“Fate’s the one to blame!”
Lies and Deceit: Five Films by Claude Chabrol – a new 5-disc set will be available on Blu-ray February 22nd from Arrow Video
Too often overlooked and undervalued, Claude Chabrol was the first of the Cahiers du Cinema critics to release a feature film and would be among the most prolific. The sneaky anarchist of the French New Wave, he embraced genre as a means off lifting the lid on human nature. Nothing is sacred and nothing is certain in the films of Claude Chabrol. Anything can be corrupted, and usually will be.
Arrow Video is proud to present Lies & deceit: Five Films by Claude Chabrol. Featuring Cop Au Vin (Poulet au vinaigre), Inspector Lavardin, Madame Bovary, Betty and Torment (L’enfer), this inaugural collection of Claude Chabrol on Blu-ray brings together a wealth of passionate contributors and archival extras to shed fresh light...
Lies and Deceit: Five Films by Claude Chabrol – a new 5-disc set will be available on Blu-ray February 22nd from Arrow Video
Too often overlooked and undervalued, Claude Chabrol was the first of the Cahiers du Cinema critics to release a feature film and would be among the most prolific. The sneaky anarchist of the French New Wave, he embraced genre as a means off lifting the lid on human nature. Nothing is sacred and nothing is certain in the films of Claude Chabrol. Anything can be corrupted, and usually will be.
Arrow Video is proud to present Lies & deceit: Five Films by Claude Chabrol. Featuring Cop Au Vin (Poulet au vinaigre), Inspector Lavardin, Madame Bovary, Betty and Torment (L’enfer), this inaugural collection of Claude Chabrol on Blu-ray brings together a wealth of passionate contributors and archival extras to shed fresh light...
- 1/17/2022
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Welcome back to Intermission, a spin-off podcast from The Film Stage Show. Led by yours truly, Michael Snydel, I invite a guest to discuss an arthouse, foreign, or experimental film of their choice.
For the twelfth episode, I talked to prolific Chicago critic Ben Sachs, an associate editor at Cine-File, about Martín Rejtman’s 2014 Argentine comedy Two Shots Fired (available along with the rest of Rejman’s fiction work on Mubi). A wryly absurd, deceptively simple portrait of weathering middle class discontentment, Rejtman’s film traces the undulations of a family and their friends/acquaintances after a 16-year-old boy attempts suicide. He presents that event as little more than a darkly comedic non-sequitur, a corollary into a series of vignettes about disconnection and spiritual fatigue.
His sparely evocative sensibility can occasionally recall filmmakers like Jim Jarmusch and Aki Kaurismaki, but it’s more productive to contextualize him with his regional contemporaries and descendants.
For the twelfth episode, I talked to prolific Chicago critic Ben Sachs, an associate editor at Cine-File, about Martín Rejtman’s 2014 Argentine comedy Two Shots Fired (available along with the rest of Rejman’s fiction work on Mubi). A wryly absurd, deceptively simple portrait of weathering middle class discontentment, Rejtman’s film traces the undulations of a family and their friends/acquaintances after a 16-year-old boy attempts suicide. He presents that event as little more than a darkly comedic non-sequitur, a corollary into a series of vignettes about disconnection and spiritual fatigue.
His sparely evocative sensibility can occasionally recall filmmakers like Jim Jarmusch and Aki Kaurismaki, but it’s more productive to contextualize him with his regional contemporaries and descendants.
- 4/22/2021
- by Michael Snydel
- The Film Stage
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSAbove: Chadwick Boseman in Spike Lee's Da 5 Bloods.We're extremely saddened by the news that Chadwick Boseman has died after a four-year battle with colon cancer. In a tribute to Boseman, Ryan Coogler writes, "He lived a beautiful life. And he made great art. Day after day, year after year. That was who he was."Recommended Viewinghbo's official trailer for Luca Guadagnino's We Are Who We Are, about a group of teenagers navigating their identities on an American army base outside of Venice, Italy. Antonio Campos's upcoming Netflix film, The Devil All The Time, stars Tom Holland, Riley Keough, Robert Pattinson, Bill Skarsgård, and more as "sinister characters" in a seedy Ohio town. Media City Film Festival presents Radical Acts of Care, an online series curated by Greg de Cuir Jr.
- 9/2/2020
- MUBI
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSJia Zhangke's In the Qing Dynasty, a project the auteur has been preparing since as early as 2007, is set to begin shooting in Spring 2019.
Jia Zhangke's historical epic In The Qing Dynasty, to be produced by Johnnie To, will have action by Ching Siu Tung. pic.twitter.com/LZsHboTw54— Asian Film Strike (@AsianFilmStrike) April 27, 2017 Recommended Viewinga neon-lit trailer for Harmony Korine's highly-anticipated The Beach Bum, which will be released in March of 2019. For GQ, Nicolas Cage provides a candid self-analysis of his personal favorite characters he has played in his singular acting career, from Castor Troy to Charlie Kaufman (with nods to German Expressionism and Fritz Lang!).Nuri Bilge Ceylan's latest, The Wild Pear Tree, has been selected as the Turkish entry for the Foreign Language award at the 91st Academy Awards next year.
Jia Zhangke's historical epic In The Qing Dynasty, to be produced by Johnnie To, will have action by Ching Siu Tung. pic.twitter.com/LZsHboTw54— Asian Film Strike (@AsianFilmStrike) April 27, 2017 Recommended Viewinga neon-lit trailer for Harmony Korine's highly-anticipated The Beach Bum, which will be released in March of 2019. For GQ, Nicolas Cage provides a candid self-analysis of his personal favorite characters he has played in his singular acting career, from Castor Troy to Charlie Kaufman (with nods to German Expressionism and Fritz Lang!).Nuri Bilge Ceylan's latest, The Wild Pear Tree, has been selected as the Turkish entry for the Foreign Language award at the 91st Academy Awards next year.
- 9/26/2018
- MUBI
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.Recommended VIEWINGIn remembrance of Hans Hurch, Abel Ferrara has produced a touching trailer for the upcoming Viennale.Louis C.K. discusses his new film I Love You, Daddy at Tiff. Read our review of the film.Recommended READINGFrancis Ford Coppola's maligned masterpiece The Cotton Club has been renewed in the form of The Cotton Club Encore, and it's "one of the best movies ever made by anybody, anywhere, anytime" for Jim Hemphill of Talkhouse."Netflix’s selection of classic cinema is abominable—and it seems to shrink more every year or so. As of this month, the streaming platform offers just 43 movies made before 1970, and fewer than 25 from the pre-1950 era (several of which are World War II documentaries). It’s the sort of classics selection you’d expect to find in a decrepit video...
- 9/21/2017
- MUBI
In the first scene of Good Time, the latest from directors Josh and Benny Safdie, Connie Nikas (Robert Pattinson) barges into an office where a social worker is interviewing his brother Nick (Benny Safdie), who has a mental disability and impaired hearing. From there, the two brothers are off to the races, as Benjamin Mercer writes at Reverse Shot:Almost immediately after, Connie is hauling Nick along with him on an ill-conceived robbery of a bank branch in Flushing, Queens. “Do you think I could have done that without you standing next to me, being strong?” Connie reassures Nick right after the job—and just before a paint bomb goes off in their bag of stolen cash, filling the cab they’re in with red vapor and sending it off the road. The accident, an eye-poppingly entropic moment staged by the Safdies and captured as if on the fly by cinematographer Sean Price Williams,...
- 8/24/2017
- MUBI
The distributor has acquired Us rights to Werner Herzog’s drama starring Nicole Kidman and James Franco and will release in spring 2017.
Benaroya Pictures financed Queen Of The Desert and Michael Benaroya produced with Cassian Elwes and Nick Raslan.
Robert Pattinson and Damian Lewis also star in the Berlin 2015 world premiere about British explorer, cartographer and archaeologist Gertrude Bell on an epic odyssey to chart the borders of the modern Middle East.
Jonathan Debin, Cathy Gesualdo, James Lejsek, Ben Sachs, D. Todd Shepherd, Shelley Madison, Harmon Kaslow and John Aglialoro served as executive producers on Queen Of The Desert.
“The entire team at IFC Films is thrilled to be working once more with Werner Herzog who is undoubtedly a modern master of cinema,” said IFC, which brokered the deal with Elwes, Lawrence Kopeikin and CAA on behalf of the filmmakers.
“Having previously worked with him on his award-winning Cave Of Forgotten Dreams, Werner continues...
Benaroya Pictures financed Queen Of The Desert and Michael Benaroya produced with Cassian Elwes and Nick Raslan.
Robert Pattinson and Damian Lewis also star in the Berlin 2015 world premiere about British explorer, cartographer and archaeologist Gertrude Bell on an epic odyssey to chart the borders of the modern Middle East.
Jonathan Debin, Cathy Gesualdo, James Lejsek, Ben Sachs, D. Todd Shepherd, Shelley Madison, Harmon Kaslow and John Aglialoro served as executive producers on Queen Of The Desert.
“The entire team at IFC Films is thrilled to be working once more with Werner Herzog who is undoubtedly a modern master of cinema,” said IFC, which brokered the deal with Elwes, Lawrence Kopeikin and CAA on behalf of the filmmakers.
“Having previously worked with him on his award-winning Cave Of Forgotten Dreams, Werner continues...
- 11/1/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Under the Sun, Vitaly Mansky’s new documentary about life in North Korea, was officially co-sponsored by the North Korean government, which furnished the Russian filmmaker with a script, a model Pyongyang family, and an escort of government officials, including censors. But Mansky and his team secretly duplicated their footage each day before it was reviewed, and left the country with a full copy of what they recorded.The unabridged footage is surprisingly powerful: though we only see scenes from the state’s script, which centers on a young girl named Zin-Mi, Mansky simply leaves the camera rolling between takes, while government minders attempt to direct the performers to better demonstrate how happy and productive they are. The disparity between this “behind-the-scenes” footage and the rehearsed takes is the film’s main device, per Wendy Ide at Screen Daily:Zin-Mi’s parents are shown to be high-status workers in ‘exemplary’ workplaces...
- 7/13/2016
- MUBI
Author and film critic Michael Smith's launched a podcast, discussing Agnès Varda with Chicago writers Ben Sachs and Kat Sachs. More listening: Paul Schrader is in the Projection Booth, discussing Blue Collar (1978). Adam Schartoff's guests on Filmwax Radio include Roger Corman, Stanley Nelson, Oren Moverman and Dwayne Epstein, author of Lee Marvin: Point Blank. Zach Lewis and Kyle Stevens discuss the work of Mike Nichols. Plus a commentary track for Charles Chaplin's A Woman of Paris and a bit of viewing: Launching the A.V. Club’s new video discussion series, Film Club, A.A. Dowd and Ignatiy Vishnevetsky discuss Camille Delamarre's The Transporter: Refueled and the best films of the summer movie season. » - David Hudson...
- 9/10/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
Author and film critic Michael Smith's launched a podcast, discussing Agnès Varda with Chicago writers Ben Sachs and Kat Sachs. More listening: Paul Schrader is in the Projection Booth, discussing Blue Collar (1978). Adam Schartoff's guests on Filmwax Radio include Roger Corman, Stanley Nelson, Oren Moverman and Dwayne Epstein, author of Lee Marvin: Point Blank. Zach Lewis and Kyle Stevens discuss the work of Mike Nichols. Plus a commentary track for Charles Chaplin's A Woman of Paris and a bit of viewing: Launching the A.V. Club’s new video discussion series, Film Club, A.A. Dowd and Ignatiy Vishnevetsky discuss Camille Delamarre's The Transporter: Refueled and the best films of the summer movie season. » - David Hudson...
- 9/10/2015
- Keyframe
We are saddened to hear of the passing of Time's inimitable critic, Richard Corliss (1944 - 2015), pictured above. Visit David Hudson's roundup at Keyframe Daily for coverage. In the past week there's been more additions to the Cannes Film Festival lineup, including new movies by Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Naomi Kawase and Gaspar Noé.When Manoel de Oliveira died earlier this month, word spread that he had made a film that would be released only upon his death, Memories and Confessions. Now word has come that its premiere screening will be on the 4th of May in Porto.Above: We're on the fence whether we should be excited for this, but the trailer for M. Night Shyamalan's The Visit certainly has us intrigued.New York's essential film listing site Screen Slate has turned to Kickstarter to help fund its project. Speaking of New York, this May the Museum of the Moving...
- 4/29/2015
- by Notebook
- MUBI
Edited by Adam Cook
The lineup for this year's New Directors/New Films, "presented jointly by the Film Society of Lincoln Center and The Museum of Modern Art," has been announced. "For the Birds": Richard Brody picks on the Academy Awards. There's an intriguing new film journal on the scene: "The Completist," authored by Rumsey Taylor. Head over to the site to read his "Statement of Intentions". Described as being "roughly quarterly", we're looking forward to future instalments. In Film Comment, Tanner Tafelski writes on the films of John Korty:
"Carroll Ballard, Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas, Philip Kaufman, and Michael Ritchie all are, or were, San Francisco–based filmmakers. Yet none of these people seem to be Bay Area filmmakers like Martin Scorsese, Abel Ferrara, or Spike Lee are New York filmmakers. Avant-garde cinema, on the other hand, has a rich history with the West Coast in general,...
The lineup for this year's New Directors/New Films, "presented jointly by the Film Society of Lincoln Center and The Museum of Modern Art," has been announced. "For the Birds": Richard Brody picks on the Academy Awards. There's an intriguing new film journal on the scene: "The Completist," authored by Rumsey Taylor. Head over to the site to read his "Statement of Intentions". Described as being "roughly quarterly", we're looking forward to future instalments. In Film Comment, Tanner Tafelski writes on the films of John Korty:
"Carroll Ballard, Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas, Philip Kaufman, and Michael Ritchie all are, or were, San Francisco–based filmmakers. Yet none of these people seem to be Bay Area filmmakers like Martin Scorsese, Abel Ferrara, or Spike Lee are New York filmmakers. Avant-garde cinema, on the other hand, has a rich history with the West Coast in general,...
- 2/25/2015
- by Notebook
- MUBI
Clarius Entertainment has acquired Us rights to Benaroya Pictures and The Genre Company’s thriller Cell starring John Cusack (upcoming Love & Mercy, Lee Daniels’ The Butler) and Oscar-nominated Samuel L. Jackson (upcoming Kingsman: The Secret Service, Django Unchained).
The film is based on the best-selling apocalyptic novel by Stephen King.
When a powerful signal is broadcast across mobile networks worldwide, cell phone users’ minds are instantly and dangerously re-programmed. Heading north through New England in search of his wife and son, Clay Riddell (Cusack) is joined by a group of survivors hoping to fend off the bloodthirsty and hyper-connected “phoners.”
Set to be a wide theatrical release later this year, Cell also stars Isabelle Fuhrman (The Hunger Games) and Golden Globe winner Stacy Keach (Nebraska, The Bourne Legacy).
The film is directed by Tod “Kip” Williams (Paranormal Activity 2). The announcement was made today by the film’s producers Michael Benaroya and Richard Saperstein.
The film is based on the best-selling apocalyptic novel by Stephen King.
When a powerful signal is broadcast across mobile networks worldwide, cell phone users’ minds are instantly and dangerously re-programmed. Heading north through New England in search of his wife and son, Clay Riddell (Cusack) is joined by a group of survivors hoping to fend off the bloodthirsty and hyper-connected “phoners.”
Set to be a wide theatrical release later this year, Cell also stars Isabelle Fuhrman (The Hunger Games) and Golden Globe winner Stacy Keach (Nebraska, The Bourne Legacy).
The film is directed by Tod “Kip” Williams (Paranormal Activity 2). The announcement was made today by the film’s producers Michael Benaroya and Richard Saperstein.
- 2/5/2015
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Get ready stateside filmgoers, because the “phoners” (aka “crazies”) are coming to the Us. Stephen King fans know that the master of macabre doesn’t like using cell phones. His 2006 novel, Cell, is a cautionary tale about what can go wrong by pressing portable phones to our ears and keeping them close at hand in our pockets, and its unflinching subject matter contains flocks of murderous lunatics that would be right at home in Danny Boyle’s 28 Days Later, George A. Romero’s The Crazies, or Simon Clark’s Blood Crazy.
We knew this unique King novel was getting the adaptation treatment, with King co-writing the screenplay and John Cusack and Samuel L. Jackson in the lead roles, but we’re now one big step closer to seeing it on the silver screen, as Clarius Entertainment has acquired the Us rights to the movie.
Slated to hit theaters this year,...
We knew this unique King novel was getting the adaptation treatment, with King co-writing the screenplay and John Cusack and Samuel L. Jackson in the lead roles, but we’re now one big step closer to seeing it on the silver screen, as Clarius Entertainment has acquired the Us rights to the movie.
Slated to hit theaters this year,...
- 2/5/2015
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Above: David Bordwell drops science on that horrific and longstanding practice we know as "Pan & Scan." Joining President Darren Aronofsky on the International Jury at the Berlinale next month are the following: Daniel Brühl, Bong Joon-ho, Martha De Laurentiis, Claudia Llosa, Audrey Tautou, and Matthew Weiner. For Grantland, Steven Hyden has written a wonderful article on Gene Hackman:
"He couldn’t have planned it this way, but Hackman had aged into a screen persona — he looked like he had spent years driving a truck or working as a doorman before lucking into the movies, because that’s basically what had happened. Hackman might’ve studied the Method under Lee Strasberg (“He played with people’s heads a lot,” he recalled derisively of Strasberg in 2001), but he could just be and be authentic onscreen."
Jafar Panahi's Taxi, the third film of his to premiere since he was banned from directing in Iran,...
"He couldn’t have planned it this way, but Hackman had aged into a screen persona — he looked like he had spent years driving a truck or working as a doorman before lucking into the movies, because that’s basically what had happened. Hackman might’ve studied the Method under Lee Strasberg (“He played with people’s heads a lot,” he recalled derisively of Strasberg in 2001), but he could just be and be authentic onscreen."
Jafar Panahi's Taxi, the third film of his to premiere since he was banned from directing in Iran,...
- 1/28/2015
- by Notebook
- MUBI
Benaroya Pictures has shut down the Robert De Niro, Robert Pattinson, and Rachel Weisz heist thriller Idol’s Eye, just as filming was set to commence in Toronto. “Due to the criteria for financing not being met by producers, Benaroya Pictures has formally decided to discontinue financing the motion picture titled Idol’s Eye,” the production company said in a statement today.
Idol’s Eye was to be director Olivier Assayas’s next film following Cannes entry Clouds of Sils Maria, starring Juliette Binoche and another Twilight star, Kristen Stewart. Benaroya came aboard as producer and financer in May, when De Niro also signed on to star. The film was originally developed by Charles Gillibert who was producing with CG Cinema, Bluegrass Films’ Scott Stuber, Film 360’s Scott Lambert, Alexandra Milchan and Michael Benaroya.
Filming was initially slated to begin in October in Chicago and Toronto. Benaroya Pictures, whose films include Margin Call,...
Idol’s Eye was to be director Olivier Assayas’s next film following Cannes entry Clouds of Sils Maria, starring Juliette Binoche and another Twilight star, Kristen Stewart. Benaroya came aboard as producer and financer in May, when De Niro also signed on to star. The film was originally developed by Charles Gillibert who was producing with CG Cinema, Bluegrass Films’ Scott Stuber, Film 360’s Scott Lambert, Alexandra Milchan and Michael Benaroya.
Filming was initially slated to begin in October in Chicago and Toronto. Benaroya Pictures, whose films include Margin Call,...
- 11/3/2014
- by Jen Yamato
- Deadline
Here’s a first look at Dianna Agron (‘Glee’) in writer/director Mark Polish’s Headlock starring Oscar Nominee Andy Garcia, Justin Bartha (The Hangover Trilogy) and Mark Polish (For Lovers Only).
After new CIA recruit, Kelley Chandler (Polish) is seriously injured during a mission, surviving only on life support, his wife Tess (Agron), a former CIA operative, becomes determined to find out what happened to her husband. As the details of Kelley’s last mission unravel, showing that his accident was an inside job, Tess puts everything on the line to keep Kelley out of harm’s way, even if that comes with dangerous consequences.
The film is produced by Michael Benaroya (Margin Call, Kill Your Darlings) for Benaroya Pictures and Janet Du Bois (Stay Cool), with Tim Christian, Ryan Johnson and Ben Sachs executive producing.
International Film Trust is handing international rights.
The post First Look Photo Of...
After new CIA recruit, Kelley Chandler (Polish) is seriously injured during a mission, surviving only on life support, his wife Tess (Agron), a former CIA operative, becomes determined to find out what happened to her husband. As the details of Kelley’s last mission unravel, showing that his accident was an inside job, Tess puts everything on the line to keep Kelley out of harm’s way, even if that comes with dangerous consequences.
The film is produced by Michael Benaroya (Margin Call, Kill Your Darlings) for Benaroya Pictures and Janet Du Bois (Stay Cool), with Tim Christian, Ryan Johnson and Ben Sachs executive producing.
International Film Trust is handing international rights.
The post First Look Photo Of...
- 9/9/2014
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
International Film Trust is handling sales in Toronto on Mark Polish’s solo directorial debut Headlock, the first of two from the director that Benaroya Pictures will fully finance.
Andy Garcia, Dianna Agron, Justin Bartha and Polish star in the story of a former CIA operative who attempts to rescue her husband, an injured Agency recruit, from internal enemies.
CAA and Xyz Films represent Us rights to Headlock, which is currently shooting in a number of countries.
Michael Benaroya produces with Janet Du Bois, Tim Christian, Ryan Johnson and Ben Sachs serving as executive producers.
Andy Garcia, Dianna Agron, Justin Bartha and Polish star in the story of a former CIA operative who attempts to rescue her husband, an injured Agency recruit, from internal enemies.
CAA and Xyz Films represent Us rights to Headlock, which is currently shooting in a number of countries.
Michael Benaroya produces with Janet Du Bois, Tim Christian, Ryan Johnson and Ben Sachs serving as executive producers.
- 9/5/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Lionsgate’s Grindstone Entertainment has acquired all North American rights to Hamlet writer/director Michael Almereyda’s modern day adaptation of Shakespeare’s play Cymbeline ahead of its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival, it was announced today by the film’s producers, Michael Benaroya of Benaroya Pictures and Anthony Katagas of Keep Your Head Productions.
The film, starring Academy Award nominees Ethan Hawke (Boyhood) and Ed Harris (A Beautiful Mind), Milla Jovovich (Resident Evil), John Leguizamo (Chef), Penn Badgley (Margin Call, Easy A), Dakota Johnson (the upcoming 50 Shades of Grey) and Anton Yelchin (Star Trek Into Darkness) will be distributed in spring 2015 by Lionsgate Home Entertainment.
Cymbeline unfolds amidst an epic battle between dirty cops and a drug dealing biker gang, set in a corruption-riddled contemporary America. In the style of Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet, Cymbeline is a fresh take on a universal story of love, betrayal and revenge.
The film, starring Academy Award nominees Ethan Hawke (Boyhood) and Ed Harris (A Beautiful Mind), Milla Jovovich (Resident Evil), John Leguizamo (Chef), Penn Badgley (Margin Call, Easy A), Dakota Johnson (the upcoming 50 Shades of Grey) and Anton Yelchin (Star Trek Into Darkness) will be distributed in spring 2015 by Lionsgate Home Entertainment.
Cymbeline unfolds amidst an epic battle between dirty cops and a drug dealing biker gang, set in a corruption-riddled contemporary America. In the style of Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet, Cymbeline is a fresh take on a universal story of love, betrayal and revenge.
- 9/2/2014
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Lionsgate’s Grindstone Entertainment has acquired North American rights to writer-director Michael Almereyda’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s Cymbeline ahead of its Venice Film Festival world premiere. Ethan Hawke and Ed Harris, Milla Jovovich, John Leguizamo, Penn Badgley, Dakota Johnson and Anton Yelchin star in the pic, which centers on an epic battle between dirty cops and a drug dealing biker gang set in a corruption-riddled America. Lionsgate Home Entertainment will release it in spring 2015.
Michael Benaroya of Benaroya Pictures and Anthony Katagas of Keep Your Head Productions are producers; Benaroya fully financed. CAA negotiated the deal on behalf of the filmmakers and Barry Brooker, Stan Wertlieb and Ryan Black on behalf of Grindstone. International Film Trust is handling overseas rights.
“We’re thrilled to have acquired a visionary film with an amazing cast assembled by Michael Almereyda, and we’re excited about partnering with Benaroya Pictures, whose track record...
Michael Benaroya of Benaroya Pictures and Anthony Katagas of Keep Your Head Productions are producers; Benaroya fully financed. CAA negotiated the deal on behalf of the filmmakers and Barry Brooker, Stan Wertlieb and Ryan Black on behalf of Grindstone. International Film Trust is handling overseas rights.
“We’re thrilled to have acquired a visionary film with an amazing cast assembled by Michael Almereyda, and we’re excited about partnering with Benaroya Pictures, whose track record...
- 9/2/2014
- by The Deadline Team
- Deadline
Grindstone Entertainment acquires North American distribution rights for Shakespeare adaptation ahead of its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival.
Grindstone Entertainment has acquired all North American rights to Cymbeline, which will receive its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival (Aug 27 - Sept 6) tomorrow.
The contemporary adaptation of Shakespeare’s play is directed by Michael Almereyda and features dirty cops and a drug dealing biker gang in a corruption-riddled America.
It stars Ethan Hawke, who Almereyda directed in his 2000 adaptation of Hamlet, alongside Ed Harris, Milla Jovovich, John Leguizamo, Penn Badgley, Dakota Johnson and Anton Yelchin.
The film will be distributed in spring 2015 by Lionsgate Home Entertainment.
Producers are Michael Benaroya of Benaroya Pictures and Anthony Katagas of Keep Your Head Productions.
CAA negotiated the deal on behalf of the filmmakers and Barry Brooker, Stan Wertlieb and Ryan Black on behalf of Grindstone.
Grindstone partners Brooker and Wertlieb said Cymbeline was “a visionary film with an...
Grindstone Entertainment has acquired all North American rights to Cymbeline, which will receive its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival (Aug 27 - Sept 6) tomorrow.
The contemporary adaptation of Shakespeare’s play is directed by Michael Almereyda and features dirty cops and a drug dealing biker gang in a corruption-riddled America.
It stars Ethan Hawke, who Almereyda directed in his 2000 adaptation of Hamlet, alongside Ed Harris, Milla Jovovich, John Leguizamo, Penn Badgley, Dakota Johnson and Anton Yelchin.
The film will be distributed in spring 2015 by Lionsgate Home Entertainment.
Producers are Michael Benaroya of Benaroya Pictures and Anthony Katagas of Keep Your Head Productions.
CAA negotiated the deal on behalf of the filmmakers and Barry Brooker, Stan Wertlieb and Ryan Black on behalf of Grindstone.
Grindstone partners Brooker and Wertlieb said Cymbeline was “a visionary film with an...
- 9/2/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now turns 35 this month and James Gray (The Immigrant) has written an amazing appreciation for Rolling Stone. Also in today's roundup of news and views: Michael Ventura on John Cassavetes's Love Streams (1984), Luc Moullet on Luis Buñuel's Death in the Garden (1956), New York Times profiles of Sam Taylor-Johnson, Jennifer Yuh Nelson, Ava DuVernay, Sarah Polley, Lisa Cholodenko and Lana Wachowski, Grady Hendrix on Lee Myung-Se, Glenn Kenny and Ben Sachs on Richard Linklater, Sean Nortz on Michael Wadleigh's Wolfen (1981), Steven Shaviro on Bobcat Goldthwaite's Willow Creek (2013) and much, much more. » - David Hudson...
- 8/15/2014
- Fandor: Keyframe
Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now turns 35 this month and James Gray (The Immigrant) has written an amazing appreciation for Rolling Stone. Also in today's roundup of news and views: Michael Ventura on John Cassavetes's Love Streams (1984), Luc Moullet on Luis Buñuel's Death in the Garden (1956), New York Times profiles of Sam Taylor-Johnson, Jennifer Yuh Nelson, Ava DuVernay, Sarah Polley, Lisa Cholodenko and Lana Wachowski, Grady Hendrix on Lee Myung-Se, Glenn Kenny and Ben Sachs on Richard Linklater, Sean Nortz on Michael Wadleigh's Wolfen (1981), Steven Shaviro on Bobcat Goldthwaite's Willow Creek (2013) and much, much more. » - David Hudson...
- 8/15/2014
- Keyframe
"A real-life film noir featuring danger, betrayal, selflessness and close encounters with movie stars, the Hollywood blacklist is a juicy narrative and remains an enduring object of fascination," writes J. Hoberman in the New York Times. Today's roundup of news and views begins with his overview of two series running in NYC this month. Also: An interview with Joaquim Pinto (What Now? Remind Me), Ben Sachs on Chantal Akerman, revisiting Fritz Lang's Woman in the Moon (1929) and M (1931)—and Robert Downey and Elliott Gould swap stories. » - David Hudson...
- 8/8/2014
- Fandor: Keyframe
"A real-life film noir featuring danger, betrayal, selflessness and close encounters with movie stars, the Hollywood blacklist is a juicy narrative and remains an enduring object of fascination," writes J. Hoberman in the New York Times. Today's roundup of news and views begins with his overview of two series running in NYC this month. Also: An interview with Joaquim Pinto (What Now? Remind Me), Ben Sachs on Chantal Akerman, revisiting Fritz Lang's Woman in the Moon (1929) and M (1931)—and Robert Downey and Elliott Gould swap stories. » - David Hudson...
- 8/8/2014
- Keyframe
Olivier Assayas’ next film stars Robert Pattinson and will be produced and financed by Benaroya Pictures.
Robert De Niro has joined Olivier Assayas’ Idol’s Eye.
De Niro will star alongside Robert Pattinson in the sophisticated heist action/thriller with further plot details currently under wraps.
Benaroya Pictures will produce and finance the film, which is set to begin principal photography in October in Chicago and Toronto.
Charles Gillibert developed and produced the project with CG Cinema, Bluegrass Films’ Scott Stuber, Film 360’s Scott Lambert, Alexandra Milchan and Michael Benaroya. Ben Sachs executive produces for Benaroya.
International Film Trust, which was co-founded by Benaroya, will be handling international sales.
CAA, which arranged financing, will represent domestic rights along with Wme.
Robert De Niro has joined Olivier Assayas’ Idol’s Eye.
De Niro will star alongside Robert Pattinson in the sophisticated heist action/thriller with further plot details currently under wraps.
Benaroya Pictures will produce and finance the film, which is set to begin principal photography in October in Chicago and Toronto.
Charles Gillibert developed and produced the project with CG Cinema, Bluegrass Films’ Scott Stuber, Film 360’s Scott Lambert, Alexandra Milchan and Michael Benaroya. Ben Sachs executive produces for Benaroya.
International Film Trust, which was co-founded by Benaroya, will be handling international sales.
CAA, which arranged financing, will represent domestic rights along with Wme.
- 5/27/2014
- by ian.sandwell@screendaily.com (Ian Sandwell)
- ScreenDaily
Benaroya Pictures has announced today that they are now on board to produce and finance director Olivier Assayas. Idol's Eye, with a confirmed cast that includes Robert Pattinson and Robert De Niro. Charles Gillibert developed and produced the project with CG Cinema, Bluegrass Films. Scott Stuber, Film 360.s Scott Lambert, Alexandra Milchan and Michael Benaroya, with Ben Sachs executive producing for Benaroya Pictures. The film is scheduled to begin principal photography in October in Chicago and Toronto.
- 5/27/2014
- Comingsoon.net
Robert De Niro has joined Robert Pattinson in Olivier Assayas’ “Idol's Eye,” production company Benaroya Pictures said Tuesday. Benaroya will produce and finance the indie project, which was developed by Charles Gillibert along with with CG Cinema, Bluegrass Films’ Scott Stuber, Film 360's Scott Lambert, Alexandra Milchan and Michael Benaroya, with Ben Sachs executive producing for Benaroya Pictures. Principal photography on the heist action thriller is scheduled to begin in October in Chicago and Toronto. Also read: Robert Pattinson Advises Child Stars to Seek Therapy, Thinks Justin Bieber's ‘All Right’ The movie is the director's follow up...
- 5/27/2014
- by L.A. Ross
- The Wrap
Robert De Niro will star opposite Robert Pattinson in Olivier Assayas' Idol's Eye, with Michael Benaroya's Benaroya Pictures coming aboard to finance and produce. Story: John Turturro Replaces Robert De Niro in HBO's James Gandolfini Mini 'Criminal Justice' Assayas -- whose Clouds of Sils Maria played in competition at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival -- is set to begin shooting the heist action-thriller in October in Chicago and Toronto. Plot details are being kept under wraps. Charles Gillibert developed the project and is producing alongside CG Cinema, Bluegrass Films' Scott Stuber, Film 360's Scott Lambert, Alexandra Milchan and Benaroya. Ben Sachs is executive
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- 5/27/2014
- by Pamela McClintock
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Benaroya Pictures has announced today that they are now on board to produce and finance director Olivier Assayas’ Idol’S Eye, with a confirmed cast that includes Robert Pattinson and Robert De Niro.
Charles Gillibert developed and produced the project with CG Cinema, Bluegrass Films’ Scott Stuber, Film 360’s Scott Lambert, Alexandra Milchan and Michael Benaroya, with Ben Sachs executive producing for Benaroya Pictures. The film is scheduled to begin principal photography in October in Chicago and Toronto.
The plot elements are currently under wraps, but it has been described as a sophisticated, heist action/thriller.
International Film Trust, which was co-founded by Benaroya, will be handling foreign sales of the title heading into the summer and the Toronto International Film Festival under the helm of Ift President, Christian De Gallegos. CAA, which arranged financing for the film, will represent domestic rights along with Wme.
Assayas had the English-language...
Charles Gillibert developed and produced the project with CG Cinema, Bluegrass Films’ Scott Stuber, Film 360’s Scott Lambert, Alexandra Milchan and Michael Benaroya, with Ben Sachs executive producing for Benaroya Pictures. The film is scheduled to begin principal photography in October in Chicago and Toronto.
The plot elements are currently under wraps, but it has been described as a sophisticated, heist action/thriller.
International Film Trust, which was co-founded by Benaroya, will be handling foreign sales of the title heading into the summer and the Toronto International Film Festival under the helm of Ift President, Christian De Gallegos. CAA, which arranged financing for the film, will represent domestic rights along with Wme.
Assayas had the English-language...
- 5/27/2014
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Matt Saville.s thriller Felony, which stars Joel Edgerton, Tom Wilkinson, Jai Courtney and Melissa George, will get a cinema release in the Us via a new distributor.
Gravitas Theatrical, which plans to release a dozen films a year, has been launched by Gravitas Ventures, founded by Nolan Gallagher in 2006 to distribute independent films across multiple platforms, focusing on VOD.
The release date hasn.t been revealed but it will be in the late northern summer. Roadshow has dated the film for August 28.
Dustin Smith has been hired as VP of Theatrical Distribution after nearly a decade at Roadside Attractions where he oversaw the acquisition and release of Winter.s Bone and worked on such releases as All Is Lost, Stories We Tell, Mud and The Cove.
.We are absolutely delighted that Gravitas Ventures has chosen Felony for a theatrical release,. said producer Rosemary Blight of Goalpost Pictures.
.When looking...
Gravitas Theatrical, which plans to release a dozen films a year, has been launched by Gravitas Ventures, founded by Nolan Gallagher in 2006 to distribute independent films across multiple platforms, focusing on VOD.
The release date hasn.t been revealed but it will be in the late northern summer. Roadshow has dated the film for August 28.
Dustin Smith has been hired as VP of Theatrical Distribution after nearly a decade at Roadside Attractions where he oversaw the acquisition and release of Winter.s Bone and worked on such releases as All Is Lost, Stories We Tell, Mud and The Cove.
.We are absolutely delighted that Gravitas Ventures has chosen Felony for a theatrical release,. said producer Rosemary Blight of Goalpost Pictures.
.When looking...
- 1/14/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Editor's Note: We're kicking 2014 off with a bit of a format change in this here column. We'll be consistently posting separate, self-contained news posts in the Notebook, so we're taking out the news section here (not that some things won't be somewhat newsy) and making this more of a freewheeling zone of new/old bits of film criticism, images, videos, and whatever else we feel is "noteworthy" on any given week (which, to be honest, is in the spirit of the initial concept). Oh, and Happy New Year, everyone!
Above: the official poster of the 64th Berlinale.
After scrupulously rounding up every notable end-of-year list (and surely there is more yet to come!), David Hudson has published his personal list of 2013's ten best films. Of course, a myriad other lists keep pouring in: Boris Nelepo's Top 25 Ben Sachs' Top 10 La Furia Umana's Top 10 (to go along with their new issue,...
Above: the official poster of the 64th Berlinale.
After scrupulously rounding up every notable end-of-year list (and surely there is more yet to come!), David Hudson has published his personal list of 2013's ten best films. Of course, a myriad other lists keep pouring in: Boris Nelepo's Top 25 Ben Sachs' Top 10 La Furia Umana's Top 10 (to go along with their new issue,...
- 1/1/2014
- by Adam Cook
- MUBI
Above: Bill Siegel and Khalilah Camacho-Ali
Unlike other films about the controversial boxer, the recent documentary The Trials of Muhammad Ali makes no pretense of telling Ali’s whole story. It presumes that most of us in the audience already know it and those of us who don’t can easily fill in the gaps with the wealth of other movies, books, and TV specials devoted to his legend. Produced by Chicago-based documentary company Kartemquin Films, Trials focuses on Ali’s conversion to the Nation of Islam and the controversies associated with his religious and political convictions. These subjects are addressed in Michael Mann’s Ali (2001) and referenced in other documentaries about him, but Trials examines them in greater depth, generally neglecting his athletic achievements to better focus on his radicalism.
We took some time to speak with the film’s director, Bill Siegel, whose first film was Kartemquin-produced The Weather Underground...
Unlike other films about the controversial boxer, the recent documentary The Trials of Muhammad Ali makes no pretense of telling Ali’s whole story. It presumes that most of us in the audience already know it and those of us who don’t can easily fill in the gaps with the wealth of other movies, books, and TV specials devoted to his legend. Produced by Chicago-based documentary company Kartemquin Films, Trials focuses on Ali’s conversion to the Nation of Islam and the controversies associated with his religious and political convictions. These subjects are addressed in Michael Mann’s Ali (2001) and referenced in other documentaries about him, but Trials examines them in greater depth, generally neglecting his athletic achievements to better focus on his radicalism.
We took some time to speak with the film’s director, Bill Siegel, whose first film was Kartemquin-produced The Weather Underground...
- 12/17/2013
- by Ben and Kathleen Sachs
- MUBI
Exclusive: International Film Trust (Ift) announced at Afm it has closed key sales on Cymbeline including Koch Media for the UK and Ksm for Germany.
Rights have gone to Cis (Nashe Kino), Japan (Happinet), Australia/New Zealand (Transmission), Switzerland (Praesens), South Korea (Sookie), Eastern Europe, Greece and Turkey (Tanweer) and Middle East (Shooting Stars).
Further deals closed in China (Hgc), India (PVR), Singapore (Shaw), Thailand (Ipa), Taiwan (Well Go) and the Philippines (Pioneer).
Ethan Hawke, Ed Harris, Milla Jovovich, Dakota Johnson, Penn Badgley and Anton Yelchin star in Michael Almereyda’s modern-day Shakespeare adaptation, set against an epic battle between corrupt police officers and biker gangs.
Anthony Katagas produces Cymbeline for Keep Your Head Productions alongside Michael Benaroya, who is fully financing through Benaroya Pictures. Ben Sachs of Benaroya Pictures serves as executive producer.The project is in post.
“With a star-studded cast, buyers have really embraced Michael Almereyda’s refreshing adaptation of Shakespeare’s play,” said...
Rights have gone to Cis (Nashe Kino), Japan (Happinet), Australia/New Zealand (Transmission), Switzerland (Praesens), South Korea (Sookie), Eastern Europe, Greece and Turkey (Tanweer) and Middle East (Shooting Stars).
Further deals closed in China (Hgc), India (PVR), Singapore (Shaw), Thailand (Ipa), Taiwan (Well Go) and the Philippines (Pioneer).
Ethan Hawke, Ed Harris, Milla Jovovich, Dakota Johnson, Penn Badgley and Anton Yelchin star in Michael Almereyda’s modern-day Shakespeare adaptation, set against an epic battle between corrupt police officers and biker gangs.
Anthony Katagas produces Cymbeline for Keep Your Head Productions alongside Michael Benaroya, who is fully financing through Benaroya Pictures. Ben Sachs of Benaroya Pictures serves as executive producer.The project is in post.
“With a star-studded cast, buyers have really embraced Michael Almereyda’s refreshing adaptation of Shakespeare’s play,” said...
- 11/8/2013
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Anton Yelchin (Star Trek) and Dakota Johnson (21 Jump Street) join a cast which includes Ethan Hawke, Ed Harris and Milla Jovovich in writer/director Michael Almereyda’s modern day adaption of Shakespeare’s timeless play Cymbeline produced by Anthony Katagas (12 Years A Slave, The Immigrant, Killing Them Softly) for Keep Your Head Productions and Michael Benaroya (Margin Call, Kill Your Darlings), who will fully finance the film through his banner Benaroya Pictures. Ben Sachs of Benaroya Pictures will executive produce the film, with International Film Trust (Ift), Benaroya’s foreign sales arm, handling all international rights to the film.
Set to start principal photography on August 19, 2013 in New York City, Cymbeline unfolds as an epic battle between dirty cops and a drug dealing biker gang set in a corruption-riddled 21st century America. In the vein of Sons of Anarchy and in the style of Romeo + Juliet, Cymbeline is a fresh...
Set to start principal photography on August 19, 2013 in New York City, Cymbeline unfolds as an epic battle between dirty cops and a drug dealing biker gang set in a corruption-riddled 21st century America. In the vein of Sons of Anarchy and in the style of Romeo + Juliet, Cymbeline is a fresh...
- 8/12/2013
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Anton Yelchin Star Trek and Dakota Johnson 21 Jump Street join a cast which includes Ethan Hawke, Ed Harris and Milla Jovovich in writerdirector Michael Almereyda's modern day adaption of Shakespeare's timeless play Cymbeline produced by Anthony Katagas 12 Years A Slave, The Immigrant, Killing Them Softly for Keep Your Head Productions and Michael Benaroya Margin Call, Kill Your Darlings, who will fully finance the film through his banner Benaroya Pictures. Ben Sachs of Benaroya Pictures will executive produce the film, with International Film Trust Ift, Benaroya's foreign sales arm, handling all international rights to the film.
- 8/12/2013
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Exclusive: The rising star becomes the latest cast member to swell the ranks on the International Film Trust sales title heading into Toronto.
Dakota Johnson has also joined the cast featuring previously announced Ethan Hawke, Ed Harris and Milla Jovovich.
Michael Almereyda’s modern-day Shakespeare adaption is set to commence shooting on Aug 19 in New York.
Cymbeline takes place in a crime-ravaged America in the 21st Century as a drug-dealing biker gang battles corrupt police officers.
Anton Yelchin will portray Cloten, the son of the Queen played by Jovovich. Johnson will play Imogen, the daughter of King Cymbeline played by Harris.
Anthony Katagas produces for Keep Your Head Productions alongside Michael Benaroya, who is fully financing Cymbeline through Benaroya Pictures. Ben Sachs of Benaroya Pictures will serve as executive producer.
Dakota Johnson has also joined the cast featuring previously announced Ethan Hawke, Ed Harris and Milla Jovovich.
Michael Almereyda’s modern-day Shakespeare adaption is set to commence shooting on Aug 19 in New York.
Cymbeline takes place in a crime-ravaged America in the 21st Century as a drug-dealing biker gang battles corrupt police officers.
Anton Yelchin will portray Cloten, the son of the Queen played by Jovovich. Johnson will play Imogen, the daughter of King Cymbeline played by Harris.
Anthony Katagas produces for Keep Your Head Productions alongside Michael Benaroya, who is fully financing Cymbeline through Benaroya Pictures. Ben Sachs of Benaroya Pictures will serve as executive producer.
- 8/12/2013
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Anton Yelchin ( Star Trek ) and Dakota Johnson ( 21 Jump Street ) have officially joined the cast of the upcoming Cymbeline opposite the previously-announced Ethan Hawke, Ed Harris and Milla Jovovich. A modern day adaption of Shakespeare.s timeless play, Cymbeline hails from writer/director Michael Almereyda ( Hamlet ) and producers Anthony Katagas ( Killing Them Softly ) for Keep Your Head Productions and Michael Benaroya ( Margin Call ), who will fully finance the film through his banner Benaroya Pictures. Ben Sachs of Benaroya Pictures will executive produce the film, with International Film Trust (Ift), Benaroya's foreign sales arm, handling all international rights to the film. Set to start principal photography on August 19, 2013 in New York City, Cymbeline...
- 8/12/2013
- Comingsoon.net
Not the first title that comes to mind when you’re trying to rattle off Shakespeare works, Cymbeline is nevertheless one of the coolest (imho). Joining an already interesting cast, including Ethan Hawke and Ed Harris, Milla Jovovich is on board now, and as more names become attached we’re moving into very tricky territory. It’s either going to be awesome or awful… like most things, I suppose, but I have high hopes.
Thoughts?
Milla Jovovich Joins The Cast Of Michael Almereyda’S Reimagining Of Cymbeline Ethan Hawke And Ed Harris Also Onboard The Prestige Project
Milla Jovovich (The Fifth Element, Stone) is set to star alongside Ethan Hawke, Ed Harris and Penn Badgley in writer/director Michael Almereyda’s modern day adaption of Shakespeare’s timeless play Cymbeline produced by Anthony Katagas (12 Years A Slave, The Immigrant, Killing Them Softly) for Keep Your Head Productions and Michael Benaroya (Margin Call,...
Thoughts?
Milla Jovovich Joins The Cast Of Michael Almereyda’S Reimagining Of Cymbeline Ethan Hawke And Ed Harris Also Onboard The Prestige Project
Milla Jovovich (The Fifth Element, Stone) is set to star alongside Ethan Hawke, Ed Harris and Penn Badgley in writer/director Michael Almereyda’s modern day adaption of Shakespeare’s timeless play Cymbeline produced by Anthony Katagas (12 Years A Slave, The Immigrant, Killing Them Softly) for Keep Your Head Productions and Michael Benaroya (Margin Call,...
- 8/8/2013
- by Marc Eastman
- AreYouScreening.com
Milla Jovovich The Fifth Element, Stone is set to star alongside Ethan Hawke, Ed Harris and Penn Badgley in writerdirector Michael Almereyda's modern day adaption of Shakespeare's timeless play Cymbeline produced by Anthony Katagas 12 Years A Slave, The Immigrant, Killing Them Softly for Keep Your Head Productions and Michael Benaroya Margin Call, Kill Your Darlings, who will fully finance the film through his banner Benaroya Pictures. Ben Sachs of Benaroya Pictures will executive produce the film, with International Film Trust Ift, Benaroya's foreign sales arm, handling all international rights to the film.
- 8/8/2013
- by Movies News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Academy Award nominee Ed Harris (The Hours, Pain And Gain) is set to star alongside Ethan Hawke in writer/director Michael Almereyda’s modern day adaption of Shakespeare’s timeless play Cymbeline.
Set to start principal photography on August 19, 2013 in New York City, Cymbeline unfolds as an epic battle between dirty cops and a drug dealing biker gang set in a corruption-riddled 21st century America. In the vein of Sons of Anarchy and in the style of Romeo + Juliet, Cymbeline is a fresh take on a universal story of love, betrayal and revenge.
Ed Harris, who plays King Cymbeline, stars in The Weinstein Company’s Snowpiercer alongside Jamie Bell and Chris Evans, and will soon star opposite Annette Bening in the romantic drama, The Face Of Love. He is a four-time Academy Award nominee for his performances in Apollo 13, The Truman Show, The Hours and Pollock, which he also directed.
Set to start principal photography on August 19, 2013 in New York City, Cymbeline unfolds as an epic battle between dirty cops and a drug dealing biker gang set in a corruption-riddled 21st century America. In the vein of Sons of Anarchy and in the style of Romeo + Juliet, Cymbeline is a fresh take on a universal story of love, betrayal and revenge.
Ed Harris, who plays King Cymbeline, stars in The Weinstein Company’s Snowpiercer alongside Jamie Bell and Chris Evans, and will soon star opposite Annette Bening in the romantic drama, The Face Of Love. He is a four-time Academy Award nominee for his performances in Apollo 13, The Truman Show, The Hours and Pollock, which he also directed.
- 8/5/2013
- by Melissa Thompson
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
The Oscar nominee has joined the cast of Michael Almereyda’s Shakespeare adaptation. International Film Trust handles sales outside the Us, where CAA represents the project.
Harris will play the title role and joins Ethan Hawke in the reimagined tale, which will be styled in the vein of Sons Of Anarchy and Baz Luhrman’s Romeo+Juliet and tells of an epic battle between corrupt police officers and a drug dealing biker gang.
Anthony Kataga produces Cymbeline for Keep Your Head Productions with Michael Benaroya, who is fully financing through his Benaroya Pictures. Ben Sachs of Benaroya Pictures will serve as executive producer.
Principal photography is set for Aug 19 in New York City.
Harris will play the title role and joins Ethan Hawke in the reimagined tale, which will be styled in the vein of Sons Of Anarchy and Baz Luhrman’s Romeo+Juliet and tells of an epic battle between corrupt police officers and a drug dealing biker gang.
Anthony Kataga produces Cymbeline for Keep Your Head Productions with Michael Benaroya, who is fully financing through his Benaroya Pictures. Ben Sachs of Benaroya Pictures will serve as executive producer.
Principal photography is set for Aug 19 in New York City.
- 8/5/2013
- ScreenDaily
Ed Harris has signed on to star opposite Ethan Hawke in writer-director Michael Almereyda's modern-day adaption of Shakespeare's Cymbeline. Scheduled to start principal photography on Aug. 19 in New York, Cymbeline unfolds as a battle between dirty cops and a drug-dealing biker gang set in a corruption-riddled 21st century America. Harris will play King Cymbeline. Story: Ed Harris to Star Off Broadway in 'The Jacksonian' Anthony Katagas (12 Years a Slave) is producing alongside Michael Benaroya (Margin Call), who will fully finance the film through his banner Benaroya Pictures. Benaroya's Ben Sachs is exec producing the film. CAA is handling domestic sales.
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- 8/5/2013
- by Tatiana Siegel
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Ethan Hawke will star in Michael Almereyda’s modern day adaption of Shakespeare’s Cymbeline in the vein of TV hit Sons Of Anarchy. International Film Trust (Ift) will handle international sales and CAA represents Us rights.
Producers are Keep Your Head Productions’ Anthony Katagas, whose credits include the anticipated awards season contender 12 Years A Slave, and Michael Benaroya, who will fully finance through Benaroya Pictures.
Ben Sachs of Benaroya Pictures will serve as executive producer. Ift’s head of sales Christian De Gallegos will introduce the project to buyers.
Principal photography has been scheduled for Aug 19 in New York City on the adaptation, which frames the story against an epic battle between corrupt police officers and a drug dealing biker gang.
Almereyda directed Hawke in Hamlet back in 2000. Hawke is riding high following critical acclaim for Before Midnight and recently starred in Universal’s number one North American release The Purge.
Producers are Keep Your Head Productions’ Anthony Katagas, whose credits include the anticipated awards season contender 12 Years A Slave, and Michael Benaroya, who will fully finance through Benaroya Pictures.
Ben Sachs of Benaroya Pictures will serve as executive producer. Ift’s head of sales Christian De Gallegos will introduce the project to buyers.
Principal photography has been scheduled for Aug 19 in New York City on the adaptation, which frames the story against an epic battle between corrupt police officers and a drug dealing biker gang.
Almereyda directed Hawke in Hamlet back in 2000. Hawke is riding high following critical acclaim for Before Midnight and recently starred in Universal’s number one North American release The Purge.
- 7/31/2013
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
News.
The Summer 2013 issue of Cineaste has hit shelves, and features interviews with Carlos Reygadas and Sarah Polley. Online you'll find the conclusion to "Film Criticism: The Next Generation" and other exclusives. The Human Rights Watch Film Festival begins tomorrow in New York. Co-presented by the Film Society of Lincoln Center and the IFC center, the doc fest features acclaimed films such as The Act of Killing (pictured above) and Camp 14 – Total Control Zone (which I wrote on here). Takashi Miike is in talks to make The Outsider, his first English language film, with Tom Hardy set as the prospective lead. The film tells "an epic story set in post-World War II Japan, chronicling the life of a former American G.I. who becomes part of the Japanese yakuza."
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Vulgar Auteurism is being hotly debated on Twitter, blogs and other publications. The term, which originated with Andrew Tracy and Cinema Scope,...
The Summer 2013 issue of Cineaste has hit shelves, and features interviews with Carlos Reygadas and Sarah Polley. Online you'll find the conclusion to "Film Criticism: The Next Generation" and other exclusives. The Human Rights Watch Film Festival begins tomorrow in New York. Co-presented by the Film Society of Lincoln Center and the IFC center, the doc fest features acclaimed films such as The Act of Killing (pictured above) and Camp 14 – Total Control Zone (which I wrote on here). Takashi Miike is in talks to make The Outsider, his first English language film, with Tom Hardy set as the prospective lead. The film tells "an epic story set in post-World War II Japan, chronicling the life of a former American G.I. who becomes part of the Japanese yakuza."
Finds.
Vulgar Auteurism is being hotly debated on Twitter, blogs and other publications. The term, which originated with Andrew Tracy and Cinema Scope,...
- 6/12/2013
- by Adam Cook
- MUBI
Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: June 18, 2013
Price: DVD $29.98, Blu-ray/DVD Combo $39.99
Studio: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Movie 43 might have the distinction of featuring the most movie stars in a film that’s not a documentary about Hollywood.
The comedy stars Hugh Jackman (Real Steel), Justin Long (Going the Distance), Dennis Quaid (The Words), Greg Kinnear (The Kennedys), Emma Stone (Gangster Squad), Kate Winslet (Contagion), Liev Schreiber (Salt), Naomi Watts (Fair Game), Anna Faris (What’s Your Number?), Gerard Butler (Playing For Keeps), Halle Berry (Cloud Atlas), Terrence Howard (The Ledge), Elizabeth Banks (The Next Three Days), Richard Gere (Arbitrage), Kate Bosworth (Straw Dogs), Kristen Bell (Big Miracle), Jason Sudeikis (Horrible Bosses), Josh Duhamel (Life As We Know It), Uma Thurman (Pulp Fiction) … Phew!
Rated R, Movie 43 tells a series of interconnected stories about a washed-up producer pitching insane story ideas all over Hollywood. Bob Odenkirk (TV’s Breaking Bad) took overall directing duties,...
Price: DVD $29.98, Blu-ray/DVD Combo $39.99
Studio: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Movie 43 might have the distinction of featuring the most movie stars in a film that’s not a documentary about Hollywood.
The comedy stars Hugh Jackman (Real Steel), Justin Long (Going the Distance), Dennis Quaid (The Words), Greg Kinnear (The Kennedys), Emma Stone (Gangster Squad), Kate Winslet (Contagion), Liev Schreiber (Salt), Naomi Watts (Fair Game), Anna Faris (What’s Your Number?), Gerard Butler (Playing For Keeps), Halle Berry (Cloud Atlas), Terrence Howard (The Ledge), Elizabeth Banks (The Next Three Days), Richard Gere (Arbitrage), Kate Bosworth (Straw Dogs), Kristen Bell (Big Miracle), Jason Sudeikis (Horrible Bosses), Josh Duhamel (Life As We Know It), Uma Thurman (Pulp Fiction) … Phew!
Rated R, Movie 43 tells a series of interconnected stories about a washed-up producer pitching insane story ideas all over Hollywood. Bob Odenkirk (TV’s Breaking Bad) took overall directing duties,...
- 4/25/2013
- by Sam
- Disc Dish
Digital Download: May 21, 2013 Blu-ray, Blu-ray 3D & DVD Release Date: June 11, 2013
Price: DVD $29.99, Blu-ray/DVD Combo $39.99, Blu-ray 3D Combo $49.99
Studio: Paramount Home Entertainment
The classic fairy tale gets a new twist in Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters.
The fantasy movie stars Jeremy Renner (The Bourne Legacy) and Gemma Arterton (Tamara Drewe) as the titular brother and sister, who are now all grown up and on a mission: To avenge the deaths of their parents. After years hunting witches, they face an evil greater than anything they’ve seen before, and one that could destroy the world.
The R-rated film, which also stars Famke Janssen (Taken 2) and Peter Stormare (Small Town Murder Songs), was written and directed by Norwegian filmmaker Tommy Wirkola (Dead Snow).
Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters grossed $55 million in wide release at theaters, but got poor reviews from critics. As Chicago Reader critic Ben Sachs said, “There isn’t much...
Price: DVD $29.99, Blu-ray/DVD Combo $39.99, Blu-ray 3D Combo $49.99
Studio: Paramount Home Entertainment
The classic fairy tale gets a new twist in Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters.
The fantasy movie stars Jeremy Renner (The Bourne Legacy) and Gemma Arterton (Tamara Drewe) as the titular brother and sister, who are now all grown up and on a mission: To avenge the deaths of their parents. After years hunting witches, they face an evil greater than anything they’ve seen before, and one that could destroy the world.
The R-rated film, which also stars Famke Janssen (Taken 2) and Peter Stormare (Small Town Murder Songs), was written and directed by Norwegian filmmaker Tommy Wirkola (Dead Snow).
Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters grossed $55 million in wide release at theaters, but got poor reviews from critics. As Chicago Reader critic Ben Sachs said, “There isn’t much...
- 3/26/2013
- by Sam
- Disc Dish
News.
The National Film Registry has announced 25 additions including Otto Preminger's Anatomy of a Murder, Don Siegel's Dirty Harry, and Richard Linklater's Slacker.
Critic and filmmaker David Phelps has premiered a new short film, On Spec, via the online Spanish publication Lumière. For the Notebook, Gina Telaroli has interrogated the film and discussed its evolution with Phelps in images, text and audio; Daniel Kasman has also written on it. At Idiom Magazine, Phil Coldiron has interviewed Phelps. And the filmmaker himself has provided notes in English and Spanish.
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Above: we'd be lying if we said we weren't somewhat fascinated by the trailer for Michael Bay's new film, Pain & Gain, a foray into comedy. Ben Sachs revisits the ending of M. Night Shyamalan's The Village:
"Shyamalan described The Village as his "post-9/11 movie," and its plot twist becomes more provocative if read as an indirect...
The National Film Registry has announced 25 additions including Otto Preminger's Anatomy of a Murder, Don Siegel's Dirty Harry, and Richard Linklater's Slacker.
Critic and filmmaker David Phelps has premiered a new short film, On Spec, via the online Spanish publication Lumière. For the Notebook, Gina Telaroli has interrogated the film and discussed its evolution with Phelps in images, text and audio; Daniel Kasman has also written on it. At Idiom Magazine, Phil Coldiron has interviewed Phelps. And the filmmaker himself has provided notes in English and Spanish.
Finds.
Above: we'd be lying if we said we weren't somewhat fascinated by the trailer for Michael Bay's new film, Pain & Gain, a foray into comedy. Ben Sachs revisits the ending of M. Night Shyamalan's The Village:
"Shyamalan described The Village as his "post-9/11 movie," and its plot twist becomes more provocative if read as an indirect...
- 12/27/2012
- by Adam Cook
- MUBI
News.
The Locarno Film Festival announced its 2013 edition will feature a complete retrospective of the films of George Cukor. They also announced their lineup of programmers, which features Cinema Scope editor/publisher Mark Peranson as the head of programming. An archive of Andrei Tarkovsky's personal photographs, letters and other items are going up for auction. According to The Guardian:
"The archive is being sold by Olga Surkova, who was Tarkovsky's pupil, amanuensis and friend as well as co-author of the book Sculpting in Time, in which the director sets out his theories on cinema....In the sale are notebooks with shot-by-shot analysis of his films; printed scripts for films, containing significant differences to the final versions; and a collection of 32 audio tapes and 13 MiniDiscs from his final years on which he talks about his films and cinema.
There are photo albums of Tarkovsky and his family on holiday in places...
The Locarno Film Festival announced its 2013 edition will feature a complete retrospective of the films of George Cukor. They also announced their lineup of programmers, which features Cinema Scope editor/publisher Mark Peranson as the head of programming. An archive of Andrei Tarkovsky's personal photographs, letters and other items are going up for auction. According to The Guardian:
"The archive is being sold by Olga Surkova, who was Tarkovsky's pupil, amanuensis and friend as well as co-author of the book Sculpting in Time, in which the director sets out his theories on cinema....In the sale are notebooks with shot-by-shot analysis of his films; printed scripts for films, containing significant differences to the final versions; and a collection of 32 audio tapes and 13 MiniDiscs from his final years on which he talks about his films and cinema.
There are photo albums of Tarkovsky and his family on holiday in places...
- 11/7/2012
- by Adam Cook
- MUBI
This week’s Must Read: Making Light of It has posted another one of its wonderful filmmaker profiles, this time for Marie Menken.Here’s a new site to take notice of: The Avant-Garde Film Index, which does exactly what its name implies, indexing experimental, avant-garde and underground films. The site appears to be in its very early stages, but we wish them the best of luck and we’ll keep our eye on it as it grows into the essential resource we’re sure it’ll become.At the Chicago Reader, Ben Sachs interviewed filmmaker Lori Felker about a program of films by Robert Nelson that screened over the weekend at the Gene Siskel Film Center.The Tucson Weekly profiles the Arizona Underground Film Festival, which is going on right now and is having its biggest year ever, especially focusing on the film The Exhibitionists.For the next couple of months,...
- 9/23/2012
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
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