Maybury to direct Bronte's 'Heights' Feb 2, 2008
Olivia Hetreed ("The Girl With a Pearl Earring") penned the script; casting is under way to shoot in the fall. "Wuthering Heights," published in 1847, is a tempestuous love story about obsessive passion across the class divide, set on the Yorkshire Moors. (Variety)
St Trinians (12A) Dec 21, 2007
Determined to save St Trinian's, head girl Kelly (Arterton) and newcomer Annabelle (Riley) join forces to steal Vermeer's masterpiece Girl With A Pearl Earring. St Trinian's is frothy and undemanding fun, interspersed with snappily edited montages set to songs by Shampoo, Sophie Ellis Bextor and Girls Aloud. (Manchester Evening News)
'To the Manor Born' tops BBC Christmas TV Nov 27, 2007
To the Manor Born' tops BBC Christmas TV - Telegraph. To the Manor Born' tops BBC Christmas TV. (Telegraph.co.uk)
Famous works come to life at the Lyndon House Nov 4, 2007
" "Living Masterpieces" will showcase 16 paintings over two and a half hours and will include intermissions with wine, cheese, coffee and desserts. "If you're going to do it, do it big the first time," Powell said. The show's line-up will range from "American Gothic," to Johannes Vermeer's "Girl with a Pearl Earring" to Henry O. Tanner's "The Banjo Lesson. " Powell had to give up on including a self-portrait of Frida Kahlo in the show. "Nobody wants to be that ugly," she said. Nor could she find... (Athens Banner-Herald)
Were Spain's two artistic legends secret gay lovers? Oct 28, 2007
Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003) Director: Peter Webber. Stars: Colin Firth, Scarlett Johansson (right). (Guardian Unlimited -- UK)
Shades of Vermeer in portraits of youth Sep 25, 2007
Tomasetti, an artist and movie stills photographer best known for a bare-chested shot of Geoffrey Rush as an ecstatic-looking David Helfgott in Shine, has photographed her daughter in a scarlet headscarf with eyes closed, or looking directly at the viewer, in the manner of Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring. This Vermeer-like portrait, a finalist in last year's Archibald Photographic Portrait Prize, sparked Tomasetti's new exhibition of tender, feminine, yet slightly unsettling images. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
'Nanny' star avoids tabloid rumor mill Aug 23, 2007
She's managed to steer clear of the rehab-go-'round that guarantees young stars tabloid coverage, instead busying herself by starring in "Lost In Translation," "Girl with a Pearl Earring," two Woody Allen films, and many more high-profile projects. Now she's starring in "The Nanny Diaries," the film version of the popular book, which opens today. (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
Hollywood enters the era of Scarlett Aug 22, 2007
for a 22-year-old, including Lost in Translation and Girl With a Pearl Earring. She's in Spain filming Allen's latest, untitled film, called his "Spanish project," her third movie with the director. (USA Today)
Johannes Vermeer Jun 10, 2007
17th-Century Dutch Painter Who Created Girl With a Pearl Earring ... Vermeer's painting "The Girl With a Pearl Earring" was featured in Tracy Chevalier's recent novel by the same name, a noteworthy addition to the growing genre of art history literature. (Suite101.com)
Scarlett Johansson to Play Mary, Queen of Scots May 19, 2007
Johansson, 22, has also starred in "The Girl With a Pearl Earring" and "The Black Dahlia.". Story Continues Below. (Newsmax)
Bestsellers List Apr 22, 2007
95, 9780525949787 Will Chevalier (Girl With a Pearl Earring) strike gold again with this 18th-century London/William Blake historical fiction. A Book Sense Pick. (Scranton Times, PA)
Innocence, experience, and history make a bland mix in 'Burning Bright' Apr 20, 2007
Tracy Chevalier , author of "Girl With a Pearl Earring," is back with an engaging yet bland followup, "Burning Bright." (Sven Arnstein) ... In "Burning Bright," Tracy Chevalier, author of "Girl With a Pearl Earring" and three other historical novels , has combined her standard set of ingredients to make another engaging, if somewhat bland, literary concoction, set in late-18th century London. (Boston Globe)
Sexy space romp Barbarella set for Bond-worthy revamp Apr 16, 2007
Peter Webber, whose credits include Hannibal Rising and Girl with a Pearl Earring, is reportedly slated to direct. Based on an erotic French comic book of the same name by Jean-Claude Forest, Barbarella told the tale of a young space vixen who is dispatched across the galaxy and embarks on a series of adventures. (CBC - Newfoundland & Labrador)
Scarlett Johansson voted the world's sexiest body Apr 11, 2007
She used that film to launch to Girl With a Pearl Earring, A Love Song For Bobby Long, In Good Company, Match Point, The Island, Scoop, The Black Dahlia, and The Prestige. She'll be seen next month in The Nanny Diaries and later this year in The Other Boleyn Girl with Natalie Portman. (Actress Archives)
Johansson Won't Talk About Timberlake Apr 6, 2007
What does Johansson, whose screen credits include "Lost in Translation," "Girl With a Pearl Earring" and "Match Point," like most about herself. "Other than my ability to do the running man (dance) and the fact that I can sing all the words to Salt-N-Pepa songs? I think it's that I find beauty in unusual things, like hanging your head out the window or sitting on a fire escape.". (CBS News)
Scarlett mum about reported Justin fling Apr 6, 2007
What does Johansson, whose screen credits include Lost in Translation, Girl With a Pearl Earring and Match Point, like most about herself. Slide show. (MSNBC -- Gossip)
'Incendiary' finds funding Mar 14, 2007
Producers are Andy Paterson and Anand Tucker of Archer Street, the team behind "Girl With a Pearl Earring" and "Hilary and Jackie.". Aramid, which specializes in debt finance for film, TV and music projects, is providing 65% of the funding for "Incendiary," budgeted at around $10 million. (Variety)
Something in the way she moves. Mar 11, 2007
" Perhaps Johansson is wary of being associated exclusively with Allen. She'd already inspired her own role in Sofia Coppola's break-out film Lost in Translation, played an artist's muse in Girl with a Pearl Earring, driving Colin Friel's Vermeer to distraction, and she is currently the Louis Vuitton girl, usurping a role once filled by Quentin Tarantino's muse, Uma Thurman. She's just spreading the inspiration around. The most common job for a modern muse, though, is as inspiration and helpmeet... (The Age, Australia -- Entertainment)
* He never liked his greens Mar 9, 2007
" Clearly he's more disturbed than we think. Scarcely pausing to wonder which wine goes best with East European thug, Hannibal sets out to avenge his sister and devise recipes. His mission entails a detour in a Parisian medical school to hone his slicing technique, as well as a sojourn with a Japanese aunt (Gong Li, dW) who's unperturbed when he beheads a butcher who has insulted her honor. ''You smell of smoke and blood,'' she tells her nephew fondly, struggling with dialogue that would make... (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Designers light up Paris Mar 8, 2007
(How fitting that actress and current Vuitton cover girl Scarlett Johansson, who played Vermeer's muse in the film The Girl With a Pearl Earring in 2003, sat on the front row. . (Houston Chronicle)
Abortion movie sweeps UK awards Feb 22, 2007
Also nominated: Natalie Press - My Summer of LoveEva Birthistle - Ae Fond KissAnne Reid - The MotherScarlett Johansson - Girl With A Pearl Earring ... Also nominated: Peter Webber - Girl With A Pearl EarringMatthew Vaughn - Layer CakeSaul Dibb - Bullet BoyEmily Young - Kiss Of Life ... Also nominated: Dead Man's ShoesGirl With a Pearl EarringCode 46Bride and Prejudice. (Yahoo News -- Film Awards)
Child stars who self-destruct Feb 22, 2007
She has not put a foot wrong since, winning plaudits for roles in the likes of Lost In Translation and Girl With A Pearl Earring. Pop star Justin Timberlake survived his years with boy band 'N Sync to become one of the world's most successful male artists. (NEWS.com.au)
The Constant Gardener Feb 20, 2007
A few days later I happened to see the film of Girl with a Pearl Earring, where again chunks of the story were missing to condense it for the screen, but the film was so skilfully made that it wasn't a distraction. At the end of The Constant Gardener I was merely reminded of why movies and literature will forever be different. (Suite101.com)
Hasty crowns Johansson as woman of year Feb 17, 2007
Johansson, 22, has appeared in films including "Lost in Translation," "The Girl with a Pearl Earring," "Match Point," and "The Black Dahlia.". Ben Stiller is to be crowned Harvard's Hasty Pudding Man of the Year on Feb. 23. (Xinhuanet, China)
Johansson, Stiller receive Hasty Pudding awards Feb 17, 2007
Johansson portrayed the title character in "Girl With a Pearl Earring," a film adapted from the novel of the same name about the painter Johannes Vermeer. Other film credits include "The Girl With a Pearl Earring," "The Horse Whisperer," "Ghost World," "The Man Who Wasn't There," "The Island," "North," "Just Cause," "Manny & Lo," and "In Good Company.". (Xinhuanet, China)
Music globetrotters in spotlight Feb 13, 2007
Desplat's nomination carries additional weight because of his well-liked music for "The Painted Veil" (a recent Golden Globe winner) and the much-talked-about but unnominated scores for "Girl With a Pearl Earring" and "Birth" over the past three years. Americans Thomas Newman and Philip Glass are the veterans in this crowd: Newman, the popular local whose seven prior noms have not yet won him the prize; and Glass, the New York concert and opera composer who previously had two noms without a win. (Variety)
Eurotrash Schoolboy: Feb 12, 2007
For screenwriter Thomas Harris, who invented the Lecter character in his 1981 novel Red Dragon, and director Peter Webber (Girl With a Pearl Earring), WWII serves as a convenient clearinghouse, a Wal-Mart of trauma. Getcher vast reserves of human suffering here. (Slate)
A Ho-hum Hannibal Feb 11, 2007
" Keith Hamshere / The Weinstein Company Article Tools No...energy...Won't...be able...to write...my usual...3,000 words...Can't...crack...jokes...Must...blame...Hannibal Rising. This movie drained me. But not in the way a vampire drains blood from its victim. That act has a predatory intimacy. The contact of fangs on neck is erotic - a deep, dirty first kiss, and the prelude to fatal sexual enslavement. Hannibal Rising isn't nearly that much fun. It doesn't, in the manner of its hero, take a... (TIME)
Life of Young Hannibal Lecter Comes to Big Screen Feb 11, 2007
A trusted source of newsand information since 1942. But it's a bit tricky because, for me, my work in this film was not to try to imitate or copy Anthony Hopkins," he says. "I think the idea was more to try to pick a few details in his performance and then mix it to my own recipe to create my own Hannibal Lecter. (Voice of America)
Sympathy for the cannibal: Hannibal Rising review Feb 10, 2007
One weakness is director Peter Webber's (Girl with a Pearl Earring) failure to control the film's pacing. By the time we make it to the last bad guy standing, we're in need of a big dramatic payoff, and Webber almost rushes the finale without a great line or sight gag to hang it on. (National Post)
'Hannibal Rising': The Doctor's Not In, By Kurt Loder Feb 10, 2007
And director Peter Webber ("Girl With a Pearl Earring") provides some jazzy angles on the action, and he keeps things moving. But the screenplay, by Lecter auteur Thomas Harris (who apparently cooked up this script and his new novel of the same title at about the same time), is very silly from the start; and it's so dull you wish the old Anthony Hopkins Hannibal, who does not appear in this film, would drop by and liven things up in some suitably gruesome manner. (VHI.com -- Music News)
Hannibal Lecter saved my life Feb 9, 2007
Webber's 2003 film, Girl With a Pearl Earring, was nominated for three Oscars, so he gave Hannibal Rising instant credibility when he agreed to direct. His motivation for doing so was simple: a chance to play with a budget of $US50 million ($65 million) and an opportunity to break from potentially being "condemned to a life of heavy-breathing period movies". (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
What's eating Hannibal? Psychoanalysis is hard to digest. Feb 9, 2007
Director Peter Webber ("Girl With a Pearl Earring") and his crew give "Hannibal Rising" a clean, professional look. For better and worse, the movie is more attractive and competently assembled than its schlock peers. (Boston Globe)
Interview : Gaspard Ulliel Feb 9, 2007
I watched Girl with a Pearl Earring- I loved it. It was quite a good idea to choose someone like him to direct a film like this- its not what you would expect. (Moviehole)
Movie Openings Feb 9, 2007
"It's a movie about the Monster As Avenging Angel. We learn that the most famous serial killer in fiction got that way during World War II when soldiers on the war's Eastern Front killed and ate his little sister. Thomas Harris wrote this script himself, and it's nothing if not fast, tight and glowing with that black light that seems to emanate from everything that comes from Harris' dark, dark imagination. That it's directed by the man who gave us "Girl With a Pearl Earring' means that this is... (Buffalo News -- Entertainment)
"Hannibal Rising" | Ohh, the bandits ate his sister Feb 9, 2007
Director Peter Webber did the gorgeous and stately "Girl with a Pearl Earring"; and with a weak first-time screenplay from Hannibal's novelist Thomas Harris, he can't find a pace here that achieves a lick of suspense. Perhaps aware of how even sillier 2001's "Hannibal" looks in retrospect, they seem to be trying not to leave openings for unintentional laughter. (Seattle Times)
Hannibal Rising has no bite Feb 9, 2007
The director, Peter Webber, had a minor art-house success with 2003s Girl With a Pearl Earring, and he does demonstrate a restraint thats rare in modern horror films. Most of the killings are not shown directly. (MSNBC -- Movies)
Projection Booth: Will 'Norbit' Flatten 'Hannibal Rising' Feb 9, 2007
Throw in the fact that the film comes from the director of "The Girl With a Pearl Earring" and you've got a big bloody question mark of a flick. That's a tough one-two punch of new contenders for last week's #1 flick, "The Messengers," to contend with. (VHI.com -- Music News)
Hannibal Rising Feb 8, 2007
Since Harris is the only one credited as scriptwriter he must wear the raspberry, although we may reserve some for the director, Peter Webber ( Girl With A Pearl Earring). He has shown spectacularly poor judgement throughout this travesty - the story of young Hannibal, from age six to 20. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
SEEDS OF HORROR Feb 8, 2007
That it's directed by Peter Webber, the man who made the exquisite "Girl with a Pearl Earring," means that this is a horror thriller about Old Europe with uncommon intelligence and atmospheric terror ... (Remember Scarlett Johansson in "Girl with a Pearl Earring" to remember all that Webber can do onscreen with a beautiful female face. (Buffalo News -- Arts)
Barbarella's New Man Feb 7, 2007
Peter Webber previously directed the art house fave Girl with a Pearl Earring, starring Scarlett Johansson. How's about that sexy starlet playing the title role in Barbarella. (IGN FilmForce)
A double helping of Hannibal Feb 5, 2007
Creating a narrative in two different forms at once is tricky: Harris, who lives in Miami and Sag Harbor, would often say, "Leave me alone, let me finish the book," when the producers and the director, Peter Webber ("Girl With a Pearl Earring"), arrived requesting changes, said Martha De Laurentiis, Dino's wife and also a producer on the film. "I think he thought it would be much easier" to write a screenplay, she said. (Newsday -- Entertainment)
Scarlett's pudding power Feb 1, 2007
The 22-year-old actress has appeared in films such as Lost in Translation, The Girl with a Pearl Earring, Match Point, and The Black Dahlia. Stiller will be roasted February 23, when he will receive his Pudding Pot. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Stiller, Johansson to receive Hasty Pudding awards Jan 30, 2007
Johansson will lead a parade through Cambridge on Feb. 15, then attend a roast in her honor and receive the "Pudding Pot." The 22-year-old actress has appeared in films including "Lost in Translation," "The Girl with a Pearl Earring," "Match Point," and "The Black Dahlia.". Stiller will be roasted Feb. 23, where he also will receive the "Pudding Pot." The roast will be before the opening night performance of the group's production of "The Tent Commandments?". (The Standard-Times, MA)
Bullish over matador Jan 20, 2007
As well as The Queen, which has won a Golden Globe and ten Academy Award nominations, Aramid s team has financed films including Girl with a Pearl Earring, which starred Scarlett Johansson, Quentin Tarantino s Kill Bill 2 and the surprise British hit Bend it Like Beckham. Experts say that hedge funds are increasingly interested in asset-backed lending, such as film and television financing, because it offers an opportunity to diversify their investments. (TimesOnline)
D?j? viewing at the movies Jan 19, 2007
Peter Webber ( Girl with a Pearl Earring) directs. May 4: Spider-Man 3. (Globe and Mail)
Alexandre Desplat breathes new life into Hollywood movie music Jan 9, 2007
That's less the fault of composers than of directors, who commonly prescore their films with temporary music during editing, then frequently expect the final score to emulate that "temp track." So originality, when it occurs, can be startling, as when American audiences first heard the enchanting waltzes of "Girl With a Pearl Earring" in 2003, or the fairy-tale flutes and surging orchestral drama of "Birth" in 2004. Both scores were the work of Alexandre Desplat, a 45-year-old Paris composer who... (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
