Burbank, CA (May 24, 2017) – Just in time for the third season on The CW, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment brings you all-new Super-Villains and more family drama with the release of Supergirl: The Complete Second Season on Blu-rayTM and DVD on August 22, 2017. Delivering 4.2 million Total Viewers weekly, Supergirl is the #2 series on The CW, just after The Flash for Live+7.⃰ Fans can purchase the set which, in addition to all 22 super-powered episodes, contains an exclusive commentary with Andrew Kreisberg and Kevin Smith, the show’s 2016 Comic-Con panel, featurettes, and more! Supergirl: The Complete Second Season is priced to own at $49.99 Srp for the DVD and $54.97 Srp for the Blu-ray which includes a Digital Copy. Supergirl: The Complete Second Season is also available to own on Digital HD via purchase from digital retailers.
*Source: Nielsen National TV View L+7 Us AA%; excluding repeats, specials, sports, and <5 TCs; Season To-Date = 10/10/16-...
*Source: Nielsen National TV View L+7 Us AA%; excluding repeats, specials, sports, and <5 TCs; Season To-Date = 10/10/16-...
- 5/26/2017
- by ComicMix Staff
- Comicmix.com
Although the first season of Supergirl was no slouch, I agree with many viewers in saying that its sophomore run was a vast improvement. It wasn’t just that the show was finding its footing, but there’s the undeniable benefit that comes along with being a superhero series airing on The CW. In other words, it’s apparent that the network affords more creative freedom, thereby allowing comic book based shows to stay truer to their source material.
Actually, you need only look as far as the first couple episodes of season 2, which both featured Tyler Hoechlin as one of the most believable interpretations of Superman in live action – ever. But as much of a welcome addition he made as a guest star, the focus on Kara Zor-El was never lost as she found love with Mon-El, and even battled supervillain threats such as Cadmus, Parasite and Mr. Mxyzptlk.
Actually, you need only look as far as the first couple episodes of season 2, which both featured Tyler Hoechlin as one of the most believable interpretations of Superman in live action – ever. But as much of a welcome addition he made as a guest star, the focus on Kara Zor-El was never lost as she found love with Mon-El, and even battled supervillain threats such as Cadmus, Parasite and Mr. Mxyzptlk.
- 5/25/2017
- by Eric Joseph
- We Got This Covered
Kayti Burt May 25, 2017
The Supergirl season 2 finale left us with lots of questions for the summer hiatus. Let's discuss!
Supergirl season two has, sadly, come to an end, which means we'll have to wait an entire summer to get more Kara Danvers back in our life. (Which is especially sad because, let's face it, we need her optimism now more than ever.)
See related Prison Break season 5 episode 7 review: Wine Dark Sea Prison Break season 5 episode 6 review: Phaecia Prison Break season 5 episode 5 review: Contingency
If you're wondering what we thought of the season finale, check out our full review. If you're looking for an explanation of that ending, check out Mike's article, complete with nerdy DC theories. If you're here to commiserate about all of the questions you need answered immediately, read on, friend. You've come to the right place...
Who was the other baby ditching an exploding Krypton?
Babies...
The Supergirl season 2 finale left us with lots of questions for the summer hiatus. Let's discuss!
Supergirl season two has, sadly, come to an end, which means we'll have to wait an entire summer to get more Kara Danvers back in our life. (Which is especially sad because, let's face it, we need her optimism now more than ever.)
See related Prison Break season 5 episode 7 review: Wine Dark Sea Prison Break season 5 episode 6 review: Phaecia Prison Break season 5 episode 5 review: Contingency
If you're wondering what we thought of the season finale, check out our full review. If you're looking for an explanation of that ending, check out Mike's article, complete with nerdy DC theories. If you're here to commiserate about all of the questions you need answered immediately, read on, friend. You've come to the right place...
Who was the other baby ditching an exploding Krypton?
Babies...
- 5/23/2017
- Den of Geek
Kayti Burt May 17, 2017
Alien invasion makes for strange bedfellows in a phenomenal episode of Supergirl that feels more relevant than ever...
This review contains spoilers.
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2.21 Resist
"It's not what you do; it's whom you love." Cat Grant was back in this week's Supergirl to deliver that grammatically-airtight nugget of wisdom, reminding us just how great her character — and this show — truly is. Supergirl might not be the shiniest of prestige dramas, nor the most-watched of network fare, but this is the age of the superhero drama and, when it comes to using the genre to tell relevant, necessary stories, nothing beats Supergirl.
Resist picks up right where City Of Lost Children ends, with Rhea having...
Alien invasion makes for strange bedfellows in a phenomenal episode of Supergirl that feels more relevant than ever...
This review contains spoilers.
See related Justice League: extra filming set for early summer Future DC films will be "hopeful and optimistic" DC Comics movies: upcoming UK release dates calendar The Crow reboot to finally shoot in January
2.21 Resist
"It's not what you do; it's whom you love." Cat Grant was back in this week's Supergirl to deliver that grammatically-airtight nugget of wisdom, reminding us just how great her character — and this show — truly is. Supergirl might not be the shiniest of prestige dramas, nor the most-watched of network fare, but this is the age of the superhero drama and, when it comes to using the genre to tell relevant, necessary stories, nothing beats Supergirl.
Resist picks up right where City Of Lost Children ends, with Rhea having...
- 5/16/2017
- Den of Geek
Supergirl: City of Lost Children Review The CW’s Supergirl Season 2, Episode 20: ‘City of Lost Children’ has proved that if there’s one character that’s the weakest link on Supergirl this season, it would have to be James Olsen (Mehcad Brooks). The show has tried so hard to develop James Olsen following his [...]
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- 5/9/2017
- by Mufsin Mahbub
- Film-Book
Delia Harrington May 9, 2017
James Olsen and Lena Luthor take centre stage in the latest Supergirl season 2 episode...
This review contains spoilers.
See related Fargo season 2 episode 10 review: Palindrome Fargo: how to make great TV from a great film
2.20 City Of Lost Children
Lena Luthor is one of my favourite characters to root for on this show. Early on they played up her lineage just enough to keep us on our toes about whose side she would be on. After settling that question when she double-crossed her mother, she has fortunately managed to retain her complexity.
This week, it was heartbreaking to watch Lena having such a great time nerding out with her new mentor, knowing it was too good to be true. It's even worse since we know Lena could really use a maternal presence in her life. This relationship would be downright adorable if Rhea weren't evil, and manipulating Lena for her own gains.
James Olsen and Lena Luthor take centre stage in the latest Supergirl season 2 episode...
This review contains spoilers.
See related Fargo season 2 episode 10 review: Palindrome Fargo: how to make great TV from a great film
2.20 City Of Lost Children
Lena Luthor is one of my favourite characters to root for on this show. Early on they played up her lineage just enough to keep us on our toes about whose side she would be on. After settling that question when she double-crossed her mother, she has fortunately managed to retain her complexity.
This week, it was heartbreaking to watch Lena having such a great time nerding out with her new mentor, knowing it was too good to be true. It's even worse since we know Lena could really use a maternal presence in her life. This relationship would be downright adorable if Rhea weren't evil, and manipulating Lena for her own gains.
- 5/9/2017
- Den of Geek
So here we are; facing down the end of the another season of Supergirl. Next week kicks of the two part finale of what has been an uneven season.”City of Lost Children” took an opportunity to focus on James Olsen while pushing our heroine to the background until the last few minutes. Last week’s episode packed a lot into an hour and ended up being one the best the season had to offer. Lost Children? Not the best, but still worth seeing. Read on for more. Ever since it was revealed that James Olsen would become Guardian in this series, the
Supergirl Season 2 Episode 20 Review: City of Lost Children...
Supergirl Season 2 Episode 20 Review: City of Lost Children...
- 5/9/2017
- by Clement Bryant
- TVovermind.com
A James Olsen-centric Supergirl episode is a notion that would have sent me into a cold sweat during season 1. When James was Kara's bland and too-perfect love interest, he was a total bore. Now in season 2, James has been shunted off to the side and Supergirl has struggled to do anything with him. He might not be the most likable character, but his lack of involvement has been very strange.
In this episode, entitled "City of Lost Children," Supergirl attempts to bring James back to relevance. The result is not only a great episode in its own right but also an interesting and welcome diversion for the season.
In this episode, entitled "City of Lost Children," Supergirl attempts to bring James back to relevance. The result is not only a great episode in its own right but also an interesting and welcome diversion for the season.
- 5/8/2017
- by editor@buddytv.com
- buddytv.com
Although Supergirl will most certainly have her hands full over the course of this season’s remaining three episodes having to deal with the likes of Rhea and General Zod, James Olsen is set to get some needed exposure tonight in “City of Lost Children.”
You see, with Calista Flockhart no longer being a series regular, CatCo hasn’t enjoyed the prominence it had during the first season as of late. Sure, we do see it here and there, but you have to admit that much more time has been spent over at the Deo and, as such, James has needed something to keep him occupied even though he’s been put in charge of the media empire. Thus, having him take to the streets as Guardian has filled that void.
Still, he comes and goes, more so feeling like he’s embarking on his own quest as opposed to...
You see, with Calista Flockhart no longer being a series regular, CatCo hasn’t enjoyed the prominence it had during the first season as of late. Sure, we do see it here and there, but you have to admit that much more time has been spent over at the Deo and, as such, James has needed something to keep him occupied even though he’s been put in charge of the media empire. Thus, having him take to the streets as Guardian has filled that void.
Still, he comes and goes, more so feeling like he’s embarking on his own quest as opposed to...
- 5/8/2017
- by Eric Joseph
- We Got This Covered
Another one of our favorite shows is back this week, as the whole of Master of None’s Season 2 hits Netflix, and one of the most hopeful new series of the year, Amazon’s I Love Dick, makes its leap from pilot to full first season the same day. There’s also the end of the first season of Riverdale, more Fargo and Better Call Saul, a must-see installment of Saturday Night Live, reason to check out the new sitcom Great News, and why we’re paying attention to the MTV Movie Awards this year.
To help you keep track of the most important programs over the next seven days, here’s our guide to everything worth watching, whether it’s on broadcast, cable, or streaming for May 7–13 (all times Eastern):
SUNDAY2017 MTV Movie and TV Awards (MTV, 8pm)
Yeah, it’s MTV, and yes they still have awards like “Best Kiss,” but...
To help you keep track of the most important programs over the next seven days, here’s our guide to everything worth watching, whether it’s on broadcast, cable, or streaming for May 7–13 (all times Eastern):
SUNDAY2017 MTV Movie and TV Awards (MTV, 8pm)
Yeah, it’s MTV, and yes they still have awards like “Best Kiss,” but...
- 5/7/2017
- by Christopher Campbell
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Supergirl: City of Lost Children Images and Promo The CW’s Supergirl Season 2, Episode 20: ‘City of Lost Children’ TV Show trailer stars Melissa Benoist, Mehcad Brooks, Jeremy Jordan, Chyler Leigh, and David Harewood. Rhea’s (Teri Hatcher) plan goes to take over Earth goes into motion during [...]
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- 5/5/2017
- by Mufsin Mahbub
- Film-Book
Now that Kara has successfully made sure that her adoptive sister, Alex, remains among the living for the foreseeable future, she’s once again ready to embark on adventures that are a little more science fiction in nature. And should next week’s episode of Supergirl, “City of Lost Children,” live up to its trailer, we’ll get just that.
With only three episodes remaining this season, it looks as though Rhea is beginning the first phases of whatever her endgame may be. Whether General Zod factors into her plans remains to be seen, as we all know that Kryptonians and Daxamites aren’t exactly on the best of terms, but we could very well be looking at an “enemy of my enemy” scenario.
While it remains unclear as to what Mon-El’s mother has on her agenda, the trailer above gives me the impression that it has something to...
With only three episodes remaining this season, it looks as though Rhea is beginning the first phases of whatever her endgame may be. Whether General Zod factors into her plans remains to be seen, as we all know that Kryptonians and Daxamites aren’t exactly on the best of terms, but we could very well be looking at an “enemy of my enemy” scenario.
While it remains unclear as to what Mon-El’s mother has on her agenda, the trailer above gives me the impression that it has something to...
- 5/2/2017
- by Eric Joseph
- We Got This Covered
Sneak Peek footage, images and brief synopsis from the "Supergirl" episode "City of Lost Children", written by Robert Rovner, Gabriel Llanas, Anna Musky-Goldwyn and directed by Ben Bray, airing May 8, 2017 on The CW:
"...when an alien attacks 'National City', 'Supergirl' (Melissa Benoist) and the 'Deo' learn the alien is a 'Phorian', an otherwise peaceful race with telekinetic powers.
"'Guardian' (Mehcad Brooks) gets a lead on the Phorian's address but instead of finding the culprit, he finds a very scared boy named 'Marcus' (Lonnie Chavis). Marcus will only trust James so it is up to Guardian to stop the attacks on the city.Then a plan from 'Rhea' (Teri Hatcher) escalates..."
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Supergirl: City Of Lost Children"...
"...when an alien attacks 'National City', 'Supergirl' (Melissa Benoist) and the 'Deo' learn the alien is a 'Phorian', an otherwise peaceful race with telekinetic powers.
"'Guardian' (Mehcad Brooks) gets a lead on the Phorian's address but instead of finding the culprit, he finds a very scared boy named 'Marcus' (Lonnie Chavis). Marcus will only trust James so it is up to Guardian to stop the attacks on the city.Then a plan from 'Rhea' (Teri Hatcher) escalates..."
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Supergirl: City Of Lost Children"...
- 5/2/2017
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
In 1997, a film cynic was born.
Seeing Star Wars ruined should have been a sign that 1997 would be the worst year ever for blockbusters. George Lucas’s Special Editions, intended to “improve” the original trilogy but mostly doing the opposite, started arriving in January. By the time of the release of the new version of Return of the Jedi in March, my anticipation for anything ought to have been demolished. But I couldn’t have imagined that was only the beginning.
Actually, the first steps towards the end of an era were made in the early ’90s. That just wasn’t a great time for big movies compared to the prior decade. Some of my biggest letdowns of all time included Hudson Hawk in 1991 and Death Becomes Her in 1992. Jurassic Park wasn’t good enough for me, having read the book. Independence Day put me to sleep in the theater. Beloved...
Seeing Star Wars ruined should have been a sign that 1997 would be the worst year ever for blockbusters. George Lucas’s Special Editions, intended to “improve” the original trilogy but mostly doing the opposite, started arriving in January. By the time of the release of the new version of Return of the Jedi in March, my anticipation for anything ought to have been demolished. But I couldn’t have imagined that was only the beginning.
Actually, the first steps towards the end of an era were made in the early ’90s. That just wasn’t a great time for big movies compared to the prior decade. Some of my biggest letdowns of all time included Hudson Hawk in 1991 and Death Becomes Her in 1992. Jurassic Park wasn’t good enough for me, having read the book. Independence Day put me to sleep in the theater. Beloved...
- 4/25/2017
- by Christopher Campbell
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Earlier today, The CW released episode descriptions for instalments of Arrow, The Flash, and Supergirl which air the week beginning May 8th. With just a handful of chapters left in each series before they wrap up for the year, big things are on the way for our beloved heroes, something which is evident from each of the synopses below.
For starters, we have Supergirl. In “City of Lost Children,” James Olsen’s Guardians will take centre stage as he steps up to help save National City alongside Kara.
When an alien attacks National City, Supergirl (Melissa Benoist) and the Deo learn the alien is a Phorian, an otherwise peaceful race with telekinetic powers. Guardian (Mehcad Brooks) gets a lead on the Phorian’s address but instead of finding the culprit, he finds a very scared boy named Marcus (guest star Lonnie Chavis). Marcus will only trust James so it is...
For starters, we have Supergirl. In “City of Lost Children,” James Olsen’s Guardians will take centre stage as he steps up to help save National City alongside Kara.
When an alien attacks National City, Supergirl (Melissa Benoist) and the Deo learn the alien is a Phorian, an otherwise peaceful race with telekinetic powers. Guardian (Mehcad Brooks) gets a lead on the Phorian’s address but instead of finding the culprit, he finds a very scared boy named Marcus (guest star Lonnie Chavis). Marcus will only trust James so it is...
- 4/22/2017
- by Josh Wilding
- We Got This Covered
Supergirl has enlisted one of This is Us‘ flashback tykes for a big episode about aspiring hero James Olsen.
RelatedSupergirl: Calista Flockhart Returning for Final Episodes of Season 2
TVLine has learned that Lonnie Chavis aka Young Randall on NBC’s freshman hit will guest-star on the CW superhero series as Marcus, a young alien boy who bonds with James (played by Mehcad Brooks) after the rugrat’s mother attacks National City.
The episode, titled “City of Lost Children” and airing Monday, May 8, promises to find CatCo’s interim CEO at a crossroads, as he grapples with his extracurricular destiny.
RelatedSupergirl: Calista Flockhart Returning for Final Episodes of Season 2
TVLine has learned that Lonnie Chavis aka Young Randall on NBC’s freshman hit will guest-star on the CW superhero series as Marcus, a young alien boy who bonds with James (played by Mehcad Brooks) after the rugrat’s mother attacks National City.
The episode, titled “City of Lost Children” and airing Monday, May 8, promises to find CatCo’s interim CEO at a crossroads, as he grapples with his extracurricular destiny.
- 4/17/2017
- TVLine.com
Artist Anthony Lister will be a subject of a documentary by Eddie Martin (photo: Raglan Rules).
Screen Australia has announced 10 documentaries will share in more than $2.54 million in the latest round of funding from the agency.s Documentary Producer Program and the Documentary Broadcast program.
The Documentary Producer Program is aimed at supporting producers in driving their their projects creatively and commercially, and is given to innovative documentaries that have a strong creative vision and a highly-developed understanding of how the project will reach audiences.
.The teams that have come through this round of funding had very clear ideas about the audience for their projects. So many great titles have been supported by Screen Australia through this program and these projects will make that slate even stronger,. said Screen Australia's senior manager, documentary, Liz Stevens.
The Documentary Broadcast Program is designed to support the production of a diverse range of...
Screen Australia has announced 10 documentaries will share in more than $2.54 million in the latest round of funding from the agency.s Documentary Producer Program and the Documentary Broadcast program.
The Documentary Producer Program is aimed at supporting producers in driving their their projects creatively and commercially, and is given to innovative documentaries that have a strong creative vision and a highly-developed understanding of how the project will reach audiences.
.The teams that have come through this round of funding had very clear ideas about the audience for their projects. So many great titles have been supported by Screen Australia through this program and these projects will make that slate even stronger,. said Screen Australia's senior manager, documentary, Liz Stevens.
The Documentary Broadcast Program is designed to support the production of a diverse range of...
- 7/27/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Ryan Lambie Jul 26, 2016
They cost millions and they’re very, very odd. We take a look at 12 expensive and eccentric Hollywood films from the past 40 years...
The risk-averse nature of filmmaking means that the world’s more maverick and outrageous writers and directors have to make do with relatively low budgets. Nicolas Winding Refn drenched the screen in all kinds of sordid, violent and startling imagery in such films as Only God Forgives and this year’s The Neon Demon, but the combined budget of those probably didn’t even match the catering budget for something like Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice.
Every so often, though, a truly bonkers film slips through the Hollywood studio system - often by accident. From horror sequels to original sci-fi adventures, here are 12 incredibly expensive and gloriously eccentric Hollywood movies from the past 40 years.
The Exorcist II (1977)
Budget: $14 million
Like most films made for purely financial reasons,...
They cost millions and they’re very, very odd. We take a look at 12 expensive and eccentric Hollywood films from the past 40 years...
The risk-averse nature of filmmaking means that the world’s more maverick and outrageous writers and directors have to make do with relatively low budgets. Nicolas Winding Refn drenched the screen in all kinds of sordid, violent and startling imagery in such films as Only God Forgives and this year’s The Neon Demon, but the combined budget of those probably didn’t even match the catering budget for something like Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice.
Every so often, though, a truly bonkers film slips through the Hollywood studio system - often by accident. From horror sequels to original sci-fi adventures, here are 12 incredibly expensive and gloriously eccentric Hollywood movies from the past 40 years.
The Exorcist II (1977)
Budget: $14 million
Like most films made for purely financial reasons,...
- 7/25/2016
- Den of Geek
To celebrate the new Blu-ray & DVD Double Play release of The City Of Lost Children — out 14th March — we have a copy to give away. This dazzling fantasy adventure is directed by Marc Caro (Delicatessen) and Jean-Pierre… Continue Reading →
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- 3/9/2016
- by Gareth Jones
- DreadCentral.com
Evolution
Directed by Lucile Hadzihalilovic
Canada, 2015
Philadelphia Film Festival
Evolution is an odd bird. It has the mood of a David Cronenberg film, some of the peculiarities of City of Lost Children, and the child’s fascination of Tideland.
Nicolas (Max Brebant) lives with his mother (Julie-Marie Parmentier) in a small seaside town. Strange things start to happen when Nicolas sees a dead boy floating underwater. Soon, he and all of the other young boys in the town are taken to the hospital for an unknown procedure. Nicholas starts to question the workings of the town and his mother’s intentions.
Everything in Evolution is sparse. The walls are bare. The furniture is nearly nonexistent. The population is small. The hospital looks more like a seedy motel. Even the score (slow and dissonant) and the pacing (deliberate) are sparse. This all adds up to a methodical sort of fantasy, where the dread truly creeps.
Directed by Lucile Hadzihalilovic
Canada, 2015
Philadelphia Film Festival
Evolution is an odd bird. It has the mood of a David Cronenberg film, some of the peculiarities of City of Lost Children, and the child’s fascination of Tideland.
Nicolas (Max Brebant) lives with his mother (Julie-Marie Parmentier) in a small seaside town. Strange things start to happen when Nicolas sees a dead boy floating underwater. Soon, he and all of the other young boys in the town are taken to the hospital for an unknown procedure. Nicholas starts to question the workings of the town and his mother’s intentions.
Everything in Evolution is sparse. The walls are bare. The furniture is nearly nonexistent. The population is small. The hospital looks more like a seedy motel. Even the score (slow and dissonant) and the pacing (deliberate) are sparse. This all adds up to a methodical sort of fantasy, where the dread truly creeps.
- 11/3/2015
- by Neal Dhand
- SoundOnSight
This week on Off The Shelf, Ryan is joined by Brian Saur to take a look at the new DVD and Blu-ray releases for the week of August 25th, 2015, and chat about some follow-up and home video news.
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Episode Links & Notes Follow-up Honeymoon Killers Don Hertzfeldt’s Kickstarter News Arrow’s Us announcements for November French Battlestar Galactica Blu-ray release Spartacus Restoration Screenshots City of Lost Children 20th Anniversary Blu-ray KLStudio Classics – I’m Gonna Git You Sucka, Delirious, Up The Creek Vincent Price Oop Moc Announcements: Shane, Robinson Crusoe On Mars, The Quiet Man New Releases
August 18th
Batman Unlimited: Monster Mayhem Burn, Witch, Burn The Couch Trip Cruel Story Of Youth (Masters Of Cinema) Day for Night (Criterion) Diggstown Dressed to Kill Elena Face to Face aka Faccia A Faccia Hackers The Hunger La Sapienza La Grande Bouffe My Darling Clementine Navajo Joe...
- 8/26/2015
- by Ryan Gallagher
- CriterionCast
In a slightly odd but welcome move Sony Pictures Home Entertainment will finally release Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s cult classic The City of Lost Children as an Amazon-exclusive Blu-ray release on October 13. The release is timed with the French film's 20th Anniversary.
Though it wasn't their first film, the visually striking City of Lost Children helped to launch the careers of Jeunet (Amelie) and collaborator Marc Caro (Dante 01) as well as Ron Perlman. The film was incredibly influential and a progenitor of the "steampunk" aesthetic in film
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Though it wasn't their first film, the visually striking City of Lost Children helped to launch the careers of Jeunet (Amelie) and collaborator Marc Caro (Dante 01) as well as Ron Perlman. The film was incredibly influential and a progenitor of the "steampunk" aesthetic in film
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- 8/21/2015
- QuietEarth.us
Who could have predicted that Phantom of the Opera would suddenly enjoy a spike in popularity this fall? First, we heard that Desperate Housewives creator Marc Cherry was working on a sexy, musical spin set in the “cutthroat world of the modern-day music business” for ABC, which has been looking for a musical drama to pair with Nashville. And now, an immediately much more interesting project, based more on Gaston Leroux’s novel than the Andrew Lloyd Webber play, has emerged, with French auteur Jean-Pierre Jeunet at the helm.
Jeunet, the director behind such instant classics as Delicatessen, Amelie and City of Lost Children, will develop a Phantom of the Opera series for Endemol Studios, Variety reports. Producer Tony Krantz (NBC’s Dracula, Mulholland Drive), who recently sold his WWII drama spec script Saboteurs to eOne Television, is providing the script.
Krantz’s script is set in 1919 and features “a...
Jeunet, the director behind such instant classics as Delicatessen, Amelie and City of Lost Children, will develop a Phantom of the Opera series for Endemol Studios, Variety reports. Producer Tony Krantz (NBC’s Dracula, Mulholland Drive), who recently sold his WWII drama spec script Saboteurs to eOne Television, is providing the script.
Krantz’s script is set in 1919 and features “a...
- 11/6/2014
- by Isaac Feldberg
- We Got This Covered
Acclaimed filmmaker Jean-Pierre Jeunet ("City of Lost Children," "Alien Resurrection") is teaming with "Mulholland Drive" and "24" producer Tony Krantz on Endemol Studios' TV series adaptation of Gaston Leroux’s 1909 novel "The Phantom Of The Opera".
Krantz' script is set in 1919 and re-imagines the 'phantom' as a British World War I fighter pilot who suffered catastrophic burns across most of his body. Jeunet calls it an "imaginative version" and plans to use the time period of "great social change" as a key element of the story.
Endemol's series is not to be confused with a similar adaptation of Leroux’s novel that the U.S. TV network ABC is developing with "Desperate Housewives" creator Marc Cherry. That series is set in contemporary times and will deal much more with today's cutthroat music industry world.
No word yet on which networks may carry Jeunet's show.
Source: Variety...
Krantz' script is set in 1919 and re-imagines the 'phantom' as a British World War I fighter pilot who suffered catastrophic burns across most of his body. Jeunet calls it an "imaginative version" and plans to use the time period of "great social change" as a key element of the story.
Endemol's series is not to be confused with a similar adaptation of Leroux’s novel that the U.S. TV network ABC is developing with "Desperate Housewives" creator Marc Cherry. That series is set in contemporary times and will deal much more with today's cutthroat music industry world.
No word yet on which networks may carry Jeunet's show.
Source: Variety...
- 11/5/2014
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Andrew Lloyd Webber fans, I’m afraid this isn’t for you. But those who loved films like Delicatessen, Amelie, and City of Lost Children are probably going to perk up for this news of a new TV show. Jean-Pierre Jeunet, the director of those films (among others) is now developing a Phantom of the Opera TV […]
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- 11/5/2014
- by Russ Fischer
- Slash Film
Jeff Cronenweth grew up with cinematography in his bones. His father, Jordan Cronenweth, shot such unique achievements as "Altered States" and "Blade Runner" and it was never much of a question that Jeff would follow in his footsteps. Of late, he's forged a solid, on-going partnership with director David Fincher. Their latest collaboration, "Gone Girl," is another bold step for the icy aesthetic they've been cultivating for decades now. Over the weekend I hopped on the phone with Cronenweth — who was Oscar-nominated for his work on Fincher's last two films, "The Social Network" and "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" — to discuss that continued partnership, to chew on the old film vs. digital debate and to discuss some of the specifics of how "Gone Girl" was presented visually. Check out the lengthy back and forth below. "Gone Girl" is now playing in theaters. *** HitFix: I imagine at this point...
- 10/9/2014
- by Kristopher Tapley
- Hitfix
Photo: Jay Brooks/SagaBrazil was one of the first films that got me interested in the medium as an art form, as opposed to just entertainment. Interestingly, I had seen the trailer before a screening of Jeunet and Caro's City of Lost Children, a film very much influenced by Gilliam's aesthetic. What led me to that film, I don't quite remember, but as soon as I saw that Sam Lowry miniature soaring through those cotton ball clouds, I knew I'd be taking a trip to Brazil.But that wasn't my first exposure to Gilliam. One of my favorite films growing up was Time Bandits. I would watch it over and over again on HBO, fascinated by its cast of little people and their wacky adventures. It is...
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- 9/22/2014
- Screen Anarchy
The first time I recall Terry Gilliam‘s name being used to sell me on a movie it was City of Lost Children, but that was through a critic blurb making a comparison between the Brazil director and City‘s Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro. Prior to that, though, he’d actually lent his name as a presenter for their Delicatessen. I might not have discovered those movies without the endorsement. Later, Gilliam also put his name in a similar manner on Bill Plympton’s Idiots and Angels. As a Gilliam fan, I fell in love with Jeunet’s work immediately, while I’d already been into Plympton and now had more reason to appreciate the animation legend. I don’t know that Gilliam attached his name to anything before, between or after those two — I’m not counting the BBC TV adaptation of the book The Last Machine: Early Cinema and the Birth of the...
- 9/3/2014
- by Christopher Campbell
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Some of my favorite movies are about Paris! How I loved “Funny Face” which made me love everything Audrey Hepburn did. How I loved “American in Paris” and Gene Kelly forever after. And the classic French films of Paris, from René Clair’s “The Rooftops of Paris”, “Modigliani of Montparnasse”, “Elevator to the Scaffold” to “Amelie”…oh la la!
Now a new Paris classic is in the making! If only they would change title to reflect the love of Paris transforming a couple of sad victims of their scandalously delicious parents’ love affair into lovers. Kevin Kline, a luminous Kirsten Scott Thomas and a decrepit but spirited Dame Maggie Smith star in a film, to be released September 10, which I only hope will come out with a different title.
Now entitled, “My Old Lady” (what’s that supposed to mean?) Dame Maggie Smith as Mathilde belongs to no one. A free spirit who had a dalliance with no less than …., at 92 she cannot be evicted from the apartment Kevin Kline comes to Paris to sell, an apartment hidden behind walls in Paris we wish we could penetrate and which Kevin Kline, in the character of Mathias Gold, cannot see, so intent is he on selling to procure some filthy lucre. I kept waiting for Kevin to embody his Academy Award winning hilarity in “A Fish Called Wanda”, but he played it straight, an unhappy, intellectual with great talent on the piano, three unpublished novels, three divorces and not a cent in his pocket. Angry, self-righteous Mathias Gold discovers that real-estate and relationships send him into a turmoil that he never imagined.
Adapted for the screen and directed by Israel Horowitz from his 2002 of-Broadway production, “My Old Lady” the property was further developed into a screenplay with Kevin Kline himself who dropped by the playwright’s Greenwich Village residence for intermittent readings as the film script branched out from its theatrical roots.
Dame Maggie Smith read the script and was the first actor to officially sign on to the film version. Israel Horovitz traveled to London to meet with her and she accepted the part amid 25 competing scripts offered to her at the time. Horovitz recalls Smith joking during the meeting that it was the only script in the stack that didn’t end with her character dying. Adds Horovitz: “To my knowledge, it’s the first time Dame Maggie’s done a movie in which she doesn’t wear a wig.”
Produced by the writer-director’s own daughter, the well-known-in-our-circles- from-her-days-at-New Line (and later at Revolution Studios), who began her career as a publicist of Dino De Laurentiis on the film “Blue Velvet” which I happened to foster as the acquisitions executive at Lorimar when we acquired it: Rachael Horovitz (“Moneyball”, HBO’s “Grey Gardens”) and Gary Foster (“The Soloist”, “Sleepless in Seattle”), got the script to Kristin Scott Thomas who immediately signed on to play Mathilde’s confrontational daughter Chloé. The main casting was complete.
Chloé takes the story away from the developing and deepening relationship between Mattias and Mathilde and makes it her own…thus the misplaced title of the movie. It is no longer Mattias and “his old lady” Mathilde’s story but the threesome’s, and what a great story it is.
Complex and compelling, the story of two people who have been destroyed by the same love affair understand each other’s problems better than any fourth party could ever understand, and we, as the fourth party, are given access to their journey towards love…in Paris. Only in Paris could these events unfold with such panache.
The other supporting actors are those veteran French actors you have seen and loved in other Parisian settings. Dominique Pinon as the helpful real-estate agent Lefebre who explains the complex codes of the “viager” system” appears like an old friend to those of us who saw and loved Jean-Jacques Beineix’s “Diva”, Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s “Amelie” and “A Very Long Engagement”, “City of Lost Children” and Jeunet’s and Marc Caro’s 1991 film “ Delicatessen”. Noémi Lvovsky, the writer-director-actress who plays Mme. Girard’s physician, actor-director Stéphane Friess (“Welcome to the Sticks”) and the rapacious property developer Francois Roy who wants to buy Mathias’ apartment and turn it into a sleek hotel – as his father tried to do a generation earlier (how French!) -- round out a great supporting cast.
But without Paris, this familiar and yet totally unfamiliar Paris, the film would never have played out with such love. As a Paris habituée of many years, I kept searching for signs to tell me where this apartment was located. Was it a hotel particulière of the Marais?
Here is a little known secret of Paris: It was shot in la Manufature, located in les Gobelins in Paris’s 13th Arrondisement, operated and maintained by the French Ministry of Culture. A vast complex comprising several main buildings and a slew of apartments (now used to house government functionaries), la Manufacture is the historical site of tapestry manufacturing for French royalty dating from the 17th century to the present day. Because there is no longer a huge demand for artisan tapestries in France, la Manufacture doubles as an ersatz soundstage for film and television productions, in this case standing in for the more central and tourist trod Marais, where Mme. Girard and Chloé reside. The Girard’s sprawling residence, overlooking a verdant garden came to life. Israel Horovitz and his crew jumped at the opportunity to film there.
He says, “Almost the entire movie was shot inside the compound. At one point in its history, la Manufacture was its own city within the city, with a thousand people living there. We could park our trucks inside the gated compound and shoot in a way we never could in the busy Marais. Finding the apartment we used, with its creaky floors and general disrepair, was really what made the movie possible. It was like having our own little studio.” The film shot in Paris for 24 days in autumn 2013.
At 75, Horovitz -- a veteran playwright who wrote “The Strawberry Statement” which won the Jury Prize at the 1970 Cannes Film Festival and who collaborated with István Szabó on the 1999 historical drama “Sunshine” about a Jewish family living in Hungary during the turbulent first half of the 20th century –decided to direct this, his first, film as he wrote the screenplay.
How was it working for your father? One might ask Rachael. Her answer: “He was the most prepared director I’ve ever worked with.” She praises Horovitz pére for his professionalism, sense of humor and grace under pressure, each one a boon for the intimate, familial-themed “My Old Lady”. “There is real humanity in this film thanks to those factors, “ she concludes. “Working with a family member is always a pleasure because there is the shorthand of communication you have with very few others.”
Producer Gary Foster also praises Israel Horovitz for his human touch, including his considerable grasp of human nature and conflict. “This movie is at its core about family and how people deal with the many challenges of their lives, “Foster states. “Everyone has harbored secrets at some point. ‘My Old Lady’ examines how people with secrets reveal themselves emotionally in order to locate truth. What’s special about Israel’s craft is how organic and truthful it feels. So much of this movie depends on the actors working with dialogue-rich scenes set inside cramped rooms with little action and no special effects – you have to buy into the dimensionality of these characters. Israel is at his best writing and directing scenes that feel real, al though you were a fly on the wall amid the revealing of this family’s secrets. He’s not afraid of being overly sentimental and open with emotions, and I think that’s hugely valuable.”
I completely agree. This is a marvelous movie, filled with marvels of France and family.
The Jewish side of this film is never touched on, but I must touch on it here because in these days of turmoil over the Jewish state and the state of the Jews living in the Diaspora, those in France are also in fearful flux. But this shows a France at its splendid best today and I think it is because of the love the filmmakers have for the story, the craft and the country. Producer David C. Barrot produced “ Eyes Wide Open” the 2009 Cannes’ Un Certain Regard film that dared open the subject of homosexuality in Jerusalem’s Orthodox community. I cannot speak of the provenance of Daniel Battsek the Executive Producer who between 1985 and 1991, was managing director of Palace Pictures where he was involved in all aspects of marketing, distribution and acquisitions in the U.K. and Ireland. He began his industry career at The Hoyts Film Corporation in Sydney where he quickly rose through the ranks to general manager in Victoria State overseeing distribution.
Battsek was first introduced to Disney in 1991, when he was asked to start up a U.K. Company as part of the worldwide distribution network for Buena Vista International. In 1992, he officially joined The Walt Disney Studios. Battsek was quickly promoted to vice president/managing director where he handled all aspects of theatrical film distribution in the U.K. He was later promoted to vice president, managing director and European acquisitions director of Bvi (U.K.) Limited. His responsibilities also included involvement in the acquisition of distribution rights across numerous territories for such films as “Muriel's Wedding”, “Shine”, “Central Station”, “Kolya”, and “ Ice Storm”. In 1998, he was promoted to senior vice president, Bvi (U.K.) Limited where he oversaw approximately 35 films per year from the Disney, Touchstone and Miramax labels. With his expanding role, Battsek began acquiring and developing British film projects for worldwide distribution. He created the Bvi U.K. Comedy Label which produced four films, likeHigh Heels and Low Lifes,Hope Springs,Calendar Girls, and Kinky Boots.
On 24 July 2005, he was named President of Miramax Films, after Harvey and Bob Weinstein left the company, due to creative and financial differences with Disney exec, Michael Eisner. Since he took control of the company, Miramax released such films asThe Queen,No Country for Old Men or Doubt, refocusing on producing films of high quality but low budget and was instrumental in acquiring, green-lighting or distributing such renowned and award winning films as “Tsotsi” winner of Best Foreign Language Oscar, “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly”, “There will be Blood” among others. On 20 January 2010, Battsek became President of National Geographic Films where he brought in the Oscar-nominated “Restrepo”. He is now President of Cohen Media Group where he plays a key role.
Nor can I speak authoritatively of Producer, Nitsa Benchetrit, and Executive Producers, Raphaël Benoliel, Russ Krasnoff, but I have my suspicions. Certainly the Executive Producer, President and CEO of Cohen Brothers Realty Corporation, one of the country’s most important commercial real estate owners/ developers s well as an influential patron, innovator and visionary of culture and the arts, Charles S. Cohen (also founder of The Cohen Media Group in 2008, on the Board of Trustees of the Museum of Contemporary Art (Moca) in Los Angeles, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, The Lighthouse International Theater, The Public Theater, the Stella Adler Studio and the Film Society of Lincoln Center) is living up to his name.
Even Kevin Kline suddenly seems to land inside this charmed circle of Diaspora Jews whose development and dedication to the finest
arts of the 21 st century must be praised and seen as a flowering of culture today.
While this is in no way a film which may ever be shown in the Jewish film festival circuit, it should be remarked that it is, in its way, a Jewish film because of the credentials of the filmmakers, because of the loving treatment of the neurotic family members and because it shows the natural habituation of people allowed to live in freedom in a society which values life.
I bring all this up in light of the reevaluation occurring today in the worlds of gender and religions and I want to go on record as pointing out that this film is an example of the flowering of culture; this is part of the culmination of centuries of developing a humane, forgiving and civilized way of life.
I say this as I contemplate the state of the world today to remind myself that art, not war, is my choice for my life and I believe the film is an affirmation of life above all.
Chapeau, Hats Off to the team that brought this film to life. Just change the title if you want to attract more people!
Now a new Paris classic is in the making! If only they would change title to reflect the love of Paris transforming a couple of sad victims of their scandalously delicious parents’ love affair into lovers. Kevin Kline, a luminous Kirsten Scott Thomas and a decrepit but spirited Dame Maggie Smith star in a film, to be released September 10, which I only hope will come out with a different title.
Now entitled, “My Old Lady” (what’s that supposed to mean?) Dame Maggie Smith as Mathilde belongs to no one. A free spirit who had a dalliance with no less than …., at 92 she cannot be evicted from the apartment Kevin Kline comes to Paris to sell, an apartment hidden behind walls in Paris we wish we could penetrate and which Kevin Kline, in the character of Mathias Gold, cannot see, so intent is he on selling to procure some filthy lucre. I kept waiting for Kevin to embody his Academy Award winning hilarity in “A Fish Called Wanda”, but he played it straight, an unhappy, intellectual with great talent on the piano, three unpublished novels, three divorces and not a cent in his pocket. Angry, self-righteous Mathias Gold discovers that real-estate and relationships send him into a turmoil that he never imagined.
Adapted for the screen and directed by Israel Horowitz from his 2002 of-Broadway production, “My Old Lady” the property was further developed into a screenplay with Kevin Kline himself who dropped by the playwright’s Greenwich Village residence for intermittent readings as the film script branched out from its theatrical roots.
Dame Maggie Smith read the script and was the first actor to officially sign on to the film version. Israel Horovitz traveled to London to meet with her and she accepted the part amid 25 competing scripts offered to her at the time. Horovitz recalls Smith joking during the meeting that it was the only script in the stack that didn’t end with her character dying. Adds Horovitz: “To my knowledge, it’s the first time Dame Maggie’s done a movie in which she doesn’t wear a wig.”
Produced by the writer-director’s own daughter, the well-known-in-our-circles- from-her-days-at-New Line (and later at Revolution Studios), who began her career as a publicist of Dino De Laurentiis on the film “Blue Velvet” which I happened to foster as the acquisitions executive at Lorimar when we acquired it: Rachael Horovitz (“Moneyball”, HBO’s “Grey Gardens”) and Gary Foster (“The Soloist”, “Sleepless in Seattle”), got the script to Kristin Scott Thomas who immediately signed on to play Mathilde’s confrontational daughter Chloé. The main casting was complete.
Chloé takes the story away from the developing and deepening relationship between Mattias and Mathilde and makes it her own…thus the misplaced title of the movie. It is no longer Mattias and “his old lady” Mathilde’s story but the threesome’s, and what a great story it is.
Complex and compelling, the story of two people who have been destroyed by the same love affair understand each other’s problems better than any fourth party could ever understand, and we, as the fourth party, are given access to their journey towards love…in Paris. Only in Paris could these events unfold with such panache.
The other supporting actors are those veteran French actors you have seen and loved in other Parisian settings. Dominique Pinon as the helpful real-estate agent Lefebre who explains the complex codes of the “viager” system” appears like an old friend to those of us who saw and loved Jean-Jacques Beineix’s “Diva”, Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s “Amelie” and “A Very Long Engagement”, “City of Lost Children” and Jeunet’s and Marc Caro’s 1991 film “ Delicatessen”. Noémi Lvovsky, the writer-director-actress who plays Mme. Girard’s physician, actor-director Stéphane Friess (“Welcome to the Sticks”) and the rapacious property developer Francois Roy who wants to buy Mathias’ apartment and turn it into a sleek hotel – as his father tried to do a generation earlier (how French!) -- round out a great supporting cast.
But without Paris, this familiar and yet totally unfamiliar Paris, the film would never have played out with such love. As a Paris habituée of many years, I kept searching for signs to tell me where this apartment was located. Was it a hotel particulière of the Marais?
Here is a little known secret of Paris: It was shot in la Manufature, located in les Gobelins in Paris’s 13th Arrondisement, operated and maintained by the French Ministry of Culture. A vast complex comprising several main buildings and a slew of apartments (now used to house government functionaries), la Manufacture is the historical site of tapestry manufacturing for French royalty dating from the 17th century to the present day. Because there is no longer a huge demand for artisan tapestries in France, la Manufacture doubles as an ersatz soundstage for film and television productions, in this case standing in for the more central and tourist trod Marais, where Mme. Girard and Chloé reside. The Girard’s sprawling residence, overlooking a verdant garden came to life. Israel Horovitz and his crew jumped at the opportunity to film there.
He says, “Almost the entire movie was shot inside the compound. At one point in its history, la Manufacture was its own city within the city, with a thousand people living there. We could park our trucks inside the gated compound and shoot in a way we never could in the busy Marais. Finding the apartment we used, with its creaky floors and general disrepair, was really what made the movie possible. It was like having our own little studio.” The film shot in Paris for 24 days in autumn 2013.
At 75, Horovitz -- a veteran playwright who wrote “The Strawberry Statement” which won the Jury Prize at the 1970 Cannes Film Festival and who collaborated with István Szabó on the 1999 historical drama “Sunshine” about a Jewish family living in Hungary during the turbulent first half of the 20th century –decided to direct this, his first, film as he wrote the screenplay.
How was it working for your father? One might ask Rachael. Her answer: “He was the most prepared director I’ve ever worked with.” She praises Horovitz pére for his professionalism, sense of humor and grace under pressure, each one a boon for the intimate, familial-themed “My Old Lady”. “There is real humanity in this film thanks to those factors, “ she concludes. “Working with a family member is always a pleasure because there is the shorthand of communication you have with very few others.”
Producer Gary Foster also praises Israel Horovitz for his human touch, including his considerable grasp of human nature and conflict. “This movie is at its core about family and how people deal with the many challenges of their lives, “Foster states. “Everyone has harbored secrets at some point. ‘My Old Lady’ examines how people with secrets reveal themselves emotionally in order to locate truth. What’s special about Israel’s craft is how organic and truthful it feels. So much of this movie depends on the actors working with dialogue-rich scenes set inside cramped rooms with little action and no special effects – you have to buy into the dimensionality of these characters. Israel is at his best writing and directing scenes that feel real, al though you were a fly on the wall amid the revealing of this family’s secrets. He’s not afraid of being overly sentimental and open with emotions, and I think that’s hugely valuable.”
I completely agree. This is a marvelous movie, filled with marvels of France and family.
The Jewish side of this film is never touched on, but I must touch on it here because in these days of turmoil over the Jewish state and the state of the Jews living in the Diaspora, those in France are also in fearful flux. But this shows a France at its splendid best today and I think it is because of the love the filmmakers have for the story, the craft and the country. Producer David C. Barrot produced “ Eyes Wide Open” the 2009 Cannes’ Un Certain Regard film that dared open the subject of homosexuality in Jerusalem’s Orthodox community. I cannot speak of the provenance of Daniel Battsek the Executive Producer who between 1985 and 1991, was managing director of Palace Pictures where he was involved in all aspects of marketing, distribution and acquisitions in the U.K. and Ireland. He began his industry career at The Hoyts Film Corporation in Sydney where he quickly rose through the ranks to general manager in Victoria State overseeing distribution.
Battsek was first introduced to Disney in 1991, when he was asked to start up a U.K. Company as part of the worldwide distribution network for Buena Vista International. In 1992, he officially joined The Walt Disney Studios. Battsek was quickly promoted to vice president/managing director where he handled all aspects of theatrical film distribution in the U.K. He was later promoted to vice president, managing director and European acquisitions director of Bvi (U.K.) Limited. His responsibilities also included involvement in the acquisition of distribution rights across numerous territories for such films as “Muriel's Wedding”, “Shine”, “Central Station”, “Kolya”, and “ Ice Storm”. In 1998, he was promoted to senior vice president, Bvi (U.K.) Limited where he oversaw approximately 35 films per year from the Disney, Touchstone and Miramax labels. With his expanding role, Battsek began acquiring and developing British film projects for worldwide distribution. He created the Bvi U.K. Comedy Label which produced four films, likeHigh Heels and Low Lifes,Hope Springs,Calendar Girls, and Kinky Boots.
On 24 July 2005, he was named President of Miramax Films, after Harvey and Bob Weinstein left the company, due to creative and financial differences with Disney exec, Michael Eisner. Since he took control of the company, Miramax released such films asThe Queen,No Country for Old Men or Doubt, refocusing on producing films of high quality but low budget and was instrumental in acquiring, green-lighting or distributing such renowned and award winning films as “Tsotsi” winner of Best Foreign Language Oscar, “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly”, “There will be Blood” among others. On 20 January 2010, Battsek became President of National Geographic Films where he brought in the Oscar-nominated “Restrepo”. He is now President of Cohen Media Group where he plays a key role.
Nor can I speak authoritatively of Producer, Nitsa Benchetrit, and Executive Producers, Raphaël Benoliel, Russ Krasnoff, but I have my suspicions. Certainly the Executive Producer, President and CEO of Cohen Brothers Realty Corporation, one of the country’s most important commercial real estate owners/ developers s well as an influential patron, innovator and visionary of culture and the arts, Charles S. Cohen (also founder of The Cohen Media Group in 2008, on the Board of Trustees of the Museum of Contemporary Art (Moca) in Los Angeles, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, The Lighthouse International Theater, The Public Theater, the Stella Adler Studio and the Film Society of Lincoln Center) is living up to his name.
Even Kevin Kline suddenly seems to land inside this charmed circle of Diaspora Jews whose development and dedication to the finest
arts of the 21 st century must be praised and seen as a flowering of culture today.
While this is in no way a film which may ever be shown in the Jewish film festival circuit, it should be remarked that it is, in its way, a Jewish film because of the credentials of the filmmakers, because of the loving treatment of the neurotic family members and because it shows the natural habituation of people allowed to live in freedom in a society which values life.
I bring all this up in light of the reevaluation occurring today in the worlds of gender and religions and I want to go on record as pointing out that this film is an example of the flowering of culture; this is part of the culmination of centuries of developing a humane, forgiving and civilized way of life.
I say this as I contemplate the state of the world today to remind myself that art, not war, is my choice for my life and I believe the film is an affirmation of life above all.
Chapeau, Hats Off to the team that brought this film to life. Just change the title if you want to attract more people!
- 7/30/2014
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
The Royal Observatory Greenwich kicked off a trio of summer steampunk screenings with a treat last week – Luc Besson’s The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec. The more-than-slightly bonkers tale of the brusque authoress and adventurer is a HeyUGuys favourite. But when diva, dinosaur and mummies danced across the dome of the Peter Harrison Planetarium this time they provoked a sudden melancholy. And a question: Where have all the action women gone?
When little boys begin to look for heroes on the silver screen a deluge of options sweeps them away. Cowboys, astronauts, superheroes and gods. Leading men with sufficient derring-do to power a thousand dreams and aspirations. Of course little girls are equally able to dream of Superman but they wake up and grow up in a reality that undermines those nighttime fantasies. Disempowerment is an insidious and deadly foe, folks! Adèle Blanc-Sec is a singular character. But she ought not to be.
When little boys begin to look for heroes on the silver screen a deluge of options sweeps them away. Cowboys, astronauts, superheroes and gods. Leading men with sufficient derring-do to power a thousand dreams and aspirations. Of course little girls are equally able to dream of Superman but they wake up and grow up in a reality that undermines those nighttime fantasies. Disempowerment is an insidious and deadly foe, folks! Adèle Blanc-Sec is a singular character. But she ought not to be.
- 7/3/2014
- by Emily Breen
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Nearly every month, Netflix adds new films and TV shows while its licensing deals for others lapse. We recently listed all of the movies coming to Netflix this month, but here's a curated look at indies that are new to the streaming service -- including Academy-Award winner "Boys Don't Cry," music doc "Muscle Shoals" and Banky's "Exit Through the Gift Shop." They're listed below in alphabetical order, along with their average Criticwire rating. Perfect weekend viewing! Boys Don't Cry (Dir: Kimberly Peirce, 1999) Average Criticwire Rating: N/A Charlie Countryman (Dir: Frederik Bond, 2013) Average Criticwire Rating: C City of Lost Children (Dir: Marc Caro, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 1995) Average Criticwire Rating: N/A Don Jon (Dir: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, 2013) Average Criticwire Rating: B Exit Through the Gift Shop (Dir: Banksy, 2010) Average Criticwire Rating: A- Instructions Not Included (Dir: Eugenio Derbez, 2013) Average Criticwire...
- 5/9/2014
- by Paula Bernstein
- Indiewire
In the video clip below, Viola Davis and Jennifer Lopez talk their upcoming feature Lila and Eve, which Charles Stone III ((Drumline, Paid in Full, Mr. 3000, Crazy, Sexy, Cool: The TLC Story) is directing.The story, described as "Thelma & Louise meets Fight Club," will follow two distraught mothers who team up to avenge the death of their children after authorities are unable to find their murderers. Yolonda Ross and Aml Ameen are also in the cast, playing a member of a “Mothers of Lost Children” support group, which helps women who have lost children to violence, and Viola...
- 2/11/2014
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
Fresh off earning an Independent Spirit Award nomination for her supporting turn in John Sayles’ “Go for Sisters,” Yolonda Ross has signed on to join Jennifer Lopez and Viola Davis in the indie movie “Lila & Eve.” Charles Stone III (“Drumline”) is directing the drama, which is scheduled for theatrical release in 2015. Also Read: Independent Spirit Awards 2014: The Nominees (Photos) Lopez and Davis star as grief-stricken mothers plotting to avenge the deaths of their children who were killed in a drive-by shooting. Ross co-stars as a member of a “Mothers of Lost Children” support group, which helps women who have lost.
- 1/23/2014
- by Jeff Sneider
- The Wrap
Hi everyone, Tim here. Those who know me in my other life at Antagony & Ecstasy are well aware of my affection for animation in its many forms, and starting this week, that’s going to be carried over here to the Film Experience. Officially, as of now, this space will be home to a weekly column about the current world of animation with, I suspect, regular guest appearances from classics of both American and international animated cinema.
And there's some pretty exciting news to kick things off. Right on the heels of the announcement of the 19 films submitted for consideration this year in the feature category, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced the ten-film list of titles that will be competing for the Best Animated Short Oscar. It feels a little bit like a course correction after last year, which saw two major studio releases hit...
And there's some pretty exciting news to kick things off. Right on the heels of the announcement of the 19 films submitted for consideration this year in the feature category, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced the ten-film list of titles that will be competing for the Best Animated Short Oscar. It feels a little bit like a course correction after last year, which saw two major studio releases hit...
- 11/8/2013
- by Tim Brayton
- FilmExperience
Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting 2013 finalists announced (photo: post-’Twilight’ Ashley Greene 2013 in ‘Random’) The finalists for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting 2013 competition, selected from a record 7,251 scripts, have been announced. Next, their scripts will be read and judged by the Academy Nicholl Fellowships Committee, which, according to the Academy’s press release, may award as many as five $35,000 fellowships. This year’s finalists, the majority of which hail from California, are the following (listed alphabetically by author): Scott Adams, Menlo Park, CA, "Slingshot" William Casey, Los Angeles, CA, "Smut" Frank DeJohn and David Alton Hedges, Santa Ynez, CA, "Legion" Brian Forrester, Studio City, CA, "Heart of the Monstyr" Noah Thomas Grossman, Los Angeles, CA, "The Cupid Code" Patty Jones, Vancouver, BC, Canada, "Joe Banks" Erin Klg, New York, NY, "Lost Children" Alan Roth, Suffern, NY, "Jersey City Story" Stephanie Shannon, Los Angeles,...
- 9/27/2013
- by Anna Robinson
- Alt Film Guide
Nine screenwriters and one writing team have been selected as finalists for the 2013 Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting competition. Their scripts will now be read and judged by the Academy Nicholl Fellowships Committee, which may award as many as five of the highly competitive $35,000 fellowships.This year’s finalists are (listed alphabetically by author): Scott Adams, Menlo Park, CA, “Slingshot” William Casey, Los Angeles, CA, “Smut” Frank DeJohn & David Alton Hedges, Santa Ynez, CA, “Legion” Brian Forrester, Studio City, CA, “Heart of the Monstyr” Noah Thomas Grossman, Los Angeles, CA, “The Cupid Code” Patty Jones, Vancouver, BC, Canada, “Joe Banks” Erin Klg, New York, NY, “Lost Children” Alan Roth, Suffern, NY, “Jersey City Story” ...
- 9/27/2013
- by Beth Hanna
- Thompson on Hollywood
Director Jean-Pierre Jeunet (Amelie, Delicatessen) has adapted Reif Larson’s debut novel The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet for his latest feature. The story centers on a 12-year-old cartography enthusiast in an eccentric family, who travels across country hidden on board a freight train after being invited to the Smithsonian Institute. The $34 million France-Canadian co-production shot for 72 days, was all filmed in 3D, using the same team who shot Martin Scorsese’s Hugo. Jeunet– whose lengthy filmography includes Delicatessen, Alien Resurrection, and City of Lost Children – delivers his usual trademark style, and so we know from at least a visual standpoint, the film will not disappoint. The cast also includes Helena Bonham Carer as T.S.’s mom, Callum Keith Rennie as his dad, Judy Davis as the head of the Smithsonian, along with Rick Mercer, Niamh Wilson, Robert Maillet and Jakob Davies. Hit the jump to check out the trailer.
- 9/4/2013
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
7: Hellboy 2
There’s a palpable joy to Hellboy II: The Golden Army, a tactile love that graces every scene, bringing to life a fantastical world full of wonders and terrors, and enlivening the proceedings with enough cleverness to keep things moving along. Where Hellboy is a servicable comic-book adaptation from the early era of the genre, when studios wanted to slap together a film of anything that had ever been on the shelf of a comic book store, Hellboy II is a fully formed vision; its Guillermo Del Toro letting loose, spending the collateral he earned with his masterpiece Pan’s Labyrinth on a playground of his own fantasies.
If Hellboy is a super hero origin story, this sequel is the origin of a fully-formed mythos. The titular demon (Ron Perlman) leads a team of paranormal investigators (including Selma Blair, Doug Jones, Seth MacFarlane, and Jeffrey Tambor) in an...
There’s a palpable joy to Hellboy II: The Golden Army, a tactile love that graces every scene, bringing to life a fantastical world full of wonders and terrors, and enlivening the proceedings with enough cleverness to keep things moving along. Where Hellboy is a servicable comic-book adaptation from the early era of the genre, when studios wanted to slap together a film of anything that had ever been on the shelf of a comic book store, Hellboy II is a fully formed vision; its Guillermo Del Toro letting loose, spending the collateral he earned with his masterpiece Pan’s Labyrinth on a playground of his own fantasies.
If Hellboy is a super hero origin story, this sequel is the origin of a fully-formed mythos. The titular demon (Ron Perlman) leads a team of paranormal investigators (including Selma Blair, Doug Jones, Seth MacFarlane, and Jeffrey Tambor) in an...
- 7/24/2013
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
The French film industry has always been among the worlds most important……at least to film studies professors. Most French movies are either funded by the French government or made with the support of government-linked media companies. Filmmakers face little market pressure in the creative process. That helps explain why they’re so boring!
Starbuck opens this weekend so we here at We Are Movie Geeks have decided to post this article about our favorite French films. Okay, so Starbuck is technically a Canadian film shot in Quebec, but its French language so, in our eyes that makes it French! The Hollywood remake is already in the can. It stars Vince Vaughn. The remake was originally tilted Dickie Donor but they’ve changed it to Delivery Man, so you just know they’ve screwed it up bad. This list may not line up with that of your typical French Cinema scholar.
Starbuck opens this weekend so we here at We Are Movie Geeks have decided to post this article about our favorite French films. Okay, so Starbuck is technically a Canadian film shot in Quebec, but its French language so, in our eyes that makes it French! The Hollywood remake is already in the can. It stars Vince Vaughn. The remake was originally tilted Dickie Donor but they’ve changed it to Delivery Man, so you just know they’ve screwed it up bad. This list may not line up with that of your typical French Cinema scholar.
- 4/30/2013
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
It won't be long now. The eagerly anticipated Guillermo del Toro produced film Mama hits theaters on January 18th, and we've got some new goodies and contests to tide you over until the release. Read on!
Mama stars Jessica Chastain (Zero Dark Thirty) and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau ("Game of Thrones"). The film was directed by Andrés Muschietti, who co-wrote the screenplay with Neil Cross and Barbara Muschietti.
deviantART Scared Stiff Contest
You've got to move quickly on this one as the deadline is January 9th.
deviantART wants to know about your scariest childhood memory. Enter the deviantART Scared Stiff Contest and depict your scariest childhood memory in any visual medium. Winners will be selected by Mama filmmakers Andy and Barbara Muschietti and Guillermo del Toro. More than $10,000 in cash is available to the winners as well as deviantART merchandise and memorabilia. The contest ends January 9th, 2013!
Mama Chillergraphs
Creepy images from...
Mama stars Jessica Chastain (Zero Dark Thirty) and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau ("Game of Thrones"). The film was directed by Andrés Muschietti, who co-wrote the screenplay with Neil Cross and Barbara Muschietti.
deviantART Scared Stiff Contest
You've got to move quickly on this one as the deadline is January 9th.
deviantART wants to know about your scariest childhood memory. Enter the deviantART Scared Stiff Contest and depict your scariest childhood memory in any visual medium. Winners will be selected by Mama filmmakers Andy and Barbara Muschietti and Guillermo del Toro. More than $10,000 in cash is available to the winners as well as deviantART merchandise and memorabilia. The contest ends January 9th, 2013!
Mama Chillergraphs
Creepy images from...
- 1/8/2013
- by Doctor Gash
- DreadCentral.com
Later today, we have a Christmas-themed edition of Scenes We Love, in which you’ll find a number of favorite movie moments of varying genres and content. Some of them involve Santa Claus. So, in lieu of finding a short film made by or featuring someone related to a new film out this week, I thought it would be fun to look at some of the earliest cinematic appearances of the jolly old holiday mascot. If you want to go back further than your usual classics-honoring tradition of watching Miracle on 34th Street, definitely check out these five ancient shorts. One of the scenes I nearly chose for the forthcoming feature is the opening of City of Lost Children, which isn’t quite a Christmas movie but it does include Santa-infused dream sequences. And those sequences tend to remind me of the dreamy fantasies of early Santa films. For example, here...
- 12/23/2012
- by Christopher Campbell
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
This week we're after clips from films that star Nasty St Nick
Father Christmas is one of the most popular characters in popular culture – at the time of writing he has been portrayed on film more than 800 times (for reference, Jesus racks up just 360). And while depictions have been mostly sympathetic, a few film-makers have felt the need to explore his dark side. Block your chimney, board up your windows and grab a glass of wine as I run through my favourite bad Santas.
A Christmas Story
Ralphie Parker, the film's child protagonist, isn't particularly likeable, so it's easy to sympathise with the Santa in this clip. That said, neither he nor his elves are really delivering customer service at an acceptable level (traumatising kids, and booting one in the forehead, is generally frowned upon).
Reading on mobile? Watch clip on YouTube
Bad Santa
Billy Bob Thornton's misanthropic alcoholic...
Father Christmas is one of the most popular characters in popular culture – at the time of writing he has been portrayed on film more than 800 times (for reference, Jesus racks up just 360). And while depictions have been mostly sympathetic, a few film-makers have felt the need to explore his dark side. Block your chimney, board up your windows and grab a glass of wine as I run through my favourite bad Santas.
A Christmas Story
Ralphie Parker, the film's child protagonist, isn't particularly likeable, so it's easy to sympathise with the Santa in this clip. That said, neither he nor his elves are really delivering customer service at an acceptable level (traumatising kids, and booting one in the forehead, is generally frowned upon).
Reading on mobile? Watch clip on YouTube
Bad Santa
Billy Bob Thornton's misanthropic alcoholic...
- 12/19/2012
- The Guardian - Film News
Thomas “Tommy Salami” Pluck hit the hardboiled fiction scene online like a Tasmanian Devil a couple of years back, taking a bite out of every venue in reach. I knew him best for his hysterical productivity and hail-fellow-well-met humor. Then Tommy got a cause – Protect, an organization dedicated to tougher laws on child abuse – and got serious.
Since then, Tom Pluck has been the galvanizing force behind two anthologies to benefit Protect, the Lost Children series, that brought together nearly 50 different authors. His social media has been a trumpet against bullying and abuse of all stripe. He’s a skilled hand at stirring up the online crime crowd.
Now we invite him down to the Complex to see what has Tom Pluck so riled up.
Q: You’ve mentioned the role that fury against injustice plays in inspiring your writing. When did you first resolve to become a writer, and what motivated it?...
Since then, Tom Pluck has been the galvanizing force behind two anthologies to benefit Protect, the Lost Children series, that brought together nearly 50 different authors. His social media has been a trumpet against bullying and abuse of all stripe. He’s a skilled hand at stirring up the online crime crowd.
Now we invite him down to the Complex to see what has Tom Pluck so riled up.
Q: You’ve mentioned the role that fury against injustice plays in inspiring your writing. When did you first resolve to become a writer, and what motivated it?...
- 10/31/2012
- by Matthew C. Funk
- Boomtron
John Travolta says he was so distraught after the death of his son three years ago that he nearly retired from acting.
"I lost my son a few years ago and I had been having quite a time of that," the 58-year-old actor told the BBC. "And after three years getting a lot of support from my church and a lot of support from people, fans, and family, I decided that it was Ok to go back to work. Because I'd even thought of retiring at one point because it felt like too much."
Video: John & Kelly Pack on the Pda at Savages Premiere
Travolta's 16-year-old son Jett died in 2009 after suffering a seizure while vacationing with the family in the Bahamas.
Pics: John Travolta and Kelly Preston Through the Years
Travolta -- who plays a corrupt DEA agent in the Oliver Stone crime drama Savages -- also spoke to the BBC about celebrity privacy issues in the...
"I lost my son a few years ago and I had been having quite a time of that," the 58-year-old actor told the BBC. "And after three years getting a lot of support from my church and a lot of support from people, fans, and family, I decided that it was Ok to go back to work. Because I'd even thought of retiring at one point because it felt like too much."
Video: John & Kelly Pack on the Pda at Savages Premiere
Travolta's 16-year-old son Jett died in 2009 after suffering a seizure while vacationing with the family in the Bahamas.
Pics: John Travolta and Kelly Preston Through the Years
Travolta -- who plays a corrupt DEA agent in the Oliver Stone crime drama Savages -- also spoke to the BBC about celebrity privacy issues in the...
- 9/21/2012
- Entertainment Tonight
The following is a list of all comic books, graphic novels and special items that will be available this week and shipped to comic book stores who have placed orders for them.
12 Gauge Comics
Boondock Saints Volume 1 In Nomine Patris Hc (Limited Edition)(not verified by Diamond), $34.99
Aardvark Vanaheim
Zootanapuss #3 (Signed & Numbered Edition)(not verified by Diamond), Ar
Action Lab Entertainment
Fracture Volume 1 Tp, $9.99
Andrews McMeel
Lio Still Another Lio Collection Zombies Need Love Too Tp (not verified by Diamond), $12.99
Antarctic Press
Conquest Of The Planet Of The Living Dead (One Shot), $3.50
Archie Comics
Betty And Veronica Double Digest #201, $3.99
Mega Man #13 (Patrick Spaziante Regular Cover), $2.99
Mega Man #13 (Patrick Spaziante Villain Sketch Variant Cover), Ar
World Of Archie Double Digest #17, $3.99
Avatar Press
Crossed Badlands #5 (Jacen Burrows Regular Cover), $3.99
Crossed Badlands #5 (Jacen Burrows Red Crossed Incentive Cover), Ar
Crossed Badlands #5 (Jacen Burrows Torture Cover), $3.99
Crossed Badlands #5 (Jacen Burrows Wraparound Cover), $3.99
Dan The...
12 Gauge Comics
Boondock Saints Volume 1 In Nomine Patris Hc (Limited Edition)(not verified by Diamond), $34.99
Aardvark Vanaheim
Zootanapuss #3 (Signed & Numbered Edition)(not verified by Diamond), Ar
Action Lab Entertainment
Fracture Volume 1 Tp, $9.99
Andrews McMeel
Lio Still Another Lio Collection Zombies Need Love Too Tp (not verified by Diamond), $12.99
Antarctic Press
Conquest Of The Planet Of The Living Dead (One Shot), $3.50
Archie Comics
Betty And Veronica Double Digest #201, $3.99
Mega Man #13 (Patrick Spaziante Regular Cover), $2.99
Mega Man #13 (Patrick Spaziante Villain Sketch Variant Cover), Ar
World Of Archie Double Digest #17, $3.99
Avatar Press
Crossed Badlands #5 (Jacen Burrows Regular Cover), $3.99
Crossed Badlands #5 (Jacen Burrows Red Crossed Incentive Cover), Ar
Crossed Badlands #5 (Jacen Burrows Torture Cover), $3.99
Crossed Badlands #5 (Jacen Burrows Wraparound Cover), $3.99
Dan The...
- 5/6/2012
- by GeekRest
- GeekRest
On Wednesday (April 4), the winners of the 71st annual Peabody Awards were announced by the University of Georgia. The awards honor excellence in electronic media. While the honorees usually skew to the newsy end of the spectrum, a handful of TV shows were also cited this year.
"Homeland," "The Colbert Report," "Portlandia," "Game of Thrones," "Parks and Recreation" and "Jeopardy!" were all included for their contributions to pop culture.
The full winners' list:
CNN's Reporting of the Arab Springike wildfire across the region.
Ted.com
"American Experience" (PBS)
"Native Foster Care: Lost Children, Shattered Families" (NPR member stations)
"Pov: My Perestroika" (PBS)
"The Colbert Report" - Super Pac Segments (Comedy Central)
"CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute" (CNN, CNN International, CNN Espanol)
"StoryCorps 9/11" (NPR Morning Edition)
BBC.com
"Who Killed Chea Vichea?" (Kbdi Denver and other Neta stations)
"News Magazine: People's Republic of Cheating and Misjudged Cases" (Tvb Jade Channel)
"Homeland...
"Homeland," "The Colbert Report," "Portlandia," "Game of Thrones," "Parks and Recreation" and "Jeopardy!" were all included for their contributions to pop culture.
The full winners' list:
CNN's Reporting of the Arab Springike wildfire across the region.
Ted.com
"American Experience" (PBS)
"Native Foster Care: Lost Children, Shattered Families" (NPR member stations)
"Pov: My Perestroika" (PBS)
"The Colbert Report" - Super Pac Segments (Comedy Central)
"CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute" (CNN, CNN International, CNN Espanol)
"StoryCorps 9/11" (NPR Morning Edition)
BBC.com
"Who Killed Chea Vichea?" (Kbdi Denver and other Neta stations)
"News Magazine: People's Republic of Cheating and Misjudged Cases" (Tvb Jade Channel)
"Homeland...
- 4/4/2012
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
The winners of the George Foster Peabody Awards were announced this morning, and among the entertainment winners are "Game of Thrones," "Parks and Recreation," "Portlandia," "The Colbert Report" and "Treme."
In the television news and documentary categories, Al Jazeera English, NPR and CNN all won Peabodys for their coverage of the Arab Spring, and two Japanese networks won for their coverage of the tsunami and nuclear crisis in Japan.
The Peabody Awards honor excellence in all electronic media, and in the program's 71st year, 38 awards were handed out. Those winners range from Web sites such as Ted.com and Human Rights Watch to ongoing programs like American Masters to the radio series StoryCorps to long-running shows like "Austin City Limits" and "Jeopardy!" A full list of winners is below.
I am fortunate enough to be one of the 16 Peabody board members, and it's been an honor and a great pleasure...
In the television news and documentary categories, Al Jazeera English, NPR and CNN all won Peabodys for their coverage of the Arab Spring, and two Japanese networks won for their coverage of the tsunami and nuclear crisis in Japan.
The Peabody Awards honor excellence in all electronic media, and in the program's 71st year, 38 awards were handed out. Those winners range from Web sites such as Ted.com and Human Rights Watch to ongoing programs like American Masters to the radio series StoryCorps to long-running shows like "Austin City Limits" and "Jeopardy!" A full list of winners is below.
I am fortunate enough to be one of the 16 Peabody board members, and it's been an honor and a great pleasure...
- 4/4/2012
- by Maureen Ryan
- Huffington Post
Athens, Georgia, April 4, 2012 – Thirty-eight recipients of the 71st Annual Peabody Awards were announced today by the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication. The winners, chosen by the Peabody board as the best in electronic media for the year 2011, were named in a ceremony in the Peabody Gallery on the University of Georgia Campus. Complete List Of Recipients Of The 71st Annual Peabody Awards CNN’s Reporting of the Arab Spring including Worldwide Coverage: Egypt –Wave of Discontent and Uprising in Libya (CNN) (CNN) With seasoned correspondents already stationed throughout the Middle East, CNN was prepared when revolution began to leap like wildfire across the region. Ted.com Ted An outgrowth of a 1984 conference that brought together leaders in technology, entertainment and design (Ted), the site makes creative thinkers and their ideas available everywhere, anytime. American Experience (PBS) American Experience in association with Apograph Productions, Firelight...
- 4/4/2012
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Famous French director/visualist, Marc Caro (Dante 01, Bunker of the Last Gunshots, City of Lost Children), is producing an ambitious animated 3D feature adaptation of Alain Damasio's popular book, "La Horde du Contrevent," which is about a world savaged by great gusts of wind and a group of survivors struggling to reach a safe haven.
Though still in the early development stage, there appears to be a package put together which includes director Jan Kounen whose recent Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky starred Anna Mouglalis and the great Mads Mikkelsen (Valhalla Rising, Pusher) and a whole bevy of producers and media partners from publishing to gaming.
Continue reading...
Though still in the early development stage, there appears to be a package put together which includes director Jan Kounen whose recent Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky starred Anna Mouglalis and the great Mads Mikkelsen (Valhalla Rising, Pusher) and a whole bevy of producers and media partners from publishing to gaming.
Continue reading...
- 3/8/2012
- QuietEarth.us
With The Raven heading to cinemas, we met its director, James McTeigue, to talk films, R-ratings, V For Vendetta Masks, pet raccoons, and much more…
Director James McTeigue was responsible for adapting the shadowy world of Alan Moore’s V For Vendetta in 2006, and painted the big screen crimson in the violent Ninja Assassin three years later. Now, McTeigue has brought shadows and gore together for the period serial killer thriller The Raven, which sees Edgar Allan Poe on the trail of a murderer whose crimes are inspired by the author’s tales of the macabre.
Ahead of The Raven’s UK release this Friday, it was a pleasure to sit with McTeigue and talk about Poe, the iconic status of V For Vendetta’s Fawkes mask, R-rated movies, and best of all, pet raccoons…
I wanted to start off, if I may, by talking about raccoons. Was the idea...
Director James McTeigue was responsible for adapting the shadowy world of Alan Moore’s V For Vendetta in 2006, and painted the big screen crimson in the violent Ninja Assassin three years later. Now, McTeigue has brought shadows and gore together for the period serial killer thriller The Raven, which sees Edgar Allan Poe on the trail of a murderer whose crimes are inspired by the author’s tales of the macabre.
Ahead of The Raven’s UK release this Friday, it was a pleasure to sit with McTeigue and talk about Poe, the iconic status of V For Vendetta’s Fawkes mask, R-rated movies, and best of all, pet raccoons…
I wanted to start off, if I may, by talking about raccoons. Was the idea...
- 3/2/2012
- Den of Geek
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