Exclusive: One of the more highly sought after open directing jobs may have just been filled as Sources tell Deadline that Leigh Whannell is in negotiations to direct The Green Hornet And Kato for Universal. Execs have been meeting with directors over the past couple of weeks but insiders close to the meetings felt as soon as Whannell threw his name in the mix he had the edge as the studio has wanted to get back in business with him after he delivered Invisible Man pic to critical acclaim and box-office success. The studio got a script in from David Koepp early this year they are high on and once a deal closes the film should be fast-tracked to the pre-production stages.
Universal optioned rights to The Green Hornet from Amasia in the spring of 2020, after co-founders Michael Helfant and Bradley Gallo acquired control of the motion picture franchise from...
Universal optioned rights to The Green Hornet from Amasia in the spring of 2020, after co-founders Michael Helfant and Bradley Gallo acquired control of the motion picture franchise from...
- 6/23/2022
- by Justin Kroll
- Deadline Film + TV
Kevin Smith is taking another crack at “The Green Hornet.”
Smith, who already has a “Green Hornet” comic book series based on the un-produced feature screenplay he was hired to write by Miramax under his belt, is developing an animated version of “Green Hornet” with kids content producer WildBrain.
The new series will be targeted at a family audience, while retaining many elements from the comics, including the titular character’s high-tech car, the “Black Beauty.”
Set in contemporary times, the new series will follow the adventures of a re-imagined Green Hornet and Kato – now the grown son of the original Green Hornet and the daughter of the original Kato – as they partner to battle crime in Century City.
“It’s an honor to escort the legendary Green Hornet and Kato into their very own animated series for the first time in the rich history of these iconic pop culture characters!
Smith, who already has a “Green Hornet” comic book series based on the un-produced feature screenplay he was hired to write by Miramax under his belt, is developing an animated version of “Green Hornet” with kids content producer WildBrain.
The new series will be targeted at a family audience, while retaining many elements from the comics, including the titular character’s high-tech car, the “Black Beauty.”
Set in contemporary times, the new series will follow the adventures of a re-imagined Green Hornet and Kato – now the grown son of the original Green Hornet and the daughter of the original Kato – as they partner to battle crime in Century City.
“It’s an honor to escort the legendary Green Hornet and Kato into their very own animated series for the first time in the rich history of these iconic pop culture characters!
- 7/30/2020
- by Will Thorne
- Variety Film + TV
The classic Anna Sewell novel Black Beauty and its adaptations have served as a bible of sorts for horse lovers worldwide. Ok, maybe that's a bit strong, but I've met a fair few horse lovers in my life that have a huge obsession with this work, so they'll most likely be jazzed by the news the franchise is getting a modern retelling.
Deadline reports a new Black Beauty film is in the works, and while it will mirror the events of the book set in 1877, it will also bring the story into the present day. The film will focus on a recently orphaned teenager named Jo Green, who goes to live with her uncle at a horse and animal sanctuary on Long Island. Jo Green will bond with Black Beauty, who has a somewhat similar incident happen when she is separated from her parents out West.
It's not the gritty retelling I had hoped for,...
Deadline reports a new Black Beauty film is in the works, and while it will mirror the events of the book set in 1877, it will also bring the story into the present day. The film will focus on a recently orphaned teenager named Jo Green, who goes to live with her uncle at a horse and animal sanctuary on Long Island. Jo Green will bond with Black Beauty, who has a somewhat similar incident happen when she is separated from her parents out West.
It's not the gritty retelling I had hoped for,...
- 5/29/2018
- by Mick Joest
- GeekTyrant
This is where I'm supposed to summarize the past year, find some overaching theme or thread running through my choices, spot trends, or something along those lines. Instead it's just another mea culpa for my continuing and accelerating estrangement from mainstream pop music. Don't mind me, I'm just a grumpy old fart. But these twenty new albums made me less grumpy.
1. Diiv: Is the Is Are (Captured Tracks)
I enjoyed their first album, and far from a sophomore slump, their second is even better. Sure, I'm heavily predisposed to love bands that conjure a moody '80s vibe with thrumming bass, chiming guitar jangle, and submerged vocals, but this is greater than the sum of those parts, simultaneously updating the sound while tapping into a new level of melodicism for this band.
2. David Bowie: Black Star (Sony)
I wrote about this at length. What can I add now that...
1. Diiv: Is the Is Are (Captured Tracks)
I enjoyed their first album, and far from a sophomore slump, their second is even better. Sure, I'm heavily predisposed to love bands that conjure a moody '80s vibe with thrumming bass, chiming guitar jangle, and submerged vocals, but this is greater than the sum of those parts, simultaneously updating the sound while tapping into a new level of melodicism for this band.
2. David Bowie: Black Star (Sony)
I wrote about this at length. What can I add now that...
- 1/18/2017
- by SteveHoltje
- www.culturecatch.com
Van Williams, star of the 1960s action sci-fi series The Green Hornet, has died, according to The Hollywood Reporter. He was 82.
Born Van Zandt Jarvis Williams on Feb. 27, 1934 in Forth Worth, Texas, the actor passed away Nov. 29 of kidney failure in Scottsdale, Arizona where he lived with his wife of 57 years, Vicki Flaxman Richards.
Williams grew up on a ranch outside Fort Worth and later studied animal husbandry and business at Texas Christian University. When he and his father wrangled over ranch policy, Van lit out for the wide open spaces of Hawaii in 1956. It was there, while working as...
Born Van Zandt Jarvis Williams on Feb. 27, 1934 in Forth Worth, Texas, the actor passed away Nov. 29 of kidney failure in Scottsdale, Arizona where he lived with his wife of 57 years, Vicki Flaxman Richards.
Williams grew up on a ranch outside Fort Worth and later studied animal husbandry and business at Texas Christian University. When he and his father wrangled over ranch policy, Van lit out for the wide open spaces of Hawaii in 1956. It was there, while working as...
- 12/5/2016
- by peoplecomproducer
- PEOPLE.com
There was a time when it was generally perceived that iconic heroic fantasy characters such as The Lone Ranger, The Green Hornet, The Shadow and Buck Rogers were so popular for so long that they would be around forever. I think of that whenever somebody alleges Superman and Spider-Man will be around forever. Times change, as do our cultural predilections and venues.
Nonetheless, those heroes have become part of our cultural fabric. Most Americans (at least) who have neither read, seen, nor heard the adventures of these characters have heard their names and have some vague idea of their modus operandi. Just as DC Entertainment has kept Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman “alive” through their comic books while merchandisers and movie producers such as Michael Uslan could enhance their visibility through their more profitable endeavors.
Right now all of the retired heroic fantasy characters I mentioned above are being kept...
Nonetheless, those heroes have become part of our cultural fabric. Most Americans (at least) who have neither read, seen, nor heard the adventures of these characters have heard their names and have some vague idea of their modus operandi. Just as DC Entertainment has kept Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman “alive” through their comic books while merchandisers and movie producers such as Michael Uslan could enhance their visibility through their more profitable endeavors.
Right now all of the retired heroic fantasy characters I mentioned above are being kept...
- 11/23/2016
- by Mike Gold
- Comicmix.com
According to reports director Gavin O'Connor ("The Accountant") will reboot the classic radio drama hero 'The Green Hornet' for Paramount, as a 'serious, hard-hitting crime-fighting' feature:
"My intention is to bring a gravitas to 'The Green Hornet' that wipes away the camp and kitsch of the previous iteration," said O'Connor.
"I want to re-mythologize 'The Green Hornet' in a contemporary context, with an emphasis on story and character, while at the same time, incorporating themes that speak to my heart."
Since his radio debut in the 1930's, 'Green Hornet' appeared in film serials throughout the early 1940's, a network television program in the 1960's, multiple comic book series from the 1940's on, and a comedic (?) feature film in 2011.
The franchise is currently owned by Green Hornet, Inc., licensing the property across a wide variety of media.
'Green Hornet' is the alter ego of 'Britt Reid',...
"My intention is to bring a gravitas to 'The Green Hornet' that wipes away the camp and kitsch of the previous iteration," said O'Connor.
"I want to re-mythologize 'The Green Hornet' in a contemporary context, with an emphasis on story and character, while at the same time, incorporating themes that speak to my heart."
Since his radio debut in the 1930's, 'Green Hornet' appeared in film serials throughout the early 1940's, a network television program in the 1960's, multiple comic book series from the 1940's on, and a comedic (?) feature film in 2011.
The franchise is currently owned by Green Hornet, Inc., licensing the property across a wide variety of media.
'Green Hornet' is the alter ego of 'Britt Reid',...
- 11/16/2016
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
Along with a roomful of journalists, Daily Dead participated in The Walking Dead press conference at this summer’s Comic-Con in San Diego, and our third round of highlights feature reflections on the show’s past and teases of its future from Robert Kirkman, Danai Gurira, Lauren Cohan, Steven Yeun, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, and Michael Cudlitz.
Robert Kirkman on bringing more characters from the comics into the show:
Robert Kirkman: We’ll always be bringing characters from the comics. We’re reaching that point where Ezekiel was in the storyline and so it’s just a natural progression. As we move through the storyline we’ll be bringing some characters up sooner and some characters up later and stuff like that, but there will definitely be other characters that you can see this season and some surprises coming. Be on the lookout for that, but right now it’s...
Robert Kirkman on bringing more characters from the comics into the show:
Robert Kirkman: We’ll always be bringing characters from the comics. We’re reaching that point where Ezekiel was in the storyline and so it’s just a natural progression. As we move through the storyline we’ll be bringing some characters up sooner and some characters up later and stuff like that, but there will definitely be other characters that you can see this season and some surprises coming. Be on the lookout for that, but right now it’s...
- 8/7/2016
- by Christy Smith
- DailyDead
Writer and academic W.G. Sebald once said: “Men and animals regard each other across a gulf of mutual incomprehension.” In truth, an animal understands nothing of its place in the world, their mind focused merely on food and the prospect of comfort, if available. In cinema, there is an old actor’s adage that states: “Never work with children or animals. They will always upstage you.” When an animal performs successfully in a film, it’s undeniably captivating because we know that animal is unaware of its role in the overall story. The camera has recorded some beautiful cosmic miracle, appearing from the outside to somehow defy Sebald’s words.
Whether fictional friend or foe, the relationship between humans and animals in cinema has always captured our imaginations. These sometimes expand beyond the borders of the normal, and, beyond the Bourgeoisie pooper-scoopers and barked-out cry conveying that some hapless child has fallen down a well,...
Whether fictional friend or foe, the relationship between humans and animals in cinema has always captured our imaginations. These sometimes expand beyond the borders of the normal, and, beyond the Bourgeoisie pooper-scoopers and barked-out cry conveying that some hapless child has fallen down a well,...
- 6/23/2016
- by Tony Hinds
- The Film Stage
Robert Shapiro will produce the story of a Jewish piano prodigy who narrowly escapes Nazi-occupied Vienna during the Second World War.
BBC Films and producer Robert Shapiro (Empire Of The Sun) are set to adapt Mona Golabek and Lee Cohen’s 2003 book The Children Of Willesden Lane into a feature.
The project is scripted by Joe Shrapnel and Anna Waterhouse (Race), and produced by Shapiro, with Christine Langan and Ed Wethered executive producing for BBC Films.
The film will tell the true story of Golabek’s mother Lisa Jura, a piano prodigy who narrowly escaped Vienna in 1938 as part of the Kindertransport rescue of Jewish refugee children, and went to England to start a new life.
A stage production, starring Golabek, recently had a sold out run at the St. James Theatre in London, after premiering in the U.S.
Shapiro, an executive producer on Empire Of The Sun, produced Pee-wee’s Big Adventure and Black Beauty.
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BBC Films and producer Robert Shapiro (Empire Of The Sun) are set to adapt Mona Golabek and Lee Cohen’s 2003 book The Children Of Willesden Lane into a feature.
The project is scripted by Joe Shrapnel and Anna Waterhouse (Race), and produced by Shapiro, with Christine Langan and Ed Wethered executive producing for BBC Films.
The film will tell the true story of Golabek’s mother Lisa Jura, a piano prodigy who narrowly escaped Vienna in 1938 as part of the Kindertransport rescue of Jewish refugee children, and went to England to start a new life.
A stage production, starring Golabek, recently had a sold out run at the St. James Theatre in London, after premiering in the U.S.
Shapiro, an executive producer on Empire Of The Sun, produced Pee-wee’s Big Adventure and Black Beauty.
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- 3/30/2016
- ScreenDaily
“Lamb”, directed by Yared Zeleke and presented by Ama Ampadu and Laurent Lavolé showed in Competition at Doha's Ajyal Youth Film Festival this month to an audience of youth and children under the age of 18. “Lamb” premiered in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard 2015, marking the first time an Ethiopian film has ever screened as an Official Selection at Cannes. ). It was this year’s Ethiopian submission for Academy Award© nomination for Best Foreign Language Film Oscar©.
This is no Little Bo Peep lamb. This lamb has rough brown wool and is led on a rope, dragged on a rope by a young boy, Ephraim, eight years old, who lives in the devout Coptic Christian land of Northern Ethiopia
“Lamb” is a classic tale of a child and pet, the type of story which has been loved by children in every generation. Think “Old Yeller”, “Black Beauty”, “Charlotte’s Web”, “Babe”, “Lassie Come Home”. Ephraim’s pet lamb Chuni belonged to his mother who has died from the drought-caused famine hitting their land. His father must leave the boy with distant relatives while he seeks work in the city. His lamb is the only link he has to a life of happy innocence once shared with his loving mother and father.
The small nuclear family where he must stay lives together in a one-room hut: a grandmother who presides over the family, her son an authoritarian father who reacts against change of any sort, his wife and their sick child. They have also taken in the sixteen year old Tsion who is always reading and seeking ways to educate herself and eventually leaves for the city.
Ephraim does not conform to the norms of males as farmers; instead he prefers cooking.
The authoritarian patriarch of the family refuses to listen to advice of his niece about modern ways of growing crops during the drought and he forbids the child Ephraim, whose love of cooking (“girl’s work! The uncle says) leads him to make money by selling samosas at the market.
Moreover, the authoritarian father of the family wants to serve Ephraim’s lamb as a meal for the upcoming holiday feast and to save his family from starvation.
This moves Ephraim to act to save his lamb. In order to make money he sells his extraordinary samosas in the market place to raise enough to finance his trip to the city to find his father and save his sheep from being sacrificed and served for the upcoming holiday feast.
The children who saw this film at Ajyal Film Festival were entranced by how foreign and strange the landscape, and indeed, the people themselves were. The questions they asked Yared Zeleke, the director, and the two young stars, sixteen-year-old Kidist Siyum and eight year old Rediat Amare were startling. Not the usual Q&A of adults that you hear after they have seen a movie.
Was the boy really being hit?
Yared: Well yes and no. He had lots of padding, lots of practice, and the whip was very small."
Why did you have so much landscape?
Yared: Because the land was a character in the movie. The land shapes who we are. This special land in Ethiopia shapes the characters in the movie. It is as ancient as the people who practice the earliest form of Christianity and Judaism. There is so much history in the mountains. Ethiopia is the only country in Africa never colonized by Europeans. The mountains protected them and the people are very spiritual.
Yared: It was shot in Gondar, the most Jewish section of Ethiopia where Felashas (Jews) and Christians live. The Felashas are a minority and so you see the little boy is an outsider because his mother, who died of the famine and draught, was a Jew and he is given a special blessing by the priest.
When the action was going on, focus was on the boy. Why did you make the film like that?
Yared: The movie is about the boy, so everything is shown around him. Staying with the boy it’s is more “true” to stick with the character.
What was your favorite scene?
Yared: My favorite scene is the magic forest. The hardest scenes were with Chuni the lamb. I’ll never work with an animal again.
Why does your film say “dedicated to my grandmother”?
Yared: I’m from the city; I never had a pet and I don’t cook. But I went to visit my family in the country when I was little and I met my grandmother. When I was 10, I lost all my family in Ethiopia and I moved to New York.
Where do you live?
Yared: I live in Addis Adaba.
I liked seeing Muslim, Jewish and Christians together. I liked the landscapes. They were works of art. How did you choose the actors?
Yared: We auditioned and videotaped 7,000 people over six months. Half of them were kids. The two stars chosen just stood out. Without Rediat Amare playing Ephraim and Kidist Siyum playing Tsion, the movie would be completely different.
How did the 16 year old actress like her role?
Kidist Siyum: I’m a city girl, it was hard to learn to be a country girl.
Yared: Both Kidist and were very smart good students and had not acted before.
Rediat Amare : Ephraim is quiet and introverted. I am not. I’m very outgoing. We are both mischievous and misfits.
How do you feel about audiences their age seeing the movie?
Yared: As the writer, I never thought of who it was for. I only wrote about my loss. The country is like a fairy-tale, so beautiful. I have only had adults watching it in the past so showing it to kids is great! What do you think?
Kidist Siyum : I am happy to see people my age. I hope people will take away lessons from the movie.
Why did the boy leave the lamb?
Yared: He had to let go in order to grow. Sometimes that is a part of growing up, to let go of childish things.
“Lamb” is a carefully nuanced film of silences and understatements, stunning landscapes and beautiful people dressing in exotic styles. Three female figures, the grandmother, the mother and the teenaged Tsion, the strong-willed nose-in-a-book girl bring a measured warmth and depth which increases our feel that we are participating in their lives, lived in such close quarters, beautifully shot and a contrast to the vast and beautiful mountainous countryside of Ethiopia where Ephraim spends much of his waking and dreaming hours.
Christians, Jews, Muslims and others lead a peaceful coexistence in what looks like a hard life but still a life in a sort of paradise which is disappearing. To see it in a family setting will instill a special feeling of participating in the audiences.
The music is outstanding as is the final celebratory dance, with shimmy shoulder shaking I have never seen before.
“Lamb” (not to be confused with Ross Partridge’s “Lamb” soon to be released stateside by The Orchard) is the first film of director Yared Zeleke, who received an Mfa in Writing and Directing from Nyu.
It was workshopped in Addis Ababa. The producer, Slum Kid Films, an Ethiopia-based film production company co-founded by Ama Ampadu aims to discover and nurture emerging talent in Ethiopia, as well as to support the development of Ethiopian filmmaking.
Ama knows the European system of filmmaking and was able to secure support from Acp from Norway and Cnc from France. The fact that "Lamb" was selected for the Cannes L'Atelier film financing summit two years ago, almost assured that, upon completion, it would premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, as it now has.
France, Ethiopia, Germany and Norway are represented by coproducers Gloria Films, Slum Kid Films, Heimatfilm, Dublin Films, Film Farms, Zdf/Das kleine Fernsehspiel.
Producers are Ama Ampadu, Laurent Lavolé, Johannes Rexin. Co-producers are Alan R. Milligan. Executive producers David Hurst, Bettina Brokemper.
Medienboard Berlin funded this international co-production and Naomi Kawase’s “An”, both of which played in Cannes’ official selection this year.
It was supported by the Doha Film Institute, which has funded more than 220 projects since its inception. Five of their grantees made their world premieres in the Festival de Cannes this year in various sections among which ‘"Lamb" was in the main world cinema showcase, Un Certain Regard. The others were "Waves ’98" by Elie Dagher (Lebanon, Qatar) in the Official Short Film Competition; "Dégradé" by Tarzan and Arab Abunasser (Palestine, France, Qatar) and " Mediterranea" by Jonas Carpignano (Italy, France, Germany, Qatar) in the Critics’ Week and "Mustang" by Deniz Gamze Ergüven (Turkey, France, Germany, Qatar) selected for the Directors’ Fortnight.
International sales agent is Films Distribution. The film has been has licensed to
Kimstim Films for U.S.
Haut et Court for France
Neue Visionen for Germany
Trigon film for Switzerland
Filmarti for Turkey
Moving Turtle for Middle East
Ost for Paradis for Denmark
Mantarraya for Mexico
Betta Pictures for Spain
Maison Motion for Taiwan
Suraya for South Asia
Bio Paradis for Iceland
DDDream for China
7ème Ciné Art for Tunisia and Morocco...
This is no Little Bo Peep lamb. This lamb has rough brown wool and is led on a rope, dragged on a rope by a young boy, Ephraim, eight years old, who lives in the devout Coptic Christian land of Northern Ethiopia
“Lamb” is a classic tale of a child and pet, the type of story which has been loved by children in every generation. Think “Old Yeller”, “Black Beauty”, “Charlotte’s Web”, “Babe”, “Lassie Come Home”. Ephraim’s pet lamb Chuni belonged to his mother who has died from the drought-caused famine hitting their land. His father must leave the boy with distant relatives while he seeks work in the city. His lamb is the only link he has to a life of happy innocence once shared with his loving mother and father.
The small nuclear family where he must stay lives together in a one-room hut: a grandmother who presides over the family, her son an authoritarian father who reacts against change of any sort, his wife and their sick child. They have also taken in the sixteen year old Tsion who is always reading and seeking ways to educate herself and eventually leaves for the city.
Ephraim does not conform to the norms of males as farmers; instead he prefers cooking.
The authoritarian patriarch of the family refuses to listen to advice of his niece about modern ways of growing crops during the drought and he forbids the child Ephraim, whose love of cooking (“girl’s work! The uncle says) leads him to make money by selling samosas at the market.
Moreover, the authoritarian father of the family wants to serve Ephraim’s lamb as a meal for the upcoming holiday feast and to save his family from starvation.
This moves Ephraim to act to save his lamb. In order to make money he sells his extraordinary samosas in the market place to raise enough to finance his trip to the city to find his father and save his sheep from being sacrificed and served for the upcoming holiday feast.
The children who saw this film at Ajyal Film Festival were entranced by how foreign and strange the landscape, and indeed, the people themselves were. The questions they asked Yared Zeleke, the director, and the two young stars, sixteen-year-old Kidist Siyum and eight year old Rediat Amare were startling. Not the usual Q&A of adults that you hear after they have seen a movie.
Was the boy really being hit?
Yared: Well yes and no. He had lots of padding, lots of practice, and the whip was very small."
Why did you have so much landscape?
Yared: Because the land was a character in the movie. The land shapes who we are. This special land in Ethiopia shapes the characters in the movie. It is as ancient as the people who practice the earliest form of Christianity and Judaism. There is so much history in the mountains. Ethiopia is the only country in Africa never colonized by Europeans. The mountains protected them and the people are very spiritual.
Yared: It was shot in Gondar, the most Jewish section of Ethiopia where Felashas (Jews) and Christians live. The Felashas are a minority and so you see the little boy is an outsider because his mother, who died of the famine and draught, was a Jew and he is given a special blessing by the priest.
When the action was going on, focus was on the boy. Why did you make the film like that?
Yared: The movie is about the boy, so everything is shown around him. Staying with the boy it’s is more “true” to stick with the character.
What was your favorite scene?
Yared: My favorite scene is the magic forest. The hardest scenes were with Chuni the lamb. I’ll never work with an animal again.
Why does your film say “dedicated to my grandmother”?
Yared: I’m from the city; I never had a pet and I don’t cook. But I went to visit my family in the country when I was little and I met my grandmother. When I was 10, I lost all my family in Ethiopia and I moved to New York.
Where do you live?
Yared: I live in Addis Adaba.
I liked seeing Muslim, Jewish and Christians together. I liked the landscapes. They were works of art. How did you choose the actors?
Yared: We auditioned and videotaped 7,000 people over six months. Half of them were kids. The two stars chosen just stood out. Without Rediat Amare playing Ephraim and Kidist Siyum playing Tsion, the movie would be completely different.
How did the 16 year old actress like her role?
Kidist Siyum: I’m a city girl, it was hard to learn to be a country girl.
Yared: Both Kidist and were very smart good students and had not acted before.
Rediat Amare : Ephraim is quiet and introverted. I am not. I’m very outgoing. We are both mischievous and misfits.
How do you feel about audiences their age seeing the movie?
Yared: As the writer, I never thought of who it was for. I only wrote about my loss. The country is like a fairy-tale, so beautiful. I have only had adults watching it in the past so showing it to kids is great! What do you think?
Kidist Siyum : I am happy to see people my age. I hope people will take away lessons from the movie.
Why did the boy leave the lamb?
Yared: He had to let go in order to grow. Sometimes that is a part of growing up, to let go of childish things.
“Lamb” is a carefully nuanced film of silences and understatements, stunning landscapes and beautiful people dressing in exotic styles. Three female figures, the grandmother, the mother and the teenaged Tsion, the strong-willed nose-in-a-book girl bring a measured warmth and depth which increases our feel that we are participating in their lives, lived in such close quarters, beautifully shot and a contrast to the vast and beautiful mountainous countryside of Ethiopia where Ephraim spends much of his waking and dreaming hours.
Christians, Jews, Muslims and others lead a peaceful coexistence in what looks like a hard life but still a life in a sort of paradise which is disappearing. To see it in a family setting will instill a special feeling of participating in the audiences.
The music is outstanding as is the final celebratory dance, with shimmy shoulder shaking I have never seen before.
“Lamb” (not to be confused with Ross Partridge’s “Lamb” soon to be released stateside by The Orchard) is the first film of director Yared Zeleke, who received an Mfa in Writing and Directing from Nyu.
It was workshopped in Addis Ababa. The producer, Slum Kid Films, an Ethiopia-based film production company co-founded by Ama Ampadu aims to discover and nurture emerging talent in Ethiopia, as well as to support the development of Ethiopian filmmaking.
Ama knows the European system of filmmaking and was able to secure support from Acp from Norway and Cnc from France. The fact that "Lamb" was selected for the Cannes L'Atelier film financing summit two years ago, almost assured that, upon completion, it would premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, as it now has.
France, Ethiopia, Germany and Norway are represented by coproducers Gloria Films, Slum Kid Films, Heimatfilm, Dublin Films, Film Farms, Zdf/Das kleine Fernsehspiel.
Producers are Ama Ampadu, Laurent Lavolé, Johannes Rexin. Co-producers are Alan R. Milligan. Executive producers David Hurst, Bettina Brokemper.
Medienboard Berlin funded this international co-production and Naomi Kawase’s “An”, both of which played in Cannes’ official selection this year.
It was supported by the Doha Film Institute, which has funded more than 220 projects since its inception. Five of their grantees made their world premieres in the Festival de Cannes this year in various sections among which ‘"Lamb" was in the main world cinema showcase, Un Certain Regard. The others were "Waves ’98" by Elie Dagher (Lebanon, Qatar) in the Official Short Film Competition; "Dégradé" by Tarzan and Arab Abunasser (Palestine, France, Qatar) and " Mediterranea" by Jonas Carpignano (Italy, France, Germany, Qatar) in the Critics’ Week and "Mustang" by Deniz Gamze Ergüven (Turkey, France, Germany, Qatar) selected for the Directors’ Fortnight.
International sales agent is Films Distribution. The film has been has licensed to
Kimstim Films for U.S.
Haut et Court for France
Neue Visionen for Germany
Trigon film for Switzerland
Filmarti for Turkey
Moving Turtle for Middle East
Ost for Paradis for Denmark
Mantarraya for Mexico
Betta Pictures for Spain
Maison Motion for Taiwan
Suraya for South Asia
Bio Paradis for Iceland
DDDream for China
7ème Ciné Art for Tunisia and Morocco...
- 1/30/2016
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Speaking to EW, Steven Spielberg reflected on his relationship with screenwriter Melissa Mathison, who died last month, and whose friendship with Spielberg began when she wrote E.T. the Extra-Terrestial. Spielberg recounts how he met her on the set of Raiders of the Lost Ark, where she was visiting her future husband Harrison Ford (the couple divorced in 2001). He discovered Mathison wrote one of his favorite films, Black Beauty, but she considered herself a "failed screenwriter" and was retired. Spielberg then appealed to Ford to help him bring Mathison onboard E.T. with him: I told him I had offered her a chance to write a movie with me and she turned it down. Harrison said, ‘Sounds like Melissa …’ I asked, ‘Can you help me?’ He said, ‘Let me talk to her tonight.’ And so the next day Harrison came into work, and the first thing he said was, ‘I think...
- 12/22/2015
- by Ira Madison III
- Vulture
Saeed Jaffrey in My Beautiful Laundrette
Titles like Ram Teri Ganga Maili and Shatranj Ke Khiladi made him one of India's greatest screen star, but Saeed Jaffrey was also beloved of British viewers, starring in classics like A Passage To India, My Beautiful Laundrette and Gandhi. Now he has died at the age of 86.
A Punjabi actor who got an early break in Z-Cars, Jaffrey got his first big screen role in James Ivory's British-Indian co-production The Guru in 1969. He would later appear in TV series The Advetures Of Black Beauty, Gangsters, Tandoori Nights and Coronation Street. The first Indian to receive an OBE, he also won praise for his work in radio and theatre, taking his theatre company across the Us to perform Shakespeare plays.
Jaffrey is survived by his daughters Meera, Zia, and actress Sakina Jaffrey, from his marriage to actress and writer Madhur Jaffrey, which ended in 1965. His death was.
Titles like Ram Teri Ganga Maili and Shatranj Ke Khiladi made him one of India's greatest screen star, but Saeed Jaffrey was also beloved of British viewers, starring in classics like A Passage To India, My Beautiful Laundrette and Gandhi. Now he has died at the age of 86.
A Punjabi actor who got an early break in Z-Cars, Jaffrey got his first big screen role in James Ivory's British-Indian co-production The Guru in 1969. He would later appear in TV series The Advetures Of Black Beauty, Gangsters, Tandoori Nights and Coronation Street. The first Indian to receive an OBE, he also won praise for his work in radio and theatre, taking his theatre company across the Us to perform Shakespeare plays.
Jaffrey is survived by his daughters Meera, Zia, and actress Sakina Jaffrey, from his marriage to actress and writer Madhur Jaffrey, which ended in 1965. His death was.
- 11/16/2015
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
This week's batch of MPAA ratings include the upcoming Sean Penn actioner The Gunman receiving an R-rating, which I guess means Taken director Pierre Morel was given a little bit of a longer leash than he was on Taken when it comes to violence. How will Penn stack up to Liam Neesonc Another R-rating goes to Magic Mike Xxl as the stripper sequel will see Channing Tatum and the boys getting inappropriate with strong sexual content, pervasive language, some nudity and a little bit o' drug use. All in a day's work amiritec Alan Rickman's A Little Chaos is the other R-rated feature on the board as the Kate Winslet starrer is still looking for a release date. Otherwise we have a large group of PG-13s for the likes of Insidious: Chapter 3, the new Nicolas Sparks adaptation The Longest Ride and Tarsem Singh's Self/less, which was...
- 2/24/2015
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Robert "Bob" Francis Hastings, Sr., best known for portraying "yes man" Lt. Elroy Carpenter on the popular 1960s sitcom McHale's Navy, has died. He was 89 and had battled pancreatic cancer for 15 years. The Brooklyn-born Hastings had a long entertainment career, which began in radio at the age of 11 on such shows as The Daily Mirror Radio Gang and Adventures in King Arthurland, according to California's Burbank Leader newspaper. Enlisting as a B-29 navigator during World War II, Hastings once again found work in radio upon his return, serving as the voice of Archie Andrews, the main character on the airwaves...
- 7/2/2014
- by Wade Rouse
- PEOPLE.com
One of two extant custom-made Black Beauty "hero" cars used in the 2011 movie version of The Green Hornet is on the block at Boston's Rr Auctions. Bidding stood at $34,529 as of June 23. The 1965 Chrysler Imperial was converted by Dennis McCarthy of Vehicle FX, of Sun Valley Calif., who modified cars for Fast & Furious 6 and Batman Begins. The car is equipped with its original 413-cubic-inch V8 engine and has 71.421 miles on the odometer. McCarthy modified the stock Imperial with lime-green headlights, two hood-mounted Browning .30 caliber machine
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- 6/23/2014
- by Michael Walker
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Lana Del Rey has announced the release date for her new album Ultraviolence: June 16, 2014.
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— Lana Del Rey (@LanaDelRey) May 9, 2014
Del Rey made the announcement on Wednesday, posting a link to her official website, which is selling a special Box Set for the singer’s third record. The Box Set includes two LP’s, a “Deluxe CD digipack” and art prints.
The Ultraviolence tracklist has also been revealed and appears as follows:
“Cruel World”
“Ultraviolence”
“Shades of Cool”
“Brooklyn Baby”
“West Coast”
“Sad Girl”
“Pretty When You Cry”
“Money Power Glory”
“F--ked My Way Up To The Top”
“Old Money”
“The Other Woman”
Bonus Tracks include “Black Beauty,” “Guns and Roses,” “Florida Kilos,” but it is unclear whether these will be available on digital download or CD versions of Ultraviolence.
Presently, only the $99 box set is available for pre-order on Del Rey’s official website,...
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— Lana Del Rey (@LanaDelRey) May 9, 2014
Del Rey made the announcement on Wednesday, posting a link to her official website, which is selling a special Box Set for the singer’s third record. The Box Set includes two LP’s, a “Deluxe CD digipack” and art prints.
The Ultraviolence tracklist has also been revealed and appears as follows:
“Cruel World”
“Ultraviolence”
“Shades of Cool”
“Brooklyn Baby”
“West Coast”
“Sad Girl”
“Pretty When You Cry”
“Money Power Glory”
“F--ked My Way Up To The Top”
“Old Money”
“The Other Woman”
Bonus Tracks include “Black Beauty,” “Guns and Roses,” “Florida Kilos,” but it is unclear whether these will be available on digital download or CD versions of Ultraviolence.
Presently, only the $99 box set is available for pre-order on Del Rey’s official website,...
- 5/15/2014
- Uinterview
Lana Del Rey has set a June 17 release date for “Ultraviolence,” as well as released the album's cover art. In addition to standard and deluxe editions on download, CD, and vinyl, there will also be a Collectors Box edition that will include a deluxe LP Picture disc, a deluxe CD digipak and art prints, which was assume are suitable for framing. In addition to first single “West Coast,” the new album contains some intriguing titles, including “F*cked My Way To The Top,” “The Other Woman” and bonus track, “Guns And Roses.” Del Rey is current on tour in the U.S. Her remaining dates are listed below the track listing. 'Ultraviolence' Tracklist: 1. Cruel World 2. Ultraviolence 3. Shades Of Cool 4. Brooklyn Baby 5. West Coast 6. Sad Girl 7. Pretty When You Cry 8. Money Power Glory 9. Fucked My Way Up To The Top 10. Old Money 11. The Other Woman Bonus Tracks: 12. Black Beauty 13. Guns And Roses...
- 5/14/2014
- Hitfix
It may not have an official release date just yet ("next month," she claimed, this month), but Lana Del Rey's Ultraviolence now has a track list. The singer born Lizzie Grant is more Lana Del Rey than ever — all caps and all cool. Which will be the Song of Summer? (Clearly, it's "Fucked My Way To The Top.")Cruel World Ultraviolence Shades Of Cool Brooklyn Baby West Coast Sad Girl Pretty When You Cry Money Power Glory Fucked My Way Up To The Top Old Money The Other Woman Bonus Tracks: Black Beauty Guns And Roses Florida Kilos...
- 5/8/2014
- by Lindsey Weber
- Vulture
National Theater Live’s War Horse screens this Sunday (March 23rd) at the Tivoli at noon.
The Spielberg movie has come and gone but War Horse gallops on! Who would have guessed that Michael Morpurgo’s children’s story – essentially Black Beauty in the trenches of the first world war – would become such a major theatrical hit?
Based on Morpurgo’s novel and adapted for the stage by Nick Stafford, War Horse takes audiences on an extraordinary journey from the fields of rural Devon to the trenches of First World War France. Filled with stirring music and songs, this powerfully moving and imaginative drama is a show of phenomenal inventiveness. At its heart are astonishing lifesized puppets by South Africa’s Handspring Puppet Company, who bring breathing, galloping, charging horses to thrilling life on stage.
Don’t miss your chance to experience this landmark 3 hour and 20 minute production when it screens this Sunday,...
The Spielberg movie has come and gone but War Horse gallops on! Who would have guessed that Michael Morpurgo’s children’s story – essentially Black Beauty in the trenches of the first world war – would become such a major theatrical hit?
Based on Morpurgo’s novel and adapted for the stage by Nick Stafford, War Horse takes audiences on an extraordinary journey from the fields of rural Devon to the trenches of First World War France. Filled with stirring music and songs, this powerfully moving and imaginative drama is a show of phenomenal inventiveness. At its heart are astonishing lifesized puppets by South Africa’s Handspring Puppet Company, who bring breathing, galloping, charging horses to thrilling life on stage.
Don’t miss your chance to experience this landmark 3 hour and 20 minute production when it screens this Sunday,...
- 3/18/2014
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Stepping out for a social call, Lana Del Rey showed up at a friend’s house in Los Angeles on Tuesday afternoon (August 13).
The “Ride” singer channeled her inner-child with a Mickey Mouse t-shirt and backwards ball cap as she strolled away from her black Jaguar convertible.
And it sounds like yet another one of Lana’s unreleased tracks has leaked onto the internet, following her previous songs “So Legit,” “Black Beauty” and “Maha Maha.”
“Behind Closed Doors” is a sexual confessional in which Miss Del Rey proclaims she wants to be thrown around “like a pizza pie.”
Lana sings, "Everybody saying you're no good for me, / But they don't see the dirty stuff you do to me, / I only shout a little but you give me more, / Yeah, behind closed doors.”...
The “Ride” singer channeled her inner-child with a Mickey Mouse t-shirt and backwards ball cap as she strolled away from her black Jaguar convertible.
And it sounds like yet another one of Lana’s unreleased tracks has leaked onto the internet, following her previous songs “So Legit,” “Black Beauty” and “Maha Maha.”
“Behind Closed Doors” is a sexual confessional in which Miss Del Rey proclaims she wants to be thrown around “like a pizza pie.”
Lana sings, "Everybody saying you're no good for me, / But they don't see the dirty stuff you do to me, / I only shout a little but you give me more, / Yeah, behind closed doors.”...
- 8/14/2013
- GossipCenter
If you've got a bunch of extra money and you like things that were owned by celebrities, the Mecum Auctions are for you. The auction house specializes in automobiles and celebrity items and they aren't fooling around with their offerings. Their next auction features two different trucks owned by the late actor Steven McQueen.
The first is a custom camper van he bought on the spot, after passing it on a drive one day. The 1952 Chevrolet was one of many vehicles McQueen owned, with his widow Minty McQueen saying, "Steve's collection of cars and motorcycles cluttered the private driveway that serviced a row of homes near the beach, but that didn't stop him from buying whatever he wanted." That camper also has the distinction of being the last automobile McQueen drove in before his 1980 death from cancer.
The other McQueen-owned vehicle on the auction block is a 1969 Chevrolet Baja Hickey race truck.
The first is a custom camper van he bought on the spot, after passing it on a drive one day. The 1952 Chevrolet was one of many vehicles McQueen owned, with his widow Minty McQueen saying, "Steve's collection of cars and motorcycles cluttered the private driveway that serviced a row of homes near the beach, but that didn't stop him from buying whatever he wanted." That camper also has the distinction of being the last automobile McQueen drove in before his 1980 death from cancer.
The other McQueen-owned vehicle on the auction block is a 1969 Chevrolet Baja Hickey race truck.
- 7/24/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
From producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Gore Verbinski, the filmmaking duo behind the blockbusting Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, comes Disney/Jerry Bruckheimer Films' The Lone Ranger (2013), a thrilling adventure infused with action and humour, in which the famed masked hero is brought to life through new eyes. To celebrate the 9 August UK release of The Lone Ranger, we're giving you and a guest the chance to see the film in London a month before everyone else (on 10 July) with Five pairs of tickets up for grabs. This is an exclusive competition for our Facebook and Twitter fans, so if you haven't already, 'Like' us at facebook.com/CineVueUK or follow us @CineVue before answering the question below.
In this new version of The Lone Ranger, Native American warrior Tonto (Johnny Depp) recounts the untold tales that transformed John Reid (Armie Hammer), a man of the law, into a...
In this new version of The Lone Ranger, Native American warrior Tonto (Johnny Depp) recounts the untold tales that transformed John Reid (Armie Hammer), a man of the law, into a...
- 7/4/2013
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Clare Balding wants to get married on a horse. The 42-year-old presenter is keen to tie the knot with Alice Arnold - who she entered a civil partnership with in 2006 - as soon as gay marriage is made legal in the UK, and she has already made ''outrageous'' plans to wed in style. Clare, 42, explained: ''The best thing is to plan the most outrageous wedding. I will have the 'Black Beauty' theme music, Alice will be on a Shetland pony because she is quite little and I'll be on a shire horse because I'm quite big. ''Everyone will bring their...
- 5/31/2013
- Virgin Media - TV
Clare Balding wants to get married on a horse. The 42-year-old presenter is keen to tie the knot with Alice Arnold - who she entered a civil partnership with in 2006 - as soon as gay marriage is made legal in the UK, and she has already made ''outrageous'' plans to wed in style. Clare, 42, explained: ''The best thing is to plan the most outrageous wedding. I will have the 'Black Beauty' theme music, Alice will be on a Shetland pony because she is quite little and I'll be on a shire horse because I'm quite big. ''Everyone will bring their...
- 5/31/2013
- Virgin Media - Celebrity
April 7 (Reuters) - Set phasers to sell - and sell big.
Captain Kirk's "Star Trek" phaser gun from the second pilot of the wildly popular 1960s television series sold for a hefty $231,000 on Saturday in Los Angeles, Julien's Auctions said.
The phaser, created at the request of "Star Trek" creator Gene Roddenberry for use by William Shatner, who played Kirk in the beloved sci-fi show, had been estimated to sell for about $50,000, but achieved more than four times that including commission.
Other extraterrestrial highlights at the two-day Hollywood Legends sale of hundreds of costumes, memorabilia, props and other items included the "alien survey buggy" seen aboard the Nostromo in the 1979 movie "Alien," which sold for $10,625, and a complete costume worn by Anubis, played by Carlos Lauchu, in the 1994 movie "Stargate," which sold for $16,250, more than three times the estimate.
An archive of autographs from Academy Award winners fetched $15,625, while a...
Captain Kirk's "Star Trek" phaser gun from the second pilot of the wildly popular 1960s television series sold for a hefty $231,000 on Saturday in Los Angeles, Julien's Auctions said.
The phaser, created at the request of "Star Trek" creator Gene Roddenberry for use by William Shatner, who played Kirk in the beloved sci-fi show, had been estimated to sell for about $50,000, but achieved more than four times that including commission.
Other extraterrestrial highlights at the two-day Hollywood Legends sale of hundreds of costumes, memorabilia, props and other items included the "alien survey buggy" seen aboard the Nostromo in the 1979 movie "Alien," which sold for $10,625, and a complete costume worn by Anubis, played by Carlos Lauchu, in the 1994 movie "Stargate," which sold for $16,250, more than three times the estimate.
An archive of autographs from Academy Award winners fetched $15,625, while a...
- 4/7/2013
- by Reuters
- Huffington Post
Prop used by William Shatner sells for far beyond estimates at two-day auction of Hollywood memorabilia and costumes
Set phasers to sell – and sell big.
Captain Kirk's Star Trek phaser gun from the second pilot of the wildly popular 1960s television series sold for a hefty $231,000 (£151,000) on Saturday in Los Angeles, Julien's Auctions said.
The phaser, created at the request of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry for use by William Shatner, who played Kirk in the beloved sci-fi show, had been estimated to sell for about $50,000, but achieved more than four times that including commission.
Other extraterrestrial highlights at the two-day Hollywood Legends sale of hundreds of costumes, memorabilia, props and other items included the "alien survey buggy" seen aboard the Nostromo in the 1979 movie Alien, which sold for $10,625, and a complete costume worn by Anubis, played by Carlos Lauchu, in the 1994 movie Stargate, which sold for $16,250, more than three times the estimate.
Set phasers to sell – and sell big.
Captain Kirk's Star Trek phaser gun from the second pilot of the wildly popular 1960s television series sold for a hefty $231,000 (£151,000) on Saturday in Los Angeles, Julien's Auctions said.
The phaser, created at the request of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry for use by William Shatner, who played Kirk in the beloved sci-fi show, had been estimated to sell for about $50,000, but achieved more than four times that including commission.
Other extraterrestrial highlights at the two-day Hollywood Legends sale of hundreds of costumes, memorabilia, props and other items included the "alien survey buggy" seen aboard the Nostromo in the 1979 movie Alien, which sold for $10,625, and a complete costume worn by Anubis, played by Carlos Lauchu, in the 1994 movie Stargate, which sold for $16,250, more than three times the estimate.
- 4/7/2013
- The Guardian - Film News
Oh, Hollywood. You don't really care about us, do you?
After The Hollywood Reporter revealed that there's a "Sherlock Holmes"-style update of "Oliver Twist" in the works, we're really starting to reconsider things. It's bad enough that you won't produce original ideas, but then you have to go and do something like this. "Oliver Twist" isn't even the best candidate for this kind of treatment, and this type of logline is one of the easiest to come up with when the original property is available.
If you're going to make us sit through slightly different spins on the same old story, the least you could do is make it more like these.
Tom Sawyer
"Faking your death isn't hard. It's coming back to live that's the trick." After years of working undercover on the banks of the Mighty Mississippi, Tom Sawyer is looking for a way back into his normal life.
After The Hollywood Reporter revealed that there's a "Sherlock Holmes"-style update of "Oliver Twist" in the works, we're really starting to reconsider things. It's bad enough that you won't produce original ideas, but then you have to go and do something like this. "Oliver Twist" isn't even the best candidate for this kind of treatment, and this type of logline is one of the easiest to come up with when the original property is available.
If you're going to make us sit through slightly different spins on the same old story, the least you could do is make it more like these.
Tom Sawyer
"Faking your death isn't hard. It's coming back to live that's the trick." After years of working undercover on the banks of the Mighty Mississippi, Tom Sawyer is looking for a way back into his normal life.
- 2/13/2013
- by Kevin P. Sullivan
- MTV Movies Blog
Love: Black Beauty (High Moon)
Black Beauty is a previously unreleased album from 1973 produced by Paul Rothchild (producer of the Doors, among others); the label went out of business before it could be issued. Given that the band's best songs were written by Bryan MacLean and Burt Bacharach, I wasn't expecting much from something from 1973, by which point MacLean was long gone and Arthur Lee was the only original member.
I suppose that while some fans could protest that Black Beauty is not really a Love album, that's fine with me. It's an all-black band led by Lee, in the context of which he frequently indulges his love of Jimi Hendrix ("Midnight Sun" makes this particularly obvious) and gets a little funky -- both for the better.
Surprise! I like it more than any of Love's other albums. I'm aware that that will be a minority opinion, but I've never...
Black Beauty is a previously unreleased album from 1973 produced by Paul Rothchild (producer of the Doors, among others); the label went out of business before it could be issued. Given that the band's best songs were written by Bryan MacLean and Burt Bacharach, I wasn't expecting much from something from 1973, by which point MacLean was long gone and Arthur Lee was the only original member.
I suppose that while some fans could protest that Black Beauty is not really a Love album, that's fine with me. It's an all-black band led by Lee, in the context of which he frequently indulges his love of Jimi Hendrix ("Midnight Sun" makes this particularly obvious) and gets a little funky -- both for the better.
Surprise! I like it more than any of Love's other albums. I'm aware that that will be a minority opinion, but I've never...
- 1/14/2013
- by SteveHoltje
- www.culturecatch.com
CraveOnline has released the season finale of their new webseries, "Star Cars," which profiles famous movie and TV vehicles and the owners who love them. The latest episode takes 16 different movie-related cars and challenges them to a drag race against one another. As you can see in the video below, the race includes a "Starsky and Hutch" Gran Turino, Herbie the Love Bug, Knight Rider's Kitt, the General Lee, the Back to the Future DeLorean, Transformers ' Bumblebee, the Bandit's Trans Am, the "Scooby-Doo" Mystery Machine, the "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" Van, a Star Wars -inspired Z-Car, The Blues Brothers ' Bluesmobile, Green Hornet's Black Beauty, and a few surprises. For more info, visit the show's official site and...
- 11/8/2012
- Comingsoon.net
When last we checked in with gearhead guru Billy Hammon, he showed off the amazing collection of big screen bikes that have made Picture Car Warehouse their final resting place. Now, Hammon has invited us back to check out all of the uniquely awesome movie cars that Picture Car Warehouse has designed and custom fabricated for several recent movies, including Justin Timberlake's retro-futuristic car from In Time and the "Black Beauty" that Seth Rogen used in his war on crime in The Green Hornet.
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- 8/31/2012
- by BrentJS Sprecher
- Reelzchannel.com
The 55-year-old Hungarian maestro Béla Tarr has announced that The Turin Horse will be his final film. The statement is in keeping with the austerity, solemnity and high seriousness of his work. The movie begins with an unseen narrator telling us, over a black screen, that in 1889 Friedrich Nietzsche went suddenly insane after throwing his arms around an abused horse in Turin. "Mother, I'm stupid," he said and never recovered. The narrator's statement ends: "Of the horse we know nothing."
This is followed by a starkly monochrome film in six chapters of life on a remote, impoverished farm occupied by an elderly man (bearded like an Old Testament prophet and called Ohlsdorfer by the intermittent narrator), his pretty, unnamed daughter and their spavined horse, for whom, unlike the British Black Beauty, the American Seabiscuit and Bresson's Christ-like donkey Balthazar, they don't appear to have a name. The dialogue is sparse,...
This is followed by a starkly monochrome film in six chapters of life on a remote, impoverished farm occupied by an elderly man (bearded like an Old Testament prophet and called Ohlsdorfer by the intermittent narrator), his pretty, unnamed daughter and their spavined horse, for whom, unlike the British Black Beauty, the American Seabiscuit and Bresson's Christ-like donkey Balthazar, they don't appear to have a name. The dialogue is sparse,...
- 6/2/2012
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
War Horse; Strippers vs Werewolves; Four; Buck
Among the charges most regularly levelled at Steven Spielberg is that his movies are over-egged puddings that trade in rank melodrama and infantilising sentimentality. A whinnying chorus of such dismissive jeers greeted the arrival of War Horse (2011, DreamWorks, 12) late last year, with some predictably sniffy manure being thrown at this most populist auteur's emotional Grand National. Admittedly neither understatement nor brevity has ever been Spielberg's strong point, hence the much repeated joke: War Horse walks into a bar, barman says: "Why the long film?"
Yet to complain that this nostalgically cinematic adaptation of Michael Morpurgo's bestselling book (and feted stage adaptation) is somewhat soft around the edges is to forget that the source story was specifically aimed at younger readers. No, this is not a four-legged revisiting of the beach scenes from Saving Private Ryan, which portrayed the horrors of war in shockingly visceral form.
Among the charges most regularly levelled at Steven Spielberg is that his movies are over-egged puddings that trade in rank melodrama and infantilising sentimentality. A whinnying chorus of such dismissive jeers greeted the arrival of War Horse (2011, DreamWorks, 12) late last year, with some predictably sniffy manure being thrown at this most populist auteur's emotional Grand National. Admittedly neither understatement nor brevity has ever been Spielberg's strong point, hence the much repeated joke: War Horse walks into a bar, barman says: "Why the long film?"
Yet to complain that this nostalgically cinematic adaptation of Michael Morpurgo's bestselling book (and feted stage adaptation) is somewhat soft around the edges is to forget that the source story was specifically aimed at younger readers. No, this is not a four-legged revisiting of the beach scenes from Saving Private Ryan, which portrayed the horrors of war in shockingly visceral form.
- 5/8/2012
- by Mark Kermode
- The Guardian - Film News
The newly accessible French coastline, green-fingered forays and outdoor screenings and concerts at stately homes
Take me there: Quimper, Brittany
With its wild coastline, surf beaches and fishing villages, Finistère in Brittany is often hailed as the French answer to Cornwall, minus the traffic jams and public schoolkids. From next month a new BA flight from London City to Quimper will make this fascinating region, steeped in Breton culture, more accessible than ever. For somewhere stylish to stay, try one of five houses renovated by British couple Claire and Andrew Bernard (frenchberry.com), from a château gatehouse near Quimper to a rustic-chic stone cottage on the Crozon peninsula, a short stroll from one of Brittany's best surfing beaches. Flights start 30 May, from £65 one way (ba.com).
Travel clinic: spring gardens break
The dilemma My mother and I are keen gardeners. Can you recommend somewhere for the weekend in May with lots of gardens to visit?...
Take me there: Quimper, Brittany
With its wild coastline, surf beaches and fishing villages, Finistère in Brittany is often hailed as the French answer to Cornwall, minus the traffic jams and public schoolkids. From next month a new BA flight from London City to Quimper will make this fascinating region, steeped in Breton culture, more accessible than ever. For somewhere stylish to stay, try one of five houses renovated by British couple Claire and Andrew Bernard (frenchberry.com), from a château gatehouse near Quimper to a rustic-chic stone cottage on the Crozon peninsula, a short stroll from one of Brittany's best surfing beaches. Flights start 30 May, from £65 one way (ba.com).
Travel clinic: spring gardens break
The dilemma My mother and I are keen gardeners. Can you recommend somewhere for the weekend in May with lots of gardens to visit?...
- 4/7/2012
- by Joanne O'Connor
- The Guardian - Film News
If you, like me, were a fan of Seth Rogen's version of "The Green Hornet," you're in for a disappointment: a sequel just isn't in the cards, at least not right now.
Producer Neal Moritz spoke with The Hollywood Reporter about a variety of subjects, including his work on this week's comedy "21 Jump Street." Among the topics that came up was "Green Hornet," and Moritz confirmed that a sequel isn't happening anytime soon.
"The movie did almost $250 million and was actually very well liked, but we made the movie for too much money," said the producer. "One, we made it in L.A. for certain reasons, and two, we decided to go to 3D -- that added another $10 million. If I had done it in a tax-rebate state and not done 3D, it would have been considered a huge financial success for the studio. So we're not making a sequel right now.
Producer Neal Moritz spoke with The Hollywood Reporter about a variety of subjects, including his work on this week's comedy "21 Jump Street." Among the topics that came up was "Green Hornet," and Moritz confirmed that a sequel isn't happening anytime soon.
"The movie did almost $250 million and was actually very well liked, but we made the movie for too much money," said the producer. "One, we made it in L.A. for certain reasons, and two, we decided to go to 3D -- that added another $10 million. If I had done it in a tax-rebate state and not done 3D, it would have been considered a huge financial success for the studio. So we're not making a sequel right now.
- 3/14/2012
- by Josh Wigler
- MTV Splash Page
After taking several years to reach the big screen and passing through many hands, Michel Gondry's The Green Hornet finally got to theaters on January 14th, 2011. The response wasn't so favorable, with a 44% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. In my personal opinion, it’s not the sturdiest of superhero movies, but it’s plenty better than that other “Green” superhero (who would’ve guessed?). You have to give it props for coming up with some pretty outlandish set pieces--most done with practical effects (such as the opening club explosion). It’s clear that Seth Rogen did his homework on all things Green Hornet, from the look of the Black Beauty to a small nod to the original Kato, Bruce Lee. The only nitpick I have is that barely any of the characters are remotely likable. Also, I have never seen a worse candidate for an IMAX 3D film. I saw this in 3D,...
- 3/13/2012
- by Zack Parks
- GeekTyrant
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- 2/21/2012
- by Competitons
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
The madness of war is exposed by a stallion in Spielberg's emotional, no-holds-barred moral epic
Steven Spielberg has been working in Britain off and on for 30 years now, long enough in fact to have been awarded an honorary knighthood. But a few days ago, he described War Horse, his movie based on Michael Morpurgo's children's novel about the madness of war, as his first truly British film. "After I heard the reaction last night at the Odeon, Leicester Square," he said, "I realised I'd made my first British film with War Horse. Through and through."
Actually, the tradition War Horse belongs to is the Hollywood celebration of British pastoral that reached its peak during the second world war with Lassie Come Home and National Velvet. Both were movie versions of novels about lonely, lovable, innocent, working-class children passionately attached to animals in an idealised provincial England.
The narrator of the novel is Joey,...
Steven Spielberg has been working in Britain off and on for 30 years now, long enough in fact to have been awarded an honorary knighthood. But a few days ago, he described War Horse, his movie based on Michael Morpurgo's children's novel about the madness of war, as his first truly British film. "After I heard the reaction last night at the Odeon, Leicester Square," he said, "I realised I'd made my first British film with War Horse. Through and through."
Actually, the tradition War Horse belongs to is the Hollywood celebration of British pastoral that reached its peak during the second world war with Lassie Come Home and National Velvet. Both were movie versions of novels about lonely, lovable, innocent, working-class children passionately attached to animals in an idealised provincial England.
The narrator of the novel is Joey,...
- 1/15/2012
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
The director's new epic is a fitting testament to the thousands of horses that served and fell during the first world war
War Horse has had an extraordinary career. It started in 1982, with Michael Morpurgo's novel about a boy called Albert and his horse, Joey, who is sent to fight on the bloody battlefields of France in the first world war. The book was short, accomplished and moving, but barely acknowledged until, in 2007, it was turned into a play.
Marianne Elliott and Tom Morris's National Theatre production – still stabled at the West End – entranced audiences with its uncanny, life-sized horse puppets. The story became today's Black Beauty, a sentimental education, a must-read classic, a global hit. And that might have been glory enough – except that War Horse was also, always, a film waiting to happen. Now, in Steven Spielberg's hands, the story has become epic. Early signs...
War Horse has had an extraordinary career. It started in 1982, with Michael Morpurgo's novel about a boy called Albert and his horse, Joey, who is sent to fight on the bloody battlefields of France in the first world war. The book was short, accomplished and moving, but barely acknowledged until, in 2007, it was turned into a play.
Marianne Elliott and Tom Morris's National Theatre production – still stabled at the West End – entranced audiences with its uncanny, life-sized horse puppets. The story became today's Black Beauty, a sentimental education, a must-read classic, a global hit. And that might have been glory enough – except that War Horse was also, always, a film waiting to happen. Now, in Steven Spielberg's hands, the story has become epic. Early signs...
- 1/9/2012
- by Kate Kellaway
- The Guardian - Film News
It's been a great year for comic book movies (well, mostly!) and here are my top ten moments from those released this past year. I'm sure you all have your own opinions on these and many others, so please feel free to sound off with your thoughts in the usual place. It would be extremely easy to select ten moments for each of these, so don't forget to also add any I may have missed! 10. The Green Hornet - Gangster's Paradise While not everyone enjoyed Michel Gondry's take on The Green Hornet, the scene between Seth Rogen (Green Hornet) and Jay Chou (Kato) in which the duo sing along to Coolio's "Gangster's Paradise" while taking the Black Beauty out for the first time is what Rogen quite rightly describes in the film as "so wicked". 9. Captain America: The First Avenger - "We Had A Date" There was plenty...
- 12/29/2011
- ComicBookMovie.com
The Great War seen through the eyes of a heroic nag from Devon. What could possibly go wrong? Lots, Michael writes, in his review of Spielberg’s War Horse...
While his films don’t come out with the clockwork reliability of those directed by Woody Allen or Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg works to his own halting, arrhythmic beat. Years of silence often give way to flutters of wild activity, with the Hollywood superstar sometimes stuffing more than one of his new flicks into the cinema calendar.
This has been done to calculated effect on more than one occasion, where blockbusters have shared space with bids for dramatic respectability. Most successfully, in 1993 Spielberg ruled both the box office and the Academy with the one-two punch of Jurassic Park and Schindler’s List. The twinning of popcorn adventure and super-serious historical drama continued with both The Lost World and Amistad, and War Of The Worlds and Munich,...
While his films don’t come out with the clockwork reliability of those directed by Woody Allen or Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg works to his own halting, arrhythmic beat. Years of silence often give way to flutters of wild activity, with the Hollywood superstar sometimes stuffing more than one of his new flicks into the cinema calendar.
This has been done to calculated effect on more than one occasion, where blockbusters have shared space with bids for dramatic respectability. Most successfully, in 1993 Spielberg ruled both the box office and the Academy with the one-two punch of Jurassic Park and Schindler’s List. The twinning of popcorn adventure and super-serious historical drama continued with both The Lost World and Amistad, and War Of The Worlds and Munich,...
- 12/20/2011
- Den of Geek
War Horse
Directed by Steven Spielberg
Written by Lee Hall and Richard Curtis based on the novel War Horse by Michael Morpurgo
imdb, USA, 2011
There is an old Hollywood saying sometimes referred to as Bluestone’s Law that “Bad Books make Good Movies”. What film critic George Bluestone actually wrote in his book Novels Into Films was: “There is no necessary correspondence between the excellence of a novel and the quality of the film in which the novel is recorded.”
The point is that adapting novels into films is tricky. It is frequently necessary to rearrange, eliminate or compress events, to invent, remove or combine characters and to leave beloved scenes on the cutting room floor in the interest of the needs of the film. It’s a dangerous tightrope to walk. Adapt the book too liberally and you end up with Roland Joffé’s The Scarlet Letter; adapt it...
Directed by Steven Spielberg
Written by Lee Hall and Richard Curtis based on the novel War Horse by Michael Morpurgo
imdb, USA, 2011
There is an old Hollywood saying sometimes referred to as Bluestone’s Law that “Bad Books make Good Movies”. What film critic George Bluestone actually wrote in his book Novels Into Films was: “There is no necessary correspondence between the excellence of a novel and the quality of the film in which the novel is recorded.”
The point is that adapting novels into films is tricky. It is frequently necessary to rearrange, eliminate or compress events, to invent, remove or combine characters and to leave beloved scenes on the cutting room floor in the interest of the needs of the film. It’s a dangerous tightrope to walk. Adapt the book too liberally and you end up with Roland Joffé’s The Scarlet Letter; adapt it...
- 12/14/2011
- by Michael Ryan
- SoundOnSight
Sometimes a superhero isn't lucky enough to have superpowers, but hey, it never stopped Batman. Even those fortunate enough to have a few tricks up their mythical alloy sleeves can use the help of a great gadget once in a while.
This year's comic books movies were filled with amazing gadgets, doohickeys and thingamabobs that gave their respective superheroes or villains the extra boost they needed. Here's a look at the top five comic book movie gadgets from 2011.
5. Jake's Gauntlet in "Cowboys & Aliens"
Say what you will about the movie as a whole, but the killer gauntlet Daniel Craig wears throughout the film is a force to be reckoned with. As the key to destroying the alien invaders, the gauntlet packs a futuristic punch and remains one of the highlights of the movie.
4. The Black Beauty in "The Green Hornet"
What is a crime fighter without an appropriate ride to go with?...
This year's comic books movies were filled with amazing gadgets, doohickeys and thingamabobs that gave their respective superheroes or villains the extra boost they needed. Here's a look at the top five comic book movie gadgets from 2011.
5. Jake's Gauntlet in "Cowboys & Aliens"
Say what you will about the movie as a whole, but the killer gauntlet Daniel Craig wears throughout the film is a force to be reckoned with. As the key to destroying the alien invaders, the gauntlet packs a futuristic punch and remains one of the highlights of the movie.
4. The Black Beauty in "The Green Hornet"
What is a crime fighter without an appropriate ride to go with?...
- 12/8/2011
- by Kevin P. Sullivan
- MTV Splash Page
Colin Meloy didn’t mean for his first novel to seem like a concept album, but it’s hard not to imagine the rollicking adventure tale set in the woods of Portland, Oregon as a kind of forgotten Decemberists CD. Meloy, the frontman of the indie-rock group, released “Wildwood,” a young adult novel, earlier this month.
The book tells the story of Prue, a young girl living on the fringes of Portland with her parents and baby brother, Mac. When...
The book tells the story of Prue, a young girl living on the fringes of Portland with her parents and baby brother, Mac. When...
- 10/4/2011
- by Nick Andersen
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
So I know you're all waiting with bated breath to find out if I thought that the second episode of Ringer lived up to the potential of the first (which I called best new show of the fall season).
The answer is yes ... and no.
I loved that TV now has a pure "suspense" show, I thought most of the suspense worked, and I thought they did a pretty seamless job of easing off of the breakneck pace of the first episode, in order to establish a more reasonable series trajectory.
Plus, they had one of my favorite new actresses, Jamie Murray! And she got to deliver a line to Bridget that pretty much says it all about her character: "Mind if I steal your husband?"
Speaking of which, my close personal friend Ioan Gruffudd (who I interviewed for the show) was looking particularly handsome this week, wasn't he?
"It's...
The answer is yes ... and no.
I loved that TV now has a pure "suspense" show, I thought most of the suspense worked, and I thought they did a pretty seamless job of easing off of the breakneck pace of the first episode, in order to establish a more reasonable series trajectory.
Plus, they had one of my favorite new actresses, Jamie Murray! And she got to deliver a line to Bridget that pretty much says it all about her character: "Mind if I steal your husband?"
Speaking of which, my close personal friend Ioan Gruffudd (who I interviewed for the show) was looking particularly handsome this week, wasn't he?
"It's...
- 9/21/2011
- by Brent Hartinger
- The Backlot
Last year, The Green Hornet presented the flashiest presence at Comic Con with a replica Black Beauty car and several women dressed in form fitting Green Hornet attire. This year, Sony Pictures decided to steal the show with Total Recall, the film remake of the 1990 Arnold Schwarzenegger feature (the first movie, however was actually adapted from a novel). Outside of the convention center, con-goers got to see one of the futuristic federal police cars that will be used in the movie. There were also several women modeling tight Recall t-shirts and skirts. The more notable booth item were the robotic futuristic police officers (pictured below). A few days ago, Sony released the first still of Colin Farrell, who plays Doug Quaid (previously played by Schwarzenegger). The photo looks like something out of one of Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon video games. As you can see, Quaid looks like he was...
- 7/23/2011
- by Bags H.
- BuzzFocus.com
After the disaster that was Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and the upcoming uncanny valley creep-fest that The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn will likely turn into, it'll be high time that Steven Spielberg got back to doing what he's best at: Rousing tales of the triumph of the human spirit, with even more rousinger scores in the background.
Thankfully, the teaser trailer for the director's new War Horse was just released and it has rousingness in spades. Based on a popular stage play, which was in turn based on a children's novel, the movie follows an English boy who sets out to get his horse back after its sold to the British calvary. It's like World War I Black Beauty with some reverse Homeward Bound thrown in for good measure. Anyone want to give us odds one whether the kid has to...
Thankfully, the teaser trailer for the director's new War Horse was just released and it has rousingness in spades. Based on a popular stage play, which was in turn based on a children's novel, the movie follows an English boy who sets out to get his horse back after its sold to the British calvary. It's like World War I Black Beauty with some reverse Homeward Bound thrown in for good measure. Anyone want to give us odds one whether the kid has to...
- 6/29/2011
- UGO Movies
(thanks to Jordan Raup at The Film Stage, and Scottish Jellyfish) 10 great movies starring horses, after the cut. 1. The Black Stallion 2. The Man From Snowy River 3. Seabiscuit 4. Hildalgo 5. Black Beauty...
- 6/29/2011
- by Ryan Adams
- AwardsDaily.com
Singer Leona Lewis recently visited the Humane Society of the United States’ Cleveland Amory Black Beauty Ranch to visit with some of the animals being cared for there.
The Cleveland Amory Black Beauty Ranch is America’s largest and most diverse animal sanctuary. It is a permanent haven to more than 1,200 domestic and exotic animals rescued from research laboratories, “entertainment” operations such as circuses and zoos, captive hunting operations, factory farming, and government round-ups.
While visiting the ranch, Leona filmed a video in which she shares some of her thoughts on responsible pet care and also encourages people to recognize the importance and value of animals. Watch the video here.
Read more...
The Cleveland Amory Black Beauty Ranch is America’s largest and most diverse animal sanctuary. It is a permanent haven to more than 1,200 domestic and exotic animals rescued from research laboratories, “entertainment” operations such as circuses and zoos, captive hunting operations, factory farming, and government round-ups.
While visiting the ranch, Leona filmed a video in which she shares some of her thoughts on responsible pet care and also encourages people to recognize the importance and value of animals. Watch the video here.
Read more...
- 6/27/2011
- Look to the Stars
Chicago – A mere glance at the pedigree of this action comedy causes one’s expectations to soar: the director of “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” joins forces with the writers of “Superbad.” How cool is that? Michel Gondry’s childlike sensibilities would appear to be an ideal match for Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg’s infectious whimsicality.
What initially makes “The Green Hornet” a letdown is the fact that none of the major players brought their A-game to the project, which is admittedly unnecessary to begin with. The film feels more like a collaboration between the director of “Be Kind Rewind” and the writers of “Pineapple Express,” but that’s not necessarily a bad thing. Despite its excessive running time (119 minutes) and sluggish first act, the film does offer enough hearty chuckles and flashes of brilliance to warrant a rental (if not a purchase).
Blu-Ray Rating: 3.5/5.0
The ever-enjoyable yet...
What initially makes “The Green Hornet” a letdown is the fact that none of the major players brought their A-game to the project, which is admittedly unnecessary to begin with. The film feels more like a collaboration between the director of “Be Kind Rewind” and the writers of “Pineapple Express,” but that’s not necessarily a bad thing. Despite its excessive running time (119 minutes) and sluggish first act, the film does offer enough hearty chuckles and flashes of brilliance to warrant a rental (if not a purchase).
Blu-Ray Rating: 3.5/5.0
The ever-enjoyable yet...
- 5/12/2011
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
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