Netflix has unveiled nine new movies and series from Poland including the directorial debut of High Water writer Kasper Bajon and a thriller from the team behind Forgotten Love.
As the streamer continues to unveil international originals by the bucket load, Project UFO leads the Poland slate, a mini-series helmed by Bajon that will transport fans of stories inspired by real events to the 1980s in order to investigate the alleged UFO landing in a remote countryside village.
Bajon wrote the popular High Water series, one of the biggest to come from Netflix Poland, about the 1997 Central European flood and how it was managed by the authorities of the Polish city of Wrocław.
Meanwhile, Michał Gazda (director) and Magdalena Szwedkowicz (producer), the team behind last year’s Netflix Poland movie Forgotten Love, are re-teaming on a movie following a retired policeman trying to bring to justice to those behind a ruthless bank robbery case,...
As the streamer continues to unveil international originals by the bucket load, Project UFO leads the Poland slate, a mini-series helmed by Bajon that will transport fans of stories inspired by real events to the 1980s in order to investigate the alleged UFO landing in a remote countryside village.
Bajon wrote the popular High Water series, one of the biggest to come from Netflix Poland, about the 1997 Central European flood and how it was managed by the authorities of the Polish city of Wrocław.
Meanwhile, Michał Gazda (director) and Magdalena Szwedkowicz (producer), the team behind last year’s Netflix Poland movie Forgotten Love, are re-teaming on a movie following a retired policeman trying to bring to justice to those behind a ruthless bank robbery case,...
- 4/29/2024
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
From The Video Archives Podcast, writer/director Roger Avary and writer/producer Gala Avary discuss a few of their favorite movies with Josh Olson and Joe Dante.
Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode
Taxi Driver (1976)
Star Wars (1977)
Matinee (1993)
Dune (1984)
Terror On A Train a.k.a. Time Bomb (1953)
Licorice Pizza (2021)
Batman (1989)
Yentl (1983)
Nuts (1987)
Spaceballs (1987)
Die Hard (1988)
Top Gun (1986)
Cocksucker Blues (1972)
Mijn nachten met Susan, Olga, Albert, Julie, Piet & Sandra (1975)
Straw Dogs (1971)
The Godfather (1972)
A History Of Violence (2005)
Day Of The Dolphin (1973)
Babylon (2022)
Puss In Boots: The Last Wish (2022)
Sonic The Hedgehog 2 (2022)
Top Gun: Maverick (2022)
Rock ‘n’ Roll High School (1979)
Carrie (1976)
Indictment: The McMartin Trial (1995)
Blow Out (1981)
The Matrix (1999)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Killing Zoe (1993)
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
The Tenant (1976)
Dr. Strangelove (1964)
Bugsy Malone (1976)
Phantom Of The Paradise (1974)
The Muppet Movie (1979)
The Rules Of Attraction (2002)
The Sound Of Music (1965)
Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory (1971)
Giant (1956)
The Andromeda Strain (1971)
Babe (1995)
Time Bandits...
Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode
Taxi Driver (1976)
Star Wars (1977)
Matinee (1993)
Dune (1984)
Terror On A Train a.k.a. Time Bomb (1953)
Licorice Pizza (2021)
Batman (1989)
Yentl (1983)
Nuts (1987)
Spaceballs (1987)
Die Hard (1988)
Top Gun (1986)
Cocksucker Blues (1972)
Mijn nachten met Susan, Olga, Albert, Julie, Piet & Sandra (1975)
Straw Dogs (1971)
The Godfather (1972)
A History Of Violence (2005)
Day Of The Dolphin (1973)
Babylon (2022)
Puss In Boots: The Last Wish (2022)
Sonic The Hedgehog 2 (2022)
Top Gun: Maverick (2022)
Rock ‘n’ Roll High School (1979)
Carrie (1976)
Indictment: The McMartin Trial (1995)
Blow Out (1981)
The Matrix (1999)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Killing Zoe (1993)
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
The Tenant (1976)
Dr. Strangelove (1964)
Bugsy Malone (1976)
Phantom Of The Paradise (1974)
The Muppet Movie (1979)
The Rules Of Attraction (2002)
The Sound Of Music (1965)
Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory (1971)
Giant (1956)
The Andromeda Strain (1971)
Babe (1995)
Time Bandits...
- 2/28/2023
- by Kris Millsap
- Trailers from Hell
As we now know, Quentin Tarantino's movies are all set in the same fantastical cinematic universe, offering a glimpse inside the director's head. Like in the real world, anybody can die at any time in various nasty ways, but at least in the Tarantino-verse your killer will probably be jiving to some obscure '70s pop tune or engaging you in a little banter about hamburgers before pulling the trigger. It's a rich, colorful, dangerous place, laden with pop culture references, and also has a second universe within a universe. As Tarantino explained (via Esquire):
"There's the realer than real universe, alright, and all the characters inhabit that one. But then there's this movie universe. And so 'From Dusk Till Dawn,' 'Kill Bill,' they all take place in this special movie universe. So basically when the characters of 'Reservoir Dogs' or 'Pulp Fiction,'...
"There's the realer than real universe, alright, and all the characters inhabit that one. But then there's this movie universe. And so 'From Dusk Till Dawn,' 'Kill Bill,' they all take place in this special movie universe. So basically when the characters of 'Reservoir Dogs' or 'Pulp Fiction,'...
- 2/25/2023
- by Lee Adams
- Slash Film
From January 1989 until March 1996, Neil Gaiman's pivotal goth text "The Sandman" flooded the hearts of Doc Martens-wearing, clove cigarette-smoking, Fields of the Nephilim-listening teens the world over. The comic followed the downbeat, bitter adventures of Dream, a supernatural personification of human dreams, as he escaped a prolonged prison sentence in a fantasy kingdom, and set out traversing multiple dimensions to build up his power again. Dream frequently ran into other personified human concepts like Death, Destiny, Despair, and Delirium, and existed in a vast, complicated mythology world that your "Rocky Horror Picture Show"-attending buddies probably knew better than you.
Because of its cult popularity, scuttlebutt about a "Sandman" feature film began to spread sometime in the mid-1990s. Recalling the time, the buzz seemingly became loudest following the release of Alex Proyas' ultra-Goth comic book adaptation "The Crow," a film that appeared to be visually and tonally in...
Because of its cult popularity, scuttlebutt about a "Sandman" feature film began to spread sometime in the mid-1990s. Recalling the time, the buzz seemingly became loudest following the release of Alex Proyas' ultra-Goth comic book adaptation "The Crow," a film that appeared to be visually and tonally in...
- 8/26/2022
- by Witney Seibold
- Slash Film
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Cinematographer Tom Richmond, whose résumé included work on such films as Stand and Deliver, Killing Zoe, Little Odessa, Slums of Beverly Hills and Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist, has died. He was 72.
Richmond died Friday in New York City, Anthony Jannelli, head of cinematography at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, told The Hollywood Reporter (Richmond also taught at NYU). The cause of death was not immediately available.
Richmond, who was the director of photography on nearly four dozen features, also shot Keenan Ivory Wayans’ I’m Gonna Git You Sucka (1988), Scott Silver’s Johns (1996), Rob Zombie’s House of 1,000 Corpses (2003) and Todd Solondz’s Palindromes (2004).
He won the best cinematography prize at Sundance in 2006 for his work on Right at Your Door, a drama about a terrorist attack involving chemical bombs.
He received Spirit Award nominations for Stand & Deliver...
Cinematographer Tom Richmond, whose résumé included work on such films as Stand and Deliver, Killing Zoe, Little Odessa, Slums of Beverly Hills and Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist, has died. He was 72.
Richmond died Friday in New York City, Anthony Jannelli, head of cinematography at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, told The Hollywood Reporter (Richmond also taught at NYU). The cause of death was not immediately available.
Richmond, who was the director of photography on nearly four dozen features, also shot Keenan Ivory Wayans’ I’m Gonna Git You Sucka (1988), Scott Silver’s Johns (1996), Rob Zombie’s House of 1,000 Corpses (2003) and Todd Solondz’s Palindromes (2004).
He won the best cinematography prize at Sundance in 2006 for his work on Right at Your Door, a drama about a terrorist attack involving chemical bombs.
He received Spirit Award nominations for Stand & Deliver...
- 8/3/2022
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The following interview with director of photography Tom Richmond appeared in Filmmaker‘s Winter, 1995 issue. Richmond died yesterday in New York at the age of 72, and this interview is now published online for the first time. — Editor “I want to be the Rod Serling of cinematography,” says Tom Richmond, whose distinctive and varied lensing has graced three recent films: the “Tex Avery meets Bonnie and Clyde” Love and a.45; the hyper-realist heist noir Killing Zoe; and Little Odessa, James Gray’s intimate epic about Brighton Beach’s Russian mafia. “The way Serling could get into you…”Richmond continues. “I want [my […]
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The post “I Want to Be the Rod Serling of Cinematography”: An Interview with Little Odessa Dp Tom Richmond first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
- 7/30/2022
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
The following interview with director of photography Tom Richmond appeared in Filmmaker‘s Winter, 1995 issue. Richmond died yesterday in New York at the age of 72, and this interview is now published online for the first time. — Editor “I want to be the Rod Serling of cinematography,” says Tom Richmond, whose distinctive and varied lensing has graced three recent films: the “Tex Avery meets Bonnie and Clyde” Love and a.45; the hyper-realist heist noir Killing Zoe; and Little Odessa, James Gray’s intimate epic about Brighton Beach’s Russian mafia. “The way Serling could get into you…”Richmond continues. “I want [my […]
The post “I Want to Be the Rod Serling of Cinematography”: An Interview with Little Odessa Dp Tom Richmond first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
The post “I Want to Be the Rod Serling of Cinematography”: An Interview with Little Odessa Dp Tom Richmond first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
- 7/30/2022
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Spoiler Alert: This article contains details of tonight’s Season 3 finale of FX’s Atlanta
“We wanted to end this season or end that episode with the feeling of some things have been addressed, but not necessarily solved,” says Zazie Beetz of tonight’s very Parisian finale of Atlanta’s penultimate season. “I think in Season 4, there’s a continuation of identity searching,” says the actress who plays Van of the Donald Glover, Brian Tyree Henry and Lakeith Stansfield co-starring FX series.
“That is a lifelong journey I think, and it takes on a bit of another context.”
A delicate weave of whispers of 1960’s Breathless, 1993’s Killing Zoe, 2016’s Raw and more than a dollop or two of 2001’s Amélie, literally and figuratively, the Glover helmed and Stefani Robinson penned “Tarrare” was a feast of a finale for the March 24 premiering third season. With a paid “piss kink,” cooked human hands,...
“We wanted to end this season or end that episode with the feeling of some things have been addressed, but not necessarily solved,” says Zazie Beetz of tonight’s very Parisian finale of Atlanta’s penultimate season. “I think in Season 4, there’s a continuation of identity searching,” says the actress who plays Van of the Donald Glover, Brian Tyree Henry and Lakeith Stansfield co-starring FX series.
“That is a lifelong journey I think, and it takes on a bit of another context.”
A delicate weave of whispers of 1960’s Breathless, 1993’s Killing Zoe, 2016’s Raw and more than a dollop or two of 2001’s Amélie, literally and figuratively, the Glover helmed and Stefani Robinson penned “Tarrare” was a feast of a finale for the March 24 premiering third season. With a paid “piss kink,” cooked human hands,...
- 5/20/2022
- by Dominic Patten
- Deadline Film + TV
It’s been 17 long years since “Rules of Attraction” director Roger Avary has released a film, during which time he was involved in a deadly car crash, charged with gross vehicle manslaughter, saw a work furlough translated into actual prison time, and watched things go south with Video Archives amigo Quentin Tarantino over the “Pulp Fiction” credit fiasco. Those are setbacks that might break the spine of a lesser scribe, but in Avary’s case, it seems to have strengthened his resolve to write — although until now, virtually nothing has been produced to show for it. Not for lack of trying. Some people are good at directing movies, and others are good at getting movies to direct. Avary hustled a number of projects, and somehow, “Lucky Day” was the first to get made.
The movie marks a curious comeback, . Where Avary’s other films have innovated and unsettled, this one’s clever but safe,...
The movie marks a curious comeback, . Where Avary’s other films have innovated and unsettled, this one’s clever but safe,...
- 10/14/2019
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
Is it 2019 or 1995?
That’s the question viewers may ask when watching Roger Avary’s total throwback of a gonzo action comedy, Lucky Day, which feels very much like a project the Pulp Fiction co-writer and Killing Zoe director dusted off the shelf a few decades too late.
Familiar for anyone who basked in the work of Avary and his former cohort, Quentin Tarantino, when they hit movie gold in the mid-'90s, this tale of an ex-con, his girlfriend, their adorable daughter and the nutso hit man trying to take them all out is eye-rollingly recognizable, from the retro rock '...
That’s the question viewers may ask when watching Roger Avary’s total throwback of a gonzo action comedy, Lucky Day, which feels very much like a project the Pulp Fiction co-writer and Killing Zoe director dusted off the shelf a few decades too late.
Familiar for anyone who basked in the work of Avary and his former cohort, Quentin Tarantino, when they hit movie gold in the mid-'90s, this tale of an ex-con, his girlfriend, their adorable daughter and the nutso hit man trying to take them all out is eye-rollingly recognizable, from the retro rock '...
- 10/2/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Is it 2019 or 1995?
That’s the question viewers may ask when watching Roger Avary’s total throwback of a gonzo action comedy, Lucky Day, which feels very much like a project the Pulp Fiction co-writer and Killing Zoe director dusted off the shelf a few decades too late.
Familiar for anyone who basked in the work of Avary and his former cohort, Quentin Tarantino, when they hit movie gold in the mid-'90s, this tale of an ex-con, his girlfriend, their adorable daughter and the nutso hit man trying to take them all out is eye-rollingly recognizable, from the retro rock '...
That’s the question viewers may ask when watching Roger Avary’s total throwback of a gonzo action comedy, Lucky Day, which feels very much like a project the Pulp Fiction co-writer and Killing Zoe director dusted off the shelf a few decades too late.
Familiar for anyone who basked in the work of Avary and his former cohort, Quentin Tarantino, when they hit movie gold in the mid-'90s, this tale of an ex-con, his girlfriend, their adorable daughter and the nutso hit man trying to take them all out is eye-rollingly recognizable, from the retro rock '...
- 10/2/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Eric Stoltz is most widely recognized for the part he played in “Mask” as Rocky Dennis. His performance was stellar and it was the quality that earned a Golden Globe Award nomination for him, although he wasn’t in a lead role, he was up for a best supporting actor in motion picture award. He’s also acted in several other films including “Some Kind of Wonderful,” “Kicking and Screaming,” “Killing Zoe” and “Pulp Fiction.” Although fairly well known in the film industry, he’s not a celebrity who receives a lot of press and there is a lot that fans would still
20 Things You Didn’t Know About Eric Stoltz...
20 Things You Didn’t Know About Eric Stoltz...
- 5/3/2019
- by Dana Hanson-Firestone
- TVovermind.com
Friends recall fun-loving cinephile with big heart.
The international community paid tribute at a celebration of life on Thursday (28) to the late producer and independent film titan Sammy Hadida, who was remembered as a great friend, ferocious businessman, and karaoke-lover.
Hadida’s brother Victor summed up so much of the evening at Tiato in the Lionsgate complex in Santa Monica when he spoke of his deep bond and friendship with his brother, who died unexpectedly last November at the age of 64.
Etchie Stroh of Moonstone Entertainment emceed the emotional and often very funny celebration and set the tone when he...
The international community paid tribute at a celebration of life on Thursday (28) to the late producer and independent film titan Sammy Hadida, who was remembered as a great friend, ferocious businessman, and karaoke-lover.
Hadida’s brother Victor summed up so much of the evening at Tiato in the Lionsgate complex in Santa Monica when he spoke of his deep bond and friendship with his brother, who died unexpectedly last November at the age of 64.
Etchie Stroh of Moonstone Entertainment emceed the emotional and often very funny celebration and set the tone when he...
- 3/1/2019
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Hotel Artemis is a stylish crime thriller with a grab bag of pulpy characters, cool quips, and teeth rattling action.
Whoa, after five years Jodie Foster comes out of her self-imposed acting semi-retirement to star in writer-director Drew Pearce’s debut passion project centring on a rogues’ gallery of wacky criminals hiding out in Hotel Artemis. It’s an old-school Hollywood boarding house, which doubles up as a members only and black market hospital. Foster brings her trademark steeliness underpinned by a haunting melancholy that has been her bread and butter since Taxi Driver (1976) to the almost nameless role of an agoraphobic nurse scraping by in the shadows of a riot-torn Los Angels in 2028. Yeah, it’s an interesting high-concept idea, but is it any good? Well, Pearce, who’s proven his action and cool quip mettle co-writing the Marmite of Marvel films Iron Man 3 (2013), delivers a stylish crime...
Whoa, after five years Jodie Foster comes out of her self-imposed acting semi-retirement to star in writer-director Drew Pearce’s debut passion project centring on a rogues’ gallery of wacky criminals hiding out in Hotel Artemis. It’s an old-school Hollywood boarding house, which doubles up as a members only and black market hospital. Foster brings her trademark steeliness underpinned by a haunting melancholy that has been her bread and butter since Taxi Driver (1976) to the almost nameless role of an agoraphobic nurse scraping by in the shadows of a riot-torn Los Angels in 2028. Yeah, it’s an interesting high-concept idea, but is it any good? Well, Pearce, who’s proven his action and cool quip mettle co-writing the Marmite of Marvel films Iron Man 3 (2013), delivers a stylish crime...
- 7/21/2018
- by Thomas Salmon
- The Cultural Post
Simon Brew Sep 18, 2017
Pulp Fiction Oscar-winner and Killing Zoe director Roger Avary is returning to the movies.
Writer and director Roger Avary has, understandably, not been making many features of late. Back in 2009, the Oscar-winner - for co-writing Pulp Fiction (a gong he got for coming up with one of the film's stories) - was convicted of manslaughter, and eventually served eight months. He was released in 2010, and since then, has executive-produced the TV series Xiii. He's been away from features, though.
But that's changing.
His new film project, Lucky Day, is set to start filming in Toronto this week. It'll shoot through to early November. He's written the screenplay for the movie and will direct as well. It tells the story of a safe cracker who is just released from prison, and trying to go straight. That is until a contract killer with an eye for revenge catches up with him.
Pulp Fiction Oscar-winner and Killing Zoe director Roger Avary is returning to the movies.
Writer and director Roger Avary has, understandably, not been making many features of late. Back in 2009, the Oscar-winner - for co-writing Pulp Fiction (a gong he got for coming up with one of the film's stories) - was convicted of manslaughter, and eventually served eight months. He was released in 2010, and since then, has executive-produced the TV series Xiii. He's been away from features, though.
But that's changing.
His new film project, Lucky Day, is set to start filming in Toronto this week. It'll shoot through to early November. He's written the screenplay for the movie and will direct as well. It tells the story of a safe cracker who is just released from prison, and trying to go straight. That is until a contract killer with an eye for revenge catches up with him.
- 9/18/2017
- Den of Geek
Exclusive: The year was 1994 and the Croisette was Roger Avary’s oyster. Not only did he have Pulp Fiction at the festival, the film he co-wrote with Quentin Tarantino which would go on to win the Palme d’Or, but he also made his feature directorial debut out of competition with the psychedelic heist pic Killing Zoe, which would take home a Critic’s Prize. Avary returns to Cannes this year, but in a slightly different capacity, that of pitchman in the market. He stands in…...
- 5/16/2016
- Deadline
"Rules of Attraction" and "Killing Zoe" director Roger Avary is set to helm "Unwind" for Voltage Pictures and Constantin Film.
Based on Neal Shusterman's award-winning novel, the story imagines a cruel dystopian world in which those over eighteen years of age, either function as a cog in the machine of a brainwashed society, or get 'unwound' - your body is taken apart, piece by piece, and given to those the government determines to be more suitable.
Connor (Ian Nelson), Risa (Kiernan Shipka), and Lev (Percy Hynes White) are three young people raging against the machine. Their desire for freedom and self-determination is greater than their fear of unwinding.
Bill Paxton and Jay Baruchel also star in the film while Avery and his daughter Gala Avary wrote the screenplay. Don Carmody, Robert Kulzer, Roger Avary, Julian Stone and Marc Benardout will produce.
Source: Deadline...
Based on Neal Shusterman's award-winning novel, the story imagines a cruel dystopian world in which those over eighteen years of age, either function as a cog in the machine of a brainwashed society, or get 'unwound' - your body is taken apart, piece by piece, and given to those the government determines to be more suitable.
Connor (Ian Nelson), Risa (Kiernan Shipka), and Lev (Percy Hynes White) are three young people raging against the machine. Their desire for freedom and self-determination is greater than their fear of unwinding.
Bill Paxton and Jay Baruchel also star in the film while Avery and his daughter Gala Avary wrote the screenplay. Don Carmody, Robert Kulzer, Roger Avary, Julian Stone and Marc Benardout will produce.
Source: Deadline...
- 5/6/2016
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Failure is the name of the game here. This is an in-depth look at some of the most common reasons that heists in films go wrong.
Heists in films rarely go right. In fact, the heist gone bad is a plot device that has been used over and over for decades. It adds drama. It adds tension. It adds excitement as the crooks run from the law. Often times, that’s what makes a heist movie so fun to watch, seeing how the characters get themselves out of a tight situation. A perfect heist can be interesting to watch, but doesn’t really enhance or create much conflict between characters by itself. That’s why heists gone wrong are much more frequent in film than heists which go off without a flaw.
There are many ways a heist can go wrong. This is an overview of some of the most common reasons,...
Heists in films rarely go right. In fact, the heist gone bad is a plot device that has been used over and over for decades. It adds drama. It adds tension. It adds excitement as the crooks run from the law. Often times, that’s what makes a heist movie so fun to watch, seeing how the characters get themselves out of a tight situation. A perfect heist can be interesting to watch, but doesn’t really enhance or create much conflict between characters by itself. That’s why heists gone wrong are much more frequent in film than heists which go off without a flaw.
There are many ways a heist can go wrong. This is an overview of some of the most common reasons,...
- 8/9/2015
- by feeds@cinelinx.com (G.S. Perno)
- Cinelinx
It's always a bummer when a technical glitch happens. This week, we lost an entire question and answer to some sort of strange microphone flutter. Someone wrote in to ask about the year 1994, asking if there were films that were overshadowed by "Pulp Fiction" that year that deserved some praise, and I took the opportunity to sing the praises of Roger Avary's "Killing Zoe" for a bit. I love that movie, and I think it's got a great dark evil energy about it. The work by Eric Stoltz and Julie Delpy is outstanding, and Jean-Hugues Anglade is like some mad hallucination in it. Anyway, we had to lose the whole thing, so it's a quicker-than-normal episode of "Ask Drew!" this week. We had a longer-than-expected hiatus between episodes, and we'll be turning that around and getting back on the every-other-week schedule now. It was my schedule that complicated everything.
- 11/7/2014
- by Drew McWeeny
- Hitfix
Twenty years ago today, Quentin Tarantino and Harvey Weinstein unveiled the filmmaker’s sophomore movie — an ambitious anthology of crime stories, all interconnected and metatextualized — at a late Saturday night screening at the Cannes Film Festival. A little over three hours later, as the crowd staggered out of the Palais des Festivals, they knew they had an audience favorite on their hands. Soon, they would be able to add Palme d’Or winner, Best Picture Oscar nominee, the first indie film to break the $100 million mark, a gamechanger and a modern classic to the list.
- 5/21/2014
- Rollingstone.com
Odd List Ryan Lambie Simon Brew 17 Oct 2013 - 06:29
Here are 25 more great, unsung films - this time, from the year 1994...
Yes, 1994. The year cinemas were dominated by such whimsical wonders as The Lion King, Forrest Gump, The Mask and, erm, True Lies. It was also the year Gump dominated the Academy Awards, and Four Weddings And A Funeral loomed large at the Baftas.
As ever, there was so much more to the year's cinematic landscape than Tom Hanks' park bench ramblings or Hugh Grant mithering from beneath his gorgously crafted hair. To prove it, here's a list of 25 films that, in our estimation, are among its most underappreciated. There's much horror, drama, tears and laughter, plus a couple of classic documentaries, too.
25. Phantasm III: Lord Of The Dead
The Phantasm series was quite unusual, in that writer and director Don Coscarelli made all four of them. This means that,...
Here are 25 more great, unsung films - this time, from the year 1994...
Yes, 1994. The year cinemas were dominated by such whimsical wonders as The Lion King, Forrest Gump, The Mask and, erm, True Lies. It was also the year Gump dominated the Academy Awards, and Four Weddings And A Funeral loomed large at the Baftas.
As ever, there was so much more to the year's cinematic landscape than Tom Hanks' park bench ramblings or Hugh Grant mithering from beneath his gorgously crafted hair. To prove it, here's a list of 25 films that, in our estimation, are among its most underappreciated. There's much horror, drama, tears and laughter, plus a couple of classic documentaries, too.
25. Phantasm III: Lord Of The Dead
The Phantasm series was quite unusual, in that writer and director Don Coscarelli made all four of them. This means that,...
- 10/16/2013
- by ryanlambie
- Den of Geek
There's been a Martin Luther King biopic set up at DreamWorks for awhile, and it looks like it's actually gaining some traction and moving forward. According to The Wrap, Jamie Foxx is in talks to star in the film with Oliver Stone planning to direct. If this team up happens it will be the first time the two have worked together since 1999's Any Given Sunday.
Steven Spielberg is producing the movie, and it features a screenplay written by Kario Salem (The Score, Killing Zoe). The story will follow the life of King and this film will be the first to be authorized by King's estate. The producers even have the right to utilize King's intellectual property, including his famous "I Have a Dream" speech delivered during the 1963 March on Washington, to create a definitive portrait of his life.
This is some big, solid talent, and if the team up...
Steven Spielberg is producing the movie, and it features a screenplay written by Kario Salem (The Score, Killing Zoe). The story will follow the life of King and this film will be the first to be authorized by King's estate. The producers even have the right to utilize King's intellectual property, including his famous "I Have a Dream" speech delivered during the 1963 March on Washington, to create a definitive portrait of his life.
This is some big, solid talent, and if the team up...
- 10/11/2013
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
In development from DreamWorks for some time , a proposed biopic of Martin Luther King, Jr. appears to be gaining some serious traction today as TheWrap reports that Jamie Foxx is in talks to headline with Oliver Stone tentatively planning to direct. Fox and Stone previously teamed for Any Given Sunday in 1999. The film, which features a screenplay by Kario Salem ( The Score , Killing Zoe ), will follow the life of King and will mark the first film to be authorized by King's estate, giving the producers the right to utilize King's intellectual property -- including his famous "I Have a Dream" speech delivered during the 1963 March on Washington -- to create a definitive portrait of his life. Foxx and Stone are no stranger to biopics. The former won an Academy...
- 10/10/2013
- Comingsoon.net
In the movie industry, most scripts bought and developed never get made, that’s just a depressing side of the business. There are endless great scripts, ideas and concepts that just never get made for so many reasons, the most common of which is money. Development hell isn’t just something that affects little known writers and directors, some of the most renowned names in the history of film have seen their projects defeated by the studios and sent to development hell for eternity, the most famous of which would be Stanley Kubrick’s Napoleon.
Even things such as Justice League, Jurassic Park and Superman – three materials that would be guaranteed commercial successes – can’t get made. Despite the committed fanbases, studios keep pushing them to one side. Jurassic Park 4 in particular was a strange one as the previous three Jurassic Park movie made a ton of money for everyone involved,...
Even things such as Justice League, Jurassic Park and Superman – three materials that would be guaranteed commercial successes – can’t get made. Despite the committed fanbases, studios keep pushing them to one side. Jurassic Park 4 in particular was a strange one as the previous three Jurassic Park movie made a ton of money for everyone involved,...
- 5/31/2013
- by Sam Moore
- Obsessed with Film
Bret Easton Ellis created a monster in American Psycho's homicidal yuppie Patrick Bateman. Now he turns his eye on a bohemian college, where Bateman's younger brother finances his alcohol-fuelled haze by dealing cocaine. Director Roger Avary (Killing Zoe) frames the film around a series of parties, charting the cynical romances of bisexual Paul (Ian Somerhalder) and all-American blonde Lara (Jessica Biel).
- 11/30/2012
- Sky Movies
It's been a few years since we've heard from writer/director Roger Avary, who was serving out a sentence for vehicular manslaughter between 2009 and 2010, but now he seems to be focused on getting his career back on track. One of the last major projects he was involved with before his legal problems started was the first Silent Hill movie. With the sequel bombing in theatres just last weekend, you might think he would take that as a sign that he should stay away from more video game adaptations. On the contrary, he has decided to resume another project based on a video game that he had been working on a few years ago. Here's what Avary had to say about writing and directing a Castle Wolfenstein movie: "I've been playing the Wolfenstein games since I was a kid, and feel that their outlandish sensibility has deeply influenced my own writing and directing throughout my career.
- 11/2/2012
- by Sean
- FilmJunk
It’s a busy week for John Cusack. Yesterday we reported that the actor was now attached to the long-in-development Stephen King adaptation Cell. Today comes new information that he’s negotiating to appear in another project. The latest film courting Cusack is the “aerial action thriller” Airspace. Variety says the film is being described as “Duel in the sky” and finds Cusack playing a charter pilot who’s attacked by an MiG fighter after he discovers a mysterious briefcase aboard his own plane. As fans of Spielberg’s Duel, we’re intrigued by this pitch. Should Cusack accept the part, he’ll most likely be working with Killing Zoe director Roger Avary on the film. Avary has reportedly already started polishing the...
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- 11/1/2012
- by Mike Bracken
- Movies.com
Academy Award winner Roger Avary (Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, True Romance) is set to write and direct the upcoming feature film adaptation of the video game Castle Wolfenstein. Avary has been attached to the project for a few years already, but it looks like Panorama Media and Samuel Hadida are ready to move forward with production.
The movie will be an action adventure film that's been compared to Captain America: The First Avenger and Inglourious Basterds. "The story follows a young Us Army Captain and a British Special Agent on a top secret mission to Castle Wolfenstein, where Hitler will be for the unveiling of a new secret weapon. After reaching the Castle, our heroes are confronted with Himmler's SS Paranormal Division and must fight, not only for their survival, but for a mission that could alter the course of the War."
Hadida explained in the press release:
With Roger at the helm,...
The movie will be an action adventure film that's been compared to Captain America: The First Avenger and Inglourious Basterds. "The story follows a young Us Army Captain and a British Special Agent on a top secret mission to Castle Wolfenstein, where Hitler will be for the unveiling of a new secret weapon. After reaching the Castle, our heroes are confronted with Himmler's SS Paranormal Division and must fight, not only for their survival, but for a mission that could alter the course of the War."
Hadida explained in the press release:
With Roger at the helm,...
- 11/1/2012
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
News out of Afm reveals that Roger Avary will direct a film adaptation of Castle Wolfenstein. The original video game was released in 1981 and spawned a number of sequels, including popular shooters from id Software. Roger Avary is probably best known for his story work on Pulp Fiction and writing the screenplay for Silent Hill. This will be the first project he’s directed since 2004.
Although this is currently using the title Castle Wolfenstein, we would be very surprised if this didn’t take more of the horror/sci-fi elements from the sequels. Here is the official press release:
Santa Monica, CA, November 1, 2012 – Panorama Media and Samuel Hadida announced today the production of Castle Wolfenstein. The action-adventure film, inspired by the iconic game franchise, is written and will be directed by Academy Award® winner Roger Avary. Hadida will produce through his Davis Films Productions, and global sales will be handled...
Although this is currently using the title Castle Wolfenstein, we would be very surprised if this didn’t take more of the horror/sci-fi elements from the sequels. Here is the official press release:
Santa Monica, CA, November 1, 2012 – Panorama Media and Samuel Hadida announced today the production of Castle Wolfenstein. The action-adventure film, inspired by the iconic game franchise, is written and will be directed by Academy Award® winner Roger Avary. Hadida will produce through his Davis Films Productions, and global sales will be handled...
- 11/1/2012
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
John Cusack is in negotiations to star in the aerial action-thriller "Airspace" which Roger Avary ("Killing Zoe," "Rules of Attraction") is in talks to direct for Scooty Woop Entertainment and Arclight Films.
Cusack would play a work-absorbed charter pilot flying home to his family who must escape a sudden attack by a heavily armed MiG fighter jet after finding a mysterious briefcase in his plane.
Briana Hartman ("Brother's Keeper") wrote the screenplay based on a story by Michael B. Chait. Avary has already begun work on a polish.
Source: Variety...
Cusack would play a work-absorbed charter pilot flying home to his family who must escape a sudden attack by a heavily armed MiG fighter jet after finding a mysterious briefcase in his plane.
Briana Hartman ("Brother's Keeper") wrote the screenplay based on a story by Michael B. Chait. Avary has already begun work on a polish.
Source: Variety...
- 11/1/2012
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Directed by: Todd Lincoln
Written by: Todd Lincoln
Cast: Ashley Greene, Sebastian Stan, Tom Felton
Young tech geek Ben (Sebastian Stan) and his girlfriend Kelly (Ashley Greene) are taking a big step by moving in together; what Kelly doesn't know is that Ben has a bit of ghostly baggage that he's bringing along with him.
Ben managed to attract unwanted attention after being involved with a successful seance that managed to make contact with something from 'the other side'. Kelly doesn't know anything at all about this, which makes things awkward when they move in together and spooky things start to happen around the house.
It starts small, as such things are wont to do. A desk slides out of place. A picture falls from its frame. Little bumps in the night and other small annoyances. This rapidly escalates, however, until the two young people realize they are under a full paranormal assault.
Written by: Todd Lincoln
Cast: Ashley Greene, Sebastian Stan, Tom Felton
Young tech geek Ben (Sebastian Stan) and his girlfriend Kelly (Ashley Greene) are taking a big step by moving in together; what Kelly doesn't know is that Ben has a bit of ghostly baggage that he's bringing along with him.
Ben managed to attract unwanted attention after being involved with a successful seance that managed to make contact with something from 'the other side'. Kelly doesn't know anything at all about this, which makes things awkward when they move in together and spooky things start to happen around the house.
It starts small, as such things are wont to do. A desk slides out of place. A picture falls from its frame. Little bumps in the night and other small annoyances. This rapidly escalates, however, until the two young people realize they are under a full paranormal assault.
- 8/24/2012
- by Tristan Sinns
- Planet Fury
Roger Avary is an Oscar-winning screenwriter, but these days he has trouble gathering his thoughts. "How do I put this?" Avary said on the the terrace outside his hotel in Locarno, Switzerland, where he's currently serving on the international competition jury at the city's film festival. "I haven't talked about this to anyone other than family and close friends, so I want to measure my words very carefully." He stared at the ground and took a breath. "Incarceration didn't change me," he said after a long pause. "In many ways, incarceration galvanized me. The totality of the experience helped me." While Avary looked relaxed in a salmon-colored shirt and neatly tousled hair, sunglasses hid the emotion on his face. Read more of Iw's extensive Locarno coverage Four years ago, the co-writer of "Pulp Fiction" and "True Romance" -- as well as the director of "Killing Zoe" and...
- 8/6/2012
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
Biblical movies are all the rage in Hollywood right now, with Darren Aronofsky currently casting his "Noah" for a summer shoot, Ridley Scott looking to tackle Moses for Fox while Steven Spielberg also has a Moses movie brewing for Warner Bros. Meanwhile, "Robocop" and "Showgirls" director Paul Verhoeven wants in on the Biblical epic movement too, specifically with the controversial take on Jesus Christ that he's been trying to get off the ground since last year. And Verhoeven has taken a couple significant steps forward with his Jesus movie with Muse Productions’ Chris Hanley stepping up to finance the project and screenwriter Roger Avary ("Beowulf," "Killing Zoe") hired to write the screenplay.
Verhoeven's interest in Jesus didn't occur overnight. Besides being a member of the the Jesus Seminar, the Dutch director published a book he co-wrote last year titled "Jesus of Nazareth." Not surprisingly, that's the book that Avary will...
Verhoeven's interest in Jesus didn't occur overnight. Besides being a member of the the Jesus Seminar, the Dutch director published a book he co-wrote last year titled "Jesus of Nazareth." Not surprisingly, that's the book that Avary will...
- 6/20/2012
- by Ryan Gowland
- The Playlist
A violent crime thriller with a bad-ass attitude and a killer twist, this is an ultra-stylish cinematic love letter to the 90s-era wave of breakout indie movies that gave us “Reservoir Dogs”, “Killing Zoe”, “Pulp Fiction” and “The Usual Suspects”.
Stars Bruce Willis (Cop Out; Die Hard 4.0; Grindhouse), Academy Award winner Forest Whitaker (Criminal Minds; The Shield; The Last King Of Scotland), Malin Akerman (Wanderlust; Watchmen), Nikki Reed (The Twilight Saga), Deborah Ann Woll (True Blood; Mother’s Day) and Academy Award nominee Brad Dourif (Bad Lieutenant; One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest).
Catch .44 (Anchor Bay) is available to download and own on DVD and Blu-Ray now.
We have two copies of the Blu-ray to give away to our readers.
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And then email contest@whatculture.com with your name, address,...
Stars Bruce Willis (Cop Out; Die Hard 4.0; Grindhouse), Academy Award winner Forest Whitaker (Criminal Minds; The Shield; The Last King Of Scotland), Malin Akerman (Wanderlust; Watchmen), Nikki Reed (The Twilight Saga), Deborah Ann Woll (True Blood; Mother’s Day) and Academy Award nominee Brad Dourif (Bad Lieutenant; One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest).
Catch .44 (Anchor Bay) is available to download and own on DVD and Blu-Ray now.
We have two copies of the Blu-ray to give away to our readers.
For your chance to win, first like us on Facebook… Already a fan? You can skip this part.
And then email contest@whatculture.com with your name, address,...
- 5/31/2012
- by Matt Holmes
- Obsessed with Film
Open Road Films has acquired the distribution rights to the Michael J. Bassett (Solomon Kane) directed follow-up to the 2006 big-screen adaptation of Silent Hill, starring Sean Bean, Radha Mitchell, Deborah Kara Unger, Adelaide Clemens, Carrie-Anne Moss, Malcolm McDowell and Kit Harington.
Official Press Release:
Open Road Films Acquires Psychological Horror Film Silent Hill: Revelation 3D With Plans For Halloween 2012 Release Based On Iconic Video Game Franchise, Sequel To 2006′S Hit Film Silenthill Stars Adelaide Clemens, Kit Harington, Sean Bean, Carrie-anne Moss And Malcolm McDowell
Los Angeles, CA, April 18, 2012 – Open Road Films has acquired all U.S. distribution rights to Silent Hill: Revelation 3D, the highly anticipated sequel to 2006′s film Silent Hill, released by TriStar Pictures. Silent Hill: Revelation 3D will be released wide October 26, 2012 in time for Halloween. The announcement was made today by Tom Ortenberg, CEO of Open Road Films and producers Samuel Hadida and Don Carmody.
Based...
Official Press Release:
Open Road Films Acquires Psychological Horror Film Silent Hill: Revelation 3D With Plans For Halloween 2012 Release Based On Iconic Video Game Franchise, Sequel To 2006′S Hit Film Silenthill Stars Adelaide Clemens, Kit Harington, Sean Bean, Carrie-anne Moss And Malcolm McDowell
Los Angeles, CA, April 18, 2012 – Open Road Films has acquired all U.S. distribution rights to Silent Hill: Revelation 3D, the highly anticipated sequel to 2006′s film Silent Hill, released by TriStar Pictures. Silent Hill: Revelation 3D will be released wide October 26, 2012 in time for Halloween. The announcement was made today by Tom Ortenberg, CEO of Open Road Films and producers Samuel Hadida and Don Carmody.
Based...
- 4/20/2012
- by Jason Moore
- ScifiMafia
Samuel Hadida.S Davis Films Acquires Feature Film Rights To
House Of Night Vampire-based Book Series
Major Film Franchise Potential for Young Adult International Bestselling Books
Samuel Hadida announced today that his company, Davis Films, has acquired film rights from authors P.C. and Kristin Cast to their phenomenally successful House of Night young adult fiction book series.
The ninth book in the series, Destined, was just published on October 25. The series, from the mother-daughter writing team, has sold over 12 million copies in the United States, keeping it on The New York Times bestseller list for a record 140 weeks. The books have consistently debuted at #1 in the United States, Canada, UK, and Australia, and have been published in 39 countries around the globe.
The books chronicle the coming of age of 16-year-old Zoey Redbird, who learns she is genetically marked to either become a .vampyre. in adolescence, or be killed in the process.
House Of Night Vampire-based Book Series
Major Film Franchise Potential for Young Adult International Bestselling Books
Samuel Hadida announced today that his company, Davis Films, has acquired film rights from authors P.C. and Kristin Cast to their phenomenally successful House of Night young adult fiction book series.
The ninth book in the series, Destined, was just published on October 25. The series, from the mother-daughter writing team, has sold over 12 million copies in the United States, keeping it on The New York Times bestseller list for a record 140 weeks. The books have consistently debuted at #1 in the United States, Canada, UK, and Australia, and have been published in 39 countries around the globe.
The books chronicle the coming of age of 16-year-old Zoey Redbird, who learns she is genetically marked to either become a .vampyre. in adolescence, or be killed in the process.
- 11/2/2011
- by Melissa Howland
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
A new 3D terror tale is headed our way, and we have your official first word and look at what manner of abominations will be clawing their way off the screen!
From the Press Release
Dead Of Nowhere is a story about a man who finds himself trapped in a strange lawless town where he must fight various "abominations" in order to escape and save his wife.
Director Chris Young elaborates on the genesis of this project:
"I grew up on 70's and 80's late night cable movies and have always wanted to create my own odd universe with larger-than-life characters in the drive-in cinema style of filmmaking. I've been intrigued how digital cinema technology has made the stereoscopic 3D experience pixel perfect, and so I spent several months exploring a low-budget, high quality, guerilla-style way of filming that would allow me to shoot 30 set-ups a day, on location in the Mojave Desert.
From the Press Release
Dead Of Nowhere is a story about a man who finds himself trapped in a strange lawless town where he must fight various "abominations" in order to escape and save his wife.
Director Chris Young elaborates on the genesis of this project:
"I grew up on 70's and 80's late night cable movies and have always wanted to create my own odd universe with larger-than-life characters in the drive-in cinema style of filmmaking. I've been intrigued how digital cinema technology has made the stereoscopic 3D experience pixel perfect, and so I spent several months exploring a low-budget, high quality, guerilla-style way of filming that would allow me to shoot 30 set-ups a day, on location in the Mojave Desert.
- 2/17/2011
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
I totally forgot that I had set up this poll before I went on vacation, but I figured some people might be interested in the results even though they are a couple of weeks late. In honour of Ben Affleck's The Town, we took a look at some of the best heist movies -- specifically, bank heist flicks. The winner was somewhat predictable, although I didn't think it would win by such a large margin. With 44% of the votes, Michael Mann's Heat had a pretty clean away with this particular poll. Meanwhile Dog Day Afternoon and Inside Man battled it out for the #2 spot, followed by Point Break and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. The rest of the entries were pretty much ignored, especially Roger Avary's Killing Zoe. Do you agree with these results? Would the inclusion of The Town have forced you to rethink your choices?...
- 10/8/2010
- by Sean
- FilmJunk
I’m flip-flopping between opinions on The Town because many reviews I’ve read call its direction ‘fresh’ and its writing ‘snappy’ or ‘sparkling’, and I’m in danger of being coerced by the critics* into believing that I enjoyed this bank heist thriller more than I actually did. That’s not to say that, on reflection, it doesn’t garner more praise than your average Hollywood A-List vehicle, but it’s just that immediately after watching it I felt like I’d been anticipating a new Heat and instead got Killing Zoe. As Mandela says, “Retrospection is a bitch, y’all.” Directed by and starring distractingly bum-chinned stubble spokesperson Ben Affleck, the movie follows his professional criminal Doug MacRay and Jem (Jeremy Renner) as they rob Boston banks with a couple of Charlestown buddies in a manner that is more violent, methodical and intelligent than their peers. The opening...
- 9/27/2010
- by Joe West
- t5m.com
The Resident Evil: Afterlife soundtrack. Here you go film fans, another leery and desperately inept action horror shoot-em-up cry-from-boredom dear-good-who-is-financing-these-things type effort based on a computer game, that looks like a computer game, and is less scary than the computer game it’s based on. A film which manages to make the end of the world as dull as an episode of Joey. Thank you very much Paul W.S. Anderson. I bet no-one thought Event Horizon was destined to become anyone’s unrivalled crowning achievement back in 1997, but there it is, sitting on his CV between Mortal Kombat (thank you once again, Paul, for your contribution to the popular arts) and Soldier (which even Kurt Russell doesn’t remember). This is one more artistic triumph that we can thank the utterly pointless technological “revolution” that is 3D for. The sales potential of a three dimensional scantily clad Milla Jovovich seems...
- 9/13/2010
- by Chris Neilan
- Movie-moron.com
Directed by: Paul W.S. Anderson
Written by: Paul W.S. Anderson
Cast: Milla Jovovich, Ali Larte, Kim Coates, Shawn Roberts, Sergio Peris-Mencheta, Spencer Locke, Boris Kodjo, Wentworth Miller, Sienna Guillory, Kacey Barnfield, Norman Yeung, Fulvio Cecere, Ray Olubowale
Resident Evil: Afterlife kicks off right where its predecessor Extinction faded away; Alice and her little army of clones hit the insidious and evil Umbrella Corporation hard in Tokyo. The Japanese based installation is overrun and destroyed, and all of the clones are destroyed along with it - a heavy (and slightly convenient) toll. Worse is that Alice drops her common sense in order to deliver a cheesy one-liner, which sets her up to get hypodermically pricked by trickster mastermind and incredibly snappy dresser Albert Wesker. Alice is injected with a compound that effectively strips her of her oh wow super T-Virus powers. It is back to guns for Alice.
Wesker goes on...
Written by: Paul W.S. Anderson
Cast: Milla Jovovich, Ali Larte, Kim Coates, Shawn Roberts, Sergio Peris-Mencheta, Spencer Locke, Boris Kodjo, Wentworth Miller, Sienna Guillory, Kacey Barnfield, Norman Yeung, Fulvio Cecere, Ray Olubowale
Resident Evil: Afterlife kicks off right where its predecessor Extinction faded away; Alice and her little army of clones hit the insidious and evil Umbrella Corporation hard in Tokyo. The Japanese based installation is overrun and destroyed, and all of the clones are destroyed along with it - a heavy (and slightly convenient) toll. Worse is that Alice drops her common sense in order to deliver a cheesy one-liner, which sets her up to get hypodermically pricked by trickster mastermind and incredibly snappy dresser Albert Wesker. Alice is injected with a compound that effectively strips her of her oh wow super T-Virus powers. It is back to guns for Alice.
Wesker goes on...
- 9/11/2010
- by Tristan Sinns
- Planet Fury
I don't believe in the term "guilty pleasure." At least, not with regard to movies. Maybe if you were a connoisseur of baby seal steaks or hoodies made from pandas, the attribution would be appropriate, but not when talking about one's taste in films. Take Paul W.S. Anderson's body of work--i'm kind of an easy lay when it comes to his Resident Evil films for reasons both concrete and maddeningly difficult to articulate. They're glossily shot with (at least with Anderson or as with Re: Extinction's Russel Mulchahey behind the camera) and promise at least a few engaging setpieces featuring series lead Milla Jovovich in some kind of improbable action, possibly kicking dogs in the face as her character Alice navigates whatever bizarre and occasionally goofy developments are thrown her way by the increasingly slapdash evil conspiracies at the heart of the series.
I love the series because at its heart,...
I love the series because at its heart,...
- 9/11/2010
- Screen Anarchy
Big news if you're a Neil Gaiman fan or even just someone that got into comics because of the man: Hollywood Reporter's Heat Vision Blog reported on Wednesday that Warner Brothers has optioned Gaiman's Sandman comics for a tv series. The series is, at present, scheduled to be helmed by Supernatural creator Eric Kripke.
This is a story that's been a long time coming. Originally, Gaiman's seminal comic series was supposed to be turned into a movie in the mid-'90s. Warner Brothers had the rights and word was Killing Zoe director Roger Avary would direct with a script from Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio, who later co-wrote Small Soldiers and the first and second Pirates of the Caribbean sequels. But the project never happened, partially because Gaiman thought the script he was handed, after numerous rewrites, was terrible. According to Wikipedia, the script was so bad, it was partially...
This is a story that's been a long time coming. Originally, Gaiman's seminal comic series was supposed to be turned into a movie in the mid-'90s. Warner Brothers had the rights and word was Killing Zoe director Roger Avary would direct with a script from Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio, who later co-wrote Small Soldiers and the first and second Pirates of the Caribbean sequels. But the project never happened, partially because Gaiman thought the script he was handed, after numerous rewrites, was terrible. According to Wikipedia, the script was so bad, it was partially...
- 9/5/2010
- by Simon Abrams
- Cinematical
Curious as to who's behind the music featured in those clips we've seen over the last 24 hours for Resident Evil: Afterlife ? It's a little bit grind-y, a little synth-y, a bit reminiscent of Tangerine Dream. Well, Tomandandy did the score. They landed on the map with Killing Zoe in the '90s and have since worked on The Rules of Attraction , Arlington Road and Mean Creek . Genre-wise, they contributed to The Strangers , P2 , The Mothman Prophecies and, shudder, The Covenant . They've got a score for And Soon the Darkness , starring Amber Heard and Odette Yustman, on the way. If you head to their official site you can listen to three tracks from Afterlife if you click on "music" and their Resident Evil poster.
- 8/26/2010
- shocktillyoudrop.com
Oscar-winning writer/director Roger Avary (Pulp Fiction, Killing Zoe) won’t be updating his Twitter account anymore with 140 character descriptions of life in jail. The Ventura County Sheriff’s Department got wind of his Tweets and last Thursday placed him behind bars for the remainder of his sentence.
The 44-year-old screenwriter was incarcerated starting October 25 after pleading guilty to felony manslaughter following a drunk driving crash that killed his passenger. He was serving time through the work furlough program that allowed him to leave the jail during the day and return to his cell before a night curfew.
“He really messed up,” Sheriff’s spokesman Ross Bonfiglio told the La Times. “He could have done nine months out of a year sentence, and not even in lock up for killing someone. Now he is going to do the remainder of that time in county jail.”
Avary racked up at least...
The 44-year-old screenwriter was incarcerated starting October 25 after pleading guilty to felony manslaughter following a drunk driving crash that killed his passenger. He was serving time through the work furlough program that allowed him to leave the jail during the day and return to his cell before a night curfew.
“He really messed up,” Sheriff’s spokesman Ross Bonfiglio told the La Times. “He could have done nine months out of a year sentence, and not even in lock up for killing someone. Now he is going to do the remainder of that time in county jail.”
Avary racked up at least...
- 12/2/2009
- by Jeff Leins
- newsinfilm.com
In 140-character takes, Roger Avary has built up a vivid portrait of life in Ventura county jail where he is being held
When Roger Avary, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of Pulp Fiction, was last month sentenced to a year behind bars for his role in a fatal car crash, it seemed that a promising writing career had come to an abrupt end.
But a string of posts on social networking site Twitter has revealed that he is apparently still chronicling the underbelly of American culture.
In a series of 140-character takes, Avary has built up a vivid portrait of life in Ventura county jail where he is currently being held. "Sickness spreads throughout the facility like brush fires," he writes in his latest tweet from November 22, "and #34 [his identification number in prison] is helpless to avoid the outbreak and inevitable infection."
Though there has been no official confirmation that the Twitter feed is Avary's, there are various clues to its authenticity,...
When Roger Avary, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of Pulp Fiction, was last month sentenced to a year behind bars for his role in a fatal car crash, it seemed that a promising writing career had come to an abrupt end.
But a string of posts on social networking site Twitter has revealed that he is apparently still chronicling the underbelly of American culture.
In a series of 140-character takes, Avary has built up a vivid portrait of life in Ventura county jail where he is currently being held. "Sickness spreads throughout the facility like brush fires," he writes in his latest tweet from November 22, "and #34 [his identification number in prison] is helpless to avoid the outbreak and inevitable infection."
Though there has been no official confirmation that the Twitter feed is Avary's, there are various clues to its authenticity,...
- 11/24/2009
- by Ed Pilkington
- The Guardian - Film News
Oscar winning writer/director Roger Avary (Pulp Fiction, Killing Zoe) may be Tweeting about his experiences in jail.
Avary started his one year of incarceration on October 25 after pleading guilty to felony manslaughter. The charges stemmed from a January 2008 DUI crash that resulted in the death of a passenger. He’s reportedly serving time through the work furlough program, which allows him to leave the jail, go to work, and return to his cell by a night curfew.
Four days later came a post on his Twitter account possibly critiquing the architecture of his Ventura County Jail. “The building is an imposing example of the Brutalist architectural movement. The windows are designed so as to not let too much light in.”
This is followed up the next day by this Tweet, “The channels on the Rec Room television cannot be changed, and it’s inexplicably always tuned to Fox.” Obligatory...
Avary started his one year of incarceration on October 25 after pleading guilty to felony manslaughter. The charges stemmed from a January 2008 DUI crash that resulted in the death of a passenger. He’s reportedly serving time through the work furlough program, which allows him to leave the jail, go to work, and return to his cell by a night curfew.
Four days later came a post on his Twitter account possibly critiquing the architecture of his Ventura County Jail. “The building is an imposing example of the Brutalist architectural movement. The windows are designed so as to not let too much light in.”
This is followed up the next day by this Tweet, “The channels on the Rec Room television cannot be changed, and it’s inexplicably always tuned to Fox.” Obligatory...
- 11/1/2009
- by Jeff Leins
- newsinfilm.com
Award-winning screenwriter Roger Avary has been sentenced to a year in jail related to a fatal crash.
Avary, who won the 1995 Academy Award for writing Pulp Fiction with Quentin Tarantino, plead guilty in August to gross vehicular manslaughter and drunken driving. The crash occurred in 2008, when he was driving home from a restaurant and his Mercedes collided with a telephone poll.
Passenger Andreas Zini was killed in the crash, and Avary's wife was ejected from the vehicle. She was treated for non-life-threatening injuries. According to authorities, Avary's car was traveling at more than 100 mph when it crashed into the pole.
This past Tuesday, Avary was sentenced to one year in jail, as well as five years of probation by Ventura County Superior Court Judge Edward Brodie, Variety reports. It was revealed in court that the writer had separately settled a civil action filed by Mr. Zini's family for $4.1M.
Avary...
Avary, who won the 1995 Academy Award for writing Pulp Fiction with Quentin Tarantino, plead guilty in August to gross vehicular manslaughter and drunken driving. The crash occurred in 2008, when he was driving home from a restaurant and his Mercedes collided with a telephone poll.
Passenger Andreas Zini was killed in the crash, and Avary's wife was ejected from the vehicle. She was treated for non-life-threatening injuries. According to authorities, Avary's car was traveling at more than 100 mph when it crashed into the pole.
This past Tuesday, Avary was sentenced to one year in jail, as well as five years of probation by Ventura County Superior Court Judge Edward Brodie, Variety reports. It was revealed in court that the writer had separately settled a civil action filed by Mr. Zini's family for $4.1M.
Avary...
- 10/1/2009
- CinemaSpy
Roger Avary, co-writer of Pulp Fiction and writer/director of Killing Zoe, has been sentenced to one year of jail time for his involvement in the death of his friend Andreas Zini in a 2008 car accident. This past August, Avary pleaded guilty to drunk driving and vehicular manslaughter — the writer crashed his car into a telephone pole at over 100 miles per hour, also injuring his wife in the process.
Jail time, along with a five-year probation, will seriously derail the several projects Avary is currently involved with. Earlier this month, Roger signed on to write the script for a sequel to Silent Hill, while also preparing for his film adaptation of the videogame Return to Castle Wolfenstein.
Without a doubt, this is unfortunate news for these franchises, but it’s indicative of a larger problem with Hollywood today: Avary, a relatively unknown celebrity in the grand scheme of things, has...
Jail time, along with a five-year probation, will seriously derail the several projects Avary is currently involved with. Earlier this month, Roger signed on to write the script for a sequel to Silent Hill, while also preparing for his film adaptation of the videogame Return to Castle Wolfenstein.
Without a doubt, this is unfortunate news for these franchises, but it’s indicative of a larger problem with Hollywood today: Avary, a relatively unknown celebrity in the grand scheme of things, has...
- 9/30/2009
- by John Cooper
- Atomic Popcorn
State of California, I am writing this on behalf of the entire filmmaking and artistic community worldwide. We have just learned the astonishing news of the sentencing of Roger Avary, Oscar-winning co-writer of Pulp Fiction and director of Killing Zoe, to one full year in prison resulting from his conviction on the charge of gross vehicular manslaughter. Filmmakers, intellectuals, Gen Xers, movie geeks, and meth addicts from across the country and around the world are dismayed by this turn of events and you must know that it cannot stand. True, Mr. Avary pleaded guilty last August to a crash that killed a passenger in his Mercedes-Benz and, true, he was driving over a hundred miles an hour and was legally intoxicated at the time. But all of this is of little consequence when balanced against one irrefutable fact: He helped write...
- 9/30/2009
- by Chez Pazienza
- Huffington Post
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