It was probably inevitable that the new Apple TV+ series “Disclaimer,” starring Cate Blanchett, would draw comparisons to her most recent Oscar-nominated film “Tár” given how it tells the story of a highly respected documentarian whose dark past catches up with her. But both the star and Alfonso Cuarón, the creator/writer/director of the thriller, which had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival, agree that they did not pursue the project, an adaptation of Reneé Knight’s 2015 novel, with the idea of it being in conversation with any of their past works.
“It’s so diverse of what she has done. She has been Bob Dylan. And if you see ‘Manifesto,’ how many characters are in ‘Manifesto’?” Cuarón told IndieWire at the festival. “Too many,” joked Blanchett. “And each one is completely different than the others. I don’t know if there’s really a trademark in...
“It’s so diverse of what she has done. She has been Bob Dylan. And if you see ‘Manifesto,’ how many characters are in ‘Manifesto’?” Cuarón told IndieWire at the festival. “Too many,” joked Blanchett. “And each one is completely different than the others. I don’t know if there’s really a trademark in...
- 9/2/2024
- by Marcus Jones
- Indiewire
Viewership Record
Indian streaming service JioCinema claimed a record for the number of concurrent viewers this week. It reported that 32 million viewers were simultaneously using its service to watch the Ipl cricket final match between The Chennai Super Kings and the Gujarat Titans. The platform’s previous peak was 25 million. Chennai eventually won the rain-affected and one-day delayed match
Dark Matter
Warner Bros Discovery (Wbd) has removed its bouquet of 14 channels from Indonesia’s TV largest platform, Mnc, ending decades-long affiliate arrangements, Content Asia reported. The decision, confirmed by Wbd, involves channels from HBO and Cartoon Network to Discovery and TLC, all of which came off air on May 12. The move is understood to be the culmination of a payments disagreement. In November last year, beIN removds its sports service from Mnc. Wbd content remains available on three smaller platforms in Indonesia, IndiHome First Media and Trans.
Location Attraction
Ausfilm,...
Indian streaming service JioCinema claimed a record for the number of concurrent viewers this week. It reported that 32 million viewers were simultaneously using its service to watch the Ipl cricket final match between The Chennai Super Kings and the Gujarat Titans. The platform’s previous peak was 25 million. Chennai eventually won the rain-affected and one-day delayed match
Dark Matter
Warner Bros Discovery (Wbd) has removed its bouquet of 14 channels from Indonesia’s TV largest platform, Mnc, ending decades-long affiliate arrangements, Content Asia reported. The decision, confirmed by Wbd, involves channels from HBO and Cartoon Network to Discovery and TLC, all of which came off air on May 12. The move is understood to be the culmination of a payments disagreement. In November last year, beIN removds its sports service from Mnc. Wbd content remains available on three smaller platforms in Indonesia, IndiHome First Media and Trans.
Location Attraction
Ausfilm,...
- 5/30/2023
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Narrative-documentary hybrid follows a man auditioning for a film while transforming his real life.
Modern Films has acquired UK-Ireland distribution rights to docu-fiction hybrid Stephen, ahead of its world premiere in international competition at Sheffield DocFest on June 16.
Melanie Manchot’s debut feature film follows Stephen Giddings, a man from an addiction-afflicted family, who auditions for and takes on a film role, while transforming his life in the real world.
Modern is setting a UK-Ireland theatrical release for the latter part of 2023, after the film has played as a video installation at the Liverpool Biennial.
Stephen is produced by Elena Hill,...
Modern Films has acquired UK-Ireland distribution rights to docu-fiction hybrid Stephen, ahead of its world premiere in international competition at Sheffield DocFest on June 16.
Melanie Manchot’s debut feature film follows Stephen Giddings, a man from an addiction-afflicted family, who auditions for and takes on a film role, while transforming his life in the real world.
Modern is setting a UK-Ireland theatrical release for the latter part of 2023, after the film has played as a video installation at the Liverpool Biennial.
Stephen is produced by Elena Hill,...
- 5/18/2023
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
The latest in a never-ending series of propaganda movies from mainland China, Manifesto is an account of the life and times of Chen Wangdao, the translator and scholar who completed in 1920 China’s first translation of “The Communist Manifesto” by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Chen undertook this life-changing task when he returned from his studies in Japan. Chen Duxiu, Yu Xiusong, Shi Cuntong, Jing Hengyi, Dai Jitao and other key historical figures are also portrayed in the movie. (Sources: Douban and China Daily)
Director Hou Yong has worked on Zhang Yimou’s movies, The Road Home (1999) and Hero (2002), in cinematography and the camera/electrical department. He was also a co-director for a 2021 drama series The Rebel Princess starring Zhang Ziyi. Manifesto‘s cast members include Liu Ye, Hu Jun and Janice Man. It has premiered in China on March 24, 2023.
Director Hou Yong has worked on Zhang Yimou’s movies, The Road Home (1999) and Hero (2002), in cinematography and the camera/electrical department. He was also a co-director for a 2021 drama series The Rebel Princess starring Zhang Ziyi. Manifesto‘s cast members include Liu Ye, Hu Jun and Janice Man. It has premiered in China on March 24, 2023.
- 4/6/2023
- by Suzie Cho
- AsianMoviePulse
Tyler, the Creator has released a deluxe edition of his 2021 album, Call Me If You Get Lost, featuring eight additional tracks. Stream it via Apple Music or Spotify below.
The new songs feature appearances from Tyler’s close collaborator A$AP Rocky (“Wharf Talk”), Vince Staples (“Stuntman”), and Yg. In a statement, Tyler explained Call Me If You Get Lost was his first album that left “a lot of songs” on the cutting room floor and he wanted to put out some of the ones that he really loved.
Physical editions of Call Me If You Get Lost: The Estate Sale include a limited edition 3xLP Geneva Blue vinyl and CD; both come with a 28-page booklet. Pick up your copy at Tyler’s website, which has also been restocked with vinyl for the original edition.
In anticipation of the album’s release, Tyler shared the ostentatious first preview “Dogtooth,...
The new songs feature appearances from Tyler’s close collaborator A$AP Rocky (“Wharf Talk”), Vince Staples (“Stuntman”), and Yg. In a statement, Tyler explained Call Me If You Get Lost was his first album that left “a lot of songs” on the cutting room floor and he wanted to put out some of the ones that he really loved.
Physical editions of Call Me If You Get Lost: The Estate Sale include a limited edition 3xLP Geneva Blue vinyl and CD; both come with a 28-page booklet. Pick up your copy at Tyler’s website, which has also been restocked with vinyl for the original edition.
In anticipation of the album’s release, Tyler shared the ostentatious first preview “Dogtooth,...
- 3/31/2023
- by Eddie Fu
- Consequence - Music
Japanese animation film “Suzume” made just shy of $50 million on its opening weekend in mainland Chinese theaters.
Data from consultancy Artisan Gateway, shows “Suzume” grabbing the top spot at the box office with $49.6 million (RMB342 million) between Friday and Sunday.
That is the biggest opening score by any film this year outside of the Chinese New Year holiday week in late January. The next best is “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” which opened with $19.4 million in mid-February.
Directed by Shinkai Makoto, “Suzume” was a hit in Japan where it was released late last year and has remained on screens for a $105 million total. It played in February at the Berlin Film Festival, where it came away largely empty-handed, but has subsequently performed strongly in the Asian territories where it has released.
“Suzume” powered the weekend to a $75.7 million box office total. Artisan Gateway calculates that the year to date total...
Data from consultancy Artisan Gateway, shows “Suzume” grabbing the top spot at the box office with $49.6 million (RMB342 million) between Friday and Sunday.
That is the biggest opening score by any film this year outside of the Chinese New Year holiday week in late January. The next best is “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” which opened with $19.4 million in mid-February.
Directed by Shinkai Makoto, “Suzume” was a hit in Japan where it was released late last year and has remained on screens for a $105 million total. It played in February at the Berlin Film Festival, where it came away largely empty-handed, but has subsequently performed strongly in the Asian territories where it has released.
“Suzume” powered the weekend to a $75.7 million box office total. Artisan Gateway calculates that the year to date total...
- 3/27/2023
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Freestyle Digital Media has acquired North American rights to Elsewhere, a dramedy starring Rectify alum Aden Young. The digital distribution unit of Byron Allen’s Entertainment Studios will release the film from writer-director Hernan Jimenez (About Us) day-and-date in select theaters and VOD on January 24.
Here’s the logline: Still mourning the death of his wife (Kathleen Munroe), Bruno (Young) is hopelessly attached to the seaside cottage they built together. When he’s evicted by his soulless in-laws, Bruno vows to get it back at any price. Desperate to escape the gracious but neurotic hosting of his parents, and with the aid of his enabling best friend (Ken Jeong) Bruno sets a risky plan in motion to recover his home. But posing as a handyman for the cottage’s intriguing new tenant (Parker Posey) turns his life – and his intentions – upside down.
Elsewhere is produced by...
Here’s the logline: Still mourning the death of his wife (Kathleen Munroe), Bruno (Young) is hopelessly attached to the seaside cottage they built together. When he’s evicted by his soulless in-laws, Bruno vows to get it back at any price. Desperate to escape the gracious but neurotic hosting of his parents, and with the aid of his enabling best friend (Ken Jeong) Bruno sets a risky plan in motion to recover his home. But posing as a handyman for the cottage’s intriguing new tenant (Parker Posey) turns his life – and his intentions – upside down.
Elsewhere is produced by...
- 12/6/2019
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
Company says it has raised $112m to fund aggressive push into acquisitions.
In the run-up to Mipcom, New York-based FilmRise has appointed former BBC Studios executive Whitney Muroff to the new position of director of global acquisitions.
Reporting to head of acquisitions Max Einhorn, Muroff will source multi-territory film and television acquisition deals and work across existing content partnerships to build FilmRise’s global licensing and distribution business.
Muroff previously served as manager for factual sales and co-productions at BBC Studios, where she distributed documentaries and natural history shows to the Us market. Prior to that she was a sales...
In the run-up to Mipcom, New York-based FilmRise has appointed former BBC Studios executive Whitney Muroff to the new position of director of global acquisitions.
Reporting to head of acquisitions Max Einhorn, Muroff will source multi-territory film and television acquisition deals and work across existing content partnerships to build FilmRise’s global licensing and distribution business.
Muroff previously served as manager for factual sales and co-productions at BBC Studios, where she distributed documentaries and natural history shows to the Us market. Prior to that she was a sales...
- 10/8/2019
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
Former FilmRise director of acquisitions Faye Tsakas has been hired as VP Development and Production at Passage Pictures, the indie production company behind films including Marjorie Prime and the upcoming biopic Tesla starring Ethan Hawke. She will work with CEO Uri Singer to develop and produce new film and TV projects and be based in Los Angeles.
At FilmRise, Tsakas oversaw new release acquisitions and helped secure films including Marjorie Prime, Michael Almereyda and Passage’s sci-fi drama starring Lois Smith and John Hamm that won the Alfred P. Sloan prize at Sundance in 2017. She was also involved in deals for The Miseducation of Cameron Post, The Boy Downstairs, Manifesto, Who We Are Now and Dayveon.
Tsakas will be on board for Tesla, written and directed by Almereyda, which begins shooting in New York in the spring.
Passage Pictures’ slate also includes I Am Rose Fatou, penned by Ted Melfi; The King Of Oil,...
At FilmRise, Tsakas oversaw new release acquisitions and helped secure films including Marjorie Prime, Michael Almereyda and Passage’s sci-fi drama starring Lois Smith and John Hamm that won the Alfred P. Sloan prize at Sundance in 2017. She was also involved in deals for The Miseducation of Cameron Post, The Boy Downstairs, Manifesto, Who We Are Now and Dayveon.
Tsakas will be on board for Tesla, written and directed by Almereyda, which begins shooting in New York in the spring.
Passage Pictures’ slate also includes I Am Rose Fatou, penned by Ted Melfi; The King Of Oil,...
- 2/20/2019
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Modern Films has snagged U.K. and Ireland rights to “Never Look Away,” the German-language Oscar entry from “The Lives of Others” helmer Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck.
The multi-generational story follows a young art student (Tom Schilling), who falls in love with a fellow student (Paula Beer). Her father (Sebastian Koch), a renowned doctor, disapproves of their relationship and vows to destroy it. Set in Germany, it spans three decades of the country’s history from Nazism through to the Cold War. The central character is loosely based on artist Gerhard Richter.
The three-hour picture, which premiered at the Venice Film festival, recently opened via Sony Pictures Classics. Beta Cinema was the sales agent. Distributor Modern Films plans an event-driven release plan similar to what it did with “Manifesto,” starring Cate Blanchett, and with HBO and Rai’s Italian-language miniseries “My Brilliant Friend.”
Thorsten Ritter of Beta Cinema says it...
The multi-generational story follows a young art student (Tom Schilling), who falls in love with a fellow student (Paula Beer). Her father (Sebastian Koch), a renowned doctor, disapproves of their relationship and vows to destroy it. Set in Germany, it spans three decades of the country’s history from Nazism through to the Cold War. The central character is loosely based on artist Gerhard Richter.
The three-hour picture, which premiered at the Venice Film festival, recently opened via Sony Pictures Classics. Beta Cinema was the sales agent. Distributor Modern Films plans an event-driven release plan similar to what it did with “Manifesto,” starring Cate Blanchett, and with HBO and Rai’s Italian-language miniseries “My Brilliant Friend.”
Thorsten Ritter of Beta Cinema says it...
- 2/19/2019
- by Stewart Clarke
- Variety Film + TV
Breaker, the blockchain content distributor formerly known as SingularDTV, launched its beta version Thursday with a slew of projects, such as FilmRise’s feature “Manifesto” starring Cate Blanchett.
The platform seeks to empower artists and owners through the peer-to-peer distribution network. It was founded in 2016 by author and music producer Zach LeBeau, movie producer Kim Jackson, and entrepreneur Joseph Lubin (Ethereum co-founder and Consensys founder and CEO).
Largely used to record transparency in financial transactions, the tech will help Breaker offer a slate of movies and music to consumers worldwide through an application called DApp. Projects from Oscilloscope Laboratories, Dread via Epic Pictures Releasing, and Vertical Entertainment will be available.
“I’m always looking for new ways to increase the transparency of the business while also trying to simplify it. If this what the future’s going to look like, I want to be in on it early,” said Steven Soderbergh,...
The platform seeks to empower artists and owners through the peer-to-peer distribution network. It was founded in 2016 by author and music producer Zach LeBeau, movie producer Kim Jackson, and entrepreneur Joseph Lubin (Ethereum co-founder and Consensys founder and CEO).
Largely used to record transparency in financial transactions, the tech will help Breaker offer a slate of movies and music to consumers worldwide through an application called DApp. Projects from Oscilloscope Laboratories, Dread via Epic Pictures Releasing, and Vertical Entertainment will be available.
“I’m always looking for new ways to increase the transparency of the business while also trying to simplify it. If this what the future’s going to look like, I want to be in on it early,” said Steven Soderbergh,...
- 1/31/2019
- by Matt Donnelly
- Variety Film + TV
Sundance filmmakers should prepare for a streaming reality without buffering. Sales agents are telling their clients that Amazon Video Direct is not expected to offer its Film Festival Stars program at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. Open to official selections at major festivals, the two-year-old Ffs offered cash bonuses and preferential royalty rates for filmmakers to self-distribute their films on Amazon Prime.
According to multiple sources, Amazon has put Ffs on hiatus as the company takes a hard look at its future. Distribution partners, sales agents, and the festival itself has not heard from Amazon Video Direct in months, most telling IndieWire they would be “shocked” if the Ffs deal returned for Sundance.
When “streaming platform” entered the filmmaker vocabulary just a few years ago, it sounded like an indie godsend — a way to ensure that virtually any film could find an audience, if not a buyer. However, the...
According to multiple sources, Amazon has put Ffs on hiatus as the company takes a hard look at its future. Distribution partners, sales agents, and the festival itself has not heard from Amazon Video Direct in months, most telling IndieWire they would be “shocked” if the Ffs deal returned for Sundance.
When “streaming platform” entered the filmmaker vocabulary just a few years ago, it sounded like an indie godsend — a way to ensure that virtually any film could find an audience, if not a buyer. However, the...
- 1/4/2019
- by Chris O'Falt
- Indiewire
German-born French director Moll’s previous features include Harry, He’s Here To Help and Lemming starring Charlotte Gainsbourg.
The Match Factory is introducing Dominik Moll’s new feature Seules Les Bêtes, an adaptation of the 2017 novel by French author Colin Niel, to Afm buyers this week.
Moll is in development on the project, which will star Denis Ménochet, Damien Bonnard, Laure Calamy and Valeria Bruni Tedeschi. The film marks a continuation of The Match Factory’s successful collaboration with German production outfit Razor Film, with whom it partnered on Waltz With Bashir, Wadjda and Looking for Oum Kulthum, and...
The Match Factory is introducing Dominik Moll’s new feature Seules Les Bêtes, an adaptation of the 2017 novel by French author Colin Niel, to Afm buyers this week.
Moll is in development on the project, which will star Denis Ménochet, Damien Bonnard, Laure Calamy and Valeria Bruni Tedeschi. The film marks a continuation of The Match Factory’s successful collaboration with German production outfit Razor Film, with whom it partnered on Waltz With Bashir, Wadjda and Looking for Oum Kulthum, and...
- 10/31/2018
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
German-born French director Moll’s previous features include Harry, He’s Here To Help and Lemming starring Charlotte Gainsbourg.
The Match Factory is introducing Dominik Moll’s new feature Seules Les Bêtes, an adaptation of the 2017 novel by French author Colin Niel, to Afm buyers this week.
Moll is in development on the project, which will star Denis Ménochet, Damien Bonnard, Laure Calamy and Valeria Bruni Tedeschi. The film marks a continuation of The Match Factory’s successful collaboration with German production outfit Razor Film, with whom it partnered on Waltz With Bashir, Wadjda and Looking for Oum Kulthum, and...
The Match Factory is introducing Dominik Moll’s new feature Seules Les Bêtes, an adaptation of the 2017 novel by French author Colin Niel, to Afm buyers this week.
Moll is in development on the project, which will star Denis Ménochet, Damien Bonnard, Laure Calamy and Valeria Bruni Tedeschi. The film marks a continuation of The Match Factory’s successful collaboration with German production outfit Razor Film, with whom it partnered on Waltz With Bashir, Wadjda and Looking for Oum Kulthum, and...
- 10/31/2018
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
Ali Abbasi’s fantasy feature won best film in Un Certain Regard.
Streaming service Mubi and fledgling distribution and production outfit Modern Films are teaming up on the UK and Ireland release of Ali Abbasi’s Border.
The film premiered at this year’s Cannes Film Festival in the Un Certain Regard programme, winning the section’s top prize.
It tells the story of a border guard played by Eva Melander who has the ability to smell human emotions and catch smugglers. When she comes across a mysterious man with a smell that confounds her detection, she is forced to...
Streaming service Mubi and fledgling distribution and production outfit Modern Films are teaming up on the UK and Ireland release of Ali Abbasi’s Border.
The film premiered at this year’s Cannes Film Festival in the Un Certain Regard programme, winning the section’s top prize.
It tells the story of a border guard played by Eva Melander who has the ability to smell human emotions and catch smugglers. When she comes across a mysterious man with a smell that confounds her detection, she is forced to...
- 6/21/2018
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
Emily Atef’s chamber piece takes best film, best director and best actress amongst others.
Emily Atef’s 3 Days in Quiberon was the big winner at this year’s German Film Awards in Berlin at the weekend, taking home seven Lolas from ten nominations.
The Rohfilm Factory production received the Golden Lola for best film – with a cash prize of €500,000 - as well as statuettes for director Atef, lead actress Marie Bäumer, supporting actors Birgit Minichmayr and Robert Gwisdek, DoP Thomas W. Kiennast, and composers Christoph M. Kaiser and Julian Maas.
The chamber piece - about German-French star Romy Schneider...
Emily Atef’s 3 Days in Quiberon was the big winner at this year’s German Film Awards in Berlin at the weekend, taking home seven Lolas from ten nominations.
The Rohfilm Factory production received the Golden Lola for best film – with a cash prize of €500,000 - as well as statuettes for director Atef, lead actress Marie Bäumer, supporting actors Birgit Minichmayr and Robert Gwisdek, DoP Thomas W. Kiennast, and composers Christoph M. Kaiser and Julian Maas.
The chamber piece - about German-French star Romy Schneider...
- 5/1/2018
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
Emily Atef’s film about actress Romy Schneider receives 10 nods including best film, best direction.
Emily Atef’s Berlinale Competition film 3 Days in Quiberon has dominated the nominations for this year’s German Film Awards (also known as the Lola Awards).
It scored ten nods, including best feature film, best direction, best lead actress (for Marie Bäumer), best supporting actor, best cinematography and best film score.
The Rohfilm Factory production will compete in the best feature film category with another of this year’s Berlinale competition films, Thomas Stuber’s In The Aisles, the Berlinale Special title The Silent Revolution,...
Emily Atef’s Berlinale Competition film 3 Days in Quiberon has dominated the nominations for this year’s German Film Awards (also known as the Lola Awards).
It scored ten nods, including best feature film, best direction, best lead actress (for Marie Bäumer), best supporting actor, best cinematography and best film score.
The Rohfilm Factory production will compete in the best feature film category with another of this year’s Berlinale competition films, Thomas Stuber’s In The Aisles, the Berlinale Special title The Silent Revolution,...
- 3/14/2018
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
UK distributor and production outfit takes Venice documentary.
Source: Wide House
The Rape Of Recy Taylor
Eve Gabereau, the long-time head of UK distributor Soda Pictures (now Thunderbird Releasing) who left the company last year, has officially launched her new outfit Modern Films.
The London-based distribution and production company has made its first acquisition with The Rape Of Recy Taylor, Nancy Buirski’s documentary that premiered at Venice last year.
Modern has UK and Ireland rights to the feature, which tells the story of 24-year-old black mother and sharecropper Recy Taylor, who was gang-raped by six white men in Alabama in 1944. Despite being at serious risk, she decided to speak up and identify her attackers, with the civil rights organisation the NAACP sending its chief rape investigator, and activist Rosa Parks, to support the young women.
The story was one of the era-defining civil rights moments and still has a legacy today. In Oprah Winfrey’s celebrated...
Source: Wide House
The Rape Of Recy Taylor
Eve Gabereau, the long-time head of UK distributor Soda Pictures (now Thunderbird Releasing) who left the company last year, has officially launched her new outfit Modern Films.
The London-based distribution and production company has made its first acquisition with The Rape Of Recy Taylor, Nancy Buirski’s documentary that premiered at Venice last year.
Modern has UK and Ireland rights to the feature, which tells the story of 24-year-old black mother and sharecropper Recy Taylor, who was gang-raped by six white men in Alabama in 1944. Despite being at serious risk, she decided to speak up and identify her attackers, with the civil rights organisation the NAACP sending its chief rape investigator, and activist Rosa Parks, to support the young women.
The story was one of the era-defining civil rights moments and still has a legacy today. In Oprah Winfrey’s celebrated...
- 1/31/2018
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
The 2017 Sundance Film Festival provided one of the strongest markets on record. The box-office results, however, tell another story. While big buy “The Big Sick” was a big hit, second only to “Lady Bird” in the specialty marketplace, many smaller Sundance films remained just that: small, often earning less than their acquisition costs.
For some movies, small is a victory. Kogonada’s “Columbus,” which screened in the 2017 Next section, received the Sundance Institute’s Creative Distribution Fellowship grant to fund its inaugural self-distribution partnership. “Columbus” grossed more than $1 million — more than Fox Searchlight’s “Patti Cake$” ($9.5 million buy, less than $1 million domestic), and more than one might expect for a meditative romance set among the architecture of Columbus, Ind.
Three Sundance 2107 films — “Get Out” (Universal), “The Big Sick” (Amazon/Lionsgate) and “Wind River” (Weinstein) grossed over $250 million combined in domestic theaters. However, only “The Big Sick” came to Sundance without a distributor.
For some movies, small is a victory. Kogonada’s “Columbus,” which screened in the 2017 Next section, received the Sundance Institute’s Creative Distribution Fellowship grant to fund its inaugural self-distribution partnership. “Columbus” grossed more than $1 million — more than Fox Searchlight’s “Patti Cake$” ($9.5 million buy, less than $1 million domestic), and more than one might expect for a meditative romance set among the architecture of Columbus, Ind.
Three Sundance 2107 films — “Get Out” (Universal), “The Big Sick” (Amazon/Lionsgate) and “Wind River” (Weinstein) grossed over $250 million combined in domestic theaters. However, only “The Big Sick” came to Sundance without a distributor.
- 1/17/2018
- by Tom Brueggemann and Dana Harris
- Indiewire
George Clooney and Brad Pitt are about to meet their heist comedy match in Sandra Bullock and Cate Blanchett. The Oscar-winning actresses are front and center in the upcoming “Ocean’s 11” spin-off “Ocean’s Eight,” which also stars Mindy Kaling, Sarah Paulson, Anne Hathaway, Rihanna, and Awkwafina.
Bullock stars as Debbie Ocean, the estranged sister of Clooney’s Danny Ocean, who brings together a ragtag group of women to pull off the heist of the century at the Met Gala in New York City. The plan is to rob Debbie’s ex-lover. The supporting cast includes Richard Armitage and James Corden.
“The Hunger Games” director Gary Ross is behind the camera for the spin-off, while original director Steven Soderbergh has a producing credit. “Ocean’s Eight” opens in theaters June 8. Watch the first trailer.
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Bullock stars as Debbie Ocean, the estranged sister of Clooney’s Danny Ocean, who brings together a ragtag group of women to pull off the heist of the century at the Met Gala in New York City. The plan is to rob Debbie’s ex-lover. The supporting cast includes Richard Armitage and James Corden.
“The Hunger Games” director Gary Ross is behind the camera for the spin-off, while original director Steven Soderbergh has a producing credit. “Ocean’s Eight” opens in theaters June 8. Watch the first trailer.
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- 12/19/2017
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Blanchett plays 13 characters performing screeds by the likes of Marx and Debord in a hypnotically fascinating exploration of philosophy
There is a hypnotic fascination to this work by artist and film-maker Julian Rosefeldt, one of the few commercial films that explores the boundaries between cinema and installation, or cinema and video art. It owes this relative prominence to the presence of Cate Blanchett, who may be rivalling Tilda Swinton as Hollywood’s experimentalist and patron-muse.
Related: Manifesto: Cate Blanchett's multiple personalities for video artist – in pictures
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There is a hypnotic fascination to this work by artist and film-maker Julian Rosefeldt, one of the few commercial films that explores the boundaries between cinema and installation, or cinema and video art. It owes this relative prominence to the presence of Cate Blanchett, who may be rivalling Tilda Swinton as Hollywood’s experimentalist and patron-muse.
Related: Manifesto: Cate Blanchett's multiple personalities for video artist – in pictures
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- 11/22/2017
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
A news anchor, a widow, a bearded drunk … Cate Blanchett’s new film sees the actor take on 13 personas in a script cribbed from 50 revolutionary texts. She and director Julian Rosefeldt explain why Manifesto is an artistic call to arms in the age of Trump
Here’s Cate Blanchett as you’ve never seen her before: as a bearded old man pulling a shopping cart through a post-industrial wasteland. In a drunken Scottish accent he/she proclaims: “We glorify the revolution aloud as the only engine of life. We glorify the vibrations of the inventors young and strong. They carry the flaming torch of the revolution!” Now Blanchett is a grieving widow telling a funeral congregation, “to lick the penumbra and float in the big mouth filled with honey and excrement”. Now she’s an American news anchor in the studio, talking to a reporter standing in the rain under an umbrella.
Here’s Cate Blanchett as you’ve never seen her before: as a bearded old man pulling a shopping cart through a post-industrial wasteland. In a drunken Scottish accent he/she proclaims: “We glorify the revolution aloud as the only engine of life. We glorify the vibrations of the inventors young and strong. They carry the flaming torch of the revolution!” Now Blanchett is a grieving widow telling a funeral congregation, “to lick the penumbra and float in the big mouth filled with honey and excrement”. Now she’s an American news anchor in the studio, talking to a reporter standing in the rain under an umbrella.
- 11/17/2017
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
From Japanese director Takashi Miike’s 100th film Blade of the Immortal to Cate Blanchett playing 13 different characters in Manifesto, here's what you could catch on Day 5 at the 19th Jio Mami Mumbai Film Festival with Star...
- 10/14/2017
- Film Companion
With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options — not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves — we’ve taken it upon ourselves to highlight the titles that have recently hit platforms. Every week, one will be able to see the cream of the crop (or perhaps some simply interesting picks) of streaming titles (new and old) across platforms such as Netflix, iTunes, Amazon, and more (note: U.S. only). Check out our rundown for this week’s selections below.
After the Storm (Hirokazu Kore-eda)
Can our children pick and choose the personality traits they inherit, or are they doomed to obtain our lesser qualities? These are the hard questions being meditated on in After the Storm, a sobering, transcendent tale of a divorced man’s efforts to nudge back into his son’s life. Beautifully shot by regular cinematographer Yutaka Yamasaki, it marks a welcome and quite brilliant...
After the Storm (Hirokazu Kore-eda)
Can our children pick and choose the personality traits they inherit, or are they doomed to obtain our lesser qualities? These are the hard questions being meditated on in After the Storm, a sobering, transcendent tale of a divorced man’s efforts to nudge back into his son’s life. Beautifully shot by regular cinematographer Yutaka Yamasaki, it marks a welcome and quite brilliant...
- 8/11/2017
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Amazon Studios just landed a major in-development title with the acquisition of Cate Blanchett and Aaron Sorkin’s untitled Lucille Ball biopic drama. The actress has been in talks to star as the “I Love Lucy” comedienne since Variety first broke the casting news in September 2015, but now it appears the project is officially nearing a production start.
Read MoreCate Blanchett Plays 13 Characters in ‘Manifesto’ Because She’s Frustrated That Film Has Become Far Too Literal
Casting is now underway for the actor to play Ball’s husband and screen partner Desi Arnaz. Deadline reports that Javier Bardem is an early contender. Sorkin will be handling screenplay duties and using the memoirs written by the two subjects for inspiration. The couple’s children, Lucie Luckinbill and Desi Arnaz Jr., are involved in the authorized biopic as producers.
The news comes just ahead of a busy fall for both Blanchett and Sorkin.
Read MoreCate Blanchett Plays 13 Characters in ‘Manifesto’ Because She’s Frustrated That Film Has Become Far Too Literal
Casting is now underway for the actor to play Ball’s husband and screen partner Desi Arnaz. Deadline reports that Javier Bardem is an early contender. Sorkin will be handling screenplay duties and using the memoirs written by the two subjects for inspiration. The couple’s children, Lucie Luckinbill and Desi Arnaz Jr., are involved in the authorized biopic as producers.
The news comes just ahead of a busy fall for both Blanchett and Sorkin.
- 8/7/2017
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Julian Rosefeldt’s Manifesto began as an art installation. An exhibition that invited visitors to walk through and experience 13 screens, each screen presenting a monologue, a manifesto. The film is ultimately a statement about art.
- 5/26/2017
- by Jazz Tangcay
- AwardsDaily.com
The Cannes Film Festival — impossibly glamorous, unapologetically auteurist — is the world’s most aspirational film festival. And this week, it’s hosting filmmakers like Bong Joon Ho and Noah Baumbach as they premiere films that will skip theaters entirely in favor of a Netflix premiere. So, for those up-and-coming filmmakers who aspire: Is it time to exchange dreams of the big screen in favor of the red logo?
It’s not a simple question; to pose it suggests cinephile disloyalty. However, the increasing artistic acceptance of Netflix, along with its overwhelming ubiquity, means that independent filmmakers owe it to themselves to consider the facts on all sides.
Read More: Cannes 2017 – Will Smith Clashes With Pedro Almodóvar Over Netflix
How Are Netflix and Amazon Affecting My Distribution Options?
Even if a filmmaker swears undying loyalty to theatrical distribution, subscription-based VOD like Netflix, Amazon, and Hulu already control the game. While Svod platforms may offer equal access,...
It’s not a simple question; to pose it suggests cinephile disloyalty. However, the increasing artistic acceptance of Netflix, along with its overwhelming ubiquity, means that independent filmmakers owe it to themselves to consider the facts on all sides.
Read More: Cannes 2017 – Will Smith Clashes With Pedro Almodóvar Over Netflix
How Are Netflix and Amazon Affecting My Distribution Options?
Even if a filmmaker swears undying loyalty to theatrical distribution, subscription-based VOD like Netflix, Amazon, and Hulu already control the game. While Svod platforms may offer equal access,...
- 5/24/2017
- by Chris O'Falt
- Indiewire
This weekend, the entire specialized industry is huddled in Cannes in search of the next big things. On the home front, just three noteworthy films opened, each on a single Manhattan screen. Two of them, the Bryan Cranston-starring “Wakefield” and Steve James’ financial world set documentary “Abacus: Small Enough to Jail,” showed some life.
Eleanor Coppola’s “Paris Can Wait” had a promising second-weekend expansion, and looks to be the standout over the next month and more. Still, results remain minor after a couple post-awards months led by “Gifted” and “The Zookeeper’s Wife.”
Opening
Wakefield (IFC) – Metacritic: 60; Festivals include: Telluride, Toronto 2016
$14,120 in 1 theater: PTA (per theater average): $14,120
Bryan Cranston has become an omnipresent force in TV, Broadway, and features. This film, opening many months after its September festival premieres, “Wakefield” puts him front and center as a Manhattan law partner who zones out of his suburban life...
Eleanor Coppola’s “Paris Can Wait” had a promising second-weekend expansion, and looks to be the standout over the next month and more. Still, results remain minor after a couple post-awards months led by “Gifted” and “The Zookeeper’s Wife.”
Opening
Wakefield (IFC) – Metacritic: 60; Festivals include: Telluride, Toronto 2016
$14,120 in 1 theater: PTA (per theater average): $14,120
Bryan Cranston has become an omnipresent force in TV, Broadway, and features. This film, opening many months after its September festival premieres, “Wakefield” puts him front and center as a Manhattan law partner who zones out of his suburban life...
- 5/21/2017
- by Tom Brueggemann
- Indiewire
It's impossible to quantify what it takes to be a quality director – but damn, you know it when you see it. And you'll see it clear and strong in Paint It Black, a staggeringly impressive feature directing debut for actress Amber Tamblyn.
Adapting Janet Fitch's 2006 novel with her co-screenwriter Ed Dougherty, Tamblyn chooses a hot-button topic for her first behind-the-camera endeavor: suicide. It's a subject that, even when handled daringly – as in the Netflix series 13 Reasons Why or in the Broadway musical Dear Evan Hansen – lays itself open to charges of trivialization or,...
Adapting Janet Fitch's 2006 novel with her co-screenwriter Ed Dougherty, Tamblyn chooses a hot-button topic for her first behind-the-camera endeavor: suicide. It's a subject that, even when handled daringly – as in the Netflix series 13 Reasons Why or in the Broadway musical Dear Evan Hansen – lays itself open to charges of trivialization or,...
- 5/18/2017
- Rollingstone.com
Ambition in film doesn't get enough credit these days – maybe because it's so rare. But the daring of writer-director Robin Swicord is all over Wakefield. Based on a 2008 short story by E.L. Doctorow (and before that, an 1835 tale from none other than Nathaniel Hawthorne), the film gets whisper-close to Howard Wakefield (Bryan Cranston), a New York lawyer who turns his life upside down. He's so fed up with the Groundhog Day-ish sameness of his routine – working in his Manhattan office, commuting home to his wife Diana (Jennifer Garner) and...
- 5/17/2017
- Rollingstone.com
As specialized distributors head to Cannes, Eleanor Coppola’s French valentine “Paris Can Wait” (Sony Pictures Classics) scored with arthouse moviegoers. It’s only the fourth 2017 limited release to break the increasingly rare $20,000 per-theater-average mark.
These days, movies with older audience appeal are sustaining the market — and will likely form the core demo for similar available new films at Cannes. Eleanor Coppola (“Apocalypse Now” documentary “Heart of Darkness”) makes her narrative film debut at 81 with her semi-autobiographical first screenplay, starring Diane Lane as the wife of a self-involved film producer (Alec Baldwin).
New York also saw a handful of other small but still promising initial results, led by Cate Blanchett stunt-theater piece “Manifesto” (Film Rise), Israeli marriage story “The Wedding Plan” (Roadside Attractions) and “Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe” (First Run).
Netflix’s timely Tribeca documentary “Get Me Roger Stone,” an eye-opening portrait of Donald Trump’s flamboyant dark knight,...
These days, movies with older audience appeal are sustaining the market — and will likely form the core demo for similar available new films at Cannes. Eleanor Coppola (“Apocalypse Now” documentary “Heart of Darkness”) makes her narrative film debut at 81 with her semi-autobiographical first screenplay, starring Diane Lane as the wife of a self-involved film producer (Alec Baldwin).
New York also saw a handful of other small but still promising initial results, led by Cate Blanchett stunt-theater piece “Manifesto” (Film Rise), Israeli marriage story “The Wedding Plan” (Roadside Attractions) and “Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe” (First Run).
Netflix’s timely Tribeca documentary “Get Me Roger Stone,” an eye-opening portrait of Donald Trump’s flamboyant dark knight,...
- 5/14/2017
- by Tom Brueggemann
- Indiewire
After a jam-packed weekend of new Specialty releases last week, the tide continues with a full roster of new limited roll-outs just as the summer blockbuster season heads into full swing. The weekend’s largest Specialty debuts include Amazon Studios/Roadside Attractions’ The Wall by Doug Liman and starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson and John Cena, which will open in north of five hundred locations, as well as Bh Tilt’s Lowriders by Ricardo de Montreuil with Eva Longoria, Demián Bichir and Gabriel Chavarria with nearly three hundred runs. Sony Classics is going traditional with the New York and L.A. bow of Diane Lane starrer Paris Can Wait, which the distributor is hoping will tap a collective societal need to escape — in this case, to the French countryside. Cate Blanchett plays 13 different characters in artist-director Julian Rosefeldt’s Manifesto (FilmRise), which is based on his multi-screen installation presented in New York...
- 5/12/2017
- by Brian Brooks
- Deadline Film + TV
Every week, museums around the country host numerous art installations both new and old. Be it a simple one channel loop that may leave a viewer scratching their heads, or a rapturous multi-channel piece that bewilders as much as moves. However, very few, if any, of these pieces get adapted to a feature length film that finds its way into cinemas across the country.
Beginning such a rollout this week is artist Julian Rosefeldt’s new film, Manifesto. Adapting Rosefeldt’s beloved multi-channel installation of the same name, Manifesto stars Cate Blanchett as 13 different characters drawing from numerous artistic and political manifestos ranging from Dadaism to Dogme 95. Not necessarily set during the time period that correlates to the rise or formation of the specific art movements, Rosefeldt transplants these manifestos into the modern day. There’s Blanchett whispering about pop art while praying at the family dinner table, only to...
Beginning such a rollout this week is artist Julian Rosefeldt’s new film, Manifesto. Adapting Rosefeldt’s beloved multi-channel installation of the same name, Manifesto stars Cate Blanchett as 13 different characters drawing from numerous artistic and political manifestos ranging from Dadaism to Dogme 95. Not necessarily set during the time period that correlates to the rise or formation of the specific art movements, Rosefeldt transplants these manifestos into the modern day. There’s Blanchett whispering about pop art while praying at the family dinner table, only to...
- 5/12/2017
- by Joshua Brunsting
- CriterionCast
Today's Must Read
"I am Diane Keaton's Crisp White Shirt" an imagined monologue by Charlotte Barnett. I can't even describe how much I love this, guys. I love it as hard as Diane Keaton's crying jag in Somethings Gotta Give is long.
I am immaculate, woven by gods from fibers of cotton and Nancy Meyers’ discarded screenplays...
Movies
EW talks to Cate Blanchett about Manifesto but works in a Carol bit, too, bless them.
Interview talks to Tracy Letts of The Lovers about his dual career as acclaimed actor and award winning playwright
Go Fug Yourself Elle Fanning on the cover of Vogue
Tracking Board Jeff Goldblum's career is busiers than ever. Now he's signed on for a thriller called Hotel Artemis with Jodie Foster and Sofia Boutella
EW Anya Taylor-Joy and Maise Williams will play Magik and Wolfsbane in the New Mutants movie. (But it's still...
"I am Diane Keaton's Crisp White Shirt" an imagined monologue by Charlotte Barnett. I can't even describe how much I love this, guys. I love it as hard as Diane Keaton's crying jag in Somethings Gotta Give is long.
I am immaculate, woven by gods from fibers of cotton and Nancy Meyers’ discarded screenplays...
Movies
EW talks to Cate Blanchett about Manifesto but works in a Carol bit, too, bless them.
Interview talks to Tracy Letts of The Lovers about his dual career as acclaimed actor and award winning playwright
Go Fug Yourself Elle Fanning on the cover of Vogue
Tracking Board Jeff Goldblum's career is busiers than ever. Now he's signed on for a thriller called Hotel Artemis with Jodie Foster and Sofia Boutella
EW Anya Taylor-Joy and Maise Williams will play Magik and Wolfsbane in the New Mutants movie. (But it's still...
- 5/12/2017
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Films labeled as “art house cinema” have the potential to be either an intoxicating experience that successfully challenges the cinematic norms, or a sluggish, pretentious affair that results in angry moviegoers heading for the exits. Manifesto by Julian Rosefeldt could easily be one or the other, but with Cate Blanchett playing 12 different characters in the movie the ability to take your... Read More...
- 5/11/2017
- by Matt Rooney
- JoBlo.com
“I loved the movie,” I told Cate Blanchett.
“Is it a movie?” Cate Blanchett replied.
“Um…” I said, still shaking her hand.
“Really,” she said. “I was hoping you could tell me.”
In another context, that could have been a trick question. But I was meeting with the Artist Formerly Known as Carol to discuss “Manifesto,” and there are no easy answers when it comes to the her beguiling collaboration with German video pioneer Julian Rosefeldt (whom she met at a gallery opening six years ago and vowed to work with that same night). In fact, it could be argued that the movie — or not movie — exists to embarrass easy answers, to encourage critical thinking, to challenge our preconceptions of what art should be and what art should be called.
Read More: Cate Blanchett In ‘Manifesto’: Julian Rosefeldt’s Stunning Film Installation is a Masterclass in Performance — Review
Initially...
“Is it a movie?” Cate Blanchett replied.
“Um…” I said, still shaking her hand.
“Really,” she said. “I was hoping you could tell me.”
In another context, that could have been a trick question. But I was meeting with the Artist Formerly Known as Carol to discuss “Manifesto,” and there are no easy answers when it comes to the her beguiling collaboration with German video pioneer Julian Rosefeldt (whom she met at a gallery opening six years ago and vowed to work with that same night). In fact, it could be argued that the movie — or not movie — exists to embarrass easy answers, to encourage critical thinking, to challenge our preconceptions of what art should be and what art should be called.
Read More: Cate Blanchett In ‘Manifesto’: Julian Rosefeldt’s Stunning Film Installation is a Masterclass in Performance — Review
Initially...
- 5/11/2017
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Take one Oscar-winning actor. Pair her with a German visual artist, one with a puckish sense of humor. Give her 13 different roles, including female archetypes ranging from a Southern housewife to a blow-dried broadcast newsreader, and pray that Cindy Sherman doesn't sue. And then give her some of the most (in)famous declarations of sociopolitical/artistic intent ever written – Marx to Maples Arce, Dziga Vertov to Guy Debord, Dada to Dogme '95 – to speak in lieu of dialogue, while totally in character. At this point, you are either breathing heavy...
- 5/10/2017
- Rollingstone.com
Title: Manifesto Director: Julian Rosefeldt Starring: Cate Blanchett ‘Manifesto’ is the film that any contemporary artist would dream of having shot. Born out of the genius of acclaimed visual artist Julian Rosefeldt, the movie retraces the 20th century art movements and their statements, creating a video art installation that is unprecedented. The telegraphic narrative with […]
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- 5/10/2017
- by Chiara Spagnoli Gabardi
- ShockYa
A conservative mother leads her family in a lunchtime prayer on pop art. A tattooed punk screams about stridentism at a roomful of drugged-out partiers. A teacher stifles her students’ creativity with the harsh dictates of the Dogme 95 movement. Cate Blanchett, the preternatural shape-shifter who can slink into Bob Dylan or Katherine Hepburn with equal ease, embodies these and nine other souls in Manifesto, the art installation turned feature film from Julian Rosefeldt. Manifesto premiered in 2015 as a 13-screen sensory wonder at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image. The installation asks viewers to move from screen to […]...
- 5/9/2017
- by Soheil Rezayazdi
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Manifesto may require a cheat sheet. Indeed, press received one during a screening of the new film by German installation artist Julian Rosefeldt, which stars Cate Blanchett in 13 different roles. Actually, “roles” may not be precisely the right term. Blanchett plays archetypes—each existing in a different scenario—who recite, either in voice-over or as dialogue, the philosophies of various artists and thinkers. As a New York-accented broker, she talks up futurism, the early-20th-century, machinery-worshipping discipline. In the guise of a harsh, red-haired mourner speaking at a funeral, she discusses the anti-art of Dada. If you’re well-versed in art history, some of the arguments might be familiar. If you’re not, you may be a little lost. That could be the point.
Blanchett is as virtuosic as you might expect. The chameleonic quality she exhibited in I’m Not There (and in Coffee And Cigarettes, where she played...
Blanchett is as virtuosic as you might expect. The chameleonic quality she exhibited in I’m Not There (and in Coffee And Cigarettes, where she played...
- 5/9/2017
- by Esther Zuckerman
- avclub.com
Memorial Day weekend is still weeks away, but summer blockbusters are out in full force: Marvel's crowd-pleasing oddballs come back for seconds, Captain Jack Sparrow and friends take to the waves for a fifth time, the Xenomorph gets yet another helping of terrified human-meat, King Arthur goes gritty-reboot and a big-screen Baywatch attracts a new wave of leering stares. Those in search of something a little smaller-scale have plenty to choose from too, from Cate Blanchett's high-art masterclass to a pair of docs burrowing into a pair of specific cultural phenomena.
- 5/2/2017
- Rollingstone.com
Cate Blanchett and Julian Rosefeldt talk Manifesto animals and more inside the Crosby Street Hotel Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Through the words of Yvonne Rainer, Louis Aragon, Olga Rozanova, Guy Debord, Lars von Trier, Stan Brakhage, Werner Herzog, Jim Jarmusch, Thomas Vinterberg, Tristan Tzara, Paul Éluard, Claes Oldenburg, Sol LeWitt, Barnett Newman, Kurt Schwitters, Francis Picabia, André Breton, Antonio Sant'Elia, Lebbeus Woods and others in Julian Rosefeldt's film Manifesto, a chameleonic Cate Blanchett in 14 roles, speaks lines of truth and dare to us giving them all new context in contemporary situations.
Cate Blanchett: "Julian and I were both in New York and we sat down and he had come up with sort of about fifty characters, about fifty, sixty different scenarios." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
The role of the Manifesto animals as being "another way of portraying humanity", how the changing of the settings each day "was a...
Through the words of Yvonne Rainer, Louis Aragon, Olga Rozanova, Guy Debord, Lars von Trier, Stan Brakhage, Werner Herzog, Jim Jarmusch, Thomas Vinterberg, Tristan Tzara, Paul Éluard, Claes Oldenburg, Sol LeWitt, Barnett Newman, Kurt Schwitters, Francis Picabia, André Breton, Antonio Sant'Elia, Lebbeus Woods and others in Julian Rosefeldt's film Manifesto, a chameleonic Cate Blanchett in 14 roles, speaks lines of truth and dare to us giving them all new context in contemporary situations.
Cate Blanchett: "Julian and I were both in New York and we sat down and he had come up with sort of about fifty characters, about fifty, sixty different scenarios." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
The role of the Manifesto animals as being "another way of portraying humanity", how the changing of the settings each day "was a...
- 4/28/2017
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
She’s been a star for twenty years now, but Cate Blanchett is still capable of surprising us. Not only does she only seem to go from strength to strength as a performer (we think of the greatness of her performance in “Carol” probably three times a week), but the choices that she makes or projects show a brilliant mix of experimentation and nurturing her A-list status, whether she’s playing a Marvel villain in the upcoming “Thor: Ragnarok,” teaming up with Terrence Malick for three films in a row, joining the ensemble of “Ocean’s Eight,” or playing thirteen different roles in art-movie “Manifesto.
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- 4/28/2017
- by Oliver Lyttelton
- The Playlist
It’s hard to pinpoint exactly what Manifesto really is. A collaborative art project? A chance to marvel at the majesty of Cate Blanchett for 90 minutes? A history lesson on the many movements that have swept through art and politics over the decades? This is all true. But is it unmissable? That’s where things get tricky. […]
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- 4/27/2017
- by Jamie Righetti
- Slash Film
Attempting to codify director Julian Rosefeldt’s Manifesto is like attempting to unify a mass of artistic movements into a clearly defined and coherent whole without contradiction. Which makes sense, as the apparent theme behind Rosefeldt’s film is that the nebulous nature of art defies definition or unification. In Manifesto, artistic movements interact with, react to, and undermine one another through the person of Cate Blanchett, who represents them on screen, and through the mis-en-scene that mirrors the essence of the words, just as the words mirror the essence of the art they describe.
Manifesto creates a loosely defined argument comprised of thirteen vignettes, all of them featuring Blanchett as the central character in a variety of roles from different social classes, ages, and professions (among them a school teacher, a punk, a grieving widow, an industrial worker, a socialite, and a homeless man). The monologues she speaks draw...
Manifesto creates a loosely defined argument comprised of thirteen vignettes, all of them featuring Blanchett as the central character in a variety of roles from different social classes, ages, and professions (among them a school teacher, a punk, a grieving widow, an industrial worker, a socialite, and a homeless man). The monologues she speaks draw...
- 4/27/2017
- by Lauren Humphries-Brooks
- We Got This Covered
Cate Blanchett practically eats the camera lens in “Manifesto,” a feature by artist Julian Rosefeldt that began life as an installation at the Park Avenue Armory show in Manhattan. Blanchett plays 13 separate characters who deliver various manifestos, and these reach from Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels preaching on economics in the mid-19th century to rules for filmmaking delivered by director Jim Jarmusch in 2004. The surprise here is that Rosefeldt has managed to deliver an intellectually-charged, cheeky, and very funny film that feels unruly and expansive in spite of its tight 12-day shooting schedule and its focus on just one.
- 4/26/2017
- by Dan Callahan
- The Wrap
Title: Manifesto Director: Julian Rosefeldt Starring: Cate Blanchett ‘Manifesto’ is the film that any contemporary artist would dream of having shot. Born out of the genius of acclaimed visual artist Julian Rosefeldt, the movie retraces the 20th century art movements and their statements, creating a video art installation that is unprecedented. The telegraphic narrative with […]
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- 4/24/2017
- by Chiara Spagnoli Gabardi
- ShockYa
Oren Moverman's Time Out of Mind and The Dinner star Richard Gere Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
The Tribeca Film Festival will open this Wednesday, April 19, with the World Premiere of Clive Davis: The Soundtrack Of Our Lives at Radio City Music Hall, followed by performances with Aretha Franklin, Jennifer Hudson, and Earth, Wind & Fire. A transformative Cate Blanchett in Julian Rosefeldt's Manifesto; Sandy Chronopoulos's exposé on Zac Posen, featuring Lola Kirke, André Leon Talley, Stella Schnabel, Paz de la Huerta, Claire Danes and Naomi Campbell in House of Z; Richard Gere (Joseph Cedar's Norman: The Moderate Rise And Tragic Fall Of A New York Fixer), Laura Linney, Steve Coogan and Rebecca Hall in Oren Moverman's The Dinner; Rachel Israel's Keep The Change with Brandon Polansky and Samantha Elisofon are four of this year's feature highlights.
An episode spoofing Spike Jonze and Viceland with Emmy Harrington...
The Tribeca Film Festival will open this Wednesday, April 19, with the World Premiere of Clive Davis: The Soundtrack Of Our Lives at Radio City Music Hall, followed by performances with Aretha Franklin, Jennifer Hudson, and Earth, Wind & Fire. A transformative Cate Blanchett in Julian Rosefeldt's Manifesto; Sandy Chronopoulos's exposé on Zac Posen, featuring Lola Kirke, André Leon Talley, Stella Schnabel, Paz de la Huerta, Claire Danes and Naomi Campbell in House of Z; Richard Gere (Joseph Cedar's Norman: The Moderate Rise And Tragic Fall Of A New York Fixer), Laura Linney, Steve Coogan and Rebecca Hall in Oren Moverman's The Dinner; Rachel Israel's Keep The Change with Brandon Polansky and Samantha Elisofon are four of this year's feature highlights.
An episode spoofing Spike Jonze and Viceland with Emmy Harrington...
- 4/18/2017
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Exclusive: UK distributor re-named after parent company.
UK distributor Soda Pictures has rebranded and reorganised as Thunderbird Releasing.
Soda was acquired by Canadian production company Thunderbird Entertainment Inc. in 2014 and the name change sees the Thunderbird brand extend into the theatrical distribution business and the UK marketplace.
Upcoming Soda/Thunderbird projects include Oscar-nominated films A Man Called Ove, Land Of Mine and My Life As A Courgette.
In February, the company picked up Cate Blanchett multi-character drama Manifesto for the UK and Ireland.
Thunderbird Entertainment are a film and television production company based in Vancouver and are executive producers of the upcoming Blade Runner 2049 starring Ryan Gosling.
Soda was set up in 2002 by Eve Gabereau and Edward Fletcher and specialises in arthouse, independent and world cinema.
UK distributor Soda Pictures has rebranded and reorganised as Thunderbird Releasing.
Soda was acquired by Canadian production company Thunderbird Entertainment Inc. in 2014 and the name change sees the Thunderbird brand extend into the theatrical distribution business and the UK marketplace.
Upcoming Soda/Thunderbird projects include Oscar-nominated films A Man Called Ove, Land Of Mine and My Life As A Courgette.
In February, the company picked up Cate Blanchett multi-character drama Manifesto for the UK and Ireland.
Thunderbird Entertainment are a film and television production company based in Vancouver and are executive producers of the upcoming Blade Runner 2049 starring Ryan Gosling.
Soda was set up in 2002 by Eve Gabereau and Edward Fletcher and specialises in arthouse, independent and world cinema.
- 4/12/2017
- by orlando.parfitt@screendaily.com (Orlando Parfitt)
- ScreenDaily
This year, the news coming out of CinemaCon bears watching with a closeness usually reserved for healthcare bills.
The prime topic sounds as wonky as they come: theatrical windows. That cozy phrase, which describes the grace period between a film’s theatrical release and when it’s made available for in-home consumption, has been weaponized. Studios are mulling the real possibility of closing theatrical windows in favor of allowing the audience to pay super-premium prices to watch first-run blockbusters at home.
If that’s the case, those windows are also poised to slam down on indie fingers — but the industry still has the opportunity to yank them out of the way. What it can’t do is believe that somehow the industry will remain the same.
Read More: 7 Filmmakers Turning Amazon Into An Art House Cinema Powerhouse
This time last year, Sean Parker’s The Screening Room created an uproar...
The prime topic sounds as wonky as they come: theatrical windows. That cozy phrase, which describes the grace period between a film’s theatrical release and when it’s made available for in-home consumption, has been weaponized. Studios are mulling the real possibility of closing theatrical windows in favor of allowing the audience to pay super-premium prices to watch first-run blockbusters at home.
If that’s the case, those windows are also poised to slam down on indie fingers — but the industry still has the opportunity to yank them out of the way. What it can’t do is believe that somehow the industry will remain the same.
Read More: 7 Filmmakers Turning Amazon Into An Art House Cinema Powerhouse
This time last year, Sean Parker’s The Screening Room created an uproar...
- 3/28/2017
- by Dana Harris
- Indiewire
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