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Sylvain White Gives Status Update on Frank Miller’s ‘Ronin’

Rob Frappier — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 15:10:45 +0000

You know, it’s been a while since we’ve talked about the film adaptation of Frank Miller’s seminal graphic novel Ronin. Sorry about that. To be fair, you can’t really blame us though. It’s actually director Sylvain White’s fault. You see, White has been pretty busy working on his current comic book movie, The Losers, which opens on April 19th. That film is now more-or-less wrapped up, so White has begun turning his focus back to bringing Ronin to the big screen.

In an exclusive interview with ComingSoon.net, White talked about his plans for Ronin and how he wants to take as much time as he needs to make sure that the movie is “done right.” No new writer is currently attached to the film, but White says that he is “working along with the studio executives ...

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Director Sylvain White Talks Frank Miller’s ‘Ronin’

Scott Miller — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 19:53:04 +0000

For those who haven’t heard, it looks like Sylvain White will be jumping from one graphic-novel-to-film adaptation (The Losers, currently in production) to another. Sylvain recently shared some details of his vision for Ronin, based on the graphic novel written and drawn by Frank Miller, who also wrote the legendary Batman: The Dark Knight Returns graphic novel and was the creator and co-director of the Sin City graphic novel and film, respectively.

White had a lot to say to Steve Weintraub over at Collider, including the following quote, which addresses the ubiqiutous “how are you going to honor the source material” issue:

“So I would pay homage to him more in the production design versus the actual frames. The frames in ‘Ronin’ are some beautiful frames, and some I would go with, but what’s beautiful ...

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Weekend Movie News Wrap Up: October 19, 2008

Niall Browne — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 16:33:44 +0000

Sunday again and that means that it is time for the Weekend Movie News Wrap Up.

This week:

We see who is top of the box office; Kevin Smith ups his budget and goes into space; Brad Pitt goes on an Odyssey and plays an Unfair Game; Liam Neeson and Christina Ricci do Life and Ronin zooms to the small screen.

Box Office

Marky Mark Wahlberg is the box office champion with Max Payne. The film should manage about $20 million over the weekend giving 20^th Century Fox their first solid hit in months.

Oliver Stone’s W bucked the political movie trend by making a solid bit of cash. Grossing around $12MM for the weekend the film should be a modest hit. Considering the current political overkill going on in the press this is a considerable coup.

The Secret Life of Bees had a modest opening too, and should match the gross of the Bush ...

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