Me and Orson Welles will screen at two film festivals in September and October: At the Deauville American Film Festival in France: 4 – 13 September 2009 At the Woodstock Film Festival in the US: 30 September – 4 October 2009 Currently there is no information available who from the cast or crew will attend or if Zac [...]
Continue reading...Monday, August 10, 2009
This is obviously a bit late but with the M&OW teaser trailer out, here are the reviews from the professional sites and media outlets the movie got at TIFF08 last year: LA Times, The Big Picture The Hollywoodreporter Screen Daily Chicago Sun-Times, Roger Ebert Variety, Thompson on Hollywood Variety ComingSoon.net CinemaBlend FirstShowing Time Out Chicago AICN Boston Globe Cleveland.com/The Plain Dealer Cinematical moviefone Entertainment Weekly Chud Hollywood Elsewhere Collider AV Club Time Out New York LA Weekly The [...]
Continue reading...Monday, August 10, 2009
Here is the second post with reviews from Me and Orson Welles coming out of TIFF 2008. These reviews are all from private blogs etc, not professional critics. In that respect it’s important to keep in mind that many of them are not trying/claiming to give a fair, balanced or objective review; they are personal [...]
Continue reading...Monday, August 10, 2009
Me and Orson Welles had been screened at SXSW 2009 in March 2009 as mystery screening, ie people showed up without knowing which movie they are going to see until it started. Considering that Austin is Richard Linklater’s hometown many people suspected that it’s going to be M&OW though. There have been a bunch of reviews [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, September 6, 2008
Once again, I haven’t been updating the blog as I wanted… so I’ll be trying to play catch up – again. To start things off, the very basics about last night’s premiere of Me and Orson Welles at the Toronto International Film Festival. There were many articles leading up to the premiere indicating high hopes for [...]
Continue reading...Monday, July 7, 2008
I still have to do some catching up on “M&OW” but thought I’ll post at least the new stuff so I won’t get further behind. There is a new article in The Providence (7 July 2008) with James Tupper which has a reasonable part about Me and Orson Welles. Here are the relevant sections:
Continue reading...Sunday, March 9, 2008
IoM Today published an article on 6 March 2008 about “Me and Orson Welles” based on the press conference I’ve been posting about the other day. Mostly a recap of the video; it doesn’t contain a lot of new info but it confirms that filming will take place in PineWood (only) after they wrap in [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, March 4, 2008
There was a short press conference on Sunday, 2 March 2008 in the Sefton Hotel on the Isle of Man with the Me and Orson Welles director and producers Richard Linklater, Ann Carli and Marc Samuelson. They talk about how IoM managed to get the production onto the island and how the Gaiety Theatre [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, January 31, 2008
More news from Variety (dated 31 January 2008) on Zac’s movie “Me and Orson Welles” today. Production as well as casting news… Upfront the casting news: Kelly Reilly, Eddie Marsan, Leo Bill, Imogen Poots and Aidan McArdle. While I have to admit I’m not familiar with them, I’m still impressed with the casting of Zac’s co-stars. [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, January 26, 2008
The Hollywoodreporter reports on 18 January 2008 that Zac has a new movie: Efron hangs with ‘Welles’ Zac Efron will star in “Me and Orson Welles,” an adaptation of the period coming-of-age novel by Robert Kaplow that Richard Linklater will direct.
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Wednesday, August 19, 2009
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