The Independent Gamer is a curated roundup of news from indie gaming, landing here every other Friday.
Narrative-Driven Sci-Fi Sim Cloudpunk Gets Dlc for PC
Upon its release in 2020, Cloudpunk, from Berlin-based development workshop Ion Lands featured in the Steam charts, and The New Yorker named it one of the best games of the year.
Its upcoming Dlc. City of Ghosts, picks up right where the main game left off, continuing the story of Rania, a courier trying to survive in a future metropolis, and her dog, Camus, while introducing a new character: a deadbeat gambler named Hayse. Players will switch between the two ...
Narrative-Driven Sci-Fi Sim Cloudpunk Gets Dlc for PC
Upon its release in 2020, Cloudpunk, from Berlin-based development workshop Ion Lands featured in the Steam charts, and The New Yorker named it one of the best games of the year.
Its upcoming Dlc. City of Ghosts, picks up right where the main game left off, continuing the story of Rania, a courier trying to survive in a future metropolis, and her dog, Camus, while introducing a new character: a deadbeat gambler named Hayse. Players will switch between the two ...
The Independent Gamer is a curated roundup of news from indie gaming, landing here every other Friday.
Narrative-Driven Sci-Fi Sim Cloudpunk Gets Dlc for PC
Upon its release in 2020, Cloudpunk, from Berlin-based development workshop Ion Lands featured in the Steam charts, and The New Yorker named it one of the best games of the year.
Its upcoming Dlc. City of Ghosts, picks up right where the main game left off, continuing the story of Rania, a courier trying to survive in a future metropolis, and her dog, Camus, while introducing a new character: a deadbeat gambler named Hayse. Players will switch between the two ...
Narrative-Driven Sci-Fi Sim Cloudpunk Gets Dlc for PC
Upon its release in 2020, Cloudpunk, from Berlin-based development workshop Ion Lands featured in the Steam charts, and The New Yorker named it one of the best games of the year.
Its upcoming Dlc. City of Ghosts, picks up right where the main game left off, continuing the story of Rania, a courier trying to survive in a future metropolis, and her dog, Camus, while introducing a new character: a deadbeat gambler named Hayse. Players will switch between the two ...
Music documentary about the reggaeton superstar opens on Amazon Prime Video May 7
In the music documentary “The Boy From Medellín,” Colombian reggaeton superstar J Balvin is prepping for a massive concert in his hometown of Medellín — a show that will host up to 45,000 people — only for protests to break out in the city’s streets.
The documentary depicts the anxiety and depression that have plagued Balvin for years whenever he’s offstage, but the new decision of whether to amplify the voices of young people protesting and being persecuted by the government leaves him torn about how to use his platform.
“If you speak up, it’s wrong. If you don’t, it’s wrong. So either way, you lose,” a confidant says to him in the trailer. “I don’t want to get into political things because it’s not my thing. I just want to focus on bringing light into the world,...
In the music documentary “The Boy From Medellín,” Colombian reggaeton superstar J Balvin is prepping for a massive concert in his hometown of Medellín — a show that will host up to 45,000 people — only for protests to break out in the city’s streets.
The documentary depicts the anxiety and depression that have plagued Balvin for years whenever he’s offstage, but the new decision of whether to amplify the voices of young people protesting and being persecuted by the government leaves him torn about how to use his platform.
“If you speak up, it’s wrong. If you don’t, it’s wrong. So either way, you lose,” a confidant says to him in the trailer. “I don’t want to get into political things because it’s not my thing. I just want to focus on bringing light into the world,...
- 4/26/2021
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
If you don’t know the work of Academy Award®-nominated and Emmy-winning filmmaker Matthew Heineman, you really outta change that. A cameraman and cinematographer on top of being a documentarian, Heineman’s work is always super cinematic, super intimate, and seems even to blur the lines of fact and fiction; he gets into such personal spaces, it seems impossible that moments aren’t staged, but they aren’t.
Continue reading ‘The Boy From Medellín’ Trailer: Doc Filmmaker Matthew Heineman Tracks The Life Of Reggaeton Star J Balvin at The Playlist.
Continue reading ‘The Boy From Medellín’ Trailer: Doc Filmmaker Matthew Heineman Tracks The Life Of Reggaeton Star J Balvin at The Playlist.
- 4/26/2021
- by Edward Davis
- The Playlist
Nat Geo has acquired the rights to “The First Wave,” a documentary about the fight against Covid-19 inside a New York City hospital, from “Cartel Land” director Matthew Heineman.
National Geographic Documentary Films is partnering with Neon, Participant and Our Time Projects on the release. Neon will release “The First Wave” to theaters later this year, prior to its premiere on National Geographic in 172 countries and 43 languages worldwide.
Heineman’s film is set inside Long Island Jewish Medical Center in Queens, one of the hardest hit hospitals in all of New York City. The film takes a cinema vérité, character-driven look at the “first wave” of the virus’ effect on the city during the first few harrowing months, with Heineman embedding himself among healthcare workers from March-June 2020.
With “The First Wave,” Heineman hoped to capture the unseen reality of a hospital overwhelmed by the pandemic, as well as the emotional...
National Geographic Documentary Films is partnering with Neon, Participant and Our Time Projects on the release. Neon will release “The First Wave” to theaters later this year, prior to its premiere on National Geographic in 172 countries and 43 languages worldwide.
Heineman’s film is set inside Long Island Jewish Medical Center in Queens, one of the hardest hit hospitals in all of New York City. The film takes a cinema vérité, character-driven look at the “first wave” of the virus’ effect on the city during the first few harrowing months, with Heineman embedding himself among healthcare workers from March-June 2020.
With “The First Wave,” Heineman hoped to capture the unseen reality of a hospital overwhelmed by the pandemic, as well as the emotional...
- 3/29/2021
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
As Fremantle gears up for a busy year ahead, it has made three new appointments to its development teams across Sydney and Melbourne: Warren Clarke, Monique Keller and Nikki Tran.
Clarke will be the head of development, scripted, reporting directly to Fremantle Asia Pacific CEO Chris Oliver-Taylor.
Co-creator of ABC’s The Heights, Clarke joins Fremantle from Matchbox, where he also helped to develop projects such as Secret City, Wanted and Hyde and Seek. He was also script producer for Oddlands, and wrote for Mustangs Fc.
Clarke said: “Fremantle has long been a creative powerhouse both domestically and internationally and I’m delighted to be joining their highly talented scripted team. I’m looking forward to collaborating with the industry’s leading writers and emerging creative talent and utilising Fremantle’s vast international network to take brilliantly crafted Australian stories to the global television landscape.”
Reporting to Clarke will be Tran,...
Clarke will be the head of development, scripted, reporting directly to Fremantle Asia Pacific CEO Chris Oliver-Taylor.
Co-creator of ABC’s The Heights, Clarke joins Fremantle from Matchbox, where he also helped to develop projects such as Secret City, Wanted and Hyde and Seek. He was also script producer for Oddlands, and wrote for Mustangs Fc.
Clarke said: “Fremantle has long been a creative powerhouse both domestically and internationally and I’m delighted to be joining their highly talented scripted team. I’m looking forward to collaborating with the industry’s leading writers and emerging creative talent and utilising Fremantle’s vast international network to take brilliantly crafted Australian stories to the global television landscape.”
Reporting to Clarke will be Tran,...
- 3/28/2021
- by Jackie Keast
- IF.com.au
The remote seems to hang in the air for a moment, its infrared sensor mixing with the light coming in through the window to create a pixellated rainbow before the device crashes into the screen of my television. I lean back, satisfied that my rage has found a therapeutic outlet, then turn and look for other things to break.
You’re probably wondering how I got here. So let’s flash back a few weeks earlier to explain. Or would it be better if I told my tale of TV-critic woe in the proper order,...
You’re probably wondering how I got here. So let’s flash back a few weeks earlier to explain. Or would it be better if I told my tale of TV-critic woe in the proper order,...
- 3/26/2021
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Rollingstone.com
‘City of Ghosts’ Series Adaptation in the Works at ABC Signature, Searchlight Television (Exclusive)
A series adaptation of the Victoria Schwab novel “City of Ghosts” is in the works at ABC Signature and Searchlight Television, Variety has learned exclusively.
David Lowery and Sehaj Sethi are attached to write the adaptation, with Lowery also onboard to direct. Schwab will executive produce along with with Sailor Bear’s Toby Halbrooks and James M. Johnston, Britt Poulton, and G-Base’s Danielle Robinson, Gerard Butler, and Alan Siegel.
“City of Ghosts” follows a young teenage girl, Cass, who finds herself embroiled in an epic battle between ghosts and humanity as she discovers powers to see a spectral world beyond “the Veil” and to fight the evil forces within. Cass accompanies her parents to Edinburgh, where they will host a TV show about the bloodiest chapters of history, and where she will discover her gifts in one of the most haunted places on earth.
Lowery previously wrote and directed...
David Lowery and Sehaj Sethi are attached to write the adaptation, with Lowery also onboard to direct. Schwab will executive produce along with with Sailor Bear’s Toby Halbrooks and James M. Johnston, Britt Poulton, and G-Base’s Danielle Robinson, Gerard Butler, and Alan Siegel.
“City of Ghosts” follows a young teenage girl, Cass, who finds herself embroiled in an epic battle between ghosts and humanity as she discovers powers to see a spectral world beyond “the Veil” and to fight the evil forces within. Cass accompanies her parents to Edinburgh, where they will host a TV show about the bloodiest chapters of history, and where she will discover her gifts in one of the most haunted places on earth.
Lowery previously wrote and directed...
- 3/11/2021
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
IMDb.com, Inc. takes no responsibility for the content or accuracy of the above news articles, Tweets, or blog posts. This content is published for the entertainment of our users only. The news articles, Tweets, and blog posts do not represent IMDb's opinions nor can we guarantee that the reporting therein is completely factual. Please visit the source responsible for the item in question to report any concerns you may have regarding content or accuracy.