Yeon Sang-ho’s apocalypse thriller won the Cheval Noir Award for Best Feature and the Audience Award for Best Asian Feature as the festival came to an end in Montreal.
RedPeter Film’s Train To Busan is on a roll after it hit 10million admissions in its native South Korea on August 7. The film premiered in the Midnight Screenings section in Cannes and has sparked remake offers. Well Go USA Entertainment released it in the Us in July.
Organisers at the 20th Fantasia International Film Festival said the event, which boasted 19 world premieres, 209 screening and 11 Vr films, attracted more than 100,000 spectators.
Guillermo Del Toro (pictured with Fantasia co-director Mitch Davis and fantasia co-director of international programming Anthony Timpone) and Takashi Miike received the Cheval Noir and Lifetime Achievement Awards.
Jean-Claude Lord received the inaugural Prix Denis Héroux honouring his contribution to developing the Québécois genre.
Other Cheval Noir award-winners included best director Kiyoshi Kurosawa for Creepy, E J-Yong...
RedPeter Film’s Train To Busan is on a roll after it hit 10million admissions in its native South Korea on August 7. The film premiered in the Midnight Screenings section in Cannes and has sparked remake offers. Well Go USA Entertainment released it in the Us in July.
Organisers at the 20th Fantasia International Film Festival said the event, which boasted 19 world premieres, 209 screening and 11 Vr films, attracted more than 100,000 spectators.
Guillermo Del Toro (pictured with Fantasia co-director Mitch Davis and fantasia co-director of international programming Anthony Timpone) and Takashi Miike received the Cheval Noir and Lifetime Achievement Awards.
Jean-Claude Lord received the inaugural Prix Denis Héroux honouring his contribution to developing the Québécois genre.
Other Cheval Noir award-winners included best director Kiyoshi Kurosawa for Creepy, E J-Yong...
- 8/8/2016
- by govi2016@lawnet.ucla.edu (Alec Govi)
- ScreenDaily
Keep up with the always-hopping film festival world with our weekly Film Festival Roundup column.
– Beloved genre festival Fantasia has completed announcing its very, very full final lineup for its twentieth edition. Highlights include Fede Alvarez’s “Don’t Breathe,” the Mel Gibson-starring thriller “Blood Father,” the world premiere of “The Top Secret: Murder in Mind,” Billy O’Brien’s “I Am Not a Serial Killer,” a screening of “Train to Busan,” a heart-stopping series of documentaries (“Beware The Slenderman”!), an action-centric series that includes the world premiere of “Kickboxer: Vengeance” and so very much more. (Seriously, this is just a very small taste of the wild goodies on offer.) Check out the full lineup at the festival’s official website. The Fantasia International Film Festival takes place in Montreal July 14 – August 2.
– New York City’s own Rooftop Films is partnering with the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (Idfa...
– Beloved genre festival Fantasia has completed announcing its very, very full final lineup for its twentieth edition. Highlights include Fede Alvarez’s “Don’t Breathe,” the Mel Gibson-starring thriller “Blood Father,” the world premiere of “The Top Secret: Murder in Mind,” Billy O’Brien’s “I Am Not a Serial Killer,” a screening of “Train to Busan,” a heart-stopping series of documentaries (“Beware The Slenderman”!), an action-centric series that includes the world premiere of “Kickboxer: Vengeance” and so very much more. (Seriously, this is just a very small taste of the wild goodies on offer.) Check out the full lineup at the festival’s official website. The Fantasia International Film Festival takes place in Montreal July 14 – August 2.
– New York City’s own Rooftop Films is partnering with the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (Idfa...
- 7/7/2016
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Elizabeth Norment, who played executive secretary Nancy Kaufberger on Netflix’s House of Cards, died earlier this month. She was 61.
Elizabeth Norment Dead At 61
Norment’s sister Kate confirmed her death on Tuesday, Oct. 28 to The Hollywood Reporter. The actress had passed away at New York City’s Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Details on Norment’s exact cause of death have not been revealed.
On House of Cards, Norment’s character worked for the series’ sinister protagonist Frank Underwood, played by Kevin Spacey. Nancy had been a loyal member of Underwood’s administration from his inexplicable rise from the House of Representatives to the West Wing. She had even aided Doug Stamper (Michael Kelly) give the troubled Rachel Posner (Rachel Brosnahan) a place to stay.
Upon learning of Norment’s death, House of Cards showrunner Beau Willimon released a statement. “Everyone at House of Cards is deeply saddened by Elizabeth’s passing.
Elizabeth Norment Dead At 61
Norment’s sister Kate confirmed her death on Tuesday, Oct. 28 to The Hollywood Reporter. The actress had passed away at New York City’s Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Details on Norment’s exact cause of death have not been revealed.
On House of Cards, Norment’s character worked for the series’ sinister protagonist Frank Underwood, played by Kevin Spacey. Nancy had been a loyal member of Underwood’s administration from his inexplicable rise from the House of Representatives to the West Wing. She had even aided Doug Stamper (Michael Kelly) give the troubled Rachel Posner (Rachel Brosnahan) a place to stay.
Upon learning of Norment’s death, House of Cards showrunner Beau Willimon released a statement. “Everyone at House of Cards is deeply saddened by Elizabeth’s passing.
- 10/28/2014
- Uinterview
Hollywood actor Jon Cedar has died after a brief battle with leukaemia.
The star passed away on Thursday in Tarzana, California. He was 80.
Cedar started his career on the stage, appearing Off-Broadway and in tours across the U.S. in shows including The Deputy and South Pacific.
He also racked up a number of roles in feature films including Foxy Brown, Capricorn One and Murder in Mind, while also appearing in TV shows such as Hogan's Heroes, Moonlighting, Matlock and Murder, She Wrote.
Cedar is survived by his longtime companion, Elynore Leigh, his actress daughter Loren Thompson, producer son Michael and his actor brother George, as well as several grandchildren.
A memorial service will be held on Thursday at the Groman Eden Mortuary in Mission Hills, California, according to Variety.com.
The star passed away on Thursday in Tarzana, California. He was 80.
Cedar started his career on the stage, appearing Off-Broadway and in tours across the U.S. in shows including The Deputy and South Pacific.
He also racked up a number of roles in feature films including Foxy Brown, Capricorn One and Murder in Mind, while also appearing in TV shows such as Hogan's Heroes, Moonlighting, Matlock and Murder, She Wrote.
Cedar is survived by his longtime companion, Elynore Leigh, his actress daughter Loren Thompson, producer son Michael and his actor brother George, as well as several grandchildren.
A memorial service will be held on Thursday at the Groman Eden Mortuary in Mission Hills, California, according to Variety.com.
- 4/20/2011
- WENN
The star, Jon Cedar passed away on Thursday in Tarzana, California. He was 80.
Jon Cedar started his career on the stage, appearing Off-Broadway and in tours across the U.S. in shows including The Deputy and South Pacific.
He also racked up a number of roles in feature films including "Foxy Brown", "Capricorn One" and "Murder in Mind", while also appearing in TV shows such as Hogan's Heroes, Moonlighting, Matlock and Murder, She Wrote.
Jon Cedar is survived by his longtime companion, Elynore Leigh, his actress daughter Loren Thompson, producer son Michael and his actor brother George, as well as several grandchildren.
A memorial service will be held on Thursday at the Groman Eden Mortuary in Mission Hills, California, according to Variety.com.
Jon Cedar started his career on the stage, appearing Off-Broadway and in tours across the U.S. in shows including The Deputy and South Pacific.
He also racked up a number of roles in feature films including "Foxy Brown", "Capricorn One" and "Murder in Mind", while also appearing in TV shows such as Hogan's Heroes, Moonlighting, Matlock and Murder, She Wrote.
Jon Cedar is survived by his longtime companion, Elynore Leigh, his actress daughter Loren Thompson, producer son Michael and his actor brother George, as well as several grandchildren.
A memorial service will be held on Thursday at the Groman Eden Mortuary in Mission Hills, California, according to Variety.com.
- 4/20/2011
- by AceShowbiz.com
- Aceshowbiz
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