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Newswire: R.I.P. Jon Polito, a favorite of the Coen brothers
3 hours ago | avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news »
Jon Polito, the mustachioed, raspy-voiced character actor who squeezed both humor and surprising pathos from the many mobster and cop roles he played—most memorably for the Coen brothers—has died. The news was passed along by Polito’s friend, filmmaker John McNaughton, who directed Polito in the early episodes of Homicide: Life On The Street where Polito first earned attention as the pugnacious, philosophical Detective Steve Crosetti, as well as in the anthology series Masters Of Horror. No official cause of death has been given, though Polito was diagnosed with incurable blood cancer in 2010. Polito was 65.
Providing a comprehensive overview of Polito’s incredibly prolific, 35-year career would be an impossible task; his work stretched from off Broadway to Broadway to cop dramas to sitcoms to short films to arthouse indies to big-budget family films to cartoon voiceovers, encompassing more than 200 credits. Anyway, there is IMDb ...
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- Sean O'Neal
Venice: Tom Ford, Jake Gyllenhaal Talk of Return and Reworking in ‘Nocturnal Animals’
5 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Venice, Italy — The last time Tom Ford came to the Lido, the director crossed overnight from the world of fashion into the awards-season big league with his acclaimed debut “A Single Man.” But instead of capitalizing quickly on his new kudos, Ford slipped out of the film world. He finally resurfaced Friday with his sophomore outing, “Nocturnal Animals.”
“I’m sorry it was seven years,” the director told a packed Venice press conference after its first two screenings. “It kills me that it was seven years!”
Based on the 1993 novel “Tony and Susan” by Austin Wright, Ford’s new film tells the story of Susan (Amy Adams), a jaded art gallery owner trapped in a failing marriage whose life is changed when her estranged ex-husband, Edward, (Jake Gyllenhaal) mails her a copy of his debut novel (the “Nocturnal Animals” of the title). The book centers on a violent attack on »
- Damon Wise
10 Lessons We Learned From Summer Movie Season 2016
4 hours ago | Rollingstone.com | See recent Rolling Stone news »
Take a deep breath and congratulate yourself: If you're reading this, that means we all survived the grisliest summer movie season in recent memory. We survived the Ghostbusters wars, the Suicide Squad wars, and the Warcraft wars. We even survived the movie where Kevin Spacey is a talking cat. We did it.
Flops aplenty, fans growing apoplectic over malarkey, and a saturation of sequels and remakes all made for a grueling few months — still, the Memorial-to-Labor Day gauntlet was not without its pleasures as well. As we prepare for »
Venice: Josh Hartnett In Advanced Talks For ’Jack of Hearts’
5 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Josh Hartnett is in advanced negotiations to re-team with writer-director Guy Moshe (“Bunraku”) for “The Last Draw of Jack of Hearts,” which is billed as a neo-noir espionage thriller.
Disrupting Influence’s Glenn Kendrick Ackermann and Jason Piette have acquired worldwide sales rights to the film. They will introduce it to buyers at the Toronto Intl. Film Festival. Producer Mark Holdom announced Friday that “Jack of Hearts” will initiate principal photography in March in Naples and Lithuania.
It turns on Jack, the leading member of a mercenary outfit who is shot in the back and left for dead. He returns to his former Naples base for revenge, and to re-unite with the woman he loves. But events soon take a violent turn.
“I have spent some wonderful years living in Italy and always dreamed about coming back to do another film there,” Holdom said at the Venice Festival.
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- John Hopewell
Charlie Hunnam’s ‘Lost City of Z’ Selling to Amazon for U.S.
19 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Amazon Studios is in negotiations to buy U.S. rights to Charlie Hunnam’s historical adventure “Lost City of Z.”
The film, directed by James Gray, also stars Tom Holland, Robert Pattinson and Sienna Miller. Brad Pitt’s Plan B Entertainment is producing with financing from Mica Entertainment.
Sierra/Affinity began selling international markets last year at the Berlin Film Festival and will continue to sell remaining territories at the upcoming Toronto Film Festival. CAA arranged financing and represents the domestic rights.
The project is based on David Grann’s 2009 book of the same name. Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner are producing through their Plan B Entertainment along with Dale Johnson and Anthony Katagas. Marc Butan is exec producing with Mica Entertainment’s Julie B. May and Glenn Murray.
Hunnam portrays Percy Fawcett, a British surveyor who disappeared in the 1920s while searching for a mythical city in »
- Dave McNary
‘Pitch Perfect 3’ Finds New Director in Trish Sie
23 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
With Elizabeth Banks no longer on board to direct “Pitch Perfect 3,” Universal has acted quickly to find a new helmer for its next installment in one of its most popular franchises: Trish Sie.
Variety first reported earlier this year that Banks would not return to direct the third installment. Banks explained at the Produced By conference that her parental duties drove her decision to leave the director’s chair.
Banks tweeted her support for the new director on Thursday afternoon. “#PitchPerfect has a new leader – so excited @bigbadtrish is directing #PP3!”
#PitchPerfect has a new leader – so excited @bigbadtrish is directing #PP3! pic.twitter.com/KRbTv5oBsi
— Elizabeth Banks (@ElizabethBanks) September 1, 2016
The studio recently moved back the release to Dec. 22, 2017, in order to have time to find Banks’ replacement, but it looks as though production should stay on schedule as it’s closed a deal with Sie.
- Justin Kroll
Reese Witherspoon Splits From Producing Partner Bruna Papandrea
1 September 2016 12:13 PM, PDT | The Hollywood Reporter | See recent The Hollywood Reporter news »
Reese Witherspoon and Bruna Papandrea, who co-founded the production company Pacific Standard, are going their separate ways. Witherspoon will retain control of Pacific Standard while Papandrea will move on to other ventures. The duo have been running Pacific Standard since 2012, producing Gone Girl, Wild and Hot Pursuit through the company. Gone Girl was a breakout hit, collecting $369.3 million worldwide, while Wild earned Witherspoon a best actress Oscar nomination and Laura Dern a best supporting actress nom. Hot Pursuit, however, stumbled at the box office, earning just $51.7 million. Pacific Standard's latest project, HBO series Big
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- Rebecca Ford
‘Birth Of A Nation’s Gabrielle Union: “I Took Part In This Film To Talk About Sexual Violence’
16 minutes ago | Deadline | See recent Deadline news »
Gabrielle Union who will be in Toronto later this month when Nate Parker’s Birth of a Nation is screened and will take part in the press junket afterwards today wrote an opinion piece in the Los Angeles Times noting that when she read all 700 pages of court documents from the 1999 rape charge against Parker and the film’s co-creator Jean McGianni Celestin, it sent her into “a state of stomach-churning confusion.” Union, who co-stars in the film portraying a woman who was… »
First Trailer For Netflix’s ‘Arq’ Has Robbie Amell Living A Really Bad Day, Over And Over Again
18 minutes ago | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
No one wants to ever experience a home invasion. However, in the new Netflix original film, “Arq,” Robbie Amell doesn’t have much of a choice. In the film, young engineer Renton, played by Amell, is stuck in a time loop where people come into his home and murder him as he tries to protect an […]
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- Charles Dean
First Trailer For Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s ‘Daguerrotype’ With Tahar Rahim & Mathieu Amalric
32 minutes ago | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
Kiyoshi Kurosawa, know for delivering both dramas (“Tokyo Sonata“) and horror/thrillers (“Pulse“) takes a turn towards fantasy with his next effort, “Daguerrotype,” which is gearing up for a World Premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival. It’ll mark the director’s first French-language film, but he certainly has some strong help in front of the camera. […]
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- Kevin Jagernauth
Why Train-Hopping Filmmaker Jeff Seal Is a Funnier and Fresher Casey Neistat
48 minutes ago | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
What do you get when you cross a clown with a filmmaker? The wholly original, whimsical films of Jeff Seal.
Take one look at his blown-up face on his tiny body in a train-hopping video he made for Gothamist and try not to laugh. With a Go Pro attached to an orange helmet, Seal hoists himself up onto the back of a freight train headed for Montauk, his friendly voiceover taking shots at the stupidity of it all.
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“I’ve wanted to hop trains since I was a kid,” Seal told IndieWire by phone from Paris (“clown mecca”), where he was vacationing after performing a month-long run of his one-man show at the famed Edinburgh Fringe Festival. He shot the gorgeous train-hopping footage over the course of many years, but stopped short at using footage from his childhood. “My »
- Jude Dry
Venice Film Review: James Franco’s ‘In Dubious Battle’
49 minutes ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
It’s easy to mock James Franco for the polymath showiness of all his extracurricular endeavors (actor! filmmaker! poet! collector of academic degrees! the world’s first and last postmodern Oscar host!). Yet if you leave the snark aside, there is something half-crazy/admirable about the scale of his ambitions. Besides, it’s no easy task to pull together a feature film, and Franco has directed close to a dozen of them. Up until now, he hasn’t been very good at it. Whether it’s a sexually “transgressive” (but actually cautious) documentary curio like “Interior. Leather Bar.” or one of his two (count ’em) Faulkner adaptations, Franco as a filmmaker has been more diligent than competent. At Cannes in 2013, as the audience sat dying through Franco’s “As I Lay Dying,” I tried to relieve the tedium by glancing to my left, and saw that half the people there were asleep. »
- Owen Gleiberman
‘Atlanta’ Trailer: Donald Glover’s New FX Series Gets a Stylish Preview
49 minutes ago | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »
We can debate all day about whether or not we’re still deep in the “Golden Age” of television or if we’ve moved on to whatever follows a golden age, but one thing is for certain: TV is really good right now and some networks have proven themselves more consistent than others. For example, I know […]
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- Jacob Hall
‘The Bleeder’s Liev Schreiber On Having Sly Stallone His His Corner For Boxer Biopic – Venice
52 minutes ago | Deadline | See recent Deadline news »
Liev Schreiber starrer The Bleeder has its official out-of-competition screening here at the Venice Film Festival this evening, before stepping into the Toronto ring on September 10. Directed by Monsieur Lazhar Oscar nominee Philippe Falardeau, The Bleeder tells the real-life story of Chuck Wepner, the journeyman underdog boxer who was 35 when he improbably pushed world champ Muhammad Ali to the limit in their 1975 title fight. Schreiber also produces the redemption drama… »
Summer Box Office: Feast or Famine as Blockbusters Either Hit Big or Flop Spectacularly
55 minutes ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
The movie business played a high stakes game of poker nearly every weekend this summer. Sometimes, as in the case of “Finding Dory” or “Captain America: Civil War,” the bets paid off spectacularly. But not every hand was a winner, with the likes of “Ghostbusters,” “The Bfg” and “Ben-Hur” racking up tens of millions of dollars in losses and illustrating the dangers of playing the wrong cards. It’s all part of the price of navigating a globalized, tentpole-obsessed movie landscape.
“These big films have become an obsession with Hollywood,” said Jeff Bock, an analyst with Exhibitor Relations. “Studios want to have their cake and eat it too. They want all the merchandising, video games, and spinoffs that can come with a hot property. It’s not just about box office. It’s about total pop culture domination.”
Reports of the movie business’ demise may be premature after the summer »
- Dave McNary and Brent Lang
‘Yoga Hosers’: Watch Kevin Smith and Ralph Garman Read The Film’s Bad Reviews
1 hour ago | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
Kevin Smith’s latest twisted comedy “Yoga Hosers” is officially out in theaters and so far the film has been torn to pieces by critics. But that’s not stopping Smith from celebrating the release of his fantasy flick and embracing the horrible reviews.
Teaming up with Ralph Garman, who also stars in the film as Andronicus Arcane, Smith released a video on his YouTube page where they read bad reviews of his film.
“Despite all your best intentions and all the fun that was put into ‘Yoga Hosers,’ the critical reaction has not been, let’s say, good,” says Garman in the 52-minute clip.
Read More: ‘Yoga Hosers’ Review: The Scariest Thing About Kevin Smith’s Bizarre Comedy Horror Is That He Thinks Teenage Girls Will Like It
Starring Harley Quinn Smith and Lily-Rose Depp, the comedy follows two teenage girls who team up with a man-hunter to battle mini Canadian sausage Nazis. »
- Liz Calvario
‘Narcos’ Review: Season 2 Finds Its Path To the Future — And Its Real Star
1 hour ago | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
Here’s a theory: For any TV creators who get more than a season to prove themselves, it’s Season 2 where they really figure out what kind of show they’re making. And with “Narcos,” we see some pretty clear proof of that.
Season 1 of Netflix’s fact-based drama — about how cocaine created criminal empires in Colombia and beyond — was jam-packed with over 15 years of drug cartel history, and the result, unfortunately, was not consistently engaging for anyone other than the most passionate fans of the subject matter. But from the first moments of Season 2, the Netflix series shows new focus. Thanks to a much narrower scope — the 18-month hunt for Pablo Escobar, following his escape from La Catedral prison — characters are allowed to breathe more. The power struggles have real weight. And the potential for seasons to come becomes clear.
Read More: ‘Narcos’ Season 2: Watch the First 11 Minutes »
- Liz Shannon Miller
‘Broad City’ Gets An Official Soundtrack That Would Make Anyone Scream ‘Yas Queen’
1 hour ago | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
It may be just a smidge too late to rock out to an official “song of the summer,” but for fans of Comedy Central’s “Broad City,” the jams can keep on rolling well into autumn. Pitchfork reports that the Ilana Glazer- and Abbi Jacobson-starring sitcom is finally make a big ‘ol step into adulthood, thanks to the impending release of an official soundtrack.
The new album includes “Broad City” favorites like RJD2, Lizzo, Scooter Island, Tony Quattro and many more, and yes (yas?) even includes a song that sounds pretty close to the gals’ #Yasqueen catchphrase, K Rizz’s own “Yes Bitch.”
Read More: Abbi Jacobson & Ilana Glazer on Their Favorite Comedic Performances on ‘Broad City’ & Beyond (Consider This)
The album was executive produced by “Broad City” Music Supervisor Matt FX Feldman and will be out October 28 via Milan Records (in association with Comedy Central Records). Vinyl »
- Kate Erbland
What If Mark Hamill & Carrie Fisher Didn’t Want to Return for ‘Star Wars: Episode VII’?
1 hour ago | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »
Last night the Salt Lake Comic-Con kicked off over in Utah, and one of the first guests of honor was Star Wars saga star Mark Hamill. The actor took the stage for a panel that he wanted to be “more like an intimate conversation.” As Hamill said to kick off the panel, “I want to […]
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- Ethan Anderton
Podcast: The Playlist & The Talkhouse Talk ‘Stranger Things’ And The Problems With Plotblocking
1 hour ago | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
The Playlist Podcast is back and teamed up on this episode with The Talkhouse to discuss an increasingly common issue with popular, binge-worthy TV shows. This episode is inspired by a recent essay called “Stranger Things” and the Problem of Plotblocking, written by indie filmmaker Andrew Matthews (“Zero Charisma“) for the site. Read More: Adjust Your Tracking Takes […]
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- Erik McClanahan
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