The Marrakech International Film Festival has unveiled the 10 cinema figures who will participate in its In Conversation With program at its 20th edition running from November 24 to December 2.
They comprise Australian actor Simon Baker, French director Bertrand Bonello, U.S. actor Willem Dafoe, Indian filmmaker and producer Anurag Kashyap; Japanese director Naomi Kawase; Danish-u.S. actor and director Viggo Mortensen; U.K. actor Tilda Swinton; and Russian director and screenwriter Andrey Zvyagintsev.
Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen and Moroccan director Faouzi Bensaïdi, who will receive the festival’s honorary Étoile d’or prize this year, will also participate in the program.
Baker’s was seen most recently in Toronto title Limbo and Tribeca 2022 selection Blaze, with early features including L.A. Confidential (1997), David Frankel’s The Devil Wears Prada (2006), and J. C. Chandor’s Margin Call (2011), followed by hit series The Mentalist (2008–2015).
Bensaïdi’s first feature A Thousand Months world premiered...
They comprise Australian actor Simon Baker, French director Bertrand Bonello, U.S. actor Willem Dafoe, Indian filmmaker and producer Anurag Kashyap; Japanese director Naomi Kawase; Danish-u.S. actor and director Viggo Mortensen; U.K. actor Tilda Swinton; and Russian director and screenwriter Andrey Zvyagintsev.
Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen and Moroccan director Faouzi Bensaïdi, who will receive the festival’s honorary Étoile d’or prize this year, will also participate in the program.
Baker’s was seen most recently in Toronto title Limbo and Tribeca 2022 selection Blaze, with early features including L.A. Confidential (1997), David Frankel’s The Devil Wears Prada (2006), and J. C. Chandor’s Margin Call (2011), followed by hit series The Mentalist (2008–2015).
Bensaïdi’s first feature A Thousand Months world premiered...
- 11/7/2023
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Great Absence, the second feature film from Japanese director Kei Chika-ura, is receiving its world premiere in Toronto International Film Festival’s Platform section.
Inspired by Kei’s real-life experiences, the film tells the story of an actor living in Tokyo who is forced to travel home when the police call to say his father is suffering from dementia and has lost touch with reality. Making matters worse, his father’s second wife appears to be missing.
The actor makes the trip home with his own wife, full of conflicted emotions over a man who left the family when he was still a child, and starts an exploration into the mysteries of his father’s life. Along the way, the film touches on themes including time and memory, familial obligation and the role that women play in male-dominated Japanese society.
Veteran actor Tatsuya Fuji (In The Realm Of The Senses) plays the father,...
Inspired by Kei’s real-life experiences, the film tells the story of an actor living in Tokyo who is forced to travel home when the police call to say his father is suffering from dementia and has lost touch with reality. Making matters worse, his father’s second wife appears to be missing.
The actor makes the trip home with his own wife, full of conflicted emotions over a man who left the family when he was still a child, and starts an exploration into the mysteries of his father’s life. Along the way, the film touches on themes including time and memory, familial obligation and the role that women play in male-dominated Japanese society.
Veteran actor Tatsuya Fuji (In The Realm Of The Senses) plays the father,...
- 9/8/2023
- by Liz Shackleton
- Deadline Film + TV
‘Japan is known for having very beautiful seasons. Every day, as we live, we are influenced so much by them – the change of the season, the air, the temperature, the wind, or the smell of the wind. Those are things that inspires us.’
It’s clear that nature is something that is very much at the heart of Akira Kosemura, both the man and the music that he makes. His is a natural talent, born of a fascination with film music, storytelling and a curiosity about the sounds of the world around us. That all shines through in Seasons, but the seeds have been sewn by the musician and composer over the last 15 years and a blossoming career that seemingly grew out of nowhere. Or should that be somewhere?
Tokyo is home for Kosemura, it’s where he was born, and it continues to play an important role in shaping his identity as a composer.
It’s clear that nature is something that is very much at the heart of Akira Kosemura, both the man and the music that he makes. His is a natural talent, born of a fascination with film music, storytelling and a curiosity about the sounds of the world around us. That all shines through in Seasons, but the seeds have been sewn by the musician and composer over the last 15 years and a blossoming career that seemingly grew out of nowhere. Or should that be somewhere?
Tokyo is home for Kosemura, it’s where he was born, and it continues to play an important role in shaping his identity as a composer.
- 6/18/2023
- by Music Martin Cid Magazine
- Martin Cid Music
On the heels of Naomi Kawase’s 2014 feature Still the Water getting distribution in North America from Film Movement, the distributor has now announced the Japanese director’s 2017 drama Radiance will get a release at the end of this month. Following a world premiere in competition at Cannes where it received the Ecumenical Jury Prize, we’re pleased to exclusively premiere the new U.S. trailer ahead of its April 28 debut.
Here’s the synopsis: “Misako (Ayame Misaki) is a writer of audio descriptions of films for the visually impaired. At a screening, she meets Nakamori (Masatoshi Nagase), an older photographer who is slowly losing his eyesight following an illness. Misako soon discovers Nakamori’s photographs, which will strangely bring her back to her past. Though hesitant to start a relationship, feelings soon arise between a man who has lost the light and a woman who pursues it.”
Kawase, whose...
Here’s the synopsis: “Misako (Ayame Misaki) is a writer of audio descriptions of films for the visually impaired. At a screening, she meets Nakamori (Masatoshi Nagase), an older photographer who is slowly losing his eyesight following an illness. Misako soon discovers Nakamori’s photographs, which will strangely bring her back to her past. Though hesitant to start a relationship, feelings soon arise between a man who has lost the light and a woman who pursues it.”
Kawase, whose...
- 4/6/2023
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
“Before Now & Then,” a period drama film about Indonesian women battling the traumas of war and patriarchal society, has been picked up for North American distribution by Film Movement. The film is directed by Kamila Andini.
The film had its premiere earlier this year at the Berlin festival, where it was rewarded with a Silver Bear for Laura Basuki’s supporting performance. It also recently captured the jury prize at the Brussels International Film Festival.
Film Movement plans a theatrical release in the first quarter of 2023, followed by a wide release on home entertainment and digital platforms.
Rights sales are handled by Wild Bunch International and CAA Media Finance.
The film is set in the late 1960s, where Nana (played by Happy Salma) cannot escape her past. Poverty-stricken, having lost her family to the war in West Java, she marries again and begins a new life. Her new husband is wealthy,...
The film had its premiere earlier this year at the Berlin festival, where it was rewarded with a Silver Bear for Laura Basuki’s supporting performance. It also recently captured the jury prize at the Brussels International Film Festival.
Film Movement plans a theatrical release in the first quarter of 2023, followed by a wide release on home entertainment and digital platforms.
Rights sales are handled by Wild Bunch International and CAA Media Finance.
The film is set in the late 1960s, where Nana (played by Happy Salma) cannot escape her past. Poverty-stricken, having lost her family to the war in West Java, she marries again and begins a new life. Her new husband is wealthy,...
- 8/9/2022
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
The director was recently in Cannes with ’Tokyo 2020 Side A’.
Award-winning Japanese director Naomi Kawase has been accused of bullying her staff and assaulting a member of her film crew.
The leading auteur is alleged to have kicked an assistant director in the stomach on the set of True Mothers in May 2019 after he touched Kawase to highlight an issue with a shot. Director of photography Yuta Tsukinaga and the entire cinematography team left the shoot in the wake of the incident.
The accusation was reported in weekly magazine Shukan Bunshun in late April, which led to the publication of...
Award-winning Japanese director Naomi Kawase has been accused of bullying her staff and assaulting a member of her film crew.
The leading auteur is alleged to have kicked an assistant director in the stomach on the set of True Mothers in May 2019 after he touched Kawase to highlight an issue with a shot. Director of photography Yuta Tsukinaga and the entire cinematography team left the shoot in the wake of the incident.
The accusation was reported in weekly magazine Shukan Bunshun in late April, which led to the publication of...
- 6/8/2022
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
Naomi Kawase, Japan’s best-known female film director, has been accused of bullying her company staff and assaulting a member of her film crew.
In late April, Bunshun Online, the website of a leading weekly tabloid, published an interview with a former male staffer of Kawase’s production company Kumie. He stated that Kawase had punched him in the face in the company office in October of 2015. Kawase allegedly continued her assault against the staffer, leaving him facially bruised, as other staff members fled the scene. He quit the company that day.
On April 28, Kawase and the anonymous staffer issued a joint statement on Kumie’s site, saying that “The parties involved have already reached a resolution regarding the incident.”
Earlier, a vernacular magazine reported that, in 2019, while on the set of her film “True Mothers,” Kawase kicked a male assistant cameraman, after he touched her while she was looking through the camera.
In late April, Bunshun Online, the website of a leading weekly tabloid, published an interview with a former male staffer of Kawase’s production company Kumie. He stated that Kawase had punched him in the face in the company office in October of 2015. Kawase allegedly continued her assault against the staffer, leaving him facially bruised, as other staff members fled the scene. He quit the company that day.
On April 28, Kawase and the anonymous staffer issued a joint statement on Kumie’s site, saying that “The parties involved have already reached a resolution regarding the incident.”
Earlier, a vernacular magazine reported that, in 2019, while on the set of her film “True Mothers,” Kawase kicked a male assistant cameraman, after he touched her while she was looking through the camera.
- 6/7/2022
- by Mark Schilling
- Variety Film + TV
Japanese director Naomi Kawase has been accused of violence against staff members.
Allegations against Kawase date back to 2015, with numerous reports of her violently assaulting employees and crew members on various sets. The Hollywood Reporter first reported the accusations stateside.
Kawase’s most recent film “Tokyo 2020 Side A” premiered at Cannes and was commissioned for last year’s Summer Olympics.
Tokyo-based weekly magazine and scoop factory Shukan Bunshun originally reported in October 2015 that Kawase attacked a staff member at her production company Kumie. She reportedly punched a male employee, knocking him to the ground, and continued to beat him while other staff members fled the office. The employee’s face was visibly swollen after the assault and resigned immediately after the altercation.
Then, on the set of Kawase’s “True Mothers” in May 2019, an assistant director touched Kawase to say there was an issue with a shot. Kawase according to reports yelled,...
Allegations against Kawase date back to 2015, with numerous reports of her violently assaulting employees and crew members on various sets. The Hollywood Reporter first reported the accusations stateside.
Kawase’s most recent film “Tokyo 2020 Side A” premiered at Cannes and was commissioned for last year’s Summer Olympics.
Tokyo-based weekly magazine and scoop factory Shukan Bunshun originally reported in October 2015 that Kawase attacked a staff member at her production company Kumie. She reportedly punched a male employee, knocking him to the ground, and continued to beat him while other staff members fled the office. The employee’s face was visibly swollen after the assault and resigned immediately after the altercation.
Then, on the set of Kawase’s “True Mothers” in May 2019, an assistant director touched Kawase to say there was an issue with a shot. Kawase according to reports yelled,...
- 6/7/2022
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
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Japanese auteur and Cannes favorite Naomi Kawase has been accused of violent behavior towards her staff and crew, including an assault that left an employee’s face swollen.
In May 2019 on the set of True Mothers, an assistant director touched Kawase to point out there was an issue with a shot. Though there is no suggestion that the contact was inappropriate, Kawase reportedly shouted “What do you think you are doing?” at the assistant director and kicked him in the stomach.
The entire cinematography team, led by Yuta Tsukinaga, resigned from the shoot following the incident. After the Tokyo-based weekly magazine and scoop factory Shukan Bunshun broke the story, Kawase said on her company’s website that the matter had been settled internally.
However, the magazine then wrote about an incident in October 2015, when Kawase reportedly assaulted a staff member at her production...
Japanese auteur and Cannes favorite Naomi Kawase has been accused of violent behavior towards her staff and crew, including an assault that left an employee’s face swollen.
In May 2019 on the set of True Mothers, an assistant director touched Kawase to point out there was an issue with a shot. Though there is no suggestion that the contact was inappropriate, Kawase reportedly shouted “What do you think you are doing?” at the assistant director and kicked him in the stomach.
The entire cinematography team, led by Yuta Tsukinaga, resigned from the shoot following the incident. After the Tokyo-based weekly magazine and scoop factory Shukan Bunshun broke the story, Kawase said on her company’s website that the matter had been settled internally.
However, the magazine then wrote about an incident in October 2015, when Kawase reportedly assaulted a staff member at her production...
- 6/7/2022
- by Gavin J Blair
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Neon, the Oscar-winning studio behind “Parasite,” has acquired U.S. rights to “Mothers’ Instinct,” a psychological thriller starring Jessica Chastain and Anne Hathaway. It’s a pretty acclaimed group. Both actresses have Oscars of their own — Hathaway won her’s for “Les Miserables” and Chastain is a newly minted victor for her performance in last year’s “The Eyes of Tammy Faye.”
“Mothers,” which is fully financed by Anton, is a remake of the 2018 critically acclaimed Belgium film “Duelles” by director Olivier Masset-Depasse. It will begin principal photography on May 25. The project has been in the works for some time. Sales were originally launched at AFM in 2020.
Masset-Depasse will direct the English-language remake of his film. Hathaway and Chastain will serve as producers on the film. Chastain’s partner Kelly Carmichael will also produce under the pair’s Freckle Films banner.
Here’s the official logline: “Set in the early ‘60s,...
“Mothers,” which is fully financed by Anton, is a remake of the 2018 critically acclaimed Belgium film “Duelles” by director Olivier Masset-Depasse. It will begin principal photography on May 25. The project has been in the works for some time. Sales were originally launched at AFM in 2020.
Masset-Depasse will direct the English-language remake of his film. Hathaway and Chastain will serve as producers on the film. Chastain’s partner Kelly Carmichael will also produce under the pair’s Freckle Films banner.
Here’s the official logline: “Set in the early ‘60s,...
- 5/11/2022
- by Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
This Mother's Day weekend, Christina Perri is celebrating with the gift of music. On May 6, the 35-year-old released a new song. Plus, she officially announced her highly anticipated upcoming album, A Lighter Shade of Blue. Titled "Mothers," the track features Christina's 3-year-old daughter Carmella, as well as an important message for old and new fans alike. "I wrote this song with my dear friend Amy Wadge as a bit of a love letter to moms having a hard time," Christina exclusively shared with E! News. "I was one of those moms when I had my daughter, Carmella. There are so many things you can't prepare for and your heart feels like it breaks over and...
- 5/6/2022
- E! Online
Update GLAAD, the world’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) media advocacy organization, today announced that it will honor award-winning actor, producer, and activist Wilson Cruz with the Vito Russo Award during the 33rd Annual GLAAD Media Awards at the Hilton Midtown in New York on Friday, May 6, 2022.
As previously announced, Emmy and Tony winner Judith Light will be honored with the Excellence in Media Award at the 33rd annual GLAAD Media Awards.
Previous Saved by the Bell, Eternals, and Hacks are among the honorees feted at the 33rd Annual GLAAD Media Awards held in Los Angeles on Saturday.
Special awards also went to Pose star Michaela Jaé Rodriguez, who received the Stephen F. Kolzak Award from Andrew Garfield, and Kacey Musgraves was honored with the Vanguard Award.
The celebration was hosted by Bob the Drag Queen, Eureka O’ Hara, and D.J. “Shangela” Pierce from Emmy...
As previously announced, Emmy and Tony winner Judith Light will be honored with the Excellence in Media Award at the 33rd annual GLAAD Media Awards.
Previous Saved by the Bell, Eternals, and Hacks are among the honorees feted at the 33rd Annual GLAAD Media Awards held in Los Angeles on Saturday.
Special awards also went to Pose star Michaela Jaé Rodriguez, who received the Stephen F. Kolzak Award from Andrew Garfield, and Kacey Musgraves was honored with the Vanguard Award.
The celebration was hosted by Bob the Drag Queen, Eureka O’ Hara, and D.J. “Shangela” Pierce from Emmy...
- 4/27/2022
- by Rosy Cordero
- Deadline Film + TV
May on the Criterion Channel will be good to the auteurs. In fact they’re giving Richard Linklater better treatment than the distributor of his last film, with a 13-title retrospective mixing usual suspects—the Before trilogy, Boyhood, Slacker—with some truly off the beaten track. There’s a few shorts I haven’t seen but most intriguing is Heads I Win/Tails You Lose, the only available description of which calls it a four-hour (!) piece “edited together by Richard Linklater in 1991 from film countdowns and tail leaders from films submitted to the Austin Film Society in Austin, Texas from 1987 to 1990. It is Linklater’s tribute to the film countdown, used by many projectionists over the years to cue one reel of film after another when switching to another reel on another projector during projection.” Pair that with 2008’s Inning by Inning: A Portrait of a Coach and your completionism will be on-track.
- 4/21/2022
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
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- 3/28/2022
- MUBI
The ceremony starts at 5pm Pt/8pm Et (1am Monday morning UK time) and is expected to run for three hours.
The 94th Academy Awards takes place this evening (March 27) and returns to Dolby Theatre in Hollywood under tight Covid protocols.
The ceremony starts at 5pm Pt/8pm Et (1am Monday morning UK time) and is expected to run for three hours. It will be broadcast live on ABC.
Regina Hall, Amy Schumer and Wanda Sykes are co-hosting the event, which marks the first time in four years since a host graced the stage and brings to a close a...
The 94th Academy Awards takes place this evening (March 27) and returns to Dolby Theatre in Hollywood under tight Covid protocols.
The ceremony starts at 5pm Pt/8pm Et (1am Monday morning UK time) and is expected to run for three hours. It will be broadcast live on ABC.
Regina Hall, Amy Schumer and Wanda Sykes are co-hosting the event, which marks the first time in four years since a host graced the stage and brings to a close a...
- 3/27/2022
- by John Hazelton
- ScreenDaily
Penelope Cruz (“Parallel Mothers”) is not out of the Best Actress Oscar race, as many awards pundits may think. In the days leading up to the Academy Awards ceremony, many doubts start to fester in people’s minds about who will actually win in the divided categories. With all of the information now available (including anonymous Oscar ballots and the precursor awards), combined with a gut feeling of what will happen on Sunday night, many will change their predictions and potentially turn everything upside-down. That will be the case for me in the Best Actress category. Here are five reasons why I predict Penelope Cruz will win the Oscar for “Parallel Mothers.”
1. She leads the anonymous ballots by a lot.
While only representing a small portion of the academy, the anonymous ballots published around the web, including by Gold Derby’s Chris Beachum, have given us a sneak peek of...
1. She leads the anonymous ballots by a lot.
While only representing a small portion of the academy, the anonymous ballots published around the web, including by Gold Derby’s Chris Beachum, have given us a sneak peek of...
- 3/25/2022
- by Christopher Tsang
- Gold Derby
Composer Alberto Iglesias returns to the Oscars for a fourth time and his fourth Original Score nomination with Parallel Mothers.
But this nom is more special than usual: This year’s marks the composer’s first with his longtime collaborator, Oscar winner Pedro Almodóvar. Their partnership began back in 1995 with The Flower of My Secret and has spanned 13 film projects.
Iglesias joined Deadline’s Crew Call podcast to discuss his sonic approach to the Penélope Cruz-Milena Smit switched-at-birth drama, his early roots with Almodóvar, and the recent Oscar controversy that is leaving his Score category out of the live telecast.
Iglesias’ previous original score Oscar nominations include 2006’s The Constant Gardner, 2008’s The Kite Runner, and 2012’s Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.
Listen to our conversation below:
Subscribe to the Crew Call podcast: Apple Podcasts, Spotify...
But this nom is more special than usual: This year’s marks the composer’s first with his longtime collaborator, Oscar winner Pedro Almodóvar. Their partnership began back in 1995 with The Flower of My Secret and has spanned 13 film projects.
Iglesias joined Deadline’s Crew Call podcast to discuss his sonic approach to the Penélope Cruz-Milena Smit switched-at-birth drama, his early roots with Almodóvar, and the recent Oscar controversy that is leaving his Score category out of the live telecast.
Iglesias’ previous original score Oscar nominations include 2006’s The Constant Gardner, 2008’s The Kite Runner, and 2012’s Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.
Listen to our conversation below:
Subscribe to the Crew Call podcast: Apple Podcasts, Spotify...
- 3/10/2022
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
The Society of Composers & Lyricists announced the winners of its 3rd Annual Scl Awards this evening at The Skirball Cultural Center. The event, which was hosted by rapper Aloe Blacc, recognizes composers and songwriters in all visual media.
Oscar-nominated siblings Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell accepted their award virtually for Outstanding Original Song for a Drama/Documentary for the theme from No Time To Die.
Outstanding Original Song for a Musical/Comedy went to “Just Look up”, co-written by Nicholas Britell, Taura Stinson, Ariana Grande and Scott “Kid Cudi” Mescudi, from Adam McKay’s Don’t Look Up.
Germaine Franco, also nominated for an Oscar this year and the first woman to score an animated feature film for Disney, won in the category of Outstanding Original Score for a Studio film for Encanto, while Daniel Hart was awarded in the Outstanding Original Score for an Independent Film category for A24’s The Green Knight.
Oscar-nominated siblings Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell accepted their award virtually for Outstanding Original Song for a Drama/Documentary for the theme from No Time To Die.
Outstanding Original Song for a Musical/Comedy went to “Just Look up”, co-written by Nicholas Britell, Taura Stinson, Ariana Grande and Scott “Kid Cudi” Mescudi, from Adam McKay’s Don’t Look Up.
Germaine Franco, also nominated for an Oscar this year and the first woman to score an animated feature film for Disney, won in the category of Outstanding Original Score for a Studio film for Encanto, while Daniel Hart was awarded in the Outstanding Original Score for an Independent Film category for A24’s The Green Knight.
- 3/9/2022
- by Tom Tapp
- Deadline Film + TV
The Brazilian Filmmakers Collective will launch formally on February 16 at the Berlin Film Festival’s European Film Market.
Formed by a dozen Brazilian filmmakers, and counting such acclaimed directors Ramin Bahrani (Netflix’s The White Tiger) and Fernando Meirelles (City of God) on the creative advisory board, the collective was created last year as a hub for Brazilian filmmakers working abroad to share resources, opportunities and promote creative enrichment.
The group’s directorial work has premiered at film festivals around the world including Toronto, Venice, Sundance, SXSW, New York and more. Members are at similar stages in their careers: they have each premiered their first or second feature films at A-list festivals or are working on their first feature projects with the support of competitive A-list fellowships such as the Torino Screenwriting Lab, TIFF Filmmaker Lab, Sundance Labs, Tribeca Institute Fellowships, Sffilm Residencies, Hola Mexico, and more.
Despite the differences in approach and styles,...
Formed by a dozen Brazilian filmmakers, and counting such acclaimed directors Ramin Bahrani (Netflix’s The White Tiger) and Fernando Meirelles (City of God) on the creative advisory board, the collective was created last year as a hub for Brazilian filmmakers working abroad to share resources, opportunities and promote creative enrichment.
The group’s directorial work has premiered at film festivals around the world including Toronto, Venice, Sundance, SXSW, New York and more. Members are at similar stages in their careers: they have each premiered their first or second feature films at A-list festivals or are working on their first feature projects with the support of competitive A-list fellowships such as the Torino Screenwriting Lab, TIFF Filmmaker Lab, Sundance Labs, Tribeca Institute Fellowships, Sffilm Residencies, Hola Mexico, and more.
Despite the differences in approach and styles,...
- 2/9/2022
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Dario Argento is back, baby. The Italian "Master of Horror" has a decades-spanning career in the horror genre, enjoying especially great notoriety in the 1970s and '80s with his visually striking and exquisitely violent giallo films. From the Animal Trilogy — "The Bird with the Crystal Plumage" (1970), "The Cat o' Nine Tails" (1971), and "Four Flies on Grey Velvet" (1971) — to his Three Mothers Trilogy, consisting of "Suspiria" (1977), "Inferno" (1980) and "The Mother of Tears" (2007), to once-banned Video Nasties "Deep Red" (1975) and "Tenebrae" (1982), Argento's work has influenced modern genre filmmakers from Eli Roth to James Wan. Argento has...
The post Dark Glasses Teaser: The Gruesome Return of A Giallo Giant appeared first on /Film.
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- 2/9/2022
- by Anya Stanley
- Slash Film
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- 2/8/2022
- MUBI
The 2022 Oscar nominations went pretty much as we predicted outside of some acting categories. Our combined odds correctly predicted 88% of the nominees for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Original Screenplay. However, a few surprises did sneak onto the roster of contenders and a couple shocking omissions made our list of Academy Awards snubs. While nine of our Top 10 predicted films earned spots in the Best Picture lineup, “tick, tick…Boom!” was replaced by “Nightmare Alley.”
The biggest jaw-dropper came from the directors branch who snubbed DGA nominee Denis Villeneuve (“Dune”) who was sitting in second place in our odds. Instead, Steven Spielberg took his slot for “West Side Story.” It wasn’t too surprising to see Spielberg nominated (he was sixth in our odds), it just wasn’t Villeneuve we thought he’d replace.
We aced the nominees for Best Adapted Screenplay in our predictions so there were no surprises there.
The biggest jaw-dropper came from the directors branch who snubbed DGA nominee Denis Villeneuve (“Dune”) who was sitting in second place in our odds. Instead, Steven Spielberg took his slot for “West Side Story.” It wasn’t too surprising to see Spielberg nominated (he was sixth in our odds), it just wasn’t Villeneuve we thought he’d replace.
We aced the nominees for Best Adapted Screenplay in our predictions so there were no surprises there.
- 2/8/2022
- by Denton Davidson
- Gold Derby
On the first day of the Olympic Games, the “Today” show had an unenviable task.
The flagship NBC morning show is a key engine for goosing excitement over the Olympics, and its Friday-morning broadcast recapping the just-concluded opening ceremony in Beijing was intended, in part, to boost the Games. But the show’s flagship talent, Hoda Kotb and Savannah Guthrie, were stuck stateside in light of Covid-19, and the happy chatter about athletes’ prospects in the days ahead was balanced with an unusual volume of conversation about geopolitics. This contrast was described by Guthrie, reporting from NBC Sports’ hub in Stamford, Conn., as “this awkward juxtaposition” — an area of nuance that the sunny “Today” does not like to live.
The show deserves credit for discussing the complications of a China-hosted Games under “diplomatic boycott” by the U.S. near the top of the broadcast — most notably, the country’s decision to select a Uighur athlete,...
The flagship NBC morning show is a key engine for goosing excitement over the Olympics, and its Friday-morning broadcast recapping the just-concluded opening ceremony in Beijing was intended, in part, to boost the Games. But the show’s flagship talent, Hoda Kotb and Savannah Guthrie, were stuck stateside in light of Covid-19, and the happy chatter about athletes’ prospects in the days ahead was balanced with an unusual volume of conversation about geopolitics. This contrast was described by Guthrie, reporting from NBC Sports’ hub in Stamford, Conn., as “this awkward juxtaposition” — an area of nuance that the sunny “Today” does not like to live.
The show deserves credit for discussing the complications of a China-hosted Games under “diplomatic boycott” by the U.S. near the top of the broadcast — most notably, the country’s decision to select a Uighur athlete,...
- 2/4/2022
- by Daniel D'Addario
- Variety Film + TV
‘Air Doll’ Film Review: Hirokazu Kore-eda and Bae Doona Take on the Inner Life of a Sentient Sex Toy
Middle-aged service worker Hideo (Itsuji Itao) shares his tiny apartment with an inflatable sex doll in Hirokazu Kore-eda’s “Air Doll,” a contemplative, melancholy — if minor — study of loneliness. (This 2009 film from the director who would go on to make “Shoplifters” and “The Truth” is getting its first U.S. release.)
And though the label on the box reads “Lovely Girl Candy,” and Hideo finds real human interaction “annoying,” he gives the doll the name “Nozomi,” after a former girlfriend. She’s as close to being real as he wants, and she silently absorbs his minor monologues and grievances about his work day before he has sex with her.
There are other inanimate, less functional dolls in Hideo’s home: small figures on shelves, a bedside “Paddington”-style teddy bear, and linens decorated with nesting dolls. But it’s Nozomi who, one day while Hideo is at work, gains consciousness and living,...
And though the label on the box reads “Lovely Girl Candy,” and Hideo finds real human interaction “annoying,” he gives the doll the name “Nozomi,” after a former girlfriend. She’s as close to being real as he wants, and she silently absorbs his minor monologues and grievances about his work day before he has sex with her.
There are other inanimate, less functional dolls in Hideo’s home: small figures on shelves, a bedside “Paddington”-style teddy bear, and linens decorated with nesting dolls. But it’s Nozomi who, one day while Hideo is at work, gains consciousness and living,...
- 2/3/2022
- by Dave White
- The Wrap
Six nominations for ‘Belfast’; three titles on five.
Denis Villeneuve’s blockbuster Dune led the Bafta Film Awards nominations from Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog, with the nominations announced today.
Dune received 11 nominations, including in best film, adapted screenplay, original score, and all eight technical categories.
Scroll down for the full list of nominations
The Power of the Dog scored eight nominations, including in best film, three times in the acting categories – and a best director nomination for Campion, who was the first woman to be nominated for the best director Bafta for The Piano in 1994.
Belfast...
Denis Villeneuve’s blockbuster Dune led the Bafta Film Awards nominations from Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog, with the nominations announced today.
Dune received 11 nominations, including in best film, adapted screenplay, original score, and all eight technical categories.
Scroll down for the full list of nominations
The Power of the Dog scored eight nominations, including in best film, three times in the acting categories – and a best director nomination for Campion, who was the first woman to be nominated for the best director Bafta for The Piano in 1994.
Belfast...
- 2/3/2022
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Saoirse Ronan has joined the cast of ‘The Unforgivable’ director Nora Fingscheidt adaptation ‘The Outrun.’
Based on Amy Liptrot’s best-selling memoir, Ronan will play Rona, a woman fresh out of rehab who, after more than a decade away, returns to Scotland’s wild Orkney Islands and to the sheep farm of her childhood.
Also in news – Benedict Cumberbatch, Noah Jupe, Laura Dern join Sci-Fi drama ‘Morning’
Fingscheidt and Liptrot have adapted the book for the screen. Brock Media – who optioned The Outrun – will produce the film alongside Ronan, Jack Lowden and Dominic Norris under their new shingle Arcade Pictures together with Ignacio Salazar-Simpson and Ricardo Marco Budé of Mogambo. Jonas Weydemann and Jakob D. Weydemann of Germany’s Weydemann Bros. will co-produce together with BBC Film and Screen Scotland, which supported the project’s development. Protagonist is the executive producing and arranged financing.
“It was Amy’s voice that...
Based on Amy Liptrot’s best-selling memoir, Ronan will play Rona, a woman fresh out of rehab who, after more than a decade away, returns to Scotland’s wild Orkney Islands and to the sheep farm of her childhood.
Also in news – Benedict Cumberbatch, Noah Jupe, Laura Dern join Sci-Fi drama ‘Morning’
Fingscheidt and Liptrot have adapted the book for the screen. Brock Media – who optioned The Outrun – will produce the film alongside Ronan, Jack Lowden and Dominic Norris under their new shingle Arcade Pictures together with Ignacio Salazar-Simpson and Ricardo Marco Budé of Mogambo. Jonas Weydemann and Jakob D. Weydemann of Germany’s Weydemann Bros. will co-produce together with BBC Film and Screen Scotland, which supported the project’s development. Protagonist is the executive producing and arranged financing.
“It was Amy’s voice that...
- 2/1/2022
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Benedict Cumberbatch, Noah Jupe and Laura Dern have boarded Justin Kurzel’s sci-fi drama ‘Morning’ for Hanway.
Plot details state the project is set in a near-future where society has a pill that does away with the need to sleep. With the added help of an artificial sun, there is no end to morning daylight, living and work. However, as a young generation grows up deprived of the world of sleep, they consider rebelling to reclaim their dreams.
Dern takes on the role of the ambitious and driven Cathy who is an early advocate of a sleepless world, but as she and her son Danny – played by Jupe – pick up the pieces of their lives following the death of her husband Frank -played by Cumberbatch – she finds the universe she helped to build is starting to crumble around her, whilst memories she fought so hard to repress are bleeding into her waking life.
Plot details state the project is set in a near-future where society has a pill that does away with the need to sleep. With the added help of an artificial sun, there is no end to morning daylight, living and work. However, as a young generation grows up deprived of the world of sleep, they consider rebelling to reclaim their dreams.
Dern takes on the role of the ambitious and driven Cathy who is an early advocate of a sleepless world, but as she and her son Danny – played by Jupe – pick up the pieces of their lives following the death of her husband Frank -played by Cumberbatch – she finds the universe she helped to build is starting to crumble around her, whilst memories she fought so hard to repress are bleeding into her waking life.
- 1/31/2022
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Laura Dern, Noah Jupe and Benedict Cumberbatch will star together in a futuristic drama called “Morning” from Australian director Justin Kurzel.
Dern and Jupe star in “Morning” as a mother and son living in a world in which a pill does away the need for sleep and an artificial sun makes it so that there’s no end to the morning daylight of living and work. Cumberbatch also stars in a supporting role. Here’s the full synopsis:
Ambitious and driven Cathy (Dern) was an early advocate of a sleepless world, but as she and her son Danny (Jupe) pick up the pieces of their lives following the death of her husband Frank (Cumberbatch), she finds the universe she helped to build is starting to crumble around her, whilst memories she fought so hard to repress are bleeding into her waking life. As Danny is further drawn into a subversive underworld of dreamers,...
Dern and Jupe star in “Morning” as a mother and son living in a world in which a pill does away the need for sleep and an artificial sun makes it so that there’s no end to the morning daylight of living and work. Cumberbatch also stars in a supporting role. Here’s the full synopsis:
Ambitious and driven Cathy (Dern) was an early advocate of a sleepless world, but as she and her son Danny (Jupe) pick up the pieces of their lives following the death of her husband Frank (Cumberbatch), she finds the universe she helped to build is starting to crumble around her, whilst memories she fought so hard to repress are bleeding into her waking life. As Danny is further drawn into a subversive underworld of dreamers,...
- 1/31/2022
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Laura Dern, Noah Jupe, Benedict Cumberbatch to star.
HanWay Films has boarded sales on Justin Kurzel’s upcoming feature Morning, which it is launching to buyers at next month’s online European Film Market.
HanWay is handling international sales, with CAA Media Finance and UTA Independent Film Group co-representing the US sale.
Shooting dates are yet to be confirmed. The film will be set in a near future where a pill exists that removes the need to sleep. A woman who previously advocated for such living sees her world begin to crumble, as she and her son pick up the...
HanWay Films has boarded sales on Justin Kurzel’s upcoming feature Morning, which it is launching to buyers at next month’s online European Film Market.
HanWay is handling international sales, with CAA Media Finance and UTA Independent Film Group co-representing the US sale.
Shooting dates are yet to be confirmed. The film will be set in a near future where a pill exists that removes the need to sleep. A woman who previously advocated for such living sees her world begin to crumble, as she and her son pick up the...
- 1/31/2022
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
This upcoming project is a strong contender for the virtual European Film Market (EFM): Benedict Cumberbatch and Laura Dern have joined the futuristic sci-fi film, "Morning," which boasts big-league actors alongside a solid dystopian storyline. According to Variety, "Assassins Creed" director Justin Kurzel will be helming this project, which is set to be launched by film distributor HanWay. Apart from Dern and Cumberbatch, Noah Jupe, who starred in the "A Quiet Place" films and "Honey Boy," has also joined the cast.
Both Dern and Cumberbatch are set executive produce "Morning," and while the exact details about the plot...
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Both Dern and Cumberbatch are set executive produce "Morning," and while the exact details about the plot...
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- 1/31/2022
- by Debopriyaa Dutta
- Slash Film
One glance at the recent filmography from director Justin Kurzel shows the filmmaker’s penchant for switching up genres with nearly every project. From “Macbeth” to “Assassin’s Creed” to “True History of the Kelly Gang” to last year’s “Nitram,” Kurzel is unafraid to change things up with each and every new feature. And that’s going to continue with his next, a sci-fi feature titled “Morning.”
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Justin Kurzel has been announced as the director of the new sci-fi film, “Morning,” with a cast that is expected to include Laura Dern, Noah Jupe, and Benedict Cumberbatch.
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Justin Kurzel has been announced as the director of the new sci-fi film, “Morning,” with a cast that is expected to include Laura Dern, Noah Jupe, and Benedict Cumberbatch.
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- 1/31/2022
- by Charles Barfield
- The Playlist
Benedict Cumberbatch, Laura Dern and Noah Jupe are set to star in “Morning,” an upcoming feature from “Assassin’s Creed” director Justin Kurzel.
Dern (“Marriage Story”) and Jupe (“A Quiet Place”) will lead while “Doctor Strange” star Cumberbatch appears in a supporting role.
Kurzel’s last feature, “Nitram,” was nominated for a Palme d’Or.
Set in the near future, “Morning” is set in a society that has evolved beyond the need to sleep thanks to a new pill and artificial sun.
Ambitious Cathy (played by Dern) is an early proponent of the new normal – until the death of her husband Frank (Cumberbatch). As her sleepless world crumbles around her, her memories began impinging on her waking hours. Meanwhile her son Danny (Jupe), part of a new generation that has grown up without ever sleeping, is drawn into a “subversive underworld of dreamers” who begin to rebel in an attempt to reclaim their dreams.
Dern (“Marriage Story”) and Jupe (“A Quiet Place”) will lead while “Doctor Strange” star Cumberbatch appears in a supporting role.
Kurzel’s last feature, “Nitram,” was nominated for a Palme d’Or.
Set in the near future, “Morning” is set in a society that has evolved beyond the need to sleep thanks to a new pill and artificial sun.
Ambitious Cathy (played by Dern) is an early proponent of the new normal – until the death of her husband Frank (Cumberbatch). As her sleepless world crumbles around her, her memories began impinging on her waking hours. Meanwhile her son Danny (Jupe), part of a new generation that has grown up without ever sleeping, is drawn into a “subversive underworld of dreamers” who begin to rebel in an attempt to reclaim their dreams.
- 1/31/2022
- by K.J. Yossman
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Here’s a strong one for the virtual EFM market. Oscar and BAFTA winner Laura Dern (Big Little Lies), A Quiet Place star Noah Jupe and Oscar nominee Benedict Cumberbatch (The Imitation Game) have been set to star in new Justin Kurzel (Nitram) project Morning, which HanWay is launching.
The film is set in a near future where society has a pill that does away with the need to sleep. With the added help of an artificial sun, there is no end to morning daylight, living and work. However, as a young generation grows up deprived of the world of sleep, they consider rebelling to reclaim their dreams.
HanWay is handling international sales. CAA Media Finance and UTA Independent Film Group are co-repping the U.S. sale.
Morning was written by Manchester-born writer Sam Steiner. The screenplay was picked up by Cumberbatch and Adam Ackland’s SunnyMarch. SunnyMarch’s Head of Film,...
The film is set in a near future where society has a pill that does away with the need to sleep. With the added help of an artificial sun, there is no end to morning daylight, living and work. However, as a young generation grows up deprived of the world of sleep, they consider rebelling to reclaim their dreams.
HanWay is handling international sales. CAA Media Finance and UTA Independent Film Group are co-repping the U.S. sale.
Morning was written by Manchester-born writer Sam Steiner. The screenplay was picked up by Cumberbatch and Adam Ackland’s SunnyMarch. SunnyMarch’s Head of Film,...
- 1/31/2022
- by Tom Grater and Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Gayle King, who over ten years at CBS News has become one of that ViacomCBS division’s most recognizable personnel, has signed a deal to stay for another contract cycle.
“I still feel that in many ways I’m just getting started,” King told listeners of her SiriusXM radio program on Friday.
Speculation has risen in recent weeks whether CBS News would keep both King and her colleague Norah O’Donnell, both of whom had contracts that were set to lapse this year. King last signed an extension with CBS News in 2019, when Susan Zirinsky, the former CBS News president, rebuilt the network’s morning-news program, now known as “CBS Mornings,” with her at the center. King has in recent years gained notice for her interviews with figures making waves in popular culture, including R Kelly.
During her radio show, King said she was impressed by CBS News’ plans for the...
“I still feel that in many ways I’m just getting started,” King told listeners of her SiriusXM radio program on Friday.
Speculation has risen in recent weeks whether CBS News would keep both King and her colleague Norah O’Donnell, both of whom had contracts that were set to lapse this year. King last signed an extension with CBS News in 2019, when Susan Zirinsky, the former CBS News president, rebuilt the network’s morning-news program, now known as “CBS Mornings,” with her at the center. King has in recent years gained notice for her interviews with figures making waves in popular culture, including R Kelly.
During her radio show, King said she was impressed by CBS News’ plans for the...
- 1/28/2022
- by Brian Steinberg
- Variety Film + TV
Edward R. Murrow and Fred W. Friendly were journalism visionaries whose moves at CBS in the 1950s continue to define that company’s news division. Yet even they might be surprised to see where some of their ideas are heading.
CBS News is set to revive two landmark programs created under the auspices of one or both of those broadcasters, “Person to Person” and “CBS Reports,” but retooled for the streaming era. Norah O’Donnell will launch a new “Person to Person” series of one-on-one interviews with newsmakers and people of interest, while Gayle King is set to kick off a new series of “CBS Reports” documentaries and special reports on February 25 with a deep dive into the death of Trayvon Martin. Both series will run on the CBS News Steaming Network, part of a large-scale overhaul and expansion of the broadband news hub once known as Cbsn that initially debuted...
CBS News is set to revive two landmark programs created under the auspices of one or both of those broadcasters, “Person to Person” and “CBS Reports,” but retooled for the streaming era. Norah O’Donnell will launch a new “Person to Person” series of one-on-one interviews with newsmakers and people of interest, while Gayle King is set to kick off a new series of “CBS Reports” documentaries and special reports on February 25 with a deep dive into the death of Trayvon Martin. Both series will run on the CBS News Steaming Network, part of a large-scale overhaul and expansion of the broadband news hub once known as Cbsn that initially debuted...
- 1/24/2022
- by Brian Steinberg
- Variety Film + TV
Louie Anderson, the stand-up comedian, game show host and Emmy-winning actor, has died at the age of 68 following a battle with cancer.
Anderson was previously diagnosed with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma. As Anderson’s publicist, Glenn Schwartz, confirmed to our sister site Deadline, the actor died Friday morning at a Las Vegas hospital where he’d been getting treatment. Fellow comedian Pauly Shore tweeted Jan. 20 that he had visited Anderson to say his goodbyes. “He’s still with us, but keep him in your prayers,” he said.
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Anderson was previously diagnosed with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma. As Anderson’s publicist, Glenn Schwartz, confirmed to our sister site Deadline, the actor died Friday morning at a Las Vegas hospital where he’d been getting treatment. Fellow comedian Pauly Shore tweeted Jan. 20 that he had visited Anderson to say his goodbyes. “He’s still with us, but keep him in your prayers,” he said.
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- 1/21/2022
- by Ryan Schwartz
- TVLine.com
Apple TV+ has set a premiere date and releases a first look at its adaptation of The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey, starring and executive-produced by Samuel L. Jackson.
Based on the acclaimed novel by Walter Mosley (who also executive-produces), the six-episode series will premiere Friday, March 11, with the first two installments, followed by new releases every Friday.
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The Apple Studios production stars Jackson as Ptolemy Grey,...
Based on the acclaimed novel by Walter Mosley (who also executive-produces), the six-episode series will premiere Friday, March 11, with the first two installments, followed by new releases every Friday.
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The Apple Studios production stars Jackson as Ptolemy Grey,...
- 1/12/2022
- by Matt Webb Mitovich
- TVLine.com
A24 is the leading film distributor with 13 nominations, followed by Neon and Netflix on nine.
Janicza Bravo’s Zola led the Film Independent Spirit Awards nominations with seven nods, followed by Lauren Hadaway’s The Novice with five and Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Lost Daughter on four.
All three are competing for best feature and best director, with Ninja Thyberg for Pleasure and Mike Mills for C’mon C’mon rounding out the latter category. It’s the second year in a row that four women have been nominated for best director.
The other best feature nominees are C’mon C’mon...
Janicza Bravo’s Zola led the Film Independent Spirit Awards nominations with seven nods, followed by Lauren Hadaway’s The Novice with five and Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Lost Daughter on four.
All three are competing for best feature and best director, with Ninja Thyberg for Pleasure and Mike Mills for C’mon C’mon rounding out the latter category. It’s the second year in a row that four women have been nominated for best director.
The other best feature nominees are C’mon C’mon...
- 12/14/2021
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
Seth Kenney, the owner of Pdq Arm & Prop, LLC, which supplied prop weapons and ammunition to the Rust production, is denying that the live rounds on the film’s set came from his company.
In a Thursday interview with Good Morning America, Kenney spoke to ABC News correspondent Kaylee Hartung, telling her that his New Mexico-based company “supplied the guns, the blank ammunition and 50 dummy rounds to the show.” But he denies that the rounds found on set and seized by authorities as part of their investigation came from him, and acknowledges that the FBI is working to learn ...
In a Thursday interview with Good Morning America, Kenney spoke to ABC News correspondent Kaylee Hartung, telling her that his New Mexico-based company “supplied the guns, the blank ammunition and 50 dummy rounds to the show.” But he denies that the rounds found on set and seized by authorities as part of their investigation came from him, and acknowledges that the FBI is working to learn ...
- 12/2/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Seth Kenney, the owner of Pdq Arm & Prop, LLC, which supplied prop weapons and ammunition to the Rust production, is denying that the live rounds on the film’s set came from his company.
In a Thursday interview with Good Morning America, Kenney spoke to ABC News correspondent Kaylee Hartung, telling her that his New Mexico-based company “supplied the guns, the blank ammunition and 50 dummy rounds to the show.” But he denies that the rounds found on set and seized by authorities as part of their investigation came from him, and acknowledges that the FBI is working to learn ...
In a Thursday interview with Good Morning America, Kenney spoke to ABC News correspondent Kaylee Hartung, telling her that his New Mexico-based company “supplied the guns, the blank ammunition and 50 dummy rounds to the show.” But he denies that the rounds found on set and seized by authorities as part of their investigation came from him, and acknowledges that the FBI is working to learn ...
- 12/2/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Academy Award-winning film vet Kevin Kline will make his series TV* debut opposite fellow Academy Award winner Cate Blanchett in an Apple TV+ adaptation of the psychological thriller Disclaimer, from — stop me if you’ve heard this qualifier before — Academy Award-winning director Alfonso Cuarón.
As part of his overall deal with Apple TV+, Cuarón will write, direct and executive produce all episodes of the series, which is based on the novel of the same name by Renee Knight. Blanchett will serve as another of the executive producers, as well as star.
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As part of his overall deal with Apple TV+, Cuarón will write, direct and executive produce all episodes of the series, which is based on the novel of the same name by Renee Knight. Blanchett will serve as another of the executive producers, as well as star.
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- 12/1/2021
- by Matt Webb Mitovich
- TVLine.com
Kyle Mooney is omnipresent in the first trailer for Netflix‘s Saturday Morning All Star Hits!, which the Saturday Night Live vet co-created with Bento Box Entertainment creative director Ben Jones.
Dropping all eight episodes on Friday, Dec. 10, the adult animated/live-action hybrid series “celebrates all that is ’80s and ’90s television,” with riffs on both California Dreams-y tweenage fare and cartoons (including, we think, a cameo by Denver the Last Dinosaur?).
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Dropping all eight episodes on Friday, Dec. 10, the adult animated/live-action hybrid series “celebrates all that is ’80s and ’90s television,” with riffs on both California Dreams-y tweenage fare and cartoons (including, we think, a cameo by Denver the Last Dinosaur?).
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- 11/29/2021
- by Matt Webb Mitovich
- TVLine.com
Viewers of Good Morning America on Tuesday were offered a special sneak preview of what could be the biggest Black Friday offer in streaming video: one year of Hulu for 99 cents per month, a $6 discount per month or a $72 discount for the year.
That Disney would use its signature ABC morning show to launch the offer underscores just how much returning growth to its streaming business matters to the company. In its last quarterly earnings report earlier in November, Disney reported slower-than-anticipated streaming subscriber growth, with Disney+ only adding 2 million subscribers, and Hulu adding a mere 700,000, bringing its ...
That Disney would use its signature ABC morning show to launch the offer underscores just how much returning growth to its streaming business matters to the company. In its last quarterly earnings report earlier in November, Disney reported slower-than-anticipated streaming subscriber growth, with Disney+ only adding 2 million subscribers, and Hulu adding a mere 700,000, bringing its ...
- 11/23/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Viewers of Good Morning America on Tuesday were offered a special sneak preview of what could be the biggest Black Friday offer in streaming video: one year of Hulu for 99 cents per month, a $6 discount per month or a $72 discount for the year.
That Disney would use its signature ABC morning show to launch the offer underscores just how much returning growth to its streaming business matters to the company. In its last quarterly earnings report earlier in November, Disney reported slower-than-anticipated streaming subscriber growth, with Disney+ only adding 2 million subscribers, and Hulu adding a mere 700,000, bringing its ...
That Disney would use its signature ABC morning show to launch the offer underscores just how much returning growth to its streaming business matters to the company. In its last quarterly earnings report earlier in November, Disney reported slower-than-anticipated streaming subscriber growth, with Disney+ only adding 2 million subscribers, and Hulu adding a mere 700,000, bringing its ...
- 11/23/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Look, no one in The Morning Show‘s second season had their best year ever. There was the Covid-19 pandemic. There was a major death. There was a really poorly timed declaration of love followed by a trip to a coronavirus-infused emergency room.
But out of all of the morning-show personalities, Desean Terry‘s Daniel might’ve had the most frustrating year. At the end of Season 1, with Alex and Bradley as whistleblowers alerting viewers to the network’s legacy of covering up scandals, a new world order seemed poised to sweep through the studio. But Season 2 found Daniel — a gay,...
But out of all of the morning-show personalities, Desean Terry‘s Daniel might’ve had the most frustrating year. At the end of Season 1, with Alex and Bradley as whistleblowers alerting viewers to the network’s legacy of covering up scandals, a new world order seemed poised to sweep through the studio. But Season 2 found Daniel — a gay,...
- 11/22/2021
- by Kimberly Roots
- TVLine.com
Warning: The following interview contains spoilers about The Morning Show’s season 2 finale episode “Fever”
Season one of AppleTV+’s The Morning Show ended arguably with Covid, and so does season 2. Jennifer Aniston’s anchor Alex Levy literally goes on air as she battles the virus, for what is a cathartic monologue before her viewership in the wake of being “canceled” following Maggie Brenner’s tell-all book about the host’s affair with her morning show co-host Mitch Kessler.
If you remember back on the season one finale, which dropped on Dec. 20, 2019, The Morning Show EP Kerry Ehrin was quite prescient about the invasion of Covid as Reese Witherspoon’s Bradley Jackson reports on a Papua New Guinea bound cruise ship which is delayed at port for four days of quarantine, carrying 5K passengers. Season 2 of The Morning Show takes up through mid-March, just as the world is locking down...
Season one of AppleTV+’s The Morning Show ended arguably with Covid, and so does season 2. Jennifer Aniston’s anchor Alex Levy literally goes on air as she battles the virus, for what is a cathartic monologue before her viewership in the wake of being “canceled” following Maggie Brenner’s tell-all book about the host’s affair with her morning show co-host Mitch Kessler.
If you remember back on the season one finale, which dropped on Dec. 20, 2019, The Morning Show EP Kerry Ehrin was quite prescient about the invasion of Covid as Reese Witherspoon’s Bradley Jackson reports on a Papua New Guinea bound cruise ship which is delayed at port for four days of quarantine, carrying 5K passengers. Season 2 of The Morning Show takes up through mid-March, just as the world is locking down...
- 11/19/2021
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Grammy-nominated jazz songwriter, singer and pianist Dave Frishberg died yesterday, according to a post on his Facebook page. His wife April Magnusson said he had been battling an illness for several years. He was 88.
Frishberg had a long and varied career that stretched from the Greenwich Village jazz scene of the ’50s to work as a studio musician in L.A. in the ’70s, to cutting his own Grammy-nominated albums and doing music for films and TV.
But his greatest fame came from his involvement with Schoolhouse Rock, a 1973-85 series of Saturday-morning shorts on ABC that used music and rhyme to help kids learn basic facts, with such memorable songs as “Elementary, My Dear”, “Conjunction Junction” and Frishberg’s “I’m Just a Bill”. “I’m Just a Bill” was famously spoofed on Saturday Night Live in 2014.
He wrote and performed other...
Frishberg had a long and varied career that stretched from the Greenwich Village jazz scene of the ’50s to work as a studio musician in L.A. in the ’70s, to cutting his own Grammy-nominated albums and doing music for films and TV.
But his greatest fame came from his involvement with Schoolhouse Rock, a 1973-85 series of Saturday-morning shorts on ABC that used music and rhyme to help kids learn basic facts, with such memorable songs as “Elementary, My Dear”, “Conjunction Junction” and Frishberg’s “I’m Just a Bill”. “I’m Just a Bill” was famously spoofed on Saturday Night Live in 2014.
He wrote and performed other...
- 11/19/2021
- by Tom Tapp
- Deadline Film + TV
Honors were given out in more than 30 categories at Wednesday’s 12th annual Hollywood Music in Media Awards, with singer-songwriters like Billie Eilish, H.E.R., Adam Levine and Rufus Wainwright being celebrated in the live webcast as well as composers including Hans Zimmer, Rachel Portman, Alberto Iglesias and Nicholas Britell.
The HMMAs reward songwriters, composers and even performers in fields that include not just film and TV work but everything from video games to commercials to theme park music.
Film nominations are given in multiple genres, which allows for a series of short lists that members of the Academy’s music branch may end up studying as they vote for the Oscars’ much, much shorter lists.
Best score for a feature film went to Britell for his work on Adam McKay’s satirical “Don’t Look Up.” Other score prizes went to Zimmer for “Dune” (sci-fi/fantasy film), Beltrami for “A Quiet Place II...
The HMMAs reward songwriters, composers and even performers in fields that include not just film and TV work but everything from video games to commercials to theme park music.
Film nominations are given in multiple genres, which allows for a series of short lists that members of the Academy’s music branch may end up studying as they vote for the Oscars’ much, much shorter lists.
Best score for a feature film went to Britell for his work on Adam McKay’s satirical “Don’t Look Up.” Other score prizes went to Zimmer for “Dune” (sci-fi/fantasy film), Beltrami for “A Quiet Place II...
- 11/19/2021
- by Chris Willman
- Variety Film + TV
While Hollywood blockbusters such as “Dune” and “No Time to Die” are dominating the U.S. box office, foreign-language specialty titles are proving their theatrical mettle in the early post-pandemic era.
Driven by Bong Joon Ho’s historic best picture win for “Parasite” in 2019, U.S. awards season has never been more open to non-English-language fare, with Julia Ducournau’s shocking “Titane,” Valdimar Jóhannsson’s chilling “Lamb” and Asghar Farhadi’s sobering “A Hero” getting Oscar buzz in categories beyond international feature film.
Where larger U.S. distributors now buy fewer of these titles, independent outfits like A24, Neon, IFC Films and Samuel Goldwyn Films have stepped forward during the pandemic, scooping up the hottest foreign-language movies on the festival circuit.
“One of the things that is most amazing now is that there are so many [U.S.] companies that do foreign films; it’s not one or two companies that dominate,...
Driven by Bong Joon Ho’s historic best picture win for “Parasite” in 2019, U.S. awards season has never been more open to non-English-language fare, with Julia Ducournau’s shocking “Titane,” Valdimar Jóhannsson’s chilling “Lamb” and Asghar Farhadi’s sobering “A Hero” getting Oscar buzz in categories beyond international feature film.
Where larger U.S. distributors now buy fewer of these titles, independent outfits like A24, Neon, IFC Films and Samuel Goldwyn Films have stepped forward during the pandemic, scooping up the hottest foreign-language movies on the festival circuit.
“One of the things that is most amazing now is that there are so many [U.S.] companies that do foreign films; it’s not one or two companies that dominate,...
- 11/8/2021
- by Elsa Keslassy and Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
‘The Wonder Years’ Co-Stars Alley Mills & Dan Lauria Reunite For Off Broadway’s ‘Morning’s At Seven’
Alley Mills will be reunited with her The Wonder Years husband Dan Lauria in the new Off Broadway production of Paul Osborn’s classic stage comedy Morning’s At Seven, a reteaming that comes as Mills replaces the recently injured Judith Ivey.
Mills, who stars on CBS’ The Bold and the Beautiful, joins Lauria and other Morning’s At Seven cast members Lindsay Crouse, Alma Cuervo, Tony Roberts, John Rubinstein, Keri Safran, Jonathan Spivey and Patty McCormack (the latter most famously remembered as evil little Rhoda Penmark from 1956’s The Bad Seed).
The original Wonder Years mom was cast in the role of Arry after Ivey left the production due a torn tendon. (Nancy Ringham was a temporary replacement until Mills could join.)
“We are thrilled to have Alley Mills join our Morning’s At Seven family,” said producer Julian Schlossberg in a statement. “In the theatre, anything can happen,...
Mills, who stars on CBS’ The Bold and the Beautiful, joins Lauria and other Morning’s At Seven cast members Lindsay Crouse, Alma Cuervo, Tony Roberts, John Rubinstein, Keri Safran, Jonathan Spivey and Patty McCormack (the latter most famously remembered as evil little Rhoda Penmark from 1956’s The Bad Seed).
The original Wonder Years mom was cast in the role of Arry after Ivey left the production due a torn tendon. (Nancy Ringham was a temporary replacement until Mills could join.)
“We are thrilled to have Alley Mills join our Morning’s At Seven family,” said producer Julian Schlossberg in a statement. “In the theatre, anything can happen,...
- 11/5/2021
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
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