Batman: Caped Crusader is only a day away from being released and I have already watched the series and reviewed it on our site. The only thing I want to say is that I am so excited for all the Batman and specifically Batman: The Animated Series fans to watch this series. The upcoming Prime Video series was described as the spiritual successor to The Animated Series and that’s exactly what it is.
Set in the 1940s, Caped Crusader follows a new-to-the-job Batman who doesn’t have many fancy gadgets but what he does have is a brilliant mind for clues and his fists to keep the weirdos and costumed supervillains in check. With the help of his allies, Batman fights against the rising criminal activities in Gotham. So, if you love Batman: The Animated Series and are excited about all the mayhem in Batman: Caped Crusader, here are...
Set in the 1940s, Caped Crusader follows a new-to-the-job Batman who doesn’t have many fancy gadgets but what he does have is a brilliant mind for clues and his fists to keep the weirdos and costumed supervillains in check. With the help of his allies, Batman fights against the rising criminal activities in Gotham. So, if you love Batman: The Animated Series and are excited about all the mayhem in Batman: Caped Crusader, here are...
- 7/31/2024
- by Kulwant Singh
- Cinema Blind
Joaquin Phoenix and Casey Affleck are both wonderful actors and have starred and contributed to several noteworthy projects. Having made a mark in the film industry as impeccable performers, the two actors once came together for an infamous project, to make a ‘documentary-esque’ film that turned out to be a ‘mockumentary’.
Joaquin Phoenix [as Arthur Fleck in 2019’s Joker | Warner Bros. Pictures]I’m Still Here, starring Phoenix as the lead and directed by Affleck, grossed over $737K worldwide. The film’s aftermath was so that it could have ended the two actors’ careers for sure.
When Joaquin Phoenix and Casey Affleck Risked Their Careers for a $737K Movie
Casey Affleck | Photo by Bex Walton, licensed under Cc By 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Joaquin Phoenix and Casey Affleck used to be the best of friends. Having met each other on the sets of To Die For, a 1995 film, the duo later got close when Affleck married...
Joaquin Phoenix [as Arthur Fleck in 2019’s Joker | Warner Bros. Pictures]I’m Still Here, starring Phoenix as the lead and directed by Affleck, grossed over $737K worldwide. The film’s aftermath was so that it could have ended the two actors’ careers for sure.
When Joaquin Phoenix and Casey Affleck Risked Their Careers for a $737K Movie
Casey Affleck | Photo by Bex Walton, licensed under Cc By 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Joaquin Phoenix and Casey Affleck used to be the best of friends. Having met each other on the sets of To Die For, a 1995 film, the duo later got close when Affleck married...
- 7/28/2024
- by Maria Sultan
- FandomWire
Tom Bower, the busy character actor who portrayed Dr. Curtis Willard on The Waltons and the janitor, Marvin, who helps John McClane foil the terrorists at the airport in Die Hard 2, has died. He was 86.
Bower died last week of an unknown cause at his home in Los Angeles, his brother, Robert Bower, told The Hollywood Reporter.
Bower worked on John Cassavetes’ directorial debut, Shadows (1957), and played one of the translators that make a mess of things in the acclaimed Western The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez (1982), starring Edward James Olmos.
He portrayed the father of the 37th U.S. president in Oliver Stone’s Nixon (1995), starring Anthony Hopkins, and the father of Nicolas Cage’s Terence McDonagh in Werner Herzog’s Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009).
And, he appeared for director Scott Cooper in Crazy Heart (2009) — as the agent of Jeff Bridges’ Bad Blake — and Out of the Furnace...
Bower died last week of an unknown cause at his home in Los Angeles, his brother, Robert Bower, told The Hollywood Reporter.
Bower worked on John Cassavetes’ directorial debut, Shadows (1957), and played one of the translators that make a mess of things in the acclaimed Western The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez (1982), starring Edward James Olmos.
He portrayed the father of the 37th U.S. president in Oliver Stone’s Nixon (1995), starring Anthony Hopkins, and the father of Nicolas Cage’s Terence McDonagh in Werner Herzog’s Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009).
And, he appeared for director Scott Cooper in Crazy Heart (2009) — as the agent of Jeff Bridges’ Bad Blake — and Out of the Furnace...
- 6/6/2024
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
In 2005 and in 2007, director Tim Story made a pair of feature films starring the Fantastic Four, one of Marvel Comics' most superlative titles. "Fantastic Four," created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, was more or less a family sitcom except the three family members and their best friend all happened to have superpowers. It was light and comedic, while also featuring bloviating, demonstrative supervillains who shouted regularly about the glories of world domination. It was a comic book series that declared itself to be The World's Greatest Comics Magazine!
Story's feature film adaptations were not very well received when they were released. 2005's "Fantastic Four" only bears a 28% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, while its sequel, "Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer," only has a 38% approval rating. Moreso, Marvel Comics fans were harsh to Story's movies, hating their cartoony tone and corny scripts. It's worth acknowledging, however, that Story's...
Story's feature film adaptations were not very well received when they were released. 2005's "Fantastic Four" only bears a 28% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, while its sequel, "Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer," only has a 38% approval rating. Moreso, Marvel Comics fans were harsh to Story's movies, hating their cartoony tone and corny scripts. It's worth acknowledging, however, that Story's...
- 12/2/2023
- by Witney Seibold
- Slash Film
Stars: Sasha Luss, Isabelle Fuhrman, Wallis Day, Skai Jackson, Jack Kesy | Written and Directed by Jordan Gertner
Sheroes, the writing and directing debut of producer Jordan Gertner begins with a look into the lives of its four leads Diamond, Ezra, Ryder and Daisy.
Their lives are so hard that all of them end up exclaiming “This is such fucking bullshit” at the misery of private yoga lessons by the pool, selling art in an upscale gallery, being an actress or a professional skateboarder. You really feel bad for these poor young ladies and totally understand their need to jump on Diamond’s father’s private jet and fly to his villa in Thailand for a booze and drug-fueled vacation.
Complications and cliches ensue when one of their suitcases is accidentally switched with one full of cocaine. Which they proceed to snort the hell out of only to wake up the...
Sheroes, the writing and directing debut of producer Jordan Gertner begins with a look into the lives of its four leads Diamond, Ezra, Ryder and Daisy.
Their lives are so hard that all of them end up exclaiming “This is such fucking bullshit” at the misery of private yoga lessons by the pool, selling art in an upscale gallery, being an actress or a professional skateboarder. You really feel bad for these poor young ladies and totally understand their need to jump on Diamond’s father’s private jet and fly to his villa in Thailand for a booze and drug-fueled vacation.
Complications and cliches ensue when one of their suitcases is accidentally switched with one full of cocaine. Which they proceed to snort the hell out of only to wake up the...
- 6/29/2023
- by Jim Morazzini
- Nerdly
Writer, director and actress Rebecca Miller discusses a few of her favorite films with hosts Josh Olson and Joe Dante.
Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode
Personal Velocity: Three Portraits (2002)
The Ballad Of Jack And Rose (2005)
The Private Lives Of Pippa Lee (2009)
Maggie’s Plan (2015)
Explorers (1985)
The Way We Were (1973)
Battleship Potemkin (1925)
Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday (1953)
Annie Hall (1977)
Repulsion (1965)
Rosemary’s Baby (1968)
Knife In The Water (1962)
The Tenant (1976)
Cries and Whispers (1972)
Persona (1966)
The Magician (1958)
Hour Of The Wolf (1968)
The Virgin Spring (1960)
The Seventh Seal (1957)
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)
The Exorcist (1973)
The Shining (1980)
La Dolce Vita (1960)
Regarding Henry (1991)
Angela (1995)
Badlands (1973)
Casino (1995)
On The Waterfront (1954)
My Dinner with Andre (1981)
Jules and Jim (1962)
The Bitter Tears Of Petra von Kant (1972)
Wings Of Desire (1987)
The Killer Inside Me (1976)
The Killer Inside Me (2010)
Married To The Mob (1988)
Blue Velvet (1986)
Dune (1984)
Imitation Of Life (1934)
Imitation Of Life (1959)
Written On The Wind (1956)
Magnificent Obsession (1954)
All That Heaven Allows...
Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode
Personal Velocity: Three Portraits (2002)
The Ballad Of Jack And Rose (2005)
The Private Lives Of Pippa Lee (2009)
Maggie’s Plan (2015)
Explorers (1985)
The Way We Were (1973)
Battleship Potemkin (1925)
Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday (1953)
Annie Hall (1977)
Repulsion (1965)
Rosemary’s Baby (1968)
Knife In The Water (1962)
The Tenant (1976)
Cries and Whispers (1972)
Persona (1966)
The Magician (1958)
Hour Of The Wolf (1968)
The Virgin Spring (1960)
The Seventh Seal (1957)
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)
The Exorcist (1973)
The Shining (1980)
La Dolce Vita (1960)
Regarding Henry (1991)
Angela (1995)
Badlands (1973)
Casino (1995)
On The Waterfront (1954)
My Dinner with Andre (1981)
Jules and Jim (1962)
The Bitter Tears Of Petra von Kant (1972)
Wings Of Desire (1987)
The Killer Inside Me (1976)
The Killer Inside Me (2010)
Married To The Mob (1988)
Blue Velvet (1986)
Dune (1984)
Imitation Of Life (1934)
Imitation Of Life (1959)
Written On The Wind (1956)
Magnificent Obsession (1954)
All That Heaven Allows...
- 5/11/2021
- by Kris Millsap
- Trailers from Hell
We are living in the age of extraordinary horror films. The cinematic offerings to satisfy our cravings for a good scare or a story so terrifying it gives us nightmares have taken on many new forms, all exciting — and sometimes challenging. With the 2021 Sundance Film Festival wrapping up, let’s acknowledge that the Park City event has consistently been a great launching pad for new genre voices from around the world (Check out the AMC+ collection of past Sundance winners and festival favorites). Movies that begin their journey there go on to haunt audiences and often reshape our perception of the genre.
In the robust library of AMC+, you can see quite clearly how horror is no longer limited to studio-made films. In indie auteurs’ hands, horror has become the vehicle for stories with distinct points of view. And there are even non-fiction efforts that dig deeper into the significance and craft of revered classics.
In the robust library of AMC+, you can see quite clearly how horror is no longer limited to studio-made films. In indie auteurs’ hands, horror has become the vehicle for stories with distinct points of view. And there are even non-fiction efforts that dig deeper into the significance and craft of revered classics.
- 2/1/2021
- by IndieWire Staff
- Indiewire
The Killer Inside Me: Landon Continues Recycled Tropes for Latest Buffet of Thrills and Kills
Director Christopher Landon, now a revered alum at Blumhouse Productions for his Happy Death Day (2017) and Happy Death Day 2 U (2019) titles (he also cut his teeth on the tail end of the production company’s most profitable franchise in 2014’s Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones) segues from reconstituting Groundhog Day (1993) to a horror film version of Freaky Friday’s body switching antics for the succinctly titled Freaky.
Although its title suggests a grab bag of shocking, grotesque titillations, Landon has merely retrofitted this familiar formula for a scenario which is never as novel as it sounds—a high school pariah switching bodies with the serial killer ravaging teenagers in her home town.…...
Director Christopher Landon, now a revered alum at Blumhouse Productions for his Happy Death Day (2017) and Happy Death Day 2 U (2019) titles (he also cut his teeth on the tail end of the production company’s most profitable franchise in 2014’s Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones) segues from reconstituting Groundhog Day (1993) to a horror film version of Freaky Friday’s body switching antics for the succinctly titled Freaky.
Although its title suggests a grab bag of shocking, grotesque titillations, Landon has merely retrofitted this familiar formula for a scenario which is never as novel as it sounds—a high school pariah switching bodies with the serial killer ravaging teenagers in her home town.…...
- 11/9/2020
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
“The Devil All the Time,” debuting Sept. 16 on Netflix, plunges viewers into the darkest recesses of damaged souls. There are blood sacrifices and serial killers, sexual deviants and false prophets, deranged fathers and murderous sons. Think Flannery O’Connor with a much higher body count. Director Antonio Campos, the acclaimed auteur behind “Christine,” returns with a cast of heavy hitters that includes Tom Holland as an orphan who can’t seem to escape his family’s violent past; Sebastian Stan as a cop on the take; Riley Keough and Jason Clarke as a couple with a sadistic hobby; and Robert Pattinson as a perverse priest. Campos spoke with Variety about why he adapted Donald Ray Pollock’s novel and what he’s missing about the movie business in the age of Covid-19.
What attracted you to “The Devil All the Time”? When I read the book, it had all the elements...
What attracted you to “The Devil All the Time”? When I read the book, it had all the elements...
- 9/16/2020
- by Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Stanley Kubrick would’ve turned 92 this past week, and upon his passing over two decades ago, the singular filmmaker developed a handful of projects that never got off the ground. For some, like the epic Napoleon, he poured an enormous amount of time into research and preparation before abandoning for one reason or another. Others were in fairly early stages before he moved on, and one in this category has now been picked up by another director to take the reins.
In the 1950s, novelist Jim Thompson worked with Stanley Kubrick (who greatly admired his book The Killer Inside Me) for the script of their noir drama The Killing. Around that time, Kubrick’s longtime producer James B. Harris also commissioned the author for another project titled Lunatic at Large. While it never got off the ground, Kubrick’s son-in-law Philip Hobbs discovered a 70-page manuscript for the film upon...
In the 1950s, novelist Jim Thompson worked with Stanley Kubrick (who greatly admired his book The Killer Inside Me) for the script of their noir drama The Killing. Around that time, Kubrick’s longtime producer James B. Harris also commissioned the author for another project titled Lunatic at Large. While it never got off the ground, Kubrick’s son-in-law Philip Hobbs discovered a 70-page manuscript for the film upon...
- 7/27/2020
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
UK writer-director Michael Winterbottom has taken aim at Sony for cuts he says the studio made to his new movie Greed, which debuted at Toronto and rolls out this fall and winter.
The prolific UK filmmaker, well known for The Trip franchise and movies including The Killer Inside Me, expressed frustration in a frank interview with The Guardian over cuts insisted on by the studio, whose international film division financed the feature with UK broadcaster Film4.
Greed, starring Steve Coogan, is a satire on the world of the super-rich. It homes in on the excesses of a fashion tycoon, who is based on controversial UK billionaire Philip Green. Also starring are Isla Fisher, Asa Butterfield, Sophie Cookson, David Mitchell, Stephen Fry and Shirley Henderson.
According to the piece, the original version of the film ended with a series of cards spelling out how little money workers earn in sweatshops in Myanmar and Bangladesh,...
The prolific UK filmmaker, well known for The Trip franchise and movies including The Killer Inside Me, expressed frustration in a frank interview with The Guardian over cuts insisted on by the studio, whose international film division financed the feature with UK broadcaster Film4.
Greed, starring Steve Coogan, is a satire on the world of the super-rich. It homes in on the excesses of a fashion tycoon, who is based on controversial UK billionaire Philip Green. Also starring are Isla Fisher, Asa Butterfield, Sophie Cookson, David Mitchell, Stephen Fry and Shirley Henderson.
According to the piece, the original version of the film ended with a series of cards spelling out how little money workers earn in sweatshops in Myanmar and Bangladesh,...
- 10/7/2019
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
The work of Jim Thompson has had a healthy life on screen, ranging from adaptations in America and beyond, notably in Europe. Ahead of Yorgos Lanthimos tackling one of his most popular novels, we have a new restoration for 1979’s Série noire, which is adapted from Thompson’s 1954 novel A Hell of a Woman by writer Georges Pérec and director Alain Corneau.
Ahead of opening at New York City’s Metrograph this Friday, we’re pleased to debut the exclusive trailer for the restoration courtesy of Rialto Pictures. Starring Patrick Dewaere as Franck Poupart, a down-on-his-luck salesman who gets involved in a robbery scheme that pushed him ever further into despair, perhaps humorously so. Named one of the best French films of all time by Time Out, see the trailer below.
In one of the strangest pairings in film adaptation history, prankish French modernist experimentalist Georges Perec (Life: A User...
Ahead of opening at New York City’s Metrograph this Friday, we’re pleased to debut the exclusive trailer for the restoration courtesy of Rialto Pictures. Starring Patrick Dewaere as Franck Poupart, a down-on-his-luck salesman who gets involved in a robbery scheme that pushed him ever further into despair, perhaps humorously so. Named one of the best French films of all time by Time Out, see the trailer below.
In one of the strangest pairings in film adaptation history, prankish French modernist experimentalist Georges Perec (Life: A User...
- 9/24/2019
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
The director of BBC’s The Trip and 24 Hour Party People joins us on Thursday lunchtime for a live question and answer session
Michael Winterbottom has been making films for nearly 25 years, and in that time has earned a reputation as one of the UK’s most dazzlingly varied film-makers. Winterbottom’s work has encompassed the hypernaturalist migrant travelogue In This World and the bleak Thomas Hardy adaptation Jude; the committed hostage drama A Mighty Heart and the sadistic noir thriller The Killer Inside Me. Along the way he has developed an outstanding creative relationship with Steve Coogan: together they made the Factory Records comedy 24 Hour Party People, the metatextual Tristram Shandy adaptation A Cock and Bull Story, the breezy Paul Raymond biopic The Look of Love, and three series (to date) of restaurant-tour comedy The Trip.
Michael Winterbottom has been making films for nearly 25 years, and in that time has earned a reputation as one of the UK’s most dazzlingly varied film-makers. Winterbottom’s work has encompassed the hypernaturalist migrant travelogue In This World and the bleak Thomas Hardy adaptation Jude; the committed hostage drama A Mighty Heart and the sadistic noir thriller The Killer Inside Me. Along the way he has developed an outstanding creative relationship with Steve Coogan: together they made the Factory Records comedy 24 Hour Party People, the metatextual Tristram Shandy adaptation A Cock and Bull Story, the breezy Paul Raymond biopic The Look of Love, and three series (to date) of restaurant-tour comedy The Trip.
- 7/15/2019
- by Guardian film
- The Guardian - Film News
The internet will correct me if I’m wrong, but I’m pretty sure “The Wedding Guest” is the first time Dev Patel has handled a firearm in one of his movies. Five minutes into Michael Winterbottom’s Pakistan-set thriller, the actor walks into a shop, asks to try out a gun, and proceeds to inspect a semiautomatic pistol before settling on another. At this point, we don’t know the character’s name — and besides, we’ve seen him slip passports with four aliases into his suitcase — but Winterbottom is already actively manipulating stereotypes.
“The Wedding Guest” turns out to be the story of a professional, played by Patel but of the sort usually embodied by white men with square jaws and power-drill stares, who is contracted to kidnap a woman (Radhika Apte) on the eve of her arranged marriage and deliver her to the man she loves. But Winterbottom,...
“The Wedding Guest” turns out to be the story of a professional, played by Patel but of the sort usually embodied by white men with square jaws and power-drill stares, who is contracted to kidnap a woman (Radhika Apte) on the eve of her arranged marriage and deliver her to the man she loves. But Winterbottom,...
- 3/1/2019
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Here’s a first trailer for thriller A Dark Place, starring Andrew Scott (Sherlock), Bronagh Waugh (The Fall), and Denise Gough (Colette). Shout! Studios is releasing stateside on April 12 after the film played at Edinburgh, Galway and Busan.
Scott plays a local sanitation truck driver in a sleepy backwoods town who plays detective when a local boy goes missing.
Simon Fellows (Malice in Wonderland) directs from a script by Brendan Higgins. DoP was Marcel Zyskind (The Killer Inside Me). Producers are Gareth Ellis-Unwin (The King’s Speech), Leon Clarance (Sense8), Tai Duncan (Proud Mary), and Mark Williams (The Accountant). Pic is a Zero Gravity Management, Bedlam Film, Motion Picture Capital, and Cuckoo Lane production.
Scott plays a local sanitation truck driver in a sleepy backwoods town who plays detective when a local boy goes missing.
Simon Fellows (Malice in Wonderland) directs from a script by Brendan Higgins. DoP was Marcel Zyskind (The Killer Inside Me). Producers are Gareth Ellis-Unwin (The King’s Speech), Leon Clarance (Sense8), Tai Duncan (Proud Mary), and Mark Williams (The Accountant). Pic is a Zero Gravity Management, Bedlam Film, Motion Picture Capital, and Cuckoo Lane production.
- 3/1/2019
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
“Real Life Rock Top Ten” is a monthly column by cultural critic and Rs contributing editor Greil Marcus.
1. Nobody’s Baby, “Life of a Thousand Girls” (Bandcamp). “All the ingredients to an American classic, the Teenage Death Song,” says this San Francisco foursome of itself. “Noboby’s Baby formed around the idea of capturing the raw honesty buried in early 60’s cheese schlock.” Fair enough, but that doesn’t touch the dramatic hesitations or the pathos that Katie Rose, also of Dirty Denim, puts into the music. It’s as...
1. Nobody’s Baby, “Life of a Thousand Girls” (Bandcamp). “All the ingredients to an American classic, the Teenage Death Song,” says this San Francisco foursome of itself. “Noboby’s Baby formed around the idea of capturing the raw honesty buried in early 60’s cheese schlock.” Fair enough, but that doesn’t touch the dramatic hesitations or the pathos that Katie Rose, also of Dirty Denim, puts into the music. It’s as...
- 2/27/2019
- by Greil Marcus
- Rollingstone.com
Like the protagonist of his latest film, The Wedding Guest, Michael Winterbottom is a wanderer–cinematically, that is. There are few filmmakers in modern cinema who hop between genres quite like the British helmer. Consider just a few entries from his gobsmackingly lengthy filmography: a Thomas Hardy adaptation (Jude); a war film set in 1990s Sarajevo (Welcome to Sarajevo); a second Hardy adaptation shot in snowy Canada (The Claim); a future-set love story (Code 46); a sexually-explicit anthology centered around songs from the likes of Primal Scream and Franz Ferdinand (9 Songs); a documentary based on the work of Naomi Klein and another featuring Russell Brand (The Shock Doctrine and The Emperor’s New Clothes); and a tremendously violent and unsettling Jim Thompson adaptation (The Killer Inside Me).
That list does not even include his greatest works–24 Hour Party People, A Mighty Heart, The Trip, and its follow-ups. The Wedding Guest is,...
That list does not even include his greatest works–24 Hour Party People, A Mighty Heart, The Trip, and its follow-ups. The Wedding Guest is,...
- 2/26/2019
- by Christopher Schobert
- The Film Stage
He may have missed out on the coveted top prize at last night’s Oscar’s but hot property, Yorgos Lanthimos, has lined up his next project already, an adaptation of Jim Thompson’s 1964 crime novel ‘Pop. 1280’.
Lanthimos will write and direct the picture which tells the story of a sheriff in a town with a population of 1280 people who presents himself as a simplistic, harmless fool, but in actuality is a manipulative psychopath and serial killer who preys on the worst impulses of the small town folk.
Andrew Lowe and Ed Guiney of Element Pictures, Lanthimos, Ryan Friedkin of Imperative Entertainment and John Alan Simon of Discovery Productions will produce. Dan Friedkin and Bradley Thomas of Imperative Entertainment, Micah Green and Dan Steinman of 30West, Elizabeth Karr of Discovery Productions, Ilene Feldman, and Jon Levin will be executive producers.
Also in news – The 2019 Oscars – winners
This isn’t the...
Lanthimos will write and direct the picture which tells the story of a sheriff in a town with a population of 1280 people who presents himself as a simplistic, harmless fool, but in actuality is a manipulative psychopath and serial killer who preys on the worst impulses of the small town folk.
Andrew Lowe and Ed Guiney of Element Pictures, Lanthimos, Ryan Friedkin of Imperative Entertainment and John Alan Simon of Discovery Productions will produce. Dan Friedkin and Bradley Thomas of Imperative Entertainment, Micah Green and Dan Steinman of 30West, Elizabeth Karr of Discovery Productions, Ilene Feldman, and Jon Levin will be executive producers.
Also in news – The 2019 Oscars – winners
This isn’t the...
- 2/25/2019
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Yorgos Lanthimos, the Oscar-nominated director of “The Favourite,” will next write and direct “Pop. 1280,” an adaptation of a 1964 crime novel by Jim Thompson, an individual with knowledge of the project tells TheWrap.
Lanthimos will develop the film at Imperative Entertainment, which will produce with Element Pictures in association with Discovery Productions.
Thompson’s novel is about a sheriff in a town with a population of 1280 people who presents himself as a simplistic, harmless fool, but in actuality is a manipulative psychopath and serial killer who preys on the worst impulses of the small town folk.
Andrew Lowe and Ed Guiney of Element Pictures are producing along with Lanthimos, Ryan Friedkin on behalf of Imperative Entertainment and John Alan Simon of Discovery Productions. Dan Friedkin and Bradley Thomas of Imperative Entertainment...
Lanthimos will develop the film at Imperative Entertainment, which will produce with Element Pictures in association with Discovery Productions.
Thompson’s novel is about a sheriff in a town with a population of 1280 people who presents himself as a simplistic, harmless fool, but in actuality is a manipulative psychopath and serial killer who preys on the worst impulses of the small town folk.
Andrew Lowe and Ed Guiney of Element Pictures are producing along with Lanthimos, Ryan Friedkin on behalf of Imperative Entertainment and John Alan Simon of Discovery Productions. Dan Friedkin and Bradley Thomas of Imperative Entertainment...
- 2/22/2019
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Two days prior to the Oscars, where “The Favourite” is nominated for 10 awards, Yorgos Lanthimos’ next project has been revealed. The Greek auteur will write and direct “Pop. 1280,” reports Deadline, based on the 1964 Jim Thompson novel of the same name. The film will be produced by Imperative Entertainment, Element Pictures, Lanthimos, and Discovery Productions.
About a small-town sheriff whose corruption escalates in the lead-up to his next election, “Pop. 1280” was previously adapted as “Coup de Torchon” in 1981 by Bertrand Tavernier. Thompson also wrote “The Killer Inside Me,” which was made into a controversial film by Michael Winterbottom in 2010, among many other crime novels; though he received little recognition during his life, Thompson has come to be revered as an exemplar of the genre.
Given that the story is set in West Texas, “Pop. 1280” is likely to be Lanthimos’ fourth-consecutive English-language project after “The Lobster,” “The Killing of a Sacred Deer,...
About a small-town sheriff whose corruption escalates in the lead-up to his next election, “Pop. 1280” was previously adapted as “Coup de Torchon” in 1981 by Bertrand Tavernier. Thompson also wrote “The Killer Inside Me,” which was made into a controversial film by Michael Winterbottom in 2010, among many other crime novels; though he received little recognition during his life, Thompson has come to be revered as an exemplar of the genre.
Given that the story is set in West Texas, “Pop. 1280” is likely to be Lanthimos’ fourth-consecutive English-language project after “The Lobster,” “The Killing of a Sacred Deer,...
- 2/22/2019
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
Iconic horror movie actress Julie Adams, who starred as Kay Lawrence in Creature from the Black Lagoon, has died. She was 92.
Adams died early Sunday morning in Los Angeles, her son Mitchell Danton confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter.
She rose to fame as the woman who wore a white, one-piece bathing suit to take a dip in a lagoon in the 1954 film as the Gill-man beneath copied her every movie. The scene was often recreated in movies like Jaws and The Shape of Water.
I mourn Julie Adams passing. It hurts in a place deep in me, where monsters swim.
Adams died early Sunday morning in Los Angeles, her son Mitchell Danton confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter.
She rose to fame as the woman who wore a white, one-piece bathing suit to take a dip in a lagoon in the 1954 film as the Gill-man beneath copied her every movie. The scene was often recreated in movies like Jaws and The Shape of Water.
I mourn Julie Adams passing. It hurts in a place deep in me, where monsters swim.
- 2/4/2019
- by Maura Hohman
- PEOPLE.com
Creature From the Black Lagoon star Julie Adams, an actress who, like Fay Wray and Evelyn Ankers before her won the hearts of classic Hollywood monsters and then generations of devoted fans, died Sunday in Los Angeles. She was 92.
Adams’ death was confirmed on her official website.
Where Wray perched atop the Empire State Building with King Kong and Ankers ran through fog-shrouded forests pursued by The Wolf Man, Adams secured her place in horror iconography underwater, notably an indelible scene in the 1954 Creature during which the actress, in a one-piece white bathing suit, swims atop the lagoon water as the creature known as the Gil-Man mimics her moves some feet below. The imagery would be echoed in countless films thereafter, memorably in both Jaws and 2017’s The Shape of Water.
“I mourn Julie Adams passing,” tweeted del Toro today. “It hurts in a place deep in me, where monsters swim.
Adams’ death was confirmed on her official website.
Where Wray perched atop the Empire State Building with King Kong and Ankers ran through fog-shrouded forests pursued by The Wolf Man, Adams secured her place in horror iconography underwater, notably an indelible scene in the 1954 Creature during which the actress, in a one-piece white bathing suit, swims atop the lagoon water as the creature known as the Gil-Man mimics her moves some feet below. The imagery would be echoed in countless films thereafter, memorably in both Jaws and 2017’s The Shape of Water.
“I mourn Julie Adams passing,” tweeted del Toro today. “It hurts in a place deep in me, where monsters swim.
- 2/4/2019
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
"Do you know who sent me?" IFC Films has debuted the first official trailer for The Wedding Guest, the latest film from director Michael Winterbottom. This adventure thriller follows a mysterious British Muslim man, played by Dev Patel, on his journey across Pakistan and India. He's heading to Pakistan to attend a wedding – armed with duct tape, a shotgun, and a plan to kidnap the bride-to-be. This looks like a dark, suspenseful film with some intriguing twists – maybe – once it gets going. The film's cast includes Radhika Apte, Jim Sarbh, Harish Khannaa, Nish Nathwani, Meherbaan Singh, and Sidhu Manpreet. This all seems a bit odd from the description and setup, but obviously there's more to this than it seems at first glance. Check it out. Here's the official trailer (+ poster) for Michael Winterbottom's The Wedding Guest, from YouTube: Jay (Dev Patel) is a ...
- 2/2/2019
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Sony Pictures International Productions and Film4 have wrapped production on Michael Winterbottom (The Killer Inside Me) comedy Greed, starring Steve Coogan, Isla Fisher and David Mitchell.
Also starring are Sophie Cookson, Shirley Henderson, Asa Butterfield, Sarah Solemani, Shanina Shaik, Dinita Gohil, Asim Chaudhry, Pearl Mackie, Jonny Sweet, Ollie Locke and Stephen Fry. Sony has also released some fun first-look images.
The satire, whose lead cast we revealed in September, is co-written by Winterbottom and two-time Emmy Award winner Sean Gray (Veep), and is produced by Melissa Parmenter (The Trip) for Revolution Films and DJ Films’ Damian Jones (Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie).
The film tells the fictional story of a retail billionaire, and is set in the glamorous and celebrity-filled world of luxury fashion, with a build up to a spectacular 60th birthday party in an exclusive hotel on the Greek island of Mykonos. Many believe the film’s subject was...
Also starring are Sophie Cookson, Shirley Henderson, Asa Butterfield, Sarah Solemani, Shanina Shaik, Dinita Gohil, Asim Chaudhry, Pearl Mackie, Jonny Sweet, Ollie Locke and Stephen Fry. Sony has also released some fun first-look images.
The satire, whose lead cast we revealed in September, is co-written by Winterbottom and two-time Emmy Award winner Sean Gray (Veep), and is produced by Melissa Parmenter (The Trip) for Revolution Films and DJ Films’ Damian Jones (Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie).
The film tells the fictional story of a retail billionaire, and is set in the glamorous and celebrity-filled world of luxury fashion, with a build up to a spectacular 60th birthday party in an exclusive hotel on the Greek island of Mykonos. Many believe the film’s subject was...
- 12/5/2018
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
One of the hottest tickets out of this past January’s Sundance Film Festival was A Ghost Story (read our review), written and directed by David Lowery (Pete’s Dragon, Peter Pan). A24, the company behind The Witch, The Blackcoat’s Daughter, Green Room and Ex Machina will distribute the film today with Picturehouse partnering on the UK release Aug. 11. Oscar-nominated Casey Affleck (ParaNorman, The Killer Inside Me) […]...
- 7/7/2017
- by Brad Miska
- bloody-disgusting.com
One of the hottest tickets out of this past January’s Sundance Film Festival was A Ghost Story, written and directed by David Lowery (Pete’s Dragon, Peter Pan). A24, the company behind The Witch, The Blackcoat’s Daughter, Green Room and Ex Machina will distribute the film on July 7th with Picturehouse partnering on the UK release Aug. 11. Oscar nominated Casey Affleck (ParaNorman, The Killer Inside Me), […]...
- 5/24/2017
- by Brad Miska
- bloody-disgusting.com
Ironically similar to Patrick Swayze’s Ghost, David Lowery’s (Pete’s Dragon, Peter Pan) festival hit A Ghost Story it set to hit theaters on July 7th. Oscar nominated Casey Affleck (ParaNorman, The Killer Inside Me) and Rooney Mara (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, A Nightmare on Elm Street) star in this story of a ghost and the […]...
- 3/28/2017
- by Brad Miska
- bloody-disgusting.com
One of the hottest tickets out of the Sundance Film Festival was A Ghost Story, written and directed by David Lowery (Pete’s Dragon, Peter Pan). A24, the company behind The Witch, The Blackcoat’s Daughter, Green Room and Ex Machina will distribute the film on July 7th, Bloody Disgusting learned. Oscar nominated Casey Affleck (ParaNorman, The Killer Inside Me), Rooney Mara […]...
- 3/3/2017
- by Brad Miska
- bloody-disgusting.com
A Ghost Story, written and directed by David Lowery (Pete’s Dragon, Peter Pan), reminds us that a ghost under a sheet is most definitely still scary. Casey Affleck (ParaNorman, The Killer Inside Me) stars in this story of a ghost and the house he haunts. Harking back to John Carpenter’s Halloween, James Wan’s The Conjuring and even Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice, we […]...
- 1/3/2017
- by Brad Miska
- bloody-disgusting.com
It’s been six years since Casey Affleck attempted to fool the world with I’m Still Here – the infamous mockumentary in which Joaquin Phoenix retired from acting to become a rap artist. Since then, he has developed a number of potential new projects to helm, but Light Of My Life is seemingly the first to reach the point of becoming a real movie.
Being so early in the process, there are few details to be found on the project. What is known is that Affleck will be directing from his own script, and will also star as a father trapped in the woods with his young daughter in a ‘post-pandemic’ kind of situation. This makes Light Of My Life more of a survival movie, but with an interesting pedigree.
While, in terms of dramatic performances, Affleck certainly does seem to favour narratives of the more bleak persuasion (The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford...
Being so early in the process, there are few details to be found on the project. What is known is that Affleck will be directing from his own script, and will also star as a father trapped in the woods with his young daughter in a ‘post-pandemic’ kind of situation. This makes Light Of My Life more of a survival movie, but with an interesting pedigree.
While, in terms of dramatic performances, Affleck certainly does seem to favour narratives of the more bleak persuasion (The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford...
- 9/20/2016
- by Sarah Myles
- We Got This Covered
At 41, Casey Affleck still has the air of a young man, but he’s hardly a newcomer. Once primarily known as the younger brother of movie star Ben, the Massachusetts native has paved his own path. With prominent roles in idiosyncratic American indies ranging from Gus Van Sant’s “Gerry” to “Lonesome Jim,” Affleck carved out a niche with his fragile, unassuming screen presence and the flashes of intensity that occasionally broke through. Those attributes have served him well in roles as diverse as his unsettling psychopathic turn in Michael Winterbottom’s “The Killer Inside Me” to Andrew Dominik’s poetic western “The Assassination of Jesse James By the Coward Robert Ford,” which landed Affleck his first Oscar nomination.
See More‘Manchester By The Sea’ Trailer: Discover Why Kenneth Lonergan’s Acclaimed Indie Is A Major Oscar Frontrunner
Now he’s back on the awards circuit with “Manchester By the Sea,...
See More‘Manchester By The Sea’ Trailer: Discover Why Kenneth Lonergan’s Acclaimed Indie Is A Major Oscar Frontrunner
Now he’s back on the awards circuit with “Manchester By the Sea,...
- 9/2/2016
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
The terrifying trailer for #Horror is the most brutal revenge possible for cyber-bullying.
Producer Tara Subkoff's (The Killer Inside Me) directorial debut examines the harsh consequences of social media addiction taken to the extreme.
Purportedly inspired by true events, a group of pre-teen girls face a night of sadistic thrills and sadism as revenge for taunting a classmate.
Subkoff has put together an impressive cast of adults as well – with Chloë Sevigny, Orange Is the New Black's Taryn Manning and Natasha Lyonne, Oscar winner Timothy Hutton and Twin Peaks' Balthazar Getty all in supporting roles.
Aside from directing #Horror, Subkoff also penned the screenplay and is producing the project.
#Horror bows on November 20 in Us cinemas.
Producer Tara Subkoff's (The Killer Inside Me) directorial debut examines the harsh consequences of social media addiction taken to the extreme.
Purportedly inspired by true events, a group of pre-teen girls face a night of sadistic thrills and sadism as revenge for taunting a classmate.
Subkoff has put together an impressive cast of adults as well – with Chloë Sevigny, Orange Is the New Black's Taryn Manning and Natasha Lyonne, Oscar winner Timothy Hutton and Twin Peaks' Balthazar Getty all in supporting roles.
Aside from directing #Horror, Subkoff also penned the screenplay and is producing the project.
#Horror bows on November 20 in Us cinemas.
- 10/16/2015
- Digital Spy
Cinema’s Hidden Pearls – Part I
By Alex Simon
One of nature’s rarest items, a pearl is produced within the soft tissue (specifically the mantle) of a living shelled mollusk. Just like the shell of a clam, a pearl is composed of calcium carbonate in minute crystalline form, which has been deposited in concentric layers. Truly flawless pearls are infrequently produced in nature, and as a result, the pearl has become a metaphor for something rare, fine, admirable and valuable. Hidden pearls exist in the world of movies, as well: films that, in spite of being brilliantly crafted and executed, never got the audience they deserved beyond a cult following.
Here are a few of our favorite hidden pearls in the world of film:
1. Night Moves (1975)
Director Arthur Penn hit three home runs in a row with the trifecta of Bonnie & Clyde, Alice’s Restaurant and Little Big Man,...
By Alex Simon
One of nature’s rarest items, a pearl is produced within the soft tissue (specifically the mantle) of a living shelled mollusk. Just like the shell of a clam, a pearl is composed of calcium carbonate in minute crystalline form, which has been deposited in concentric layers. Truly flawless pearls are infrequently produced in nature, and as a result, the pearl has become a metaphor for something rare, fine, admirable and valuable. Hidden pearls exist in the world of movies, as well: films that, in spite of being brilliantly crafted and executed, never got the audience they deserved beyond a cult following.
Here are a few of our favorite hidden pearls in the world of film:
1. Night Moves (1975)
Director Arthur Penn hit three home runs in a row with the trifecta of Bonnie & Clyde, Alice’s Restaurant and Little Big Man,...
- 6/28/2015
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
There must be something fashionable to the idea right now of stealing from the rich and giving to the poor. Hollywood now has four Robin Hood movies in production, more than anyone really needs, perhaps even the poor. Tuesday Deadline reported that Warner Bros. had “quietly” put a new Robin Hood movie into production, this one being developed by the script writer for the upcoming Aquaman movie Will Beall. Deadline counts three others for it to storm the castle with: a family friendly swashbuckler from Disney called Nottingham & Hood, a Batman Begins style origin story aptly titled Robin Hood: Origins, and one from Sony that’s described as “Fast & Furious meets Mission: Impossible style reinvention of the tale.” With those four incredibly original ideas, anyone think this is the rich stealing from the poor?
Robin Hood isn’t the only Hollywood property currently with competing projects. A few weeks back,...
Robin Hood isn’t the only Hollywood property currently with competing projects. A few weeks back,...
- 4/23/2015
- by Brian Welk
- SoundOnSight
We return with another edition of the Indie Spotlight, highlighting the recent independent horror news sent our way. Today's feature includes casting news for Pilgrimage, details on the 15th Annual Shriekfest Call for Entries, release details for 3 Easy Steps to Survive the Zombie Apocalypse, new posters from The Events Surrounding a Peeping Tom & the Horror That Followed, and much more:
Exclusive Stills from The Dark Below: An update to our coverage from earlier this week, we now have new exclusive stills from The Dark Below. You can the view new stills and release details below, along with the recently released stills:
"Dead Wait Productions announce the completion of principle photography for their new genre film the Dark Below. Award winning genre director Douglas Schulze (Mimesis, Dark Fields) and Executive Producer Seth Willenson bring us a survival thriller that explores the fear of entrapment beneath a frozen lake.
The film...
Exclusive Stills from The Dark Below: An update to our coverage from earlier this week, we now have new exclusive stills from The Dark Below. You can the view new stills and release details below, along with the recently released stills:
"Dead Wait Productions announce the completion of principle photography for their new genre film the Dark Below. Award winning genre director Douglas Schulze (Mimesis, Dark Fields) and Executive Producer Seth Willenson bring us a survival thriller that explores the fear of entrapment beneath a frozen lake.
The film...
- 3/29/2015
- by Tamika Jones
- DailyDead
Producer John Kassab, in character, on the set of Like Lambs.
Photographed by Johanna B Kelly, the film's Australian production designer.
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Los Angeles-based Australian producer John Kassab is completing his first narrative feature, Like Lambs, with the help of some Hollywood tech wizards.
Visual effects maestro Douglas Trumble, sound designers Wylie Stateman, Richard King and Per Hallberg and editor Joe Hutshing (whose credits include Oliver Stone.s W. and Savages and Cameron Crowe.s upcoming Aloha) have mentored Kassab.
The feature debut of Us writer-director Ted Marcus, the film follows students at an elite boarding school who take a stand against government corruption and demand radical action when the over- leveraged Us economy implodes.
The cast includes Liam Aiken (Ned Rifle, The Killer Inside Me), Connor Paolo (Mystic River, Gossip Girl, Revenge), Justin Chon (Twilight, 21 and Over), Chanelle Peloso (TV.s Incredible Crew, Zapped) and Godfrey (Louie, Soul Plane, Zoolander...
Photographed by Johanna B Kelly, the film's Australian production designer.
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Los Angeles-based Australian producer John Kassab is completing his first narrative feature, Like Lambs, with the help of some Hollywood tech wizards.
Visual effects maestro Douglas Trumble, sound designers Wylie Stateman, Richard King and Per Hallberg and editor Joe Hutshing (whose credits include Oliver Stone.s W. and Savages and Cameron Crowe.s upcoming Aloha) have mentored Kassab.
The feature debut of Us writer-director Ted Marcus, the film follows students at an elite boarding school who take a stand against government corruption and demand radical action when the over- leveraged Us economy implodes.
The cast includes Liam Aiken (Ned Rifle, The Killer Inside Me), Connor Paolo (Mystic River, Gossip Girl, Revenge), Justin Chon (Twilight, 21 and Over), Chanelle Peloso (TV.s Incredible Crew, Zapped) and Godfrey (Louie, Soul Plane, Zoolander...
- 3/25/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Donning the cape and tights to play a big screen superhero was often seen as career suicide for actors. This idea is mined to brilliant effect in Alejandro González Iñárritu's Birdman, with a former comic book star looking to relaunch his career with an ambitious Broadway play.
Adding extra spice to Birdman is the casting of Michael Keaton, himself a former Batman whose post-tights career has been somewhat hit and miss. This film, however, is a stunning reminder of just how good an actor Keaton is and proof that careers don't end when on-screen superpowers fade away.
Digital Spy takes a look at 20 ex-superhero stars to see how they fared after leaving an iconic comic book role behind.
20. Billy Zane
The suave American actor looked set for big things in the '90s thanks to impressive roles in Dead Calm and Tombstone, but his time in the purple Phantom...
Adding extra spice to Birdman is the casting of Michael Keaton, himself a former Batman whose post-tights career has been somewhat hit and miss. This film, however, is a stunning reminder of just how good an actor Keaton is and proof that careers don't end when on-screen superpowers fade away.
Digital Spy takes a look at 20 ex-superhero stars to see how they fared after leaving an iconic comic book role behind.
20. Billy Zane
The suave American actor looked set for big things in the '90s thanks to impressive roles in Dead Calm and Tombstone, but his time in the purple Phantom...
- 1/10/2015
- Digital Spy
For the first time, the guild is awarding lifetime achievement awards in all four crafts comprising the Adg (Iatse Local 800) at the 19th Annual Excellence in Production Design Awards in Los Angeles on January 31.
As previously announced production designer Jim Bissell will receive the Art Directors Guild’s Lifetime Achievement Award.
Camille Abbott will receive the illustrators and matte artists Lifetime Achievement Award, while set designer lifetime achievement honours go to John P Bruce.
Scenic artist Will Ferrell will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award from the scenic, title and graphic artists craft.
Abbott’s credits include Spaceballs, Flashdance and Annie (1982).
Bruce has worked on Jaws, The Matrix, Armageddon, The Sting and The Killer Inside Me.
Ferrell’s work includes Mary Poppins, The Birds, Patriot Games, The Hunt For Red October, Coming To America, Planes, Trains And Automobiles, and Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner.
Bissell’s credits encompass E.T., Jumanji, 300, Mission: Impossible – Ghost...
As previously announced production designer Jim Bissell will receive the Art Directors Guild’s Lifetime Achievement Award.
Camille Abbott will receive the illustrators and matte artists Lifetime Achievement Award, while set designer lifetime achievement honours go to John P Bruce.
Scenic artist Will Ferrell will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award from the scenic, title and graphic artists craft.
Abbott’s credits include Spaceballs, Flashdance and Annie (1982).
Bruce has worked on Jaws, The Matrix, Armageddon, The Sting and The Killer Inside Me.
Ferrell’s work includes Mary Poppins, The Birds, Patriot Games, The Hunt For Red October, Coming To America, Planes, Trains And Automobiles, and Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner.
Bissell’s credits encompass E.T., Jumanji, 300, Mission: Impossible – Ghost...
- 12/17/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
This past February, there was a brief trade mention that actress Tara Subkoff would be getting behind the camera for her directorial, feature film debut with her The Last Days of Disco co-star Chloë Sevigny signed on to star. Further digging into the project entitled #Horror, suggests that this might be a news headline screen treatment of the fictional internet based character Slenderman. An associate producer for stomach-churning brutal beatings filled The Killer Inside Me by Michael Winterbottom, Subkoff has been taking “stabs” at directing — her creative juices are on display (see short below) with performance pieces including a project called Future/Perfect (2013), with Milla Jovovich, for the 55th Venice Biennale.
Gist: Inspired by actual events, a group of 12 year old girls face a night of horror when the compulsive addiction of an online social media game turns a moment of cyber bullying into a night of insanity.
Production Co.
Gist: Inspired by actual events, a group of 12 year old girls face a night of horror when the compulsive addiction of an online social media game turns a moment of cyber bullying into a night of insanity.
Production Co.
- 11/12/2014
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
This new trailer for Bad Turn Worse opens with a reference to crime fiction writer Jim Thompson, and the reference to the guy who wrote The Getaway and The Killer Inside Me sets the tone for a story that indeed seems to go deep into dark territory. There are a few kids (Jeremy Allen White, […]
The post ‘Bad Turn Worse’ Trailer: Mark Pellegrino Indulges His Evil Side appeared first on /Film.
The post ‘Bad Turn Worse’ Trailer: Mark Pellegrino Indulges His Evil Side appeared first on /Film.
- 10/8/2014
- by Russ Fischer
- Slash Film
Some great films were released on the same day as such recent hits as The Dark Knight Rises and Frozen. Here are a few of them...
Odd List
The 3rd July 2013 saw the release of Disney's The Lone Ranger, its larger-than-life western starring Johnny Depp and Armie Hammer. Its theatrical debut marked the end of a lengthy and difficult production, stories from which had been hungrily served up by the media - the previous summer was dominated by news stories of its spiralling budget, which was thought to have crossed $250m. Nevertheless, the 2013 blockbuster season should, in theory, have marked a fresh start for Disney, as it spent a reported $150m on marketing The Lone Ranger. But the House of Mouse hadn't counted on the popularity of another film launched on that exact same day in July: Universal's animated sequel, Despicable Me 2.
The Lone Ranger, a film with an...
Odd List
The 3rd July 2013 saw the release of Disney's The Lone Ranger, its larger-than-life western starring Johnny Depp and Armie Hammer. Its theatrical debut marked the end of a lengthy and difficult production, stories from which had been hungrily served up by the media - the previous summer was dominated by news stories of its spiralling budget, which was thought to have crossed $250m. Nevertheless, the 2013 blockbuster season should, in theory, have marked a fresh start for Disney, as it spent a reported $150m on marketing The Lone Ranger. But the House of Mouse hadn't counted on the popularity of another film launched on that exact same day in July: Universal's animated sequel, Despicable Me 2.
The Lone Ranger, a film with an...
- 7/8/2014
- by ryanlambie
- Den of Geek
To mark the release of Out of The Furnace on 2nd June, we’ve been given 3 copies to give away on Blu-ray.
Starring Christian Bale (American Hustle, The Dark Knight Trilogy), Casey Affleck (Gone Baby Gone, The Killer Inside Me) and Woody Harrelson (No Country for Old Men, TV’s True Detective), the film also features incredible support from Forest Whitaker (The Last King of Scotland, The Last Stand), Zoe Saldana (Star Trek Into Darkness, Avatar) and Willem Dafoe (Nymphomaniac, Spider-man 2).
Set in the fading Pennsylvanian steel town of North Braddock, Out Of The Furnace follows the Baze brothers, Russell (Bale) – a mill worker recently released from prison for drink driving – and Rodney (Affleck), a soldier not long returned home from Iraq. When Rodney struggles to cope with the memory of war, he is drawn deeper into the treacherous world of underground crime.
With events reaching breaking point, Russell...
Starring Christian Bale (American Hustle, The Dark Knight Trilogy), Casey Affleck (Gone Baby Gone, The Killer Inside Me) and Woody Harrelson (No Country for Old Men, TV’s True Detective), the film also features incredible support from Forest Whitaker (The Last King of Scotland, The Last Stand), Zoe Saldana (Star Trek Into Darkness, Avatar) and Willem Dafoe (Nymphomaniac, Spider-man 2).
Set in the fading Pennsylvanian steel town of North Braddock, Out Of The Furnace follows the Baze brothers, Russell (Bale) – a mill worker recently released from prison for drink driving – and Rodney (Affleck), a soldier not long returned home from Iraq. When Rodney struggles to cope with the memory of war, he is drawn deeper into the treacherous world of underground crime.
With events reaching breaking point, Russell...
- 5/26/2014
- by Competitions
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Exclusive: Independent, Fernando Sulichin breathe life into Stooges doc, the director’s next film.
Jim Jarmusch’s documentary on The Stooges has found new backing from Fernando Sulichin’s New Element Global and a sales home in UK outfit Independent, which is launching the project in Cannes.
ICM Partners, who represent Jarmusch will handle North American rights. Carter Logan (Only Lovers Left Alive, The Limits of Control) produces.
The long-term passion project for the Only Lovers Left Alive director is already in production and features interviews with Stooges frontman Iggy Pop.
The currently untitled film will present the context of the iconic band’s emergence musically and culturally, and relate their adventures and misadventures. Additional contributors are being kept under wraps.
Financier Sulichin, who recently produced Oliver Stone’s Untold History of the United States, has also exceed features including Spring Breakers and The Killer Inside Me.
Jarmusch commented: “I like to think of our film as...
Jim Jarmusch’s documentary on The Stooges has found new backing from Fernando Sulichin’s New Element Global and a sales home in UK outfit Independent, which is launching the project in Cannes.
ICM Partners, who represent Jarmusch will handle North American rights. Carter Logan (Only Lovers Left Alive, The Limits of Control) produces.
The long-term passion project for the Only Lovers Left Alive director is already in production and features interviews with Stooges frontman Iggy Pop.
The currently untitled film will present the context of the iconic band’s emergence musically and culturally, and relate their adventures and misadventures. Additional contributors are being kept under wraps.
Financier Sulichin, who recently produced Oliver Stone’s Untold History of the United States, has also exceed features including Spring Breakers and The Killer Inside Me.
Jarmusch commented: “I like to think of our film as...
- 5/17/2014
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Independent, Fernando Sulichin breathe life into Stooges doc, the director’s next film.
Jim Jarmusch’s documentary on The Stooges has found new backing from Fernando Sulichin’s New Element Global and a sales home in UK outfit Independent, which is launching the project in Cannes.
ICM Partners, who represent Jarmusch will handle North American rights. Carter Logan (Only Lovers Left Alive, The Limits of Control) produces.
The long-term passion project for the Only Lovers Left Alive director is already in production and features interviews with Stooges frontman Iggy Pop.
The currently untitled film will present the context of the iconic band’s emergence musically and culturally, and relate their adventures and misadventures. Additional contributors are being kept under wraps.
Financier Sulichin, who recently produced Oliver Stone’s Untold History of the United States, has also exceed features including Spring Breakers and The Killer Inside Me.
Jarmusch commented: “I like to think of our film as...
Jim Jarmusch’s documentary on The Stooges has found new backing from Fernando Sulichin’s New Element Global and a sales home in UK outfit Independent, which is launching the project in Cannes.
ICM Partners, who represent Jarmusch will handle North American rights. Carter Logan (Only Lovers Left Alive, The Limits of Control) produces.
The long-term passion project for the Only Lovers Left Alive director is already in production and features interviews with Stooges frontman Iggy Pop.
The currently untitled film will present the context of the iconic band’s emergence musically and culturally, and relate their adventures and misadventures. Additional contributors are being kept under wraps.
Financier Sulichin, who recently produced Oliver Stone’s Untold History of the United States, has also exceed features including Spring Breakers and The Killer Inside Me.
Jarmusch commented: “I like to think of our film as...
- 5/17/2014
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Independent, Fernando Sulichin breathe life into Stooges doc, the director’s next film.
Jim Jarmusch’s documentary on The Stooges has found new backing from Fernando Sulichin’s New Element Global and a sales home in UK outfit Independent, which is launching the project in Cannes.
ICM Partners, who represent Jarmusch will handle North American rights. Carter Logan (Only Lovers Left Alive, The Limits of Control) produces.
The long-term passion project for the Only Lovers Left Alive director is already in production and features interviews with Stooges frontman Iggy Pop.
The currently untitled film will present the context of the iconic band’s emergence musically and culturally, and relate their adventures and misadventures. Additional contributors are being kept under wraps.
Financier Sulichin, who recently produced Oliver Stone’s Untold History of the United States, has also exceed features including Spring Breakers and The Killer Inside Me.
Jarmusch commented: “I like to think of our film as...
Jim Jarmusch’s documentary on The Stooges has found new backing from Fernando Sulichin’s New Element Global and a sales home in UK outfit Independent, which is launching the project in Cannes.
ICM Partners, who represent Jarmusch will handle North American rights. Carter Logan (Only Lovers Left Alive, The Limits of Control) produces.
The long-term passion project for the Only Lovers Left Alive director is already in production and features interviews with Stooges frontman Iggy Pop.
The currently untitled film will present the context of the iconic band’s emergence musically and culturally, and relate their adventures and misadventures. Additional contributors are being kept under wraps.
Financier Sulichin, who recently produced Oliver Stone’s Untold History of the United States, has also exceed features including Spring Breakers and The Killer Inside Me.
Jarmusch commented: “I like to think of our film as...
- 5/17/2014
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Independent, Fernando Sulichin breathe life into Stooges doc, the director’s next film.
Jim Jarmusch’s documentary on The Stooges has found new backing from Fernando Sulichin’s New Element Global and a sales home in UK outfit Independent, which is launching the project in Cannes.
ICM Partners, who represent Jarmusch will handle North American rights. Carter Logan (Only Lovers Left Alive, The Limits of Control) produces.
The long-term passion project for the Only Lovers Left Alive director is already in production and features interviews with Stooges frontman Iggy Pop.
The currently untitled film will present the context of the iconic band’s emergence musically and culturally, and relate their adventures and misadventures. Additional contributors are being kept under wraps.
Financier Sulichin, who recently produced Oliver Stone’s Untold History of the United States, has also exceed features including Spring Breakers and The Killer Inside Me.
Jarmusch commented: “I like to think of our film as...
Jim Jarmusch’s documentary on The Stooges has found new backing from Fernando Sulichin’s New Element Global and a sales home in UK outfit Independent, which is launching the project in Cannes.
ICM Partners, who represent Jarmusch will handle North American rights. Carter Logan (Only Lovers Left Alive, The Limits of Control) produces.
The long-term passion project for the Only Lovers Left Alive director is already in production and features interviews with Stooges frontman Iggy Pop.
The currently untitled film will present the context of the iconic band’s emergence musically and culturally, and relate their adventures and misadventures. Additional contributors are being kept under wraps.
Financier Sulichin, who recently produced Oliver Stone’s Untold History of the United States, has also exceed features including Spring Breakers and The Killer Inside Me.
Jarmusch commented: “I like to think of our film as...
- 5/17/2014
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Digital Spy has an exclusive deleted scene from Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon's The Trip to Italy.
The clip - taken from the show's DVD extras - sees Brydon and Coogan unleash their famed Michael Caine impressions and imagine an unlikely conversation between the veteran actor and his wife Shakira.
Mascara, vajazzles and rubies inserted in bellybuttons all come up for discussion as the pair's skit spirals out of control.
The six-part series - a follow-up to 2010's The Trip - sees the two stars drive across Italy - from Piemonte to Capri - enjoying good food and tolerating each other's company.
Michael Winterbottom (24 Hour Party People, The Killer Inside Me) is again in the director's chair for all six episodes.
The Trip to Italy is out on DVD on Monday, May 12. A series 1-2 box set is also available.
The clip - taken from the show's DVD extras - sees Brydon and Coogan unleash their famed Michael Caine impressions and imagine an unlikely conversation between the veteran actor and his wife Shakira.
Mascara, vajazzles and rubies inserted in bellybuttons all come up for discussion as the pair's skit spirals out of control.
The six-part series - a follow-up to 2010's The Trip - sees the two stars drive across Italy - from Piemonte to Capri - enjoying good food and tolerating each other's company.
Michael Winterbottom (24 Hour Party People, The Killer Inside Me) is again in the director's chair for all six episodes.
The Trip to Italy is out on DVD on Monday, May 12. A series 1-2 box set is also available.
- 5/9/2014
- Digital Spy
My review of Nymphomaniac: Vol. I can be found here. Both volumes are now playing locally at the Violet Crown Cinema and are also available to rent through cable & digital VOD providers, including iTunes.
While the first installment of Lars Von Trier's Nymphomaniac focused on Joe (Charlotte Gainsbourg) graphically retelling the stories of her sexual history as a young woman to Seligman (Stellan Skarsgard), Nymphomaniac: Vol. II shifts to her adulthood. She's on an endless quest to recreate the enormity of feeling from a spontaneous orgasm she once experienced as a pre-teen, but as the story picks back up, we're at a stage where she basically has lost all sexual desire and, even worse, any pleasure from having sex. Joe has gone numb and can no longer have an orgasm, a loss that nearly destroys her ability to function. She goes on a quest to "rehabilitate her sexuality" and...
While the first installment of Lars Von Trier's Nymphomaniac focused on Joe (Charlotte Gainsbourg) graphically retelling the stories of her sexual history as a young woman to Seligman (Stellan Skarsgard), Nymphomaniac: Vol. II shifts to her adulthood. She's on an endless quest to recreate the enormity of feeling from a spontaneous orgasm she once experienced as a pre-teen, but as the story picks back up, we're at a stage where she basically has lost all sexual desire and, even worse, any pleasure from having sex. Joe has gone numb and can no longer have an orgasm, a loss that nearly destroys her ability to function. She goes on a quest to "rehabilitate her sexuality" and...
- 4/7/2014
- by Matt Shiverdecker
- Slackerwood
Odd List Ryan Lambie Simon Brew 27 Feb 2014 - 05:54
Our series of lists devoted to underappreciated films brings us to the year 2010, and another 25 overlooked gems...
By 2010, Hollywood’s obsession with 3D movies was in full swing. James Cameron’s Avatar may have given audiences a taste of what the cutting edge of stereoscope could look like, but it has to be said that the movies ushered into cinemas in its wake were a decidedly mixed bunch. Toy Story 3's 3D was extraordinarily effective, yet Clash Of The Titans looked like a blurry mess. How To Train Your Dragon came to life in its flying sequences, but the less said about the horribly murky Last Airbender, the better.
Unless we’re mistaken, none of the movies on this list were shot or released in 3D, and few of them did particularly stellar business. A few got a certain amount of critical acclaim,...
Our series of lists devoted to underappreciated films brings us to the year 2010, and another 25 overlooked gems...
By 2010, Hollywood’s obsession with 3D movies was in full swing. James Cameron’s Avatar may have given audiences a taste of what the cutting edge of stereoscope could look like, but it has to be said that the movies ushered into cinemas in its wake were a decidedly mixed bunch. Toy Story 3's 3D was extraordinarily effective, yet Clash Of The Titans looked like a blurry mess. How To Train Your Dragon came to life in its flying sequences, but the less said about the horribly murky Last Airbender, the better.
Unless we’re mistaken, none of the movies on this list were shot or released in 3D, and few of them did particularly stellar business. A few got a certain amount of critical acclaim,...
- 2/26/2014
- by ryanlambie
- Den of Geek
You can put it down to luck, clever career management or a combination of the two, but there's no doubting that over the past three years Matthew McConaughey has pulled off a career comeback, a 'McConaissance', the likes of which Hollywood has rarely seen.
After a string of certified duffers - including Sahara, Fool's Gold and Ghosts of Girlfriends Past - McConaughey is now on a winning streak that could well culminate in him lifting the Best Actor Academy Award next month for Dallas Buyers Club. He's also one of the most in-demand A-listers around, with the likes of Steven Soderbergh, Martin Scorsese, Richard Linkater, William Friedkin and Christopher Nolan all casting him in prestige projects.
If McConaughey, the one-time shirtless, tussle-haired Texas Surfer, Dude, can turn things around so dramatically, surely there are other big name actors out there with a locker full of surprises? Digital Spy takes a...
After a string of certified duffers - including Sahara, Fool's Gold and Ghosts of Girlfriends Past - McConaughey is now on a winning streak that could well culminate in him lifting the Best Actor Academy Award next month for Dallas Buyers Club. He's also one of the most in-demand A-listers around, with the likes of Steven Soderbergh, Martin Scorsese, Richard Linkater, William Friedkin and Christopher Nolan all casting him in prestige projects.
If McConaughey, the one-time shirtless, tussle-haired Texas Surfer, Dude, can turn things around so dramatically, surely there are other big name actors out there with a locker full of surprises? Digital Spy takes a...
- 2/6/2014
- Digital Spy
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