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'Killing Gunther' Starring Arnold Schwarzenegger Lands at Saban
15 hours ago | The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News | See recent The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News news »
Saban Films has acquired North American distribution rights to Taran Killam’s Killing Gunther, in which he stars alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Bobby Moynihan, Hannah Simone, Cobie Smulders and Paul Brittain also star in the action-comedy. Schwarzenegger plays the titular character, the world's greatest hitman. There are plenty of reasons to want to kill him: he's arrogant, he's a show-off, and he steals jobs. The assassin community is tired of his arrogance and habit of stealing jobs, so a group of eccentric killers from across the globe come together to set the perfect trap. But their master plan quickly turns into a »
- Rebecca Ford
‘The Cakemaker’ Set for North American Roll-Out With Strand Releasing (Exclusive)
21 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Strand Releasing has acquired all North American rights to Ofir Raul Graizer’s melodrama “The Cakemaker,” which world premiered in competition at Karlovy Vary.
Sold by Berlin-based sales company Films Boutique, “The Cakemaker” marks the feature debut of Graizer and follows a young German baker who sets out to meet the widow of his lover, an Israeli man who just died in a car crash.
“The Cakemaker,” which was produced by Itai Tamir at Laila Films (“Policeman”) and Mathias Schwerbrock at Film Base Berlin (“The Interrogation”), was one of the six work-in-progress titles presented at the Jerusalem Film Festival’s Pitch Point industry sidebar, where it won the Cinelab award.
The deal was done between Jon Gerrans and Marcus Hu of Strand Releasing and Jean-Christophe Simon and Valeska Neu of Films Boutique at this year’s German Films Previews.
“We’re thrilled to have this amazing film and hope that it has crossover potential in the American »
- Elsa Keslassy
Emmy Fyc Campaigns 2017: The Political, The Unconventional and The One We’ll Remember Most
9 hours ago | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
This year, there are over 20,000 people who get to select the nominees and winners of the Emmys, and hundreds of shows are vying for their attention. In 2016, we were struck by some of the creativity that studios and networks used in pushing out the word about various shows.
Things seemed more subdued on a street level in 2017, though Emmy campaign expert Rich Licata told IndieWire that the networks did seem plenty active when it came to advertising buys.
Read More: Emmy Predictions 2017
“A lot of it unfortunately has turned into white noise,” Licata said, “because there were so many programs and so many networks that I don’t know how a responsible voter can really focus and say, ‘Ok, I’m going to watch all this.'”
Up against nearly impossible odds, there were some shows that were able to stand out, thanks to either completely rejecting the system, redefining »
- Liz Shannon Miller
Why Buddhists Might Get a Kick Out of David Lowery’s ‘A Ghost Story’
11 hours ago | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
In “A Ghost Story,” Casey Affleck hides under a sheet, playing the ghost of the husband haunting the life of his young widow (Rooney Mara) and then inhabiting their old home when she moves out. It’s a quiet, meditative story about the afterlife, one that resonates on a universal level as it addresses the process of mourning and moving on in broad terms. But while the movie has no specific religious connotations, Buddhists may find some specific aspects of their faith reflected in the ghost’s quest to uncover one final mystery before he can graduate to the afterlife.
See More‘A Ghost Story’: In a Tiny Chinatown Storefront, David Lowery’s Sundance Hit Comes to Ghostly Life
That much was evident at a unique Q&A for the movie that took place at New York’s Sunshine Cinema one day before the release. Hosted by the Tibet House, »
- Eric Kohn
How ‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’ Star Jacob Batalon Went From College Dropout to Blockbuster Star
11 hours ago | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
Jacob Batalon didn’t set out to be an actor, but that’s about to change for him in a very big way. Starring in a big budget Marvel superhero film will do that for anyone, but for a rising newbie like Batalon – who nearly steals the show as Peter Parker’s best friend and charming sidekick Ned Leeds in “Spider-Man: Homecoming” – it’s still a major surprise. Initially interested in studying singing and the ukulele, the Hawaiian native enrolled at Honolulu’s Kapi‘olani Community College after high school to study music theory, but he soon dropped out without finishing his degree.
“I didn’t really enjoy school in general,” Batalon said in a recent interview. “I dropped out of college in Hawaii, just because I thought school was for losers. But school’s really important.”
The easy-going actor soon fell in with a scouting agency from Los Angeles, »
- Kate Erbland
‘The Knick’ May Have Ended Because Steven Soderbergh Wanted to Shoot Season 3 In Anamorphic Black-and-White
11 hours ago | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
The axe officially came down on “The Knick” in March when Cinemax confirmed it wouldn’t be continuing the acclaimed medical drama beyond Season 2. With exceptional performances from Clive Owen and Andre Holland, plus some of the best directorial work of Steven Soderbergh’s career (the series ranked #3 on our list of the best directed shows of the 21st century), “The Knick” had a fervent cult following that was surely looking forward to where the series would go next. It turns out so was Soderbergh.
Read More: ‘Logan Lucky’ Footage: Steven Soderbergh Unleashes A Very Wacky Daniel Craig Performance — Watch
The filmmaker joined Reddit today for an Ama in promotion of his new movie, the heist comedy “Logan Lucky,” and he naturally was asked a lot about the fate of the medical drama. Since both seasons were shot in just 73 days, Soderbergh felt like he and the cast had finally »
- Zack Sharf
HBO Reveals First Three Episode Titles & Synopses For ‘Game Of Thrones’ Season 7
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With HBO keeping everyone — including critics —in the dark about what’s coming in “Game Of Thrones” season 7, any light the network chooses to shine on the upcoming episodes is more than welcome. So, with just over a week to go before everyone returns to Westeros, HBO has revealed the titles and synopses of the first episodes of the new season. Naturally, they don’t reveal much, but perhaps superfans will be able to parse more out of them than we will:
Episode #61: “Dragonstone”
Jon (Kit Harington) organizes the defense of the North.
Continue reading HBO Reveals First Three Episode Titles & Synopses For ‘Game Of Thrones’ Season 7 at The Playlist. »
- Kevin Jagernauth
Steven Soderbergh Says His “Radical” Re-Edit Of ‘Kafka’ Might Be Finished Soon, Praises ‘Get Out’ & ‘The Love Witch’
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“I’ve been working on, at no one’s request, ‘Kafka’ for 14 years. I have an idea, I have an approach. It was a movie I was never really happy with even at the time,“ Steven Soderbergh said last year about his forever developing recut of his 1991. I think his film starring Jeremy Irons, which spins a surreal tale around the famous author, is a bit of an underrated gem, but clearly the filmmaker wishes he could’ve done things differently.
Continue reading Steven Soderbergh Says His “Radical” Re-Edit Of ‘Kafka’ Might Be Finished Soon, Praises ‘Get Out’ & ‘The Love Witch’ at The Playlist. »
- Kevin Jagernauth
‘Game of Thrones’ Star Lena Headey Says She Lost Work By Not ‘Flirting’ With Directors
12 hours ago | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
Anyone wondering why, exactly, women might take some visceral pleasure in the Season 6 scenes in which both Cersei Lannister and Daenerys Targaryen got the opportunity to set the patriarchy on fire would do well to look at the recent comments made by Lena Headey about her career up until now.
Interviewed by co-star Maisie Williams for Net-a-Porter Magazine, Headey said, “When I was in my 20s, and doing a lot of audition tapes in the States, a casting director told me: ‘The men take these tapes home and watch them and say, ‘Who would you f***?’ I’ve never played the game of going in [to auditions] and flirting; I’ve never done it.”
She goes on to say there were times when it may have kept her from getting a job, but that “I’m very happy I didn’t.”
The interview, which includes Williams asking Headey for advice on how »
- Liz Shannon Miller
‘Valerian’: How Luc Besson Made a $180 Million Indie That Can’t Fail
12 hours ago | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
It’s hard to get more ambitious than Luc Besson’s 3D epic “Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets.” The action-sci-fi film that hits theaters on July 21 is Stx Entertainment’s answer to franchises like “Guardians of the Galaxy” and is packed with astonishing visuals that combine the dystopian desert sets of “Mad Max” with the underwater environments of “Avatar” and the galactic backdrops of “Star Wars.”
Read More: ‘Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets’ Trailer: Luc Besson Is Back With The Sci-Fi Epic He Was Born to Make — Watch
“Valerian” follows two special operatives (Dane DeHaan and Cara Delevingne) in the vast space metropolis of Alpha, home to a species from a thousand planets, where a dark force threatens the future of the universe.
At this year’s CinemaCon, the National Association of Theatre Owners’ annual show where studios present show reels and give first looks at their new movies, »
- Graham Winfrey
‘Castlevania’ Review: Netflix’s Bleak, Violent Animated Series Wrestles With Evil on a Giant Scale
12 hours ago | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
Staying alive in the year 1455 was not an easy task.
As if the lack of medical advances and the whims of deadly diseases weren’t enough, “Castlevania,” the latest Netflix animated series from writer Warren Ellis, adds on the persistent spectre of bloodthirsty hellbeasts bent on destroying all of humankind.
It’s the ideal example of the series attempting to tap into universal themes to amp up the frights originally mined in the Konami video game series. This onscreen world might hold a special place for those who’ve been immersed since its premiere in 1986, but as a work of episodic storytelling, it takes much of its four episodes to firmly establish the kind of series it will be moving forward. (“Castlevania” was renewed for Season 2 the morning Season 1 debuted.)
Read More: ‘Glow’ Review: The Series of the Summer is Netflix’s ’80s Wrestling Comedy
The pilot episode, as an »
- Steve Greene
James Franco, Zoe Kazan & Tim Blake Nelson To Star In The Coen Bros’ ‘The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs’
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With filming slated to begin soon, the casting details for the Coen Brothers‘ upcoming, six-part omnibus western “The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs” are finally being revealed. And while there has been some confusion about whether it’s a feature or television project, the fact that Annapurna Television are housing ‘Scruggs’ should say it all.
Tim Blake Nelson gets called up the Coens for the first time since “O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Continue reading James Franco, Zoe Kazan & Tim Blake Nelson To Star In The Coen Bros’ ‘The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs’ at The Playlist. »
- Kevin Jagernauth
Why Sofia Coppola Should Not Make a Studio Movie
12 hours ago | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
Girl Talk is a weekly look at women in film — past, present, and future.
Armed with an Oscar and a distinctive filmmaking sensibility, Sofia Coppola may seem like the sort of filmmaker primed to make the jump to big studio movies. Who wouldn’t want more money and a bigger stage to spend it on? Well, Coppola doesn’t — and she’s right to stay away.
A recent article in Variety questioned if Coppola “may be trapping herself in a boutique bubble of her own,” asking if “perhaps her next move should be to work on a larger scale, to mix it up in some way, to shake herself out of her comfort zone.” Yet the filmmaker has roundly rejected such demands to somehow inflate her portfolio in the name of “growth,” balking at blockbusters and sequels, and resisting the notion that her projects should primarily exist to make a lot of money. »
- Kate Erbland
Watch: “Stanley Kubrick: Practical Lighting”
13 hours ago | Filmmaker Magazine - Blog | See recent Filmmaker Magazine news »
In this video essay, Adam Tinius (aka “Entertain the Elk”) makes the case for Stanley Kubrick’s mastery of practical lighting. »
- Filmmaker Staff
A24: See All of the Distributor’s Dynamic Posters
13 hours ago | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
From “Spring Breakers” to “A Ghost Story,” these posters’ spark and creativity matches the company’s most-loved films.
Related storiesWhy Buddhists Might Get a Kick Out of David Lowery's 'A Ghost Story'How Rooney Mara Became One of the Most Exciting Actresses Working TodayThe 17 Best Indie Movies of 2017 (So Far) »
- William Earl
New Trailer For ‘Lucky’ Starring Harry Dean Stanton & David Lynch Faces The Truth
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David Lynch fans are currently enjoying puzzling out just what the heck is going on in the new season of “Twin Peaks,” but if they need to take a break from the multiple Dale Coopers, they’ll want to track down “Lucky.” The director takes a small role in the film that’s led by his old pal Harry Dean Stanton (“Wild At Heart,” “Inland Empire,” “The Straight Story,” “Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me“) but makes quite an impression nonetheless.
Continue reading New Trailer For ‘Lucky’ Starring Harry Dean Stanton & David Lynch Faces The Truth at The Playlist. »
- Kevin Jagernauth
The 25 Best Romances of the 21st Century, From ‘Carol’ to ‘Only Lovers Left Alive’
13 hours ago | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
Eat your heart out, moviegoers. Everyone loves a good love story whether they admit it or not, and the 21st century has brought us more than a few couples worth rooting for: Clementine and Joel, Ennis and Jack, Joaquin and his computer. Often these unions are unconventional or hidden in the guise of something more high-concept — straightforward romances are so 20th century — but at the end of the day, we all want to see a happy ending for our smitten lovers.
Our list goes all over the map, from the mainstream maestro Nancy Meyers to international masters like Wong Kar-Wai. Some were blockbuster hits (“Twilight,” “The Proposal”); others have hardly been seen stateside at all (Lee Chang-dong’s 2002 “Oasis”). However, all of them illustrate some essential element of love, from falling to longing and all the sticky bits in between.
While the zeitgeist has skewed toward the melancholy, that’s »
- Michael Nordine and Anne Thompson
‘City of Ghosts’: How Documentarian Matthew Heineman Captured the Story of Heroic Citizen Journalists
13 hours ago | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
Matthew Heineman’s new documentary, “City of Ghosts,” is about the citizen journalists behind ”Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently,” whose social media dispatches have been one of the only ways the outside world has been able to track the atrocities happening inside Syria. Heineman embedded himself with these men, who risked everything, as they go through the gut-wrenching job of reporting what is happening in their hometown.
For Heineman, who films by himself without any crew, shooting “City of Ghosts” in many ways was a different filmmaking experience than his Oscar nominated “Cartel Land” where he was embedded in the citizen uprising against Mexican drug cartels. We recently check in with Heineman to find how he approached this particular filmmaking challenge.
Read More: One-Person Crew: The Pros and Cons of Making a Documentary By Yourself
What camera and lens did you use?
C300 Mark II, Canon 17-55mm and Canon 24-105mm. »
- Chris O'Falt
‘Game of Thrones’ Episode Descriptions Hint at Daenerys Taking Center Stage as She Vies for the Iron Throne
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If you’re of the opinion that Daenerys is the best character on “Game of Thrones” (which, with all apologies to Tyrion and Arya, you should be), then the plot synopses HBO just released for the first three episodes of season seven will be to your liking. Good ol’ Dany — better known as Daenerys Stormborn of the House Targaryen, First of Her Name, the Unburnt, Queen of the Andals and the First Men, Khaleesi of the Great Grass Sea, Breaker of Chains and Mother of Dragons — is the only character to feature in all three, and at least two of the titles refer directly to her.
Read More: ‘Game of Thrones’ Season 7: 9 Important Things You Need to Know Before the Premiere
Here they are, since you’re surely wondering; Jon Snow and Cersei Lannister are both mentioned twice, while the new Queen’s brothers, Tyrion and Jaime, get name-dropped »
- Michael Nordine
Best CGI Movies: Top 10 Sony Imageworks Visual Effects Movies Ranked
14 hours ago | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
Sony Pictures Imageworks, celebrating its 25th anniversary, is unique in Hollywood as the only studio-run visual effects and animation division. Formed in 1992 (now headquartered in Vancouver), Imageworks alternates between live-action/CG hybrids and animation with its younger sister, Sony Pictures Animation, which was founded in 2002.
Imageworks has won two Oscars (“Spider-Man 2” VFX and “The ChubbChubbs!” animated short) along with an Academy Sci-Tech award this year for an advanced shading program. But Imageworks first cut its teeth on “Speed,” “James and the Giant Peach,” “Jumanji,” “Starship Troopers,” and “Contact” before tackling “Stuart Little” in 1999, the first-cg-animated character to star in a live-action feature.
Since then, Imageworks spear-headed performance capture-based virtual production with director Robert Zemeckis (“Polar Express,” “Monster House”), and has continued to work on franchises including “Spider-Man” (“Homecoming” opens this week), “The Smurfs,” and “Hotel Transylvania.”
Here’s our ranking of the 10 best VFX moments from Imageworks:
10. Re-Inventing Invisibility »
- Bill Desowitz
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