‘Tis the season to draw viewing inspiration from all things Halloween, and haunted houses are one of the key staples of the holiday. And for good reason, too, as few things are as inherently terrifying as an invasion of the very place where you’re meant to feel safest: your home.
Dealing with a paranormal presence isn’t quite as easy to deal with as masked maniacs or a more tangible threat. It’s often a fear of the unknown that induces the most nerve-fraying anxiety, and a haunted house is full of unknowns. This week’s streaming picks are dedicated to one of horror’s most foundational subgenres: the haunted house movie.
These five titles range from classic haunted house fare to modern frights that reinterpret what a haunted house can be. All aim to induce maximum frights, perfect for this Halloween season.
Here’s where you can stream them this week.
Dealing with a paranormal presence isn’t quite as easy to deal with as masked maniacs or a more tangible threat. It’s often a fear of the unknown that induces the most nerve-fraying anxiety, and a haunted house is full of unknowns. This week’s streaming picks are dedicated to one of horror’s most foundational subgenres: the haunted house movie.
These five titles range from classic haunted house fare to modern frights that reinterpret what a haunted house can be. All aim to induce maximum frights, perfect for this Halloween season.
Here’s where you can stream them this week.
- 10/7/2024
- by Meagan Navarro
- bloody-disgusting.com
After cutting her teeth for just under two decades with films such as The Orphanage (2007), Transsiberian (2008) and Cell 211 (2009), Spanish film producer Elena Manrique moved into the directors’ chair last year embarking on her directorial debut in Fin De Fiesta (The Party’s Over) — at 2024 Toronto Intl. Film Festival selection in the Discovery programme. Before concluding its three public screening showcase at the festival we are pleased to premiere an exclusive clip for the film produced by Sandra Hermida, Belén Atienza, Olmo Figueredo González-Quevedo, Hans Everaert and Carlos Rosado Sibón.
Having arrived illegally in Spain, young Senegalese immigrant Bilal is pursued by the police.…...
Having arrived illegally in Spain, young Senegalese immigrant Bilal is pursued by the police.…...
- 9/11/2024
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings.
Brooklyn Center for Theatre Research
My screening series Amnesiascope partners again with Rohmer Fits for an encore presentation of Éric Rohmer shorts on Sunday.
Paris Theater
“Big & Loud!” returns with 70mm prints of Vertigo, Phantom Thread, and Boogie Nights, along with The Abyss, Close Encounters, and films by Don Hertzfeldt.
Bam
The controversial, remarkable The Spook Who Sat By the Door continues in a new restoration.
Roxy Cinema
Amalia Ulman has programmed prints of If… and The Holy Girl; “Explosive Cinema” offers First Reformed and The Battle of Algiers.
Film at Lincoln Center
As an essential restoration of Shinji Somai’s Moving continues, The Stranger and the Fog begins a run.
Museum of the Moving Image
Speed Racer and A Silent Voice have screenings.
Anthology Film Archives
Films by Buñuel, Chaplin, and Cocteau screen in “Essential Cinema“; Funeral Parade of Roses shows this Friday.
Brooklyn Center for Theatre Research
My screening series Amnesiascope partners again with Rohmer Fits for an encore presentation of Éric Rohmer shorts on Sunday.
Paris Theater
“Big & Loud!” returns with 70mm prints of Vertigo, Phantom Thread, and Boogie Nights, along with The Abyss, Close Encounters, and films by Don Hertzfeldt.
Bam
The controversial, remarkable The Spook Who Sat By the Door continues in a new restoration.
Roxy Cinema
Amalia Ulman has programmed prints of If… and The Holy Girl; “Explosive Cinema” offers First Reformed and The Battle of Algiers.
Film at Lincoln Center
As an essential restoration of Shinji Somai’s Moving continues, The Stranger and the Fog begins a run.
Museum of the Moving Image
Speed Racer and A Silent Voice have screenings.
Anthology Film Archives
Films by Buñuel, Chaplin, and Cocteau screen in “Essential Cinema“; Funeral Parade of Roses shows this Friday.
- 8/30/2024
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
Afghan filmmaker Shahrbanoo Sadat has secured German financing for “No Good Men,” with Berlin-based Amerikafilm joining the director’s long-gestating romantic comedy set inside a Kabul newsroom during the democratic era, before the Taliban returned to power in 2021.
Sadat will be presenting the project, which is produced by Katja Adomeit of Danish-German outfit Adomeit Film along with Paris-based La Fabrica Nocturna and Norway’s Motlys, during the Venice Gap-Financing Market, which runs Aug. 30 – Sep. 1.
The first romcom from an Afghan filmmaker “No Good Men” tells the story of a young camerawoman (played by Ghawgha Taban) who falls for a married TV reporter (Mohammed Anwar Hashimi) twice her age after discovering her husband has been cheating on her. While forbidden love simmers inside the newsroom, the film also portrays the often-dangerous work of reporters in Kabul along with the absurdities of daily life in the city at that time.
Sadat, who...
Sadat will be presenting the project, which is produced by Katja Adomeit of Danish-German outfit Adomeit Film along with Paris-based La Fabrica Nocturna and Norway’s Motlys, during the Venice Gap-Financing Market, which runs Aug. 30 – Sep. 1.
The first romcom from an Afghan filmmaker “No Good Men” tells the story of a young camerawoman (played by Ghawgha Taban) who falls for a married TV reporter (Mohammed Anwar Hashimi) twice her age after discovering her husband has been cheating on her. While forbidden love simmers inside the newsroom, the film also portrays the often-dangerous work of reporters in Kabul along with the absurdities of daily life in the city at that time.
Sadat, who...
- 8/26/2024
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
Víctor Clavijo y Alexandra Jiménez protagonizan la comedia. © Banijay Iberia
Comienza en Bizkaia el rodaje de “Los Muértimer”, una película de comedia basada en la trilogía de cómics homónima de la ilustradora francesa Léa Mazé.
En “Los Muértimer”, Gabi, una estudiante de intercambio, llega a un pequeño pueblo en el Valle de Murrieta, España, donde se aloja con una familia que regenta una funeraria. Tanto Gabi como Nico, el hijo de la familia, sufren acoso escolar debido a la peculiar profesión de los Mortimer. Ambos chicos encuentran refugio en el cementerio del pueblo, donde nadie se mete con ellos. Un día, el tallador de lápidas les cuenta una historia paranormal que los lleva a investigar. Sin embargo, el descubrimiento de un cadáver y unas joyas robadas los hace enfrentarse a la realidad. Cuando intentan alertar a los padres de Nico, descubren que alguien ha limpiado la escena del crimen y ha huido con las pruebas,...
Comienza en Bizkaia el rodaje de “Los Muértimer”, una película de comedia basada en la trilogía de cómics homónima de la ilustradora francesa Léa Mazé.
En “Los Muértimer”, Gabi, una estudiante de intercambio, llega a un pequeño pueblo en el Valle de Murrieta, España, donde se aloja con una familia que regenta una funeraria. Tanto Gabi como Nico, el hijo de la familia, sufren acoso escolar debido a la peculiar profesión de los Mortimer. Ambos chicos encuentran refugio en el cementerio del pueblo, donde nadie se mete con ellos. Un día, el tallador de lápidas les cuenta una historia paranormal que los lleva a investigar. Sin embargo, el descubrimiento de un cadáver y unas joyas robadas los hace enfrentarse a la realidad. Cuando intentan alertar a los padres de Nico, descubren que alguien ha limpiado la escena del crimen y ha huido con las pruebas,...
- 7/27/2024
- by Marta Medina
- mundoCine
Manrique, productora de ‘Celda 211’, ‘El Orfanato’ y ‘El Laberinto del Fauno’, dirige su primer largometraje. © TIFF
“Fin de Fiesta” (originalmente titulada “Una Luz al Mediodía”), la ópera prima de la productora Elena Manrique, tendrá su estreno mundial en el Festival Internacional de Cine de Toronto en la sección Discovery.
En “Fin de Fiesta”, la vida de una rica divorciada se ve alterada cuando una joven inmigrante senegalesa se refugia en su cobertizo de herramientas.
Protagonizan la película Edith Martínez-Val, Sonia Barba (“La Amiga de mi Amiga”) y Beatriz Arjona (“Operación Barrio Inglés”).
La directora ha expresado su entusiasmo: «Siempre es un momento muy especial la primera vez que una película sale al mundo y se expone a sus primeros espectadores. Fin de Fiesta empieza su andadura en Toronto, concretamente en Discovery que es una sección dedicada a primeras y segundas películas, con una mirada diversa y valiente. En...
“Fin de Fiesta” (originalmente titulada “Una Luz al Mediodía”), la ópera prima de la productora Elena Manrique, tendrá su estreno mundial en el Festival Internacional de Cine de Toronto en la sección Discovery.
En “Fin de Fiesta”, la vida de una rica divorciada se ve alterada cuando una joven inmigrante senegalesa se refugia en su cobertizo de herramientas.
Protagonizan la película Edith Martínez-Val, Sonia Barba (“La Amiga de mi Amiga”) y Beatriz Arjona (“Operación Barrio Inglés”).
La directora ha expresado su entusiasmo: «Siempre es un momento muy especial la primera vez que una película sale al mundo y se expone a sus primeros espectadores. Fin de Fiesta empieza su andadura en Toronto, concretamente en Discovery que es una sección dedicada a primeras y segundas películas, con una mirada diversa y valiente. En...
- 7/25/2024
- by Marta Medina
- mundoCine
La serie se estrenará en la plataforma de streaming este año. © Atresplayer
“El Gran Salto”, la nueva serie original de Atresplayer protagonizada por Óscar Casas como el campeón olímpico Gervasio Deferr, se proyectará en el Festival de San Sebastián en septiembre.
La serie, compuesta por cinco episodios de 50 minutos, narra una de las historias más apasionantes del deporte español: la vida del campeón olímpico Gervasio Deferr, su camino hacia el éxito olímpico y su caída a los infiernos. Deferr ganó dos medallas de oro olímpicas en salto en Sydney 2000 y Atenas 2004, y una de plata en suelo en Pekín 2008. De personalidad muy compleja y autoexigente, no supo gestionar bien el delicado equilibrio éxito-fracaso, lo que le arrastró a una espiral de autodestrucción y desfases, que le distanciaron de su familia y amigos, hasta que finalmente abandonó la competición deportiva. A lo largo de los cinco episodios, veremos la dualidad entre...
“El Gran Salto”, la nueva serie original de Atresplayer protagonizada por Óscar Casas como el campeón olímpico Gervasio Deferr, se proyectará en el Festival de San Sebastián en septiembre.
La serie, compuesta por cinco episodios de 50 minutos, narra una de las historias más apasionantes del deporte español: la vida del campeón olímpico Gervasio Deferr, su camino hacia el éxito olímpico y su caída a los infiernos. Deferr ganó dos medallas de oro olímpicas en salto en Sydney 2000 y Atenas 2004, y una de plata en suelo en Pekín 2008. De personalidad muy compleja y autoexigente, no supo gestionar bien el delicado equilibrio éxito-fracaso, lo que le arrastró a una espiral de autodestrucción y desfases, que le distanciaron de su familia y amigos, hasta que finalmente abandonó la competición deportiva. A lo largo de los cinco episodios, veremos la dualidad entre...
- 7/22/2024
- by Marta Medina
- mundoCine
10. It Comes at Night (2017)
If it’s not a zombie apocalypse movie, it’s rare to see the “Earth is devastated by a pandemic of a highly contagious disease” as a horror movie premise, but It Comes at Night does it — and does it beautifully. In this movie, it’s the suspense that gets you, as a family barely surviving alone in the lost world is joined by another young couple. Watch It Comes at Night on Max, Apple TV, and Prime Video.
9. The Endless (2017)
It’s hard to look best at one’s past when it’s terrifying, but two adult brothers decide to do it. As kids, they escaped a bizarre UFO death cult, but years later, they receive a tape inviting them back and decide to check in with their old “family.” But soon, they learn that no one of the cultists sent them the tape. Something else is at play…...
If it’s not a zombie apocalypse movie, it’s rare to see the “Earth is devastated by a pandemic of a highly contagious disease” as a horror movie premise, but It Comes at Night does it — and does it beautifully. In this movie, it’s the suspense that gets you, as a family barely surviving alone in the lost world is joined by another young couple. Watch It Comes at Night on Max, Apple TV, and Prime Video.
9. The Endless (2017)
It’s hard to look best at one’s past when it’s terrifying, but two adult brothers decide to do it. As kids, they escaped a bizarre UFO death cult, but years later, they receive a tape inviting them back and decide to check in with their old “family.” But soon, they learn that no one of the cultists sent them the tape. Something else is at play…...
- 7/7/2024
- by dean-black@startefact.com (Dean Black)
- STartefacts.com
10. It Comes at Night (2017)
If it’s not a zombie apocalypse movie, it’s rare to see the “Earth is devastated by a pandemic of a highly contagious disease” as a horror movie premise, but It Comes at Night does it — and does it beautifully. In this movie, it’s the suspense that gets you, as a family barely surviving alone in the lost world is joined by another young couple. Watch It Comes at Night on Max, Apple TV, and Prime Video.
9. The Endless (2017)
It’s hard to look best at one’s past when it’s terrifying, but two adult brothers decide to do it. As kids, they escaped a bizarre UFO death cult, but years later, they receive a tape inviting them back and decide to check in with their old “family.” But soon, they learn that no one of the cultists sent them the tape. Something else is at play…...
If it’s not a zombie apocalypse movie, it’s rare to see the “Earth is devastated by a pandemic of a highly contagious disease” as a horror movie premise, but It Comes at Night does it — and does it beautifully. In this movie, it’s the suspense that gets you, as a family barely surviving alone in the lost world is joined by another young couple. Watch It Comes at Night on Max, Apple TV, and Prime Video.
9. The Endless (2017)
It’s hard to look best at one’s past when it’s terrifying, but two adult brothers decide to do it. As kids, they escaped a bizarre UFO death cult, but years later, they receive a tape inviting them back and decide to check in with their old “family.” But soon, they learn that no one of the cultists sent them the tape. Something else is at play…...
- 7/7/2024
- by dean-black@startefacts.com (Dean Black)
- STartefacts.com
The projects for the upcoming Venice Gap-Financing Market have been unveiled (27 feature-length fiction) and there’ll be several listed here projects that we’ll discuss at length next year when they start hitting the festival circuit of 2025 and especially, 2026. At the top of our most anticipated list, we find Ulrike Ottinger‘s The Blood Countess (which might still have Tilda Swinton and Isabelle Huppert attached) in almost ready to shoot mode. Also from Europe, we have Polish filmmaker Aga Woszczyńska readying Black Water. She premiered Silent Land in TIFF’s platform section in 2021. We also find Directors’ Fortnight favorite Shahrbanoo Sadat (2016’s Wolf and Sheep / 2019’s The Orphanage) rounding out final funds for No Good Men.…...
- 6/26/2024
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
La serie se estrenará este año. © Atresplayer
“El Gran Salto”, la nueva serie original de Atresplayer protagonizada por Óscar Casas como el campeón olímpico Gervasio Deferr, ha finalizado su rodaje y hace públicas sus primeras imágenes.
La serie, compuesta por cinco episodios de 50 minutos, narra una de las historias más apasionantes del deporte español: la vida del campeón olímpico Gervasio Deferr, su camino hacia el éxito olímpico y su caída a los infiernos. Deferr ganó dos medallas de oro olímpicas en salto en Sydney 2000 y Atenas 2004, y una de plata en suelo en Pekín 2008. De personalidad muy compleja y autoexigente, no supo gestionar bien el delicado equilibrio éxito-fracaso, lo que le arrastró a una espiral de autodestrucción y desfases, que le distanciaron de su familia y amigos, hasta que finalmente abandonó la competición deportiva. A lo largo de los cinco episodios, veremos la dualidad entre dos momentos vitales de Deferr:...
“El Gran Salto”, la nueva serie original de Atresplayer protagonizada por Óscar Casas como el campeón olímpico Gervasio Deferr, ha finalizado su rodaje y hace públicas sus primeras imágenes.
La serie, compuesta por cinco episodios de 50 minutos, narra una de las historias más apasionantes del deporte español: la vida del campeón olímpico Gervasio Deferr, su camino hacia el éxito olímpico y su caída a los infiernos. Deferr ganó dos medallas de oro olímpicas en salto en Sydney 2000 y Atenas 2004, y una de plata en suelo en Pekín 2008. De personalidad muy compleja y autoexigente, no supo gestionar bien el delicado equilibrio éxito-fracaso, lo que le arrastró a una espiral de autodestrucción y desfases, que le distanciaron de su familia y amigos, hasta que finalmente abandonó la competición deportiva. A lo largo de los cinco episodios, veremos la dualidad entre dos momentos vitales de Deferr:...
- 6/18/2024
- by Marta Medina
- mundoCine
International sales and distribution outfit Pink Parrot Media has closed several key deals for Doce Entertainment and Mr. Miyagi Films’ animated kids and family feature “Hanna and the Monsters.”
Agreements have been made with World Visions for Cis, Boxoo for South Korea, Front Row for the Middle East, Gpi for the Baltics, Cinetel for Hungary, Wediacorp for Turkey and Movie Company for Benelux.
Directed by Lorena Ares, “Hanna and the Monsters” unspools in a hidden world where monsters hide from humans that they fear. The monster’s world is thrown into upheaval when four-year-old Hanna finds a portal to Monsterville in her closet.
In Cannes this week, Pink Parrot will also launch world sales (outside of Spain) for the newly acquired second film in a planned trilogy for the franchise, “Hanna and the Forgotten Christmas.” Currently in production, the sequel will be ready for distribution in the first quarter of...
Agreements have been made with World Visions for Cis, Boxoo for South Korea, Front Row for the Middle East, Gpi for the Baltics, Cinetel for Hungary, Wediacorp for Turkey and Movie Company for Benelux.
Directed by Lorena Ares, “Hanna and the Monsters” unspools in a hidden world where monsters hide from humans that they fear. The monster’s world is thrown into upheaval when four-year-old Hanna finds a portal to Monsterville in her closet.
In Cannes this week, Pink Parrot will also launch world sales (outside of Spain) for the newly acquired second film in a planned trilogy for the franchise, “Hanna and the Forgotten Christmas.” Currently in production, the sequel will be ready for distribution in the first quarter of...
- 5/15/2024
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
The Cannes Film Festival has named the eight members of its main Competition jury who will join previously announced president Greta Gerwig in deciding the Palme d’Or and other key prizes at 77th edition running from May 14 to 25.
They are Turkish screenwriter and photographer Ebru Ceylan, U.S. actress Lily Gladstone, French actress Eva Green, Lebanese director and screenwriter Nadine Labaki, Spanish director and screenwriter J.A. Bayona, Italian actor Pierfrancisco Favino, Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda and French actor and producer Omar Sy.
The wife and long-time collaborator of Nuri Bilge Ceylan, screenwriter and photographer Ceylan co-wrote 2014 Palme d’Or winner Winter Sleep and also took co-writing credits on Cannes selected films Three Monkeys (Best Director Prize 2008), Once upon a time in Anatolia (Grand Prix 2011), The Wild Pear Tree (2018) and About Dry Grasses (2023).
Ceylan also appeared as an actress and took art director credits on her husband’s early films...
They are Turkish screenwriter and photographer Ebru Ceylan, U.S. actress Lily Gladstone, French actress Eva Green, Lebanese director and screenwriter Nadine Labaki, Spanish director and screenwriter J.A. Bayona, Italian actor Pierfrancisco Favino, Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda and French actor and producer Omar Sy.
The wife and long-time collaborator of Nuri Bilge Ceylan, screenwriter and photographer Ceylan co-wrote 2014 Palme d’Or winner Winter Sleep and also took co-writing credits on Cannes selected films Three Monkeys (Best Director Prize 2008), Once upon a time in Anatolia (Grand Prix 2011), The Wild Pear Tree (2018) and About Dry Grasses (2023).
Ceylan also appeared as an actress and took art director credits on her husband’s early films...
- 4/29/2024
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
The Cannes Film Festival has unveiled the eight jurors who will be joining jury president Greta Gerwig for the event’s 2024 edition (May 14-25).
They are American actress Lily Gladstone, French actress Eva Green, French actor and producer Omar Sy, Lebanese director and screenwriter Nadine Labaki, Spanish director and screenwriter Juan Antonio Bayona, Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda, Turkish screenwriter and photographer Ebru Ceylan, and Italian actor Pierfrancisco Favino.
The jury will award the Palme d’Or to one of the 22 films in competition at the closing ceremony on May 25. Anatomy Of A Fall picked up the top prize last year.
They are American actress Lily Gladstone, French actress Eva Green, French actor and producer Omar Sy, Lebanese director and screenwriter Nadine Labaki, Spanish director and screenwriter Juan Antonio Bayona, Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda, Turkish screenwriter and photographer Ebru Ceylan, and Italian actor Pierfrancisco Favino.
The jury will award the Palme d’Or to one of the 22 films in competition at the closing ceremony on May 25. Anatomy Of A Fall picked up the top prize last year.
- 4/29/2024
- ScreenDaily
Descúbrelo todo sobre el thriller emocional producido por J.A. Bayona. © Universal Pictures
Universal Pictures ha publicado el tráiler y el póster de “Caída Libre”, un thriller emocional producido por Juan Antonio Bayona que promete ser una adición más al tropo del ‘artista obsesionado’ (ese tropo que vemos en “Whiplash” o “Cisne Negro”).
El filme está protagonizado por Belén Rueda en el papel de una autoritaria entrenadora de gimnasia rítmica cuya vida personal se resquebraja. A sus 60 años, Marisol (Rueda), Es una entrenadora emblemática de gimnasia rítmica de élite, la mejor. Es metódica, controladora, autoritaria, dominante, se irrita con facilidad y carece de la más mínima capacidad de autocrítica. Ha construido un mundo a su medida, que se resquebraja el día en que Octavio, su marido, le confiesa que se marcha de casa para rehacer su vida con una mujer más joven a la que ha dejado embarazada. Ella se embarca...
Universal Pictures ha publicado el tráiler y el póster de “Caída Libre”, un thriller emocional producido por Juan Antonio Bayona que promete ser una adición más al tropo del ‘artista obsesionado’ (ese tropo que vemos en “Whiplash” o “Cisne Negro”).
El filme está protagonizado por Belén Rueda en el papel de una autoritaria entrenadora de gimnasia rítmica cuya vida personal se resquebraja. A sus 60 años, Marisol (Rueda), Es una entrenadora emblemática de gimnasia rítmica de élite, la mejor. Es metódica, controladora, autoritaria, dominante, se irrita con facilidad y carece de la más mínima capacidad de autocrítica. Ha construido un mundo a su medida, que se resquebraja el día en que Octavio, su marido, le confiesa que se marcha de casa para rehacer su vida con una mujer más joven a la que ha dejado embarazada. Ella se embarca...
- 4/9/2024
- by Marta Medina
- mundoCine
It’s a star-studded Marbella of the 1980s, and the glam Andalusian backdrop frames an opulent narrative that fuses suspense, betrayal and slow-simmering vengeance in the Atresmedia original series “Eva & Nicole,” teased by its producers – Spain’s Atresmedia TV (“Veneno”) alongside Good Mood (“Cristo y Rey”) – at the MipDrama showcase on April 7, a precursor to the broader MipTV international series market in Cannes, running April 8-10.
Handling global distribution, Atresmedia TV International Sales will attend MipTV.
One of only 10 international series selected by the MipDrama jury, the eight-episode affair is directed by David Molina, Antonio Hernández and Álvaro Vicario and structured around a fast-paced script written by Daniel Écija, Patricia Trueba, Andrés Martín Soto, Iñaki San Román, Paula López Cuervo and César Mendizábal.
The series opens with gusto at Nicole’s, the social club named after its owner who is framed from the back as she fiercely pulls open...
Handling global distribution, Atresmedia TV International Sales will attend MipTV.
One of only 10 international series selected by the MipDrama jury, the eight-episode affair is directed by David Molina, Antonio Hernández and Álvaro Vicario and structured around a fast-paced script written by Daniel Écija, Patricia Trueba, Andrés Martín Soto, Iñaki San Román, Paula López Cuervo and César Mendizábal.
The series opens with gusto at Nicole’s, the social club named after its owner who is framed from the back as she fiercely pulls open...
- 4/7/2024
- by Holly Jones
- Variety Film + TV
Top Spanish Titles brought to market at MipTV:
“Dating in Barcelona,” (Filmax)
Produced by Filmax’s Arca, Catalan public broadcaster 3Cat and Prime Video in Spain, a first season of “Dating in Barcelona” bowed last year in Spain to big ratings, both on its first-window debut on 3Cat and on Prime Video, where it became one of the streaming service’s most-watched debuts. A modern take on romance and sex in an online age, “Dating in Barcelona” also reflects a swing in TV towards a lighter, more episodic fare, whether in crime thrillers or other categories. Each episode features two dates which, as Variety has observed, play off each other. Powered in creative terms by Pau Freixas, behind iconic series from “Red Band Society” To “I Know Who You Are” And “Todos Mienten,” All Produced By Filmax, “Dating In Barcelona” features a top-tier cast, this time round in Season...
“Dating in Barcelona,” (Filmax)
Produced by Filmax’s Arca, Catalan public broadcaster 3Cat and Prime Video in Spain, a first season of “Dating in Barcelona” bowed last year in Spain to big ratings, both on its first-window debut on 3Cat and on Prime Video, where it became one of the streaming service’s most-watched debuts. A modern take on romance and sex in an online age, “Dating in Barcelona” also reflects a swing in TV towards a lighter, more episodic fare, whether in crime thrillers or other categories. Each episode features two dates which, as Variety has observed, play off each other. Powered in creative terms by Pau Freixas, behind iconic series from “Red Band Society” To “I Know Who You Are” And “Todos Mienten,” All Produced By Filmax, “Dating In Barcelona” features a top-tier cast, this time round in Season...
- 4/5/2024
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
The directors have fun sending up TV conventions, as a failing host attempts to revive his career by communing with a demon, supposedly possessing a teenage girl
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The likes of The Orphanage and The Conjuring have shown that the recent past is not just a foreign country, but a downright scary one. This horror, also set in the 1970s, lies on the same kitsch-uncanny continuum, with a fine ambassador in the shape of sickly faced David Dastmalchian, playing on-the-wane US late-night variety show host Jack Delroy. Seen creeping it up everywhere in character roles over the last few years – from a Harkonnen mentat in Dune to one of Oppenheimer’s detractors, as well as Suicide Squad’s Polka-Dot Man – Dastmalchian gets a well-deserved lead role here.
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The likes of The Orphanage and The Conjuring have shown that the recent past is not just a foreign country, but a downright scary one. This horror, also set in the 1970s, lies on the same kitsch-uncanny continuum, with a fine ambassador in the shape of sickly faced David Dastmalchian, playing on-the-wane US late-night variety show host Jack Delroy. Seen creeping it up everywhere in character roles over the last few years – from a Harkonnen mentat in Dune to one of Oppenheimer’s detractors, as well as Suicide Squad’s Polka-Dot Man – Dastmalchian gets a well-deserved lead role here.
- 3/18/2024
- by Phil Hoad
- The Guardian - Film News
Exclusive: Coming off two-time Oscar nominee and Netflix hit Society Of The Snow, J.A. Bayona is producing and presenting psychological horror Crazy Old Lady (Vieja Loca), which will star Goya, Cesar and Cannes best actress winner Carmen Maura (Volver) and Berlinale Silver Bear winner Daniel Hendler (Lost Embrace).
Bayona is producing the Spanish-language psychological horror-thriller with Studiocanal, Peliculas La Trini, Primo Content, Bambu Producciones and La Union De Los Rios.
The project is written and directed by Martín Mauregui (Carancho), who is directing his first solo feature after a successful career as a screenwriter working with directors such as Pablo Trapero, Santiago Mitre and most recently as dialogue writer on Bayona’s Society Of The Snow.
Currently filming in Buenos Aires, the Spanish-Argentinian co-production “focuses on Pedro, a man who receives a desperate message from an ex-girlfriend asking him to look after her senile mother, Alicia. What seems like a...
Bayona is producing the Spanish-language psychological horror-thriller with Studiocanal, Peliculas La Trini, Primo Content, Bambu Producciones and La Union De Los Rios.
The project is written and directed by Martín Mauregui (Carancho), who is directing his first solo feature after a successful career as a screenwriter working with directors such as Pablo Trapero, Santiago Mitre and most recently as dialogue writer on Bayona’s Society Of The Snow.
Currently filming in Buenos Aires, the Spanish-Argentinian co-production “focuses on Pedro, a man who receives a desperate message from an ex-girlfriend asking him to look after her senile mother, Alicia. What seems like a...
- 3/7/2024
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
A Korean adaptation of psychological thriller Marrowbone is in production and being introduced to buyers at the EFM by K-Movie Entertainment.
The Secret House (working title) is based on the 2017 English-language Spanish film by Sergio G. Sanchez, which starred Anya Taylor-Joy, George MacKay, Charlie Heaton and Mia Goth, and premiered at Toronto. Sanchez is also known for writing J.A. Bayona’s The Orphanage and The Impossible.
The Korean version will mark the second feature of director Park Sang-min, whose satirical comedy I Haven’t Done Anything played New York Asian Film Festival and Tallinn in 2022.
The cast is led by...
The Secret House (working title) is based on the 2017 English-language Spanish film by Sergio G. Sanchez, which starred Anya Taylor-Joy, George MacKay, Charlie Heaton and Mia Goth, and premiered at Toronto. Sanchez is also known for writing J.A. Bayona’s The Orphanage and The Impossible.
The Korean version will mark the second feature of director Park Sang-min, whose satirical comedy I Haven’t Done Anything played New York Asian Film Festival and Tallinn in 2022.
The cast is led by...
- 2/17/2024
- ScreenDaily
Here’s the latest episode of The Filmmakers Podcast, part of the podcast roster here on Nerdly. If you haven’t heard the show yet, you can check out previous episodes on the official podcast site, whilst we’ll be featuring each and every new episode as it premieres.
For those unfamiliar with the series, The Filmmakers Podcast is a podcast about how to make films from micro-budget indie films to bigger-budget studio films and everything in between. Our hosts Giles Alderson, Dom Lenoir, Dan Richardson, Andrew Rodger and Cristian James talk about how to get films made, how to actually make them and how to try not to f… it up in their very humble opinion. Guests will come on and chat about their filmmaking experiences from directors, writers, producers and screenwriters, to actors, cinematographers and distributors.
The Filmmaker’s Podcast #377: J. A. Bayona – Society of the Snow,...
For those unfamiliar with the series, The Filmmakers Podcast is a podcast about how to make films from micro-budget indie films to bigger-budget studio films and everything in between. Our hosts Giles Alderson, Dom Lenoir, Dan Richardson, Andrew Rodger and Cristian James talk about how to get films made, how to actually make them and how to try not to f… it up in their very humble opinion. Guests will come on and chat about their filmmaking experiences from directors, writers, producers and screenwriters, to actors, cinematographers and distributors.
The Filmmaker’s Podcast #377: J. A. Bayona – Society of the Snow,...
- 1/29/2024
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
In the early 1970s, a rugby team from Uruguay set out for a match in Chile. Some brought friends or family members, some left them behind. On their small chartered plane, everyone was giddy with excitement. But as they made their way over the Andes, the plane started to descend — far too early. They struck a mountain and broke into pieces. Miraculously, some of the 45 passengers on board survived — but they faced perilous conditions.
From Gaudí and Goya award–winning director J.A. Bayona,Society of the Snow tells the near-impossible true story of the 1972 Andes flight disaster. Bayona’s first Spanish feature since 2007’s The Orphanage, the film closed out the 2023 Venice Film Festival and is nominated for Best International Feature Film at the 96th Academy Awards. The tale is not for the faint of heart: For those not familiar with the story,...
From Gaudí and Goya award–winning director J.A. Bayona,Society of the Snow tells the near-impossible true story of the 1972 Andes flight disaster. Bayona’s first Spanish feature since 2007’s The Orphanage, the film closed out the 2023 Venice Film Festival and is nominated for Best International Feature Film at the 96th Academy Awards. The tale is not for the faint of heart: For those not familiar with the story,...
- 1/23/2024
- by Ingrid Ostby
- Tudum - Netflix
Netflix might be known for pumping out a bewildering volume of "content," but the streaming service isn't just breathing new life into forgotten thrillers or showcasing terrible Spanish slashers. Often, amid the deluge of media, Netflix will serve up something decent, and "Society of the Snow" is the perfect example.
Spain's official 2024 Oscars submission for Best International Feature, "Society of the Snow" is the latest movie from "The Impossible" and "The Orphanage" director J.A. Bayona. Thus far, it seems to be the filmmaker's best effort, receiving critical acclaim and a nomination for Best Non-English Language Film at this year's Golden Globes. Now, as of January 4, 2024, it's available to stream on Netflix ... though if you haven't yet watched, you might want to prime yourself for the harrowing story told within.
"Society of the Snow" is a thriller that follows the survivors of a plane crash as they try to stay alive...
Spain's official 2024 Oscars submission for Best International Feature, "Society of the Snow" is the latest movie from "The Impossible" and "The Orphanage" director J.A. Bayona. Thus far, it seems to be the filmmaker's best effort, receiving critical acclaim and a nomination for Best Non-English Language Film at this year's Golden Globes. Now, as of January 4, 2024, it's available to stream on Netflix ... though if you haven't yet watched, you might want to prime yourself for the harrowing story told within.
"Society of the Snow" is a thriller that follows the survivors of a plane crash as they try to stay alive...
- 1/12/2024
- by Joe Roberts
- Slash Film
The doomed flight of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 remains one of the most astonishing stories of real life survival horror the world has ever known. Often called “the Miracle in the Andes,” this harrowing tale begins with a plane crash that left 12 dead and 33 stranded among the snowy mountain peaks of Argentina. With only a week’s worth of food, those left alive after the first few days were forced to eat the bodies of their fallen companions to survive the brutal cold and inhospitable environment. With the world assuming them dead, Fernando ‘Nando’ Parrado, and Roberto Canessa eventually made a desperate trek through the treacherous mountain range with little more than clothing assembled from the wreckage and a homemade sleeping bag. 72 days after the initial disaster, sixteen survivors emerged from the mountains, dirty, starving, but determined to live.
This incredible story has been told many times in memoirs, documentaries...
This incredible story has been told many times in memoirs, documentaries...
- 1/12/2024
- by Jenn Adams
- bloody-disgusting.com
Behind the scenes of Society of the Snow.
All images courtesy of Netflix
by Chad Kennerk
While researching and preparing to make his 2012 survival film The Impossible, filmmaker Juan Antonio Bayona came across the book La sociedad de la nieve by journalist Pablo Vierci. Though the story of the 1972 Andes accident was a familiar one, Bayona had never seen the account contextualised in the same way. Uruguayan native Vierci’s book, written 36 years after the tragic events, benefitted from distance, looking beyond the facts to provide a psychological approach to the circumstances and how they shaped the survivors’ lives. After completing The Impossible, Bayona bought the rights to Vierci’s book and began a decade-long journey to bring the story to the screen.
Society of the Snow marks the writer/director’s first Spanish language film since his 2007 directorial debut The Orphanage (El orfanato). A ghost story of a different kind,...
All images courtesy of Netflix
by Chad Kennerk
While researching and preparing to make his 2012 survival film The Impossible, filmmaker Juan Antonio Bayona came across the book La sociedad de la nieve by journalist Pablo Vierci. Though the story of the 1972 Andes accident was a familiar one, Bayona had never seen the account contextualised in the same way. Uruguayan native Vierci’s book, written 36 years after the tragic events, benefitted from distance, looking beyond the facts to provide a psychological approach to the circumstances and how they shaped the survivors’ lives. After completing The Impossible, Bayona bought the rights to Vierci’s book and began a decade-long journey to bring the story to the screen.
Society of the Snow marks the writer/director’s first Spanish language film since his 2007 directorial debut The Orphanage (El orfanato). A ghost story of a different kind,...
- 1/10/2024
- by Chad Kennerk
- Film Review Daily
In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week we look at Keane's Disconnected, directed by J.A. Bayona. J.A. Bayona is a master at turning horror films into dramas, and drama films into horror. Everyday life can turn horrific on a dime, and his grimmer scenes are filled with a sense of pathos: you do care about his protagonists. Even the ghosts, like in El Orfanato, get their moment of dramatic introspection. And everyday horrors get to feel almost sensationally horrific in the hands of J.A Bayona: the tsunami in The Impossible gets under the skin in a way few disaster movies do, by using tricks out of...
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- 1/8/2024
- Screen Anarchy
Ja Bayona’s powerful retelling of the 1972 rugby team’s flight that crashed in the Andes and the agonising decisions passengers took in order to stay alive
The story of the 1972 Uruguayan air crash in the remote Andes, and the ordeal of the survivors who resorted to cannibalism, is powerfully retold in this movie from Spanish director Ja Bayona. It is based on the book of the same name by Uruguayan journalist Pablo Vierci and not (or only indirectly) taken from Piers Paul Read’s pioneering 1974 classic Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors which popularised the idea that their cannibalism had become a kind of mysterious secular Eucharist, eating the blood and body of one’s fellow human beings to stave off death, in a profound spirit of fellowship and love.
Perhaps no movie about this extraordinary case can quite encompass what in some ways is its most poignant part: the aftermath,...
The story of the 1972 Uruguayan air crash in the remote Andes, and the ordeal of the survivors who resorted to cannibalism, is powerfully retold in this movie from Spanish director Ja Bayona. It is based on the book of the same name by Uruguayan journalist Pablo Vierci and not (or only indirectly) taken from Piers Paul Read’s pioneering 1974 classic Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors which popularised the idea that their cannibalism had become a kind of mysterious secular Eucharist, eating the blood and body of one’s fellow human beings to stave off death, in a profound spirit of fellowship and love.
Perhaps no movie about this extraordinary case can quite encompass what in some ways is its most poignant part: the aftermath,...
- 12/19/2023
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
We made it to 2024! Or, rather, we've almost made it at the time of writing. It's been a long year wherein a historical dual strike that was prompted (and then unnecessarily prolonged) by studio greed brought the film and TV industry to a grinding halt for months. But all that's behind us now, and it's time for a fresh start. Even Netflix is turning over a new leaf by making viewership data available for just about every title on the platform. Well, sort of. It's still Netflix, so, of course, its newfound transparency comes with an asterisk or two.
Staying on the positive beat, things aren't slowing down on the Netflix front in January. In fact, after a 12-month period that saw the streamer releasing a veritable treasure trove of notable animated features, international films, and star-studded projects (be sure and peruse through the /Film team's ranking of the 12 best...
Staying on the positive beat, things aren't slowing down on the Netflix front in January. In fact, after a 12-month period that saw the streamer releasing a veritable treasure trove of notable animated features, international films, and star-studded projects (be sure and peruse through the /Film team's ranking of the 12 best...
- 12/16/2023
- by Sandy Schaefer
- Slash Film
The newly restored Egyptian Theatre is welcoming a series of festive double features for cinephiles.
The Los Angeles-based theater is transforming into a holiday wonderland for acclaimed features, ranging from “Eyes Wide Shut” to “The Killer.” IndieWire exclusively announces the programming of curated double features that select “favorite new movies paired with classics ready for another moment in the spotlight,” per the Egyptian. The inaugural holiday series reflects on the best films of the year, pairing features with their creative inspirations.
Stanley Kubrick’s “Eyes Wide Shut” will screen Christmas Day after Netflix’s erotic thriller “Fair Play,” with Bradley Cooper’s Leonard Bernstein ode “Maestro” screening side by side with the 1961 film “West Side Story” in Ib Technicolor 35mm from the Academy Film Archive, featuring Bernstein’s music. Natalie Portman pulls double duty with “Black Swan” and Netflix’s “May December,” both screening December 27.
All double-bills are only $13, with...
The Los Angeles-based theater is transforming into a holiday wonderland for acclaimed features, ranging from “Eyes Wide Shut” to “The Killer.” IndieWire exclusively announces the programming of curated double features that select “favorite new movies paired with classics ready for another moment in the spotlight,” per the Egyptian. The inaugural holiday series reflects on the best films of the year, pairing features with their creative inspirations.
Stanley Kubrick’s “Eyes Wide Shut” will screen Christmas Day after Netflix’s erotic thriller “Fair Play,” with Bradley Cooper’s Leonard Bernstein ode “Maestro” screening side by side with the 1961 film “West Side Story” in Ib Technicolor 35mm from the Academy Film Archive, featuring Bernstein’s music. Natalie Portman pulls double duty with “Black Swan” and Netflix’s “May December,” both screening December 27.
All double-bills are only $13, with...
- 12/15/2023
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
Leave it to filmmaker Guillermo del Toro to instantly find the connection between supernatural horror film “The Orphanage,” the feature debut of J.A. Bayona that he produced, to the Spanish director’s latest film “Society of the Snow,” depicting the story of the survivors of the 1972 plane crash in the Andes.
Even though, on paper, both of Bayona’s films may seem like tough watches, in an exclusive video of the two directors’ chat about the Netflix release — chosen to be Spain’s submission for the Best International Feature Oscar — recent Academy Award winner del Toro expressed the deeper intertwined theme of the two films: “There’s a strange thing that I know intimately because we collaborated from your first movie on, we’ve been friends for longer, but one would argue that ‘The Orphanage’ is a survivor’s guilt tale because every other kid in that orphanage died except...
Even though, on paper, both of Bayona’s films may seem like tough watches, in an exclusive video of the two directors’ chat about the Netflix release — chosen to be Spain’s submission for the Best International Feature Oscar — recent Academy Award winner del Toro expressed the deeper intertwined theme of the two films: “There’s a strange thing that I know intimately because we collaborated from your first movie on, we’ve been friends for longer, but one would argue that ‘The Orphanage’ is a survivor’s guilt tale because every other kid in that orphanage died except...
- 12/14/2023
- by Marcus Jones
- Indiewire
What do moviegoers want to see right now? For decades, studios have had very specific answers to this question, but considering that 2023’s box office was dominated by two films called Barbie and Oppenheimer, it seems like those preconceived notions might be changing. When we look at the films already scheduled for 2024, there certainly seems to be a lot of familiarity that might be old hat.
But look again at a few of the auteur pieces that have already been slated. Even the blockbuster class looks surprisingly ambitious, with new works from the likes of George Miller, Denis Villeneuve, and Bong Joon-ho. There are also familiar favorites, such as a new Deadpool flick, and curious question marks–like Robert Eggers remaking the greatest vampire movie of all time more than a hundred years later. 2024 should be an interesting year at the movies. So here are a few to watch out for.
But look again at a few of the auteur pieces that have already been slated. Even the blockbuster class looks surprisingly ambitious, with new works from the likes of George Miller, Denis Villeneuve, and Bong Joon-ho. There are also familiar favorites, such as a new Deadpool flick, and curious question marks–like Robert Eggers remaking the greatest vampire movie of all time more than a hundred years later. 2024 should be an interesting year at the movies. So here are a few to watch out for.
- 12/8/2023
- by David Crow
- Den of Geek
“To go back home with my people to shoot a movie was fantastic,” says director J.A. Bayona, whose film “Society of the Snow” has been selected as Spain’s entry for Best International Feature at the 96th Academy Awards. “Every time I work in Hollywood I bring my people with me. It’s been a whole journey. I did my first movies in Spain, ‘The Orphanage,’ ‘The Impossible’ and ‘A Monster Calls.’ I established my voice. I wanted to show the world, ‘This is who I am.’ I moved to Hollywood. Then, doing this film after so many years, this is where I really like to be. I’m going back to my people. Being selected for the Oscars was extraordinary.”
We talked with Bayona as part of Gold Derby’s special “Meet the Experts” Q&a event with 2023/2024 awards contenders. Watch our exclusive video interview above.
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We talked with Bayona as part of Gold Derby’s special “Meet the Experts” Q&a event with 2023/2024 awards contenders. Watch our exclusive video interview above.
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- 12/1/2023
- by Denton Davidson
- Gold Derby
Last month, the Netflix streaming service unveiled a teaser trailer for the Spanish-language survival thriller Society of the Snow, or La sociedad de la nieve, the latest project from director J.A. Bayona – whose credits include The Orphanage, The Impossible, A Monster Calls, and Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. Now a full trailer for the film has arrived online, and you can check it out in the embed above.
Society of the Snow will be streaming on the Netflix service as of January 4th.
An adaptation of the non-fiction book of the same name, written by Pablo Vierci, Society of the Snow is about the Uruguayan rugby team which, en route to Chile in 1972, crash-landed on a glacier in the heart of the Andes. The survivors were forced to resort to extreme measures in order to stay alive. That is the same real-life event that director Frank Marshall brought to the screen with the 1993 film Alive,...
Society of the Snow will be streaming on the Netflix service as of January 4th.
An adaptation of the non-fiction book of the same name, written by Pablo Vierci, Society of the Snow is about the Uruguayan rugby team which, en route to Chile in 1972, crash-landed on a glacier in the heart of the Andes. The survivors were forced to resort to extreme measures in order to stay alive. That is the same real-life event that director Frank Marshall brought to the screen with the 1993 film Alive,...
- 11/27/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
From director J.A. Bayona, the visionary filmmaker behind The Orphanage, A Monster Calls, and Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, comes the Netflix survival thriller Society of the Snow, which is based on both true events and the same-titled book by Pablo Vierci.
Society of the Snow will premiere in select theaters on December 22, 2023, followed by the film’s Netflix arrival on January 4, 2024. Watch the brand new official trailer below.
In 1972, Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, which had been chartered to fly a rugby team to Chile, crashed in the heart of the Andes. Only 29 of its 45 passengers survived the accident.
Trapped in one of the most hostile and inaccessible environments on the planet, they have to resort to extreme measures to stay alive.
The film’s cast includes Enzo Vogrincic, Agustín Pardella, Matías Recalt, Esteban Bigliardi, Diego Vegezzi, Fernando Contigiani García, Esteban Kukuriczka, Rafael Federman, Francisco Romero, Valentino Alonso, Tomás Wolf, Agustín Della Corte,...
Society of the Snow will premiere in select theaters on December 22, 2023, followed by the film’s Netflix arrival on January 4, 2024. Watch the brand new official trailer below.
In 1972, Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, which had been chartered to fly a rugby team to Chile, crashed in the heart of the Andes. Only 29 of its 45 passengers survived the accident.
Trapped in one of the most hostile and inaccessible environments on the planet, they have to resort to extreme measures to stay alive.
The film’s cast includes Enzo Vogrincic, Agustín Pardella, Matías Recalt, Esteban Bigliardi, Diego Vegezzi, Fernando Contigiani García, Esteban Kukuriczka, Rafael Federman, Francisco Romero, Valentino Alonso, Tomás Wolf, Agustín Della Corte,...
- 11/27/2023
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
The latest project from director J.A. Bayona – whose credits include The Orphanage, The Impossible, A Monster Calls, and Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom – is the Spanish-language survival thriller Society of the Snow, or La sociedad de la nieve. We’ve previously heard that the film will be streaming on the Netflix service as of January 4th and now, with just over two months to go until that date arrives, a trailer for it has arrived online. You can check it out in the embed above.
An adaptation of the non-fiction book of the same name, written by Pablo Vierci, Society of the Snow is about the Uruguayan rugby team which, en route to Chile in 1972, crash-landed on a glacier in the heart of the Andes. The survivors were forced to resort to extreme measures in order to stay alive. That is the same real-life event that director Frank Marshall brought to...
An adaptation of the non-fiction book of the same name, written by Pablo Vierci, Society of the Snow is about the Uruguayan rugby team which, en route to Chile in 1972, crash-landed on a glacier in the heart of the Andes. The survivors were forced to resort to extreme measures in order to stay alive. That is the same real-life event that director Frank Marshall brought to...
- 10/20/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
Netflix has dropped a teaser for J.A. Bayona’s highly anticipated survival thriller “Society of the Snow,” which will represent Spain in the Oscars international feature film race. The film world premiered on closing night of the Venice Film Festival and is playing this week at the Lumiere Film Festival in Lyon.
Based on Uruguayan journalist Pablo Vierci’s 2009 book, “Society of the Snow” tells the true story of survivors of the 1972 Andes flight disaster who had to take extreme measures, including cannibalism, to stay alive.
“Society of the Snow” is the first Netflix film to have been selected by the Spanish committee for the Oscars and marks Bayona’s second Oscar entry following “The Orphanage” in 2007.
The film will roll out in select theaters across Latin American on Dec. 14, as well as in Spain on Dec. 15 and in the U.S. and in the U.K. on Dec. 22. “Society of the Snow...
Based on Uruguayan journalist Pablo Vierci’s 2009 book, “Society of the Snow” tells the true story of survivors of the 1972 Andes flight disaster who had to take extreme measures, including cannibalism, to stay alive.
“Society of the Snow” is the first Netflix film to have been selected by the Spanish committee for the Oscars and marks Bayona’s second Oscar entry following “The Orphanage” in 2007.
The film will roll out in select theaters across Latin American on Dec. 14, as well as in Spain on Dec. 15 and in the U.S. and in the U.K. on Dec. 22. “Society of the Snow...
- 10/20/2023
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Audiovisual from Spain, an umbrella brand created to support Spanish content producers and distributors, is organizing the first Brand New Spanish Content Breakfast, an invitation-only sales event for international buyers,
It’s unclear what’s being served but if it’s a typical Spanish breakfast, then expect some pinchos de tortilla, café con leche and some bollos (buns), at least. What is guaranteed is a widely diverse range of shows, from period dramas to thrillers, romcoms and children’s fare.
The Oct 17 event at the Seaview Producers Hub in Cannes will showcase the latest content from the most prominent Spanish distributors, led by such heavy hitters as Rtve, Moviestar +, Filmax, Atresmedia, Plano a Plano and Onza.
Acquisition execs attending will have pre-scheduled meetings based on their selections.
Audiovisual from Spain’s Mipcom participation is coordinated by Spanish trade institute Icex, with the support of the Spain Audiovisual Hub of the...
It’s unclear what’s being served but if it’s a typical Spanish breakfast, then expect some pinchos de tortilla, café con leche and some bollos (buns), at least. What is guaranteed is a widely diverse range of shows, from period dramas to thrillers, romcoms and children’s fare.
The Oct 17 event at the Seaview Producers Hub in Cannes will showcase the latest content from the most prominent Spanish distributors, led by such heavy hitters as Rtve, Moviestar +, Filmax, Atresmedia, Plano a Plano and Onza.
Acquisition execs attending will have pre-scheduled meetings based on their selections.
Audiovisual from Spain’s Mipcom participation is coordinated by Spanish trade institute Icex, with the support of the Spain Audiovisual Hub of the...
- 10/16/2023
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente, Emiliano De Pablos and John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Spanish director J.A. Bayona talked about the long and arduous journey to bringing air crash survival drama Society of the Snow to fruition at Deadline Contenders London.
The immersive drama, which is Spain’s Best International Feature Film entry for the 96th Academy Awards, revisits the experiences of the 16 surviving members of the Uruguay rugby team whose plane crashed in the Andes mountains in Argentina in 1972.
“There is the question at the end of the trailer that says, ‘Who are we in the mountains?’ and basically to me the whole process of making this film was a process of trying to understand who they were in the mountains,” said Bayona.
The screenplay is adapted from the 2009 book The Snow Society: The Definitive Account of the World’s Greatest Survival Story by Pablo Vierci, who knew many of the people caught up in the tragedy.
Bayona said Vierci’s work had...
The immersive drama, which is Spain’s Best International Feature Film entry for the 96th Academy Awards, revisits the experiences of the 16 surviving members of the Uruguay rugby team whose plane crashed in the Andes mountains in Argentina in 1972.
“There is the question at the end of the trailer that says, ‘Who are we in the mountains?’ and basically to me the whole process of making this film was a process of trying to understand who they were in the mountains,” said Bayona.
The screenplay is adapted from the 2009 book The Snow Society: The Definitive Account of the World’s Greatest Survival Story by Pablo Vierci, who knew many of the people caught up in the tragedy.
Bayona said Vierci’s work had...
- 10/7/2023
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
The latest project from director J.A. Bayona – whose credits include The Orphanage, The Impossible, A Monster Calls, and Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom – is the Spanish-language survival thriller Society of the Snow, or La sociedad de la nieve. An adaptation of the non-fiction book of the same name, written by Pablo Vierci, the film is about the Uruguayan rugby team which, en route to Chile in 1972, crash-landed on a glacier in the heart of the Andes. The survivors were forced to resort to extreme measures in order to stay alive. That is the same real-life event that director Frank Marshall brought to the screen with the 1993 film Alive, which was based on Piers Paul Read’s book Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors. If you’re interested in seeing Bayona’s take on the story, you’ll be glad to hear that its release is just a few months away.
- 10/6/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
In the years leading up to its release in 2013, all signs pointed to "World War Z" becoming an epic disaster. First, there was the furor over its script, which went through multiple drafts written by Matthew Michael Carnahan and J. Michael Straczynski (who wound up sharing story credit), along the way transforming Max Brooks' inventive source material -- a fictional oral history of a zombie apocalypse comprised of accounts from multiple survivors -- into what read on paper as a milquetoast "A-lister saves the world" tentpole. Then came the news that the film would be reshooting more or less its entire third act, causing its budget to further balloon and delaying its release date by six months.
Unsurprisingly, the final movie result is a Frankenstein's creation that plays as a bombastic zombie action flick for its first two-thirds before abruptly changing into a much more low-key survival horror thriller...
Unsurprisingly, the final movie result is a Frankenstein's creation that plays as a bombastic zombie action flick for its first two-thirds before abruptly changing into a much more low-key survival horror thriller...
- 9/25/2023
- by Sandy Schaefer
- Slash Film
J.A. Bayona was given a homecoming hero’s welcome at the San Sebastian Film Festival over the weekend as he touched down for the Spanish premiere of air crash survival drama Society Of The Snow.
The drama – recounting the experiences of the Uruguay rugby team whose plane crashed in the Andes mountains in Argentina in 1972 – was the closing film of Venice but in many ways its San Sebastian outing was a more momentous affair.
The screening came just three days after the film was announced as Spain’s entry for Best International Feature Film at the 96th Academy awards. The picture is Bayona’s first Spanish-language film since the 2007 title The Orphanage, which also represented Spain.
The director was given a rapturous reception on Friday night as he took to the stage in the company of one of the survivors Gustavo Zerbino. He was then feted over the weekend by...
The drama – recounting the experiences of the Uruguay rugby team whose plane crashed in the Andes mountains in Argentina in 1972 – was the closing film of Venice but in many ways its San Sebastian outing was a more momentous affair.
The screening came just three days after the film was announced as Spain’s entry for Best International Feature Film at the 96th Academy awards. The picture is Bayona’s first Spanish-language film since the 2007 title The Orphanage, which also represented Spain.
The director was given a rapturous reception on Friday night as he took to the stage in the company of one of the survivors Gustavo Zerbino. He was then feted over the weekend by...
- 9/25/2023
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Director J.A Bayona’s real-life-disaster Spanish film ‘Society of the Snow’, has been chosen as the Spanish pick for the 2024 Oscars for Best International Film. The decision comes less than two weeks after the film had its world premiere as the closing feature of the Venice Film Festival, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The director is best known for directing films such as ‘The Orphanage’ as well as the ‘Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom’; and his most recent outing is about the Uruguayan 1972 Andes flight disaster based on Pablo Vierci’s book.
This marks the second time that Bayona’s film has been selected by Spain for Oscar submission after this 2007 gothic horror film ‘The Orphanage’ which was also his last Spanish film. The film also marks the first time that a Netflix film has been selected by Spain.
Spain has a solid track record in the Oscars international feature race,...
The director is best known for directing films such as ‘The Orphanage’ as well as the ‘Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom’; and his most recent outing is about the Uruguayan 1972 Andes flight disaster based on Pablo Vierci’s book.
This marks the second time that Bayona’s film has been selected by Spain for Oscar submission after this 2007 gothic horror film ‘The Orphanage’ which was also his last Spanish film. The film also marks the first time that a Netflix film has been selected by Spain.
Spain has a solid track record in the Oscars international feature race,...
- 9/21/2023
- by Agency News Desk
- GlamSham
Director J.A Bayona’s real-life-disaster Spanish film ‘Society of the Snow’, has been chosen as the Spanish pick for the 2024 Oscars for Best International Film. The decision comes less than two weeks after the film had its world premiere as the closing feature of the Venice Film Festival, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The director is best known for directing films such as ‘The Orphanage’ as well as the ‘Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom’; and his most recent outing is about the Uruguayan 1972 Andes flight disaster based on Pablo Vierci’s book.
This marks the second time that Bayona’s film has been selected by Spain for Oscar submission after this 2007 gothic horror film ‘The Orphanage’ which was also his last Spanish film. The film also marks the first time that a Netflix film has been selected by Spain.
Spain has a solid track record in the Oscars international feature race,...
The director is best known for directing films such as ‘The Orphanage’ as well as the ‘Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom’; and his most recent outing is about the Uruguayan 1972 Andes flight disaster based on Pablo Vierci’s book.
This marks the second time that Bayona’s film has been selected by Spain for Oscar submission after this 2007 gothic horror film ‘The Orphanage’ which was also his last Spanish film. The film also marks the first time that a Netflix film has been selected by Spain.
Spain has a solid track record in the Oscars international feature race,...
- 9/21/2023
- by Agency News Desk
J.A. Bayona’s real-life disaster thriller Society of the Snow has been selected by Spain as it submission for the best international feature category at the 2024 Oscars.
The decision comes less than two weeks after the Netflix film had its world premiere as the closing feature of the Venice Film Festival.
Society of the Snow — about the Uruguayan 1972 Andes flight disaster and based on Pablo Vierci’s book — becomes Bayona’s second time representing him home country for international feature award after his 2007 breakout The Orphanage, which was also his last film in Spanish.
It also becomes the first Netflix film selected by Spain.
Spain has a solid track record in the Oscars international feature race, with four wins — most recently in 2004 for The Sea Inside — from 20 nominations. Its last appearance in the category was in 2019, when Pedro Almodovar — who won in 1999 for All About My Mother — was nominated for Pain and Glory.
The decision comes less than two weeks after the Netflix film had its world premiere as the closing feature of the Venice Film Festival.
Society of the Snow — about the Uruguayan 1972 Andes flight disaster and based on Pablo Vierci’s book — becomes Bayona’s second time representing him home country for international feature award after his 2007 breakout The Orphanage, which was also his last film in Spanish.
It also becomes the first Netflix film selected by Spain.
Spain has a solid track record in the Oscars international feature race, with four wins — most recently in 2004 for The Sea Inside — from 20 nominations. Its last appearance in the category was in 2019, when Pedro Almodovar — who won in 1999 for All About My Mother — was nominated for Pain and Glory.
- 9/20/2023
- by Alex Ritman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Netflix film closed this year’s Venice Film Festival.
Ja Bayona’s Society Of The Snow will represent Spain as its submission for best international feature at the 96th Academy Awards.
Netflix’s Spanish-language drama closed Venice earlier this month and will also screen at San Sebastian and Sitges festivals.
Based on the real-life plane crash of a Uruguayan rugby team in 1972, Society Of The Snow follows the remaining passenrs as they try to survive in the middle of the Andes. It is produced by Misión de Audaces,
Netflix title All Quiet On The Western Front. won the...
Ja Bayona’s Society Of The Snow will represent Spain as its submission for best international feature at the 96th Academy Awards.
Netflix’s Spanish-language drama closed Venice earlier this month and will also screen at San Sebastian and Sitges festivals.
Based on the real-life plane crash of a Uruguayan rugby team in 1972, Society Of The Snow follows the remaining passenrs as they try to survive in the middle of the Andes. It is produced by Misión de Audaces,
Netflix title All Quiet On The Western Front. won the...
- 9/20/2023
- by Ellie Calnan
- ScreenDaily
Spain has selected J.A. Bayona’s latest film, Society of the Snow, which debuted last month at the Venice Film Festival, as its entry for the Best International Feature Film category at the 2024 Oscars.
The announcement marks the first time a Netflix-backed film has been selected by Spain and the second time J.A. Bayona has made the cut following his 2007 film The Orphanage.
Society of the Snow closed this year’s Venice Film Festival. Based on the book of the same name by Pablo Vierci, first published in 2008, the film charts the story of the 45 people who, on October 13, 1972, boarded Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 from Montevideo to Chile. There were five crew members on board and 40 passengers, including 19 members of the Old Christians Club rugby team. Tragedy struck when the pilot began his descent too early, crashing into the Andes and killing 12 immediately. The survivors clung to the belief that help was coming,...
The announcement marks the first time a Netflix-backed film has been selected by Spain and the second time J.A. Bayona has made the cut following his 2007 film The Orphanage.
Society of the Snow closed this year’s Venice Film Festival. Based on the book of the same name by Pablo Vierci, first published in 2008, the film charts the story of the 45 people who, on October 13, 1972, boarded Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 from Montevideo to Chile. There were five crew members on board and 40 passengers, including 19 members of the Old Christians Club rugby team. Tragedy struck when the pilot began his descent too early, crashing into the Andes and killing 12 immediately. The survivors clung to the belief that help was coming,...
- 9/20/2023
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
"What happened to us? What happens when the world deserts you?" Another film I was lucky to watch on the big screen at the 2023 Venice Film Festival this year was the latest film by acclaimed Spanish filmmaker J.A. Bayona. It's called Society of the Snow, also known as La Sociedad de la Nieve in Spanish, adapted from the book of the same name by Pablo Vierci. For his fifth feature, Bayona decided to head to South America to tell the famous story of the scary crash and survival of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571. This is the same story told in the 1993 movie Alive, directed by Frank Marshall, which anyone who grew up in the 90s is absolutely familiar with for grotesque reasons. This is all a part of the story, a key part of the story, as it's a survival thriller. In the real world, their story became known as...
- 9/15/2023
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
There are times, as a young actor, that you might start to question your career decisions.
Like, for example, when you find yourself buried up to your chin in snow, your head pressed up against the fuselage of a plane and your director starts covering your mouth and nose in even more snow, so much so you can barely breath. That could be the moment when you wonder: “Maybe I should have gone to law school?”
But not Enzo Vogrincic. It was midway through shooting J.A. Bayona’s Society of the Snow when the 30-year-old Uruguayan actor found himself in exactly that position. The Netflix drama, which will close Venice this year, tells a true, phenomenal story of survival. Of the 45 people, including 19 members of the Old Christians Club rugby team who boarded Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 on Oct. 13, 1972, from Montevideo to Chile. While crossing the Andes mountains, the plane crashed,...
Like, for example, when you find yourself buried up to your chin in snow, your head pressed up against the fuselage of a plane and your director starts covering your mouth and nose in even more snow, so much so you can barely breath. That could be the moment when you wonder: “Maybe I should have gone to law school?”
But not Enzo Vogrincic. It was midway through shooting J.A. Bayona’s Society of the Snow when the 30-year-old Uruguayan actor found himself in exactly that position. The Netflix drama, which will close Venice this year, tells a true, phenomenal story of survival. Of the 45 people, including 19 members of the Old Christians Club rugby team who boarded Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 on Oct. 13, 1972, from Montevideo to Chile. While crossing the Andes mountains, the plane crashed,...
- 9/9/2023
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
With fall festival season on the horizon, Netflix has unveiled the first teaser trailer for J.A. Bayona’s latest project, “Society of the Snow.” The survival drama, based on the true story of the crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 in 1972, will have its world premiere as the Venice Film Festival’s closing night film on September 9.
Here’s the synopsis for the film, provided by Netflix:
In 1972, Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, which had been chartered to fly a rugby team to Chile, crashed in the heart of the Andes. Only 29 of its 45 passengers survived the accident. Trapped in one of the most hostile and inaccessible environments on the planet, they have to resort to extreme measures to stay alive.
“Society of the Snow” is based on the book of the same name by Pablo Vierci. Bayona, who directed “The Impossible” and “The Orphanage” as well as “Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom,...
Here’s the synopsis for the film, provided by Netflix:
In 1972, Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, which had been chartered to fly a rugby team to Chile, crashed in the heart of the Andes. Only 29 of its 45 passengers survived the accident. Trapped in one of the most hostile and inaccessible environments on the planet, they have to resort to extreme measures to stay alive.
“Society of the Snow” is based on the book of the same name by Pablo Vierci. Bayona, who directed “The Impossible” and “The Orphanage” as well as “Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom,...
- 8/24/2023
- by Christopher Rosen
- Gold Derby
From director J.A. Bayona, the visionary filmmaker behind The Orphanage, A Monster Calls, and Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, comes the Netflix survival thriller Society of the Snow, which is based on both true events and the same-titled book by Pablo Vierci.
Society of the Snow will have its World Premiere at Venice Film Festival as the closing night film on September 9, 2023 and follow in the Pearl’s section at San Sebastian Film Festival.
Watch the official teaser trailer below and expect a Netflix premiere date soon.
In 1972, Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, which had been chartered to fly a rugby team to Chile, crashed in the heart of the Andes. Only 29 of its 45 passengers survived the accident.
Trapped in one of the most hostile and inaccessible environments on the planet, they have to resort to extreme measures to stay alive.
The film’s cast includes Enzo Vogrincic, Agustín Pardella, Matías Recalt,...
Society of the Snow will have its World Premiere at Venice Film Festival as the closing night film on September 9, 2023 and follow in the Pearl’s section at San Sebastian Film Festival.
Watch the official teaser trailer below and expect a Netflix premiere date soon.
In 1972, Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, which had been chartered to fly a rugby team to Chile, crashed in the heart of the Andes. Only 29 of its 45 passengers survived the accident.
Trapped in one of the most hostile and inaccessible environments on the planet, they have to resort to extreme measures to stay alive.
The film’s cast includes Enzo Vogrincic, Agustín Pardella, Matías Recalt,...
- 8/24/2023
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
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