George Lucas is certainly a well-known figure in Hollywood. For many years, he has been one of the most important figures in the world of Star Wars, being the original creator of the entire world. For years, he has been on the frontiers of every new addition to the story, helping a trilogy become one of the most successful franchises of all time.
George Lucas. Credit: Joey Gannon/Creative Commons
Knowing how high-profile he is, it is not surprising that every step that he takes is carefully observed under a microscope. Recently, the filmmaker gave an interview in which he said some very interesting things about the film industry. Unfortunately, many have begun to call out the hypocrisy in his words.
‘Hollywood in 10 Years’ According to George Lucas
Recently, George Lucas gave an interview with Brut (via Culture Crave), in which he went into great detail about his professional life.
George Lucas. Credit: Joey Gannon/Creative Commons
Knowing how high-profile he is, it is not surprising that every step that he takes is carefully observed under a microscope. Recently, the filmmaker gave an interview in which he said some very interesting things about the film industry. Unfortunately, many have begun to call out the hypocrisy in his words.
‘Hollywood in 10 Years’ According to George Lucas
Recently, George Lucas gave an interview with Brut (via Culture Crave), in which he went into great detail about his professional life.
- 5/25/2024
- by Ananya Godboley
- FandomWire
El (no) biopic ya apunta a los premios Goya. © BTeamPictures
Ya se ha publicado el primer tráiler de “Segundo Premio”, la película dirigida por Isaki Lacuesta (doble ganador de la Concha de Oro del Festival de San Sebastián por “Los Pasos Dobles” y “Entre dos Aguas”) y codirigida por Pol Rodríguez. Una película que tuvo su estreno mundial en el Festival de Málaga y que se ha llevado tres premios: mejor película, mejor dirección y mejor montaje.
La película está protagonizada por Daniel Ibáñez, Cristalino, Stéphanie Magnin, Mafo, Chesco Ruiz y Edu Rejón y se ambienta en la Granada de finales de los 90. En plena efervescencia artística y cultural, un grupo de música indie atraviesa su momento más delicado: la bajista rompe con la banda buscando su sitio fuera de la música y el guitarrista se ve inmerso en una peligrosa espiral de autodestrucción. Mientras, el cantante se enfrenta a...
Ya se ha publicado el primer tráiler de “Segundo Premio”, la película dirigida por Isaki Lacuesta (doble ganador de la Concha de Oro del Festival de San Sebastián por “Los Pasos Dobles” y “Entre dos Aguas”) y codirigida por Pol Rodríguez. Una película que tuvo su estreno mundial en el Festival de Málaga y que se ha llevado tres premios: mejor película, mejor dirección y mejor montaje.
La película está protagonizada por Daniel Ibáñez, Cristalino, Stéphanie Magnin, Mafo, Chesco Ruiz y Edu Rejón y se ambienta en la Granada de finales de los 90. En plena efervescencia artística y cultural, un grupo de música indie atraviesa su momento más delicado: la bajista rompe con la banda buscando su sitio fuera de la música y el guitarrista se ve inmerso en una peligrosa espiral de autodestrucción. Mientras, el cantante se enfrenta a...
- 5/2/2024
- by Marta Medina
- mundoCine
Isaki Lacuesta has returned to the Malaga Film Festival with his highly anticipated rock band drama “Saturn Return” (“Segundo Premio”), a fabled account of iconic Spanish group Los Planetas and their struggle to make their legendary third album,“Una semana en un motor de un autobús.”
The film, which the award-winning filmmaker directed with Pol Rodríguez and wrote with Fernando Navarro, stars Daniel Ibáñez, Stéphanie Magnin and musician-turned-actor Cristalino.
“Saturn Returns” screened in competition in Malaga, where Lacuesta and Isa Campo, double San Sebastian Golden Shell winners, won the best director Silver Biznaga for their 2016 mystery drama “The Next Skin.”
Speaking to Variety, Lacuesta explains how the film is not about Los Planetas but rather about the legend of the band and the mystique they themselves have cultivated over the years. Indeed, the story of “Saturn Return” is largely based on the band’s songs.
“It is not a journalistic documentary,...
The film, which the award-winning filmmaker directed with Pol Rodríguez and wrote with Fernando Navarro, stars Daniel Ibáñez, Stéphanie Magnin and musician-turned-actor Cristalino.
“Saturn Returns” screened in competition in Malaga, where Lacuesta and Isa Campo, double San Sebastian Golden Shell winners, won the best director Silver Biznaga for their 2016 mystery drama “The Next Skin.”
Speaking to Variety, Lacuesta explains how the film is not about Los Planetas but rather about the legend of the band and the mystique they themselves have cultivated over the years. Indeed, the story of “Saturn Return” is largely based on the band’s songs.
“It is not a journalistic documentary,...
- 3/8/2024
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
Defined by dramatic melodies, instruments such as the Armenian duduk and other African percussions, and Lisa Gerrard's moving solo vocals, Hans Zimmer's score for Ridley Scott's "Gladiator has an emotional grandeur and old-world feeling that captures Maximus' yearning for his family and the high stakes of gladiatorial battle in Ancient Rome, as Kathryn Kalinak elaborates on Zimmer's varied uses of multicultural instruments in her book "Film Music: A Very Short Introduction." The beautiful score was nominated for an Academy Award and stands out as one of the most memorable elements of the epic action movie.
It was also the subject of a high-profile lawsuit.
In April 2006, the English composer Gustav Holst's estate and music publisher G. Schirmer Ltd. alleged that a segment from Zimmer's "The Battle" violates the copyright to the opening of Holst's "Mars, the Bringer of War" from "The Planets" (via Playbill). Holst...
It was also the subject of a high-profile lawsuit.
In April 2006, the English composer Gustav Holst's estate and music publisher G. Schirmer Ltd. alleged that a segment from Zimmer's "The Battle" violates the copyright to the opening of Holst's "Mars, the Bringer of War" from "The Planets" (via Playbill). Holst...
- 1/7/2024
- by Caroline Madden
- Slash Film
Exclusive: The BBC and PBS have set their latest landmark science series, an exploration of how modern humans came into being.
In Human, which is in the process of crewing up, archaeology, travelog and reconstruction will be used to tell the story of the homo sapiens species that emerged around 300,000 years ago.
There are no official records for the vast majority of this human history but the series will look to piece things together, using DNA sequencing and scientific tools, and showcasing fresh discoveries.
BBC Studios Science Unit is producing Human, which is the latest factual landmark from the BBC and PBS following a long and fruitful relationship. The pair have combined in recent times on alien doc First Contact, BAFTA-nominated 8 Days: To The Moon and Back and The Planets.
BBC Head of Science Tom Coveney said Human will “reveal the dramatic twists and turns of our species’ story, the secrets behind our success,...
In Human, which is in the process of crewing up, archaeology, travelog and reconstruction will be used to tell the story of the homo sapiens species that emerged around 300,000 years ago.
There are no official records for the vast majority of this human history but the series will look to piece things together, using DNA sequencing and scientific tools, and showcasing fresh discoveries.
BBC Studios Science Unit is producing Human, which is the latest factual landmark from the BBC and PBS following a long and fruitful relationship. The pair have combined in recent times on alien doc First Contact, BAFTA-nominated 8 Days: To The Moon and Back and The Planets.
BBC Head of Science Tom Coveney said Human will “reveal the dramatic twists and turns of our species’ story, the secrets behind our success,...
- 3/24/2023
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Founded more than 25 years ago by Manuel Catteau, independent French producer and distributor Zed has become over the years a major player in the documentary field. At TV market Unifrance Rendez-vous in Biarritz, Zed revealed to Variety the acquisition of three ambitious history documentary projects, which are available for presales.
“Ukraine 1933: Seeds of Hunger,” a documentary by Guillaume Ribot, produced by Les Films Du Poisson for France Télévisions, recalls the tragedy experienced by Ukrainians between 1931 and 1933: the Holodomor, the great famine organized by Stalin to punish those who refused the collectivization of the countryside and communist ideology, resulted in the deaths of more than 4 million of them.
“The tragedy was disclosed to the world by an intrepid Welsh journalist, Gareth Jones, one of the bravest whistleblowers in history,” Zed states. The completion is scheduled for fall 2022.
Scheduled for fall 2023, “WWII: Operation Barbarossa” focuses on the German invasion of...
“Ukraine 1933: Seeds of Hunger,” a documentary by Guillaume Ribot, produced by Les Films Du Poisson for France Télévisions, recalls the tragedy experienced by Ukrainians between 1931 and 1933: the Holodomor, the great famine organized by Stalin to punish those who refused the collectivization of the countryside and communist ideology, resulted in the deaths of more than 4 million of them.
“The tragedy was disclosed to the world by an intrepid Welsh journalist, Gareth Jones, one of the bravest whistleblowers in history,” Zed states. The completion is scheduled for fall 2022.
Scheduled for fall 2023, “WWII: Operation Barbarossa” focuses on the German invasion of...
- 9/9/2022
- by Trinidad Barleycorn
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: BBC2 and PBS have commissioned a War of the Worlds-style hybrid drama/documentary that spotlights a near future in which extra-terrestrial life has been detected.
First Contact will combine real documentary interviews with some of the world’s most foremost scientists alongside a fictionalized narrative written and directed by World According to Jeff Goldblum director Nic Stacey. BBC Studios Science Unit, which was behind Netflix’s BAFTA-winning The Surgeon’s Cut (pictured) and BBC2/PBS’ The Planets, is once again collaborating with the two networks on the feature.
Leading scientists now believe there is a genuine possibility we will shortly detect extra-terrestrial life and the show will profile the latest in cutting edge technology while featuring contributions from the likes of Dr Jill Tartar, a pioneer who was the inspiration for Jodie Foster’s character in Contact, along with showcasing the James Webb space telescope.
Exec producer Andrew Cohen,...
First Contact will combine real documentary interviews with some of the world’s most foremost scientists alongside a fictionalized narrative written and directed by World According to Jeff Goldblum director Nic Stacey. BBC Studios Science Unit, which was behind Netflix’s BAFTA-winning The Surgeon’s Cut (pictured) and BBC2/PBS’ The Planets, is once again collaborating with the two networks on the feature.
Leading scientists now believe there is a genuine possibility we will shortly detect extra-terrestrial life and the show will profile the latest in cutting edge technology while featuring contributions from the likes of Dr Jill Tartar, a pioneer who was the inspiration for Jodie Foster’s character in Contact, along with showcasing the James Webb space telescope.
Exec producer Andrew Cohen,...
- 11/23/2021
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
‘Chernobyl,’ ‘His Dark Materials’ Drive U.K. TV Exports to Record $1.97 Billion, Reveals Pact Report
Scripted dramas drove U.K. TV exports to a record £1.48 billion ($1.97 billion) in 2019/20, a 6% year-on-year increase, according to a report from producers’ trade body Pact.
Dramas like “Chernobyl,” “His Dark Materials,” “The War of the Worlds,” “The Feed” and “Doctor Who,” produced by U.K. companies, were the key export drivers and accounted for 48% of all revenue. Factual programming, including “Seven Worlds,” “One Planet” and “The Planets,” increased its share from 23% to 28% year-on-year.
The U.S. continues to be the most important market for U.K. exports contributing 32%, or £466 million ($622.5 million) of all revenue in the 2019/20 financial year, an increase of £22 million ($29.3 million) year-on-year, the report states. France, with £102 million ($136.3 million) and Australia with £98 million ($131 million) complete the top three markets for U.K. TV exports.
China was identified last year as a market with growth potential and revenues out of the territory increased by 25% to £40 million (53.4 million).
Looking ahead...
Dramas like “Chernobyl,” “His Dark Materials,” “The War of the Worlds,” “The Feed” and “Doctor Who,” produced by U.K. companies, were the key export drivers and accounted for 48% of all revenue. Factual programming, including “Seven Worlds,” “One Planet” and “The Planets,” increased its share from 23% to 28% year-on-year.
The U.S. continues to be the most important market for U.K. exports contributing 32%, or £466 million ($622.5 million) of all revenue in the 2019/20 financial year, an increase of £22 million ($29.3 million) year-on-year, the report states. France, with £102 million ($136.3 million) and Australia with £98 million ($131 million) complete the top three markets for U.K. TV exports.
China was identified last year as a market with growth potential and revenues out of the territory increased by 25% to £40 million (53.4 million).
Looking ahead...
- 11/23/2020
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
BBC Studios has fallen well short of its targets for commissions from third-party streamers and broadcasters, and is too reliant on old brands like Doctor Who to prop up its revenue.
That’s the verdict of a detailed 43-page report on the BBC’s commercial production and distribution arm by the National Audit Office (Nao), the UK’s public sector spending watchdog.
The BBC spun off its huge production division into BBC Studios in 2016 and two years later merged it with distribution arm BBC Worldwide. A major ambition behind the move was to ensure BBC producers could go out to other streamers and broadcasters and win new business, rather than only serving the BBC’s television channels.
The Nao said the planning that went into creating BBC Studios ensured it made a “good start,” but it found that the commercial entity failed to meet forecasts in terms of the revenue it generated from third-party commissions,...
That’s the verdict of a detailed 43-page report on the BBC’s commercial production and distribution arm by the National Audit Office (Nao), the UK’s public sector spending watchdog.
The BBC spun off its huge production division into BBC Studios in 2016 and two years later merged it with distribution arm BBC Worldwide. A major ambition behind the move was to ensure BBC producers could go out to other streamers and broadcasters and win new business, rather than only serving the BBC’s television channels.
The Nao said the planning that went into creating BBC Studios ensured it made a “good start,” but it found that the commercial entity failed to meet forecasts in terms of the revenue it generated from third-party commissions,...
- 1/9/2020
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
Astronaut Roy McBride is unflappable and known for it, out-reputed only by his own father who casts on him a shadow akin to that of the dark side of the moon. His father has been gone a long time, disappearing after a quest to Neptune in the pursuit of intelligent life took him and his crew beyond the detection of home-base. We’re introduced to the younger McBride only briefly before we see him survive a crisis when the space station he’s working on is hit by a mysterious surge of energy that sends him flying from just outside earth’s atmosphere and crashing to the ground. After a quick recovery, he’s brought into a confidential briefing where his informed that the cause of the surges—which are growing in number—is near Neptune, where the Lima mission brought his father before he lost touch with command sixteen years ago.
- 9/21/2019
- MUBI
Tony Sokol Jan 8, 2020
Nobody would blame you if you thought David Bowie was really an alien.
When David Bowie slipped away in 2016, he went out in a flurry of artistic output and a regret that he had more to say. His final album, Blackstar, held out the universal promise of the endless possibilities that can be found in vast emptiness of space. Bowie was an out of this world artist steeped in all forms of science fiction, and was even inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame in June 2013.
Bowie first cemented his public image as a stellar performer, we can’t really blame anyone for mistaking the man and the Starman. The rock and rolling space invader had been telling us not to be “afraid of the man in the moon because it's only me" since he promised to "Love You Till Tuesday" in 1967.
Bowie blasted...
Nobody would blame you if you thought David Bowie was really an alien.
When David Bowie slipped away in 2016, he went out in a flurry of artistic output and a regret that he had more to say. His final album, Blackstar, held out the universal promise of the endless possibilities that can be found in vast emptiness of space. Bowie was an out of this world artist steeped in all forms of science fiction, and was even inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame in June 2013.
Bowie first cemented his public image as a stellar performer, we can’t really blame anyone for mistaking the man and the Starman. The rock and rolling space invader had been telling us not to be “afraid of the man in the moon because it's only me" since he promised to "Love You Till Tuesday" in 1967.
Bowie blasted...
- 3/20/2016
- Den of Geek
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