Edgar Burcksen, longtime editor of features, documentaries, and TV series, died Sunday in Los Angeles of complications of a heart attack. He was 76.
Burcksen won an Emmy for editing the pilot of “The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles” as well as an Ace Robert Wise award. He was also honored with the Golden Calf at the Nederlands Film Festival.
Born in Holland, Burcksen started his career editing features in Amsterdam. After moving to the U.S, he served as editor on the animated “Seabert.” He then joined Industrial Light and Magic, where he was the effects editor on “Die Hard 2” and “The Hunt for Red October.” George Lucas selected him to consult on the EditDroid, a precursor to the Avid.
His credits include Jeroen Krabbe’s feature “Left Luggage,” which competed for the Golden Bear, as well as documentaries “Colors Straight Up,” which was Oscar-nominated, “Darfur Now,” “Hollywood Banker,” and Kevin Costner’s “500 Nations.
Burcksen won an Emmy for editing the pilot of “The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles” as well as an Ace Robert Wise award. He was also honored with the Golden Calf at the Nederlands Film Festival.
Born in Holland, Burcksen started his career editing features in Amsterdam. After moving to the U.S, he served as editor on the animated “Seabert.” He then joined Industrial Light and Magic, where he was the effects editor on “Die Hard 2” and “The Hunt for Red October.” George Lucas selected him to consult on the EditDroid, a precursor to the Avid.
His credits include Jeroen Krabbe’s feature “Left Luggage,” which competed for the Golden Bear, as well as documentaries “Colors Straight Up,” which was Oscar-nominated, “Darfur Now,” “Hollywood Banker,” and Kevin Costner’s “500 Nations.
- 4/9/2024
- by Selena Kuznikov
- Variety Film + TV
The 44th edition of genre film festival Fantasporto, which runs in Portugal’s second city Porto from March 1-10, has bestowed its best film award on Japanese sci-fi fantasy pic “From the End of the World,” directed by Kaz I Kiriya.
The movie follows 10-year-old Hana, whose dreams transport her across various eras in Japanese history, and have the ability to save humanity.
The jury’s special award went to “The Complex Forms,” Italian director Fabio D’Orta’s debut feature. The sci-fi horror centers on a man who has sold his body so it can be possessed by a creature of unknown nature.
The prize for best direction was nabbed by Spanish filmmaker Gonzalo López-Gallego for horror movie “The Shadow of the Shark” (La Sombra del Tiburon). In the film, a young woman, Alma, is undergoing therapy as she is unable to sleep. With the help of surveillance cameras, she...
The movie follows 10-year-old Hana, whose dreams transport her across various eras in Japanese history, and have the ability to save humanity.
The jury’s special award went to “The Complex Forms,” Italian director Fabio D’Orta’s debut feature. The sci-fi horror centers on a man who has sold his body so it can be possessed by a creature of unknown nature.
The prize for best direction was nabbed by Spanish filmmaker Gonzalo López-Gallego for horror movie “The Shadow of the Shark” (La Sombra del Tiburon). In the film, a young woman, Alma, is undergoing therapy as she is unable to sleep. With the help of surveillance cameras, she...
- 3/9/2024
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Fantasporto, the Oporto Intl. Film Festival, kicked off Friday in Portugal’s Porto — a city famed for its elegant Romanesque cathedral, a bookstore that inspired “Harry Potter,” and the heady alcoholic drink — with an eclectic mix of titles but an emphasis on fantasy films.
Typifying the broad tastes of the festival chiefs, film critics Beatriz Pacheco Pereira and Mário Dorminsky, Canadian filmmaker Denys Arcand’s satire “Testament” opened the event’s 44th edition at Batalha Centro de Cinema, and Chinese fantasy epic “Creation of Gods I: Kingdom of Storms,” directed by Wuershan, closes it.
Although Pacheco Pereira and Dorminsky, who compete with the Brussels Intl. Fantastic Film Festival and Sitges for fantasy films in Europe, know they can’t please everyone in Porto with their selection “what is really important to us is whether the audiences applaud the films,” Dorminsky says. “This is not a job for us. It is a pleasure.
Typifying the broad tastes of the festival chiefs, film critics Beatriz Pacheco Pereira and Mário Dorminsky, Canadian filmmaker Denys Arcand’s satire “Testament” opened the event’s 44th edition at Batalha Centro de Cinema, and Chinese fantasy epic “Creation of Gods I: Kingdom of Storms,” directed by Wuershan, closes it.
Although Pacheco Pereira and Dorminsky, who compete with the Brussels Intl. Fantastic Film Festival and Sitges for fantasy films in Europe, know they can’t please everyone in Porto with their selection “what is really important to us is whether the audiences applaud the films,” Dorminsky says. “This is not a job for us. It is a pleasure.
- 3/2/2024
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Canadian filmmaker Denys Arcand’s satire “Testament” will open the 44th edition of Fantasporto, which runs March 1-10 in Portugal’s second city, Porto. Chinese fantasy epic “Creation of Gods I: Kingdom of Storms,” directed by Wuershan, closes the eclectic event.
The festival, which was named by MovieMaker magazine this year as one of the “25 coolest festivals in the world,” is headed by film critics Beatriz Pacheco Pereira and Mário Dorminsky. Around 600 feature films were submitted this year and 1,200 shorts.
Pacheco Pereira says they select films that have a “special touch but still a universal language.” Dorminsky adds: “We try to discover new directors.” These directors – having established a relationship with the festival – often return with their subsequent films, he says.
“Testament” epitomizes one trend that Pacheco Pereira identifies, which is “old people asking: ‘Where is the world going?'” She adds: “‘Testament’ is a wonderful film in which an...
The festival, which was named by MovieMaker magazine this year as one of the “25 coolest festivals in the world,” is headed by film critics Beatriz Pacheco Pereira and Mário Dorminsky. Around 600 feature films were submitted this year and 1,200 shorts.
Pacheco Pereira says they select films that have a “special touch but still a universal language.” Dorminsky adds: “We try to discover new directors.” These directors – having established a relationship with the festival – often return with their subsequent films, he says.
“Testament” epitomizes one trend that Pacheco Pereira identifies, which is “old people asking: ‘Where is the world going?'” She adds: “‘Testament’ is a wonderful film in which an...
- 12/18/2023
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
The film shot on location in Kentucky and now in post-production at Lipsync Studios in London.
Veteran Dutch filmmaker Ate De Jong’ Heart Strings, a romantic drama set in the world of US reality television, has been picked up by Los Angeles and Rome-based House of Film.
The film shot on location in Kentucky and now in post-production at Lipsync Studios in London.
It is produced by Mulholland Films and coproduced and co-written by Steven Gaydos.
The film’s theme song, Americana, co-written by the film’s star, Sam Varga and Nashville recording artist Kalie Shorr, has been recorded for...
Veteran Dutch filmmaker Ate De Jong’ Heart Strings, a romantic drama set in the world of US reality television, has been picked up by Los Angeles and Rome-based House of Film.
The film shot on location in Kentucky and now in post-production at Lipsync Studios in London.
It is produced by Mulholland Films and coproduced and co-written by Steven Gaydos.
The film’s theme song, Americana, co-written by the film’s star, Sam Varga and Nashville recording artist Kalie Shorr, has been recorded for...
- 5/18/2023
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
“We go where others do not go,” said a passionate Vanja Kaludjercic, of the mission to celebrate rising film-making countries.
At an emotional opening night event in a packed Doelen Grand Hall, Vanja Kaludjercic, festival director of the International Film Festival Rotterdam, expressed “her sense of relief and her gratitude” at being able finally to welcome guests “after a three-year wait”. She became festival director in 2020 but her first two editions at the helm, including the 50th anniversary, happened online.
These, she acknowledged, were “three years that actually changed the world as we knew [it]; three years that took a toll on all of us.
At an emotional opening night event in a packed Doelen Grand Hall, Vanja Kaludjercic, festival director of the International Film Festival Rotterdam, expressed “her sense of relief and her gratitude” at being able finally to welcome guests “after a three-year wait”. She became festival director in 2020 but her first two editions at the helm, including the 50th anniversary, happened online.
These, she acknowledged, were “three years that actually changed the world as we knew [it]; three years that took a toll on all of us.
- 1/26/2023
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
“Americana Dream” has started production in Louisville, Ky., with all key roles cast in the forthcoming indie musical film. New Orleans-based singer Maggie Koerner will play Billie Carton, starring opposite Nashville-based music artist Sam Varga in the role of Lucky Fontana.
“With this amazing cast of real-life Americana music artists, we are on an exciting creative journey that will seem both familiar and completely unsettling to the millions of people around the world who watch reality TV music competitions,” said director and co-writer Ate de Jong.
The cast of “Americana Dream” also includes singer-songwriter Stephan Said as Ray Pursell, jazz vocalist Carly Johnson as Precious Blue, Aj Haynes as Lee Post and Michelle Malentina as Gabe. DJ Bombshell, Sylvia Walters, David Domine and Ian McConnell will play supporting roles in the film.
Variety exclusively reported in July that “The Voice” alum Mary Sarah was set to play Billie alongside Varga...
“With this amazing cast of real-life Americana music artists, we are on an exciting creative journey that will seem both familiar and completely unsettling to the millions of people around the world who watch reality TV music competitions,” said director and co-writer Ate de Jong.
The cast of “Americana Dream” also includes singer-songwriter Stephan Said as Ray Pursell, jazz vocalist Carly Johnson as Precious Blue, Aj Haynes as Lee Post and Michelle Malentina as Gabe. DJ Bombshell, Sylvia Walters, David Domine and Ian McConnell will play supporting roles in the film.
Variety exclusively reported in July that “The Voice” alum Mary Sarah was set to play Billie alongside Varga...
- 10/11/2022
- by Michaela Zee
- Variety Film + TV
Producers of the indie film musical “Americana Dream” have tapped Nashville-based music artists Mary Sarah and Sam Varga to play the story’s central couple, Billie Carton and Lucky Fontana.
Sarah and Varga nabbed the leading roles after an extensive nationwide search for singer-songwriters to act in the original musical written and directed by Ate de Jong and co-written by Variety’s Steven Gaydos.
“Americana Dream” takes viewers behind the scenes of the film’s titular reality TV music competition program, where Lucky and Billie transition from imposters willing to do anything for money and fame, to a real couple, willing to sacrifice their dreams of success for real love and their real music.
Sarah was a finalist on season 10 of NBC’s “The Voice” and is set to star in Justin Ward’s upcoming film comedy “Paradise: The Movie.” Sarah recorded her first album “Bridges,” when she was only...
Sarah and Varga nabbed the leading roles after an extensive nationwide search for singer-songwriters to act in the original musical written and directed by Ate de Jong and co-written by Variety’s Steven Gaydos.
“Americana Dream” takes viewers behind the scenes of the film’s titular reality TV music competition program, where Lucky and Billie transition from imposters willing to do anything for money and fame, to a real couple, willing to sacrifice their dreams of success for real love and their real music.
Sarah was a finalist on season 10 of NBC’s “The Voice” and is set to star in Justin Ward’s upcoming film comedy “Paradise: The Movie.” Sarah recorded her first album “Bridges,” when she was only...
- 7/19/2022
- by Angelique Jackson
- Variety Film + TV
Sharpened Iron Studios has acquired the original musical screenplay “Amarillo” and has enlisted European filmmaker Ate de Jong to direct the film.
“Amarillo,” written by Variety’s executive VP of global content Steven Gaydos, is set behind the scenes of a reality TV music competition series and tells the story of two young singer-songwriters who pretend to be lovers for the camera and end up becoming a real-life couple.
“Amarillo” will feature 16 original songs written by a team that includes singer-musician Rob Kolar, who most recently scored the TV comedy series “The Detour,” along with the Nashville-based Michael Kosser, Gregg Stewart and Terrance Dwyer.
Production is slated to begin in Amarillo, Texas, this fall and the project will be filmed on a sound stage at Sharpened Iron Studios.
“The team we’ve assembled to make this film knows and loves music and they are all dedicated to the spirit of truly independent cinema,...
“Amarillo,” written by Variety’s executive VP of global content Steven Gaydos, is set behind the scenes of a reality TV music competition series and tells the story of two young singer-songwriters who pretend to be lovers for the camera and end up becoming a real-life couple.
“Amarillo” will feature 16 original songs written by a team that includes singer-musician Rob Kolar, who most recently scored the TV comedy series “The Detour,” along with the Nashville-based Michael Kosser, Gregg Stewart and Terrance Dwyer.
Production is slated to begin in Amarillo, Texas, this fall and the project will be filmed on a sound stage at Sharpened Iron Studios.
“The team we’ve assembled to make this film knows and loves music and they are all dedicated to the spirit of truly independent cinema,...
- 7/27/2021
- by Rebecca Rubin
- Variety Film + TV
Hybrid edition has shifted industry showcase online.
The 40th Netherlands Film Festival (Nff) gets underway today as a hybrid event spearheaded by a bold new screening strategy.
The Utrecht-based festival, set to run September 25-October 3, will see selected films screening simultaneously not just in the Dutch city but in hundreds of cinemas across the Netherlands. There will also be drive-in screenings. However, all industry activities will take place online.
“We have managed to set up a huge collaboration with cinemas all over the Netherlands,” acting festival director Doreen Boonekamp said of the plan to show eight Nff titles “in over...
The 40th Netherlands Film Festival (Nff) gets underway today as a hybrid event spearheaded by a bold new screening strategy.
The Utrecht-based festival, set to run September 25-October 3, will see selected films screening simultaneously not just in the Dutch city but in hundreds of cinemas across the Netherlands. There will also be drive-in screenings. However, all industry activities will take place online.
“We have managed to set up a huge collaboration with cinemas all over the Netherlands,” acting festival director Doreen Boonekamp said of the plan to show eight Nff titles “in over...
- 9/25/2020
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
Veteran Dutch director Ate de Jong is set to shoot “My Best Friend Anne Frank,” the true story of the teenage diarist’s best friend, who also was sent to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp but survived and is still alive today.
The story, based on the memoirs of Frank’s friend Hannah Goslar, is told from her perspective. The best friends, shy Hannah and precocious Anne, are separated in 1942, but meet again in 1945 in the concentration camp, where Hannah risks her life to try to save Anne.
The film, budgeted at $3.4 million, is set to start shooting late this year, continuing into early next year, with a release in 2020, the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II.
De Jong’s credits as a producer or director include “Left Luggage,” “Enigma,” “All Men Are Mortal,” “Drop Dead Fred” and “Love Is Thicker Than Water.” The script is by Marian Batavier.
The story, based on the memoirs of Frank’s friend Hannah Goslar, is told from her perspective. The best friends, shy Hannah and precocious Anne, are separated in 1942, but meet again in 1945 in the concentration camp, where Hannah risks her life to try to save Anne.
The film, budgeted at $3.4 million, is set to start shooting late this year, continuing into early next year, with a release in 2020, the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II.
De Jong’s credits as a producer or director include “Left Luggage,” “Enigma,” “All Men Are Mortal,” “Drop Dead Fred” and “Love Is Thicker Than Water.” The script is by Marian Batavier.
- 5/15/2019
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Recent projects include Iffr opener Dirty God.
Dutch producers rarely looked to the UK as potential partners until recently.
The UK is not part of Eurimages and the BFI’s minority co-production fund has limited resources. But now the two industries are coming much closer together as a cluster of high-profile new projects attests. Sacha Polak’s Dirty God, screening in Sundance this week and the opening film at Iffr, is one of several recent or upcoming features on which UK and Dutch producers have partnered.
Further examples include Elbert van Strien’s Scotland-set psychological thriller Marionette, Paula Van Der Oest...
Dutch producers rarely looked to the UK as potential partners until recently.
The UK is not part of Eurimages and the BFI’s minority co-production fund has limited resources. But now the two industries are coming much closer together as a cluster of high-profile new projects attests. Sacha Polak’s Dirty God, screening in Sundance this week and the opening film at Iffr, is one of several recent or upcoming features on which UK and Dutch producers have partnered.
Further examples include Elbert van Strien’s Scotland-set psychological thriller Marionette, Paula Van Der Oest...
- 1/31/2019
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
Recent projects include Iffr opener Dirty God.
Dutch producers rarely looked to the UK as potential partners until recently.
The UK is not part of Eurimages and the BFI’s minority co-production fund has limited resources. But now the two industries are coming much closer together as a cluster of high-profile new projects attests. Sacha Polak’s Dirty God, screening in Sundance this week and the opening film at Iffr, is one of several recent or upcoming features on which UK and Dutch producers have partnered.
Further examples include Elbert van Strien’s Scotland-set psychological thriller Marionette, Paula Van Der Oest...
Dutch producers rarely looked to the UK as potential partners until recently.
The UK is not part of Eurimages and the BFI’s minority co-production fund has limited resources. But now the two industries are coming much closer together as a cluster of high-profile new projects attests. Sacha Polak’s Dirty God, screening in Sundance this week and the opening film at Iffr, is one of several recent or upcoming features on which UK and Dutch producers have partnered.
Further examples include Elbert van Strien’s Scotland-set psychological thriller Marionette, Paula Van Der Oest...
- 1/31/2019
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
MaryAnn’s quick take… This would-be modern Romeo-and-Juliet tale is little more than a pile-on of class stereotypes, contrived dialogue, and one whopper of a coincidence. I’m “biast” (pro): nothing
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
Arthur (Johnny Flynn) hails from a family of miners in Wales, and now works as a bike messenger in London. Vida (Lydia Wilson: Star Trek Beyond) is a cellist who makes no money from her music, but that’s okay because her rich parents have bought her an amazing apartment in trendy East London. Now, Johnny is moving into that flat with Vida, and the two families are about to culture-clash.
From the directing team of Emily Harris and Ate de Jong (he’s best known for the 1991 cult film Drop Dead Fred), Love Is Thicker Than Water wants to be a modern Romeo-and-Juliet tale.
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
Arthur (Johnny Flynn) hails from a family of miners in Wales, and now works as a bike messenger in London. Vida (Lydia Wilson: Star Trek Beyond) is a cellist who makes no money from her music, but that’s okay because her rich parents have bought her an amazing apartment in trendy East London. Now, Johnny is moving into that flat with Vida, and the two families are about to culture-clash.
From the directing team of Emily Harris and Ate de Jong (he’s best known for the 1991 cult film Drop Dead Fred), Love Is Thicker Than Water wants to be a modern Romeo-and-Juliet tale.
- 12/1/2017
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
This story about a couple who are brought back from the verge of breaking up by bereavements is overcomplex and indulgent
There are potentially interesting things in this love story, written by veteran Dutch film-maker Ate de Jong, and co-directed with British editor and director Emily Harris, who has worked with the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and served as a consultant on the excellent documentary version of the V&A’s David Bowie exhibition.
This is a very personal, autobiographical story, pretty indulgent and sometimes a bit insufferable, with some jarringly hammy, misjudged notes. But there’s a good cast doing an honest job. Lydia Wilson and Johnny Flynn play Vida and Arthur, twentysomethings in love: one is a well-off Jewish Londoner, the other a working-class guy from Port Talbot. She’s a cellist; he’s a would-be animator. This fraught, live-in relationship is complicated further when they...
There are potentially interesting things in this love story, written by veteran Dutch film-maker Ate de Jong, and co-directed with British editor and director Emily Harris, who has worked with the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and served as a consultant on the excellent documentary version of the V&A’s David Bowie exhibition.
This is a very personal, autobiographical story, pretty indulgent and sometimes a bit insufferable, with some jarringly hammy, misjudged notes. But there’s a good cast doing an honest job. Lydia Wilson and Johnny Flynn play Vida and Arthur, twentysomethings in love: one is a well-off Jewish Londoner, the other a working-class guy from Port Talbot. She’s a cellist; he’s a would-be animator. This fraught, live-in relationship is complicated further when they...
- 11/30/2017
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Exclusive: Production gears up on debut feature from Emily Harris.
Jessica Raine (Call The Midwife, Wolf Hall) and Tobias Menzies (Outlander, Game Of Thrones) have boarded UK gothic drama Carmilla as the production gears up for a September shoot.
They join rising UK talent Hannah Rae (Broadchurch, City Of Tiny Lights) and young German actress Devrim Lingnau (Under Suspicion) in the cast alongside illusionist Scott Silven.
Inspired by Sheridan Le Fanu’s 1872 novel of the same name, which is considered to be one of the earliest works of vampire fiction, Carmilla is a dark coming-of-age love story set in the 1780s.
Raine plays Miss Fontaine, governess to 15-year-old Lara (Hannah Rae) who lives in total isolation in her family home. Struggling to find an outlet for her burgeoning sexuality, Lara is enchanted by the mysterious Carmilla (Devrim Lingnau) and the pair strike up a passionate relationship. However, with rumours and superstition rife and with the exhortation of the...
Jessica Raine (Call The Midwife, Wolf Hall) and Tobias Menzies (Outlander, Game Of Thrones) have boarded UK gothic drama Carmilla as the production gears up for a September shoot.
They join rising UK talent Hannah Rae (Broadchurch, City Of Tiny Lights) and young German actress Devrim Lingnau (Under Suspicion) in the cast alongside illusionist Scott Silven.
Inspired by Sheridan Le Fanu’s 1872 novel of the same name, which is considered to be one of the earliest works of vampire fiction, Carmilla is a dark coming-of-age love story set in the 1780s.
Raine plays Miss Fontaine, governess to 15-year-old Lara (Hannah Rae) who lives in total isolation in her family home. Struggling to find an outlet for her burgeoning sexuality, Lara is enchanted by the mysterious Carmilla (Devrim Lingnau) and the pair strike up a passionate relationship. However, with rumours and superstition rife and with the exhortation of the...
- 8/17/2017
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Production gears up on debut feature from Emily Harris.
Jessica Raine (Call The Midwife, Wolf Hall) and Tobias Menzies (Outlander, Game Of Thrones) have boarded UK Gothic feature Carmilla as the production gears up for a September shoot.
They join rising UK talent Hannah Rae (Broadchurch, City Of Tiny Lights) and young German actress Devrim Lingnau (Under Suspicion) in the cast alongside illusionist Scott Silven.
Inspired by Sheridan Le Fanu’s 1872 novel of the same name, which is considered to be one of the earliest works of vampire fiction, Carmilla is a dark coming-of-age love story set in the 1780s.
Raine plays Miss Fontaine, governess to 15-year-old Lara (Hannah Rae) who lives in total isolation in her family home. Struggling to find an outlet for her burgeoning sexuality, Lara is enchanted by the mysterious Carmilla (Devrim Lingnau) and the pair strike up a passionate relationship. However, with rumours and superstition rife and with the exhortation of the...
Jessica Raine (Call The Midwife, Wolf Hall) and Tobias Menzies (Outlander, Game Of Thrones) have boarded UK Gothic feature Carmilla as the production gears up for a September shoot.
They join rising UK talent Hannah Rae (Broadchurch, City Of Tiny Lights) and young German actress Devrim Lingnau (Under Suspicion) in the cast alongside illusionist Scott Silven.
Inspired by Sheridan Le Fanu’s 1872 novel of the same name, which is considered to be one of the earliest works of vampire fiction, Carmilla is a dark coming-of-age love story set in the 1780s.
Raine plays Miss Fontaine, governess to 15-year-old Lara (Hannah Rae) who lives in total isolation in her family home. Struggling to find an outlet for her burgeoning sexuality, Lara is enchanted by the mysterious Carmilla (Devrim Lingnau) and the pair strike up a passionate relationship. However, with rumours and superstition rife and with the exhortation of the...
- 8/17/2017
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Genre specialist sales company Jinga scores deals on Serbian title ahead of Filmart screening.
UK sales outfit Jinga Films has closed distribution deals in six territories for sci-fi thriller Incarnation ahead of the film’s market screening at next week’s Filmart in Hong Kong (March 13-16).
New Select has acquired the title for Japan, Spark Future for China, MovieCloud for Taiwan, Njuta for Scandinavia, Cinema Novo for Portugal and Renaissance for Mexico.
Incarnation, written, directed and produced by newcomer Filip Kovacevic, debuted last June at Cinema City Film Festival in Serbia. Alongside South Korea-Serbia-Slovenia co-production The Rift, it was one of two sci-fi thrillers picked up by Jinga last autumn.
The film stars Stojan Djordjevic (Ravna Gora) as an amnesiac who is pursued by assassins and gets stuck in a loop of life and death.
Genre-specialist Jinga holds remake rights for Incarnation, and is looking to emulate the success of its Venezuelan horror The House...
UK sales outfit Jinga Films has closed distribution deals in six territories for sci-fi thriller Incarnation ahead of the film’s market screening at next week’s Filmart in Hong Kong (March 13-16).
New Select has acquired the title for Japan, Spark Future for China, MovieCloud for Taiwan, Njuta for Scandinavia, Cinema Novo for Portugal and Renaissance for Mexico.
Incarnation, written, directed and produced by newcomer Filip Kovacevic, debuted last June at Cinema City Film Festival in Serbia. Alongside South Korea-Serbia-Slovenia co-production The Rift, it was one of two sci-fi thrillers picked up by Jinga last autumn.
The film stars Stojan Djordjevic (Ravna Gora) as an amnesiac who is pursued by assassins and gets stuck in a loop of life and death.
Genre-specialist Jinga holds remake rights for Incarnation, and is looking to emulate the success of its Venezuelan horror The House...
- 3/12/2017
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Jinga Films handles international sales on romantic drama.
Ate De Jong’s UK-Dutch romantic comedy Love Is Thicker Than Water has secured a Us distribution deal.
Santa Monica-based Cleopatra Music & Film, run by Tim Yasui, has acquired Us rights to the title and will release it theatrically.
Jinga is handling international sales.
De Jong wrote Love Is Thicker Than Water, produced it and co-directed with Emily Harris. It is a story of lovers from different sides of the tracks.
Vida comes from a well to do London family, whereas Arthur is a bike messenger from a working-class Welsh mining town. The cast is heading by former Screen International Star Of Tomorrow Johnny Flynn and Lydia Wilson (Star Trek Beyond, Never Let Me Go), Juliet Stevenson and Ellie Kendrick also feature.
The news of the Us deal comes as veteran producer-director De Jong is about to receive a lifetime career award at the Oporto International Film Festival...
Ate De Jong’s UK-Dutch romantic comedy Love Is Thicker Than Water has secured a Us distribution deal.
Santa Monica-based Cleopatra Music & Film, run by Tim Yasui, has acquired Us rights to the title and will release it theatrically.
Jinga is handling international sales.
De Jong wrote Love Is Thicker Than Water, produced it and co-directed with Emily Harris. It is a story of lovers from different sides of the tracks.
Vida comes from a well to do London family, whereas Arthur is a bike messenger from a working-class Welsh mining town. The cast is heading by former Screen International Star Of Tomorrow Johnny Flynn and Lydia Wilson (Star Trek Beyond, Never Let Me Go), Juliet Stevenson and Ellie Kendrick also feature.
The news of the Us deal comes as veteran producer-director De Jong is about to receive a lifetime career award at the Oporto International Film Festival...
- 2/10/2017
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
Well, we’ve made it to another month, which means we have a bunch of new VOD releases to look forward to throughout February. If you are looking to escape the winter doldrums while keeping safe and snug on your couches, you have plenty of horror and sci-fi titles arriving digitally in the coming weeks to keep you busy and out of the brutal winter chill.
February’s VOD offerings kick off with Katee Sackhoff in Don’t Knock Twice from IFC Midnight, and for those of you with Dish services, the psychological thriller Lavender makes its bow on that platform beginning February 3rd. The Oscar-nominated Nocturnal Animals arrives on Digital HD on February 7th, the very same day that Stake Land II gets released courtesy of Dark Sky Films.
If you missed Arrival in theaters, Paramount Pictures will release the film On Demand beginning February 14th (following its January...
February’s VOD offerings kick off with Katee Sackhoff in Don’t Knock Twice from IFC Midnight, and for those of you with Dish services, the psychological thriller Lavender makes its bow on that platform beginning February 3rd. The Oscar-nominated Nocturnal Animals arrives on Digital HD on February 7th, the very same day that Stake Land II gets released courtesy of Dark Sky Films.
If you missed Arrival in theaters, Paramount Pictures will release the film On Demand beginning February 14th (following its January...
- 2/1/2017
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
Coming Soon to VOD: The Controversial Deadly Virtues: Love.Honor.Obey. Deadly Virtues: Love.Honor.Obey. is the first feature film from Raindance Raw Talent and was directed by Ate de Jong (Drop Dead Fred, Highway to Hell). The unflinching tale is a riveting home invasion thriller like no other. A menacing young man (Edward Akrout) breaks into a …
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- 1/27/2017
- by Mike Joy
- Horror News
Industry figures at the Holland Film Meeting talk to Screen about the importance of locally-based sales companies.
In the wake of the collapse of Fortissimo Films last month, a heated debate has begun in the Netherlands about the lack of sales agents in the Benelux region.
At the Holland Film Meeting in Utrecht this weekend (Sept 22-25), several leading producers have commented on the importance of establishing new locally-based companies that can represent Dutch movies at international markets. There has even been talk of government support for a Dutch sales agency, either helping existing companies or setting up a new national agency.
The debate comes as Pim van Collem’s sales outfit Dutch Features Global Entertainment has revealed that it is planning to set up a small arthouse label next year, and as speculation continues to swirl around what will happen to Fortissimo’s titles.
Throughout its 20-year history, Fortissimo always handled Dutch movies alongside its Asian...
In the wake of the collapse of Fortissimo Films last month, a heated debate has begun in the Netherlands about the lack of sales agents in the Benelux region.
At the Holland Film Meeting in Utrecht this weekend (Sept 22-25), several leading producers have commented on the importance of establishing new locally-based companies that can represent Dutch movies at international markets. There has even been talk of government support for a Dutch sales agency, either helping existing companies or setting up a new national agency.
The debate comes as Pim van Collem’s sales outfit Dutch Features Global Entertainment has revealed that it is planning to set up a small arthouse label next year, and as speculation continues to swirl around what will happen to Fortissimo’s titles.
Throughout its 20-year history, Fortissimo always handled Dutch movies alongside its Asian...
- 9/26/2016
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
Industry figures at the Holland Film Meeting talk to Screen about the importance of locally-based sales companies.
In the wake of the collapse of Fortissimo Films last month, a heated debate has begun in the Netherlands about the lack of sales agents in the Benelux region.
At the Holland Film Meeting in Utrecht this weekend (Sept 22-25), several leading producers have commented on the importance of establishing new locally-based companies that can represent Dutch movies at international markets. There has even been talk of government support for a Dutch sales agency, either helping existing companies or setting up a new national agency.
The debate comes as Pim van Collem’s sales outfit Dutch Features Global Entertainment has revealed that it is planning to set up a small arthouse label next year, and as speculation continues to swirl around what will happen to Fortissimo’s titles.
Throughout its 20-year history, Fortissimo always handled Dutch movies alongside its Asian...
In the wake of the collapse of Fortissimo Films last month, a heated debate has begun in the Netherlands about the lack of sales agents in the Benelux region.
At the Holland Film Meeting in Utrecht this weekend (Sept 22-25), several leading producers have commented on the importance of establishing new locally-based companies that can represent Dutch movies at international markets. There has even been talk of government support for a Dutch sales agency, either helping existing companies or setting up a new national agency.
The debate comes as Pim van Collem’s sales outfit Dutch Features Global Entertainment has revealed that it is planning to set up a small arthouse label next year, and as speculation continues to swirl around what will happen to Fortissimo’s titles.
Throughout its 20-year history, Fortissimo always handled Dutch movies alongside its Asian...
- 9/26/2016
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
Mark Harrison Aug 15, 2016
We revisit Drop Dead Fred, starring the late, great Rik Mayall...
Hey, snotfaces, what do you get when you mix Mary Poppins and Beetlejuice? Look no further than 1991's Drop Dead Fred, a fantasy comedy about an imaginary friend, which turns out to be about a woman's mental breakdown after years and years of emotional abuse.
If you're of a certain age and, much like Phoebe Cates' protagonist Elizabeth at the beginning of the movie, you haven't seen Fred since you were a child, you may remember it as a childhood staple that you were probably a bit young to be watching and for many, it might have been your introduction to Mayall's comic stylings. However, also like Lizzie, Fred's anarchic behaviour has different implications when you meet him again in adulthood.
He first re-emerges after Lizzie has lost the three major totems of adulthood - her marriage,...
We revisit Drop Dead Fred, starring the late, great Rik Mayall...
Hey, snotfaces, what do you get when you mix Mary Poppins and Beetlejuice? Look no further than 1991's Drop Dead Fred, a fantasy comedy about an imaginary friend, which turns out to be about a woman's mental breakdown after years and years of emotional abuse.
If you're of a certain age and, much like Phoebe Cates' protagonist Elizabeth at the beginning of the movie, you haven't seen Fred since you were a child, you may remember it as a childhood staple that you were probably a bit young to be watching and for many, it might have been your introduction to Mayall's comic stylings. However, also like Lizzie, Fred's anarchic behaviour has different implications when you meet him again in adulthood.
He first re-emerges after Lizzie has lost the three major totems of adulthood - her marriage,...
- 8/1/2016
- Den of Geek
Full programme revealed for this year’s East End Film Festival.
Hellboy star Ron Perlman and Suffragette director Sarah Gavron have joined the jury of the 15th East End Film Festival (June 23 – July 3).
It marks a return to the East End for Us star Perlman, who attended Eeff in 2014 when Dermaphoria - in which he starred - opened the festival.
Ivy director Tolga Karaçelik, who won best feature at last year’s festival, returns as the 2016 director in residence and jury chair alongside Perlman and Gavron.
Also awarding the Best Feature prize will be film writer and producer Kaleem Aftab and Bangladeshi film-maker Mostofa Sarwar (Television).
This year’s country focus will be Turkey, with screenings including the UK premiere of Emin Alper’s Turkey-France-Qatar co-pro Frenzy.
Opening film
The festival will open with the world premiere of Ian Bonhote’s Alleycats, with a cast that includes Screen Stars of Tomorrow Eleanor Tomlinson (Poldark) and Sam Keeley ([link...
Hellboy star Ron Perlman and Suffragette director Sarah Gavron have joined the jury of the 15th East End Film Festival (June 23 – July 3).
It marks a return to the East End for Us star Perlman, who attended Eeff in 2014 when Dermaphoria - in which he starred - opened the festival.
Ivy director Tolga Karaçelik, who won best feature at last year’s festival, returns as the 2016 director in residence and jury chair alongside Perlman and Gavron.
Also awarding the Best Feature prize will be film writer and producer Kaleem Aftab and Bangladeshi film-maker Mostofa Sarwar (Television).
This year’s country focus will be Turkey, with screenings including the UK premiere of Emin Alper’s Turkey-France-Qatar co-pro Frenzy.
Opening film
The festival will open with the world premiere of Ian Bonhote’s Alleycats, with a cast that includes Screen Stars of Tomorrow Eleanor Tomlinson (Poldark) and Sam Keeley ([link...
- 5/26/2016
- ScreenDaily
February’s home entertainment releases are kicking off in a big way, as horror and sci-fi fans have an extraordinary number of brand spanking new titles to choose from this Tuesday. From indie horror to cult classics to cult classics in the making, February 2nd’s Blu-ray and DVD releases truly do offer up something for everyone.
Scream Factory is offering up two modern genre films this week, Hellions and Zombie Fight Club and Cinedigm is keeping busy too on Tuesday with their releases of Extraordinary Tales and The World of Kanako. Vin Diesel’s latest, The Last Witch Hunter, arrives on both Blu and DVD and if you call yourself a Henry Rollins fan, you will definitely want to pick up He Never Died this week as well.
Other notable titles being released on February 2nd include From Dusk Till Dawn: Season Two, Falling Skies: The Complete Fifth Season,...
Scream Factory is offering up two modern genre films this week, Hellions and Zombie Fight Club and Cinedigm is keeping busy too on Tuesday with their releases of Extraordinary Tales and The World of Kanako. Vin Diesel’s latest, The Last Witch Hunter, arrives on both Blu and DVD and if you call yourself a Henry Rollins fan, you will definitely want to pick up He Never Died this week as well.
Other notable titles being released on February 2nd include From Dusk Till Dawn: Season Two, Falling Skies: The Complete Fifth Season,...
- 2/2/2016
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
More rarities are on their way from Kino Lorber and we’ve got a look at what’s on its way to full high definition! In stores and online February 2nd: Highway to Hell (1991) Director Ate de Jong Starring Patrick Bergin,… Continue Reading →
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- 1/15/2016
- by Steve Barton
- DreadCentral.com
#Horror will be released theatrically in New York City and Los Angeles and on VOD on November 20th. Also in this morning's round-up: vinyl soundtrack information for the Elijah Wood / Rainn Wilson vehicle, Cooties, and Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan, as well as Highway to Hell Blu-ray details.
#Horror: "Inspired by actual events, a group of 12-year-old girls face a night of Horror when the compulsive addiction of an online social media game turns a moment of a cyber bullying to a night of insanity. Tara Subkoff explores the rarefied world of the east coast privileged through the eyes of a group of 12-year-old girls left alone and pursued by a killer. The film examines a world of escalating cruelty and alienation through an online game where scoring likes comes at the cost of human lives.
Release Date: Friday, November 20th (NY and La / VOD)
Distributor: IFC Midnight
Director: Tara Subkoff...
#Horror: "Inspired by actual events, a group of 12-year-old girls face a night of Horror when the compulsive addiction of an online social media game turns a moment of a cyber bullying to a night of insanity. Tara Subkoff explores the rarefied world of the east coast privileged through the eyes of a group of 12-year-old girls left alone and pursued by a killer. The film examines a world of escalating cruelty and alienation through an online game where scoring likes comes at the cost of human lives.
Release Date: Friday, November 20th (NY and La / VOD)
Distributor: IFC Midnight
Director: Tara Subkoff...
- 11/10/2015
- by Tamika Jones
- DailyDead
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
Home invasion erotic thriller makes Asia sales.
UK sales outfit Jinga Films has sold Ate De Jong’s erotic thriller Deadly Virtues to Japan (New Select) and Taiwan (MovieCloud).
Edward Akrout stars as an enigmatic home invader who exploits the troubled relationship of a suburban middle class couple.
A Dutch/UK co-production, Deadly Virtues was produced by Mulholland Pictures in Amsterdam and Raw Talent in the UK.
Jinga’s Kevin Law said there was “appetite in the market for erotic thrillers” following the box office success of Fifty Shades of Grey.
Deadly Virtues has previously been acquired by Tiberius in Germany, A-Film in Benelux and Mandala for Australia/New Zealand.
UK sales outfit Jinga Films has sold Ate De Jong’s erotic thriller Deadly Virtues to Japan (New Select) and Taiwan (MovieCloud).
Edward Akrout stars as an enigmatic home invader who exploits the troubled relationship of a suburban middle class couple.
A Dutch/UK co-production, Deadly Virtues was produced by Mulholland Pictures in Amsterdam and Raw Talent in the UK.
Jinga’s Kevin Law said there was “appetite in the market for erotic thrillers” following the box office success of Fifty Shades of Grey.
Deadly Virtues has previously been acquired by Tiberius in Germany, A-Film in Benelux and Mandala for Australia/New Zealand.
- 3/24/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Home invasion erotic thriller makes Asia sales.
UK sales outfit Jinga Films has sold Ate De Jong’s erotic thriller Deadly Virtues to Japan (New Select) and Taiwan (MovieCloud).
Edward Akrout stars as an enigmatic home invader who exploits the troubled relationship of a suburban middle class couple.
A Dutch/UK co-production, Deadly Virtues was produced by Mulholland Pictures in Amsterdam and Raw Talent in the UK.
Jinga’s Kevin Law said there was “appetite in the market for erotic thrillers” following the box office success of Fifty Shades of Grey.
Deadly Virtues has previously been acquired by Tiberius in Germany, A-Film in Benelux and Mandala for Australia/New Zealand.
UK sales outfit Jinga Films has sold Ate De Jong’s erotic thriller Deadly Virtues to Japan (New Select) and Taiwan (MovieCloud).
Edward Akrout stars as an enigmatic home invader who exploits the troubled relationship of a suburban middle class couple.
A Dutch/UK co-production, Deadly Virtues was produced by Mulholland Pictures in Amsterdam and Raw Talent in the UK.
Jinga’s Kevin Law said there was “appetite in the market for erotic thrillers” following the box office success of Fifty Shades of Grey.
Deadly Virtues has previously been acquired by Tiberius in Germany, A-Film in Benelux and Mandala for Australia/New Zealand.
- 3/24/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Having returned from the Moorish and Amazonian horrors to enter the multiplex – the home of the celluloid dream that has dispatched many a willing viewer to their homes to be terrified by creaking floorboards, so this week we find ourselves returning home.
In part four of our FrightFest special feature ‘Unwanted Guests’, HeyUGuys interrogated director Ate de Jong and producer Elisar Cabrera about contributing an invasive descent into human nature – spiralling into the depths of repression and emotional and physical abuse for their independent home invasion drama Deadly Virtues.
What does it mean to have played at FILM4 Frightfest?
Elisar Cabrera: Well as a Londoner it is quite thrilling, and although I have been to FrightFest before as a sales agent and I have represented films here, this is my first time as a producer.
Ate de Jong: It is actually a very strange experience. I’ve lived in London for fourteen years,...
In part four of our FrightFest special feature ‘Unwanted Guests’, HeyUGuys interrogated director Ate de Jong and producer Elisar Cabrera about contributing an invasive descent into human nature – spiralling into the depths of repression and emotional and physical abuse for their independent home invasion drama Deadly Virtues.
What does it mean to have played at FILM4 Frightfest?
Elisar Cabrera: Well as a Londoner it is quite thrilling, and although I have been to FrightFest before as a sales agent and I have represented films here, this is my first time as a producer.
Ate de Jong: It is actually a very strange experience. I’ve lived in London for fourteen years,...
- 9/12/2014
- by Paul Risker
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Deadly Virtues is a lean beast of a film, and whilst it lacks the visual flair of The Guest or the high suspense of White Settlers, what it contributed to this year’s FILM4 FrightFest home invasion trilogy was an invasive descent into human nature – spiralling into the depths of repression and emotional and physical abuse.
A seemingly simple tale on the surface of one woman forced to play the role of the dutiful and loving wife for the weekend whilst hubby is left maimed and tied up in the bathtub; Deadly Virtues starts out as a run of the mill home invasion film. The tension initially stems from the fear of a nasty little low budget number, although it soon becomes apparent that this is not the path writer Mark Rogers and director Ate de Jong intend to lead us down.
The drama becomes an emotional rollercoaster that touches...
A seemingly simple tale on the surface of one woman forced to play the role of the dutiful and loving wife for the weekend whilst hubby is left maimed and tied up in the bathtub; Deadly Virtues starts out as a run of the mill home invasion film. The tension initially stems from the fear of a nasty little low budget number, although it soon becomes apparent that this is not the path writer Mark Rogers and director Ate de Jong intend to lead us down.
The drama becomes an emotional rollercoaster that touches...
- 9/11/2014
- by Paul Risker
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
This year’s Film4 FrightFest guest list brings together the great, the grand and the gifted as over 100 filmmakers, performers, writers and producers from all over the world make their way to the Vue West End for the 15th Film4 FrightFest event which runs from Thursday 21st – Monday 25th August. Highlights – at least as far as we here at Nerdly are concerned – include the legend(s) that are Robert Englund (A Nightmare on Elm St.) and Alan Moore (Watchmen), the infamous Jorg Buttgereit (Nekromantik), Frightfest fave Adam Green (Hatchet, Holliston), the always-wonderful Jessica Cameron (Truth or Dare, The Tour) and friend to Nerdly, Federico Zampaglone (Tulpa) whose short Remember I’m possibly looking forward to seeing the most at this years festival!
Check out the press release below:
He lit up the 1980s and 90s genre landscape with one of the classic horror performances of all time as Freddy Krueger...
Check out the press release below:
He lit up the 1980s and 90s genre landscape with one of the classic horror performances of all time as Freddy Krueger...
- 7/30/2014
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
“I’m your boyfriend now, Nancy.” It may be hard to believe, but it’s been thirty years since Robert Englund’s Freddy Krueger said those words to Heather Langenkamp’s Nancy in Wes Craven’s A Nightmare on Elm Street. A 30th anniversary screening of the film is taking place at this year’s Film4 FrightFest, and Englund has been announced as a member of a guest lineup that includes Alan Moore.
Taking place at London’s Vue West End, the 15th Film4 FrightFest will run from August 21st – 25th. In addition to celebrating the 30th anniversary of A Nightmare on Elm Street, Robert Englund will also be unveiling his latest film, The Last Showing.
Actress Maika Monroe will be on hand for the UK premiere of The Guest, and director John McNaughton (Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer) will screen his latest film, The Harvest. Also of note...
Taking place at London’s Vue West End, the 15th Film4 FrightFest will run from August 21st – 25th. In addition to celebrating the 30th anniversary of A Nightmare on Elm Street, Robert Englund will also be unveiling his latest film, The Last Showing.
Actress Maika Monroe will be on hand for the UK premiere of The Guest, and director John McNaughton (Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer) will screen his latest film, The Harvest. Also of note...
- 7/29/2014
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Nightmare on Elm Street star and comic-book legend set for horror festival.
Film4 FrightFest (Aug 21-25) has unveiled its guest list, topped by A Nightmare On Elm Street star Robert Englund.
The Us horror actor will attend the festival to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Wes Craven classic, screening on Aug 24, and to launch the latest production in which he stars, The Last Showing, which screens Aug 22.
Festival co-director Alan Jones described Englund as “one of the genre’s originals” and “an icon of fright”.
In support of opening film The Guest, Us actress Maika Monroe will present the UK premiere of the thriller, directed by Adam Wingard and co-starring Downton Abbey’s Dan Stevens. Monroe is also the star of horror It Follows, which debuted at Cannes.
Alan Moore, the author of bestselling graphic novels Watchmen, V for Vendetta and From Hell, will attend the festival to introduce and discuss his short film trilogy Show Pieces...
Film4 FrightFest (Aug 21-25) has unveiled its guest list, topped by A Nightmare On Elm Street star Robert Englund.
The Us horror actor will attend the festival to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Wes Craven classic, screening on Aug 24, and to launch the latest production in which he stars, The Last Showing, which screens Aug 22.
Festival co-director Alan Jones described Englund as “one of the genre’s originals” and “an icon of fright”.
In support of opening film The Guest, Us actress Maika Monroe will present the UK premiere of the thriller, directed by Adam Wingard and co-starring Downton Abbey’s Dan Stevens. Monroe is also the star of horror It Follows, which debuted at Cannes.
Alan Moore, the author of bestselling graphic novels Watchmen, V for Vendetta and From Hell, will attend the festival to introduce and discuss his short film trilogy Show Pieces...
- 7/29/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Called “The Woodstock of Gore” by Guillermo Del Toro, otherwise more commonly known to the rest of us as FILM4 FrightFest, has recently announced the line-up of its 15th annual instalment that runs from Thursday 21st to Monday 25th August. This year sees FrightFest relocate to a new home at the Vue West End, Leicester Square, which has become home to the annual FrightFest All-Nighter.
In the year that sees one of the world’s leading genre festivals set down new roots, the programme will take on an international flavour whilst ensuring it embraces both genre features and shorts with “sixty-four films plus twenty shorts across five screens. There are sixteen countries representing five continents with a record-breaking thirty-eight UK or European premieres and eleven world premieres.”
FrightFest organisers are labelling the 15th chapter as an historic moment in the festival’s growth. Are you ready for a monstrous and memorable mayhem of killer claws,...
In the year that sees one of the world’s leading genre festivals set down new roots, the programme will take on an international flavour whilst ensuring it embraces both genre features and shorts with “sixty-four films plus twenty shorts across five screens. There are sixteen countries representing five continents with a record-breaking thirty-eight UK or European premieres and eleven world premieres.”
FrightFest organisers are labelling the 15th chapter as an historic moment in the festival’s growth. Are you ready for a monstrous and memorable mayhem of killer claws,...
- 6/30/2014
- by Paul Risker
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Film4 FrightFest 2014, returning for its 15th year, unveils its biggest line-up ever. From Thurs 21 August to Monday 25 August, the UK’s leading event for genre fans will be at the Vue West End, Leicester Square, to present sixty-four films plus twenty shorts across five screens. There are sixteen countries representing five continents with a record-breaking thirty-eight UK or European premieres and eleven world premieres.
Are you ready for a monstrous and memorable mayhem of killer claws, cannibalism, cult classics, murderous musicals, chiller thrillers, graphic novel action and sick celluloid masterpieces? Then prepare yourself for the biggest, strongest and most eclectic must-see programme in Film4 FrightFest’s history.
From the opening night turbo-driven thrill-ride The Guest to the UK premiere of the closing night mesmeric sci-fi fantasy The Signal, FrightFest has netted the latest works from genre big-hitters such as Eli Roth (The Green Inferno), Alan Moore and Mitch Jenkins (Show...
Are you ready for a monstrous and memorable mayhem of killer claws, cannibalism, cult classics, murderous musicals, chiller thrillers, graphic novel action and sick celluloid masterpieces? Then prepare yourself for the biggest, strongest and most eclectic must-see programme in Film4 FrightFest’s history.
From the opening night turbo-driven thrill-ride The Guest to the UK premiere of the closing night mesmeric sci-fi fantasy The Signal, FrightFest has netted the latest works from genre big-hitters such as Eli Roth (The Green Inferno), Alan Moore and Mitch Jenkins (Show...
- 6/27/2014
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Genre outfit adds zombies, werewolves and supernatural features to its Cannes slate.
Jinga Films has added three new titles to its slate ahead of next month’s Cannes Film Festival (May 14-25).
Jeremy Wooding’s werewolf western Blood Moon starring Shaun Dooley is currently wrapping post-production and will receive its world premiere in Cannes. Filmed on location in the UK but set in North America the story follows a stagecoach full of passengers and an enigmatic gunslinger stalked through the prairies by a mythical beast.
The Dead II is the sequel to The Ford Brothers debut feature and follows a zombie pandemic as it spreads from Africa to India. Joseph Milson stars as an engineer working in Rajasthan who has to fight his way across 300 miles of ferociously infected countryside to save his pregnant girlfriend. The film received its world premiere at FrightFest and was recently acquired for North America by Anchor Bay, which will release...
Jinga Films has added three new titles to its slate ahead of next month’s Cannes Film Festival (May 14-25).
Jeremy Wooding’s werewolf western Blood Moon starring Shaun Dooley is currently wrapping post-production and will receive its world premiere in Cannes. Filmed on location in the UK but set in North America the story follows a stagecoach full of passengers and an enigmatic gunslinger stalked through the prairies by a mythical beast.
The Dead II is the sequel to The Ford Brothers debut feature and follows a zombie pandemic as it spreads from Africa to India. Joseph Milson stars as an engineer working in Rajasthan who has to fight his way across 300 miles of ferociously infected countryside to save his pregnant girlfriend. The film received its world premiere at FrightFest and was recently acquired for North America by Anchor Bay, which will release...
- 4/23/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
(An alternative title could be "Home Invasion: Rope. Torture. Show.") One of the titles world premiering at the Imagine film Festival Amsterdam this year is Ate de Jong's Deadly Virtues: Love. Honour. Obey., his first film since the costly flop The Bombardment two years ago. This new film is a lot leaner and meaner, though, a home invasion thriller with some surprises up its sleeve. In it, a young couple gets assaulted and bound by a vicious stranger on a Friday night, and he proceeds to torture them throughout an entire weekend. The audience is left wondering the same thing as the victims: What the hell is wrong with this guy? What does he want? And will he end up killing them? The plot thickens...
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- 4/17/2014
- Screen Anarchy
Other winners included actors James McAvoy and Lindsay Duncan, For Those In Peril director Paul Wright and Blue is the Warmest Colour.Scroll down for full list of winners
Philippines-set crime thriller Metro Manila has scooped the top prize at the 16th Moet British Independent Film Awards in London, beating box office hit Philomena as well as The Selfish Giant, Starred Up and Le Week-end.
Metro Manila led the pack on the night with three wins including Best British Independent Film, Best Director for Sean Ellis and Best Achievement in Production.
Clearly stunned, Ellis thanked Bifa for supporting “our little holiday film” when accepting the Best Film prize and - holding back tears - dedicated the award to his mother.
The crime drama, shot in the Philippine capital in the Tagalog language with a local cast and crew, debuted at Sundance in January and is the UK’s submission for the Best Foreign-Language Film at the Oscars...
Philippines-set crime thriller Metro Manila has scooped the top prize at the 16th Moet British Independent Film Awards in London, beating box office hit Philomena as well as The Selfish Giant, Starred Up and Le Week-end.
Metro Manila led the pack on the night with three wins including Best British Independent Film, Best Director for Sean Ellis and Best Achievement in Production.
Clearly stunned, Ellis thanked Bifa for supporting “our little holiday film” when accepting the Best Film prize and - holding back tears - dedicated the award to his mother.
The crime drama, shot in the Philippine capital in the Tagalog language with a local cast and crew, debuted at Sundance in January and is the UK’s submission for the Best Foreign-Language Film at the Oscars...
- 12/8/2013
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Judi Dench, Scarlett Johansson: 2013 British Independent Film Awards nominations (photo: Judi Dench in ‘Philomena’) Since the likes of Judi Dench, Scarlett Johansson, James McAvoy, and Tom Hardy are in the running for the 2013 British Independent Film Awards, expect at least a little overlapping between the determinedly indie-oriented BIFAs and other awards season nominees and/or winners elsewhere. (See also: “Judi Dench Sole Bifa Nominee Surely to Get BAFTA, Oscar Nominations.”) Judi Dench and Scarlett Johansson are competing in the Best Actress category; Dench for Stephen Frears’ Philomena, Johansson for Jonathan Glazer’s Under the Skin. Tom Hardy and James McAvoy are in the running for the Best Actor British Independent Film Award; Hardy for Steven Knight’s Locke, McAvoy for Jon S. Baird’s Filth. The top Bifa 2013 movie, however, is David Mackenzie’s Starred Up, with a total of eight nominations including Best British Independent Film, Best Director,...
- 11/14/2013
- by Zac Gille
- Alt Film Guide
Starred Up leads British Independent Film Awards noms, followed by The Selfish Giant. Scarlett Johansson and Judi Dench among Best Actress nominees.
David Mackenzie’s Starred Up leads the Moet British Independent Film Awards nominations with eight nods, including Best British Independent Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actor for Jack O’Connell, and two Best Supporting Actor nominations.
The Selfish Giant picked up seven nominations while Filth, Metro Manila and Le Week-end picked up five nominations each.
Best Film nominations comprise Metro Manila, Philomena, The Selfish Giant, Starred Up and Le Week-end.
Nominations for Best Actress are Judi Dench for Philomena, Lindsay Duncan for Le Week-end, Scarlett Johansson for Under The Skin, Felicity Jones for The Invisible Woman and Saoirse Ronan for How I Live Now.
Along with O’Connell for Starred Up, Best Actor award nominees include Jim Broadbent for Le Week-end, Steve Coogan for Philomena, Tom Hardy for Locke and James McAvoy for Filth...
David Mackenzie’s Starred Up leads the Moet British Independent Film Awards nominations with eight nods, including Best British Independent Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actor for Jack O’Connell, and two Best Supporting Actor nominations.
The Selfish Giant picked up seven nominations while Filth, Metro Manila and Le Week-end picked up five nominations each.
Best Film nominations comprise Metro Manila, Philomena, The Selfish Giant, Starred Up and Le Week-end.
Nominations for Best Actress are Judi Dench for Philomena, Lindsay Duncan for Le Week-end, Scarlett Johansson for Under The Skin, Felicity Jones for The Invisible Woman and Saoirse Ronan for How I Live Now.
Along with O’Connell for Starred Up, Best Actor award nominees include Jim Broadbent for Le Week-end, Steve Coogan for Philomena, Tom Hardy for Locke and James McAvoy for Filth...
- 11/11/2013
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Some movies will always make me laugh, but let’s face it; the same movies might make others yawn. Comedy is tricky business, the hardest genre to pull off form script to screen. I’ve put together a list of 10 underrated or dismissed comedies that deserve a first chance or even a second chance at recognition. Humor is subjective, but gives these flicks a chance and I promise you will enjoy yourself.
Take a look at the list and let me know what you think and what your list might look like.
1. Big Nothing (2006) A frustrated, unemployed teacher joining forces with a scammer and his girlfriend in a blackmailing scheme. Director: Jean-Baptiste Andrea
Writers: Billy Asher, Jean-Baptiste Andrea
Stars: David Schwimmer, Simon Pegg I found Big Nothing after looking for another Simon Pegg fix having just seen Shaun of the Dead. This is a mean-spirited comedy that fits in well...
Take a look at the list and let me know what you think and what your list might look like.
1. Big Nothing (2006) A frustrated, unemployed teacher joining forces with a scammer and his girlfriend in a blackmailing scheme. Director: Jean-Baptiste Andrea
Writers: Billy Asher, Jean-Baptiste Andrea
Stars: David Schwimmer, Simon Pegg I found Big Nothing after looking for another Simon Pegg fix having just seen Shaun of the Dead. This is a mean-spirited comedy that fits in well...
- 6/24/2012
- by Graham McMorrow
- City of Films
For a self-described "reactionary" filmmaker, Monte Hellman is remarkably forward-thinking. Road to Nowhere (reviewed here), his first feature since 1989, is a film shot digitally that's partly about cinema in the digital age; from its very first shot—where a character pops a DVD-r with the film's title on it into a laptop—on, Road to Nowhere is a film about the slipperiness of digitally created, manipulated and viewed images. Written by longtime Hellman collaborator Steve Gaydos, it stars Shannyn Sossammon as Laurel, an inexperienced actress who is cast in a true crime drama also called Road to Nowhere (directed by one “Mitchell Haven” and written by one “Stephen Gates”); in this film-within-a-film, Laurel plays femme-fatale-ish Velma Duran, though the whole thing is ambiguous enough (in terms of structure, characterization, aesthetics, etc.) that at least one character begins to suspect that Laurel and Duran are in fact the same person.
Hellman is erudite and easygoing.
Hellman is erudite and easygoing.
- 7/26/2011
- MUBI
“Drop Dead Fred” director Ate de Jong’s deliriously enjoyable satanic road trip “Highway to Hell” is one of my all-time favorite late-night Cinemax discoveries. Ever. Now, thanks to the efforts of a certain movie savvy co-worker, it is a proud member of my ever-evolving collection of mismatched celluloid, although I would like to see a proper DVD release before the end of my lifetime. I’m just saying. Working from a surprisingly solid script by none other than “Payback” mastermind Brian Helgeland, Jong’s outlandish tale of one man’s hellish struggle to rescue his shanghaied bride-to-be from the clutches of a lecherous Lucifer (Patrick Bergin) and his legion of nefarious henchmen manages to coast by on sheer giddy energy alone. Think “Police Academy” meets “Mad Max”. Thankfully, Chad Lowe’s overly-caffeinated performance helps ease the stinging itch generally associated with the film’s less than stellar moments, most...
- 3/28/2011
- by Todd Rigney
- Beyond Hollywood
The international Amsterdam-based lab for writers, directors and producers has a new general director. Gamila Ylstra has worked the last 20 years in key positions in the Dutch film world: Editor in Chief for public broadcaster Nps Television, director of tax based investment company Fine B.V. and 6 years as head of the Film Division of the Dutch Ministry of Culture.
Ido Abrams' departure in May 0-10, of and his taking the reins of the eye Film Institute Netherlands.
Ate de Jong – director and producer – will act as interim director in the intervening months.
Gamila Ylstra (51), studied Cultural Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam and Camera & Directing at the Film academy in Tokyo. After making documentaries following her studies she moved in 1990 to the Dutch Ministry of Culture (Ocw) where she became Head of Film until 1997. In 1998 Ylstra was asked by the Finance Ministry to lead the introduction of new policies...
Ido Abrams' departure in May 0-10, of and his taking the reins of the eye Film Institute Netherlands.
Ate de Jong – director and producer – will act as interim director in the intervening months.
Gamila Ylstra (51), studied Cultural Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam and Camera & Directing at the Film academy in Tokyo. After making documentaries following her studies she moved in 1990 to the Dutch Ministry of Culture (Ocw) where she became Head of Film until 1997. In 1998 Ylstra was asked by the Finance Ministry to lead the introduction of new policies...
- 3/27/2010
- by Sydney
- Sydney's Buzz
Universal Pictures will remake the 1991 comedy "Drop Dead Fred" for a starring vehicle for Russell Brand. "Land of the Lost" writer Dennis McNicholas will script the revamp which Marc Platt is production via his Marc Platt Productions banner. The original film was helmed by Ate de Jong and starred Phoebe Cates, Rik Mayall, Marsha Mason and Tim Matheson. Cates starred as a woman who lises her job and her husband (Tim Matheson) and moves back home where she's reunited with her imaginary friend Fred (played by Rik Mayall) who tries all to cheer her up, but serves up havoc instead. Brand and Universal are getting along well it seems. The actor was in the studio's "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" comedy with Jason Segel and is also part of the Judd Apatow-produced "Get Him to the Greek." ...
- 4/29/2009
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Universal Pictures will remake the 1991 comedy "Drop Dead Fred" for a starring vehicle for Russell Brand. "Land of the Lost" writer Dennis McNicholas will script the revamp which Marc Platt is production via his Marc Platt Productions banner. The original film was helmed by Ate de Jong and starred Phoebe Cates, Rik Mayall, Marsha Mason and Tim Matheson. Cates starred as a woman who lises her job and her husband (Tim Matheson) and moves back home where she's reunited with her imaginary friend Fred (played by Rik Mayall) who tries all to cheer her up, but serves up havoc instead...
- 4/29/2009
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Universal Pictures will remake the 1991 comedy "Drop Dead Fred" for a starring vehicle for Russell Brand. "Land of the Lost" writer Dennis McNicholas will script the revamp which Marc Platt is production via his Marc Platt Productions banner. The original film was helmed by Ate de Jong and starred Phoebe Cates, Rik Mayall, Marsha Mason and Tim Matheson. Cates starred as a woman who lises her job and her husband (Tim Matheson) and moves back home where she's reunited with her imaginary friend Fred (played by Rik Mayall) who tries all to cheer her up, but serves up havoc instead...
- 4/29/2009
- Upcoming-Movies.com
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