The Fund is aimed at co-productions between European and international partners.
Vietnamese filmmaker Truong Minh Quy has been awarded the TorinoFilmLab (Tfl) co-production fund award for his upcoming feature Viet And Nam.
The award consists of €50,000, which will be allocated to the European production company working on the film – Germany’s Scarlet Visions – as well as a series of expert consultancies with people in various areas of filmmaking. Experts include UK art director Fleur Whitlock and the Emmy-winning production designer of 2006’s Jane Eyre, Grenville Horner.
Viet And Nam follows a couple who both work as miners, as one of...
Vietnamese filmmaker Truong Minh Quy has been awarded the TorinoFilmLab (Tfl) co-production fund award for his upcoming feature Viet And Nam.
The award consists of €50,000, which will be allocated to the European production company working on the film – Germany’s Scarlet Visions – as well as a series of expert consultancies with people in various areas of filmmaking. Experts include UK art director Fleur Whitlock and the Emmy-winning production designer of 2006’s Jane Eyre, Grenville Horner.
Viet And Nam follows a couple who both work as miners, as one of...
- 9/27/2022
- by Ellie Calnan
- ScreenDaily
The Fund is aimed at co-productions between European and international partners.
Vietnamese filmmaker Trương Minh Quý has been awarded the TorinoFilmLab (Tfl) co-production fund for his upcoming feature Viet And Nam.
The award consists of €50,000, which will be allocated to the European production company working on the film - Germany’s Scarlet Visions, as well as a series of expert consultancies with people in various areas of filmmaking. Experts include UK art director Fleur Whitlock and the Emmy-winning production designer of 2006’s Jane Eyre, Grenville Horner.
Viet And Nam follows a couple who both work as miners, as one of...
Vietnamese filmmaker Trương Minh Quý has been awarded the TorinoFilmLab (Tfl) co-production fund for his upcoming feature Viet And Nam.
The award consists of €50,000, which will be allocated to the European production company working on the film - Germany’s Scarlet Visions, as well as a series of expert consultancies with people in various areas of filmmaking. Experts include UK art director Fleur Whitlock and the Emmy-winning production designer of 2006’s Jane Eyre, Grenville Horner.
Viet And Nam follows a couple who both work as miners, as one of...
- 9/27/2022
- by Ellie Calnan
- ScreenDaily
Having already conquered the pop world, Mel B, Emma, Mel C, Geri and Victoria, aka The Spice Girls, have taken their act to the big screen and the results are decidedly mixed.
The good news is the spunky quintet, neatly defined characters all, have a winning rapport with a nice blend of team effort and good-natured ribbing.
Unfortunately, rather than trust them to carry a movie bearing their name, this "A Hard Day's Night" wannabe -- it actually shares more with the old "Monkees" TV series -- has been padded with tired subplots and a gaggle of over-the-top supporting characters.
As a result, while the picture may nevertheless give preteen female fans what they want (what they really, really want), the previously unconverted will unlikely be swayed. Don't expect Girl Power to fuel ticket sales much beyond the opening weekend.
Based on an idea by The Spice Girls and screenwriter Kim Fuller (brother of their recently ousted manager Simon Fuller), "Spice World" concerns itself with a summer in the life of a wildly successful British band called The Spice Girls and how they deal with fame and fortune, not to mention a raving manager (Richard E. Grant), an arrogant documentarian (Alan Cumming) and diabolical paparazzi (as embodied by the omnipresent Richard O'Brien).
One hopes they didn't overly tax themselves coming up with that idea. To be fair there are additional elements, including a slobbering media giant (Barry Humphries) who's obsessed with crushing Girl Power; the mysterious Chief (Roger Moore), who dispenses wisdom in the form of Zen-like non-sequiturs; and a Hollywood producer (George Wendt) and a hyper screenwriter (Mark McKinney) determined to make the girls movie stars. But none of the peripheral stuff works particularly well.
Worse, under the direction of Bob Spiers ("Absolutely Fabulous", Disney's "That Darned Cat" remake), "Spice World" makes the fatal mistake of dragging its platform heels. This type of vehicle begs for an MTV pace, but even their musical performances have been blandly and quite statically shot.
There are still moments of satisfaction to be had here, mainly from the group's own partially improvised interactions and during the picture's satirical fantasy interludes, which feature amusing cameos from the likes of Elton John, Elvis Costello, Bob Hoskins and Meat Loaf as the girls' loyal tour bus driver.
Not surprisingly, production and costume design steal focus on the technical front, with Grenville Horner's bold primary color schematics providing the perfect backdrop for Kate Carin's shiny, bright anything-goes threads.
The soundtrack, essentially, is composed of The Spice Girls' two albums worth of inconsequential but admittedly infectious bubble gum which, like the picture itself, begins to lose its flavor after a few satisfying snaps.
SPICE WORLD
Columbia Pictures
A Spice Girls/Fragile Films production
in association with ICON Entertainment International
and PolyGram Filmed Entertainment
Director:Bob Spiers
Producers:Uri Fruchtmann and Barnaby Thompson
Screenwriter:Kim Fuller
Based on an idea by:the Spice Girls and Kim Fuller
Executive producer:Simon Fuller
Director of photography:Clive Tickner
Production designer:Grenville Horner
Editor:Andrea MacArthur
Costume designer:Kate Carin
Music:Paul Harcastle
Casting:Vanessa Pereira & Simone Ireland
Color/stereo
Cast:
Baby Spice:Emma Bunton
Ginger Spice:Geri Halliwell
Scary Spice:Melanie Brown
Sporty Spice:Melanie Chisholm
Posh Spice:Victoria Adams
Clifford:Richard E. Grant
Deborah:Claire Rushbrook
Piers Cutherton-Smyth:Alan Cumming
Chief:Roger Moore
Martin Barnfield:George Wendt
Dennis:Meat Loaf
Nicola:Naoko Mori
Damien:Richard O'Brien
Kevin McMaxford:Barry Humphries
Graydon:Mark McKinney
Running time -- 93 minutes
MPAA rating: PG...
The good news is the spunky quintet, neatly defined characters all, have a winning rapport with a nice blend of team effort and good-natured ribbing.
Unfortunately, rather than trust them to carry a movie bearing their name, this "A Hard Day's Night" wannabe -- it actually shares more with the old "Monkees" TV series -- has been padded with tired subplots and a gaggle of over-the-top supporting characters.
As a result, while the picture may nevertheless give preteen female fans what they want (what they really, really want), the previously unconverted will unlikely be swayed. Don't expect Girl Power to fuel ticket sales much beyond the opening weekend.
Based on an idea by The Spice Girls and screenwriter Kim Fuller (brother of their recently ousted manager Simon Fuller), "Spice World" concerns itself with a summer in the life of a wildly successful British band called The Spice Girls and how they deal with fame and fortune, not to mention a raving manager (Richard E. Grant), an arrogant documentarian (Alan Cumming) and diabolical paparazzi (as embodied by the omnipresent Richard O'Brien).
One hopes they didn't overly tax themselves coming up with that idea. To be fair there are additional elements, including a slobbering media giant (Barry Humphries) who's obsessed with crushing Girl Power; the mysterious Chief (Roger Moore), who dispenses wisdom in the form of Zen-like non-sequiturs; and a Hollywood producer (George Wendt) and a hyper screenwriter (Mark McKinney) determined to make the girls movie stars. But none of the peripheral stuff works particularly well.
Worse, under the direction of Bob Spiers ("Absolutely Fabulous", Disney's "That Darned Cat" remake), "Spice World" makes the fatal mistake of dragging its platform heels. This type of vehicle begs for an MTV pace, but even their musical performances have been blandly and quite statically shot.
There are still moments of satisfaction to be had here, mainly from the group's own partially improvised interactions and during the picture's satirical fantasy interludes, which feature amusing cameos from the likes of Elton John, Elvis Costello, Bob Hoskins and Meat Loaf as the girls' loyal tour bus driver.
Not surprisingly, production and costume design steal focus on the technical front, with Grenville Horner's bold primary color schematics providing the perfect backdrop for Kate Carin's shiny, bright anything-goes threads.
The soundtrack, essentially, is composed of The Spice Girls' two albums worth of inconsequential but admittedly infectious bubble gum which, like the picture itself, begins to lose its flavor after a few satisfying snaps.
SPICE WORLD
Columbia Pictures
A Spice Girls/Fragile Films production
in association with ICON Entertainment International
and PolyGram Filmed Entertainment
Director:Bob Spiers
Producers:Uri Fruchtmann and Barnaby Thompson
Screenwriter:Kim Fuller
Based on an idea by:the Spice Girls and Kim Fuller
Executive producer:Simon Fuller
Director of photography:Clive Tickner
Production designer:Grenville Horner
Editor:Andrea MacArthur
Costume designer:Kate Carin
Music:Paul Harcastle
Casting:Vanessa Pereira & Simone Ireland
Color/stereo
Cast:
Baby Spice:Emma Bunton
Ginger Spice:Geri Halliwell
Scary Spice:Melanie Brown
Sporty Spice:Melanie Chisholm
Posh Spice:Victoria Adams
Clifford:Richard E. Grant
Deborah:Claire Rushbrook
Piers Cutherton-Smyth:Alan Cumming
Chief:Roger Moore
Martin Barnfield:George Wendt
Dennis:Meat Loaf
Nicola:Naoko Mori
Damien:Richard O'Brien
Kevin McMaxford:Barry Humphries
Graydon:Mark McKinney
Running time -- 93 minutes
MPAA rating: PG...
- 1/22/1998
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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