Simone Ashley (Bridgerton) and Hero Fiennes Tiffin (After) are set to lead the romantic comedy ‘Picture This’.
Further cast includes Phil Dunster (Ted Lasso), Nikesh Patel (London Has Fallen), Adil Ray (Citizen Khan), Sindhu Vee (Matilda: The Musical), Anoushka Chadha (You), Kulvinder Ghir (Bend It Like Beckham) and Luke Fetherston (Still Up).
The story centres on Pia (Simone Ashley), single and without a man on the horizon, she runs a failing photography studio in London with her best friend Jay (Luke Fetherston). As her sister Sonal (Anoushka Chadha) prepares to get married and her mother Laxmi (Sindhu Vee) urges the resolutely independent Pia to partner up, a spiritual guru at Sonal’s engagement party predicts Pia will meet the love of her life among the next five dates she goes on. As her family intervene, setting her up on a series of increasingly desperate blind dates, Pia begins a hilarious...
Further cast includes Phil Dunster (Ted Lasso), Nikesh Patel (London Has Fallen), Adil Ray (Citizen Khan), Sindhu Vee (Matilda: The Musical), Anoushka Chadha (You), Kulvinder Ghir (Bend It Like Beckham) and Luke Fetherston (Still Up).
The story centres on Pia (Simone Ashley), single and without a man on the horizon, she runs a failing photography studio in London with her best friend Jay (Luke Fetherston). As her sister Sonal (Anoushka Chadha) prepares to get married and her mother Laxmi (Sindhu Vee) urges the resolutely independent Pia to partner up, a spiritual guru at Sonal’s engagement party predicts Pia will meet the love of her life among the next five dates she goes on. As her family intervene, setting her up on a series of increasingly desperate blind dates, Pia begins a hilarious...
- 3/22/2024
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Bridgerton’s Simone Ashley and After star Hero Fiennes Tiffin are set to lead the cast of Prarthana Mohan’s UK romantic comedy Picture This for Prime Video.
The producers are Ben Pugh and Erica Steinberg for UK outfit 42.
Nikita Lalwani has written the script about a woman running a failing photography studio who is told by a spiritual guru she will meet the love of her life on her next five dates, leading her family to set her up on a series of desperate blind dates.
Picture This is based on Australian Prime Video film, Five Blind Dates.
The cast also includes Phil Dunster,...
The producers are Ben Pugh and Erica Steinberg for UK outfit 42.
Nikita Lalwani has written the script about a woman running a failing photography studio who is told by a spiritual guru she will meet the love of her life on her next five dates, leading her family to set her up on a series of desperate blind dates.
Picture This is based on Australian Prime Video film, Five Blind Dates.
The cast also includes Phil Dunster,...
- 3/22/2024
- ScreenDaily
Simone Ashley (Bridgerton, Sex Education) and Hero Fiennes Tiffin (After) will star in the new U.K. original romantic comedy Picture This for Amazon’s Prime Video.
The movie’s cast also includes Phil Dunster (Ted Lasso), Nikesh Patel (London Has Fallen), Adil Ray (Citizen Khan), Sindhu Vee (Matilda: The Musical), Anoushka Chadha (You), Kulvinder Ghir (Bend It Like Beckham) and Luke Fetherston (Still Up).
Amazon said that Picture This will premiere on Prime Video in the U.K. “and internationally,” which for the company typically means it plans to make the content available in all or nearly all 240-plus countries and territories. The film doesn’t yet have a release date.
“Single and without a man on the horizon, Pia (Ashley) runs a failing photography studio in London with her best friend Jay (Fetherston),” according to a plot description. “As her sister Sonal (Chadha) prepares to get married and...
The movie’s cast also includes Phil Dunster (Ted Lasso), Nikesh Patel (London Has Fallen), Adil Ray (Citizen Khan), Sindhu Vee (Matilda: The Musical), Anoushka Chadha (You), Kulvinder Ghir (Bend It Like Beckham) and Luke Fetherston (Still Up).
Amazon said that Picture This will premiere on Prime Video in the U.K. “and internationally,” which for the company typically means it plans to make the content available in all or nearly all 240-plus countries and territories. The film doesn’t yet have a release date.
“Single and without a man on the horizon, Pia (Ashley) runs a failing photography studio in London with her best friend Jay (Fetherston),” according to a plot description. “As her sister Sonal (Chadha) prepares to get married and...
- 3/22/2024
- by Georg Szalai
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Prime Video is launching U.K. original romantic comedy film “Picture This,” starring Simone Ashley (“Bridgerton”) and Hero Fiennes Tiffin (“After”).
The film is based on Prime Video’s Australian original film “Five Blind Dates,” written by Shaung Hu and Nathan Ramos-Park.
The cast of “Picture This” also includes Phil Dunster (“Ted Lasso”), Nikesh Patel (“London Has Fallen”), Adil Ray (“Citizen Khan”), Sindhu Vee (“Matilda: The Musical”), Anoushka Chadha (“You”), Kulvinder Ghir (“Bend It Like Beckham”) and Luke Fetherston (“Still Up”).
In “Picture This,” single and without a man on the horizon, Pia (Ashley) runs a failing photography studio in London with her best friend Jay (Fetherston). Her sister Sonal (Chadha) prepares to get married and her mother Laxmi (Vee) urges the resolutely independent Pia to partner up. A spiritual guru at Sonal’s engagement party predicts Pia will meet the love of her life among the next five dates she goes on.
The film is based on Prime Video’s Australian original film “Five Blind Dates,” written by Shaung Hu and Nathan Ramos-Park.
The cast of “Picture This” also includes Phil Dunster (“Ted Lasso”), Nikesh Patel (“London Has Fallen”), Adil Ray (“Citizen Khan”), Sindhu Vee (“Matilda: The Musical”), Anoushka Chadha (“You”), Kulvinder Ghir (“Bend It Like Beckham”) and Luke Fetherston (“Still Up”).
In “Picture This,” single and without a man on the horizon, Pia (Ashley) runs a failing photography studio in London with her best friend Jay (Fetherston). Her sister Sonal (Chadha) prepares to get married and her mother Laxmi (Vee) urges the resolutely independent Pia to partner up. A spiritual guru at Sonal’s engagement party predicts Pia will meet the love of her life among the next five dates she goes on.
- 3/22/2024
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Prime Video is in post-production on UK Original romantic-comedy, Picture This, starring Simone Ashley (Bridgerton) and Hero Fiennes Tiffin (After).
Further cast includes Phil Dunster (Ted Lasso), Nikesh Patel (London Has Fallen), Adil Ray (Citizen Khan), Sindhu Vee (Matilda: The Musical), Anoushka Chadha (You), Kulvinder Ghir (Bend It Like Beckham) and Luke Fetherston (Still Up).
Directed by Prarthana Mohan (The Miseducation of Bindu) and written by Nikita Lalwani, Picture This is based on the Australian Original movie Five Blind Dates, written by Shaung Hu and Nathan Ramos-Park. The UK movie update is produced by 42’s Ben Pugh and Erica Steinberg, with 42’s Josh Horsfield and Kari Hatfield serving as executive producers.
The official synopsis reads: “Single and without a man on the horizon, Pia (Simone Ashley) runs a failing photography studio in London with her best friend Jay (Luke Fetherston). As her sister Sonal (Anoushka Chadha) prepares to get married...
Further cast includes Phil Dunster (Ted Lasso), Nikesh Patel (London Has Fallen), Adil Ray (Citizen Khan), Sindhu Vee (Matilda: The Musical), Anoushka Chadha (You), Kulvinder Ghir (Bend It Like Beckham) and Luke Fetherston (Still Up).
Directed by Prarthana Mohan (The Miseducation of Bindu) and written by Nikita Lalwani, Picture This is based on the Australian Original movie Five Blind Dates, written by Shaung Hu and Nathan Ramos-Park. The UK movie update is produced by 42’s Ben Pugh and Erica Steinberg, with 42’s Josh Horsfield and Kari Hatfield serving as executive producers.
The official synopsis reads: “Single and without a man on the horizon, Pia (Simone Ashley) runs a failing photography studio in London with her best friend Jay (Luke Fetherston). As her sister Sonal (Anoushka Chadha) prepares to get married...
- 3/22/2024
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Sam Rockwell and Kumail Nanjiani have joined the cast of the upcoming dark comedy from Gary Fleder, ‘A Guy Walks into a Bar.’ The project has secured an Interim Agreement from SAG-AFTRA.
The movie follows a mild-mannered new father (Nanjiani) as he befriends a charismatic yet mysterious man (Rockwell) at a bar, and soon suspects him of concealing a troubling secret.
Scott Rosenberg, who has previously worked on movies such as Jumanji: The Next Level and Venom, has written the screenplay for this film. The movie is being produced by Gary Fleder, Scott Rosenberg and Sam Rockwell, along with Mark Fasano from Nickel City Pictures, Nadine de Barros from Fortitude International, and Jina Panebianco from Caliwood Pictures. Kumail Nanjiani will be serving as an executive producer on the project, alongside Erica Steinberg and Nickel City’s Matthew Goldberg. The film will also have R. Wesley Sierk, III, John D. Straley...
The movie follows a mild-mannered new father (Nanjiani) as he befriends a charismatic yet mysterious man (Rockwell) at a bar, and soon suspects him of concealing a troubling secret.
Scott Rosenberg, who has previously worked on movies such as Jumanji: The Next Level and Venom, has written the screenplay for this film. The movie is being produced by Gary Fleder, Scott Rosenberg and Sam Rockwell, along with Mark Fasano from Nickel City Pictures, Nadine de Barros from Fortitude International, and Jina Panebianco from Caliwood Pictures. Kumail Nanjiani will be serving as an executive producer on the project, alongside Erica Steinberg and Nickel City’s Matthew Goldberg. The film will also have R. Wesley Sierk, III, John D. Straley...
- 10/18/2023
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Exclusive: Sam Rockwell and Kumail Nanjiani (The Big Sick) have closed deals to star in A Guy Walks Into a Bar, a dark comedy from director Gary Fleder (Runaway Jury) that has secured an Interim Agreement from SAG-AFTRA and will go into production by year’s end.
Written by Scott Rosenberg, the film to be shot in New Jersey watches as a mild-mannered new father (Nanjiani) befriends a charismatic yet mysterious man (Rockwell) at a bar, and soon suspects him of concealing a troubling secret.
The project marks a reteam for Fleder and Rosenberg, who previously collaborated on their debut feature, the dark comedy Things to Do in Denver When You’re Dead. Fleder, Rosenberg, and Rockwell are also producing with Mark Fasano of Nickel City Pictures, Nadine de Barros of Fortitude International, and Jina Panebianco of Caliwood Pictures. Nanjiani...
Written by Scott Rosenberg, the film to be shot in New Jersey watches as a mild-mannered new father (Nanjiani) befriends a charismatic yet mysterious man (Rockwell) at a bar, and soon suspects him of concealing a troubling secret.
The project marks a reteam for Fleder and Rosenberg, who previously collaborated on their debut feature, the dark comedy Things to Do in Denver When You’re Dead. Fleder, Rosenberg, and Rockwell are also producing with Mark Fasano of Nickel City Pictures, Nadine de Barros of Fortitude International, and Jina Panebianco of Caliwood Pictures. Nanjiani...
- 10/17/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Netflix thriller End of the Road pits Queen Latifah and Chris ‘Ludacris’ Bridges up against a killer, and we’ve learned today that it’s premiering this week, on Friday, September 9.
Netflix previews, “In this high-octane action thriller, a cross-country road trip becomes a highway to hell for Brenda and her family. Alone in the New Mexico desert, they have to fight for their lives when they become the targets of a mysterious killer.”
Beau Bridges, Mychala Faith Lee, Shaun Dixon, and Frances Lee McCain also star.
Millicent Shelton directed the thriller, written by Christopher J. Moore and David Loughery.
Producers include Tracey E. Edmonds, Mark Burg, and Brad Kaplan. Executive producers are Queen Latifah, Shakim Compere, Ben Pugh, Erica Steinberg, and Daniel Jason Heffner.
Watch the previously released End of the Road trailer below.
End Of The Road (2022) Chris Bridges as Reggie, Shaun Dixon as Cam, Mychala Faith Lee...
Netflix previews, “In this high-octane action thriller, a cross-country road trip becomes a highway to hell for Brenda and her family. Alone in the New Mexico desert, they have to fight for their lives when they become the targets of a mysterious killer.”
Beau Bridges, Mychala Faith Lee, Shaun Dixon, and Frances Lee McCain also star.
Millicent Shelton directed the thriller, written by Christopher J. Moore and David Loughery.
Producers include Tracey E. Edmonds, Mark Burg, and Brad Kaplan. Executive producers are Queen Latifah, Shakim Compere, Ben Pugh, Erica Steinberg, and Daniel Jason Heffner.
Watch the previously released End of the Road trailer below.
End Of The Road (2022) Chris Bridges as Reggie, Shaun Dixon as Cam, Mychala Faith Lee...
- 9/6/2022
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
The Fast and the Furious franchise star Chris ‘Ludacris’ Bridges and 3x Primetime Emmy winner Beau Bridges are signed on to star opposite Queen Latifah in the Netflix movie End of the Road.
The Equalizer star plays Brenda, who after losing her job, and being recently widowed, embarks on a cross-country trip with her family to start a new life. But in the New Mexico desert, cut off from help, they must learn to fight back when they become the targets of a mysterious killer.
Ludacris and Bridges previously starred together in the 2008 Mark Wahlberg action movie Max Payne.
Millicent Shelton directs off a screenplay by The Intruder scribe David Loughery, which was previously written by Christopher J. Moore. Tracey Edmonds is producing for Edmonds Entertainment; with Mark Burg from Twisted Pictures and Brad Kaplan. EPs are Latifah and Shakim Compere for Flavor Unit Entertainment; Ben Pugh and Erica Steinberg for 42.
Bridges won a Primetime Emmy for 1997’s The Second Civil War (Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Special), 1993’s The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom (Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Special) and 1992’s Without Warning: The James Brady Story (Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Special). He also won two Golden Globes for The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom (Supporting Actor in a Series, Miniseries or TV Movie) and Warning: The James Brady Story (Best Actor in a Miniseries or TV Movie). His feature credits include One Night in Miami, The Descendants, Charlotte’s Web, The Fabulous Baker Boys, Greased Lightning, Norma Rae, The Hotel New Hampshire, and more. Recent TV credits include Masters of Sex, Homeland and Goliath. He is repped by CAA.
Ludacris starred in the Oscar winning Best Picture Crash, and next appears in Universal’s F9 which has already amassed over $256M at the foreign box office before its June 25 U.S. start. He is a 3x Grammy winner for Best Rap Album in 2007, Release Therapy; Best Rap Song that year “Money Maker” with Pharrell Williams; and 2005 Best Rap/Sung Collaboration, “Yeah” with Usher and Lil Jon. His albums Word of Mouf, Chicken-n-Beer and The Red Light District went multi-platinum. He is repped by CAA and Fox Rothschild.
The Equalizer star plays Brenda, who after losing her job, and being recently widowed, embarks on a cross-country trip with her family to start a new life. But in the New Mexico desert, cut off from help, they must learn to fight back when they become the targets of a mysterious killer.
Ludacris and Bridges previously starred together in the 2008 Mark Wahlberg action movie Max Payne.
Millicent Shelton directs off a screenplay by The Intruder scribe David Loughery, which was previously written by Christopher J. Moore. Tracey Edmonds is producing for Edmonds Entertainment; with Mark Burg from Twisted Pictures and Brad Kaplan. EPs are Latifah and Shakim Compere for Flavor Unit Entertainment; Ben Pugh and Erica Steinberg for 42.
Bridges won a Primetime Emmy for 1997’s The Second Civil War (Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Special), 1993’s The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom (Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Special) and 1992’s Without Warning: The James Brady Story (Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Special). He also won two Golden Globes for The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom (Supporting Actor in a Series, Miniseries or TV Movie) and Warning: The James Brady Story (Best Actor in a Miniseries or TV Movie). His feature credits include One Night in Miami, The Descendants, Charlotte’s Web, The Fabulous Baker Boys, Greased Lightning, Norma Rae, The Hotel New Hampshire, and more. Recent TV credits include Masters of Sex, Homeland and Goliath. He is repped by CAA.
Ludacris starred in the Oscar winning Best Picture Crash, and next appears in Universal’s F9 which has already amassed over $256M at the foreign box office before its June 25 U.S. start. He is a 3x Grammy winner for Best Rap Album in 2007, Release Therapy; Best Rap Song that year “Money Maker” with Pharrell Williams; and 2005 Best Rap/Sung Collaboration, “Yeah” with Usher and Lil Jon. His albums Word of Mouf, Chicken-n-Beer and The Red Light District went multi-platinum. He is repped by CAA and Fox Rothschild.
- 6/9/2021
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
“Gossip Girl” actor Leighton Meester is set to star in Netflix’s twisty thriller “The Weekend Away,” an adaptation of the novel by Sarah Alderson.
The psychological thriller takes place amid weekend getaway to Croatia that goes awry when a woman is accused of killing her best friend. As she attempts to clear her name and uncover the truth, her efforts unearth a painful secret.
Along with Meester, the cast includes “Batwoman” actor Christina Wolfe, Ziad Bakri and Luke Norris.
Alderson is adapting the screenplay, with Kim Farrant set to direct.
“I am so excited to see ‘The Weekend Away’ make it to the screen,” Alderson said in a statement. “To have adapted my own novel makes it even more special, and I am thrilled that Leighton will be bringing this character to life.”
A prolific author, Alderson has published 20 books throughout her career such as the best-selling young adult novels “Hunting Lila,...
The psychological thriller takes place amid weekend getaway to Croatia that goes awry when a woman is accused of killing her best friend. As she attempts to clear her name and uncover the truth, her efforts unearth a painful secret.
Along with Meester, the cast includes “Batwoman” actor Christina Wolfe, Ziad Bakri and Luke Norris.
Alderson is adapting the screenplay, with Kim Farrant set to direct.
“I am so excited to see ‘The Weekend Away’ make it to the screen,” Alderson said in a statement. “To have adapted my own novel makes it even more special, and I am thrilled that Leighton will be bringing this character to life.”
A prolific author, Alderson has published 20 books throughout her career such as the best-selling young adult novels “Hunting Lila,...
- 6/8/2021
- by Rebecca Rubin
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive Producers Webster Stone and Robert Stone have acquired rights to Anthony Bourdain’s crime novel Gone Bamboo for a scripted series based on a pilot. The 1997 book was the celebrity chef’s second published work of fiction.
Set on the island of St. Martin, Gone Bamboo follows sharpshooting hedonistic assassin Henry Denard, who botches a career-capping hit. Denard must enlist the help of his skilled, stunning, and volatile wife to save their skins, dispatch the villains, and keep the peace — at all costs — in their tropical paradise.
“I wanted to write a sociopath beach book,” writes Bourdain in the book’s introduction. “I wanted a hero and heroine as lazy, mercenary, lustful and free of redeeming qualities as I sometimes see myself.”
The Stone brothers’ producing credits include The Conspirator, Gone in Sixty Seconds and The Negotiator. They’re currently developing the recently published thriller Girl from Nowhere by...
Set on the island of St. Martin, Gone Bamboo follows sharpshooting hedonistic assassin Henry Denard, who botches a career-capping hit. Denard must enlist the help of his skilled, stunning, and volatile wife to save their skins, dispatch the villains, and keep the peace — at all costs — in their tropical paradise.
“I wanted to write a sociopath beach book,” writes Bourdain in the book’s introduction. “I wanted a hero and heroine as lazy, mercenary, lustful and free of redeeming qualities as I sometimes see myself.”
The Stone brothers’ producing credits include The Conspirator, Gone in Sixty Seconds and The Negotiator. They’re currently developing the recently published thriller Girl from Nowhere by...
- 2/19/2021
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
'Outside the Wire' teaser trailer has been released.
Netflix dropped the official teaser trailer for the upcoming sci-fi action flick 'Outside the Wire' starring Marvel Cinematic Universe alum Anthony Mackie as an android super-soldier.
Set in the near future, the film centers around a disgraced drone pilot, played by co-star Damson Idris, who’s been sent into a deadly militarized zone where he finds himself working for an android officer (Mackie), who is tasked to locate a deadly doomsday device before the insurgents do, per Deadline.
In addition to Idris and Mackie, 'Outside the Wire' also features Enzo Cilenti as 'Miller', Emily Beecham as 'Sofiya', Michael Kelly as 'Eckhart', and Pilou Asbæk as 'Trask'.
The trailer seems visually engaging and is full of action-packed battle sequences even though the story sounds familiar.
Written by Rob Yescombe and Rowan Athale, the film is directed by...
Netflix dropped the official teaser trailer for the upcoming sci-fi action flick 'Outside the Wire' starring Marvel Cinematic Universe alum Anthony Mackie as an android super-soldier.
Set in the near future, the film centers around a disgraced drone pilot, played by co-star Damson Idris, who’s been sent into a deadly militarized zone where he finds himself working for an android officer (Mackie), who is tasked to locate a deadly doomsday device before the insurgents do, per Deadline.
In addition to Idris and Mackie, 'Outside the Wire' also features Enzo Cilenti as 'Miller', Emily Beecham as 'Sofiya', Michael Kelly as 'Eckhart', and Pilou Asbæk as 'Trask'.
The trailer seems visually engaging and is full of action-packed battle sequences even though the story sounds familiar.
Written by Rob Yescombe and Rowan Athale, the film is directed by...
- 12/15/2020
- by Omkar Padte
- GlamSham
Exclusive: Alexander Ludwig, best known for starring in History Channel’s hit series, Vikings, and Sony blockbuster Bad Boys for Life, has signed on for Night Teeth, the Netflix thriller from director Adam Randall. Mad Men’s Bryan Batt and Knives Out actress Marlene Forte have also been cast, joining the previously announced Jorge Lendeborg Jr., Debby Ryan, Lucy Fry, Alfie Allen, and Raúl Castillo.
Brent Dillon wrote the screenplay which is about a young chauffeur (Lendeborg Jr.) who picks up two mysterious women for a night of party-hopping across LA. But when his passengers reveal their true nature — and a dangerous underworld lurking in the shadows — he must fight to stay alive.
Unique Features’ Vincent Gatewood and 42’s Ben Pugh and Charlie Morrison are producing the film, while Bob Shaye and Erica Steinberg serve as executive producers.
Ludwig’s credits include The Hunger Games, Sony’s When the Game Stands Tall,...
Brent Dillon wrote the screenplay which is about a young chauffeur (Lendeborg Jr.) who picks up two mysterious women for a night of party-hopping across LA. But when his passengers reveal their true nature — and a dangerous underworld lurking in the shadows — he must fight to stay alive.
Unique Features’ Vincent Gatewood and 42’s Ben Pugh and Charlie Morrison are producing the film, while Bob Shaye and Erica Steinberg serve as executive producers.
Ludwig’s credits include The Hunger Games, Sony’s When the Game Stands Tall,...
- 7/24/2020
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Jorge Lendeborg Jr. is starring in the Adam Randall-directed Night Teeth, the Netflix thriller film that is just getting underway in New Orleans. He stars with Debby Ryan (Insatiable) Lucy Fry (Bright), Alfie Allen and Raúl Castillo.
Scripted by Brent Dillon (Black Tide Beach), the youth-driven thriller with a genre twist focuses on one evening in L.A. Lendeborg Jr (Bumble Bee and Spider-Man: Homecoming) stars as a young chauffeur who drives two beautiful young women to five different parties and finds himself fighting for his life after he discovers they’re not who they claim to be. This is a film about three young people stuck together for the night. Within the confines of this vehicle, it’s the changing relationships; the suspicion, attraction and threat are all part of it.
The film is produced...
Scripted by Brent Dillon (Black Tide Beach), the youth-driven thriller with a genre twist focuses on one evening in L.A. Lendeborg Jr (Bumble Bee and Spider-Man: Homecoming) stars as a young chauffeur who drives two beautiful young women to five different parties and finds himself fighting for his life after he discovers they’re not who they claim to be. This is a film about three young people stuck together for the night. Within the confines of this vehicle, it’s the changing relationships; the suspicion, attraction and threat are all part of it.
The film is produced...
- 2/3/2020
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Netflix has pacted to make Night Teeth, setting Adam Randall to direct a thriller that is a co-production between Unique Features and 42. Randall recently directed I See You, which debuted at SXSW and will be released theatrically in December by Saban Films.
Scripted by Brent Dillon (Black Tide Beach), the pic is described as an electric, youth-driven thriller with a genre twist that takes place over the course of a night in Los Angeles. A young chauffeur drives two beautiful young women to different parties. They’re not who they claim to be, and he ends up in a fight for his life.
The pic is produced by Unique Features’ Vincent Gatewood and 42’s Ben Pugh & Charlie Morrison. Unique Features’ Bob Shaye, the founder of New Line who launched the production company with his late partner Michael Lynne, will be executive producer along with 42’s Erica Steinberg.
42 has a...
Scripted by Brent Dillon (Black Tide Beach), the pic is described as an electric, youth-driven thriller with a genre twist that takes place over the course of a night in Los Angeles. A young chauffeur drives two beautiful young women to different parties. They’re not who they claim to be, and he ends up in a fight for his life.
The pic is produced by Unique Features’ Vincent Gatewood and 42’s Ben Pugh & Charlie Morrison. Unique Features’ Bob Shaye, the founder of New Line who launched the production company with his late partner Michael Lynne, will be executive producer along with 42’s Erica Steinberg.
42 has a...
- 8/5/2019
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Damson Idris, who currently headlines the FX drama series Snowfall, has been tapped to star alongside Anthony Mackie in the Netflix sci-fi action film, Outside The Wire. British actress Emily Beecham has also signed on for a supporting role.
Directed by Mikael Håfström, the film is set in the future and follows a drone pilot who is sent into a deadly militarized zone where he finds himself working for an android officer tasked to locate a doomsday device before the insurgents do.
Rob Yescombe and Rowan Athale wrote the screenplay which is being produced by Mackie as well as Brian Kavanaugh-Jones for Automatik, Ben Pugh and Erica Steinberg for 42, and Jason Spire for Inspire Entertainment. Josh Horsfield, Fred Berger, Rory Aiken, and David U. Lee will serve as executive producers.
Production is slated to commence later this summer.
Idris stars in Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje forthcoming drama Farming, opposite Kate Beckinsale, Gugu Mbatha-Raw,...
Directed by Mikael Håfström, the film is set in the future and follows a drone pilot who is sent into a deadly militarized zone where he finds himself working for an android officer tasked to locate a doomsday device before the insurgents do.
Rob Yescombe and Rowan Athale wrote the screenplay which is being produced by Mackie as well as Brian Kavanaugh-Jones for Automatik, Ben Pugh and Erica Steinberg for 42, and Jason Spire for Inspire Entertainment. Josh Horsfield, Fred Berger, Rory Aiken, and David U. Lee will serve as executive producers.
Production is slated to commence later this summer.
Idris stars in Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje forthcoming drama Farming, opposite Kate Beckinsale, Gugu Mbatha-Raw,...
- 7/17/2019
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
“Snowfall” star Damson Idris is set to star alongside Anthony Mackie in Netflix’s futuristic sci-fi thriller “Outside the Wire” as the second lead, an individual with knowledge of the project told TheWrap.
Emily Beecham (“Little Joe” and “Daphne”) is also joining the cast. She most recently earned the Best Actress Award at the 72nd Cannes Film Festival for her role in “Little Joe.”
Mikael Håfström, who directed “Escape Plan” and “1408,” will direct the film that 42 and Automatik are producing. Brian Kavanaugh-Jones is producing for Automatik, while Ben Pugh and Erica Steinberg are producing for 42, Jason Spire is producing for Inspire Entertainment. Mackie will also serve as a producer, and Rob Yescombe and Rowan Athale wrote the script.
Also Read: Anthony Mackie to Star in Futuristic Action Thriller 'Outside the Wire' at Netflix
“Outside the Wire” is set in the future and follows a drone pilot who...
Emily Beecham (“Little Joe” and “Daphne”) is also joining the cast. She most recently earned the Best Actress Award at the 72nd Cannes Film Festival for her role in “Little Joe.”
Mikael Håfström, who directed “Escape Plan” and “1408,” will direct the film that 42 and Automatik are producing. Brian Kavanaugh-Jones is producing for Automatik, while Ben Pugh and Erica Steinberg are producing for 42, Jason Spire is producing for Inspire Entertainment. Mackie will also serve as a producer, and Rob Yescombe and Rowan Athale wrote the script.
Also Read: Anthony Mackie to Star in Futuristic Action Thriller 'Outside the Wire' at Netflix
“Outside the Wire” is set in the future and follows a drone pilot who...
- 7/17/2019
- by Beatrice Verhoeven
- The Wrap
Anthony Mackie has landed another role post “Avengers: Endgame,” as the Falcon actor is set to star in the futuristic, action sci-fi “Outside the Wire” for Netflix, it was announced on Friday.
Mikael Håfström, who directed “Escape Plan” and “1408,” will direct the film that 42 and Automatik are producing. Brian Kavanaugh-Jones is producing for Automatik, while Ben Pugh and Erica Steinberg are producing for 42, Jason Spire is producing for Inspire Entertainment. Mackie will also serve as a producer.
“Outside the Wire” is set in the future and follows a drone pilot who is sent into a deadly militarized zone, where he finds himself working for an android officer tasked to locate a doomsday device before the insurgents do.
Also Read: 'Black Mirror' Season 5: Anthony Mackie Has a Wandering Eye in Teaser for 'Striking Vipers' Episode (Video)
Rob Yescombe and Rowan Athale wrote the script, and principal photography...
Mikael Håfström, who directed “Escape Plan” and “1408,” will direct the film that 42 and Automatik are producing. Brian Kavanaugh-Jones is producing for Automatik, while Ben Pugh and Erica Steinberg are producing for 42, Jason Spire is producing for Inspire Entertainment. Mackie will also serve as a producer.
“Outside the Wire” is set in the future and follows a drone pilot who is sent into a deadly militarized zone, where he finds himself working for an android officer tasked to locate a doomsday device before the insurgents do.
Also Read: 'Black Mirror' Season 5: Anthony Mackie Has a Wandering Eye in Teaser for 'Striking Vipers' Episode (Video)
Rob Yescombe and Rowan Athale wrote the script, and principal photography...
- 6/7/2019
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Avengers and Captain America star Anthony Mackie is to lead cast in and produce action-sci-fi Outside The Wire for Netflix with Mikael Håfström (Escape Plan) on board to direct.
Set in the future, Mackie will play a drone pilot sent into a deadly militarized zone where he finds himself working for an android officer tasked to locate a doomsday device before it falls into the hands of insurgents. Shoot is due to begin in August with additional casting under way.
Mackie is producing with Brian Kavanaugh-Jones (Sinister) for Automatik, Ben Pugh (Ironbark) and Erica Steinberg (Death Proof) for 42, and Jason Spire (Operation Finale) for Mackie’s Inspire Entertainment. Script comes from video game scribe Rob Yescombe and Rowan Athale (Way Down).
Executive producers are Josh Horsfield and Fred Berger for Automatik with Rory Aiken for 42. Charlie Morrison is co-producing for 42. Håfström, known for Escape Plan, 1408 and The Rite, is...
Set in the future, Mackie will play a drone pilot sent into a deadly militarized zone where he finds himself working for an android officer tasked to locate a doomsday device before it falls into the hands of insurgents. Shoot is due to begin in August with additional casting under way.
Mackie is producing with Brian Kavanaugh-Jones (Sinister) for Automatik, Ben Pugh (Ironbark) and Erica Steinberg (Death Proof) for 42, and Jason Spire (Operation Finale) for Mackie’s Inspire Entertainment. Script comes from video game scribe Rob Yescombe and Rowan Athale (Way Down).
Executive producers are Josh Horsfield and Fred Berger for Automatik with Rory Aiken for 42. Charlie Morrison is co-producing for 42. Håfström, known for Escape Plan, 1408 and The Rite, is...
- 6/7/2019
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Robbie Williams and regular song-writing collaborator Guy Chambers, known for their partnership on hit singles including Angels, Let Me Entertain You and Millenium, are to provide an original song for UK comedy-drama Military Wives, starring Kristin Scott Thomas and Catastrophe‘s Sharon Horgan.
Peter Cattaneo’s (The Full Monty) upcoming film, inspired by the hit BBC documentary series, The Choir: Military Wives, tells the story of a group of women, separated from their loved ones serving in the armed forces, who form a choir at their army base. Pic is currently in post-production.
Bringing aboard Williams, the best-selling British solo artist ever in the UK, is quite a coup for the production. I gather the singer was approached by producers via music supervisor Liz Gallacher and he quickly sparked to the material. It’s not clear at this stage whether Williams will also sing the song.
Williams first started...
Peter Cattaneo’s (The Full Monty) upcoming film, inspired by the hit BBC documentary series, The Choir: Military Wives, tells the story of a group of women, separated from their loved ones serving in the armed forces, who form a choir at their army base. Pic is currently in post-production.
Bringing aboard Williams, the best-selling British solo artist ever in the UK, is quite a coup for the production. I gather the singer was approached by producers via music supervisor Liz Gallacher and he quickly sparked to the material. It’s not clear at this stage whether Williams will also sing the song.
Williams first started...
- 2/8/2019
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Ambitious La and London-based management and production outfit 42 is bolstering its production ranks with a trio of key hires.
Former Cohen Media Group and Miramax exec Erica Steinberg is joining as Senior Vice President, Film, and former Red Wagon Entertainment exec Charlie Morrison is newly on board as Vice President, Film.
Both will be based in 42’s Los Angeles office — where they join TV exec Tara Tucker — and start this month.
Meanwhile, former Ecosse exec Tom Williams has been hired as Development Executive, based in London, also starting this month.
Steinberg most recently served as Senior Vice President of Production at Cohen Media Group where she developed Andrew Bovell’s adaptation of Stoner, and Operation Mincemeat, which has John Madden attached to direct. She is an exec producer on Christoph Waltz’s Georgetown, currently in post.
She started out at Miramax where she was exec producer on the Kill...
Former Cohen Media Group and Miramax exec Erica Steinberg is joining as Senior Vice President, Film, and former Red Wagon Entertainment exec Charlie Morrison is newly on board as Vice President, Film.
Both will be based in 42’s Los Angeles office — where they join TV exec Tara Tucker — and start this month.
Meanwhile, former Ecosse exec Tom Williams has been hired as Development Executive, based in London, also starting this month.
Steinberg most recently served as Senior Vice President of Production at Cohen Media Group where she developed Andrew Bovell’s adaptation of Stoner, and Operation Mincemeat, which has John Madden attached to direct. She is an exec producer on Christoph Waltz’s Georgetown, currently in post.
She started out at Miramax where she was exec producer on the Kill...
- 8/8/2018
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Cohen Media Group has tapped Cheryl Guerriero, who wrote the Black List script Palmer, to pen the film adaptation to Tania Aebi’s memoir Maiden Voyage.
The novel is a true story of 18-year old Aebi who became the first American woman and the youngest to sail around the world solo. Aebi challenged herself physically and mentally to accomplish this history-making event in 1987 that inspired teenage girls across America to take up sailing.
Cohen exec Erica Steinberg is overseeing the project.
Palmer, which is about an ex-con who returns to his hometown and forms an unlikely bond with a young boy abandoned by his junkie mother, will begin production this fall with Route One Entertainment producing and Oscar-winner Fisher Stevens on board to direct.
Guerriero is repped by Heroes and Villains and Jackoway Tyerman.
The novel is a true story of 18-year old Aebi who became the first American woman and the youngest to sail around the world solo. Aebi challenged herself physically and mentally to accomplish this history-making event in 1987 that inspired teenage girls across America to take up sailing.
Cohen exec Erica Steinberg is overseeing the project.
Palmer, which is about an ex-con who returns to his hometown and forms an unlikely bond with a young boy abandoned by his junkie mother, will begin production this fall with Route One Entertainment producing and Oscar-winner Fisher Stevens on board to direct.
Guerriero is repped by Heroes and Villains and Jackoway Tyerman.
- 5/22/2018
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
Since its launch in 2008, Cohen Media Group has become a much-admired producer and distributor of independent and arthouse films.
It’s the largest distributor of French films in the U.S. Its offerings have also racked up kudos, including a 2016 Oscar win for “The Salesman,” and 2017 Acad nominations for “Faces Places” and “The Insult.”
In addition, its specialty home entertainment label, the Cohen Film Collection, releases restored and re-mastered editions of classics on digital platforms, Blu-ray and DVD.
“We distribute about 10 new films a year,” says executive VP Gary Rubin, who heads up the L.A. office and notes that distribution is just one arm of a four-part business model. “We also have the library, which we’re constantly adding to; the production group, which is run by [senior VP of production] Erica Steinberg and which is producing bigger films; and then the theaters. We have several in the U.S., and Charles [Cohen, chairman-ceo] just bought La Pagode in Paris.
It’s the largest distributor of French films in the U.S. Its offerings have also racked up kudos, including a 2016 Oscar win for “The Salesman,” and 2017 Acad nominations for “Faces Places” and “The Insult.”
In addition, its specialty home entertainment label, the Cohen Film Collection, releases restored and re-mastered editions of classics on digital platforms, Blu-ray and DVD.
“We distribute about 10 new films a year,” says executive VP Gary Rubin, who heads up the L.A. office and notes that distribution is just one arm of a four-part business model. “We also have the library, which we’re constantly adding to; the production group, which is run by [senior VP of production] Erica Steinberg and which is producing bigger films; and then the theaters. We have several in the U.S., and Charles [Cohen, chairman-ceo] just bought La Pagode in Paris.
- 3/28/2018
- by Iain Blair
- Variety Film + TV
QC Entertainment will produce and finance the comedic drama and represents sales rights with ICM Partners in Berlin.
Burstyn will star in the feature and the producers are scouting for additional casting with a view to starting production in New York this spring.
Bathing Flo centres on a man who entices another man to house-sit for free, without mentioning that the latter will share the home with his eccentric mother.
QC Entertainment’s Sean McKittrick and Ray Mansfield, Thruline Entertainment’s Danny Sherman and Lauren Lake will produce. QC’s Edward H Hamm Jr and Shaun Redick will serve as executive producers. Erica Steinberg will serve in a producorial capacity.
First-time writer Lake wrote the script from an initial screenplay by Danny Brocklehurst and Sherman based on a true story.
“We’re incredibly excited and honoured to be joining this fantastic team, both as producers and financiers, in working with a singular artist such as Ellen in making...
Burstyn will star in the feature and the producers are scouting for additional casting with a view to starting production in New York this spring.
Bathing Flo centres on a man who entices another man to house-sit for free, without mentioning that the latter will share the home with his eccentric mother.
QC Entertainment’s Sean McKittrick and Ray Mansfield, Thruline Entertainment’s Danny Sherman and Lauren Lake will produce. QC’s Edward H Hamm Jr and Shaun Redick will serve as executive producers. Erica Steinberg will serve in a producorial capacity.
First-time writer Lake wrote the script from an initial screenplay by Danny Brocklehurst and Sherman based on a true story.
“We’re incredibly excited and honoured to be joining this fantastic team, both as producers and financiers, in working with a singular artist such as Ellen in making...
- 2/7/2017
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Ryan Case, the Emmy-winning editor and director, has been set to make her feature directorial debut on the 20th Century Fox comedy Fire Me. Red Hour Films and Erica Steinberg are producing, and Jeremy Kramer is overseeing for Fox. Pic is inspired by the Libby Malin novel about two best friends and work colleagues. It has a 9 To 5 tone, and the studio will now set a writer with whom Case will work. Case started out her directing career with six episodes of…...
- 6/3/2016
- Deadline
This is what we can already confirm. 2016 will be an epic year for Michael Shannon and not because he just received an Indie Spirit nom for Best Supporting Actor in 99 Homes (see pic above). With his services enlisted by Jeff Nichols, Liza Johnson, Tom Ford, Robert Scott Wildes, Werner Herzog and Matthew M. Ross, the versatile actor will be everywhere…including Bart Freundlich‘s sixth feature film. Freundlich got his big start at Sundance back in 1997 for The Myth of Fingerprints and would follow that up by bringing World Traveler (2002) to the fest but he hasn’t been back since. Shot this past June in NYC, Wolves stars Shannon, Carla Gugino and newcomer Taylor John Smith in this tragi-family drama.
Gist: Taylor John Smith will star as an 18-year-old basketball star who is being recruited by Cornell University. He seems to have it all figured out: captain of his team,...
Gist: Taylor John Smith will star as an 18-year-old basketball star who is being recruited by Cornell University. He seems to have it all figured out: captain of his team,...
- 11/26/2015
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Christoph Waltz is prepping his directorial debut, The Worst Marriage in Georgetown, for which he will also produce and star. In the film, Waltz will play Albrecht Muth, a man who sought to enter the social elite and the privileged political circles by marrying the wealthy, 71-year-old Viola Drath when he was just 26. The couple threw lavish parties as he climbed the social ladder, but Muth increasingly lied about his background, and he was ultimately revealed when Drath turned up murdered many years later. Muth was convicted of first-degree murder and was sentenced to 50 years in prison just last year.
The Worst Marriage in Georgetown is actually based on a New York Times Magazine article of the same name by Franklin Foer (read it here). Variety reports that Pulitzer Prize winner David Auburn (Proof) will be adapting the screenplay and that Erica Steinberg (Inglorious Basterds) and Nicolas Chartier will also be producing.
The Worst Marriage in Georgetown is actually based on a New York Times Magazine article of the same name by Franklin Foer (read it here). Variety reports that Pulitzer Prize winner David Auburn (Proof) will be adapting the screenplay and that Erica Steinberg (Inglorious Basterds) and Nicolas Chartier will also be producing.
- 5/7/2015
- by Brian Welk
- SoundOnSight
Voltage Pictures will fully finance and produce Christoph Waltz’s directorial debut as the new-look sales team heads to Cannes to launch pre-sales.
President and COO Jonathan Deckter and president of international sales John Fremes will introduce The Worst Marriage In Georgetown, in which Waltz will play a fabulist who rises through Washington DC society.
Based on The New York Times Magazine article by Franklin Foer, Proof screenwriter David Auburn’s adapted script centres on social climber Albrect Muth, who married a wealthy older widow and rubbed shoulders with the Us social and political elite until his wife was found murdered.
Production is scheduled to commence on October 12, with Waltz producing alongside Erica Steinberg and Voltage chief Nicolas Chartier. ICM Partners co-represents Us rights with Voltage.
Zev Foreman and Deckter will serve as executive producers for Voltage with M Janet Hill, who originally optioned the material.
Dominic Rustam negotiated the deal on behalf of Voltage with ICM Partners...
President and COO Jonathan Deckter and president of international sales John Fremes will introduce The Worst Marriage In Georgetown, in which Waltz will play a fabulist who rises through Washington DC society.
Based on The New York Times Magazine article by Franklin Foer, Proof screenwriter David Auburn’s adapted script centres on social climber Albrect Muth, who married a wealthy older widow and rubbed shoulders with the Us social and political elite until his wife was found murdered.
Production is scheduled to commence on October 12, with Waltz producing alongside Erica Steinberg and Voltage chief Nicolas Chartier. ICM Partners co-represents Us rights with Voltage.
Zev Foreman and Deckter will serve as executive producers for Voltage with M Janet Hill, who originally optioned the material.
Dominic Rustam negotiated the deal on behalf of Voltage with ICM Partners...
- 5/6/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Two-time Oscar winner Christoph Waltz will star in, produce and direct Voltage’s crime drama “The Worst Marriage in Georgetown,” which is based on a true story, TheWrap has learned. Waltz will play Albrecht Muth, an eccentric (surprise, surprise) social climber who married a wealthy older widow, Viola Drath. Muth lied about his upbringing and came under suspicion when Drath was found murdered. David Auburn adapted the script from a New York Times Magazine article by Franklin Foer. Waltz will produce with Erica Steinberg (Inglorious Basterds) and Voltage’s Nicolas Chartier. Also Read: 'Spectre' Teaser Trailer: James Bond...
- 5/6/2015
- by Jeff Sneider
- The Wrap
Flamingo Girl to fly with Fright Night helmer Gillespie Gillespie who impressed with Ryan Gosling starrer Lars and the Real Girl, is set to take the wheel of the Michael LeSieur adaptation of Susan Trott's novel, reports Variety. Flamingo Girl will star Ferrell as a lawyer who is obsessed with stealing figurines of flamingos after his wife dumps him. Ben Stiller and Stuart Cornfeld of Red Hour Films produce while Kaplan/Perrone's Aaron Kaplan and Sean Perrone are serving as executive producers alongside Erica Steinberg.
- 7/2/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Flamingo Girl to fly with Fright Night helmer Gillespie Gillespie who impressed with Ryan Gosling starrer Lars and the Real Girl, is set to take the wheel of the Michael LeSieur adaptation of Susan Trott's novel, reports Variety. Flamingo Girl will star Ferrell as a lawyer who is obsessed with stealing figurines of flamingos after his wife dumps him. Ben Stiller and Stuart Cornfeld of Red Hour Films produce while Kaplan/Perrone's Aaron Kaplan and Sean Perrone are serving as executive producers alongside Erica Steinberg.
- 7/2/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Will Ferrell has joined the cast of 'Flamingo Thief'. The 'Anchorman' star is set to play Tim Forrester - a lawyer who becomes obsessed with stealing flamingo figurines after his wife leaves him - in the movie, which will be adapted from Susan Trott's novel of the same name, Variety reports. Producers Ben Stiller and Stuart Cornfeld are searching for a director for the Red Hour Films project, which will see You, Me and Dupree's Michael LeSieur penning the script. Aaron Kaplan and Sean Perrone are set to executive produce the movie alongside Erica Steinberg. Will is currently shooting his latest film 'Dog Fight' - which will see him star alongside The Hangover's Zach Galifianakis - in New...
- 2/13/2012
- Monsters and Critics
Exclusive: New Line has acquired Pregnancy Pact, a comedy pitch that Sam Pitman and Adam Cole-Kelly will write for Red Hour Productions. The comedy follows three lifelong best friends who make an ill-conceived pact to get the women in their lives pregnant at the same time. Their goal is to avoid having to make friends with other new parents when their child is born. Instead, it tests their friendship and marriages. It’s considered a strong vehicle for three young actors, and already some are circling, though no one is attached yet. The project will be produced by Red Hour’s Ben Stiller and Stuart Cornfeld. Erica Steinberg, who brought it in, will be exec producer. The writers, who first got on the map when their script The Diversification of Noah Miller made the Black List, are also rewriting a Russell Brand comic vehicle at Paramount, and they have just...
- 9/26/2011
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
Exclusive: Disney has acquired remake rights to Quantum Hoops, the 2007 documentary that followed the 2006 Caltech basketball team that had 21 seasons and 245 conference games without a single win, routinely getting walloped by 60 points or more. Ben Stiller and Stuart Cornfeld's Red Hour will produce a comedy based on the story of a group of brainiacs -- future political and industrial titans -- who tried to overcome a lack of athletic skills by getting an exiled Ncaa coach to lead their team to what seemed for two decades an impossible dream: one in the W column. The script will be written by Stan Chervin, who was the first writer to adapt Michael Lewis' Moneyball (Chervin emerged from an arbitration with story credit, while screen credit on the upcoming Brad Pitt film went to Steve Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin.) Red Hour's Erica Steinberg brought in the project and will be executive producer along with Brian Truman,...
- 8/8/2011
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
Director Quentin Tarantino's World War II action adventure Inglourious Basterds stars actor Brad Pitt as an American officer, leading a squad of renegade Us soldiers behind enemy lines. The film's ensemble cast includes Diane Kruger, Mélanie Laurent, Christoph Waltz, Daniel Brühl, Eli Roth, Samm Levine, B.J. Novak, Til Schweiger, Gedeon Burkhard, Paul Rust, Michael Bacall, Omar Doom, Sylvester Groth, Julie Dreyfus, Jacky Ido, August Diehl, Martin Wuttke, Richard Sammel, Christian Berkel, Sönke Möhring, Michael Fassbender, Mike Myers, Rod Taylor, Denis Menochet and Cloris Leachman. Basterds reunites Tarantino with Academy Award-nominated editor Sally Menke, Academy Award-winning Dp Bob Richardson and production designer David Wasco. Also joining Tarantino for the first time is Academy Award-nominated costume designer Anna Sheppard. Academy Award-nominee Lawrence Bender produced the film with Erica Steinberg and Lloyd Phillips. Co-producers are Charlie Woebcken, Christoph Fisser and Henning Molfenter, with Pilar Savone, associate producer. The Weinstein Company and Universal Pictures,...
- 6/17/2009
- HollywoodNorthReport.com
International Cast Assembles in Germany for Writer and Director Quentin Tarantino.
{sidebar id=1} Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds began principal photography last week on location in Germany. The ensemble cast of Inglourious Basterds includes Brad Pitt, Diane Kruger, Melanie Laurent, Christoph Waltz, Daniel Bruhl, Eli Roth, Samm Levine, B.J. Novak, Til Schweiger, Gedeon Burkhard, Paul Rust, Michael Bacall, Omar Doom, Sylvester Groth, Julie Dreyfus, Jacky Ido, August Diehl, Martin Wuttke, Richard Sammel, Christian Berkel, Sonke Mohring, Michael Fassbender, Mike Myers, Rod Taylor, Denis Menochet and Cloris Leachman.
Inglourious Basterds reunites Tarantino with Academy Award-nominated editor Sally Menke, Academy Award-winning director of photography Bob Richardson, and production designer David Wasco. Joining Tarantino for the first time is Academy Award-nominated costume designer Anna Sheppard.
Academy Award-nominee Lawrence Bender is producing Inglourious Basterds. Erica Steinberg and Lloyd Phillips, and Bob and Harvey Weinstein are the film's executive producers. The co-producers are Charlie Read...
{sidebar id=1} Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds began principal photography last week on location in Germany. The ensemble cast of Inglourious Basterds includes Brad Pitt, Diane Kruger, Melanie Laurent, Christoph Waltz, Daniel Bruhl, Eli Roth, Samm Levine, B.J. Novak, Til Schweiger, Gedeon Burkhard, Paul Rust, Michael Bacall, Omar Doom, Sylvester Groth, Julie Dreyfus, Jacky Ido, August Diehl, Martin Wuttke, Richard Sammel, Christian Berkel, Sonke Mohring, Michael Fassbender, Mike Myers, Rod Taylor, Denis Menochet and Cloris Leachman.
Inglourious Basterds reunites Tarantino with Academy Award-nominated editor Sally Menke, Academy Award-winning director of photography Bob Richardson, and production designer David Wasco. Joining Tarantino for the first time is Academy Award-nominated costume designer Anna Sheppard.
Academy Award-nominee Lawrence Bender is producing Inglourious Basterds. Erica Steinberg and Lloyd Phillips, and Bob and Harvey Weinstein are the film's executive producers. The co-producers are Charlie Read...
- 10/17/2008
- by IESB Staff <alyson@iesb.net>
- IESB.net
Quentin TarantinoÂ.s Inglourious Basterds began principal photography last week on location in Germany.
{sidebar id=1}The ensemble cast of Inglourious Basterds includes Brad Pitt, Diane Kruger, Mélanie Laurent, Christoph Waltz, Daniel Brühl, Eli Roth, Samm Levine, B.J. Novak, Til Schweiger, Gedeon Burkhard, Paul Rust, Michael Bacall, Omar Doom, Sylvester Groth, Julie Dreyfus, Jacky Ido, August Diehl, Martin Wuttke, Richard Sammel, Christian Berkel, Sönke Möhring, Michael Fassbender, Mike Myers, Rod Taylor, Denis Menochet and Cloris Leachman.
Inglourious Basterds reunites Tarantino with Academy Award-nominated editor Sally Menke, Academy Award-winning director of photography Bob Richardson, and production designer David Wasco. Joining Tarantino for the first time is Academy Award-nominated costume designer Anna Sheppard.
Academy Award-nominee Lawrence Bender is producing Inglourious Basterds. Erica Steinberg and Lloyd Phillips, and Bob and Harvey Weinstein are the filmÂ.s executive producers. The co-producers are Charlie Woebcken, Christoph Fisser and Henning Molfenter. Pilar Savone...
{sidebar id=1}The ensemble cast of Inglourious Basterds includes Brad Pitt, Diane Kruger, Mélanie Laurent, Christoph Waltz, Daniel Brühl, Eli Roth, Samm Levine, B.J. Novak, Til Schweiger, Gedeon Burkhard, Paul Rust, Michael Bacall, Omar Doom, Sylvester Groth, Julie Dreyfus, Jacky Ido, August Diehl, Martin Wuttke, Richard Sammel, Christian Berkel, Sönke Möhring, Michael Fassbender, Mike Myers, Rod Taylor, Denis Menochet and Cloris Leachman.
Inglourious Basterds reunites Tarantino with Academy Award-nominated editor Sally Menke, Academy Award-winning director of photography Bob Richardson, and production designer David Wasco. Joining Tarantino for the first time is Academy Award-nominated costume designer Anna Sheppard.
Academy Award-nominee Lawrence Bender is producing Inglourious Basterds. Erica Steinberg and Lloyd Phillips, and Bob and Harvey Weinstein are the filmÂ.s executive producers. The co-producers are Charlie Woebcken, Christoph Fisser and Henning Molfenter. Pilar Savone...
- 10/14/2008
- by IESB Staff <alyson@iesb.net>
- IESB.net
Diane Kruger has been cast as Bridget Von Hammersmark, the role that had been pegged for Nastassja Kinski, in Quentin Tarantino's "Inglorious Bastards." German star Til Schweiger also has nabbed a role in the World War II movie.
"Bastards" revolves around a French girl's revenge on the Nazis and also follows a band of American Nazi killers. Both story lines eventually converge.
Kinski was in talks with Tarantino, who even flew to Germany to meet the actress, but a deal wasn't reached. Kruger, best known for her work in "Troy" and the "National Treasure" movies, will now portray the part of a glamorous German actress who ends up helping the Nazi hunters infiltrate a movie premiere. Kruger, who hails from Germany, will act in German and English in the film.
Schweiger will play a member of the Nazi killer team, headed by Brad Pitt's character, Lt. Aldo Raine.
"Bastards" revolves around a French girl's revenge on the Nazis and also follows a band of American Nazi killers. Both story lines eventually converge.
Kinski was in talks with Tarantino, who even flew to Germany to meet the actress, but a deal wasn't reached. Kruger, best known for her work in "Troy" and the "National Treasure" movies, will now portray the part of a glamorous German actress who ends up helping the Nazi hunters infiltrate a movie premiere. Kruger, who hails from Germany, will act in German and English in the film.
Schweiger will play a member of the Nazi killer team, headed by Brad Pitt's character, Lt. Aldo Raine.
- 9/2/2008
- by By Borys Kit
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Brad Pitt officially has gone inglorious.
The actor has joined the cast of Quentin Tarantino's "Inglorious Bastards," signing on to play Lt. Aldo Raine, the head of the Jewish resistance in the auteur's World War II film.
Additionally, Simon Pegg is in discussions to join the cast. David Krumholtz has an offer but may have a scheduling problem. Nastassja Kinski is meeting with Tarantino for the part of a German actress.
Pitt's character is a Southern rebel who leads a band of eight Jewish American soldiers as they exact vengeance on Nazis in German-occupied France.
Pegg would play a British lieutenant. Krumholtz's part would be that of a member of Pitt's team.
Producer Lawrence Bender said the alchemy of Pitt and Tarantino, who have never worked together as actor and director, will yield unique results. "They're going to push each other and really help make something special," he said.
Pitt's character is a voluble, freewheeling outlaw in the manner of Samuel L. Jackson's Jules Winnfield in "Pulp Fiction," prone to saying things like "we're gonna be doing one thing, and one thing only, and that's killing Nazis," according to those familiar with the script.
The signing of Pitt, who first saw the script in early July, means that the production has locked down a key role as it moves forward on an accelerated schedule.
The Weinstein Co./Universal co-production starts shooting Oct. 13 in Germany, with the plan to debut at the 2009 Festival de Cannes. "It's going to be a nine-month sprint marathon," Bender said.
Pitt has a relatively clear schedule for the fall, though he is set to start shooting the boxing drama "The Fighter" for Paramount late this year or early next year.
Bender, in Berlin scouting locations, said casting is under way for a German actor to play Hans Landa, the Nazi leader targeted by the resistance. B.J. Novak and Eli Roth are in talks to play soldiers in Pitt's rogue army, with the pair playing Pfc Utivich and Pfc Danowitz, respectively.
The Weinstein Co. and Universal are co-financing and co-presenting the film, with Bender producing and Erica Steinberg, Bob Weinstein and Harvey Weinstein exec producing.
Steven Zeitchik reported from New York; Borys Kit reported from Los Angeles.
The actor has joined the cast of Quentin Tarantino's "Inglorious Bastards," signing on to play Lt. Aldo Raine, the head of the Jewish resistance in the auteur's World War II film.
Additionally, Simon Pegg is in discussions to join the cast. David Krumholtz has an offer but may have a scheduling problem. Nastassja Kinski is meeting with Tarantino for the part of a German actress.
Pitt's character is a Southern rebel who leads a band of eight Jewish American soldiers as they exact vengeance on Nazis in German-occupied France.
Pegg would play a British lieutenant. Krumholtz's part would be that of a member of Pitt's team.
Producer Lawrence Bender said the alchemy of Pitt and Tarantino, who have never worked together as actor and director, will yield unique results. "They're going to push each other and really help make something special," he said.
Pitt's character is a voluble, freewheeling outlaw in the manner of Samuel L. Jackson's Jules Winnfield in "Pulp Fiction," prone to saying things like "we're gonna be doing one thing, and one thing only, and that's killing Nazis," according to those familiar with the script.
The signing of Pitt, who first saw the script in early July, means that the production has locked down a key role as it moves forward on an accelerated schedule.
The Weinstein Co./Universal co-production starts shooting Oct. 13 in Germany, with the plan to debut at the 2009 Festival de Cannes. "It's going to be a nine-month sprint marathon," Bender said.
Pitt has a relatively clear schedule for the fall, though he is set to start shooting the boxing drama "The Fighter" for Paramount late this year or early next year.
Bender, in Berlin scouting locations, said casting is under way for a German actor to play Hans Landa, the Nazi leader targeted by the resistance. B.J. Novak and Eli Roth are in talks to play soldiers in Pitt's rogue army, with the pair playing Pfc Utivich and Pfc Danowitz, respectively.
The Weinstein Co. and Universal are co-financing and co-presenting the film, with Bender producing and Erica Steinberg, Bob Weinstein and Harvey Weinstein exec producing.
Steven Zeitchik reported from New York; Borys Kit reported from Los Angeles.
- 8/8/2008
- by By Steven Zeitchik and Borys Kit
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
According to Variety, Brad Pitt has closed his deal to star in “Inglorious Bastards,” the WWII drama that Quentin Tarantino will direct for the Weinstein Co. and Universal. Additionally, Nastassja Kinski is in early talks to play one of the sole female roles in the film. Casting the German-born actress jibes with Tarantino’s habit of resuscitating dormant careers. Kinski, who has stayed away from mainstream American films for nearly a decade, would play a German movie queen. Much of the pic’s dialogue is in French or German, and subtitles will be used, though Pitt will speak English in his role as a Tennessee hillbilly who assembles a team of eight Jewish-American soldiers to take on the Nazis. Simon Pegg, David Krumholtz and B.J. Novak are also in talks to join the project. Pegg would play a British lieutenant, while Krumholtz and Novak would play Pitt’s underlings. The film begins production Oct.
- 8/8/2008
- UGO Movies
Quentin Tarantino is once more going into battle with the Weinstein Co. as he readies his new screenplay "Inglorious Bastards" for an October shoot.
The writer-director, who has enjoyed a long association with Harvey and Bob Weinstein, is reteaming with them for his long-gestating World War II action tale about a "Dirty Dozen"-like group of soldiers behind enemy lines. The Weinstein Co. will co-finance the film, distribute it domestically and oversee production and worldwide marketing.
Since the production will film in Europe and is looking toward an accelerated production schedule so that it can be finished in time to submit to May's Festival de Cannes, the Weinsteins are looking to join forces with a major studio to come aboard to co-finance in exchange for foreign rights.
No cast is yet in place, though Brad Pitt's name has surfaced.
Lawrence Bender, Tarantino's producer since the days of "Reservoir Dogs," will produce, with Erica Steinberg, who had producing roles on the "Kill Bill" movies and "Grindhouse," serving as exec producer.
Repped by Wma, Tarantino acquired the title and remake rights to Enzo Castellari's 1978 film of the same name, but his screenplay is said to be an original.
The writer-director, who has enjoyed a long association with Harvey and Bob Weinstein, is reteaming with them for his long-gestating World War II action tale about a "Dirty Dozen"-like group of soldiers behind enemy lines. The Weinstein Co. will co-finance the film, distribute it domestically and oversee production and worldwide marketing.
Since the production will film in Europe and is looking toward an accelerated production schedule so that it can be finished in time to submit to May's Festival de Cannes, the Weinsteins are looking to join forces with a major studio to come aboard to co-finance in exchange for foreign rights.
No cast is yet in place, though Brad Pitt's name has surfaced.
Lawrence Bender, Tarantino's producer since the days of "Reservoir Dogs," will produce, with Erica Steinberg, who had producing roles on the "Kill Bill" movies and "Grindhouse," serving as exec producer.
Repped by Wma, Tarantino acquired the title and remake rights to Enzo Castellari's 1978 film of the same name, but his screenplay is said to be an original.
- 7/9/2008
- by By Gregg Kilday
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Opens
April 16
"Kill Bill-Vol. 2" puts to shame doubts entertained about aesthetic strategies or structural imbalance provoked by "Kill Bill-Vol. 1". Now that the entirety of Quentin Tarantino's epic revenge melodrama is on view, "Kill Bill" emerges as a brilliant, invigorating work, one to muse over for years to come. In the writer-director's orchestration of images, culled from hundreds of action movies both Eastern and Western, and his insistence that the emotions and moral codes contained in even the cheesiest "grind house" movie demand our attention, Tarantino has fulfilled the promise of the earlier work: Here is a movie that not only pays homage to a host of action-movie styles but rigorously explores its pulp fiction for visceral truths that link culture and cinema. Here's a movie that both academics bundled in film theories and teenagers on hot dates will find supercool.
Boxoffice-wise, the sky's the limit. Not only will "Vol. 2" enjoy a hugely successful theatrical run, but many of us will eventually demand the bifurcated sections of "Kill Bill" be conjoined into a single showing both in theaters and later in home entertainment. For what once felt out of balance now plays in perfect harmony. What once seemed to lack humor or subtext now has plenty. When Tarantino eventually restores his original cut, perhaps even more surprises will emerge.
The Bride (Uma Thurman) resumes her quest for vengeance against former colleagues in a ruthless gang of killers -- still unaware, as we learned at the close of "Vol. 1", that her 4-year-old daughter is alive. Those up for elimination are Budd (Michael Madsen) and Elle Driver (Daryl Hannah) before she can do what the movie's title commands -- kill Bill (David Carradine), her former lover, father of her child and unrepentant villain.
Again the story unfolds in chapters that tell it out of sequence. As the Bride heads for her climactic showdown with Bill, the movie tracks back to the rural Texas chapel where Bill and his gang massacre an entire wedding party and plunge the Bride into a four-year coma. Bill, an unseen though dark presence in the first film save for his hand and voice, is accorded a movie-star entrance: His flute playing draws the Bride from the chapel during wedding rehearsal. In a scene featuring dialogue with triple meanings, the two lovers share a tender -- tender, that is, for cold-blooded killers -- goodbye.
The camera pulls back to a God-like view of the chapel, where slaughter ensues. Then we're jerked back to the deadly hunt for Budd, an ace killer devolved into trailer-trash drunkenness, and eye-patched Elle, still restive for her face-off with the Bride.
The Bride's confrontation with these two nemeses takes a much different tack than the blood-giddy martial wars of the first movie. These sequences play up psychological games and one's worst, most mordant fears involving a snake and a burial while alive. Your flesh crawls and blood freezes.
Then a chapter interrupts to take you back to the lessons of Pei Mei (Hong Kong movie legend Gordon Liu Jia-hui), martial arts instructor to both the Bride and Elle. Here Tarantino not only does a wonderful riff on the white-eyebrow monk, Pei Mei, the dark villain in many vintage Shaw brothers films, but establishes three key fighting maneuvers that will pay off tremendously before the movie is over.
All of which sets the table for a climax between the Bride and Bill and the appearance of the daughter, B.B. (Perla Honey-Jardine), she never knew survived. Did I mention we finally learn the Bride's name -- Beatrix Kiddo? This sequence is one of the richest of all of Tarantino's films, digging deep into a vein of witty dialogue, intimate malevolence and only a brief flurry of combat.
Where Asian landscapes dominated "Vol. 1", Western vistas -- Texas and Mexico -- are the chief locations of "Vol. 2". Where Japan and the code of bushido ruled "Vol. 1", Chinese martial arts influences "Vol. 2". Where wide angles captured "Vol. 1"'s elaborately choreographed fights, close-ups search for raw feelings in "Vol. 2".
The overriding connection in the complete work is between the martial arts pictures of Asia, especially those of the Shaw brothers, and the spaghetti Westerns of Sergio Leone and his imitators. This is echoed in cinematographer Robert Richardson's shifting styles in color and black and white and music by RZA and frequent Tarantino collaborator Robert Rodriguez, which ranges from rockabilly and Ennio Morricone to cuts from samurai and martial arts flicks.
The great glory of "Kill Bill", though, is its actors. Carradine, with a face of mummified evil reminiscent of the craggy contours of his late father, John Carradine, suggests pure depravity. Bill is the negation of justice, integrity and worth, of all that makes the human race noble. He is supremely comfortable within the skin of villainy; it is part of his DNA.
Madsen's Budd is a half-hearted version of brother Bill. His impulse for evil is no less but his will much weaker. He is content to wait for the opportunity to commit sin rather than seek it out. Hannah's Elle is total blonde ambition, a cool, calculating amazon with a lethal instinct and practical mind. She is the Bride's rival, who must be dispatched before she can approach Bill.
This film gives Thurman a greater chance to explore the Bride's weaknesses and vulnerabilities. Thurman and Tarantino drive home how motherhood forever transforms the ex-assassin. By becoming maternal and more humane, the Bride -- Beatrix -- is conversely made tougher: Now she has someone to protect and is all the more dangerous for that.
Huge praise goes to the entire technical staff, especially the fight masters -- Sonny Chiba from the first film and Gordon Liu of the second -- the stylish cinematography, silky smooth editing and imaginative costumes, props and sets.
KILL BILL VOL. 2
Miramax Films
A Band Apart
Credits: Screenwriter-director: Quentin Tarantino
Based on the character of "The Bride" by: Q&U
Producer: Lawrence Bender
Executive producers: Harvey Weinstein, Bob Weinstein, Erica Steinberg, E. Bennett Walsh
Director of photography: Robert Richardson
Production designers: David Wasco, Cao Jui Ping
Music: RZA, Robert Rodriguez
Martial arts adviser: Yuen Wo-ping
Costume designers: Catherine Thomas, Kumiko Ogawa
Editor: Sally Menke
Cast: The Bride: Uma Thurman
Bill: David Carradine
Budd: Michael Madsen
Elle Driver: Daryl Hannah
Pei Mei: Gordon Liu
Esteban Vihaio: Michael Parks
Rev. Harmony: Bo Svenson
Mrs. Harmony: Jeannie Epper
B.B.: Perla Haney-Jardine
Running time -- 127 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
April 16
"Kill Bill-Vol. 2" puts to shame doubts entertained about aesthetic strategies or structural imbalance provoked by "Kill Bill-Vol. 1". Now that the entirety of Quentin Tarantino's epic revenge melodrama is on view, "Kill Bill" emerges as a brilliant, invigorating work, one to muse over for years to come. In the writer-director's orchestration of images, culled from hundreds of action movies both Eastern and Western, and his insistence that the emotions and moral codes contained in even the cheesiest "grind house" movie demand our attention, Tarantino has fulfilled the promise of the earlier work: Here is a movie that not only pays homage to a host of action-movie styles but rigorously explores its pulp fiction for visceral truths that link culture and cinema. Here's a movie that both academics bundled in film theories and teenagers on hot dates will find supercool.
Boxoffice-wise, the sky's the limit. Not only will "Vol. 2" enjoy a hugely successful theatrical run, but many of us will eventually demand the bifurcated sections of "Kill Bill" be conjoined into a single showing both in theaters and later in home entertainment. For what once felt out of balance now plays in perfect harmony. What once seemed to lack humor or subtext now has plenty. When Tarantino eventually restores his original cut, perhaps even more surprises will emerge.
The Bride (Uma Thurman) resumes her quest for vengeance against former colleagues in a ruthless gang of killers -- still unaware, as we learned at the close of "Vol. 1", that her 4-year-old daughter is alive. Those up for elimination are Budd (Michael Madsen) and Elle Driver (Daryl Hannah) before she can do what the movie's title commands -- kill Bill (David Carradine), her former lover, father of her child and unrepentant villain.
Again the story unfolds in chapters that tell it out of sequence. As the Bride heads for her climactic showdown with Bill, the movie tracks back to the rural Texas chapel where Bill and his gang massacre an entire wedding party and plunge the Bride into a four-year coma. Bill, an unseen though dark presence in the first film save for his hand and voice, is accorded a movie-star entrance: His flute playing draws the Bride from the chapel during wedding rehearsal. In a scene featuring dialogue with triple meanings, the two lovers share a tender -- tender, that is, for cold-blooded killers -- goodbye.
The camera pulls back to a God-like view of the chapel, where slaughter ensues. Then we're jerked back to the deadly hunt for Budd, an ace killer devolved into trailer-trash drunkenness, and eye-patched Elle, still restive for her face-off with the Bride.
The Bride's confrontation with these two nemeses takes a much different tack than the blood-giddy martial wars of the first movie. These sequences play up psychological games and one's worst, most mordant fears involving a snake and a burial while alive. Your flesh crawls and blood freezes.
Then a chapter interrupts to take you back to the lessons of Pei Mei (Hong Kong movie legend Gordon Liu Jia-hui), martial arts instructor to both the Bride and Elle. Here Tarantino not only does a wonderful riff on the white-eyebrow monk, Pei Mei, the dark villain in many vintage Shaw brothers films, but establishes three key fighting maneuvers that will pay off tremendously before the movie is over.
All of which sets the table for a climax between the Bride and Bill and the appearance of the daughter, B.B. (Perla Honey-Jardine), she never knew survived. Did I mention we finally learn the Bride's name -- Beatrix Kiddo? This sequence is one of the richest of all of Tarantino's films, digging deep into a vein of witty dialogue, intimate malevolence and only a brief flurry of combat.
Where Asian landscapes dominated "Vol. 1", Western vistas -- Texas and Mexico -- are the chief locations of "Vol. 2". Where Japan and the code of bushido ruled "Vol. 1", Chinese martial arts influences "Vol. 2". Where wide angles captured "Vol. 1"'s elaborately choreographed fights, close-ups search for raw feelings in "Vol. 2".
The overriding connection in the complete work is between the martial arts pictures of Asia, especially those of the Shaw brothers, and the spaghetti Westerns of Sergio Leone and his imitators. This is echoed in cinematographer Robert Richardson's shifting styles in color and black and white and music by RZA and frequent Tarantino collaborator Robert Rodriguez, which ranges from rockabilly and Ennio Morricone to cuts from samurai and martial arts flicks.
The great glory of "Kill Bill", though, is its actors. Carradine, with a face of mummified evil reminiscent of the craggy contours of his late father, John Carradine, suggests pure depravity. Bill is the negation of justice, integrity and worth, of all that makes the human race noble. He is supremely comfortable within the skin of villainy; it is part of his DNA.
Madsen's Budd is a half-hearted version of brother Bill. His impulse for evil is no less but his will much weaker. He is content to wait for the opportunity to commit sin rather than seek it out. Hannah's Elle is total blonde ambition, a cool, calculating amazon with a lethal instinct and practical mind. She is the Bride's rival, who must be dispatched before she can approach Bill.
This film gives Thurman a greater chance to explore the Bride's weaknesses and vulnerabilities. Thurman and Tarantino drive home how motherhood forever transforms the ex-assassin. By becoming maternal and more humane, the Bride -- Beatrix -- is conversely made tougher: Now she has someone to protect and is all the more dangerous for that.
Huge praise goes to the entire technical staff, especially the fight masters -- Sonny Chiba from the first film and Gordon Liu of the second -- the stylish cinematography, silky smooth editing and imaginative costumes, props and sets.
KILL BILL VOL. 2
Miramax Films
A Band Apart
Credits: Screenwriter-director: Quentin Tarantino
Based on the character of "The Bride" by: Q&U
Producer: Lawrence Bender
Executive producers: Harvey Weinstein, Bob Weinstein, Erica Steinberg, E. Bennett Walsh
Director of photography: Robert Richardson
Production designers: David Wasco, Cao Jui Ping
Music: RZA, Robert Rodriguez
Martial arts adviser: Yuen Wo-ping
Costume designers: Catherine Thomas, Kumiko Ogawa
Editor: Sally Menke
Cast: The Bride: Uma Thurman
Bill: David Carradine
Budd: Michael Madsen
Elle Driver: Daryl Hannah
Pei Mei: Gordon Liu
Esteban Vihaio: Michael Parks
Rev. Harmony: Bo Svenson
Mrs. Harmony: Jeannie Epper
B.B.: Perla Haney-Jardine
Running time -- 127 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
Opens
April 16
"Kill Bill-Vol. 2" puts to shame doubts entertained about aesthetic strategies or structural imbalance provoked by "Kill Bill-Vol. 1". Now that the entirety of Quentin Tarantino's epic revenge melodrama is on view, "Kill Bill" emerges as a brilliant, invigorating work, one to muse over for years to come. In the writer-director's orchestration of images, culled from hundreds of action movies both Eastern and Western, and his insistence that the emotions and moral codes contained in even the cheesiest "grind house" movie demand our attention, Tarantino has fulfilled the promise of the earlier work: Here is a movie that not only pays homage to a host of action-movie styles but rigorously explores its pulp fiction for visceral truths that link culture and cinema. Here's a movie that both academics bundled in film theories and teenagers on hot dates will find supercool.
Boxoffice-wise, the sky's the limit. Not only will "Vol. 2" enjoy a hugely successful theatrical run, but many of us will eventually demand the bifurcated sections of "Kill Bill" be conjoined into a single showing both in theaters and later in home entertainment. For what once felt out of balance now plays in perfect harmony. What once seemed to lack humor or subtext now has plenty. When Tarantino eventually restores his original cut, perhaps even more surprises will emerge.
The Bride (Uma Thurman) resumes her quest for vengeance against former colleagues in a ruthless gang of killers -- still unaware, as we learned at the close of "Vol. 1", that her 4-year-old daughter is alive. Those up for elimination are Budd (Michael Madsen) and Elle Driver (Daryl Hannah) before she can do what the movie's title commands -- kill Bill (David Carradine), her former lover, father of her child and unrepentant villain.
Again the story unfolds in chapters that tell it out of sequence. As the Bride heads for her climactic showdown with Bill, the movie tracks back to the rural Texas chapel where Bill and his gang massacre an entire wedding party and plunge the Bride into a four-year coma. Bill, an unseen though dark presence in the first film save for his hand and voice, is accorded a movie-star entrance: His flute playing draws the Bride from the chapel during wedding rehearsal. In a scene featuring dialogue with triple meanings, the two lovers share a tender -- tender, that is, for cold-blooded killers -- goodbye.
The camera pulls back to a God-like view of the chapel, where slaughter ensues. Then we're jerked back to the deadly hunt for Budd, an ace killer devolved into trailer-trash drunkenness, and eye-patched Elle, still restive for her face-off with the Bride.
The Bride's confrontation with these two nemeses takes a much different tack than the blood-giddy martial wars of the first movie. These sequences play up psychological games and one's worst, most mordant fears involving a snake and a burial while alive. Your flesh crawls and blood freezes.
Then a chapter interrupts to take you back to the lessons of Pei Mei (Hong Kong movie legend Gordon Liu Jia-hui), martial arts instructor to both the Bride and Elle. Here Tarantino not only does a wonderful riff on the white-eyebrow monk, Pei Mei, the dark villain in many vintage Shaw brothers films, but establishes three key fighting maneuvers that will pay off tremendously before the movie is over.
All of which sets the table for a climax between the Bride and Bill and the appearance of the daughter, B.B. (Perla Honey-Jardine), she never knew survived. Did I mention we finally learn the Bride's name -- Beatrix Kiddo? This sequence is one of the richest of all of Tarantino's films, digging deep into a vein of witty dialogue, intimate malevolence and only a brief flurry of combat.
Where Asian landscapes dominated "Vol. 1", Western vistas -- Texas and Mexico -- are the chief locations of "Vol. 2". Where Japan and the code of bushido ruled "Vol. 1", Chinese martial arts influences "Vol. 2". Where wide angles captured "Vol. 1"'s elaborately choreographed fights, close-ups search for raw feelings in "Vol. 2".
The overriding connection in the complete work is between the martial arts pictures of Asia, especially those of the Shaw brothers, and the spaghetti Westerns of Sergio Leone and his imitators. This is echoed in cinematographer Robert Richardson's shifting styles in color and black and white and music by RZA and frequent Tarantino collaborator Robert Rodriguez, which ranges from rockabilly and Ennio Morricone to cuts from samurai and martial arts flicks.
The great glory of "Kill Bill", though, is its actors. Carradine, with a face of mummified evil reminiscent of the craggy contours of his late father, John Carradine, suggests pure depravity. Bill is the negation of justice, integrity and worth, of all that makes the human race noble. He is supremely comfortable within the skin of villainy; it is part of his DNA.
Madsen's Budd is a half-hearted version of brother Bill. His impulse for evil is no less but his will much weaker. He is content to wait for the opportunity to commit sin rather than seek it out. Hannah's Elle is total blonde ambition, a cool, calculating amazon with a lethal instinct and practical mind. She is the Bride's rival, who must be dispatched before she can approach Bill.
This film gives Thurman a greater chance to explore the Bride's weaknesses and vulnerabilities. Thurman and Tarantino drive home how motherhood forever transforms the ex-assassin. By becoming maternal and more humane, the Bride -- Beatrix -- is conversely made tougher: Now she has someone to protect and is all the more dangerous for that.
Huge praise goes to the entire technical staff, especially the fight masters -- Sonny Chiba from the first film and Gordon Liu of the second -- the stylish cinematography, silky smooth editing and imaginative costumes, props and sets.
KILL BILL VOL. 2
Miramax Films
A Band Apart
Credits: Screenwriter-director: Quentin Tarantino
Based on the character of "The Bride" by: Q&U
Producer: Lawrence Bender
Executive producers: Harvey Weinstein, Bob Weinstein, Erica Steinberg, E. Bennett Walsh
Director of photography: Robert Richardson
Production designers: David Wasco, Cao Jui Ping
Music: RZA, Robert Rodriguez
Martial arts adviser: Yuen Wo-ping
Costume designers: Catherine Thomas, Kumiko Ogawa
Editor: Sally Menke
Cast: The Bride: Uma Thurman
Bill: David Carradine
Budd: Michael Madsen
Elle Driver: Daryl Hannah
Pei Mei: Gordon Liu
Esteban Vihaio: Michael Parks
Rev. Harmony: Bo Svenson
Mrs. Harmony: Jeannie Epper
B.B.: Perla Haney-Jardine
Running time -- 127 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
April 16
"Kill Bill-Vol. 2" puts to shame doubts entertained about aesthetic strategies or structural imbalance provoked by "Kill Bill-Vol. 1". Now that the entirety of Quentin Tarantino's epic revenge melodrama is on view, "Kill Bill" emerges as a brilliant, invigorating work, one to muse over for years to come. In the writer-director's orchestration of images, culled from hundreds of action movies both Eastern and Western, and his insistence that the emotions and moral codes contained in even the cheesiest "grind house" movie demand our attention, Tarantino has fulfilled the promise of the earlier work: Here is a movie that not only pays homage to a host of action-movie styles but rigorously explores its pulp fiction for visceral truths that link culture and cinema. Here's a movie that both academics bundled in film theories and teenagers on hot dates will find supercool.
Boxoffice-wise, the sky's the limit. Not only will "Vol. 2" enjoy a hugely successful theatrical run, but many of us will eventually demand the bifurcated sections of "Kill Bill" be conjoined into a single showing both in theaters and later in home entertainment. For what once felt out of balance now plays in perfect harmony. What once seemed to lack humor or subtext now has plenty. When Tarantino eventually restores his original cut, perhaps even more surprises will emerge.
The Bride (Uma Thurman) resumes her quest for vengeance against former colleagues in a ruthless gang of killers -- still unaware, as we learned at the close of "Vol. 1", that her 4-year-old daughter is alive. Those up for elimination are Budd (Michael Madsen) and Elle Driver (Daryl Hannah) before she can do what the movie's title commands -- kill Bill (David Carradine), her former lover, father of her child and unrepentant villain.
Again the story unfolds in chapters that tell it out of sequence. As the Bride heads for her climactic showdown with Bill, the movie tracks back to the rural Texas chapel where Bill and his gang massacre an entire wedding party and plunge the Bride into a four-year coma. Bill, an unseen though dark presence in the first film save for his hand and voice, is accorded a movie-star entrance: His flute playing draws the Bride from the chapel during wedding rehearsal. In a scene featuring dialogue with triple meanings, the two lovers share a tender -- tender, that is, for cold-blooded killers -- goodbye.
The camera pulls back to a God-like view of the chapel, where slaughter ensues. Then we're jerked back to the deadly hunt for Budd, an ace killer devolved into trailer-trash drunkenness, and eye-patched Elle, still restive for her face-off with the Bride.
The Bride's confrontation with these two nemeses takes a much different tack than the blood-giddy martial wars of the first movie. These sequences play up psychological games and one's worst, most mordant fears involving a snake and a burial while alive. Your flesh crawls and blood freezes.
Then a chapter interrupts to take you back to the lessons of Pei Mei (Hong Kong movie legend Gordon Liu Jia-hui), martial arts instructor to both the Bride and Elle. Here Tarantino not only does a wonderful riff on the white-eyebrow monk, Pei Mei, the dark villain in many vintage Shaw brothers films, but establishes three key fighting maneuvers that will pay off tremendously before the movie is over.
All of which sets the table for a climax between the Bride and Bill and the appearance of the daughter, B.B. (Perla Honey-Jardine), she never knew survived. Did I mention we finally learn the Bride's name -- Beatrix Kiddo? This sequence is one of the richest of all of Tarantino's films, digging deep into a vein of witty dialogue, intimate malevolence and only a brief flurry of combat.
Where Asian landscapes dominated "Vol. 1", Western vistas -- Texas and Mexico -- are the chief locations of "Vol. 2". Where Japan and the code of bushido ruled "Vol. 1", Chinese martial arts influences "Vol. 2". Where wide angles captured "Vol. 1"'s elaborately choreographed fights, close-ups search for raw feelings in "Vol. 2".
The overriding connection in the complete work is between the martial arts pictures of Asia, especially those of the Shaw brothers, and the spaghetti Westerns of Sergio Leone and his imitators. This is echoed in cinematographer Robert Richardson's shifting styles in color and black and white and music by RZA and frequent Tarantino collaborator Robert Rodriguez, which ranges from rockabilly and Ennio Morricone to cuts from samurai and martial arts flicks.
The great glory of "Kill Bill", though, is its actors. Carradine, with a face of mummified evil reminiscent of the craggy contours of his late father, John Carradine, suggests pure depravity. Bill is the negation of justice, integrity and worth, of all that makes the human race noble. He is supremely comfortable within the skin of villainy; it is part of his DNA.
Madsen's Budd is a half-hearted version of brother Bill. His impulse for evil is no less but his will much weaker. He is content to wait for the opportunity to commit sin rather than seek it out. Hannah's Elle is total blonde ambition, a cool, calculating amazon with a lethal instinct and practical mind. She is the Bride's rival, who must be dispatched before she can approach Bill.
This film gives Thurman a greater chance to explore the Bride's weaknesses and vulnerabilities. Thurman and Tarantino drive home how motherhood forever transforms the ex-assassin. By becoming maternal and more humane, the Bride -- Beatrix -- is conversely made tougher: Now she has someone to protect and is all the more dangerous for that.
Huge praise goes to the entire technical staff, especially the fight masters -- Sonny Chiba from the first film and Gordon Liu of the second -- the stylish cinematography, silky smooth editing and imaginative costumes, props and sets.
KILL BILL VOL. 2
Miramax Films
A Band Apart
Credits: Screenwriter-director: Quentin Tarantino
Based on the character of "The Bride" by: Q&U
Producer: Lawrence Bender
Executive producers: Harvey Weinstein, Bob Weinstein, Erica Steinberg, E. Bennett Walsh
Director of photography: Robert Richardson
Production designers: David Wasco, Cao Jui Ping
Music: RZA, Robert Rodriguez
Martial arts adviser: Yuen Wo-ping
Costume designers: Catherine Thomas, Kumiko Ogawa
Editor: Sally Menke
Cast: The Bride: Uma Thurman
Bill: David Carradine
Budd: Michael Madsen
Elle Driver: Daryl Hannah
Pei Mei: Gordon Liu
Esteban Vihaio: Michael Parks
Rev. Harmony: Bo Svenson
Mrs. Harmony: Jeannie Epper
B.B.: Perla Haney-Jardine
Running time -- 127 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
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