Some star-packed projects are heading to the 19th annual Oscar-qualifying HollyShorts Film Festival. The just-announced lineup includes films featuring, produced or directed by the likes of Tom Hanks, Eva Longoria, Alden Ehrenreich, Queen Latifah, Tom Holland, Keke Palmer, Cate Blanchett, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, John Travolta and more.
Over 400 short films are programmed in the festival, which runs from August 10-20. It’s a hybrid event, with in-person screenings at the Tcl Chinese Theatres in Hollywood complemented by a virtual program streaming on the platform Bitpix TV. It’s an Oscar-qualifying festival in four categories: Best Documentary Short (newly added this year), Best Short Film Grand Prize, Best Short Animation and Best Short Live Action. Winners of those prizes automatically become eligible for Academy Award consideration.
Mindful of the actors and writers strikes, the festival issued a statement along with the lineup announcement. “HollyShorts supports both the WGA and SAG/AFTRA strikes,...
Over 400 short films are programmed in the festival, which runs from August 10-20. It’s a hybrid event, with in-person screenings at the Tcl Chinese Theatres in Hollywood complemented by a virtual program streaming on the platform Bitpix TV. It’s an Oscar-qualifying festival in four categories: Best Documentary Short (newly added this year), Best Short Film Grand Prize, Best Short Animation and Best Short Live Action. Winners of those prizes automatically become eligible for Academy Award consideration.
Mindful of the actors and writers strikes, the festival issued a statement along with the lineup announcement. “HollyShorts supports both the WGA and SAG/AFTRA strikes,...
- 7/19/2023
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
Eva Maria Daniels, producer of independent features “Reality,” “What Maisie Knew” and “Joe Bell,” died on June 30 in London, after battling cancer. She was 43.
Throughout her career, Daniels maintained longstanding partnerships with producer Riva Marker and A24, worked as a producer for The Mill and Company 3 and served as a consultant for the Icelandic Film Fund.
“Eva died on the same terms as she lived. She played her cards close to her chest. She didn’t seek recognition when she had success. She didn’t seek pity when she suffered. I will miss her friendship greatly, but mostly I will miss seeing what she would have done next,” wrote director Börkur Sigthorsson on Facebook.
Most recently, Daniels executive produced the Berlin Film Festival selection and Max feature, “Reality,” which stars Sydney Sweeney and was directed by Tina Satter.
“Eva was hyper intelligent and had a gift for seeking out and supporting artists.
Throughout her career, Daniels maintained longstanding partnerships with producer Riva Marker and A24, worked as a producer for The Mill and Company 3 and served as a consultant for the Icelandic Film Fund.
“Eva died on the same terms as she lived. She played her cards close to her chest. She didn’t seek recognition when she had success. She didn’t seek pity when she suffered. I will miss her friendship greatly, but mostly I will miss seeing what she would have done next,” wrote director Börkur Sigthorsson on Facebook.
Most recently, Daniels executive produced the Berlin Film Festival selection and Max feature, “Reality,” which stars Sydney Sweeney and was directed by Tina Satter.
“Eva was hyper intelligent and had a gift for seeking out and supporting artists.
- 7/5/2023
- by Charna Flam
- Variety Film + TV
Eva Maria Daniels, the Icelandic producer and film festival favorite behind such recent indie dramas as What Maisie Knew, Hold the Dark and Joe Bell, has died. She was 43.
Daniels died June 30 in London after a battle with cancer, her friend and publicist Jessie Cohen told The Hollywood Reporter. She was diagnosed in March 2020 with a type of Stage 3 cancer that had spread to her lymph nodes, but she declared herself cancer free in an interview with THR‘s Chris Gardner a year later.
“Eva died on the same terms as she lived,” director Börkur Sigthorsson wrote on Facebook. “She played her cards close to her chest. She didn’t seek recognition when she had success. She didn’t seek pity when she suffered. I will miss her friendship greatly, but mostly I will miss seeing what she would have done next.”
Daniels most recently executive produced the Sydney Sweeney-starring Reality.
Daniels died June 30 in London after a battle with cancer, her friend and publicist Jessie Cohen told The Hollywood Reporter. She was diagnosed in March 2020 with a type of Stage 3 cancer that had spread to her lymph nodes, but she declared herself cancer free in an interview with THR‘s Chris Gardner a year later.
“Eva died on the same terms as she lived,” director Börkur Sigthorsson wrote on Facebook. “She played her cards close to her chest. She didn’t seek recognition when she had success. She didn’t seek pity when she suffered. I will miss her friendship greatly, but mostly I will miss seeing what she would have done next.”
Daniels most recently executive produced the Sydney Sweeney-starring Reality.
- 7/5/2023
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: Karan Johar’s Dharma Productions has entered into a strategic content partnership with fellow Indian production house, Sikhya Entertainment, founded by Guneet Monga.
The two companies will work together to produce multiple projects across feature films and digital formats. While no projects were announced under the deal, the partners said they would start to reveal details in two to three months.
The deal brings together one of mainstream Bollywood’s biggest production companies with an outfit better known internationally for independent and festival fare.
Dharma’s credits span 1990s Bollywood classics such as Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham and Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani, to recent releases such as Brahmastra: Part One – Shiva, a big-budget fantasy action film co-produced with Disney and released last year, and Selfiee, an action comedy starring Akshay Kumar and Emraan Hashmi, released this year.
Sikhya has been a producer or co-producer on festival hits such as The Lunchbox,...
The two companies will work together to produce multiple projects across feature films and digital formats. While no projects were announced under the deal, the partners said they would start to reveal details in two to three months.
The deal brings together one of mainstream Bollywood’s biggest production companies with an outfit better known internationally for independent and festival fare.
Dharma’s credits span 1990s Bollywood classics such as Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham and Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani, to recent releases such as Brahmastra: Part One – Shiva, a big-budget fantasy action film co-produced with Disney and released last year, and Selfiee, an action comedy starring Akshay Kumar and Emraan Hashmi, released this year.
Sikhya has been a producer or co-producer on festival hits such as The Lunchbox,...
- 5/11/2023
- by Liz Shackleton
- Deadline Film + TV
Netflix executive Lisa Nishimura backed some of the streamer’s biggest successes – Tiger King, The Tinder Swindler, The Power of the Dog, Making a Murderer, and American Factory – but in an era of corporate cost-cutting, it wasn’t enough to save her job.
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Her imminent departure as VP of independent film and documentary features, after a 16-year stint at Netflix, has come as a particular shock to the nonfiction film community, which saw her build Netflix into a dominant force in documentary and become, in the process, one of Netflix’s most visible execs.
(L-r) Lisa Nishimura, Taylor Swift and Ted Sarandos attend the Netflix 2019 Golden Globes After Party
“Lisa...
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Her imminent departure as VP of independent film and documentary features, after a 16-year stint at Netflix, has come as a particular shock to the nonfiction film community, which saw her build Netflix into a dominant force in documentary and become, in the process, one of Netflix’s most visible execs.
(L-r) Lisa Nishimura, Taylor Swift and Ted Sarandos attend the Netflix 2019 Golden Globes After Party
“Lisa...
- 3/31/2023
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
Oscars 2023The last time an Indian music composer won the Academy Award for best original song was in 2009, when Ar Rahman and Gulzar won for Jai Ho from Slumdog Millionaire.Instagram/ Rrr MovieThe verdict is out. The hugely popular song ‘Naatu Naatu’ from Rrr has created history by winning the prestigious Academy Award, popularly known as the Oscars, for the best original song. The award went to music composer Mm Keeravani and lyricist Chandrabose. This is the first Oscar win for a song from a Telugu film, and the second Oscar ever to be bagged by an Indian music composer, after Ar Rahman and Gulzar won it for ‘Jai Ho’ from Slumdog Millionaire in 2009. ‘Naatu Naatu’ had been a frontrunner in the best original song category at Oscars 2023, having already won the Golden Globe for ‘best original song - motion picture’. Accepting the award, music composer Mm Keeravani said,...
- 3/13/2023
- by AzeefaF
- The News Minute
Director Kartiki Gonsalves and producer Guneet Monga became the first Indian filmmakers to claim competitive Oscars after their short documentary The Elephant Whisperers won the Academy Award tonight.
Gonsalves gave thanks to “my motherland, India,” as she accepted the award.
The Elephant Whisperers revolves around Bomman and Belli, an Indigenous couple and their “large” family – orphaned elephant calves that they help raise in the Theppakadu Elephant camp within the Mudumalai Tiger Reserve in South India. Gonsalves spent five years following this human-elephant blended family for her Netflix documentary.
“I stand here today to speak for the sacred bond between us and our natural world,” Gonsalves said as she began her acceptance speech, “for the respect of Indigenous communities and empathy towards other living beings we share our space with, and finally, for coexistence.”
She added, “Thank you to the Academy for recognizing our film, highlighting Indigenous people and animals, to...
Gonsalves gave thanks to “my motherland, India,” as she accepted the award.
The Elephant Whisperers revolves around Bomman and Belli, an Indigenous couple and their “large” family – orphaned elephant calves that they help raise in the Theppakadu Elephant camp within the Mudumalai Tiger Reserve in South India. Gonsalves spent five years following this human-elephant blended family for her Netflix documentary.
“I stand here today to speak for the sacred bond between us and our natural world,” Gonsalves said as she began her acceptance speech, “for the respect of Indigenous communities and empathy towards other living beings we share our space with, and finally, for coexistence.”
She added, “Thank you to the Academy for recognizing our film, highlighting Indigenous people and animals, to...
- 3/13/2023
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
Netflix’s ‘The Elephant Whisperers’ bags the nomination for the 95th Oscars, Documentary Short Film. This documentary marks the directorial debut of Kartiki Gonsalves. The documentary is produced by Guneet Monga and Achin Jain under the banner of Sikhya Entertainment. The documentary was screened at the United States of America’s largest and prestigious documentary festival – Doc NYC 2022 Film Festival on November, 10th 2022. The Doc NYC celebrates and supports the cultural shift of how documentary storytelling is flourishing like never before.
Producer Guneet Monga on The Elephant Whisperer getting nominated, “I feel so honoured to see The Elephant Whisperers reach the global stage with the 95th Oscar nominations as a producer and a filmmaker from India. It’s incredible to see how far our short documentary from a quaint town of Ooty has come. Truly a testimony of the wonders that support from incredible platforms like Netflix can do. This...
Producer Guneet Monga on The Elephant Whisperer getting nominated, “I feel so honoured to see The Elephant Whisperers reach the global stage with the 95th Oscar nominations as a producer and a filmmaker from India. It’s incredible to see how far our short documentary from a quaint town of Ooty has come. Truly a testimony of the wonders that support from incredible platforms like Netflix can do. This...
- 1/24/2023
- by Glamsham Editorial
- GlamSham
Adding to its slate of auteurs from all over the world, Raphael Berdugo’s Cité Films has boarded “The Fire Doll,” from Chilean director-to-track Niles Atallah (“Rey”) and “Left Over,” from San Sebastian Gold Shell winning Turkish director Yesim Ustaoglu (“Pandora’s Box”).
Produced by Catalina Vergara at Chile’s Globo Rojo Films, “The Fire Doll” (“La muñeca de fuego”) is one of the 14 projects to be pitched at this month’s San Sebastian Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum, one of the Spanish festival’s centerpiece industry events.
Atallah, whose second film, “Rey,” won a Rotterdam Special Jury Prize in 2017, turns in “The Fire Doll” to the transformation process experienced by a 9-year-old girl, Aurora, who loses part of her memory and goes to her the countryside to spend Easter wither father, an alcoholic in remission.
He lives in a mysterious house partially destroyed by fire decades ago. Aurora discovers a terrible...
Produced by Catalina Vergara at Chile’s Globo Rojo Films, “The Fire Doll” (“La muñeca de fuego”) is one of the 14 projects to be pitched at this month’s San Sebastian Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum, one of the Spanish festival’s centerpiece industry events.
Atallah, whose second film, “Rey,” won a Rotterdam Special Jury Prize in 2017, turns in “The Fire Doll” to the transformation process experienced by a 9-year-old girl, Aurora, who loses part of her memory and goes to her the countryside to spend Easter wither father, an alcoholic in remission.
He lives in a mysterious house partially destroyed by fire decades ago. Aurora discovers a terrible...
- 9/1/2022
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Updated with final results: While streaming had been poised to elbow traditional theatrical releases out of the Oscar spotlight, Sunday’s results at the 94th Academy Awards offered something of a rebuke to that narrative.
Best Picture honors did go to Apple’s Coda, marking a significant milestone in the history of the Oscars and the three other streaming wins all came in major categories. Still, the total of four statuettes for streamers fell well short of last year’s record tally of nine. Along with Best Picture, Coda also took Adapted Screenplay for writer-director Siân Heder and Best Supporting Actor for Troy Kotsur. Jane Campion was named Best Director for Netflix’s The Power of the Dog.
It was an underwhelming showing for Netflix, which led all studios and streamers with 27 total nominations and has piled up 86 over the past three years. The Power of the Dog paced this...
Best Picture honors did go to Apple’s Coda, marking a significant milestone in the history of the Oscars and the three other streaming wins all came in major categories. Still, the total of four statuettes for streamers fell well short of last year’s record tally of nine. Along with Best Picture, Coda also took Adapted Screenplay for writer-director Siân Heder and Best Supporting Actor for Troy Kotsur. Jane Campion was named Best Director for Netflix’s The Power of the Dog.
It was an underwhelming showing for Netflix, which led all studios and streamers with 27 total nominations and has piled up 86 over the past three years. The Power of the Dog paced this...
- 3/28/2022
- by Dade Hayes
- Deadline Film + TV
A series by Juan Carlos Ojano
Previously: Episode 1 - 2020-21 / Episode 2 - 2019
Eyes were on the Best Director category at the 91st Academy Awards after Greta Gerwig became only the fifth woman to be nominated in the said category the previous year. Contemporaneous articles expressed disappointment with this fact, but this Oscar year was also plagued with other issues: no ceremony host, plans to give out awards during commercial break, and divisive films like Green Book, Bohemian Rhapsody, and Vice being major factors, too.
In a way, these other controversies clouded what could have been a more extensive discussion regarding representation in the Best Director category. Out of the 347 films included in the Reminder List of Eligible Films in 2018 (91st Academy Awards), 62 of them (or 17.9%) were directed/co-directed by women.
Oscar-nominated Female-directed Films (in alphabetical order): Animal Behaviour*, Bao*, Can You Ever Forgive Me?, Capernaum, Free Solo, Late Afternoon*, Marguerite*, Mary Queen of Scots,...
Previously: Episode 1 - 2020-21 / Episode 2 - 2019
Eyes were on the Best Director category at the 91st Academy Awards after Greta Gerwig became only the fifth woman to be nominated in the said category the previous year. Contemporaneous articles expressed disappointment with this fact, but this Oscar year was also plagued with other issues: no ceremony host, plans to give out awards during commercial break, and divisive films like Green Book, Bohemian Rhapsody, and Vice being major factors, too.
In a way, these other controversies clouded what could have been a more extensive discussion regarding representation in the Best Director category. Out of the 347 films included in the Reminder List of Eligible Films in 2018 (91st Academy Awards), 62 of them (or 17.9%) were directed/co-directed by women.
Oscar-nominated Female-directed Films (in alphabetical order): Animal Behaviour*, Bao*, Can You Ever Forgive Me?, Capernaum, Free Solo, Late Afternoon*, Marguerite*, Mary Queen of Scots,...
- 12/2/2021
- by Juan Carlos Ojano
- FilmExperience
The big news on Sky Cinema in August was the arrival of Wonder Woman 1984, animated family film Extinct and Eric Bana-starring crime mystery The Dry (based on the Australian novel by the rather excellent Kate Harper). September welcomes a new premiere every day, including the Oscar-nominated Minari starring Steven Yeun, the Karen Gillan and Lena Headey-starring action flick Gunpowder Milkshake and Charlize Theron and Margot Robbie in Fox News Me Too scandal drama Bombshell.
Read on in our handy guide to what’s coming up on Sky Cinema this month.
Russian Raid – 1st September
A former operative battles a war criminal’s henchmen to seize a highly guarded factory for his shady boss. Russian action with subtitles.
Alone – 2nd September
A kidnapped woman escapes into the wilderness, forced to battle the elements as her pursuer closes in on her. Thriller.
Long Story Short – 3rd September
Teddy wakes up...
Read on in our handy guide to what’s coming up on Sky Cinema this month.
Russian Raid – 1st September
A former operative battles a war criminal’s henchmen to seize a highly guarded factory for his shady boss. Russian action with subtitles.
Alone – 2nd September
A kidnapped woman escapes into the wilderness, forced to battle the elements as her pursuer closes in on her. Thriller.
Long Story Short – 3rd September
Teddy wakes up...
- 9/1/2021
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
Exclusive: Gravitas Ventures, a Red Arrow Studios Company, has acquired North American rights to The Florist, with plans to release the film on digital and cable VOD on August 10.
The indie, based on a 2014 short of the same name, centers on a lonely urban botanist named Annika, who sources and tests the edible, sensation-inducing flowers, which are in vogue at high-end restaurants, before they make it to the table. Hoping to take her career to the next level, Annika pushes aside her regular customers and risks everything to concentrate on finding the extremely rare and profitable ‘Comet Flower.’ Unfortunately, the elusive flower proves harder to find than expected. Annika must then decide whether to accept defeat, or to do whatever it takes, in order for her unique business and career to flourish.
Andrew Ryan (The Mirage) wrote and directed the film, which marks the feature debut of his longtime collaborator,...
The indie, based on a 2014 short of the same name, centers on a lonely urban botanist named Annika, who sources and tests the edible, sensation-inducing flowers, which are in vogue at high-end restaurants, before they make it to the table. Hoping to take her career to the next level, Annika pushes aside her regular customers and risks everything to concentrate on finding the extremely rare and profitable ‘Comet Flower.’ Unfortunately, the elusive flower proves harder to find than expected. Annika must then decide whether to accept defeat, or to do whatever it takes, in order for her unique business and career to flourish.
Andrew Ryan (The Mirage) wrote and directed the film, which marks the feature debut of his longtime collaborator,...
- 7/28/2021
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Ahead of the virtual Cannes pre-screenings market, Blue Finch Films has added So Cold The River to its sales slate and will be representing world rights to the recently completed pic.
Film is a dark supernatural thriller following an ex-documentary filmmaker, Erica Shaw, who is hired to make a documentary about a dying multi-millionaire, Campbell Bradford. However, Campbell’s past is shrouded in mystery, leading Shaw to make shocking discoveries when her hunt for the truth leads her to his childhood hometown.
Cast include Bethany Joy Lenz (Dexter), Andrew J West (Once Upon A Time), Katie Sarife (Annabelle Comes Home) and Alysia Reiner (The Dream House). Paul Shoulberg wrote and directed, adapting Michael Koryta’s novel. Film is a co-production between 1804 Productions and Pigasus Pictures and is produced by Claire Tuft, Zachary, Spicer, and John Armstrong. Executive producers are Pete Yonkman, Carl Cook, Michael Koryta, and Bethany Joy Lenz.
Film is a dark supernatural thriller following an ex-documentary filmmaker, Erica Shaw, who is hired to make a documentary about a dying multi-millionaire, Campbell Bradford. However, Campbell’s past is shrouded in mystery, leading Shaw to make shocking discoveries when her hunt for the truth leads her to his childhood hometown.
Cast include Bethany Joy Lenz (Dexter), Andrew J West (Once Upon A Time), Katie Sarife (Annabelle Comes Home) and Alysia Reiner (The Dream House). Paul Shoulberg wrote and directed, adapting Michael Koryta’s novel. Film is a co-production between 1804 Productions and Pigasus Pictures and is produced by Claire Tuft, Zachary, Spicer, and John Armstrong. Executive producers are Pete Yonkman, Carl Cook, Michael Koryta, and Bethany Joy Lenz.
- 6/8/2021
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
March marks one year after the world came to a grinding halt amid a global pandemic. It’s not an anniversary Eva Marie Daniels needed to have on her calendar as her life drastically changed 12 months ago for another reason.
The film producer, whose credits include the upcoming Joe Bell starring Mark Wahlberg, Hold the Dark starring Jeffrey Wright, and End of Sentence with John Hawkes and Logan Lerman, was diagnosed with stage three cancer. A year later, the Iceland-born Daniels is opening up for the first time about the diagnosis, the treatment that led to being cancer-free and how the experience ...
The film producer, whose credits include the upcoming Joe Bell starring Mark Wahlberg, Hold the Dark starring Jeffrey Wright, and End of Sentence with John Hawkes and Logan Lerman, was diagnosed with stage three cancer. A year later, the Iceland-born Daniels is opening up for the first time about the diagnosis, the treatment that led to being cancer-free and how the experience ...
- 3/16/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
March marks one year after the world came to a grinding halt amid a global pandemic. It’s not an anniversary Eva Marie Daniels needed to have on her calendar as her life drastically changed 12 months ago for another reason.
The film producer, whose credits include the upcoming Joe Bell starring Mark Wahlberg, Hold the Dark starring Jeffrey Wright, and End of Sentence with John Hawkes and Logan Lerman, was diagnosed with stage three cancer. A year later, the Iceland-born Daniels is opening up for the first time about the diagnosis, the treatment that led to being cancer-free and how the experience ...
The film producer, whose credits include the upcoming Joe Bell starring Mark Wahlberg, Hold the Dark starring Jeffrey Wright, and End of Sentence with John Hawkes and Logan Lerman, was diagnosed with stage three cancer. A year later, the Iceland-born Daniels is opening up for the first time about the diagnosis, the treatment that led to being cancer-free and how the experience ...
- 3/16/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Exclusive: Nick Isaak, who helped run Amazon Prime Video’s Film Festival Stars program before stints at MGM Studios and Microsoft’s Xbox, is joining indie distributor Gravitas Ventures as head of sales. He will report to Gravitas president Michael Murphy.
“We’re thrilled that Nick has joined our team and know that his entrepreneurial spirit and analytical mind will help us lean into sales especially in SVOD, AVOD and television,” Murphy said Tuesday.
At Amazon, Isaak helped grow Prime Video Direct’s content partnerships including the Film Festival Stars program, which struck deals to provide an online platform to indie films seeking wider distribution; it ended up securing hundreds of films in the initiative. He later worked in worldwide digital sales at MGM Studios and managed international Tvod for Microsoft’s Xbox service.
Said Isaak: “In previous roles I’ve been able to work with the team at Gravitas...
“We’re thrilled that Nick has joined our team and know that his entrepreneurial spirit and analytical mind will help us lean into sales especially in SVOD, AVOD and television,” Murphy said Tuesday.
At Amazon, Isaak helped grow Prime Video Direct’s content partnerships including the Film Festival Stars program, which struck deals to provide an online platform to indie films seeking wider distribution; it ended up securing hundreds of films in the initiative. He later worked in worldwide digital sales at MGM Studios and managed international Tvod for Microsoft’s Xbox service.
Said Isaak: “In previous roles I’ve been able to work with the team at Gravitas...
- 1/26/2021
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Deadline has confirmed that Dan Silver, Disney+ VP of Nonfiction Originals is going to Netflix as Director of Documentary Feature Films.
He’ll report to Lisa Nishimura, VP Independent Film and Documentary Features at Netflix.
As part of a recent Disney restructuring, the Disney+ Unscripted Content and Production teams moved to Peter Rice’s Disney General Entertainment group under Gary Marsh.
At Disney+, Silver oversaw development on such unscripted series as The Imagineering Story, Howard, Encore, Muppets Now, Marvel’s 616 and the upcoming On Pointe.
Silver’s previous resume highlights while at Disney includes leading Marvel Entertainment’s platforms and content-new media as well as nonfiction content Marvel Live! Eat the Universe and the podcast Wolverine: The Long Night. Silver was an EP at ABC News Digital, Senior Director of Development at ESPN Films, and an EP on the movie The Queen of Katwe.
Netflix has had a four-year winning...
He’ll report to Lisa Nishimura, VP Independent Film and Documentary Features at Netflix.
As part of a recent Disney restructuring, the Disney+ Unscripted Content and Production teams moved to Peter Rice’s Disney General Entertainment group under Gary Marsh.
At Disney+, Silver oversaw development on such unscripted series as The Imagineering Story, Howard, Encore, Muppets Now, Marvel’s 616 and the upcoming On Pointe.
Silver’s previous resume highlights while at Disney includes leading Marvel Entertainment’s platforms and content-new media as well as nonfiction content Marvel Live! Eat the Universe and the podcast Wolverine: The Long Night. Silver was an EP at ABC News Digital, Senior Director of Development at ESPN Films, and an EP on the movie The Queen of Katwe.
Netflix has had a four-year winning...
- 12/4/2020
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
London-based production, finance and sales company Film Constellation has come on board Cathy Brady’s debut feature “Wildfire,” which world premieres in the Discovery section at next month’s Toronto Film Festival.
The film centers on sisters Lauren and Kelly, an inseparable pair brought up in a small town by the Irish border. Their lives fell apart with the mysterious death of their mother. Left to pick up the pieces, Lauren is confronted with their dark past when Kelly returns home having been missing for a year. “An intense sisterhood reignited, Kelly’s desire to unearth their history is not welcomed by all, and the town is rife with rumors and malice that threaten to overwhelm them,” according to a statement from Film Constellation.
The film’s press and industry screening at Toronto is on Sept. 14 at 11 A.M. via digital access. The festival world premiere is at 9 P.M.
The film centers on sisters Lauren and Kelly, an inseparable pair brought up in a small town by the Irish border. Their lives fell apart with the mysterious death of their mother. Left to pick up the pieces, Lauren is confronted with their dark past when Kelly returns home having been missing for a year. “An intense sisterhood reignited, Kelly’s desire to unearth their history is not welcomed by all, and the town is rife with rumors and malice that threaten to overwhelm them,” according to a statement from Film Constellation.
The film’s press and industry screening at Toronto is on Sept. 14 at 11 A.M. via digital access. The festival world premiere is at 9 P.M.
- 8/25/2020
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Andrea Riseborough leads lottery winner drama directed by Michael Morris.
Oscar-winner Allison Janney and John Hawkes have joined Michael Morris’s lottery-winner drama To Leslie, which Mister Smith Entertainment will introduce to worldwide buyers at the Cannes virtual market.
They join Andrea Riseborough, who takes the leading role of a single mother who won the lottery and squandered it, before fighting to rebuild her life. Ryan Binaco (3022) wrote the screenplay, which is inspired by the life of his mother.
It marks the feature debut of Morris, who has directed episodes of Better Call Saul and 13 Reasons Why among others.
Oscar-winner Allison Janney and John Hawkes have joined Michael Morris’s lottery-winner drama To Leslie, which Mister Smith Entertainment will introduce to worldwide buyers at the Cannes virtual market.
They join Andrea Riseborough, who takes the leading role of a single mother who won the lottery and squandered it, before fighting to rebuild her life. Ryan Binaco (3022) wrote the screenplay, which is inspired by the life of his mother.
It marks the feature debut of Morris, who has directed episodes of Better Call Saul and 13 Reasons Why among others.
- 6/11/2020
- by 1100453¦Michael Rosser¦9¦
- ScreenDaily
Oscar-nominee John Hawkes and Oscar-winner Allison Janney have come on board for roles in the real-life-inspired feature “To Leslie.” The actors join previously announced lead Andrea Riseborough. Mister Smith Entertainment is handling international sales and will introduce the project this month at virtual Cannes. UTA Independent Film Group is representing U.S. sales.
Michael Morris will direct the screenplay written by Ryan Binaco (“3022”). Claude Dal Farra and Brian Keady of Bcdf Pictures are producers along with Kelsey Law of Clair de Lune Entertainment. Binaco is executive producing.
“To Leslie” tells the story of a West Texas single mother (Riseborough), who won the lottery and squandered it just as fast, leaving behind a world of heartbreak. Years later, with her charm running out and nowhere to go, she fights to rebuild her life and find redemption. Binaco wrote the screenplay inspired by the life of his mother.
Hawkes will play Sweeney,...
Michael Morris will direct the screenplay written by Ryan Binaco (“3022”). Claude Dal Farra and Brian Keady of Bcdf Pictures are producers along with Kelsey Law of Clair de Lune Entertainment. Binaco is executive producing.
“To Leslie” tells the story of a West Texas single mother (Riseborough), who won the lottery and squandered it just as fast, leaving behind a world of heartbreak. Years later, with her charm running out and nowhere to go, she fights to rebuild her life and find redemption. Binaco wrote the screenplay inspired by the life of his mother.
Hawkes will play Sweeney,...
- 6/11/2020
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
‘Rebel’ to be directed by Belgian duo Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah.
A new feature from the Belgian directing duo behind Bad Boys For Life is among 10 projects to secure €1.47m ($1.67m) from Screen Flanders.
Rebel is to be directed by Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah, whose Bad Boys sequel grossed $419m worldwide when it was released in January.
The new feature has received €170,000 from the Belgian audiovisual fund and will be produced by Belgium’s Caviar Antwerp. It will also reunite the directing duo with Dop Robrecht Heyvaert, who shot Bad Boys For Life and their 2018 crime thriller Gangsta.
A new feature from the Belgian directing duo behind Bad Boys For Life is among 10 projects to secure €1.47m ($1.67m) from Screen Flanders.
Rebel is to be directed by Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah, whose Bad Boys sequel grossed $419m worldwide when it was released in January.
The new feature has received €170,000 from the Belgian audiovisual fund and will be produced by Belgium’s Caviar Antwerp. It will also reunite the directing duo with Dop Robrecht Heyvaert, who shot Bad Boys For Life and their 2018 crime thriller Gangsta.
- 6/11/2020
- by 1100453¦Michael Rosser¦9¦
- ScreenDaily
“Black-ish” star Tracee Ellis Ross has the coveted late-May weekend virtually to herself with “The High Note,” as summer studio releases hold back for a time when it’s safe to return to theaters.
Still, if you’re caught up TV and looking for new movies worth seeing, there are enticing offerings on Netflix, Amazon and HBO Max, where the #MeToo-aligned Russell Simmons documentary “On the Record” shows a very different side of the music industry from Ross’ escapist R&b fantasy.
Here are the week’s new releases, with excerpts from reviews and links to where you can watch them.
High-profile on-demand studio and indie offerings:
The High Note (Nisha Ganatra)
Distributor: Focus Features
Where to Find It: Rent for $19.99 on Amazon, iTunes and other on-demand platforms.
Dakota Johnson, with her sun-dazed smile and wary doe-eyed glow (the look of an innocent who knows how to thread her way...
Still, if you’re caught up TV and looking for new movies worth seeing, there are enticing offerings on Netflix, Amazon and HBO Max, where the #MeToo-aligned Russell Simmons documentary “On the Record” shows a very different side of the music industry from Ross’ escapist R&b fantasy.
Here are the week’s new releases, with excerpts from reviews and links to where you can watch them.
High-profile on-demand studio and indie offerings:
The High Note (Nisha Ganatra)
Distributor: Focus Features
Where to Find It: Rent for $19.99 on Amazon, iTunes and other on-demand platforms.
Dakota Johnson, with her sun-dazed smile and wary doe-eyed glow (the look of an innocent who knows how to thread her way...
- 5/29/2020
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
Initially embarking on a physical trip for materialistic gain can ultimately lead to an emotional oddessy that offers clear insight into where their life paths and relationships should go for many people. That’s certainly the case for the estranged father and son protagonists in the new drama, ‘End of Sentence.’ The two characters must learn […]
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- 5/29/2020
- by Karen Benardello
- ShockYa
At first glance, there’s nothing original about the new father-son movie “End of Sentence.” We’ve seen estranged father/sons before—here the two are played by Logan Lerman and John Hawkes, displaying tough exteriors you couldn’t even crack with a hammer. But as the movie and its characters open up, “End of Sentence” reveals a tenderness hiding under its thick, clichéd exterior.
As directed by Elfar Adalsteins, “End of Sentence” isn’t in the same league as father-son classics “Bicycle Thieves” or “Kramer vs.
Continue reading ‘End Of Sentence’: John Hawkes & Logan Lerman Are Great In This Tender Family Drama [Review] at The Playlist.
As directed by Elfar Adalsteins, “End of Sentence” isn’t in the same league as father-son classics “Bicycle Thieves” or “Kramer vs.
Continue reading ‘End Of Sentence’: John Hawkes & Logan Lerman Are Great In This Tender Family Drama [Review] at The Playlist.
- 5/29/2020
- by Asher Luberto
- The Playlist
Logan Lerman, who recently displayed a wide range of anger in the Amazon Prime series Hunters, and John Hawkes, who began his career in the 1980s and has distinguished himself in a host of films and TV shows from Hollywood (Deadwood) and the independent world (Miranda July's Me and You and Everyone We Know) since then, star together in End of Sentence, which hits VOD today. As if that weren't enough, Sarah Bolger, who recently blazed in A Good Woman Is Hard to Find and has been elevating films and TV shows whenever she appears, also stars, which should be enough to convince anyone to check out End of Sentence, even without knowing the synopsis or watching the trailer. But, if you need those things...
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- 5/29/2020
- Screen Anarchy
The pairing of John Hawkes and Logan Lerman as father and son was always going to be an interesting one. Unfortunately, it’s a shame that End of Sentence doesn’t do more with that duo. While both are somewhat playing against type, the film surrounding them is so slight and so slack with its storytelling that it’s hard to appreciate them. A mix of narrative stumbling blocks and lack of notable dramatic conflict make it far too easy to see every turn of the road here. There are some very nice moments, but they don’t add up to make a flick that I can recommend today. The movie is a drama about a father and son attempting (at least on one end) to reconnect while on a road trip in Ireland. Frank Fogle (Hawkes) has always has a tough relationship with his troublemaking son Sean (Lerman). A genial and even withdrawn man,...
- 5/29/2020
- by Joey Magidson
- Hollywoodnews.com
With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options—not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves–each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit platforms. Check out this week’s selections below and an archive of past round-ups here.
HBO Max
The latest streaming service has arrived with HBO Max, which pulls together what was offered on the HBO platform with quite an expanded library. While the WarnerMedia platform is certainly the most scattered of its competitors in terms of the range of content, if you dig deeper, there’s plenty of worthwhile offerings. Led by the Studio Ghibli catalog, they also have a Turner Classic Movies channel, featuring Criterion Collection classics, a Charlie Chaplin collection, landmark westerns, all of the A Star is Borns, Citizen Kane, Casablanca, The Abyss, and more. Happy watching.
Where to Stream: HBO Max
End of Sentence (Elfar Adalsteins)
To...
HBO Max
The latest streaming service has arrived with HBO Max, which pulls together what was offered on the HBO platform with quite an expanded library. While the WarnerMedia platform is certainly the most scattered of its competitors in terms of the range of content, if you dig deeper, there’s plenty of worthwhile offerings. Led by the Studio Ghibli catalog, they also have a Turner Classic Movies channel, featuring Criterion Collection classics, a Charlie Chaplin collection, landmark westerns, all of the A Star is Borns, Citizen Kane, Casablanca, The Abyss, and more. Happy watching.
Where to Stream: HBO Max
End of Sentence (Elfar Adalsteins)
To...
- 5/29/2020
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
The Focus Features musical dramedy The High Note is looking to hit exactly that as it lands on-demand starting today. Directed by Late Night‘s Nisha Ganatra from a script by Flora Greeson, the film was originally set to hit theaters on May 8 but, like many films, the film adapted and shifted to a digital. However, with theaters slowly opening their doors, the film will be singing its way to approximately 100 theaters — most of the drive-in theaters.
Set in the world of the Los Angeles music scene, The High Note follows singing superstar diva Grace Davis (Tracee Ellis Ross) and her overworked personal assistant Maggie (Dakota Johnson) who has dreams of becoming a music producer. When Grace’s manager (Ice Cube) presents her with a choice that could alter the course of her career, Maggie and Grace come up with a plan that could change their lives forever.
As it...
Set in the world of the Los Angeles music scene, The High Note follows singing superstar diva Grace Davis (Tracee Ellis Ross) and her overworked personal assistant Maggie (Dakota Johnson) who has dreams of becoming a music producer. When Grace’s manager (Ice Cube) presents her with a choice that could alter the course of her career, Maggie and Grace come up with a plan that could change their lives forever.
As it...
- 5/29/2020
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
Bittersweet is one of those awkward adjectives. Overused. Misunderstood. A lot like “tragic”, which too often is generic term for “something bad happened to the hero”. Bittersweet is a useful descriptor of chocolate and cranberries and Campari but less useful when it comes to film, where works described as such all too often turn out to be mawkish, sentimental and barely watchable.
Except occasionally. As here, in End Of Sentence, an awkward, touching, sometimes funny, sometimes thought-provoking story of a man attempting to respect the last wish of his recently deceased wife by travelling to Ireland from the Us to scatter her ashes on an out of the way lake - and taking his estranged son with him.
An interesting if far from unique, premise. Urns containing ashes have long been stock-in-trade of comedy, representing, as they do, the ever-present risk of an accident that may prove fatal(!) to the occupant.
Except occasionally. As here, in End Of Sentence, an awkward, touching, sometimes funny, sometimes thought-provoking story of a man attempting to respect the last wish of his recently deceased wife by travelling to Ireland from the Us to scatter her ashes on an out of the way lake - and taking his estranged son with him.
An interesting if far from unique, premise. Urns containing ashes have long been stock-in-trade of comedy, representing, as they do, the ever-present risk of an accident that may prove fatal(!) to the occupant.
- 5/28/2020
- by Jane Fae
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
The phrase “It’s not the destination, it’s the journey,” which has often (and perhaps erroneously) been attributed to American writer Ralph Waldo Emerson, was a familiar saying by about 1920. And it makes perfect sense that the phrase roughly coincides with the dawn of cinema, because filmmakers have been cinematically paraphrasing it for much of the last 100 years.
The latest example is “End of Sentence,” a road movie from first-time Icelandic feature director Elfar Adalsteins. The film drops John Hawkes and Logan Lerman in the northwest of Ireland for a father-son adventure that suggests that it’s not the journey or the destination – it’s the travelers who are on that road.
That’s because Hawkes and Lerman are subtle, naturalistic performers who spin gold out of settings that could easily seem clichéd. You pretty much know that these guys are on the road to understanding, acceptance and reconciliation,...
The latest example is “End of Sentence,” a road movie from first-time Icelandic feature director Elfar Adalsteins. The film drops John Hawkes and Logan Lerman in the northwest of Ireland for a father-son adventure that suggests that it’s not the journey or the destination – it’s the travelers who are on that road.
That’s because Hawkes and Lerman are subtle, naturalistic performers who spin gold out of settings that could easily seem clichéd. You pretty much know that these guys are on the road to understanding, acceptance and reconciliation,...
- 5/28/2020
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
The first thing you ight notice about Elfar Adalsteins’ “End of Sentence,” , is that it seems to have everything backwards. John Hawkes should be playing the bitter jailbird, and Logan Lerman — who’s almost single-handedly kept the “nice Jewish boy” archetype relevant and appealing thanks to his work in the likes of “Indignation” and Amazon’s “Hunters” — should be the nervous wreck who lets people walk all over him. In a story about the intergenerational echoes of bad parenting, we expect the dad to be the one who’s hardened by inherited abuse, and his kid to be the one who cowers from it. But that’s how trauma gets handed down like some kind of blood-stained family heirloom: If you try to be the antithesis of the man who raised you, it’s only a matter of time before you start to resemble the man who raised him.
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- 5/27/2020
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
There’s a bond that can’t quite be quantified but exists inherently between a father and son. But that bond can be strained quite a bit, and it can take a lot of time to repair, as is seen in the upcoming film, “End of Sentence.”
Read More: Logan Lerman’s Unexpected Comeback Begins With ‘Hunters’ & ‘Shirley’ [Interview]
In honor of “End of Sentence” arriving on VOD later this week, we’re happy to give our readers an exclusive look at a clip from the new family drama.
Continue reading ‘End Of Sentence’ Exclusive Clip: John Hawkes & Logan Lerman Don’t See Eye To Eye In This Family Drama at The Playlist.
Read More: Logan Lerman’s Unexpected Comeback Begins With ‘Hunters’ & ‘Shirley’ [Interview]
In honor of “End of Sentence” arriving on VOD later this week, we’re happy to give our readers an exclusive look at a clip from the new family drama.
Continue reading ‘End Of Sentence’ Exclusive Clip: John Hawkes & Logan Lerman Don’t See Eye To Eye In This Family Drama at The Playlist.
- 5/27/2020
- by Charles Barfield
- The Playlist
To look at Frank (John Hawkes) and Sean Fogle (Logan Lerman) is to see two very different men. The former is a loving husband with a perpetual smile and the latter is his surly, incarcerated son. If not for the woman connecting them, they’d have gone their separate ways long ago without any room for reconciliation. Nothing will therefore be left once the Fogle matriarch (Andrea Irvine’s Anna) succumbs to cancer. Frank will become a widower trying (and faltering) to survive on his own while Sean will be released from prison to head west and not look back. To spend some time with them, however, is to realize they’re actually quite similar. One retreats emotionally while the other lashes out, but anger and shame rules both.
Writer Michael Armbruster and director Elfar Adalsteins concoct a “last wish” road trip in order for us to spend this time getting to know them.
Writer Michael Armbruster and director Elfar Adalsteins concoct a “last wish” road trip in order for us to spend this time getting to know them.
- 5/27/2020
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
John Hawkes and Logan Lerman hit the road in End of Sentence, an indie road trip drama that follows an estranged father and son following the son’s release from prison. End of Sentence marks the feature directorial debut of Icelandic filmmaker Elfar Adalsteins, but is set in Ireland and features two American leads. Watch the End of Sentence trailer […]
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- 5/15/2020
- by Hoai-Tran Bui
- Slash Film
Over the past several years, there’s been huge growth in the “van life” movement, with people selling all their stuff, packing the necessities in a camper van, and living the nomadic life, traveling from place to place experiencing total freedom. But that’s not always as great as it sounds, as is seen in the new film, “The Short History of the Long Road.”
Read More: ‘End Of Sentence’ Trailer: John Hawkes & Logan Lerman Are An Estranged Father & Son In This New Drama
As seen in the trailer for the film, “The Short History of the Long Road” follows the story of a young woman living the nomadic van life, having experienced it for a long time prior with the support of her father.
Continue reading ‘Short History Of The Long Road’ Trailer: Tribeca Drama Explores A Father-Daughter Relationship On The Road at The Playlist.
Read More: ‘End Of Sentence’ Trailer: John Hawkes & Logan Lerman Are An Estranged Father & Son In This New Drama
As seen in the trailer for the film, “The Short History of the Long Road” follows the story of a young woman living the nomadic van life, having experienced it for a long time prior with the support of her father.
Continue reading ‘Short History Of The Long Road’ Trailer: Tribeca Drama Explores A Father-Daughter Relationship On The Road at The Playlist.
- 5/14/2020
- by Charles Barfield
- The Playlist
John Hawkes is longing to reconnect with his long-lost son in the upcoming drama, ‘End of Sentence.’ In honor of the actor’s character’s looming reunion with his estranged child after the death of his wife, Gravitas Ventures has released the official trailer, poster and stills for the movie. Gravitas Ventures is set to distribute ‘End […]
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- 5/13/2020
- by Karen Benardello
- ShockYa
Despite starring in popular films such as the ‘Percy Jackson’ franchise and “The Perks of Being a Wallflower,” actor Logan Lerman has yet to really break out and become the massive star that many anticipated he would be. However, that hasn’t stopped him from turning in solid performances, such as in the recent series “Hunters” on Amazon Prime.
Continue reading ‘End Of Sentence’ Trailer: John Hawkes & Logan Lerman Are An Estranged Father & Son In This New Drama at The Playlist.
Continue reading ‘End Of Sentence’ Trailer: John Hawkes & Logan Lerman Are An Estranged Father & Son In This New Drama at The Playlist.
- 5/13/2020
- by Charles Barfield
- The Playlist
"You know, they say it's inevitable that you turn into your father." Gravitas has debuted an official trailer for an indie road trip drama titled End of Sentence, which first premiered at the Edinburgh Film Festival last year. The film marks the feature directorial debut of an Icelandic filmmaker named Elfar Adalsteins, but is set mostly in Ireland. After his wife dies, Frank reluctantly embarks on a journey to honor his wife's last wish of spreading her ashes in a remote lake in her native Ireland and a promise of taking his estranged son, Sean, along for the trip. With plenty of unresolved issues, the journey becomes a little more than father and son bargained for. Starring John Hawkes and Logan Lerman, with Sarah Bolger and Ólafur Darri Ólafsson. This looks good, thanks to the cast. It seems like a kind-hearted film about letting go of the past. Here's the...
- 5/13/2020
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Netflix has made a selection of its documentary programming available for free via its YouTube channel in an effort to help teachers coping with the challenge of Covid-19.
In a blog post Friday, the company noted that it has historically allowed teachers to screen documentaries without a license fee. With many teachers looking for additional resources during remote-learning times, Netflix said has posted 10 titles. The mix of series episodes, shorts and features includes Our Planet, 13th, Knock Down the House and Explained.
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“We hope this will, in a small way, help teachers around the world,” the company said.
In addition to the films and episodes themselves, the titles have put...
In a blog post Friday, the company noted that it has historically allowed teachers to screen documentaries without a license fee. With many teachers looking for additional resources during remote-learning times, Netflix said has posted 10 titles. The mix of series episodes, shorts and features includes Our Planet, 13th, Knock Down the House and Explained.
More from DeadlineAnthony Anderson Joins Kelly Rowland, Terrence J & Regina Hall As Host For Bet's 'Saving Our Selves' Covid-19 Relief Fund Special - UpdateSan Diego Comic-Con Cancels 2020 Event, Sets 2021 ReturnSundance Institute Sets $1 Million Coronavirus-Relief Fund For Independent Artists and Organizations
“We hope this will, in a small way, help teachers around the world,” the company said.
In addition to the films and episodes themselves, the titles have put...
- 4/17/2020
- by Dade Hayes
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Vertical Entertainment has acquired North American rights to Miss Juneteenth, which made its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival and later won an award at SXSW in March. The debut feature of writer-director Channing Godfrey Peoples now is aimed at a June 19 release, that date marking the 155th anniversary of the Juneteenth holiday.
Vertical is hoping for a theatrical release depending on the status of theaters amid the coronavirus pandemic, but it aims to bow the film on digital on the American holiday, which commemorates the abolition of slavery in Texas on June 19, 1865, two years after the Emancipation Proclamation — a celebration that includes an annual beauty pageant.
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Vertical is hoping for a theatrical release depending on the status of theaters amid the coronavirus pandemic, but it aims to bow the film on digital on the American holiday, which commemorates the abolition of slavery in Texas on June 19, 1865, two years after the Emancipation Proclamation — a celebration that includes an annual beauty pageant.
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- 4/14/2020
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Gravitas Ventures has picked up North American rights to three movies from Concourse Media: board game doc Gamemaster, music film Find Your Groove and low-budget rom-com Daddy Issues.
Gamemaster, currently set for a July release, dives into the world of the board game industry and hones in on five game designers who have had big success or are trying to break through. Talking heads include Klaus Teuber (The Settlers of Catan), Matt Leacock and Elan Lee (Exploding Kittens). The film is directed by Charles Mruz and produced by Jimmy Nguyen, Wally Schrass, Kristopher Wile, Jason Rose and Jennifer Tocquigny.
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Find Your Groove focuses...
Gamemaster, currently set for a July release, dives into the world of the board game industry and hones in on five game designers who have had big success or are trying to break through. Talking heads include Klaus Teuber (The Settlers of Catan), Matt Leacock and Elan Lee (Exploding Kittens). The film is directed by Charles Mruz and produced by Jimmy Nguyen, Wally Schrass, Kristopher Wile, Jason Rose and Jennifer Tocquigny.
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Find Your Groove focuses...
- 4/14/2020
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Vertical Entertainment has landed the North American distribution rights to Ron Perlman and Michael Pitt-starrer Run With The Hunted, written and directed by John Swab. Vertical, which previously secured the U.K. distribution rights, will release the noir crime thriller in limited theatrical and VOD release this summer. The plot centers on Oscar, a young boy who defends his best friend, Loux, and kills her abusive father in the process, forcing him to run away from his rural hometown. Fifteen years later, he has all but forgotten his past and become the leader of a band of lost children. Stumbling upon Oscar’s antiquated missing child report, Loux takes it upon herself to find the boy who saved her life. William Forsythe, Dree Hemingway, Mark Boone Junior, Kylie Rogers, Slaine, Sam Quartin, and Isiah Whitlock Jr. co-star. The deal...
- 4/10/2020
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
Film executive Scott Stuber and his wife, actress-advocate Molly Sims, will step into the spotlight this spring with Heidi Murkoff, author and creator of the world’s most popular pregnancy and parenting brand, and her husband and partner, Erik, in honor of their humanitarian work.
These two couples are known for giving back, but on April 28, they’ll be on the receiving end of two very special awards at a glittering gala hosted by Jhpiego, a global health nonprofit and Johns Hopkins University affiliate dedicated to saving lives, improving health and transforming the futures of women and families worldwide. Laughter Is the Best Medicine 2020 won’t disappoint!
Jhpiego’s Elyse Bila Ouedraogo Award will be presented to Molly, an actress, model and lifestyle influencer whose books include the bestseller The Everyday Supermodel: My Beauty, Fashion, and Wellness Secrets Made Simple, and her husband, Scott, head of Netflix Films. Netflix is...
These two couples are known for giving back, but on April 28, they’ll be on the receiving end of two very special awards at a glittering gala hosted by Jhpiego, a global health nonprofit and Johns Hopkins University affiliate dedicated to saving lives, improving health and transforming the futures of women and families worldwide. Laughter Is the Best Medicine 2020 won’t disappoint!
Jhpiego’s Elyse Bila Ouedraogo Award will be presented to Molly, an actress, model and lifestyle influencer whose books include the bestseller The Everyday Supermodel: My Beauty, Fashion, and Wellness Secrets Made Simple, and her husband, Scott, head of Netflix Films. Netflix is...
- 2/5/2020
- Look to the Stars
Elfar Aðalsteins’ Summerlight And Then Comes The Night in the works - Production / Funding - Iceland
The Icelandic director’s sophomore feature is based on Jón Kalman Stefánsson’s successful novel of the same name. Icelandic filmmaker Elfar Aðalsteins is now preparing his second feature, a drama entitled Summerlight And Then Comes The Night. His directorial debut, the Icelandic-Irish-American co-production End of Sentence, starred John Hawkes, Logan Lerman and Sarah Bolger in the lead roles and was screened at this year’s Edinburgh Film Festival. The film revolved around a widowed man called Frank (played by Hawkes), who reluctantly embarks on a journey to honour his wife’s last wish of spreading her ashes in a remote lake in her native Ireland. The story of this new project, penned in its entirety by the director himself, is based on Jón Kalman Stefánsson’s 2005 novel of the same name. The enigmatic plot goes like this: the Village is brimming with stories and if you listen carefully, it might just tell you.
- 12/19/2019
- Cineuropa - The Best of European Cinema
In today’s film news roundup, “Roma” is getting a DVD release, Joaquin Phoenix backs an animal rights documentary, Humanitas announces nominations and “The Wretched” finds a home.
Roma DVD
Alfonso Cuaron’s “Roma” has become the first Netflix movie to get a Blu-Ray and DVD release, thanks to the Criterion Collection launching a special edition in February.
The release will include five separate documentaries about the creation of the film, and will feature the same 4K master and Dolby Atmos sound that were in the theatrical release. The movie won Academy Awards for Cuaron’s directing and cinematography along with the foreign-language film Oscar.
“Roma” follows Yalitza Aparicio, who plays a live-in housekeeper in the middle-class neighborhood of Roma in Mexico City. It became Mexico’s first winner of the Oscar for foreign-language feature. The pic, produced by Esperanto Filmoj and Participant Media, joined foreign-language movies “Life Is Beautiful,...
Roma DVD
Alfonso Cuaron’s “Roma” has become the first Netflix movie to get a Blu-Ray and DVD release, thanks to the Criterion Collection launching a special edition in February.
The release will include five separate documentaries about the creation of the film, and will feature the same 4K master and Dolby Atmos sound that were in the theatrical release. The movie won Academy Awards for Cuaron’s directing and cinematography along with the foreign-language film Oscar.
“Roma” follows Yalitza Aparicio, who plays a live-in housekeeper in the middle-class neighborhood of Roma in Mexico City. It became Mexico’s first winner of the Oscar for foreign-language feature. The pic, produced by Esperanto Filmoj and Participant Media, joined foreign-language movies “Life Is Beautiful,...
- 11/16/2019
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Finalists have been revealed for the 2020 Humanitas Prize, which honors film and television writers whose work inspires compassion, hope, and understanding in the human family. Titles include awards-season heavies Bombshell, It’s a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood and The Farewell on the film side and When They See Us, Pose, This Is Us and The Handmaid’s Tale on the small-screen side.
It’s the 45th year for the honors that hands out awards in 10 categories — two new categories, Limited Series, TV Movie or Special and Short Film, are newcomers this year.
Winners will be announced at the 45th annual Humanitas Prize ceremony January 24, 2020 at the Beverly Hilton.
Here are this year’s finalists:
Drama Feature Film
A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood
Written by Micah Fitzerman-Blue & Noah Harpster; inspired by the article “Can You Say… Hero?” by Tom Junod
A Hidden Life
Written and directed by Terrence Malick...
It’s the 45th year for the honors that hands out awards in 10 categories — two new categories, Limited Series, TV Movie or Special and Short Film, are newcomers this year.
Winners will be announced at the 45th annual Humanitas Prize ceremony January 24, 2020 at the Beverly Hilton.
Here are this year’s finalists:
Drama Feature Film
A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood
Written by Micah Fitzerman-Blue & Noah Harpster; inspired by the article “Can You Say… Hero?” by Tom Junod
A Hidden Life
Written and directed by Terrence Malick...
- 11/15/2019
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
16th festival under the direction of Hronn Marinosdottir also showcases new Icelandic works in progress.
The 16th Rejykavik International Film Festival (Riff) has awarded its top prize – the Golden Puffin - to Shahrbanoo Sadat’s The Orphanage, the Bollywood-tinged drama about an Afghan boy who is sent to a Russian facility which is enjoying a strong festival run after its premiere at Quinzaine in May. The winner of the sidebar Competition, A Different Tomorrow, went to the documentary Midnight Traveller, by Hassan Fazili, a documentary performer since its Sundance bow.
The Puffin awards capped a busy festival in which...
The 16th Rejykavik International Film Festival (Riff) has awarded its top prize – the Golden Puffin - to Shahrbanoo Sadat’s The Orphanage, the Bollywood-tinged drama about an Afghan boy who is sent to a Russian facility which is enjoying a strong festival run after its premiere at Quinzaine in May. The winner of the sidebar Competition, A Different Tomorrow, went to the documentary Midnight Traveller, by Hassan Fazili, a documentary performer since its Sundance bow.
The Puffin awards capped a busy festival in which...
- 10/5/2019
- by 172¦Fionnuala Halligan¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
16th festival under the direction of Hronn Marinosdottir also showcases new Icelandic works in progress.
The 16th Rejykavik International Film Festival (Riff) has awarded its top prize – the Golden Puffin - to Shahrbanoo Sadat’s The Orphanage, the Bollywood-tinged drama about an Afghan boy who is sent to a Russian facility which is enjoying a strong festival run after its premiere at Quinzaine in May. The winner of the sidebar Competition, A Different Tomorrow, went to the documentary Midnight Traveller, by Hassan Fazili, a documentary performer since its Sundance bow.
The Puffin awards capped a busy festival in which...
The 16th Rejykavik International Film Festival (Riff) has awarded its top prize – the Golden Puffin - to Shahrbanoo Sadat’s The Orphanage, the Bollywood-tinged drama about an Afghan boy who is sent to a Russian facility which is enjoying a strong festival run after its premiere at Quinzaine in May. The winner of the sidebar Competition, A Different Tomorrow, went to the documentary Midnight Traveller, by Hassan Fazili, a documentary performer since its Sundance bow.
The Puffin awards capped a busy festival in which...
- 10/5/2019
- by 172¦Fionnuala Halligan¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
"They're my children. I'm their mother. And I love them." Signature Entertainment has debuted an official UK trailer for the indie crime thriller A Good Woman Is Hard to Find, the latest from filmmaker Abner Pastoll. This first premiered at Fantasia this summer, and is premiering in the UK at FrightFest this month before opening in cinemas this fall. Sarah Bolger stars in this film as a recently widowed young mother who will go to any lengths to protect her children as she seeks the truth behind her husband's murder. Also starring Edward Hogg, Andrew Simpson, Jane Brennan, Caolan Byrne, Packy Lee, Rudy Doherty, Macie McCauley, and Susan Ateh. Described as a "dynamic killer thriller with its finger firmly on the pulses of stark social commentary and shattering suspense," Pastoll has made a "dazzling, dark and daring journey through Northern Ireland’s criminal ...
- 8/20/2019
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
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