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World Channel's 'Global Voices' Doc Series Announces Its 2013 Slate, With Nine U.S. Premieres
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The sixth season of World Channel's international documentary series "Global Voices" will feature nine U.S. broadcast premieres of various films funded by the Independent Television Service (Itvs). The 18-week series intends to introduce American audiences to unique global perspectives. "Global Voices" will kick off on June 2 and conclude at the end of September with new docs every Sunday night at 10pm Est. World Channel will also release each doc online at worldchannel.org after it airs. The films will focus on stories in Indonesia, India, El Salvador, Iraq, Tanzania, Japan and Ethiopia. Take a look at the full programming schedule below. June 2: "Where Heaven Meets Hell," dir. by Sasha Friedlander Four sulfur miners working at an active volcano in Indonesia search for meaning in their daily struggles and triumphs. This intimate portrait chronicles their attempts to escape the social ills that haunt their community. June 9: "Garbage Dreams, »
- Ben Travers
David Boreanaz, Minka Kelly, Ally Sheedy Join the Cast of Neil Labute's TV Debut 'Full Circle'
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DirecTV's recently announced 10-episode original series "Full Circle" will be the television debut of filmmaker and playwright Neil Labute, so it comes as no surprise that the project has netted an impressive, star-filled cast. Making it a little easier is the fact that the half-hour drama is essentially an anthology series. Based on the play "La Ronde," each episode will feature two characters, with one carrying over to the next installment to be paired with someone new until the show comes back around to one of the first people to appear -- a light commitment for an actor. Set to star in the series are Tom Felton ("Harry Potter"), Minka Kelly ("Friday Night Lights"), Julian McMahon ("Nip/Tuck"), David Boreanaz ("Bones"), Keke Palmer ("Akeelah and the Bee"), Devon Gearhart ("The Wait"), Billy Campbell ("The Killing"), Kate Walsh ("Private Practice"), Noah Silver ("The Borgias"), Ally Sheedy ("Welcome to the Rileys"), Cheyenne Jackson »
- Alison Willmore
'China Beach': An Appreciation of a Forgotten Quality War Drama Finally Available on DVD
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ABC's "China Beach," nearly forgotten today, was an incredibly ambitious show for its time. It aired from 1988-1991, long before our current "golden age" of dramas, and is tends to be brought up in context of the longer running series writer/producer John Wells served as showrunner on in its wake -- "E.R." A network drama set in the Vietnam War with a large, strong cast, a big set and a budget that covered helicopters and a prodigious amount of period music, "China Beach" was most celebrated for an ensemble led by strong women characters at a time when this was still a rare thing indeed. The series holds up very well on DVD -- and thanks to box set released last month by Warner Brothers, StarVista Entertainment and Time Life, that's where it can finally be revisited and reevaluated."China Beach" is about the Army's 510th Evac. Center (the »
- Richard Burst-Lazarus
Sundance Selects Takes Cannes' 'Selfish Giant'
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Sundance Selects has acquired all North American rights to Clio Barnard's "The Selfish Giant," which premiered in the Directors' Fortnight section of Cannes this past week. Read More: Cannes: Family Problems Dominate In Clio Barnard's 'The Selfish Giant' And Kore-eda's 'Like Father Like Son,' But 'Borgman' Makes Them Scary The deal for the film was negotiated by Arianna Bocco, Senior Vice President of Acquisitions & Productions for Sundance Selects/IFC Films, with Mike Goodridge of Protagonist Pictures on behalf of the filmmakers. It's the fourth Sundance Selects acquisition of Cannes, following "Young & Beautiful," "Blue Is The Warmest Color," and "Two Days, One Night" (the latter in pre-production, the others all screening at the fest). Barnard directed the acclaimed 2010 film "The Arbor." The full press release is below. Cannes, France (May 23, 2013) – Sundance Selects announced today from the 2013 Cannes Film Festival that the company is acquiring North. »
- Peter Knegt
'Salvo' Tops Cannes Critics' Week Winners
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Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza's "Salvo" won the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival's 52nd Critics’ Week. The film -- about a romantic relationship between a hitman and the sister of someone he's murdered -- took both the Grand Prix and the France 4 Revelation Prize. Other major winners included Daria Belova's "Come and Play," which won best short film, Sebastien Pilote's "Le Demantlement," which won best screenplay. The program's jury was led by Portugese director Miguel Gomes, and also included Dennis Lim, program director at the Film Society of Lincoln Center, Neil Young, co-director of the International Film Festival Bradford, and journalists Alin Tasciyan and Alex Vicente. »
- Peter Knegt
Steven Soderbergh Will Direct and Produce Cinemax Series 'The Knick,' Starring Clive Owen
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Look, he said he was retiring from filmmaking. Filmmaking. Deadline reports that Steven Soderbergh, whose last movie before his indefinite hiatus from the medium "Behind the Candelabra" airs on HBO this Sunday, has now signed on to direct and produce "The Knick," a Cinemax series that will star Clive Owen. Apparently cable TV suits him just fine -- Cinemax, which is owned by HBO, will be giving a 10-episode season commitment to the period drama, which is set in downtown New York in 1900. Soderbergh, who recently launched his own t-shirt vending website, is reportedly directing all of the episodes -- the series will be set at the Knickerbocker Hospital, where the staff conducts groundbreaking measures to push medicine forward at a time of high mortality. Jack Amiel and Michael Begler (both of "Raising Helen") are writing the series and executive producing alongside Owen, Soderbergh, Anonymous Content's Michael Sugar and Gregory Jacobs. »
- Alison Willmore
Exclusive: Ted Hope's A2E Labs End With Vimeo, Gravitas, Tugg and More Offering Discounts, Consultations and Other Services to Participating Filmmakers
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The inaugural edition of the San Francisco Film Society's A2E: Artist to Entrepreneur labs took place during the 56th San Francisco International Film Festival and attempted to tackle head-on issues of economic sustainability for independent filmmakers and how digital distribution is changing the industry. (Read Indiewire's report from the event and our interview with its creator Ted Hope.) Today the Sffs announced the outcome from the four-day program of presentations, network events and one-on-one discussions, which let to the participating companies, including Vimeo, Gravitas, Kickstarter and Indiewire's parent company SnagFilms, making serious commitments to the program's 12 filmmaking teams in the form of discounts, marketing and promotional opportunities, consultations and more. All platforms agreed to work together in such a way that none of their offers would require exclusivity, while A2E direct distribution consultants, among them Peter Broderick, Paola »
- Alison Willmore
Naomi Watts' Princess Diana Biopic Heads To eOne For Us Distribution
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Entertainment One has acquired the Us rights to "Diana" -- starring Naomi Watts as Princess Diana -- from Embankment Films and Ecosse Films. eOne will also distribute with major releases in the UK, Canada and Spain. Directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel ("Downfall") and written by Stephen Jeffreys ("The Libertine"), the film places Watts alongside Naveen Andrews and Cas Anvar as the princess' final two romantic partners Dr. Hasnat Khan and Dodi Fayed. Currently in post-production, the film explores the last two years of Princess Diana's life and her relationship with heart surgeon Khan. The film is produced by Ecosse Films’ Robert Bernstein and Douglas Rae. "We are thrilled to be bringing 'Diana' home from Cannes," said Dylan Wiley, VP Theatrical Marketing and Distribution, eOne Films Us, in a statement. "'Diana' will give audiences worldwide a chance to not only fall in love with the Princess all over again, but also »
- Peter Knegt
James Franco Continues His Film Critic Aspirations By Telling Vice Readers He Loves 'Leviathan'
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A week after defending "The Great Gatsby" in a written review, James Franco has continued his aspirations to add film critic to his seemingly endless list of hyphenates, this time offering up his take on Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Verena Paravel's "Leviathan" (which actually has been in theaters since early March, but I guess Franco has the power to pretty much review whatever he wants, whenever he wants). Once again writing for Vice Magazine, Franco makes clear from the get-go that he's in love with the documentary -- which focuses on the commercial fishing industry of the North Atlantic -- titling the review "'Leviathan,' I Love You: A Few Impressions." After a few paragraphs detailing the context of the evening he saw the film (including, somewhat needlessly, the fact that he's currently listening to Daft Punk and reading "Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter"), Franco officially begins his »
- Peter Knegt
On a Mission From God: 7 TV Characters Who Believed They Had a Line to the Divine
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"Save Me," the new NBC comedy premiering on today, Thursday, May 23rd, stars Anne Heche as a Midwestern housewife named Beth Harper who awakens from a near-death experience believing she can communicate with God. The show, which is being burned off two episodes at a time in the summer, is unlikely to have much of a future, but it is part of a tradition of series in which a character believes he or she has a direct line to the divine. What's interesting about these shows is just how much the involvement of a lowercase or uppercase god is defined and made explicit and how closely the representation fits with an established religion -- and often the enlightenment is presented as potentially just a sign of mental illness rather than a message from a higher power. Here's a look at some of the predecessors of "Save Me" and their takes on the almighty. »
- Alison Willmore
2014 Oscar Predictions: Best Actress
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Indiewire will provide updates of our predictions for the 86th Academy Award nominations through January 16th, 2014, when the nominations are announced. Though it's clearly very early on and we've barely seen any of the contenders, this year's best actress race could very well shape up to a battle of some very esteemed women. A year after best supporting actor race -- for the first time ever in any acting category -- featured 5 previous winners, a slew of women already awarded an Oscar have juicy roles that could put them in the mix again. Previous winners Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts (both for "August: Osage County"), Emma Thompson ("Saving Mr. Banks"), Nicole Kidman ("Grace of Monaco"), Sandra Bullock ("Gravity"), Kate Winslet ("Labor Day"), Cate Blanchett ("Blue Jasmine"), Marion Cotillard ("The Immigrant") and last year's best actress Jennifer Lawrence ("Serena" or "American Hustle") all look like potential nominees, at least on paper. »
- Peter Knegt
'Like Father, Like Son, Oscar Isaac and Adèle Exarchopoulos Lead Odds For Cannes Winners On Website
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Every year, Neil Young's website keeps a running list of odds for major prizes at major festivals, including Berlin, Venice and indeed Cannes. For the past week or so, he's been updating the latter for the ongoing edition of the fest, listing odds for the Palme d'Or and best acting prizes. Currently (though this could change by the time you click this link), Young has Hirokazu Kore-eda's "Like Father, Like Son" as the slight frontrunner for the top prize, with 9-2 odds. That's just in front of Abdellatif Kechiche's "Blue Is The Warmest Color" (5-1 odds), Asghar Farhadi's "The Past" (6-1 odds), Paolo Sorrentino's "The Great Beauty" (7-1 odds) and Joel & Ethan Coen's "Inside Llewyn Davis" (9-1 odds). Read More: Cannes: Family Problems Dominate In Clio Barnard's 'The Selfish Giant' And Kore-eda's 'Like Father Like Son,' But 'Borgman' Makes »
- Peter Knegt
Watch: Metallica's 3D Concert Film 'Through the Never' Gets a New Trailer & Teaser Poster
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Get ready to ride the lightning. The reopened Picturehouse Entertainment has released the first trailer for its one-week, 3D, IMAX-exclusive movie "Metallica Through the Never." The film is a hybrid of classic narrative storytelling and live performance footage of Metallica rocking out. Though the trailer makes it more than a little unclear what exactly is going on, the press release provided this absolutely wild plot summary: As the band performs its most iconic songs for thousands of their fans in a never-before-seen performance created exclusively for the film, Trip (Dane DeHaan) is dispatched outside the arena to meet a disabled delivery truck and recover a mysterious item beingtransported to the show. But the seemingly simple assignment turns into a surreal adventure when his car is hit by an out-of-control driver. Trip, dazed and bruised, climbs out of his van only to find himself pitched in the middle of a tense »
- Ben Travers
BBC America Sets Its Summer Schedule, With Idris Elba's 'Luther' Returning in September
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Fans of "Luther," the Neil Cross-created crime drama centered around a magnetic turn from Idris Elba as the obsessive police officer of the title, will have to wait until September to see new episodes of the series (and to find out whether Ruth Wilson's flirty psychopath Alice Morgan will return). BBC America announced its summer schedule today, and "Luther" is slated for what's really the fall. In the meantime, there's the second season of the network's wholly owned original "Copper," which recently added William Baldwin and Lindy Booth as guest stars to a list already consisting of Eamonn Walker, Lee Tergesen, Andrew Howard and Alfre Woodard. The UK drama "Broadchurch" will pair Olivia Colman ("Tyrannosaur") and "Doctor Who" alum David Tennant. Also of interest -- "In the Flesh," an interesting reworking of the whole zombie theme. Fall will find BBC America airing "Burton and Taylor," with Dominic West »
- Alison Willmore
Cannes: Lesbian Coming-of-Age Epic 'Blue Is the Warmest Color' Offers Honest, Sexually Frank Insights
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The first sex scene in "Blue Is the Warmest Color," Abdellatif Kechiche's French coming-of-age drama about a young lesbian couple, lasts longer than any other sequence in the movie. To dwell on its length, however, shortchanges its relevance to this three-hour-long feature. After a brief heterosexual relationship in which she loses her virginity, 15-year-old Adéle (Adéle Exarchopoulos) falls hard for chic art student Emma (Léa Seydoux), and the moment they get the chance to take their clothes off the passion explodes. In the cavalcade of kissing, licking, slapping and moaning that follows, Kechiche makes apparent the intensity of their physical bond, which later enhances the heartbreak caused by watching it fall apart. Exarchopoulos delivers a bold, thoroughly credible breakthrough performance at the movie's center, portraying her character as a woman trapped by the mixed messages around her. At school, her peers encourage her to date a male classmate who has his eye on her, »
- Eric Kohn
Alec Baldwin's SummerDocs Lineup Features 'Twenty Feet From Stardom' and 'Gasland Part II'
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Morgan Neville's Sundance entry "Twenty Feet From Stardom" and Josh Fox's "Gasland Part II" will kick off the SummerDocs Series at the Hamptons International Film Festival. Beginning June 15th in East Hampton, the four-part SummerDocs series will feature a guest appearance from Darlene Love as well as series presenter Alec Baldwin. Love, a pop music singer from the 1960s who's featured in "Twenty Feet From Stardom," is set to perform after the film's screening at Guild Hall. Neville's film also features Bruce Springsteen, Mick Jagger, Sheryl Crow, Bette Midler, Lou Adler as well as the musicians the film focuses on -- the backups. "Twenty Feet From Stardom" was the opening night film at Sundance where it was met with a rapturous response. RADiUS-twc, who acquired the North American rights to the film, recently released a trailer and poster for the film, which is set for a June 14th release. »
- Ben Travers
Cannes: Alexander Payne Explains Why He Shot 'Nebraska' in Black and White and Cast Will Forte as His Dramatic Lead
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With this year's edition of the Cannes Film Festival winding down (it concludes on Sunday), it's easy to forget there are still some heavy hitters left to premiere in the Competition, one of which, Alexander Payne's "Nebraska," screened this morning for press before its gala later on. Warmly received by the audience in attendance, who clapped enthusiastically right through to the end of the credits, the black and white family dramedy is smaller in scale than Payne's last Oscar-winning effort "The Descendants," but no less touching, wry and truthful in its depiction of a fraught family dynamic. "Saturday Night Live" alum Will Forte and acting legend Bruce Dern -- in a career rejuvenating role that could bring him some deserved awards attention later down the line -- star as a father and son on an aimless mission to claim a million-dollar sweepstakes prize that doesn't exist. Having received a scam letter in the mail, »
- Nigel M Smith
'The Artist' Star Bérénice Bejo On Returning to Cannes With 'The Past' and Working With Asghar Farhadi For Half a Year
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Returning to Cannes following her international breakthrough performance in 2011's awards juggernaut "The Artist," directed by her husband Michel Hazanavicius, Oscar nominee Bérénice Bejo returned the Croisette this year with another film to sure to return her to the forefront of awards talk -- Asghar Farhadi's follow-up to his Oscar-winning "A Separation," "The Past." Shot over a whopping four months in Paris following two months of intense rehearsals, "The Past," Farhadi's first film shot outside of his native Iran, centers on Ahmad (Ali Mosaffa), who after returning to Paris from Tehran in order to finalize his divorce to Marie (Bejo), discovers all is not well at home with his soon to be ex and her rebellious daughter (Pauline Burlet). In trying to bring the two together, Ahmad uncovers a secret from the past that could threaten to keep the pair at odds for life. Read More: Cannes: Asghar Farhadi »
- Nigel M Smith
Project of the Day: Stopping the Keystone Xl 'Above All Else'
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Here's your daily dose of an indie film in progress; at the end of the week, you'll have the chance to vote for your favorite. In the meantime: Is this a movie you’d want to see? Tell us in the comments. "Above All Else" Tweetable Logline: How one man’s struggle to protect his family from the Keystone Xl pipeline transformed the fight against climate change in America. Elevator Pitch: Above All Else tells the remarkable story of a group of landowners and activists in East Texas who tried to stop construction of the Keystone Xl pipeline, which is slated to carry tar sands oil from Canada to refineries on the Texas Gulf Coast. Through their journeys, the film tells the story of how the battle over Keystone has affected the larger fight against climate change. The film’s characters risk financial ruin, their personal safety, and their homes. »
- Indiewire
Cannes Review: With 'Nebraska,' Has Alexander Payne Gone Soft?
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Alexander Payne's movies walk a fine line between cruel satire and emotional truth, but in "Nebraska," it's particularly hard to discern which is which. The black-and-white road trip dramedy might be his least essential work, but it's also notably distinct from the rest of it. The first project that the filmmaker didn't write himself, "Nebraska" lacks the vulgar edge typically at the center of his scenarios. It's a sad, thoughtful depiction of midwestern eccentrics regretting the past and growing bored of the present, ideas that Payne regards with gentle humor and pathos but also something of a shrug. At its core, "Nebraksa" revolves around a pair of downbeat men, David (Will Forte) and his father Woody (Bruce Dern) on an aimless mission to claim a million-dollar prize sweepstakes prize that doesn't exist. Having received a scam letter in the mail, the disgruntled and possibly senile Woody continually wanders away »
- Eric Kohn
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