January sees the launch of Blumhouse’s ‘haunted swimming pool’ movie, Night Swim. Catch a look here.
In the midst of the prestigious awards contenders that we get at the turn of the year, one of the more fun aspects to the annual movie merry-go-round is Blumhouse’s first horror flick of the year. Over the last four years, the horror house’s early-in-the-year release has given us such delights as M3GAN, The Invisible Woman and The Vigil, an underrated horror thriller, if you haven’t yet seen it.
Early 2024 is set to bring us Night Swim, a Blumhouse production that looks to be in the campier style of M3GAN as opposed to the other two films we’ve just mentioned. The project is one of the first collaborations between James Wan’s production company Atomic Monster and Blumhouse Productions at Universal Pictures.
Night Swim is a ‘supernatural thriller built...
In the midst of the prestigious awards contenders that we get at the turn of the year, one of the more fun aspects to the annual movie merry-go-round is Blumhouse’s first horror flick of the year. Over the last four years, the horror house’s early-in-the-year release has given us such delights as M3GAN, The Invisible Woman and The Vigil, an underrated horror thriller, if you haven’t yet seen it.
Early 2024 is set to bring us Night Swim, a Blumhouse production that looks to be in the campier style of M3GAN as opposed to the other two films we’ve just mentioned. The project is one of the first collaborations between James Wan’s production company Atomic Monster and Blumhouse Productions at Universal Pictures.
Night Swim is a ‘supernatural thriller built...
- 11/30/2023
- by Dan Cooper
- Film Stories
Exclusive: Don DeLillo’s novel Libra, a speculative account of the plot to assassinate John F. Kennedy interwoven with the life story of his assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, is being adapted for television.
Deadline understands that Spectrum Originals is developing a limited series adaptation of the book with American Spy author Lauren Wilkinson, Wolf Hall producer Playground and Paul Giamatti’s Touchy Feely Films, the company behind AMC’s Lodge 49.
It is the latest high-profile book in development at the Charter Communications-backed pay-tv operator after Deadline revealed last year that it was working on an adaptation of William J Mann’s 2014 book Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine, And Madness At The Dawn of Hollywood.
Libra, which was first published in 1988, blends fact and fiction to tell the story of the JFK assassination, one of the most mythologized events in American history, and explores the U.S.’s obsession with and relationship to conspiracy.
Deadline understands that Spectrum Originals is developing a limited series adaptation of the book with American Spy author Lauren Wilkinson, Wolf Hall producer Playground and Paul Giamatti’s Touchy Feely Films, the company behind AMC’s Lodge 49.
It is the latest high-profile book in development at the Charter Communications-backed pay-tv operator after Deadline revealed last year that it was working on an adaptation of William J Mann’s 2014 book Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine, And Madness At The Dawn of Hollywood.
Libra, which was first published in 1988, blends fact and fiction to tell the story of the JFK assassination, one of the most mythologized events in American history, and explores the U.S.’s obsession with and relationship to conspiracy.
- 1/19/2021
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Netflix may get most of the attention, but it’s hardly a one-stop shop for cinephiles who are looking to stream essential classic and contemporary films. Each of the prominent streaming platforms caters to its own niche of film obsessives.
From chilling horror fare on Shudder, to the boundless wonders of the Criterion Channel, and esoteric (but unmissable) festival hits on Film Movement Plus and Ovid.tv, IndieWire’s monthly guide highlights the best of what’s coming to every major streaming site, with an eye towards exclusive titles that may help readers decide which of these services is right for them.
Here’s the best of the best for January 2020.
“Midsommar”
Despite its ritualistic terrors, slasher-inspired structure, and “Hostel”-like affinity for butchering self-obsessed American tourists, “Midsommar” is clearly a film that uses horror tropes as a means to an end. The sun-blasted story of a grieving young woman...
From chilling horror fare on Shudder, to the boundless wonders of the Criterion Channel, and esoteric (but unmissable) festival hits on Film Movement Plus and Ovid.tv, IndieWire’s monthly guide highlights the best of what’s coming to every major streaming site, with an eye towards exclusive titles that may help readers decide which of these services is right for them.
Here’s the best of the best for January 2020.
“Midsommar”
Despite its ritualistic terrors, slasher-inspired structure, and “Hostel”-like affinity for butchering self-obsessed American tourists, “Midsommar” is clearly a film that uses horror tropes as a means to an end. The sun-blasted story of a grieving young woman...
- 1/13/2020
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Nigerian metropolis Lagos is the focus of the eighth City To City showcase at the Toronto International Film Festival (Tiff) as top brass anoint two international Rising Stars.
Tiff’s latest line-up announcement also featured extra selections in Galas and Special Presentations, among them Walter Hill’s (Re)Assignment, Philippe Falardeau’s The Bleeder, David Leveaux’ The Exception (pictured), Ken Loach’s Palme d’Or winner I, Daniel Blake and Terry George’s drama The Promise.
A vibrant crop of Contemporary World Cinema entries includes Kleber Mendonça Filho’s Aquarius, Danis Tanović’s Death In Sarajevo, Marie Noëlle’s Marie Curie, The Courage Of Knowledge and Akin Omotoso’s Vaya.
Hirokazu Kore-eda brings After The Storm to the Masters showcase, alongside Marco Bellocchio’s Sweet Dreams, Pedro Almodóvar’s Julieta, Cristian Mungiu’s Graduation, Gianfranco Rosi’s Berlin Golden Bear winner Fire At Sea and Adoor Gopalakrishnan’s Once Again.
Rounding out the...
Tiff’s latest line-up announcement also featured extra selections in Galas and Special Presentations, among them Walter Hill’s (Re)Assignment, Philippe Falardeau’s The Bleeder, David Leveaux’ The Exception (pictured), Ken Loach’s Palme d’Or winner I, Daniel Blake and Terry George’s drama The Promise.
A vibrant crop of Contemporary World Cinema entries includes Kleber Mendonça Filho’s Aquarius, Danis Tanović’s Death In Sarajevo, Marie Noëlle’s Marie Curie, The Courage Of Knowledge and Akin Omotoso’s Vaya.
Hirokazu Kore-eda brings After The Storm to the Masters showcase, alongside Marco Bellocchio’s Sweet Dreams, Pedro Almodóvar’s Julieta, Cristian Mungiu’s Graduation, Gianfranco Rosi’s Berlin Golden Bear winner Fire At Sea and Adoor Gopalakrishnan’s Once Again.
Rounding out the...
- 8/16/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Nigerian capital Lagos is the focus of the eighth City To City showcase at the Toronto International Film Festival (Tiff) as top brass anoint two international Rising Stars.
Tiff’s latest line-up announcement also featured extra selections in Galas and Special Presentations, among them Walter Hill’s (Re)Assignment, Philippe Falardeau’s The Bleeder, David Leveaux’ The Exception (pictured), Ken Loach’s Palme d’Or winner I, Daniel Blake and Terry George’s drama The Promise.
A vibrant crop of Contemporary World Cinema entries includes Kleber Mendonça Filho’s Aquarius, Danis Tanović’s Death In Sarajevo, Marie Noëlle’s Marie Curie, The Courage Of Knowledge and Akin Omotoso’s Vaya.
Hirokazu Kore-eda brings After The Storm to the Masters showcase, alongside Marco Bellocchio’s Sweet Dreams, Pedro Almodóvar’s Julieta, Cristian Mungiu’s Graduation, Gianfranco Rosi’s Berlin Golden Bear winner Fire At Sea and Adoor Gopalakrishnan’s Once Again.
Rounding out the...
Tiff’s latest line-up announcement also featured extra selections in Galas and Special Presentations, among them Walter Hill’s (Re)Assignment, Philippe Falardeau’s The Bleeder, David Leveaux’ The Exception (pictured), Ken Loach’s Palme d’Or winner I, Daniel Blake and Terry George’s drama The Promise.
A vibrant crop of Contemporary World Cinema entries includes Kleber Mendonça Filho’s Aquarius, Danis Tanović’s Death In Sarajevo, Marie Noëlle’s Marie Curie, The Courage Of Knowledge and Akin Omotoso’s Vaya.
Hirokazu Kore-eda brings After The Storm to the Masters showcase, alongside Marco Bellocchio’s Sweet Dreams, Pedro Almodóvar’s Julieta, Cristian Mungiu’s Graduation, Gianfranco Rosi’s Berlin Golden Bear winner Fire At Sea and Adoor Gopalakrishnan’s Once Again.
Rounding out the...
- 8/16/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Benoît Jacquot: 'For me, there is something very specific with Vincent Lindon' Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze Having just completed À Jamais, based on Don DeLillo's The Body Artist, starring Mathieu Amalric and Jeanne Balibar with costumes by Raf Simons (Dior And I), Benoît Jacquot joined me in New York for a conversation on his penetrating Diary Of A Chambermaid (Journal d'Une Femme De Chambre), co-written with Hélène Zimmer and starring Léa Seydoux.
Vincent Lindon heads a formidable supporting cast that includes Clotilde Mollet, Hervé Pierre, Yvette Petit, Dominique Reymond, Mélodie Valemberg, Patrick d'Assumçao, Joséphine Derenne, Rosette and Vincent Lacoste. Costume designer Anaïs Romand, also known for Farewell My Queen, Léos Carax's Holy Motors and Guillaume Nicloux's The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq, captures the period with precision and grace.
Jacquot's adaptation of Octave Mirbeau's novel, focuses on the myriad ways female bodies were treated as commodities, as...
Vincent Lindon heads a formidable supporting cast that includes Clotilde Mollet, Hervé Pierre, Yvette Petit, Dominique Reymond, Mélodie Valemberg, Patrick d'Assumçao, Joséphine Derenne, Rosette and Vincent Lacoste. Costume designer Anaïs Romand, also known for Farewell My Queen, Léos Carax's Holy Motors and Guillaume Nicloux's The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq, captures the period with precision and grace.
Jacquot's adaptation of Octave Mirbeau's novel, focuses on the myriad ways female bodies were treated as commodities, as...
- 6/9/2016
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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Quentin Tarantino has lashed out at Disney for taking over ArcLight Cinemas’ Cinerama Dome, on which it’s been expected The Hateful Eight will hold 70mm showings. Hear his comments to Howard Stern (via Hit Fix):
The worlds of Star Wars and Quentin Tarantino do have a common factor, however: Samuel L. Jackson, who interviewed The Force Awakens‘ Gwendoline Christie for Interview.
Watch the teaser for Kiyoshi Kurosawa‘s return to horror, titled, of all things, Creepy (via Cinemaldito):
Benoît Jacquot is days from finishing production on his Son Corps, his adaptation of Don DeLillo‘s The Body Artist. Mathieu Amalric, Julia Roy, and Jeanne Balibar star.
Quentin Tarantino has lashed out at Disney for taking over ArcLight Cinemas’ Cinerama Dome, on which it’s been expected The Hateful Eight will hold 70mm showings. Hear his comments to Howard Stern (via Hit Fix):
The worlds of Star Wars and Quentin Tarantino do have a common factor, however: Samuel L. Jackson, who interviewed The Force Awakens‘ Gwendoline Christie for Interview.
Watch the teaser for Kiyoshi Kurosawa‘s return to horror, titled, of all things, Creepy (via Cinemaldito):
Benoît Jacquot is days from finishing production on his Son Corps, his adaptation of Don DeLillo‘s The Body Artist. Mathieu Amalric, Julia Roy, and Jeanne Balibar star.
- 12/16/2015
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
Hot projects new to Screenbase include Nicolas Winding Refn feature The Neon Demon, Pope Francis biopic Francisco, Brady Corbet’s directorial debut The Childhood Of A Leader and a new adaptation by Wim Wenders.Nicolas Winding Refn’s The Neon Demon
Elle Fanning, Keanu Reeves, Christina Hendricks, Abbey Lee, Bella Heathcote and Jena Malone have signed on to co-star in Nicolas Winding Refn’s next feature.
“After making Drive and falling madly in love with the electricity of Los Angeles, I knew I had to return to tell the story of The Neon Demon,” Winding Refn said.
Principal photography will begin in Los Angeles on March 30. Gaumont and Wild Bunch are co-selling the title.
Wim Wenders’ Les Beaux Jours D’Aranjuez
This adaptation of the play by Peter Handke was announced by Alfama’s Paulo Branco during the Efm. It will star Reda Kateb and Sophie Semin. Wenders is expected to shoot in June.
Brady Corbet’s [link...
Elle Fanning, Keanu Reeves, Christina Hendricks, Abbey Lee, Bella Heathcote and Jena Malone have signed on to co-star in Nicolas Winding Refn’s next feature.
“After making Drive and falling madly in love with the electricity of Los Angeles, I knew I had to return to tell the story of The Neon Demon,” Winding Refn said.
Principal photography will begin in Los Angeles on March 30. Gaumont and Wild Bunch are co-selling the title.
Wim Wenders’ Les Beaux Jours D’Aranjuez
This adaptation of the play by Peter Handke was announced by Alfama’s Paulo Branco during the Efm. It will star Reda Kateb and Sophie Semin. Wenders is expected to shoot in June.
Brady Corbet’s [link...
- 2/18/2015
- by maud.le-rest@sciencespo-toulouse.net (Maud Le Rest)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Les beaux jours d’Aranjuez is an adaptation of the play by Peter Handke.
German auteur Wim Wenders is to shoot new movie Les beaux jours d’Aranjuez in June.
The project was announced by Alfama’s Paulo Branco during the Efm. The film is an adaptation of the play by Peter Handke. It will star Reda Kateb and Sophie Semin. Handke himself is likely to have a cameo. The film will be an Alfama/Road Movies coproduction, to be sold by Alfama.
The film marks a reunion between Wenders and veteran Portuguese producer Branco, who co-produced Wenders’ The State Of Things in 1982 and has worked with him several times since.
Wenders’ Every Thing Will Be Fine is screening out of competition, sold by Hanway.
Branco has also announced various other new projects. This year, Benoit Jacquot should finally be shooting Alfama’s adaptation of Don DeLillo’s 2001 novella, The Body Artist...
German auteur Wim Wenders is to shoot new movie Les beaux jours d’Aranjuez in June.
The project was announced by Alfama’s Paulo Branco during the Efm. The film is an adaptation of the play by Peter Handke. It will star Reda Kateb and Sophie Semin. Handke himself is likely to have a cameo. The film will be an Alfama/Road Movies coproduction, to be sold by Alfama.
The film marks a reunion between Wenders and veteran Portuguese producer Branco, who co-produced Wenders’ The State Of Things in 1982 and has worked with him several times since.
Wenders’ Every Thing Will Be Fine is screening out of competition, sold by Hanway.
Branco has also announced various other new projects. This year, Benoit Jacquot should finally be shooting Alfama’s adaptation of Don DeLillo’s 2001 novella, The Body Artist...
- 2/8/2015
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Veteran producer to adapt Joseph Conrad’s novel.
Veteran Portuguese producer Paulo Branco is planning a big screen adaptation of Joseph Conrad’s An Outpost of Progress.
After backing an adaptation of Conrad’s Almayer’s Folly in 2011, made by Chantal Ackerman, Branco is now working on a film version of the novelist’s short story.
Written in 1897 and drawing on his own experience in the Congo, it deals with two European men who are assigned to a trading post in a remote part of the African jungle. But as isolation demoralises the pair and diseases weaken them, the story ultimately ends in tragedy.
The film will shoot in Angola, close to the location in which Conrad wrote the story, and will be directed by Hugo Vieira Da Silva. The cast is led by Nuno Lopes. It will be made through Leopardo Filmes and Amour Fou Vienna as a Portuguese-Austrian coproduction.
Meanwhile, together...
Veteran Portuguese producer Paulo Branco is planning a big screen adaptation of Joseph Conrad’s An Outpost of Progress.
After backing an adaptation of Conrad’s Almayer’s Folly in 2011, made by Chantal Ackerman, Branco is now working on a film version of the novelist’s short story.
Written in 1897 and drawing on his own experience in the Congo, it deals with two European men who are assigned to a trading post in a remote part of the African jungle. But as isolation demoralises the pair and diseases weaken them, the story ultimately ends in tragedy.
The film will shoot in Angola, close to the location in which Conrad wrote the story, and will be directed by Hugo Vieira Da Silva. The cast is led by Nuno Lopes. It will be made through Leopardo Filmes and Amour Fou Vienna as a Portuguese-Austrian coproduction.
Meanwhile, together...
- 5/18/2014
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
Body Art
Director: Luca Guadagnino
Writers: Luca Guadagnino, Dom Delillo
Producer: Alfama Films
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Sigourney Weaver, Denis Levant, David Cronenberg
News on this project broke in early 2013 when Guadagnino announced that Raf Simons would be designing the wardrobe for Huppert and Weaver in this adaptation of the Dom Delillo novel “The Body Artist.” Additionally, it was announced that Lavant and Cronenberg were also attached to star. Filming was due to begin in Portugal in summer 2013 (and Weaver even left her Broadway play Vanya & Sonya & Masha & Spike early), but, for reasons unknown, that never happened. Guadagnino has been tight lipped as to why and stated that the delay was temporary, and then, just this past month, it was announced he would be adapting The Reliable Wife in the fall. While it’s been hinted that he will film something else first, nothing has been...
Director: Luca Guadagnino
Writers: Luca Guadagnino, Dom Delillo
Producer: Alfama Films
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Sigourney Weaver, Denis Levant, David Cronenberg
News on this project broke in early 2013 when Guadagnino announced that Raf Simons would be designing the wardrobe for Huppert and Weaver in this adaptation of the Dom Delillo novel “The Body Artist.” Additionally, it was announced that Lavant and Cronenberg were also attached to star. Filming was due to begin in Portugal in summer 2013 (and Weaver even left her Broadway play Vanya & Sonya & Masha & Spike early), but, for reasons unknown, that never happened. Guadagnino has been tight lipped as to why and stated that the delay was temporary, and then, just this past month, it was announced he would be adapting The Reliable Wife in the fall. While it’s been hinted that he will film something else first, nothing has been...
- 3/25/2014
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Paris Follies
Director: Marc Fitoussi
Writer: Marc Fitoussi
Producer: Avenue B Productions
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Anais Demoustier, Michael Nyqvist, Marina Fois
Well, you can hardly have a proper list without an Isabelle Huppert vehicle, and her re-teaming with Marc Fitoussi (who directed her and daughter Lolita Chammah in 2010′s Copacabana, which premiered in Critics’ Week at Cannes) lands a spot on our list, though this sounds like the type of light-hearted melodrama that Huppert tends to avoid (though their previous work gave her a rare opportunity to be an effervescent air head). 2014 will be a light year for Huppert, as two delayed projects (Body Art with Luca Guadagnino apparently has been temporarily delayed while Joachim Trier’s Louder Than Bombs just got back on tracks) means we will have to wait till 2015 to see her in multiple titles. But we’re more than...
Director: Marc Fitoussi
Writer: Marc Fitoussi
Producer: Avenue B Productions
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Anais Demoustier, Michael Nyqvist, Marina Fois
Well, you can hardly have a proper list without an Isabelle Huppert vehicle, and her re-teaming with Marc Fitoussi (who directed her and daughter Lolita Chammah in 2010′s Copacabana, which premiered in Critics’ Week at Cannes) lands a spot on our list, though this sounds like the type of light-hearted melodrama that Huppert tends to avoid (though their previous work gave her a rare opportunity to be an effervescent air head). 2014 will be a light year for Huppert, as two delayed projects (Body Art with Luca Guadagnino apparently has been temporarily delayed while Joachim Trier’s Louder Than Bombs just got back on tracks) means we will have to wait till 2015 to see her in multiple titles. But we’re more than...
- 2/21/2014
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
6 Dance Lesons In 6 Weeks, is that even possible? Apparently it is, so you better get ready for another romantic comedy which comes from director Allan Seidelman! The whole thing is based on Richard Alfieri‘s Broadway play, and what definitely sounds great is that Jacki Weaver has joined the cast which already includes Gena Rowlands and Cheyenne Jackson. Allan Seidelman will direct the project from Alfieri’s script which revolves around: …an elderly woman who hires a much younger and much more energetic dance instructor to give her one-on-one lessons for six weeks. Throughout the weeks and lessons, they develop an intimate friendship, putting aside...
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- 4/5/2013
- by Jeanne Standal
- Filmofilia
We’re already pretty fired up about Luca Guadagnino‘s latest feature Body Art. It’s based on a novel by Don DeLillo, which words were transferred to the big screen in two of 2012s fascinating limousine movies – Cosmopolis and Holy Motors. We already learned that director of Cosmopolis, David Cronenberg will this time step out in front of the camera and join Isabelle Huppert and Denis Lavant, who wowed audiences with his excellent performance in Leos Carax‘s Holy Motors. Now comes word that Sigourney Weaver has joined the cast of Italian filmmaker’s upcoming flick. Her role isn’t clear, but we know the story follows performance artist...
- 2/12/2013
- by Nick Martin
- Filmofilia
Sigourney Weaver has joined the cast of Italian filmmaker Luca Guadagnino's "Body Art" at Alfama Films.
Based on the 2001 novella "The Body Artist" by Don DeLillo ("Cosmopolis"), the story follows a woman (Isabelle Huppert) who, grieving after her husband's suicide, discovers that a stranger is living in her upstairs room - a man who may or may not be real.
Weaver joins a cast that also includes Denis Lavant and David Cronenberg. Filming begins in Portugal in the summer.
Source: Screen Daily...
Based on the 2001 novella "The Body Artist" by Don DeLillo ("Cosmopolis"), the story follows a woman (Isabelle Huppert) who, grieving after her husband's suicide, discovers that a stranger is living in her upstairs room - a man who may or may not be real.
Weaver joins a cast that also includes Denis Lavant and David Cronenberg. Filming begins in Portugal in the summer.
Source: Screen Daily...
- 2/12/2013
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
The work of Cosmopolis author Don DeLillo continues to inspire producer Paulo Branco, since he's now steaming ahead with an adaptation of DeLillo's The Body Artist. Pre-production on Body Art was announced back in December, along with a cast including Isabelle Huppert, Denis Lavant, and Cosmopolis director David Cronenberg in one of his rare acting roles. As if they weren't enough, we can now add Sigourney Weaver to the list.The Body Artist - a slim 2001 novella following DeLillo's colossal 1997 Underworld - is often described as a ghost story, but is really not quite that. A meditation on perception, time and grief, the book features long passages in which characters make breakfast or stare at webcam footage of empty roads in Finland. It does, however, involve the enigmatic appearance of a young man in an apartment, who may or may not be real. Said mystery figure arrives in the life of Lauren Hartke,...
- 2/12/2013
- EmpireOnline
We were already pretty interested in "I Am Love" director Luca Guadagnino's latest feature "Body Art" after it was announced that its production would be marrying key collaborators from two of 2012's fascinating "man-travels-around-a-city-in-a-limousine-during-a-single-day" movies. We're of course referring to "Cosmopolis" and "Holy Motors," as "Body Art" is based on a novel by the former's author Don DeLillo, and will also star the lead actor from the latter, Denis Lavant. Stretching the connections even further, David Cronenberg will also appear on-screen in a rare acting role. Isabelle Huppert will lead the cast, which was basically the cherry on the top, but just when you thought it couldn't get any better the movie goes and casts Sigourney Weaver too. If Guadagnino's sticks closely to DeLillo's novel then it will follow performance artist Lauren Hartke (Huppert), who's grieving after...
- 2/11/2013
- by Joe Cunningham
- The Playlist
Time for another European Film Market wrap-up story as several projects are on the move at Berlin's big film dance. Read on for the latest on some current and newly announced projects.
As per Screen Daily...
Canada’s Evokative Films is reorientating its operations towards international sales consultancy. Evokative’s founder Stephanie Trepanier is at the Efm with two new projects: Chelsea Peters’ slasher film The Night Stalkers, produced by Ryan Turek and set to shoot this summer, and supernatural horror-romance Spring from filmmaking duo Aaron Moorhead and Justin Benson (Resolution).
Vmi Worldwide has sold North American rights of the action-sci-fi-horror movie Gallowwalkers, starring Wesley Snipes, to Wrekin Hill Entertainment as well as Japan to Presidio and the Middle East to Phoenicia. As you may recall, this long shelved movie centers on a cursed gunman who incurs the wrath of undead warriors after he kills the gang that murdered his lover.
As per Screen Daily...
Canada’s Evokative Films is reorientating its operations towards international sales consultancy. Evokative’s founder Stephanie Trepanier is at the Efm with two new projects: Chelsea Peters’ slasher film The Night Stalkers, produced by Ryan Turek and set to shoot this summer, and supernatural horror-romance Spring from filmmaking duo Aaron Moorhead and Justin Benson (Resolution).
Vmi Worldwide has sold North American rights of the action-sci-fi-horror movie Gallowwalkers, starring Wesley Snipes, to Wrekin Hill Entertainment as well as Japan to Presidio and the Middle East to Phoenicia. As you may recall, this long shelved movie centers on a cursed gunman who incurs the wrath of undead warriors after he kills the gang that murdered his lover.
- 2/10/2013
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
All of the week's hot casting news in one fell swoop ...
• Seth MacFarlane has scored quite the cowgirl! The "Ted" funnyman has rounded up the gorgeous (and quite funny herself) Charlize Theron to star in his new film, "A Million Ways to Die in the West," a self-described "Blazing Saddles"-type comedy about a sheepish farmer who chickens out of a gunfight and sees his girlfriend leave him. [Heat Vision]
• Colin Farrell and Oscar nominee Jessica Chastain are going classical with "Miss Julie," director Liv Ullmann's take on August Strindberg's 19th-century stage play about the sexually-charged battle of wills between a wealthy socialite and one of her head servants, with the servant's fiancee popping up every now and then to make things even more interesting. Samantha Morton is also set to star. [The Hollywood Reporter]
• Witches are nothing compared to top-secret government organizations. "Hansel and Gretel" star Jeremy Renner has been assigned to "Kill the Messenger,...
• Seth MacFarlane has scored quite the cowgirl! The "Ted" funnyman has rounded up the gorgeous (and quite funny herself) Charlize Theron to star in his new film, "A Million Ways to Die in the West," a self-described "Blazing Saddles"-type comedy about a sheepish farmer who chickens out of a gunfight and sees his girlfriend leave him. [Heat Vision]
• Colin Farrell and Oscar nominee Jessica Chastain are going classical with "Miss Julie," director Liv Ullmann's take on August Strindberg's 19th-century stage play about the sexually-charged battle of wills between a wealthy socialite and one of her head servants, with the servant's fiancee popping up every now and then to make things even more interesting. Samantha Morton is also set to star. [The Hollywood Reporter]
• Witches are nothing compared to top-secret government organizations. "Hansel and Gretel" star Jeremy Renner has been assigned to "Kill the Messenger,...
- 2/1/2013
- by NextMovie Staff
- NextMovie
It seems David Cronenberg hasn’t had enough of Don DeLillo, with Variety reporting that the director is set to go in front of the camera in Luca Guadgnino’s adaptation of DeLillo’s 2001 novella, The Body Artist. Apparently retitled as Body Art, the exciting pairing of Isabelle Huppert and Sigourney Weaver, first announced by the Hollywood Reporter last week, really peaked our interest. Oh, and for some extra special zaniness, Denis Lavant is along for the ride as well. Paolo Branco of Alfama Films, (the company also behind Cosmopolis), will also be the production-distribution company behind this project. And Raf Simons, the artistic director of Dior will be designing costumes for Weaver and Huppert. Guadagnino has a few projects it seems he’s currently working, including the widely reported James Ellroy adaptation The Big Nowhere, but it seems Body Art is set to film this summer, so this may be next in his queue.
- 1/29/2013
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
David Cronenberg is a multifaceted talent who can pretty much do it all (except get Fox to let him handle a new version of The Fly; lord knows why), and now he's ready to return to the opposite side of the camera as an actor!
According to Variety Cosmopolis director David Cronenberg, novelist Don DeLillo, and producer Paolo Branco are uniting on another film, Body Art to be helmed by Italy's Luca Guadagnino (I Am Love). Cronenberg will co-star alongside Isabelle Huppert and Denis Lavant in the adapation of DeLillo's The Body Artist.
Written by Guadagnino, Body Art stars Huppert as a woman who, grieving after her husband's death, discovers that a stranger is living in her upstairs room. Shooting is scheduled for summer 2013.
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According to Variety Cosmopolis director David Cronenberg, novelist Don DeLillo, and producer Paolo Branco are uniting on another film, Body Art to be helmed by Italy's Luca Guadagnino (I Am Love). Cronenberg will co-star alongside Isabelle Huppert and Denis Lavant in the adapation of DeLillo's The Body Artist.
Written by Guadagnino, Body Art stars Huppert as a woman who, grieving after her husband's death, discovers that a stranger is living in her upstairs room. Shooting is scheduled for summer 2013.
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- 1/29/2013
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
"Cosmopolis" director David Cronenberg, novelist Don DeLillo and producer Paolo Branco are re-teaming on another project - "Body Art" at Alfama Films.
Cronenberg is not directing though, rather he will co-star alongside Isabelle Huppert ("Amour") and Denis Lavant ("Holy Motors").
Italian filmmaker Luca Guadagnino ("I Am Love") will direct the project and adapt the script from DeLillo's "The Body Artist."
Huppert plays a woman who, grieving after her husband's death, discovers that a stranger is living in her upstairs room.
Shooting will kick off this Summer.
Source: Variety...
Cronenberg is not directing though, rather he will co-star alongside Isabelle Huppert ("Amour") and Denis Lavant ("Holy Motors").
Italian filmmaker Luca Guadagnino ("I Am Love") will direct the project and adapt the script from DeLillo's "The Body Artist."
Huppert plays a woman who, grieving after her husband's death, discovers that a stranger is living in her upstairs room.
Shooting will kick off this Summer.
Source: Variety...
- 1/29/2013
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Ja from Mnpp here. You know it's an excellent bit of movie news when you can fill in the Blank in the sentence "I'd been desperately waiting to hear what Blank was going to do next" with at least five different names involved in said bit of movie news. So... this is an excellent piece of movie news. Variety is reporting that the director of the Tilda-fetish-object I Am Love Luca Guadagnino (first name) is turning Don Delillo's book (second name) The Body Artist into a movie that will star Isabelle Huppert (third name), Denis Lavant (fourth name) and... David Cronenberg (numero cinco). The book was adapted by Guadagnino, and the movie will be called Body Art.
A couple of weird cinephile overlaps to appreciate here - Cronenberg just adapted a Delillo book (and quite well if you ask me) last year with Cosmopolis, which was about a man...
A couple of weird cinephile overlaps to appreciate here - Cronenberg just adapted a Delillo book (and quite well if you ask me) last year with Cosmopolis, which was about a man...
- 1/29/2013
- by JA
- FilmExperience
One thing is for sure – David Cronenberg definitely likes Don DeLillo‘s novels. All of the sudden comes an information that Cosmopolis helmer will star in an upcoming adaptation of DeLillo’s The Body Artist, together with Isabelle Huppert and Denis Lavant. Italian director Luca Guadagnino will be in charge, and the movie will have a bit shorter title – Body Art!
Guadagnino will direct the whole thing from his own script (based on the above mentioned novel of course) which centers on:
…a woman named Lauren Hartke who, grieving after her husband’s death, discovers that a stranger is living in her upstairs room.
At this moment we know that Isabelle Huppert is set to portray that lady Hartke, but unfortunately – there’s still nothing about Cronenberg & Lavant and their characters.
Anyway, let us also add that Paolo Branco is (once again) producing the whole thing, and that shooting on...
Guadagnino will direct the whole thing from his own script (based on the above mentioned novel of course) which centers on:
…a woman named Lauren Hartke who, grieving after her husband’s death, discovers that a stranger is living in her upstairs room.
At this moment we know that Isabelle Huppert is set to portray that lady Hartke, but unfortunately – there’s still nothing about Cronenberg & Lavant and their characters.
Anyway, let us also add that Paolo Branco is (once again) producing the whole thing, and that shooting on...
- 1/29/2013
- by Jeanne Standal
- Filmofilia
Two of the most-talked about films of last year were united by one thing; both David Cronenberg's "Cosmopolis" and Leos Carax's "Holy Motors" were set over a single day, and starred a protagonist being driven around a city in a limousine. But what if key participants in both were united in one single project? Surely limo-loving, arthouse-inclined movie fans would be dancing in the street if that were to be the case? Well, get your dancing shoes on, because we're about to see a collaboration that's basically the Cannes Film Festival version of the Traveling Wilburys. According to Variety, "Cosmopolis" author Don DeLillo's novel "The Body Artist" is heading to the big screen (slightly retitled "Body Art"), with "I Am Love" helmer Luca Guadagnino writing and directing, and "Cosmopolis" producer Paolo Branco shepherding it. And a diverse and fascinating cast has been assembled, with the...
- 1/29/2013
- by Oliver Lyttelton
- The Playlist
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