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Post by paca on Jan 24, 2014 11:07:34 GMT -5
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Post by mrszinck on Jan 24, 2014 16:37:32 GMT -5
oh Albert, all that trouble... and now the film opens the Cannes festival! LOL
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Post by paca on Jan 24, 2014 19:28:49 GMT -5
does it? mail says it's shelved, so we don't know
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Post by mrszinck on Jan 25, 2014 2:40:05 GMT -5
The film is in competition(it was on TV yesterday)
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Post by edoep on Jan 25, 2014 3:27:17 GMT -5
The film is in competition(it was on TV yesterday) in competition at cannes?!? what are the other contenders? the diana biopic? ROFLMAO. i can't imagine anybody - including the producer - can be that foolish and have this trash compete with real movies.
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Post by paca on Jan 25, 2014 6:32:25 GMT -5
it's not in competition, it is supposed to open Cannes. Big difference! Having your movie open Cannes is big PR. Doesn't mean it's any good though. Someone might just have called in a favour or there is a lack of other movies. After all they want one that hasn't been shown before...
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Post by agentf on Jan 25, 2014 16:20:17 GMT -5
There's apparently a big tiff between Weinstein and the director about the way Weinstein edited the movie. If it opens at Cannes, you'd imagine the director's cut but since Hollywood pretty much took over the festival, it very well could be Weinstein's version. I personally don't think it'll be shown but that's me. It was crappy in the trailer and Nicole Kidman is not Grace. Not in beauty, not in talent.
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Post by agentf on Mar 6, 2014 17:23:20 GMT -5
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Post by tops on Mar 7, 2014 14:26:39 GMT -5
i think there is a problem from the palace. they probably never wanted this to happen in the first place.
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Post by taz on Apr 3, 2014 3:44:23 GMT -5
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Post by tops on Apr 3, 2014 7:53:49 GMT -5
makes you wonder how the movie got made at all. certainly the palace read the script. didn't they foresee a problem especially with the character of Rainier who seems to be a big part of the argument. the family and palace wants the publicity but it's gotta be sanitized. too bad. i think things were pretty tough for Grace.
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Post by agentf on Apr 3, 2014 9:53:44 GMT -5
The entire thing has a strange premise. Hollywood has traditionally stashed their cash in Monaco, why destroy their own myth? Unless of course Weinberg stepped in to undo the myth destruction but failed. Certainly by the sounds of it, the film is not Cannes Festival material. Then again (God I'm ambivalent today), the Cannes Film Festival has been overrun by Americans (if it was not originally started by them!) I must go tweak my conspiracy hat, it's getting mixed signals. Bottom line, the movie sucks before it's even out there. Monaco can just let it bomb and laugh. Or it can fuel the spat, if it has money invested in it. I personally won't pay to see it. Ever.
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Post by agentf on May 3, 2014 6:25:34 GMT -5
Interesting that the film's producer was fired by the great Luc Besson for serious misconduct in spite of being a shareholder: Hanky pankyAlso, the film has a Guillaume Canet connection. Canet is Charlotte's frequent equestrian colleague. Canet filmed with the director Dahan and is Cotillard's other half who also filmed with Dahan.
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Post by tops on May 6, 2014 7:21:15 GMT -5
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Post by edoep on May 6, 2014 14:43:29 GMT -5
but on the other hand ... what can albert do? send an army of tin soldiers to hollywood? ROFLMAO. does hollywood need monaco? doubt that! it's smaller than some of the studio lots. what i do not understand, maybe some of you have read / seen more biographies of grace: how could she NOT check in advance to the marriage rep. before even the engagement that she would be allowed to continue working as an actress and include that fact in the pre-nup? had i been in her place, i would simply have kicked rainier's posterior if he had denied any further acting. as simple as that.
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Post by mrszinck on May 9, 2014 2:13:41 GMT -5
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Post by agentf on May 9, 2014 16:44:21 GMT -5
It's already a mega-flop by reason that Nicole Kidman hasn't had a hit in ages, if memory serves. Career-wise it was a bad move for her brand to try to mimic an icon and pit herself against a solid Hollywood legend. It won't fly. Kidman doesn't have the cachet, even if her hairdresser is brilliant
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Post by emmeline on May 9, 2014 17:21:42 GMT -5
This movie is jinxed since the very beggining!
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Post by mrszinck on May 11, 2014 2:41:24 GMT -5
Princess Stephanie "will not go see" Grace of Monaco Four days before the opening of the Cannes Film Festival, the princely family reiterated by the voice of Princess Stephanie's say's : "This film would never have existed," Storm Princess Stephanie, reached by telephone. The younger sister of Prince Rainier III and Princess Grace daughter has not seen the film and "surely will not see." But she saw the script and the trailer was pretty upset ... "No praise Monaco" "If one wishes to make a choice based on historical facts film, he must stick to the facts," continued the Princess Stephanie, who is the voice of siblings. "This film does not praised Monaco, or the great man that was my father, Prince Rainier." www.monacomatin.mc/node/1731790
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Post by agentf on May 11, 2014 7:25:52 GMT -5
I think this film, which is no great political thriller in spite of the buzz, serves to remind the public at large that Monaco is somewhat subjugated to France. The question is why would anyone want to chip away at the harmless myth of Grace? Especially in Hollywood. It feels like a shakedown of Monaco, but by who? I find it suspect that Charlotte is in Los Angeles, in the US where Gad is trying to parlay a cinematic career after his cameo in that Woody Allen movie about Paris. Midnight in Paris was a glory piece about how Americans swarmed Paris a century ago, setting the tone if you believe a pedophile's megalomania... Getting back to Grace. You can bring out her flaws as much as you want, like this article does: The Guardian In my opinion, it only reveals her as a femme de tête and a femme de coeur, a modern woman before her time and a liberated one. How can her example ever be cited as a negative one? She became "rangée" - it was inevitable!! Here is my prediction. If the ghosts of that first blind date in Cannes with Rainier still believe in the couple's shared destiny, the viewing of this film will be disrupted by greater forces. If Grace was meant to always be Monaco's princess by the will of all who came before her on the Roc and beyond, whatever malice aimed at her will backfire.
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