"He's a hot college guy, everyone would freak if I brought him to prom." Hulu has revealed the trailer for a high school coming-of-age comedy called Prom Dates, marking the feature directorial debut of filmmaker Kim Nguyen - who has mostly been making TV before this. This hasn't premiered at any festivals, like many Hulu features do (like The Greatest Hits or Suncoast also this year), but it does look just as worthy. "They made a pact to have the perfect senior prom. That was their first mistake." Jess and Hannah, at 13 years old made a pact to have the perfect prom, only 24 hours before the big event, everything is ruined when they break up with their dates. Now they have one night to find new dates and make their fantasies come true. Starring Julia Lester as Hannah and Antonia Gentry as Jess, Jt Neal, Jordan Buhat, Zión Moreno, Terry Hu,...
- 4/26/2024
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Rojek, writer-director Zaynê Akyol’s documentary that attempts to trace the beginning, rise and fall of the Islamic State through the personal stories of its members and their wives incarcerated in prison camps, was selected Thursday by Canada to represent the country in the 2024 Oscar Best International Feature Film race.
A total of 28 films were submitted for consideration, with Rojek emerging today in a vote determined by a pan-Canadian committee of industry organizations and guilds, as well as filmmakers and industry professionals appointed to represent organizations. Telefilm Canada organizes the committee.
Rojek, which features a mix of Arabic, English, French, and Kurdish languages, opened in Canadian theatres on January 20 after making the rounds at festivals including winning a special jury prize at Hot Docs. It is produced by Audrey-Ann Dupuis-Pierre, Sylvain Corbeil, and Akyol of Métafilms. Icarus Films distributes the film in the U.S.
“In what may have been...
A total of 28 films were submitted for consideration, with Rojek emerging today in a vote determined by a pan-Canadian committee of industry organizations and guilds, as well as filmmakers and industry professionals appointed to represent organizations. Telefilm Canada organizes the committee.
Rojek, which features a mix of Arabic, English, French, and Kurdish languages, opened in Canadian theatres on January 20 after making the rounds at festivals including winning a special jury prize at Hot Docs. It is produced by Audrey-Ann Dupuis-Pierre, Sylvain Corbeil, and Akyol of Métafilms. Icarus Films distributes the film in the U.S.
“In what may have been...
- 8/24/2023
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Drunken Birds, the migrant drama from Serbian Canadian director Ivan Grbovic that had its world premiere in the Platform section at last month’s Toronto Film Festival, has been selected by Canada as the country’s entry into the 2022 International Feature Oscar race.
Written by Grbovic and Sara Mishara, the film (Les oiseaux ivres in French) centers on a quest for lost love that sends a man from Mexico to Canada, where he is hired as a seasonal worker. Fates intertwine, tensions grow, and moments of magical realism arise during the long workdays. Jorge Antonio Guerrero, Hélène Florent, Claude Legault, Marine Johnson, Maxime Dumontier, Amaryllis Tremblay, Karl Walcott, Yoshira Escárrega, Gilberto Barraza and Normand D’Amour star.
The film is produced by micro_scope and distributed by Les Films Opale. Wazabi Films is repping international sales. Drunken Birds was one of 10 films submitted to the pan-Canadian Oscar selection committee, Telefilm Canada said Monday.
Written by Grbovic and Sara Mishara, the film (Les oiseaux ivres in French) centers on a quest for lost love that sends a man from Mexico to Canada, where he is hired as a seasonal worker. Fates intertwine, tensions grow, and moments of magical realism arise during the long workdays. Jorge Antonio Guerrero, Hélène Florent, Claude Legault, Marine Johnson, Maxime Dumontier, Amaryllis Tremblay, Karl Walcott, Yoshira Escárrega, Gilberto Barraza and Normand D’Amour star.
The film is produced by micro_scope and distributed by Les Films Opale. Wazabi Films is repping international sales. Drunken Birds was one of 10 films submitted to the pan-Canadian Oscar selection committee, Telefilm Canada said Monday.
- 10/4/2021
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Deepa Mehta’s “Funny Boy” will represent Canada in the race for best international feature film at the 2021 Oscars.
Based on the best-selling novel by Shyam Selvadurai, the film follows a young boy’s sexual awakening in Sri Lanka during the turbulent Tamil-Sinhalese conflict leading up to the civil war. Ava DuVernay’s Array Releasing picked up the film for distribution earlier this month, with a Netflix release planned for Dec. 10, as revealed by Variety.
Mehta’s film “Water,” the third feature in her Elements trilogy, was Oscar-nominated in the international feature film category in 2007.
“Eleven outstanding films were submitted this year, and we are confident that Deepa Mehta’s ‘Funny Boy’ will appeal to Academy members just as her powerful film ‘Water’ did in 2007, when it was nominated in this prestigious category,” said Christa Dickenson, executive director of Telefilm Canada.
Telefilm coordinates and chairs — without voting right — the pan-Canadian...
Based on the best-selling novel by Shyam Selvadurai, the film follows a young boy’s sexual awakening in Sri Lanka during the turbulent Tamil-Sinhalese conflict leading up to the civil war. Ava DuVernay’s Array Releasing picked up the film for distribution earlier this month, with a Netflix release planned for Dec. 10, as revealed by Variety.
Mehta’s film “Water,” the third feature in her Elements trilogy, was Oscar-nominated in the international feature film category in 2007.
“Eleven outstanding films were submitted this year, and we are confident that Deepa Mehta’s ‘Funny Boy’ will appeal to Academy members just as her powerful film ‘Water’ did in 2007, when it was nominated in this prestigious category,” said Christa Dickenson, executive director of Telefilm Canada.
Telefilm coordinates and chairs — without voting right — the pan-Canadian...
- 10/29/2020
- by Manori Ravindran
- Variety Film + TV
Will the eighth time be the charm for Brooklyn Nine-Nine detective Michael Hitchcock? In Thursday’s episode (NBC, 8:30/7:30c), Scully’s Bff thinks that he’s finally met his match — and TVLine has your exclusive first look.
Season 7’s sixth installment kicks off at Hitchcock’s divorce party. It’s there, of all places, that he meets potential Wife No. 8 — and she just so happens to check off all of his boxes: “She’s funny, she’s beautiful, she has almost no scars,” he reveals in the video above.
More from TVLine'Brooklyn Nine-Nine' Recap: Why Did Officer Debbie Fogle Break Bad?...
Season 7’s sixth installment kicks off at Hitchcock’s divorce party. It’s there, of all places, that he meets potential Wife No. 8 — and she just so happens to check off all of his boxes: “She’s funny, she’s beautiful, she has almost no scars,” he reveals in the video above.
More from TVLine'Brooklyn Nine-Nine' Recap: Why Did Officer Debbie Fogle Break Bad?...
- 3/3/2020
- TVLine.com
Canada contends this year with “Antigone” for its eighth Oscar nomination in the Best International Feature category, which has been renamed from Best Foreign Language Film. Canada was a staple of the race until recently, making the shortlist seven out of 10 times from 2003 to 2012. This included the country’s first and only win, for 2003’s “The Barbarian Invasions” by Denys Arcand, as well as three consecutive nominations from 2010 to 2012. Canada has been snubbed the last six years, only making the shortlist for 2016’s “It’s Only the End of the World,” which had won the Grand Prix runner-up award at the Cannes Film Festival for director Xavier Dolan.
“Antigone” is shaping up to be Canada’s most-acclaimed submission in years. Its premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival yielded the People’s Choice Award for Best Canadian Film and the film has 91% approval from critics on Rotten Tomatoes, the best rating...
“Antigone” is shaping up to be Canada’s most-acclaimed submission in years. Its premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival yielded the People’s Choice Award for Best Canadian Film and the film has 91% approval from critics on Rotten Tomatoes, the best rating...
- 12/15/2019
- by Riley Chow
- Gold Derby
Stars: Jessie Eisenberg, Alexander Skarsgård, Salma Hayek, Michael Mando, Johan Heldenbergh, Ayisha Issa, Mark Slacke, Sarah Goldberg, Frank Schorpion, Kwasi Songui, Conrad Pla, Julian Bailey, Jessica Greco | Written and Directed by Kim Nguyen
Written and directed by Kim Nguyen, The Hummingbird Project, which stars Jesse Eisenberg (Zombieland), Alexander Skarsgård (True Blood) and Salma Hayek (Frida), is a thriller that follows two guys with a singular dream to build a fibre-optic cable between New Jersey and Kansas, which would be a millisecond faster than the competition, which would in turn make them into millionaires. Their ruthless and uber-powerful ex-boss Eva (Hayek) however, is doing her damnedest to slide between them and beat them. It’s a story of a strong and vicious need for financial gain, but also a story of finding a true self and reconnecting with things that truly matter.
The major issue that stood out to me here...
Written and directed by Kim Nguyen, The Hummingbird Project, which stars Jesse Eisenberg (Zombieland), Alexander Skarsgård (True Blood) and Salma Hayek (Frida), is a thriller that follows two guys with a singular dream to build a fibre-optic cable between New Jersey and Kansas, which would be a millisecond faster than the competition, which would in turn make them into millionaires. Their ruthless and uber-powerful ex-boss Eva (Hayek) however, is doing her damnedest to slide between them and beat them. It’s a story of a strong and vicious need for financial gain, but also a story of finding a true self and reconnecting with things that truly matter.
The major issue that stood out to me here...
- 10/16/2019
- by Chris Cummings
- Nerdly
Okay, sometimes films are like acting classes. Imagine you’ve sat on a folding chair and watched a small group of your fellow acting students just crush dialogue and acting choices in class for three weeks straight. But you’ve never gotten the chance to do a scene with them… Until your ambitious and socially conscious acting teacher suggests the whole class workshops his passion project about a fairly obscure high-frequency trading technology race. Naturally, you’re really excited to flex your acting muscles with a group of actors you’ve admired from afar. The whole class nails every scene of the teacher’s baggy and thinly sketched first draft of his script – what a great learning experience for everybody involved… Until your overly zealous acting teacher posts the unedited dress rehearsal on YouTube. And a tidal wave of pride and embarrassment hits you square on the chin.
Yes, it’s a curious observation.
Yes, it’s a curious observation.
- 10/15/2019
- by Thomas Salmon
- The Cultural Post
To celebrate the 4th October digital release of The Hummingbird Project, we have a copy of the film – redeemable via iTunes – up for grabs courtesy of Vertigo Releasing!
The Wolf of Wall Street meets The Social Network as A-listers Jesse Eisenberg, Alexander Skarsgård and Salma Hayek star in a tense tech thriller from Oscar-nominated director Kim Nguyen.
Oscar-nominated Kim Nguyen’s flashy, visceral tech finance thriller is the head-spinning story of an incredible plan to drill a tunnel halfway across the Us in a quite literal ‘get rich quick scheme’. Zombieland’s Jesse Eisenberg is fantastic as the street smart, hustling Vincent, while Tarzan himself Alexander Skarsgård is here virtually unrecognisable as the tech genius Anton. Together with Michael Mando (Better Call Saul), brilliantly funny as an engineer, they plan to revolutionise the stock exchange – by a millisecond. Salma Hayek is on wickedly good form as the devilishly devious executive...
The Wolf of Wall Street meets The Social Network as A-listers Jesse Eisenberg, Alexander Skarsgård and Salma Hayek star in a tense tech thriller from Oscar-nominated director Kim Nguyen.
Oscar-nominated Kim Nguyen’s flashy, visceral tech finance thriller is the head-spinning story of an incredible plan to drill a tunnel halfway across the Us in a quite literal ‘get rich quick scheme’. Zombieland’s Jesse Eisenberg is fantastic as the street smart, hustling Vincent, while Tarzan himself Alexander Skarsgård is here virtually unrecognisable as the tech genius Anton. Together with Michael Mando (Better Call Saul), brilliantly funny as an engineer, they plan to revolutionise the stock exchange – by a millisecond. Salma Hayek is on wickedly good form as the devilishly devious executive...
- 9/30/2019
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Antigone, the drama from Québécois writer-director Sophie Deraspe that just won the Best Canadian Feature Film prize for its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival, has been selected to represent Canada in the 2020 Oscar International Feature Film race.
The pic is hoping to become the ninth Canadian film to be nominated for an Oscar in the category formerly known as the Best Foreign Language Film. The country’s latest nominee was Kim Nguyen’s Rebelle in 2013; the only Canadian film to win the Oscar in the category is Denys Arcand’s Les Invasions barbares in 2004.
This year’s shortlist in the category is due out in mid-December, with nominations for the 92nd Oscars being announced January 13.
Deraspe’s fifth feature film. which she wrote, directed and served as cinematographer, is a timely retelling of the Greek tragedy. It centers on Antigone (Nahéma Ricci), who in helping her brother escape...
The pic is hoping to become the ninth Canadian film to be nominated for an Oscar in the category formerly known as the Best Foreign Language Film. The country’s latest nominee was Kim Nguyen’s Rebelle in 2013; the only Canadian film to win the Oscar in the category is Denys Arcand’s Les Invasions barbares in 2004.
This year’s shortlist in the category is due out in mid-December, with nominations for the 92nd Oscars being announced January 13.
Deraspe’s fifth feature film. which she wrote, directed and served as cinematographer, is a timely retelling of the Greek tragedy. It centers on Antigone (Nahéma Ricci), who in helping her brother escape...
- 9/20/2019
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Festival celebrating Us cinema unveils full line-up of 45th edition.
The Deauville American Festival has unveiled a female-focused programme spotlighting women behind and in front of the camera for its 45th edition.
The festival, unfolding in the luxury northern French resort of Deauville Sept 6-15, courted controversy earlier in the week when it announced it was opening with Woody Allen’s A Rainy Day in New York.
It will be the feature’s biggest festival screening after backers Amazon cancelled its release after its 2017 shoot when molestation allegations by the director’s adopted daughter Dylan Farrow resurfaced amid the rise...
The Deauville American Festival has unveiled a female-focused programme spotlighting women behind and in front of the camera for its 45th edition.
The festival, unfolding in the luxury northern French resort of Deauville Sept 6-15, courted controversy earlier in the week when it announced it was opening with Woody Allen’s A Rainy Day in New York.
It will be the feature’s biggest festival screening after backers Amazon cancelled its release after its 2017 shoot when molestation allegations by the director’s adopted daughter Dylan Farrow resurfaced amid the rise...
- 8/23/2019
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
In today’s TV news roundup, season two of “Tell me a Story” finds two new cast members, and “Star Wars Resistance” has set a premiere date for its second and final season.
Casting
Caleb Castille and Christopher Meyer have joined the cast of season 2 of the CBS All Access fairytale anthology series “Tell Me a Story,” Variety has learned exclusively. The duo will play brothers, with Castille starring as the smart, dominant older sibling Ron, and Meyer playing the soft-spoken, fiercely loyal Derek.
Castille currently recurs on Hulu’s “Wu Tang: An American Saga” and will next be seen as the lead of the Netflix romantic drama feature “The World We Make” which premieres next month. He is represented by Gersh and Echo Lake Entertainment. While Meyer is is best known for being a series regular on season 4 of “The Affair” opposite Dominic West and Sanaa Lathan. He is repped by Pantheon,...
Casting
Caleb Castille and Christopher Meyer have joined the cast of season 2 of the CBS All Access fairytale anthology series “Tell Me a Story,” Variety has learned exclusively. The duo will play brothers, with Castille starring as the smart, dominant older sibling Ron, and Meyer playing the soft-spoken, fiercely loyal Derek.
Castille currently recurs on Hulu’s “Wu Tang: An American Saga” and will next be seen as the lead of the Netflix romantic drama feature “The World We Make” which premieres next month. He is represented by Gersh and Echo Lake Entertainment. While Meyer is is best known for being a series regular on season 4 of “The Affair” opposite Dominic West and Sanaa Lathan. He is repped by Pantheon,...
- 8/14/2019
- by Dano Nissen
- Variety Film + TV
NBC’s push for diversity and inclusion continues as it unveils the 2019-2020 classes for Female Forward and the Emerging Director Program, two pioneering scripted initiatives to increase the representation of female and ethnically diverse directors by creating a pipeline into scripted television. The initiatives stand out as the only programs in the industry that give participating directors an in-season guarantee to direct at least one episode.
Female Forward, which aims to achieve gender parity in the director’s chair, ushers in its second year with seven directors helming episodes of NBC shows. The new class of Female Forward directors and the NBC series they will direct include Kris Lefcoe (Superstore), Brenna Malloy (Chicago Fire), Sj Main Muñoz (Chicago Med), Kim Nguyen (Brooklyn Nine-Nine) and Sara Zandieh (Good Girls).
This year marks the 10-year anniversary of the Emerging Director Program, which is the network’s first pipeline program for ethnically...
Female Forward, which aims to achieve gender parity in the director’s chair, ushers in its second year with seven directors helming episodes of NBC shows. The new class of Female Forward directors and the NBC series they will direct include Kris Lefcoe (Superstore), Brenna Malloy (Chicago Fire), Sj Main Muñoz (Chicago Med), Kim Nguyen (Brooklyn Nine-Nine) and Sara Zandieh (Good Girls).
This year marks the 10-year anniversary of the Emerging Director Program, which is the network’s first pipeline program for ethnically...
- 8/14/2019
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
’Diego Maradona’ also lands at cinemas.
Sony Pictures Entertainment’s Men In Black: International, the latest title in the popular sci-fi secret agent series is hoping to to end the three-week reign of Disney’s Aladdin at the top of the UK box office.
The fourth title in the Men In Black franchise stars Chris Hemsworth and Tessa Thompson as employees of a London branch of the titular agency, who must travel around the globe to counter a series of alien attacks.
Previous Men In Black films have been box office hits in the UK. The first title, Men In Black,...
Sony Pictures Entertainment’s Men In Black: International, the latest title in the popular sci-fi secret agent series is hoping to to end the three-week reign of Disney’s Aladdin at the top of the UK box office.
The fourth title in the Men In Black franchise stars Chris Hemsworth and Tessa Thompson as employees of a London branch of the titular agency, who must travel around the globe to counter a series of alien attacks.
Previous Men In Black films have been box office hits in the UK. The first title, Men In Black,...
- 6/14/2019
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Jesse Eisenberg plays a stock trader hoping to make millions by linking Kansas and New York underground
Part of me wants to cut this enigmatic drama about fibre optic cable-laying some slack for trying to disprove the notion there are no longer any truly original concepts in North American cinema. Yet Canadian writer-director Kim Nguyen’s sketchy question mark of a film proves so left-field it risks seeming esoteric or – with its technical dialogue on the matter of “neutrino messaging” – openly baffling. It’s the kind of verbose corporate parable David Mamet would sit down to write after a heavy night on the sauce.
Jesse Eisenberg plays Vincent, an ambitious day trader pumping his resources into digging a tunnel between Kansas and New York, a scheme designed to tap stock market data a millisecond faster, and thus turn him a sizeable profit. To this end, he has recruited his nervy coder cousin Anton,...
Part of me wants to cut this enigmatic drama about fibre optic cable-laying some slack for trying to disprove the notion there are no longer any truly original concepts in North American cinema. Yet Canadian writer-director Kim Nguyen’s sketchy question mark of a film proves so left-field it risks seeming esoteric or – with its technical dialogue on the matter of “neutrino messaging” – openly baffling. It’s the kind of verbose corporate parable David Mamet would sit down to write after a heavy night on the sauce.
Jesse Eisenberg plays Vincent, an ambitious day trader pumping his resources into digging a tunnel between Kansas and New York, a scheme designed to tap stock market data a millisecond faster, and thus turn him a sizeable profit. To this end, he has recruited his nervy coder cousin Anton,...
- 6/13/2019
- by Mike McCahill
- The Guardian - Film News
During the Toronto International Film Festival, we had the pleasure of sitting down with Jesse Eisenberg and Kim Nguyen to discuss their latest collaboration, in the engaging, relevant drama The Hummingbird Project.
We discussed the genesis of this story, and Eisenberg explains why he felt the need to memorise the screenplay. Nguyen talks about the casting of Alexander Skarsgard, who features in the film in a supporting role, and is different to how we’ve ever seen him before. The director also talks about the commitment from his actors – with Salma Hayek, for instance, ringing him up late at night to discuss her character, while finally Eisenberg discusses the forthcoming Zombieland sequel, claiming that after a dozen scripts, they finally got it right.
Watch the full interview below:
Synopsis
Cousins Vincent and Anton are players in the high-stakes game of high-frequency trading, where winning is measured in milliseconds. Their dream...
We discussed the genesis of this story, and Eisenberg explains why he felt the need to memorise the screenplay. Nguyen talks about the casting of Alexander Skarsgard, who features in the film in a supporting role, and is different to how we’ve ever seen him before. The director also talks about the commitment from his actors – with Salma Hayek, for instance, ringing him up late at night to discuss her character, while finally Eisenberg discusses the forthcoming Zombieland sequel, claiming that after a dozen scripts, they finally got it right.
Watch the full interview below:
Synopsis
Cousins Vincent and Anton are players in the high-stakes game of high-frequency trading, where winning is measured in milliseconds. Their dream...
- 6/12/2019
- by Stefan Pape
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Stars: Jessie Eisenberg, Alexander Skarsgård, Salma Hayek, Michael Mando, Johan Heldenbergh, Ayisha Issa, Mark Slacke, Sarah Goldberg, Frank Schorpion, Kwasi Songui, Conrad Pla, Julian Bailey, Jessica Greco | Written and Directed by Kim Nguyen
In this modern epic, Kim Nguyen exposes the ruthless edge of our increasingly digital world. Cousins from New York, Vincent (Eisenberg) and Anton (Skarsgård) are players in the high-stakes game of High Frequency Trading, where winning is measured in milliseconds. Their dream? To build a fiber-optic cable straight between Kansas and New Jersey, making them millions. But nothing is straightforward for this flawed pair. Anton is the brains, Vincent is the hustler, and together they push each other and everyone around them to breaking point on their quixotic adventure. Constantly breathing down their necks is their old boss Eva Torres (Hayek) a powerful, intoxicating and manipulative trader who will stop at nothing to come between them and...
In this modern epic, Kim Nguyen exposes the ruthless edge of our increasingly digital world. Cousins from New York, Vincent (Eisenberg) and Anton (Skarsgård) are players in the high-stakes game of High Frequency Trading, where winning is measured in milliseconds. Their dream? To build a fiber-optic cable straight between Kansas and New Jersey, making them millions. But nothing is straightforward for this flawed pair. Anton is the brains, Vincent is the hustler, and together they push each other and everyone around them to breaking point on their quixotic adventure. Constantly breathing down their necks is their old boss Eva Torres (Hayek) a powerful, intoxicating and manipulative trader who will stop at nothing to come between them and...
- 4/5/2019
- by Jak-Luke Sharp
- Nerdly
Here’s an interesting movie hybrid, a flick that’s both a wall street drama, a family character study, and a chase thriller. Really, that’s because in the financial world, speed is everything (or perhaps the only thing). It’s the old adage, “he who hestiates is lost”, though in split-second trades and deals, the hestitant can lose a fortune. Hold up, a split-second is too long, it’s now down to a millisecond, or (as one character calls it) one flap of that teeny bird’s wing. That quest to be a jump ahead of your competitors forms the family scheme known as The Hummingbird Project.
After a brief prologue detailing the ins and outs of “high frequency trading” (older info for fans of the Wall Street flicks), we’re in 2011 as “idea man” Vincent Zaleski (Jesse Eisenberg) is meeting (and selling) with the silver-haired veteran exec that will bankroll his plan.
After a brief prologue detailing the ins and outs of “high frequency trading” (older info for fans of the Wall Street flicks), we’re in 2011 as “idea man” Vincent Zaleski (Jesse Eisenberg) is meeting (and selling) with the silver-haired veteran exec that will bankroll his plan.
- 3/29/2019
- by Jim Batts
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Major specialty distributors and boutique labels launched a number of new titles in theaters and beyond this weekend in the most crowded weekend of the year. Audiences, though, were finite. In the end, a drama by a first-time feature director, Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre, is estimated to have the weekend’s highest per-theater average. Clermont-Tonnerre’s Sundance 2019 film, The Mustang is estimated to have grossed $76K in four New York and L.A. theaters, averaging $18,950.
Fox Searchlight’s The Aftermath, starring Keira Knightley, Jason Clarke and Alexander Skarsgård, bowed slower with five runs. The post-wwii drama set in Germany is coming in at $57,500 in the three-day, averaging $11,500.
Skarsgård did double time this weekend. The Swedish-born actor also starred in The Orchard’s The Hummingbird Project, also featuring Jesse Eisenberg and Salma Hayek. In four locations, the title by writer-director Kim Nguyen took in $36,027, for a $9K PTA.
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Fox Searchlight’s The Aftermath, starring Keira Knightley, Jason Clarke and Alexander Skarsgård, bowed slower with five runs. The post-wwii drama set in Germany is coming in at $57,500 in the three-day, averaging $11,500.
Skarsgård did double time this weekend. The Swedish-born actor also starred in The Orchard’s The Hummingbird Project, also featuring Jesse Eisenberg and Salma Hayek. In four locations, the title by writer-director Kim Nguyen took in $36,027, for a $9K PTA.
No Manches Frida 2 from...
- 3/17/2019
- by Brian Brooks
- Deadline Film + TV
One millisecond is a nearly infinitesimal fraction of time. Heck, it just took you about a thousand milliseconds to read the words: “one millisecond.” So telling a story about a high-stakes race to convey information one measly millisecond faster than anybody else sounds like an exercise in making a heck of a lot of ado over, quite literally, almost nothing.
Thankfully, Kim Nguyen’s “The Hummingbird Project” is in on the joke. It’s a dryly humorous caper about a pair of cousins, Vincent (Jesse Eisenberg) and Anton (Alexander Skarsgård), who scheme to build a fiber-optic pipeline from Kansas City to New Jersey under the nose of their wealthy ex-employer, Eva Torres (Salma Hayek). Once built, their connection to the stock exchange will be one millisecond faster than anyone else’s, and that’s all the time they need to make a fortune.
Yes, that’s it; that’s their whole plan.
Thankfully, Kim Nguyen’s “The Hummingbird Project” is in on the joke. It’s a dryly humorous caper about a pair of cousins, Vincent (Jesse Eisenberg) and Anton (Alexander Skarsgård), who scheme to build a fiber-optic pipeline from Kansas City to New Jersey under the nose of their wealthy ex-employer, Eva Torres (Salma Hayek). Once built, their connection to the stock exchange will be one millisecond faster than anyone else’s, and that’s all the time they need to make a fortune.
Yes, that’s it; that’s their whole plan.
- 3/15/2019
- by William Bibbiani
- The Wrap
Alexander Skarsgård is doing double time this weekend. The actor stars in two new Specialty titles heading out into a crowded field, including The Aftermath from Fox Searchlight and The Hummingbird Project from The Orchard. The Aftermath, starring Keira Knightley and Jason Clarke, heads to New York and L.A. Friday ahead of a target of a few hundred theaters by early next month. Jesse Eisenberg, Alexander Skarsgård and Salma Hayek front The Hummingbird Project from The Orchard, launching in four New York and L.A. theaters, while Focus Features is bowing Sundance’s The Mustang with Matthias Schoenaerts, Connie Britton and Bruce Dern. Cohen Media Group is taking Chinese director Jia Zhang-ke’s Cannes debut Ash Is Purest White to select locations on both coasts. The company is hoping to take advantage of the Lunar New Year and slow slate of foreign fare. Oscilloscope picked up doc Combat Obscura...
- 3/15/2019
- by Brian Brooks
- Deadline Film + TV
Plot: Two cousins (Alexander Skarsgård & Jesse Eisenberg) hatch upon a scheme to undercut their old boss (Salma Hayek) by building a high-frequency, fiber optic cable from Kansas City to New York, which would grant their clients milliseconds of extra time in Wall Street trading- a deal potentially worth billions of dollars. Review: Kim Nguyen’s The Hummingbird Project shines…...
- 3/15/2019
- by Chris Bumbray
- JoBlo.com
There’s something compelling about watching characters in a movie race to put a plan together. No matter what the plan being depicted is, whether they’re heroes or villains (or somewhere in between), the David vs. Goliath aspect has fueled cinema for much of its existence. You always want to see the little guy come out on top. We have another strong effort of that ilk hitting theaters this week in The Hummingbird Project. Featuring a pair of really good performances at its forefront, the film utilizes snappy dialogue and complex protagonists to power its engine. This is solid stuff, worthy of your time and money. The film is a drama taking place in the world of High Frequency Trading, where milliseconds literally are all that matters. Vincent (Jesse Eisenberg) and Anton (Alexander Skarsgård) are cousins players in the field. They work together for Eva Torres (Salma Hayek) but harbor a secret dream.
- 3/12/2019
- by Joey Magidson
- Hollywoodnews.com
Actress-director Noémie Lvovsky’s “Tomorrow And Thereafter,” a heartfelt homage to the director’s own mother, and Fabien Gorgeart’s “Diane Has the Right Shape,” about one woman’s surrogate motherhood, both won big at the 2019 UniFrance MyFrenchFilmFestival which skewed female in its winners and viewership, making particularly notable inroads into South East Asia and Latin America.
Opening Switzerland’s 2017 Locarno Festival to mixed reviews, “Tomorrow and Thereafter” came good at MyFFF, scoring on Tuesday both its best feature Lacoste Audience Award and International Press Award for the fantasy laced family tale of an increasingly not quite there mother and her precocious eight-year-old who is advised on how to cope with maman, whom she adores, by her talking pet owl.
The Directors Jury prize – adjudicated by Houda Benyamina (“Divines”), Coralie Fargeat (“Revenge”), Mikhael Hers (“Amanda”), Canada’s Kim Nguyen and Belgian director Jaco Van Dormael – went to “Diane Has the Right Shape,...
Opening Switzerland’s 2017 Locarno Festival to mixed reviews, “Tomorrow and Thereafter” came good at MyFFF, scoring on Tuesday both its best feature Lacoste Audience Award and International Press Award for the fantasy laced family tale of an increasingly not quite there mother and her precocious eight-year-old who is advised on how to cope with maman, whom she adores, by her talking pet owl.
The Directors Jury prize – adjudicated by Houda Benyamina (“Divines”), Coralie Fargeat (“Revenge”), Mikhael Hers (“Amanda”), Canada’s Kim Nguyen and Belgian director Jaco Van Dormael – went to “Diane Has the Right Shape,...
- 2/19/2019
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Zhu Shengze’s ’Present.Perfect.’ takes Tiger award.
International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr) has announced the award winners for its 48th edition, with Zhu Shengze’s Present.Perfect. taking the Tiger Award, with €40,000 accompanying prize.
The Tiger jury, comprised of Alfredo Jaar, Daniela Michel, Susanna Nicchiarelli, Katriel Schory and Pimpaka Towira, described it as ”a daring film that takes us to places where we have never been…brings to light characters that want and need to be seen.”
Ena Sendijarević’s Take Me Somewhere Nice received the special jury award in the Tiger competition, praised by the jury as “a...
International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr) has announced the award winners for its 48th edition, with Zhu Shengze’s Present.Perfect. taking the Tiger Award, with €40,000 accompanying prize.
The Tiger jury, comprised of Alfredo Jaar, Daniela Michel, Susanna Nicchiarelli, Katriel Schory and Pimpaka Towira, described it as ”a daring film that takes us to places where we have never been…brings to light characters that want and need to be seen.”
Ena Sendijarević’s Take Me Somewhere Nice received the special jury award in the Tiger competition, praised by the jury as “a...
- 2/1/2019
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Eurimages prize goes to ’Stillborn’.
International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr) held the awards ceremony for its Pro industry section on Wednesday January 30, with Days Of Cannibalism and Lotus Position winning the inaugural Dutch post-production awards of €50,000 each to be spent in the Netherlands.
The new awards, launched in November last year and delivered with an additional €5,000 each in kind, are a collaboration between the Hubert Bals Fund, the Netherlands Film Fund and the Netherlands post-production Alliance.
Jury members programmer Sandro Fiorin, filmmaker Gurvinder Singh and head of industry at TorinoFilmLab Jane Williams described Teboho Edkins’ Days Of Cannibalism as a ‘smart,...
International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr) held the awards ceremony for its Pro industry section on Wednesday January 30, with Days Of Cannibalism and Lotus Position winning the inaugural Dutch post-production awards of €50,000 each to be spent in the Netherlands.
The new awards, launched in November last year and delivered with an additional €5,000 each in kind, are a collaboration between the Hubert Bals Fund, the Netherlands Film Fund and the Netherlands post-production Alliance.
Jury members programmer Sandro Fiorin, filmmaker Gurvinder Singh and head of industry at TorinoFilmLab Jane Williams described Teboho Edkins’ Days Of Cannibalism as a ‘smart,...
- 1/31/2019
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
The Hummingbird Project Trailer Kim Nguyen‘s The Hummingbird Project (2018) movie trailer stars Jesse Eisenberg, Alexander Skarsgard, Salma Hayek, Michael Mando, and Johan Heldenbergh. The Hummingbird Project‘s plot synopsis: “In this modern epic, filmmaker Kim Nguyen exposes the ruthless edge of our increasingly digital world. Cousins from New York, Vincent (Jesse Eisenberg) and Anton [...]
Continue reading: The Hummingbird Project (2018) Movie Trailer: Stock Traders Jesse Eisenberg & Alexander Skarsgard have an Idea...
Continue reading: The Hummingbird Project (2018) Movie Trailer: Stock Traders Jesse Eisenberg & Alexander Skarsgard have an Idea...
- 1/20/2019
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
Joseph Baxter Jan 18, 2019
Fiber-optic cable line is the method by which Jesse Eisenberg and Alexander Skarsgard cheat the stock market in The Hummingbird Project.
The Hummingbird Project presents itself as a quasi-comedic modern-age heist drama of sorts. The film follows the quixotic quest of two ne’er-do-wells played by Jesse Eisenberg and Alexander Skarsgård in their attempt to gain an (obviously-illegal) advantage in the stock market by secretly laying high-speed fiber-optic cable halfway across the country, which would yield a valuable millisecond chronological edge in the day-trading arena.
The film, the written and directorial creation of indie auteur Kim Nguyen, premiered at the 2018 Toronto Film Festival, and is gearing up for its wide release debut, distributed by The Orchard.
The Hummingbird Project Trailer Video of The Hummingbird Project (2019) | Official Us Trailer HD
The trailer for The Hummingbird Project showcases a levity-laced tale that spotlights a rarely-acknowledged dirt-covered aspect of the Internet,...
Fiber-optic cable line is the method by which Jesse Eisenberg and Alexander Skarsgard cheat the stock market in The Hummingbird Project.
The Hummingbird Project presents itself as a quasi-comedic modern-age heist drama of sorts. The film follows the quixotic quest of two ne’er-do-wells played by Jesse Eisenberg and Alexander Skarsgård in their attempt to gain an (obviously-illegal) advantage in the stock market by secretly laying high-speed fiber-optic cable halfway across the country, which would yield a valuable millisecond chronological edge in the day-trading arena.
The film, the written and directorial creation of indie auteur Kim Nguyen, premiered at the 2018 Toronto Film Festival, and is gearing up for its wide release debut, distributed by The Orchard.
The Hummingbird Project Trailer Video of The Hummingbird Project (2019) | Official Us Trailer HD
The trailer for The Hummingbird Project showcases a levity-laced tale that spotlights a rarely-acknowledged dirt-covered aspect of the Internet,...
- 1/18/2019
- Den of Geek
Kim Nguyen’s The Hummingbird Project depicts a strange bromance between cousins Vincent (Jesse Eisenberg) and Anton (Alexander Skarsgård) who take it upon themselves to build a tunnel from Kansas to New Jersey to run a long micro-fiber cable, just so micro-trading stakeholders can save a few milliseconds in the bidding process and thereby earn a lot of money. Following a Tiff premiere and ahead of a March release, The Orchard has now debuted the first trailer and poster.
Bedatri D. Choudhury said in our review, “The film is largely a meditation on late capitalism and the pressure it puts on people to get mindlessly rich. As Vincent struggles to even remain alive, he uproots forest, drills through rocks, disturbs every ecological balance in sight, and doesn’t think twice before unscrupulously trespassing on people’s property. The project is meant to be his swan song; the one thing he...
Bedatri D. Choudhury said in our review, “The film is largely a meditation on late capitalism and the pressure it puts on people to get mindlessly rich. As Vincent struggles to even remain alive, he uproots forest, drills through rocks, disturbs every ecological balance in sight, and doesn’t think twice before unscrupulously trespassing on people’s property. The project is meant to be his swan song; the one thing he...
- 1/18/2019
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
"They're trying to screw us! I'm going to tear you down..." The Orchard has debuted the first official trailer for an indie drama titled The Hummingbird Project, which already premiered at the Toronto and Vancouver Film Festivals last fall, arriving in Us theaters this March. You don't want to sleep on this one. The film is the latest from Quebecois filmmaker Kim Nguyen, a thriller about two high-stakes traders with a plan to build a straight fiber-optic cable line between Kansas and New Jersey, so they can make millions. But of course it's easier said than done. The cast features Jesse Eisenberg, Alexander Skarsgård, Salma Hayek, Michael Mando, Johan Heldenbergh, Ayisha Issa, and Sarah Goldberg. This is described as a "modern epic" that "exposes the ruthless edge of our increasingly digital world." This looks totally wild and captivating, I'm very curious to watch. Dive right in. Here's the official trailer...
- 1/18/2019
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Well, here's a quirky little drama to fill your Friday: The Hummingbird Project from writer/director Kim Nguyen starring Jesse Eisenberg, Alexander Skarsgard and Salma Hayek. Following a pair of gents (Eisenberg and Skarsgard) who want to game the stock market by way of a fiber optic cable that gives them 16 milliseconds of advance trade knowledge, the two embark on their scheme as a rival…...
- 1/18/2019
- by Paul Shirey
- JoBlo.com
Everyone knows nerdy tech bros can’t be movie star handsome. That must be why, for his latest role as a guy building a new fiber-optic cable line to disrupt the stock exchange, Alexander Skarsgård had to go bald. At least it makes the Swedish actor more plausible to play cousin to Jesse Eisenberg, no offense to Eisenberg. Throw in a blonde Salma Hayek in aviator glasses, and color us intrigued.
In its newly released trailer, “The Hummingbird Project,” written and directed by Canadian filmmaker Kim Nguyen (“Two Lovers and a Bear”), promises high stakes comedy and biting indictments of our financial system. Think “The Big Short” meets “The Social Network,” but maybe not as good as that sounds.
The official synopsis reads: “Cousins from New York, Vincent (Eisenberg) and Anton (Skarsgård) are players in the high-stakes game of High-Frequency Trading, where winning is measured in milliseconds. Their dream? To...
In its newly released trailer, “The Hummingbird Project,” written and directed by Canadian filmmaker Kim Nguyen (“Two Lovers and a Bear”), promises high stakes comedy and biting indictments of our financial system. Think “The Big Short” meets “The Social Network,” but maybe not as good as that sounds.
The official synopsis reads: “Cousins from New York, Vincent (Eisenberg) and Anton (Skarsgård) are players in the high-stakes game of High-Frequency Trading, where winning is measured in milliseconds. Their dream? To...
- 1/18/2019
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
With fortunes made in milliseconds, the stakes are fast and high in The Hummingbird Project, the new financial thriller from director Kim Nguyen. Here’s the first trailer for the upcoming film starring Jesse Eisenberg, Alexander Skarsgård and Salma Hayek.
The logline: In this modern epic, Kim Nguyen exposes the ruthless edge of our increasingly digital world. Cousins from New York, Vincent (Eisenberg) and Anton (Skarsgård) are players in the high-stakes game of High Frequency Trading, where winning is measured in milliseconds. Their dream? To build a fiber-optic cable straight line between Kansas and New Jersey, making them millions. But nothing is straightforward for this flawed pair. Anton is the brains, Vincent is the hustler, and together they push each other and everyone around them to breaking point on their quixotic adventure. Constantly breathing down their necks is their old boss Eva Torres (Hayek) a powerful, intoxicating and manipulative trader...
The logline: In this modern epic, Kim Nguyen exposes the ruthless edge of our increasingly digital world. Cousins from New York, Vincent (Eisenberg) and Anton (Skarsgård) are players in the high-stakes game of High Frequency Trading, where winning is measured in milliseconds. Their dream? To build a fiber-optic cable straight line between Kansas and New Jersey, making them millions. But nothing is straightforward for this flawed pair. Anton is the brains, Vincent is the hustler, and together they push each other and everyone around them to breaking point on their quixotic adventure. Constantly breathing down their necks is their old boss Eva Torres (Hayek) a powerful, intoxicating and manipulative trader...
- 1/18/2019
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Paris — Two Cannes Critics’ Week hits – ‘Guy,” “Sauvage” – and Erick Zonca’s comeback, “Black Tide,” are three potential highlights in a still-expanding MyFrenchFilmFestival, French promotion org UniFrance’s annual online selection of French and French-language films.
Unveiling MyFFF’s 2019 edition in Paris on Wednesday, UniFrance also revealed that this year’s ninth edition will bow a TV strand, showcasing espionage thriller “The Bureau,” a recent and game-changing Canal Plus Création Originale. The international filmmakers’ jury – unveiled by UniFrance’s president Serge Toubiana and co-managing director Isabelle Giordano on Wednesday morning at Google’s offices in Paris — comprises Jaco Van Dormael (“The Brand New Testament”), Houda Benyamina (“Divines”), Coralie Fargeat (“Revenge”), Mikhaël Hers (“Amanda”) and Kim Nguyen (“Rebelle”). Citing “Divines” which sold to Netflix, and “Revenge” which was acquired by AMC’s Shudder, Toubiana and Giordano said all the filmmakers on the jury have had a connection with a digital service.
Unveiling MyFFF’s 2019 edition in Paris on Wednesday, UniFrance also revealed that this year’s ninth edition will bow a TV strand, showcasing espionage thriller “The Bureau,” a recent and game-changing Canal Plus Création Originale. The international filmmakers’ jury – unveiled by UniFrance’s president Serge Toubiana and co-managing director Isabelle Giordano on Wednesday morning at Google’s offices in Paris — comprises Jaco Van Dormael (“The Brand New Testament”), Houda Benyamina (“Divines”), Coralie Fargeat (“Revenge”), Mikhaël Hers (“Amanda”) and Kim Nguyen (“Rebelle”). Citing “Divines” which sold to Netflix, and “Revenge” which was acquired by AMC’s Shudder, Toubiana and Giordano said all the filmmakers on the jury have had a connection with a digital service.
- 1/9/2019
- by John Hopewell and Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
A film memoir of former Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev featuring exclusive interviews has had its North American rights acquired by distributor The Orchard from History Films.
Meeting Gorbachev is a documentary directed by Werner Herzog and André Singer for Spring Films and Werner Herzog Film. The behind-the-scenes look at the eighth and last leader of the Soviet Union features interviews of Gorbachev by Herzog on three occasions across a six-month period, capturing a unique look at a politician who changed the world.
“Meeting Gorbachev is an enthralling look back at a fascinating leader and diplomat, all the more impactful based on what the world looks like today,” said Paul Davidson, The Orchard’s Evp film and television. “Werner and Andre’s own sensibilities make the film engaging and personal in a way no other filmmakers could.”
The documentary is produced by Lucki Stipetic and Svetlana Palmer. The executive producers...
Meeting Gorbachev is a documentary directed by Werner Herzog and André Singer for Spring Films and Werner Herzog Film. The behind-the-scenes look at the eighth and last leader of the Soviet Union features interviews of Gorbachev by Herzog on three occasions across a six-month period, capturing a unique look at a politician who changed the world.
“Meeting Gorbachev is an enthralling look back at a fascinating leader and diplomat, all the more impactful based on what the world looks like today,” said Paul Davidson, The Orchard’s Evp film and television. “Werner and Andre’s own sensibilities make the film engaging and personal in a way no other filmmakers could.”
The documentary is produced by Lucki Stipetic and Svetlana Palmer. The executive producers...
- 12/8/2018
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
The Orchard has acquired the North American distribution rights to “Meeting Gorbachev,” the documentary about former Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev, which will be co-directed by Werner Herzog, the company announced Friday.
The Orchard is planning a theatrical release for early 2019, while History retains all television rights for the documentary.
Directed by Herzog and André Singer for Spring Films and Werner Herzog Film, “Meeting Gorbachev” conducts behind-the-scenes memoirs from Gorbachev, the eighth and final leader of the Soviet Union and one of the world’s most established politicians of the 20th century. Herzog interviewed Gorbachev on three separate occasions across a six-month period, each time capturing a look into Gorbachev’s career and his commitment to peace.
Also Read: Werner Herzog Says Mikhail Gorbachev Is Filled With 'Existential Solitude' (Video)
The documentary is produced by Lucki Stipetic and Svetlana Palmer. The executive producers are Richard Melman for Spring Films, and...
The Orchard is planning a theatrical release for early 2019, while History retains all television rights for the documentary.
Directed by Herzog and André Singer for Spring Films and Werner Herzog Film, “Meeting Gorbachev” conducts behind-the-scenes memoirs from Gorbachev, the eighth and final leader of the Soviet Union and one of the world’s most established politicians of the 20th century. Herzog interviewed Gorbachev on three separate occasions across a six-month period, each time capturing a look into Gorbachev’s career and his commitment to peace.
Also Read: Werner Herzog Says Mikhail Gorbachev Is Filled With 'Existential Solitude' (Video)
The documentary is produced by Lucki Stipetic and Svetlana Palmer. The executive producers are Richard Melman for Spring Films, and...
- 12/7/2018
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Updated with semifinalists, 10:15 Am: Sony Pictures Television has announced the 15 semifinalists in its 2018 Diverse Directors Program. The shortlisted folks for fifth annual initiative are Amir Farhang, Charissa Sanjarernsuithikul, Darien Sills-Evans, James Sims, Jeannette Godoy, Kim Nguyen, Leena Pendharkar, Lynda Reiss, Maria Burton, Mel Rodriguez III, Nora Kirkpatrick, Ryan Richmond, Stephanie Martin, Tiffanie Hsu and X. Dean Lim.
Previous Exclusive, June 18: Sony Pictures Television has begun accepting applications for its fifth annual Diverse Directors Program, aimed at providing opportunities to talented artists of diverse backgrounds.
Fifteen semi-finalists will participate in the Diverse Directors Program’s episodic directing workshop consisting of six evenings of discussion and instruction from working directors, production personnel and entertainment professionals. About five finalists will then be chosen to work closely with established TV directors on episodes of hour and half-hour scripted Spt series. Last year’s program finalists worked on such shows as The Blacklist,...
Previous Exclusive, June 18: Sony Pictures Television has begun accepting applications for its fifth annual Diverse Directors Program, aimed at providing opportunities to talented artists of diverse backgrounds.
Fifteen semi-finalists will participate in the Diverse Directors Program’s episodic directing workshop consisting of six evenings of discussion and instruction from working directors, production personnel and entertainment professionals. About five finalists will then be chosen to work closely with established TV directors on episodes of hour and half-hour scripted Spt series. Last year’s program finalists worked on such shows as The Blacklist,...
- 11/13/2018
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
Jesse Eisenberg, Alexander Skarsgård and Salma Hayek star.
Kim Nguyen’s The Hummingbird Project is racking up the international sales for HanWay Films following its premiere as a Special Presentation in Toronto.
Jesse Eisenberg, Alexander Skarsgård and Salma Hayek star in the film about two men who take a chance in the world of high frequency trading in order to build a fibre-optic cable straight between Kansas and New Jersey, making them millions.
It has now sold to UK (Vertigo Releasing), Germany and Austria (Concorde Film / Tmg), Australia and New Zealand (Madman), Spain (DeAPlaneta), Japan (Hakuhodo Dy MaP), Middle East (Front Row), China (Leomus), Bulgaria,...
Kim Nguyen’s The Hummingbird Project is racking up the international sales for HanWay Films following its premiere as a Special Presentation in Toronto.
Jesse Eisenberg, Alexander Skarsgård and Salma Hayek star in the film about two men who take a chance in the world of high frequency trading in order to build a fibre-optic cable straight between Kansas and New Jersey, making them millions.
It has now sold to UK (Vertigo Releasing), Germany and Austria (Concorde Film / Tmg), Australia and New Zealand (Madman), Spain (DeAPlaneta), Japan (Hakuhodo Dy MaP), Middle East (Front Row), China (Leomus), Bulgaria,...
- 11/1/2018
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
Salma Hayek has joined Tiffany Haddish and Rose Byrne in the comedy Limited Partners, from Paramount Pictures, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.
Miguel Arteta is directing the studio comedy that has Haddish and Byrne playing best girlfriends who build a successful company, only to find their bond tested when a big buyout offer comes their way. Sam Pitman and Adam Cole-Kelly penned the script.
Hayek most recently starred in The Hummingbird Project, directed by Kim Nguyen, and The Hitman's Bodyguard. Netflix has also given a series order to the Mexican drama Monarca, produced by Hayek’s company Ventanarosa, along with Lemon Studios ...
Miguel Arteta is directing the studio comedy that has Haddish and Byrne playing best girlfriends who build a successful company, only to find their bond tested when a big buyout offer comes their way. Sam Pitman and Adam Cole-Kelly penned the script.
Hayek most recently starred in The Hummingbird Project, directed by Kim Nguyen, and The Hitman's Bodyguard. Netflix has also given a series order to the Mexican drama Monarca, produced by Hayek’s company Ventanarosa, along with Lemon Studios ...
- 9/28/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Salma Hayek has joined Tiffany Haddish and Rose Byrne in the comedy Limited Partners, from Paramount Pictures, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.
Miguel Arteta is directing the studio comedy that has Haddish and Byrne playing best girlfriends who build a successful company, only to find their bond tested when a big buyout offer comes their way. Sam Pitman and Adam Cole-Kelly penned the script.
Hayek most recently starred in The Hummingbird Project, directed by Kim Nguyen, and The Hitman's Bodyguard. Netflix has also given a series order to the Mexican drama Monarca, produced by Hayek’s company Ventanarosa, along with Lemon Studios ...
Miguel Arteta is directing the studio comedy that has Haddish and Byrne playing best girlfriends who build a successful company, only to find their bond tested when a big buyout offer comes their way. Sam Pitman and Adam Cole-Kelly penned the script.
Hayek most recently starred in The Hummingbird Project, directed by Kim Nguyen, and The Hitman's Bodyguard. Netflix has also given a series order to the Mexican drama Monarca, produced by Hayek’s company Ventanarosa, along with Lemon Studios ...
- 9/28/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Drama earned three Iris Prizes at recent Gala Québec Cinéma.
Sophie Dupuis’ Chien de garde will represent Canada in the contest for the 2019 best foreign language film Oscar.
The Québecoise filmmaker’s narrative feature directorial debut centres on a man who tries to balance the demands of a needy family, the collections work he does with his brother, and the father figure / uncle who runs a drug cartel.
Jean-Simon Leduc, Théodore Pellerin, Claudel Laberge, Maude Guérin, and Paul Ahmarani star.
Etienne Hansez of Bravo Charlie produced Chien de Garde, which Axia Films distributed in Quebec. Telefilm Canada and others funded the feature,...
Sophie Dupuis’ Chien de garde will represent Canada in the contest for the 2019 best foreign language film Oscar.
The Québecoise filmmaker’s narrative feature directorial debut centres on a man who tries to balance the demands of a needy family, the collections work he does with his brother, and the father figure / uncle who runs a drug cartel.
Jean-Simon Leduc, Théodore Pellerin, Claudel Laberge, Maude Guérin, and Paul Ahmarani star.
Etienne Hansez of Bravo Charlie produced Chien de Garde, which Axia Films distributed in Quebec. Telefilm Canada and others funded the feature,...
- 9/19/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Writer/director Kim Nguyen’s The Hummingbird Project follows the exploits of two cousins, Jesse Eisenberg’s Vincent Zaleski and Alexander Skarsgård’s Anton Zaleski, determined to run a small fiber-optic cable from Kansas City to New York City. This project, which will require years of their lives and a steady flow of cash, will give them a one […]
The post ‘The Hummingbird Project’ Review: An Engaging Financial Thriller Stops Just Short of Greatness [Tiff] appeared first on /Film.
The post ‘The Hummingbird Project’ Review: An Engaging Financial Thriller Stops Just Short of Greatness [Tiff] appeared first on /Film.
- 9/14/2018
- by Marshall Shaffer
- Slash Film
Kim Nguyen’s The Hummingbird Project depicts a strange bromance between cousins Vincent (Jesse Eisenberg) and Anton (Alexander Skarsgård) who take it upon themselves to build a tunnel from Kansas to New Jersey to run a long micro-fiber cable, just so micro-trading stakeholders can save a few milliseconds in the bidding process and thereby earn a lot of money. The logistics to that are explained tertiarily but are too dry for anyone to really comprehend. From the very beginning, the audience is watching a Herculean task being undertaken without fully grasping the consequences. So much is being done to shave a few milliseconds off a process. It is both unfamiliar and bizarre.
While Anton does all the coding to ensure the success of this project, Vincent is responsible for the cash flow and general management. Skarsgård, with a paunch and a bald patch, plays Anton and his social anxiety to perfection.
While Anton does all the coding to ensure the success of this project, Vincent is responsible for the cash flow and general management. Skarsgård, with a paunch and a bald patch, plays Anton and his social anxiety to perfection.
- 9/14/2018
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
“The Hummingbird Project” feels so much like it’s “inspired by true events” — a claim that tends to get hung on even the most outlandish genre exercise these days — viewers may have to keep reminding themselves that Kim Nguyen’s latest feature is in fact entirely fictive.
Recalling “Social Network” in that it once again casts Jesse Eisenberg as the engine behind a high-stakes, e-commerce-driven project — with a dweebified Alexander Skarsgård as his code-writing cousin — this is an entertaining vehicle for vivid performances by both actors. Yet, though the film shows signs of wanting to demonstrate the folly of an ever-faster-paced world in which people lose sight of life’s truer values, the message is a tad submerged in a familiar tale of entrepreneurial striving against impossible odds.
With a narrative of this nature, the lack of a true-story hook could hobble promotional efforts and awards favor, though reviews should...
Recalling “Social Network” in that it once again casts Jesse Eisenberg as the engine behind a high-stakes, e-commerce-driven project — with a dweebified Alexander Skarsgård as his code-writing cousin — this is an entertaining vehicle for vivid performances by both actors. Yet, though the film shows signs of wanting to demonstrate the folly of an ever-faster-paced world in which people lose sight of life’s truer values, the message is a tad submerged in a familiar tale of entrepreneurial striving against impossible odds.
With a narrative of this nature, the lack of a true-story hook could hobble promotional efforts and awards favor, though reviews should...
- 9/12/2018
- by Dennis Harvey
- Variety Film + TV
There are any number of movies that would be hard to believe if they weren’t based on a true story. Much less common is something like “War Witch” director Kim Nguyen’s “The Hummingbird Project,” which is so mundanely quixotic that it’s hard to believe it’s not based on a true story. We’re talking about a financial thriller that stars Jesse Eisenberg and a bald Alexander Skarsgård as two Wall Street nerds who try to build a four-inch tunnel that stretches from Kansas to New Jersey. Their hope, we learn, is to run a fiber-optic cable across the eastern half of the United States that will allow their computers to react to the markets a few milliseconds faster than the competition, netting them millions of dollars in the process.
Welcome to the dumb and ultra-lucrative world of high-frequency trading, where automated systems execute millions of stock...
Welcome to the dumb and ultra-lucrative world of high-frequency trading, where automated systems execute millions of stock...
- 9/11/2018
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
The Orchard has acquired the U.S. rights to Kim Nguyen’s “The Hummingbird Project,” which stars Jesse Eisenberg, Alexander Skarsgard, Michael Mando and Salma Hayek.
Brian Kavanaugh-Jones (“Loving”) and Fred Berger (“La La Land”) of Automatik are executive producers on the project. Pierre Even produced. It’s an Item 7 co-production with Belgian’s Belga Productions.
The Orchard is planning a release for early 2019.
Also Read: Jamie Bell's 'Skin' Lands at A24, DirecTV for Domestic Rights
“The Hummingbird Project” follows cousins from New York (Eisenberg and Skarsgard) who are high players in the game of High Frequency Trading. Their dream is to build a fiber-optic cable between Kansas and New Jersey which would make them millionaires — and they will let nothing stop them in the process.
“We are thrilled to be working with Paul Davidson and his team at Orchard,” said Nguen and Even. “They showed a true understanding...
Brian Kavanaugh-Jones (“Loving”) and Fred Berger (“La La Land”) of Automatik are executive producers on the project. Pierre Even produced. It’s an Item 7 co-production with Belgian’s Belga Productions.
The Orchard is planning a release for early 2019.
Also Read: Jamie Bell's 'Skin' Lands at A24, DirecTV for Domestic Rights
“The Hummingbird Project” follows cousins from New York (Eisenberg and Skarsgard) who are high players in the game of High Frequency Trading. Their dream is to build a fiber-optic cable between Kansas and New Jersey which would make them millionaires — and they will let nothing stop them in the process.
“We are thrilled to be working with Paul Davidson and his team at Orchard,” said Nguen and Even. “They showed a true understanding...
- 9/11/2018
- by Beatrice Verhoeven
- The Wrap
HanWay handles international on The Hummingbird Project.
The Orchard has picked up Us rights to Kim Nguyen’s The Hummingbird Project in Toronto, while Neon has acquired doc The Biggest Little Farm in its third Toronto buy.
The Orchard plans an early 2019 release on Nguyen’s drama, which stars Jesse Eisenberg and Alexander Skarsgård as cousins who try to build a fibre-optic cable between Kansas and New Jersey, while Salma Hayek plays their manipulative former boss who tries to beat them at their own game. Michael Mando also stars.
Danielle Digiacomo negotiated the deal with CAA on behalf of the filmmakers,...
The Orchard has picked up Us rights to Kim Nguyen’s The Hummingbird Project in Toronto, while Neon has acquired doc The Biggest Little Farm in its third Toronto buy.
The Orchard plans an early 2019 release on Nguyen’s drama, which stars Jesse Eisenberg and Alexander Skarsgård as cousins who try to build a fibre-optic cable between Kansas and New Jersey, while Salma Hayek plays their manipulative former boss who tries to beat them at their own game. Michael Mando also stars.
Danielle Digiacomo negotiated the deal with CAA on behalf of the filmmakers,...
- 9/11/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
The Orchard has bought “The Hummingbird Project,” a drama about two scheming cousins that stars Jesse Eisenberg and Alexander Skarsgard, Variety has confirmed. The deal is for U.S. rights.
“The Hummingbird Project” premiered at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival and attracted some attention from studios because of its cast and subject matter. The film finds Eisenberg and Skarsgard (unrecognizable with a shaved head) attempting to build a thousand-mile-long tunnel from Kansas to New Jersey that will give them a one-millisecond edge on stock transactions. Kim Nguyen (“War Witch”) directs.
The Orchard plans to release the film in 2019. The indie studio’s upcoming releases include two foreign language film awards contenders, “Birds of Passage” and “El Angel,” as well as the comedy “The Unicorn.”
It has been a relatively slow market at this year’s Toronto. Neon, another indie studio, has been active, buying “Vox Lux” and “Wild Rose,...
“The Hummingbird Project” premiered at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival and attracted some attention from studios because of its cast and subject matter. The film finds Eisenberg and Skarsgard (unrecognizable with a shaved head) attempting to build a thousand-mile-long tunnel from Kansas to New Jersey that will give them a one-millisecond edge on stock transactions. Kim Nguyen (“War Witch”) directs.
The Orchard plans to release the film in 2019. The indie studio’s upcoming releases include two foreign language film awards contenders, “Birds of Passage” and “El Angel,” as well as the comedy “The Unicorn.”
It has been a relatively slow market at this year’s Toronto. Neon, another indie studio, has been active, buying “Vox Lux” and “Wild Rose,...
- 9/11/2018
- by Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: The Orchard has taken U.S. rights to Kim Nguyen’s Toronto International Film Festival premiere drama The Hummingbird Project which tells the story of the Zaleski cousins, played by Oscar nominee Jesse Eisenberg and Emmy-Golden Globe winner Alexander Skarsgård, who ambitiously abandon their high-frequency day-trading NYC jobs to build a fiber optic line from New Jersey to Kansas.
As they spend millions to construct, their former boss played by Frida Oscar and Golden Globe nominee Salma Hayek is hot on their tale trying to close them down. Better Call Saul‘s Michael Mando stars as the fiber optic architect who helps the Zaleskis figure it all out. Skarsgård’s Anton is the brains and Eisenberg’s Vincent is the hustler and together they push each other and everyone around them to breaking point on their quixotic adventure to build a line that will outdo all others in a matter of milliseconds.
As they spend millions to construct, their former boss played by Frida Oscar and Golden Globe nominee Salma Hayek is hot on their tale trying to close them down. Better Call Saul‘s Michael Mando stars as the fiber optic architect who helps the Zaleskis figure it all out. Skarsgård’s Anton is the brains and Eisenberg’s Vincent is the hustler and together they push each other and everyone around them to breaking point on their quixotic adventure to build a line that will outdo all others in a matter of milliseconds.
- 9/11/2018
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Buyers are putting down their Momofuku cookies and handing over the cash, as film sales are in full swing at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Saban Films and Neon, who have made waves this past year by acquiring several titles at previous festivals, each secured deals, while usual players Sony Pictures Classics, Magnolia, Focus Features and Netflix have also picked up some titles.
While “Wild Rose,” arguably one of the hottest titles for sale at Tiff, has been snatched up by Neon, there are still various hot films up for grabs. For example, Natalie Portman’s “Vox Lux” still has no distributor, neither does Elisabeth Moss’ “Her Smell.”
Also Read: Neon Acquires Buzzy Toronto Title 'Wild Rose'
Additionally, many of Tiff’s biggest titles that are coming from immediate festival predecessors Venice and Telluride have distribution in place and are vying for awards attention: Damien Chazelle’s “First Man,...
Saban Films and Neon, who have made waves this past year by acquiring several titles at previous festivals, each secured deals, while usual players Sony Pictures Classics, Magnolia, Focus Features and Netflix have also picked up some titles.
While “Wild Rose,” arguably one of the hottest titles for sale at Tiff, has been snatched up by Neon, there are still various hot films up for grabs. For example, Natalie Portman’s “Vox Lux” still has no distributor, neither does Elisabeth Moss’ “Her Smell.”
Also Read: Neon Acquires Buzzy Toronto Title 'Wild Rose'
Additionally, many of Tiff’s biggest titles that are coming from immediate festival predecessors Venice and Telluride have distribution in place and are vying for awards attention: Damien Chazelle’s “First Man,...
- 9/10/2018
- by Beatrice Verhoeven
- The Wrap
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