Stevie Nicks has added eight more dates to her Live In Concert Tour.
Nicks’ tour was set to end in December this year, but the eight new dates will bring the tour into 2024. After December, the next concert date will be in February and will run into March.
The announcement was made yesterday after Nicks posted the dates and cities on Instagram.
“Let’s keep this party going in 2024,” she captioned.
This is the third extension Nicks has announced after she added 14 solo dates to her seven co-headlining shows with Billy Joel.
>Get Stevie Nicks Concert Tour Tickets Here!
Stevie Nicks Live In Concert remaining tour dates:
09-27 Pittsburgh, Pa – Ppg Paints Arena
10-01 New York, NY – Madison Square Garden
10-04 Buffalo, NY – KeyBank Center
10-07 Baltimore, MD – M&t Bank Stadium *
10-28 Memphis, Tn – FedExForum
11-01 Savannah, Ga – Enmarket Arena
11-04 Allentown, Pa – Ppl Center
11-07 Detroit, Mi – Little Caesars Arena
11-10 Minneapolis,...
Nicks’ tour was set to end in December this year, but the eight new dates will bring the tour into 2024. After December, the next concert date will be in February and will run into March.
The announcement was made yesterday after Nicks posted the dates and cities on Instagram.
“Let’s keep this party going in 2024,” she captioned.
This is the third extension Nicks has announced after she added 14 solo dates to her seven co-headlining shows with Billy Joel.
>Get Stevie Nicks Concert Tour Tickets Here!
Stevie Nicks Live In Concert remaining tour dates:
09-27 Pittsburgh, Pa – Ppg Paints Arena
10-01 New York, NY – Madison Square Garden
10-04 Buffalo, NY – KeyBank Center
10-07 Baltimore, MD – M&t Bank Stadium *
10-28 Memphis, Tn – FedExForum
11-01 Savannah, Ga – Enmarket Arena
11-04 Allentown, Pa – Ppl Center
11-07 Detroit, Mi – Little Caesars Arena
11-10 Minneapolis,...
- 9/27/2023
- by Rose Anne Cox-Peralta
- Uinterview
Image Source: Amazon Studios
The Amazon Prime Video adaptation of Taylor Jenkins Reid's novel "Daisy Jones and the Six" is definitely one of the hottest new TV shows of the year. Tracing the story of a smash-hit rock band in the 1970s, it blends a fictional plot with details meant to evoke the real music scene of the era. Just how much is the story inspired by real music history? A lot, as it turns out! So much so that the real-life inspiration behind the show has even weighed in with their feelings about it. Read on to learn all there is to know about the true story that inspired "Daisy Jones and the Six."
What Is "Daisy Jones and the Six" Based On?
Technically, the novel (and the TV show) is an original story. It doesn't use real names or real-life events, but instead presents a "documentary" narrative...
The Amazon Prime Video adaptation of Taylor Jenkins Reid's novel "Daisy Jones and the Six" is definitely one of the hottest new TV shows of the year. Tracing the story of a smash-hit rock band in the 1970s, it blends a fictional plot with details meant to evoke the real music scene of the era. Just how much is the story inspired by real music history? A lot, as it turns out! So much so that the real-life inspiration behind the show has even weighed in with their feelings about it. Read on to learn all there is to know about the true story that inspired "Daisy Jones and the Six."
What Is "Daisy Jones and the Six" Based On?
Technically, the novel (and the TV show) is an original story. It doesn't use real names or real-life events, but instead presents a "documentary" narrative...
- 8/16/2023
- by Amanda Prahl
- Popsugar.com
Miley Cyrus and Stevie Nicks formed a friendship while collaborating on the song “Edge of Midnight,” a mashup of Cyrus’ “Midnight Sky” and Nicks’ “Edge of Seventeen.” The former Disney star shared the sweet nickname the Fleetwood Mac singer calls her in the “handwritten letters” they exchange.
Miley Cyrus and Stevie Nicks | Kevin Mazur/Getty Images Miley Cyrus and Stevie Nicks teamed up for a mashup of ‘Midnight Sky’ and ‘Edge of Seventeen’
In November 2020, Miley Cyrus released a song with Stevie Nicks called “Edge of Midnight.” The mashup mixes Cyrus’ August 2020 hit “Midnight Sky” with Nicks’ 1981 song “Edge of Seventeen.”
Cyrus revealed that she originally only asked Nicks for her blessing to sample “Edge of Seventeen.” But when the Fleetwood Mac star agreed enthusiastically, Cyrus got the idea for a collaboration.
“I had sampled ‘Edge of Seventeen’ and reached out to Stevie, and asked her to bless it, and she said,...
Miley Cyrus and Stevie Nicks | Kevin Mazur/Getty Images Miley Cyrus and Stevie Nicks teamed up for a mashup of ‘Midnight Sky’ and ‘Edge of Seventeen’
In November 2020, Miley Cyrus released a song with Stevie Nicks called “Edge of Midnight.” The mashup mixes Cyrus’ August 2020 hit “Midnight Sky” with Nicks’ 1981 song “Edge of Seventeen.”
Cyrus revealed that she originally only asked Nicks for her blessing to sample “Edge of Seventeen.” But when the Fleetwood Mac star agreed enthusiastically, Cyrus got the idea for a collaboration.
“I had sampled ‘Edge of Seventeen’ and reached out to Stevie, and asked her to bless it, and she said,...
- 2/23/2023
- by Grace Turney
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Subscribe To The New Arrow In The Head Show Youtube Channel Here!
As announced earlier this week, The Arrow in the Head Show – which used to be released through the JoBlo Horror Originals YouTube channel – has now migrated over to its own YouTube channel. Today, we have the first new episode since the big move, and in this one hosts John “The Arrow” Fallon and Lance Vlcek are joined by Tyler Nichols to discuss the 1992 film Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth (watch it Here).
JoBlo and Arrow in the Head readers might know Tyler Nichols from the reviews he writes for the site, or from the JoBlo Horror Originals videos he writes, narrates, and/or produces.
This episode of The Arrow in the Head Show is certainly not a Hellraiser III lovefest. In fact, The Arrow opens the conversation by comparing the first two Hellraiser movies to filet mignon and...
As announced earlier this week, The Arrow in the Head Show – which used to be released through the JoBlo Horror Originals YouTube channel – has now migrated over to its own YouTube channel. Today, we have the first new episode since the big move, and in this one hosts John “The Arrow” Fallon and Lance Vlcek are joined by Tyler Nichols to discuss the 1992 film Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth (watch it Here).
JoBlo and Arrow in the Head readers might know Tyler Nichols from the reviews he writes for the site, or from the JoBlo Horror Originals videos he writes, narrates, and/or produces.
This episode of The Arrow in the Head Show is certainly not a Hellraiser III lovefest. In fact, The Arrow opens the conversation by comparing the first two Hellraiser movies to filet mignon and...
- 9/17/2022
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
Class is dismissed indefinitely for the students of Whitlock High — for real this time.
A.P. Bio has been cancelled at Peacock, series creator Mike O’Brien announced Monday. Its fourth — and now final — season dropped on Sept. 2.
More from TVLineSaved by the Bell's Haskiri Velazquez and Mitchell Hoog on Daisy/Mac Finale Flirtation, Potential Pairing in Season 3Did Psych 3 Open the Door to 'Shules' Having a Baby of Their Own?Saved by the Bell's Josie Totah and Alycia Pascual-Peña Discuss Lexi/Aisha Friendship, LGBTQ Visibility in Season 2
“I’m sad to announce that A.P. Bio will not be renewed for a fifth season,...
A.P. Bio has been cancelled at Peacock, series creator Mike O’Brien announced Monday. Its fourth — and now final — season dropped on Sept. 2.
More from TVLineSaved by the Bell's Haskiri Velazquez and Mitchell Hoog on Daisy/Mac Finale Flirtation, Potential Pairing in Season 3Did Psych 3 Open the Door to 'Shules' Having a Baby of Their Own?Saved by the Bell's Josie Totah and Alycia Pascual-Peña Discuss Lexi/Aisha Friendship, LGBTQ Visibility in Season 2
“I’m sad to announce that A.P. Bio will not be renewed for a fifth season,...
- 12/6/2021
- by Ryan Schwartz
- TVLine.com
Whether you’re on a desktop computer, or a laptop hooked up to an external monitor, one of your most-used computer accessories is a mouse. We’re past the age of trackballs and mess cables — it’s time to declutter your desk and go wireless.
You might not think there’s a lot to a computer mouse, but its shape, size, and buttons can actually shape the way you use your computer and maximize your comfort. Your choice of mouse may actually help improve your overall productivity too, by helping...
You might not think there’s a lot to a computer mouse, but its shape, size, and buttons can actually shape the way you use your computer and maximize your comfort. Your choice of mouse may actually help improve your overall productivity too, by helping...
- 3/26/2021
- by Brandt Ranj
- Rollingstone.com
Nine films will participate in the feature film competition including ‘Heidi’.
Sarajevo Film Festival has unveiled the line-up for its 25th edition, with nine feature world premieres playing in the two main competitive sections.
Scroll down for the full list of titles
These include Romanian filmmaker Cătălin Mitulescu’s fourth film Heidi in the feature competition, about an ageing police officer tasked with finding two prostitutes who he needs to testify in an organised crime case.
Mitulescu debuted with The Way I Spent The End Of The World which won Dorotheea Petre the best actress prize in Un Certain Regard...
Sarajevo Film Festival has unveiled the line-up for its 25th edition, with nine feature world premieres playing in the two main competitive sections.
Scroll down for the full list of titles
These include Romanian filmmaker Cătălin Mitulescu’s fourth film Heidi in the feature competition, about an ageing police officer tasked with finding two prostitutes who he needs to testify in an organised crime case.
Mitulescu debuted with The Way I Spent The End Of The World which won Dorotheea Petre the best actress prize in Un Certain Regard...
- 7/18/2019
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
The 73rd Annual Tony Awards has wrapped up as one of the best editions of the annual Broadway celebration in recent memory. Take a look below at the many things that worked and the few things that didn’t during this year’s telecast (and check out the list of this year’s winners here).
SEE2019 Tony Awards: Best Musical ‘Hadestown’ sweeps with 8 wins, ‘The Ferryman’ takes Best Play [Updating Live]
The Good
In recent years I’ve felt like James Corden has been overused, so I wasn’t really looking forward to his return as host. But Corden rose to the occasion with his magnificent opening number. He highlighted the uniqueness of live theater while also taking some jabs at some of the unpleasantness of the modern theatrical experience. The parts about ticket prices and extremely uncomfortable seats were particularly resonant for me.
The rest of Corden’s performance as host was also good.
SEE2019 Tony Awards: Best Musical ‘Hadestown’ sweeps with 8 wins, ‘The Ferryman’ takes Best Play [Updating Live]
The Good
In recent years I’ve felt like James Corden has been overused, so I wasn’t really looking forward to his return as host. But Corden rose to the occasion with his magnificent opening number. He highlighted the uniqueness of live theater while also taking some jabs at some of the unpleasantness of the modern theatrical experience. The parts about ticket prices and extremely uncomfortable seats were particularly resonant for me.
The rest of Corden’s performance as host was also good.
- 6/10/2019
- by Charles Bright
- Gold Derby
Welcome to Career Watch, a vocational checkup of top actors and directors, and those who hope to get there. In this edition we take on Italian-American actor-director John Turturro, who stars in Richard Price and Steve Zaillian’s widely hailed limited series “The Night Of” (HBO).
Bottom Line: For 37 years, versatile New York actor John Turturro has delivered memorable characters who can be incredibly smart (“Quiz Show”) or insanely stupid (bowler Jesus Quintano in “The Big Lebowski”), lovable (“Fading Gigolo”) or menacing (the pool hustler in Martin Scorsese’s “The Color Of Money”). He’s a go-to player for both the Coens and Spike Lee as well as a reliable character actor for Hollywood tentpoles such as “The Transformers.”
Career Peaks: After winning a scholarship to the Yale Drama School and performing Ibsen, Ionesco, and John Patrick Shanley off-Broadway, Turturro got stuck playing violent killers in films like “Five Corners...
Bottom Line: For 37 years, versatile New York actor John Turturro has delivered memorable characters who can be incredibly smart (“Quiz Show”) or insanely stupid (bowler Jesus Quintano in “The Big Lebowski”), lovable (“Fading Gigolo”) or menacing (the pool hustler in Martin Scorsese’s “The Color Of Money”). He’s a go-to player for both the Coens and Spike Lee as well as a reliable character actor for Hollywood tentpoles such as “The Transformers.”
Career Peaks: After winning a scholarship to the Yale Drama School and performing Ibsen, Ionesco, and John Patrick Shanley off-Broadway, Turturro got stuck playing violent killers in films like “Five Corners...
- 7/31/2017
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
Welcome to Career Watch, a vocational checkup of top actors and directors, and those who hope to get there. In this edition we take on Italian-American actor-director John Turturro, who stars in Richard Price and Steve Zaillian’s widely hailed limited series “The Night Of” (HBO).
Bottom Line: For 37 years, versatile New York actor John Turturro has delivered memorable characters who can be incredibly smart (“Quiz Show”) or insanely stupid (bowler Jesus Quintano in “The Big Lebowski”), lovable (“Fading Gigolo”) or menacing (the pool hustler in Martin Scorsese’s “The Color Of Money”). He’s a go-to player for both the Coens and Spike Lee as well as a reliable character actor for Hollywood tentpoles such as “The Transformers.”
Career Peaks: After winning a scholarship to the Yale Drama School and performing Ibsen, Ionesco, and John Patrick Shanley off-Broadway, Turturro got stuck playing violent killers in films like “Five Corners...
Bottom Line: For 37 years, versatile New York actor John Turturro has delivered memorable characters who can be incredibly smart (“Quiz Show”) or insanely stupid (bowler Jesus Quintano in “The Big Lebowski”), lovable (“Fading Gigolo”) or menacing (the pool hustler in Martin Scorsese’s “The Color Of Money”). He’s a go-to player for both the Coens and Spike Lee as well as a reliable character actor for Hollywood tentpoles such as “The Transformers.”
Career Peaks: After winning a scholarship to the Yale Drama School and performing Ibsen, Ionesco, and John Patrick Shanley off-Broadway, Turturro got stuck playing violent killers in films like “Five Corners...
- 7/31/2017
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
It’s hard to think of an independent film during the 1990s that didn’t star John Turturro, the actor being one of the stock players for Spike Lee and the Coen Brothers. It was during the heyday of independent film that Turturro made his feature directorial debut with Mac, a drama about a family of Italian American carpenters which he made for $2.3M. Turturro attributes the rise of great indie filmmaking and the fact that Mac got made to Columbia TriStar video executive…...
- 4/22/2017
- Deadline
25. “Game of Thrones,” “The Winds of Winter”
This was a crucial season for “Game of Thrones” co-creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, who, in their sixth year nurturing this beast into life, had to go off-book for the first time since author George R.R. Martin had been outstripped by the TV series. Although the pair pulled off an epic ninth episode — the signature stunner in seasons past — it was the finale that came together the best this year. The opening sequence alone is worth the price of admission because it certainly brings words like “cinematic” to mind. Set to a gorgeous score by Ramin Djawadi, the scene was deftly shepherded by director Miguel Sapochnik to create an almost sadistic amount of tension as we waited for Cersei’s green revenge to be unleashed. Once the catastrophic event occurred though, that was not the end of the dragon ride for us viewers.
This was a crucial season for “Game of Thrones” co-creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, who, in their sixth year nurturing this beast into life, had to go off-book for the first time since author George R.R. Martin had been outstripped by the TV series. Although the pair pulled off an epic ninth episode — the signature stunner in seasons past — it was the finale that came together the best this year. The opening sequence alone is worth the price of admission because it certainly brings words like “cinematic” to mind. Set to a gorgeous score by Ramin Djawadi, the scene was deftly shepherded by director Miguel Sapochnik to create an almost sadistic amount of tension as we waited for Cersei’s green revenge to be unleashed. Once the catastrophic event occurred though, that was not the end of the dragon ride for us viewers.
- 12/13/2016
- by Ben Travers, Hanh Nguyen and Liz Shannon Miller
- Indiewire
We've seen "Valentine's Day" and "New Year's Eve," and now we prepare to welcome Garry Marshall's latest rom-com "Mother's Day," which hits theaters April 29th.
We eat these delightful star-studded ensemble films up like buttered popcorn, and chances are we probably haven't seen the last of these holiday-themed love stories on the big screen. What other days-of-the-year movies can we expect in the future? Here are our pitches for 6 "holiday" flicks that we could see being produced. And we'd totally watch them, by the way.
Your move, Hollywood. We'll be waiting for your call.
1. "April Fool's Day"
Synopsis: Ashton Kutcher acts as the chorus of this fable, in the super-meta role of the host of a formerly popular celebrity pranking show called "Burned" (a la "Punk'd.") In order to revive the near-forgotten series, a live April Fool's extravaganza is planned and will epically "burn" the world's biggest and most scrutinized (supposed diva) pop star,...
We eat these delightful star-studded ensemble films up like buttered popcorn, and chances are we probably haven't seen the last of these holiday-themed love stories on the big screen. What other days-of-the-year movies can we expect in the future? Here are our pitches for 6 "holiday" flicks that we could see being produced. And we'd totally watch them, by the way.
Your move, Hollywood. We'll be waiting for your call.
1. "April Fool's Day"
Synopsis: Ashton Kutcher acts as the chorus of this fable, in the super-meta role of the host of a formerly popular celebrity pranking show called "Burned" (a la "Punk'd.") In order to revive the near-forgotten series, a live April Fool's extravaganza is planned and will epically "burn" the world's biggest and most scrutinized (supposed diva) pop star,...
- 4/27/2016
- by Alana Altmann
- Moviefone
Gotham, Season 2, Episode 7, “Mommy’s Little Monster”
Written by Robert Hull
Directed by Kenneth Fink
Airs Mondays at 8pm (Et) on Fox
The season of Gotham comes to a turning point as more people are becoming well aware of Galavan’s evil plan, which may put things in his way. This is a fair time for this to happen, as Galavan has now become Mayor of Gotham City. Before having the power of the mayoral office, Galavan was already a force to be reckoned with, but now, with it, he may very well be unstoppable.
Galavan wastes no time either, initiating Marshal law for the interim until the Penguin is caught, which he does with the aid of Harvey Dent, who finally makes a return to Gotham. It makes sense that they would introduce more characters that are within Galavan’s sway, which is a good way to set up...
Written by Robert Hull
Directed by Kenneth Fink
Airs Mondays at 8pm (Et) on Fox
The season of Gotham comes to a turning point as more people are becoming well aware of Galavan’s evil plan, which may put things in his way. This is a fair time for this to happen, as Galavan has now become Mayor of Gotham City. Before having the power of the mayoral office, Galavan was already a force to be reckoned with, but now, with it, he may very well be unstoppable.
Galavan wastes no time either, initiating Marshal law for the interim until the Penguin is caught, which he does with the aid of Harvey Dent, who finally makes a return to Gotham. It makes sense that they would introduce more characters that are within Galavan’s sway, which is a good way to set up...
- 11/3/2015
- by Jean Pierre Diez
- SoundOnSight
Last year, AMC announced that they had teamed up with Finnish game company Next Games to develop a mobile game based on The Walking Dead TV series. Today, we have a look at the new gameplay trailer for The Walking Dead: No Man’s Land, in which survivors are guided by Daryl Dixon (voiced by Norman Reedus) while rescuing people from familiar locations like Terminus.
The Walking Dead: No Man’s Land will be available on iOS this October. In addition to the gameplay trailer, we have the official press release with full details:
Press Release: New York, NY / Helsinki, Finland – August 11, 2015 – Next Games, the Finnish mobile games studio, and AMC today revealed the first gameplay trailer and key details of the official mobile game based on AMC’s record-breaking hit TV show “The Walking Dead.” The Walking Dead: No Man’s Land, an action-packed strategy game,...
The Walking Dead: No Man’s Land will be available on iOS this October. In addition to the gameplay trailer, we have the official press release with full details:
Press Release: New York, NY / Helsinki, Finland – August 11, 2015 – Next Games, the Finnish mobile games studio, and AMC today revealed the first gameplay trailer and key details of the official mobile game based on AMC’s record-breaking hit TV show “The Walking Dead.” The Walking Dead: No Man’s Land, an action-packed strategy game,...
- 8/11/2015
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
The new trailer shows off some gameplay for the upcoming mobile game based on the hit TV series, The Walking Dead. It is also guided by fan favorite Norman Reedus.
The trailer doesn't show off too much, and while I absolutely love Norma Reedus the voice over work feels like it was a first take and wasn't written too well.
The mobile game will follow the world of the show and allow players to experience some of the dangers the crew head into.
The Walking Dead: No Man’s Land, an action-packed strategy game, will allow players to experience the world of the iconic TV series with its spine-chilling moments through gameplay tailored for touch screen devices.
The game is based on picking the right crew and tools to survive each situation. You need to do so and then adapt your tactical approach with it to advance.
Norman Reedus...
The trailer doesn't show off too much, and while I absolutely love Norma Reedus the voice over work feels like it was a first take and wasn't written too well.
The mobile game will follow the world of the show and allow players to experience some of the dangers the crew head into.
The Walking Dead: No Man’s Land, an action-packed strategy game, will allow players to experience the world of the iconic TV series with its spine-chilling moments through gameplay tailored for touch screen devices.
The game is based on picking the right crew and tools to survive each situation. You need to do so and then adapt your tactical approach with it to advance.
Norman Reedus...
- 8/11/2015
- by feeds@cinelinx.com (Dustin Spino)
- Cinelinx
My experience last November at Los Cabos International Film Festival was fabulous! Set up to promote film coproduction and financing among Mexico, U.S., and Canada, the festival allowed all of us to be very close and connected to our peers in the business – international sales agents, writers of all kinds, programmers and filmmakers. There we met the bright new talent, so idealistic and yet so knowledgeable and educated about film in the world. To be able to see films, concentrate on creating business and still have time to mingle -- this is what makes a festival a happy experience.
Among the many people I met there, was Ben Odell, partner at 3Pas Studios, the newly launched production company that he and Mexico’s most beloved and renowned comic star and director, Eugenio Derbez, founded on the strength and success of the $100 million dollar grossing comedy, "Instructions Not Included".
The success of this film also allowed the film’s producer Monica Lozano to establish Alebrije Distribución a new distribution company which will acquire distribution rights for the Latin and North American markets.
Monica has had her hand in 23 productions since her first film, "Amores Perros". Her most recent success was "Instructions Not Included", the Us$ 5.5 million film that became the highest grossing Spanish language film of all time in the U.S., and the second highest grossing film in any language in Mexico.
But to return to Ben and his new company, the subject of this blog: 3Pas in Spanish means three steps, but is also a play on words, something Mexicans like a lot. Tres Pas sounds like tripas, which in English means guts, or tripe. Personally, I too love tripas. Deliciosas!
I Finally met Ben at Los Cabos Film Festival. I say I "finally" met him, because we have so many friends in common and ever since I have been following Latino films and writing my book on Latin America and the film business, I had often heard of Ben as the head of production for Pantelion, U.S.'s only sustained and successful Latino film distributor.
Last September, when Strategic Partners’ Laura Mackenzie in Halifax invited me to moderate a panel on “The Games Maker”, an Argentinean-Canadian-Italian coproduction, Ben’s name was prominent as the one who made the match between Argentina’s Juan Pablo Buscarini and Canada’s Tina Pehme and Kim Roberts.
I always had him pictured as my other friend whose last name is Odell, a slight and wiry, dark haired type. How surprised I was to see this big, handsome blond who exuded warmth and a good-willed wit and storytelling skill. Love at first sight! And I am sure I am not the only one who is smitten with him.
I wish I could convey his spirit, humor and strength as he recounted his life and career(s) to me in the hour we spent together in his new spacious, airy and bright Santa Monica office where Ben Shalom-Martinez was the third person in the new company, manning a phone system not yet working.
I told Ben I had read his mini bio in IMDb, and it made me want to know how he had gotten into the Latino side of the business. I expected him to reveal that, in fact, and in spite of his name, he was Latino.
One year out of college, Ben said, "I worked in editing with the Maysles Brothers. I was a P.A. on the first film John Turturro directed called “Mac”, and I was a reader for Art Linson. And that was my degree in Liberal Arts in Film. I wanted to be a screenwriter but I didn’t feel I had enough life experience. A family friend offered me a job in commercial production in Colombia. It was 1992 and my dad said: “if you love all things Latino, go learn Spanish and become an expert in the Latino market. It’s going to need people that understand it. No one was really talking about its importance then but that piece of advice changed my life. I moved to Colombia to learn Spanish and start what would be a life long journey in all things Latino, from U.S. Latino to Latin America. It’s not a single market but there is a connectivity between all of it.”
Ben grew up in Pennsylvania and when he was six years old, neighbors, who had old friends from Colombia, did an exchange of one of their children with a Colombian child. “My father ended up basically adopting that child for the year he lived with our neighbors and from that grew a friendship with this Colombian family.”
When he was 12 years old the whole Colombian family moved to Philadelphia. “I wanted them to adopt me. They were crazy, emotional, passionate, loving. It was a warmth and lust for life I hadn’t really experienced in suburban white America. And then I realized there was a whole country full of them.” At 15 he went with a friend to Colombia and loved it.
His father eventually married someone from that family. So Ben's connection to Colombia, if not to all of Latin America was very organic. Colombia is not part of the "U.S. Latino market" per se, but Colombia and the rest of Latin America share certain characteristics and commonalities — views on life and death, family, spirituality -- that end up working their way into storytelling that are shared throughout the U.S. Latino market and Latin America along with a larger emotional scale in the tone of their storytelling.
Odell lived in Colombia from 1992 to 2000. He also worked as a freelance journalist before becoming a Spanish language television writer and screenwriter there.
When he was in Colombia working in commercials, he met Tom Quinn, a journalist Iiving there for 25 years, working for Time Magazine and running an English language rag called The Colombian Post. In his youth ,Tom had run with the likes of Hunter S. Thompson. He had lots of adventures and lots of stories of those days.
Ben asked Tom what was the most compelling story they could make into a movie that wasn’t about narcotrafficking, and Tom said one word: “Emeralds.” Colombia supplies 60% of the world's emeralds. The mines in the Emerald Zone have strong drug laundering connections as well, as one might guess. The land is leased by the government to the three or four mining companies and they control everything with no supervision by the government.
The society is totally feudal. Workers labor for the companies for 28 days of the month and on the last two days they are allowed to keep whatever they find. Victor Carranza ran everything. He was The Don, violent and scary. A small man, about 5'2". He died in prison worth over a billion dollars.
Ben thought this was a great story to develop into a movie, and so he went back to New York to the contacts he had made including an exec at Tribeca Films. “They all said the same thing, great story but you are not a writer. Go write the script and then we’ll talk.” Ben returned to Colombia to do research.
In the meanwhile he began writing for Colombian TV. He had never written a feature film script, nor did he speak Spanish. He had, however, taken a course in feature film screenwriting with Robert McKee. And he had a girlfriend who was bilingual. He knew about Colombian TV and he saw the potential for legitimizing the story first as a TV show and then making it into a feature later.
Tom Quinn was very well known in Colombia as he was the Time News correspondent there at a moment when the magazine had a lot of power; the drug wars were one of its most consistent cover stories. They pitched it to Rti TV, and structured it like "The Fugitive".
There is a drug, called Burandanga, scientifically known as Scopolamine. It comes from a plant that grows wild in Colombia. The drugged one loses control of his or her will. He once heard a story about a man in a bar who wakes up in jail accused of a murder he can’t remember. This became the basis of the story. The lead goes into the Emerald Zone and drugged by burundanga, he kills one on the wrong side in a war going on there. He wakes up with no recollection and a full on civil war going on around him. He can't get out of the Emerald Zone until he finds the man who drugged him. The title of this series that Tom and he pitched and in 1998 created was "Fuego verde", like the 1954 Hollywood movie, “ Green Fire” starring Grace Kelly and Stewart Grainger.
As a television writer, he eventually created and wrote over 300 hours of Spanish-language narrative television including “Fuego Verde” -- the first-ever action series. It was one of the highest rated series on Colombian television. He also co-wrote the Colombian political satire feature film, “ Golpe de estadio”, which was nominated for Spain's Academy Award, the Goya in 1999, and was Colombia's nomination to the Oscar in 2000. It is still one of the highest grossing Colombian films of all time.
In the film, "Golpe de estadio", (Golpe de Estado means “Coup d'état”but it also could mean “Coup d’ Stadium”), an oil company has set up a camp for geological research in a small village in Colombia that has been named New Texas. It becomes the target of the guerrillas who are constantly clashing with police in the area. The confrontation is put on hold however during the TV transmission of the world Cup qualifiers. The two sides declare a sort of truce so that they can all watch the match between Colombia and Argentina on the only working TV in the town. Colombia wins the game, 5 to 0, (a victory, in real life, infamous in the annals of world cup) and of course the Colombian police and guerrilla find themselves cheering for the same team.
"Golpe" was released in theaters in 1999 while the drug wars and war between the guerrillas and the government were moving into peace talks. It came out during the war, and Ben naively believed it could make tangible impact on the country. Instead they received death threats. It was a very volatile time.
He left Colombia and put together a business plan to make movies for Latino audiences. He was too green and he was way ahead of his time so instead he went to film school at Columbia University.
He went to film school thinking it was only to network and realized he knew nothing about film writing or production. "Going to film school's more valuable if a student already has some experience," Ben says.
"Confess", a feature length film he produced in his second year of film school (2005) was one of his thesis projects. It was made for a couple of hundred thousand dollars. Ali Larter and Melissa Leo starred in it (way before she won the Oscar for Best Supporting Role in “The Fighter”). The movie was about a disgruntled computer hacker of mixed race, who struggles to adjust to life after a jaunt in prison. He takes his anger online forcing confessions out of those who slighted him. Eventually his focus becomes political. “It had all the trappings of a first time filmmaker. But conceptually it was scratching the surface of trends that wouldn’t appear online until years later. This was several years before YouTube took hold, which is a lifetime in human years.”
"For my second film, we had Scorsese as an executive producer. When we started preproduction we quickly discovered that one of our two investors really didn’t have the money. He signed a contract to invest while he was still trying to raise the funds“
At this point in our discussion Ben and I went off on a tangent...Money that falls out at the last minute is such a common story. Do these guys think the money will come just because they have "bet" on it, using the film as collateral?... Do they just want to go for the ride, as far as they can go?... are they sociopaths, liars, gamblers, on drugs or what? I remember when I worked at Ifa (until it became ICM); at the Motion Picture Division's meetings that Mike Medavoy held every week, agents would sometimes report on someone wanting to invest in film, and once Mike said "No. Not him. He has a very bad reputation, and his money is not good. We don't want that kind of money." But young producers know very little about vetting financial prospects.
This digression is only to illustrate the fact that that in this person-to-person business it is important to know who you are dealing with.
But Odell’s luck was going to change. Just a few weeks after the implosion of the film, he got an email from Jim McNamara. NBC had bought McNamara's Telemundo for Us$ 3 billion . McNamara had been CEO of New World, a position once held by Harry Sloan and Jon Feltheimer. Feltheimer went off to Sony TV which had a majority stake in Telemundo. McNamara, who had just been president of Universal TV worldwide, was brought in to run Telemundo
After leaving Telemundo, he went back to Feltheimer, in the early days of building Lionsgate, to discuss his new idea. At the time -- this was 2006 -- there were two Spanish language networks, 600 Spanish language radio stations, 2,000 Spanish language newspapers, and no one was making movies in Spanish. Felt liked it and they made a deal. Panamax was born.
McNamara knew of Odell when he was buying TV series for Telemundo. He bought a lot of the TV shows Odell had written.
Panamax’ made a six picture deal with Lionsgate. Odell became President of Production at Panamax Films and produced many feature films and TV movies both in Spanish and in English for the Hispanic market.
On one of their first scouting trips, Odell and McNamara went to see a play called “Latinologues” written by Rick Najera. In it, there was a Mexican actor named Eugenio Derbez. Derbez was known only for Spanish language TV at the time. He wrote, directed, produced and starred in his own shows for Televisa. These shows also played on Univision in the U.S. and were building a huge fan base in both countries as well as much of the Spanish-speaking world.
Latinologues was made up of multiple monologues from different actors playing roles as Latino archetypes. Derbez did three or four different characters. “When he came on stage,” recalls Odell, “He was electrifying, hilarious, magnetic. And then I met him afterwards. He was the humblest man, quiet, and a bit shy. I realized what an amazing talent he was, he had that ‘it factor’ – when he turned it on, it turned on the room.”
At the time Odell and McNamara were packaging a project called "Under the Same Moon" and suggested Derbez for a role. They flew the director, Patricia Riggen, to N.Y. to meet him. While Lionsgate ended up not financing the project, Derbez stayed in the picture. “Looking back, I think a significant part of why that movie did $20 million in box office between U.S. and Mexico, was Eugenio. He was already a mega star. No one really knew it in the general market because they weren’t paying attention to the success of his shows. Hollywood tends to ignore the Spanish speaking market, but the U.S. is the second biggest Spanish speaking country in the world and Eugenio has built a huge following there.”
Ben also made the art house Spanish language thriller, "Padre Nuestro" in 2007 which won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance. IFC changed the title to “Sangre de mi Sangre” for its U.S. release. It also played at New Directors/ New Films at Museum of Modern Art in New York in the Spring of 2007, received two Independent Spirit Awards nominations, for Best First Feature (for which Odell was nominated) and Best Screenplay. Odell also produced “Un Cuento Chino” aka “Chinese Take-Out” (a Spanish/ Argentinean co-production), starring Argentina’s most popular actor, Ricardo Darin (“El Secreto de los Ojos”), written and directed by Sebastián Borensztein. In Spanish, referring to a story as a cuento chino is equivalent to calling it a tall tale.
“Chino” was the top grossing Argentinean film of 2011 and one of the highest grossing Argentinean films of all times. In its international release it has broken box office records for Latin American films in both Latin America and Europe. It won the Argentinean Academy Award for best feature and the Goya, the Spanish Academy Award, for Best Latin American Film. It won numerous festivals including the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award at the Rome Film Festival.
When Odell was developing the script with Borensztein in 2009, he sent the script to Derbez, who immediately expressed interested in remaking it. “I loved the original story and movie,” Derbez said. “There is a heartfelt relationship that develops between these two very different people set around a whimsical, comical and magical world.”
Odell was also an executive producer on the English language 3D family thriller, “ The Games Maker”, starring Joseph Fiennes and Ed Asner. Made as a coproduction with Disney Latin America, the movie was produced in Argentina by Pampa Films and directed by Juan Pablo Buscarini, one of the producers of “Un Cuento Chino”. It was released widely across Latin America in the summer of 2014 and continues its theatrical release around the world.
Several years into Panamax’s deal with Lionsgate, a joint venture was created between Panamax, Televisa and Lionsgate called Pantelion Films. McNamara became chairman of Pantelion and Ben became President of Production.
Under the new deal he produced the 2012 coming of age comedy “Girl in Progress”, directed by “Under the Same Moon” director Patricia Riggen and staring Eva Mendes, Eugenio Derbez, Mathew Modine and Patricia Arquette
His most recent film was the inspirational true story, “Spare Parts”, starring George Lopez, Jamie Lee Curtis and Marisa Tomei which was released in January 2015.
While Eugenio was making his breakout film "Instructions not Included” neither he nor Ben had any idea it would be so big. “Instructions Not Included,” was released in 2013 by Pantelion and grossed $44.5 million, making it the highest-grossing Spanish-language film ever released in the U.S. It grossed another $55 million overseas making it the number one Spanish language movie in the world.
The two realized, this was The One Time In A Career To Capitalize, and they decided to go together, to focus on brand-building, based on Eugenio's popularity and to go beyond his own work, in English and Spanish. Together they formed 3pas Studios which signed a first-look deal with Pantelion in August 2014.
They are in development on many feature films including “Un Cuento Chino”, a remake of the French comedy, “The Valet” and an untitled original script about an aging Latin lover from writers Chris Spain and Jon Zack (“The Perfect Storm”) which Derbez will star in and produce with Ben.
“We are developing multiple projects with an eye to shooting one at the end of 2015,” Odell said.
Meantime, Eugenio Derbez just filmed roles in Warner Brothers’ “Geostorm” with Gerard Butler and Sony Pictures “ Miracles from Heaven” with Jennifer Garner, and Queen Latifah. The latter was directed by Patricia Riggen who directed Derbez in both “Under the Same Moon” and “Girl in Progress”.
Ben is sure that his producing partner will go way beyond his current core Latino market “He is so lovable to watch. He has a magic about him that is undeniable and transcends language and culture.”...
Among the many people I met there, was Ben Odell, partner at 3Pas Studios, the newly launched production company that he and Mexico’s most beloved and renowned comic star and director, Eugenio Derbez, founded on the strength and success of the $100 million dollar grossing comedy, "Instructions Not Included".
The success of this film also allowed the film’s producer Monica Lozano to establish Alebrije Distribución a new distribution company which will acquire distribution rights for the Latin and North American markets.
Monica has had her hand in 23 productions since her first film, "Amores Perros". Her most recent success was "Instructions Not Included", the Us$ 5.5 million film that became the highest grossing Spanish language film of all time in the U.S., and the second highest grossing film in any language in Mexico.
But to return to Ben and his new company, the subject of this blog: 3Pas in Spanish means three steps, but is also a play on words, something Mexicans like a lot. Tres Pas sounds like tripas, which in English means guts, or tripe. Personally, I too love tripas. Deliciosas!
I Finally met Ben at Los Cabos Film Festival. I say I "finally" met him, because we have so many friends in common and ever since I have been following Latino films and writing my book on Latin America and the film business, I had often heard of Ben as the head of production for Pantelion, U.S.'s only sustained and successful Latino film distributor.
Last September, when Strategic Partners’ Laura Mackenzie in Halifax invited me to moderate a panel on “The Games Maker”, an Argentinean-Canadian-Italian coproduction, Ben’s name was prominent as the one who made the match between Argentina’s Juan Pablo Buscarini and Canada’s Tina Pehme and Kim Roberts.
I always had him pictured as my other friend whose last name is Odell, a slight and wiry, dark haired type. How surprised I was to see this big, handsome blond who exuded warmth and a good-willed wit and storytelling skill. Love at first sight! And I am sure I am not the only one who is smitten with him.
I wish I could convey his spirit, humor and strength as he recounted his life and career(s) to me in the hour we spent together in his new spacious, airy and bright Santa Monica office where Ben Shalom-Martinez was the third person in the new company, manning a phone system not yet working.
I told Ben I had read his mini bio in IMDb, and it made me want to know how he had gotten into the Latino side of the business. I expected him to reveal that, in fact, and in spite of his name, he was Latino.
One year out of college, Ben said, "I worked in editing with the Maysles Brothers. I was a P.A. on the first film John Turturro directed called “Mac”, and I was a reader for Art Linson. And that was my degree in Liberal Arts in Film. I wanted to be a screenwriter but I didn’t feel I had enough life experience. A family friend offered me a job in commercial production in Colombia. It was 1992 and my dad said: “if you love all things Latino, go learn Spanish and become an expert in the Latino market. It’s going to need people that understand it. No one was really talking about its importance then but that piece of advice changed my life. I moved to Colombia to learn Spanish and start what would be a life long journey in all things Latino, from U.S. Latino to Latin America. It’s not a single market but there is a connectivity between all of it.”
Ben grew up in Pennsylvania and when he was six years old, neighbors, who had old friends from Colombia, did an exchange of one of their children with a Colombian child. “My father ended up basically adopting that child for the year he lived with our neighbors and from that grew a friendship with this Colombian family.”
When he was 12 years old the whole Colombian family moved to Philadelphia. “I wanted them to adopt me. They were crazy, emotional, passionate, loving. It was a warmth and lust for life I hadn’t really experienced in suburban white America. And then I realized there was a whole country full of them.” At 15 he went with a friend to Colombia and loved it.
His father eventually married someone from that family. So Ben's connection to Colombia, if not to all of Latin America was very organic. Colombia is not part of the "U.S. Latino market" per se, but Colombia and the rest of Latin America share certain characteristics and commonalities — views on life and death, family, spirituality -- that end up working their way into storytelling that are shared throughout the U.S. Latino market and Latin America along with a larger emotional scale in the tone of their storytelling.
Odell lived in Colombia from 1992 to 2000. He also worked as a freelance journalist before becoming a Spanish language television writer and screenwriter there.
When he was in Colombia working in commercials, he met Tom Quinn, a journalist Iiving there for 25 years, working for Time Magazine and running an English language rag called The Colombian Post. In his youth ,Tom had run with the likes of Hunter S. Thompson. He had lots of adventures and lots of stories of those days.
Ben asked Tom what was the most compelling story they could make into a movie that wasn’t about narcotrafficking, and Tom said one word: “Emeralds.” Colombia supplies 60% of the world's emeralds. The mines in the Emerald Zone have strong drug laundering connections as well, as one might guess. The land is leased by the government to the three or four mining companies and they control everything with no supervision by the government.
The society is totally feudal. Workers labor for the companies for 28 days of the month and on the last two days they are allowed to keep whatever they find. Victor Carranza ran everything. He was The Don, violent and scary. A small man, about 5'2". He died in prison worth over a billion dollars.
Ben thought this was a great story to develop into a movie, and so he went back to New York to the contacts he had made including an exec at Tribeca Films. “They all said the same thing, great story but you are not a writer. Go write the script and then we’ll talk.” Ben returned to Colombia to do research.
In the meanwhile he began writing for Colombian TV. He had never written a feature film script, nor did he speak Spanish. He had, however, taken a course in feature film screenwriting with Robert McKee. And he had a girlfriend who was bilingual. He knew about Colombian TV and he saw the potential for legitimizing the story first as a TV show and then making it into a feature later.
Tom Quinn was very well known in Colombia as he was the Time News correspondent there at a moment when the magazine had a lot of power; the drug wars were one of its most consistent cover stories. They pitched it to Rti TV, and structured it like "The Fugitive".
There is a drug, called Burandanga, scientifically known as Scopolamine. It comes from a plant that grows wild in Colombia. The drugged one loses control of his or her will. He once heard a story about a man in a bar who wakes up in jail accused of a murder he can’t remember. This became the basis of the story. The lead goes into the Emerald Zone and drugged by burundanga, he kills one on the wrong side in a war going on there. He wakes up with no recollection and a full on civil war going on around him. He can't get out of the Emerald Zone until he finds the man who drugged him. The title of this series that Tom and he pitched and in 1998 created was "Fuego verde", like the 1954 Hollywood movie, “ Green Fire” starring Grace Kelly and Stewart Grainger.
As a television writer, he eventually created and wrote over 300 hours of Spanish-language narrative television including “Fuego Verde” -- the first-ever action series. It was one of the highest rated series on Colombian television. He also co-wrote the Colombian political satire feature film, “ Golpe de estadio”, which was nominated for Spain's Academy Award, the Goya in 1999, and was Colombia's nomination to the Oscar in 2000. It is still one of the highest grossing Colombian films of all time.
In the film, "Golpe de estadio", (Golpe de Estado means “Coup d'état”but it also could mean “Coup d’ Stadium”), an oil company has set up a camp for geological research in a small village in Colombia that has been named New Texas. It becomes the target of the guerrillas who are constantly clashing with police in the area. The confrontation is put on hold however during the TV transmission of the world Cup qualifiers. The two sides declare a sort of truce so that they can all watch the match between Colombia and Argentina on the only working TV in the town. Colombia wins the game, 5 to 0, (a victory, in real life, infamous in the annals of world cup) and of course the Colombian police and guerrilla find themselves cheering for the same team.
"Golpe" was released in theaters in 1999 while the drug wars and war between the guerrillas and the government were moving into peace talks. It came out during the war, and Ben naively believed it could make tangible impact on the country. Instead they received death threats. It was a very volatile time.
He left Colombia and put together a business plan to make movies for Latino audiences. He was too green and he was way ahead of his time so instead he went to film school at Columbia University.
He went to film school thinking it was only to network and realized he knew nothing about film writing or production. "Going to film school's more valuable if a student already has some experience," Ben says.
"Confess", a feature length film he produced in his second year of film school (2005) was one of his thesis projects. It was made for a couple of hundred thousand dollars. Ali Larter and Melissa Leo starred in it (way before she won the Oscar for Best Supporting Role in “The Fighter”). The movie was about a disgruntled computer hacker of mixed race, who struggles to adjust to life after a jaunt in prison. He takes his anger online forcing confessions out of those who slighted him. Eventually his focus becomes political. “It had all the trappings of a first time filmmaker. But conceptually it was scratching the surface of trends that wouldn’t appear online until years later. This was several years before YouTube took hold, which is a lifetime in human years.”
"For my second film, we had Scorsese as an executive producer. When we started preproduction we quickly discovered that one of our two investors really didn’t have the money. He signed a contract to invest while he was still trying to raise the funds“
At this point in our discussion Ben and I went off on a tangent...Money that falls out at the last minute is such a common story. Do these guys think the money will come just because they have "bet" on it, using the film as collateral?... Do they just want to go for the ride, as far as they can go?... are they sociopaths, liars, gamblers, on drugs or what? I remember when I worked at Ifa (until it became ICM); at the Motion Picture Division's meetings that Mike Medavoy held every week, agents would sometimes report on someone wanting to invest in film, and once Mike said "No. Not him. He has a very bad reputation, and his money is not good. We don't want that kind of money." But young producers know very little about vetting financial prospects.
This digression is only to illustrate the fact that that in this person-to-person business it is important to know who you are dealing with.
But Odell’s luck was going to change. Just a few weeks after the implosion of the film, he got an email from Jim McNamara. NBC had bought McNamara's Telemundo for Us$ 3 billion . McNamara had been CEO of New World, a position once held by Harry Sloan and Jon Feltheimer. Feltheimer went off to Sony TV which had a majority stake in Telemundo. McNamara, who had just been president of Universal TV worldwide, was brought in to run Telemundo
After leaving Telemundo, he went back to Feltheimer, in the early days of building Lionsgate, to discuss his new idea. At the time -- this was 2006 -- there were two Spanish language networks, 600 Spanish language radio stations, 2,000 Spanish language newspapers, and no one was making movies in Spanish. Felt liked it and they made a deal. Panamax was born.
McNamara knew of Odell when he was buying TV series for Telemundo. He bought a lot of the TV shows Odell had written.
Panamax’ made a six picture deal with Lionsgate. Odell became President of Production at Panamax Films and produced many feature films and TV movies both in Spanish and in English for the Hispanic market.
On one of their first scouting trips, Odell and McNamara went to see a play called “Latinologues” written by Rick Najera. In it, there was a Mexican actor named Eugenio Derbez. Derbez was known only for Spanish language TV at the time. He wrote, directed, produced and starred in his own shows for Televisa. These shows also played on Univision in the U.S. and were building a huge fan base in both countries as well as much of the Spanish-speaking world.
Latinologues was made up of multiple monologues from different actors playing roles as Latino archetypes. Derbez did three or four different characters. “When he came on stage,” recalls Odell, “He was electrifying, hilarious, magnetic. And then I met him afterwards. He was the humblest man, quiet, and a bit shy. I realized what an amazing talent he was, he had that ‘it factor’ – when he turned it on, it turned on the room.”
At the time Odell and McNamara were packaging a project called "Under the Same Moon" and suggested Derbez for a role. They flew the director, Patricia Riggen, to N.Y. to meet him. While Lionsgate ended up not financing the project, Derbez stayed in the picture. “Looking back, I think a significant part of why that movie did $20 million in box office between U.S. and Mexico, was Eugenio. He was already a mega star. No one really knew it in the general market because they weren’t paying attention to the success of his shows. Hollywood tends to ignore the Spanish speaking market, but the U.S. is the second biggest Spanish speaking country in the world and Eugenio has built a huge following there.”
Ben also made the art house Spanish language thriller, "Padre Nuestro" in 2007 which won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance. IFC changed the title to “Sangre de mi Sangre” for its U.S. release. It also played at New Directors/ New Films at Museum of Modern Art in New York in the Spring of 2007, received two Independent Spirit Awards nominations, for Best First Feature (for which Odell was nominated) and Best Screenplay. Odell also produced “Un Cuento Chino” aka “Chinese Take-Out” (a Spanish/ Argentinean co-production), starring Argentina’s most popular actor, Ricardo Darin (“El Secreto de los Ojos”), written and directed by Sebastián Borensztein. In Spanish, referring to a story as a cuento chino is equivalent to calling it a tall tale.
“Chino” was the top grossing Argentinean film of 2011 and one of the highest grossing Argentinean films of all times. In its international release it has broken box office records for Latin American films in both Latin America and Europe. It won the Argentinean Academy Award for best feature and the Goya, the Spanish Academy Award, for Best Latin American Film. It won numerous festivals including the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award at the Rome Film Festival.
When Odell was developing the script with Borensztein in 2009, he sent the script to Derbez, who immediately expressed interested in remaking it. “I loved the original story and movie,” Derbez said. “There is a heartfelt relationship that develops between these two very different people set around a whimsical, comical and magical world.”
Odell was also an executive producer on the English language 3D family thriller, “ The Games Maker”, starring Joseph Fiennes and Ed Asner. Made as a coproduction with Disney Latin America, the movie was produced in Argentina by Pampa Films and directed by Juan Pablo Buscarini, one of the producers of “Un Cuento Chino”. It was released widely across Latin America in the summer of 2014 and continues its theatrical release around the world.
Several years into Panamax’s deal with Lionsgate, a joint venture was created between Panamax, Televisa and Lionsgate called Pantelion Films. McNamara became chairman of Pantelion and Ben became President of Production.
Under the new deal he produced the 2012 coming of age comedy “Girl in Progress”, directed by “Under the Same Moon” director Patricia Riggen and staring Eva Mendes, Eugenio Derbez, Mathew Modine and Patricia Arquette
His most recent film was the inspirational true story, “Spare Parts”, starring George Lopez, Jamie Lee Curtis and Marisa Tomei which was released in January 2015.
While Eugenio was making his breakout film "Instructions not Included” neither he nor Ben had any idea it would be so big. “Instructions Not Included,” was released in 2013 by Pantelion and grossed $44.5 million, making it the highest-grossing Spanish-language film ever released in the U.S. It grossed another $55 million overseas making it the number one Spanish language movie in the world.
The two realized, this was The One Time In A Career To Capitalize, and they decided to go together, to focus on brand-building, based on Eugenio's popularity and to go beyond his own work, in English and Spanish. Together they formed 3pas Studios which signed a first-look deal with Pantelion in August 2014.
They are in development on many feature films including “Un Cuento Chino”, a remake of the French comedy, “The Valet” and an untitled original script about an aging Latin lover from writers Chris Spain and Jon Zack (“The Perfect Storm”) which Derbez will star in and produce with Ben.
“We are developing multiple projects with an eye to shooting one at the end of 2015,” Odell said.
Meantime, Eugenio Derbez just filmed roles in Warner Brothers’ “Geostorm” with Gerard Butler and Sony Pictures “ Miracles from Heaven” with Jennifer Garner, and Queen Latifah. The latter was directed by Patricia Riggen who directed Derbez in both “Under the Same Moon” and “Girl in Progress”.
Ben is sure that his producing partner will go way beyond his current core Latino market “He is so lovable to watch. He has a magic about him that is undeniable and transcends language and culture.”...
- 8/5/2015
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Got a scoop request? An anonymous tip you’re dying to share? Send any/all of the above to askausiello@tvline.com
Question: Is Grey’s Anatomy planning a big cliffhanger for the winter finale, similar to last December’s Jackson/April wedding brouhaha? —Jared
Ausiello: I hear the Nov. 20 episode will end with a cliffhanger, but whether or not it’s on par with the climax in the 2013 fall finale is probably subjective. (For example, Mer/Der fans will likely deem this year’s cliffhanger a bigger deal than last year’s.) Bonus Scoop: It was incorrect of me...
Question: Is Grey’s Anatomy planning a big cliffhanger for the winter finale, similar to last December’s Jackson/April wedding brouhaha? —Jared
Ausiello: I hear the Nov. 20 episode will end with a cliffhanger, but whether or not it’s on par with the climax in the 2013 fall finale is probably subjective. (For example, Mer/Der fans will likely deem this year’s cliffhanger a bigger deal than last year’s.) Bonus Scoop: It was incorrect of me...
- 11/5/2014
- TVLine.com
Looking for what's new on Netflix streaming for November? You've come to the right place.
We've rounded up the best TV shows and movies arriving soon. So take some time to peruse this list, and maybe block off a weekend or two so you can binge-watch Season 9 of "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" or something. Oh, and you might want to make a note about November 22; "Snowpiercer" is worth the wait.
Here's a much larger rundown of what's new on Netflix in November, provided by Netflix. All title dates are subject to change.
Available November 1
"Artifact" (2012)
First known as an actor, Jared Leto has also found success in the music industry with his band 30 Seconds to Mars. This documentary follows the band as it makes the album "This is War" while battling recording giant Emi in a pivotal lawsuit.
"Babes In Toyland" (1961)
Composer Victor Herbert's operetta comes delightfully to...
We've rounded up the best TV shows and movies arriving soon. So take some time to peruse this list, and maybe block off a weekend or two so you can binge-watch Season 9 of "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" or something. Oh, and you might want to make a note about November 22; "Snowpiercer" is worth the wait.
Here's a much larger rundown of what's new on Netflix in November, provided by Netflix. All title dates are subject to change.
Available November 1
"Artifact" (2012)
First known as an actor, Jared Leto has also found success in the music industry with his band 30 Seconds to Mars. This documentary follows the band as it makes the album "This is War" while battling recording giant Emi in a pivotal lawsuit.
"Babes In Toyland" (1961)
Composer Victor Herbert's operetta comes delightfully to...
- 10/28/2014
- by Tim Hayne
- Moviefone
The Judge did not come close to winning its opening weekend. Nor did the critics swoon over the pairing of Robert Downey Jr. and Robert Duvall, playing a hot-shot, big-city attorney and his ornery father, a prominent small-town judge accused of murder. But even if the script is Grisham-light and the prodigal-son bit overly familiar, there's at least one reason to keep it on your must-see list: Duvall. "Now it's about time to recognize Robert Duvall as one of the most resourceful, most technically proficient, most remarkable actors in America today," wrote the New York Times. "When I say 'one of…...
- 10/13/2014
- by Jeff Labrecque
- EW.com - PopWatch
It wouldn't be a mistake to call John Turturro one of the finest character actors currently working. But he's also an accomplished writer/director with four very different features under his belt, from his debut family drama "Mac" to the period theatre tale "Illuminata" and two music driven efforts, "Romance & Cigarettes" and "Passione." And for his latest turn behind (and in front of) the camera, he shifts gears again with "Fading Gigolo." Featuring Woody Allen taking a rare screen acting role opposite Turturro in a project that isn't one of his own films, the movie is presented within the framework of a sex comedy but with much more happening underneath. While 'Fading Gigolo' tells the story of florist Fioravante who is convinced by his friend to sell his more carnal talents to earn some big cash. There's quite a lovely and tender romance developing in the picture, and...
- 8/18/2014
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
One of the key awards at Cannes is the Camera d'Or, launched in 1978, which goes to the best film from a first-time filmmaker in the Official Selection, La Semaine de la Critique and Directors’ Fortnight. Past winners include Benh Zeitlin, whose 2012 "Beast of the Southern Wild" went on to nab Oscar nominations for Best Picture, Director, Original Screenplay and Actress, as well as Jim Jarmusch ("Stranger than Paradise," 1984), Mira Nair ("Salaam Bombay!", 1988), John Turturro ("Mac," 1992), Marc Levin ("Slam," 1998), Miranda July ("Me, You and Everyone We Know," 2005), and Steve McQueen ("Hunger," 2008). It's a career launch prize. In 2014, fifteen films will be vying for the Camera d'Or award to be presented during the Awards Ceremony on Saturday May 24th. French director Nicole Garcia will preside. Here's the jury: Nicole Garcia, President, actress and director Richard Anconina, actor Gilles Gaillard, technician Sophie Grassin, journalist and critic Héléna...
- 5/11/2014
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
Actor John Turturro may be best known as one of the screen’s best character actors who has been a part of the repertory companies of both Spike Lee (Do The Right Thing, Jungle Fever) and the Coen brothers (Miller’S Crossing, The Big Lebowsky), but he’s begun to make a name for himself behind the camera as well. After directing the music based documentary Passione in 2010 he has now directed his fourth dramatic feature (Mac in 1992, Illuminata in 1998, and the musical Romance And Cigarettes in 2005). Well, this a more of a comedy. To be more precise it’s a New York City-based comedy, much in the same vein as Woody Allen’s 70′s and 80′s classics (for the last few years Woody’s been shooting his stories in Europe and with last year’s Blue Jasmine in ‘gasp’ California). And guess who Mr. Turturro is directing and sharing scenes with?...
- 5/8/2014
- by Jim Batts
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
John Turturro Talks 'Fading Gigolo,' Women, Sex, Woody Allen and That Elephant in the Room (Trailer)
Director John Turturro arguably is the only filmmaker who’d ever think of casting actor John Turturro as an attentive escort who's handsomely paid for his sexual favors by exceptionally attractive -- and extremely grateful -- women. "Fading Gigolo" is the newest addition to his list of directorial credits, an inventory that also includes "Mac" (1992), his affectionate portrait of a workaholic building contractor not unlike Turturro's own dad, and "Passione," which was screened with Turturro in attendance at the 2010 Houston Cinema Arts Festival. Turturro called a few days ago to discuss his work on both sides of the camera for "Fading Gigolo." The 57-year-old multihyphenate sounded justly proud of the movie's early success during bookings in New York and Los Angeles -- and seemed optimistic that audiences elsewhere also would embrace the film, offbeat casting and all. Highlights from Joe Leydon's interview with Turturro for Culture Map below. Read...
- 5/5/2014
- by Joe Leydon
- Thompson on Hollywood
With the holiday season getting closer and closer, there's no better time to get a jump on your shopping for your friends and family. Have a fan of "The Walking Dead" in your life? Then here's a handy gift guide to help you figure out what to buy him or her.
Gifts under $50:
"The Walking Dead" Pop figurines ($9.99) -- Want a cheap and easy way to help your favorite "The Walking Dead" fan show off their love for the show? Buy them their preferred character in adorable Pop figurine form.
If Daryl Dies We Riot T-shirt ($15.38) -- The producers on "The Walking Dead" well know that they'll be in trouble with fans if they kill off Daryl Dixon. There's no harm reminding them by spreading this "If Daryl Dies We Riot" T-shirt to more people in your life (right).
Zombie leggings ($27) -- These leggings are a subtle and fashionable...
Gifts under $50:
"The Walking Dead" Pop figurines ($9.99) -- Want a cheap and easy way to help your favorite "The Walking Dead" fan show off their love for the show? Buy them their preferred character in adorable Pop figurine form.
If Daryl Dies We Riot T-shirt ($15.38) -- The producers on "The Walking Dead" well know that they'll be in trouble with fans if they kill off Daryl Dixon. There's no harm reminding them by spreading this "If Daryl Dies We Riot" T-shirt to more people in your life (right).
Zombie leggings ($27) -- These leggings are a subtle and fashionable...
- 11/22/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt hit the red carpet for the World War Z Japan Premiere on Monday.
Wearing matching black, the two stars were arm-in-arm as they waved to fans at Roppongi Hills on July 29 in Tokyo.
Director Mac Forster, Producer Dede Gardner, actress Ryoko Shinohara and Brad Pitt
It was announced today that due to overwhelming demand, the hit film has been digitally re-mastered into the immersive IMAX 3D format and will be released into select IMAX theatres domestically for the first time for a one-week engagement beginning Aug. 2.
World War Z has captivated audiences worldwide – grossing more than $460 million since its launch on June 21. The film has already played in select IMAX theatres internationally.
World War Z revolves around an ex-United Nations investigator Gerry Lane (Pitt), who traverses the world in a race against time to stop a pandemic that is toppling armies and governments and threatening to decimate humanity itself.
Wearing matching black, the two stars were arm-in-arm as they waved to fans at Roppongi Hills on July 29 in Tokyo.
Director Mac Forster, Producer Dede Gardner, actress Ryoko Shinohara and Brad Pitt
It was announced today that due to overwhelming demand, the hit film has been digitally re-mastered into the immersive IMAX 3D format and will be released into select IMAX theatres domestically for the first time for a one-week engagement beginning Aug. 2.
World War Z has captivated audiences worldwide – grossing more than $460 million since its launch on June 21. The film has already played in select IMAX theatres internationally.
World War Z revolves around an ex-United Nations investigator Gerry Lane (Pitt), who traverses the world in a race against time to stop a pandemic that is toppling armies and governments and threatening to decimate humanity itself.
- 7/29/2013
- by Melissa Thompson
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Debra Messing was in attendance Saturday night to celebrate the premiere of the film Butterflies of Bill Baker. Messing was joined by VH1 Gossip Table personality Delaina Dixon, and more, as well as the stars of the film, Will Chase, Sterling Jerins, Zuzanna Szadkowski, and Polly Lee. The film’s producer Reema Dutt and director Sania Jhankar attended as well as Angeli Kakade, the film’s music supervisor singer/songwriter.
Butterflies of Bill Baker revolves around a sweet and sensitive man, Bill Baker, who lets life pass by him. Living a seemingly normal life, Bill suffers from Pavornocturnus, which is a real condition that causes people to commit violent acts in their sleep. Suffering through the condition, Bill resorts to a new, yet dangerous technology that has serious mind-altering side affects.
Shot all over New York City, the film was a finalist at the Chris Columbus Vague Award, where director...
Butterflies of Bill Baker revolves around a sweet and sensitive man, Bill Baker, who lets life pass by him. Living a seemingly normal life, Bill suffers from Pavornocturnus, which is a real condition that causes people to commit violent acts in their sleep. Suffering through the condition, Bill resorts to a new, yet dangerous technology that has serious mind-altering side affects.
Shot all over New York City, the film was a finalist at the Chris Columbus Vague Award, where director...
- 7/4/2013
- by Catherina Gioino
- Nerdly
Park Pictures Features announced today Academy Award®-winning actor, Philip Seymour Hoffman, is set to star in God’S Pocket, the upcoming film directorial debut from Emmy®-nominee John Slattery. Slattery adapted the screenplay with Alex Metcalf from the novel by National Book Award Winning author Pete Dexter. Academy Award®-nominee Richard Jenkins, Emmy Award®-nominee Christina Hendricks and award winning actor John Turturro will co-star. Jay Cohen of Gersh will handle all film sales.
Park Pictures Features will produce the film in partnership with Hoffman’s Cooper’s Town Productions and Slattery’s Shoestring Pictures, which makes its producing debut with this film. Acclaimed director/cinematographer Lance Acord has signed on to shoot the film, which will be produced by Sam Bisbee, Jackie Kelman Bisbee, Slattery, Lance Acord and Galt Niederhoffer, for Park Pictures and Emily Ziff and Hoffman for Cooper’s Town. The film will be executive produced...
Park Pictures Features will produce the film in partnership with Hoffman’s Cooper’s Town Productions and Slattery’s Shoestring Pictures, which makes its producing debut with this film. Acclaimed director/cinematographer Lance Acord has signed on to shoot the film, which will be produced by Sam Bisbee, Jackie Kelman Bisbee, Slattery, Lance Acord and Galt Niederhoffer, for Park Pictures and Emily Ziff and Hoffman for Cooper’s Town. The film will be executive produced...
- 5/15/2013
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
With the fourth episode of The Walking Dead video game scheduled for release later this month, the first trailer for Around Every Corner has been released.
Sadly, a specific release date for each platform has not yet been announced, but this is similar to the previous episode releases. The lack of an exact release date is due to the approval process that each platform has, but we should see the PC, Xbox Live, PlayStation, and Mac version before the end of the month.
As reported earlier, we’ll be getting a box release of all five episodes this December for those that are waiting to play it all at once. That means that we should see the release of Episode 5, titled No Time Left, in late November or early December.
Based on comments from Telltale Games and the success of the first three episodes, don’t expect episode 5 to be...
Sadly, a specific release date for each platform has not yet been announced, but this is similar to the previous episode releases. The lack of an exact release date is due to the approval process that each platform has, but we should see the PC, Xbox Live, PlayStation, and Mac version before the end of the month.
As reported earlier, we’ll be getting a box release of all five episodes this December for those that are waiting to play it all at once. That means that we should see the release of Episode 5, titled No Time Left, in late November or early December.
Based on comments from Telltale Games and the success of the first three episodes, don’t expect episode 5 to be...
- 10/1/2012
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
Exclusive: Qed International has committed to produce, finance and handle international sales for Haunt, an original horror film that Mac Carter will direct from a script by Andrew Barrer. A family that moves into a new home with a dark past. When their son becomes involved with a beautiful girl next door, and together they begin to explore their sexual awakening, they unwittingly invoke an alternative dimension of the house. Haunt will be produced by Sasha Shapiro, Anton Lessine, Bill Block, Paul Hanson, Steven Schneider and Will Rowbotham. Production starts in November. Qed adds Haunt to a slate that includes the David Ayer-directed Ten with Arnold Schwarzenegger and the John Turturro-directed Fading Gigolo that stars Turturro and Woody Allen. Daniel Diamond just joined as Qed president of International, and he and block will be selling territories on the slate at Toronto and Afm. “With Haunt, Andrew Barrer has...
- 8/27/2012
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
The Walking Dead Social Game opened to the public yesterday, but if you haven’t had a chance to try it out yet, we have screenshots from the opening of the game and the first few missions.
As the name implies, this is very much a casual game meant to be played with your friends. If you’re not much of a gamer and would like to throw yourself into the world of The Walking Dead with your friends, this game has a really easy learning curve and ties into the TV series episodes.
For gamers who are looking for more of a challenge, you’ll have to wait for the release of Activision’s first person shooter, where you’ll play as Daryl Dixon before the events of The Walking Dead TV show. Fans of Telltale’s episodic games can also look forward to Episode 3 of The Walking Dead game series later this month.
As the name implies, this is very much a casual game meant to be played with your friends. If you’re not much of a gamer and would like to throw yourself into the world of The Walking Dead with your friends, this game has a really easy learning curve and ties into the TV series episodes.
For gamers who are looking for more of a challenge, you’ll have to wait for the release of Activision’s first person shooter, where you’ll play as Daryl Dixon before the events of The Walking Dead TV show. Fans of Telltale’s episodic games can also look forward to Episode 3 of The Walking Dead game series later this month.
- 8/10/2012
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
While he’s one of our most respected actors -- who somehow has never received an Oscar nomination, that’s another story -- the world of feature filmmaking hasn’t been exactly kind to actor John Turturro. While his early directorial efforts, 1992's "Mac" and 1998's "Illuminata,” were well-received -- both were accepted to Cannes and the former earned itself the Caméra d'Or prize and two key Independent Spirit Award nominations -- neither did particularly well at the box-office (max gross was under $900,000 domestically). His later pictures didn't score the same kinds of accolades. And despite the caliber of actors willing to work with him, Kate Winslet, Susan Sarandon, James Gandolfini, Christopher Walken and Steve Buscemi all starred in 2007’s “Romance and Cigarettes,” the film couldn’t muster more than $557K at the domestic box-office after waiting two years to be released (and was poorly...
- 2/19/2012
- The Playlist
The Dove Commission releases a report on NYPD corruption tomorrow. Commissioner Stanwyck (Norman Howell) and some women have been shot after a sniper opened fire at the club. He was the chief Investigator. Flack (Eddie Cahill) thinks the report must be damaging. Charlotte Dubois (Diana Lupo) appears to be collateral damage. Mac (Gary Sinise) wants to start with the report. The windows are shattered. Stella (Melina Kanakaredes) wants the bullets. Flack prevents a reporter from filming: "You keep filming, I'm gonna give you rights and lefts." Grace (Leslie Bega) knew Charlotte from Kentucky. Mac is insistent every officer is doing everything they can to find the killer. In story 2, Fernando Reyes, (Toby Halguin) a gypsy cab driver is found dead in his cab. Danny (Carmine Giovinazzo) says if he had a legitimate licence he would still be alive. That's not necessarily true. He's got issues with such drivers. Danny: "Pay...
- 12/19/2011
- by mhasan@corp.popstar.com (Mila Hasan)
- PopStar
'Parks and Recreation' antihero Ron Swanson lands at #1, with 'Breaking Bad' meth cook Walter and the 'Jersey Shore' guidette behind him.
By MTV News staff
Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi in "Jersey Shore"
Photo: MTV
It's all come down to this: Only 10 remain in our countdown of the Top 50 TV Characters of 2011, and the results might surprise you.
It goes without saying that one of our favorite "Jersey Shore" stars found her way toward the top of our list, but it's a certain "Parks and Rec" administrator who took home all the bacon (and all the eggs while he was at it). Combine those characters with two nods for "Breaking Bad," an Emmy-winning "Game of Thrones" actor and one comedian who risked his very life to bring some of the biggest laughs the small screen has ever enjoyed, and you'll find yourself looking at our Top 10 TV Characters of 2011.
Stay...
By MTV News staff
Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi in "Jersey Shore"
Photo: MTV
It's all come down to this: Only 10 remain in our countdown of the Top 50 TV Characters of 2011, and the results might surprise you.
It goes without saying that one of our favorite "Jersey Shore" stars found her way toward the top of our list, but it's a certain "Parks and Rec" administrator who took home all the bacon (and all the eggs while he was at it). Combine those characters with two nods for "Breaking Bad," an Emmy-winning "Game of Thrones" actor and one comedian who risked his very life to bring some of the biggest laughs the small screen has ever enjoyed, and you'll find yourself looking at our Top 10 TV Characters of 2011.
Stay...
- 12/9/2011
- MTV Music News
Will CSI: NY‘s stirring season opener cover all the bases? How Big will Chris Noth’s Good Wife presence be this season? Will Supernatural‘s Crowley ally with the boys or Cas? Can Leslie Knope handle the end of the world? Read on for those answers, plus other teases from some of TV’s hottest shows.
CSI: NY | Ever since TVLine started previewing the new season – namely, the Sept. 23 opener revolving around 9/11, when Mac lost his wife – I’ve had a lot of readers ask if we’ll get the perspective of other team members as well. As seen...
CSI: NY | Ever since TVLine started previewing the new season – namely, the Sept. 23 opener revolving around 9/11, when Mac lost his wife – I’ve had a lot of readers ask if we’ll get the perspective of other team members as well. As seen...
- 8/25/2011
- by Matt Webb Mitovich
- TVLine.com
For the past twenty-five years John Turturro has been one of the most dynamic presences in American narrative filmmaking, both in the independent world and in Hollywood. His roles in films such as Do The Right Thing, Barton Fink, Quiz Show and The Big Lebowski cemented his place as one of the most versatile actors around, someone who could slip easily between extremely varied character roles while occasionally moonlighting as a leading man. Beyond his work as an actor, he’s also directed a trio of mostly terrific feature narratives, 1992′s Mac, 1998′s Illuminata and 2005′s Romance and Cigarettes. With his latest film Passione, he’s taken the leap into documentary filmmaking with the same pinache and fearlessness he’s brought to his many screen roles.
A “musical adventure” that chronicles the world of contemporary Neopolitan music from top to bottom, Passione is that rare film in our cynical times that embraces large gestures,...
A “musical adventure” that chronicles the world of contemporary Neopolitan music from top to bottom, Passione is that rare film in our cynical times that embraces large gestures,...
- 6/22/2011
- by Brandon Harris
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
The Contamination Horror, Sci-fi, & Pop Culture Convention is back for another great year, and we are giving away weekend passes to the event & tickets to a special Contamination concert staring Grammy Winner G Tom Mac. (“Cry Little Sister” From The Lost Boys, “Child Of Mine” Performed By Roger Daltrey, “Is That You?” Performed by Kiss on their 1980 “Unmasked” Album, “You”Re Never Over” Performed by Eminem)
Official Rules:
1. You Must Be In The St. Louis Area The Weekend Of The Convention.
2. Fill Out Your Name And E-mail Address Below. Real First Name Required.
3.Why do you want to go to the Contamination Horror, Sci-fi & Pop Culture Convention?
Winners Will Be Chosen Through A Random Drawing Of Qualifying Contestants. No Purchase Necessary. Passes Will Not Be Substituted Or Exchanged.
Contamination 2011: The Sequel Sheraton Westport Chalet June 24-26, 2011
Special Guests Include:
Eric Roberts
James Munroe : The Expendables, Maroni : The Dark Knight,...
Official Rules:
1. You Must Be In The St. Louis Area The Weekend Of The Convention.
2. Fill Out Your Name And E-mail Address Below. Real First Name Required.
3.Why do you want to go to the Contamination Horror, Sci-fi & Pop Culture Convention?
Winners Will Be Chosen Through A Random Drawing Of Qualifying Contestants. No Purchase Necessary. Passes Will Not Be Substituted Or Exchanged.
Contamination 2011: The Sequel Sheraton Westport Chalet June 24-26, 2011
Special Guests Include:
Eric Roberts
James Munroe : The Expendables, Maroni : The Dark Knight,...
- 6/13/2011
- by Melissa Howland
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Universal City, California, February 24, 2011.A young woman takes the journey of a lifetime along the jaw-dropping beaches of South Africa in the all-new surfing adventure Blue Crush 2, coming exclusively to Blu-rayTM and DVD June 7, 2011. From Universal Studios Home Entertainment and Imagine Entertainment . the filmmakers behind the original Blue Crush . Blue Crush 2 follows a high-spirited California surfer girl as she treks across the magnificent beaches of South Africa, making new friends, finding romance and riding epic waves. Filmed along one of the most exotic and dangerous shorelines in the world, Blue Crush 2 is available for a limited time only as a Blu-ray. Combo Pack featuring Blu-ray., DVD and downloadable digital copy.
Blue Crush 2 .Surf Montage. Film Clip
Blue Crush 2 is directed and produced by Mike Elliott (Beethoven.s Big Break). The film is an official South African/German Co-Production, produced in South Africa by Universal Pictures...
Blue Crush 2 .Surf Montage. Film Clip
Blue Crush 2 is directed and produced by Mike Elliott (Beethoven.s Big Break). The film is an official South African/German Co-Production, produced in South Africa by Universal Pictures...
- 5/16/2011
- by Melissa Howland
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
By Elliot V. Kotek
(from Moving Pictures, winter issue, 2011)
John Turturro goes behind the camera for the fourth time with “Passione,” a film that allows the actor-director to give a unique perspective on his Italian heritage and bring to the screen the beauty — and intrigue — of Naples in the form of a musical journey. As he tells Moving Pictures, “It just turned out to be one of these movies that you get involved in that’s way beyond you.”
Moving Pictures: You were born in the U.S., but here you take a trip back to — or a trip to — Naples in the story.
John Turturro: Well … there are people who are interested in their background and their culture. I think a lot of people who come to America, you know, want to become Americanized. My father was born in Italy and came when he was 6 years old,...
(from Moving Pictures, winter issue, 2011)
John Turturro goes behind the camera for the fourth time with “Passione,” a film that allows the actor-director to give a unique perspective on his Italian heritage and bring to the screen the beauty — and intrigue — of Naples in the form of a musical journey. As he tells Moving Pictures, “It just turned out to be one of these movies that you get involved in that’s way beyond you.”
Moving Pictures: You were born in the U.S., but here you take a trip back to — or a trip to — Naples in the story.
John Turturro: Well … there are people who are interested in their background and their culture. I think a lot of people who come to America, you know, want to become Americanized. My father was born in Italy and came when he was 6 years old,...
- 3/2/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Magazine
By Elliot V. Kotek
(from Moving Pictures, winter issue, 2011)
John Turturro goes behind the camera for the fourth time with “Passione,” a film that allows the actor-director to give a unique perspective on his Italian heritage and bring to the screen the beauty — and intrigue — of Naples in the form of a musical journey. As he tells Moving Pictures, “It just turned out to be one of these movies that you get involved in that’s way beyond you.”
Moving Pictures: You were born in the U.S., but here you take a trip back to — or a trip to — Naples in the story.
John Turturro: Well … there are people who are interested in their background and their culture. I think a lot of people who come to America, you know, want to become Americanized. My father was born in Italy and came when he was 6 years old,...
(from Moving Pictures, winter issue, 2011)
John Turturro goes behind the camera for the fourth time with “Passione,” a film that allows the actor-director to give a unique perspective on his Italian heritage and bring to the screen the beauty — and intrigue — of Naples in the form of a musical journey. As he tells Moving Pictures, “It just turned out to be one of these movies that you get involved in that’s way beyond you.”
Moving Pictures: You were born in the U.S., but here you take a trip back to — or a trip to — Naples in the story.
John Turturro: Well … there are people who are interested in their background and their culture. I think a lot of people who come to America, you know, want to become Americanized. My father was born in Italy and came when he was 6 years old,...
- 3/2/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
A couple at an abandoned building are given directions on where to find their son. The wife, Elizabeth Harris (Helen Slater) tells her husband, Charles (Thomas Calabro) to do exactly what the man said to find their son, and to put his hands on the railings. I knew that was to cover over any prints or evidence that may have been left behind. They find a decomposing Db in the car on the rooftop, which they believe to be their son, Jeremy (Zachery Spicer). Sid's (Robert Joy) out of the morgue again, in another difficult retrieval of the Db. He says the Cod could be anything from a few days to a few months. Shouldn't he have said Tod? Hawkes (Hill Harper) believes due to the weather, the humidity, etc, this will prove difficult. Jo (Sela Ward) has to cover her nose due to the putrid smell given off by the Db.
- 2/28/2011
- by mhasan@corp.popstar.com (Mila Hasan)
- PopStar
Italian-American actor-director John Turturro is beloved by the Italians—Venice Fest audiences treat him like a huge star. In fact, ill-fated Romance and Cigarettes, which was caught in the backdraft at the end of United Artists, was such a hit in Italy that financeers stepped up to hire Turturro to direct a doc about the music of Naples. Passione is not unlike Fatih Akin’s Crossing the Bridge: it’s a “musical adventure” showcasing the music, old and new, of Naples, via a mix of old footage and new performances by the city’s top artists. The film was exhilarating, and more than one moviegoer walked out of the theater humming. I also admired Turturro's Mac and Illuminata, even though American moviegoers have yet to click with his movies. I ...
- 10/2/2010
- Thompson on Hollywood
DVD Playhouse—February 2010
By
Allen Gardner
Hunger (Criterion) Harrowing true story of imprisoned Ira member Bobby Sands (Michael Fassbender) and his 1981 hunger strike protesting the British government’s refusal to recognize him, and other Ira members as political prisoners. Director Steve McQueen delivers the story with true filmmaking panache, mixing startling imagery that blends both stunning beauty and stomach-churning horror. Fassbender is absolutely brilliant in the lead. Not for the faint-of-heart, but not to be missed or, particularly, ignored. Also available on Blu-ray disc. Bonuses: Interviews with McQueen and Fassbender; Short documentary; 1981 episode of BBC series “Panorama” that covers the Ira hunger strike; Trailer. Widescreen. DTS-hd audio on Blu-ray.
Adam (20th Century Fox) Quirky romantic comedy about an eccentric, borderline Asperger’s Syndrome, astronomy buff (Hugh Dancy) who is drawn out of his self-imposed shell by a beautiful and sympathetic neighbor (Rose Byrne). Charming film with engaging performances by the two leads,...
By
Allen Gardner
Hunger (Criterion) Harrowing true story of imprisoned Ira member Bobby Sands (Michael Fassbender) and his 1981 hunger strike protesting the British government’s refusal to recognize him, and other Ira members as political prisoners. Director Steve McQueen delivers the story with true filmmaking panache, mixing startling imagery that blends both stunning beauty and stomach-churning horror. Fassbender is absolutely brilliant in the lead. Not for the faint-of-heart, but not to be missed or, particularly, ignored. Also available on Blu-ray disc. Bonuses: Interviews with McQueen and Fassbender; Short documentary; 1981 episode of BBC series “Panorama” that covers the Ira hunger strike; Trailer. Widescreen. DTS-hd audio on Blu-ray.
Adam (20th Century Fox) Quirky romantic comedy about an eccentric, borderline Asperger’s Syndrome, astronomy buff (Hugh Dancy) who is drawn out of his self-imposed shell by a beautiful and sympathetic neighbor (Rose Byrne). Charming film with engaging performances by the two leads,...
- 2/15/2010
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
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