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The 11 Indie Films You Must See This April
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#1 Ex Machina (April 10) (Film Page) Director: Alex Garland Cast: Domhnall Gleeson, Oscar Isaac, Alicia Vikander, Corey Johnson, Deborah Rosan Criticwire Average: A- Why is it a "Must See"? This is the first film directed by Alex Garland, the writer behind wonderful projects like "Never Let Me Go," "Sunshine," and "28 Days Later." In "Ex Machina," Garland takes his knowledge and love of sci-fi to new heights. The story focuses on Caleb, a young coder at the world's largest internet company, who is the lucky winner of a competition to spend time at the CEO's exclusive mountain retreat. But when Caleb gets there, he is made to participate in a bizarre experiment with a beautiful robot girl, the world's first true being of artificial intelligence. #2 Clouds of Sils Maria (April 10) (Film Page) Director: Olivier Assayas Cast: Chloe Grace Moretz, Kristen Stewart, »
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Ari Folman Reveals Wondrous First Look at His Animated Anne Frank Film
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Ari Folman continues to follow his own strange star. The Israeli filmmaker will follow his spellbinding animation hybrids "Waltz with Bashir" (Oscar-nominated) and "The Congress" (a high-iq cult oddity that will someday get its due) with an animated retelling of the life and diary of Anne Frank. A blend of stop-motion and traditional animation—with 2D characters cut into stop-motion backgrounds — his Anne Frank Film is the first of its kind. That's because Folman, with Diana Elbaum of Belgian-based production company Entre Chien et Loup, negotiated to obtain world rights in all languages and media and complete access to the Anne Frank archives. Read More: Ari Folman Takes on Animated Anne Frank Feature Production began in winter 2014. Folman has finally shared concept art from the studio at Passion Films in London. Folman is collaborating with "Fantastic Mr. Fox" Dp Tristan Oliver and designer Andy Gent to hew the film's stop motion look, »
- Ryan Lattanzio
Doha, Nu-q announce Middle East media research project
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Exclusive: Qatari institutions forge new strategic alliance to deepen research into region’s burgeoning media scene as well as collaborate on other initiatives.
The Doha Film Institute (Dfi) and Northwestern University in Qatar have announced a new strategic alliance to foster joint research projects and events such as workshops, film screenings and masterclasses.
The new alliance builds on their groundbreaking 2014 survey “Entertainment Media Use in the Middle East”, one of the most comprehensive studies into content consumption in the region to date.
The first project under the newly-announced alliance will be a second research survey on the media industry in the Middle East, aimed at a wide readership – including industry professionals, academics and the general public – and due for publication in late 2015.
The exact parametres and design of the study will be decided in April but the “likely” focus will be on areas where data is relatively scarce such as ownership structures, emerging production »
Edinburgh to launch film distribution market
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The Edinburgh International Film Festival (Eiff) is planning to launch a two-day ‘market’ this June dedicated to emerging distribution models.
Taking place as part of Eiff’s industry programme, Distribution Rewired is designed to support filmmakers in models including ‘direct’ and ‘self-distribution’ and connect them with online distributors.
The focal point of the event will be the physical marketplace where selected filmmakers can present their films to platforms, aggregators and other related service providers.
Eiff is looking raise $22,000 (£15,000) of essential funding for the event through an Indiegogo campaign and will contribute $15,000 (£10,000) of in-kind costs towards the event.
The event is due to take place June 22-23 within the overall programme offered to industry delegates and filmmakers.
This event is to be managed by Holly Daniel, industry and talent development manager at Eiff, and Beatrice Neumann from BeA Film, a sales and distribution consultancy.
Mark Adams, the new Eiff artistic director said: “Eiff is dedicated to addressing the most »
- andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
Schtonk! director Helmut Dietl dies aged 70
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The German film and TV industries were mourning on Monday the death of director, writer and producer Helmut Dietl from lung cancer. He was 70.
Once described as “the German answer to Woody Allen”, Dietl was known to international audiences largely for his send-up of the fake Hitler diaries saga in the 1992 film Schtonk!, which was subsequently nominated for a best foreign language film Academy Award.
Bavarian-born Dietl had already made a name for himself before Schtonk! on German TV with critically praised audience favourites such as Münchner Geschichten (1974/5), Der Ganz Normale Wahnsinn (1979/80), Monaco Franze and the six-part series Kir Royal, a biting satire on Munich high society and tabloid journalism.
According to the late TV commissioning editor Jörn Klamroth of Cologne’s Wdr, the inspiration for Kir Royal came to Dietl in 1984 when he and the director saw a photo in a cafe showing Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (later Pope Benedict) sitting together with the conservative Bavarian politician »
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Helmut Dietl, 1944-2015
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The German film and TV industries were mourning on Monday the death of director, writer and producer Helmut Dietl from lung cancer. He was 70.
Once described as “the German answer to Woody Allen”, Dietl was known to international audiences largely for his send-up of the fake Hitler diaries saga in the 1992 film Schtonk!, which was subsequently nominated for a best foreign language film Academy Award.
Bavarian-born Dietl had already made a name for himself before Schtonk! on German TV with critically praised audience favourites such as Münchner Geschichten (1974/5), Der Ganz Normale Wahnsinn (1979/80), Monaco Franze and the six-part series Kir Royal, a biting satire on Munich high society and tabloid journalism.
According to the late TV commissioning editor Jörn Klamroth of Cologne’s Wdr, the inspiration for Kir Royal came to Dietl in 1984 when he and the director saw a photo in a cafe showing Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (later Pope Benedict) sitting together with the conservative Bavarian politician »
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Rachel Weisz In Talks To Star Opposite Colin Firth In Donald Crowhurst Biopic
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Exclusive- Rachel Weisz (The Light Between Oceans) is in talks to star opposite Colin Firth in director James Marsh’s untitled Donald Crowhurst biopic. The story is based on the true story of amateur sailor Donald Crowhurst and his attempt to win the first round of the World Yacht Race in 1968. The film is produced by Blueprint Pictures’ Pete Czernin and Graham Broadbent with Scott Z. Burns, who wrote the script. Also on board as producers are Nicolas Mauvernay and… »
‘Suicide Squad’ Adds Scott Eastwood and Raymond Olubowale
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While the main cast of Warner Bros. / DC’s Suicide Squad has been set for weeks, director David Ayer still has a few supporting roles left to fill. The latest additions are Scott Eastwood (yep, as in son of Clint) and boxer Raymond Olubowale. More on the latest Suicide Squad casting after the jump. Word about […]
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- Angie Han
Watch: First Trailer For Action Comedy ‘Masterminds’ Starring Zach Galifianakis, Owen Wilson & Kristen Wiig
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Do you want to see an action comedy about four dim-witted Southerners who pulled off one of the biggest heists in American history, robbing almost $20 million from a Loomis Fargo armored truck? “Napoleon Dynamite” director Jared Hess has the movie for you. It’s called “Masterminds” (formerly known as “Loomis Fargo” a few years ago) and stars a fairly heavyweight comedy cast of Zach Galifianakis, Owen Wilson, Kristen Wiig and Jason Sudeikis as the aforementioned knuckleheads who pull off a crazy theft. Could we see two films from Hess in 2015? Lionsgate acquired his most recent film “Don Verdean” at Sundance earlier this year, but they could hold it for an entire year as Lionsgate is wont to do these days. Here’s the official synopsis: In this action comedy based on true events, directed by Jared Hess (Napoleon Dynamite; Nacho Libre), David Ghantt (Zach Galifianakis) discovers the true meaning of »
- Edward Davis
Pinewood to raise $44m for studio expansion plans
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The Pinewood Group is to raise $44.3m (£30m) to part-fund the expansion of its Buckinghamshire site in the UK.
The funds will be raised through the placing of 8 million shares at a price of $5.54 (£3.75) per share.
Pinewood has also agreed new bank facilities of up to $200m (£135m) with Lloyds Bank, The Royal Bank of Scotland, Hsbc and Barclays Bank that will also be used to finance the building work.
The expansion plans, which are known as the Pinewood Studios Development Framework (Psdf), are intended to address “capacity constraints” by doubling the existing capacity of Pinewood Studios through the addition of 323,000 sq ft of studios and stages, including three studios of 40,000 sq ft.
Pinewood chief executive Ivan Dunleavy said: “Today’s announcement represents another significant step forward in the on-going development of the company and the implementation of Psdf to the benefit of shareholders as a whole and the UK creative industries.
“The board is »
‘Vacation’ Reboot Moves From Fall to Summer Vacation
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Briefly: In a move of supreme confidence, Warner Bros. has just bumped the Vacation reboot from October to July 31. That’ll put it up against Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation, which is sure to be one of summer’s biggest movies. No matter; the John Francis Daley and Jonathan M. Goldstein directed film, which is both a reboot […]
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UK deal for Panahi's Golden Bear winner 'Taxi'
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Exclusive: Acclaimed drama one of three deals for UK indie.
UK indie distributor New Wave has concluded a deal with Celluloid Dreams for Jafar Panahi’s Berlinale Golden Bear winner Taxi.
Panahi’s drama, largely shot under cover due to restrictions on the filmmaker, also won the Fipresci prize at the Berlin Film Festival in February.
In Taxi, director Panahi captures life in contemporary Iran through passengers in a Tehran cab.
As the cab drives through the colourful streets of Tehran, it picks up a diverse mix of passengers, who speak to the driver, played by Panahi.
It proved one of the hot sellers for Paris-based Celluloid Dreams at last month’s European Film Market (Efm), snapped up by Memento for France and a host of other buyers in Germany, Italy and Colombia, among others.
Kino Lorber acquired North American rights.
Panahi has been banned from making films in his homeland, or leaving »
- andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
Film Review: ‘Posthumous’
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Relative to its fellow grand European capitals, Berlin’s potential as a romantic playground has been rather under-explored on film, which is reason enough to welcome Lulu Wang’s slight, sprightly art-scene comedy “Posthumous” onto screens. The city’s scruffy-chic bohemian backstreets add pleasingly eccentric edge to an amiable farce predicated on the old maxim that artists are never appreciated in their time, as Brit Marling’s clear-eyed reporter unravels the truth behind the supposed death of Jack Huston’s dreamily tortured genius. The satire is tempered, however, as proceedings inevitably take an amorous turn. Though Wang’s debut feature — which received its North American premiere at the Miami Film Festival — skips a few steps in its tonal tango, it exhibits enough cheery commercial nous to attract distributor attention at the lighter end of the arthouse gallery.
Chinese-American filmmaker Wang, a recipient last year of the Roger and Chaz Ebert Fellowship, »
- Guy Lodge
Re-Viewed: 10 Things I Hate About You celebrates its 16th birthday
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Released just four years after 1995's disarmingly smart Clueless became a teen sleeper hit, 10 Things I Hate About You shared some of its sly, sidelong perspective on high school dynamics, not to mention its literary pedigree. Today marks 16 years since the film's Us release date, meaning 10 Things has officially come of age, but its modern day screwball romance and salty humour hasn't aged a day.
Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew is a less widely-read source text than Jane Austen's Emma, and 10 Things is by necessity a looser adaptation than Clueless - Shrew's much-discussed ending, which concludes that women must learn to be subservient to their husbands, wouldn't fly even as irony in the present day.
Only the skeleton of Shakespeare's plot remains, and proves just how timeless the rom-com conventions which he originated have become. The overprotective father of pretty, popular high schooler Bianca (Larisa Oleynik) forbids her from dating »
Helen Mirren: 'My great ambition is to be in a Fast and Furious movie'
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The Oscar-winner declares her love for Vin Diesel, says she always does her own movie driving and praises the likes of Divergent for presenting empowered female teen characters
She has an Oscar, four Baftas, four Emmys and a damehood to her name. But Helen Mirren has revealed a burning desire to star in a Fast and Furious film.
Related: Fast and Furious 7 review: Paul Walker's final film is fitting tribute
Related: Berlin 2015 review: Woman in Gold - Helen Mirren and Ryan Reynolds, a partnership the world wasn’t waiting for
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- Ben Child
Disney working on live-action movie adaptation of Mulan
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Disney is working on a live-action adaptation of Mulan.
The studio has bought a script written by Elizabeth Martin and Lauren Hynek, which focuses on the Chinese legend that inspired the 1998 animated adventure.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Chris Bender and Jc Spink - who collaborated on We're the Millers - will serve as producers on the latest live-action project.
Mulan told the story of a young woman who pretends to be a man so she can follow in her father's footsteps and join the army. The film earned Disney $304.3 million (£205.4m) worldwide.
It comes in the wake of Disney's recent adaptations of Alice in Wonderland, Maleficent and Cinderella.
Earlier this month, Cinderella topped the Us box office by taking $70 million (£47m) over its opening weekend.
In addition to Mulan, Disney is also working on live-action versions of The Jungle Book, Dumbo and Beauty and the Beast.
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The film that makes me cry: Fantastic Mr Fox
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Wes Anderson’s sophisticated hero hides a dark secret beneath his starched collar – he’s neither fully man nor beast. But then, all of us share this tragic quality
Mr Fox sits down to breakfast. He’s turned his back on a life of crime and now works as a columnist on a local newspaper. He wears a tie to work, he drops French aphorisms into conversation; he’s upwardly mobile.
His wife slips a stack of toast onto his plate, he tucks napkin into collar and, shunning the laid silverware, he devours it with hilarious, undignified ferocity. I like to think of Wes Anderson as quite similar to Mr Fox; they’re both dapper perfectionists, well-spoken with continental manners, but both of them have teeth, whether or not they want you to see them.
Related: Wes Anderson's Fantastic, 21st-century Mr Fox
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- Kit Buchan
The Flash’s Mark Hamill and Andrew Kreisberg Talk Bringing The Trickster Back
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In Episode 17 of The CW series The Flash, entitled “Tricksters,” a copycat killer using the name The Trickster (Devon Graye) starts setting off bombs in Central City. In an effort to stop him, Barry Allen (Grant Gustin) and Joe West (Jesse L. Martin) meet with the original Trickster, a criminal mastermind named James Jesse (Mark Hamill, reprising the role he first played in the original series), who has been imprisoned for 20 years, hoping for some insight into how to stop this new incarnation. Following a screening of the episode at The CW offices, actor Mark Hamill talked about bringing back The Trickster, working with counterpart Devon Graye, improvising, why it was terribly intimidating to show up on set, why he also enjoys voicing The Joker for various animated projects, his look, working with John Wesley Shipp, and how amazing it is to see the comic book medium getting the respect »
- Christina Radish
Johnny Depp’s ‘Pirates of the Caribbean 5′ Halted in Australia (Report)
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Production of “Pirates of the Caribbean 5” in Australia has been halted due to the hand injury sustained by Johnny Depp earlier this month.
The film’s star departed Australia for the U.S. on March 10 following an injury that happened in Queensland, though not while shooting.
Filming had continued on scenes not involving Depp, but on Thursday, some 200 crew were told that they would not be working for the next two weeks, according to multiple Australian media reports.
Production is scheduled to pick up on April 15.
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- Patrick Frater
Cannes In Focus On Femme Filmmakers; BAFTA Seeks Comedy Scripts: Global Briefs
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The Cannes Film Festival is partnering with luxury and sport brand group Kering to launch the first Women in Motion program at this year's event in May. The aim is to "celebrate the talent of women in cinema and encourage reflection on their contribution to and role in the film industry," Kering said. The partners will also launch two special awards from 2016, one recognizing a significant contribution to the cause of women in cinema, and the other celebrating a young… »
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