After a group of eBay employees behaved like trashy John Waters characters — mailing people live spiders and cockroaches — the company is paying the price.
The Justice Department is charging eBay $3 million as a criminal penalty for carrying out a harassment and intimidation campaign against a Massachusetts couple, which involved mailing them creepy-crawlies and other stomach-churning packages. Other items included a bloody pig mask, a fetal pig, a funeral wreath, and a book about grieving the loss of a spouse. The employees also threatened to visit them at their home, and...
The Justice Department is charging eBay $3 million as a criminal penalty for carrying out a harassment and intimidation campaign against a Massachusetts couple, which involved mailing them creepy-crawlies and other stomach-churning packages. Other items included a bloody pig mask, a fetal pig, a funeral wreath, and a book about grieving the loss of a spouse. The employees also threatened to visit them at their home, and...
- 1/11/2024
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
Outgoing BFI festivals director Tricia Tuttle has joined the National Film And Television School as Acting Head of Department for the directing fiction course.
Tuttle’s role at the Nfts will be part-time until she completes her duties at the BFI following BFI Flare, the organization’s Lgbtqia+ film festival, in March, at which point she will join the film school on a full-time basis.
Tuttle stepped down as festivals director at the BFI in October 2021 after a decade working for the organization. For the past five years, she has led the BFI London Film Festival and BFI Flare. Last year, under Tuttle’s directorship, the London Film Festival screened 164 feature films, including 23 premieres across film and TV, with highlights including the world premiere of Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio and the international premiere of She Said, starring Carey Mulligan and Zoe Kazan.
Tuttle was previously Deputy Head of Festivals...
Tuttle’s role at the Nfts will be part-time until she completes her duties at the BFI following BFI Flare, the organization’s Lgbtqia+ film festival, in March, at which point she will join the film school on a full-time basis.
Tuttle stepped down as festivals director at the BFI in October 2021 after a decade working for the organization. For the past five years, she has led the BFI London Film Festival and BFI Flare. Last year, under Tuttle’s directorship, the London Film Festival screened 164 feature films, including 23 premieres across film and TV, with highlights including the world premiere of Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio and the international premiere of She Said, starring Carey Mulligan and Zoe Kazan.
Tuttle was previously Deputy Head of Festivals...
- 1/15/2023
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Village Roadshow Entertainment has hired Brian Gilbert to oversee the newly launched Village Roadshow Sports. Gilbert will oversee development of Vreg’s original slate of sports content while also working closely with Vreg’s existing film and television divisions to amplify relevant sports themes in their respective slates. Gilbert will report to Steve Mosko, CEO of Village Roadshow Entertainment Group, who made the announcement today.
“Brian is uniquely skilled at developing and adapting compelling stories with a fresh point of view, and this is complemented by his deep knowledge and passion for all things sports. Having partnered with him on multiple projects, we know what he is capable of and could think of no one better to lead us as we meet the growing demand for sports-related content,” said Mosko.
Gilbert moves to Village Roadshow from Bingeable, where he served as Head of Content, building a slate of over...
“Brian is uniquely skilled at developing and adapting compelling stories with a fresh point of view, and this is complemented by his deep knowledge and passion for all things sports. Having partnered with him on multiple projects, we know what he is capable of and could think of no one better to lead us as we meet the growing demand for sports-related content,” said Mosko.
Gilbert moves to Village Roadshow from Bingeable, where he served as Head of Content, building a slate of over...
- 10/3/2022
- by Justin Kroll
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Joel Fry has signed up for horror feature The Queen Mary and will star alongside Alice Eve (Belgravia).
Gary Shore (Dracula Untold) is directing the pic, which is a psychological horror/mystery exploring three interwoven stories, covering the violent disintegration of two families onboard the ship in 1938 and present day.
Principal photography is currently taking place at the UK-based Arri/Creative Technologies studios, a virtual production facility which immerses cast and production crew inside CG environments rendered in real time with the help of a massive wraparound LED screen. Later in November, it will board the actual Queen Mary as part of the exclusive license granted to Imagination Design Works by the ship. The multi-storied ocean liner is currently located in dock at Long Beach, California.
Stephen Oliver and Tom Vaughan wrote the script with revisions by Gary Shore. The film is being produced by...
Gary Shore (Dracula Untold) is directing the pic, which is a psychological horror/mystery exploring three interwoven stories, covering the violent disintegration of two families onboard the ship in 1938 and present day.
Principal photography is currently taking place at the UK-based Arri/Creative Technologies studios, a virtual production facility which immerses cast and production crew inside CG environments rendered in real time with the help of a massive wraparound LED screen. Later in November, it will board the actual Queen Mary as part of the exclusive license granted to Imagination Design Works by the ship. The multi-storied ocean liner is currently located in dock at Long Beach, California.
Stephen Oliver and Tom Vaughan wrote the script with revisions by Gary Shore. The film is being produced by...
- 10/4/2021
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Alice Eve Boards The Queen Mary To Be Directed By Gary Shore: "Alice Eve has signed to star in ‘The Queen Mary’, the first in a trilogy of highly anticipated feature horror films inspired by the hauntings on-board the infamous ocean liner. Gary Shore (Dracula Untold) will direct off of a screenplay written by Stephen Oliver, Tom Vaughan, and Gary Shore. Developed and produced by Brett Tomberlin of Imagination Design Works, along with Nigel Sinclair and Nicholas Ferrall of White Horse Pictures, Thorsten Schumacher and Lars Sylvest for Rocket Science (Resistance) and Jason Newmark and Laurie Cook of Newscope.
Eve most recently starred in Julian Fellowes Downtown Abbey follow up ‘Belgravia’ and is currently shooting ‘The Power’ for Amazon.
Located in dock at Long Beach, Calif, the multi-storied ocean liner, named Time Magazine’s most haunted place in the world, receives two million visitors each year, drawn by its amazing history and legend.
Eve most recently starred in Julian Fellowes Downtown Abbey follow up ‘Belgravia’ and is currently shooting ‘The Power’ for Amazon.
Located in dock at Long Beach, Calif, the multi-storied ocean liner, named Time Magazine’s most haunted place in the world, receives two million visitors each year, drawn by its amazing history and legend.
- 3/1/2021
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
Alice Eve To Star In Gary Shore Haunted Ship Horror ‘The Queen Mary’, First In Planned Trilogy — EFM
Exclusive: Belgravia and Star Trek actress Alice Eve has signed to star in The Queen Mary, the first in a planned trilogy of horror films inspired by the hauntings on-board the infamous ocean liner.
As previously revealed, Gary Shore (Dracula Untold) will direct off of a screenplay written by Stephen Oliver, Tom Vaughan, and Shore.
Plot details are being kept under wraps but the film is inspired by stories of hauntings on the famed ocean liner that is now permanently docked in Long Beach, CA. The multi-storied ocean liner, named Time Magazine’s most haunted place in the world, receives two million visitors each year.
The project has been developed and produced by Brett Tomberlin of Imagination Design Works, along with Nigel Sinclair and Nicholas Ferrall of White Horse Pictures (The Woman in Black), Thorsten Schumacher and Lars Sylvest for Rocket Science (Resistance) and Jason Newmark and Laurie Cook of Newscope.
As previously revealed, Gary Shore (Dracula Untold) will direct off of a screenplay written by Stephen Oliver, Tom Vaughan, and Shore.
Plot details are being kept under wraps but the film is inspired by stories of hauntings on the famed ocean liner that is now permanently docked in Long Beach, CA. The multi-storied ocean liner, named Time Magazine’s most haunted place in the world, receives two million visitors each year.
The project has been developed and produced by Brett Tomberlin of Imagination Design Works, along with Nigel Sinclair and Nicholas Ferrall of White Horse Pictures (The Woman in Black), Thorsten Schumacher and Lars Sylvest for Rocket Science (Resistance) and Jason Newmark and Laurie Cook of Newscope.
- 3/1/2021
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Dracula Untold director Gary Shore has come attached to direct Queen Mary, a long-in-the-works horror movie inspired by stories of hauntings on the famed ocean liner that is now permanently docked in Long Beach, CA. Rocket Science has come aboard board to fully finance and rep worldwide distribution beginning next month at the European Film market in Berlin.
The film will be shot onboard the Queen Mary, part of a license deal. The iconic ship that launched 1934 by the makers of the Titanic. It sees 2 million visitors each year drawn by its history and legends. The project was developed by Winchester producer Brett Tomberlin.
White Horse Pictures’ Nigel Sinclair and Nicholas Ferrall are producing with Tomberlin and Mali Elfman via Imagination Design Works and Thorsten Schumacher and Lars Sylvest for Rocket Science. Tobin Armbrust will executive produce with White Horse’s Cassidy Hartmann and Idw’s Mark Tomberlin. Andy Trapani,...
The film will be shot onboard the Queen Mary, part of a license deal. The iconic ship that launched 1934 by the makers of the Titanic. It sees 2 million visitors each year drawn by its history and legends. The project was developed by Winchester producer Brett Tomberlin.
White Horse Pictures’ Nigel Sinclair and Nicholas Ferrall are producing with Tomberlin and Mali Elfman via Imagination Design Works and Thorsten Schumacher and Lars Sylvest for Rocket Science. Tobin Armbrust will executive produce with White Horse’s Cassidy Hartmann and Idw’s Mark Tomberlin. Andy Trapani,...
- 1/25/2019
- by Andreas Wiseman and Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Hollywood went hunting for lots of British comedy talent in the 1990s - and lured the likes of Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry and Emma Thompson...
For some reason, Hollywood fell in love with British actors again in the 1990s. Sparked by Alan Rickman's turn as Hans Gruber in Die Hard at the back end of the 1980s, many movie villains were either Brits, or in the case of Cliffhanger, John Lithgow taking on the mannerisms of a British antagonist.
Yet in particular, Hollywood went recruiting British comedy talent, with faces then mainly - but not exclusively - known for their small screen work getting roles of various sizes in Hollywood productions. Here are some who racked up the air miles - starting with the man who arguably became one of the most successful...
Hugh Laurie - 101 Dalmatians
Laurie is a man of many talents, who ultimately cracked America with...
For some reason, Hollywood fell in love with British actors again in the 1990s. Sparked by Alan Rickman's turn as Hans Gruber in Die Hard at the back end of the 1980s, many movie villains were either Brits, or in the case of Cliffhanger, John Lithgow taking on the mannerisms of a British antagonist.
Yet in particular, Hollywood went recruiting British comedy talent, with faces then mainly - but not exclusively - known for their small screen work getting roles of various sizes in Hollywood productions. Here are some who racked up the air miles - starting with the man who arguably became one of the most successful...
Hugh Laurie - 101 Dalmatians
Laurie is a man of many talents, who ultimately cracked America with...
- 4/20/2015
- by simonbrew
- Den of Geek
Horror Channel have announced their latest rund of UK television premieres for October, including three outstanding supernatural thrillers: Under The Bed, Steven C. Millar’s nightmare of all nightmares, The Gathering, starring Christina Ricci, and the haunting Lovely Molly (my personal fave of the three), from Blair Witch co-director Eduardo Sánchez.
Friday 3rd - The Gathering
Directed by Brian Gilbert (Wilde), this supernatural thriller stars Christina Ricci as Cassie Grant, an American traveller who suffers amnesia when hit by a car. After accepting sanctuary from the family of the car that hit her, Cassie starts hallucinating that terrifying strangers are following her. Is it concussion or second sight? And what do her frightening visions have to do with an ancient church? A riveting performance by Ricci is supported by a stellar cast including Ioan Gruffud, Stephen Dillane and Kerry Fox.
Friday 10th - Under The Bed
From Steven C. Miller,...
Friday 3rd - The Gathering
Directed by Brian Gilbert (Wilde), this supernatural thriller stars Christina Ricci as Cassie Grant, an American traveller who suffers amnesia when hit by a car. After accepting sanctuary from the family of the car that hit her, Cassie starts hallucinating that terrifying strangers are following her. Is it concussion or second sight? And what do her frightening visions have to do with an ancient church? A riveting performance by Ricci is supported by a stellar cast including Ioan Gruffud, Stephen Dillane and Kerry Fox.
Friday 10th - Under The Bed
From Steven C. Miller,...
- 9/24/2014
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
First-time director Virginia Gilbert does lovely things with the Provençal light, but her tale of English expats lacks Joanna Hogg's savage honesty
Presumably first-time writer-director Virginia Gilbert (daughter of Brian Gilbert, Wilde) was aiming to make something oblique and fragile about Brits abroad, in the style of Joanna Hogg (Unrelated, Archipelago). She even hired Hogg's cinematographer, Ed Rutherford. But this slight, conventional tale has nothing of Hogg's rigorous formalism or savage honesty. James Fox and Brenda Fricker play one of those middle-class English couples who've retired to France and act all proprietorial about the place even though, in Brenda's case, they barely speak the language. Their marriage has been becalmed by routine, so when Fox meets feline-featured Natalie Dormer, he offers, with a little too much chivalry, to show her and her jerk of a boyfriend (Paul Nicholls) around Nîmes. Rutherford does lovely things with the Provençal light, but...
Presumably first-time writer-director Virginia Gilbert (daughter of Brian Gilbert, Wilde) was aiming to make something oblique and fragile about Brits abroad, in the style of Joanna Hogg (Unrelated, Archipelago). She even hired Hogg's cinematographer, Ed Rutherford. But this slight, conventional tale has nothing of Hogg's rigorous formalism or savage honesty. James Fox and Brenda Fricker play one of those middle-class English couples who've retired to France and act all proprietorial about the place even though, in Brenda's case, they barely speak the language. Their marriage has been becalmed by routine, so when Fox meets feline-featured Natalie Dormer, he offers, with a little too much chivalry, to show her and her jerk of a boyfriend (Paul Nicholls) around Nîmes. Rutherford does lovely things with the Provençal light, but...
- 12/6/2013
- by Leslie Felperin
- The Guardian - Film News
Tehran hires French lawyer Isabelle Coutant-Peyre to bring case over Hollywood 'distorting image' of Islamic republic
Iran has hired a controversial French lawyer to file a lawsuit against Hollywood over a series of films, including Ben Affleck's Oscar-winning Argo, that have allegedly portrayed the Islamic republic in a distorted and unrealistic manner.
Isabelle Coutant-Peyre, described by the Iranian media as an "anti-Zionist" lawyer, has travelled to Tehran to meet the authorities in order to lodge a case in an international court against Hollywood directors and producers that officials say have promoted "Iranophobia".
Coutant-Peyre is the wife of the notorious Venezuelan-born terrorist Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, known as Carlos the Jackal, whom she is also representing. Ramírez, a self-styled international revolutionary, is serving a life sentence for the killings in 1975 of two French policemen and a suspected informant. Coutant-Peyre and Ramírez married in a ceremony held in jail in 2001 after she converted to Islam.
Iran has hired a controversial French lawyer to file a lawsuit against Hollywood over a series of films, including Ben Affleck's Oscar-winning Argo, that have allegedly portrayed the Islamic republic in a distorted and unrealistic manner.
Isabelle Coutant-Peyre, described by the Iranian media as an "anti-Zionist" lawyer, has travelled to Tehran to meet the authorities in order to lodge a case in an international court against Hollywood directors and producers that officials say have promoted "Iranophobia".
Coutant-Peyre is the wife of the notorious Venezuelan-born terrorist Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, known as Carlos the Jackal, whom she is also representing. Ramírez, a self-styled international revolutionary, is serving a life sentence for the killings in 1975 of two French policemen and a suspected informant. Coutant-Peyre and Ramírez married in a ceremony held in jail in 2001 after she converted to Islam.
- 3/13/2013
- by Saeed Kamali Dehghan
- The Guardian - Film News
Stephen Fry is perfectly cast as Oscar, but this sombre biopic attempts to cover too much of the writer and poet's life
Wilde (1997)
Director: Brian Gilbert
Entertainment grade: B+
History grade: A–
Oscar Wilde was a Victorian playwright and poet. Apparently, he had nothing to declare but his genius.
Celebrity
You may not expect this film to begin in the American west, but it does. Wilde (Stephen Fry, who could not be more perfectly cast) is on a speaking tour of the Us. A silver mine in Colorado is being named after him. Thoughtfully, the owners have filled it with hunky miners who are mostly naked. He addresses these "enormous, powerfully-built men … their brawny arms folded over their muscular chests, a loaded gun on each thigh" (his description) on the subject of 16th-century Italian goldsmith Benvenuto Cellini. They ask why Wilde hasn't brought Cellini along. Wilde explains sadly that he is dead.
Wilde (1997)
Director: Brian Gilbert
Entertainment grade: B+
History grade: A–
Oscar Wilde was a Victorian playwright and poet. Apparently, he had nothing to declare but his genius.
Celebrity
You may not expect this film to begin in the American west, but it does. Wilde (Stephen Fry, who could not be more perfectly cast) is on a speaking tour of the Us. A silver mine in Colorado is being named after him. Thoughtfully, the owners have filled it with hunky miners who are mostly naked. He addresses these "enormous, powerfully-built men … their brawny arms folded over their muscular chests, a loaded gun on each thigh" (his description) on the subject of 16th-century Italian goldsmith Benvenuto Cellini. They ask why Wilde hasn't brought Cellini along. Wilde explains sadly that he is dead.
- 9/12/2012
- by Alex von Tunzelmann
- The Guardian - Film News
Author and playwright best known for his literary drama Tom and Viv
Michael Hastings, who has died aged 74, shot to prominence in the first wave of new playwrights at the Royal Court in the 1950s. His best known play, Tom and Viv, about the difficult marriage of Ts Eliot and Vivienne Haigh-Wood, was presented there in 1984, by which time he was well established as a novelist, biographer and author of short stories. He was an unclassifiable writer, despite his sporadic allegiance over the years to the Royal Court. Much of his work is imbued with his experience of travelling in Spain, Kenya and Brazil. The fractured domestic relationships which he documented in Tom and Viv, and in his last West End play, Calico (2004), reflect his own difficult childhood and a lifetime interest in psychoanalysis.
Hastings was brought up by his mother, Marie, in a council flat in Brixton, south London.
Michael Hastings, who has died aged 74, shot to prominence in the first wave of new playwrights at the Royal Court in the 1950s. His best known play, Tom and Viv, about the difficult marriage of Ts Eliot and Vivienne Haigh-Wood, was presented there in 1984, by which time he was well established as a novelist, biographer and author of short stories. He was an unclassifiable writer, despite his sporadic allegiance over the years to the Royal Court. Much of his work is imbued with his experience of travelling in Spain, Kenya and Brazil. The fractured domestic relationships which he documented in Tom and Viv, and in his last West End play, Calico (2004), reflect his own difficult childhood and a lifetime interest in psychoanalysis.
Hastings was brought up by his mother, Marie, in a council flat in Brixton, south London.
- 12/1/2011
- by Michael Coveney
- The Guardian - Film News
Netflix has revolutionized the home movie experience for fans of film with its instant streaming technology. Netflix Nuggets is my way of spreading the word about independent, classic and foreign films made available by Netflix for instant streaming.
Sorry, folks… there are simply too many great films streaming this week to post an image for them all, but that’s a good thing, eh? You’ve got your movie watching work cut out for you, due in great part to Miramax releasing damn near their entire catalog of films on one day!
B. Monkey (1999)
Streaming Available: 05/01/2011
Director: Michael Radford
Synopsis: Good-hearted schoolteacher Alan Furnace (Jared Harris) desperately wants some excitement in his life — and he may just get some. One lonely night at a London bar, Alan spies the raven-haired beauty Beatrice (Asia Argento) arguing with two friends, Paul (Rupert Everett) and Bruno (Jonathan Rhys-Meyers). Beatrice quickly befriends Alan and...
Sorry, folks… there are simply too many great films streaming this week to post an image for them all, but that’s a good thing, eh? You’ve got your movie watching work cut out for you, due in great part to Miramax releasing damn near their entire catalog of films on one day!
B. Monkey (1999)
Streaming Available: 05/01/2011
Director: Michael Radford
Synopsis: Good-hearted schoolteacher Alan Furnace (Jared Harris) desperately wants some excitement in his life — and he may just get some. One lonely night at a London bar, Alan spies the raven-haired beauty Beatrice (Asia Argento) arguing with two friends, Paul (Rupert Everett) and Bruno (Jonathan Rhys-Meyers). Beatrice quickly befriends Alan and...
- 4/29/2011
- by Travis Keune
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Shannon Shea has done special effects work on over sixty films. From Evil Dead II to Predator. From Dances With Wolves to Jurassic Park. From In the Mouth of Madness to Sin City. Every week he delves into his personal and professional history to tell the story of how he became a monster that makes monsters. So there I was, in a small conference room in Woodland Hills, California on a warm February afternoon in 2009. I knew that the meeting would go long, and I would have to spend at least an hour driving home to Los Angeles. Sitting next to me was Mark Dippe, Industrial Light and Magic alumnus and director of the movie Spawn, and across from me sat Dean Cundey, the guy that not only shot all of John Carpenter’s early movies, but also shot Jurassic Park and Back to the Future just to name a few. At...
- 4/25/2011
- by Shannon Shea
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
The Gathering
Stars: Christina Ricci, Ioan Gruffudd, Stephen Dillane, Kerry Fox | Written by Anthony Horowitz | Directed by Brian Gilbert
I wish there was a good reason for a film made in 2002 to have only just been released on DVD nine years later – studio troubles, promotional squabbles, anything except the quality of the film itself – but we don’t always get the answers we’d like. Sometimes, we get The Gathering instead.
Christina Ricci plays Cassie, an American hiker travelling to a remote English village when she is accidentally hit by a car driven by Marion (Kerry Fox). Taken to hospital, Cassie appears to have no major injuries despite the fact that she bounced off Marion’s windscreen like a piece of flubber, and is now conveniently both psychic and amnesiac. Cassie begins to foresee the violent deaths of many of the town’s inhabitants, most of whom are interested in...
Stars: Christina Ricci, Ioan Gruffudd, Stephen Dillane, Kerry Fox | Written by Anthony Horowitz | Directed by Brian Gilbert
I wish there was a good reason for a film made in 2002 to have only just been released on DVD nine years later – studio troubles, promotional squabbles, anything except the quality of the film itself – but we don’t always get the answers we’d like. Sometimes, we get The Gathering instead.
Christina Ricci plays Cassie, an American hiker travelling to a remote English village when she is accidentally hit by a car driven by Marion (Kerry Fox). Taken to hospital, Cassie appears to have no major injuries despite the fact that she bounced off Marion’s windscreen like a piece of flubber, and is now conveniently both psychic and amnesiac. Cassie begins to foresee the violent deaths of many of the town’s inhabitants, most of whom are interested in...
- 3/28/2011
- by Mark Allen
- Nerdly
While it's not one of our favorite characters, we here at ComicMix know there are plenty of Scooby-Doo fans so as a public service, we offer up the following press release:
Burbank, CA – March 12, 2010 – Warner Premiere is in production on Scooby-Doo! Curse of the Lake Monster, an all-new, live-action/CG movie follow-up to 2009’s record-setting Scooby-Doo! The Mystery Begins, it was announced today by Eva Davis, Evp and General Manager, Warner Premiere. The film commences principal photography on March 15 in various locations around Southern California. The family-targeted feature will premiere on Cartoon Network in fall 2010 and release on DVD through Warner Home Video in early 2011.
Scooby-Doo! Curse of the Lake Monster continues the Mystery Inc. gang’s adventures from the 2009 hit Scooby-Doo! The Mystery Begins, which premiered as the most-watched telecast in Cartoon Network history, and set targeted demographic records across the board. This new film will once again feature...
Burbank, CA – March 12, 2010 – Warner Premiere is in production on Scooby-Doo! Curse of the Lake Monster, an all-new, live-action/CG movie follow-up to 2009’s record-setting Scooby-Doo! The Mystery Begins, it was announced today by Eva Davis, Evp and General Manager, Warner Premiere. The film commences principal photography on March 15 in various locations around Southern California. The family-targeted feature will premiere on Cartoon Network in fall 2010 and release on DVD through Warner Home Video in early 2011.
Scooby-Doo! Curse of the Lake Monster continues the Mystery Inc. gang’s adventures from the 2009 hit Scooby-Doo! The Mystery Begins, which premiered as the most-watched telecast in Cartoon Network history, and set targeted demographic records across the board. This new film will once again feature...
- 3/13/2010
- by Robert Greenberger
- Comicmix.com
Principle photography begins Monday on locations around Southern California for Warner Premiere's live-action/CG "Scooby-Doo! Curse of the Lake Monster," directed by Brian Levant.
The feature, starring Robbie Amell, Kate Melton, Hayley Kiyoko and Nick Palatas, will premiere on Cartoon Network in the fall before being released on DVD in early 2011.
The movie is a follow-up to 2009's 'Scooby-Doo! The Mystery Begins,' which premiered as the most-watched telecast in Cartoon Network history.
Levant, producer Brian Gilbert and writers the Altiere Brothers all are reprising their roles on the earlier film for the Atlas Entertainment production. Animation Picture Company is animating Scooby-Doo.
The feature, starring Robbie Amell, Kate Melton, Hayley Kiyoko and Nick Palatas, will premiere on Cartoon Network in the fall before being released on DVD in early 2011.
The movie is a follow-up to 2009's 'Scooby-Doo! The Mystery Begins,' which premiered as the most-watched telecast in Cartoon Network history.
Levant, producer Brian Gilbert and writers the Altiere Brothers all are reprising their roles on the earlier film for the Atlas Entertainment production. Animation Picture Company is animating Scooby-Doo.
- 3/12/2010
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Nine/8 Entertainment, Evolution Entertainment and CAA agent-turned-producer Michael Menchel are making a feature about the life of carmaker John DeLorean. Thomas Fenton wrote the screenplay. Producing is DeLorean's daughter Kathryn alongside Andrew Trapani and Brian Gilbert of Nine/8 are producing along with Andrew Wilson and Stephen Gates of Evolution. There are several other DeLorean projects in the works. David Permut ("Youth in Revolt") is developing a project, as is Brett Ratner's Rat Entertainment from a James Toback ("Tyson") screenplay. Xyz Films and Time Inc. Studios are developing a DeLorean biopic with the cooperation of DeLorean's son Zachary. Known as the car in the "Back to the Future" series of films, DeLorean's Dmc-12 stainless-steel, gull-wing-doored vehicle was made in the early 1980s. The car designer known for designing the Pontiac Gto, closed his company after building less than 10,000 cars and was arrested in 1982, charged with smuggling cocaine to raise money.
- 2/25/2010
- Upcoming-Movies.com
The DeLorean sweepstakes just gained another entrant.
Nine/8 Entertainment, Evolution Entertainment and CAA agent-turned-producer Michael Menchel are moving forward with the development of a feature about the life of carmaker John DeLorean. Thomas Fenton, who is repped by Apa and Evolution, wrote the screenplay.
Andrew Trapani and Brian Gilbert of Nine/8 are producing along with Andrew Wilson and Stephen Gates of Evolution. Menchel will serve as an executive producer on behalf of his Relevant Entertainment shingle.
DeLorean's only daughter, Kathryn, is partnering with the producers on the film.
"Other producers have asked me to back their projects on behalf of the DeLorean estate," Kathryn DeLorean said. "We felt this was the team to tell the right story the right way. This is the definitive John DeLorean movie. We wanted to ensure my father's story was handled properly; the headlines do not begin to tell the tale."
This new project...
Nine/8 Entertainment, Evolution Entertainment and CAA agent-turned-producer Michael Menchel are moving forward with the development of a feature about the life of carmaker John DeLorean. Thomas Fenton, who is repped by Apa and Evolution, wrote the screenplay.
Andrew Trapani and Brian Gilbert of Nine/8 are producing along with Andrew Wilson and Stephen Gates of Evolution. Menchel will serve as an executive producer on behalf of his Relevant Entertainment shingle.
DeLorean's only daughter, Kathryn, is partnering with the producers on the film.
"Other producers have asked me to back their projects on behalf of the DeLorean estate," Kathryn DeLorean said. "We felt this was the team to tell the right story the right way. This is the definitive John DeLorean movie. We wanted to ensure my father's story was handled properly; the headlines do not begin to tell the tale."
This new project...
- 2/24/2010
- by By Jay A. Fernandez
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
There will be a third live-action/CG "Scooby-Doo" movie, this time headed to TV and DVD.
Titled "Scooby-Doo: In the Beginning" -- a prequel set before the 2002 and 2004 "Scooby-Doo" theatricals -- the film will debut on Cartoon Network in fall 2009 when it also will be released on DVD. It finds the Mystery gang uniting for the first time to solve the haunting of their high school.
"Scooby-Doo: In the Beginning" will feature an all new cast of lesser-known actors replacing the original quartet of Freddie Prinze Jr., Sarah Michelle Gellar, Matthew Lillard and Linda Cardellini. Rob Amell ("Life With Derek") will play Freddy, joined by newcomers Kaitlyn Melton as Daphne, Hayley Alcroft as Velma and Nick Palatas as Shaggy. The computer-generated Scooby-Doo will be voiced by Frank Welker, a longtime voice actor on the animated "Scooby-Doo" series.
For Cartoon, which airs Hanna-Barbera's classic "Scooby" toons, the new film is part of its push into movies and live-action.
The original movie is co-produced by Warner Premiere, the direct-to-dvd and direct-to-platform production arm of Warner Bros. Entertainment, and Cartoon Network. Warner Home Video will distribute on DVD.
Brian Levant will direct from a script by Daniel and Steven Altiere. Brian Gilbert is producing.
Production is slated to begin Monday in Vancouver.
Titled "Scooby-Doo: In the Beginning" -- a prequel set before the 2002 and 2004 "Scooby-Doo" theatricals -- the film will debut on Cartoon Network in fall 2009 when it also will be released on DVD. It finds the Mystery gang uniting for the first time to solve the haunting of their high school.
"Scooby-Doo: In the Beginning" will feature an all new cast of lesser-known actors replacing the original quartet of Freddie Prinze Jr., Sarah Michelle Gellar, Matthew Lillard and Linda Cardellini. Rob Amell ("Life With Derek") will play Freddy, joined by newcomers Kaitlyn Melton as Daphne, Hayley Alcroft as Velma and Nick Palatas as Shaggy. The computer-generated Scooby-Doo will be voiced by Frank Welker, a longtime voice actor on the animated "Scooby-Doo" series.
For Cartoon, which airs Hanna-Barbera's classic "Scooby" toons, the new film is part of its push into movies and live-action.
The original movie is co-produced by Warner Premiere, the direct-to-dvd and direct-to-platform production arm of Warner Bros. Entertainment, and Cartoon Network. Warner Home Video will distribute on DVD.
Brian Levant will direct from a script by Daniel and Steven Altiere. Brian Gilbert is producing.
Production is slated to begin Monday in Vancouver.
- 8/1/2008
- by By Nellie Andreeva
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
International commercial director Dario Piana will make his feature directorial debut with The Deaths of Ian. The independent horror film is being produced by Stan Winston Prods. Written by Brendan Hood, Deaths tells the story of an all-American guy who is murdered each day by horrifying pursuers, only to wake up in slightly different lives to experience the terror of being murdered again. The movie will provide plenty of creatures which will be created by Stan Winston Studios. Producers are Stan Winston and Brian Gilbert. Odyssey Entertainment is financing the movie, scheduled for a summer shoot on the Isle of Man. Italy native Piana has directed about 400 commercials and also is attached to Phoenix Pictures' Werewolf and Millennium Films' Snakeskin. He is repped by BWCS, manager Paul Kelmenson and Loeb & Loeb.
MTV Films, a division of Viacom, has acquired an option on the worldwide film rights to Midway Games' action horror game The Suffering. MTV Films is working in conjunction with Stan Winston and Brian Gilbert from Stan Winston Prods. and Jason Lust and Rick Jacobs from Circle of Confusion on the development of the horror film. MTV Films senior director of development Jason Weiss, who brought the project to the company, along with MTV Films director of development Gregg Goldin and MTV Films executive vp David Gale will be developing on behalf of MTV Films. "We were tracking this project really early on, and it really was about the material itself for us," Gale said. "It felt very cinematic -- more cinematic than most video games and with a real sense of style -- with very strong characters."...
Regency Enterprises is near to closing a deal to pick up domestic distribution rights to the independent horror film Wrong Turn, directed by Rob Schmidt and starring Jeremy Sisto, Eliza Dushku, Desmond Harrington, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Lindy Booth and Kevin Zegers. The project, which wrapped a week ago after starting production in August, was co-financed by Constantin Film and Summit Entertainment (HR 7/29). Both companies also produced the film with Stan Winston Prods., which also created makeup and creature effects for the project. Wrong Turn follows a group of young people stalked by a trio of horrific mountain men after a wrong turn leaves them trapped in the West Virginia wilderness. The project was penned by Alan B. McElroy (Spawn) and revised by Adam Cooper and Bill Collage. Stan Winston and Brian Gilbert produced with Constantin's Robert Kulzer and Summit's Erik Feig. The film is expected to roll out through Regency's exclusive distribution arrangement with 20th Century Fox.
- 10/18/2002
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Despite fine performances by Stephen Fry and Jude Law, "Wilde" is a disappointingly predictable and uninvolving film portrait of Victorian wit and writer Oscar Wilde, who was imprisoned for being homosexual.
The Sony Pictures Classics limited release is a tony entry in the presummer sweepstakes, but it lacks a compelling point of view and resorts to hoary melodramatics, and the dialogue is often painfully earnest. An initial flurry of boxoffice interest, buoyed by admiring reviews, will not last long.
"Wilde" opens with the long-haired, flamboyant dresser Oscar (Fry) lecturing miners in Colorado, circa 1882. On his return to England, he woos and weds the beautiful Constance (Jennifer Ehle) and appears ready to settle down into a literary career.
Enter Robert Ross (Michael Sheen), a house guest who seduces Oscar and starts scandalmongers talking. With his Irish mother (Vanessa Redgrave) on his side, Oscar leads a double life -- devoted husband and covert homosexual -- while his career successes make him a celebrity.
At the premiere of his play "Lady Windermere's Fan", Oscar meets and instantly falls for handsome young sonnet writer Lord Alfred Douglas Law), causing Ross much pain. But nothing rivals the vicious reaction of Douglas' homophobic father, the Marquess of Queensberry (Tom Wilkinson), who eventually brings about Oscar's downfall and imprisonment in 1895.
While one learns a little about the man (he read prodigiously at a fast rate and had a poet's precise memory), there's not enough spontaneity to many of the exchanges. Most of the time, Oscar comes off as a walking omnibus of classical quotations, as if he's always playing to an audience, while supporting characters talk about him with the measured insight of an undergraduate lecture on the subject.
At the center of it all, Fry is a dignified, comfy presence, but he's often upstaged by Law playing the spoiled, showoff Douglas with sizzling charisma. Sheen registers strongly in his scenes, and Wilkinson is suitably menacing as the heavy.
Director Brian Gilbert ("Tom & Viv") and crew have mounted a handsome widescreen production on a limited budget, with locations including London's Athenaeum Club, Somerset House and Oxford Prison.
WILDE
Sony Pictures Classics
Dove International presents
a Samuelson production
Director: Brian Gilbert
Producers: Marc Samuelson, Peter Samuelson
Screenwriter: Julian Mitchell
Executive producers: Michiyo Yoshizaki,
Michael Viner, Deborah Raffin,
Alex Graham, Alan Howden
Director of photography: Martin Fuhrer
Production designer: Maria Djurkovic
Editor: Michael Bradsell
Costume designer: Nic Ede
Music: Debbie Wiseman
Casting: Sarah Bird
Color/stereo
Cast:
Oscar Wilde: Stephen Fry
Lord Alfred Douglas: Jude Law
Lady Speranza Wilde: Vanessa Redgrave
Constance Wilde: Jennifer Ehle
Robert Ross: Michael Sheen
Marquess of Queensberry:Tom Wilkinson
Running time -- 117 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
The Sony Pictures Classics limited release is a tony entry in the presummer sweepstakes, but it lacks a compelling point of view and resorts to hoary melodramatics, and the dialogue is often painfully earnest. An initial flurry of boxoffice interest, buoyed by admiring reviews, will not last long.
"Wilde" opens with the long-haired, flamboyant dresser Oscar (Fry) lecturing miners in Colorado, circa 1882. On his return to England, he woos and weds the beautiful Constance (Jennifer Ehle) and appears ready to settle down into a literary career.
Enter Robert Ross (Michael Sheen), a house guest who seduces Oscar and starts scandalmongers talking. With his Irish mother (Vanessa Redgrave) on his side, Oscar leads a double life -- devoted husband and covert homosexual -- while his career successes make him a celebrity.
At the premiere of his play "Lady Windermere's Fan", Oscar meets and instantly falls for handsome young sonnet writer Lord Alfred Douglas Law), causing Ross much pain. But nothing rivals the vicious reaction of Douglas' homophobic father, the Marquess of Queensberry (Tom Wilkinson), who eventually brings about Oscar's downfall and imprisonment in 1895.
While one learns a little about the man (he read prodigiously at a fast rate and had a poet's precise memory), there's not enough spontaneity to many of the exchanges. Most of the time, Oscar comes off as a walking omnibus of classical quotations, as if he's always playing to an audience, while supporting characters talk about him with the measured insight of an undergraduate lecture on the subject.
At the center of it all, Fry is a dignified, comfy presence, but he's often upstaged by Law playing the spoiled, showoff Douglas with sizzling charisma. Sheen registers strongly in his scenes, and Wilkinson is suitably menacing as the heavy.
Director Brian Gilbert ("Tom & Viv") and crew have mounted a handsome widescreen production on a limited budget, with locations including London's Athenaeum Club, Somerset House and Oxford Prison.
WILDE
Sony Pictures Classics
Dove International presents
a Samuelson production
Director: Brian Gilbert
Producers: Marc Samuelson, Peter Samuelson
Screenwriter: Julian Mitchell
Executive producers: Michiyo Yoshizaki,
Michael Viner, Deborah Raffin,
Alex Graham, Alan Howden
Director of photography: Martin Fuhrer
Production designer: Maria Djurkovic
Editor: Michael Bradsell
Costume designer: Nic Ede
Music: Debbie Wiseman
Casting: Sarah Bird
Color/stereo
Cast:
Oscar Wilde: Stephen Fry
Lord Alfred Douglas: Jude Law
Lady Speranza Wilde: Vanessa Redgrave
Constance Wilde: Jennifer Ehle
Robert Ross: Michael Sheen
Marquess of Queensberry:Tom Wilkinson
Running time -- 117 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
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