Developer Plot Twist has shared some exclusive concept art for their upcoming Lovecraftian metroidvania The Last Case of Benedict Fox. The game is coming off of its showing at Gamescom last month with a new gameplay trailer, and off of its award for “Most Wanted Xbox Game” during the event.
The art in question offers up glimpses of the world of the dead known in the game as Limbo (and the monsters within), which also showing the various locales of the world of the living you’ll be traversing. That includes the Tatooist, who was revealed in the Gamescom trailer.
The story for The Last Case of Benedict Fox takes place in 1925 Boston, where self-proclaimed detective Benedict Fox must uncover the fate of a family while traversing a dark, eerie world of emotions made manifest while battling the demon trapped inside his own body. You’ll be facing an occult...
The art in question offers up glimpses of the world of the dead known in the game as Limbo (and the monsters within), which also showing the various locales of the world of the living you’ll be traversing. That includes the Tatooist, who was revealed in the Gamescom trailer.
The story for The Last Case of Benedict Fox takes place in 1925 Boston, where self-proclaimed detective Benedict Fox must uncover the fate of a family while traversing a dark, eerie world of emotions made manifest while battling the demon trapped inside his own body. You’ll be facing an occult...
- 9/21/2022
- by Mike Wilson
- bloody-disgusting.com
Tidal tapped Bad Bunny to share his top musical picks for a playlist to celebrate Latinx Heritage Month — and Bad Bunny chose 15 songs, all led by women artists.
Trans rapper Villano Antillano’s “Pájaro” makes an appearance, and Young Miko is seen twice with “Riri” and her song with Catalyna and Cory, “Castigada.” Two songs from Paopao’s Diamantes y Espinas join the fun, while Tokischa’s “Estilazo” with Marshmello and “La Combi Versace” with Rosalía are featured.
The playlist also included “Limbo” by RaiNao, with whom Bad Bunny told...
Trans rapper Villano Antillano’s “Pájaro” makes an appearance, and Young Miko is seen twice with “Riri” and her song with Catalyna and Cory, “Castigada.” Two songs from Paopao’s Diamantes y Espinas join the fun, while Tokischa’s “Estilazo” with Marshmello and “La Combi Versace” with Rosalía are featured.
The playlist also included “Limbo” by RaiNao, with whom Bad Bunny told...
- 9/16/2022
- by Tomás Mier
- Rollingstone.com
Previous winners include Roger Deakins, Annika Summerson.
Heartstopper cinematographer Diana Olifirova is one of five nominees for the National Film and Television School’s 2022 Sue Gibson Bsc Cinematography Award.
Two of this year’s selection are on their second nomination – Ula Pontikos, for season two of Russian Doll; and Edu Grau, for Rebecca Hall’s Bafta-nominated Passing.
The other nominees are Nick Cooke for Ben Sharrock’s Limbo; and Paul Kadir Ozgur for Pascual Sisto’s John And The Hole.
This year is the sixth edition of the award, which recognises work by an alumnus of the cinematography course at the UK film school.
Heartstopper cinematographer Diana Olifirova is one of five nominees for the National Film and Television School’s 2022 Sue Gibson Bsc Cinematography Award.
Two of this year’s selection are on their second nomination – Ula Pontikos, for season two of Russian Doll; and Edu Grau, for Rebecca Hall’s Bafta-nominated Passing.
The other nominees are Nick Cooke for Ben Sharrock’s Limbo; and Paul Kadir Ozgur for Pascual Sisto’s John And The Hole.
This year is the sixth edition of the award, which recognises work by an alumnus of the cinematography course at the UK film school.
- 9/1/2022
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
The early 2010s were an extremely chaotic time for the gaming industry. While Aaa titles were finding themselves under scrutiny due to shady business practices and formulaic releases, the indie scene was absolutely flourishing with the rise of digital distribution. Surprisingly popular titles like Limbo and Minecraft proved that gamers were hungry for new and […]
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- 2/23/2022
- by Luiz H. C.
- bloody-disgusting.com
Jack Neo’s comedy proved the leading local feature over Chinese New Year.
Jack Neo’s Ah Girls Go Army has crossed $1.49m (S$2m) at the Singapore box office, making it the top grossing local film since the outbreak of the pandemic.
Released by mm2 Asia on February 1, the first day of the Chinese New Year, the comedy follows the first batch of female recruits going through national service because of a shortage of men. It is a spin-off from the hugely successful Ah Boys To Men franchise, which has spawned four films all directed by Neo, the most bankable Singaporean filmmaker.
Jack Neo’s Ah Girls Go Army has crossed $1.49m (S$2m) at the Singapore box office, making it the top grossing local film since the outbreak of the pandemic.
Released by mm2 Asia on February 1, the first day of the Chinese New Year, the comedy follows the first batch of female recruits going through national service because of a shortage of men. It is a spin-off from the hugely successful Ah Boys To Men franchise, which has spawned four films all directed by Neo, the most bankable Singaporean filmmaker.
- 2/18/2022
- by Silvia Wong
- ScreenDaily
“Limbo” is the favourite contender for the 40th edition of The Hong Kong Film Awards with a total of 14 nominations including Best Film, Best Director (Soi Cheang), Best Screenplay, Best Actor (Lam Ka-tung) and Best Actress (Cya Liu). “Limbo” is followed closely by “Anita”, a biopic of the late Anita Mui, that received 12 nominations, including Best Film and Best Director. The Award ceremony will be held in-person at the Hong Kong Cultural Centre on April 17, unless the public health situation deteriorates further.
Best Film
Raging Fire
Anita
Limbo
Zero to Hero
Drifting
Best Director
Man Lim Chung for Keep Rolling
Benny Chan for Raging Fire
Longman Leung for Anita
Soi Cheang for Limbo
Peter Ho-Sun Chan for Leap
Best Screenplay
Ashley Cheung Yin Kei, Ho Siu Hong, Li Ho Ting and Ling Wai Chun for One Second Champion
Ho Ching Yi and Lam Ka Tung for Time
Au Kin Yee...
Best Film
Raging Fire
Anita
Limbo
Zero to Hero
Drifting
Best Director
Man Lim Chung for Keep Rolling
Benny Chan for Raging Fire
Longman Leung for Anita
Soi Cheang for Limbo
Peter Ho-Sun Chan for Leap
Best Screenplay
Ashley Cheung Yin Kei, Ho Siu Hong, Li Ho Ting and Ling Wai Chun for One Second Champion
Ho Ching Yi and Lam Ka Tung for Time
Au Kin Yee...
- 2/16/2022
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
Action thriller “Limbo” and “Anita,” a biopic about the late Canto-pop queen Anita Mui lead the nomination race for this year’s Hong Kong Film Awards, which is holding its 40th edition after being postponed from last year.
“Limbo,” a Cantonese noir that follows a cop duo’s hunt for a serial killer, received 14 nominations including best film, best director for Soi Cheang, best screenplay, best actor for Lam Ka-tung and best actress for Cya Liu. The film had earlier won the critics heart at the annual Hong Kong Film Critics’ Society Awards, which named “Limbo” as best film and Liu best actress for her role as a young addict.
“Anita” received 12 nominations, including best film and best director for Longman Leung. The film’s lead actress Louise Wong, who plays the role of the late superstar in her big screen debut, is nominated for both best actress and best new performer.
“Limbo,” a Cantonese noir that follows a cop duo’s hunt for a serial killer, received 14 nominations including best film, best director for Soi Cheang, best screenplay, best actor for Lam Ka-tung and best actress for Cya Liu. The film had earlier won the critics heart at the annual Hong Kong Film Critics’ Society Awards, which named “Limbo” as best film and Liu best actress for her role as a young addict.
“Anita” received 12 nominations, including best film and best director for Longman Leung. The film’s lead actress Louise Wong, who plays the role of the late superstar in her big screen debut, is nominated for both best actress and best new performer.
- 2/16/2022
- by Vivienne Chow
- Variety Film + TV
Other contenders include biopic ‘Anita’, ‘Drifting’ and ‘Raging Fire’, the final thriller by the late Benny Chan.
Soi Cheang’s crime thriller Limbo leads the pack for the 40th Hong Kong Film Awards (Hkfa) with 14 nominations, as the event prepares to return as an in-person ceremony following last year’s cancellation as a result of the pandemic.
The black and white crime noir, which premiered in Berlinale Special in 2021, secured nods including best film, best director and for actors Lam Ka Tung[/link], Cya Liu and Fish Liew. The thriller centres on a veteran detective and rookie copy who team up to catch a serial killer.
Soi Cheang’s crime thriller Limbo leads the pack for the 40th Hong Kong Film Awards (Hkfa) with 14 nominations, as the event prepares to return as an in-person ceremony following last year’s cancellation as a result of the pandemic.
The black and white crime noir, which premiered in Berlinale Special in 2021, secured nods including best film, best director and for actors Lam Ka Tung[/link], Cya Liu and Fish Liew. The thriller centres on a veteran detective and rookie copy who team up to catch a serial killer.
- 2/16/2022
- by Silvia Wong
- ScreenDaily
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Thursday revealed the 276 feature films that are eligible for consideration at the 94rd Oscars, which are set to air live March 27 on ABC from the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood.
The number is 90 fewer than last year’s 366, but this year’s eligibility period was only 10 months.
To be eligible for Best Picture consideration, films must have submitted a confidential Academy Representation and Inclusion Standards entry as part of the submission requirements. Nominations voting begins January 27 and concludes on February 1. The Oscar nominations will be revealed on Tuesday, February 8.
Today’s news comes about a month after the Academy released its shortlists in the International Film, Documentary Feature, Original Score, Original Song, Makeup & Hairstyling, Visual Effects, Sound and the Live-Action, Documentary and Animated Shorts categories.
Here is the full list of films eligible for Best Picture at the 94rd annual Academy Awards,...
The number is 90 fewer than last year’s 366, but this year’s eligibility period was only 10 months.
To be eligible for Best Picture consideration, films must have submitted a confidential Academy Representation and Inclusion Standards entry as part of the submission requirements. Nominations voting begins January 27 and concludes on February 1. The Oscar nominations will be revealed on Tuesday, February 8.
Today’s news comes about a month after the Academy released its shortlists in the International Film, Documentary Feature, Original Score, Original Song, Makeup & Hairstyling, Visual Effects, Sound and the Live-Action, Documentary and Animated Shorts categories.
Here is the full list of films eligible for Best Picture at the 94rd annual Academy Awards,...
- 1/20/2022
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
Action thriller “Limbo” was named best film of 2021 at the annual Hong Kong Film Critics’ Society Awards. The film’s female lead, Chinese actress Cya Liu, was crowned best actress for her role as a young addict.
Results of five awards and 10 recommended films were decided on Jan. 16, 2022 after nine hours of deliberation and three rounds of votes. A total of 48 films released in 2021 met the entry criteria for the awards, which is in its 28th edition this year.
Critics said the Cantonese noir “Limbo,” based on the novel of the same name by mainland author Lei Mi, was an “extraordinary work.” It was directed by Soi Cheang.
The grim, crumbling slum that serves as a backdrop for the story revolving around a cop duo’s hunt of a serial killer—just like how an imagined southern Chinese city depicted in the novel—is one metaphor for a “near future,...
Results of five awards and 10 recommended films were decided on Jan. 16, 2022 after nine hours of deliberation and three rounds of votes. A total of 48 films released in 2021 met the entry criteria for the awards, which is in its 28th edition this year.
Critics said the Cantonese noir “Limbo,” based on the novel of the same name by mainland author Lei Mi, was an “extraordinary work.” It was directed by Soi Cheang.
The grim, crumbling slum that serves as a backdrop for the story revolving around a cop duo’s hunt of a serial killer—just like how an imagined southern Chinese city depicted in the novel—is one metaphor for a “near future,...
- 1/19/2022
- by Vivienne Chow
- Variety Film + TV
The ceremony is set to take place on February 22.
Aleem Khan’s After Love, Ben Sharrock’s Limbo and Henry Blake’s County Lines are among the titles nominated for the UK and Ireland’s Casting Directors’ Guild’s (CDG) Casting Awards 2022.
Shaheen Baig has three nominations across two different categories.
Scroll down for nominees
Baig has been shortlisted for best casting in an independent film (under £3m) for her work on Khan’s debut After Love, starring Joanna Scanlan and Nasser Memarzia; and alongside Jonny Boutwood for Billie Piper’s directorial debut Rare Beasts, with a cast including Piper,...
Aleem Khan’s After Love, Ben Sharrock’s Limbo and Henry Blake’s County Lines are among the titles nominated for the UK and Ireland’s Casting Directors’ Guild’s (CDG) Casting Awards 2022.
Shaheen Baig has three nominations across two different categories.
Scroll down for nominees
Baig has been shortlisted for best casting in an independent film (under £3m) for her work on Khan’s debut After Love, starring Joanna Scanlan and Nasser Memarzia; and alongside Jonny Boutwood for Billie Piper’s directorial debut Rare Beasts, with a cast including Piper,...
- 1/18/2022
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
When Vikash Bhai read the script for “Limbo” — Ben Sharrock’s film about refugees stuck on a Scottish island desperately awaiting permission to stay in the United Kingdom — he was struck by the “honesty, the heart and the humor.”
While Bhai was raised in Leicester, England, the character of Farhad, a pop culture-loving Afghani, struck several chords with him: growing up the son of an Indian immigrant and single mother, he knew what it was like to feel like an outsider with the world you dream of — in his case, the drama schools in London — in sight, but just out of reach.
Yet he also related to Farhad’s indestructible optimism, which overrides any persisting sadness: “My mother is my inspiration — she always had hope and that’s where I drew the bravery in Farhad’s character from,” he says. “It’s an homage to my mom.”
Determined to land the role,...
While Bhai was raised in Leicester, England, the character of Farhad, a pop culture-loving Afghani, struck several chords with him: growing up the son of an Indian immigrant and single mother, he knew what it was like to feel like an outsider with the world you dream of — in his case, the drama schools in London — in sight, but just out of reach.
Yet he also related to Farhad’s indestructible optimism, which overrides any persisting sadness: “My mother is my inspiration — she always had hope and that’s where I drew the bravery in Farhad’s character from,” he says. “It’s an homage to my mom.”
Determined to land the role,...
- 1/14/2022
- by Stuart Miller
- Variety Film + TV
Revisiting last year's introduction when putting together 2021's favorites, it is with a shock to realize how little has changed in the wildly disrupted world of cinema under the shroud of the pandemic. The urge to copy-and-paste the whole shebang is quite tempting indeed.What can we say about this year, 2021? We got a little more used to long-term instability. Cinemas and festivals re-opened, only for some to close again. We, like many, ventured carefully out into the world to finally see films again with audiences, all kinds: nervous ones, uproarious ones, spartan ones, and delighted ones. It was an experience both anxious and joyous. We also doubled down on the challenges, but also the pleasures, of home viewing: of virtual cinemas and virtual festivals, of straight to streaming premieres, of trying to capture a social joy in semi-isolation by connecting with others over experiences shared and disparate.The long...
- 12/27/2021
- MUBI
From Petite Maman to The Father to The Lost Daughter, our critic lists his top films of 2021 – and surveys the year in cinema. Have your say in the comments
This was the year that the cinema emerged, blinking, from its enforced hibernation, and the new James Bond film, which was beginning to feel like some sort of commercial or cultural myth, actually came out to tumultuous box office business. International film festivals were once again happening in reality. And some old debates and quarrels have been revived. Cannes artistic director Thierry Frémaux, who has decided against scheduling any films that did not have a big-screen cinema release, pointedly asked his audience at the opening press conference if Netflix has ever nurtured any directors from the beginning of their career.
Answer came there none – although Twitter was lively on the subject afterwards. But maybe 2021 was the time to put this argument to bed.
This was the year that the cinema emerged, blinking, from its enforced hibernation, and the new James Bond film, which was beginning to feel like some sort of commercial or cultural myth, actually came out to tumultuous box office business. International film festivals were once again happening in reality. And some old debates and quarrels have been revived. Cannes artistic director Thierry Frémaux, who has decided against scheduling any films that did not have a big-screen cinema release, pointedly asked his audience at the opening press conference if Netflix has ever nurtured any directors from the beginning of their career.
Answer came there none – although Twitter was lively on the subject afterwards. But maybe 2021 was the time to put this argument to bed.
- 12/16/2021
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Wake up, Neo.
It’s December 2021 and to celebrate HBO Max is bringing back a classic sci-fi franchise for one last ride. The list of new releases on HBO Max this month is highlighted by The Matrix Resurrections on Dec. 22. This is the long-awaited return to the reality-bending saga from The Wachowskis. Writer/director Lana Wachowski returns as do stars Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss as Neo and Trinity, respectively. This time around it’s 20 years after The Matrix Revolutions and “Neo lives a seemingly ordinary life as Thomas A. Anderson in San Francisco where his therapist prescribes him blue pills. Neither he nor Trinity recognize each other. However, Morpheus offers him the red pill and reopens his mind to the world of the Matrix.”
While The Matrix Resurrections is the big draw this time around, HBO Max has some other intriguing originals to speak of. The David Thewlis and...
It’s December 2021 and to celebrate HBO Max is bringing back a classic sci-fi franchise for one last ride. The list of new releases on HBO Max this month is highlighted by The Matrix Resurrections on Dec. 22. This is the long-awaited return to the reality-bending saga from The Wachowskis. Writer/director Lana Wachowski returns as do stars Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss as Neo and Trinity, respectively. This time around it’s 20 years after The Matrix Revolutions and “Neo lives a seemingly ordinary life as Thomas A. Anderson in San Francisco where his therapist prescribes him blue pills. Neither he nor Trinity recognize each other. However, Morpheus offers him the red pill and reopens his mind to the world of the Matrix.”
While The Matrix Resurrections is the big draw this time around, HBO Max has some other intriguing originals to speak of. The David Thewlis and...
- 12/1/2021
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
“Now, we’re producing over 100 projects, we’ve calculated we’ll be working on nearly 130 projects next year to supply both our platform networks,” The Walt Disney Company LatAm’s Leonardo Aranguibel commented at a Ventana Sur panel on Tuesday.
How can Disney try to ensure quality at such a massive production levels? “We look for the best talents, not only in front of the cameras but also behind,” Aranguibel answered.
Most streaming platform execs would say the same.
So showcases like Ventana Sur’s SoloSeries are likely to flower in the next few years. In their first collaboration at SoloSeries, this year Netflix and Ventana Sur are offering Ar$500,000 to the winner among five drama series from upcoming Argentine women creators. In addition, all projects will receive advice on their work from Carolina Leconte, director of original series for Latin America at Netflix.
“To tell authentic, unique stories, it...
How can Disney try to ensure quality at such a massive production levels? “We look for the best talents, not only in front of the cameras but also behind,” Aranguibel answered.
Most streaming platform execs would say the same.
So showcases like Ventana Sur’s SoloSeries are likely to flower in the next few years. In their first collaboration at SoloSeries, this year Netflix and Ventana Sur are offering Ar$500,000 to the winner among five drama series from upcoming Argentine women creators. In addition, all projects will receive advice on their work from Carolina Leconte, director of original series for Latin America at Netflix.
“To tell authentic, unique stories, it...
- 12/1/2021
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Farhana Bhula will join Film4 in January.
The UK’s Film4 has appointed Farhana Bhula as a senior commissioning executive, with a January start date. She joins from the BFI Film Fund where she is presently a senior development and production executive.
Bhula will commission and oversee production on new projects, as well as co-managing the development team alongside fellow senior commissioning executive David Kimbangi and head of development Ben Coren. She will report to Film4’s creative director Ollie Madden.
Bhula replaces Julia Oh, who returns to the US after five years at Film4 to take up a role...
The UK’s Film4 has appointed Farhana Bhula as a senior commissioning executive, with a January start date. She joins from the BFI Film Fund where she is presently a senior development and production executive.
Bhula will commission and oversee production on new projects, as well as co-managing the development team alongside fellow senior commissioning executive David Kimbangi and head of development Ben Coren. She will report to Film4’s creative director Ollie Madden.
Bhula replaces Julia Oh, who returns to the US after five years at Film4 to take up a role...
- 11/15/2021
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof has won this year’s $60,000 Sydney Film Prize for There Is No Evil, beating out 11 other Sydney Film Festival (Sff) competition films.
The winner of last year’s Berlinale Golden Bear triumphed amongst a field that included Leah Purcell’s The Drovers Wife The Legend of Molly Johnson, Asia Pacific Screen Awards winner, Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Drive My Car, and Ben Sharrock’s Limbo, which was given a special mention.
Designed to examine the impact of capital punishment on Iranian society, the 2020 drama follows four thematically linked stories about individuals facing complex dilemmas.
In awarding the prize at yesterday’s ceremony at the State Theatre, Sff Jury president David Michôd said the There Is No Evil was “adventurous with form and genre, beautifully performed and realised with a deft touch for simple, elegant filmmaking craft”.
“Picking a winner from a collection of films as diverse as this one is never easy,...
The winner of last year’s Berlinale Golden Bear triumphed amongst a field that included Leah Purcell’s The Drovers Wife The Legend of Molly Johnson, Asia Pacific Screen Awards winner, Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Drive My Car, and Ben Sharrock’s Limbo, which was given a special mention.
Designed to examine the impact of capital punishment on Iranian society, the 2020 drama follows four thematically linked stories about individuals facing complex dilemmas.
In awarding the prize at yesterday’s ceremony at the State Theatre, Sff Jury president David Michôd said the There Is No Evil was “adventurous with form and genre, beautifully performed and realised with a deft touch for simple, elegant filmmaking craft”.
“Picking a winner from a collection of films as diverse as this one is never easy,...
- 11/15/2021
- by Sean Slatter
- IF.com.au
Ben Sharrock’s Limbo received a special mention.
Iranian writer/director Mohammad Rasoulof’s There Is No Evil has won the A$60,000 Sydney Film Prize, and UK writer/director Ben Sharrock’s Limbo received a special mention.
The Sydney Film Prize is awarded to the most “audacious, cutting-edge and courageous” feature in Sydney Film Festival’s official competition line-up. Other films vying for the prize at this year’s festival included The Hand Of God, Flee and Drive My Car.
Made up of four stories and containing much moral complexity, There Is No Evil looks at how the existence of capital punishment profoundly affects society.
Iranian writer/director Mohammad Rasoulof’s There Is No Evil has won the A$60,000 Sydney Film Prize, and UK writer/director Ben Sharrock’s Limbo received a special mention.
The Sydney Film Prize is awarded to the most “audacious, cutting-edge and courageous” feature in Sydney Film Festival’s official competition line-up. Other films vying for the prize at this year’s festival included The Hand Of God, Flee and Drive My Car.
Made up of four stories and containing much moral complexity, There Is No Evil looks at how the existence of capital punishment profoundly affects society.
- 11/14/2021
- by Sandy George
- ScreenDaily
Valdimar Jóhannsson’s Icelandic-Swedish-Polish drama “Lamb,” starring Noomi Rapace was awarded best film and actress for Rapace at the 54th edition of Sitges’ International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia, which wrapped Sunday.
The prizes add to an Originality Prize which the film received when competing at July’s Cannes Un Certain Regard.
“Lamb,” a horror-comedy combo, follows protagonist Maria, played by Rapace, a woman living with her husband in the total loneliness of the Icelandic countryside. According to a Variety review, “creepy-funny-weird-sad ‘Lamb’ proves just how far disbelief can be suspended if you’re in the hands of a director — and a cast, and a SFX/puppetry department — who really commit to the bit.” Lamb is produced by Go to Sheep, Black Spark Film & TV and Madants with New Europe Film Sales and A24 attached.
Rapace shared best actress honors with Susanne Jensen in Peter Brunner’s “Luzifer.” Justin Kurzel...
The prizes add to an Originality Prize which the film received when competing at July’s Cannes Un Certain Regard.
“Lamb,” a horror-comedy combo, follows protagonist Maria, played by Rapace, a woman living with her husband in the total loneliness of the Icelandic countryside. According to a Variety review, “creepy-funny-weird-sad ‘Lamb’ proves just how far disbelief can be suspended if you’re in the hands of a director — and a cast, and a SFX/puppetry department — who really commit to the bit.” Lamb is produced by Go to Sheep, Black Spark Film & TV and Madants with New Europe Film Sales and A24 attached.
Rapace shared best actress honors with Susanne Jensen in Peter Brunner’s “Luzifer.” Justin Kurzel...
- 10/18/2021
- by Emilio Mayorga
- Variety Film + TV
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSAbove: Fox Maxy's Maat Means Land (2020) MoMA has announced the lineup and schedule for “To The Lighthouse,” a thrilling carte blanche program by curator Mark McElhatten featuring new films by Nathaniel Dorsky, Ernie Gehr, Jodie Mack, Dani and Sheilah ReStack, and more, along with older films by Rivette, Joseph H. Lewis, Claire Denis, and Marguerite Duras.An essential annual list, Filmmaker Magazine's 25 new faces of film for 2021 includes Kate Gondwe (the founder of Dezda Films), filmmaker Fox Maxy, Omnes Films (the collective behind Tyler Taormina's Ham on Rye), and others. A24 and Emma Stone’s production company, Fruit Tree Banner, have come together to back Jane Schoenbrun's I Saw The TV Glow. The film, a follow-up to Schoenbrun's debut from this year, We’re All Going to the World’s Fair, follows...
- 10/13/2021
- MUBI
Limbo, Focus Features’ darkly comic refugee drama that landed a Cannes 2020 badge, has emerged with the most number of 2021 BAFTA Scotland awards nominations.
Unveiled on Wednesday, they saw Ben Sharrock’s sophomore feature come away five nominations, including for best film, best actor for both Amir El-Masry and Vikash Bhai, best director and best writer film/TV. Sharrock, El-Masry, Bhai and producer Irune Gurtabai are all first-time nominees.
In the director category, Sharrock goes up against Kevin Macdonald, nominated for The Mauritanian (adding to the five BAFTA nominations it received earlier this year), and Eva Riley for Perfect 10.
Elsewhere, Tilda Swinton was ...
Unveiled on Wednesday, they saw Ben Sharrock’s sophomore feature come away five nominations, including for best film, best actor for both Amir El-Masry and Vikash Bhai, best director and best writer film/TV. Sharrock, El-Masry, Bhai and producer Irune Gurtabai are all first-time nominees.
In the director category, Sharrock goes up against Kevin Macdonald, nominated for The Mauritanian (adding to the five BAFTA nominations it received earlier this year), and Eva Riley for Perfect 10.
Elsewhere, Tilda Swinton was ...
- 10/13/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Limbo, Focus Features’ darkly comic refugee drama that landed a Cannes 2020 badge, has emerged with the most number of 2021 BAFTA Scotland awards nominations.
Unveiled on Wednesday, they saw Ben Sharrock’s sophomore feature come away five nominations, including for best film, best actor for both Amir El-Masry and Vikash Bhai, best director and best writer film/TV. Sharrock, El-Masry, Bhai and producer Irune Gurtabai are all first-time nominees.
In the director category, Sharrock goes up against Kevin Macdonald, nominated for The Mauritanian (adding to the five BAFTA nominations it received earlier this year), and Eva Riley for Perfect 10.
Elsewhere, Tilda Swinton was ...
Unveiled on Wednesday, they saw Ben Sharrock’s sophomore feature come away five nominations, including for best film, best actor for both Amir El-Masry and Vikash Bhai, best director and best writer film/TV. Sharrock, El-Masry, Bhai and producer Irune Gurtabai are all first-time nominees.
In the director category, Sharrock goes up against Kevin Macdonald, nominated for The Mauritanian (adding to the five BAFTA nominations it received earlier this year), and Eva Riley for Perfect 10.
Elsewhere, Tilda Swinton was ...
- 10/13/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Disney has renewed for a second season Argentine psychological drama “Limbo – Hasta Que Lo Decida,” one of the companies earliest Star Plus Originals in Latin America.
The new order was announced this Saturday Oct. 9 by Leonardo Aranguibel, VP of production at the Walt Disney Company LatAm, in Cannes just after the world premiere of “Limbo” at Canneseries, where the 10-part series was the first to bow in main competition.
The decision to order Season 2 was made given the results of the first 10 episodes, now in post-production, and selection for Canneseries, Aranguibel explained.
Produced by Star Original Productions in partnership with Pablo Bossi’s Pampa Films and Gloriamundi Producciones, the series is developed by Argentina’s Mariano Cohen and Gastón Duprat, writer-directors of the Venice feature “Official Competition,” starring Penelope Cruz and Antonio Banderas, and “The Distinguished Citizen.” “Limbo” is directed by Agustina Macri (“Soledad”) and Fabiana Tiscornia (“La reina del...
The new order was announced this Saturday Oct. 9 by Leonardo Aranguibel, VP of production at the Walt Disney Company LatAm, in Cannes just after the world premiere of “Limbo” at Canneseries, where the 10-part series was the first to bow in main competition.
The decision to order Season 2 was made given the results of the first 10 episodes, now in post-production, and selection for Canneseries, Aranguibel explained.
Produced by Star Original Productions in partnership with Pablo Bossi’s Pampa Films and Gloriamundi Producciones, the series is developed by Argentina’s Mariano Cohen and Gastón Duprat, writer-directors of the Venice feature “Official Competition,” starring Penelope Cruz and Antonio Banderas, and “The Distinguished Citizen.” “Limbo” is directed by Agustina Macri (“Soledad”) and Fabiana Tiscornia (“La reina del...
- 10/10/2021
- by John Hopewell and Pablo Sandoval
- Variety Film + TV
Ben Sharrock's Limbo is exclusively showing on Mubi in the United Kingdom and Ireland starting September 23, 2021 in the series The New Auteurs.An urgent yet deliberately quirky film, Ben Sharrock’s brilliant Limbo is superficially another fish out of water story. Set in a remote part of Scotland, it resembles the old Ealing Comedies, like Whisky Galore!, but with incredibly dark social realism running through it. The fish is Syrian asylum-seeker Omar who, along with fellow refugees from different countries, has been sent to a place so unwelcoming and bleak—a local place for local people—that desperation quickly sets in. Omar has his trusty instrument, his grandfather’s oud, for company and a determination and outlook that sustains him, but it’s definitely not a rose-tinted story. The cherry on the top of this drama is casting Sidse Babett Knudsen (Borgen) as the woman helping them learn customs and language.
- 10/8/2021
- MUBI
Kurosawa Kiyoshi’s period action drama “Wife of a Spy” was the biggest winner at the 15th edition of the Asian Film Awards. It collected three major prizes including the best film award.
The 18 prizes were handed out Friday evening at a hybrid ceremony with the in-person component held at Busan’s Paradise Hotel. Organizers said that 80 nominees attended either in person or online. Among those in Busan to tread the Afa red carpet were Korean stars and prize-winners Lee Byung-hun and Yoo Ah-in.
Directors Lee Chang-dong and Hamaguchi Ryusuke were also in attendance, along with Korean stars Jun Jong-seo, Park Jeong-min, Jang Yoon-ju, Kim Hyun-bin and Gong Seung-yeon.
“Wife of a Spy” was conceived as a TV film. A theatrical version debuted last year at the Venice Film festival and there won the Silver Lion. It enjoyed a high-profile festival career with subsequent stops at San Sebastian, El Gouna and Hainan,...
The 18 prizes were handed out Friday evening at a hybrid ceremony with the in-person component held at Busan’s Paradise Hotel. Organizers said that 80 nominees attended either in person or online. Among those in Busan to tread the Afa red carpet were Korean stars and prize-winners Lee Byung-hun and Yoo Ah-in.
Directors Lee Chang-dong and Hamaguchi Ryusuke were also in attendance, along with Korean stars Jun Jong-seo, Park Jeong-min, Jang Yoon-ju, Kim Hyun-bin and Gong Seung-yeon.
“Wife of a Spy” was conceived as a TV film. A theatrical version debuted last year at the Venice Film festival and there won the Silver Lion. It enjoyed a high-profile festival career with subsequent stops at San Sebastian, El Gouna and Hainan,...
- 10/8/2021
- by Patrick Frater and Rebecca Souw
- Variety Film + TV
Ben Sharrock’s feature scooped Hitchcock d’Or Ciné and the public prize feature film award
Ben Sharrock’s Limbo has won the Hitchcock d’Or Ciné and the public prize feature film award at the 32nd edition of Dinard Festival of British Film, which took place as a hybrid event from September 29 to October 3.
Sharrock’s Bifa award-winning sophomore feature stars Screen Star of Tomorrow Amir El-Masry as a promising young musician who has fled the conflict in Syria, and finds himself stranded with a group of other refugees on a remote Scottish island.
Nika McGuigan received a posthumous...
Ben Sharrock’s Limbo has won the Hitchcock d’Or Ciné and the public prize feature film award at the 32nd edition of Dinard Festival of British Film, which took place as a hybrid event from September 29 to October 3.
Sharrock’s Bifa award-winning sophomore feature stars Screen Star of Tomorrow Amir El-Masry as a promising young musician who has fled the conflict in Syria, and finds himself stranded with a group of other refugees on a remote Scottish island.
Nika McGuigan received a posthumous...
- 10/7/2021
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: A trio of Sweden’s biggest acting talents will headline Limbo, an original six-part drama series being made for Nordic major Nent Group’s in-house streamer Viaplay.
Rakel Wärmländer (Eva & Adam), Louise Peterhoff (The Truth Will Out) and Sofia Helin (The Bridge) will lead the show, which is produced by Warner Bros Itvp Sweden (Nent Group’s Love Me and the Canneseries winner Partisan).
Here’s the synopsis: A late-night phone call changes everything for Ebba (Rakel Wärmländer), My (Sofia Helin) and Gloria (Louise Peterhoff). The news that their respective sons have been involved in a serious car crash puts their friendship and priorities to the ultimate test, and with Ebba’s son Jakob hovering between life and death, the three women find themselves in a devastatingly uncertain situation – in limbo.
The series is scripted by Emma Broström (Knocking) and Rakel Wärmländer...
Rakel Wärmländer (Eva & Adam), Louise Peterhoff (The Truth Will Out) and Sofia Helin (The Bridge) will lead the show, which is produced by Warner Bros Itvp Sweden (Nent Group’s Love Me and the Canneseries winner Partisan).
Here’s the synopsis: A late-night phone call changes everything for Ebba (Rakel Wärmländer), My (Sofia Helin) and Gloria (Louise Peterhoff). The news that their respective sons have been involved in a serious car crash puts their friendship and priorities to the ultimate test, and with Ebba’s son Jakob hovering between life and death, the three women find themselves in a devastatingly uncertain situation – in limbo.
The series is scripted by Emma Broström (Knocking) and Rakel Wärmländer...
- 10/7/2021
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
With Nsw reopening for the fully vaccinated, Sydney Film Festival is set to finally go ahead, with a line-up that director Nashen Moodley believes is one the most diverse and exciting in the event’s 68-year history.
Traditionally held in June, this year has seen the festival pushed back twice, initially to August, and then November.
Yet when the Delta outbreak nixed the August edition, it was unclear that the festival would realistically be held at all. Indeed, Sff will mark the first major festival event to occur in Sydney’s CBD post-lockdown, a notion that fills Moodley with “excitement but trepidation”.
The move to November meant the festival was tasked with reconfirming every title that had been programmed so far. Overall, it lost about 20 films, but gained almost 30, including some of the year’s most anticipated out of Venice and Toronto.
Among the new additions are Jane Campion’s...
Traditionally held in June, this year has seen the festival pushed back twice, initially to August, and then November.
Yet when the Delta outbreak nixed the August edition, it was unclear that the festival would realistically be held at all. Indeed, Sff will mark the first major festival event to occur in Sydney’s CBD post-lockdown, a notion that fills Moodley with “excitement but trepidation”.
The move to November meant the festival was tasked with reconfirming every title that had been programmed so far. Overall, it lost about 20 films, but gained almost 30, including some of the year’s most anticipated out of Venice and Toronto.
Among the new additions are Jane Campion’s...
- 10/6/2021
- by Jackie Keast
- IF.com.au
The programme is now in its seventh year and will run October 8-11.
The British Film Institute (BFI) Network has announced the 12 filmmakers who will take part in the London Film Festival’s (Lff) annual professional development programme, Network@Lff.
The programme, now in its seventh year, is supported by the BFI with National Lottery funding, and will take place from October 8-11.
The 12 filmmakers were selected from 360 applicants. The BFI said the programme “celebrates difference in approach and perspective, and seeks out filmmakers looking to disrupt conventions”.
This year’s line-up includes Bifa-nominated writer, director and producer Jessi Gutch,...
The British Film Institute (BFI) Network has announced the 12 filmmakers who will take part in the London Film Festival’s (Lff) annual professional development programme, Network@Lff.
The programme, now in its seventh year, is supported by the BFI with National Lottery funding, and will take place from October 8-11.
The 12 filmmakers were selected from 360 applicants. The BFI said the programme “celebrates difference in approach and perspective, and seeks out filmmakers looking to disrupt conventions”.
This year’s line-up includes Bifa-nominated writer, director and producer Jessi Gutch,...
- 10/5/2021
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
The programme is now in its seventh year and will run October 8-11.
The British Film Institute (BFI) has announced the 12 filmmakers who will take part in the London Film Festival’s (Lff) annual professional development programme, Network@Lff.
The programme, now in its seventh year, is supported by the BFI with National Lottery funding, and will take place from October 8-11.
The 12 filmmakers were selected from 360 applicants. The BFI said the programme “celebrates difference in approach and perspective, and seeks out filmmakers looking to disrupt conventions”.
This year’s line-up includes Bifa-nominated writer, director and producer Jessi Gutch, whose...
The British Film Institute (BFI) has announced the 12 filmmakers who will take part in the London Film Festival’s (Lff) annual professional development programme, Network@Lff.
The programme, now in its seventh year, is supported by the BFI with National Lottery funding, and will take place from October 8-11.
The 12 filmmakers were selected from 360 applicants. The BFI said the programme “celebrates difference in approach and perspective, and seeks out filmmakers looking to disrupt conventions”.
This year’s line-up includes Bifa-nominated writer, director and producer Jessi Gutch, whose...
- 10/5/2021
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
The London East Asia Film Festival (Leaff) celebrates its sixth edition in 2021 with a commitment to diverse, culturally impactful cinema entertainment. After a year of shut cinema doors, Leaff is returning home to London’s big screens with an expanded catalogue to help stimulate the renaissance of cinema and promote cultural empathy.
With cinematic offerings from eight regions – China, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam – this year’s programme is an ode to the quiet and independent voices from East Asia. Two international premieres, five European premieres and 18 UK premieres will take place at our state-art-of-the-art venues, Odeon Luxe Leicester Square, The Cinema at Selfridges, as well as the newly opened Odeon Luxe West End and The Chiswick Cinema. The festival is divided into five strands: Official Selection, Competition, Hong Kong Focus, Documentary, and Retrospective.
Opening Gala
The festival opens with a memorial to the late Benny Chan...
With cinematic offerings from eight regions – China, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam – this year’s programme is an ode to the quiet and independent voices from East Asia. Two international premieres, five European premieres and 18 UK premieres will take place at our state-art-of-the-art venues, Odeon Luxe Leicester Square, The Cinema at Selfridges, as well as the newly opened Odeon Luxe West End and The Chiswick Cinema. The festival is divided into five strands: Official Selection, Competition, Hong Kong Focus, Documentary, and Retrospective.
Opening Gala
The festival opens with a memorial to the late Benny Chan...
- 9/25/2021
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
Alejandro G. Iñárritu has wrapped production in Mexico City on his next film, “Bardo (or False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths).” The new movie is being billed by Iñárritu’s representatives as “a nostalgic comedy set against an epic journey.” The film marks Iñárritu’s feature film follow-up to the 2015 survival drama “The Revenant,” although he did return in 2017 with the acclaimed virtual installation project “Carne y Arena.” With “Bardo,” the director returned to shoot and produce a film entirely in Mexico for the first time since “Amores Perros” over 20 years ago.
An official release on “Bardo” reads: “Written by Alejandro G. Iñárritu and Nicolás Giacobone, ‘Bardo’ is a nostalgic comedy set against an epic journey. A chronicle of uncertainties where the main character, a renowned Mexican journalist and documentary filmmaker, returns to his native country facing his identity, familial relationships, the folly of his memories as well as...
An official release on “Bardo” reads: “Written by Alejandro G. Iñárritu and Nicolás Giacobone, ‘Bardo’ is a nostalgic comedy set against an epic journey. A chronicle of uncertainties where the main character, a renowned Mexican journalist and documentary filmmaker, returns to his native country facing his identity, familial relationships, the folly of his memories as well as...
- 9/23/2021
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
The Academy (Afaa) revealed the nominees for the 15th Asian Film Awards today. Thirty-six films from eight Asian regions will compete for 16 awards. China’s One Second, South Korea’s The Book of Fish, India’s The Disciple, and two Japanese films, Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy and Wife of a Spy, compete for this year’s “Best Film Award.”
Three Hong Kong films were nominated for this year’s Afa, including Drifting, directed by Jun Li, nominated for Best Supporting Actor and Actress. Limbo, directed by Cheang Pou-soi, was nominated for Best Actor, Best Cinematography, Best Production Design and Best sound; Adam Wong’s The Way We Keep Dancing was nominated for Best Original Music.
The Afaa is honoured that legendary South Korean filmmaker Lee Chang-dong will be this year’s Jury President. Lee was the lifetime award recipient at the 13th Asian Film Awards.He won the “Best...
Three Hong Kong films were nominated for this year’s Afa, including Drifting, directed by Jun Li, nominated for Best Supporting Actor and Actress. Limbo, directed by Cheang Pou-soi, was nominated for Best Actor, Best Cinematography, Best Production Design and Best sound; Adam Wong’s The Way We Keep Dancing was nominated for Best Original Music.
The Afaa is honoured that legendary South Korean filmmaker Lee Chang-dong will be this year’s Jury President. Lee was the lifetime award recipient at the 13th Asian Film Awards.He won the “Best...
- 9/9/2021
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
China’s “One Second,” South Korea’s “The Book of Fish,” India’s “The Disciple,” and two Japanese films, “Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy” and “Wife of a Spy” will compete for this year’s best film prize at the Asian Film Awards
The awards again will be held again in conjunction with the Busan International Film Festival. The ceremony, on Oct. 8, 2021, will operate in a hybrid form combining on-site attendance in Busan and online participation.
In 2020, the 14th Asian Film Awards moved to Busan for the first time and was held online due to Covid-19 restrictions. In previous years, the ceremony was held in Hong Kong and Macau.
Those nominated for best director included Zhang Yimou (for “One Second”), Lee Joon-ik (for “The Book of Fish”), Hamaguchi Ryusuke (for “Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy”), Kurosawa Kiyoshi (for “Wife of a Spy”) and Kazakhstan’s Adilkhan Yerzhanov (for “Yellow Cat”).
Mainland Chinese thriller “Cliff Walkers,...
The awards again will be held again in conjunction with the Busan International Film Festival. The ceremony, on Oct. 8, 2021, will operate in a hybrid form combining on-site attendance in Busan and online participation.
In 2020, the 14th Asian Film Awards moved to Busan for the first time and was held online due to Covid-19 restrictions. In previous years, the ceremony was held in Hong Kong and Macau.
Those nominated for best director included Zhang Yimou (for “One Second”), Lee Joon-ik (for “The Book of Fish”), Hamaguchi Ryusuke (for “Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy”), Kurosawa Kiyoshi (for “Wife of a Spy”) and Kazakhstan’s Adilkhan Yerzhanov (for “Yellow Cat”).
Mainland Chinese thriller “Cliff Walkers,...
- 9/9/2021
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Further new openers include ‘Wildfire’, ‘Rise of the Footsoldier: Origins’.
Blockbuster and independent titles are on releaes at UK and Ireland cinemas this weekend, with Disney debuting Shang-Chi And The Legend of the Ten Rings, and Mubi launching Leos Carax’s Cannes opener Annette.
Playing in 643 locations for Disney and made under the Marvel Studios banner, Shang-Chi And The Legend of the Ten Rings tells the story of a master of unarmed weaponry-based Kung Fu, who is forced to confront his past after being drawn into the Ten Rings organisation.
The film is a substantial step up in budget and...
Blockbuster and independent titles are on releaes at UK and Ireland cinemas this weekend, with Disney debuting Shang-Chi And The Legend of the Ten Rings, and Mubi launching Leos Carax’s Cannes opener Annette.
Playing in 643 locations for Disney and made under the Marvel Studios banner, Shang-Chi And The Legend of the Ten Rings tells the story of a master of unarmed weaponry-based Kung Fu, who is forced to confront his past after being drawn into the Ten Rings organisation.
The film is a substantial step up in budget and...
- 9/3/2021
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
The festival films will all be split across six strands, including competition titles.
Dinard Festival of British Film has set the programme and jury for its 32nd edition, which will take place from September 29 to October 3 both in-person in northern France and online.
Following the cancellation of the 2020 edition due to the pandemic, the festival returns with six new thematic strands, all exhibiting different aspects of UK and Irish film.
‘Dinard Rocks The Casbah’ presents four features exploring different musical genres – reggae, punk, britpop and techno. ‘Irish Eyes In Dinard’ includes five recent Irish features including Phyllida Lloyd’s Herself,...
Dinard Festival of British Film has set the programme and jury for its 32nd edition, which will take place from September 29 to October 3 both in-person in northern France and online.
Following the cancellation of the 2020 edition due to the pandemic, the festival returns with six new thematic strands, all exhibiting different aspects of UK and Irish film.
‘Dinard Rocks The Casbah’ presents four features exploring different musical genres – reggae, punk, britpop and techno. ‘Irish Eyes In Dinard’ includes five recent Irish features including Phyllida Lloyd’s Herself,...
- 9/1/2021
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Since 2011, the Edinburgh Film Festival’s Talent Lab has nurtured a number of rising filmmakers through an assortment of masterclasses, workshops and individual mentoring sessions: Talents like Ben Sharrock (“Limbo”), Eva Riley (a recent winner BIFA winner for “Perfect 10”) and Rob Savage (“Host”) are alumni of the program. In 2019, however, the program yielded the Talent Lab Connects offshoot, in which a smaller selection of writers, directors and producers are given the chance to develop specific feature film or series projects with a range of industry mentors.
Now in its third year — and its second of the program taking place online — the program will be headed again by renowned U.K. script editor Kate Leys, whose recent credits include Simon Amstell’s “Benjamin,” Bart Layton’s “American Animals” and John Maclean’s “Slow West.”
Six projects have been selected for Talent Lab Connects:
“A Man at the Window”: Yorkshire-born...
Now in its third year — and its second of the program taking place online — the program will be headed again by renowned U.K. script editor Kate Leys, whose recent credits include Simon Amstell’s “Benjamin,” Bart Layton’s “American Animals” and John Maclean’s “Slow West.”
Six projects have been selected for Talent Lab Connects:
“A Man at the Window”: Yorkshire-born...
- 8/24/2021
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
Philip Ettinger and Daniel Diemer will star in “Little Brother,” a new indie dramedy that is heading into production. The debut feature film is from Korean-American writer and director, Sheridan O’Donnell.
“Little Brother” follows Jake, played by Diemer, as he drives his older brother Pete, played by Ettinger, home for a family intervention after his most recent suicide attempt. While on the drive, the two brothers struggle to come to terms with the past, while trying to survive and cope with the present. “Little Brother” is inspired by a close friend of O’Donnell’s, who took his own life — with the film aiming to destigmatize and push conversations surrounding mental health and suicide.
Ettinger co-starred in HBO’s “I Know This Much Is True,” alongside Mark Ruffalo, and was the lead in the film, “The Evening Hour,” which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and will be released this August.
“Little Brother” follows Jake, played by Diemer, as he drives his older brother Pete, played by Ettinger, home for a family intervention after his most recent suicide attempt. While on the drive, the two brothers struggle to come to terms with the past, while trying to survive and cope with the present. “Little Brother” is inspired by a close friend of O’Donnell’s, who took his own life — with the film aiming to destigmatize and push conversations surrounding mental health and suicide.
Ettinger co-starred in HBO’s “I Know This Much Is True,” alongside Mark Ruffalo, and was the lead in the film, “The Evening Hour,” which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and will be released this August.
- 8/16/2021
- by Jennifer Yuma
- Variety Film + TV
Strong start for the Ryan Reynolds blockbuster.
Rank Film (Distributor) Three-day gross (Aug 13-15) Total gross to date Week 1 Free Guy (Disney) £2.39m £2.47m 1 2 The Paw Patrol Movie (Paramount) £1.26m £2.41m 1 3 The Suicide Squad (Warner Bros) £1.07m £10.8m 3 4 Jungle Cruise (Disney) £845,000 £8.5m 3 5 Space Jam: A New Legacy (Warner Bros) £505,000 £10.1m 4
Gbp to Usd conversion rate: 1.39
Disney’s Ryan Reynolds blockbuster Free Guy has opened with £2.39m to top the UK-Ireland box office this weekend.
The film scored a £3,824 average from 625 locations, and has £2.47m including previews.
This is a decent return for what is a rare ‘original’ big-budget studio film...
Rank Film (Distributor) Three-day gross (Aug 13-15) Total gross to date Week 1 Free Guy (Disney) £2.39m £2.47m 1 2 The Paw Patrol Movie (Paramount) £1.26m £2.41m 1 3 The Suicide Squad (Warner Bros) £1.07m £10.8m 3 4 Jungle Cruise (Disney) £845,000 £8.5m 3 5 Space Jam: A New Legacy (Warner Bros) £505,000 £10.1m 4
Gbp to Usd conversion rate: 1.39
Disney’s Ryan Reynolds blockbuster Free Guy has opened with £2.39m to top the UK-Ireland box office this weekend.
The film scored a £3,824 average from 625 locations, and has £2.47m including previews.
This is a decent return for what is a rare ‘original’ big-budget studio film...
- 8/16/2021
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSAbove: The Souvenir Part II. (Courtesy of A24)NYFF has announced its full main slate, which includes Paul Verhoeven's Benedetta, Joanna Hogg's The Souvenir Part II, Julia Ducournau's Titane, Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Memoria, and more. A long-gestating epistolary documentary that consists of a dialogue between Jean-Luc Godard and Iranian filmmaker and intellectual Ebrahim Golestan is set to premiere on the international festival circuit. The project consisted of Golestan sending emails with text and no visuals to Godard, who would respond with visuals and aphorisms. Mel Brooks' memoir, My Remarkable Life in Show Business, will be released November 30. The book is said to follow the "peaks and valleys" of Brooks' storied life beginning with his childhood, retold with his signature irreverent humor. Recommended VIEWINGThe official trailer for Andreas Fontana's riveting political thriller Azor,...
- 8/11/2021
- MUBI
Keep track of when films are coming out in the territory.
Cinemas in the UK and Ireland are set to reopen this spring, following months of closures due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Screen is listing the release dates for films in the territory in the calendar below. For distributors who wish to add/amend a date on the calendar, please get in touch with Screen here.
Indoor cinemas in England and Scotland will be allowed to reopen from May 17; with dates yet to be confirmed for Wales, Northern Ireland and Ireland.
Screen is also tracking reopening dates of cinemas in...
Cinemas in the UK and Ireland are set to reopen this spring, following months of closures due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Screen is listing the release dates for films in the territory in the calendar below. For distributors who wish to add/amend a date on the calendar, please get in touch with Screen here.
Indoor cinemas in England and Scotland will be allowed to reopen from May 17; with dates yet to be confirmed for Wales, Northern Ireland and Ireland.
Screen is also tracking reopening dates of cinemas in...
- 8/10/2021
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
After going fully virtual in 2020, the New York Asian Film Festival (Nyaff) returns with a hybrid lineup of screenings Aug. 6-22.
The festival will open Aug. 6 with Ryoo Seung-wan’s South Korean action-drama “Escape From Mogadishu,” which depicts the perilous escape attempt by Korean embassy workers stranded during the onset of the civil war in Somalia.
Samuel Jamier, executive director of Nyaff, calls it one of the biggest Korean releases of the year and says the film will open in theaters simultaneously with its in-person international premiere at Film at Lincoln Center.
“‘Escape From Mogadishu’ shows the expansion of Korea and where it’s aiming to be,” Jamier says. “It would have been hard to conceive 10 years ago another war film set in Somalia, a territory that has only been explored in ‘Black Hawk Down’ in some fashion.”
One of the few American film festivals devoted to pics from the Asian continent,...
The festival will open Aug. 6 with Ryoo Seung-wan’s South Korean action-drama “Escape From Mogadishu,” which depicts the perilous escape attempt by Korean embassy workers stranded during the onset of the civil war in Somalia.
Samuel Jamier, executive director of Nyaff, calls it one of the biggest Korean releases of the year and says the film will open in theaters simultaneously with its in-person international premiere at Film at Lincoln Center.
“‘Escape From Mogadishu’ shows the expansion of Korea and where it’s aiming to be,” Jamier says. “It would have been hard to conceive 10 years ago another war film set in Somalia, a territory that has only been explored in ‘Black Hawk Down’ in some fashion.”
One of the few American film festivals devoted to pics from the Asian continent,...
- 8/6/2021
- by Antonio Ferme
- Variety Film + TV
We’ve missed the primal scream that is Soi Cheang’s cinema. The Hong Kong director’s frenzied genre tales of survival—horror films, cop movies, thrillers, action movies—have been waylaid by his big budget success in the CGI-driven Monkey King franchise (three entries and counting), movies of varying quality but certainly scrubbed of the extraordinary desperation and exalting feats of tactile physical endurance that characterize such films as Dog Bite Dog (2006), Motorway (2012), and SPL2: A Time for Consequences (2015). With Limbo, the story of a wild, grieving cop (Lam Ka Tung), his young superior (Mason Lee), and an ex-convict, former substance abuser (an extraordinary Liu Cya) who become embroiled in the search for a serial killer in Hong Kong, Cheang is back and more fierce than ever.More than that, the director visually reinvents the island city: In harsh, high-contrast black and white images Hong Kong is a garbage-strewn dystopia,...
- 8/5/2021
- MUBI
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSAbove: Cinemateca Brasileira. (WikiCommons)A devastating fire hit the Cinemateca Brasileira on July 29 and has left significant damage to the longest-running cinema institution in Brazil. In response, the workers of Cinemateca Brasileira have shared a statement regarding the continual mistreatment of facilities and staff by the government: "Without workers archives can not be preserved!" After facing unexpected budget cuts, microcinema No Evil Eye Cinema has announced a fundraising call for action and is seeking grants, foundational support, and other funding opportunities to sustain their programming and educational programs. On the Score podcast last week, composer Carter Burwell stated that "[Ethan Coen] just didn’t want to make movies anymore," in response to a question about Joel Coen's The Tragedy of Macbeth. This may mean the Coens are done working as a directing duo,...
- 8/4/2021
- MUBI
One topic that has been, and continues to be, rather contentious is that of refugees, so here’s a film that should receive plaudits purely for tackling the subject. Not only that, but Limbo manages to do so in an extremely subtle and humorous manner.
If the title of this review sounds akin to a crossword clue, then that’s pretty apt because our hero, Omar (Amir El-Masry), is a Syrian asylum seeker who finds that trying to get a foothold in a strange land can get pretty complicated.
And that strange land happens to be a quiet, remote Scottish island, where he and his fellow seekers soon attract attention, for both right and wrong reasons. Whilst the setting is fictional, filming actually took place on the islands of North and South Uist, in the Outer Hebrides, with some genuine refugees as extras.
Evidently then, writer and director Ben Sharrock...
If the title of this review sounds akin to a crossword clue, then that’s pretty apt because our hero, Omar (Amir El-Masry), is a Syrian asylum seeker who finds that trying to get a foothold in a strange land can get pretty complicated.
And that strange land happens to be a quiet, remote Scottish island, where he and his fellow seekers soon attract attention, for both right and wrong reasons. Whilst the setting is fictional, filming actually took place on the islands of North and South Uist, in the Outer Hebrides, with some genuine refugees as extras.
Evidently then, writer and director Ben Sharrock...
- 8/4/2021
- by Dan Green
- The Cultural Post
Warner Bros’ supervillain blockbuster scored a strong £3.25m.
Rank Film (Distributor) Three-day gross (July 30-Aug 1) Total gross to date Week 1 The Suicide Squad (Warner Bros) £3.25m £3.25m 1 2 Jungle Cruise (Disney) £2.24m £2.24m 1 3 Space Jam: A New Legacy (Warner Bros) £1.3m £6.6m 2 4 The Croods 2: A New Age (Universal) £892,559 £4.2m 3 5 Black Widow (Disney) £786,548 £16.06m 4
Gbp to Usd conversion rate: 1.39
James Gunn’s supervillain blockbuster The Suicide Squad opened top of the UK-Ireland box office this weekend, with a £3.25m start.
Playing in 643 locations, the film recorded a £5,051 location average for Warner Bros.
The £3.25m total is down on the £4.8m opening...
Rank Film (Distributor) Three-day gross (July 30-Aug 1) Total gross to date Week 1 The Suicide Squad (Warner Bros) £3.25m £3.25m 1 2 Jungle Cruise (Disney) £2.24m £2.24m 1 3 Space Jam: A New Legacy (Warner Bros) £1.3m £6.6m 2 4 The Croods 2: A New Age (Universal) £892,559 £4.2m 3 5 Black Widow (Disney) £786,548 £16.06m 4
Gbp to Usd conversion rate: 1.39
James Gunn’s supervillain blockbuster The Suicide Squad opened top of the UK-Ireland box office this weekend, with a £3.25m start.
Playing in 643 locations, the film recorded a £5,051 location average for Warner Bros.
The £3.25m total is down on the £4.8m opening...
- 8/2/2021
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Two blockbuster openers on the same weekend.
Two blockbuster titles are vying for supremacy at cinemas in the UK and Ireland this weekend, as The Suicide Squad opens for Warner Bros against Jungle Cruise for Disney.
Opening in 643 sites, The Suicide Squad is the 10th film in the DC Extended Universe of films based on DC Comics characters. It is a standalone sequel to 2016’s Suicide Squad, with a separate narrative but some of the same characters.
David Ayer, director of the first title, was set to return before switching to development on a film about the Gotham City Sirens.
Two blockbuster titles are vying for supremacy at cinemas in the UK and Ireland this weekend, as The Suicide Squad opens for Warner Bros against Jungle Cruise for Disney.
Opening in 643 sites, The Suicide Squad is the 10th film in the DC Extended Universe of films based on DC Comics characters. It is a standalone sequel to 2016’s Suicide Squad, with a separate narrative but some of the same characters.
David Ayer, director of the first title, was set to return before switching to development on a film about the Gotham City Sirens.
- 7/30/2021
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Grantham Coleman is set to join Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu latest film, which is currently shooting in Mexico City. The Spanish-language movie going by the title Limbo also stars Daniel Giménez Cacho, the Mexican actor who starred in Lucrecia Martel’s Zama.
Story details are unknown as of yet, but it is understood to be a form of fable exploring the political and social modernity of Mexico.
Coleman, a Juilliard trained stage actor, most recently starred in Central Park in Much Ado About Nothing opposite Danielle Brooks for Kenny Leon and also played Martin Luther King in The Great Society with Brian Cox on Broadway. Also was in Hamlet at the Old Globe.
He was also recently seen as Bobby Seale in Seberg.
He is repped APA and Inspire Entertainment.
Story details are unknown as of yet, but it is understood to be a form of fable exploring the political and social modernity of Mexico.
Coleman, a Juilliard trained stage actor, most recently starred in Central Park in Much Ado About Nothing opposite Danielle Brooks for Kenny Leon and also played Martin Luther King in The Great Society with Brian Cox on Broadway. Also was in Hamlet at the Old Globe.
He was also recently seen as Bobby Seale in Seberg.
He is repped APA and Inspire Entertainment.
- 7/29/2021
- by Justin Kroll
- Deadline Film + TV
During festival season there are always a few hidden gems that we adore that deservedly receive high-praise and one of them is Ben Sharrock’s Limbo.
The feature length debut for the Scottish writer-director is one to remember with the film receiving two BAFTA nominations this year. It comes as no surprise with the film’s great script and fantastic performance from the film’s star, Amir El-Masry.
Prepare for offbeat humour, a chicken named after Freddy Mercury and the Ross/Rachel Friends debate. We chat with Ben about the success of Limbo, filming in the Outer Hebrides and what he misses when he’s not in Scotland.
You can watch the full interview below:
Synopsis
Ben Sharrock’s critically adored Limbo is a wry, funny and poignant cross-cultural satire that subtly sews together the hardship and hope of the refugee experience. Set on a fictional remote Scottish island, it...
The feature length debut for the Scottish writer-director is one to remember with the film receiving two BAFTA nominations this year. It comes as no surprise with the film’s great script and fantastic performance from the film’s star, Amir El-Masry.
Prepare for offbeat humour, a chicken named after Freddy Mercury and the Ross/Rachel Friends debate. We chat with Ben about the success of Limbo, filming in the Outer Hebrides and what he misses when he’s not in Scotland.
You can watch the full interview below:
Synopsis
Ben Sharrock’s critically adored Limbo is a wry, funny and poignant cross-cultural satire that subtly sews together the hardship and hope of the refugee experience. Set on a fictional remote Scottish island, it...
- 7/28/2021
- by Thomas Alexander
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
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