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Post by juljustik on Nov 15, 2013 2:44:31 GMT -5
Thank you so much, Ace, for all your work on the site!  |
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Post by SeriousJacko on Nov 19, 2013 15:11:01 GMT -5
Thank you so much, Ace, for all your work on the site! Hmmm... well from the looks of it, the banner makes the movie look like a romcom/drama. I'd suggest an image of Brosnan's which makes him look dead serious and alpha male. Can I work on one?  For instance, this will do better with the banner, suggesting a dead serious tone. |
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Post by SeriousJacko on Nov 19, 2013 15:48:03 GMT -5
 Just the facial change I have submitted. Looks more moody, dangerous and menacing. |
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Post by eaz35173 on Nov 19, 2013 16:45:05 GMT -5
I like it.
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Post by Ace on Nov 19, 2013 18:22:40 GMT -5
I wanted an edgier/darker photo but this one like others I quickly looked didn't have the right shading effect or didn't look right cut in half. Others were too obviously Bond or from another film. I'm not crazy about the angle or cropping in this photo - his nose and eyes look off. Hopefully they'll release some official photos soon aside from the one on his instagram.
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Post by SeriousJacko on Nov 19, 2013 18:41:00 GMT -5
Agreed. That should do better when we get some official stills. Would be great to see something official coming out. Let me know if you need any help.
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Post by eaz35173 on Dec 3, 2013 16:48:39 GMT -5
filmmusicreporter.com/2013/12/03/marco-beltrami-scoring-november-man/
Marco Beltrami Scoring ‘November Man’
Posted: December 3, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring Assignments Tags: 1864, Marco B Marco Beltrami has been tapped to score the upcoming action thriller November Man. The film is directed by Roger Donaldson and stars Pierce Brosnan, Olga Kurylenko, Luke Bracey, Will Patton and Bill Smitrovich. The movie follows an ex-CIA operative who is pitted against his former pupil on a race to find a woman who is hiding from her past and who holds the key to an international conspiracy. Michael Finch (Predators) and Karl Gajdusek (Oblivion, Last Resort) have written the screenplay based on the book There Are No Spies by Bill Granger based on his 13-part November Man series. Beau St. Clair (The Thomas Crown Affair, Laws of Attraction) of Irish Dreamtime and Sriram Das (Veronika Decides to Die) of Das Films are producing the project. The project marks the first collaboration between Beltrami and Donaldson. The director has previously worked together with composer including Maurice Jarre (No Way Out), Christopher Young (Species), James Newton Howard & John Frizzell (Dante’s Peak), Trevor Jones (Thirteen Days), Klaus Badelt (The Recruit) and J. Peter Robinson who scored the filmmaker’s most recent features. November Man is currently in post-production and will be released in 2014. ============ There's more about the composer in the link.
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Post by SeriousJacko on Dec 4, 2013 9:36:59 GMT -5
Nice! Good composer!
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Post by eaz35173 on Feb 8, 2014 0:53:39 GMT -5
networkedblogs.com/TAKHaBerlin: The Solution's Myles Nestel on Pierce Brosnan Playing a Better Bond in 'November Man' (Q&A)9:00 PM PST 2/7/2014 by Pamela McClintock Coming off a hot streak at Sundance, Nestel talks to THR about the parallels between moviemaking and real estate and how to slash a budget fast (shoot in Serbia). Growing up in London, Myles Nestel spent his summer holidays ensconced at his dad’s postproduction company in Soho. Nestel, 45, fell in love with the movie business, but he also loved number crunching, so after graduating from the London School of Economics, he embarked on a career in film financing, moving in 1996 to Los Angeles for British bank NatWest before doing stints at various companies, including Cobalt Media. Next, he raised $100 million on Wall Street and launched Oceania Media. Today, he and veteran sales agent Lisa Wilson run The Solution Entertainment Group, a financing, production and foreign sales boutique that has burst onto the scene with a slate of films including two 2014 Sundance titles that quickly have found U.S. homes, the dark comedy Laggies and Cooties, a horror-comedy from Solution’s genre label Synchronicity. The Solution and its strategic partner Siren Studios have set up a $50 million revolving equity fund to finance six to 10 movies a year (Siren also provides overhead). In addition to its own slate of films, Solution represents international rights to third-party titles, such as Infinitely Polar Bear, another Sundance film that Sony Pictures Classics has picked up for the U.S. and that Wilson is selling in Berlin.
Nestel sat down with The Hollywood Reporter to talk about his induction into Sundance and why the company’s upcoming spy thriller The November Man features Pierce Brosnan as the James Bond-like character Nestel always wanted to see.
Lynn Shelton’s Laggies, starring Keira Knightley, sparked a bidding war at Sundance before U.S. rights were picked up by A24 for an estimated $2 million. How did the project come about? We saw an article about the project’s announcement and called CAA. The next day, we met with Anonymous Content and committed to financing it. Sundance is famous for its all-night dealmaking sessions. Did that happen with Laggies? The official offers didn’t come in until the day after the premiere. We had six or seven. I don’t think I left the room on Saturday. That night, I was at the midnight premiere of Cooties and I got an email from [UTA agent] Rich Klubeck saying that A24 wanted to close the deal. I said, “Can’t I wait until the movie ends?” and he said, “No,” so I ran back up to our house. UTA and CAA closed the deal around 2 a.m. Was it nerve-racking? No. It was a really good high. As a deal guy, that’s what you love. Cooties took a little longer, but Lionsgate is the right distributor. What’s great is that every movie we’ve financed or been involved in now has a U.S. theatrical release. When are you going to start shopping The November Man?
I’m not sure. It’s one of those movies that plays great with an audience. Pierce [Brosnan] is back to spy mode. I like to think this is the James Bond he always wanted to play. The character isn’t so debonair and his edges are slightly rougher. I’m kind of a Bond freak, so this is a passion project.
What is the biggest challenge right now in terms of film financing? I think it is relatively straightforward. We’ve been very successful because Lisa [Wilson] and her team have a great nose for product, and if you get great product that can attract cast and a director. The critical thing we bring to the table is budget discipline. Movies live or die by their budget. The new dynamic is not, “Oh, I can make this movie for $12 million, here’s $12 million.” It’s, “This movie has to be made for $6 [million],” and then you make it work. What is the range of your budgets? We’ve done everything from $1 million to $30 million. I would think the max for an independent movie — unless you are making a Martin Scorsese movie — is $40 million to $45 million. You have to be creative. November Man was originally set in Berlin, but we rewrote it so that we could shoot it in Serbia, which was significantly cheaper.How would you describe your brand? The name Solution is very important to me, because it’s what we do. When producers come to us and they don’t know how to put their movies together, we help them. We want to make quality theatrical-level product that has longevity and franchise-ability in certain cases. Is November Man a potential franchise?
Yes. And Cooties has franchise possibilities. And in June we’ll start shooting Mara with [Oblivion’s] Olga Kurylenko, which is a great horror franchise that we’re financing.
Why do people with money still want to invest in movies? It’s exciting and glamorous. Everybody wants to be in Hollywood, right? A lot of real estate people get into the movie business, because real estate is similar. The architectural plans are the script, and just as you pre-lease your building, you pre-sell your film through foreign sales. And the building process is like shooting. I’ve never been more positive about the amount of capital there is. Knowing the people we are in business with and knowing the balance sheets they control, it’s very interesting because in some ways it’s more positive than it’s been in the past 10 years. Do you miss England? When I first started off, I wanted to be a big producer and get England out of its cottage-industry status. But that didn’t happen. I figured I’d do it in L.A. instead. And then once you’re here for a couple of years, your blood thins and the weather is too cold anywhere else. (Laughs.) But seriously, for me and for what I do, L.A. is the place to be and I can’t go back. Maybe one day.
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Post by Ace on Feb 10, 2014 10:49:05 GMT -5
 First official photo release |
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Post by eaz35173 on Feb 10, 2014 11:19:46 GMT -5
Brilliant marketing, releasing this pic now, with all the publicity that he will be getting in Berlin with A Long Way Down.
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Post by piercebrosnanhot on Feb 10, 2014 12:14:20 GMT -5
First official photo release too cool. |
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Post by juljustik on Feb 10, 2014 12:36:32 GMT -5
Looks interesting. Can't wait the movie....
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Post by SeriousJacko on Feb 10, 2014 13:27:08 GMT -5
First official photo release Sheer badass! No wonder why they called him "the better Bond than what he was..." |
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Post by Ace on Feb 25, 2014 19:29:58 GMT -5
MPAA rating
November Man
Rated R For strong violence including a sexual assault, language, sexuality/nudity and brief drug use.
Release Date: TBA 2014
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Post by eaz35173 on Feb 25, 2014 20:43:53 GMT -5
Not surprised that it got an R rating. Wonder what the chances are that it will get US distribution before European?
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Post by eaz35173 on Feb 27, 2014 6:42:04 GMT -5
From Keely's IG ... Preview screening of November Man based on the Bill Granger novel There Are No More Spies. Go see it!  |
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Post by eaz35173 on Mar 4, 2014 18:34:16 GMT -5
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Post by eaz35173 on Mar 23, 2014 22:46:15 GMT -5
BTS from @davojakovic ... Dad and Pierce in action!  |
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Post by eaz35173 on Apr 2, 2014 11:27:10 GMT -5
www.deadline.com/2014/04/relativity-acquires-november-man-as-pierce-brosnan-gets-back-in-spy-modeRelativity Acquires ‘November Man’ As Pierce Brosnan Gets Back In Spy Mode By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday April 2, 2014 @ 9:00am PDT Tags: November Man, Pierce Brosnan, Relativity Media EXCLUSIVE: Relativity has acquired U.S. distribution rights to November Man, the Roger Donaldson-directed spy-thriller that stars Pierce Brosnan, Olga Kurylenko and Luke Bracey. It marks the second project for Relativity with Donaldson, who helmed the 2008 hit The Bank Job. Relativity has committed to a wide release later this year. The film is produced by Brosnan’s Irish DreamTime and Das Films, in association with The Solution Entertainment Group, Merced Media Partners and Palmstar Media Capital. The thriller is an adaptation of the Bill Granger novel There Are No Spies, in which a former CIA operative who is brought back in on a very personal mission finds himself pitted against his former protégé in a deadly game involving high-level CIA officials and the Russian President-elect. The film is produced by Brosnan’s longtime partner Beau St. Clair and Sriram Das. Michael Finch & Karl Gajdusek wrote the script. Relativity president Tucker Tooley was at the center of the deal. “Making November Man has been a tremendous experience. Audiences will love Pierce and Luke Bracey is a young star,” Donaldson said. “Olga Kurylenko gives one of her best performances and it was terrific to work with Will Patton and Bill Smitrovich again.” Said Brosnan, the former 007: “Getting back into the spy game and bringing November Man to life with Roger Donaldson and a world class team was a tremendous experience. I look forward to sharing it with the world.” The Solution Entertainment Group is selling offshore rights, and the domestic deal was made by CAA and attorney Marc H. Simon.
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