When Street Fighter II: The World Warrior hit the scene in 1991 and changed everything, it proved that the fighting game genre was the perfect fixture for the arcade. Between the endless player vs. player challenges and the multiple endings for those going solo, fighters had the perfect amount of replay value for hanging out at the arcade. Then these games hit consoles. You could play against a friend for hours, but if you were alone, you were left playing through arcade mode with everyone, beating the final boss again and again just to watch ending cutscenes of differing quality.
Eventually, developers realized that there needed to be more than an arcade mode and a versus mode to keep players coming back, but what could you do with a fighting game engine? Maybe add a team mode, survival mode, even a time attack, but those added little to the experience.
It’s no secret that Capcom,...
Eventually, developers realized that there needed to be more than an arcade mode and a versus mode to keep players coming back, but what could you do with a fighting game engine? Maybe add a team mode, survival mode, even a time attack, but those added little to the experience.
It’s no secret that Capcom,...
- 6/3/2023
- by John Saavedra
- Den of Geek
Rana Joy Glickman has produced lots of independent films over the last 20 years. But on her latest project, “The Blazing World,” she did something she had never done before: she did not buy cast insurance.
Ordinarily, it’s an essential item. Without it, a production could face a total loss if the director or principal actor gets sick or dies during filming. But in the era of Covid-19, such insurance is extremely expensive — if it’s available at all.
“That definitely came with a certain degree of anxiety,” Glickman says. “But there are so few guarantees about anything in the independent film world.”
In her case, it worked out. The film shot for a month in Dripping Springs, Texas, and nobody got sick. Glickman also had financiers who were willing to take the risk.
But many productions are struggling to figure out what to do. Commercial banks are not providing completion bonds without insurance,...
Ordinarily, it’s an essential item. Without it, a production could face a total loss if the director or principal actor gets sick or dies during filming. But in the era of Covid-19, such insurance is extremely expensive — if it’s available at all.
“That definitely came with a certain degree of anxiety,” Glickman says. “But there are so few guarantees about anything in the independent film world.”
In her case, it worked out. The film shot for a month in Dripping Springs, Texas, and nobody got sick. Glickman also had financiers who were willing to take the risk.
But many productions are struggling to figure out what to do. Commercial banks are not providing completion bonds without insurance,...
- 9/15/2020
- by Gene Maddaus
- Variety Film + TV
Vinessa Shaw has signed on to co-star opposite Dermot Mulroney in Carlson Young’s directorial debut thriller, The Blazing World, as production prepares to commence outside of Austin, Texas this month. Based on Young’s 2018 Sundance Film Festival short of the same name, the film follows a self-destructive young woman who decades after the accidental drowning of her twin sister, returns to her family home, finding herself drawn to an alternate dimension where her sister may still be alive. Young co-wrote the screenplay with Pierce Brown and will also co-star along with Udo Kier. Brinton Bryan of Greenbelt Films is handling the financing and is producing the pic with Elizabeth Avellán and Rana Joy Glickman of TealHouse Entertainment. Executive producers are Andrew Carlberg, and Ted Field and Justin Smith of Radar Pictures. Shaw, who can next be seen starring opposite Luke Wilson, Martin Sheen...
- 8/5/2020
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Dermot Mulroney is set to co-star opposite Carlson Young and Udo Kier and in The Blazing World, Young’s directorial debut feature based on her 2018 Sundance Film Festival short of the same name. Written by Young and Pierce Brown, the thriller follows a self-destructive young woman who decades after the accidental drowning of her twin sister, returns to her family home, finding herself drawn to an alternate dimension where her sister may still be alive.
The pic is slated to begin production in August start outside of Austin, Texas and will shoot entirely on one property with the cast and crew quarantining together in a private resort for both prep and the shoot. Producers are Brinton Bryan of Greenbelt Films, which is also handling the financing, as well as Elizabeth Avellán and Rana Joy Glickman of TealHouse Entertainment.
“The film was not initially developed to be a Covid-era project,...
The pic is slated to begin production in August start outside of Austin, Texas and will shoot entirely on one property with the cast and crew quarantining together in a private resort for both prep and the shoot. Producers are Brinton Bryan of Greenbelt Films, which is also handling the financing, as well as Elizabeth Avellán and Rana Joy Glickman of TealHouse Entertainment.
“The film was not initially developed to be a Covid-era project,...
- 7/13/2020
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
Scream: The TV Series actress Carlson Young is turning her 2018 Sundance short, The Blazing World, into a feature-length which she will also star in opposite Udo Kier.
The pic will mark Young’s first feature directorial outing. She co-wrote the pic with Pierce Brown, who made the NY Times Best Seller list with his sci-fi saga, Red Rising.
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Described as a psychological horror-thriller, the plot follows a young woman, Margaret Winter, as she wades through the psychedelic hive of her earliest trauma. Kier, who can currently be seen in the 2019 Cannes Jury Prize winning film, Bacurau, plays sinister ruler of a surreal world, hellbent on coaxing unrealities...
The pic will mark Young’s first feature directorial outing. She co-wrote the pic with Pierce Brown, who made the NY Times Best Seller list with his sci-fi saga, Red Rising.
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Described as a psychological horror-thriller, the plot follows a young woman, Margaret Winter, as she wades through the psychedelic hive of her earliest trauma. Kier, who can currently be seen in the 2019 Cannes Jury Prize winning film, Bacurau, plays sinister ruler of a surreal world, hellbent on coaxing unrealities...
- 4/8/2020
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Spy Kids franchise and Predators producer Elizabeth Avellán and Full Tilt Boogie and Kicking & Screaming producer Rana Joy Glickman are opening the doors to their new global multimedia production company Tealhouse Entertainment which will develop and produce content across horror thrillers, comedies, dramas, docs and auteur-driven narratives, including films from underrepresented voices. Tealhouse will have offices in Austin, TX and Los Angeles, CA. The first pics that are being produced under Tealhouse include supernatural horror feature The Whistler, an English-language reimagining of the award-winning South American film El Silbón: Orígenes. Gisberg Bermúdez, who co-wrote, directed, co-produced and edited the original movie, will direct the new pic. There’s also Quincy Rose’s Margaux From Manhattan, the story of a renowned memoirist from Manhattan who is forced to move to Brooklyn after a nasty divorce turns her world upside-down. Grappling with her new identity and sexual freedom, Margaux once again finds herself coming of age.
- 1/27/2020
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Film review: 'Spent'
To his credit, Gil Cates Jr. has tackled a serious theme for his debut as a feature screenwriter-director in "Spent". But at this stage of his career, he lacks the dramatic means to achieve his goals. This examination of the psychological mechanics of addiction hugs the surface without ever getting to the heart of the matter.
Regent Entertainment has limited ambitions for this film after today's opening in Los Angeles. It opens Aug. 11 in New York and will perhaps surface in five more cities -- which is just as well because even excellent films about compulsive behavior have spotty boxoffice records.
The addictions examined are gambling and drinking. Although given the number of cigarettes smoked by the characters -- or is it the actors? -- yet another compulsion is on display here.
Our victim-heroes are Max (Jason London), an actor who works sporadically but consumes his days wagering on sports, and his girlfriend Brigette (Charlie Spradling), who continually badgers him about his gambling without realizing she has a similar problem with alcohol. The film soon gets caught up in a waiting game to see which character will be the first to grasp the depth of his or her addiction.
"Spent" runs through the usual gambling-movie cliches -- the ridiculous wager our addict cannot possibly pay off, his adamant denials of any problem, the frantic manipulation of finances and friends to stay afloat.
The film is curiously uninterested in Brigette's drinking problem other than in how it mirrors Max's gambling compulsion. In fact, women in general are ill-served here: The only other female role of any consequence exists mostly for a tasteless scene revolving around the size of the woman's nipples.
As a writer, Cates tends to state themes rather than dramatize them. Subtext and subtlety scarcely exist. Characters talk about their problems like callers on a radio shrink's talk show.
Supporting roles are poorly designed. The worst belongs to James Parks, playing a closet gay who hangs himself when he can't express his feelings for Max -- a plot line that feels like a relic from a movie made 25 years ago.
Erin Beaux's Nathan is singularly obsessed with the aforementioned nipples, while Phill Lewis' Doug is obsessed with getting his screenplay to Jack Nicholson at a Lakers game. That he stakes out courtside seats at the Forum rather than Staples Center shows how long this film has been sitting on the shelf.
The camerawork is functional at best, and a musical score turns on and off with little relationship to what's on the screen.
SPENT
Regent Entertainment
trademark entertainment/Rana Joy Glickman
Producers: Rana Joy Glickman,
Jordan Summers, Gil Cates Jr.
Screenwriter-director: Gil Cates Jr.
Executive producers: Joe Cates, Jordan Zevon
Director of photography: Robert D. Tomer
Production designer: Aaron Osborne
Music: Stan Ridgway
Co-producer: Deborah Henderson
Costume designer: Mimi Maxmen
Editor: Jonathan Cates
Color/stereo
Cast:
Max: Jason London
Brigette: Charlie Spradling
Doug: Phill Lewis
Nathan: Erin Beaux
Grant: James Parks
Jay: Richmond Arquette
Running time - 91 minutes
No MPAA rating...
Regent Entertainment has limited ambitions for this film after today's opening in Los Angeles. It opens Aug. 11 in New York and will perhaps surface in five more cities -- which is just as well because even excellent films about compulsive behavior have spotty boxoffice records.
The addictions examined are gambling and drinking. Although given the number of cigarettes smoked by the characters -- or is it the actors? -- yet another compulsion is on display here.
Our victim-heroes are Max (Jason London), an actor who works sporadically but consumes his days wagering on sports, and his girlfriend Brigette (Charlie Spradling), who continually badgers him about his gambling without realizing she has a similar problem with alcohol. The film soon gets caught up in a waiting game to see which character will be the first to grasp the depth of his or her addiction.
"Spent" runs through the usual gambling-movie cliches -- the ridiculous wager our addict cannot possibly pay off, his adamant denials of any problem, the frantic manipulation of finances and friends to stay afloat.
The film is curiously uninterested in Brigette's drinking problem other than in how it mirrors Max's gambling compulsion. In fact, women in general are ill-served here: The only other female role of any consequence exists mostly for a tasteless scene revolving around the size of the woman's nipples.
As a writer, Cates tends to state themes rather than dramatize them. Subtext and subtlety scarcely exist. Characters talk about their problems like callers on a radio shrink's talk show.
Supporting roles are poorly designed. The worst belongs to James Parks, playing a closet gay who hangs himself when he can't express his feelings for Max -- a plot line that feels like a relic from a movie made 25 years ago.
Erin Beaux's Nathan is singularly obsessed with the aforementioned nipples, while Phill Lewis' Doug is obsessed with getting his screenplay to Jack Nicholson at a Lakers game. That he stakes out courtside seats at the Forum rather than Staples Center shows how long this film has been sitting on the shelf.
The camerawork is functional at best, and a musical score turns on and off with little relationship to what's on the screen.
SPENT
Regent Entertainment
trademark entertainment/Rana Joy Glickman
Producers: Rana Joy Glickman,
Jordan Summers, Gil Cates Jr.
Screenwriter-director: Gil Cates Jr.
Executive producers: Joe Cates, Jordan Zevon
Director of photography: Robert D. Tomer
Production designer: Aaron Osborne
Music: Stan Ridgway
Co-producer: Deborah Henderson
Costume designer: Mimi Maxmen
Editor: Jonathan Cates
Color/stereo
Cast:
Max: Jason London
Brigette: Charlie Spradling
Doug: Phill Lewis
Nathan: Erin Beaux
Grant: James Parks
Jay: Richmond Arquette
Running time - 91 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 7/21/2000
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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