Ben Affleck’s Only Horror Movie Was So Bad It Couldn’t Even Earn More Than $10 Million at Box Office
Ben Affleck’s done a lot in Hollywood, you know? He’s been in all sorts of movies, from those big action flicks to the tear-jerker dramas. But when the 51-year-old dipped his toes into horror with Phantoms back in ’98, it didn’t quite hit the mark.
Ben Affleck in Justice League
The movie just couldn’t grab people’s attention, making less than 10 million bucks at the box office. Even though it had a cool idea and Affleck’s star power, Phantoms just didn’t live up to the hype, ending up as one of those forgettable horror flicks. It’s kinda curious why folks didn’t vibe with it and what it says about the actor’s career in movies.
Ben Affleck’s Sole Horror Movie Outing Was a Complete Flop
Ben Affleck tried his hand at horror, and let’s just say it didn’t end well.
Ben Affleck in Justice League
The movie just couldn’t grab people’s attention, making less than 10 million bucks at the box office. Even though it had a cool idea and Affleck’s star power, Phantoms just didn’t live up to the hype, ending up as one of those forgettable horror flicks. It’s kinda curious why folks didn’t vibe with it and what it says about the actor’s career in movies.
Ben Affleck’s Sole Horror Movie Outing Was a Complete Flop
Ben Affleck tried his hand at horror, and let’s just say it didn’t end well.
- 3/16/2024
- by Muskan Chaudhary
- FandomWire
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- 3/13/2024
- MUBI
Exclusive: Over three years after The Black List and the then MGM launched their feature film script writing partnership to find and amplify new voices, the team-up has found their fourth and final recipient.
Audrey Rosenberg will receive a two-step Guild minimum open script deal with Amazon MGM Studios as part of their two-year feature film script writing collaboration with the Black List. “We’re incredibly proud that the Black List has been a part of Audrey’s professional story as it continues to evolve, says Black List founder Franklin Leonard of the Wild Animals scribe. “Very excited to read and see what comes next and everyone else should be too,” added Leonard.
Coming out of the new talent and new perspectives initiative, unveiled back in December 2020, the excitement was clearly contagious.
“We are so excited to be working with Audrey for the final segment of our collaboration with the Black List,...
Audrey Rosenberg will receive a two-step Guild minimum open script deal with Amazon MGM Studios as part of their two-year feature film script writing collaboration with the Black List. “We’re incredibly proud that the Black List has been a part of Audrey’s professional story as it continues to evolve, says Black List founder Franklin Leonard of the Wild Animals scribe. “Very excited to read and see what comes next and everyone else should be too,” added Leonard.
Coming out of the new talent and new perspectives initiative, unveiled back in December 2020, the excitement was clearly contagious.
“We are so excited to be working with Audrey for the final segment of our collaboration with the Black List,...
- 1/30/2024
- by Dominic Patten
- Deadline Film + TV
Jacqueline Novak’s debut stand-up is unique, “Get on Your Knees,” started as an essay she wrote in the early 2000s while attending Georgetown University, addressing her “evolving ideas about and her relationship to” performing oral s*x.
Jacqueline Novak’s comedy special, Jacqueline Novak: Get on Your Knees, will premiere on Netflix on January 23, 2024. Novak appears in the Natasha Lyonne-directed comedy special Get on Your Knees, where she does stand-up.
Get on Your Knees | Official Trailer
Jacqueline Novak’s Netflix special is an obituary on s*x and power.
The typical Netflix comedy special trailer shows a comic slowly moving around the stage, doing set-ups, punchlines, and act-outs for an hour, fragmented only by shots of the audience laughing. The title often depends on the best evening joke or a reference to the comic’s public image.
Get on Your Knees, however, breaks out of the formula.
Jacqueline Novak’s comedy special, Jacqueline Novak: Get on Your Knees, will premiere on Netflix on January 23, 2024. Novak appears in the Natasha Lyonne-directed comedy special Get on Your Knees, where she does stand-up.
Get on Your Knees | Official Trailer
Jacqueline Novak’s Netflix special is an obituary on s*x and power.
The typical Netflix comedy special trailer shows a comic slowly moving around the stage, doing set-ups, punchlines, and act-outs for an hour, fragmented only by shots of the audience laughing. The title often depends on the best evening joke or a reference to the comic’s public image.
Get on Your Knees, however, breaks out of the formula.
- 1/27/2024
- by Mantisha
- https://dailyresearchplot.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/new-sam
Final Trailer Out for “The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live”
A month ahead of its premiere, AMC Networks has released the final trailer for “The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live.”
The newest spinoff series in the Walking Dead Universe will star Andrew Lincoln and Danai Gurira as they reprise their roles of Rick Grimes and Michonne, respectively, after the events of the original series. Per the logline, “Rick and Michonne are thrown into another world, built on a war against the dead… And ultimately, a war against the living. Can they find each other and who they were in a place and situation unlike any they’ve ever known before? Are they enemies? Lovers? Victims? Victors? Without each other, are they even alive… or will they find that they, too, are the Walking Dead?”
Watch the trailer for “The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live” below:
The highly-anticipated...
A month ahead of its premiere, AMC Networks has released the final trailer for “The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live.”
The newest spinoff series in the Walking Dead Universe will star Andrew Lincoln and Danai Gurira as they reprise their roles of Rick Grimes and Michonne, respectively, after the events of the original series. Per the logline, “Rick and Michonne are thrown into another world, built on a war against the dead… And ultimately, a war against the living. Can they find each other and who they were in a place and situation unlike any they’ve ever known before? Are they enemies? Lovers? Victims? Victors? Without each other, are they even alive… or will they find that they, too, are the Walking Dead?”
Watch the trailer for “The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live” below:
The highly-anticipated...
- 1/26/2024
- by Ashley Steves
- The Streamable
Long-term friends Ben Affleck and Matt Damon are set to reunite yet again for Netflix thriller ‘Animals.’
Affleck will remain behind the camera at the helm on the project whose plot details are being kept locked up but the story will focus on a kidnapping. Damon will star.
Connor McIntyre and Billy Ray have penned the script. Affleck and Damon are producing the project with Dani Bernfeld through their company Artists Equity.
Also in news – Chris Evans, Aubrey Plaza set for dark comedy ‘Honey Don’t!’
Brad Weston and Collin Creighton are producing ‘Animals’ with Fifth Season. Michael Joe and Kevin Halloran from Artists Equity are executive producing.
The pair have most recently paired up for Amazon Studios’ ‘Air,’ in which Damon starred as Nike executive Sonny Vaccaro opposite Affleck in a supporting role as Nike founder Phil Knight. Affleck also directed the picture. The movie was the first time Affleck directed Damon.
Affleck will remain behind the camera at the helm on the project whose plot details are being kept locked up but the story will focus on a kidnapping. Damon will star.
Connor McIntyre and Billy Ray have penned the script. Affleck and Damon are producing the project with Dani Bernfeld through their company Artists Equity.
Also in news – Chris Evans, Aubrey Plaza set for dark comedy ‘Honey Don’t!’
Brad Weston and Collin Creighton are producing ‘Animals’ with Fifth Season. Michael Joe and Kevin Halloran from Artists Equity are executive producing.
The pair have most recently paired up for Amazon Studios’ ‘Air,’ in which Damon starred as Nike executive Sonny Vaccaro opposite Affleck in a supporting role as Nike founder Phil Knight. Affleck also directed the picture. The movie was the first time Affleck directed Damon.
- 1/26/2024
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Matt Damon and Ben Affleck are reuniting for kidnapping thriller Animals for Netflix, and here are the details.
Despite both being equally successful as actors, Ben Affleck and Matt Damon have built up quite the portfolio of work behind the camera. T
hey won an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay in 1998 for their work on the wonderful Good Will Hunting, which was directed by Gus Van Sant. Robin Williams also won Best Supporting Actor that time.
It led to Kevin Smith’s brilliant parody in his 2001 film Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, where we glimpse a violent clip from Smith’s made up sequel Good Will Hunting 2: Hunting Season.
The pair went on to co-write 2021’s The Last Duel with Nicole Holofcener, and most recently scripted acclaimed drama, Air, the story of how Sonny Vaccaro changed the fortune of shoemaker Nike by signing a young Michael Jordan.
Now,...
Despite both being equally successful as actors, Ben Affleck and Matt Damon have built up quite the portfolio of work behind the camera. T
hey won an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay in 1998 for their work on the wonderful Good Will Hunting, which was directed by Gus Van Sant. Robin Williams also won Best Supporting Actor that time.
It led to Kevin Smith’s brilliant parody in his 2001 film Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, where we glimpse a violent clip from Smith’s made up sequel Good Will Hunting 2: Hunting Season.
The pair went on to co-write 2021’s The Last Duel with Nicole Holofcener, and most recently scripted acclaimed drama, Air, the story of how Sonny Vaccaro changed the fortune of shoemaker Nike by signing a young Michael Jordan.
Now,...
- 1/26/2024
- by Jake Godfrey
- Film Stories
The moviemaking business is alive and well, and somehow giving several talents the greenlight in a 24-hour span. Ranked in order of interest, from best to good-enough:
The Hollywood Reporter reports (from Hollywood) that Lily Gladstone and Martin Scorsese will reunite via Charlie Kaufman: the latter has written The Memory Police, an adaptation of Yoko Ogawa’s acclaimed sci-fi novel which the Best Actress nominee will lead and Scorsese is executive-producing. Reed Morano (I Think We’re Alone Now) is taking directing duties on the film, somehow both Kafkaesque and Orwellian, as the official synopsis suggests:
On an unnamed island, objects are disappearing: first hats, then ribbons, birds, roses. . . . Most of the inhabitants are oblivious to these changes, while those few able to recall the lost objects live in fear of the draconian Memory Police, who are committed to ensuring that what has disappeared remains forgotten. When a young writer...
The Hollywood Reporter reports (from Hollywood) that Lily Gladstone and Martin Scorsese will reunite via Charlie Kaufman: the latter has written The Memory Police, an adaptation of Yoko Ogawa’s acclaimed sci-fi novel which the Best Actress nominee will lead and Scorsese is executive-producing. Reed Morano (I Think We’re Alone Now) is taking directing duties on the film, somehow both Kafkaesque and Orwellian, as the official synopsis suggests:
On an unnamed island, objects are disappearing: first hats, then ribbons, birds, roses. . . . Most of the inhabitants are oblivious to these changes, while those few able to recall the lost objects live in fear of the draconian Memory Police, who are committed to ensuring that what has disappeared remains forgotten. When a young writer...
- 1/25/2024
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
In a devastating (but perhaps none too surprising) blow to Dad Cinema enthusiasts the world over, Ben Affleck and Matt Damon's acclaimed true-story Nike drama "Air" was completely ignored by the Academy when Oscar nominations were announced earlier this week. However, if you were expecting the Oscar-winning duo/best buds to spend the immediate future licking their wounds and wallowing in self-pity, guess again. According to The Hollywood Reporter, they've instead gone and lined up their next project together -- an original crime thriller titled "Animals," which now has Netflix backing it.
Having previously gone under working titles like "The Animals of Los Angeles" and "Be Gentlemen," the new Affleck-Damon joint will see Damon starring and Affleck directing from a script by Connor McIntyre with revisions from "Shattered Glass" and "Captain Phillips" scribe Billy Ray. The plot involves (per THR) "a mayoral candidate and his wife whose son is kidnapped.
Having previously gone under working titles like "The Animals of Los Angeles" and "Be Gentlemen," the new Affleck-Damon joint will see Damon starring and Affleck directing from a script by Connor McIntyre with revisions from "Shattered Glass" and "Captain Phillips" scribe Billy Ray. The plot involves (per THR) "a mayoral candidate and his wife whose son is kidnapped.
- 1/25/2024
- by Sandy Schaefer
- Slash Film
Ben Affleck and Matt Damon got Artists Equity off to a strong start last year with “Air.” Now the duo’s long creative partnership continues with “Animals,” a crime thriller with Affleck set to direct and Damon starring. THR reports that Netflix landed the film, which looks to start shooting in LA this March.
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Written by Connor McIntyre with revisions by Billy Ray, “Animals” follows a mayoral candidate whose son gets kidnapped, forcing him and his wife to get their hands dirty.
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Written by Connor McIntyre with revisions by Billy Ray, “Animals” follows a mayoral candidate whose son gets kidnapped, forcing him and his wife to get their hands dirty.
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- 1/25/2024
- by Ned Booth
- The Playlist
Ben Affleck and Matt Damon are collaborating yet again!
Matt will star in the new film Animals, which Ben will direct. They will both also produce the film under their artists-first studio, Artists Equity.
Keep reading to find out more about the brand new movie…
Here’s the synopsis, according to THR: “The crime thriller concerns a mayoral candidate and his wife whose son is kidnapped. Surrounded by plenty of enemies, political and otherwise, the husband and wife have no choice but to get their hands real dirty in order to save their son.”
The site notes that filming could begin as early as March in Los Angeles.
If you didn’t see, we ranked Matt and Ben‘s nine best collaborations together. Find out which is number 1!
Matt will star in the new film Animals, which Ben will direct. They will both also produce the film under their artists-first studio, Artists Equity.
Keep reading to find out more about the brand new movie…
Here’s the synopsis, according to THR: “The crime thriller concerns a mayoral candidate and his wife whose son is kidnapped. Surrounded by plenty of enemies, political and otherwise, the husband and wife have no choice but to get their hands real dirty in order to save their son.”
The site notes that filming could begin as early as March in Los Angeles.
If you didn’t see, we ranked Matt and Ben‘s nine best collaborations together. Find out which is number 1!
- 1/25/2024
- by Just Jared
- Just Jared
Ben Affleck will be directing best friend and longtime collaborator Matt Damon once more, this time for Netflix noir film “Animals.”
Affleck recently directed (and co-starred alongside) Damon for Nike/Michael Jordan biopic “Air.” Now, the secretive Netflix production which has been known under titles like “The Animals of Los Angeles” and “Be Gentlemen,” is officially announced as “Animals.”
Affleck and Damon’s joint Artists Equity production company is behind the film, which is set to begin filming in March 2024 in Los Angeles.
“Animals” is written by Connor McIntyre, with revisions by Billy Ray. Per The Hollywood Reporter, the thriller centers around a mayoral candidate whose son is kidnapped. The candidate and his wife opt to find out the truth for themselves.
“Animals” will be produced by Affleck, Damon, and Dani Bernfeld of Artists Equity, the artist-led studio founded by Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, and Gerry Cardinale/RedBird Capital Partners.
Affleck recently directed (and co-starred alongside) Damon for Nike/Michael Jordan biopic “Air.” Now, the secretive Netflix production which has been known under titles like “The Animals of Los Angeles” and “Be Gentlemen,” is officially announced as “Animals.”
Affleck and Damon’s joint Artists Equity production company is behind the film, which is set to begin filming in March 2024 in Los Angeles.
“Animals” is written by Connor McIntyre, with revisions by Billy Ray. Per The Hollywood Reporter, the thriller centers around a mayoral candidate whose son is kidnapped. The candidate and his wife opt to find out the truth for themselves.
“Animals” will be produced by Affleck, Damon, and Dani Bernfeld of Artists Equity, the artist-led studio founded by Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, and Gerry Cardinale/RedBird Capital Partners.
- 1/25/2024
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
The Dream Team is back! Ben Affleck and Matt Damon are teaming up again for Animals, a kidnapping thriller for Netflix. Affleck will direct Animals from a script written by Connor McIntyre with revisions by Billy Ray. In addition to his directorial duties, Affleck will produce alongside Damon, Dani Bernfeld of Artists Equity, Brad Weston, and Collin Creighton of MakeReady, who set the project up with Fifth Season.
Plot details remain a mystery, though we know it focuses on a kidnapping. Michael Joe of Artists Equity and Kevin Halloran executive produce with Fifth Season.
Last year, Affleck and Damon delighted audiences with Air, a sports drama following the history of sports marketing executive Sonny Vaccaro and how he led Nike in its pursuit of the greatest athlete in the history of basketball, Michael Jordan. The emotionally charged film performed like gangbusters for Amazon and banked $90 million at the global box office.
Plot details remain a mystery, though we know it focuses on a kidnapping. Michael Joe of Artists Equity and Kevin Halloran executive produce with Fifth Season.
Last year, Affleck and Damon delighted audiences with Air, a sports drama following the history of sports marketing executive Sonny Vaccaro and how he led Nike in its pursuit of the greatest athlete in the history of basketball, Michael Jordan. The emotionally charged film performed like gangbusters for Amazon and banked $90 million at the global box office.
- 1/25/2024
- by Steve Seigh
- JoBlo.com
Ben Affleck and Matt Damon are teaming up once again for “Animals,” a new crime thriller that Netflix has just acquired. Affleck will direct, with Damon starring, from a script by Connor McIntyre and Billy Ray.
Affleck will remain behind the camera for “Animals” — unlike his previous collaboration with Damon, Amazon Studios’ “Air,” in which Damon starred as Nike executive Sonny Vaccaro opposite Affleck in a supporting role as Nike founder Phil Knight. Like “Air,” Affleck and Damon are producing the project with Dani Bernfeld through their company Artists Equity, which they founded in 2022 with the intention of sharing profits with not just fellow actors, but below-the-line crew as well.
Plot details are scarce for “Animals,” but the story will focus on a kidnapping.
Affleck and Damon famously became friends in high school and collaborated as screenwriters for the 1997 indie sensation “Good Will Hunting,” which won them an Oscar for best original screenplay.
Affleck will remain behind the camera for “Animals” — unlike his previous collaboration with Damon, Amazon Studios’ “Air,” in which Damon starred as Nike executive Sonny Vaccaro opposite Affleck in a supporting role as Nike founder Phil Knight. Like “Air,” Affleck and Damon are producing the project with Dani Bernfeld through their company Artists Equity, which they founded in 2022 with the intention of sharing profits with not just fellow actors, but below-the-line crew as well.
Plot details are scarce for “Animals,” but the story will focus on a kidnapping.
Affleck and Damon famously became friends in high school and collaborated as screenwriters for the 1997 indie sensation “Good Will Hunting,” which won them an Oscar for best original screenplay.
- 1/25/2024
- by Adam B. Vary
- Variety Film + TV
Longtime friends Ben Affleck and Matt Damon are getting back together again for an upcoming Netflix movie titled Animals, with Affleck directing and Damon on board to star.
Deadline is describing the film as a kidnapping thriller. The website notes in today’s report, “Plot details are vague at this time outside of it revolving around a kidnapping.”
Connor McIntyre wrote the script with revisions by Billy Ray.
Affleck, Damon and Dani Bernfeld of Artists Equity will produce the film.
Brad Weston and Collin Creighton of MakeReady are also on board as producers of Animals, with Michael Joe, Kevin Halloran, and Fifth Season executive producing.
Affleck and Damon most recently worked together on Air, which Affleck directed.
The post ‘Animals’ – Ben Affleck Directing Kidnapping Thriller for Netflix; Matt Damon Will Star appeared first on Bloody Disgusting!.
Deadline is describing the film as a kidnapping thriller. The website notes in today’s report, “Plot details are vague at this time outside of it revolving around a kidnapping.”
Connor McIntyre wrote the script with revisions by Billy Ray.
Affleck, Damon and Dani Bernfeld of Artists Equity will produce the film.
Brad Weston and Collin Creighton of MakeReady are also on board as producers of Animals, with Michael Joe, Kevin Halloran, and Fifth Season executive producing.
Affleck and Damon most recently worked together on Air, which Affleck directed.
The post ‘Animals’ – Ben Affleck Directing Kidnapping Thriller for Netflix; Matt Damon Will Star appeared first on Bloody Disgusting!.
- 1/25/2024
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
Ben Affleck and Matt Damon are reteaming once again, this time for a new crime thriller that just landed at Netflix.
Affleck will direct Animals, which will star Damon. It could be shooting in Los Angeles by March, if all the pieces come together.
The secretive project was operating under several titles — The Animals of Los Angeles and Be Gentlemen — before landing on simply Animals.
Written by Connor McIntyre with revisions by Billy Ray, the crime thriller concerns a mayoral candidate and his wife whose son is kidnapped. Surrounded by plenty of enemies, political and otherwise, the husband and wife have no choice but to get their hands dirty in order to save their son.
Affleck and Damon will produce via their Artists Equity, along with the company’s Dani Bernfeld. Also producing are Brad Weston and Collin Creighton via their MakeReady banner. Fifth Season, the production, sales and distribution...
Affleck will direct Animals, which will star Damon. It could be shooting in Los Angeles by March, if all the pieces come together.
The secretive project was operating under several titles — The Animals of Los Angeles and Be Gentlemen — before landing on simply Animals.
Written by Connor McIntyre with revisions by Billy Ray, the crime thriller concerns a mayoral candidate and his wife whose son is kidnapped. Surrounded by plenty of enemies, political and otherwise, the husband and wife have no choice but to get their hands dirty in order to save their son.
Affleck and Damon will produce via their Artists Equity, along with the company’s Dani Bernfeld. Also producing are Brad Weston and Collin Creighton via their MakeReady banner. Fifth Season, the production, sales and distribution...
- 1/25/2024
- by Borys Kit
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Following the success of Air, Matt Damon and Ben Affleck are reuniting again on the kidnapping thriller Animals, with Damon starring and Affleck directing. Connor McIntyre penned the script with revisions by Billy Ray. The film will be produced by Affleck, Damon and Dani Bernfeld of Artists Equity and Brad Weston and Collin Creighton of MakeReady, who developed the project in partnership with Fifth Season.
Plot details are vague outside of it revolving around a kidnapping. Artists Equity’s Michael Joe and Kevin Halloran will serve as executive producers alongside Fifth Season. Damon, Affleck and Artists Equity most recently worked together on Air, which earned rave reviews and is one of Amazon’s biggest theatrical hits in the studio’s history with $90 million at the global box office.
While Affleck is expected to reprise his role in the sequel to his hit movie The Accountant, the multihyphenate had been weighing...
Plot details are vague outside of it revolving around a kidnapping. Artists Equity’s Michael Joe and Kevin Halloran will serve as executive producers alongside Fifth Season. Damon, Affleck and Artists Equity most recently worked together on Air, which earned rave reviews and is one of Amazon’s biggest theatrical hits in the studio’s history with $90 million at the global box office.
While Affleck is expected to reprise his role in the sequel to his hit movie The Accountant, the multihyphenate had been weighing...
- 1/25/2024
- by Justin Kroll
- Deadline Film + TV
Mark Duplass and producing partner Mel Eslyn are continuing their Sundance reign with the debut of series “Penelope.”
The entirely independently financed and produced series follows the titular Penelope (Megan Stott), a teen who feels more connected with nature than she does her own family. As Penelope escapes into the wilderness, she seeks to find herself in the coming-of-age indie drama.
Duplass and Eslyn co-created and co-wrote the series, which is seeking a distributor at the festival. CAA is handling sales. The Duplass Brothers formerly debuted adult animated series “Animals,” which premiered at 2016 Sundance in the early days of the festival expanding to include episodics.
The official synopsis reads: Feeling out of place in the modern world, 16-year-old Penelope (Stott) finds herself almost cosmically drawn to nature. With no plan in place, she leaves her family behind for the beguiling wilderness where she begins to establish a different kind of life for herself.
The entirely independently financed and produced series follows the titular Penelope (Megan Stott), a teen who feels more connected with nature than she does her own family. As Penelope escapes into the wilderness, she seeks to find herself in the coming-of-age indie drama.
Duplass and Eslyn co-created and co-wrote the series, which is seeking a distributor at the festival. CAA is handling sales. The Duplass Brothers formerly debuted adult animated series “Animals,” which premiered at 2016 Sundance in the early days of the festival expanding to include episodics.
The official synopsis reads: Feeling out of place in the modern world, 16-year-old Penelope (Stott) finds herself almost cosmically drawn to nature. With no plan in place, she leaves her family behind for the beguiling wilderness where she begins to establish a different kind of life for herself.
- 1/22/2024
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
321 films are in contention for this year’s Academy Awards, while 265 features are eligible in the best picture category, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced on Monday as it released its annual “reminder list” for members.
To be eligible in the general categories, films (meaning a runtime of more than 40 minutes) must open in a commercial theater in at least one of the following areas: Los Angeles County; the city of New York; the Bay Area; Chicago, Illinois; Miami, Florida; and Atlanta, Georgia, between Jan. 1, 2023 and Dec. 31, 2023. Additionally, it must complete a minimum qualifying run of seven consecutive days in the same venue.
To be eligible for the best picture category specifically, the movies must be eligible for the general entry and have “submitted a confidential Academy Representation and Inclusion Standards entry form.” Additionally, the film must meet two of the four standards required, in addition to the theatrical component.
To be eligible in the general categories, films (meaning a runtime of more than 40 minutes) must open in a commercial theater in at least one of the following areas: Los Angeles County; the city of New York; the Bay Area; Chicago, Illinois; Miami, Florida; and Atlanta, Georgia, between Jan. 1, 2023 and Dec. 31, 2023. Additionally, it must complete a minimum qualifying run of seven consecutive days in the same venue.
To be eligible for the best picture category specifically, the movies must be eligible for the general entry and have “submitted a confidential Academy Representation and Inclusion Standards entry form.” Additionally, the film must meet two of the four standards required, in addition to the theatrical component.
- 1/8/2024
- by Beatrice Verhoeven
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Big Thief have shared a remastered reissue of their 2016 debut album Masterpiece, out now via 4Ad.
When Big Thief released Masterpiece in 2016, they seemingly became indie rock royalty overnight. The Brooklyn-based band recorded the album in July 2015 at a makeshift studio in an old lakehouse with producer Andrew Sarlo and engineer James Krivchenia, the latter of whom would go on to become Big Thief’s full-time drummer.
Though its title could be used to describe the quality of the record itself, vocalist Adrianne Lenker says Masterpiece refers to “the masterpiece of existence, which is always folding into itself, people attempting to connect, to both shake themselves awake and to shake off the numbness of certain points in their life. The interpretations might be impressionistic or surrealistic, but they’re grounded in simple things.”
In additional Big Thief news, the band has also unveiled an official karaoke YouTube channel so that...
When Big Thief released Masterpiece in 2016, they seemingly became indie rock royalty overnight. The Brooklyn-based band recorded the album in July 2015 at a makeshift studio in an old lakehouse with producer Andrew Sarlo and engineer James Krivchenia, the latter of whom would go on to become Big Thief’s full-time drummer.
Though its title could be used to describe the quality of the record itself, vocalist Adrianne Lenker says Masterpiece refers to “the masterpiece of existence, which is always folding into itself, people attempting to connect, to both shake themselves awake and to shake off the numbness of certain points in their life. The interpretations might be impressionistic or surrealistic, but they’re grounded in simple things.”
In additional Big Thief news, the band has also unveiled an official karaoke YouTube channel so that...
- 12/8/2023
- by Abby Jones
- Consequence - Music
Back in late 2016, Roger Waters delivered some bad news to his firstborn son Harry: He was firing him from his touring band.
In a new interview with Rolling Stone, Harry recalled the day shortly before Christmas of that year when his father made a visit to his Santa Monica home to inform him that after 14 years of playing keyboards in the band, he would not be onboard for the impending “Us + Them” tour.
“I was fired,” Harry said. “It was pretty miserable.”
Roger was apparently cleaning house with his live lineup, axing everyone except keyboardist Jon Carin and guitarist Dave Kilminster. There were no exceptions for immediate family.
“I think he just wanted a change of blood, something new, something fresh,” said Harry, who still doesn’t know exactly why he was let go. “I’m not sure of his exact reasoning, but everyone except two people got fired. But...
In a new interview with Rolling Stone, Harry recalled the day shortly before Christmas of that year when his father made a visit to his Santa Monica home to inform him that after 14 years of playing keyboards in the band, he would not be onboard for the impending “Us + Them” tour.
“I was fired,” Harry said. “It was pretty miserable.”
Roger was apparently cleaning house with his live lineup, axing everyone except keyboardist Jon Carin and guitarist Dave Kilminster. There were no exceptions for immediate family.
“I think he just wanted a change of blood, something new, something fresh,” said Harry, who still doesn’t know exactly why he was let go. “I’m not sure of his exact reasoning, but everyone except two people got fired. But...
- 11/30/2023
- by Jon Hadusek
- Consequence - Music
Chicago – David Dastmalchian’s star is rising rapidly. The actor, who studied locally at DePaul University, brought his new role on film – “Late Night with the Devil” – to the 59th Chicago International Film Festival. A reprise screening will take place on October 19th, 2023. Click Late Night for info and tickets.
David Dastmalchian for ‘Late Night with the Devil’ at the 59th Ciff
Photo credit: Joe Arce for HollywoodChicago.com
Dastmalchian is Jack Delroy, a fictional 1970s talk show host who is in trouble. Jack and his show “Night Owls,” once one of the biggest shows in late night, is now struggling. So now, with his personal life marred by tragedy and his ratings in free fall, he’s desperate to keep his show. Jack and his producers cook up a controversial plan for their 1977 Halloween special … a live demonic possession, as performed by parapsychologist Dr. June Ross-Mitchell (Laura Gordon) and...
David Dastmalchian for ‘Late Night with the Devil’ at the 59th Ciff
Photo credit: Joe Arce for HollywoodChicago.com
Dastmalchian is Jack Delroy, a fictional 1970s talk show host who is in trouble. Jack and his show “Night Owls,” once one of the biggest shows in late night, is now struggling. So now, with his personal life marred by tragedy and his ratings in free fall, he’s desperate to keep his show. Jack and his producers cook up a controversial plan for their 1977 Halloween special … a live demonic possession, as performed by parapsychologist Dr. June Ross-Mitchell (Laura Gordon) and...
- 10/17/2023
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Upcoming titles handled by Embankment, Protagonist, Goodfellas and Studiocanal to receive a share of production funding.
Screen Australia is to allocate more than Aud$10m ($6.4m) of production funding to a raft of upcoming film and TV projects.
The national screen body will support six features including Sophie Hyde’s An Ideal Woman, starring Emilia Clarke; Dario Russo’s The Fox, starring Jai Courtney and from the producers of horror hit Talk to Me; and Charles Williams’ Inside, starring Guy Pearce. Further films to receive a share of the funding include David Vincent Smith drama He Ain’t Heavy, John Sheedy...
Screen Australia is to allocate more than Aud$10m ($6.4m) of production funding to a raft of upcoming film and TV projects.
The national screen body will support six features including Sophie Hyde’s An Ideal Woman, starring Emilia Clarke; Dario Russo’s The Fox, starring Jai Courtney and from the producers of horror hit Talk to Me; and Charles Williams’ Inside, starring Guy Pearce. Further films to receive a share of the funding include David Vincent Smith drama He Ain’t Heavy, John Sheedy...
- 9/25/2023
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
QuarXX’s “This Thing Inside of Me,” Caye Casas’ “Malamuerte” and maybe the biggest buzz title in the whole selection, Sean Wainsteim’s “Idaho Winter,” a multi-media mashup, feature in a robust, variegated lineup at Sitges FanPitch, which is quickly establishing itself as a key early fall global genre project platform drawing on titles from not only Spain but Europe, Latin and North America and Asia.
Unspooling Oct. 6-7, the FanPitch ranks as one industry centrepiece at the Sitges, International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia, a hallowed genre fest Mecca and one of the most important in Europe.
Projects range widely from multiple psychological thrillers, often driving deep into protagonists’ deep trauma, to black horror-comedy, stylish scarefests, near-future allegories, the allegedly true-event paranormal, and vampire actioners.
One title, “Idaho Winter,” is billed as “YA meta-fiction.” Another, fantastical series “The Lost Gods of Memphis,” surely the biggest budgeted of all projects at this year’s FanPitch,...
Unspooling Oct. 6-7, the FanPitch ranks as one industry centrepiece at the Sitges, International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia, a hallowed genre fest Mecca and one of the most important in Europe.
Projects range widely from multiple psychological thrillers, often driving deep into protagonists’ deep trauma, to black horror-comedy, stylish scarefests, near-future allegories, the allegedly true-event paranormal, and vampire actioners.
One title, “Idaho Winter,” is billed as “YA meta-fiction.” Another, fantastical series “The Lost Gods of Memphis,” surely the biggest budgeted of all projects at this year’s FanPitch,...
- 9/20/2023
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Roger Waters has shared a new version of “Time” from his forthcoming solo LP, The Dark Side Of The Moon Redux.
Instead of commenting on the track, Waters offered up a series of lines that reflect the song’s lyrics as a statement: “Ticking away……./ The voice had been there all along/ Hidden in the stones in the rivers/ Hidden in all the books/ Hidden in plain sight/ It was the voice of reason/ Thought I’d something more to say………”
“Time” is the second single to emerge from The...
Instead of commenting on the track, Waters offered up a series of lines that reflect the song’s lyrics as a statement: “Ticking away……./ The voice had been there all along/ Hidden in the stones in the rivers/ Hidden in all the books/ Hidden in plain sight/ It was the voice of reason/ Thought I’d something more to say………”
“Time” is the second single to emerge from The...
- 8/24/2023
- by Emily Zemler
- Rollingstone.com
Somebody get Chad Kroeger a lozenge!
During a recent Nickelback show in Maryland Heights, Missouri, Kroeger was in the midst of performing “Animals” when he stopped the band in its tracks.
“I can’t do this,” he told the audience in a decidedly raspy voice.
Read More: Nickelback Explains How Their First Drummer Quit The Band In First Interview With Nardwuar
“I cannot sit here with a f**king absolutely destroyed throat and try to make it through this show and pretend like there’s nothing f**king wrong and take your f**king money, ’cause that is wrong. I’m having a hard time hittin’ f**kin’ notes,” he admitted.
“The doctor just jabbed me in the hip with some prednisone, and we all crossed our fingers backstage hoping this was gonna work. But I cannot, in good conscience, stand up here and sing these f**kin’ songs and...
During a recent Nickelback show in Maryland Heights, Missouri, Kroeger was in the midst of performing “Animals” when he stopped the band in its tracks.
“I can’t do this,” he told the audience in a decidedly raspy voice.
Read More: Nickelback Explains How Their First Drummer Quit The Band In First Interview With Nardwuar
“I cannot sit here with a f**king absolutely destroyed throat and try to make it through this show and pretend like there’s nothing f**king wrong and take your f**king money, ’cause that is wrong. I’m having a hard time hittin’ f**kin’ notes,” he admitted.
“The doctor just jabbed me in the hip with some prednisone, and we all crossed our fingers backstage hoping this was gonna work. But I cannot, in good conscience, stand up here and sing these f**kin’ songs and...
- 8/9/2023
- by Brent Furdyk
- ET Canada
Los Angeles, Aug 8 (Ians) The singer of Canadian hard rock band Nickelback, Chad Kroeger, was forced to stop the band’s Mississippi tour after he developed throat problems that rendered him unable to sing.
A footage of the band went online when Kroeger stopped singing while in Missouri after he complained about throat problems, but people were only quick to mock him.
The band is on a North American tour, heading off from Columbia to Mississippi, Tennessee and then Texas.
Stopping the track ‘Animals’ midway, Kroeger could be heard saying in the video, “I can’t do this. I cannot sit here with a f***** absolutely destroyed throat and try to make it through this show and pretend like there’s nothing f***** wrong and take your f***** money, ’cause that is wrong.”
He added, “I’m having a hard time hittin’ f***** notes. The doctor just jabbed me in the hip with some prednisone,...
A footage of the band went online when Kroeger stopped singing while in Missouri after he complained about throat problems, but people were only quick to mock him.
The band is on a North American tour, heading off from Columbia to Mississippi, Tennessee and then Texas.
Stopping the track ‘Animals’ midway, Kroeger could be heard saying in the video, “I can’t do this. I cannot sit here with a f***** absolutely destroyed throat and try to make it through this show and pretend like there’s nothing f***** wrong and take your f***** money, ’cause that is wrong.”
He added, “I’m having a hard time hittin’ f***** notes. The doctor just jabbed me in the hip with some prednisone,...
- 8/8/2023
- by Agency News Desk
- GlamSham
Nickelback are currently on the road touring North America, though the band encountered a hiccup during a show last Thursday (August 3rd) in Maryland Heights, Missouri.
The concert seemed to be going off without a hitch until Chad Kroeger and company began the song “Animals.” Apparently, Kroeger wasn’t confident in his vocal performance up until that point, because the singer-guitarist stopped the band mid-song to address the issue and apologize.
“I can’t do this,” he said. “I cannot sit here with a fucking absolutely destroyed throat and try to make it through this show and pretend like there’s nothing fucking wrong and take your fucking money, ’cause that is wrong. I’m having a hard time hittin’ fuckin’ notes.”
He continued: “The doctor just jabbed me in the hip with some prednisone, and we all crossed our fingers backstage hoping this was gonna work. But I cannot,...
The concert seemed to be going off without a hitch until Chad Kroeger and company began the song “Animals.” Apparently, Kroeger wasn’t confident in his vocal performance up until that point, because the singer-guitarist stopped the band mid-song to address the issue and apologize.
“I can’t do this,” he said. “I cannot sit here with a fucking absolutely destroyed throat and try to make it through this show and pretend like there’s nothing fucking wrong and take your fucking money, ’cause that is wrong. I’m having a hard time hittin’ fuckin’ notes.”
He continued: “The doctor just jabbed me in the hip with some prednisone, and we all crossed our fingers backstage hoping this was gonna work. But I cannot,...
- 8/7/2023
- by Jon Hadusek
- Consequence - Music
[Warning: The below contains Major spoilers for the July 25 episode of Jeopardy!] Two-day Jeopardy! champion and marketing director Taylor Clagett had to defend his $31,800 winnings against library circulation assistant Julie Sission and psychologist resident Andrew Knowles. And although the Final Jeopardy can come across as easy to viewers, some more obvious clues left our cast of contestants completely stumped. In the first round, the “Denmark” category took some casualties, with every contestant getting the same question wrong for $200. “Animals” for $600 produced another triple stumper, as did “Animals” for $400. “Even Rhyme the Time” for $200 made everyone clam up. However, when the game shifted to Double Jeopardy, Julie found the second Daily Double almost immediately but was unable to answer correctly. She dropped $4,000 from her third-place total of $4,200 against Taylor’s lead of $6,200. This ruined her chance of jumping from third to first place, as host Ken Jennings pointed out, especially since Taylor correctly answered the final Daily Double soon after for ...
- 7/26/2023
- TV Insider
Roger Waters has re-recorded Pink Floyd’s seminal album, The Dark Side of the Moon, and will release it as a solo LP, The Dark Side of the Moon Redux, on Oct. 6 via Sgb Music. The reimagined album coincides with the 50th anniversary of the original, but will arrive without the participation of Waters’ formative band. To preview the release, Waters has shared its debut single, “Money.”
Waters produced the LP along with Gus Seyffert, and recorded the tracks with a studio band that includes Seyffert, Joey Waronker, Jonathan Wilson,...
Waters produced the LP along with Gus Seyffert, and recorded the tracks with a studio band that includes Seyffert, Joey Waronker, Jonathan Wilson,...
- 7/21/2023
- by Emily Zemler
- Rollingstone.com
Pink Floyd had to wait before they became a classic rock success story. They wrote the song that predicted their breakthrough on The Dark Side of the Moon, and then their world changed. That album catapulted them to fame and the trappings of it. Bassist Roger Waters almost attacked a fan in 1967, which came a decade before his confrontation with a concert-goer inspired Pink Floyd’s last great album.
Roger Waters considered attacking a Pink Floyd fan a decade before he assaulted a concert-goer
After parting ways with their creative leader, Syd Barrett, in 1968, Pink Floyd waded through several years of mixed results as a psychedelic band. When they shifted gears and headed in a more prog-rock direction in the early 1970s, it sparked the fire that burned brightly for most of the decade.
The success and fame that came with The Dark Side of the Moon didn’t necessarily...
Roger Waters considered attacking a Pink Floyd fan a decade before he assaulted a concert-goer
After parting ways with their creative leader, Syd Barrett, in 1968, Pink Floyd waded through several years of mixed results as a psychedelic band. When they shifted gears and headed in a more prog-rock direction in the early 1970s, it sparked the fire that burned brightly for most of the decade.
The success and fame that came with The Dark Side of the Moon didn’t necessarily...
- 7/8/2023
- by Jason Rossi
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Pink Floyd had one of the most remarkable reinventions of any classic rock band. The psychedelic pioneers lost their creative leader when they parted ways with Syd Barrett in 1968. After searching for a way forward without him, they eventually found their path and became one of the biggest bands of the 1970s with the impactful The Dark Side of the Moon. That album was a cornerstone of their career, but several underrated Pink Floyd songs from the band’s catalog deserve recognition. (All songs presented in chronological order).
1. ‘The Nile Song’ Album: More
Pink Floyd’s first effort without any contribution from Barrett was their soundtrack to the 1969 movie More. Without their mercurial leader and with the freedom to create for someone else’s project instead of their own album, the band showed off a range of styles. “The Nile Song” proved to be the most unprecedented song on the tracklist.
1. ‘The Nile Song’ Album: More
Pink Floyd’s first effort without any contribution from Barrett was their soundtrack to the 1969 movie More. Without their mercurial leader and with the freedom to create for someone else’s project instead of their own album, the band showed off a range of styles. “The Nile Song” proved to be the most unprecedented song on the tracklist.
- 6/27/2023
- by Jason Rossi
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Pink Floyd might have had one of the most dramatic transformations of any major classic rock band. Though drummer Nick Mason said the band’s groundbreaking early concerts were rubbish, Floyd became a psychedelic sensation. When the group moved on without founder and chief songwriter Syd Barrett, they emerged as a commercially successful prog rock powerhouse. But it didn’t happen overnight. One Pink Floyd song marked the breaking point between its psychedelic origins and legendary future.
The Pink Floyd song ‘Childhood’s End’ pointed toward ‘The Dark Side of the Moon’ and beyond
Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page praised Barrett’s genius approach to music making. The innovation didn’t last. His erratic behavior led his bandmates to move on without him in 1968. Yet transforming into the prog-rock band that churned out commercially successful albums throughout the 1970s wasn’t seamless.
Pink Floyd held on to their psychedelic roots for several years after dismissing Barret.
The Pink Floyd song ‘Childhood’s End’ pointed toward ‘The Dark Side of the Moon’ and beyond
Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page praised Barrett’s genius approach to music making. The innovation didn’t last. His erratic behavior led his bandmates to move on without him in 1968. Yet transforming into the prog-rock band that churned out commercially successful albums throughout the 1970s wasn’t seamless.
Pink Floyd held on to their psychedelic roots for several years after dismissing Barret.
- 6/22/2023
- by Jason Rossi
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Mark Ruffalo in ‘I Know This Much is True’ (Photo by Atsushi Nishijima / HBO)
Mark Ruffalo is teaming up with Brad Ingelsby (Mare of Easttown) and HBO for what’s currently known as the Untitled Brad Ingelsby Task Force Project. The network announced they’re given the untitled project a series order and pointed out Ruffalo’s involvement as star and executive producer of the limited series was set into place prior to the WGA strike on May 2, 2023.
HBO also confirmed no work is currently being done on the project as the strike continues.
Three-time Oscar nominee Mark Ruffalo is playing a character named Tom who, per the incredibly short synopsis, is somehow involved with “a task force of law enforcement officers and the criminals they are trying to apprehend.”
Brad Ingelsby’s Mare of Easttown won four Emmys and two Critics Choice Awards, as well as Writers Guild, Producers Guild,...
Mark Ruffalo is teaming up with Brad Ingelsby (Mare of Easttown) and HBO for what’s currently known as the Untitled Brad Ingelsby Task Force Project. The network announced they’re given the untitled project a series order and pointed out Ruffalo’s involvement as star and executive producer of the limited series was set into place prior to the WGA strike on May 2, 2023.
HBO also confirmed no work is currently being done on the project as the strike continues.
Three-time Oscar nominee Mark Ruffalo is playing a character named Tom who, per the incredibly short synopsis, is somehow involved with “a task force of law enforcement officers and the criminals they are trying to apprehend.”
Brad Ingelsby’s Mare of Easttown won four Emmys and two Critics Choice Awards, as well as Writers Guild, Producers Guild,...
- 6/8/2023
- by Rebecca Murray
- Showbiz Junkies
Kassa Overall’s music is a modern, often jarring synthesis of hip-hop and jazz. Overall is adept as both a rapper and jazz drummer, and the Seattle-based musician’s third album, Animals, features a bevy of underground hip-hop legends and jazz musicians (including pianist Vijay Iyer and trumpet player Theo Croker).
While Overall looked back on his past struggles with mental health on 2020’s I Think I’m Good, including a hospitalization during college, Animals is filled with unease about the objectification that comes with success in the music industry. “Ready to Ball,” for one, addresses the lure of materialism, as Overall’s malleable voice is sped up and slowed down, suggesting an alternate persona: “If he got more than me, I might have to make him bleed.”
The song structures on Animals are often chaotic. “Still Ain’t Find Me” mixes Latin rhythms and free jazz, as saxophones squeal over congas,...
While Overall looked back on his past struggles with mental health on 2020’s I Think I’m Good, including a hospitalization during college, Animals is filled with unease about the objectification that comes with success in the music industry. “Ready to Ball,” for one, addresses the lure of materialism, as Overall’s malleable voice is sped up and slowed down, suggesting an alternate persona: “If he got more than me, I might have to make him bleed.”
The song structures on Animals are often chaotic. “Still Ain’t Find Me” mixes Latin rhythms and free jazz, as saxophones squeal over congas,...
- 5/20/2023
- by Steve Erickson
- Slant Magazine
Netflix has launched a teaser trailer for the final season of the critically acclaimed series ‘Top Boy.’
Following the release of Top Boy season 2 on Netflix on 18th March 2022, the show quickly went to number 1 in the UK. The finale of the season left fans with their jaws dropping. Now the stakes are at their highest and it’s time for the final reckoning..
Regular cast Ashley Walters and Kane Robinson, Simbi Ajikawo, Jasmine Jobson, Saffron Hocking and Araloyin Oshunremi will return with new cast members Barry Keoghan (The Batman, American Animals) and Brian Gleeson (Bad Sisters, Peaky Blinders, Frank of Ireland) playing new characters, Jonny & Tadgh.
The series is executive produced by multi-faceted entertainer and producer Drake and his business partner Adel “Future” Nur, along with Maverick Carter and Jamal Henderson for LeBron James’ SpringHill Entertainment.
Also in trailers – “Enjoy the show…” Trailer drops for ‘The Hunger Games: The...
Following the release of Top Boy season 2 on Netflix on 18th March 2022, the show quickly went to number 1 in the UK. The finale of the season left fans with their jaws dropping. Now the stakes are at their highest and it’s time for the final reckoning..
Regular cast Ashley Walters and Kane Robinson, Simbi Ajikawo, Jasmine Jobson, Saffron Hocking and Araloyin Oshunremi will return with new cast members Barry Keoghan (The Batman, American Animals) and Brian Gleeson (Bad Sisters, Peaky Blinders, Frank of Ireland) playing new characters, Jonny & Tadgh.
The series is executive produced by multi-faceted entertainer and producer Drake and his business partner Adel “Future” Nur, along with Maverick Carter and Jamal Henderson for LeBron James’ SpringHill Entertainment.
Also in trailers – “Enjoy the show…” Trailer drops for ‘The Hunger Games: The...
- 4/28/2023
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
The Sundance Institute has announced the participants in their famed screenwriters, directors and Native labs.
The directors and screenwriters labs will support 12 fellows, with five fellows selected for the Native lab. Lab participants will develop their original works under the mentorship of notable advisors. Paul Thomas Anderson, Ryan Coogler, David Gordon Green, Sterlin Harjo, Taika Waititi, Lulu Wang and Chloé Zhao are among previous Sundance lab participants.
The directors lab advisor cohort includes Miguel Arteta, Joan Darling, Rick Famuyiwa, Stephen Goldblatt, Keith Gordon, Randa Haines, Ed Harris, Gina Prince-Bythewood, Polly Morgan, Ira Sachs, Michelle Tesoro and Joan Tewkesbury. The screenwriters lab advisor cohort, led by artistic director Howard Rodman, includes Justin Chon, Sebastian Cordero, Cherien Dabis, D.V. Devincentis, Scott Frank, John Gatins, Nicole Kassell, Kasi Lemmons, Tarell Alvin McCraney, Elena Soarez and Robin Swicord. The Native Lab creative advisors include Andrew Ahn, Alex Lazarowich (Cree), Dana Ladoux Miller (Sāmoan) and Jennifer Reeder.
The directors and screenwriters labs will support 12 fellows, with five fellows selected for the Native lab. Lab participants will develop their original works under the mentorship of notable advisors. Paul Thomas Anderson, Ryan Coogler, David Gordon Green, Sterlin Harjo, Taika Waititi, Lulu Wang and Chloé Zhao are among previous Sundance lab participants.
The directors lab advisor cohort includes Miguel Arteta, Joan Darling, Rick Famuyiwa, Stephen Goldblatt, Keith Gordon, Randa Haines, Ed Harris, Gina Prince-Bythewood, Polly Morgan, Ira Sachs, Michelle Tesoro and Joan Tewkesbury. The screenwriters lab advisor cohort, led by artistic director Howard Rodman, includes Justin Chon, Sebastian Cordero, Cherien Dabis, D.V. Devincentis, Scott Frank, John Gatins, Nicole Kassell, Kasi Lemmons, Tarell Alvin McCraney, Elena Soarez and Robin Swicord. The Native Lab creative advisors include Andrew Ahn, Alex Lazarowich (Cree), Dana Ladoux Miller (Sāmoan) and Jennifer Reeder.
- 4/27/2023
- by Mia Galuppo
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Jimmy Page and Led Zeppelin remain classic rock juggernauts decades after their apex. Page’s best guitar solos remain iconic, and the band’s songs are still all-time greats. Even though he was focused on getting his band off the ground in the late 1960s, the guitarist knew about the music scene around him. One of the contemporaries was Pink Floyd, and Page praised to their first guitarist, Syd Barrett, with just seven words before Barrett faded into obscurity.
(l-r) Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page; Pink Floyd members Roger Waters, Nick Mason, Syd Barrett, and Richard Wright | Larry Hulst/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images; Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Corbis via Getty Images Jimmy Page praised Pink Floyd’s Syd Barrett: ‘You can really feel the genius there’
Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin were newcomers on the London music scene in the later 1960s. The Beatles and Rolling Stones were well-established bands at the time,...
(l-r) Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page; Pink Floyd members Roger Waters, Nick Mason, Syd Barrett, and Richard Wright | Larry Hulst/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images; Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Corbis via Getty Images Jimmy Page praised Pink Floyd’s Syd Barrett: ‘You can really feel the genius there’
Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin were newcomers on the London music scene in the later 1960s. The Beatles and Rolling Stones were well-established bands at the time,...
- 4/16/2023
- by Jason Rossi
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
As someone who has been championing 100 Bloody Acres for over a decade now (it’s so great!), I was beyond thrilled to see that Australian filmmaking duo Cameron and Colin Cairnes would be celebrating the world premiere of their latest genre effort—Late Night with the Devil—at this year’s SXSW Film Festival. Late Night with the Devil stars David Dastmalchian as struggling talk show host Jack Delroy, who decides one fateful Halloween night to take his show in a new direction, resulting in a night filled with thrills and chills for viewers and participants alike.
Daily Dead recently had the opportunity to speak with Dastmalchian about his involvement with Late Night with the Devil, where he discussed everything from how he approached his character, how the project is a love letter for all his fellow monster kids out there, his experiences working alongside both Colin and Cameron on Late Night,...
Daily Dead recently had the opportunity to speak with Dastmalchian about his involvement with Late Night with the Devil, where he discussed everything from how he approached his character, how the project is a love letter for all his fellow monster kids out there, his experiences working alongside both Colin and Cameron on Late Night,...
- 3/15/2023
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
Nickelback have been the subject of many jokes over the years, but on Monday night (March 13th) the band got the last laugh when they were inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame at the annual Juno Awards.
The honor came ahead of Nickelback’s recently announced 2023 North American tour, which kicks off June 12th in Quebec City and runs through an August 8th show in Belmont Park, New York, with tickets available here.
During the ceremony in Edmonton, actor Ryan Reynolds appeared via video to help induct the band, first quipping, “There are millions of reasons to be a proud Canadian, and tonight the Junos and Canada are coming together to celebrate one of them: homegrown talent from right here in Alberta, Joni Mitchell.”
The Deadpool star then looked off camera quizzically, and continued, “What? Nickelback? Oh, I love Nickelback. Wasn’t Joni Mitchell in Nickelback?”
He then...
The honor came ahead of Nickelback’s recently announced 2023 North American tour, which kicks off June 12th in Quebec City and runs through an August 8th show in Belmont Park, New York, with tickets available here.
During the ceremony in Edmonton, actor Ryan Reynolds appeared via video to help induct the band, first quipping, “There are millions of reasons to be a proud Canadian, and tonight the Junos and Canada are coming together to celebrate one of them: homegrown talent from right here in Alberta, Joni Mitchell.”
The Deadpool star then looked off camera quizzically, and continued, “What? Nickelback? Oh, I love Nickelback. Wasn’t Joni Mitchell in Nickelback?”
He then...
- 3/14/2023
- by Spencer Kaufman
- Consequence - Music
It is a truth universally acknowledged that the trampy heroine of any modern female-slanted rom-com must make Bridget Jones look like Grace Kelly by comparison. And while Leah McKendrick’s feature debut offers more caustic com than rom, it leans hard into the legacy of Helen Fielding’s famously underachieving singleton. Since then, we’ve had Paul Feig’s Bridesmaids and Sophie Hyde’s Animals, and Scrambled certainly belongs in that more riotous subgenre of movies about women behaving badly.
McKendrick takes a different tack to most, though, and its subject matter — how do you prepare for motherhood when you’re not yet fit to be a mother? — is a tough sell, and often feels like raw material for an incredibly personal stand-up set from a comedian that likes to shock with overshare.
McKendrick — who writes and directs herself in her feature debut — plays small-time jewelry designer Nellie Robertson, who...
McKendrick takes a different tack to most, though, and its subject matter — how do you prepare for motherhood when you’re not yet fit to be a mother? — is a tough sell, and often feels like raw material for an incredibly personal stand-up set from a comedian that likes to shock with overshare.
McKendrick — who writes and directs herself in her feature debut — plays small-time jewelry designer Nellie Robertson, who...
- 3/12/2023
- by Damon Wise
- Deadline Film + TV
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March 1 marked 50 years since Pink Floyd’s seminal album, Dark Side of the Moon was released, and there are a numbers of ways that the band is marking the anniversary.
One of them, is the release of a 2Cd/2Lp/2-Blu-ray The Dark Side of the Moon 50th Anniversary deluxe box set, which is already selling out online.
The band is also releasing a special hardcover book to commemorate the occasion,...
March 1 marked 50 years since Pink Floyd’s seminal album, Dark Side of the Moon was released, and there are a numbers of ways that the band is marking the anniversary.
One of them, is the release of a 2Cd/2Lp/2-Blu-ray The Dark Side of the Moon 50th Anniversary deluxe box set, which is already selling out online.
The band is also releasing a special hardcover book to commemorate the occasion,...
- 3/2/2023
- by Tim Chan
- Rollingstone.com
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania’s Veb needed David Dastmalchian, and it turns out that he needed Veb more than anyone might realize.
Veb — who’s a slime-like creature with the ability to break down communication barriers in the Quantum Realm — is Dastmalchian’s second role in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and the opportunity came out of the blue after Quantumania director Peyton Reed had already told the actor that his original Ant-Man character, Kurt, would not return for the threequel. Dastmalchian was so inspired by Reed’s pitch for the CG Freedom Fighter character that he put together a tape that included Veb’s potential voice and movement, and Reed responded with an invitation for Dastmalchian to come and perform Veb’s motion capture on the film’s London set.
The offer was music to Dastmalchian’s ears, as he was coming off a tough shoot that was...
Veb — who’s a slime-like creature with the ability to break down communication barriers in the Quantum Realm — is Dastmalchian’s second role in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and the opportunity came out of the blue after Quantumania director Peyton Reed had already told the actor that his original Ant-Man character, Kurt, would not return for the threequel. Dastmalchian was so inspired by Reed’s pitch for the CG Freedom Fighter character that he put together a tape that included Veb’s potential voice and movement, and Reed responded with an invitation for Dastmalchian to come and perform Veb’s motion capture on the film’s London set.
The offer was music to Dastmalchian’s ears, as he was coming off a tough shoot that was...
- 2/28/2023
- by Brian Davids
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Riding high on acclaim for his recent work (including an Oscar nomination for The Banshees Of Inisherin), Barry Keoghan is looking to strike while the iron is hot and set up some projects on his own. He's now pushing forward a Billy the Kid biopic that has long been a film the actor has wanted to make.
"We’ve seen many versions of Billy the Kid on screen before," Keoghan tells Deadline. "My interest was in trying to tell a version that breaks from the facade of that cool, calm, and collected gunslinger Billy the Kid that we’re all used to seeing. I wanted to humanize him in a way."
The film, which will reunite Keoghan with his American Animals director Bart Layton, aims to lean into the Kid’s Irish ancestry and complicated childhood. Born in New York as Henry McCarty, he was orphaned at the age of...
"We’ve seen many versions of Billy the Kid on screen before," Keoghan tells Deadline. "My interest was in trying to tell a version that breaks from the facade of that cool, calm, and collected gunslinger Billy the Kid that we’re all used to seeing. I wanted to humanize him in a way."
The film, which will reunite Keoghan with his American Animals director Bart Layton, aims to lean into the Kid’s Irish ancestry and complicated childhood. Born in New York as Henry McCarty, he was orphaned at the age of...
- 2/15/2023
- by James White
- Empire - Movies
Director John Stevenson has had a fascinating working trajectory. From his early-career days in the 1980s working as a story artist on Jim Henson productions Labyrinth, The Dark Crystal and The Great Muppet Caper, through to his 2008 Oscar-nominated directorial debut Kung Fu Panda, Stevenson has had his hands in many major studio projects. This makes his latest BAFTA nominated film Middle Watch all the more interesting, as it sees Stevenson return to a more concise and small-scale form of storytelling. The short film, which was made in collaboration with Falmouth University, follows a sailor in the latter days of World War II who finds himself trying to protect his delicate state of mind when he’s thrust in the presence of something extraordinary. Ahead of this year’s BAFTA ceremony, Dn joined Stevenson for an in-depth conversation that covered everything from the lessons he’s learned over his extensive career...
- 2/13/2023
- by James Maitre
- Directors Notes
Demi Moore is joining “Feud” Season 2 at FX, Variety has learned from sources.
The second season of the Ryan Murphy anthology series will tell the true story of how Truman Capote was friends with numerous members of New York high society until he published excerpts of his unfinished novel “Answered Prayers,” with the excerpts serving as a tell-all about the city’s elite.
According to sources, Moore would star as socialite Ann Woodward, a former showgirl and radio actress who was infamously accused of murdering her husband in 1955.
Reps for Moore, FX, and 20th Television declined to comment.
Moore joins previously announced cast members Tom Hollander, Diane Lane, Calista Flockhart, Naomi Watts and Chloë Sevigny, with Hollander set to play Capote.
This is the latest TV role Moore has taken on in recent years. She has previously been on shows like “Brave New World” at Peacock, “Empire” at Fox, and...
The second season of the Ryan Murphy anthology series will tell the true story of how Truman Capote was friends with numerous members of New York high society until he published excerpts of his unfinished novel “Answered Prayers,” with the excerpts serving as a tell-all about the city’s elite.
According to sources, Moore would star as socialite Ann Woodward, a former showgirl and radio actress who was infamously accused of murdering her husband in 1955.
Reps for Moore, FX, and 20th Television declined to comment.
Moore joins previously announced cast members Tom Hollander, Diane Lane, Calista Flockhart, Naomi Watts and Chloë Sevigny, with Hollander set to play Capote.
This is the latest TV role Moore has taken on in recent years. She has previously been on shows like “Brave New World” at Peacock, “Empire” at Fox, and...
- 9/16/2022
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
Cannes Best Doc Laureate Payal Kapadia Next Racks Up Production Partners for Petit Chaos (Exclusive)
One year after she dazzled at the Cannes Festival, winning its Golden Eye for best documentary for “A Night of Knowing Nothing,” Payal Kapadia’s fiction debut “All We Imagine as Light,” has attracted the most potent production partner support of any project introduced at this year’s Locarno Match Me!
“Night’s” producers. Petit Chaos’ Thomas Hakim, Julien Graff in France and Ranabir Das (also Dp and editor on “Night”) at India’s Another Birth will produce “Light.”
Also on board, confirmed early July, is Oliver Pere at Arte France Cinéma. Further co-producers take in Zico Maitra and Aastha Singh, Frank Hoeve, Gilles Chanial.
A potential sign of a project positively courted by producers, the multilateral backing is hardly surprising. “All We Imagine as Light” is highly awaited after “A Night of Knowing Nothing,” a film in which “a palimpsest of dusky imagery, reflective narration and evocative score create...
“Night’s” producers. Petit Chaos’ Thomas Hakim, Julien Graff in France and Ranabir Das (also Dp and editor on “Night”) at India’s Another Birth will produce “Light.”
Also on board, confirmed early July, is Oliver Pere at Arte France Cinéma. Further co-producers take in Zico Maitra and Aastha Singh, Frank Hoeve, Gilles Chanial.
A potential sign of a project positively courted by producers, the multilateral backing is hardly surprising. “All We Imagine as Light” is highly awaited after “A Night of Knowing Nothing,” a film in which “a palimpsest of dusky imagery, reflective narration and evocative score create...
- 8/7/2022
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Anyone wanting signs that film production is alive and kicking in some parts of the world – and not only the most obvious – need go no further than Locarno’s Match Me!
A networking event, expanded this year from 24 to 32 producers and fortified by the first-time presence of France, Match Me! focuses on emerging producers.
Featuring new projects from tracked auteurs – Lithuania’s Ignas Jonynas, India’s Payal Kapadia and Mexico’s Francisco Vargas – and winners at Cannes, San Sebastian and other major meets, many producers look only a title or two from full emergence.
If the fulsome slates of some producers are anything to go by – Dr’s Leticia Brea, Estonia’s Tallifornia and Kask Films, for instance – production is a going concern in countries outside traditional production centers..
Out of necessity or ambition, producers are scaling up, pushing ever more into genre and reaching out to production partners and talent from around the world.
A networking event, expanded this year from 24 to 32 producers and fortified by the first-time presence of France, Match Me! focuses on emerging producers.
Featuring new projects from tracked auteurs – Lithuania’s Ignas Jonynas, India’s Payal Kapadia and Mexico’s Francisco Vargas – and winners at Cannes, San Sebastian and other major meets, many producers look only a title or two from full emergence.
If the fulsome slates of some producers are anything to go by – Dr’s Leticia Brea, Estonia’s Tallifornia and Kask Films, for instance – production is a going concern in countries outside traditional production centers..
Out of necessity or ambition, producers are scaling up, pushing ever more into genre and reaching out to production partners and talent from around the world.
- 8/5/2022
- by John Hopewell and Pablo Sandoval
- Variety Film + TV
There’s a new giant in town, or at least at Locarno’s Match Me!, one of the festival’s biggest industry initiatives.
For years, by a large head, France has had more titles at the Locarno Festival’s two biggest sections, the Piazza Grande showcase and main International Competition than any other country in the world. 2022 is no exception.
Unifrance also hosts the Festival’s biggest industry bash, a first Friday night sit-down dinner or party which used to take place at Locarno’s hillside Belvedere Hotel and has now moved to the near Maggiore Lake-side Blu Restaurant.
Now, however, Unifrance, Europe’s biggest national film-tv promotion board, has put its weight behind Match Me!, a networking initiative this year bringing together 32 emerging producers from over the world.
“It’s a perfect fit,” said Locarno Pro head Markus Duffner. Unifrance’s first-time presence at Match Me! also says much...
For years, by a large head, France has had more titles at the Locarno Festival’s two biggest sections, the Piazza Grande showcase and main International Competition than any other country in the world. 2022 is no exception.
Unifrance also hosts the Festival’s biggest industry bash, a first Friday night sit-down dinner or party which used to take place at Locarno’s hillside Belvedere Hotel and has now moved to the near Maggiore Lake-side Blu Restaurant.
Now, however, Unifrance, Europe’s biggest national film-tv promotion board, has put its weight behind Match Me!, a networking initiative this year bringing together 32 emerging producers from over the world.
“It’s a perfect fit,” said Locarno Pro head Markus Duffner. Unifrance’s first-time presence at Match Me! also says much...
- 8/5/2022
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Sex-positive vibes for each and every age, even the 50+-year-old crowd? Yes, please. Following its terrific reception at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year. Searchlight Pictures is releasing “Good Luck To You, Leo Grande” this summer. This intelligent bedroom drama stars Emma Thompson, relative newcomer Daryl McCormack (known for work on “Peaky Blinders”) and is directed by Sophie Hyde and written by Katy Brand.
Continue reading ‘Good Luck To You, Leo Grande’ Trailer: Emma Thompson Leads A Sex-Positive Sundance Romance at The Playlist.
Continue reading ‘Good Luck To You, Leo Grande’ Trailer: Emma Thompson Leads A Sex-Positive Sundance Romance at The Playlist.
- 5/16/2022
- by Edward Davis
- The Playlist
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