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Tried and tested on stage from Paris to London to Broadway, New York, Yasmina Reza’s successful play God of Carnage was always going to present a challenge being adapted for film by the playwright herself. However, the key to the story – shortened to Carnage – is the power of the acting talent assigned to [...]
Starring Kate Winslet, John C Rielly, Jodie Foster and Christoph Waltz, CARNAGE is the new film from master filmmaker Roman Polanski. To mark the film’s cinema release on 3rd February, we have a bundle of great DVDs, including The Guard, Four Lions and The Brothers Bloom, plus a Carnage poster, to give away! Based on [...]
Premiering at the Venice Film Festival last September, Roman Polanski’s latest film, Carnage, is just a couple of weeks away from coming out here in the UK. If you’ve missed our coverage of the film so far, you can catch up on it all right here, most recently including the UK trailer towards the end [...]
Here’s the UK trailer for Studiocanal’s new movie, Carnage which stars Kate Winslet, Christoph Waltz, Jodie Foster and John C Reilly. Most of the film takes place in one room and I have a feeling it’s either going to be awesome or dull as dishwater but I am hoping for the former with such a [...]
A new poster for Roman Polanski’s Carnage has been released this week, but unfortunately it doesn’t do much in the way of promotion. Written and directed by Roman Polanski, the film is based on the acclaimed play God of Carnage by French playwright Yasmina Reza and premiered at the 68th Venice International Film Festival this [...]
One of the highlights of the London Film Festival this month is the chance for us to see Roman Polanski’s adaptation of the play God of Carnage, retitled Carnage for the big screen, before its UK release date which is expected to be sometime in 2012. Those cool cats over at Mount Yahoo thought today [...]
After getting a fantastic new trailer and poster back in August for Roman Polanski’s upcoming film, Carnage, we’ve now got the film’s terrific first clip to share with you, taking a look at the film’s four excellent cast members – Christoph Waltz, Kate Winslet, John C. Reilly, and Jodie Foster – sitting down to discuss [...]
This poster was released a week or two ago but what better time to put it up than to coincide with the release of this new brilliant trailer? Carnage has an all-star cast which includes Jodie Foster, John C. Reilly, Kate Winslet, Christoph Waltz and is directed by the (choose word most applicable to your [...]
It was recently announced that Roman Polanski’s Carnage is to open the New York Film Festival at the end of September following its premiere at Venice, and while we in the UK have no release date the prospect of a Polanski comedy is an intriuging one. Yasmina Reza’s play Le Dieu du Carnage has played [...]
This year’s line-up for the 68th Venice Film Festival, taking place between 31st August and 10th September, has been announced by the festival’s official website, and as expected, it’s more than a little bit fantastic, with a brilliant line-up of films set to screen in Italy. Heading the jury this year will be director Darren [...]
Having finished work on “Carnage”, Roman Polanski (Knife in the Water, Chinatown, Rosemary’s Baby) is apparently looking around for his next project, with Focus Features hoping to hook him for “True Crime”. True Crime is based on an article for The New Yorker by David Grann about a true-life long-unsolved murder case in Poland. The [...]
Sony Pictures Classics have acquired the North American distribution rights to Carnage, formally known as God of Carnage. Directed by Roman Polanski (The Ghost), Carnage stars Jodie Foster (Panic Room), John C. Reilly (Cyrus), Kate Winslet (Revolutionary Road) and Christoph Waltz (Inglourious Basterds). Based on Yasmina Reza’s Tony-winning play, Carnage tells the story of two sets of parents [...]
As stated in the description of the new book ‘Polish Cinema Now!’, published to coincide with the 9th annual edition of the Kinoteka Polish Film Festival, Polish cinema of the past twenty years, made without state control of production after the fall of communism, is paradoxically much less well known than their cinema of the earlier [...]
Feast your eyes of this veritable powerhouse acting ensemble, present in the set pictures from Roman Polanski’s next feature which have emerged (courtesy of Empire). The film in question is an adaptation of Yasmina Reva’s Tony-winning play God of Carnage (which appears to have been shortened to Carnage) and it tells the story of two [...]
Deadline are reporting that John C. Reilly (last seen in winning form in the Duplass Brothers film Cyrus) is set to appear alongside Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet and Christoph Waltz in Roman Polanski’s next feature. The film in question is an adaptation of Yasmina Reva’s Tony-winning play God of Carnage, which concerns two pairs of [...]
Kate Winslet (The Reader), Christoph Waltz (The Green Hornet), Matt Dillon (Takers) and Jodie Foster (The Brave One) will star in God of Carnage, a film adaptation of the hit play to be directed by Roman Polanski (The Ghost). God of Carnage is about two sets of parents, one of whose child has hurt the [...]
Time for another voyage on the good ship podcast as the HeyUGuys podcast – Mouth Off – celebrates its 16th episode in grand style with film reviews, movie news and all good things. I’m joined by the glorious Mr Brendon Connelly from /Film and we chew over the big screen debut of Ricky Gervais and [...]
The Ghost is the latest film from Roman Polanski, the director of such great films as Repulsion, Knife in the Water, Chinatown and Rosemary’s Baby. It is based on the novel of the same name by Robert Harris and stars Ewan McGregor as the unnamed ‘The Ghost’. He is a ghost writer hired to work [...]
