You don’t see too many science fiction comedy-dramas heading into movie theaters these days – or any days, quite frankly – so that alone is cause to celebrate the arrival of “Landscape With Invisible Hand,” the odd title of an intriguing film that opens today (Friday) in limited release, starring a cast of mostly unknowns with the exception of Tiffany Haddish in a prime co-starring role. It’s written and directed by Cory Finley, who directed the Emmy-winning 2020 made-for-tv movie “Bad Education” that starred Hugh Jackman. And its composer is Michael Abels, a Pulitzer Prize winner and two-time Emmy nominee whose genre-defying scores include the Jordan Peele horror trio “Get Out,” “Us” and “Nope.”
Based on a hotly-received young-adult novel by author M.T. Anderson, the film from MGM, Plan B Entertainment and Annapurna Pictures is something of an eccentric mashup of the alien horror and teen romantic comedy genres with some...
Based on a hotly-received young-adult novel by author M.T. Anderson, the film from MGM, Plan B Entertainment and Annapurna Pictures is something of an eccentric mashup of the alien horror and teen romantic comedy genres with some...
- 8/18/2023
- by Ray Richmond
- Gold Derby
Kylie Rogers stars as Chloe Marsh and Asante Blackk as Adam Campbell in director Cory Finley’s Landscape With Invisible Hand. A Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures film. Photo credit: Lynsey Weatherspoon. © 2023 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Inc. All Rights Reserved
The “invisible hand of the marketplace” is a favorite term of laissez-faire globalized economics, but Landscape With Invisible Hand is a dark comedy science fiction tale about a teen-aged artist living on a near-future Earth transformed by twenty years of occupation by creatures from another planet. We expect invaders from space to be scary monster with big weapons but what if the space aliens who came to conquer the Earth weren’t monsters with ray guns but annoying, harmless-looking bureaucrats who used economic soft power and brought advanced technology which made most human jobs obsolete?
The aliens, called the Vuvv, met resistance from ordinary people and governments when they first arrived but then...
The “invisible hand of the marketplace” is a favorite term of laissez-faire globalized economics, but Landscape With Invisible Hand is a dark comedy science fiction tale about a teen-aged artist living on a near-future Earth transformed by twenty years of occupation by creatures from another planet. We expect invaders from space to be scary monster with big weapons but what if the space aliens who came to conquer the Earth weren’t monsters with ray guns but annoying, harmless-looking bureaucrats who used economic soft power and brought advanced technology which made most human jobs obsolete?
The aliens, called the Vuvv, met resistance from ordinary people and governments when they first arrived but then...
- 8/18/2023
- by Cate Marquis
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
As depicted in a new trailer, the upcoming Tiffany Haddish-starring film Landscape with Invisible Hand imagines a world in which an alien species called the Vuvv has taken over Earth and humans are just trying to get by. For Haddish’s Beth Campbell, that apparently means agreeing to take on one of the extraterrestrials as her “pretend husband” so it can be “immersed in the human culture.”
Thankfully for Haddish, her new alien spouse isn’t equipped for sex with humans, but her children understandably aren’t very happy about the situation. Her son Adam (Asante Blackk) responds to a request for a hug with disdain, saying, “That thing is not my dad.” And when Haddish says she believes that the Vuvv “have hearts,” Adam retorts, “I literally think they don’t have circulatory systems. Period.” Watch the trailer for the sci-fi comedy below.
“Years into a benevolent alien occupation of Earth,...
Thankfully for Haddish, her new alien spouse isn’t equipped for sex with humans, but her children understandably aren’t very happy about the situation. Her son Adam (Asante Blackk) responds to a request for a hug with disdain, saying, “That thing is not my dad.” And when Haddish says she believes that the Vuvv “have hearts,” Adam retorts, “I literally think they don’t have circulatory systems. Period.” Watch the trailer for the sci-fi comedy below.
“Years into a benevolent alien occupation of Earth,...
- 8/14/2023
- by Eddie Fu
- Consequence - Film News
"At some point it starts being domination." Indeed - and I wonder if that's where we are now with society? MGM has unveiled a final official trailer for the audacious sci-fi film Landscape with Invisible Hand, directed by Cory Finley (of Thoroughbreds and Bad Education previously). The film opens in US theaters nationwide this Friday, on August 18th. This is adapted from the book of the same name by M.T. Anderson (which comes highly recommended), and it first premiered at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival earlier this year (our review). "Welcome to the future, where the entertainment is us." When an occupying alien species' (who are called Vuvv) bureaucratic rule and advanced technology leaves most of Earth impoverished and unemployed, two teenagers hatch a risky plan to ensure their families' futures. It's a clever commentary on capitalism and art and how we sacrifice our integrity just to make money. Even though...
- 8/14/2023
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
"I hope that people find in it a reflection of this moment that we're living through right now." MGM has revealed a new "First Look" featurette for sci-fi film Landscape with Invisible Hand, an impressively unique feature from filmmaker Cory Finley (of Thoroughbreds and Bad Education previously). This is adapted from the book of the same name by M.T. Anderson (which comes highly recommended), and it first premiered at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival earlier this year (our review). "Welcome to the future, where the entertainment is us." When an occupying alien species' (called "Vuvv") bureaucratic rule and advanced technology leaves most of Earth impoverished and unemployed, two teenagers hatch a risky plan to ensure their families' futures. It's a clever commentary on capitalism and art and how we sacrifice our integrity just to make money to live and love. Landscape stars Asante Blackk, Kylie Rogers, Tiffany Haddish, with Brooklynn MacKinzie,...
- 8/10/2023
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
"Romantic love is the most poetic of all human love modes – it should never be faked." MGM has revealed the official trailer for the sci-fi creation Landscape with Invisible Hand, an impressively unique new film from filmmaker Cory Finley (of the acclaimed films Thoroughbreds and Bad Education previously). This is adapted from the book of the same name by M.T. Anderson (which comes highly recommended), and it first premiered at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival earlier this year. "Welcome to the future, where the entertainment is us." When an occupying alien species' (called the "Vuvv") bureaucratic rule and advanced technology leaves most of Earth impoverished and unemployed, two teenagers hatch a risky plan to ensure their families' futures. It's a clever commentary on capitalism and art and how we sacrifice our integrity just to make money to live and love. Landscape stars Asante Blackk, Kylie Rogers, Tiffany Haddish, with Brooklynn MacKinzie,...
- 6/13/2023
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
What would life on Earth look like in a future where humans are still very much alive but no longer in charge? Landscape With Invisible Hand — directed by Cory Finley (Thoroughbreds, Bad Education) and based on the 2017 young adult novel by M.T. Anderson — depicts a depressed, dryly humorous society crumbling away at a steady pace. Little aliens called “the Vuvv” have landed and torpedoed the economy, leaving most humans either underemployed or out of work entirely. The wealthy have already abandoned the planet to live “up there” with the aliens, while everyone still on Earth is left to forage for what’s left of the money, land and food. Instead of fearsome creatures with horrifying lasers and military might, the Vuvv are tiny bureaucrats with no empathy for the poverty their soulless business practices have created.
Adam (Asante Blackk) and his family are essentially squatting in their own giant home,...
Adam (Asante Blackk) and his family are essentially squatting in their own giant home,...
- 2/2/2023
- by Jourdain Searles
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
One travels to the Sundance Film Festival in the dead of winter for numerous reasons, chief of them being the promise of a front-row seat to confident debuts like Cory Finley’s delectably dark “Thoroughbreds.” Indeed, the playwright-turned-filmmaker demonstrated himself an original voice with his first cinematic outing in 2017, proving his promise with the equally sophisticated “Bad Education,” about a real-life public school embezzling scandal.
Marking Finley’s homecoming to Sundance, “Landscape with Invisible Hand” feels less like a return for the writer-director, and more like a swing-for-the-fences departure with mixed results. On the one hand, this impressively scoped science-fiction/satire blend with some old-school visual craft signals Finley’s natural aptitude for shepherding big Hollywood productions, being the largest scaled project of his still-ascendant career. Refreshingly, “Landscape with Invisible Hand” looks and feels like a big-screen experience complete with spaceships and creatively designed dystopian locales, an increasingly rare accomplishment...
Marking Finley’s homecoming to Sundance, “Landscape with Invisible Hand” feels less like a return for the writer-director, and more like a swing-for-the-fences departure with mixed results. On the one hand, this impressively scoped science-fiction/satire blend with some old-school visual craft signals Finley’s natural aptitude for shepherding big Hollywood productions, being the largest scaled project of his still-ascendant career. Refreshingly, “Landscape with Invisible Hand” looks and feels like a big-screen experience complete with spaceships and creatively designed dystopian locales, an increasingly rare accomplishment...
- 1/26/2023
- by Tomris Laffly
- Variety Film + TV
War of the Worlds. Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Independence Day. Signs. All of these films depict alien invasions as they are happening, but what happens after the fact? And what if, by some small miracle, we come to an agreement with the invaders and find a way to live alongside them? That’s exactly what Cory Finley‘s Landscape With Invisible Hand aims to find out, albeit to mixed results.
Taking place a few years after a hyper-intelligent alien race known as the Vuvv took over planet Earth, Landscape With Invisible Hand subverts expectations by informing us that they did so through soft economic power rather than brute force, bringing wondrous technology to Earth that only the wealthiest could afford. This technology rendered most jobs obsolete, leaving the rest of humanity to scrape together money in the tourism industry.
Our point of entry for this new reality is Adam,...
Taking place a few years after a hyper-intelligent alien race known as the Vuvv took over planet Earth, Landscape With Invisible Hand subverts expectations by informing us that they did so through soft economic power rather than brute force, bringing wondrous technology to Earth that only the wealthiest could afford. This technology rendered most jobs obsolete, leaving the rest of humanity to scrape together money in the tourism industry.
Our point of entry for this new reality is Adam,...
- 1/25/2023
- by Trace Thurman
- bloody-disgusting.com
In "Landscape With Invisible Hand," we're dropped into the not-too-distant future — the 2030s — and learn that aliens have invaded the planet. But these visitors from another world didn't come here to blow up our monuments "Independence Day"-style. Instead, they struck deals with greedy businessmen and politicians to essentially take over the entire planet. Now, the wealthy get to live in floating cities that drift across the sky while everyone else is stuck down on Earth.
Adam (Asante Blackk) is one of the unlucky humans still inhabiting this doomed rock, living with his mother (Tiffany Haddish) and sister (Brooklynn MacKinzie). His father left for the coast years ago and never returned. Adam bides his time painting and attending a school system that has been completely taken over by the aliens known as the Vuvv. Chloe (Kylie Rogers), a new student, arrives one day and Adam is clearly smitten. So much...
Adam (Asante Blackk) is one of the unlucky humans still inhabiting this doomed rock, living with his mother (Tiffany Haddish) and sister (Brooklynn MacKinzie). His father left for the coast years ago and never returned. Adam bides his time painting and attending a school system that has been completely taken over by the aliens known as the Vuvv. Chloe (Kylie Rogers), a new student, arrives one day and Adam is clearly smitten. So much...
- 1/24/2023
- by Chris Evangelista
- Slash Film
As Hollywood basks in the streaming boom and the burgeoning era of premium television, kids, too, get to join in on the fun.
Unlike the Disney Channel and Nickelodeon multi-cam sitcoms that have dominated kids’ TV for decades, newer streaming series like Apple TV+’s “Puppy Place” and “Lovely Little Farm” function more like family dramedies. Avoiding that type of slapstick humor and over-accessorized costumes and sets, these series opt for a more naturalistic approach, oftentimes with serialized storytelling.
“Puppy Place” showrunner Andrew Green, who previously served as a co-executive producer on “Hannah Montana,” tells Variety: “Having worked in kids’ television for so long, you develop a certain rhythm, and Apple was like, ‘Let’s take a step back. Don’t think of it as a kids’ show, just think of it as a quality show that happens to have kids as the leads and stories about kids.’”
For “Puppy Place,...
Unlike the Disney Channel and Nickelodeon multi-cam sitcoms that have dominated kids’ TV for decades, newer streaming series like Apple TV+’s “Puppy Place” and “Lovely Little Farm” function more like family dramedies. Avoiding that type of slapstick humor and over-accessorized costumes and sets, these series opt for a more naturalistic approach, oftentimes with serialized storytelling.
“Puppy Place” showrunner Andrew Green, who previously served as a co-executive producer on “Hannah Montana,” tells Variety: “Having worked in kids’ television for so long, you develop a certain rhythm, and Apple was like, ‘Let’s take a step back. Don’t think of it as a kids’ show, just think of it as a quality show that happens to have kids as the leads and stories about kids.’”
For “Puppy Place,...
- 6/23/2022
- by Ethan Shanfeld
- Variety Film + TV
William Jackson Harper (Love Life) has joined the cast of Landscape With Invisible Hand, a heightened comedy that Cory Finley is directing for MGM, Deadline can confirm.
He’s set to star alongside previously announced cast members including Tiffany Haddish, Asante Blackk, Kylie Rogers, Clifton Collins Jr., Michael Gandolfini, Josh Hamilton and Brooklynn MacKinzie.
The film adapting M.T. Anderson’s National Book Award-winning novel of the same is set in a deeply stratified, alien future. Further details with regard to its plot have not been disclosed. Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner are producing for Plan B, with Megan Ellison and Sue Naegle for Annapurna. Production is underway.
Harper is an Emmy nominee known for his turn on NBC’s The Good Place who will next be seen opposite Cristin Milioti in the Peacock series The Resort. He most recently exec produced and starred in the second season...
He’s set to star alongside previously announced cast members including Tiffany Haddish, Asante Blackk, Kylie Rogers, Clifton Collins Jr., Michael Gandolfini, Josh Hamilton and Brooklynn MacKinzie.
The film adapting M.T. Anderson’s National Book Award-winning novel of the same is set in a deeply stratified, alien future. Further details with regard to its plot have not been disclosed. Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner are producing for Plan B, with Megan Ellison and Sue Naegle for Annapurna. Production is underway.
Harper is an Emmy nominee known for his turn on NBC’s The Good Place who will next be seen opposite Cristin Milioti in the Peacock series The Resort. He most recently exec produced and starred in the second season...
- 3/3/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Emmy-nominated “The Good Place” star William Jackson Harper has joined the cast of Cory Finley’s “Landscape With Invisible Hand.”
He joins previously announced stars Asante Blackk, Tiffany Haddish, Kylie Rogers, Clifton Collins Jr., Michael Gandolfini, Josh Hamilton and Brooklynn MacKinzie in the film from MGM, Plan B Entertainment and Annapurna Pictures.
Based on National Book Award winner M.T. Anderson’s novel of the same name, “Landscape With Invisible Hand” is a heightened comedy set in a deeply stratified, alien future and marks Finley’s third film after “Thoroughbreds” and “Bad Education.” The project — produced by Plan B’s Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner and Annapurna’s Megan Ellison and Sue Naegle — is currently in production.
Harper most recently starred in and executive produced the second season of HBO Max’s rom-com anthology series “Love Life,” for which he received an NAACP Image Award nomination and one of his two Critics Choice Award nods.
He joins previously announced stars Asante Blackk, Tiffany Haddish, Kylie Rogers, Clifton Collins Jr., Michael Gandolfini, Josh Hamilton and Brooklynn MacKinzie in the film from MGM, Plan B Entertainment and Annapurna Pictures.
Based on National Book Award winner M.T. Anderson’s novel of the same name, “Landscape With Invisible Hand” is a heightened comedy set in a deeply stratified, alien future and marks Finley’s third film after “Thoroughbreds” and “Bad Education.” The project — produced by Plan B’s Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner and Annapurna’s Megan Ellison and Sue Naegle — is currently in production.
Harper most recently starred in and executive produced the second season of HBO Max’s rom-com anthology series “Love Life,” for which he received an NAACP Image Award nomination and one of his two Critics Choice Award nods.
- 3/3/2022
- by Angelique Jackson
- Variety Film + TV
Cory Finley’s feature adaptation of National Book Award winner Landscape With Invisible Hand has added Clifton Collins Jr., Michael Gandolfini (The Many Saints of Newark), Josh Hamilton (Eighth Grade) and Brooklynn MacKinzie (Truth Be Told).
Production begins this week on Finley’s third movie following the critically acclaimed Thoroughbreds and Bad Education.
The new stars join Asante Blackk, Tiffany Haddish, and Kylie Rogers in the big screen take of M.T. Anderson’s novel, which is a heightened comedy set in a deeply stratified, alien future.
Plan B’s Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner are producing with Annapurna’s Megan Ellison and Sue Naegle.
Collins Jr. currently stars in Guillermo Del Toro’s Nightmare Alley and the upcoming After Yang from director Kogonada. He won the Sundance Special Jury acting award in the U.S. Dramatic section for Jockey last year, a part that’s also landed...
Production begins this week on Finley’s third movie following the critically acclaimed Thoroughbreds and Bad Education.
The new stars join Asante Blackk, Tiffany Haddish, and Kylie Rogers in the big screen take of M.T. Anderson’s novel, which is a heightened comedy set in a deeply stratified, alien future.
Plan B’s Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner are producing with Annapurna’s Megan Ellison and Sue Naegle.
Collins Jr. currently stars in Guillermo Del Toro’s Nightmare Alley and the upcoming After Yang from director Kogonada. He won the Sundance Special Jury acting award in the U.S. Dramatic section for Jockey last year, a part that’s also landed...
- 2/1/2022
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Clifton Collins Jr., Michael Gandolfini, Josh Hamilton and Brooklynn MacKinzie have joined the cast of Cory Finley’s “Landscape With Invisible Hand.”
The quartet join previously announced stars Asante Blackk, Tiffany Haddish and Kylie Rogers in the film adaptation from MGM, Plan B Entertainment and Annapurna Pictures.
Based on National Book Award winner M.T. Anderson’s novel of the same name, “Landscape With Invisible Hand” is described as a “heightened comedy set in a deeply stratified, alien future.”
Production on the film begins this week, marking writer-director Finley’s third movie following the critically-acclaimed “Thoroughbreds” and “Bad Education.” Plan B’s Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner are producing the project with Annapurna’s Megan Ellison and Sue Naegle.
Collins Jr. can currently be seen in Guillermo Del Toro’s “Nightmare Alley,” and will next appear in Kogonada’s “After Yang.” In 2021, the actor earned rave reviews for his leading performance in “Jockey,...
The quartet join previously announced stars Asante Blackk, Tiffany Haddish and Kylie Rogers in the film adaptation from MGM, Plan B Entertainment and Annapurna Pictures.
Based on National Book Award winner M.T. Anderson’s novel of the same name, “Landscape With Invisible Hand” is described as a “heightened comedy set in a deeply stratified, alien future.”
Production on the film begins this week, marking writer-director Finley’s third movie following the critically-acclaimed “Thoroughbreds” and “Bad Education.” Plan B’s Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner are producing the project with Annapurna’s Megan Ellison and Sue Naegle.
Collins Jr. can currently be seen in Guillermo Del Toro’s “Nightmare Alley,” and will next appear in Kogonada’s “After Yang.” In 2021, the actor earned rave reviews for his leading performance in “Jockey,...
- 2/1/2022
- by Angelique Jackson
- Variety Film + TV
Clifton Collins Jr., Michael Gandolfini, Josh Hamilton and Brooklynn MacKinzie have joined the cast of the film adaptation of M.T. Anderson’s “Landscape With Invisible Hands” for MGM, Annapurna and Plan B.
The dark, surreal comedy will be written and directed by Cory Finley and will be set in a “deeply stratified, alien future.” This will be one of the announced projects by Plan B as part of their recently signed deal with MGM. MGM’s distribution and marketing joint venture United Artists Releasing will release the film theatrically in the United States.
The film stars Asante Blackk, Tiffany Haddish, and Kylie Rogers.
Plan B’s Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner are producing with Annapurna’s Megan Ellison and Sue Naegle. The project begins production this week.
“Landscape With Invisible Hands” represents Finley’s third film after critically acclaimed hits “Thoroughbreds” and “Bad Education.”
Collins Jr. can currently be seen...
The dark, surreal comedy will be written and directed by Cory Finley and will be set in a “deeply stratified, alien future.” This will be one of the announced projects by Plan B as part of their recently signed deal with MGM. MGM’s distribution and marketing joint venture United Artists Releasing will release the film theatrically in the United States.
The film stars Asante Blackk, Tiffany Haddish, and Kylie Rogers.
Plan B’s Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner are producing with Annapurna’s Megan Ellison and Sue Naegle. The project begins production this week.
“Landscape With Invisible Hands” represents Finley’s third film after critically acclaimed hits “Thoroughbreds” and “Bad Education.”
Collins Jr. can currently be seen...
- 2/1/2022
- by Umberto Gonzalez
- The Wrap
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