Exclusive: An adaptation of Emma Törzs’ debut fantasy novel Ink Blood Sister Scribe titled Ink has been greenlit by Gato Grande, an Amazon MGM Studios company.
From writer and executive producer Bronwyn Garrity, the fantasy thriller series will follow estranged half-sisters Esther and Joanna, who grew up immersed in magic and raised by a father who dedicated his life to protecting an ancient library of spells. When their paths cross with Nicholas, the world’s last living scribe, they’ll realize that the business of magic is much bigger and more sinister than they ever expected and will find themselves at the center of a global conspiracy to control magic and those born to wield it. A conspiracy that has been perpetuated by members of their own families… and that will destroy them if they don’t destroy it first.
Released in 2023, Ink Blood Sister Scribe was selected...
From writer and executive producer Bronwyn Garrity, the fantasy thriller series will follow estranged half-sisters Esther and Joanna, who grew up immersed in magic and raised by a father who dedicated his life to protecting an ancient library of spells. When their paths cross with Nicholas, the world’s last living scribe, they’ll realize that the business of magic is much bigger and more sinister than they ever expected and will find themselves at the center of a global conspiracy to control magic and those born to wield it. A conspiracy that has been perpetuated by members of their own families… and that will destroy them if they don’t destroy it first.
Released in 2023, Ink Blood Sister Scribe was selected...
- 5/21/2024
- by Rosy Cordero
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Nicolas Cage, FKA twigs, Noah Jupe and Souheila Yacoub are set to star in Egyptian-American director Lotfy Nathan’s The Carpenter’s Son exploring the rarely told story of the childhood of Jesus with a horror take.
Paris-based Cinenovo and L.A.-based Spacemaker are producing. Goodfellas is overseeing international sales apart from in North America, which it will co-rep with Anonymous Content and WME.
Nathan has taken inspiration from the apocryphal Infancy Gospel of Thomas for the screenplay. Dating back to the 2nd Century Ad, the text recounts the childhood of Jesus.
Per the official synopsis, “The Carpenter’s Son tells the dark story of a family hiding out in Roman Egypt. The son, known only as ‘the Boy’, is driven to doubt by another mysterious child and rebels against his guardian, the Carpenter, revealing inherent powers and a fate beyond his comprehension. As he exercises his own power,...
Paris-based Cinenovo and L.A.-based Spacemaker are producing. Goodfellas is overseeing international sales apart from in North America, which it will co-rep with Anonymous Content and WME.
Nathan has taken inspiration from the apocryphal Infancy Gospel of Thomas for the screenplay. Dating back to the 2nd Century Ad, the text recounts the childhood of Jesus.
Per the official synopsis, “The Carpenter’s Son tells the dark story of a family hiding out in Roman Egypt. The son, known only as ‘the Boy’, is driven to doubt by another mysterious child and rebels against his guardian, the Carpenter, revealing inherent powers and a fate beyond his comprehension. As he exercises his own power,...
- 5/6/2024
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Here’s the latest episode of The Filmmakers Podcast, part of the podcast roster here on Nerdly. If you haven’t heard the show yet, you can check out previous episodes on the official podcast site, whilst we’ll be featuring each and every new episode as it premieres.
For those unfamiliar with the series, The Filmmakers Podcast is a podcast about how to make films from micro-budget indie films to bigger-budget studio films and everything in between. Our hosts Giles Alderson, Dom Lenoir, Dan Richardson, Andrew Rodger and Cristian James talk about how to get films made, how to actually make them and how to try not to f… it up in their very humble opinion. Guests will come on and chat about their filmmaking experiences from directors, writers, producers and screenwriters, to actors, cinematographers and distributors.
The Filmmaker’s Podcast #394: Zack Snyder on filmmaking & Netflix’s Rebel...
For those unfamiliar with the series, The Filmmakers Podcast is a podcast about how to make films from micro-budget indie films to bigger-budget studio films and everything in between. Our hosts Giles Alderson, Dom Lenoir, Dan Richardson, Andrew Rodger and Cristian James talk about how to get films made, how to actually make them and how to try not to f… it up in their very humble opinion. Guests will come on and chat about their filmmaking experiences from directors, writers, producers and screenwriters, to actors, cinematographers and distributors.
The Filmmaker’s Podcast #394: Zack Snyder on filmmaking & Netflix’s Rebel...
- 5/6/2024
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Exclusive: Gato Grande–an Amazon MGM Studios company–has set their first English-language comedy series titled Climax from Mexican American writer Elena Crevello. The project is currently being shopped.
Climax follows former party girl Alma who, after surviving a near-fatal car accident, finds herself with an unexpected ability: every time she sleeps with someone, she sees a vision of how and when that person is going to die. When she realizes that a one-night stand has only a few days left to live, Alma must decide how far she will go to save his life and how to handle her new, life-changing ability.
Now that she can glimpse the future, what responsibility does she have to change it? Is this her chance to make a difference… or a curse on all future relationships?
“Elena Crevello is one of the brightest voices in comedy television...
Climax follows former party girl Alma who, after surviving a near-fatal car accident, finds herself with an unexpected ability: every time she sleeps with someone, she sees a vision of how and when that person is going to die. When she realizes that a one-night stand has only a few days left to live, Alma must decide how far she will go to save his life and how to handle her new, life-changing ability.
Now that she can glimpse the future, what responsibility does she have to change it? Is this her chance to make a difference… or a curse on all future relationships?
“Elena Crevello is one of the brightest voices in comedy television...
- 4/25/2024
- by Rosy Cordero
- Deadline Film + TV
1. Always hire Anthony Hopkins to deliver exposition. The man is an Oscar-winner, he’s played everybody from Hamlet to Hannibal Lecter, he’s got the best butter-melting British purr in the business. So if you’re Zack Snyder — or even if you’re not Zack Snyder, but are dropping the second chapter of a needlessly complicated space saga and need to get folks back up to speed — you enlist Sir Anthony to say things like: “On the far edges of the Motherworld’s reach, circling the gas giant Mara, was the small moon of Veldt…...
- 4/20/2024
- by David Fear
- Rollingstone.com
Stars: Emily Durchholz, Leland Morrow, Devin McBride, Kevin Roach, Kara Gray | Written by Jakob Bilinski, Peter Matsoukas | Directed by Jakob Bilinski
Compression is the latest film from Jakob Bilinski who directed, edited, shot and co-wrote the film with Peter Matsoukas. It’s certainly grabbed some attention, debuting a couple of weeks ago at the HorrorHound Weekend, where it picked up eleven nominations and won in seven of those categories, Judges Choice, Best Feature Film, Best Directing, Best Lead Performance, Best Supporting Performance, Best Writing, and Best Editing.
Now, as regular readers will know, I’m a bit cynical when it comes to awards from festivals and conventions. But HorrorHound is a well-known event with a track record, not some unknown festival that’s there to collect entry fees and sell trophies. All of which is a long-winded way of saying I was more than a little interested when I was...
Compression is the latest film from Jakob Bilinski who directed, edited, shot and co-wrote the film with Peter Matsoukas. It’s certainly grabbed some attention, debuting a couple of weeks ago at the HorrorHound Weekend, where it picked up eleven nominations and won in seven of those categories, Judges Choice, Best Feature Film, Best Directing, Best Lead Performance, Best Supporting Performance, Best Writing, and Best Editing.
Now, as regular readers will know, I’m a bit cynical when it comes to awards from festivals and conventions. But HorrorHound is a well-known event with a track record, not some unknown festival that’s there to collect entry fees and sell trophies. All of which is a long-winded way of saying I was more than a little interested when I was...
- 4/18/2024
- by Jim Morazzini
- Nerdly
Fans who are eager to experience—or re-experience—Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures’ Dune: Part Two in IMAX will have even further opportunities to view the film in theaters as the critically acclaimed blockbuster extends its run in the format’s top 20 markets across North America. Beginning Friday, April 19, fans will have two additional weeks to see the film in IMAX.
This includes 70Mm IMAX in two locales: Los Angeles’s Universal Cinema AMC at CityWalk and New York City’s AMC Lincoln Square 13. The announcement was made today by Jeff Goldstein, President, Domestic Distribution at Warner Bros. Pictures.
“The incredible response to this film has proven that Denis Villeneuve has crafted an unmissable cinematic experience for audiences, whether they are fans of the first film or discovering this world for the first time through ‘Dune: Part Two,'” said Goldstein.
“The fans have spoken, and we, along with...
This includes 70Mm IMAX in two locales: Los Angeles’s Universal Cinema AMC at CityWalk and New York City’s AMC Lincoln Square 13. The announcement was made today by Jeff Goldstein, President, Domestic Distribution at Warner Bros. Pictures.
“The incredible response to this film has proven that Denis Villeneuve has crafted an unmissable cinematic experience for audiences, whether they are fans of the first film or discovering this world for the first time through ‘Dune: Part Two,'” said Goldstein.
“The fans have spoken, and we, along with...
- 4/9/2024
- by Mirko Parlevliet
- Vital Thrills
As most connoisseurs of cinema already know, the end credit roll is a relatively recent addition to the medium. The reasons for this are too lengthy to go into here, but suffice to say that films used to end very definitively and, at least for those of us raised in a world where end credits were already a thing, quite abruptly, sending audiences out of the theater with a brusqueness not unlike a train disembarking.
Ever since end credit rolls became commonplace, filmmakers have experimented with finding ways of extending the cinematic experience throughout their duration rather than treating them the way so many moviegoers tend to: as mere legally-mandated appendages to a movie. While even the most basic film includes music during the end credits so as to help keep the roll a part of the movie, some go above and beyond that, including deleted material, bloopers, or entire...
Ever since end credit rolls became commonplace, filmmakers have experimented with finding ways of extending the cinematic experience throughout their duration rather than treating them the way so many moviegoers tend to: as mere legally-mandated appendages to a movie. While even the most basic film includes music during the end credits so as to help keep the roll a part of the movie, some go above and beyond that, including deleted material, bloopers, or entire...
- 4/1/2024
- by Bill Bria
- Slash Film
Dune: Part Two is set to hit theaters globally on March 1. The sequel film will continue from the events of Dune (2021) and explore the mythic journey of Timothée Chalamet’s Paul Atreides as he seeks revenge against the conspirators who destroyed his family. In his pursuit, Paul will encounter several new characters in the film, including a future wife and a sociopathic villain. A bunch of talented cast has joined Denis Villeneuve’s second film to portray these characters.
Timothée Chalamet in a still from Dune: Part Two
Oppenheimer actress Florence Pugh and Elvis actor Austin Butler were the first new additions to join Dune 2 in March 2022. Tim Blake Nelson, who joined the film in January 2023 in an undisclosed role, was not included in this list as his scenes were reportedly cut from the theatrical cut.
Léa Seydoux – Lady Margot Fenring Léa Seydoux as Lady Margot Fenring in Dune 2
According to Deadline,...
Timothée Chalamet in a still from Dune: Part Two
Oppenheimer actress Florence Pugh and Elvis actor Austin Butler were the first new additions to join Dune 2 in March 2022. Tim Blake Nelson, who joined the film in January 2023 in an undisclosed role, was not included in this list as his scenes were reportedly cut from the theatrical cut.
Léa Seydoux – Lady Margot Fenring Léa Seydoux as Lady Margot Fenring in Dune 2
According to Deadline,...
- 2/29/2024
- by Hashim Asraff
- FandomWire
Usher’s first studio album in six years largely operates as a high-wire homecoming of sorts for the R&b singer. Released two days before his halftime performance at Super Bowl Lviii and following a highly successful Las Vegas residency, Coming Home feels less driven by creative ingenuity or an aesthetic vision than by sheer showmanship. This is further emphasized by the inclusion of the sleepy “Risk It All,” a duet with H.E.R. from the Color Purple soundtrack, and a remix of BTS member Jungkook’s “Standing Next to You,” both of which, thematically and sonically, have little in common with anything else on the album.
Which is to say that the 20-track Coming Home, like many of Usher’s post-Confessions output, is a bit of a bloated mess. For every few colorless duds defined by their embrace of contemporary R&b, such as the overly smooth “Kissing Strangers” or the brassy “Big,...
Which is to say that the 20-track Coming Home, like many of Usher’s post-Confessions output, is a bit of a bloated mess. For every few colorless duds defined by their embrace of contemporary R&b, such as the overly smooth “Kissing Strangers” or the brassy “Big,...
- 2/12/2024
- by Paul Attard
- Slant Magazine
In the realm of Giallo films, Dario Argento is a celebrated figure. He’s one of the most influential directors of the Italian film industry, but his films have enchanted audiences worldwide and made a lot of cinephiles fall in love with the Italian Giallo films, such as Suspiria (1977), Deep Red (1975), Inferno (1980), and many more. Directed by Simone Scafidi, the Shudder documentary Dario Argento: Panico sheds light on this legendary filmmaker’s life and his extraordinary filmmaking style. Some of those closest to him like his sister, daughter, and ex-wife, as well as some globally acclaimed directors who had always looked up to his work, appeared in this film to share how Dario became an inspiration for the next generation.
The film opened with Dario Argento being interviewed and filmed in a hotel room, where he was supposed to write the screenplay for his next film. Initially a little bit hesitant to talk,...
The film opened with Dario Argento being interviewed and filmed in a hotel room, where he was supposed to write the screenplay for his next film. Initially a little bit hesitant to talk,...
- 2/2/2024
- by Poulami Nanda
- Film Fugitives
Two years ago, Souheila Yacoub took a call from an unknown number – and on the other end of line was Denis Villeneuve.
“I was so blacked out thinking how unreal it all was that I didn’t really understand everything that happened,” the actor tells Variety. “All I know is he asked me to read for ‘Dune: Part Two’ and shortly thereafter he offered me the part – and I was trying to stay professional, but on the inside I was crying, ‘This is so surreal!’”
One question the Swiss-born, Paris-based gymnast-turned-actor thought best not to ask was how she found her way onto Villeneuve’s radar to begin with.
“I was so nervous that he’d made mistake – that he was actually thinking of someone else – that I never dared to ask,” she laughs. “So I just signed the contract and showed up on set.”
With a pedigree that includes...
“I was so blacked out thinking how unreal it all was that I didn’t really understand everything that happened,” the actor tells Variety. “All I know is he asked me to read for ‘Dune: Part Two’ and shortly thereafter he offered me the part – and I was trying to stay professional, but on the inside I was crying, ‘This is so surreal!’”
One question the Swiss-born, Paris-based gymnast-turned-actor thought best not to ask was how she found her way onto Villeneuve’s radar to begin with.
“I was so nervous that he’d made mistake – that he was actually thinking of someone else – that I never dared to ask,” she laughs. “So I just signed the contract and showed up on set.”
With a pedigree that includes...
- 1/23/2024
- by Ben Croll
- Variety Film + TV
HanuMan Twitter Review: Netizens Hail Prashanth Varma’s Film, Gets Compared To Om Raut’s Adipurush ( Photo Credit – Instagram )
After a long wait, the much-anticipated film ‘Hanuman’ was released in the theatres this morning. Helmed by Prashanth Varma, the film also stars Amritha Aiyer, Varalaxmi Sarathkumar, Vinay Rai, Vennela Kishore, Satya, Getup Srinu, and Raj Deepak Shetty in pivotal roles. After its release in the theatres, the film has been receiving positive reviews from critics and audiences and is being lauded by one and all for its gripping plot. Well, it looks like the film has not only impressed the critics but also Twitteratis.
The release of the film has also sparked a meme fest amongst social media users as they are now trolling Prabhas’ Adipurush and director Om Raut, asking him to take some cues from Prashanth Varma. For the unversed, the film received massive criticism from many for its caricature-ish characters,...
After a long wait, the much-anticipated film ‘Hanuman’ was released in the theatres this morning. Helmed by Prashanth Varma, the film also stars Amritha Aiyer, Varalaxmi Sarathkumar, Vinay Rai, Vennela Kishore, Satya, Getup Srinu, and Raj Deepak Shetty in pivotal roles. After its release in the theatres, the film has been receiving positive reviews from critics and audiences and is being lauded by one and all for its gripping plot. Well, it looks like the film has not only impressed the critics but also Twitteratis.
The release of the film has also sparked a meme fest amongst social media users as they are now trolling Prabhas’ Adipurush and director Om Raut, asking him to take some cues from Prashanth Varma. For the unversed, the film received massive criticism from many for its caricature-ish characters,...
- 1/12/2024
- by Oshine Koul
- KoiMoi
Dunki Verdict: As Fans Hail Vicky Kaushal, Hero Of This Shah Rukh Khan Film, Will He Bag Rajkumar Hirani’s Next – Lala Amarnath Biopic?
Rajkumar Hirani’s Dunki has finally been released, and the film starring Shah Rukh Khan is getting mixed responses, as a Hirani film usually gets in the beginning. But the beauty of a Raju Hirani film is that it grows. The other evident thing in a Hirani film is larger-than-life characters. Be it Sunil Dutt in Munna Bhai, Vicky Kaushal in Sanju or Vicky Kaushal in Dunki!
Yes, currently, the Uri superstar is being hailed as the ‘hero’ of the Shah Rukh Khan film based on illegal immigration. While not much has been revealed about his character (thank god for that), fans are awestruck at this amazing talent Bollywood has seen in the last few years.
Interestingly, Vicky Kaushal grabbed headlines sharing the screen with someone...
Rajkumar Hirani’s Dunki has finally been released, and the film starring Shah Rukh Khan is getting mixed responses, as a Hirani film usually gets in the beginning. But the beauty of a Raju Hirani film is that it grows. The other evident thing in a Hirani film is larger-than-life characters. Be it Sunil Dutt in Munna Bhai, Vicky Kaushal in Sanju or Vicky Kaushal in Dunki!
Yes, currently, the Uri superstar is being hailed as the ‘hero’ of the Shah Rukh Khan film based on illegal immigration. While not much has been revealed about his character (thank god for that), fans are awestruck at this amazing talent Bollywood has seen in the last few years.
Interestingly, Vicky Kaushal grabbed headlines sharing the screen with someone...
- 12/21/2023
- by Trisha Gaur
- KoiMoi
Kannada superstar Kichcha Sudeepa is gearing up to play his role as a notorious demonic killer in his new project which is tentatively titled ‘K46’. In preparation for that, the actor posted snippets of his workout and how much muscle he has gained to do the role.
Taking to social media, the ‘Huchcha’ actor posted pictures of his toned muscular physique, incredible biceps and overall musculature while wearing a yellow cap, training gloves and red striped boxers.
He captioned the post: “Workout is my new Happy space. A routine that has kept me calmer and focused. Another month or so before the Climax fight sequence of ‘K46’…loads to achieve at my Workout station.”
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Of course, the pictures of Sudeepa’s dedicated workout have garnered him much praise for his work, with his fans congratulating the actor on achieving his ‘Killer King Pack.
Taking to social media, the ‘Huchcha’ actor posted pictures of his toned muscular physique, incredible biceps and overall musculature while wearing a yellow cap, training gloves and red striped boxers.
He captioned the post: “Workout is my new Happy space. A routine that has kept me calmer and focused. Another month or so before the Climax fight sequence of ‘K46’…loads to achieve at my Workout station.”
View this post on Instagram
A post shared by KicchaSudeepa (@kichchasudeepa)
Of course, the pictures of Sudeepa’s dedicated workout have garnered him much praise for his work, with his fans congratulating the actor on achieving his ‘Killer King Pack.
- 8/27/2023
- by Agency News Desk
- GlamSham
If you plan to attend Usher's "My Way" Las Vegas residency, you'll want to arrive early because you don't want to miss the preshow dance party courtesy of his unmatched fans. As I walked into the Park MGM arena for the show I was attending in late June, my ears were greeted with classic R&b and hip-hop songs like Tevin Campbell's "Can We Talk" and Miguel's "Adorn You" as a DJ encouraged us to stand, dance, and sing along with the rest of the audience. Usher's dancers even came out and interacted with the audience, inviting some lucky attendees to dance with them on stage. The vibes felt more like a house party with all of my best friends than a concert surrounded by strangers. So much so that I didn't even realize the show was starting.
While the title of Usher's residency, "My Way," may...
While the title of Usher's residency, "My Way," may...
- 8/11/2023
- by Noelle Devoe
- Popsugar.com
Of all of the young actors to break through thanks to the success of "Stranger Things," Sadie Sink has had arguably one of the most interesting career trajectories. Sink got her start on Broadway playing the titular role of "Annie," and had a handful of TV appearances on shows like "The Americans" and "Blue Bloods" before nabbing a main role in "American Odyssey." Unfortunately, that show only lasted one season, canceled by NBC only two days after the season finale. When Sink was cast as Max Mayfield on "Stranger Things" in season 2, she immediately became a fan favorite. Max has become the bleeding heart of the series, and her popularity even prevented show creators, The Duffer Brothers, from killing off the character in season 4 as originally planned.
Following "Stranger Things," Sink has continued to thrive by starring in "Fear Street: 1978," Taylor Swift's short film, "All Too Well," Darren Aronofsky's "The Whale,...
Following "Stranger Things," Sink has continued to thrive by starring in "Fear Street: 1978," Taylor Swift's short film, "All Too Well," Darren Aronofsky's "The Whale,...
- 8/7/2023
- by BJ Colangelo
- Slash Film
August is here, and so is a brand new collection of additions from the ever-expanding Plex. The free streaming service is adding another two dozen titles to its library of over 50,000 TV series and movies, and whether you’re in the mood for a found-footage horror movie like “V/H/S” or an LGBTQ+ rom-com like “Life Partners,” your watchlist likely just got a little longer.
Check out our top picks for the coming month and the full list below!
Watch Now $0+ / month plex.tv What Are the Best Shows and Movies Coming to Plex in August 2023? “Shadow Dancer” | Aug. 1
The 2012 mystery-thriller set in 1990s Belfast stars Andrea Riseborough as an active member of the Ira who becomes an informant for MI5 in order to protect her son’s welfare. The spy drama also stars Clive Owens, Gillian Anderson, Aidan Gillen, Domhnall Gleeson, Brid Brennan, David Wilmot, and more.
Check...
Check out our top picks for the coming month and the full list below!
Watch Now $0+ / month plex.tv What Are the Best Shows and Movies Coming to Plex in August 2023? “Shadow Dancer” | Aug. 1
The 2012 mystery-thriller set in 1990s Belfast stars Andrea Riseborough as an active member of the Ira who becomes an informant for MI5 in order to protect her son’s welfare. The spy drama also stars Clive Owens, Gillian Anderson, Aidan Gillen, Domhnall Gleeson, Brid Brennan, David Wilmot, and more.
Check...
- 7/31/2023
- by Ashley Steves
- The Streamable
Gaspar Noé, the French director known for his provocative and experimental films, has announced his next project. The film, which is still untitled, will star Cate Blanchett and Franz Rogowski as the lead actors. The film is currently in pre-production and Noé is scouting locations in Putignano, Italy.
Noé is one of the most acclaimed and controversial filmmakers of his generation. His films, such as “Irreversible”, “Enter the Void” and “Climax”, have explored themes of violence, sexuality, death and transcendence with a distinctive visual style and narrative structure. His latest film, “Vortex”, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2021, was a departure from his previous works. It focused on an elderly couple facing their mortality in a realistic and intimate way.
Casper Noe DVD Picks
Blanchett and Rogowski are both versatile and talented actors who have worked with some of the best directors in the world. Blanchett is a...
Noé is one of the most acclaimed and controversial filmmakers of his generation. His films, such as “Irreversible”, “Enter the Void” and “Climax”, have explored themes of violence, sexuality, death and transcendence with a distinctive visual style and narrative structure. His latest film, “Vortex”, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2021, was a departure from his previous works. It focused on an elderly couple facing their mortality in a realistic and intimate way.
Casper Noe DVD Picks
Blanchett and Rogowski are both versatile and talented actors who have worked with some of the best directors in the world. Blanchett is a...
- 7/21/2023
- by amalprasadappu
- https://thecinemanews.online/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/IMG_4649
“The Idol” may not be getting much critical love, but one place it’s thriving? TikTok. While pop star Jocelyn (Lily-Rose Depp) drives herself to a mental and physical breaking point while shooting a music video for her new single “World Class Sinner / I’m a Freak,” creators have embraced Nina McNeely’s choreography. Yet when it comes to McNeely’s influences, the word “trending” doesn’t really apply — it’s more like “classic,” as the choreographer looked to dances that have stood the test of time for 25 years or more for inspiration.
“I wanted to dig into the classic tropes of what makes a pop star an icon,” McNeely told IndieWire. “I thought of stars like Madonna and others who used eroticism to push the boundaries and make big statements.” McNeely began researching the great erotic dance moments in film and music videos and started with one of the...
“I wanted to dig into the classic tropes of what makes a pop star an icon,” McNeely told IndieWire. “I thought of stars like Madonna and others who used eroticism to push the boundaries and make big statements.” McNeely began researching the great erotic dance moments in film and music videos and started with one of the...
- 6/29/2023
- by Jim Hemphill
- Indiewire
In our sequel to 2022’s Essential Queer Horror Movies list — which included newer films “Titane,” “Stranger By the Lake,” and “Fear Street” —we bring you even more of the best recent LGBTQ films in the genre.
Queue up these queer-friendly slashers such as “Bodies Bodies Bodies” and “Scream VI,” truly mind-bending A24 offerings like “Saint Maud” and “Climax,” as well as some terrific under-the-radar horror comedies like “Dead” from New Zealand.
Scream VI (2023)
Jasmin Savoy Brown’s character Mindy Meeks-Martin, the savvy rules follower of survivor of 2022 installment “Scream,” has a much bigger storyline as she and girlfriend Anika Kayoko (Devyn Nekoda) tangle with another Ghostface killer.
Stream on Paramount+
Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022)
In this very funny and very Gen Z thriller, things go spectacularly wrong when Sophie (Amandla Stenberg) brings new girlfriend Bee (Maria Bakalova) to a weekend party while a hurricane is brewing. Sophie’s wealthy friends look...
Queue up these queer-friendly slashers such as “Bodies Bodies Bodies” and “Scream VI,” truly mind-bending A24 offerings like “Saint Maud” and “Climax,” as well as some terrific under-the-radar horror comedies like “Dead” from New Zealand.
Scream VI (2023)
Jasmin Savoy Brown’s character Mindy Meeks-Martin, the savvy rules follower of survivor of 2022 installment “Scream,” has a much bigger storyline as she and girlfriend Anika Kayoko (Devyn Nekoda) tangle with another Ghostface killer.
Stream on Paramount+
Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022)
In this very funny and very Gen Z thriller, things go spectacularly wrong when Sophie (Amandla Stenberg) brings new girlfriend Bee (Maria Bakalova) to a weekend party while a hurricane is brewing. Sophie’s wealthy friends look...
- 6/16/2023
- by Sharon Knolle
- The Wrap
“Pellington’s boldest and most audacious film to date, an unclassifiable dance movie that plays like a cross between Wim Wenders’ Pina and Saw…Pellington moves beyond the limitations of narrative to get at something primal and raw—but also ultimately transcendent and life affirming—that perfectly conveys the transformative effects of grief and loss.”
– Jim Hemphill, Filmmaker Magazine
“Pellington’s continuing rumination on the progress of grief: now a wildfire, now a slow, creeping cancer, always a constant companion…the answers to The Severing are written in flesh and bone.”
– Walter Chaw, Film Freak Central
Kino Lorber presents Mark Pellington’s The Severing, a cathartic dance movement piece created in collaboration with the brilliant choreographer Nina McNeely (Gaspar Noe’s Climax) and rising Dutch cinematographer Evelin Rei.
Screening 31st March in NYC at Alamo Drafthouse Lower Manhattan
**Mark Pellington in attendance for Q&a **
Screening 6th April in LA...
– Jim Hemphill, Filmmaker Magazine
“Pellington’s continuing rumination on the progress of grief: now a wildfire, now a slow, creeping cancer, always a constant companion…the answers to The Severing are written in flesh and bone.”
– Walter Chaw, Film Freak Central
Kino Lorber presents Mark Pellington’s The Severing, a cathartic dance movement piece created in collaboration with the brilliant choreographer Nina McNeely (Gaspar Noe’s Climax) and rising Dutch cinematographer Evelin Rei.
Screening 31st March in NYC at Alamo Drafthouse Lower Manhattan
**Mark Pellington in attendance for Q&a **
Screening 6th April in LA...
- 3/27/2023
- by Peter 'Witchfinder' Hopkins
- Horror Asylum
Diverse festival notables from Hannah Ha Ha to The Blue Caftan join a spattering of specialty horror titles led by Consecration, and the U.S. theatrical debut of Gaspar Noé’s controversial Irréversible: Straight Cut.
The last is presented by Altered Innocence, whose owner Frank Jaffe spoke with Deadline about why he wanted to give Noe’s unusual 2019 director’s cut — of the Argentinian/French director’s disturbing 2002 film Irreversible — a release Stateside. “It’s a film that needs to be seen. Or made available,” he said. StudioCanal approached him twice. “They said, ‘No one is brave enough to take on this film. Will you?’” And “there is an audience for it…Tickets are selling.”
Jaffe said he first watched Irreversible, or tried to, via Netflix mail order DVD when he was 14. “My dad made me turn it off halfway through.”
It had a big impact on him. He...
The last is presented by Altered Innocence, whose owner Frank Jaffe spoke with Deadline about why he wanted to give Noe’s unusual 2019 director’s cut — of the Argentinian/French director’s disturbing 2002 film Irreversible — a release Stateside. “It’s a film that needs to be seen. Or made available,” he said. StudioCanal approached him twice. “They said, ‘No one is brave enough to take on this film. Will you?’” And “there is an audience for it…Tickets are selling.”
Jaffe said he first watched Irreversible, or tried to, via Netflix mail order DVD when he was 14. “My dad made me turn it off halfway through.”
It had a big impact on him. He...
- 2/10/2023
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
Every self-respecting or self-hating cinephile has a relationship — whether twisted, confounding, adoring, appalled, or all of the above — to Gaspar Noé’s “Irréversible.” His 2002 would-have-been midnight movie turned international sensation told a rape-revenge story from back to front, starting with the resolution working backward to the events preceding a horrifying crime in a red-lit tunnel in Paris. It starred Monica Bellucci and Vincent Cassel, who were then still married and very much in love and looking for a project to do together. Noé was then a Cannes Critics’ Week wunderkind, high off the modest fumes of the success of 1998’s “I Stand Alone,” and not yet the shock-making director of subsequent films like “Enter the Void” and “Climax” we know now.
“Irréversible” is now being re-released theatrically with a “Straight Cut” — in other words, the sequence of the movie now recut into chronological order — that originated first as a bootleg...
“Irréversible” is now being re-released theatrically with a “Straight Cut” — in other words, the sequence of the movie now recut into chronological order — that originated first as a bootleg...
- 2/9/2023
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
Winnie Cheung’s “Residency,” which has its world premiere in the Bright Future section of Intl. Film Festival Rotterdam, has debuted its trailer (below). Alief is selling the film, which is a “haunting metafictional tale about female artists pushed beyond their limits at a cursed artist residency.”
The film, set at New York artists’ studio The Locker Room, is described by Alief’s Miguel Angel Govea as “an adventurous take on the final girl horror trope.” It is a “hybrid feature dancing between fiction and non-fiction norms that plays like a punk rock cover of Gaspar Noé’s ‘Climax.'”
Cheung commented: “Rather than representing women as sexualized victims through the traditional lens of male fantasies, I’m exploring the real horror behind the anxiety of being a female artist, which is often mixed in with pleasure, delirium and joy.”
Cheung was the editor and one of the producers of “Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched,...
The film, set at New York artists’ studio The Locker Room, is described by Alief’s Miguel Angel Govea as “an adventurous take on the final girl horror trope.” It is a “hybrid feature dancing between fiction and non-fiction norms that plays like a punk rock cover of Gaspar Noé’s ‘Climax.'”
Cheung commented: “Rather than representing women as sexualized victims through the traditional lens of male fantasies, I’m exploring the real horror behind the anxiety of being a female artist, which is often mixed in with pleasure, delirium and joy.”
Cheung was the editor and one of the producers of “Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched,...
- 1/27/2023
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Daft Punk’s Thomas Bangalter will release his first solo album, Mythologies, which will feature an orchestral piece he wrote for a ballet of the same name. The album is set to arrive on April 7 via Erato/Warner Classics.
Mythologies is Bangalter’s first independent orchestral work, commissioned by choreographer Angelin Preljocaj. The ballet premiered last summer, a collaboration between Ballet Preljocaj and the Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine, which performed Bangalter’s score under the direction of Romain Dumas. The ballet is an exploration of contemporary rituals, as well as...
Mythologies is Bangalter’s first independent orchestral work, commissioned by choreographer Angelin Preljocaj. The ballet premiered last summer, a collaboration between Ballet Preljocaj and the Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine, which performed Bangalter’s score under the direction of Romain Dumas. The ballet is an exploration of contemporary rituals, as well as...
- 1/24/2023
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
One night. An unforgivable act. A tale told in reverse. Often regarded as a masterpiece but also one of the most infamous films in cinema history that is despised in many circles for its gratuitous sexual violence, Gaspar Noé’s (“Climax,” “Enter the Void,” “Vortex”) slammed audiences with “Irréversible” in 2002. It’s a film that basically is told in reverse order depicting the events of a tragic night in Paris as two men attempt to avenge the brutal rape and beating of the woman they love.
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- 1/17/2023
- by Edward Davis
- The Playlist
Good afternoon Insiders, Max Goldbart here relaying a hugely busy week in the world of film and TV as the post-Christmas blues are very much washed away. Read on.
French Focus
Rendez-Vous: Mel Goodfellow here reporting from the 25th edition of French film and TV promotional body Unifrance’s Rendez-Vous in Paris, which unfolded in the French capital this week in its first fully physical iteration since 2020. Some 450 buyers from 50 territories attended its film market and screening program, showcasing some 80 new French language titles and presentations by nine broadcasters and content companies including Mediawan, Newen, Arte, Federation Entertainment and France Télévisions. The event kicked off with Unifrance’s third Export Day on Tuesday looking at the fortunes of French film and TV content internationally. Its annual international box office report revealed less than stellar results – with French minority and majority productions clocking just 27M admissions outside of France in 2022, against...
French Focus
Rendez-Vous: Mel Goodfellow here reporting from the 25th edition of French film and TV promotional body Unifrance’s Rendez-Vous in Paris, which unfolded in the French capital this week in its first fully physical iteration since 2020. Some 450 buyers from 50 territories attended its film market and screening program, showcasing some 80 new French language titles and presentations by nine broadcasters and content companies including Mediawan, Newen, Arte, Federation Entertainment and France Télévisions. The event kicked off with Unifrance’s third Export Day on Tuesday looking at the fortunes of French film and TV content internationally. Its annual international box office report revealed less than stellar results – with French minority and majority productions clocking just 27M admissions outside of France in 2022, against...
- 1/13/2023
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Wild Bunch co-founders Vincent Maraval and Brahim Chioua bid farewell to the legendary company name they created in 2002 at a characteristically rebel-rousing party in Paris bannered “Forever Wild Whatever The Name!” on Thursday night, but have yet to confirm their new name.
Taking place during Unifrance’s Rendez-Vous in Paris, local and international collaborators flocked to the Annette K barge on the banks of the Seine for the event, featuring a Céline Dion tribute act and a set by DJ Kiddy Smile who appeared in Gaspar Noé’s Climax.
The dropping of the name marks the final act in their departure from the pan-European Wild Bunch Ag film group, which was created in 2015 out of the merger of their original French company Wild Bunch and Germany’s Senator and is now majority owned by German entrepreneur Lars Windhorst.
Maraval and Chioua and their 15-person-strong team struck out as a standalone...
Taking place during Unifrance’s Rendez-Vous in Paris, local and international collaborators flocked to the Annette K barge on the banks of the Seine for the event, featuring a Céline Dion tribute act and a set by DJ Kiddy Smile who appeared in Gaspar Noé’s Climax.
The dropping of the name marks the final act in their departure from the pan-European Wild Bunch Ag film group, which was created in 2015 out of the merger of their original French company Wild Bunch and Germany’s Senator and is now majority owned by German entrepreneur Lars Windhorst.
Maraval and Chioua and their 15-person-strong team struck out as a standalone...
- 1/13/2023
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
The Severing Directed by Mark Pellington Choreographed by Nina McNeely (Gaspar Noe’s Climax) Kino Lorber presents Mark Pellington’s The Severing, a cathartic dance movement piece created in collaboration with the brilliant choreographer Nina McNeely (Gaspar Noe’s Climax) and rising Dutch cinematographer Evelin Rei. Inspired by the Wim Wenders film Pina, The Severing expresses feelings and emotions through …
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- 11/9/2022
- by Adrian Halen
- Horror News
Warning: This post will contain spoilers for the 2021 film "No Time to Die."
Ian Fleming's first James Bond novel, "Casino Royale," was published in 1953, and the character first appeared on television the following year in an episode of the anthology action series "Climax!" The first James Bond feature film, "Dr. No" was released in 1962 and kicked off a long-running series of successful spy movies that codified a genre. James Bond stories typically had very simple premises, and the character's very basic sex appeal was already being satirized as early as 1967 with the release of a spoof version of "Casino Royale." Undeterred by parody, Bond movies continued apace for decades — and through multiple actors — arriving in 2021 with Cary Joji Fukunaga's "No Time to Die," the 28th appearance of the character in film and television. One might say that after 69 years, Bond has had quite enough time to die, thank you.
Ian Fleming's first James Bond novel, "Casino Royale," was published in 1953, and the character first appeared on television the following year in an episode of the anthology action series "Climax!" The first James Bond feature film, "Dr. No" was released in 1962 and kicked off a long-running series of successful spy movies that codified a genre. James Bond stories typically had very simple premises, and the character's very basic sex appeal was already being satirized as early as 1967 with the release of a spoof version of "Casino Royale." Undeterred by parody, Bond movies continued apace for decades — and through multiple actors — arriving in 2021 with Cary Joji Fukunaga's "No Time to Die," the 28th appearance of the character in film and television. One might say that after 69 years, Bond has had quite enough time to die, thank you.
- 11/7/2022
- by Witney Seibold
- Slash Film
Berlin-based sales agency M-Appeal has closed the first deal for its erotic gay thriller “In Bed,” selling the rights for France to Optimale Distribution, ahead of the film’s international premiere at Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival. M-Appeal boarded the film, Nitzan Gilady’s second feature, at script stage.
“In Bed” unfolds over the 24 hours after a shooting takes place at an LGBTQ pride parade in Tel Aviv. Best friends Guy, 28, and Joy, 31, retreat to the safety of Guy’s home, taking fellow pride parader Dan with them.
With an electric, pop aesthetic, and original soundtrack by Offer Nissim, the film is “an immersive and suspenseful journey into a night of erotic encounters, drugs and paranoia.” One of the main themes of the film is chemsex, a topic rarely represented in cinema, which Gilady explores head on.
Gilady said: “Rather than stigmatizing, I wanted to show this side of our culture in a truthful way.
“In Bed” unfolds over the 24 hours after a shooting takes place at an LGBTQ pride parade in Tel Aviv. Best friends Guy, 28, and Joy, 31, retreat to the safety of Guy’s home, taking fellow pride parader Dan with them.
With an electric, pop aesthetic, and original soundtrack by Offer Nissim, the film is “an immersive and suspenseful journey into a night of erotic encounters, drugs and paranoia.” One of the main themes of the film is chemsex, a topic rarely represented in cinema, which Gilady explores head on.
Gilady said: “Rather than stigmatizing, I wanted to show this side of our culture in a truthful way.
- 10/31/2022
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
The Bat
Blu-ray
The Film Detective
1959 / 1.85: 1 / 80 Min.
Starring Agnes Moorehead, Vincent Price
Written by Crane Wilbur
Directed by Crane Wilbur
Crane Wilbur’s The Bat is a murder mystery starring Agnes Moorehead and Vincent Price—but the real mystery is how Hollywood managed to pair these diabolically funny entertainers in only one film. They shared little to no screen time in 1951’s The Adventures of Captain Fabian and 1957’s The Story of Mankind, but in Wilbur’s mild-mannered horror show, Moorehead and Price are toe to toe—and generate enough chemistry for a dozen lovably corny crime thrillers just like The Bat.
Despite Price’s presence it’s Moorehead’s show; she plays Cornelia Van Gorder, a prolific mystery writer in the mode of Mary Roberts Rinehart—who, not coincidentally, wrote The Circular Staircase, the source material for the The Bat. As the no-nonsense Van Gorder, Moorehead’s steely...
Blu-ray
The Film Detective
1959 / 1.85: 1 / 80 Min.
Starring Agnes Moorehead, Vincent Price
Written by Crane Wilbur
Directed by Crane Wilbur
Crane Wilbur’s The Bat is a murder mystery starring Agnes Moorehead and Vincent Price—but the real mystery is how Hollywood managed to pair these diabolically funny entertainers in only one film. They shared little to no screen time in 1951’s The Adventures of Captain Fabian and 1957’s The Story of Mankind, but in Wilbur’s mild-mannered horror show, Moorehead and Price are toe to toe—and generate enough chemistry for a dozen lovably corny crime thrillers just like The Bat.
Despite Price’s presence it’s Moorehead’s show; she plays Cornelia Van Gorder, a prolific mystery writer in the mode of Mary Roberts Rinehart—who, not coincidentally, wrote The Circular Staircase, the source material for the The Bat. As the no-nonsense Van Gorder, Moorehead’s steely...
- 10/22/2022
- by Charlie Largent
- Trailers from Hell
Whatever innocence is introduced in Mercedes Bryce Morgan's "Spoonful of Sugar" with the hummed tune of "Oh My Darling, Clementine" and glimpses of Christmas candy canes rots away like a forgotten fruit that rolls forever out of sight. Imagine "Mary Poppins" breakneck twisting into the darkness of "Orphan" or "Hard Candy." Leah Saint Marie's screenplay explores a drug-induced coming-of-age tale about a supposed hair-twirling babysitter's virgin's sexuality, but that's before Saint Marie balances out storytelling sweetness with an avalanche-pour of salty malevolence. "Spoonful of Sugar" is bone-chilling, knee-buckling nastiness that punishes every character with zero compassion — this ain't the twinkly-eyed fairy tale Morgan deceptively sells at the movie's onset.
Morgan Saylor stars as ponytailed and supposedly 21-year-old Millicent, who's just been hired by accomplished author Rebecca (Kat Foster) to babysit her allergy grab-bag of a son, Johnny (Danilo Crovetti). Millicent claims she's taking a summer hiatus from studies...
Morgan Saylor stars as ponytailed and supposedly 21-year-old Millicent, who's just been hired by accomplished author Rebecca (Kat Foster) to babysit her allergy grab-bag of a son, Johnny (Danilo Crovetti). Millicent claims she's taking a summer hiatus from studies...
- 10/1/2022
- by Matt Donato
- Slash Film
When Guillermo Del Toro is at the helm of a horrific nightmare, you know it's going to be peak cinema of the genre, which is exactly why the trailer for his new Netflix anthology event "Cabinet of Curiosities" looks so top-notch.
In the sneak peek at the 4-day horror event coming to Netflix, we not only get glimpses of some truly terrible horror to come from this interesting anthology — including peeling skin and dead bodies reanimated, just to name a few — but we also got a taste of some really exciting cast members who will undoubtedly bring the heat in the eight stories to come. The stars of these horrific tales include "The Babadook" star Essie Davis, "Harry Potter" alum Rupert Grint, "Westworld" star Ben Barnes, comedian Eric Andre, "The Walking Dead" alum Andrew Lincoln, "Climax" star Sofia Boutella, and "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" star Nia Vardalos.
Netflix calls...
In the sneak peek at the 4-day horror event coming to Netflix, we not only get glimpses of some truly terrible horror to come from this interesting anthology — including peeling skin and dead bodies reanimated, just to name a few — but we also got a taste of some really exciting cast members who will undoubtedly bring the heat in the eight stories to come. The stars of these horrific tales include "The Babadook" star Essie Davis, "Harry Potter" alum Rupert Grint, "Westworld" star Ben Barnes, comedian Eric Andre, "The Walking Dead" alum Andrew Lincoln, "Climax" star Sofia Boutella, and "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" star Nia Vardalos.
Netflix calls...
- 9/30/2022
- by Lex Briscuso
- Slash Film
Ian Fleming's first James Bond novel, "Casino Royale" was published on August 13, 1953. He arrived just in time. In Tony Bennett's and Janet Woollacott's 1987 book "Bond and Beyond: The Political Career of a Popular Hero," the authors point out that Bond's literary function was to lend England -- smarting after the damage of the second World War, and currently embroiled in a Cold War -- a little bit of patriotic panache. James Bond was a tough, get-the-job-done jet-setter who, over the course of his first novel, manages to out-gamble the wicked Le Chiffre, a member of the Russian secret service. It's a simple story, but an exciting one.
"Casino Royale" was adapted to American television in 1954 as part of the anthology series "Climax!" In that version, Barry Nelson played James Bond, now American, against Peter Lorre's Le Chiffre. James Bond would infiltrate movie theaters in 1962 with "Dr. No" starring Sean Connery,...
"Casino Royale" was adapted to American television in 1954 as part of the anthology series "Climax!" In that version, Barry Nelson played James Bond, now American, against Peter Lorre's Le Chiffre. James Bond would infiltrate movie theaters in 1962 with "Dr. No" starring Sean Connery,...
- 9/26/2022
- by Witney Seibold
- Slash Film
R&b singer Usher has been doing an excellent Vegas residency concert My Way since July of this year, and toward the end of August, he announced that while it would be ending briefly this fall, he would also be returning to do more shows in 2023.
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He has been hyping up the development of Confessions 2, a follow-up to his hit 2004 album Confessions. His last single, “Bad Habits,” came out in 2020, and he also just featured on the City Girls track “Good Love.”
Tickets for Usher’s residency are available here. A setlist and full list of dates are also available below:
Usher My Way Setlist
“My Way”
“She Came to Give It to You”
“Caught Up”
“Love in This Club”
“Party” Chris Brown cover
“Lovers and Friends” Lil John & The East Side Boyz cover
“There Goes My Baby”
“Don’t Waste...
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He has been hyping up the development of Confessions 2, a follow-up to his hit 2004 album Confessions. His last single, “Bad Habits,” came out in 2020, and he also just featured on the City Girls track “Good Love.”
Tickets for Usher’s residency are available here. A setlist and full list of dates are also available below:
Usher My Way Setlist
“My Way”
“She Came to Give It to You”
“Caught Up”
“Love in This Club”
“Party” Chris Brown cover
“Lovers and Friends” Lil John & The East Side Boyz cover
“There Goes My Baby”
“Don’t Waste...
- 9/12/2022
- by Jacob Linden
- Uinterview
Shot during the pandemic and set on May 30, 2020 — just a few days after the death of George Floyd during an arrest by the Minneapolis Police Department — “Traveling Light” is an experimental attempt at social commentary that fails to provide any insight, emotion or even entertainment of the most basic kind. Nearly a year after its weird-fit premiere at genre-focused Beyond Fest in Los Angeles, this scrappy Covid-era quickie from eclectic director Bernard Rose (who made the original “Candyman”) opens today in New York and Seattle, with other cities to follow.
It seems Rose was aiming for a loose riff on “The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie,” focusing on a gathering in the Hollywood Hills of the followers of a self-proclaimed guru/prophet (Danny Huston), where everyone drinks a concoction spiked with an unnamed hallucinogenic and eventually line-dances while chanting “Hare Hare,” even though there isn’t a single Hare Krishna in sight.
It seems Rose was aiming for a loose riff on “The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie,” focusing on a gathering in the Hollywood Hills of the followers of a self-proclaimed guru/prophet (Danny Huston), where everyone drinks a concoction spiked with an unnamed hallucinogenic and eventually line-dances while chanting “Hare Hare,” even though there isn’t a single Hare Krishna in sight.
- 8/19/2022
- by Rene Rodriguez
- Variety Film + TV
Steven Spielberg is a pure visual storyteller. You can watch most of his movies on mute, and figure out the plot via the meticulous composition of each shot and how it flows into the next. Since the advent of sound, the number of directors capable of or interested in crafting a film in this manner has gradually dwindled. Movies nowadays are generally dialogue delivery systems. So we must savor our Spielbergs, and, if this style of filmmaking interests you, learn from them.
Framing and mise-en-scène are critical elements, but guiding your audience from shot to shot is every bit as important. Cutting from the master to a close up or whatever angle most clearly conveys the story is an art in itself. So while Spielberg will always cite David Lean's "Lawrence of Arabia" as "the film that set me on my journey," he feels equally indebted to a filmmaker from roughly the same era,...
Framing and mise-en-scène are critical elements, but guiding your audience from shot to shot is every bit as important. Cutting from the master to a close up or whatever angle most clearly conveys the story is an art in itself. So while Spielberg will always cite David Lean's "Lawrence of Arabia" as "the film that set me on my journey," he feels equally indebted to a filmmaker from roughly the same era,...
- 8/14/2022
- by Jeremy Smith
- Slash Film
Souheila Yacoub is set to play Shishakli in “Dune: Part Two,” the follow-up to 2021’s Oscar-winning sci-fi epic, according to an individual with knowledge of the project.
In the “Dune” novels, Shishakli is described as the squad leader of Fedaykin.
Denis Villeneuve will return to adapt the second half of Frank Herbert’s novel for the Legendary and Warner Bros. film, with Jon Spaihts returning to co-write the screenplay. Other newcomers to the cast include Florence Pugh, who will play the Emperor’s daughter Princess Irulan, Austin Butler as House Harkonnen member Feyd-Rautha, Christopher Walken as the devious Emperor Shaddam IV, and Léa Seydoux as Lady Margot.
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Léa Seydoux in Talks to Play Lady Margot in ‘Dune: Part Two’
Pre-production is underway ahead of an October 2023 release.
“Dune” won six Oscars during the 2022 ceremony, and brought Best Picture, Directing and Adapted Screenplay nominations for Villeneuve. With a global box office total of 400 million,...
In the “Dune” novels, Shishakli is described as the squad leader of Fedaykin.
Denis Villeneuve will return to adapt the second half of Frank Herbert’s novel for the Legendary and Warner Bros. film, with Jon Spaihts returning to co-write the screenplay. Other newcomers to the cast include Florence Pugh, who will play the Emperor’s daughter Princess Irulan, Austin Butler as House Harkonnen member Feyd-Rautha, Christopher Walken as the devious Emperor Shaddam IV, and Léa Seydoux as Lady Margot.
Also Read:
Léa Seydoux in Talks to Play Lady Margot in ‘Dune: Part Two’
Pre-production is underway ahead of an October 2023 release.
“Dune” won six Oscars during the 2022 ceremony, and brought Best Picture, Directing and Adapted Screenplay nominations for Villeneuve. With a global box office total of 400 million,...
- 7/14/2022
- by Umberto Gonzalez
- The Wrap
Exclusive: Souheila Yacoub has joined the cast of Warner Bros. and Legendary’s Dune: Part Two. Yacoub will join the all-star ensemble that includes Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Zendaya and Josh Brolin, who are expected to reprise their roles, as well Florence Pugh, Christopher Walken and Austin Butler, who were also recently announced. Denis Villeneuve is back to write, direct and produce. Jon Spaihts will return to co-write with Villeneuve. Yacoub will play Shishakli.
Legendary had no comment. Production is expected to start in the fall, with the film set to bow on October 20, 2023. Mary Parent, Villeneuve, Cale Boyter, Tanya Lapointe and Patrick McCormick are producing. The executive producers are Josh Grode, Herbert W. Gains, Brian Herbert, Byron Merritt, Kim Herbert, Thomas Tull, Spaihts, Richard P. Rubinstein and John Harrison, with Kevin J. Anderson serving as creative consultant.
Even with the first Dune going day-and-date on HBO Max, the film...
Legendary had no comment. Production is expected to start in the fall, with the film set to bow on October 20, 2023. Mary Parent, Villeneuve, Cale Boyter, Tanya Lapointe and Patrick McCormick are producing. The executive producers are Josh Grode, Herbert W. Gains, Brian Herbert, Byron Merritt, Kim Herbert, Thomas Tull, Spaihts, Richard P. Rubinstein and John Harrison, with Kevin J. Anderson serving as creative consultant.
Even with the first Dune going day-and-date on HBO Max, the film...
- 7/14/2022
- by Justin Kroll
- Deadline Film + TV
The second weekend of ‘Doctor Strange 2’ will dominate cinema screens.
Independent arthouse titles including The Quiet Girl and Vortex are competing for screen space with the second weekend of Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness at the UK-Ireland box office this weekend.
Irish filmmaker Colm Bairéad’s debut feature The Quiet Girl (Irish title: An Cailín Ciúin) will play in 29 sites across England, Scotland and Wales through Curzon, with 60 in Ireland and Northern Ireland through Breakout Pictures. It launched to acclaim in the Generation section at the 2022 Berlinale.
Set in rural Ireland in 1981, the film centres on a neglected...
Independent arthouse titles including The Quiet Girl and Vortex are competing for screen space with the second weekend of Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness at the UK-Ireland box office this weekend.
Irish filmmaker Colm Bairéad’s debut feature The Quiet Girl (Irish title: An Cailín Ciúin) will play in 29 sites across England, Scotland and Wales through Curzon, with 60 in Ireland and Northern Ireland through Breakout Pictures. It launched to acclaim in the Generation section at the 2022 Berlinale.
Set in rural Ireland in 1981, the film centres on a neglected...
- 5/13/2022
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Even such enfant terribles as Gaspar Noé have to confront the fact that life (and death) is catching up with them. Noé in such films as Climax, Irreversible, Enter The Void and Stand Alone has always pushed audiences and subjects to extremes - and not always to good or lasting effect.
Here in his sixth feature we are offered another facet to Noé as he examines old age, and the perils of Alzheimer’s all stemming, we are given to understand, from personal motifs.
He is wonderfully served by his two main actors Dario Argento (the Italian horror master) and French actress Françoise Lebrun whose younger self is about to be seen all over again in the restored version of Jean Eustache’s The Mother and the Whore in Cannes Classics.
The ageing couple who are nameless, live in a sprawling Parisian apartment surrounded by memorabilia of other times including film posters and books.
Here in his sixth feature we are offered another facet to Noé as he examines old age, and the perils of Alzheimer’s all stemming, we are given to understand, from personal motifs.
He is wonderfully served by his two main actors Dario Argento (the Italian horror master) and French actress Françoise Lebrun whose younger self is about to be seen all over again in the restored version of Jean Eustache’s The Mother and the Whore in Cannes Classics.
The ageing couple who are nameless, live in a sprawling Parisian apartment surrounded by memorabilia of other times including film posters and books.
- 5/10/2022
- by Richard Mowe
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Cinema is such a costly medium that directors have little chance to experiment between features. It’s not like music or painting — relatively low-cost art forms whose practitioners can try new techniques in the secret obscurity of their studios until their bold ideas are ready to be shared. Making movies takes a crew, and equipment, and actors; all of that takes money, which in turn obliges directors to do their R&d in public, on projects that critics can and do hold up to unfair scrutiny.
A few workarounds exist, including commercials and music videos, through which such film artists as David Lynch, Sofia Coppola and Wes Anderson have refined their craft, but if they’re not careful, taking such gigs can look like selling out. This brings us to Gaspar Noé’s 2019 oddity “Lux Æterna,” which is not a film in the conventional sense but a work-for-hire gone awry — although in Noé’s case,...
A few workarounds exist, including commercials and music videos, through which such film artists as David Lynch, Sofia Coppola and Wes Anderson have refined their craft, but if they’re not careful, taking such gigs can look like selling out. This brings us to Gaspar Noé’s 2019 oddity “Lux Æterna,” which is not a film in the conventional sense but a work-for-hire gone awry — although in Noé’s case,...
- 5/4/2022
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
Vortex — which opened this weekend to a full house at NYC’s IFC Center — has an unusual star, Dario Argento. Here’s how the film’s helmer Gaspar Noe convinced the iconic Italian horror movie director into his first lead acting role.
“There were three reasons” he said yes, Noe told Deadline. “The first one, he said, because you are my friend and I like your movies.” [Noe has known Argento for 30 years and is friendly with his daughter, Asia Argento.] “The second and the third, because I told him that I would not given him any lines to learn. That he could improvise his dialogue. He could invent his character all by himself. I said, ‘I’ll just handle the camera and the editing. So you’ll direct your part, and I’ll direct my part.’” In fact, the screenplay he showed Argento was only ten pages long.
Vortex follows an elderly couple in crisis. Argento plays an author and movie...
“There were three reasons” he said yes, Noe told Deadline. “The first one, he said, because you are my friend and I like your movies.” [Noe has known Argento for 30 years and is friendly with his daughter, Asia Argento.] “The second and the third, because I told him that I would not given him any lines to learn. That he could improvise his dialogue. He could invent his character all by himself. I said, ‘I’ll just handle the camera and the editing. So you’ll direct your part, and I’ll direct my part.’” In fact, the screenplay he showed Argento was only ten pages long.
Vortex follows an elderly couple in crisis. Argento plays an author and movie...
- 5/1/2022
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
Remember how you learned in school about “man’s inhumanity to man”? If the director Gaspar Noé has a theme, it’s “the humanity of inhumanity.” Noé’s shock psychodramas confront subjects like murder, sexual assault, and what happens when a roomful of flex dancers go out of their gourds on LSD. As a filmmaker, he’s drawn to extremes — to the sensational and the depraved, the sordid and the evil. His quest is to hold that darkness up to the light, to flip the cruelty on its head until we see an echo of ourselves. Noé takes off from the wide-eyed impulses of an exploitation filmmaker, but he possesses a technical bravura — and a devious sobriety of purpose — that has made him his own genre. Call it transgressive transcendence.
Yet as a Noé watcher from way back, I can’t deny that the only two films of his that...
Yet as a Noé watcher from way back, I can’t deny that the only two films of his that...
- 4/29/2022
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
A film set for a movie about witchcraft takes a psychedelic turn in the official trailer for Lux Æterna, the latest film from Gaspar Noé (Climax).
Written and directed by Gaspar Noé (Climax), Lux Æterna stars Charlotte Gainsbourg, Béatrice Dalle, Abbey Lee, Karl Glusman, Claude-Emmanuelle Gajan-Maull, and Félix Maritaud.
Yellow Veil Pictures will release the film in New York on May 6th and in Los Angeles on May 13th, followed by a wider theatrical release.
Below, you can check out the trailer for Lux Æterna, and go Here to catch up on our Indie Horror Month 2022 features!
Synopsis: Béatrice Dalle and Charlotte Gainsbourg are on a film set telling stories about witches. Technical problems and psychotic outbreaks gradually plunge the shoot into chaos.
[Note: The trailer below contains flashing light that may affect those with photosensitivity epilepsy.]
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Written and directed by Gaspar Noé (Climax), Lux Æterna stars Charlotte Gainsbourg, Béatrice Dalle, Abbey Lee, Karl Glusman, Claude-Emmanuelle Gajan-Maull, and Félix Maritaud.
Yellow Veil Pictures will release the film in New York on May 6th and in Los Angeles on May 13th, followed by a wider theatrical release.
Below, you can check out the trailer for Lux Æterna, and go Here to catch up on our Indie Horror Month 2022 features!
Synopsis: Béatrice Dalle and Charlotte Gainsbourg are on a film set telling stories about witches. Technical problems and psychotic outbreaks gradually plunge the shoot into chaos.
[Note: The trailer below contains flashing light that may affect those with photosensitivity epilepsy.]
The post Indie Horror Month 2022: Watch the Trailer for Gaspar Noé’s Lux ÆTERNA appeared first on Daily Dead.
- 4/6/2022
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
The season of Gaspar Noé is upon us. Following Climax, the director’s next two films are now set for back-to-back U.S. releases. Vortex, which premiered at Cannes Film Festival last year, will arrive at the end of the month with the goal to bring you to tears. Then just a week later, his medium-length film Lux Æterna, which also premiered at Cannes (but back in 2019), will arrive in the U.S. beginning at NYC’s Metrograph.
Ahead of the release, the new trailer has arrived for the film that stars Béatrice Dalle and Charlotte Gainsbourg on a film set, telling stories about witches. Technical problems and psychotic outbreaks gradually plunge the shoot into chaos, with a cast also including Abbey Lee, Karl Glusman, Claude-Emmanuelle Gajan-Maull, and Félix Maritaud.
Watch below.
Lux Æterna opens on May 6 at Metrograph and on May 13 in LA and will expand.
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Ahead of the release, the new trailer has arrived for the film that stars Béatrice Dalle and Charlotte Gainsbourg on a film set, telling stories about witches. Technical problems and psychotic outbreaks gradually plunge the shoot into chaos, with a cast also including Abbey Lee, Karl Glusman, Claude-Emmanuelle Gajan-Maull, and Félix Maritaud.
Watch below.
Lux Æterna opens on May 6 at Metrograph and on May 13 in LA and will expand.
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- 4/5/2022
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
The always attention-grabbing Gaspar Noé is back with brand new movie Lux Aeterna, and Yellow Veil Pictures has debuted the official trailer this afternoon. The film is being released in theaters in May 2022 courtesy of Yellow Veil Pictures, followed later in the year by a full digital and collector’s edition home video […]
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- 4/5/2022
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
“The closing moments of Lux Æterna are such a disturbing outburst of light, color, and 3-D illusions they might make even stereoscopic auteur Ken Jacobs avert his eyes.”– Eric Kohn, IndieWire
Lux ÆTERNA opens in New York on May 6 and LA on May 13, with a National Rollout to Follow.
Here’s a new trailer:
Béatrice Dalle and Charlotte Gainsbourg are on a film set telling stories about witches. Technical problems and psychotic outbreaks gradually plunge the shoot into chaos.
Written & Directed By: Gaspar Noé
Cast: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Béatrice Dalle, Abbey Lee (The Neon Demon), Karl Glusman (Love), Claude-Emmanuelle Gajan-Maull (Climax) & Félix Maritaud
The post New Trailer Released for Gaspar Noé’s Psychedelic Freakout Lux ÆTERNA Starring Charlotte Gainsbourg and Béatrice Dalle – Set For Release in May appeared first on We Are Movie Geeks.
Lux ÆTERNA opens in New York on May 6 and LA on May 13, with a National Rollout to Follow.
Here’s a new trailer:
Béatrice Dalle and Charlotte Gainsbourg are on a film set telling stories about witches. Technical problems and psychotic outbreaks gradually plunge the shoot into chaos.
Written & Directed By: Gaspar Noé
Cast: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Béatrice Dalle, Abbey Lee (The Neon Demon), Karl Glusman (Love), Claude-Emmanuelle Gajan-Maull (Climax) & Félix Maritaud
The post New Trailer Released for Gaspar Noé’s Psychedelic Freakout Lux ÆTERNA Starring Charlotte Gainsbourg and Béatrice Dalle – Set For Release in May appeared first on We Are Movie Geeks.
- 4/5/2022
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
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