Marcos Bernstein has been tapped to adapt the Paulo Coelho novel Eleven Minutes for New Line Cinema. Gianni Nunnari is producing via his Hollywood Gang shingle.
The erotically charged tale centers on a Brazilian woman who goes to Switzerland to seek her fortune only to find work in a gentleman's club. Her journey of self-discovery takes her on the many roads of sex and love.
Brazilian writer Coelho is the author of the worldwide best-seller The Alchemist.
Craig Flores and Alan Finkelstein are executive producing Minutes, as is George Waud. Nathalie Peter-Contesse is co-producing. Hollywood Gang is co-financing with the studio.
Nunnari produced Warner Bros.' adaptation of Frank Miller's graphic novel 300 and is adapting Miller's miniseries Ronin, also for Warners.
The studio and producers are aiming to keep the novel's Brazilian voice by bringing Bernstein on board. The Rio de Janeiro-born writer wrote Central Station, a Brazilian film nominated for a best foreign-language Oscar in 1998. He is attached to direct Furious, a thriller written by Terry Curtis Fox being produced by Artfire Films, and his award-winning 2004 Brazilian film The Other Side of the Street is being remade by Jeff Sharp's New York-based company Sharp Independent.
The erotically charged tale centers on a Brazilian woman who goes to Switzerland to seek her fortune only to find work in a gentleman's club. Her journey of self-discovery takes her on the many roads of sex and love.
Brazilian writer Coelho is the author of the worldwide best-seller The Alchemist.
Craig Flores and Alan Finkelstein are executive producing Minutes, as is George Waud. Nathalie Peter-Contesse is co-producing. Hollywood Gang is co-financing with the studio.
Nunnari produced Warner Bros.' adaptation of Frank Miller's graphic novel 300 and is adapting Miller's miniseries Ronin, also for Warners.
The studio and producers are aiming to keep the novel's Brazilian voice by bringing Bernstein on board. The Rio de Janeiro-born writer wrote Central Station, a Brazilian film nominated for a best foreign-language Oscar in 1998. He is attached to direct Furious, a thriller written by Terry Curtis Fox being produced by Artfire Films, and his award-winning 2004 Brazilian film The Other Side of the Street is being remade by Jeff Sharp's New York-based company Sharp Independent.
- 5/15/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
MADRID -- The 52nd San Sebastian International Film Festival on Tuesday announced its lineup of 10 films in the Horizontes Latino sidebar, the section that has become obligatory for those interested in the latest films from Latin America. While six different countries are represented, the section is a clear tribute to the burgeoning Argentine cinema industry, which has a production role in six of the 10 titles. Sergio Belloti's Your Life for Peron (Argentina) will premiere worldwide as part of the Horizontes section. The political tale will compete for the 18,000 ($21,700) Horizontes Award against Paolo Agazzi's El Atraco (Bolivia-Spain) and Pablo Jose Meza's Buenos Aires, 100 Km. (Argentina-France). Juan Taratuto's melodramatic comedy It's Not You, It's Me (Argentina-Spain) and Marcos Bernstein's The Other Side of the Street (Brazil-France), starring Raul Cortez and Fernanda Montenegro, will also vie for the prize. Other titles included in the section are: Sebastian Cordero's Cronicas (Ecuador-Mexico-Spain), Leon Errazuriz's Mala Leche (Chile), Santiago Palavecino's Another Turn (Argentina), Ana Poliak's Pin Boy (Argentina-Belgium) and Fernan Rudnik's Little Village (Argentina).
- 8/25/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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