There’s nothing like a good dance film to get your heart racing and your feet moving. And thanks to Netflix, there’s no shortage of great dance movies to choose from.
Whether you’re a fan of dance competitions or enjoy watching people bust a move, there’s something for everyone on this list.
Rejoice, Dance fans! We’ve compiled a list of the best dance movies streaming on Netflix.
So put on your dancing shoes and get ready to have some fun. These are the best dance movies on Netflix!
Step Sisters (2018)
“Step Sisters” is a dance movie with an important message. The film follows the story of Jamilah, a college student tasked with teaching a group of white sorority girls how to step.
She’s a student leader at Harvard Law School, the president of her sorority, the captain of her step dance crew, and a liaison...
Whether you’re a fan of dance competitions or enjoy watching people bust a move, there’s something for everyone on this list.
Rejoice, Dance fans! We’ve compiled a list of the best dance movies streaming on Netflix.
So put on your dancing shoes and get ready to have some fun. These are the best dance movies on Netflix!
Step Sisters (2018)
“Step Sisters” is a dance movie with an important message. The film follows the story of Jamilah, a college student tasked with teaching a group of white sorority girls how to step.
She’s a student leader at Harvard Law School, the president of her sorority, the captain of her step dance crew, and a liaison...
- 6/27/2022
- by Israr
- buddytv.com
‘Feel the Beat’s’ Wolfgang Novogratz with Elissa Down.
Elissa Down’s teen dance movie Feel the Beat premieres worldwide on Netflix this week. Sofia Carson stars as April, a self-centred dancer who, after blowing a Broadway audition, reluctantly returns home and agrees to coach a squad of young misfits for a big competition.
The director tells If how she landed her first Netflix gig, which was produced by What Women Want’s Susan Cartsonis; collaborating with fellow Aussies, composer Michael Yezerski and editor Jane Moran; and how her career has ebbed and flowed since her debut film The Black Balloon.
Q: How did you get the gig?
A: I met with producer Susan Cartsonis to discuss the project and we connected right away. Susan responded to the vision I had for the movie and she then presented me to Netflix to pitch – which had to be done over Google...
Elissa Down’s teen dance movie Feel the Beat premieres worldwide on Netflix this week. Sofia Carson stars as April, a self-centred dancer who, after blowing a Broadway audition, reluctantly returns home and agrees to coach a squad of young misfits for a big competition.
The director tells If how she landed her first Netflix gig, which was produced by What Women Want’s Susan Cartsonis; collaborating with fellow Aussies, composer Michael Yezerski and editor Jane Moran; and how her career has ebbed and flowed since her debut film The Black Balloon.
Q: How did you get the gig?
A: I met with producer Susan Cartsonis to discuss the project and we connected right away. Susan responded to the vision I had for the movie and she then presented me to Netflix to pitch – which had to be done over Google...
- 6/16/2020
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
The pairing of John Hawkes and Logan Lerman as father and son was always going to be an interesting one. Unfortunately, it’s a shame that End of Sentence doesn’t do more with that duo. While both are somewhat playing against type, the film surrounding them is so slight and so slack with its storytelling that it’s hard to appreciate them. A mix of narrative stumbling blocks and lack of notable dramatic conflict make it far too easy to see every turn of the road here. There are some very nice moments, but they don’t add up to make a flick that I can recommend today. The movie is a drama about a father and son attempting (at least on one end) to reconnect while on a road trip in Ireland. Frank Fogle (Hawkes) has always has a tough relationship with his troublemaking son Sean (Lerman). A genial and even withdrawn man,...
- 5/29/2020
- by Joey Magidson
- Hollywoodnews.com
The Focus Features musical dramedy The High Note is looking to hit exactly that as it lands on-demand starting today. Directed by Late Night‘s Nisha Ganatra from a script by Flora Greeson, the film was originally set to hit theaters on May 8 but, like many films, the film adapted and shifted to a digital. However, with theaters slowly opening their doors, the film will be singing its way to approximately 100 theaters — most of the drive-in theaters.
Set in the world of the Los Angeles music scene, The High Note follows singing superstar diva Grace Davis (Tracee Ellis Ross) and her overworked personal assistant Maggie (Dakota Johnson) who has dreams of becoming a music producer. When Grace’s manager (Ice Cube) presents her with a choice that could alter the course of her career, Maggie and Grace come up with a plan that could change their lives forever.
As it...
Set in the world of the Los Angeles music scene, The High Note follows singing superstar diva Grace Davis (Tracee Ellis Ross) and her overworked personal assistant Maggie (Dakota Johnson) who has dreams of becoming a music producer. When Grace’s manager (Ice Cube) presents her with a choice that could alter the course of her career, Maggie and Grace come up with a plan that could change their lives forever.
As it...
- 5/29/2020
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
To look at Frank (John Hawkes) and Sean Fogle (Logan Lerman) is to see two very different men. The former is a loving husband with a perpetual smile and the latter is his surly, incarcerated son. If not for the woman connecting them, they’d have gone their separate ways long ago without any room for reconciliation. Nothing will therefore be left once the Fogle matriarch (Andrea Irvine’s Anna) succumbs to cancer. Frank will become a widower trying (and faltering) to survive on his own while Sean will be released from prison to head west and not look back. To spend some time with them, however, is to realize they’re actually quite similar. One retreats emotionally while the other lashes out, but anger and shame rules both.
Writer Michael Armbruster and director Elfar Adalsteins concoct a “last wish” road trip in order for us to spend this time getting to know them.
Writer Michael Armbruster and director Elfar Adalsteins concoct a “last wish” road trip in order for us to spend this time getting to know them.
- 5/27/2020
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
The 45th annual Humanitas Prizes honoring film and television writers whose work inspires compassion, hope, and understanding in the human family, were handed out Friday night at the Beverly Hilton.
Motion picture winners included Searchlight Pictures’ Jojo Rabbit, the Taika Waititi written and directed war satire based on the book Caging Skies by Christine Leunens. It is also up for an Oscar in the Adapted Screenplay category among six nominations including Best Picture.
The organization also announced that Emmy Award-winning writer-producer Jenny Bicks has been named the organization’s new president, succeeding Ali LeRoi, who has served in the role since 2013.
Other film winners included Sony’s A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood written by Micah Fitzerman-Blue & Noah Harpster, inspired by Tom Junod’s Esquire article “Can You Say… Hero?”, and Lulu Wang for A24’s The Farewell. Disney’s Frozen 2 won the family film prize.
This year,...
Motion picture winners included Searchlight Pictures’ Jojo Rabbit, the Taika Waititi written and directed war satire based on the book Caging Skies by Christine Leunens. It is also up for an Oscar in the Adapted Screenplay category among six nominations including Best Picture.
The organization also announced that Emmy Award-winning writer-producer Jenny Bicks has been named the organization’s new president, succeeding Ali LeRoi, who has served in the role since 2013.
Other film winners included Sony’s A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood written by Micah Fitzerman-Blue & Noah Harpster, inspired by Tom Junod’s Esquire article “Can You Say… Hero?”, and Lulu Wang for A24’s The Farewell. Disney’s Frozen 2 won the family film prize.
This year,...
- 1/25/2020
- by Bruce Haring and Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Finalists have been revealed for the 2020 Humanitas Prize, which honors film and television writers whose work inspires compassion, hope, and understanding in the human family. Titles include awards-season heavies Bombshell, It’s a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood and The Farewell on the film side and When They See Us, Pose, This Is Us and The Handmaid’s Tale on the small-screen side.
It’s the 45th year for the honors that hands out awards in 10 categories — two new categories, Limited Series, TV Movie or Special and Short Film, are newcomers this year.
Winners will be announced at the 45th annual Humanitas Prize ceremony January 24, 2020 at the Beverly Hilton.
Here are this year’s finalists:
Drama Feature Film
A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood
Written by Micah Fitzerman-Blue & Noah Harpster; inspired by the article “Can You Say… Hero?” by Tom Junod
A Hidden Life
Written and directed by Terrence Malick...
It’s the 45th year for the honors that hands out awards in 10 categories — two new categories, Limited Series, TV Movie or Special and Short Film, are newcomers this year.
Winners will be announced at the 45th annual Humanitas Prize ceremony January 24, 2020 at the Beverly Hilton.
Here are this year’s finalists:
Drama Feature Film
A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood
Written by Micah Fitzerman-Blue & Noah Harpster; inspired by the article “Can You Say… Hero?” by Tom Junod
A Hidden Life
Written and directed by Terrence Malick...
- 11/15/2019
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Sofia Carson, who stars in Disney Channel’s Descendants movies and Freeform’s Pretty Little Liars spinoff Pll: The Perfectionists, is set to star in Feel the Beat, a Netflix dance film being directed by Elissa Down.
The ensemble family pic also will star Wolfgang Novogratz (Sierra Burgess Is a Loser), Donna Lynne Champlin (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend), Enrico Colantoni (Veronica Mars), Lidya Jewett (Good Girls), Eva Hauge, Johanna Colón (Troupe Zero), Sadie Lapidus, Shiloh Nelson (Tomorrowland), Shaylee Mansfield, Justin Allan, Kai Zen, Carina Battrick, Brandon Kyle Goodman (Plus One), Ken Pak, Dennis Andres and Amy Stewart.
Susan Cartsonis is producing for Resonate Entertainment. Emmy-winning choreographer and former So You Think You Can Dance judge Mia Michaels is choreographing the pic.
Written by Michael Armbruster and Shawn Ku, the plot follows April (Carson), who, after failing to find success on Broadway, returns to her small hometown and reluctantly is recruited to train...
The ensemble family pic also will star Wolfgang Novogratz (Sierra Burgess Is a Loser), Donna Lynne Champlin (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend), Enrico Colantoni (Veronica Mars), Lidya Jewett (Good Girls), Eva Hauge, Johanna Colón (Troupe Zero), Sadie Lapidus, Shiloh Nelson (Tomorrowland), Shaylee Mansfield, Justin Allan, Kai Zen, Carina Battrick, Brandon Kyle Goodman (Plus One), Ken Pak, Dennis Andres and Amy Stewart.
Susan Cartsonis is producing for Resonate Entertainment. Emmy-winning choreographer and former So You Think You Can Dance judge Mia Michaels is choreographing the pic.
Written by Michael Armbruster and Shawn Ku, the plot follows April (Carson), who, after failing to find success on Broadway, returns to her small hometown and reluctantly is recruited to train...
- 7/26/2019
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
“The Descendants” star Sofia Carson is taking the lead role in Netflix’s dance movie “Feel the Beat.”
Carson will portray a dancer who, after failing to find success on Broadway, returns to her small hometown and is reluctantly recruited to train a misfit group of young dancers for a big competition. Principal photography began July 25 in Toronto, Canada with Elissa Down (“The Honor List”) directing from a script by “Beautiful Boy” writers Michael Armbruster & Shawn Ku.
Susan Cartsonis, whose credits include “Deidra and Laney Rob a Train” and “The Duff,” is producing for Resonate Entertainment. Clément Bauer is associate producing for Resonate Entertainment. Executive producers are Brent Emery and Suzanne Farwell for Resonate Entertainment and Aaron Barnett.
Cast members includes Wolfgang Novogratz (“Sierra Burgess is a Loser”), Donna Lynne Champlin, Enrico Colantoni, Lidya Jewett, Eva Hauge, Johanna Colón, Sadie Lapidus, Shiloh Nelson, Shaylee Mansfield, Justin Allan, Kai Zen, Carina Battrick,...
Carson will portray a dancer who, after failing to find success on Broadway, returns to her small hometown and is reluctantly recruited to train a misfit group of young dancers for a big competition. Principal photography began July 25 in Toronto, Canada with Elissa Down (“The Honor List”) directing from a script by “Beautiful Boy” writers Michael Armbruster & Shawn Ku.
Susan Cartsonis, whose credits include “Deidra and Laney Rob a Train” and “The Duff,” is producing for Resonate Entertainment. Clément Bauer is associate producing for Resonate Entertainment. Executive producers are Brent Emery and Suzanne Farwell for Resonate Entertainment and Aaron Barnett.
Cast members includes Wolfgang Novogratz (“Sierra Burgess is a Loser”), Donna Lynne Champlin, Enrico Colantoni, Lidya Jewett, Eva Hauge, Johanna Colón, Sadie Lapidus, Shiloh Nelson, Shaylee Mansfield, Justin Allan, Kai Zen, Carina Battrick,...
- 7/26/2019
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
There is no family rift so great that it can’t be bridged with a road trip. So the movies tell us, over and over again, and if it’s not necessarily true, the best examples of this subgenre — call it the road-to-reconciliation movie — take enough of a scenic route that we come to believe it. A deliberate, gentle, genuinely caring debut feature from Icelandic director Elfar Adalsteins, “End of Sentence” is built on a premise of sweet, creamed corn: a wayward youth and his estranged, retiring father rebuild their bond as they journey to Ireland to scatter the ashes of their mother and wife. Yet if the vehicle feels familiar, the passengers make it credible: John Hawkes and Logan Lerman, both on very fine form, work enough worn human damage into proceedings that we invest in their joint healing.
Recently premiered at the Edinburgh Film Festival, this Irish-Icelandic-American co-production...
Recently premiered at the Edinburgh Film Festival, this Irish-Icelandic-American co-production...
- 7/12/2019
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
Works-in-progress section featured a slew of English-language films.
The first footage from the English-language drama End Of Sentence, starring John Hawkes was unveiled during the works- in- progress presentations at Iceland’s Stockfish film festival in Reykjavik last week.
Us actor Hawkes, who was nominated for a best supporting actor Oscar for Winter’s Bone in 2011, stars as a man trying to fulfill his late wife’s last wish, to go on a road trip with his son, played by Logan Lerman, to scatter her ashes in rural Ireland. The cast also includes Sarah Bolger, Andrea Irvine and Trapped’s Olafur Darri Olafsson.
The first footage from the English-language drama End Of Sentence, starring John Hawkes was unveiled during the works- in- progress presentations at Iceland’s Stockfish film festival in Reykjavik last week.
Us actor Hawkes, who was nominated for a best supporting actor Oscar for Winter’s Bone in 2011, stars as a man trying to fulfill his late wife’s last wish, to go on a road trip with his son, played by Logan Lerman, to scatter her ashes in rural Ireland. The cast also includes Sarah Bolger, Andrea Irvine and Trapped’s Olafur Darri Olafsson.
- 3/11/2019
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
John Hawkes, Logan Lerman and Sarah Bolger are set to star in End of Sentence, the feature debut from director Elfar Adalsteins. Story, which is written by Beautiful Boy's Michael Armbruster, follows a father and son reluctantly embarking on an eventful and emotionally fraught road-trip to Ireland, honoring the request of their late wife and mother. Adalsteins produces through his production banner Berserk Films, alongside Samson Films' David Collins, Palomar Pictures'…...
- 5/15/2017
- Deadline
Rocket Science to commence world sales in Cannes.
John Hawkes, Logan Lerman and Sarah Bolger will star in the road trip project End Of Sentence.
Rocket Science will launch worldwide sales on the Crosette on the story of an uptight widower who embarks on a journey to Ireland with his ex-con son to scatter his wife’s ashes.
The awkward pair must endure an Irish wake, the resurfacing of an old flame, an intriguing hitchhiker played by Bolger, and plenty of other unresolved issues.
Michael Armbruster, whose credits include the 2010 drama Beautiful Boy, wrote the screenplay to End Of Sentence, which is scheduled to begin production this month on location in Ireland. Elfar Adalsteins makes his feature directorial debut.
Adalsteins directed the short film Sailcloth and will produce through his Berserk Films, alongside David Collins of Samson Films, Joni Sighvatsson of Palomar Pictures, and Gudrun Edda Thorhannesdottir of Berserk Films.
Eva Maria Daniels and [link...
John Hawkes, Logan Lerman and Sarah Bolger will star in the road trip project End Of Sentence.
Rocket Science will launch worldwide sales on the Crosette on the story of an uptight widower who embarks on a journey to Ireland with his ex-con son to scatter his wife’s ashes.
The awkward pair must endure an Irish wake, the resurfacing of an old flame, an intriguing hitchhiker played by Bolger, and plenty of other unresolved issues.
Michael Armbruster, whose credits include the 2010 drama Beautiful Boy, wrote the screenplay to End Of Sentence, which is scheduled to begin production this month on location in Ireland. Elfar Adalsteins makes his feature directorial debut.
Adalsteins directed the short film Sailcloth and will produce through his Berserk Films, alongside David Collins of Samson Films, Joni Sighvatsson of Palomar Pictures, and Gudrun Edda Thorhannesdottir of Berserk Films.
Eva Maria Daniels and [link...
- 5/15/2017
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Rocket Science to commence world sales in Cannes.
John Hawkes, Logan Lerman and Sarah Bolger will star in the road trip project End Of Sentence.
Rocket Science will launch worldwide sales on the Crosette on the story of an uptight widower who embarks on a journey to Ireland with his ex-con son to scatter his wife’s ashes.
The awkward pair must endure an Irish wake, the resurfacing of an old flame, an intriguing hitchhiker played by Bolger, and plenty of other unresolved issues.
Michael Armbruster, whose credits include the 2010 drama Beautiful Boy, wrote the screenplay to End Of Sentence, which is scheduled to begin production this month on location in Ireland. Elfar Adalsteins makes his feature directorial debut.
Adalsteins directed the short film Sailcloth and will produce through his Berserk Films, alongside David Collins of Samson Films, Joni Sighvatsson of Palomar Pictures, and Gudrun Edda Thorhannesdottir of Berserk Films.
Eva Maria Daniels and [link...
John Hawkes, Logan Lerman and Sarah Bolger will star in the road trip project End Of Sentence.
Rocket Science will launch worldwide sales on the Crosette on the story of an uptight widower who embarks on a journey to Ireland with his ex-con son to scatter his wife’s ashes.
The awkward pair must endure an Irish wake, the resurfacing of an old flame, an intriguing hitchhiker played by Bolger, and plenty of other unresolved issues.
Michael Armbruster, whose credits include the 2010 drama Beautiful Boy, wrote the screenplay to End Of Sentence, which is scheduled to begin production this month on location in Ireland. Elfar Adalsteins makes his feature directorial debut.
Adalsteins directed the short film Sailcloth and will produce through his Berserk Films, alongside David Collins of Samson Films, Joni Sighvatsson of Palomar Pictures, and Gudrun Edda Thorhannesdottir of Berserk Films.
Eva Maria Daniels and [link...
- 5/15/2017
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Syfy has put in development The Woods, an hourlong sci-fi drama based on Boom! Studios’ flagship graphic novel series, with San Andreas helmer Brad Peyton producing and set to direct. Written by Michael Armbruster based on the comic by James Tynion IV and illustrator Michael Dialynas, the thriller is a co-production between Boom! Studios and Peyton’s Asap Entertainment. It is set in Wisconsin where an entire high school campus — including the 300 students, teachers…...
- 12/2/2016
- Deadline TV
Another Neil Gaiman book is getting a series adaptation. According to Variety, Universal Cable Productions, who is behind series such as Mr. Robot and The Magicians, are currently in the process of developing Interworld.
The Ya fantasy/sci-fi novel follows a teen boy named Joey Harker who can travel through different dimensions. "The twist is that every dimension contains a different version of Joey—some are older or younger, some are a different gender, and some are a different species."
Gaiman and co-creator Michael Reeves will be executive producers on the project, and they will be joined by Hamilton producer Jeffrey Seller.
It was also announced that Universal Cable Productions will be developing a series based on the Dark Horse comic The Umbrella Academy. The story for that was created by Gerard Way and it's about "a dysfunctional superhero family with powers that are a little stranger than just 'super...
The Ya fantasy/sci-fi novel follows a teen boy named Joey Harker who can travel through different dimensions. "The twist is that every dimension contains a different version of Joey—some are older or younger, some are a different gender, and some are a different species."
Gaiman and co-creator Michael Reeves will be executive producers on the project, and they will be joined by Hamilton producer Jeffrey Seller.
It was also announced that Universal Cable Productions will be developing a series based on the Dark Horse comic The Umbrella Academy. The story for that was created by Gerard Way and it's about "a dysfunctional superhero family with powers that are a little stranger than just 'super...
- 7/21/2016
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
Another day, another Ya novel adaptation. This time it’s Neil Gaiman and Michael Reeves’ fantasy/sci-fi series, “Interworld,” that will be getting the small screen treatment. Universal Cable Productions announced on Wednesday that they will be putting the series into development with “Hamilton” producers, Jeffrey Seller and Flody Suarez, overseeing the production.
Read More:‘American Gods’ Casts Orlando Jones In Key Role
“Interworld” follows the adventures of a teenage Joey Harker, who, together with a group of other Joeys from different Earths, try and stop the two forces from taking over all the Earths in different universes. Gaiman, Reeves, Seller and Suarez will be executive producing the series.
Here’s the official description: Everyone in the Interworld is a version of Joey, some only a little different, while others are different genders, different ages and even different species. What makes them all special is that they have the ability to “walk,...
Read More:‘American Gods’ Casts Orlando Jones In Key Role
“Interworld” follows the adventures of a teenage Joey Harker, who, together with a group of other Joeys from different Earths, try and stop the two forces from taking over all the Earths in different universes. Gaiman, Reeves, Seller and Suarez will be executive producing the series.
Here’s the official description: Everyone in the Interworld is a version of Joey, some only a little different, while others are different genders, different ages and even different species. What makes them all special is that they have the ability to “walk,...
- 7/20/2016
- by Liz Calvario
- Indiewire
Chicago – While Lynne Ramsay’s “We Need to Talk About Kevin” meticulously chronicles the troubled upbringing that leads a kid to shoot up his school, Shawn Ku’s “Beautiful Boy” centers on the days following the senseless slaughter, as the shooter’s devastated parents are left to pick up the pieces. Though both pictures share similar themes, the latter takes a more familiar and less unsettling approach to the material.
It’s clear that Ku is aiming for the sort of raw observation and wrenching drama typified by Todd Field’s 2001 masterpiece, “In the Bedroom,” but it ultimately falls short of its aspirations. There’s an obvious formula to the dramatic arcs of each character that leaves little room for ambiguity. It might’ve been a standard weepie destined for Lifetime if it weren’t for the superb central performances by Maria Bello and Michael Sheen.
Blu-Ray Rating: 3.0/5.0
In the film’s solemn opening moments,...
It’s clear that Ku is aiming for the sort of raw observation and wrenching drama typified by Todd Field’s 2001 masterpiece, “In the Bedroom,” but it ultimately falls short of its aspirations. There’s an obvious formula to the dramatic arcs of each character that leaves little room for ambiguity. It might’ve been a standard weepie destined for Lifetime if it weren’t for the superb central performances by Maria Bello and Michael Sheen.
Blu-Ray Rating: 3.0/5.0
In the film’s solemn opening moments,...
- 10/21/2011
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Anchor Bay Films will release the dramatic feature "Beautiful Boy", on Blu-ray and DVD, October 11, 2011.
Directed by Shawn Ku and produced by Lee Clay, "Beautiful Boy" stars Michael Sheen ("Frost/Nixon") and Maria Bello ("A History Of Violence"), from a screenplay by Ku and Michael Armbruster :
"...'Bill' (Sheen) and 'Kate' (Bello) are a married couple, tightly wound and devoted to their work. Bill is a businessman, Kate proofreads books. When their marriage takes a turn for the worse, and they're on the verge of breaking up, they receive shocking news about their eighteen year old son 'Sam' (Kyle Gallner), a college freshman..."
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Beautiful Boy"....
Directed by Shawn Ku and produced by Lee Clay, "Beautiful Boy" stars Michael Sheen ("Frost/Nixon") and Maria Bello ("A History Of Violence"), from a screenplay by Ku and Michael Armbruster :
"...'Bill' (Sheen) and 'Kate' (Bello) are a married couple, tightly wound and devoted to their work. Bill is a businessman, Kate proofreads books. When their marriage takes a turn for the worse, and they're on the verge of breaking up, they receive shocking news about their eighteen year old son 'Sam' (Kyle Gallner), a college freshman..."
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Beautiful Boy"....
- 10/4/2011
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
Chicago – The family unit, now in a constant battle with technology, changing morality and a fracturing social structure, comes under psychological siege in the mortally sad but ultimately compelling “Beautiful Boy,” featuring Maria Bello and Michael Sheen.
Rating: 4.0/5.0
The film displays an ultimate tragedy. A couple who is in the process of splitting up must now deal with a son who commits a heinous crime and then kills himself. Bello and Sheen scratch and claw each other like feral cats in their post traumatic circumstance, and work towards solving the difficult equation of directing their human spirit as a divining rod for survival.
Kate (Bello) and Bill (Sheen) are in a dissolving relationship situation, made more fractious with their son Sammy (Kyle Gallner) away at college. The strain in their souls are on display when they share a call from Sammy. He is distantly relating his day at school, while...
Rating: 4.0/5.0
The film displays an ultimate tragedy. A couple who is in the process of splitting up must now deal with a son who commits a heinous crime and then kills himself. Bello and Sheen scratch and claw each other like feral cats in their post traumatic circumstance, and work towards solving the difficult equation of directing their human spirit as a divining rod for survival.
Kate (Bello) and Bill (Sheen) are in a dissolving relationship situation, made more fractious with their son Sammy (Kyle Gallner) away at college. The strain in their souls are on display when they share a call from Sammy. He is distantly relating his day at school, while...
- 6/10/2011
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Reviewed by Bryan Buss
(June 2011)
Directed by: Shawn Ku
Written by: Shawn Ku and Michael Armbruster
Starring: Maria Bello, Michael Sheen, Alan Tudyk, Moon Bloodgood, Austin Nichols and Kyle Gallner
Shawn Ku’s domestic drama about Bill (Michael Sheen) and Kate (Maria Bello), an unhappy upper-middle-class couple dealing with the aftermath of a school shooting, is raw and intimate yet somehow still comes across as uninvolving and calculated. Admirably steering clear (for the most part) of hysteria and melodrama in the vein of “Rabbit Hole,” the film’s direction and the composition of the camerawork seem self-consciously artsy. Bello and Sheen are filmed from odd angles, sometimes their images are fuzzy, and there are times the camera is moving so crazily you can’t tell what’s happening as it flips back and forth between characters as they spout clichés at each other.
The documentary style the director and cinematographer...
(June 2011)
Directed by: Shawn Ku
Written by: Shawn Ku and Michael Armbruster
Starring: Maria Bello, Michael Sheen, Alan Tudyk, Moon Bloodgood, Austin Nichols and Kyle Gallner
Shawn Ku’s domestic drama about Bill (Michael Sheen) and Kate (Maria Bello), an unhappy upper-middle-class couple dealing with the aftermath of a school shooting, is raw and intimate yet somehow still comes across as uninvolving and calculated. Admirably steering clear (for the most part) of hysteria and melodrama in the vein of “Rabbit Hole,” the film’s direction and the composition of the camerawork seem self-consciously artsy. Bello and Sheen are filmed from odd angles, sometimes their images are fuzzy, and there are times the camera is moving so crazily you can’t tell what’s happening as it flips back and forth between characters as they spout clichés at each other.
The documentary style the director and cinematographer...
- 6/3/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Magazine
Reviewed by Bryan Buss
(June 2011)
Directed by: Shawn Ku
Written by: Shawn Ku and Michael Armbruster
Starring: Maria Bello, Michael Sheen, Alan Tudyk, Moon Bloodgood, Austin Nichols and Kyle Gallner
Shawn Ku’s domestic drama about Bill (Michael Sheen) and Kate (Maria Bello), an unhappy upper-middle-class couple dealing with the aftermath of a school shooting, is raw and intimate yet somehow still comes across as uninvolving and calculated. Admirably steering clear (for the most part) of hysteria and melodrama in the vein of “Rabbit Hole,” the film’s direction and the composition of the camerawork seem self-consciously artsy. Bello and Sheen are filmed from odd angles, sometimes their images are fuzzy, and there are times the camera is moving so crazily you can’t tell what’s happening as it flips back and forth between characters as they spout clichés at each other.
The documentary style the director and cinematographer...
(June 2011)
Directed by: Shawn Ku
Written by: Shawn Ku and Michael Armbruster
Starring: Maria Bello, Michael Sheen, Alan Tudyk, Moon Bloodgood, Austin Nichols and Kyle Gallner
Shawn Ku’s domestic drama about Bill (Michael Sheen) and Kate (Maria Bello), an unhappy upper-middle-class couple dealing with the aftermath of a school shooting, is raw and intimate yet somehow still comes across as uninvolving and calculated. Admirably steering clear (for the most part) of hysteria and melodrama in the vein of “Rabbit Hole,” the film’s direction and the composition of the camerawork seem self-consciously artsy. Bello and Sheen are filmed from odd angles, sometimes their images are fuzzy, and there are times the camera is moving so crazily you can’t tell what’s happening as it flips back and forth between characters as they spout clichés at each other.
The documentary style the director and cinematographer...
- 6/3/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
Chicago – In our latest drama edition of HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film, we have 25 admit-two passes up for grabs to the advance Chicago screening of the new film “Beautiful Boy” with Oscar nominee Michael Sheen and Maria Bello!
“Beautiful Boy” also stars Logan South, Kyle Gallner, Bruce French, Austin Nichols, Gregory Alpert, Deidrie Henry, Alan Tudyk, Moon Bloodgood, Brooke Lyons, Nigel Gibbs and Michael Call from director Shawn Ku and writers Michael Armbruster and Shawn Ku.
To win your free pass to the advance Chicago screening of “Beautiful Boy” courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, just answer our question below. That’s it! This screening is on Tuesday, June 7, 2011 at 7 p.m. in downtown Chicago. Directions to enter this Hookup and immediately win can be found beneath the graphic below.
The movie poster for “Beautiful Boy” with Oscar nominee Michael Sheen and Maria Bello.
Image credit: Anchor Bay Films
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“Beautiful Boy” also stars Logan South, Kyle Gallner, Bruce French, Austin Nichols, Gregory Alpert, Deidrie Henry, Alan Tudyk, Moon Bloodgood, Brooke Lyons, Nigel Gibbs and Michael Call from director Shawn Ku and writers Michael Armbruster and Shawn Ku.
To win your free pass to the advance Chicago screening of “Beautiful Boy” courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, just answer our question below. That’s it! This screening is on Tuesday, June 7, 2011 at 7 p.m. in downtown Chicago. Directions to enter this Hookup and immediately win can be found beneath the graphic below.
The movie poster for “Beautiful Boy” with Oscar nominee Michael Sheen and Maria Bello.
Image credit: Anchor Bay Films
Here is the plot...
- 6/3/2011
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
"With his Bud Cort haircut and morbid sensibility, Oliver Tate (Craig Roberts) is too smart for Swansea, Wales, an industrial city mired in some seriously mid-80s Thatcherite doldrums," begins Vadim Rizov at GreenCine Daily. "The trouble with Oliver is that he knows he's clever, which could justify anything: surreptitiously monitoring his parents' sex life, taunting an overweight girl to make local cutie Jordana (Yasmin Paige) notice him as a real livewire, or trying to trash the house of downhill neighbor Graham Purvis (Paddy Considine) who may be having an affair with mom (Sally Hawkins). Fortunately, Submarine, Richard Ayoade's feature debut, is aware of Oliver's self-justifying nature and the ways it could warp him…. Acutely aware of the long tradition of films about disaffected young men coming to terms with themselves, Ayoade doesn't duck the precedent: instead, like Oliver…, he nods to seemingly every single precursor. There's a 400 Blows-quoting dash across the beach,...
- 6/3/2011
- MUBI
"Beautiful Boy" is tough in every sense of the term. A film that deals with the aftermath of a school shooting from the perspective of the parents who raised the assailant, it's the type of subject matter that would rather be left unexplored by most and doesn't go out of its way to suggest you sympathize with Kate and Bill (Maria Bello and Michael Sheen), a couple in the suburbs who already sleep in separate rooms after their son Sammy (Kyle Gallner) has left for college.
Keeping up the charade of a connected family has become an afterthought for both parents and son -- Sammy barely registers interest when Kate calls to suggest they take a vacation together to Miami after school finishes up and Bill takes his dinner alone in the afternoon after telling Kate, "I think you're putting a lot of pressure on one vacation." As it turns out,...
Keeping up the charade of a connected family has become an afterthought for both parents and son -- Sammy barely registers interest when Kate calls to suggest they take a vacation together to Miami after school finishes up and Bill takes his dinner alone in the afternoon after telling Kate, "I think you're putting a lot of pressure on one vacation." As it turns out,...
- 6/1/2011
- by Stephen Saito
- ifc.com
by: Maggie Mackay
In anticipation of Film Independent’s screening of Beautiful Boy, Director Shawn Ku has a revealing, deeply personal, and surprisingly funny conversation with Film Independent.
Maggie Mackay: I read that a very personal event inspired you to write and make the film. Can you talk a little bit about that and the genesis of a project that comes from this kind of experience?
Sk: It all sort of started with Virginia Tech. My parents happened to have gone to school there, they met, got married and had my sister while they were there at school. They knew that place really well. So when the shooting there happened, and I think because he was Asian, it particularly rocked my family in some weird way.
But subsequent to that, I had a close friend who had come into town visiting, and he was staying at my house. We hung out on a Friday night,...
In anticipation of Film Independent’s screening of Beautiful Boy, Director Shawn Ku has a revealing, deeply personal, and surprisingly funny conversation with Film Independent.
Maggie Mackay: I read that a very personal event inspired you to write and make the film. Can you talk a little bit about that and the genesis of a project that comes from this kind of experience?
Sk: It all sort of started with Virginia Tech. My parents happened to have gone to school there, they met, got married and had my sister while they were there at school. They knew that place really well. So when the shooting there happened, and I think because he was Asian, it particularly rocked my family in some weird way.
But subsequent to that, I had a close friend who had come into town visiting, and he was staying at my house. We hung out on a Friday night,...
- 5/18/2011
- by Film Independent
- Film Independent
Some new clips for the film “Beautiful Boy” have been released. The clips can be viewed below. “Beautiful Boy” stars Michael Sheen, Maria Bello, Alan Tudyk, Moon Bloodgood, Austin Nichols, and Kyle Gallner; directed by Shawn Ku, and based on a screenplay by Ku and Michael Armbruster. “Beautiful Boy” is set to come to theaters June 3. You can learn more about the film by checking out the film’s official Facebook page and official site. Here’s the official synopsis: “Beautiful Boy” is an unconventional love story that explores the journey of a married couple on the verge of separation, who must live with unimaginable heartbreak, and find healing through the...
- 5/18/2011
- by monique
- ShockYa
New clips from Beautiful Boy starring Michael Sheen, Maria Bello, Kyle Gallner and Moon Bloodgood have been added. The drama directed by Shawn Ku from the writing by Michael Armbruster and Ku, opens June 3rd via Anchor Bay Films. Beautiful Boy is an unconventional love story that explores the journey of a married couple on the verge of separation, who must live with unimaginable heartbreak, and find healing through the darkest days of their lives. Bill (Michael Sheen) and Kate (Maria Bello) hopelessly try to find some hint of an explanation after finding out that their only son committed a mass shooting at his university before taking his own life. They struggle numbly through the funeral, the media onslaught, and the awkward pity from relatives and friends. Their already strained marriage is tested as they realize all they have left with each other is their shared grief and confusion-and the unfortunate legacy of their son.
- 5/16/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
New clips from Beautiful Boy starring Michael Sheen, Maria Bello, Kyle Gallner and Moon Bloodgood have been added. The drama directed by Shawn Ku from the writing by Michael Armbruster and Ku, opens June 3rd via Anchor Bay Films. Beautiful Boy is an unconventional love story that explores the journey of a married couple on the verge of separation, who must live with unimaginable heartbreak, and find healing through the darkest days of their lives. Bill (Michael Sheen) and Kate (Maria Bello) hopelessly try to find some hint of an explanation after finding out that their only son committed a mass shooting at his university before taking his own life. They struggle numbly through the funeral, the media onslaught, and the awkward pity from relatives and friends. Their already strained marriage is tested as they realize all they have left with each other is their shared grief and confusion-and the unfortunate legacy of their son.
- 5/16/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
New clips from Beautiful Boy starring Michael Sheen, Maria Bello, Kyle Gallner and Moon Bloodgood have been added. The drama directed by Shawn Ku from the writing by Michael Armbruster and Ku, opens June 3rd via Anchor Bay Films. Beautiful Boy is an unconventional love story that explores the journey of a married couple on the verge of separation, who must live with unimaginable heartbreak, and find healing through the darkest days of their lives. Bill (Michael Sheen) and Kate (Maria Bello) hopelessly try to find some hint of an explanation after finding out that their only son committed a mass shooting at his university before taking his own life. They struggle numbly through the funeral, the media onslaught, and the awkward pity from relatives and friends. Their already strained marriage is tested as they realize all they have left with each other is their shared grief and confusion-and the unfortunate legacy of their son.
- 5/16/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
What causes young people like that student at Virginia Tech in 2007 to kill 10, 15, 20 or more people he may not even know? Is it possible for you, dear reader, to harbor enough rage to ever kill somebody, since, after all, some psychologists believe that we are all capable of murder? In the low-key, snail-paced film "Beautiful Boy," scripters Michael Armbruster and Shawn Ku never find out why a (fictional) college freshman one day shot and killed twenty-one people before putting a bullet into his own head. But under director Shawn Ku's examination, one that is deliberately claustrophobic as it is laden with close-ups shots by Michael Fimognari's handheld camera and an inclination to leave backgrounds out of the frames, we do learn quite a bit about how the killing changes the lives of the young man's parents. Given that the parents, Bill Carroll and Kate Carroll are played by...
- 5/3/2011
- Arizona Reporter
School shootings are a horrific tragedy that are regrettableably a reality in today's culture. Yet, few films address the issue, directly or indirectly. Even fewer do it with such poignancy and beauty in the way that Beautiful Boy does. The feature-length debut from writer/director Shawn Ku, the film stars Michael Sheen and Maria Bello as two parents trying to make sense out of the senseless violence committed by their son (Kyle Gallner) against his fellow university students and ultimately himself. At the heart of it, it's a story of two people struggling to rediscover each other after they are torn even farther apart even more than they once were.
Read more on Diff 2011 Video Interview: Beautiful Boy writer/director Shawn Ku, co-writer Michael Armbruster, and producer Lee Clay...
Read more on Diff 2011 Video Interview: Beautiful Boy writer/director Shawn Ku, co-writer Michael Armbruster, and producer Lee Clay...
- 4/11/2011
- by James Wallace
- GordonandtheWhale
Watch the trailer for Beautiful Boy, starrin Michael Sheen and Maria Bello! Also in the cast are Kyle Gallner, Moon Bloodgood and Alan Tudyk. The film tells of two parents who try to deal with the emotional pain and media frenzy after their son commitys a mass shooting at his university, killing seventeen people before taking his own life. It's brutal to watch but at the same time, a film that needs to be made. Anchor Bay Films distributes Beautiful Boy for release in early spring this year. The film is rated R for some language and a scene of sexuality. Shawn Ku directs Beautiful Boy from the screenplay he wrote with Michael Armbruster. Eric Gozlan and Lee Clay produce...
- 3/16/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Watch the trailer for Beautiful Boy, starrin Michael Sheen and Maria Bello! Also in the cast are Kyle Gallner, Moon Bloodgood and Alan Tudyk. The film tells of two parents who try to deal with the emotional pain and media frenzy after their son commitys a mass shooting at his university, killing seventeen people before taking his own life. It's brutal to watch but at the same time, a film that needs to be made. Anchor Bay Films distributes Beautiful Boy for release in early spring this year. The film is rated R for some language and a scene of sexuality. Shawn Ku directs Beautiful Boy from the screenplay he wrote with Michael Armbruster. Eric Gozlan and Lee Clay produce...
- 3/16/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Toronto: The Toronto deals are exploding! Anchor Bay Films has just closed all English-speaking rights to Beautiful Boy, the Shawn Ku-directed drama. I'm told the deal was 7-figures, negotiated by Paradigm Motion Picture Finance Group's Ben Weiss with Anchor Bay Films' Kevin Kasha. Deal includes a P&A commitment. Lightning Entertainment is selling foreign. It stars Maria Bello and Michael Sheen as disengaged parents of a college student who discover not only that he has been killed in a campus shooting, but that he was the triggerman who massacred other students. The picture premiered Sunday and has been a topic of buzz, particularly for those strong lead performances and Ku's and Michael Armbruster's script. Anchor Bay continues to raise its profile after acquiring and releasing Solitary Man and City Island. First Point Entertainment's Lee Clay and Gold Rush Entertainment's Eric Gozlan produced the pic.
- 9/15/2010
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
InContention have posted the trailer and poster for Shawn Ku’s Beautiful Boy.
Beautiful Boy features performances from Michael Sheen, Maria Bello, Moon Bloodgood, Kyle Gallner, Austin Nichols, Meat Loaf and Alan Tudyk.
Co-written with Michael Armbruster, Shawn Ku’s Beautiful Boy will screen at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, which kicks off later this month.
A married couple (Sheen and Bello) on the verge of separation are leveled by the news their 18-year-old son committed a mass shooting at his college, then took his own life.
Check out the trailer, followed by the poster, below:...
Beautiful Boy features performances from Michael Sheen, Maria Bello, Moon Bloodgood, Kyle Gallner, Austin Nichols, Meat Loaf and Alan Tudyk.
Co-written with Michael Armbruster, Shawn Ku’s Beautiful Boy will screen at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, which kicks off later this month.
A married couple (Sheen and Bello) on the verge of separation are leveled by the news their 18-year-old son committed a mass shooting at his college, then took his own life.
Check out the trailer, followed by the poster, below:...
- 9/2/2010
- by Jamie Neish
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Collider have posted some new images from Shawn Ku’s Beautiful Boy.
Beautiful Boy stars Michael Sheen, Maria Bello, Moon Bloodgood, Kyle Gallner, Austin Nichols, Meat Loaf and Alan Tudyk.
Co-written by Shawn Ku and Michael Armbruster, Beautiful Boy has been selected to screen at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, which kicks off next month.
The full synopsis, courtesy of the Tiff website, is below, followed by those new images:
Filmmakers have explored the subject of school shootings in the past, but first-time feature director Shawn Ku finds a unique perspective on this delicate issue. Rather than focusing on the tragic incident and the events leading up to it, Beautiful Boy confronts its devastating aftermath. Moreover, the killer is almost entirely absent throughout the film. In his place, we look through the eyes of his parents, who struggle to find refuge from the public and from media backlash,...
Beautiful Boy stars Michael Sheen, Maria Bello, Moon Bloodgood, Kyle Gallner, Austin Nichols, Meat Loaf and Alan Tudyk.
Co-written by Shawn Ku and Michael Armbruster, Beautiful Boy has been selected to screen at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, which kicks off next month.
The full synopsis, courtesy of the Tiff website, is below, followed by those new images:
Filmmakers have explored the subject of school shootings in the past, but first-time feature director Shawn Ku finds a unique perspective on this delicate issue. Rather than focusing on the tragic incident and the events leading up to it, Beautiful Boy confronts its devastating aftermath. Moreover, the killer is almost entirely absent throughout the film. In his place, we look through the eyes of his parents, who struggle to find refuge from the public and from media backlash,...
- 8/26/2010
- by Jamie Neish
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
There's a new indie on the way that I have a feeling you might want to see. It tackles a modern and relevant subject matter -- mass killings at educational institutions -- and it also boasts a cast that you probably never would have dreamed of. Variety reports that Maria Bello and Michael Sheen have wrapped production on an upcoming film called Beautiful Boy. But they're not the only ones attached to this feature. They star alongside Moon Bloodgood, Alan Tudyk, Kyle Gallner, Austin Nichols, and Meat Loaf.
Whether you love epic, karaoke-adored rock songs, dodgeballing pirates, geeky teen killers trying to axe Veronica Mars, Blair Williams, or a dude who can be a werewolf or a vampire, this indie definitely has the bases covered. Written by director Shawn Ku and Michael Armbruster, the film focuses on a married couple (Sheen and Bello) who are about to get separated when...
Whether you love epic, karaoke-adored rock songs, dodgeballing pirates, geeky teen killers trying to axe Veronica Mars, Blair Williams, or a dude who can be a werewolf or a vampire, this indie definitely has the bases covered. Written by director Shawn Ku and Michael Armbruster, the film focuses on a married couple (Sheen and Bello) who are about to get separated when...
- 12/17/2009
- by Monika Bartyzel
- Cinematical
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