Spring Breakers
Spring Breakers is a 2012 American crime film written and directed by Harmony Korine.
It stars James Franco, Selena Gomez, Ashley Benson, Vanessa Hudgens and Rachel Korine and follows four college- aged girls on their spring break in Florida where they meet an eccentric local drug dealer named Alien who helps them in a time of desperation, and their eventual descent into a world of drugs, crime, and violence.
Korine had devised the concept for" Spring Breakers" over several years prior to production, with fleeting ideas about the plot and what should transpire.
His initial desire was to create a" sensory film" that was more about feeling than action and placed little importance on narrative or plot, the idea for which came later.
Once Korine developed the backbone of the story, which takes place around the American spring break period, he travelled to Florida to write the screenplay.
Production began in 2012, on an estimated budget of$ 5 million, making it Korine's second most expensive film to date.
The film is also one of Korine's first theatrical works to receive a wide release.
" Spring Breakers" was released on March 22, 2013 in the United States by A24 and grossed$ 31 million worldwide, making it a resounding success considering the small budget.
It received generally positive reviews from film critics, with some calling it a potential cult classic.
The film was selected to compete for the Golden Lion at the 69th Venice International Film Festival.
Critics and scholars have read deeper meaning in the film's plot, commenting on its reflection of modern- day superficiality and the younger generation's self- destructive obsession with highly stylised, disposable pop culture media and sensory ephemera.
It ranks in BBC's 100 Greatest Films of the 21st Century.
A sequel, under the name of" Spring Breakers: The Second Coming", was announced in 2014 for an undated release.
Jonas Åkerlund was attached to direct with Irvine Welsh penning the script, without the involvement of Korine or the original cast.
Rachel Feldman
Rachel Feldman( born August 22, 1954) is an American director of film and television and screenwriter of television films.
Harmony Korine
Harmony Korine( born January 4, 1973) is an American film director and screenwriter.
He is best known for writing" Kids"( 1995) and for writing and directing" Gummo"( 1997)," Julien Donkey- Boy"( 1999)," Mister Lonely"( 2007) and" Spring Breakers"( 2012).
His film" Trash Humpers"( 2009) premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and won the main prize, the DOX Award, at the CPH: DOX.
In 2019, Korine directed his first project in six years," The Beach Bum".
Howard W. Koch
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Brian Johnson (special effects artist)
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A Shot in the Dark (1964 film)
A Shot in the Dark is a 1964 British-American DeLuxe Color comedy film directed by Blake Edwards in Panavision.
It is the second installment in "The Pink Panther" film series, with Peter Sellers reprising his role as Inspector Jacques Clouseau of the French Sûreté.
Clouseau's blundering personality is unchanged, but it was in this film that Sellers began to give him the idiosyncratically exaggerated French accent that was to later become a hallmark of the character.
The film also marks the first appearances of Herbert Lom as his long-suffering boss, Commissioner Dreyfus, as well as Burt Kwouk as his stalwart man servant Cato and André Maranne as François, all three of whom would become series regulars.
Elke Sommer portrays the murder suspect, Maria Gambrelli.
The character of Gambrelli would return in "Son of the Pink Panther" (1993), this time played by Claudia Cardinale, who appeared as Princess Dala in "The Pink Panther" (1963).
Graham Stark, who portrays police officer Hercule Lajoy, would reprise this role eighteen years later, in "Trail of the Pink Panther" (1982).
The film was not originally written to include Clouseau, but was an adaptation of a stage play by Harry Kurnitz adapted from a French play "L'Idiote" by Marcel Achard.
The film was released only a few months after the first Clouseau film, "The Pink Panther".
Ian Barry (director)
Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV.
Blake Edwards
William Blake Crump( July 26, 1922 – December 15, 2010), better known by his stage name, Blake Edwards, was an American filmmaker.
Edwards began his career in the 1940s as an actor, but he soon began writing screenplays and radio scripts before turning to producing and directing in television and films.
His best- known films include" Breakfast at Tiffany' s Days of Wine and Roses10Victor/ Victoria", and the hugely successful Pink Panther film series with British actor Peter Sellers.
Often thought of as primarily a director of comedies, he also directed several drama, musical, and detective films.
Late in his career, he transitioned to writing, producing, and directing for theater.
In 2004, he received an Honorary Academy Award in recognition of his writing, directing, and producing an extraordinary body of work for the screen.
Peter Levin
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Hanro Smitsman
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Question: Do director of film A Shot In The Dark (1964 Film) and director of film Spring Breakers have the same nationality?
Answer: yes