American translator Reality Winner is probably better known in Europe than the U.S., thanks in part to Tina Satter’s extraordinary arthouse film Reality (2023), which dramatized the 25-year-old Texas translator’s arrest in 2017 using the verbatim transcripts of her interactions with the FBI.
Winner, a funny and surprisingly powerful biopic directed and cowritten by Susanna Fogel, will go quite a long way towards raising her profile back home.
By no means as controversial as previous whistleblowers Edward Snowden and Julian Assange — all she did really was photocopy a piece of paper and send it to a fringe-left website — Reality Winner somehow became a punching bag for the American government, and the disproportionate punishment for her crime could give this film traction in an election year that is being fought more than ever before on a battlefield where principles are the first casualty.
You wouldn...
Winner, a funny and surprisingly powerful biopic directed and cowritten by Susanna Fogel, will go quite a long way towards raising her profile back home.
By no means as controversial as previous whistleblowers Edward Snowden and Julian Assange — all she did really was photocopy a piece of paper and send it to a fringe-left website — Reality Winner somehow became a punching bag for the American government, and the disproportionate punishment for her crime could give this film traction in an election year that is being fought more than ever before on a battlefield where principles are the first casualty.
You wouldn...
- 1/21/2024
- by Damon Wise
- Deadline Film + TV
Miami Dade College’s Miami Film Festival marks its 40th edition, running March 3-12, with a full-blown return to the in-person festival experience with a sidebar of only 10 titles available online.
“We’re celebrating the human connection and getting back into cinemas again,” says programming head Lauren Cohen who in her first year flying solo at the helm, is putting her personal stamp on the festival with female-centric topics dominating the Master Classes.
“It’s our 40th anniversary, which is such a milestone for us, we want it to be bigger and better than ever,” she continues.
Opening with Ray Romano’s directorial debut “Somewhere in Queens” and wrapping with Stephen Frears’ “The Lost King,” this edition features a dozen world premieres, three North American premieres, eight U.S. premieres and 14 East Coast premieres.
Given Miami’s allure and reputation as a music capital, a serendipitous number of this year...
“We’re celebrating the human connection and getting back into cinemas again,” says programming head Lauren Cohen who in her first year flying solo at the helm, is putting her personal stamp on the festival with female-centric topics dominating the Master Classes.
“It’s our 40th anniversary, which is such a milestone for us, we want it to be bigger and better than ever,” she continues.
Opening with Ray Romano’s directorial debut “Somewhere in Queens” and wrapping with Stephen Frears’ “The Lost King,” this edition features a dozen world premieres, three North American premieres, eight U.S. premieres and 14 East Coast premieres.
Given Miami’s allure and reputation as a music capital, a serendipitous number of this year...
- 3/3/2023
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
Plans follow Tuesday’s Academy announcement.
Hollywood is wasting little time capitalising on the 2022 Oscar nominations as distributors including Focus Features and Warner Bros plan US theatrical expansions on their best picture contenders.
Focus is expanding Belfast’s footprint in light of the film’s seven Oscar nominations on Tuesday (8) including best picture and recognition for Branagh in the director and adapted screenplay categories.
The black and white autobiographical drama about Branagh’s early childhood in Northern Ireland will increase by 530 cinemas this weekend from 390 to 920. It currently stands at $7.48m in the US since it opened on November 12 and is available on PVoD.
Hollywood is wasting little time capitalising on the 2022 Oscar nominations as distributors including Focus Features and Warner Bros plan US theatrical expansions on their best picture contenders.
Focus is expanding Belfast’s footprint in light of the film’s seven Oscar nominations on Tuesday (8) including best picture and recognition for Branagh in the director and adapted screenplay categories.
The black and white autobiographical drama about Branagh’s early childhood in Northern Ireland will increase by 530 cinemas this weekend from 390 to 920. It currently stands at $7.48m in the US since it opened on November 12 and is available on PVoD.
- 2/8/2022
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Plans follow Tuesday’s Academy announcement.
Hollywood is looking to capitalise on the 2022 Oscar nominations despite the pandemic with a number of distributors led by Focus Features with Belfast and Warner Bros with Dune sharing details of US theatrical expansions.
Focus is expanding Belfast’s footprint in light of the film’s seven Oscar nominations on Tuesday (8) including best picture and director and adapted screenplay for Kenneth Branagh.
The black and white autobiographical drama about Branagh’s upbringing in Northern Ireland will increase by 530 cinemas this weekend from 390 to 920. It currently stands at $7.48m in the US since it opened...
Hollywood is looking to capitalise on the 2022 Oscar nominations despite the pandemic with a number of distributors led by Focus Features with Belfast and Warner Bros with Dune sharing details of US theatrical expansions.
Focus is expanding Belfast’s footprint in light of the film’s seven Oscar nominations on Tuesday (8) including best picture and director and adapted screenplay for Kenneth Branagh.
The black and white autobiographical drama about Branagh’s upbringing in Northern Ireland will increase by 530 cinemas this weekend from 390 to 920. It currently stands at $7.48m in the US since it opened...
- 2/8/2022
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Netflix is implementing some important leadership changes as it works to create more broadly entertaining film projects.
As part of that shift, executives Kira Goldberg and Ori Marmur have both been promoted and will head up a team tasked with developing and producing big-budget and four-quadrant films. Their team will be autonomous from the one led by Tendo Nagenda, who is also mandated with making commercial fare. Both Goldberg and Marmur previously reported to Nagenda. Under the new order, their teams are expected to continue to work closely together.
The staffing change is slightly confusing, because it comes with much broader responsibilities, but no new titles. Goldberg and Marmur were both promoted to vice presidents of original studio film last year. It’s being done because Netflix is ramping up its output dramatically. The studio will release more than 70 films this year, the equivalent of a movie a week. Traditional...
As part of that shift, executives Kira Goldberg and Ori Marmur have both been promoted and will head up a team tasked with developing and producing big-budget and four-quadrant films. Their team will be autonomous from the one led by Tendo Nagenda, who is also mandated with making commercial fare. Both Goldberg and Marmur previously reported to Nagenda. Under the new order, their teams are expected to continue to work closely together.
The staffing change is slightly confusing, because it comes with much broader responsibilities, but no new titles. Goldberg and Marmur were both promoted to vice presidents of original studio film last year. It’s being done because Netflix is ramping up its output dramatically. The studio will release more than 70 films this year, the equivalent of a movie a week. Traditional...
- 7/16/2021
- by Brent Lang and Matt Donnelly
- Variety Film + TV
We're back with another edition of Horror Highlights! In today's installment, watch the short film The Mother of Beauty, check out the new red band trailer for Becky, and find out what's coming to the Arrow Video Channel:
The Mother Of Beauty Short Film: "In ‘The Mother of Beauty’ a single mother-to-be lives in isolation on the edge of the wilderness. She makes a living through her work with vulture culture: using the remains of dead animals to create art and memorialize the lives that once were. As she attempts to overcome the struggles of parenthood, the forces of life and death pull her in opposing directions, and she must find a way to reconcile the two before they tear her apart."
Director: Nick Meunier
Producer: J.W. Cole
Co-producer & Writer: Lonnie Nadler
Starring: Tristan Risk
Director Of Photography: Steven Hayes
Production Design: Rob Warren
Editor: Adam MacKay
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Becky Red Band Trailer: "Spunky and rebellious,...
The Mother Of Beauty Short Film: "In ‘The Mother of Beauty’ a single mother-to-be lives in isolation on the edge of the wilderness. She makes a living through her work with vulture culture: using the remains of dead animals to create art and memorialize the lives that once were. As she attempts to overcome the struggles of parenthood, the forces of life and death pull her in opposing directions, and she must find a way to reconcile the two before they tear her apart."
Director: Nick Meunier
Producer: J.W. Cole
Co-producer & Writer: Lonnie Nadler
Starring: Tristan Risk
Director Of Photography: Steven Hayes
Production Design: Rob Warren
Editor: Adam MacKay
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Becky Red Band Trailer: "Spunky and rebellious,...
- 6/3/2020
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
All the Network Allows: Roach Gets Righteous with Topical Melodrama
They’re mad as hell and they just might not take it anymore. So could be the tagline for Jay Roach’s topical melodrama Bombshell, perhaps the most high-profile and well-calibrated offering thus far to depict the undying misogyny, sexism and hypocrisy which bridles America’s unseemly underbelly—at least since the Me Too movement brought sexual harassment back into trendy conversation. Roach, previously notable as the helmer of those retro Austin Powers films, throws himself into Hollywood’s version of the political arena a la Todd Phillips and Adam Mackay with his latest offering.…...
They’re mad as hell and they just might not take it anymore. So could be the tagline for Jay Roach’s topical melodrama Bombshell, perhaps the most high-profile and well-calibrated offering thus far to depict the undying misogyny, sexism and hypocrisy which bridles America’s unseemly underbelly—at least since the Me Too movement brought sexual harassment back into trendy conversation. Roach, previously notable as the helmer of those retro Austin Powers films, throws himself into Hollywood’s version of the political arena a la Todd Phillips and Adam Mackay with his latest offering.…...
- 12/9/2019
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Entertainment One has released the first look trailer for Adam Mackay’s comedy-drama, Vice, which stars Christian Bale as Dick Cheney.
Written and directed by Adam Mackay, the film has an all-star cast that includes Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Steve Carell, Sam Rockwell, Jesse Plemons, Alison Pill, Lily Rabe, Tyler Perry, Justin Kirk, LisaGay Hamilton, Shea Whigham and Eddie Marsan.
Also in trailers – Felicity Jones fights for Woman’s Rights in trailer for On The Basis of Sex
The film hits Us cinemas December 2019
Vice Official Synopsis
Vice explores the epic story about how a bureaucratic Washington insider quietly became the most powerful man in the world as Vice-President to George W. Bush, reshaping the country and the globe in ways that we still feel today.
Christian Bale as Dick Cheney in Adam McKay’s Vice, an Annapurna Pictures release.
Credit: Greig Fraser / Annapurna Pictures
2018 © Annapurna Pictures, LLC. All Rights Reserved.
Written and directed by Adam Mackay, the film has an all-star cast that includes Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Steve Carell, Sam Rockwell, Jesse Plemons, Alison Pill, Lily Rabe, Tyler Perry, Justin Kirk, LisaGay Hamilton, Shea Whigham and Eddie Marsan.
Also in trailers – Felicity Jones fights for Woman’s Rights in trailer for On The Basis of Sex
The film hits Us cinemas December 2019
Vice Official Synopsis
Vice explores the epic story about how a bureaucratic Washington insider quietly became the most powerful man in the world as Vice-President to George W. Bush, reshaping the country and the globe in ways that we still feel today.
Christian Bale as Dick Cheney in Adam McKay’s Vice, an Annapurna Pictures release.
Credit: Greig Fraser / Annapurna Pictures
2018 © Annapurna Pictures, LLC. All Rights Reserved.
- 10/3/2018
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Annapurna has picked up U.S. rights to “Destroyer” out of the Cannes Film Festival market, Variety has confirmed.
The crime thriller has been building buzz since sales agents screened promos from the film last week. Nicole Kidman stars as an Lapd detective whose undercover work with a California gang as a younger cop has tragic repercussions later in her life and career. There was buzz that this could be another awards-worthy turn by the Oscar-winning actress. It’s unclear if Annapurna will plant a flag somewhere in the fall, which could put Kidman in the midst of an Academy Awards campaign, or release the film in 2019.
Other studios were kicking the tires on “Destroyer,” with Amazon and Neon also said to be in the mix at various points. The price for the film is in the mid-seven figures, according to an insider.
Tatiana Maslany, Sebastian Stan, Bradley Whitford, Toby Kebbell,...
The crime thriller has been building buzz since sales agents screened promos from the film last week. Nicole Kidman stars as an Lapd detective whose undercover work with a California gang as a younger cop has tragic repercussions later in her life and career. There was buzz that this could be another awards-worthy turn by the Oscar-winning actress. It’s unclear if Annapurna will plant a flag somewhere in the fall, which could put Kidman in the midst of an Academy Awards campaign, or release the film in 2019.
Other studios were kicking the tires on “Destroyer,” with Amazon and Neon also said to be in the mix at various points. The price for the film is in the mid-seven figures, according to an insider.
Tatiana Maslany, Sebastian Stan, Bradley Whitford, Toby Kebbell,...
- 5/14/2018
- by Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
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