FRANCE: PRODUCER JERRY WEINTRAUB HONOURED AT THE 28TH AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL IN DEAUVILLE / TOM HANKS AND STEVEN SODERBERGH HIT THE DEAUVILLE RED CARPET FOR THEIR NEW FILMS

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  • Title: FRANCE: PRODUCER JERRY WEINTRAUB HONOURED AT THE 28TH AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL IN DEAUVILLE / TOM HANKS AND STEVEN SODERBERGH HIT THE DEAUVILLE RED CARPET FOR THEIR NEW FILMS
  • Date: 31st August 2002
  • Summary: DEAUVILLE, FRANCE (SEPT 1ST, 2002) (REUTERS) SCU: (SOUNDBITE)(English) STEVEN SODERBERGH SAYING: "I suppose part of me liked the idea of someone walking into the film and thinking they were going to see a typical Julia Roberts film and having a very, very strange experience. But I have to say in this particular case I had a character who was supposed to be one of the bigg
  • Embargoed: 15th September 2002 13:00
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  • Location: DEAUVILLE, FRANCE
  • Country: France
  • Topics: General,People
  • Reuters ID: LVA359EQTOT5SGTT1O7G1NFHMQFL
  • Story Text: Jerry Weintraub, one of Hollywood's most successful producers and the man behind great movies like Robert Altman's Nashville, Barry Levinson's "Diner", Luis Llosa's, "The Specialist" and Steven Soderbergh's "Ocean's Eleven", has been honoured with "Le Coup de Chapeau" at the 28th American Film Festival in the French coastal town of Deauville." Also in town were Sam Mendes and Tom Hanks with their Road to Perdition and Steven Soderbergh with his digitally-shot - in eighteen days - Full Frontal.
    He started out as an artist's agent and later a concert organiser for the likes of, Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, Bob Dylan and Led Zepplin. It was a chance conversation with Robert Altman at a party that was the seed that sprouted Jerry Weintraub's movie career. Altman suggested Weintraub become a film producer. Shortly afterwards Altman sent him the script of Nashville and as he said himself, "The rest is history."
    More precisely the rest is twenty six years of movie-making and memorable films like, Carl Reiner's, "Oh God!",
    "All Night Long", by Jean-Claude Tramont and of course Steven Soderbergh's recent box office hit, "Ocean's Eleven with its A-list lineup.
    So how has Weintraub managed to pick the projects that would turn into the successes they have? The secret is relationships.
    "I look for scripts and I look for relationship. The only thread that runs through my movies, cos I make all kinds of different movies, the only thing that you'll find in all my movies are relationships between people", he said.
    Weintraub, one of the first independent producers to have had his "star" inscribed on Hollywood's Walk of Fame, got the opportunity this weekend to rest on his laurels when he was honoured with a, "Coup de Chapeau" at the 28th Deauville American Film Festival this weekend. Weintraub received his crystal award in recognition for his contribution to cinema over the years at a majestic dinner at the Deauville's Hotel Royal.
    Other glittering stars in town this weekend included Tom Hanks and Sam Mendes fresh on the Normandy coast from this year's Venice Film Festival. The pair were in town for the premier of, "Road to Perdition", in which Hanks plays a hit-man for the Irish mob in Depression-era Chicago.
    Steven Soderbergh also flew in to present his new entirely digitally shot (in 18 days!) "Full Frontal". The low budget project which is being touted as a return to his experimental roots which resulted in his 1989 acclaimed hit, "Sex, Lies and Videotape." "Full Frontal" stars Julia Roberts, David Duchovny, Brad Pitt (cameoing as himself), Catherine Keener and Terence Stamp.
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