Exclusive: Duplass Brothers Production recently wrapped production on the Katie Aselton-directed feature Magic Hour, starring Daveed Diggs. Aselton stars alongside Diggs in the project which she co-wrote with Mark Duplass.
Details regarding the project’s plot and character descriptions are under wraps. Magic Hour is executive produced by Duplass, Mel Eslyn and Jay Duplass. Emily Neumann produced.
Aselton is a multi-hyphenate with directing credits including The Freebie (2010), Black Rock (2012) and most recently, Mack & Rita (2022) and acting credits that span both TV and film. On TV, she starred in FX’s Legion and Apple TV+’s The Morning Show; and on the big screen, in Old Dads (2023), The Unholy (2021), Bombshell (2019) and the John Lithgow and Blythe Danner feature The Tomorrow Man. She is repped by CAA and Untitled Entertainment.
Up next for Diggs, he will star as Josh in the indie film A Tree...
Details regarding the project’s plot and character descriptions are under wraps. Magic Hour is executive produced by Duplass, Mel Eslyn and Jay Duplass. Emily Neumann produced.
Aselton is a multi-hyphenate with directing credits including The Freebie (2010), Black Rock (2012) and most recently, Mack & Rita (2022) and acting credits that span both TV and film. On TV, she starred in FX’s Legion and Apple TV+’s The Morning Show; and on the big screen, in Old Dads (2023), The Unholy (2021), Bombshell (2019) and the John Lithgow and Blythe Danner feature The Tomorrow Man. She is repped by CAA and Untitled Entertainment.
Up next for Diggs, he will star as Josh in the indie film A Tree...
- 4/17/2024
- by Rosy Cordero and Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
From the eight-time Oscar nominee “The Imitation Game” to the Korean revenge thriller “I Saw the Devil,” free streaming service Plex is giving audiences new and varied reasons to keep coming back to its library of over 50,000 titles.
As we ring in October, check out The Streamable’s top picks and build your to-watch list from all of the titles coming to the streamer this month!
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The gripping biopic “Experimenter” arrives to Plex to start the month. Based on the true story of social psychologist Stanley Milgram, the film focuses on the 1961 behavior experiments at Yale University that tested the willingness of ordinary humans to obey an authority figure while administering electric shocks to strangers, as well as the aftermath of the experiments and the public outcry of their ethics.
As we ring in October, check out The Streamable’s top picks and build your to-watch list from all of the titles coming to the streamer this month!
Watch Now $0+ / month plex.tv What are the 5 Best Shows and Movies Coming to Plex in October 2023? “Experimenter” | Sunday, Oct. 1
The gripping biopic “Experimenter” arrives to Plex to start the month. Based on the true story of social psychologist Stanley Milgram, the film focuses on the 1961 behavior experiments at Yale University that tested the willingness of ordinary humans to obey an authority figure while administering electric shocks to strangers, as well as the aftermath of the experiments and the public outcry of their ethics.
- 9/29/2023
- by Ashley Steves
- The Streamable
The highly anticipated spy thriller “Special Ops: Lioness” arrives on Paramount+ on July 23. The original series from Taylor Sheridan is based on a true story and stars Zoe Saldaña, Laysla De Oliveira, Nicole Kidman, and Morgan Freeman. De Oliveira plays a CIA undercover operative, a “lioness,” charged with befriending someone close to a high-value enemy target, a key member of a state terrorist organization.
Catch the “Special Ops: Lioness” trailer
Also coming to Paramount+ next month will be a reunion filled with humor and romance. New film “Zoey 102” will premiere on July 28 and reunite many of the cast members from the beloved high-school series “Zoey 101.” The gang is getting back together in Malibu to attend Logan and Quinn’s wedding, but that is not the only romance in the air. Jamie Lynn Spears, Sean Flynn, Christopher Massey, Erin Sanders, and Abby Wilde star in the sequel film.
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Catch the “Special Ops: Lioness” trailer
Also coming to Paramount+ next month will be a reunion filled with humor and romance. New film “Zoey 102” will premiere on July 28 and reunite many of the cast members from the beloved high-school series “Zoey 101.” The gang is getting back together in Malibu to attend Logan and Quinn’s wedding, but that is not the only romance in the air. Jamie Lynn Spears, Sean Flynn, Christopher Massey, Erin Sanders, and Abby Wilde star in the sequel film.
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- 6/30/2023
- by Fern Siegel
- The Streamable
If the eponymous mid-’50s southwestern town in Wes Anderson’s “Asteroid City” resembles the iconic “Bad Day at Black Rock” (1955), it’s no coincidence. Oscar-winning production designer Adam Stockhausen (“The Grand Budapest Hotel”) found John Sturges’ neo-Western, shot in CinemaScope on the edge of Death Valley, a valuable reference for planning the landscape for this Pirandello-like play-within-a-tv-show-within-a-movie conceit.
“Absolutely, that was an influence,” Stockhausen (“Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny”) told IndieWire. “We started right with the credits introduction with the moving train and then, of course, crossing with the little white sign. Generally, we were looking at ‘Black Rock’ for overall how the town’s [located] in the landscape. But also we’d go in and look at tiny details, too. How the tar paper was nailed to the roof of the gas station, and we ended up using it for the way we wrapped the tar paper around the motel cabins.
“Absolutely, that was an influence,” Stockhausen (“Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny”) told IndieWire. “We started right with the credits introduction with the moving train and then, of course, crossing with the little white sign. Generally, we were looking at ‘Black Rock’ for overall how the town’s [located] in the landscape. But also we’d go in and look at tiny details, too. How the tar paper was nailed to the roof of the gas station, and we ended up using it for the way we wrapped the tar paper around the motel cabins.
- 6/23/2023
- by Bill Desowitz
- Indiewire
Can you believe we’re already halfway through September? The Halloween Season is underway and time is moving fast, and as always we want to make sure you’re making the most of the season by watching as many brand new horror movies as you possibly can.
This week, another Seven new ones are on the way!
Here’s all the new horror arriving September 13 – September 18, 2022.
Saban Films entered the House of Darkness in limited theaters this past Friday, and the Dracula-inspired horror movie is now available on VOD platforms beginning today.
Drag Me to Hell and Tusk‘s Justin Long and Kate Bosworth (Black Rock, Before I Wake) both star in this seductive thriller from director Neil Labute (The Wicker Man).
In the film…
“Driving home to her secluded estate after meeting at a local bar, a player out to score thinks his beautiful, mysterious date will be another casual hook-up.
This week, another Seven new ones are on the way!
Here’s all the new horror arriving September 13 – September 18, 2022.
Saban Films entered the House of Darkness in limited theaters this past Friday, and the Dracula-inspired horror movie is now available on VOD platforms beginning today.
Drag Me to Hell and Tusk‘s Justin Long and Kate Bosworth (Black Rock, Before I Wake) both star in this seductive thriller from director Neil Labute (The Wicker Man).
In the film…
“Driving home to her secluded estate after meeting at a local bar, a player out to score thinks his beautiful, mysterious date will be another casual hook-up.
- 9/13/2022
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
With summer (unofficially) over and the Halloween Season now in full swing, these weekly roundups are about to get very packed with fresh new horrors both at home and in theaters!
Eight brand new horror movies are releasing in this first full week of September, and trust me when I say even that makes for a quiet week compared to what’s coming soon.
Here’s all the new horror arriving September 6 – September 11, 2022!
First up, Dread’s Tiny Cinema was just unleashed On Demand yesterday, a horror anthology of multiversal madness that’s also coming to Blu-ray on October 11 of this year.
Sit back, relax, and get uncomfortable…
From the makers of Butt Boy, Tiny Cinema is said to be “a twisted tale of seemingly unconnected strangers whose lives will change in incredible and bizarre ways forever. As reality unravels, each person must battle incredible challenges from a multiverse seeking...
Eight brand new horror movies are releasing in this first full week of September, and trust me when I say even that makes for a quiet week compared to what’s coming soon.
Here’s all the new horror arriving September 6 – September 11, 2022!
First up, Dread’s Tiny Cinema was just unleashed On Demand yesterday, a horror anthology of multiversal madness that’s also coming to Blu-ray on October 11 of this year.
Sit back, relax, and get uncomfortable…
From the makers of Butt Boy, Tiny Cinema is said to be “a twisted tale of seemingly unconnected strangers whose lives will change in incredible and bizarre ways forever. As reality unravels, each person must battle incredible challenges from a multiverse seeking...
- 9/7/2022
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
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For the 30-year-old at the center of Mack & Rita, a repurposed tanning bed and a New Age charlatan’s mumbo-jumbo summon body-switch magic: She emerges from the gussied-up contraption as the older woman she believes she truly is. The good news for the audience is that the septuagenarian is played by Diane Keaton. For Keaton, the movie is better news than Poms, but still a hit-and-miss affair. At times disarming, at others plain silly, it takes a few daring leaps without quite avoiding middle-of-the-road sitcom territory.
This makes sense given that screenwriters Madeline Walter and Paul Welsh are vets of Brooklyn Nine-Nine. Actor-turned-filmmaker Katie Aselton (Black Rock, The Freebie), who played Keaton’s daughter in Book Club, directs the material with a sunshiny SoCal sensibility and an appreciation of the terrific comic cast, though more than a few barely escape being wasted. If there’s magic here,...
For the 30-year-old at the center of Mack & Rita, a repurposed tanning bed and a New Age charlatan’s mumbo-jumbo summon body-switch magic: She emerges from the gussied-up contraption as the older woman she believes she truly is. The good news for the audience is that the septuagenarian is played by Diane Keaton. For Keaton, the movie is better news than Poms, but still a hit-and-miss affair. At times disarming, at others plain silly, it takes a few daring leaps without quite avoiding middle-of-the-road sitcom territory.
This makes sense given that screenwriters Madeline Walter and Paul Welsh are vets of Brooklyn Nine-Nine. Actor-turned-filmmaker Katie Aselton (Black Rock, The Freebie), who played Keaton’s daughter in Book Club, directs the material with a sunshiny SoCal sensibility and an appreciation of the terrific comic cast, though more than a few barely escape being wasted. If there’s magic here,...
- 8/10/2022
- by Sheri Linden
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Warning: This trailer (and article) contains light spoilers. After premiering at the Fantasia Film Festival, Saban Films will enter the House of Darkness in limited theaters on September 9, 2022, and on VOD platforms September 13. Drag Me to Hell and Tusk‘s Justin Long and Kate Bosworth (Black Rock, Before I Wake) both star in this seductive thriller from director Neil Labute (The Wicker Man). In […]
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- 7/28/2022
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
Exclusive: Katie Aselton (The Morning Show) has signed on to star alongside Bill Burr, Bobby Cannavale and Bokeem Woodbine in the comedy Old Dads, which Burr wrote and is directing for Miramax and his company All Things Comedy.
The comedian’s feature directorial debut centers on a middle-aged father, Jack (Burr), and his two best friends (Cannavale and Woodbine), who after selling their company to a millennial, find themselves out of step and behind the times as they hilariously struggle to navigate a changing world of culture, career and fatherhood.
Aselton is playing Jack’s wife, Leah. Burr and Ben Tishler penned the script and are producing alongside Bill Block, Monica Levinson and Mike Bertolina, with production underway in Los Angeles.
Aselton is an actor and filmmaker perhaps best known for her starring role as Jenny on FX’s comedy The League. She...
The comedian’s feature directorial debut centers on a middle-aged father, Jack (Burr), and his two best friends (Cannavale and Woodbine), who after selling their company to a millennial, find themselves out of step and behind the times as they hilariously struggle to navigate a changing world of culture, career and fatherhood.
Aselton is playing Jack’s wife, Leah. Burr and Ben Tishler penned the script and are producing alongside Bill Block, Monica Levinson and Mike Bertolina, with production underway in Los Angeles.
Aselton is an actor and filmmaker perhaps best known for her starring role as Jenny on FX’s comedy The League. She...
- 3/7/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
ViacomCBS’ $1.85 billion sale of its CBS Studio Center lot — known in the industry as CBS Radford — represents the end of an era for the company, and a further shift away from physical properties by legacy entertainment companies as their streaming counterparts bulk up.
Last week’s deal with Hackman Capital Partners and Square Mile Capital Management, put into motion in the summer, is the final major divestiture of the Eye network’s real estate holdings, including the 25-acre Television City, which was sold to Hackman for $750 million in 2018, and its New York skyscraper known as “Black Rock,” purchased earlier this year by Harbor Group Intl. for $760 million.
CBS Radford wasn’t as iconic as Television City or Black Rock, but its Studio City-based lot (founded as the lot for Mack Sennett and then Republic Pictures and purchased by CBS in 1967) is known for being the home base over the years...
Last week’s deal with Hackman Capital Partners and Square Mile Capital Management, put into motion in the summer, is the final major divestiture of the Eye network’s real estate holdings, including the 25-acre Television City, which was sold to Hackman for $750 million in 2018, and its New York skyscraper known as “Black Rock,” purchased earlier this year by Harbor Group Intl. for $760 million.
CBS Radford wasn’t as iconic as Television City or Black Rock, but its Studio City-based lot (founded as the lot for Mack Sennett and then Republic Pictures and purchased by CBS in 1967) is known for being the home base over the years...
- 12/10/2021
- by Michael Schneider
- Variety Film + TV
After directing her first two features (both Sundance entires) in The Freebie (2010) and Black Rock (2012), Katie Aselton would move more into her acting career. So it was a big deal when it was announced that production on her third feature would begin in March of this year with a cast with the likes of Diane Keaton and Taylour Paige in the lead. With cinematographer Sean McElwee lensing in Los Angeles, this was written by Madeline Walter and Paul Welsh.
Gist: Mack and Rita follows Mackenzie Martin is tired of doing all the things she has to do to keep up and get ahead in her 30’s.…...
Gist: Mack and Rita follows Mackenzie Martin is tired of doing all the things she has to do to keep up and get ahead in her 30’s.…...
- 11/23/2021
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
ViacomCBS is looking to part with more real estate. A week after reaching a deal to sell CBS’ former “Black Rock” New York City headquarters, ViacomCBS is looking at offloading its famed CBS Studios in Studio City, California, according to reports.
ViacomCBS has hired commercial real estate firm Jll to explore a sale, Bloomberg reported on Monday. A rep for ViacomCBS did not immediately respond to TheWrap’s request for comment.
First opened in 1928, CBS Studios has been home to TV series including “Gilligan’s Island,” “Mary Tyler Moore Show,” “Gunsmoke,” and more recently “Big Brother” and the newsmagzine show “Entertainment Tonight.”
Last week, ViacomCBS agreed to sell Black Rock to the privately owned real estate firm Harbor Group International for $760 million. The network, which has occupied the 38-story, 491-foot-tall building since it opened in 1964, plans to lease back its space on a short-term basis. The transaction is expected to close...
ViacomCBS has hired commercial real estate firm Jll to explore a sale, Bloomberg reported on Monday. A rep for ViacomCBS did not immediately respond to TheWrap’s request for comment.
First opened in 1928, CBS Studios has been home to TV series including “Gilligan’s Island,” “Mary Tyler Moore Show,” “Gunsmoke,” and more recently “Big Brother” and the newsmagzine show “Entertainment Tonight.”
Last week, ViacomCBS agreed to sell Black Rock to the privately owned real estate firm Harbor Group International for $760 million. The network, which has occupied the 38-story, 491-foot-tall building since it opened in 1964, plans to lease back its space on a short-term basis. The transaction is expected to close...
- 8/23/2021
- by Tim Baysinger
- The Wrap
Editor’s Note: This post is updated regularly. Bookmark this page and come back often to see the additions to the best horror movies on Hulu.
Updated for September 2020
Horror can come from anywhere: an unfamiliar European hostel, a remote sleepaway camp in the woods or even just in the comfy confines of the human brain. Every now and then it can be fun to reconnect with that child-like portion of our minds that is truly susceptible to irrational fear. The best way is to merely just hear a good scary story.
But perhaps the best place to find horror is on your friendly neighborhood Hulu. Hulu is best known for its TV comedy offerings but that doesn’t mean it’s lacking in pure terror.
Here is your list of the best horror movies on Hulu.
The Lodge
Directed by Austrian filmmakers Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala (the harrowing...
Updated for September 2020
Horror can come from anywhere: an unfamiliar European hostel, a remote sleepaway camp in the woods or even just in the comfy confines of the human brain. Every now and then it can be fun to reconnect with that child-like portion of our minds that is truly susceptible to irrational fear. The best way is to merely just hear a good scary story.
But perhaps the best place to find horror is on your friendly neighborhood Hulu. Hulu is best known for its TV comedy offerings but that doesn’t mean it’s lacking in pure terror.
Here is your list of the best horror movies on Hulu.
The Lodge
Directed by Austrian filmmakers Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala (the harrowing...
- 9/27/2020
- by jbindeck2015
- Den of Geek
Following nearly 30 years at CBS, Evp Dana McClintock is heading out the door of the now merged ViacomCBS this summer.
“After 27 years in CBS Communications, I’ve had a hand in writing a variety of goodbye memos, and now it’s time for a version of my own,” McClintock said today in a memo to staff announcing his exit. (read the full memo below).
The move by the straight-shooting and longtime Black Rock employee comes as CBS boss Joe Ianiello is leaving in the next few weeks and former NBC exec George Cheeks takes over as President and CEO of CBS Entertainment on March 23. Appointed as Evp and Chief Communications Officer at CBS Corp back in October 2018, not long after the axing of Les Moonves and a surge of change at the usually staid company. With Bob Bakish consolidating his grip on the now reunited Viacom CBS, McClintock is expected...
“After 27 years in CBS Communications, I’ve had a hand in writing a variety of goodbye memos, and now it’s time for a version of my own,” McClintock said today in a memo to staff announcing his exit. (read the full memo below).
The move by the straight-shooting and longtime Black Rock employee comes as CBS boss Joe Ianiello is leaving in the next few weeks and former NBC exec George Cheeks takes over as President and CEO of CBS Entertainment on March 23. Appointed as Evp and Chief Communications Officer at CBS Corp back in October 2018, not long after the axing of Les Moonves and a surge of change at the usually staid company. With Bob Bakish consolidating his grip on the now reunited Viacom CBS, McClintock is expected...
- 3/2/2020
- by Dominic Patten
- Deadline Film + TV
Claiming that there’s been nothing but “deflection, denial, and spin” from CBS, Bull’s Michael Weatherly and an Ep on the drama over revelations of harassment and the $9.5 million settlement she received, Eliza Dushku today decided to tell her own side of the story – and it doesn’t read well for the already scandalized network and its long-time star.
“The narrative propagated by CBS, actor Michael Weatherly, and writer-producer Glenn Gordon Caron is deceptive and in no way fits with how they treated me on the set of the television show Bull and retaliated against me for simply asking to do my job without relentless sexual harassment,” Dushku states in an extensive piece she penned for the Boston Globe.
This follows the expose last week by the New York Times of the multi-million-dollar payout that the Buffy alum got after complaining about rape jokes, offers of threesomes, leering, and...
“The narrative propagated by CBS, actor Michael Weatherly, and writer-producer Glenn Gordon Caron is deceptive and in no way fits with how they treated me on the set of the television show Bull and retaliated against me for simply asking to do my job without relentless sexual harassment,” Dushku states in an extensive piece she penned for the Boston Globe.
This follows the expose last week by the New York Times of the multi-million-dollar payout that the Buffy alum got after complaining about rape jokes, offers of threesomes, leering, and...
- 12/19/2018
- by Dominic Patten
- Deadline Film + TV
The top executives of long-running CBS News show 60 Minutes created a culture where bullying, verbal abuse and sexual harassment thrived, according to an investigative report by two prominent law firms.
The New York Times reported today on a leaked draft copy of the report, detailing the allegations against the executives. It arrives as embattled CBS is still reeling more than two months after chief executive Leslie Moonves was ousted because of sexual misconduct allegations. That situation created a heightened awareness of problematic issues that later led to 60 Minutes executive producer Jeff Fager’s dismissal.
The story hit during the CBS holiday party, adding another unusual element to the annual ritual. For the first time in decades, the party was held outside of “Black Rock,” the company’s iconic Sixth Avenue headquarters. Months ago, a decision was made to relocate the event to Brasserie 8 1/2, a restaurant on 57th Street with an appropriately Fellini-esque name.
The New York Times reported today on a leaked draft copy of the report, detailing the allegations against the executives. It arrives as embattled CBS is still reeling more than two months after chief executive Leslie Moonves was ousted because of sexual misconduct allegations. That situation created a heightened awareness of problematic issues that later led to 60 Minutes executive producer Jeff Fager’s dismissal.
The story hit during the CBS holiday party, adding another unusual element to the annual ritual. For the first time in decades, the party was held outside of “Black Rock,” the company’s iconic Sixth Avenue headquarters. Months ago, a decision was made to relocate the event to Brasserie 8 1/2, a restaurant on 57th Street with an appropriately Fellini-esque name.
- 12/7/2018
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
Nearly two months after Leslie Moonves’ ouster from CBS Corp., the search for his successor has been sluggish and only now starting in earnest. But it won’t be a speedy process.
The word that the CBS board’s evaluation of candidates could take as long as four to six months speaks volumes about the challenge CBS faces in lining up a new permanent leader. The final decision will say even more about where the board sees CBS heading.
Fundamentally, the board needs to decide if the CEO is going to be tasked with piloting the ship for the long term, or whether the job will require overseeing an auction of the storied broadcaster, or the re-integration of CBS and Viacom, or the pursuit of a transformative acquisition. Those are very different scenarios that demand specific leadership skills. CBS has tapped the Korn Ferry consulting firm to help with the headhunting.
The word that the CBS board’s evaluation of candidates could take as long as four to six months speaks volumes about the challenge CBS faces in lining up a new permanent leader. The final decision will say even more about where the board sees CBS heading.
Fundamentally, the board needs to decide if the CEO is going to be tasked with piloting the ship for the long term, or whether the job will require overseeing an auction of the storied broadcaster, or the re-integration of CBS and Viacom, or the pursuit of a transformative acquisition. Those are very different scenarios that demand specific leadership skills. CBS has tapped the Korn Ferry consulting firm to help with the headhunting.
- 11/7/2018
- by Cynthia Littleton
- Variety Film + TV
Leslie Moonves’ future at CBS is in jeopardy in the wake of a bombshell New Yorker report containing allegations of sexual misconduct by the powerful executive. With CBS shares dropping over the past two sessions, the board of directors can’t afford a misstep — leaving Moonves at a potential turning point, despite the board’s decision on Monday to take no action at the moment.
Replacing Moonves would be no small task. The company, which boasts hit shows such as “NCIS” and “The Big Bang Theory,” has already been roiled by a larger boardroom battle. Moonves has been feuding with Shari Redstone, whose family has a controlling stake in CBS, about her ambitions to merge the company with Viacom. Any potential Moonves replacement would be justified in worrying about being under Redstone’s control, and serving only as a placeholder, perhaps, before her favorite, Viacom’s Bob Bakish, moves into the top spot.
Replacing Moonves would be no small task. The company, which boasts hit shows such as “NCIS” and “The Big Bang Theory,” has already been roiled by a larger boardroom battle. Moonves has been feuding with Shari Redstone, whose family has a controlling stake in CBS, about her ambitions to merge the company with Viacom. Any potential Moonves replacement would be justified in worrying about being under Redstone’s control, and serving only as a placeholder, perhaps, before her favorite, Viacom’s Bob Bakish, moves into the top spot.
- 7/30/2018
- by Brent Lang and Brian Steinberg
- Variety Film + TV
After a long and tiring legal dispute with Prajita Developers who were given the Dilip Kumar property to be redeveloped in 2010, the Pali Hill Bungalow that is owned by the actor has will now be developed by Black Rock. According to the new builders, the redeveloped property will be a multi-storeyed building which willRead More
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- 10/12/2017
- by Bollywood Hungama News Network
- BollywoodHungama
A man ran into the flames of one of the burning sculptures at the Burning Man festival in Nevada, according to the festival’s organizers.
Black Rock City firefighters and other rescue crews chased the man after he broke through a safety perimeter and headed for the flames of one the burning sculptures at about 10:30 p.m. Saturday, according to a statement from the festival organizers. The man was treated on the scene, transported to the on-site medical facility and “airlifted to a burn treatment center.”
The festival — which features a 50-foot wooden effigy — attracts tens of thousands of people each year.
Black Rock City firefighters and other rescue crews chased the man after he broke through a safety perimeter and headed for the flames of one the burning sculptures at about 10:30 p.m. Saturday, according to a statement from the festival organizers. The man was treated on the scene, transported to the on-site medical facility and “airlifted to a burn treatment center.”
The festival — which features a 50-foot wooden effigy — attracts tens of thousands of people each year.
- 9/3/2017
- by Yvonne Juris
- PEOPLE.com
“Unwelcoming Committee”
By Raymond Benson
Although the picture takes place a couple of months after the end of World War II in the year 1945, Bad Day at Black Rock is really a western. The setting is a desert town that’s barely a whistle stop for a train that hasn’t halted there in four years; the main street looks as if it’s right out of Dodge City, and the opening credits are designed in big, colorful, bold words that spread across the wide CinemaScope screen. Even director John Sturges is primarily known for his many westerns.
Good Guy Spencer Tracy rides into town—on that train—and is met with inexplicable hostility from everyone he meets. All he wants is to find a guy named Komoko—a Japanese farmer who supposedly lives just out of town. Most of the residents seem afraid to help Tracy. The ones who...
By Raymond Benson
Although the picture takes place a couple of months after the end of World War II in the year 1945, Bad Day at Black Rock is really a western. The setting is a desert town that’s barely a whistle stop for a train that hasn’t halted there in four years; the main street looks as if it’s right out of Dodge City, and the opening credits are designed in big, colorful, bold words that spread across the wide CinemaScope screen. Even director John Sturges is primarily known for his many westerns.
Good Guy Spencer Tracy rides into town—on that train—and is met with inexplicable hostility from everyone he meets. All he wants is to find a guy named Komoko—a Japanese farmer who supposedly lives just out of town. Most of the residents seem afraid to help Tracy. The ones who...
- 5/28/2017
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
Director, screenwriter and boatbuilder (!) Sam Kuhn is in Cannes premiering his short film, Möbius — described as “a moth-eaten tale of magic and mutation half remembered by a teen poet who’s beloved lies lifeless in a stream” — in Critic’s Week. Filmmaker asked Kuhn, who hails from the Pacific Northwest, to keep a diary of his experiences, which rapidly went from jet-lagged to deeply strange. Here is his second entry; click here for them all. Day 3 I’m now feeling foolish, and looking foolish too with my cherry red nose. Without Black Rock things went from bad to — […]...
- 5/23/2017
- by Sam Kuhn
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Whether you’re recovering from Coachella, prepping for weekend two, getting psyched for that big audition, or shopping for your next project, make sure you set aside time to check out these exciting events this week in L.A. Give (feed)back.You probably already know that before a TV pilot ever makes it to the small screen, it’s tested endlessly. The iO Theater’s staged reading series, “On Its Feet,” features pilots or specs from up-and-coming television screenwriters. Each script is performed by actors, then critiqued Q&A style by the audience. On April 17, Jessie Stegner presents “Fluff Piece” in a night moderated by comedian Thea Lux. (Free.) Change your perspective on “bad kids.”Black Rock Continuation High School in Yucca Valley is often the last resort for teens who’ve failed to thrive in traditional educational environments. “The Bad Kids,” a new documentary premiering April 18, follows three teens at the school.
- 4/20/2017
- backstage.com
The Tribeca Film Festival announced programming today for its N.O.W. (New Online Works) section, an inspired array of established and emerging creators who are pushing the boundaries of online storytelling.
Read More: Tribeca 2017 Set to Open With ‘Clive Davis: The Soundtrack of Our Lives’ Premiere Event at Radio City Music Hall
Top-lining the section is the premiere of “Awake, A Dream from Standing Rock,” a documentary from the Oscar-nominated team of Josh Fox and James Spione and Executive Producer Shailene Woodley. The project is a collaboration with indigenous filmmaker Myron Dewey about the Native-led resistance against the Dakota Access Pipeline. Eli Roth’s Crypt TV will premiere “Monster Madness,” a series of several character shorts; and Op-Docs, The New York Times’ award-winning forum for short, opinionated documentaries, will screen three films at the Festival.
Read More: Tribeca 2017 Lineup: New Films From Alex Gibney, Azazel Jacobs and Laurie Simmons...
Read More: Tribeca 2017 Set to Open With ‘Clive Davis: The Soundtrack of Our Lives’ Premiere Event at Radio City Music Hall
Top-lining the section is the premiere of “Awake, A Dream from Standing Rock,” a documentary from the Oscar-nominated team of Josh Fox and James Spione and Executive Producer Shailene Woodley. The project is a collaboration with indigenous filmmaker Myron Dewey about the Native-led resistance against the Dakota Access Pipeline. Eli Roth’s Crypt TV will premiere “Monster Madness,” a series of several character shorts; and Op-Docs, The New York Times’ award-winning forum for short, opinionated documentaries, will screen three films at the Festival.
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- 3/24/2017
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
This week’s Independent Lens is titled The Bad Kids and looks at students whom the system thinks are lost causes, but that one California school still sees potential in. Spending a year at Black Rock Continuation High School for kids at risk, this documentary looks at the tricky issues that the students, teachers and the school’s principal have to deal with when trying to navigate high school when life throws some real curve balls. The wider system might have written these teens off and perhaps even most of society might look on their prospects as pretty grim but this school gives them...read more...
- 3/20/2017
- by James Wray
- Monsters and Critics
The documentary The Bad Kids screens at the Missouri History Museum (5700 Lindell Blvd, St. Louis, Mo 63112) Wednesday January 25th at 7:00pm as part of the Indie Lens Pop-Up Film Series. A panel discussion will follow the screening with the April Brown, Director, Intern Leadership Program at Cardinal Ritter College Prep High School, Dr. Elizabeth Bender – Associate Superintendent of College & Career Readiness at St. Louis Public Schools, and Michael Maclin – Coordinator for Alternative Programming at Parkway School District. This is a Free event.
Located in an impoverished Mojave Desert community, Black Rock Continuation High School is an alternative school for students at risk of dropping out. Every student here has fallen so far behind in credits that they have no hope of earning a diploma at a traditional high school. Black Rock is their last chance. Extraordinary educators believe that empathy and life skills, more than academics, give these underserved...
Located in an impoverished Mojave Desert community, Black Rock Continuation High School is an alternative school for students at risk of dropping out. Every student here has fallen so far behind in credits that they have no hope of earning a diploma at a traditional high school. Black Rock is their last chance. Extraordinary educators believe that empathy and life skills, more than academics, give these underserved...
- 1/24/2017
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Warner Archive Delivers the Best Way to Enjoy a Bad Day at Black Rock
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Pick of the WeekBad Day at Black Rock [Warner Archive]
What is it? A one-armed man arrives via train in a remote western town, and the populace reacts with suspicion and violence.
Why buy it? Spencer Tracy excels as the polite but mysterious stranger whose presence sets everyone on edge, and the more he probes the harder they push. The film explores threads of America’s deep-seated racism and small-town insulation, and it pairs that commentary with a steadily increasing suspense. The themes and actions here are still sadly relevant, even now, and it makes for an important watch that still manages to entertain. Tracy’s potential adversaries include Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Walter Brennan, and...
Welcome to this week in home video! Click the title to buy a Blu-ray/DVD from Amazon and help support Fsr in the process!
Pick of the WeekBad Day at Black Rock [Warner Archive]
What is it? A one-armed man arrives via train in a remote western town, and the populace reacts with suspicion and violence.
Why buy it? Spencer Tracy excels as the polite but mysterious stranger whose presence sets everyone on edge, and the more he probes the harder they push. The film explores threads of America’s deep-seated racism and small-town insulation, and it pairs that commentary with a steadily increasing suspense. The themes and actions here are still sadly relevant, even now, and it makes for an important watch that still manages to entertain. Tracy’s potential adversaries include Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Walter Brennan, and...
- 1/17/2017
- by Rob Hunter
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Placed deep in the secluded landscape of the Mojave Desert, Black Rock High School isn’t your typical institution for American teenagers. A continuation school designed specifically for trouble students for whom Black Rock is their last chance at academic redemption, the men and women frequenting these halls face a daily struggle of balancing their studies with often toxic home lives (and fearing that the destructive family cycle could repeat itself over the next generation). As society appears ready to deem them unworthy of fitting in, the title characters in the documentary The Bad Kids work increasingly hard to fight against their stereotypical image. As the […]...
- 12/29/2016
- by Erik Luers
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Don’t mess with the one-armed man — did you know that at 56 years, Spencer Tracy could whup Ernest Borgnine to a frazzle? John Sturges knocked this one out of the ballpark and booted his career into high gear. It’s well remembered… but does anyone remember that the subject is the murder of a Japanese-American? It’s a combo social issue film And a tough guy western.
Bad Day at Black Rock
Blu-ray
Warner Archive Collection
1955 / Color / 2:40:1 widescreen / 81 min. / Street Date January 17, 2016 / available through the WBshop / 21.99
Starring Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Anne Francis, Dean Jagger, Walter Brennan, John Ericson, Ernest Borgnine, Lee Marvin, Russell Collins, Walter Sande, Robert Griffin, Harry Harvey.
Cinematography William C. Mellor
Film Editor Newell P. Kimlin
Original Music André Previn
Written by Millard Kaufman, Don McGuire story by Howard Breslin
Produced by Dore Schary
Directed by John Sturges
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
Warning to...
Bad Day at Black Rock
Blu-ray
Warner Archive Collection
1955 / Color / 2:40:1 widescreen / 81 min. / Street Date January 17, 2016 / available through the WBshop / 21.99
Starring Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Anne Francis, Dean Jagger, Walter Brennan, John Ericson, Ernest Borgnine, Lee Marvin, Russell Collins, Walter Sande, Robert Griffin, Harry Harvey.
Cinematography William C. Mellor
Film Editor Newell P. Kimlin
Original Music André Previn
Written by Millard Kaufman, Don McGuire story by Howard Breslin
Produced by Dore Schary
Directed by John Sturges
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
Warning to...
- 12/24/2016
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
At a Mojave Desert high school, a group of committed teachers and a principal leave no struggling student behind. The new documentary “The Bad Kids” follows a group of students and faculty at the continuation school Black Rock High School as they contend with daily frustrations on the road to a more fulfilling life. The film follows three students: Joey, an aspiring musician with a drug-addicted mother; Lee, a young father balancing his own education with parental responsibilities and Jennifer, an abuse survivor. Watch an exclusive clip from the film below.
Read More: Meet the ‘Bad Kids’ About to Take Sundance By Storm in Exclusive Poster
The film is directed by Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe. The two have directed two prior feature-length documentaries: The first is the 2002 film “Lost in La Mancha,” about director Terry Gilliam’s doomed attempt to get his version of “The Man Who Killed Don Quixote...
Read More: Meet the ‘Bad Kids’ About to Take Sundance By Storm in Exclusive Poster
The film is directed by Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe. The two have directed two prior feature-length documentaries: The first is the 2002 film “Lost in La Mancha,” about director Terry Gilliam’s doomed attempt to get his version of “The Man Who Killed Don Quixote...
- 12/20/2016
- by Vikram Murthi
- Indiewire
The American public education system is a vital institution, making sure that every citizen—no matter how disadvantaged—has an opportunity for self-improvement. But it’s a rough tool at best, and not always suited to the finer points of molding young minds. The juniors and seniors in the documentary The Bad Kids all attend Black Rock Continuation High School, an “alternative” school in the Mojave Desert. They’ve been accepted there because of their ongoing struggles in regular classes. Some are habitual truants. Some are teen mothers or fathers. Some fell behind on their grades as freshmen and then felt too overwhelmed to catch up. And in nearly every case, the students are dealing with a complicated world outside of Black Rock, managing poverty, abuse, and broken homes in drug-ravaged neighborhoods of dusty San Bernardino County towns like Twentynine Palms and Joshua Tree. For a lot of these children...
- 12/15/2016
- by Noel Murray
- avclub.com
Female horror fans are hardly unicorns. Quite the opposite – we go to the movies to get scared, often in greater numbers than men. Female horror directors aren't mythical beings either, even though it can sometimes feel this way. But in fact, the last few years have seen an exciting wave of horror films helmed by women who haven't merely joined the rank-and-file as encouraging statistics. Instead, movies like Jennifer Kent's The Babadook or Karyn Kusama's The Invitation have helped elevate the genre by opening it up to stories that unsettle audiences in new,...
- 10/26/2016
- Rollingstone.com
"How many other people have been through this?" FilmRise has debuted a trailer for the documentary The Bad Kids, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival to quite a bit of buzz earlier this year. The doc has also played at True/False and Hot Docs, which I'm mentioning only to show it's worthy of attention. The Bad Kids is about a group of teachers at a Mojave Desert high school who take an unconventional approach to improve the lives of their struggling students. It's a powerful film about recognizing there are alternatives to helping educate at risk teens other than giving up on them or locking them up. From the trailer, this looks like one of the most important docs all year - and I'm definitely interested in watching it. Get a look below. Here's the trailer (+ poster) for Keith Fulton & Louis Pepe's documentary The Bad Kids, from...
- 10/26/2016
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Growing up is hard, but when faced with the challenges of teenage pregnancy, homelessness, substance abuse, and more, it can feel nearly impossible. But at Black Rock Continuation High School in California, teenagers who face tremendous difficulties in their personal lives are given the space to thrive and the hope for a better future, and it’s all captured in the upcoming documentary “The Bad Kids.”
Read More: Sundance Review: Documentary ‘The Bad Kids’ From ‘Lost In La Mancha’ Directors Keith Fulton And Lou Pepe
Directed by Keith Fulton and Lou Pepe (the duo behind “Lost In La Mancha”), their film, which won a Special Jury Award Winner for Vérité Filmmaking at Sundance, takes an observant look at the students at Black Rock and the guidance they receive from Principal Vonda Viland, who has an unflappable devotion to her students.
Continue reading ‘The Bad Kids’ Get Another Chance In Trailer...
Read More: Sundance Review: Documentary ‘The Bad Kids’ From ‘Lost In La Mancha’ Directors Keith Fulton And Lou Pepe
Directed by Keith Fulton and Lou Pepe (the duo behind “Lost In La Mancha”), their film, which won a Special Jury Award Winner for Vérité Filmmaking at Sundance, takes an observant look at the students at Black Rock and the guidance they receive from Principal Vonda Viland, who has an unflappable devotion to her students.
Continue reading ‘The Bad Kids’ Get Another Chance In Trailer...
- 10/26/2016
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Hillary Clinton’s race to the White House has hit a bump in its final stretch with WikiLeaks’ latest email dumps.
Over the past week, the anti-secrecy organization has rolled out more than 12,000 internal emails illegally obtained by hackers from the private account of Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta.
Here are the five biggest revelations from the email dumps:
1. Apparent transcripts of Clinton’s paid speeches to Goldman Sachs (We say ‘apparent’ because the Clinton campaign will not authenticate the documents, suggesting some could be fakes planted by the hackers) revealed she was on friendly terms with Wall Street executives.
Over the past week, the anti-secrecy organization has rolled out more than 12,000 internal emails illegally obtained by hackers from the private account of Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta.
Here are the five biggest revelations from the email dumps:
1. Apparent transcripts of Clinton’s paid speeches to Goldman Sachs (We say ‘apparent’ because the Clinton campaign will not authenticate the documents, suggesting some could be fakes planted by the hackers) revealed she was on friendly terms with Wall Street executives.
- 10/18/2016
- by Tierney McAfee
- PEOPLE.com
Hard Days at Black Rock The Black Rock Mill is a centuries-old brick building, one of many fun historical features to be found in Seneca State Park in Germantown, Maryland. It sits along a rocky river, probably a quarter-mile downhill from a… Continue Reading →
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- 8/22/2016
- by Ben Rock
- DreadCentral.com
The genre event will host a five-strong line-up of Malaysian projects; Ivanhoe, Huayi, Blumhouse, Cj among Bifan attendees.
Asia’s largest genre film fest, the Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival (Bifan) has announced a five-title line-up for a Project Spotlight on Malaysia in this year’s Network of Asian Fantastic Film (Naff).
Celebrating its 20th edition, Bifan last month in Cannes launched the Bifan Industry Gathering (Big), a newly expanded industry programme which takes Naff under its umbrella.
Bifan will run July 21-31 with Big taking place between July 22-28 and NAFFrunning July 25-28.
Companies set to attend this year include Ivanhoe Pictures,...
Asia’s largest genre film fest, the Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival (Bifan) has announced a five-title line-up for a Project Spotlight on Malaysia in this year’s Network of Asian Fantastic Film (Naff).
Celebrating its 20th edition, Bifan last month in Cannes launched the Bifan Industry Gathering (Big), a newly expanded industry programme which takes Naff under its umbrella.
Bifan will run July 21-31 with Big taking place between July 22-28 and NAFFrunning July 25-28.
Companies set to attend this year include Ivanhoe Pictures,...
- 6/13/2016
- by hjnoh2007@gmail.com (Jean Noh)
- ScreenDaily
Dakota Johnson is joining Andrew Garfield in David Robert Mitchell‘s crime thriller “Under the Silver Lake.” On Thursday, it was announced that A24 has acquired the domestic rights, and production will begin in Los Angeles this summer. The noir crime thriller set in L.A. is writer-director Mitchell‘s follow-up to his critically acclaimed indie horror film “It Follows,” which premiered at Cannes in 2014. Also Read: Andrew Garfield's 'Under the Silver Lake' Picked Up by A24 Michael De Luca (“The Social Network,” “Moneyball,” “50 Shades of Grey” trilogy) is producing. Chris Bender and Jake Weiner (“A History of Violence...
- 5/13/2016
- by Beatrice Verhoeven
- The Wrap
A24 has acquired the U.S. rights to the Andrew Garfield thriller “Under the Silver Lake,” TheWrap has learned. The noir crime thriller set in Los Angeles is the writer-director David Robert Mitchell‘s follow-up to his critically acclaimed indie horror film “It Follows.” Michael De Luca (“The Social Network,” “Moneyball,” “50 Shades of Grey” trilogy) is producing, with filming scheduled to start at the end of this summer. Also Read: Andrew Garfield to Star in 'It Follows' Director's Crime Thriller 'Under the Silver Lake' Chris Bender and Jake Weiner (“A History of Violence”) and Adele Romanski (“Black Rock”) are also producing.
- 5/12/2016
- by Meriah Doty
- The Wrap
Reviewed by Jesse Miller
MoreHorror.com
Welcome to Black Springs, a small idyllic town perfect for the summer vacation. Between the lakes, hot springs and mountain hiking, it's perfect for any tourist looking to escape to paradise.
And yet, beneath the surface, the town harbors an ancient curse.
Katherine Van Wyler, an ancient spectre, walks the streets of Black Springs freely. Chained around the body, eyes and mouth sewn shut and reeking of decay, she enters the houses of the people at any given time of day.
For the people of Black Springs, this is every day life. Surveillance is installed throughout the town, monitoring Katherine and the town has it's own app just so the people know where she is at all times.
Everyone knows about the Black Rock witch that cursed the town when being burnt at the stake. Everyone knows that you can't leave the town once...
MoreHorror.com
Welcome to Black Springs, a small idyllic town perfect for the summer vacation. Between the lakes, hot springs and mountain hiking, it's perfect for any tourist looking to escape to paradise.
And yet, beneath the surface, the town harbors an ancient curse.
Katherine Van Wyler, an ancient spectre, walks the streets of Black Springs freely. Chained around the body, eyes and mouth sewn shut and reeking of decay, she enters the houses of the people at any given time of day.
For the people of Black Springs, this is every day life. Surveillance is installed throughout the town, monitoring Katherine and the town has it's own app just so the people know where she is at all times.
Everyone knows about the Black Rock witch that cursed the town when being burnt at the stake. Everyone knows that you can't leave the town once...
- 5/3/2016
- by admin
- MoreHorror
FilmRise has nabbed worldwide distribution rights to Sundance Film Festival documentary The Bad Kids from directors Keith Fulton and Lou Pepe. The docu will receive a theatrical run in September and make its television debut on the upcoming season of the PBS series Independent Lens. Set at Black Rock Continuation High School — in the impoverished Mojave Desert Community — the film follows Principal Viland, who is determined to realize the potential of her students…...
- 3/22/2016
- Deadline
“What do you want out of life?” a probation officer asks the teenage Joey in the opening moments of “The Bad Kids.” It’s the kind of question that Joey, and the other Californian teens profiled in the the new documentary from directors Keith Fulton and Lou Pepe (the team behind “Lost In La Mancha”), have likely never considered. Coming from backgrounds of domestic instability, teenage pregnancy, homelessness, substance abuse, and more, for many, their lives are about survival, and the future comes one day at a time. However, Black Rock High School in the Mojave Desert offers an alternative to the regular school system where these kinds of kids are left to falter, often dropping out. Read More: Check Out All Of Our 2016 Sundance Film Festival Coverage Taking us into the lives of these kids and halls of the school, “The Bad Kids” has a simple purpose — to show...
- 1/24/2016
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Stars: Owen Wilson, Lake Bell, Pierce Brosnan, Thanawut Kasro, Chatchawai Kamonsakpitak | Written by John Erick Dowdle, Drew Dowdle | Directed by John Erick Dowdle
No Escape starts out with Jack and Annie Dwyer (Wilson & Bell) and their two daughters emigrating to an unspecified Southeast Asian country for Wilson’s work. This work is somehow connected to the country’s water supply and it’s hinted that the company may have had some shady dealings in the past. This notion becomes somewhat inconsequential when violent revolutionaries seize power from the government and beginning tearing through the city, killing any foreigners they find. This makes life difficult for the young family as they’re staying at the richest, most foreigner-friendly hotel in town…
Owen Wilson might seem like an unlikely action hero, but there was a time when he looked primed to become America’s next golden-haired champion of good and kicking ass.
No Escape starts out with Jack and Annie Dwyer (Wilson & Bell) and their two daughters emigrating to an unspecified Southeast Asian country for Wilson’s work. This work is somehow connected to the country’s water supply and it’s hinted that the company may have had some shady dealings in the past. This notion becomes somewhat inconsequential when violent revolutionaries seize power from the government and beginning tearing through the city, killing any foreigners they find. This makes life difficult for the young family as they’re staying at the richest, most foreigner-friendly hotel in town…
Owen Wilson might seem like an unlikely action hero, but there was a time when he looked primed to become America’s next golden-haired champion of good and kicking ass.
- 1/10/2016
- by Mark Allen
- Nerdly
His sophomore film received a ton of fanfare after premiering at Sundance’s Next section (and the first edition of the Next Weekend event) back in ’13, and there is no reason to think that this comedic schnitzel travelogue wouldn’t follow suit. Chad Hartigan‘s This Is Martin Bonner landed the filmmaker the coveted John Cassavetes Award at the 2013 Indie Spirit Awards, and his follow-up landed a nicely mixed bunch of actors (Craig Robinson, Carla Juri) including a newbie child protag (newcomer Markees Christmas). Production on Morris From America took place in Germany thus summer. This will indeed be ready for Park City.
Hartigan’s Martin Bonner, which premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival
Gist: This is a coming-of-age tale about a 13-year-old hip-hop-loving American boy Morris (Christmas) who moves to Heidelberg with his father (Robinson) and is forced to navigate the trials and tribulations of adolescence in a foreign place.
Hartigan’s Martin Bonner, which premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival
Gist: This is a coming-of-age tale about a 13-year-old hip-hop-loving American boy Morris (Christmas) who moves to Heidelberg with his father (Robinson) and is forced to navigate the trials and tribulations of adolescence in a foreign place.
- 11/25/2015
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
As an actress, Lake Bell is game for a lot. Take her groin-punching Jason Sudeikis in “What Happens in Vegas” or her deadly turn in the 2012 Sundance favorite “Black Rock.” You’d never guess that her charming, unconventional new rom-com “Man Up” would throw her a significant challenge: having to participate in a raucous binge-drinking montage while stone sober and pregnant. “I was very early on in my pregnancy and I couldn’t drink,” Bell told TheWrap of the onscreen boozefest with co-star Simon Pegg. “What was worse, Nancy has something in her teeth in one of the scenes, so.
- 11/20/2015
- by Matt Donnelly
- The Wrap
Ruminations: Barber’s Sophomore Effort Brings the War Home
Director Daniel Barber returns with sophomore effort The Keeping Room, his first film since the Death Wish derivative Harry Brown (2009) starring Michael Caine. Based on Julia Hart’s screenplay, Barber takes us back to the waning days of the Civil War for this homestead invasion thriller which poses intriguing intersections of class, race, and the struggle for domination and survival. But though the presentation is compelling, particularly through its visual strengths and effective editing (often glossing over weaker moments in the script prolonging its formulaic third act), it often seems as if the film isn’t exploring its own potential, meekly elegiac in tone as it teases notions of female agency amidst an apathetic and violent backdrop.
Augusta (Brit Marling) and her younger sister Louise (Hailee Steinfeld) have been left without the comfort of men on their South Carolina homestead as the Civil War rages on.
Director Daniel Barber returns with sophomore effort The Keeping Room, his first film since the Death Wish derivative Harry Brown (2009) starring Michael Caine. Based on Julia Hart’s screenplay, Barber takes us back to the waning days of the Civil War for this homestead invasion thriller which poses intriguing intersections of class, race, and the struggle for domination and survival. But though the presentation is compelling, particularly through its visual strengths and effective editing (often glossing over weaker moments in the script prolonging its formulaic third act), it often seems as if the film isn’t exploring its own potential, meekly elegiac in tone as it teases notions of female agency amidst an apathetic and violent backdrop.
Augusta (Brit Marling) and her younger sister Louise (Hailee Steinfeld) have been left without the comfort of men on their South Carolina homestead as the Civil War rages on.
- 9/24/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Stars: Owen Wilson, Lake Bell, Pierce Brosnan, Thanawut Kasro, Chatchawai Kamonsakpitak | Written by John Erick Dowdle, Drew Dowdle | Directed by John Erick Dowdle
Owen Wilson might seem like an unlikely action hero, but there was a time when he looked primed to become America’s next golden-haired champion of good and kicking ass. Roles in films like Behind Enemy Lines and Armageddon set a tone that he quickly subverted with roles in action-comedies like Shanghai Noon and I Spy, not to mention his now-trademark offbeat persona honed in Wes Anderson films and countless romantic comedies. He clearly went with the material that interested him (and audiences) more, but was somehow tempted to join fellow indie-and-romcom staple Lake Bell in No Escape, a film that pits their married couple against a horde of murderous Asian people and Pierce Brosnan’s cockney accent.
The film starts out with Jack and Annie Dwyer...
Owen Wilson might seem like an unlikely action hero, but there was a time when he looked primed to become America’s next golden-haired champion of good and kicking ass. Roles in films like Behind Enemy Lines and Armageddon set a tone that he quickly subverted with roles in action-comedies like Shanghai Noon and I Spy, not to mention his now-trademark offbeat persona honed in Wes Anderson films and countless romantic comedies. He clearly went with the material that interested him (and audiences) more, but was somehow tempted to join fellow indie-and-romcom staple Lake Bell in No Escape, a film that pits their married couple against a horde of murderous Asian people and Pierce Brosnan’s cockney accent.
The film starts out with Jack and Annie Dwyer...
- 8/27/2015
- by Mark Allen
- Nerdly
Wurst and sauerkraut appear to be served up with hip hop beats in Chad Hartigan’s sophomore film currently in the closing stages of production. Deadline confirms that breakout Sundance actress Carla Juri (Wetlands), funnyman Craig Robinson and newcomer teen Markees Christmas topline Morris from America. Lina Keller, Jakub Gierszal, Eva Löbau and Levin Henning co-star in the romantic drama being produced by Sara Murphy (Land Ho!), Adele Romanski (Black Rock), Martin Heisler and Gabriele Simon. Lichtblick Media Gmbh and Beachside Films are co-producing the pic with Michael B. Clark and Alex Turteltaub executive producing.
Gist: This is a coming-of-age tale about a 13-year-old hip-hop-loving American boy Morris (Christmas) who moves to Heidelberg with his father (Robinson) and is forced to navigate the trials and tribulations of adolescence in a foreign place. Juri plays Morris’ German tutor and chief confidant.
Worth Noting: We raved about Carla Juri two Sundance editions...
Gist: This is a coming-of-age tale about a 13-year-old hip-hop-loving American boy Morris (Christmas) who moves to Heidelberg with his father (Robinson) and is forced to navigate the trials and tribulations of adolescence in a foreign place. Juri plays Morris’ German tutor and chief confidant.
Worth Noting: We raved about Carla Juri two Sundance editions...
- 7/23/2015
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Writer-director-producer-actor Mark Duplass has an unusual career plan, to say the least. As far as he's concerned, he gets more pleasure and satisfaction out of collaborating as a writer-producer-actor on various micro-budget projects than he does getting funding from the studios for bigger-budgeted projects. With time, he has become more militant about this. Duplass can afford to be, thanks to his hit TV series "The League." A workaholic to rival Steven Soderbergh, Duplass writes and directs movies with his brother Jay ("The Puffy Chair," "Baghead," "Cyrus"), writes and acts with director Lynn Shelton ("Humpday" and "Your Sister's Sister") and Colin Trevorrow ("Safety Not Guaranteed"), produces with his wife, actress Katie Aselton, and other up-and-coming directors ("Black Rock," "Creep") and sometimes functions as an actor-for-hire on such films as "Zero Dark Thirty,"...
- 12/4/2014
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
With Britney Spears, Shania Twain and Celine Dion all getting their own Sin City gigs, Jennifer Lopez is looking to score her own piece of the Las Vegas pie.
According to reports, the “On The Floor” singer is in negotiations with Caesars Palace and Planet Hollywood to see if there’s a deal to be had.
One insider shared that Lopez has been offered a 72-show contract, with three shows a week for 24 weeks at $350,000 per concert.
And while that would nab Jennifer a handsome $25.2 million, that falls far short of Dion’s $33 million for 70 shows.
Meanwhile, one of J. Lo’s most devoted fans wants the New York’s City Council to rename Black Rock Avenue in Bronx’s Castle Hill in honor of the “Jenny From the Block” singer.
“I just want to rename a street after her,” explained Eduardo Ruis Rivera, a fellow Bronx native. “I’m...
According to reports, the “On The Floor” singer is in negotiations with Caesars Palace and Planet Hollywood to see if there’s a deal to be had.
One insider shared that Lopez has been offered a 72-show contract, with three shows a week for 24 weeks at $350,000 per concert.
And while that would nab Jennifer a handsome $25.2 million, that falls far short of Dion’s $33 million for 70 shows.
Meanwhile, one of J. Lo’s most devoted fans wants the New York’s City Council to rename Black Rock Avenue in Bronx’s Castle Hill in honor of the “Jenny From the Block” singer.
“I just want to rename a street after her,” explained Eduardo Ruis Rivera, a fellow Bronx native. “I’m...
- 10/22/2014
- GossipCenter
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