Steven Spielberg and Denis Villeneuve are both incredible filmmakers who have shown the world that they are the best in what they do, but like many other directors out there, they have their own techniques and strategies when it comes to helming movies.
Steven Spielberg on the set of Bfg via Disney
Both are massively known for their works on science fiction projects, but they do not share the same love and fascination for storyboarding. It’s part of the process of making movies, and sometimes, Spielberg likes to skip it.
Steven Spielberg Prefers Spontaneous Filmmaking Decisions
Steven Spielberg via CBS News
During an interview posted by All The Right Movies, director Steven Spielberg revealed his process while filming movies. Surprisingly, he likes to come up with decisions in the middle of production. He does not have any storyboards and he just relies on his own discernment.
Suggested“The choice I had to make…...
Steven Spielberg on the set of Bfg via Disney
Both are massively known for their works on science fiction projects, but they do not share the same love and fascination for storyboarding. It’s part of the process of making movies, and sometimes, Spielberg likes to skip it.
Steven Spielberg Prefers Spontaneous Filmmaking Decisions
Steven Spielberg via CBS News
During an interview posted by All The Right Movies, director Steven Spielberg revealed his process while filming movies. Surprisingly, he likes to come up with decisions in the middle of production. He does not have any storyboards and he just relies on his own discernment.
Suggested“The choice I had to make…...
- 5/8/2024
- by Ariane Cruz
- FandomWire
Creed’s Summer of ’99 cruise boarded in Miami on Thursday (April 18th), and the reunited band didn’t waste any time delivering their first concert in 12 years. Scott Stapp and company rocked a 16-song set for the thrilled passengers.
The band — featuring original members Stapp, Mark Tremonti, Scott Phillips, Brian Marshall, along with touring guitarist Eric Friedman — opened the set appropriately with the song “Are You Ready?” They proceeded to play favorites such as “Torn,” “My Own Prison,” “Weathered,” and “Faceless Man.”
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The main set ended with the one-two punch of the sing-along anthems “With Arms Wide Open” and “Higher,” after which Stapp led the crowd in a rendition of “Happy Birthday” for Tremonti, who turned 50 years old today. The band then returned for an encore of “One Last Breath” and “My Sacrifice.”
When it was all said and done, the show proved to be a...
The band — featuring original members Stapp, Mark Tremonti, Scott Phillips, Brian Marshall, along with touring guitarist Eric Friedman — opened the set appropriately with the song “Are You Ready?” They proceeded to play favorites such as “Torn,” “My Own Prison,” “Weathered,” and “Faceless Man.”
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The main set ended with the one-two punch of the sing-along anthems “With Arms Wide Open” and “Higher,” after which Stapp led the crowd in a rendition of “Happy Birthday” for Tremonti, who turned 50 years old today. The band then returned for an encore of “One Last Breath” and “My Sacrifice.”
When it was all said and done, the show proved to be a...
- 4/19/2024
- by Spencer Kaufman and Liz Ramanand
- Consequence - Music
Interviewing Vegyn isn’t easy. After three months of back-and-forth, I’m finally given a time to meet him on a gray day in early March at a coffee spot in east London. I’ve been eager to make this happen. Vegyn’s career is one of the most impressive in modern music, distinguished by collaboration, style, and a fair amount of mystery.
What, for instance, is his relationship with Frank Ocean, for whom Vegyn produced songs on both Blonde and Endless? What is it like working with Travis Scott,...
What, for instance, is his relationship with Frank Ocean, for whom Vegyn produced songs on both Blonde and Endless? What is it like working with Travis Scott,...
- 4/15/2024
- by Sam Davies
- Rollingstone.com
The phrase, “a change of heart,” would forever alter the course of Freddy Macdonald’s life.
Last month, the 23-year-old wunderkind’s feature directorial debut, Sew Torn, premiered at South by Southwest to glowing reviews, capping an extraordinary five-plus years for the young filmmaker. As a high school senior, Macdonald — whose American family had relocated to Switzerland a handful of years earlier — started applying to film schools, and he decided to take a lofty crack at the American Film Institute’s (AFI) graduate program. As part of the application process, Macdonald had to make a short film that told a story involving the aforementioned idiom, “a change of heart,” and so he started trading ideas with his father, Fred Macdonald.
The father-son duo soon found themselves in the oeuvre of the Coen brothers, specifically No Country for Old Men. The inciting incident of the Coens’ best picturing-winning neo-Western involves Josh Brolin...
Last month, the 23-year-old wunderkind’s feature directorial debut, Sew Torn, premiered at South by Southwest to glowing reviews, capping an extraordinary five-plus years for the young filmmaker. As a high school senior, Macdonald — whose American family had relocated to Switzerland a handful of years earlier — started applying to film schools, and he decided to take a lofty crack at the American Film Institute’s (AFI) graduate program. As part of the application process, Macdonald had to make a short film that told a story involving the aforementioned idiom, “a change of heart,” and so he started trading ideas with his father, Fred Macdonald.
The father-son duo soon found themselves in the oeuvre of the Coen brothers, specifically No Country for Old Men. The inciting incident of the Coens’ best picturing-winning neo-Western involves Josh Brolin...
- 4/13/2024
- by Brian Davids
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Some of the best music videos are the ones which understand the power of a simple and contained idea. As Director Austin Hutchings mentions below, Radiohead’s Karma Police or Yeah Yeah Yeah’s Maps, for example, are simplistic in plot but iconic through the power of their imagery. The same can be said for Hutching’s video for Kat Duma’s So Long, which sees the singer pose as a runaway bride whose past catches up on her. It’s a video driven by distinctive imagery, one that is quite happy holding a shot to give the audience time to immerse in its world. Dn is excited to present the premiere for So Long alongside a chat with Hutchings where he speaks to the importance of both shooting in practical environments and giving yourself time on set to play and be creative.
What were the first conversations you had...
What were the first conversations you had...
- 4/10/2024
- by James Maitre
- Directors Notes
The Bold And The Beautiful Spoilers indicate that Steffy Forrester (Jacqueline MacInnes Wood) and Hope Logan (Annika Noelle) will intensify now that she has turned down Thomas Forrester’s (Matthew Atkinson) proposal. Will their feud put a damper on Ridge Forrester (Thorsten Kaye) and Brooke Logan’s (Katherine Kelly Lang) happiness.
The Bold And The Beautiful Spoiles – Ridge Forrester And Brooke Logan Have Remained Neutral
Ridge and Brooke have both tried to stay out of their children’s affairs. Of course, Ridge has been very supportive of Hope and Thomas’ relationship and even saw them as the new destiny couple.
However, Steffy disagrees and wants Thomas to break up with Hope and move on with his life now that Hope has hurt him again.
Hope is not ready to jump into a new marriage and told Thomas she isn’t ready to marry him. Ridge and Brooke listened to Hope...
The Bold And The Beautiful Spoiles – Ridge Forrester And Brooke Logan Have Remained Neutral
Ridge and Brooke have both tried to stay out of their children’s affairs. Of course, Ridge has been very supportive of Hope and Thomas’ relationship and even saw them as the new destiny couple.
However, Steffy disagrees and wants Thomas to break up with Hope and move on with his life now that Hope has hurt him again.
Hope is not ready to jump into a new marriage and told Thomas she isn’t ready to marry him. Ridge and Brooke listened to Hope...
- 3/26/2024
- by Sandra McIntyre
- Celebrating The Soaps
[This story contains major spoilers for The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live episode five.]
The Walking Dead giveth, The Walking Dead taketh. In its penultimate hour, the Rick and Michonne-centric The Ones Who Live reintroduced one of the mothership series’ most enduring figures: Father Gabriel, the once-cowardly preacher turned warrior-leader of Alexandria, played by Seth Gilliam.
In the same breath, the spinoff also removed one of the franchise’s other most enduring figures from the board: Jadis, aka Anne, aka Jadis Stokes of the Crm, played by Pollyanna McIntosh. Having appeared in three different iterations of The Walking Dead in a variety of antagonistic roles, McIntosh’s erstwhile leader of the Garbage People is now in the heap herself — though, not without putting up as much resistance as humanly possible.
“She died by a bed on the head, an axe wound, a car crash, a walker and Rick’s gun,” McIntosh tells The Hollywood Reporter...
The Walking Dead giveth, The Walking Dead taketh. In its penultimate hour, the Rick and Michonne-centric The Ones Who Live reintroduced one of the mothership series’ most enduring figures: Father Gabriel, the once-cowardly preacher turned warrior-leader of Alexandria, played by Seth Gilliam.
In the same breath, the spinoff also removed one of the franchise’s other most enduring figures from the board: Jadis, aka Anne, aka Jadis Stokes of the Crm, played by Pollyanna McIntosh. Having appeared in three different iterations of The Walking Dead in a variety of antagonistic roles, McIntosh’s erstwhile leader of the Garbage People is now in the heap herself — though, not without putting up as much resistance as humanly possible.
“She died by a bed on the head, an axe wound, a car crash, a walker and Rick’s gun,” McIntosh tells The Hollywood Reporter...
- 3/25/2024
- by Josh Wigler
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Bold and the Beautiful spoilers for the week of March 25 reveal there are three must-see moments. Expect Zende Forrester Dominguez (Delon de Metz) to ask Luna Nozawa (Lisa Yamada) if they have a future.
Next On The Bold and The Beautiful
So, does something happen with Ridge “Rj” Forrester, Jr. (Joshua Hoffman) that makes Zende think something’s changed? Plus, Steffy Forrester Finnegan (Jacqueline MacInnes Wood) blocks Hope Logan’s (Annika Noelle) slap.
Thomas Forrester (Matthew Atkinson) and Hope will also tell Douglas Forrester (Henry Joseph Samiri) that they aren’t going to be a family after all.
Luna Nozawa’s Frustration & Guilt
B&b spoilers for the week of March 25 reveal that Luna is so frustrated with Penelope “Poppy” Nozawa (Romy Park) keeping the identity of her bio dad a secret.
Luna is also wracked with guilt over unknowingly ingesting magical mints, then thinking she was sleeping with...
Next On The Bold and The Beautiful
So, does something happen with Ridge “Rj” Forrester, Jr. (Joshua Hoffman) that makes Zende think something’s changed? Plus, Steffy Forrester Finnegan (Jacqueline MacInnes Wood) blocks Hope Logan’s (Annika Noelle) slap.
Thomas Forrester (Matthew Atkinson) and Hope will also tell Douglas Forrester (Henry Joseph Samiri) that they aren’t going to be a family after all.
Luna Nozawa’s Frustration & Guilt
B&b spoilers for the week of March 25 reveal that Luna is so frustrated with Penelope “Poppy” Nozawa (Romy Park) keeping the identity of her bio dad a secret.
Luna is also wracked with guilt over unknowingly ingesting magical mints, then thinking she was sleeping with...
- 3/24/2024
- by Taylor Hancen Rios
- Celebrating The Soaps
At the beginning of the Netflix Oscar-contending short documentary Camp Courage, young Milana Abdurashytova takes out paper and makers and draws what she calls “a home of my dreams.” It’s a lovely cottage on a hill, with clouds dotting a sky of blue.
Her real home, in Mariupol, Ukraine lies in ruins like so much of that city and the country, pulverized by Russia bombs and shells. Milana and her grandmother Olga were able to escape Ukraine after Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022 and take refuge in Slovakia. But escaping the trauma of war is another matter.
In the film directed by Max Lowe, Milana gets the opportunity to participate in a week-long camp in the peaks surrounding Piesendorf, Austria, joining other Ukrainian kids who have endured shattering loss from the brutal conflict. The camp is a project of the Mountain Seed Foundation, a nonprofit that describes its mission...
Her real home, in Mariupol, Ukraine lies in ruins like so much of that city and the country, pulverized by Russia bombs and shells. Milana and her grandmother Olga were able to escape Ukraine after Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022 and take refuge in Slovakia. But escaping the trauma of war is another matter.
In the film directed by Max Lowe, Milana gets the opportunity to participate in a week-long camp in the peaks surrounding Piesendorf, Austria, joining other Ukrainian kids who have endured shattering loss from the brutal conflict. The camp is a project of the Mountain Seed Foundation, a nonprofit that describes its mission...
- 12/14/2023
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
I went on my first and only trek in my life, back in 2016. A person who regularly goes mountain climbing would find that trek rather easy, but for a non-adventurous person like me, it was quite a daunting task. Some parts of it were really scary. But the feeling of pulling it off was unparalleled as well. I will probably never go on another trek again, but I am forever going to cherish that particular moment of reaching the top as one of the most thrilling and satisfying moments of my life. The reason I am bringing it all up here is the new Netflix documentary Camp Courage. At its core, it is essentially the story of a little girl, all about ten, going on a camping trip. However, it is much more than that.
The little girl happens to be Milana, who went on this camping trip in the...
The little girl happens to be Milana, who went on this camping trip in the...
- 10/15/2023
- by Rohitavra Majumdar
- Film Fugitives
Rolling Stone interview series Unknown Legends features long-form conversations between senior writer Andy Greene and veteran musicians who have toured and recorded alongside icons for years, if not decades. All are renowned in the business, but some are less well known to the general public. Here, these artists tell their complete stories, giving an up-close look at life on music’s A list. This edition features guitarist Rusty Anderson.
Rusty Anderson has been consistently creating music with Paul McCartney for the past 22 years. He’s not only the lead guitarist...
Rusty Anderson has been consistently creating music with Paul McCartney for the past 22 years. He’s not only the lead guitarist...
- 10/11/2023
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
The International Cinematographers Guild hosted its 25th annual Emerging Cinematographer Awards in Los Angeles this past weekend with a luncheon at the ASC Clubhouse on Sept. 29 and an awards ceremony at the Television Academy on Oct. 1.
The awards celebrated the work of eight up-and-coming cinematographers, whose short films were all screened at the Television Academy. Additionally, Stephen Lighthill was awarded the ASC Mentor Award and Janusz Kamiński, Steven Spielberg’s longtime collaborator, was given the Distinguished Filmmaker Award.
The eight awardees included Connor Van Bodell (“Nisei”), Brook Lee Karner (“The Coop”), Petros Antoniadis (“Flickering Souls Set Alight”), Drew Dawson (“For Those Who Don’t Know How”), Grant MacAllister (“Blood Positive”), Edward Guinn (“Torn”), Sarah Anne Pierpont (“Juliet”) and Yusuke Sato (“White Now Please”).
“Neither pandemic nor industry strikes will stop the creative vision of our membership. Congratulations to all the honorees and to our ASC awards recipient,” said Baird B. Steptoe,...
The awards celebrated the work of eight up-and-coming cinematographers, whose short films were all screened at the Television Academy. Additionally, Stephen Lighthill was awarded the ASC Mentor Award and Janusz Kamiński, Steven Spielberg’s longtime collaborator, was given the Distinguished Filmmaker Award.
The eight awardees included Connor Van Bodell (“Nisei”), Brook Lee Karner (“The Coop”), Petros Antoniadis (“Flickering Souls Set Alight”), Drew Dawson (“For Those Who Don’t Know How”), Grant MacAllister (“Blood Positive”), Edward Guinn (“Torn”), Sarah Anne Pierpont (“Juliet”) and Yusuke Sato (“White Now Please”).
“Neither pandemic nor industry strikes will stop the creative vision of our membership. Congratulations to all the honorees and to our ASC awards recipient,” said Baird B. Steptoe,...
- 10/4/2023
- by Jaden Thompson
- Variety Film + TV
Killer Collectibles highlights five of the most exciting new horror products announced each and every week, from toys and apparel to artwork, records, and much more.
Here are the coolest horror collectibles unveiled this week!
The Alfred Hitchcock Classics Collection: Volume 3 4K Uhd Box Set from Universal
Five more Alfred Hitchcock movies are coming to 4K Ultra HD: Rope, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Torn Curtain, Topaz, and Frenzy. They’ll be available both individually ($19.99) and together in the third volume of The Alfred Hitchcock Classics Collection box set ($69.98) on October 31 via Universal.
1948’s Rope stars James Stewart, John Dall, and Farley Granger. 1956’s The Man Who Knew Too Much stars James Stewart and Doris Day. 1966’s Torn Curtain stars Paul Newman and Julie Andrews. 1969’s Topaz stars Frederick Stafford, Dany Robin, and John Forsythe. 1972’s Frenzy stars Jon Finch, Alec McCowen, and Barry Foster.
All five thrillers have...
Here are the coolest horror collectibles unveiled this week!
The Alfred Hitchcock Classics Collection: Volume 3 4K Uhd Box Set from Universal
Five more Alfred Hitchcock movies are coming to 4K Ultra HD: Rope, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Torn Curtain, Topaz, and Frenzy. They’ll be available both individually ($19.99) and together in the third volume of The Alfred Hitchcock Classics Collection box set ($69.98) on October 31 via Universal.
1948’s Rope stars James Stewart, John Dall, and Farley Granger. 1956’s The Man Who Knew Too Much stars James Stewart and Doris Day. 1966’s Torn Curtain stars Paul Newman and Julie Andrews. 1969’s Topaz stars Frederick Stafford, Dany Robin, and John Forsythe. 1972’s Frenzy stars Jon Finch, Alec McCowen, and Barry Foster.
All five thrillers have...
- 9/22/2023
- by Alex DiVincenzo
- bloody-disgusting.com
For no particular reason whatsoever — not that one’s even necessary — The X Factor UK has dumped about 30 minutes of mostly previously unseen One Direction footage from the group’s earliest moments together.
The extended clip comes from the “Judges’ Houses” stage of the talent competition. The highlights include footage of the newly-assembled group rehearsing their audition performance of Natalie Imbruglia’s “Torn,” learning from former host Dermot O’Leary that they’ve made it to the live studio finals, and a totally new performance clip of One Direction covering Kelly Clarkson...
The extended clip comes from the “Judges’ Houses” stage of the talent competition. The highlights include footage of the newly-assembled group rehearsing their audition performance of Natalie Imbruglia’s “Torn,” learning from former host Dermot O’Leary that they’ve made it to the live studio finals, and a totally new performance clip of One Direction covering Kelly Clarkson...
- 8/30/2023
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Montserrat Luna-Ballantyne is walking in circles, picket sign raised high, with a scant group outside an NBCUniversal gate on a Thursday morning that is beginning to turn warm. The striking Writers Guild of America member (With Love) comes to NBCUniversal frequently — it’s nearby to where to she lives, and she can take the bus — but this morning is slightly different, less dutiful, than a typical three-hour shift.
As songs like Sixpence None the Richer’s “Kiss Me” and Natalie Imbruglia’s “Torn” play on a speaker at the gate, Luna-Ballantyne is doing the circuit, from one sidewalk to another, nearby one writer in a Xena: Warrior Princess t-shirt and another in a spaghetti strap dress. She herself is wearing butterfly clips, a choker and earrings shaped like the cartoon cat Luna from Sailor Moon. “I enjoy coming to themed pickets — it mixes it up a little bit,” she says while pausing.
As songs like Sixpence None the Richer’s “Kiss Me” and Natalie Imbruglia’s “Torn” play on a speaker at the gate, Luna-Ballantyne is doing the circuit, from one sidewalk to another, nearby one writer in a Xena: Warrior Princess t-shirt and another in a spaghetti strap dress. She herself is wearing butterfly clips, a choker and earrings shaped like the cartoon cat Luna from Sailor Moon. “I enjoy coming to themed pickets — it mixes it up a little bit,” she says while pausing.
- 7/5/2023
- by Katie Kilkenny
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Kevin Bacon has found his next leading role.
The City on a Hill alum is set to star in the Prime Video horror series The Bondsman, our sister site Deadline reports.
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Amazon has ordered eight half-hour episodes of the Blumhouse Television production, which casts Bacon as Hub Halloran, “a backwoods...
The City on a Hill alum is set to star in the Prime Video horror series The Bondsman, our sister site Deadline reports.
More from TVLineThe Summer I Turned Pretty Season 2 Trailer: Belly Is Torn Between Conrad and Jeremiah... as Tragedy Strikes?Amazon's Citadel Finally Cracks Nielsen Streaming Top 10 With Release of Finale; Fubar DominatesThe Wheel of Time: First Look at New Book Cover With TV Series' Stars - Plus, More Season 2 Photos
Amazon has ordered eight half-hour episodes of the Blumhouse Television production, which casts Bacon as Hub Halloran, “a backwoods...
- 6/29/2023
- by Ryan Schwartz
- TVLine.com
Olivia Rodrigo is finally ready to share some new music, with her new single, “Vampire,” arriving June 30.
Admittedly, beyond the announcement — which is obviously monumental in and of itself — there weren’t that many details about “Vampire” to share. Rodrigo wrote the song with producer Daniel Nigro, with whom she made Sour. The song will also get a special seven-inch vinyl single release featuring Rodrigo’s first demo of the song. Beyond that, all that’s left to do is wait — but what’s two-and-a-half weeks after more than two years?...
Admittedly, beyond the announcement — which is obviously monumental in and of itself — there weren’t that many details about “Vampire” to share. Rodrigo wrote the song with producer Daniel Nigro, with whom she made Sour. The song will also get a special seven-inch vinyl single release featuring Rodrigo’s first demo of the song. Beyond that, all that’s left to do is wait — but what’s two-and-a-half weeks after more than two years?...
- 6/13/2023
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
CBS’s FBI season five concludes with episode 23, which also happens to be the show’s 100th episode. Directed by Alex Chapple from a script by Rick Eid and Joe Halpin, episode 23 – “God Complex” – will air on Tuesday, May 23, 2023 at 8pm Et/Pt.
Season five stars Missy Peregrym as Special Agent Maggie Bell, Zeeko Zaki as Special Agent Omar Adom “Oa” Zidan, Jeremy Sisto as Assistant Special Agent in Charge Jubal Valentine, and Alana De La Garza as Special Agent in Charge Isobel Castille. John Boyd plays Special Agent Stuart Scola and Katherine Renee Turner is Special Agent Tiffany Wallace.
Shantel VanSanten returns to guest star as Nina Chase.
“God Complex” Plot: When a prominent doctor is found dead in a ritualistic slaying, the team must race against the clock to hunt down a religiously motivated serial killer. Also, Scola faces a life-or-death decision.
Missy Peregrym as Special Agent Maggie...
Season five stars Missy Peregrym as Special Agent Maggie Bell, Zeeko Zaki as Special Agent Omar Adom “Oa” Zidan, Jeremy Sisto as Assistant Special Agent in Charge Jubal Valentine, and Alana De La Garza as Special Agent in Charge Isobel Castille. John Boyd plays Special Agent Stuart Scola and Katherine Renee Turner is Special Agent Tiffany Wallace.
Shantel VanSanten returns to guest star as Nina Chase.
“God Complex” Plot: When a prominent doctor is found dead in a ritualistic slaying, the team must race against the clock to hunt down a religiously motivated serial killer. Also, Scola faces a life-or-death decision.
Missy Peregrym as Special Agent Maggie...
- 5/17/2023
- by Rebecca Murray
- Showbiz Junkies
The first original production from new genre studio Welcome Villain Films, Malum (read our review) is an expanded reimagining of the 2014 horror movie Last Shift, and the film is now available to watch at home. With Malum streaming on Digital outlets beginning today, Bloody Disgusting has been provided with an exclusive featurette video.
The cast and crew, including director Anthony Diblasi (Last Shift, Dread, Extremity), preview Malum in the video you’ll find below, looking at the film’s practical effects while also discussing what makes Malum different from Last Shift. Diblasi notes, “I think it’s a crowd-pleaser.”
Directed by Anthony Diblasi (Last Shift, Dread, Extremity) and co-written by Diblasi and Scott Poiley (Last Shift, Missionary, Exhume), the same creative team behind 2014’s Last Shift, Malum reimagines the original critically-acclaimed horror hit.
“On a search to uncover the mysterious circumstances surrounding her father’s death, a newly appointed police officer,...
The cast and crew, including director Anthony Diblasi (Last Shift, Dread, Extremity), preview Malum in the video you’ll find below, looking at the film’s practical effects while also discussing what makes Malum different from Last Shift. Diblasi notes, “I think it’s a crowd-pleaser.”
Directed by Anthony Diblasi (Last Shift, Dread, Extremity) and co-written by Diblasi and Scott Poiley (Last Shift, Missionary, Exhume), the same creative team behind 2014’s Last Shift, Malum reimagines the original critically-acclaimed horror hit.
“On a search to uncover the mysterious circumstances surrounding her father’s death, a newly appointed police officer,...
- 5/16/2023
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
The first original production from new genre studio Welcome Villain Films, Malum (read our review) is an expanded reimagining of the 2014 horror movie Last Shift, and it was released in theaters back in March. Bloody Disgusting has learned this afternoon that Malum is now coming home this week. It’ll be available on VOD outlets beginning May 16, 2023.
Directed by Anthony Diblasi (Last Shift, Dread, Extremity) and co-written by Diblasi and Scott Poiley (Last Shift, Missionary, Exhume), the same creative team behind 2014’s Last Shift, Malum reimagines the original critically-acclaimed horror hit.
“On a search to uncover the mysterious circumstances surrounding her father’s death, a newly appointed police officer, Jessica Loren, is assigned to the last shift in a decommissioned police station where a notoriously vicious cult saw their demise years prior. The lone officer at the station, she soon finds herself barraged by terrifying paranormal events and, in the process,...
Directed by Anthony Diblasi (Last Shift, Dread, Extremity) and co-written by Diblasi and Scott Poiley (Last Shift, Missionary, Exhume), the same creative team behind 2014’s Last Shift, Malum reimagines the original critically-acclaimed horror hit.
“On a search to uncover the mysterious circumstances surrounding her father’s death, a newly appointed police officer, Jessica Loren, is assigned to the last shift in a decommissioned police station where a notoriously vicious cult saw their demise years prior. The lone officer at the station, she soon finds herself barraged by terrifying paranormal events and, in the process,...
- 5/15/2023
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
FBI fans, we’ve got a fresh off the press preview for the new Season 5 Episode 22 episode titled Torn!
Find out everything you need to know about the Torn episode of FBI, including a full preview, videos, release date, cast information and how to watch!
FBI Torn Season 5 Episode 22 Preview
In this week’s episode, the team is on high alert after discovering a group of teenagers dead from a drug overdose. As they race to find the dangerous dealer and his supplier, tensions rise, and the stakes get higher than ever.
Meanwhile, Oa is questioning where he stands in his faith, leading to a personal crisis that threatens to derail the team’s investigation. As he grapples with his beliefs and the harsh realities of police work, he must also find a way to stay focused and help bring the criminals to justice.
The cast features Missy Peregrym as Maggie Bell,...
Find out everything you need to know about the Torn episode of FBI, including a full preview, videos, release date, cast information and how to watch!
FBI Torn Season 5 Episode 22 Preview
In this week’s episode, the team is on high alert after discovering a group of teenagers dead from a drug overdose. As they race to find the dangerous dealer and his supplier, tensions rise, and the stakes get higher than ever.
Meanwhile, Oa is questioning where he stands in his faith, leading to a personal crisis that threatens to derail the team’s investigation. As he grapples with his beliefs and the harsh realities of police work, he must also find a way to stay focused and help bring the criminals to justice.
The cast features Missy Peregrym as Maggie Bell,...
- 5/11/2023
- by News
- TV Regular
The death of seven teenagers has the team hustling to find the person responsible on CBS’s FBI season five episode 22, “Torn.” Directed by Yamgzom Brauen from a script by Thomas Kelly, episode 22 will air on Tuesday, May 16, 2023 at 8pm Et/Pt.
Season five stars Missy Peregrym as Special Agent Maggie Bell, Zeeko Zaki as Special Agent Omar Adom “Oa” Zidan, Jeremy Sisto as Assistant Special Agent in Charge Jubal Valentine, and Alana De La Garza as Special Agent in Charge Isobel Castille. John Boyd plays Special Agent Stuart Scola and Katherine Renee Turner is Special Agent Tiffany Wallace.
“Torn” Plot: After finding a group of teens dead from a drug overdose, the team races to find the dangerous dealer and his supplier. Meanwhile, Oa questions where he stands in his faith.
Missy Peregrym as Special Agent Maggie Bell, Zeeko Zaki as Special Agent Omar Adom ‘Oa’ Zidan, and Chris Petrovski...
Season five stars Missy Peregrym as Special Agent Maggie Bell, Zeeko Zaki as Special Agent Omar Adom “Oa” Zidan, Jeremy Sisto as Assistant Special Agent in Charge Jubal Valentine, and Alana De La Garza as Special Agent in Charge Isobel Castille. John Boyd plays Special Agent Stuart Scola and Katherine Renee Turner is Special Agent Tiffany Wallace.
“Torn” Plot: After finding a group of teens dead from a drug overdose, the team races to find the dangerous dealer and his supplier. Meanwhile, Oa questions where he stands in his faith.
Missy Peregrym as Special Agent Maggie Bell, Zeeko Zaki as Special Agent Omar Adom ‘Oa’ Zidan, and Chris Petrovski...
- 5/10/2023
- by Rebecca Murray
- Showbiz Junkies
Hey,"FBI" fans. It's that time again. We're back to inform you that another new episode of FBI is coming your way next Tuesday night, May 16, 2023. This next, new episode will be the 21st one for FBI's current season 5, and we've got some spoiler scoops for it to run by you. We were able to collect a couple of new, official teaser scoops for this new episode 21 via CBS' official episode 21 press release synopsis. So, we're going to take a deep dive into it ,right now, and tell you what's up. Let's go. First thing's first. CBS let us know that this new episode 21 of FBI season 5 does have an official title to go along with it. It's called, "Torn." It sounds like episode 21 will feature some more very scandalous, intense, dramatic, action-filled, suspenseful and interesting scenes as a group of teens turn up dead. Oa explores some serious questions and more.
- 5/10/2023
- by Andre Braddox
- OnTheFlix
Paramount+’s Fatal Attraction series shows us the first embers of an illicit affair… but it also shows us the damage it can cause once it catches fire.
Sunday’s premiere opens with former lawyer Dan Gallagher (Joshua Jackson) sporting a scraggly beard and facing a parole board after spending 15 years in prison for second-degree murder. He shares his deep remorse for killing a woman named Alex Forrest: “I chose to lose control. I chose to take her life.” All he wants is to be able to reconnect with his family — and his daughter Ellen (Alyssa Jirrels) is in the room watching.
Sunday’s premiere opens with former lawyer Dan Gallagher (Joshua Jackson) sporting a scraggly beard and facing a parole board after spending 15 years in prison for second-degree murder. He shares his deep remorse for killing a woman named Alex Forrest: “I chose to lose control. I chose to take her life.” All he wants is to be able to reconnect with his family — and his daughter Ellen (Alyssa Jirrels) is in the room watching.
- 5/1/2023
- by Dave Nemetz
- TVLine.com
Exclusive: The New York Post is looking to get into the TV game with a first-look unscripted deal with producer Asylum Entertainment Group.
The Rupert Murdoch-owned tabloid is looking to adapt its stories into documentary features, limited series and docuseries.
The move will see Asylum’s production labels Texas Crew Productions, Audity, and The Content Group (Tcg), along with Big City TV and Breaklight Pictures, look for stories to adapt for the small screen.
It marks the latest newspaper group to eye up television projects; the New York Times has a deal for New York Times Presents with FX and Hulu, while The Washington Post recently struck a similar deal with Imagine Entertainment.
It comes after Breaklight Pictures partnered with the paper to turn Post journalist Hannah Frishberg’s in-depth reporting on international megachurch Hillsong into Discovery+’s limited series Hillsong: A Megachurch Exposed.
The deal with Asylum will...
The Rupert Murdoch-owned tabloid is looking to adapt its stories into documentary features, limited series and docuseries.
The move will see Asylum’s production labels Texas Crew Productions, Audity, and The Content Group (Tcg), along with Big City TV and Breaklight Pictures, look for stories to adapt for the small screen.
It marks the latest newspaper group to eye up television projects; the New York Times has a deal for New York Times Presents with FX and Hulu, while The Washington Post recently struck a similar deal with Imagine Entertainment.
It comes after Breaklight Pictures partnered with the paper to turn Post journalist Hannah Frishberg’s in-depth reporting on international megachurch Hillsong into Discovery+’s limited series Hillsong: A Megachurch Exposed.
The deal with Asylum will...
- 2/23/2023
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Knock at the Cabin, the latest thriller from director M. Night Shyamalan (you can read our review Here), was just given a theatrical release on February 3rd – but two and a half weeks later, the movie is already available to watch at home on PVOD! The film can be rented on Amazon for the price of $19.99, or purchased for $24.99.
Scripted by Shyamalan, Steve Desmond, and Michael Sherman, Knock at the Cabin has the following synopsis: While vacationing at a remote cabin, a young girl and her parents are taken hostage by four armed strangers who demand that the family make an unthinkable choice to avert the apocalypse. With limited access to the outside world, the family must decide what they believe before all is lost.
The film is an adaptation of the Paul Tremblay novel The Cabin at the End of the World (which can be purchased at This Link.
Scripted by Shyamalan, Steve Desmond, and Michael Sherman, Knock at the Cabin has the following synopsis: While vacationing at a remote cabin, a young girl and her parents are taken hostage by four armed strangers who demand that the family make an unthinkable choice to avert the apocalypse. With limited access to the outside world, the family must decide what they believe before all is lost.
The film is an adaptation of the Paul Tremblay novel The Cabin at the End of the World (which can be purchased at This Link.
- 2/21/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
At the heart of M. Night Shyamalan’s new thriller “Knock at the Cabin” there is a disturbing question that has only two terrible answers. Unfortunately, the answers aren’t just terrible for the characters, they’re terrible for the audience as well. Because whichever direction this film goes in it’s running headlong into a brick wall, with no brakes.
Based on the novel “Cabin at the End of the World” by Paul G. Tremblay, “Knock at the Cabin” stars Jonathan Groff (“The Matrix Resurrections”) and Ben Aldridge (“Spoiler Alert”) as Eric and Andrew, two gay dads on vacation at a cabin in the woods — always a mistake — with their adopted daughter, Wen (Kristen Cui). All is well. All is loving. Nothing bad could possibly happen.
Suddenly, they are visited by four mysterious strangers, led by the gigantic yet soft-voiced Leonard, who are ever so kind and thoughtful. Except...
Based on the novel “Cabin at the End of the World” by Paul G. Tremblay, “Knock at the Cabin” stars Jonathan Groff (“The Matrix Resurrections”) and Ben Aldridge (“Spoiler Alert”) as Eric and Andrew, two gay dads on vacation at a cabin in the woods — always a mistake — with their adopted daughter, Wen (Kristen Cui). All is well. All is loving. Nothing bad could possibly happen.
Suddenly, they are visited by four mysterious strangers, led by the gigantic yet soft-voiced Leonard, who are ever so kind and thoughtful. Except...
- 2/1/2023
- by William Bibbiani
- The Wrap
Sarah Michelle Gellar was a female superhero on Buffy, The Vampire Slayer for seven seasons. The actor is now calling out social media trolls that are sometimes not accepting of female-led projects like Captain Marvel or Ms. Marvel despite women proving they can thrive in the genre.
“Genre is where women can really succeed and hold an audience,” she told The Guardian. “Every time a Marvel movie tries to do a female cast, it just gets torn apart … Unfortunately, audiences weren’t as accepting. There’s still this mentality of ‘the male superhero’, this very backwards way of thinking.”
Gellar also noted that not only women are subject to criticism on social media, but she also opened up about the treatment of women on the sets when she was younger.
“There’s not a day goes by where you don’t pick up a trade magazine and hear about some...
“Genre is where women can really succeed and hold an audience,” she told The Guardian. “Every time a Marvel movie tries to do a female cast, it just gets torn apart … Unfortunately, audiences weren’t as accepting. There’s still this mentality of ‘the male superhero’, this very backwards way of thinking.”
Gellar also noted that not only women are subject to criticism on social media, but she also opened up about the treatment of women on the sets when she was younger.
“There’s not a day goes by where you don’t pick up a trade magazine and hear about some...
- 1/31/2023
- by Armando Tinoco
- Deadline Film + TV
M. Night Shyamalan’s latest thriller Knock at the Cabin is set to reach theatres in less than two weeks, on February 3rd. With that date so close, Universal Pictures has unveiled a featurette that takes a behind-the-scenes look at the movie and includes interviews with Shyamalan and cast members Dave Bautista (Guardians of the Galaxy), Rupert Grint (Servant), and Nikki Amuka-Bird (Old). You can watch it in the embed at the bottom of this article.
Scripted by Shyamalan, Steve Desmond, and Michael Sherman, Knock at the Cabin has the following synopsis: While vacationing at a remote cabin, a young girl and her parents are taken hostage by four armed strangers who demand that the family make an unthinkable choice to avert the apocalypse. With limited access to the outside world, the family must decide what they believe before all is lost.
The film is an adaptation of the Paul Tremblay...
Scripted by Shyamalan, Steve Desmond, and Michael Sherman, Knock at the Cabin has the following synopsis: While vacationing at a remote cabin, a young girl and her parents are taken hostage by four armed strangers who demand that the family make an unthinkable choice to avert the apocalypse. With limited access to the outside world, the family must decide what they believe before all is lost.
The film is an adaptation of the Paul Tremblay...
- 1/23/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
Coldplay found the perfect way to honour Olivia Newton-John’s memory.
On Tuesday night, the band performed at Wembley Stadium in London, and brought out singers Natalie Imbruglia and Jacob Collier to perform a song from the 1978 classic “Grease”.
Read More: Mariah Carey Remembers Olivia Newton-John In Emotional Tribute: ‘I Honestly Love You’
They sang “Summer Nights”, the duet from early in the film, with Martin taking on the John Travolta part and Imbruglia handling Newton-John’s part, while Collier joined in for the chorus.
Newtown-John died on August 8 from cancer at age 73, and has been mourned by fans around the world.
Read More: The Chicks Perform Heartfelt Cover Of ‘Hopelessly Devoted To You’ In Honour Of Olivia Newton-John
At the Wembey concert, Coldplay and Imbruglia also performed a rendition of her ’90s smash hit “Torn”.
Coldplay is currently touring in support of their most recent album Music of the Spheres.
On Tuesday night, the band performed at Wembley Stadium in London, and brought out singers Natalie Imbruglia and Jacob Collier to perform a song from the 1978 classic “Grease”.
Read More: Mariah Carey Remembers Olivia Newton-John In Emotional Tribute: ‘I Honestly Love You’
They sang “Summer Nights”, the duet from early in the film, with Martin taking on the John Travolta part and Imbruglia handling Newton-John’s part, while Collier joined in for the chorus.
Newtown-John died on August 8 from cancer at age 73, and has been mourned by fans around the world.
Read More: The Chicks Perform Heartfelt Cover Of ‘Hopelessly Devoted To You’ In Honour Of Olivia Newton-John
At the Wembey concert, Coldplay and Imbruglia also performed a rendition of her ’90s smash hit “Torn”.
Coldplay is currently touring in support of their most recent album Music of the Spheres.
- 8/17/2022
- by Corey Atad
- ET Canada
Coldplay, Natalie Imbruglia, and Jacob Collier performed a cover of “Summer Nights” in tribute to Olivia Newton-John, who died last week, during a concert at London’s Wembley Stadium.
During the performance, Imbruglia sang Newton-John’s part of the Grease hit while Coldplay’s Chris Martin took on John Travolta’s part. Collier joined him during the chorus, with much of the audience singing along.
At another point in Coldplay’s headlining performance, the band joined Imbruglia for a duet of “Torn,” Imbruglia’s 1997 debut single.
Coldplay are currently on the U.
During the performance, Imbruglia sang Newton-John’s part of the Grease hit while Coldplay’s Chris Martin took on John Travolta’s part. Collier joined him during the chorus, with much of the audience singing along.
At another point in Coldplay’s headlining performance, the band joined Imbruglia for a duet of “Torn,” Imbruglia’s 1997 debut single.
Coldplay are currently on the U.
- 8/17/2022
- by Emily Zemler
- Rollingstone.com
Stars: Abby Quinn, Alexxis Lemire, Shiloh Fernandez, Katey Sagal, Joshua Leonard, Alon McKlveen | Written by Rachel Koller Croft | Directed by Brea Grant
Torn Hearts is actress Brea Grant’s follow-up to her directorial debut, 12 Hour Shift. Here she’s turned her attention to the music industry. And while genre films about the price of fame stretch from The Phantom of the Opera to The Phantom of the Paradise and The 27 Club most of them are set in the world of rock, and frequently heavy metal. The closest I can think to a county-themed one is the Faustian Southern Rock tale Dark Roads 79.
Torn Hearts is both the title of the film and the name of the musical act led by Jordan and Leigh. They’re desperate to go from popular in Nashville to the big time and it looks like they’re about to get their chance as an...
Torn Hearts is actress Brea Grant’s follow-up to her directorial debut, 12 Hour Shift. Here she’s turned her attention to the music industry. And while genre films about the price of fame stretch from The Phantom of the Opera to The Phantom of the Paradise and The 27 Club most of them are set in the world of rock, and frequently heavy metal. The closest I can think to a county-themed one is the Faustian Southern Rock tale Dark Roads 79.
Torn Hearts is both the title of the film and the name of the musical act led by Jordan and Leigh. They’re desperate to go from popular in Nashville to the big time and it looks like they’re about to get their chance as an...
- 5/25/2022
- by Jim Morazzini
- Nerdly
This article contains spoilers for Barry season 3 episodes 1 and 2.
It’s hard to have a more vibrant TV acting career than Henry Winkler.
First introduced as the jukebox-slapping, shark-jumping, thumb-extending Arthur “Fonzie” Fonzarelli on classic sitcom Happy Days, Winkler would go on to have a prolific second act as a comedy character actor in projects like Scream, The Waterboy, Arrested Development, and much more.
Everybody knows Winkler from something, and perhaps even has their own personal favorite performance. For the man himself, however, nothing tops his current project: Barry.
“It’s a kettle of fish that I don’t think I have ever tasted in my entire career,” Winkler tells Den of Geek prior to the Barry season 3 premiere.
It’s a bold claim from the man who once donned TV’s most iconic leather jacket…and it also might shockingly be a correct one. Barry won Winkler his first...
It’s hard to have a more vibrant TV acting career than Henry Winkler.
First introduced as the jukebox-slapping, shark-jumping, thumb-extending Arthur “Fonzie” Fonzarelli on classic sitcom Happy Days, Winkler would go on to have a prolific second act as a comedy character actor in projects like Scream, The Waterboy, Arrested Development, and much more.
Everybody knows Winkler from something, and perhaps even has their own personal favorite performance. For the man himself, however, nothing tops his current project: Barry.
“It’s a kettle of fish that I don’t think I have ever tasted in my entire career,” Winkler tells Den of Geek prior to the Barry season 3 premiere.
It’s a bold claim from the man who once donned TV’s most iconic leather jacket…and it also might shockingly be a correct one. Barry won Winkler his first...
- 5/2/2022
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
February is the shortest month of the year. Perhaps that’s what Disney+ is paying homage to with its very brief list of new releases for February 2022.
There’s not much to write home about on Disney+ this month. Feb. 9 will see the arrival of The Book of Boba Fett finale so start getting your theory-makin’ brain ready for that. The only other original series of note is The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder, a continuation of the early 2000s Disney Channel animated show.
Read more Movies Free Guy Review: Ryan Reynolds and Jodie Comer Give Uneven Script Extra Life By Matthew Byrd TV The Book of Boba Fett: The Surprising Marvel Connections By John Saavedra
The biggest arrival to Disney+ this month might actually be a library title. The Ryan Reynolds starring action flick Free Guy makes its streaming debut on Feb. 23. When Disney first launched its streaming service,...
There’s not much to write home about on Disney+ this month. Feb. 9 will see the arrival of The Book of Boba Fett finale so start getting your theory-makin’ brain ready for that. The only other original series of note is The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder, a continuation of the early 2000s Disney Channel animated show.
Read more Movies Free Guy Review: Ryan Reynolds and Jodie Comer Give Uneven Script Extra Life By Matthew Byrd TV The Book of Boba Fett: The Surprising Marvel Connections By John Saavedra
The biggest arrival to Disney+ this month might actually be a library title. The Ryan Reynolds starring action flick Free Guy makes its streaming debut on Feb. 23. When Disney first launched its streaming service,...
- 2/1/2022
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
This weekly feature is in addition to TVLine’s daily What to Watch listings and monthly guide to What’s on Streaming.
With nearly 500 scripted shows now airing across broadcast, cable and streaming, it’s easy to forget that a favorite comedy is returning, or that the new “prestige drama” you anticipated is about to debut. So consider this our reminder to set your DVR, order a Season Pass, pop a fresh Memorex into the Vcr… however it is you roll.
More from TVLineMurderville Trailer: Will Arnett Solves Crimes With Celeb Guests and ImprovReacher Delivers a Brutal Prison Beatdown in...
With nearly 500 scripted shows now airing across broadcast, cable and streaming, it’s easy to forget that a favorite comedy is returning, or that the new “prestige drama” you anticipated is about to debut. So consider this our reminder to set your DVR, order a Season Pass, pop a fresh Memorex into the Vcr… however it is you roll.
More from TVLineMurderville Trailer: Will Arnett Solves Crimes With Celeb Guests and ImprovReacher Delivers a Brutal Prison Beatdown in...
- 1/29/2022
- by Ryan Schwartz
- TVLine.com
Update: That didn’t take long. The deal for Fire of Love is now closed, Deadline has confirmed. Release is below our acquisitions scoop.
Exclusive: National Geographic Documentary Films is closing a mid-seven-figure worldwide rights deal for Fire of Love, the Sara Dosa-directed documentary that opened the festival and created a stampede of bidders in what is the first deal on the virtual ground here. This will be a significant theatrical release for later this year.
As Deadline reported yesterday, bidding began shortly after the film’s Thursday premiere screening. Netflix, Nat Geo, Paramount, Sony Pictures Classics, IFC, Universal and Amazon all were in the mix on this one. Submarine is brokering the deal.
The film focuses on Katia and Maurice Krafft and their love of each other, and getting as close as possible to fiery volcanoes. For two decades, the daring French volcanologist couple was seduced by the...
Exclusive: National Geographic Documentary Films is closing a mid-seven-figure worldwide rights deal for Fire of Love, the Sara Dosa-directed documentary that opened the festival and created a stampede of bidders in what is the first deal on the virtual ground here. This will be a significant theatrical release for later this year.
As Deadline reported yesterday, bidding began shortly after the film’s Thursday premiere screening. Netflix, Nat Geo, Paramount, Sony Pictures Classics, IFC, Universal and Amazon all were in the mix on this one. Submarine is brokering the deal.
The film focuses on Katia and Maurice Krafft and their love of each other, and getting as close as possible to fiery volcanoes. For two decades, the daring French volcanologist couple was seduced by the...
- 1/23/2022
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Nightmare Alley’, Sony’s ‘A Journal For Jordan’ also new.
Kenneth Branagh’s awards season contender Belfast is playing in all 30 open cinemas in Northern Ireland this weekend, as one of the leading new titles at the UK-Ireland box office.
Released by Universal Pictures, Belfast is opening in a huge 704 sites across the UK and Ireland – the eighth-widest release of all time in the full territory.
Shot in autumn 2020 in a gap between Covid-19 lockdowns, Belfast is inspired by Branagh’s childhood, and tells the story of a young boy and his working-class family in the tumultuous late 1960s.
Kenneth Branagh’s awards season contender Belfast is playing in all 30 open cinemas in Northern Ireland this weekend, as one of the leading new titles at the UK-Ireland box office.
Released by Universal Pictures, Belfast is opening in a huge 704 sites across the UK and Ireland – the eighth-widest release of all time in the full territory.
Shot in autumn 2020 in a gap between Covid-19 lockdowns, Belfast is inspired by Branagh’s childhood, and tells the story of a young boy and his working-class family in the tumultuous late 1960s.
- 1/21/2022
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: National Geographic’s award-winning documentary Torn is about to make its streaming platform debut.
Disney+ announced it will premiere the film, directed by Max Lowe, on February 4. Torn tells the story of world-renowned mountain climber Alex Lowe, who was killed in an avalanche in the Himalayas in 1999. He left behind a wife, Jennifer, and three young boys—sons Max, Sam and Isaac. Max, now in his 30s, directed the documentary in part to come to terms with his father’s death, and to process all that came after it.
Accompanying Alex Lowe on that ill-fated expedition were fellow climber Conrad Anker, himself a legendary talent and a close friend of Lowe’s, and cameraman David Bridges. The avalanche also killed Bridges, and left Anker seriously injured but alive. Anker spent time with the Lowe family after Alex’s death and eventually Jennifer and Conrad fell in love and married.
Disney+ announced it will premiere the film, directed by Max Lowe, on February 4. Torn tells the story of world-renowned mountain climber Alex Lowe, who was killed in an avalanche in the Himalayas in 1999. He left behind a wife, Jennifer, and three young boys—sons Max, Sam and Isaac. Max, now in his 30s, directed the documentary in part to come to terms with his father’s death, and to process all that came after it.
Accompanying Alex Lowe on that ill-fated expedition were fellow climber Conrad Anker, himself a legendary talent and a close friend of Lowe’s, and cameraman David Bridges. The avalanche also killed Bridges, and left Anker seriously injured but alive. Anker spent time with the Lowe family after Alex’s death and eventually Jennifer and Conrad fell in love and married.
- 1/20/2022
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
The two Oscar frontrunners for Best Documentary Feature are safely through to the next round of voting.
Summer of Soul and Flee earned spots on the Oscar doc feature shortlist announced today, as Documentary Branch voters whittled the list of contending films from 138 qualifiers to 15 [see full lists below].
Flee, the Neon release directed by Danish filmmaker Jonas Poher Rasmussen, not only made the doc feature shortlist, but the shortlist for Best International Film as well, representing Denmark. That rare shortlist double was accomplished last Oscar season by the Romanian documentary Collective, and a year earlier by the North Macedonian film Honeyland (both Collective and Honeyland went on to score Oscar nominations in both categories). Flee remains in the running in a third Oscar category, Animated Feature.
Flee and Summer of Soul,...
Summer of Soul and Flee earned spots on the Oscar doc feature shortlist announced today, as Documentary Branch voters whittled the list of contending films from 138 qualifiers to 15 [see full lists below].
Flee, the Neon release directed by Danish filmmaker Jonas Poher Rasmussen, not only made the doc feature shortlist, but the shortlist for Best International Film as well, representing Denmark. That rare shortlist double was accomplished last Oscar season by the Romanian documentary Collective, and a year earlier by the North Macedonian film Honeyland (both Collective and Honeyland went on to score Oscar nominations in both categories). Flee remains in the running in a third Oscar category, Animated Feature.
Flee and Summer of Soul,...
- 12/21/2021
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
Here’s a first-look image from The Strays, the debut feature of filmmaker Nathaniel Martello-White.
The pic is the fourth commissioned by Netflix’s Director of UK Features, Fiona Lamptey, and shot in 2021 following The Wonder, I Came By and I Used to be Famous. The streamer will debut the movie in 2022.
Starring Ashley Madekwe (County Lines), Bukky Bakray (Rocks), Jorden Myrie (Stephen), Justin Salinger (Hanna), Samuel Small (The Nest) and newcomer Maria Almeida, the film chronicles an upper-middle-class woman’s perfectly crafted life beginning to unravel after the arrival of two shadowy figures in her town.
It was shot across London, Suffolk and Berkshire between September and November 2021. Producers are Tristan Goligher and Valentina Brazzini for The Bureau alongside Rob Watson for Air Street.
Martello-White has acting credits including Guerrilla, BBC series Collateral and ITV’s Deceit. He is an established name in theater following his own plays Torn and Blackta.
The pic is the fourth commissioned by Netflix’s Director of UK Features, Fiona Lamptey, and shot in 2021 following The Wonder, I Came By and I Used to be Famous. The streamer will debut the movie in 2022.
Starring Ashley Madekwe (County Lines), Bukky Bakray (Rocks), Jorden Myrie (Stephen), Justin Salinger (Hanna), Samuel Small (The Nest) and newcomer Maria Almeida, the film chronicles an upper-middle-class woman’s perfectly crafted life beginning to unravel after the arrival of two shadowy figures in her town.
It was shot across London, Suffolk and Berkshire between September and November 2021. Producers are Tristan Goligher and Valentina Brazzini for The Bureau alongside Rob Watson for Air Street.
Martello-White has acting credits including Guerrilla, BBC series Collateral and ITV’s Deceit. He is an established name in theater following his own plays Torn and Blackta.
- 12/16/2021
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
“And the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature goes to… My Octopus Teacher… to American Factory… to Icarus.”
The Motion Picture Academy has enveloped Netflix nonfiction features with love again and again in recent years, rewarding the streamer with three trophies since 2018, not to mention half a dozen nominations overall.
But the story this year seems less Netflix and more National Geographic.
In a typical year, Netflix might easily boast five contenders. But this time around it’s Nat Geo with a quintet of competitors: Torn, The First Wave, Playing with Sharks, The Rescue—directed by Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin—and Becoming Cousteau, the film about celebrated French marine explorer Jacques-Yves Cousteau directed by two-time Oscar nominee Liz Garbus.
“Nat Geo has taken the scene by storm,” Garbus concurs. “The films are really, one and all, so different and so beautiful.”
When Disney acquired most of the Fox assets...
The Motion Picture Academy has enveloped Netflix nonfiction features with love again and again in recent years, rewarding the streamer with three trophies since 2018, not to mention half a dozen nominations overall.
But the story this year seems less Netflix and more National Geographic.
In a typical year, Netflix might easily boast five contenders. But this time around it’s Nat Geo with a quintet of competitors: Torn, The First Wave, Playing with Sharks, The Rescue—directed by Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin—and Becoming Cousteau, the film about celebrated French marine explorer Jacques-Yves Cousteau directed by two-time Oscar nominee Liz Garbus.
“Nat Geo has taken the scene by storm,” Garbus concurs. “The films are really, one and all, so different and so beautiful.”
When Disney acquired most of the Fox assets...
- 12/9/2021
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
The flood of documentaries in recent years about high-risk climbing and mountaineering have offered plenty of vicarious armchair athleticism, to be sure. But for viewers with a more casual than envious interest in such adventures, it’s hard not to wonder: Do these daredevils have personal attachments? Who’d be reckless or masochistic enough to forge a serious relationship with someone who constantly tempts fate? That issue did get addressed in the hit “Free Solo” three years ago, which devoted attention to ropeless climber Alex Honnold’s first long-term romantic commitment, which naturally renders his day job a greater source of worry to both parties.
But most of these films simply avoid the “What, if any, private life?” question in favor of alfresco thrills — understandably enough, since most of their subjects pointedly haven’t hazarded any settled domesticity that might hobble their sportsmanship. .
The compelling film, which National Geographic begins releasing to theaters on Dec.
But most of these films simply avoid the “What, if any, private life?” question in favor of alfresco thrills — understandably enough, since most of their subjects pointedly haven’t hazarded any settled domesticity that might hobble their sportsmanship. .
The compelling film, which National Geographic begins releasing to theaters on Dec.
- 12/3/2021
- by Dennis Harvey
- Variety Film + TV
Two of the most acclaimed climbing films of the year, Max Lowe’s “Torn” and The Alpinist, from Peter Mortimer and Nick Rosen, have taken big awards at this year’s Kendal Mountain Film Festival, held in the U.K.’s Lake District.
Its hybrid edition proved once more a dazzling showcase of mountain and sports films whose subjects, themes and emotions went far beyond the adrenalin-rush thrills of reportage.
Awards for the festival’s main international film competition were unveiled Saturday night. A further category prize – the People’s Choice Award – awarded to Menna Wakeford “A Woman’s Place,” was announced at the end of the Festival, which wrapped Sunday.
“Torn” won the Festival’s top award, the Grand Prize. Seen at Telluride and directed by photographer and explorer Max Lowe, the feature takes an intimate look at Lowe’s own family, following the discovery of his father’s body on a Himalayan peak,...
Its hybrid edition proved once more a dazzling showcase of mountain and sports films whose subjects, themes and emotions went far beyond the adrenalin-rush thrills of reportage.
Awards for the festival’s main international film competition were unveiled Saturday night. A further category prize – the People’s Choice Award – awarded to Menna Wakeford “A Woman’s Place,” was announced at the end of the Festival, which wrapped Sunday.
“Torn” won the Festival’s top award, the Grand Prize. Seen at Telluride and directed by photographer and explorer Max Lowe, the feature takes an intimate look at Lowe’s own family, following the discovery of his father’s body on a Himalayan peak,...
- 11/22/2021
- by George Bird
- Variety Film + TV
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