Nem Dubrovnik is the international TV event that the industry told Sanja Božić-Ljubičić would never work… but which quickly established itself as a diary date for buyers, sellers and senior execs.
“There are a lot of festivals and markets and my business friends and colleagues said this will never fly,” recalls Božić-Ljubičić, CEO of Mediavision, which created Nem Dubrovnik and runs the event. “I wanted it because I think this region is highly neglected. It started as a something that would somehow unite all the people from the region, but from year one, it became about Europe and the States and beyond.”
Certainly, the location helps. Dubrovnik in June is a nice place to be: “The location is really something special, it’s a gem that the world has recognized,” says Božić-Ljubičić. A beautiful setting alone, however, does not attract 1,000-plus industry folk, although it does lend the event its convivial atmosphere.
“There are a lot of festivals and markets and my business friends and colleagues said this will never fly,” recalls Božić-Ljubičić, CEO of Mediavision, which created Nem Dubrovnik and runs the event. “I wanted it because I think this region is highly neglected. It started as a something that would somehow unite all the people from the region, but from year one, it became about Europe and the States and beyond.”
Certainly, the location helps. Dubrovnik in June is a nice place to be: “The location is really something special, it’s a gem that the world has recognized,” says Božić-Ljubičić. A beautiful setting alone, however, does not attract 1,000-plus industry folk, although it does lend the event its convivial atmosphere.
- 5/23/2024
- by Stewart Clarke
- Deadline Film + TV
It is no secret that Marisa Tomei’s entry into the Marvel Cinematic Universe with Spider-Man: Homecoming left fans breathless, the same way she once captivated Robert Downey Jr. during their brief romance years ago. Now, in a viral video flaunting her impeccable style and seemingly ageless beauty, Tomei is the talk of town once again.
Marisa Tomei as Aunt May in the Spider-Man franchise. | Marvel
The internet’s beloved Aunt May, Marisa Tomei, has stirred up quite a storm, as viewers now find themselves in a state of disbelief, marveling at her flawless figure and radiant skin. It’s hard to believe that she’s nearing 60, causing quite a stir online.
Fans Can’t Believe Marisa Tomei Is Almost 60, Especially After Watching This Video!
Marisa Tomei, currently 59 years old, boasts a career spanning several decades in acting. She’s earned two nominations for Best Supporting Actress Oscars. In the 90s,...
Marisa Tomei as Aunt May in the Spider-Man franchise. | Marvel
The internet’s beloved Aunt May, Marisa Tomei, has stirred up quite a storm, as viewers now find themselves in a state of disbelief, marveling at her flawless figure and radiant skin. It’s hard to believe that she’s nearing 60, causing quite a stir online.
Fans Can’t Believe Marisa Tomei Is Almost 60, Especially After Watching This Video!
Marisa Tomei, currently 59 years old, boasts a career spanning several decades in acting. She’s earned two nominations for Best Supporting Actress Oscars. In the 90s,...
- 5/22/2024
- by Sampurna Banerjee
- FandomWire
Paramount Pictures had good reason to believe Adrian Lyne's "Fatal Attraction" would be another box office smash for the hit-making studio (which had just dominated 1986 with five of the ten highest-grossing movies of that year — including the top two in "Top Gun" and "Crocodile Dundee"), but they couldn't have anticipated the film becoming a full-blown, adult-skewing blockbuster. Nevertheless, the erotic thriller about an extramarital fling that turns into a waking nightmare for the happily married Dan Gallagher (Michael Douglas) outperformed such heavy hitters as "Beverly Hills Cop II," "The Untouchables," and "Lethal Weapon" to become the second highest-grossing film of 1987 (behind the four-quadrant behemoth "Three Men and a Baby").
Why was the film such a pop cultural sensation? Every single element clicked perfectly into place. Lyne brought the sensual heat, James Dearden's screenplay tightened the screws with nerve-jangling precision, and the stars absolutely smoldered. Douglas and Glenn Close...
Why was the film such a pop cultural sensation? Every single element clicked perfectly into place. Lyne brought the sensual heat, James Dearden's screenplay tightened the screws with nerve-jangling precision, and the stars absolutely smoldered. Douglas and Glenn Close...
- 4/7/2024
- by Jeremy Smith
- Slash Film
As the social and political turmoil of 1960s America spilled into the 1970s, network television executives and producers knew they could no longer ignore the thorny issues being argued over kitchen tables and at work/school. The Vietnam War, the Civil Rights Movement, the Equal Rights Amendment, etc. were driving a wedge between families and neighbors. So when Norman Lear trotted out the unrepentant bigot Archie Bunker on "All in the Family" in 1971, many people in the country felt seen. And while they might not agree on the hot-button topics explored on this show, they could at least laugh through their many disagreements.
There came a point, however (somewhere between President Richard M. Nixon's resignation and the end of the Vietnam War), where television viewers grew weary of all these socially conscious sitcoms. Yes, they were still watching them in huge numbers, but they needed a break from the nonstop tumult of their lives.
There came a point, however (somewhere between President Richard M. Nixon's resignation and the end of the Vietnam War), where television viewers grew weary of all these socially conscious sitcoms. Yes, they were still watching them in huge numbers, but they needed a break from the nonstop tumult of their lives.
- 3/17/2024
- by Jeremy Smith
- Slash Film
A pulse-pounding, pulled-from-the-headlines story of political intrigue set against the backdrop of Europe’s green revolution is at the heart of “Greater Adria,” an ambitious, pan-European co-production being prepped by some of the continent’s top independent TV producers.
The series, co-created by Nebojša Taraba and Simona Nobile, is produced by Taraba for Croatia’s Drugi Plan, Peter Nadermann of Germany’s Nadcon Film and Marco de Angelis for Italy’s Fabula Pictures. Also on board is Belgian distribution and production outfit Lumiere, the leading distributor in the Benelux region, while public broadcasters Hrt from Croatia and Rtv of Slovenia are among the financiers.
“Greater Adria” begins with a trans-national European green party calling for a referendum to ban all present and future exploitation of oil and gas in the Adriatic Sea. But the unexplained death of a well-known Italian scientist in the coastal town of Rijeka fuels suspicion of a sprawling international conspiracy.
The series, co-created by Nebojša Taraba and Simona Nobile, is produced by Taraba for Croatia’s Drugi Plan, Peter Nadermann of Germany’s Nadcon Film and Marco de Angelis for Italy’s Fabula Pictures. Also on board is Belgian distribution and production outfit Lumiere, the leading distributor in the Benelux region, while public broadcasters Hrt from Croatia and Rtv of Slovenia are among the financiers.
“Greater Adria” begins with a trans-national European green party calling for a referendum to ban all present and future exploitation of oil and gas in the Adriatic Sea. But the unexplained death of a well-known Italian scientist in the coastal town of Rijeka fuels suspicion of a sprawling international conspiracy.
- 8/15/2023
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
When Croatian-born TV exec Sanja Božić-Ljubičić set out to establish a television market in her corner of the world a decade ago, she had always felt the Balkan region had been overlooked on the global content map.
“The Balkan region was always somewhat neglected,” she tells Deadline. “But Croatia always seemed like a romantic little resort” which she thought would be an “ideal location for a boutique event” for top global executives.
Indeed, the romantic and picturesque country, which lies entirely on the Adriatic Sea and was the first of the former Yugoslavia countries to join the European Union, is a beautiful setting. But crucially, says Božić-Ljubičić, who also runs local pay-tv and SVoD service Pickbox as well as media service provider Mediatranslations, she felt she was well-placed to create something that would align foreign industry professionals with local talent.
“I thought I could do better than some of the...
“The Balkan region was always somewhat neglected,” she tells Deadline. “But Croatia always seemed like a romantic little resort” which she thought would be an “ideal location for a boutique event” for top global executives.
Indeed, the romantic and picturesque country, which lies entirely on the Adriatic Sea and was the first of the former Yugoslavia countries to join the European Union, is a beautiful setting. But crucially, says Božić-Ljubičić, who also runs local pay-tv and SVoD service Pickbox as well as media service provider Mediatranslations, she felt she was well-placed to create something that would align foreign industry professionals with local talent.
“I thought I could do better than some of the...
- 5/25/2023
- by Diana Lodderhose
- Deadline Film + TV
Production on mixed-language, eight-part series to commence in early 2024.
Los Angeles-based Upgrade Productions is partnering with Iceland’s new Act 4 and Croatia’s Drugi Plan on the eco-thriller Volcano.
The eight-part series follows surviving residents from a volcano which has devasted Iceland as they are relocated to Croatia under a Un directive and must learn how to live together, survive cultural clashes and ultimately help each other.
Production on the mixed-language series – which will be in English, Icelandic, Croatian – is scheduled to start early next year and will take place in Iceland and Croatia.
Act 4, the production company led...
Los Angeles-based Upgrade Productions is partnering with Iceland’s new Act 4 and Croatia’s Drugi Plan on the eco-thriller Volcano.
The eight-part series follows surviving residents from a volcano which has devasted Iceland as they are relocated to Croatia under a Un directive and must learn how to live together, survive cultural clashes and ultimately help each other.
Production on the mixed-language series – which will be in English, Icelandic, Croatian – is scheduled to start early next year and will take place in Iceland and Croatia.
Act 4, the production company led...
- 3/21/2023
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
The aftermath of a deadly volcanic eruption will set the stage for a new eco-thriller between Los Angeles-based Upgrade Productions, Iceland’s Act 4 and Croatia’s Drugi Plan.
The eight-part series is produced by Act 4, the newly announced production company led by prominent Icelandic creatives, including “True Detective” actor Ólafur Darri Ólafsson and “Black Sands” producer Hörður Rúnarsson, and Croatia’s Drugi Plan, led by Nebojsa Taraba and Miodrag Sila.
Executive produced by Upgrade Productions, “Volcano” is based on an original idea by Taraba and Sila and written by Rúnarsson and Mateja Božičević (Prime Video’s “Carnival Row”). The mixed-language series will be shot in Iceland and Croatia, with production scheduled to start early next year.
After a crushing volcanic eruption devastates Iceland, a Un directive relocates the surviving residents to Croatia. “Volcano” follows the tensions that arise as these vastly different societies...
The eight-part series is produced by Act 4, the newly announced production company led by prominent Icelandic creatives, including “True Detective” actor Ólafur Darri Ólafsson and “Black Sands” producer Hörður Rúnarsson, and Croatia’s Drugi Plan, led by Nebojsa Taraba and Miodrag Sila.
Executive produced by Upgrade Productions, “Volcano” is based on an original idea by Taraba and Sila and written by Rúnarsson and Mateja Božičević (Prime Video’s “Carnival Row”). The mixed-language series will be shot in Iceland and Croatia, with production scheduled to start early next year.
After a crushing volcanic eruption devastates Iceland, a Un directive relocates the surviving residents to Croatia. “Volcano” follows the tensions that arise as these vastly different societies...
- 3/21/2023
- by Manori Ravindran
- Variety Film + TV
Tekashi 6ix9ine, real name Daniel Hernandez was causing too much of a drunken fiasco at a baseball stadium in Miami, Florida, on Friday night, causing him to get kicked out from the premises.
A source told Page Six that the rapper’s belligerently drunk behaviour led him to be booted from the stands for disturbing baseball goers’ experience during the game.
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“He was heavily intoxicated and interrupting other guests’ experience,” a source told Page Six. “He was drunk, he was inebriated and he was out of control,” the source continues. “There were a lot of families there last night and he was bothering people.”
The game was at LoanDepot Park and was between Mexico and Puerto Rico for the World Baseball Classic.
The “Mala” rapper caused quite a stir at the event, waving a flag...
A source told Page Six that the rapper’s belligerently drunk behaviour led him to be booted from the stands for disturbing baseball goers’ experience during the game.
Read More: Lil Nas X Seemingly Calls Out Tekashi 6ix9ine Who Denies DMs
“He was heavily intoxicated and interrupting other guests’ experience,” a source told Page Six. “He was drunk, he was inebriated and he was out of control,” the source continues. “There were a lot of families there last night and he was bothering people.”
The game was at LoanDepot Park and was between Mexico and Puerto Rico for the World Baseball Classic.
The “Mala” rapper caused quite a stir at the event, waving a flag...
- 3/18/2023
- by Emerson Pearson
- ET Canada
John Seale was considering retirement a decade ago — then fellow Australian George Miller convinced the cinematographer to shoot “Mad Max: Fury Road.” Now, their partnership continues with the fantastical romance “Three Thousand Years of Longing.”
During production, Seale decided the two-hander, starring Idris Elba and Tilda Swinton, would be a “fascinating” film to cap his career, electing against reuniting with Miller for “Furiosa,” the filmmaker’s upcoming “Fury Road” prequel, which is currently in production.
“It was one of the hardest things I’ve ever done,” Seale recalled. “George said, ‘Well, I’m not going to ask you to do it.’ I thought to myself, ‘Ah great, now I don’t have to go through it all.’ Then he said, ‘I’m going to invite you.’ That one word — ‘invite’ — changed the whole thing and made it even harder.”
Seale has been a studio filmmaking staple since the 1980s. He...
During production, Seale decided the two-hander, starring Idris Elba and Tilda Swinton, would be a “fascinating” film to cap his career, electing against reuniting with Miller for “Furiosa,” the filmmaker’s upcoming “Fury Road” prequel, which is currently in production.
“It was one of the hardest things I’ve ever done,” Seale recalled. “George said, ‘Well, I’m not going to ask you to do it.’ I thought to myself, ‘Ah great, now I don’t have to go through it all.’ Then he said, ‘I’m going to invite you.’ That one word — ‘invite’ — changed the whole thing and made it even harder.”
Seale has been a studio filmmaking staple since the 1980s. He...
- 8/25/2022
- by J. Kim Murphy
- Variety Film + TV
When it comes to creative pedigree, it would be hard to argue with the bona fides of Bosnian crime drama “The Hollow,” which was co-created by Oscar-winning director Danis Tanović (“No Man’s Land”) and had a splashy premiere Saturday night at the Sarajevo Film Festival. The series is directed by Tanović and Bosnian filmmaker Aida Begić, whose latest feature, “A Ballad,” also received the red-carpet treatment this week in Sarajevo’s official competition.
More than just a prestige drama from a region that’s increasingly exporting its shows to the world, however, “The Hollow” could represent a paradigm shift in the countries of the former Yugoslavia, where global streaming services have been acquiring titles such as “The Paper” (Netflix) and “The Silence” (HBO Max) but are yet to put significant investment into local production.
“The Hollow” marks the first foray into original drama by Bosnia’s Bh Telecom, which plans...
More than just a prestige drama from a region that’s increasingly exporting its shows to the world, however, “The Hollow” could represent a paradigm shift in the countries of the former Yugoslavia, where global streaming services have been acquiring titles such as “The Paper” (Netflix) and “The Silence” (HBO Max) but are yet to put significant investment into local production.
“The Hollow” marks the first foray into original drama by Bosnia’s Bh Telecom, which plans...
- 8/17/2022
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
Croatia’s Drugi Plan and Bulgaria’s Agitprop, two of the leading production outfits in Southeast Europe, have been attached to co-produce the upcoming drama series “Sabre,” a political thriller revolving around the 2003 assassination of Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic produced by Belgrade-based This and That Productions.
Created by Goran Stanković and Vladimir Tagić, the series will star Serbian-Danish actress Danica Curcic, known to international audiences for her lead role in the Netflix psychological thriller “The Chestnut Man,” as a reporter investigating the shocking murder.
The companies announced the deal on Monday at the Sarajevo Film Festival, where This and That’s “Bad Blood” and Drugi Plan’s “The Silence” were among the top Balkan drama series vying for Heart of Sarajevo TV Awards, which were handed out at a ceremony in the Bosnian capital on Sunday night.
“Sabre” was first pitched in Sarajevo three years ago during the CineLink Drama co-financing forum,...
Created by Goran Stanković and Vladimir Tagić, the series will star Serbian-Danish actress Danica Curcic, known to international audiences for her lead role in the Netflix psychological thriller “The Chestnut Man,” as a reporter investigating the shocking murder.
The companies announced the deal on Monday at the Sarajevo Film Festival, where This and That’s “Bad Blood” and Drugi Plan’s “The Silence” were among the top Balkan drama series vying for Heart of Sarajevo TV Awards, which were handed out at a ceremony in the Bosnian capital on Sunday night.
“Sabre” was first pitched in Sarajevo three years ago during the CineLink Drama co-financing forum,...
- 8/15/2022
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
Beta Film has added two new titles to its growing slate of titles from Central and Eastern Europe, acquiring international distribution rights to Serbian supernatural drama “Block 27” and the Czech crime series “Ultimatum,” the company announced on the eve of the Sarajevo Film Festival.
Veronika Kovacova, Beta’s EVP of international sales and acquisitions for Eastern Europe and Turkey, said the deals underscore the company’s continued commitment to the fast-growing region. “We are there for the creators, for the producers, to help them and to support what they want to produce,” she said.
Directed by Momir Milosevic and Milica Tomovic, and produced by Belgrade-based Firefly Productions, “Block 27” is a science fiction-mystery that follows the disappearance of a teenager in Belgrade, and the search by his twin sister to find him—a journey that finds her traveling to another dimension. The 6 x 45’ series is created by Ivan Knezevic and stars Branko Djuric,...
Veronika Kovacova, Beta’s EVP of international sales and acquisitions for Eastern Europe and Turkey, said the deals underscore the company’s continued commitment to the fast-growing region. “We are there for the creators, for the producers, to help them and to support what they want to produce,” she said.
Directed by Momir Milosevic and Milica Tomovic, and produced by Belgrade-based Firefly Productions, “Block 27” is a science fiction-mystery that follows the disappearance of a teenager in Belgrade, and the search by his twin sister to find him—a journey that finds her traveling to another dimension. The 6 x 45’ series is created by Ivan Knezevic and stars Branko Djuric,...
- 8/11/2022
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
Kelly Reichardt’s ’Showing Up’ lands third on Screen’s Cannes jury grid.
Park Chan-wook’s Decision To Leave finishes on top of Screen’s Cannes jury grid with an average of 3.2 after Kelly Reichardt’s Showing Up and Léonor Serraille’s Mother And Son fail to match its score.
Reichardt’s Competition debut Showing Up landed in third place with an average of 2.7 after receiving five scores of three (good) from our jurors.
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The film, starring Michelle Williams, centres on a New York artist preparing for a show who must balance professional demands with...
Park Chan-wook’s Decision To Leave finishes on top of Screen’s Cannes jury grid with an average of 3.2 after Kelly Reichardt’s Showing Up and Léonor Serraille’s Mother And Son fail to match its score.
Reichardt’s Competition debut Showing Up landed in third place with an average of 2.7 after receiving five scores of three (good) from our jurors.
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The film, starring Michelle Williams, centres on a New York artist preparing for a show who must balance professional demands with...
- 5/28/2022
- by Melissa Kasule
- ScreenDaily
Saeed Roustaee and Claire Denis titles land on the grid.
Saeed Roustaee’s Leila’s Brothers and Claire Denis’ Stars At Noon landed near the bottom on Screen’s Cannes jury grid with middling scores from our jurors.
Iranian filmmaker Roustaee’s Cannes debut Leila’s Brothers received a 2.3 average. The film follows a woman who has spent her life caring for her impoverished parents and brothers. When she discovers her father is in secret possession of a valuable heirloom, the sale of which could change their fortunes, the family’s fragile bonds start to implode.
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Saeed Roustaee’s Leila’s Brothers and Claire Denis’ Stars At Noon landed near the bottom on Screen’s Cannes jury grid with middling scores from our jurors.
Iranian filmmaker Roustaee’s Cannes debut Leila’s Brothers received a 2.3 average. The film follows a woman who has spent her life caring for her impoverished parents and brothers. When she discovers her father is in secret possession of a valuable heirloom, the sale of which could change their fortunes, the family’s fragile bonds start to implode.
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- 5/26/2022
- by Melissa Kasule
- ScreenDaily
Saeed Roustaee and Claire Denis receive just average marks for their titles.
Saeed Roustaee’s Leila Brothers and Claire Denis’ Stars At Noon landed near the bottom on Screen’s Cannes jury grid with middling scores from our jurors.
Iranian filmmaker Roustaee’s Cannes debut Leila Brothers received a 2.3 average. The film follows a woman who has spent her life caring for her impoverished parents and brothers. When she discovers her father is in secret possession of a valuable heirloom, the sale of which could change their fortunes, the family’s fragile bonds start to implode.
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Saeed Roustaee’s Leila Brothers and Claire Denis’ Stars At Noon landed near the bottom on Screen’s Cannes jury grid with middling scores from our jurors.
Iranian filmmaker Roustaee’s Cannes debut Leila Brothers received a 2.3 average. The film follows a woman who has spent her life caring for her impoverished parents and brothers. When she discovers her father is in secret possession of a valuable heirloom, the sale of which could change their fortunes, the family’s fragile bonds start to implode.
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- 5/26/2022
- by Melissa Kasule
- ScreenDaily
‘Tori And Lokita’ arrives fifth on Screen’s Cannes jury grid and divides the critics.
Mario Martone’s Nostalgia lands third on the jury grid while Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne’s Tori And Lokita splits our jurors.
The Palme d’Or winners secure a 2.5 average for Tori And Lokita which follows the friendship between a young boy and a girl as they make the perilous journey from Africa to Belgium. It gathered four threes (good) and three twos (average) from our jurors.
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Meduza’s Anton Dolin awarded the film a four (excellent), but a one...
Mario Martone’s Nostalgia lands third on the jury grid while Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne’s Tori And Lokita splits our jurors.
The Palme d’Or winners secure a 2.5 average for Tori And Lokita which follows the friendship between a young boy and a girl as they make the perilous journey from Africa to Belgium. It gathered four threes (good) and three twos (average) from our jurors.
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Meduza’s Anton Dolin awarded the film a four (excellent), but a one...
- 5/25/2022
- by Melissa Kasule
- ScreenDaily
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More after the jump including a viral Broadway rant, a new Cronenberg, Sutton Foster on PBS, and a film that pairs Jessica Chastain and Anne Hathaway...
- 5/12/2022
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Dune, West Side Story and Nightmare Alley were among the big film winners at the Motion Picture Sound Editors’ 69th Golden Reel Awards, which were handed out during a virtual ceremony tonight. See the full list below.
Denis Villeneuve’s Warner Bros epic Dune won for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Feature Effects/Foley, Guillermo del Toro’s noir remake Nightmare Alley picked up the trophy for
Feature Dialogue/Adr, and Steven Spielberg’s Warner Bros musical redo West Side Story took the Feature Music prize.
Other feature film winners tonight included Disney’s Raya and the Last Dragon (Animation), Greenwich Entertainment’s The Rescue (Documentary) and China’s Cliff Walkers (Foreign Language).
Small-screen Golden Reel winners included HBO’s Succession, Netflix’s The Witcher and Love, Death + Robots, Amazon’s The Underground Railroad, Disney+’s The Beatles Get Back, Paramount+’s Infinite and Hulu’s Only Murders in the...
Denis Villeneuve’s Warner Bros epic Dune won for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Feature Effects/Foley, Guillermo del Toro’s noir remake Nightmare Alley picked up the trophy for
Feature Dialogue/Adr, and Steven Spielberg’s Warner Bros musical redo West Side Story took the Feature Music prize.
Other feature film winners tonight included Disney’s Raya and the Last Dragon (Animation), Greenwich Entertainment’s The Rescue (Documentary) and China’s Cliff Walkers (Foreign Language).
Small-screen Golden Reel winners included HBO’s Succession, Netflix’s The Witcher and Love, Death + Robots, Amazon’s The Underground Railroad, Disney+’s The Beatles Get Back, Paramount+’s Infinite and Hulu’s Only Murders in the...
- 3/14/2022
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
Munich-based Beta Film has inked a number of initial European deals for its Croatian-Ukrainian crime drama “The Silence,” which has just screened in the Berlinale Series Market Selects showcase at this year’s Berlin Festival.
The six-hour series about human trafficking went to German-French broadcasting group Zdf/Arte, which is also on board as co-producer.
Beta signed further deals with HBO Europe for Central and Eastern Europe as well as with Lumière for Flemish-speaking Benelux, with additional territories currently being negotiated.
Produced by Croatian broadcaster Hrt and Zagreb-based Drugi Plan in co-production with Beta Film, Russia’s Star Media, Ukraine’s Oll.TV and Zdf/Arte, “The Silence” is based on the critically acclaimed fact-based books by investigative journalist Drago Hedl that examine human and weapons trafficking throughout Eastern Europe.
Highly praised by the Italian press, the books were listed among the 33 best European crime novels of 2018. “The Silence” premiered at Nem Dubrovnik last summer.
The six-hour series about human trafficking went to German-French broadcasting group Zdf/Arte, which is also on board as co-producer.
Beta signed further deals with HBO Europe for Central and Eastern Europe as well as with Lumière for Flemish-speaking Benelux, with additional territories currently being negotiated.
Produced by Croatian broadcaster Hrt and Zagreb-based Drugi Plan in co-production with Beta Film, Russia’s Star Media, Ukraine’s Oll.TV and Zdf/Arte, “The Silence” is based on the critically acclaimed fact-based books by investigative journalist Drago Hedl that examine human and weapons trafficking throughout Eastern Europe.
Highly praised by the Italian press, the books were listed among the 33 best European crime novels of 2018. “The Silence” premiered at Nem Dubrovnik last summer.
- 2/16/2022
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
Harry Colomby, who made the unusual career transition from high school teacher to talent manager at the invitation of jazz great Thelonious Monk, died Dec. 25 from multiple causes at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles. He was 92.
Although Monk was his first client, Colomby’s career expanded to film and television, managing both comedian John Byner and actor Michael Keaton.
He was the producer or executive producer of 13 film or TV projects, several of them Keaton movies, including “Mr. Mom.” The brother of Bobby Colomby, founding member of Blood, Sweat & Tears and, and jazz trumpeter Jules Colomby, Harry also had six screenwriting credits, including the Keaton feature “Johnny Dangerously.”
In an Instagram post, Keaton paid tribute to his business partner. “Unlikeliest of matches, we thought the same, felt the same and laughed at the same things. He was kindhearted, curious, thoughtful and man, was he funny … I loved him and so did all who met him.
Although Monk was his first client, Colomby’s career expanded to film and television, managing both comedian John Byner and actor Michael Keaton.
He was the producer or executive producer of 13 film or TV projects, several of them Keaton movies, including “Mr. Mom.” The brother of Bobby Colomby, founding member of Blood, Sweat & Tears and, and jazz trumpeter Jules Colomby, Harry also had six screenwriting credits, including the Keaton feature “Johnny Dangerously.”
In an Instagram post, Keaton paid tribute to his business partner. “Unlikeliest of matches, we thought the same, felt the same and laughed at the same things. He was kindhearted, curious, thoughtful and man, was he funny … I loved him and so did all who met him.
- 12/29/2021
- by Geoff Mayfield
- Variety Film + TV
The premiere of Serbian drama series “Bad Blood” Wednesday night at the Sarajevo Film Festival was more than just the usual red-carpet event. An ambitious, decades-spanning period drama that chronicles the waning years of the Ottoman Empire, it was the first series from the festival’s CineLink Drama co-financing forum to go into production since its launch in 2016.
“We have now closed the full circle for TV series in the festival,” says Sarajevo’s long-time industry head Jovan Marjanović, who recently became the festival’s co-director alongside founder and director Mirsad Purivatra.
Five years after Sarajevo added a TV strand to its CineLink industry platform, drama has become an ever-larger part of the festival’s program. In addition to CineLink Drama, the co-production market which presents six high-end drama series in development from Southeastern Europe, there’s Avant Premiere, which this week introduced “Bad Blood” and four other anticipated Balkan...
“We have now closed the full circle for TV series in the festival,” says Sarajevo’s long-time industry head Jovan Marjanović, who recently became the festival’s co-director alongside founder and director Mirsad Purivatra.
Five years after Sarajevo added a TV strand to its CineLink industry platform, drama has become an ever-larger part of the festival’s program. In addition to CineLink Drama, the co-production market which presents six high-end drama series in development from Southeastern Europe, there’s Avant Premiere, which this week introduced “Bad Blood” and four other anticipated Balkan...
- 8/19/2021
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
Bruno Dumont’s ‘France’ and Nabil Ayouch’s ’Casablanca Beats’ also land on the grid.
Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Memoria has taken second place on Screen’s Cannes jury grid with an impressive mean score of 3.4.
The latest from the Thai filmmaker, who won the Palme d’Or in 2010 with Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, is just behind current grid leader Drive My Car (directed by Ryusuke Hamaguchi), which scored a 3.5.
Memoria was awarded six scores of four (excellent) from our critics, but a one (poor) from Positif’s Michel Ciment dragged the average down. Weerasethakul’s English-language...
Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Memoria has taken second place on Screen’s Cannes jury grid with an impressive mean score of 3.4.
The latest from the Thai filmmaker, who won the Palme d’Or in 2010 with Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, is just behind current grid leader Drive My Car (directed by Ryusuke Hamaguchi), which scored a 3.5.
Memoria was awarded six scores of four (excellent) from our critics, but a one (poor) from Positif’s Michel Ciment dragged the average down. Weerasethakul’s English-language...
- 7/16/2021
- by Melissa Kasule
- ScreenDaily
Wes Anderson’s ’The French Dispatch’ and Kirill Serebrennikov’s ’Petrov’s Flu’ both received middling average scores on the grid.
Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch and Kirill Serebrennikov’s Petrov’s Flu both received middling average scores on Screen’s 2021 Cannes jury grid, with more than half of the competition titles now seen by critics.
Six of our ten critics awarded Anderson’s latest a score of two (average), with it receiving a mean score of 2.3 overall. Only The Telegraph (Robbie Collin and Tim Robey) gave it a four (good), with Liberation’s critics Julien Gester and Didier Péron scoring...
Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch and Kirill Serebrennikov’s Petrov’s Flu both received middling average scores on Screen’s 2021 Cannes jury grid, with more than half of the competition titles now seen by critics.
Six of our ten critics awarded Anderson’s latest a score of two (average), with it receiving a mean score of 2.3 overall. Only The Telegraph (Robbie Collin and Tim Robey) gave it a four (good), with Liberation’s critics Julien Gester and Didier Péron scoring...
- 7/13/2021
- by Melissa Kasule
- ScreenDaily
‘Compartment No. 6’, ‘Bergman Island’ also land on the grid, which is halfway done.
Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Drive My Car has motored to the top on Screen’s 2021 Cannes Jury Grid, whilst Sean Penn’s Flag Day has received the lowest score so far this year.
With a mean score of 3.5 from jurors, Drive My Car – an adaptation of Haruki Murakami’s short story – moved ahead of previous grid leader Annette. The film scored at least a three (good) from all our critics, with five scores of four (excellent).
It was not a happy return for Sean Penn on the grid,...
Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Drive My Car has motored to the top on Screen’s 2021 Cannes Jury Grid, whilst Sean Penn’s Flag Day has received the lowest score so far this year.
With a mean score of 3.5 from jurors, Drive My Car – an adaptation of Haruki Murakami’s short story – moved ahead of previous grid leader Annette. The film scored at least a three (good) from all our critics, with five scores of four (excellent).
It was not a happy return for Sean Penn on the grid,...
- 7/12/2021
- by Melissa Kasule
- ScreenDaily
In the 15 years since its founding, Star Media has grown into an international media group and distribution powerhouse, with a catalog boasting more than 7,500 hours of content available in more than 60 countries worldwide. But the company remains true to its roots as a production house, and its focus is still on the production of high-end content with an emphasis on series that boast both local and international appeal, according to Star Media president Vlad Riashyn.
The company’s portfolio of local content includes more than 65 series and feature films. Currently in production is a Russian-language adaptation of the hit Israeli crime drama “Kvodo,” whose American remake, “Your Honor,” starring Bryan Cranston, aired on Showtime. The series follows a powerful judge whose son kills a motorcyclist in a hit-and-run accident. When the victim turns out to be the son of a local mafia kingpin, the judge and his son find themselves...
The company’s portfolio of local content includes more than 65 series and feature films. Currently in production is a Russian-language adaptation of the hit Israeli crime drama “Kvodo,” whose American remake, “Your Honor,” starring Bryan Cranston, aired on Showtime. The series follows a powerful judge whose son kills a motorcyclist in a hit-and-run accident. When the victim turns out to be the son of a local mafia kingpin, the judge and his son find themselves...
- 6/22/2021
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
The Women’s Media Center announced today a special Women’s History Month event, The Legacy of Jovita Idar, celebrating the launch of Wmc Idar/E, the Women’s Media Center’s English/Spanish channel that spotlights the voices and impact of diverse Latinas on a range of current and emerging issues.
Journalists will discuss the channel’s inspiration, and the invaluable role of Latina writers, educators, and activists. Wednesday, March 10th at 3:00 p.m. Et. The panel features: Michelle García, journalist, essayist, filmmaker and recipient of the 2021 American Mosaic Journalism Prize; Maria Hinojosa, journalist, author and Futuro Media founder; Monica Muñoz Martínez, professor, Ut Austin, and author; and Erica González Martínez, Founding Editor of Wmc Idar/E.
Gloria Steinem, Co-Founder of the Women’s Media Center, will give opening remarks; Janet Dewart Bell, Wmc Board Chair, will give closing remarks.
To register for The Legacy of Jovita Idar, click here.
Journalists will discuss the channel’s inspiration, and the invaluable role of Latina writers, educators, and activists. Wednesday, March 10th at 3:00 p.m. Et. The panel features: Michelle García, journalist, essayist, filmmaker and recipient of the 2021 American Mosaic Journalism Prize; Maria Hinojosa, journalist, author and Futuro Media founder; Monica Muñoz Martínez, professor, Ut Austin, and author; and Erica González Martínez, Founding Editor of Wmc Idar/E.
Gloria Steinem, Co-Founder of the Women’s Media Center, will give opening remarks; Janet Dewart Bell, Wmc Board Chair, will give closing remarks.
To register for The Legacy of Jovita Idar, click here.
- 3/9/2021
- Look to the Stars
With readers turning to their home viewing options more than ever, this daily feature provides one new movie each day worth checking out on a major streaming platform.
There’s not much subtlety in Ron Howard’s vibrant day-in-the-life dramedy “The Paper,” a movie that literally works up to dueling (both physically and morally) newspaper editors, played by Michael Keaton and Glenn Close, who tussle on the floor of their New York City paper’s printing plant as the press hums above them. But if certain narrative elements of the movie felt blunt back when it was made in 1994, they now impart important messages with the kind of force required to cut through today’s noise, especially as they apply to the necessity of a free press.
That’s not to say that Howard’s film — sandwiched between better-remembered outings “Far and Away” and “Apollo 13,” and often overlooked when...
There’s not much subtlety in Ron Howard’s vibrant day-in-the-life dramedy “The Paper,” a movie that literally works up to dueling (both physically and morally) newspaper editors, played by Michael Keaton and Glenn Close, who tussle on the floor of their New York City paper’s printing plant as the press hums above them. But if certain narrative elements of the movie felt blunt back when it was made in 1994, they now impart important messages with the kind of force required to cut through today’s noise, especially as they apply to the necessity of a free press.
That’s not to say that Howard’s film — sandwiched between better-remembered outings “Far and Away” and “Apollo 13,” and often overlooked when...
- 6/22/2020
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
With readers turning to their home viewing options more than ever, this daily feature provides one new movie each day worth checking out on a major streaming platform.
There’s not much subtlety in Ron Howard’s vibrant day-in-the-life dramedy “The Paper,” a movie that literally works up to dueling (both physically and morally) newspaper editors, played by Michael Keaton and Glenn Close, who tussle on the floor of their New York City paper’s printing plant as the press hums above them. But if certain narrative elements of the movie felt blunt back when it was made in 1994, they now impart important messages with the kind of force required to cut through today’s noise, especially as they apply to the necessity of a free press.
That’s not to say that Howard’s film — sandwiched between better-remembered outings “Far and Away” and “Apollo 13,” and often overlooked when...
There’s not much subtlety in Ron Howard’s vibrant day-in-the-life dramedy “The Paper,” a movie that literally works up to dueling (both physically and morally) newspaper editors, played by Michael Keaton and Glenn Close, who tussle on the floor of their New York City paper’s printing plant as the press hums above them. But if certain narrative elements of the movie felt blunt back when it was made in 1994, they now impart important messages with the kind of force required to cut through today’s noise, especially as they apply to the necessity of a free press.
That’s not to say that Howard’s film — sandwiched between better-remembered outings “Far and Away” and “Apollo 13,” and often overlooked when...
- 6/22/2020
- by Kate Erbland
- Thompson on Hollywood
by Nathaniel R
Pedro quarantined and tripping through memory lane.
You can keep all those celebrity sing-alongs or other social media attempts to cheer us up collectively. Instead give us gossip to chew on. More juicy shared "diaries" of stir-crazy stars, please!
The occassion for this request is that we've just finished reading a new article by Spanish genius Pedro Almodóvar. He wrote a piece for the Spanish website el diario about... well, a lot of things. It begins with memories of getting dressed up to go on an errand during quarantine and segueways into other memories of getting dressed up for movie events. Lots of fun anecdotes follow including a night with Jane Fonda (!). But the bulk of the piece centers on 1990-1991 when Madonna entered his life via Dick Tracy through the essential documentary Truth or Dare (1991). You must read the whole thing -- Spanish readers will probably...
Pedro quarantined and tripping through memory lane.
You can keep all those celebrity sing-alongs or other social media attempts to cheer us up collectively. Instead give us gossip to chew on. More juicy shared "diaries" of stir-crazy stars, please!
The occassion for this request is that we've just finished reading a new article by Spanish genius Pedro Almodóvar. He wrote a piece for the Spanish website el diario about... well, a lot of things. It begins with memories of getting dressed up to go on an errand during quarantine and segueways into other memories of getting dressed up for movie events. Lots of fun anecdotes follow including a night with Jane Fonda (!). But the bulk of the piece centers on 1990-1991 when Madonna entered his life via Dick Tracy through the essential documentary Truth or Dare (1991). You must read the whole thing -- Spanish readers will probably...
- 4/2/2020
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Jack Kehoe, best known for his roles in the Al Pacino-led crime drama “Serpico” and “Midnight Run,” died on Jan. 10 at a nursing home in Los Angeles. He was 85. The actor suffered a debilitating stroke in 2015, which left him inactive in recent years.
Kehoe also appeared in several Academy Award-winning films during his 50-year career, including “Melvin and Howard,” “The Sting” alongside Robert Redford and Paul Newman, and Warren Beatty’s “Reds.”
Other notable movies on Kehoe’s resume: “The Pope of Greenwich Village,” “The Star Chamber,” “The Untouchables,” “The Paper,” “Midnight Run,” “Young Guns II,” “The Game,” and the cult classics “Car Wash” and “The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh.” He also appeared on the TV shows “Murder, She Wrote” and “The Twilight Zone.” Additionally, he reunited with Pacino in 1977 on Broadway in “The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel.”
Born on Nov. 21, 1934, in Astoria, Queens, Kehoe served in the...
Kehoe also appeared in several Academy Award-winning films during his 50-year career, including “Melvin and Howard,” “The Sting” alongside Robert Redford and Paul Newman, and Warren Beatty’s “Reds.”
Other notable movies on Kehoe’s resume: “The Pope of Greenwich Village,” “The Star Chamber,” “The Untouchables,” “The Paper,” “Midnight Run,” “Young Guns II,” “The Game,” and the cult classics “Car Wash” and “The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh.” He also appeared on the TV shows “Murder, She Wrote” and “The Twilight Zone.” Additionally, he reunited with Pacino in 1977 on Broadway in “The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel.”
Born on Nov. 21, 1934, in Astoria, Queens, Kehoe served in the...
- 1/22/2020
- by BreAnna Bell
- Variety Film + TV
When the organizers of the Sarajevo Film Festival’s CineLink Industry Days surveyed the local TV landscape several years ago, they recognized the chance to make an impact. “We decided five years ago that we need to do something,” says CineLink industry coordinator Armin Hadzic. “The [regional] TV and public broadcasters were coming from another age.”
Hadzic and his colleagues traveled to industry events across Europe for inspiration. He recalls being floored by the quality of TV Drama Vision, the Goteborg film festival’s annual Nordic drama showcase. “It was light years away—not just for us, but for the rest of Europe,” he says.
Working with the likes of Goteborg and Berlin’s Drama Series Days, CineLink launched its first drama platform in 2016. The program – which this year expanded its focus beyond the ex-Yugoslavia to include neighboring countries – has grown by leaps and bounds. “The level is incomparable to three years ago,...
Hadzic and his colleagues traveled to industry events across Europe for inspiration. He recalls being floored by the quality of TV Drama Vision, the Goteborg film festival’s annual Nordic drama showcase. “It was light years away—not just for us, but for the rest of Europe,” he says.
Working with the likes of Goteborg and Berlin’s Drama Series Days, CineLink launched its first drama platform in 2016. The program – which this year expanded its focus beyond the ex-Yugoslavia to include neighboring countries – has grown by leaps and bounds. “The level is incomparable to three years ago,...
- 8/16/2019
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
The Sarajevo Film Festival’s CineLink Industry Days came to a close Thursday after six days of events, workshops, panel discussions and market presentations.
The CineLink Industry Days is a major hub for Southeast Europe’s film industry, attracting nearly 1,000 professionals to its various events, among them the Co-Production Market, Work-in-Progress, Docu Rough Cut Boutique and the True Stories Market.
One key objective of the section has been to improve international circulation of films from the region, according to Jovan Marjanovic, head of CineLink Industry Days. “We try to bring all those key players who are able to take films to audiences to Sarajevo and introduce them to the best upcoming films and series from the region,” Marjanovic said.
CineLink has already seen plenty of success, with a number of projects previously developed and presented in its various sections performing especially well this year. Tolga Karacelik’s “Butterflies” won the...
The CineLink Industry Days is a major hub for Southeast Europe’s film industry, attracting nearly 1,000 professionals to its various events, among them the Co-Production Market, Work-in-Progress, Docu Rough Cut Boutique and the True Stories Market.
One key objective of the section has been to improve international circulation of films from the region, according to Jovan Marjanovic, head of CineLink Industry Days. “We try to bring all those key players who are able to take films to audiences to Sarajevo and introduce them to the best upcoming films and series from the region,” Marjanovic said.
CineLink has already seen plenty of success, with a number of projects previously developed and presented in its various sections performing especially well this year. Tolga Karacelik’s “Butterflies” won the...
- 8/17/2018
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
Story of corruption and political intrigue is set in a busy city newsroom.
The Paper is a gritty political crime thriller about an independent newspaper in Rijeka, Croatia’s third largest city after Zagreb and Split, a port city known for the liberal leanings of his citizens. Written by renowned Croatian author and journalist Ivica Djikić, the 12-part series is populated by characters from the worlds of journalism, politics and the church.
“We wanted was to explore and understand the events and social shifts that destroyed journalism in our country,” said director Dalibor Matanić, whose credits include The High Sun...
The Paper is a gritty political crime thriller about an independent newspaper in Rijeka, Croatia’s third largest city after Zagreb and Split, a port city known for the liberal leanings of his citizens. Written by renowned Croatian author and journalist Ivica Djikić, the 12-part series is populated by characters from the worlds of journalism, politics and the church.
“We wanted was to explore and understand the events and social shifts that destroyed journalism in our country,” said director Dalibor Matanić, whose credits include The High Sun...
- 8/17/2018
- by Vladan Petkovic
- ScreenDaily
Glenn Close got her start on Broadway in the ‘70s, appearing in such shows as “Barnum,” and made-for-tv movies including “Too Far to Go” and “The Orphan Train.” She was 35 at the time of her big-screen debut in 1982’s “The World According to Garp.” But Close swiftly made up for lost time by racking up three back-to-back supporting actress Oscar nominations for “Garp,” “The Big Chill” and “The Natural.” With “Fatal Attraction,” “Dangerous Liaisons” and “Albert Nobbs,” she would add three lead actress nods to her total, and currently holds the record as a living actress with the most Academy Award nominations – six – without a win.
That Academy Award losing streak might come at the 2019 Oscars, thanks to Close’s tour de force star performance as the put-upon spouse of a womanizing, self-absorbed novelist (Jonathan Pryce) who wins the Nobel Prize in literature in “The Wife,” opening Aug. 17. An early...
That Academy Award losing streak might come at the 2019 Oscars, thanks to Close’s tour de force star performance as the put-upon spouse of a womanizing, self-absorbed novelist (Jonathan Pryce) who wins the Nobel Prize in literature in “The Wife,” opening Aug. 17. An early...
- 8/16/2018
- by Susan Wloszczyna
- Gold Derby
The Sarajevo Film Festival, which was launched in 1995 during the four-year siege of the capital in the midst of the Bosnian War, has always relied on a mixture of self-sufficiency and smart alliances with international partners. It’s a combination that will be deployed again during its 24th edition, running Aug. 10-17.
The event is characterized by its director, Mirsad Purivatra, as an international festival with a focus on a region: Southeast Europe. Purivatra was inspired to adopt a regional focus for Sarajevo after he visited Sweden’s Goteborg Film Festival, with its focus on the Nordic region. This year, Sarajevo’s industry section, CineLink, will look to Scandinavia again for inspiration, this time centered on television drama, an area of growth for both regions.
Norway will be the focus of a panel event as an example of how a local TV industry can transform itself, says Jovan Marjanovic, Sarajevo’s head of industry.
The event is characterized by its director, Mirsad Purivatra, as an international festival with a focus on a region: Southeast Europe. Purivatra was inspired to adopt a regional focus for Sarajevo after he visited Sweden’s Goteborg Film Festival, with its focus on the Nordic region. This year, Sarajevo’s industry section, CineLink, will look to Scandinavia again for inspiration, this time centered on television drama, an area of growth for both regions.
Norway will be the focus of a panel event as an example of how a local TV industry can transform itself, says Jovan Marjanovic, Sarajevo’s head of industry.
- 8/3/2018
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Some actors manage to catch lightning in a bottle twice. It’s impressive enough to find your niche in Hollywood’s A-list even once. Occasionally, an actor will reinvent him/herself and begin a new phase of their careers that will be even more successful than it was before. Here are nine actors who had a cinematic rebirth.
Liam Neeson- Neeson has had a long career, and the early part of it was in dramatic roles. An intense dramatic actor, he apeared in films like The Dead Pool, Dark Man, Schindler’s List, Rob Roy and Les Miserables. His career rebirth came after playing Qui-Gon Jinn in Star Wars-Episode one: The Phantom Menace. After that, he got more offers for actions parts and recreated himself as an action hero in films like Gangs of NY, Batman Begins, Taken, Clash of the Titans, the A-Team, Unknown, the Grey, Taken 2,...
Liam Neeson- Neeson has had a long career, and the early part of it was in dramatic roles. An intense dramatic actor, he apeared in films like The Dead Pool, Dark Man, Schindler’s List, Rob Roy and Les Miserables. His career rebirth came after playing Qui-Gon Jinn in Star Wars-Episode one: The Phantom Menace. After that, he got more offers for actions parts and recreated himself as an action hero in films like Gangs of NY, Batman Begins, Taken, Clash of the Titans, the A-Team, Unknown, the Grey, Taken 2,...
- 4/22/2017
- by feeds@cinelinx.com (Rob Young)
- Cinelinx
Ron Howard may be currently adapting Dan Brown’s novel “Inferno,” with Tom Hanks reprising his role as famous investigative symbologist Robert Langdon, set to be released this October, but he has another film also scheduled to be released in the fall that might turn some heads. Howard’s authorized Beatles documentary “The Beatles: Eight Days a Week” follows the Fab Four’s touring career from 1962-1966, from the Cavern Club through their concert in San Francisco’s Candlestick Park. The film will delve deep into the Beatlemania phenomenon, the relationship between audience and performer, and the socio-political context of the 1960’s that engendered such an important cultural development. It will feature rare and exclusive footage, and was produced with full cooperation from living band members Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr as well as widows Yoko Ono Lennon and Olivia Harrison. Watch a teaser for the film below.
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- 6/20/2016
- by Vikram Murthi
- Indiewire
When the Boston Globe broke the story of the Catholic Church's sex abuse scandal in 2002, it rocked the world. Now 14 years later, the film adaptation of the Globe's Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation is the subject of the Oscar-nominated star-studded drama, Spotlight. With the awards season buzz continuing to build for the film, and many of its subjects still very much a part of investigative journalism, here's a look at the real-life players behind the award-winning story and where they are now. Mike Rezendes (Played by Mark Ruffalo) Today the Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter is a senior member of The Boston Globe Spotlight Team.
- 1/27/2016
- by Mia McNiece and Kara Warner
- PEOPLE.com
When the Boston Globe broke the story of the Catholic Church's sex abuse scandal in 2002, it rocked the world. Now 14 years later, the film adaptation of the Globe's Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation is the subject of the Oscar-nominated star-studded drama, Spotlight. With the awards season buzz continuing to build for the film, and many of its subjects still very much a part of investigative journalism, here's a look at the real-life players behind the award-winning story and where they are now. Mike Rezendes (Played by Mark Ruffalo) Today the Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter is a senior member of The Boston Globe Spotlight Team.
- 1/27/2016
- by Mia McNiece and Kara Warner
- PEOPLE.com
The new movie Spotlight begins inside a South Boston police station in 1976, where a Catholic bishop is counseling a distraught mother who may or may not bring charges against the priest accused of molesting her son. According to the desk sergeant outside the witness room, the bishop is in the station to “help out,” which in practical terms means not-so-subtly reminding the mother of all the good the church has done and continues to do that could presumably be undone if she pursues legal and very public recourse, as well as offering his hushed assurances that the offending priest will be dealt with and the crime her child has endured will never, ever happen again. Outside the witness room, a police officer speculates to the sergeant about the developing situation that “It’s gonna be hard to keep the papers away from the arraignment.” The sergeant shrugs and shakes his head.
- 11/6/2015
- by Dennis Cozzalio
- Trailers from Hell
From Batman to Birdman and everything in between, we take a look at Michael Keaton's top 10 most memorable roles...
Sometimes, the Oscars have a tendency of giving out awards to actors who are seen to have paid their dues, perhaps not for the best performance of that year or even for the particular actor's own best performance, but to recognise past work. Michael Keaton is not the most likely of these, but this could be why some speculated that he was an early favourite for this year's Best Actor award, for his performance in Birdman.
The later frontrunner Eddie Redmayne rightfully and very graciously wound up taking it home for his work as Stephen Hawking in The Theory Of Everything, though Birdman went on to take home the main prize for Best Picture and a number of other major awards.
It would hardly have been a major upset if...
Sometimes, the Oscars have a tendency of giving out awards to actors who are seen to have paid their dues, perhaps not for the best performance of that year or even for the particular actor's own best performance, but to recognise past work. Michael Keaton is not the most likely of these, but this could be why some speculated that he was an early favourite for this year's Best Actor award, for his performance in Birdman.
The later frontrunner Eddie Redmayne rightfully and very graciously wound up taking it home for his work as Stephen Hawking in The Theory Of Everything, though Birdman went on to take home the main prize for Best Picture and a number of other major awards.
It would hardly have been a major upset if...
- 2/24/2015
- by simonbrew
- Den of Geek
"Lost in the Awards Rush" is a weekly series Slackerwood is running during the awards season, to suggest lesser-known but excellent alternatives to popular frontrunners for big movie awards.
Birdman (2014) has certainly been the most breakthrough of indies this past awards season. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's tale of a former action movie star (Michael Keaton) whose artistic comeback is marred by a variety of personal and professional crises (much of it courtesy of a pitch-perfect ensemble that includes Edward Norton, Emma Stone and Naomi Watts), has wowed virtually every major critic since its release. The praise has carried Birdman from offbeat indie to the most Oscar-nominated release of 2014 (Mike's review).
At the center of Birdman's acclaim is a magnificent and mesmerizing performance from its leading man. Having had a somewhat spotty filmography over the past decade or so, Keaton has landed a role most actors only dream of. His Riggan...
Birdman (2014) has certainly been the most breakthrough of indies this past awards season. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's tale of a former action movie star (Michael Keaton) whose artistic comeback is marred by a variety of personal and professional crises (much of it courtesy of a pitch-perfect ensemble that includes Edward Norton, Emma Stone and Naomi Watts), has wowed virtually every major critic since its release. The praise has carried Birdman from offbeat indie to the most Oscar-nominated release of 2014 (Mike's review).
At the center of Birdman's acclaim is a magnificent and mesmerizing performance from its leading man. Having had a somewhat spotty filmography over the past decade or so, Keaton has landed a role most actors only dream of. His Riggan...
- 2/3/2015
- by Frank Calvillo
- Slackerwood
Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice! Oscar nominee Michael Keaton says he's ready to get reacquainted with one of his iconic roles. With buzz building for a possible follow-up to Beetlejuice, director Tim Burton's 1988 horror-comedy in which Keaton memorably starred as a manic, demented spirit alongside costars Winona Ryder, Geena Davis and Alec Baldwin, Keaton tells People he's excited about the prospect of reuniting with Burton, who also directed him in two Batman films. "I hope," says the Birdman actor. "We don't know yet." Asked what he found exciting about reteaming with Burton at this point in their respective careers, Keaton says simply,...
- 2/1/2015
- by Scott Huver
- PEOPLE.com
Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice! Oscar nominee Michael Keaton says he's ready to get reacquainted with one of his iconic roles. With buzz building for a possible follow-up to Beetlejuice, director Tim Burton's 1988 horror-comedy in which Keaton memorably starred as a manic, demented spirit alongside costars Winona Ryder, Geena Davis and Alec Baldwin, Keaton tells People he's excited about the prospect of reuniting with Burton, who also directed him in two Batman films. "I hope," says the Birdman actor. "We don't know yet." Asked what he found exciting about reteaming with Burton at this point in their respective careers, Keaton says simply,...
- 2/1/2015
- by Scott Huver
- PEOPLE.com
Santa Barbara — Saturday night the Santa Barbara International Film Festival shook things up a bit with the annual Modern Master Award tribute, this year dedicated to "Birdman" star Michael Keaton. Colleagues and co-stars sent pre-recorded messages to honor the actor, emotions ran high at the end of the evening and the fest had a special surprise in store for moderator Leonard Maltin as well. First, the retrospective. It was a typical deep dive into a career, the highlights of which you can read in our recent series of interviews with the actor. Keaton was clearly overwhelmed by seeing things in this context as his "Multiplicity" co-star Andie MacDowell was on hand to present an introductory clip package of career highlights. "I feel like I'm gonna pass out," he said as he took the stage to begin the evening. Maltin noted Keaton's first scene from "Night Shift," as we hear the...
- 2/1/2015
- by Kristopher Tpaley
- Hitfix
Santa Monica — A brief interlude today in our on-going series of chats with "Birdman" star Michael Keaton. An interesting note in his filmography is the handful of journalism films he has under his belt. Between Ron Howard's "The Paper," HBO's "Live from Baghdad" and the upcoming "Spotlight" from director Tom McCarthy, Keaton has seen his share of journalist characters. And it's something he's been fascinated by since he was a young man trying to find his way. Indeed, follow him on Instagram and you're not going to be confronted by a bunch of selfies from his life on the circuit. You'll see snapshot after snapshot of newspaper stories that he devours every morning while kicking back at the coffee shop we're meeting the a day before he'll get the news that he has landed his first Oscar nomination. It seemed an interesting sidebar so I pursued it. Read through...
- 1/27/2015
- by Kristopher Tapley
- Hitfix
Santa Monica — Michael Keaton is having the time of his life. Cruising along an awards circuit that has brought him plenty of kudos for his performance in Alejandro González Iñárritu's "Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)" and probably more opportunities to talk about himself than he'd prefer, he seems consistently high on life and not at all phased by the grind. He's not someone who has really sought out this kind of attention and acclaim, often retreating to his ranch in Montana away from the Hollywood fray, but now that he's feeling the love? Let's just say I doubt anyone's having as much fun with all of this than he is. On the eve of this year's Oscar nominations announcement, I met Keaton for coffee and a light lunch at one of his favorite Santa Monica spots to chew on as much of his career and the awards...
- 1/26/2015
- by Kristopher Tapley
- Hitfix
Ron Howard doesn’t get the credit he deserves. He’s seen as a journeyman, and while maybe that’s a fair label, it’s often used to dismiss his work. It’s understandable some people undervalue the guy who directed The Dilemma, The Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons, but Howard is also responsible for Apollo 13, Parenthood, freaking Night Shift, The Paper, Frost/Nixon and A Beautiful Mind. What’s respectable about Howard as a filmmaker is that, even this far into his career, he’s trying new things and pushing himself. Sometimes the result doesn’t always work, but a journeyman isn’t the kind of director that takes the occasional risk like Howard does. Last year a huge gamble of his paid off: Howard made one of his best films with Rush – a movie filled with energy, passion and excitement. The movie wasn’t a hit at the box-office or at awards ceremonies...
- 12/23/2014
- by Jack Giroux
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
If there was any doubt that the Oscar-season engine is roaring, events, Q&As, screenings and all that jazz is at a fever pitch — and it isn’t even Thanksgiving yet. Today’s big moment belonged to reigning Best Actor winner Matthew McConaughey, who got his star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame followed by a lavish lunch at Spago in Beverly Hills hosted by Paramount Chairman Brad Grey and attended by his Interstellar co-stars Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain (who was excited to sit next to Martin Landau and hear his Actors Studio stories) and Mackenzie Foy, along with director Christopher Nolan and producer/wife Emma Thomas and brother Jonathan, with whom he co-wrote the screenplay. Oh, and did I forget to mention Paramount also invited scores of Academy members to celebrate with Matthew? His family including kids and wife Camila Alves were at the ceremony, and Alves also came...
- 11/18/2014
- by Pete Hammond
- Deadline
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