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Post by sylvester88 on Apr 26, 2013 21:06:42 GMT
From Sam Silvers at JEFC:
Box Office Mojo reports:
Domestic: as of Apr. 21, 2013: $950,482 Australia Madman 4/18/13 $543,888 99.1% $549,098 4/21/13 Czech Republic Falcon 4/18/13 $5,624 77.3% $7,276 4/21/13 Italy 01 Dist. 12/20/12 $679,659 14.1% $4,831,203 2/10/13 Portugal Lusomundo 4/11/13 $32,874 55.5% $59,260 4/21/13 www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=main&id=companyyoukeep.htmAnother article...www.thestar.com/entertainment/movies/2013/04/26/reality_tv_helped_robert_redford_cast_jackie_evancho_in_the_company_you_keep.html
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Post by sylvester88 on Apr 26, 2013 21:52:15 GMT
www.post-gazette.com/stories/ae/movies/jackie-evanchos-debut-on-film-serendipitous-685105/When you're Jackie Evancho, the milestones come in waves.
This month alone, Jackie turned 13, performed in Taiwan with Spanish tenor Jose Carreras in front of a rain-soaked but riveted crowd of 30,000 and, oh yes, made her movie debut.
She plays Robert Redford's daughter, Isabel Grant, in "The Company You Keep." The drama opened in limited release April 5 and has been adding theaters each week, including the Cinemark locations in Robinson, Frazer and Center Township along with Waterworks Cinemas, AMC-Loews at the Waterfront, SouthSide Works Cinema, Manor in Squirrel Hill, Galleria in Mt. Lebanon and Carmike 15 in Greensburg today.
Mr. Redford discovered her on a PBS pledge programming showcase. It turned out he and "Company You Keep" co-star Susan Sarandon separately were watching the same special.
In March 2012, Ms. Sarandon told the Post-Gazette: "I went in the next day and I was talking about her, and he said, 'Oh my God, is that that girl? I saw her, too. Do you think she could play my daughter?' And the next thing I knew, they'd gotten an audition tape flown in, and she's in the movie, but she got there after I left."
Mr. Redford and Jackie look like (later in life) father and daughter and share an easy rapport on screen. They didn't have the luxury of spending time together ahead of shooting but carved out some during production.
"After I sent the audition tape in, I went and I filmed and we spoke a little bit before filming but it was mainly getting to know each other while we were filming," Jackie said in a phone call this week. "It was nice, though, there was a lot of time for waiting, so we got to know each other."
And just what is Robert Redford like?
"I was kind of surprised at how gracious he was. A star being as big and legendary as he is, I would assume you'd have a bit of an attitude or something but he was very gracious and down to earth and understanding. And he is such a nice person."
He not only stars in "The Company You Keep" but directs it and gave Jackie some guidance on her character, Isabel. The girl's mother, 48, was killed in a car accident and she lives with her widowed father (Mr. Redford), a lawyer who is actually a former radical and fugitive in Albany, N.Y.
Mr. Redford saw Isabel, 11, as a sad and, then, confused character. "She lost her mom, she hasn't fully recovered from that and then her dad disappears and she has no idea what's going on. And all she really has is the hope that he's coming back," Jackie said.
For some acting newcomers, saying the same lines over and over until the director is satisfied, can drain their energy and enthusiasm but Jackie took advantage of the multiple takes.
"It actually wasn't that difficult for me because you're not very familiar with the line when you first begin it because you don't know what's going to happen. So, once you say it and you get the feel of it a few times after you say it, then you start to nail the line."
Jackie is open to more acting gigs, if they come her way, but she has plenty on her plate in the meantime.
The Richland singing sensation who rose to prominence on NBC's "America's Got Talent" has concerts scheduled for Providence, R.I., Cleveland, Baltimore, Alpharetta, Ga., and St. Petersburg between now and early June. She confesses to getting nervous before going out on stage -- she usually doesn't peek out to see the audience -- but says a prayer or two ahead of time.
She is searching for songs, especially original material, for a new CD and there's the little matter of seventh grade, which she handles through online instruction. Like students in brick-and-mortar schools, Jackie is looking forward to a break this summer although hers may be just a month-long.
Jackie always has to be careful about the volume of her voice or boosting her immune system if she gets a cold. In other words, no screaming, even at her siblings if they do something obnoxious or she's on a roller coaster with her stomach doing somersaults.
In fact, asked what she might do in Pittsburgh if she had a free day, she picks a trio of winners: Kennywood Park, the Carnegie Science Center and the Milkshake Factory.
And maybe an evening with the TV show she tries to never miss: "The Walking Dead," set in a desolate and postapocalyptic world of survivors and zombies.
"I love that TV show. It's pretty gruesome, I know, but it's just really realistic makeup and the acting is great and it brings our family together. We usually watch it all the time."
Makes sense when you remember Pittsburghers always have had a soft spot in their heart, or head, for zombies.Movie editor Barbara Vancheri: bvancheri@post-gazette.com or 412-263-1632. Read her blog: www.post-gazette.com/madaboutmovies. First Published April 26, 2013 12:00 amother links: www.therepublic.com/view/story/profile-evancho/profile-evancho
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Post by sylvester88 on Apr 26, 2013 21:59:11 GMT
www.vancouversun.com/entertainment/movie-guide/Robert+Redford+charmed+young+prodigy+Jackie+Evancho/8296211/story.htmlTORONTO — Robert Redford has co-starred with some of the biggest legends of the silver screen: Meryl Streep! Glenn Close! Jane Fonda!
But it’s acting newcomer Jackie Evancho who recently impressed the Out of Africa heartthrob.
“It was just pure joy,” Redford says of working with the singing prodigy on his new film The Company You Keep.
The film sees Redford juggle directing duties and a starring turn as Jim Grant, a small-town lawyer and single father whose world is shattered when a young journalist (Shia LaBeouf) discovers his past as a 1970s radical wanted by the law.
The finding sends Grant on the run in search of his ex-lover Mimi (Julie Christie) who holds the key to the long-ago crime and still holds fast to her antiwar convictions.
While many actors would clamour to work with Redford — who won an Oscar for his 1980 directorial debut, Ordinary People — Christie needed some cajoling.
Redford, 76, said he understood her reluctance, noting he repeatedly turned down the 1973 weeper The Way We Were because he didn’t want to be a “a Ken doll to Barbra Streisand.”
Said the actor: “That resistance, dragging you into something you know you want to do and have to do but you fight it is kind of a weird thing that I understand, so therefore I endured (her resistance). She made it really rough.”
Ultimately, Christie agreed to join a blue-chip cast that also includes Richard Jenkins, Anna Kendrick, Susan Sarandon, Chris Cooper and Nick Nolte.
Still, as the cameras were nearly ready to roll on The Company You Keep, one piece of the ensemble remained missing. Redford — whose last directorial effort was the 2010 period piece The Conspirator — struggled mightily to find a suitable actress to play his daughter.
“I have a big thing about child actors, and that is I have an aversion to child actors who ‘act’ as opposed to child actors who can be natural, who can be real,” a rumpled-looking Redford said during a Sunday morning interview at last September’s Toronto International Film Festival. “Scarlett Johansson was a kid when we did The Horse Whisperer and I was very concerned if a child looked like they were acting it would be like fingernails on a blackboard.” Redford said he had to cast the new film on a very tight budget and that deadlines were looming as his search for a young co-star continued.
He interviewed various child actors (“mostly their mothers, who seemed to be auditioning for something themselves,” he said with a laugh) but was unable to find someone who could improvise with him.
“I felt that since this character had to be nine or 10 years old, there had to be a sense of play that had to be really real and my guess was that it would be achieved by improvising,” he said.
Particularly dejected about the process one night, he headed back to his hotel in Vancouver, where The Company You Keep was shot.
“So I’m depressed and I go back to my room and I do something I don’t usually do and that’s surf. I’m sitting there all depressed, just drinking and surfing and drinking,” he said with a laugh.
“And suddenly I’m skipping across these channels and there’s this angelic face, this golden-haired angelic face ... singing. And there’s a close-up and I think: ‘Who is that?’ and she was singing Puccini’s opera.”
That girl was Evancho, whose soaring voice wowed TV audiences on America’s Got Talent and caught the ear of uber-producer David Foster. She’s since released a hit Christmas CD, done PBS specials and performed for Oprah Winfrey and U.S. President Barack Obama. But could she act? It didn’t initially appear so, said Redford.
After seeing her on TV, he sent out the word that he’d like to get an audition tape of the singing sensation.
“(The tape) was horrible because she didn’t know what was going on and I said: ‘I don’t care and, my gut says (to cast her). So I cast her,” Redford recalled.
Days later, the pint-sized prodigy was on a movie set trading improvised lines with a screen icon.
And Redford loved every minute of it.
“She was not affected, she played with me, I would kid around, she’d kid around with me,” he said. “To me, that’s an incredible story how that happened.”Other links: www.vancouversun.com/entertainment/movie-guide/Young+prodigy+perfect+company/8299184/story.html
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Post by sylvester88 on May 19, 2013 14:57:54 GMT
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Post by kari on Jun 26, 2013 20:58:24 GMT
Jackie Evancho's movie with Redford gets DVD dateWritten by Barbara Vancheri on Tuesday, 25 June 2013 5:32 pm.“The Company You Keep,” featuring Jackie Evancho’s acting debut, will arrive on Blu-ray and DVD with UltraViolet on Aug. 13. She plays the daughter of Robert Redford in the drama and does not sing. Special features on the Blu-ray and DVD include two behind-the-scenes featurettes on the making of the film as well as a press conference with the cast and a red carpet featurette. Here’s my three-star review from late April: For 125 minutes, it really is about the cinematic company you keep. Robert Redford and Shia LaBeouf are the stars of this drama about a fugitive turned small-town lawyer hiding in plain sight (under an alias, of course) and the cocky, smart young newspaperman on his trail. But the reason to see this movie isn’t so much the story but the dynamic cast assembled by Mr. Redford. In addition to hiring Richland singing prodigy Jackie Evancho to play his 11-year-old daughter, he secured Susan Sarandon, Stanley Tucci, Anna Kendrick, Terrence Howard, Chris Cooper, Nick Nolte, Richard Jenkins, Brendan Gleeson, Brit Marling, Sam Elliott and Stephen Root. Read full article here: blogs.post-gazette.com/arts-entertainment/mad-about-the-movies/38387-jackie-evancho-s-movie-with-redford-gets-dvd-dateDVD pre order: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00BEIYKX0/ref=cm_cd_asin_lnkBL pre order: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00BEIYL0M/ref=cm_cd_asin_lnk
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Post by mariel on Aug 13, 2013 19:55:13 GMT
Today marks the release of the dvd of TCYK. One of Jackie's fans has posted the following video to commemorate it:
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Post by kari on Mar 3, 2014 21:03:02 GMT
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