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Maya Rudolph Set for Sony’s ‘Emoji Movie’
18 hours ago | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
Maya Rudolph will play Smiler in Sony’s “Emoji Movie,” joining “Office Christmas Party” star T.J. Miller and “Star Trek” icon Patrick Stewart in the animated comedy. Stewart was thought to have provided the voice of the Poop emoji in an earlier trailer, and that casting was also confirmed on Wednesday. Miller stars as Gene, the only emoji in Textopolis capable of multiple facial expressions. In a bid to become “normal,” he teams up with best friend Hi-5 and “talented code breaker” Jailbreak as they travel through the world of apps to find the elusive code that will make Gene like the. »
- Matt Pressberg and Beatrice Verhoeven
Walking Dead's Steven Yeun, Keegan-Michael Key, Kelly Clarkson Cast in Animated Christmas Movie 'The Star'
18 hours ago | The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News | See recent The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News news »
The Walking Dead star Steven Yeun, pop star Kelly Clarkson, Oprah Winfrey and Saturday Night Live’s Aidy Bryant are among those lending their voices to The Star, Sony Pictures Animation’s animal take on the first Christmas.
Keegan-Michael Key, Kristin Chenoweth, Anthony Anderson, Gabriel Iglesias, Ving Rhames, Delilah Rene, Kris Kristoferson, Gina Rodriguez, Zachary Levi, Tyler Perry, Tracy Morgan and Christopher Plummer are also in the large cast, which was announced as part of Spa’s presentation Wednesday.
Academy Award nominated Timothy Reckart is directing Star, which has a story by Carlos Kotkin and Simon Moore, and screenplay by Kotkin. The movie »
- Borys Kit
Sundance Hot List: 17 Movies That Will Sell
23 hours ago | The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News | See recent The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News news »
Last year was certainly an anomaly with The Birth of a Nation selling for $17.5 million at the festival. Though history won’t likely repeat itself this year, there will still be plenty of action on the buyer front and bidding wars afoot. New players are lining up from Megan Ellison’s Annapurna Pictures to Tom Quinn and Tim League’s recently launched Neon, which bought the Anne Hathaway starrer Colossal out of Toronto and is ready to build a slate. And tech giants like Facebook and even Apple — whose pocketbooks rival the twin festival forces of Amazon and Netflix — are »
- Tatiana Siegel
Sundance: Grateful Dead Doc 'Long Strange Trip' Goes to Amazon
17 January 2017 8:34 AM, PST | The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News | See recent The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News news »
Amazon is ready for a Long Strange Trip, acquiring the Grateful Dead documentary ahead of its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival.
Directed by Amir Bar-Lev, the doc charts the rise of the band from its roots in the Bay Area’s vibrant 1960s counterculture to the top of the rock and roll charts. Encapsulating the group's quintessential character and three decades of legendary concerts-cum-spiritual experiences, the film includes archival stills, film footage, audio recordings and rare live tracks — much of which has never been seen or heard. »
- Ashley Lee
Karga Seven Expands Into Turkey With New Production Venture
29 minutes ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
L.A.-based production company Karga Seven Pictures has launched a new production venture in Turkey, opening a permanent production office in Istanbul, parent company Red Arrow Entertainment Group announced Thursday.
Karga Seven Turkey will produce original content, including feature films, scripted and factual television, documentaries, game shows, and branded content for mobile and digital platforms. The new operation will be headed by Tamer Uner as president, Ozer Sata as CEO and Todd Cohen as chief creative officer. Cohen previously served with the company as Karga’s executive vice president of development.
“We have a strong and passionate connection to Turkey,” said Karga founding partner Emre Sahin. “I grew up in Turkey, and we’ve produced two feature films there [2015’s “Takim: Mahalle Askina!” and “The Team,” both directed by Sahin] as well as commercials and several non-fiction shows. With the country being the second-largest producer of television dramas in the world, it’s the perfect opportunity for us to enter the Turkish market. »
- Robert Mitchell
Fox Korea, Scott Free eye 'The Wailing' remake
31 minutes ago | ScreenDaily | See recent ScreenDaily news »
Hit Korean horror played at Cannes 2016 and scored multiple deals.
Fox International Production (Fip) Korea is in early talks with Ridley Scott’s Scott Free over an English-language remake of Na Hong Jin’s hit horror-thriller The Wailing.
Head of Fip Korea, Hosung Kim, first hinted at the news yesterday (Jan. 19) while accepting the Korean Film Reporters’ Association (Kofra) award for best picture of 2016. The film also won Kofra’s best director award for Na Hong Jin.
Speaking to Screen, Kim revealed that a senior Scott Free executive had recently contacted him with an offer to do the English-language remake.
“They said The Wailing reminded them of films such as The Exorcist, The Ring and Seven. The locality and sensibility of The Wailing is so strong that I don’t think it would be easy to do a Western remake, and it will be important who directs it. So I told him I think the only director »
- hjnoh2007@gmail.com (Jean Noh)
Fox Korea, Scott Free in early talks for 'The Wailing' remake
31 minutes ago | ScreenDaily | See recent ScreenDaily news »
Hit Korean horror played at Cannes 2016 and scored multiple deals.
Fox International Production (Fip) Korea is in talks with Ridley Scott’s Scott Free over an English-language remake of Na Hong Jin’s hit horror-thriller The Wailing.
Head of Fip Korea, Hosung Kim, first hinted at the news yesterday (Jan. 19) while accepting the Korean Film Reporters’ Association (Kofra) award for best picture of 2016. The film also won Kofra’s best director award for Na Hong Jin.
Speaking to Screen, Kim revealed that a senior Scott Free executive had recently contacted him with an offer to do the English-language remake.
“They said The Wailing reminded them of films such as The Exorcist, The Ring and Seven. The locality and sensibility of The Wailing is so strong that I don’t think it would be easy to do a Western remake, and it will be important who directs it. So I told him I think the only director who could »
- hjnoh2007@gmail.com (Jean Noh)
English-language ‘Anthropoid,’ ‘A Prominent Patient’ Dominate Czech Lion Nominations
46 minutes ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
“Anthropoid,” an English-language film based on the assassination of a Nazi officer in wartime Prague, and local biopic “A Prominent Patient” (“Masaryk”) dominated the Czech Lion Awards nominations, earning 12 and 14 nods respectively, including best film. Both films were eligible for nominations in 14 of 15 categories overall.
“Anthropoid’s” British director, Sean Ellis, personally received nominations in four categories: best director, best screenplay (shared with co-writer Anthony Frewin), best photography and, as he also served as a producer, best film.
Cillian Murphy was nominated for best actor for his performance as Czech resistance fighter Josef Gabcik, and Jamie Dornan was nominated as best supporting actor playing Gabcik’s comrade in arms Jan Kubis. Both actors are Irish.
“Anthropoid” (pictured) only missed out on nods in the best actress and supporting actress categories, with no recognition for Czech actress Anna Geislerova or Canada’s Charlotte Le Bon who play the female leads, and in the best documentary category, »
- Robert Mitchell
Poland expected to launch cash rebate incentive in 2017
50 minutes ago | ScreenDaily | See recent ScreenDaily news »
The Polish Ministry of Culture is proposing a €22m annual budget for the 25% rebate scheme.
Poland is set to become the latest territory to offer a cash rebate incentive as a way of stimulating the national film industry, strengthening the local production sector and attracting more foreign productions to shoot in Poland.
Poland’s Ministry of Culture and National Heritage has prepared a bill on a production incentive scheme which would give producers a 25% rebate on qualifying Polish production costs such as locally employed crew, goods and services purchased in Poland.
With a proposed annual budget currently set at €22m, the cash rebate scheme would be available to domestic Polish films, co-productions and service productions and cover a broad spectrum of eligible genres from live-action and animated feature films through documentaries to high-end television drama.
A cap on the amount available for individual projects has yet to be specified in the proposed scheme’s guidelines which will also »
- screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
Glasgow Film Festival Unveils 2017 Lineup
56 minutes ago | Deadline | See recent Deadline news »
The 13th annual Glasgow Film Festival has announced its line-up, which includes UK premieres of titles such as Raoul Peck's I Am Not Your Negro, Terrence Malick's Voyage of Time: Life's Journey, Cate Shortland's Berlin Syndrome and Aki Kaurismaki's The Other Side of Hope. The 12-day event will feature nine world and international premieres, 65 UK premieres and 67 Scottish premieres and, as previously announced, will open with John Butler's Irish coming-of-age title Handsom… »
Cannes Marché, Sheffield Doc/Fest launch Vr venture
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DDD60 initiative is aimed at improving Vr experience online and at festivals.
The Cannes Film Festival Marché du Film is partnering with a consortium of European film and tech organisations on a venture designed to improve the user experience of virtual reality content online and at festivals.
Partnering with the Marché are UK film festival Sheffield Doc/Fest, French documentary market Sunny Side of the Doc, Finnish event Tampere Film Festival, technology developer Spin Digital, and film data specialists Reelport Gmbh.
The joint venture plans to enhance end-users’ experience when accessing Vr online by reducing file sizes, which are typically gigantic due to the sheer amount of data involved in rendering Vr environments.
Spin Digital is being employed to develop compression technology and transcoding mechanisms which it is hoped will reduce the necessary sizes of content uploads, in turn making Vr content more accessible and less costly.
The project, dubbed DDD60, commences this month. Spin Digital »
- tom.grater@screendaily.com (Tom Grater)
Cannes Marché, Doc/Fest set Vr plan
57 minutes ago | ScreenDaily | See recent ScreenDaily news »
DDD60 initiative is aimed at improving Vr experience online and at festivals.
The Cannes Film Festival Marché du Film is partnering with a consortium of European film and tech organisations on a venture designed to improve the user experience of virtual reality content online and at festivals.
Partnering with the Marché are UK film festival Sheffield Doc/Fest, French documentary market Sunny Side of the Doc, Finnish event Tampere Film Festival, technology developer Spin Digital, and film data specialists Reelport Gmbh.
The joint venture plans to enhance end-users’ experience when accessing Vr online by reducing file sizes, which are typically gigantic due to the sheer amount of data involved in rendering Vr environments.
Spin Digital is being employed to develop compression technology and transcoding mechanisms which it is hoped will reduce the necessary sizes of content uploads, in turn making Vr content more accessible and less costly.
The project, dubbed DDD60, commences this month. Spin Digital »
- tom.grater@screendaily.com (Tom Grater)
Palm Springs Film Review: ‘Center of My World’
1 hour ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Andreas Steinhofel’s prize-winning 1998 novel “The Center of the World” is considered an unusually ambitious and ornate work for Young Adult fiction — but one that proved so popular that the German author published a 2001 sequel. Still, the more complex a work, the trickier the adaptation into another medium. Its title — now “Center of My World” — isn’t the only thing that’s diminished in translation in Austrian director/writer Jakob M. Erwa’s third feature, which finds the book’s magical-realist air morphing into something a bit more cloyingly artificial.
Equal parts swoony Ya romantic fantasy and misfit-coming-of-age chronicle a la Xavier Dolan (and Jean-Marc Vallee’s “C.R.A.Z.Y.”), this deliberately over-the-top exercise will intoxicate some viewers while striking others as over-directed and overwrought. Its shiny bravado should heighten commercial prospects, however, and deals already in place for several territories assure the film’s status as one »
- Dennis Harvey
T2 Trainspotting: an exclusive clip from Danny Boyle's sequel – video
1 hour ago | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
In this clip from T2 Trainspotting, the forthcoming followup to Danny Boyle’s 1996 hit about Edinburgh heroin addicts, two of the four friends have a rather more successful trip up Arthur’s Seat. Ewan McGregor’s Renton counsels Ewen Bremner’s Spud to channel his addictive tendencies into something more productive than hard drugs
• T2 Trainspotting opens in the UK on 27 January
The Guardian’s first review will be published at 10.30pm GMT on 19 January Continue reading »
- Guardian Staff
Synergetic Distribution Acquires North American Rights to ‘Sami Blood’ (Exclusive)
1 hour ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Los Angeles-based outfit Synergetic Distribution has picked up North American rights to critically acclaimed Swedish-Sami drama “Sami Blood” in the run-up to Sundance, where the movie will play in the Spotlight section.
“Sami Blood” was acquired from Scandinavian outfit LevelK, which represents the film in international markets.
Written and directed by first-time helmer Amanda Kernell, the film sheds light on Sweden’s colonial oppression of the indigenous Sami folk in the 1930s through the coming-of-age tale of a young reindeer-herding Sami girl who breaks free from her family and culture.
“It’s rare to come across a movie that is as honest and as universally loved as ‘Sami Blood,’ and I think this movie, though set in a specific time and place, speaks to anyone that has questioned their history or identity, or has felt out of place,” says Anatol Chavez, Synergetic Distribution’s head of acquisitions. “We’re excited »
- Elsa Keslassy
Berlin: 43 titles revealed for Forum
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World premieres include Barrage, starring Isabelle Huppert and her daughter Lolita Chammah.Scroll down for full list
This year’s Forum programme at the Berlin Film Festival (Feb 9-19), which highlights avant garde and experimental works, will feature 47 films, including 29 world premieres.
These include the premiere of Laura Schroeder’s Barrage, which stars Isabelle Huppert alongside her daughter Lolita Chammah in the story of a young woman who returns to Luxembourg after a 10-year absence to spend time with her estranged child. Huppert plays the grandmother, who has fostered the young girl during that absence.
Read: ‘Barrage’, starring Isabelle Huppert and daughter Lolita, finds sales home
Having its international premiere at Forum this year will be Golden Exits, the new feature from American filmmaker Alex Ross Perry. His previous credits include Queen Of Earth, which premiered at Berlin in 2015. His latest tells the story of a young Australian woman who comes to New York for a few months »
- tom.grater@screendaily.com (Tom Grater)
Palm Springs Film Review: ‘Sealed Cargo’
2 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Billed as fact-based fiction, “Sealed Cargo” manages to eke an awful lot of fun and heart out of the unappetizing notion of police trying to sneak imported toxic sludge into a rural dump site. This buoyant seriocomedy from director/co-scenarist Julia Vargas-Weise juggles a lot of balls with seeming ease, from farcical elements and romance to political commentary. While the film has kept an oddly low profile in playing a long line of second-tier festivals over the past year, it’s selection as Bolivia’s Oscar submission might bring this international co-production some well-deserved interest from offshore distributors.
Whatever the bright green gunk leaking out of heavy-duty barrels is, and wherever it originally came from, it requires handling from workers in full hazmat suits. The film shows the carelessness with which this presumably First World poison is being unloaded on unsuspecting Third World nations when one worker simply pastes »
- Dennis Harvey
Johnny Depp thanks fans for trust at People's Choice awards
3 hours ago | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
The actor, who recently finalised his divorce, enjoyed a podium finish alongside the likes of Tom Hanks, Blake Lively and Finding Dory – which was named best picture
Related: People's Choice Awards 2017 red carpet and best moments – in pictures
Johnny Depp has thanked the public for their support in the wake of his divorce from Amber Heard, a few days after proceedings were finalised.
Continue reading »
- Catherine Shoard
Sundance: Documentary ‘City of Ghosts’ Wins Candescent Award (Exclusive)
5 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Matthew Heineman’s documentary “City of Ghosts” has won this year’s Candescent Award at the Sundance Film Festival.
The Candescent Award was created by actress-producer Lilly Hartley in partnership with the Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program. The award goes to a powerful social-issue film that has been supported during production by the Dfp and premieres at the Sundance Film Festival.
Heineman, whose credits include the Academy Award–nominated “Cartel Land,” followed the journey of a handful of anonymous activists who banded together after their homeland was taken over by Isis in 2014. “City of Ghosts” centers on a group of citizen journalists — dubbed “Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently” — as they face the realities of life undercover, on the run, and in exile, risking their lives to stand up against Isis. Raqaa is an Isis stronghold in Syria.
“City of Ghosts” premieres in the U.S. Documentary competition on Saturday at the Sundance Film Festival. »
- Dave McNary
Ufc Star Anderson Silva Heads Cast of Fruit Chan’s ‘Made in Kowloon’
5 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Mixed martial arts star, Anderson Silva (aka The Spider) will face off against Chinese action star Max Zhang and Chinese-American actress JuJu Chan in “Made In Kowloon.”
The $20 million action film is now in production with Fruit Chan directing. The picture is backed by Pegasus Motion Pictures, the Wong Pak-ming-headed company that recent sold a 29.9% stake to Chinese metals and media investment company Anhui Xinke.
The film sees a detective on the trail of a serial killer, who may have abducted the cop’s niece. The film also stars Stephy Tang, Kevin Cheng and Sumyau Liu. Stephen Tung (“Downtown Torpedoes,” “Accidental Spy”) heads the action choreography unit.
Da Silva is a Brazilian fighter and former Ufc middleweight champion, who holds the longest title streak in Ufc history. His streak ended in 2013 after 2,457 days, with 16 consecutive wins and 10 title defenses. Zhang (aka Zhang Jin) has risen from being a stunt double »
- Patrick Frater
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