Caitlin Cronenberg’s has wrapped the four-week shoot in Hamilton, Ontario of her directorial debut, the environment-themed thriller Humane.
The production has also unveiled the cast featuring Jay Baruchel (This Is The End), Emily Hampshire (Schitt’s Creek), Peter Gallagher (Grace and Frankie), Sebastian Chacon (Emergency), Alanna Bale and Sirena Gulamgaus (Transplant).
Humane takes place over a single day months after a global environmental collapse has forced world leaders to take extreme measures to reduce the earth’s population.
In a wealthy enclave, a recently retired newsman invites his four grown children to dinner to announce his intentions to enlist in the nation’s new euthanasia program. But when the father’s plan goes horribly awry, tensions flare and chaos erupts among his children.
The picture is written and produced by Victory Man Productions’ Michael Sparaga.
“From my very first read, the all-too-possible dystopian world of Michael’s script left me breathless,...
The production has also unveiled the cast featuring Jay Baruchel (This Is The End), Emily Hampshire (Schitt’s Creek), Peter Gallagher (Grace and Frankie), Sebastian Chacon (Emergency), Alanna Bale and Sirena Gulamgaus (Transplant).
Humane takes place over a single day months after a global environmental collapse has forced world leaders to take extreme measures to reduce the earth’s population.
In a wealthy enclave, a recently retired newsman invites his four grown children to dinner to announce his intentions to enlist in the nation’s new euthanasia program. But when the father’s plan goes horribly awry, tensions flare and chaos erupts among his children.
The picture is written and produced by Victory Man Productions’ Michael Sparaga.
“From my very first read, the all-too-possible dystopian world of Michael’s script left me breathless,...
- 11/22/2022
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Adding to their tradition of releasing box sets of beloved horror franchises, Scream Factory's five-disc The Fly Collection comes out on December 10th, and ahead of its holiday season release, we've been provided with the massive list of full special features.
Press Release: Los Angeles, CA -- Get ready for hours of skin-crawling terror as you witness a transformation like no other – from man to fly. On December 10, 2019, Scream Factory proudly presents the insect-morphing horror set The Fly Collection in a definitive Blu-ray™ release. This massive 5-disc set consists of the chilling original trilogy, the eye-popping 80s remake and its terrifying sequel, and is packed with hours of fascinating special features.
The complete list of bonus features includes a bevy of new interviews and audio commentaries with cast and crew, including with producers Mel Brooks and Stuart Cornfeld, screenwriter Mick Garris and composer Howard Shore. The Curse of the Fly...
Press Release: Los Angeles, CA -- Get ready for hours of skin-crawling terror as you witness a transformation like no other – from man to fly. On December 10, 2019, Scream Factory proudly presents the insect-morphing horror set The Fly Collection in a definitive Blu-ray™ release. This massive 5-disc set consists of the chilling original trilogy, the eye-popping 80s remake and its terrifying sequel, and is packed with hours of fascinating special features.
The complete list of bonus features includes a bevy of new interviews and audio commentaries with cast and crew, including with producers Mel Brooks and Stuart Cornfeld, screenwriter Mick Garris and composer Howard Shore. The Curse of the Fly...
- 11/7/2019
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
A new poster and trailer in for Sarah Polley's Stories We Tell from Roadside Attractions with Rebecca Jenkins, Peter Evans, Alex Hatz, Pixie Bigelow, Deirdre Bowen, Geoffrey Bowes, John Buchan, Susy Buchan, Tom Butler, Andrew Church and Justin Goodland. Anita Lee produced the film which was seen at the 2012 Venice Film Festival in August, then at this year's Sundance Film Festival. You can watch it in theaters from May 10th. In this inspired, genre-twisting new film, Oscar®-nominated writer/director Sarah Polley discovers that the truth depends on who’s telling it. Polley is both filmmaker and detective as she investigates the secrets kept by a family of storytellers. She playfully interviews and interrogates a cast of characters of varying reliability, eliciting refreshingly candid, yet mostly contradictory...
- 3/5/2013
- Upcoming-Movies.com
A new poster and trailer in for Sarah Polley's Stories We Tell from Roadside Attractions with Rebecca Jenkins, Peter Evans, Alex Hatz, Pixie Bigelow, Deirdre Bowen, Geoffrey Bowes, John Buchan, Susy Buchan, Tom Butler, Andrew Church and Justin Goodland. Anita Lee produced the film which was seen at the 2012 Venice Film Festival in August, then at this year's Sundance Film Festival. You can watch it in theaters from May 10th. In this inspired, genre-twisting new film, Oscar®-nominated writer/director Sarah Polley discovers that the truth depends on who’s telling it. Polley is both filmmaker and detective as she investigates the secrets kept by a family of storytellers. She playfully interviews and interrogates a cast of characters of varying reliability, eliciting refreshingly candid, yet mostly contradictory...
- 3/5/2013
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Toronto-based casting director Deirdre Bowen—who has worked with director David Cronenberg on "Eastern Promises," "A History of Violence," and the upcoming "Cosmopolis"—is well-versed in his thoughtful and collaborative approach to casting. So when she, Cronenberg, and producer Jeremy Thomas met to talk about casting "A Dangerous Method," they all came with ideas, according to Bowen. Because the film is based on the lives of historic figures—Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung—a big challenge was finding actors who could at least physically suggest them. Though she had a degree of flexibility, as most people picture them as older men, "we have to believe the actors might grow to look like Jung and Freud as they aged," Bowen explains.The actors also had to suggest keen intelligence. The audience must fully accept that this person is indeed Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, and the actor playing Jung needed to embody "an alpha male.
- 11/16/2011
- by help@backstage.com (Simi Horwitz)
- backstage.com
Today, the Canadian Academy revealed the nominees for the 25th Gemini Awards, the Canadian equivalent of the Emmy Awards. So without further ado, let's reveal those who have graced our land of television in fall 2009 and winter 2010.
1. Best Animated Program or Series:
* Glenn Martin, Dds
* Guess With Jess
* Johnny Test
* Kid Vs Kat
* Wapos Bay
2. Best Children's or Youth Fiction Program or Series:
* Degrassi: The Next Generation
* Overruled!
* Pillars of Freedom
* That's So Weird!
* Total Drama Action
3. Best Children's or Youth Non-Fiction Program or Series:
* A World of Wonders
* Canada's Super Speller
* Survive This
* Tvokids: Mark's Moments
4. Best Comedy Program or Series:
* Dan for Mayor
* Less Than Kind
* Little Mosque on the Prairie
* Pure Pwnage
* The Rick Mercer Report
5. Best Dramatic Miniseries:
* Alice
* The Phantom
* The Summit
6. Best Dramatic Series:
* Durham County
* Flashpoint
* Republic of Doyle
* Stargate Universe
* The Tudors
7. Best Music, Variety Program or Series
* 2009 Much Music Video Awards...
1. Best Animated Program or Series:
* Glenn Martin, Dds
* Guess With Jess
* Johnny Test
* Kid Vs Kat
* Wapos Bay
2. Best Children's or Youth Fiction Program or Series:
* Degrassi: The Next Generation
* Overruled!
* Pillars of Freedom
* That's So Weird!
* Total Drama Action
3. Best Children's or Youth Non-Fiction Program or Series:
* A World of Wonders
* Canada's Super Speller
* Survive This
* Tvokids: Mark's Moments
4. Best Comedy Program or Series:
* Dan for Mayor
* Less Than Kind
* Little Mosque on the Prairie
* Pure Pwnage
* The Rick Mercer Report
5. Best Dramatic Miniseries:
* Alice
* The Phantom
* The Summit
6. Best Dramatic Series:
* Durham County
* Flashpoint
* Republic of Doyle
* Stargate Universe
* The Tudors
7. Best Music, Variety Program or Series
* 2009 Much Music Video Awards...
- 9/1/2010
- by anhkhoido@hotmail.com (Anh Khoi Do)
- The Cultural Post
9-11 p.m. Sunday and Tuesday, May 18 and 20
CBS
Part history, part cautionary tale, "Hitler" rumbles onto the sweep scene like one of those tornadoes that recently bedeviled the Midwest -- powerful, awesome and traveling in a somewhat unpredictable pattern.
The initial announcement of this four-hour event was met with skepticism. Any fears, however, that this production would glorify the greatest monster of the 20th century are unfounded. Indeed, Adolf Hitler's psychopathic personality is evident even before the completion of the opening credits.
The other controversy surrounding the project was the sacking of Alliance Atlantis executive and exec producer Ed Gernon over remarks that suggested the possibility of parallels between contemporary America and a fearful Germany after World War I. The observation, while debatable, has as much merit as many propositions over which historians argue.
Considering Gernon's major role in a miniseries that forcefully warns of the soft spots in democracy's underbelly, his firing seems at the very least ironic.
Public justification for the project has been that despite an abundance of movies on World War II and, particularly, the Holocaust, little has been done to show how Adolf Hitler, an outwardly pathetic and awkward individual, was able to grab the reins of power on behalf of his demented vision and plunge the world into the largest darkness it has known. In this, "Hitler" admirably succeeds.
From his start as an obscure zealot who blends strident anti-Semitism with fervent nationalism, we are shown how, year by year, rung by rung, Hitler climbed the ladder of political success. The first night ends with Hitler's mild punishment following his failed Munich beer hall putsch in 1923. The second night takes us through 1934, when Hitler wrests complete control of the German government.
The miniseries is a triumph of collaboration by Robert Carlyle, who plays Hitler, and director Christian Duguay. Carlyle brilliantly depicts a humorless and twisted Hitler who becomes more brazen and intimidating over time. It is a characterization of evil that lingers long after the miniseries ends.
Frame after frame, Duguay never lets viewers forget how Hitler, though ungraceful and slight of physical stature, nonetheless imposed his will on others through ruthless intimidation, brazen self-confidence, willful manipulation and occasional violence.
The project is marked by meticulous istoric research, almost to the detriment of the script from John Pielmeier and G. Ross Parker. Striving to be true to fact as much as possible meant, in this case, that several main characters were absent from scenes for long stretches and that dialogue carried an unduly heavy burden of historical exposition. This is not to argue with the compromises, only to note that some simply had to be made.
There was no compromise, however, in production values. Production designer Marek Dobrowolski takes full advantage of the Prague location to create convincing settings inside and out. He and costume designer Maria Schicker enhance the production with their careful attention to detail. n
HITLER: THE RISE OF EVIL
CBS
Alliance Atlantis
Credits:
Executive producers: Peter Sussman, Ed Gernon
Co-executive producers: Diana Kerew, Christian Duguay
Co-producer: John Pielmeier
Producer: John Ryan
Supervising producers: Ian McDougall, Philip Von Alvensleben
Director: Christian Duguay
Writers: John Pielmeier, G. Ross Parker
Director of photography: Pierre Gill
Production designer: Marek Dobrowolski
Editors: Hank Van Eeghen, Sylvain Lebel
Music: Normand Corbeil
Costume designer: Maria Schicker
Casting: Deirdre Bowen, Susan Glicksman, Alex Wald, Sue Jones
Cast:
Adolf Hitler: Robert Carlyle
President Hindenburg: Peter O'Toole
Klara Hitler: Stockard Channing
Geli Raubal: Jena Malone
Helene Hanfstaengl: Julianna Margulies
Fritz Gerlich: Matthew Modine
Ernst Hanfstaengl: Liev Schreiber
Ernst Rohm: Peter Stormare
Gen Erich Von Ludendorff: Friedrich Von Thun
Eva Braun: Zoe Telford...
CBS
Part history, part cautionary tale, "Hitler" rumbles onto the sweep scene like one of those tornadoes that recently bedeviled the Midwest -- powerful, awesome and traveling in a somewhat unpredictable pattern.
The initial announcement of this four-hour event was met with skepticism. Any fears, however, that this production would glorify the greatest monster of the 20th century are unfounded. Indeed, Adolf Hitler's psychopathic personality is evident even before the completion of the opening credits.
The other controversy surrounding the project was the sacking of Alliance Atlantis executive and exec producer Ed Gernon over remarks that suggested the possibility of parallels between contemporary America and a fearful Germany after World War I. The observation, while debatable, has as much merit as many propositions over which historians argue.
Considering Gernon's major role in a miniseries that forcefully warns of the soft spots in democracy's underbelly, his firing seems at the very least ironic.
Public justification for the project has been that despite an abundance of movies on World War II and, particularly, the Holocaust, little has been done to show how Adolf Hitler, an outwardly pathetic and awkward individual, was able to grab the reins of power on behalf of his demented vision and plunge the world into the largest darkness it has known. In this, "Hitler" admirably succeeds.
From his start as an obscure zealot who blends strident anti-Semitism with fervent nationalism, we are shown how, year by year, rung by rung, Hitler climbed the ladder of political success. The first night ends with Hitler's mild punishment following his failed Munich beer hall putsch in 1923. The second night takes us through 1934, when Hitler wrests complete control of the German government.
The miniseries is a triumph of collaboration by Robert Carlyle, who plays Hitler, and director Christian Duguay. Carlyle brilliantly depicts a humorless and twisted Hitler who becomes more brazen and intimidating over time. It is a characterization of evil that lingers long after the miniseries ends.
Frame after frame, Duguay never lets viewers forget how Hitler, though ungraceful and slight of physical stature, nonetheless imposed his will on others through ruthless intimidation, brazen self-confidence, willful manipulation and occasional violence.
The project is marked by meticulous istoric research, almost to the detriment of the script from John Pielmeier and G. Ross Parker. Striving to be true to fact as much as possible meant, in this case, that several main characters were absent from scenes for long stretches and that dialogue carried an unduly heavy burden of historical exposition. This is not to argue with the compromises, only to note that some simply had to be made.
There was no compromise, however, in production values. Production designer Marek Dobrowolski takes full advantage of the Prague location to create convincing settings inside and out. He and costume designer Maria Schicker enhance the production with their careful attention to detail. n
HITLER: THE RISE OF EVIL
CBS
Alliance Atlantis
Credits:
Executive producers: Peter Sussman, Ed Gernon
Co-executive producers: Diana Kerew, Christian Duguay
Co-producer: John Pielmeier
Producer: John Ryan
Supervising producers: Ian McDougall, Philip Von Alvensleben
Director: Christian Duguay
Writers: John Pielmeier, G. Ross Parker
Director of photography: Pierre Gill
Production designer: Marek Dobrowolski
Editors: Hank Van Eeghen, Sylvain Lebel
Music: Normand Corbeil
Costume designer: Maria Schicker
Casting: Deirdre Bowen, Susan Glicksman, Alex Wald, Sue Jones
Cast:
Adolf Hitler: Robert Carlyle
President Hindenburg: Peter O'Toole
Klara Hitler: Stockard Channing
Geli Raubal: Jena Malone
Helene Hanfstaengl: Julianna Margulies
Fritz Gerlich: Matthew Modine
Ernst Hanfstaengl: Liev Schreiber
Ernst Rohm: Peter Stormare
Gen Erich Von Ludendorff: Friedrich Von Thun
Eva Braun: Zoe Telford...
- 5/13/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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