Netflix is doing its best Angel Studios impression with “Testament: The Story of Moses,” a three-part documentary series premiering on March 27, 2024. Angel, the studio behind surprise box-office hit “Sound of Freedom,” is not actually involved; “Testament” is a Karga Seven Pictures production.
Unlike “Sound of Freedom,” “The Story of Moses” will not have a theatrical release. Even if it were cut as a feature-length film instead of a docuseries, that’s just not how Netflix rolls — it wants longterm subscribers, not a one-time box office boon.
“Testament: The Story of Moses” explores the life of Moses and his rise from outcast and murderer to prophet and liberator of the Hebrews, according to the logline. Netflix released the trailer on Tuesday, March 5.
The docuseries’ presentation is part scripted drama, part documentary-style interviews. There are the locusts and the sea-parting and all the greatest hits from the Bible, the Qur’an, and the Torah.
Unlike “Sound of Freedom,” “The Story of Moses” will not have a theatrical release. Even if it were cut as a feature-length film instead of a docuseries, that’s just not how Netflix rolls — it wants longterm subscribers, not a one-time box office boon.
“Testament: The Story of Moses” explores the life of Moses and his rise from outcast and murderer to prophet and liberator of the Hebrews, according to the logline. Netflix released the trailer on Tuesday, March 5.
The docuseries’ presentation is part scripted drama, part documentary-style interviews. There are the locusts and the sea-parting and all the greatest hits from the Bible, the Qur’an, and the Torah.
- 3/5/2024
- by Tony Maglio
- Indiewire
I don’t know of many Christmas horror adaptations. Sure, I could probably look at the history of Krampus and piece something together but other than that I’m hard pressed so let me know in the comments what I could cover next holiday season. Winter in general has all sorts of movies and stories that they are based off of. The very first episode of this show was all about The Thing and its source material Who Goes There and now in the middle of winter, at least in Colorado, I think it’s time to look at one of the better vampire properties of the 2000s and a great limited series comic. 30 Days of Night was originally pitched as a movie but when it was turned down, the comic came out and put the author’s name on the map. As is the nature of Hollywood, it...
- 1/22/2024
- by Andrew Hatfield
- JoBlo.com
Exclusive: Actor Luis Guzman has signed on to star in the feature Miles Away, which Grandave International is launching as part of its slate at the American Film Market.
Written and directed by Jackie Quinones, synopsis reads: A dreamer making ends meet as a rideshare driver is on a collision course with reality as she struggles with the hardships of poverty, bad decisions, and a mentally ill sister.
Alongside Miles Away, Grandave is launching thrillers No Way Out and Shut Eye. No Way Out tells the story of the character Matteo, played by Jeff Adler (Beautiful Boy.) He is forced to take on a double murder case after the suspect threatens his family. Attorney Brian Nelson begins to unravel the facts and learns the case isn’t what it seems. Acquired at the Miff 37 South Market, Shut Eye is a 90-minute drama where to cure their insomnia, a social outcast...
Written and directed by Jackie Quinones, synopsis reads: A dreamer making ends meet as a rideshare driver is on a collision course with reality as she struggles with the hardships of poverty, bad decisions, and a mentally ill sister.
Alongside Miles Away, Grandave is launching thrillers No Way Out and Shut Eye. No Way Out tells the story of the character Matteo, played by Jeff Adler (Beautiful Boy.) He is forced to take on a double murder case after the suspect threatens his family. Attorney Brian Nelson begins to unravel the facts and learns the case isn’t what it seems. Acquired at the Miff 37 South Market, Shut Eye is a 90-minute drama where to cure their insomnia, a social outcast...
- 11/3/2023
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
Kvea and Kcet each won eight trophies at the 75th Los Angeles Area Emmy Awards to lead the field just like they did at the nomination stage. Telemundo’s Kvea swept all three regularly scheduled newscast categories, morning, daytime and evening. CBS/KCAL9 followed with 4 wins, with ABC7 and Spectrum SportsNet LA tied at 3 and Kmex, Spectrum News 1 and Spectrum SportsNet at 2. The honored telecasts included two tributes to local icon Vin Scully who died last summer.
The ceremony was held Saturday night at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel whose workers have been on strike for a new contract. Videos of attendees crossing the picket line to enter the hotel were tweeted by Unite Here Local 11, which called out the TV Academy for holding the event at the struck location. In its criticism of the Academy over the choice of location, the hotel workers union was joined by striking Hollywood...
The ceremony was held Saturday night at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel whose workers have been on strike for a new contract. Videos of attendees crossing the picket line to enter the hotel were tweeted by Unite Here Local 11, which called out the TV Academy for holding the event at the struck location. In its criticism of the Academy over the choice of location, the hotel workers union was joined by striking Hollywood...
- 7/23/2023
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Creepy, homicidal children have long been a staple of the horror genre. This week brings the release of brand new movie Children of the Corn, the eleventh entry in the long-running franchise. It comes on the heels of Homebound arriving on Screambox and the release of Roxanne Benjamin’s new movie There’s Something Wrong with the Children on VOD outlets.
Kids are always terrifying. This week’s streaming picks highlight just how unsettling they can be; there’s nothing sweet about these little homicidal maniacs.
As always, here’s where you can watch them this week.
For more Stay Home, Watch Horror picks, click here.
The Good Son – Starz
Anyone familiar with Home Alone’s Kevin McCallister and his ruthless handling of home intruders likely won’t find it difficult to buy Macaulay Culkin’s villainous turn in this psychological horror movie. But Culkin turns up the terror here in a compelling way.
Kids are always terrifying. This week’s streaming picks highlight just how unsettling they can be; there’s nothing sweet about these little homicidal maniacs.
As always, here’s where you can watch them this week.
For more Stay Home, Watch Horror picks, click here.
The Good Son – Starz
Anyone familiar with Home Alone’s Kevin McCallister and his ruthless handling of home intruders likely won’t find it difficult to buy Macaulay Culkin’s villainous turn in this psychological horror movie. But Culkin turns up the terror here in a compelling way.
- 2/27/2023
- by Meagan Navarro
- bloody-disgusting.com
Christopher B. Stokes, the directors of such films as House Party 4, You Got Served, Somebody Help Me, Somebody Help Me 2, The Stepmother, and The Stepmother 2, is about to send four more movies out into the world over the course of just three months – and it’s all thanks to the Tubi streaming service. Continuing to get into original programming (previous Tubi originals include the Terror Train remake and its sequel), Tubi has teamed up with Footage Films to bring four “Black cinema thrillers” to their service. Stokes has directed all four of the movies and wrote the scripts for each one with Marques Houston.
First up is The Assistant, which is set to reach Tubi on January 20th. Variety reports that The Assistant follows doctor Raven Fields (Erica Mena) who finds herself drowning in work and looks to hire an assistant to help with her day-to-day. Taking a chance on a young and cheery woman,...
First up is The Assistant, which is set to reach Tubi on January 20th. Variety reports that The Assistant follows doctor Raven Fields (Erica Mena) who finds herself drowning in work and looks to hire an assistant to help with her day-to-day. Taking a chance on a young and cheery woman,...
- 1/13/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
Tubi is set to launch four new original Black cinema thrillers from Footage Films: “The Assistant,” “Best Friend,” “You’re Not Alone” and “No Way Out.”
The four upcoming thrillers are directed by Christopher B. Stokes from scripts the filmmaker co-wrote with Marques Houston. Stokes and Houston also serve as executive producers on the films, with Footage Films president Juanita Stokes as producer. Tubi has previously worked with Footage Films on several original films, including “The Stepmother” and “The Stepmother 2.”
Per the logline, “The Assistant” follows doctor Raven Fields (Erica Mena) who “finds herself drowning in work and looks to hire an assistant to help with her day-to-day. Taking a chance on a young and cheery woman, Raven believes she’s found the perfect person until assistance turns into obsession, and she risks losing everything, including her life.” In addition to Mena, the film stars Parker McKenna Posey, Flex Alexander,...
The four upcoming thrillers are directed by Christopher B. Stokes from scripts the filmmaker co-wrote with Marques Houston. Stokes and Houston also serve as executive producers on the films, with Footage Films president Juanita Stokes as producer. Tubi has previously worked with Footage Films on several original films, including “The Stepmother” and “The Stepmother 2.”
Per the logline, “The Assistant” follows doctor Raven Fields (Erica Mena) who “finds herself drowning in work and looks to hire an assistant to help with her day-to-day. Taking a chance on a young and cheery woman, Raven believes she’s found the perfect person until assistance turns into obsession, and she risks losing everything, including her life.” In addition to Mena, the film stars Parker McKenna Posey, Flex Alexander,...
- 1/12/2023
- by Michaela Zee
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Television writer-producer, Wayne Conley, has signed with APA.
Conley’s recent television credits range from Showtime’s White Famous to OWN’s Delilah and Greenleaf, and he’s currently developing a fast-tracked half-hour dramedy for FX. Conley’s numerous feature film credits include Fox Searchlight’s Our Family Wedding, directed by Rick Famuyiwa and director Jeff Byrd’s King’s Ransom.
Conley is the latest scribe to ink with APA since the agency signed the WGA’s franchise agreement earlier this year. Other recent signings include Spinning Out showrunner Lara Olsen, American Gods executive producer Anne Kenney, Killer Women creator Hannah Shakespeare, The Middle executive producer Tim Hobert, Emerald City creator Matthew Arnold, 11.22.63 executive producer Brian Nelson, The Son co-creator Lee Shipman and Rescue Me executive producer Evan Reilly.
Conley continues to be repped by Brad Kaplan at Link Entertainment and Rob Szymanski at Eclipse Law.
Conley’s recent television credits range from Showtime’s White Famous to OWN’s Delilah and Greenleaf, and he’s currently developing a fast-tracked half-hour dramedy for FX. Conley’s numerous feature film credits include Fox Searchlight’s Our Family Wedding, directed by Rick Famuyiwa and director Jeff Byrd’s King’s Ransom.
Conley is the latest scribe to ink with APA since the agency signed the WGA’s franchise agreement earlier this year. Other recent signings include Spinning Out showrunner Lara Olsen, American Gods executive producer Anne Kenney, Killer Women creator Hannah Shakespeare, The Middle executive producer Tim Hobert, Emerald City creator Matthew Arnold, 11.22.63 executive producer Brian Nelson, The Son co-creator Lee Shipman and Rescue Me executive producer Evan Reilly.
Conley continues to be repped by Brad Kaplan at Link Entertainment and Rob Szymanski at Eclipse Law.
- 8/12/2020
- by Justin Kroll
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Luisa Leschin, who is currently co-exec producer of Netflix’s Mr. Iglesias, has signed with APA.
Leschin is an industry vet having worked on shows such as as George Lopez, Everybody Hates Chris and East Los High.
She began her career as a ballet dancer then turned to acting, having appeared in many iconic TV series including Beverly Hills 90210, Love Boat, ER, Quincy, Falcon Crest and Hill St. Blues. On the feature side, she has appeared in Saturday Night Fever and True Confessions.
Last year, she was the recipient of Norman Lear Writer’s Award at the 34th Annual Imagen Awards. She also co-founded theater group, Latins Anonymous, to give Latinx more opportunities.
Leschin (left) is the latest writer-producer to ink with APA since the agency signed the WGA’s franchise agreement earlier this year. Other recent signings include Spinning Out showrunner Lara Olsen, American Gods executive producer Anne Kenney,...
Leschin is an industry vet having worked on shows such as as George Lopez, Everybody Hates Chris and East Los High.
She began her career as a ballet dancer then turned to acting, having appeared in many iconic TV series including Beverly Hills 90210, Love Boat, ER, Quincy, Falcon Crest and Hill St. Blues. On the feature side, she has appeared in Saturday Night Fever and True Confessions.
Last year, she was the recipient of Norman Lear Writer’s Award at the 34th Annual Imagen Awards. She also co-founded theater group, Latins Anonymous, to give Latinx more opportunities.
Leschin (left) is the latest writer-producer to ink with APA since the agency signed the WGA’s franchise agreement earlier this year. Other recent signings include Spinning Out showrunner Lara Olsen, American Gods executive producer Anne Kenney,...
- 8/5/2020
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Screenwriter and former Defense Intelligence Agency officer, Mitchell Lafortune has inked with APA.
Lafortune, who has served on multiple intelligence deployments to Afghanistan, recently penned Burn Run which turned into Kandahar, repping Gerard Butler’s reteam with his Angel Has Fallen filmmaker Ric Roman Waugh. Kandahar was a notable seller in the recent 2020 virtual Cannes market, as Deadline first told you.
Lafortune has worked on revisions for Butler’s Greenland, Robocop Returns for MGM, Split Second, Manhunt for Solstice, and The Gone World for 20th Century Studios.
Additionally, Lafortune just signed on to adapt the 2019 documentary Last Breath, a suspenseful survival story of deep-sea saturation diving that occurred in 2012 for Gold Circle, as well as an action franchise set in the Middle East for M.B.C. studios.
Earlier this week, Lafortune became attached for the feature adaptation of author Perry O’Brien’s revenge thriller, Fire in The Blood,...
Lafortune, who has served on multiple intelligence deployments to Afghanistan, recently penned Burn Run which turned into Kandahar, repping Gerard Butler’s reteam with his Angel Has Fallen filmmaker Ric Roman Waugh. Kandahar was a notable seller in the recent 2020 virtual Cannes market, as Deadline first told you.
Lafortune has worked on revisions for Butler’s Greenland, Robocop Returns for MGM, Split Second, Manhunt for Solstice, and The Gone World for 20th Century Studios.
Additionally, Lafortune just signed on to adapt the 2019 documentary Last Breath, a suspenseful survival story of deep-sea saturation diving that occurred in 2012 for Gold Circle, as well as an action franchise set in the Middle East for M.B.C. studios.
Earlier this week, Lafortune became attached for the feature adaptation of author Perry O’Brien’s revenge thriller, Fire in The Blood,...
- 7/31/2020
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Apa has signed executive producer-writer-creator Brian Nelson. He was formerly with CAA.
Nelson recently served as executive producer on Stephen King’s 11.22.63 at Hulu, on Syfy’s Nightflyers based on the novella by George R.R. Martin, DaVinci’s Demons at Starz, and as co-executive producer on Altered Carbon at Netflix. On the film side, his first feature Hard Candy, starring Ellen Page, remains a cult classic. He went on to write 30 Days of Night for David Slade with Sam Raimi producing, and Devil for M. Night Shyamalan’s Blinding Edge Pictures. Nelson continues to be repped by Management 360.
Apa is one of a few full-service agencies in the industry currently able to represent writers during the ongoing WGA standoff. Earlier this year, the agency signed the WGA’s franchise agreement after merging its television and motion picture divisions under the banner of Apa Scripted Literary to offer clients a forward-thinking approach to representation.
Nelson recently served as executive producer on Stephen King’s 11.22.63 at Hulu, on Syfy’s Nightflyers based on the novella by George R.R. Martin, DaVinci’s Demons at Starz, and as co-executive producer on Altered Carbon at Netflix. On the film side, his first feature Hard Candy, starring Ellen Page, remains a cult classic. He went on to write 30 Days of Night for David Slade with Sam Raimi producing, and Devil for M. Night Shyamalan’s Blinding Edge Pictures. Nelson continues to be repped by Management 360.
Apa is one of a few full-service agencies in the industry currently able to represent writers during the ongoing WGA standoff. Earlier this year, the agency signed the WGA’s franchise agreement after merging its television and motion picture divisions under the banner of Apa Scripted Literary to offer clients a forward-thinking approach to representation.
- 5/19/2020
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Syfy has opted not to renew Nightflyers for a second season. A rep for the network confirmed to Deadline that Syfy would not be picking up additional episodes of the high-profile space horror drama based on the novella by George R.R. Martin.
Nighflyers, which went straight-to-series after Netflix came on board as co-producer/international distributor alongside Ucp, had a multi-platform rollout in December, with all 10 episodes debuting across all Syfy platforms timed to the beginning of the linear telecast.
The series’ linear ratings were pretty modest despite stunts that included telecasts with limited commercial interruption across all platforms and weekend marathons giving fans an additional opportunity to catch up on the series.
Nightflyers had been conceived as an ongoing series but I hear that following its freshman season run, Syfy brass concluded that it was better off as a one-off limited series. The options on the cast were let to expire,...
Nighflyers, which went straight-to-series after Netflix came on board as co-producer/international distributor alongside Ucp, had a multi-platform rollout in December, with all 10 episodes debuting across all Syfy platforms timed to the beginning of the linear telecast.
The series’ linear ratings were pretty modest despite stunts that included telecasts with limited commercial interruption across all platforms and weekend marathons giving fans an additional opportunity to catch up on the series.
Nightflyers had been conceived as an ongoing series but I hear that following its freshman season run, Syfy brass concluded that it was better off as a one-off limited series. The options on the cast were let to expire,...
- 2/20/2019
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
“Nightflyers” begins with a compelling sequence taken from late in its story’s action, in which Dr. Agatha Matheson (Gretchen Mol) is fighting for her life on a space journey gone horribly wrong. She’s fleeing an assailant who seems compelled by something unearthly, and goes on to send a warning to whomever out there is listening not to bring her ship back to Earth but to leave it where it lies, a vessel too compromised to breach our familiar atmosphere. She goes on, within the show’s first five minutes, to kill herself.
It’s a striking opening to a show that doesn’t quite earn it. “Nightflyers,” based on the pre-Westeros writing of George R. R. Martin, is a fine addition to an onscreen canon that’s already well-stuffed — that of the space horror story. But it flails when it comes to doing anything new with a metaphor that’s been worn thin,...
It’s a striking opening to a show that doesn’t quite earn it. “Nightflyers,” based on the pre-Westeros writing of George R. R. Martin, is a fine addition to an onscreen canon that’s already well-stuffed — that of the space horror story. But it flails when it comes to doing anything new with a metaphor that’s been worn thin,...
- 11/30/2018
- by Daniel D'Addario
- Variety Film + TV
Syfy has set a multi-platform rollout for Nightflyers, the anticipated original space horror drama based on the novella by George R.R. Martin. Beginning December 2, all 10 episodes will debut across all Syfy platforms timed to the beginning of the linear telecast.
Episodes 1-5 will debut Sunday, December 2 through Thursday, December 6 at 10/9c, and episodes 6-10 on Sunday, December 9 through Thursday, December 13 at 10/9c with limited commercial interruption across all platforms. Weekend marathons will give fans an additional opportunity to catch up on the series.
Later today New York Comic Con attendees will get an exclusive look at Nightflyers in a world premiere screening, followed by a Q&A with the show’s cast and creators.
Set in the year 2093, Nightflyers, based on Martin’s novella, follows a team of scientists aboard The Nightflyer, the most advanced ship ever built, as they embark on a journey to find other life forms. Their...
Episodes 1-5 will debut Sunday, December 2 through Thursday, December 6 at 10/9c, and episodes 6-10 on Sunday, December 9 through Thursday, December 13 at 10/9c with limited commercial interruption across all platforms. Weekend marathons will give fans an additional opportunity to catch up on the series.
Later today New York Comic Con attendees will get an exclusive look at Nightflyers in a world premiere screening, followed by a Q&A with the show’s cast and creators.
Set in the year 2093, Nightflyers, based on Martin’s novella, follows a team of scientists aboard The Nightflyer, the most advanced ship ever built, as they embark on a journey to find other life forms. Their...
- 10/5/2018
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
A new promo for Syfy’s upcoming series “Nightflyers” teases “no escape” for the space travelers on board the Nightflyer, the most advanced ship ever built.
“Each of us had our own reasons for boarding this ship,” a disembodied voice says in the teaser. “We were all running from something. But on the Nightflyer, there’s no place to hide. There is no escape.” The series, set in 2093 is about a team of scientists that sets out into space to find other life forms and is based on “Game of Thrones” author George R. R. Martin’s novella.
It was announced Friday that the first five episodes will be available to fans from Dec. 2 – Dec. 6, and episodes 6-10 from De. 9 – Dec. 13. Viewers will be able to watch on the Syfy channel, Syfy On Demand, online at Syfy.com and the Syfy app.
Also Read: NBC Universal's Syfy Extends Partnership...
“Each of us had our own reasons for boarding this ship,” a disembodied voice says in the teaser. “We were all running from something. But on the Nightflyer, there’s no place to hide. There is no escape.” The series, set in 2093 is about a team of scientists that sets out into space to find other life forms and is based on “Game of Thrones” author George R. R. Martin’s novella.
It was announced Friday that the first five episodes will be available to fans from Dec. 2 – Dec. 6, and episodes 6-10 from De. 9 – Dec. 13. Viewers will be able to watch on the Syfy channel, Syfy On Demand, online at Syfy.com and the Syfy app.
Also Read: NBC Universal's Syfy Extends Partnership...
- 10/5/2018
- by Ashley Boucher
- The Wrap
It's only the first official day of San Diego Comic Con but we already have some significant science fiction to tide us over for fall.
In addition to Doctor Who and Origin, we can now add George R.R. Martin's Nightflyers to the list.
These people are going to have to fight harder to stay alive than they've ever fought for anything.
In 2093, in hopes of making contact with a mysterious alien life at the edge of our solar system, a group of maverick scientists and a powerful telepath embark on an expedition aboard The Nightflyer.
Related: Origin Teaser: YouTube Red Premieres First Look at Comic Con!
As they race towards first contact, terrifying and violent events begin to occur, causing the once tight-knit crew to mistrust each other.
It's not long before their main mission becomes survival.
This sounds very familiar to me and most like the fantastic but...
In addition to Doctor Who and Origin, we can now add George R.R. Martin's Nightflyers to the list.
These people are going to have to fight harder to stay alive than they've ever fought for anything.
In 2093, in hopes of making contact with a mysterious alien life at the edge of our solar system, a group of maverick scientists and a powerful telepath embark on an expedition aboard The Nightflyer.
Related: Origin Teaser: YouTube Red Premieres First Look at Comic Con!
As they race towards first contact, terrifying and violent events begin to occur, causing the once tight-knit crew to mistrust each other.
It's not long before their main mission becomes survival.
This sounds very familiar to me and most like the fantastic but...
- 7/19/2018
- by Carissa Pavlica
- TVfanatic
Syfy has unveiled teasers for its new series, George R.R. Martin’s Nightflyers and Deadly Class. See both below.
Nightflyers is a supernatural thriller based on the novella by George R.R. Martin (Game of Thrones) and the 1987 film. Jeff Buhler (Jacob’s Ladder) wrote the adaptation, is showrunner and executive producer. The series follows eight maverick scientists and a powerful telepath who embark on an expedition to the edge of our solar system aboard The Nightflyer – a ship with a small tightknit crew and a reclusive captain — in the hope of making contact with alien life. But when terrifying and violent events begin to take place they start to question each other — and surviving the journey proves harder than anyone thought.
The series is produced by Universal Cable Productions. Netflix will co-produce and have first-run rights to the series outside of the U.S.
Martin executive produces with Brian Nelson,...
Nightflyers is a supernatural thriller based on the novella by George R.R. Martin (Game of Thrones) and the 1987 film. Jeff Buhler (Jacob’s Ladder) wrote the adaptation, is showrunner and executive producer. The series follows eight maverick scientists and a powerful telepath who embark on an expedition to the edge of our solar system aboard The Nightflyer – a ship with a small tightknit crew and a reclusive captain — in the hope of making contact with alien life. But when terrifying and violent events begin to take place they start to question each other — and surviving the journey proves harder than anyone thought.
The series is produced by Universal Cable Productions. Netflix will co-produce and have first-run rights to the series outside of the U.S.
Martin executive produces with Brian Nelson,...
- 5/14/2018
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Steven Shainberg’s Rupture begins with an image of something I hate – a spider – and ends with another image of something I also hate – another spider. Is there any correlation between my hatred of spiders and my issues with this film? No, I’ve survived the likes of Eight Legged Freaks and Spiders 3D. My qualms are instead with Brian Nelson’s screenplay, based on a half-baked “idea” torn from one single sequence in Tim Miller’s Deadpool. While I might hate surprise spiders, (others do too, so you’re welcome), steadfast direction and tingling thrills are worth any arachnophobia jolts. Alas, these are two things that escape Shainberg’s cold, imprisoning experiment. Two of many.
Noomi Rapace stars as Renee, a single mother living in Kansas City who’s about to conquer her fears! Not in the way she expected, though. Renee’s plans of skydiving are derailed when...
Noomi Rapace stars as Renee, a single mother living in Kansas City who’s about to conquer her fears! Not in the way she expected, though. Renee’s plans of skydiving are derailed when...
- 5/2/2017
- by Matt Donato
- We Got This Covered
It’s taken ten years, but Secretary director Steven Shainberg has finally followed-up Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus. The result is Rupture, a body horror-lite tale about a woman held captive as part of an experiment meant to unlock humanity’s hidden potential to evolve beyond our current state. Written by Brian Nelson (the two share story credit), its script seeks to mess with our expectations as it does its prisoner Renee (Noomi Rapace). We’re to cultivate a sense of paranoia with surveillance dominating the first act to a point where we must scratch our heads at act two’s distinct lack of it to facilitate Renee’s actions. Is this shift an unfortunate plot-hole or merely deflection to distract us? Is it hallucination or reality, trick or mistake?
These are the questions we should ask because they allow us to dig deeper into the events surrounding...
These are the questions we should ask because they allow us to dig deeper into the events surrounding...
- 4/27/2017
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
Seth Metoyer,
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Writer/director Steven Shainberg became an award-winning indie film sensation with 2002's kink masterpiece Secretary and now he plans to spank viewers with the sci-fi thriller Rupture.
Ambi Media Group will release the sci-fi thriller Rupture in theaters and On Demand April 28, 2017. The film is currently available exclusively on DirecTV.
Check out the trailer below the official press details.
From The Press Release
"Secretary's Steven Shainberg tackles both sci-fi and horror with great success." - Birth.Movies.Death.
Ambi Media Group will release the sci-fi thriller Rupture in theaters and On Demand April 28, 2017. The film is currently available exclusively on DirecTV.
Rupture is directed by Steven Shainberg (Secretary, Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus) from a script co-written by Shainberg and Brian Nelson (Hard Candy, 30 Days of Night). The film stars Noomi Rapace (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Prometheus), Peter Stormare (The Big Lebowski,...
MoreHorror.com
Writer/director Steven Shainberg became an award-winning indie film sensation with 2002's kink masterpiece Secretary and now he plans to spank viewers with the sci-fi thriller Rupture.
Ambi Media Group will release the sci-fi thriller Rupture in theaters and On Demand April 28, 2017. The film is currently available exclusively on DirecTV.
Check out the trailer below the official press details.
From The Press Release
"Secretary's Steven Shainberg tackles both sci-fi and horror with great success." - Birth.Movies.Death.
Ambi Media Group will release the sci-fi thriller Rupture in theaters and On Demand April 28, 2017. The film is currently available exclusively on DirecTV.
Rupture is directed by Steven Shainberg (Secretary, Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus) from a script co-written by Shainberg and Brian Nelson (Hard Candy, 30 Days of Night). The film stars Noomi Rapace (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Prometheus), Peter Stormare (The Big Lebowski,...
- 4/8/2017
- by admin
- MoreHorror
When a seemingly ordinary woman is pulled over to the side of the road and kidnapped at the beginning of “Rupture,” you might think you’re in for a pulpy, page-turning thriller. But the new film from Steven Shainberg (“Secretary,” “Fur“) turns out be something quite unexpected in the director’s first foray into horror.
Read More: ‘Secretary’ Director Steven Shainberg Goes Genre With Mixed Results In ‘Rupture’ Starring Noomi Rapace [Review]
Co-written by Shainberg and Brian Nelson (“Hard Candy“), once the movie kicks into action, it unfolds all in a single location, where a young woman and mother, played by Noomi Rapace, has to figure why she’s being held and experimented on inside a warehouse hiding no shortage of secrets.
Continue reading People Are The Virus In First Trailer For Horror ‘Rupture’ Starring Noomi Rapace at The Playlist.
Read More: ‘Secretary’ Director Steven Shainberg Goes Genre With Mixed Results In ‘Rupture’ Starring Noomi Rapace [Review]
Co-written by Shainberg and Brian Nelson (“Hard Candy“), once the movie kicks into action, it unfolds all in a single location, where a young woman and mother, played by Noomi Rapace, has to figure why she’s being held and experimented on inside a warehouse hiding no shortage of secrets.
Continue reading People Are The Virus In First Trailer For Horror ‘Rupture’ Starring Noomi Rapace at The Playlist.
- 10/17/2016
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
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Our Us chums have seen Hulu's 11.22.63, now airing on Fox in the UK. Here are their spoiler-free thoughts on the Stephen King adaptation...
Spoiler Alert: President John F. Kennedy died on November 22, 1963 and nothing Stephen King can write will ever change that. Oh maybe he’ll change it for a little while, but it will change right back if you ever come out of the closet. That’s the basic premise of Hulu’s miniseries on the best-selling 2011 Stephen King novel 11/22/63.
“If you do something that really fucks with the past, the past fucks with you,” Warns diner owner Al Templeton, played by Chris Cooper, to his casual friend, the local high school English teacher Jake Epping, played by James Franco. Templeton has a tendency to age in spurts, not the regular acceleration of ageing that comes when the body ages, but in three-year-spurts that happen in about two minutes.
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Our Us chums have seen Hulu's 11.22.63, now airing on Fox in the UK. Here are their spoiler-free thoughts on the Stephen King adaptation...
Spoiler Alert: President John F. Kennedy died on November 22, 1963 and nothing Stephen King can write will ever change that. Oh maybe he’ll change it for a little while, but it will change right back if you ever come out of the closet. That’s the basic premise of Hulu’s miniseries on the best-selling 2011 Stephen King novel 11/22/63.
“If you do something that really fucks with the past, the past fucks with you,” Warns diner owner Al Templeton, played by Chris Cooper, to his casual friend, the local high school English teacher Jake Epping, played by James Franco. Templeton has a tendency to age in spurts, not the regular acceleration of ageing that comes when the body ages, but in three-year-spurts that happen in about two minutes.
- 4/11/2016
- Den of Geek
Michelle Wilkins lost more than half of her blood when Dynel Lane attacked her and cut her 7-month-old fetus from her womb last March, jurors in Lane's trial heard Thursday. In the other major development of the Colorado trial yesterday, the judge ruled that the jury will not hear anything about the cause and manner of the death of Wilkins's fetus, who did not survive the attack, since Lane is not charged in that death, the Denver Post reports. It was a grim morning in the Boulder courtroom - a day after Wilkins herself tearfully testified - as the prosecution...
- 2/19/2016
- by Tim Nudd, @nudd
- PEOPLE.com
Whether you're a fright fanatic, a middle-of-the-row horror fan, or a "someone-dragged-me-here" who barely watches from between terrified, trembling fingers, you've probably noticed an interesting trend: a lot of recent horror movies are based on true stories. At least that's what the filmmakers would have us believe.
The all-too-common "based on a true story" or "based on true events," along with the less reliable "inspired by true events," have become ubiquitous additions to most horror movie marketing campaigns. But this is nothing new. Going all the way back to the "Texas Chainsaw Massacre's" iconic 1974 tagline -- "What happened is true. Now the motion picture that's just as real." -- the truth has always been an important tactic in upping the fear factor for audiences.
If events truly did happen, does that make it more frightening? The recent success of movies like "The Conjuring" (2013), "The Possession" (2012) and "The Haunting in Connecticut" (2009) point to a big "yes,...
The all-too-common "based on a true story" or "based on true events," along with the less reliable "inspired by true events," have become ubiquitous additions to most horror movie marketing campaigns. But this is nothing new. Going all the way back to the "Texas Chainsaw Massacre's" iconic 1974 tagline -- "What happened is true. Now the motion picture that's just as real." -- the truth has always been an important tactic in upping the fear factor for audiences.
If events truly did happen, does that make it more frightening? The recent success of movies like "The Conjuring" (2013), "The Possession" (2012) and "The Haunting in Connecticut" (2009) point to a big "yes,...
- 10/25/2015
- by Matthew A Nelson
- Moviefone
Free Fire, Akira, All I See Is You, and other films have made recent film casting, screenwriting, and director news. These films come from movie studios primarily based in the United States. The castings, screenwriters, and directors are subject to change.
Untitled WWII movie
Brad Pitt has been looking for a lover for his next WWII movie and he has finally found one in Oscar winner Marion Cotillard, who’s in negotiations to join him in the untitled period film that Robert Zemeckis is directing
Steven Knight wrote the script
Pitt and Cotillard will play assassins who fall in love during a mission to kill a German official. They soon marry, but their romance is cut short when Pitt is told that his wife is a double agent working for the German government and he must kill her.
Akira
Warner Bros…has hired “Daredevil” writer Marco Ramirez to adapt the...
Untitled WWII movie
Brad Pitt has been looking for a lover for his next WWII movie and he has finally found one in Oscar winner Marion Cotillard, who’s in negotiations to join him in the untitled period film that Robert Zemeckis is directing
Steven Knight wrote the script
Pitt and Cotillard will play assassins who fall in love during a mission to kill a German official. They soon marry, but their romance is cut short when Pitt is told that his wife is a double agent working for the German government and he must kill her.
Akira
Warner Bros…has hired “Daredevil” writer Marco Ramirez to adapt the...
- 6/9/2015
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
Peter Stormare, Kerry Bishé, Lesley Manville and Ari Millen have joined Noomi Rapace and Michael Chiklis on the sci-fi adventure thriller that began shooting in Toronto on Tuesday.
Rapace plays a single mother abducted by a mysterious organisation who reveal to her that humanity faces an threat from within.
Steven Shainberg directs Rupture from a screenplay by Brian Nelson based on a story by Shainberg and Nelson.
Ambi Pictures principals Andrea Iervolino and Monika Bacardi produce alongside American Sniper producer Andrew Lazar and Christina Weiss Lurie of Tango Pictures Production, the company they formed with Shainberg.
Ambi Distribution handles world sales.
Rapace plays a single mother abducted by a mysterious organisation who reveal to her that humanity faces an threat from within.
Steven Shainberg directs Rupture from a screenplay by Brian Nelson based on a story by Shainberg and Nelson.
Ambi Pictures principals Andrea Iervolino and Monika Bacardi produce alongside American Sniper producer Andrew Lazar and Christina Weiss Lurie of Tango Pictures Production, the company they formed with Shainberg.
Ambi Distribution handles world sales.
- 6/2/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Independence Day 2
Chin Han ("The Dark Knight") has joined the cast of the "Independence Day" sequel shooting in New Mexico. The film's director Roland Emmerich announced the news through his Twitter account.
Han previously worked with Emmerich on "2012" and here will play the leader of the Chinese Space Squadron. The film is due for release June 24th 2016. [Source: Twitter]
Rupture
Kerry Bishe, Peter Stormare, Lesley Manville and Ari Millen have joined the cast of sci-fi adventure thriller "Rupture" alongside Noomi Rapace and Michael Chiklis. Filming began Tuesday in Toronto.
Rapace plays a single mother abducted by a terrifying and mysterious organization who reveal to her that humanity faces an unsettling threat. Steven Shainberg is directing from Brian Nelson's script. [Source: Variety]
Empire
Adam Rodriguez ("Magic Mike") has scored a recurring role in the second season of Fox's hip-hop drama "Empire". Rodriguez joins previously announced guest stars Chris Rock, Alicia Keys, Lenny Kravitz and Ne-Yo.
Chin Han ("The Dark Knight") has joined the cast of the "Independence Day" sequel shooting in New Mexico. The film's director Roland Emmerich announced the news through his Twitter account.
Han previously worked with Emmerich on "2012" and here will play the leader of the Chinese Space Squadron. The film is due for release June 24th 2016. [Source: Twitter]
Rupture
Kerry Bishe, Peter Stormare, Lesley Manville and Ari Millen have joined the cast of sci-fi adventure thriller "Rupture" alongside Noomi Rapace and Michael Chiklis. Filming began Tuesday in Toronto.
Rapace plays a single mother abducted by a terrifying and mysterious organization who reveal to her that humanity faces an unsettling threat. Steven Shainberg is directing from Brian Nelson's script. [Source: Variety]
Empire
Adam Rodriguez ("Magic Mike") has scored a recurring role in the second season of Fox's hip-hop drama "Empire". Rodriguez joins previously announced guest stars Chris Rock, Alicia Keys, Lenny Kravitz and Ne-Yo.
- 6/2/2015
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Most recently seen as circus strongman Dell Toledo in American Horror Story: Freakshow, Michael Chiklis is keeping it sinister for his next role. He'll join Noomi Rapace in the sci-fi thriller Rupture, where he'll play the heavy yet again.The film's director is Secretary's Steven Shainberg, and Brian Nelson (30 Days Of Night) wrote the screenplay. The plot is still largely under wraps, but we do know that Rapace is playing a single mother, struggling to raise her son alone, who is abducted by a mysterious organisation. Chiklis will play the organisation's point man, overseeing the whole nefarious business.American Sniper's Andrew Lazar is among the producers, and more casting news is expected soon. Shooting starts next month.
- 6/1/2015
- EmpireOnline
Michael Chiklis will join Noomi Rapace in upcoming sci-fi thriller Rupture.
The American Horror Story: Freak Show star will appear in the film which follows the story of a single mother (Rapace) who gets abducted by a mysterious organisation.
Tied up and captured in a lab, the woman finds out that she has a genetic abnormality which means she can rupture.
If she was to rupture, her alien nature would be released into the world.
Deadline reports that Chiklis will appear as The Bald Man, the organisation's point man.
Rupture is based on a story from Steven Shainberg and Brian Nelson, with Nelson behind the screenplay and Shainberg directing.
American Sniper's Andrew Lazar will produce the project.
The American Horror Story: Freak Show star will appear in the film which follows the story of a single mother (Rapace) who gets abducted by a mysterious organisation.
Tied up and captured in a lab, the woman finds out that she has a genetic abnormality which means she can rupture.
If she was to rupture, her alien nature would be released into the world.
Deadline reports that Chiklis will appear as The Bald Man, the organisation's point man.
Rupture is based on a story from Steven Shainberg and Brian Nelson, with Nelson behind the screenplay and Shainberg directing.
American Sniper's Andrew Lazar will produce the project.
- 5/30/2015
- Digital Spy
Sleepless Night
T.I., Dermot Mulroney, Scoot McNairy and David Harbour are set to join Jamie Foxx, Gabrielle Union and Michelle Monaghan in Baran bo Odar's action thriller "Sleepless Night". Andrea Berloff penned the script and filming begins June 15th in Atlanta and Las Vegas
Foxx plays a seemingly corrupt Las Vegas cop whose son is kidnaped by gangsters (Mulroney, McNairy) who want a shipment of cocaine he stole as payment. He races to save his child's life without getting caught by Internal Affairs and before the mobsters discover that he's actually lost the goods. [Source: Heat Vision]
Confirmation
Jennifer Hudson, Greg Kinnear, Jeffrey Wright and Alison Wright have joined the cast of "Confirmation," the TV movie about Clarence Thomas' Supreme Court confirmation hearings. The join Kerry Washington, Wendell Pierce and Eric Stonestreet in the project.
The story explores the explosive 1991 Supreme Court nomination hearings which brought the country to a standstill...
T.I., Dermot Mulroney, Scoot McNairy and David Harbour are set to join Jamie Foxx, Gabrielle Union and Michelle Monaghan in Baran bo Odar's action thriller "Sleepless Night". Andrea Berloff penned the script and filming begins June 15th in Atlanta and Las Vegas
Foxx plays a seemingly corrupt Las Vegas cop whose son is kidnaped by gangsters (Mulroney, McNairy) who want a shipment of cocaine he stole as payment. He races to save his child's life without getting caught by Internal Affairs and before the mobsters discover that he's actually lost the goods. [Source: Heat Vision]
Confirmation
Jennifer Hudson, Greg Kinnear, Jeffrey Wright and Alison Wright have joined the cast of "Confirmation," the TV movie about Clarence Thomas' Supreme Court confirmation hearings. The join Kerry Washington, Wendell Pierce and Eric Stonestreet in the project.
The story explores the explosive 1991 Supreme Court nomination hearings which brought the country to a standstill...
- 5/29/2015
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Preacher
It's official, Dominic Cooper is set to star as Jesse Custer in AMC's pilot for their TV series adaptation of the acclaimed "Preacher" comics. Producer Seth Rogen confirmed the news a few hours ago in a tweet.
In the series, Cooper plays a conflicted preacher who merges with a creature that has escaped from heaven, giving him the ability to make anyone do anything he says. He teams with his ex-girlfriend and an Irish vampire in an effort to find where God has gone.
Marwencol
Steve Carell will star in the Robert Zemeckis" narrative film adaptation of Jeff Malmberg’s 2010 documentary "Marwencol” at Universal Pictures.
The story centers on a man who recovers from an assault by building a miniature World War II-era village in his backyard. [Source: Variety]
Rupture
Noomi Rapace has scored the lead role in Steven Shainberg's sci-fi adventure thriller "Rupture" which Andrew Lazar is slated to produce for Tango Pictures.
It's official, Dominic Cooper is set to star as Jesse Custer in AMC's pilot for their TV series adaptation of the acclaimed "Preacher" comics. Producer Seth Rogen confirmed the news a few hours ago in a tweet.
In the series, Cooper plays a conflicted preacher who merges with a creature that has escaped from heaven, giving him the ability to make anyone do anything he says. He teams with his ex-girlfriend and an Irish vampire in an effort to find where God has gone.
Marwencol
Steve Carell will star in the Robert Zemeckis" narrative film adaptation of Jeff Malmberg’s 2010 documentary "Marwencol” at Universal Pictures.
The story centers on a man who recovers from an assault by building a miniature World War II-era village in his backyard. [Source: Variety]
Rupture
Noomi Rapace has scored the lead role in Steven Shainberg's sci-fi adventure thriller "Rupture" which Andrew Lazar is slated to produce for Tango Pictures.
- 4/17/2015
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Having trod the hallways of science fiction in Prometheus, Noomi Rapace is now headed back to the genre for Rupture, a new thriller from Secretary director Steven Shainberg.The film, which has a story by Shainberg and 30 Days Of Night’s Brian Nelson (who also wrote the final script), is being largely kept under wraps in terms of plot, but we do know a few things. Rapace will play a single mother who, struggling to raise her son alone, is abducted by a mysterious organisation. While trying to escape, she uncovers an extraordinary secret about herself. She’s a superhero! All right, so we don’t know that’s what it is. Could be, though...American Sniper producer Andrew Lazar is bringing this one to life alongside Ambi Group. More casting news is expected soon and Shainberg looking to start shooting this June.Rapace is back on our screens this coming weekend,...
- 4/16/2015
- EmpireOnline
Before 50 Shades of Grey was made fashionable by mainstream auds, Secretary was a sizzler cubicle space title that made Steven Shainberg a sought after indie helmer. Like a phoenix rising from the ashes, Rupture will be his comeback of sorts, as he hasn’t lensed a film in almost a decade. To be fair, he did produced some projects, including Our Brand is Crisis for his docu-filmmaker wife Rachel Boynton, but his highly imaginative Fur was completely maimed during its theatrical run. Producer Andrew Lazar who broke out with 1996′s Bound (worthy pair in his filmography include Confessions of a Dangerous Mind and the underrated 2009 comedy, I Love You Phillip Morris) and recently broke the bank with American Sniper is producing the project along with Christina Weiss Lurie (frequent Sundance accepted docu-producer), Ambi’s Andrea Iervolino and Lady Monika Bacardi (The Humbling, James Franco’s currently being filmed In Dubious Battle...
- 4/3/2015
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Coming off 2014’s highest grossing film, “American Sniper,” Oscar-nominated producer Andrew Lazar has teamed with “Secretary” director Steven Shainberg on the sci-fi adventure thriller “Rupture,” it was announced Thursday. Brian Nelson (“30 Days of Night”) wrote the script, based on a story by Nelson and Shainberg. Story follows a single mother, struggling to raise her son alone, who is abducted by a mysterious organization. While trying to escape, she uncovers an extraordinary secret about herself. Tango Pictures, which is a partnership between Christina Weiss Lurie, Shainberg and Lazar, is teaming with Andrea Iervolino and Lady Monika Bacardi’s Ambi Group to make the film.
- 4/2/2015
- by Jeff Sneider
- The Wrap
The American Sniper producer has set his sights on the sci-fi adventure for Ambi Group. Ambi Distribution handles international sales and will introduce the project in Cannes.
Lazar will produce alongside Ambi’s Andrea Iervolino and Lady Monika Bacardi (pictured) as well as Christina Weiss Lurie, with Steven Shainberg set to direct. Lurie, Shainberg and Lazar run Tango Pictures.
The project is based on a story by Shainberg and Brian Nelson, who wrote the screenplay about a single mother abducted by a mysterious organisation.
Ambi is currently in production on James Franco’s In Dubious Battle based on John Steinbeck’s novel about the struggle between labour and capital in 1930s America.
Lazar will produce alongside Ambi’s Andrea Iervolino and Lady Monika Bacardi (pictured) as well as Christina Weiss Lurie, with Steven Shainberg set to direct. Lurie, Shainberg and Lazar run Tango Pictures.
The project is based on a story by Shainberg and Brian Nelson, who wrote the screenplay about a single mother abducted by a mysterious organisation.
Ambi is currently in production on James Franco’s In Dubious Battle based on John Steinbeck’s novel about the struggle between labour and capital in 1930s America.
- 4/2/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
The New Orleans Film Festival came to a close this week with over 33,000 attendees turning out for two weeks of screenings, panel discussions and special events. This year, the festival launched an initiative funded by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences to spotlight black film, with filmmakers flying in from across the country to screen their work, speak at festival events, and participate in a mentorship program bringing local filmmakers together with industry leaders. Five up-and-coming New Orleans filmmakers – Brian Nelson, Jonathan Jackson, Kiel Adrian Scott, Lizzie Ford-Madrid, and Cj Hunt – were chosen to participate in the Emerging Voices mentorship...
- 10/25/2014
- by Jai Tiggett
- ShadowAndAct
Da Vinci’s Demons, Season 2: Episode 10 – “The Sins of Daedalus”
Written by Corey Reed & Marco Ramirez (story by Brian Nelson & Corey Reed)
Directed by Peter Hoar
Returns to Starz for a third season in 2015
As was the case last year, Da Vinci’s Demons concludes its season with a somewhat frustrating cliffhanger that leaves plenty of doors open but fails to satisfy enough by not paying off certain season-long threads. I should qualify that by restating that this has been a much stronger season for DVD than its debut. Most of those threads have worked along the way in surprising and engaging fashion. So much has happened in these ten episodes, and David S. Goyer’s team has found the best ways to use a lot of the supporting characters to avoid filler material where one might expect it to be. Yet, for all the improvements the series has made,...
Written by Corey Reed & Marco Ramirez (story by Brian Nelson & Corey Reed)
Directed by Peter Hoar
Returns to Starz for a third season in 2015
As was the case last year, Da Vinci’s Demons concludes its season with a somewhat frustrating cliffhanger that leaves plenty of doors open but fails to satisfy enough by not paying off certain season-long threads. I should qualify that by restating that this has been a much stronger season for DVD than its debut. Most of those threads have worked along the way in surprising and engaging fashion. So much has happened in these ten episodes, and David S. Goyer’s team has found the best ways to use a lot of the supporting characters to avoid filler material where one might expect it to be. Yet, for all the improvements the series has made,...
- 6/2/2014
- by Sean Colletti
- SoundOnSight
Da Vinci’s Demons, Season 2: Episode 9 – “The Enemies of Man”
Written by Allison Moore & Marco Ramirez (story by Brian Nelson & Marco Ramirez)
Directed by Justin Molotnikov
Airs Saturday nights at 9 on Starz
After a thoroughly entertaining departure from the series norm by visiting the New World, Da Vinci’s Demons brings several of its central characters back to Italy–Leo to Florence and Riario to Rome. The help of the exotic setting has made much of this second season so enjoyable, but luckily the events we see here in Florence, at least, aren’t boring in the slightest. The city has been sacked by Duke Federico, making Leo’s homecoming more than just a little bit problematic (and not very warm at all). If other areas of “The Enemies of Man” slightly drag, this central plot does exactly what DVD needs to do on a weekly basis to be...
Written by Allison Moore & Marco Ramirez (story by Brian Nelson & Marco Ramirez)
Directed by Justin Molotnikov
Airs Saturday nights at 9 on Starz
After a thoroughly entertaining departure from the series norm by visiting the New World, Da Vinci’s Demons brings several of its central characters back to Italy–Leo to Florence and Riario to Rome. The help of the exotic setting has made much of this second season so enjoyable, but luckily the events we see here in Florence, at least, aren’t boring in the slightest. The city has been sacked by Duke Federico, making Leo’s homecoming more than just a little bit problematic (and not very warm at all). If other areas of “The Enemies of Man” slightly drag, this central plot does exactly what DVD needs to do on a weekly basis to be...
- 5/19/2014
- by Sean Colletti
- SoundOnSight
Da Vinci’s Demons, Season 2: Episode 7 – “The Vault of Heaven”
Written by Brian Nelson & Marco Ramirez
Directed by Peter Hoar
Airs Saturday nights at 9 on Starz
One of the more surprising improvements Da Vinci’s Demons has made in its second season is how the diverging storylines in any given episode manage to work well in tandem. Even if some of them are unrelated, there is enough going on that is, at the very least, entertaining to give purpose to following certain characters. “The Vault of Heaven” doesn’t deviate from that formula. And, really, none of the supporting storylines that serve the main one from which the episode gets its title fall completely flat. They each work in their own ways. The problem in this case is that this is an episode of DVD that needed to be completely focused on Leonardo’s trip into the Vault of Heaven.
Written by Brian Nelson & Marco Ramirez
Directed by Peter Hoar
Airs Saturday nights at 9 on Starz
One of the more surprising improvements Da Vinci’s Demons has made in its second season is how the diverging storylines in any given episode manage to work well in tandem. Even if some of them are unrelated, there is enough going on that is, at the very least, entertaining to give purpose to following certain characters. “The Vault of Heaven” doesn’t deviate from that formula. And, really, none of the supporting storylines that serve the main one from which the episode gets its title fall completely flat. They each work in their own ways. The problem in this case is that this is an episode of DVD that needed to be completely focused on Leonardo’s trip into the Vault of Heaven.
- 5/5/2014
- by Sean Colletti
- SoundOnSight
Review Ron Hogan 5 May 2014 - 07:12
Leonardo faces a familiar gauntlet of traps and obstacles this week. Here's Ron's review...
This review contains spoilers.
2.7 The Vault Of Heaven
If you've seen Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, you'll be familiar with this week's episode of Da Vinci's Demons. In that particular Indy adventure, he had out use his father's journal to outwit a series of traps laid for him (and the Nazis that followed him) to prevent the unworthy from seeking the holy grail. There was a doorway that decapitated people, a series of steps that would collapse beneath someone walking across them, and a well-camouflaged path over a bottomless pit. Strangely enough, The Vault Of Heaven takes these same puzzles and reuses them, with only a few minor tweaks: there's an Incan disco ball and some magic triangles, a keypad with a hundred different keyholes and a rock that...
Leonardo faces a familiar gauntlet of traps and obstacles this week. Here's Ron's review...
This review contains spoilers.
2.7 The Vault Of Heaven
If you've seen Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, you'll be familiar with this week's episode of Da Vinci's Demons. In that particular Indy adventure, he had out use his father's journal to outwit a series of traps laid for him (and the Nazis that followed him) to prevent the unworthy from seeking the holy grail. There was a doorway that decapitated people, a series of steps that would collapse beneath someone walking across them, and a well-camouflaged path over a bottomless pit. Strangely enough, The Vault Of Heaven takes these same puzzles and reuses them, with only a few minor tweaks: there's an Incan disco ball and some magic triangles, a keypad with a hundred different keyholes and a rock that...
- 5/5/2014
- by sarahd
- Den of Geek
Da Vinci’s Demons, Season 2: Episode 3 – “The Voyage of the Damned”
Written by Brian Nelson
Directed by Peter Hoar
Airs Saturday nights at 9 on Starz
When Da Vinci’s Demons originally got a second season order with an additional two episodes, it seemed like a decision that would improve the season rather than make it drag. Like the series it just replaced in the Starz line-up, Black Sails, DVD has a huge world to explore. Naturally, it would make sense that more episodes would mean a fuller exploration of that world. Yet, when I was watching “The Voyage of the Damned,” it became clear that David S. Goyer would be attempting to build internally before building externally. The episode is absolutely a piece-moving episode, which is not an immediately damning quality. Game of Thrones actually gets by on being almost a piece-moving series. As long as the characters are engaging and the material interesting,...
Written by Brian Nelson
Directed by Peter Hoar
Airs Saturday nights at 9 on Starz
When Da Vinci’s Demons originally got a second season order with an additional two episodes, it seemed like a decision that would improve the season rather than make it drag. Like the series it just replaced in the Starz line-up, Black Sails, DVD has a huge world to explore. Naturally, it would make sense that more episodes would mean a fuller exploration of that world. Yet, when I was watching “The Voyage of the Damned,” it became clear that David S. Goyer would be attempting to build internally before building externally. The episode is absolutely a piece-moving episode, which is not an immediately damning quality. Game of Thrones actually gets by on being almost a piece-moving series. As long as the characters are engaging and the material interesting,...
- 4/7/2014
- by Sean Colletti
- SoundOnSight
Review Ron Hogan 6 Apr 2014 - 15:55
The Voyage Of The Damned is a solid instalment for Da Vinci's Demons, despite lacking in focus...
This review contains spoilers.
2.3 The Voyage Of The Damned
One of the little pleasures of Da Vinci's Demons is the way the show works Da Vinci's actual achievements into the show. From his invention of the Gatling-style machine gun to his testing of flying wings in the very early stages of the first season, when the show brings one of Da Vinci's mad inventions to the screen, it usually is one of the coolest aspects of the episode. During this episode, we get a prolonged genesis and creation of one of Leonardo's most interesting creations: the submarine.
After getting thrown off the boat he was hoping to abscond with after doing a pretty good Riario impersonation (complete with hipster hat and Renaissance sunglasses) and getting in a...
The Voyage Of The Damned is a solid instalment for Da Vinci's Demons, despite lacking in focus...
This review contains spoilers.
2.3 The Voyage Of The Damned
One of the little pleasures of Da Vinci's Demons is the way the show works Da Vinci's actual achievements into the show. From his invention of the Gatling-style machine gun to his testing of flying wings in the very early stages of the first season, when the show brings one of Da Vinci's mad inventions to the screen, it usually is one of the coolest aspects of the episode. During this episode, we get a prolonged genesis and creation of one of Leonardo's most interesting creations: the submarine.
After getting thrown off the boat he was hoping to abscond with after doing a pretty good Riario impersonation (complete with hipster hat and Renaissance sunglasses) and getting in a...
- 4/6/2014
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
Da Vinci’s Demons, Season 1: Episode 8 – “The Lovers”
Directed by Michael J. Bassett
Written by Brian Nelson, Corey Reed and David S. Goyer
For those of you not following along, that’s Zoroaster and Nico up there with very what-the-fuck expressions. Nico looks downright peeved. While the thoughts going through their heads might very well be “For fuck’s sake, Leonardo” (Leo has just left them to go try and save the day, essentially), the people who have been watching Da Vinci’s Demons probably have different thoughts but are likely to be wearing similar facial expressions.
Some viewers haven’t realized that Da Vinci’s Demons doesn’t have legitimate grand aspirations and have unfairly criticized it for being not very good when, in fact, it has no pretensions of being anything more than fun. And it has been fun, to take issue with some of those detractors.
Directed by Michael J. Bassett
Written by Brian Nelson, Corey Reed and David S. Goyer
For those of you not following along, that’s Zoroaster and Nico up there with very what-the-fuck expressions. Nico looks downright peeved. While the thoughts going through their heads might very well be “For fuck’s sake, Leonardo” (Leo has just left them to go try and save the day, essentially), the people who have been watching Da Vinci’s Demons probably have different thoughts but are likely to be wearing similar facial expressions.
Some viewers haven’t realized that Da Vinci’s Demons doesn’t have legitimate grand aspirations and have unfairly criticized it for being not very good when, in fact, it has no pretensions of being anything more than fun. And it has been fun, to take issue with some of those detractors.
- 6/8/2013
- by Sean Colletti
- SoundOnSight
Review Ron Hogan 20 May 2013 - 07:00
Da Vinci's Demons introduces a worthy opponent for Leonardo this week, and builds towards its second season. Here's Ron's review...
This review contains spoilers.
1.6 The Devil
One of the reasons why this episode worked better than it had any right to is the work of Paul Rhys as Vlad Tepes, not-so-deftly introduced here as Dracula among his many other titles and honours, since they assume rightly that most people won't connect Vlad the Impaler to Dracula. However, awkward introduction aside, the character of Dracula actually works really well. Leonardo's adventure in Wallachia is actually pretty entertaining. The sets are creepy, moody, and appropriately dark, and Rhys plays a great crazy person. (Fun fact, Paul Rhys also played Leonardo Da Vinci on an episode of The Borgias, which takes place shortly after the time frame of Da Vinci's Demons.) The combination of the character's interesting...
Da Vinci's Demons introduces a worthy opponent for Leonardo this week, and builds towards its second season. Here's Ron's review...
This review contains spoilers.
1.6 The Devil
One of the reasons why this episode worked better than it had any right to is the work of Paul Rhys as Vlad Tepes, not-so-deftly introduced here as Dracula among his many other titles and honours, since they assume rightly that most people won't connect Vlad the Impaler to Dracula. However, awkward introduction aside, the character of Dracula actually works really well. Leonardo's adventure in Wallachia is actually pretty entertaining. The sets are creepy, moody, and appropriately dark, and Rhys plays a great crazy person. (Fun fact, Paul Rhys also played Leonardo Da Vinci on an episode of The Borgias, which takes place shortly after the time frame of Da Vinci's Demons.) The combination of the character's interesting...
- 5/20/2013
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
Da Vinci’s Demons, Season 1: Episode 6 – “The Devil”
Directed by Paul Wilmshurst
Written by Brian Nelson and Marco Ramirez
Airs Friday nights at 9 on Starz
Late in its recent third season, The Walking Dead aired an episode – “Clear” – that really didn’t serve a purpose in the context of that season’s arc. The main conflict was put to the side in favor of a more removed episode, which at the very least had a chance to make the viewers more anxious to reach the climax of the season. What “Clear” ended up being, though, was the best episode of the season and probably the best in the series to date. Part of what elevated it ahead of its peers was its stubbornness in sticking with a few specific characters and telling a good story (Game of Thrones did this with “Blackwater”). “The Devil,” last night’s episode of Da Vinci’s Demons,...
Directed by Paul Wilmshurst
Written by Brian Nelson and Marco Ramirez
Airs Friday nights at 9 on Starz
Late in its recent third season, The Walking Dead aired an episode – “Clear” – that really didn’t serve a purpose in the context of that season’s arc. The main conflict was put to the side in favor of a more removed episode, which at the very least had a chance to make the viewers more anxious to reach the climax of the season. What “Clear” ended up being, though, was the best episode of the season and probably the best in the series to date. Part of what elevated it ahead of its peers was its stubbornness in sticking with a few specific characters and telling a good story (Game of Thrones did this with “Blackwater”). “The Devil,” last night’s episode of Da Vinci’s Demons,...
- 5/18/2013
- by Sean Colletti
- SoundOnSight
Steve Niles has been a faithful fighter for the little guy in the word of indie publishing and films. In Part Two he wraps up his feelings on the comic industry and looks forward to his own future. A future, it seems, that he is much more able to have a hand in shaping.
The indie publisher almost can’t afford a failure. So does indie publishing actually just come down to the comic creators?
It really does, more and more. I had a nice experience when I did the Little Bloody Pulp Book. We were wondering how we were going to do direct sales. One thing that surprised us was we sold 500 copies in a minute. We put it online and Foom! 500 copies. Now had I not put a $5.00 cover price on it... We sold 2,000 over a period of time. I can’t make a living selling 2,000 through the Diamond direct market.
The indie publisher almost can’t afford a failure. So does indie publishing actually just come down to the comic creators?
It really does, more and more. I had a nice experience when I did the Little Bloody Pulp Book. We were wondering how we were going to do direct sales. One thing that surprised us was we sold 500 copies in a minute. We put it online and Foom! 500 copies. Now had I not put a $5.00 cover price on it... We sold 2,000 over a period of time. I can’t make a living selling 2,000 through the Diamond direct market.
- 3/18/2013
- by Del Howison
- FEARnet
Back in March, we expressed a reasonable level of bewilderment when Columbia Pictures announced their plan to purchase rights to an English-language remake of Diederik Van Rooijen‘s Dutch thriller Taped — a film that, at the time of the aforementioned notice, hadn’t even been in theaters in its home country for more than a single week. American remakes of foreign commodities are, of course, far from uncommon these days, but to gamble so soon on an unproven product seemed, at the very least, a bit premature.
Perhaps wisely, then, Red Wagon Entertainment’s Douglas Wick and Lucy Fisher — the project’s principal producers — proceeded to put on the brakes a little, as today’s announcement of the hiring of screenwriter Brian Nelson is the first thing we’ve heard on this project since early March. And it’s a good hire, I’d say — Nelson‘s résumé, which includes...
Perhaps wisely, then, Red Wagon Entertainment’s Douglas Wick and Lucy Fisher — the project’s principal producers — proceeded to put on the brakes a little, as today’s announcement of the hiring of screenwriter Brian Nelson is the first thing we’ve heard on this project since early March. And it’s a good hire, I’d say — Nelson‘s résumé, which includes...
- 8/28/2012
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
Columbia Pictures has hired Brian Nelson ("Hard Candy") to write "Taped," a remake of the Dutch thriller of the same name for "Lawless" producers Red Wagon, a representative for Red Wagon told TheWrap on Monday. The studio acquired the rights to the film in February, shortly after it opened in the Netherlands. Red Wagon's Lucy Fisher and Douglas Wick (pictured) are producing the remake. Rachel Shane is overseeing the production of "Taped." Nl Films, the producers of the original feature, are serving as executive producers. The story follows a couple that videotapes a...
- 8/28/2012
- by Liza Foreman
- The Wrap
The Town; Devil; The Other Guys; Mary and Max; Jackboots on Whitehall
This year opened on a sad note indeed with the death of Pete Postlethwaite, star of The Usual Suspects, The Lost World and the underrated 90s British gem Brassed Off, whom Spielberg once called "the best actor in the world". A stalwart and often admirably brusque presence, Postlethwaite always brought something special to the screen, even when the films in which he appeared (such generic remakes as Dark Water, The Omen and Clash of the Titans) were unremarkable.
In the Boston-set thriller The Town (2010, Warner, 15), Postlethwaite plays a comparatively small role as sinister florist-cum-crime boss Fergie, whose malign influence seeps through the crime-breeding neighbourhood of Charlestown. Director Ben Affleck, who proved his mettle behind the camera with Gone Baby Gone, stars as disenchanted bank robber Doug MacRay, whose attempts to discover how much a witness (Rebecca Hall) knows...
This year opened on a sad note indeed with the death of Pete Postlethwaite, star of The Usual Suspects, The Lost World and the underrated 90s British gem Brassed Off, whom Spielberg once called "the best actor in the world". A stalwart and often admirably brusque presence, Postlethwaite always brought something special to the screen, even when the films in which he appeared (such generic remakes as Dark Water, The Omen and Clash of the Titans) were unremarkable.
In the Boston-set thriller The Town (2010, Warner, 15), Postlethwaite plays a comparatively small role as sinister florist-cum-crime boss Fergie, whose malign influence seeps through the crime-breeding neighbourhood of Charlestown. Director Ben Affleck, who proved his mettle behind the camera with Gone Baby Gone, stars as disenchanted bank robber Doug MacRay, whose attempts to discover how much a witness (Rebecca Hall) knows...
- 1/23/2011
- by Mark Kermode
- The Guardian - Film News
Director: John Erick Dowdle. Review: Adam Wing. The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist. After a string of critical and commercial flops, I wonder whether M. Night Shyamalan had that thought in mind when he handed over directorial duties to John Erick Dowdle (Quarantine). Shyamalan would have us believe that he doesn’t have time to direct every movie he writes, but that line of reasoning only makes you question how cinematic atrocities like The Happening managed to slip through the net. Shyamalan would do well to put his directorial talent behind the work of another writer, but with new thriller Devil he has chosen to walk another path. With a screenplay by Brian Nelson (30 Days of Night), Devil is the first film based upon a series of stories written by Shyamalan himself, a ‘Shyamalan presents’ if you will.
- 1/21/2011
- 24framespersecond.net
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