Cannes — “Where Are You?” a screen asked behind speakers at a MipTV panel for “Destination X,” one of the most-awaited new formats in the world.
Some audience members at the panel, may have been asking the same thing.
Co-commissioned by the BBC and NBCUniversal as part of their international formats pact, “Destination X” is designed as their weekly water cooler replacement for “The Traitors,” whose 11 territory launches in 2023 were the most of any format in the world, according to “Tracking the Giants,” a report by analysts K7. Presented Saturday morning at MipTV “Tracking the Giants” branded “The Traitors” Format of the Year.
So its follow-up has been greeted with huge anticipation, an industry audience packing out the boutique auditorium Palais Stage at Cannes Palais des Festivals during MipFormats to attend a panel, ‘Destination X’ Case Study – Building a Global Format With NBCUniversal and BBC.
What they didn’t get, however...
Some audience members at the panel, may have been asking the same thing.
Co-commissioned by the BBC and NBCUniversal as part of their international formats pact, “Destination X” is designed as their weekly water cooler replacement for “The Traitors,” whose 11 territory launches in 2023 were the most of any format in the world, according to “Tracking the Giants,” a report by analysts K7. Presented Saturday morning at MipTV “Tracking the Giants” branded “The Traitors” Format of the Year.
So its follow-up has been greeted with huge anticipation, an industry audience packing out the boutique auditorium Palais Stage at Cannes Palais des Festivals during MipFormats to attend a panel, ‘Destination X’ Case Study – Building a Global Format With NBCUniversal and BBC.
What they didn’t get, however...
- 4/6/2024
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Bruno Mars’ Net Worth Reduced Due To His Gambling Debt ( Photo Credit – Instagram )
American singer-songwriter Bruno Mars, known for his music versatility and stage performances, has grabbed the headlines for owing a massive debt to MGM. He has won multiple Grammy Awards throughout his career, in addition to several other honors in the field of music. But his vast debt will put a significant dent in his glorious fortune.
He was born Peter Gene Hernandez and then took up Bruno Mars professionally. Bruno was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii. He gained recognition in his childhood as an Elvis impersonator. The music artist moved to LA after high school to pursue his music dreams. Scroll below for more.
After moving to Los Angeles, he changed his name and added Mars to avoid being stereotyped as a Latin artist. Bruno Mars gained success for writing songs as well. He penned lyrics for Brandon Creed,...
American singer-songwriter Bruno Mars, known for his music versatility and stage performances, has grabbed the headlines for owing a massive debt to MGM. He has won multiple Grammy Awards throughout his career, in addition to several other honors in the field of music. But his vast debt will put a significant dent in his glorious fortune.
He was born Peter Gene Hernandez and then took up Bruno Mars professionally. Bruno was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii. He gained recognition in his childhood as an Elvis impersonator. The music artist moved to LA after high school to pursue his music dreams. Scroll below for more.
After moving to Los Angeles, he changed his name and added Mars to avoid being stereotyped as a Latin artist. Bruno Mars gained success for writing songs as well. He penned lyrics for Brandon Creed,...
- 3/17/2024
- by Esita Mallik
- KoiMoi
Danish sales outfit Dr Sales, attached to the Sundance Grand Jury Prize winning doc “A New Kind of Wilderness,” has boarded another high-quality Norwegian documentary – “Phantoms of the Sierra Madre” by the multi-awarded Håvard Bustnes.
The epic and self-reflective film, made in partnership with the Mescalero Apache Tribe, is due to world premiere in the main Dox:Award competition of Copenhagen’s Cph:dox festival, running March 13-24.
Bustnes, Christian Aune Falch and Torstein Parelius are producing for Norway’s Upnorth Film, in co-production with Finland’s Napa Films. Executive producers are Bird Runningwater, a high-profile figure from the Cheyenne and Mescalero Apache tribes and former Sundance programmer, key film collaborator Pius Garcia, great-grandson of legendary Apache warrior Geronimo, as well as Upnorth’s Ingrid Galadriel Aune Falch.
In the film, established Danish screenwriter Lars K. Andersen embarks on a quest to locate a disappeared Apache tribe in Mexico. His odyssey filmed...
The epic and self-reflective film, made in partnership with the Mescalero Apache Tribe, is due to world premiere in the main Dox:Award competition of Copenhagen’s Cph:dox festival, running March 13-24.
Bustnes, Christian Aune Falch and Torstein Parelius are producing for Norway’s Upnorth Film, in co-production with Finland’s Napa Films. Executive producers are Bird Runningwater, a high-profile figure from the Cheyenne and Mescalero Apache tribes and former Sundance programmer, key film collaborator Pius Garcia, great-grandson of legendary Apache warrior Geronimo, as well as Upnorth’s Ingrid Galadriel Aune Falch.
In the film, established Danish screenwriter Lars K. Andersen embarks on a quest to locate a disappeared Apache tribe in Mexico. His odyssey filmed...
- 3/1/2024
- by Annika Pham
- Variety Film + TV
Singer-songwriter Bruno Mars’ long-term relationship is reportedly “on the rocks.” The 38-year-old singer has been dating model Jessica Caban for 13 years, having started their relationship back in 2011.
The 41-year-old is said to have spent Christmas and New Years away from Bruno, amid the reports about their shaky relationship, reports Mirror.co.uk.
Sources told The Sun: “Bruno Mars and Jessica barely spend time together anymore — it is really sad. They are living separate lives so it doesn’t bode well for their relationship. It feels like things are fizzling out between them.”
“They have so much history together but we aren’t sure whether they will be able to save things this time,” an insider explained.
As per Mirror.co.uk, Bruno Mars is currently performing in Tokyo but is set to return to the US to perform in Los Angeles.
The couple started dating when the ‘Just The Way You Are...
The 41-year-old is said to have spent Christmas and New Years away from Bruno, amid the reports about their shaky relationship, reports Mirror.co.uk.
Sources told The Sun: “Bruno Mars and Jessica barely spend time together anymore — it is really sad. They are living separate lives so it doesn’t bode well for their relationship. It feels like things are fizzling out between them.”
“They have so much history together but we aren’t sure whether they will be able to save things this time,” an insider explained.
As per Mirror.co.uk, Bruno Mars is currently performing in Tokyo but is set to return to the US to perform in Los Angeles.
The couple started dating when the ‘Just The Way You Are...
- 1/13/2024
- by Agency News Desk
- GlamSham
A sports radio host in D.C. was fired after he made sexist comments about a female TV reporter on-air.
Michael Sorce, more commonly known as “Don Geronimo,” made remarks about Sharla McBride, who is a reporter for WUSA9, while she was covering the Washington Commanders.
Geronimo spoke to McBride while he was on the air with co-host Crash Young saying, “Hey look, Barbie’s here. Hi, Barbie girl. I’m guessing she’s a cheerleader.”
He continued to speak about McBride when he later saw her again and said that Young described her as “tight.” He was cut off before he could finish his sentence as he was saying, “Yah. I screamed tight when she was.…”
iHeartMedia was banned by the Commanders from their training camp facilities on Friday. The two have had a partnership since 2022.
A few days after the incident, iHeartMedia fired Geronimo. In a statement by the D.C. president of iHeartMedia,...
Michael Sorce, more commonly known as “Don Geronimo,” made remarks about Sharla McBride, who is a reporter for WUSA9, while she was covering the Washington Commanders.
Geronimo spoke to McBride while he was on the air with co-host Crash Young saying, “Hey look, Barbie’s here. Hi, Barbie girl. I’m guessing she’s a cheerleader.”
He continued to speak about McBride when he later saw her again and said that Young described her as “tight.” He was cut off before he could finish his sentence as he was saying, “Yah. I screamed tight when she was.…”
iHeartMedia was banned by the Commanders from their training camp facilities on Friday. The two have had a partnership since 2022.
A few days after the incident, iHeartMedia fired Geronimo. In a statement by the D.C. president of iHeartMedia,...
- 8/4/2023
- by Nina Hauswirth
- Uinterview
A DJ from the flagship radio station of the NFL’s Washington Commanders was fired after an incident earlier in the week when he and a partner, broadcasting live from the team’s Virginia training facility, called a local female sports reporter “Barbie” and “a cheerleader” on air while she was on assignment covering the team.
Michael Sorce, known as Don Geronimo, from Wbig-fm Big 100, was broadcasting live Thursday at the facility in Ashburn, Va, when he and his co-host Crash Young saw WUSA9-tv reporter Sharla McBride walking inside the facility and began commenting on air.
“Hey look, Barbie’s here. Hi, Barbie girl,” Geronimo said live on air. “I’m guessing she’s a cheerleader.”
Later, when Geronimo and co-host Crash Young saw McBride again conducting interviews, they continued.
“Oh hey. There’s that chick that you thought … you said tight?” said Geronimo. “Yah. I screamed tight when she was …” said Young.
Michael Sorce, known as Don Geronimo, from Wbig-fm Big 100, was broadcasting live Thursday at the facility in Ashburn, Va, when he and his co-host Crash Young saw WUSA9-tv reporter Sharla McBride walking inside the facility and began commenting on air.
“Hey look, Barbie’s here. Hi, Barbie girl,” Geronimo said live on air. “I’m guessing she’s a cheerleader.”
Later, when Geronimo and co-host Crash Young saw McBride again conducting interviews, they continued.
“Oh hey. There’s that chick that you thought … you said tight?” said Geronimo. “Yah. I screamed tight when she was …” said Young.
- 7/30/2023
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
This post contains spoilers for "Ted Lasso" season 3.
"Ted Lasso" season 3 has just come to an end, leaving the fictional team of AFC Richmond at a crossroads after their head coach leaves his fish-and-chips-out-of-water life in London behind. Overall, the supposedly last season of the Apple TV+ phenomenon left a lot to be desired, failing to live up to the high points of the first two seasons where the jokes that hit far outweighed the ones that fell flat. While a lot of the episodes in season 3 felt overly long and unnecessarily melodramatic, the overall spirit of the show managed to stay intact thanks to Jason Sudeikis' naively positive "aw shucks" attitude as Ted.
Ted isn't only a sports fan, he's a pop culture aficionado raised on Thursday night primetime sitcoms from the '80s. Throughout its entire run, "Ted Lasso" has peppered in a number of clever references to the golden years of U.
"Ted Lasso" season 3 has just come to an end, leaving the fictional team of AFC Richmond at a crossroads after their head coach leaves his fish-and-chips-out-of-water life in London behind. Overall, the supposedly last season of the Apple TV+ phenomenon left a lot to be desired, failing to live up to the high points of the first two seasons where the jokes that hit far outweighed the ones that fell flat. While a lot of the episodes in season 3 felt overly long and unnecessarily melodramatic, the overall spirit of the show managed to stay intact thanks to Jason Sudeikis' naively positive "aw shucks" attitude as Ted.
Ted isn't only a sports fan, he's a pop culture aficionado raised on Thursday night primetime sitcoms from the '80s. Throughout its entire run, "Ted Lasso" has peppered in a number of clever references to the golden years of U.
- 5/31/2023
- by Drew Tinnin
- Slash Film
NBCUniversal and BBC — following their successful team-up on Peacock’s The Traitors — have co-commissioned Destination X, an adventure reality competition which since February has been a hit in Belgium.
Now in development to air Stateside on NBC proper, Destination X “crosses fantasy with reality” as 10 contestants embark on “the road trip of a lifetime, but have no idea of their location.”
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Upon boarding the innovative Destination X bus, “reality is tweaked...
Now in development to air Stateside on NBC proper, Destination X “crosses fantasy with reality” as 10 contestants embark on “the road trip of a lifetime, but have no idea of their location.”
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Upon boarding the innovative Destination X bus, “reality is tweaked...
- 4/17/2023
- by Matt Webb Mitovich
- TVLine.com
BBC and NBCUniversal are partnering up on a new reality competition show “Destination X.”
The adventure series, whose format originated in Belgium, follows 10 contestants who embark on a road trip, but do not know their location as the Destination X bus works to mislead both the contestants and the viewers.
As their journey continues, contestants must follow clues to determine if they can trust what they see as their knowledge will be put to the test at the end of each episode. The “contestant who places their X on a map furthest away from the bus’s actual location must leave the game and loses their shot at winning a cash prize,” per the official logline. Remaining participants are tasked with finding the location of the host, who communicates with contestants from an unknown location.
“Destination X,” which is created by Geronimo and distributed by Be-Entertainment, marks the latest collaboration between the broadcast giants,...
The adventure series, whose format originated in Belgium, follows 10 contestants who embark on a road trip, but do not know their location as the Destination X bus works to mislead both the contestants and the viewers.
As their journey continues, contestants must follow clues to determine if they can trust what they see as their knowledge will be put to the test at the end of each episode. The “contestant who places their X on a map furthest away from the bus’s actual location must leave the game and loses their shot at winning a cash prize,” per the official logline. Remaining participants are tasked with finding the location of the host, who communicates with contestants from an unknown location.
“Destination X,” which is created by Geronimo and distributed by Be-Entertainment, marks the latest collaboration between the broadcast giants,...
- 4/17/2023
- by Loree Seitz
- The Wrap
The BBC and NBCUniversal (NBCU) have co-ordered an adventure reality competition series — a model they followed to bag international entertainment hit The Traitors.
The pair has teamed to take domestic format rights to Destination X for their respective countries, having previously co-commissioned The Traitors, the Dutch format in which contestants have to guess who among them is ‘faithful’ and who is secretly working against the rest. As we revealed today, Canadian streamer Crave has acquired the BBC and NBC versions of The Traitors, along with Network Ten’s Australian remake.
Destination X is a Belgian format in which ten contestants go on a the road trip of a lifetime, but with no idea where they are. They ride an “innovative” Destination X bus, in which reality is tweaked to mislead them and the viewers, and must solve clues that provide information on their location.
At the end of episode, the...
The pair has teamed to take domestic format rights to Destination X for their respective countries, having previously co-commissioned The Traitors, the Dutch format in which contestants have to guess who among them is ‘faithful’ and who is secretly working against the rest. As we revealed today, Canadian streamer Crave has acquired the BBC and NBC versions of The Traitors, along with Network Ten’s Australian remake.
Destination X is a Belgian format in which ten contestants go on a the road trip of a lifetime, but with no idea where they are. They ride an “innovative” Destination X bus, in which reality is tweaked to mislead them and the viewers, and must solve clues that provide information on their location.
At the end of episode, the...
- 4/17/2023
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
Actor John Wayne was an expert when it came to understanding the hard work that went into movies. He starred in everything from leading roles in major studio feature films to non-speaking parts in B-movies that he despised making. However, some of the most physically demanding parts turned out to be the most rewarding when the pictures fluttered on the silver screen. Here are five of the most physically demanding movies that Wayne starred in.
‘Stagecoach’ (1939) L-r: Claire Trevor as Dallas and John Wayne as Ringo Kid | Getty Images
Stagecoach boosted Wayne to stardom overnight in 1939, creating a whole new world for the actor. He played Ringo Kid in a story that follows a group of unlikely stagecoach passengers whose journey becomes increasingly difficult with the threat of a dangerous man named Geronimo on the loose.
Wayne came from the world of the props department and had a great appreciation for the world of stunts.
‘Stagecoach’ (1939) L-r: Claire Trevor as Dallas and John Wayne as Ringo Kid | Getty Images
Stagecoach boosted Wayne to stardom overnight in 1939, creating a whole new world for the actor. He played Ringo Kid in a story that follows a group of unlikely stagecoach passengers whose journey becomes increasingly difficult with the threat of a dangerous man named Geronimo on the loose.
Wayne came from the world of the props department and had a great appreciation for the world of stunts.
- 4/4/2023
- by Jeff Nelson
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Ben Affleck and Matt Damon’s creative partnership extended all the way to their bank accounts, the stars recently explained.
The two Bostonian actors earned an Oscar in 1998 for Good Will Hunting, which they both co-wrote and co-starred in.
However, long before they found mainstream success, the two friends who became close in high school were supporting each other’s acting careers.
During an appearance on The Bill Simmons Podcast (via CNBC), the pair revealed they shared a joint bank account from the late 1980s to help fund their auditions.
“It was unusual, but we needed the money for auditions,” Damon said, adding that it was “a weird thing in retrospect”.
“We were going to help each other and be there for each other,” Affleck said. “It was like, ‘You’re not going to be alone. I’m not going to be alone. Let’s go out there and do this together.
The two Bostonian actors earned an Oscar in 1998 for Good Will Hunting, which they both co-wrote and co-starred in.
However, long before they found mainstream success, the two friends who became close in high school were supporting each other’s acting careers.
During an appearance on The Bill Simmons Podcast (via CNBC), the pair revealed they shared a joint bank account from the late 1980s to help fund their auditions.
“It was unusual, but we needed the money for auditions,” Damon said, adding that it was “a weird thing in retrospect”.
“We were going to help each other and be there for each other,” Affleck said. “It was like, ‘You’re not going to be alone. I’m not going to be alone. Let’s go out there and do this together.
- 3/24/2023
- by Tom Murray
- The Independent - Film
Ben Affleck and Matt Damon’s creative partnership extended all the way to their bank accounts, the stars recently explained.
The two Bostonian actors earned an Oscar in 1998 for Good Will Hunting, which they both co-wrote and co-starred in.
However, long before they found mainstream success, the two friends who became close in high school were supporting each other’s acting careers.
During an appearance on The Bill Simmons Podcast (via CNBC), the pair revealed they shared a joint bank account from the late 1980s to help fund their auditions.
“It was unusual, but we needed the money for auditions,” Damon said, adding that it was “a weird thing in retrospect”.
“We were going to help each other and be there for each other,” Affleck said. “It was like, ‘You’re not going to be alone. I’m not going to be alone. Let’s go out there and do this together.
The two Bostonian actors earned an Oscar in 1998 for Good Will Hunting, which they both co-wrote and co-starred in.
However, long before they found mainstream success, the two friends who became close in high school were supporting each other’s acting careers.
During an appearance on The Bill Simmons Podcast (via CNBC), the pair revealed they shared a joint bank account from the late 1980s to help fund their auditions.
“It was unusual, but we needed the money for auditions,” Damon said, adding that it was “a weird thing in retrospect”.
“We were going to help each other and be there for each other,” Affleck said. “It was like, ‘You’re not going to be alone. I’m not going to be alone. Let’s go out there and do this together.
- 3/23/2023
- by Tom Murray
- The Independent - Film
Ben Affleck and Matt Damon are longtime friends who have collaborated together and won an Oscar together, so perhaps it’s not surprising to learn they even shared a bank account as young actors. The duo appeared on a recent episode of “The Bill Simmons Podcast” (via CNBC) and revealed they had one bank account between them starting in the late 1980s in order to fund auditions and start their acting careers.
“It was unusual, but we needed the money for auditions,” Damon said, calling it “a weird thing in retrospect.”
“We were going to help each other and be there for each other,” Affleck said. “It was like, ‘You’re not going to be alone. I’m not going to be alone. Let’s go out there and do this together.’”
Any time Affleck or Damon booked a role, the money from the gig would get deposited into the bank account.
“It was unusual, but we needed the money for auditions,” Damon said, calling it “a weird thing in retrospect.”
“We were going to help each other and be there for each other,” Affleck said. “It was like, ‘You’re not going to be alone. I’m not going to be alone. Let’s go out there and do this together.’”
Any time Affleck or Damon booked a role, the money from the gig would get deposited into the bank account.
- 3/23/2023
- by Zack Sharf
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Radar Pictures has secured the feature film rights for Geronimo Stilton, the best-selling children’s book series about the crime-solving adventures of a mouse journalist and his eccentric gang of family and friends.
Canadian animation writer, director and voice actor David Soren – whose credits include Turbo, Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie and Paramount Animation’s upcoming Under the Boardwalk – has been attached to adapt and direct the Geronimo Stilton feature film.
The Geronimo Stilton character was created by Italian author Elisabetta Dami in the 1990s from stories she invented for young patients while volunteering at a children’s hospital.
Since then the character has been featured in more than 300 books, translated into over 50 languages, as well as graphic novels, an animated series, eight live stage productions, video games and toys.
The original books and their spin-offs have sold 180 million copies in 150 countries.
“I’m excited to be working...
Canadian animation writer, director and voice actor David Soren – whose credits include Turbo, Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie and Paramount Animation’s upcoming Under the Boardwalk – has been attached to adapt and direct the Geronimo Stilton feature film.
The Geronimo Stilton character was created by Italian author Elisabetta Dami in the 1990s from stories she invented for young patients while volunteering at a children’s hospital.
Since then the character has been featured in more than 300 books, translated into over 50 languages, as well as graphic novels, an animated series, eight live stage productions, video games and toys.
The original books and their spin-offs have sold 180 million copies in 150 countries.
“I’m excited to be working...
- 2/13/2023
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
The trailer has debuted for Jessica Woodworth’s sci-fi epic “Luka,” which has its world premiere in the Big Screen Competition at the International Film Festival Rotterdam. Films Boutique is handling international sales.
The film is Woodworth’s take on Dino Buzzati’s “The Tartar Steppe,” in which she crafts a fantasy of post-truth lunacy. Geraldine Chaplin plays the twisted General in a drama tinged with the conjured terrors of George Orwell’s “Nineteen Eighty-Four,” and the rapturous brotherly love of Jean Genet’s “Un chant d’amour.”
In the film, Luka, a young and ambitious soldier, embeds himself in Fort Kairos where heroic warriors defend the remains of civilization. His hopes to serve as an elite sniper are crushed when he is assigned to maintenance and must submit to the code of Kairos: obedience, endurance and sacrifice. As he rises through the ranks, Luka finds joy and strength in friendships with Konstantin,...
The film is Woodworth’s take on Dino Buzzati’s “The Tartar Steppe,” in which she crafts a fantasy of post-truth lunacy. Geraldine Chaplin plays the twisted General in a drama tinged with the conjured terrors of George Orwell’s “Nineteen Eighty-Four,” and the rapturous brotherly love of Jean Genet’s “Un chant d’amour.”
In the film, Luka, a young and ambitious soldier, embeds himself in Fort Kairos where heroic warriors defend the remains of civilization. His hopes to serve as an elite sniper are crushed when he is assigned to maintenance and must submit to the code of Kairos: obedience, endurance and sacrifice. As he rises through the ranks, Luka finds joy and strength in friendships with Konstantin,...
- 1/20/2023
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Western films have been a staple of American cinema for practically as long as movies have been made.
Movies in the Western genre are set in the American West, typically between the 1850s to the end of the 19th century. While it has been a stable genre — no pun intended! — it has also been the starting ground for several hybrid genres like Western comedies, Western musicals and horror Westerns.
No other genre’s history goes back quite as far as that of Westerns. According to documentarian David Gregory, “It has been estimated that up to 40 percent of all films made before 1960 were Westerns.”
Although the category reached its greatest popularity in the early and middle decades of the 20th century, with several becoming cult classics, films continued to be made even through droughts for Westerns in the late ‘70s, ‘80s and ‘90s. Actors have also made their name starring in Western films,...
Movies in the Western genre are set in the American West, typically between the 1850s to the end of the 19th century. While it has been a stable genre — no pun intended! — it has also been the starting ground for several hybrid genres like Western comedies, Western musicals and horror Westerns.
No other genre’s history goes back quite as far as that of Westerns. According to documentarian David Gregory, “It has been estimated that up to 40 percent of all films made before 1960 were Westerns.”
Although the category reached its greatest popularity in the early and middle decades of the 20th century, with several becoming cult classics, films continued to be made even through droughts for Westerns in the late ‘70s, ‘80s and ‘90s. Actors have also made their name starring in Western films,...
- 1/1/2023
- by Carly Thomas
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
If you were an action fan in the 1970s, ’80s, or ’90s, one of the great pleasures of filmgoing was the experience, every year or two, of a new Walter Hill movie. No one else was really making movies like him, and no one had before; although his morally and philosophically oriented genre pictures owed something to the Westerns of Howard Hawks and the existential crime films of Jean-Pierre Melville, they weren’t really the same. Films like “The Driver,” “The Warriors,” and “48 Hours” were somehow both more heightened in their mythological resonances and more realistic in their behavior than the works of the American and European stylists on whose shoulders Hill stood.
Starting with “Hard Times” in 1975 and continuing on through masterpieces like “Southern Comfort,” “Streets of Fire,” “Johnny Handsome” and “Trespass,” Hill created a body of work that spoke to American culture both past and present, subtly...
Starting with “Hard Times” in 1975 and continuing on through masterpieces like “Southern Comfort,” “Streets of Fire,” “Johnny Handsome” and “Trespass,” Hill created a body of work that spoke to American culture both past and present, subtly...
- 10/8/2022
- by Jim Hemphill
- Indiewire
Walter Hill is back with "Dead for a Dollar." The influential writer and director behind "48 Hrs," "Streets of Fire," Southern Comfort," "The Driver," and "The Warriors" has returned with another western. For Hill, all of his movies, in one way or another, are westerns. He tends to follow cowboys whether in the streets of New York, New Orleans, San Francisco, or in this case, Mexico.
Hill's latest follows a bounty hunter (Christoph Waltz) sticking to his guns, both morally and literally. It's an ensemble film also starring Benjamin Bratt, Rachel Brosnahan, Willem Dafoe, and Warren Burke. Hill doesn't delight in the times he's depicting, only in the genre. "Dead for a Dollar" is now in good company with Hill's previous big-screen westerns, "Geronimo: An American Legend," "The Long Riders," and "Wild Bill." Recently, the filmmaker talked to us about his love of westerns and his exceptional contributions to the genre.
Hill's latest follows a bounty hunter (Christoph Waltz) sticking to his guns, both morally and literally. It's an ensemble film also starring Benjamin Bratt, Rachel Brosnahan, Willem Dafoe, and Warren Burke. Hill doesn't delight in the times he's depicting, only in the genre. "Dead for a Dollar" is now in good company with Hill's previous big-screen westerns, "Geronimo: An American Legend," "The Long Riders," and "Wild Bill." Recently, the filmmaker talked to us about his love of westerns and his exceptional contributions to the genre.
- 9/30/2022
- by Jack Giroux
- Slash Film
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