Eugene Levy got support from family and friends at his Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony!
The 77-year-old Canadian actor and comedian received his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Friday (March 8).
Guest speakers at the event included Eugene‘s Schitt’s Creek co-star Catherine O’Hara and the actor’s daughter Sarah Levy.
If you didn’t know, Eugene also shared the screen with Catherine in 1980′s Nothing Personal, 1996′s Waiting for Guffman, 2000′s Best in Show, 2003′s A Mighty Wind, 2006′s Over the Hedge, and 2006′s For Your Consideration.
Eugene‘s American Pie on-screen son Jason Biggs was in attendance as well!
Find out who else is set to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2024!
Last year, Eugene Levy spoke about the possibility of a Schitt’s Creek reunion!
Browse through the gallery to see more photos from Eugene Levy’s Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony…...
The 77-year-old Canadian actor and comedian received his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Friday (March 8).
Guest speakers at the event included Eugene‘s Schitt’s Creek co-star Catherine O’Hara and the actor’s daughter Sarah Levy.
If you didn’t know, Eugene also shared the screen with Catherine in 1980′s Nothing Personal, 1996′s Waiting for Guffman, 2000′s Best in Show, 2003′s A Mighty Wind, 2006′s Over the Hedge, and 2006′s For Your Consideration.
Eugene‘s American Pie on-screen son Jason Biggs was in attendance as well!
Find out who else is set to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2024!
Last year, Eugene Levy spoke about the possibility of a Schitt’s Creek reunion!
Browse through the gallery to see more photos from Eugene Levy’s Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony…...
- 3/8/2024
- by Just Jared
- Just Jared
On the JoBlo Movies YouTube channel, we will be posting one full movie every other day throughout the week, giving viewers the chance to watch them entirely free of charge. The Free Movie of the Day we have for you today is the crime thriller Magic Mountains. You can watch it over on the YouTube channel linked above, or you can just watch it in the embed at the top of this article.
Written and directed by Urszula Antoniak, Magic Mountains has the following synopsis: A successful writer asks his ex, who left him, to climb one last time in the mountains together. Only then he can really let her go.
So no, it doesn’t have anything to do with the Six Flags amusement park Magic Mountain. But that synopsis does sound quite ominous, so we should probably be ready to see some thrilling things happen far above ground.
Written and directed by Urszula Antoniak, Magic Mountains has the following synopsis: A successful writer asks his ex, who left him, to climb one last time in the mountains together. Only then he can really let her go.
So no, it doesn’t have anything to do with the Six Flags amusement park Magic Mountain. But that synopsis does sound quite ominous, so we should probably be ready to see some thrilling things happen far above ground.
- 5/10/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
Exclusive: Fox is hunting down the snake oil salesmen in its latest game show.
The network has ordered Snake Oil, fronted by David Spade and exec produced by Will Arnett. The original format sees contestants pitched unique products by convincing entrepreneurs – some of whom are showcasing real business ventures, while the others are “Snake Oil Salesmen” whose products are fake.
Contestants, with the help of guest celebrity advisors, must determine which products are real and which are a sham, for a chance to win life-changing money.
In each round, contestants choose a pair of entrepreneurs and learn about their unique, and often bizarre, products through visuals, a custom-made infomercial exclusively produced for Snake Oil, and by quizzing the business representative themselves. With the help of their celebrity advisors, the contestants must then decide who is selling an authentic product and who is hawking a sham.
The series, which will launch during the 2023/24 season on Fox,...
The network has ordered Snake Oil, fronted by David Spade and exec produced by Will Arnett. The original format sees contestants pitched unique products by convincing entrepreneurs – some of whom are showcasing real business ventures, while the others are “Snake Oil Salesmen” whose products are fake.
Contestants, with the help of guest celebrity advisors, must determine which products are real and which are a sham, for a chance to win life-changing money.
In each round, contestants choose a pair of entrepreneurs and learn about their unique, and often bizarre, products through visuals, a custom-made infomercial exclusively produced for Snake Oil, and by quizzing the business representative themselves. With the help of their celebrity advisors, the contestants must then decide who is selling an authentic product and who is hawking a sham.
The series, which will launch during the 2023/24 season on Fox,...
- 4/18/2023
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Funnyman David Spade is bringing his comedic talents to streaming for his first Netflix stand-up comedy special. Nothing Personal premieres on Tuesday, April 26, and Netflix promises that in the special, “from sharing his disdain for crabs to his unique approach to turning down drugs, David proves that no topic is off limits.” The new special marks another project of Spade’s with the streamer; he previously starred in the Netflix original movies The Wrong Missy and The Do-Over. Having risen to fame on Saturday Night Live, Spade has established himself as one of comedy’s best-known names through his roles in movies and shows such as Tommy Boy, Just Shoot Me!, The Emperor’s New Groove, 8 Simple Rules, Rules of Engagement, the Hotel Transylvania and Grown Ups franchises, and more. Most recently, Spade appeared as a guest host on Bachelor in Paradise Season 7 alongside Lance Bass, Tituss Burgess, Lil John,...
- 4/14/2022
- TV Insider
David Spade is dropping some truth bombs in his upcoming Netflix comedy special. But don’t worry, it’s nothing personal.
On Thursday, Netflix released a trailer for “David Spade: Nothing Personal,” which marks his first comedy special with the streamer. You can check out the trailer above.
“Someone tried to hug me today,” he says as he’s met with chuckles from the audience. “I mean, I sound like a dick, but I’m terrified. You know what I mean? Who’s hugging still?”
“David Spade: Nothing Personal” premieres on Netflix on April 26.
A logline for the special reads:
Hot off the beach from his guest hosting duties on ‘Bachelor In Paradise,’ David Spade makes his Netflix comedy special debut with ‘Nothing Personal.’ From sharing his disdain for crabs to his unique approach to turning down drugs, David proves that no topic is off limits.
Spade serves as an executive producer alongside Marc Gurvitz,...
On Thursday, Netflix released a trailer for “David Spade: Nothing Personal,” which marks his first comedy special with the streamer. You can check out the trailer above.
“Someone tried to hug me today,” he says as he’s met with chuckles from the audience. “I mean, I sound like a dick, but I’m terrified. You know what I mean? Who’s hugging still?”
“David Spade: Nothing Personal” premieres on Netflix on April 26.
A logline for the special reads:
Hot off the beach from his guest hosting duties on ‘Bachelor In Paradise,’ David Spade makes his Netflix comedy special debut with ‘Nothing Personal.’ From sharing his disdain for crabs to his unique approach to turning down drugs, David proves that no topic is off limits.
Spade serves as an executive producer alongside Marc Gurvitz,...
- 4/14/2022
- by Katie Campione
- The Wrap
“Ozark” fans, rejoice. The Jason Bateman and Julia Garner-starring drama series is returning to Netflix in April with a second part to its fourth season — and it’s just one of many other hotly anticipated titles coming to the streamer this month.
April will also see the long-awaited sophomore installment to “Russian Doll,” the mind-bending “Groundhog Day”-esque dramedy series starring Natasha Lyonne as a hard-partying New York City woman stuck in a brain-melting circuitous loop from hell.
For fans of capital-m mess, there’s the Spanish-language “Elite,” which traces the scandalous (and often murderous) exploits of the posh attendees of high school Las Encinas. Or, if you prefer your glamorous mess via reality series, “Selling Sunset” — about the lux real estate market in Los Angeles — is premiering its fifth season April 22.
In notable films, there’s the Judd Apatow-helmed “The Bubble,” a spoof loosely inspired by the...
April will also see the long-awaited sophomore installment to “Russian Doll,” the mind-bending “Groundhog Day”-esque dramedy series starring Natasha Lyonne as a hard-partying New York City woman stuck in a brain-melting circuitous loop from hell.
For fans of capital-m mess, there’s the Spanish-language “Elite,” which traces the scandalous (and often murderous) exploits of the posh attendees of high school Las Encinas. Or, if you prefer your glamorous mess via reality series, “Selling Sunset” — about the lux real estate market in Los Angeles — is premiering its fifth season April 22.
In notable films, there’s the Judd Apatow-helmed “The Bubble,” a spoof loosely inspired by the...
- 4/1/2022
- by Natalie Oganesyan
- The Wrap
David Spade first entered the world of stand-up comedy while attending college at Arizona State University. Spade, finding he was making a decent living with stand-up, dropped out of college and took his comedy on the road. He would eventually be "discovered" by a talent scout at the Improv in Hollywood, CA, and subsequently cast as a giggling skateboard punk in director Jim Drake's immortal classic "Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol." He was in his early 20s.
From there, Spade went on to appear in a long string of hit comedy films — some of them critically lauded, some not — like "Pcu," "Black Sheep,"...
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From there, Spade went on to appear in a long string of hit comedy films — some of them critically lauded, some not — like "Pcu," "Black Sheep,"...
The post David Spade Returns to Stand-Up With Netflix Special Nothing Personal appeared first on /Film.
- 3/23/2022
- by Witney Seibold
- Slash Film
Paul Bettany (WandaVision) and Claire Foy (The Crown) are going through a very messy divorce in the trailer for A Very British Scandal Season 2, premiering with all three episodes Friday, April 22 on Prime Video.
The sophomore run chronicles “the divorce of the Duke (Bettany) and Duchess of Argyll (Foy), one of the most notorious, extraordinary, and brutal legal cases of the 20th century,” per the official synopsis. “Famed for her charisma, beauty, and style, Margaret, Duchess of Argyll, dominated the front pages as a divorce featuring accusations of forgery, theft, violence, drug-taking, secret recording, bribery, and an explicit Polaroid picture...
The sophomore run chronicles “the divorce of the Duke (Bettany) and Duchess of Argyll (Foy), one of the most notorious, extraordinary, and brutal legal cases of the 20th century,” per the official synopsis. “Famed for her charisma, beauty, and style, Margaret, Duchess of Argyll, dominated the front pages as a divorce featuring accusations of forgery, theft, violence, drug-taking, secret recording, bribery, and an explicit Polaroid picture...
- 3/22/2022
- by Vlada Gelman
- TVLine.com
The final episodes of “Grace and Frankie” will premiere April 29, Netflix announced Tuesday.
Created by Marta Kauffman and Howard J. Morris, “Grace and Frankie” stars Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin as the title characters, two very different women who have disliked each other for years, even though their husbands Robert (Martin Sheen) and Sol (Sam Waterston) are law partners. When their husbands announce they’re in love and plan to divorce them to be together, Grace and Frankie find themselves roommates, and overcome their mutual animosity to become best friends navigating romances, business ventures and family drama together.
The longest-running show currently on Netflix, “Grace and Frankie” originally premiered in 2015 and has since run for seven seasons. The show was originally renewed for a 16-episode seventh and final season in 2019. Last August, Netflix surprise released the first four episodes of the final season, and announced the remaining episodes will debut...
Created by Marta Kauffman and Howard J. Morris, “Grace and Frankie” stars Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin as the title characters, two very different women who have disliked each other for years, even though their husbands Robert (Martin Sheen) and Sol (Sam Waterston) are law partners. When their husbands announce they’re in love and plan to divorce them to be together, Grace and Frankie find themselves roommates, and overcome their mutual animosity to become best friends navigating romances, business ventures and family drama together.
The longest-running show currently on Netflix, “Grace and Frankie” originally premiered in 2015 and has since run for seven seasons. The show was originally renewed for a 16-episode seventh and final season in 2019. Last August, Netflix surprise released the first four episodes of the final season, and announced the remaining episodes will debut...
- 3/22/2022
- by Wilson Chapman
- Variety Film + TV
David Spade is taking his comedy to Netflix with his first standup special on the streamer.
In Nothing Personal, from sharing his disdain for crabs to his unique approach to turning down drugs, Spade proves that no topic is off limits, according to Netflix. The special was filmed at the Pantages Theater in Minneapolis.
Spade serves as executive producer alongside Marc Gurvitz, Alex Murray and John Irwin. The special is directed by Ryan Polito.
Spade is coming off a run as guest host on Bachelor In Paradise. He recently starred in the Netflix original comedy The Wrong Missy, which was the No. 1 movie on the platform in the days following its 2020 release and was the eighth most-watched original movie in the company’s history. Also on Netflix, he was seen in the original comedy Father of the Year, one of the highest streamed films globally on the service, as well as The Do-Over,...
In Nothing Personal, from sharing his disdain for crabs to his unique approach to turning down drugs, Spade proves that no topic is off limits, according to Netflix. The special was filmed at the Pantages Theater in Minneapolis.
Spade serves as executive producer alongside Marc Gurvitz, Alex Murray and John Irwin. The special is directed by Ryan Polito.
Spade is coming off a run as guest host on Bachelor In Paradise. He recently starred in the Netflix original comedy The Wrong Missy, which was the No. 1 movie on the platform in the days following its 2020 release and was the eighth most-watched original movie in the company’s history. Also on Netflix, he was seen in the original comedy Father of the Year, one of the highest streamed films globally on the service, as well as The Do-Over,...
- 3/22/2022
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
David Spade is joining Netflix’s comedy roster with his first standup special for the streamer.
“Nothing Personal” launches on April 26.
The special was filmed at the Pantages Theater in Minneapolis, Minnesota, “hot off the beach from [Spade’s] guest-hosting duties on ‘Bachelor in Paradise,'” Netflix said Tuesday.
“Nothing Personal” will find Spade sharing “his disdain for crabs,” and “his unique approach to turning down drugs.” No topics is off-limits, Netflix said in a release.
Spade, who starred in Netflix original films “The Wrong Missy” and “The Do-Over,” is an executive producer of “Nothing Personal” alongside Marc Gurvitz, Alex Murray and John Irwin. Ryan Polito served as director.
The star’s previous televised standup specials include “My Fake Problems” in 2014 and “Take the Hit” in 1998.
Spade announced the news of his special on Twitter in December, writing, “Doing a special in a month for #Netflix Cant wait to get it out there.
“Nothing Personal” launches on April 26.
The special was filmed at the Pantages Theater in Minneapolis, Minnesota, “hot off the beach from [Spade’s] guest-hosting duties on ‘Bachelor in Paradise,'” Netflix said Tuesday.
“Nothing Personal” will find Spade sharing “his disdain for crabs,” and “his unique approach to turning down drugs.” No topics is off-limits, Netflix said in a release.
Spade, who starred in Netflix original films “The Wrong Missy” and “The Do-Over,” is an executive producer of “Nothing Personal” alongside Marc Gurvitz, Alex Murray and John Irwin. Ryan Polito served as director.
The star’s previous televised standup specials include “My Fake Problems” in 2014 and “Take the Hit” in 1998.
Spade announced the news of his special on Twitter in December, writing, “Doing a special in a month for #Netflix Cant wait to get it out there.
- 3/22/2022
- by Jolie Lash
- The Wrap
With nearly 50 movies to his credit, a Mark Wahlberg movie marathon would take a while to finish. And while his die-hard fans might relish the challenge, it’s not something that Wahlberg would ever do himself. As a matter of fact, he told us, he knows he’s made a good movie if he’s able to [...]
The post Want To Watch Your Favorite Mark Wahlberg Movie With Mark Wahlberg? Not Gonna Happen… But It’s Nothing Personal appeared first on Hollywood Outbreak.
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- 5/2/2020
- by Hollywood Outbreak
- HollywoodOutbreak.com
Magic Mountains
Poland’s Urszula Antoniak embarks on a Dutch production for her fifth film, Magic Mountains, starring Flemish actor Thomas Ryckewaert, Polish actor Marcin Dorocinski and Dutch actor Hannah Hoekstra (a breakout in Sacha Polack’s 2012 Hemel who also had a minor role in Elizabeth Banks’ reboot of Charlie’s Angels). Antoniak reunites with her Beyond Words (read review) P Lennert Hillege, with Floor Onrust serving as producer. Antoniak’s breakout was her 2009 debut Nothing Personal, which competed in Locarno and won a handful of awards.…...
Poland’s Urszula Antoniak embarks on a Dutch production for her fifth film, Magic Mountains, starring Flemish actor Thomas Ryckewaert, Polish actor Marcin Dorocinski and Dutch actor Hannah Hoekstra (a breakout in Sacha Polack’s 2012 Hemel who also had a minor role in Elizabeth Banks’ reboot of Charlie’s Angels). Antoniak reunites with her Beyond Words (read review) P Lennert Hillege, with Floor Onrust serving as producer. Antoniak’s breakout was her 2009 debut Nothing Personal, which competed in Locarno and won a handful of awards.…...
- 12/30/2019
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
If Beale Street Could Talk is Colman Domingo’s first time acting for Barry Jenkins, but it’s his second time performing James Baldwin’s work. He adapted Baldwin’s essay Nothing Personal with Patricia McGregor into 30 pages of dialogue and performed it on stage as James Baldwin-type character in celebration of the author’s 90th birthday.
In Beale Street, Domingo plays Joseph Rivers, husband to Sharon (Regina King). He’s the patriarch of the Rivers family, but spiritually, he’s Moses to his children’s generation in Harlem; making a way where there was none. (See our interview with director Barry Jenkins about the spiritual themes in his film).
We spoke with Domingo about developing Baldwin’s work for the stage and how it prepared him for playing Joseph in the film. Domingo talks about the real blue-collar men who inspired his performance, from Joseph’s voice to his smoking habit.
In Beale Street, Domingo plays Joseph Rivers, husband to Sharon (Regina King). He’s the patriarch of the Rivers family, but spiritually, he’s Moses to his children’s generation in Harlem; making a way where there was none. (See our interview with director Barry Jenkins about the spiritual themes in his film).
We spoke with Domingo about developing Baldwin’s work for the stage and how it prepared him for playing Joseph in the film. Domingo talks about the real blue-collar men who inspired his performance, from Joseph’s voice to his smoking habit.
- 12/25/2018
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
Vladimir Putin has a new bff -- a super adorable puppy, which he'll probably turn into a vicious killer in no time flat. The Russian Prez got the lil' pooch as a belated birthday gift Wednesday from the president of Turkmenistan -- and you gotta see the video of the hand off. Full "Lion King" style. The Central Asian shepherd pup's name is Verny -- Russian for "loyal" -- and even though we're normally suckers...
- 10/11/2017
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
No false promises in the title: It Comes at Night comes right at you, leaving you unnerved, maybe even a little unhinged – and completely exhilarated. You want horror that screws with your head? This is your ticket. It's the work of Trey Edward Shults, a writer-director whose 2016 indie debut feature, Krisha, was shot for practically nothing in his parents' house in Texas, with his family members and himself cast in key roles. More importantly, it showed the seeds of a talent ready to spread its wings – the kind of young...
- 6/6/2017
- Rollingstone.com
In order to make accurate predictions about the potential Cannes Film Festival lineup, it’s first important to explore which films definitely won’t make the cut. The glamorous French gathering is notorious for waiting until the last minute before locking in every slot for its Official Selection. That includes competition titles, out of competition titles, a small midnight section and the Un Certain Regard sidebar. Cannes announces the bulk of its selections in Paris on April 13, but until then, there are plenty of ways to make educated guesses. Much of the reporting surrounding the upcoming festival selection is simply lists of films expected to come out this year. However, certain movies are definitely not going to the festival for various reasons.
That’s why our own list of potentials doesn’t include “Image Et Parole,” Jean-Luc Godard’s followup to “Goodbye to Language,” which sales agent Wild Bunch now anticipates as a 2018 title.
That’s why our own list of potentials doesn’t include “Image Et Parole,” Jean-Luc Godard’s followup to “Goodbye to Language,” which sales agent Wild Bunch now anticipates as a 2018 title.
- 3/31/2017
- by Chris O'Falt, Eric Kohn, Jude Dry, Kate Erbland, Steve Greene and Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Beyond Words
Director: Urszula Antoniak
Writer: Urszula Antoniak
Polish director Urszula Antoniak won Best First Feature (and several other prizes) at Locarno for her 2009 debut Nothing Personal, then followed that up with a pair of controversially themed titles, such as 2011’s Code Blue (kind of a female perspective synonym for Franco’s later film, Chronic) and 2014’s Nude Area.
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Director: Urszula Antoniak
Writer: Urszula Antoniak
Polish director Urszula Antoniak won Best First Feature (and several other prizes) at Locarno for her 2009 debut Nothing Personal, then followed that up with a pair of controversially themed titles, such as 2011’s Code Blue (kind of a female perspective synonym for Franco’s later film, Chronic) and 2014’s Nude Area.
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- 1/3/2017
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
This week’s Preacher was a biggie: Not only did Fiore and DeBlanc reveal to Jesse what was inside of him, but the superpower it gave him claimed another victim — and this one really hurt. (Nothing personal, Ted.) Who wound up being “helped” straight to hell? Read on and find out!
RelatedFall TV 2016: Your Handy Calendar of 90+ Season and Series Premiere Dates
‘Baby’ Talk | As “Sundowner” began, the angels explained that Genesis, aka the entity currently residing in Jesse, was the offspring of a scandalous angel/demon union. Oh, and also “the singular force that would… threaten all of creation.
RelatedFall TV 2016: Your Handy Calendar of 90+ Season and Series Premiere Dates
‘Baby’ Talk | As “Sundowner” began, the angels explained that Genesis, aka the entity currently residing in Jesse, was the offspring of a scandalous angel/demon union. Oh, and also “the singular force that would… threaten all of creation.
- 7/4/2016
- TVLine.com
Unlike Big Brother host Julie Chen, I’m not going to make you wait through countless “But first…”s before revealing the winner of Season 17. (Nothing personal, Chenbot!)
After waiting 98 days to find out which houseguest would come out on top, you deserve to know up front that this summer’s champion is — seriously, I’m about to spoil it for you — Steve!
Steve’s win was the cherry on top of a super-sized finale Wednesday night, the highlights of which are detailed below:
PhotosBig Brother’s Best and Worst Winners: We Ranked All 16 Champs
* Vanessa, Liz and Steve...
After waiting 98 days to find out which houseguest would come out on top, you deserve to know up front that this summer’s champion is — seriously, I’m about to spoil it for you — Steve!
Steve’s win was the cherry on top of a super-sized finale Wednesday night, the highlights of which are detailed below:
PhotosBig Brother’s Best and Worst Winners: We Ranked All 16 Champs
* Vanessa, Liz and Steve...
- 9/24/2015
- TVLine.com
Adam Carolla‘s “News Girl” Alison Rosen was fired by the prolific podcaster roughly a week before the news made headlines Monday, and the host of “Alison Rosen Is Your New Best Friend” told TheWrap exclusively that she is as puzzled as most.
Also Read: 11 TV Shows Canceled by Controversy — From ‘Honey Boo Boo’ to ‘Politically Incorrect’ (Photos)
“I am as confused as the fans are,” Rosen told TheWrap via a Monday night telephone interview, her only conversation on the matter with the media. “I think there’s this sense that there’s all this stuff happening behind the scenes,...
Also Read: 11 TV Shows Canceled by Controversy — From ‘Honey Boo Boo’ to ‘Politically Incorrect’ (Photos)
“I am as confused as the fans are,” Rosen told TheWrap via a Monday night telephone interview, her only conversation on the matter with the media. “I think there’s this sense that there’s all this stuff happening behind the scenes,...
- 1/6/2015
- by Tony Maglio
- The Wrap
Adam Carolla rang in the New Year with a huge announcement: News girl and sidekick Alison Rosen is gone from popular podcast “The Adam Carolla Show.”
Also Read: 15 Gadgets and Stars to Get Excited About at 2015 CES (Photos)
Filling in — for now, at least — is Klsx’s Gina Grad, in kind of a long-term “audition” role, Carolla admitted.
On his Monday podcast, which was recorded on Sunday, Carolla said: “Alison Rosen is not gonna be part of this program in 2015. Why? Nothing personal. I like Alison Rosen. I think Alison Rosen is very talented and very funny. I think she...
Also Read: 15 Gadgets and Stars to Get Excited About at 2015 CES (Photos)
Filling in — for now, at least — is Klsx’s Gina Grad, in kind of a long-term “audition” role, Carolla admitted.
On his Monday podcast, which was recorded on Sunday, Carolla said: “Alison Rosen is not gonna be part of this program in 2015. Why? Nothing personal. I like Alison Rosen. I think Alison Rosen is very talented and very funny. I think she...
- 1/5/2015
- by Tony Maglio
- The Wrap
[N.B. This article started out as being about Star Trek 3, but then Justin Lin was announced as director before the article was published. Having directed four Fast and Furious films, including the terrific Fast Five, Justin Lin is a brilliant action director, who's bound to deliver on a blockbuster level, although the same could be said of basically any action movie he might work on.
The article follows, slightly reworked for Star Trek 4, seeing as Star Trek is a franchise with lots of potential to explore further, and Justin Lin is a highly sought-after director, who will probably go on to The Bourne Legacy 2 and then perhaps Fast and Furious sequels after finishing Star Trek 3. So this is probably the first article about who should direct Star Trek 4...]
Recently, Roberto Orci stepped down from directing Star Trek 3 (2016), which would have been his directorial debut. He's worked on the screenplays for all three rebooted Star Trek movies, and remains involved in Star Trek 3 as a producer.
The obvious question remained: who would direct Star Trek 3?
With Star Trek (2009) and Star Trek: Into Darkness (2013) director J.J. Abrams busy directing the upcoming Star Wars: Episode VII (2015), Justin Lin is stepping in to direct Star Trek 3, now set for July 8, 2016.
In any case,...
The article follows, slightly reworked for Star Trek 4, seeing as Star Trek is a franchise with lots of potential to explore further, and Justin Lin is a highly sought-after director, who will probably go on to The Bourne Legacy 2 and then perhaps Fast and Furious sequels after finishing Star Trek 3. So this is probably the first article about who should direct Star Trek 4...]
Recently, Roberto Orci stepped down from directing Star Trek 3 (2016), which would have been his directorial debut. He's worked on the screenplays for all three rebooted Star Trek movies, and remains involved in Star Trek 3 as a producer.
The obvious question remained: who would direct Star Trek 3?
With Star Trek (2009) and Star Trek: Into Darkness (2013) director J.J. Abrams busy directing the upcoming Star Wars: Episode VII (2015), Justin Lin is stepping in to direct Star Trek 3, now set for July 8, 2016.
In any case,...
- 12/23/2014
- Shadowlocked
Exclusive: Antoniak’s third picture revolves around intense lesbian affair between two Amsterdam teenagers.
Paris-based sales company Reel Suspects has acquired international rights to Urszula Antoniak’s Nude Area, an interracial, lesbian love story between two teenagers living in Amsterdam, one from a wealthy, secular background, the other poor and Muslim.
“It’s a very ambitious feature, without dialogue, that presents the strong and ambiguous relationship between two teenagers, who move from desire and fantasies to consumption,” said Reel Suspects CEO Matteo Lovadina.
“It has strong distribution potential and the absence of dialogue makes it even more universal,” he adds.
The film revolves around Naomi, a beautiful teenager living in the upscale Amsterdam-South neighbourhood, who develops a crush on a Muslim girl, called Fama, who hails from a poorer district in the west of the city.
Intertwined with the tale of seduction, Antoniak explores lesbianism and female desire in general through a series of chapters headed with words...
Paris-based sales company Reel Suspects has acquired international rights to Urszula Antoniak’s Nude Area, an interracial, lesbian love story between two teenagers living in Amsterdam, one from a wealthy, secular background, the other poor and Muslim.
“It’s a very ambitious feature, without dialogue, that presents the strong and ambiguous relationship between two teenagers, who move from desire and fantasies to consumption,” said Reel Suspects CEO Matteo Lovadina.
“It has strong distribution potential and the absence of dialogue makes it even more universal,” he adds.
The film revolves around Naomi, a beautiful teenager living in the upscale Amsterdam-South neighbourhood, who develops a crush on a Muslim girl, called Fama, who hails from a poorer district in the west of the city.
Intertwined with the tale of seduction, Antoniak explores lesbianism and female desire in general through a series of chapters headed with words...
- 11/21/2014
- ScreenDaily
Update, 12:15 Pm: I told you on Friday that Jeff Shell would be appointing Vince Klaseus to the new position of President of Universal Brand Development and today he did just that. “Vince is one of the best executives in the business at leveraging innovative strategies to create successful products, and he will be a terrific leader for this new division,” said the Universal Pictures chief today (see today’s full Universal announcement below) As I said last week, Partnerships and Licensing exec Stephanie Sperber will now report to Klaseus. Worldwide Home Entertainment prez Eddie Cunningham will not report to Klaseus but Universal Studios’ Home Entertainment’s content production arm chief Glenn Ross will. In fact Ross will now answer to both Cunningham and Klaseus, which sounds awkward.
Previously, Sept 5 Pm: Exclusive: There will be a new exec and a new gig announced next week by Universal Pictures boss Jeff Shell.
Previously, Sept 5 Pm: Exclusive: There will be a new exec and a new gig announced next week by Universal Pictures boss Jeff Shell.
- 9/8/2014
- by Dominic Patten
- Deadline
Agents of Shield, Season 1, Episode 20, “Nothing Personal”
Written by Paul Zbyszewski and DJ Doyle
Directed by Billy Gierhart
Airs Tuesdays at 8pm Est on ABC
“Nothing Personal” opens with Maria Hill taking an evening stroll and chatting on her phone with Pepper Potts, but May is waiting around the corner for her with questions about Nick Fury and the T.A.H.I.T.I. project. Meanwhile, Coulson is back at Fury’s secret base with Triplett, Fitz, and Simmons, and they are trying to figure out why Skye and Ward left the base, taking their plane with them. Thanks to a bit of cleverness from Skye, they uncover Ward’s secret, but Fitz is unable to accept that Ward is a Hydra agent. Unfortunately, they have very little time to process these revelations as Colonel Glenn Talbot (Adrian Pasdar) has found their base and brought Maria Hill and a...
Written by Paul Zbyszewski and DJ Doyle
Directed by Billy Gierhart
Airs Tuesdays at 8pm Est on ABC
“Nothing Personal” opens with Maria Hill taking an evening stroll and chatting on her phone with Pepper Potts, but May is waiting around the corner for her with questions about Nick Fury and the T.A.H.I.T.I. project. Meanwhile, Coulson is back at Fury’s secret base with Triplett, Fitz, and Simmons, and they are trying to figure out why Skye and Ward left the base, taking their plane with them. Thanks to a bit of cleverness from Skye, they uncover Ward’s secret, but Fitz is unable to accept that Ward is a Hydra agent. Unfortunately, they have very little time to process these revelations as Colonel Glenn Talbot (Adrian Pasdar) has found their base and brought Maria Hill and a...
- 4/30/2014
- by Rachel Kolb
- SoundOnSight
Before we get to the latest episode of Agents of Shield, I first want to update you about last week's "leave it to the viewers" most valuable agent vote. With 63%, Skye was the runaway winner. Which means that through 20 episodes, with just two to go, we've got a three-way tie between Coulson, Skye and Fitz, each of whom has been named agent of the week four times.
So who came through in "Nothing Personal," and does one of the three now have a leg up on the competition? They all contributed heavily to the success of this mission, as did everyone in an all-around team effort, so it will be tough to choose just one.
So who came through in "Nothing Personal," and does one of the three now have a leg up on the competition? They all contributed heavily to the success of this mission, as did everyone in an all-around team effort, so it will be tough to choose just one.
- 4/30/2014
- by editor@buddytv.com
- buddytv.com
As its first season draws to a close, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. is finally hitting a groove — and the results, as seen in last night’s episode, are truly impressive. “Nothing Personal” is easily the strongest episode of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. yet, offering sharp writing, solid action sequences, several series-best performances, and the perfect amount of winking references designed to reward loyal Marvel fans.Last week's episode ended with a cliff-hanger as Skye and Ward took off together, but "Nothing Personal" begins with a very different familiar face: former S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Maria Hill (Cobie Smulders, reprising her role from The Avengers and Captain America: The Winter Soldier). In the wake of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s collapse, Hill has taken a job working for Tony Stark, but that doesn't save her from a nightmarish testimony in front of Congress — or from being ambushed by her former colleague,...
- 4/30/2014
- by Scott Meslow
- Vulture
I kind of want to make a list of all the things I loved about this episode. Like Maria Hill, and the Skye/Ward moments, and Lola finally getting some use, and did I mention Maria Hill? Take a page from Coulson and buckle up, because we’ve got two episodes left this season, and if tonight was any indication, we’re in for a hell of a ride.
Washington, D.C. — Former S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Maria Hill is having one of those days. You know, those days where it’s so annoying because your government organization imploded, and people want answers,...
Washington, D.C. — Former S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Maria Hill is having one of those days. You know, those days where it’s so annoying because your government organization imploded, and people want answers,...
- 4/30/2014
- by Andrea Towers
- EW.com - PopWatch
Note: Join us every Wednesday as we review the latest episode... Episode 20: "Nothing Personal" Synopsis: Just when there's no one left to trust, Agent Maria Hill (Cobie Smulders) returns to team up with Coulson as S.H.I.E.L.D. is being destroyed around them. Breakdown: (The following column contains Major Spoilers, so I don't recommend reading this if you haven't watched this episode). With Skye deducing Ward's trye...
- 4/29/2014
- by Alex Maidy
- JoBlo.com
Everything is about double meanings in the 20th episode of Agents of Shield (which means there's only two left!), from the "Nothing Personal" title -- because everything is personal -- to the fact that Ward is a double agent to the title of this article.
Do I mean "Under the Hill" because we're now under the guidance of Nick Fury's number two, Maria Hill? Or maybe it's because May finds the secret to T.A.H.I.T.I. under Coulson's tombstone? And maybe it's "Over the Skye" because Ward is totally over her and the budding romance was a sham? It's not, but his feelings are quite confusing. Or maybe it's because she falls from a plane to make her daring escape? Or because they have to hit 35,000 feet to break the encryption on the hard drive?...
Do I mean "Under the Hill" because we're now under the guidance of Nick Fury's number two, Maria Hill? Or maybe it's because May finds the secret to T.A.H.I.T.I. under Coulson's tombstone? And maybe it's "Over the Skye" because Ward is totally over her and the budding romance was a sham? It's not, but his feelings are quite confusing. Or maybe it's because she falls from a plane to make her daring escape? Or because they have to hit 35,000 feet to break the encryption on the hard drive?...
- 4/29/2014
- by editor@buddytv.com
- buddytv.com
When J. August Richards appeared in the pilot of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. as Mike Peterson, a single dad harboring some pretty awesome powers, viewers hoped that his presence would translate to a lasting spot on the show’s guest star roster. And Richards himself hoped for the same.
“I didn’t even know if I was gonna come back at all,” the actor admits with a laugh. “Everything is top secret, as you know. I feel like sometimes I find things out at the same time the audience does. But I like it that way, because it forces me to be more honest.
“I didn’t even know if I was gonna come back at all,” the actor admits with a laugh. “Everything is top secret, as you know. I feel like sometimes I find things out at the same time the audience does. But I like it that way, because it forces me to be more honest.
- 4/29/2014
- by Andrea Towers
- EW - Inside TV
News Ryan Lambie 29 Apr 2014 - 09:43
A two-minute preview of Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D episode 20 sees Agent Maria Hill mention the name of a familiar Marvel character...
Nb: Although the following doesn't spoil major events in Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D episode 20, you may want to avoid this post if you don't want to know about its opening two minutes.
We're rapidly heading towards the end of Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D season one, with episode 20 - titled Nothing Personal - set to air on ABC tomorrow night. In a bid to promote that latest instalment, the channel has put out a preview of its opening two minutes - and the telephone ramblings of one Agent Maria Hill (Cobie Smulders) could hint at the arrival of a familiar Marvel Comics character.
"Who, or what, is a Man-Thing?" Hill says, referencing...
A two-minute preview of Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D episode 20 sees Agent Maria Hill mention the name of a familiar Marvel character...
Nb: Although the following doesn't spoil major events in Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D episode 20, you may want to avoid this post if you don't want to know about its opening two minutes.
We're rapidly heading towards the end of Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D season one, with episode 20 - titled Nothing Personal - set to air on ABC tomorrow night. In a bid to promote that latest instalment, the channel has put out a preview of its opening two minutes - and the telephone ramblings of one Agent Maria Hill (Cobie Smulders) could hint at the arrival of a familiar Marvel Comics character.
"Who, or what, is a Man-Thing?" Hill says, referencing...
- 4/29/2014
- by ryanlambie
- Den of Geek
ABC has released the first three minutes from tonight’s episode of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. titled “Nothing Personal”, which is one of three remaining episodes left in the season. The juicy part is that, in addition to featuring an appearance from Maria Hill and a phone call with Pepper Potts, the footage also includes a reference to Marvel’s very own Man-Thing!
“Nothing Personal” – Just when there’s no one left to trust, Agent Maria Hill (Cobie Smulders) – from “Marvel’s The Avengers” and Marvel’s “Captain America: The Winter Solider” – returns to team up with Coulson as S.H.I.E.L.D. is being destroyed around them. “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” stars Clark Gregg as Agent Phil Coulson, Ming-Na Wen as Agent Melinda May, Brett Dalton as Agent Grant Ward, Chloe Bennet as Skye, Iain De Caestecker as Agent Leo Fitz and Elizabeth Henstridge as Agent Jemma Simmons.
“Nothing Personal” – Just when there’s no one left to trust, Agent Maria Hill (Cobie Smulders) – from “Marvel’s The Avengers” and Marvel’s “Captain America: The Winter Solider” – returns to team up with Coulson as S.H.I.E.L.D. is being destroyed around them. “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” stars Clark Gregg as Agent Phil Coulson, Ming-Na Wen as Agent Melinda May, Brett Dalton as Agent Grant Ward, Chloe Bennet as Skye, Iain De Caestecker as Agent Leo Fitz and Elizabeth Henstridge as Agent Jemma Simmons.
- 4/29/2014
- by Adam B.
- GeekRest
"Nothing Personal" - Just when there's no one left to trust, Agent Maria Hill (Cobie Smulders) - from "Marvel's The Avengers" and Marvel's "Captain America: The Winter Solider" - returns to team up with Coulson as S.H.I.E.L.D. is being destroyed around them. "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." stars Clark Gregg as Agent Phil Coulson, Ming-Na Wen as Agent Melinda May, Brett Dalton as Agent Grant Ward, Chloe Bennet as Skye, Iain De Caestecker as Agent Leo Fitz and Elizabeth Henstridge as Agent Jemma Simmons. Guest starring are J. August Richards as Mike/Deathlok, Cobie Smulders as Agent Maria Hill, Adrian Pasdar as Colonel Glenn Talbot, B.J. Britt as Agent Antoine Triplett and Josh Breeding as parking attendant.
- 4/28/2014
- ComicBookMovie.com
ABC and Marvel have brought online the first few minutes of episode 20 of "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." featuring guest star Cobie Smulders as Maria Hill. Check it out in the player below! Ttitled "Nothing Personal," the new episode has Hill returning to team up with Coulson as S.H.I.E.L.D. is being destroyed around them. The series stars Clark Gregg as Agent Phil Coulson, Ming-Na Wen as Agent Melinda May, Brett Dalton as Agent Grant Ward, Chloe Bennet as Skye, Iain De Caestecker as Agent Leo Fitz and Elizabeth Henstridge as Agent Jemma Simmons. Guest starring are also J. August Richards as Mike/Deathlok, Adrian Pasdar as Colonel Glenn Talbot, B.J. Britt as Agent Antoine Triplett and Josh Breeding as parking attendant. "Nothing Personal" airs...
- 4/28/2014
- Comingsoon.net
Marvel Agents of Shield will be welcoming back Cobie Smulders as Maria Hill this week, prompting fans of the show to wonder if Smulders might become a regular on the series in the future.
Cobie Smulders On 'Shield'
On Friday, ABC released a sneak peak of this week’s episode of Shield, "Nothing Personal," in which Maria Hill is featured. In the short clip, Coulson and some of his team are hiding out when they’re found by Colonel Talbot. Coulson eventually learns that it was Hill who leaked his location to Talbot.
Smulders can currently be seen playing Maria Hill on the big screen in Captain America: The Winter Soldier. In the film, Hydra causes the demise of Shield, forcing Hill to seek employment with Stark Industries. The development in the movie could spell a need for the TV series to figure out how to bring Shield back or...
Cobie Smulders On 'Shield'
On Friday, ABC released a sneak peak of this week’s episode of Shield, "Nothing Personal," in which Maria Hill is featured. In the short clip, Coulson and some of his team are hiding out when they’re found by Colonel Talbot. Coulson eventually learns that it was Hill who leaked his location to Talbot.
Smulders can currently be seen playing Maria Hill on the big screen in Captain America: The Winter Soldier. In the film, Hydra causes the demise of Shield, forcing Hill to seek employment with Stark Industries. The development in the movie could spell a need for the TV series to figure out how to bring Shield back or...
- 4/27/2014
- Uinterview
(Cbr) Marvel's "The Art of Level 7" initiative for "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." continues this week, with Entertainment Weekly revealing a new piece for upcoming episode "Nothing Personal" by "Journey Into Mystery" cover artist Stephanie Hans that teases the return of J. August Richards as Mike Peterson/Deathlok and more developments on the Skye (Chloe Bennett) and Grant Ward (Brett Dalton) front. "I love that the silhouette of Skye and Ward is kind of really one person, because they’re both wearing black," executive producer Jeffrey Bell told Entertainment Weekly. "I love her Hydra hair, and then I love even that he’s in her shadow. And so from this, you don’t know whether she’s wounded him, whether she’s protecting him, whether he’s dying, or whether she broke his heart. I love that it’s all ambiguous in that way, and with Deathlok looming over but not looking directly at them.
- 4/25/2014
- by Steve Sunu, Comic Book Resources
- Hitfix
Sneak Peek footage from "Nothing Personal", the 20th episode of Marvel's "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.", airing April 29, 2014, featuring the return of actress Cobie Smulders as 'Agent Maria Hill', following the events of "Captain America: The Winter Soldier":
"...just when there's no one left to trust, 'Agent Maria Hill' (Smulders) -- from 'The Avengers' and 'Captain America: The Winter Soldier' -- returns...
"...to team up with 'Coulson' as 'S.H.I.E.L.D.' is being destroyed around them."
"Nothing Personal" was written by Paul Zbyszewski and DJ Doylean.
Director is Billy Gierhart.
Guest stars include J. August Richards as 'Deathlok', B.J. Britt as 'Agent Antoine Triplett' and Adrian Pasdar as 'Colonel Glenn Talbot'.
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Nothing Personal"...
"...just when there's no one left to trust, 'Agent Maria Hill' (Smulders) -- from 'The Avengers' and 'Captain America: The Winter Soldier' -- returns...
"...to team up with 'Coulson' as 'S.H.I.E.L.D.' is being destroyed around them."
"Nothing Personal" was written by Paul Zbyszewski and DJ Doylean.
Director is Billy Gierhart.
Guest stars include J. August Richards as 'Deathlok', B.J. Britt as 'Agent Antoine Triplett' and Adrian Pasdar as 'Colonel Glenn Talbot'.
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Nothing Personal"...
- 4/25/2014
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
Of the films I have seen thus far of the submissions for Academy Award Nomination for Best Foreign Language Film, the German film Two Lives and the Argentinean Wakolda whose English title is The German Doctor are the most complex. They are both cross cultural and multilayered.
The Samuel Goldwyn Company was very brave to take U.S. rights to The German Doctor, which deals with Argentinean complicity with the Nazis in a way no one has ever shown before as was the film’s director Lucia Puenzo. The literal ambiguity of director Lucia Puenzo’s earlier debut feature, Xxy, is in this case taken up a notch to a level of moral ambiguity. In this new film the child and her mother are both enchanted by the German Doctor until they understand his complete obsession with something more evil than good.
As in Two Lives, the moral ambiguity that life forces its characters to live is a difficult philosophical subject to convey to the audience. It is discomfiting even as the audience wants to find out what will happen next. Why I mention both of them is that one, they both concern Germany which still today bears witness to a complex and ambiguous state of affairs as it pursues economic policies which are being weighed with two sets of moral measurement and two, they are both submissions of their countries for the AMPAS Oscar race for Best Foreign Language Film Nomination.
But more about Two Lives later.
Firstly, now we will discuss Wakolda, or as it is called in English, The German Doctor which is screening here in Havana where I am writing this.
Lucia Puenzo has directed three films and written five books. Her debut feature, Xxy, which premiered in Cannes Critic’s Week in 2007 was also sold by Pyramide. The Fish Child (2009) premiered at the Berlin Film Festival. Wakolda (2013), is based on her own novel and is her third feature. It continues the themes of sexual identity and duality of the previous two films, exacerbated this time in the relationship of mutual fascination maintained by its protagonists: a girl and German doctor who in 1960 makes her the subject of one of his experiments.
Patagonia, 1960. A German physician meets an Argentinean family and follows them on the long desert road to Bariloche where Eva, Enzo and their three children are going to open a lodge by the Nahuel Huapi Lake. Eva grew up in this German populated town in Argentina with her German family who ran the lodge as a sort of bed and breakfast and she and her husband Enzo are considering making it into a B&B again. This model family reawakens his obsession with purity and perfection, in particular Lilith, a 12 year-old with a body too small for her age.
Unaware of his true identity, they accept the German physician as their first guest. They are all gradually won over by this charismatic man, by his elegant manners, his scientific knowledge and his money, until they discover they are living with one of history’s most abominable criminals.
The film was based on the fifth novel of Lucia Puenza and was written about a year and a half after the novel. Lucia is quoted in Fandor as saying,
“Wakolda fue primero una novela, mi última novela, que escribí un año y medio antes de empezar el guión, y no estaba destinada a ser una película. !Se trataba de un alemán que se escapaba de algo, y mientras escribía se fue transformando en Mengele y en todo ese universo del Angel de la Muerte que trae encima. Yo escucho hablar de él y de muchas otras historias de tantos jerarcas nazis que se evaporaron en nuestro país desde que tengo 15 años, ese tema me horrorizó y me fascinó al mismo tiempo.”
“Wakolda was first a novel, my last novel, which I wrote a year and a half before starting the script, and it was not meant to be a movie. It was about a German who was running away from something. While I was writing, the German became transformed into Mengele and all that is encompassed in the universe of The Angel of Death. I had heard about him and many many other stories of the disappeared Nazis in our country since I was 15 years, I was appalled by the subject and I was fascinated at the same time.”
Historias Cinematographica, the production company of director-producer, Luis Puenzo (Official Story) and the father of Lucia Puenzo is one of Latin America’s busiest film production forces with a slate of five films per year. Here are The German Doctor’s links on IMDbPro and on Cinando.
Historias Cinematographica structured Wakolda as a Spain-France-Norwegian co-production with Argentina. Shot in Spanish and German, Wakolda is Lucia Puenzo’s biggest film to date, given its period setting and her interests as an increasingly mature director. The cinematography is by family member Nicolas Puenzo.
The film was supported by Incaa, Icaa, Aide aux Cinémas du monde, Centre National du Cinéma et de L´image animée, Ministère des Affaires Étrangères (France), Institut Français, Sørfond Norwegian South Film Fund, Programa Ibermedia, and Tve.
Its French coproducer, Pyramide of France, is also the international sales agent. Wanda Vision of Spain is also its Spanish distributor, and Hummelfilm (Gudney Hummelvoll) of Norway came on board as part of the Sorfond Norwegian South Film Fund’s €100,000 grant’s requisite; Stan Jakubowicz, a Venezuelan producer, came in early. Televisión Federal (Telefe) is a co-producer as are Moviecity/ Laptv - Latin American Pay Television, Distribution Company Sudamericana who is the Argentinean distributor as well. It was made in association with P&P Endemol Argentina and Cine.Ar. As a footnote, the ad budget invested by Telefe in its TV campaign was exceptionally large: 893 TV spots broadcast in ten markets in a five weeks span.
When the script was ready, Luis and Lucia Puenzo went to the Berlinale Co-Production Market in February 2011 looking for co-producers and financing.
The eighth Berlinale Co-Production Market (February 13 - 15, 2011) successfully brought the producers and directors of 38 selected film projects from 25 countries together with 450 potential co-production and financial partners. For each of these projects, the Berlinale Co-Production Market’s team arranged numerous thirty-minute one-on-one meetings with interested potential partners. Over 1000 meetings in two days were scheduled based on the needs of the projects and the individual requests of the participants. Meetings were in high demand, and some projects received up to about 80 meeting requests by participants looking for projects.
Among the Official Project Selection were projects by well-known, award-winning directors such as Lucía Puenzo (Xxy and recently The Fish Child- Panorama 2009), Eran Riklis (The Syrian Bride, Lemon Tree), Urszula Antoniak (Nothing Personal) and Seyfi Teoman, whose film Bizim Büyük Çaresizliğimiz (Our Grand Despair) screened in this year’s (2013) Competition.
They applied for Sørfond Norwegian South Film Fund 2012, the Norwegian Film Fund for developing countries where such production is limited by political or economic causes which brought them to their coproducer, Himmelfilm of Norway.
They also received financing from Aide aux Cinemas du Monde 2012, and Programa Ibermedia 2012.
Pyramide of France and Wanda Vision of Spain came on board after Cannes announced its inclusion in Un Certain Regard. Stan Jakubowicz, a Venezuelan producer had been on board earlier.
5 March 2011- Pre-production 12 July 2012 - Filming 17 August 2012 - Post-production 28 April 2013 - Completed 21 May 2013 - Premiered in Cannes Film Festival.
Wakolda rights sold
The film premiered at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival’s Un Certain Regard section in May of 2013. It won the Audience Award at St. Peterberg Film Festival and at 2nd Unasur Cine International Film Festival it won awards for Best Feature, Best Director, Best Actress and Best New Actress. It went on to play September 2013 at San Sebastian Film Festival’s Horizontos Latinos section and amid growing speculation that the title would be Argentina’s submission for the foreign language Oscar this year (and it has been so submitted!). Its Isa (international sales agent) and coproducer, Pyramide International continued to make sales to Samuel Goldwyn Films for U.S., in Central and Southern America including to: Argentina (Distribution Company), Australia (Madman Entertainment), Brazil (Imovision and Reserva Nacional Distribuidora De Filmes), Bolivia and Chile (Los filmes De La Arcadia), Colombia (Cine Colombia), the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico (Wiesner Distribution), France - Pyramide Distribution, Greece - Videorama Films, Hungary – Vertigo, , Italy – Academy Two, Peru (Pucp) and Panama and Costa Rica (Palmera International). Spain sold to Nirvana, Switzerland Xenix Filmdistribution Gmbh, Taiwan Swallow Wings Films, Turkey – Medyavizyon, U.K. Peccadillo Pictures, U.S. – Samuel Goldwyn Films. Sarajevo’s Obala Art Centar - Sarajevo Film Festival has acquired the picture for multiple territories including Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Serbia, Slovenia and Montenegro. The film has also sold to Poland (Hagi), Israel (Nachshon Films Ltd) and South Korea (Company L) since Cannes. Laptv has Latin American TV rights.
It will continue to play the festival circuit worldwide until its theatrical and commercial release in 30 + countries.
You can read a review in Screen International: The German Doctor (Wakolda)
Update information as of November 1, 2013:
Wakolda will reach 400,000 spectators by its fifth week on screen, and still has 75 screens. It has maintained an average of almost 100,000 spectators per week. It has been selected by over 50% of the Academy members as the Argentinean submission for both the Oscar and the Goya Awards.
It is important to consider its release was much smaller (72 screens) than films like Séptimo, Corazón de León and Metegol (which released with Disney with 250 screens aprox). Septimo was released by 20th Century Fox, Corazon de León was released by Disney, Metegol by Universal. Wakolda´s average of spectators per copy was higher than all these other films, which allowed distribution to add screens the 2nd week, reaching 85 screens.
It has been sold by Pyramide Films to over 20 territories. In the last weeks, it has been released in Spain (with 40 copies, excellent reviews and an average of over 1,500 euros per copy) and will be released in France with 60 copies, 8 in Paris, on the 6th of November. And in Russia with 40 copies. Until the end of the year it will be released in 15 countries (we can send you detailed territories and companies who bought the rights if needed).
In the U.S., the rights were acquired in Cannes by Samuel Goldwyn Films.
The novel upon which Wakolda is based has also been translated to over fifteen languages. In Germany the novel has been edited by Wagenbach and reedited due to its good sales.
In the last weeks the films was won Awards in Argentina, St. Petersburg, República Dominicana and Tokyo.
It is worth noting that Wakolda was distributed in Argentina by an independent (Bernardo Zupnick’s Distribution Company) while every other successful local film has been distributed by a studio
The German Doctor (Wakolda) Opens in L.A. and N.Y. on April 25th...
The Samuel Goldwyn Company was very brave to take U.S. rights to The German Doctor, which deals with Argentinean complicity with the Nazis in a way no one has ever shown before as was the film’s director Lucia Puenzo. The literal ambiguity of director Lucia Puenzo’s earlier debut feature, Xxy, is in this case taken up a notch to a level of moral ambiguity. In this new film the child and her mother are both enchanted by the German Doctor until they understand his complete obsession with something more evil than good.
As in Two Lives, the moral ambiguity that life forces its characters to live is a difficult philosophical subject to convey to the audience. It is discomfiting even as the audience wants to find out what will happen next. Why I mention both of them is that one, they both concern Germany which still today bears witness to a complex and ambiguous state of affairs as it pursues economic policies which are being weighed with two sets of moral measurement and two, they are both submissions of their countries for the AMPAS Oscar race for Best Foreign Language Film Nomination.
But more about Two Lives later.
Firstly, now we will discuss Wakolda, or as it is called in English, The German Doctor which is screening here in Havana where I am writing this.
Lucia Puenzo has directed three films and written five books. Her debut feature, Xxy, which premiered in Cannes Critic’s Week in 2007 was also sold by Pyramide. The Fish Child (2009) premiered at the Berlin Film Festival. Wakolda (2013), is based on her own novel and is her third feature. It continues the themes of sexual identity and duality of the previous two films, exacerbated this time in the relationship of mutual fascination maintained by its protagonists: a girl and German doctor who in 1960 makes her the subject of one of his experiments.
Patagonia, 1960. A German physician meets an Argentinean family and follows them on the long desert road to Bariloche where Eva, Enzo and their three children are going to open a lodge by the Nahuel Huapi Lake. Eva grew up in this German populated town in Argentina with her German family who ran the lodge as a sort of bed and breakfast and she and her husband Enzo are considering making it into a B&B again. This model family reawakens his obsession with purity and perfection, in particular Lilith, a 12 year-old with a body too small for her age.
Unaware of his true identity, they accept the German physician as their first guest. They are all gradually won over by this charismatic man, by his elegant manners, his scientific knowledge and his money, until they discover they are living with one of history’s most abominable criminals.
The film was based on the fifth novel of Lucia Puenza and was written about a year and a half after the novel. Lucia is quoted in Fandor as saying,
“Wakolda fue primero una novela, mi última novela, que escribí un año y medio antes de empezar el guión, y no estaba destinada a ser una película. !Se trataba de un alemán que se escapaba de algo, y mientras escribía se fue transformando en Mengele y en todo ese universo del Angel de la Muerte que trae encima. Yo escucho hablar de él y de muchas otras historias de tantos jerarcas nazis que se evaporaron en nuestro país desde que tengo 15 años, ese tema me horrorizó y me fascinó al mismo tiempo.”
“Wakolda was first a novel, my last novel, which I wrote a year and a half before starting the script, and it was not meant to be a movie. It was about a German who was running away from something. While I was writing, the German became transformed into Mengele and all that is encompassed in the universe of The Angel of Death. I had heard about him and many many other stories of the disappeared Nazis in our country since I was 15 years, I was appalled by the subject and I was fascinated at the same time.”
Historias Cinematographica, the production company of director-producer, Luis Puenzo (Official Story) and the father of Lucia Puenzo is one of Latin America’s busiest film production forces with a slate of five films per year. Here are The German Doctor’s links on IMDbPro and on Cinando.
Historias Cinematographica structured Wakolda as a Spain-France-Norwegian co-production with Argentina. Shot in Spanish and German, Wakolda is Lucia Puenzo’s biggest film to date, given its period setting and her interests as an increasingly mature director. The cinematography is by family member Nicolas Puenzo.
The film was supported by Incaa, Icaa, Aide aux Cinémas du monde, Centre National du Cinéma et de L´image animée, Ministère des Affaires Étrangères (France), Institut Français, Sørfond Norwegian South Film Fund, Programa Ibermedia, and Tve.
Its French coproducer, Pyramide of France, is also the international sales agent. Wanda Vision of Spain is also its Spanish distributor, and Hummelfilm (Gudney Hummelvoll) of Norway came on board as part of the Sorfond Norwegian South Film Fund’s €100,000 grant’s requisite; Stan Jakubowicz, a Venezuelan producer, came in early. Televisión Federal (Telefe) is a co-producer as are Moviecity/ Laptv - Latin American Pay Television, Distribution Company Sudamericana who is the Argentinean distributor as well. It was made in association with P&P Endemol Argentina and Cine.Ar. As a footnote, the ad budget invested by Telefe in its TV campaign was exceptionally large: 893 TV spots broadcast in ten markets in a five weeks span.
When the script was ready, Luis and Lucia Puenzo went to the Berlinale Co-Production Market in February 2011 looking for co-producers and financing.
The eighth Berlinale Co-Production Market (February 13 - 15, 2011) successfully brought the producers and directors of 38 selected film projects from 25 countries together with 450 potential co-production and financial partners. For each of these projects, the Berlinale Co-Production Market’s team arranged numerous thirty-minute one-on-one meetings with interested potential partners. Over 1000 meetings in two days were scheduled based on the needs of the projects and the individual requests of the participants. Meetings were in high demand, and some projects received up to about 80 meeting requests by participants looking for projects.
Among the Official Project Selection were projects by well-known, award-winning directors such as Lucía Puenzo (Xxy and recently The Fish Child- Panorama 2009), Eran Riklis (The Syrian Bride, Lemon Tree), Urszula Antoniak (Nothing Personal) and Seyfi Teoman, whose film Bizim Büyük Çaresizliğimiz (Our Grand Despair) screened in this year’s (2013) Competition.
They applied for Sørfond Norwegian South Film Fund 2012, the Norwegian Film Fund for developing countries where such production is limited by political or economic causes which brought them to their coproducer, Himmelfilm of Norway.
They also received financing from Aide aux Cinemas du Monde 2012, and Programa Ibermedia 2012.
Pyramide of France and Wanda Vision of Spain came on board after Cannes announced its inclusion in Un Certain Regard. Stan Jakubowicz, a Venezuelan producer had been on board earlier.
5 March 2011- Pre-production 12 July 2012 - Filming 17 August 2012 - Post-production 28 April 2013 - Completed 21 May 2013 - Premiered in Cannes Film Festival.
Wakolda rights sold
The film premiered at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival’s Un Certain Regard section in May of 2013. It won the Audience Award at St. Peterberg Film Festival and at 2nd Unasur Cine International Film Festival it won awards for Best Feature, Best Director, Best Actress and Best New Actress. It went on to play September 2013 at San Sebastian Film Festival’s Horizontos Latinos section and amid growing speculation that the title would be Argentina’s submission for the foreign language Oscar this year (and it has been so submitted!). Its Isa (international sales agent) and coproducer, Pyramide International continued to make sales to Samuel Goldwyn Films for U.S., in Central and Southern America including to: Argentina (Distribution Company), Australia (Madman Entertainment), Brazil (Imovision and Reserva Nacional Distribuidora De Filmes), Bolivia and Chile (Los filmes De La Arcadia), Colombia (Cine Colombia), the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico (Wiesner Distribution), France - Pyramide Distribution, Greece - Videorama Films, Hungary – Vertigo, , Italy – Academy Two, Peru (Pucp) and Panama and Costa Rica (Palmera International). Spain sold to Nirvana, Switzerland Xenix Filmdistribution Gmbh, Taiwan Swallow Wings Films, Turkey – Medyavizyon, U.K. Peccadillo Pictures, U.S. – Samuel Goldwyn Films. Sarajevo’s Obala Art Centar - Sarajevo Film Festival has acquired the picture for multiple territories including Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Serbia, Slovenia and Montenegro. The film has also sold to Poland (Hagi), Israel (Nachshon Films Ltd) and South Korea (Company L) since Cannes. Laptv has Latin American TV rights.
It will continue to play the festival circuit worldwide until its theatrical and commercial release in 30 + countries.
You can read a review in Screen International: The German Doctor (Wakolda)
Update information as of November 1, 2013:
Wakolda will reach 400,000 spectators by its fifth week on screen, and still has 75 screens. It has maintained an average of almost 100,000 spectators per week. It has been selected by over 50% of the Academy members as the Argentinean submission for both the Oscar and the Goya Awards.
It is important to consider its release was much smaller (72 screens) than films like Séptimo, Corazón de León and Metegol (which released with Disney with 250 screens aprox). Septimo was released by 20th Century Fox, Corazon de León was released by Disney, Metegol by Universal. Wakolda´s average of spectators per copy was higher than all these other films, which allowed distribution to add screens the 2nd week, reaching 85 screens.
It has been sold by Pyramide Films to over 20 territories. In the last weeks, it has been released in Spain (with 40 copies, excellent reviews and an average of over 1,500 euros per copy) and will be released in France with 60 copies, 8 in Paris, on the 6th of November. And in Russia with 40 copies. Until the end of the year it will be released in 15 countries (we can send you detailed territories and companies who bought the rights if needed).
In the U.S., the rights were acquired in Cannes by Samuel Goldwyn Films.
The novel upon which Wakolda is based has also been translated to over fifteen languages. In Germany the novel has been edited by Wagenbach and reedited due to its good sales.
In the last weeks the films was won Awards in Argentina, St. Petersburg, República Dominicana and Tokyo.
It is worth noting that Wakolda was distributed in Argentina by an independent (Bernardo Zupnick’s Distribution Company) while every other successful local film has been distributed by a studio
The German Doctor (Wakolda) Opens in L.A. and N.Y. on April 25th...
- 4/25/2014
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
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- 4/25/2014
- ComicBookMovie.com
ABC and Marvel have debuted the first clip from episode 20 of "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." which you can check out in the player below. Titled "Nothing Personal," the episode is described as follows: "Just when there's no one left to trust, Agent Maria Hill (Cobie Smulders) -- from "Marvel's The Avengers" and "Marvel's Captain America: The Winter Solider" -- returns to team up with Coulson as S.H.I.E.L.D. is being destroyed around them" Written by Paul Zbyszewski & DJ Doyle and directed by Billy Gierhart. "Nothing Personal" is set to air on April 29....
- 4/25/2014
- Comingsoon.net
"Nothing Personal" - Just when there's no one left to trust, Agent Maria Hill (Cobie Smulders) - from "Marvel's The Avengers" and Marvel's "Captain America: The Winter Solider" - returns to team up with Coulson as S.H.I.E.L.D. is being destroyed around them. "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." stars Clark Gregg as Agent Phil Coulson, Ming-Na Wen as Agent Melinda May, Brett Dalton as Agent Grant Ward, Chloe Bennet as Skye, Iain De Caestecker as Agent Leo Fitz and Elizabeth Henstridge as Agent Jemma Simmons. Guest starring are J. August Richards as Mike/Deathlok, Cobie Smulders as Agent Maria Hill, Adrian Pasdar as Colonel Glenn Talbot, B.J. Britt as Agent Antoine Triplett and Josh Breeding as parking attendant.
- 4/24/2014
- ComicBookMovie.com
To say that this week’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. left our team in disarray would be an understatement. May has abandoned ship, literally, apparently on a mission to seek out Cobie Smulders’ Maria Hill (with a little help from her mom). Coulson, Trip, Fitz and Simmons have returned from a mission to find their plane gone. And Skye and Ward are currently on a mission of their own, one that involves Ward’s determination to crack that hard drive once and for all.
As we speed towards the last hours of the season, it’s no secret that things are...
As we speed towards the last hours of the season, it’s no secret that things are...
- 4/24/2014
- by Andrea Towers
- EW - Inside TV
ABC and Marvel have debuted a promo for episode 20 of "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." which you can check out in the player below. The episode is described as follows: "Nothing Personal" - Just when there's no one left to trust, Agent Maria Hill (Cobie Smulders) - from "Marvel's The Avengers" and Marvel's "Captain America: The Winter Solider" - returns to team up with Coulson as S.H.I.E.L.D. is being destroyed around them. "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." stars Clark Gregg as Agent Phil Coulson, Ming-Na Wen as Agent Melinda May, Brett Dalton as Agent Grant Ward, Chloe Bennet as Skye, Iain De Caestecker as Agent Leo Fitz and Elizabeth Henstridge as Agent Jemma Simmons. Guest starring are J. August Richards as Mike/Deathlok,...
- 4/23/2014
- Comingsoon.net
"Nothing Personal" - Just when there's no one left to trust, Agent Maria Hill (Cobie Smulders) - from "Marvel's The Avengers" and Marvel's "Captain America: The Winter Solider" - returns to team up with Coulson as S.H.I.E.L.D. is being destroyed around them. "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." stars Clark Gregg as Agent Phil Coulson, Ming-Na Wen as Agent Melinda May, Brett Dalton as Agent Grant Ward, Chloe Bennet as Skye, Iain De Caestecker as Agent Leo Fitz and Elizabeth Henstridge as Agent Jemma Simmons. Guest starring are J. August Richards as Mike/Deathlok, Cobie Smulders as Agent Maria Hill, Adrian Pasdar as Colonel Glenn Talbot, B.J. Britt as Agent Antoine Triplett and Josh Breeding as parking attendant.
- 4/23/2014
- ComicBookMovie.com
Recently, ABC served up the new,official,synopsis/spoilers for their upcoming "Agents Of Shield" episode 20 of season 1. The episode is entitled, "Nothing Personal," and it sounds like things will get pretty interesting as agent Maria Hill arrives on the scene to team up with Coulson, and more. In the new, 20th episode press release: Agent Maria Hill will return to help Coulson as Shield is being torn apart. Press release number 2: Just when there's no one left to trust, Agent Maria Hill (Cobie Smulders) from “Marvel's The Avengers” and “Marvel's Captain America: The Winter Solider” is going to return to team up with Coulson as S.H.I.E.L.D. is being destroyed around them. Guest stars will feature: J. August Richards as Mike/Deathlok, Cobie Smulders as Agent Maria Hill, Adrian Pasdar as Colonel Glenn Talbot, B.J. Britt as Agent Antoine Triplett , and Josh Breeding as parking attendant.
- 4/22/2014
- by Derek
- OnTheFlix
"The Only Light In The Darkness" - With their world turned upside down, Coulson races to save the life of his one true love as the mystery of "The Cellist," which began in Marvel's The Avengers, is finally revealed on Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Tuesday, April 22 (8:00-9:01 p.m., Et) on the ABC Television Network. "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." stars Clark Gregg as Agent Phil Coulson, Ming-Na Wen as Agent Melinda May, Brett Dalton as Agent Grant Ward, Chloe Bennet as Skye, Iain De Caestecker as Agent Leo Fitz and Elizabeth Henstridge as Agent Jemma Simmons. Guest starring are Bill Paxton as Agent John Garrett, Patrick Brennan as Marcus Daniels, Amy Acker as Audrey, B.J. Britt as Agent Antoine Triplett, and Patton Oswalt as Agent Koenig. "The Only Light In The Darkness" was written by Monica Owusu-Breen and directed by Vincent Misiano. "Nothing Personal...
- 4/16/2014
- ComicBookMovie.com
"Nothing Personal", the 20th episode of Marvel's "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.", airs April 29, 2014, featuring the return of actress Cobie Smulders as 'Agent Maria Hill', following the events of "Captain America: The Winter Soldier":
"...just when there's no one left to trust, 'Agent Maria Hill' (Smulders) -- from 'The Avengers' and 'Captain America: The Winter Soldier' -- returns...
"...to team up with 'Coulson' as 'S.H.I.E.L.D.' is being destroyed around them."
"Nothing Personal" was written by Paul Zbyszewski, DJ Doylean directed by Billy Gierhart.
Guest stars include J. August Richards as 'Deathlok', B.J. Britt as 'Agent Antoine Triplett' and Adrian Pasdar as 'Colonel Glenn Talbot'.
Click the images to enlarge...
"...just when there's no one left to trust, 'Agent Maria Hill' (Smulders) -- from 'The Avengers' and 'Captain America: The Winter Soldier' -- returns...
"...to team up with 'Coulson' as 'S.H.I.E.L.D.' is being destroyed around them."
"Nothing Personal" was written by Paul Zbyszewski, DJ Doylean directed by Billy Gierhart.
Guest stars include J. August Richards as 'Deathlok', B.J. Britt as 'Agent Antoine Triplett' and Adrian Pasdar as 'Colonel Glenn Talbot'.
Click the images to enlarge...
- 4/16/2014
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
Following the events of Marvel's Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Coulson and his team have no one to trust and no where to run, so it's a good job guest star Cobie Smulders is there to lend a helping hand. Check out the latest images released from April 29th's episode 20 "Nothing Personal": "Nothing Personal" - Just when there's no one left to trust, Agent Maria Hill (Cobie Smulders) - from "Marvel's The Avengers" and Marvel's "Captain America: The Winter Solider" - returns to team up with Coulson as S.H.I.E.L.D. is being destroyed around them. "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." stars Clark Gregg as Agent Phil Coulson, Ming-Na Wen as Agent Melinda May, Brett Dalton as Agent Grant Ward, Chloe Bennet as Skye, Iain De Caestecker as Agent Leo Fitz and Elizabeth Henstridge as Agent Jemma Simmons. Guest starring are J. August Richards as Mike/Deathlok,...
- 4/15/2014
- ComicBookMovie.com
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