Greta has indeed scored distribution for the US!
A release date should be announced soon. The movie was planned to premiere during the 2009 Cannes Film Festival with the help of Voltage Pictures, but the idea was canned. Stories of straight-to-DVD rumors started to pop up, but Voltage quickly denied it.
Here’s a quote from a writer of the film:
"From what I understand, the producers of GRETA have just recently secured domestic (US) distribution for the film, which means there should be a release date announced soon. I’m hoping it will come out this fall, but I haven’t heard anything yet."
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Il film "Greta" ha ottenuto la distribuzione per gli Stati Uniti!
Una data di rilascio potrebbe essere annunciata presto. Era stata programmata una premiere del film durante il Festival di Cannes con l'aiuto della Voltage Pictures, ma l'idea venne messa da parte. Si è parlato anche di un probabile rilascio direttamente in DVD, ma la Voltage Pictures l'ha negato.
Ecco la citazione di uno scrittore del film:
"Da quello che ho capito, i produttori di Greta hanno recentemente garantito la distribuzione del film in USA, ciò significa che potrebbe essere presto annunciata una data di rilascio. Spero che il film uscirà quest'autunno, ma non ho ancora sentito nulla."
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Credits traduzione: SunshineHilary
"Greta" US Distribution Confirmed!
Voltage woos Greta to Cannes
Voltage Pictures has bulked up its Cannes slate with the eleventh hour acquisition of the teen drama Greta starring Hilary Duff, Ellen Burstyn and Melissa Leo.
Nancy Bardawil directed from Michael Gilvary’s screenplay about a prickly teenager who discovers her gentler side and finds romance when she is spends one summer with her grandparents on the Jersey Shore.
Evan Ross plays the love interest and Michael Murphy stars as the protagonist’s grandfather.
Voltage’s Nicolas Chartier brokered the deal with Jerome Duboz of William Morris Independent and will introduce the project on the Croisette this week.
Chartier was one of the few buyers who enjoyed a busy EFM and will be looking to maintain that momentum with a Cannes slate that includes thriller The Whistleblower starring Rachel Weisz as a police officer who exposes a United Nations cover-up in post-war Bosnia.
Voltage Pictures ha la sua lista personale dei film che porterà al Festival di Cannes 2009 e la sua undicesima acquisizione nel campo cinematografico è la teen-comedy Greta con Hilary Duff, Ellen Burstyn e Melissa Leo. Nancy Bardawil diretta dalla sceneggiatura di Michael Gilvary, racconta una storia di una pungente adolescente che scopre il suo lato più dolce e trova in sè un pò di romanticismo quando passa l'estate dai suoi nonni, a Jersey Shore. Evan Ross svolge il ruolo del "perfetto" innamorato e Michael Murphy come il premuroso nonno. Nicolas Chartier, appartenente alla Voltage Pictures, sta precisando l'accordo con Girolamo Duboz e William Morris e introdurrà il progetto sulla Croisette questa settimana. Chartier è stato uno dei pochi acquirenti che si è occupato di mettere in luce questi film, come Greta, ma ora dobbiamo aspettare che il consiglio accetti la sua idea. Ha proposto al Festival di Cannes anche il Thriller The Whistleblower con Rachel Weisz come un agente di polizia.
New Greta review on IMDb
"Without giving away too much, here's my short interpretation of Greta. It's a funny movie with some serious tones of suicide and relationships between the characters. In the end, I'm glad that I watched Greta. When I went in to see the movie, I actually thought I would come out not liking it at all, thinking it might be a teeny bopper movie. Sure, it dealt with teens angst, but the movie had it's good moments. I have never laughed so much in a Hilary Duff movie as I did with Greta. Right off, you can see the character Greta and not Hilary Duff as the person playing the role. I couldn't see Lizzie at all.
Here's what I didn't like about Greta:
I wish she would improve on her crying scenes. There are some moments that dragged on, but this movie is definitely different. I noticed the director must have cut out a lot of scenes because I was expecting Greta to turn her neighbor's dog's hair color to blue and a scene at the beach where she gets rescued. I think the end was too short and not at all a great ending. It just seemed too abrupt for an ending and an ending that seemed too unrealistic. The movie wasn't a fantastic great movie, but for me, it was good. I'd buy it if it ever comes out on DVD."
Greta su CineBlog
Non ha ancora una data d’uscita nei cinema americani Greta, nuovo film con Hilary Duff protagonista. Diretto da Nancy Bardawil, il film vedrà la Duff nei panni di Greta, ragazza che s’innamora perdutamente di uno chef di colore che lavora nello stesso ristorante nel quale lei è stata assunta come cameriera. Peccato che i nonni di lei non vogliano che questa storia vada avanti…
Al suo fianco Evan Ross, Ellen Burstyn e Michael Murphy.
"Greta" review
"I'll just leave a review of the entire night, hope you guys don't mind...
It was a good movie and my cousin and I had a lot of fun. We arrived at around 4, three hours ahead of time. Really early, I know, I just didn't know what to expect, how many people would be there, ect.
At first I was wondering if maybe I was in the wrong area, because I was expecting a long, long line and no one was there. After one of the theaters confirmed it was playing at around 7, we walked around the mall, got food, drove around for a little while and came back at 6:15. This time, there was easily over 100 people separated into two lines. I was surprised to see that it wasn't little girls. Most of the people were around 18-mid 20's there were even a few elderly women (a group of them were in front of me). A little after we got in line, security approached us and asked us for our paper passes and our names to confirm we were on the list. Then (I'm guessing to pass time) the guards started talking to random people in the line, asking if we were here for Hilary Duff and why we liked her. I was one of the first people they asked, and I figured they would because I was one of the only black men there so I definitely stood out. I told the man that I liked her ever since Lizzie McGuire and that I've been looking forward to this movie since I first hard about it in the last few months of 07'. We talked a little bit more about the purpose of the screening, other artists, famous people he'd met until around 6:35 when they started letting us into the theater. They continued seating people until around 7:10. Producers, people who represented various distributors, even Susan Duff were there. I figured important people would be attending, because when you walked into theater, some of the seats were covered with blue tape, which meant they were being reserved. Most people didn't recognize Susan. She entered quickly, by herself and didn't bring any attention to herself and sat down close to the front. Then at 7:15, a producer of the movie (I think it was Rick Rosenthal but I'm not 100 percent sure) came to the front to give an introductory speech thanking everyone for coming and explaining that usually the cast would be here but that Hilary was busy in North Carolina, Evan was busy in New York and that he wasn't busy so he'd be there for the night. Everyone laughed. By that time, the theater was packed, every single seat. They were even offering people in the higher seats money to sit closer to the bottom because the producers important people didn't wanna sit so close up. There were even people on the floor of the isles. I guess they didn't expect so many people.
THE MOVIE:
Anyway, the movie started. No commercials, no advertisements, it started right away (Probably because it was suppose to start twenty minutes before it did). It starts in indie fashion, kinda like Juno if you guys saw that one. The credits role, the actors are introduced. Hilary is hilarious right from the start. The opening scene she's on a bus and she does something to the fat guy next to her that had everyone laughing. She does whatever she wants, she says whatever she wants to whoever she wants whenever she wants to say it. There were so many parts where the entire audience laughed. She basically walked into a store and bossed her way into getting the job, she told the manager she was hired, when she'd start and what she would be doing there. She didn't follow any of her grandmothers rules, she was rude to the neighbor (even threatened her), rude to the customers that she helped at work. I don't wanna give away too much, but it was funny, had it's sad moments and all in all was enjoyable. The audience seemed really into it and even my cousin who's in his 'too cool to like teeny bobbers' phase liked it, so I guess that's a good sign.
My only problems with the movie were that I didn't feel much from Evan, I wish they would've chosen a better actor. I didn't feel like he really liked her, he wasn't very expressive. And I would've liked to know the mom a bit more, she was barely in the movie. Also I can tell there were a lot of deleted scenes. I saw a picture of Hilary painting something on the beach with her hair pinned back, that wasn't included in the movie. Neither were the parts where she was on the roof with a lap top, or the part where she was walking in the green dress getting ice cream from a man. Hilary was great for her standards though. As an actress, she's getting there. Some of her scenes were seriously impressive and she showed she's not completely talentless, again. She totally stole the show. She was the best actor of the film. It could be because most of the other people didn't get a whole lot of screen-time, but she owned. I'd rate the film a B.
Also, at the end of the movie, the audience gave a round of applause. And they gave us little booklets kinda like the one she had in the movie. They were kinda cool. I tried to look for Susan to say hi or something, but I couldn't find her. I guess she made a quick exit. lol"
Source: IMDb
In sintesi, questo ragazzo dice che c'era tantissima gente, più di quanto ci si aspettava. Si è stupito del fatto che non era pieno di ragazzine, ma che invece c'erano ragazzi tra i 18 e i 28 anni. Non c'era nessun attore del cast (a causa degli impegni lavorativi di ognuno), ma c'erano diverse persone molto importanti (tra cui Susan, la mamma di Hil). Il film è stato gradito grossomodo da tutti e Hilary ha dimostrato di essere cresciuta molto nella recitazione. Ci sono stati molti momenti divertenti, in cui il pubblico ha riso, e anche momenti tristi, anch'essi apprezzati. Nel complesso, il pubblico era molto interessato al film, che ha preso subito tutti. Alcune scene (come quelle in cui Hilary pitturava o mangiava un gelato indossando un vestito verde) non sono state inserite. L'attore migliore del film è stata Hilary! Alla fine del film tutto il pubblico ha applaudito! L'unica cosa negativa è stata la recitazione di Evan Ross, che non era molto espressivo. Nel complesso il film è stato valutato con bel 9!
"Greta" special advanced screening
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Reminder to all those lucky duckies who got booked into viewing the special advanced screening for Greta today, April 2 at The Landmark Theaters in Westwood, California at 7PM.
"Greta" cast
Hilary Duff ... Greta
Ellen Burstyn ... Katherine
Melissa Leo ... Karen
Evan Ross ... Julie
Michael Murphy ... Joseph
Tsianina Joelson ... Stacy
Vivan Dugré ... Donna
Maury Ginsberg ... Lou
Mike Hurt
Oren Skoog ... Steve
Dave Shalansky ... The Installer
Kelly Sullivan ... Tracy
Gil Deeble ... Cop
Eric Sheffer Stevens ... Yuppie #1
Paul Thornton ... Drunkard
Greta
Greta’s a trip, but she’s not a vacation. She’s seventeen, bright, beautiful and seriously rebellious, full of sarcastic wit that barely disguises the hurt inside. Pushed aside by her mother, Karen, who is on her third marriage and counting, Greta is shipped off to her grandparents for the summer, and she’s not happy about it. In fact, she tells them that she fully intends to kill herself before the summer is over and is currently compiling a notebook of suicide methods. Acerbic, yet winningly impulsive, Greta is a stunning force of nature, disrupting her grandparents’ staid and settled lives and the Jersey Shore community they live in as well. But a near catastrophe gives Greta a wake-up call and demonstrates how deeply her own actions impact those around her. Greta’s growing love for her elderly grandparents, along with the excitement of her first summer romance, gradually strips away her defenses, revealing the promising, charismatic young woman underneath her shell. Hilary Duff, Ellen Burstyn, Evan Ross and Michael Murphy star in “GRETA”, an interracial teen romance now filming in Ocean Grove, New Jersey for Whitewater Films. Duff plays the title role of a waitress who falls for a charismatic, young short-order cook (Ross), only to find out he’s been in and out of a juvenile correctional facility for stealing cars. Now he’s determined to do something with his life, but as their romance heats up, Greta has to overcome the concerns of her grandparents (Burstyn, Murphy) about her new friend’s criminal past. Cast Includes: Greta- Hilary Duff; Katherine- Ellen Burstyn; Julie- Evan Ross; Joseph- Michael Murphy.
Greta (Hilary) è una ragazza che s'innamora perdutamente dell'ambizioso chef che lavora nello stesso ristorante nel quale lei è stata assunta come cameriera. Durante la loro storia d'amore però lei dovrà affrontare il parere contrario dei suoi nonni, che non vedono di buon occhio il fidanzato, che ha precedenti penali. Ad Evan Ross è stato affidato il ruolo del fidanzato di Greta, mentre alla Burstyn e a Murphy, i ruoli dei suoi nonni.
Il film, le cui riprese si sono svolte nel New Jersey, segna il debutto alla regia della Bardawil, che finora ha diretto solo videoclip. La regista lavorerà sulle basi di una sceneggiatura elaborata da Michael Gilvary.
