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Post by piercebrosnanhot on Feb 9, 2012 16:24:49 GMT -5
Berlin 2012: Pierce Brosnan, Emma Thompson Join 'Love Punch' The romantic comedy from Brit director/screenwriter Joel Hopkins is being co-produced and distributed by France's SND. BERLIN -- Pierce Brosnan and Emma Thompson have joined the new rom-com Love Punch from British director/screenwriter Joel Hopkins (Last Chance Harvey). France's SND has come on board the project as a co-producer and will be handling world sales, shopping the project to buyers at Berlin's EFM. The plot of Love Punch has Thompson and Brosnan as a divorced couple who are forced to reunite after their pension is stolen by an unscrupulous businessman and they join forces to steal it back. The film is set to begin shooting this summer in the U.K., Paris and the French Riviera. ;D Attachments:
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Post by eaz35173 on Feb 9, 2012 16:56:12 GMT -5
Thanx for the info! BTW, love your avatar!!
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Post by Ace on Feb 9, 2012 19:21:43 GMT -5
Just saw this and very nice news. I really liked Last Chance Harvey and I adore Emma Thomson. I hope this one comes to fruition.
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Post by Ace on Feb 9, 2012 19:23:01 GMT -5
Oh that avatar is nice and you can resize it up to 100 x 100 in your account/options
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Post by Ace on Feb 9, 2012 19:34:11 GMT -5
www.screendaily.com/snd-strikes-for-joel-hopkins-love-punch/5037761.articleSND strikes for Joel Hopkins' Love Punch 9 February, 2012 | By Wendy Mitchell Pierce Brosnan and Emma Thompson to star. SND will finance, co-produce and handle worldwide distribution (except in German-speaking territories) for Love Punch, a new romantic comedy from Last Chance Harvey director Joel Hopkins. Pierce Brosnan and Emma Thompson will star in the story of a divorced couple who have to reunite when their pension is stolen. The film will shoot this summer on location in the UK, Paris and the French Riviera. Producers are Process Media’s Tim Perell and Nicola Usborne with Clément Miserez (Radar Films), and Jean-Charles Levy (Forecast Pictures). Hopkins said: “I felt that this story of financial deception and the victims fighting back was a timely and appropriate one … I am thrilled to be reuniting with Emma Thompson and to be joined by the perfect leading man in Pierce Brosnan. I am inspired by classic romps such as A Fish Called Wanda and Romancing the Stone to make a fast moving, comic romance, that relies on physical comedy as well as verbal wit, and am honoured to have the perfect cast to play these parts.” Thierry Desmichelle, CEO of SND, added “We are so pleased to be a driving force behind Joel Hopkins’ delightful script and fantastic casting for Love Punch and we are very excited to be working with Tim Perell and Nicola Usborne at Process Media as well as our French production partners Radar Films and Forecast Pictures.” SND is the sales and distribution arm of M6 Group.
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Post by Lauryn on Feb 9, 2012 20:52:44 GMT -5
Sound promising. Can't wait to hear more. But, goodness, doesn't the word pension unavoidably conjure up one's twilight acting years? Oh to be a fly on the wall... Pierce: Hang on! When you said missing IRA funds I thought you meant a terror plot -- Sunday bloody Sunday, things blowing up. Emma T: And I distinctly heard a lost Pynchon. Thomas Pynchon, elusive writer of extremely heavy books. So what you’re saying Mr. Hopkins, is that my four hour Oscar bait epic is now reduced to some old gran standing on line for a free bus pass! JH: Pardon the misunderstanding. Perhaps, in future, you might adjust the volume on your mobiles. Emma T: Don’t bloody insinuate. Pierce: Is there any action in this movie? Emma T: Not apparently at our vast age. JH: Well we might tart it up a bit. Can you shoot an AK? Emma T: Bugger that. Helen Mirren’s cornered that market, the shameless wh*re! Pierce: She does still look smashing in a bikini. You know, women of a certain age are starting to appeal to me.
Emma T: Don’t make it sound so awful.
JH: You’ll both feel better once we’re shooting on the Riviera.
Emma T: What a liar you are.
Pierce: [leafing through the script] Damn, he’s right.
Emma T: Well spotted. I'll bring my cats. The darlings would miss me, you know.
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Post by eaz35173 on Feb 9, 2012 21:11:32 GMT -5
Too funny!
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Post by Yuliya on Feb 10, 2012 10:32:17 GMT -5
Right! Great idea, looking forward to the movie, but I also suggest a minor rewrite - Piece dies his hair (whatever's visible on screen, mind you, and I hope the movie includes a few open shirts) and he and Emma chase the bastards that stole their college funds! Yay!
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Post by Ace on Feb 12, 2012 12:15:40 GMT -5
Yuliya - re open shirts and visible on screen - I gather you are suggesting he also dye his chest hair to cover any stray grays and pass himself as a college student in needs of his stolen funds. Lauryn - you are an evil woman. Thankfully.
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Post by Yuliya on Feb 13, 2012 9:58:19 GMT -5
Yuliya - re open shirts and visible on screen - I gather you are suggesting he also dye his chest hair to cover any stray grays and pass himself as a college student in needs of his stolen funds. Sure. Perfectionist that he is, he'll want to do it right. Mind you, he doesn't have to to be realistic. A friend of mine had lots of gray hair at HS *and* had PB by pounds by the time he was in college, but will such an image appeal to teenage audience?
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Post by Ace on Feb 13, 2012 15:04:44 GMT -5
www.variety.com/article/VR1118050184?refCatId=13Sales 'Punch' for M6 Group Sales outfit sells world on 'Love' By John Hopewell In a further validation, if it were needed, of the market for upbeat comedies with an international reach, SND, the sales-distribution arm of France's M6 Group, has sold out most of the world on "Love Punch," starring Pierce Brosnan and Emma Thompson. In a flurry of Berlin biz on "Punch," a title that SND closed on the eve of Berlin, eOne has acquired U.K., Australia and Canada, Square One has taken Germany, Revolutionary Releasing nabbed Russia and Eastern Europe and Pasatiempo Pictures has taken all of Latin America. SND itself will handle distribution in France. Other top deals include Spain (Antena 3/DeAPlaneta Spain), the Middle East (Gulf), Greece (Village Greece), India (Pictureworks) and Israel (Forum Films). With Benelux and Scandinavia under negotiations, the only major territories currently left on the table are Japan, Italy and the U.S. Joel Hopkins ("Jump Tomorrow," "Last Chance Harvey") wrote and will direct "Punch." Brosnan and Thompson play a retired divorced couple whose pension is stolen by an unscrupulous businessman. Reuniting, they pursue him from London to the South of France, and begin to rediscover why they fist fell in love. "Love Punch" shoots over the summer in the U.K. and France. Beyond worldwide sales, SND finances and co-produces with the U.K.'s Process Media and France's Radar Films and Forecast Pictures. "With this director and cast, there is a real and underserved audience for this kind of feel-good fun movie," said Lionel Uzan, SND-M6's director of acquisitions and international sales, referring to adults over 30.
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Post by piercebrosnanhot on May 17, 2012 1:23:14 GMT -5
Love Punch : Louise Bourgoin volée par Pierce Brosnan et Emma Thompson
En septembre dernier, Un heureux événement de Remi Besançon était présenté au festival de Toronto, marquant les premiers pas de Louise Bourgoin sur le marché du film américain. Quelques mois plus tard, elle expliquait avoir lancé un certain nombre de bouteilles à la mer vers les directeurs de casting outre-Atlantique, poussée par la comédie romantique moderne L'amour dure trois ans de Frédéric Beigbeder.
Alors qu'elle a bouclé le tournage de La Religieuse de Guillaume Nicloux avec Isabelle Huppert, Louise Bourgoin commence son aventure internationale avec Love Punch, une comédie avec Pierce Brosnan et Emma Thompson tournée en France. Écrit et réalisé par Joel Hopkins (Last Chance for Love), le film raconte l'histoire d'un couple divorcé qui cherche à ne plus se voir, malgré leurs enfants et amis. Lorsque leur plan de retraite au soleil s'écroule à cause d'une mauvaise opération financière, ils décident de s'unir pour retrouver le coupable. Ils retrouvent sa trace dans la ville de Paris et se mettent en tête de dérober le fabuleux bijou que l'homme d'affaires sans scrupule (Laurent Lafitte) souhaite offrir à sa fiancée (Louise Bourgoin).
Love Punch sera tourné entre Paris et Cannes de juin à juillet, avec une équipe technique entièrement française. ;D
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Post by rosafermu on May 17, 2012 2:02:44 GMT -5
C'est trés bien. Merci
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Post by Ace on May 31, 2012 22:30:59 GMT -5
www.sndm6group.com/Product/171/LOVE-PUNCHSND has a small page up for the film. Filiming scheduled to begin in June. Synopsis: Retirement at last! Middle aged and divorced company owner Richard Jones (Pierce Brosnan) is looking forward to a worry free existence as he arrives at his office on his last day of work. Much to his dismay, he discovers that the management buyout of his company was fraudulent. The company is now bankrupt and the employee pension fund – including his own – has been stolen. Enlisting the help of his ex-wife Kate (Emma Thompson), Richard sets out to track down the shady business man behind this, Vincent Kruger. Before they know it, Richard and Kate are caught up in a cat and mouse caper across Europe in a whirlwind of intrigue, mad chases and jewelry theft during which they rekindle their romance...…
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Post by Johanna on May 31, 2012 23:30:01 GMT -5
I´m dying to see Pierce and Emma working together!!!
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Post by rosafermu on Jun 1, 2012 3:07:08 GMT -5
A very promising script with two excellent actors. Sure we'll have fun. I'm looking forward to seeing the movie, even that we have to wait a few months to get it. Your avatar very good. Congratulations for this Thanks for all the details that give us
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Post by piercebrosnanhot on Jun 8, 2012 14:37:19 GMT -5
Pierce Brosnan on set in Cannes 007 secret agent Pierce Brosnan will be on set next week in Cannes to film his latest movie starring Emma Thompson and French actress Louise Bourgoin. Some scenes of the new upbeat romantic comedy, Love Punch, will be shot on the Croisette and at a range of the Riviera’s most picturesque locations. For Brosnan and Thompson’s latest film, the pair will play a divorced couple who reluctantly join forces to take on a crafty con-man who has stolen their money. Directed by Joel Hopkins, Love Punch will start shooting next week in Cannes, before heading north to Paris and across the channel to the UK later this summer. According to local newspaper Nice Matin, filming will take place from Monday to Friday on a section Cannes’ famous Croisette and at a handful of the Riviera’s idyllic private beaches. www.rivieratimes.com/index.php/provence-cote-dazur-article/items/pierce-brosnan-on-set-in-cannes.html
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Post by Ace on Jun 10, 2012 15:10:45 GMT -5
www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2157283/Pierce-Brosnan-Emma-Thompson-giggly-lunch-South-France-break-filming.htmlLaughter Punch! Pierce Brosnan and Emma Thompson go for giggly lunch in South of France while on filming breakBy Dianne King PUBLISHED: 13:53 EST, 10 June 2012 Pierce Brosnan and Emma Thompson are filming new movie Love Punch together in the South of France. But it appeared they had been hit with the laughter bug as they couldn't stop giggling while on their way to a restaurant today. Ever the gentleman, the former James Bond hero helped to guide the British actress across the street in Cannes. Emma was decidedly dressed down in cut-off jean shorts which she paired with a denim shirt and flip flops. Pierce was also casual but handsome as usual and looked great in dark jeans and a grey shirt. They then enjoyed a few glasses of wine at the Carlton Hotel with some friends. Love Punch is a film about a divorced couple who scheme to recover retirement money that was stolen from them. It's slated for release next year. Pierce recently put his magnificent Malibu estate in California up for rent for a staggering $250,000 a month. He had built the sprawling property, called Orchid House, on Malibu's billionaires row, Broad Beach after demolishing the original house. His neighbours include Steven Spielberg, Mel Gibson, Goldie Hawn, Sylvester Stallone and Robert Redford. Brosnan and his wife, Keely Shaye Smith, an eco-activist, are believed will be spending the summer on location and the actor has four new films in pre-production. So it was astute of them to rent out the mansion if they're going to be away. Read more: www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2157283/Pierce-Brosnan-Emma-Thompson-giggly-lunch-South-France-break-filming.html#ixzz1xQHhh2yEWhat's so funny: Pierce Brosnan and Emma Thompson couldn't stop laughing as they headed for lunch in the South of France today What hams: The two actors are in Cannes to film Love Punch about a divorced couple scheming to recover their retirement money Careful: Pierce seemed to guide Emma across the street a she wasn't paying much attention Not bothered: The Hollywood pair looked like regular tourists as they made their way to their lunch spot Casual: Pierce and Emma were decidedly dressed down in denim Cheers: The pair enjoyed a couple glasses of wine with some friends Busy boy: Pierce currently has four movies in production
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Post by Ace on Jun 10, 2012 15:19:36 GMT -5
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Post by eaz35173 on Jun 10, 2012 16:53:07 GMT -5
If they're already having that much fun off set, I can only imagine how much fun the actual movie will be!!
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