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]]> By: dan bloom http://www.hollywoodtoday.net/2008/09/28/ang-lee-takes-woodstock/comment-page-1/#comment-283888 dan bloom Thu, 02 Oct 2008 09:29:05 +0000 http://www.hollywoodtoday.net/?p=6224#comment-283888 Ang Lee filming comedy on 1969 Woodstock concert Thu Oct 2, 2008 By Ralph Jennings TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan-born film director Ang Lee, known for such box office hits as "Lust, Caution" and "Brokeback Mountain," is filming a comedy about Woodstock ahead of the landmark countercultural event's 40th anniversary, his spokesman said. "Taking Woodstock" is based on a book by the man who granted the original permit for the 1969 event, which turned into a hippie-dominated music festival that drew half a million fans. Oscar-winning Lee is shooting the film for Focus Features near the Woodstock location in upstate New York with an eye toward releasing it next year, spokesman David Lee said. He declined to elaborate on the plot, the budget or the director's reasons for getting involved. "I'm not in a position to discuss details of the film," he said. The film follows the book "Taking Woodstock: A True Story of a Riot, a Concert, and a Life," by Elliot Tiber, who was instrumental in bringing the controversial concert of unprecedented scale to his region. Lee found the movie theme when he happened to meet Tiber backstage before a televised book promotion in San Francisco, said Dan Bloom, a Taiwan-based writer who has interviewed sources close to the film. "A lot of people are going to wonder how a guy born in Taiwan can do this," Bloom said. "Ang Lee doesn't choose his movies. His movies choose him." Broadly speaking, Bloom said, "Taking Woodstock" is about sizing up one's own life and controlling one's own destiny. Lee, 53, lives in the United States and has explored other symbols of Americana, such as cowboys in "Brokeback Mountain" and the comic book character Hulk in a movie of the same name. Reuters/Nielsen Ang Lee filming comedy on 1969 Woodstock concert

Thu Oct 2, 2008
By Ralph Jennings

TAIPEI (Reuters) – Taiwan-born film director Ang Lee, known for such box office hits as “Lust, Caution” and “Brokeback Mountain,” is filming a comedy about Woodstock ahead of the landmark countercultural event’s 40th anniversary, his spokesman said.

“Taking Woodstock” is based on a book by the man who granted the original permit for the 1969 event, which turned into a hippie-dominated music festival that drew half a million fans.

Oscar-winning Lee is shooting the film for Focus Features near the Woodstock location in upstate New York with an eye toward releasing it next year, spokesman David Lee said.

He declined to elaborate on the plot, the budget or the director’s reasons for getting involved. “I’m not in a position to discuss details of the film,” he said.

The film follows the book “Taking Woodstock: A True Story of a Riot, a Concert, and a Life,” by Elliot Tiber, who was instrumental in bringing the controversial concert of unprecedented scale to his region.

Lee found the movie theme when he happened to meet Tiber backstage before a televised book promotion in San Francisco, said Dan Bloom, a Taiwan-based writer who has interviewed sources close to the film.

“A lot of people are going to wonder how a guy born in Taiwan can do this,” Bloom said. “Ang Lee doesn’t choose his movies. His movies choose him.”

Broadly speaking, Bloom said, “Taking Woodstock” is about sizing up one’s own life and controlling one’s own destiny.

Lee, 53, lives in the United States and has explored other symbols of Americana, such as cowboys in “Brokeback Mountain” and the comic book character Hulk in a movie of the same name.

Reuters/Nielsen

]]> By: dan bloom http://www.hollywoodtoday.net/2008/09/28/ang-lee-takes-woodstock/comment-page-1/#comment-283849 dan bloom Thu, 02 Oct 2008 04:00:18 +0000 http://www.hollywoodtoday.net/?p=6224#comment-283849 Reuters Life! is picking up this story today. On the intl wire. Google it. Reuters Life! is picking up this story today. On the intl wire. Google it.

]]> By: Dan Bloom http://www.hollywoodtoday.net/2008/09/28/ang-lee-takes-woodstock/comment-page-1/#comment-283484 Dan Bloom Mon, 29 Sep 2008 02:38:41 +0000 http://www.hollywoodtoday.net/?p=6224#comment-283484 There's more: The publisher of the book was SQUARE ONE PUBLISHERS on Long Island, NY, and the savvy publisher who signed the book up was Rudy Shur, and the savvy PR guy who came up with the title was Anthony Pomes of the company's marketing department. The movie will open in Lee's homeland of Taiwan on September 4, 2009. And yes, as mentioned, it's billed as Lee's first comedy. Should be interesting! There’s more:

The publisher of the book was SQUARE ONE PUBLISHERS on Long Island, NY, and the savvy publisher who signed the book up was Rudy Shur, and the savvy PR guy who came up with the title was Anthony Pomes of the company’s marketing department.

The movie will open in Lee’s homeland of Taiwan on September 4, 2009.

And yes, as mentioned, it’s billed as Lee’s first comedy. Should be interesting!

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