Blood Ties is a 2013 Franco–American crime thriller film directed by Guillaume Canet. It is a remake of 2008 French thriller Les liens du sang by Jacques Maillot, an adaptation of the French novel Deux frères: flic & truand by Bruno and Michel Papet. The screenplay was written by Canet and James Gray and stars Clive Owen, Billy Crudup, Marion Cotillard, Mila Kunis
Mila Kunis and Matthias Schoenaerts. The film was selected to be screened out of competition at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival.[6] It received a limited release on March 21, 2014 in the United States.Contents1 Plot 2 Cast 3 Production3.1 Casting4 Release 5 Reception 6 References 7 External linksPlot[edit] After serving twelve years for murder (for killing a rapist and murderer he caught in the act), Chris (Clive Owen) is released from prison in 1974. His ex-wife, Monica (Marion Cotillard), is a drug-addicted prostitute. She has a son and a daughter
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Lionsgate
Lionsgate UK (formerly Redbus Film Distribution, and briefly known as Helkon SK between 2001 and 2003) is a British subsidiary of American film company Lionsgate. Founded in 1997 by Simon Franks and Zygi Kamasa, the company have distributed and produced many films for the UK such as Bend It Like Beckham, What's Cooking?, Cabin Fever, Jeepers Creepers and It's All Gone Pete Tong. The first theatrical film released by Redbus was Open Your Eyes. Redbus's film releases were formerly distributed on home video by Warner Home Video. The company was acquired by Lionsgate
Lionsgate in 2005. History[edit]This section is missing information about the company's early history. Please expand the section to include this information. Further details may exist on the talk page
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Screen International is a film magazine covering the international film business. It is published by Media Business Insight, a British B2B media company. The magazine is primarily aimed at those involved in the global film business
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John Ventimiglia
John Ventimiglia (born July 17, 1963) is an American actor best known for his role as Artie Bucco in the HBO
HBO television series, The Sopranos. Ventimiglia had a recurring role as Dino Arbogast, an Organized Crime Control Bureau Chief for the NYPD, on the American police procedural/drama series Blue Bloods on CBS. Ventimiglia has had parts in feature films such as Cop Land, Jesus' Son, The Iceman, The Funeral, The Wannabe, and Mickey Blue Eyes
Mickey Blue Eyes and has appeared in numerous television shows including Law & Order and NYPD
NYPD Blue. He also made a brief cameo in the made for television movie Gotti. In August, 2007, Ventimiglia and the David Amram quartet presented a musical and oral homage to sociologist C. Wright Mills and beat author Jack Kerouac
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Rotten Tomatoes
Rotten Tomatoes is an American review aggregation website for film and television. The company was launched in August 1998 and since January 2010 has been owned by Flixster, which was, in turn, acquired in 2011 by Warner Bros.
Warner Bros. In February 2016, Rotten Tomatoes
Rotten Tomatoes and its parent site Flixster were sold to Comcast's Fandango
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Metacritic
Metacritic is a website that aggregates reviews of media products: music albums, video games, films, TV shows, and formerly, books. For each product, the scores from each review are averaged (a weighted average).[2] Metacritic
Metacritic was created by Jason Dietz, Marc Doyle, and Julie Doyle Roberts in 1999. The site provides an excerpt from each review and hyperlinks to its source. A color of green, yellow or red summarizes the critics' recommendations. It has been described as the video game industry's "premier" review aggregator.[3][4] Metacritic's scoring converts each review into a percentage, either mathematically from the mark given, or which the site decides subjectively from a qualitative review
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Mark Mahoney is an American tattoo artist, considered the "founding father" of black and grey art with a single needle.[1] Many in the business consider Mahoney a living legend.[1] He currently owns and is the principal artist at the Shamrock Social Club on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, CA. Mahoney started his work as a tattoo artist in Boston in 1977 (when tattooing there was illegal), where he was in the midst of the 1970s punk scene. He has stayed relevant and influential in the tattoo world ever since
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The Hollywood
Hollywood Reporter (THR) is a multi-platform American digital and print magazine founded in 1930 and focusing on the Hollywood
Hollywood film industry, television, and entertainment industries, as well as Hollywood's intersection with fashion, finance, law, technology, lifestyle, and politics. Headquartered in Los Angeles, THR is part of the Billboard-Hollywood Reporter Media Group, a group of properties that includes Billboard and SpinMedia
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The Guardian
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper. It was known from 1821 until 1959 as the Manchester
Manchester Guardian. Along with its sister papers The Observer and the Guardian Weekly, The Guardian
The Guardian is part of the Guardian Media Group, owned by the Scott Trust
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Coordinates: 40°N 100°W / 40°N 100°W / 40; -100 United States
United States of AmericaFlagGreat SealMotto: "In God
God We Trust"[1][fn 1]Other traditional mottos "E pluribus unum" (Lat
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France
France (French: [fʁɑ̃s]), officially the French Republic (French: République française [ʁepyblik fʁɑ̃sɛz]), is a country whose territory consists of metropolitan France
France in western Europe, as well as several overseas regions and territories.[XIII] The metropolitan area of France
France extends from the Mediterranean Sea
Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel
English Channel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine
Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean. The overseas territories include French Guiana
French Guiana in South America and several islands in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans
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Complex is an American New York–based media platform for youth culture which was founded as a bi-monthly magazine by fashion designer Marc Milecofsky.[3] Complex reports on trends in style, pop culture, music, sports and sneakers with a focus on streetwear, sneaker culture, hip-hop, and graphic art
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Videoville Showtime, Inc.,[5] dba VVS Films, is a leading[6] Canadian motion picture distribution company founded by Ernie Grivakis. The company was formed in Montreal, Quebec
Quebec on May 27, 1983 and operates its theatrical sales & marketing office out of Toronto, Ontario.[7]Contents1 Films 2 Distribution 3 References 4 External linksFilms[edit] The company's focus is broad, commercial movies. In November 2014 it signed an exclusive output deal to distribute Luc Besson's EuropaCorp English productions in Canada.[8] Distribution[edit] It has direct, full-service distribution across all media in both English and French speaking Canada. References[edit]^ "Federal Corporation Information - 1505963". ic.gc.ca. Corporations Canada. ^ "Federal Corporation Information - 1505963". ic.gc.ca
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StudioCanal
StudioCanal (formerly known as Le Studio Canal+, Canal Plus, Canal+ Distribution, Canal+
Canal+ Production, and Canal+
Canal+ Image) is a French film production and distribution company that owns the third-largest film library in the world. The company is a unit of the Canal+
Canal+ Group, owned by Vivendi.Contents1 Background 2 Film library2.1 Television series3 Distribution3.1 Acquisitions 3.2 Distributors4 Selected filmography4.1 1990s 4.2 2000s 4.3 2010s5 References 6 External linksBackground[edit] The company was founded in 1987 by Pierre Lescure as a spin-off of the Canal+
Canal+ pay-TV network. The original function was to focus on French and European productions, but later made strategic deals with American production companies
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Heat is a 1995 American crime film written, co-produced and directed by Michael Mann, and starring Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, and Val Kilmer.[3] De Niro plays Neil McCauley, a professional thief, while Pacino plays Lt. Vincent Hanna, a LAPD robbery-homicide detective tracking down McCauley's crew. The story is based on the former Chicago
Chicago police officer Chuck Adamson's pursuit during the 1960s of a criminal named McCauley, after whom De Niro's character is named.[4] Heat is a remake by Mann of an unproduced television series he had worked on, the pilot of which was released as the TV movie L.A. Takedown in 1989. Heat was a critical and commercial success, grossing $67 million in the United States and $187 million worldwide (about $301 million in 2018)[2] against a $60 million budget. It was well received by critics
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Hervé de Luze (born 1949) is a French film editor with about fifty feature film credits.[1][2] de Luze had a long collaboration with the director Claude Berri, for whom he edited eight films between 1981 and 1999. de Luze has been director Roman Polanski's principal editor since Pirates
Pirates (1986), including the much honored 2002 film The Pianist. de Luze has also edited several films with Alain Resnais, including On connaît la chanson, for which he won a César Award. de Luze was nominated for the Academy Award for Film Editing
Academy Award for Film Editing for The Pianist
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