Film musicals, as odd as it sounds, were once the superhero movies of Hollywood. In fact, they were more than that. On top of being money-makers, musicals were catnip for Academy Award voters up until the genre's decline in popularity in the 1970s. Thanks to "Moulin Rouge!" in 2001, musicals enjoyed a resurgence in the aughts, with "Chicago" winning the Best Picture Oscar just one year later. But after financial misfires like "Rent" and "The Producers," the genre was back on the naughty list by the time Tim Burton's "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street" arrived in 2007.
Adapted from Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's revered 1979 stage musical of the same name, "Sweeney Todd" tells the grisly tale of the eponymous character (Johnny Depp), a Victorian-era English barber who is falsely convicted of a crime he didn't commit. Seeking revenge against the magistrate behind his sentence, Mr. Todd...
Adapted from Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's revered 1979 stage musical of the same name, "Sweeney Todd" tells the grisly tale of the eponymous character (Johnny Depp), a Victorian-era English barber who is falsely convicted of a crime he didn't commit. Seeking revenge against the magistrate behind his sentence, Mr. Todd...
- 8/26/2022
- by Sandy Schaefer
- Slash Film
Jamie Campbell Bower: tentacled "Stranger Things" villain and . . . talented musician? After making his season four debut as One/Vecna/Henry Creel, the show's confusing yet supernaturally attractive villain, Bower has become a fan favorite, but his acting talents aren't the only reason we're obsessed. In addition to starring in popular fantasy films like "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn" and "Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald," Bower is also a skilled musician who can shred a punk-rock song on the guitar or serenade a crowd with his impressive piano playing.
The "Stranger Things" star, known on stage as Jamie Bower, kickstarted his music career in London in 2015 when he helped form the English punk-rock band Counterfeit. Additional members included guitarist Sam Bower (the actor's brother), guitarist Tristan Marmont, bassist Roland Johnson, and drummer James Craig. As the lead singer of the band, Bower put his full vocal range on display,...
The "Stranger Things" star, known on stage as Jamie Bower, kickstarted his music career in London in 2015 when he helped form the English punk-rock band Counterfeit. Additional members included guitarist Sam Bower (the actor's brother), guitarist Tristan Marmont, bassist Roland Johnson, and drummer James Craig. As the lead singer of the band, Bower put his full vocal range on display,...
- 8/2/2022
- by Chanel Vargas
- Popsugar.com
Chip and Joanna Gaines’ Magnolia Network app (finally) revealed a launch plan on Thursday, when we found out the digital offering will precede the January 2022 DIY Network rebranding on linear cable. Additionally, we learned that the Magnolia app, which you can download this summer, will be a free add-on to the paid Discovery+ streaming service.
Previously, the concept appeared to include an option for consumers to pay for Magnolia programming in a standalone manner. Magnolia Network president Allison Page told TheWrap the plan experienced an “evolution to free,” and not so much a “shift.”
“A direct-to-consumer offering was something we envisioned from the beginning, we just thought we were going to start with linear and then move to the app. It was not determined that it would be paid, we kind of stayed open to all options as we went along. So that wasn’t a shift as much as an evolution,...
Previously, the concept appeared to include an option for consumers to pay for Magnolia programming in a standalone manner. Magnolia Network president Allison Page told TheWrap the plan experienced an “evolution to free,” and not so much a “shift.”
“A direct-to-consumer offering was something we envisioned from the beginning, we just thought we were going to start with linear and then move to the app. It was not determined that it would be paid, we kind of stayed open to all options as we went along. So that wasn’t a shift as much as an evolution,...
- 2/11/2021
- by Tony Maglio
- The Wrap
Cinematographer Dariusz Wolski would love it if people could see his latest film, the Tom Hanks Western “News of the World,” on the big screen as it was intended.
But although Universal will carry out a limited theatrical release starting on Christmas Day, he realizes Academy voters and critics group members will probably consume the film at home on their laptops or TVs.
So he thinks Christopher Nolan’s recent criticism of WarnerMedia sending most of its slate to HBO Max was misguided when the pandemic continues to rage around the world.
“There’s Covid. People are suffering way more than Christopher Nolan,” Wolski says of Nolan’s reaction.
Nolan blasted the streaming platform move during an appearance on NPR’s “All Things Considered.” The “Tenet” director said, “It’s very important that everybody remembers the exhibition business provides hundreds of thousands of jobs for ordinary people. And my work...
But although Universal will carry out a limited theatrical release starting on Christmas Day, he realizes Academy voters and critics group members will probably consume the film at home on their laptops or TVs.
So he thinks Christopher Nolan’s recent criticism of WarnerMedia sending most of its slate to HBO Max was misguided when the pandemic continues to rage around the world.
“There’s Covid. People are suffering way more than Christopher Nolan,” Wolski says of Nolan’s reaction.
Nolan blasted the streaming platform move during an appearance on NPR’s “All Things Considered.” The “Tenet” director said, “It’s very important that everybody remembers the exhibition business provides hundreds of thousands of jobs for ordinary people. And my work...
- 12/24/2020
- by Jazz Tangcay
- Variety Film + TV
Retrospective to include films from Danis Tanovic, Cristi Puiu, Mira Fornay and more.
A total of 50 films are to make up the retrospective Eastern Promises: Autobiography of Eastern Europe at the 62nd San Sebastian Film Festival (Sept 19-27).
The line-up includes movies produced since 2000 in the countries that lived under Soviet influence after the Second World War and include some that were never released theatrically in Spain.
Several directors of films in the retrospective will attend the festival to present their works including Sarunas Bartas (Lithuania), Kristina Buožytė (Lithuania), Marian Crisan (Romania), Mira Fornay (Slovakia), Bohdan Sláma (Czech Republic), Malgorzata Szumowska (Poland) and Anna Viduleja (Latvia).
A book will be published to accompany the retrospective with contributions from journalists and critics across Europe.
The titles are:
Kruh In Mleko / Bread And Milk
Jan Cvitkovic (Slovenia) 2001
A modern classic of Slovenian cinema, the tale of a man who went out for bread and milk and lost himself to alcohol...
A total of 50 films are to make up the retrospective Eastern Promises: Autobiography of Eastern Europe at the 62nd San Sebastian Film Festival (Sept 19-27).
The line-up includes movies produced since 2000 in the countries that lived under Soviet influence after the Second World War and include some that were never released theatrically in Spain.
Several directors of films in the retrospective will attend the festival to present their works including Sarunas Bartas (Lithuania), Kristina Buožytė (Lithuania), Marian Crisan (Romania), Mira Fornay (Slovakia), Bohdan Sláma (Czech Republic), Malgorzata Szumowska (Poland) and Anna Viduleja (Latvia).
A book will be published to accompany the retrospective with contributions from journalists and critics across Europe.
The titles are:
Kruh In Mleko / Bread And Milk
Jan Cvitkovic (Slovenia) 2001
A modern classic of Slovenian cinema, the tale of a man who went out for bread and milk and lost himself to alcohol...
- 8/8/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Cannes award-winner to be considered for nomination in the Academy Awards’ Best Foreign Language Film category.
Kornél Mundruczó’s White God (Fehér Isten) has been selected as the official Hungarian entry for the 87th Academy Awards.
The film, which won the Un Certain Regard prize at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, will now be considered for nomination in the Best Foreign Language Film category.
The Hungary-Germany-Sweden co-production centres on a girl who runs away from home to search for her dog. Sales are handled by The Match Factory.
It marked a triumphant return to Cannes for Mundruczo, who was previously in Competition in 2008 with Delta, which won the Fipresci prize, and in 2010 with Tender Son: The Frankenstein Project. His feature Johanna played in Un Certain Regard in 2005.
It was also a triumph for for Body, the dog who played Hagen in White God, who became the first canine ever to be invited on stage with Thierry...
Kornél Mundruczó’s White God (Fehér Isten) has been selected as the official Hungarian entry for the 87th Academy Awards.
The film, which won the Un Certain Regard prize at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, will now be considered for nomination in the Best Foreign Language Film category.
The Hungary-Germany-Sweden co-production centres on a girl who runs away from home to search for her dog. Sales are handled by The Match Factory.
It marked a triumphant return to Cannes for Mundruczo, who was previously in Competition in 2008 with Delta, which won the Fipresci prize, and in 2010 with Tender Son: The Frankenstein Project. His feature Johanna played in Un Certain Regard in 2005.
It was also a triumph for for Body, the dog who played Hagen in White God, who became the first canine ever to be invited on stage with Thierry...
- 8/6/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: The distributor is understood to have picked up North American rights to Hungarian director Kornél Mundruczó’s Un Certain Regard winner.
Magnolia is believed to have struck the deal with Match Factory and had not returned calls to confirm the acquisition at time of writing.
White God (Feher Isten) won top prize in Un Certain Regard and charts the exploits of a 13-year-old girl who runs away from home in search of her pet.
The Hungary-Germany-Sweden co-production features Body (pronounced “Bodie”), the Palm Dog winner who portrays Hagen in the film. The dog famously became the first canine to be invited on stage with Cannes artistic director Thierry Fremaux at the film’s premiere last week [17].
White God, which features a sequence where 200 dogs escape from a kennel and run down a street in rebellion against their human captors, stars Zsofia Psotta, Sandor Zsoter, Szabolcs Thuroczy, Lili Monori, Laszlo Galffi and Lili Horvath.
Mundruczó won the...
Magnolia is believed to have struck the deal with Match Factory and had not returned calls to confirm the acquisition at time of writing.
White God (Feher Isten) won top prize in Un Certain Regard and charts the exploits of a 13-year-old girl who runs away from home in search of her pet.
The Hungary-Germany-Sweden co-production features Body (pronounced “Bodie”), the Palm Dog winner who portrays Hagen in the film. The dog famously became the first canine to be invited on stage with Cannes artistic director Thierry Fremaux at the film’s premiere last week [17].
White God, which features a sequence where 200 dogs escape from a kennel and run down a street in rebellion against their human captors, stars Zsofia Psotta, Sandor Zsoter, Szabolcs Thuroczy, Lili Monori, Laszlo Galffi and Lili Horvath.
Mundruczó won the...
- 5/26/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Kornél Mundruczó’s White God has won the top prize in Un Certain Regard at the 67th Cannes Film Festival.
Hungarian director Kornél Mundruczo has won the Un Certain Regard prize at the Cannes Film Festival with his film White God (Feher Isten).
The Hungary-Germany-Sweden co-production centres on a 12-year-old girl who runs away from home to search for her dog. Sales are handled by The Match Factory.
It marks a triumphant return to Cannes for Mundruczo, who was previously in Competition in 2008 with Delta, which won the Fipresci prize, and in 2010 with Tender Son: The Frankenstein Project. His feature Johanna played in Un Certain Regard in 2005.
It has been a good week for Body, the dog who played Hagen in White God, who became the first canine to be invited on stage with Thierry Fremaux at the film’s Un Certain Regard screening and earlier today won the coveted Palm Dog.
The Jury Prize...
Hungarian director Kornél Mundruczo has won the Un Certain Regard prize at the Cannes Film Festival with his film White God (Feher Isten).
The Hungary-Germany-Sweden co-production centres on a 12-year-old girl who runs away from home to search for her dog. Sales are handled by The Match Factory.
It marks a triumphant return to Cannes for Mundruczo, who was previously in Competition in 2008 with Delta, which won the Fipresci prize, and in 2010 with Tender Son: The Frankenstein Project. His feature Johanna played in Un Certain Regard in 2005.
It has been a good week for Body, the dog who played Hagen in White God, who became the first canine to be invited on stage with Thierry Fremaux at the film’s Un Certain Regard screening and earlier today won the coveted Palm Dog.
The Jury Prize...
- 5/23/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
New additions include El Ardor [pictured] by Pablo Fendrik starring Cannes jury member Gael Garcia Bernal, and a film starring Catherine Deneuve based on the mysterious disappearance of French casino heiress Agnès Le Roux.
The Cannes Film Festival (May 14-25) has added six titles to its Official Selection in the Out of Competition, Un Certain Regard and Special Screenings strands.
L’Homme qu’on aimait trop (In the Name of my Daughter), directed by André Téchiné, will feature in the Out of Competition line-up. Elle Driver handles international sales.
The 71-year-old French director has been in the running for the Palme d’Or six times and while the big prize eluded him he won best director in 1985 with erotic drama Rendez-vous.
His new film stars Guillaume Canet, Catherine Deneuve and Adèle Haenel in a drama inspired by Agnès Le Roux case that has remained a mystery since 1977. Le Roux was a young, glamorous heiress...
The Cannes Film Festival (May 14-25) has added six titles to its Official Selection in the Out of Competition, Un Certain Regard and Special Screenings strands.
L’Homme qu’on aimait trop (In the Name of my Daughter), directed by André Téchiné, will feature in the Out of Competition line-up. Elle Driver handles international sales.
The 71-year-old French director has been in the running for the Palme d’Or six times and while the big prize eluded him he won best director in 1985 with erotic drama Rendez-vous.
His new film stars Guillaume Canet, Catherine Deneuve and Adèle Haenel in a drama inspired by Agnès Le Roux case that has remained a mystery since 1977. Le Roux was a young, glamorous heiress...
- 4/30/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Iran in turmoil is the backdrop to this enigmatic and impressive debut. By Peter Bradshaw
The Anglo-Iranian comic Shappi Khorsandi recently revealed that Jon Snow had told her about a conversation he had once had some years ago with the then prime minister, Tony Blair. The premier had asked Snow, plaintively, why Iran hated the British so much. Snow replied hesitantly: "Well, you know, because of Mossadeq …" – that is, the left-leaning Iranian leader, toppled in 1953 by a coup instigated by the British and American governments because of his determination to nationalise oil. Blair replied blankly: "Who?" Perhaps watching this excellent movie would be a way for Blair, and the rest of us, to brush up on British and Iranian history.
With this debut feature, the photographer-turned-director Shirin Neshat has made a picture with vision, poetry, sexual frankness and historical sinew. It brings together, on screen, the personal and the political...
The Anglo-Iranian comic Shappi Khorsandi recently revealed that Jon Snow had told her about a conversation he had once had some years ago with the then prime minister, Tony Blair. The premier had asked Snow, plaintively, why Iran hated the British so much. Snow replied hesitantly: "Well, you know, because of Mossadeq …" – that is, the left-leaning Iranian leader, toppled in 1953 by a coup instigated by the British and American governments because of his determination to nationalise oil. Blair replied blankly: "Who?" Perhaps watching this excellent movie would be a way for Blair, and the rest of us, to brush up on British and Iranian history.
With this debut feature, the photographer-turned-director Shirin Neshat has made a picture with vision, poetry, sexual frankness and historical sinew. It brings together, on screen, the personal and the political...
- 6/10/2010
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Next movie we’re going to talk about is one with title Tender Son – The Frankenstein Project directed by Kornél Mundruczó.
This movie has been added to the main competition selection, which was announced April 15, next to Wang Xiaoshuai and his Chongqing Blues.
So, this year at Cannes Film Festival, very interesting projects, and one of them is definitely this Frankenstein story by young and highly talented Hungarian filmmaker Mundruczó.
What we know about this one? It is the story “of how a 19 year-old (Rudolf Frecska) attending a boarding school moves back to live with his family. His attempts to win the love of his near ones prove more difficult than he thought and it all ends in disaster.”
The whole project is actually based on the novel by Mary Shelley and the play scripted in 2007 by Mundruczó.
The film is something that we could already describe as a re-interpretation...
This movie has been added to the main competition selection, which was announced April 15, next to Wang Xiaoshuai and his Chongqing Blues.
So, this year at Cannes Film Festival, very interesting projects, and one of them is definitely this Frankenstein story by young and highly talented Hungarian filmmaker Mundruczó.
What we know about this one? It is the story “of how a 19 year-old (Rudolf Frecska) attending a boarding school moves back to live with his family. His attempts to win the love of his near ones prove more difficult than he thought and it all ends in disaster.”
The whole project is actually based on the novel by Mary Shelley and the play scripted in 2007 by Mundruczó.
The film is something that we could already describe as a re-interpretation...
- 4/29/2010
- by Fiona
- Filmofilia
- A figure on the international film circuit but relatively still unknown outside of Europe, Kornél Mundruczó the helmer behind Johanna, Pleasant Days and most recently, the 2008 film Delta (a slow-paced, heavily dependent on natural surroundings pic that reminded me of Terrence Malick's work) is currently in production with, The Frankenstein Plan. The filmmaker choose Mary Shelley's classic and came up with a contemporary narrative - so I'm really not expecting something like what Universal will plan to do with the character sometime in the next decade ahead. 19 year-old-kid Rudolf Frecska takes on the role of the monster - we can see by the pic that the common link are the bandages and what we can tell by the brief synopsis provided by the director that liek the monster, this teen is seeking affection from close ones. This is about a who returns home from a boarding school,
- 8/28/2009
- IONCINEMA.com
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