Thursday, 19 June 2008
Lionel Hampton unforgettable at Playboy Jazz
The peaks of Playboy's venerable jazz weekends at the Hollywood Bowl are not easy to isolate, what with 16 hours of music and a couple of dozen bands to listen to or sleep through each June for 30 years now.
Friday, 13 June 2008
Hage wins the €100,000 IMAPC Award
Lebanese-born author Rawi Hage has won the world's richest literary prize, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, in Dublin today.
Hage won the €100,000 award for his debut 'De Niro's Game', which tells the story of two boys who have grown up in Beirut.
The IMPAC judges said the book was "an eloquent, forthright and at times beautifully written first novel".
They continued: "Ringing with insight and authenticity the novel shows how war can envelope lives. It's a game where there are no winners, just degrees of survival. It's a wonderful debut and a deserving winner."
Reacting to his win, Hage said: "I am a fortunate man. After a long journey of war, displacement and separation, I feel that I am one of the few wanderers who is privileged enough to have been rewarded, and for that I am very grateful."
Irish writer Patrick McCabe was on the shortlist for his book 'Winterwood'.
Also nominated were: Yasmina Khadra for 'The Attack'; Sayed Kashua for 'Let it be Morning'; Andrei Makine for 'The Woman Who Waited'; Yasmine Gooneratne for 'The Sweet & Simple Kind'; Gail Jones for 'Dreams of Speaking' and Javier Cercas for 'The Speed of Light'.
Hage won the €100,000 award for his debut 'De Niro's Game', which tells the story of two boys who have grown up in Beirut.
The IMPAC judges said the book was "an eloquent, forthright and at times beautifully written first novel".
They continued: "Ringing with insight and authenticity the novel shows how war can envelope lives. It's a game where there are no winners, just degrees of survival. It's a wonderful debut and a deserving winner."
Reacting to his win, Hage said: "I am a fortunate man. After a long journey of war, displacement and separation, I feel that I am one of the few wanderers who is privileged enough to have been rewarded, and for that I am very grateful."
Irish writer Patrick McCabe was on the shortlist for his book 'Winterwood'.
Also nominated were: Yasmina Khadra for 'The Attack'; Sayed Kashua for 'Let it be Morning'; Andrei Makine for 'The Woman Who Waited'; Yasmine Gooneratne for 'The Sweet & Simple Kind'; Gail Jones for 'Dreams of Speaking' and Javier Cercas for 'The Speed of Light'.
Sunday, 8 June 2008
DreamWorks to redo hit Japanese film
'Yomigaeri' is based on Shinji Kajio's novel
DreamWorks has picked up the remake rights to Japanese blockbuster "Yomigaeri" ("Resurrection") from Tokyo Broadcasting System and tapped William Nicholson to pen the English-language version.
Based on the novel by award-winning author Shinji Kajio, "Yomigaeri" centers on a government official sent to a small rural town to investigate the reappearance of a young child who, after missing for 60 years, returns to his mother not having aged at all.
A commercial success when it was released in Japan in 2003, "Yomigaeri" received four nominations for Japan's top film awards, including best screenplay, director, actress and score.
Brad Krevoy is producing via his MPCA shingle along with Filosophia's Tetsu Fujimura as well as original producer Takashi Hirano.
"Yomigaeri" will mark the fourth Asian film that DreamWorks has brought to the States. The studio made "The Ring" and "The Ring Two" and is in postproduction on a new version of the South Korean film "A Tale of Two Sisters."
The studio hopes to be in production on the remake later this year.
Marc Haimes and Jonathan Eirich will oversee for DreamWorks, while Mike Callaghan and Reuben Liber will handle development for MPCA.
Veteran producer Krevoy is currently in postproduction on "Taking Chance" starring Kevin Bacon for HBO.
British scribe Nicholson is a two-time Oscar nominee who last wrote "Elizabeth: The Golden Age." He is repped by CAA.
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