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Variety’s Pamela McClintock and Ali Jafaar are reporting tonight that Focus Features will distribute Richard Curtis’s “The Boat That Rocked,” rather than parent Universal, and instead of the originally planned August 28 release date, the studio has pushed it to November, right in the middle of the Oscar season. The article notes the fact that […]
Could Focus be priming ‘Boat’ for Oscar?
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 11:56 pm · June 26th, 2009
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Critics sink ‘Boat’
Posted by Guy Lodge · 6:58 am · March 31st, 2009
I mentioned last week that I had reservations about Richard Curtis’s new comedy “The Boat That Rocked,” which opens here in the UK on Friday. Every inch of the film’s marketing thus far (and there’s been a lot of it) gives me the impression of a talented team trying aggressively hard to have fun, but […]
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Treading water?
Posted by Guy Lodge · 3:56 pm · March 23rd, 2009
I have a complicated relationship with Richard Curtis. (Well, with his work, at least.) On the one hand, I’m keen to defend the man: it’s become fashionable here to direct aggressive vitriol his way for daring to stick to an upbeat formula that, while hardly pushing the envelope artistically, has proved both popular and crowdpleasing. […]
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