You’d have to look pretty far and wide to find anyone in music who has been as consistently good or eternally enjoyable as Miranda Lambert. Almost 20 years into her run, she’s defined her career by always going her own way, both musically and lyrically. Her ninth solo set was recorded in her native Texas with help from peers and longtime collaborators like Brent Cobb, Natalie Hemby, and Jack Ingram, and the album’s co-producer Jon Randall. Postcards From Texas doesn’t have as many genre swerves as Lambert sometimes delivers.
- 9/12/2024
- by Jon Dolan
- Rollingstone.com
Production kicked off in Seoul on Sept. 3 for “Hana Korea,” an ambitious Denmark-Korea co-production based on the real-life story of a North Korean defector.
“Hana Korea” is co-written and directed by Danish documentary filmmaker Frederik Sølberg and co-written by Sharon Choi, a filmmaker and Bong Joon-ho’s interpreter, who accompanied the director in his 2019 journey with “Parasite” from Cannes to its Oscar wins. Choi is also working as Sølberg’s on-set translator.
“Hana Korea” tells the story of Hyesun, a North Korean defector sent to the Hanawon (“house of unity”) educational institution for three months, where she is debriefed on life outside of the Dprk, learning about democracy, personal freedom, equality and how to use a credit card.
“Hana Korea’s” cast includes Kim Minha, who gained international recognition for her portrayal of Sunja in the Apple TV+ series “Pachinko”; Kim Joo-ryoung, seen in Netflix’s smash hit series “Squid Game”; and An Seo-hyun,...
“Hana Korea” is co-written and directed by Danish documentary filmmaker Frederik Sølberg and co-written by Sharon Choi, a filmmaker and Bong Joon-ho’s interpreter, who accompanied the director in his 2019 journey with “Parasite” from Cannes to its Oscar wins. Choi is also working as Sølberg’s on-set translator.
“Hana Korea” tells the story of Hyesun, a North Korean defector sent to the Hanawon (“house of unity”) educational institution for three months, where she is debriefed on life outside of the Dprk, learning about democracy, personal freedom, equality and how to use a credit card.
“Hana Korea’s” cast includes Kim Minha, who gained international recognition for her portrayal of Sunja in the Apple TV+ series “Pachinko”; Kim Joo-ryoung, seen in Netflix’s smash hit series “Squid Game”; and An Seo-hyun,...
- 9/8/2024
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Paramount+ has announced that the second season of Dora, the original animated preschool series, will premiere on Friday, Sept. 13, exclusively on Paramount+ in the U.S., Canada, Germany, Switzerland, and Austria, with other international markets to be announced at a later date.
Produced by Nickelodeon Animation, the second season features 26 CG-animated 11-minute episodes and follows everyone’s favorite bilingual explorer, Dora, as she continues her epic adventures through the mystical and magical rainforest.
Additionally, Dora will make its linear debut Monday, Sept. 16, premiering Monday through Thursday for three consecutive weeks at 11 a.m. (Et/Pt) on Nickelodeon and 5 p.m. (Et/Pt) on the Nick Jr. channel. All 26 episodes of the first season are also available to stream exclusively on Paramount+.
In the second season, Dora and her best monkey friend, Boots, encounter new challenges, overcome tricky obstacles, and explore new fantastical territories. Kids will join the iconic Latina heroine...
Produced by Nickelodeon Animation, the second season features 26 CG-animated 11-minute episodes and follows everyone’s favorite bilingual explorer, Dora, as she continues her epic adventures through the mystical and magical rainforest.
Additionally, Dora will make its linear debut Monday, Sept. 16, premiering Monday through Thursday for three consecutive weeks at 11 a.m. (Et/Pt) on Nickelodeon and 5 p.m. (Et/Pt) on the Nick Jr. channel. All 26 episodes of the first season are also available to stream exclusively on Paramount+.
In the second season, Dora and her best monkey friend, Boots, encounter new challenges, overcome tricky obstacles, and explore new fantastical territories. Kids will join the iconic Latina heroine...
- 8/5/2024
- by Mirko Parlevliet
- Vital Thrills
Miranda Lambert teased another new song from her upcoming album. The scathing divorce anthem comes just a month after the singer’s husband, Brendan McLoughlin, was caught in close quarters with another woman. Keep reading for more details.
Miranda Lambert Shares Details Of Next Album
Miranda Lambert has been teasing a new album for months. The upcoming record will be her first with her new label. She left Sony Music Nashville in 2023 and signed with Republic Records. The “Kerosene” singer told Us Weekly in May that the new album was the “most me” one yet.
Miranda Lambert
After months of hyping the album, she finally released more details about it. Miranda Lambert’s tenth studio album is called Postcards From Texas. She recorded it in her native Texas.
The 14-track album will be out on September 13, 2024.
Tracklist:
Armadillo Dammit Randy Looking Back on Luckenbach Santa Fe feat. Parker McCollum January...
Miranda Lambert Shares Details Of Next Album
Miranda Lambert has been teasing a new album for months. The upcoming record will be her first with her new label. She left Sony Music Nashville in 2023 and signed with Republic Records. The “Kerosene” singer told Us Weekly in May that the new album was the “most me” one yet.
Miranda Lambert
After months of hyping the album, she finally released more details about it. Miranda Lambert’s tenth studio album is called Postcards From Texas. She recorded it in her native Texas.
The 14-track album will be out on September 13, 2024.
Tracklist:
Armadillo Dammit Randy Looking Back on Luckenbach Santa Fe feat. Parker McCollum January...
- 7/25/2024
- by Jennifer Havener
- Country Music Alley
Sitting across from Miranda Lambert, it’s hard not to be confronted by the strength, determination, and “fuck around and find out” attitude that defined one of country music’s most promising debut albums. Kerosene, Lambert’s first major label LP, turns 20 next year, and the Texas songwriter is reflecting on all that led to its 2005 release.
“When I first started, I wanted longevity, a long career and to have relevancy, and be able to play as long as I physically could play,” Lambert tells Rolling Stone. “Luckily, I have...
“When I first started, I wanted longevity, a long career and to have relevancy, and be able to play as long as I physically could play,” Lambert tells Rolling Stone. “Luckily, I have...
- 7/24/2024
- by Garret K. Woodward
- Rollingstone.com
Copenhagen-based REinvent International Sales has picked up international sales rights to the major arthouse feature “Hana Korea,” based on the true story of a North Korean young defector who tries to carve herself a new life in South Korean society.
The hybrid project, produced by Sonntag Pictures’ Sara Stockmann with Seesaw Pictures’ Heejung Oh (“Pearl of the Desert”) is due to start lensing in August on location in Korea.
Danish documentary filmmaker Frederik Sølberg (“Doel”) has partnered with some of Korea’s biggest talent on both sides of the camera to bring authenticity to his fiction debut.
In a major coup, writer-director Sharon Choi, the famous interpreter of Bong Joon-ho who first appeared by his side when he landed the Cannes Palme d’Or for “Parasite” in 2019, has boarded the project as co-writer.
First A-list Korean acting talent on board include Minha Kim from Apple TV+ series “Pachinko” and the seasoned Kim Joo-ryung,...
The hybrid project, produced by Sonntag Pictures’ Sara Stockmann with Seesaw Pictures’ Heejung Oh (“Pearl of the Desert”) is due to start lensing in August on location in Korea.
Danish documentary filmmaker Frederik Sølberg (“Doel”) has partnered with some of Korea’s biggest talent on both sides of the camera to bring authenticity to his fiction debut.
In a major coup, writer-director Sharon Choi, the famous interpreter of Bong Joon-ho who first appeared by his side when he landed the Cannes Palme d’Or for “Parasite” in 2019, has boarded the project as co-writer.
First A-list Korean acting talent on board include Minha Kim from Apple TV+ series “Pachinko” and the seasoned Kim Joo-ryung,...
- 5/16/2024
- by Annika Pham
- Variety Film + TV
Taskovski Films has acquired world rights to the Danish doc “Daughter of Genghis,” produced by “The Lost Leonardo’s” Andreas Dalsgaard for Elk Film. The debut feature of award-winning photo-journalists Kristoffer Juel Poulsen and Christian Als, who have teamed up with leading Danish journalist Knud Brix, will world premiere in the F:act competition section of the leading international documentary festival Cph:dox in Copenhagen. Variety has secured the trailer in exclusivity.
“‘Daughter of Genghis’ is a compelling exploration of global extremism, delving into emotional dynamics and pathways to radicalization,” said Irena Taskovski, CEO of U.K.-based Taskovski Films. “Against the backdrop of Mongolia’s struggle for sovereignty amidst geopolitical tensions, the film highlights the resilience of its main character, Gerel Byamba.”
“With its potent blend of geopolitical relevance and nuanced character portrayal, the film promises significant commercial potential and wide audience appeal,” she added.
The huge collective filmmaking effort, which...
“‘Daughter of Genghis’ is a compelling exploration of global extremism, delving into emotional dynamics and pathways to radicalization,” said Irena Taskovski, CEO of U.K.-based Taskovski Films. “Against the backdrop of Mongolia’s struggle for sovereignty amidst geopolitical tensions, the film highlights the resilience of its main character, Gerel Byamba.”
“With its potent blend of geopolitical relevance and nuanced character portrayal, the film promises significant commercial potential and wide audience appeal,” she added.
The huge collective filmmaking effort, which...
- 2/28/2024
- by Annika Pham
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Leonine Studios’ Gebrueder Beetz Filmproduktion has hired international doc expert Martin Pieper from public network Zdf.
The experienced exec will exit Zdf after 20 years to join the German production house on October 1 as International Producer.
Gebrueder Beetz is known for docs such as Sky’s Juan Carlos – Downfall of the King and Netflix’s first German doc-series Perfect Crime and is considered as one of mainland Europe’s top factual producers.
Pieper, who has a reputation as an expert on the international doc market, led numerous Zdf/Arte’s editorial departments, namely its Culture and Science, Thema and, most recently News/Arte units. During his time at Zdf, he worked with Gebrueder Beetz on Armenian Academy Award entry Aurora’s Sunrise and docs Gaza and The Land of the Enlightened, both of which were nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival.
Pieper will lead international co-production activities...
The experienced exec will exit Zdf after 20 years to join the German production house on October 1 as International Producer.
Gebrueder Beetz is known for docs such as Sky’s Juan Carlos – Downfall of the King and Netflix’s first German doc-series Perfect Crime and is considered as one of mainland Europe’s top factual producers.
Pieper, who has a reputation as an expert on the international doc market, led numerous Zdf/Arte’s editorial departments, namely its Culture and Science, Thema and, most recently News/Arte units. During his time at Zdf, he worked with Gebrueder Beetz on Armenian Academy Award entry Aurora’s Sunrise and docs Gaza and The Land of the Enlightened, both of which were nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival.
Pieper will lead international co-production activities...
- 9/26/2023
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
First up comes Shakespeare Manga Theatre from the legendary Osamu Tezuka.
The first of 4 titles from the most famous manga pioneer to join the Ablaze catalog.
Another new series joins the Ablaze Manga catalog with the English language debut of Gannibal, a terrifying manga horror series by Masaaki Ninomiya, on which the acclaimed Hulu TV show is based.
Also launching comes The Agent, a full-color supernatural crime thriller by writer/creator, Mathieu Gabella, and artist Fernando Dagnino.
A new release by the acclaimed Italian creator, Zerocalcare, also debuts in November with the release of The Armadillo Prophicy.
The graphic novel was the creators first release and depicts a deeply personal story of how he coped with learning too late that a dear friend from his childhood had died, all while a giant armadillo represents his imaginary conscience.
Action fans will not want to miss Versus Fighting Story Vol. 1-2 Collected Set.
The first of 4 titles from the most famous manga pioneer to join the Ablaze catalog.
Another new series joins the Ablaze Manga catalog with the English language debut of Gannibal, a terrifying manga horror series by Masaaki Ninomiya, on which the acclaimed Hulu TV show is based.
Also launching comes The Agent, a full-color supernatural crime thriller by writer/creator, Mathieu Gabella, and artist Fernando Dagnino.
A new release by the acclaimed Italian creator, Zerocalcare, also debuts in November with the release of The Armadillo Prophicy.
The graphic novel was the creators first release and depicts a deeply personal story of how he coped with learning too late that a dear friend from his childhood had died, all while a giant armadillo represents his imaginary conscience.
Action fans will not want to miss Versus Fighting Story Vol. 1-2 Collected Set.
- 8/25/2023
- by Adam Symchuk
- AsianMoviePulse
Danish helmer Janus Metz’s next feature project after Amazon Studios’ “All the Old Knives,” starring Laurence Fischburne and Chris Pine, will be the Danish drama “Bastard Love,” produced by Jesper Morthorst and Lise Orheim Stender for Motor.
“Bastard Love” will be Metz’s sophomore Scandinavian feature film after the multi-awarded ”Borg vs. McEnroe.” The project is co-penned by Metz and Danish author Kamilla Hega Holst from her acclaimed novel “På Træk,” winner of the 2015 Blixen Literary Award.
The intense psychological drama centers on a woman in her late thirties who leaves her failed marriage, ex-husband and two kids, and ends up in Pattaya, Thailand, where her retired grandfather is living with a Thai woman. There, she starts a relationship with a trans prostitute and throws herself into the dark underbelly of the city, where anything is possible, including redefining herself.
The Thai setting is familiar territory for Holst whose grandfather lived in Pattaya,...
“Bastard Love” will be Metz’s sophomore Scandinavian feature film after the multi-awarded ”Borg vs. McEnroe.” The project is co-penned by Metz and Danish author Kamilla Hega Holst from her acclaimed novel “På Træk,” winner of the 2015 Blixen Literary Award.
The intense psychological drama centers on a woman in her late thirties who leaves her failed marriage, ex-husband and two kids, and ends up in Pattaya, Thailand, where her retired grandfather is living with a Thai woman. There, she starts a relationship with a trans prostitute and throws herself into the dark underbelly of the city, where anything is possible, including redefining herself.
The Thai setting is familiar territory for Holst whose grandfather lived in Pattaya,...
- 2/7/2021
- by Annika Pham
- Variety Film + TV
Vendôme, Moonriver TV and Pathé are co-developing the project in collaboration with The New York Times.
UK novelist and screenwriter William Boyd is writing a screenplay for a TV miniseries about the fire at Notre Dame de Paris cathedral in 2019 for France’s Vendôme, with London-based Moonriver TV and France’s Pathé, in collaboration with The New York Times.
The series will be a dramatised retelling of the fire that ripped through Notre-Dame on April 15, 2019 and the heroic actions of French firefighters and police officers who risked their lives to save the cathedral from total destruction.
Vendôme CEO Philippe Rousselet...
UK novelist and screenwriter William Boyd is writing a screenplay for a TV miniseries about the fire at Notre Dame de Paris cathedral in 2019 for France’s Vendôme, with London-based Moonriver TV and France’s Pathé, in collaboration with The New York Times.
The series will be a dramatised retelling of the fire that ripped through Notre-Dame on April 15, 2019 and the heroic actions of French firefighters and police officers who risked their lives to save the cathedral from total destruction.
Vendôme CEO Philippe Rousselet...
- 3/5/2020
- by 14¦Screen staff¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
William Boyd, the award-winning British novelist and screenwriter of “Chaplin” and “Any Human Heart,” is set to write the screenplay of a high-profile miniseries centred on the devastating fire that ripped through Paris’s Notre-Dame cathedral in April 2019.
Philippe Rousselet’s Vendôme, U.K.-based Xavier Marchand’s Moonriver TV and Pathé are co-developing the project in collaboration with The New York Times. The mini-series marks the first TV show from Pathé, the French studio behind the Oscar-winning “Judy” and Pedro Almodovar’s “Pain & Glory,” as well as the first TV project to be announced under Vendôme and Pathé’s three-year production partnership that was unveiled in Cannes.
Based on The New York Times investigation, the show will chart the events of April 19, after a warning light first detected fire in the attic of the cathedral — one of the world’s most beloved and iconic French landmarks. The multi-layered...
Philippe Rousselet’s Vendôme, U.K.-based Xavier Marchand’s Moonriver TV and Pathé are co-developing the project in collaboration with The New York Times. The mini-series marks the first TV show from Pathé, the French studio behind the Oscar-winning “Judy” and Pedro Almodovar’s “Pain & Glory,” as well as the first TV project to be announced under Vendôme and Pathé’s three-year production partnership that was unveiled in Cannes.
Based on The New York Times investigation, the show will chart the events of April 19, after a warning light first detected fire in the attic of the cathedral — one of the world’s most beloved and iconic French landmarks. The multi-layered...
- 3/4/2020
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
The Coen Brothers’ The Ballad of Buster Scruggs takes feature form for the 2018 Venice Film Festival
In a surprise twist no one saw coming The Coen Brothers’ initial anthology series, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, will be featuring at the 2018 Venice Film Festival as a full-length feature in the competition.
The film, which was declared a Netflix original, is made up of 6 of chaptered stories revolving around the American Frontier. As for chapter plot details, information is hard to find. Tim Blake Nelson stars as Scruggs alongside a cast that features names like Zoe Kazan, Liam Neeson and Tom Waits.
“We’ve always loved anthology movies, especially those films made in Italy in the Sixties which set side-by-side the work of different directors on a common theme,” the Coens said in a statement. “Having written an anthology of Western stories we attempted to do the same, hoping to enlist the best directors working today. It was our great fortune that they both agreed to participate.”
The...
The film, which was declared a Netflix original, is made up of 6 of chaptered stories revolving around the American Frontier. As for chapter plot details, information is hard to find. Tim Blake Nelson stars as Scruggs alongside a cast that features names like Zoe Kazan, Liam Neeson and Tom Waits.
“We’ve always loved anthology movies, especially those films made in Italy in the Sixties which set side-by-side the work of different directors on a common theme,” the Coens said in a statement. “Having written an anthology of Western stories we attempted to do the same, hoping to enlist the best directors working today. It was our great fortune that they both agreed to participate.”
The...
- 7/26/2018
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Shia Labeouf channels the rage and athletic brilliance of tennis champion John McEnroe in the new trailer for Borg vs McEnroe. The film focuses on the 1980 Wimbledon showdown between the hot-headed American and Swedish player Björn Borg (Sverrir Gudnason).
The preview details this "perfect rivalry," establishing McEnroe as the scrappy rebel and Borg as the disciplined craftsman aiming for his fifth title at age 24. "McEnroe is the bigger talent, but Björn Borg is like being hit by a sledgehammer," one announcer says.
The trailer contrasts Borg's superstitious training regimen and McEnroe's hard-partying lifestyle.
The preview details this "perfect rivalry," establishing McEnroe as the scrappy rebel and Borg as the disciplined craftsman aiming for his fifth title at age 24. "McEnroe is the bigger talent, but Björn Borg is like being hit by a sledgehammer," one announcer says.
The trailer contrasts Borg's superstitious training regimen and McEnroe's hard-partying lifestyle.
- 3/14/2018
- Rollingstone.com
Sverrir Gudnason is superb as the ice-cool Swede struggling to contain a cauldron of emotion – and Shia Labeouf’s not bad either as his voluble opponent
A tale of sporting rivalry is given a brooding, introspective Scandinavian twist by Janus Metz, hitherto best known for his award-winning documentary Armadillo. Stoic, seemingly unflappable Björn Borg (Sverrir Gudnason) and volatile, temperamental brat John McEnroe (Shia Labeouf) competed for the Wimbledon title in 1980. On paper, it was a clash of opposites. But in fact, this film argues that the two men had more in common than anyone suspected at the time. Ice-man Borg, the main focus of this film, was in fact a volcano; his obsession with detail, his superstitions, were all part of the meticulous control mechanism he constructed to prevent the eruptions of anger that so tarnished McEnroe’s early reputation.
Whether or not you know the outcome, this is a cracking watch.
A tale of sporting rivalry is given a brooding, introspective Scandinavian twist by Janus Metz, hitherto best known for his award-winning documentary Armadillo. Stoic, seemingly unflappable Björn Borg (Sverrir Gudnason) and volatile, temperamental brat John McEnroe (Shia Labeouf) competed for the Wimbledon title in 1980. On paper, it was a clash of opposites. But in fact, this film argues that the two men had more in common than anyone suspected at the time. Ice-man Borg, the main focus of this film, was in fact a volcano; his obsession with detail, his superstitions, were all part of the meticulous control mechanism he constructed to prevent the eruptions of anger that so tarnished McEnroe’s early reputation.
Whether or not you know the outcome, this is a cracking watch.
- 9/24/2017
- by Wendy Ide
- The Guardian - Film News
Juan Martin del Potro just ruined the match-up everyone wanted to see at the 2017 Us Open—a semi-final pitting Rafa Nadal against Roger Federer. Despite both being in their thirties, their rivalry has never stopped. What’s intriguing, however, is how amiable it has always been (or seemed to be). With the quieter Pete Sampras and emotional Andre Agassi a generation earlier, the same was true despite their differing personalities and server versus returner billing. You could call the former a product of the latter and the latter a product of the explosive combat before them between “ice cold” Björn Borg and New York “superbrat” John McEnroe. The glaring difference of course is that their iconic war was augmented off-court by the media. It may have only really lasted two years, but the effect it had on the sport of tennis was permanent.
Danish director (of documentary Armadillo fame) Janus Metz...
Danish director (of documentary Armadillo fame) Janus Metz...
- 9/8/2017
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
Tennis fans know the inevitable letdown that comes with the final match of the U.S. Open every summer, but 2017 brings two exciting fall movies to fill the void: “Battle of the Sexes,” where Emma Stone will play the great Billie Jean King, and “Borg vs. McEnroe,” which stars Shia LeBeouf as the notorious bad boy of tennis in a stylish drama about one of the sport’s greatest rivalries.
Read More: ‘Battle of the Sexes’ Trailer: Emma Stone and Steve Carell Face Off in Sports Comedy — Watch
Swedish tennis player Bjorn Borg and American legend John McEnroe played each other 14 times on tour between the years 1978 and 1981. Each player won 7 times. Their rivalry was all the more fascinating due to their polarized demeanors: Borg was known for his zen-like cool on court, while McEnroe was an infamous firebrand, often yelling at umpires and wildly upsetting the balance of a game that reveres civility.
Read More: ‘Battle of the Sexes’ Trailer: Emma Stone and Steve Carell Face Off in Sports Comedy — Watch
Swedish tennis player Bjorn Borg and American legend John McEnroe played each other 14 times on tour between the years 1978 and 1981. Each player won 7 times. Their rivalry was all the more fascinating due to their polarized demeanors: Borg was known for his zen-like cool on court, while McEnroe was an infamous firebrand, often yelling at umpires and wildly upsetting the balance of a game that reveres civility.
- 7/5/2017
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
Perhaps we can thank 7 Days in Hell, but tennis films seem to be all the rage this fall, albeit in a less comedic form than Andy Samberg’s spoof. While Emma Stone and Steve Carell will square off in Battle of the Sexes this September, the same month will see the international debut — and likely fall festival premiere — of another tennis drama, Borg vs. McEnroe.
Starring Sverrir Gudnason as Borg and Shia Labeouf as McEnroe, the film is directed by acclaimed Swedish helmer Janus Metz (Armadillo), and the first trailer has now landed. Judging from this first preview, it’s intriguing to see a sports drama such as this coming from a Swedish perspective rather than than the all-too-frequent American view we normally get.
Check out the trailer below.
Wimbledon, 1980. The rainiest summer in decades. The world is waiting to see the number one tennis player in the world, Björn Borg,...
Starring Sverrir Gudnason as Borg and Shia Labeouf as McEnroe, the film is directed by acclaimed Swedish helmer Janus Metz (Armadillo), and the first trailer has now landed. Judging from this first preview, it’s intriguing to see a sports drama such as this coming from a Swedish perspective rather than than the all-too-frequent American view we normally get.
Check out the trailer below.
Wimbledon, 1980. The rainiest summer in decades. The world is waiting to see the number one tennis player in the world, Björn Borg,...
- 7/5/2017
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Shia LeBeouf stars as tennis great John McEnroe in the biopic “Borg vs McEnroe.” Check out the teaser above. The sports drama will focus on one of the biggest rivalries in tennis of all time between McEnroe and Swedish player Björn Borg in the late 1970s and and early 1980s. Sverrir Gudnason will play Borg, while Stellan Skarsgard plays his coach, Lennart Bergelin. Also Read: Shia LeBeouf Grants Fan's Wish, Whacks Him in Face (Video) Danish director Janus Metz directs — his war documentary “Armadillo” won the grand prize at Cannes’ Critics’ Week in 2010. All in all, Borg and McEnroe faced off 14 times between 1978 and.
- 7/3/2017
- by Umberto Gonzalez
- The Wrap
Today marks the 140th anniversary of Wimbledon, the world’s premiere tennis tournament, which makes it a great occasion to promote “Borg Vs McEnroe.” The tennis drama is gearing up to hit cinematic courts this fall, and it certainly looks like it’s going to be some compelling stuff.
Shia Labeouf stars as John McEnroe with Sverrir Gudnason as Björn Borg, in the Janus Metz Pedersen (“Armadillo,” “True Detective” season 2) directed tale about the famous 1980 showdown between the two players, which is regarded as one of the greatest tennis matches ever.
Continue reading New Trailer For ‘Borg Vs. McEnroe’ Starring Shia Labeouf Explores Wimbledon’s Finest Hour at The Playlist.
Shia Labeouf stars as John McEnroe with Sverrir Gudnason as Björn Borg, in the Janus Metz Pedersen (“Armadillo,” “True Detective” season 2) directed tale about the famous 1980 showdown between the two players, which is regarded as one of the greatest tennis matches ever.
Continue reading New Trailer For ‘Borg Vs. McEnroe’ Starring Shia Labeouf Explores Wimbledon’s Finest Hour at The Playlist.
- 7/3/2017
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Exclusive: The innovative architect designed the new World Trade Centre.
Early in the market, documentary sales outfit Autlook is racking up deals on its new title Big Time.
The film gives an insight into the creative mind of prolific and innovative architect Bjarke Ingels, who designed World Trade Center 2, Google Headquarters Silicon Valley, The Smithonian Washington DC, Kuala Lumpur Signature Towers a.m.m.
Danish director Kaspar Astrup Schroeder follows Ingels over a period of six years.
MK2 Films confirmed it has taken Big Time for France and will give the film a theatrical release.
Madman in Australia plans to release the project in the late autumn. The Danish release will be handled by DoxBio.
Big Time is a Danish production, led by Sonntag Pictures (Cannes selected Armadillo by Janus Metz, Tribeca awarded Dance movie Bobbi Jene by Elvira Lind)
The new deals have been negotiated by Autlook’s Salma Abdalla on behalf of the filmmakers Sara Sonntag...
Early in the market, documentary sales outfit Autlook is racking up deals on its new title Big Time.
The film gives an insight into the creative mind of prolific and innovative architect Bjarke Ingels, who designed World Trade Center 2, Google Headquarters Silicon Valley, The Smithonian Washington DC, Kuala Lumpur Signature Towers a.m.m.
Danish director Kaspar Astrup Schroeder follows Ingels over a period of six years.
MK2 Films confirmed it has taken Big Time for France and will give the film a theatrical release.
Madman in Australia plans to release the project in the late autumn. The Danish release will be handled by DoxBio.
Big Time is a Danish production, led by Sonntag Pictures (Cannes selected Armadillo by Janus Metz, Tribeca awarded Dance movie Bobbi Jene by Elvira Lind)
The new deals have been negotiated by Autlook’s Salma Abdalla on behalf of the filmmakers Sara Sonntag...
- 5/21/2017
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
At Cph:Forum, Eurimages Award goes to Maria Back’s Psychosis in Stockholm; 31 projects pitched.
Cph:dox expanded its industry offerings this year by adding a Work-in-Progress session on the eve of its Cph:forum for six Nordic documentaries currently in production or post-production.
Short presentations including footage was shown for projects including:
The Acali Experiment (Swe/Den/Ger/Us), dir Marcus Lindeen, prod Erik Gandini
The story will examine what happened when Mexican anthropologist Santiago Genovés tried a unique experiment in 1973, putting 10 people on a raft for a 101-day voyage to study human behaviour. Lindeen brought the participants together for the first time in 43 years to talk about Genoves’ manipulative behaviour. “I wanted make a reunion and let them talk about their memories of what happened on the raft,” he said. “We let the subjects make a study of the scientist.” The team aims to deliver the film in the autumn.
Contact: gandini@fasad.se
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Cph:dox expanded its industry offerings this year by adding a Work-in-Progress session on the eve of its Cph:forum for six Nordic documentaries currently in production or post-production.
Short presentations including footage was shown for projects including:
The Acali Experiment (Swe/Den/Ger/Us), dir Marcus Lindeen, prod Erik Gandini
The story will examine what happened when Mexican anthropologist Santiago Genovés tried a unique experiment in 1973, putting 10 people on a raft for a 101-day voyage to study human behaviour. Lindeen brought the participants together for the first time in 43 years to talk about Genoves’ manipulative behaviour. “I wanted make a reunion and let them talk about their memories of what happened on the raft,” he said. “We let the subjects make a study of the scientist.” The team aims to deliver the film in the autumn.
Contact: gandini@fasad.se
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- 3/24/2017
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Projects participated in the Nordic festival’s works in progress event.
Ruben Ostlund got buyers and festival programmers hopping with excitement in Goteborg as he presented the first footage from his forthcoming fifth feature The Square during the festival’s work in progress pitches.
Ostlund screened about seven minutes from one scene of the new film, during which a controversial performance artist (played by Terry Notary) makes guests at a black-tie art gala very uncomfortable. “You know I love awkward situations,” the director said.
Goteborg’s audience of industry experts commented that they were impressed by the confidence of the unnerving scene, which showed Ostlund working on a bigger scale even than his last hit, Force Majeure.
At a festival session later for the public, Ostlund previewed a second clip from the film, in which a museum director (Claes Bang) delivers a self-centered video apology to a boy he had accused of being a thief.
Another high-profile...
Ruben Ostlund got buyers and festival programmers hopping with excitement in Goteborg as he presented the first footage from his forthcoming fifth feature The Square during the festival’s work in progress pitches.
Ostlund screened about seven minutes from one scene of the new film, during which a controversial performance artist (played by Terry Notary) makes guests at a black-tie art gala very uncomfortable. “You know I love awkward situations,” the director said.
Goteborg’s audience of industry experts commented that they were impressed by the confidence of the unnerving scene, which showed Ostlund working on a bigger scale even than his last hit, Force Majeure.
At a festival session later for the public, Ostlund previewed a second clip from the film, in which a museum director (Claes Bang) delivers a self-centered video apology to a boy he had accused of being a thief.
Another high-profile...
- 2/6/2017
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Wendy Mitchell reports from the festival’s inaugural work in progress session; further titles presented were Winter Brothers, Drib, Under The Tree and Tom Of Finland.
Casting Bjorn Borg’s 13-year-old son Leo to play his father in Borg/McEnroe wasn’t a publicity stunt, the film’s director Janus Metz explained.
“Casting him was a very magical, strange process. We were looking for kids age 13-15 with a talent for sports, and weren’t public that this was for a film about Bjorn Borg. We got in a casting tape for Leo Borg,” the director said.
“For a long time I didn’t want Leo in the movie, because I was genuinely afraid it would be perceived as a publicity stunt,” Metz explained. “But he of course looks like his dad, he’s one of the best tennis players in Sweden in his age group, it’s just so interesting. He had the...
Casting Bjorn Borg’s 13-year-old son Leo to play his father in Borg/McEnroe wasn’t a publicity stunt, the film’s director Janus Metz explained.
“Casting him was a very magical, strange process. We were looking for kids age 13-15 with a talent for sports, and weren’t public that this was for a film about Bjorn Borg. We got in a casting tape for Leo Borg,” the director said.
“For a long time I didn’t want Leo in the movie, because I was genuinely afraid it would be perceived as a publicity stunt,” Metz explained. “But he of course looks like his dad, he’s one of the best tennis players in Sweden in his age group, it’s just so interesting. He had the...
- 11/8/2016
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Wendy Mitchell reports from the festival’s inaugural work in progress session; further titles presented were Winter Brothers, Drib, Under The Tree and Tom Of Finland.
Casting Bjorn Borg’s 13-year-old son Leo to play his father in Borg/McEnroe wasn’t a publicity stunt, the film’s director Janus Metz explained.
“Casting him was a very magical, strange process. We were looking for kids age 13-15 with a talent for sports, and weren’t public that this was for a film about Bjorn Borg. We got in a casting tape for Leo Borg,” the director said.
“For a long time I didn’t want Leo in the movie, because I was genuinely afraid it would be perceived as a publicity stunt,” Metz explained. “But he of course looks like his dad, he’s one of the best tennis players in Sweden in his age group, it’s just so interesting. He had the...
Casting Bjorn Borg’s 13-year-old son Leo to play his father in Borg/McEnroe wasn’t a publicity stunt, the film’s director Janus Metz explained.
“Casting him was a very magical, strange process. We were looking for kids age 13-15 with a talent for sports, and weren’t public that this was for a film about Bjorn Borg. We got in a casting tape for Leo Borg,” the director said.
“For a long time I didn’t want Leo in the movie, because I was genuinely afraid it would be perceived as a publicity stunt,” Metz explained. “But he of course looks like his dad, he’s one of the best tennis players in Sweden in his age group, it’s just so interesting. He had the...
- 11/8/2016
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Before he was a hot shot TV guy, “True Detective” creator Nic Pizzolatto made some small waves in the world of fiction, publishing his first novel, “Galveston,” in 2010. And for a while now, a feature film adaptation has been brewing, and a couple years back, Matthias Schoenaerts was attached to star with Janus Metz (“Armadillo“) directing.
Continue reading Melanie Laurent To Direct Nic Pizzolatto’s ‘Galveston’ Starring Elle Fanning & Ben Foster at The Playlist.
Continue reading Melanie Laurent To Direct Nic Pizzolatto’s ‘Galveston’ Starring Elle Fanning & Ben Foster at The Playlist.
- 11/2/2016
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
With two seasons of True Detective under his belt, Nic Pizzolatto is trying his damnedest to break into the feature film side of Hollywood. While he co-wrote this fall’s The Magnificent Seven remake, his longest-developing project is his own adaptation of his 2010 novel Galveston. Once set to be in the hands of Armadillo helmer Janus Metz with Matthias Schoenarts leading, a new creative team has now come on board.
Mélanie Laurent, coming off her excellent, overlooked drama Breathe, will now make her English-language debut directing Ben Foster and Elle Fanning in the drama. Foster leads the “visceral crime thriller set in a boiling cauldron of violence and desperation” as a terminally ill man who is also being hunted down by his loan-shark boss. When one thinks of Pizzolatto, Laurent’s tender, intimate style of filmmaking isn’t quite the first thing that pops in our head, but her involvement...
Mélanie Laurent, coming off her excellent, overlooked drama Breathe, will now make her English-language debut directing Ben Foster and Elle Fanning in the drama. Foster leads the “visceral crime thriller set in a boiling cauldron of violence and desperation” as a terminally ill man who is also being hunted down by his loan-shark boss. When one thinks of Pizzolatto, Laurent’s tender, intimate style of filmmaking isn’t quite the first thing that pops in our head, but her involvement...
- 11/2/2016
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
Director, cast join crime-thriller written by True Detective creator.
Ben Foster (Hell or High Water) and Elle Fanning (The Neon Demon) are to star in crime-thriller Galveston which will be directed by Inglorious Basterds star Mélanie Laurent.
Shoot is due to get underway on January 10, 2017, on the feature, which is being produced and financed by Tyler Davidson’s (Take Shelter) Low Spark Films and executive produced by Jean Doumanian, Patrick Daly, Kevin Flanigan and Sean O’Brien.
The screenplay, about a hitman diagnosed with a terminal illness the same day he discovers his mob boss wants to kill him, has been adapted from the novel of the same name by True Detective creator Nic Pizzolatto.
Embankment is handling sales on the project, which previously had Armadillo director Janus Metz Pederson and actor Matthias Schoenaerts attached.
Ben Foster (Hell or High Water) and Elle Fanning (The Neon Demon) are to star in crime-thriller Galveston which will be directed by Inglorious Basterds star Mélanie Laurent.
Shoot is due to get underway on January 10, 2017, on the feature, which is being produced and financed by Tyler Davidson’s (Take Shelter) Low Spark Films and executive produced by Jean Doumanian, Patrick Daly, Kevin Flanigan and Sean O’Brien.
The screenplay, about a hitman diagnosed with a terminal illness the same day he discovers his mob boss wants to kill him, has been adapted from the novel of the same name by True Detective creator Nic Pizzolatto.
Embankment is handling sales on the project, which previously had Armadillo director Janus Metz Pederson and actor Matthias Schoenaerts attached.
- 11/2/2016
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Projects backed by Nordic funding bodies range from the next disaster film by the writers of The Wave to a documentary reconstructing the Utoya massacre.
The Norwegian Film Institute’s latest funding round includes $1.82m (Nok 15m) to Kon-Tiki co-director Espen Sandberg’s new film Roald Amundsen, a biopic of the titular Arctic explorer.
The $9m (Nok 75m) production is produced by Espen Horn and Kristian Sinkerud for Motion Blur Films.
The Nfi also awarded $1.7m (Nok 13.9m) to John Andreas Andersen’s The Quake (Skjelvet), written by The Wave writers Harald Rosenløw Eeg and John Kåre Raake.
The film is inspired by a 1904 earthquake in Oslo. Martin Sundland and Are Heidenstrøm of Fantefilm Fiction (also behind The Wave) produce the $6.3m (Nok 52.1m) production.
Andersen makes his solo directorial debut after working as a cinematographer on films such as The Snowman and Headhunters.
Sweden
In Sweden, the Swedish Film Institute has backed 23 projects in its latest...
The Norwegian Film Institute’s latest funding round includes $1.82m (Nok 15m) to Kon-Tiki co-director Espen Sandberg’s new film Roald Amundsen, a biopic of the titular Arctic explorer.
The $9m (Nok 75m) production is produced by Espen Horn and Kristian Sinkerud for Motion Blur Films.
The Nfi also awarded $1.7m (Nok 13.9m) to John Andreas Andersen’s The Quake (Skjelvet), written by The Wave writers Harald Rosenløw Eeg and John Kåre Raake.
The film is inspired by a 1904 earthquake in Oslo. Martin Sundland and Are Heidenstrøm of Fantefilm Fiction (also behind The Wave) produce the $6.3m (Nok 52.1m) production.
Andersen makes his solo directorial debut after working as a cinematographer on films such as The Snowman and Headhunters.
Sweden
In Sweden, the Swedish Film Institute has backed 23 projects in its latest...
- 9/16/2016
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Film captures lives of young Palestinians living in Tel Aviv.
Paris-based Alma Cinema has picked up sales on Palestinian director Maysaloun Hamoud’s debut feature In Between (Bar Bahar) ahead of its world premiere at Toronto International Film Festival (Sept 8-18) on Sept 11.
The film follows a group of young Palestinians, hailing from Arab towns and villages lying within Israeli borders, living in Tel Aviv.
At the heart of the story are party animals Leila and Salma whose hedonistic lifestyles are disrupted by the arrival of family friend Noor, a devout Muslim girl from the Arab town of Umm al-Fahm.
Alma head of sales and acquisitions Sara May described the work as an unprecedented portrait of the challenges and contradictions facing young Palestinian women born and living in Israel.
“Maysaloun deals with the subject in a very subtle, entertaining way. It’s fun. I think it could be a real crowd-pleaser,” said May.[p...
Paris-based Alma Cinema has picked up sales on Palestinian director Maysaloun Hamoud’s debut feature In Between (Bar Bahar) ahead of its world premiere at Toronto International Film Festival (Sept 8-18) on Sept 11.
The film follows a group of young Palestinians, hailing from Arab towns and villages lying within Israeli borders, living in Tel Aviv.
At the heart of the story are party animals Leila and Salma whose hedonistic lifestyles are disrupted by the arrival of family friend Noor, a devout Muslim girl from the Arab town of Umm al-Fahm.
Alma head of sales and acquisitions Sara May described the work as an unprecedented portrait of the challenges and contradictions facing young Palestinian women born and living in Israel.
“Maysaloun deals with the subject in a very subtle, entertaining way. It’s fun. I think it could be a real crowd-pleaser,” said May.[p...
- 9/6/2016
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Film captures lives of young Palestinians living in Tel Aviv.
Paris-based Alma Cinema has picked up sales on Palestinian director Maysaloun Hamoud’s debut feature Bar Bahar (In Between) ahead of its world premiere at Toronto International Film Festival (Sept 8-18) on Sept 11.
The film follows a group of young Palestinians, hailing from Arab towns and villages lying within Israeli borders, living in Tel Aviv.
At the heart of the story are party animals Leila and Salma whose hedonistic lifestyles are disrupted by the arrival of family friend Noor, a devout Muslim girl from the Arab town of Umm al-Fahm.
Alma head of sales and acquisitions Sara May described the work as an unprecedented portrait of the challenges and contradictions facing young Palestinian women born and living in Israel.
“Maysaloun deals with the subject in a very subtle, entertaining way. It’s fun. I think it could be a real crowd-pleaser,” said May.[p...
Paris-based Alma Cinema has picked up sales on Palestinian director Maysaloun Hamoud’s debut feature Bar Bahar (In Between) ahead of its world premiere at Toronto International Film Festival (Sept 8-18) on Sept 11.
The film follows a group of young Palestinians, hailing from Arab towns and villages lying within Israeli borders, living in Tel Aviv.
At the heart of the story are party animals Leila and Salma whose hedonistic lifestyles are disrupted by the arrival of family friend Noor, a devout Muslim girl from the Arab town of Umm al-Fahm.
Alma head of sales and acquisitions Sara May described the work as an unprecedented portrait of the challenges and contradictions facing young Palestinian women born and living in Israel.
“Maysaloun deals with the subject in a very subtle, entertaining way. It’s fun. I think it could be a real crowd-pleaser,” said May.[p...
- 9/6/2016
- ScreenDaily
Further cast announced for sporting biopic.
Principal photography has begun on Borg/McEnroe, which will centre on the famous rivalry between Us tennis champ Jon McEnroe and Sweden’s Bjorn Borg, which came to a head at Wimbledon 1980.
Shia Labeouf will play McEnroe while rising Swedish talent Sverrir Gudnason plays Borg in the film directed by Janus Metz - director of Cannes-winning documentary Armadillo and episodes of the acclaimed HBO drama True Detective.
The part of Borg’s coach Lennart Bergelin will be played by Stellan Skarsgård (The Avengers, Mamma Mia), making his first Swedish production in more than a decade, while Björn’s fiancée Mariana Simionescu is to be played by Swedish actress Tuva Novotny (A War, Eat Pray Love).
The part of Us tennis playboy Vitas Gerulaitis will be played by Robert Emms (Mirror Mirror, War Horse) while McEnroe’s father will be portayed by Ian Blackman (The Bourne Legacy, Hail Caesar!, House of Cards).
Principal photography has begun on Borg/McEnroe, which will centre on the famous rivalry between Us tennis champ Jon McEnroe and Sweden’s Bjorn Borg, which came to a head at Wimbledon 1980.
Shia Labeouf will play McEnroe while rising Swedish talent Sverrir Gudnason plays Borg in the film directed by Janus Metz - director of Cannes-winning documentary Armadillo and episodes of the acclaimed HBO drama True Detective.
The part of Borg’s coach Lennart Bergelin will be played by Stellan Skarsgård (The Avengers, Mamma Mia), making his first Swedish production in more than a decade, while Björn’s fiancée Mariana Simionescu is to be played by Swedish actress Tuva Novotny (A War, Eat Pray Love).
The part of Us tennis playboy Vitas Gerulaitis will be played by Robert Emms (Mirror Mirror, War Horse) while McEnroe’s father will be portayed by Ian Blackman (The Bourne Legacy, Hail Caesar!, House of Cards).
- 8/16/2016
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Jason from Mnpp here, taking a look at today's big news out of everybody's favorite Oscar baiting genre, the bio-pic - famous actor slash shit-stirrer Shia Labeouf is set to play famous athlete slash shit-stirrer John McEnroe in Borg/McEnroe, which will tackle the long-term rivalry between Mr. McEnroe and the underwear-salesman slash Swede Bjorn Borg. Playing Borg is the actor Sverrir Gudnason, who I am not familiar with, but he sure does have some big tiny shorts to fill...
(Cue my childhood crush on Borg rearing its head.)
Stellan Skarsgård is also in the film, playing Borg's coach, and Danish director Janus Metz (Armadillo) is directing. Anyway Shia might maybe be rebounding? I actually think he's given his best performances over the past couple of years in the middle of what did seem to be a bit of a public breakdown. He's managed to channel it into his work in interesting ways,...
(Cue my childhood crush on Borg rearing its head.)
Stellan Skarsgård is also in the film, playing Borg's coach, and Danish director Janus Metz (Armadillo) is directing. Anyway Shia might maybe be rebounding? I actually think he's given his best performances over the past couple of years in the middle of what did seem to be a bit of a public breakdown. He's managed to channel it into his work in interesting ways,...
- 5/18/2016
- by JA
- FilmExperience
Shia Labeouf has been tapped to star as John McEnroe in the upcoming biopic “Borg/McEnroe,” TheWrap has learned. The sports drama will focus on one of the biggest rivalries in tennis of all time between McEnroe and Swedish player Björn Borg in the late 1970s and and early 1980s. Sverrir Gudnason will play Borg, while Stellan Skarsgard has come on to play Borg’s coach Lennart Bergelin. Also Read: Shia Labeouf Lookalike Assaulted for Resemblance to Actor Danish direct Janus Metz will direct — his war documentary “Armadillo” won the grand prize at Cannes’ Critics’ Week in 2010. All in all,...
- 5/14/2016
- by Beatrice Verhoeven
- The Wrap
Hollywood bad boy Shia Labeouf has signed on to play tennis bad boy John McEnroe in Borg/McEnroe, an upcoming biopic about one of the greatest sports rivalries of all time. Borg/McEnroe will trace the long-running battle for supremacy in the tennis world in the 1970s and 1980s between McEnroe and Swedish star Bjorn Borg. Swedish actor Sverrir Gudnason (A Serious Game) will play Borg. Stellan Skarsgard has signed on to play Borg's coach Lennart Bergelin. Danish director Janus Metz, whose war documentary Armadillo won the grand prize at Cannes' Critics' Week in 2010, will direct. The cool, emotionless Borg
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- 5/14/2016
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: Armadillo director Janus Metz Pederson is bringing one of sports’ most abiding rivalries to life in Borg Vs. McEnroe, which re-creates the intense professional enmity between Swedish tennis icon Bjorn Borg and American enfant terrible John McEnroe. Stellan Skarsgard and Sverrir Gudnasson are in talks for the project, and producers are also out to Shia Labeouf for the role of the foul-mouthed, perm-haired but brilliant McEnroe — although it is too early to…...
- 5/11/2016
- Deadline
Stellan Skarsgard and Sverrir Gudnasson are in talks to join "Armadillo" director and "True Detective" executive producer Janus Metz Pederson's "Borg Vs. McEnroe" for Tre Vanner and Sf Studios.
The story follows one of sport's most famed rivalries which re-creates the intense professional enmity between the controlled and cool Swedish tennis icon Bjorn Borg and American enfant terrible John McEnroe.
Their 1980 match in the final of Wimbledon is widely considered one of the greatest tennis matches in the history of the sport. Producers are seeking the help of Shia Labeouf for the role of the foul-mouthed, perm-haired McEnroe.
Source: Deadline...
The story follows one of sport's most famed rivalries which re-creates the intense professional enmity between the controlled and cool Swedish tennis icon Bjorn Borg and American enfant terrible John McEnroe.
Their 1980 match in the final of Wimbledon is widely considered one of the greatest tennis matches in the history of the sport. Producers are seeking the help of Shia Labeouf for the role of the foul-mouthed, perm-haired McEnroe.
Source: Deadline...
- 5/11/2016
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
As Cph:dox launches today, Screen previews this year’s industry programme.
Two time Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker Lucy Walker (Waste Land, The Tsunami And The Cherry Blossom) will see her new project presented at the Cph:forum (Nov 11-12), the international financing and co-production event at Cph:dox (Nov 5-15) in Copenhagen.
The film, titled SlumGods [pictured], will follow a hip-hop crew in Dharavi, Mumbai, one of the world’s largest slums and the setting for Danny Boyle’s 2008 Oscar-winner Slumdog Millionarie.
Produced by Sonita Gale for Galeforce Films, the project is currently in pre-production and is looking to raise $2m (€1.8m) in financing at the Forum.
Other projects at this year’s Cph:forum include a new film from local The Act of Killingn and The Look Of Silence producer Signe Byrge Sørensen titled Ghost Wives, about a Chinese man accused of murdering six women to sell their bodies for an ancient tradition known as ‘ghost weddings’.
There are a total...
Two time Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker Lucy Walker (Waste Land, The Tsunami And The Cherry Blossom) will see her new project presented at the Cph:forum (Nov 11-12), the international financing and co-production event at Cph:dox (Nov 5-15) in Copenhagen.
The film, titled SlumGods [pictured], will follow a hip-hop crew in Dharavi, Mumbai, one of the world’s largest slums and the setting for Danny Boyle’s 2008 Oscar-winner Slumdog Millionarie.
Produced by Sonita Gale for Galeforce Films, the project is currently in pre-production and is looking to raise $2m (€1.8m) in financing at the Forum.
Other projects at this year’s Cph:forum include a new film from local The Act of Killingn and The Look Of Silence producer Signe Byrge Sørensen titled Ghost Wives, about a Chinese man accused of murdering six women to sell their bodies for an ancient tradition known as ‘ghost weddings’.
There are a total...
- 11/5/2015
- ScreenDaily
Berlinale title follows three gay teenagers as they come out in Us Bible Belt.
Paris-based documentary specialist Wide House has taken on sales of Danish Jannick Splidsboel’s coming-of-age study, Misfits, ahead of its world premiere in the Panorama section of the Berlinale (Feb 5-15).
The documentary follows three teenagers growing up in the Us Bible Belt as they attempt to come out and remain part of communities that traditionally condemn homosexuality.
It is produced by Sara Stockmann at Sonntag Pictures, whose credits include Janus Metz’s Cannes Critics’ Week Grand Prize winner Armadillo.
Splidsboel was previously at the Berlinale with his 2009 work How Are You.
Other Berlinale titles on Wide House’s Efm slate Atsushi Funahashi’s Nuclear Nation II, which will receive its world premiere in the Forum strand.
The documentary is a sequel to Funahashi’s Nuclear Nation, which screened at the 2012 Berlinale, about the residents of a small town who were forced to leave...
Paris-based documentary specialist Wide House has taken on sales of Danish Jannick Splidsboel’s coming-of-age study, Misfits, ahead of its world premiere in the Panorama section of the Berlinale (Feb 5-15).
The documentary follows three teenagers growing up in the Us Bible Belt as they attempt to come out and remain part of communities that traditionally condemn homosexuality.
It is produced by Sara Stockmann at Sonntag Pictures, whose credits include Janus Metz’s Cannes Critics’ Week Grand Prize winner Armadillo.
Splidsboel was previously at the Berlinale with his 2009 work How Are You.
Other Berlinale titles on Wide House’s Efm slate Atsushi Funahashi’s Nuclear Nation II, which will receive its world premiere in the Forum strand.
The documentary is a sequel to Funahashi’s Nuclear Nation, which screened at the 2012 Berlinale, about the residents of a small town who were forced to leave...
- 1/21/2015
- ScreenDaily
On Screen Off Record from The Act of Killing producer Signe Byrge Sørensen.
On Screen Off Record, directed by Rami Farah and Lyana Saleh and produced by Signe Byrge Sørensen of Final Cut For Real, has won the second annual Eurimages Co-Production Development Award of €15,000 at Cph:forum - Cph:dox’s international financing and co-production event.
The jury said this project, reflective on the Syrian conflict in a media-saturated world, was awarded because of “the way familiar footage was presented, allowing deeper understanding of the complexities of the conflict that affects us on so many levels, for the quality of the project and the team, and the organic co-production structure.”
The film, now in development, will be a production between Syria, Denmark and France. There will be 55-minute and 90-minute versions.The story is about several young people in Syria who became citizen journalists and have filmed the turmoil since the beginning, putting their lives...
On Screen Off Record, directed by Rami Farah and Lyana Saleh and produced by Signe Byrge Sørensen of Final Cut For Real, has won the second annual Eurimages Co-Production Development Award of €15,000 at Cph:forum - Cph:dox’s international financing and co-production event.
The jury said this project, reflective on the Syrian conflict in a media-saturated world, was awarded because of “the way familiar footage was presented, allowing deeper understanding of the complexities of the conflict that affects us on so many levels, for the quality of the project and the team, and the organic co-production structure.”
The film, now in development, will be a production between Syria, Denmark and France. There will be 55-minute and 90-minute versions.The story is about several young people in Syria who became citizen journalists and have filmed the turmoil since the beginning, putting their lives...
- 11/14/2014
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
On Screen Off Record from The Act of Killing producer Signe Byrge Sørensen.
On Screen Off Record, directed by Rami Farah and Lyana Saleh and produced by Signe Byrge Sørensen of Final Cut For Real, has won the second annual Eurimages Co-Production Development Award of €15,000 at Cph:forum - Cph:dox’s international financing and co-production event.
The jury said this project, reflective on the Syrian conflict in a media-saturated world, was awarded because of “the way familiar footage was presented, allowing deeper understanding of the complexities of the conflict that affects us on so many levels, for the quality of the project and the team, and the organic co-production structure.”
The film, now in development, will be a production between Syria, Denmark and France. There will be 55-minute and 90-minute versions.The story is about several young people in Syria who became citizen journalists and filmed the turmoil since the beginning, putting their lives...
On Screen Off Record, directed by Rami Farah and Lyana Saleh and produced by Signe Byrge Sørensen of Final Cut For Real, has won the second annual Eurimages Co-Production Development Award of €15,000 at Cph:forum - Cph:dox’s international financing and co-production event.
The jury said this project, reflective on the Syrian conflict in a media-saturated world, was awarded because of “the way familiar footage was presented, allowing deeper understanding of the complexities of the conflict that affects us on so many levels, for the quality of the project and the team, and the organic co-production structure.”
The film, now in development, will be a production between Syria, Denmark and France. There will be 55-minute and 90-minute versions.The story is about several young people in Syria who became citizen journalists and filmed the turmoil since the beginning, putting their lives...
- 11/14/2014
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
A still from Vinay Shukla and Khushboo Ranka’s Proposition for a Revolution
Nfdc Film Bazaar’s Work-in-Progress Lab has announced its selection in Fiction and Documentary categories.
The Work-in-Progress (Wip) Lab gives filmmakers a chance to have their rough-cut feature-length films viewed by an eminent panel of international advisers. These advisers have a one-on-one discussion with the filmmaker with an intention to help the filmmaker achieve an accomplished final cut of the film.
Nfdc Film Bazaar 2014 will be held from November 20-24 in Goa Mariott Resort.
Work-in-Progress Lab 2014:
Fiction :
Bokul by Reema Borah Highway by Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni Nil Battey Sannata by Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari Tathagat by Manav Kaul Thithi by Raam Reddy
Documentary :
12 Acres by Rajesh Thind Maidaan (Home Ground) by Kavita Carneiro Nehi Mozo Hanü Dizo Le (Without You, I am Nothing) by Anushka Meenakshi and Iswar Srikumar Proposition for a Revolution by Khushboo Ranka...
Nfdc Film Bazaar’s Work-in-Progress Lab has announced its selection in Fiction and Documentary categories.
The Work-in-Progress (Wip) Lab gives filmmakers a chance to have their rough-cut feature-length films viewed by an eminent panel of international advisers. These advisers have a one-on-one discussion with the filmmaker with an intention to help the filmmaker achieve an accomplished final cut of the film.
Nfdc Film Bazaar 2014 will be held from November 20-24 in Goa Mariott Resort.
Work-in-Progress Lab 2014:
Fiction :
Bokul by Reema Borah Highway by Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni Nil Battey Sannata by Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari Tathagat by Manav Kaul Thithi by Raam Reddy
Documentary :
12 Acres by Rajesh Thind Maidaan (Home Ground) by Kavita Carneiro Nehi Mozo Hanü Dizo Le (Without You, I am Nothing) by Anushka Meenakshi and Iswar Srikumar Proposition for a Revolution by Khushboo Ranka...
- 11/8/2014
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
The falling leaves are a sure sign it’s now the beginning of awards season, with Oscar short lists starting to leak out, Ida Awards prepping their program and the Emmy’s already handing out golden statues. Also, on the festival circuit this month we have a whole host of big lineup announcements coming from a hefty set of acronym loving non-fiction fests the world over, from Cph:dox and Doc NYC, to Idfa and Ridm. Best of Fests Docs is a monthly snapshot of the films and filmmakers that are the make-up of the docu film festival and awards circuit. Check out the full rundown below:
Cph:dox - Denmark – November 6th-16th
The festival, also known as Copenhagen International Documentary Festival , has announced its 2014 lineup, which was guest curated this year by Citizenfour director Laura Poitras. Over 200 films (with the likes of Robert Greene’s Actress, Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Look of Silence,...
Cph:dox - Denmark – November 6th-16th
The festival, also known as Copenhagen International Documentary Festival , has announced its 2014 lineup, which was guest curated this year by Citizenfour director Laura Poitras. Over 200 films (with the likes of Robert Greene’s Actress, Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Look of Silence,...
- 10/28/2014
- by Jordan M. Smith
- IONCINEMA.com
Neruda
"No" director Pablo Larrain is set to helm the biopic "Neruda" which follows 1971 Nobel Prize-winning Latin American poet Pablo Neruda. Larrain and Guillermo Calderon will pen the script.
Fabula produces the project about the key moment in between 1946 and 1948 when Neruda became a member of Chile's Communist Party, was elected Senator, spoke out against the imprisonment of striking miners and threatened with arrest, went into hiding and began writing his famed work 'Canto General'. [Source: Variety]
Year of Wonders
Jan Dunn ("Gypo") is set to direct the film adaptation of Geraldine Brooks' 2001 Pulitzer prize-winning novel "Year of Wonders" at Violet Pictures.
The story follows a housemaid living in the English village of Eyam, Derbyshire that quarantined itself in 1666 rather than spread the plague. Michael Knowles and James Collie will produce. [Source: Screen]
Blowback
Janus Metz ("Armadillo") is set to helm the London-set action thriller "Blowback" for Shine Pictures and American Entertainment Investors.
"No" director Pablo Larrain is set to helm the biopic "Neruda" which follows 1971 Nobel Prize-winning Latin American poet Pablo Neruda. Larrain and Guillermo Calderon will pen the script.
Fabula produces the project about the key moment in between 1946 and 1948 when Neruda became a member of Chile's Communist Party, was elected Senator, spoke out against the imprisonment of striking miners and threatened with arrest, went into hiding and began writing his famed work 'Canto General'. [Source: Variety]
Year of Wonders
Jan Dunn ("Gypo") is set to direct the film adaptation of Geraldine Brooks' 2001 Pulitzer prize-winning novel "Year of Wonders" at Violet Pictures.
The story follows a housemaid living in the English village of Eyam, Derbyshire that quarantined itself in 1666 rather than spread the plague. Michael Knowles and James Collie will produce. [Source: Screen]
Blowback
Janus Metz ("Armadillo") is set to helm the London-set action thriller "Blowback" for Shine Pictures and American Entertainment Investors.
- 2/11/2014
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Embankment to handle sales on thriller from August: Osage County producer.
Armadillo director Janus Metz is set to direct Matthias Schoenaerts in Jean Doumanian Productions’ adaptation of Nic Pizzolatto’s novel Galveston.
Rust and Bone star Schoenaerts is on board to lead cast in the thriller in which a man is diagnosed with a terminal illness the same day he discovers his boss wants to kill him.
The shoot is planned to start this spring. The female lead has yet to be cast.
The film will be produced by Jean Doumanian and Patrick Daly. London’s Embankment Films handles International sales.
Pizzolatto, who also wrote the film’s script, recently created, wrote and serves as executive producer on new HBO series True Detective, starring Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey, which premiered Sunday night.
Galveston, Pizzalotto’s first novel, was a finalist for the Barnes and Noble 2010 Discover Award and the Edgar Award for best first novel; it won...
Armadillo director Janus Metz is set to direct Matthias Schoenaerts in Jean Doumanian Productions’ adaptation of Nic Pizzolatto’s novel Galveston.
Rust and Bone star Schoenaerts is on board to lead cast in the thriller in which a man is diagnosed with a terminal illness the same day he discovers his boss wants to kill him.
The shoot is planned to start this spring. The female lead has yet to be cast.
The film will be produced by Jean Doumanian and Patrick Daly. London’s Embankment Films handles International sales.
Pizzolatto, who also wrote the film’s script, recently created, wrote and serves as executive producer on new HBO series True Detective, starring Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey, which premiered Sunday night.
Galveston, Pizzalotto’s first novel, was a finalist for the Barnes and Noble 2010 Discover Award and the Edgar Award for best first novel; it won...
- 1/28/2014
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Embankment to handle sales on thriller from August: Osage County producer.
Armadillo director Janus Metz is set to direct Matthias Schoenaerts in Jean Doumanian Productions’ adaptation of Nic Pizzolatto’s novel Galveston.
Rust and Bone star Schoenaerts is on board to lead cast in the thriller in which a man is diagnosed with a terminal illness the same day he discovers his boss wants to kill him.
The shoot is planned to start this spring. The female lead has yet to be cast.
The film will be produced by Jean Doumanian and Patrick Daly. London’s Embankment Films handles International sales.
Pizzolatto, who also wrote the film’s script, recently created, wrote and serves as executive producer on new HBO series True Detective, starring Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey, which premiered Sunday night.
Galveston, Pizzalotto’s first novel, was a finalist for the Barnes and Noble 2010 Discover Award and the Edgar Award for best first novel; it won...
Armadillo director Janus Metz is set to direct Matthias Schoenaerts in Jean Doumanian Productions’ adaptation of Nic Pizzolatto’s novel Galveston.
Rust and Bone star Schoenaerts is on board to lead cast in the thriller in which a man is diagnosed with a terminal illness the same day he discovers his boss wants to kill him.
The shoot is planned to start this spring. The female lead has yet to be cast.
The film will be produced by Jean Doumanian and Patrick Daly. London’s Embankment Films handles International sales.
Pizzolatto, who also wrote the film’s script, recently created, wrote and serves as executive producer on new HBO series True Detective, starring Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey, which premiered Sunday night.
Galveston, Pizzalotto’s first novel, was a finalist for the Barnes and Noble 2010 Discover Award and the Edgar Award for best first novel; it won...
- 1/28/2014
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: August: Osage County producer Jean Doumanian has set up an adaptation of the Nic Pizzolatto novel Galveston. Janus Metz is set to direct and the star will be Matthias Schoenaerts, who has followed his breakthrough role in Bullhead starring in Rust And Bone and the Thomas Vinterberg-directed Far From The Madding Crowd. They are casting the female lead right now for a spring start. Pizzolatto wrote the script. Pizzolatto is creator, writer, showrunner and exec producer on the critically lauded new HBO series True Detective with Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey. Galveston was his first novel. Roy “Big Country” Cady is diagnosed with a terminal illness the same day he discovers his loan-sharking bar-owning boss wants to kill him. He gets the better end of an ambush by the boss’s gun-toting cronies, but he takes two sisters he finds hiding in the apartment with him and makes a run for Galveston.
- 1/28/2014
- by MIKE FLEMING JR
- Deadline TV
Exclusive: August: Osage County producer Jean Doumanian has set up an adaptation of the Nic Pizzolatto novel Galveston. Janus Metz is set to direct and the star will be Matthias Schoenaerts, who has followed his breakthrough role in Bullhead starring in Rust And Bone and the Thomas Vinterberg-directed Far From The Madding Crowd. They are casting the female lead right now for a spring start. Pizzolatto wrote the script. Pizzolatto is creator, writer, showrunner and exec producer on the critically lauded new HBO series True Detective with Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey. Galveston was his first novel. Roy “Big Country” Cady is diagnosed with a terminal illness the same day he discovers his loan-sharking bar-owning boss wants to kill him. He gets the better end of an ambush by the boss’s gun-toting cronies, but he takes two sisters he finds hiding in the apartment with him and makes a run for Galveston.
- 1/28/2014
- by MIKE FLEMING JR
- Deadline
As part of our How I Shot That series, Indiewire asked cinematographers with films at this year's Sundance to name their favorite directors of photography (no surprise that Roger Deakins, Harris Savides and Gordon Willis are mentioned quite a bit). Here they list some of their favorite cinematographers (and explain why): "I really enjoyed the film 'Armadillo' in part due to the cinematic moments Lars Skree captured away from the frontline. I was incredibly intimidated and excited when I had the opportunity to assist him a few years later on an Afghanistan shoot. He quickly put me at ease and was constantly offering to teach as we worked, which is very rare during a shoot. I hope I'll get to work with him again!" -- Cinematographer Rachel Beth Anderson ("E-Team") "Can I just give you a small list? Conrad Hall, Gordon Willis, and Harris Savides will live...
- 1/24/2014
- by Max O'Connell
- Indiewire
2011 has been a fantastic year for documentaries. In fact, you might see more than one on our best films of 2011 list. But in order to give the genre the recognition it deserves, we wanted to highlight all those that missed the cut. These films often provide more engaging drama with their veracity and technique than most narrative features and it killed us to skip over some we loved.
Just to mention a few that didn’t make the cut in no particular order: Tabloid, Beats Rhymes & Life: The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest, Public Speaking, George Harrison: Living In The Material World, Self Made, Project Nim, The Swell Season, Conan O’Brien Can’t Stop, Page One: Inside the New York Times and Cave of Forgotten Dreams. But we’ve narrowed it down to just ten with write-ups from our own John Fink, unless otherwise noted. Check them out...
Just to mention a few that didn’t make the cut in no particular order: Tabloid, Beats Rhymes & Life: The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest, Public Speaking, George Harrison: Living In The Material World, Self Made, Project Nim, The Swell Season, Conan O’Brien Can’t Stop, Page One: Inside the New York Times and Cave of Forgotten Dreams. But we’ve narrowed it down to just ten with write-ups from our own John Fink, unless otherwise noted. Check them out...
- 12/29/2011
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
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