Jon Hamm is going from the unhinged madness of Fargo to West Texas for Taylor Sheridan’s forthcoming Paramount+ series Landman. The Tag, Mad Men, and Mean Girls star joins Billy Bob Thornton as a primary cast member for a contemporary oil rig drama. Based on the 11-part podcast Boomtown, Landman is “an upstairs/downstairs story of roughnecks and wildcat billionaires fueling a boom so big, it’s reshaping our climate, our economy and our geopolitics.”
Jon Hamm plays Monty Miller in Sheridan’s Landman, a goliath in the Texas oil industry who has a long-standing personal and professional relationship with Thornton’s Tommy Norris. The Paramount+ series continues to strike it rich in the casting department, with stars like Demi Moore, Ali Larter, Michelle Randolph, Jacob Lofland, Kayla Wallace, James Jordan, Mark Collie and Paulina Chávez.
“Set in the proverbial boomtowns of West Texas, Landman is a modern-day tale...
Jon Hamm plays Monty Miller in Sheridan’s Landman, a goliath in the Texas oil industry who has a long-standing personal and professional relationship with Thornton’s Tommy Norris. The Paramount+ series continues to strike it rich in the casting department, with stars like Demi Moore, Ali Larter, Michelle Randolph, Jacob Lofland, Kayla Wallace, James Jordan, Mark Collie and Paulina Chávez.
“Set in the proverbial boomtowns of West Texas, Landman is a modern-day tale...
- 2/15/2024
- by Steve Seigh
- JoBlo.com
Michelle Randolph (1923) and Jacob Lofland (Joker 2) are set as leads opposite Billy Bob Thornton in Land Man, Paramount+s upcoming series from Taylor Sheridan and Christian Wallace.
Co-created by Sheridan and Wallace, Land Man is set in the proverbial boomtowns of West Texas and is a modern day tale of fortune seeking in the world of oil rigs. The series is an upstairs/downstairs story of roughnecks and wildcat billionaires fueling a boom so big, it’s reshaping our climate, our economy and our geopolitics. Thornton stars as Tommy Norris, a crisis manager for an oil company.
Randolph will play Ainsley Norris, the wild and strong-willed seventeen year old daughter of Tommy Norris (Thornton).
Lofland will play Cooper Norris, Tommy Norris’ (Thornton) son who is new to the demanding work in the oil and gas fields of West Texas.
Land Man is produced by MTV Entertainment Studios,101 Studios,...
Co-created by Sheridan and Wallace, Land Man is set in the proverbial boomtowns of West Texas and is a modern day tale of fortune seeking in the world of oil rigs. The series is an upstairs/downstairs story of roughnecks and wildcat billionaires fueling a boom so big, it’s reshaping our climate, our economy and our geopolitics. Thornton stars as Tommy Norris, a crisis manager for an oil company.
Randolph will play Ainsley Norris, the wild and strong-willed seventeen year old daughter of Tommy Norris (Thornton).
Lofland will play Cooper Norris, Tommy Norris’ (Thornton) son who is new to the demanding work in the oil and gas fields of West Texas.
Land Man is produced by MTV Entertainment Studios,101 Studios,...
- 5/23/2023
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Deadline has the first exclusive tracks from Marcelo Zarvos’ A Journal for Jordan score, which is set for release tomorrow via Sony Music Masterworks—ahead of the Sony Pictures title’s release in theaters on December 25.
The latest film directed by two-time Academy Award winner Denzel Washington is based on the true story of First Sergeant Charles Monroe King (Michael B. Jordan), a soldier deployed to Iraq who begins to keep a journal of love and advice for his infant son. Back at home, senior New York Times editor Dana Canedy (Chanté Adams) revisits the story of her unlikely, life-altering relationship with King and his enduring devotion to her and their child.
The romantic drama scripted by Virgil Williams marked Zarvos’ second collaboration with Washington, on the heels of his Oscar-winning August Wilson adaptation, Fences. The composer says that for this “story about love, sacrifice and family that spans 20 years,...
The latest film directed by two-time Academy Award winner Denzel Washington is based on the true story of First Sergeant Charles Monroe King (Michael B. Jordan), a soldier deployed to Iraq who begins to keep a journal of love and advice for his infant son. Back at home, senior New York Times editor Dana Canedy (Chanté Adams) revisits the story of her unlikely, life-altering relationship with King and his enduring devotion to her and their child.
The romantic drama scripted by Virgil Williams marked Zarvos’ second collaboration with Washington, on the heels of his Oscar-winning August Wilson adaptation, Fences. The composer says that for this “story about love, sacrifice and family that spans 20 years,...
- 12/16/2021
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: The Kindergarten Teacher‘s Sara Colangelo has been set to direct MadRiver Pictures’ true-life biographical drama What Is Life Worth. As Deadline reported out of the Efm last year, Michael Keaton is starring in the project; Stanley Tucci has also now joined to co-star. Principal photography is set to begin in New York in April. Imr International is handling worldwide sales; UTA and ICM Partners are on domestic.
The Black List script from Max Borenstein is based on Kenneth Feinberg’s acclaimed memoir. It’s described as being in the vein of Erin Brockovich and Oscar-winning Keaton/Tucci-starrer Spotlight. The story centers on Feinberg, a powerful DC insider lawyer put in charge of the 9/11 Fund. In almost three years of pro bono work on the case, Feinberg fought off the cynicism, bureaucracy and politics associated with administering government funds to victim’s families — and in doing so, discovered what life is worth.
The Black List script from Max Borenstein is based on Kenneth Feinberg’s acclaimed memoir. It’s described as being in the vein of Erin Brockovich and Oscar-winning Keaton/Tucci-starrer Spotlight. The story centers on Feinberg, a powerful DC insider lawyer put in charge of the 9/11 Fund. In almost three years of pro bono work on the case, Feinberg fought off the cynicism, bureaucracy and politics associated with administering government funds to victim’s families — and in doing so, discovered what life is worth.
- 2/8/2019
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
The psychological multi-layered drama The Kindergarten Teacher definitely makes the grade as a winningly uncomfortable and compelling observation of a disillusioned middle-aged woman stuck in an artistic and emotional rut only to discover her opportunistic escape through the perceived brilliance of a talented tot. Writer-director Sara Colangelo's ("Little Accidents") sophomore cinematic effort is an unnerving, slow burn of a feature that methodically examines the gradual malaise of an unfulfilled woman quietly tortured personally and professionally. The fine line between obsession and mentored guidance is explored with haunting confliction. Colangelo's transfixing profile of confined womanhood attached to surfacing pressure and gentle madness is definitely a piece of hallucinatory homework worth tackling in the unflinching The Kindergarten Teacher. Based on filmmaker Nadav Lapid's 2014 Israeli/French predecessor by the same name (original title...
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- 11/26/2018
- Screen Anarchy
Maggie Gyllenhaal is a Staten Island early-childhood educator lacking something meaningful in her life who starts obsessing over a gifted student, which leads to problems too good to reveal. Suffice to say, when you watch “The Kindergarten Teacher,” Sara Colangelo’s American remake of the similarly-titled Israeli drama, you are transported into what Gyllenhaal describe to me as the psyche of a “starving, vibrant woman’s mind.”
Colangelo, who stunned more than a few moviegoers with her 2014 feature directing debut “Little Accidents,” creates a film with its own unique identity, the fleshing out of a woman that desperately needs to find meaning in her life.
Continue reading ‘Kindergarten Teacher’: Maggie Gyllenhaal & Director Sara Colangelo Talk The Horror Of “Starving A Vibrant Woman’s Mind” at The Playlist.
Colangelo, who stunned more than a few moviegoers with her 2014 feature directing debut “Little Accidents,” creates a film with its own unique identity, the fleshing out of a woman that desperately needs to find meaning in her life.
Continue reading ‘Kindergarten Teacher’: Maggie Gyllenhaal & Director Sara Colangelo Talk The Horror Of “Starving A Vibrant Woman’s Mind” at The Playlist.
- 10/14/2018
- by Jordan Ruimy
- The Playlist
Vaguely familiar in its form, it was a definite case of deja vu as I’ve assisted at both world premiere screenings for the 2014 original (which preemed at Cannes – see video) and the remake. The former version via Nadav Lapid had an immensely satisfying politicized subtext, while the later in Sara Colangelo‘s version of The Kindergarten Teacher, we have a layered characterization of a women (brilliantly invested perf from actress Maggie Gyllenhaal) that arrives distilled, and sprouts into some psychologically advanced terrain. We knew Colangelo had a confident skilled hand, but this sophomore film is a drastic improvement on her imperfect Little Accidents.…...
- 10/9/2018
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
Wildlife
Directed by Paul Dano
The directorial debut of prolific actor Dano, “Wildlife” centers on a 1960s Montana couple (Carey Mulligan and Jake Gyllenhaal) who’ve reached a turning point in their marriage. The emotionally complex narrative pivots on how their 14-year-old son, played by Ed Oxenbould, processes the changes in the dynamics of his parents’ relationship. “It’s a family portrait,” says Dano. He hopes that “people will see a piece of themselves in the film. The more personal something is to someone, the more universal it becomes. It’s always about making a connection.”
Boy Erased
Directed by Joel Edgerton
Adapted for the screen, co-starring, and directed by eclectic talent Edgerton (“The Gift”), the provocative drama “Boy Erased,” which played Toronto, takes a devastating and impactful look at the controversial practice of gay-conversion therapy, and the perilous effects it has on one individual and his deeply religious Christain family.
Directed by Paul Dano
The directorial debut of prolific actor Dano, “Wildlife” centers on a 1960s Montana couple (Carey Mulligan and Jake Gyllenhaal) who’ve reached a turning point in their marriage. The emotionally complex narrative pivots on how their 14-year-old son, played by Ed Oxenbould, processes the changes in the dynamics of his parents’ relationship. “It’s a family portrait,” says Dano. He hopes that “people will see a piece of themselves in the film. The more personal something is to someone, the more universal it becomes. It’s always about making a connection.”
Boy Erased
Directed by Joel Edgerton
Adapted for the screen, co-starring, and directed by eclectic talent Edgerton (“The Gift”), the provocative drama “Boy Erased,” which played Toronto, takes a devastating and impactful look at the controversial practice of gay-conversion therapy, and the perilous effects it has on one individual and his deeply religious Christain family.
- 10/5/2018
- by Nick Clement
- Variety Film + TV
Having celebrated its 25th anniversary last fall, the Hamptons Intl. Film Festival is well- established as a star-studded, resort-style showcase for the buzziest films of awards season.
For Hiff artistic director David Nugent, the numbers speak for themselves. “In each of the last eight years, one of the films in our festival has gone on to win best picture, and there were 47 Oscar nominations [for films] in the festival last year. I think for a lot of audiences, particularly on the East Coast, it’s the first place they’ll see a lot of the films that go on to do well in the awards race.”
Despite the impressive track record, he insists that Oscar prognostication is not at the heart of the festival’s mission. “We’re a year-round organization, devoted to bringing important and worthwhile films to our audiences,” he says.
And anyway, it’s not always obvious which films are Oscar-bound.
For Hiff artistic director David Nugent, the numbers speak for themselves. “In each of the last eight years, one of the films in our festival has gone on to win best picture, and there were 47 Oscar nominations [for films] in the festival last year. I think for a lot of audiences, particularly on the East Coast, it’s the first place they’ll see a lot of the films that go on to do well in the awards race.”
Despite the impressive track record, he insists that Oscar prognostication is not at the heart of the festival’s mission. “We’re a year-round organization, devoted to bringing important and worthwhile films to our audiences,” he says.
And anyway, it’s not always obvious which films are Oscar-bound.
- 10/2/2018
- by Akiva Gottlieb
- Variety Film + TV
After a handful of female-directed Sundance films from this year have already found distribution and critical reception – including Madeline’s Madeline, The Tale, and Skate Kitchen – Sara Colangelo’s The Kindergarten Teacher now finally joins them; slated to premiere on October 12th on Netflix. Ahead of its debut and stop at the Toronto International Film Festival in September, the first trailer has now arrived.
With The Kindergarten Teacher, Sara Colangelo clocks in her second feature-length directorial outing following her debut 2014 drama-thriller Little Accidents, which also premiered at Sundance. Working within similar genre boundaries, The Kindergarten Teacher centers on Lisa Spinelli (played by Maggie Gyllenhaal) a kindergarten teacher who becomes unusually obsessed with one of her students (played by Parker Sevak) after she discovers what only seems to be an inherent talent for poetry. In the first trailer for the film, we get a preview of the psychologically complex story Colangelo strives to tell.
With The Kindergarten Teacher, Sara Colangelo clocks in her second feature-length directorial outing following her debut 2014 drama-thriller Little Accidents, which also premiered at Sundance. Working within similar genre boundaries, The Kindergarten Teacher centers on Lisa Spinelli (played by Maggie Gyllenhaal) a kindergarten teacher who becomes unusually obsessed with one of her students (played by Parker Sevak) after she discovers what only seems to be an inherent talent for poetry. In the first trailer for the film, we get a preview of the psychologically complex story Colangelo strives to tell.
- 8/10/2018
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
Sundance award winner with Maggie Gyllenhaal gets all-rights deal with streaming service.
Netflix has acquired all rights for the Us and Canada to Sundance award-winning drama The Kindergarten Teacher.
The streaming service aims to release the film, which stars Maggie Gyllenhaal, later this year.
Writer-director Sara Colangelo won the Directing Award: Us Dramatic at the recent Sundance festival for the film, her follow-up to her Independent Spirit Award-nominated debut Little Accidents.
Gyllenhaal, also one of the film’s producers, plays a Staten Island kindergarten teacher who, when she discovers what may be a gifted five-year-old in her class, becomes fascinated and obsessed with the child.
Talia Kleinhendler and Osnat Handelsman Keren produce for their Pie Films and Trudie Styler and Celine Rattray for their Maven Films banner. Pia Pressure, Farcaster Films, Imagination Park Entertainment, Manhattan Productions and PaperChase Films financed and co-produced.
Joining Gyllenhaal in the cast are Parker Sevak, Rosa Salazar, Anna Baryshnikov, [link...
Netflix has acquired all rights for the Us and Canada to Sundance award-winning drama The Kindergarten Teacher.
The streaming service aims to release the film, which stars Maggie Gyllenhaal, later this year.
Writer-director Sara Colangelo won the Directing Award: Us Dramatic at the recent Sundance festival for the film, her follow-up to her Independent Spirit Award-nominated debut Little Accidents.
Gyllenhaal, also one of the film’s producers, plays a Staten Island kindergarten teacher who, when she discovers what may be a gifted five-year-old in her class, becomes fascinated and obsessed with the child.
Talia Kleinhendler and Osnat Handelsman Keren produce for their Pie Films and Trudie Styler and Celine Rattray for their Maven Films banner. Pia Pressure, Farcaster Films, Imagination Park Entertainment, Manhattan Productions and PaperChase Films financed and co-produced.
Joining Gyllenhaal in the cast are Parker Sevak, Rosa Salazar, Anna Baryshnikov, [link...
- 2/23/2018
- by John Hazelton
- ScreenDaily
Sundance award winner with Maggie Gyllenhaal gets all-rights deal with streaming service.
Netflix has acquired all rights for the Us and Canada to Sundance award-winning drama The Kindergarten Teacher.
The streaming service aims to release the film, which stars Maggie Gyllenhaal, later this year.
Writer-director Sara Colangelo won the Directing Award: Us Dramatic at the recent Sundance festival for the film, her follow-up to her Independent Spirit Award-nominated debut Little Accidents.
Gyllenhaal, also one of the film’s producers, plays a Staten Island kindergarten teacher who, when she discovers what may be a gifted five-year-old in her class, becomes fascinated and obsessed with the child.
Talia Kleinhendler and Osnat Handelsman Keren produce for their Pie Films and Trudie Styler and Celine Rattray for their Maven Films banner. Pia Pressure, Farcaster Films, Imagination Park Entertainment, Manhattan Productions and PaperChase Films financed and co-produced.
Joining Gyllenhaal in the cast are Parker Sevak, Rosa Salazar, Anna Baryshnikov, [link...
Netflix has acquired all rights for the Us and Canada to Sundance award-winning drama The Kindergarten Teacher.
The streaming service aims to release the film, which stars Maggie Gyllenhaal, later this year.
Writer-director Sara Colangelo won the Directing Award: Us Dramatic at the recent Sundance festival for the film, her follow-up to her Independent Spirit Award-nominated debut Little Accidents.
Gyllenhaal, also one of the film’s producers, plays a Staten Island kindergarten teacher who, when she discovers what may be a gifted five-year-old in her class, becomes fascinated and obsessed with the child.
Talia Kleinhendler and Osnat Handelsman Keren produce for their Pie Films and Trudie Styler and Celine Rattray for their Maven Films banner. Pia Pressure, Farcaster Films, Imagination Park Entertainment, Manhattan Productions and PaperChase Films financed and co-produced.
Joining Gyllenhaal in the cast are Parker Sevak, Rosa Salazar, Anna Baryshnikov, [link...
- 2/23/2018
- by John Hazelton
- ScreenDaily
If you keep up with the Sundance Film Festival, you have no doubt heard of writer and actor Sara Colangelo. She made her film debut here in 2014, with her movie Little Accidents. Most recently, the talented woman brought a film called The Kindergarten Teacher to the festival. The well-received tale – a remake of a 2014 Israeli drama – focuses on the story of a five-year-old boy with a penchant for poetry, and the morally-questionable teacher who becomes his biggest fan. We won’t give you any spoilers here, but know this: it will make you think. With Sara Colangelo’s
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- 2/2/2018
- by Nat Berman
- TVovermind.com
For her second feature at Sundance (after her highly praised 2014 debut Little Accidents), writer/director Sara Colangelo has chosen to remake a four-year-old Israeli drama to examine the dying practice of encouraging and protecting artistic genius. Like the Staten Island educator at the center of this film, The Kindergarten Teacher pushes boundaries and crosses lines […]
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- 1/30/2018
- by Steven Prokopy
- Slash Film
“Kung Fu” star David Carradine, the great warrior-philosopher of the 20th century, once said: “If you can’t be the poet, be the poem.” He makes it sound so easy — as though deferring your story to someone else wouldn’t feel like an act of defenestration — but then again, the man seldom met a problem he couldn’t high-kick into submission.
Lisa Spinelli (a captivating Maggie Gyllenhaal) has no such luck. The eponymous, fortysomething educator at the heart of Sara Colangelo’s “The Kindergarten Teacher,” Lisa has spent the last 20 years of her life teaching kids the alphabet and shepherding them to the next stop on the assembly line of America’s school system, and she’s finally beginning to succumb to the banality of it all.
You can see it in her posture as she sits in her classroom at the end of the day, her long body slumped...
Lisa Spinelli (a captivating Maggie Gyllenhaal) has no such luck. The eponymous, fortysomething educator at the heart of Sara Colangelo’s “The Kindergarten Teacher,” Lisa has spent the last 20 years of her life teaching kids the alphabet and shepherding them to the next stop on the assembly line of America’s school system, and she’s finally beginning to succumb to the banality of it all.
You can see it in her posture as she sits in her classroom at the end of the day, her long body slumped...
- 1/27/2018
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Girl Talk is a weekly look at women in film — past, present, and future.
The numbers are awful. Last week, the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative’s latest study, “Inclusion in the Director’s Chair? Gender, Race & Age of Directors across 1,000 films from 2007-2017,” found that, of the 109 film directors associated with the 100 top movies of 2017, 92.7 percent were male; 7.3 percent were female. Days later, the San Diego State University’s Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film followed with the “Celluloid Ceiling” study, finding that women comprised just 18 percent of all directors, writers, producers, executive producers, editors, and cinematographers working on the top 250 domestic grossing films. That number remains mostly unchanged over the last two decades.
At this year’s Sundance Film Festival, the figures are very different. For the 2018 edition of the festival, 37 percent of the 122 feature films premiering are directed by women, a slight uptick from...
The numbers are awful. Last week, the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative’s latest study, “Inclusion in the Director’s Chair? Gender, Race & Age of Directors across 1,000 films from 2007-2017,” found that, of the 109 film directors associated with the 100 top movies of 2017, 92.7 percent were male; 7.3 percent were female. Days later, the San Diego State University’s Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film followed with the “Celluloid Ceiling” study, finding that women comprised just 18 percent of all directors, writers, producers, executive producers, editors, and cinematographers working on the top 250 domestic grossing films. That number remains mostly unchanged over the last two decades.
At this year’s Sundance Film Festival, the figures are very different. For the 2018 edition of the festival, 37 percent of the 122 feature films premiering are directed by women, a slight uptick from...
- 1/12/2018
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
When Jessica Chastain condemned cinematic portrayals of women after spending 10 days as a Cannes Film Festival juror, Maggie Gyllenhaal had deja vu: She had a similar experience as a member of the Berlin International Film Festival’s jury in February. After watching 25 movies in two weeks, the actress grew frustrated.
“There were some amazing performances by women, but one of them was about this woman obsessed with her lover, and in two others, the women were mentally ill,” she said. “So I really related to what Jessica Chastain said. In my life, I think there have been very few representations of women that feel like something I can actually recognize as relating to my experience.”
Now, as a producer on both of her upcoming projects, she’s finding a new way to address that challenge.
Gyllenhaal was speaking from the set of “The Kindergarten Teacher,” the second film from writer-director Sara Colangelo,...
“There were some amazing performances by women, but one of them was about this woman obsessed with her lover, and in two others, the women were mentally ill,” she said. “So I really related to what Jessica Chastain said. In my life, I think there have been very few representations of women that feel like something I can actually recognize as relating to my experience.”
Now, as a producer on both of her upcoming projects, she’s finding a new way to address that challenge.
Gyllenhaal was speaking from the set of “The Kindergarten Teacher,” the second film from writer-director Sara Colangelo,...
- 8/16/2017
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
Exclusive: Women helping other women, this is what it looks like: Maggie Gyllenhaal is set to star in The Kindergarten Teacher, a feature based on writer/director Nadav Lapid's acclaimed Israeli film of the same name that is being produced by Trudie Styler and Celine Rattray’s Maven Pictures and Pie Films. The film was adapted by and is being directed by Sara Colangelo (Little Accidents) for a July 10 start and another woman, Jenny Halper brought the project into…...
- 5/30/2017
- Deadline
“The Hunger Games” and “Divergent” film series may have finished, but pop culture hasn’t seen the last of coming-of-age post-apocalyptic stories. Matthew Ogens’ new film “Go North” examines a world ruled by teenagers and children after a global catastrophe wiped out every single adult.
Read More: Morgan Spurlock’s Digital Vision: What The ‘Super Size Me’ Creator Has In Common With the YouTube Generation
Executive produced by Morgan Spurlock, the film follows a young boy named Josh (Jacob Lofland) who decides to flee the dangerous confines of his abandoned city and embark on a journey with his classmate and neighbor Jessie (Sophie Kennedy Clark) to the last safe haven in the world. Though they don’t know how to get there or if it even exists, they strive to migrate to the place safe from disaster. The film co-stars Patrick Schwarzenegger (“Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse”), James Bloor...
Read More: Morgan Spurlock’s Digital Vision: What The ‘Super Size Me’ Creator Has In Common With the YouTube Generation
Executive produced by Morgan Spurlock, the film follows a young boy named Josh (Jacob Lofland) who decides to flee the dangerous confines of his abandoned city and embark on a journey with his classmate and neighbor Jessie (Sophie Kennedy Clark) to the last safe haven in the world. Though they don’t know how to get there or if it even exists, they strive to migrate to the place safe from disaster. The film co-stars Patrick Schwarzenegger (“Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse”), James Bloor...
- 1/5/2017
- by Vikram Murthi
- Indiewire
A new VOD service has arrived in the UK with the goal of bringing little-seen gems to home audiences.
Founder and entrepreneur Martin Warner claimed Flix Premiere was the world’s first digital cineplex, although the precise significance of that remained unclear given the increasing prevalence of VOD platforms.
Speaking to Screen International recently, Warner said the launch was the first step in global expansion and that he aimed to be in the Us soon, and in France, Spain, Germany, Australia and Canada by the end of May.
Flix Premiere aims to introduce eight or nine new titles each week and will champion quality films that struggle to make a noise in the over-crowded distribution landscape.
‘Tickets’ cost £3.99 (approximately $5.81 at time of writing) and special packages are available.
Once purchased, the film is available for 24 hours and can be viewed on all browsers. A mobile version will be offered shortly.
Launch titles...
Founder and entrepreneur Martin Warner claimed Flix Premiere was the world’s first digital cineplex, although the precise significance of that remained unclear given the increasing prevalence of VOD platforms.
Speaking to Screen International recently, Warner said the launch was the first step in global expansion and that he aimed to be in the Us soon, and in France, Spain, Germany, Australia and Canada by the end of May.
Flix Premiere aims to introduce eight or nine new titles each week and will champion quality films that struggle to make a noise in the over-crowded distribution landscape.
‘Tickets’ cost £3.99 (approximately $5.81 at time of writing) and special packages are available.
Once purchased, the film is available for 24 hours and can be viewed on all browsers. A mobile version will be offered shortly.
Launch titles...
- 4/28/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Creating a slasher movie in 1986 wasn’t a monumental feat, as the horror genre had seen its fair share of cinematic killers over the years, but it was a culmination of many elements that made April Fool’s Day one of the best of its era. With a focused and experienced director at the helm, a clever script filled with laughs and unexpected thrills, and an affable ensemble of actors who were infectiously likeable and endlessly talented, April Fool’s Day is an underappreciated gem and is truly unlike any other genre film of its, or any, time.
Written by Danilo Bach and directed by Fred Walton, April Fool’s Day follows a group of college students—Kit (Amy Steel), Rob (Ken Olandt), Nikki (Deborah Goodrich), Chaz (Clayton Rohner), Arch (Tom Wilson), Harvey (Jay Baker), Skip (Griffin O’Neal), and Nan (Leah Pinsent)—who head out to their pal Muffy...
Written by Danilo Bach and directed by Fred Walton, April Fool’s Day follows a group of college students—Kit (Amy Steel), Rob (Ken Olandt), Nikki (Deborah Goodrich), Chaz (Clayton Rohner), Arch (Tom Wilson), Harvey (Jay Baker), Skip (Griffin O’Neal), and Nan (Leah Pinsent)—who head out to their pal Muffy...
- 3/30/2016
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
'The Peanuts Movie': 2016 Best Original Score Oscar contender along with 111 other titles. Oscar 2016: Best Original Score contenders range from 'Mad Max: Fury Road' to 'The Peanuts Movie' Earlier this month (Dec. '15), the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences made public the list of 112 film scores eligible for the 2016 Oscar in the Best Original Score category. As found in the Academy's press release, “a Reminder List of works submitted in the Original Score category will be made available with a nominations ballot to all members of the Music Branch, who shall vote in the order of their preference for not more than five achievements. The five achievements receiving the highest number of votes will become the nominations for final voting for the award.” The release adds that “to be eligible, the original score must be a substantial body of music that serves as original dramatic underscoring, and must...
- 12/24/2015
- by Mont. Steve
- Alt Film Guide
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that 112 scores from eligible feature-length motion pictures released in 2015 are in contention for nominations in the Original Score category for the 88th Academy Awards.
The eligible scores along with their composers are listed below, in alphabetical order by film title:
“Adult Beginners,” Marcelo Zarvos, composer
“The Age of Adaline,” Rob Simonsen, composer
“Altered Minds,” Edmund Choi, composer
“Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip,” Mark Mothersbaugh, composer
“Anomalisa,” Carter Burwell, composer
“Ant-Man,” Christophe Beck, composer
“Beasts of No Nation,” Dan Romer, composer
“The Big Short,” Nicholas Britell, composer
“Black Mass,” Tom Holkenborg, composer
“Bridge of Spies,” Thomas Newman, composer
“Brooklyn,” Michael Brook, composer
“Burnt,” Rob Simonsen, composer
“By the Sea,” Gabriel Yared, composer
“Carol,” Carter Burwell, composer
“Cartel Land,” H. Scott Salinas and Jackson Greenberg, composers
“Chi-Raq,” Terence Blanchard, composer
“Cinderella,” Patrick Doyle, composer
“Coming Home,” Qigang Chen, composer
“Concussion,...
The eligible scores along with their composers are listed below, in alphabetical order by film title:
“Adult Beginners,” Marcelo Zarvos, composer
“The Age of Adaline,” Rob Simonsen, composer
“Altered Minds,” Edmund Choi, composer
“Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip,” Mark Mothersbaugh, composer
“Anomalisa,” Carter Burwell, composer
“Ant-Man,” Christophe Beck, composer
“Beasts of No Nation,” Dan Romer, composer
“The Big Short,” Nicholas Britell, composer
“Black Mass,” Tom Holkenborg, composer
“Bridge of Spies,” Thomas Newman, composer
“Brooklyn,” Michael Brook, composer
“Burnt,” Rob Simonsen, composer
“By the Sea,” Gabriel Yared, composer
“Carol,” Carter Burwell, composer
“Cartel Land,” H. Scott Salinas and Jackson Greenberg, composers
“Chi-Raq,” Terence Blanchard, composer
“Cinderella,” Patrick Doyle, composer
“Coming Home,” Qigang Chen, composer
“Concussion,...
- 12/17/2015
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Last week, we had fun chiming in on how Sundance 2016 might look like with our Sundance predictions list. Our series was exactly one short from the promised 75. We decided to switch things up this year. Our last pick is reserved for what is a next to impossible, needle in the haystack guess at what films might break into the short film sections. Out of the 8000 plus submissions the Sundance Short Film programmers will receive, they’ll end up selecting a little less than a hundred short films. Here are some ideas as to who and what could show up.
The Bulb and The Procedure
No stranger to Park City, Calvin Reeder has supplied the fest with features such as The Oregonian (2011), The Rambler (2013) and could very well bring this Kickstarter pairing to public access television blitz and X-Files love. Production wrapped in August. Actors Linas Phillips and Christian Palmer star.
The Bulb and The Procedure
No stranger to Park City, Calvin Reeder has supplied the fest with features such as The Oregonian (2011), The Rambler (2013) and could very well bring this Kickstarter pairing to public access television blitz and X-Files love. Production wrapped in August. Actors Linas Phillips and Christian Palmer star.
- 12/2/2015
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Exclusive: Premiere Entertainment Group has concluded a raft of sales on action thriller Code Of Honor starring Steven Seagal.
Premiere CEO Elias Axume, Svp of sales and acquisitions Jack Campbell and the team will show Toronto buyers the first trailer from the in-house production that wrapped earlier this year.
Deals have closed in France (Metropolitan), Benelux (Just Bridge), Spain (Flins y Piniculas), Italy (Minerva), and Canada (Vvs).
Rights have gone in China (DDDream), Eastern Europe & Cis (Mgn/Paradise), Middle East (Eagle Films), Japan (Klockworx), South Korea (Joy N Contents), Malaysia (Suraya), Turkey (Fida Film), Thailand (Coral) and Africa (Daro).
Seagal stars in Code Of Honor as a former military commander who sets out to rid the city of crime. Craig Sheffer plays a former protégé who teams up with local police to stop the vigilante.
Premiere’s sales portfolio includes Sundance 2014 selection Little Accidents starring Elizabeth Banks, comedic drama Match with Patrick Stewart and family comedy Good Ol...
Premiere CEO Elias Axume, Svp of sales and acquisitions Jack Campbell and the team will show Toronto buyers the first trailer from the in-house production that wrapped earlier this year.
Deals have closed in France (Metropolitan), Benelux (Just Bridge), Spain (Flins y Piniculas), Italy (Minerva), and Canada (Vvs).
Rights have gone in China (DDDream), Eastern Europe & Cis (Mgn/Paradise), Middle East (Eagle Films), Japan (Klockworx), South Korea (Joy N Contents), Malaysia (Suraya), Turkey (Fida Film), Thailand (Coral) and Africa (Daro).
Seagal stars in Code Of Honor as a former military commander who sets out to rid the city of crime. Craig Sheffer plays a former protégé who teams up with local police to stop the vigilante.
Premiere’s sales portfolio includes Sundance 2014 selection Little Accidents starring Elizabeth Banks, comedic drama Match with Patrick Stewart and family comedy Good Ol...
- 9/11/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
VOD service Dendy Direct has strengthened its film and TV content after signing deals with two major Us companies and three Australian distributors.
Although none of the arrangements is exclusive, Dendy Direct gets a wide range of titles including Mad Men, the first two seasons of Orange is the New Black, documentary Finding Vivien Maier and Us comedies Inside Amy Schumer and Workaholics.
The agreement with Viacom International Media Networks spans 30 seasons of programming from Comedy Central, MTV, Nickelodeon and Nick Jr.
Lionsgate Entertainment is supplying Mad Men, Orange in the New Black, Nurse Jackie, Nashville and more than 70 library films.
Among the titles from Aussie independents are Accent Films. Little Accidents, Old Joy and Computer Chess, and Sc Movies. An Invisible Sign, Maladies, Stephen King's A Good Marriage and Turkey Shoot.
From Vendetta Films comes National Gallery, Supermensch, Palo Alto, Finding Vivien Maier and The Last Diamond.
Dendy...
Although none of the arrangements is exclusive, Dendy Direct gets a wide range of titles including Mad Men, the first two seasons of Orange is the New Black, documentary Finding Vivien Maier and Us comedies Inside Amy Schumer and Workaholics.
The agreement with Viacom International Media Networks spans 30 seasons of programming from Comedy Central, MTV, Nickelodeon and Nick Jr.
Lionsgate Entertainment is supplying Mad Men, Orange in the New Black, Nurse Jackie, Nashville and more than 70 library films.
Among the titles from Aussie independents are Accent Films. Little Accidents, Old Joy and Computer Chess, and Sc Movies. An Invisible Sign, Maladies, Stephen King's A Good Marriage and Turkey Shoot.
From Vendetta Films comes National Gallery, Supermensch, Palo Alto, Finding Vivien Maier and The Last Diamond.
Dendy...
- 6/3/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Baby Blues: Berg’s Troubled and Troubling Feature Debut
Treated to a chilly reception following its premiere at the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival last spring, the feature debut of documentarian Amy Berg will see a theatrical release amidst the encroaching fanfare of her next highly provocative doc concerning teen sex rings in Hollywood, An Open Secret, hitting theaters only a few weeks later. The timing is certainly convenient for Every Secret Thing, perhaps a move to overshadow the critiques of her latest, as Berg seems noticeably less comfortable in the realm of narrative storytelling, especially if you’ve seen her hailed work on Deliver Us From Evil and West Memphis Three, now part of a growing body of work haunted by the specter of sexual transgressions involving preadolescents. This latest is based on a novel by Laura Lippman, a mystery writer who began as a journalist, which seems an inspired...
Treated to a chilly reception following its premiere at the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival last spring, the feature debut of documentarian Amy Berg will see a theatrical release amidst the encroaching fanfare of her next highly provocative doc concerning teen sex rings in Hollywood, An Open Secret, hitting theaters only a few weeks later. The timing is certainly convenient for Every Secret Thing, perhaps a move to overshadow the critiques of her latest, as Berg seems noticeably less comfortable in the realm of narrative storytelling, especially if you’ve seen her hailed work on Deliver Us From Evil and West Memphis Three, now part of a growing body of work haunted by the specter of sexual transgressions involving preadolescents. This latest is based on a novel by Laura Lippman, a mystery writer who began as a journalist, which seems an inspired...
- 5/13/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Casting on Roland Emmerich’s long-awaited blockbuster sequel continues today as The Wrap reports that Travis Tope is now circling a part in Independence Day 2. Should he lock down the gig, Tope will be the latest in a long line of franchise newbies destined to duke it out with the extraterrestrials in another global battle.
Those fresh faces include Charlotte Gainsbourg (Nymphomaniac, Melancholia), Liam Hemsworth (The Hunger Games series), who is expected to play the son-in-law of Bill Pullman’s President Whitmore from the 1996 original, and Jessie Usher (When The Game Stands Tall), who will bust out the quips as the stepson of Will Smith’s fast-talking pilot Steven Hiller.
With specifics on Tope’s role under wraps, there’s a good chance he may also play a character tenuously linked to the original as well. Forging a stronger connection to that first outing are a small ensemble of...
Those fresh faces include Charlotte Gainsbourg (Nymphomaniac, Melancholia), Liam Hemsworth (The Hunger Games series), who is expected to play the son-in-law of Bill Pullman’s President Whitmore from the 1996 original, and Jessie Usher (When The Game Stands Tall), who will bust out the quips as the stepson of Will Smith’s fast-talking pilot Steven Hiller.
With specifics on Tope’s role under wraps, there’s a good chance he may also play a character tenuously linked to the original as well. Forging a stronger connection to that first outing are a small ensemble of...
- 3/25/2015
- by Gem Seddon
- We Got This Covered
Lives of Quiet Desperation: Edmond’s Masterful, Eloquent Debut
“I stand in awe of my body. This matter to which I am bound,” is the poetic quote form Henry David Thoreau opening Lance Edmands’ impressive directorial debut, Bluebird. Dealing with a tragedy that has a rippling effect throughout a northern rural community in Maine, we’ve seen this type of dramatic dynamic countless times before, yet Edmands manages a haunting portrait of unhappy, increasingly desperate lives within a small community of deferred dreams and staunch facades. Originally premiering at the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival, the title ends its weary trek through the festival circuit to a much deserved theatrical release, though this type of grim, upsetting drama may have difficulty finding an audience due to its sobering subject matter. Dramatically restrained, Edmands deftly navigates the sadness of disconnect in our daily lives, and how terrible circumstances are often the impetus for waking up from that slumber.
“I stand in awe of my body. This matter to which I am bound,” is the poetic quote form Henry David Thoreau opening Lance Edmands’ impressive directorial debut, Bluebird. Dealing with a tragedy that has a rippling effect throughout a northern rural community in Maine, we’ve seen this type of dramatic dynamic countless times before, yet Edmands manages a haunting portrait of unhappy, increasingly desperate lives within a small community of deferred dreams and staunch facades. Originally premiering at the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival, the title ends its weary trek through the festival circuit to a much deserved theatrical release, though this type of grim, upsetting drama may have difficulty finding an audience due to its sobering subject matter. Dramatically restrained, Edmands deftly navigates the sadness of disconnect in our daily lives, and how terrible circumstances are often the impetus for waking up from that slumber.
- 2/26/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
And the Independent Spirit Awards have revealed the winners and it's looking a lot like the Academy Awards! "Birdman" beat "Boyhood" for the Best Feature trophy but Richard Linklater took away the Best Director award from Alejandro Gonzalez Innaritu.
Is this a sign of what's going to happen at the Oscars tonight?
Stay tuned...
2015 Film Independent Spirit Award Winners (Highlighted) And Nominees
Best Feature
(Award given to the Producer. Executive Producers are not awarded.)
Winner: Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Producers: Alejandro G. Iñárritu, John Lesher, Arnon Milchan, James W. Skotchdopole
Boyhood
Producers: Richard Linklater, Jonathan Sehring, John Sloss, Cathleen Sutherland
Love is Strange
Producers: Lucas Joaquin, Lars Knudsen, Ira Sachs, Jayne Baron Sherman, Jay Van Hoy
Selma
Producers: Christian Colson, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Oprah Winfrey
Whiplash
Producers: Jason Blum, Helen Estabrook, David Lancaster, Michael Litvak
Best Director
Winner: Richard Linklater
Boyhood
Damien Chazelle
Whiplash
Ava DuVernay...
Is this a sign of what's going to happen at the Oscars tonight?
Stay tuned...
2015 Film Independent Spirit Award Winners (Highlighted) And Nominees
Best Feature
(Award given to the Producer. Executive Producers are not awarded.)
Winner: Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Producers: Alejandro G. Iñárritu, John Lesher, Arnon Milchan, James W. Skotchdopole
Boyhood
Producers: Richard Linklater, Jonathan Sehring, John Sloss, Cathleen Sutherland
Love is Strange
Producers: Lucas Joaquin, Lars Knudsen, Ira Sachs, Jayne Baron Sherman, Jay Van Hoy
Selma
Producers: Christian Colson, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Oprah Winfrey
Whiplash
Producers: Jason Blum, Helen Estabrook, David Lancaster, Michael Litvak
Best Director
Winner: Richard Linklater
Boyhood
Damien Chazelle
Whiplash
Ava DuVernay...
- 2/22/2015
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
Richard Linklater won for Best Director and Patricia Arquette won the Best Supporting actress for team Boyhood, while Iñárritu’s Birdman claimed Best Picture, Best Actor (Michael Keaton) and Cinematographer (Emmanuel Lubezki) at the 30th Film Independent Spirit Awards last night. The split might foreshadow how the Oscars play out tonite, as the Middleweight Saturday ceremony and Heavyweight Sunday gig are more or less interchangeable. The two films that might gain a little further traction from the tent spotlight include Nightcrawler (which picked up Best First Feature and Best Screenplay) and Whiplash, Damien Chazelle’s deservedly won for Best Supporting Actor and Editing categories. Also worth pointing out is a Land Ho! win in the category we love the most: the John Cassavetes Award. Here are the winners and noms.
Best Feature:
“Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)” *Winner
“Boyhood”
“Love is Strange”
“Selma”
“Whiplash”
Best Director
Damien Chazelle,...
Best Feature:
“Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)” *Winner
“Boyhood”
“Love is Strange”
“Selma”
“Whiplash”
Best Director
Damien Chazelle,...
- 2/22/2015
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Just one night before the Oscars take over town, stars flocked to the 2015 Film Independent Spirit Awards on the Santa Monica Beach on Saturday (February 21).
Fred Armisen and Kristen Bell joined forces for co-hosting duties and put on a fabulous show as actors and actresses including Scarlett Johansson, Ethan Hawke, Jessica Chastain, Cate Blanchett, Jared Leto and Emma Stone turned up to lend their star power to the IFC airing ceremony.
As for this year's cream of the crop, Michael Keaton (Birdman), Julianne Moore (Still Alice), J.K. Simmons (Whiplash) and Patricia Arquette (Boyhood) took home top honors in the lead and supporting acting categories.
Meanwhile, in what very well may be an indicator for what's to come tomorrow at the Academy Awards, "Birdman" was recognized as Best Feature while Richard Linklater nabbed Best Director accolades for "Boyhood".
Check out the full list of winners from the 2015 Spirit Awards below!
Best...
Fred Armisen and Kristen Bell joined forces for co-hosting duties and put on a fabulous show as actors and actresses including Scarlett Johansson, Ethan Hawke, Jessica Chastain, Cate Blanchett, Jared Leto and Emma Stone turned up to lend their star power to the IFC airing ceremony.
As for this year's cream of the crop, Michael Keaton (Birdman), Julianne Moore (Still Alice), J.K. Simmons (Whiplash) and Patricia Arquette (Boyhood) took home top honors in the lead and supporting acting categories.
Meanwhile, in what very well may be an indicator for what's to come tomorrow at the Academy Awards, "Birdman" was recognized as Best Feature while Richard Linklater nabbed Best Director accolades for "Boyhood".
Check out the full list of winners from the 2015 Spirit Awards below!
Best...
- 2/22/2015
- GossipCenter
Fred Armisen and Kristen Bell hosted the 30th Independent Spirit Awards from Los Angeles today (February 21).
Digital Spy rounds up all of the winners from this year's ceremony below:
Best Feature
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) - Winner!
Boyhood
Love is Strange
Selma
Whiplash
Best Director
Damien Chazelle - Whiplash
Ava DuVernay - Selma
Alejandro G. Iñárritu - Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Richard Linklater - Boyhood - Winner!
David Zellner - Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter
Best Screenplay
Scott Alexander & Larry Karaszewski - Big Eyes
J.C. Chandor - A Most Violent Year
Dan Gilroy - Nightcrawler - Winner!
Jim Jarmusch - Only Lovers Left Alive
Ira Sachs & Mauricio Zacharias - Love is Strange
Best First Feature (Award given to the director and producer.)
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
Director: Ana Lily Amirpour
Producers: Justin Begnaud, Sina Sayyah
Dear White People
Director/Producer: Justin Simien
Producers: Effie T. Brown,...
Digital Spy rounds up all of the winners from this year's ceremony below:
Best Feature
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) - Winner!
Boyhood
Love is Strange
Selma
Whiplash
Best Director
Damien Chazelle - Whiplash
Ava DuVernay - Selma
Alejandro G. Iñárritu - Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Richard Linklater - Boyhood - Winner!
David Zellner - Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter
Best Screenplay
Scott Alexander & Larry Karaszewski - Big Eyes
J.C. Chandor - A Most Violent Year
Dan Gilroy - Nightcrawler - Winner!
Jim Jarmusch - Only Lovers Left Alive
Ira Sachs & Mauricio Zacharias - Love is Strange
Best First Feature (Award given to the director and producer.)
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
Director: Ana Lily Amirpour
Producers: Justin Begnaud, Sina Sayyah
Dear White People
Director/Producer: Justin Simien
Producers: Effie T. Brown,...
- 2/22/2015
- Digital Spy
The 2015 Spirit Awards were handed out today and it was Birdman taking Best Feature and Best Actor (Michael Keaton) while Boyhood went home a double winner taking Best Director (Richard Linklater) and Best Supporting Actress (Patricia Arquette). However, while that's the result for the two big guns that will be going head-to-head at tomorrow night's Oscars, Nightcrawler was also a double winner taking Best Screenplay and Best First Feature, both awarded to writer/director Dan Gilroy. Otherwise, no big surprises with Julianne Moore (Still Alice) taking Best Actress and J.K. Simmons (Whiplash) taking Supporting Actor, Citizenfour took Best Documentary and Birdman scored a third win for Emmanuel Lubezki for Best Cinematography. Justin Simien (Dear White People) took home Best First Screenplay and, whoa!, Look!, Whiplash was also a double winner, with Tom Cross winning for Best Editing (well deserved!) and anticipated Oscar winner in the same category, Ida won Best Foreign Language Film.
- 2/22/2015
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
The 30th annual Film Independent Spirit Awards were presented Saturday from a tent on the beach in Santa Monica. Check out the full list of winners below. Best Feature "Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)" - Winner "Boyhood" "Love is Strange" "Selma" "Whiplash" Best Director Damien Chazelle, "Whiplash" Ava DuVernay, "Selma" Alejandro G. Iñárritu, "Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)" Richard Linklater, "Boyhood" - Winner David Zellner, "Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter" Best Screenplay Scott Alexander & Larry Karaszewski, "Big Eyes" J.C. Chandor, "A Most Violent Year" Dan Gilroy, "Nightcrawler" - Winner Jim Jarmusch, "Only Lovers Left Alive" Ira Sachs & Mauricio Zacharias, "Love is Strange" Best First Feature Ana Lily Amirpour, "A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night" Justin Simien, "Dear White People" Dan Gilroy, "Nightcrawler" - Winner Gillian Robespierre, "Obvious Child" Anja Marquardt, "She's Lost Control" Best First Screenplay Desiree Akhavan, "Appropriate Behavior" Sara Colangelo, "Little Accidents" Justin Lader,...
- 2/21/2015
- by Kristopher Tapley
- Hitfix
The 30th Independent Spirit Awards was held in Santa Monica Saturday afternoon, and "Birdman" and "Boyhood" were the ceremony's big winners. Hosted by Kristen Bell and Fred Armisen, the more casual Oscar precursor honored the best in independent filmmaking from the past year. Only three films -- "12 Years a Slave," "Platoon," and "The Artist" -- have won best feature at the Spirits and gone on to nab the Best Picture Oscar. Time will tell if this year's Spirit winner will follow in their footsteps. Get a complete list of the nominees with the winners in bold, below:
Best Feature
"Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)" - Winner
"Boyhood"
"Love is Strange"
"Selma"
"Whiplash"
Best Director
Richard Linklater, "Boyhood" - Winner
Damien Chazelle, "Whiplash"
Ava DuVernay, "Selma"
Alejandro G. Iñárritu, "Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)"
David Zellner, "Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter"
Best Screenplay
Dan Gilroy, "Nightcrawler" - Winner
Scott Alexander & Larry Karaszewski,...
Best Feature
"Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)" - Winner
"Boyhood"
"Love is Strange"
"Selma"
"Whiplash"
Best Director
Richard Linklater, "Boyhood" - Winner
Damien Chazelle, "Whiplash"
Ava DuVernay, "Selma"
Alejandro G. Iñárritu, "Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)"
David Zellner, "Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter"
Best Screenplay
Dan Gilroy, "Nightcrawler" - Winner
Scott Alexander & Larry Karaszewski,...
- 2/21/2015
- by Alana Altmann
- Moviefone
Kyle Patrick Alvarez’s The Stanford Prison Experiment has received the Alfred P Sloan Feature Film Prize and a $20,000 cash award as the Sundance Institute announced Science-In-Film honourees.
Jonathan Minard and Scott Rashap earned the Sundance Institute / Sloan Fellowship for Archive while Jon Noble (Tyfus), Cutter Hodierne and John Hibey (Otzi) have been awarded Sundance Institute / Sloan Commissioning Grants presented through Sundance Institute’s Feature Film Program.
The Sundance Institute Science-in-Film Initiative is made possible by a grant from the Alfred P Sloan Foundation.
“Independent film can illustrate the importance and unique application of math, science and technology in our world,” said Sundance Institute executive director Keri Putnam. “The Sundance Institute Science-in-Film Initiative, with critical support from the Alfred P Sloan Foundation, is a great way to encourage production of thoughtful work surrounding these imperative topics which make a lasting impact on audiences.”
Doron Weber, vp of programmes at the Alfred P Sloan Foundation, said: “We are...
Jonathan Minard and Scott Rashap earned the Sundance Institute / Sloan Fellowship for Archive while Jon Noble (Tyfus), Cutter Hodierne and John Hibey (Otzi) have been awarded Sundance Institute / Sloan Commissioning Grants presented through Sundance Institute’s Feature Film Program.
The Sundance Institute Science-in-Film Initiative is made possible by a grant from the Alfred P Sloan Foundation.
“Independent film can illustrate the importance and unique application of math, science and technology in our world,” said Sundance Institute executive director Keri Putnam. “The Sundance Institute Science-in-Film Initiative, with critical support from the Alfred P Sloan Foundation, is a great way to encourage production of thoughtful work surrounding these imperative topics which make a lasting impact on audiences.”
Doron Weber, vp of programmes at the Alfred P Sloan Foundation, said: “We are...
- 2/3/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
With modern culture’s values continuously changing, as people are always adopting to new advances in such areas as technology, politics and healthcare, society often becomes less appreciative of the long-forgotten industries that are still essential to maintaining the lifestyle everyone is accustomed to throughout the country. Such is the case with the all-American lifestyle of the coal mining communities throughout Appalachia, whose citizens all depend on the once-thriving industry, no matter what type of job they perform with their local company. First-time feature film writer-director Sara Colangelo created an intensely emotional and relatable story about the continuing struggles of the country’s remaining coal mining communities in her new independent drama, [ Read More ]
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- 1/24/2015
- by Karen Benardello
- ShockYa
She's worked on some of the most acclaimed indies in recent years, including previous Sundance features "Little Accidents" for director Sara Colangelo and Ryan Coogler's "Fruitvale Station," which won the coveted Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award in 2013. Morrison also lensed director Daniel Barnz’s "Cake" starring Jennifer Aniston, which premiered at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival. This year she's back at Sundance with "Dope," the modern-day coming-of-age story from Rick Ramuyiwa and the opening-night film, Liz Garbus' "What Happened, Miss Simone?," on which she shares Dp credit with Igor Martinovic and Ronan Killeen. You were one of three DPs on "Miss Simone." How did that work? I had my own task on that one, which was exciting. I was tasked with shooting 16-mm film interpretations of Nina [Simone]'s childhood. So my job wasn't a very typical documentary aesthetic. I wasn't...
- 1/23/2015
- by Paula Bernstein
- Indiewire
There was a time when the only place to see new movies was in theaters — I know, it sounds like science fiction, but it’s true — but the brave new world we find ourselves in has made it possible to experience brand new releases in a myriad of ways. One of the increasingly more common methods of mainlining cinema these days is via VOD, and while some smaller films manage limited theatrical releases a growing number are premiering on demand. This week’s small releases include four dramas of varying content and effect. Still Life follows a man whose job it is to find friends for the recently departed. Little Accidents examines the weight of guilt on several characters in a small, tragedy-prone town. The Phoenix Project finds four scientists on the verge of conquering death. And finally, Three Night Stand asks us to identify with a poor guy stuck between Meaghan Rath and Emmanuelle Chriqui. Still Life...
- 1/18/2015
- by Rob Hunter
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Sound On Sight Podcast, #400: Final Episode featuring ‘Inherent Vice’ and the Top 10 Movies of 2014 with guests Adam Nayman and Kate Rennebohm
This is it, folks. After 400(!) episodes, Ricky and Simon decided to wrap up the Sound on Sight podcast. To send it off in style, they take a look back at the very best films of 2014, with some help from a variety of former guest- and co-hosts. Smack dab in the middle, with the help of special guests Kate Rennebohm and Adam Nayman, they go deep on Paul Thomas Anderson’s Inherent Vice, the biggest missing piece in their 2014 moviegoing. It’s a nearly three-hour blowout, because it didn’t seem right to go out small. Cheers!
P.T. Anderson Week Spotlight Red States and Blue States: Anderson’s Punch-Drunk Love and an Ode to Godard The Case against Paul Thomas Anderson ‘Inherent Vice’ a narcotic vision that demands...
This is it, folks. After 400(!) episodes, Ricky and Simon decided to wrap up the Sound on Sight podcast. To send it off in style, they take a look back at the very best films of 2014, with some help from a variety of former guest- and co-hosts. Smack dab in the middle, with the help of special guests Kate Rennebohm and Adam Nayman, they go deep on Paul Thomas Anderson’s Inherent Vice, the biggest missing piece in their 2014 moviegoing. It’s a nearly three-hour blowout, because it didn’t seem right to go out small. Cheers!
P.T. Anderson Week Spotlight Red States and Blue States: Anderson’s Punch-Drunk Love and an Ode to Godard The Case against Paul Thomas Anderson ‘Inherent Vice’ a narcotic vision that demands...
- 1/18/2015
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
Little Accidents director Sara Colangelo with Anne-Katrin Titze on casting Elizabeth Banks: "I had seen her in W and I loved her in the role of Laura Bush." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
On a bitterly cold evening following a sold out opening night screening in New York at Cinema Village's #1 theater of Sara Colangelo's smartly woven Little Accidents, starring Elizabeth Banks, Boyd Holbrook, Jacob Lofland, Josh Lucas, Chloë Sevigny with Beau Wright, Alexia Rasmussen and James DeForest Parker, I spoke with the director and producers Anne Carey and Summer Shelton and the enthusiastic audience joined in.
Jacob Lofland as Owen: "In the case of Owen's storyline, you might feel the horror of it more standing back."
As we were waiting for the screening to conclude, Sara mentioned to me Mike Nichols' Silkwood, Atom Egoyan's The Sweet Hereafter and John Ford's How Green Was My Valley as inspirations.
On a bitterly cold evening following a sold out opening night screening in New York at Cinema Village's #1 theater of Sara Colangelo's smartly woven Little Accidents, starring Elizabeth Banks, Boyd Holbrook, Jacob Lofland, Josh Lucas, Chloë Sevigny with Beau Wright, Alexia Rasmussen and James DeForest Parker, I spoke with the director and producers Anne Carey and Summer Shelton and the enthusiastic audience joined in.
Jacob Lofland as Owen: "In the case of Owen's storyline, you might feel the horror of it more standing back."
As we were waiting for the screening to conclude, Sara mentioned to me Mike Nichols' Silkwood, Atom Egoyan's The Sweet Hereafter and John Ford's How Green Was My Valley as inspirations.
- 1/17/2015
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Written and directed by Sara Colangelo, "Little Accidents" had its premiere at Sundance almost a year ago to date. Today, just a week ahead of Sundance 2015, it hits theaters and VOD. It's a soft, but powerful film about a West Virginian town that must deal with the aftermath of both a coal mining accident and a child's disappearance, leaving its locals to pick up the pieces in order to move forward. "There is a postpartum blues that sets in when you finish your first feature," Colangelo, who just last week was nominated for a Spirit Award for best first screenplay, told Indiewire. There is always a lot more than meets the eye when making films, and the Sundance-to-big screen path for an indie film is no exception. The people that came together to support Colangelo carried with them a salt of the earth attitude that meshed well with her vision for this story.
- 1/16/2015
- by Valentina I. Valentini
- Indiewire
[Editor's Note: This post is presented in partnership with Time Warner Cable Movies On Demand in support of Indie Film Month. Today's pick, "Little Accidents," is available now On Demand. Here is an exclusive clip from the film.] "Little Accidents" stars Elizabeth Banks as the mother of a young boy who goes missing in a small town already devastated by a tragic mining accident. She finds herself drifting away from her husband (Josh Lucas), a mining executive, and toward the sole survivor of the disaster (Boyd Holbrook). "Little Accidents" was written and directed by Sara Colangeno and played at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival. In the clip below, Banks discusses friendship and popularity with a young boy who might know something about her missing son: Indiewire has partnered with Time Warner Cable Movies On Demand for January's Indie Film Month. Enjoy exceptionally creative and uniquely entertaining new Indie releases ("Boyhood,"...
- 1/16/2015
- by Elizabeth Logan
- Indiewire
Casualties of Class War: Colangelo’s Well Performed, Soporific Debut
The directorial debut of Sara Colangelo, Little Accidents, finds a filmmaker afforded the possibility to expand an intriguing short film into a feature length endeavor only to end up with a curiously hollow, naggingly underwhelming result. That’s not to say this is generally the case or to place this title within any sort of overarching trend in American independent cinema, but short film formatting doesn’t always allow or necessitate for more in depth analysis. Featuring several performances worth lauding, Colangelo’s script congeals into a mush of predictable beats and rhythms once it establishes the zenith of its dramatic tension early on, meant to catalyze a series of intersecting ripples careening throughout the numbed lives of its rural denizens, where the haves and have-nots are equally hardnosed, everyone equipped with blinders as to the needs, thoughts, or feelings of their fellow citizens.
The directorial debut of Sara Colangelo, Little Accidents, finds a filmmaker afforded the possibility to expand an intriguing short film into a feature length endeavor only to end up with a curiously hollow, naggingly underwhelming result. That’s not to say this is generally the case or to place this title within any sort of overarching trend in American independent cinema, but short film formatting doesn’t always allow or necessitate for more in depth analysis. Featuring several performances worth lauding, Colangelo’s script congeals into a mush of predictable beats and rhythms once it establishes the zenith of its dramatic tension early on, meant to catalyze a series of intersecting ripples careening throughout the numbed lives of its rural denizens, where the haves and have-nots are equally hardnosed, everyone equipped with blinders as to the needs, thoughts, or feelings of their fellow citizens.
- 1/16/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
“There has always been a part of me as a filmmaker that wants to pull back the curtain and explore the inner-workings of industry, and look at what’s really going on behind the scenes”
The feature debut of writer-director Sara Colangelo, Little Accidents is an intense small town drama that premiered to positive notices at the 2014 installment of the Sundance Film Festival, and is now seeing a release one year on. Starring Elizabeth Banks, Boyd Holbrook, Jacob Lofland, Josh Lucas and Chloë Sevigny, it concerns several players in a town recently devastated by a fatal mining accident. There’s Amos (Holbrook), the sole survivor of the accident that killed ten of his colleagues; Owen (Lofland), whose father was one of those who perished; Bill (Lucas), a mining company executive whose role in the accident has made his family a target of contempt for the town’s anger and sorrow...
The feature debut of writer-director Sara Colangelo, Little Accidents is an intense small town drama that premiered to positive notices at the 2014 installment of the Sundance Film Festival, and is now seeing a release one year on. Starring Elizabeth Banks, Boyd Holbrook, Jacob Lofland, Josh Lucas and Chloë Sevigny, it concerns several players in a town recently devastated by a fatal mining accident. There’s Amos (Holbrook), the sole survivor of the accident that killed ten of his colleagues; Owen (Lofland), whose father was one of those who perished; Bill (Lucas), a mining company executive whose role in the accident has made his family a target of contempt for the town’s anger and sorrow...
- 1/16/2015
- by Josh Slater-Williams
- SoundOnSight
Sara Colangelo arrived at 2010’s Sundance film festival with a short entitled Little Accidents. In 2014, she was back in Park City for the world premiere of a feature of the same name. Although the title hadn’t changed, the characters and story were quite different. Featuring a terrific ensemble, including under-the-radar talents Boyd Holbrook and Jacob Lofland, as well as Elizabeth Banks, Josh Lucas and Chloe Sevigny, the film earned strong reviews.
Featuring a showcase of fantastic performances, the drama is finally coming out in theaters on January 16th. Colangelo, whose short of the same name won various awards on the festival circuit, is also earning major buzz. Despite the film’s low profile, she earned an Independent Spirit award nomination for the debut screenplay, and will compete against the likes of Dear White People’s Justin Simien and The One I Love’s Justin Lader, among others.
Recently, I...
Featuring a showcase of fantastic performances, the drama is finally coming out in theaters on January 16th. Colangelo, whose short of the same name won various awards on the festival circuit, is also earning major buzz. Despite the film’s low profile, she earned an Independent Spirit award nomination for the debut screenplay, and will compete against the likes of Dear White People’s Justin Simien and The One I Love’s Justin Lader, among others.
Recently, I...
- 1/15/2015
- by Jordan Adler
- We Got This Covered
Elizabeth Banks and Boyd Holbrook are seriously sexy together. Just take a look at the two exclusive clips we have of the two of them from their new indie drama Little Accidents (available on VOD tomorrow). The Pitch Perfect star plays a woman whose son suddenly disappears at the same time her husband (Josh Lucas) is being blamed for a fatal coal mining accident. Banks begins an affair with Amos, the only survivor of the tragedy (Holbrook). One clip shows Banks and a shirtless Holbrook (hot!) talking in bed about his upcoming testimony before authorities investigating the tragedy. "If you know what happened in that mine, you should saying something, Amos," Banks says. In...
- 1/15/2015
- E! Online
This weekend, Kevin Hart is hired to play Josh Gad's best man in "The Wedding Ringer" (check out the hilarious Unscripted episode!), Julianne Moore plays a renowned linguistics professor diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's opposite Kristen Stewart in "Still Alice," the second season of British crime drama "The Fall," starring Gillian Anderson and Jamie Dornan, arrives on Netflix this Friday, and the new series "12 Monkeys," adapted from Terry Gilliam's 1995 time-travel thriller, comes to Syfy Friday at 9 p.m. Et.
Also in theaters this weekend: Directed by Michael Mann, "Blackhat" stars Chris Hemsworth as a convicted hacker working side by side with the FBI to hunt down a high-level cybercrime network. In "Paddington," a young Peruvian bear travels to London in search of a home and is temporarily taken in by the kindly Brown family. "Spare Parts" stars George Lopez, Jamie Lee Curtis, and more in the story of four...
Also in theaters this weekend: Directed by Michael Mann, "Blackhat" stars Chris Hemsworth as a convicted hacker working side by side with the FBI to hunt down a high-level cybercrime network. In "Paddington," a young Peruvian bear travels to London in search of a home and is temporarily taken in by the kindly Brown family. "Spare Parts" stars George Lopez, Jamie Lee Curtis, and more in the story of four...
- 1/15/2015
- by Jonny Black
- Moviefone
In a blue-collar, West Virginia town, a mining accident kills 10 workers in the dusty pits and leaves several members of its community coughing up grief and despair. The townsfolk, frustrated and starting to point their fingers at the hasty corporate management, all have to grapple with the tragedy and try to restore feelings of normalcy. The set-up for Little Accidents, the debut feature for writer/director Sara Colangelo, hints at building a tense conflict between the various residents altered by the event. However, despite terrific work from a good ensemble of character actors, the film never achieves either the complexity or the rising tension its premise promises.
What does work is the drama’s specificity. Colangelo shot the film in a West Virginia mining town and even used a coal mine as a major set. (Several shots of the mine show big piles of ash covering up a hole, an...
What does work is the drama’s specificity. Colangelo shot the film in a West Virginia mining town and even used a coal mine as a major set. (Several shots of the mine show big piles of ash covering up a hole, an...
- 1/15/2015
- by Jordan Adler
- We Got This Covered
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