Exclusive: Dick Wolf and his Wolf Entertainment are planning a feature documentary about Emmett Till.
Wolf and his longtime collaborator Tom Thayer are exec producing Murder In America: The Lynching of Emmett Till, a two-hour feature documentary, alongside James Moll, the Oscar winner behind Holocaust doc The Last Days.
It will be directed by Sam Pollard, who has directed documentaries including MLK/FBI, and Llewellyn Smith, who directed South to Black Power and produced American Experience.
Based on A Few Days Full of Trouble by Reverend Wheeler Parker, Jr. and Christopher Benson, the feature doc will explore two parallel tracks of the Till story. One was set in motion by the last four years of an FBI investigation with details never revealed before, including significant new revelations of the case and its findings. The traumatic memory of Reverend Wheeler Parker Jr., the last surviving witness to the crime and Emmett Till’s cousin,...
Wolf and his longtime collaborator Tom Thayer are exec producing Murder In America: The Lynching of Emmett Till, a two-hour feature documentary, alongside James Moll, the Oscar winner behind Holocaust doc The Last Days.
It will be directed by Sam Pollard, who has directed documentaries including MLK/FBI, and Llewellyn Smith, who directed South to Black Power and produced American Experience.
Based on A Few Days Full of Trouble by Reverend Wheeler Parker, Jr. and Christopher Benson, the feature doc will explore two parallel tracks of the Till story. One was set in motion by the last four years of an FBI investigation with details never revealed before, including significant new revelations of the case and its findings. The traumatic memory of Reverend Wheeler Parker Jr., the last surviving witness to the crime and Emmett Till’s cousin,...
- 12/13/2023
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Actor Ali Fazal, who has been constantly making a splash with his international projects, is to now work in two-time Oscar winner Bill Guttentag’s ‘Afghan Dreamers’.
Bill won the prestigious Academy title for his two short films, ‘You Don’t Have to Die’ and ‘Twin Towers’.
Shoot for ‘Afghan Dreamers’ began recently in Morocco and will be a 50-day schedule, with a majority of the film being shot across Morocco and Budapest.
The film is the true story about the programme that was started by Afghan tech entrepreneur Roya Mahboob in 2017 as a way to help young women develop their skills in the field of science and technology, despite the patriarchal society in the country they hail from.
The film throws light on the chaotic, sometimes dangerous backdrop of the country’s politics.
The story tells the tale of the team of the Afghan girls who travelled across the world and participated in competitions,...
Bill won the prestigious Academy title for his two short films, ‘You Don’t Have to Die’ and ‘Twin Towers’.
Shoot for ‘Afghan Dreamers’ began recently in Morocco and will be a 50-day schedule, with a majority of the film being shot across Morocco and Budapest.
The film is the true story about the programme that was started by Afghan tech entrepreneur Roya Mahboob in 2017 as a way to help young women develop their skills in the field of science and technology, despite the patriarchal society in the country they hail from.
The film throws light on the chaotic, sometimes dangerous backdrop of the country’s politics.
The story tells the tale of the team of the Afghan girls who travelled across the world and participated in competitions,...
- 11/9/2022
- by Glamsham Bureau
- GlamSham
Exclusive: Nikohl Boosheri (The Bold Type) and Ali Fazal (Victoria & Abdul) have been set to lead cast in movie Afghan Dreamers (working title), based on the inspiring true story of the all-girls robotics team from Afghanistan.
The English-language project will chart the story of the heralded program, which was launched by Afghan tech entrepreneur Roya Mahboob in 2017, as a way to help young Afghan women develop their skills in science and technology, despite a highly patriarchal society and the chaotic and often dangerous backdrop of the country’s politics. The team went on to participate in competitions around the world, garner global media attention and meet leading politicians, including former U.S Secretary of State Anthony Blinken. Former President Donald Trump intervened to help several team members get visas for a robotics competition in Washington DC and Mahboob was named among Time’s most influential people in the world.
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The English-language project will chart the story of the heralded program, which was launched by Afghan tech entrepreneur Roya Mahboob in 2017, as a way to help young Afghan women develop their skills in science and technology, despite a highly patriarchal society and the chaotic and often dangerous backdrop of the country’s politics. The team went on to participate in competitions around the world, garner global media attention and meet leading politicians, including former U.S Secretary of State Anthony Blinken. Former President Donald Trump intervened to help several team members get visas for a robotics competition in Washington DC and Mahboob was named among Time’s most influential people in the world.
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- 11/4/2022
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Discovery+ is just over a month old and the streamer is already restocking its slate of original documentaries.
The digital platform has added eight documentaries, including a number of festival titles, to its slate. This comes ahead of its virtual TCA presentation.
Films include My Beautiful Stutter, Future People: The Family of Donor 5114, The Walrus and the Whistleblower, Groomed, Miracle Fishing: Kidnapped Abroad, Genius Factory, Apocalypse ’45 and Yellowstone: Super Volcanoes.
My Beautiful Stutter, which launches March 11, follows five kids who stutter, ages 9 to 18, from all over the United States and all walks of life. After experiencing a lifetime of bullying and stigmatization, these children meet others who stutter at an interactive arts-based program, The Stuttering Association for the Young, based in New York City. It is directed by Ryan Gielen (Stop the Bleeding) and exec produced by Paul Rudd, Mariska Hargitay, Peter Hermann, George Springer and Patrick James Lynch...
The digital platform has added eight documentaries, including a number of festival titles, to its slate. This comes ahead of its virtual TCA presentation.
Films include My Beautiful Stutter, Future People: The Family of Donor 5114, The Walrus and the Whistleblower, Groomed, Miracle Fishing: Kidnapped Abroad, Genius Factory, Apocalypse ’45 and Yellowstone: Super Volcanoes.
My Beautiful Stutter, which launches March 11, follows five kids who stutter, ages 9 to 18, from all over the United States and all walks of life. After experiencing a lifetime of bullying and stigmatization, these children meet others who stutter at an interactive arts-based program, The Stuttering Association for the Young, based in New York City. It is directed by Ryan Gielen (Stop the Bleeding) and exec produced by Paul Rudd, Mariska Hargitay, Peter Hermann, George Springer and Patrick James Lynch...
- 2/11/2021
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Z2 Comics has announced the graphic novel Sublime: $5 at the Door, out in June.
Named after a lyric from 1998’s “Garden Grove,” Sublime: $5 at the Door was written by Ryan Cady with cover art by Sublime artists Opie Ortiz and DJ Product. It focuses on the adventures of the Long Beach trio fronted by the late Bradley Nowell. Surviving members Eric Wilson and Bud Gaugh assisted with the project, seen as a companion to the 2019 documentary directed by Bill Guttentag.
Sublime: $5 At the Door contains 120 pages and will be released in various editions,...
Named after a lyric from 1998’s “Garden Grove,” Sublime: $5 at the Door was written by Ryan Cady with cover art by Sublime artists Opie Ortiz and DJ Product. It focuses on the adventures of the Long Beach trio fronted by the late Bradley Nowell. Surviving members Eric Wilson and Bud Gaugh assisted with the project, seen as a companion to the 2019 documentary directed by Bill Guttentag.
Sublime: $5 At the Door contains 120 pages and will be released in various editions,...
- 1/21/2021
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
Exclusive: Fathom Events and Brainstorm Media are teaming on the theatrical release of Recon, the Robert Port military thriller starring Alexander Ludwig, Sam Keeley, Chris Brochu and Franco Nero. They are aiming to premiere the pic, set during World War II and based on a true story, as an exclusive one-night nationwide event November 10, the day before Veterans Day.
So far, the companies have lined up screenings on almost 350 screens at AMC and Regal venues as well as at smaller exhibitors, with an eye on 500 total before the event, which will feature behind-the-scenes footage and interviews with the cast and crew at each screening.
Port, who with Bill Guttentag won the Documentary Short Oscar in 2003 for Twin Towers, adapted Richard Bausch’s 2008 novel Peace about the true war story into Recon and made it his feature debut. The film centers on one long day as four American soldiers stationed in...
So far, the companies have lined up screenings on almost 350 screens at AMC and Regal venues as well as at smaller exhibitors, with an eye on 500 total before the event, which will feature behind-the-scenes footage and interviews with the cast and crew at each screening.
Port, who with Bill Guttentag won the Documentary Short Oscar in 2003 for Twin Towers, adapted Richard Bausch’s 2008 novel Peace about the true war story into Recon and made it his feature debut. The film centers on one long day as four American soldiers stationed in...
- 9/24/2020
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
In today’s TV news roundup, the cast and creator of “The West Wing” will reunite for a voting special, and Syfy greenlit “The Pole,” an animated adult comedy show featuring Bobby Moynihan and Jillian Bell, with Nicole Byer and Colin Jost.
Dates
“Somebody Feed Phil,” a show where creator and host Phil Rosenthal travels the world and explores different cuisines, will have its Season 4 premiere Oct. 30 on Netflix. The upcoming season will see Rosenthal travel to Rio de Janeiro, San Francisco, Singapore, The Mississippi Delta and Hawaii on his food-tasting mission, which also combines comedy into the mix. Rosenthal also serves as an executive producer for “Somebody Feed Phil” alongside Rich Rosenthal, John Bedolis, Christopher Collins and Lydia Tenaglia.
HBO Max revealed a that its upcoming project starring fashion designer Jenna Lyons, “Stylish with Jenna Lyons,” will premiere on Nov. 26. She previously served as the creative director and president of J. Crew,...
Dates
“Somebody Feed Phil,” a show where creator and host Phil Rosenthal travels the world and explores different cuisines, will have its Season 4 premiere Oct. 30 on Netflix. The upcoming season will see Rosenthal travel to Rio de Janeiro, San Francisco, Singapore, The Mississippi Delta and Hawaii on his food-tasting mission, which also combines comedy into the mix. Rosenthal also serves as an executive producer for “Somebody Feed Phil” alongside Rich Rosenthal, John Bedolis, Christopher Collins and Lydia Tenaglia.
HBO Max revealed a that its upcoming project starring fashion designer Jenna Lyons, “Stylish with Jenna Lyons,” will premiere on Nov. 26. She previously served as the creative director and president of J. Crew,...
- 9/22/2020
- by Eli Countryman
- Variety Film + TV
In today’s TV news roundup, “The Bachelorette’s” Rachel Lindsay has been named “Extra” correspondent for Season 27, and Netflix set”The Queen’s Gambit’s” premiere date.
Dates
“That Animal Rescue Show,” from filmmakers Richard Linklater and Bill Guttentag, will premiere on CBS All Access on Oct. 29. The 10-episode docuseries follows unique animal rescue communities in and around Texas, including a ranch where people heal alongside goats and an arena where children with disabilities learn to walk from horses. The show is produced by CBS Television Studios, in association with Stage 29, Detour Filmproduction and 1891 Productions.
Netflix will premiere its limited series “The Queen’s Gambit” on Oct. 23. Based on the novel by Walter Tevis, the coming-of-age drama follows Beth Harmon, who is abandoned and entrusted to a Kentucky orphanage in the 1950s. She discovers an incredible talent for chess, growing up to be a skilled outcast in a male-dominated field.
Dates
“That Animal Rescue Show,” from filmmakers Richard Linklater and Bill Guttentag, will premiere on CBS All Access on Oct. 29. The 10-episode docuseries follows unique animal rescue communities in and around Texas, including a ranch where people heal alongside goats and an arena where children with disabilities learn to walk from horses. The show is produced by CBS Television Studios, in association with Stage 29, Detour Filmproduction and 1891 Productions.
Netflix will premiere its limited series “The Queen’s Gambit” on Oct. 23. Based on the novel by Walter Tevis, the coming-of-age drama follows Beth Harmon, who is abandoned and entrusted to a Kentucky orphanage in the 1950s. She discovers an incredible talent for chess, growing up to be a skilled outcast in a male-dominated field.
- 8/27/2020
- by Janet W. Lee
- Variety Film + TV
There will be no Telluride Film Festival this Labor Day in Colorado, but the programmers have unveiled what this year’s selections would have been. Much like the Cannes Film Festival’s 2020 lineup, this year’s Telluride films can at least carry the imprimatur of the festival as we head into the fall circuit. The 47th edition of the Telluride Film Festival was scheduled for September 3-7. See the full lineup, as revealed on Monday, below.
The idea in presenting the Telluride selections is to recommend the best in film this year in hopes that audiences will seek out these movies at other fall festivals (or what remains of them) down the line. With the 2021 Academy Awards pushed way out to April 25, there’s at once less pressure on these films to perform for awards but also a crush of movies backlogged since quarantine hit, making for a competitive season.
The idea in presenting the Telluride selections is to recommend the best in film this year in hopes that audiences will seek out these movies at other fall festivals (or what remains of them) down the line. With the 2021 Academy Awards pushed way out to April 25, there’s at once less pressure on these films to perform for awards but also a crush of movies backlogged since quarantine hit, making for a competitive season.
- 8/3/2020
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
CBS All Access has unveiled its premiere plans for previously announced The Stand limited event series, a Richard Linklater animal rescue docuseries, and new original series The Man Who Fell To Earth, The Harper House and Guilty Party.
The Untitled Richard Linklater Project hails from the Boyhood and Where’d You Go Bernadette director and Knife Fight helmer Bill Guttentag. The 10-episode docuseries takes place in and around Linklater’s hometown of Austin, Texas, and looks at the colorful and diverse world of animal rescue through the stories of the animals and the humans who love them. It’s set for premiere this fall.
The Stand, a limited-series adaptation of Stephen King’s classic novel, is slated for a late 2020 premiere. Written by Josh Boone and Ben Cavell and starring Alexander Skarsgard, The Stand is King’s apocalyptic vision of a world decimated by plague and embroiled in an elemental struggle between good and evil.
The Untitled Richard Linklater Project hails from the Boyhood and Where’d You Go Bernadette director and Knife Fight helmer Bill Guttentag. The 10-episode docuseries takes place in and around Linklater’s hometown of Austin, Texas, and looks at the colorful and diverse world of animal rescue through the stories of the animals and the humans who love them. It’s set for premiere this fall.
The Stand, a limited-series adaptation of Stephen King’s classic novel, is slated for a late 2020 premiere. Written by Josh Boone and Ben Cavell and starring Alexander Skarsgard, The Stand is King’s apocalyptic vision of a world decimated by plague and embroiled in an elemental struggle between good and evil.
- 7/30/2020
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Apple TV+’s See is adding more muscle to its cast: Dave Bautista (Guardians of the Galaxy) will star opposite Jason Momoa in Season 2 of the dystopian drama, our sister site Deadline reports.
The series is set in a distant future, after a deadly virus decimated humankind — and those who survived emerged blind. Momoa stars as Baba Voss, the father of twins born centuries later with the ability to see. With the help of spiritual leader Paris (played by Oscar nominee Alfre Woodard), Baba Voss must protect his tribe against a powerful yet desperate queen who wants the twins destroyed.
The series is set in a distant future, after a deadly virus decimated humankind — and those who survived emerged blind. Momoa stars as Baba Voss, the father of twins born centuries later with the ability to see. With the help of spiritual leader Paris (played by Oscar nominee Alfre Woodard), Baba Voss must protect his tribe against a powerful yet desperate queen who wants the twins destroyed.
- 1/13/2020
- TVLine.com
Filmmaker Richard Linklater has long been admittedly “pretty slow on the TV thing,” as he once said at the Television Critics Association panels back in 2017. However, he’s coming to the small screen with a nonfiction project for CBS All Access, as announced today at the winter TCA event. The streamer has given a series order for “The Untitled Richard Linklater Project,” a docuseries executive-produced by Linklater and documentary filmmaker Bill Guttentag, both of whom are Oscar winners.
The 10-episode series, per CBS, “takes place in and around Austin, Texas, Linklater’s hometown, and will provide a window onto the colorful and diverse world of animal rescue through moving, humorous and powerful stories of animals and the humans who love them.” His last TV foray was the 2012 Hulu travel series “Up to Speed.”
“I come to this project hoping to shine a light on the folks I’ve met who...
The 10-episode series, per CBS, “takes place in and around Austin, Texas, Linklater’s hometown, and will provide a window onto the colorful and diverse world of animal rescue through moving, humorous and powerful stories of animals and the humans who love them.” His last TV foray was the 2012 Hulu travel series “Up to Speed.”
“I come to this project hoping to shine a light on the folks I’ve met who...
- 1/12/2020
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
Boyhood and Where’d You Go, Bernadette director Richard Linklater has teamed with Knife Fight director Bill Guttentag for a ten-part animal rescue docuseries for CBS All Access.
The untitled project takes place in and around Linklater’s hometown of Austin, Texas, and looks at the colorful and diverse world of animal rescue through the stories of the animals and the humans who love them.
Linklater and Guttentag, who created NBC’s Law & Order reality spin-off Crime & Punishment, will exec produce. It will be produced by CBS Television Studios in association with Dr. Phil’s Stage 29, Linklater’s Detour Filmproduction, and Guttentag and Nayeema Raza’s 1891 Productions.
Dr. Phil McGraw and Jay McGraw of Stage 29 and Julia Eisenman also exec produce, with Nayeema Raza as co-executive producer.
“I come to this project hoping to shine a light on the folks I’ve met who are making a difference...
The untitled project takes place in and around Linklater’s hometown of Austin, Texas, and looks at the colorful and diverse world of animal rescue through the stories of the animals and the humans who love them.
Linklater and Guttentag, who created NBC’s Law & Order reality spin-off Crime & Punishment, will exec produce. It will be produced by CBS Television Studios in association with Dr. Phil’s Stage 29, Linklater’s Detour Filmproduction, and Guttentag and Nayeema Raza’s 1891 Productions.
Dr. Phil McGraw and Jay McGraw of Stage 29 and Julia Eisenman also exec produce, with Nayeema Raza as co-executive producer.
“I come to this project hoping to shine a light on the folks I’ve met who are making a difference...
- 1/12/2020
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Richard Linklater and Dr. Phil will executive produce a docuseries on animal rescue for CBS All Access, it was announced Sunday during the Television Critics Association press tour.
The 10-episode series will take place in and around Linklater’s hometown of Austin, Texas, and “provide a window onto the colorful and diverse world of animal rescue through moving, humorous and powerful stories of animals and the humans who love them,” according to CBS All Access.
“I come to this project hoping to shine a light on the folks I’ve met who are making a difference everyday in the lives of unwanted, abused and disabled animals. What strikes me most is the joy and discovery on both sides of the relationship between the animals and their human caregivers. These are inspirational stories that I believe will be a positive force in the world.” said Linklater. “I’m grateful to CBS...
The 10-episode series will take place in and around Linklater’s hometown of Austin, Texas, and “provide a window onto the colorful and diverse world of animal rescue through moving, humorous and powerful stories of animals and the humans who love them,” according to CBS All Access.
“I come to this project hoping to shine a light on the folks I’ve met who are making a difference everyday in the lives of unwanted, abused and disabled animals. What strikes me most is the joy and discovery on both sides of the relationship between the animals and their human caregivers. These are inspirational stories that I believe will be a positive force in the world.” said Linklater. “I’m grateful to CBS...
- 1/12/2020
- by Tim Baysinger
- The Wrap
Streaming service CBS All Access has ordered to series an original 10-episode animal rescue docuseries executive produced by filmmaker Richard Linklater and Bill Guttentag.
“The Untitled Richard Linklater Project” will explore the “colorful and diverse world of animal rescue through moving, humorous and powerful stories of animals and the humans who love them,” focusing its efforts in Linklater’s hometown of Austin, Texas.
“I come to this project hoping to shine a light on the folks I’ve met who are making a difference everyday in the lives of unwanted, abused and disabled animals,” said Linklater. “What strikes me most is the joy and discovery on both sides of the relationship between the animals and their human caregivers. These are inspirational stories that I believe will be a positive force in the world. I’m grateful to CBS All Access for their support in this adventure.”
The series will be...
“The Untitled Richard Linklater Project” will explore the “colorful and diverse world of animal rescue through moving, humorous and powerful stories of animals and the humans who love them,” focusing its efforts in Linklater’s hometown of Austin, Texas.
“I come to this project hoping to shine a light on the folks I’ve met who are making a difference everyday in the lives of unwanted, abused and disabled animals,” said Linklater. “What strikes me most is the joy and discovery on both sides of the relationship between the animals and their human caregivers. These are inspirational stories that I believe will be a positive force in the world. I’m grateful to CBS All Access for their support in this adventure.”
The series will be...
- 1/12/2020
- by Elaine Low
- Variety Film + TV
A day before the release of her new LP Norman Fucking Rockwell, Lana Del Rey has dropped a video for her sultry cover of Sublime’s “Doin’ Time,” in which a super-sized version of the singer stomps around Venice Beach.
Directed by Rich Lee and homage of sorts to the b-movie classic Attack of the 50 Foot Woman, the grainy clip opens with Del Rey the Giant waking up in an aqueduct. She stretches, stands up and begins to stomp around Los Angeles, gently stepping over highways to avoid crushing cars like a peaceful Godzilla.
Directed by Rich Lee and homage of sorts to the b-movie classic Attack of the 50 Foot Woman, the grainy clip opens with Del Rey the Giant waking up in an aqueduct. She stretches, stands up and begins to stomp around Los Angeles, gently stepping over highways to avoid crushing cars like a peaceful Godzilla.
- 8/29/2019
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
Lana Del Rey has dropped her cover of Sublime’s laid-back single “Doin’ Time.” The singer, who previously teased the cover, takes on late singer Bradley Nowell’s smooth-talking vocals, adding her signature sultry vibe to the song. The glittering song was produced by Andrew Watt and Happy Perez, and will appear in the upcoming documentary Sublime, which “outlines the history of the iconic California band.”
“Not a day goes by that I don’t listen to at least one Sublime song,” Del Rey said in a statement. “They epitomized...
“Not a day goes by that I don’t listen to at least one Sublime song,” Del Rey said in a statement. “They epitomized...
- 5/17/2019
- by Emily Zemler
- Rollingstone.com
Unless you were of the right age and geographic orientation, Sublime might be an easy band to overlook. A number of their songs haven’t aged particularly well; from a distance they might blend in with the glut of bleached-blond ska-punks who followed in their wake; and their longevity was limited by the untimely passing of frontman Bradley Nowell, who died of a heroin overdose just before they released the album that would make them household names. But if you happened to be a teenager in Southern California in the late 1990s, Sublime was second only to Snoop and Dre for party and parking lot sound system ubiquity, and the time seems right for a full-scale exploration of one of the decade’s unlikeliest superstar bands.
Unfortunately, Bill Guttentag’s paint-by-numbers documentary “Sublime” never delves far enough beneath the surface, nor does it make much of an attempt to contextualize...
Unfortunately, Bill Guttentag’s paint-by-numbers documentary “Sublime” never delves far enough beneath the surface, nor does it make much of an attempt to contextualize...
- 5/1/2019
- by Andrew Barker
- Variety Film + TV
Sublime has chosen two-time Oscar-winning director Bill Guttentag to tell its story in a theatrical documentary detailing the Southern California reggae punk band's rise and tragic loss of lead singer Bradley Nowell.
Guttentag will write and direct the documentary, which will be released theatrically in late 2018, and will include rare and unreleased music from the group. The five-time Oscar nominee won the Academy Award for best short subject documentary in 1989 for You Don't Have to Die and again in 2003 for Twin Towers. In 2009, he co-directed Soundtrack for a Revolution, a documentary that told the story of...
Guttentag will write and direct the documentary, which will be released theatrically in late 2018, and will include rare and unreleased music from the group. The five-time Oscar nominee won the Academy Award for best short subject documentary in 1989 for You Don't Have to Die and again in 2003 for Twin Towers. In 2009, he co-directed Soundtrack for a Revolution, a documentary that told the story of...
- 8/3/2017
- by Melinda Newman, Billboard
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The story of attorney Steven Donziger's David vs. Goliath battle against big-oil giant Chevron is being developed into not one, but two feature films. Bill Guttentag, who won an Oscar for docs You Don’t Have to Die and Twin Towers, has signed on to helm Rumble in the Jungle about Donziger, who spent more than two decades on the legal case that resulted in one of the largest environmental settlements in history. The legal case, led by Donziger, was a suit filed by 30,000 residents of Ecuador, that stated that Texaco (which was purchased by Chevron in 2001)
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- 10/31/2016
- by Rebecca Ford
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
When Michael Ware got back from Iraq, he dumped all the handycam footage he'd shot there in a tupperware container at his mother's house.
When the former correspondent for Time and Newsweek finally brought himself to dredge them out, he realised he had a film on his hands.
"I was sitting there with a friend of mine who's an editor, and she helped me realise that there was a story buried in that archive", Ware said. "That led to us to ingest those tapes, which I'm extraordinarily thankful for because the first of them were just starting to deteriorate"..
Ware first approached Screen Queensland with the idea of fashioning his footage into a feature.
"I sat down with a three-person panel, very clumsily talking about a project I didn't yet have a handle on, about financing I didn't yet understand, and about logistics still beyond me. One of the three...
When the former correspondent for Time and Newsweek finally brought himself to dredge them out, he realised he had a film on his hands.
"I was sitting there with a friend of mine who's an editor, and she helped me realise that there was a story buried in that archive", Ware said. "That led to us to ingest those tapes, which I'm extraordinarily thankful for because the first of them were just starting to deteriorate"..
Ware first approached Screen Queensland with the idea of fashioning his footage into a feature.
"I sat down with a three-person panel, very clumsily talking about a project I didn't yet have a handle on, about financing I didn't yet understand, and about logistics still beyond me. One of the three...
- 2/15/2016
- by Harry Windsor
- IF.com.au
Journalist Michael Ware's feature Only the Dead .has won the Walkley documentary award.
The film, which was recently bought by HBO Documentary Films is produced by Queensland-based Patrick McDonald (Predestination) and directed by Ware and two-time Academy Award-winning Us documentarian Bill Guttentag (Nanking, Twin Towers).
It is also vying for an Academy Award and is elibible to shortlisted for Best Documentary..
The shortlist will be announced in early December.
Only the Dead is a visceral and compelling documentary which follows Ware, a war correspondent reporting for Time Magazine and then CNN.
Ware finds himself launched into the Middle East following the geopolitical upheaval of the September 11 terrorist attacks.
Ware, whose journalism career began at Queensland.s The Courier Mail, shot hundreds of hours of camcorder footage between 2003 and 2007 in war-torn Iraq. .
He was the first western journalist to get access to combat insurgents and as the nature of the war changed,...
The film, which was recently bought by HBO Documentary Films is produced by Queensland-based Patrick McDonald (Predestination) and directed by Ware and two-time Academy Award-winning Us documentarian Bill Guttentag (Nanking, Twin Towers).
It is also vying for an Academy Award and is elibible to shortlisted for Best Documentary..
The shortlist will be announced in early December.
Only the Dead is a visceral and compelling documentary which follows Ware, a war correspondent reporting for Time Magazine and then CNN.
Ware finds himself launched into the Middle East following the geopolitical upheaval of the September 11 terrorist attacks.
Ware, whose journalism career began at Queensland.s The Courier Mail, shot hundreds of hours of camcorder footage between 2003 and 2007 in war-torn Iraq. .
He was the first western journalist to get access to combat insurgents and as the nature of the war changed,...
- 12/5/2015
- by Brian Karlovsky
- IF.com.au
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HBO Documentary Films has bought the Us rights to feature documentary Only the Dead, which centres on Australian journalist Michael Ware.
The film is produced by Queensland-based Patrick McDonald (Predestination) and directed by Ware and two-time Academy Award-winning Us documentarian Bill Guttentag (Nanking, Twin Towers).
Only the Dead recently screened at Colorado.s 42nd Annual Telluride Film Festival.
The film is also vying for an Academy Award and is elibible to shortlisted for Best Documentary..
The shortlist will be announced in early December.
Only the Dead is a visceral and compelling documentary which follows Ware, a war correspondent reporting for Time Magazine and then CNN.
Ware finds himself launched into the Middle East following the geopolitical upheaval of the September 11 terrorist attacks.
Ware, whose journalism career began at Queensland.s The Courier Mail, shot hundreds of hours of camcorder footage between 2003 and 2007 in war-torn Iraq. .
He was the first western...
HBO Documentary Films has bought the Us rights to feature documentary Only the Dead, which centres on Australian journalist Michael Ware.
The film is produced by Queensland-based Patrick McDonald (Predestination) and directed by Ware and two-time Academy Award-winning Us documentarian Bill Guttentag (Nanking, Twin Towers).
Only the Dead recently screened at Colorado.s 42nd Annual Telluride Film Festival.
The film is also vying for an Academy Award and is elibible to shortlisted for Best Documentary..
The shortlist will be announced in early December.
Only the Dead is a visceral and compelling documentary which follows Ware, a war correspondent reporting for Time Magazine and then CNN.
Ware finds himself launched into the Middle East following the geopolitical upheaval of the September 11 terrorist attacks.
Ware, whose journalism career began at Queensland.s The Courier Mail, shot hundreds of hours of camcorder footage between 2003 and 2007 in war-torn Iraq. .
He was the first western...
- 11/5/2015
- by Inside Film Correspondent
- IF.com.au
George Gittoes. Snow Monkey and Bill Guttentag and Michael Ware.s Only the Dead will screen at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (Idfa).
Filmed in Afghanistan in 2014 when foreign forces leave and an internal power struggle begins, Snow Monkey will screen in official competition at the festival which runs November 18-29.
Produced by Lizzette Atkins and Gittoes, the final film in his What the World Needs Now! trilogy premiered at Miff this year and followed the lives of those living in the Yellow House at Jalalabad, a collective of artists, film makers and social revolutionaries as they again face the threat of a Taliban-ruled society. It was funded through Screen Australia's Signature Documentary program.
Only the Dead, which follows Ware, an Australian journalist for CNN and Time Magazine as he journeys through the deepest recesses of the Iraq War, will unspool in the Best of Fests section. Patrick McDonald produced with Ware.
Filmed in Afghanistan in 2014 when foreign forces leave and an internal power struggle begins, Snow Monkey will screen in official competition at the festival which runs November 18-29.
Produced by Lizzette Atkins and Gittoes, the final film in his What the World Needs Now! trilogy premiered at Miff this year and followed the lives of those living in the Yellow House at Jalalabad, a collective of artists, film makers and social revolutionaries as they again face the threat of a Taliban-ruled society. It was funded through Screen Australia's Signature Documentary program.
Only the Dead, which follows Ware, an Australian journalist for CNN and Time Magazine as he journeys through the deepest recesses of the Iraq War, will unspool in the Best of Fests section. Patrick McDonald produced with Ware.
- 10/13/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Top brass at the 42nd edition of the Colorado event have announced the roster of 27 films, with surprises to come over the September 4-7 run date.
The line-up is as follows:
Carol (Us), Todd Haynes
Amazing Grace (Us, 1972/2015), Sydney Pollack
Anomalisa (Us), Charlie Kaufman, Duke Johnson
Beast Of No Nation (Us), Cary Fukunaga
He Named Me Malala (Us), Davis Guggenheim
Steve Jobs (Us), Danny Boyle
Ixcanul (Guatemala), Jayro Bustamante
Bitter Lake (Us), Adam Curtis
Room (UK), Lenny Abrahamson
Black Mass (Us), Scott Cooper
Suffragette (UK), Sarah Gavron
Spotlight (Us), Tom McCarthy
Rams (Iceland), Grímur Hákonarson
Mom And Me (Ireland), Ken Wardrop
Viva (Ireland), Paddy Breathnach
Taj Majal (France-India), Nicolas Saada
Siti (Indonesia), Eddie Cahyono
Heart Of The Dog (Us), Laurie Anderson
45 Years (UK), Andrew Haigh
Son Of Saul (Hungary), Lázló Nemes,
Only The Dead See The End Of The War (Us-Australia), Michael Ware, Bill Guttentag
Taxi (Iran), Jafar Panahi
Hitchcock/Truffaut (Us), Kent Jones
Time To Choose...
The line-up is as follows:
Carol (Us), Todd Haynes
Amazing Grace (Us, 1972/2015), Sydney Pollack
Anomalisa (Us), Charlie Kaufman, Duke Johnson
Beast Of No Nation (Us), Cary Fukunaga
He Named Me Malala (Us), Davis Guggenheim
Steve Jobs (Us), Danny Boyle
Ixcanul (Guatemala), Jayro Bustamante
Bitter Lake (Us), Adam Curtis
Room (UK), Lenny Abrahamson
Black Mass (Us), Scott Cooper
Suffragette (UK), Sarah Gavron
Spotlight (Us), Tom McCarthy
Rams (Iceland), Grímur Hákonarson
Mom And Me (Ireland), Ken Wardrop
Viva (Ireland), Paddy Breathnach
Taj Majal (France-India), Nicolas Saada
Siti (Indonesia), Eddie Cahyono
Heart Of The Dog (Us), Laurie Anderson
45 Years (UK), Andrew Haigh
Son Of Saul (Hungary), Lázló Nemes,
Only The Dead See The End Of The War (Us-Australia), Michael Ware, Bill Guttentag
Taxi (Iran), Jafar Panahi
Hitchcock/Truffaut (Us), Kent Jones
Time To Choose...
- 9/3/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Top brass at the 42nd edition of the Colorado event have announced the roster of 27 films, with surprises to come over the September 4-7 run date.
The line-up is as follows:
Carol (Us), Todd Haynes
Amazing Grace (Us, 1972/2015), Sydney Pollack
Anomalisa (Us), Charlie Kaufman, Duke Johnson
Beast Of No Nation (Us), Cary Fukunaga
He Named Me Malala (Us), Davis Guggenheim
Steve Jobs (Us), Danny Boyle
Ixcanul (Guatemala), Jayro Bustamante
Bitter Lake (Us), Adam Curtis
Room (England, pictured), Lenny Abrahamson
Black Mass (Us), Scott Cooper
Suffragette (UK), Sarah Gavron
Spotlight (Us), Tom McCarthy
Rams (Iceland), Grímur Hákonarson
Mom And Me (Ireland), Ken Wardrop
Viva (Ireland), Paddy Breathnach
Taj Majal (France-India), Nicolas Saada
Siti (Indonesia), Eddie Cahyono
Heart Of The Dog (Us), Laurie Anderson
45 Years (England), Andrew Haigh
Son Of Saul (Hungary), Lázló Nemes,
Only The Dead See The End Of The War (Us-Australia), Michael Ware, Bill Guttentag
Taxi (Iran), Jafar Panahi
Hitchcock/Truffaut (Us), Kent Jones
Time To...
The line-up is as follows:
Carol (Us), Todd Haynes
Amazing Grace (Us, 1972/2015), Sydney Pollack
Anomalisa (Us), Charlie Kaufman, Duke Johnson
Beast Of No Nation (Us), Cary Fukunaga
He Named Me Malala (Us), Davis Guggenheim
Steve Jobs (Us), Danny Boyle
Ixcanul (Guatemala), Jayro Bustamante
Bitter Lake (Us), Adam Curtis
Room (England, pictured), Lenny Abrahamson
Black Mass (Us), Scott Cooper
Suffragette (UK), Sarah Gavron
Spotlight (Us), Tom McCarthy
Rams (Iceland), Grímur Hákonarson
Mom And Me (Ireland), Ken Wardrop
Viva (Ireland), Paddy Breathnach
Taj Majal (France-India), Nicolas Saada
Siti (Indonesia), Eddie Cahyono
Heart Of The Dog (Us), Laurie Anderson
45 Years (England), Andrew Haigh
Son Of Saul (Hungary), Lázló Nemes,
Only The Dead See The End Of The War (Us-Australia), Michael Ware, Bill Guttentag
Taxi (Iran), Jafar Panahi
Hitchcock/Truffaut (Us), Kent Jones
Time To...
- 9/3/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
This is a golden era for Australian feature documentaries as typified by the five critically-acclaimed titles in contention for the best feature doc prize at the fifth Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards.
Maya Newell.s Gayby Baby, Michael Ware and Bill Guttentag.s Only the Dead, Jen Peedom.s Sherpa, Damon Gameau.s That Sugar Film and Gillian Armstrong.s Women He.s Undressed are the nominees.
The Aacta Awards will be presented in Sydney in December, with the Seven Network telecasting the major awards on December 9.
Also revealed today were the nominees for best short animation and best short fiction film. In the running for the former are Adam Elliot.s Ernie Biscuit, Joe Brumm.s The Meek, Mikey Hill.s The Orchestra and Janette Goodey and John Lewis. The Story of Percival Pilts.
The nominees for best short fiction are Matt Holcomb.s Flat Daddy,...
Maya Newell.s Gayby Baby, Michael Ware and Bill Guttentag.s Only the Dead, Jen Peedom.s Sherpa, Damon Gameau.s That Sugar Film and Gillian Armstrong.s Women He.s Undressed are the nominees.
The Aacta Awards will be presented in Sydney in December, with the Seven Network telecasting the major awards on December 9.
Also revealed today were the nominees for best short animation and best short fiction film. In the running for the former are Adam Elliot.s Ernie Biscuit, Joe Brumm.s The Meek, Mikey Hill.s The Orchestra and Janette Goodey and John Lewis. The Story of Percival Pilts.
The nominees for best short fiction are Matt Holcomb.s Flat Daddy,...
- 7/14/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Portuguese director Miguel Gomes. Arabian Nights has won the top award, the Sydney Film prize, at the 62nd Sydney Film Festival.
The 3-part opus, which draws on the folk tales One Thousand and One Nights to create a portrait of modern-day life in Portugal, took the $62,000 cash prize at the closing night awards at the State Theatre.
Jury president Liz Watts hailed a film of "ambition and political vision which confronts, frustrates, and spellbinds - and ultimately reminds us that cinema continues to be a powerful vehicle to examine the human condition..
Journalist Michael Ware and two-time Oscar winner Bill Guttentag received the $10,000 Documentary Australia Foundation Award for Australian documentary for Only the Dead; with a special mention to The Lost Aviator directed by Andrew Lancaster. .A Single Body directed and written by Sotiris Dounoukos won the best live action short award; Grace Under Water directed and produced by Anthony Lawrence...
The 3-part opus, which draws on the folk tales One Thousand and One Nights to create a portrait of modern-day life in Portugal, took the $62,000 cash prize at the closing night awards at the State Theatre.
Jury president Liz Watts hailed a film of "ambition and political vision which confronts, frustrates, and spellbinds - and ultimately reminds us that cinema continues to be a powerful vehicle to examine the human condition..
Journalist Michael Ware and two-time Oscar winner Bill Guttentag received the $10,000 Documentary Australia Foundation Award for Australian documentary for Only the Dead; with a special mention to The Lost Aviator directed by Andrew Lancaster. .A Single Body directed and written by Sotiris Dounoukos won the best live action short award; Grace Under Water directed and produced by Anthony Lawrence...
- 6/14/2015
- by Staff writer
- IF.com.au
Miguel Gomes’ three-volume epic wins eight on the closing night of the Sydney Film Festival.
Director Miguel Gomes and his three-volume 383-minute film Arabian Nights has won the $48,000 (A$62,000) Sydney Film Prize, it was announced on Sunday, the closing night of the 62nd Sydney Film Festival.
Journalist Michael Ware was awarded the $7,730 (A$10,000) Documentary Australia Foundation Award for Australian Documentary for Only the Dead, about his experiences in Afghanistan. The film was co-directed with Bill Guttentag.
Director Andrew Lancaster’s The Lost Aviator received a special mention for a family story of murder, love and aviation.
Jury president and Australian producer Liz Watts said Arabian Nights, which had its world premiere in Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes, was a film of ambition and political vision which confronts, frustrates, and spellbinds – and ultimately reminds us that cinema continues to be a powerful vehicle to examine the human condition.
“A subject that is so timely – oppression and exploitation are at...
Director Miguel Gomes and his three-volume 383-minute film Arabian Nights has won the $48,000 (A$62,000) Sydney Film Prize, it was announced on Sunday, the closing night of the 62nd Sydney Film Festival.
Journalist Michael Ware was awarded the $7,730 (A$10,000) Documentary Australia Foundation Award for Australian Documentary for Only the Dead, about his experiences in Afghanistan. The film was co-directed with Bill Guttentag.
Director Andrew Lancaster’s The Lost Aviator received a special mention for a family story of murder, love and aviation.
Jury president and Australian producer Liz Watts said Arabian Nights, which had its world premiere in Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes, was a film of ambition and political vision which confronts, frustrates, and spellbinds – and ultimately reminds us that cinema continues to be a powerful vehicle to examine the human condition.
“A subject that is so timely – oppression and exploitation are at...
- 6/14/2015
- by Sandy.George@me.com (Sandy George)
- ScreenDaily
The two-time Oscar winner will be among the first teachers on the online platform alongside Serena Williams and James Patterson.
Based in San Francisco, MasterClass aims to curate a programme of sessions involving the best in their fields.
“We’re students,” said Hoffman, who will teach an acting class. “The first year. The first five years, the first 10 years. We’re students after 50 years.
“I never like to give advice, but I wanted to teach what I wish someone had taught me.”
Jay Roach and Bill Guttentag will direct the first set of classes.
For further details click here.
Based in San Francisco, MasterClass aims to curate a programme of sessions involving the best in their fields.
“We’re students,” said Hoffman, who will teach an acting class. “The first year. The first five years, the first 10 years. We’re students after 50 years.
“I never like to give advice, but I wanted to teach what I wish someone had taught me.”
Jay Roach and Bill Guttentag will direct the first set of classes.
For further details click here.
- 5/12/2015
- ScreenDaily
Neil Armfield.s Holding the Man, Simon Stone.s The Daughter, Jeremy Sims. Last Cab to Darwin and Jen Peedom.s feature doc Sherpa will have their world premieres at the Sydney Film Festival.
The festival program unveiled today includes 33 world premieres (including 22 shorts) and 135 Australian premieres (with 18 shorts) among 251 titles from 68 countries.
Among the other premieres will be Daina Reid.s The Secret River, Ruby Entertainment's. ABC-tv miniseries starring Oliver Jackson Cohen and Sarah Snook, and three Oz docs, Marc Eberle.s The Cambodian Space Project — Not Easy Rock .n. Roll, Steve Thomas. Freedom Stories and Lisa Nicol.s Wide Open Sky.
Festival director Nashen Moodley boasted. this year.s event will be far larger than 2014's when 183 films from 47 countries were screened, including 15 world premieres. The expansion is possible in part due to the addition of two new screening venues in Newtown and Liverpool.
As previously announced, Brendan Cowell...
The festival program unveiled today includes 33 world premieres (including 22 shorts) and 135 Australian premieres (with 18 shorts) among 251 titles from 68 countries.
Among the other premieres will be Daina Reid.s The Secret River, Ruby Entertainment's. ABC-tv miniseries starring Oliver Jackson Cohen and Sarah Snook, and three Oz docs, Marc Eberle.s The Cambodian Space Project — Not Easy Rock .n. Roll, Steve Thomas. Freedom Stories and Lisa Nicol.s Wide Open Sky.
Festival director Nashen Moodley boasted. this year.s event will be far larger than 2014's when 183 films from 47 countries were screened, including 15 world premieres. The expansion is possible in part due to the addition of two new screening venues in Newtown and Liverpool.
As previously announced, Brendan Cowell...
- 5/6/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Anton Corbijn’s Life also set to get direct government investment from Screen Australia.
Many Australian filmgoers were today thrilled to hear that director Clayton Jacobson and his brother, the actor Shane Jacobson, the two brains behind the good-natured local box office hit Kenny [pictured], are finally going to be making a followup.
The family movie Oddball is one of two features to get direct government investment from Screen Australia, it was announced today. In the other, the official co-production Life, starring Robert Pattinson of Twilight fame, Australia and Germany are minority partners alongside Canada.
“Oddball has the perfect mix to really carry across to an international audience,” Clayton Jacobson told Screendaily. “It is your classic four quadrant film. Both Shane and I were invited on board for the ride… We are thrilled to be able to work together again. It’s not every day someone pays you to hang out with family.”
Kenny was made...
Many Australian filmgoers were today thrilled to hear that director Clayton Jacobson and his brother, the actor Shane Jacobson, the two brains behind the good-natured local box office hit Kenny [pictured], are finally going to be making a followup.
The family movie Oddball is one of two features to get direct government investment from Screen Australia, it was announced today. In the other, the official co-production Life, starring Robert Pattinson of Twilight fame, Australia and Germany are minority partners alongside Canada.
“Oddball has the perfect mix to really carry across to an international audience,” Clayton Jacobson told Screendaily. “It is your classic four quadrant film. Both Shane and I were invited on board for the ride… We are thrilled to be able to work together again. It’s not every day someone pays you to hang out with family.”
Kenny was made...
- 12/5/2013
- by Sandy.George@me.com (Sandy George)
- ScreenDaily
Screen Australia board.s first meeting since Graeme Mason was hired as CEO was eventful as the agency approved $11 million investment in four feature films, four adult dramas and one children.s series.
All told, that will trigger $70 million in production. The features include family film Oddball from the team who made Kenny, starring Shane Jacobson and directed by his brother Clayton; and See-Saw Films. Life, which stars Dane DeHaan and Robert Pattinson.
Two theatrical documentaries were funded: Only the Dead, which explores the career of Australian war correspondent Michael Ware; and Sherpa: In the Shadow of the Mountain, which looks at the drama of a high altitude Everest expedition from the point of view of the Sherpas.
.This is a strong line-up of character-driven feature projects coming from an incredibly talented mix of filmmakers,. said Mason.
Scripted by Peter Ivan, Oddball centres on an eccentric chicken farmer who saves...
All told, that will trigger $70 million in production. The features include family film Oddball from the team who made Kenny, starring Shane Jacobson and directed by his brother Clayton; and See-Saw Films. Life, which stars Dane DeHaan and Robert Pattinson.
Two theatrical documentaries were funded: Only the Dead, which explores the career of Australian war correspondent Michael Ware; and Sherpa: In the Shadow of the Mountain, which looks at the drama of a high altitude Everest expedition from the point of view of the Sherpas.
.This is a strong line-up of character-driven feature projects coming from an incredibly talented mix of filmmakers,. said Mason.
Scripted by Peter Ivan, Oddball centres on an eccentric chicken farmer who saves...
- 12/5/2013
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
This is another edition of Short Starts, where we present a weekly short film(s) from the start of a filmmaker or actor’s career. You may not think there’s anything worth knowing about the director of Red 2, which opens this Friday. But Dean Parisot, who is best known for helming Galaxy Quest, is an Academy Award-winning filmmaker. He got his start by directing two excellent, slightly surreal shorts in the 1980s, the second of which, The Appointments of Dennis Jennings, won the Oscar in 1989 for Best Live Action Short. (That was a great year for short winners, by the way, as it saw Pixar’s John Lasseter receive his first with Tin Toy and documentarian Bill Guttentag win his first with You Don’t Have to Die.) Parisot shares his honor with comedian Steven Wright, who co-wrote the witty little movie with Mike Armstrong. The acceptance speech was a highlight of the year’s...
- 7/14/2013
- by Christopher Campbell
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
When Rob Lowe's Sam Seaborn bowed out of The West Wing in the fourth season, the series lost one of its funniest characters as well as one of its most optimistic voices amongst an ensemble cast of more business-minded roles. As the speech writer for the Bartlett White House, it was Seaborn's responsibility to bring the values and ideals of the administration to bear in appropriate measure with each Presidential address, and that character's way with words lent him to some of the best rapid-fire exchanges Aaron Sorkin ever wrote for the show. That's why Lowe's return to form as a similar character in Bill Guttentag's Knife Fight feels more like a reunion with an old friend than it does the establishment of something new. The writing isn't as sharp and aspects of the plot are intentionally muddled just to keep things moving forward, but for fans of Rob Lowe and political drama,...
- 6/22/2013
- by Lex Walker
- JustPressPlay.net
Title: Knife Fight Directed by: Bill Guttentag Starring: Rob Lowe, Jamie Chung, Julie Bowen, Eric McCormack, Carrie Anne Moss, Saffron Burrows, David Harbour, Jennifer Morrison, Richard Schiff Running time: 98 minutes, Rated R Special Features: Trailer When a political candidate has some dirt about to surface that needs to be spun, they call upon strategist Paul Turner (Lowe). Paul, his closeted lesbian assistant Kerstin (Chung) and f-buddy/media darling Peaches (Bowen) have the means to clean up and exploit the dirtiest of laundry in order to win elections for his clients: a womanizing Kentucky governor (Mccormack), a blackmailed California Senator (Harbour), a free clinic doctor (Moss) who wants to run for [ Read More ]
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- 6/20/2013
- by juliana
- ShockYa
Very few winners let alone nominees in the Best Documentary Short category are remembered after the Academy Awards ceremony is over. Can you recall even a single winner in the honor’s more than 70 years? Maybe you’ve at least heard of Jessica Yu’s 1997 winner, Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O’Brien, since it led to the making of The Sessions, a drama about O’Brien nominated for an Oscar this year in the Best Supporting Actress category. You also ought to know that there are often returning nominees in this niche arena, including multiple winner Walt Disney and now five more filmmakers representing three of the current contenders. One of those five Academy Award veterans even won in her previous race, and while that can often work against a nominee in other categories, here it shouldn’t at all. Even ignoring all the wins for the U.S...
- 2/21/2013
- by Christopher Campbell
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Title: Knife Fight Director: Bill Guttentag Starring: Rob Lowe, Jamie Chung, Julie Bowen, Richard Schiff, Jamie Chung, Eric McCormack, David Harbour, Carrie-Anne Moss, Saffron Burrows, Chris Mulkey, Jennifer Morrison, Davey Havok, Amanda Crew, Brooke Newton A tack-sharp political drama with satirical underpinnings, “Knife Fight” digs into the characteristic foibles of high-rolling politicians through the point-of-view of campaign operatives, and dissects ego and ambition, idealism and win-at-any-cost pragmatism, but all without succumbing to lazy, armchair cynicism. A collaboration between Oscar-winning director Bill Guttentag and political consultant Chris Lehane, “Knife Fight” is smartly written and superbly cast, and one of the more lithe and entertaining explicitly political films of the new decade — a true movie of the moment [ Read More ]
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- 1/29/2013
- by bsimon
- ShockYa
Knife Fight
Written by Bill Guttentag and Chris Lehane
Directed by Bill Guttentag
USA, 2013
Judging from the comments on its IMDb page, Bill Guttentag’s film Knife Fight is tempting many movie buffs with a reunion of The West Wing veterans Rob Lowe and Richard Schiff in another project about the nuts and bolts of politics. Except Knife Fight isn’t about the issues; instead, it’s yet another film about how one has to be an amoral schemer in order to win a political campaign. Also, neither Aaron Sorkin nor anyone else from The West Wing was involved in writing Knife Fight, which quickly becomes clear as the film staggers through its messy plot.
The film announces its awkwardness in the very first scene. Lowe’s high-powered political consultant is introduced via hackneyed first-person narration from his assistant (Jamie Chung) and then the narration is never to be heard from again,...
Written by Bill Guttentag and Chris Lehane
Directed by Bill Guttentag
USA, 2013
Judging from the comments on its IMDb page, Bill Guttentag’s film Knife Fight is tempting many movie buffs with a reunion of The West Wing veterans Rob Lowe and Richard Schiff in another project about the nuts and bolts of politics. Except Knife Fight isn’t about the issues; instead, it’s yet another film about how one has to be an amoral schemer in order to win a political campaign. Also, neither Aaron Sorkin nor anyone else from The West Wing was involved in writing Knife Fight, which quickly becomes clear as the film staggers through its messy plot.
The film announces its awkwardness in the very first scene. Lowe’s high-powered political consultant is introduced via hackneyed first-person narration from his assistant (Jamie Chung) and then the narration is never to be heard from again,...
- 1/28/2013
- by Mark Young
- SoundOnSight
The presence of Rob Lowe and Richard Schiff in leading roles in Knife Fight merely brings a sad nostalgia for their glory days in the late, lamented West Wing television series. This satire written and directed by Bill Guttentag--based on a story by co-screenwriter and former Bill Clinton advisor Chris Lehane--aims to be a cutting-edge portrait of cutthroat political machinations. But it’s a mostly toothless affair that, like so many of our current political figures, proves alienating. Lowe plays the central role of Paul Turner, a campaign advisor and political fixer who has his hands full
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- 1/27/2013
- by Frank Scheck
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Knife Fight
Written by Bill Guttentag and Chris Lehane
Directed by Bill Guttentag
USA, 2013
Judging from the comments on its IMDb page, Bill Guttentag’s film Knife Fight is tempting many movie buffs with a reunion of The West Wing veterans Rob Lowe and Richard Schiff in another project about the nuts and bolts of politics. Except Knife Fight isn’t about the issues; instead, it’s yet another film about how one has to be an amoral schemer in order to win a political campaign. Also, neither Aaron Sorkin nor anyone else from The West Wing was involved in writing Knife Fight, which quickly becomes clear as the film staggers through its messy plot.
The film announces its awkwardness in the very first scene. Lowe’s high-powered political consultant is introduced via hackneyed first-person narration from his assistant (Jamie Chung) and then the narration is never to be heard from again,...
Written by Bill Guttentag and Chris Lehane
Directed by Bill Guttentag
USA, 2013
Judging from the comments on its IMDb page, Bill Guttentag’s film Knife Fight is tempting many movie buffs with a reunion of The West Wing veterans Rob Lowe and Richard Schiff in another project about the nuts and bolts of politics. Except Knife Fight isn’t about the issues; instead, it’s yet another film about how one has to be an amoral schemer in order to win a political campaign. Also, neither Aaron Sorkin nor anyone else from The West Wing was involved in writing Knife Fight, which quickly becomes clear as the film staggers through its messy plot.
The film announces its awkwardness in the very first scene. Lowe’s high-powered political consultant is introduced via hackneyed first-person narration from his assistant (Jamie Chung) and then the narration is never to be heard from again,...
- 1/27/2013
- by Mark Young
- SoundOnSight
When it comes to getting elected, there’s no such thing as going too far. That’s exactly what an upcoming political thriller Knife Fight is all about – sex, drugs, money and… well, politics! The movie comes from director Bill Guttentag, it stars Rob Lowe and Carrie-Anne Moss in the leading roles, it premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and is finally set to hit Us theaters at the end of this month!
Written by Bill Guttentag and Chris Lehane, the movie will show us how politics is really played – a knife fight in a telephone booth, where blood is spilled, low blows are common and the best candidate is not always the best person.
The movie has quite interesting cast on board which, beside the above mentioned Rob Lowe and Carrie-Anne Moss also includes Jamie Chung, Richard Schiff, Eric McCormack, Julie Bowen, Jennifer Morrison and Amanda Crew.
In case...
Written by Bill Guttentag and Chris Lehane, the movie will show us how politics is really played – a knife fight in a telephone booth, where blood is spilled, low blows are common and the best candidate is not always the best person.
The movie has quite interesting cast on board which, beside the above mentioned Rob Lowe and Carrie-Anne Moss also includes Jamie Chung, Richard Schiff, Eric McCormack, Julie Bowen, Jennifer Morrison and Amanda Crew.
In case...
- 1/5/2013
- by Jeanne Standal
- Filmofilia
Exclusive: TNT has put in development drama Hit based on an idea by Jamie Foxx. Co-written by Foxx and former Numbers co-executive producer Robert Port, Hit centers on two former high school football teammates and best friends — one a Qb, one a Wr -– who years later are “drafted” by the Miami P.D. and assigned to Hit (High Impact Team). The same shorthand that made them unstoppable on the gridiron makes them great partners taking down the most dangerous criminals in the city. Foxx and Port are executive producing with Foxx’s producing partner Jaime King. Fun fact: Both Foxx and Port are Oscar winners. Foxx of course, won for his portrayal of Ray Charles in Ray, while Port and Bill Guttentag won for their documentary Twin Towers. Foxx, repped by CAA and Rick Yorn, next is coming out in Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained. His writing credits include co-creating The Jamie Foxx Show.
- 12/5/2012
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Several new photos of Arnold Schwarzenegger in both The Last Stand and The Tomb, Chris Hemsworth in Rush, Daniel Day Lewis in full costume in Steven Spielberg's Lincoln, and Robert Redford in Jc Chandor's sea survival drama All is Lost.
There's also new photos from The Master, The Iceman, Skyfall, Zero Dark Thirty, Parental Guidance, The Girl and The Apparition.
Posters for Ten Year, Head Games, Spiders 3D, Dredd 3D, Here Comes the Boom, Bait 3D, Antiviral, Trouble with the Curve, Playing for Keeps, Zero Dark Thirty, Liberal Arts, Alex Cross and Nobody Walks.
Italian artist Monica Manganelli has shared concept art she drew for Cloud Atlas, specifically the scenes in the futuristic city Somni-451.
"French actress/filmmaker Julie Delpy is seeking Woody Allen to star in her new comedy project 'Virgo Rising'. Delpy says 'I don’t know if I’ll do it. I don’t know...
There's also new photos from The Master, The Iceman, Skyfall, Zero Dark Thirty, Parental Guidance, The Girl and The Apparition.
Posters for Ten Year, Head Games, Spiders 3D, Dredd 3D, Here Comes the Boom, Bait 3D, Antiviral, Trouble with the Curve, Playing for Keeps, Zero Dark Thirty, Liberal Arts, Alex Cross and Nobody Walks.
Italian artist Monica Manganelli has shared concept art she drew for Cloud Atlas, specifically the scenes in the futuristic city Somni-451.
"French actress/filmmaker Julie Delpy is seeking Woody Allen to star in her new comedy project 'Virgo Rising'. Delpy says 'I don’t know if I’ll do it. I don’t know...
- 8/13/2012
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
IFC Films has acquired Bill Guttentag's Knife Fight political drama Variety reports that the film scripted by Guttentag and political consultant Chris Lehane, stars Rob Lowe, Jamie Chung, Julie Bowen, Richard Schiff, Saffron Burrows, Jennifer Morrison, David Harbour, Eric McCormack and Carrie-Anne Moss. Knife Fight is about sex, drugs, money and how politics is really played-a knife fight in a telephone booth, where blood is spilled, low blows are common and the best candidate is not always the best person. Pic is produced by Guerrino De Luca and Catherine and Daniel Davila, while William Green and Lowe serve as executive producers.
- 8/10/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
IFC Films has acquired Bill Guttentag's Knife Fight political drama Variety reports that the film scripted by Guttentag and political consultant Chris Lehane, stars Rob Lowe, Jamie Chung, Julie Bowen, Richard Schiff, Saffron Burrows, Jennifer Morrison, David Harbour, Eric McCormack and Carrie-Anne Moss. Knife Fight is about sex, drugs, money and how politics is really played-a knife fight in a telephone booth, where blood is spilled, low blows are common and the best candidate is not always the best person. Pic is produced by Guerrino De Luca and Catherine and Daniel Davila, while William Green and Lowe serve as executive producers.
- 8/10/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
New York, NY (August 9, 2012) – IFC Films announced today the company is acquiring all U.S. rights to director Bill Guttentag’s (Soundtrack For A Revolution) political drama Knife Fight. Guttentag wrote the screenplay with political consultant Chris Lehane, who served as White House advisor to President Clinton and First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton andserved as Vice President Al Gore’s press secretary. The film stars Rob Lowe,Jaime Chung, Julie Bowen, Richard Schiff, Saffron Burrows, Jennifer Morrison, David Harbour, EricMcCormack, and Carrie-Anne Moss. Guerrino De Luca and Catherine and Daniel Davila produced the film, with Lowe and William Green executive producing. Knife Fight had its world premiere earlier this year at the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival. If a political candidate is personally flawed, but stands to make a positive difference in millions of lives, would you help him win? That question looms over the life of “true believer” Paul Turner (Lowe...
- 8/9/2012
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
IFC Films has acquired all U.S. rights to the political drama “Knife Fight,” directed by Bill Guttentag. The film, which had its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in April, stars Rob Lowe, Julie Bowen, Richard Schiff, Saffron Burrows, Jennifer Morrison and Carrie-Anne Moss in the story of a committed political strategist who must reckon with the truth about his job while working for a trio of flawed politicians. Guttentag wrote the screenplay with Chris Lehane, who served as a White House advisor to President Clinton and First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton and as press secretary to Vice President Al Gore. Guerrino De Luca and Catherine and Daniel Davila produced the project; Lowe and William Green are executive producers. "The entire IFC Films team is thrilled to be working with Bill Guttentag, Chris Lehane and their all-star cast on the release of ‘Knife Fight,’ ” said Sundance Selects/IFC Films president Jonathan.
- 8/9/2012
- by Jay A. Fernandez
- Indiewire
IFC Films has acquired U.S. rights to Bill Guttentag's political drama Knife Fight, starring Rob Lowe as an insider strategist. Guttentag (Soundtrack for a Revolution) wrote the screenplay with political consultant Chris Lehane, who served as White House adviser to President Bill Clinton and first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton and served as Vice President Al Gore's press secretary. Guerrino De Luca and Catherine and Daniel Davila produced the film, which had its world premiere at this year's Tribeca Film Festival. Lowe and William Green executive produced. Lowe plays a political strategist who starts to question his methods while working with a
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- 8/9/2012
- by Gregg Kilday
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Craig here with this week's Take Three. Today: Eva Mendes
Take One: Live! (2007)
Building on her dramatic work in We Own the Night the same year, Mendes took on another (semi) serious role, one deviously tinged with delicious black comedy, as TV executive Katy in Bill Guttentag’s Reality TV mock-doc Live! Perfectly styled in sharp attire and a coffee ‘to-go’ in hand, Mendes' Katy is ambitious, ruthless and most likely hollow on the inside. She has grand ideas. One of them kick-starts Live!’s plot: six members of the public will play Russian roulette live on air; the sole survivor is the winner. Her flippant excuse, while delicately biting into a strawberry:
Hey, I didn’t invent the game, I’m just making it hip again.”
Katy’s the kind of person who thinks that if all of life – including death – isn’t caught on camera it’s not worth living.
Take One: Live! (2007)
Building on her dramatic work in We Own the Night the same year, Mendes took on another (semi) serious role, one deviously tinged with delicious black comedy, as TV executive Katy in Bill Guttentag’s Reality TV mock-doc Live! Perfectly styled in sharp attire and a coffee ‘to-go’ in hand, Mendes' Katy is ambitious, ruthless and most likely hollow on the inside. She has grand ideas. One of them kick-starts Live!’s plot: six members of the public will play Russian roulette live on air; the sole survivor is the winner. Her flippant excuse, while delicately biting into a strawberry:
Hey, I didn’t invent the game, I’m just making it hip again.”
Katy’s the kind of person who thinks that if all of life – including death – isn’t caught on camera it’s not worth living.
- 7/23/2012
- by Craig Bloomfield
- FilmExperience
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