“Do you even know what my love really means?” Jessy Lanza asks on the groovy “Midnight Ontario,” the second track on Love Hallucination. It’s a question raised throughout the Canadian singer and producer’s fourth studio album, a seemingly contradictory collection of energetic heartbreak anthems set to city pop-adjacent instrumentation. Lanza’s pre-programmed rhythms and knotty chord progressions remain as intricate as ever, but even if some of the songs have staying power, like the wonderfully daffy “Big Pink Rose,” the album’s songwriting is removed from the intensity of romance.
In short, there’s quite a bit of distance between the emotional objectives that Love Hallucination attempts to tackle—from jealousy on “Don’t Cry on My Pillow” and “I Hate Myself,” to self-acceptance on “Marathon”—and the end result. Specifically, it’s marked by a noncommittal mix of apathy and bewilderment, which generally comes off as ambiguity for its own sake.
In short, there’s quite a bit of distance between the emotional objectives that Love Hallucination attempts to tackle—from jealousy on “Don’t Cry on My Pillow” and “I Hate Myself,” to self-acceptance on “Marathon”—and the end result. Specifically, it’s marked by a noncommittal mix of apathy and bewilderment, which generally comes off as ambiguity for its own sake.
- 7/25/2023
- by Paul Attard
- Slant Magazine
The movie business teaches you to be wary of big spenders. Broad Green came and went in a blur of miscalculated flops. Annapurna downsized after several reckless buying sprees and finally stopped acquiring movies altogether. Now comes whispers that Canadian investment studio Bron — which helped finance films like “Joker” and “Licorice Pizza” — is going down a similar path.
Sources tell me that the studio launched by husband-and-wife team Aaron and Brenda Gilbert in 2010 laid off several senior roles and will merge its film and TV divisions into a single unit. Rather than produce the live-action features, I’m told that Bron is now working to secure new corporate partners as it restructures its business model around its Bron Digital division. That means a renewed focus on animation and games designed to create new franchises, not the usual blend of blockbusters and A-list auteurs that it has supported in the past.
Sources tell me that the studio launched by husband-and-wife team Aaron and Brenda Gilbert in 2010 laid off several senior roles and will merge its film and TV divisions into a single unit. Rather than produce the live-action features, I’m told that Bron is now working to secure new corporate partners as it restructures its business model around its Bron Digital division. That means a renewed focus on animation and games designed to create new franchises, not the usual blend of blockbusters and A-list auteurs that it has supported in the past.
- 8/27/2022
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
“Saltburn,” the second feature film from writer-director Emerald Fennell, has added Richard E. Grant, Alison Oliver and Archie Madekwe to its cast.
The trio joins previously announced stars Jacob Elordi, Rosamund Pike and Barry Keoghan. Plot details are being kept under wraps, with the official description calling it “a story of obsession.”
“Saltburn” is Fennell’s follow-up to “Promising Young Woman,” for which she won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay. She will write and produce the film alongside Margot Robbie, Josey McNamara and Tom Ackerley of LuckyChap Entertainment. The MRC and Amazon Studios film will debut in theaters courtesy of Amazon and MGM before it streams on Prime Video.
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“From the second we read ‘Saltburn,’ we were completely hooked,” said Jennifer Salke, head of Amazon Studios and Julie Rapaport, head of movies at Amazon Studios.
The trio joins previously announced stars Jacob Elordi, Rosamund Pike and Barry Keoghan. Plot details are being kept under wraps, with the official description calling it “a story of obsession.”
“Saltburn” is Fennell’s follow-up to “Promising Young Woman,” for which she won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay. She will write and produce the film alongside Margot Robbie, Josey McNamara and Tom Ackerley of LuckyChap Entertainment. The MRC and Amazon Studios film will debut in theaters courtesy of Amazon and MGM before it streams on Prime Video.
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‘Promising Young Woman’ Filmmaker Emerald Fennell to Direct Next Film at MRC
“From the second we read ‘Saltburn,’ we were completely hooked,” said Jennifer Salke, head of Amazon Studios and Julie Rapaport, head of movies at Amazon Studios.
- 8/25/2022
- by Harper Lambert
- The Wrap
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