Marc Forster Articles

Chris Evans, Puncture Gay Love Story WEEKEND Tops North American Per-Theater Average: Box Office As listed on the (so far incomplete) Box Office Mojo chart, Weekend's closest competitor this weekend (Sept. 23-25) at the US/Canada box office was Cameron Crowe's Pearl Jam Twenty, which is screening at seven locations. After blowing off some box-office steam when it opened last Tuesday, Crowe's documentary earned an estimated [...]

FINDING NEVERLAND (2004) Direction: Marc Forster Cast: Johnny Depp, Kate Winslet, Radha Mitchell, Julie Christie, Freddie Highmore, Dustin Hoffman, Joe Prospero, Ian Hart, Kelly Macdonald Screenplay: David Magee; from Allan Knee's play The Man Who Was Peter Pan Oscar Movies Johnny Depp, Kate Winslet, Finding Neverland Back in 2001, German-born director Marc Forster brought a much welcome touch of non-Hollywood flavor to the independently made [...]

Halle Berry, Billy Bob Thornton, Monster's Ball This brief piece is an amalgam of two comments posted in response to Alt Film Guide's Monster's Ball review written by André Soares. The comments have been slightly reedited for easier reading as a single post. See below. I've seen Monster's Ball twice, and in all honesty it grew in power the second time I saw it. I [...]

MONSTER'S BALL (2001) Direction: Marc Forster Cast: Billy Bob Thornton, Halle Berry, Heath Ledger, Peter Boyle, Sean Combs, Mos Def, Coronji Calhoun Screenplay: Milo Addica and Will Rokos Oscar Movies Halle Berry, Billy Bob Thornton, Monster's Ball In Monster's Ball — the title refers to the macabre partying held the night before the execution of a death-row inmate — first-time screenwriters Milo Addica and Will [...]