Mia Goth is arguably the reigning queen of horror. Though 2022 saw the return of legendary final girls and the rise of a few new scream queens, no one dominated the genre quite like Goth. The London-born actress kicked off the year with a dual role in Ti West’s X and a show-stopping performance in the prequel Pearl as a young woman destined to escape her rural roots.
Goth shows no signs of slowing down as this impressive run continues into 2023 with the highly anticipated Infinity Pool, the latest slice of mind-bending horror from writer-director Branden Cronenberg. Goth stars in the film as Gabi, a young socialite on a luxurious vacation at an all-inclusive island resort. Seemingly on a whim, she invites fellow travelers James (Alexander Skarsgård) and his wife Em (Cleopatra Coleman) to venture outside the grounds for a day trip that plunges the couple into a living nightmare.
Goth shows no signs of slowing down as this impressive run continues into 2023 with the highly anticipated Infinity Pool, the latest slice of mind-bending horror from writer-director Branden Cronenberg. Goth stars in the film as Gabi, a young socialite on a luxurious vacation at an all-inclusive island resort. Seemingly on a whim, she invites fellow travelers James (Alexander Skarsgård) and his wife Em (Cleopatra Coleman) to venture outside the grounds for a day trip that plunges the couple into a living nightmare.
- 1/20/2023
- by Jenn Adams
- bloody-disgusting.com
At last, an adventure movie that does without action-epic superhero Bs. It's simply You Are There with a dozen likeable, determined climbers coping with calamity in a place that, for all the help that can be sent, 'might as well be on the moon.' The excellent depth effects all but nail us to the screen. Everest Blu-ray + DVD Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2015 / Color / 2:40 widescreen / 121 min. / Street Date January 19, 2016 / 49.98 Starring Jason Clarke, Josh Brolin, Keira Knightley, Jake Gyllenhaal, Robin Wright, Martin Henderson, John Hawkes, Naoko Mori, Michael Kelly, Emily Watson, Sam Worthington. Cinematography Salvatore Totino Film Editor Mick Audsley Original Music Dario Marianelli Written by William Nicholson, Simon Beaufroy Produced by Nicky Kentish Barnes, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Baltasar Kormákur, Brian Oliver, Tyler Thompson. Directed by Baltasar Kormákur
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
I've heard no Oscar buzz surrounding Baltasar Kormákur's Everest, which makes sense. It isn't the kind of movie that courts awards,...
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
I've heard no Oscar buzz surrounding Baltasar Kormákur's Everest, which makes sense. It isn't the kind of movie that courts awards,...
- 1/12/2016
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Emily Watson steals the show in this real-life story based on an expedition to climb Everest in 1996
Top-flight cinematography by Salvatore Totino, deftly edited by Mick Audsley, lends gravitas to Baltasar Kormákur’s tale of mountaintop disaster, based on real-life events from 1996. Jason Clarke is the leader of an “adventure consultants”’ climb beset by bad weather and overcrowding. The climbers are a mixed bag, ranging from Josh Brolin’s gruff Texan, Beck Weathers, to John Hawkes’s amiable but ailing postal worker, Doug Hansen, and Naoko Mori’s Yasuko Namba, a Japanese businesswoman dedicated to summiting the highest mountains of the seven continents.
For the most part, screenwriters William Nicholson and Simon Beaufoy (the latter co-wrote the physical endurance tester 127 Hours) attempt to avoid the sentimental tropes of the disaster movie, although radio contact with distant partners leaves both Keira Knightley and Robin Wright simply waiting for tear-jerking phone calls. Emily Watson is terrific as the base camp controller trying to manage the unfolding chaos, and it’s her scenes that pack the greatest punch, her face and voice a pitch-perfect portrayal of alarmed restraint. Powerful sound design effectively accentuates the sense of stormy isolation, giving the mountain the last word.
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Top-flight cinematography by Salvatore Totino, deftly edited by Mick Audsley, lends gravitas to Baltasar Kormákur’s tale of mountaintop disaster, based on real-life events from 1996. Jason Clarke is the leader of an “adventure consultants”’ climb beset by bad weather and overcrowding. The climbers are a mixed bag, ranging from Josh Brolin’s gruff Texan, Beck Weathers, to John Hawkes’s amiable but ailing postal worker, Doug Hansen, and Naoko Mori’s Yasuko Namba, a Japanese businesswoman dedicated to summiting the highest mountains of the seven continents.
For the most part, screenwriters William Nicholson and Simon Beaufoy (the latter co-wrote the physical endurance tester 127 Hours) attempt to avoid the sentimental tropes of the disaster movie, although radio contact with distant partners leaves both Keira Knightley and Robin Wright simply waiting for tear-jerking phone calls. Emily Watson is terrific as the base camp controller trying to manage the unfolding chaos, and it’s her scenes that pack the greatest punch, her face and voice a pitch-perfect portrayal of alarmed restraint. Powerful sound design effectively accentuates the sense of stormy isolation, giving the mountain the last word.
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- 9/20/2015
- by Mark Kermode
- The Guardian - Film News
In collecting my impressions about “Everest,” which opened this year’s Venice Film Festival, I started thinking not about other epic adventure movies but about HBO’s “Show Me a Hero,” the recently-completed six-part miniseries about the battle over low-income housing in Yonkers, New York. The two couldn’t be further apart in terms of genre, but both projects are true stories adapted from non-fiction. (Even though Jon Krakauer is a character in “Everest,” this movie isn’t an adaptation of “Into Thin Air”; the credited sources are Beck Weathers’ “Left for Dead: My Journey Home from Everest” and...
- 9/2/2015
- by Alonso Duralde
- The Wrap
A disaster movie played out at 35,000 feet, Everest is essentially a true-life Cliffhanger, less the criminal schemes and Craig Fairbrass shouting about soccer. The film’s first trailer lends a sense of nature’s awe to the derring-do of a small band trying to scale the Earth’s highest point. Then things go wrong. Very, very wrong...Far from keeping its powder dry, Universal’s first trailer plunges us straight into to the freezing chaos of a fateful summit climb. The story is loosely inspired by real events (the 1996 disaster recounted in Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air) and sees Jason Clarke leading a party of climbers up the Nepalese monolith as Kiwi mountaineer Rob Hall. Alongside him on the slopes are Josh Brolin as Doctor Beck Weathers, John Hawkes as Doug Hansen and Jake Gyllenhaal as Scott Fischer, the leader of a separate expedition. Things are progressing nicely, with...
- 6/4/2015
- EmpireOnline
Hitting theaters on September 18, 2015, the teaser poster for Everest has come online.
Inspired by the incredible events surrounding an attempt to reach the summit of the world’s highest mountain, Everest documents the awe-inspiring journey of two different expeditions challenged beyond their limits by one of the fiercest snowstorms ever encountered by mankind.
Their mettle tested by the harshest elements found on the planet, the climbers will face nearly impossible obstacles as a lifelong obsession becomes a breathtaking struggle for survival.
The epic adventure stars Jason Clarke, Josh Brolin, John Hawkes, Robin Wright, Michael Kelly, Sam Worthington, Keira Knightley, Emily Watson and Jake Gyllenhaal.
Everest is directed by Baltasar Kormákur (2 Guns, Contraband) and produced by Working Title Films’ Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner, Cross Creek Pictures’ Brian Oliver and Tyler Thompson, as well as Nicky Kentish Barnes and Kormákur.
Universal Pictures and Cross Creek Pictures’ presentation of Everest – in association...
Inspired by the incredible events surrounding an attempt to reach the summit of the world’s highest mountain, Everest documents the awe-inspiring journey of two different expeditions challenged beyond their limits by one of the fiercest snowstorms ever encountered by mankind.
Their mettle tested by the harshest elements found on the planet, the climbers will face nearly impossible obstacles as a lifelong obsession becomes a breathtaking struggle for survival.
The epic adventure stars Jason Clarke, Josh Brolin, John Hawkes, Robin Wright, Michael Kelly, Sam Worthington, Keira Knightley, Emily Watson and Jake Gyllenhaal.
Everest is directed by Baltasar Kormákur (2 Guns, Contraband) and produced by Working Title Films’ Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner, Cross Creek Pictures’ Brian Oliver and Tyler Thompson, as well as Nicky Kentish Barnes and Kormákur.
Universal Pictures and Cross Creek Pictures’ presentation of Everest – in association...
- 6/3/2015
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
With the New Year just days away, Universal Pictures has released brand new photos, storylines and dates for some of the most anticipated movies in 2015.
First up is Ted 2.
Hitting theaters on June 26, 2015, Seth MacFarlane returns as writer, director and voice star of Ted 2, Universal and Media Rights Capital’s follow-up to the highest-grossing original R-rated comedy of all time.
Joined once again by star Mark Wahlberg and fellow “Ted” writers Alec Sulkin & Wellesley Wild, MacFarlane produces the live action/CG-animated comedy alongside Bluegrass Films’ Scott Stuber, as well as John Jacobs and Jason Clark.
http://www.tedisreal.com
Photo Credit: Tippett Studios/Universal Pictures © 2015 Universal Studios. All Rights Reserved.
(L to R) Tina Fey and Amy Poehler reunite for Sisters
Sisters – December 18, 2015
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Maya Rudolph, Ike Barinholtz, John Leguizamo, Dianne Wiest, John Cena and James Brolin
Directed by: Jason Moore
Writer:...
First up is Ted 2.
Hitting theaters on June 26, 2015, Seth MacFarlane returns as writer, director and voice star of Ted 2, Universal and Media Rights Capital’s follow-up to the highest-grossing original R-rated comedy of all time.
Joined once again by star Mark Wahlberg and fellow “Ted” writers Alec Sulkin & Wellesley Wild, MacFarlane produces the live action/CG-animated comedy alongside Bluegrass Films’ Scott Stuber, as well as John Jacobs and Jason Clark.
http://www.tedisreal.com
Photo Credit: Tippett Studios/Universal Pictures © 2015 Universal Studios. All Rights Reserved.
(L to R) Tina Fey and Amy Poehler reunite for Sisters
Sisters – December 18, 2015
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Maya Rudolph, Ike Barinholtz, John Leguizamo, Dianne Wiest, John Cena and James Brolin
Directed by: Jason Moore
Writer:...
- 12/29/2014
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Of all the difficult tasks that life on this planet has to offer, from grad school to Dead Souls, climbing a mountain is one of the most daunting, and doesn.t change all that much as the years go by. 2 Guns director Baltasar Kormakur.s next film, Everest, centers on one of the deadliest mountain climbs in history, and Golden Globe winner Robin Wright and Sam Worthington join this already stacked cast to watch the deadly fiasco from the sidelines. Based on the true story of the disastrous 1996 tragedy, Universal's Everest will follow multiple group expeditions as their attempt to scale the tallest mountain on Earth is met with bad planning and avalanches. The Adventure Consultants group will be led by co-founder Rob Hall (Jason Clarke), Mike Groom (Thomas M. Wright) and Andy Harris (Martin Henderson). Their clientele includes veteran climber Beck Weathers (Josh Brolin) . whose wife Peach will be...
- 3/25/2014
- cinemablend.com
Jake Gyllenhaal's upcoming action-adventure movie Everest has been delayed by seven months.
Universal Studios has confirmed that the release date will be moved from the originally-scheduled February 27, 2015 to the new date of September 18, 2015.
There has been no explanation offered for the delay.
Baltasar Kormákur is directing Everest in 3D on location in Nepal and Italy, from a script based on a real-life 1996 disaster.
Everest stars Gyllenhaal as the leader of an expedition that is marred by harsh weather and difficult terrain.
Jason Clarke will be play another expedition leader, while Josh Brolin is to portray Dr Beck Weathers.
Gyllenhaal has said that he found inspiration from the determination of those stranded during the real-life Mount Everest trek.
Universal Studios has confirmed that the release date will be moved from the originally-scheduled February 27, 2015 to the new date of September 18, 2015.
There has been no explanation offered for the delay.
Baltasar Kormákur is directing Everest in 3D on location in Nepal and Italy, from a script based on a real-life 1996 disaster.
Everest stars Gyllenhaal as the leader of an expedition that is marred by harsh weather and difficult terrain.
Jason Clarke will be play another expedition leader, while Josh Brolin is to portray Dr Beck Weathers.
Gyllenhaal has said that he found inspiration from the determination of those stranded during the real-life Mount Everest trek.
- 3/21/2014
- Digital Spy
Exclusive: Cross Creek and Walden Media are backing the $65 million Working Title feature for Universal, which Baltasar Kormakur is directing. Everest stars Jake Gyllenhaal as Scott Fischer, Josh Brolin as Beck Weathers, Jason Clarke as Rob Hall, and John Hawkes as Doug Hansen. Shooting starts January 13 in the Dolomites in Italy and will continue in Nepal and Iceland. This is one of two studio-backed films titled Everest — the other being the Doug Liman-helmed pic for Sony. And on Monday, Fox landed a 10-part event series from Alcon Entertainment about a group of hikers trying to hike Mount Everest. Working Title’s feature, produced by the company’s partners Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner, was weathering a storm just a few weeks ago, after Emmett/Furla Films had exited as co-financier and the producers were trying to secure new funding. The pic is based on the disastrous 1996 attempt to scale the world’s tallest mountain.
- 11/13/2013
- by MIKE FLEMING JR
- Deadline
Jake Gyllenhaal has left the woods ... for a trip to the mountains?
The actor, who was signed on to play a prince in the Disney musical "Into the Woods," a role that would have reunited him with "End of Watch" co-star Anna Kendrick, has dropped out, reports TheWrap, with Deadline revealing that he's potentially making room for "Everest," a movie about the deadly 1996 climbing season detailed in Jon Krakauer's "Into Thin Air."
Gyllenhaal would take on the role of late Mountain Madness guide Scott Fischer.
Also in talks to star in "Everest" are Josh Brolin, John Hawkes, and Jason Clarke; Brolin would play Dr. Beck Weathers, Hawkes would play a Seattle climber, and Clarke would play New Zealand-based guide Rob Hall. Icelandic filmmaker Baltasar Kormakur ("The Deep," "Contraband") is set to direct the film, which was originally supposed to feature Christian Bale as Hall.
If "Everest" becomes a reality for Gyllenhaal,...
The actor, who was signed on to play a prince in the Disney musical "Into the Woods," a role that would have reunited him with "End of Watch" co-star Anna Kendrick, has dropped out, reports TheWrap, with Deadline revealing that he's potentially making room for "Everest," a movie about the deadly 1996 climbing season detailed in Jon Krakauer's "Into Thin Air."
Gyllenhaal would take on the role of late Mountain Madness guide Scott Fischer.
Also in talks to star in "Everest" are Josh Brolin, John Hawkes, and Jason Clarke; Brolin would play Dr. Beck Weathers, Hawkes would play a Seattle climber, and Clarke would play New Zealand-based guide Rob Hall. Icelandic filmmaker Baltasar Kormakur ("The Deep," "Contraband") is set to direct the film, which was originally supposed to feature Christian Bale as Hall.
If "Everest" becomes a reality for Gyllenhaal,...
- 7/18/2013
- by Laura Larson
- Moviefone
Jason Clarke and John Hawkes set to appear in film about storm that left eight climbers dead on the world's tallest mountain
Josh Brolin, Jake Gyllenhaal, Jason Clarke and John Hawkes are all in line to star in the mountain-climbing disaster movie Everest, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
Iceland's Baltasar Kormákur (The Deep, Contraband) will direct for production company Working Title. Everest is based on real-life events that took place in 1996 when a freak storm hit the world's tallest mountain, leaving eight climbers dead. The story was made famous by Jon Krakauer in the book Into Thin Air, which described how he survived to tell the tale. Kormákur's take follows two separate expedition groups whose lives come under threat.
Clarke is being sought to play New Zealand climber Rob Hall, leader of one of the teams, while Gyllenhaal is set to play Scott Fischer, his opposite number with the other expedition.
Josh Brolin, Jake Gyllenhaal, Jason Clarke and John Hawkes are all in line to star in the mountain-climbing disaster movie Everest, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
Iceland's Baltasar Kormákur (The Deep, Contraband) will direct for production company Working Title. Everest is based on real-life events that took place in 1996 when a freak storm hit the world's tallest mountain, leaving eight climbers dead. The story was made famous by Jon Krakauer in the book Into Thin Air, which described how he survived to tell the tale. Kormákur's take follows two separate expedition groups whose lives come under threat.
Clarke is being sought to play New Zealand climber Rob Hall, leader of one of the teams, while Gyllenhaal is set to play Scott Fischer, his opposite number with the other expedition.
- 7/18/2013
- by Ben Child
- The Guardian - Film News
The English thesp Christian Bale is in talks to climb Everest for Universal Pictures and Working Title. A mountain climbing disaster film that The Deep helmer Baltasar Kormakur will direct is based on the 1996 disastrous expedition that left eight climbers dead. Last year, busy Icelandic director Kormakur (Contraband, 2 Guns) described the then-unnamed lead who he was in talks with as ‘an actor who is known for… put(ting) himself through hell.’ Here’s what Kormakur also told Filmmaker about Everest: The next film I’m doing after this one is Everest, about the ’96 Rob Hall and Beck Weathers and Doug Hansen ascent — the biggest...
- 2/19/2013
- by Nick Martin
- Filmofilia
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