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‘Atlanta’ Trailer: Donald Glover Aspires To Achieve Greatness In New FX Dramedy
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Most people will do whatever they can to better their lives and the lives of their families. Struggling to accomplish his goals and working hard to achieve greatness, Donald Glover does just that in his new FX series “Atlanta.”
Created, written and starring the “Community” alum, the 10-episode dramedy follows two cousins, Earn Marks (Glover) and Alfred Miles (Brian Tyree Henry), attempting to ascend the ranks of Atl’s hip-hop scene. The network released the first official trailer, which you can check out below.
Read More: ‘Atlanta’: Donald Glover Wants You To Feel What It’s Like to Be Black
The pilot is directed by Hiro Murai and co-stars Zazie Beetz, Emmett Hunter, Keith Stanfield and Lakeith Stansfield. It was recently reported that Glover would be making his television directorial debut with the series, helming the sixth and seventh episodes of the season. The project is dear to his heart and Glover, »
- Liz Calvario
Refinery29’s Female-Driven YouTube Channel Is A Laugh Riot
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It took years of working in network television, but Julie Miller finally created the rarest of media opportunities: An insurrection.
“Riot is an uprising,” said Miller, who serves as creative director for the YouTube channel, which is backed by Refinery29. “It’s a space for women to make comedy for everyone and not feel like they have to skew male.”
Fifteen years ago, Miller was double-booked as an intern at Saturday Night Live and Comedy Central. “I was interning for Tina Fey at Weekend Update, and I spent the other half of the week at Comedy Central assisting Jessi Klein in development,” she said. “I came to New York and immediately worked for two of the best female comedians, so the stakes were really high.”
Read More: YouTube Filmmaker Yulin Kuang Brings Cinematic Aesthetic To The CW Seed
In those jobs, Miller saw firsthand what content cable networks bought — and didn’t. »
- Jude Dry
‘Crunch Time’ Featurette: A Look Inside The Rooster Teeth Sci-Fi Comedy Series Starring Samm Levine
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This year Fullscreen Films and Rooster Teeth released the crowdfunded record breaker “Lazer Team.” After launching an Indiegogo campaign to fund the project and raising $2.4 million, the comedy was released in theaters in January and on YouTube Red a month later. Now, the Austin-based production company is giving audiences a new comedic sci-fi series, “Crunch Time.”
The six-episode comedy follows a group of grad students who, to make some money, start putting people into a lucid dream machine. Unfortunately, things start to go terribly wrong, accidentally creating a black hole that could destroy the world.
Read More: ‘Lazer Team’ Sequel Coming To YouTube Red in 2017
Mashable has exclusive images of the series which stars Samm Levine, Nick Rutherford, Jessy Hodges, Avery Monsen, Brent Morin and Michael Hyatt, among others. A cool new featurette was also released to give audiences an inside look at what to expect.
“It’s ‘Inception’ meets ‘Weird Science, »
- Liz Calvario
‘Making a Murderer’: Brendan Dassey May Be Set Free After Conviction is Overturned
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Brendan Dassey, one of “Making a Murderer’s” subjects, just received some major news today. Currently incarcerated at the Columbia Correctional Institution in Portage, Wisconsin, the nephew of Steven Avery may be leaving prison after his conviction was overturned by a federal judge in the Teresa Halbach murder case.
According to the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, his attorneys argued that his constitutional rights were violated during the investigation and that “investigators made false promises to Dassey during multiple interrogations.”
In 2007, he was found guilty of first-degree intentional homicide, second-degree sexual assault and mutilation of a corpse. At the time of the 2005 murder, he was 16 years old, and two years later, just shy of turning 18, was tried and sentenced as an adult.
“These repeated false promises, when considered in conjunction with all relevant factors, most especially Dassey’s age, intellectual deficits, and the absence of a supportive adult, rendered Dassey’s confession involuntary »
- Liz Calvario
Nate Parker: Why He’s Speaking Out Against 1999 Rape Accusations Before ‘Birth of a Nation’ Awards Cycle
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Nate Parker’s Cinderella story took a decidedly darker turn Friday morning with a Deadline piece in which the filmmaker behind “The Birth of a Nation” gave an extended interview acknowledging his role in a 1999 rape charge, when he was a student at Penn State.
You can read the details here, but the upshot is he and “The Birth of a Nation” co-writer Jean McGianni Celestin had sex with a fellow student — an incident that, they said, was consensual; she says she was passed-out drunk and unable to give consent. The case went to trial, and Parker was acquitted while Celestin’s conviction was overturned on appeal.
This comes the morning after Parker received the Vanguard Award at the Sundance Institute’s Night Before Next benefit, where he also announced the Institute’s launch of The Birth of a Nation Fellowship for 18-to-24-year-old filmmakers who participate in the Institute’s Ignite program. »
- Dana Harris
‘The Model’ Is A Mirthless Melodrama Set In The World Of Fashion [Review]
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“The Model” takes its classic melodramatic premise and almost goes out of its way to cram it full of stale tropes while making sure that nothing original or unique is said, so much so that the film would have been rejected as a possible Lifetime Channel original movie for being too clichéd and predictable. What […]
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- Oktay Ege Kozak
Emmy Predictions 2016: Production and Costume Design Races Reflect Cultural Upheaval
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“The Times They Are a Changin'” pretty well sums up this year’s Emmy craft contenders for production and costume design. The series all deal with social, political and cultural upheaval, which provided creative opportunities in designing and dressing characters on the cusp of change.
Production Design
In the race for production design (fantasy or contemporary), Amazon’s adaptation of Philip K.Dick’s “The Man in the High Castle” is building buzz for its retro-future vision, in which the Nazis and Japanese won World War II.
For production designer Drew Boughton, that meant three distinct looks for New York City (run by the Nazis), San Francisco (occupied by the Japanese) and Canon City, Colorado (the neutral zone). New York offered an austere, concrete, gray vibe reminiscent of the Eastern block, San Francisco went more wood and aqua blue and Canon City was rural, like a Western.
“What are the »
- Bill Desowitz
Rare 1-Hour Japanese Documentary Goes Behind-The-Scenes With Steven Spielberg
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Throughout his four decade career, Steven Spielberg has delivered a wide range of emotions to audiences; he’s made us cry; he’s made us laugh; he’s created archetypal characters, scenes, and films that changed the course of cinematic history. The highest grossing filmmaker to date, Spielberg is more than a household name; he’s also accepted and praised […]
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- Samantha Vacca
Half-Baked ‘Sausage Party’ Isn’t The Surreal Pixar Riff It Could’ve Been [Review]
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This is a reprint of our review from the 2016 SXSW Film Festival. Bun Sex. Revenge Douche. Bath Salts. If “Sausage Party” doesn’t win Strangest IMDb Keywords of 2016, surely the film that beats it won’t feature a CG-animated cast of talking supermarket items. From a story by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, and with an […]
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- Charlie Schmidlin
Locarno Critic’s Notebook #2: The Dreamed Path, The Sun, The Sun Blinded Me and The Human Surge
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Angela Schanelec’s continued lack of recognition, at least outside of Germany, is genuinely baffling. Judging from the dismissive-to-hostile reactions that followed the premiere of her eighth feature at the Locarno Film Festival, this regrettable state of affairs is unlikely to change. And yet, out of the competition entries I managed to see, The Dreamed Path is the only one I feel deserves to be called a masterpiece. The Dreamed Path is a demanding film, even more so than Schanelec’s previous work, but the challenge is legitimated by being commensurate with her thematic ambition: to dissect the torturous dialectic between the universal […] »
- Giovanni Marchini Camia
‘Long Way North’ Trailer: Rémi Chayés’ New Animated Feature Hits Theaters in September
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“Long Way North,” the latest animated film from acclaimed filmmaker Rémi Chayé (“The Secret of Kells”) will open theatrically on September 30, 2016 in Los Angeles, New York, and a select group of other major markets. Shout! Factory Films acquired the U.S. rights to the movie in February.
Read More: Shout! Factory Films Nabs U.S. Rights To Reni Chaye’s Animated “Long Way North”
“Long Way North” won the Audience Award at the 2015 Annecy International Animated Film Festival and the Grand Prize and Governor of Tokyo Award at the 2016 Tokyo Animation Festival. Here’s the official synopsis for the film: Sacha, a young girl from the Russian aristocracy, dreams of the Great North and anguishes over the fate of her grandfather, Oloukine, a renowned scientist and Arctic explorer who has yet to return from his latest expedition to conquer the North Pole. Sacha has always been fascinated by the adventurous »
- Graham Winfrey
How Meryl Streep Embraced Being Awful in ‘Florence Foster Jenkins’ – Video
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On the surface, Stephen Frears’ “Florence Foster Jenkins” looks like one of those soft, middlebrow, costume pictures aimed straight at the smart adult demo. Fine.
But it’s more than that. It’s a delicious, immersive escape into a lost New York of period cars and “men in tuxedos and women in evening gowns,” as Frears told me in an interview. He reveled in recreating that vintage Manhattan in London, and giving Meryl Streep and Hugh Grant a chance to shine.
Directors count on three-time Oscar-winner Streep to deliver for them, but this particular role marks an especially high degree of difficulty. Florence Foster Jenkins was a wealthy middle-aged music lover who couldn’t sing on key, but insisted on performing for increasingly larger audiences, who loved her anyway. She was infectiously entertaining.
“The script [by Nicholas Martin] was more or less what we shot, very good,” said Frears. “They sent me the link to YouTube. »
- Anne Thompson
Tiff 2016. Lineup
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A selection of films from the 2016 edition of the Toronto International Film Festival has been unveiled, with films by Jim Jarmusch, Maren Ade, Tom Ford, Paul Verhoeven, Damien Chazelle, and many more.Opening NIGHTThe Magnificent Seven (Antoine Fuqua)GALASDeepwater HorizonArrival (Denis Villeneuve)Deepwater Horizon (Peter Berg)The Headhunter's Calling (Mark Williams)The Journey Is the Destination (Bronwen Hughes)Jt + The Tennessee Kids (Jonathan Demme)Lbj (Rob Reiner)Lion (Garth Davis)Loving (Jeff Nichols)A Monster Calls (J.A. Bayona)Planetarium (Rebecca Zlotowski)Queen of Katwe (Mira Nair)The Rolling Stones of Olé Olé Olé!: A Trip Across Latin America (Paul Dugdale)The Secret Scripture (Jim Sheridan)Snowden (Oliver Stone)Strange Weather (Katherine Dieckmann)Their Finest (Lone Scherfig)A United Kingdom (Amma Astante)Special PRESENTATIONSLa La LandThe Age of Shadows (Kim Jee-woon)All I See Is You (Marc Forster)American Honey (Andrea Arnold)American Pastoral (Ewan McGregor)Asura: The City of »
Video Essay Explores The Transitions That Keep Things Moving On ‘Stranger Things’
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We all know by now: “Stranger Things” is, officially, the hype. The Duffer Brothers’ crazy-enjoyable and disarmingly sincere paean to the ’80s kiddie-monster yarns they grew up on is Netflix’s new big hit, and the buzz shows no signs of dying down anytime soon. Even for audience members who are weary of the constant stream […]
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- Nicholas Laskin
Review: ‘The Get Down’ Season 1 Will Change the Way You Binge Netflix
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Many filmmakers who transition to television describe the switch as a simple one, usually using a phrase to the effect of, “It’s just a 10-hour movie.” They pretend — and I do mean pretend — that the only difference between what they made for the cinema and what they’re doing for television is the literal length of time they have with the characters.
This, however, is a lie; a lie often innocently told to toss aside a question with a much more complex answer, but still a lie. For the truth is, TV seasons aren’t just longer movies. They’re not novels, either (another popular, but only slightly more accurate simile). They’re TV shows, and they’re designed that way… that is, until “The Get Down.”
Read More: Review: ‘The Get Down’ is the Baz Luhrmann Movie You’ve Been Waiting For Since ‘Moulin Rouge!’
What first strikes you is the length. »
- Ben Travers
“Style is the Culmination of Your Mistakes”: Cinematographer Sean Porter on Green Room
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Early in Green Room – before the carnage ramps its way toward a violent, chaotic crescendo – there’s a close-up of a record player spinning haplessly in the foreground while the out-of-focus shape of Anton Yelchin’s punk bassist stirs in the background’s dawn light. The opening act of Green Room is replete with these moments of lyricism, the culmination of which amplify the tragedy when the machetes are unsheathed and the dogs unleashed. When the lives of Yelchin’s bandmates are extinguished, we feel the weight of it because we’ve glimpsed the poetry, the slivers of grace, within them. Set largely […] »
- Matt Mulcahey
Project Greenlight Studios And Seed&Spark Announce Chelsea Hernandez As Winner Of #UntoldStory Crowdfunding Rally
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Today, Project Greenlight Digital Studios and the crowdfunding platform Seed&Spark have announced the grand prize winner of #UntoldStory Crowdfunding Rally. Documentarian Chelsea Hernandez won for her film “Building the American Dream,” which explores the exploitation of undocumented workers on Texas construction sites. This announcement was made at the release party for the sixth issue of Bright Ideas magazine at the Ace Hotel in downtown Los Angeles on August 10th.
Read More: Seed&Spark, SeriesFest Partner to Find the Next Great Voice in Independent TV
“Winning this contest helps validate not only the artistic quality and trust in me to make the film but also signifies the film’s importance,” said Hernandez. “More than ever before, documentaries have the ability to disrupt and influence change.”
This past March, Seed&Spark and Project Greenlight put out a call for submissions for the next great Untold Story in documentary, specifically looking for »
- Vikram Murthi
Exclusive: David Oyelowo & Dianne Wiest Confront Loss ‘Five Nights In Maine’
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The pain of losing a loved one can resonate deeply, bringing people into your orbit that were previously at a greater distance. And that’s where the drama “Five Nights In Maine” starts its course, with the film offering a different option for those looking for something at the summer cinema that isn’t a blockbuster. Read More: […]
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- Edward Davis
‘Sausage Party’ Prank: Seth Rogen Terrifies Grocery Shoppers With Talking Food — Watch
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If food items on the shelves of grocery stores had feelings and were alive, would you still eat them? Seth Rogen’s latest animated R-rated comedy, “Sausage Party,” follows that similar premise but to the extreme.
To celebrate the film’s release, Rogen and a special effects team set up different animatronic food – a sausage, cantaloupe and bread – at a super market to show “the people of New York that our food has feelings.”
Read More: ‘Sausage Party’ Review: It’s Feast Or Famine In A Grossly Uneven Comedy That Forever Redefines ‘Food Porn’
Lending his voice to the creepy and offensive snacks, Rogen hid in a backroom where he would spook the people as they were shopping. The terrified victims then took to chatting with the food as he mocked a handful of them, begged others not to eat his family and even told another to eat all the »
- Liz Calvario
‘Breaking Bad’ & ‘Game Of Thrones’ Director Michelle MacLaren To Helm WWII Drama ‘The Nightingale’
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It’s look like Michelle MacLaren had dusted herself off after that whole DC films thing and signed on to direct “The Nightingale” for TriStar. The film is based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Kristin Hannah, and tells the story of two French sisters and their struggle during the German occupation of France in […]
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- Charles Dean
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