The Latvian director-screenwriter’s new feature is an experimental fairy tale starring Madeleine Valdberg, Elza Leimane and Lauris Dzelzītis in the lead roles. Award-winning Latvian filmmaker Laila Pakalniņa is now working on a new, groundbreaking project, an experimental fairy tale of a feature entitled In the Mirror. The Liepāja-born writer-director is best known for her drama The Shoe, screened in the Un Certain Regard section of the 1998 Cannes Film Festival, and other successful works such as Three Men and a Fish Pond (2008), Dream Land (2004) and The Python (2003), as well as her latest effort, the Karlovy Vary-screened Spoon. The film will be created using special “selfie stylistics” and will transpose the traditional Snow White fairy tale to the youth-centric present day. The director disclosed a few plot details to Cineuropa: “A CrossFit trainer becomes the father of a baby girl, Snow White. Snow White’s mother dies, and her...
Angelina Jolie’s Maleficent is back and she’s unleashing her fury in the first official trailer for “Maleficent: Mistress of Evil.”
The sequel to the 2014 “Snow White” prequel stars Jolie and Elle Fanning, reprising their roles as the dark fairy Maleficent and Princess Aurora. The film also stars Michelle Pfeiffer, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Sam Riley, Harris Dickinson, Ed Skrein, Imelda Staunton, Juno Temple and Lesley Manville.
Joachim Ronning directs from a script by Micah Fitzerman-Blue, Noah Harpaster and Linda Wolverton.
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The years have been kind to Maleficent and Aurora. Their relationship, born of heartbreak, revenge and ultimately love, has flourished. Yet the hatred between man and the fairies still exists. Aurora’s impending marriage to Prince Phillip is cause for celebration in the kingdom of Ulstead and the neighboring Moors, as the wedding serves to unite the two worlds.
The sequel to the 2014 “Snow White” prequel stars Jolie and Elle Fanning, reprising their roles as the dark fairy Maleficent and Princess Aurora. The film also stars Michelle Pfeiffer, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Sam Riley, Harris Dickinson, Ed Skrein, Imelda Staunton, Juno Temple and Lesley Manville.
Joachim Ronning directs from a script by Micah Fitzerman-Blue, Noah Harpaster and Linda Wolverton.
Also Read: 'Mulan' Teaser Shows Live-Action Heroine as Sword-Wielding, Arrow-Shooting Warrior (Video)
The years have been kind to Maleficent and Aurora. Their relationship, born of heartbreak, revenge and ultimately love, has flourished. Yet the hatred between man and the fairies still exists. Aurora’s impending marriage to Prince Phillip is cause for celebration in the kingdom of Ulstead and the neighboring Moors, as the wedding serves to unite the two worlds.
- 7/8/2019
- by Thom Geier
- The Wrap
Movie sales and distribution company Infotainment China comes to the Shanghai International Film Festival optimistic about Chinese audience trends, but gloomy about current business conditions.
“The market is bad and industry players are very pessimistic. I just hope it doesn’t get worse,” said Infotainment CEO Cindy Lin, though she noted that such periods of trouble are also just part of the cycle of business as usual in the territory.
“The China market has always been a turbulent one under strict government control, with many rises and falls,” she said. “Before, the market’s total volume was smaller, so when there was turbulence, the shock waves were also more contained. Now the market is bigger, so the impact of such waves are also more widely felt.”
One positive development for those in the art-house sector has been the growing influence of young audiences with more cosmopolitan tastes.
“The population of...
“The market is bad and industry players are very pessimistic. I just hope it doesn’t get worse,” said Infotainment CEO Cindy Lin, though she noted that such periods of trouble are also just part of the cycle of business as usual in the territory.
“The China market has always been a turbulent one under strict government control, with many rises and falls,” she said. “Before, the market’s total volume was smaller, so when there was turbulence, the shock waves were also more contained. Now the market is bigger, so the impact of such waves are also more widely felt.”
One positive development for those in the art-house sector has been the growing influence of young audiences with more cosmopolitan tastes.
“The population of...
- 6/19/2019
- by Rebecca Davis
- Variety Film + TV
Oscar-winning director Michel Hazanavicius is set to adapt Jean-Claude Grumberg’s bestselling tale “La plus precious des marchandises” into an animated feature film. The Dardenne brothers are co-producing the film with Studiocanal, which will handle all rights, including international sales.
The tale, set during World War II against the backdrop of the Holocaust, is produced by Patrick Sobelman and Robert Guédiguian at France’s Ex Nihilo, and Florence Gastaud, Riad Sattouf and Hazanavicius at Les Compagnons de Cinéma. Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne are co-producing via their banner Les Films du Fleuve. Valérie Schermann’s company, Prima Linéa, whose track record includes the award-winning “The Red Turtle,” will be handling the animation.
The story intertwines the fates of a Jewish family, including newborn twins, who are arrested in Paris and deported to Auschwitz, and a poor and childless woodcutter couple living in the depths of a Polish forest. While on a train to the death camp,...
The tale, set during World War II against the backdrop of the Holocaust, is produced by Patrick Sobelman and Robert Guédiguian at France’s Ex Nihilo, and Florence Gastaud, Riad Sattouf and Hazanavicius at Les Compagnons de Cinéma. Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne are co-producing via their banner Les Films du Fleuve. Valérie Schermann’s company, Prima Linéa, whose track record includes the award-winning “The Red Turtle,” will be handling the animation.
The story intertwines the fates of a Jewish family, including newborn twins, who are arrested in Paris and deported to Auschwitz, and a poor and childless woodcutter couple living in the depths of a Polish forest. While on a train to the death camp,...
- 6/6/2019
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Need a quick recap of the past week in movie news? Here are the highlights: Big News Snow White remake found its director: Disney is moving ahead with its live-action reimagining of their very first animated feature, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, and they’ve tapped Marc Webb (The Amazing Spider-Man) to direct. According to Variety, songwriters Pasek and Paul, hot off their addition to the live-action Aladdin, will write new songs for this adaptation as...
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- 5/31/2019
- by affiliates@fandango.com
- Fandango
The first-ever Disney movie is getting the live-action treatment.
(500) Days of Summer and Amazing Spider-Man director Marc Webb is reportedly in talks to helm Disney’s remake of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the German fairy tale that became Walt Disney’s first animated film in 1938. Variety reports that Webb is the studio’s top choice to take on the movie.
Snow White joins other live-action adaptations of Disney classics, like 2015’s Cinderella, 2017’s Beauty and the Beast and 2019’s Dumbo, Aladdin and Lion King. Also set to hit the big screen is the Mulan remake, with a March 2020 release date.
(500) Days of Summer and Amazing Spider-Man director Marc Webb is reportedly in talks to helm Disney’s remake of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the German fairy tale that became Walt Disney’s first animated film in 1938. Variety reports that Webb is the studio’s top choice to take on the movie.
Snow White joins other live-action adaptations of Disney classics, like 2015’s Cinderella, 2017’s Beauty and the Beast and 2019’s Dumbo, Aladdin and Lion King. Also set to hit the big screen is the Mulan remake, with a March 2020 release date.
- 5/31/2019
- by Ale Russian
- PEOPLE.com
Disney isn’t finished making live-action remakes of their classic animated films yet! In fact, their very first animated feature film Snow White is currently is development and the studio is looking to hire Marc Webb to direct it. He’s currently in negotiations.
Snow White is a super dark film and I hope that they don’t change that up. That’s one of the reasons why I liked that movie so much, is that it embraced the crazy darkness of the story. I’ve enjoyed many of the films that Webb has made and I think he’s a solid choice for this. I just hope that he and Disney don’t lighten things up.
The final act of the original film gave me nightmares as a kid! Hopefully this new film brings back those nightmares. As for the script, The Girl on the Train screenwriter Erin Cressida Wilson...
Snow White is a super dark film and I hope that they don’t change that up. That’s one of the reasons why I liked that movie so much, is that it embraced the crazy darkness of the story. I’ve enjoyed many of the films that Webb has made and I think he’s a solid choice for this. I just hope that he and Disney don’t lighten things up.
The final act of the original film gave me nightmares as a kid! Hopefully this new film brings back those nightmares. As for the script, The Girl on the Train screenwriter Erin Cressida Wilson...
- 5/31/2019
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
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