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IFC Midnight to Acquire Sundance Movie ‘The Killing Ground’ (Exclusive)
10 hours ago | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
IFC Midnight has acquired North American rights to Sundance survival thriller film ‘The Killing Ground,” TheWrap has exclusively learned. “The Killing Ground” from first-time writer and director Damien Power is a taut thriller reminiscent of the ’70s survival thrillers such as “Deliverance” and “Straw Dogs” and more recent chillers “The Vanishing” and “Funny Games.” The film stars Aaron Pedersen, Ian Meadows, Harriet Dyer, Aaron Glenane. Also Read: Fox Searchlight Acquires Sundance Doc 'Step' The story takes place in Australia, Ian (Meadows) and Samantha (Dyer) head to a national park, hoping that nature will give them space for some quiet time together. »
- Umberto Gonzalez
James Le Gros to Star in Melora Walters Drama ‘Waterlily Jaguar’
13 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
James Le Gros is starring in Melora Walters’ feature directorial debut “Waterlily Jaguar” with shooting starting this week, Variety has learned.
The production company is Lexicon Entertainment, in association with Room in the Sky Films. Production began Wednesday in Los Angeles with shooting planned for several weeks.
Producers on the project are Mark Mathias Sayre, Troy Daniel Smith, Walters and Jonathan Piumelli. Executive producers are Paul Thomas Anderson, Steven Swadling, and Larry Nealy with Justin Foia co-producing.
Walters is directing from her original screenplay, in which Le Gros portrays a famous novelist seeking to write a more serious book, only to find himself tumbling down a spiral of obsession that may leave his most important relationships in shambles, including his marriage.
Mira Sorvino stars as his wife, Stacey Oristano is his assistant and Dominic Monaghan is his agent. “Waterlily Jaguar” also stars Christopher Backus and Steven Swadling.
Walters and Sayre »
- Dave McNary
Armie Hammer’s ‘Call Me by Your Name’ Joins Berlinale’s Panorama Lineup
16 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
The Berlin Film Festival’s Panorama section has completed its lineup with the addition of 24 feature films, including “Call Me by Your Name,” an extremely well-reviewed gay love story featuring actor Armie Hammer.
The full Panorama program includes 36 world, six international and nine European premieres. Thirteen European films have been added. Among those is “Call Me by Your Name,” directed by Luca Guadagnino (“A Bigger Splash”) from an adaptation, co-written with James Ivory, of a novel by André Aciman.
There are five films from Brazil, including “Como Nossos Pais” (Just Like Our Parents), directed by Lais Bodanzky, who depicts the everyday lives of three generations in Sao Paulo as “a pyrotechnic display of individual passions and existential delusions staged with a sublime naturalness,” according to the festival.
Also in the program are Spanish debut feature “Pieles” (Skins) by Eduardo Casanova, “Rekvijem za gospodju J.” (Requiem for Mrs. J.) by Serbia’s Bojan Vuletić, »
- Leo Barraclough
Sundance: Netflix Buys Global Rights for ‘To The Bone’
24 January 2017 9:36 PM, PST | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
As the first week of the Sundance Film Festival comes to a close, Netflix continued its buying spree, picking up worldwide rights to the drama “To The Bone,” starring Keanu Reeves and Lily Collins, Variety has confirmed.
The movie, directed and written by Marti Noxon, follows a 20-year-old anorexic girl (Collins) who tries to get the medical help she needs at a group home. Reeves plays her doctor. The rest of the cast includes Carrie Preston, Lili Taylor and Alex Sharp.
The deal, estimated to be around $8 million, will allow the streaming giant to show the movie in regions around the world.
“To the Bone,” which debuted in the festival’s U.S. dramatic competition, was produced by Julie Lynn, Bonnie Curtis, Karina Miller, Andrea Iervolino and Monika Bacardi. It was executive produced by Talal Al Abbar, Matthew J. Malek and Anita Gou.
Netflix has had a very active Sundance, »
- Ramin Setoodeh
Nicholas Hoult Is J.D. Salinger In The By The Numbers Biopic ‘Rebel in the Rye’ [Sundance Review]
2 hours ago | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
Park City – Danny Strong is a two-time Emmy winning screenwriter who wrote “Game Change,” “Recount” and “Lee Daniels’ The Butler.” He also co-created a little series you might have heard of called “Empire.” Tackling the life of one of America’s greatest literary voices might have been a bit much for his directorial debut. That’s the thought that starts to percolate through your mind as you sit through the J.D.
Continue reading Nicholas Hoult Is J.D. Salinger In The By The Numbers Biopic ‘Rebel in the Rye’ [Sundance Review] at The Playlist. »
- Gregory Ellwood
“Our Intent Was Never to Make Viewers Laugh”: Directors Jonathan Milott and Cary Murnion | Bushwick
3 hours ago | Filmmaker Magazine - Blog | See recent Filmmaker Magazine news »
During its development, production or eventual distribution, what specific challenge of communication did, or will your film, face? How did you deal with it, or how are you planning to deal with it? One challenge of communication we originally faced was when we started pitching the idea over seven years ago. We presented the idea of Texas seceding from the U.S. and starting a civil war. At the time it sounded like a ridiculous satire and some people thought we wanted to make a comedy. Our intent was never to make viewers laugh though. The seeds of political animosity have […] »
- Filmmaker Staff
“As Crazy and Unpredictable as Real Life”: Director Matt Spicer | Ingrid Goes West
4 hours ago | Filmmaker Magazine - Blog | See recent Filmmaker Magazine news »
During its development, production or eventual distribution, what specific challenge of communication did, or will your film, face? How did you deal with it, or how are you planning to deal with it? I think the biggest challenge of communicating nowadays is figuring out how to make your voice heard amidst all the noise. There is so much out there vying for people’s attention, and it’s easy to get lost in the shuffle. This applies to indie filmmakers as well. We don’t have massive marketing budgets to buy ad space or air time, and oftentimes we’re lucky to even find […] »
- Filmmaker Staff
Oscars 2017 Animated Shorts: Will ‘Piper’ End Pixar’s 16-Year Drought?
4 hours ago | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
It’s been 16 years since Pixar won the Oscar for best animated short (Ralph Eggleston’s “For the Birds”). Wouldn’t it be fitting if Alan Barillaro’s fine-feathered “Piper” ended the drought? That would give Pixar four Oscars (alongside Geri’s Game” and “Tin Toy”).
However, “Piper” faces stiff competition, particularly from Theodore Ushev’s much darker “Blind Vaysha” from the National Film Board of Canada, which has earned a dozen Oscars.
The other three contenders range from Robert Valley’s bleak “Pear Cider and Cigarettes” (Vimeo’s first Oscar nom), the melancholy Western, “Borrowed Time” (made independently by Pixar’s Andrew Coats and Lou Hamou-Lhadj), and the introspective “Pearl” from Oscar winner Patrick Osborne (Disney’s “Feast”), the first Vr nominee from Google Spotlight Stories.
“Piper”
The rite of passage for the adorable sand piper continues a long Pixar tradition of incubating innovative tech in its shorts program. »
- Bill Desowitz
‘The Magicians’ Bosses on How Trump Ruined Their ‘Fillory Clinton’ Joke and Inspired Season 2’s Destructive Entity
4 hours ago | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
The election of Donald Trump had far-reaching repercussions not only for America and the world, but in the imaginary realm of Fillory as well.
On Syfy’s dark and irreverent series “The Magicians,” a handful of students from the magic college Brakebills have discovered that the world of Fillory, the setting of a popular series of fantasy novels, is real. Fillory is like C.S. Lewis’ Narnia on crack… if crack were made from the blood of innocent baby unicorns.
When Season 1 left off, the gang made a deal: In exchange for a blade that would kill an antagonist known as the Beast, Eliot (Hale Appleman) as the future High King of Fillory married the blade-maker’s daughter. For what was possibly the worst honeymoon ever, they confronted the Beast, who made quick work of everyone including Penny (Arjun Gupta), whose hands are sliced off with magic. Just when all seemed lost, »
- Hanh Nguyen
“I Became Like Furniture”: Director/Dp Jonathan Olshefski on Quest
5 hours ago | Filmmaker Magazine - Blog | See recent Filmmaker Magazine news »
Jonathan Olshefski spent a decade filming the Rainey family. He’d visit the family’s home often without a camera, simply to spend time with Quest, his wife and their children. As he notes in his interview with Filmmaker, this longterm commitment allowed him to “fade into the background and record natural scenes where the camera was not intrusive.” His documentary feature debut, Quest offers an intimate, vérité-like portrait of a black family in Philadelphia. Below, Olshefski speaks about the genesis of the project, his documentary influences and serving as his own Dp. Quest made its world premiere at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. Filmmaker: How and why did you […] »
- Filmmaker Staff
‘Donnie Darko’ Sequel: Richard Kelly Says He Has Something ‘Bigger and More Ambitious’ in Mind
5 hours ago | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
Richard Kelly isn’t done with “Donnie Darko.” 15 years after his cult classic first arrived in theaters, the writer/director says he thinks there’s “something much bigger and more ambitious to do in that universe” — not that anything is official at this point. His comments, which come from an interview with HMV, are occasioned by a 4K restoration of the film that was just released on Blu-ray by Arrow Video.
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“It’s big and expensive and I think there’s time to get to that,” Kelly says of what he has in mind. “I want to make sure we’ve got the budget to do it justice and not to compromise anything. Another story in this world needs resources and we need to have that in place. I need to get »
- Michael Nordine
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