Exclusive: The Chris Pratt and Rebecca Ferguson sci-fi thriller Mercy is adding four with A Star Is Born‘s Rafi Gavron, Chris Sullivan, Kenneth Choi and Kylie Rogers.
Timur Bekmambetov directs the Amazon MGM Studios project, which was penned by Marco van Belle. It follows a detective (Pratt) who is accused of a violent crime, and must prove his innocence is a future where capital crime has swelled.
True Detective: Night Country‘s Kali Reis and Blinders’ Annabelle Wallis also star in the movie which is hitting theaters on Aug. 15, 2025.
Gersh, Affirmative Entertainment repped Gavron began his career with a breakout lead role in Anthony Minghella’s Breaking and Entering, for which he earned a nomination for ‘Best Newcomer’ at the British Independent Film Awards. In addition to A Star Is Born, he also starred in the limited series Ghosts of Beirut, two seasons of Godfather of Harlem for MGM+,...
Timur Bekmambetov directs the Amazon MGM Studios project, which was penned by Marco van Belle. It follows a detective (Pratt) who is accused of a violent crime, and must prove his innocence is a future where capital crime has swelled.
True Detective: Night Country‘s Kali Reis and Blinders’ Annabelle Wallis also star in the movie which is hitting theaters on Aug. 15, 2025.
Gersh, Affirmative Entertainment repped Gavron began his career with a breakout lead role in Anthony Minghella’s Breaking and Entering, for which he earned a nomination for ‘Best Newcomer’ at the British Independent Film Awards. In addition to A Star Is Born, he also starred in the limited series Ghosts of Beirut, two seasons of Godfather of Harlem for MGM+,...
- 4/3/2024
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Happy New Year! As expected, the new year brings a slew of notable new titles to the various ever-growing streaming libraries, giving you plenty to watch in January 2024.
Whether you’re looking to catch up on 2023 releases or looking ahead to shiny new 2024 horror or sci-fi titles, January has it all.
These ten noteworthy horror titles will be available for streaming this month on some of the most popular streaming services out there. Here’s when/where you can watch them.
All Fun and Games – Hulu (January 4)
Salem teens discover a cursed knife that unleashes a demon that forces them to play gruesome, deadly versions of childhood games in Ari Costa and Eren Celeboglu’s teen horror movie. The 2023 horror release stars “Strange Things” actor Natalia Dyer alongside Asa Butterfield. The cast also includes Keith David, Benjamin Evan Ainsworth (Pinocchio), Annabeth Gish (“The Fall of the House of Usher”), Laurel Marsden...
Whether you’re looking to catch up on 2023 releases or looking ahead to shiny new 2024 horror or sci-fi titles, January has it all.
These ten noteworthy horror titles will be available for streaming this month on some of the most popular streaming services out there. Here’s when/where you can watch them.
All Fun and Games – Hulu (January 4)
Salem teens discover a cursed knife that unleashes a demon that forces them to play gruesome, deadly versions of childhood games in Ari Costa and Eren Celeboglu’s teen horror movie. The 2023 horror release stars “Strange Things” actor Natalia Dyer alongside Asa Butterfield. The cast also includes Keith David, Benjamin Evan Ainsworth (Pinocchio), Annabeth Gish (“The Fall of the House of Usher”), Laurel Marsden...
- 1/3/2024
- by Meagan Navarro
- bloody-disgusting.com
Exclusive: Former Mosaic manager Cullen Conly has joined Anonymous Content’s literary department as a manager and producer, based out of the company’s New York office.
Conly started his career in the mailroom at WME before holding positions at Paramount Vantage, Sundance Institute’s Feature Film Program and at ICM Partners, where he was a Motion Picture Literary agent in the company’s New York office. At Mosaic, he was based in LA.
His client list of filmmakers and TV writers includes Oscar-winning filmmaker Sian Heder (Coda), Emmy-winning filmmaker Cory Finley (Landscape with Invisible Hand), Andrew Ahn (Fire Island), Dean Fleischer Camp (Marcel the Shell with Shoes On), Kat Candler (Queen Sugar), Laura Moss (Birth/Rebirth), Lindsey Ferrentino (National Theatre at Home: Ugly Lies the Bone), Chad Hodge (Single All the Way), Logan Kibens (The Power), Matt Lutsky (On Becoming a God In Central Florida), Michael Lannan (Looking), Rhys Ernst...
Conly started his career in the mailroom at WME before holding positions at Paramount Vantage, Sundance Institute’s Feature Film Program and at ICM Partners, where he was a Motion Picture Literary agent in the company’s New York office. At Mosaic, he was based in LA.
His client list of filmmakers and TV writers includes Oscar-winning filmmaker Sian Heder (Coda), Emmy-winning filmmaker Cory Finley (Landscape with Invisible Hand), Andrew Ahn (Fire Island), Dean Fleischer Camp (Marcel the Shell with Shoes On), Kat Candler (Queen Sugar), Laura Moss (Birth/Rebirth), Lindsey Ferrentino (National Theatre at Home: Ugly Lies the Bone), Chad Hodge (Single All the Way), Logan Kibens (The Power), Matt Lutsky (On Becoming a God In Central Florida), Michael Lannan (Looking), Rhys Ernst...
- 12/8/2023
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
‘Landscape With Invisible Hand’ Ending Explained & Movie Summary: Does Adam Reject The Vuvvs’ Offer?
T. Anderson’s 2017 novel of the same name flaunts a far more eerie and existentially charged makeover in Cory Finley’s third feature, Landscape With Invisible Hand. Yet, barring the jabs that do land and heighten the claustrophobic confines of a dystopia people have fallen victim to, Landscape With Invisible Hand is exasperatingly disconnected from the issues it’s a supposed mouthpiece for. The barbed wire separating the lives of the deprived from the land of comfortable survival threaten to lacerate the soft adolescence of two teens. Unfortunately, even though they bleed, the spikes of the totalitarian crisis in the film aren’t quite sharp enough to strike beyond the screen’s limitations. In any case, since we’re here and we’ve got the time on our hands, let’s take a stroll through the dreary terrains of a world taken over by extreme pragmatism.
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- 9/14/2023
- by Lopamudra Mukherjee
- Film Fugitives
Chicago – Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com audio film review for “Landscape with Invisible Hand,” a space alien science fiction film with highly symbolic overtones to our current society, based on a novel by M.T. Anderson and featuring Tiffany Haddish. In theaters since August 18th.
Rating: 5.0/5.0
Adam (Asante Blackk) is a young artist living under the near-future rule of the Vuvv, an odd-looking race of space conquerors whose latest plunder is earth. They assimilate humans through a wearable device that pumps their message into the brain. When Adam meets Chloe (Kylie Rogers), their courtship morphs into a popular social media event that the Vuvv ardently watch. The income derived from these views help both their families, including Adam’s mother Beth (Tiffany Haddish), but at what price? And when will the boot of their new leaders reach their necks?
”‘Landscape with Invisible Hand” in theaters since August 18th. Featuring Asante Blackk,...
Rating: 5.0/5.0
Adam (Asante Blackk) is a young artist living under the near-future rule of the Vuvv, an odd-looking race of space conquerors whose latest plunder is earth. They assimilate humans through a wearable device that pumps their message into the brain. When Adam meets Chloe (Kylie Rogers), their courtship morphs into a popular social media event that the Vuvv ardently watch. The income derived from these views help both their families, including Adam’s mother Beth (Tiffany Haddish), but at what price? And when will the boot of their new leaders reach their necks?
”‘Landscape with Invisible Hand” in theaters since August 18th. Featuring Asante Blackk,...
- 8/21/2023
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Chicago – Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com audio film review for “Landscape with Invisible Hand,” a space alien science fiction film with highly symbolic overtones to our current society, based on a novel by M.T. Anderson and featuring Tiffany Haddish. In theaters since August 18th.
Rating: 5.0/5.0
Adam (Asante Blackk) is a young artist living under the near-future rule of the Vuvv, an odd-looking race of space conquerors whose latest plunder is earth. They assimilate humans through a wearable device that pumps their message into the brain. When Adam meets Chloe (Kylie Rogers), their courtship morphs into a popular social media event that the Vuvv ardently watch. The income derived from these views help both their families, including Adam’s mother Beth (Tiffany Haddish), but at what price? And when will the boot of their new leaders reach their necks?
”‘Landscape with Invisible Hand” in theaters since August 18th. Featuring Asante Blackk,...
Rating: 5.0/5.0
Adam (Asante Blackk) is a young artist living under the near-future rule of the Vuvv, an odd-looking race of space conquerors whose latest plunder is earth. They assimilate humans through a wearable device that pumps their message into the brain. When Adam meets Chloe (Kylie Rogers), their courtship morphs into a popular social media event that the Vuvv ardently watch. The income derived from these views help both their families, including Adam’s mother Beth (Tiffany Haddish), but at what price? And when will the boot of their new leaders reach their necks?
”‘Landscape with Invisible Hand” in theaters since August 18th. Featuring Asante Blackk,...
- 8/21/2023
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Every now and then a film comes along that manages to reinvigorate a genre and causes filmmakers to reevaluate exactly what a film is supposed to pass along to an audience. With the new science fiction piece called Landscape with Invisible Hand, filmmaker Cory Finley has done just that – created a genre piece that transcends the genre to become great art.
Several years into the occupation of Earth by aliens called the Vuvv – which initially held the promise of prosperity for all and marvelous technological advances, that didn’t exactly pan out – humanity has grown complacent and, in many ways, stagnant. One thing the Vuvv are fascinated with is the human capacity to love and will pay interested humans to allow them to experience it via lives-tream broadcasts that are the main form of entertainment for the creatures.
These broadcasts can lead to steady incomes and better lives for the humans that mount successful ones.
Several years into the occupation of Earth by aliens called the Vuvv – which initially held the promise of prosperity for all and marvelous technological advances, that didn’t exactly pan out – humanity has grown complacent and, in many ways, stagnant. One thing the Vuvv are fascinated with is the human capacity to love and will pay interested humans to allow them to experience it via lives-tream broadcasts that are the main form of entertainment for the creatures.
These broadcasts can lead to steady incomes and better lives for the humans that mount successful ones.
- 8/19/2023
- by Mike Tyrkus
- CinemaNerdz
You don’t see too many science fiction comedy-dramas heading into movie theaters these days – or any days, quite frankly – so that alone is cause to celebrate the arrival of “Landscape With Invisible Hand,” the odd title of an intriguing film that opens today (Friday) in limited release, starring a cast of mostly unknowns with the exception of Tiffany Haddish in a prime co-starring role. It’s written and directed by Cory Finley, who directed the Emmy-winning 2020 made-for-tv movie “Bad Education” that starred Hugh Jackman. And its composer is Michael Abels, a Pulitzer Prize winner and two-time Emmy nominee whose genre-defying scores include the Jordan Peele horror trio “Get Out,” “Us” and “Nope.”
Based on a hotly-received young-adult novel by author M.T. Anderson, the film from MGM, Plan B Entertainment and Annapurna Pictures is something of an eccentric mashup of the alien horror and teen romantic comedy genres with some...
Based on a hotly-received young-adult novel by author M.T. Anderson, the film from MGM, Plan B Entertainment and Annapurna Pictures is something of an eccentric mashup of the alien horror and teen romantic comedy genres with some...
- 8/18/2023
- by Ray Richmond
- Gold Derby
Re-releases reliably dot the theatrical calendar and this week have a standout. Oldboy, the 2004 Cannes prize-winner, re-released by Neon on its 20th anniversary restored and remastered, grossed $235k on Wednesday and $150k Thursday — for a total cume $385k on 250 screens heading into the weekend.
San Francisco, NYC and LA, led by Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas, are the top-performing cities so far for Park Chan-wook’s classic film — the first screening in U.S. theaters since its original North American release in 2005.
Oldboy follows Oh Dae-Su (Choi Min-sik), who, after being kidnapped and imprisoned for fifteen years, is released but must find his captor in five days. The critically acclaimed film is the second installment of Park’s The Vengeance Trilogy, preceded by Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002) and followed by Lady Vengeance (2005). Oldboy won the Grand Prix at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival. It grossed $15 million worldwide, and saw...
San Francisco, NYC and LA, led by Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas, are the top-performing cities so far for Park Chan-wook’s classic film — the first screening in U.S. theaters since its original North American release in 2005.
Oldboy follows Oh Dae-Su (Choi Min-sik), who, after being kidnapped and imprisoned for fifteen years, is released but must find his captor in five days. The critically acclaimed film is the second installment of Park’s The Vengeance Trilogy, preceded by Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002) and followed by Lady Vengeance (2005). Oldboy won the Grand Prix at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival. It grossed $15 million worldwide, and saw...
- 8/18/2023
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
Kylie Rogers stars as Chloe Marsh and Asante Blackk as Adam Campbell in director Cory Finley’s Landscape With Invisible Hand. A Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures film. Photo credit: Lynsey Weatherspoon. © 2023 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Inc. All Rights Reserved
The “invisible hand of the marketplace” is a favorite term of laissez-faire globalized economics, but Landscape With Invisible Hand is a dark comedy science fiction tale about a teen-aged artist living on a near-future Earth transformed by twenty years of occupation by creatures from another planet. We expect invaders from space to be scary monster with big weapons but what if the space aliens who came to conquer the Earth weren’t monsters with ray guns but annoying, harmless-looking bureaucrats who used economic soft power and brought advanced technology which made most human jobs obsolete?
The aliens, called the Vuvv, met resistance from ordinary people and governments when they first arrived but then...
The “invisible hand of the marketplace” is a favorite term of laissez-faire globalized economics, but Landscape With Invisible Hand is a dark comedy science fiction tale about a teen-aged artist living on a near-future Earth transformed by twenty years of occupation by creatures from another planet. We expect invaders from space to be scary monster with big weapons but what if the space aliens who came to conquer the Earth weren’t monsters with ray guns but annoying, harmless-looking bureaucrats who used economic soft power and brought advanced technology which made most human jobs obsolete?
The aliens, called the Vuvv, met resistance from ordinary people and governments when they first arrived but then...
- 8/18/2023
- by Cate Marquis
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Plot: In the near future, aliens have taken over the earth, and the economy will be ruined. The upper-class lives in hovering sky domes while the working class toils on earth, trying to make ends meet in a world where virtually all industries have ceased to operate. In this impoverished future, a sensitive teen artist (Asante Blackk) navigates first love, the need to express himself creatively, and his family’s relationship with the occupying aliens.
Review: Landscape with Invisible Hand is unusual for an alien invasion story. Based on the book by M.T. Anderson, Cory Finley (Thoroughbreds and Bad Education) depicts an alien takeover that happened without any violence. Instead, the aliens superior technology and business acumen allowed them to make deals with the wealthiest, most influential humans, and now they have their hands (or flippers) in everything.
The aliens in this look almost comical. They resemble slimy coffee tables...
Review: Landscape with Invisible Hand is unusual for an alien invasion story. Based on the book by M.T. Anderson, Cory Finley (Thoroughbreds and Bad Education) depicts an alien takeover that happened without any violence. Instead, the aliens superior technology and business acumen allowed them to make deals with the wealthiest, most influential humans, and now they have their hands (or flippers) in everything.
The aliens in this look almost comical. They resemble slimy coffee tables...
- 8/16/2023
- by Chris Bumbray
- JoBlo.com
In what is poised to be a case of Warner Bros beating itself for the No. 1 spot at the box office this coming weekend, the studio’s new DC superhero title Blue Beetle is poised to halt Barbie‘s three-weekend streak with a $28M-$32M opening. Barbie, meanwhile, is looking at a $22M-$24M fifth weekend, -30%, per industry sources. Through Monday, the Greta Gerwig-directed Mattel doll feature counts $531.2M — the studio’s domestic top-grossing title ever.
As we told you, the Angel Manuel Soto-directed Blue Beetle is overindexing with Latino and Hispanic audiences, hence the hope is that there will be plenty of walk-up business. That was the case with Warners’ The Meg 2: The Trench, which hit a $30M start at the top of its projections two weekends ago. Blue Beetle crawls into 3,850 locations and will play in Imax theaters, which the pic gains in full from Oppenheimer.
As we told you, the Angel Manuel Soto-directed Blue Beetle is overindexing with Latino and Hispanic audiences, hence the hope is that there will be plenty of walk-up business. That was the case with Warners’ The Meg 2: The Trench, which hit a $30M start at the top of its projections two weekends ago. Blue Beetle crawls into 3,850 locations and will play in Imax theaters, which the pic gains in full from Oppenheimer.
- 8/16/2023
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Kylie Rogers stars as Chloe Marsh and Asante Blackk as Adam Campbell in director Cory Finley’s
Landscape With Invisible Hand
A Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures film
Photo credit: Lynsey Weatherspoon
© 2023 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Inc. All Rights Reserved Apparently, aliens love reality TV just as much as some Earthlings do. That’s the premise behind Landscape with Invisible Hand, the new film based on a 2017 sci-fi novel. Asante Blackk (This Is Us) stars as a teenager who broadcast their romance for a race of invading aliens to enjoy. Landscape with Invisible Hand is Blackk’s first film, and he’s thrilled that it’s a sci-fi movie. (Click on the media bar below to hear Asante Blackk) https://www.hollywoodoutbreak.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Assante_Blackk_Sci_Fi_.mp3
Landscape with Invisible Hand opens in theaters on Friday.
The post Asante Blackk’s Psyched Over Sci-Fi Film Debut appeared first on Hollywood Outbreak.
Landscape With Invisible Hand
A Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures film
Photo credit: Lynsey Weatherspoon
© 2023 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Inc. All Rights Reserved Apparently, aliens love reality TV just as much as some Earthlings do. That’s the premise behind Landscape with Invisible Hand, the new film based on a 2017 sci-fi novel. Asante Blackk (This Is Us) stars as a teenager who broadcast their romance for a race of invading aliens to enjoy. Landscape with Invisible Hand is Blackk’s first film, and he’s thrilled that it’s a sci-fi movie. (Click on the media bar below to hear Asante Blackk) https://www.hollywoodoutbreak.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Assante_Blackk_Sci_Fi_.mp3
Landscape with Invisible Hand opens in theaters on Friday.
The post Asante Blackk’s Psyched Over Sci-Fi Film Debut appeared first on Hollywood Outbreak.
- 8/15/2023
- by Hollywood Outbreak
- HollywoodOutbreak.com
Tiffany Haddish (The Aftermath) agrees to marriage with an alien in the final trailer for Landscape with Invisible Hand. Based on M.T. Anderson’s satirical sci-fi novel, the strange story is set in a time in which aliens have taken over Earth without wiping out the human population.
In addition to Tiffany Haddish, the R-rated film stars Asante Blackk (This Is Us) and Kylie Rogers (Home Before Dark). Cory Finley, Spirit Awards Best First Screenplay nominee for Thoroughbreds, adapted Anderson’s novel and directed the sci-fi dramedy.
Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner produced, with Brad Pitt, Gabby Shepard, David Kern, M.T. Anderson, Megan Ellison, and Tiffany Haddish executive producing.
MGM’s releasing Landscape with Invisible Hands in theaters on August 18, 2023.
Poster for ‘Landscape with Invisible Hand’ (Photo © 2023 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Inc)
The Plot:
Years into a benevolent alien occupation of Earth, the human race is still adjusting to the new...
In addition to Tiffany Haddish, the R-rated film stars Asante Blackk (This Is Us) and Kylie Rogers (Home Before Dark). Cory Finley, Spirit Awards Best First Screenplay nominee for Thoroughbreds, adapted Anderson’s novel and directed the sci-fi dramedy.
Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner produced, with Brad Pitt, Gabby Shepard, David Kern, M.T. Anderson, Megan Ellison, and Tiffany Haddish executive producing.
MGM’s releasing Landscape with Invisible Hands in theaters on August 18, 2023.
Poster for ‘Landscape with Invisible Hand’ (Photo © 2023 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Inc)
The Plot:
Years into a benevolent alien occupation of Earth, the human race is still adjusting to the new...
- 8/14/2023
- by Rebecca Murray
- Showbiz Junkies
As depicted in a new trailer, the upcoming Tiffany Haddish-starring film Landscape with Invisible Hand imagines a world in which an alien species called the Vuvv has taken over Earth and humans are just trying to get by. For Haddish’s Beth Campbell, that apparently means agreeing to take on one of the extraterrestrials as her “pretend husband” so it can be “immersed in the human culture.”
Thankfully for Haddish, her new alien spouse isn’t equipped for sex with humans, but her children understandably aren’t very happy about the situation. Her son Adam (Asante Blackk) responds to a request for a hug with disdain, saying, “That thing is not my dad.” And when Haddish says she believes that the Vuvv “have hearts,” Adam retorts, “I literally think they don’t have circulatory systems. Period.” Watch the trailer for the sci-fi comedy below.
“Years into a benevolent alien occupation of Earth,...
Thankfully for Haddish, her new alien spouse isn’t equipped for sex with humans, but her children understandably aren’t very happy about the situation. Her son Adam (Asante Blackk) responds to a request for a hug with disdain, saying, “That thing is not my dad.” And when Haddish says she believes that the Vuvv “have hearts,” Adam retorts, “I literally think they don’t have circulatory systems. Period.” Watch the trailer for the sci-fi comedy below.
“Years into a benevolent alien occupation of Earth,...
- 8/14/2023
- by Eddie Fu
- Consequence - Film News
"At some point it starts being domination." Indeed - and I wonder if that's where we are now with society? MGM has unveiled a final official trailer for the audacious sci-fi film Landscape with Invisible Hand, directed by Cory Finley (of Thoroughbreds and Bad Education previously). The film opens in US theaters nationwide this Friday, on August 18th. This is adapted from the book of the same name by M.T. Anderson (which comes highly recommended), and it first premiered at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival earlier this year (our review). "Welcome to the future, where the entertainment is us." When an occupying alien species' (who are called Vuvv) bureaucratic rule and advanced technology leaves most of Earth impoverished and unemployed, two teenagers hatch a risky plan to ensure their families' futures. It's a clever commentary on capitalism and art and how we sacrifice our integrity just to make money. Even though...
- 8/14/2023
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Writer/director Cory Finley’s sci-fi drama Landscape with Invisible Hand is set to reach theatres this Friday, August 18th – and with just four days until that date arrives, the final trailer for the film has dropped online! You can check it out in the embed above. JoBlo.com’s own Chris Bumbray had the chance to watch to watch Landscape with Invisible Hand at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year and gave it an 8/10 review (you can read it Here), describing the film as “a unique, cerebral alien invasion story told with style and intelligence.” So take a look at the trailer and see if this looks like a movie you’d want to watch on the big screen!
Based on the 2017 novel of the same name by M. T. Anderson, the film has the following synopsis: Years into a benevolent alien occupation of Earth, the human race is...
Based on the 2017 novel of the same name by M. T. Anderson, the film has the following synopsis: Years into a benevolent alien occupation of Earth, the human race is...
- 8/14/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
Get an inside first look at writer/director Cory Finley’s new sci-fi drama Landscape With Invisible Hand with this new behind-the-scenes featurette that showcases stars Asante Blackk, Kylie Rogers, and Tiffany Haddish.
Synopsis: When an occupying alien species’ bureaucratic rule and advanced technology leaves most of Earth impoverished and unemployed, two teenagers hatch a risky plan to ensure their families’ futures.
About The Film
Starring: Asante Blackk, Kylie Rogers and Tiffany Haddish Director: Cory Finley Screenplay by: Cory Finley Producer: Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner
Landscape with Invisible Hand is in theaters on August 18, 2023!
For More Information, Please Visit:
Official Site / Twitter / Facebook / Instagram / #LandscapeMovie
The post Landscape With Invisible Hand Releases Featurette first appeared on CinemaNerdz.
Synopsis: When an occupying alien species’ bureaucratic rule and advanced technology leaves most of Earth impoverished and unemployed, two teenagers hatch a risky plan to ensure their families’ futures.
About The Film
Starring: Asante Blackk, Kylie Rogers and Tiffany Haddish Director: Cory Finley Screenplay by: Cory Finley Producer: Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner
Landscape with Invisible Hand is in theaters on August 18, 2023!
For More Information, Please Visit:
Official Site / Twitter / Facebook / Instagram / #LandscapeMovie
The post Landscape With Invisible Hand Releases Featurette first appeared on CinemaNerdz.
- 8/11/2023
- by Editor
- CinemaNerdz
Get an inside first look at Cory Finley’s new sci-fi drama Landscape With Invisible Hand – starring Asante Blackk, Kylie Rogers and Tiffany Haddish. The film opens in theaters August 18.
Years into a benevolent alien occupation of Earth, the human race is still adjusting to the new world order and its quirky coffee table-sized overlords called the Vuvv. Their flashy advanced technology initially held promise for global prosperity, but rendered most human jobs – and steady income – obsolete. When 17-year-old artist Adam Campbell (Asante Blackk) and new girlfriend Chloe Marsh (Kylie Rogers) discover the Vuvv are particularly fascinated with human love and will pay for access to it, they decide to livestream their budding romance to make extra cash for themselves and their families. Life is good, for a while, until the flame of their teenage love fizzles out and they’re forced to make very different, absurdly life-altering sacrifices for their families.
Years into a benevolent alien occupation of Earth, the human race is still adjusting to the new world order and its quirky coffee table-sized overlords called the Vuvv. Their flashy advanced technology initially held promise for global prosperity, but rendered most human jobs – and steady income – obsolete. When 17-year-old artist Adam Campbell (Asante Blackk) and new girlfriend Chloe Marsh (Kylie Rogers) discover the Vuvv are particularly fascinated with human love and will pay for access to it, they decide to livestream their budding romance to make extra cash for themselves and their families. Life is good, for a while, until the flame of their teenage love fizzles out and they’re forced to make very different, absurdly life-altering sacrifices for their families.
- 8/10/2023
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
"I hope that people find in it a reflection of this moment that we're living through right now." MGM has revealed a new "First Look" featurette for sci-fi film Landscape with Invisible Hand, an impressively unique feature from filmmaker Cory Finley (of Thoroughbreds and Bad Education previously). This is adapted from the book of the same name by M.T. Anderson (which comes highly recommended), and it first premiered at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival earlier this year (our review). "Welcome to the future, where the entertainment is us." When an occupying alien species' (called "Vuvv") bureaucratic rule and advanced technology leaves most of Earth impoverished and unemployed, two teenagers hatch a risky plan to ensure their families' futures. It's a clever commentary on capitalism and art and how we sacrifice our integrity just to make money to live and love. Landscape stars Asante Blackk, Kylie Rogers, Tiffany Haddish, with Brooklynn MacKinzie,...
- 8/10/2023
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Automatik, the production company behind “La La Land,” is merging with Range Media Players, TheWrap has confirmed.
As part of the merger, Automatik executives Brian Kavanaugh-Jones and Fred Berger have been named partners and co-presidents of film and production at Range.
Kavanaugh-Jones and Berger have over the last decade produced 70 films and television shows, with the likes of Damien Chazelle, Jeff Nichols, Alma Har’el, James Wan, Leigh Whannell, Karyn Kusama, Nia DaCosta, Gia Coppola, Michael Pearce and Cory Finley.
Berger was nominated for an Oscar and won Golden Globe, BAFTA and PGA awards in 2017 for Damien Chazelle’s $440 million-grossing “La La Land.” Kavanaugh-Jones and Berger also won an Emmy for Corey Finley’s Hugh Jackman-starring public education-set thriller, “Bad Education.”
Automatik will bring a slew of projects over to Range Media Players, including Jeff Nichols’ “The Bikeriders” starring Austin Butler, Jodie Comer, and Tom Hardy for New Regency and...
As part of the merger, Automatik executives Brian Kavanaugh-Jones and Fred Berger have been named partners and co-presidents of film and production at Range.
Kavanaugh-Jones and Berger have over the last decade produced 70 films and television shows, with the likes of Damien Chazelle, Jeff Nichols, Alma Har’el, James Wan, Leigh Whannell, Karyn Kusama, Nia DaCosta, Gia Coppola, Michael Pearce and Cory Finley.
Berger was nominated for an Oscar and won Golden Globe, BAFTA and PGA awards in 2017 for Damien Chazelle’s $440 million-grossing “La La Land.” Kavanaugh-Jones and Berger also won an Emmy for Corey Finley’s Hugh Jackman-starring public education-set thriller, “Bad Education.”
Automatik will bring a slew of projects over to Range Media Players, including Jeff Nichols’ “The Bikeriders” starring Austin Butler, Jodie Comer, and Tom Hardy for New Regency and...
- 6/20/2023
- by Scott Mendelson
- The Wrap
Exclusive: The prolific film/TV production company Automatik has completed a merger with Range Media Partners, a deal that will further expand Range’s production capabilities and slate ambitions.
As part of the merger, Brian Kavanaugh-Jones and Fred Berger have been named Partners and Co-Presidents of Film & Production at Range. That duo over the past decade has produced over 70 films and television shows, ranging from Academy Award and Emmy winning projects to commercial franchises. They’ve worked with a wide range of top filmmakers including Damien Chazelle, Jeff Nichols, Alma Har’el, James Wan, Leigh Whannell, Karyn Kusama, Nia DaCosta, Gia Coppola, Michael Pearce, and Cory Finley.
Berger was nominated for an Oscar and won Golden Globe, BAFTA, and PGA awards for the Damien Chazelle-directed La La Land, the film that won six Oscars and grossed just short of half a billion dollars worldwide. Kavanaugh-Jones and Berger also won an Emmy...
As part of the merger, Brian Kavanaugh-Jones and Fred Berger have been named Partners and Co-Presidents of Film & Production at Range. That duo over the past decade has produced over 70 films and television shows, ranging from Academy Award and Emmy winning projects to commercial franchises. They’ve worked with a wide range of top filmmakers including Damien Chazelle, Jeff Nichols, Alma Har’el, James Wan, Leigh Whannell, Karyn Kusama, Nia DaCosta, Gia Coppola, Michael Pearce, and Cory Finley.
Berger was nominated for an Oscar and won Golden Globe, BAFTA, and PGA awards for the Damien Chazelle-directed La La Land, the film that won six Oscars and grossed just short of half a billion dollars worldwide. Kavanaugh-Jones and Berger also won an Emmy...
- 6/20/2023
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Based on the acclaimed novel by M.T. Anderson, the official trailer for writer/director Cory Finley’s Landscape with Invisible Hand, starring Asante Blackk, Kylie Rogers, and Tiffany Haddish has just been released.
Synopsis: Years into a benevolent alien occupation of Earth, the human race is still adjusting to the new world order and its quirky coffee table-sized overlords called the Vuvv. Their flashy advanced technology initially held promise for global prosperity, but rendered most human jobs – and steady income – obsolete. When 17-year-old artist Adam Campbell (Asante Blackk) and new girlfriend Chloe Marsh (Kylie Rogers) discover the Vuvv are particularly fascinated with human love and will pay for access to it, they decide to livestream their budding romance to make extra cash for themselves and their families. Life is good, for a while, until the flame of their teenage love fizzles out and they’re forced to make very different,...
Synopsis: Years into a benevolent alien occupation of Earth, the human race is still adjusting to the new world order and its quirky coffee table-sized overlords called the Vuvv. Their flashy advanced technology initially held promise for global prosperity, but rendered most human jobs – and steady income – obsolete. When 17-year-old artist Adam Campbell (Asante Blackk) and new girlfriend Chloe Marsh (Kylie Rogers) discover the Vuvv are particularly fascinated with human love and will pay for access to it, they decide to livestream their budding romance to make extra cash for themselves and their families. Life is good, for a while, until the flame of their teenage love fizzles out and they’re forced to make very different,...
- 6/18/2023
- by Editor
- CinemaNerdz
"Landscape with Invisible Hand" is the new science fiction feature written and directed by Cory Finley, based on the 2017 novel by M. T. Anderson, starring Asante Blackk, Kylie Rogers and Tiffany Haddish, releasing August 18, 2023 in theaters:
"...in the near-future, where the alien species 'Vuvv' has taken over Earth, an aspiring teenage artist and his girlfriend hatch a scheme to make money, by broadcasting their dating life to the fascinated alien.
"But the teens slowly come to hate each other and can't break up without bankrupting their families..."
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"...in the near-future, where the alien species 'Vuvv' has taken over Earth, an aspiring teenage artist and his girlfriend hatch a scheme to make money, by broadcasting their dating life to the fascinated alien.
"But the teens slowly come to hate each other and can't break up without bankrupting their families..."
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- 6/14/2023
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
JoBlo.com’s own Chris Bumbray had the chance to watch writer/director Cory Finley’s sci-fi drama Landscape with Invisible Hand at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year and gave it an 8/10 review (you can read it Here), describing the film as “a unique, cerebral alien invasion story told with style and intelligence.” A wider audience will get their chance to see the movie when it’s given a theatrical release on August 18th – and with that date just a couple months away, a trailer for Landscape with Invisible Hand has arrived online! You can check it out in the embed above.
Based on the 2017 novel of the same name by M. T. Anderson, the film has the following synopsis: Years into a benevolent alien occupation of Earth, the human race is still adjusting to the new world order and its quirky coffee table-sized overlords called the Vuvv. Their...
Based on the 2017 novel of the same name by M. T. Anderson, the film has the following synopsis: Years into a benevolent alien occupation of Earth, the human race is still adjusting to the new world order and its quirky coffee table-sized overlords called the Vuvv. Their...
- 6/13/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
Love is a purely human emotion that can’t be faked — such is the theme at the center of the first trailer for Cory Finley’s “Landscape With Invisible Hands,” released Tuesday.
The film is based on the book by M.T. Anderson and, per the official synopsis, it takes place years into a benevolent occupation of Earth by an alien species. “When 17-year-old artist Adam Campbell (Asante Blackk) and new girlfriend Chloe Marsh (Kylie Rogers) discover the Vuvv are particularly fascinated with human love and will pay for access to it, they decide to livestream their budding romance to make extra cash for themselves and their families. Life is good, for a while, until the flame of their teenage love fizzles out and they’re forced to make very different, absurdly life-altering sacrifices for their families.”
The trailer looks like a quirky romantic comedy, albeit with an alien invasion in the middle of it.
The film is based on the book by M.T. Anderson and, per the official synopsis, it takes place years into a benevolent occupation of Earth by an alien species. “When 17-year-old artist Adam Campbell (Asante Blackk) and new girlfriend Chloe Marsh (Kylie Rogers) discover the Vuvv are particularly fascinated with human love and will pay for access to it, they decide to livestream their budding romance to make extra cash for themselves and their families. Life is good, for a while, until the flame of their teenage love fizzles out and they’re forced to make very different, absurdly life-altering sacrifices for their families.”
The trailer looks like a quirky romantic comedy, albeit with an alien invasion in the middle of it.
- 6/13/2023
- by Kristen Lopez
- The Wrap
What if aliens invaded Earth but all they really wanted to do was use us for entertainment? That’s the basic premise of the new film, “Landscape with Invisible Hand.”
As seen in the trailer for the film, “Landscape with Invisible Hand” tells the story of two teenagers who fall in love. And to help earn some extra money, they decide to use their love as entertainment for aliens who have come to Earth.
Continue reading ‘Landscape With Invisible Hand’ Trailer: Tiffany Haddish Stars In Cory Finley’s Sci-Fi Love Story at The Playlist.
As seen in the trailer for the film, “Landscape with Invisible Hand” tells the story of two teenagers who fall in love. And to help earn some extra money, they decide to use their love as entertainment for aliens who have come to Earth.
Continue reading ‘Landscape With Invisible Hand’ Trailer: Tiffany Haddish Stars In Cory Finley’s Sci-Fi Love Story at The Playlist.
- 6/13/2023
- by Charles Barfield
- The Playlist
"Romantic love is the most poetic of all human love modes – it should never be faked." MGM has revealed the official trailer for the sci-fi creation Landscape with Invisible Hand, an impressively unique new film from filmmaker Cory Finley (of the acclaimed films Thoroughbreds and Bad Education previously). This is adapted from the book of the same name by M.T. Anderson (which comes highly recommended), and it first premiered at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival earlier this year. "Welcome to the future, where the entertainment is us." When an occupying alien species' (called the "Vuvv") bureaucratic rule and advanced technology leaves most of Earth impoverished and unemployed, two teenagers hatch a risky plan to ensure their families' futures. It's a clever commentary on capitalism and art and how we sacrifice our integrity just to make money to live and love. Landscape stars Asante Blackk, Kylie Rogers, Tiffany Haddish, with Brooklynn MacKinzie,...
- 6/13/2023
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
A still from Landscape With invisible Hand by Cory Finley, an official selection of the Premiers program at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival. Courtesy of Sundance Institute Landscape with Invisible Hand Review — Landscape with Invisible Hand (2023) Film Review from the 45th Annual Sundance Film Festival, a movie directed by Cory Finley, starring [...]
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- 3/3/2023
- by David McDonald
- Film-Book
The Sundance Film Festival has wrapped up, and overall their first year back in person since the pandemic was a rousing success. Several of the movie’s big films have been snapped up for distribution in record-breaking deals and will be seen soon. However, the two biggest deals (so far) have been for streaming services, so while you may not be seeing a lot of these on the big screen, but they should create a lot of buzz when the drop.
Here’s a list of highlights from the festival and when you can expect to see them:
Flora and Son
John Carney’s follow-up to his trilogy of music-driven romances, Once, Begin Again and Sing Street, was one of the most beloved films to play Park City this year. Eve Hewson, Jack Reynor and Joseph Gordon-Levitt star in this story of a divorced mother in Ireland who signs up...
Here’s a list of highlights from the festival and when you can expect to see them:
Flora and Son
John Carney’s follow-up to his trilogy of music-driven romances, Once, Begin Again and Sing Street, was one of the most beloved films to play Park City this year. Eve Hewson, Jack Reynor and Joseph Gordon-Levitt star in this story of a divorced mother in Ireland who signs up...
- 2/4/2023
- by Chris Bumbray
- JoBlo.com
Charisma, star talent, and a notably humble personality: At just 26 years old, Anya Taylor-Joy seems to have it all. “The Queen’s Gambit” starlet has become the face of Viktor & Rolf, garnered an Emmy nomination, and won a Golden Globe award — all in just six short years after her first feature role. The Miami-born, Argentine-raised, and London-based international film star landed on the scene in 2015 with Robert Eggers’ directorial debut “The Witch.” The breakout role from the Sundance hit cemented Taylor-Joy’s striking screen presence, with IndieWire’s review calling her “standout” performance “exquisitely ominous and unequivocally haunting.”
Taylor-Joy quickly became an indie darling with subsequent films “Morgan” opposite Kate Mara, “Thoroughbreds” by writer-director Cory Finley, and M. Night Shyamalan’s “Split” and “Glass.” In an interview with IndieWire, she lamented that she refuses to be typecast, but rather follows the “magic feeling” of reading the right part.
“In Hollywood, people...
Taylor-Joy quickly became an indie darling with subsequent films “Morgan” opposite Kate Mara, “Thoroughbreds” by writer-director Cory Finley, and M. Night Shyamalan’s “Split” and “Glass.” In an interview with IndieWire, she lamented that she refuses to be typecast, but rather follows the “magic feeling” of reading the right part.
“In Hollywood, people...
- 2/4/2023
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
What would life on Earth look like in a future where humans are still very much alive but no longer in charge? Landscape With Invisible Hand — directed by Cory Finley (Thoroughbreds, Bad Education) and based on the 2017 young adult novel by M.T. Anderson — depicts a depressed, dryly humorous society crumbling away at a steady pace. Little aliens called “the Vuvv” have landed and torpedoed the economy, leaving most humans either underemployed or out of work entirely. The wealthy have already abandoned the planet to live “up there” with the aliens, while everyone still on Earth is left to forage for what’s left of the money, land and food. Instead of fearsome creatures with horrifying lasers and military might, the Vuvv are tiny bureaucrats with no empathy for the poverty their soulless business practices have created.
Adam (Asante Blackk) and his family are essentially squatting in their own giant home,...
Adam (Asante Blackk) and his family are essentially squatting in their own giant home,...
- 2/2/2023
- by Jourdain Searles
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
One travels to the Sundance Film Festival in the dead of winter for numerous reasons, chief of them being the promise of a front-row seat to confident debuts like Cory Finley’s delectably dark “Thoroughbreds.” Indeed, the playwright-turned-filmmaker demonstrated himself an original voice with his first cinematic outing in 2017, proving his promise with the equally sophisticated “Bad Education,” about a real-life public school embezzling scandal.
Marking Finley’s homecoming to Sundance, “Landscape with Invisible Hand” feels less like a return for the writer-director, and more like a swing-for-the-fences departure with mixed results. On the one hand, this impressively scoped science-fiction/satire blend with some old-school visual craft signals Finley’s natural aptitude for shepherding big Hollywood productions, being the largest scaled project of his still-ascendant career. Refreshingly, “Landscape with Invisible Hand” looks and feels like a big-screen experience complete with spaceships and creatively designed dystopian locales, an increasingly rare accomplishment...
Marking Finley’s homecoming to Sundance, “Landscape with Invisible Hand” feels less like a return for the writer-director, and more like a swing-for-the-fences departure with mixed results. On the one hand, this impressively scoped science-fiction/satire blend with some old-school visual craft signals Finley’s natural aptitude for shepherding big Hollywood productions, being the largest scaled project of his still-ascendant career. Refreshingly, “Landscape with Invisible Hand” looks and feels like a big-screen experience complete with spaceships and creatively designed dystopian locales, an increasingly rare accomplishment...
- 1/26/2023
- by Tomris Laffly
- Variety Film + TV
Editor’s note: This review was originally published at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival. MGM releases the film in select theaters on Friday, August 18.
Cory Finley’s extremely welcome mission to make every conceivable kind of high school movie — at a time when few other serious filmmakers are bothering to make any kind of high school movie — continues with the young director’s third feature and first misstep. Like “Thoroughbreds” and “Bad Education” before it, “Landscape with Invisible Hand” leverages the ecology of American teenagedom into a satirical and/or breathtakingly sad class comedy that explores the value of empathy in capitalism. Unlike either of those two films, it’s full of slimy little aliens who look like a frozen supermarket turkey made out of tongue.
They’re called the Vuvv, and by the time this story begins in 2036, these squat pink colonizers have been holding Earth’s economy hostage for more than five years.
Cory Finley’s extremely welcome mission to make every conceivable kind of high school movie — at a time when few other serious filmmakers are bothering to make any kind of high school movie — continues with the young director’s third feature and first misstep. Like “Thoroughbreds” and “Bad Education” before it, “Landscape with Invisible Hand” leverages the ecology of American teenagedom into a satirical and/or breathtakingly sad class comedy that explores the value of empathy in capitalism. Unlike either of those two films, it’s full of slimy little aliens who look like a frozen supermarket turkey made out of tongue.
They’re called the Vuvv, and by the time this story begins in 2036, these squat pink colonizers have been holding Earth’s economy hostage for more than five years.
- 1/25/2023
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
When IndieWire conducted its annual survey of all the cameras used by cinematographers at the Sundance Film Festival, a striking trend quickly emerged: Over 75 percent of the DPs with narrative films at the festival utilized either the Arri Alexa Mini or its large format sibling, the Alexa Mini Lf, as their camera of choice. The Mini was introduced in 2015 as a compact version of the Alexa designed primarily for use on drones and gimbals, but its combination of a traditional Alexa sensor with increased mobility eventually led to its use as the A camera on Hollywood studio movies like “A Star is Born” and “Get Out” — and now, it seems, for a majority of cinematographers in the independent realm.
The Mini’s presence in independent film began to be felt at Sundance’s 2017 iteration, where festival favorites “Patti Cake” and “Thoroughbreds,” among others, were captured with the camera. “It was a very ambitious shoot,...
The Mini’s presence in independent film began to be felt at Sundance’s 2017 iteration, where festival favorites “Patti Cake” and “Thoroughbreds,” among others, were captured with the camera. “It was a very ambitious shoot,...
- 1/25/2023
- by Sarah Shachat and Jim Hemphill
- Indiewire
For the last seven decades, aliens have been observing humanity, waiting for the right moment to touch down. When they finally do, after the world’s best military efforts to scare them fail, they broker deals with those wealthy enough to live high above the planet in their floating cityscapes. The less fortunate are left to fend for the scraps that remain of Earth, which now relies on the synthetic, cheap mass production of cubed food the aliens invented, along with other “innovations” to improve productivity and labor costs. This is the world of Cory Finley’s third feature Landscape with Invisible Hand, an adaptation of M.T. Anderson’s novel that initially intrigues with its lo-fi sci-fi ambition but has too much on its mind without saying anything interesting at all.
Landscape is demarcated into sections introduced with paintings of what lies ahead, the artist of each being Adam (Asante Blackk...
Landscape is demarcated into sections introduced with paintings of what lies ahead, the artist of each being Adam (Asante Blackk...
- 1/25/2023
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
War of the Worlds. Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Independence Day. Signs. All of these films depict alien invasions as they are happening, but what happens after the fact? And what if, by some small miracle, we come to an agreement with the invaders and find a way to live alongside them? That’s exactly what Cory Finley‘s Landscape With Invisible Hand aims to find out, albeit to mixed results.
Taking place a few years after a hyper-intelligent alien race known as the Vuvv took over planet Earth, Landscape With Invisible Hand subverts expectations by informing us that they did so through soft economic power rather than brute force, bringing wondrous technology to Earth that only the wealthiest could afford. This technology rendered most jobs obsolete, leaving the rest of humanity to scrape together money in the tourism industry.
Our point of entry for this new reality is Adam,...
Taking place a few years after a hyper-intelligent alien race known as the Vuvv took over planet Earth, Landscape With Invisible Hand subverts expectations by informing us that they did so through soft economic power rather than brute force, bringing wondrous technology to Earth that only the wealthiest could afford. This technology rendered most jobs obsolete, leaving the rest of humanity to scrape together money in the tourism industry.
Our point of entry for this new reality is Adam,...
- 1/25/2023
- by Trace Thurman
- bloody-disgusting.com
Sundance film festival: thoroughbreds and Bad Education director Cory Finley makes an ambitious misstep with a jumbled comedy about controlling aliens
It’s become a depressingly familiar rite of passage for a director of vim and promise to stumble when they ambitiously decide to adapt a book that should have probably stayed on the shelf. Back in 2018, Blue Ruin and Green Room director Jeremy Saulnier came a cropper when he tried to wrangle William Giraldi’s unwieldy Hold the Dark to the screen. At Sundance in 2020, Dee Rees followed Pariah and Mudbound with a clunky, critically loathed attempt to turn Joan Didion’s The Last Thing He Wanted into a coherent film. And just last year Andrew Dominik and Noah Baumbach made their worst films to date with Blonde and White Noise respectively.
A strong attachment to the source material can of course be a good thing, a passion that...
It’s become a depressingly familiar rite of passage for a director of vim and promise to stumble when they ambitiously decide to adapt a book that should have probably stayed on the shelf. Back in 2018, Blue Ruin and Green Room director Jeremy Saulnier came a cropper when he tried to wrangle William Giraldi’s unwieldy Hold the Dark to the screen. At Sundance in 2020, Dee Rees followed Pariah and Mudbound with a clunky, critically loathed attempt to turn Joan Didion’s The Last Thing He Wanted into a coherent film. And just last year Andrew Dominik and Noah Baumbach made their worst films to date with Blonde and White Noise respectively.
A strong attachment to the source material can of course be a good thing, a passion that...
- 1/25/2023
- by Benjamin Lee in Park City, Utah
- The Guardian - Film News
Landscape with Invisible Hand is a unique story of survival under economic occupation of the Vuvv, an extraterrestrial race who aim to dominate humanity in every way except violence. Written and directed by Cory Finley, the innovative, poignant film explores how humanity might handle an Earth-altering alien occupation and the resulting clash between class and commerce.
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Based on the book by M.T. Anderson, the film starts with a series of drawings and paintings created by Adam Campbell (Asante Blackk). His art documents how times have changed over a 10-year period from when he began drawing until he turned 17 in 2036. It depicts life before and during...
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Based on the book by M.T. Anderson, the film starts with a series of drawings and paintings created by Adam Campbell (Asante Blackk). His art documents how times have changed over a 10-year period from when he began drawing until he turned 17 in 2036. It depicts life before and during...
- 1/24/2023
- by Valerie Complex
- Deadline Film + TV
In "Landscape With Invisible Hand," we're dropped into the not-too-distant future — the 2030s — and learn that aliens have invaded the planet. But these visitors from another world didn't come here to blow up our monuments "Independence Day"-style. Instead, they struck deals with greedy businessmen and politicians to essentially take over the entire planet. Now, the wealthy get to live in floating cities that drift across the sky while everyone else is stuck down on Earth.
Adam (Asante Blackk) is one of the unlucky humans still inhabiting this doomed rock, living with his mother (Tiffany Haddish) and sister (Brooklynn MacKinzie). His father left for the coast years ago and never returned. Adam bides his time painting and attending a school system that has been completely taken over by the aliens known as the Vuvv. Chloe (Kylie Rogers), a new student, arrives one day and Adam is clearly smitten. So much...
Adam (Asante Blackk) is one of the unlucky humans still inhabiting this doomed rock, living with his mother (Tiffany Haddish) and sister (Brooklynn MacKinzie). His father left for the coast years ago and never returned. Adam bides his time painting and attending a school system that has been completely taken over by the aliens known as the Vuvv. Chloe (Kylie Rogers), a new student, arrives one day and Adam is clearly smitten. So much...
- 1/24/2023
- by Chris Evangelista
- Slash Film
There was a semi-awkward moment at tonight’s Sundance Film Festival premiere of the Tiffany Haddish-led sci-fi film Landscape with Invisible Hand. During a post-screening Q&a with castmembers and filmmaker Cory Finley, an audience member asked what he prefaced as “a provocative question.”
Posing it “mainly for the producers and also for the Sundance programming team,” the questioner asked the panel if they “found it ironic that you have a film that’s about exploited young artists and also has studio financing having its world premiere at an indie film festival.”
Haddish quickly responded.
“First of all,” she began with exaggerated emphasis, to the crowd’s amusement, “I’m a producer on this film, and I didn’t feel exploited. And I feel like it’s very clear [Finlay] stood up for what he believed in, and I think that’s what every artist should do.”
Watch the full exchange below.
Posing it “mainly for the producers and also for the Sundance programming team,” the questioner asked the panel if they “found it ironic that you have a film that’s about exploited young artists and also has studio financing having its world premiere at an indie film festival.”
Haddish quickly responded.
“First of all,” she began with exaggerated emphasis, to the crowd’s amusement, “I’m a producer on this film, and I didn’t feel exploited. And I feel like it’s very clear [Finlay] stood up for what he believed in, and I think that’s what every artist should do.”
Watch the full exchange below.
- 1/24/2023
- by Scott Shilstone and Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
Deadline’s studio at the 2023 edition of the Sundance Film Festival continued with Day 4 by hosting fest-goers such as Ira Sachs, Adele Exarchopoulos, Ben Whishaw and Franz Rogowski for Passages; Marissa Torres Ericson, Erick Peyton, Peter Nicks and Sean Havey for Stephen Curry: Underrated; Chris Chalk, Raven Jackson, Charlene McClure and Sheila Atim for All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt; Kylie Rogers, Cory Finley and Tiffany Haddish from Landsape with Invisible Hand; Yayu A.W. Unru Rich Brian and Justin Chon of Jamojaya and many more.
The Deadline Studio at Sundance Film Festival runs January 20-23 at Hotel Park City, where the cast and creatives behind the best and buzziest titles in this year’s lineup sit down with Deadline’s festival team to discuss their movies and the paths they took to get to Park City.
The 2023 Sundance Film Festival takes place from January 19-29. Follow Deadline’s...
The Deadline Studio at Sundance Film Festival runs January 20-23 at Hotel Park City, where the cast and creatives behind the best and buzziest titles in this year’s lineup sit down with Deadline’s festival team to discuss their movies and the paths they took to get to Park City.
The 2023 Sundance Film Festival takes place from January 19-29. Follow Deadline’s...
- 1/23/2023
- by Robert Lang
- Deadline Film + TV
After only two years of being online only, the Sundance Film Festival is again happening in Park City, Utah. As usual, JoBlo is going to be there to check out all of the coolest movies to emerge from the indie scene. I’m excited to get my boots on the ground and watch some movies. While the online edition was fun, nothing beats discovering these movies with an audience. I almost got to attend the festival in person last year, only for a late Covid surge to result in the fest being canceled at the last minute. Nevertheless, the fest is back in full swing this year, with an impressive lineup with a few genre heavy-hitters mixed in among more high-brow fare.
Here are some of the titles we’re most excited to see:
Infinity Pool
Brandon Cronenberg’s Possessor was a big hit at the last in-person Sundance in...
Here are some of the titles we’re most excited to see:
Infinity Pool
Brandon Cronenberg’s Possessor was a big hit at the last in-person Sundance in...
- 1/19/2023
- by Chris Bumbray
- JoBlo.com
After two years of virtual and hybrid event offerings, the Sundance Film Festival is set to celebrate the first fully in-person edition of the landmark fest when it rolls out next week in Park City, Utah. As ever, this year’s festival boasts a wide variety of new films from some of our favorite filmmakers, plus an assortment of rising stars, new talents to keep an eye on, and perhaps a few surprises.
This year’s program includes new films from Nicole Holofcener, Ira Sachs, Brandon Cronenberg, Sebastian Silva, Cory Finley, Justin Chon, Nicole Newnham, Maite Alberdi, Roger Ross Williams, Sophie Barthes, Lana Wilson, Davis Guggenheim, Rebecca Zlotowski, and Anton Corbijn.
Looking for big stars? Sundance has them, too, as notable actors at this year’s festival range include Jonathan Majors, Daisy Ridley, Sarah Snook, Ben Whishaw, Alexander Skarsgard, Mia Goth, Cynthia Erivo, Alia Shawkat, Thomasin McKenzie, Anne Hathaway, Emilia Jones,...
This year’s program includes new films from Nicole Holofcener, Ira Sachs, Brandon Cronenberg, Sebastian Silva, Cory Finley, Justin Chon, Nicole Newnham, Maite Alberdi, Roger Ross Williams, Sophie Barthes, Lana Wilson, Davis Guggenheim, Rebecca Zlotowski, and Anton Corbijn.
Looking for big stars? Sundance has them, too, as notable actors at this year’s festival range include Jonathan Majors, Daisy Ridley, Sarah Snook, Ben Whishaw, Alexander Skarsgard, Mia Goth, Cynthia Erivo, Alia Shawkat, Thomasin McKenzie, Anne Hathaway, Emilia Jones,...
- 1/11/2023
- by Kate Erbland, David Ehrlich and Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
Brad Pitt’s production company Plan B Entertainment is selling a 60 percent majority stake to the French media giant Mediawan in a deal that values the film company behind “Moonlight” and “12 Years a Slave” in the hundreds of millions of dollars.
The news was formally announced late Friday after news of the deal broke early Friday. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, but CNBC, which first reported the news, reported that Plan B is said to be worth in the hundreds of millions of dollars range but below 500 million.
Plan B first announced an intention to explore a sale of its assets or an investor back in October, and the sale is the latest example in a wave of M&a activity across Hollywood over the last few years. That’s included everything from the sale of Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine to Candle Media to LeBron James...
The news was formally announced late Friday after news of the deal broke early Friday. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, but CNBC, which first reported the news, reported that Plan B is said to be worth in the hundreds of millions of dollars range but below 500 million.
Plan B first announced an intention to explore a sale of its assets or an investor back in October, and the sale is the latest example in a wave of M&a activity across Hollywood over the last few years. That’s included everything from the sale of Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine to Candle Media to LeBron James...
- 12/9/2022
- by Brian Welk
- Indiewire
The Sundance Film Festival makes its fully in-person return to Park City next month, from January 19 – 23, after two consecutive all-virtual events. This year’s lineup of 101 feature-length films (so far) is packed with buzzy titles, from Susanna Fogel’s “Cat Person,” based on the viral 2017 New Yorker short story about a toxic date; to “Eileen,” the Ottessa Mosghfegh adaptation starring Thomasin McKenzie and Anne Hathaway; and “Infinity Pool,” the latest sleek sci-fi from Brandon Cronenberg and starring Alexander Skarsgård and Mia Goth.
Filmmakers first-time and veteran filmmakers will land in Park City this January, bringing breakout features to the U.S., Documentary, and World Cinema Dramatic competitions, as well as in the Premieres section, among others. On the documentary side, new nonfiction offerings about the lives of Michael J. Fox, Judy Blume, and Little Richard will be presented.
The lineup includes new films from Nicole Holofcener, Ira Sachs, Brandon Cronenberg,...
Filmmakers first-time and veteran filmmakers will land in Park City this January, bringing breakout features to the U.S., Documentary, and World Cinema Dramatic competitions, as well as in the Premieres section, among others. On the documentary side, new nonfiction offerings about the lives of Michael J. Fox, Judy Blume, and Little Richard will be presented.
The lineup includes new films from Nicole Holofcener, Ira Sachs, Brandon Cronenberg,...
- 12/8/2022
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
The Sundance Institute has announced the feature film lineup for the 2023 festival, taking place January 19 – 29, 2023, in person in Utah, along with a selection of films available online across the country January 24 – 29. The selection includes Competition titles, the Premieres section, and the Midnight section, with 101 feature-length films representing 23 countries, 94 percent of which are world premieres.
This year’s program includes plenty of familiar names, with new films from Nicole Holofcener, Ira Sachs, Brandon Cronenberg, Sebastian Silva, Cory Finley, Justin Chon, Nicole Newnham, Maite Alberdi, Roger Ross Williams, Sophie Barthes, Lana Wilson, Davis Guggenheim, Rebecca Zlotowski, Anton Corbijn, and many more.
Notable actors at this year’s festival range from Jonathan Majors in “Magazine Dreams,” Daisy Ridley in “Sometimes I Think About Dying,” and Sarah Snook in midnight opener “Run Rabbit Run.” Other notable names found throughout the lineup include Ben Whishaw, Alexander Skarsgard, Mia Goth, Cynthia Erivo, Alia Shawkat, Thomasin McKenzie,...
This year’s program includes plenty of familiar names, with new films from Nicole Holofcener, Ira Sachs, Brandon Cronenberg, Sebastian Silva, Cory Finley, Justin Chon, Nicole Newnham, Maite Alberdi, Roger Ross Williams, Sophie Barthes, Lana Wilson, Davis Guggenheim, Rebecca Zlotowski, Anton Corbijn, and many more.
Notable actors at this year’s festival range from Jonathan Majors in “Magazine Dreams,” Daisy Ridley in “Sometimes I Think About Dying,” and Sarah Snook in midnight opener “Run Rabbit Run.” Other notable names found throughout the lineup include Ben Whishaw, Alexander Skarsgard, Mia Goth, Cynthia Erivo, Alia Shawkat, Thomasin McKenzie,...
- 12/7/2022
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Selection includes new work from directors Nicole Holofcener, Davis Guggenheim, Sophie Bathes, Brandon Cronenberg.
Established and new filmmakers will take a bow at the hybrid 2023 Sundance Film Festival as festival organisers announced 99 features selected from a record number of submissions. There is new work from Holy Spider star Zar Amir Ebrahimi and Cynthia Erivo, We Are Lady Parts creator Nida Manzoor, Nicole Holofcener, Davis Guggenheim, Sophie Bathes and Brandon Cronenberg.
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Anticipated World Cinema Dramatic Competition selections include UK duo Scrapper directed by Charlotte Regan and sold by Charades, and Girl by Adura Onashile. Both were supported...
Established and new filmmakers will take a bow at the hybrid 2023 Sundance Film Festival as festival organisers announced 99 features selected from a record number of submissions. There is new work from Holy Spider star Zar Amir Ebrahimi and Cynthia Erivo, We Are Lady Parts creator Nida Manzoor, Nicole Holofcener, Davis Guggenheim, Sophie Bathes and Brandon Cronenberg.
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Anticipated World Cinema Dramatic Competition selections include UK duo Scrapper directed by Charlotte Regan and sold by Charades, and Girl by Adura Onashile. Both were supported...
- 12/7/2022
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
William Jackson Harper has entered the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Sources tell Variety that the actor will appear in “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania,” though his role remains a closely guarded secret. Marvel declined to comment on his casting.
Harper joins a “Quantumania” cast that includes Paul Rudd, Evangeline Lilly, Michelle Pfeiffer and Michael Douglas reprising their roles from 2015’s “Ant-Man” and 2018’s “Ant-Man and the Wasp.” The superhero sequel will also see the introduction of Kathryn Newton as Cassie Lang, the now grown-up daughter to Rudd’s bumbling hero Scott Lang. The film follows the Ant-Man family as they face down the new threat of Kang the Conqueror (Jonathan Majors), a time-traveling menace who resides in the microscopic universe of the Quantum Realm.
Harper is best known for starring as Chidi Anagonye in NBC’s “The Good Place,” which earned him an Emmy nomination for supporting comedy actor. He was...
Sources tell Variety that the actor will appear in “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania,” though his role remains a closely guarded secret. Marvel declined to comment on his casting.
Harper joins a “Quantumania” cast that includes Paul Rudd, Evangeline Lilly, Michelle Pfeiffer and Michael Douglas reprising their roles from 2015’s “Ant-Man” and 2018’s “Ant-Man and the Wasp.” The superhero sequel will also see the introduction of Kathryn Newton as Cassie Lang, the now grown-up daughter to Rudd’s bumbling hero Scott Lang. The film follows the Ant-Man family as they face down the new threat of Kang the Conqueror (Jonathan Majors), a time-traveling menace who resides in the microscopic universe of the Quantum Realm.
Harper is best known for starring as Chidi Anagonye in NBC’s “The Good Place,” which earned him an Emmy nomination for supporting comedy actor. He was...
- 10/28/2022
- by J. Kim Murphy and Selome Hailu
- Variety Film + TV
Kathrine Narducci Reteaming With Robert De Niro & Barry Levinson For Warner Bros Mob Pic ‘Wise Guys’
Exclusive: Kathrine Narducci will be working again, not just with Robert De Niro, but also filmmaker Barry Levinson, in the latter’s mob pic Wise Guys at Warner Bros.
Wise Guys is a period piece that follows the story of Vito Genovese and Frank Costello, a pair of Italian Americans running two separate crime families during the mid-20th century. Genovese tried and failed to assassinate Costello in 1957, though the latter wound up taking his leave from the mob after being injured during the attempt on his life. De Niro is reportedly playing both roles. Narducci will play Anna Genovese who is the wife of De Niro’s Vito character. Deadline first told you that Debra Messing is in talks to play Bobbie, the wife of De Niro’s Costello character.
Wise Guys reps the second time that Narducci has worked with Levinson as she played a prominent role in...
Wise Guys is a period piece that follows the story of Vito Genovese and Frank Costello, a pair of Italian Americans running two separate crime families during the mid-20th century. Genovese tried and failed to assassinate Costello in 1957, though the latter wound up taking his leave from the mob after being injured during the attempt on his life. De Niro is reportedly playing both roles. Narducci will play Anna Genovese who is the wife of De Niro’s Vito character. Deadline first told you that Debra Messing is in talks to play Bobbie, the wife of De Niro’s Costello character.
Wise Guys reps the second time that Narducci has worked with Levinson as she played a prominent role in...
- 10/26/2022
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
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