Richard Linklater wanted to get Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke back for a fourth Before movie – but it’s not to be.
Ask people to name a pretty much perfect movie trilogy, and Richard Linklater’s sublime Before… series of films surely comes near the top of the list.
Crikey, re-reading that opening sentence and it’s as if it’s been churned out of an AI machine. I’ll try again.
Before Sunrise is a brilliant film. Before Sunset is a brilliant film. Before Midnight is a brilliant film. Across a damn-near perfect movie trilogy, Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke have walked for miles in front of Richard Linklater’s camera, charting the story of a couple at different times of their lives.
The films respectively came out in 1995, 2003 and 2013, with – as you can probably deduce – a nine year gap between each. Julie Delpy plays Celine, Ethan Hawke plays Jesse,...
Ask people to name a pretty much perfect movie trilogy, and Richard Linklater’s sublime Before… series of films surely comes near the top of the list.
Crikey, re-reading that opening sentence and it’s as if it’s been churned out of an AI machine. I’ll try again.
Before Sunrise is a brilliant film. Before Sunset is a brilliant film. Before Midnight is a brilliant film. Across a damn-near perfect movie trilogy, Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke have walked for miles in front of Richard Linklater’s camera, charting the story of a couple at different times of their lives.
The films respectively came out in 1995, 2003 and 2013, with – as you can probably deduce – a nine year gap between each. Julie Delpy plays Celine, Ethan Hawke plays Jesse,...
- 12/22/2023
- by Simon Brew
- Film Stories
Exclusive: Blue Fox Entertainment has taken U.S. rights to the sci-fi comedy Relax, I’m from the Future, starring Rhys Darby (Flight of the Conchords) and Gabrielle Graham (Possessor), from Wango Films. The film written and directed by Luke Higginson will be released in theaters nationwide this fall.
Based on a same-name 2013 short from Higginson, Relax follows Casper (Darby), a charming, but embarrassingly underprepared time traveler, now trapped in the past. When he befriends Holly (Graham), a jaded drifter, she helps him exploit his trivial knowledge of the future for a series of quick payouts, oblivious to the consequences they have set in motion. When tracked down by a more competent time traveler, Casper and Holly are forced to figure out what they mean to each other and whether the future they’ve threatened is even worth saving. Will they embrace their fate, or do they have the courage to change it?...
Based on a same-name 2013 short from Higginson, Relax follows Casper (Darby), a charming, but embarrassingly underprepared time traveler, now trapped in the past. When he befriends Holly (Graham), a jaded drifter, she helps him exploit his trivial knowledge of the future for a series of quick payouts, oblivious to the consequences they have set in motion. When tracked down by a more competent time traveler, Casper and Holly are forced to figure out what they mean to each other and whether the future they’ve threatened is even worth saving. Will they embrace their fate, or do they have the courage to change it?...
- 6/2/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Blue Fox Entertainment has picked up U.S. rights to the romantic comedy The End of Sex, starring Emily Hampshire (Schitt’s Creek) and Jonas Chernick (James vs. His Future Self), from Vortex Media. The film directed by Sean Garrity will be released in theaters nationwide in April, hitting theaters across Canada via Vortex at the same time.
World premiering at the 2022 Toronto Film Festival, The End of Sex tells the story of a married couple (Hampshire and Chernick) who are feeling the pressures of parenting and adulthood. After they send their young kids to camp for the first time, they embark on a series of comic sexual adventures to reinvigorate their relationship.
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World premiering at the 2022 Toronto Film Festival, The End of Sex tells the story of a married couple (Hampshire and Chernick) who are feeling the pressures of parenting and adulthood. After they send their young kids to camp for the first time, they embark on a series of comic sexual adventures to reinvigorate their relationship.
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- 2/15/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Global film sales agency and U.S. domestic distributor Blue Fox Entertainment has announced that production has wrapped on family comedy “Popular Theory,” starring Cheryl Hines (“Curb Your Enthusiasm”), Marc Evan Jackson (“The Good Place”), Sophia Reid-Gantzert (“The Baby-Sitters Club”), Lincoln Lambert (“Nope”), and Chloe East (“The Fabelmans”).
Century City-based Blue Fox Entertainment is handling worldwide sales and will release the film theatrically in the U.S. in 2023, the company said in a statement.
“Popular Theory” is a coming-of-age comedy that plumbs the complexities of companionship and ambition.
In the film, Erwin (Reid-Gantzert) is a 12-year-old girl genius completely out of sorts as the youngest student in high school. She’s faced with only one problem she can’t solve: Social isolation. With fellow outcast and chemistry guru Winston (Lambert), the duo team up to invent a chemical that will change the high school hierarchy forever.
“Popular Theory” is directed...
Century City-based Blue Fox Entertainment is handling worldwide sales and will release the film theatrically in the U.S. in 2023, the company said in a statement.
“Popular Theory” is a coming-of-age comedy that plumbs the complexities of companionship and ambition.
In the film, Erwin (Reid-Gantzert) is a 12-year-old girl genius completely out of sorts as the youngest student in high school. She’s faced with only one problem she can’t solve: Social isolation. With fellow outcast and chemistry guru Winston (Lambert), the duo team up to invent a chemical that will change the high school hierarchy forever.
“Popular Theory” is directed...
- 9/1/2022
- by Emiliano De Pablos
- Variety Film + TV
Ethan Hawke revealed to IndieWire last year during the pandemic that a fourth “Before” movie was being discussed with director/writer Richard Linklater and actress/writer Julie Delpy. Now comes word from Delpy in an interview with Telerama (via The Playlist) that she turned down a fourth “Before” movie sometime within the last year and a half while contemplating retirement because she’s fed up with the film industry.
“I often think about it,” Delpy said about leaving the industry. “A year and a half ago, I was not far from it. The hell I went through to produce my film [‘My Zoe’] had exhausted me. I said no to Richard Linklater for the fourth part of the ‘Before’ films. I thought that maybe I could go back to school. I would make a very good doctor, for example. You give me three symptoms, and I tell you what you are suffering from…...
“I often think about it,” Delpy said about leaving the industry. “A year and a half ago, I was not far from it. The hell I went through to produce my film [‘My Zoe’] had exhausted me. I said no to Richard Linklater for the fourth part of the ‘Before’ films. I thought that maybe I could go back to school. I would make a very good doctor, for example. You give me three symptoms, and I tell you what you are suffering from…...
- 6/21/2021
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
After checking in on the romantic saga of Celine and Jesse every nine years since 1995’s Before Sunset, cinephiles across the world had their calendar set for next year, 2022, in the hopes that we may see the next story from Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, and Ethan Hawke, following 2013’s Before Midnight. Well, hold on to your Criterion box sets—looks like it’ll be the definitive collection.
Delpy has now confirmed that Linklater proposed the idea for a fourth entry, but she declined. Speaking to Telerama (via The Playlist), she said she was often thinking about leaving the industry, adding ,“A year-and-a-half ago, I was not far from it. The hell I went through to produce my film [My Zoe] had exhausted me. I said no to Richard Linklater for the fourth part of the Before films. I thought that maybe I could go back to school. I would make a very good doctor,...
Delpy has now confirmed that Linklater proposed the idea for a fourth entry, but she declined. Speaking to Telerama (via The Playlist), she said she was often thinking about leaving the industry, adding ,“A year-and-a-half ago, I was not far from it. The hell I went through to produce my film [My Zoe] had exhausted me. I said no to Richard Linklater for the fourth part of the Before films. I thought that maybe I could go back to school. I would make a very good doctor,...
- 6/21/2021
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
In terms of international cinema, in particular, you don’t find actors as popular and experienced as Julie Delpy. The French actress has appeared in films of all sizes worldwide, maybe most famously in the “Before” trilogy from filmmaker Richard Linklater. And she’s also an accomplished director of more than a half-dozen features, having recently helmed the film “My Zoe.” But even with all of this fame and acclaim, professional difficulties have made it so Delpy has considered retirement, though she does have at least one more film with a big-name star attached that she’d love to make.
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- 6/21/2021
- by Charles Barfield
- The Playlist
Blue Fox Entertainment has picked up North American rights to Brazilian lockdown thriller “The Pink Cloud,” a timely and prescient hit at this year’s Sundance Film Festival in the World Cinema – Dramatic section.
The distributor, which recently opened Julie Delpy’s Toronto Platform title “My Zoe,” plans to release the film in theaters across North America this fall.
UTA Independent Film Group handled the North American sales of “The Pink Cloud,” negotiating with Blue Fox. MPM Premium is selling the film internationally and has already dealt the thriller to Trigon in Switzerland and Russian World Vision in Russia, with distributors from several other major territories currently in negotiations.
In “The Pink Cloud,” humanity is forced indoors by a mysterious cloud of gas which is lethal to anyone who breathes it in. The gas’ arrival is inexplicable, particularly because it pops up across the globe seemingly simultaneously causing lockdowns, food shortages and general panic.
The distributor, which recently opened Julie Delpy’s Toronto Platform title “My Zoe,” plans to release the film in theaters across North America this fall.
UTA Independent Film Group handled the North American sales of “The Pink Cloud,” negotiating with Blue Fox. MPM Premium is selling the film internationally and has already dealt the thriller to Trigon in Switzerland and Russian World Vision in Russia, with distributors from several other major territories currently in negotiations.
In “The Pink Cloud,” humanity is forced indoors by a mysterious cloud of gas which is lethal to anyone who breathes it in. The gas’ arrival is inexplicable, particularly because it pops up across the globe seemingly simultaneously causing lockdowns, food shortages and general panic.
- 6/1/2021
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
After winning a Golden Globe, numerous critics circle accolades as well as SAG Award, Independent Spirit Award and Critics Choice nominations, Minari has taken its success overseas as the A24 American family drama has opened at number one in South Korea.
Minari has banked an estimated $2.2 million in South Korea, earning more than double of Raya and the Last Dragon in the marketplace. It is the biggest opening in the territory for an American film since Soul which earned $2.5M.
The Lee Isaac Chung-directed film starring Steven Yeun is in good company as it has outgrossed the total cumulative gross in South Korea of previous Oscar contenders like The Favourite ($1.3M) and Spotlight ($2.1M). It is also on the way to surpass Green Book’s total gross of $3M.
This is a huge deal as Minari tells a very American story and is making waves as a universal narrative...
Minari has banked an estimated $2.2 million in South Korea, earning more than double of Raya and the Last Dragon in the marketplace. It is the biggest opening in the territory for an American film since Soul which earned $2.5M.
The Lee Isaac Chung-directed film starring Steven Yeun is in good company as it has outgrossed the total cumulative gross in South Korea of previous Oscar contenders like The Favourite ($1.3M) and Spotlight ($2.1M). It is also on the way to surpass Green Book’s total gross of $3M.
This is a huge deal as Minari tells a very American story and is making waves as a universal narrative...
- 3/7/2021
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
Popcorn and all other concessions will not be sold at the IFC Center, at least for now. But films, actual films, will be projected on all five of its screens for the first time in nearly a year.
“The room will be black — you won’t be on your phone!” Kajillionaire director Miranda July marveled in a video testimonial. That’s a big change from the home viewing environment during Covid-19.
The IFC, a Greenwich Village mainstay that took over the abandoned Waverly Theater site in 2005, is among a select number of New York arthouses reopening today. The economics are daunting. With state coronavirus restrictions capping attendance at 25% capacity, theaters can expect no more than a few dozen ticket buyers per show in the early going. Even at such modest scale, the market will be watched closely by the film business, which got a lift last weekend with Tom & Jerry...
“The room will be black — you won’t be on your phone!” Kajillionaire director Miranda July marveled in a video testimonial. That’s a big change from the home viewing environment during Covid-19.
The IFC, a Greenwich Village mainstay that took over the abandoned Waverly Theater site in 2005, is among a select number of New York arthouses reopening today. The economics are daunting. With state coronavirus restrictions capping attendance at 25% capacity, theaters can expect no more than a few dozen ticket buyers per show in the early going. Even at such modest scale, the market will be watched closely by the film business, which got a lift last weekend with Tom & Jerry...
- 3/5/2021
- by Dade Hayes
- Deadline Film + TV
Written, directed and starring Julie Delpy, the family drama My Zoe from Blue Fox Entertainment hit theaters this weekend before dropping on VOD on May 25. As the big banner and specialty box office attempt to find its footing as restrictions of the pandemic lift at a cautious glacial pace, the film managed to add some coin to its box office till, earning an estimated $32,506 for its opening weekend in 237 theaters.
Also reporting numbers for their opening weekends in the specialty box office space are a pair of thrillers starting with the pandemic-themed feature Safer At Home from Vertical Entertainment. The thriller hit 79 theaters in its debut and banked an estimated $41K — not too shabby. The Vigil, an IFC Films supernatural horror that is steeped in ancient Jewish lore, opened in 55 theaters and earned $25K. Another healthy number for an opening considering the circumstances.
In terms of awards season titles, they...
Also reporting numbers for their opening weekends in the specialty box office space are a pair of thrillers starting with the pandemic-themed feature Safer At Home from Vertical Entertainment. The thriller hit 79 theaters in its debut and banked an estimated $41K — not too shabby. The Vigil, an IFC Films supernatural horror that is steeped in ancient Jewish lore, opened in 55 theaters and earned $25K. Another healthy number for an opening considering the circumstances.
In terms of awards season titles, they...
- 2/28/2021
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
This week brings more theatrical releases than American audiences have gotten in ages — and possibly more than they’re ready for now, as vaccine rollouts still leave people questioning whether it’s safe to do things like go to the movies.
Some, such as Warner Bros.’ “Tom & Jerry,” can also be viewed via streaming for HBO Max subscribers. Others — including Anthony Hopkins-starrer “The Father” (a subjective look at the impact of dementia on an elderly man) and the aptly named Armie Hammer movie “Crisis” — will be coming to VOD shortly, but are opening today only in cinemas.
For those who are either playing it safe or simply don’t have access to theaters, subscription streaming services are bringing a pair of high-profile music-themed movies. The first, Apple’s “Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry” gives audiences an intimate look at the pop star on her way up.
Some, such as Warner Bros.’ “Tom & Jerry,” can also be viewed via streaming for HBO Max subscribers. Others — including Anthony Hopkins-starrer “The Father” (a subjective look at the impact of dementia on an elderly man) and the aptly named Armie Hammer movie “Crisis” — will be coming to VOD shortly, but are opening today only in cinemas.
For those who are either playing it safe or simply don’t have access to theaters, subscription streaming services are bringing a pair of high-profile music-themed movies. The first, Apple’s “Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry” gives audiences an intimate look at the pop star on her way up.
- 2/26/2021
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
From her work in the 2 Days series to her performances in Three Colours to the Before trilogy, which she co-wrote with Ethan Hawke and Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy often imbues her characters with a tinge of heartfelt lunacy, going on creative, insightful, and downright hysterical outbursts regarding some sociopolitical scheme or the real reasons people fall in and out of love. In her latest film, My Zoe––which she wrote, directed, and leads––she takes these career-long ideas to deliver one of her most passionate performances and ambitious scripts to date.
My Zoe is essentially two films, its first 40 minutes taking the form of marriage melodrama on par with the best scenes in Noah Baumbach’s recent work. Delpy’s craft excels when she puts two people in a room—not just conversing but destroying each other, throwing verbal daggers with intent to kill. Delpy plays Isabelle, a scientist...
My Zoe is essentially two films, its first 40 minutes taking the form of marriage melodrama on par with the best scenes in Noah Baumbach’s recent work. Delpy’s craft excels when she puts two people in a room—not just conversing but destroying each other, throwing verbal daggers with intent to kill. Delpy plays Isabelle, a scientist...
- 2/26/2021
- by Erik Nielsen
- The Film Stage
My Zoe Blue Fox Entertainment Reviewed by Tami Smith, Film Reviewer for Shockya Grade: B+ Director: Julie Delpy Screenwriter: Julie Delpy Cast: Julie Delpy, Richard Armitage, Sophia Ally, Daniel Bruhl, Saleh Bakri, Linday Duncan Release Date: February 26, 2021 My Zoe, which takes place in the near future, tells the story of Isabelle (Julie Delpy), […]
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- 2/25/2021
- by Tami Smith
- ShockYa
Julie Delpy’s newest film My Zoe finds the actress, writer, and director in a different, albeit much darker place. Starring as a mother with a young daughter who falls ill, Delpy leads a small, but stellar cast featuring Richard Armitage, Gemma Arterton, and Daniel Brühl in telling a sci-fi adjacent family drama focused on grief and loss. Her simple yet convincing direction combined with solid, tender writing results in a film with a conclusion that feels earned, despite its ambiguity.
Though My Zoe initially premiered back at the Toronto International Film Festival nearly two years ago, Delpy’s film resonates on first and second viewings, posing intriguing moral questions that will spur much discussion. The Film Stage chatted with Delpy about writing a film about motherhood, the constant questions about the Before trilogy, and the darkness explored in her most recent project.
The Film Stage: My Zoe premiered way back in 2019 at TIFF.
Though My Zoe initially premiered back at the Toronto International Film Festival nearly two years ago, Delpy’s film resonates on first and second viewings, posing intriguing moral questions that will spur much discussion. The Film Stage chatted with Delpy about writing a film about motherhood, the constant questions about the Before trilogy, and the darkness explored in her most recent project.
The Film Stage: My Zoe premiered way back in 2019 at TIFF.
- 2/24/2021
- by Michael Frank
- The Film Stage
The historic Music Hall Theater in Beverly Hills has been acquired by film distribution company Blue Fox Entertainment, which will renovate the three-screen complex for a planned October reopening.
Blue Fox, a 6-year old company based in Century City, sees taking over a long-term lease on the theater as a natural extension of its independent film distribution and sales business. Blue Fox owner James Huntsman says “People are going to be blown away” when they see the new design for the theater, which is the only multiplex operating in the city of Beverly Hills.
Built in 1936 and opened in 1937, the art deco landmark had been part of Laemmle Theaters until 2019, when a trio of Laemmle vets took over briefly to run it as the Lumiere until the Covid pandemic closed down theaters.
Huntsman says there’s a need in Los Angeles for space for premieres, special screenings and four-wall bookings.
Blue Fox, a 6-year old company based in Century City, sees taking over a long-term lease on the theater as a natural extension of its independent film distribution and sales business. Blue Fox owner James Huntsman says “People are going to be blown away” when they see the new design for the theater, which is the only multiplex operating in the city of Beverly Hills.
Built in 1936 and opened in 1937, the art deco landmark had been part of Laemmle Theaters until 2019, when a trio of Laemmle vets took over briefly to run it as the Lumiere until the Covid pandemic closed down theaters.
Huntsman says there’s a need in Los Angeles for space for premieres, special screenings and four-wall bookings.
- 2/17/2021
- by Pat Saperstein
- Variety Film + TV
Dominique Boutonnat has been president of France’s National Cinema Centre since July 2019.
The future of film producer Dominique Boutonnat as president of France’s National Cinema Centre (Cnc) was in the balance on Wednesday (Feb 10) after he was taken into police custody following allegations of sexual assault and attempted rape by his 22-year-old godson.
France’s gender equality pressure group Le Collectif 50/50 called on the Cnc to temporarily suspend Boutonnat while the investigation and legal procedure was underway.
“In spite of the private nature of this police custody, Le Collectif 50/50 calls for the suspension of Dominique Boutonnat so that...
The future of film producer Dominique Boutonnat as president of France’s National Cinema Centre (Cnc) was in the balance on Wednesday (Feb 10) after he was taken into police custody following allegations of sexual assault and attempted rape by his 22-year-old godson.
France’s gender equality pressure group Le Collectif 50/50 called on the Cnc to temporarily suspend Boutonnat while the investigation and legal procedure was underway.
“In spite of the private nature of this police custody, Le Collectif 50/50 calls for the suspension of Dominique Boutonnat so that...
- 2/10/2021
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Here’s the latest episode of the The Filmmakers Podcast, part of the ever-growing podcast roster here on Nerdly. If you haven’t heard the show yet, you can check out previous episodes on the official podcast site, whilst we’ll be featuring each and every new episode as it premieres.
For those unfamiliar, with the series, The Filmmakers Podcast is a podcast about how to make films from micro budget indie films to bigger budget studio films and everything in-between. Our hosts Giles Alderson, Dan Richardson, Andrew Rodger and Cristian James talk how to get films made, how to actually make them and how to try not to f… it up in their very humble opinion. Guests will come on and chat about their film making experiences from directors, writers, producers, screenwriters, actors, cinematographers and distributors.
The Filmmakers Podcast #188: Julie Delpy: Actor, Screenwriter & Director on filmmaking, acting...
For those unfamiliar, with the series, The Filmmakers Podcast is a podcast about how to make films from micro budget indie films to bigger budget studio films and everything in-between. Our hosts Giles Alderson, Dan Richardson, Andrew Rodger and Cristian James talk how to get films made, how to actually make them and how to try not to f… it up in their very humble opinion. Guests will come on and chat about their film making experiences from directors, writers, producers, screenwriters, actors, cinematographers and distributors.
The Filmmakers Podcast #188: Julie Delpy: Actor, Screenwriter & Director on filmmaking, acting...
- 11/2/2020
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
As her new film My Zoe opens, the actor-director recalls being enchanted by Jarmusch, Godard and Chéreau – and dancing rock’n’roll at the Paris Boum Boum
When I was a teenager I was very much into films – a little bit of music maybe, but mostly films. I went to the cinema a lot. I really liked older stuff like Douglas Sirk’s Imitation of Life, and my dad was a big admirer of John Cassavetes, so I was a fan of A Woman Under the Influence. But I really remember being blown away by [Francis Ford Coppola’s] Rumble Fish. It’s funny: I’ve seen it since and I like it, but I wouldn’t say it was my favourite any more. But back then, I thought it was just really great: the music, the way they use black-and-white and colour. I used to listen to the soundtrack all the time,...
When I was a teenager I was very much into films – a little bit of music maybe, but mostly films. I went to the cinema a lot. I really liked older stuff like Douglas Sirk’s Imitation of Life, and my dad was a big admirer of John Cassavetes, so I was a fan of A Woman Under the Influence. But I really remember being blown away by [Francis Ford Coppola’s] Rumble Fish. It’s funny: I’ve seen it since and I like it, but I wouldn’t say it was my favourite any more. But back then, I thought it was just really great: the music, the way they use black-and-white and colour. I used to listen to the soundtrack all the time,...
- 10/22/2020
- by Interview by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
Sarah Jones (“Marriage Story”), Giovanni Ribisi (“Avatar”) and Alexia Landeau (“Day Out of Days”) have joined the cast of Julie Delpy’s upcoming dramedy series “On the Verge,” a co-production between Canal Plus and Netflix.
Canal Plus will air the series in France, with Netflix distributing it in the rest of world. “On The Verge” was co-developed by Canal Plus’s Original Creation label. Production recently started in Los Angeles.
Delpy, who created the series and co-wrote it with Landeau, will also headline “On the Verge” alongside Elisabeth Shue, as previously announced. With Jones, Ribisi and Landeau on board, the key cast is now complete.
“On the Verge” is about four female friends in their late forties — two of them played by Delpy and Shue — who choose to use midlife not as a time of mourning their youth, but as an opportunity for personal reinvention, with the hope of finally...
Canal Plus will air the series in France, with Netflix distributing it in the rest of world. “On The Verge” was co-developed by Canal Plus’s Original Creation label. Production recently started in Los Angeles.
Delpy, who created the series and co-wrote it with Landeau, will also headline “On the Verge” alongside Elisabeth Shue, as previously announced. With Jones, Ribisi and Landeau on board, the key cast is now complete.
“On the Verge” is about four female friends in their late forties — two of them played by Delpy and Shue — who choose to use midlife not as a time of mourning their youth, but as an opportunity for personal reinvention, with the hope of finally...
- 9/18/2020
- by Elsa Keslassy and Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
The dark comedy, which also stars Brühl himself, will centre on a film star and his troublesome neighbour. Renowned German-Spanish actor Daniel Brühl, best known for his performances in films and series such as Good Bye Lenin!, My Zoe, The Alienist and Inglourious Basterds, is ready to make his directorial debut with Next Door. Brühl will also appear in front of the camera as the lead actor in this dark comedy that centres on a film star. When his neighbour confronts him with troubling revelations, it risks destroying both his career and his private life. Peter Kurth is to play the problematic neighbour in the feature, which will also explore subjects such as gentrification and social inequality in Berlin. The cast of the upcoming film also includes Aenne Schwarz, Rike Eckermann and Gode Benedix. Based on an idea by Daniel Brühl, the script for Next...
"Listen to your heart, Isabelle." Signature Ent. has released an official UK trailer for the indie drama My Zoe, the latest film written and directed by actress Julie Delpy (she most recently directed 2 Days in New York and Lolo). This first premiered at the Toronto Film Festival last year, and then played at the Zurich Film Festival and it was also programmed at this year's Tribeca Film Festival. "Prepare for one of the most emotionally-engaging film of the year." A divorced mother looks to protect her daughter after an unexpected tragedy. My Zoe is a heartbreaking family drama with a dystopian science fiction twist (oooooh) starring Julie Delpy, Richard Armitage, Gemma Arterton, Daniel Brühl, and also Lindsay Duncan. The strangest part about this is that Arterton doesn't appear until the very end. Huh. I'm intrigued, looks good. Here's the first official UK trailer (+ poster) for Julie Delpy's My Zoe,...
- 9/4/2020
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Exclusive: UK distributor Signature has picked up five movies including recent Frank Grillo crime-thriller Body Brokers and noughties Brit comedy Scenes Of A Sexual Nature.
Also new to the slate are Korean crime caper Lucky Grandma, Julie Delpy tear-jerker My Zoe and true-story drama Miss Virginia.
Body Brokers, starring Grillo, Melissa Leo and Michael K Williams, charts the true story of a multi-billion-dollar drug and alcohol treatment scheme where former drug addicts and dealers become millionaires as fly-by-night ‘body brokers’, recruiting other addicts to seek treatment and selling these patients off to facilities at the highest price. Set for release in 2021, the film was picked up from Voltage Pictures.
Miss Virginia stars Orange Is the New Black’s Uzo Aduba as a struggling inner-city mother who sacrifices everything to give her son a good education. Acquired from Moving Picture Institute, the film is due to be released across platforms in October.
Also new to the slate are Korean crime caper Lucky Grandma, Julie Delpy tear-jerker My Zoe and true-story drama Miss Virginia.
Body Brokers, starring Grillo, Melissa Leo and Michael K Williams, charts the true story of a multi-billion-dollar drug and alcohol treatment scheme where former drug addicts and dealers become millionaires as fly-by-night ‘body brokers’, recruiting other addicts to seek treatment and selling these patients off to facilities at the highest price. Set for release in 2021, the film was picked up from Voltage Pictures.
Miss Virginia stars Orange Is the New Black’s Uzo Aduba as a struggling inner-city mother who sacrifices everything to give her son a good education. Acquired from Moving Picture Institute, the film is due to be released across platforms in October.
- 8/12/2020
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
The 2020 Tribeca Film Festival, presented by AT&T, has today unveiled its feature film lineup, including a number of world premieres and a selection of proven hits from other festivals, including Tiff, Sundance, and SXSW. The features program will include 115 films from 124 filmmakers from across 33 different countries. This newly announced lineup includes 95 world premieres, 2 international premieres, 4 North American premieres, 4 U.S. premieres, and 9 New York premieres, plus one sneak preview. The 2020 Tribeca Film Festival will run April 15 to 26 across New York City and even, for the first time ever, New Jersey.
“This year’s festival embraces the unique power of film to bring people together — whether that’s literally the communal experience of watching a film in a packed theater, or the more intangible way a great film can make you empathize with a stranger’s struggle,” said festival director Cara Cusumano in an official statement. “In an election year where...
“This year’s festival embraces the unique power of film to bring people together — whether that’s literally the communal experience of watching a film in a packed theater, or the more intangible way a great film can make you empathize with a stranger’s struggle,” said festival director Cara Cusumano in an official statement. “In an election year where...
- 3/3/2020
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
One of the more intriguing titles of this year’s Berlin Film Festival is the new Johnny Depp true life drama, Minamata in which Depp plays the famous Life magazine photographer W. Eugene Smith who in 1971 undertook the most challenging and important subject of his career in travelling to the small Japanese village of Minamata which had been ravaged by an outbreak of Mercury Poisoning due to gross negligence by Japan’s Chisso Corporation, the government itself, and even the Yakuza. The important and heartbreaking movie, which I caught at CAA in Los Angeles a few days ago, documents Smith’s efforts to chronicle the tragic effects of the disease and the Minamata inhabitants’ heroic efforts to fight back. As the film shows, Smith was an enormously gifted, if difficult personality, and had to practically beg a reluctant Life to give him this opportunity, but the results were eye-opening and...
- 2/21/2020
- by Pete Hammond
- Deadline Film + TV
Oscar-nominated Julie Delpy is venturing into television with a dramedy series, tentatively titled On The Verge. Delpy is writing, executive producing and starring in the L.A.-set ensemble half-hour series, a co-production between Netflix and Canal Plus, which has received a 12-episode order. Canal + will air the series in France, with Netflix distributing it in the rest of world.
On The Verge centers around four L.A. moms, one of them played by Delpy, facing challenges with their marriages, careers, family, who are all fighting to be authentic to themselves, to take risks, and to leave whatever it is that is no longer working for them. These characters choose to make this point in their life an opportunity for reinvention, an opportunity to finally create a life of true meaning for themselves.
Delpy executive produces with Nick Hall. Filming is slated to begin in May in Los Angeles.
On The Verge centers around four L.A. moms, one of them played by Delpy, facing challenges with their marriages, careers, family, who are all fighting to be authentic to themselves, to take risks, and to leave whatever it is that is no longer working for them. These characters choose to make this point in their life an opportunity for reinvention, an opportunity to finally create a life of true meaning for themselves.
Delpy executive produces with Nick Hall. Filming is slated to begin in May in Los Angeles.
- 1/30/2020
- by Nellie Andreeva and Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Canal Plus Group is joining forces with Netflix for the first time on an original series with “On The Verge,” a daring L.A.-set comedy created by Julie Delpy, Variety has learned.
The series is being co-developed by Netflix and the Creation Original banner of the French pay TV channel Canal Plus. The project also marks Delpy’s first foray into TV drama.
The star, who’s been developing “On The Verge” for several years, first discussed the project with Variety in 2016. The English-language show revolves around a group of 40-something women who are grappling with being single and in complicated relationships in Los Angeles.
When speaking to Variety about the idea behind the show, Delpy said it would defy stereotypes of women in their forties.
“We picture them at peace with themselves, but that’s not how they are in real life. I’d like to show them...
The series is being co-developed by Netflix and the Creation Original banner of the French pay TV channel Canal Plus. The project also marks Delpy’s first foray into TV drama.
The star, who’s been developing “On The Verge” for several years, first discussed the project with Variety in 2016. The English-language show revolves around a group of 40-something women who are grappling with being single and in complicated relationships in Los Angeles.
When speaking to Variety about the idea behind the show, Delpy said it would defy stereotypes of women in their forties.
“We picture them at peace with themselves, but that’s not how they are in real life. I’d like to show them...
- 1/30/2020
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
There are two films in Julie Delpy’s ambitious, sharply-made but unbalanced “My Zoe.” There’s the scabrous relationship melodrama, about bitter exes sharing custody of a beloved child, which contains the story’s most potent emotions. And there’s the sci-fi-inflected ethical-dilemma grief movie, which houses its most provocative ideas. Both have much to recommend them, not least Delpy’s lithe filmmaking, polished over her now seven features to a consummate, unobtrusive sheen. But the transition between the two halves or, more appropriately, the cloning of the second from a tissue sample of the first, plays awkwardly, and suggests that Delpy’s screenwriting, while studded with moments of shrewd insight, as yet lags some way behind her standards as director and actress.
Shot in bright, fresh tones by “Jackie” and “Captain Fantastic” Dp Stéphane Fontaine, the film’s near-future setting is subtly indicated by tech only slightly advanced from...
Shot in bright, fresh tones by “Jackie” and “Captain Fantastic” Dp Stéphane Fontaine, the film’s near-future setting is subtly indicated by tech only slightly advanced from...
- 12/14/2019
- by Jessica Kiang
- Variety Film + TV
The film is directed by Kitty Green and premiered at Telluride.
London-based Protagonist Pictures has acquired worldwide rights outside the Us to Kitty Green’s Telluride premiere The Assistant.
Protagonist will screen the film to international buyers at the Afm which starts in Santa Monica on November 6.
Julia Garner, who won an Emmy for her performance in Netflix series Ozark, stars in The Assistant which is inspired by the Harvey Weinstein scandal. It unfolds over one day in the working life of a young woman who takes a stand against the sexual abuse she suspects is taking place at the...
London-based Protagonist Pictures has acquired worldwide rights outside the Us to Kitty Green’s Telluride premiere The Assistant.
Protagonist will screen the film to international buyers at the Afm which starts in Santa Monica on November 6.
Julia Garner, who won an Emmy for her performance in Netflix series Ozark, stars in The Assistant which is inspired by the Harvey Weinstein scandal. It unfolds over one day in the working life of a young woman who takes a stand against the sexual abuse she suspects is taking place at the...
- 11/1/2019
- by 88¦Louise Tutt¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
The first look at Noah Baumbach’s “Marriage Story” were two mirroring trailers, each looking at divorce from the separate perspectives of Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver’s characters. This new trailer though brings them together, however, and makes it difficult to pull them apart.
Baumbach’s film stars Driver and Johansson as a married couple in the process of a divorce and examines the comedy, frustration and emotion that comes with that process. And while the first pair of trailers made the film look strictly like a two-hander, this new one gives the rest of the cast, including Laura Dern, Merrit Wever, Alan Alda, Julie Hagerty and Ray Liotta, a chance to shine.
“Most people in my business, these are just transactions to them, but I like to think of you as people,” a divorce lawyer played by Alda says warmly to Driver. “You remind me of myself from my second marriage.
Baumbach’s film stars Driver and Johansson as a married couple in the process of a divorce and examines the comedy, frustration and emotion that comes with that process. And while the first pair of trailers made the film look strictly like a two-hander, this new one gives the rest of the cast, including Laura Dern, Merrit Wever, Alan Alda, Julie Hagerty and Ray Liotta, a chance to shine.
“Most people in my business, these are just transactions to them, but I like to think of you as people,” a divorce lawyer played by Alda says warmly to Driver. “You remind me of myself from my second marriage.
- 10/17/2019
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Richard Linklater’s “Before” trilogy is made up of three of the most critically acclaimed romance films ever made, but it appears the first two installments were made with a pay gap between leading actors Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy. Both performers acted in 1995’s “Before Sunrise” before appearing in and co-writing 2004’s “Before Sunset” and 2013’s “Before Midnight” with Linklater. Hawke, Delpy, and Linklater’s work on the two sequels received Oscar nominations for Best Adapted Screenplay. In a video interview with Variety from the Zurich Film Festival, Delpy reveals it wasn’t until “Before Midnight” that she received equal pay to Hawke.
“You know it’s funny. I spent my life being criticized for criticizing the fact there wasn’t enough women [in this industry],” Delpy told Variety writer Guy Lodge. “I was very outspoken all my life and it gave me the reputation of being a pain in the ass.
“You know it’s funny. I spent my life being criticized for criticizing the fact there wasn’t enough women [in this industry],” Delpy told Variety writer Guy Lodge. “I was very outspoken all my life and it gave me the reputation of being a pain in the ass.
- 10/3/2019
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Stellan Skarsgård knew Maria Sødahl, the director of his latest film “Hope,” well before she pitched him the idea–but he also knew her through the time when she was given just three months to live.
“Hope” is a romance about a woman and her relationship with her husband after she’s diagnosed with a terminal illness, and Sødahl called the film her “most autobiographical” work after she nine years ago received a cancer diagnosis and was given by doctors only three months to live.
Skarsgård has made five films with Sødahl’s husband and knew he could relate to the material, but he was still moved when she pitched him the treatment.
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“I knew what she’s gone through, but she also had the distance to see the comical side of it, the flaws of the characters. She...
“Hope” is a romance about a woman and her relationship with her husband after she’s diagnosed with a terminal illness, and Sødahl called the film her “most autobiographical” work after she nine years ago received a cancer diagnosis and was given by doctors only three months to live.
Skarsgård has made five films with Sødahl’s husband and knew he could relate to the material, but he was still moved when she pitched him the treatment.
Also Read: Stellan Skarsgard Joins Denis Villeneuve's 'Dune'
“I knew what she’s gone through, but she also had the distance to see the comical side of it, the flaws of the characters. She...
- 9/23/2019
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Gabe Polsky had just gotten out of a screening of his 2014 documentary “Red Army” when a “crazy guy” approached him with another incredible story about the Russian hockey team that would become his next documentary “Red Penguins.”
He was so disinterested about learning any more about the history of Russian hockey that he and his wife were cleaning house and almost threw away a massive box of memorabilia sent to him by someone he thought must’ve be a crazy person. It turns out though the box of material was a “treasure trove” of sports history, and that crazy person turned out to be one of the producers and subjects of “Red Penguins,” Steven Warshaw.
“Right away I didn’t want anything to do with it because I had just made this huge movie about Russia and hockey, and I didn’t want anything to do with it,” Polsky told...
He was so disinterested about learning any more about the history of Russian hockey that he and his wife were cleaning house and almost threw away a massive box of memorabilia sent to him by someone he thought must’ve be a crazy person. It turns out though the box of material was a “treasure trove” of sports history, and that crazy person turned out to be one of the producers and subjects of “Red Penguins,” Steven Warshaw.
“Right away I didn’t want anything to do with it because I had just made this huge movie about Russia and hockey, and I didn’t want anything to do with it,” Polsky told...
- 9/20/2019
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Julie Delpy has never gotten the chance to direct one of the dramas that she’s written. But in working on her seventh film “My Zoe” — which she wrote, directed and stars in — Delpy thought back to advice and inspiration she received from quite the mentor: the legendary Polish auteur Krzysztof Kieslowski.
Delpy worked with Kieslowski on all three films in his “Three Colors” trilogy, most notably “White” from 1994. And she explained that their discussions about fate helped inspire the work she would do on “My Zoe” decades later.
“He was really intrigued by the fact that, how do you make a film that goes against fate? He was someone that was obsessed with fate. That was the conversation. It was a spark,” Delpy told TheWrap’s Sharon Waxman. “And then the idea really came clearer to me when I had my son, because suddenly, the incredible existential fear that...
Delpy worked with Kieslowski on all three films in his “Three Colors” trilogy, most notably “White” from 1994. And she explained that their discussions about fate helped inspire the work she would do on “My Zoe” decades later.
“He was really intrigued by the fact that, how do you make a film that goes against fate? He was someone that was obsessed with fate. That was the conversation. It was a spark,” Delpy told TheWrap’s Sharon Waxman. “And then the idea really came clearer to me when I had my son, because suddenly, the incredible existential fear that...
- 9/20/2019
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
One of the strengths of German cinema is its diversity, says Simone Baumann, managing director of the national film promotion agency German Films.
As well as the three films at Toronto directed by female German helmers, there was also German filmmaker Thomas Heise’s documentary film essay “Heimat Is a Space in Time.” Then there were the many German-funded films directed by non-Germans, including “My Zoe,” by France’s Julie Delpy, and “Guns Akimbo,” by New Zealander Jason Lei Howden.
The country is one of the world’s leading coproduction nations, which was much in evidence in Toronto – with 30 German films in the festival, including coproductions such as U.S. helmer Terrence Malick’s “A Hidden Life,” Swede Roy Andersson’s “About Endlessness,” and “Proxima,” by France’s Alice Winocour.
It is hard to make generalization about German cinema, a point the filmmakers make themselves. Since the heyday of the Berlin School,...
As well as the three films at Toronto directed by female German helmers, there was also German filmmaker Thomas Heise’s documentary film essay “Heimat Is a Space in Time.” Then there were the many German-funded films directed by non-Germans, including “My Zoe,” by France’s Julie Delpy, and “Guns Akimbo,” by New Zealander Jason Lei Howden.
The country is one of the world’s leading coproduction nations, which was much in evidence in Toronto – with 30 German films in the festival, including coproductions such as U.S. helmer Terrence Malick’s “A Hidden Life,” Swede Roy Andersson’s “About Endlessness,” and “Proxima,” by France’s Alice Winocour.
It is hard to make generalization about German cinema, a point the filmmakers make themselves. Since the heyday of the Berlin School,...
- 9/15/2019
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
It’s hard to imagine that there could be a better-looking movie at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival than John Crowley’s adaptation of Donna Tartt’s bestselling novel “The Goldfinch.” And that makes the many areas in which the film falls short all the more frustrating.
A high-toned adaptation of the novel from Crowley, the Irish director responsible for the Oscar Best Picture nominee “Brooklyn,” “The Goldfinch” is less straightforward than the novel, jumping back and forth in time, but it also feels far more conventional. Where Crowley’s previous film was an understated gem that captured the gentle poetry of Colm Toibin’s novel, his new one is bigger, bolder and more earthbound.
The bigness and boldness are of necessity. “The Goldfinch,” which had its world premiere this week at the Toronto International Film Festival, is a coming-of-age story of a young boy whose mother is...
A high-toned adaptation of the novel from Crowley, the Irish director responsible for the Oscar Best Picture nominee “Brooklyn,” “The Goldfinch” is less straightforward than the novel, jumping back and forth in time, but it also feels far more conventional. Where Crowley’s previous film was an understated gem that captured the gentle poetry of Colm Toibin’s novel, his new one is bigger, bolder and more earthbound.
The bigness and boldness are of necessity. “The Goldfinch,” which had its world premiere this week at the Toronto International Film Festival, is a coming-of-age story of a young boy whose mother is...
- 9/11/2019
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
Two different movies about divorce. One written and directed by a man, Noah Baumbach. The other written and directed by a woman, Julie Delpy.
“Marriage Story” is winning Baumbach all kinds of attention for diving deep into the pain of contemporary divorce. Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson love and hate each other as they pull their family apart, trying to solve the unsolveable. How do you protect what is true and sacred about a loving past, even as the center of the marriage doesn’t hold?
Meanwhile, “My Zoe” reflects a remarkably similar pain, but told from a female perspective. Delpy, who plays the wife, leaves her husband, played by Richard Armitage.
Also Read: Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver Share Their Love in Mirroring Trailers for Noah Baumbach's 'Marriage Story' (Videos)
In both films, there is a young child who is the subject of custody strife. In both films,...
“Marriage Story” is winning Baumbach all kinds of attention for diving deep into the pain of contemporary divorce. Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson love and hate each other as they pull their family apart, trying to solve the unsolveable. How do you protect what is true and sacred about a loving past, even as the center of the marriage doesn’t hold?
Meanwhile, “My Zoe” reflects a remarkably similar pain, but told from a female perspective. Delpy, who plays the wife, leaves her husband, played by Richard Armitage.
Also Read: Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver Share Their Love in Mirroring Trailers for Noah Baumbach's 'Marriage Story' (Videos)
In both films, there is a young child who is the subject of custody strife. In both films,...
- 9/10/2019
- by Sharon Waxman
- The Wrap
Neatly and purposely divided into three acts — a black screen signals the lag time between each, should the viewer not be ready for the required understanding that things are about to change, and that it’s best to prepare now — Julie Delpy’s fascinating “My Zoe” uses its classic formal structure to tell a thoroughly modern tale. While Delpy’s directorial output thus far has mostly consisted of fizzy rom-coms like her “Two Days” features and the odd historical drama (“The Countess”), “My Zoe” finds the filmmaker and star moving fast into fresh territory.
First, though, there’s Delpy’s Isabelle and the eponymous Zoe, her apple-cheeked daughter. Isabelle and Zoe’s dad, James (Richard Armitage), are in the final throes of their divorce, with Zoe’s custody arrangement the last box to check off. Despite telling the film firmly from Isabelle’s vantage point, Delpy the writer and director doesn’t take sides,...
First, though, there’s Delpy’s Isabelle and the eponymous Zoe, her apple-cheeked daughter. Isabelle and Zoe’s dad, James (Richard Armitage), are in the final throes of their divorce, with Zoe’s custody arrangement the last box to check off. Despite telling the film firmly from Isabelle’s vantage point, Delpy the writer and director doesn’t take sides,...
- 9/8/2019
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
It’s no coincidence that so many of the best horror movies—“The Exorcist,” “Rosemary’s Baby,” “The Babadook”—focus on parents because there is nothing more terrifying than being one. An early scene in Julie Delpy’s “My Zoe” captures that constant, low-key fear as vividly as I’ve ever seen. Isabelle (Delpy), a divorced mother, is working; her daughter Zoe (Sophia Ally) is spending the day with her father, James (Richard Armitage).
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- 9/8/2019
- by Matthew Monagle
- The Playlist
After earning some stateside directorial clout for her warm, ticklishly funny 2007 culture-clash rom-com 2 Days in Paris (and, to a lesser extent, its sequel 2 Days in New York), Julie Delpy veers into much chillier territory with her new film, My Zoe.
She comes bearing an attention-grabber of a premise: A scientist in the near future loses her beloved grade-school-age daughter to a brain injury, and then tries to have her cloned. Contrary to what one might expect, though, Delpy doesn’t milk the story for sci-fi creepiness or dystopian thrills; rather, she aims for emotional realism — something that, thanks ...
She comes bearing an attention-grabber of a premise: A scientist in the near future loses her beloved grade-school-age daughter to a brain injury, and then tries to have her cloned. Contrary to what one might expect, though, Delpy doesn’t milk the story for sci-fi creepiness or dystopian thrills; rather, she aims for emotional realism — something that, thanks ...
After earning some stateside directorial clout for her warm, ticklishly funny 2007 culture-clash rom-com 2 Days in Paris (and, to a lesser extent, its sequel 2 Days in New York), Julie Delpy veers into much chillier territory with her new film, My Zoe.
She comes bearing an attention-grabber of a premise: A scientist in the near future loses her beloved grade-school-age daughter to a brain injury, and then tries to have her cloned. Contrary to what one might expect, though, Delpy doesn’t milk the story for sci-fi creepiness or dystopian thrills; rather, she aims for emotional realism — something that, thanks ...
She comes bearing an attention-grabber of a premise: A scientist in the near future loses her beloved grade-school-age daughter to a brain injury, and then tries to have her cloned. Contrary to what one might expect, though, Delpy doesn’t milk the story for sci-fi creepiness or dystopian thrills; rather, she aims for emotional realism — something that, thanks ...
Filmmaker and actress Julie Delpy knows what people expect of her. The star and co-writer of Richard Linklater’s “Before” trilogy and the director of such bubbly romantic dramedies as “2 Days in Paris” and its sequel “2 Days in New York” may have made her acting debut for no less than Jean-Luc Godard, but she’s been kept in a certain kind of industry bubble for the last two decades.
She’s done with that now. For her latest directorial outing, passion project “My Zoe,” Delpy moves away from romances and chatty comedies into something both wholly unexpected and more personal than anything else she’s ever made. When Delpy describes the feature, a thriller debuting in Tiff’s filmmaker-centric Platform section this week, she uses the kind of descriptors that wouldn’t fit anything else she’s made during her three-decade-long career. Words like “harsh,” “unforgiving,” and “not very kind.
She’s done with that now. For her latest directorial outing, passion project “My Zoe,” Delpy moves away from romances and chatty comedies into something both wholly unexpected and more personal than anything else she’s ever made. When Delpy describes the feature, a thriller debuting in Tiff’s filmmaker-centric Platform section this week, she uses the kind of descriptors that wouldn’t fit anything else she’s made during her three-decade-long career. Words like “harsh,” “unforgiving,” and “not very kind.
- 9/6/2019
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Julie Delpy Made a Genetic Thriller and Riz Ahmed Is a Heavy Metal Drummer: Tiff Platform Highlights
The fall movie season may be associated with awards season buzz, but for the past five years, the Toronto International Film Festival’s Platform section has provided a welcome alternative. The juried program is a tightly curated selection of international films, with a blend of debuts and established filmmakers moving in new directions. In a typically sprawling Tiff lineup, it’s the clearest path to discovery.
It’s also the place where buyers will want to spend a lot of time this year. All 10 films in this year’s Platform section are entering the festival without North American distribution. “I think these are all juicy for buyers,” Tiff co-head Cameron Bailey said.
But don’t expect a lot of obvious commercial material. Instead, this year’s Platform could be a referendum on just how much buyers are willing to jump on unexpected crowdpleasers, riskier options, and foreign-language offerings.
Distributors head...
It’s also the place where buyers will want to spend a lot of time this year. All 10 films in this year’s Platform section are entering the festival without North American distribution. “I think these are all juicy for buyers,” Tiff co-head Cameron Bailey said.
But don’t expect a lot of obvious commercial material. Instead, this year’s Platform could be a referendum on just how much buyers are willing to jump on unexpected crowdpleasers, riskier options, and foreign-language offerings.
Distributors head...
- 8/7/2019
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
The Toronto International Film Festival has set a slew of films for its Platform strand including the world premiere Sarah Gavron’s Rocks, which will open the programme, and bookened by Pietro Marcello’s Martin Eden.
Suffragette and Brick Lane director Gavron’s Rocks stars Bukky Bakray as a teenager who suddenly finds herself struggling to take care of herself and her younger brother. A film about resilience, joy, and the spirit of girlhood, Rocks follows a teenager who fears that she and her little brother will be forced apart if anyone finds out they are living alone. With the help of her friends, she evades the authorities and navigates the most defining days of her teenage life. Fable Pictures produces.
“Rocks brilliantly reimagines the coming-of-age narrative with a pathos and precision we rarely see,” said Cameron Bailey, Platform Co-Curator and Tiff Artistic Director and Co-Head. “Across only two features,...
Suffragette and Brick Lane director Gavron’s Rocks stars Bukky Bakray as a teenager who suddenly finds herself struggling to take care of herself and her younger brother. A film about resilience, joy, and the spirit of girlhood, Rocks follows a teenager who fears that she and her little brother will be forced apart if anyone finds out they are living alone. With the help of her friends, she evades the authorities and navigates the most defining days of her teenage life. Fable Pictures produces.
“Rocks brilliantly reimagines the coming-of-age narrative with a pathos and precision we rarely see,” said Cameron Bailey, Platform Co-Curator and Tiff Artistic Director and Co-Head. “Across only two features,...
- 8/7/2019
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
The Toronto International Film Festival has announced the fifth edition of its Platform lineup, a director-driven section that aims to showcase original names in international cinema. This year, Platform will screen to 10 feature films, including world premieres from Julie Delpy, Alice Winocour, and Anthony Chen. The section will also host a number of debut films, including Darius Marder’s “Sound of Metal” and David Zonana’s “Workforce.”
Of the 10 features in this year’s selection, 40 percent are directed by women. All but one are world premieres, and they hail from all over the world, including Europe, Latin America, East Asia, and the U.S. Sarah Gavron’s “Rocks,” which follows “a teenager who fears that she and her little brother will be forced apart if anyone finds out they are living alone,” will open the section. The international premiere of Pietro Marcello’s “Martin Eden,” an adaptation of the Jack London...
Of the 10 features in this year’s selection, 40 percent are directed by women. All but one are world premieres, and they hail from all over the world, including Europe, Latin America, East Asia, and the U.S. Sarah Gavron’s “Rocks,” which follows “a teenager who fears that she and her little brother will be forced apart if anyone finds out they are living alone,” will open the section. The international premiere of Pietro Marcello’s “Martin Eden,” an adaptation of the Jack London...
- 8/7/2019
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Sarah Gavron’s “Rocks,” Julie Delpy’s “My Zoe,” Alice Winocur’s “Proxima” and Darius Marder’s “Sound of Metal” are among the 10 films that will make up the competitive Platform section at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, Tiff organizers announced on Wednesday.
“Rocks,” a coming-of-age story of a teenage girl living alone with her younger brother in London, is the third feature from “Suffragette” and “Brick Lane” director Gavron, and will be the section’s opening-night film.
Italian director Pietro Marcello’s “Martin Eden,” an adaptation of the 1909 novel by Jack London, will close the section.
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Other films will include “My Zoe,” in which actress-director Delpy stars with Richard Armitage and Daniel Bruhl; “Promixa,” starring Eva Green and Matt Dillon; “Sound of Metal,” with Riz Ahmed and Olivia Cooke; “Wet Season,...
“Rocks,” a coming-of-age story of a teenage girl living alone with her younger brother in London, is the third feature from “Suffragette” and “Brick Lane” director Gavron, and will be the section’s opening-night film.
Italian director Pietro Marcello’s “Martin Eden,” an adaptation of the 1909 novel by Jack London, will close the section.
Also Read: Mister Rogers, the Joker and Judy Garland Are All Headed to Toronto Film Festival
Other films will include “My Zoe,” in which actress-director Delpy stars with Richard Armitage and Daniel Bruhl; “Promixa,” starring Eva Green and Matt Dillon; “Sound of Metal,” with Riz Ahmed and Olivia Cooke; “Wet Season,...
- 8/7/2019
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
Sarah Gavron's Rocks, Julie Delpy's My Zoe and Darius Marder's debut feature Sound of Metal are set to receive world premieres as part of the Platform juried competition at the 2019 Toronto Film Festival, organizers said Wednesday.
British director Gavron's Rocks drama about London schoolgirls will open the competitive sidebar, now in its fifth year. Gavron is best known for earlier films like Suffragette, starring Meryl Streep, Carey Mulligan and Helena Bonham Carter, and the 2007 novel-to-movie adaptation Brick Lane.
Her third feature stars newcomer Bukky Bakray as Rocks, a teenager struggling to take care of herself and her younger ...
British director Gavron's Rocks drama about London schoolgirls will open the competitive sidebar, now in its fifth year. Gavron is best known for earlier films like Suffragette, starring Meryl Streep, Carey Mulligan and Helena Bonham Carter, and the 2007 novel-to-movie adaptation Brick Lane.
Her third feature stars newcomer Bukky Bakray as Rocks, a teenager struggling to take care of herself and her younger ...
Boutonnat is a close associate of French president Emmanuel Macron.
Producer Dominique Boutonnat has been named as the new president of France’s National Cinema Centre (Cnc) in a controversial move by French president Emmanuel Macron’s centrist government.
He replaces long-running chief Frédérique Bredin, who stepped down abruptly on July 10 amid a growing row over government plans to overhaul France’s successful and generous state film funding system.
Many cinema professionals are suspicious of Boutonnat who is a close associate of Macron and financier of his 2017 presidential election campaign, as well as the author of a controversial government-commissioned report...
Producer Dominique Boutonnat has been named as the new president of France’s National Cinema Centre (Cnc) in a controversial move by French president Emmanuel Macron’s centrist government.
He replaces long-running chief Frédérique Bredin, who stepped down abruptly on July 10 amid a growing row over government plans to overhaul France’s successful and generous state film funding system.
Many cinema professionals are suspicious of Boutonnat who is a close associate of Macron and financier of his 2017 presidential election campaign, as well as the author of a controversial government-commissioned report...
- 7/24/2019
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
My Zoe
Actress/Writer/Director Julie Delpy will unveil her seventh title in 2019 with the drama My Zoe, an English language British-French-German co-production. Gabrielle Tana of Baby Cow Films, Hubert Caillard and Dominique Boutonnat for Electrik Films, Malte Grunert and Andrew Levitas are producing alongside Protagonist Pictures in the UK. Delpy casts herself as the lead with a supporting cast including Gemma Arterton, Daniel Bruhl, Richard Armitage, Saleh Bakri and Lindsay Duncan. Dp Stephane Fontaine lensed the feature. An Oscar nominee for Best Adapted Screenplay for 2004’s Before Sunset and 2013’s Before Midnight, Delpy is perhaps best known as a director for the comedies 2 Days in Paris (2007) and its sequel 2 Days in New York (2012).…...
Actress/Writer/Director Julie Delpy will unveil her seventh title in 2019 with the drama My Zoe, an English language British-French-German co-production. Gabrielle Tana of Baby Cow Films, Hubert Caillard and Dominique Boutonnat for Electrik Films, Malte Grunert and Andrew Levitas are producing alongside Protagonist Pictures in the UK. Delpy casts herself as the lead with a supporting cast including Gemma Arterton, Daniel Bruhl, Richard Armitage, Saleh Bakri and Lindsay Duncan. Dp Stephane Fontaine lensed the feature. An Oscar nominee for Best Adapted Screenplay for 2004’s Before Sunset and 2013’s Before Midnight, Delpy is perhaps best known as a director for the comedies 2 Days in Paris (2007) and its sequel 2 Days in New York (2012).…...
- 1/3/2019
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Her seventh feature film since 2002’s Looking for Jimmy, Julie Delpy went into production My Zoe back in May in Berlin and Moscow. Of her filmography as a director, only 2012’s 2 Days in New York preemed in Park City, while her last film 2015’s Lolo was a Venice Film Festival entry. Richard Armitage, Gemma Arterton, Lindsay Duncan, Daniel Brühl and Delpy herself star and Dp duties went to Stéphane Fontaine.
Gist: Isabelle (Julie Delpy), a scientist and divorcée who has difficult contact with her ex-husband James (Richard Armitage) due to their co-parenting of daughter Zoe (Sophia Ally).…...
Gist: Isabelle (Julie Delpy), a scientist and divorcée who has difficult contact with her ex-husband James (Richard Armitage) due to their co-parenting of daughter Zoe (Sophia Ally).…...
- 11/22/2018
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
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