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Alejandro G. Inarritu, Tom McCarthy, Adam McKay, George Miller, Ridley Scott Land DGA Nominations
17 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
The Directors Guild of America kept strong guild streaks alive for “Mad Max: Fury Road” and “The Revenant” Tuesday with nominations for filmmakers George Miller and Alejandro G. Iñárritu, respectively.
The two joined Tom McCarthy (“Spotlight”), Adam McKay (“The Big Short”) and Ridley Scott (“The Martian”) in the feature film category.
Historically, the DGA’s film nominations — decided upon by a vast body of more than 16,000 members — are a solid barometer for the best director and particularly best picture categories at the Oscars. Recent DGA-nominated directors who failed to score a nomination from the Academy’s directors branch include Clint Eastwood (“American Sniper”), Paul Greengrass (“Captain Phillips”) and, notoriously, Ben Affleck (“Argo”) and Kathryn Bigelow (“Zero Dark Thirty”).
Recent films nominated by the DGA that failed to net a best picture Oscar nomination include “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo,” “The Dark Knight,” “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly” and “Into the Wild. »
- Kristopher Tapley
Juliet Stevenson drama 'Let Me Go' begins shoot
48 minutes ago | ScreenDaily | See recent ScreenDaily news »
Project is based on the memoir of author Helga Schneider.
Nazi legacy drama Let Me Go, starring Juliet Stevenson (Bend It Like Beckham), has begun principal photography in Surrey, England.
Filming will continue for three weeks before moving to London and Vienna, Austria. The production will last five weeks.
Based on the memoir of Helga Schneider, the story recounts how the author was sent to live with her grandparents during the Second World War while her mother joined the SS and worked as a guard at the Auschwitz concentration camp.
After being distanced for 60 years, Schneider returned to face her mother in the year 2000, finding that she remained unrepentant about her Nazi past.
The script was written by Polly Steele (Lena: The Bride of Ice), who will also direct, and will star Stevenson as Schneider alongside Jodhi May (The Last of the Mohicans) and Lucy Boynton (Miss Potter, Sing Street).
New cast members announced include Éva Magyar ([link »
The Danish Girl transforms fascinating truths into tasteful, safe drama
53 minutes ago | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Tom Hooper’s earnest biopic of pioneering transgender icon Lili Elbe smooths out the wrinkles and the fun, losing sight of who she really was
The Danish Girl (2015)
Director: Tom Hooper
Entertainment grade: C+
History grade: D
Lili Elbe (born Einar Wegener) was a Danish painter. Suffering physical and psychological distress, she believed she had been misidentified as a man. She underwent an early form of gender reassignment surgery in 1930.
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- Alex von Tunzelmann
eOne International to close; up to 15 staff impacted
1 hour ago | ScreenDaily | See recent ScreenDaily news »
eOne Features is to close its London-based international sales operation as the Canadian company shifts further towards production and distribution.
ScreenDaily has learned that up to 15 staff at the international sales division could be impacted and the team will not attend the Efm in Berlin next month.
However, some employees may be offered new roles within the company.
The development comes almost exactly one year after the departure of eOne Films International president Harold van Lier.
At the time the hierarchy wanted to focus more heavily on promoting in-house content under production chief Xavier Marchand.
The sales business was folded into the development and production operations and last summer the film unit was rebranded eOne Features.
In the last year, the sales force has worked on the likes of Eye In The Sky and Message From The King but insiders say overall it has struggled to compete with Hollywood’s top sales agents.
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- jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay) andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
Serial killer's home from Silence of the Lambs fails to find buyer
1 hour ago | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
The three-story house, which doubled as the sinister lair of serial killer ‘Buffalo Bill’, has been reduced by $50,000 after struggling to secure interest
Owners of a Pennsylvania property that doubled as the “murder dungeon” home of serial killer Buffalo Bill in the Oscar-winning thriller The Silence of the Lambs have reduced the house’s selling price after failing to attract interest from buyers.
Scott and Barbara Lloyd put the three-story 19th-century house up for sale in the summer for $300,000, but dropped the asking price to $250,000 last month. The property is the second most-viewed on the website realtor.com, but estate agents have fielded far more interest from journalists than potential buyers.
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- Ben Child
eOne International To Be Shuttered Following Sierra Investment
1 hour ago | Deadline | See recent Deadline news »
As had been expected, eOne International’s sales division will be wound down following parent eOne’s investment in Nick Meyer’s Sierra Pictures. Sales veteran Meyer, a well-respected figure in the industry, will now take over sales on forthcoming eOne titles. Sierra, in whom eOne announced an investment for a minority stake last Thursday, will rep both its own and eOne’s slate at the forthcoming European Film Market in Berlin in February. As part of the agreement, Sierra… »
The man behind the Razzies: 'Brian de Palma had no talent'
1 hour ago | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
For 35 years, the Golden Raspberry awards have existed to annoy filmmakers – but do they really recognize the year’s worst movies or simply follow the herd?
John Jb Wilson traipses into his local library, looking to check out the latest Adam Sandler DVD. He is obliged to, for Wilson is something of an authority in matters of bad taste: in 1980, in a living room in Los Angeles, he founded the Golden Raspberry Awards. For 35 years, the annual ceremony has honored the worst in American film.
This is a time of considerable strain for Wilson. The latest Razzie nominees are to be announced on Wednesday, the day before the Oscar nominations – and Wilson, in his capacity as what he calls “Head RAZZberry”, must bear the burden of watching as many as he can. The library is a new recourse. “You get the movies for a week, so you have seven days to slog through ’em, »
- Calum Marsh
George Clooney and Julia Roberts under fire in Money Monster trailer
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Jodie Foster’s film about the financial crisis sees Jack O’Connell take the Ocean’s Eleven co-stars hostage on live TV
George Clooney and Julia Roberts find themselves at the mercy of a crazed Jack O’Connell in the first trailer for the thriller Money Monster.
Related: New trailer for Coen brothers comedy Hail, Caesar! gets complicated
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- Benjamin Lee
Room: an uplifting movie about an agonising subject
2 hours ago | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Its premise is unsettling, but Lenny Abrahamson’s drama is a perfectly formed picture and, in Brie Larson, has a real star at its heart
Warning! This feature contains serious spoilers
“Room” is what Joy (Brie Larson) and her five-year-old son Jack (Jacob Tremblay) call their prison. It’s meagrely furnished with cast-offs from their captor’s life: a bent spoon, chipped crockery, a blunted breadknife with its stabbing-point hammered off. There is a bathtub, a sink, a toaster-oven, a gas ring and a television. Their only view of the real world comes through a skylight they can’t reach.
Related: Room review: Brie Larson and Jacob Tremblay escape confining adaptation
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- John Patterson
Juliet Stevenson, Jodhi May Head Cast in Polly Steele’s ‘Let Me Go’
3 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
London — Juliet Stevenson, who has been BAFTA nominated four times, is set to star in Polly Steele’s contemporary drama “Let Me Go,” which has just started to shoot. Radiohead drummer Philip Selway is composing the score.
Stevenson, whose credits include “Truly Madly Deeply,” is joined in the cast by Jodhi May (“Last of the Mohicans,” “The Other Boleyn Girl”), Lucy Boynton (“Sing Street”), Karin Bertling (“The Bridge,” “Wallander”) and Stanley Weber (“Not Another Happy Ending”). The film is written and directed by Steele, whose credits include the film “Lena — Bride of Ice” and TV show “Elton John — Tantrums and Tiaras,” from a true-life story by Helga Schneider, based on her best-selling memoir of the same name.
“Let Me Go,” which is a story about mothers and daughters and abandonment, follows the emotional journeys of four generations of women from the same family and how they suffer from a trauma »
- Leo Barraclough
Devilworks inks UK, Germany, Australia, China deals on horror slate
3 hours ago | ScreenDaily | See recent ScreenDaily news »
Exclusive: In-demand titles include Some Kind Of Hate, The Answer, Time Lapse.
Genre sales outfit Devilworks has inked a slew of deals on its titles including Adam Egypt Mortimer’s debut Some Kind Of Hate, starring Ronen Rubinstein, Grace Phipps, Sierra McCormick, Maestro Harrell, Lexi Atkins and Spencer Breslin.
Deals have closed with Tiberius for Germany, Austria & Switzerland, Accent for Australia & New Zealand, Dexterity for South America, Kinologistika for Russia while Koch Media has acquired the film for its new Italian horror channel Midnight Factory.
In Some kind Of Hate a bullied teenager is sent to a reform school where he accidentally summons the spirit of a girl, herself a victim of bullying, who takes vengeance on his tormentors.
Devilworks has also sold sci-fi thriller The Answer to Signature Entertainment’s new UK home entertainment label Precision Pictures, which is set to release in Autumn 2016.
Meanwhile deals with Virtual Cinema in China have been secured for The »
- andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
Us, Canada among deals for sci-fi 'The Call Up'
3 hours ago | ScreenDaily | See recent ScreenDaily news »
Exclusive: UK, Australia, Japan also among key pacts for sci-fi starring Max Deacon.
Altitude Film Sales has secured distribution deals in a number of key territories for Charles Barker’s debut feature The Call Up.
Vertical Entertainment has picked up Us rights with Mongrel Media taking Canada. Deals were also finalised with Altitude Film Distribution for the UK, Nikkatsu for Japan, Defiant for Australia/New Zealand, Betta Pictures for Spain and Gate 23 for Airlines.
The Call Up follows a group of online gamers who are invited to trial a state-of-the-art virtual reality game, but what starts out like a dream encounter with cutting edge video technology – a perfect representation of soldiers in a warzone – takes a turn for the sinister when the stakes are raised to fatal.
Max Deacon (Into The Storm) plays the lead role alongside Morfydd Clark (Pride And Prejudice and Zombies), Ali Cook (Kilo Two Bravo), Parker Sawyers (Southside With You), Tom Benedict Knight ([link »
- andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
'It's no Samson and Delilah': Stephen Page on the film adaptation of Spear
4 hours ago | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Debut feature from artistic director of Bangarra Dance Theatre is an entrancing, enigmatic work that deals with what it means to be an Indigenous Australian
In a dimly lit underground train station thoroughfare, an Indigenous Australian man in a ratty, sweat-covered singlet yells at passers-by, flailing his arms and stomping on the ground. “Every day I try real hard,” he hollers in white hot rage, but most of his words come out as cantankerous-sounding gibberish: too many heightened emotions, too much fury.
Related: Spear review – a weird, wonderful milestone of a dance movie
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- Luke Buckmaster
George Clooney And Julia Roberts Reunite Under Fire in First Money Monster Trailer
5 hours ago | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »
After The Big Short and The Wolf Of Wall Street have had their say in telling true stories from the darker side of finance, it looks like a more dramatic version of such subject matter has arrived. Check out the trailer to Jodie Foster's Money Monster, starring George Clooney and Julia Roberts, below. Sony released the trailer for Money Monster yesterday, and the result look like a fast-paced, taut exercise in tension. Marking her first directorial effort since 2011's The Beaver, Jodie Foster's new film focuses on a day in the lives of television financial analyst Lee Gates (Clooney) and his producer, Patty Fenn (Roberts.) Unfortunately for them, that day happens to be the day that a maniac (71's Jack O'Connell) enters the building, armed with a gun and an explosive vest. With Lee strapped into the vest, and his would-be assailant spinning a story of financial woe and malfeasance, »
The Tupac Movie Just Cast Another Big Role
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Once the Tupac biopic, All Eyez On Me, finally found its director in Benny Boom after years of false starts, the updates started coming on a regular basis. Now that the production is actually, finally, filming in Atlanta, we.re staring to get more casting updates. Yesterday we heard that Danai Gurira has been cast as Tupac.s mom, Afeni Shakur, and now we know who.s going to be playing a good friend of the rapper. A report from Variety says that The Vampire Diaries actress Kat Graham will take on the role of Jada Pinkett Smith in the film. Tupac and Jada Pinkett met in high school, at the Baltimore School for the Arts. The two were friends until his death in 1996. A collection of his poetry was found after his death, and published in the book The Rose That Grew from Concrete in 2009. In it, a poem »
Michael Bay's Pearl Harbor Has A Lot Of Problems, As This Video Reminds Us
7 hours ago | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »
Michael Bay.s Pearl Harbor movie seems to offer up some rather divided opinions. And by "divided opinions" I mean people either love the action, or they hate the whole film. It.s no surprise that there are plenty of ways to pick Pearl Harbor apart, and now the crew at Screen Junkies has taken advantage of that to full effect. Our favorite Screen Junkies posted this dead-on critique of Pearl Harbor on their YouTube page, and I have to say, they spared no ridiculous moment of the film from their keen sight. And, judging by the social media requests for this Honest Trailer, no one wanted them to. The trailer starts by discussing how Michael Bay used the film "to cash in on the loss of even more American lives" than his upcoming Benghazi film 13 Hours, and you know, they aren.t wrong. Even though, let.s be honest, »
A24 Brings on Sasha Lloyd to Head International Operations
8 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
In a pre-Berlin Film Festival move, A24 has brought on investment banking veteran Sasha Lloyd to head up international operations for the four-year-old company.
She will oversee all film and television distribution and business development in the international marketplace.
The move comes with A24 seeing strong awards-season response to Brie Larson’s “Room,” Asif Kapadia’s Amy Winehouse documentary “Amy” and solid box office for Alicia Vikander’s “Ex Machina” at $36 million. A24’s previous best performer came in 2013 with James Franco’s “Spring Breakers.”
Lloyd previously worked at Goldman Sachs, where her clients included Lionsgate, the Weinstein Company and DNA Films. She was also a founding partner of boutique investment banking firm Ghl & Company (rebranded as Solar Entertainment Hlb in 2012), where she led the $750 million recapitalization of Summit Entertainment and advised on the acquisition of the Miramax library from Disney by Colony Capital.
“Sasha is a very exciting addition to the A24 family, »
- Dave McNary
Watch: George Clooney and Julia Roberts in ‘Money Monster’ Trailer
8 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
George Clooney becomes a hostage on network TV in the first trailer for TriStar Pictures’ “Money Monster.”
Clooney is playing a glib investment guru with the TV show “Money Monster” who has to deal with a gun-toting investor — played by Jack O’Connell of “Unbroken” — after the investor takes a bath on a tech stock.
“Is this a union thing?” Clooney asks when he spots O’Connell’s weapon.
Julia Roberts stars as the producer, who tells the crew at that point, “Anyone who can get out, get out now.”
O’Connell’s character insists later that he’s not to blame, asserting, “I might be the one with a gun here, but I am not the criminal.”
Jodie Foster directed from a script by Jamie Linden and Alan Difiore & Jim Kouf, based on a story by Difiore and Kouf. Producers are Daniel Dubiecki, Lara Alameddine, George Clooney and Grant Heslov. »
- Dave McNary
How The Narnia Franchise Plans To Reboot With The Silver Chair
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Between 2005 and 2010, The Chronicles Of Narnia slowly, but surely, entertained fans of the franchise with a theatrical adaptation of a world they'd previously only dreamed of. Those fans are going to be both thrilled and saddened with the news that The Silver Chair - the fourth book in C.S. Lewis' fantasy series, is indeed coming to the silver screen. But with such good news, how could a fan be upset? Leave it to producer Mark Gordon to straddle that line between joy and sorrow, as he recently made some remarks during a junket that Collider happened to be attending. With word from writer David Magee that the film was in the script phase last year, Gordon made some comments about whether this new chapter would include any returning elements from the previous trilogy of films. Gordon's word on the project is as follows: No, it.s all going to »
Who Are Rey’s Parents? Jj Abrams Responds To The Question
9 hours ago | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »
J.J. Abrams returned to the Television Critics Association for a panel on his upcoming Showtime series Roadies with Cameron Crowe and cast. After the panel Abrams stayed to speak with reporters and was accommodating when questions turned again to Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Accommodating in that he did not shut them down, but still […]
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- Fred Topel
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