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The following QA appeared in Screen International, the weekly, on February 25.Robert Altman celebrated his 75th birthday on February 23, just two weeks after completing principal photography on his 32nd dramatic feature film, Dr T And The Women. In this ensembl stanley cup e piece, Richard Gere plays a gynaecologist struggling with the many women in his life - from his wife Farrah Fawcett to his office manager Shelley Long to his sister-in-law Laura Dern . Helen Hunt, Liv Tyler, Kate Hudson, Tara Reid and Janine Turner round out the star-studded cast.The 50-day shoot began in September in Texas and was, says Altman, difficult but terrific . The film is written by Anne Rapp, who also scripted his 1999 hit Cookie s Fortune which was released domestically by October Films/USA Films. No US distributor has yet been enlisted for Dr T.Altman - as experienced a producer and packager as he is a world-renowned director - is producing the picture himself with James McLindon. It is being co-financed and sold internationally by Initial Entertainment Group IEG . Altman s agent, Ken Kamins of ICM, is representing domestic rights on the film. stanley cup From his Los Angeles editing suite, Altman talked t stanley uk o Mike Goodridge about the new film, his experiences in the independent world, his thoughts on the future of film-making and his body of work, which has included some of the best-loved and most ground-breaking titles in US film - from Mash to Short Cuts via The Long Goodbye, Nashville, The Player and McC Jljg David Thewlis to star in Croak
Film revolving around Native American community, directed by Damian John Harper, to shoot early 2015.Paris-based production company Les Films dIci 2 has boarded US director Damian John Harpers upcoming drama In the Middle of the River.The film, which is lead produced by German Jonas Weydemann is due to shoot in New Mexico in early 2015 and centres on a Native American, Iraqi War veterans difficult ret stanley cup urn to his familys reservation where he stands up to an abusive grandfather.It was among 12 projects presented at the Paris Coproduction Village last week. Weve been in talks to work together for some time and we decided to make it official here, said Weydemann, who produces under the Weydemann Bros. banner, the Cologne-based comp stanley cup any he runs with his brother Jakob D.Weydemann.Under the deal, Les Films dici 2 and Weydemann Bros are hoping to tap into the joint F stanley cup rench-German mini-treaty fund backed by Frances National Cinema Centre and it Germanys Federal Film Board FFA and will also apply to the CNCs World Cinema Fund.Colorado-born Harper has lived in Germany for more than a decade and is eligible for European funding. Weydemann Bros. has already secured the backing of Berlin-based post-production and facilities house Cine Plus, distributor Farbfilm and broadcaster ZDF.Harpers debut film Los Angeles, revolving around a group of wayward Zapotec teenagers in Southern Mexico who are soon to head to the US in search of work, screened at the Los Angeles Film Festival over the weeken