Quentin Tarantino's Next Movie
INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS COMMENCES PRINCIPAL PHOTOGRAPHY
International Cast Assembles in Germany for Writer and Director Quentin
Tarantino
October 14, 2008 - Quentin Tarantino¹s Inglourious Basterds began principal
photography last week on location in Germany. The ensemble cast of
Inglourious Basterds includes Brad Pitt, Diane Kruger, Mélanie Laurent,
Christoph Waltz, Daniel Brühl, Eli Roth, Samm Levine, B.J. Novak, Til
Schweiger, Gedeon Burkhard, Paul Rust, Michael Bacall, Omar Doom, Sylvester
Groth, Julie Dreyfus, Jacky Ido, August Diehl, Martin Wuttke, Richard
Sammel, Christian Berkel, Sönke Möhring, Michael Fassbender, Mike Myers, Rod
Taylor, Denis Menochet and Cloris Leachman.
Inglourious Basterds reunites Tarantino with Academy Award-nominated editor
Sally Menke, Academy Award-winning director of photography Bob Richardson,
and production designer David Wasco. Joining Tarantino for the first time
is Academy Award-nominated costume designer Anna Sheppard.
Academy Award-nominee Lawrence Bender is producing Inglourious Basterds.
Erica Steinberg and Lloyd Phillips, and Bob and Harvey Weinstein are the
film¹s executive producers. The co-producers are Charlie Woebcken,
Christoph Fisser and Henning Molfenter. Pilar Savone is the associate
producer.
The Weinstein Company and Universal Pictures, through its newly formed
International Studio, are co-financing and co-presenting the film with TWC
handling domestic distribution and Universal handling international
distribution. The two companies are partners on the project.
Zehnte Babelsberg Film, a subsidiary of Studio Babelsberg AG, is producing
Inglourious Basterds. The film will shoot at Studio Babelsberg as well as
in Berlin, Saxony and Paris.
Inglourious Basterds begins in German-occupied France, where Shosanna
Dreyfus (Mélanie Laurent) witnesses the execution of her family at the hand
of Nazi Colonel Hans Landa (Christoph Waltz). Shosanna narrowly escapes and
flees to Paris, where she forges a new identity as the owner and operator of
a cinema.
Elsewhere in Europe, Lieutenant Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt) organizes a group of
Jewish soldiers to engage in targeted acts of retribution. Known to their
enemy as ³The Basterds,² Raine¹s squad joins German actress and undercover
agent Bridget Von Hammersmark (Diane Kruger) on a mission to take down the
leaders of The Third Reich. Fates converge under a cinema marquee, where
Shosanna is poised to carry out a revenge plan of her own...
Inglourious Basterds will be released worldwide in 2009.
About The Weinstein Company
The Weinstein Company (TWC) was created by Bob and Harvey Weinstein, the
brothers who founded Miramax Films Corporation in 1979. TWC is a multi-media
company that officially launched on October 1, 2005. Dimension Films, the
genre label that was founded in 1993 by Bob Weinstein, is also included
under the TWC banner.
During the Weinsteins¹ tenure at Miramax Films the company released some of
the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful independent
feature films which received 249 Academy Award® nominations and won 60
Oscars®, have generated billions of dollars in worldwide box office receipts
and billions more in home video sales. In its history, Dimension Films has
released some of the most successful franchises including Scream, Spy Kids,
and Scary Movie.
About Universal Pictures
Universal Pictures is a division of Universal Studios
(www.universalstudios.com). Universal Studios is part of NBC Universal, one
of the world¹s leading media and entertainment companies in the development,
production and marketing of entertainment, news and information to a global
audience. Formed in May 2004 through the combining of NBC and Vivendi
Universal Entertainment, NBC Universal owns and operates a valuable
portfolio of news and entertainment networks, a premier motion picture
company, significant television production operations, a leading television
stations group and world-renowned theme parks. NBC Universal is 80% owned
by General Electric, with 20% controlled by Vivendi.
About Studio Babelsberg
Studio Babelsberg is the oldest large-scale studio complex in the world and
one of Europe¹s leading service providers for feature films and TV
productions. For over 95 years, film history has been made in Studio
Babelsberg. Countless renowned filmmakers have worked with Studio
Babelsberg, engaging the studio to produce small and big films. With a
complete set of services that make Studio Babelsberg a one-stop-shop, the
studio employs one of the best crews in the world and is well known for its
unique production service, skillful set construction department and huge
prop shops. The stages and facilities at Studio Babelsberg were once home
to UFA (Universum Film AG), the studio behind many of Germany¹s most famous
films, including Fritz Lang's Metropolis and Josef von Sternberg's The Blue
Angel, starring Marlene Dietrich.