Kit Harington and Scoot McNairy play old friends who reunite under dangerous circumstances in the first trailer for crime thriller Blood for Dust.
The Avenue is set to release director Rod Blackhurst’s feature in select theaters and on digital platforms April 19 following its premiere at last year’s Tribeca Festival. Josh Lucas and Stephen Dorff also star in Blood for Dust, which tells the story of Cliff (McNairy), a traveling salesman with financial issues who becomes enveloped in the world of drug trafficking after reuniting with Ricky (Harington).
“I don’t sell products that sell themselves,” Harington says in the trailer. This leads McNairy to respond, “You’re an arms dealer who sells drugs, Ricky.”
Blackhurst (Here Alone) helmed the film from a script by David Ebeltoft. Ryan Winterstern, Bernard Kira, Petr Jákl, Ari Novak, Arun Kumar, Bobby Campbell, Nathan Klingher, Mark Fasano and Noah Lang serve as producers.
The Avenue is set to release director Rod Blackhurst’s feature in select theaters and on digital platforms April 19 following its premiere at last year’s Tribeca Festival. Josh Lucas and Stephen Dorff also star in Blood for Dust, which tells the story of Cliff (McNairy), a traveling salesman with financial issues who becomes enveloped in the world of drug trafficking after reuniting with Ricky (Harington).
“I don’t sell products that sell themselves,” Harington says in the trailer. This leads McNairy to respond, “You’re an arms dealer who sells drugs, Ricky.”
Blackhurst (Here Alone) helmed the film from a script by David Ebeltoft. Ryan Winterstern, Bernard Kira, Petr Jákl, Ari Novak, Arun Kumar, Bobby Campbell, Nathan Klingher, Mark Fasano and Noah Lang serve as producers.
- 3/5/2024
- by Ryan Gajewski
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Sundance Film Festival on Sunday night hosted the world premiere of Aaron Schimberg’s A Different Man starring Sebastian Stan, Adam Pearson and The Worst Person in the World breakout Renate Reinsve in her first American film.
Stan toplines the A24 release as an aspiring actor, Edward, who undergoes a radical medical procedure to drastically transform his appearance. But a new face turns into a nightmare when it causes him to lose a dream role he was born to play when the playwright/object of his affections, Reinsve, replaces him with someone who looks nearly identical to his former self, Pearson, a man with a disfigured face.
As for Pearson, he lives with neurofibromatosis (type 1), a rare genetic condition that causes excess body tissue to grow predominantly on his face. The condition fuels the plot of A Different Man and the actor, Pearson, actually inspired the film after having...
Stan toplines the A24 release as an aspiring actor, Edward, who undergoes a radical medical procedure to drastically transform his appearance. But a new face turns into a nightmare when it causes him to lose a dream role he was born to play when the playwright/object of his affections, Reinsve, replaces him with someone who looks nearly identical to his former self, Pearson, a man with a disfigured face.
As for Pearson, he lives with neurofibromatosis (type 1), a rare genetic condition that causes excess body tissue to grow predominantly on his face. The condition fuels the plot of A Different Man and the actor, Pearson, actually inspired the film after having...
- 1/22/2024
- by Chris Gardner
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
All of Us Strangers
Telluride
A lonely gay London writer, orphaned young, revisits his past while starting a new romance with a neighbor in Andrew Haigh’s hauntingly beautiful study of grief, love and family. With a quartet of shattering performances from Andrew Scott, Paul Mescal, Claire Foy and Jamie Bell, this is a soul-stirring work, heartfelt and unforgettable. — David Rooney
American Symphony
Telluride
Matthew Heineman’s deeply moving doc follows musician Jon Batiste and his life partner, Suleika Jaouad, through a year of highs (his exploding career) and lows (her cancer recurrence). It’s a concert film, a love story and a snapshot of America’s dogged emergence from the pandemic. — Daniel Fienberg
The Boy and the Heron
Toronto
Hayao Miyazaki emerges from retirement with a profoundly personal swan song — a rumination on love, loss and the intersection between life and death in a world spinning out of control.
Telluride
A lonely gay London writer, orphaned young, revisits his past while starting a new romance with a neighbor in Andrew Haigh’s hauntingly beautiful study of grief, love and family. With a quartet of shattering performances from Andrew Scott, Paul Mescal, Claire Foy and Jamie Bell, this is a soul-stirring work, heartfelt and unforgettable. — David Rooney
American Symphony
Telluride
Matthew Heineman’s deeply moving doc follows musician Jon Batiste and his life partner, Suleika Jaouad, through a year of highs (his exploding career) and lows (her cancer recurrence). It’s a concert film, a love story and a snapshot of America’s dogged emergence from the pandemic. — Daniel Fienberg
The Boy and the Heron
Toronto
Hayao Miyazaki emerges from retirement with a profoundly personal swan song — a rumination on love, loss and the intersection between life and death in a world spinning out of control.
- 9/19/2023
- by David Rooney, Sheri Linden, Jon Frosch, Leslie Felperin, Jordan Mintzer and Michael Rechstshaffen
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
From the director of Night’S End, comes filmmaker Jennifer Reeder’s new film Perpetrator.
Anna Bogutskaya, (The Playlist) calls it “A Trip Dripping In Blood & Atmosphere. Takes influence from giallo films and teenage classics like Heathers to craft a world that blends the kitsch and the uncanny.”
Jordan Mintzer, (The Hollywood Reporter) says it’s “Transgressive and true to itself. Somewhere between camp and Cronenberg lies Perpetrator.”
Jude Dry, (IndieWire) says it’s “An ambitious addition to the feminist horror genre with blood and guts to spare. Silverstone is a steely delight.”
Streaming on Shudder and opening in Select Theaters on September 1st, check out the trailer for Perpetrator.
Jonny Baptiste (Kiah McKirnan) is a reckless teen sent to live with her estranged Aunt Hildie (Alicia Silverstone). On her 18th birthday, she experiences a radical metamorphosis: a family spell that redefines her called Forevering. When several teen girls go missing at her new school,...
Anna Bogutskaya, (The Playlist) calls it “A Trip Dripping In Blood & Atmosphere. Takes influence from giallo films and teenage classics like Heathers to craft a world that blends the kitsch and the uncanny.”
Jordan Mintzer, (The Hollywood Reporter) says it’s “Transgressive and true to itself. Somewhere between camp and Cronenberg lies Perpetrator.”
Jude Dry, (IndieWire) says it’s “An ambitious addition to the feminist horror genre with blood and guts to spare. Silverstone is a steely delight.”
Streaming on Shudder and opening in Select Theaters on September 1st, check out the trailer for Perpetrator.
Jonny Baptiste (Kiah McKirnan) is a reckless teen sent to live with her estranged Aunt Hildie (Alicia Silverstone). On her 18th birthday, she experiences a radical metamorphosis: a family spell that redefines her called Forevering. When several teen girls go missing at her new school,...
- 7/19/2023
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
After Love
A transcendent chamber piece, Aleem Khan’s feature-length directorial debut is graced with an exceptional lead performance from Joanna Scanlan as an English woman who converted to Islam for marriage years ago — only to discover, when her husband dies, that he was living a shocking double life. It’s a miraculous study of grief, jealousy and ultimately compassion, all executed with very little dialogue. — Leslie Felperin
Are You There God? It’S Me, Margaret
Kelly Fremon Craig’s adaptation of the classic Judy Blume novel about a girl on the cusp of puberty is charming, heartwarming, and beautifully acted and scored. But its magic comes from its respectful reanimation of the source material: The film stays close to Margaret and her emotions, using them to honor an already sturdy narrative while also expanding our understanding of the world around her. — Lovia Gyarkye
De Humani Corporis Fabrica
Véréna Paravel...
A transcendent chamber piece, Aleem Khan’s feature-length directorial debut is graced with an exceptional lead performance from Joanna Scanlan as an English woman who converted to Islam for marriage years ago — only to discover, when her husband dies, that he was living a shocking double life. It’s a miraculous study of grief, jealousy and ultimately compassion, all executed with very little dialogue. — Leslie Felperin
Are You There God? It’S Me, Margaret
Kelly Fremon Craig’s adaptation of the classic Judy Blume novel about a girl on the cusp of puberty is charming, heartwarming, and beautifully acted and scored. But its magic comes from its respectful reanimation of the source material: The film stays close to Margaret and her emotions, using them to honor an already sturdy narrative while also expanding our understanding of the world around her. — Lovia Gyarkye
De Humani Corporis Fabrica
Véréna Paravel...
- 6/26/2023
- by David Rooney, Sheri Linden, Lovia Gyarkye, Jon Frosch, Leslie Felperin and Jordan Mintzer
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Anatomy of a Fall
Competition
Starring a sensational Sandra Hüller as a German novelist on trial for the murder of her husband, French director Justine Triet’s Palme d’Or winner is gripping and gratifyingly rich: part legal procedural, part portrait of a complicated woman, part snapshot of a marriage on the brink and part coming-of-age narrative. Above all, Anatomy of a Fall is about the essential unknowability of a person, of a relationship, and the perilous impossibility of trying to understand — whether it’s a child puzzling over his parents or a courtroom straining to make sense of an inscrutable suspect. — Jon Frosch
Anselm
Special Screenings
Wim Wenders’ latest 3D documentary offers a mesmerizing cinematic catalog of German painter-sculptor Anselm Kiefer’s deeply tactile, maximalist oeuvre. As in Pina, Wenders’ luminous 2011 tribute to the late dancer-choreographer Pina Bausch, the director makes the best possible case for art house theaters...
Competition
Starring a sensational Sandra Hüller as a German novelist on trial for the murder of her husband, French director Justine Triet’s Palme d’Or winner is gripping and gratifyingly rich: part legal procedural, part portrait of a complicated woman, part snapshot of a marriage on the brink and part coming-of-age narrative. Above all, Anatomy of a Fall is about the essential unknowability of a person, of a relationship, and the perilous impossibility of trying to understand — whether it’s a child puzzling over his parents or a courtroom straining to make sense of an inscrutable suspect. — Jon Frosch
Anselm
Special Screenings
Wim Wenders’ latest 3D documentary offers a mesmerizing cinematic catalog of German painter-sculptor Anselm Kiefer’s deeply tactile, maximalist oeuvre. As in Pina, Wenders’ luminous 2011 tribute to the late dancer-choreographer Pina Bausch, the director makes the best possible case for art house theaters...
- 5/28/2023
- by David Rooney, Jon Frosch, Sheri Linden, Lovia Gyarkye, Leslie Felperin and Jordan Mintzer
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
What happens when six Hollywood Reporter film critics get together to pick their 50 favorite movies of the 21st century so far? Debating, deliberating, voting, the devising of a nerdy point system, second-guessing, fine-tuning, re-deliberating, re-second-guessing, re-fine-tuning — you get the picture.
But now the list is published, and below are things we thought readers might find interesting about our selections. Some of these things surprised us, too.
18 films not in English: 4 French, 3 Japanese, 2 Korean, 2 Romanian, 2 Mexican, 1 Spanish, 1 Taiwanese, 1 Hong Kong, 1 Russian, 1 Mauritanian 11 films directed by women 9 films directed by Black filmmakers 6 documentaries 2 animated films 4 first films 5 directors with multiple films on the list: Jane Campion (2), the Coen brothers (2), Alfonso Cuarón (2), David Fincher (2), Richard Linklater (2) 2 best picture Oscar winners (Moonlight and Parasite) 3 Cannes Palme d’Or winners (4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days; Shoplifters; Parasite) 2 Venice Golden Lion winners (The Return and Brokeback Mountain) Years with the most films represented: 2016 and 2018 (4 each) Actors with...
But now the list is published, and below are things we thought readers might find interesting about our selections. Some of these things surprised us, too.
18 films not in English: 4 French, 3 Japanese, 2 Korean, 2 Romanian, 2 Mexican, 1 Spanish, 1 Taiwanese, 1 Hong Kong, 1 Russian, 1 Mauritanian 11 films directed by women 9 films directed by Black filmmakers 6 documentaries 2 animated films 4 first films 5 directors with multiple films on the list: Jane Campion (2), the Coen brothers (2), Alfonso Cuarón (2), David Fincher (2), Richard Linklater (2) 2 best picture Oscar winners (Moonlight and Parasite) 3 Cannes Palme d’Or winners (4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days; Shoplifters; Parasite) 2 Venice Golden Lion winners (The Return and Brokeback Mountain) Years with the most films represented: 2016 and 2018 (4 each) Actors with...
- 4/6/2023
- by Jon Frosch, David Rooney, Sheri Linden, Lovia Gyarkye, Leslie Felperin and Jordan Mintzer
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The curtain has dropped on another South by Southwest, but this was no ordinary year for the Austin-based tech and media event. Two days after the festival started, “Everything Everywhere All At Once” claimed seven Oscars and gave it the bonafide of having premiered a Best Picture winner (2022’s slate also produced a Best Actress contender in “To Leslie’s” Andrea Riseborough). Now considered an “Oscar launchpad,” SXSW unsurprisingly attracted more than its usual share of attention.
“Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves” filled this year’s Opening Night slot. The movie got a warm reception and looks to spearhead a new franchise for Paramount. Laura Bradley (The Daily Beast) thinks it does an admirable job balancing accessibility and fan service, writing, “Those who have played Dungeons & Dragons will find plenty of details to love in ‘Honor Among Thieves’ (including an excellently deployed owlbear), but the film also avoids...
“Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves” filled this year’s Opening Night slot. The movie got a warm reception and looks to spearhead a new franchise for Paramount. Laura Bradley (The Daily Beast) thinks it does an admirable job balancing accessibility and fan service, writing, “Those who have played Dungeons & Dragons will find plenty of details to love in ‘Honor Among Thieves’ (including an excellently deployed owlbear), but the film also avoids...
- 3/21/2023
- by Ronald Meyer
- Gold Derby
The 73rd Berlin International Film Festival came to a close this past weekend, and despite speculation that Sundance import “Past Lives” or Lila Avilés’ “Tótem” would take the Golden Bear, the jury, led this year by Kristen Stewart, awarded it to the French documentary “On the Adamant.” Directed by Nicolas Philibert, the movie follows operations at the Parisian Centre de jour l’Adamant, a floating medical facility on the Seine that offers its patients innovative forms of art therapy.
Jordan Mintzer (The Hollywood Reporter) writes, “While documenting the daily routine of a small clinic that most Parisians walk by without ever noticing, ‘On the Adamant’ ultimately becomes a moving testament to what people are capable of, if they could just find the right place to do it.” Guy Lodge (Variety) compares the film to Philibert’s “To Be and To Have,” which is set inside a single-room schoolhouse in rural France,...
Jordan Mintzer (The Hollywood Reporter) writes, “While documenting the daily routine of a small clinic that most Parisians walk by without ever noticing, ‘On the Adamant’ ultimately becomes a moving testament to what people are capable of, if they could just find the right place to do it.” Guy Lodge (Variety) compares the film to Philibert’s “To Be and To Have,” which is set inside a single-room schoolhouse in rural France,...
- 2/28/2023
- by Ronald Meyer
- Gold Derby
Denmark has submitted “Holy Spider” for Best International Film at the 95th Academy Awards. 2022 Cannes Film Festival winner for Best Actress Zar Amir Ebrahimi plays Rahimi, a female journalist who travels to the Iranian holy city of Mashhad to investigate a serial killer who believes he is doing the work of God, cleansing the streets of sinners by murdering sex workers.
As the body count mounts, and Rahimi draws closer to exposing his crimes, the opportunity for justice grows harder to attain as the “Spider Killer” is embraced by many as a hero. Based on the horrific true story of serial killer Saeed Hanaei, acclaimed writer-director Ali Abbasi (“Border”) unveils a gripping crime thriller, and a daring indictment of a society in which rough justice is routinely a fact of life.
See 2023 Oscars: Best International Feature Predictions [Updated: October 2]
“Undeniably arresting,” declared Fionnuala Halligan in Screen International. “A bleakly intense film which...
As the body count mounts, and Rahimi draws closer to exposing his crimes, the opportunity for justice grows harder to attain as the “Spider Killer” is embraced by many as a hero. Based on the horrific true story of serial killer Saeed Hanaei, acclaimed writer-director Ali Abbasi (“Border”) unveils a gripping crime thriller, and a daring indictment of a society in which rough justice is routinely a fact of life.
See 2023 Oscars: Best International Feature Predictions [Updated: October 2]
“Undeniably arresting,” declared Fionnuala Halligan in Screen International. “A bleakly intense film which...
- 10/13/2022
- by Denton Davidson
- Gold Derby
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A Chiara
Jonas Carpignano completes his Southern Italian trilogy about a Calabrian town where African refugees, the Romani community and Mafia exist side by side, for the first time focusing on a young female protagonist: a teen girl (Swamy Rotolo) absorbing shocking discoveries about her adored father. The result is a film of haunting intimacy. — David Rooney
After Yang
Colin Farrell and Jodie Turner-Smith play a couple whose family harmony suffers when the android sibling they purchased for their adopted Chinese daughter breaks down in writer-director Kogonada’s exquisite, meditative sci-fi drama. The film’s stealthy emotional power creeps up on you. — D.R.
ANAïS In Love
A restless young Parisian woman (Anaïs Demoustier, charming) falls in love with her ex’s partner, a famous writer played by a brilliant Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, in Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet’s seductive debut feature. It’s a...
A Chiara
Jonas Carpignano completes his Southern Italian trilogy about a Calabrian town where African refugees, the Romani community and Mafia exist side by side, for the first time focusing on a young female protagonist: a teen girl (Swamy Rotolo) absorbing shocking discoveries about her adored father. The result is a film of haunting intimacy. — David Rooney
After Yang
Colin Farrell and Jodie Turner-Smith play a couple whose family harmony suffers when the android sibling they purchased for their adopted Chinese daughter breaks down in writer-director Kogonada’s exquisite, meditative sci-fi drama. The film’s stealthy emotional power creeps up on you. — D.R.
ANAïS In Love
A restless young Parisian woman (Anaïs Demoustier, charming) falls in love with her ex’s partner, a famous writer played by a brilliant Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, in Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet’s seductive debut feature. It’s a...
- 6/22/2022
- by David Rooney, Sheri Linden, Lovia Gyarkye and Jordan Mintzer
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The event celebrated up-and-coming talent.
Unifrance and Screen International held a dinner to celebrate up-and-coming French talent on May 25 at Le Studio, Cannes.
Back in January, 10 filmmakers and actors were selected by international journalists Lisa Nesselson (Screen International), Fabien Lemercier (Cineuropa), Elsa Keslassy (Variety) and Jordan Mintzer (The Hollywood Reporter) as the most audacious, diverse, fresh and committed new French talents to watch in 2022.
Take a look at a selection of photos from the evening above.
The selected 10 are:
Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet (director) Alice Diop (writer/director) Arthur Harari (actor/filmmaker) Karim Leklou (actor) Déborah Lukumuena (actor) Rabah Nait Oufella (actor...
Unifrance and Screen International held a dinner to celebrate up-and-coming French talent on May 25 at Le Studio, Cannes.
Back in January, 10 filmmakers and actors were selected by international journalists Lisa Nesselson (Screen International), Fabien Lemercier (Cineuropa), Elsa Keslassy (Variety) and Jordan Mintzer (The Hollywood Reporter) as the most audacious, diverse, fresh and committed new French talents to watch in 2022.
Take a look at a selection of photos from the evening above.
The selected 10 are:
Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet (director) Alice Diop (writer/director) Arthur Harari (actor/filmmaker) Karim Leklou (actor) Déborah Lukumuena (actor) Rabah Nait Oufella (actor...
- 6/1/2022
- by Screen staff
- ScreenDaily
Revered cinematographer Darius Khondji loves to shoot on film but has made his peace with digital, he revealed in a masterclass at Cannes on Thursday.
“It’s just so sexy to shoot on film, the texture is beautiful, it looks great on skin tones,” Khondji said. Khondji said that digital can be very beautiful too but it can make make cinematographers lazy. Khondji’s first experience of shooting digitally was on Nicolas Winding Refn’s Amazon Prime Video series “Too Old to Die Young.” He initially thought that the series would be shot on film, because Refn asked him to shoot it while at a Kodak lunch in Cannes.
The cinematographer eventually reconciled to the idea of shooting digital after conversations with Refn and running several tests with digital cameras.
“He convinced me that it would be very experimental and frankly, we could really be very free on it,” said Khondji.
“It’s just so sexy to shoot on film, the texture is beautiful, it looks great on skin tones,” Khondji said. Khondji said that digital can be very beautiful too but it can make make cinematographers lazy. Khondji’s first experience of shooting digitally was on Nicolas Winding Refn’s Amazon Prime Video series “Too Old to Die Young.” He initially thought that the series would be shot on film, because Refn asked him to shoot it while at a Kodak lunch in Cannes.
The cinematographer eventually reconciled to the idea of shooting digital after conversations with Refn and running several tests with digital cameras.
“He convinced me that it would be very experimental and frankly, we could really be very free on it,” said Khondji.
- 5/26/2022
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Another World (Venice)
Cannes best actor laureate Vincent Lindon reteams with The Measure of a Man director Stéphane Brizé for another exploration of the demise of France’s working class. In this nerve-racking look at a factory boss obliged to make layoffs, Lindon channels the tremendous strain faced by a solicitous man who’s been backed into a corner beneath the crushing weight of global capitalism. — Jordan Mintzer
The Box (Venice, Toronto)
This quietly devastating drama from Lorenzo Vigas (From Afar) recounts the reckoning of an orphaned teenager (Hatzín Navarrete) with a man he’s convinced is his father (Hernán Mendoza). Set against the badlands ...
Cannes best actor laureate Vincent Lindon reteams with The Measure of a Man director Stéphane Brizé for another exploration of the demise of France’s working class. In this nerve-racking look at a factory boss obliged to make layoffs, Lindon channels the tremendous strain faced by a solicitous man who’s been backed into a corner beneath the crushing weight of global capitalism. — Jordan Mintzer
The Box (Venice, Toronto)
This quietly devastating drama from Lorenzo Vigas (From Afar) recounts the reckoning of an orphaned teenager (Hatzín Navarrete) with a man he’s convinced is his father (Hernán Mendoza). Set against the badlands ...
- 9/21/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
We had such high hopes for The New Mutants. The internet collectively loved the horror-infused first trailer for the movie that dropped all the way back in 2017, and after Dark Phoenix flopped last summer, X-Men fans kept their fingers crossed that the ever-delayed teen-flavored spinoff would prove to be a better final installment of Fox’s X-franchise. At long last, The New Mutants opens in theaters today, but it’s been met with damning reviews from critics.
Josh Boone’s movie currently sports a paltry 20% critics score on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 20 reviews. Things could improve, then, as more critics give their thoughts, but that’s definitely not what we wanted to see. The audience score is somewhat better, but it’s still only 55% on the back of 163 ratings. So, this isn’t even one of those times when you can say “well, at least the fans love it.”
But...
Josh Boone’s movie currently sports a paltry 20% critics score on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 20 reviews. Things could improve, then, as more critics give their thoughts, but that’s definitely not what we wanted to see. The audience score is somewhat better, but it’s still only 55% on the back of 163 ratings. So, this isn’t even one of those times when you can say “well, at least the fans love it.”
But...
- 8/28/2020
- by Christian Bone
- We Got This Covered
After years of delays, “The New Mutants” is finally in theaters, and a select few critics braved theaters to get the first look. But the verdict from early reviews is that Josh Boone’s “so-so” “X-Men” spinoff wasn’t worth the long wait, and may not be worth moviegoers immediately going back to theaters either.
“The New Mutants” has been delayed since before even the Disney-Fox merger way back in 2018, and some fans wondered if it would ever hit the big screen. And now that it has, Disney did not make the film widely available to critics, with some like The A.V. Club announcing their intentions not to review the film at all.
But a smattering of critics — just 18 on Rotten Tomatoes at the time of writing — have saddled “The New Mutants” with a lowly 22% on Rotten Tomatoes, calling it “middling,” “so-so,” or “perfectly fine,” with one critic going...
“The New Mutants” has been delayed since before even the Disney-Fox merger way back in 2018, and some fans wondered if it would ever hit the big screen. And now that it has, Disney did not make the film widely available to critics, with some like The A.V. Club announcing their intentions not to review the film at all.
But a smattering of critics — just 18 on Rotten Tomatoes at the time of writing — have saddled “The New Mutants” with a lowly 22% on Rotten Tomatoes, calling it “middling,” “so-so,” or “perfectly fine,” with one critic going...
- 8/28/2020
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
“Bad Education” premiered last fall at the Toronto Film Festival, but it makes its debut on HBO on Saturday, April 25. So what do critics think of this fact-based film about an embezzlement scandal at a Long Island public school?
As of this writing the film has a MetaCritic score of 79 based on 16 reviews counted thus far: 14 positive and 2 mixed, but none outright negative. Meanwhile, Rotten Tomatoes classifies reviews simply as positive or negative and not on the sliding scale from 0 to 100 like MetaCritic, and they rate the film as 90% fresh based on 52 reviews, only 5 of which are categorized as negative. The Rt critics’ consensus says, “Anchored by an outstanding Hugh Jackman, ‘Bad Education’ finds absurd laughs — and a worthy message — in the aftermath of a real-life scandal.”
SEEHugh Jackman movies: 12 greatest films, ranked worst to best, include ‘Les Miserables,’ ‘Logan,’ ‘Prisoners’
Indeed, Jackman’s performance has been singled out for praise by many reviews.
As of this writing the film has a MetaCritic score of 79 based on 16 reviews counted thus far: 14 positive and 2 mixed, but none outright negative. Meanwhile, Rotten Tomatoes classifies reviews simply as positive or negative and not on the sliding scale from 0 to 100 like MetaCritic, and they rate the film as 90% fresh based on 52 reviews, only 5 of which are categorized as negative. The Rt critics’ consensus says, “Anchored by an outstanding Hugh Jackman, ‘Bad Education’ finds absurd laughs — and a worthy message — in the aftermath of a real-life scandal.”
SEEHugh Jackman movies: 12 greatest films, ranked worst to best, include ‘Les Miserables,’ ‘Logan,’ ‘Prisoners’
Indeed, Jackman’s performance has been singled out for praise by many reviews.
- 4/25/2020
- by Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
Jordan Mintzer: It seems possible to say 2019 will go down as a watershed year for French cinema. Not necessarily for the movies made, although there were some pretty good ones, but for the fact that the #MeToo movement finally crossed the Atlantic and arrived on the shores of France. As they say here: "mieux tard que jamais."
The sea change happened after two incidents that occurred only a few days apart in early November: The first was the accusation, made via a long investigative article published by Mediapart, of sexual abuse committed by director Christophe Ruggia against actress Adèle ...
The sea change happened after two incidents that occurred only a few days apart in early November: The first was the accusation, made via a long investigative article published by Mediapart, of sexual abuse committed by director Christophe Ruggia against actress Adèle ...
- 12/19/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Jordan Mintzer: It seems possible to say 2019 will go down as a watershed year for French cinema. Not necessarily for the movies made, although there were some pretty good ones, but for the fact that the #MeToo movement finally crossed the Atlantic and arrived on the shores of France. As they say here: "mieux tard que jamais."
The sea change happened after two incidents that occurred only a few days apart in early November: The first was the accusation, made via a long investigative article published by Mediapart, of sexual abuse committed by director Christophe Ruggia against actress Adèle ...
The sea change happened after two incidents that occurred only a few days apart in early November: The first was the accusation, made via a long investigative article published by Mediapart, of sexual abuse committed by director Christophe Ruggia against actress Adèle ...
- 12/19/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Jordan Mintzer With the usual slew of strikes and scandals, not to mention all the soccer mania that happened over the summer (Allez les bleus!), things felt rather routine and even upbeat in France throughout 2018. That is until this past month.
The gilets jaunes protests, which began in the provinces and made their way to Paris at the end of November, hit the country like a socio-political sledgehammer (or more like lots of regular-sized hammers smashing the windows of Starbucks, McDonald’s and various banks around the city). Things have calmed down ever since President Macron backtracked on the ...
The gilets jaunes protests, which began in the provinces and made their way to Paris at the end of November, hit the country like a socio-political sledgehammer (or more like lots of regular-sized hammers smashing the windows of Starbucks, McDonald’s and various banks around the city). Things have calmed down ever since President Macron backtracked on the ...
- 12/31/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Jordan Mintzer With the usual slew of strikes and scandals, not to mention all the soccer mania that happened over the summer (Allez les bleus!), things felt rather routine and even upbeat in France throughout 2018. That is until this past month.
The gilets jaunes protests, which began in the provinces and made their way to Paris at the end of November, hit the country like a socio-political sledgehammer (or more like lots of regular-sized hammers smashing the windows of Starbucks, McDonald’s and various banks around the city). Things have calmed down ever since President Macron backtracked on the ...
The gilets jaunes protests, which began in the provinces and made their way to Paris at the end of November, hit the country like a socio-political sledgehammer (or more like lots of regular-sized hammers smashing the windows of Starbucks, McDonald’s and various banks around the city). Things have calmed down ever since President Macron backtracked on the ...
- 12/31/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Cristina Gallegos and Ciro Guerra’s crime epic Birds of Passage has been picked as Colombia's foreign-language film Oscar submission, the country's Film Academy announced on Wednesday.
Premiered at Cannes’ Directors' Fortnight, the film reveals the slow and steady destruction of a close-knit native family who gets caught up in the international drug trade in the 1970s, and was described as “a beautifully crafted, slow-burn crime saga steeped in native traditions,” in Jordan Mintzer's review.
Earlier this year, the film’s lead, Natalia Reyes, was cast in the leading role in the upcoming Terminator reboot, where ...
Premiered at Cannes’ Directors' Fortnight, the film reveals the slow and steady destruction of a close-knit native family who gets caught up in the international drug trade in the 1970s, and was described as “a beautifully crafted, slow-burn crime saga steeped in native traditions,” in Jordan Mintzer's review.
Earlier this year, the film’s lead, Natalia Reyes, was cast in the leading role in the upcoming Terminator reboot, where ...
- 8/30/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Less than a week before Valentine's Day, the final installment in the Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy, Fifty Shades Freed, has arrived, wrapping up three years of mild Bdsm on the big screen. While the end of a franchise usually sparks nostalgia, critics almost unanimously agree that it’s time for the Fifty Shades of Grey series to fade to black.
Although main characters Ana and Christian (Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan) spend most of the movie having sex, The Hollywood Reporter’s Jordan Mintzer feels the new release "doesn’t quite end with the bang one...
Although main characters Ana and Christian (Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan) spend most of the movie having sex, The Hollywood Reporter’s Jordan Mintzer feels the new release "doesn’t quite end with the bang one...
- 2/9/2018
- by Zoe Haylock
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Jordan Mintzer: To be perfectly frank (or franc), I feel like 2017 won't go down as a great year in French cinema. There are of course some exceptions — such as critical favorite Bpm (Beats Per Minute), which looked like a shoo-in for a Foreign Language Oscar nomination until it surprisingly didn't make the shortlist. But putting that and a few other movies aside, I really found this year's output average at best. Such a statement shouldn't, however, be taken as a general assessment of French film — the so-called French bashing that we and other critics are sometimes...
- 12/26/2017
- by Jordan Mintzer,Boyd van Hoeij
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The review embargo has been lifted for Ghost in the Shell, the controversial Scarlet Johansson cyberpunk vehicle based on Masamune Shirow's classic manga series and the subsequent animated adaptation from director Mamoru Oshii. Does Rupert Sanders' live-action remake live up to its predecessors? The answer seemingly depends on whom you ask.
The live-action remake of the classic 1995 animated movie is, according to The Hollywood Reporter's Jordan Mintzer, "a heavily computer-generated enterprise with more body than brains, more visuals than ideas, as if the original movie’s hard drive had been wiped clean of all that was dark, poetic and...
The live-action remake of the classic 1995 animated movie is, according to The Hollywood Reporter's Jordan Mintzer, "a heavily computer-generated enterprise with more body than brains, more visuals than ideas, as if the original movie’s hard drive had been wiped clean of all that was dark, poetic and...
- 3/28/2017
- by Graeme McMillan
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Jordan Mintzer: When we tried to write our wrap-up piece on French cinema this time last year, the Paris attacks had occurred only a month beforehand and were still fresh on everyone’s mind. Since then, we’ve all tried to move past the events of November 13, not to mention the Charlie Hebdo killings and the incident in Nice this past summer — though the nation continues to remain on high alert, with army patrols roaming the streets of Paris and other major cities, day and night.
While last year’s crop of French movies seemed to reflect fears of terror and...
While last year’s crop of French movies seemed to reflect fears of terror and...
- 12/21/2016
- by Jordan Mintzer,Boyd van Hoeij
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Julia Ducournau’s feature film debut, “Raw,” has caused quite a stir with viewers for its graphic and gruesome scenes, but has no doubt left an impression on critics.
The cannibal horror film follows a 16-year-old vegetarian who is forced to eat a raw rabbit liver during her school’s humiliating hazing ritual. After devouring the meat, she starts to crave more flesh. The movie made its premiere at this year’s Cannes Film Festival where it won the Fipresci Prize and was recently screened at the Toronto Film Festival. Here’s what critics are saying.
Variety’s Catherine Bray saw the film at Cannes and stated that the jurors would have to reach for the barf bag.
“‘Raw’ is a deliciously fevered stew of nightmare fuel that hangs together with a breezily confident sense of superior craft. Genre-led distribs will be slavering for a taste, while crossover to a...
The cannibal horror film follows a 16-year-old vegetarian who is forced to eat a raw rabbit liver during her school’s humiliating hazing ritual. After devouring the meat, she starts to crave more flesh. The movie made its premiere at this year’s Cannes Film Festival where it won the Fipresci Prize and was recently screened at the Toronto Film Festival. Here’s what critics are saying.
Variety’s Catherine Bray saw the film at Cannes and stated that the jurors would have to reach for the barf bag.
“‘Raw’ is a deliciously fevered stew of nightmare fuel that hangs together with a breezily confident sense of superior craft. Genre-led distribs will be slavering for a taste, while crossover to a...
- 9/14/2016
- by Liz Calvario
- Indiewire
Pets! What do they do all day? Universal’s animation arm, Illumination Entertainment, has bravely tackled this exact question with its newest offering, “The Secret Life of Pets.” Directed by Chris Renaud and Yarrow Cheney, the film features an all-star cast of very funny voice talent, from Louis C.K. to Kevin Hart, Jenny Slate to Hannibal Burress, Lake Bell to Ellie Kemper and many, many more to tell the story of some house pets who go decidedly off the leash on a frisky adventure that pits them against a wily pack of unhappy animals. Here’s hoping for a happy ending.
Read More: ‘The Secret Life Of Pets’ Review: Talking Animals Are Fun, But Don’t Expect the Pixar Touch
The film recently bowed at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival, where a bevy of outlets were chomping at the bit to get a first look at pets, being secret,...
Read More: ‘The Secret Life Of Pets’ Review: Talking Animals Are Fun, But Don’t Expect the Pixar Touch
The film recently bowed at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival, where a bevy of outlets were chomping at the bit to get a first look at pets, being secret,...
- 6/17/2016
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Paul Verhoeven's "Elle" was among the surprise inclusions in the Cannes Film Festival this year, but early reviews indicate that the "Basic Instinct" and "Showgirls" director's latest deserved its spot in the Competition. The "lighthearted rape-revenge story" starring Isabelle Huppert gets a B from Indiewire's Eric Kohn, who says that the co-writer/director "has crafted a defiant tale about the ultimate antidote for fear lying in the ability to turn it into something else." Read More: Cannes Review: Paul Verhoeven's 'Elle' is a Lighthearted Rape-Revenge Story The Hollywood Reporter's Jordan Mintzer feels similarly, calling "Elle" a "tastefully twisted mid-to-late-life crisis thriller that’s both lasciviously dark and rebelliously light on its feet" before concluding that Verhoeven and Huppert "combine their talents to make a film that hardly skimps on the sex, violence and sadism, yet ultimately tells a story...
- 5/22/2016
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
Jordan Mintzer: I’d love to get right down to business, but, truth be told, when the French look back on the year 2015, movies will be the last thing on anyone’s mind. The traumatic attacks that took place in January and November were unprecedented in local history — this in a country that has lived through waves of terrorist incidents dating as far back as the 1970s, if not earlier. Yet the events of this year, and particularly the Paris shootings of last month, were something frighteningly new: An unsparing assault on the French way of life, with victims chosen
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- 12/24/2015
- by Jordan Mintzer, Boyd van Hoeij
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
"It’s been over a decade since Lucile Hadzihalilovic’s debut feature, Innocence, became a critical and cult hit, prompting comparisons to the work of her ex-partner Gaspar Noé, on whose movies she has collaborated several times," begins Jordan Mintzer in the Hollywood Reporter. "With her sophomore effort, Evolution, the writer-director delivers another disturbing mélange of experimental genre filmmaking and adorable, tortured French kids." In the Guardian, Jordan Hoffman suggests that Evolution's "post-human aspects are reminiscent of Under the Skin, its slowly teased mysteries recall Upstream Color." We've got more reviews and a clip. » - David Hudson...
- 9/16/2015
- Keyframe
"It’s been over a decade since Lucile Hadzihalilovic’s debut feature, Innocence, became a critical and cult hit, prompting comparisons to the work of her ex-partner Gaspar Noé, on whose movies she has collaborated several times," begins Jordan Mintzer in the Hollywood Reporter. "With her sophomore effort, Evolution, the writer-director delivers another disturbing mélange of experimental genre filmmaking and adorable, tortured French kids." In the Guardian, Jordan Hoffman suggests that Evolution's "post-human aspects are reminiscent of Under the Skin, its slowly teased mysteries recall Upstream Color." We've got more reviews and a clip. » - David Hudson...
- 9/16/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
The launches of Matt Saville.s A Month of Sundays and Simon Stone.s The Daughter at international film festivals are paying off with critical acclaim for both.
Saville.s dramedy, which stars Anthony Lapaglia as a real estate agent whose life takes an unexpected turn when he receives a call from his dead mother, sending him on a journey of redemption, premiered in the contemporary world cinema section of the Toronto International Film Festival.
Stone.s re-imagining of Ibsen.s The Wild Duck, which features Geoffrey Rush, Sam Neill, Ewen Leslie, Paul Schneider, Anna Torv, Miranda Otto and newcomer Odessa Young, which had its world premiere at the Sydney Film Festival,. screened at the Venice Film Festival.s Venice Days followed by its North American premiere at Tiff.s special presentations sidebar.
The Hollywood Reporter.s Jordan Mintzer hailed A Month of Sundays as a .modest, warm hearted character...
Saville.s dramedy, which stars Anthony Lapaglia as a real estate agent whose life takes an unexpected turn when he receives a call from his dead mother, sending him on a journey of redemption, premiered in the contemporary world cinema section of the Toronto International Film Festival.
Stone.s re-imagining of Ibsen.s The Wild Duck, which features Geoffrey Rush, Sam Neill, Ewen Leslie, Paul Schneider, Anna Torv, Miranda Otto and newcomer Odessa Young, which had its world premiere at the Sydney Film Festival,. screened at the Venice Film Festival.s Venice Days followed by its North American premiere at Tiff.s special presentations sidebar.
The Hollywood Reporter.s Jordan Mintzer hailed A Month of Sundays as a .modest, warm hearted character...
- 9/14/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Jean-Marc Vallée's Dallas Buyers Club premiered in Toronto in 2013, his Wild screened there last year, and Demolition, with Jake Gyllenhaal, Naomi Watts and Chris Cooper, has opened the festival's 40th edition. In the Hollywood Reporter, Jordan Mintzer finds it to be "offbeat, exuberant and occasionally quite hilarious." But the Playlist's Kevin Jagernauth gives Demolition a D, calling it "a frivolous lark, riddled with manufactured breakthroughs, that doesn’t demolish the tropes of the eccentric finding-yourself genre, but falls rather blandly right into them." We've got more reviews and the trailer. » - David Hudson...
- 9/11/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
Jean-Marc Vallée's Dallas Buyers Club premiered in Toronto in 2013, his Wild screened there last year, and Demolition, with Jake Gyllenhaal, Naomi Watts and Chris Cooper, has opened the festival's 40th edition. In the Hollywood Reporter, Jordan Mintzer finds it to be "offbeat, exuberant and occasionally quite hilarious." But the Playlist's Kevin Jagernauth gives Demolition a D, calling it "a frivolous lark, riddled with manufactured breakthroughs, that doesn’t demolish the tropes of the eccentric finding-yourself genre, but falls rather blandly right into them." We've got more reviews and the trailer. » - David Hudson...
- 9/11/2015
- Keyframe
Kino Lorber has acquired all Us and Canadian rights to Stephane Brizé’s (Mademoiselle Chambon) The Measure Of A Man, starring Vincent Lindon (Mademoiselle Chambon, Bastards, Friday Night, La Moustache), winner of the Best Actor award at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival. The film was directed by Mr. Brizé and co-written by Brizé and Olivier Gorce. This is Stephane Brizé’s sixth feature film.
Featuring “an all-consuming lead performance from Lindon” (Jordan Mintzer, THR.com) as a working-class man struggling with unemployment and then, facing a difficult moral choice as a security guard in a supermarket, Brizé supports his lead with a brilliantly directed cast of non-professional performers playing dramatized versions of themselves.
The film has been dubbed by critics as “an impressive foray into social drama” (Jordan Mintzer) and “French social critique at its finest” (Benjamin Dodman, The Atlantic), and continues an already-trailblazing partnership between Mr. Brizé and Mr. Lindon,...
Featuring “an all-consuming lead performance from Lindon” (Jordan Mintzer, THR.com) as a working-class man struggling with unemployment and then, facing a difficult moral choice as a security guard in a supermarket, Brizé supports his lead with a brilliantly directed cast of non-professional performers playing dramatized versions of themselves.
The film has been dubbed by critics as “an impressive foray into social drama” (Jordan Mintzer) and “French social critique at its finest” (Benjamin Dodman, The Atlantic), and continues an already-trailblazing partnership between Mr. Brizé and Mr. Lindon,...
- 5/26/2015
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
The Cannes film festival may be gearing up for its grand finale, but the Cohen Media Group has wound things right back to the start, acquiring U.S. rights for opening night film Standing Tall. Cmg plans a theatrical release in early 2016. The French-language film, from actress/director Emmanuelle Bercot and starring Catherine Denueve, tells the story of a troublesome, violent adolescent and his dealings with France's youth law courts. Its breakout star Rod Paradot received much of the critical praise, with The Hollywood Reporter's Jordan Mintzer saying his feature debut was an "electric lead performance." Read More
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- 5/21/2015
- by Alex Ritman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
For the Hollywood Reporter's Jordan Mintzer, Apichatpong Weerasethakul's "leisurely paced" Cemetery of Splendour "features some of the Thai auteur’s trademark surreal beauty, though doesn’t necessarily pack the same punch as movies like Syndromes and a Century or Palme d’Or winner Uncle Boonmee Who May Recall Past Lives." But others are won over. Notes Adam Cook at Movie Mezzanine: "Sayombhu Mukdeeprom, his regular DoP, was hired to work on Miguel Gomes’s Arabian Nights, so Weerasethakul teams up instead with rising talent Diego Garcia. His crisp, clear cinematography gives the film a sharp sense of the vibrant, textured surroundings." We've got the trailer, a clip, and we're gathering more reviews. » - David Hudson...
- 5/19/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
For the Hollywood Reporter's Jordan Mintzer, Apichatpong Weerasethakul's "leisurely paced" Cemetery of Splendour "features some of the Thai auteur’s trademark surreal beauty, though doesn’t necessarily pack the same punch as movies like Syndromes and a Century or Palme d’Or winner Uncle Boonmee Who May Recall Past Lives." But others are won over. Notes Adam Cook at Movie Mezzanine: "Sayombhu Mukdeeprom, his regular DoP, was hired to work on Miguel Gomes’s Arabian Nights, so Weerasethakul teams up instead with rising talent Diego Garcia. His crisp, clear cinematography gives the film a sharp sense of the vibrant, textured surroundings." We've got the trailer, a clip, and we're gathering more reviews. » - David Hudson...
- 5/19/2015
- Keyframe
Legendary Pictures and Universal Pictures released their new action/fantasy film, "Seventh Son" into theaters this weekend, and all the top,major movie critics have turned in their reviews. And it turns out that it didn't quit hit the mark with most of them as it only was able to muster up an overall 30 score out of a possible 100 across 25 reviews at the Metacritic.com site. The film stars: Julianne Moore, Olivia Williams, Djimon Hounsou, Jeff Bridges, Ben Barnes, Antje Traue, Alicia Vikander and Kit Harington. We've supplied blurbs from a couple of the critics,below. Glenn Kenny from RogerEbert.com, gave it a 63 score, stating: "Surprise! One doesn’t want to damn the movie with faint praise by saying “it’s not that bad,” but that’s kind of the most objectively accurate description of it, in all honesty." Thomas Lee from the San Francisco Chronicle, gave it a 50 score,...
- 2/7/2015
- by Andre Braddox
- OnTheFlix
Jordan Mintzer: Any talk of French film in 2014 cannot ignore the two white (or platinum blond) elephants in the room: the box office smashes that were the popular comedy Serial (Bad) Weddings (whose French title translates roughly to: Good God, What Have We Done to Deserve This?) and Luc Besson’s EuropaCorp blockbuster, Lucy, which stars Scarlett Johansson as a superheroine who’s infinitely smarter than the movie she’s playing in. Both films received mixed to middling reviews, especially at home, yet wound up breaking the bank both domestically and internationally: Weddings is the #1 French film locally, and its worldwide
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- 12/23/2014
- by Jordan Mintzer, Boyd van Hoeij
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Paramount Pictures released their new Chris Rock comedy film, "Top Five," into theaters today, and the the top movie critics in the biz, have served up their reviews for it. It turns out that most of them really enjoyed it, rewarding it with an overall 83 score out of a possible 100 across 30 reviews at the Metecritic.com site. The movie stars: Rosario Dawson, Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, Whoopi Goldberg, Tracy Morgan, Cedric the Entertainer, Sherri Shepherd, Gabrielle Union, Kevin Hart, Jerry Seinfeld, Jb Smoove, Jay Pharoah, Anders Holm, and Michael Che. We posted blurbs from a couple of the critics,below. Manohla Dargis from The New York Times, gave it a perfect 100 score! He said: "In setting Andre on his search for self, Mr. Rock has carved out a third way, in the process creating a black character who’s fully human and a comedy that’s wholly a blast." Betsy...
- 12/12/2014
- by Andre Braddox
- OnTheFlix
By Anjelica Oswald
Managing Editor
Several Oscar contenders are heading to New York and the Broadway stage as the Oscar season progresses in Hollywood. With projects on both coasts, these contenders could score both Tony and Oscar nominations during the upcoming awards season.
Director Bob Fosse won two Tony Awards and an Oscar in 1973. The two Tonys were for direction and choreography for Pippin and the Oscar was for directing Cabaret. Director Stephen Daldry won an Oscar for The Reader and a Tony for Billy Elliot the Musical in 2009.
Five actresses have won both awards in the same year: Shirley Booth won a Tony for The Time of the Cuckoo and an Oscar for Come Back, Little Sheba in 1953; Audrey Hepburn won a Tony for Ondine and an Oscar for Roman Holiday in 1954; Ellen Burstyn won a Tony for Same Time, Next Year and an Oscar for Alice Doesn’t...
Managing Editor
Several Oscar contenders are heading to New York and the Broadway stage as the Oscar season progresses in Hollywood. With projects on both coasts, these contenders could score both Tony and Oscar nominations during the upcoming awards season.
Director Bob Fosse won two Tony Awards and an Oscar in 1973. The two Tonys were for direction and choreography for Pippin and the Oscar was for directing Cabaret. Director Stephen Daldry won an Oscar for The Reader and a Tony for Billy Elliot the Musical in 2009.
Five actresses have won both awards in the same year: Shirley Booth won a Tony for The Time of the Cuckoo and an Oscar for Come Back, Little Sheba in 1953; Audrey Hepburn won a Tony for Ondine and an Oscar for Roman Holiday in 1954; Ellen Burstyn won a Tony for Same Time, Next Year and an Oscar for Alice Doesn’t...
- 11/18/2014
- by Anjelica Oswald
- Scott Feinberg
"In France these days, big movies, like Christian Louboutin heels, tend to come in pairs," writes Jordan Mintzer in the Hollywood Reporter, reminding us that 2009 saw two dueling Coco Chanel biopics. He then sketches a brief history of this year's face-off. Jalil Lespert’s Yves Saint Laurent opened in France in January before screening in Berlin's Panorama section. Reviews were mixed. Bertrand Bonello's Saint Laurent, starring Gaspard Ulliel, premiered in competition in Cannes. What's more, France is sending it into the best foreign-language film race at the 2015 Oscars. Now that it's screening at the New York Film Festival, we've got reviews and the trailer. » - David Hudson...
- 9/30/2014
- Keyframe
"In France these days, big movies, like Christian Louboutin heels, tend to come in pairs," writes Jordan Mintzer in the Hollywood Reporter, reminding us that 2009 saw two dueling Coco Chanel biopics. He then sketches a brief history of this year's face-off. Jalil Lespert’s Yves Saint Laurent opened in France in January before screening in Berlin's Panorama section. Reviews were mixed. Bertrand Bonello's Saint Laurent, starring Gaspard Ulliel, premiered in competition in Cannes. What's more, France is sending it into the best foreign-language film race at the 2015 Oscars. Now that it's screening at the New York Film Festival, we've got reviews and the trailer. » - David Hudson...
- 9/30/2014
- Fandor: Keyframe
Chris Rock sparked a bidding war in Toronto with his third directorial effort, Top Five, which he also wrote and stars in.
Top Five premiered at Tiff on Sept. 6, and was immediately courted by studio distributors, including CBS Films, Relativity Media, Lionsgate and Fox Searchlight. Paramount finally closed the deal, winning the rights to distribute Top Five for a reported $12.5 million. The deal also reportedly includes a $20 million marketing budget, making it one of the biggest financial winners at the festival.
Top Five is a pseudo-reality comedy, about a comedian (Rock) who is trying to be taken seriously as an actor while his fiancée, a reality star, convinces him to air their wedding on her show. And, in addition to sparking a bidding war, the film, which also stars Rosario Dawson and Kevin Hart, was well received by audiences and critics alike.
“It’s like watching a first-rate standup routine transformed into fiction,...
Top Five premiered at Tiff on Sept. 6, and was immediately courted by studio distributors, including CBS Films, Relativity Media, Lionsgate and Fox Searchlight. Paramount finally closed the deal, winning the rights to distribute Top Five for a reported $12.5 million. The deal also reportedly includes a $20 million marketing budget, making it one of the biggest financial winners at the festival.
Top Five is a pseudo-reality comedy, about a comedian (Rock) who is trying to be taken seriously as an actor while his fiancée, a reality star, convinces him to air their wedding on her show. And, in addition to sparking a bidding war, the film, which also stars Rosario Dawson and Kevin Hart, was well received by audiences and critics alike.
“It’s like watching a first-rate standup routine transformed into fiction,...
- 9/12/2014
- Uinterview
Paramount Pictures announced it will distribute writer / director Chris Rock’s Top Five worldwide. The news comes as the film from producer Scott Rudin, and his Iacf partner Barry Diller, earned rave reviews at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival.
“Chris and I go back decades, both personally and professionally, and so I am particularly proud to have watched his career grow to its highest heights over many decades. This film showcases brilliantly how talented Chris is as a filmmaker and storyteller and we are thrilled to be partnering with him, Scott Rudin and my longtime friend, the legendary Barry Diller and Iacf for its worldwide launch,” said Brad Grey, Chairman and CEO of Paramount Pictures.
Written, directed by, and starring Chris Rock, Top Five tells the story of New York City comedian-turned-film star Andre Allen, whose unexpected encounter with a journalist (Rosario Dawson) forces him to confront the comedy career...
“Chris and I go back decades, both personally and professionally, and so I am particularly proud to have watched his career grow to its highest heights over many decades. This film showcases brilliantly how talented Chris is as a filmmaker and storyteller and we are thrilled to be partnering with him, Scott Rudin and my longtime friend, the legendary Barry Diller and Iacf for its worldwide launch,” said Brad Grey, Chairman and CEO of Paramount Pictures.
Written, directed by, and starring Chris Rock, Top Five tells the story of New York City comedian-turned-film star Andre Allen, whose unexpected encounter with a journalist (Rosario Dawson) forces him to confront the comedy career...
- 9/10/2014
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Paramount Pictures, a division of Viacom, announced it will distribute writer / director Chris Rock's "Top Five" worldwide. The news comes as the film from producer Scott Rudin, and his Iacf partner Barry Diller, earned rave reviews at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival.
Brad Grey, Chairman and CEO of Paramount Pictures said:
"Chris and I go back decades, both personally and professionally, and so I am particularly proud to have watched his career grow to its highest heights over many decades. This film showcases brilliantly how talented Chris is as a filmmaker and storyteller and we are thrilled to be partnering with him, Scott Rudin and my longtime friend, the legendary Barry Diller and Iacf for its worldwide launch."
Written, directed by, and starring Chris Rock, “Top Five” tells the story of New York City comedian-turned-film star Andre Allen, whose unexpected encounter with a journalist (Rosario Dawson) forces him to...
Brad Grey, Chairman and CEO of Paramount Pictures said:
"Chris and I go back decades, both personally and professionally, and so I am particularly proud to have watched his career grow to its highest heights over many decades. This film showcases brilliantly how talented Chris is as a filmmaker and storyteller and we are thrilled to be partnering with him, Scott Rudin and my longtime friend, the legendary Barry Diller and Iacf for its worldwide launch."
Written, directed by, and starring Chris Rock, “Top Five” tells the story of New York City comedian-turned-film star Andre Allen, whose unexpected encounter with a journalist (Rosario Dawson) forces him to...
- 9/10/2014
- by Kellvin Chavez
- LRMonline.com
"You’ve got to give credit to Hal Hartley," begins Jordan Mintzer in the Hollywood Reporter. "After breaking out onto the scene 25 years ago with The Unbelievable Truth, he’s been sticking to his guns ever since, making a dozen features characterized by his trademark deconstructed storytelling, deliberately artificial performances and offbeat deadpan humor…. This is clearly the case with Ned Rifle, the final chapter of a trilogy kicked off in 1997 with Henry Fool and followed by 2006’s Fay Grim, which starred Parker Posey as the titular heroine trying to clean up a mess left by her ex-lover." We've posted the trailer as we gather more reviews. » - David Hudson...
- 9/10/2014
- Keyframe
"You’ve got to give credit to Hal Hartley," begins Jordan Mintzer in the Hollywood Reporter. "After breaking out onto the scene 25 years ago with The Unbelievable Truth, he’s been sticking to his guns ever since, making a dozen features characterized by his trademark deconstructed storytelling, deliberately artificial performances and offbeat deadpan humor…. This is clearly the case with Ned Rifle, the final chapter of a trilogy kicked off in 1997 with Henry Fool and followed by 2006’s Fay Grim, which starred Parker Posey as the titular heroine trying to clean up a mess left by her ex-lover." We've posted the trailer as we gather more reviews. » - David Hudson...
- 9/10/2014
- Fandor: Keyframe
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