Netflix Remaking French Classic ‘The Wages Of Fear’ With Julien Leclercq At Helm; Unveils First Look
Netflix has announced a remake of the 1950s French classic The Wages of Fear (Le Salaire de la Peur), in a production reuniting the platform with action-thriller maestro Julien Leclercq.
Production is currently underway on the untitled film for a scheduled release in 2024.
The 1953 original starred Yves Montand, Peter van Eyck, Charles Vanel and Folco Lulli as four down-on-their-luck men who are hired to drive trucks laden with nitroglycerine through the mountains as part of an operation to extinguish an oil well fire.
The work is regarded as one of the most suspenseful action-thrillers of all time.
Leclercq’s reboot stars Franck Gastambide, best known internationally for his role in Taxi 5, opposite Alban Lenoir (Lost Bullet), Ana Girardot (The House) and Sofiane Zermani (No Limit).
“To reunite this cast for the reboot of such a film, for a worldwide broadcast with Netflix, forces me to put all my heart and guts into it,...
Production is currently underway on the untitled film for a scheduled release in 2024.
The 1953 original starred Yves Montand, Peter van Eyck, Charles Vanel and Folco Lulli as four down-on-their-luck men who are hired to drive trucks laden with nitroglycerine through the mountains as part of an operation to extinguish an oil well fire.
The work is regarded as one of the most suspenseful action-thrillers of all time.
Leclercq’s reboot stars Franck Gastambide, best known internationally for his role in Taxi 5, opposite Alban Lenoir (Lost Bullet), Ana Girardot (The House) and Sofiane Zermani (No Limit).
“To reunite this cast for the reboot of such a film, for a worldwide broadcast with Netflix, forces me to put all my heart and guts into it,...
- 4/11/2023
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Netflix is taking a swing at another film classic, rebooting the Henri-Georges Clouzot’s 1953 French adventure thriller The Wages of Fear.
Julien Leclercq, a French action director whose credits include 2010’s hijacking thriller The Assault, 2021’s Sentinelle starring Olga Kurylenko, and the Netflix crime series Ganglands, will adapt the original film, together with his Ganglands co-writer Hamid Hlioua.
Franck Gastambide, Alban Lenoir, Ana Girardot and Sofiane Zermani have signed on to star in the new, currently untitled, remake, which will roll out on Netflix worldwide next year.
“To reunite this cast for the reboot of such a film, for a worldwide broadcast with Netflix, forces me to put all my heart and guts into it,” said Leclercq. “The ambition is huge.”
Leclercq and Julien Madon will produce the film for Netflix via Labyrinthe Films and TF1 Studio.
Poster for the original ‘Wages of Fear’ (1953)
Clouzot and directed and co-wrote the...
Julien Leclercq, a French action director whose credits include 2010’s hijacking thriller The Assault, 2021’s Sentinelle starring Olga Kurylenko, and the Netflix crime series Ganglands, will adapt the original film, together with his Ganglands co-writer Hamid Hlioua.
Franck Gastambide, Alban Lenoir, Ana Girardot and Sofiane Zermani have signed on to star in the new, currently untitled, remake, which will roll out on Netflix worldwide next year.
“To reunite this cast for the reboot of such a film, for a worldwide broadcast with Netflix, forces me to put all my heart and guts into it,” said Leclercq. “The ambition is huge.”
Leclercq and Julien Madon will produce the film for Netflix via Labyrinthe Films and TF1 Studio.
Poster for the original ‘Wages of Fear’ (1953)
Clouzot and directed and co-wrote the...
- 4/11/2023
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Stars: Brittany Baker, Pooch Hall, Chris Whitcomb, Eric Lutes, David Gere, Brendan Kelleher, Salvatore DelGreco, Angie Campbell, Eric Allan Kramer | Written and Directed by Matthew Kohnen
Alarmed is the latest original film from the streaming service Tubi. Regular readers may have noticed it’s been a while since I’ve reviewed one of those, and there’s a simple reason for that. Apart from Terror Train, which went to a different service here, they haven’t done anything that caught my attention lately. This sounded like it could be a decent home invasion thriller so I gave it a look.
Janet and Sean are having marital issues. The fact their son Billy got busted for hacking some government networks and is back living with them 24/7 while he serves a sentence under house arrest isn’t helping matters.
They decide they need some time to themselves and plan a weekend getaway.
Alarmed is the latest original film from the streaming service Tubi. Regular readers may have noticed it’s been a while since I’ve reviewed one of those, and there’s a simple reason for that. Apart from Terror Train, which went to a different service here, they haven’t done anything that caught my attention lately. This sounded like it could be a decent home invasion thriller so I gave it a look.
Janet and Sean are having marital issues. The fact their son Billy got busted for hacking some government networks and is back living with them 24/7 while he serves a sentence under house arrest isn’t helping matters.
They decide they need some time to themselves and plan a weekend getaway.
- 2/24/2023
- by Jim Morazzini
- Nerdly
Netflix is getting rid of a load of movies and TV shows from its service in January.
The next 31 days may bring plenty more titles for subscribers to stream, but there are several things that may suddenly disappear from your watchlist throughout the month.
This was set too include one of the service’s most-streamed titles. until bosses managed to reverse the removal following outcry from users.
To minimise surprise, we have put together a comprehensive list of everything being removed.
Find a full list of everything being added to Netflix in January 2023 here.
Nb: The Independent compiled this list with help from What’s on Netflix.
Shows And Films Leaving Netflix UK:
1 January
The Accidental Golfer
Adult Behaviour… It’s All in the Mind
Angel (2008)
Annabell’s Spectacularities
The Apple War
Artificial Svensson
As Seen On TV
The Assault
Bang
Barbie: A Fairy Secret
The Bells in Old Town...
The next 31 days may bring plenty more titles for subscribers to stream, but there are several things that may suddenly disappear from your watchlist throughout the month.
This was set too include one of the service’s most-streamed titles. until bosses managed to reverse the removal following outcry from users.
To minimise surprise, we have put together a comprehensive list of everything being removed.
Find a full list of everything being added to Netflix in January 2023 here.
Nb: The Independent compiled this list with help from What’s on Netflix.
Shows And Films Leaving Netflix UK:
1 January
The Accidental Golfer
Adult Behaviour… It’s All in the Mind
Angel (2008)
Annabell’s Spectacularities
The Apple War
Artificial Svensson
As Seen On TV
The Assault
Bang
Barbie: A Fairy Secret
The Bells in Old Town...
- 1/8/2023
- by Jacob Stolworthy
- The Independent - Film
Netflix is getting rid of a load of movies and TV shows from its service in January.
The next 31 days may bring plenty more titles for subscribers to stream, but there are several things that may suddenly disappear from your watchlist throughout the month.
This was set too include one of the service’s most-streamed titles. until bosses managed to reverse the removal following outcry from users.
To minimise surprise, we have put together a comprehensive list of everything being removed.
Find a full list of everything being added to Netflix in January 2023 here.
Nb: The Independent compiled this list with help from What’s on Netflix.
Shows And Films Leaving Netflix UK:
1 January
The Accidental Golfer
Adult Behaviour… It’s All in the Mind
Angel (2008)
Annabell’s Spectacularities
The Apple War
Artificial Svensson
As Seen On TV
The Assault
Bang
Barbie: A Fairy Secret
The Bells in Old Town...
The next 31 days may bring plenty more titles for subscribers to stream, but there are several things that may suddenly disappear from your watchlist throughout the month.
This was set too include one of the service’s most-streamed titles. until bosses managed to reverse the removal following outcry from users.
To minimise surprise, we have put together a comprehensive list of everything being removed.
Find a full list of everything being added to Netflix in January 2023 here.
Nb: The Independent compiled this list with help from What’s on Netflix.
Shows And Films Leaving Netflix UK:
1 January
The Accidental Golfer
Adult Behaviour… It’s All in the Mind
Angel (2008)
Annabell’s Spectacularities
The Apple War
Artificial Svensson
As Seen On TV
The Assault
Bang
Barbie: A Fairy Secret
The Bells in Old Town...
- 1/8/2023
- by Jacob Stolworthy
- The Independent - TV
Netflix is getting rid of a load of movies and TV shows from its service in January.
The next few weeks may bring plenty more titles for subscribers to stream, but there are several things that may suddenly disappear from your watchlist throughout the month.
This was set to include one of the service’s most-streamed titles. until bosses managed to reverse the removal following outcry from users.
To minimise surprise, we have put together a comprehensive list of everything being removed.
Find a full list of everything being added to Netflix in January 2023 here.
Nb: The Independent compiled this list with help from What’s on Netflix.
Shows And Films Leaving Netflix UK:
1 January
The Accidental Golfer
Adult Behaviour… It’s All in the Mind
Angel (2008)
Annabell’s Spectacularities
The Apple War
Artificial Svensson
As Seen On TV
The Assault
Bang
Barbie: A Fairy Secret
The Bells in Old...
The next few weeks may bring plenty more titles for subscribers to stream, but there are several things that may suddenly disappear from your watchlist throughout the month.
This was set to include one of the service’s most-streamed titles. until bosses managed to reverse the removal following outcry from users.
To minimise surprise, we have put together a comprehensive list of everything being removed.
Find a full list of everything being added to Netflix in January 2023 here.
Nb: The Independent compiled this list with help from What’s on Netflix.
Shows And Films Leaving Netflix UK:
1 January
The Accidental Golfer
Adult Behaviour… It’s All in the Mind
Angel (2008)
Annabell’s Spectacularities
The Apple War
Artificial Svensson
As Seen On TV
The Assault
Bang
Barbie: A Fairy Secret
The Bells in Old...
- 1/8/2023
- by Jacob Stolworthy
- The Independent - Film
Netflix is getting rid of a load of movies and TV shows from its service in January.
The next few weeks may bring plenty more titles for subscribers to stream, but there are several things that may suddenly disappear from your watchlist throughout the month.
This was set to include one of the service’s most-streamed titles. until bosses managed to reverse the removal following outcry from users.
To minimise surprise, we have put together a comprehensive list of everything being removed.
Find a full list of everything being added to Netflix in January 2023 here.
Nb: The Independent compiled this list with help from What’s on Netflix.
Shows And Films Leaving Netflix UK:
1 January
The Accidental Golfer
Adult Behaviour… It’s All in the Mind
Angel (2008)
Annabell’s Spectacularities
The Apple War
Artificial Svensson
As Seen On TV
The Assault
Bang
Barbie: A Fairy Secret
The Bells in Old...
The next few weeks may bring plenty more titles for subscribers to stream, but there are several things that may suddenly disappear from your watchlist throughout the month.
This was set to include one of the service’s most-streamed titles. until bosses managed to reverse the removal following outcry from users.
To minimise surprise, we have put together a comprehensive list of everything being removed.
Find a full list of everything being added to Netflix in January 2023 here.
Nb: The Independent compiled this list with help from What’s on Netflix.
Shows And Films Leaving Netflix UK:
1 January
The Accidental Golfer
Adult Behaviour… It’s All in the Mind
Angel (2008)
Annabell’s Spectacularities
The Apple War
Artificial Svensson
As Seen On TV
The Assault
Bang
Barbie: A Fairy Secret
The Bells in Old...
- 1/8/2023
- by Jacob Stolworthy
- The Independent - TV
Netflix is getting rid of a load of movies and TV shows from its service in January.
The next 31 days may bring plenty more titles for subscribers to stream, but there are several things that may suddenly disappear from your watchlist throughout the month.
This includes one of the service’s most-streamed titles.
To minimise surprise, we have put together a comprehensive list of everything being removed.
Find a full list of everything being added to Netflix in January 2023 here.
Nb: The Independent compiled this list with help from What’s on Netflix.
Shows And Films Leaving Netflix UK:
1 January
The Accidental Golfer
Adult Behaviour… It’s All in the Mind
Angel (2008)
Annabell’s Spectacularities
The Apple War
Artificial Svensson
As Seen On TV
The Assault
Bang
Barbie: A Fairy Secret
The Bells in Old Town
Best Before
Beware of the Jonsson Gang
Bit by Bit
Bitch Hug
Bitter Sweetheart...
The next 31 days may bring plenty more titles for subscribers to stream, but there are several things that may suddenly disappear from your watchlist throughout the month.
This includes one of the service’s most-streamed titles.
To minimise surprise, we have put together a comprehensive list of everything being removed.
Find a full list of everything being added to Netflix in January 2023 here.
Nb: The Independent compiled this list with help from What’s on Netflix.
Shows And Films Leaving Netflix UK:
1 January
The Accidental Golfer
Adult Behaviour… It’s All in the Mind
Angel (2008)
Annabell’s Spectacularities
The Apple War
Artificial Svensson
As Seen On TV
The Assault
Bang
Barbie: A Fairy Secret
The Bells in Old Town
Best Before
Beware of the Jonsson Gang
Bit by Bit
Bitch Hug
Bitter Sweetheart...
- 1/7/2023
- by Jacob Stolworthy
- The Independent - TV
Netflix is getting rid of a load of movies and TV shows from its service in January.
The next 31 days may bring plenty more titles for subscribers to stream, but there are several things that may suddenly disappear from your watchlist throughout the month.
This includes one of the service’s most-streamed titles.
To minimise surprise, we have put together a comprehensive list of everything being removed.
Find a full list of everything being added to Netflix in January 2023 here.
Nb: The Independent compiled this list with help from What’s on Netflix.
Shows And Films Leaving Netflix UK:
1 January
The Accidental Golfer
Adult Behaviour… It’s All in the Mind
Angel (2008)
Annabell’s Spectacularities
The Apple War
Artificial Svensson
As Seen On TV
The Assault
Bang
Barbie: A Fairy Secret
The Bells in Old Town
Best Before
Beware of the Jonsson Gang
Bit by Bit
Bitch Hug
Bitter Sweetheart...
The next 31 days may bring plenty more titles for subscribers to stream, but there are several things that may suddenly disappear from your watchlist throughout the month.
This includes one of the service’s most-streamed titles.
To minimise surprise, we have put together a comprehensive list of everything being removed.
Find a full list of everything being added to Netflix in January 2023 here.
Nb: The Independent compiled this list with help from What’s on Netflix.
Shows And Films Leaving Netflix UK:
1 January
The Accidental Golfer
Adult Behaviour… It’s All in the Mind
Angel (2008)
Annabell’s Spectacularities
The Apple War
Artificial Svensson
As Seen On TV
The Assault
Bang
Barbie: A Fairy Secret
The Bells in Old Town
Best Before
Beware of the Jonsson Gang
Bit by Bit
Bitch Hug
Bitter Sweetheart...
- 1/7/2023
- by Jacob Stolworthy
- The Independent - Film
Netflix is getting rid of a load of movies and TV shows from its service in January.
The next 31 days may bring plenty more titles for subscribers to stream, but there are several things that may suddenly disappear from your watchlist throughout the month.
This includes one of the service’s most-streamed titles.
To minimise surprise, we have put together a comprehensive list of everything being removed.
Find a full list of everything being added to Netflix in January 2023 here.
Nb: The Independent compiled this list with help from What’s on Netflix.
Shows And Films Leaving Netflix UK:
1 January
The Accidental Golfer
Adult Behaviour… It’s All in the Mind
Angel (2008)
Annabell’s Spectacularities
The Apple War
Artificial Svensson
As Seen On TV
The Assault
Bang
Barbie: A Fairy Secret
The Bells in Old Town
Best Before
Beware of the Jonsson Gang
Bit by Bit
Bitch Hug
Bitter Sweetheart...
The next 31 days may bring plenty more titles for subscribers to stream, but there are several things that may suddenly disappear from your watchlist throughout the month.
This includes one of the service’s most-streamed titles.
To minimise surprise, we have put together a comprehensive list of everything being removed.
Find a full list of everything being added to Netflix in January 2023 here.
Nb: The Independent compiled this list with help from What’s on Netflix.
Shows And Films Leaving Netflix UK:
1 January
The Accidental Golfer
Adult Behaviour… It’s All in the Mind
Angel (2008)
Annabell’s Spectacularities
The Apple War
Artificial Svensson
As Seen On TV
The Assault
Bang
Barbie: A Fairy Secret
The Bells in Old Town
Best Before
Beware of the Jonsson Gang
Bit by Bit
Bitch Hug
Bitter Sweetheart...
- 1/2/2023
- by Jacob Stolworthy
- The Independent - Film
Netflix is getting rid of a load of movies and TV shows from its service in January.
The next 31 days may bring plenty more titles for subscribers to stream, but there are several things that may suddenly disappear from your watchlist throughout the month.
This includes one of the service’s most-streamed titles.
To minimise surprise, we have put together a comprehensive list of everything being removed.
Find a full list of everything being added to Netflix in January 2023 here.
Nb: The Independent compiled this list with help from What’s on Netflix.
Shows And Films Leaving Netflix UK:
1 January
The Accidental Golfer
Adult Behaviour… It’s All in the Mind
Angel (2008)
Annabell’s Spectacularities
The Apple War
Artificial Svensson
As Seen On TV
The Assault
Bang
Barbie: A Fairy Secret
The Bells in Old Town
Best Before
Beware of the Jonsson Gang
Bit by Bit
Bitch Hug
Bitter Sweetheart...
The next 31 days may bring plenty more titles for subscribers to stream, but there are several things that may suddenly disappear from your watchlist throughout the month.
This includes one of the service’s most-streamed titles.
To minimise surprise, we have put together a comprehensive list of everything being removed.
Find a full list of everything being added to Netflix in January 2023 here.
Nb: The Independent compiled this list with help from What’s on Netflix.
Shows And Films Leaving Netflix UK:
1 January
The Accidental Golfer
Adult Behaviour… It’s All in the Mind
Angel (2008)
Annabell’s Spectacularities
The Apple War
Artificial Svensson
As Seen On TV
The Assault
Bang
Barbie: A Fairy Secret
The Bells in Old Town
Best Before
Beware of the Jonsson Gang
Bit by Bit
Bitch Hug
Bitter Sweetheart...
- 1/2/2023
- by Jacob Stolworthy
- The Independent - TV
Martin Scorsese is executive producer on second feature from LA-based French directorial duo Hanna Ladoul and Marco La Via.
TF1 Studio has added French directorial duo Hanna Ladoul and Marco La Via’s English-language comedy-drama Funny Birds to its Cannes market slate.
Catherine Deneuve, Andrea Riseborough and Morgan Saylor are set to star as three generations of women from the same family.
Thrown together under tragic circumstances, the trio are forced to learn to live together on a small rural chicken farm in New Jersey which generates moving and amusing situations.
It is the second feature from LA-based Ladoul and...
TF1 Studio has added French directorial duo Hanna Ladoul and Marco La Via’s English-language comedy-drama Funny Birds to its Cannes market slate.
Catherine Deneuve, Andrea Riseborough and Morgan Saylor are set to star as three generations of women from the same family.
Thrown together under tragic circumstances, the trio are forced to learn to live together on a small rural chicken farm in New Jersey which generates moving and amusing situations.
It is the second feature from LA-based Ladoul and...
- 5/20/2022
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Utopia has picked up North American rights to “Freakscene: The Story of Dinosaur Jr.,” the feature docu that looks at the legacy of the influential 1990s band. A one-night only special theatrical release is set for May 31 ahead of a June 3 digital release.
A special New York premiere on May 28 will feature a Q&a and solo performance from the band’s J Mascis.
Directed by German filmmaker Philipp Reichenheim, who happens to be Mascis’ brother-in-law, the documentary features interviews with their contemporaries including Sonic Youth, My Bloody Valentine and The Pixies, charting their story from the mid-80s to their 30th anniversary reunion concert.
Emma Thompson Hires a Sex Worker in ‘Good Luck to You, Leo Grande’ Trailer
Emma Thompson plays Nancy Stokes, a widow, who attempts to have proper sex for the first time in her life and hires a sex worker in the new trailer for “Good Luck to You, Leo Grande.
A special New York premiere on May 28 will feature a Q&a and solo performance from the band’s J Mascis.
Directed by German filmmaker Philipp Reichenheim, who happens to be Mascis’ brother-in-law, the documentary features interviews with their contemporaries including Sonic Youth, My Bloody Valentine and The Pixies, charting their story from the mid-80s to their 30th anniversary reunion concert.
Emma Thompson Hires a Sex Worker in ‘Good Luck to You, Leo Grande’ Trailer
Emma Thompson plays Nancy Stokes, a widow, who attempts to have proper sex for the first time in her life and hires a sex worker in the new trailer for “Good Luck to You, Leo Grande.
- 5/18/2022
- by Jazz Tangcay and Carson Burton
- Variety Film + TV
The Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival (Laapff), presented annually by Visual Communications (Vc), Southern California’s leading showcase for new Asian Pacific American and Asian international cinema, announced today the program for the 38th edition of the festival. The festival returns May 5th to 13th in Los Angeles and will feature an exciting lineup of in-person programming, along with virtual programming for our audiences at home in Southern California and beyond.
As Visual Communications premiere annual event, Laapff continues to build connections between peoples and generations through the amplification of Asian and Pacific Islander film, video, and media.The festival celebrates Asian Pacific American filmmakers and Asian international artists with profound, important and entertaining films and content from the new voices of cinema while honoring the legends and leaders who keep this cultural movement going forward. Important themes of representation, authorship, responsibility and ethics are at the forefront of content creation.
As Visual Communications premiere annual event, Laapff continues to build connections between peoples and generations through the amplification of Asian and Pacific Islander film, video, and media.The festival celebrates Asian Pacific American filmmakers and Asian international artists with profound, important and entertaining films and content from the new voices of cinema while honoring the legends and leaders who keep this cultural movement going forward. Important themes of representation, authorship, responsibility and ethics are at the forefront of content creation.
- 4/18/2022
- by Grace Han
- AsianMoviePulse
Stars: Keesha Sharp, AnnaLynne McCord, Derek Yates, Jamie Bamber, Lydia Hearst, Joseph Gatt | Written by Jacob Cooney, Jason White | Directed by Nick Lyon
After Swim and War of the Worlds: Annihilation, Tubi and The Asylum have teamed up again, this time for Titanic 666. This time they’re sending the Titanic III, (Titanic II was a 2010 film from The Asylum), on its maiden voyage, which includes a stop directly over the wreck of the original, a movie the ship’s owners had to know was tempting fate.
Titanic 666 actually opens with a brief segment showing the sinking of the original Titanic and spoofing James Cameron’s epic before settling into the main story. Captain Celeste Rhoades, and her crew set sail with a ship full of the rich and famous which includes superstar influencers Mia Stone and her husband Jackson.
Professor Hal Cochran and some of his collection of relics from...
After Swim and War of the Worlds: Annihilation, Tubi and The Asylum have teamed up again, this time for Titanic 666. This time they’re sending the Titanic III, (Titanic II was a 2010 film from The Asylum), on its maiden voyage, which includes a stop directly over the wreck of the original, a movie the ship’s owners had to know was tempting fate.
Titanic 666 actually opens with a brief segment showing the sinking of the original Titanic and spoofing James Cameron’s epic before settling into the main story. Captain Celeste Rhoades, and her crew set sail with a ship full of the rich and famous which includes superstar influencers Mia Stone and her husband Jackson.
Professor Hal Cochran and some of his collection of relics from...
- 4/18/2022
- by Jim Morazzini
- Nerdly
The thriller is directed by Kazakhstan’s Adilkan Yerzhanov.
Russian-French sales outfit Riverlet Films has sold The Assault, which premiered in competition at Rotterdam this year, to Kinovista for France and all French-speaking countries. A theatrical release is planned for autumn 2022.
The Assault is directed by Kazakh Adilkan Yerzhanov, whose previous credits include Tallinn competition title Herd Immunity and Cannes Un Certain Regard premiere The Gentle Indifference Of The World.
Yerzhanov also wrote the script for the Russian-language title, which follows a group of unidentified people who appear to be terrorists as they seize a village school in Kazakhstan, taking the children hostage,...
Russian-French sales outfit Riverlet Films has sold The Assault, which premiered in competition at Rotterdam this year, to Kinovista for France and all French-speaking countries. A theatrical release is planned for autumn 2022.
The Assault is directed by Kazakh Adilkan Yerzhanov, whose previous credits include Tallinn competition title Herd Immunity and Cannes Un Certain Regard premiere The Gentle Indifference Of The World.
Yerzhanov also wrote the script for the Russian-language title, which follows a group of unidentified people who appear to be terrorists as they seize a village school in Kazakhstan, taking the children hostage,...
- 4/12/2022
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
Riverlet Films has been set up by industry veteran Olga Ailarova Tchekhoffk.
New Russian sales agent Riverlet Films has closed several deals on its EFM title, Once In The Desert, directed by Andrey Kravchuk.
The action thriller has gone to Kinovista ( France and French-speaking territories), Tiberius ( Germany), New Select (Japan), Premiere TV distribution (Netherlands), Creative Century Entertainment (Taiwan) and Scene & Sound (South Korea).
Produced by Alexey Uchitel, Once In The Desert will be distributed theatrically in Russia later this month by Karo.
The film is set in the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra just after it has been liberated from Isis.
New Russian sales agent Riverlet Films has closed several deals on its EFM title, Once In The Desert, directed by Andrey Kravchuk.
The action thriller has gone to Kinovista ( France and French-speaking territories), Tiberius ( Germany), New Select (Japan), Premiere TV distribution (Netherlands), Creative Century Entertainment (Taiwan) and Scene & Sound (South Korea).
Produced by Alexey Uchitel, Once In The Desert will be distributed theatrically in Russia later this month by Karo.
The film is set in the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra just after it has been liberated from Isis.
- 2/10/2022
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
Riverlet Films has been set up by industry veteran Olga Ailarova Tchekhoffk.
New Russian sales agent Riverlet Films has closed several deals on its EFM title, Once In The Desert, directed by Andrey Kravchuk.
The action thriller has gone to Kinovista ( France and French-speaking territories), Tiberius ( Germany), New Select (Japan), Premiere TV distribution (Netherlands), Creative Century Entertainment (Taiwan) and Scene & Sound (South Korea).
Produced by Alexey Uchitel, Once In The Desert will be distributed theatrically in Russia later this month by Karo.
The film is set in the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra just after it has been liberated from Isis.
New Russian sales agent Riverlet Films has closed several deals on its EFM title, Once In The Desert, directed by Andrey Kravchuk.
The action thriller has gone to Kinovista ( France and French-speaking territories), Tiberius ( Germany), New Select (Japan), Premiere TV distribution (Netherlands), Creative Century Entertainment (Taiwan) and Scene & Sound (South Korea).
Produced by Alexey Uchitel, Once In The Desert will be distributed theatrically in Russia later this month by Karo.
The film is set in the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra just after it has been liberated from Isis.
- 2/10/2022
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
November can be a slow month for streaming services. Amazon, however, is entering into 2020’s penultimate month with some steam.
Amazon is really beefing up its TV library in November 2020. Both Community (which arrives on Nov. 8) and Scrubs (Nov. 14) will be added to Amazon Prime this month and in the process complete the streaming trifecta: Netflix, Amazon, Hulu. That’s pretty impressive stuff for both shows. And then on the film side of things, November 1 sees the arrival of The X-Files: I Want to Believe, Twilight, and the Underworld franchise. Somebody didn’t tell Amazon Spooky Season was over and bless them for it.
As for the originals, Alex Rider is the most intriguing TV series here. That is based on the British spy novel series and premieres on Nov. 13 on IMDb TV (which is available to all Prime subscribers). That will be followed by Steve McQueen’s Small Axe series on Nov.
Amazon is really beefing up its TV library in November 2020. Both Community (which arrives on Nov. 8) and Scrubs (Nov. 14) will be added to Amazon Prime this month and in the process complete the streaming trifecta: Netflix, Amazon, Hulu. That’s pretty impressive stuff for both shows. And then on the film side of things, November 1 sees the arrival of The X-Files: I Want to Believe, Twilight, and the Underworld franchise. Somebody didn’t tell Amazon Spooky Season was over and bless them for it.
As for the originals, Alex Rider is the most intriguing TV series here. That is based on the British spy novel series and premieres on Nov. 13 on IMDb TV (which is available to all Prime subscribers). That will be followed by Steve McQueen’s Small Axe series on Nov.
- 11/3/2020
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
Amazon Prime Video has a whole load of new content coming this November, and the best thing about the large haul is that all tastes are accounted for, so whatever you’re in the mood for, you’ll have a lot of options. From Christmas flicks to action films to some classic sci-fi and horror, subscribers will find much to enjoy from what’s hitting Prime next month.
Take a look at the full list below and scroll down further for our runthrough of the highlights:
Released November 1
28 Days Later (2003)
A Christmas Movie Christmas (2019)
A Christmas Switch (2018)
(2018) (Hallmark Movies Now)
Arizona Whirlwind (1944)
Article 99 (1992)
As Good As It Gets (1997)
Boyz N’ The Hood (1991)
Breathless (1983)
Country Strong (2011)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
Dead Poets Society (1989)
Deja Vu (2006)
Did You Hear About The Morgans? (2009)
Firewalker (1986)
I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997)
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde (2003)
Marrying Father Christmas (2018) (Hallmark...
Take a look at the full list below and scroll down further for our runthrough of the highlights:
Released November 1
28 Days Later (2003)
A Christmas Movie Christmas (2019)
A Christmas Switch (2018)
(2018) (Hallmark Movies Now)
Arizona Whirlwind (1944)
Article 99 (1992)
As Good As It Gets (1997)
Boyz N’ The Hood (1991)
Breathless (1983)
Country Strong (2011)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
Dead Poets Society (1989)
Deja Vu (2006)
Did You Hear About The Morgans? (2009)
Firewalker (1986)
I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997)
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde (2003)
Marrying Father Christmas (2018) (Hallmark...
- 10/20/2020
- by Christian Bone
- We Got This Covered
All streaming services go through a down period after the excitement of Spooky Season, it’s only natural. Thankfully with its list of new releases for November 2020, Hulu is making the best out of a barren pop culture landscape.
For starters, Hulu is premiering one of its major 2020 reboots this month as Animaniacs arrives on Nov. 20. Yakko, Wakko, Dot, and the rest of the Warner gang are set to return for this long-awaited revival of the animated classic. That’s about it as far as original series go but Hulu is also premiering original movies Greta, about climate activist Greta Thunberg on Nov. 13; and Run, a horror film starring Sarah Paulson, on Nov. 20.
Still, despite all the Animaniacs, Gretas, and Sarah Paulsons, the biggest hits this month might just be on the library content side of things. November 1 sees the arrival of some major TV properties. For starters, racy British...
For starters, Hulu is premiering one of its major 2020 reboots this month as Animaniacs arrives on Nov. 20. Yakko, Wakko, Dot, and the rest of the Warner gang are set to return for this long-awaited revival of the animated classic. That’s about it as far as original series go but Hulu is also premiering original movies Greta, about climate activist Greta Thunberg on Nov. 13; and Run, a horror film starring Sarah Paulson, on Nov. 20.
Still, despite all the Animaniacs, Gretas, and Sarah Paulsons, the biggest hits this month might just be on the library content side of things. November 1 sees the arrival of some major TV properties. For starters, racy British...
- 10/16/2020
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
Now that we’re just over halfway through October, it’s time to look ahead to what’s arriving on Hulu across November. And the penultimate month of the year is set to deliver a humungous haul of new movies and TV shows. In particular, fresh off their Huluween celebrations, the streaming service is celebrating Christmas early with a load of holiday-related titles dropping on November 1st.
Various films with Christmas in the name land that day – including Christmas in Compton, The Dog Who Saved Christmas and Once Upon a Time at Christmas – as well as a bunch of festive Food Network shows. A few more arrive on the 15th as well. But even if you’re not in the mood for holiday cheer until December, there’s still plenty to enjoy from what’s coming to Hulu in November.
Check out the full list below:
Released November 1
Skins: Complete...
Various films with Christmas in the name land that day – including Christmas in Compton, The Dog Who Saved Christmas and Once Upon a Time at Christmas – as well as a bunch of festive Food Network shows. A few more arrive on the 15th as well. But even if you’re not in the mood for holiday cheer until December, there’s still plenty to enjoy from what’s coming to Hulu in November.
Check out the full list below:
Released November 1
Skins: Complete...
- 10/16/2020
- by Christian Bone
- We Got This Covered
If you watched an action, sci-fi, or horror movie in the 1980s, there was a good chance it was produced by Cannon Films. The studio — perhaps the last great home of B-movie and exploitation classics — was founded in 1967 but hit its apex between 1979 and 1987, releasing scores of films that (mostly) no one would call high cinema but which delivered thrills, chills and plenty of blood, action, and fire on a budget.
Tapping into the massive market for both high and low concept fare — the 1980s equivalent of drive-in double bill fillers — Cannon, under the leadership of Israeli cousins Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus, were perhaps best known for churning out chintzy crowdpleasers like the Chuck Norris-starring Missing in Action and The Delta Force along with a slew of Death Wish sequels.
But the company also produced titillating titles like Lady Chatterley’s Lover, slasher fare such as Schizoid and New Year’s Evil,...
Tapping into the massive market for both high and low concept fare — the 1980s equivalent of drive-in double bill fillers — Cannon, under the leadership of Israeli cousins Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus, were perhaps best known for churning out chintzy crowdpleasers like the Chuck Norris-starring Missing in Action and The Delta Force along with a slew of Death Wish sequels.
But the company also produced titillating titles like Lady Chatterley’s Lover, slasher fare such as Schizoid and New Year’s Evil,...
- 6/23/2020
- by Don Kaye
- Den of Geek
Currently in the Netflix showcase with his work Earth and Blood, the French filmmaker has already shot another film for the platform, with Olga Kurylenko shining bright in its cast. Shot in November and December last year, Sentinelle by Julien Leclercq will soon be in a position to resume post-production activities, which were put on pause as a result of the health crisis. This will be the second consecutive film the director has made for Netflix, following on from Earth and Blood (released worldwide via the platform on 17 April) and the 7th feature film in his career after Chrysalis (2007), The Assault (2011), The Informant (2013), The Crew (2016) and The Bouncer (2018).Standing tall in the cast is the French actress of Ukrainian origin Olga Kurylenko (revealed in Quantum of Solace, and especially well received in To The Wonder, Land of Oblivion and Just A Breath Away, not to...
For an 80-minute action drama, "Earth And Blood" seems like a patchwork of genre-specific scenes set up to decidedly arrive at a set-piece climax of violence. Which is not saying much, because the action ending is hardly innovative in the entertainment quotient it manages to strike. The finale makes you realise you have just watched a compilation of action movie cliches and little else.
Julien Leclercq's new French film, with a translated title as fetching as "Earth And Blood", promised much -- especially if you had sampled its blazing trailer, or if your inner action addict came of age watching Luc Besson, Louis Leterrier or Olivier Megaton's simply irresistible bloodsoaked fare that influenced French violent cinema -- nay, cinema of violence anywhere in the world -- over the past decades.
Leclercq himself would perhaps find an indulgent nod in the club of new-age mainstream action titans from France,...
Julien Leclercq's new French film, with a translated title as fetching as "Earth And Blood", promised much -- especially if you had sampled its blazing trailer, or if your inner action addict came of age watching Luc Besson, Louis Leterrier or Olivier Megaton's simply irresistible bloodsoaked fare that influenced French violent cinema -- nay, cinema of violence anywhere in the world -- over the past decades.
Leclercq himself would perhaps find an indulgent nod in the club of new-age mainstream action titans from France,...
- 4/18/2020
- GlamSham
"An eye for an eye." Netflix has debuted the first official trailer for a French crime thriller titled Earth and Blood, also known as La terre et le sang from its original French title. This is the latest film from director Julien Leclercq, it takes place in the heart of the mountains where a man and his daughter, Said and Sarah, run a sawmill family business hiring mostly ex-cons and young offenders, one of whom hid some drugs in the factory. Things get rough when the gang shows up for their missing drugs. Starring Sami Bouajila and Samy Seghir, with Carole Weyers, Eriq Ebouaney, Sofia Lesaffre, and Eric Kabongo. This is an intense trailer! That music definitely kicks things into high gear when it really gets going. A bit overkill? The story itself seems mostly generic but otherwise this looks good. Here's the first official trailer (+ poster) for Julien Leclercq's Earth and Blood,...
- 3/25/2020
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
While the nominations for the 2020 Oscars are still two months away, the race for Best International Feature Film (formerly Best Foreign Language Film) is quietly heating up. And in a year with a record number of female-directed submissions, the Netherlands’ “Instinct,” directed by Halina Reijn (“Valkyrie”), is contributing some provocative flair. After keeping winter at bay as Melisandre in HBO’s TV hit “Game of Thrones,” Carice van Houten stars in Reijn’s directorial debut as Nicoline, a highly experienced psychotherapist who starts a new job at a penal institution. At the center of the storyline is her complicated relationship with one of her patients, Idris (Marwan Kenzari), a serial sex offender who is on the verge of completing his rehabilitative treatment.
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- 11/20/2019
- by Luca Giliberti
- Gold Derby
Which film will follow on from ‘Roma’ in winning the prize?
Submissions for the best international feature film award at the 2020 Academy Awards have started to come in, and Screen is keeping a running list of each film below.
This is the first year the award will be given under the new name of ‘best international feature film’, after a change in April from ‘foreign-language film’.
The eligibility rules remain the same: an international feature film is defined as a feature-length motion picture produced outside the Us with a predominantly non-English dialogue track and can include animated and documentary features.
Submissions for the best international feature film award at the 2020 Academy Awards have started to come in, and Screen is keeping a running list of each film below.
This is the first year the award will be given under the new name of ‘best international feature film’, after a change in April from ‘foreign-language film’.
The eligibility rules remain the same: an international feature film is defined as a feature-length motion picture produced outside the Us with a predominantly non-English dialogue track and can include animated and documentary features.
- 9/2/2019
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Jean-Claude Van Damme has got a new action-thriller coming out called The Bouncer, and today we have trailer to share with you for it.
Van Damme takes on the role of a seasoned nightclub bouncer named Lukas, “who's taken punches, literally and figuratively, struggles to raise his 8 year old daughter. One day, Lukas loses control during an altercation with a client and ends up in jail, while his daughter gets placed under the care of social services. But things take an unexpected turn when Interpol recruits Lukas to bring down a Dutch ringleader operating from Belgium in exchange for his daughter's custody.”
These kinds of movies aren’t always top-quality, but most of the time I find them enjoyable. This one looks like it could be decent. I just still enjoy watching Van Damme kick some ass.
The Bouncer was directed by French filmmaker Julien Leclercq and will be released on January 11th.
Van Damme takes on the role of a seasoned nightclub bouncer named Lukas, “who's taken punches, literally and figuratively, struggles to raise his 8 year old daughter. One day, Lukas loses control during an altercation with a client and ends up in jail, while his daughter gets placed under the care of social services. But things take an unexpected turn when Interpol recruits Lukas to bring down a Dutch ringleader operating from Belgium in exchange for his daughter's custody.”
These kinds of movies aren’t always top-quality, but most of the time I find them enjoyable. This one looks like it could be decent. I just still enjoy watching Van Damme kick some ass.
The Bouncer was directed by French filmmaker Julien Leclercq and will be released on January 11th.
- 1/10/2019
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
Screen’s regularly updated list of foreign language Oscar submissions.
Nominations for the 91st Academy Awards are not until Tuesday January 22, but the first submissions for best foreign-language film are now being announced.
Last year saw a record 92 submissions for the award, which were narrowed down to a shortlist of nine. This was cut to five nominees, with Sebastián Lelio’s transgender drama A Fantastic Woman ultimately taking home the gold statue.
Screen’s interview with Mark Johnson, chair of the Academy’s foreign-language film committee, explains the shortlisting process from submission to voting.
Submitted films must be released theatrically...
Nominations for the 91st Academy Awards are not until Tuesday January 22, but the first submissions for best foreign-language film are now being announced.
Last year saw a record 92 submissions for the award, which were narrowed down to a shortlist of nine. This was cut to five nominees, with Sebastián Lelio’s transgender drama A Fantastic Woman ultimately taking home the gold statue.
Screen’s interview with Mark Johnson, chair of the Academy’s foreign-language film committee, explains the shortlisting process from submission to voting.
Submitted films must be released theatrically...
- 9/6/2018
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
With his Living trilogy completed, which is among the best trio of films cinema has offered this century, Roy Andersson has embarked on his next feature, one which will arrive much faster than we’re used to from the meticulous Swedish director. Though still coming along at the director’s usually patient pace, production began last February on About Endlessness and will continue through much of this year ahead of a 2019 premiere.
As reported on back in 2016, certain sequences will depict World War II (including Hitler in his bunker), “a couple, loosely inspired by Marc Chagall’s paintings,” and “a divorce prosecutor who doesn’t trust banks and keeps his savings under his mattress,” while characters include “an angry dentist, a midwife who loves champagne, a young girl going to a birthday party in the rain, a distracted waiter, a priest having a nightmare that he is being crucified, and...
As reported on back in 2016, certain sequences will depict World War II (including Hitler in his bunker), “a couple, loosely inspired by Marc Chagall’s paintings,” and “a divorce prosecutor who doesn’t trust banks and keeps his savings under his mattress,” while characters include “an angry dentist, a midwife who loves champagne, a young girl going to a birthday party in the rain, a distracted waiter, a priest having a nightmare that he is being crucified, and...
- 2/14/2018
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
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