Jack Reynor and Will Poulter aren’t done terrorizing movie-goers just yet, as the “Midsommar” duo have re-teamed for another chilling outing that hinges on the kind of myths and folklore that just won’t die. Reynor makes his directorial debut on the new project, a short entitled “Bainne,” which features his frequent co-star Poulter as an Irish farmer already dealing with some gnawing terror who seems bound for even worse circumstances.
Reynor himself has posted the first trailer for the film on his YouTube page, where he bills the outing as “an Irish ghost story set during The Great Famine of 1845-1852. It is inspired by ancient Irish mythology and traditional Japanese legends, as recorded by the Irish writer Lafcadio Hearn at the end of the 19th century.” The film, shot in black and white, boasts stunning lighting and shadows even in the truncated format of a trailer.
Reynor...
Reynor himself has posted the first trailer for the film on his YouTube page, where he bills the outing as “an Irish ghost story set during The Great Famine of 1845-1852. It is inspired by ancient Irish mythology and traditional Japanese legends, as recorded by the Irish writer Lafcadio Hearn at the end of the 19th century.” The film, shot in black and white, boasts stunning lighting and shadows even in the truncated format of a trailer.
Reynor...
- 7/11/2019
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
An otherworldly vision comes home when Kin arrives on Digital November 6 and on 4K Ultra HD Combo Pack (plus Blu-ray and Digital), Blu-ray Combo Pack (plus DVD and Digital), DVD, and On Demand November 20 from Summit Entertainment, a Lionsgate company.
An otherworldly vision comes home when Kin arrives on Digital November 6 and on 4K Ultra HD Combo Pack (plus Blu-ray and Digital), Blu-ray Combo Pack (plus DVD and Digital), DVD, and On Demand November 20 from Summit Entertainment, a Lionsgate company. From the producers of Arrival and TV’s “Stranger Things”, this riveting film follows a recently released ex-con and his adopted teenage brother who find themselves on the run from a vengeful criminal, the feds, and a group of relentless soliders, with only a mysterious and powerful weapon at their side. An emotional sci-fi story about family, adulthood, mystery, and time, Kin stars Jack Reynor, Teen Choice Award nominee Zoë Kravitz,...
An otherworldly vision comes home when Kin arrives on Digital November 6 and on 4K Ultra HD Combo Pack (plus Blu-ray and Digital), Blu-ray Combo Pack (plus DVD and Digital), DVD, and On Demand November 20 from Summit Entertainment, a Lionsgate company. From the producers of Arrival and TV’s “Stranger Things”, this riveting film follows a recently released ex-con and his adopted teenage brother who find themselves on the run from a vengeful criminal, the feds, and a group of relentless soliders, with only a mysterious and powerful weapon at their side. An emotional sci-fi story about family, adulthood, mystery, and time, Kin stars Jack Reynor, Teen Choice Award nominee Zoë Kravitz,...
- 11/11/2018
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Photo Credit: Alan Markfield/Lionsgate
Opening Friday, August 31st, is the new movie Kin.
Kin, a pulse-pounding crime thriller with a sci-fi twist, is the story of an unexpected hero destined for greatness. Chased by a vengeful criminal (James Franco) and a gang of otherworldly soldiers, a recently released ex-con (Jack Reynor) and his adopted teenage brother (Myles Truitt) are forced to go on the run with a weapon of mysterious origin as their only protection.
Kin stars Jack Reynor (“Glassland”), Zoë Kravitz (“Mad Max: Fury Road”), Carrie Coon (“Gone Girl”), with Dennis Quaid (“The Day After Tomorrow”), and James Franco (“127 Hours”), and introducing newcomer Myles Truitt.
Directed by Jonathan & Josh Baker. Screenplay by Daniel Casey. Based on the short film ‘Bag Man’ by Jonathan & Josh Baker. Produced by Shawn Levy, Dan Cohen, Jeff Arkuss, David Gross and Jesse Shapira.
Wamg has your free passes to the advance screening of Kin in St.
Opening Friday, August 31st, is the new movie Kin.
Kin, a pulse-pounding crime thriller with a sci-fi twist, is the story of an unexpected hero destined for greatness. Chased by a vengeful criminal (James Franco) and a gang of otherworldly soldiers, a recently released ex-con (Jack Reynor) and his adopted teenage brother (Myles Truitt) are forced to go on the run with a weapon of mysterious origin as their only protection.
Kin stars Jack Reynor (“Glassland”), Zoë Kravitz (“Mad Max: Fury Road”), Carrie Coon (“Gone Girl”), with Dennis Quaid (“The Day After Tomorrow”), and James Franco (“127 Hours”), and introducing newcomer Myles Truitt.
Directed by Jonathan & Josh Baker. Screenplay by Daniel Casey. Based on the short film ‘Bag Man’ by Jonathan & Josh Baker. Produced by Shawn Levy, Dan Cohen, Jeff Arkuss, David Gross and Jesse Shapira.
Wamg has your free passes to the advance screening of Kin in St.
- 8/23/2018
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Irish festival reveals 2017 line-up.
Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk will have its Irish premiere as part of this year’s Galway Film Fleadh in Ireland.
The Second World War drama will play on Galway’s final day, July 16. The festival will open with Pat Collins’ Song Of Granite on July 11.
The festival’s 2017 line-up was revealed by director of programming Gar O’Brien at a news conference in Galway on Tuesday evening (July 27).
Having its world premiere in Galway will be the latest feature from Irish director Gerard Barrett, whose credits include Brain On Fire and Glassland. Produced with his regular collaborator Grainne O’Sullivan, Barrett’s new film Limbo chronicles 24 hours in the life of a young Irish mother and child as they battle homelessness. Barrett will also be in attendance.
Also having its world premiere in Galway will be director Frank Berry’s third feature, Michael Inside.
Having their Irish premieres are Sundance hit God’s Own...
Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk will have its Irish premiere as part of this year’s Galway Film Fleadh in Ireland.
The Second World War drama will play on Galway’s final day, July 16. The festival will open with Pat Collins’ Song Of Granite on July 11.
The festival’s 2017 line-up was revealed by director of programming Gar O’Brien at a news conference in Galway on Tuesday evening (July 27).
Having its world premiere in Galway will be the latest feature from Irish director Gerard Barrett, whose credits include Brain On Fire and Glassland. Produced with his regular collaborator Grainne O’Sullivan, Barrett’s new film Limbo chronicles 24 hours in the life of a young Irish mother and child as they battle homelessness. Barrett will also be in attendance.
Also having its world premiere in Galway will be director Frank Berry’s third feature, Michael Inside.
Having their Irish premieres are Sundance hit God’s Own...
- 6/27/2017
- by tom.grater@screendaily.com (Tom Grater)
- ScreenDaily
Updated: Irish filmmaker Gerard Barrett’s has sold his hour-long drama Honey to FX. Story, which in development, is being kept under wraps and is set against the backdrop of the world of corporate espionage. Barrett is the writer-director behind 2014's Sundance title Glassland, which saw star Jack Reyner pick up a Special Jury Award for acting that year. The Dublin-set film follows the story of a young man desperate to save his mother (Toni Collette) from alcohol…...
- 6/15/2017
- Deadline TV
Clouds of Sils Maria star Chloë Grace Moretz premiered her latest project, Brain on Fire, at Toronto International Film Festival last year and ahead of a Netflix release, the first trailer has landed. Directed by Gerard Barrett (Glassland), the film explores the true story of Susannah Cahalan, a journalist in New York City who was inflicted with serious health issues, including seizures and hallucinations (scientifically diagnosed as anti-nmda receptor encephalitis).
As one can see in the trailer, her condition worsens over the course of weeks and she quickly goes from violence to catatonia. It’s not until having numerous misdiagnoses and a hospitalization, when a doctor finally gives her a diagnosis with the hope she can rebuild her life. Also starring Jenny Slate, Thomas Mann, Tyler Perry, Carrie-Anne Moss, and Richard Armitage, check out the trailer below for the Charlize Theron-produced drama.
One morning, 24-year-old Susannah Cahalan woke up in a hospital bed.
As one can see in the trailer, her condition worsens over the course of weeks and she quickly goes from violence to catatonia. It’s not until having numerous misdiagnoses and a hospitalization, when a doctor finally gives her a diagnosis with the hope she can rebuild her life. Also starring Jenny Slate, Thomas Mann, Tyler Perry, Carrie-Anne Moss, and Richard Armitage, check out the trailer below for the Charlize Theron-produced drama.
One morning, 24-year-old Susannah Cahalan woke up in a hospital bed.
- 2/20/2017
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
If you're going to ask an audience to accompany your lead character down a disorienting spiral of memory lapses, paranoid episodes, manic mood swings, hallucinations and debilitating fatigue, it's generally a good idea to make them care about her first. Irish filmmaker Gerard Barrett somehow neglects that step in the wearisome Brain on Fire. That means we watch Chloe Grace Moretz's epic meltdown from a bored distance, until the drama remembers its lost calling as a disease-of-the-week movie. At that point, we receive the abrupt news of a cure with an indifferent shrug. Barrett (Glassland) adapted the
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- 9/17/2016
- by David Rooney
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
There are a lot of good movies about alcoholism, that doesn’t make them easy to watch, by no means. The very idea of making a movie, an entertainment, about addiction, of any kind, if it’s done with any amount of honesty, can make for a grueling experience to watch.
Just from memory you have The Lost Weekend, Leaving Las Vegas, Shakes the Clown, Everything Must Go and the more recent Blue Jasmine with a pill popping, wine swilling woman in deep denial at its center.
I’m sure there are many more, all of these are worthwhile films. To this list you can definitely add Glassland, an independent movie from Ireland. What irony that a movie about alcoholism, and a good one at that, would come from Ireland. I’m Irish myself, and Ireland, much like countries such as Australia, Scotland, Japan and…the United States for that matter,...
Just from memory you have The Lost Weekend, Leaving Las Vegas, Shakes the Clown, Everything Must Go and the more recent Blue Jasmine with a pill popping, wine swilling woman in deep denial at its center.
I’m sure there are many more, all of these are worthwhile films. To this list you can definitely add Glassland, an independent movie from Ireland. What irony that a movie about alcoholism, and a good one at that, would come from Ireland. I’m Irish myself, and Ireland, much like countries such as Australia, Scotland, Japan and…the United States for that matter,...
- 2/27/2016
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
People will often resolutely set out to secure any treatment necessary to help their loved ones overcome an illness that’s threatening their lives. But the remedy they secure that’s commendably meant to help their relatives can unfortunately become more detrimental than beneficial to their health, particularly if it’s obtained immorally. That harrowing struggle is grippingly shown through the life of a young man, who’s so desperate to find a way to provide the right care for his mother, who’s grappling to overcome her alcoholism, that he turns to a criminal life that he knows is wrong, in the new drama, ‘Glassland.’ The film, which was shot in Dublin City and [ Read More ]
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- 2/17/2016
- by Karen Benardello
- ShockYa
Taking the glass half-full approach nets the biggest return in entertainment for Irish drama Glassland, despite the fact that the aggressively downcast little film tries to send viewers into a solemn haze at every turn. Focusing on the out-of-control addiction issues suffocating a small family of two, Glassland‘s scant but scathing 90-minute runtime is impossible to survive unmarked.
It’s an oppressive subject matter, but the movie never feels fully equipped to deal with it in any sort of novel way; Glassland decides to take the path most traveled by addiction-centric narratives and edges out ever-so-slightly on top through sheer force of will. Writer/director Gerard Barrett’s script has just enough moments of levity and positivity to grasp onto, thanks to his serious treatment of the issue and his characters, that while Glassland may not approach the level of indelibility won by similarly themed dramas, it at least...
It’s an oppressive subject matter, but the movie never feels fully equipped to deal with it in any sort of novel way; Glassland decides to take the path most traveled by addiction-centric narratives and edges out ever-so-slightly on top through sheer force of will. Writer/director Gerard Barrett’s script has just enough moments of levity and positivity to grasp onto, thanks to his serious treatment of the issue and his characters, that while Glassland may not approach the level of indelibility won by similarly themed dramas, it at least...
- 2/13/2016
- by Mitchel Broussard
- We Got This Covered
Dublin’s damped and gloomy days underscore the heartfelt human drama in Irish filmmaker Gerard Barrett's affecting feature “Glassland.” Centered on a mother and a son, the film doesn’t resort to excessive embellishments to capture the agony of addiction and the strength of unshakable love. Its melancholic beauty is elicited from the decisively enthralling cinematography and two utterly intense performances. The characters, like the film itself, offer sincere tenderness amidst the irrational affliction they must face together.
Working as cab driver to support his small imperfect family, John (Jack Reynor) leads a life with few hopes for his own future. As he assures on a recurrent voice over phrase, he’s exhausted and frustrated with his predetermined existence. The monumental task of taking care of Jean (Toni Collette), his alcoholic mother, is not limited to the financial aspect. She routinely drinks herself to the point of shameless and violent incoherence. These episodes inevitably take a toll on John who’s unable to find a way to combat her corrosive illness.
Tireless John carries this enormous burden in addition to his already numerous responsibilities, such as visiting his younger brother Kit (Harry Nagle), who was born with Down syndrome and lives in a government facility given that the situation at home is far less than ideal. Revealing her tremendous selfishness, Jean refuses to visit her youngest, which leaves John to fill in the emotional void as best as he can. His kind efforts are as simple as a spontaneous car ride or a birthday card, but they are constant and brimming with warmth.
Though not explicitly discussed, John’s actions let us know that some of the work he is involved with is not exactly law-abiding. Caught up in this daily chaos, the young man’s only relief is his time with childish, but loyal, best friend Shane (played by a humorous and endearing Will Poulter), a video game-loving momma’s boy. Their lives couldn’t be more disparate as Shane is planning to escape the passiveness of this town by traveling abroad. Quietly disguising his sadness with lighthearted banter, John internally understands he can’t just pack up and leave.
Observing his characters’ challenging reality as if hiding behind door frames, Barret and his cinematographer Piers McGrail construct a visually poetic maze out of this family’s mistrust and disappointment. The glass partitions can’t contain their explosive arguments always adorned with powerful moments of bare truth. Through these stylistic choices we are invited to become silent witnesses with the camera. Each door becomes a window into the bottled up anger and suffering that resides in their home. Sometimes we are allowed to lean in closer to look at Jean’s tormented face or John’s inspiring determination. More often, we must wait outside the room for the next outburst to occur. It’s visual storytelling at its best.
Showcasing a precise ability for nuanced tone, Barrett assertively chooses to sprinkle a handful of subtly comedic moments, which offer glimpses of joy as palpable and delicate as the most painful sequences in the film. John is an unsung hero who never wallows in the daunting nature of his circumstances, but rather strives to find solutions. Capturing the very essence of this troubled man, Reynor gives a moving performance that irradiates compassion and generosity towards all those he encounters. Every smile, scream, and piercingly disapproving look towards Jean’s behavior carries a touching sense of duty. His character strongly refuses to succumb to despair and doing the correct thing is always above everything else. This is a career-making performance that while subdued, stands out because of its naturalistic humanity.
But Reynor is not alone when it comes to marvelous on-camera work here. In what becomes a standout scene, Toni Collette delivers a devastating monologue that is at once genuinely devastating and harrowing. She dishes out her thoughts on motherhood, loneliness, and her dependence on the negatively soothing friend that is alcohol. Collette is marvelously vulnerable and occasionally even terrifying. It’s at once a physically and psychologically haunting performance that complements Reynor’s gentle strength. She is consumed by her character in a powerful manner.
Their road to recovery it scattered with tangible worldly obstacles and the necessity to reconnect spiritually so that she can heal and he can start his own life. “Glassland” is about this crossroads in their lives, one in which the dark passages must be overpowered by John’s devotion to help Jean. There is nothing he won’t do to help her, but the uncertainty of their future is reaching unbearable heights. Death lurks in every corner waiting for the final, and brutal blow to come. John’s mission is to stop his mother from taking it, to save her from herself.
For all its wonderfully dim color palette, for its unexpected charm, its carefully design aesthetics without being overpowering, its heart-wrenching sensibility, and its compelling cast, Barrett’s “Glassland” is as much a directorial triumph as it is a fantastic challenge for its actors. The film avoids overdramatic and trite tropes, and instead focuses on its successfully minimalist scope. I loved this film for the grave themes explored through a lens coated with sympathy, and for the brave people it uses to tell its story. John is a quotidian warrior who is untainted by his problematic situation, although his face portrays a stark demeanor, there’s a smiling face reflected on the glass in front of him. That internal desire to be happy cannot be shattered.
"Glassland" opens today in Los Angeles at the Laemmle Music Hall and in NYC at Cinema Village. The film is also available on VOD.
Note: Review originally published during the 2015 Sundance Film Festival where "Glassland" premiered...
Working as cab driver to support his small imperfect family, John (Jack Reynor) leads a life with few hopes for his own future. As he assures on a recurrent voice over phrase, he’s exhausted and frustrated with his predetermined existence. The monumental task of taking care of Jean (Toni Collette), his alcoholic mother, is not limited to the financial aspect. She routinely drinks herself to the point of shameless and violent incoherence. These episodes inevitably take a toll on John who’s unable to find a way to combat her corrosive illness.
Tireless John carries this enormous burden in addition to his already numerous responsibilities, such as visiting his younger brother Kit (Harry Nagle), who was born with Down syndrome and lives in a government facility given that the situation at home is far less than ideal. Revealing her tremendous selfishness, Jean refuses to visit her youngest, which leaves John to fill in the emotional void as best as he can. His kind efforts are as simple as a spontaneous car ride or a birthday card, but they are constant and brimming with warmth.
Though not explicitly discussed, John’s actions let us know that some of the work he is involved with is not exactly law-abiding. Caught up in this daily chaos, the young man’s only relief is his time with childish, but loyal, best friend Shane (played by a humorous and endearing Will Poulter), a video game-loving momma’s boy. Their lives couldn’t be more disparate as Shane is planning to escape the passiveness of this town by traveling abroad. Quietly disguising his sadness with lighthearted banter, John internally understands he can’t just pack up and leave.
Observing his characters’ challenging reality as if hiding behind door frames, Barret and his cinematographer Piers McGrail construct a visually poetic maze out of this family’s mistrust and disappointment. The glass partitions can’t contain their explosive arguments always adorned with powerful moments of bare truth. Through these stylistic choices we are invited to become silent witnesses with the camera. Each door becomes a window into the bottled up anger and suffering that resides in their home. Sometimes we are allowed to lean in closer to look at Jean’s tormented face or John’s inspiring determination. More often, we must wait outside the room for the next outburst to occur. It’s visual storytelling at its best.
Showcasing a precise ability for nuanced tone, Barrett assertively chooses to sprinkle a handful of subtly comedic moments, which offer glimpses of joy as palpable and delicate as the most painful sequences in the film. John is an unsung hero who never wallows in the daunting nature of his circumstances, but rather strives to find solutions. Capturing the very essence of this troubled man, Reynor gives a moving performance that irradiates compassion and generosity towards all those he encounters. Every smile, scream, and piercingly disapproving look towards Jean’s behavior carries a touching sense of duty. His character strongly refuses to succumb to despair and doing the correct thing is always above everything else. This is a career-making performance that while subdued, stands out because of its naturalistic humanity.
But Reynor is not alone when it comes to marvelous on-camera work here. In what becomes a standout scene, Toni Collette delivers a devastating monologue that is at once genuinely devastating and harrowing. She dishes out her thoughts on motherhood, loneliness, and her dependence on the negatively soothing friend that is alcohol. Collette is marvelously vulnerable and occasionally even terrifying. It’s at once a physically and psychologically haunting performance that complements Reynor’s gentle strength. She is consumed by her character in a powerful manner.
Their road to recovery it scattered with tangible worldly obstacles and the necessity to reconnect spiritually so that she can heal and he can start his own life. “Glassland” is about this crossroads in their lives, one in which the dark passages must be overpowered by John’s devotion to help Jean. There is nothing he won’t do to help her, but the uncertainty of their future is reaching unbearable heights. Death lurks in every corner waiting for the final, and brutal blow to come. John’s mission is to stop his mother from taking it, to save her from herself.
For all its wonderfully dim color palette, for its unexpected charm, its carefully design aesthetics without being overpowering, its heart-wrenching sensibility, and its compelling cast, Barrett’s “Glassland” is as much a directorial triumph as it is a fantastic challenge for its actors. The film avoids overdramatic and trite tropes, and instead focuses on its successfully minimalist scope. I loved this film for the grave themes explored through a lens coated with sympathy, and for the brave people it uses to tell its story. John is a quotidian warrior who is untainted by his problematic situation, although his face portrays a stark demeanor, there’s a smiling face reflected on the glass in front of him. That internal desire to be happy cannot be shattered.
"Glassland" opens today in Los Angeles at the Laemmle Music Hall and in NYC at Cinema Village. The film is also available on VOD.
Note: Review originally published during the 2015 Sundance Film Festival where "Glassland" premiered...
- 2/12/2016
- by Carlos Aguilar
- Sydney's Buzz
With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options — not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves — we’ve taken it upon ourselves to highlight the titles that have recently hit the interwebs. Every week, one will be able to see the cream of the crop (or perhaps some simply interesting picks) of streaming titles (new and old) across platforms such as Netflix, iTunes, Amazon Instant Video, and more (note: U.S. only). Check out our rundown for this week’s selections below.
99 Homes (Ramin Bahrani)
Ramin Bahrani made a name for himself with three independent films over the last decade, focusing on humanity’s daily struggles, reinvented foreign lives in America, and a fundamental sense of decency. With 2012’s At Any Price and this year’s 99 Homes, Bahrani has twice returned to the festival that launched his career, presenting the evolution of those themes. Not coincidentally, the worst...
99 Homes (Ramin Bahrani)
Ramin Bahrani made a name for himself with three independent films over the last decade, focusing on humanity’s daily struggles, reinvented foreign lives in America, and a fundamental sense of decency. With 2012’s At Any Price and this year’s 99 Homes, Bahrani has twice returned to the festival that launched his career, presenting the evolution of those themes. Not coincidentally, the worst...
- 2/12/2016
- by TFS Staff
- The Film Stage
There’s no doubt that Irish actor Jack Reynor deserves recognition for his role in Glassland, a modern-day kitchen sink drama set in a south Dublin social housing suburb. He won the World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award at the Sundance Film Festival for his portrayal of John, a poor Irish lad trapped by the demands of caring for his severely alcoholic mother. To that end, the latest from filmmaker Gerard Barrett functions better as a career stepping stone for the 23-year-old up-and-comer, rather than as a worthwhile examination of addiction and poverty.
A long opening sequence shows John living what deceptively looks like an average early 20-something male existence, working a low-wage job as a cabbie and slumming it in a dreary flat with a sink perpetually full of dirty dishes. The image shatters, however, when he returns home to find his mother, Jean (Toni Collette), passed out in...
A long opening sequence shows John living what deceptively looks like an average early 20-something male existence, working a low-wage job as a cabbie and slumming it in a dreary flat with a sink perpetually full of dirty dishes. The image shatters, however, when he returns home to find his mother, Jean (Toni Collette), passed out in...
- 2/12/2016
- by Amanda Waltz
- The Film Stage
We've been busy busy with interviews, awards pieces, Silence of the Lambs anniversary, and more so we're way behind on film news. So let's get caught up with news, awardage, and random recommended links...
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• Pajiba Meryl Streep getting herself into trouble with an African comment when asked about diversity
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• Inverse The Rock gleefully warning fans he'll get naked on HBO's Ballers
• Funny or Die! Johnny Depp as Donald Trump. Didn't know they did 50 minute skits!
• Cinematic Corner we need to talk about Harrison Ford in Witness
• Library of America Carrie Rickey on The Age of Innocence
• Unseen Films would like you to consider Toni Collette in Glassland
• Coming Soon Gal Gadot's career before Wonder Woman
• Regal Cinemas cute teaser poster for Finding Dory
Casting & Production
• Variety Amy Schumer trying her hand at drama. She's joined the...
Randomness
• Pajiba Meryl Streep getting herself into trouble with an African comment when asked about diversity
• LongReads Pregnancy in movies with Mad Max Fury Road as starting point
• Inverse The Rock gleefully warning fans he'll get naked on HBO's Ballers
• Funny or Die! Johnny Depp as Donald Trump. Didn't know they did 50 minute skits!
• Cinematic Corner we need to talk about Harrison Ford in Witness
• Library of America Carrie Rickey on The Age of Innocence
• Unseen Films would like you to consider Toni Collette in Glassland
• Coming Soon Gal Gadot's career before Wonder Woman
• Regal Cinemas cute teaser poster for Finding Dory
Casting & Production
• Variety Amy Schumer trying her hand at drama. She's joined the...
- 2/12/2016
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Glassland is bleak. It hurts. It hurts all the way through because the topics that it deals with are some of the most unavoidably painful: from alcoholism to Down Syndrome to human trafficking, Gerard Barrett‘s film covers the reality of all of this, depicting the struggle of John (Jack Reynor) to rehabilitate his alcoholic mother and […]
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- 2/11/2016
- by Jenny C Lu
- Uinterview
Dealing with a beloved relative or friend who’s an addict is a double-edged sword. Common sense dictates that if an addict is mad at you, you’re probably helping them get better, but if they’re happy when they’re around you, you’re probably their enabler. If you want your loved one to be happy and jolly all the time, you will more than likely have to accept that they will eventually kill themselves via their drug of choice. If you want to save them, you will have to turn yourself into a willing receptacle for all of their hate and bitterness. That’s the horrible situation that modest and sorrowful taxi driver John (Jack Reynor) finds himself dealing with, in the somber and profoundly effective Irish drama “Glassland,” as he tries to find a way to keep his hopelessly alcoholic mother Jean (Toni Collette) away from booze...
- 2/11/2016
- by Oktay Ege Kozak
- The Playlist
After wrapping up the 2016 Sundance Film Festival with our favorite films and more, we’ll return to festival coverage with Berlinale kicking off shortly. A certain highly-anticipated opener there one can thankfully see this month, but there’s also a number of stellar festival favorites finally making their way to screens in February. We should also note that Peter Greenaway‘s Eisenstein in Guanajuato was included last month, but they’ve moved the release date to February 5th, so make sure to see that out.
Matinees to See: Fort Buchanan (2/5), Where to Invade Next (2/12), Already Tomorrow in Hong Kong (2/12) Race (2/19), Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny (2/26), and Eddie the Eagle (2/26)
10. Glassland (Gerard Barrett; Feb. 12th)
Synopsis: Set in Dublin, Glassland tells the story of a young taxi driver (Reynor) who gets tangled up in the world of human trafficking while trying to save his mother (Collette) from addiction.
Trailer...
Matinees to See: Fort Buchanan (2/5), Where to Invade Next (2/12), Already Tomorrow in Hong Kong (2/12) Race (2/19), Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny (2/26), and Eddie the Eagle (2/26)
10. Glassland (Gerard Barrett; Feb. 12th)
Synopsis: Set in Dublin, Glassland tells the story of a young taxi driver (Reynor) who gets tangled up in the world of human trafficking while trying to save his mother (Collette) from addiction.
Trailer...
- 2/2/2016
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Exclusive: Broadchurch actress stars in Dutch horror debut from Nick Jongerius.
Kaleidoscope Film Distribution (Kfd) has boarded sales rights to genre-horror The Windmill Massacre ahead of Berlin’s Efm (Feb 11-19).
From debut writer-director Nick Jongerius and producer Daniel Koefoed - both producers on genre-horror Frankenstein’s Army - The Windmill Massacre tells the gory tale of a devil-worshipping miller that, legend has it, ground the bones of locals instead of grain. Back from beyond the grave, the miller seeks vengeance on a group of unsuspecting tourists, who share a dark secret.
Filmed in Amsterdam, the English-language feature is in post-production and due for delivery this spring.
Broadchurch and Jupiter Ascending actress Charlotte Beaumont stars alongside Noah Taylor (Charlie And The Chocolate Factory) and Patrick Baladi (Rush).
Director Nick Jongerius said: “It has been a privilege to shoot an international horror as my feature debut, using the famous Dutch heritage and locations as the backdrop. I have always...
Kaleidoscope Film Distribution (Kfd) has boarded sales rights to genre-horror The Windmill Massacre ahead of Berlin’s Efm (Feb 11-19).
From debut writer-director Nick Jongerius and producer Daniel Koefoed - both producers on genre-horror Frankenstein’s Army - The Windmill Massacre tells the gory tale of a devil-worshipping miller that, legend has it, ground the bones of locals instead of grain. Back from beyond the grave, the miller seeks vengeance on a group of unsuspecting tourists, who share a dark secret.
Filmed in Amsterdam, the English-language feature is in post-production and due for delivery this spring.
Broadchurch and Jupiter Ascending actress Charlotte Beaumont stars alongside Noah Taylor (Charlie And The Chocolate Factory) and Patrick Baladi (Rush).
Director Nick Jongerius said: “It has been a privilege to shoot an international horror as my feature debut, using the famous Dutch heritage and locations as the backdrop. I have always...
- 1/19/2016
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Broadchurch actress stars in Dutch horror debut from Nick Jongerius.
Kaleidoscope Film Distribution (Kfd) has boarded sales rights to genre-horror The Windmill Massacre ahead of Berlin’s Efm (Feb 11-19).
From debut writer-director Nick Jongerius and producer Daniel Koefoed - both producers on genre-horror Frankenstein’s Army - The Windmill Massacre tells the gory tale of a devil-worshipping miller that, legend has it, ground the bones of locals instead of grain. Back from beyond the grave, the miller seeks vengeance on a group of unsuspecting tourists, who share a dark secret.
Filmed in Amsterdam, the English-language feature is in post-production and due for delivery this spring.
Broadchurch and Jupiter Ascending actress Charlotte Beaumont stars alongside Noah Taylor (Charlie And The Chocolate Factory) and Patrick Baladi (Rush).
Director Nick Jongerius said: “It has been a privilege to shoot an international horror as my feature debut, using the famous Dutch heritage and locations as the backdrop. I have always...
Kaleidoscope Film Distribution (Kfd) has boarded sales rights to genre-horror The Windmill Massacre ahead of Berlin’s Efm (Feb 11-19).
From debut writer-director Nick Jongerius and producer Daniel Koefoed - both producers on genre-horror Frankenstein’s Army - The Windmill Massacre tells the gory tale of a devil-worshipping miller that, legend has it, ground the bones of locals instead of grain. Back from beyond the grave, the miller seeks vengeance on a group of unsuspecting tourists, who share a dark secret.
Filmed in Amsterdam, the English-language feature is in post-production and due for delivery this spring.
Broadchurch and Jupiter Ascending actress Charlotte Beaumont stars alongside Noah Taylor (Charlie And The Chocolate Factory) and Patrick Baladi (Rush).
Director Nick Jongerius said: “It has been a privilege to shoot an international horror as my feature debut, using the famous Dutch heritage and locations as the backdrop. I have always...
- 1/19/2016
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
The 65th Thessaloniki International Film Festival (November 6-14) offers busy industry programme including works in progress and Crossroads co-production strand.The 56th Thessaloniki International Film Festival kicks off today with the Berlin prizewinner Victoria by Sebastian Schipper.
The festival closes Nov 14 with the Cannes awarded My Golden Days (Trois souvenirs de ma jeunesse) by Arnaud Desplechin, who receives an homage, enjoys a full retrospective of his films and will deliver a masterclass.
Also receiving homages are veteran Romanian director Mircea Daneliuc and Greek master cinematographer Nikos Kavoukidis, accompanied by tributes to the 70 years of Greek animation and to the recent Austrian cinema.The late Belgian director Chantal.Akerman is receiving a special homage with the presentation of her 2011 film Almayer’s Folly (La folie Almayer).
The competition program includes 15 first and second films (the full list is below). The five members of the international jury set to award the Golden, Silver and Bronze...
The festival closes Nov 14 with the Cannes awarded My Golden Days (Trois souvenirs de ma jeunesse) by Arnaud Desplechin, who receives an homage, enjoys a full retrospective of his films and will deliver a masterclass.
Also receiving homages are veteran Romanian director Mircea Daneliuc and Greek master cinematographer Nikos Kavoukidis, accompanied by tributes to the 70 years of Greek animation and to the recent Austrian cinema.The late Belgian director Chantal.Akerman is receiving a special homage with the presentation of her 2011 film Almayer’s Folly (La folie Almayer).
The competition program includes 15 first and second films (the full list is below). The five members of the international jury set to award the Golden, Silver and Bronze...
- 11/6/2015
- by alexisgrivas@yahoo.com (Alexis Grivas)
- ScreenDaily
The distributor has acquired North American rights from Kaleidoscope Film Distribution to the Sundance 2015 entry.
Gerard Barrett directed Toni Collette, Jack Reynor and Will Poulter in the tale of a young taxi driver who gets sucked into the world of human trafficking as he struggles to protect his family.
Film Movement plans to distribute Glassland theatrically in 2016 followed by digital release...
Gerard Barrett directed Toni Collette, Jack Reynor and Will Poulter in the tale of a young taxi driver who gets sucked into the world of human trafficking as he struggles to protect his family.
Film Movement plans to distribute Glassland theatrically in 2016 followed by digital release...
- 9/15/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Film Movement has acquired North American rights to Glassland, the Irish drama starring Toni Collette, Jack Reynor and Will Poulter that premiered this year at the Sundance Film Festival. The pic, the second feature from Gerard Barrett (Pilgrim Hill), will get a theatrical and VOD release next year. The film centers on a young man desperate to save his mother from alcohol addiction and reunite his broken family, but because he makes a meager living driving a cab, he is…...
- 9/14/2015
- Deadline
The new promotional organisation will kick off later this month with the first in an annual festival roadshow in Los Angeles and New York.
The flagship event will kick off with the Isa/La Festival on September 25 in Los Angeles at the USC School Of Cinematic Arts, while the Isa/NY Festival launches on October 2 in New York at Nyu’s Cantor Film Center.
The slate will include the Us Premiere of Frank Berry’s teen drama I Used to Live Here, the West Coast premiere of Daisy Asquith’s After The Dance, Screen La Star Of Tomorrow Gerard Barrett’s Sundance entry Glassland and the Us premiere of Traders (pictured) by Rachel Moriarty and Peter Murphy.
The Los Angeles programme will include the panel Stories From The Field: Three Irish Film Directors In Hollywood with directors Ruairi Robinson, Ciaran Foy and Gary Shore, as well as masterclasses from screenwriter Naomi Sheridan in Los Angeles and [link...
The flagship event will kick off with the Isa/La Festival on September 25 in Los Angeles at the USC School Of Cinematic Arts, while the Isa/NY Festival launches on October 2 in New York at Nyu’s Cantor Film Center.
The slate will include the Us Premiere of Frank Berry’s teen drama I Used to Live Here, the West Coast premiere of Daisy Asquith’s After The Dance, Screen La Star Of Tomorrow Gerard Barrett’s Sundance entry Glassland and the Us premiere of Traders (pictured) by Rachel Moriarty and Peter Murphy.
The Los Angeles programme will include the panel Stories From The Field: Three Irish Film Directors In Hollywood with directors Ruairi Robinson, Ciaran Foy and Gary Shore, as well as masterclasses from screenwriter Naomi Sheridan in Los Angeles and [link...
- 9/3/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
To mark the release of Glassland on 10th August, we’ve been given 3 copies to give away on DVD. John (Jack Reynor) lives with his mother Jean (Toni Collette) in a social housing suburb and ekes out a meager living as a nocturnal taxi driver. John returns home one morning after work to find his
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- 8/3/2015
- by Competitions
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Kaleidoscope Home Entertainment
To celebrate the release of ‘Glassland’ on DVD, we are giving away 3 copies of the film due to be released on 10th August 2015.
John (Jack Reynor) lives with his mother Jean (Toni Collette) in a social housing suburb and ekes out a meager living as a nocturnal taxi driver. John returns home one morning after work to find his mother unconscious after overdosing on alcohol. This is not the first time John has found her in this state. Jean needs professional help but John has no savings, no insurance, and nobody to turn to. The only extra income he has is from some petty criminal jobs that he carries out in his taxi at night.
Jean violently rejects John’s attempts for help as well as his intentions to unite the family as his younger brother lives in a social care home. John turns to the local...
To celebrate the release of ‘Glassland’ on DVD, we are giving away 3 copies of the film due to be released on 10th August 2015.
John (Jack Reynor) lives with his mother Jean (Toni Collette) in a social housing suburb and ekes out a meager living as a nocturnal taxi driver. John returns home one morning after work to find his mother unconscious after overdosing on alcohol. This is not the first time John has found her in this state. Jean needs professional help but John has no savings, no insurance, and nobody to turn to. The only extra income he has is from some petty criminal jobs that he carries out in his taxi at night.
Jean violently rejects John’s attempts for help as well as his intentions to unite the family as his younger brother lives in a social care home. John turns to the local...
- 7/29/2015
- by Laura Holmes
- Obsessed with Film
There has been a lot of movement, cast wise, lately on Gerard Barrett’s Glassland follow-up, Brain on Fire, over the last few day, with Carrie-Anne Moss (The Matrix) and Richard Armitage (The Hobbit) joining Chloe Grace Moretz (Kick Ass), Thomas Mann (the upcoming Me and Earl and the Dying Girl) and Jenny Slate (Obvious Child) for the Irish director’s account of Susannah Cahalan’s month long descent into madness. Now, the cast grows by one, with Tyler Perry (Gone Girl) joining the project, which is currently in production in Canada. All in all, this is pretty impressive line up for Barrett’s third feature. Brain on Fire is set for release sometime next year.
- 7/20/2015
- by noreply@blogger.com (Tom White)
- www.themoviebit.com
Chloë Grace Moretz stars in drama currently in production in Vancouver.
Carrie-Anne Moss and Richard Armitage have joined the cast of Broad Green Pictures drama Brain on Fire.
Based on Susannah Cahalan’s memoir Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness, the drama is currently in production in Vancouver.
Chloë Grace Moretz (Kick-Ass) is set to play Cahalan while Moss (The Matrix) and Armitage (The Hobbit) will play Susannah’s parents, Tom Cahalan and Rhona Nack.
Gerard Barrett (Glassland) will direct while Charlize Theron, A.J. Dix and Beth Kono of Denver & Delilah, and Rob Merilees and Lindsay Macadam of Foundation Features are producing.
Director of Photography is Yaron Orbach (She’s Funny That Way), production designer is Ross Dempster (Seventh Son), and art director will be Erin Sinclair (Man of Steel). Costume designer is Farnaz Khaki-Sadigh (The Flash) and editor is Justin Li (Nash).
Brain on Fire follows Susannah Cahalan, a rising...
Carrie-Anne Moss and Richard Armitage have joined the cast of Broad Green Pictures drama Brain on Fire.
Based on Susannah Cahalan’s memoir Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness, the drama is currently in production in Vancouver.
Chloë Grace Moretz (Kick-Ass) is set to play Cahalan while Moss (The Matrix) and Armitage (The Hobbit) will play Susannah’s parents, Tom Cahalan and Rhona Nack.
Gerard Barrett (Glassland) will direct while Charlize Theron, A.J. Dix and Beth Kono of Denver & Delilah, and Rob Merilees and Lindsay Macadam of Foundation Features are producing.
Director of Photography is Yaron Orbach (She’s Funny That Way), production designer is Ross Dempster (Seventh Son), and art director will be Erin Sinclair (Man of Steel). Costume designer is Farnaz Khaki-Sadigh (The Flash) and editor is Justin Li (Nash).
Brain on Fire follows Susannah Cahalan, a rising...
- 7/16/2015
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Broad Green Pictures announced today a partnership with Denver & Delilah and Foundation Features to produce and finance Brain On Fire, a film based on Susannah Cahalan’s critically acclaimed memoir Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness, which was first published in 2012 and quickly became a New York Times bestseller.
The film will be directed by Gerard Barrett (Glassland, Pilgrim Hill). Charlize Theron, A.J. Dix and Beth Kono of Denver & Delilah, and Rob Merilees and Lindsay Macadam of Foundation Features are producing.
The film will star Chloë Grace Moretz (If I Stay, Kick-Ass), Jenny Slate (Obvious Child) and Thomas Mann (Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, Project X). Principal photography will begin July 13 in Vancouver and the film is set for release in 2016.
Brain On Fire follows Cahalan (Moretz), a rising journalist at the New York Post who mysteriously starts having seizures and hearing voices. As weeks go...
The film will be directed by Gerard Barrett (Glassland, Pilgrim Hill). Charlize Theron, A.J. Dix and Beth Kono of Denver & Delilah, and Rob Merilees and Lindsay Macadam of Foundation Features are producing.
The film will star Chloë Grace Moretz (If I Stay, Kick-Ass), Jenny Slate (Obvious Child) and Thomas Mann (Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, Project X). Principal photography will begin July 13 in Vancouver and the film is set for release in 2016.
Brain On Fire follows Cahalan (Moretz), a rising journalist at the New York Post who mysteriously starts having seizures and hearing voices. As weeks go...
- 7/7/2015
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Screen La Star Of Tomorrow Gerard Barrett will direct the adaptation of Susannah Cahalan’s memoir to star Chloë Grace Moretz.
Broad Green Pictures, Denver & Delilah and Foundation Features will produce and finance Brain On Fire: My Month Of Madness.
Charlize Theron will serve as producer on the story starring Moretz as a New York Post journalist afflicted by debilitating seizures who finds salvation in a last-gasp diagnosis. Jenny Slate and Thomas Mann also star.
Principal photography is scheduled to start on July 13 in Vancouver for a 2016 Us release via Broad Green. Theron’s Denver & Delilah partners A.J. Dix and Beth Kono will also produce alongside Rob Merilees and Lindsay Macadam of Foundation Features.
Mister Smith continues to represent international sales after launching the project at the Efm last February. Broad Green owns a 45% stake in the company and the partners previously announced they were working together on Buena Vista Social Club – Adios.
Barrett’s drama...
Broad Green Pictures, Denver & Delilah and Foundation Features will produce and finance Brain On Fire: My Month Of Madness.
Charlize Theron will serve as producer on the story starring Moretz as a New York Post journalist afflicted by debilitating seizures who finds salvation in a last-gasp diagnosis. Jenny Slate and Thomas Mann also star.
Principal photography is scheduled to start on July 13 in Vancouver for a 2016 Us release via Broad Green. Theron’s Denver & Delilah partners A.J. Dix and Beth Kono will also produce alongside Rob Merilees and Lindsay Macadam of Foundation Features.
Mister Smith continues to represent international sales after launching the project at the Efm last February. Broad Green owns a 45% stake in the company and the partners previously announced they were working together on Buena Vista Social Club – Adios.
Barrett’s drama...
- 7/7/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Broad Green Pictures is teaming with Charlize Theron’s Denver & Delilah and Foundation Features to produce and finance Brain On Fire, the film based on Susannah Cahalan's bestselling memoir. Chloë Grace Moretz has been tapped to play the lead role of a young woman's terrifying descent into insanity. When Denver & Delilah acquired rights to the book back in May 2014, it had Dakota Fanning attached. Gerard Barrett (Glassland) will direct the pic, which still co-stars Jenny…...
- 7/7/2015
- Deadline
Producer Charlize Theron and Broad Green Pictures are teaming up to adapt the best-selling memoir “Brain on Fire,” with Chloe Grace Moretz, Jenny Slate and Thomas Mann (“Me and Earl and The Dying Girl”) to star. Broad Green will partner with Denver & Delilah and Foundation Features to produce and finance the the film, based on Susannah Cahalan’s 2012 autobiography “Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness.” Moretz will play the author and New York Post journalist who begins to hear voices and experience seizures, leading her down a path of insanity and a desperate search for a diagnosis. Gerard Barrett...
- 7/7/2015
- by Matt Donnelly
- The Wrap
Following up Pilgrim Hill and Glassland, Irish director Gerard Barrett’s Brain on Fire, based on Sussanah Cahalan’s best selling account of her descent into insanity following a mystery illness, hit a speed bump following Dakota Fanning’s, who signed on last Summer, departure due to scheduling conflicts. But, The Hollywood Reporter is now reporting a replacement has been found, with Chloe Grace Moretz stepping into the lead role. The follows another change in cast, with Thomas Mann replacing the previously announced Will Poulter as Susannah’s boyfriend. With Barrett also adapting the screen play, Brain on Fire begins production in July, with a release date set for sometime next year.
- 6/27/2015
- by noreply@blogger.com (Tom White)
- www.themoviebit.com
One of England’s most exciting filmmakers is tackling his biggest project yet in thriller Free Fire, and today brings word that he’s recruiting some red-hot talents to round out the pic’s cast.
Director Ben Wheatley (Sightseers, A Field in England) has tapped Jack Reynor (Transformers: Age of Extinction), Sam Riley (Maleficent) and Noah Taylor (Submarine) for supporting roles in the film. The trio join a stacked cast that already boasts Brie Larson, Cillian Murphy, Armie Hammer, Sharlto Copley and Michael Smiley. Enzo Cilenti and Babou Ceesay also have supporting roles in the pic.
Free Fire centers on a woman (Larson) who sets up an arms deal between two Irishmen (Murphy and Smiley) and members of a gang (including Hammer and Copley). Meeting inside a deserted warehouse, the group initiates the deal, only for a furious firefight to break out when shots go off mid-handoff.
Reynor had a...
Director Ben Wheatley (Sightseers, A Field in England) has tapped Jack Reynor (Transformers: Age of Extinction), Sam Riley (Maleficent) and Noah Taylor (Submarine) for supporting roles in the film. The trio join a stacked cast that already boasts Brie Larson, Cillian Murphy, Armie Hammer, Sharlto Copley and Michael Smiley. Enzo Cilenti and Babou Ceesay also have supporting roles in the pic.
Free Fire centers on a woman (Larson) who sets up an arms deal between two Irishmen (Murphy and Smiley) and members of a gang (including Hammer and Copley). Meeting inside a deserted warehouse, the group initiates the deal, only for a furious firefight to break out when shots go off mid-handoff.
Reynor had a...
- 6/10/2015
- by Isaac Feldberg
- We Got This Covered
Exclusive: Thomas Mann and Jenny Slate are in talks to join Dakota Fanning in Brain On Fire. Glassland's Gerard Barrett is directing his scripted adaptation of the Susannah Cahalan's bestselling memoir Brain On Fire: My Month Of Madness, with Fanning playing the author during a terrifying and sudden descent into insanity as the result of a mysterious illness. Charlize Theron, Beth Kono and Aj Dix are producing for Denver and Delilah Films, and Rob Merilees for Foundation…...
- 5/26/2015
- Deadline
The A-list cast on FilmNation’s Nazi thriller is taking shape as it emerged that Jason Clarke, Rosamund Pike, Jack O’Connell, Jack Reynor and Mia Wasikowska have come on board.
FilmNation will be meeting with buyers on the Croisette to discuss Hhhh, a second Heydrich assassination story in the market alongside Altitude’s Anthropoid, which sees Sean Ellis lining up to direct Jamie Dornan and Cillian Murphy.
Cedric Jimenez will direct Hhhh, about the rapid rise and stunning assassination of the ‘Final Solution’ architect Reinhard Heydrich.
Principal photography is scheduled for early August in Prague and Budapest. Legende Films, Adama Pictures, Echo Lake Entertainment and FilmNation are financing. Wme Global handles Us rights.
Clarke will play Heydrich, who became the highest ranking Nazi killed during WWII when he was slain by paratroopers in 1942. The actor stars as John Connor in summer tentpole Terminator: Genisys and will be seen in September release Everest.
Pike, an Oscar...
FilmNation will be meeting with buyers on the Croisette to discuss Hhhh, a second Heydrich assassination story in the market alongside Altitude’s Anthropoid, which sees Sean Ellis lining up to direct Jamie Dornan and Cillian Murphy.
Cedric Jimenez will direct Hhhh, about the rapid rise and stunning assassination of the ‘Final Solution’ architect Reinhard Heydrich.
Principal photography is scheduled for early August in Prague and Budapest. Legende Films, Adama Pictures, Echo Lake Entertainment and FilmNation are financing. Wme Global handles Us rights.
Clarke will play Heydrich, who became the highest ranking Nazi killed during WWII when he was slain by paratroopers in 1942. The actor stars as John Connor in summer tentpole Terminator: Genisys and will be seen in September release Everest.
Pike, an Oscar...
- 5/6/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Watch out Tim Curry. Over at Variety they're reporting that Cary Fukunaga (of Sin Nombre, Jane Eyre, Beasts of No Nation, "True Detective") has cast the lead in his new It feature, which will be split into two movies. Sources have told them that young actor Will Poulter, currently 22 years old, is "in negotiations" to play Pennywise the evil clown. Poulter last appeared in The Maze Runner as Gally, along with A Plea for Grimsby, Glassland, We're the Millers and Son of Rambow. He's also in the upcoming The Revenant, which we'll all be watching this December. Apparently the audition won over Fukunaga and they couldn't say no. We've been following development on this It project for years, but with Cary Fukunaga bouncing all over between major projects after winning the Emmy for directing "True Detective", it's hard to tell if this was happening sooner or later. It now appears sooner might be the case.
- 5/4/2015
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Other nominees include Glassland, I Used To Live Here, Noble and Song of the Sea.Scroll down for full list of nominations
The Irish Film & Television Academy has announced the nominees for the Ifta Film and Drama Awards, set to take place on May 24 at Dublin’s Mansion House.
Lenny Abrahamson’s music comedy Frank and Terry McMahon’s girtty drama Patrick’s Day lead the pack with nine nominations each.
Gerard Barrett drama Glassland, which played at Sundance in January, follows with six nominations.
Films with three nominations apiece include Frank Berry’s I Used To Live Here, Tomm Moore’s Oscar-nominated animation Song of the Sea, and Stephen Bradley’s biopic Noble.
In the best actor cateogy, Patrick’s Day’s Moe Dunford will go head to head with A-listers Colin Farrell (Miss Julie) and Michael Fassbender (Frank) as well as Transformers star Jack Reynor (Glassland).
As previously announced, the annual...
The Irish Film & Television Academy has announced the nominees for the Ifta Film and Drama Awards, set to take place on May 24 at Dublin’s Mansion House.
Lenny Abrahamson’s music comedy Frank and Terry McMahon’s girtty drama Patrick’s Day lead the pack with nine nominations each.
Gerard Barrett drama Glassland, which played at Sundance in January, follows with six nominations.
Films with three nominations apiece include Frank Berry’s I Used To Live Here, Tomm Moore’s Oscar-nominated animation Song of the Sea, and Stephen Bradley’s biopic Noble.
In the best actor cateogy, Patrick’s Day’s Moe Dunford will go head to head with A-listers Colin Farrell (Miss Julie) and Michael Fassbender (Frank) as well as Transformers star Jack Reynor (Glassland).
As previously announced, the annual...
- 4/29/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Question; what do you do when your first movie earns you an award whose previous recipients include Michael Fassbender and Soairse Ronan, as well as being met with widespread critical acclaim? If you're Gerard Barrett, you try to follow it up with another indie drama brimming over with emotional depth and anchored by some magnificent performances. Barrett's feature debut, Pilgrim Hill, was widely lauded on it's release, but rather than sit back and wait for Hollywood to come knocking, he's crafted another visceral and potent drama with a host of Irish and international talent. Glassland is a story about relationships and how the strains of life can lead even the strongest bonds to fracture and splint. Jack Reynor plays John, a young man working a job he's not enamored with in his local suburb, but one on whom his mother is increasingly dependent on to fund her alcoholism. Their relationship...
- 4/17/2015
- by noreply@blogger.com (Vic Barry)
- www.themoviebit.com
Twenty years after her breakout role in Muriel’s Wedding, the Australian actor explains why it was hard to let go of her latest turn as an alcoholic mother – and why she remains a nomad at heart
Usually when you’re shooting a movie you start with an easy, ease-in scene,” says Toni Collette. “Maybe you’ll walk from your car to a store. But there was no such scene in this movie. Every scene was like being punched.” A full 20 years after her breakout role in Muriel’s Wedding, the Australian actor has earned the right to take things easy. But instead of spreading herself thin in studio movies, Collette is still happily taking risks in the independent world, as she does in Glassland, the second film by a little-known Irishman named Gerard Barrett, whom she describes later, in a very emphatic text, as “the real deal”.
Though really...
Usually when you’re shooting a movie you start with an easy, ease-in scene,” says Toni Collette. “Maybe you’ll walk from your car to a store. But there was no such scene in this movie. Every scene was like being punched.” A full 20 years after her breakout role in Muriel’s Wedding, the Australian actor has earned the right to take things easy. But instead of spreading herself thin in studio movies, Collette is still happily taking risks in the independent world, as she does in Glassland, the second film by a little-known Irishman named Gerard Barrett, whom she describes later, in a very emphatic text, as “the real deal”.
Though really...
- 4/16/2015
- by Damon Wise
- The Guardian - Film News
Earlier on this evening I caught up with the incredibly talented Gerard Barrett and shot the breeze about his new movie with Jack Reynor, Toni Collette and WIll Poulter, called Glassland. Ger gave a fascinating insight into the movie making process here from holding on for Jack Reyor for a year due to Michael Bay commitments to how pivotal a role hammer holes were for the cast in the movie. We also spoke about his upcoming projects with Charlize Theron and Leonard DiCaprio and plenty more besides. To say the dude is inspirational is an understatement. His attitude to Hollywood alone is worth listening for!! Glassland is released this Friday in Irish cinemas Subscribe on iTunes – Click here (Click view in iTunes and the click Subscribe) If you’re already a subscriber, the latest episode is ready to download. iPhone / iPad Users– Click here to open your iTunes podcast app and click Subscribe!
- 4/13/2015
- by noreply@blogger.com (Vic Barry)
- www.themoviebit.com
Even though our team at the Sundance Film Festival really wanted to make room in the schedule to see "Glassland," it just couldn't be managed. But perhaps we all should've tried a bit harder. The drama features a terrific trio of leads in what looks like a potent, raw drama that hits all the emotional buttons. And a new trailer for the film is here. Written and directed by Gerard Barrett, and starring Jack Reynor, Will Poulter, and Toni Collette, the story follows a young taxi driver, dabbling with the criminal underworld, who tries to save his mother who is in the throes of a crippling alcohol addiction. It's not the sunniest walk through the park, but it looks like a film that approaches its subject matter unflinchingly. And the performances appear to be top notch as well, with Reynor leaving Park City with the World Cinema Dramatic acting award.
- 3/3/2015
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Exclusive: Screen International La Star Of Tomorrow 2014 Gerard Barrett’s crime drama starring Toni Collette and Jack Reynor proved a popular sales title at the recent Efm in Berlin.
UK-based Kaleidoscope Film Distribution has licensed rights to Benelux (Just Bridge), Scandinavia (Angel) and Hong Kong (Edko).
Glassland tells of a young man who gets pulled into the world of human trafficking while trying to save his mother from a life of addiction. Will Poulter and Michael Smiley also star.
The Irish film-maker’s Sundance world premiere will open in the UK and Ireland in April via Element Pictures. Kaleidoscope handles international sales and represents Us rights.
UK-based Kaleidoscope Film Distribution has licensed rights to Benelux (Just Bridge), Scandinavia (Angel) and Hong Kong (Edko).
Glassland tells of a young man who gets pulled into the world of human trafficking while trying to save his mother from a life of addiction. Will Poulter and Michael Smiley also star.
The Irish film-maker’s Sundance world premiere will open in the UK and Ireland in April via Element Pictures. Kaleidoscope handles international sales and represents Us rights.
- 2/26/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Mia Wasikowska and Guy Pearce are set for epic thriller, Brimstone. Dutch helmer Martin Koolhoven (Winter In Wartime) is directing and wrote the script. Wasikowska plays a heroine on the run from her past and hunted by Pearce’s diabolical Preacher. Els Vandevorst of N279 Entertainment is producing. Shooting starts in May. Embankment has international sales here and CAA is repping domestic.
Nicolas Chartier’s Voltage Pictures has boarded international rights on action-thriller Officer Downe. Based on the Image Comics graphic novel by Joe Casey and Chris Burnham, it’s being directed by M Shawn Crahan of heavy metal band Slipknot, who’s making his feature debut. Mark Neveldine, Skip Williamson, Casey and Cole Payne are producing. Casey wrote the script about a justice-delivering ultimate policeman who, thanks to a telepathic science experiment, is resurrected over and over to take on the scourge of the La underworld. Living Out Loud...
Nicolas Chartier’s Voltage Pictures has boarded international rights on action-thriller Officer Downe. Based on the Image Comics graphic novel by Joe Casey and Chris Burnham, it’s being directed by M Shawn Crahan of heavy metal band Slipknot, who’s making his feature debut. Mark Neveldine, Skip Williamson, Casey and Cole Payne are producing. Casey wrote the script about a justice-delivering ultimate policeman who, thanks to a telepathic science experiment, is resurrected over and over to take on the scourge of the La underworld. Living Out Loud...
- 2/5/2015
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline
We’re the Millers star Will Poulter will co-star opposite Dakota Fanning in drama Brain on Fire, which David Garrett’s Mister Smith Entertainment is selling at Efm.
Shooting on the true-life drama, about a woman’s descent into insanity, is due to get underway in May.
Gerard Barrett will direct from his own screenplay.
Producers are Charlize Theron, Beth Kino, Aj Dix and Rob Merilees. Wme is handling domestic.
Poulter is currently starring in the Barrett’s well-received Sundance feature Glassland.
Shooting on the true-life drama, about a woman’s descent into insanity, is due to get underway in May.
Gerard Barrett will direct from his own screenplay.
Producers are Charlize Theron, Beth Kino, Aj Dix and Rob Merilees. Wme is handling domestic.
Poulter is currently starring in the Barrett’s well-received Sundance feature Glassland.
- 2/5/2015
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Michael and I had a lot of fun covering this year's Sundance for you, though we definitely missed Glenn this time around resulting in less films covered. The more is always the merrier with movies. Here is a complete list of our 29 reviews in alpha order by film in case you missed any or to use as a reference guide when the films reemerge in the real world.
Tomorrow we'll talk favorite performances and Oscar (we realize it's way too early) but that's a separate conversation. Here's to Sundance 2015!
The Movies We Screened
10,000 Saints (Michael) Manhattan in the 80s with Hailee & Asa
Brooklyn (Nathaniel) Saoirse Ronan grows up in this lovely adaptation of the bestseller
The D Train (Nathaniel) comedy starring Jack Black & James Marsden
Dark Horse (Nathaniel) documentary on breeding race horses
Diary of a Teenager Girl (Michael) sexual coming-of-age drama
Dope (Nathaniel) a hip hop lovin' comic treat...
Tomorrow we'll talk favorite performances and Oscar (we realize it's way too early) but that's a separate conversation. Here's to Sundance 2015!
The Movies We Screened
10,000 Saints (Michael) Manhattan in the 80s with Hailee & Asa
Brooklyn (Nathaniel) Saoirse Ronan grows up in this lovely adaptation of the bestseller
The D Train (Nathaniel) comedy starring Jack Black & James Marsden
Dark Horse (Nathaniel) documentary on breeding race horses
Diary of a Teenager Girl (Michael) sexual coming-of-age drama
Dope (Nathaniel) a hip hop lovin' comic treat...
- 2/5/2015
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Now that it’s all over, let’s take an Oscar-specific look at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, which could very well serve as a partial crystal ball into what will be happening in the awards race a year from now.
In the past few years, the Best Picture-nominated likes of “Precious,” “An Education,” “The Kids Are All Right,” “Winter’s Bone” and “Beasts of the Southern Wild” all debuted at the festival. Last year was obviously no exception, with Sundance arguably being the film festival Mvp when it came to the Oscars. Park City premieres “Boyhood” and “Whiplash” both received Best Picture nominations, with the former the shaky frontrunner to end up winning (the first time a Sundance film will have ever done so).
Is this year’s lineup heading for a similar victory? It’s clearly way too soon to know anything for certain, but here are our...
In the past few years, the Best Picture-nominated likes of “Precious,” “An Education,” “The Kids Are All Right,” “Winter’s Bone” and “Beasts of the Southern Wild” all debuted at the festival. Last year was obviously no exception, with Sundance arguably being the film festival Mvp when it came to the Oscars. Park City premieres “Boyhood” and “Whiplash” both received Best Picture nominations, with the former the shaky frontrunner to end up winning (the first time a Sundance film will have ever done so).
Is this year’s lineup heading for a similar victory? It’s clearly way too soon to know anything for certain, but here are our...
- 2/3/2015
- by Peter Knegt
- Indiewire
Sundance breakout Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, a quirky, heartfelt story about a pair of high school film-lovers who befriend a girl with cancer, won both the U.S. dramatic audience award and the grand jury prize at the 31st Sundance Film Festival awards, announced Saturday.
Thomas Mann, R.J. Cyler and Olivia Cooke lead the cast of the idiosyncratic tearjerker from director Alfonso Gomez-Rejon, who dedicated the audience award to all the filmmakers and artists in his hometown of Laredo, Texas. Nick Offerman, Connie Britton, and Molly Shannon also star.
"My love goes out to the entire cast and crew," Gomez-Rejon said. "This movie was about processing loss, but really to celebrate a beautiful life and a beautiful man, which is my amazing father ... to celebrate his life through humor."
The Wolfpack, Crystal Moselle's documentary about six movie-loving teenage boys isolated from society picked up the...
Thomas Mann, R.J. Cyler and Olivia Cooke lead the cast of the idiosyncratic tearjerker from director Alfonso Gomez-Rejon, who dedicated the audience award to all the filmmakers and artists in his hometown of Laredo, Texas. Nick Offerman, Connie Britton, and Molly Shannon also star.
"My love goes out to the entire cast and crew," Gomez-Rejon said. "This movie was about processing loss, but really to celebrate a beautiful life and a beautiful man, which is my amazing father ... to celebrate his life through humor."
The Wolfpack, Crystal Moselle's documentary about six movie-loving teenage boys isolated from society picked up the...
- 2/2/2015
- by Cineplex.com and contributors
- Cineplex
Glassland
Written and Directed by Gerard Barrett
Ireland, 2014
One of the most well acted films of this year’s Sundance Film Festival, Glassland is directed by Irish filmmaker Gerard Barrett. The film follows John (Jack Reynor), a young taxi driver in Dublin who gets involved with the local criminal underworld in order to make the necessary money to put his alcoholic mother (Toni Collette) in recovery and reunite and fix his broken family. It’s an intimate character thriller that operates on a slow but tense burn.
Jack Reynor proves he hasn’t lost a step even with a detour performance in the much-reviled Transformers: Age of Extinction. While many are only familiar with his role in Transformers, and as a result have written him off as an interchangeable young hunk, those people have likely not seen him in 2012’s What Richard Did where he gave a memorable performance. Lack...
Written and Directed by Gerard Barrett
Ireland, 2014
One of the most well acted films of this year’s Sundance Film Festival, Glassland is directed by Irish filmmaker Gerard Barrett. The film follows John (Jack Reynor), a young taxi driver in Dublin who gets involved with the local criminal underworld in order to make the necessary money to put his alcoholic mother (Toni Collette) in recovery and reunite and fix his broken family. It’s an intimate character thriller that operates on a slow but tense burn.
Jack Reynor proves he hasn’t lost a step even with a detour performance in the much-reviled Transformers: Age of Extinction. While many are only familiar with his role in Transformers, and as a result have written him off as an interchangeable young hunk, those people have likely not seen him in 2012’s What Richard Did where he gave a memorable performance. Lack...
- 2/1/2015
- by Dylan Griffin
- SoundOnSight
Following a bidding war that netted the film a sale of $12 million, a record at Sundance, the much hyped Me & Earl and the Dying Girl won both the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award from the Sundance Film Festival Awards Saturday evening. The previous film to win both prizes was 2014’s Whiplash, which is now up for an Oscar nomination for Best Picture.
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (our own Dylan Griffin raved about it) tells the story of an anti-social high school senior who is forced by his mother to become friends with a girl suffering from leukemia. Directed by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon (Glee, American Horror Story), the film stars Thomas Mann, Rj Cyler, Olivia Cooke, Nick Offerman, Connie Britton, and Molly Shannon.
Fox Searchlight and Indian Paintbrush are now planning a 2015 release for the film. Me and Earl and the Dying Girl was selected by a jury that included Cary Fukunaga,...
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (our own Dylan Griffin raved about it) tells the story of an anti-social high school senior who is forced by his mother to become friends with a girl suffering from leukemia. Directed by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon (Glee, American Horror Story), the film stars Thomas Mann, Rj Cyler, Olivia Cooke, Nick Offerman, Connie Britton, and Molly Shannon.
Fox Searchlight and Indian Paintbrush are now planning a 2015 release for the film. Me and Earl and the Dying Girl was selected by a jury that included Cary Fukunaga,...
- 2/1/2015
- by Brian Welk
- SoundOnSight
U.S Dramatic
Grand Jury Prize
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (Alfonso Gomez-Rejon)
Audience Award
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (Alfonso Gomez-Rejon)
Directing Award
The Witch (Robert Eggers, U.S./Canada)
Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award
The Stanford Prison Experiment (Tim Talbott)
Special Jury Award – Excellence in Cinematography
Diary of a Teenage Girl (Brandon Trost)
Special Jury Award – Excellence in Editing
Dope (Lee Haugen)
Special Jury Award – Collaborative Vision
Advantageous (Jacqueline Kim, Jennifer Phang)
U.S. Documentary
Grand Jury Prize
The Wolfpack (Crystal Moselle)
Audience Award
Meru (Jimmy Chin, E. Chai Vasarhelyi)
Directing Award
Cartel Land (Matthew Heineman, U.S./Mexico)
Special Jury Award — Social Impact
3 1/2 Minutes (Marc Silver)
Special Jury Award – Verite Filmmaking
Western (Bill Ross, Turner Ross)
Special Jury Award – Break Out First Feature
(T)error (Lyric R. Cabral, David Felix Sutcliffe)
Special Jury Award – Cinematography
Cartel Land (Matthew Heineman, Matt Porwoll)
World Cinema Dramatic...
Grand Jury Prize
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (Alfonso Gomez-Rejon)
Audience Award
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (Alfonso Gomez-Rejon)
Directing Award
The Witch (Robert Eggers, U.S./Canada)
Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award
The Stanford Prison Experiment (Tim Talbott)
Special Jury Award – Excellence in Cinematography
Diary of a Teenage Girl (Brandon Trost)
Special Jury Award – Excellence in Editing
Dope (Lee Haugen)
Special Jury Award – Collaborative Vision
Advantageous (Jacqueline Kim, Jennifer Phang)
U.S. Documentary
Grand Jury Prize
The Wolfpack (Crystal Moselle)
Audience Award
Meru (Jimmy Chin, E. Chai Vasarhelyi)
Directing Award
Cartel Land (Matthew Heineman, U.S./Mexico)
Special Jury Award — Social Impact
3 1/2 Minutes (Marc Silver)
Special Jury Award – Verite Filmmaking
Western (Bill Ross, Turner Ross)
Special Jury Award – Break Out First Feature
(T)error (Lyric R. Cabral, David Felix Sutcliffe)
Special Jury Award – Cinematography
Cartel Land (Matthew Heineman, Matt Porwoll)
World Cinema Dramatic...
- 2/1/2015
- by Notebook
- MUBI
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