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Link Becomes Her
3 March 2016 2:00 PM, PST | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
Anya Taylor-Joy photographed by Gregory HarrisThe Washington Post interesting visual analysis of Tom McCarthy's Oscar winner Spotlight
Interview M Night Shyamalan interview Anya Taylor-Joy from The Witch
Pajiba Agent Carter in limbo after second season finale. (Is limbo the new code word for cancelled? I've never seen a network burn off that many episodes that quickly if they weren't going to cancel something)
My New Plaid Pants "I would like to talk about... Madeline Ashton." Yes. Death Becomes Her is getting a special edition BluRay next month
Kotaku Ghost in the Shell finally adds a famous Asian actor to its cast list, Beat Takeshi.
Playbill This is cool 15 ambassadors from the Un saw a special performance of Fun Home The Musical. Can we please get a film version? That show is sublime
Film School Rejects looks back at Oliver Stone's The Doors (1991) for its 25th anniversary
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- NATHANIEL R
“We Needed the Fresh Urine of a Nanny Goat in Heat”: Dp Jarin Blaschke on The Witch
3 March 2016 6:00 AM, PST | Filmmaker Magazine - Blog | See recent Filmmaker Magazine news »
In the midst of my opening day viewing of The Witch, the screen went black. It wasn’t unexpected considering the multitude of perfectly timed ellipses that punctuate director Robert Eggers’ 17th century tale of a devout Christian family torn asunder. And this particular ellipsis seemed opportunely placed – coming just as the film’s hypothetical dread morphed into tangible terror. But this time, the darkness persisted. The theater’s projector bulb had burned out. Of course, the audience didn’t know that yet. At any other screening, the reaction would’ve been instantaneous. My fellow moviegoers and I would’ve turned to the projector and […] »
- Matt Mulcahey
Nida grad Devon Terrell to play young Barack Obama
2 March 2016 5:39 PM, PST | IF.com.au | See recent IF.com.au news »
Nida graduate Devon Terrell will play a young Barack Obama in Barry, an independent feature to be directed by Vikram Gandhi, a former Vice correspondent who made the documentary Kumare.
The film will be set in 1981 in New York City, while Obama was attending Columbia University as a 20 year-old, reports THR.
Terrell was cast as the lead in Steve McQueen's HBO show Codes of Conduct, and despite the series being scrapped, that plum booking has no doubt opened many doors.
He'll star in Barry alongside another much-buzzed young actor, The Witch's Anya Taylor-Joy, with a shoot planned for late April.
The script was written by Adam Mansbach, best known as the author of adult children's book Go the F*** to Sleep.
Terrell is repped by CAA in the U.S. and Imc in Australia. »
- Staff Writer
'The Witch 2' Isn't Happening, Why Not?
2 March 2016 7:41 AM, PST | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »
Sorry, fans of The Witch. The director behind one of the most original horror movies in years is not interested in rehashing his thriller for a sequel. While most scary movies get a follow-up once they hit big with an audience, it doesn't sound like that is happening here. Despite The Witch becoming somewhat of a phenomenon.
Both critically acclaimed and a box office hit, The Witch has a rich mythology that could sustain a number of sequels. But writer and director Robert Eggers has no interest in going down that well-trod road. This tale of a tormented Puritan family and their goat Black Phillip has already grossed $16 million, which is a lot for a small indie like this. And The Witch 2 would surely be an even bigger hit as The Witch gains more of an audience on the home market and VOD. But there will not be a Witch »
- MovieWeb
Devon Terrell will play a young Barack Obama in ‘Barry’
2 March 2016 12:08 AM, PST | The Hollywood News | See recent The Hollywood News news »
Devon Terrell has been cast as a young Barack Obama in the planned biographical film Barry, so reports The Hollywood Reporter. The movie will be set in 1981, and will also feature the talents of Anya Taylor-Joy, who can currently be seen in the horror movie The Witch.
Barry explores the time when Obama (Terrell) was a college student in New York City and forged key relationships, including with a fellow student (Taylor-Joy).
Vikram Gandhi will direct the film, which expected to start shooting next month. Black Bear Pictures are behind the film, the company that brought the Alan Turing biopic The Imitation Game to screens a couple of years back.
Adam Mansbach wrote the script.
The post Devon Terrell will play a young Barack Obama in ‘Barry’ appeared first on The Hollywood News. »
- Paul Heath
Robert Eggers Has Zero Interest in Making a Witch Sequel
1 March 2016 5:31 PM, PST | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »
Writer/director Robert Eggers’ atmospheric outing The Witch ranks as one of the strongest horror flicks in recent memory. In this guy’s humble opinion, it practically begs for repeat viewings. And while some fans would love to see the filmmaker continue… Continue Reading →
The post Robert Eggers Has Zero Interest in Making a Witch Sequel appeared first on Dread Central. »
- Todd Rigney
Why The Scariest Movie Of The Year Won't Get A Sequel, According To The Director
1 March 2016 3:45 PM, PST | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »
It took a while for first time director Robert Eggers. Sundance darling horror film The Witch to make it to the rest of us, but for fans of the genre, the slow-burn, tension filled movie was well worth the wait. An exercise in constantly amplifying pressure and terror, The Witch will likely go down as one of the scariest horror films in recent years, if not all time. It won.t, however, follow one pattern for the genre, as there will be no sequel, because, as Eggers says, he doesn.t want to know what.s next. Distributor A24 gave The Witch a wide release a few weeks ago, and was rewarded with their biggest opening ever, not to mention an endoresement from the Satanic Temple. It took more than a year to drop after its Sundance premiere, but that just gave Robert Eggers more time to stump for it »
Young Barack Obama Biopic Barry Finds Leading Stars
1 March 2016 2:16 PM, PST | We Got This Covered | See recent We Got This Covered news »
Vikram Gandhi’s independent feature Barry has today nabbed its two leading stars, with The Hollywood Reporter bringing word that Devon Terrell has been cast to play a younger version of Barack Obama.
Situated long before Obama made American history by becoming the President of the United States, Gandhi’s movies places a laser focus on his formative years as a New York college student in the early ’80s, where he forged a relationship with a fellow student.
Fresh off her turn in Robert Eggers’ blood-curdling horror flick The Witch, THR notes that it is Anya Taylor-Joy that will star opposite Terrell in the drama, though there’s little-to-no information regarding plot beyond the fact that Obama’s encounter with Taylor-Joy’s character is described as a fateful one. What we do know is that novelist Adam Mansbach, best known for penning adult’s children book Go the F**k to Sleep, »
- Michael Briers
Young Barack Obama Movie ‘Barry’ Casts Devvon Terrell
1 March 2016 1:37 PM, PST | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Devon Terrell and Anya Taylor-Joy have been cast as the leads in the independent film “Barry,” which follows President Barack Obama as a college student in New York City.
Vikram Gandhi is directing the film which begins hooting at the end of March. Ghandi’s “Kumare” won the 2011 audience award at SXSW, and he’s currently a correspondent and producer for the HBO series “Vice.”
The screenplay was penned by novelist Adam Mansbach, who wrote “Go the F**k to Sleep.” The logline is under wraps.
“Barry” is being produced by Black Bear Pictures (“The Imitation Game,” “Gold” and “Suburbicon”) and Cinetic Media. Producers are Black Bear’s Teddy Schwarzman and Ben Stillman, Cinetic’s Dana O’Keefe, and Gandhi.
Terrell was discovered by Steve McQueen and cast as the lead in his HBO pilot “Codes of Conduct.”
Taylor-Joy is the lead in A24’s “The Witch.” She’s starring in “Morgan, »
- Dave McNary
Don’t expect a sequel to ‘The Witch’, says director Eggers
1 March 2016 8:32 AM, PST | The Hollywood News | See recent The Hollywood News news »
While we saw and reviewed the excellent horror movie The Witch a considerable amount of time ago at the London Film Festival, the film has only just come out in the Us, and doesn’t debut in the UK for another couple of weeks. There’s some great buzz around the unsettling horror film, and rightly so, and thoughts are already turning towards potential sequels. Well, it seems that the film’s celebrated writer and director Robert Eggers isn’t keen on the idea. At all.
Eggers spoke with EW Radio’s Entertainment Weirdly show; “I think I’m stealing the words from another director I cannot place, but if I wanted to know what happens after the last shot of the film, I would have made a longer movie.”
We reported earlier this past week that Eggers has now turned his attention to other projects, including a major TV »
- Paul Heath
The Witch helmer Robert Eggers to write and direct Rasputin miniseries
28 February 2016 6:30 PM, PST | Flickeringmyth | See recent Flickeringmyth news »
Robert Eggers, the filmmaker behind the acclaimed horror film The Witch, is set to bring the story of Rasputin to the small screen, signing on to write and direct a miniseries based upon the life of the Russian mystic.
Deadline is reporting that the series will consist of six to eight episodes and “will cover Rasputin’s origins in Siberia to his rise to power and bloody death in St. Petersburg.”
In addition to the Rasputin project, Eggers is also attached to a remake of the 1922 horror classic Nosferatu for Jeff Robinov’s Studio 8, as well as medieval film The Knight.
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- Gary Collinson
‘The Witch’ Cinematographer Jarin Blaschke on the Film’s Natural-Light Gloom
26 February 2016 3:25 PM, PST | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Everyone’s talking about “The Witch.” It’s hard not to understand why when the film, which first debuted at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival and tells the story of a family plagued by evil in early 17th-century New England, is picking up splashy endorsements from the Satanic Temple. The brooding, creepy atmosphere conjured by director Robert Eggers owes plenty to the design and photography, the latter courtesy of lenser Jarin Blaschke. Natural light and plenty of gloom give way to a textured film as beautiful as it is unsettling to observe.
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I’d like to start out by hearing a little about your background. I know you’ve done extensive work in short films, but how did you first come to the gig? Did you go to film school? Were you into photography at an early age?
My mom gave me my first point-and-shoot camera when I was probably 10 years of age. »
- Kristopher Tapley
Listen to Mark Korven’s Frightening Full Score For ‘The Witch’
26 February 2016 1:28 PM, PST | The Film Stage | See recent The Film Stage news »
Judging from the slate of new releases this weekend, one’s time would be far greater spent checking out Robert Eggers‘ The Witch, a frightfully entertaining horror tale. Whether you saw it last weekend or plan to catch it soon, you’ll certainly want to give Mark Korven‘s terrifying score another spin and it’s now finally available to listen to in full.
“We both wanted to keep things quite minimal, and keep any human imperfections in the score. The score is tense and dissonant, but there’s also a certain fragility there, which reflects these people living on the edge of existence,” he tells Bloody Disgusting. ” The claustrophobic feeling was really something that Robert was shooting for. He wanted the film to just lay on top of people like a 90 minute puritan nightmare. I think he said once that in order for it to be horror, it had to be horrifying. »
- Leonard Pearce
The Witch, “Indie Arthouse Horror” And Our Obsession With Overclassification
26 February 2016 10:21 AM, PST | We Got This Covered | See recent We Got This Covered news »
My intentions with this piece were to emphatically praise the success of Robert Eggers’ The Witch, but, I’ve since been distracted by another proverbial dick-measuring competition between horror fans over who is “most legit.”
Frankly, I don’t get it. The genre has a skewed enough perception from outside parties who don’t understand horror’s luminous draw – why do we need all this inner-genre drama? The Witch, the latest genre-bending(?) film to display vein-popping restraint, has inevitably brought with it another landslide of thinkpieces, baffling opinions, and general fuckery – ideals that still pollute my Twitter feed. Days later.
Guess it’s my turn then, eh?
First off, a booming round of applause to the guys and gals over at A24. After purchasing The Witch (which, yes, I Loved) out of Sundance for a modest (and fair) $1 million, this puritanical period nightmare scared up $8.6 – $8.8 million (depending on your source) in its opening weekend. »
- Matt Donato
The Movies That Changed My Life: ‘The Witch’ Director Robert Eggers
26 February 2016 9:07 AM, PST | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
After the recent one-two (three and four) punch of “It Follows,” “A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night,” “The Babadook,” and “Goodnight Mommy,” the chilling swell of arthouse horror has been hitting a crescendo of late (sorry, Bret Easton Ellis). But capturing the arty horror zeitgeist like no other is “The Witch,” the feature-length debut of filmmaker Robert Eggers which earned A24 Films their biggest opening ever. A big smash out of Sundance Film Festival last year where the film won Eggers the Directing Award in the U.S. Dramatic category, “The Witch” follows a 17th century Puritan family excommunicated from their village who, when forced to fend for themselves, encounter forces of evil in the woods beyond their New England farm. And “The Witch” is sensational (read our review), the modern heir apparent to “The Shining,” and a movie that seemingly mixes the unnerving chill and cinematic vision of Stanley Kubrick, »
- Rodrigo Perez
The Witch (2016) director Robert Eggers – exclusive interview
26 February 2016 1:33 AM, PST | Flickeringmyth | See recent Flickeringmyth news »
In this special Bonus Episode of the Flickering Myth Podcast, Scott Davis talks to director Robert Eggers about his crazy successful arthouse horror movie The Witch, which made 8 times its budget back at the Us box office last weekend. This is the full, unedited version of the 5 minute interview featured in the Flickering Myth Podcast #15 (which you can listen to at the bottom of this article). What a nice guy.
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New England, 1630: William and Katherine lead a devout Christian life, homesteading on the edge of an impassible wilderness, with five children. When their newborn son mysteriously vanishes and their crops fail, the family begins to turn on one another. In his debut feature, writer/director Robert Eggers painstakingly designs an authentic re-creation of New England — generations before the 1692 trials in Salem — evoking the alluring and terrifying power of the timeless witch myth. »
- Oli Davis
Robert Eggers Writing and Directing Rasputin Miniseries
25 February 2016 12:26 PM, PST | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »
Watching The Witch, it’s almost hard to believe that you’re watching a filmmaker’s debut feature, which makes what Robert Eggers pulled off with that film all the more special. It’s one of the best horror movies in years, and fresh… Continue Reading →
The post Robert Eggers Writing and Directing Rasputin Miniseries appeared first on Dread Central. »
- John Squires
Flickering Myth Podcast #15 – Justice League starts filming, Oscar predictions and Civil War details
24 February 2016 3:06 PM, PST | Flickeringmyth | See recent Flickeringmyth news »
Join Oli and Luke in this week’s Flickering Myth Podcast for…
Scooperhero News – Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice is now only a month away, so it’s about time for the official movie duration…but probably not for details on a different cut for the eventual Blu-ray release. Also, Justice League starts production, and Anthony Mackie might have let slip a big cameo for Captain America: Civil War.
Star Wars – three discs announced for the eventual home entertainment release, more details on Disney’s Star Wars Land and Carrie Fisher reveals the very strange working title for Episode VIII.
Everything Else – so Pacific Rim 2 is happening again, Luke really, really, really wants a Nintendo All-Stars movie, Emily Blunt is Mary Poppins (before she was even cast in the role), Chucky 7 is seemingly confirmed, Blade Runner 2 now has a release date and, oh, yeah, the small matter of the »
- Oli Davis
Young Barack Obama Film Casts Devon Terrell, 'The Witch' Star Anya Taylor-Joy (Exclusive)
24 February 2016 2:23 PM, PST | The Hollywood Reporter | See recent The Hollywood Reporter news »
The story of a young Barack Obama trying to find his way in 1981 New York City has found its two leads. Devon Terrell and Anya Taylor-Joy, the star of the hit horror movie The Witch, will star in Barry, an indie drama being directed by Vikram Gandhi, a Vice correspondent who made the documentary Kumare. Black Bear Pictures (The Imitation Game) is producing with Cinetic Media. The movie is expected to begin shooting in April. Barry explores the time when Obama was a college student in New York City and forged key relationships, including with a fellow student
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- Borys Kit
'The Witch's' Black Phillip is such a star he now has his very own trailer
24 February 2016 2:20 PM, PST | Hitfix | See recent Hitfix news »
Yesterday in this very spot, I revealed that the actor who voices Black Phillip in Robert Eggers' new horror film The Witch is crazy hot, and today EW has the exclusive on a new TV spot that confirms what those of us who have seen the film already know: Black Phillip is the breakout star of this movie. He's so hot that the "all Black Phillip all the time" spot even boasts some impressive critical blurbs, including the following from Boston Globe critic Ty Burr: "Catapults to the top of the creepy-animal charts." Let's hope he doesn't get typecast. »
- Chris Eggertsen
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