1-20 of 37 items « Prev | Next »
Alejandro G. Inarritu, Tom McCarthy, Adam McKay, George Miller, Ridley Scott Land DGA Nominations
19 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
The Directors Guild of America kept strong guild streaks alive for “Mad Max: Fury Road” and “The Revenant” Tuesday with nominations for filmmakers George Miller and Alejandro G. Iñárritu, respectively.
The two joined Tom McCarthy (“Spotlight”), Adam McKay (“The Big Short”) and Ridley Scott (“The Martian”) in the feature film category.
Historically, the DGA’s film nominations — decided upon by a vast body of more than 16,000 members — are a solid barometer for the best director and particularly best picture categories at the Oscars. Recent DGA-nominated directors who failed to score a nomination from the Academy’s directors branch include Clint Eastwood (“American Sniper”), Paul Greengrass (“Captain Phillips”) and, notoriously, Ben Affleck (“Argo”) and Kathryn Bigelow (“Zero Dark Thirty”).
Recent films nominated by the DGA that failed to net a best picture Oscar nomination include “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo,” “The Dark Knight,” “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly” and “Into the Wild. »
- Kristopher Tapley
Berlin 2016: Generation line-ups unveiled
43 minutes ago | ScreenDaily | See recent ScreenDaily news »
Berlinale receives record number of submissions.
A total of 63 feature-length and short films produced or co-produced in 35 countries have been invited to participate in the two Berlinale (Feb 11-21) competitions Generation Kplus and Generation 14plus.
The programme, aimed at children and youths, was selected from around 2,000 feature-length and short films submitted to Generation this year, which is more than in any year previously.
The selected films shed light on and challenge the nature of contradictions such as being child-like and being an adult, what is forbidden and what is permitted or the difference between subjective and objective reality.
“Young people world-wide are constantly confronted by dystopic realities not of their own making,” said Maryanne Redpath, head of Generation. “In the diverse films of this year’s programme we see them taking matters into their own hands.”
Generation 14plus
Synopses provided by festival
6A – Sweden
Bullying, skipping school, violent outbursts: »
- michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
Activision Blizzard Sets Stacey Sher To Spearhead Film, TV Projects Including ‘Call Of Duty,’ ‘Skylander,’ ‘Diablo’
43 minutes ago | Deadline | See recent Deadline news »
Video game maker Activision Blizzard has set producer Stacey Sher to team with former Disney exec Nick van Dyk to run Activision Blizzard Studios. They will be co-presidents and lead an effort to create film and TV titles from Activision properties that include Activision's Call of Duty and Skylander and Blizzard's Diablo and StarCraft. Video game to movie transfers so far have had a spotty track record in Hollywood, but this is the latest example of a game company… »
Dark Star Wars, DGAs and Tarantino goes snuff - the Dailies film podcast
51 minutes ago | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
The Guardian film team’s daily round-up of today’s movie news
Your daily update of the latest news and reviews from the Guardian film team. Now showing: Star Wars: The Force Awakens star John Boyega says the next film will be “much darker”, the Directors Guild of America announce their nominations for director of the year and a right-wing pressure group call Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight “a snuff film”.
Follow us on Twitter (GuardianFilm, Henry, Ben, Catherine and producer Rowan) and check out our Facebook page. Comment on the show below.
Further reading:
Continue reading »
- Presented by Henry Barnes with Catherine Shoard and produced by Rowan Slaney
Oscars 2016: what will lead the nominations and who will surprise?
1 hour ago | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
With the nominations for the 88th Academy Awards to be revealed on Thursday, here’s a look at what might make the cut, including some major surprises
Alejandro González Iñárritu’s follow-up to last year’s best picture winner Birdman surprised by coming out ahead of Tom McCarthy’s assumed frontrunner Spotlight at Sunday’s Golden Globes, netting picture and director honors. Its best actor win for Leonardo DiCaprio was a given, and he’s sure to repeat at the Oscars, but going into the night, most awards pundits had pegged the best picture (drama) gong going to Spotlight, or the night’s most nominated film, Carol.
Continue reading »
- Nigel M Smith in Los Angeles
Berlin Film Festival Completes Lineup of Kids and Youth Films Section
1 hour ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
London — The Berlin Film Festival’s kids and youth films section, Generation, has completed its lineup.
The films explore and challenge contradictions surrounding concepts of childhood, such as being child-like and being an adult, and what is forbidden and what is permitted, the festival said.
“Young people worldwide are constantly confronted by dystopic realities not of their own making,” Maryanne Redpath, head of Generation, said. “In the diverse films of this year’s program we see them taking matters into their own hands.”
A total of 63 feature-length and short films produced or co-produced in 35 countries have been invited to take part in the two competitions, Generation Kplus and Generation 14plus. The program was selected from around 2000 feature-length and short films submitted to Generation this year, which is more than in any year previously.
Generation 14plus
(Film descriptions courtesy of the Berlin Film Festival)
6A – Sweden
Bullying, skipping school, »
- Leo Barraclough
‘Pearl Harbor’ Honest Trailer: Ben Affleck’s Heart Hurts
1 hour ago | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »
Even Michael Bay‘s most passionate fans rarely stand by Pearl Harbor. There are people out there that like the movie, but, unlike with the Transformers movies, you rarely get called an idiot online for not being a fan of Bay’s 2001 epic. The film was new territory for the director, but it missed the mark, thanks to miscasting, some […]
The post ‘Pearl Harbor’ Honest Trailer: Ben Affleck’s Heart Hurts appeared first on /Film. »
- Jack Giroux
MK2 Acquires Isabelle Huppert, Gerard Depardieu’s ‘Mrs. Hyde’
2 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
In the run up to the UniFrance Rendez-Vous in Paris, MK2 has acquired international sales rights to Serge Bozon’s “Mrs. Hyde,” a black comedy starring Isabelle Huppert, Gerard Depardieu and Romain Duris.
“Mrs. Hyde” marks Bozon’s follow-up to “Tip Top,” the critically-acclaimed comedy with Huppert which world premiered at Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight and earned a special mention.
Produced by David Thion’s Les Films Pelléas, the project is freely inspired by Stevenson’s “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.” Huppert stars as a timid physics teacher despised by her pupils and colleagues in a suburban high school. But after getting struck by lightning, she wakes up with powerful and dangerous new capabilities.
“We are thrilled to represent this extraordinary new voice in French cinema that Serge Bozon has embodied since he began making films. We anticipate that with this adaptation of a world renowned story and simply the best »
- Elsa Keslassy
Juliet Stevenson drama 'Let Me Go' begins shoot
3 hours ago | ScreenDaily | See recent ScreenDaily news »
Project is based on the memoir of author Helga Schneider.
Nazi legacy drama Let Me Go, starring Juliet Stevenson (Bend It Like Beckham), has begun principal photography in Surrey, England.
Filming will continue for three weeks before moving to London and Vienna, Austria. The production will last five weeks.
Based on the memoir of Helga Schneider, the story recounts how the author was sent to live with her grandparents during the Second World War while her mother joined the SS and worked as a guard at the Auschwitz concentration camp.
After being distanced for 60 years, Schneider returned to face her mother in the year 2000, finding that she remained unrepentant about her Nazi past.
The script was written by Polly Steele (Lena: The Bride of Ice), who will also direct, and will star Stevenson as Schneider alongside Jodhi May (The Last of the Mohicans) and Lucy Boynton (Miss Potter, Sing Street).
New cast members announced include Éva Magyar ([link »
The Danish Girl transforms fascinating truths into tasteful, safe drama
3 hours ago | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Tom Hooper’s earnest biopic of pioneering transgender icon Lili Elbe smooths out the wrinkles and the fun, losing sight of who she really was
The Danish Girl (2015)
Director: Tom Hooper
Entertainment grade: C+
History grade: D
Lili Elbe (born Einar Wegener) was a Danish painter. Suffering physical and psychological distress, she believed she had been misidentified as a man. She underwent an early form of gender reassignment surgery in 1930.
Continue reading »
- Alex von Tunzelmann
Entertainment One Closes London-Based Film Sales Operation
3 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
London — The London-based film sales arm of the U.K.-Canadian film and TV company Entertainment One, formerly known as Entertainment One Films Intl., has been shuttered, according to sources.
The move has been in the cards for some time, following the departure of the sales team boss Harold van Lier and the integration of the sales team into eOne Features last year. Last week, eOne announced that the international sales all of its movies, both those it produces and acquires, would be handled by Sierra Pictures. Entertainment One also took an equity stake in Sierra Pictures, which is led by Nick Meyer and Marc Schaberg.
This move effectively spelled the end of its London-based film sales operation, and put the future of its sales team there in doubt, although they may be redeployed within the company.
Entertainment One movies will be represented at next month’s European Film Market in Berlin by Sierra Pictures, »
- Leo Barraclough
eOne International to close; up to 15 staff impacted
3 hours ago | ScreenDaily | See recent ScreenDaily news »
eOne Features is to close its London-based international sales operation as the Canadian company shifts further towards production and distribution.
ScreenDaily has learned that up to 15 staff at the international sales division could be impacted and the team will not attend the Efm in Berlin next month.
However, some employees may be offered new roles within the company.
The development comes almost exactly one year after the departure of eOne Films International president Harold van Lier.
At the time the hierarchy wanted to focus more heavily on promoting in-house content under production chief Xavier Marchand.
The sales business was folded into the development and production operations and last summer the film unit was rebranded eOne Features.
In the last year, the sales force has worked on the likes of Eye In The Sky and Message From The King but insiders say overall it has struggled to compete with Hollywood’s top sales agents.
The division »
- jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay) andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
Serial killer's home from Silence of the Lambs fails to find buyer
3 hours ago | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
The three-story house, which doubled as the sinister lair of serial killer ‘Buffalo Bill’, has been reduced by $50,000 after struggling to secure interest
Owners of a Pennsylvania property that doubled as the “murder dungeon” home of serial killer Buffalo Bill in the Oscar-winning thriller The Silence of the Lambs have reduced the house’s selling price after failing to attract interest from buyers.
Scott and Barbara Lloyd put the three-story 19th-century house up for sale in the summer for $300,000, but dropped the asking price to $250,000 last month. The property is the second most-viewed on the website realtor.com, but estate agents have fielded far more interest from journalists than potential buyers.
Continue reading »
- Ben Child
eOne International Film Sales Unit To Be Shuttered Following Sierra Investment
3 hours ago | Deadline | See recent Deadline news »
As had been expected, eOne International’s film sales division will be wound down following parent eOne’s investment in Nick Meyer’s Sierra Pictures. Sales veteran Meyer, a well-respected figure in the industry, will now take over sales on forthcoming eOne titles. Sierra, in whom eOne announced an investment for a minority stake last Thursday, will rep both its own and eOne’s slate at the forthcoming European Film Market in Berlin in February. As part of the agreement… »
The man behind the Razzies: 'Brian de Palma had no talent'
3 hours ago | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
For 35 years, the Golden Raspberry awards have existed to annoy film-makers – but do they really recognise the year’s worst movies or simply follow the herd?
John Jb Wilson traipses into his local library, looking to check out the latest Adam Sandler DVD. He is obliged to, for Wilson is something of an authority in matters of bad taste: in 1980, in a living room in Los Angeles, he founded the Golden Raspberry Awards. For 35 years, the annual ceremony has honored the worst in American film.
This is a time of considerable strain for Wilson. The latest Razzie nominees are to be announced on Wednesday, the day before the Oscar nominations – and Wilson, in his capacity as what he calls “Head RAZZberry”, must bear the burden of watching as many as he can. The library is a new recourse. “You get the movies for a week, so you have seven days to slog through ’em, »
- Calum Marsh
George Clooney and Julia Roberts under fire in Money Monster trailer
3 hours ago | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Jodie Foster’s film about the financial crisis sees Jack O’Connell take the Ocean’s Eleven co-stars hostage on live TV
George Clooney and Julia Roberts find themselves at the mercy of a crazed Jack O’Connell in the first trailer for the thriller Money Monster.
Related: New trailer for Coen brothers comedy Hail, Caesar! gets complicated
Continue reading »
- Benjamin Lee
Room: an uplifting movie about an agonising subject
4 hours ago | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Its premise is unsettling, but Lenny Abrahamson’s drama is a perfectly formed picture and, in Brie Larson, has a real star at its heart
Warning! This feature contains serious spoilers
“Room” is what Joy (Brie Larson) and her five-year-old son Jack (Jacob Tremblay) call their prison. It’s meagrely furnished with cast-offs from their captor’s life: a bent spoon, chipped crockery, a blunted breadknife with its stabbing-point hammered off. There is a bathtub, a sink, a toaster-oven, a gas ring and a television. Their only view of the real world comes through a skylight they can’t reach.
Related: Room review: Brie Larson and Jacob Tremblay escape confining adaptation
Continue reading »
- John Patterson
Juliet Stevenson, Jodhi May Head Cast in Polly Steele’s ‘Let Me Go’
5 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
London — Juliet Stevenson, who has been BAFTA nominated four times, is set to star in Polly Steele’s contemporary drama “Let Me Go,” which has just started to shoot. Radiohead drummer Philip Selway is composing the score.
Stevenson, whose credits include “Truly Madly Deeply,” is joined in the cast by Jodhi May (“Last of the Mohicans,” “The Other Boleyn Girl”), Lucy Boynton (“Sing Street”), Karin Bertling (“The Bridge,” “Wallander”) and Stanley Weber (“Not Another Happy Ending”). The film is written and directed by Steele, whose credits include the film “Lena — Bride of Ice” and TV show “Elton John — Tantrums and Tiaras,” from a true-life story by Helga Schneider, based on her best-selling memoir of the same name.
“Let Me Go,” which is a story about mothers and daughters and abandonment, follows the emotional journeys of four generations of women from the same family and how they suffer from a trauma »
- Leo Barraclough
Devilworks inks UK, Germany, Australia, China deals on horror slate
5 hours ago | ScreenDaily | See recent ScreenDaily news »
Exclusive: In-demand titles include Some Kind Of Hate, The Answer, Time Lapse.
Genre sales outfit Devilworks has inked a slew of deals on its titles including Adam Egypt Mortimer’s debut Some Kind Of Hate, starring Ronen Rubinstein, Grace Phipps, Sierra McCormick, Maestro Harrell, Lexi Atkins and Spencer Breslin.
Deals have closed with Tiberius for Germany, Austria & Switzerland, Accent for Australia & New Zealand, Dexterity for South America, Kinologistika for Russia while Koch Media has acquired the film for its new Italian horror channel Midnight Factory.
In Some kind Of Hate a bullied teenager is sent to a reform school where he accidentally summons the spirit of a girl, herself a victim of bullying, who takes vengeance on his tormentors.
Devilworks has also sold sci-fi thriller The Answer to Signature Entertainment’s new UK home entertainment label Precision Pictures, which is set to release in Autumn 2016.
Meanwhile deals with Virtual Cinema in China have been secured for The »
- andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
Us, Canada among deals for sci-fi 'The Call Up'
5 hours ago | ScreenDaily | See recent ScreenDaily news »
Exclusive: UK, Australia, Japan also among key pacts for sci-fi starring Max Deacon.
Altitude Film Sales has secured distribution deals in a number of key territories for Charles Barker’s debut feature The Call Up.
Vertical Entertainment has picked up Us rights with Mongrel Media taking Canada. Deals were also finalised with Altitude Film Distribution for the UK, Nikkatsu for Japan, Defiant for Australia/New Zealand, Betta Pictures for Spain and Gate 23 for Airlines.
The Call Up follows a group of online gamers who are invited to trial a state-of-the-art virtual reality game, but what starts out like a dream encounter with cutting edge video technology – a perfect representation of soldiers in a warzone – takes a turn for the sinister when the stakes are raised to fatal.
Max Deacon (Into The Storm) plays the lead role alongside Morfydd Clark (Pride And Prejudice and Zombies), Ali Cook (Kilo Two Bravo), Parker Sawyers (Southside With You), Tom Benedict Knight ([link »
- andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
1-20 of 37 items « Prev | Next »
« Prev | Next »