Filmmaker Ramsey Denison wasn’t looking for a story when he headed to Las Vegas a few years ago, hoping to blow off some steam and kick back while on vacation. But as Denison and a friend were walking through a parking lot smack in the middle of Sin City, a shocking story found them.
That’s the starting point of Denison’s new documentary, “What Happened in Vegas,” which details the bizarre fallout and incendiary story that unfolded when Denison and his companion witnessed a group of Vegas police officers apparently abusing a handcuffed suspected in said parking lot. Denison immediately called the police to report the incident, a move that resulted in Denison himself being attacked by police and arrested.
Somehow, that was only the beginning of the filmmaker’s bizarre journey, as he soon discovered that his police report was riddled with lies and that video showing...
That’s the starting point of Denison’s new documentary, “What Happened in Vegas,” which details the bizarre fallout and incendiary story that unfolded when Denison and his companion witnessed a group of Vegas police officers apparently abusing a handcuffed suspected in said parking lot. Denison immediately called the police to report the incident, a move that resulted in Denison himself being attacked by police and arrested.
Somehow, that was only the beginning of the filmmaker’s bizarre journey, as he soon discovered that his police report was riddled with lies and that video showing...
- 3/2/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Common dropped his 11th studio album “Black America Again” on Friday, November 4. To celebrate, he released a special 21-minute short film of the same name, produced by Ava DuVernay.
The black-and-white video is directed by “Selma” cinematographer Bradford Young and is an abstract piece that hopes to share a powerful message. The clip features several different scenes like Common rapping on an empty street with a drummer, young children learning in a park, a woman singing and standing at a memorial for Freddie Gray, and more. The track also features Stevie Wonder, not present in the video, singing the bridge.
The rap touches on key topics that are relevant in today’s society including the Black Lives Matter movement. It features versus like, “We hold these truths to be self-evident/All men and women are created equal/Including black Americans” and “I wish the hating will stop (war!) and the...
The black-and-white video is directed by “Selma” cinematographer Bradford Young and is an abstract piece that hopes to share a powerful message. The clip features several different scenes like Common rapping on an empty street with a drummer, young children learning in a park, a woman singing and standing at a memorial for Freddie Gray, and more. The track also features Stevie Wonder, not present in the video, singing the bridge.
The rap touches on key topics that are relevant in today’s society including the Black Lives Matter movement. It features versus like, “We hold these truths to be self-evident/All men and women are created equal/Including black Americans” and “I wish the hating will stop (war!) and the...
- 11/5/2016
- by Liz Calvario
- Indiewire
Björk’s interests have always extended beyond music, whether it be the fact that you shouldn’t let poets lie to you or appearing in Lars von Trier movies. For her latest venture, Iceland’s greatest musical export (you heard me, Sigur Rós) has appeared in the virtual reality music video for Vulnicura’s song “Notget.” Watch the teaser for it below, as we’ve apparently reached the point in our society where teasers for music videos are a thing.
Read More: ‘John Wick’ First Person Shooter Virtual Reality Game Turns You Into the Cinematic Assassin
Warren Du Preez and Nick Thornton Jones directed the video, which features Björk as a kind of spectral being with angel-like wings and flaming extremities; we truly live in the future now, friends. “Notget” is preceded by Vr videos for both “Stonemilker” and “Black Lake,” both of which can be seen at Montreal’s Björk Digital exhibit.
Read More: ‘John Wick’ First Person Shooter Virtual Reality Game Turns You Into the Cinematic Assassin
Warren Du Preez and Nick Thornton Jones directed the video, which features Björk as a kind of spectral being with angel-like wings and flaming extremities; we truly live in the future now, friends. “Notget” is preceded by Vr videos for both “Stonemilker” and “Black Lake,” both of which can be seen at Montreal’s Björk Digital exhibit.
- 11/2/2016
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
Colin Hanks is set to direct his second documentary, “Eagles of Death Metal: Nos Amis (Our Friends).” The film follows the rock band Eagles of Death Metal and chronicles the events before and after the November 13 terrorist attacks that took place while they were performing at the Bataclan in Paris.
Produced by Live Nation, the film is set to be released early next year and takes a look at Jesse Hughes and Josh Homme’s friendship, as well as their relationship with their fans. According to Pitchfork, the doc will also feature the band’s returning performance in Paris with U2.
Read More: ’11/8/16′: More Than 30 Filmmakers to Take Part in Election-Day Documentary
Deadline recently spoke with Hanks, who explained that he hopes his new documentary allows fans to answer the following question: “How do you go on with your life with something like that?” Adding that the film is not political,...
Produced by Live Nation, the film is set to be released early next year and takes a look at Jesse Hughes and Josh Homme’s friendship, as well as their relationship with their fans. According to Pitchfork, the doc will also feature the band’s returning performance in Paris with U2.
Read More: ’11/8/16′: More Than 30 Filmmakers to Take Part in Election-Day Documentary
Deadline recently spoke with Hanks, who explained that he hopes his new documentary allows fans to answer the following question: “How do you go on with your life with something like that?” Adding that the film is not political,...
- 11/2/2016
- by Liz Calvario
- Indiewire
This Friday, November 4, Alicia Keys will be releasing her sixth studio album, “Here.” Ahead of its launch, the Grammy Award winner has shared her short film titled “The Gospel,” which features unreleased tracks from her upcoming LP.
The 23-minute video, which can be watched exclusively on Tidal, is directed by A.V. Rockwell and premiered earlier this year at the Tribeca Film Festival. The short is set in Key’s hometown of New York City and takes on police brutality.
Get ready for @AliciaKeys’ album Here w/her visual prelude The Gospel, on Tidal now. #AliciaIsHERE #TIDALXAliciaKeys https://t.co/1FDndHgrcb pic.twitter.com/xFAo4hyQZk
— Tidal (@TIDALHiFi) November 1, 2016
Read More: Listen to Alicia Keys Sing the Ballad She Wrote for ‘Queen of Katwe’
“Here” is Key’s followup to 2012’s “Girl on Fire” and is executive produced by her husband Swiss Beatz. Fans have previously heard the tracks “In Common,...
The 23-minute video, which can be watched exclusively on Tidal, is directed by A.V. Rockwell and premiered earlier this year at the Tribeca Film Festival. The short is set in Key’s hometown of New York City and takes on police brutality.
Get ready for @AliciaKeys’ album Here w/her visual prelude The Gospel, on Tidal now. #AliciaIsHERE #TIDALXAliciaKeys https://t.co/1FDndHgrcb pic.twitter.com/xFAo4hyQZk
— Tidal (@TIDALHiFi) November 1, 2016
Read More: Listen to Alicia Keys Sing the Ballad She Wrote for ‘Queen of Katwe’
“Here” is Key’s followup to 2012’s “Girl on Fire” and is executive produced by her husband Swiss Beatz. Fans have previously heard the tracks “In Common,...
- 11/1/2016
- by Liz Calvario
- Indiewire
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross are becoming more and more prolific in the film world. Once known primarily as collaborators of David Fincher’s — the duo won an Oscar for scoring “The Social Network” in 2010 — they’ve recently added projects like Peter Berg’s “Patriots Day” and the climate-change documentary “Before the Flood” to their expanding slate. Courtesy of Spotify, you can now listen to the latter score in its entirety below.
Read More: Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross Record ‘A Minute to Breathe’ for Climate-Change Documentary ‘Before the Flood’
The film, which was directed by Fisher Stevens (“The Cove”) and produced by Leonardo DiCaprio, opened in limited release last month. “Climate change is the most critical and urgent problem facing our world today, and it must be a top issue for voters this election day,” DiCaprio told The Hollywood Reporter last month. “Fisher and I set out to make...
Read More: Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross Record ‘A Minute to Breathe’ for Climate-Change Documentary ‘Before the Flood’
The film, which was directed by Fisher Stevens (“The Cove”) and produced by Leonardo DiCaprio, opened in limited release last month. “Climate change is the most critical and urgent problem facing our world today, and it must be a top issue for voters this election day,” DiCaprio told The Hollywood Reporter last month. “Fisher and I set out to make...
- 11/1/2016
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
“Stay As You Are,” “A Dangerous Toy” and “Fun Is Beautiful” may not be the first movies that come to mind when you think of Ennio Morricone, but they’ve been on his mind. The composer’s company has filed suit in New York to reclaim the copyright on those three film scores under the rules of the 1976 Copyright Act, which gives authors and theirs the option to cancel a grant 35 years after the work in question is first published.
Read More: Legendary Composer Ennio Morricone Is Releasing a Greatest Hits Album
Similar claims have recently been filed in regards to “This Is Spinal Tap” and the original “Friday the 13th,” both of which are likewise eligible under the 35-year rule. “Morricone Music upon receipt of the assignments from the Composer attempted to register its claims to all royalties collected from the public performance of the film scores ‘Cosi Come Se,...
Read More: Legendary Composer Ennio Morricone Is Releasing a Greatest Hits Album
Similar claims have recently been filed in regards to “This Is Spinal Tap” and the original “Friday the 13th,” both of which are likewise eligible under the 35-year rule. “Morricone Music upon receipt of the assignments from the Composer attempted to register its claims to all royalties collected from the public performance of the film scores ‘Cosi Come Se,...
- 11/1/2016
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
Neill Blomkamp’s 2015 sci-fi film “Chappie,” about an artificially intelligent law enforcement robot captured by a group of gangsters, starred Hugh Jackman, Sigourney Weaver, Hugh Jackman and notably the rap duo Die Antwoord, comprised of Ninja and Yolandi Visser, who appeared as themselves. In the film, the duo had their own lair where they kept and “raised” Chappie, the robot, to be one of their own. Now, Ninja claims in an Instagram post that they painted the lair themselves and were never credited for their work.
Read More: ‘Chappie’ Actor Admits There Was “Tension” On Set With Die Antwoord’s Ninja; Check Out Two New Featurettes
In the post, he blames the “dumb fucks” who “forgot” to credit them and goes on to target the film’s art director. “said art direction was by some fat fuck who smiled in our face when Neill [Blomkamp] was around then flipped 2 retard gremlin face when Neill was gone…...
Read More: ‘Chappie’ Actor Admits There Was “Tension” On Set With Die Antwoord’s Ninja; Check Out Two New Featurettes
In the post, he blames the “dumb fucks” who “forgot” to credit them and goes on to target the film’s art director. “said art direction was by some fat fuck who smiled in our face when Neill [Blomkamp] was around then flipped 2 retard gremlin face when Neill was gone…...
- 11/1/2016
- by Vikram Murthi
- Indiewire
Tribeca Enterprises and Chanel have announced today the second annual Through Her Lens: The Tribeca Chanel Women’s Filmmaker Program, which brings together industry support, artistic development and funding to assist and help new and emerging U.S.-based female writers and directors of short-form narrative films.
The program has selected five emerging female filmmakers to receive project support, and take part in master classes, one-on-one mentorship and peer-to-peer sessions during a three-day session at the end of this month. At the end of the program, each of the filmmakers will pitch her project to a jury of industry experts, and one filmmaker will be awarded full financing to produce her short film. The four other projects will each be awarded grant funds to continue the development of their films.
Read More: Filmmaker Anna Martemucci Wins First-Ever Female-Focused ‘Through Her Lens’ Grant
“We share with Chanel the goal to bring...
The program has selected five emerging female filmmakers to receive project support, and take part in master classes, one-on-one mentorship and peer-to-peer sessions during a three-day session at the end of this month. At the end of the program, each of the filmmakers will pitch her project to a jury of industry experts, and one filmmaker will be awarded full financing to produce her short film. The four other projects will each be awarded grant funds to continue the development of their films.
Read More: Filmmaker Anna Martemucci Wins First-Ever Female-Focused ‘Through Her Lens’ Grant
“We share with Chanel the goal to bring...
- 10/20/2016
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
IMDb.com, Inc. takes no responsibility for the content or accuracy of the above news articles, Tweets, or blog posts. This content is published for the entertainment of our users only. The news articles, Tweets, and blog posts do not represent IMDb's opinions nor can we guarantee that the reporting therein is completely factual. Please visit the source responsible for the item in question to report any concerns you may have regarding content or accuracy.