Author: Jim Field Smith
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PROJECT Issue 3 – “Brit-Flick” article
Did an interview and photoshoot as part of a piece on UK film industry creatives, in PROJECT – a pretty nifty new magazine designed exclusively for the iPad. Other people interviewed included Armando Iannucci, Joe Cornish, Kevin Loader and Nira Park. Click the image to enlarge and read the interview. To read the whole piece,…
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Buttered up…
Sure enough, I had barely written my previous post, promising more news on BUTTER, when Ion Cinema published their list of the Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2011. And guess who sneaked in at #39… We’re big on this top BlackList screenplay (#3 in 2008) and think this might turn out to be a…
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Where did 2010 go?
Okay, so it’s been almost a year since I last updated the blog, but in my defence I have been extremely lazy busy. Firstly, “She’s Out of My League” was released. We had great fun promoting the movie around the US and internationally, almost got stranded by snow in New York for the press junket,…
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SOOML trailer and website now online
An exciting day. The trailer is online exclusively at Yahoo! and the official “Get Your Rating” website went live too. The trailer is the theatrical “green band” trailer, which US audiences will see in theaters from tomorrow.
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Paramount picks pitch
Hollywood Reporter picked up news of my pitch sale to Paramount a few weeks back, relaying the story with a liberal smattering of inaccuracy. It’s largely correct though. Read the full article here.
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Press follows “Good Luck”
More blogs, papers and industry trades have been picking up the story about “Good Luck Anthony Belcher”. A sample – here’s the Hollywood Reporter article and here’s The Guardian article. All nice pieces, but interestingly the implication is that I have recently signed on to the project, whereas in fact we’ve been developing it together for a…
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“Good Luck…” tops Brit List
My good friend and collaborator George Kay’s excellent screenplay “Good Luck Anthony Belcher” (which I am attached to direct) has been voted top of the Brit List, the UK film industry’s equivalent of Hollywood’s notorious Black List, as announced by Screen International today: The 2009 Brit List, a list of the most liked and recommended…
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Way ahead down under
We’re still several months out from release, but The Australian ran a piece about Paramount Pictures preview show – including a very nice mention of “She’s Out of My League”: Paramount’s highlight was clips from US comedy She’s Out of My League, starring Tropic Thunder’s Jay Baruchel. It had the audience in stitches and possesses…
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