One of the new found footage movies headed to this year’s Unnamed Footage Festival in San Francisco, CA – an annual showcase for found footage genre films – is Tahoe Joe 2: The Nevada Bigfoot Conspiracy, a sequel to last year’s microbudget indie film Tahoe Joe.
Directed by Dillon Brown and Michael Rock, and produced by Joshua Brucker and Hunter Nino and Brian Lee, Tahoe Joe 2 is the latest film from Horror Dadz Productions.
The film will have its World Premiere at the Balboa Theater in San Francisco at UFF7, on Friday, March 29th at 3:00pm Pst. Tickets can be purchased for the festival right now.
In the sequel, “After a popular social media influencer goes missing in the Tahoe National Forest, filmmakers Michael Rock and Dillon Brown set out on a rescue mission, but get more than they bargained for when returning to the famous hunting grounds of Tahoe Joe.
Directed by Dillon Brown and Michael Rock, and produced by Joshua Brucker and Hunter Nino and Brian Lee, Tahoe Joe 2 is the latest film from Horror Dadz Productions.
The film will have its World Premiere at the Balboa Theater in San Francisco at UFF7, on Friday, March 29th at 3:00pm Pst. Tickets can be purchased for the festival right now.
In the sequel, “After a popular social media influencer goes missing in the Tahoe National Forest, filmmakers Michael Rock and Dillon Brown set out on a rescue mission, but get more than they bargained for when returning to the famous hunting grounds of Tahoe Joe.
- 3/11/2024
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
Neil Jimenez, who won three Indie Spirit Awards for writing River’s Edge and writing and co-directing The Waterdance, has died. He was 62. His sister, Kathleen Serio, said Jimenez died December 11 of heart failure in Arroyo Grande, CA.
Jimenez won his first Spirit Award in 1988 for his screenplay to River’s Edge, the Tim Hunter-directed thriller whose stacked cast included Crispin Glover, Keanu Reeves, Ione Skye and Dennis Hopper. The 1986 pic about a group of California friends who get ensnarled in a murder and cover-up also won Best Feature at the Spirits that year and was a nominee for the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance.
The Sacramento native went on to pen or co-write the scripts for Where the River Runs Black (1986) and The Dark Wind (1991) and the story for Bette Midler period drama For the Boys (1991). Jimenez’s next project was The Waterdance, which starred Eric Stoltz as...
Jimenez won his first Spirit Award in 1988 for his screenplay to River’s Edge, the Tim Hunter-directed thriller whose stacked cast included Crispin Glover, Keanu Reeves, Ione Skye and Dennis Hopper. The 1986 pic about a group of California friends who get ensnarled in a murder and cover-up also won Best Feature at the Spirits that year and was a nominee for the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance.
The Sacramento native went on to pen or co-write the scripts for Where the River Runs Black (1986) and The Dark Wind (1991) and the story for Bette Midler period drama For the Boys (1991). Jimenez’s next project was The Waterdance, which starred Eric Stoltz as...
- 12/30/2022
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
Neal Jimenez, the American independent filmmaker who won an Independent Spirit Award for writing the 1986 cult classic “River’s Edge,” died on December 11, IndieWire has learned. He was 62 years old.
Jimenez also wrote and co-directed, with Michael Steinberg, the 1992 indie “The Waterdance,” which won Best First Feature and Best Screenplay at the 1993 Spirit Awards. The cause of death was heart failure, said his sister, Kathleen Serio. He lived on a six-acre Arroyo Grande ranch in Central Coast, Calif., where he spent the last decade of his life with family and friends while dealing with paraplegia.
Jimenez also had writing credits on “Where the River Runs Black” (1986), “For the Boys” (1991), “The Dark Wind” (1991), “Sleep with Me” (1994), and “Hideaway” (1995). Early in his career, Jimenez was revered as a script doctor, commanding fees of 100,000 per day on films including 1995’s “Outbreak.” Throughout his career, he was also commissioned to write scripts for Martin Scorsese,...
Jimenez also wrote and co-directed, with Michael Steinberg, the 1992 indie “The Waterdance,” which won Best First Feature and Best Screenplay at the 1993 Spirit Awards. The cause of death was heart failure, said his sister, Kathleen Serio. He lived on a six-acre Arroyo Grande ranch in Central Coast, Calif., where he spent the last decade of his life with family and friends while dealing with paraplegia.
Jimenez also had writing credits on “Where the River Runs Black” (1986), “For the Boys” (1991), “The Dark Wind” (1991), “Sleep with Me” (1994), and “Hideaway” (1995). Early in his career, Jimenez was revered as a script doctor, commanding fees of 100,000 per day on films including 1995’s “Outbreak.” Throughout his career, he was also commissioned to write scripts for Martin Scorsese,...
- 12/30/2022
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
Neal Jimenez, a screenwriter and filmmaker whose credits include “River’s Edge” and “The Waterdance,” died of heart failure on Dec. 11 in Arroyo Grande, Calif. He was 62. His works were favorites on the awards circuit, attracting wins in screenwriting categories at ceremonies such as the Independent Spirit Awards and the Sundance Film Festival.
Jimenez wrote and co-directed “The Waterdance” with director Michael Steinberg, and alongside the recognition the film received on the awards circuit in 1993, the autobiographical film was included in the book “The New York Times Guide to the Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made.” He shared writing credits on five other films: “Where the River Runs Black,” “For the Boys,” “The Dark Wind,” “Sleep With Me” and “Hideaway.”
For more than a decade, he was a sought-after script doctor in Hollywood, being commissioned to write scripts for Martin Scorsese, Ridley Scott, Wolfgang Peterson, Atom Egoyan, Robert Redford, Madonna, Tom Hanks and many others.
Jimenez wrote and co-directed “The Waterdance” with director Michael Steinberg, and alongside the recognition the film received on the awards circuit in 1993, the autobiographical film was included in the book “The New York Times Guide to the Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made.” He shared writing credits on five other films: “Where the River Runs Black,” “For the Boys,” “The Dark Wind,” “Sleep With Me” and “Hideaway.”
For more than a decade, he was a sought-after script doctor in Hollywood, being commissioned to write scripts for Martin Scorsese, Ridley Scott, Wolfgang Peterson, Atom Egoyan, Robert Redford, Madonna, Tom Hanks and many others.
- 12/30/2022
- by EJ Panaligan
- Variety Film + TV
Neal Jimenez, the writer-director behind a string of acclaimed films in the 1980s and 1990s, including the thriller “River’s Edge” and his directorial debut, the semi-autobiographical drama “The Waterdance,” died Dec. 11 from heart failure, his family has announced. He was 62.
Paralyzed in a hiking accident while he was a student at UCLA in 1984, Jimenez paved the way for disability representation with “The Waterdance,” the 1992 drama starring Eric Stoltz as a writer struggling to recover after being paralyzed from the neck down. Based in part on his own recovery, the film was released to critical acclaim and won Best First Feature and Best Screenplay at the 1992 Independent Spirit Awards.
Jimenez also wrote the screenplays for “For the Boys” (1991), “Sleep With Me” (1994) and “Hideaway” (1995 among other things.)
“My brother had a passion for writing and creating. The clack of typing seemed to daily come through his bedroom walls. He had drawers...
Paralyzed in a hiking accident while he was a student at UCLA in 1984, Jimenez paved the way for disability representation with “The Waterdance,” the 1992 drama starring Eric Stoltz as a writer struggling to recover after being paralyzed from the neck down. Based in part on his own recovery, the film was released to critical acclaim and won Best First Feature and Best Screenplay at the 1992 Independent Spirit Awards.
Jimenez also wrote the screenplays for “For the Boys” (1991), “Sleep With Me” (1994) and “Hideaway” (1995 among other things.)
“My brother had a passion for writing and creating. The clack of typing seemed to daily come through his bedroom walls. He had drawers...
- 12/30/2022
- by Ross A. Lincoln
- The Wrap
With fears our winter travel will need a, let’s say, reconsideration, the Criterion Channel’s monthly programming could hardly come at a better moment. High on list of highlights is Louis Feuillade’s delightful Les Vampires, which I suggest soundtracking to Coil, instrumental Nine Inch Nails, and Jóhann Jóhannson’s Mandy score. Notable too is a Sundance ’92 retrospective running the gamut from Paul Schrader to Derek Jarman to Jean-Pierre Gorin, and I’m especially excited for their look at one of America’s greatest actors, Sterling Hayden.
Special notice to Criterion editions of The Killing, The Last Days of Disco, All About Eve, and The Asphalt Jungle, and programming of Ognjen Glavonić’s The Load, among the better debuts in recent years.
See the full list of January titles below and more on the Criterion Channel.
-Ship: A Visual Poem, Terrance Day, 2020
5 Fingers, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1952
After Migration: Calabria,...
Special notice to Criterion editions of The Killing, The Last Days of Disco, All About Eve, and The Asphalt Jungle, and programming of Ognjen Glavonić’s The Load, among the better debuts in recent years.
See the full list of January titles below and more on the Criterion Channel.
-Ship: A Visual Poem, Terrance Day, 2020
5 Fingers, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1952
After Migration: Calabria,...
- 12/20/2021
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
Exclusive: Hollywood Gang and Solipsist Films have acquired rights to A Woman of Valor, the best-selling novel from D.C. lawyer-turned-author Allan Topol. Michael Steinberg has been tapped to develop it into a series format and set it up.
Steinberg will be Executive Producer along with Hollywood Gang’s Gianni Nunari and Solipsist’s Stephen L’Heureux.
The series will focus on the tale of Leora Baruch, who was recruited as a child and trained for a lifetime of vengeance as a deep cover member of M-18–Israel’s feared anti-terrorist force. Topol has penned 22 thriller novels all residing in an interconnect spy universe with characters that cross agencies, countries and timelines with geopolitical intrigue, including Spy Dance, Dark Ambition, Conspiracy and Enemy Of My Enemy. Topol is represented at The Lichtman Group.
Steinberg will be Executive Producer along with Hollywood Gang’s Gianni Nunari and Solipsist’s Stephen L’Heureux.
The series will focus on the tale of Leora Baruch, who was recruited as a child and trained for a lifetime of vengeance as a deep cover member of M-18–Israel’s feared anti-terrorist force. Topol has penned 22 thriller novels all residing in an interconnect spy universe with characters that cross agencies, countries and timelines with geopolitical intrigue, including Spy Dance, Dark Ambition, Conspiracy and Enemy Of My Enemy. Topol is represented at The Lichtman Group.
- 5/10/2021
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
“Deputies at the time did not see any evidence of impairment,” Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva said at a press conference about Tiger Woods’ car crash Tuesday. “He was alive and he was conscious, and that’s the extent of that,” he added.
“What we’re (sic) at is signs of under the influence of either narcotics, medication, alcohol, order of alcohol — all these different things that would give you an idea in their behavior, but there was none present,” Villanueva went on to say, noting that a follow-up probe would make any final determination. The subsequent investigation also will examine whether the accident might have been due to “distracted driving” like texting, he said.
“It was brought to my attention that he had serious leg injuries and that was assessed at the incident,” LA County Fire Department chief Daryl Osby said of Woods’ condition at the crash scene.
“What we’re (sic) at is signs of under the influence of either narcotics, medication, alcohol, order of alcohol — all these different things that would give you an idea in their behavior, but there was none present,” Villanueva went on to say, noting that a follow-up probe would make any final determination. The subsequent investigation also will examine whether the accident might have been due to “distracted driving” like texting, he said.
“It was brought to my attention that he had serious leg injuries and that was assessed at the incident,” LA County Fire Department chief Daryl Osby said of Woods’ condition at the crash scene.
- 2/23/2021
- by Dominic Patten
- Deadline Film + TV
One of the rare legitimate surprises (at least for most of us) to come out of San Diego Comic-Con this year was the reveal that Adam Wingard's found footage horror film The Woods was in fact a sequel to The Blair Witch Project, Eduardo Sanchez and Daniel Myrick's renegade 1999 "shaky-cam" classic that grossed over $140 million domestic on the strength of a brilliant, internet-driven marketing campaign. If the feverish advance hype holds up, Blair Witch could well go down as one of the great horror films of the year/decade/century, and in a new podcast Sanchez has added to the hyperbole (?) swirling around the unexpected follow-up by gushing that the film "blows the doors off" his original movie. "It just turns it up to 11," Sanchez told hosts Boss Butcher and Michael Steinberg on the Found Footage Files podcast. "It's just full-blast Blair Witch. It's really creepy and the last third is just crazy.
- 8/18/2016
- by Chris Eggertsen
- Hitfix
Mel Brooks and Zendaya also amongst voice cast for English-language version of Chinese animation The Little Door Gods.
The Weinstein Company (TWC) has acquired worldwide rights to the forthcoming English-language version of Chinese animation The Little Door Gods, which will be titled The Guardian Brothers.
The rights exclude China, where The Little Door Gods was distributed by Alibaba in January this year, as well as Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macau.
Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, Mel Brooks and Zendaya have all joined the English-speaking cast for the release, which TWC will shop at Cannes alongside animation The Nut Job 2.
TWC’s Harvey Weinstein commented on the acquisition: “Everyone who knows me, knows I’m determined to build our animation division for film and television. This is going to be a huge area for our company.”
Garry Wang directed The Little Door Gods, which Zhou Yu produced for Light Chaser Animation Studios.
The story follows...
The Weinstein Company (TWC) has acquired worldwide rights to the forthcoming English-language version of Chinese animation The Little Door Gods, which will be titled The Guardian Brothers.
The rights exclude China, where The Little Door Gods was distributed by Alibaba in January this year, as well as Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macau.
Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, Mel Brooks and Zendaya have all joined the English-speaking cast for the release, which TWC will shop at Cannes alongside animation The Nut Job 2.
TWC’s Harvey Weinstein commented on the acquisition: “Everyone who knows me, knows I’m determined to build our animation division for film and television. This is going to be a huge area for our company.”
Garry Wang directed The Little Door Gods, which Zhou Yu produced for Light Chaser Animation Studios.
The story follows...
- 5/6/2016
- ScreenDaily
Philadelphia Orchestra/Sergei Rachmaninoff Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 3/Isle of the Dead/Vocalise (RCA Gold Seal)
During most of his life, Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) was best known as a pianist and composer. He only took up conducting through an odd set of circumstances. The premiere of his First Symphony in 1897 was seriously marred by the inept conducting of Glazunov, who was reputedly drunk. Not only did this impress on the young Rachmaninoff how crucial a good conductor was to the success of his music, the critical rejection of his First Symphony on the basis of that performance sent him into a depression and caused a mental block against composing.
The mental block was eventually overcome through hypnosis, but in the meantime, business magnate Savva Mamontov somewhat charitably hired Rachmaninoff to conduct his Moscow Private Russian Opera Company, overlooking the composer's lack of experience in that role. He quickly became a fine baton-wielder,...
During most of his life, Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) was best known as a pianist and composer. He only took up conducting through an odd set of circumstances. The premiere of his First Symphony in 1897 was seriously marred by the inept conducting of Glazunov, who was reputedly drunk. Not only did this impress on the young Rachmaninoff how crucial a good conductor was to the success of his music, the critical rejection of his First Symphony on the basis of that performance sent him into a depression and caused a mental block against composing.
The mental block was eventually overcome through hypnosis, but in the meantime, business magnate Savva Mamontov somewhat charitably hired Rachmaninoff to conduct his Moscow Private Russian Opera Company, overlooking the composer's lack of experience in that role. He quickly became a fine baton-wielder,...
- 12/11/2014
- by SteveHoltje
- www.culturecatch.com
Christmas just wouldn't be Christmas without a heavily tinseled tree, a tipple before midday and Gremlins on the telly at some point during the day.
The Joe Dante-directed black cult comedy sees protagonist Billy Peltzer being gifted with Gizmo, a cute furry Mogwai discovered by his inventor father in a mysterious Chinatown antique store.
Of course the creature comes with three special instructions which, if not adhered to, result in the spawning of grizzly Gremlins hell-bent on havoc.
The Steven Spielberg-produced movie - which is
currently being fast-tracked by Warner Bros for a remake - celebrated its 30th anniversary earlier this year, and here's what the main cast members got up to after the movie's success:
1. Zach Galligan
Zach Galligan plays William 'Billy' Peltzer who becomes enthralled by his unusual Christmas gift - yet careless with the three golden Gizmo rules.
Galligan's notable film roles following the success...
The Joe Dante-directed black cult comedy sees protagonist Billy Peltzer being gifted with Gizmo, a cute furry Mogwai discovered by his inventor father in a mysterious Chinatown antique store.
Of course the creature comes with three special instructions which, if not adhered to, result in the spawning of grizzly Gremlins hell-bent on havoc.
The Steven Spielberg-produced movie - which is
currently being fast-tracked by Warner Bros for a remake - celebrated its 30th anniversary earlier this year, and here's what the main cast members got up to after the movie's success:
1. Zach Galligan
Zach Galligan plays William 'Billy' Peltzer who becomes enthralled by his unusual Christmas gift - yet careless with the three golden Gizmo rules.
Galligan's notable film roles following the success...
- 12/9/2014
- Digital Spy
Millree Hughes, born in North Wales in 1960, has been making art on the computer since 1998. In the 2000s, he showed with Michael Steinberg Fine Arts. Hughes is currently working with Museum Editions (www.museum-editions.com) in New York City and Polyglot Gallery in Dallas, Texas.
Bradley Rubenstein: Let's start by talking a little bit about Lummox (2010) before we get into the new work. I thought it was hilarious, and at the same time there was a serious aspect regarding cultural mediation that a lot of your work touches on. It also came out before James Franco’s Cindy Sherman show at Pace (New Film Stills, 2014), and all the Marina Abramović performances with Jay-z and whatnot, so it really caught something about our cultural moment.
Millree Hughes: Thank you. I like that you put our documentary in the context of Abramović and Franco -- making the artist a persona...
Bradley Rubenstein: Let's start by talking a little bit about Lummox (2010) before we get into the new work. I thought it was hilarious, and at the same time there was a serious aspect regarding cultural mediation that a lot of your work touches on. It also came out before James Franco’s Cindy Sherman show at Pace (New Film Stills, 2014), and all the Marina Abramović performances with Jay-z and whatnot, so it really caught something about our cultural moment.
Millree Hughes: Thank you. I like that you put our documentary in the context of Abramović and Franco -- making the artist a persona...
- 9/12/2014
- by bradleyrubenstein
- www.culturecatch.com
The Weinstein Company has picked up the Us rights to Roald Dahl adaptation Esio Trot as it continues to pepper its TV slate with UK shows.
Harvey Weinstein’s firm has secured all rights except theatrical in the Us for the Richard Curtis-penned 90-minute drama, which stars Dustin Hoffman, Judi Dench and James Corden and will air this Christmas in the UK on BBC1.
The Weinstein Company has acquired the show from Red Arrow International, which represents the Endor Productions show.
Esio Trot, an adaptation of the children’s book written by Dahl in 1990, tells the story of a shy elderly man who harbours a secret passion for his neighbour while she lavishes all of her affection on her pet tortoise Alfie.
Red Arrow International senior vice president of North America Caroline Kusser struck the deal with The Weinstein Company’s president and managing director, Europe, production, acquisitions and TV, Robert Walak, evp of...
Harvey Weinstein’s firm has secured all rights except theatrical in the Us for the Richard Curtis-penned 90-minute drama, which stars Dustin Hoffman, Judi Dench and James Corden and will air this Christmas in the UK on BBC1.
The Weinstein Company has acquired the show from Red Arrow International, which represents the Endor Productions show.
Esio Trot, an adaptation of the children’s book written by Dahl in 1990, tells the story of a shy elderly man who harbours a secret passion for his neighbour while she lavishes all of her affection on her pet tortoise Alfie.
Red Arrow International senior vice president of North America Caroline Kusser struck the deal with The Weinstein Company’s president and managing director, Europe, production, acquisitions and TV, Robert Walak, evp of...
- 9/2/2014
- ScreenDaily
The son of a vicar (and Charles Darwin was his great-uncle), Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) became one of the most popular English composers. He studied under Charles Villiers Stanford and Hubert Parry at the Royal College of Music, but also read history and music at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he palled around with the philosophers Bertrand Russell and G.E. Moore. He also went to Germany for lessons with Max Bruch, but ultimately rejected the 19th century German Romantic style Friendships with fellow Rcm students Gustav Holst and Leopold Stokowski later bore more fruit, in different ways: Stokowski, who moved to the United States, became Rvw's biggest supporter there; Holst and Vaughan Williams critiqued each others' work and joined in the study and collection of English folk songs. "The knowledge of our folk songs did not so much discover for us something new, but uncovered something which had been hidden by foreign matter,...
- 10/12/2012
- by SteveHoltje
- www.culturecatch.com
When Beethoven died on 26 March 1827 in Vienna, he had been ill for over three months, in which time he completed no compositions. It was the culmination of a long string of illnesses; his work was seriously interrupted in 1811, 1812, 1816-17, 1821, 1825, and from December 1826 to his death. (His extensive meddling in the lives of various relatives had also interfered with his musical productivity.)
We ran an Anniversaries piece for Beethoven's birthday in 2010 that looked at recordings of his symphonies. Now, to mark the anniversary of his death on, we look at his piano sonatas. Beethoven transformed the sonata nearly as much as the symphony, his 32 canonical works (which doesn't include the early C major sonata and F major sonatina without opus numbers or the three "Elector" sonatas Wo47) in the form varying greatly and achieving, especially in the last five or six, an epic, questing quality that's highly personal.
But even...
We ran an Anniversaries piece for Beethoven's birthday in 2010 that looked at recordings of his symphonies. Now, to mark the anniversary of his death on, we look at his piano sonatas. Beethoven transformed the sonata nearly as much as the symphony, his 32 canonical works (which doesn't include the early C major sonata and F major sonatina without opus numbers or the three "Elector" sonatas Wo47) in the form varying greatly and achieving, especially in the last five or six, an epic, questing quality that's highly personal.
But even...
- 3/26/2012
- by SteveHoltje
- www.culturecatch.com
There are performances whose brilliance doesn't become evident until an actor has amassed a body of work big enough for us to examine with a critical eye. At a turning point in Wesley Snipes' career came The Waterdance, a small drama about paraplegics from directors Neal Jimenez and Michael Steinberg. Snipes was hot off of New Jack City, and about to spend the next ten years as one of America's leading action movie stars. The Waterdance marks Snipes' last appearance as a working character actor before moving on to movie stardom in 1992's White Men Can't Jump, and re-examining his role as Raymond Hill in the film reveals a versatility that Snipes seems to have actively shunned by choosing projects that portrayed him primarily as a hard-ass action hero.
The Waterdance stars Eric Stoltz as Joel Garcia (a surrogate for paraplegic screenwriter Jimenez) as he struggles to heal from...
The Waterdance stars Eric Stoltz as Joel Garcia (a surrogate for paraplegic screenwriter Jimenez) as he struggles to heal from...
- 7/15/2010
- by John Gholson
- Cinematical
Cole Hauser will dive deep for Screen Gems and Lakeshore Entertainment. The actor, most recently seen as the lead villain opposite Paul Walker in 2 Fast 2 Furious, has scored a lead role in Cave. Bruce Hunt, who directed the second and third units on The Matrix and The Matrix Revolutions, will make his directorial debut on the horror thriller. Penned by Michael Steinberg, the project revolves around a group of expert cave explorers who go for a deep sea ocean dive to explore a cave. While on the expedition, the cave collapses, leaving the team stranded. By the time they are discovered, they have all mysteriously mutated into primeval beings. Hauser will star as the team's lead explorer. Other casting is expected shortly.
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