It’s been 15 years since Michael Keaton directed his last film, the 2008 crime thriller “The Merry Gentlemen,” and now the award-winning actor is back in theaters with his sophomore film, “Knox Goes Away.”
Once again, Keaton is taking a character-first approach to the crime genre, this time playing an assassin, Knox, who has an aggressive form of dementia and seizes an opportunity to redeem himself by saving his son’s life.
Not only is Keaton directing and starring, the film boasts a knockout cast that includes James Marsden, Al Pacino and Marcia Gay Harden. Here’s everything to know about how to watch “Knox Goes Away” right now.
Is ‘Knox Goes Away’ Streaming or in theaters?
The film will debut exclusively in theaters. There are no confirmed streaming details at this time.
When is the release date?
“Knox Goes Away” arrives in theaters on March 15, 2024.
Where to find ‘Knox Goes Away...
Once again, Keaton is taking a character-first approach to the crime genre, this time playing an assassin, Knox, who has an aggressive form of dementia and seizes an opportunity to redeem himself by saving his son’s life.
Not only is Keaton directing and starring, the film boasts a knockout cast that includes James Marsden, Al Pacino and Marcia Gay Harden. Here’s everything to know about how to watch “Knox Goes Away” right now.
Is ‘Knox Goes Away’ Streaming or in theaters?
The film will debut exclusively in theaters. There are no confirmed streaming details at this time.
When is the release date?
“Knox Goes Away” arrives in theaters on March 15, 2024.
Where to find ‘Knox Goes Away...
- 3/16/2024
- by Haleigh Foutch
- The Wrap
Toronto Film Festival attendees were surprised this weekend to find director Mel Eslyn’s “Biosphere,” a humorous, semi-futuristic rumination on the last two men on Earth. A late addition to this year’s lineup, the film stars Mark Duplass as the U.S. president and Sterling K. Brown as an advisor, the planet’s sole living humans who are trapped in the biodome of the film’s title. The story sprang from Duplass’ idea of two guys arguing over the virtues of the video game “Mario Bros.,” according to Eslyn.
“They had me at ‘Mario Bros.,’ man,” Brown said. “I always wanted to warp, so I thought that doing this movie would pick up some trade secrets. It can be that simple sometimes.” To which Duplass said: “If the films sells well in Toronto, I’ll teach you how to warp.”
Brown, Duplass, Eslyn and producer Zachary Drucker sat down with Steve Pond,...
“They had me at ‘Mario Bros.,’ man,” Brown said. “I always wanted to warp, so I thought that doing this movie would pick up some trade secrets. It can be that simple sometimes.” To which Duplass said: “If the films sells well in Toronto, I’ll teach you how to warp.”
Brown, Duplass, Eslyn and producer Zachary Drucker sat down with Steve Pond,...
- 9/11/2022
- by Jason Clark
- The Wrap
According to director Tobias Lindholm, “The Good Nurse” has no intention of being a typical true crime film. “We realized that it wasn’t a story only about a serial killer, it was about a friendship. And it was a proof of humanity,” Lindholm said while visiting TheWrap and Shutterstock’s Interview and Portrait Studio at the Toronto Film Festival for a conversation moderated by TheWrap’s Executive Editor, Awards, Steve Pond.
“The Good Nurse” premieres at the Toronto International Film Festival on Sunday, September 11, and explores the real-life friendship between nurses Amy Loughren (Jessica Chastain) and Charles “Charlie” Cullen, who is suspected of killing approximately 400 patients during his 16-year career. The movie also depicts the attempt to bring Cullen to justice.
In the studio, Lindholm was joined by “The Good Nurse” cast members Nnamdi Asomugha, Jessica Chastain, and Eddie Redmayne, all of whom were ready and willing to dig...
“The Good Nurse” premieres at the Toronto International Film Festival on Sunday, September 11, and explores the real-life friendship between nurses Amy Loughren (Jessica Chastain) and Charles “Charlie” Cullen, who is suspected of killing approximately 400 patients during his 16-year career. The movie also depicts the attempt to bring Cullen to justice.
In the studio, Lindholm was joined by “The Good Nurse” cast members Nnamdi Asomugha, Jessica Chastain, and Eddie Redmayne, all of whom were ready and willing to dig...
- 9/11/2022
- by Libby Hill
- The Wrap
There were a lot of reasons why Octavia Spencer was interested in playing the role of true-crime podcaster Poppy Parnell in the Apple TV+ series “Truth Be Told”: the opportunity to explore a genre that fascinated her, the chance to work with executive producer Nichelle Tramble Spellman and the opportunity to mix a mystery with a family story, among others.
But when star and executive producer Spencer appeared with Spellman and co-star Mekhi Phifer at TheWrap’s virtual screening of “Truth Be Told,” she and her fellow panelists got particularly excited when she talked about a different reason.
“I would be a fan of this show if I weren’t involved, because we haven’t seen a podcaster or journalists portrayed this way in primetime,” she told TheWrap’s awards editor Steve Pond, and then grinned. “And it’s also my ‘Columbo’ moment!”
And as soon as he heard...
But when star and executive producer Spencer appeared with Spellman and co-star Mekhi Phifer at TheWrap’s virtual screening of “Truth Be Told,” she and her fellow panelists got particularly excited when she talked about a different reason.
“I would be a fan of this show if I weren’t involved, because we haven’t seen a podcaster or journalists portrayed this way in primetime,” she told TheWrap’s awards editor Steve Pond, and then grinned. “And it’s also my ‘Columbo’ moment!”
And as soon as he heard...
- 6/14/2022
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
Group singing has been at the top of the list of things the public should avoid during the pandemic. But it was crucial to creating “Dear Evan Hansen.”
“We kept being told that singing was the most dangerous thing because it’s the most exposed,” said Steven Levenson, writer of the book used to adapt the Broadway show and the Universal film. “It’s the most mingling of, you know, molecules,” he added with a wry laugh.
“But there’s something incredibly true about that, and human,” Levenson continued in a more serious tone during a conversation moderated by TheWrap’s Steve Pond at the Toronto International Film Festival. “There was something about getting to go on set and watching these actors …take off (masks and face shields) and sing actually live on camera in a room in a year when we couldn’t go anywhere else to see people sing.
“We kept being told that singing was the most dangerous thing because it’s the most exposed,” said Steven Levenson, writer of the book used to adapt the Broadway show and the Universal film. “It’s the most mingling of, you know, molecules,” he added with a wry laugh.
“But there’s something incredibly true about that, and human,” Levenson continued in a more serious tone during a conversation moderated by TheWrap’s Steve Pond at the Toronto International Film Festival. “There was something about getting to go on set and watching these actors …take off (masks and face shields) and sing actually live on camera in a room in a year when we couldn’t go anywhere else to see people sing.
- 9/24/2021
- by Diane Haithman
- The Wrap
“Dear Evan Hansen” star Ben Platt says he’s now really done playing the anxious, brooding high schooler who serves as the Broadway musical and Universal film’s title role.
Really.
Platt won the 2017 Tony Award for lead actor in a musical for the Broadway production of the show, about a teen who is swept into a web of deception when a letter he wrote as a therapeutic exercise falls into the hands of a couple whose son took his own life. He then reprised the role for the movie that’s set to open Friday.
In conversation during the Toronto International Film Festival with TheWrap’s Steve Pond and fellow cast members Amandla Stenberg, Nik Dodani and Colton Ryan, Platt confirmed that “Dear Evan Hansen” is slated to reopen on Broadway in December, starring Jordan Fisher in the title role.
But Platt, 27, answered an emphatic “yes” when Pond asked...
Really.
Platt won the 2017 Tony Award for lead actor in a musical for the Broadway production of the show, about a teen who is swept into a web of deception when a letter he wrote as a therapeutic exercise falls into the hands of a couple whose son took his own life. He then reprised the role for the movie that’s set to open Friday.
In conversation during the Toronto International Film Festival with TheWrap’s Steve Pond and fellow cast members Amandla Stenberg, Nik Dodani and Colton Ryan, Platt confirmed that “Dear Evan Hansen” is slated to reopen on Broadway in December, starring Jordan Fisher in the title role.
But Platt, 27, answered an emphatic “yes” when Pond asked...
- 9/23/2021
- by Diane Haithman
- The Wrap
(Warning: The following includes major spoilers for “Silent Night.”)
When Keira Knightley read the script for Camille Griffin’s “Silent Night,” she thought it was “one of the most f—ed up things” she’d ever read.
“I thought it was one of the most f—ed up things I’ve ever read, and I was like, wow, she went there, and she went there, and then she killed them all!” Knightly told TheWrap’s Steve Pond during a virtual interview at the Toronto International Film Festival.
“It really made me laugh,” she added. “I think part of my story with this film is when I first read it, I was seven months pregnant and it had been one hell of a pregnancy and I had been sick for sick months, and then I got sciatica, and I was really really angry, like profoundly angry and uncomfortable, and we went...
When Keira Knightley read the script for Camille Griffin’s “Silent Night,” she thought it was “one of the most f—ed up things” she’d ever read.
“I thought it was one of the most f—ed up things I’ve ever read, and I was like, wow, she went there, and she went there, and then she killed them all!” Knightly told TheWrap’s Steve Pond during a virtual interview at the Toronto International Film Festival.
“It really made me laugh,” she added. “I think part of my story with this film is when I first read it, I was seven months pregnant and it had been one hell of a pregnancy and I had been sick for sick months, and then I got sciatica, and I was really really angry, like profoundly angry and uncomfortable, and we went...
- 9/22/2021
- by Beatrice Verhoeven
- The Wrap
The new documentary “Attica” that tells the story of the 1971 prison riot at the Attica Correctional Facility in upstate New York made a specific choice to cut the voices of academics and historians, opting instead to make this film exclusively the story of the prisoners and families who lived through it.
“Your instincts whenever you’re telling the story is go to the historians. It was so dissonant with the voices of the prisoners and the families because you’re putting this disconnected, academic, pedantic voice,” the film’s producer Traci Curry told TheWrap’s Steve Pond at the Toronto Film Festival. “It just became clear that this just has to be their story.”
“It was definitely the right decision. There’s no second-guessing,” director Stanley Nelson added. “It was like he was coming from another world. Butted up against people like Tyrone who had been there, and him talking...
“Your instincts whenever you’re telling the story is go to the historians. It was so dissonant with the voices of the prisoners and the families because you’re putting this disconnected, academic, pedantic voice,” the film’s producer Traci Curry told TheWrap’s Steve Pond at the Toronto Film Festival. “It just became clear that this just has to be their story.”
“It was definitely the right decision. There’s no second-guessing,” director Stanley Nelson added. “It was like he was coming from another world. Butted up against people like Tyrone who had been there, and him talking...
- 9/16/2021
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Denis Villeneuve said that in bringing Frank Herbert’s “Dune” to the screen, he was focused on not making it his own vision but Herbert’s. But there’s one other big movie that got in the way of that vision: “Star Wars.”
“The main…I will not say ‘enemy,’ was ‘Star Wars,'” Villeneuve told TheWrap’s Steve Pond at the Toronto International Film Festival. “It’s well known that ‘Star Wars’ has been deeply inspired by ‘Dune,’ and here we are, making a ‘Dune’ movie, and we are ‘Star Wars’ kids. To find our own identity and bring something that we are hoping is fresh and new for the audience, it was a fun challenge.”
Thankfully, Villeneuve’s “Dune” treats Herbert’s book like “The Bible,” adhering attentively to the visual cues and details Herbert wrote throughout the novel. And he worked closely with just a single storyboard...
“The main…I will not say ‘enemy,’ was ‘Star Wars,'” Villeneuve told TheWrap’s Steve Pond at the Toronto International Film Festival. “It’s well known that ‘Star Wars’ has been deeply inspired by ‘Dune,’ and here we are, making a ‘Dune’ movie, and we are ‘Star Wars’ kids. To find our own identity and bring something that we are hoping is fresh and new for the audience, it was a fun challenge.”
Thankfully, Villeneuve’s “Dune” treats Herbert’s book like “The Bible,” adhering attentively to the visual cues and details Herbert wrote throughout the novel. And he worked closely with just a single storyboard...
- 9/13/2021
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
‘The Forgiven': Why Jessica Chastain Hoped She and Ralph Fiennes Could at Least ‘Be Friends’ (Video)
Jessica Chastain was eager to work with Ralph Fiennes again on their new movie “The Forgiven,” the first time they’d shared the screen in more than 10 years. But this time she joked with him that she had a condition: their characters had to at least like each other a little.
On the Shakespearean drama “Coriolanus,” Chastain and Fiennes played a married couple “who don’t really connect,” as she put it. This time around, they’re a couple on the brink of a divorce, but at least they have a more polite backstory this time around.
“I was joking with him and said, the next time we work together, please let’s be friends, or at least let’s be married people who actually like each other,” Chastain told TheWrap’s Steve Pond at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Chastain stars in “The Forgiven” alongside Fiennes as one of her two films at TIFF,...
On the Shakespearean drama “Coriolanus,” Chastain and Fiennes played a married couple “who don’t really connect,” as she put it. This time around, they’re a couple on the brink of a divorce, but at least they have a more polite backstory this time around.
“I was joking with him and said, the next time we work together, please let’s be friends, or at least let’s be married people who actually like each other,” Chastain told TheWrap’s Steve Pond at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Chastain stars in “The Forgiven” alongside Fiennes as one of her two films at TIFF,...
- 9/13/2021
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Jessica Chastain had acquired the rights to her latest film “The Eyes of Tammy Faye” back in 2012 when she was just emerging as an actress. She’s just now bringing her scripted adaptation of the 2000 documentary of the same name to the Toronto Film Festival after years of working to get it made. In that time Chastain says she’s found the right to be taken seriously.
“I was afraid of just getting gobbled up,” she told TheWrap’s Steve Pond at Toronto. “There was so much attention immediately on me about what was I wearing or who was I dating. It was all this kind of celebrity fascination and It Girl and titles. And I thought that’s really not what I want to be because I want to have a career, and I’m not here as a delicacy for your enjoyment, a little bonbon. I’m the meal.
“I was afraid of just getting gobbled up,” she told TheWrap’s Steve Pond at Toronto. “There was so much attention immediately on me about what was I wearing or who was I dating. It was all this kind of celebrity fascination and It Girl and titles. And I thought that’s really not what I want to be because I want to have a career, and I’m not here as a delicacy for your enjoyment, a little bonbon. I’m the meal.
- 9/13/2021
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Just because one cut the cord doesn’t mean they don’t love TV — cost-conscious consumers just don’t love paying for it, right? Well, we’ve got good news for our unplugged readers: You can watch the 73rd Primetime Emmy nominations right here.
Ron Cephas Jones (“This Is Us”) and Jasmine Cephas Jones (“Blindspotting”) will have the honor of announcing the nominees on Tuesday morning. They’ll be joined by Television Academy Chairman and CEO Frank Scherma.
With last year’s big winners, “Schitt’s Creek” and “Watchmen,” wrapped and “Succession” not eligible, expect lots of new names.
For now, readers can comb through our predictions in the comedy, drama and limited series and movies categories, courtesy of TheWrap’s awards expert, Steve Pond.
Watch the nominations unfold via the live stream here or above. The stream will begin at 11:30 a.m. Et/8:30 a.m. Pt.
The 73rd...
Ron Cephas Jones (“This Is Us”) and Jasmine Cephas Jones (“Blindspotting”) will have the honor of announcing the nominees on Tuesday morning. They’ll be joined by Television Academy Chairman and CEO Frank Scherma.
With last year’s big winners, “Schitt’s Creek” and “Watchmen,” wrapped and “Succession” not eligible, expect lots of new names.
For now, readers can comb through our predictions in the comedy, drama and limited series and movies categories, courtesy of TheWrap’s awards expert, Steve Pond.
Watch the nominations unfold via the live stream here or above. The stream will begin at 11:30 a.m. Et/8:30 a.m. Pt.
The 73rd...
- 7/13/2021
- by Lawrence Yee
- The Wrap
It should be no surprise that Wes Anderson’s latest film “The French Dispatch” — delayed when last year’s Cannes Film Festival was canceled — is as colorful, fun, hilarious, peculiar and all around Wes Andersonny as any of his films, critics say.
The early reviews of Anderson’s latest called the film “relentlessly wonderful” and as “playful as they come.” TheWrap’s Steve Pond has called it the “ultimate” Wes Anderson movie, packing more of his influences and sensibilities — not to mention nearly every cast member who has ever been in one of his movies — into one film.
“It’s an Anderson Sampler Pack, each candied treat more elaborately wrapped and intricately decorated than the last,” Pond wrote. “It’s fun and it’s impossibly stylish and it’s absolutely exhausting, and it might make you start musing about the law of diminishing returns. But boy, it sure looks pretty.
The early reviews of Anderson’s latest called the film “relentlessly wonderful” and as “playful as they come.” TheWrap’s Steve Pond has called it the “ultimate” Wes Anderson movie, packing more of his influences and sensibilities — not to mention nearly every cast member who has ever been in one of his movies — into one film.
“It’s an Anderson Sampler Pack, each candied treat more elaborately wrapped and intricately decorated than the last,” Pond wrote. “It’s fun and it’s impossibly stylish and it’s absolutely exhausting, and it might make you start musing about the law of diminishing returns. But boy, it sure looks pretty.
- 7/12/2021
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Having completed her debut film “Land,” Robin Wright said it wasn’t until very recently that she actually found confidence as a director.
Wright had previously helmed a few episodes of her Netflix series “House of Cards,” which she compared to a “mini cinema school” that allowed her to learn on the job. That, coupled with her decades of experience as an actress, made her finally feel ready to step behind the camera for her first feature film.
“I didn’t think I could do it. And then the years go by and you start imagining yourself being in that seat,” Wright told TheWrap’s Steve Pond on Friday. “You just start compiling confidence. When I was on ‘House of Cards,’ that was a real gift because I said I think I’m ready to do it, and the crew and production encouraged me to do it. And there were...
Wright had previously helmed a few episodes of her Netflix series “House of Cards,” which she compared to a “mini cinema school” that allowed her to learn on the job. That, coupled with her decades of experience as an actress, made her finally feel ready to step behind the camera for her first feature film.
“I didn’t think I could do it. And then the years go by and you start imagining yourself being in that seat,” Wright told TheWrap’s Steve Pond on Friday. “You just start compiling confidence. When I was on ‘House of Cards,’ that was a real gift because I said I think I’m ready to do it, and the crew and production encouraged me to do it. And there were...
- 2/27/2021
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Challenges are plentiful when making a short film, says A.M. Lukas, whose short “One Cambodian Family Please for My Pleasure” was selected as a finalist at TheWrap’s 2019 ShortList Film Festival. What matters is how you handle those challenges — a lesson she learned first-hand.
“I had $80,000 and then I lost it; I had Emily Mortimer, and I was about to get on the plane to Fargo, and then we lost Emily; and then we got Emily back. So it was just completely insane every step of the way,” Lukas said in a panel with other ShortList filmmakers Thursday night at the W Hotel Hollywood. You can watch a video clip above of the conversation moderated by TheWrap’s awards editor Steve Pond.
“It’s letting it all happen and then solving each problem,” Lukas said, sharing wise advice from “The Graduate” director Mike Nichols. “You can never know what the film is actually gonna be.
“I had $80,000 and then I lost it; I had Emily Mortimer, and I was about to get on the plane to Fargo, and then we lost Emily; and then we got Emily back. So it was just completely insane every step of the way,” Lukas said in a panel with other ShortList filmmakers Thursday night at the W Hotel Hollywood. You can watch a video clip above of the conversation moderated by TheWrap’s awards editor Steve Pond.
“It’s letting it all happen and then solving each problem,” Lukas said, sharing wise advice from “The Graduate” director Mike Nichols. “You can never know what the film is actually gonna be.
- 8/23/2019
- by Margeaux Sippell
- The Wrap
“Enforcement Hours,” director Paloma Martinez’s timely documentary short about a hotline for immigrants in San Francisco, won the Industry Prize at TheWrap’s Shortlist Film Festival on Thursday.
Brian Bolster and Jonathan Napolitano’s “Departing Gesture,” a documentary short centered on a funeral director in the heart of the South confronted by societal shame and ignorance as he handles the bodies of people who have died of AIDS, took the Audience Prize at an awards ceremony held Thursday at the W Hollywood and hosted by Harvey Guillén, star of FX’s “What We Do in The Shadows.”
“Departing Gesture” directors Jonathan Napolitano and Brian Bolster accept the Audience Prize (Photo by Ted Soqui)
“No Sanctuary,” a short exploring human nature through the personal lens of those who have been affected by America’s indifference to gun violence, won the top prize in the student competition for University of North Carolina School...
Brian Bolster and Jonathan Napolitano’s “Departing Gesture,” a documentary short centered on a funeral director in the heart of the South confronted by societal shame and ignorance as he handles the bodies of people who have died of AIDS, took the Audience Prize at an awards ceremony held Thursday at the W Hollywood and hosted by Harvey Guillén, star of FX’s “What We Do in The Shadows.”
“Departing Gesture” directors Jonathan Napolitano and Brian Bolster accept the Audience Prize (Photo by Ted Soqui)
“No Sanctuary,” a short exploring human nature through the personal lens of those who have been affected by America’s indifference to gun violence, won the top prize in the student competition for University of North Carolina School...
- 8/23/2019
- by Emily Vogel
- The Wrap
Six documentary shorts by female filmmakers — depicting everything from a San Francisco firefighter to female graffiti artists to a frank discussion of women’s breasts — were named as finalists in the inaugural Telling Our Stories Film Contest on Thursday.
The contest, presented by WrapWomen and Starz, focuses on female-made nonfiction films that highlight themes relevant to womanhood.
The six finalists, chosen through juror selection, will receive distribution on Starz and the chance to compete for the winning prize of $10,000. The winner will be announced at WrapWomen’s Power Women Summit on October 25 at the Fairmont Hotel in Santa Monica.
Also Read: 2019 ShortList Film Festival Finalists Announced: Watch and Vote for the Winner!!
The grand prize winner will be selected by curated group of six industry experts: Starz Senior Vice President of Original Programming Karen Bailey, Starz Senior Vice President of Unscripted Programming Alice Dickens-Koblin, The Wrap’s founder and Editor-in-Chief Sharon Waxman,...
The contest, presented by WrapWomen and Starz, focuses on female-made nonfiction films that highlight themes relevant to womanhood.
The six finalists, chosen through juror selection, will receive distribution on Starz and the chance to compete for the winning prize of $10,000. The winner will be announced at WrapWomen’s Power Women Summit on October 25 at the Fairmont Hotel in Santa Monica.
Also Read: 2019 ShortList Film Festival Finalists Announced: Watch and Vote for the Winner!!
The grand prize winner will be selected by curated group of six industry experts: Starz Senior Vice President of Original Programming Karen Bailey, Starz Senior Vice President of Unscripted Programming Alice Dickens-Koblin, The Wrap’s founder and Editor-in-Chief Sharon Waxman,...
- 8/23/2019
- by Emily Vogel
- The Wrap
With “The Great Hack,” filmmakers Karim Amer and Jehane Noujaim set out to make a film about the Sony hack, the breach of data and leaked emails from Sony Pictures that rocked Hollywood back in 2014. But as they further examined the role that data played in telling this story, their film deepened into something much greater — and much more sinister.
Noujaim and Amer were previously behind the Oscar-nominated documentary “The Square” about the Egyptian revolution in Tahrir Square in 2011. That film examined how posts on social media could shape a cultural revolution and community in the real world. So when the Sony hack threatened to cause an international conflict and when the subsequent efforts of Cambridge Analytica began to influence the 2016 election, they knew there was a deeper story to be told about technology.
“We started to realize that the hack was actually not necessarily a physical hack but something much larger than that,...
Noujaim and Amer were previously behind the Oscar-nominated documentary “The Square” about the Egyptian revolution in Tahrir Square in 2011. That film examined how posts on social media could shape a cultural revolution and community in the real world. So when the Sony hack threatened to cause an international conflict and when the subsequent efforts of Cambridge Analytica began to influence the 2016 election, they knew there was a deeper story to be told about technology.
“We started to realize that the hack was actually not necessarily a physical hack but something much larger than that,...
- 2/28/2019
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Here’s a list of what the Icelandic director Benedikt Erlingsson says is missing from his new film “Woman at War”: “No misery, no violence, no death, not even a gun, and no sex.”
Despite the absence of those mainstays, he said “Woman at War” is an action thriller with lessons for Hollywood films. It’s a tense, topical film of espionage, sabotage and personal demons about a lone eco-terrorist (Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir) being hunted by the Icelandic government and a massive corporation doing harm to the environment.
And because this is an Icelandic film, its hero has a trio of musicians who follow her across hill sides, rooftops and into her home providing the film’s brisk, invigorating score as she goes. At one point, a drummer seemingly tips her off to the danger awaiting her.
“I wish they would do more of this,” Erlingsson told TheWrap’s Steve Pond...
Despite the absence of those mainstays, he said “Woman at War” is an action thriller with lessons for Hollywood films. It’s a tense, topical film of espionage, sabotage and personal demons about a lone eco-terrorist (Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir) being hunted by the Icelandic government and a massive corporation doing harm to the environment.
And because this is an Icelandic film, its hero has a trio of musicians who follow her across hill sides, rooftops and into her home providing the film’s brisk, invigorating score as she goes. At one point, a drummer seemingly tips her off to the danger awaiting her.
“I wish they would do more of this,” Erlingsson told TheWrap’s Steve Pond...
- 2/28/2019
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Michael Jackson’s brothers and his nephew Taj assembled on “CBS This Morning” on Wednesday to tell anchor Gayle King exactly what they think of HBO’s “Leaving Neverland” documentary. By now, readers probably know that the film has not been received favorably by the Jacksons.
The Jackson Family again trashed Dan Reed’s upcoming doc, saying that the filmmaker never reached out to them for their side of the story. They also believe that former M.J. collaborators Wade Robson and James Safechuck, who now accuse the late King of Pop of sexually abusing them, are liars and opportunists.
“If Neverland was so horrifying for him, why would you keep going back?” Michael’s brother Marlon asked about Robson.
Also Read: Michael Jackson Estate Sues HBO for More Than $100 Million Over 'Leaving Neverland' Doc
Both Robson and Safechuck previously said under oath that Michael Jackson never molested them. Since Michael’s passing,...
The Jackson Family again trashed Dan Reed’s upcoming doc, saying that the filmmaker never reached out to them for their side of the story. They also believe that former M.J. collaborators Wade Robson and James Safechuck, who now accuse the late King of Pop of sexually abusing them, are liars and opportunists.
“If Neverland was so horrifying for him, why would you keep going back?” Michael’s brother Marlon asked about Robson.
Also Read: Michael Jackson Estate Sues HBO for More Than $100 Million Over 'Leaving Neverland' Doc
Both Robson and Safechuck previously said under oath that Michael Jackson never molested them. Since Michael’s passing,...
- 2/27/2019
- by Tony Maglio
- The Wrap
László Nemes’ first film was the stylized but grueling Holocaust drama “Son of Saul” about a Jewish man working within a concentration camp as a means of survival. His latest film, “Sunset,” is just as harrowing, and has its own stylistic touch: large, elegant hats.
“Sunset” tells the story of a young woman aspiring to get a job as a milliner at a famous hat shop in Budapest prior to World War I. She soon learns of the existence of a long lost brother who may be a murderer and finds herself witness to the chaotic, changing climate of the country as the Austro-Hungarian Empire starts to crumble. It’s a big subject, but Nemes explained why he felt the story needed to be focused on a humble hat shop.
“It was an instinctive choice, but I was interested in hats as being the symbols of that time of a...
“Sunset” tells the story of a young woman aspiring to get a job as a milliner at a famous hat shop in Budapest prior to World War I. She soon learns of the existence of a long lost brother who may be a murderer and finds herself witness to the chaotic, changing climate of the country as the Austro-Hungarian Empire starts to crumble. It’s a big subject, but Nemes explained why he felt the story needed to be focused on a humble hat shop.
“It was an instinctive choice, but I was interested in hats as being the symbols of that time of a...
- 9/26/2018
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
“Wild Rose,” one of the buzziest films coming out of the Toronto International Film Festival, was somewhat inspired by an “X Factor” contestant, said the film’s screenwriter.
“[The idea for the film] came from me being from Glasgow, me being obsessed with country music and an episode of ‘The X Factor’ long ago, when there was a girl singing on it and she belted out this tune and, of course, you are rooting for her,” Nicole Taylor told TheWrap’s Steve Pond at the festival.
Adding that this contestant’s life was “a total mess,” she “didn’t know what to want for her.”
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“I wondered, you are so talented, is that a trump card that means you don’t really have to take responsibility for anything else or is the fact that your a mother more relevant,...
“[The idea for the film] came from me being from Glasgow, me being obsessed with country music and an episode of ‘The X Factor’ long ago, when there was a girl singing on it and she belted out this tune and, of course, you are rooting for her,” Nicole Taylor told TheWrap’s Steve Pond at the festival.
Adding that this contestant’s life was “a total mess,” she “didn’t know what to want for her.”
See Video: Maggie Gyllenhaal: 'Kindergarten Teacher' Is What Happens When a Woman Is 'Starving' to Be Heard
“I wondered, you are so talented, is that a trump card that means you don’t really have to take responsibility for anything else or is the fact that your a mother more relevant,...
- 9/21/2018
- by Beatrice Verhoeven
- The Wrap
Paul Greengrass’ latest film “22 July” tells the story of a mass shooting in 2011 in Oslo, Norway, but he feels that the tragedy speaks both globally and to life in 2018.
“I wanted to make a film about how Norway responded to a right-wing terrorist attack, how Norway fought for democracy, because I think that’s first of all an inspiring story, it’s a story of our times,” Greengrass told TheWrap’s Steve Pond at Tiff. “This unprecedented shift to the far right is occurring today. It’s right in front of our eyes. It’s a problem across Europe and across North America.”
Greengrass said he knew he wanted to make the film when he saw the testimony of the right-wing terrorist depicted in the film, Anders Behring Breivik, and was shocked to see how his worldview has become widely adopted.
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“I wanted to make a film about how Norway responded to a right-wing terrorist attack, how Norway fought for democracy, because I think that’s first of all an inspiring story, it’s a story of our times,” Greengrass told TheWrap’s Steve Pond at Tiff. “This unprecedented shift to the far right is occurring today. It’s right in front of our eyes. It’s a problem across Europe and across North America.”
Greengrass said he knew he wanted to make the film when he saw the testimony of the right-wing terrorist depicted in the film, Anders Behring Breivik, and was shocked to see how his worldview has become widely adopted.
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- 9/20/2018
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Sienna Miller and Christina Hendricks don’t look much alike, but they play perfect sisters in Jake Scott’s family drama “American Woman.”
Miller says the bond she developed with Hendricks and the rest of the “American Woman” cast translated into a relatable, family portrait on screen.
“I think everybody who watches this film can see their family in it,” Miller told TheWrap’s Steve Pond at Tiff. “When you scratch at the surface of a family, everybody’s got the crazy aunt. We’re all so connected in many ways in that sense. It’s a beautiful look at a woman growing up and a beautiful look at family and relationships. We have this incredible cast, and I buy every part of us being this family.”
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Miller says this...
Miller says the bond she developed with Hendricks and the rest of the “American Woman” cast translated into a relatable, family portrait on screen.
“I think everybody who watches this film can see their family in it,” Miller told TheWrap’s Steve Pond at Tiff. “When you scratch at the surface of a family, everybody’s got the crazy aunt. We’re all so connected in many ways in that sense. It’s a beautiful look at a woman growing up and a beautiful look at family and relationships. We have this incredible cast, and I buy every part of us being this family.”
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Miller says this...
- 9/20/2018
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Paul Dano gave himself quite the challenge for his directorial debut, adapting — along with co-screenwriter Zoe Kazan — Richard Ford’s bleak and meticulously structured novel “Wildlife.”
The story is about a teenage boy who has moved to Montana, only to watch his parents’ marriage deteriorate. The source material doesn’t exactly lend itself to a movie, but Dano felt that it would be perfect for his directorial debut.
“I saw a tremendous amount of love and compassion in the writing, equaled by a tremendous amount of struggle, which I also just found to be true in life, these American themes, The American Dream, the nuclear family, it’s always been something I loved and have feelings about,” Dano told TheWrap’s Steve Pond at Tiff. “The idea of making a family portrait just seemed like the right place to start for a filmmaker.”
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The story is about a teenage boy who has moved to Montana, only to watch his parents’ marriage deteriorate. The source material doesn’t exactly lend itself to a movie, but Dano felt that it would be perfect for his directorial debut.
“I saw a tremendous amount of love and compassion in the writing, equaled by a tremendous amount of struggle, which I also just found to be true in life, these American themes, The American Dream, the nuclear family, it’s always been something I loved and have feelings about,” Dano told TheWrap’s Steve Pond at Tiff. “The idea of making a family portrait just seemed like the right place to start for a filmmaker.”
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- 9/20/2018
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Jeffrey Wright is an expert on wolves — or so he joked when TheWrap caught up with him at the Toronto International Film Festival to discuss “Hold the Dark.”
Wright plays a wolf expert who comes to a small town to help two parents (Riley Keough and Alexander Skarsgard) when they suspect that their young son was taken off into the woods by a pack of wolves. The grizzly thriller is the third film from Jeremy Saulnier, the director of “Blue Ruin” and “Green Room,” and Wright pounced at the chance to work with Saulnier.
“What was exciting was the opportunity to expand on that sense of isolation and sense of lawlessness that he explored in that film,” Wright told TheWrap’s Steve Pond about Saulnier’s “Blue Ruin.” “And this was just even on a more extreme and grander scale, this idea of being behind God’s back where the...
Wright plays a wolf expert who comes to a small town to help two parents (Riley Keough and Alexander Skarsgard) when they suspect that their young son was taken off into the woods by a pack of wolves. The grizzly thriller is the third film from Jeremy Saulnier, the director of “Blue Ruin” and “Green Room,” and Wright pounced at the chance to work with Saulnier.
“What was exciting was the opportunity to expand on that sense of isolation and sense of lawlessness that he explored in that film,” Wright told TheWrap’s Steve Pond about Saulnier’s “Blue Ruin.” “And this was just even on a more extreme and grander scale, this idea of being behind God’s back where the...
- 9/18/2018
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Hollywood has been trying to tell the story of John DeLorean, the creator of the famous, winged “Back to the Future” car, for decades. But Nick Hamm, director of the new film “Driven,” finally found a way to make it work.
DeLorean in the ’80s was implicated in a sting operation when FBI informant James Timothy Hoffman approached him to ask about setting up a cocaine deal. But the case was a set up, and DeLorean was eventually cleared of drug charges.
“This is a man who created his downfall through a huge act of hubris,” Hamm told TheWrap’s Steve Pond at Tiff. “How did he get involved in a terrible FBI entrapment with an absolute lowlife scumbag who was part of his weird social circle?”
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Hamm said that while other...
DeLorean in the ’80s was implicated in a sting operation when FBI informant James Timothy Hoffman approached him to ask about setting up a cocaine deal. But the case was a set up, and DeLorean was eventually cleared of drug charges.
“This is a man who created his downfall through a huge act of hubris,” Hamm told TheWrap’s Steve Pond at Tiff. “How did he get involved in a terrible FBI entrapment with an absolute lowlife scumbag who was part of his weird social circle?”
Also Read: Nicole Kidman on Physical Transformation in 'Destroyer': 'It's My Job to Push Through' (Video)
Hamm said that while other...
- 9/18/2018
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
By Steve Pond
More international awards: the 22nd European Film Awards took place on Saturday night in Munich and handed its top honors to "The White Ribbon," director Michael Haneke's haunting look at a small German town on the eve of World War I.
The film, Germany's entry in the Oscar foreign-language category, won the European Film 2009, European Director 2009 and European Screenwriter 2009 awards. Tahar Rahim, the star of the French Oscar entry, "A Prophet," won the European Actor 2009 award for that film, which also took home an award for sound design. &...
More international awards: the 22nd European Film Awards took place on Saturday night in Munich and handed its top honors to "The White Ribbon," director Michael Haneke's haunting look at a small German town on the eve of World War I.
The film, Germany's entry in the Oscar foreign-language category, won the European Film 2009, European Director 2009 and European Screenwriter 2009 awards. Tahar Rahim, the star of the French Oscar entry, "A Prophet," won the European Actor 2009 award for that film, which also took home an award for sound design. &...
- 12/12/2009
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
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