Originally posted on Festival Reviews:
Bill Condon Born: October 22, 1955 in New York City, New York, USA [on Julian Assange, the central character in his film ‘The Fifth Estate’] He’s clever. He conflates anything that might be critical of him as an attack on WikiLeaks. But he may be surprised at how even-handed a…
Month: October 2016
Happy Birthday: Jan de Bont
Originally posted on Festival Reviews:
Jan de Bont Born: October 22, 1943 in Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands After the huge success of his directorial debut, Speed (1994), Tri-Star offered him their American version of Godzilla (1998). He obtained a script and worked out a budget. Tri-Star rejected the submitted budget (reportedly over $160,000,000) and De Bont…
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