Principal photography has begun on the thriller 40 Acres starring Danielle Deadwyler in one of her first feature roles following 2022’s Till.
The pic is currently shooting on location in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. The independent pic also stars Kataem O’Connor (The Way Home), Michael Greyeyes (1923), Milcania Diaz-Rojas (The Bold Type) and Leenah Robinson (1923).
Billed as a “post-apocalyptic thriller,” synopsis reads: Hailey Freeman and her family are the last descendants of African American farmers who settled in 1875 in rural Canada after the first Civil War. Two hundred years later, they struggle to survive in a famine-decimated future and make their last stand against a band of cannibals intent on taking their home.
The film is directed by R.T. Thorne (The Porter). Joining Thorne are director of photography Jeremy Benning (Accused), production designer Peter Cosco (Women Talking), costume designer Charlene Akuamoah (Robyn Hood), and editors Sandy Pereira (Young Werther) and Dev Singh (The...
The pic is currently shooting on location in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. The independent pic also stars Kataem O’Connor (The Way Home), Michael Greyeyes (1923), Milcania Diaz-Rojas (The Bold Type) and Leenah Robinson (1923).
Billed as a “post-apocalyptic thriller,” synopsis reads: Hailey Freeman and her family are the last descendants of African American farmers who settled in 1875 in rural Canada after the first Civil War. Two hundred years later, they struggle to survive in a famine-decimated future and make their last stand against a band of cannibals intent on taking their home.
The film is directed by R.T. Thorne (The Porter). Joining Thorne are director of photography Jeremy Benning (Accused), production designer Peter Cosco (Women Talking), costume designer Charlene Akuamoah (Robyn Hood), and editors Sandy Pereira (Young Werther) and Dev Singh (The...
- 10/17/2023
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
This story about “Women Talking” first appeared in the Below-the-Line issue of TheWrap’s awards magazine.
On the surface, Sarah Polley’s “Women Talking” is one of the ultimate examples of a 2022 film that largely takes place in a single location. Polley adapted the novel by Miriam Toews, which was itself based on the true story of a Mennonite clan in Bolivia that was rampant with sexual abuse, and the action rarely leaves the hayloft of a barn in an isolated community.
In that loft, a group of women has been deputized to decide for all of the community’s female members, who must choose whether they should flee the men who have been systematically drugging and raping them or stay in the only place many of them have known.
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“It was a really fun challenge,...
On the surface, Sarah Polley’s “Women Talking” is one of the ultimate examples of a 2022 film that largely takes place in a single location. Polley adapted the novel by Miriam Toews, which was itself based on the true story of a Mennonite clan in Bolivia that was rampant with sexual abuse, and the action rarely leaves the hayloft of a barn in an isolated community.
In that loft, a group of women has been deputized to decide for all of the community’s female members, who must choose whether they should flee the men who have been systematically drugging and raping them or stay in the only place many of them have known.
Also Read:
‘Women Talking’ Film Review: Sarah Polley’s Searing Drama Contemplates Revenge and Forgiveness
“It was a really fun challenge,...
- 12/28/2022
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
How do you ensure authenticity so that your designs don’t look like sets and props? What film of TV series do you hold up as a gold standard in production design?
These were some of the secrets revealed by four top film production designers when they joined Gold Derby’s special “Meet the Experts” Q&a event with 2022/2023 awards contenders: Molly Hughes (“Thirteen Lives”), Curt Beech (“Till”), Jess Gonchor (“White Noise”) and Peter Cosco (“Women Talking”). Watch our fascinating full group roundtable panel above and click on each name above to view each nominee’s individual interview.
See dozens of interviews with 2022/2023 awards contenders
“What I’m trying to find in the middle of my Venn diagram is authenticity, story and visual content and trying to serve all aspects of that for the design for the film, and try to find that sweet spot,” Beech declares about the tightrope between artifice and authenticity.
These were some of the secrets revealed by four top film production designers when they joined Gold Derby’s special “Meet the Experts” Q&a event with 2022/2023 awards contenders: Molly Hughes (“Thirteen Lives”), Curt Beech (“Till”), Jess Gonchor (“White Noise”) and Peter Cosco (“Women Talking”). Watch our fascinating full group roundtable panel above and click on each name above to view each nominee’s individual interview.
See dozens of interviews with 2022/2023 awards contenders
“What I’m trying to find in the middle of my Venn diagram is authenticity, story and visual content and trying to serve all aspects of that for the design for the film, and try to find that sweet spot,” Beech declares about the tightrope between artifice and authenticity.
- 11/22/2022
- by Rob Licuria
- Gold Derby
“Being in a hayloft, they were kind of suspended on this platform halfway between, metaphorically heaven and earth,” reveals production designer Peter Cosco about designing the main set for drama “Women Talking.” For our recent webchat he adds, “They were in this kind of limbo state before they decided what to do with the situation that they were faced.” We talked with Cosco as part of Gold Derby’s special “Meet the Experts” Q&a event with 2022/2023 awards contenders. Watch our exclusive video interview above.
See dozens of interviews with 2022/2023 awards contenders
In “Women Talking,” the women of an isolated religious community dealing with the aftermath of sexual assault perpetrated by the colony’s men as they grapple with reconciling the harsh reality of their oppression with their unwavering faith and steadfast commitment. Written and directed by Oscar nominee Sarah Polley (“Away From Her”) based on the 2018 novel of the same name by Miriam Toews,...
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In “Women Talking,” the women of an isolated religious community dealing with the aftermath of sexual assault perpetrated by the colony’s men as they grapple with reconciling the harsh reality of their oppression with their unwavering faith and steadfast commitment. Written and directed by Oscar nominee Sarah Polley (“Away From Her”) based on the 2018 novel of the same name by Miriam Toews,...
- 11/22/2022
- by Rob Licuria
- Gold Derby
Four top film production designers will reveal secrets behind their projects when they join Gold Derby’s special “Meet the Experts” Q&a event with 2022/2023 awards contenders. They will participate in two video discussions to premiere on Thursday, November 17, at 6:00 p.m. Pt; 9:00 p.m. Et. We’ll have a one-on-one with our senior editor Rob Licuria and a roundtable chat with all of the group together.
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This “Meet the Experts” panel welcomes the following Oscar and guild contenders:
Thirteen Lives (Amazon Prime)
Synopsis: A rescue mission is assembled in Thailand where a group of young boys and their soccer coach are trapped in a system of underground caves that are flooding.
Bio: Molly Hughes won...
RSVP today to our entire ongoing contenders panel series by clicking here to book your free reservation. We’ll send you a reminder a few minutes before the start of the show.
This “Meet the Experts” panel welcomes the following Oscar and guild contenders:
Thirteen Lives (Amazon Prime)
Synopsis: A rescue mission is assembled in Thailand where a group of young boys and their soccer coach are trapped in a system of underground caves that are flooding.
Bio: Molly Hughes won...
- 11/10/2022
- by Chris Beachum and Rob Licuria
- Gold Derby
It’s rare for sequels to make a big splash on the awards circuit; only two have ever won best picture — “The Godfather: Part II” and “Lord of the Rings: Return of the King.” But director Rian Johnson’s star-studded feature “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery” is proving to be an exception, with the filmmaker taking home the Visionary Award for his work on the upcoming whodunnit movie at this year’s 12th annual Hamilton Behind the Camera Awards.
“I’m very lucky that I have the family around me that I’ve worked with for years and years,” Johnson said during his acceptance speech, crediting his co-collaborators with helping him to achieve his cinematic vision. “My producer Ram Bergman — we’ve been working together since my first film ‘Brick,’ my cinematographer Steve Yedlin — we met freshman year in the dorms at USC, my composer Nathan Johnson — he’s my cousin,...
“I’m very lucky that I have the family around me that I’ve worked with for years and years,” Johnson said during his acceptance speech, crediting his co-collaborators with helping him to achieve his cinematic vision. “My producer Ram Bergman — we’ve been working together since my first film ‘Brick,’ my cinematographer Steve Yedlin — we met freshman year in the dorms at USC, my composer Nathan Johnson — he’s my cousin,...
- 11/7/2022
- by Katie Reul
- Variety Film + TV
Viola Davis and Rian Johnson are among those being honored at the 12th annual Hamilton Behind the Camera Awards.
The awards will be held on Nov. 5 at Avalon Hollywood on Vine and writer, actor and comedian Fortune Feimster will host the ceremony, which pays tribute to the brilliant behind-the-camera talent of the year’s most acclaimed films.
Honorees and presenters are selected from films released during the year and/or that qualified and presented at the Cannes, Toronto or Venice film festivals.
Films and creatives to be awarded this year include writer Rebecca Lenkiewicz for “She Said,” presented by Carey Mulligan; “The Woman King ” producers Cathy Schulman, Viola Davis and Julius Tennon will receive their honors from the film’s director Gina Prince-Bythewood and actor Thuso Mbedu; Taylor Russell will present the award to director Luca Guadagnino for “Bones and All;” set decorator Karen O’Hara for “The Fabelmans,” presented by...
The awards will be held on Nov. 5 at Avalon Hollywood on Vine and writer, actor and comedian Fortune Feimster will host the ceremony, which pays tribute to the brilliant behind-the-camera talent of the year’s most acclaimed films.
Honorees and presenters are selected from films released during the year and/or that qualified and presented at the Cannes, Toronto or Venice film festivals.
Films and creatives to be awarded this year include writer Rebecca Lenkiewicz for “She Said,” presented by Carey Mulligan; “The Woman King ” producers Cathy Schulman, Viola Davis and Julius Tennon will receive their honors from the film’s director Gina Prince-Bythewood and actor Thuso Mbedu; Taylor Russell will present the award to director Luca Guadagnino for “Bones and All;” set decorator Karen O’Hara for “The Fabelmans,” presented by...
- 10/24/2022
- by Jazz Tangcay
- Variety Film + TV
Click here to read the full article.
The Hamilton watches team is finalizing the honorees and presenters program for the upcoming 12th Hamilton Behind the Camera Awards presented by Los Angeles Confidential magazine.
Set for Nov. 5 at the Avalon Hollywood and hosted by comedian Fortune Feimster, the ceremony will honor creatives and talent from such films as The Woman King, The Fabelmans, Top Gun: Maverick, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, She Said and Women Talking, among others.
The roster of honorees and presenters includes She Said writer Rebecca Lenkiewicz who will be feted by the film’s star Carey Mulligan; The Woman King producers Cathy Schulman, Viola Davis and Julius Tennon will be singled out for their work by the film’s director Gina Prince-Bythewood and star Thuso Mbedu; Bones and All helmer Luca Guadagnino will be given an award by star Taylor Russell; The Fabelmans set decorator Karen O’Hara...
The Hamilton watches team is finalizing the honorees and presenters program for the upcoming 12th Hamilton Behind the Camera Awards presented by Los Angeles Confidential magazine.
Set for Nov. 5 at the Avalon Hollywood and hosted by comedian Fortune Feimster, the ceremony will honor creatives and talent from such films as The Woman King, The Fabelmans, Top Gun: Maverick, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, She Said and Women Talking, among others.
The roster of honorees and presenters includes She Said writer Rebecca Lenkiewicz who will be feted by the film’s star Carey Mulligan; The Woman King producers Cathy Schulman, Viola Davis and Julius Tennon will be singled out for their work by the film’s director Gina Prince-Bythewood and star Thuso Mbedu; Bones and All helmer Luca Guadagnino will be given an award by star Taylor Russell; The Fabelmans set decorator Karen O’Hara...
- 10/24/2022
- by Chris Gardner
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Variety Awards Circuit section is the home for all awards news and related content throughout the year, featuring the following: the official predictions for the upcoming Oscars, Emmys, Grammys and Tony awards ceremonies, curated by Variety senior awards editor Clayton Davis. The prediction pages are Davis’ assessment of the current standings of the race and do not reflect personal preferences for any film or performance. Like any organization or body that votes, each individual category is fluid and subject to change. Predictions are updated every Thursday.
Last Updated: Oct. 20, 2022
2023 Oscars Predictions: Best Production Design Thirteen Lives, from left: Thira Chutikul, Viggo Mortensen, 2022. ph: Vince Valitutti / © MGM / Courtesy Everett Collection
Category Commentary: More to come…
See the latest film predictions, in all 23 categories, in one place on Variety’s Oscars Collective.
To see the ranked predictions for each individual category, visit Variety’s Oscars Hub.
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Last Updated: Oct. 20, 2022
2023 Oscars Predictions: Best Production Design Thirteen Lives, from left: Thira Chutikul, Viggo Mortensen, 2022. ph: Vince Valitutti / © MGM / Courtesy Everett Collection
Category Commentary: More to come…
See the latest film predictions, in all 23 categories, in one place on Variety’s Oscars Collective.
To see the ranked predictions for each individual category, visit Variety’s Oscars Hub.
All Awards Contenders And Rankings:
And...
- 10/21/2022
- by Clayton Davis
- Variety Film + TV
Click here to read the full article.
“What follows is an act of female imagination,” declares a tile card at the beginning of Women Talking. It’s an accurate description — the feature is writer-director Sarah Polley’s adaptation of a novel by Miriam Toews, centered on the female members of a Mennonite colony. But those opening words are also a taunt and a challenge: The women are sorting out their response to years of calculated sexual abuse, years in which the male leaders of their sect silenced their complaints by insisting that the horrors they experienced belonged to the realm of demons or the “wild female imagination.”
At the core of Polley’s smart, compassionate film is the belief that in movies and in life, words can be action — and for people who have been denied a voice, they can be revolutionary. The philosophical and sometimes faith-steeped bent of the...
“What follows is an act of female imagination,” declares a tile card at the beginning of Women Talking. It’s an accurate description — the feature is writer-director Sarah Polley’s adaptation of a novel by Miriam Toews, centered on the female members of a Mennonite colony. But those opening words are also a taunt and a challenge: The women are sorting out their response to years of calculated sexual abuse, years in which the male leaders of their sect silenced their complaints by insisting that the horrors they experienced belonged to the realm of demons or the “wild female imagination.”
At the core of Polley’s smart, compassionate film is the belief that in movies and in life, words can be action — and for people who have been denied a voice, they can be revolutionary. The philosophical and sometimes faith-steeped bent of the...
- 9/3/2022
- by Sheri Linden
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
He helmed the 2009 remake of Wes Craven’s The Last House on the Left and took viewers to a party they wouldn’t soon forget in 2013’s +1. Now director Dennis Iliadis is hard at work on his latest film, He’s Out There, which has started filming in Canada:
Press Release: Montreal, July 29, 2016 – Principal photography has begun on Screen Gems’ suspense thriller, He’s Out There. Yvonne Strahovski stars, along with Justin Bruening, Anna Pniowsky, Abigail Pniowsky, Julian Bailey and Ryan McDonald. Dennis Iliadis directs, from a script by Mike Scannell. Producers are Adrienne Biddle and Bryan Bertino of Unbroken Pictures. Glenn Gainor is executive producer.
On vacation at a remote lake house, a mother and her two young daughters must fight for survival after falling into a terrifying and bizarre nightmare.
Yvonne Strahovski’s film roles include I, Frankenstein, The Guilt Trip and Killer Elite, and she will next...
Press Release: Montreal, July 29, 2016 – Principal photography has begun on Screen Gems’ suspense thriller, He’s Out There. Yvonne Strahovski stars, along with Justin Bruening, Anna Pniowsky, Abigail Pniowsky, Julian Bailey and Ryan McDonald. Dennis Iliadis directs, from a script by Mike Scannell. Producers are Adrienne Biddle and Bryan Bertino of Unbroken Pictures. Glenn Gainor is executive producer.
On vacation at a remote lake house, a mother and her two young daughters must fight for survival after falling into a terrifying and bizarre nightmare.
Yvonne Strahovski’s film roles include I, Frankenstein, The Guilt Trip and Killer Elite, and she will next...
- 7/29/2016
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Opens: Wednesday, July 2 (Picturehouse).
Refreshingly sincere and full of wholesome can-do spirit, the first big-screen incarnation of the American Girl doll-and-book series -- the anti-Bratz of collectibles -- offers solid, kid-friendly storytelling. Although it puts a warm gloss on the Great Depression, "Kit Kittredge: An American Girl" does so with heart and spunk and a minimum of fuss, particularly in Abigail Breslin's bright title-role performance.
The film's appeal to girls and to mother-daughter duos who are devotees of the source material is a given. But newcomers to the franchise's inspirational history lessons (which include three telefilms) will appreciate the old-fashioned guilelessness of the story. Parents and grandparents, in particular, will be grateful for tween fare that doesn't center on fashionista frenzy.
However bathed in nostalgia, the story's hard-times reverberations are of the moment. Set in 1934 Cincinnati, the film finds indomitable 9-year-old Kit (Breslin in a blond bob, reminiscent of a young(er) Kirsten Dunst) watching her well-to-do neighborhood struck by foreclosures and unemployment. After her father (Chris O'Donnell) heads to Chicago in search of work, Kit's resilient mom (Julia Ormond) opens their home to boarders as she struggles to pay the bills.
The ever-observant Kit retreats to her treehouse typewriter to create articles like "Portrait of a Boarding House", which she fearlessly submits to the editor of the Cincinnati Register (Wallace Shawn), eager to jump-start her career in journalism. But she's also a Nancy Drew in the making, and when a wave of "hobo crimes" affects her household, she and her best friends (Madison Davenport and Zach Mills) set out to solve the burglary. Kit, like the movie itself, is driven by a sense of compassion, and she's determined to prove that the accused, a hobo teen (Max Thieriot) who has been working for food, is not the thief.
Although the emphasis is on entertainment rather than education, the script by Ann Peacock ("The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe") nonetheless is pitched toward younger viewers in its careful explanations and reiterations. Despite sermonizing tendencies, though, the story is not without pleasingly silly business, mainly from the adults in Kit's life, deftly drawn by a strong supporting cast. Besides the lovely Ormond and sputtering Shawn, there's Glenne Headly's nose-in-the air neighbor, brought down a few notches; Joan Cusack's road-skills-challenged driver of a mobile library; Stanley Tucci's traveling magician, entertaining the Kittredge household with living-room levitations; and Jane Krakowski's husband-hunting hoofer.
With the exception of Kit's parents, they're all slightly ridiculous, as adults usually are in kids' eyes, but director Patricia Rozema ("Mansfield Park") never loses sight of their smiling-through-the-tears ache. The balancing act between emotional darkness and cutesy fortitude is constant and apparent, but mainly the film carries it off with poise and earns its heart-tugging payoff.
Bolstering the gentle look at class divisions and demonization of the have-nots is Peter Cosco's production design, which brings to life somewhat sanitized soup kitchens and hobo camps as well as 1930s middle-class comfort, complete with quaint vintage gadgets. Cinematographer David Boyd casts the proceedings in an apt burnished light.
Word-of-mouth should be chipper in the movie's limited release in five markets this weekend before it goes wide July 2.
Production: Picturehouse and New Line Cinema present in association with HBO Films a Goldsmith-Thomas production in association with Red Om Films. Cast: Abigail Breslin, Julia Ormond, Chris O'Donnell, Jane Krakowski, Wallace Shawn, Max Thieriot, Willow Smith, Glenne Headly, Zach Mills, Kenneth Welsh, Madison Davenport, Joan Cusack, Stanley Tucci. Director: Patricia Rozema. Screenwriter: Ann Peacock. Executive producers: Julia Roberts, Marisa Yeres. Producers: Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas, Lisa Gillan, Ellen Brothers, Julie Goldstein. Director of Photography: David Boyd. Production Designer: Peter Cosco. Music: Joseph Vitarelli. Co-Producers: Jodi Goldberg, Terry Gould. Costume Designer: Trysha Bakker. Editor: Julie Rogers. Rated G, 100 minutes.
Refreshingly sincere and full of wholesome can-do spirit, the first big-screen incarnation of the American Girl doll-and-book series -- the anti-Bratz of collectibles -- offers solid, kid-friendly storytelling. Although it puts a warm gloss on the Great Depression, "Kit Kittredge: An American Girl" does so with heart and spunk and a minimum of fuss, particularly in Abigail Breslin's bright title-role performance.
The film's appeal to girls and to mother-daughter duos who are devotees of the source material is a given. But newcomers to the franchise's inspirational history lessons (which include three telefilms) will appreciate the old-fashioned guilelessness of the story. Parents and grandparents, in particular, will be grateful for tween fare that doesn't center on fashionista frenzy.
However bathed in nostalgia, the story's hard-times reverberations are of the moment. Set in 1934 Cincinnati, the film finds indomitable 9-year-old Kit (Breslin in a blond bob, reminiscent of a young(er) Kirsten Dunst) watching her well-to-do neighborhood struck by foreclosures and unemployment. After her father (Chris O'Donnell) heads to Chicago in search of work, Kit's resilient mom (Julia Ormond) opens their home to boarders as she struggles to pay the bills.
The ever-observant Kit retreats to her treehouse typewriter to create articles like "Portrait of a Boarding House", which she fearlessly submits to the editor of the Cincinnati Register (Wallace Shawn), eager to jump-start her career in journalism. But she's also a Nancy Drew in the making, and when a wave of "hobo crimes" affects her household, she and her best friends (Madison Davenport and Zach Mills) set out to solve the burglary. Kit, like the movie itself, is driven by a sense of compassion, and she's determined to prove that the accused, a hobo teen (Max Thieriot) who has been working for food, is not the thief.
Although the emphasis is on entertainment rather than education, the script by Ann Peacock ("The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe") nonetheless is pitched toward younger viewers in its careful explanations and reiterations. Despite sermonizing tendencies, though, the story is not without pleasingly silly business, mainly from the adults in Kit's life, deftly drawn by a strong supporting cast. Besides the lovely Ormond and sputtering Shawn, there's Glenne Headly's nose-in-the air neighbor, brought down a few notches; Joan Cusack's road-skills-challenged driver of a mobile library; Stanley Tucci's traveling magician, entertaining the Kittredge household with living-room levitations; and Jane Krakowski's husband-hunting hoofer.
With the exception of Kit's parents, they're all slightly ridiculous, as adults usually are in kids' eyes, but director Patricia Rozema ("Mansfield Park") never loses sight of their smiling-through-the-tears ache. The balancing act between emotional darkness and cutesy fortitude is constant and apparent, but mainly the film carries it off with poise and earns its heart-tugging payoff.
Bolstering the gentle look at class divisions and demonization of the have-nots is Peter Cosco's production design, which brings to life somewhat sanitized soup kitchens and hobo camps as well as 1930s middle-class comfort, complete with quaint vintage gadgets. Cinematographer David Boyd casts the proceedings in an apt burnished light.
Word-of-mouth should be chipper in the movie's limited release in five markets this weekend before it goes wide July 2.
Production: Picturehouse and New Line Cinema present in association with HBO Films a Goldsmith-Thomas production in association with Red Om Films. Cast: Abigail Breslin, Julia Ormond, Chris O'Donnell, Jane Krakowski, Wallace Shawn, Max Thieriot, Willow Smith, Glenne Headly, Zach Mills, Kenneth Welsh, Madison Davenport, Joan Cusack, Stanley Tucci. Director: Patricia Rozema. Screenwriter: Ann Peacock. Executive producers: Julia Roberts, Marisa Yeres. Producers: Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas, Lisa Gillan, Ellen Brothers, Julie Goldstein. Director of Photography: David Boyd. Production Designer: Peter Cosco. Music: Joseph Vitarelli. Co-Producers: Jodi Goldberg, Terry Gould. Costume Designer: Trysha Bakker. Editor: Julie Rogers. Rated G, 100 minutes.
- 6/19/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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