Principal photography has commenced on the Arab underworld thriller “Boomah” (“The Owl”), written and directed by Zaid Abu Hamdan and marking the Jordanian filmmaker’s second feature following his critically acclaimed “Daughters of Abdul Rahman.”
Previously announced in December, Rakeen Saad is set to play the titular role of the female thug Boomah. Saad rose to acclaim for her central roles in hit shows “The Giza Killer” and the Netflix original “Al Rawabi School for Girls,” and will next be seen as the lead in a new Netflix series production “Echoes of the Past” and “The Way of the Wind,” the biblical drama by Terrence Malick.
“Boomah” — now shooting in Jordan — reunites Saad with Rawabi co-star Joanna Arida who will play the role of her best friend and confidant Anoud. Arida will next appear in “Laura H,” a Dutch TV series based on the bestseller by journalist Thomas Rueb. Rounding...
Previously announced in December, Rakeen Saad is set to play the titular role of the female thug Boomah. Saad rose to acclaim for her central roles in hit shows “The Giza Killer” and the Netflix original “Al Rawabi School for Girls,” and will next be seen as the lead in a new Netflix series production “Echoes of the Past” and “The Way of the Wind,” the biblical drama by Terrence Malick.
“Boomah” — now shooting in Jordan — reunites Saad with Rawabi co-star Joanna Arida who will play the role of her best friend and confidant Anoud. Arida will next appear in “Laura H,” a Dutch TV series based on the bestseller by journalist Thomas Rueb. Rounding...
- 7/4/2024
- by Alex Ritman
- Variety Film + TV
The cast of upcoming Arab crime thriller Boomah has been revealed as director Zaid Abu Hamdan begins filming in Jordan.
As previously reported, the title role is to be played by Rakeen Saad, star of Netflix hit AlRawabi School For Girls and who will next be seen in Netflix series Echoes Of The Past and Terrence Malick’s biblical drama The Way Of The Wind.
Boomah will see Saad reunite with Rawabi co-star Joanna Arida, who will play the role of her best friend and confidant Anoud. Arida will next be seen in Dutch TV series Laura H.
Rounding out the cast are Majd Eid,...
As previously reported, the title role is to be played by Rakeen Saad, star of Netflix hit AlRawabi School For Girls and who will next be seen in Netflix series Echoes Of The Past and Terrence Malick’s biblical drama The Way Of The Wind.
Boomah will see Saad reunite with Rawabi co-star Joanna Arida, who will play the role of her best friend and confidant Anoud. Arida will next be seen in Dutch TV series Laura H.
Rounding out the cast are Majd Eid,...
- 7/3/2024
- ScreenDaily
Zaid Abu Hamdan has begun principal photography in Jordan on new film Boomah which is being positioned as an Arab world thriller with a similar gritty edge as City of God, Gomorrah and La Haine.
Boomah marks Jordanian director Abu Hamdan’s second feature after his critically acclaimed female focused drama Daughters of Abdul Rahman.
The Giza Killer and Al Rawabi School For Girls actress Rakeen Saad stars in the titular role of a female thug, who goes by the name of Boomah. The actress is also soon to be seen as the lead in new Netflix series production Echoes of the Past, as well as in Terrence Malick’s biblical drama The Way of the Wind.
She will be joined by Rawabi co-star Joanna Arida in the role of Boomah’s best friend and confidant Anoud. Rounding out the cast are Majd Eid, Nabil Al Raee and Hanan Al Hilo, who previously starred in Daughters of Abdul Rahman.
The new film is billed as an “expansive crime thriller” set against the backdrop of Jordan’s underworld. Protagonist Boomah is notorious and knife-savvy female gang member who becomes embroiled in a power struggle between street thugs and religious extremists while battling the traumas of her harrowing orphaned past.
The film is produced by Front Row Productions with Ahmad Abu Koush and director Abu Hamdan’s Jordan-based Bounce Productions.
Also on board is Amman-based production company Bayt Al Shawareb, which worked on 2014 Oscar-nominated film Theeb and the 2023 Cannes Critics’ Week breakout Inshallah a Boy.
A joint venture between Mena distributors Front Row Filmed Entertainment and Empire Entertainment, Front Row Productions’ previous credits include Netflix originals Perfect Strangers, The Sandcastle, starring Nadine Labaki and Ziad Bakri, and the upcoming Cliffhanger reboot.
“We’re proud to be a part of this project, supporting Jordanian and Levantine talent during this extremely difficult and trying period, with so much risk inherent in cinema and arts coming out of this region,” said Front Row Productions partners Gianluca Chakra and Mario Jr. Haddad.
“Zaid is an outstanding young and ambitious director with a very bright future ahead, a true visionary and difference-maker. His understanding of the nuances of Jordanian street culture is exceptional,” they added.
“We are concentrating on a script and storytelling that transcends borders and nationality while looking to break the limits of background and identity to bring Boomah to a wide Arab audience and beyond. We see Boomah positioned as a film with Arab and international appeal, as a crime thriller reminiscent of great underworld juggernaut works like City of God, Gomorrah, La Haine and others.”...
Boomah marks Jordanian director Abu Hamdan’s second feature after his critically acclaimed female focused drama Daughters of Abdul Rahman.
The Giza Killer and Al Rawabi School For Girls actress Rakeen Saad stars in the titular role of a female thug, who goes by the name of Boomah. The actress is also soon to be seen as the lead in new Netflix series production Echoes of the Past, as well as in Terrence Malick’s biblical drama The Way of the Wind.
She will be joined by Rawabi co-star Joanna Arida in the role of Boomah’s best friend and confidant Anoud. Rounding out the cast are Majd Eid, Nabil Al Raee and Hanan Al Hilo, who previously starred in Daughters of Abdul Rahman.
The new film is billed as an “expansive crime thriller” set against the backdrop of Jordan’s underworld. Protagonist Boomah is notorious and knife-savvy female gang member who becomes embroiled in a power struggle between street thugs and religious extremists while battling the traumas of her harrowing orphaned past.
The film is produced by Front Row Productions with Ahmad Abu Koush and director Abu Hamdan’s Jordan-based Bounce Productions.
Also on board is Amman-based production company Bayt Al Shawareb, which worked on 2014 Oscar-nominated film Theeb and the 2023 Cannes Critics’ Week breakout Inshallah a Boy.
A joint venture between Mena distributors Front Row Filmed Entertainment and Empire Entertainment, Front Row Productions’ previous credits include Netflix originals Perfect Strangers, The Sandcastle, starring Nadine Labaki and Ziad Bakri, and the upcoming Cliffhanger reboot.
“We’re proud to be a part of this project, supporting Jordanian and Levantine talent during this extremely difficult and trying period, with so much risk inherent in cinema and arts coming out of this region,” said Front Row Productions partners Gianluca Chakra and Mario Jr. Haddad.
“Zaid is an outstanding young and ambitious director with a very bright future ahead, a true visionary and difference-maker. His understanding of the nuances of Jordanian street culture is exceptional,” they added.
“We are concentrating on a script and storytelling that transcends borders and nationality while looking to break the limits of background and identity to bring Boomah to a wide Arab audience and beyond. We see Boomah positioned as a film with Arab and international appeal, as a crime thriller reminiscent of great underworld juggernaut works like City of God, Gomorrah, La Haine and others.”...
- 7/3/2024
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Matthias Schoenaerts had worked with Kate Winslet before, but never like this. Never as a lackey engaging in a psychosexual power play with a capricious dictator convinced bacteria is flooding her palace. It almost goes without saying that The Regime is far less restrained than Schoenaerts and Winslet’s previous screen romance, the largely forgotten 2014 period film A Little Chaos.
“We both were like, ‘Ok, so what is this mad piece of work that we’re reading?’ ” Schoenaerts says of his first conversation with Winslet about the HBO limited series. “ ‘Is it a comedy? Is it a drama? Is it both?’ We were trying to figure out what the tone was going to be.”
Will Tracy, who created and co-wrote the show, has a résumé heavy on humorous genre hybrids, including Succession, Last Week Tonight With John Oliver and The Menu. According to Schoenaerts, Tracy was careful never to define...
“We both were like, ‘Ok, so what is this mad piece of work that we’re reading?’ ” Schoenaerts says of his first conversation with Winslet about the HBO limited series. “ ‘Is it a comedy? Is it a drama? Is it both?’ We were trying to figure out what the tone was going to be.”
Will Tracy, who created and co-wrote the show, has a résumé heavy on humorous genre hybrids, including Succession, Last Week Tonight With John Oliver and The Menu. According to Schoenaerts, Tracy was careful never to define...
- 6/17/2024
- by Matthew Jacobs
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
June 4, 2024 – Academy Award winner Sir Ben Kingsley, beloved James Bond actor Pierce Brosnan and Star Wars universe luminary Mark Hamill form the ultimate vocal rogues’ gallery in Mofac Animation’s upcoming The King of Kings, an animated family film inspired by a little-known short story by Charles Dickens depicting the life and times of Jesus Christ.
Kingsley voices High Priest Caiaphas, who presided over the Sanhedrin trial of Jesus. Hamill takes on the role of King Herod, who, according to the Gospel of Matthew, ordered the Massacre of the Innocents in an attempt to kill Jesus as an infant. And Brosnan gives animated life to Pontius Pilate, who ultimately ordered the crucifixion of Jesus. The triumvirate of villainous voices further enhances the A-list cast behind the faith-based animated film, which also includes Academy Award & Emmy Award winners Kenneth Branagh (Belfast) and Forest Whitaker (The Last King of Scotland), Golden Globe...
Kingsley voices High Priest Caiaphas, who presided over the Sanhedrin trial of Jesus. Hamill takes on the role of King Herod, who, according to the Gospel of Matthew, ordered the Massacre of the Innocents in an attempt to kill Jesus as an infant. And Brosnan gives animated life to Pontius Pilate, who ultimately ordered the crucifixion of Jesus. The triumvirate of villainous voices further enhances the A-list cast behind the faith-based animated film, which also includes Academy Award & Emmy Award winners Kenneth Branagh (Belfast) and Forest Whitaker (The Last King of Scotland), Golden Globe...
- 6/5/2024
- by ComicMix Staff
- Comicmix.com
Exclusive: La Haine filmmaker Mathieu Kassovitz is returning to the director’s chair to make English-language passion project The Big War, which will mark the first movie he has helmed in 13 years.
“This is a project I’ve been working on for twenty years,” Kassovitz explained about the live action-animation hybrid project, which he has scripted with The Nightmare Before Christmas, Corpse Bride and Edward Scissorhands scribe Caroline Thompson.
“It is inspired by cult French graphic novel La Bete Est Morte, which was written during the Second World War,” says the Frenchman, also known for starring in movies including Amélie and Munich and hit TV series Le Bureau Des Legendes. “It reimagines that war as enacted by animals. The Nazis are the wolves who go after the ‘vermin’ — the rabbits — who represent the war’s victims. The story focuses on two rabbits who go after their family who have been...
“This is a project I’ve been working on for twenty years,” Kassovitz explained about the live action-animation hybrid project, which he has scripted with The Nightmare Before Christmas, Corpse Bride and Edward Scissorhands scribe Caroline Thompson.
“It is inspired by cult French graphic novel La Bete Est Morte, which was written during the Second World War,” says the Frenchman, also known for starring in movies including Amélie and Munich and hit TV series Le Bureau Des Legendes. “It reimagines that war as enacted by animals. The Nazis are the wolves who go after the ‘vermin’ — the rabbits — who represent the war’s victims. The story focuses on two rabbits who go after their family who have been...
- 4/9/2024
- by Andreas Wiseman and Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
While Martin Scorsese aims to kick off production on his Jesus film this year, Terrence Malick is going on year five of editing his, marking one of the only films to wrap production pre-pandemic that still has yet to be released. As so happens every year before the Cannes Film Festival announces its lineup, rumors have swirled that the director’s Biblical epic The Way of the Wind (formerly known as The Last Planet) may see a premiere in 2024. We will, unfortunately, have to wait another year, but in the meantime we have exclusive new details on the highly anticipated project.
Actor Géza Röhrig, who stars as Jesus in the film, recently stopped by a university in the Northeast for a conversation on his career. During the chat he confirmed the film is targeting a 2025 Cannes debut. Wind will not exactly focus on Jesus and Peter (as played by Matthias Schoenaerts...
Actor Géza Röhrig, who stars as Jesus in the film, recently stopped by a university in the Northeast for a conversation on his career. During the chat he confirmed the film is targeting a 2025 Cannes debut. Wind will not exactly focus on Jesus and Peter (as played by Matthias Schoenaerts...
- 3/27/2024
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
After more or less a solid decade of notable parts in multiple languages (most notably Fatih Akin’s 2017 In the Fade), seasoned German-Turkish actor Numan Acar (who will next be seen in Terrence Malick’s long-awaited The Way of the Wind) returns behind the camera to unpack some personal memories with The Suitcase (aka Waliz). Working with two distinct time frames, the short (which had its world premiere at the 2023 Red Sea Film Festival) looks at themes of displacement, powerlessness and identity, we are witness to all strands of violence on a people who unfortunately come to think of this object as vital to their survival and acts as a lifeline to their past, their family history and physical safety.…...
- 2/12/2024
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
“Bird,” Andrea Arnold’s first narrative feature in almost a decade, has been picked up by Cornerstone Films with the company set to launch the feature at the upcoming European Film Market in Berlin.
Little is known about the film, except that it was shot in the U.K. around the Kent area last summer and, like much of Arnold’s work, examines life on the fringes of society. It also stars two of the buzziest actors on the circuit: Barry Keoghan and Franz Rogowski.
Keoghan is currently on a phenomenal run that began with his BAFTA-winning and Oscar-nominated supporting role in “The Banshees of Inisherin” and has continued with a BAFTA-nominated lead turn in Emerald Fennell’s “Saltburn” as well as a major part in the recently launched Apple TV+ drama “Masters of the Air.” He reportedly joined “Bird” after leaving the cast of Ridley Scott’s upcoming “Gladiator” sequel,...
Little is known about the film, except that it was shot in the U.K. around the Kent area last summer and, like much of Arnold’s work, examines life on the fringes of society. It also stars two of the buzziest actors on the circuit: Barry Keoghan and Franz Rogowski.
Keoghan is currently on a phenomenal run that began with his BAFTA-winning and Oscar-nominated supporting role in “The Banshees of Inisherin” and has continued with a BAFTA-nominated lead turn in Emerald Fennell’s “Saltburn” as well as a major part in the recently launched Apple TV+ drama “Masters of the Air.” He reportedly joined “Bird” after leaving the cast of Ridley Scott’s upcoming “Gladiator” sequel,...
- 1/29/2024
- by Alex Ritman
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Sarah Greene is “excited” to be at the center of a high-stakes “love triangle” involving James McArdle and Emun Elliott in Sexy Beast, the Paramount+ prequel to director Jonathan Glazer’s 2000 classic.
Greene tells me she is a great admirer of Amanda Redman’s sultry performance as former adult actress Deedee Harrison – the role that holds a place in the annals of gangster movie history – and the part that the Cork-born Normal People star takes on in the Sexy Beast drama that premieres on Paramount+ this Thursday, January 25.
Greene watched the movie “over and over again and just studied her through line. And she’s very still, she doesn’t say a whole lot.”
We chat just as the actress is in the midst of shooting the second season of Bad Sisters with her Garvey siblings played by Sharon Horgan, Anne-Marie Duff, Eva Birthistle and Eve Hewson. “We were all like,...
Greene tells me she is a great admirer of Amanda Redman’s sultry performance as former adult actress Deedee Harrison – the role that holds a place in the annals of gangster movie history – and the part that the Cork-born Normal People star takes on in the Sexy Beast drama that premieres on Paramount+ this Thursday, January 25.
Greene watched the movie “over and over again and just studied her through line. And she’s very still, she doesn’t say a whole lot.”
We chat just as the actress is in the midst of shooting the second season of Bad Sisters with her Garvey siblings played by Sharon Horgan, Anne-Marie Duff, Eva Birthistle and Eve Hewson. “We were all like,...
- 1/23/2024
- by Baz Bamigboye
- Deadline Film + TV
Austrian filmmaker Michael Haneke has been relatively quiet of late and hasn’t made a film since 2017’s “Happy End,” but his exacting reputation has been coming under fire in recent weeks. First, Juliette Binoche called him a “control freak” while recalling working with the filmmaker on “Caché.” “I thought, ‘He doesn’t give a shit about what I’m doing.’ So I said that to him; I said, did you see?
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Continue reading Franz Rogowski Says Michael Haneke Can Be “Cruel & Unforgiving” & Talks Terrence Malick’s ‘The Way Of The Wind’ at The Playlist.
- 1/2/2024
- by Edward Davis
- The Playlist
[Editor’s Note: The following story contains spoilers for “Passages.”]
Franz Rogowski’s intense and offbeat appeal gets its purest expression in the despairing polycule at the center of Ira Sachs’ “Passages.” In the Euro-chic romantic drama that recalls Mike Nichols’ “Closer” through the unsentimental lens of a Maurice Pialat film, the German dancer-turned-actor plays solipsistic, emotionally arrested filmmaker Tomas Freibur. On the eve of wrapping his latest film, he strays from his taciturn husband Martin (Ben Whishaw) and into the arms of Agathe (Adèle Exarchopoulos), who, when Tomas later tells her he’s in love with her, replies, “You must say that a lot.”
Rogowski is a physically striking performer, here in great shape in this film after withering as a gay prisoner post-World War II for his European Film Award-nominated turn in 2021’s “Great Freedom.” His filmography has acquainted him closely with the world’s great filmmakers, from Michael Haneke to Terrence Malick (“A Hidden Life”) and Christian Petzold...
Franz Rogowski’s intense and offbeat appeal gets its purest expression in the despairing polycule at the center of Ira Sachs’ “Passages.” In the Euro-chic romantic drama that recalls Mike Nichols’ “Closer” through the unsentimental lens of a Maurice Pialat film, the German dancer-turned-actor plays solipsistic, emotionally arrested filmmaker Tomas Freibur. On the eve of wrapping his latest film, he strays from his taciturn husband Martin (Ben Whishaw) and into the arms of Agathe (Adèle Exarchopoulos), who, when Tomas later tells her he’s in love with her, replies, “You must say that a lot.”
Rogowski is a physically striking performer, here in great shape in this film after withering as a gay prisoner post-World War II for his European Film Award-nominated turn in 2021’s “Great Freedom.” His filmography has acquainted him closely with the world’s great filmmakers, from Michael Haneke to Terrence Malick (“A Hidden Life”) and Christian Petzold...
- 12/28/2023
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
While Terrence Malick happily toils away on year five of editing his Biblical epic The Way of the Wind, he’s found a number of artistic diversions in recent years. The latest is an epic-looking interactive exhibit that finds him reuniting with his Knight of Cups, Song of Song, and Voyage of Time collaborator Cate Blanchett, while also boasting contributions from Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood.
Premiering at Australia’s Acmi and what looks to be an expanded version of the Tribeca premiere Evolver, Marshmallow Laser Feast: Works of Nature “illuminates the hidden forces surrounding us, revealing the sublime through sensory journeys beyond our everyday perception. From the roots of a majestic Amazonian tree to the unseen branches of the body and the birth of galaxies, this hypnotic, immersive experience explores the rhythm that cultivates and connects all life – breath.”
Featuring five major digital artworks, the experience features “guided meditation, large-scale screen works and interactive experiences,...
Premiering at Australia’s Acmi and what looks to be an expanded version of the Tribeca premiere Evolver, Marshmallow Laser Feast: Works of Nature “illuminates the hidden forces surrounding us, revealing the sublime through sensory journeys beyond our everyday perception. From the roots of a majestic Amazonian tree to the unseen branches of the body and the birth of galaxies, this hypnotic, immersive experience explores the rhythm that cultivates and connects all life – breath.”
Featuring five major digital artworks, the experience features “guided meditation, large-scale screen works and interactive experiences,...
- 9/7/2023
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Harmony Korine is done with “normal films,” except possibly a Terrence Malick movie.
The “Spring Breakers” and “Kids” auteur told GQ that he is stepping away from Hollywood as a whole, following the more muted reception to 2019’s “The Beach Bum.”
“I just lost interest in normal films,” Korine said. “I was like, There’s something else. That really became the obsession. I was like, What comes after all this?”
Korine added, “Honestly, I always got more satisfaction from painting. I don’t really have fun making movies.”
The writer-director founded creative collective and design studio Edglrd with a goal to democratize “gamecore” productions. His latest project “Aggro Dr1ft” will premiere at the 80th Venice Film Festival, and later screen at TIFF and NYFF.
However, Korine may return to traditional directing after Terrence Malick sent him a script.
“Terrence Malick wrote a script that he wants me to direct,” Korine said.
The “Spring Breakers” and “Kids” auteur told GQ that he is stepping away from Hollywood as a whole, following the more muted reception to 2019’s “The Beach Bum.”
“I just lost interest in normal films,” Korine said. “I was like, There’s something else. That really became the obsession. I was like, What comes after all this?”
Korine added, “Honestly, I always got more satisfaction from painting. I don’t really have fun making movies.”
The writer-director founded creative collective and design studio Edglrd with a goal to democratize “gamecore” productions. His latest project “Aggro Dr1ft” will premiere at the 80th Venice Film Festival, and later screen at TIFF and NYFF.
However, Korine may return to traditional directing after Terrence Malick sent him a script.
“Terrence Malick wrote a script that he wants me to direct,” Korine said.
- 8/23/2023
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSThe Way of the Wind (Terrence Malick).According to Terrence Malick’s producer, Alex Boden, the filmmaker is in the editing room working on his biblical epic The Way of the Wind, formerly known as The Last Planet. “Terry is very happy with what he is working on so far is the word,” Boden told Variety. Over at The Film Stage, Nick Newman compiles all of the updates and rumors so far about the production. Mark Rylance, who plays Satan in the film, says of Malick’s process: “It’s like a fine wine or whiskey; it only gets better with time.”We’ve updated our TIFF lineup master post to reflect new additions—notably the excellent selections that make up Wavelengths, TIFF’s experimental program. Featuring films by Radu Jude, Eduardo Williams, Pedro Costa,...
- 8/16/2023
- MUBI
It’s been years since we heard about Terrence Malick’s The Way of the Wind––as it so happens our 2020 reveal that it had changed titles from The Last Planet might be the most recent info of note. Even by his meticulous and secretive standards has the film, which shot in 2019, seemed less and less likely to ever emerge, making it a relief that some update’s arrived courtesy producer Alex Boden, who told Variety the project is “very much in the edit room.”
Not that it goes much deeper (we said some update), as Boden seems to be reporting secondhand, saying “Terry is very happy with what he is working on so far is the word.” The shooting-to-premiere rate on recent films has tended to be three years so Wind‘s four-year gap with a pandemic in-between leaves certain wiggle room, if not the gnawing knowledge that every...
Not that it goes much deeper (we said some update), as Boden seems to be reporting secondhand, saying “Terry is very happy with what he is working on so far is the word.” The shooting-to-premiere rate on recent films has tended to be three years so Wind‘s four-year gap with a pandemic in-between leaves certain wiggle room, if not the gnawing knowledge that every...
- 8/11/2023
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
After four years of post-production and countless festival premiere rumors that never materialized, any cinephile would be forgiven for thinking Terrence Malick had abandoned “The Way of the Wind.” The biblical epic, which offers a reimagined take on several episodes from the life of Jesus Christ, was filmed in the summer of 2019 with a cast that includes Mark Rylance as Satan and Géza Röhrig as Christ. But Malick has demonstrated his trademark lack of urgency while editing the film, leading many to believe that the project would never be released.
Despite the delays, one of the film’s producers insists that the editing process is still moving along. In a new interview with Variety, producer Alex Boden indicated that Malick continues to labor over the film in post-production. While he offered little in the way of concrete details and said that the release timeline is still open-ended, Boden’s words...
Despite the delays, one of the film’s producers insists that the editing process is still moving along. In a new interview with Variety, producer Alex Boden indicated that Malick continues to labor over the film in post-production. While he offered little in the way of concrete details and said that the release timeline is still open-ended, Boden’s words...
- 8/10/2023
- by Christian Zilko
- Indiewire
The keenly awaited Season 2 of Max’s “Tokyo Vice” completed principal photography just before the Hollywood strikes and is now in post-production, producer Alex Boden tells Variety. Auteur Terrence Malick’s biblical drama “The Way of the Wind” is being edited.
Season 1 of “Tokyo Vice,” which followed a Western journalist working for a publication in Tokyo who takes on one of the city’s most powerful crime bosses, bowed in 2022. It was created by J.T. Rogers and starred Ken Watanabe, Ansel Elgort, Rachel Keller and Rinko Kikuchi. The season ended on a cliffhanger and Boden says that Season 2 will answer all questions eventually.
Boden says that the post-production process on the show is a lengthy one and he hopes that the strike will be resolved in time for the cast to promote it. “We’re all hoping for a resolution to the strikes for everyone’s sake, for everyone who’s impacted by them,...
Season 1 of “Tokyo Vice,” which followed a Western journalist working for a publication in Tokyo who takes on one of the city’s most powerful crime bosses, bowed in 2022. It was created by J.T. Rogers and starred Ken Watanabe, Ansel Elgort, Rachel Keller and Rinko Kikuchi. The season ended on a cliffhanger and Boden says that Season 2 will answer all questions eventually.
Boden says that the post-production process on the show is a lengthy one and he hopes that the strike will be resolved in time for the cast to promote it. “We’re all hoping for a resolution to the strikes for everyone’s sake, for everyone who’s impacted by them,...
- 8/10/2023
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
ShortList 2023: ‘Birds’ Recalls the Laid-Back Texan Natures of Richard Linklater and Terrence Malick
“Birds” was selected as a finalist in this year’s ShortList Film Festival, presented by TheWrap. You can watch the films and vote for your favorite here.
Austin, Texas has proven the cinematic groundswell for filmmakers from Richard Linklater, to Robert Rodriguez and Terrence Malick (more on him in just a sec). Los Angeles native Katherine Propper joins the fray with “Birds,” her supremely elegiac short about teens discovering themselves under the hot sun of an Austin summer.
“I definitely wanted to showcase some of my favorite spots, and it really started with me finding [actor] Payton Washington on Instagram, a cheerleader and tumbler,” Propper told TheWrap. “I Dm’d her and asked if I could meet her, and if she was interested in maybe being in a student film?”
(If her name reads somewhat familiar, Washington was also the unfortunate victim of a violent incident in Elgin, Texas that made...
Austin, Texas has proven the cinematic groundswell for filmmakers from Richard Linklater, to Robert Rodriguez and Terrence Malick (more on him in just a sec). Los Angeles native Katherine Propper joins the fray with “Birds,” her supremely elegiac short about teens discovering themselves under the hot sun of an Austin summer.
“I definitely wanted to showcase some of my favorite spots, and it really started with me finding [actor] Payton Washington on Instagram, a cheerleader and tumbler,” Propper told TheWrap. “I Dm’d her and asked if I could meet her, and if she was interested in maybe being in a student film?”
(If her name reads somewhat familiar, Washington was also the unfortunate victim of a violent incident in Elgin, Texas that made...
- 7/1/2023
- by Jason Clark
- The Wrap
Exclusive: Oscar-winner Mira Sorvino and Geza Rohrig (Son of Saul) have joined the spy thriller Fog of War from Yale Entertainment.
We understand filming has just wrapped on the project. Also starring are Jake Abel, Briana Hildebrand (Deadpool Lucifer), and John Cusack.
Michael Day (Clawfoot) is directing from a screenplay by Luke Langsdale. Producers are Jordan Yale Levine, Jordan Beckerman, Michael Day, and Scott Levenson. Jodie Lazar is Executive Producer. Great Escape is handling world sales. The project was presented to buyers at the recent Cannes Market.
Set during WWII, the pic follows an injured American pilot Gene (Abel), and his Oss agent fiancée Penny (Hildebrand), who retreat to a remote estate in Massachusetts to visit her extended family (Cusack and Sorvino). Unbeknownst to Penny, the Oss has recruited Gene to spy on the family and the surrounding community,...
We understand filming has just wrapped on the project. Also starring are Jake Abel, Briana Hildebrand (Deadpool Lucifer), and John Cusack.
Michael Day (Clawfoot) is directing from a screenplay by Luke Langsdale. Producers are Jordan Yale Levine, Jordan Beckerman, Michael Day, and Scott Levenson. Jodie Lazar is Executive Producer. Great Escape is handling world sales. The project was presented to buyers at the recent Cannes Market.
Set during WWII, the pic follows an injured American pilot Gene (Abel), and his Oss agent fiancée Penny (Hildebrand), who retreat to a remote estate in Massachusetts to visit her extended family (Cusack and Sorvino). Unbeknownst to Penny, the Oss has recruited Gene to spy on the family and the surrounding community,...
- 5/26/2023
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
Adrian Wootton, CEO of Film London and the British Film Commission, will preside over the jury of the Malta Film Commission’s inaugural Mediterrane Film Festival celebrating movies from the Mediterranean Basin.
The fest, which will take place in Valletta, Malta’s capital, and other locations on the island between June 25-30, will showcase films from each of the MED9 nations, an alliance of nine Mediterranean and Southern European Union member states. It comprises: Croatia, Cyprus, France, Greece, Italy, Malta, Portugal, Slovenia and Spain.
Besides Wotton the other jury members are “Triangle Of Sadness” actor Zlatko Burić; Cypriot filmmaker Tonia Mishiali; French actor and director Vahina Giocante; Greek producer Amanda Livanou; Italian journalist Boris Sollazzo; Maltese critic Mario Azzopardi; Portuguese journalist and programmer José Vieira Mendes; Slovenian journalist Tina Poglajen; and Spanish programmer Carlos Reviriego.
Alice Diop’s prize-winning Venice 2022 title “Saint Omer” (pictured); Carla Simon’s Berlin Golden Bear...
The fest, which will take place in Valletta, Malta’s capital, and other locations on the island between June 25-30, will showcase films from each of the MED9 nations, an alliance of nine Mediterranean and Southern European Union member states. It comprises: Croatia, Cyprus, France, Greece, Italy, Malta, Portugal, Slovenia and Spain.
Besides Wotton the other jury members are “Triangle Of Sadness” actor Zlatko Burić; Cypriot filmmaker Tonia Mishiali; French actor and director Vahina Giocante; Greek producer Amanda Livanou; Italian journalist Boris Sollazzo; Maltese critic Mario Azzopardi; Portuguese journalist and programmer José Vieira Mendes; Slovenian journalist Tina Poglajen; and Spanish programmer Carlos Reviriego.
Alice Diop’s prize-winning Venice 2022 title “Saint Omer” (pictured); Carla Simon’s Berlin Golden Bear...
- 5/21/2023
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Academy Award winner Ben Kingsley (Wonder Man) and Sofia Boutella (Rebel Moon) are set to star opposite Dave Bautista in The Killer’s Game, the action comedy that JJ Perry is helming for Lionsgate, which heads into production this summer. Their roles are being kept under wraps.
Based on Jay Bonansinga’s novel, The Killer’s Game is written by Rand Ravich and Simon Kinberg (X-Men series), with recent rewrites by James Coyne. The film follows veteran assassin Joe Flood (Bautista), who is diagnosed with a life-threatening illness and authorizes a kill on himself to avoid the pain that is destined to follow. After ordering the kill, he finds out that he was misdiagnosed and must then fend off the army of former colleagues trying to kill him.
Mad Chance’s Andrew Lazar will produce alongside Steve Richards for Endurance Media, which is financing the project, as well as Kia Jam. Bautista...
Based on Jay Bonansinga’s novel, The Killer’s Game is written by Rand Ravich and Simon Kinberg (X-Men series), with recent rewrites by James Coyne. The film follows veteran assassin Joe Flood (Bautista), who is diagnosed with a life-threatening illness and authorizes a kill on himself to avoid the pain that is destined to follow. After ordering the kill, he finds out that he was misdiagnosed and must then fend off the army of former colleagues trying to kill him.
Mad Chance’s Andrew Lazar will produce alongside Steve Richards for Endurance Media, which is financing the project, as well as Kia Jam. Bautista...
- 5/19/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Festival
The Malta Film Commission is launching the first-ever Mediterrane Film Festival, a new annual event dedicated to celebrating film and creativity. Running from June 25-30, the festival will take place at Valletta, Malta’s capital, and other locations across the country
The festival aims to serve as a platform for Malta to continue building its film brand image worldwide and attract more film business to the islands. Prominent films shot in recent years in Malta include Ridley Scott’s “Napoleon,” Terrence Malick’s “The Way of the Wind” and Colin Trevorrow’s “Jurassic World Dominion.”
The program, which will be revealed during the Cannes Film Festival, will showcase films from each of the MED9 nations. Screenings will be accessible to the public, and the featured films will be in the running for various awards.
Attendees will include Maltese and international filmmakers, actors, crew members, studio executives, and producers. In addition,...
The Malta Film Commission is launching the first-ever Mediterrane Film Festival, a new annual event dedicated to celebrating film and creativity. Running from June 25-30, the festival will take place at Valletta, Malta’s capital, and other locations across the country
The festival aims to serve as a platform for Malta to continue building its film brand image worldwide and attract more film business to the islands. Prominent films shot in recent years in Malta include Ridley Scott’s “Napoleon,” Terrence Malick’s “The Way of the Wind” and Colin Trevorrow’s “Jurassic World Dominion.”
The program, which will be revealed during the Cannes Film Festival, will showcase films from each of the MED9 nations. Screenings will be accessible to the public, and the featured films will be in the running for various awards.
Attendees will include Maltese and international filmmakers, actors, crew members, studio executives, and producers. In addition,...
- 5/3/2023
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Picturehouse Entertainment has debuted the trailer for the political thriller ‘Cairo Conspiracy.’
Adam (Tawfeek Barhom), the son of a fisherman, is offered the ultimate privilege to study at the Al-Azhar University in Cairo, the epicentre of power of Sunni Islam. Shortly after his arrival in Cairo, the university’s highest-ranking religious leader, the Grand Imam, suddenly dies and Adam soon becomes a pawn in a ruthless power struggle between Egypt’s religious and political elites.
A blistering political thriller brimming with tension, the film follows wide-eyed Adam as he becomes entangled in a deadly game of cat and mouse with wily state security officer Colonel Ibrahim (Fares Fares). Forced to infiltrate certain cliques in the religious seat of learning, Adam finds himself in increasingly dangerous situations, the threat of exposure ever imminent.
The film stars Fares Fares (The Nile Hilton Incident) and Tawfeek Barhom (The Way of the Wind)
Previously...
Adam (Tawfeek Barhom), the son of a fisherman, is offered the ultimate privilege to study at the Al-Azhar University in Cairo, the epicentre of power of Sunni Islam. Shortly after his arrival in Cairo, the university’s highest-ranking religious leader, the Grand Imam, suddenly dies and Adam soon becomes a pawn in a ruthless power struggle between Egypt’s religious and political elites.
A blistering political thriller brimming with tension, the film follows wide-eyed Adam as he becomes entangled in a deadly game of cat and mouse with wily state security officer Colonel Ibrahim (Fares Fares). Forced to infiltrate certain cliques in the religious seat of learning, Adam finds himself in increasingly dangerous situations, the threat of exposure ever imminent.
The film stars Fares Fares (The Nile Hilton Incident) and Tawfeek Barhom (The Way of the Wind)
Previously...
- 3/8/2023
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Matthias Schoenaerts will star opposite Kate Winslet in the upcoming HBO limited series “The Palace,” Variety has learned.
The series was picked up at HBO in July. Per the official logline, it “tells the story of one year within the walls of the palace of an authoritarian regime as it begins to unravel.” Exact character details are being kept under wraps.
Schoenaerts can currently be seen in the David O. Russell film “Amsterdam” in the role of Detective Lem Getweiler. Up next, he will be seen in the Canal+/Sky series “Django” and the feature “The Way of the Wind” from Terrence Malick. He also recently wrapped filming on the Netflix film “The Old Guard 2.” His past credits include films like “Rust and Bone,” “The Danish Girl,” and “Far from the Madding Crowd.”
He is repped by CAA and Rosalie Cimino at Ubba
Will Tracy serves as writer, executive producer,...
The series was picked up at HBO in July. Per the official logline, it “tells the story of one year within the walls of the palace of an authoritarian regime as it begins to unravel.” Exact character details are being kept under wraps.
Schoenaerts can currently be seen in the David O. Russell film “Amsterdam” in the role of Detective Lem Getweiler. Up next, he will be seen in the Canal+/Sky series “Django” and the feature “The Way of the Wind” from Terrence Malick. He also recently wrapped filming on the Netflix film “The Old Guard 2.” His past credits include films like “Rust and Bone,” “The Danish Girl,” and “Far from the Madding Crowd.”
He is repped by CAA and Rosalie Cimino at Ubba
Will Tracy serves as writer, executive producer,...
- 10/7/2022
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
There ought to be an obscure, multisyllabic German word for the very specific feeling of pride one can take in discovering cinema through one of the medium's more highly regarded classics. There are those among us who had something of a cinematic awakening while watching an indelible classic such as, say, "Citizen Kane," "2001: A Space Odyssey," "Persona," "The Rules of the Game," or "The General." Conversely, there ought to be a similar term for the mixture of pride and embarrassment one feels when their cinematic awakening is instigated by something obscure or unknown. "2001" may be a great piece of cinema. But surely someone in the world fell in love with movies the first time they saw Tony Richardson's 1961 film "A Taste of Honey," or Russell Mulcahy's "Highlander 2: The Quickening."
Actor Ben Kingsley, to offer a brief introduction, is undoubtedly one of the best actors of his generation...
Actor Ben Kingsley, to offer a brief introduction, is undoubtedly one of the best actors of his generation...
- 9/19/2022
- by Witney Seibold
- Slash Film
Great Freedom, starring Franz Rogowski, is showing exclusively on Mubi in many countries starting May 7, 2022. The actor is also the subject of Mubi's retrospective, Franz Rogowski: Man of the Hour.Franz Rogowski in Great Freedom (2021).Some people just have it—"it" here being largely indefinable and perhaps even a quality others also possess but for whatever reason doesn’t galvanize the masses like that rare individual. German actor Franz Rogowski is one of those people, a once-in-a-generation talent whose meteoric rise has been as surprising as it is warranted. Though he’d featured prominently as both a lead (in German director Jakob Lass’s 2013 bizarre romantic improvisation Love Steaks) and a supporting player, Rogowski’s star truly began to rise when Berlin School auteur Christian Petzold cast him in his 2018 masterpiece Transit, which launched the face that launched a thousand appreciations of it, particularly in the United States where he had theretofore been largely unknown.
- 5/28/2022
- MUBI
Middle East-based distributor and producer Front Row Filmed Entertainment has joined the team of producers on satirical coming-of-age comedy feature Abdelinho. Front Row will also represent all Mena rights. International sales are with Urban Sales.
The Arab-language feature stars Ali Suliman and is currently in post-production with a view to being ready by the end of the year.
Produced and directed by Hicham Ayouch (Fevers), and co-produced by Canal+ International, Chadi Abdo’s Hecat (The Cave), FreeMonkeyz and Sihamou Productions, the story follows the titular young Moroccan who’s fascinated by everything having to do with Brazil, to the point where he speaks the language fluently, dances the samba regularly and is head-over-heels in love with Maria, a telenovelas heroine. However, his world is turned upside down when an ultra-conservative televangelist arrives.
Front Row is boarding the project as it...
The Arab-language feature stars Ali Suliman and is currently in post-production with a view to being ready by the end of the year.
Produced and directed by Hicham Ayouch (Fevers), and co-produced by Canal+ International, Chadi Abdo’s Hecat (The Cave), FreeMonkeyz and Sihamou Productions, the story follows the titular young Moroccan who’s fascinated by everything having to do with Brazil, to the point where he speaks the language fluently, dances the samba regularly and is head-over-heels in love with Maria, a telenovelas heroine. However, his world is turned upside down when an ultra-conservative televangelist arrives.
Front Row is boarding the project as it...
- 5/10/2022
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: The Rosenzweig Group is expanding its international client list, with the additions of actors Or Ben-Melech, Faith Omole and Aaron Poole.
Israeli actor Ben-Melech is known for his work on HBO’s limited series Our Boys, which won 14 Israeli Academy of Film and Television awards and received a Peabody Award nomination. He earned an Israeli Academy Award nomination for best actor for his leading role in the first season of Yes Studios’ Magpie and will next be seen in Season 2. Also upcoming for Ben-Melech is Terrence Malik’s The Way of the Wind. He continues to be repped by Shaked & Perri in Israel.
British actor Omole stars as Bisma in the new Peacock/Channel 4 series We Are Lady Parts. She recently played Hermia in A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Globe Theatre and guest starred on ITV’s Endeavour. Her previous stage work includes a starring role in...
Israeli actor Ben-Melech is known for his work on HBO’s limited series Our Boys, which won 14 Israeli Academy of Film and Television awards and received a Peabody Award nomination. He earned an Israeli Academy Award nomination for best actor for his leading role in the first season of Yes Studios’ Magpie and will next be seen in Season 2. Also upcoming for Ben-Melech is Terrence Malik’s The Way of the Wind. He continues to be repped by Shaked & Perri in Israel.
British actor Omole stars as Bisma in the new Peacock/Channel 4 series We Are Lady Parts. She recently played Hermia in A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Globe Theatre and guest starred on ITV’s Endeavour. Her previous stage work includes a starring role in...
- 4/8/2022
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
The Way of the Wind
There was a time when receiving a new Terrence Malick film to premiere was like waiting for paint to dry — and while we are far from the almost decade passing between projects there was a tremendous amount of output after Tree of Life when he premiered To the Wonder (2012), Knight of Cups (2015) and Song to Song (2017) in a five year stretch. Soon to enter it’s third year in post production, The Way of the Wind is nonetheless an ambitious project — perhaps in the same scope as A Hidden Life (2019). We know there’ll likely be some performances left on the cutting room floor but we expect to see Géza Röhrig as Jesus Christ, Mark Rylance as Satan and Matthias Schoenaerts as Saint Peter — perhaps on the Croisette this summer.…...
There was a time when receiving a new Terrence Malick film to premiere was like waiting for paint to dry — and while we are far from the almost decade passing between projects there was a tremendous amount of output after Tree of Life when he premiered To the Wonder (2012), Knight of Cups (2015) and Song to Song (2017) in a five year stretch. Soon to enter it’s third year in post production, The Way of the Wind is nonetheless an ambitious project — perhaps in the same scope as A Hidden Life (2019). We know there’ll likely be some performances left on the cutting room floor but we expect to see Géza Röhrig as Jesus Christ, Mark Rylance as Satan and Matthias Schoenaerts as Saint Peter — perhaps on the Croisette this summer.…...
- 1/11/2022
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
It looks like Sonic Drive-In will not be the last American brand that Terrence Malick captures on film. As the director continues to toil away in the editing room on his Biblical epic The Way of the Wind, he’s found the time to team with Ford to direct a new commercial for the car company.
As spotted by our friends at One Big Soul and confirmed by PR Week, Malick recruited cinematographer Alexis Zabé for the spot, which––as one may expect––features more of an emphasis on people and nature over the latest advancements in automobile creation. Featuring narration by Don Cheadle over sun-kissed landscapes with a camera peering towards the heavenly skies, Malick’s style is apparent throughout.
Watch below.
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As spotted by our friends at One Big Soul and confirmed by PR Week, Malick recruited cinematographer Alexis Zabé for the spot, which––as one may expect––features more of an emphasis on people and nature over the latest advancements in automobile creation. Featuring narration by Don Cheadle over sun-kissed landscapes with a camera peering towards the heavenly skies, Malick’s style is apparent throughout.
Watch below.
The post Watch: Terrence Malick Has Directed a Ford Commercial Narrated by Don Cheadle first appeared on The Film Stage.
- 10/15/2021
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
Moroccan producer Khadija Alami and Nigerian producer and Africa Intl. Film Festival founder Chioma Ude have announced a 50-50 partnership in Morocco’s Oasis Studios, a thriving production hub that they aim to use as a launching pad for the next generation of African filmmakers.
Sitting on the fringes of the Sahara Desert, the sprawling Oasis facility hosts over 12,000 square meters of built sets, a 300 square meter sound stage, studio and post-production facilities and production offices. Since opening in 2015, the studio has attracted the likes of Terrence Malick’s “The Way of the Wind,” the U.S.-Moroccan actioner “Redemption Day,” starring Andy Garcia, and “Baghdad Central” for the U.K.’s Channel 4.
Principal photography has wrapped on the first two productions to come out of the partnership, with two more currently in development. Also underway is a writing lab and residence that’s hosting five Moroccan and six Nigerian filmmakers,...
Sitting on the fringes of the Sahara Desert, the sprawling Oasis facility hosts over 12,000 square meters of built sets, a 300 square meter sound stage, studio and post-production facilities and production offices. Since opening in 2015, the studio has attracted the likes of Terrence Malick’s “The Way of the Wind,” the U.S.-Moroccan actioner “Redemption Day,” starring Andy Garcia, and “Baghdad Central” for the U.K.’s Channel 4.
Principal photography has wrapped on the first two productions to come out of the partnership, with two more currently in development. Also underway is a writing lab and residence that’s hosting five Moroccan and six Nigerian filmmakers,...
- 7/11/2021
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
While Terrence Malick toils away in the editing room on his much-anticipated The Way of the Wind, he’s found time to back a few other projects. Following the globe-trotting documentary Awaken, he’s also lent his expertise to a new VR project that will be previewed at Cannes.
A reunion with Badlands producer Edward R. Pressman, who also executive produced the project alongside Malick, this new work is titled Evolver-Prologue and comes from VR studios Atlas V and Marshmallow Laser Feast, Variety reports. While nine minutes will be previewed at Cannes, the full 30-40 minute piece is aiming to debut at the festival in 2022.
With an original soundtrack by Jonny Greenwood, Elliot Cole, and Roomful of Teeth the film is described as “an introspective and spiritual work reflective on the meaning of life.” A virtual reality journey through the inner rhythms of the human, the teaser shows off some...
A reunion with Badlands producer Edward R. Pressman, who also executive produced the project alongside Malick, this new work is titled Evolver-Prologue and comes from VR studios Atlas V and Marshmallow Laser Feast, Variety reports. While nine minutes will be previewed at Cannes, the full 30-40 minute piece is aiming to debut at the festival in 2022.
With an original soundtrack by Jonny Greenwood, Elliot Cole, and Roomful of Teeth the film is described as “an introspective and spiritual work reflective on the meaning of life.” A virtual reality journey through the inner rhythms of the human, the teaser shows off some...
- 6/18/2021
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Eleni Karaindrou set to perform with the Brussels Philharmonic.
Greek composer Eleni Karaindrou is set to receive the lifetime achievement award at the 21st World Soundtrack Awards.
The ceremony is the traditional closing night event of the Film Fest Ghent (October 12-23) and is scheduled to take place as a physical event this year. It will be held at the opera house in Ghent for the first time.
Karaindrou is best known for her long-time collaboration with Greek director Theo Angelopoulos. The pair have worked together on eight films including Palme d’Or winner Eternity And A Day and Oscar nominee The Weeping Meadow.
Greek composer Eleni Karaindrou is set to receive the lifetime achievement award at the 21st World Soundtrack Awards.
The ceremony is the traditional closing night event of the Film Fest Ghent (October 12-23) and is scheduled to take place as a physical event this year. It will be held at the opera house in Ghent for the first time.
Karaindrou is best known for her long-time collaboration with Greek director Theo Angelopoulos. The pair have worked together on eight films including Palme d’Or winner Eternity And A Day and Oscar nominee The Weeping Meadow.
- 6/1/2021
- by Melissa Kasule
- ScreenDaily
Oscar winner Mark Rylance has joined the cast of “Bones & All,” a horror film and coming-of-age story from director Luca Guadagnino, an individual with knowledge of the project told TheWrap. Timothée Chalamet and Taylor Russell also star.
“Bones & All” is filming now and is based on the book of the same name by Camille DeAngelis. Russell plays a woman named Maren Yearly who goes on a cross-country trip to search for the father she’s never met in an attempt to understand why she has the urge to kill and eat the people that love her.
Dave Kajganich (“A Bigger Splash”) wrote the script. No distributor is currently attached.
Guadagnino is also producing “Bones & All,” along with Kajganich, Francesco Melzi d’erik, Marco Morabito and Theresa Park.
Guadagnino’s last feature film was 2019’s “Suspiria,” and he’s also the director of “Call Me By Your Name” with Chalamet.
“Bones & All” is filming now and is based on the book of the same name by Camille DeAngelis. Russell plays a woman named Maren Yearly who goes on a cross-country trip to search for the father she’s never met in an attempt to understand why she has the urge to kill and eat the people that love her.
Dave Kajganich (“A Bigger Splash”) wrote the script. No distributor is currently attached.
Guadagnino is also producing “Bones & All,” along with Kajganich, Francesco Melzi d’erik, Marco Morabito and Theresa Park.
Guadagnino’s last feature film was 2019’s “Suspiria,” and he’s also the director of “Call Me By Your Name” with Chalamet.
- 5/26/2021
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Exclusive: Poldark and The Hobbit trilogy star Aidan Turner has signed with ICM Partners for representation in all areas.
Turner is best known for starring as the title character in BBC’s hit series Poldark, a role which has earned him multiple awards, including the Radio Times Audience Award at the 2016 BAFTA TV Awards.
The Irish actor will next be seen in Amazon’s UK series Leonardo playing the titular Leonardo da Vinci as well as Terrence Malick’s upcoming film The Way Of The Wind. Other credits include Jim Sheridans’s Secret Scripture and Love Is Blind, opposite Chloe Sevigny.
His stage credits include Martin McDonagh’s Lieutenant Of Inishmore, Romeo And Juliet, Vincent Woods’ A Cry From Heaven and Sean O’Casey’s The Plough And The Stars.
Turner continues to be represented by Richard Cook at Lisa Richards, Inc. and managed by Larry Taube at Principal Entertainment.
Turner is best known for starring as the title character in BBC’s hit series Poldark, a role which has earned him multiple awards, including the Radio Times Audience Award at the 2016 BAFTA TV Awards.
The Irish actor will next be seen in Amazon’s UK series Leonardo playing the titular Leonardo da Vinci as well as Terrence Malick’s upcoming film The Way Of The Wind. Other credits include Jim Sheridans’s Secret Scripture and Love Is Blind, opposite Chloe Sevigny.
His stage credits include Martin McDonagh’s Lieutenant Of Inishmore, Romeo And Juliet, Vincent Woods’ A Cry From Heaven and Sean O’Casey’s The Plough And The Stars.
Turner continues to be represented by Richard Cook at Lisa Richards, Inc. and managed by Larry Taube at Principal Entertainment.
- 4/8/2021
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
The Way of the Wind
Terrence Malick turns to Jesus for what will stand as his tenth narrative feature The Way of the Wind (which was the recently announced new title of the project formerly known as The Last Planet). Malick has reunited with Hidden Life Dp Jorg Widmer and his cast consists of Geza Rohrig, Matthias Schoenaerts, Mark Rylance, Aidan Turner, Joseph Fiennes, Ben Kingsley, Douglas Booth, Tawfeek Barhom, Martin McCann, Ori Pfeffer, Shadi Mar’i, Makram Khoury, Numan Acar, Emilio De Marchi, Bjorn Thors, Alfonso Postiglione, Lorenzo Gioielli, Mathieu Kassovitz and Ali Suliman. The elusive Malick, thus far, has won both the Golden Bear (1998’s The Thin Red Line) and the Palme d’Or (2011’s The Tree of Life).…...
Terrence Malick turns to Jesus for what will stand as his tenth narrative feature The Way of the Wind (which was the recently announced new title of the project formerly known as The Last Planet). Malick has reunited with Hidden Life Dp Jorg Widmer and his cast consists of Geza Rohrig, Matthias Schoenaerts, Mark Rylance, Aidan Turner, Joseph Fiennes, Ben Kingsley, Douglas Booth, Tawfeek Barhom, Martin McCann, Ori Pfeffer, Shadi Mar’i, Makram Khoury, Numan Acar, Emilio De Marchi, Bjorn Thors, Alfonso Postiglione, Lorenzo Gioielli, Mathieu Kassovitz and Ali Suliman. The elusive Malick, thus far, has won both the Golden Bear (1998’s The Thin Red Line) and the Palme d’Or (2011’s The Tree of Life).…...
- 1/5/2021
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
A new Terrence Malick film is always a cause for excitement because of how spread out they are released, with anything between a year and 20 years between projects. But Malick, like any other filmmaker, has a long list of unproduced projects, one of which involved a score written by James Newton Howard titled “Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners.”
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In a new interview with RogerEbert.com about his score for Paul Greengrass‘s “News of the World,” Howard talked about working with Malick.
Continue reading James Newton Howard Says He Worked With Terrence Malick On An Unreleased Film Called ‘Grace Abounding To The Chief Of Sinners’ at The Playlist.
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In a new interview with RogerEbert.com about his score for Paul Greengrass‘s “News of the World,” Howard talked about working with Malick.
Continue reading James Newton Howard Says He Worked With Terrence Malick On An Unreleased Film Called ‘Grace Abounding To The Chief Of Sinners’ at The Playlist.
- 1/2/2021
- by Rafael Motamayor
- The Playlist
After a year with near-total silence, this month has seen not one, but two new developments in Terrence Malick‘s latest film, which is now reportedly getting the new title of “The Way of the Wind.”
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The news comes from One Big Soul, the Malick Facebook fan site, which reports that the previous title of “The Last Planet” was actually a working title, and the actual title of the film is “The Way of the Wind.” This title is likely a reference to the Biblical passage Ecclesiastes 11:5, “As thou knowest not what is the way of the wind, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child; even so thou knowest not the work of God who doeth all.” This is a similar...
Read More: Mark Rylance Jokes He Did “90 Minute Takes” On Terrence Malick’s ‘Last Planet’ Which Now Has A Composer
The news comes from One Big Soul, the Malick Facebook fan site, which reports that the previous title of “The Last Planet” was actually a working title, and the actual title of the film is “The Way of the Wind.” This title is likely a reference to the Biblical passage Ecclesiastes 11:5, “As thou knowest not what is the way of the wind, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child; even so thou knowest not the work of God who doeth all.” This is a similar...
- 11/21/2020
- by Rafael Motamayor
- The Playlist
A minor update on Terrence Malick’s next feature, about which news has been scant since last year. Our friends at One Big Soul have confirmed that what was once known as The Last Planet is, in fact, The Way of the Wind—the latter apparently their title of choice since day one, the former a production code.
Nothing else new, unfortunately, though it is the second update this month, following nearly a year of radio silence. Early last week we learned composer Eleni Karaindrou—whose piece “Lament I” appears in Voyage of Time: Life’s Journey—is involved with the project, perhaps signaling strides made since editing was, apparently and to no one’s surprise, impeded by Covid.
As a quick reminder / article-padder, The Last Planet stars Géza Röhrig (Son of Saul) as Jesus, Matthias Schoenaerts as Saint Peter, and Mark Rylance as Satan, with Joseph Fiennes, Douglas Booth,...
Nothing else new, unfortunately, though it is the second update this month, following nearly a year of radio silence. Early last week we learned composer Eleni Karaindrou—whose piece “Lament I” appears in Voyage of Time: Life’s Journey—is involved with the project, perhaps signaling strides made since editing was, apparently and to no one’s surprise, impeded by Covid.
As a quick reminder / article-padder, The Last Planet stars Géza Röhrig (Son of Saul) as Jesus, Matthias Schoenaerts as Saint Peter, and Mark Rylance as Satan, with Joseph Fiennes, Douglas Booth,...
- 11/20/2020
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
What’s going on with Terrence Malick’s “The Last Planet” movie about Jesus? Well, not much publicly anyhow. As usual, most of it is under the radar, but a new sign suggests it’s entering the post-production stages and perhaps inching towards completion.
Film Soundtrack Reporter says Greek composer Eleni Karaindrou has written the original score for the upcoming drama. She is known for writing the score to Theodoros Angelopoulos’ 1995 Grand Jury Prize Cannes winner “Ulysses’ Gaze” and some of her existing music was used in both “Mad Max: Fury Road,” and Malick’s own “Voyage of Time: Life’s Journey” (the longer version with Cate Blanchett narration that never came out theatrically beyond film festivals).
Continue reading Mark Rylance Jokes He Did “90 Minute Takes” On Terrence Malick’s ‘Last Planet’ Which Now Has A Composer at The Playlist.
Film Soundtrack Reporter says Greek composer Eleni Karaindrou has written the original score for the upcoming drama. She is known for writing the score to Theodoros Angelopoulos’ 1995 Grand Jury Prize Cannes winner “Ulysses’ Gaze” and some of her existing music was used in both “Mad Max: Fury Road,” and Malick’s own “Voyage of Time: Life’s Journey” (the longer version with Cate Blanchett narration that never came out theatrically beyond film festivals).
Continue reading Mark Rylance Jokes He Did “90 Minute Takes” On Terrence Malick’s ‘Last Planet’ Which Now Has A Composer at The Playlist.
- 11/12/2020
- by Rodrigo Perez
- The Playlist
The plurality and panoply of 2020’s disasters has made it easy to forget there’s a new Terrence Malick movie in post-production. (Something to say about this horrifying year and its focus on Christ and Satan? I don’t know.) And it’s been a bit since word filtered on The Last Planet—not since Malick made a rare public appearance, fittingly at the Vatican, to share details. A source relayed that work’s been slow amidst Covid—that’s not a surprise; much as anything we want you to know we have sources—but signs of life persist: our friends at One Big Soul tell us musician Eleni Karaindrou has completed work on the film. [Athina 984]
Whether that’s a full score or individual pieces remains to be seen, and of course Malick is not wont to rely on one composer. Karaindrou is no stranger in any case: her track...
Whether that’s a full score or individual pieces remains to be seen, and of course Malick is not wont to rely on one composer. Karaindrou is no stranger in any case: her track...
- 11/9/2020
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
London-based Matchbox films has bagged the U.K., Ireland and Australasian rights to Boaz Yakin’s all-singing, all-dancing gender-fluid romance “Aviva,” from Tbilisi, Béziers and London-based producer/distributor Alief Film.
The film is scheduled for distribution in those territories from the first quarter 2021.
Closed on the eve of the AFM, the deal follows Alief’s earlier U.S. sale of the film to Outsider Pictures and Strand Releasing in April. Outsider released the dance drama virtually in the U.S. in June on fledgling Hollywood movie service Row8.
Strand has also announced a mid-December release date for the film’s distribution for electronic sell-through/transactional video on demand, DVD and BluRay.
Shot on location in Paris and New York, “Aviva” revolves around a pair of transatlantic lovers, Aviva and Eden, whose characters take on both male and female forms at different moments during the narrative.
Young Parisian Aviva is played...
The film is scheduled for distribution in those territories from the first quarter 2021.
Closed on the eve of the AFM, the deal follows Alief’s earlier U.S. sale of the film to Outsider Pictures and Strand Releasing in April. Outsider released the dance drama virtually in the U.S. in June on fledgling Hollywood movie service Row8.
Strand has also announced a mid-December release date for the film’s distribution for electronic sell-through/transactional video on demand, DVD and BluRay.
Shot on location in Paris and New York, “Aviva” revolves around a pair of transatlantic lovers, Aviva and Eden, whose characters take on both male and female forms at different moments during the narrative.
Young Parisian Aviva is played...
- 11/6/2020
- by Ann-Marie Corvin
- Variety Film + TV
Hannah John-Kamen and Douglas Booth star in the UK goblin horror.
Warner Bros has secured UK rights to genre horror The Little People, starring Hannah John-Kamen and Douglas Booth, in a deal with Cornerstone Films.
Warner Bros plan to release the creature feature, directed by UK filmmaker Jon Wright (Robot Overlords), in 2021.
Production has wrapped in London on the film, with John-Kamen (Ant-Man And The Wasp) and Booth (The Dirt) newly announced as the two leads. They play two Londoners who escape city life for rural Ireland, only to discover murderous goblins living at the foot of their new garden.
Warner Bros has secured UK rights to genre horror The Little People, starring Hannah John-Kamen and Douglas Booth, in a deal with Cornerstone Films.
Warner Bros plan to release the creature feature, directed by UK filmmaker Jon Wright (Robot Overlords), in 2021.
Production has wrapped in London on the film, with John-Kamen (Ant-Man And The Wasp) and Booth (The Dirt) newly announced as the two leads. They play two Londoners who escape city life for rural Ireland, only to discover murderous goblins living at the foot of their new garden.
- 10/29/2020
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
Boaz Yakin ‘s romantic dance drama “Aviva” has been sold by Alief Film Company to several big territories.
An exploration of gender identity and self-expression through body language, “Aviva,” shot on location in Paris and New York and revolves around a pair of transatlantic lovers, Aviva and Eden. After a long courtship they meet in person and fall in love, settling into an intimate relationship that leads to marriage, but one, as many are, laced with conflicts. The two protaganists are played by four different actors expressing both masculine and feminine sides.
Alief Film Company has closed deals with Synapse Distribution for Latin America and Yes Dbs for Israel, following the film’s premiere in competition at the Haifa Film Festival.
The film also played virtually at SXSW, Fantaspoa, Choreoscope Spain and Mexico editions, where it won the top prize.
“Aviva” was released virtually on in June 12 in North America by Outsider Pictures,...
An exploration of gender identity and self-expression through body language, “Aviva,” shot on location in Paris and New York and revolves around a pair of transatlantic lovers, Aviva and Eden. After a long courtship they meet in person and fall in love, settling into an intimate relationship that leads to marriage, but one, as many are, laced with conflicts. The two protaganists are played by four different actors expressing both masculine and feminine sides.
Alief Film Company has closed deals with Synapse Distribution for Latin America and Yes Dbs for Israel, following the film’s premiere in competition at the Haifa Film Festival.
The film also played virtually at SXSW, Fantaspoa, Choreoscope Spain and Mexico editions, where it won the top prize.
“Aviva” was released virtually on in June 12 in North America by Outsider Pictures,...
- 9/19/2020
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
If we had to place a bet, we’re still at least a year or two away from Terrence Malick’s next film The Last Planet, which is currently in post-production, but the director is still backing new projects in the meantime. The Book of Vision is an English-language period drama directed by Italian helmer Carlo Hintermann and is executive produced by the Song to Song director.
Starring star Charles Dance (Game of Thrones), Lotte Verbeek (Outlander), and Sverrir Gudnason (Borg/McEnroe), the film explores a doctor-patient relationship as seen through the eyes of a female medical student named Eva (Verbeek) as we jump between the present and the 18th century. Marking the narrative directorial debut of Hintermann, who previously helmed documentaries and even worked on The Tree of Life, cinematography is from Jörg Widmer (A Hidden Life) and production design is from David Crank.
Described as a mix of...
Starring star Charles Dance (Game of Thrones), Lotte Verbeek (Outlander), and Sverrir Gudnason (Borg/McEnroe), the film explores a doctor-patient relationship as seen through the eyes of a female medical student named Eva (Verbeek) as we jump between the present and the 18th century. Marking the narrative directorial debut of Hintermann, who previously helmed documentaries and even worked on The Tree of Life, cinematography is from Jörg Widmer (A Hidden Life) and production design is from David Crank.
Described as a mix of...
- 7/7/2020
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Géza Röhrig: “Since Son of Saul I was privileged to work with Elizabeth McGovern and Jesse Eisenberg, Matthew Broderick. And so for me to work with these people, it’s the real school of life.” Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Géza Röhrig, star of László Nemes’ Oscar-winning Son Of Saul and a partner in crime with Matthew Broderick in Shawn Snyder’s To Dust, produced by Alessandro Nivola and Emily Mortimer, is cousin Georges to Jesse Eisenberg’s Marcel Marceau in Jonathan Jakubowicz’s Resistance with Clémence Poésy, Edgar Ramírez (Roberto Durán in Jakubowicz’s Hands of Stone) and Matthias Schweighöfer. Géza’s upcoming roles include playing Jesus in Terrence Malick’s The Last Planet, costumes by Carlo Poggioli, and Z in Chino Moya’s Undergods.
Jesse Eisenberg as Marcel Marceau with Clémence Poésy as Emma
Early last year, I moderated a post-screening discussion with Géza Röhrig and Shawn Snyder for the To Dust theatrical premiere.
Géza Röhrig, star of László Nemes’ Oscar-winning Son Of Saul and a partner in crime with Matthew Broderick in Shawn Snyder’s To Dust, produced by Alessandro Nivola and Emily Mortimer, is cousin Georges to Jesse Eisenberg’s Marcel Marceau in Jonathan Jakubowicz’s Resistance with Clémence Poésy, Edgar Ramírez (Roberto Durán in Jakubowicz’s Hands of Stone) and Matthias Schweighöfer. Géza’s upcoming roles include playing Jesus in Terrence Malick’s The Last Planet, costumes by Carlo Poggioli, and Z in Chino Moya’s Undergods.
Jesse Eisenberg as Marcel Marceau with Clémence Poésy as Emma
Early last year, I moderated a post-screening discussion with Géza Röhrig and Shawn Snyder for the To Dust theatrical premiere.
- 3/28/2020
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
The Last Planet
In all likelihood, we’re perhaps being wishful thinkers suggesting Terrence Malick will be unveiling his next project, The Last Planet only a year after the long-gestating A Hidden Life was finally unveiled in 2019. Scant details have been revealed about financing, but Malick has reunited with Hidden Life Dp Jorg Widmer and his cast consists of Geza Rohrig, Matthias Schoenaerts, Mark Rylance, Aidan Turner, Joseph Fiennes, Ben Kingsley, Douglas Booth, Tawfeek Barhom, Martin McCann, Ori Pfeffer, Shadi Mar’i, Makram Khoury, Numan Acar, Emilio De Marchi, Bjorn Thors, Alfonso Postiglione and Lorenzo Gioielli.…...
In all likelihood, we’re perhaps being wishful thinkers suggesting Terrence Malick will be unveiling his next project, The Last Planet only a year after the long-gestating A Hidden Life was finally unveiled in 2019. Scant details have been revealed about financing, but Malick has reunited with Hidden Life Dp Jorg Widmer and his cast consists of Geza Rohrig, Matthias Schoenaerts, Mark Rylance, Aidan Turner, Joseph Fiennes, Ben Kingsley, Douglas Booth, Tawfeek Barhom, Martin McCann, Ori Pfeffer, Shadi Mar’i, Makram Khoury, Numan Acar, Emilio De Marchi, Bjorn Thors, Alfonso Postiglione and Lorenzo Gioielli.…...
- 1/2/2020
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Carlo Poggioli with Anne-Katrin Titze: “Satyricon by Fellini was one that made me think about Fellini and cinema costumes. And then Amarcord. Following this idea, that for me, the cinema was Federico Fellini. And when I worked with him, my dream came true.” Photo: Virginia Cademartori
In 2020, Terrence Malick’s The Last Planet, starring Matthias Schoenaerts, Géza Röhrig (László Nemes’s Oscar-winning Son Of Saul) and Tawfeek Barhom (Reed Morano’s The Rhythm Section) with Ben Kingsley, Mark Rylance and Joseph Mawle, and Paolo Sorrentino’s The New Pope series are two of the most anticipated projects.
Jude Law and John Malkovich star in Paolo Sorrentino’s The New Pope
Carlo Poggioli is the consummate, imaginative costume designer for both and has worked with Paolo Sorrentino since 2015.
When I met Carlo Poggioli at Ann Roth’s apartment on a rainy fall afternoon, the day after her birthday, Ann and Carlo...
In 2020, Terrence Malick’s The Last Planet, starring Matthias Schoenaerts, Géza Röhrig (László Nemes’s Oscar-winning Son Of Saul) and Tawfeek Barhom (Reed Morano’s The Rhythm Section) with Ben Kingsley, Mark Rylance and Joseph Mawle, and Paolo Sorrentino’s The New Pope series are two of the most anticipated projects.
Jude Law and John Malkovich star in Paolo Sorrentino’s The New Pope
Carlo Poggioli is the consummate, imaginative costume designer for both and has worked with Paolo Sorrentino since 2015.
When I met Carlo Poggioli at Ann Roth’s apartment on a rainy fall afternoon, the day after her birthday, Ann and Carlo...
- 1/2/2020
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
The River
For his fifth feature-length production, Senegal’s Ghassan Salhab embarks on The River, a French co-production, like several of his past features, set in Lebanon. Produced through Lebanon’s Khamsin Films and France’s Surviance, the title stars Ali Suliman. Salhab’s 2002 film Terra incognita premiered in Un Certain Regard at Cannes and his 2006 feature The Last Man competed in Locarno under Filmmakers of the Present.
Gist: A young woman and man meet for lunch in restaurant nestled in the mountainous regions of Lebanon.…...
For his fifth feature-length production, Senegal’s Ghassan Salhab embarks on The River, a French co-production, like several of his past features, set in Lebanon. Produced through Lebanon’s Khamsin Films and France’s Surviance, the title stars Ali Suliman. Salhab’s 2002 film Terra incognita premiered in Un Certain Regard at Cannes and his 2006 feature The Last Man competed in Locarno under Filmmakers of the Present.
Gist: A young woman and man meet for lunch in restaurant nestled in the mountainous regions of Lebanon.…...
- 12/31/2019
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
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