewers were handing out the Tarantinoesque badge, a touch dog-eared now, as late as this Christmas gone, to Martin McDonagh's Seven Psychopaths.
Tarantinoesque (adj) – referring to or reminiscent of the work of the American film-maker and actor Quentin Tarantino (born 1963), known for the violence and wit of his films.
No one these days, not even the Collins English Dictionary, doubts how influential Tarantino has been over his 21-year career. Any lippy thriller featuring pop culture-fried dialogue and flip violence in the wake of Reservoir Dogs – 8 Heads in a Duffel Bag, The 51st State, the works of Guy Ritchie – were branded you know what. And, impressively, it cemented into an enduring idiom: Joe Carnahan was still painting from the palette in 2007's Smokin' Aces, and reviewers were handing out the Tarantinoesque badge, a touch dog-eared now, as late as this Christmas gone, to Martin McDonagh's Seven Psychopaths.
- 1/15/2013
- by Phil Hoad
- The Guardian - Film News
A film about French singer Claude François follows a new breed of biopics that are using a well-worn superhero-esque origins narrative about overcoming inner demons
There's a new type of superhero doing the rounds. They don't wear capes; they're less easy to spot, not often being embroiled in CGI scenes of downtown destruction. The latest sighting comes in the guise of an Egypt-born Frenchman with an immaculate blonde feather-cut, obsessive compulsive disorder and propensity for over-zealous disco-dancing. He goes by the name of Claude François: the subject of new biopic Cloclo, released this week in the UK. Come to think of it, François – a titan of 70s Gallic kitsch – wouldn't look out of place in a cape, and at the centre of director Florent-Emilio Siri's epic treatment, he is the embodiment of the new breed: the cultural superhero.
Cloclo follows in the path of The Iron Lady or J Edgar; The Lady,...
There's a new type of superhero doing the rounds. They don't wear capes; they're less easy to spot, not often being embroiled in CGI scenes of downtown destruction. The latest sighting comes in the guise of an Egypt-born Frenchman with an immaculate blonde feather-cut, obsessive compulsive disorder and propensity for over-zealous disco-dancing. He goes by the name of Claude François: the subject of new biopic Cloclo, released this week in the UK. Come to think of it, François – a titan of 70s Gallic kitsch – wouldn't look out of place in a cape, and at the centre of director Florent-Emilio Siri's epic treatment, he is the embodiment of the new breed: the cultural superhero.
Cloclo follows in the path of The Iron Lady or J Edgar; The Lady,...
- 6/20/2012
- by Phil Hoad
- The Guardian - Film News
The turbans-and-testosterone CGI retelling of sultan's conquest of Constantinople feeds on appetite for imperial Ottoman past
It's the film that is making millions of Turkish hearts swell with even more patriotic pride than usual. Fetih 1453, a turbans-and-testosterone epic, has not just smashed all Turkish box office records with its all-action, CGI retelling of Mehmet II's capture of the old Byzantine capital, Constantinople, it is being hailed as a reaffirmation that a resurgent Turkey still has world-conquering blood in its veins.
As the religious-minded daily newspaper Zaman noted, "Turks are feeling imperial again" after a decade of unprecedented economic growth, and are turning more and more toward their Ottoman ancestors for inspiration – in foreign policy as much as in interior design, food and fashion, with a neo-Ottomanist push to reassert Turkish diplomatic hegemony over the sultans' former Arab and eastern European domains.
The film's religious overtones – with a walk-on part for the prophet Muhammad,...
It's the film that is making millions of Turkish hearts swell with even more patriotic pride than usual. Fetih 1453, a turbans-and-testosterone epic, has not just smashed all Turkish box office records with its all-action, CGI retelling of Mehmet II's capture of the old Byzantine capital, Constantinople, it is being hailed as a reaffirmation that a resurgent Turkey still has world-conquering blood in its veins.
As the religious-minded daily newspaper Zaman noted, "Turks are feeling imperial again" after a decade of unprecedented economic growth, and are turning more and more toward their Ottoman ancestors for inspiration – in foreign policy as much as in interior design, food and fashion, with a neo-Ottomanist push to reassert Turkish diplomatic hegemony over the sultans' former Arab and eastern European domains.
The film's religious overtones – with a walk-on part for the prophet Muhammad,...
- 4/12/2012
- by Fiachra Gibbons
- The Guardian - Film News
The Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente is on through April 22. Diego Lerer's not only posted his own recommendations but also gathered more from Gabe Klinger, Robert Koehler, Jaime Pena and Neil Young. What's more, the Ferroni Brigade has programmed a series of midnight screenings featuring Croatian martial arts icon Bore Lee.
In other news. Tim Roth will be the president of the Un Certain Regard Jury at Cannes (May 16 through 27).
The North American premiere of Woody Allen's To Rome with Love will open the Los Angeles Film Festival (June 14 through 24).
Cinema Eye has released a statement of protest against the Us Department of Homeland Security's ongoing harassment of documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras signed by 60 people in the community, over 40 of them filmmakers themselves.
Fiachra Gibbons: "It's the film that is making millions of Turkish hearts swell with even more patriotic pride than usual. Fetih 1453, a turbans-and-testosterone epic,...
In other news. Tim Roth will be the president of the Un Certain Regard Jury at Cannes (May 16 through 27).
The North American premiere of Woody Allen's To Rome with Love will open the Los Angeles Film Festival (June 14 through 24).
Cinema Eye has released a statement of protest against the Us Department of Homeland Security's ongoing harassment of documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras signed by 60 people in the community, over 40 of them filmmakers themselves.
Fiachra Gibbons: "It's the film that is making millions of Turkish hearts swell with even more patriotic pride than usual. Fetih 1453, a turbans-and-testosterone epic,...
- 4/12/2012
- MUBI
Sam Worthington in Wrath of the Titans
The Hunger Games has added nearly another $5m to its box office takings in its second weekend in release.
The action film took $4,838,000 across 471 screens for a screen average of $10,272, according to the Motion Picture Distributors Association of Australia.
Also holding firm for the second week in a row is The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel which took another $2,626,000 across 269 screens for an average of $9,764.
The two films kept out two new releases Wrath of the Titans, which stars Australian Sam Worthington, and The Lorax from the top spots.
Dr Seuss’s The Lorax, directed by Chris Renaud and Kyle Balda and featuring the voice of Danny DeVito took third spot with $2,115,000 across a massive 507 screens for an average of $4172.
In fourth place, Wrath of the Titans and directed by Jonathan Liebesman took $1,977,000 across 337 screens for an average of $5,866.
A re-telling of Snow White,...
The Hunger Games has added nearly another $5m to its box office takings in its second weekend in release.
The action film took $4,838,000 across 471 screens for a screen average of $10,272, according to the Motion Picture Distributors Association of Australia.
Also holding firm for the second week in a row is The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel which took another $2,626,000 across 269 screens for an average of $9,764.
The two films kept out two new releases Wrath of the Titans, which stars Australian Sam Worthington, and The Lorax from the top spots.
Dr Seuss’s The Lorax, directed by Chris Renaud and Kyle Balda and featuring the voice of Danny DeVito took third spot with $2,115,000 across a massive 507 screens for an average of $4172.
In fourth place, Wrath of the Titans and directed by Jonathan Liebesman took $1,977,000 across 337 screens for an average of $5,866.
A re-telling of Snow White,...
- 4/2/2012
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
There's always a loser when two sides go to battle, and movie dramatisations of historic events are no different
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Truth is famously the first casualty of war – and that goes double as soon as a film crew moves in. Turkey has discovered this with its recent bastion-storming blockbuster, Fetih 1453 (Conquest 1453). A scimitars'n'cgi blockbuster account of the fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans in the 15th century, it is the country's most expensive film ever ($17m budget), most popular (4.6m tickets in its first 18 days) and most lucrative ($29m and counting).
But if you think the smell of unanimity is in the air, think again. Plenty of folk have queued up to question Fetih 1453's take, with its gleaming portrayal of Mehmed II, all-conquering bringer of the Ottoman empire's golden age.
• What global box-office stories would you like to see in After Hollywood? Let us know in the comments below
Truth is famously the first casualty of war – and that goes double as soon as a film crew moves in. Turkey has discovered this with its recent bastion-storming blockbuster, Fetih 1453 (Conquest 1453). A scimitars'n'cgi blockbuster account of the fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans in the 15th century, it is the country's most expensive film ever ($17m budget), most popular (4.6m tickets in its first 18 days) and most lucrative ($29m and counting).
But if you think the smell of unanimity is in the air, think again. Plenty of folk have queued up to question Fetih 1453's take, with its gleaming portrayal of Mehmed II, all-conquering bringer of the Ottoman empire's golden age.
- 3/28/2012
- by Phil Hoad
- The Guardian - Film News
It’s the tail end of half-term and The Woman in Black and The Muppets have cleaned up for the second week in a row.
The weekend has also thrown up a terrible selection of new releases with only one smashing its way into the currently robust top 10. Not surprising considering the strong releases of the past few weeks but still it’s a rare, rare thing. So here we go. My review of the weekend that was, in winners, losers, rubbish and my own ill-judged opinions.
The Winner – The Woman in Black
When I saw that Daniel Radcliffe was to be leading the big-screen adaptation of Susan Hill’s The Woman in Black my opinion was divided. It was divided between whether Radcliffe would be as twitchy and ineffectual as usual or whether he might pull the biggest coup since the time he managed to bump faces with Cho...
The weekend has also thrown up a terrible selection of new releases with only one smashing its way into the currently robust top 10. Not surprising considering the strong releases of the past few weeks but still it’s a rare, rare thing. So here we go. My review of the weekend that was, in winners, losers, rubbish and my own ill-judged opinions.
The Winner – The Woman in Black
When I saw that Daniel Radcliffe was to be leading the big-screen adaptation of Susan Hill’s The Woman in Black my opinion was divided. It was divided between whether Radcliffe would be as twitchy and ineffectual as usual or whether he might pull the biggest coup since the time he managed to bump faces with Cho...
- 2/22/2012
- by Ross Jones-Morris
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Journey 2: The Mysterious Island is quickly turning in to an early year hit at the overseas box office. The sequel once again topped the charts this weekend with $27.5 million from 43 markets for a total of $130 million. It added $9.5 million in China and $4.1 million in Russia, and opened in second in France with $3.1 million. Journey 2 is now only a few days away from passing the original Journey to the Center of the Earth's $140.3 million foreign total, and a $200 million finish seems well within reach. Based on available figures, Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance finished in second with around $12.5 million. It was okay in the U.K. and France ($2.1 million in both markets) but was more successful in Mexico ($1.6 million) and Malaysia ($1.1 million). This Means War took third with $11 million from 15 territories. It had an impressive $5.9 million first place start in Russia, and was also strong in Australia ($3.1 million including...
- 2/22/2012
- by Ray Subers <mail@boxofficemojo.com>
- Box Office Mojo
The Daniel Radcliffe chiller benefits from half term and a lack of strong new competition to unexpectedly up its takings on its second week of release, while The Muppets also continue to perform strongly
The winner #1
When The Woman in Black opened with £3.15m, industry observers thought grosses would soon dip: the film had benefited from Harry Potter fans rushing to support Daniel Radcliffe. The success surely wouldn't last.
In fact, box-office takings have risen on the second weekend, up a healthy 11%, partly thanks to an expanded screen count of 5%. The period horror film took a nifty £3.5m in its second frame, for 10-day takings of £10.49m. For backers Momentum Pictures, the success is second only to last year's The King's Speech, which stood at £10.76m at the same stage of its release. The 12A-certificate Woman in Black benefited from the half-term holiday, with schoolchildren available to see the film every day of the week.
The winner #1
When The Woman in Black opened with £3.15m, industry observers thought grosses would soon dip: the film had benefited from Harry Potter fans rushing to support Daniel Radcliffe. The success surely wouldn't last.
In fact, box-office takings have risen on the second weekend, up a healthy 11%, partly thanks to an expanded screen count of 5%. The period horror film took a nifty £3.5m in its second frame, for 10-day takings of £10.49m. For backers Momentum Pictures, the success is second only to last year's The King's Speech, which stood at £10.76m at the same stage of its release. The 12A-certificate Woman in Black benefited from the half-term holiday, with schoolchildren available to see the film every day of the week.
- 2/21/2012
- by Charles Gant
- The Guardian - Film News
When posting the teaser for Faruk Aksoy's massive Turkish period epic Fetih 1453 yesterday I noted that the full trailer would likely be coming soon. And wouldn't you know it: Here it is.Aksoy tells the story of the Fall of Constantinople here, the 1453 battle in which Ottoman forces overwhelmed and captured what is now Istanbul. Epic in every sense of the word, this is simply massive filmmaking and the production values look fantastic. Check out the new three minute trailer below....
- 1/6/2012
- Screen Anarchy
Director Faruk Aksoy is bringing history to the big screen on a massive scale with the upcoming Fetih 1453. Simultaneously enormously bloody and incredibly handsome with what appears to be a literal cast of thousands, Aksoy's picture captures the Fall Of Constantinople - the 1453 war in which the Ottoman Empire took over the city of Constantinople.Production values here are simply fantastic. The first trailer is a short one but with a February theatrical release approaching quickly, expect more soon....
- 1/5/2012
- Screen Anarchy
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