[Brooks' movie, financed by producer Steve Bing, has now found a new home at Warner Independent Pictures, which plans to release it early next year. Warner Indy chief Mark Gill says he had no problems with the title.] How often do you get a laugh simply from the title of a movie? ... We saw the movie, and it was clear that Albert makes fun of himself and America, not anybody else. |
[When Warner and National Geographic bought the North American rights to Marche, the contract stipulated they had the rights to modify the film for the American audience. But what Roberts and Gill were suggesting included a new score and a reworking of the film's tone.] The narrative was originally from four points of view, including a mother, father and baby, and the language was very, well, French, ... Very poetic. |
Fundamentally, I think people feel that a lot of Hollywood films are retreads. People have a thirst for what's new, and documentaries feel fresh to them. |
Hollywood Online has come up with what is arguably the best way to reach frequent moviegoers on a widespread and guaranteed basis, ... We're delighted to be part of the debut. |
People are responding to (documentaries) in a way I don't think anyone expected. |
The narrative was originally from four points of view, including a mother, father and baby, and the language was very, well, French. Very poetic. |
There were six of us who saw it. We never agree on anything, but we all loved this film. It's breathtakingly original. |
They said: `We know France, you know America.' |
We can all try to blame the closing window of DVD and all that, but you see the movies that are really distinctive still going out and doing really well. |
We saw the movie, and it was clear that Albert makes fun of himself and America, not anybody else. |
We were more interested in how far the penguins went, how much weight they lost, why they do what they do. |
We've been finding now for at least a year that half the British public thought that the war in Iraq was the wrong thing to do rather than the right thing to do and if anything the latest events will just crystallize public opinion, |
You don't know if they've even seen (your movie), ... You don't know who they are. You have no reason to understand whether they saw a stolen tape or what they saw. And sometimes that stuff has a funny way of snowballing, and it really creates a nasty effect. |
You don't know if they've even seen (your movie). You don't know who they are. You have no reason to understand whether they saw a stolen tape or what they saw. And sometimes that stuff has a funny way of snowballing, and it really creates a nasty effect. |