All titles below begin streaming for free on January 1 unless otherwise noted:
Originals
Action
Prepare To Die
– 1/13-
A young man trains in the ways of martial arts to seek vengeance on the corrupt landowner who murdered his family.
Documentary
Vice News Presents: Epstein Didn’T Kill Himself
-1/17-
How the mysteries surrounding Jeffrey Epstein’s life and death gave rise to a conspiracy theory that will never die.
Gone Before His Time: Kobe Bryant
-1/26-
Recount the achievements – some personal, some professional, and many halted – of an NBA legend before his untimely death.
TMZ No Bs: Hollywood’S Dumbest Moments
-1/31-
Join TMZ as they examine baffling & cringe worthy celebrity moments – Hollywood stars aren’t always the sharpest tools in the shed.
Horror
Where The Devil Roams
-1/5-
A family of murderous sideshow performers traverse the harsh conditions of Depression-era America in a bloody deal with the Devil.
Originals
Action
Prepare To Die
– 1/13-
A young man trains in the ways of martial arts to seek vengeance on the corrupt landowner who murdered his family.
Documentary
Vice News Presents: Epstein Didn’T Kill Himself
-1/17-
How the mysteries surrounding Jeffrey Epstein’s life and death gave rise to a conspiracy theory that will never die.
Gone Before His Time: Kobe Bryant
-1/26-
Recount the achievements – some personal, some professional, and many halted – of an NBA legend before his untimely death.
TMZ No Bs: Hollywood’S Dumbest Moments
-1/31-
Join TMZ as they examine baffling & cringe worthy celebrity moments – Hollywood stars aren’t always the sharpest tools in the shed.
Horror
Where The Devil Roams
-1/5-
A family of murderous sideshow performers traverse the harsh conditions of Depression-era America in a bloody deal with the Devil.
- 1/12/2024
- by Stephen Nepa
- Age of the Nerd
Luc Besson's "The Fifth Element" certainly has one of the most eclectic casts of any '90s blockbuster. On one hand, you have a variety of established actors. Then-beloved action hero Bruce Willis was the film's centerpiece, propped by British thespians like Gary Oldman and Ian Holm, both of whom had garnered recognition in major Hollywood blockbusters. On the other hand, you have a variety of unknown variables: Milla Jovovich, a young Russian model just getting her start on film; Chris Tucker, a hyperactive comedian slowly on the rise after "Friday," which also just so happened to feature "Fifth Element" co-star Tommy "Tiny" Lister Jr., an actor-turned-wrestler-turned-actor-again. Besson's call sheet of obscure talents goes on and on. However, it is exactly the director's ethno-galactically diverse, if often aesthetically disparate, vision for the film that makes the cast of "The Fifth Element" fit surprisingly well together.
By extension, the places...
By extension, the places...
- 12/11/2023
- by Larry Fried
- Slash Film
Los Angeles, May 9 (Ians) Hollywood actress Emma Roberts, who is known for “Paradise Hills” and “Billionaire Boys Club”, is set to headline the comedy “Hot Mess”.
The movie marks the feature directorial debut for film and TV helmer Katie Locke O’Brien. The project was written by Gabrielle D’Amico and is produced by Debbie Liebling, Maggie Malina and Laura Lewis, reports ‘Variety’.
Currently in pre-production and scheduled to start shooting in early 2024, Mister Smith Entertainment will launch its international sales at this month’s Cannes market. Lewis at Rebelle Media is representing North American rights.
An official synopsis for the film, accessed by ‘Variety’, reads: “After imploding in the worst way possible on a wildly popular American dating show, Laurel Mack (Roberts) must do the ultimate walk of shame… back to her hometown.
“Having failed to win love on the show, Laurel finds herself living in her quirky parents’ basement, without any friends,...
The movie marks the feature directorial debut for film and TV helmer Katie Locke O’Brien. The project was written by Gabrielle D’Amico and is produced by Debbie Liebling, Maggie Malina and Laura Lewis, reports ‘Variety’.
Currently in pre-production and scheduled to start shooting in early 2024, Mister Smith Entertainment will launch its international sales at this month’s Cannes market. Lewis at Rebelle Media is representing North American rights.
An official synopsis for the film, accessed by ‘Variety’, reads: “After imploding in the worst way possible on a wildly popular American dating show, Laurel Mack (Roberts) must do the ultimate walk of shame… back to her hometown.
“Having failed to win love on the show, Laurel finds herself living in her quirky parents’ basement, without any friends,...
- 5/9/2023
- by Agency News Desk
- GlamSham
Stars: Xander Bailey, Ryan Youngwoong Kim, Lesley Grant, Dylan J. Harris, Rashod Freelove, Carolina Vargas, Tom Sizemore | Written by Alex Heerman | Directed by Brian Nowak
No, Bullet Train Down is not a crossover of the Gerard Butler “…Down” franchise and the recent Brad Pitt film. But since it is from The Asylum you can bet it does borrow heavily from other films, in this case taking the train from Bullet Train and placing the bomb from Speed on it. Yes, in just sixteen years they’ve has gone from Snakes of a Train to Bombs on a Train, that’s progress.
Jack Banta is about to see a dream come true, the inaugural run of his company’s latest breakthrough, the world’s fastest bullet train. Among the others on board is his assistant Lou, vloggers Claire and Davey and ex-military bomb disposal expert Kessler Briggs.
If there’s a...
No, Bullet Train Down is not a crossover of the Gerard Butler “…Down” franchise and the recent Brad Pitt film. But since it is from The Asylum you can bet it does borrow heavily from other films, in this case taking the train from Bullet Train and placing the bomb from Speed on it. Yes, in just sixteen years they’ve has gone from Snakes of a Train to Bombs on a Train, that’s progress.
Jack Banta is about to see a dream come true, the inaugural run of his company’s latest breakthrough, the world’s fastest bullet train. Among the others on board is his assistant Lou, vloggers Claire and Davey and ex-military bomb disposal expert Kessler Briggs.
If there’s a...
- 1/27/2023
- by Jim Morazzini
- Nerdly
Alice Waddington, who directed the stylish 2019 indie film "Paradise Hills," has been hired by Netflix to direct a movie adaptation of the Dark Horse comic series "Dept. H." Screenwriter T.S. Nowlin, who wrote "The Maze Runner" movies and was a co-writer on "Pacific Rim Uprising," wrote the screenplay, and Dark Horse Entertainment's Mike Richardson, Keith Goldberg, and Paul Schwake will produce the movie adaptation.
"Dept. H" is essentially what would happen if murder mystery maven Agatha Christie wrote "The Abyss." Here's the synopsis, according to Deadline:
The original story is set after a renowned scientist is mysteriously killed in a deep-sea research station and his estranged daughter is sent six miles below...
The post Dept. H Comic Getting Movie Adaptation From Paradise Hills Director Alice Waddington appeared first on /Film.
"Dept. H" is essentially what would happen if murder mystery maven Agatha Christie wrote "The Abyss." Here's the synopsis, according to Deadline:
The original story is set after a renowned scientist is mysteriously killed in a deep-sea research station and his estranged daughter is sent six miles below...
The post Dept. H Comic Getting Movie Adaptation From Paradise Hills Director Alice Waddington appeared first on /Film.
- 9/28/2021
- by Ben Pearson
- Slash Film
Exclusive: Paradise Hills director Alice Waddington is set to board Netflix’s adaptation of Dept. H, which is based on the popular comic book series. The Maze Runner scribe T.S. Nowlin will adapt the script. Mike Richardson, Keith Goldberg and Paul Schwake of Dark Horse Entertainment will produce.
The original story is set after a renowned scientist is mysteriously killed in a deep-sea research station and his estranged daughter is sent six miles below the surface to investigate. With the pressure building and the water rising, she must race against time to solve the murder as she uncovers the truth behind the station’s purpose.
Dept. H is a comic book series written and illustrated by Matt Kindt and colored by Sharlene Kindt. It has been published by Dark Horse Comics since April 2016.
The film falls under the lucrative first-look deal with Dark Horse Entertainment and Netflix, and given the...
The original story is set after a renowned scientist is mysteriously killed in a deep-sea research station and his estranged daughter is sent six miles below the surface to investigate. With the pressure building and the water rising, she must race against time to solve the murder as she uncovers the truth behind the station’s purpose.
Dept. H is a comic book series written and illustrated by Matt Kindt and colored by Sharlene Kindt. It has been published by Dark Horse Comics since April 2016.
The film falls under the lucrative first-look deal with Dark Horse Entertainment and Netflix, and given the...
- 9/28/2021
- by Justin Kroll
- Deadline Film + TV
The fall festival season is upon us and that means awards season isn’t too far behind. And if you’re wondering just how crazy the last couple years have gone for cinema, look no further than the fact that I have posters of two TIFF films bowing in theaters this month below: one from the latest installment (beginning September 9) and one from the 2019 edition. Better late than never.
Hopefully that trend continues as more indie titles held for better days start making their entrance into the public sector, either via the big screen or VOD/streaming. But the latter is a very good thing, no matter what some try to tell you. Especially when Disney’s Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings hits September 3 and inevitably monopolizes half of your hometown’s available screens. Sometimes getting “normalcy” back is overrated. And, frankly, the studios have nothing to...
Hopefully that trend continues as more indie titles held for better days start making their entrance into the public sector, either via the big screen or VOD/streaming. But the latter is a very good thing, no matter what some try to tell you. Especially when Disney’s Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings hits September 3 and inevitably monopolizes half of your hometown’s available screens. Sometimes getting “normalcy” back is overrated. And, frankly, the studios have nothing to...
- 9/2/2021
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
Directed by Antaine Furlong, starring Charlotte Best, and set in the elevator of a high-rise, the sci-fi thriller Rising Wolf has been acquired by Samuel Goldwyn Films:
Press Release: Los Angeles, CA – Samuel Goldwyn Films announced today that the company has acquired Worldwide Rights (excl. Australia and New Zealand) to Antaine Furlong’s feature ‘Rising Wolf’. The film stars Charlotte Best (A Name Without A Place), Jonny Pasvolsky (The Front Runner), Alex Menglet (TV’s Wentworth), Susan Prior (The Rover), Lily Stewart, Justin Cotta,Tahlia Sturzaker (I am Mother), and introducing Karelina Clarke.
A young woman wakes, trapped, kidnapped in an elevator of a super high rise building at the mercy of her tormentors. This stylistic thriller, set in Shanghai, explores a young woman's instinct to survive in a situation out of her control. Trapped, without any form of escape, and cocooned in the belly of the beast, Aria is forced to adapt her thinking,...
Press Release: Los Angeles, CA – Samuel Goldwyn Films announced today that the company has acquired Worldwide Rights (excl. Australia and New Zealand) to Antaine Furlong’s feature ‘Rising Wolf’. The film stars Charlotte Best (A Name Without A Place), Jonny Pasvolsky (The Front Runner), Alex Menglet (TV’s Wentworth), Susan Prior (The Rover), Lily Stewart, Justin Cotta,Tahlia Sturzaker (I am Mother), and introducing Karelina Clarke.
A young woman wakes, trapped, kidnapped in an elevator of a super high rise building at the mercy of her tormentors. This stylistic thriller, set in Shanghai, explores a young woman's instinct to survive in a situation out of her control. Trapped, without any form of escape, and cocooned in the belly of the beast, Aria is forced to adapt her thinking,...
- 4/7/2021
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
This was the original release weekend for ‘Wonder Woman 1984’ before its Covid-induced delay.
France, Wednesday, September 30
French comedy My Cousin by Jan Kounen was the biggest release of the week in France on just under 700 prints for Pathé. Vincent Lindon stars as the uptight chief of a family business empire on a mission to get his wayward cousin, who owns half its shares, to sign off on a mega-deal.
Cannes 2020 label feature animation Josep was the second widest launch on 200 prints for Sophie Dulac Distribution. This was followed by Israeli-French drama The End Of Love by Keren Ben Rafael...
France, Wednesday, September 30
French comedy My Cousin by Jan Kounen was the biggest release of the week in France on just under 700 prints for Pathé. Vincent Lindon stars as the uptight chief of a family business empire on a mission to get his wayward cousin, who owns half its shares, to sign off on a mega-deal.
Cannes 2020 label feature animation Josep was the second widest launch on 200 prints for Sophie Dulac Distribution. This was followed by Israeli-French drama The End Of Love by Keren Ben Rafael...
- 10/2/2020
- by Ben Dalton¬Martin Blaney¬Gabriele Niola¬Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
At prestigious private school Haldwell, student factions hold power. There are five, among them The Spades, run by Selah (Lovie Simone), the role of her faction is to provide the illicit substances on which the underground parties organised by another faction, covered up by yet another, are run. As a senior, Selah is moving on at the end of the year and there is no apparent successor to her position, until Paloma (Celeste O’Connor) arrives and is taken under her wing.
That summary is the very surface level of what Selah and the Spades is about. Writer/Director Tayarisha Poe’s debut feature is impressively original and jammed with ideas, but it also falls interestingly into an emerging subgenre, driven by female directors. These films, like Anna Rose Holmer’s The Fits, Mitzi Pierone’s Braid, Alice Waddington’s Paradise Hills and Jennifer Reeder’s stunning Knives + Skin (as yet...
That summary is the very surface level of what Selah and the Spades is about. Writer/Director Tayarisha Poe’s debut feature is impressively original and jammed with ideas, but it also falls interestingly into an emerging subgenre, driven by female directors. These films, like Anna Rose Holmer’s The Fits, Mitzi Pierone’s Braid, Alice Waddington’s Paradise Hills and Jennifer Reeder’s stunning Knives + Skin (as yet...
- 4/17/2020
- by Sam Inglis
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Uma (Emma Roberts) wakes up in an unfamiliar room. It turns out to be a sort of rehab clinic, run by The Duchess (Milla Jovovich). It’s not specified why Uma has been sent here, but she’ll be kept for two months. Determined to escape and to take her roommates with her, Uma discovers disturbing truths about the facility.
According to the best estimate I can find, Paradise Hills cost roughly 6 million euros. Every last cent of it is up on screen. This is a film with a cast full of talented young women whose stars are on the rise, but the real stars of the show are costume designer Alberto Valcárcel and production designer Laia Colet.
We first see Emma Roberts’ Uma in blue lipstick with a headpiece over her face like a cage, as she sings a song at her wedding while dancers manoeuvre her extravagant dress beneath her.
According to the best estimate I can find, Paradise Hills cost roughly 6 million euros. Every last cent of it is up on screen. This is a film with a cast full of talented young women whose stars are on the rise, but the real stars of the show are costume designer Alberto Valcárcel and production designer Laia Colet.
We first see Emma Roberts’ Uma in blue lipstick with a headpiece over her face like a cage, as she sings a song at her wedding while dancers manoeuvre her extravagant dress beneath her.
- 3/16/2020
- by Sam Inglis
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
For a solid chunk of my childhood, my favorite movie was Disney's Sleeping Beauty. As film geeks are wont to do, I've spent a lot of time thinking about why I was so drawn to it in my formative years. Little Me was especially fond of two scenes: Princess Aurora’s guardian fairies using magic to settle an argument over whether a gown should be pink or blue, and the fabulously evil Maleficent's transformation into a fire-breathing dragon. I was equally entranced by the fashion as I was by the fearsome monster, and as an adult, that’s no surprise. I especially love freaky films with a solid visual aesthetic, and even more so when they feature fierce women.
For 1959, Sleeping Beauty is surprisingly feminist. The titular Beauty herself is pretty bland, but the climax of the film features three powerful fairies who cast off their guise of domestic...
For 1959, Sleeping Beauty is surprisingly feminist. The titular Beauty herself is pretty bland, but the climax of the film features three powerful fairies who cast off their guise of domestic...
- 1/30/2020
- by Laura Di Girolamo
- DailyDead
The McU isn’t planning on slowing down with the character introductions any time soon, as the already crowded cinematic universe is now exploring bringing Spider-Woman into the mix. And according to our sources, the studio already have an actress in mind to take over the role.
We’re being told that American Horror Story star Emma Roberts is being eyed to play the superhero on the big screen. There’s even a chance she might debut in Spider-Man 3, though nothing is certain as of yet and from what we understand, she’s just one name on Marvel’s wishlist at the moment. And given that this intel comes to us from the same sources who said the studio is eyeing Daniel Radcliffe for Moon Knight and Tom Holland is in talks for a Venom 2 cameo, both of which we now know to be true, we’ve no reason to doubt it.
We’re being told that American Horror Story star Emma Roberts is being eyed to play the superhero on the big screen. There’s even a chance she might debut in Spider-Man 3, though nothing is certain as of yet and from what we understand, she’s just one name on Marvel’s wishlist at the moment. And given that this intel comes to us from the same sources who said the studio is eyeing Daniel Radcliffe for Moon Knight and Tom Holland is in talks for a Venom 2 cameo, both of which we now know to be true, we’ve no reason to doubt it.
- 12/31/2019
- by Evan Lewis
- We Got This Covered
If you’ve ever watched contrived science fiction for fun, being willing to ignore its barely sensical story points for the sake of tone, but secretly hoping it was splashed with a layer of pink glitter, then do I have the film for you. Director Alice Waddington’s feature debut, Paradise Hills, is the fluffy pastel answer to the science fiction evening fillers we’re so used to seeing toned blue, green, and yellow.
Uma (Emma Roberts) wakes up in a strange place, an inescapable island adorned in an aesthetic that matches someone’s grandmother’s tea set. She’s been sent there because she has declined to marry a man that would allow her to regain her family’s fortune. The island turns out to be an over-the-top retreat, reminiscent of a celebrity rehab facility, filled with wealthy young women sent there to change something about themselves. One has a drinking problem,...
Uma (Emma Roberts) wakes up in a strange place, an inescapable island adorned in an aesthetic that matches someone’s grandmother’s tea set. She’s been sent there because she has declined to marry a man that would allow her to regain her family’s fortune. The island turns out to be an over-the-top retreat, reminiscent of a celebrity rehab facility, filled with wealthy young women sent there to change something about themselves. One has a drinking problem,...
- 11/11/2019
- by Lindsay Traves
- DailyDead
Do you remember when Hollywood was obsessed with reimaging fairy tales? If you managed to blot out those dark years, you probably will not remember such classics like “Red Riding Hood,” “Beastly,” or “Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters.” To be fair, not every film that emerged from that era was horrible—admit it, “Snow White and the Huntsman” wasn’t that bad—but Alice Waddington’s debut feature “Paradise Hills” could count itself among the lesser entries spawned from that trend.
Continue reading Alice Waddington’s ‘Paradise Hills’ Is Incredibly Stylish But Lacks Any Subtlety Or Substance [Review] at The Playlist.
Continue reading Alice Waddington’s ‘Paradise Hills’ Is Incredibly Stylish But Lacks Any Subtlety Or Substance [Review] at The Playlist.
- 11/1/2019
- by Jonathan Christian
- The Playlist
A futuristic take on class warfare, Alice Waddington’s Paradise Hills is a compellingly strange, visually daring, but ultimately narratively empty directorial debut. Led by Emma Roberts, Awkwafina, and Milla Jovovich, the film features a unique mixture of costume and set designs (think Burton’s Alice in Wonderland meets The Prisoner) yet its intriguing set-up quickly runs aground with stilted dialogue and awkward plotting, spending much time on its cotton-candy aesthetic and not enough on sorting out its jumbled themes.
Taking place in a somewhat distant future, we begin with Roberts’ Uma seemingly dressed as an extra from the Capitol scenes in The Hunger Games, in full camp mode at an upper-class party before quickly flashing back to two months earlier, as she wakes to find herself in an island retreat, run by The Duchess. Sent there by her family who wants her to abandon her poor lover and marry a more appropriately wealthy suitor,...
Taking place in a somewhat distant future, we begin with Roberts’ Uma seemingly dressed as an extra from the Capitol scenes in The Hunger Games, in full camp mode at an upper-class party before quickly flashing back to two months earlier, as she wakes to find herself in an island retreat, run by The Duchess. Sent there by her family who wants her to abandon her poor lover and marry a more appropriately wealthy suitor,...
- 10/31/2019
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
As the calendar changes from October to November, Mexican horror fans will ascend for the twelfth year on Morbido Fest, a Mexico City-based festival dedicated to all things macabre, organized and executed by Morbido Group CEO and founder Pablo Guisa Koestinger.
This year’s festival will kick off Oct. 30 with a spectacle grander in its ambition than any Morbido inauguration before. Taking place within the Esperanza Iris City theater, more than 60 artists will perform six choreographed musical numbers with Guisa taking the reigns as master of ceremonies. Those familiar with Guisa and his public persona won’t be surprised to hear that his opening night wardrobe alone includes eight costumes, with more to come in the following days.
Somehow, the TV network owner, festival director, writer, publisher and radio host found time to make appearances in three high-profile films screening at this year’s fest: Paco Plaza’s “Eye for an Eye,...
This year’s festival will kick off Oct. 30 with a spectacle grander in its ambition than any Morbido inauguration before. Taking place within the Esperanza Iris City theater, more than 60 artists will perform six choreographed musical numbers with Guisa taking the reigns as master of ceremonies. Those familiar with Guisa and his public persona won’t be surprised to hear that his opening night wardrobe alone includes eight costumes, with more to come in the following days.
Somehow, the TV network owner, festival director, writer, publisher and radio host found time to make appearances in three high-profile films screening at this year’s fest: Paco Plaza’s “Eye for an Eye,...
- 10/30/2019
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
If it’s a Saturday after a busy week, that can only mean one thing, right? Yes, it’s time for another review round-up to help catch us all up on some of the smaller releases hitting theaters this weekend. As per the usual, we have three very different films to look at. This time, it’s the drama Burning Cane, as well as two different science fiction outings, one being the high concept Paradise Hills, while the other sci-fi offering is the anthology tale Portals. Are any of these worth your time? Are all of them? Read on to find out what I thought… Burning Cane Marvel at this fact for a moment. Phillip Youmans, the filmmaker behind Burning Cane, is a teenager. Yes, for real. He’s nineteen years old. Consider for a moment how unwatchable most teenagers’ attempts at cinema would be. Even with the greats, many...
- 10/26/2019
- by Joey Magidson
- Hollywoodnews.com
Teenage horror has been absent for a moment, but it’s coming back in a big way. One of the films set to pave the way is Alice Waddington’s Paradise Hills. This film is as gorgeous as it is unsettling. And as a young woman who loves horror and sci-fi, it was a movie experience that I fell in love with immediately.
What is important about Paradise Hills is that it is a horror sci-fi film directed by and starring a diverse group of women. Most of these, including the director, are young. The fact is that horror and science fiction rarely caters to young women as an audience. We have had to connect to male characters, or in many cases, female characters created by men. So, the fact that Paradise Hills feels like a true adventure for women resonates with me. It will resonate with any woman who...
What is important about Paradise Hills is that it is a horror sci-fi film directed by and starring a diverse group of women. Most of these, including the director, are young. The fact is that horror and science fiction rarely caters to young women as an audience. We have had to connect to male characters, or in many cases, female characters created by men. So, the fact that Paradise Hills feels like a true adventure for women resonates with me. It will resonate with any woman who...
- 10/25/2019
- by Zoey Hickman
- DailyDead
Spanish filmmaker Alice Waddington has movies in her blood. When her father was in college, he ran a film club at his university where he played banned French and English movies during the Franco dictatorship, which is where he met a friend who eventually went on to become a director of photography in films and […]
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- 10/25/2019
- by Ben Pearson
- Slash Film
I got the chance to see the film Paradise Hills this week, ahead of its premiere today. The film was co-written and directed by Alice Waddington in her big screen debut, and stars Emma Roberts (American Horror Story), Awkwafina (The Farewell), Danielle Macdonald (Dumplin’), Milla Jovovich (Resident Evil), and Eiza Gonzalez (Baby Driver). The movie was visually beautiful, with stunning scenes and gorgeous costumes and make-up. I was initially intrigued by the original tale, and ended up surprised by where the film went, but was overall underwhelmed by the acting and the resolution of the story.
The film followed Roberts’s character, as she is sent to a facility that is meant to look and feel like a retreat to help refine young women by means of therapy and brainwashing. While on the beautiful island of Paradise Hills, the girls are supposed to work hard to become the most perfect versions of themselves,...
The film followed Roberts’s character, as she is sent to a facility that is meant to look and feel like a retreat to help refine young women by means of therapy and brainwashing. While on the beautiful island of Paradise Hills, the girls are supposed to work hard to become the most perfect versions of themselves,...
- 10/25/2019
- by Jessica Fisher
- GeekTyrant
Alice Waddington’s “Paradise Hills” is about an island where women get sent to get reformed, and stars Awkwafina and Eiza González think that the entire fantastical movie comments about values society places on women — which is why it’s important for young women to see the film.
“It really was a movie that I think should speak to younger women, you know, and I think that it is in many ways a giant metaphor,” Awkwafina, (born Nora Lum) told TheWrap. “I think that sometimes, we’re conditioned to think that our real selves aren’t good enough and that we need to change ourselves to fit in… I think it’s really important for young women to understand that — that society is always going to put certain pressures on us, but at the same time we’re ourselves, we’re strong, we’re together. I think that’s what [the film] really meant for me.
“It really was a movie that I think should speak to younger women, you know, and I think that it is in many ways a giant metaphor,” Awkwafina, (born Nora Lum) told TheWrap. “I think that sometimes, we’re conditioned to think that our real selves aren’t good enough and that we need to change ourselves to fit in… I think it’s really important for young women to understand that — that society is always going to put certain pressures on us, but at the same time we’re ourselves, we’re strong, we’re together. I think that’s what [the film] really meant for me.
- 10/24/2019
- by Beatrice Verhoeven
- The Wrap
Announcing herself as an ingenious genre-defying filmmaker, Alice Waddington has crossed from the land of festival-acclaimed shorts to building a colorful extravaganza for her feature debut “Paradise Hills,” a Spanish-American coproduction backed by both a legion of actresses on the rise and sumptuous production design.
An opulent ballroom worthy of a fairytale (in line with Disney’s live-action “Cinderella”) hosts a wedding for upper-class royalty Uma (Emma Roberts) and Son in an alternative reality that exists somewhere between near-future and palatial past. But just as we are about to learn whether or not the union is one of mutual love, we cut to a few months prior in an exuberant island covered in rose gardens and housing a “recovery” facility (somewhere between boarding school and mental hospital) for young women who don’t fit in.
Candy-hued spaces, white fashion-forward uniforms; and a cordial headmistress known as The Duchess (a surprisingly...
An opulent ballroom worthy of a fairytale (in line with Disney’s live-action “Cinderella”) hosts a wedding for upper-class royalty Uma (Emma Roberts) and Son in an alternative reality that exists somewhere between near-future and palatial past. But just as we are about to learn whether or not the union is one of mutual love, we cut to a few months prior in an exuberant island covered in rose gardens and housing a “recovery” facility (somewhere between boarding school and mental hospital) for young women who don’t fit in.
Candy-hued spaces, white fashion-forward uniforms; and a cordial headmistress known as The Duchess (a surprisingly...
- 10/24/2019
- by Carlos Aguilar
- The Wrap
If you’ve ever wanted a mashup of Disney princess movies and “The Stepford Wives” or imagined “The Handmaid’s Tale” as a swoony Ya fantasy, “Paradise Hills” is absolutely the movie for you. This first feature by young Spanish commercials director Alice Waddington expands upon the template of her well-traveled 2015 short “Disco Inferno” in offering an ornate dream world of velvet-lined luxury and hidden menace. It’s a distinctive, accomplished vision in purely aesthetic terms — though this vague feminist parable is considerably less well thought-out on the levels of storytelling, character definition and suspense.
As a result, its message is one of general self-empowerment best experienced if you turn your brain off and just passively enjoy the spectacle. Opening on 18 U.S. screens 10 months after premiering in Sundance’s Next section, the English-language project will doubtfully make more than a modest impact theatrically, but should begin developing a cult...
As a result, its message is one of general self-empowerment best experienced if you turn your brain off and just passively enjoy the spectacle. Opening on 18 U.S. screens 10 months after premiering in Sundance’s Next section, the English-language project will doubtfully make more than a modest impact theatrically, but should begin developing a cult...
- 10/24/2019
- by Dennis Harvey
- Variety Film + TV
The world that Alice Waddington dreams up for her feature directorial debut, “Paradise Hills,” is really not so different from the world many people live in today — stratified classes, women only defined in relation to their husbands, a premium on appearance over substance — but Waddington attempts to pull those cultural and societal wounds into a fresh perspective. A feminist fairy tale with a generous sprinkling of “Alice in Wonderland” imagery and enough crinoline to outfit an entire cotillion, “Paradise Hills” soon gives itself over to the most obvious of questions and answers, unearthing nothing new in the process. Are people bound by their social class? Yes. Are women still treated like second class citizens? Often. Are people obsessed with how things look? Obviously. So, what’s left? Waddington doesn’t bother looking.
The film opens at a fittingly lush, fanciful, and entirely strange wedding, where a nearly unrecognizable Emma Roberts...
The film opens at a fittingly lush, fanciful, and entirely strange wedding, where a nearly unrecognizable Emma Roberts...
- 10/23/2019
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Exclusive: Patti Cake$ breakout star Danielle Macdonald has come aboard the Azazel Jacobs-directed film, French Exit, which was recently picked up by Sony Pictures Classics. The Sydney-born actress joins Michelle Pfeiffer, Lucas Hedges, and Tracy Letts in the comedy-drama based on the international bestselling book by Canadian novelist Patrick deWitt, who also adapted the screenplay.
The pic follows 60-year-old penniless Manhattan socialite Frances Price (Pfeiffer), whose plan to die before her money ran out doesn’t pan out. Her husband Franklin has been dead for 20 years and with his vast inheritance gone, she cashes in the last of her possessions and resolves to live out her twilight days anonymously in a modest apartment in Paris, accompanied by her directionless son Malcolm (Hedges) and the embodiment of Franklin in the form of ‘Small Frank’ (Letts), the family cat.
Rocket Science, Elevation Pictures, Screen Siren Pictures, and Blinder Films are producing...
The pic follows 60-year-old penniless Manhattan socialite Frances Price (Pfeiffer), whose plan to die before her money ran out doesn’t pan out. Her husband Franklin has been dead for 20 years and with his vast inheritance gone, she cashes in the last of her possessions and resolves to live out her twilight days anonymously in a modest apartment in Paris, accompanied by her directionless son Malcolm (Hedges) and the embodiment of Franklin in the form of ‘Small Frank’ (Letts), the family cat.
Rocket Science, Elevation Pictures, Screen Siren Pictures, and Blinder Films are producing...
- 10/23/2019
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
Samuel Goldwyn Films will release Alice Waddington's fantasy/sci-fi/thriller Paradise Hills in U.S. theaters on October 25th and on digital and on demand November 1st. Screen Anarchy has two iTunes codes to give away to two (2) lucky Screen Anarchy readers. Paradise Hills is pretty great. Think along the lines of Gilliam's dystopic vision, without his baggage, and strong feminist intent. It is a much needed change of perspective to the genre. On an isolated island, Uma (Emma Roberts) wakes up to find herself at Paradise Hills, a facility where high-class families send their daughters to become perfect versions of themselves. The facility is run by the mysterious Duchess (Milla Jovovich) where calibrated treatments including etiquette classes, vocal lessons, beauty treatments, gymnastics and restricted...
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- 10/22/2019
- Screen Anarchy
Daniel Kaluuya, Elisabeth Moss, Danielle Macdonald, Aldis Hodge, Valerie Pachner, Samantha Morton, Sienna Miller, Alan Silvestri and Olivia Wilde are set to be honored at the 22nd Annual Scad Savannah Film Festival. Breakout Award honorees include Beanie Feldstein, Kaitlyn Dever, Jharrel Jerome, Mena Massoud and Camila Morrone.
Macdonald, who appears on Netflix in “Unbelievable” and the upcoming “Paradise Hills,” will receive the rising star award on Oct. 26. “Clemency” star Hodge will receive the discovery award on Oct. 28, while Pachner, who stars in “A Hidden Life,” will receive the discovery award on Oct. 29. Moss, who starred in “The Kitchen” and will appear in “The Invisible Man,” will receive the spotlight award on Oct. 31, and on Nov. 2, “Walking Dead” star Morton will receive the virtuoso award while “Queen and Slim” star Kaluuya will receive the spotlight award. “Back to the Future” and “Avengers” composer Silvestri receives the lifetime achievement award for composing on Oct.
Macdonald, who appears on Netflix in “Unbelievable” and the upcoming “Paradise Hills,” will receive the rising star award on Oct. 26. “Clemency” star Hodge will receive the discovery award on Oct. 28, while Pachner, who stars in “A Hidden Life,” will receive the discovery award on Oct. 29. Moss, who starred in “The Kitchen” and will appear in “The Invisible Man,” will receive the spotlight award on Oct. 31, and on Nov. 2, “Walking Dead” star Morton will receive the virtuoso award while “Queen and Slim” star Kaluuya will receive the spotlight award. “Back to the Future” and “Avengers” composer Silvestri receives the lifetime achievement award for composing on Oct.
- 10/16/2019
- by Lorraine Wheat
- Variety Film + TV
They call it “Paradise Hills”, but going against the grain can have hellish consequences. Look for Paradise Hills (directed by Alice Waddington from a screenplay penned by Nacho Vigalondo and Brian DeLeeuw) in select theater October 25th, followed by a digital and On Demand release on November 1st. A beautiful landscape and pastel sheen hide […]
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- 10/14/2019
- by Josh Millican
- DreadCentral.com
Barcelona — Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia’s debut feature “The Platform” was awarded best film, and best F/X at the 52nd Sitges’ Intl. Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia. Gaztelu-Urrutia also snagged the Citizen Kane Award for an up-and-coming director and the Audience Award for best picture. The prizes come off the back of the Grolsch People’s Choice Award at Toronto’s Midnight Madness.
Produced by Carlos Juárez at Bilbao-based outfit Basque Films in co-production with Barcelona’s Mr. Miyagi, Gaztelu-Urrutia’s debut offers a harsh survival parable of power human relationships in a dystopic multi-floor dungeon prison. Its oft-starving dwellers handle the situation with existential and cannibalistic inclinations. The nightmarish script was co-written by successful Catalan playwright David Desola (“Warehoused”) and Pedro Rivero, co-director of Gkids U.S. pick-up “Bird Boy.”
Bilbao-born Gaztelu-Urrutia is an experienced producer at Basque Films and has directed commercials as well as two shorts. One,...
Produced by Carlos Juárez at Bilbao-based outfit Basque Films in co-production with Barcelona’s Mr. Miyagi, Gaztelu-Urrutia’s debut offers a harsh survival parable of power human relationships in a dystopic multi-floor dungeon prison. Its oft-starving dwellers handle the situation with existential and cannibalistic inclinations. The nightmarish script was co-written by successful Catalan playwright David Desola (“Warehoused”) and Pedro Rivero, co-director of Gkids U.S. pick-up “Bird Boy.”
Bilbao-born Gaztelu-Urrutia is an experienced producer at Basque Films and has directed commercials as well as two shorts. One,...
- 10/12/2019
- by Emilio Mayorga
- Variety Film + TV
When it comes to “women’s films,” there aren’t a lot of options offered up by Hollywood and certainly not a lot that fall into the wide ranging category of “genre” so when a film comes along that fits so snuggly into this little niche, I can’t help but get excited at the prospect and in the case of Paradise Hills, the film certainly doesn’t disappoint.
Directed by Spanish writer, director and costume designer Alice Waddington, Paradise Hills stars Emma Roberts as Uma, a young woman who wakes up in an unfamiliar room with no memory of how she arrived there. The explanation that follows is grim: her mother, a society woman with money troubles, is attempting to marry her daughter into another upper class family in an effort t...
Directed by Spanish writer, director and costume designer Alice Waddington, Paradise Hills stars Emma Roberts as Uma, a young woman who wakes up in an unfamiliar room with no memory of how she arrived there. The explanation that follows is grim: her mother, a society woman with money troubles, is attempting to marry her daughter into another upper class family in an effort t...
- 9/29/2019
- QuietEarth.us
Toronto After Dark have announced the first ten films in this year's lineup. Tadff is the go to genre event of the Fall here in our fair city and the festival continues to bring a collection of festival favorites and potential undiscovered gems. This first wave of films includes the lauded horror comedy Extra Ordinary, terrific teen terror flick The Wretched, and Ant Timpson's Come to Daddy starring Elijah Wood. On the very pretty to look at scale be sure not to miss Seth Eckerman and Carpenter Brut's Blood Machines and the more important Paradise Hills from Alice Waddington, co-written with Brian DeLeeuw and Spanish autuer Nacho Vigalondo. All ten films can be found, most with trailers, over at the Toronto After Dark site. ...
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- 9/19/2019
- Screen Anarchy
The new thriller "Paradise Hills", directed by Alice Waddington, stars Emma Roberts, Danielle Macdonald, Awkwafina, Eiza González, Milla Jovovich and Jeremy Irvine, opening November 1, 2019:
"...'Uma' awakens on an island called 'Paradise' which takes young women into a mysterious boarding school and teaches them to be 'proper'.
"Lead by the 'Duchess', the island provides emotional healing for those in need of it.
"However, behind the fairy tale like exterior, the island hides something far sinister that threatens Uma and the other islanders..."
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Paradise Hills"...
"...'Uma' awakens on an island called 'Paradise' which takes young women into a mysterious boarding school and teaches them to be 'proper'.
"Lead by the 'Duchess', the island provides emotional healing for those in need of it.
"However, behind the fairy tale like exterior, the island hides something far sinister that threatens Uma and the other islanders..."
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Paradise Hills"...
- 9/11/2019
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
The new thriller "Paradise Hills", directed by Alice Waddington, stars Emma Roberts, Danielle Macdonald, Awkwafina, Eiza González, Milla Jovovich and Jeremy Irvine, opening November 1, 2019:
"...'Uma' awakens on an island called 'Paradise' which takes young women into a mysterious boarding school and teaches them to be 'proper'.
"Lead by the 'Duchess', the island provides emotional healing for those in need of it.
"However, behind the fairy tale like exterior, the island hides something far sinister that threatens Uma and the other islanders..."
click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Paradise Hills"...
"...'Uma' awakens on an island called 'Paradise' which takes young women into a mysterious boarding school and teaches them to be 'proper'.
"Lead by the 'Duchess', the island provides emotional healing for those in need of it.
"However, behind the fairy tale like exterior, the island hides something far sinister that threatens Uma and the other islanders..."
click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Paradise Hills"...
- 7/16/2019
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
Dogwoof has launched a new trailer for the devilishly provocative, hilarious and thought-provoking documentary ‘Hail Satan?’.
Coming from director Penny Lane, the doc follows the rise of The Satanic Temple. Lane follows co-founder Lucien Greaves and his colourful flock as they champion religious freedom and social equality and challenge the corrupt establishment, all with a heavy dose of humour and irony.
Lane examines the meteoric rise of The Satanic Temple by interviewing Greaves, key members of the Temple as well as new converts offering a glimpse into the broadening appeal of the sect. The camera follows the Temple on their quest, a series of irreverent and wickedly playful interventions: the erection of a Baphomet statue on the grounds of the Arkansas State Capitol in response to their campaign to erect a Ten Commandments monument; campaigning for the Satanic Prayer to be included in schools if Christian prayer is sanctioned; counter-protests...
Coming from director Penny Lane, the doc follows the rise of The Satanic Temple. Lane follows co-founder Lucien Greaves and his colourful flock as they champion religious freedom and social equality and challenge the corrupt establishment, all with a heavy dose of humour and irony.
Lane examines the meteoric rise of The Satanic Temple by interviewing Greaves, key members of the Temple as well as new converts offering a glimpse into the broadening appeal of the sect. The camera follows the Temple on their quest, a series of irreverent and wickedly playful interventions: the erection of a Baphomet statue on the grounds of the Arkansas State Capitol in response to their campaign to erect a Ten Commandments monument; campaigning for the Satanic Prayer to be included in schools if Christian prayer is sanctioned; counter-protests...
- 7/16/2019
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Premiering earlier this year at Sundance Film Festival, the sci-fi fantasy Paradise Hills tells the story of a seemingly idyllic treatment facility in which young women are sent to strive for perfection. Co-written by Nacho Vigalondo, who knows the sci-fi genre well, it’s directed by Alice Waddington and ahead of a fall release, the first trailer and poster have now arrived.
Starring Emma Roberts, Danielle Macdonald, Awkwafina, Jeremy Irvine, Arnaud Valois with Eiza Gonzalez and Milla Jovovich, THR said in their review, this “decidedly loopy work is positively overstuffed with wacky ideas and visual excess, which will make it divisive viewing, even among receptive festival audiences. It’s best to assume the filmmakers have their tongues at least somewhat in cheek, and just embrace the crazy as a pulpy camp indulgence, like some kind of post-feminist Barbarella meets The Handmaid’s Tale.”
See the trailer and poster below.
On an isolated island,...
Starring Emma Roberts, Danielle Macdonald, Awkwafina, Jeremy Irvine, Arnaud Valois with Eiza Gonzalez and Milla Jovovich, THR said in their review, this “decidedly loopy work is positively overstuffed with wacky ideas and visual excess, which will make it divisive viewing, even among receptive festival audiences. It’s best to assume the filmmakers have their tongues at least somewhat in cheek, and just embrace the crazy as a pulpy camp indulgence, like some kind of post-feminist Barbarella meets The Handmaid’s Tale.”
See the trailer and poster below.
On an isolated island,...
- 7/16/2019
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
One person’s paradise is another’s nightmare.
The official trailer for the upcoming thriller Paradise Hills dropped on Monday, throwing viewers onto an island called “Paradise” with Emma Roberts (Uma), who wakes up to find herself in its mysterious utopia.
As she discovers her new surroundings, she desperately asks “What is this place?”
“This is an opportunity, Uma,” Milla Jovovich’s character, The Duchess, tells Roberts. What Roberts soon realizes is that this “opportunity” is something far more sinister.
“Our families sent us here to shape us in their image,” Roberts says in the trailer.
The island is a...
The official trailer for the upcoming thriller Paradise Hills dropped on Monday, throwing viewers onto an island called “Paradise” with Emma Roberts (Uma), who wakes up to find herself in its mysterious utopia.
As she discovers her new surroundings, she desperately asks “What is this place?”
“This is an opportunity, Uma,” Milla Jovovich’s character, The Duchess, tells Roberts. What Roberts soon realizes is that this “opportunity” is something far more sinister.
“Our families sent us here to shape us in their image,” Roberts says in the trailer.
The island is a...
- 7/16/2019
- by Claudia Harmata
- PEOPLE.com
It’s always interesting when we get a “mystery community” thrillers. The kind of thrillers where our main character ends up in a place that isn’t as peachy as it appears. The upcoming “Paradise Hills” looks like it is that type of film and then puts a unique spin on it.
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In “Paradise Hills,” which premiered earlier this year at the Sundance Film Festival, Emma Roberts wakes up in a strange island where an upper-class boarding school called Paradise Hills resides.
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In “Paradise Hills,” which premiered earlier this year at the Sundance Film Festival, Emma Roberts wakes up in a strange island where an upper-class boarding school called Paradise Hills resides.
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- 7/15/2019
- by Matthew St. Clair
- The Playlist
I’ve got a weird trailer for you to check out today called Paradise Hills, starring Emma Roberts (American Horror Story), Awkwafina (Crazy Rich Asians), Danielle Macdonald (Dumplin’), Milla Jovovich (Resident Evil), and Eiza Gonzalez (Baby Driver). The movie feels like a dystopian futuristic Alice in Wonderland goes to boarding school. The film premiered at Sundance this year to good reviews. Here’s the official synopsis for the film:
On an isolated island, Uma (Emma Roberts) wakes up to find herself at Paradise Hills, a facility where high-class families send their daughters to become perfect versions of themselves. The facility is run by the mysterious Duchess (Milla Jovovich) where calibrated treatments including etiquette classes, vocal lessons, beauty treatments, gymnastics and restricted diets, revolve all physical and emotional shortcomings within two months. The outspoken Uma finds solace and friendship in other Paradise Hills residents — Chloe (Danielle McDonald), Yu (Awkwafina) and Mexican...
On an isolated island, Uma (Emma Roberts) wakes up to find herself at Paradise Hills, a facility where high-class families send their daughters to become perfect versions of themselves. The facility is run by the mysterious Duchess (Milla Jovovich) where calibrated treatments including etiquette classes, vocal lessons, beauty treatments, gymnastics and restricted diets, revolve all physical and emotional shortcomings within two months. The outspoken Uma finds solace and friendship in other Paradise Hills residents — Chloe (Danielle McDonald), Yu (Awkwafina) and Mexican...
- 7/15/2019
- by Jessica Fisher
- GeekTyrant
20th Century Fox has launched the first teaser trailer has arrived for Matthew Vaughn’s ‘Kingsman’ sequel ‘The King’s Man’.
Based on the Comic Book “The Secret Service” by Mark Millar and Dave Gibbons, the film is directed by Matthew Vaughn.
Ralph Fiennes, Gemma Arterton, Rhys Ifans, Matthew Goode, Tom Hollander, Harris Dickinson, Daniel Brühl, with Djimon Hounsou, and Charles Dance all star in the prequel.
Also in trailers – Emma Roberts and Awkwafina star in trailer for ‘Paradise Hills’
The film hits cinemas February 2020
The King’s Man Synopsis
As a collection of history’s worst tyrants and criminal masterminds gather to plot a war to wipe out millions, one man must race against time to stop them. Discover the origins of the very first independent intelligence agency in The King’S Man.
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Based on the Comic Book “The Secret Service” by Mark Millar and Dave Gibbons, the film is directed by Matthew Vaughn.
Ralph Fiennes, Gemma Arterton, Rhys Ifans, Matthew Goode, Tom Hollander, Harris Dickinson, Daniel Brühl, with Djimon Hounsou, and Charles Dance all star in the prequel.
Also in trailers – Emma Roberts and Awkwafina star in trailer for ‘Paradise Hills’
The film hits cinemas February 2020
The King’s Man Synopsis
As a collection of history’s worst tyrants and criminal masterminds gather to plot a war to wipe out millions, one man must race against time to stop them. Discover the origins of the very first independent intelligence agency in The King’S Man.
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- 7/15/2019
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Samuel Goldwyn Films has released the first trailer for sci-fi thriller ‘Paradise Hills’ starring Emma Roberts and Awkwafina.
Directed by Alice Waddington from a screenplay by Nacho Vigalondo, the film stars Milla Jovovich, Danielle McDonald, Jeremy Irvine and Eiza Gonzalez alongside Roberts and Awkwafina.
Also in trailers – Angela Bassett, Patricia Arquette and Felicity Huffman star in trailer for ‘Otherhood’
The film is set for a Us release in cinemas and digital November 1st.
Paradise Hills Synopsis
On an isolated island, Uma (Emma Roberts) wakes up to find herself at Paradise Hills, a facility where high-class families send their daughters to become perfect versions of themselves. The facility is run by the mysterious Duchess (Milla Jovovich) where calibrated treatments including etiquette classes, vocal lessons, beauty treatments, gymnastics and restricted diets, revolve all physical and emotional shortcomings within two months.
The outspoken Uma finds solace and friendship in other Paradise Hills residents...
Directed by Alice Waddington from a screenplay by Nacho Vigalondo, the film stars Milla Jovovich, Danielle McDonald, Jeremy Irvine and Eiza Gonzalez alongside Roberts and Awkwafina.
Also in trailers – Angela Bassett, Patricia Arquette and Felicity Huffman star in trailer for ‘Otherhood’
The film is set for a Us release in cinemas and digital November 1st.
Paradise Hills Synopsis
On an isolated island, Uma (Emma Roberts) wakes up to find herself at Paradise Hills, a facility where high-class families send their daughters to become perfect versions of themselves. The facility is run by the mysterious Duchess (Milla Jovovich) where calibrated treatments including etiquette classes, vocal lessons, beauty treatments, gymnastics and restricted diets, revolve all physical and emotional shortcomings within two months.
The outspoken Uma finds solace and friendship in other Paradise Hills residents...
- 7/15/2019
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
"If you could learn your place, you have you best years ahead of you." Samuel Goldwyn Films has debuted an official trailer for an indie fantasy mystery titled Paradise Hills, which is the feature directorial debut of a Spanish designer-turned-filmmaker named Alice Waddington. The film originally premiered at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year in the Next section, and is playing at the Fantasia Film Festival next this summer. Paradise Hills is about a mysterious boarding school that perfectly reforms wayward girls to fit their surroundings' exact desires. Emma Roberts stars as a newcomer, who discovers there's something lurking behind all this beauty. Now it's a race against the clock as she and her friends try to escape Paradise Hills before it consumes them all. Also starring Milla Jovovich, Eiza Gonzalez, Awkwafina, Danielle McDonald, Jeremy Irvine, Arnaud Valois, and Liliana Cabal. This looks like a clever, extra-stylized take on...
- 7/14/2019
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Unspooling like the candy-coated dystopian design baby of “Midsommar” and Tim Burton’s “Alice in Wonderland,” the first trailer for the female-fronted “Paradise Hills” is a veritable feast of celebrated talent. The feature filmmaking debut of Spanish filmmaker Alice Waddington, the film is anchored by some of the buzziest actresses working in indie film: Emma Roberts, Milla Jovovich, Danielle MacDonald, Eiza Gonzalez, and Awkwafina. Waddington directs from a script co-written by fellow Spanish filmmaker Nacho Vigalondo, best known for 2017’s Anne Hathaway vehicle “Colossal” as well as his work with the cult horror anthology collective Bloody Disgusting.
Per the film’s official synopsis: “On an isolated island, Uma (Roberts) wakes up to find herself at Paradise Hills, a facility where high-class families send their daughters to become perfect versions of themselves. The facility is run by the mysterious Duchess (Jovovich) where calibrated treatments including etiquette classes, vocal lessons, beauty treatments,...
Per the film’s official synopsis: “On an isolated island, Uma (Roberts) wakes up to find herself at Paradise Hills, a facility where high-class families send their daughters to become perfect versions of themselves. The facility is run by the mysterious Duchess (Jovovich) where calibrated treatments including etiquette classes, vocal lessons, beauty treatments,...
- 7/13/2019
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
While there have been some notable exceptions, 2019 hasn’t exactly been a great year at the movies. If you’ve been feeling like you’ve been slowly drowning in a sea of mediocre blockbusters, take solace in the fact that you can soon burst back above the surface and gulp down a breath of fresh air in […]
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- 7/12/2019
- by Ben Pearson
- Slash Film
Exclusive: Netflix has landed Scarlet, a film that is being measured to be the next one directed by Sundance breakout Alice Waddington, the helmer of Paradise Hills. Waddington hatched the idea and will write the script with Kristen SaBerre.
The project was acquired for Aggregate’s Jason Bateman and Michael Costigan. They will produce with Waddington. Aggregate has its first-look deal with Netflix.
The plot is being kept under wraps. Waddington directed the short Disco Inferno and made her feature debut on Paradise Hills, the film that starred Awkwafina, Emma Roberts and Eiza Gonzalez. SaBerre is currently an executive story editor on Showtime’s forthcoming limited series The Good Lord Bird, and was a writer on History’s Knightfall and VH1’s Hit the Floor.
Waddington is repped by Wme, Exile Entertainment and Hansen Jacobson. SaBerre is repped by Lbi Entertainment and Morris Yorn.
The project was acquired for Aggregate’s Jason Bateman and Michael Costigan. They will produce with Waddington. Aggregate has its first-look deal with Netflix.
The plot is being kept under wraps. Waddington directed the short Disco Inferno and made her feature debut on Paradise Hills, the film that starred Awkwafina, Emma Roberts and Eiza Gonzalez. SaBerre is currently an executive story editor on Showtime’s forthcoming limited series The Good Lord Bird, and was a writer on History’s Knightfall and VH1’s Hit the Floor.
Waddington is repped by Wme, Exile Entertainment and Hansen Jacobson. SaBerre is repped by Lbi Entertainment and Morris Yorn.
- 6/26/2019
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
From suburban cultists to an extreme haunted house that's home to more than just jump scares for those who enter its doors, Popcorn Frights Film Festival is bringing a wide range of horror movies to life on the big screen in Fort Lauderdale this August. Daily Dead is thrilled to once again be one of the media sponsors of this year's Popcorn Frights Film Festival, and we have a look at the entire first wave of programming that includes Fangoria's Satanic Panic, the dark comedy Villains, and the world premiere of Haunt.
Press Release: Fort Lauderdale, Fl – Popcorn Frights is proud to announce the first wave of programming for the fifth annual celebration of the latest and greatest in genre cinema from around the world. The Southeast United States largest gathering of genre films and fans will take place over 9 nights, from August 8-16, at the historic Savor Cinema in Fort Lauderdale.
Press Release: Fort Lauderdale, Fl – Popcorn Frights is proud to announce the first wave of programming for the fifth annual celebration of the latest and greatest in genre cinema from around the world. The Southeast United States largest gathering of genre films and fans will take place over 9 nights, from August 8-16, at the historic Savor Cinema in Fort Lauderdale.
- 6/26/2019
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
“4×4”
(Television Abierta, Mediapro)
First solo feature from Mariano Cohn, this is a pointed social dramedy about a thief trapped in a 4 x 4 by the car’s owner.
Sales: Latido
“Advantages of Traveling by Train”
(Morena Films, Señor y Señora Films, Logical Pictures)
Aritz Moreno’s debut feature, penned by Javier Gullón, revolves around stories told by untrustworthy narrators: a young editor and a psychiatrist who unexpectedly meet on a train.
Sales: Seville Intl.
“A Sun That Never Sets”
(Miramemira, Kowalski Films, 4 A 4 Prods., Tarantula)
Olivier Laxe, 2016’s Cannes Critics’ winner, now plays Un Certain Regard with this arthouse thriller about a convicted arsonist returning to his native Galician forests.
“Baby”
(Fragil Zinema)
A young junkie gives her newborn baby to a child trafficking racket and soon regrets the act. Juanma Bajo Ulloa directs.
“Bikes”
(Animation Bikes A.I.E., Cvc Group, Aleph Media)
The first Spain-China co-production is an animated...
(Television Abierta, Mediapro)
First solo feature from Mariano Cohn, this is a pointed social dramedy about a thief trapped in a 4 x 4 by the car’s owner.
Sales: Latido
“Advantages of Traveling by Train”
(Morena Films, Señor y Señora Films, Logical Pictures)
Aritz Moreno’s debut feature, penned by Javier Gullón, revolves around stories told by untrustworthy narrators: a young editor and a psychiatrist who unexpectedly meet on a train.
Sales: Seville Intl.
“A Sun That Never Sets”
(Miramemira, Kowalski Films, 4 A 4 Prods., Tarantula)
Olivier Laxe, 2016’s Cannes Critics’ winner, now plays Un Certain Regard with this arthouse thriller about a convicted arsonist returning to his native Galician forests.
“Baby”
(Fragil Zinema)
A young junkie gives her newborn baby to a child trafficking racket and soon regrets the act. Juanma Bajo Ulloa directs.
“Bikes”
(Animation Bikes A.I.E., Cvc Group, Aleph Media)
The first Spain-China co-production is an animated...
- 5/17/2019
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Emotional peace comes at a cost for the residents of a reclusive healing center in the new movie Paradise Hills, and following its world premiere at Sundance earlier this year, the film has been acquired by for North American distribution by Samuel Goldwyn Films.
The news of Samuel Goldwyn Films picking up North American rights to Paradise Hills comes from Variety.
The feature-length directorial debut of Alice Waddington, Paradise Hills was written by Brian DeLeeuw and Nacho Vigalondo (with the screen story by Waddington). The film features a star-studded cast that includes Emma Roberts, Milla Jovovich, Danielle Macdonald, Jeremy Irvine, Arnaud Valois, Eiza Gonzalez, and Awkwafina.
Peter Goldwyn, who negotiated the acquisition, shared his excitement for the movie (via Variety):
“From an all-star cast to a beautifully shot film, ‘Paradise Hills’ is a sci-fi thriller that intrigues the viewer and inspires the imagination.”
A theatrical release date for Paradise...
The news of Samuel Goldwyn Films picking up North American rights to Paradise Hills comes from Variety.
The feature-length directorial debut of Alice Waddington, Paradise Hills was written by Brian DeLeeuw and Nacho Vigalondo (with the screen story by Waddington). The film features a star-studded cast that includes Emma Roberts, Milla Jovovich, Danielle Macdonald, Jeremy Irvine, Arnaud Valois, Eiza Gonzalez, and Awkwafina.
Peter Goldwyn, who negotiated the acquisition, shared his excitement for the movie (via Variety):
“From an all-star cast to a beautifully shot film, ‘Paradise Hills’ is a sci-fi thriller that intrigues the viewer and inspires the imagination.”
A theatrical release date for Paradise...
- 5/16/2019
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Laureled abroad and lauded at home, a young generation of women Catalan filmmakers started breaking through two years ago, led by Carla Simon’s 2017 Berlin first-feature winner “Summer 93.” Since then a bevy of female directors have emerged, making intimate character-driven dramas rich in observational psychological detail, some drawn from personal experience.
The ranks of women Catalan helmers have swelled substantially with, in various states of production, Clara Roquet’s “Libertad,” Belén Funes’ “A Thief’s Daughter,” Ángeles Hernández ’s “Isaac,” Lucía Alemany’s “Innocence” and Pilar Palomero’s “Girls.”
“It’s remarkable the impact that so-called small films have had on festival circuits,” says Roquet, whose “Libertad” won the Arte Kino Intl. Prize at San Sebastian’s Europe-Latin American Co-Production Forum in September.
Many, like Simón, whose “Alcarrás” was a Berlinale Co-Production Market winner in February, are onto their second or even third feature.
Women are exploring new terrain, in...
The ranks of women Catalan helmers have swelled substantially with, in various states of production, Clara Roquet’s “Libertad,” Belén Funes’ “A Thief’s Daughter,” Ángeles Hernández ’s “Isaac,” Lucía Alemany’s “Innocence” and Pilar Palomero’s “Girls.”
“It’s remarkable the impact that so-called small films have had on festival circuits,” says Roquet, whose “Libertad” won the Arte Kino Intl. Prize at San Sebastian’s Europe-Latin American Co-Production Forum in September.
Many, like Simón, whose “Alcarrás” was a Berlinale Co-Production Market winner in February, are onto their second or even third feature.
Women are exploring new terrain, in...
- 5/16/2019
- by Emilio Mayorga
- Variety Film + TV
Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired North American rights to science-fiction thriller “Paradise Hills,” starring Emma Roberts, Milla Jovovich, Danielle Macdonald and Awkwafina, Variety has learned exclusively.
Alice Waddington directed “Paradise Hills,” which debuted at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. Jeremy Irvine, Arnaud Valois, and Eiza Gonzalez also star.
The story is set on an isolated island, where Roberts’ character wakes up and finds herself at Paradise Hills, a facility where high-class families send their daughters to become perfect versions of themselves. The facility is run by the mysterious Duchess, portrayed by Jovovich, and offers calibrated treatments including etiquette classes, vocal lessons, beauty treatments, gymnastics, and restricted diets in order to resolve all physical and emotional shortcomings within two months.
Roberts’ character finds solace and friendship in other Paradise Hills residents — played by Macdonald, Awkwafina and Gonzalez — and soon realizes that lurking behind all this beauty is a sinister secret.
The film...
Alice Waddington directed “Paradise Hills,” which debuted at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. Jeremy Irvine, Arnaud Valois, and Eiza Gonzalez also star.
The story is set on an isolated island, where Roberts’ character wakes up and finds herself at Paradise Hills, a facility where high-class families send their daughters to become perfect versions of themselves. The facility is run by the mysterious Duchess, portrayed by Jovovich, and offers calibrated treatments including etiquette classes, vocal lessons, beauty treatments, gymnastics, and restricted diets in order to resolve all physical and emotional shortcomings within two months.
Roberts’ character finds solace and friendship in other Paradise Hills residents — played by Macdonald, Awkwafina and Gonzalez — and soon realizes that lurking behind all this beauty is a sinister secret.
The film...
- 5/15/2019
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
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