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Post by eaz35173 on Sept 3, 2013 21:21:32 GMT -5
In general, any idea how long it takes something sold at the festival to make it's way to an actual theater? It depends on the distributor, their existing schedule, the amount of money and plans they have for prints and advertising and where they think it fits better in the year against competition. It could be a few months, could be a year. Seraphim Falls and Married Life were both bought for US markets at the TIFF. Seraphim Falls opened four months later the following Jan and Married Life in March. Both were distributed by Sony Classics which also released Love Is All You Need.
The Matador premiered at Sundance in Jan 2005 but wasn't released until late Dec 2005 because Weinstein had award plans in mind. The Greatest took a year and half because the distibutor that bought it first went under. Thanx, Ace! I was just curious, as I really don't know much about the behind-the-scenes workings of the actual business of getting a movie into a theater.
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Post by Ace on Sept 4, 2013 7:50:03 GMT -5
Hollywood ReporterWill the level of dealmaking at this year's Toronto Film Festival match 2012's flurry of activity? UTA's veteran indie agent Richard Klubeck is betting on it. "This is the high-water mark in terms of available [finished] films," says Klubeck. And buyers already are poring over the jam-packed schedule. Additionally, Toronto has turned into a growing film market where sales agents sell off foreign rights to unfinished films. One of the hottest sales titles is sure to be Jon Stewart's political drama, Rosewater. Sierra/Affinity is flying Stewart in to personally pitch buyers and show footage. Most of the action, however, will focus on finished films screening at the fest: Worldview Entertainment, Christopher Woodrow's financing and production company, will be one of the busiest sellers. It will be offering U.S. distribution rights to Devil's Knot, starring Reese Witherspoon and Colin Firth, the Nicolas Cage starrer Joe and Ti West's The Sacrament. "There was a lack of product at Cannes, so I would expect Toronto to be much more active," says Woodrow. "But it all comes down to the film." So, mark up your screening guides: Here are the hottest titles buyers will be circling. The Love Punch (WME) Director: Joel Hopkins Stars: Pierce Brosnan, Emma Thompson The Buzz: Distributors are viewing this caper about a divorced couple who reunite for a diamond heist as a possible adult box-office draw.
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Post by eaz35173 on Sept 6, 2013 8:51:51 GMT -5
According to twitter, the press screening of Love Punch is today at TIFF
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Post by eaz35173 on Sept 6, 2013 12:17:49 GMT -5
Some tweeted initial reviews of Love Punch ...
Adam B. Vary @adambvary THE LOVE PUNCH at #TIFF13: Silly, soufflé-light caper w/Pierce Brosnan & Emma Thompson having a blast w/material that's kinda beneath them.
Andrea D'Addio @daddioandrea stupidly funny #LovePunch with #PierceBrosnan #TIFF13
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Post by eaz35173 on Sept 6, 2013 20:31:47 GMT -5
Well, this review isn't so great, but I'm not sure what he was expecting... www.theguardian.com/film/2013/sep/06/the-love-punch-toronto-2013-reviewHenry Barnes theguardian.com, Friday 6 September 2013 16.56 EDT The Love Punch: Toronto 2013 – first look reviewThe combination of sun, a wedding and Pierce Brosnan should be fair warning of the quality of this jewel heist comedy aimed at retirees, says Henry Barnes There's herbal teas that hit harder than The Love Punch, a jewel heist comedy for retirees that has Pierce Brosnan and Emma Thompson rattling off to France to steal back their nest egg. Brosnan plays Richard, a financial something-or-other facing bankruptcy a week before retirement. A corporation has come in and wiped his company's pension fund. Its slimy boss has invested his takings in a blingy diamond for his trophy bride. The little peoples' futures are on the line, so Pierce and Emma cross the channel to confront the villain, pinch the rock and bicker their way back into each others' affections. They're joined in the chase by rogue-ish ex-serviceman Jerry (Timothy Spall) and his gently nutty wife Penelope (Celia Imrie), who says rude words and gets a bit randy. The combination of sun, a wedding and Pierce Brosnan should have alarm bells ringing. Writer/director Joel Hopkins is aiming for screwball, but there's too much sugar, not enough twist. You're expected to relax into the Riviera high jinx, let the perma-gag about aging and senescence do the work for you. Sometimes it works - Brosnan and Thompson are sedately charming, Spall and Imrie are naturally funny together - but there's only so much humour you can squeeze out of Pierce's dicky prostate. The Love Punch is as unsubtle in its way as a horny teen movie about a dude who just can't wait to get laid. No joke is too soft, no stereotype too broad. No-one's expecting Alexander Payne from every film featuring people over 50, but you'd hope for more than than mellow, dumbing cinema that romps about with its ailments so proudly on display. There's a whole new audience out there with cinema time to spare. "This is what we worked for," says Jerry as he and Richard pootle away a day at the driving range. The target audience could be forgiven for thinking the same thing, but with considerably less good humour. Retiree cinema will eventually find its feet. Until then silver film fans have longer to live than ever before. The Love Punch will make them feel it. =============== I don't care what he says, I still can't wait to see it!! I'm sure there will be plenty of Pierce and Emma fans that will flock to it.
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Post by eaz35173 on Sept 7, 2013 1:10:28 GMT -5
Another review from The Hollywood Reporter ... www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/love-punch-toronto-review-623348The Love Punch: Toronto Review 10:45 PM PDT 9/6/2013 by Boyd van Hoeij Emma Thompson and Pierce Brosnan star as a divorced couple who need to steal a diamond during a French Riviera wedding in Joel Hopkins' latest. TORONTO -- A divorced couple from the U.K. hop over to France to steal a supersized diamond that’ll allow them to recoup their destroyed pension funds in The Love Punch, a film that is mostly as silly and absurd as its synopsis suggests, with stars Emma Thompson and Pierce Brosnan working overtime to compensate for a mixed-bag screenplay. One of the few pleasing elements of the latest film of director Joel Hopkins is that it again features middle-aged protagonists, with Thompson, who starred in the director’s Last Chance Harvey, and Brosnan joined by Timothy Spall (Winston Churchill in The King’s Speech) and Celia Imrie (The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel) as a couple of friends who need all of 20 seconds to say “yes” to a request to help kidnap and then impersonate some Texans during a chateau-set wedding. Indeed, recognizable human behavior is not this film’s forte -- which wouldn’t be a problem if something else would take its place but Punch never finds the right tone for the heterogeneous material, with sweetly melodramatic scenes alternating with high drama, some light action and farce. Older audiences, especially in Europe, might be drawn by the marquee names and the promise of a good old time but the film doesn’t have the originality or unblemished execution needed to drive the word-of-mouth that could make this a sleeper hit. It’ll open in the U.K. in December.Kate (Thompson) and Richard Jones (Brosnan) both try to fill their lives with activities to keep them from realizing they’re divorced and lonely, especially now that daughter Sophie (Tuppence Middleton) has moved out of Kate’s and Richard, who has just sold his investment firm, is about to retire. The two have an almost too cute negative chemistry that signals they’re still quite into each other, as evidenced in the prolog and an early scene in Paris, where the duo are in search of the CEO of the company that bought Richard’s business and immediately gutted it, making all its pension funds, including Kate and Richard’s, disappear. After some pratfalls the couple burst into the Parisian office of the French evildoer, Vincent Kruger (Laurent Lafitte,who’d twirl his mustache if he had one), who laughs in their faces since all he’s done is strictly legal. Kate and Richard then hatch another plan (not at all legal): they want to steal the $10 million diamond that Kruger’s pretty young girlfriend (Louise Bourgoin, whose French charms don’t translate into English at all) will wear during the couple’s impending nuptials. For this, the former lovers need the help of their friends (Spall, Imrie), who duly fly in to the Cote d’Azur. One of the film’s better running gags involves the secret paramilitary history of Spall’s character, which will come in handy, since the others are all bumbling, middle-aged wannabe thieves (even if Brosnan’s 007 past is occasionally an easy target for laughs). Though Thompson and Brosnan are believable as a former couple, the romantic subplot involving their re-emerging feelings is the most predictable element of Hopkins’ screenplay and also the source of some very cringe-worthy dialog. The comedy is very hit-and-miss and the action elements are also a mixed bag; there’s a comical-for-all-the-wrong-reasons car chase but the actual heist is nimbly plotted and credible in a Monty Python kind of way (in its best moments, the film recalls A Fish Called Wanda). Jean-Michel Bernard’s antiquated, extremely busy score tries to keep the pace from lagging, while the songs of Free and other rock groups on the soundtrack are meant to make the silly antics look cooler but instead highlight how incongruous they are. Otherwise, this Franco-British co-production is handsomely put together, with great use of locations, especially.
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Post by Ace on Sept 7, 2013 6:19:52 GMT -5
SCREEN DAILY: The Love Punch
Brosnan and Thompson make for an engaging separated couple.7 September, 2013 | By Mark Adams, chief film critic Dir/scr: Joel Hopkins. UK-France. 2013. 95mins A middle-of-the-road heist-comedy aimed fair-and-square at the middle-aged middle-classes, the blithely silly The Love Punch offers disposable entertainment that is so gentle and clichéd that it rarely takes full advantage of the star power and genuine acting skills of its strong cast, none of whom are asked to do little more than over-act and roll out their broadesst comedy routines. That being said, there are some genuinely lovely and amusing moments in amidst the rather blunderingly staged proceedings, mainly coming from the ever-elegant Emma Thompson who is the charming driving force of the film. At times so poor it makes you cringe, in the end – oddly enough – The Love Punch comes close to winning you over with its enthusiasm to embrace its broad comedy, or at least enjoy the few comedy nuggets that come your way. Pierce Brosnan and Emma Thompson star as a divorced duo who set aside their differences to undertake a high-stakes jewel robbery on the Côte d’Azur. Of course it is really an excuse for a little location shooting in Paris and the French Riviera as Mr and Mrs Jones (she never bothered changing her name after the divorce) get to appreciate each other all over again. When his company is liquidised by a sleazy French businessmen, Richard (Brosnan) and Kate (Thompson) lose all of their savings – as well as money owed to his staff – the pair plot to steal a $10million diamond the businessman (Laurent Lafitte) has bought for his soon-to-be-wife (Louise Bourgoin). Recruiting their best friends Jerry (Timothy Spall) and Pen (Célia Imrie), they hatch a scheme where the pretend to be Texan millionaires (cue some dressing up and use of bad accents), infiltrate a cliff-top chateau (cue scuba gear and scaling a rock face) where the wedding is being staged and switch the diamond with a fake. Writer/director Joel Hopkins (who made Last Chance Harvey with Emma Thompson) is aiming for old-fashioned screwball heist high-jinks – he is aiming for The Pink Panther crossed with His Girl Friday - but it is actually a hard genre to get right (as Colin Firth knows from the equally so-so Gambit) and despite the best efforts from his cast the story and – to a large extent – the dialogue just can’t live up the good intentions. Brosnan and Thompson make for an engaging separated couple (she is especially strong on comedy, while there some nice gags about his good looks) and when teamed with such comedy pros as Imrie and Spall the film finds its warm-and-fuzzy heart. The sight of the four of them in wetsuits plodding into the sea for a raid on the chateau (Pen has made egg sandwiches) is genuinely funny, as is a running gag about secrets from Jerry’s past (ex-merchant seaman who knows criminals, was in the French Foreign Legion and still has shrapnel in him from Saigon) that Pen knows nothing about is rather amusing.
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Post by Ace on Sept 7, 2013 6:26:11 GMT -5
blogs.seattletimes.com/popcornandprejudice/2013/09/07/in-toronto-lucky-them-makes-a-lucky-debut/Posted by Moira Macdonald Excerpt "Lucky Them,” with its perfectly cast central pair, made an interesting bookend to today’s first film: "The Love Punch," starring Pierce Brosnan and Emma Thompson as a divorced couple who must join forces to get back their pension money by stealing a diamond on the French Riveria. Yes, the plot’s that silly, and the writing and directing sloppy, and the whole thing utterly ridiculous – but Brosnan and Thompson have such chemistry and charisma that they almost make it all bearable. Almost. Collette and Church, though, show you what a difference a screenplay and a director make. ============================== From these first handful of reviews it looks like Love Punch is an uneven mainstream screwball comedy - definitely not a "festival" film. I gather it's there mostly to find U.S. distribution, so buying might wait until it's shown to an audience.
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Post by eaz35173 on Sept 7, 2013 20:03:01 GMT -5
For those of you who live in Ontario, Canada and have a Visa card, there is a promotion to win a walk on the Red Carpet at TIFF. Not sure if you can pick your movie, but it might be worth entering the contest. According to the rules, you must enter by tomorrow, Sept 8th. Here's the link ... visainfinite.ca/tiff/contest.html
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Post by Ace on Sept 9, 2013 11:08:59 GMT -5
www.standard.co.uk/goingout/the-love-punch--film-review-8805443.htmlEvening Standard: The Love Punch - film review Pierce Brosnan and Emma Thompson lead a golden cast in this likeable middle-aged, middle-class comedy David Sexton Published: 09 September 2013 There’s a certain sort of comedy drama whose spiritual home is on Radio 4, even more than on BBC1: middle-aged, middle-class, wry about both the failings and virtues of those conditions of life. Think After Henry. The Love Punch, written and directed by Joel Hopkins, puts this style of comedy on the big screen with a fine cast. Richard (Pierce Brosnan looking ever so distinguished) is divorced from Kate (Emma Thompson, pretty sleek too) but when a villainous hedge funder steals their pensions, they set off in pursuit of him together, first to Paris, then to the Riviera, where they plan a huge diamond heist - presumably the film was made before this actually pulled off twice this year in Cannes? - requiring them to impersonate Texans at the villain’s ostentatious wedding. Their neighbours and best friends, who long to see them get back together, join them for the caper: Timothy Spall and Celia Imrie, golden casting then. These four work expertly together, Brosnan and Thompson in fact seeming almost too comfortable with each other ever to have been divorced. The Love Punch has a problem of tone, though: pure farce, comedy thriller, romcom? It doesn’t ever know, unlike, say, the quite similarly premised new film from Roger Michell and Hanif Kureishi, Le Week-End, also a comedy about a middle-aged British couple grappling with each other on the continong. It’s adroitly scripted from that middle-aged, middle-class perspective. “He’s an academic disaster zone, isn’t he? With police tape all around him”, says Spall gloomily about his son. In the middle of the heist, after some sub aqua action and cliff-climbing, Celia Imrie says brightly: “I made sandwiches”. Ever so British then, innocuous, likeable, if no masterpiece: a film you can be sure your parents will enjoy (or would have enjoyed).
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Post by piercebrosnanhot on Sept 9, 2013 11:31:45 GMT -5
The Love Punch Pierce Brosnan and Emma Thompson star in this romantic comedy/heist film as a divorced duo who sets aside their differences to undertake a high-stakes jewel robbery on the Côte d'Azur. TIFF Film Circuit
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Post by eaz35173 on Sept 9, 2013 23:18:21 GMT -5
www.straight.com/blogra/421561/tiff-2013-reflections-james-gandolfini-pierce-brosnan-catherine-keener-and-jude-lawTIFF 2013: Reflections on James Gandolfini, Pierce Brosnan, Catherine Keener, and Jude Law by NATHAN CADDELL on SEP 9, 2013 at 8:52 PM Some observations • The very first scene in The Love Punch has a bartender shaking a cocktail and then pouring a martini for Emma Thompson's Kate. Pierce Brosnan then walks into the scene as Richard and says "I'll have the same." Ya you will, Mr. Bond. • Speaking of that, it's rather hilarious watching Brosnan in this one. He's got charm, there's no doubting it, but sometimes you're not sure if the scene is shot in slow-mo for effect (some are) or the actors are just hobbling along in their mid 40s and 50s.
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Post by eaz35173 on Sept 10, 2013 12:45:34 GMT -5
Erika Santillana @littlebirderika Also might have just sat behind #PierceBrosnan. What a handsome and gracious gentleman. Saw #TheLovePunch yesterday. Great movie! #TIFF13
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Post by eaz35173 on Sept 11, 2013 10:38:45 GMT -5
According to their website, eTalk Canada will be live streaming the Love Punch press conference tomorrow (9/12) at 10:30am eastern time ... www.ctv.ca/eTalk/Live-Stream-Schedule.aspxAnyone able to capture it for those of us who might not be around at that time?? Edit... Actually, the TIFF youtube channel has been pretty good about posting the press conferences after they have happened. So hopefully they will post it later in the day, too.
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Post by Ace on Sept 11, 2013 14:45:33 GMT -5
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Post by Ace on Sept 11, 2013 15:13:04 GMT -5
Rick Campanelli @rcampanellietc Fave int so far during #ETCTIFF13 - loved every second of my 4 minutes w/Emma Thompson & Pierce Brosnan! FUN
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Post by Ace on Sept 11, 2013 15:22:57 GMT -5
Some tweets from TIFF
ET Canada @etcanadaSPOTTED: Pierce Brosnan giving Keanu Reeves a big hug at the InterContinental. Joining the film chat, Emma Thompson. #ETCTIFF Kate Morawetz @katemorawetzCan Emma Thompson, Pierce Brosnan & Keanu Reeves be my support team for every interview?! #hallwayrunin #NBD #ETCTIFF Richard Crouse @richardcrouse Just had a lovely impromptu chat with Pierce Brosnan. He loved ScarJo's Under the Skin! #TIFF13 Emma B. @pollyprissypant @richardcrouse - I had one of those with him this morning too - only we were gushing over August: Osage County. He's so great! #TIFF13 Zulekha Nathoo @zulekhanathoo Just ran into Pierce Brosnan after an intvu & he flashed me a smile. Tall, dashing & as the reporter next to me said, "smells good" #TIFF13 Emma B. @pollyprissypant Just finished talking to the delightful Emma Thompson and Pierce Brosnan. Bonded with Pierce over our mutual adoration of #AugustOsageCounty tk tanya_KimLOVE #EmmaThompson & #PierceBrosnan together! Thanks for such a fun interview! #TheLovePunch #etalkTIFF13 Deana Sumanac @deanasumanFirst up : Emma Thompson and Piers Brosnan interview. Not an obvious pairing but they have great comedic chemistry in Love Punch #TIFF13 Apologies, obviously that's Pierce Brosnan. I've had one too many interviews with TIFF' s own Piers Handling. #cbctiff twitter.com/sparklincyanide As I looked around the theatre, making sure no one needs any assistance with anything, my eyes happened to fall on a man who just appeared at the mouth of the stairs and framed the opening. 1 heart stopping sec during which my eyes relayed the message through my sinews to my brain what they saw, then an audible gasp and a forceful grasp of my colleague's elbow and all I could say, "Andrew!!!". Then I turned away, clenched my eyes shut... hoping, and willing my mind to do some kind of telekinetic magic that will wipe away the memory from the man's mind of my pathetic display of a starstruck moron, when a few things happened all at the same time, I felt the presence of someone very close to me, ( someone in my personal space ), while I heard a soft voice, the unmistakable Irish accent,"Do you know where our seats are?" I turned, as if in slow motion till I was looking into the piercing blue eyes of Pierce Brosnan.
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Post by newbe on Sept 11, 2013 15:23:57 GMT -5
Hi, I'm new on this forum. Found this website while searching for the release dates of Love Punch, and still searching for the trailer as the one I saw got taken down. I see you are all fans of him, I have some photos I can share if you'd like, taken on a phone so not great quality. I was lucky enough to be an extra in the starting scenes of that movie, only for a day, but it was fun. If I've posted this in the wrong thread, sorry, point me in the right direction.
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Post by piercebrosnanhot on Sept 11, 2013 15:51:04 GMT -5
OH PLEASE POST THEM.
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Post by eaz35173 on Sept 11, 2013 16:00:42 GMT -5
Hi, I'm new on this forum. Found this website while searching for the release dates of Love Punch, and still searching for the trailer as the one I saw got taken down. I see you are all fans of him, I have some photos I can share if you'd like, taken on a phone so not great quality. I was lucky enough to be an extra in the starting scenes of that movie, only for a day, but it was fun. If I've posted this in the wrong thread, sorry, point me in the right direction. Hi Newbe!! Yes, please post your Behind-the-Scenes pix from the set here!! As for the official trailer, I haven't seen one put out yet. I do have a copy of that unofficial one, which I can upload to an external link, if you want. Oh, and how exciting to be an extra on the film!!
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