Foster the People have officially ushered in their next chapter with the announcement of a new album called Paradise State of Mind, which is slated for release on August 16th via their new label home, Atlantic Records. As a preview, they’ve unveiled the first single, the disco-toned “Lost In Space.”
“The record started as a case study of the late Seventies crossover between disco, funk, gospel, jazz, and all those sounds,” Mark Foster shared in a statement. “It was such a beautiful moment in time, when these different styles of music were cross-referencing each other — artists like Nile Rogers and Chic, the Tom Tom Club, and Giorgio Moroder.”
“Lost In Space” invokes moments of psychedelia, the space age, the anthemic of the ’80s, and dramatic disco strings, achieving that decades-spanning energy Foster described. “I’ll follow you anywhere,” the band sings on the euphoric, campy chorus. The track arrived...
“The record started as a case study of the late Seventies crossover between disco, funk, gospel, jazz, and all those sounds,” Mark Foster shared in a statement. “It was such a beautiful moment in time, when these different styles of music were cross-referencing each other — artists like Nile Rogers and Chic, the Tom Tom Club, and Giorgio Moroder.”
“Lost In Space” invokes moments of psychedelia, the space age, the anthemic of the ’80s, and dramatic disco strings, achieving that decades-spanning energy Foster described. “I’ll follow you anywhere,” the band sings on the euphoric, campy chorus. The track arrived...
- 5/31/2024
- by Mary Siroky
- Consequence - Music
With the God of Thunder having starred in four MCU solo films already, everyone is looking forward to Thor 5. Introduced in Kenneth Branagh’s Thor (2011), Chris Hemsworth’s character became the first hero in the MCU timeline to play the lead in four solo films, the last release being 2022’s Thor: Love and Thunder. Thus, the rumors swirling around this forthcoming installment have us both excited and anxious about what’s to come.
According to Marvel Updates, the upcoming film will follow Thor’s efforts to prevent a war between New Asgard and Omnipotence City. The idea of Thor being caught in the middle of a cosmic showdown between New Asgard and Omnipotence City is enough to make any fan’s heart race. We all know that Thor is no stranger to conflict, but this time, the stakes seem higher than ever.
Chris Hemsworth as Thor in The Avengers | Marvel Studios...
According to Marvel Updates, the upcoming film will follow Thor’s efforts to prevent a war between New Asgard and Omnipotence City. The idea of Thor being caught in the middle of a cosmic showdown between New Asgard and Omnipotence City is enough to make any fan’s heart race. We all know that Thor is no stranger to conflict, but this time, the stakes seem higher than ever.
Chris Hemsworth as Thor in The Avengers | Marvel Studios...
- 5/23/2024
- by Siddhika Prajapati
- FandomWire
Exclusive: The Mothership writer-director Matt Charman has landed his first Netflix project since the Halle Berry movie was axed by the streamer, Deadline understands.
We are told that Charman is writing a UK-set TV series thriller set in the upper echelons of the British political sphere titled The Choice, with filming set to start in London imminently and the show due to be unveiled tomorrow at a Netflix event in the English capital.
The Choice is the first Netflix role for BAFTA-winning British star Suranne Jones, who will also be an executive producer.
During a 25-year-long career, Jones has appeared in hits including Doctor Foster, Vigil and Gentleman Jack, all of which sold to the U.S. Other credits include Channel 4’s I Am Victoria and Sky’s Save Me, while she is also working on a drama based on the life of five-time female world boxing champion Jane Couch.
We are told that Charman is writing a UK-set TV series thriller set in the upper echelons of the British political sphere titled The Choice, with filming set to start in London imminently and the show due to be unveiled tomorrow at a Netflix event in the English capital.
The Choice is the first Netflix role for BAFTA-winning British star Suranne Jones, who will also be an executive producer.
During a 25-year-long career, Jones has appeared in hits including Doctor Foster, Vigil and Gentleman Jack, all of which sold to the U.S. Other credits include Channel 4’s I Am Victoria and Sky’s Save Me, while she is also working on a drama based on the life of five-time female world boxing champion Jane Couch.
- 3/13/2024
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Tovah Feldshuh, the multiple Emmy and Tony Award nominee who recently co-starred on Broadway with Lea Michele in the hit musical revival Funny Girl, has signed with Stewart Talent for representation.
Feldshuh earned the first of four Tony nominations in 1976 for her performance in Yentl, with subsequent nominations coming in 1979 (Saravá), 1989 (Lend Me a Tenor) and 2004 (Golda’s Balcony). She’s twice been Emmy-nominated.
Her extensive film and television credits include Harlan Coben’s Shelter, Crazy Ex Girlfriend and The Walking Dead. She is currently filming the Untitled Erin Foster series for Netflix opposite Kristen Bell and Adam Brody.
Other accolades include three honorary Doctorates of Humane Letters and, for her theater work, four Drama Desks, four Outer Critics Circle Awards, three Dramalogues, the Obie, the Theatre World, and the Helen Hayes and Lucille Lortel Awards for Best Actress. She...
Feldshuh earned the first of four Tony nominations in 1976 for her performance in Yentl, with subsequent nominations coming in 1979 (Saravá), 1989 (Lend Me a Tenor) and 2004 (Golda’s Balcony). She’s twice been Emmy-nominated.
Her extensive film and television credits include Harlan Coben’s Shelter, Crazy Ex Girlfriend and The Walking Dead. She is currently filming the Untitled Erin Foster series for Netflix opposite Kristen Bell and Adam Brody.
Other accolades include three honorary Doctorates of Humane Letters and, for her theater work, four Drama Desks, four Outer Critics Circle Awards, three Dramalogues, the Obie, the Theatre World, and the Helen Hayes and Lucille Lortel Awards for Best Actress. She...
- 3/13/2024
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: On Thursday, the Berlin Film Festival will kick off with the world premiere of Small Things Like These, starring Cillian Murphy, who also produces, and marking the first time an Irish movie opens the Berlinale. In the exclusive first-look at the 1985-set drama (check it out above), Murphy’s family man Bill Furlong comes face-to-face with Emily Watson’s formidable Sister Mary whose convent is concealing dark and disturbing secrets.
Also starring Eileen Walsh, Michelle Fairley and Zara Devlin, the story plays out in the weeks leading up to Christmas 1985. Bill, a devoted husband, father and coal merchant living in the traditional Irish town of New Ross in County Wexford, is facing his busiest season. During his delivery rounds, he discovers that the local convent is in fact a cruel institution that takes in so-called ‘fallen girls and women.’ His reaction to this discovery forces him to confront some hard truths about the convent,...
Also starring Eileen Walsh, Michelle Fairley and Zara Devlin, the story plays out in the weeks leading up to Christmas 1985. Bill, a devoted husband, father and coal merchant living in the traditional Irish town of New Ross in County Wexford, is facing his busiest season. During his delivery rounds, he discovers that the local convent is in fact a cruel institution that takes in so-called ‘fallen girls and women.’ His reaction to this discovery forces him to confront some hard truths about the convent,...
- 2/14/2024
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Annette Bening, who just received her fifth Oscar nomination last week for her portrayal of champion swimmer Diana Nyad in Nyad, has been named as the inaugural recipient of the Santa Barbara Film Festival’s Arlington Award.
The Arlington represents the first new award the festival has created in more than two decades and is named for the historic venue where all the fest’s annual tributes timed to Oscar season take place. It will be presented on Friday, February 16, 2024 at the theater, preceded by an in-person conversation I will be moderating covering her entire career.
“This is the first award added to our slate in 20 years. It is made to honor an artist who is greatly admired and who has demonstrated an incomparable commitment to film and its craft. Ms. Bening has not only displayed all of those qualities, but is considered by us to be a friend of the film festival.
The Arlington represents the first new award the festival has created in more than two decades and is named for the historic venue where all the fest’s annual tributes timed to Oscar season take place. It will be presented on Friday, February 16, 2024 at the theater, preceded by an in-person conversation I will be moderating covering her entire career.
“This is the first award added to our slate in 20 years. It is made to honor an artist who is greatly admired and who has demonstrated an incomparable commitment to film and its craft. Ms. Bening has not only displayed all of those qualities, but is considered by us to be a friend of the film festival.
- 1/30/2024
- by Pete Hammond
- Deadline Film + TV
[This story contains spoilers from the second episode of True Detective: Night Country.]
Why are they piled on each other? Why are their eardrums bleeding? Why are they naked, and why are all their clothes so neatly piled nearby? And how on Earth is one of them alive?
These are all valid questions when gazing upon the frozen murder tableau at the heart of True Detective: Night Country. First discovered at the end of the season premiere, the pile of corpses (with one living body in the lot) that opens the show’s second hour stands out among the gnarliest images in the True Detective franchise’s history — and this is the same show that brought forth the Yellow King of Carcosa.
For the folks working on the show, though? It was just another day at the office.
“It was like looking at that lamp over there,” star Kali Reis tells The Hollywood Reporter about sharing the same space...
Why are they piled on each other? Why are their eardrums bleeding? Why are they naked, and why are all their clothes so neatly piled nearby? And how on Earth is one of them alive?
These are all valid questions when gazing upon the frozen murder tableau at the heart of True Detective: Night Country. First discovered at the end of the season premiere, the pile of corpses (with one living body in the lot) that opens the show’s second hour stands out among the gnarliest images in the True Detective franchise’s history — and this is the same show that brought forth the Yellow King of Carcosa.
For the folks working on the show, though? It was just another day at the office.
“It was like looking at that lamp over there,” star Kali Reis tells The Hollywood Reporter about sharing the same space...
- 1/22/2024
- by Josh Wigler
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
‘Small Things Like These’, a historical drama starring Cillian Murphy, is set to open this year’s Berlin Film Festival. The film has been directed by Tim Mielants from a script by Enda Walsh, and will have its world premiere in the festival’s competition on February 15, reports Variety.
It is based on the book of the same name by Claire Keegan, ‘Small Things Like These’, and it “reveals truths about Ireland’s Magdalen laundries — horrific asylums run by Roman Catholic institutions from the 1820s until 1996, ostensibly to reform ‘fallen young women’,” as per its synopsis.
As per Variety, Keegan previously penned ‘Foster’ which was adapted into the Oscar-nominated Irish-language film ‘The Quiet Girl’.
Eileen Walsh, Michelle Fairley and Emily Watson also star in ‘Small Things Like These’.
Murphy plays devoted father and coal merchant Bill Furlong, who during Christmas 1985 “discovers startling secrets kept by the convent in his town,...
It is based on the book of the same name by Claire Keegan, ‘Small Things Like These’, and it “reveals truths about Ireland’s Magdalen laundries — horrific asylums run by Roman Catholic institutions from the 1820s until 1996, ostensibly to reform ‘fallen young women’,” as per its synopsis.
As per Variety, Keegan previously penned ‘Foster’ which was adapted into the Oscar-nominated Irish-language film ‘The Quiet Girl’.
Eileen Walsh, Michelle Fairley and Emily Watson also star in ‘Small Things Like These’.
Murphy plays devoted father and coal merchant Bill Furlong, who during Christmas 1985 “discovers startling secrets kept by the convent in his town,...
- 1/18/2024
- by Agency News Desk
- GlamSham
Liz Danvers, chief of police in the remote Alaska town of Ennis, and heroine of True Detective: Night Country, is fond of telling other cops they’re asking the wrong questions, prodding them over and over until they ask the right one. With Night Country, there’s only one question: Was it worth resurrecting the long-dormant True Detective franchise — and without its original creator, Nic Pizzolatto?
The new season, created, directed, and largely written by Issa López (Tigers Are Not Afraid), and starring Jodie Foster, answers with a resounding, “Hell,...
The new season, created, directed, and largely written by Issa López (Tigers Are Not Afraid), and starring Jodie Foster, answers with a resounding, “Hell,...
- 1/2/2024
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Rollingstone.com
Welcome to the Scene to Seen Podcast. I am Valerie Complex Associate editor and film writer at Deadline.
I have a disclaimer. I talk to actress Thomasin Mackenzie, director William Oldroyd, script writers Ottessa Moshfeg and Luke Goebel, about the Neon film Eileen, but this episode is going to be split into two.
First half is a separate interview with Thomasin Mackenzie and the second half is a full interview with Moshfegh, Goebel and Oldroyd. Think of this as the Eileen hour! Hope you can cut me some slack because they couldn’t record together!
Eileen is adapted from the novel of the same name written by Ottessa Moshfeg. Alongside Mackenzie, the film stars Ann Hathaway, Shea Wigham, Marin Ireland, and Siobhan Fallon Hogan.
The film is set during a bitter 1964 Massachusetts winter, young secretary Eileen becomes enchanted by the glamorous new counselor at the prison where she works. Their...
I have a disclaimer. I talk to actress Thomasin Mackenzie, director William Oldroyd, script writers Ottessa Moshfeg and Luke Goebel, about the Neon film Eileen, but this episode is going to be split into two.
First half is a separate interview with Thomasin Mackenzie and the second half is a full interview with Moshfegh, Goebel and Oldroyd. Think of this as the Eileen hour! Hope you can cut me some slack because they couldn’t record together!
Eileen is adapted from the novel of the same name written by Ottessa Moshfeg. Alongside Mackenzie, the film stars Ann Hathaway, Shea Wigham, Marin Ireland, and Siobhan Fallon Hogan.
The film is set during a bitter 1964 Massachusetts winter, young secretary Eileen becomes enchanted by the glamorous new counselor at the prison where she works. Their...
- 12/22/2023
- by Valerie Complex
- Deadline Film + TV
Renowned three-time Oscar-winning editor Walter Murch — known for films including Apocalypse Now, The Godfather Part II and The English Patient — and respected documentary editor Kate Amend — who cut Academy Award-winning docs Into the Arms of Strangers and The Long Way Home — will receive career achievement awards at the 74th American Cinema Editors Eddie Awards.
During the ceremony, which will be held March 3 at UCLA’s Royce Hall, Ace will also honor Stephen Lovejoy with its Heritage Award for his commitment to advancing the image of the film editor and dedication to the organization.
Murch’s legendary 55-year career as a film editor, sound designer, writer and director began in 1969 when he worked on the sound for Francis Ford Coppola’s The Rain People. His credits include American Graffiti and The Godfather Part II, and he won his first Oscar for the sound in Apocalypse Now, for which he was also nominated as an editor.
During the ceremony, which will be held March 3 at UCLA’s Royce Hall, Ace will also honor Stephen Lovejoy with its Heritage Award for his commitment to advancing the image of the film editor and dedication to the organization.
Murch’s legendary 55-year career as a film editor, sound designer, writer and director began in 1969 when he worked on the sound for Francis Ford Coppola’s The Rain People. His credits include American Graffiti and The Godfather Part II, and he won his first Oscar for the sound in Apocalypse Now, for which he was also nominated as an editor.
- 12/19/2023
- by Carolyn Giardina
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Annette Bening is reflecting on the life-changing experience of playing marathon swimmer Diana Nyad in the Netflix film Nyad.
At a screening this week in Los Angeles, Bening took part in a panel discussion about the film that focuses on Nyad’s real-life efforts in her 60s to become the first individual to swim from Cuba to Florida without a shark cage. Also participating in the conversation were co-directors Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin, co-star Jodie Foster, Nyad and Nyad’s coach Bonnie Stoll, whom Foster portrays in the movie.
“It has changed my life,” Bening said of swimming for the film. “I actually came to the conclusion recently that I’m a better swimmer now than even when I made the movie because I just kept swimming. I love it so much.”
The performer, a four-time Oscar nominee, explained that she grew up in San Diego and is trained as a scuba diver,...
At a screening this week in Los Angeles, Bening took part in a panel discussion about the film that focuses on Nyad’s real-life efforts in her 60s to become the first individual to swim from Cuba to Florida without a shark cage. Also participating in the conversation were co-directors Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin, co-star Jodie Foster, Nyad and Nyad’s coach Bonnie Stoll, whom Foster portrays in the movie.
“It has changed my life,” Bening said of swimming for the film. “I actually came to the conclusion recently that I’m a better swimmer now than even when I made the movie because I just kept swimming. I love it so much.”
The performer, a four-time Oscar nominee, explained that she grew up in San Diego and is trained as a scuba diver,...
- 11/18/2023
- by Ryan Gajewski
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Podcast producer Glisten+ (a portmanteau of “great” and “listen”) launched Tuesday with two initial programs, part of a larger slate of scripted fare that it plans to roll out in the coming months.
The first original series include the young adult-geared “Can’t Relax,” about a relaxation app that secretly places murderous messages into the brains of its teen listeners. The supernatural thriller features Olivia Trujillo (“For All Mankind”), Andre Robinson (“Cheaper by the Dozen”) and Patrick Labyorteaux (“NCIS”).
The other show is fantasy adventure “League of Wonder,” which follows a Yorkshire terrier who teams up with a rag-tag group of animal heroes to rescue Dorothy Gale and a pair of magical slippers. The show stars Donovan Patton (“Blue’s Clues), Makgotso M (“The Woman King”), Eric Petersen (“Kevin Can F**k Himself”) and Robbie Jarvis (“Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix”).
“We are so proud of the ever-growing...
The first original series include the young adult-geared “Can’t Relax,” about a relaxation app that secretly places murderous messages into the brains of its teen listeners. The supernatural thriller features Olivia Trujillo (“For All Mankind”), Andre Robinson (“Cheaper by the Dozen”) and Patrick Labyorteaux (“NCIS”).
The other show is fantasy adventure “League of Wonder,” which follows a Yorkshire terrier who teams up with a rag-tag group of animal heroes to rescue Dorothy Gale and a pair of magical slippers. The show stars Donovan Patton (“Blue’s Clues), Makgotso M (“The Woman King”), Eric Petersen (“Kevin Can F**k Himself”) and Robbie Jarvis (“Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix”).
“We are so proud of the ever-growing...
- 9/19/2023
- by Caroline Brew
- Variety Film + TV
Madrid-based agency Feelsales has picked up worldwide sales rights to indie social drama film “Third Week,” by long term New York-based Catalan writer-director Jordi Torrent (“The Redemption of the Fish”).
A U.S.-Spain co-production, the film is produced by Torrent, alongside Randy Simon, Maria Àngels Amorós and Toni Espinosa, for New York’s companies Duende Pictures and Rfs Wolf Entertainment and Barcelona’s Toned Media.
“Third Week” forms part of the Spanish Screenings On Tour 2023 international showcase’s Next From Spain – Comin’ Up sidebar, a preview of titles from Spain scheduled for release next hosted by the upcoming 9th edition of Rome’s Mercato Internazionale Audiovisivo (Mia) in Rome.
Shot on Staten Island, which is described in the film as a socially and aesthetically marginalized neighborhood of NYC, it follows the struggle of Alvin, a young man just out from prison, after serving a two years sentence, looking to find himself again.
A U.S.-Spain co-production, the film is produced by Torrent, alongside Randy Simon, Maria Àngels Amorós and Toni Espinosa, for New York’s companies Duende Pictures and Rfs Wolf Entertainment and Barcelona’s Toned Media.
“Third Week” forms part of the Spanish Screenings On Tour 2023 international showcase’s Next From Spain – Comin’ Up sidebar, a preview of titles from Spain scheduled for release next hosted by the upcoming 9th edition of Rome’s Mercato Internazionale Audiovisivo (Mia) in Rome.
Shot on Staten Island, which is described in the film as a socially and aesthetically marginalized neighborhood of NYC, it follows the struggle of Alvin, a young man just out from prison, after serving a two years sentence, looking to find himself again.
- 9/11/2023
- by Emiliano De Pablos
- Variety Film + TV
If Cáit’s morose, longing gazes could be transmuted into words, Colm Bairead’s Irish coming-of-age tale could’ve just as easily been a novel. And you’d be glad to know that the story has a warm, literary air surrounding it for a reason. Borrowing its story from Claire Keegan’s 2010 novella Foster, The Quiet Girl makes itself the mouthpiece for everyone who’s been carrying a love-shaped hole in their heart, for they’ve never been more than just another mouth to feed in a home where love is a luxury. A nine-year-old bright-eyed little girl’s first brush with being visible in a life that hasn’t relented in its pursuit of crushing her soul gets to be the heart of the film.
Spoilers Ahead
Plot Synopsis: What Happens In ‘The Quiet Girl’?
The persistently authentic rural Irish backdrop that Bairead’s film bathes in melancholy is...
Spoilers Ahead
Plot Synopsis: What Happens In ‘The Quiet Girl’?
The persistently authentic rural Irish backdrop that Bairead’s film bathes in melancholy is...
- 7/6/2023
- by Lopamudra Mukherjee
- Film Fugitives
Jodie Foster and Alexandra Hedison were seen together this weekend in New York City walking with their son, Kit Foster. The three of them walked to Rockefeller Center, in Midtown, and went to multiple stores and also stopped for bubble tea.
Kit was wearing a white tee with the sleeves rolled up, black striped shorts and black boots. He carried a light green satchel over his shoulder.
Jodie also looked casual, wearing a white sweatshirt with a white short sleeve t-shirt underneath, green pants, black Hoka sneakers, a yellow baseball cap, black sunglasses and a black backpack.
Hedison had a more preppy outfit on, wearing a red sweater with a white collared shirt underneath, black pants, white Hoke sneakers and a brown satchel over her shoulder.
Foster tends to stay out of the spotlight and was last seen publicly with Kit in 2021. She has purposely stayed out of the public...
Kit was wearing a white tee with the sleeves rolled up, black striped shorts and black boots. He carried a light green satchel over his shoulder.
Jodie also looked casual, wearing a white sweatshirt with a white short sleeve t-shirt underneath, green pants, black Hoka sneakers, a yellow baseball cap, black sunglasses and a black backpack.
Hedison had a more preppy outfit on, wearing a red sweater with a white collared shirt underneath, black pants, white Hoke sneakers and a brown satchel over her shoulder.
Foster tends to stay out of the spotlight and was last seen publicly with Kit in 2021. She has purposely stayed out of the public...
- 6/5/2023
- by Nina Hauswirth
- Uinterview
The Blacklist fans, we’ve got a fresh off the press preview for the new Season 10 Episode 16 episode titled Blair Foster!
Find out everything you need to know about the Blair Foster episode of The Blacklist, including a full preview, videos, release date, cast information and how to watch!
The Blacklist Blair Foster Season 10 Episode 16 Preview
In this upcoming episode titled “Blair Foster,” Reddington takes center stage as he assists the team in unraveling a complex web of corruption. A corrupt lawyer emerges as a key player in a series of corporate cover-ups, and Reddington’s expertise becomes invaluable as the team dives deep into her nefarious operation. Join us as we follow the twists and turns of this enthralling investigation, uncovering secrets and exposing the truth.
As the task force races against time to bring down the lawyer’s operation, another storyline unfolds. Senator Panabaker and Cooper find themselves on the edge,...
Find out everything you need to know about the Blair Foster episode of The Blacklist, including a full preview, videos, release date, cast information and how to watch!
The Blacklist Blair Foster Season 10 Episode 16 Preview
In this upcoming episode titled “Blair Foster,” Reddington takes center stage as he assists the team in unraveling a complex web of corruption. A corrupt lawyer emerges as a key player in a series of corporate cover-ups, and Reddington’s expertise becomes invaluable as the team dives deep into her nefarious operation. Join us as we follow the twists and turns of this enthralling investigation, uncovering secrets and exposing the truth.
As the task force races against time to bring down the lawyer’s operation, another storyline unfolds. Senator Panabaker and Cooper find themselves on the edge,...
- 5/25/2023
- by News
- TV Regular
In honor of the Beach Boys’ 60th anniversary, and after they were named the recipients of the Recording Academy Lifetime Achievement Award, a special tribute event airs this weekend. “A Grammy Salute to the Beach Boys” was pre-recorded at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles in February, and viewers have the opportunity to watch it from home now. Of course, Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Al Jardine, David Marks, and Bruce Johnston were in attendance at the event. Plus, there is a jam-packed slate of performers lined up, covering the band’s biggest songs. Don’t miss out when the special event airs on Sunday, April 9 beginning at 8 p.m. You can watch CBS with a 5-Day Free Trial of Directv Stream. You can also watch with Hulu Live TV, Fubo, Paramount Plus, or YouTube TV.
How to Watch A Grammy Salute to the Beach Boys When: Sunday, April 9, 2023 at 8:...
How to Watch A Grammy Salute to the Beach Boys When: Sunday, April 9, 2023 at 8:...
- 4/9/2023
- by Aubrey Chorpenning
- The Streamable
Thanks to the auteur theory, as advanced by upstart French theorists at the influential film journal Cahiers du Cinéma in the '50s and '60s, we've fallen into the habit of viewing movies as the work of a singular artist. Of course, this theory is sound when we're discussing the work of Alfred Hitchcock, John Ford, and Ingmar Bergman -- they had an identifiable visual style and revisited the same themes from film to film. The same applies to Boomer directors like Brian De Palma, Steven Spielberg, and Martin Scorsese, or modern masters like Quentin Tarantino, Kelly Reichardt, and Spike Lee.
On the set of a film, the director is head honcho, and the Directors Guild of America has fought hard to make sure the moviegoing public understands this. The director is the final name in the opening credits and gets a prominent placement on the poster. Sometimes, if they so choose,...
On the set of a film, the director is head honcho, and the Directors Guild of America has fought hard to make sure the moviegoing public understands this. The director is the final name in the opening credits and gets a prominent placement on the poster. Sometimes, if they so choose,...
- 3/13/2023
- by Jeremy Smith
- Slash Film
Most film fans know that this Sunday, just hours away, is the big award night. As a beloved former late-night talk show host used to see, even after he hosted the event, “In Hollywood, Oscar is king.” So, who’s going to wear that crown? While all the chatter is about the actors vying for the prize along with the ten (!) Best Picture contenders, this Friday we’ll get a chance to see a Best International Feature nominee that seems to be under everyone’s “radar”. But then, it’s a truly “soft-spoken” story, much like its subject. But don’t be fooled because the emotion is loud. much like its heartbeat, in The Quiet Girl.
And that tile character is nine-year-old Cait (Catherine Clinch) part of an ever-expanding family (another arrives soon) living in a ramshackle house in the mud of 1981 Ireland. She’s teased by her sisters, as...
And that tile character is nine-year-old Cait (Catherine Clinch) part of an ever-expanding family (another arrives soon) living in a ramshackle house in the mud of 1981 Ireland. She’s teased by her sisters, as...
- 3/10/2023
- by Jim Batts
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
The girl is named Cáit. She’s 12 years old, doesn’t like attention, stays hidden and silent when she can. Living in the rural Irish countryside in the early 1980s, she’s the youngest of a brood belonging to parents that seem one perpetually short fuse away from exploding. Or rather, she was the youngest — her Ma is six months pregnant. As for her Da, he’s a largely absent, mostly glowering presence capable of inspiring a dread-inducing hush into the household upon entering. Even when he brings Cáit with him to a pub,...
- 2/24/2023
- by David Fear
- Rollingstone.com
When the 2023 BAFTA nominations were unveiled on Jan. 19, one of the main talking points — alongside the standout success of All Quiet on the Western Front — was the domination of Ireland.
The 10 nominations amassed by Martin McDonagh’s awards season favorite The Banshees of Inisherin included a clean sweep of the performance categories, with the film’s four main cast — Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Kerry Condon and Barry Keoghan — all finding slots. With Aftersun’s Paul Mescal and Good to You, Leo Grande’s Daryl McCormack (also a Rising Star nominee) joining Farrell on the leading actor shortlist, BAFTA CEO Jane Millichip noted on the day that half of the category was Irish (“Although it wasn’t one of our targets,” she told THR).
Away from the headlines, The Quiet Girl — the much-adored Irish-language drama — continued its remarkable rise, with not just a nomination for Film Not in the English Language,...
The 10 nominations amassed by Martin McDonagh’s awards season favorite The Banshees of Inisherin included a clean sweep of the performance categories, with the film’s four main cast — Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Kerry Condon and Barry Keoghan — all finding slots. With Aftersun’s Paul Mescal and Good to You, Leo Grande’s Daryl McCormack (also a Rising Star nominee) joining Farrell on the leading actor shortlist, BAFTA CEO Jane Millichip noted on the day that half of the category was Irish (“Although it wasn’t one of our targets,” she told THR).
Away from the headlines, The Quiet Girl — the much-adored Irish-language drama — continued its remarkable rise, with not just a nomination for Film Not in the English Language,...
- 2/19/2023
- by Alex Ritman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Colm Bairéad’s appearance at Deadline’s Contenders: The Nominees event marks a year since his film The Quiet Girl first debuted at the Berlin Film Festival. A dual release in the UK and Ireland followed in May, and a slow international rollout has kept the director busy ever since. Indeed, as the film’s Oscar campaign enters the final stretch, The Quiet Girl is only now going wide across America: not bad going for a film with no stars that’s shot almost entirely in Irish, a language spoken by fewer than 2 million people worldwide.
The story of a shy and sensitive pre-teen girl who is sent to live with relatives after she becomes too much of a burden to her parents, who are expecting another child, The Quiet Girl is adapted from Claire Keegan’s novella Foster, which Bairéad discovered, quite by chance, in 2018.
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The story of a shy and sensitive pre-teen girl who is sent to live with relatives after she becomes too much of a burden to her parents, who are expecting another child, The Quiet Girl is adapted from Claire Keegan’s novella Foster, which Bairéad discovered, quite by chance, in 2018.
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- 2/18/2023
- by Damon Wise
- Deadline Film + TV
Ben Foster (The Survivor), Justice Smith (Sharper), Katherine Waterston (Babylon) and Maria Bakalova (Bodies Bodies Bodies) are set to star in the Topic Studios thriller Floodplain from director Tim Sutton.
The film explores themes of family trauma, environmental justice and race via the story of a man (Foster) who must return to his hometown to help prevent a catastrophic flood and confront the mistakes from his past.
Floodplain reteams Topic Studios with Foster following their work together on Debra Granik’s Leave No Trace. Bill Gullo wrote the script, with Oscar nominee Jordan Horowitz (La La Land) of Original Headquarters to produce alongside Annie Marter (The Devil All the Time). Topic Studios will finance the pic, with Ryan Heller, Michael Bloom and Jennifer Westin exec producing for the company.
Crystal Bourbeau will introduce the project to buyers at EFM with UTA Independent Film Group, which is co-repping the domestic rights.
The film explores themes of family trauma, environmental justice and race via the story of a man (Foster) who must return to his hometown to help prevent a catastrophic flood and confront the mistakes from his past.
Floodplain reteams Topic Studios with Foster following their work together on Debra Granik’s Leave No Trace. Bill Gullo wrote the script, with Oscar nominee Jordan Horowitz (La La Land) of Original Headquarters to produce alongside Annie Marter (The Devil All the Time). Topic Studios will finance the pic, with Ryan Heller, Michael Bloom and Jennifer Westin exec producing for the company.
Crystal Bourbeau will introduce the project to buyers at EFM with UTA Independent Film Group, which is co-repping the domestic rights.
- 2/11/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
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Indie distributor Super has picked up North American rights to Colm Bairéad’s The Quiet Girl (An Cailín Ciúin), an Irish-language drama set in rural Ireland in the 1980s.
The feature premiered at the Berlin Film Festival this year, where it won the Grand Prix for best film in the Generation Kplus sidebar and was recently picked to represent Ireland in the 2023 Oscar race in the best international feature category.
The Quiet Girl took the Audience Award and the best Irish film honor at the Dublin International Film Festival this year and swept the Irish Film & Television Academy Awards, taking seven trophies, including best film, best director and best lead actress for lead Catherine Clinch.
Newcomer Clinch plays Cáit, a quiet, neglected girl who is sent away from her overcrowded, dysfunctional family to live with her mother’s relatives for the summer. She blossoms in their care,...
Indie distributor Super has picked up North American rights to Colm Bairéad’s The Quiet Girl (An Cailín Ciúin), an Irish-language drama set in rural Ireland in the 1980s.
The feature premiered at the Berlin Film Festival this year, where it won the Grand Prix for best film in the Generation Kplus sidebar and was recently picked to represent Ireland in the 2023 Oscar race in the best international feature category.
The Quiet Girl took the Audience Award and the best Irish film honor at the Dublin International Film Festival this year and swept the Irish Film & Television Academy Awards, taking seven trophies, including best film, best director and best lead actress for lead Catherine Clinch.
Newcomer Clinch plays Cáit, a quiet, neglected girl who is sent away from her overcrowded, dysfunctional family to live with her mother’s relatives for the summer. She blossoms in their care,...
- 9/8/2022
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Super has taken North American rights to Colm Bairéad’s award-winning drama The Quiet Girl (An Cailín Ciúin), which was recently announced as Ireland’s entry for Best International Feature Film at the 95th Academy Awards and selected for the 2022 European Film Awards.
The film is based on the story “Foster” by Irish author Claire Keegan, who has just been shortlisted for the Booker Prize. It’s set in rural Ireland in 1981 and follows the quiet, neglected girl, Cáit (Catherine Clinch), who is sent away from her overcrowded, dysfunctional family to live with her mother’s relatives for the summer. She blossoms in their care, but in this house where there are meant to be no secrets, she discovers one painful truth.
The Quiet Girl premiered at this year’s Berlin Film Festival, where it won the Grand Prix of the Generation Kplus International Jury for Best Film. It then...
The film is based on the story “Foster” by Irish author Claire Keegan, who has just been shortlisted for the Booker Prize. It’s set in rural Ireland in 1981 and follows the quiet, neglected girl, Cáit (Catherine Clinch), who is sent away from her overcrowded, dysfunctional family to live with her mother’s relatives for the summer. She blossoms in their care, but in this house where there are meant to be no secrets, she discovers one painful truth.
The Quiet Girl premiered at this year’s Berlin Film Festival, where it won the Grand Prix of the Generation Kplus International Jury for Best Film. It then...
- 9/8/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
The BBC and Amazon Prime Video have released first-look images of Emily Blunt and Chaske Spencer in upcoming period drama “The English.”
Written and directed by Hugo Blick (“The Honourable Woman”), “The English” is a Western set in 1890s America where an aristocratic Englishwoman called Lady Cornelia Locke (played by Blunt) and Pawnee ex-cavalry scout Eli Whipp (played by Spencer) join forces “to cross a violent landscape built on dreams and blood,” according to the logline.
“Both of them have a clear sense of their destiny but neither is aware that it is rooted in a shared past,” the synopsis continues. “They must face increasingly terrifying obstacles that will test them to their cores, physically and psychologically. But as each obstacle is overcome it draws them closer to their ultimate destination, the new town of Hoxem, Wyoming.”
Joining Blunt and Spencer are Stephen Rea (“The Shadow Line”) as local sheriff...
Written and directed by Hugo Blick (“The Honourable Woman”), “The English” is a Western set in 1890s America where an aristocratic Englishwoman called Lady Cornelia Locke (played by Blunt) and Pawnee ex-cavalry scout Eli Whipp (played by Spencer) join forces “to cross a violent landscape built on dreams and blood,” according to the logline.
“Both of them have a clear sense of their destiny but neither is aware that it is rooted in a shared past,” the synopsis continues. “They must face increasingly terrifying obstacles that will test them to their cores, physically and psychologically. But as each obstacle is overcome it draws them closer to their ultimate destination, the new town of Hoxem, Wyoming.”
Joining Blunt and Spencer are Stephen Rea (“The Shadow Line”) as local sheriff...
- 8/18/2022
- by K.J. Yossman
- Variety Film + TV
Bankside handles international sales.
Irish-language drama The Quiet Girl (An Cailín Ciúin) has been selected as Ireland’s entry for best international feature film at next year’s Academy Awards.
Writer-director Colm Bairéad’s debut feature has enjoyed a lengthy run in Irish and UK cinemas and grossed €870,000 at the box office. It premiered at the Berlinale and since then has since secured further releases in international territories including New Zealand and Australia. Bankside handles international sales.
Told almost entirely in the Irish language, the film recounts the story of a neglected young girl named Cáit (Catherine Clinch) who spends...
Irish-language drama The Quiet Girl (An Cailín Ciúin) has been selected as Ireland’s entry for best international feature film at next year’s Academy Awards.
Writer-director Colm Bairéad’s debut feature has enjoyed a lengthy run in Irish and UK cinemas and grossed €870,000 at the box office. It premiered at the Berlinale and since then has since secured further releases in international territories including New Zealand and Australia. Bankside handles international sales.
Told almost entirely in the Irish language, the film recounts the story of a neglected young girl named Cáit (Catherine Clinch) who spends...
- 8/2/2022
- by Esther McCarthy
- ScreenDaily
The Quiet Girl is one of the most beautiful movies I’ve ever seen. It is perfection. It is impossibly small, and emotionally immense. This is the sort of film that creeps up on you slowly, in ways that you don’t realize are happening, until you are so utterly overcome with emotion that you don’t quite know how to digest it. It’s the sort of film that you sit through the entire end credits of, not because you are wondering which Marvel character will make a surprise appearance after them, or to be polite to the artists and craftspeople who made it, but because you simply cannot move, you’re that overwhelmed.
Honestly, it’s been a long time since I felt like it was disrespectful to the cinema audience that when the lights come up, you are expected to leave. I could have just sat alone...
Honestly, it’s been a long time since I felt like it was disrespectful to the cinema audience that when the lights come up, you are expected to leave. I could have just sat alone...
- 6/5/2022
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
Catherine Clinch as Cáit in The Quiet Girl
Irish director Colm Bairéad's debut feature, The Quiet Girl (An Cailín Ciúin), an adaptation of Claire Keegan's novella Foster, centres on Cáit, a young girl despatched for the summer to the temporary care of surrogate parents, Eibhlin and Seán Cinnsealach.
Although Seán is initially distant towards Cáit, she blossoms in their care. As the Cinnsealach's tragic past is revealed, the relationship with their temporary foster daughter becomes more emotionally complicated. Set against the backdrop of rural Ireland, the three characters fill a void in one another in what is a mutually transformational experience.
The Quiet Girl
In conversation with Eye For Film, Bairéad discussed having faith that simple storytelling can yield something complex and compelling, honouring the spirit of Keegan’s novella, and the transformation of tragedy into a life affirming message.
Paul Risker: It’s a commitment to make a film,...
Irish director Colm Bairéad's debut feature, The Quiet Girl (An Cailín Ciúin), an adaptation of Claire Keegan's novella Foster, centres on Cáit, a young girl despatched for the summer to the temporary care of surrogate parents, Eibhlin and Seán Cinnsealach.
Although Seán is initially distant towards Cáit, she blossoms in their care. As the Cinnsealach's tragic past is revealed, the relationship with their temporary foster daughter becomes more emotionally complicated. Set against the backdrop of rural Ireland, the three characters fill a void in one another in what is a mutually transformational experience.
The Quiet Girl
In conversation with Eye For Film, Bairéad discussed having faith that simple storytelling can yield something complex and compelling, honouring the spirit of Keegan’s novella, and the transformation of tragedy into a life affirming message.
Paul Risker: It’s a commitment to make a film,...
- 5/18/2022
- by Paul Risker
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
First-time director Colm Bairéad on turning the novella Foster by Claire Keegan into the tear-jerking tour de force that swept the Irish Film and TV awards
Colm Bairéad resigned himself to walking away empty-handed from the Irish Film and TV awards in March. His tiny-budget Irish language drama The Quiet Girl was up against Kenneth Branagh’s multi-Oscar-nominated juggernaut, Belfast. “We were like: ‘Ok, well, that was lovely.’ We’d got 10 nominations. We’re just happy with that, you know?’”
But, on the night, The Quiet Girl swept the board, with eight wins, including best film. “Winning all those awards was, er, extraordinary.” Bairéad, 41, looks mildly embarrassed. He is modest and thoughtful, not fully relaxed at being the centre of attention. I suspect that the hour we spend chatting at the Soho offices of the film company distributing his film is about 59 minutes too long for him.
Colm Bairéad resigned himself to walking away empty-handed from the Irish Film and TV awards in March. His tiny-budget Irish language drama The Quiet Girl was up against Kenneth Branagh’s multi-Oscar-nominated juggernaut, Belfast. “We were like: ‘Ok, well, that was lovely.’ We’d got 10 nominations. We’re just happy with that, you know?’”
But, on the night, The Quiet Girl swept the board, with eight wins, including best film. “Winning all those awards was, er, extraordinary.” Bairéad, 41, looks mildly embarrassed. He is modest and thoughtful, not fully relaxed at being the centre of attention. I suspect that the hour we spend chatting at the Soho offices of the film company distributing his film is about 59 minutes too long for him.
- 5/12/2022
- by Cath Clarke
- The Guardian - Film News
A silent child is sent away to live with foster parents on a farm in this gem of a film from first-time feature director Colm Bairéad
This beautiful and compassionate film from first-time feature director Colm Bairéad, based on the novella Foster by Claire Keegan, is a child’s-eye look at our fallen world; already it feels to me like a classic. There’s a lovely scene in which the “quiet girl” of the title, 10-year-old Cáit (played by newcomer Catherine Clinch), is reading Heidi before bedtime, and this movie, for all its darkness and suppressed pain, has the solidity, clarity and storytelling gusto of that old-fashioned Alpine children’s tale – about the little girl sent away to live in a beautiful place with her grandfather.
The setting is the early 80s, in a part of County Waterford where Irish is mostly spoken (subtitled in English). Cáit is a withdrawn little kid,...
This beautiful and compassionate film from first-time feature director Colm Bairéad, based on the novella Foster by Claire Keegan, is a child’s-eye look at our fallen world; already it feels to me like a classic. There’s a lovely scene in which the “quiet girl” of the title, 10-year-old Cáit (played by newcomer Catherine Clinch), is reading Heidi before bedtime, and this movie, for all its darkness and suppressed pain, has the solidity, clarity and storytelling gusto of that old-fashioned Alpine children’s tale – about the little girl sent away to live in a beautiful place with her grandfather.
The setting is the early 80s, in a part of County Waterford where Irish is mostly spoken (subtitled in English). Cáit is a withdrawn little kid,...
- 5/11/2022
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
by Nathaniel R
Jessie Buckley & Eddie Redmayne at the Olivier Awards yesterday
On Sunday across the pond the West End's Olivier Awards were held at the Royal Albert Hall. Since Broadway and the West End are on different schedules despite cross pollination you can sometimes get clues as to what future shows might be big at the Tony Awards and which Broadway shows have transferred well to London. Regarding the latter, London got two high profile Broadway transfers this season, the 2011 Sutton Foster led revival of Cole Porter's Anything Goes and the 2019 musical adapation of Baz Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge! both of which won multiple Tony Awards in their seasons. In stark contrast, they took only one prize each at the Oliviers. Disney's Frozen also lept across the pond but, just as it had in NYC, it received a few courtesy nominations but no wins.
The big Olivier winners were...
Jessie Buckley & Eddie Redmayne at the Olivier Awards yesterday
On Sunday across the pond the West End's Olivier Awards were held at the Royal Albert Hall. Since Broadway and the West End are on different schedules despite cross pollination you can sometimes get clues as to what future shows might be big at the Tony Awards and which Broadway shows have transferred well to London. Regarding the latter, London got two high profile Broadway transfers this season, the 2011 Sutton Foster led revival of Cole Porter's Anything Goes and the 2019 musical adapation of Baz Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge! both of which won multiple Tony Awards in their seasons. In stark contrast, they took only one prize each at the Oliviers. Disney's Frozen also lept across the pond but, just as it had in NYC, it received a few courtesy nominations but no wins.
The big Olivier winners were...
- 4/11/2022
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
The film will be released in UK cinemas and Curzon Home Cinema and cinemas across Ireland on May 13.
The UK’s Curzon and Ireland’s Break Out Pictures have secured Irish-language drama The Quiet Girl (An Cailín Ciúin) and will release the feature in the UK and Ireland on May 13.
The rights were acquired directly from the film’s Dublin-based producer Cleona Ní Chrualaoi of Inscéal.
Rosa Bosch is handling all further international sales.
In the UK, the film will open day-and-date in UK cinemas and on Curzon Home Cinema.
Festival sensation
Irish writer-director Colm Bairéad’s coming-of-age feature received...
The UK’s Curzon and Ireland’s Break Out Pictures have secured Irish-language drama The Quiet Girl (An Cailín Ciúin) and will release the feature in the UK and Ireland on May 13.
The rights were acquired directly from the film’s Dublin-based producer Cleona Ní Chrualaoi of Inscéal.
Rosa Bosch is handling all further international sales.
In the UK, the film will open day-and-date in UK cinemas and on Curzon Home Cinema.
Festival sensation
Irish writer-director Colm Bairéad’s coming-of-age feature received...
- 3/16/2022
- by Esther McCarthy
- ScreenDaily
The film premiered in Berlin and opened Dublin.
Colm Bairéad’s The Quiet Girl (An Cailín Ciúin) is the latest Irish-language film to garner international acclaim on the festival circuit, following the strong critical and commercial reception for Tom Sullivan’s Famine-set Arracht last year.
The Quiet Girl premiered at the Berlinale last month, winning the main prize in the Generation Kplus section, before opening the Dublin International Film Festival on February 23.
It has been acquired for UK and Ireland release by Irish outfit Break Out Pictures and is handled internationally by Rosa Bosch.
The film is a labour of love from writer-director Bairéad,...
Colm Bairéad’s The Quiet Girl (An Cailín Ciúin) is the latest Irish-language film to garner international acclaim on the festival circuit, following the strong critical and commercial reception for Tom Sullivan’s Famine-set Arracht last year.
The Quiet Girl premiered at the Berlinale last month, winning the main prize in the Generation Kplus section, before opening the Dublin International Film Festival on February 23.
It has been acquired for UK and Ireland release by Irish outfit Break Out Pictures and is handled internationally by Rosa Bosch.
The film is a labour of love from writer-director Bairéad,...
- 3/4/2022
- by Esther McCarthy
- ScreenDaily
The film premiered in Berlin and opened Dublin.
Colm Bairéad’s A Quiet Girl (An Cailín Ciúin) is the latest Irish-language film to garner international acclaim on the festival circuit, following the strong critical and commercial reception for Tom Sullivan’s Famine-set Arracht last year.
A Quiet Girl premiered at the Berlinale last month, winning the main prize in the Generation Kplus section, before opening the Dublin International Film Festival on February 23.
It has been acquired for UK and Ireland release by Irish outfit Break Out Pictures and is handled internationally by Rosa Bosch.
The film is a labour of love from writer-director Bairéad,...
Colm Bairéad’s A Quiet Girl (An Cailín Ciúin) is the latest Irish-language film to garner international acclaim on the festival circuit, following the strong critical and commercial reception for Tom Sullivan’s Famine-set Arracht last year.
A Quiet Girl premiered at the Berlinale last month, winning the main prize in the Generation Kplus section, before opening the Dublin International Film Festival on February 23.
It has been acquired for UK and Ireland release by Irish outfit Break Out Pictures and is handled internationally by Rosa Bosch.
The film is a labour of love from writer-director Bairéad,...
- 3/4/2022
- by Esther McCarthy
- ScreenDaily
Irish writer/director Colm Bairéad’s narrative feature debut “The Quiet Girl,” which world premieres at the Berlin Film Festival in the Generation Kplus section, has debuted a clip (above) from the film with Variety. Rosa Bosch Films is handling world sales.
The film is a complex and delicate coming-of-age drama that explores questions of family, neglect and grief through the eyes of its young protagonist. Commenting on the film, director Mark Cousins said: “What a tender jewel of a film. What exquisite Ozu-like images and performances. I cried at the end.”
The director of photography is Kate McCullough, whose credits include Lenny Abrahamson’s “Normal People.” She won for best cinematography at Camerimage for the docudrama “I, Dolours” in 2018. She also shot “His and Hers,” which won the World Cinematography Award in Documentary at Sundance in 2010. The music is by Stephen Rennicks, whose credits include Abrahamson’s 2016 Oscar-winning “Room” and “Normal People.
The film is a complex and delicate coming-of-age drama that explores questions of family, neglect and grief through the eyes of its young protagonist. Commenting on the film, director Mark Cousins said: “What a tender jewel of a film. What exquisite Ozu-like images and performances. I cried at the end.”
The director of photography is Kate McCullough, whose credits include Lenny Abrahamson’s “Normal People.” She won for best cinematography at Camerimage for the docudrama “I, Dolours” in 2018. She also shot “His and Hers,” which won the World Cinematography Award in Documentary at Sundance in 2010. The music is by Stephen Rennicks, whose credits include Abrahamson’s 2016 Oscar-winning “Room” and “Normal People.
- 2/3/2022
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Any doubt that HBO Max’s Peacemaker series would have the same energy, style, and sense of humor that writer-director James Gunn brought to last year’s feature film The Suicide Squad is dispelled within seconds of the superhero show’s opening-credits sequence. It is essentially an Eighties-style music video, with the homicidal title character, played once again by John Cena, and his supporting cast performing a choreographed dance number on a neon-lit stage while the Norwegian glam-metal band Wig Wam’s song “Do Ya Wanna Taste It” shreds in the background.
- 1/4/2022
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Rollingstone.com
The new superhero action 'romance' feature "Thor: Love and Thunder", based on the Marvel Comics character 'Thor', is produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, intended to be the direct sequel to "Thor: Ragnarok" (2017), directed by Taika Waititi, who co-wrote the screenplay with Jennifer Kaytin Robinson, starring Chris Hemsworth, Tessa Thompson, Natalie Portman, Christian Bale, Chris Pratt, Jaimie Alexander, Pom Klementieff, Dave Bautista, Karen Gillan, Sean Gunn, Jeff Goldblum and Vin Diesel, scheduled for theatrical release July 8, 2022:
"...the new film adapts elements from writer Jason Aaron's run on the 'Mighty Thor' comic book, when 'Jane Foster' takes on the mantle and powers of Thor..."
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"...the new film adapts elements from writer Jason Aaron's run on the 'Mighty Thor' comic book, when 'Jane Foster' takes on the mantle and powers of Thor..."
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- 12/13/2021
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
AMC Networks has set fall premiere dates for new and returning series across its AMC, AMC+, Acorn TV, AllBlk, BBC America, Shudder, Sundance Now, SundanceTV and WeTV. Newly revealed dates include the new seasons of Doctor Who, Creepshow and new series such as Ragdoll, Kin and Ultra City Smiths.
AMC announced dates at Comic-Con last month its spinoff series Fear the Walking Dead (Season 7) and The Walking Dead: World Beyond (final Season 2).
Here are the AMC Networks premiere dates announced this morning (all times Et/Pt):
Acorn TV
My Life is Murder, Season 2
Monday, August 30
Starring award-winning actress Lucy Lawless, this fun, charming series returns for an eagerly-anticipated second season with all-new riveting mysteries, now set in beautiful Auckland, New Zealand (season one was based in Melbourne). My Life Is Murder brings retired detective Alexa Crowe (Lawless) back to her Kiwi roots, where she’s...
AMC announced dates at Comic-Con last month its spinoff series Fear the Walking Dead (Season 7) and The Walking Dead: World Beyond (final Season 2).
Here are the AMC Networks premiere dates announced this morning (all times Et/Pt):
Acorn TV
My Life is Murder, Season 2
Monday, August 30
Starring award-winning actress Lucy Lawless, this fun, charming series returns for an eagerly-anticipated second season with all-new riveting mysteries, now set in beautiful Auckland, New Zealand (season one was based in Melbourne). My Life Is Murder brings retired detective Alexa Crowe (Lawless) back to her Kiwi roots, where she’s...
- 8/17/2021
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
The Mauritanian is, now available on Digital, and hits Blu-Ray and DVD on May 11th from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment. Based on a true story, the film stars Jodie Foster (who won a Golden Globe for her role in the film), Tahar Rahim, Shailene Woodley, Benedict Cumberbatch, and Zachary Levi.
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Now you can win the Win the Blu-ray of The Reckoning. We Are Movie Geeks has three to give away. Just leave a comment below telling us what your favorite movie is co-starring Jodie Foster (mine’s Bugsy Malone. It’s so easy!)
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Witness the astounding and inspirational true story of one man’s decades long fight for freedom and his relentless pursuit for justice in The Mauritanian,...
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Now you can win the Win the Blu-ray of The Reckoning. We Are Movie Geeks has three to give away. Just leave a comment below telling us what your favorite movie is co-starring Jodie Foster (mine’s Bugsy Malone. It’s so easy!)
1. You Must Be A US Resident. Prize Will Only Be Shipped To US Addresses. No P.O. Boxes. No Duplicate Addresses.
2. Winner Will Be Chosen From All Qualifying Entries
Witness the astounding and inspirational true story of one man’s decades long fight for freedom and his relentless pursuit for justice in The Mauritanian,...
- 5/6/2021
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Paramount+ has set the premiere date and unveiled the trailer for the seventh and final season of Younger.
The Sutton Foster and Hilary Duff comedy series, from Darren Star, will hit the premium streaming platform Thursday, April 15. The first four episodes will be available to stream immediately, with the remaining eight episodes dropping weekly on Thursdays. The full season will air on TV Land later this year.
Younger follows Liza Miller (Foster), a talented editor navigating the highly competitive world of publishing — while juggling the complications of mixing business with pleasure and facing the lie she created about her age to land her dream job. In the final season, Liza’s personal life is on shaky ground as she tries to stay true to herself. After a setback at work, Kelsey (Duff) doubts her career decisions and discovers a new creative outlet. Maggie (Debi Mazar) gets canceled.
Younger is created,...
The Sutton Foster and Hilary Duff comedy series, from Darren Star, will hit the premium streaming platform Thursday, April 15. The first four episodes will be available to stream immediately, with the remaining eight episodes dropping weekly on Thursdays. The full season will air on TV Land later this year.
Younger follows Liza Miller (Foster), a talented editor navigating the highly competitive world of publishing — while juggling the complications of mixing business with pleasure and facing the lie she created about her age to land her dream job. In the final season, Liza’s personal life is on shaky ground as she tries to stay true to herself. After a setback at work, Kelsey (Duff) doubts her career decisions and discovers a new creative outlet. Maggie (Debi Mazar) gets canceled.
Younger is created,...
- 3/17/2021
- by Alexandra Del Rosario
- Deadline Film + TV
The 2021 Covid-delayed, virtual Golden Globes show was a weird one. Popular four-time hosts Amy Poehler and Tina Fey, anchoring Los Angeles and New York, struck a dystopian chord: They compared the show to “The Hunger Games” as they played to dark, socially distanced rooms of “smoking hot” first responders in black masks. No wonder the event seemed muted.
The two comediennes, like everyone else participating in the evening, knew that the 87 fractious members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association were reeling from a series of Los Angeles Times articles that allege the wealthy organization continues to be influenced by those in Hollywood hoping to score awards, while paying many of their members handsomely. “It’s all a scam invented by a big red carpet to sell more carpets,” said Fey.
Several presenters and winners made reference to the diversity issue — “it’s great to be Black at the Golden Globes,...
The two comediennes, like everyone else participating in the evening, knew that the 87 fractious members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association were reeling from a series of Los Angeles Times articles that allege the wealthy organization continues to be influenced by those in Hollywood hoping to score awards, while paying many of their members handsomely. “It’s all a scam invented by a big red carpet to sell more carpets,” said Fey.
Several presenters and winners made reference to the diversity issue — “it’s great to be Black at the Golden Globes,...
- 3/1/2021
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
The 2021 Covid-delayed, virtual Golden Globes show was a weird one. Popular four-time hosts Amy Poehler and Tina Fey, anchoring Los Angeles and New York, struck a dystopian chord: They compared the show to “The Hunger Games” as they played to dark, socially distanced rooms of “smoking hot” first responders in black masks. No wonder the event seemed muted.
The two comediennes, like everyone else participating in the evening, knew that the 87 fractious members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association were reeling from a series of Los Angeles Times articles that allege the wealthy organization continues to be influenced by those in Hollywood hoping to score awards, while paying many of their members handsomely. “It’s all a scam invented by a big red carpet to sell more carpets,” said Fey.
Several presenters and winners made reference to the diversity issue — “it’s great to be Black at the Golden Globes,...
The two comediennes, like everyone else participating in the evening, knew that the 87 fractious members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association were reeling from a series of Los Angeles Times articles that allege the wealthy organization continues to be influenced by those in Hollywood hoping to score awards, while paying many of their members handsomely. “It’s all a scam invented by a big red carpet to sell more carpets,” said Fey.
Several presenters and winners made reference to the diversity issue — “it’s great to be Black at the Golden Globes,...
- 3/1/2021
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Thursday revealed the 366 feature films that are eligible for consideration at the 93rd Oscars, which are set to air April 25 live on ABC.
The total number of films is up from last year’s 344 films in contention.
This year’s list was compiled based on tweaked eligibility rules implemented because of the coronavirus pandemic, which has pushed the ceremony to its latest date ever. For this year, feature films had to open by February 28 in a commercial motion picture theater for a seven-day qualifying run in at least one of six metro areas: Los Angeles County, New York City, the Bay Area, Chicago, Miami and Atlanta. Drive-in theaters open nightly were included as qualifying venues, as were films intended for theatrical release but because of the lockdown made available first via streaming, VOD service or other broadcast.
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The total number of films is up from last year’s 344 films in contention.
This year’s list was compiled based on tweaked eligibility rules implemented because of the coronavirus pandemic, which has pushed the ceremony to its latest date ever. For this year, feature films had to open by February 28 in a commercial motion picture theater for a seven-day qualifying run in at least one of six metro areas: Los Angeles County, New York City, the Bay Area, Chicago, Miami and Atlanta. Drive-in theaters open nightly were included as qualifying venues, as were films intended for theatrical release but because of the lockdown made available first via streaming, VOD service or other broadcast.
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- 2/25/2021
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Listen, the 1991 thriller The Silence of the Lambs is not for the faint of heart. Mostly, that's due to Anthony Hopkins' bone-chilling portrayal of Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a cannibalistic serial killer tasked with helping FBI agent Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster) hunt down another murderer who has kidnapped a senator's daughter. (The film earned Hopkins and Foster Oscars and took home the trophy for Best Picture.) Naturally, the movie is pretty intense—however, in a new interview with Variety, Hopkins admitted he wasn't always aware how intense. In a conversation with Foster for Variety's "Actors on Actors," Hopkins described how his...
- 1/20/2021
- E! Online
You know, plenty of streaming services would treat the dog days of summer as an excuse to slow down. At Netflix, however, the content buffet is still open, baby. Despite the coronavirus pandemic shutting down all of Hollywood for an extended period of time, Netflix’s new releases for July 2020 are still jam-packed with a host of familiar originals.
The blockbuster this month is probably The Umbrella Academy season 2. The next installment for the Hargreeves family arrives on July 31. And if that’s too long of a wait for you, Netflix gets the month off to a strong start with a string of originals as well. Unsolved Mysteries arrives on July 1, followed by Warrior Nun on July 2, and The Baby-Sitter’s Club on July 3. That’s not even to mentioned the feminist take on Arthurian legend, Cursed, which premiers on July 17.
There are a couple of intriguing original movies to consider this month as well.
The blockbuster this month is probably The Umbrella Academy season 2. The next installment for the Hargreeves family arrives on July 31. And if that’s too long of a wait for you, Netflix gets the month off to a strong start with a string of originals as well. Unsolved Mysteries arrives on July 1, followed by Warrior Nun on July 2, and The Baby-Sitter’s Club on July 3. That’s not even to mentioned the feminist take on Arthurian legend, Cursed, which premiers on July 17.
There are a couple of intriguing original movies to consider this month as well.
- 6/24/2020
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
Jane Foster, played by Natalie Portman, was first introduced to the McU as Thor’s love interest. Initially, she just stumbled into the world of Norse gods before then playing a more active role in Thor: The Dark World, discovering the Convergence of the Nine Realms. In the sequel, Foster comes into contact with Aether, which slowly starts to infest her body and almost kills her. She survives the ordeal and even gets to visit Asgard with Thor, but that was thought to be the end of her story, as Portman left the McU.
She was reportedly unhappy with Marvel’s creative approach and how they treated Patty Jenkins, who was supposed to direct Thor: The Dark World. But after Marvel Studios’ course correction and corporate restructuring in 2015, they seemed to have patched things up with Portman because she’s back. Additionally, with the franchise being reinvigorated under Taiki Waiti’s direction,...
She was reportedly unhappy with Marvel’s creative approach and how they treated Patty Jenkins, who was supposed to direct Thor: The Dark World. But after Marvel Studios’ course correction and corporate restructuring in 2015, they seemed to have patched things up with Portman because she’s back. Additionally, with the franchise being reinvigorated under Taiki Waiti’s direction,...
- 6/24/2020
- by Pirzan Turel
- We Got This Covered
Save Me Too isn’t an ordinary TV thriller. It has all the ingredients – crimes, victims, mysteries, tension, cliff-hangers – but shows them from a peculiarly human perspective. Instead of clustering the action around a police station with occasional visits to a victim or suspect’s house, it inverts that ratio and plays out on the streets and inside homes. Its police are largely absent, a peripheral presence at most. We never sit in on a daily investigation briefing or glimpse an evidence board.
It can be destabilising. The deliberate avoidance of procedural elements in favour of something looser, more vital and more emotional, leaves viewers without familiar bearings. Plot points can be tricky to pin down. Questions can go unanswered. Characters pulse in and out of play, their stories not always tightly connected to the main plot. But in the end, none of that matters. What matters are the characters,...
It can be destabilising. The deliberate avoidance of procedural elements in favour of something looser, more vital and more emotional, leaves viewers without familiar bearings. Plot points can be tricky to pin down. Questions can go unanswered. Characters pulse in and out of play, their stories not always tightly connected to the main plot. But in the end, none of that matters. What matters are the characters,...
- 4/1/2020
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
The Writers Guild of America revealed nominations on January 6 for the 72nd annual edition of its awards, which will be held simultaneously in La and Gotham on Feb. 1. The original screenplay nominees are: “Booksmart,” “Knives Out,” “Marriage Story,” “1917” and “Parasite.” The adapted screenplay contenders are: “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood,” “The Irishman,” ” Jojo Rabbit,” “Joker” and “Little Women.”
Only scripts written under the guild’s guidelines or those of several international partners are allowed to vie for the WGA Awards. That accounts for its relatively low success rate at previewing the eventual Oscar nominees compared to the other guilds.
Among those ineligible for consideration this year are some of the leading Oscar contenders, including the original screenplays for “Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood” and “Pain and Glory.” The former is by Quentin Tarantino, who refuses to join the guild. The latter ran afoul of the requirement that foreign...
Only scripts written under the guild’s guidelines or those of several international partners are allowed to vie for the WGA Awards. That accounts for its relatively low success rate at previewing the eventual Oscar nominees compared to the other guilds.
Among those ineligible for consideration this year are some of the leading Oscar contenders, including the original screenplays for “Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood” and “Pain and Glory.” The former is by Quentin Tarantino, who refuses to join the guild. The latter ran afoul of the requirement that foreign...
- 1/6/2020
- by Paul Sheehan
- Gold Derby
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