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‘Pokemon the Movie: I Choose You!’ Gets Limited Theatrical Release From Fathom
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“Pokémon the Movie: I Choose You!” has landed a two-day, worldwide, limited theatrical release on Nov. 5 and Nov. 6 from Fathom Events.
Fathom, which is co-owned by exhibitors AMC Entertainment, Cinemark Holdings, and Regal Entertainment Group, made the announcement with the Pokémon Company International on Monday.
“Pokémon the Movie: I Choose You!” is an origin story highlighting Ash and Pikachu’s first meeting and their adventures as they search for Pokémon Ho-Oh. The pair encounters familiar faces along the way, with new characters including trainers Verity and Sorrel, and the mysterious new, mythical Pokémon, Marshadow.
“As an origin story, ‘Pokémon the Movie: I Choose You!’ is the perfect way for a new generation of Pokémon fans to experience the beginning of Ash and Pikachu’s friendship, and it offers longtime fans an exciting new look into the start of their epic adventures,” said Colin Palmer, VP of marketing at The Pokémon Company International. “We »
- Dave McNary
Alexandra Shipp, Brianna Hildebrand’s ‘Tragedy Girls’ Gets 2017 Release Date
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Gunpowder & Sky has acquired rights to horror-comedy “Tragedy Girls,” starring Alexandra Shipp and Brianna Hildebrand, for release to theaters later this year.
The film, which debuted at SXSW, follows two death-obsessed teens played by Shipp (“X-Men: Apocalypse”) and Brianna Hildebrand (“Deadpool”) who use their online show about real-life tragedies to send their small midwestern town into frenzy and cement their legacy as modern horror legends.
“Tragedy Girls” was directed by Tyler MacIntyre, who also co-wrote the script with Chris Lee Hill. It’s MacIntyre’s second feature. His debut film “Patchwork” won Best Picture at Screamfest in 2015. »
- Dave McNary
Relive the Year That Gave Us ‘Suspiria,’ ‘Saturday Night Fever,’ ‘Eraserhead,’ and More — Watch
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You’d be hard-pressed to find a more seminal year in movie-going history than 1977, which unspooled such game-changers and genre-benders as “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” “Saturday Night Fever,” “Airport ’77,” “Sorcerer,” and many, many more.
In honor of the fortieth anniversary of one of the wildest years in recent cinema history, The Film Society of Lincoln Center has programmed their ambitious ’77, a 33-film series surveying the sweeping cinematic landscape of a prolific year in cinema, in the United States and around the world.
Read MoreHow ‘Jaws’ Forever Changed the Modern Day Blockbuster — And What Today’s Examples Could Learn From It
While the debut of George Lucas’ original “Star Wars” is likely the most notable name in a long list of ’77 titles, the year also played home to “Jubilee,” “Eraserhead,” “Hausu,” “Wizard,” and “Smokey and the Bandit.” That startling breadth of film options speaks to the changing times — both »
- Kate Erbland
Edgar Wright Was Offered To Direct ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Pilot
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“Star Trek: Discovery” is on the way, and while I haven’t dived into hardcore corners of Trekker fandom, I would assess the mode as “apprehensive.” Fans want the the new series to be good, and are reserving judgment, but a new interview with the show’s original showrunner Bryan Fuller (“Hannibal,” “Pushing Daisies“) reveals what could have been. And it sounds awesome.
Continue reading Edgar Wright Was Offered To Direct ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Pilot at The Playlist. »
- Kevin Jagernauth
L.A. to Host 2028 Olympics
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The City of Angels will soon be the City of Olympians. Well, not that soon: Los Angeles is set to host the Olympics in 2028, four years after Paris does so in 2024. Both cities put in bids for the ’24 Games, leading the International Olympic Committee to take the unusual step of announcing two consecutive hosts at once. L.A. has served as host city twice before, once in 1932 and again in 1984.
Read MoreDanny Trejo on Weapons, Tacos, the Los Angeles Rams and Weird Looks from Parents — IndieWire’s Turn It On Podcast
True to its chill reputation, Los Angeles proved more flexible in negotiations; the City of Lights, meanwhile, was insistent that only 2024 would suffice. Mayor Eric Garcetti has made bringing the Olympics to L.A. a signature issue of his, and many have speculated that he’ll use this feather in his cap as part of a potential run for the presidency. »
- Michael Nordine
Sam Shepard, Rip: 5 Essential Performances That Illustrate His Genius
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Sam Shepard was a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright whose contributions to the theater world spanned decades; by the time he started acting in movies, his career had already taken off. As such, even as he landed an Oscar nomination for “The Right Stuff” and continued to be a regular presence in front of the camera, the multi-talented writer-performer remained primarily associated with the stage. Nevertheless, Shepard remained a major figure in American cinema for 40 years in more ways that one: It’s his tender screenplay that makes Wim Wenders’ “Paris, Texas” such an emotional powerhouse, and he even directed two features, but it’s Shepard’s acting credits speak to his astonishing range — and the way he continued to evolve his skills as the decades wore on. Here are five standouts from a career so rich with talent that we can only begin to explore it with this limited sampling (sorry, »
- Eric Kohn, Michael Nordine, Ben Travers and David Ehrlich
Contest: Win ‘The Lovers’ Starring Debra Winger & Tracy Letts On Blu-ray
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Sometimes you don’t know what you have, even if it’s staring you right in the face. Love is complicated, and director Azazel Jacobs dives into the knotty realities of midlife relationships in “The Lovers,” and today we have some copies of the film on Blu-ray for some lucky readers.
Starring Debra Winger and Tracy Letts, the story follows a husband and wife, each embroiled in a secret, extramarital affair, who are sent reeling when they suddenly fall for the least likely person imaginable – one another.
Continue reading Contest: Win ‘The Lovers’ Starring Debra Winger & Tracy Letts On Blu-ray at The Playlist. »
- Kevin Jagernauth
Screen Time: Week of July 31
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July 31, 2017 Screen Time: Week of July 31
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home.
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- akivagottlieb
Locarno Film Festival 2017: Enter to Win Free Online Festival Pass to Stream Movies
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The 2017 Locarno Film Festival kicks off August 2, and for anyone who can’t make it all the way to Switzerland this year, IndieWire has a solution for you. Between now and Friday, August 4 at noon Et, IndieWire readers can register using this form to win one of 25 online festival passes, which will give you the opportunity to stream seven Locarno titles for free online. All of the streaming titles will be from this year’s Filmmakers of the Present sidebar. The movies include the following seven titles:
Those Who Are Fine (Dene Wos Guet Geit), by Cyril Schäublin – Online on August 9
Easy, by Andrea Magnani – Online on August 9
Le Forts Des Fous, by Narimane Mari – Online on August 9
Meteors (Meteorlar), by Gürcan Keltek – Online on August 6
Scary Mother (Sashishi deda) – Online on August 4
Severina, by Felipe Hirsch – Online on August 7
Damned Summer (Verão Danado) – Online on August 5
Each title will »
- Zack Sharf
Why Jeanne Moreau Was One of the Greatest French Actresses of All-Time
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Jeanne Moreau was to French cinema as Manet’s “Olympia” was to French painting — the personification of the gait, glance, and gesture of modern life. Her darting brown eyes and enigmatic moue were the face of the French New Wave. Her candid sensuality and self-assurance, not to mention the suggestion that she was always in control, made her the epitome of the New Woman. From Orson Welles and Luis Bunuel to Joseph Losey and Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Moreau was the muse to the greatest directors of world cinema.
“She has all the qualities one expects in a woman,” quipped Francois Truffaut, director of her most beloved film, “Jules and Jim” (1962), “plus all those one expects in a man — without the inconveniences of either.”
Surprisingly, this quintessence of French femininity had an English mother, a dancer at the Folies Bergere. Her French father, a hotelier and restaurateur, upon learning that his daughter likewise had theatrical ambitions, »
- Carrie Rickey
‘The Night Of’: Why John Turturro’s Itchy Lawyer Gets Under Our Skin
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Welcome to Career Watch, a vocational checkup of top actors and directors, and those who hope to get there. In this edition we take on Italian-American actor-director John Turturro, who stars in Richard Price and Steve Zaillian’s widely hailed limited series “The Night Of” (HBO).
Bottom Line: For 37 years, versatile New York actor John Turturro has delivered memorable characters who can be incredibly smart (“Quiz Show”) or insanely stupid (bowler Jesus Quintano in “The Big Lebowski”), lovable (“Fading Gigolo”) or menacing (the pool hustler in Martin Scorsese’s “The Color Of Money”). He’s a go-to player for both the Coens and Spike Lee as well as a reliable character actor for Hollywood tentpoles such as “The Transformers.”
Career Peaks: After winning a scholarship to the Yale Drama School and performing Ibsen, Ionesco, and John Patrick Shanley off-Broadway, Turturro got stuck playing violent killers in films like “Five Corners »
- Anne Thompson
‘Insecure’ is HBO’s Best Show Right Now and It’s Becoming a True Team Effort
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White walkers, FBI portals and the latest D.C. headlines are taking up their share of the weekend TV conversation these days. But those who turn off HBO early after “Game of Thrones” are missing out on the evening’s true TV highlight. For the second week in a row, it’s Issa Rae’s “Insecure” that’s been the best show on Sunday night.
The Season 2 premise so far might be simple: Two halves of a recent break-up sort through their feelings while one tries to move on. In Sunday night’s episode, a recent hookup has both Issa (Issa Rae) and Lawrence (Jay Ellis) thinking about the long-term relationship they’ve lost. In its second season, “Insecure” has broadened its scope to include more of Lawrence’s perspective. The result is a series that’s elevated itself beyond a simple will-they/won’t-they without sacrificing Rae’s strong creative voice. »
- Steve Greene
‘Twin Peaks’: How Audrey Horne and Sarah Palmer’s Jarring Returns Give the Series New Life
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It’s been the question on the mind of nearly every “Twin Peaks” fan since the revival kicked off in May: When will Audrey Horne return? Up until last night, the character had only been mentioned in Part 7, when it was revealed she fell into a coma following the bank explosion and that Evil Cooper may have assaulted her in the hospital. But how exactly would Audrey return in the flesh? As each episode aired without a trace of everyone’s favorite Horne, it seemed more and more likely David Lynch and Mark Frost were building to some kind of series-defining reveal. Naturally, they delivered the exact opposite.
Read More‘Twin Peaks’ Review: Part 12 Opens Up ‘The X-Files’ and Welcomes Back a Familiar Face
Audrey Horne finally appeared 37 minutes into Part 12, though “suddenly appeared” is probably the best way to describe what happened. We were finishing up another broadcasted rant from Dr. »
- Zack Sharf
Opening Car Chase From ‘Baby Driver’ Gets Gloriously Google Mapped
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There were few things more thrilling at the multiplex this summer than the opening chase sequence from Edgar Wright’s “Baby Driver.” Right alongside the magnificent middle act sequence in Bong Joon-Ho‘s “Okja,” the scene is not only a technical marvel, but it’s wildly entertaining, and crackling with personality. Quite simply, every frame oozes Wright’s playful prowess. But if you wanted to get behind the wheel and take that drive yourself now you can (note: The Playlist does not endorse this, please consult your own legal team).
Continue reading Opening Car Chase From ‘Baby Driver’ Gets Gloriously Google Mapped at The Playlist. »
- Kevin Jagernauth
Hans Zimmer is Taking Over Composing Duties for ‘Blade Runner 2049’ — Report
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Hans Zimmer has found a project worthy of following “Dunkirk”: Denis Villeneuve’s “Blade Runner 2049.” The prolific composer is reportedly taking over scoring duties from longtime Villeneuve composer Johan Johannsson, reports Vanity Fair.
Read MoreDenis Villeneuve on ‘Blade Runner 2049’: Early Roger Deakins Footage is ‘Just the Tip of the Iceberg’
Hailing from Iceland, Johannsson penned the scores for “Sicario,” “Prisoners,” and “Arrival,” all of which were directed by Villeneuve. He also composed Darren Aronofksy’s “Mother!,” in theaters this September. Though he will still be involved in a smaller capacity, it will be as a backseat to Zimmer and his “Dunkirk” collaborator Benjamin Wallfisch.
In addition to scoring “Dunkirk,” Zimmer has kept busy this year; he not only toured the U.S. for the first time, but was heard shredding at Coachella. He stopped by “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” to play his sweeping soundtrack for “Planet Earth II, »
- Jude Dry
Sam Shepard Dead: Ava DuVernay, Jeff Daniels, Sasha Grey, and More React
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Sam Shepard has died, leaving behind a remarkable body of work both on the page and on the screen. An Academy Award–nominated actor and Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright, Shepard also leaves behind many friends, peers, and colleagues who now find themselves mourning his loss. Tributes have already come pouring in on social media; apropos of Shepard himself, many are especially eloquent.
Read MoreSam Shepard, Lauded Director, Playwright, and Actor, Dies at 73
Sam Shepard is one of the greats. These eyes saw so much, and he wrote of what he saw with fearless, timeless honesty. Rip maestro. pic.twitter.com/pIY4FWxXtZ
— Beau Willimon (@BeauWillimon) July 31, 2017
Rip Sam Shepard. Ride on, genius.
— marc maron (@marcmaron) July 31, 2017
Sam Shepherd. A playwright’s playwright. R.I.P.
— Jeff Daniels (@Jeff_Daniels) July 31, 2017
Sam Shepard. Whenever he came on-screen, you knew you were in good hands. A frame from “Days of Heaven.” May he rest in love. »
- Michael Nordine
‘The Dark Tower’: How the Film Adaptation Will End Stephen King’s Saga With One ‘Last Journey’
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For fans of Stephen King’s eight-book magnum opus, “The Dark Tower,” the long-awaited feature film version of the epic story promises something the novels were never able to provide: true closure.
(Spoilers ahead for the books.)
Last year, director Nikolaj Arcel confirmed to Entertainment Weekly that his film was designed to function as a sequel to the original book series, which chronicles the journey of gunslinger Roland Deschain (Idris Elba) and his young companion Jake Chambers (newcomer Tom Taylor) as they bond together to take down the evil sorcerer The Man in Black (Matthew McConaughey), hellbent on destroying the eponymous Dark Tower, which holds together the known universe against dark forces.
Read More‘The Dark Tower’ Director Says Television Series Will Be ‘Totally Canon’
While the books follow the pair (along with a slew of companions) as they battle to save the universe, they end on a downbeat note: »
- Kate Erbland
HBO Defends ‘Confederate’ Against Viral Backlash
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Ever since it was first announced, HBO has been trying to put the cap back on the explosive “Confederate.” The illustrious “Game Of Thrones” duo David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, along with Nichelle Tramble Spellman (“Justified,” “The Good Wife”) and Malcolm Spellman (“Empire”) have tried to explain the nuances of their show, which will take place in an alternate history of the United States where slavery still exists, without much luck.
Continue reading HBO Defends ‘Confederate’ Against Viral Backlash at The Playlist. »
- Kevin Jagernauth
Former ‘Doctor Who’ Star Jenna Coleman Weighs In on New Doctor: ‘I Can’t Wait to Hear Her Speak’
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The Whoniverse is rallying behind the newest Doctor, even former companions who are flying through the universe.
Read More‘Doctor Who’: Pearl Mackie Confirms She’s Exiting Series After Christmas Episode
At the Television Critics Association press tour on Monday morning, Jenna Coleman weighed in on the news that Jodie Whittaker will become the first-ever woman to play the lead on the BBC’s long-running sci-fi series “Doctor Who.”
“Oh, I love it,” she said via satellite. “I think it’s genius. I think she’s brilliant and lovely.”
Coleman had played companion Clara Oswald on the series alongside Matt Smith as the 11th Doctor and later, Peter Capaldi as the 12th Doctor. She left the show in 2015.
Coleman added, “I can’t wait to hear her speak. I want to hear the voice. I think it’s very exciting times.”
After leaving “Doctor Who,” the actress signed on »
- Hanh Nguyen
The Best Movie Fight Scenes — IndieWire Critics Survey
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Every week, IndieWire asks a select handful of film and TV critics two questions and publishes the results on Monday. (The answer to the second, “What is the best film in theaters right now?”, can be found at the end of this post.)
This week’s question: In honor of the bone-crunching “Atomic Blonde,” what is the greatest movie fight scene?
Read More‘Atomic Blonde’: How They Turned One Amazing Action Scene Into a Seven-Minute Long Take Erin Oliver Whitney (@cinemabite), ScreenCrush
I’ve got a soft spot for wuxia so the “best fight scene” immediately evokes Zhang Yimou in my mind. I could list every fight in “Hero,” sequences so spellbindingly beautiful and graceful you forget you’re watching violence. The bamboo forest battle from “House of Flying Daggers” is another all-timer, a mesmerizing fight that almost entirely takes place in the air. And the bone-crunching, table-smashing »
- David Ehrlich
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