Exclusive: Stillking Films, the production services company behind titles like Yorgos Lanthimos’s Poor Things has teamed up with production house Twentyfour Seven to launch the Málaga-based production outfit Ánima Stillking.
Ánima Stillking will be overseen by Silvia Aráez, who will take up the role of CEO. Aráez had a previous stint as CEO of Fresco Film. The company’s exec team will also include executive producer María Cabello, whose credits include Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant, Netflix’s Fool Me Once, Black Mirror, and Sony’s The Blacklist alongside CFO Cristina Armario, also previously CFO of Fresco Film.
In addition to its Málaga base, Ánima Stillking has fully staffed offices in the Canary Islands, Barcelona, Madrid, Basque Country, and Palma de Mallorca. The outfit is already chomping away with a slate of projects, including several projects in production with Netflix and what they have described as “a major anthology series for AMC.
Ánima Stillking will be overseen by Silvia Aráez, who will take up the role of CEO. Aráez had a previous stint as CEO of Fresco Film. The company’s exec team will also include executive producer María Cabello, whose credits include Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant, Netflix’s Fool Me Once, Black Mirror, and Sony’s The Blacklist alongside CFO Cristina Armario, also previously CFO of Fresco Film.
In addition to its Málaga base, Ánima Stillking has fully staffed offices in the Canary Islands, Barcelona, Madrid, Basque Country, and Palma de Mallorca. The outfit is already chomping away with a slate of projects, including several projects in production with Netflix and what they have described as “a major anthology series for AMC.
- 5/7/2024
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
Anya Taylor-Joy will be seen on screen in Dune: Part 2, in a surprise casting revealed the day of the film’s London world premiere, Deadline has confirmed.
She joins a list of newcomers that includes Austin Butler, Florence Pugh, Léa Seydoux, Souheila Yacoub, Christopher Walken and Tim Blake Nelson. Timothée Chalamet and Zendaya lead the sequel, with Rebecca Ferguson, Josh Brolin, Dave Bautista, Javier Bardem Stellan Skarsgård and Charlotte Rampling also returning.
Details as to Taylor-Joy’s role are under wraps. Dune: Part Two is the second in a line of blockbusters, based on Frank Herbert’s epic sci-fi novel, that Denis Villeneuve has directed for Warner Bros and Legendary Entertainment. The first, released in the fall of 2021, landed six Oscars and grossed over $402Mm worldwide.
The new film picks up with Paul Atreides (Chalamet) as he unites with Chani (Zendaya) and the Fremen while seeking revenge against the conspirators who destroyed his family.
She joins a list of newcomers that includes Austin Butler, Florence Pugh, Léa Seydoux, Souheila Yacoub, Christopher Walken and Tim Blake Nelson. Timothée Chalamet and Zendaya lead the sequel, with Rebecca Ferguson, Josh Brolin, Dave Bautista, Javier Bardem Stellan Skarsgård and Charlotte Rampling also returning.
Details as to Taylor-Joy’s role are under wraps. Dune: Part Two is the second in a line of blockbusters, based on Frank Herbert’s epic sci-fi novel, that Denis Villeneuve has directed for Warner Bros and Legendary Entertainment. The first, released in the fall of 2021, landed six Oscars and grossed over $402Mm worldwide.
The new film picks up with Paul Atreides (Chalamet) as he unites with Chani (Zendaya) and the Fremen while seeking revenge against the conspirators who destroyed his family.
- 2/15/2024
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Director Ryan Coogler’s next project – said to be a period vampire film – is set to star Michael B Jordan and has sparked something of a bidding war. More details here:
Little is known about Ryan Coogler’s next project, but negotiations with studios in the past week mean that a couple of juicy details have emerged regarding the secretive film that Coogler and Michael B Jordan are looking to get underway this year.
We learned last week that the project would be a genre movie – and it’s now being described as a period vampire film, which Coogler and Jordan are looking to shoot this summer. Naturally, the project has garnered lots of interest, but it sounds like Netflix isn’t being invited to the party as Coogler is insistent that the film gets a ‘full worldwide theatrical release’.
Warner Bros, Sony and Universal are said to be the...
Little is known about Ryan Coogler’s next project, but negotiations with studios in the past week mean that a couple of juicy details have emerged regarding the secretive film that Coogler and Michael B Jordan are looking to get underway this year.
We learned last week that the project would be a genre movie – and it’s now being described as a period vampire film, which Coogler and Jordan are looking to shoot this summer. Naturally, the project has garnered lots of interest, but it sounds like Netflix isn’t being invited to the party as Coogler is insistent that the film gets a ‘full worldwide theatrical release’.
Warner Bros, Sony and Universal are said to be the...
- 1/24/2024
- by Dan Cooper
- Film Stories
Exclusive: Fat City, the nascent production company set up by Licorice Pizza producer Sara Murphy and War Pony producer Ryan Zacarias, has a new director of development.
The company, which has a first-look deal with Anonymous Content, has hired Sofia Paz in the role.
She recently worked with artists at the Inhotim Institute of Contemporary Art but before that she was in the development department of Rt Features, on films such as Robert Egger’s The Lighthouse, Antoneta Kusijanovic’s Murina, Olivier Assayas’ Wasp Network and Karim Ainouz’s The Invisible life of Eurydice Gusmao. She began as an EP on Mike Cahill’s I Origins.
“We feel very lucky to have Sofia join us as the Director of Development at Fat City,” said Murphy and Zacarias in a joint statement. “Her taste is exceptional and her enthusiasm for story and bringing films to life is infectious.”
“I am just...
The company, which has a first-look deal with Anonymous Content, has hired Sofia Paz in the role.
She recently worked with artists at the Inhotim Institute of Contemporary Art but before that she was in the development department of Rt Features, on films such as Robert Egger’s The Lighthouse, Antoneta Kusijanovic’s Murina, Olivier Assayas’ Wasp Network and Karim Ainouz’s The Invisible life of Eurydice Gusmao. She began as an EP on Mike Cahill’s I Origins.
“We feel very lucky to have Sofia join us as the Director of Development at Fat City,” said Murphy and Zacarias in a joint statement. “Her taste is exceptional and her enthusiasm for story and bringing films to life is infectious.”
“I am just...
- 10/2/2023
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
There's lots of great stuff hitting streaming this week, but the debut of the Netflix film "Seven Kings Must Die" and the return of HBO Max's fourth season of "Titans" are two guaranteed to deliver high-intensity action. Fans looking to pair brutal historical epics with their watch of "Seven Kings Must Die" need to look no further than Robert Egger's Shakespearean Viking epic "The Northman" on Prime Video or Neil Marshall's Romans-vs-Picts action-adventure film "The Centurion," available on more than half a dozen streaming services. For those looking for something less bloody and closer tied to "Titans," there's always the Superman origin story series "Smallville," streaming on Hulu, or if you want to get really vintage, there's the young adult shapeshifting series "Animorphs," streaming on Prime Video. There's no shortage of action and adventure available on streaming this week, so let's get to it.
Seven Kings Must Die...
Seven Kings Must Die...
- 4/10/2023
- by Danielle Ryan
- Slash Film
"This is the best sushi you will ever have." Join director M. Night Shyamalan as he browses through this Paris video store in the latest offering of the "Vidéo Club" series made by Konbini. We've posted videos of Brad Pitt and Terry Gilliam in this classic video store, now it's Shyamalan's turn. At first he talks extensively about his love for Akira Kurosawa films and stories with a moral dilemma, then he raves about Bergman's Persona and Bresson, specifically the 1956 film A Man Escaped. He also goes on to talk about Lynch's Twin Peaks and Hitchcock's Rebecca (one of his favorites in his collection at home) and Julia Ducournau's Raw - saying how this one blew him away and he ended up hiring her to shoot some eps of his TV show "Servant" because of it. He also mentions that he'd like to work with Robert Pattinson one day,...
- 2/6/2023
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
In Enys Men – the much-anticipated new film written and directed by Cornish filmmaker Mark Jenkin, whose last feature, Bait (2019), earned him a Bafta for Outstanding Debut – a woman in walking boots, jeans, and a translucent red anorak trudges across gorsy moorland towards a cliff face. She clambers down, perches on a rocky outcrop, and stares intently at a few white flowers as they sway in the wind, high above clamorous waves below.
Every day she studies these flowers. Then, every day she drops a rock into an abandoned tin mine’s inky depths, and stands listening for a distant thud. She returns to an isolated, ivy-covered cottage. A standing stone sticks out of the landscape like an ancient dagger-head. The woman pulls the cord of a power generator, makes a pot of tea, listens to the scratchy, indistinct noises of a radio communication device, and, in a logbook, records the...
Every day she studies these flowers. Then, every day she drops a rock into an abandoned tin mine’s inky depths, and stands listening for a distant thud. She returns to an isolated, ivy-covered cottage. A standing stone sticks out of the landscape like an ancient dagger-head. The woman pulls the cord of a power generator, makes a pot of tea, listens to the scratchy, indistinct noises of a radio communication device, and, in a logbook, records the...
- 1/15/2023
- by Eloise Hendy
- The Independent - Film
In Jamie Wanstall’s stylistic short Still Waters Run Deep what starts out as a romantic camping getaway in the woods quickly descends into a psychological tale of madness and folk horror. It tracks Darren and Sorcha, a pair of long-term lovers, on a trip, hoping to spend some time away in nature. But, unfortunately for them, their isolated woodland location has other ideas. Wanstall’s precise visual direction gives the film a distinctive flair akin to Robert Egger’s menacing feature The Witch. His camera moves and pans slowly, allowing the tension to bubble away before being released in all manner of strange and surreal occurrences. Dn spoke with Wanstall as the Still Waters Run Deep arrives online to discuss his genre influences, the film’s clever and concise cinematography, and the catharsis of channelling his own fears and anxieties into his filmmaking.
Where did the idea of a...
Where did the idea of a...
- 8/23/2022
- by James Maitre
- Directors Notes
Rt Features and CG Cinema to produce thriller.
Olivier Assayas will write and direct Wasp Network, a thriller based on Fernando Morais’ book, The Last Soldiers Of The Cold War.
Rt Features’ Rodrigo Teixeira will produce alongside CG Cinema’s Charles Gillibert, while Rt’s Lourenço Sant’Anna and Sophie Mas will serve as executive producers.
Wasp Network recounts the stories of Cuban spies in American territory during the 1990s and exposes a terrorist network based in Florida whose sphere of influence extended throughout Central America with the consent of the Us government.
Assayas most recently wrote and directed Personal Shopper starring Kristen Stewart, which opened last month through IFC and premiered in Cannes last summer.
Brazilian producer-financier Rt Features backed Sundance hits Call Me By Your Name, which Luca Guadagnino directed and Spc will release, and Geremy Jasper’s Patti Cake$, which Fox Searchlight picked up in Park City.
Sao Paulo-based...
Olivier Assayas will write and direct Wasp Network, a thriller based on Fernando Morais’ book, The Last Soldiers Of The Cold War.
Rt Features’ Rodrigo Teixeira will produce alongside CG Cinema’s Charles Gillibert, while Rt’s Lourenço Sant’Anna and Sophie Mas will serve as executive producers.
Wasp Network recounts the stories of Cuban spies in American territory during the 1990s and exposes a terrorist network based in Florida whose sphere of influence extended throughout Central America with the consent of the Us government.
Assayas most recently wrote and directed Personal Shopper starring Kristen Stewart, which opened last month through IFC and premiered in Cannes last summer.
Brazilian producer-financier Rt Features backed Sundance hits Call Me By Your Name, which Luca Guadagnino directed and Spc will release, and Geremy Jasper’s Patti Cake$, which Fox Searchlight picked up in Park City.
Sao Paulo-based...
- 4/6/2017
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Author: Matt Rodgers
It feels strange to herald Hailee Steinfeld as a fresh cinematic supernova, considering her Oscar nominated turn as True Grit’s Mattie Ross was as far back as 2010. Since then she has carved out a wonderful niche as a supporting actress, often stealing the films from under the nose of the likes of Anna Kendrick (Pitch Perfect 2), whilst also sustaining what the kids tell me is a pretty good pop career.
Last year she stepped up to leading lady status with The Edge of Seventeen. It’s the kind of film that should have found a bigger audience, threatening a re-think of most people’s top ten of the year lists. One of those coming-of-age parables that truly reflects what it was/is like to be young, and as the sardonic Nadine, Steinfeld runs the full gamut of emotions; comedic to sympathetic, and always utterly watchable.
It feels strange to herald Hailee Steinfeld as a fresh cinematic supernova, considering her Oscar nominated turn as True Grit’s Mattie Ross was as far back as 2010. Since then she has carved out a wonderful niche as a supporting actress, often stealing the films from under the nose of the likes of Anna Kendrick (Pitch Perfect 2), whilst also sustaining what the kids tell me is a pretty good pop career.
Last year she stepped up to leading lady status with The Edge of Seventeen. It’s the kind of film that should have found a bigger audience, threatening a re-think of most people’s top ten of the year lists. One of those coming-of-age parables that truly reflects what it was/is like to be young, and as the sardonic Nadine, Steinfeld runs the full gamut of emotions; comedic to sympathetic, and always utterly watchable.
- 3/24/2017
- by Matt Rodgers
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Author: David Sztypuljak
Every year, Ee sponsor the BAFTA Rising Star Award at the British Academy of Film and Television Awards here in London town. The award is always a fascinating one since it’s voted for by the public.
Star Wars’ John Boyega won the 2016 BAFTA Rising Star Award
The nominations have just been announced from BAFTA HQ are in the running for the 2017 spot are all listed below. It’s going to be very interesting to see who takes the win this year with the likes of Tom Holland as Spider-Man being so mainstream and Anya Taylor-Joy appearing in the likes of The Witch.
Previous winners of the award include James McAvoy, Eva Green, Shia Labeouf, Noel Clarke, Tom Hardy, Juno Temple, Will Poulter, Jack O’Connell and last year the award was taken by Star Wars star John Boyega.
This year the nominations are as strong as every with Laia Costa,...
Every year, Ee sponsor the BAFTA Rising Star Award at the British Academy of Film and Television Awards here in London town. The award is always a fascinating one since it’s voted for by the public.
Star Wars’ John Boyega won the 2016 BAFTA Rising Star Award
The nominations have just been announced from BAFTA HQ are in the running for the 2017 spot are all listed below. It’s going to be very interesting to see who takes the win this year with the likes of Tom Holland as Spider-Man being so mainstream and Anya Taylor-Joy appearing in the likes of The Witch.
Previous winners of the award include James McAvoy, Eva Green, Shia Labeouf, Noel Clarke, Tom Hardy, Juno Temple, Will Poulter, Jack O’Connell and last year the award was taken by Star Wars star John Boyega.
This year the nominations are as strong as every with Laia Costa,...
- 1/5/2017
- by David Sztypuljak
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Wholly unique and totally unnerving, The Witch is one of the best horror movies of 2016 (maybe eve one of the year's best films), and a great showcase for what fledgling director Robert Egger’s career has in store for us. But what if another director tackled this tale of isolation and religious faith, say a certain Arch Duke of Whimsy? Yes, it’s another Wes Anderson parody video, but the guys over at Cinefix have really hit it out of the park with this one, employing many of Anderson’s well known traits, from lively music to pastel hues, to transform The Witch into a pretty convincing comedy about a dysfunctional family trying to start a new life for themselves. Check it out for yourself below.
- 12/1/2016
- by noreply@blogger.com (Tom White)
- www.themoviebit.com
Nearing the halfway mark of the movie year and teetering, as we all are, on the edge of another summer movie abyss which holds only the thinnest promise of providing strong reason to tread amongst the mall-igentsia in search of air-conditioned escape, I find myself feeling far less regret than usual over the movies I’ve missed so far in 2016. Usually by this point I’m bemoaning having had to sideline 20 or 30 interesting pictures because I couldn’t get out to a theater. This year I’ve whiffed on about the same number of movies of interest, but only nine or 10 of those misses have anything like real regret attached to them. It does actively annoy me that I will have to catch up with the likes of Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Cemetery of Splendor, the foodie doc City of Gold, Jeff Nichols’ Midnight Special, Ethan Hawke as Chet Baker in Born to Be Blue,...
- 5/22/2016
- by Dennis Cozzalio
- Trailers from Hell
The UK’s Lucas Ochoa and Poland’s Klaudia Smieja are among upcoming European producers set for neworking initiative in Cannes.Scroll down for the full list
European Film Promotion (Efp) has selected 20 emerging European producers for the 17th edition of its Producers on the Move networking initiative, which will be held during the Cannes Film Festival between May 14-17.
The participating producers will take part in a programme of round-table project presentations, one-on-one speed dating pitches and case studies of successful projects.
The 2016 selection includes the UK’s Lucas Ochoa, producer on Andrea Arnold’s Cannes competition entry American Honey. Ochoa has had winning films at the Sundance Film Festival for four years in a row including Robert Egger’s multi-award winning The Witch and this year’s Michal Marczak documentary All These Sleepless Night.
Poland’s Klaudia Smieja, an executive producer on Icelandic hit Rams, has also been selected. Her additional...
European Film Promotion (Efp) has selected 20 emerging European producers for the 17th edition of its Producers on the Move networking initiative, which will be held during the Cannes Film Festival between May 14-17.
The participating producers will take part in a programme of round-table project presentations, one-on-one speed dating pitches and case studies of successful projects.
The 2016 selection includes the UK’s Lucas Ochoa, producer on Andrea Arnold’s Cannes competition entry American Honey. Ochoa has had winning films at the Sundance Film Festival for four years in a row including Robert Egger’s multi-award winning The Witch and this year’s Michal Marczak documentary All These Sleepless Night.
Poland’s Klaudia Smieja, an executive producer on Icelandic hit Rams, has also been selected. Her additional...
- 4/21/2016
- ScreenDaily
Once in a while a horror film arrives that truly shakes the genre foundations and stands out strong amongst the more synthetic studio features. Luckily for us we’ve got two in the pipeline: Robert Egger’s The Witch is set to terrify UK audiences this month and hopefully not too far behind it will be Baskin.
The post FrightFest Glasgow 2016: Baskin Review appeared first on HeyUGuys.
The post FrightFest Glasgow 2016: Baskin Review appeared first on HeyUGuys.
- 3/4/2016
- by Daniel Goodwin
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
It shouldn’t be a surprise to any of our readers that we here at PopOptiq love horror movies. All month long we’ve been counting down the 200 greatest horror films ever made alongside our 31 Days of Horror marathon. And every year just before Halloween, our staff bands together to decide what our favourite horror films of the past year are. It’s never an easy feat since we don’t always agree but as with every list, nobody will. That said, here are the 17 best horror films of 2015 according to our writers.
Note: We didn’t bother to list them in any order but we recommend them all!
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A Christmas Horror Story
A Christmas Horror Story offers five interwoven tales of terror set on Christmas Eve, as executed by three Canadian filmmakers, Grant Harvey, Bret Sullivan and veteran genre producer Steven Hoban making his feature directorial debut. Much like Trick ‘r Treat,...
Note: We didn’t bother to list them in any order but we recommend them all!
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A Christmas Horror Story
A Christmas Horror Story offers five interwoven tales of terror set on Christmas Eve, as executed by three Canadian filmmakers, Grant Harvey, Bret Sullivan and veteran genre producer Steven Hoban making his feature directorial debut. Much like Trick ‘r Treat,...
- 10/30/2015
- by Ricky Fernandes
- SoundOnSight
One of the standouts from this year.s Sundance Film Festival was The Witch. It didn.t just stand out for Robert Egger.s incredible directing. It didn.t just stand out for its cinematography. It also stood out for scaring the bejeezus out of critics. And now the first trailer is online! Watch it below. The Witch takes us back to colonial period horror. In 1630 New England, a farmer is forced off his plantation, so uproots his family and moves to a remote plot of land close to a forest said to be controlled by witches. This was back in the days when the idea of witches was a legitimate concern, so why he would choose this piece of land is beyond me. Nonetheless, that.s where he goes. Sure enough, frightening occurrences begin to happen almost instantly. Based on the Witch trailer, that includes the animals producing blood...
- 8/20/2015
- cinemablend.com
Variety has published its annual list of "10 Cinematographers to Watch." The list is heavily indie-focused, highlighting DPs who have earned kudos for their work on low-budget projects for indie breakouts such as Ryan Coogler, Damien Chazelle, Diane Bell, Eliza Hittman, David and Nathan Zellner, Thomas Vinterberg, J.C. Candor, Ava DuVernay and others. Read More: Bradford Young on How He Became One of the Busiest Cinematographers Working Today See the full list below (along with some of their most noteworthy credits) in the order listed by Variety: Jarin Blaschke (Robert Egger's "The Witch") Martin Ahlgren ("House of Cards") Zak Mulligan (Diane Bell's "Obselidia") Charlotte Bruus Christensen (Thomas Vinterberg's "The Hunt") Sharone Meir (Damien Chazelle's "Whiplash") Radium Cheung (Sean Baker's "Tangerine," J.C. Chandor's "All Is Lost") Rachel Morrison (Ryan Coogler's "Fruitvale...
- 4/21/2015
- by Paula Bernstein
- Indiewire
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