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Are you there, Luke Wheeler? It’s me, a troubled Nashville enthusiast.
Before you say anything, yes. I was one of the people routinely calling you out as a ridiculous corporate whore who’d slap his name on anything for the right price. Yes, I often mocked you for talking about your “brand” and “Luke Wheeler Worldwide” (whatever that was) and all of that ridiculousness.
But now I see the terrible truth of it all: You above anyone else in Music City could’ve helped avert the crisis that...
Are you there, Luke Wheeler? It’s me, a troubled Nashville enthusiast.
Before you say anything, yes. I was one of the people routinely calling you out as a ridiculous corporate whore who’d slap his name on anything for the right price. Yes, I often mocked you for talking about your “brand” and “Luke Wheeler Worldwide” (whatever that was) and all of that ridiculousness.
But now I see the terrible truth of it all: You above anyone else in Music City could’ve helped avert the crisis that...
- 8/4/2017
- TVLine.com
It took Nashville‘s Rayna Jaymes years to build her dream record label, Highway 65… and, from the look of this exclusive sneak peek at Thursday’s episode (Cmt, 9/8c), just a few months (and some bad decisions) to drive it nearly all the way into the ground.
Maddie and Deacon are quite somber in the clip from “Farther On,” and though we’re not 100 percent sure what’s happened earlier in the episode, it’s clear that H65’s troubles have only gotten worse since last week. It sounds like that’s because of something Maddie did, which, Of Course.
Maddie and Deacon are quite somber in the clip from “Farther On,” and though we’re not 100 percent sure what’s happened earlier in the episode, it’s clear that H65’s troubles have only gotten worse since last week. It sounds like that’s because of something Maddie did, which, Of Course.
- 8/2/2017
- TVLine.com
After holding steady in Week 2, CBS’ Salvation with its third episode dipped 11 percent in audience and one tenth in the demo, drawing 3.8 million total viewers and a 0.6 rating.
Opening the Eye’s night, Big Brother (6.3 mil/1.7) slipped two tenths in the demo but easily led the night in both measures, delivering its third-largest audience of the season.
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Over on NBC, Little Big Shots: Forever Young wrapped its run with 5.7 mil and a 0.8, hitting and matching series lows. The terminal Carmichael Show (3.3 mil/0.7) added a few eyeballs while clutching onto its demo low.
Opening the Eye’s night, Big Brother (6.3 mil/1.7) slipped two tenths in the demo but easily led the night in both measures, delivering its third-largest audience of the season.
RelatedRenewal Scorecard: What’s Coming Back? What’s Getting Cancelled?
Over on NBC, Little Big Shots: Forever Young wrapped its run with 5.7 mil and a 0.8, hitting and matching series lows. The terminal Carmichael Show (3.3 mil/0.7) added a few eyeballs while clutching onto its demo low.
- 7/27/2017
- TVLine.com
Audiences may not realize it, but Rough House Pictures has been a pivotal force in American filmmaking over the past decade.
People know Danny McBride as the snarky, self-aggrandizing star of HBO’s “Eastbound and Down” and “Vice Principals,” shows he created with fellow North Carolina School of the Arts alumni Jody Hill and David Gordon Green. But while McBride’s is the most public face, all three men have become influential figures in the film industry.
Green and McBride are writing the Blumhouse reboot of “Halloween,” while Hill is finishing his third film, a comedy starring Josh Brolin. Green has oscillated from the quiet, Southern gothic tales of “George Washington” and “All the Real Girls” to boisterous comedies like “Pineapple Express.” Hill’s debut, “Foot Fist Way,” got the attention of Will Ferrell and Adam McKay, who launched Hill’s TV career and gave him the momentum to direct his first studio film,...
People know Danny McBride as the snarky, self-aggrandizing star of HBO’s “Eastbound and Down” and “Vice Principals,” shows he created with fellow North Carolina School of the Arts alumni Jody Hill and David Gordon Green. But while McBride’s is the most public face, all three men have become influential figures in the film industry.
Green and McBride are writing the Blumhouse reboot of “Halloween,” while Hill is finishing his third film, a comedy starring Josh Brolin. Green has oscillated from the quiet, Southern gothic tales of “George Washington” and “All the Real Girls” to boisterous comedies like “Pineapple Express.” Hill’s debut, “Foot Fist Way,” got the attention of Will Ferrell and Adam McKay, who launched Hill’s TV career and gave him the momentum to direct his first studio film,...
- 3/3/2017
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
TNT has released the teaser trailer for the drama “Will,” which tells the wild, rowdy story of young William Shakespeare. The 32-second clip first aired during the SAG Awards on Sunday.
Newcomer Laurie Davidson plays the title role in this period drama told in a bold, contemporary style and played to a modern soundtrack that exposes all of Shakespeare’s recklessness, lustful temptations and tortured brilliance. The story follows the young poet as he arrives onto the punk-rock theater scene in 16th-century London, looking to make a name for himself.
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He meets and falls in love with Alice Burbage (Olivia DeJonge), the daughter of theater impresario James Burbage, who is forbidden from pursuing a career in acting. The series also stars Jamie Campbell-Bower as Shakespeare’s rival Christopher Marlowe, Mattias Inwood as Alice’s...
Newcomer Laurie Davidson plays the title role in this period drama told in a bold, contemporary style and played to a modern soundtrack that exposes all of Shakespeare’s recklessness, lustful temptations and tortured brilliance. The story follows the young poet as he arrives onto the punk-rock theater scene in 16th-century London, looking to make a name for himself.
Read More: First Look at Brett Morgen’s ‘When the Street Lights Go On’ Pilot – Trailer
He meets and falls in love with Alice Burbage (Olivia DeJonge), the daughter of theater impresario James Burbage, who is forbidden from pursuing a career in acting. The series also stars Jamie Campbell-Bower as Shakespeare’s rival Christopher Marlowe, Mattias Inwood as Alice’s...
- 1/31/2017
- by Yoselin Acevedo
- Indiewire
Open Road Films has released the first-look photo for its upcoming Thurgood Marshall biopic, “Marshall.” The studio has also set the nationwide release date for October 13.
Directed by Oscar nominee Reginald Hudlin, the film stars Chadwick Boseman as legendary attorney and Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and Josh Gad as lawyer Sam Friedman. Kate Hudson, Dan Stevens, James Cromwell, Sterling K. Brown and Keesha Sharp complete the cast.
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The film covers Marshall’s early years as a young lawyer tasked with defending a black chauffeur in a highly publicized sexual assault case. Paired with young Jewish lawyer Friedman in a segregationist court, he’s forced to fight prejudice as he and Friedman work their case — which helped set the stage for the future Civil Rights Movement.
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Directed by Oscar nominee Reginald Hudlin, the film stars Chadwick Boseman as legendary attorney and Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and Josh Gad as lawyer Sam Friedman. Kate Hudson, Dan Stevens, James Cromwell, Sterling K. Brown and Keesha Sharp complete the cast.
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The film covers Marshall’s early years as a young lawyer tasked with defending a black chauffeur in a highly publicized sexual assault case. Paired with young Jewish lawyer Friedman in a segregationist court, he’s forced to fight prejudice as he and Friedman work their case — which helped set the stage for the future Civil Rights Movement.
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- 1/31/2017
- by Yoselin Acevedo
- Indiewire
Production on the first season of “Star Trek: Discovery” officially began last week in Toronto. And today, CBS released a behind-the-scenes trailer, which offers a first look at some of the series’ uniforms, makeup and sets, including the iconic captain’s chair. Check out the 60-second clip below.
“Star Trek,” one of the most iconic and influential global television franchises, returns to television 50 years after it first premiered. The series will feature a new ship, new characters and new missions, while embracing the same ideology and hope for the future that inspired a generation of dreamers and doers.
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The series will premiere on CBS, with all subsequent episodes available on CBS All Access, the Network’s VOD/live-streaming service; it’ll also be available on Netflix in many countries. Check out the production trailer below.
“Star Trek,” one of the most iconic and influential global television franchises, returns to television 50 years after it first premiered. The series will feature a new ship, new characters and new missions, while embracing the same ideology and hope for the future that inspired a generation of dreamers and doers.
Read More: Bryan Fuller Is No Longer Involved with ‘Star Trek: Discovery,’ Calls His Departure ‘Bittersweet’
The series will premiere on CBS, with all subsequent episodes available on CBS All Access, the Network’s VOD/live-streaming service; it’ll also be available on Netflix in many countries. Check out the production trailer below.
- 1/31/2017
- by Yoselin Acevedo
- Indiewire
[Editor’s Note: “Girl, I must warn you…” this review will make liberal use of New Edition, Bobby Brown, and Bell Biv Devoe song titles and lyrics. Why? That’s “My Prerogative.”]
It may seem like a stretch to compare Bet’s “The New Edition Story” to the critically acclaimed biopic “Straight Outta Compton.” After all, N.W.A.’s gangsta rap courted controversy while New Edition’s lyrics only got salty when they accused “Mr. Telephone Man” of a faulty connection. Nevertheless, just as N.W.A. shaped hip-hop, the miniseries gives rightful context to how influential New Edition was on its own. Styled as a New Edition of the Jackson 5, the group perfected the model for all the boy bands to come, including New Kids on the Block, Boyz II Men, ’N Sync, and the Backstreet Boys. They also successfully transitioned from the bubble gum style of their early songs to becoming pioneers of New Jack Swing.
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As with N.W.A., the drama of just being in New Edition is part of the story’s trainwreck/bootstrap appeal.
It may seem like a stretch to compare Bet’s “The New Edition Story” to the critically acclaimed biopic “Straight Outta Compton.” After all, N.W.A.’s gangsta rap courted controversy while New Edition’s lyrics only got salty when they accused “Mr. Telephone Man” of a faulty connection. Nevertheless, just as N.W.A. shaped hip-hop, the miniseries gives rightful context to how influential New Edition was on its own. Styled as a New Edition of the Jackson 5, the group perfected the model for all the boy bands to come, including New Kids on the Block, Boyz II Men, ’N Sync, and the Backstreet Boys. They also successfully transitioned from the bubble gum style of their early songs to becoming pioneers of New Jack Swing.
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As with N.W.A., the drama of just being in New Edition is part of the story’s trainwreck/bootstrap appeal.
- 1/24/2017
- by Hanh Nguyen
- Indiewire
Happy New Year! It's been a tumultuous year for me and for many of us of a certain age. I lost a brother. The world lost a slew of pop culture -- Carrie Fisher, Alan Richman, Craig Sager, John Glenn -- and music icons -- Bowie, Prince, Leonard Cohen, George Michael, et al. One comfort for me was music and my rediscovery of vinyl. The warm, comforting sound of analog became my daily meditative fix. Quite literarily. Seeking out vinyl "nuggets" became a quest to help me deal with my own pain and depression. Chasing down albums that I owned thirty years, abadonded at the advent of those shiny new things called compact discs. Restorative analog power reigned o'er me. One of my chief caveats: I would not purchase anything on vinyl that I already owned on compact disc. Well, that rule didn't last long as I found comfort in...
- 12/31/2016
- by Dusty Wright
- www.culturecatch.com
“American Crime”
In its first season, “American Crime” burst upon the broadcast TV scene with purpose and chutzpah, taking a swan dive into issues and perceptions that most shows avoided. When the show returned for its sophomore outing, it attempted to have the same impact without refining its approach. What may have seemed novel the first time now felt heavy and hackneyed. There was no humor or self-awareness to balance out its juggernaut didacticism: justice does not exist, bad decisions will be made, people suck, and oh, here’s a twist to demonstrate that. If the series’ grimness is the end product, it doesn’t offer much else to the audience other than some fine performances to further amplify the aforementioned suckitude. “American Crime” is so much energy and earnestness gone to waste due to poor execution.
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In its first season, “American Crime” burst upon the broadcast TV scene with purpose and chutzpah, taking a swan dive into issues and perceptions that most shows avoided. When the show returned for its sophomore outing, it attempted to have the same impact without refining its approach. What may have seemed novel the first time now felt heavy and hackneyed. There was no humor or self-awareness to balance out its juggernaut didacticism: justice does not exist, bad decisions will be made, people suck, and oh, here’s a twist to demonstrate that. If the series’ grimness is the end product, it doesn’t offer much else to the audience other than some fine performances to further amplify the aforementioned suckitude. “American Crime” is so much energy and earnestness gone to waste due to poor execution.
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- 12/20/2016
- by Ben Travers, Hanh Nguyen and Liz Shannon Miller
- Indiewire
Stephen Harber Dec 12, 2016
Ash Vs Evil Dead ends its second season with a few bangs, a whimper, and a really epic chainsaw duel...
This review contains spoilers.
See related James Cameron's Avatar: five years on Avatar review
2.10 Second Coming
Holy camel toe, it’s season finale time already?! I thought we had two more in the can for some reason. Huh? Oh well.
Last year, my reviews for Ash Vs Evil Dead were more involved, nay, extensive on an episode-by-episode basis than they were this year. That’s because of two things. 1) time constraints and 2) the realization that this show isn’t written with as much texture as I wanted it to be. I still heart Ash Vs Evil Dead and everything, even if it makes some questionable choices here and there from time to time, but Westworld it ain’t. It’s hard to write reams and reams...
Ash Vs Evil Dead ends its second season with a few bangs, a whimper, and a really epic chainsaw duel...
This review contains spoilers.
See related James Cameron's Avatar: five years on Avatar review
2.10 Second Coming
Holy camel toe, it’s season finale time already?! I thought we had two more in the can for some reason. Huh? Oh well.
Last year, my reviews for Ash Vs Evil Dead were more involved, nay, extensive on an episode-by-episode basis than they were this year. That’s because of two things. 1) time constraints and 2) the realization that this show isn’t written with as much texture as I wanted it to be. I still heart Ash Vs Evil Dead and everything, even if it makes some questionable choices here and there from time to time, but Westworld it ain’t. It’s hard to write reams and reams...
- 12/12/2016
- Den of Geek
After a week’s break Ash vs Evil Dead is back, and Bruce Campbell’s iconic character is showing how idiotic he can be once more by going ‘Home Again’. With plenty of homages hidden in this one, Ash and our other heroes are going back to the cabin where it all started, and giving Ted Raimi a chance to bring yet another character back.
In an effort to fix the events of last episode, Ash, Kelly (Dana DeLorenzo), and Ruby (Lucy Lawless) travel back to the past before Ash first encountered the Necronomicon. Aiming to make sure he never read from the book, it soon appears that they are too late, or somebody else has read from it already.
If you’ve seen the Evil Dead films it isn’t hard to figure out in the timeline, just where the group appears. This has certain repercussions, but also provides...
In an effort to fix the events of last episode, Ash, Kelly (Dana DeLorenzo), and Ruby (Lucy Lawless) travel back to the past before Ash first encountered the Necronomicon. Aiming to make sure he never read from the book, it soon appears that they are too late, or somebody else has read from it already.
If you’ve seen the Evil Dead films it isn’t hard to figure out in the timeline, just where the group appears. This has certain repercussions, but also provides...
- 12/6/2016
- by Paul Metcalf
- Nerdly
Following the recent premiere of the Ash vs Evil Dead episode "Home Again" on Starz, there is a lot for "Evil Dead Heads" to discuss, so it's a good thing that the Evil Dead 'Cast team has gathered around the mics once again to talk all things Necronomicon.
"Home Again" synopsis: "Ash, distraught about losing Pablo is determined to bring him back. Ruby and Kelly tag along as they travel back in time to make sure Young Ash never sees the Necronomicon. But the butterfly effect they create is something no one can believe!"
“Ash vs Evil Dead,” a 10-episode half-hour series, is the long-awaited follow-up to the classic horror film, The Evil Dead.
The second season roars back into action with Ash leaving his beloved Jacksonville and returning to his hometown of Elk Grove, Michigan. There, he confronts Ruby. The former enemies have to form an uneasy alliance as...
"Home Again" synopsis: "Ash, distraught about losing Pablo is determined to bring him back. Ruby and Kelly tag along as they travel back in time to make sure Young Ash never sees the Necronomicon. But the butterfly effect they create is something no one can believe!"
“Ash vs Evil Dead,” a 10-episode half-hour series, is the long-awaited follow-up to the classic horror film, The Evil Dead.
The second season roars back into action with Ash leaving his beloved Jacksonville and returning to his hometown of Elk Grove, Michigan. There, he confronts Ruby. The former enemies have to form an uneasy alliance as...
- 12/5/2016
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Stephen Harber Dec 5, 2016
We go back to the cabin - again - in episode 9 of Ash Vs Evil Dead season 2...and it's even better than the last time.
This review contains spoilers.
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2.9 Home Again
After spending two episodes embodying what Evil Dead isn’t, it was time to get back to the basics. And that’s what Home Again is all about if you can’t already tell that from the reading the title with your own two eyes. We take a trip back in time, via an evil Necronomicon-powered time portal that Ash forces Ruby to open up by reading the incantations written on Pablo’s cold dead skin, to the year 1982. Ash wants to stop himself from ever picking up that god forsaken Book of the Dead and start reading random words out of it.
We go back to the cabin - again - in episode 9 of Ash Vs Evil Dead season 2...and it's even better than the last time.
This review contains spoilers.
See related The Inhumans: Iron Fist's Scott Buck signs up as showrunner
2.9 Home Again
After spending two episodes embodying what Evil Dead isn’t, it was time to get back to the basics. And that’s what Home Again is all about if you can’t already tell that from the reading the title with your own two eyes. We take a trip back in time, via an evil Necronomicon-powered time portal that Ash forces Ruby to open up by reading the incantations written on Pablo’s cold dead skin, to the year 1982. Ash wants to stop himself from ever picking up that god forsaken Book of the Dead and start reading random words out of it.
- 12/5/2016
- Den of Geek
It's good to be back...or is it?
On Ash vs Evil Dead Season 2 Episode 9 during a drunken stupor, Ash came up with a brilliant idea: go back in time and prevent his younger self from ever finding the Necronomicon. Sounds simple enough right?
However, nothing ever comes easy for our deadite fighting friends, and Ash usually always finds a way to make a dire situation even worse.
There are many theories regarding time travel, and none of them are black and white. One common idea that most of them share is that if something in the past is altered, even if considered trivial, it will have a significant impact on the future.
I wasn't initially on board with Ash's plan at first. After putting his well-thought-out plan into effect and stopping Baal at the end of Ash vs Evil Dead Season 2 Episode 8, I was a little disappointed that Ash...
On Ash vs Evil Dead Season 2 Episode 9 during a drunken stupor, Ash came up with a brilliant idea: go back in time and prevent his younger self from ever finding the Necronomicon. Sounds simple enough right?
However, nothing ever comes easy for our deadite fighting friends, and Ash usually always finds a way to make a dire situation even worse.
There are many theories regarding time travel, and none of them are black and white. One common idea that most of them share is that if something in the past is altered, even if considered trivial, it will have a significant impact on the future.
I wasn't initially on board with Ash's plan at first. After putting his well-thought-out plan into effect and stopping Baal at the end of Ash vs Evil Dead Season 2 Episode 8, I was a little disappointed that Ash...
- 12/5/2016
- by Steve Ford
- TVfanatic
New clips tease what's to come for Ash and friends in the next episode of Ash vs Evil Dead, which will pick up after the shocking events of "Ashy Slashy."
Episode 209 – "Home Again" synopsis: "Ash, distraught about losing Pablo is determined to bring him back. Ruby and Kelly tag along as they travel back in time to make sure Young Ash never sees the Necronomicon. But the butterfly effect they create is something no one can believe!"
“Ash vs Evil Dead,” a 10-episode half-hour series, is the long-awaited follow-up to the classic horror film, The Evil Dead.
The second season roars back into action with Ash leaving his beloved Jacksonville and returning to his hometown of Elk Grove, Michigan. There, he confronts Ruby. The former enemies have to form an uneasy alliance as Elk Grove soon becomes the nucleus of evil.
The cast is led by Bruce Campbell (Evil Dead,...
Episode 209 – "Home Again" synopsis: "Ash, distraught about losing Pablo is determined to bring him back. Ruby and Kelly tag along as they travel back in time to make sure Young Ash never sees the Necronomicon. But the butterfly effect they create is something no one can believe!"
“Ash vs Evil Dead,” a 10-episode half-hour series, is the long-awaited follow-up to the classic horror film, The Evil Dead.
The second season roars back into action with Ash leaving his beloved Jacksonville and returning to his hometown of Elk Grove, Michigan. There, he confronts Ruby. The former enemies have to form an uneasy alliance as Elk Grove soon becomes the nucleus of evil.
The cast is led by Bruce Campbell (Evil Dead,...
- 12/3/2016
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Following the shocking events of "Ashy Slashy," a new preview video and photo tease the next episode of Ash vs Evil Dead, titled "Home Again."
Episode 209 – "Home Again" synopsis: "The team looks for Ash in an asylum and meet some crazy characters. They are all players in Baal’s attempt to break Ash and find the Necronomicon."
“Ash vs Evil Dead,” a 10-episode half-hour series, is the long-awaited follow-up to the classic horror film, The Evil Dead.
The second season roars back into action with Ash leaving his beloved Jacksonville and returning to his hometown of Elk Grove, Michigan. There, he confronts Ruby. The former enemies have to form an uneasy alliance as Elk Grove soon becomes the nucleus of evil.
The cast is led by Bruce Campbell (Evil Dead, “Burn Notice”) in the role of Ash Williams; Lucy Lawless (“Salem,” “Spartacus”) as Ruby Knowby, who now possesses the powerful Necronomicon; Ray Santiago (“Touch,...
Episode 209 – "Home Again" synopsis: "The team looks for Ash in an asylum and meet some crazy characters. They are all players in Baal’s attempt to break Ash and find the Necronomicon."
“Ash vs Evil Dead,” a 10-episode half-hour series, is the long-awaited follow-up to the classic horror film, The Evil Dead.
The second season roars back into action with Ash leaving his beloved Jacksonville and returning to his hometown of Elk Grove, Michigan. There, he confronts Ruby. The former enemies have to form an uneasy alliance as Elk Grove soon becomes the nucleus of evil.
The cast is led by Bruce Campbell (Evil Dead, “Burn Notice”) in the role of Ash Williams; Lucy Lawless (“Salem,” “Spartacus”) as Ruby Knowby, who now possesses the powerful Necronomicon; Ray Santiago (“Touch,...
- 11/21/2016
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
After two decades away from the big screen, four old cinematic friends are getting back together. Renton (Ewan McGregor), Spud (Ewan Bremner), Sick Boy (Jonny Lee Miller) and Begbie (Robert Carlyle) have reunited, Danny Boyle is back behind the camera, and “T2: Trainspotting” is on the way.
The more things change, the more they stay the same, as the old saying goes, and it seems that will be part of the running theme in the upcoming film that follows up on the zeitgeist-capturing, 1996 original.
Continue reading New Trailer For Danny Boyle’s Sequel ‘T2: Trainspotting’ Starring Ewan McGregor Goes Home Again at The Playlist.
The more things change, the more they stay the same, as the old saying goes, and it seems that will be part of the running theme in the upcoming film that follows up on the zeitgeist-capturing, 1996 original.
Continue reading New Trailer For Danny Boyle’s Sequel ‘T2: Trainspotting’ Starring Ewan McGregor Goes Home Again at The Playlist.
- 11/3/2016
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Keep up with the wild and wooly world of indie film acquisitions with our weekly Rundown of everything that’s been picked up around the globe. Check out last week’s Rundown here.
– Momentum Pictures has acquired North American rights to the Western thriller “Brimstone.” The film, which first premiered in September at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival, is written and directed by Martin Koolhoven. It stars Dakota Fanning, Guy Pearce, Kit Harrington, Carice van Houten and Emilia Jones. The film “tells the story of a frontier woman turn fugitive when she is wrongly accused of a crime she didn’t commit and is hunted by a vengeful preacher.”
Momentum Pictures will be releasing the film in theaters and on VOD in March 2017.
– IFC Films has acquired North American rights to Rafael Palacio Illingworth’s “Between Us.” The film, written and directed by Illingworth, stars Olivia Thirlby, Ben Feldman, Adam Goldberg,...
– Momentum Pictures has acquired North American rights to the Western thriller “Brimstone.” The film, which first premiered in September at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival, is written and directed by Martin Koolhoven. It stars Dakota Fanning, Guy Pearce, Kit Harrington, Carice van Houten and Emilia Jones. The film “tells the story of a frontier woman turn fugitive when she is wrongly accused of a crime she didn’t commit and is hunted by a vengeful preacher.”
Momentum Pictures will be releasing the film in theaters and on VOD in March 2017.
– IFC Films has acquired North American rights to Rafael Palacio Illingworth’s “Between Us.” The film, written and directed by Illingworth, stars Olivia Thirlby, Ben Feldman, Adam Goldberg,...
- 10/21/2016
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Sasha Gordon has composed the scores for many features and short films, including the 2010 Oscar-winning short “God of Love,” and her own 2011 short film “Manhattan Melody” premiered at the Telluride Film Festival. Now, she will soon release her debut feature film “It Had To Be You” about a woman struggling with a sudden marriage proposal and her place in the world.
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The film stars Cristin Milioti (“How I Met Your Mother,” “Wolf of Wall Street”) as Sonia, a neurotic jingle writer who dreams of an exciting, liberating life, but when her laidback boyfriend Chris (Dan Soder) suddenly proposes to her, she’s thrown into a world of doubt. Soon, she must decide whether to pursue her own fantasies or join the love of her life in holy matrimony. It co-stars Halley Feiffer (“The Squid and the Whale...
Read More: Cristin Milioti Talks Alternate Ending Of Martin Scorsese’s ‘The Wolf Of Wall Street’
The film stars Cristin Milioti (“How I Met Your Mother,” “Wolf of Wall Street”) as Sonia, a neurotic jingle writer who dreams of an exciting, liberating life, but when her laidback boyfriend Chris (Dan Soder) suddenly proposes to her, she’s thrown into a world of doubt. Soon, she must decide whether to pursue her own fantasies or join the love of her life in holy matrimony. It co-stars Halley Feiffer (“The Squid and the Whale...
- 10/18/2016
- by Vikram Murthi
- Indiewire
Home Again, the indie comedy in the works from Hallie Meyers-Shyer, has made room among its cast for Veep star Reid Scott.
Deadline has the scoop, confirming that Scott will now be joining Reese Witherspoon, Candice Bergen and Michael Sheen as Justin Miller, a “successful, fast-talking, and funny Hollywood producer who takes an interest in producing the boys’ film.” At the heart of the story, though, is Witherspoon’s single mother of two, who uproots for Los Angeles where she makes the unconventional decision to welcome three young, charismatic guys into her newfound home, laying the foundation for an atypical family dramedy.
Not to be confused with Sudz Sutherland’s drama of the same name, Home Again had been courting Neighbors star Rose Byrne for the central role before setting sights on Witherspoon, effectively bumping the film’s start date from August to October. As of the time of writing,...
Deadline has the scoop, confirming that Scott will now be joining Reese Witherspoon, Candice Bergen and Michael Sheen as Justin Miller, a “successful, fast-talking, and funny Hollywood producer who takes an interest in producing the boys’ film.” At the heart of the story, though, is Witherspoon’s single mother of two, who uproots for Los Angeles where she makes the unconventional decision to welcome three young, charismatic guys into her newfound home, laying the foundation for an atypical family dramedy.
Not to be confused with Sudz Sutherland’s drama of the same name, Home Again had been courting Neighbors star Rose Byrne for the central role before setting sights on Witherspoon, effectively bumping the film’s start date from August to October. As of the time of writing,...
- 10/11/2016
- by Michael Briers
- We Got This Covered
Keep up with the wild and wooly world of indie film acquisitions with our weekly Rundown of everything that’s been picked up around the globe. Check out last week’s Rundown here.
– Exclusive: Samuel Goldwyn Films has picked up the North American rights to the drama “Green Is Gold,” written and directed by Ryon Baxter and starring Jimmy Baxter, Ryon Baxter and David Fine. The film recently had its world premiere at the Los Angeles Film Festival over the summer, where it won the Audience Award for Best Fiction Feature.
The film follows “a thirteen-year-old boy [who] is forced to live with his estranged brother after their father is sent to prison. Their relationship is soon tested when the older brother’s occupation as a marijuana dealer infringes on his ability not only to raise his brother, but to even take care of himself. However, through constant tribulation, they discover...
– Exclusive: Samuel Goldwyn Films has picked up the North American rights to the drama “Green Is Gold,” written and directed by Ryon Baxter and starring Jimmy Baxter, Ryon Baxter and David Fine. The film recently had its world premiere at the Los Angeles Film Festival over the summer, where it won the Audience Award for Best Fiction Feature.
The film follows “a thirteen-year-old boy [who] is forced to live with his estranged brother after their father is sent to prison. Their relationship is soon tested when the older brother’s occupation as a marijuana dealer infringes on his ability not only to raise his brother, but to even take care of himself. However, through constant tribulation, they discover...
- 9/30/2016
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Cinelicious Pics has acquired all North American rights to Tim Sutton’s critically acclaimed “Dark Night.” Billed as “an artfully understated critique of American gun culture,” the film is “loosely based around the 2012 massacre that took place during a multiplex screening of ‘The Dark Knight’ in Aurora, Colorado.” Sutton’s feature uses pseudo-documentary technique and a cast of non-professional actors to chart the course of six strangers — including the eventual shooter — over one fateful day. The film was shot in Sarasota, Florida, and lensed by veteran French Dp Helene Louvart and boasts an original score by Montreal-based Maica Armata.
The film debuted at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival and was later selected as Closing Night Film at Bam CinemaFest. In recent weeks, the film played out of competition at the Venice Film Festival, where it took home the Lanterna Magica Award.
Read More: Sundance Review: ‘Dark Night’ is a Gorgeous Look...
The film debuted at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival and was later selected as Closing Night Film at Bam CinemaFest. In recent weeks, the film played out of competition at the Venice Film Festival, where it took home the Lanterna Magica Award.
Read More: Sundance Review: ‘Dark Night’ is a Gorgeous Look...
- 9/28/2016
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
After nine years of monsters, aliens and shadow government conspiracies, The X-Files closed its doors during the spring of 2002. Taken off air as a result of declining ratings and a general drop in quality, its loss left a large hole in the hearts of many who’d followed along since the early 90s.
Thankfully for us Xphiles, what was once thought to be dead didn’t stay buried long. In 2008, creator Chris Carter brought his now iconic series back into the limelight with the stand-alone movie, I Want to Believe. However, while it brought fans the married Mulder and Scully tandem that they’d been pining for for years, an uninteresting plot, some embarrassing writing and poor casting decisions led to a box office flop.
I Want to Believe‘s high profile failure was thought to be the final nail in the show’s coffin. Fans were unhappy, Fox was...
Thankfully for us Xphiles, what was once thought to be dead didn’t stay buried long. In 2008, creator Chris Carter brought his now iconic series back into the limelight with the stand-alone movie, I Want to Believe. However, while it brought fans the married Mulder and Scully tandem that they’d been pining for for years, an uninteresting plot, some embarrassing writing and poor casting decisions led to a box office flop.
I Want to Believe‘s high profile failure was thought to be the final nail in the show’s coffin. Fans were unhappy, Fox was...
- 7/6/2016
- by Chad Goodmurphy
- We Got This Covered
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The X-Files' latest episodes are out now on DVD and Blu-ray, with a fan-pleasing number of extras. Here's our review...
About 15 years ago, as DVDs were taking off, sales got a big boost when extra features started to appear on them on a regular basis. While some were happy to buy what was then an expensive machine and pricey disc for the sake of improved picture quality and better storage (among other things), for others, it was the lure of making-of features, deleted scenes (occasionally available on VHS cassettes from the period, but not often) and director’s commentaries – never available on VHS, for obvious reasons – that encouraged them to upgrade to the new format. For your humble correspondent, for example, it was the Extended Edition of The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring, complete with four commentaries and two discs of extras, that was the reason for buying a DVD player.
As Blu-ray started to pull ahead of HD DVD in the next Battle of the New Formats, production companies started to try the same trick. Increasingly, all the good extras are reserved for the Blu-ray, in the hope of encouraging fans to upgrade once again, with DVDs often vanilla discs, or very nearly.
For some of us, though, this isn’t working. Having spent a fortune over the course of the Twenty-First Century so far replacing our old VHS collections with DVDs, many of us feel disinclined to repeated the process, especially considering Blu-ray offers the same advantages in terms of storage, accessible menus, etc. as DVDs, so the only reasons to upgrade are improved sound and picture quality and, if relevant, extras. Considering how many of us are now accessing movies and TV through streaming services like Netflix, Amazon Prime and Sky and moving away from hard copies all together, investing in a Blu-ray is not necessarily an enticing prospect. (This is, of course, not everyone’s view and I’m sure you’ll all tell me how fabulous Blu-ray is in the comments, and of course some games consoles do include Blu-ray players – but I don’t own one and nothing so far has convinced me it’s worth buying a separate player).
It’s always pleasant, then, to see a DVD release of new material that still offers a good selection of extra material, the sort of thing you can’t get from Netflix, on what is now the old-fashioned DVD format. The X-Files Event series is one such DVD box-set. Across three discs, it includes the series (obviously), three episode commentaries, two Making Of features, three other short featurettes, deleted scenes and a gag reel.
The series itself received what might kindly be referred to as a mixed reception, and you can see our reviews of individual episodes elsewhere on the site. To an extent, it benefits from a short binge-watch of all six episodes, as threads running across the season can be drawn out more easily; on the other hand, a certain amount of repetition designed to keep weekly viewers up to date becomes more noticeable. It also benefits from a re-watch, knowing what this new series is and how it plays out. Without the burden of years of expectation, it becomes easier to enjoy these episodes for what they are, rather than feeling disappointment that they are not what you might have expected them to be. The highlight of the series and the main reason to want your own permanent copy of the episodes, though, is certainly the Darin Morgan-scripted (and directed), Rhys Darby-starring Mulder And Scully Meet The Were-Monster, which is a joy from start to finish.
There are episode commentaries on Episode 2, Founder’s Mutation (Chris Carter and episode writer/director James Wong), Episode 3, Mulder And Scully Meet The Were-Monster (Gillian Anderson, David Duchovny, Darin Morgan and guest star Kumail Nanjiani) and Episode 6, My Struggle II (Chris Carter and producer Gabe Rotter). Carter and Wong, both in the same room, offer a nice chat on Founder’s Mutation including a discussion of its move in position from fifth episode to second. On Episode 3, Anderson and Duchovny are in a room together, and Morgan and Nanjiani are in a room together, so the commentary is essentially made up of two conversations spliced together, but both are entertaining and hearing Duchovny’s and Morgan’s views on their approach to Mulder’s character (something that also comes up in the Making Of features) can be quite revealing. Carter and Rotter are once again in the same room for their discussion of Episode 6, though this track is a bit less chatty than the others.
There are two Making Of features. The first, a 50-minute feature perhaps confusingly titled 43:45 after the standard length of an episode, focuses on the making of Episode 1, My Struggle, from initial table read to the end of shooting. The second, Season X (one hour and ten minutes), offers an overview of the making of all six episodes (including My Struggle). Both are thorough and offer some interesting insights through the usual combination of behind the scenes footage and talking heads. One particularly interesting feature of Season X is that it goes through the season in its original running order (i.e. My Struggle, Home Again, Mulder And Scully Meet The Were-Monster, Babylon, Founder’s Mutation, My Struggle II), offering a sense of how the overall story arc would have developed across the season had the running order not been changed.
The other DVD features offer the usual smorgasbord of smaller offerings. The first deleted scene, a conspiracy scene from My Struggle, doesn’t really add much, but the other, an extended version of Mulder’s dance routine from Babylon, is quite fun. There’s a short film (Grace) written and directed by the series’ script co-ordinator Karen Nielsen, a gag reel, a ten-minute featurette written by and featuring Kumail Nanjiani choosing the most memorable monsters of the week from each season of the original run of The X-Files, and a two-minute featurette on environmental measures taken by the production.
It’s lovely to see a decent selection of features on a DVD release, and passionate fans of The X-Files will certainly find something to interest them here in the commentaries and Making Of features. With another new season expected in the future, it is also always handy to have X-Files episodes on DVD if you want to make a serious attempt to follow the mythology – though personally, we suspect we’ll just watch Mulder And Scully Meet The Were-Monster a few more times instead.
The X-Files – The Event Series came out on DVD & Blu-Ray on the 13th of June.
Read our spoiler-filled episode reviews, Chris Carter interview and more on The X-Files, here.
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The X-Files' latest episodes are out now on DVD and Blu-ray, with a fan-pleasing number of extras. Here's our review...
About 15 years ago, as DVDs were taking off, sales got a big boost when extra features started to appear on them on a regular basis. While some were happy to buy what was then an expensive machine and pricey disc for the sake of improved picture quality and better storage (among other things), for others, it was the lure of making-of features, deleted scenes (occasionally available on VHS cassettes from the period, but not often) and director’s commentaries – never available on VHS, for obvious reasons – that encouraged them to upgrade to the new format. For your humble correspondent, for example, it was the Extended Edition of The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring, complete with four commentaries and two discs of extras, that was the reason for buying a DVD player.
As Blu-ray started to pull ahead of HD DVD in the next Battle of the New Formats, production companies started to try the same trick. Increasingly, all the good extras are reserved for the Blu-ray, in the hope of encouraging fans to upgrade once again, with DVDs often vanilla discs, or very nearly.
For some of us, though, this isn’t working. Having spent a fortune over the course of the Twenty-First Century so far replacing our old VHS collections with DVDs, many of us feel disinclined to repeated the process, especially considering Blu-ray offers the same advantages in terms of storage, accessible menus, etc. as DVDs, so the only reasons to upgrade are improved sound and picture quality and, if relevant, extras. Considering how many of us are now accessing movies and TV through streaming services like Netflix, Amazon Prime and Sky and moving away from hard copies all together, investing in a Blu-ray is not necessarily an enticing prospect. (This is, of course, not everyone’s view and I’m sure you’ll all tell me how fabulous Blu-ray is in the comments, and of course some games consoles do include Blu-ray players – but I don’t own one and nothing so far has convinced me it’s worth buying a separate player).
It’s always pleasant, then, to see a DVD release of new material that still offers a good selection of extra material, the sort of thing you can’t get from Netflix, on what is now the old-fashioned DVD format. The X-Files Event series is one such DVD box-set. Across three discs, it includes the series (obviously), three episode commentaries, two Making Of features, three other short featurettes, deleted scenes and a gag reel.
The series itself received what might kindly be referred to as a mixed reception, and you can see our reviews of individual episodes elsewhere on the site. To an extent, it benefits from a short binge-watch of all six episodes, as threads running across the season can be drawn out more easily; on the other hand, a certain amount of repetition designed to keep weekly viewers up to date becomes more noticeable. It also benefits from a re-watch, knowing what this new series is and how it plays out. Without the burden of years of expectation, it becomes easier to enjoy these episodes for what they are, rather than feeling disappointment that they are not what you might have expected them to be. The highlight of the series and the main reason to want your own permanent copy of the episodes, though, is certainly the Darin Morgan-scripted (and directed), Rhys Darby-starring Mulder And Scully Meet The Were-Monster, which is a joy from start to finish.
There are episode commentaries on Episode 2, Founder’s Mutation (Chris Carter and episode writer/director James Wong), Episode 3, Mulder And Scully Meet The Were-Monster (Gillian Anderson, David Duchovny, Darin Morgan and guest star Kumail Nanjiani) and Episode 6, My Struggle II (Chris Carter and producer Gabe Rotter). Carter and Wong, both in the same room, offer a nice chat on Founder’s Mutation including a discussion of its move in position from fifth episode to second. On Episode 3, Anderson and Duchovny are in a room together, and Morgan and Nanjiani are in a room together, so the commentary is essentially made up of two conversations spliced together, but both are entertaining and hearing Duchovny’s and Morgan’s views on their approach to Mulder’s character (something that also comes up in the Making Of features) can be quite revealing. Carter and Rotter are once again in the same room for their discussion of Episode 6, though this track is a bit less chatty than the others.
There are two Making Of features. The first, a 50-minute feature perhaps confusingly titled 43:45 after the standard length of an episode, focuses on the making of Episode 1, My Struggle, from initial table read to the end of shooting. The second, Season X (one hour and ten minutes), offers an overview of the making of all six episodes (including My Struggle). Both are thorough and offer some interesting insights through the usual combination of behind the scenes footage and talking heads. One particularly interesting feature of Season X is that it goes through the season in its original running order (i.e. My Struggle, Home Again, Mulder And Scully Meet The Were-Monster, Babylon, Founder’s Mutation, My Struggle II), offering a sense of how the overall story arc would have developed across the season had the running order not been changed.
The other DVD features offer the usual smorgasbord of smaller offerings. The first deleted scene, a conspiracy scene from My Struggle, doesn’t really add much, but the other, an extended version of Mulder’s dance routine from Babylon, is quite fun. There’s a short film (Grace) written and directed by the series’ script co-ordinator Karen Nielsen, a gag reel, a ten-minute featurette written by and featuring Kumail Nanjiani choosing the most memorable monsters of the week from each season of the original run of The X-Files, and a two-minute featurette on environmental measures taken by the production.
It’s lovely to see a decent selection of features on a DVD release, and passionate fans of The X-Files will certainly find something to interest them here in the commentaries and Making Of features. With another new season expected in the future, it is also always handy to have X-Files episodes on DVD if you want to make a serious attempt to follow the mythology – though personally, we suspect we’ll just watch Mulder And Scully Meet The Were-Monster a few more times instead.
The X-Files – The Event Series came out on DVD & Blu-Ray on the 13th of June.
Read our spoiler-filled episode reviews, Chris Carter interview and more on The X-Files, here.
DVD & Bluray TV The X-Files The X-Files Event Series David Duchovny Gillian Anderson Chris Carter Juliette Harrisson Review Juliette Harrisson 14 Jun 2016 - 06:00...
- 6/13/2016
- Den of Geek
Need to catch up? Check out last week’s Outlander post mortem here.
Cram in one last croissant and pack up your petit fours, because the Frasers are putting Paris in their rearview in this week’s Outlander. Claire and Jamie return to Scotland hoping for a respite from the tiresome-yet-terrifying politics that have plagued them in the City of Lights… and instead run directly into new tiresome-yet-terrifying politics — only this time, in plaid!
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Jamie and Claire’s efforts to stop the Jacobite Uprising haven’t worked so far,...
Cram in one last croissant and pack up your petit fours, because the Frasers are putting Paris in their rearview in this week’s Outlander. Claire and Jamie return to Scotland hoping for a respite from the tiresome-yet-terrifying politics that have plagued them in the City of Lights… and instead run directly into new tiresome-yet-terrifying politics — only this time, in plaid!
RelatedOutlander Star Talks Unexpected Early Return: ‘I Was Surprised, Too!’
Jamie and Claire’s efforts to stop the Jacobite Uprising haven’t worked so far,...
- 5/29/2016
- TVLine.com
Insiders’ Vincent Maraval and MadRiver Pictures’ Marc Butan and Kim Fox have consolidated their international sales operations to form Imr International.
Fox will run the Los Angeles-based entity, which will handle international sales across all MadRiver and Insiders films and plans to offer approximately 12-16 films a year to buyers.
MadRiver and Insiders will continue to exist and operate as separate independent production and financing companies.
CAA brokered the deal.
Separately, Fox will continue to represent all Annapurna Pictures titles for the international marketplace.
The Insiders slate includes: Jeff Nichols’ Competition selection Loving starring Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga; David Robert Mitchell’s Under The Silver Lake starring Andrew Garfield; Pablo Larraín’s Jackie starring Natalie Portman; and Lynne Ramsay’s You Were Never Really Here starring Joaquin Phoenix.
MadRiver’s Cannes slate includes: Hallie Meyers-Shyer’s Home Again starring Rose Byrne; Taran Killam’s comedy Why We’re Killing Gunther; and James Gray’s sci-fi epic Ad...
Fox will run the Los Angeles-based entity, which will handle international sales across all MadRiver and Insiders films and plans to offer approximately 12-16 films a year to buyers.
MadRiver and Insiders will continue to exist and operate as separate independent production and financing companies.
CAA brokered the deal.
Separately, Fox will continue to represent all Annapurna Pictures titles for the international marketplace.
The Insiders slate includes: Jeff Nichols’ Competition selection Loving starring Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga; David Robert Mitchell’s Under The Silver Lake starring Andrew Garfield; Pablo Larraín’s Jackie starring Natalie Portman; and Lynne Ramsay’s You Were Never Really Here starring Joaquin Phoenix.
MadRiver’s Cannes slate includes: Hallie Meyers-Shyer’s Home Again starring Rose Byrne; Taran Killam’s comedy Why We’re Killing Gunther; and James Gray’s sci-fi epic Ad...
- 5/17/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
During an upfronts conference call with the press on Monday, Fox co-CEOs Dana Walden and Gary Newman teased that another season of The X-Files may be forthcoming, with Walden stating that "everyone is on board" for another go-round (by which I'm assuming she means the core trifecta of creator Chris Carter and stars Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny). But the larger and more important question should be: are viewers on board in numbers substantial enough to make the show a continued cash cow for the network? Reaction to The X-Files Season 10 was poor-to-mixed, with HitFix's own Alan Sepinwall stating that "of the revival's six episodes, one was great ('Mulder and Scully Meet the Were-Monster'), one was very good ('Home Again'), one was mediocre at best ('Founder's Mutation'), and three were awful." The "awful" ones, as Alan points out, were all written and directed by Carter himself, who has,...
- 5/16/2016
- by Chris Eggertsen
- Hitfix
Nancy Meyers’ daughter Hallie Meyers-Shyer will make her feature directorial debut on the comedy with Rose Byrne in talks to star.
Erika Olde’s Black Bicycle Entertainment finances and will produce, while Kim Fox of MadRiver Pictures will introduce to buyers on the Croisette this week.
Meyers-Shyer wrote the screenplay to Home Again, about a recently separated mother of two whose new life in Los Angeles is shaken up when she takes in three charismatic young men.
Production has been earmarked for on August start in Los Angeles. CAA represents North American rights.
Byrne will shortly be seen in Universal Pictures’ Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising opposite Seth Rogen and Zac Efron.
Olde launched Black Bicycle in 2014 and is also financing and producing The Burning Woman with Scott Free Productions and is in pre-production on Susanna White’s Woman Walks Ahead starring Jessica Chastain.
In post is Sacha Gervasi’s November Criminals starring Ansel Elgort and Chloë Grace Moretz for Sony...
Erika Olde’s Black Bicycle Entertainment finances and will produce, while Kim Fox of MadRiver Pictures will introduce to buyers on the Croisette this week.
Meyers-Shyer wrote the screenplay to Home Again, about a recently separated mother of two whose new life in Los Angeles is shaken up when she takes in three charismatic young men.
Production has been earmarked for on August start in Los Angeles. CAA represents North American rights.
Byrne will shortly be seen in Universal Pictures’ Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising opposite Seth Rogen and Zac Efron.
Olde launched Black Bicycle in 2014 and is also financing and producing The Burning Woman with Scott Free Productions and is in pre-production on Susanna White’s Woman Walks Ahead starring Jessica Chastain.
In post is Sacha Gervasi’s November Criminals starring Ansel Elgort and Chloë Grace Moretz for Sony...
- 5/10/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Rose Byrne (Neighbors) is in negotiations to star in the comedy Home Again for writer-director Hallie Meyers-Shyer. Nancy Meyers (It's Complicated) is producing alongside Black Bicycle Entertainment's Erika Olde, who is also financing. Based on a script by Meyers-Shyer, Home Again follows a recently separated mother of two whose new life in Los Angeles is overturned when she decides to take in three young, charismatic guys. Production is set to begin in August in Los…...
- 5/10/2016
- Deadline
"Neighbors" and "Spy" star Rose Byrne is in negotiations to join Hallie Meyers-Shyer's comedy "Home Again" at Black Bicycle Entertainment and MadRiver Pictures.
Based on a script by Meyers-Shyer, the story follows a recently separated mother of two whose new life in Los Angeles is overturned when she decides to take in three young, charismatic guys.
Nancy Meyers and Erika Olde are producing and shooting is set to begin in August in Los Angeles.
Source: Deadline...
Based on a script by Meyers-Shyer, the story follows a recently separated mother of two whose new life in Los Angeles is overturned when she decides to take in three young, charismatic guys.
Nancy Meyers and Erika Olde are producing and shooting is set to begin in August in Los Angeles.
Source: Deadline...
- 5/10/2016
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
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Why does The X-Files miniseries finale keep Mulder and Scully apart for most of the episode? Here's our review of My Struggle II...
My Struggle II represents some pretty significant new territory for The X-Files. The action in this series has always taken place in the shadows, on the edges of human experience and civilization. Taking advantage of the huge cultural and geographical spread across America (even if much of it came out looking like Vancouver), the series took us to isolated backwaters, desert landscapes, dark forests, deep lakes and the dark corners of the underbelly of cities, or even further in, to people’s homes, their bedrooms, their living rooms, and in one memorable instance, underneath an escalator in a shopping mall. Nothing on The X-Files ever happened out in the open; we were always literally and metaphorically in the dark, with the vast majority of...
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Why does The X-Files miniseries finale keep Mulder and Scully apart for most of the episode? Here's our review of My Struggle II...
My Struggle II represents some pretty significant new territory for The X-Files. The action in this series has always taken place in the shadows, on the edges of human experience and civilization. Taking advantage of the huge cultural and geographical spread across America (even if much of it came out looking like Vancouver), the series took us to isolated backwaters, desert landscapes, dark forests, deep lakes and the dark corners of the underbelly of cities, or even further in, to people’s homes, their bedrooms, their living rooms, and in one memorable instance, underneath an escalator in a shopping mall. Nothing on The X-Files ever happened out in the open; we were always literally and metaphorically in the dark, with the vast majority of...
- 2/23/2016
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
A review of tonight's The X-Files finale — and thoughts on the revival as a whole — coming up just as soon as I've sequenced my own genome... Chris Carter created The X-Files. He created Mulder and Scully. He cast Duchovny and Anderson. He dreamed up the mythology, and the Monster of the Week structure that alternated with it. He hired Glen Morgan, James Wong, Frank Spotnitz, Vince Gilligan, Darin Morgan, Howard Gordon, and everyone else who walked through that writers room. Chris Carter is responsible for so much that made The X-Files an all-time classic. Chris Carter should also never write or direct another episode of the show, assuming the actors agree to return for another abbreviated season. Of the revival's six episodes, one was great ("Mulder and Scully Meet the Were-Monster"), one was very good ("Home Again"), one was mediocre at best ("Founder's Mutation"), and three were awful. What do...
- 2/23/2016
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Hitfix
Five episodes of Fox's "The X-Files" reboot have aired so far with the finale on the way on Monday. On the whole it hasn't been a critical success - Darin Morgan's hilarious Were-Monster third episode being the only true standout, though Glen Morgan's fourth episode "Home Again" has some big defenders.
Ratings wise though it has had a healthy response, and has led to the obvious question - will there be more episodes after this event series wraps? At present there are no plans in place for another season, though the network has specifically indicated Monday's episode is a "season finale" and not a "series finale".
Speaking with Variety, Fox entertainment president David Madden was asked about the show's fate to which he responded:
"We said before it aired that we would love to do more, and we are over the moon with the performance. So far, the response has been really encouraging.
Ratings wise though it has had a healthy response, and has led to the obvious question - will there be more episodes after this event series wraps? At present there are no plans in place for another season, though the network has specifically indicated Monday's episode is a "season finale" and not a "series finale".
Speaking with Variety, Fox entertainment president David Madden was asked about the show's fate to which he responded:
"We said before it aired that we would love to do more, and we are over the moon with the performance. So far, the response has been really encouraging.
- 2/19/2016
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Genius is an exploration of the creative partnership between author Thomas Wolfe (Jude Law) and editor Maxwell Perkins (Colin Firth). Embedded in that quick synopsis are the challenges posed by the material: movies about books and writers can be met with cynicism or skepticism. Wolfe’s most notable work, novels such as Look Homeward Angel and You Can’t Go Home Again, are rich and mystifying challenges that elude easy adaptation. Given these potential challenges, it is impressive that Genius succeeds to this extent.
Michael Grandage‘s drama spans the birth and death of a relationship rather than the lives of its key players. Beginning with Max Perkins discovering the manuscript for Look Homeward Angel, the film layers Wolfe’s prose over the introduction to Max’s life. Max commutes on the train home and is greeted by his army of daughters but is never pulled out of the hypnotic...
Michael Grandage‘s drama spans the birth and death of a relationship rather than the lives of its key players. Beginning with Max Perkins discovering the manuscript for Look Homeward Angel, the film layers Wolfe’s prose over the introduction to Max’s life. Max commutes on the train home and is greeted by his army of daughters but is never pulled out of the hypnotic...
- 2/16/2016
- by Zade Constantine
- The Film Stage
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Mulder and Scully's relationship, as ever, is what holds The X-Files together, as episode 5 of the revived series shows...
This review contains spoilers.
The X-Files is returned to creator Chris Carter as writer-director for the last two episodes in this short new run (alone for this episode, with two co-credits for story on the finale). And, like much of Carter’s work on the show, it’s a little uneven, a little messy and it doesn’t entirely make sense, but it’s a good ride with its heart in the right place, held up by the strength of Carter, Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny’s joint creations, Mulder and Scully.
There are a lot of individually strong scenes in this episode, though they don’t necessarily mesh together as well as they could have. Mulder’s “trip”, for example, is hilarious, but it represents a slightly...
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Mulder and Scully's relationship, as ever, is what holds The X-Files together, as episode 5 of the revived series shows...
This review contains spoilers.
The X-Files is returned to creator Chris Carter as writer-director for the last two episodes in this short new run (alone for this episode, with two co-credits for story on the finale). And, like much of Carter’s work on the show, it’s a little uneven, a little messy and it doesn’t entirely make sense, but it’s a good ride with its heart in the right place, held up by the strength of Carter, Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny’s joint creations, Mulder and Scully.
There are a lot of individually strong scenes in this episode, though they don’t necessarily mesh together as well as they could have. Mulder’s “trip”, for example, is hilarious, but it represents a slightly...
- 2/16/2016
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
Previously, on "The X-Files"...Once upon a time, a young FBI agent named Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) was assigned to work with Agent Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) on strange cases known as the X-Files. Here is how they first met: Twenty-three years later, much has changed. But one thing is as it should be: Mulder and Scully are currently back in the basement, investigating the strange. Last Week's Review: Review: 'The X-Files' Season 10 Episode 4, 'Home Again,' Stirred Up Secrets and Sadness This Week's DossierAfter two Muslim suicide bombers blow up an art gallery in Southwest Texas, the FBI is on the case... but the agents assigned are not Mulder and Scully. Instead, it's plucky young believer Agent Miller (Robbie Amell) and skeptical young scientist Agent Einstein (Lauren Ambrose) who are heading to Texas. First, though, they stop by the basement to ask Mulder if he has...
- 2/16/2016
- by Liz Shannon Miller
- Indiewire
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We’re more than halfway in.
Two more episodes of The X-Files revival (Fox has taken to calling it Season 10 these days, perhaps indicating hope for a future season or two) have come and gone, and brought with them plenty of Wtf moments.
Interestingly, these two episodes could not be more different. One was an off-the-wall, light-hearted, comedy themed X-Files episode that turned out to be the instant classic many had predicted, while the other was a dark, drab monster of the week attempt that did as much wrong as it did right. Mulder and Scully Meet the Were-Monster and Home Again might be seen as a lesson in contrasts, but both are worthy of a second look.
Why? Both had totally insane moments, off-the-wall, bizarre, and completely unexpected scenes that included a scandalous Scully sex scene (imagined, mind you), murder victims being torn limb from limb by a...
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Two more episodes of The X-Files revival (Fox has taken to calling it Season 10 these days, perhaps indicating hope for a future season or two) have come and gone, and brought with them plenty of Wtf moments.
Interestingly, these two episodes could not be more different. One was an off-the-wall, light-hearted, comedy themed X-Files episode that turned out to be the instant classic many had predicted, while the other was a dark, drab monster of the week attempt that did as much wrong as it did right. Mulder and Scully Meet the Were-Monster and Home Again might be seen as a lesson in contrasts, but both are worthy of a second look.
Why? Both had totally insane moments, off-the-wall, bizarre, and completely unexpected scenes that included a scandalous Scully sex scene (imagined, mind you), murder victims being torn limb from limb by a...
- 2/15/2016
- by Jay Anderson
- Obsessed with Film
The six-episode return of The X-Files is four shows deep now, with the “event series” adopting more of a “Monster of the Week” format than the solidly connective storyline that many fans had anticipated. Still, this week’s episode, “Home Again,” written and directed by longtime X-Files writer/producer Glen Morgan, made a concerted effort to balance a brand-new monster with Scully and Mulder’s (Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny) emotional “abandoned child” storyline.
Morgan, a longtime fan of Famous Monsters going back to his childhood, took time to break down “Home Again,” discuss some of his favorite X-Files episodes, and recall his Monster Kid roots in our latest FM Podcast. Listen Here!
“This series, maybe more than others, has a very varied fan base,” Morgan tells FM of the challenges to cater to demand. “You have the mythology fans, you have the monster-of-the-week fans, you have the weird science fans,...
Morgan, a longtime fan of Famous Monsters going back to his childhood, took time to break down “Home Again,” discuss some of his favorite X-Files episodes, and recall his Monster Kid roots in our latest FM Podcast. Listen Here!
“This series, maybe more than others, has a very varied fan base,” Morgan tells FM of the challenges to cater to demand. “You have the mythology fans, you have the monster-of-the-week fans, you have the weird science fans,...
- 2/10/2016
- by Harker Jones
- FamousMonsters of Filmland
The six-episode return of The X-Files is four shows deep now. This week’s episode, “Home Again,” written and directed by longtime X-Files writer/producer Glen Morgan, made a concerted effort to balance a brand-new “Monster of the Week” with Mulder and Scully’s emotional “abandoned child” storyline. Morgan, a longtime fan of Famous Monsters going back to his childhood, took time to break down “Home Again,” discuss some of his favorite X-Files episodes, and recall his Monster Kid roots for FM Editor David Weiner. Glen Morgan interview – [1:50]...
- 2/10/2016
- by Cameron Hatheway
- FamousMonsters of Filmland
Fox
Home Again, the fourth episode of The X-Files current revival, had some big shoes to fill. It was given the less than envious task of following in the wake of Mulder and Scully Meet the Were-Monster, one of the most critically acclaimed X-Files outings since the early days of the show.
Wisely, it’s a darker, monster of the week style episode, so there will be no direct comparisons to the light-hearted outing that came before it, nor any confusing mythology that newer fans of the series might have a hard time grasping.
Instead, it’s thrills, chills, and blood spills ahead. And surprisingly, a fair amount of melodrama. While many had speculated ever since the title of the episode was announced this past summer that Home Again would be a follow-up to the classic inbred mutant episode Home (especially since a sequel in the comics shared the same...
Home Again, the fourth episode of The X-Files current revival, had some big shoes to fill. It was given the less than envious task of following in the wake of Mulder and Scully Meet the Were-Monster, one of the most critically acclaimed X-Files outings since the early days of the show.
Wisely, it’s a darker, monster of the week style episode, so there will be no direct comparisons to the light-hearted outing that came before it, nor any confusing mythology that newer fans of the series might have a hard time grasping.
Instead, it’s thrills, chills, and blood spills ahead. And surprisingly, a fair amount of melodrama. While many had speculated ever since the title of the episode was announced this past summer that Home Again would be a follow-up to the classic inbred mutant episode Home (especially since a sequel in the comics shared the same...
- 2/9/2016
- by Jay Anderson
- Obsessed with Film
“You Are Responsible”
‘Home Again’ is a parable about how we deal with our garbage. It births this metaphor via a gooey canal, giving us a garbage golem who kills to protect the homeless, or at least to punish those who oppress them, and a bluntly mirrored plot centered on Scully’s struggle to accept her mother’s death and puzzle out the reasoning behind her final words. It’s not, to put it bluntly, a great hour of television. The dialogue’s reach exceeds its grasp, constantly fumbling with quasi-clever moments like Mulder’s befuddling quip about Cutler’s remains belonging in the recycling. I refuse to believe that Mulder, an adult human man, doesn’t know how to dispose of organic matter. The camera, in between paying a shrug-inducing homage to Darren Aronofsky and jittering around a couple of eerie basements, mostly just drifts listlessly like an unmoored dinghy.
‘Home Again’ is a parable about how we deal with our garbage. It births this metaphor via a gooey canal, giving us a garbage golem who kills to protect the homeless, or at least to punish those who oppress them, and a bluntly mirrored plot centered on Scully’s struggle to accept her mother’s death and puzzle out the reasoning behind her final words. It’s not, to put it bluntly, a great hour of television. The dialogue’s reach exceeds its grasp, constantly fumbling with quasi-clever moments like Mulder’s befuddling quip about Cutler’s remains belonging in the recycling. I refuse to believe that Mulder, an adult human man, doesn’t know how to dispose of organic matter. The camera, in between paying a shrug-inducing homage to Darren Aronofsky and jittering around a couple of eerie basements, mostly just drifts listlessly like an unmoored dinghy.
- 2/9/2016
- by Gretchen Felker-Martin
- Nerdly
"You are responsible!" blares a sign posted on a side street in West Philadelphia. Seconds later, a fire hose blasts the message away. How's that for emphasis? It's a perfect note on which to begin "Home Again," the fourth episode of the X-Files miniseries, which is unapologetically blunt with its themes and emotions. Written and directed by co-executive producer Glen Morgan — who, along with James Wong, penned many of the original series' strongest installments — this is a story soaked in blood, sweat, and tears.Let's start with blood. Joseph Cutler (Alessandro Juliani) is a mid-level bureaucrat in the City of Brotherly Love, tasked with rounding up homeless people to make way for gentrification. He's the kind of unsympathetic pencil pusher who might as well have "Just doin' my job" tattooed on his forehead. But surely even he doesn't deserve the punishment meted out in the episode's tense and atmospheric...
- 2/9/2016
- by Keith Uhlich
- Vulture
A review of tonight's The X-Files coming up just as soon as I do stairs in three-inch heels... "I don't care about the big questions right now, Mulder." -Scully The title "Home Again," and the presence of Glen Morgan as writer and director, fueled speculation that this episode would be a sequel to the grossest X-Files of them all: the Morgan and James Wong-scripted "Home," about the family of inbred killers. The "Home Again" Monster of the Week is pretty disgusting in its own right, and the episode even features a brutal murder ironically scored to a mid-20th century pop tune (in this case, Petula Clark's "Downtown"). But the hour instead turns out to be a sequel to a few other Morgan/Wong episodes, most notably season 2's "One Breath," with Mulder at the bedside of a comatose Scully. On a purely Motw level, "Home Again" was...
- 2/9/2016
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Hitfix
The X-Files‘ Dana Scully may not be immortal, but wouldn’t it have been nice if her mother were?
As many X-‘Philes guessed — and TVLine feared — Margaret Scully dies in the revival’s fourth hour, her death a painful tearing-away of Dana’s one constant: No matter what insanity Mulder was up to from week to week during the original run, Mama Scully always had a gripping hug and some nonsense-free advice for her only remaining daughter. She was the voice of reason when a delusional Dana pulled her gun in “Wetwired.” She was a bedside regular throughout her daughter’s cancer arc.
As many X-‘Philes guessed — and TVLine feared — Margaret Scully dies in the revival’s fourth hour, her death a painful tearing-away of Dana’s one constant: No matter what insanity Mulder was up to from week to week during the original run, Mama Scully always had a gripping hug and some nonsense-free advice for her only remaining daughter. She was the voice of reason when a delusional Dana pulled her gun in “Wetwired.” She was a bedside regular throughout her daughter’s cancer arc.
- 2/9/2016
- TVLine.com
Episode 4: "Home Again" Synopsis: Mulder (David Duchovny) and Scully (Gillian Anderson) are sent to investigate the murder of a city official, which, it seems, no human could have committed. Meanwhile, Scully deals with deep feelings about the child she gave up for adoption. Review: One of the wonderful things about The X-Files is that while it can be creepy... Read More...
- 2/9/2016
- by Alex Maidy
- JoBlo.com
You may never look at a garbage truck the same way or listen to "Downtown" again without thinking about this episode of The X-Files, "Home Again," which, thankfully, is not a follow-up to the season 4 episode "Home." (If you watched the original run, you know what I mean. If you didn't, well, it's one of the scariest episodes of the series and one I recommend watching with all the lights on, in the middle of the day, followed by a nice comedic hour like, say, "Bad Blood" or the revival's "Mulder & Scully Meet the Were-Monster.")
However, it's not all about the case. A crisis that hits close to home for Scully leads to her reflecting once again (as she did in episode two, "Founder's Mutation," originally filmed as episode five and this one as two) about the son she gave up in order to protect him. It's marked by her...
However, it's not all about the case. A crisis that hits close to home for Scully leads to her reflecting once again (as she did in episode two, "Founder's Mutation," originally filmed as episode five and this one as two) about the son she gave up in order to protect him. It's marked by her...
- 2/8/2016
- by editor@buddytv.com
- buddytv.com
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The X-Files revival is finally starting to feel more confident. Now, if it can just stop shoe-horning in references to its past...
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Like Founder’s Mutation, this is an episode with the arc plot concerning Scully’s baby William at its core, masquerading as a stand-alone story, and it blends the themes, tone and ideas of its two plots beautifully.
Twenty years ago, The X-Files did an episode called Home. It was written by James Wong, who wrote and directed Founder’s Mutation, and Glen Morgan, who wrote and directed this episode. Home was the first episode to be given a viewer discretion warning for graphic content and it wasn’t repeated by the network for years. It’s something of a Marmite episode; many loved it for its shocking content, classic horror vibe, and exploration of the nature of the nuclear family...
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The X-Files revival is finally starting to feel more confident. Now, if it can just stop shoe-horning in references to its past...
This review contains spoilers.
Like Founder’s Mutation, this is an episode with the arc plot concerning Scully’s baby William at its core, masquerading as a stand-alone story, and it blends the themes, tone and ideas of its two plots beautifully.
Twenty years ago, The X-Files did an episode called Home. It was written by James Wong, who wrote and directed Founder’s Mutation, and Glen Morgan, who wrote and directed this episode. Home was the first episode to be given a viewer discretion warning for graphic content and it wasn’t repeated by the network for years. It’s something of a Marmite episode; many loved it for its shocking content, classic horror vibe, and exploration of the nature of the nuclear family...
- 2/8/2016
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
The X-Files miniseries is the continuation of the American science fiction horror drama television series The X-Files, created by Chris Carter, which originally aired for nine seasons from 1993 to 2002 on Fox. Starring: David Duchovny as Fox Mulder , Gillian Anderson as Dana Scully and Mitch Pileggi as Walter Skinner. The X-Files "Home Again" airs next Monday, at 8/7c on Fox. The X-Files has been published by Topps Comics, Wildstorm and now Idw Publishing. The miniseries is 6 episodes.
- 2/2/2016
- ComicBookMovie.com
Chris Carter has offered an explanation as to why Fox is broadcasting its six episode event series revival of "The X-Files" in a completely different order to what was originally planned.
During production six episodes were produced with two mythology-heavy episodes serving as the premiere and finale, and four standalones episodes in between. The mythology episodes are remaining as is, but the others changed order - what was supposed to be 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 ultimately became 1, 5, 3, 2, 4, 6.
Carter tells TV Insider that the shifting of the show's episode order was because of the flow of one episode into the next - which is better for the overall storyline:
"Because we have a story arc that runs through the middle of the series...we were concerned that, coming right off a mythology episode [and] going right into a standalone episode, people would say, What's happened?' So, it actually worked out. It served Episode 2 better to...
During production six episodes were produced with two mythology-heavy episodes serving as the premiere and finale, and four standalones episodes in between. The mythology episodes are remaining as is, but the others changed order - what was supposed to be 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 ultimately became 1, 5, 3, 2, 4, 6.
Carter tells TV Insider that the shifting of the show's episode order was because of the flow of one episode into the next - which is better for the overall storyline:
"Because we have a story arc that runs through the middle of the series...we were concerned that, coming right off a mythology episode [and] going right into a standalone episode, people would say, What's happened?' So, it actually worked out. It served Episode 2 better to...
- 1/29/2016
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
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