Exclusive: Justin Lin has rounded out the cast for his next film Last Days with five additions: Toby Wallace (Babyteeth), Ciara Bravo (Cherry), Claire Price (The Capture), Dieudonné Ngabo (Forever) and Marny Kennedy (Between Two Worlds).
As previously announced, Sky Yang, Radhika Apte, Naveen Andrews and Ken Leung will also star.
Based on the Outside Magazine article “The Last Days of John Allen Chau” by journalist Alex Perry, the film tells the story of John Allen Chau, who believes he has been chosen to save the souls of the uncontacted tribe of North Sentinel Island. Designated as a protected site by the Indian government, John sets on a harrowing journey to proselytize the Sentinelese in his desperate search for identity, purpose, and belonging.
Written by Ben Ripley (Source Code), and marking a return to his indie roots for Lin following work on the Fast & Furious franchise, the film has...
As previously announced, Sky Yang, Radhika Apte, Naveen Andrews and Ken Leung will also star.
Based on the Outside Magazine article “The Last Days of John Allen Chau” by journalist Alex Perry, the film tells the story of John Allen Chau, who believes he has been chosen to save the souls of the uncontacted tribe of North Sentinel Island. Designated as a protected site by the Indian government, John sets on a harrowing journey to proselytize the Sentinelese in his desperate search for identity, purpose, and belonging.
Written by Ben Ripley (Source Code), and marking a return to his indie roots for Lin following work on the Fast & Furious franchise, the film has...
- 5/17/2024
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
If you really want to know about making music, fame, exploitation, addiction, egos and challenging personalities – look to fiction. Here are our favourites
Making a movie about an iconic musician can be perilous – there are so many stakeholders with differing versions of events, and so many diehard fans looking for a perfect representation of their hero, that many music biopics end up being sanitised and glib. Look no further than Back to Black, Sam Taylor-Johnson’s Amy Winehouse biopic, for a perfect example of a film that attempts to satisfy every involved party and ended up offending a lot of fans and critics instead.
Movies about fake musicians, on the other hand, tend to have a lot more to say about making art, the struggles of fame and the music industry than most biopics. Although many of them are thinly veiled studies of real celebrities, the freedom offered by creating a character – such as Blake,...
Making a movie about an iconic musician can be perilous – there are so many stakeholders with differing versions of events, and so many diehard fans looking for a perfect representation of their hero, that many music biopics end up being sanitised and glib. Look no further than Back to Black, Sam Taylor-Johnson’s Amy Winehouse biopic, for a perfect example of a film that attempts to satisfy every involved party and ended up offending a lot of fans and critics instead.
Movies about fake musicians, on the other hand, tend to have a lot more to say about making art, the struggles of fame and the music industry than most biopics. Although many of them are thinly veiled studies of real celebrities, the freedom offered by creating a character – such as Blake,...
- 4/17/2024
- by Shaad D'Souza
- The Guardian - Film News
Justin Lin is ready to announce his next project, Stakehorse. Is it about a horse made of wooden stakes? Doubtful. Sources say the forthcoming crime thriller is like Ben Affleck’s 2010 banger The Town. The screenplay hails from Justin Piasecki, with a plot revolving around a horse veterinarian who has a side hustle patching up criminals who need medical attention under the table.
After shooting several chapters of the Fast and Furious saga and more, Lin is a clever and creative director with a sleek style all his own. In addition to directing Stakehorse, Lin will produce through his Perfect Storm Entertainment studio with Todd Lieberman and Alex Young of Hidden Pictures. Perfect Storm’s Andrew Schneider and Sal Gatdula will exec produce.
Lin, a champion of the Fast and Furious franchise, directed The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, Fast & Furious, Fast Five (still the best one), Fast & Furious 6,...
After shooting several chapters of the Fast and Furious saga and more, Lin is a clever and creative director with a sleek style all his own. In addition to directing Stakehorse, Lin will produce through his Perfect Storm Entertainment studio with Todd Lieberman and Alex Young of Hidden Pictures. Perfect Storm’s Andrew Schneider and Sal Gatdula will exec produce.
Lin, a champion of the Fast and Furious franchise, directed The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, Fast & Furious, Fast Five (still the best one), Fast & Furious 6,...
- 4/12/2024
- by Steve Seigh
- JoBlo.com
Justin Lin has come aboard to direct Stakehorse, a crime thriller set up at Amazon MGM Studios.
Lin and his Perfect Storm Entertainment banner will also produce the feature, joining Todd Lieberman and Alex Young of Hidden Pictures on the project.
Justin Piasecki wrote the script, much of which is being kept in the stable. It is known that it centers on a horse veterinarian who has a side hustle doing medical work for criminals who may need work off the books.
Sources say the project is tonally similar to The Town, the crime thriller directed by Ben Affleck. The script landed near the top of the 2023 Black List.
Perfect Storm’s Andrew Schneider and Sal Gatdula will exec produce.
Lin is known for his action tentpoles, including several Fast and Furious movies and the last Chris Pine-led Star Trek movie, although he got his start by making his semi-autobiographical drama,...
Lin and his Perfect Storm Entertainment banner will also produce the feature, joining Todd Lieberman and Alex Young of Hidden Pictures on the project.
Justin Piasecki wrote the script, much of which is being kept in the stable. It is known that it centers on a horse veterinarian who has a side hustle doing medical work for criminals who may need work off the books.
Sources say the project is tonally similar to The Town, the crime thriller directed by Ben Affleck. The script landed near the top of the 2023 Black List.
Perfect Storm’s Andrew Schneider and Sal Gatdula will exec produce.
Lin is known for his action tentpoles, including several Fast and Furious movies and the last Chris Pine-led Star Trek movie, although he got his start by making his semi-autobiographical drama,...
- 4/12/2024
- by Borys Kit
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
In moviemaking, directors manage the extreme stuff. Matt Reeves, who made The Batman, etched some rough memories as well. He nearly said no to Warner Bros.’ Batman offer due to the film War from the Planets of the Apes.
Matt Reeves at 2010 Comic-Con | image: Wikimedia Commons
It was a major project. However, Reeves adhered to his storytelling passion and made it work. It’s interesting to explore, how he pulled off Robert Pattinson’s Batman film. Reeves’ determination radiates through, even when facing the cosmic chaos of showbiz.
The War For The Planet Of The Apes Nearly Made Matt Reeves Quit Warner Bros’ Offer
Making The Batman wasn’t easy for director Matt Reeves. He nearly said no to the Warner Bros. deal since he was occupied with War for the Planet of the Apes.
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But,...
Matt Reeves at 2010 Comic-Con | image: Wikimedia Commons
It was a major project. However, Reeves adhered to his storytelling passion and made it work. It’s interesting to explore, how he pulled off Robert Pattinson’s Batman film. Reeves’ determination radiates through, even when facing the cosmic chaos of showbiz.
The War For The Planet Of The Apes Nearly Made Matt Reeves Quit Warner Bros’ Offer
Making The Batman wasn’t easy for director Matt Reeves. He nearly said no to the Warner Bros. deal since he was occupied with War for the Planet of the Apes.
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But,...
- 3/30/2024
- by Muskan Chaudhary
- FandomWire
Here’s a look at this week’s biggest premieres, parties and openings in Los Angeles and New York, including events for Bob Marley: One Love, The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live and Lisa Frankenstein.
Lisa Frankenstein premiere
Cole Sprouse and Kathryn Newton joined writer Diablo Cody and director Zelda Williams at the premiere of their new Focus Features film in Los Angeles on Monday.
Cole Sprouse and Kathryn Newton Diablo Cody and Zelda Williams
Bob Marley: One Love premiere
Stars Kingsley Ben-Adir and James Norton, executive producer Brad Pitt, producer Ziggy Marley and director Reinaldo Marcus Green reunited on the red carpet on Tuesday for the L.A. premiere of Bob Marley: One Love.
Kingsley Ben-Adir and Ziggy Marley Jeremy Kleiner, Dede Gardner, Brad Pitt, Reinaldo Marcus Green, James Norton and Robert Teitel
The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live premiere
Danai Gurira and Andrew Lincoln debuted their...
Lisa Frankenstein premiere
Cole Sprouse and Kathryn Newton joined writer Diablo Cody and director Zelda Williams at the premiere of their new Focus Features film in Los Angeles on Monday.
Cole Sprouse and Kathryn Newton Diablo Cody and Zelda Williams
Bob Marley: One Love premiere
Stars Kingsley Ben-Adir and James Norton, executive producer Brad Pitt, producer Ziggy Marley and director Reinaldo Marcus Green reunited on the red carpet on Tuesday for the L.A. premiere of Bob Marley: One Love.
Kingsley Ben-Adir and Ziggy Marley Jeremy Kleiner, Dede Gardner, Brad Pitt, Reinaldo Marcus Green, James Norton and Robert Teitel
The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live premiere
Danai Gurira and Andrew Lincoln debuted their...
- 2/9/2024
- by Kirsten Chuba
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The official title of the opera making its U.S. premiere next week is Last Days. But Matt Copson, who co-directed it and also wrote its libretto, knows everyone will call it something else: the Kurt Cobain opera.
“That’s fine,” Copson says. “I’m up for that. It’s not about that, of course. But that’s an interesting entryway into the whole thing.”
In a somber reminder of how time flies, this April marks the 30th anniversary of Cobain’s death. It’s too soon to say how that day will be commemorated,...
“That’s fine,” Copson says. “I’m up for that. It’s not about that, of course. But that’s an interesting entryway into the whole thing.”
In a somber reminder of how time flies, this April marks the 30th anniversary of Cobain’s death. It’s too soon to say how that day will be commemorated,...
- 2/1/2024
- by David Browne
- Rollingstone.com
A cynical reader, such as me, could look at that title and think “oh, good, they’re finally ending this repetitive superhero waffling that never actually goes anywhere.” But that reader would be wrong.
This is not “last” in the sense of anything actually ending. This is a superhero “last,” meaning it’s about something in the past, and retelling a story already at least half-told multiple times before – but now telling it in greater detail. Even more so, what we have here pretends to be the actual issues of the 1986-era comic in which the original Black Hammer snuffed it, with covers that have fake high numbers and everything.
So The Last Days of Black Hammer is actually a prequel to nearly all of the Black Hammer stories we’ve already seen.
The whole premise of the entire vast Black Hammer-i-verse was that there was a big superhero fight (cough Crisis!
This is not “last” in the sense of anything actually ending. This is a superhero “last,” meaning it’s about something in the past, and retelling a story already at least half-told multiple times before – but now telling it in greater detail. Even more so, what we have here pretends to be the actual issues of the 1986-era comic in which the original Black Hammer snuffed it, with covers that have fake high numbers and everything.
So The Last Days of Black Hammer is actually a prequel to nearly all of the Black Hammer stories we’ve already seen.
The whole premise of the entire vast Black Hammer-i-verse was that there was a big superhero fight (cough Crisis!
- 11/17/2023
- by Andrew Wheeler
- Comicmix.com
Actor Jack Huston says two creative sparks convinced him to make his feature directing debut with boxing drama Day of the Fight. The first concerned the premise; the second, his star.
“Several years ago, I was watching Stanley Kubrick’s first film, a documentary short he shot in 1951, also called Day of the Fight,” Huston says. The film famously follows the great Irish American boxer Walter Cartier over the course of an ordinary day as he prepares for a 10 p.m. title bout.
“It’s this amazing glimpse into the real life of a boxer,” Huston explains. “He eats breakfast, he goes to church, he visits his twin brother, he goes around town — and it’s all leading up to a big prize fight. I remember thinking, ‘What a wonderful premise for a deeper narrative to develop.’ As we follow our boxer through his day and meet the people in his world,...
“Several years ago, I was watching Stanley Kubrick’s first film, a documentary short he shot in 1951, also called Day of the Fight,” Huston says. The film famously follows the great Irish American boxer Walter Cartier over the course of an ordinary day as he prepares for a 10 p.m. title bout.
“It’s this amazing glimpse into the real life of a boxer,” Huston explains. “He eats breakfast, he goes to church, he visits his twin brother, he goes around town — and it’s all leading up to a big prize fight. I remember thinking, ‘What a wonderful premise for a deeper narrative to develop.’ As we follow our boxer through his day and meet the people in his world,...
- 8/30/2023
- by Patrick Brzeski
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Gus Van Sant is a fiercely individual voice with one foot in the independent world and another in the studio system, Van Sant’s filmography varies wildly from mainstream entertainments to peculiar experiments, from sublime highs to extreme lows. Let’s take a look at all 17 of his films, ranked worst to best.
Born in 1952 in Louisville, Kentucky, Van Sant kicked off his filmmaking career with the micro-budget, black-and-white “Mala Noche” (1985), a major preamble to the New Queer Cinema. His next feature, “Drugstore Cowboy” (1989), firmly established him as an indie maverick, a reputation he would fulfill with his followup, the River Phoenix/Keanu Reeves road movie “My Own Private Idaho” (1991). He dipped his toes into studio filmmaking with the gleefully dark satire “To Die For” (1995), which won Nicole Kidman a Golden Globe as Best Comedy/Musical Actress.
He hit the Oscar jackpot for the first time with the inspirational drama...
Born in 1952 in Louisville, Kentucky, Van Sant kicked off his filmmaking career with the micro-budget, black-and-white “Mala Noche” (1985), a major preamble to the New Queer Cinema. His next feature, “Drugstore Cowboy” (1989), firmly established him as an indie maverick, a reputation he would fulfill with his followup, the River Phoenix/Keanu Reeves road movie “My Own Private Idaho” (1991). He dipped his toes into studio filmmaking with the gleefully dark satire “To Die For” (1995), which won Nicole Kidman a Golden Globe as Best Comedy/Musical Actress.
He hit the Oscar jackpot for the first time with the inspirational drama...
- 7/21/2023
- by Zach Laws and Chris Beachum
- Gold Derby
The first trailer for "The Batman," which launched at the inaugural DC FanDome event back in 2020, might be the most incredible trailer I've ever seen. At least, the trailer that got me the most excited to see a film. From the somber-toned needle drop of Nirvana's "Something In The Way," you could feel every skeptic be collectively converted. This was positioned to be a Batman unlike any other, and things only got better from there with a teaser building toward a heart-stopping moment, when the music drops and Robert Pattinson's Dark Knight mercilessly beats a random miscreant into the ground.
I must have rewatched that trailer a few dozen times, and even found myself sucked into YouTube's reaction video community. Everything about this Batman seemed fresh yet faithful to the character's essence. At some point during my endless rewatching, I noticed there was more to the Nirvana...
I must have rewatched that trailer a few dozen times, and even found myself sucked into YouTube's reaction video community. Everything about this Batman seemed fresh yet faithful to the character's essence. At some point during my endless rewatching, I noticed there was more to the Nirvana...
- 3/19/2023
- by Joe Roberts
- Slash Film
By Paweł Mizgalewicz
Every fallen rockstar was once a child that just plainly had a ton of fun playing music. As obvious as this sounds, it’s a fact that is not too often mentioned in Western cinema. Whether we are watching another comprehensive biopic or a film about a rockstar that has already hit rock bottom and fully jaded (be it “Last Days” or recent “Taurus”), the fame, success and drugs tend to be a more popular subject than the simple pleasure of making sounds and creating your own thing. Now, if you ever wanted to inject a story with a childlike sense of pure fun, a playful tone and anything-goes attitude, you would hardly think of other directors than Masaaki Yuasa. His story of a rockstar is something else – it is, as he said to the audience after the Rotterdam screening, driven by this “dream of purity”. The...
Every fallen rockstar was once a child that just plainly had a ton of fun playing music. As obvious as this sounds, it’s a fact that is not too often mentioned in Western cinema. Whether we are watching another comprehensive biopic or a film about a rockstar that has already hit rock bottom and fully jaded (be it “Last Days” or recent “Taurus”), the fame, success and drugs tend to be a more popular subject than the simple pleasure of making sounds and creating your own thing. Now, if you ever wanted to inject a story with a childlike sense of pure fun, a playful tone and anything-goes attitude, you would hardly think of other directors than Masaaki Yuasa. His story of a rockstar is something else – it is, as he said to the audience after the Rotterdam screening, driven by this “dream of purity”. The...
- 1/30/2023
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Courtney Love has claimed she was fired from Fight Club because she wouldn’t allow Brad Pitt to play her late husband, Kurt Cobain.
Pitt, Edward Norton and Helena Bonham Carter starred in David Fincher’s acclaimed cult thriller Fight Club (1999)
During a recent episode of the Wtf With Marc Maron podcast, Love alleged that she was originally cast to play Marla, a character eventually portrayed by Bonham Carter.
Love told host Marc Maron that she was fired from Fight Club after she “went nuclear” on Pitt and film director Gus Van Sant when they approached her about making a film about Cobain.
Love married the Nirvana frontman in 1992. Cobain died at 27, two years later in 1994. The couple had one child together, Frances Bean Cobain who is now 30.
“I wouldn’t let Brad play Kurt,” said the Hole frontwoman. “I went nuclear. I don’t do Faust. Who the f*** do you think are?...
Pitt, Edward Norton and Helena Bonham Carter starred in David Fincher’s acclaimed cult thriller Fight Club (1999)
During a recent episode of the Wtf With Marc Maron podcast, Love alleged that she was originally cast to play Marla, a character eventually portrayed by Bonham Carter.
Love told host Marc Maron that she was fired from Fight Club after she “went nuclear” on Pitt and film director Gus Van Sant when they approached her about making a film about Cobain.
Love married the Nirvana frontman in 1992. Cobain died at 27, two years later in 1994. The couple had one child together, Frances Bean Cobain who is now 30.
“I wouldn’t let Brad play Kurt,” said the Hole frontwoman. “I went nuclear. I don’t do Faust. Who the f*** do you think are?...
- 12/30/2022
- by Annabel Nugent
- The Independent - Film
Above: US Teaser poster for Crimes of the Future. Design by Bangers & Mash.In the middle of the Venice Film Festival, and in the lead-up to the Toronto and New York fests, still the most “liked” poster of the last six months of my Movie Poster of the Day Instagram was a teaser poster that appeared in the run-up to Cannes in the spring. The poster was for was one of the most anticipated films of Cannes, a film that has since been disseminated to the world with a much tamer big-head poster and even tamer home video art. The Crimes of the Future teaser racked up nearly 2,000 likes and not far behind it was a gorgeous art print for Cronenberg’s 30-year-old Naked Lunch by the very talented (and seemingly Cronenberg-obsessed) Nick Charge that I posted a few months later. As I’ve been doing for the past few years,...
- 9/9/2022
- MUBI
Forget Seberg, forget Mank, forget Judy — Andrew Dominik’s Venice Film Festival competition entry Blonde takes a blowtorch to the entire concept of the Hollywood biopic and arrives at something almost without precedent.
Gus Van Sant, at the height of his Béla Tarr period, achieved something remarkable and kind of similar with 2005’s Last Days, an immersive but fictional rumination on the events preceding rock star Kurt Cobain’s suicide in 1994. But then, Blonde’s closest antecedents are all in fiction — anyone expecting an idiot’s guide to Marilyn Monroe will be surprised or even appalled to see the late star’s life presented as a horror movie in the surreal, nightmarish style of David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive, another film about a blonde actress struggling with the boundaries between fantasy and fiction and whose star, Naomi Watts, was attached to this movie way back in the day.
‘Blonde’ Venice...
Gus Van Sant, at the height of his Béla Tarr period, achieved something remarkable and kind of similar with 2005’s Last Days, an immersive but fictional rumination on the events preceding rock star Kurt Cobain’s suicide in 1994. But then, Blonde’s closest antecedents are all in fiction — anyone expecting an idiot’s guide to Marilyn Monroe will be surprised or even appalled to see the late star’s life presented as a horror movie in the surreal, nightmarish style of David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive, another film about a blonde actress struggling with the boundaries between fantasy and fiction and whose star, Naomi Watts, was attached to this movie way back in the day.
‘Blonde’ Venice...
- 9/8/2022
- by Damon Wise
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Boardwalk Empire actor Michael Pitt has joined Open Road and Sculptor Media’s drama-thriller Black Flies opposite Sean Penn, Tye Sheridan and Katherine Waterston.
The movie, based on the Shannon Burke novel of the same name, takes an immersive view of life on the streets and one medic’s struggle to maintain his desire to help despite his growing fear that nothing he can do will make a difference. It is the story of lives that hang in the balance and the choices of two men caught in the middle. Ollie Cross (Sheridan) is ready to do good. In preparation for his dream of medical school, he hits the streets driving an ambulance alongside Rutkovsky (Penn), a grizzled veteran and one of New York’s best medics.
Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire is directing off the latest draft by Burke, with Ryan King also penning. Open Road took US rights for a theatrical release.
The movie, based on the Shannon Burke novel of the same name, takes an immersive view of life on the streets and one medic’s struggle to maintain his desire to help despite his growing fear that nothing he can do will make a difference. It is the story of lives that hang in the balance and the choices of two men caught in the middle. Ollie Cross (Sheridan) is ready to do good. In preparation for his dream of medical school, he hits the streets driving an ambulance alongside Rutkovsky (Penn), a grizzled veteran and one of New York’s best medics.
Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire is directing off the latest draft by Burke, with Ryan King also penning. Open Road took US rights for a theatrical release.
- 5/10/2022
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Gus Van Sant (Good Will Hunting), Lenny Kravitz (Lee Daniels’ The Butler), Beverly D’Angelo (Violent Night), Colleen Camp (Back on the Strip) and Gavin Rossdale (The Bling Ring) have signed on to star alongside Vito Schnabel in the dark comedy The Trainer, which Tony Kaye (American History X) is directing from Schnabel and Jeff Solomon’s script.
The film currently in production, after nearly a decade in development, is based on an original story by Schnabel. It unfolds over eight days of sleep-deprived chaos and follows Jack (Schnabel), a down-on-his-luck fitness expert living with his mother in Los Angeles, who takes a maniacal swing at fame and fortune, trying to realize his version of the American dream.
Julia Fox, Steven Van Zandt, Taylour Paige, Stephen Dorff, John McEnroe, Gina Gershon, Luka Sabbat, Soo Joo Park, Brock O’Hurn, Bella Thorne, Laird Hamilton and Duke Nicholson are also set to star.
The film currently in production, after nearly a decade in development, is based on an original story by Schnabel. It unfolds over eight days of sleep-deprived chaos and follows Jack (Schnabel), a down-on-his-luck fitness expert living with his mother in Los Angeles, who takes a maniacal swing at fame and fortune, trying to realize his version of the American dream.
Julia Fox, Steven Van Zandt, Taylour Paige, Stephen Dorff, John McEnroe, Gina Gershon, Luka Sabbat, Soo Joo Park, Brock O’Hurn, Bella Thorne, Laird Hamilton and Duke Nicholson are also set to star.
- 5/4/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
In honor of 4/20, Colson Baker aka Machine Gun Kelly debuted the Red Band trailer for his stoner comedy “Good Mourning,” which he wrote, directed, and stars in with Mod Sun.
The rom-com follows movie star London Clash (Baker) after the love of his life Apple (Becky G) breaks up with him via text. The timing couldn’t be worse as London has the most important meeting of his career on the same day. Compounded by chaotic roommates and wildly unpredictable twists and turns, London’s day keeps going downhill until, ultimately, he is forced to choose between pursuing his one true love and landing a life-changing, starring role in a major motion picture.
Whitney Cummings plays London’s agent, while Mod Sun and Pete Davidson star as his friends. Megan Fox also has a special guest appearance, with the ensemble cast rounded out by Dove Cameron, GaTa, Zach Villa, Jenna Boyd and Boo Johnson.
The rom-com follows movie star London Clash (Baker) after the love of his life Apple (Becky G) breaks up with him via text. The timing couldn’t be worse as London has the most important meeting of his career on the same day. Compounded by chaotic roommates and wildly unpredictable twists and turns, London’s day keeps going downhill until, ultimately, he is forced to choose between pursuing his one true love and landing a life-changing, starring role in a major motion picture.
Whitney Cummings plays London’s agent, while Mod Sun and Pete Davidson star as his friends. Megan Fox also has a special guest appearance, with the ensemble cast rounded out by Dove Cameron, GaTa, Zach Villa, Jenna Boyd and Boo Johnson.
- 4/20/2022
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
The prestigious Royal Opera House in London has announced several new opera and ballet productions for the 2022-2023 season. One, well, unusual show in that slate is reportedly an adaptation of the Gus Van Sant film Last Days, which was inspired by the 1994 suicide of Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain. Last Days, which starred Michael Pitt as the […]
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- 4/10/2022
- by Jacob Linden
- Uinterview
The following contains spoilers from the Season 1 finale of Apple TV+’s Severance.
Talk about a rude awakening.
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As the Severance Season 1 finale got underway, as Dylan inside the Lumon control room triggered the Overtime Contingency protocol that “awakened” his coworkers whilst they were in their Outie worlds, Helly R. found herself glammed up at a company gala, where she was about to give an awaited testimonial.
Talk about a rude awakening.
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As the Severance Season 1 finale got underway, as Dylan inside the Lumon control room triggered the Overtime Contingency protocol that “awakened” his coworkers whilst they were in their Outie worlds, Helly R. found herself glammed up at a company gala, where she was about to give an awaited testimonial.
- 4/9/2022
- by Matt Webb Mitovich
- TVLine.com
Happy endings are relative, as viewers of Apple TV+’s limited series The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey discovered when the drama’s final installment dropped Friday.
For instance, star Samuel L. Jackson’s dementia-addled titular character didn’t get to retain the memories and mental agility he regained through an experimental drug. But he did get to make peace with his past, avenge Reggie’s murder and financially protect Robyn so that she could oversee his estate and go on to do great things. Although Ptolemy’s mind wouldn’t allow him to realize all that he’d accomplished,...
For instance, star Samuel L. Jackson’s dementia-addled titular character didn’t get to retain the memories and mental agility he regained through an experimental drug. But he did get to make peace with his past, avenge Reggie’s murder and financially protect Robyn so that she could oversee his estate and go on to do great things. Although Ptolemy’s mind wouldn’t allow him to realize all that he’d accomplished,...
- 4/8/2022
- by Mekeisha Madden Toby
- TVLine.com
For a movie that wasn’t enormously well-received when it was released and remains pretty divisive to this day, Gus Van Sant’s Last Days still retains a certain bit of cultural cachet. The movie is about the—ahem—last days of Kurt Cobain’s life, only the character isn’t called Kurt Cobain and the other people in his…...
- 4/7/2022
- by Sam Barsanti
- avclub.com
We’re at the end of Ptolemy Grey’s (Samuel L. Jackson) story in the Apple TV+ series with the April 8 finale, and TV Insider has an exclusive sneak peek. The clip features a video message from Ptolemy to Robyn (Dominique Fishback). “I want you to know that because of who you are and things that you’ve done, I know that Coy would be glad that I’m leaving his legacy in your hands,” he says. “You saved me. You helped me keep my promise.” Watch the clip above for more from the Last Days of Ptolemy Grey series finale. Apple TV+ As Jackson told TV Insider ahead of the premiere, “Robyn becomes this life force for him that brings him out of the fog.” The series follows Ptolemy Grey, an ailing man forgotten by his family, friends, and even himself. Without his caretaker and on the brink of...
- 4/7/2022
- TV Insider
Stop the count, we have a winner: The strangest TV show of the year has arrived.
Apple TV+ has released a trailer for its new anthology series Roar, described as “a series of darkly comic feminist fables” telling eight self-contained stories about “ordinary women in some pretty extraordinary circumstances.” And once the trailer opens with Nicole Kidman taking a photograph and shoving it into her mouth, well, “extraordinary” seems to be an understatement.
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Apple TV+ has released a trailer for its new anthology series Roar, described as “a series of darkly comic feminist fables” telling eight self-contained stories about “ordinary women in some pretty extraordinary circumstances.” And once the trailer opens with Nicole Kidman taking a photograph and shoving it into her mouth, well, “extraordinary” seems to be an understatement.
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- 3/24/2022
- by Dave Nemetz
- TVLine.com
Gabrielle Union is bringing her legendary talents to Truth Be Told.
The actress is set to star opposite Octavia Spencer in Season 3 of the Apple TV+ series, TVLine has learned. She will play Eva, an outspoken high school principal who becomes entangled in a “problematic incident.”
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Union previously...
The actress is set to star opposite Octavia Spencer in Season 3 of the Apple TV+ series, TVLine has learned. She will play Eva, an outspoken high school principal who becomes entangled in a “problematic incident.”
More from TVLineNicole Kidman Eats Photographs, Merritt Wever Dates a Duck in Apple's Roar -- Watch the Very Weird TrailerThe Last Days of Ptolemy Grey's Dominique Fishback Breaks Down Her Mission to Honor Black Teen GirlsSquid Game's Hoyeon Joins Alfonso Cuarón's Apple TV+ Thriller, Opposite Cate Blanchett and Kevin Kline
Union previously...
- 3/23/2022
- by Keisha Hatchett
- TVLine.com
Exclusive: Deadline has the first exclusive track from Craig DeLeon’s score for The Last Days of Ptolemy Gray, which is set for digital release via Lakeshore Records on March 11, as the Apple TV+ series debuts globally with its first two episodes.
In the six-episode limited series based on Walter Mosley’s novel of the same name, starring Samuel L. Jackson, Dominique Fishback and Cynthia Kaye McWilliams, Jackson plays Ptolemy Grey, an ailing man forgotten by his family, by his friends, and even by himself. Suddenly left without his trusted caretaker and on the brink of sinking even deeper into a lonely dementia, Ptolemy is assigned to the care of orphaned teenager Robyn (Fishback). When they learn about a treatment that can restore Ptolemy’s dementia-addled memories, it begins a journey toward shocking truths about the past, present and future.
“When I was asked to score The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey,...
In the six-episode limited series based on Walter Mosley’s novel of the same name, starring Samuel L. Jackson, Dominique Fishback and Cynthia Kaye McWilliams, Jackson plays Ptolemy Grey, an ailing man forgotten by his family, by his friends, and even by himself. Suddenly left without his trusted caretaker and on the brink of sinking even deeper into a lonely dementia, Ptolemy is assigned to the care of orphaned teenager Robyn (Fishback). When they learn about a treatment that can restore Ptolemy’s dementia-addled memories, it begins a journey toward shocking truths about the past, present and future.
“When I was asked to score The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey,...
- 3/8/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
The first trailer for Warner Bros.’ highly anticipated reboot “The Batman” was downright chilling as it introduced Robert Pattinson’s take on the Caped Crusader with a gloomy, detective-infused story. But the teaser also featured something no other Batman film had showcased before: a Nirvana song.
Indeed, if you’re wondering what the song in “The Batman” is, it’s Nirvana’s “Something in the Way,” but there’s a deeper reasoning for why this particular song appears in the film.
The song, written by Kurt Cobain, appears on Nirvana’s second album “Nevermind” which was released in 1991. But it also gained prominence after a live version of the song appeared on the 1994 album “MTV Unplugged in New York” despite being cut from the initial broadcast of Nirvana’s iconic appearance on the show.
For fans of Nirvana, “Something in the Way” is instantly recognizable, and it plays twice in...
Indeed, if you’re wondering what the song in “The Batman” is, it’s Nirvana’s “Something in the Way,” but there’s a deeper reasoning for why this particular song appears in the film.
The song, written by Kurt Cobain, appears on Nirvana’s second album “Nevermind” which was released in 1991. But it also gained prominence after a live version of the song appeared on the 1994 album “MTV Unplugged in New York” despite being cut from the initial broadcast of Nirvana’s iconic appearance on the show.
For fans of Nirvana, “Something in the Way” is instantly recognizable, and it plays twice in...
- 3/5/2022
- by Adam Chitwood
- The Wrap
Matt Reeves may have listened to Nirvana’s “Something in the Way” while writing “The Batman,” but it was really the Beach Boys’ influence that led to the writer-director crafting his modern take on the Riddler.
During a cover story interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Reeves revealed that Paul Dano’s turn as Beach Boys frontman Brian Wilson in the 2014 biopic “Love and Mercy” helped inspire the enigmatic villain Dano takes on in “The Batman.”
Dano played a younger version of Wilson, who struggled with mental illness; John Cusack starred as the older Wilson.
“That character, he’s caught up in his artistry and he struggles to communicate with those around him,” Reeves said of Dano as Wilson. “That was spiritually connected to the idea of this isolation that the Riddler felt. The Riddler is a product of our time, the way that people become isolated online and retreat to...
During a cover story interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Reeves revealed that Paul Dano’s turn as Beach Boys frontman Brian Wilson in the 2014 biopic “Love and Mercy” helped inspire the enigmatic villain Dano takes on in “The Batman.”
Dano played a younger version of Wilson, who struggled with mental illness; John Cusack starred as the older Wilson.
“That character, he’s caught up in his artistry and he struggles to communicate with those around him,” Reeves said of Dano as Wilson. “That was spiritually connected to the idea of this isolation that the Riddler felt. The Riddler is a product of our time, the way that people become isolated online and retreat to...
- 3/3/2022
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
You know the scene: the Batman stands before a gang of skull-faced goons who think this weirdo in a costume is a joke. “Who the hell are you supposed to be?” asks their leader, who’s about to find out, one punch at a time, that Robert Pattinson’s unhinged, hyper-violent Dark Knight is no laughing matter.
“How it was initially staged was the guy says, ‘Who are you?’ And Batman says, ‘I’m vengeance,’ and then beats everybody up,” reveals a much friendlier Pattinson, who cracks up while explaining how he helped tweak the scene to make it even more horrifying. “I said to Rob [Alonzo, second unit director and supervising stunt coordinator], ‘I really want to say it into the guy’s face when he’s basically dead.’”
Savage beatings are one way this Batman wants to “spread around [his] mythology,” Pattinson tells Den of Geek by phone on a cold, gloomy day in January. “It’s not theatrical,...
“How it was initially staged was the guy says, ‘Who are you?’ And Batman says, ‘I’m vengeance,’ and then beats everybody up,” reveals a much friendlier Pattinson, who cracks up while explaining how he helped tweak the scene to make it even more horrifying. “I said to Rob [Alonzo, second unit director and supervising stunt coordinator], ‘I really want to say it into the guy’s face when he’s basically dead.’”
Savage beatings are one way this Batman wants to “spread around [his] mythology,” Pattinson tells Den of Geek by phone on a cold, gloomy day in January. “It’s not theatrical,...
- 2/14/2022
- by John Saavedra
- Den of Geek
“Taurus” is the semi-autobiographical tale of a rap-slash-rock star on the tail-end of a self-destructive kick. Set to premiere at the Berlin Film Festival Feb. 13, the film stars Colson Baker (better known to fans as real-life rap-slash-rock star Machine Gun Kelly) as Cole, a Kurt Cobain-esque musician struggling with fatherhood, the music industry, substance abuse and his ex-wife (played by Megan Fox).
Tim Sutton, who wrote and directed the film, conceived of the idea after directing “The Last Son,” in which Baker plays a 19th century bank robber. “I went over to [Sutton’s on-set] living quarters and we were smoking a joint,” Baker recalled. “And he was like, ‘If you ever do a documentary on yourself, or make a movie, you have to let me make it.’” Baker agreed and a few weeks later Sutton sent over a script.
That first draft, Sutton says, drew more heavily from stories of rappers who had died young,...
Tim Sutton, who wrote and directed the film, conceived of the idea after directing “The Last Son,” in which Baker plays a 19th century bank robber. “I went over to [Sutton’s on-set] living quarters and we were smoking a joint,” Baker recalled. “And he was like, ‘If you ever do a documentary on yourself, or make a movie, you have to let me make it.’” Baker agreed and a few weeks later Sutton sent over a script.
That first draft, Sutton says, drew more heavily from stories of rappers who had died young,...
- 2/10/2022
- by K.J. Yossman
- Variety Film + TV
It’s been two months since audiences got their first look at Matt Reeves’ new take on Batman. Now, in a new interview with Empire magazine, Reeves is sharing his inspiration behind Robert Pattinson’s portrayal of Bruce Wayne.
“When I write, I listen to music, and as I was writing the first act, I put on Nirvana’s ‘Something In The Way’,” Reeves said. It was within the music that Reeves decided to forego the standard portrayal of Bruce Wayne as a playboy and go for something edgier. “There’s another version who had gone through a great tragedy and become a recluse. So I started making this connection to Gus Van Sant’s ‘Last Days,’ and the idea of this fictionalized version of Kurt Cobain being in this kind of decaying manor.”
With Kurt Cobain in his mind, it only galvanized Reeves’ decision to cast Pattinson. “He’s...
“When I write, I listen to music, and as I was writing the first act, I put on Nirvana’s ‘Something In The Way’,” Reeves said. It was within the music that Reeves decided to forego the standard portrayal of Bruce Wayne as a playboy and go for something edgier. “There’s another version who had gone through a great tragedy and become a recluse. So I started making this connection to Gus Van Sant’s ‘Last Days,’ and the idea of this fictionalized version of Kurt Cobain being in this kind of decaying manor.”
With Kurt Cobain in his mind, it only galvanized Reeves’ decision to cast Pattinson. “He’s...
- 12/19/2021
- by Kristen Lopez
- Indiewire
Fantastic Fest 2021 is bringing its physical edition to an end on September 30, and IndieWire is exclusively revealing this year’s award winners below. Many of the winning features will be available to stream September 30 through October 11 as part of the virtual Fantastic Fest at Home, including “After Blue,” “Zalava,” “Name Above Title,” and “Let the Wrong One In.” All the award-winning short films will stream virtual as well.
This year’s Competition winner for Best Film is Bertrand Mandico’s “After Blue.” The movie is set on a mysterious planet populated entirely by women, where a teenager and her mother set out on a journey to find a murderous criminal.
“After Blue (Dirty Paradise) is a mutant-cinema dream,” Mandico said in a statement. “The dream of taking my actresses and collaborators towards an emotional lyricism of creation. The dream of giving spectators an out-of-format, intoxicating and disturbing fantasy. Thanks to...
This year’s Competition winner for Best Film is Bertrand Mandico’s “After Blue.” The movie is set on a mysterious planet populated entirely by women, where a teenager and her mother set out on a journey to find a murderous criminal.
“After Blue (Dirty Paradise) is a mutant-cinema dream,” Mandico said in a statement. “The dream of taking my actresses and collaborators towards an emotional lyricism of creation. The dream of giving spectators an out-of-format, intoxicating and disturbing fantasy. Thanks to...
- 9/29/2021
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Must of the Month
A great way to celebrate Pride this year is with The Signifyin’ Works of Marlon Riggs, a Criterion Collection box set that pays tribute to an essential voice in LGBTQ+ cinema and Black filmmaking. Before his death of HIV/AIDS complications in 1994, Riggs created a vital body of work that includes the sensual and poetic “Tongues Untied” — a film decried on the senate floor by Jesse Helms, and recommendations don’t come much higher — the incisive documentary “Color Adjustment,” about the history of Black characters on American TV, and brilliantly moving personal and experimental films like “Black Is… Black Ain’t” and “Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien (No Regrets).” This compilation of a singular artistic voice belongs in every library.
New Indie
Carrie Coon and Jude Law gave firecracker performances in the under-seen “The Nest” (IFC/Shout Factory) from director Sean Durkin (“Martha Marcy May Marlene...
A great way to celebrate Pride this year is with The Signifyin’ Works of Marlon Riggs, a Criterion Collection box set that pays tribute to an essential voice in LGBTQ+ cinema and Black filmmaking. Before his death of HIV/AIDS complications in 1994, Riggs created a vital body of work that includes the sensual and poetic “Tongues Untied” — a film decried on the senate floor by Jesse Helms, and recommendations don’t come much higher — the incisive documentary “Color Adjustment,” about the history of Black characters on American TV, and brilliantly moving personal and experimental films like “Black Is… Black Ain’t” and “Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien (No Regrets).” This compilation of a singular artistic voice belongs in every library.
New Indie
Carrie Coon and Jude Law gave firecracker performances in the under-seen “The Nest” (IFC/Shout Factory) from director Sean Durkin (“Martha Marcy May Marlene...
- 6/2/2021
- by Alonso Duralde
- The Wrap
“Mayday,” which took its first European bow at the Rotterdam Film Festival this week after premiering at Sundance, is the debut feature of U.S. writer/director Karen Cinorre.
The film tells the tale of oppressed young waitress Ana working at a wedding, who falls through an oven into a female-dominated utopia.
The character then joins group of seemingly like-minded soldiers who are involved in a Siren-like mission to lure male soldiers to their deaths via fake mayday calls.
The feature is one of a number of films vying for this year’s Tiger Award at Rotterdam exploring female self-realization and shares similar revenge fantasy themes to fellow Sundance breakout, Emma Fennell’s “Promising Young Woman.”
While Cinorre’s original script for the film pre-dates both the #MeToo and “Time’s Up” movements, she remains hopeful that these events have created “a new openness” that has meant films like hers are more likely to get made.
The film tells the tale of oppressed young waitress Ana working at a wedding, who falls through an oven into a female-dominated utopia.
The character then joins group of seemingly like-minded soldiers who are involved in a Siren-like mission to lure male soldiers to their deaths via fake mayday calls.
The feature is one of a number of films vying for this year’s Tiger Award at Rotterdam exploring female self-realization and shares similar revenge fantasy themes to fellow Sundance breakout, Emma Fennell’s “Promising Young Woman.”
While Cinorre’s original script for the film pre-dates both the #MeToo and “Time’s Up” movements, she remains hopeful that these events have created “a new openness” that has meant films like hers are more likely to get made.
- 2/6/2021
- by Ann-Marie Corvin
- Variety Film + TV
Spike Lee loves cinema and he loves making movies, but, perhaps more than either, he loves filmmakers who are willing to share that kind of love for the art and its craft.
For Lee, it began in the early ’80s at NYU’s film school, where his classmates included Ernest Dickerson and Ang Lee, and where Jim Jarmusch, two years his senior, gave him the confidence to believe that his goals were achievable. It was in 1985, however, that he had an epiphany, when NYU old boy Martin Scorsese returned to his alma mater with a print of his new film After Hours. “After the screening,” Lee recalls, “he didn’t run out of the theater. He stayed around. I went up to him and told him my name and what I wanted to do. In that very moment, Marty took an interest in me as a filmmaker, and we’ve...
For Lee, it began in the early ’80s at NYU’s film school, where his classmates included Ernest Dickerson and Ang Lee, and where Jim Jarmusch, two years his senior, gave him the confidence to believe that his goals were achievable. It was in 1985, however, that he had an epiphany, when NYU old boy Martin Scorsese returned to his alma mater with a print of his new film After Hours. “After the screening,” Lee recalls, “he didn’t run out of the theater. He stayed around. I went up to him and told him my name and what I wanted to do. In that very moment, Marty took an interest in me as a filmmaker, and we’ve...
- 1/12/2021
- by Damon Wise
- Deadline Film + TV
Many filmmakers scrambled to get work done under the strange, unpredictable circumstances of 2020, but few worked faster than Gus Van Sant. The “Milk” auteur was preparing to shoot the Will Ferrell drama “Prince of Fashion,” an Amazon-backed project adapted from Michael Chabon’s GQ article, during the first half of the year.
When that fell apart, Van Sant spent the summer trying to sort out his next move. In early October, he was he was approached by Gucci creative director Alessandro Michele about fast-tracking a new project. With Paris Fashion Week canceled, the label was gearing up for GucciFest, an online showcase of new designs comprised of short films.
Van Sant ended up traveling to Rome for rapid-fire 12-day shoot to showcase Gucci’s upcoming collection, “Ouverture of Something that Never Ended.” Van Sant co-directed a series of seven short films under the same title, each of which follows...
When that fell apart, Van Sant spent the summer trying to sort out his next move. In early October, he was he was approached by Gucci creative director Alessandro Michele about fast-tracking a new project. With Paris Fashion Week canceled, the label was gearing up for GucciFest, an online showcase of new designs comprised of short films.
Van Sant ended up traveling to Rome for rapid-fire 12-day shoot to showcase Gucci’s upcoming collection, “Ouverture of Something that Never Ended.” Van Sant co-directed a series of seven short films under the same title, each of which follows...
- 11/21/2020
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
Gus Van Sant may have just collaborated with Gucci creative director Alessandro Michele on a seven-part film series presentation of the fashion house’s next collection, but he isn’t looking to up his wardrobe anytime soon. “I do have a bathrobe that Alessandro sent me, but that’s all,” Van Sant tells Variety.
The first episode of the film series, “Ouverture of Something That Never Ended,” premiered on Monday to coincide with the kick-off of GucciFest. The seven parts follow Italian actor Silvia Calderoni as she runs into various international stars, including Harry Styles, Billie Eilish, Jeremy O. Harris, Paul B. Preciado, Achille Bonito Oliva, Darius Khonsary, Lu Han, Ariana Papademetropoulos, Arlo Parks, Sasha Waltz and Florence Welch.
Variety caught up with Van Sant, who was in Rome after he and Michele participated in a press conference about their collaboration.
What did you think when Alessandro called and asked...
The first episode of the film series, “Ouverture of Something That Never Ended,” premiered on Monday to coincide with the kick-off of GucciFest. The seven parts follow Italian actor Silvia Calderoni as she runs into various international stars, including Harry Styles, Billie Eilish, Jeremy O. Harris, Paul B. Preciado, Achille Bonito Oliva, Darius Khonsary, Lu Han, Ariana Papademetropoulos, Arlo Parks, Sasha Waltz and Florence Welch.
Variety caught up with Van Sant, who was in Rome after he and Michele participated in a press conference about their collaboration.
What did you think when Alessandro called and asked...
- 11/16/2020
- by Marc Malkin
- Variety Film + TV
Considering how profoundly the coronavirus has affected the film industry, the vault full of original content Netflix had ready to pump out is an impressive coup. Obviously, they will run out eventually – the shutdown is going to catch up – but for now they seem to be coping fine.
Case in point: The studio have dropped a new trailer for the latest of their original movies, which they’ve pencilled in for release in the near future, Olivier Megaton’s The Last Days of American Crime. Based on a graphic novel, the film will posit a world where all crime will soon be obsolete, with the Us government planning to broadcast a signal that makes it impossible to commit unlawful acts. That leaves a career criminal looking to stage one last heist before it’s too late to do so. Sounds bonkers, right?
Want to see the trailer? It’s in the usual place,...
Case in point: The studio have dropped a new trailer for the latest of their original movies, which they’ve pencilled in for release in the near future, Olivier Megaton’s The Last Days of American Crime. Based on a graphic novel, the film will posit a world where all crime will soon be obsolete, with the Us government planning to broadcast a signal that makes it impossible to commit unlawful acts. That leaves a career criminal looking to stage one last heist before it’s too late to do so. Sounds bonkers, right?
Want to see the trailer? It’s in the usual place,...
- 5/20/2020
- by Alex Crisp
- We Got This Covered
, Josh Trank’s “Capone” does for Scarface what Gus Van Sant’s “Last Days” did for Kurt Cobain: Not a lot, and in excruciating detail. But while both films offer a bleak look at the final chapter of a fabled rock star’s life, this one has the chutzpah to be so much bleaker; if Van Sant’s movie was strung out, Trank’s is utterly zombified.
Hardy once again combines the fearless commitment of early Marlon Brando with the utter unintelligibility of much older Marlon Brando, embodying the legendary crime boss like a rotting corpse. Alphonse Gabriel Capone (aka “Fonzo” or “Fonz”) has been suffering from neurosyphilis for more than 25 years when the film begins, and the skin is starting to peel off his face; the opening title card tells us that “this is the final year of his life,” but one minute with the guy is enough...
Hardy once again combines the fearless commitment of early Marlon Brando with the utter unintelligibility of much older Marlon Brando, embodying the legendary crime boss like a rotting corpse. Alphonse Gabriel Capone (aka “Fonzo” or “Fonz”) has been suffering from neurosyphilis for more than 25 years when the film begins, and the skin is starting to peel off his face; the opening title card tells us that “this is the final year of his life,” but one minute with the guy is enough...
- 5/11/2020
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Amazon announced a suite of new projects, overall deals, and other news during its Television Critics Association 2020 Winter Press Tour executive session Tuesday afternoon in Pasadena, including the announcement of a first-look deal with Brad Pitt’s Plan B Entertainment.
Plan B is working on mystery drama “Outer Range,” which was created by playwright Brian Watkins. “Outer Range” will follow a Wyoming rancher’s battle to save his land and is executive produced by Pitt, Dede Gardner, and Jeremy Kleiner.
Plan B Entertainment is also producing Barry Jenkins’ adaption of “The Underground Railroad” novel, which will premiere later this year.
Amazon Studios head Jennifer Salke revealed that Priyanka Chopra and Richard Madden will star in Joe and Anthony Russo’s “Citadel,” a spy thriller miniseries that will focus on the double lives of its protagonists. A local language production of the series, which is also getting Italian and Indian versions,...
Plan B is working on mystery drama “Outer Range,” which was created by playwright Brian Watkins. “Outer Range” will follow a Wyoming rancher’s battle to save his land and is executive produced by Pitt, Dede Gardner, and Jeremy Kleiner.
Plan B Entertainment is also producing Barry Jenkins’ adaption of “The Underground Railroad” novel, which will premiere later this year.
Amazon Studios head Jennifer Salke revealed that Priyanka Chopra and Richard Madden will star in Joe and Anthony Russo’s “Citadel,” a spy thriller miniseries that will focus on the double lives of its protagonists. A local language production of the series, which is also getting Italian and Indian versions,...
- 1/14/2020
- by Tyler Hersko
- Indiewire
Streaming platform unveils deals with Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna, Plan B Entertainment; announces cast on The Lord Of The Rings series.
Amazon Studios has struck an overall deal with Steve McQueen that has moved the UK Oscar winner’s TV thriller Last Days forward into development.
The deal was one of several announcements by the streaming platform at the TCA tour in Los Angeles on Tuesday (January 14) that include deals with Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna, and Brad Pitt’s Plan B Entertainment, as well as the unveiling of a largelyUK cast on its The Lord Of The Rings TV series.
Amazon Studios has struck an overall deal with Steve McQueen that has moved the UK Oscar winner’s TV thriller Last Days forward into development.
The deal was one of several announcements by the streaming platform at the TCA tour in Los Angeles on Tuesday (January 14) that include deals with Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna, and Brad Pitt’s Plan B Entertainment, as well as the unveiling of a largelyUK cast on its The Lord Of The Rings TV series.
- 1/14/2020
- by 14¦Screen staff¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
McQueen deal puts sci-fi series Last Days with Lammas Park, See-Saw Films into development.
In a flurry of announcements at the TCA tour in Los Angeles on Tuesday (January 14), Amazon Studios announced separate deals with Steve McQueen, Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna, and Brad Pitt’s Plan B Entertainment, as well as a largely British cast on its The Lord Of The Rings TV series.
In an overall deal with the streaming platform, McQueen will create and produce content for Amazon Studios to premiere exclusively on Amazon Prime Video worldwide. Under the deal TV thriller Last Days, a Lammas Park and See-Saw Films production,...
In a flurry of announcements at the TCA tour in Los Angeles on Tuesday (January 14), Amazon Studios announced separate deals with Steve McQueen, Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna, and Brad Pitt’s Plan B Entertainment, as well as a largely British cast on its The Lord Of The Rings TV series.
In an overall deal with the streaming platform, McQueen will create and produce content for Amazon Studios to premiere exclusively on Amazon Prime Video worldwide. Under the deal TV thriller Last Days, a Lammas Park and See-Saw Films production,...
- 1/14/2020
- by 14¦Screen staff¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
Another visionary director has made the jump to a streaming service partnership. Amazon Studios announced on Tuesday that it has signed an overall deal with “12 Years a Slave” and “Widows” director Steve McQueen.
Speaking to the Television Critics Association biannual press tour in Pasadena, California, Amazon Studios head Jennifer Salke explained that the news also comes with the announcement of a new TV series that is currently being developed.
“We’ve spent the last year conspiring on not only an overall deal, but a new global series. We’re jumping into writing on Steve’s idea ‘Last Days.’ This is an incredibly timely big-swing show we think will be one of our best hits,” Salke said.
McQueen is no stranger to the Amazon universe. His upcoming decades-spanning BBC series “Small Axe” is set to premiere on Prime Video in the U.S. later this year. From the description, “Last Days...
Speaking to the Television Critics Association biannual press tour in Pasadena, California, Amazon Studios head Jennifer Salke explained that the news also comes with the announcement of a new TV series that is currently being developed.
“We’ve spent the last year conspiring on not only an overall deal, but a new global series. We’re jumping into writing on Steve’s idea ‘Last Days.’ This is an incredibly timely big-swing show we think will be one of our best hits,” Salke said.
McQueen is no stranger to the Amazon universe. His upcoming decades-spanning BBC series “Small Axe” is set to premiere on Prime Video in the U.S. later this year. From the description, “Last Days...
- 1/14/2020
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
Director and screenwriter Steve McQueen has signed an overall deal with Amazon Studios.
The news was announced by Jen Salke, head of Amazon Studios, Tuesday at the Television Critics Association Winter Press Tour in Pasadena.
As part of the deal, Amazon has put television project “Last Days” into development. McQueen, director of “12 Years a Slave” and not to be confused with “The Great Escape” actor, has an upcoming drama “Small Axe” that will premiere on Amazon Prime Video in the U.S. later this year. “Small Axe” stars John Boyega and Letitia Wright, and is a Turbine Studios and Lammas Park production for BBC One with Amazon co-producing in the U.S.
The news was announced by Jen Salke, head of Amazon Studios, Tuesday at the Television Critics Association Winter Press Tour in Pasadena.
As part of the deal, Amazon has put television project “Last Days” into development. McQueen, director of “12 Years a Slave” and not to be confused with “The Great Escape” actor, has an upcoming drama “Small Axe” that will premiere on Amazon Prime Video in the U.S. later this year. “Small Axe” stars John Boyega and Letitia Wright, and is a Turbine Studios and Lammas Park production for BBC One with Amazon co-producing in the U.S.
- 1/14/2020
- by Margeaux Sippell
- The Wrap
“12 Years a Slave” director Steve McQueen and actors Diego Luna and Gael Garcia Bernal have inked deals with Amazon.
McQueen’s deal is an overall which will see him create and produce content for Amazon Studios. As part of the deal, the television project “Last Days,” a Lammas Park and See-Saw Films production, has been put into development.
“Last Days” is described as a gripping sci-fi thriller where the world’s governments have secretly created a controversial plan to selectively colonize Mars in the wake of a dying Earth and the rise of AI. The series will follow one woman’s journey to explore the truth about where she came from, at the risk of losing everything she knows.
“I’m thrilled about this new venture and partnership with Amazon. The idea of having a partner that will support and facilitate risk and change is more than exciting,” said McQueen.
McQueen’s deal is an overall which will see him create and produce content for Amazon Studios. As part of the deal, the television project “Last Days,” a Lammas Park and See-Saw Films production, has been put into development.
“Last Days” is described as a gripping sci-fi thriller where the world’s governments have secretly created a controversial plan to selectively colonize Mars in the wake of a dying Earth and the rise of AI. The series will follow one woman’s journey to explore the truth about where she came from, at the risk of losing everything she knows.
“I’m thrilled about this new venture and partnership with Amazon. The idea of having a partner that will support and facilitate risk and change is more than exciting,” said McQueen.
- 1/14/2020
- by Will Thorne
- Variety Film + TV
Amazon has struck an overall deal with 12 Years A Slave director Steve McQueen and has put a sci-fi series into development.
This comes as the streaming service preps McQueen’s upcoming drama Small Axe, a co-production between Amazon and the BBC, which is launching later this year.
Separately, it is developing Last Days, a Lammas Park and See-Saw Films production. The show is a sci-fi thriller where the world’s governments have secretly created a controversial plan to selectively colonize Mars in the wake of a dying Earth and the rise of AI. The series will follow one woman’s journey to explore the truth about where she came from, at the risk of losing everything she knows.
“I’m thrilled about this new venture and partnership with Amazon. The idea of having a partner that will support and facilitate risk and change is more than exciting,” said McQueen.
This comes as the streaming service preps McQueen’s upcoming drama Small Axe, a co-production between Amazon and the BBC, which is launching later this year.
Separately, it is developing Last Days, a Lammas Park and See-Saw Films production. The show is a sci-fi thriller where the world’s governments have secretly created a controversial plan to selectively colonize Mars in the wake of a dying Earth and the rise of AI. The series will follow one woman’s journey to explore the truth about where she came from, at the risk of losing everything she knows.
“I’m thrilled about this new venture and partnership with Amazon. The idea of having a partner that will support and facilitate risk and change is more than exciting,” said McQueen.
- 1/14/2020
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Known for her producing work on socially and culturally-minded projects like Dear White People and Real Women Have Curves, Effie T. Brown has been a game-changing advocate for inclusivity in the industry. That said, the veteran producer is bringing her work to the next level as she has been named the CEO of Gamechanger.
Launched in 2013, Gamechanger is the first film financing fund by and for women. Brown will bring her expertise to help broaden the fund’s scope to include projects by and about people of color, Lgbtq+ and people with disabilities. In addition to films, Gamechanger is set to expand its reach to television and digital content with a new, fully monetized development fund that will enable it to buy, option and develop IP for television, streaming and digital platforms.
“As a black female producer who’s been in the business for over 20 years, I know how hard...
Launched in 2013, Gamechanger is the first film financing fund by and for women. Brown will bring her expertise to help broaden the fund’s scope to include projects by and about people of color, Lgbtq+ and people with disabilities. In addition to films, Gamechanger is set to expand its reach to television and digital content with a new, fully monetized development fund that will enable it to buy, option and develop IP for television, streaming and digital platforms.
“As a black female producer who’s been in the business for over 20 years, I know how hard...
- 1/7/2020
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
Gus Van Sant celebrates his 67th birthday on July 24, 2019. A fiercely individual voice with one foot in the independent world and another in the studio system, Van Sant’s filmography varies wildly from mainstream entertainments to peculiar experiments, from sublime highs to extreme lows. In honor of his birthday, let’s take a look at all 17 of his films, ranked worst to best.
Born in 1952 in Louisville, Kentucky, Van Sant kicked off his filmmaking career with the micro-budget, black-and-white “Mala Noche” (1985), a major preamble to the New Queer Cinema. His next feature, “Drugstore Cowboy” (1989), firmly established him as an indie maverick, a reputation he would fulfill with his followup, the River Phoenix/Keanu Reeves road movie “My Own Private Idaho” (1991). He dipped his toes into studio filmmaking with the gleefully dark satire “To Die For” (1995), which won Nicole Kidman a Golden Globe as Best Comedy/Musical Actress.
SEENicole Kidman movies:...
Born in 1952 in Louisville, Kentucky, Van Sant kicked off his filmmaking career with the micro-budget, black-and-white “Mala Noche” (1985), a major preamble to the New Queer Cinema. His next feature, “Drugstore Cowboy” (1989), firmly established him as an indie maverick, a reputation he would fulfill with his followup, the River Phoenix/Keanu Reeves road movie “My Own Private Idaho” (1991). He dipped his toes into studio filmmaking with the gleefully dark satire “To Die For” (1995), which won Nicole Kidman a Golden Globe as Best Comedy/Musical Actress.
SEENicole Kidman movies:...
- 7/24/2019
- by Zach Laws and Chris Beachum
- Gold Derby
Anaphora is an on-going series of video essays exploring the neglected films by major directors. Gus Van Sant's Paranoid Park (2007) is showing May 17–June 15, 2019 on Mubi in the United States, United Kingdom, and Ireland as part of the series Cannes Takeover.Gus Van Sant can be a difficult director for which to wave the flag at present. You just never know if he’ll be making a pleasant if weightless drama designed to play endlessly on cable channels in need of harmless programming or if he’s going to make the single most haunting film you’ll see in a given year. After almost a decade of not-quites and outright critical disasters, he made Don’t Worry He Won’t Get Far On Foot, which looked like a run-of-the-mill inspirational movie but in fact contained some of his most engaged and empathetic filmmaking to date, housed a murderer’s...
- 5/22/2019
- MUBI
Last Days by Matt Kjeldsen Artist: Matt Kjeldsen Ep: ‘Last Days’ Crafting unique and personal songs is a powerful chance for musicians to fully explore their true emotions and motivations, even if they’re uncertain if anyone else will ever hear the tracks. Veteran singer-songwriter, Matt Kjeldsen, has powerfully embraced the path of following his instincts […]
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- 10/8/2018
- by Karen Benardello
- ShockYa
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