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Today's Fresh Blogs...| The Kite Runner Movie Poster |
| Published: August 6, 2007, 4:32 pm |
| Tags: Adaptation, Paramount Classics Vantage, Movie Marketing, Drama, Poster, David Benioff, Mark Foster, The Kite Runner |
| big screen adaptation of The Kite Runner. Based on the best selling novel by Khaled Hosseini, Finding Neverland and Monster’s Ball helmer Mark Foster directs this story of a man who returns to his native Afghanistan, which is under Taliban rule, to right a long-standing wrong and rescue the son of a childhood friend. 25th Hour screenwriter |
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| ‘The Kite Runner’ Movie Poster Released |
| Published: August 7, 2007, 11:33 am |
| Tags: Celebrities, Books, Film, Thousand Splendid Suns, Book, Film, Khaled Hosseini, Kite Runner, Movie Poster, Movies, New York Times Best Seller, The Kite Runner |
| ‘The Kite Runner‘ is one of the best books I have ever read. Dreamworks is making the New York Times best selling novel into a movie that will be released on November 2, 2007. The book was written by Khaled Hosseini. His sophmore book was released this year and is titled ‘A Thousand Splendid Suns‘ |
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| The Kite Runner Movie Trailer |
| Published: August 7, 2007, 1:38 pm |
| Tags: Adaptation, Paramount Classics Vantage, Movie Marketing, Drama, Movie Trailers, The Kite Runner |
| the movie trailer for The Kite Runner. Based on the best selling novel by Khaled Hosseini, Finding Neverland and Monster's Ball helmer Mark Foster directs this story of a man who returns to his native Afghanistan, which is under Taliban rule, to right a long-standing wrong and rescue the son of a childhood friend. 25th Hour screenwriter David |
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| Steven Zaillian to Adapt and Direct 'A Thousand Splendid Suns' |
| Published: September 17, 2007, 6:02 am |
| Tags: Thousand Splendid Suns, Athousandsplendidsuns, Cinematical, Film, Khaled Hosseini, Khaledhosseini, Movies, Schindler S List, Schindler Slist, Steve Zaillian, Steven Zaillian, Stevenzaillian, Stevezaillian, The Kite Runner, Thekiterunner |
| after the success of The Kite Runner, that producer Scott Rudin picked up the rights five months before it was even released. It should be pointed out that Rudin produced Zaillian's first two directorial works, Bobby Fischer and A Civil Action, but did not produce All the King's Men. The movie version of The Kite Runner, which was directed by |
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| Studio Delays 'Kite Runner' While It Tries To Figure Out How Long It Needs To Protect Endangered Child Actors |
| Published: October 4, 2007, 3:00 pm |
| Tags: Paramount, The Kite Runner |
| Khalid Hosseini novel The Kite Runner until December, an attempt to buy itself some time while it tries to smuggle three child actors involved in "a culturally inflammatory rape scene" out of Kabul, hoping to shield the boys from violent reprisals that could result once the movie opens. Reports the Times on how Paramount is dealing with the |
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| Inside 'The Kite Runner' Rape Scene |
| Published: October 5, 2007, 4:30 pm |
| Tags: Paramount, The Kite Runner |
| faced by Paramount and The Kite Runner's filmmakers, who, of course, say they never could have foreseen that their commitment to staying true to their source material would put the kids in jeopardy. But what exactly is in the controversial scene that Paramount's Afghan-culture consultants now fear may not foster the open and honest dialogue |
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| The Kite Runner Film Delayed |
| Published: October 4, 2007, 10:00 pm |
| Tags: Khaled Hosseini, Kite Runner, Kiterunner, The Kite Runner, Kite Runner Movie |
| of the film version of The Kite Runner have delayed the release of the film by six weeks, in order to protect the young stars of the film from harm. Because of the nature of the film -- which portrays Afghanistan over three decades of strife -- and the restrictive culture, producers are worried that the boys might face a violent backlash when |
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| Khaled Hosseini Supports Kite Runner Film Delay |
| Published: October 17, 2007, 10:00 pm |
| Tags: Kite Runner Movie, Khaled Hosseini, Kite Runner, General Fiction, Khaled Hosseini, Kite Runner Novel |
| The Kite Runner author Khaled Hosseini supports the studio's decision to delay the release of the film version of the book to safeguard the film's child stars. The children are in danger because of a gay rape scene in the movie. The families of the children are all moving abroad at the studio's expense, in the face of death threats. |
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| Par Vantage Posts Oscar-Contending Scripts |
| Published: October 25, 2007, 12:02 pm |
| Tags: Mighty Heart, Into The Willd, Intothewilld, Margot At The Wedding, The Kite Runner, There Will Be Blood |
| Heart, Into the Wild, The Kite Runner, and Margot at the Wedding. And as Ray Pride over at Movie City Indie very kindly points out to the rest of us, you can also get to the script for There Will Be Blood (goody goody goody!) by getting a little tricksy and just following the URL format of the other films.I don't like to read scripts for |
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| Which Foreign Films Got the Oscar Snub this Year |
| Published: November 12, 2007, 8:32 am |
| Tags: Academy Awards, Academyawards, Ang Lee, Anglee, Beaufort, Cinematical, Film, Island Etude, Islandetude, La Vie En Rose, Lavieenrose, Lust Caution, Lustcaution, Marc Forster, Marcforster, Movie, Perspolis, The Band Visit, The Diving Bell And The Butterfly, The Kite Runner |
| English dialogue, and The Kite Runner, which can't be submitted by Afghanistan because it was directed by Marc Forster, a Swiss-American, and featured an international crew. Afghanistan ended up with no submission, while Israel had to quickly substitute The Band Visit with Beaufort and Taiwan had to replace Lust Caution with Island Etude. Last |
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| Daniel Craig Talks 'Bond 22' |
| Published: November 26, 2007, 9:32 am |
| Tags: Bond 22, Bond22, Casino Royale, Casinoroyale, Daniel Craig, Danielcraig, Finding Neverland, Findingneverland, Golden Compass, Goldencompass, James Bond, Jamesbond, Marc Forster, Marcforster, Monster S Ball, Monster Sball, The Golden Compass, The Kite Runner, Thegoldencompa |
| Finding Neverland, and then Kite Runner, which is just stunning, it's such a diverse look at the world, I'd want us to have that. Marc is very solid." You Ian Fleming fans might be disappointed with one tidbit from the interview -- Craig says the new script isn't based on Fleming's work at all: "There's nothing left, as far as I know." As for |
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| 61 Foreign Features Qualified for 2008 Golden Globes |
| Published: November 30, 2007, 1:48 am |
| Tags: Celebrity News, Movie, The Diving Bell And The Butterfly, The Kite Runner, Lust, Caution |
| Pictures in consideration include "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly", "The Kite Runner" and "Lust, Caution." |
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| Paramount Gets 'The Kite Runner' Kids Out Of Danger Zone, Into Temporary, Luxurious Safehouse |
| Published: December 3, 2007, 3:08 pm |
| Tags: Paramount, The Kite Runner |
| The Kite Runner's gala premiere scheduled for tomorrow night, the NY Times updates us on the whereabouts of the controversial project's child stars, who, you may remember, required the services of a studio-hired extraction team to get them out of potential harm's way for participating in the film's "culturally inflammatory rape scene." The |
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| Displaced 'The Kite Runner' Kids Eagerly Await Their Big Trip To Hollywod |
| Published: December 5, 2007, 2:45 pm |
| Tags: Paramount, The Kite Runner |
| possibly endangered The Kite Runner stars had been rolled up in some Afghan carpets and successfully smuggled out of Kabul, with the refugee-secreting rugs eventually unfurled inside a safe-suite at an undisclosed luxury-hotel location somewhere in the United Arab Emirates. Despite this sounding like the happy ending that everyone involved |
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| Hosseini Explains Kite Runner Controversy |
| Published: December 10, 2007, 11:53 am |
| Tags: Arts Amp Amp Culture, Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner |
| ... In the film of "The Kite Runner," even though the rape is not explicitly shown -- we only see the boy's pants coming down -- there were rumors in Afghanistan that the studio planned to use computer animation to create CGI genitals and make the scene more graphic. There have been threats against the actors. An online petition was launched |
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