With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options — not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves — we’ve taken it upon ourselves to highlight the titles that have recently hit platforms. Every week, one will be able to see the cream of the crop (or perhaps some simply interesting picks) of streaming titles (new and old) across platforms such as Netflix, iTunes, Amazon, and more (note: U.S. only). Check out our rundown for this week’s selections below.
Allied (Robert Zemeckis)
That thing we can’t take for granted: a film whose many parts – period piece, war picture, blood-spattered actioner, deception-fueled espionage thriller, sexy romance, and, at certain turns, comedy – can gracefully move in conjunction and separate from each other, just as its labyrinthine-but-not-quite plot jumps from one setpiece to the next with little trouble in maintaining a consistency of overall pleasure. Another late-career triumph for Robert Zemeckis,...
Allied (Robert Zemeckis)
That thing we can’t take for granted: a film whose many parts – period piece, war picture, blood-spattered actioner, deception-fueled espionage thriller, sexy romance, and, at certain turns, comedy – can gracefully move in conjunction and separate from each other, just as its labyrinthine-but-not-quite plot jumps from one setpiece to the next with little trouble in maintaining a consistency of overall pleasure. Another late-career triumph for Robert Zemeckis,...
- 11/17/2017
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Michael Winterbottom’s fictional love story set against footage of the British band Wolf Alice on tour hits a flat note
Those whose ears pricked up when they discovered Michael Winterbottom (24 Hour Party People, The Trip) had made a documentary about British rock band Wolf Alice may not be surprised to learn that despite the thrills of its live performance scenes, On the Road isn’t quite a concert film. Instead, the band are the pretence for a romance that unfolds against a backdrop of tour buses, hotel rooms and underground clubs. The lovers are two fictional characters (actors Leah Harvey and James McArdle), who fold into the real touring crew that travel with the band. It’s a compelling conceit and, indeed, the “docudrama” has long been Winterbottom’s directorial “project”, combining verité-style naturalism and improvisation to create an atmosphere of imagined reality. Still, the film’s prosaic title is a clue.
Those whose ears pricked up when they discovered Michael Winterbottom (24 Hour Party People, The Trip) had made a documentary about British rock band Wolf Alice may not be surprised to learn that despite the thrills of its live performance scenes, On the Road isn’t quite a concert film. Instead, the band are the pretence for a romance that unfolds against a backdrop of tour buses, hotel rooms and underground clubs. The lovers are two fictional characters (actors Leah Harvey and James McArdle), who fold into the real touring crew that travel with the band. It’s a compelling conceit and, indeed, the “docudrama” has long been Winterbottom’s directorial “project”, combining verité-style naturalism and improvisation to create an atmosphere of imagined reality. Still, the film’s prosaic title is a clue.
- 10/8/2017
- by Simran Hans
- The Guardian - Film News
Hmmm, just a few more days until the last Summer holiday, so there’s still time for a vacation, or at least a vicarious one with a very funny duo. Here’s their third cinematic excursion together, so let’s just go ahead and call it a movie franchise. And a most welcome, entertaining one at that. As long as there are countries that cook, it could go on for a long, long time (if we’re lucky). Under the pretense of a newspaper writing assignment we first got to accompany Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon as they traveled their native Britain, dashing from one splendid restaurant, while enjoying very plush accommodations at first class inns and hotels, in 2011’s The Trip. The two played heightened versions of themselves (much like Larry David in HBO’s “Curb Your Enthusiasm” and the celeb guests on the much-missed “The Larry Saunders Show...
- 8/25/2017
- by Jim Batts
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
There’s nothing wrong with comedies where bridesmaids go out partying or hungover dudes run amok, but sometimes the best laughs are brought out of two people, perhaps sitting down for a lovely meal, and letting the hilarious conversation fly. The Trip movies, starring Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon, have taken this to heart by letting their two leads play off each other over delectable meals while sharing world class impressions. Now they’re at it again in The Trip To Spain,... Read More...
- 8/17/2017
- by Matt Rooney
- JoBlo.com
“Our gentleman was approximately fifty years old; his complexion was weathered, his flesh scrawny, his face gaunt, and he was a very early riser and a great lover of the hunt.” What the description lacks in flattery it redeems with comic affection. A few pages later, Cervantes’ Don Quixote (by way of Edith Grossman’s English translation) imagines describing himself, to a love interest, as “never sufficiently praised.” Can you picture Steve Coogan in the role? Gone bonkers from reading too many books, yearning for a campaign of romantic chivalry and publicly displayed valor, Quixote recruits his farmer neighbor Sancho Panza, “a good man…without much in the way of brains,” who, when promised an island, “left his wife and children and agreed to be his neighbor’s squire.” Here, how about Rob Brydon? Assuming you even know who he is.It was Brydon, in 2010’s The Trip, who wryly...
- 8/16/2017
- MUBI
Every week, IndieWire asks a select handful of film and TV critics two questions and publishes the results on Monday. (The answer to the second, “What is the best film in theaters right now?”, can be found at the end of this post.)
This week’s question: In honor of “The Trip to Spain,” what is the best movie trilogy?
Richard Brody (@tnyfrontrow), The New Yorker
Far be it from me to choose between Antonioni’s non-trilogy “L’Avventura,” “La Notte,” and “L’Eclisse” and Kiarostami’s explicitly-denied “Koker” trilogy of “Where Is the Friend’s Home?,” “Life and Nothing More,” and “Through the Olive Trees” (and I’m tempted to make a trilogy of trilogies with Carl Theodor Dreyer’s “Day of Wrath,” “Ordet,” and “Gertrud”), but if I put Kiarostami’s films first, it’s because he puts their very creation into the action. Reflexivity isn’t a...
This week’s question: In honor of “The Trip to Spain,” what is the best movie trilogy?
Richard Brody (@tnyfrontrow), The New Yorker
Far be it from me to choose between Antonioni’s non-trilogy “L’Avventura,” “La Notte,” and “L’Eclisse” and Kiarostami’s explicitly-denied “Koker” trilogy of “Where Is the Friend’s Home?,” “Life and Nothing More,” and “Through the Olive Trees” (and I’m tempted to make a trilogy of trilogies with Carl Theodor Dreyer’s “Day of Wrath,” “Ordet,” and “Gertrud”), but if I put Kiarostami’s films first, it’s because he puts their very creation into the action. Reflexivity isn’t a...
- 8/14/2017
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Movie Review: Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon take a Trip To Spain, but their shtick is running on fumes
When Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon, and director Michael Winterbottom decided to make a sequel to their popular buddy-comedy travelogue The Trip, all involved apparently assumed that a little self-aware Scream 2 lampshading was necessary. Sequels are never as good as the original, the British funnymen joked early into The Trip To Italy, a sequel that turned out to be (surprise!) not as good as the original. Now the three have reunited once more for The Trip To Spain, and right on cue, Coogan and Brydon are awkwardly slipping talk of trilogies into their improvised banter. Thing is, this third movie plays less like some bookend chapter of a complete saga than a floundering middle season of a television show that’s settled into a formulaic groove—which makes sense, given that each Trip is actually a condensed version of an episodic miniseries that aired on British television first. It would...
- 8/11/2017
- by A.A. Dowd
- avclub.com
“The Trip to Spain” is the third movie in a series starring Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon as versions of themselves. (It has also played as an expanded group of episodes on television.) In their first film from 2010, “The Trip,” they toured restaurants in Northern England and did many impressions of actors, most notably dueling impersonations of Michael Caine so stingingly accurate that it will probably be impossible to watch Caine ever again without thinking of Coogan and Brydon and their send-up of him. They took “The Trip to Italy” in 2014 and reprised their Caine impersonations amid many...
- 8/10/2017
- by Dan Callahan
- The Wrap
While The Trip movies often include a couple of melancholic moments and some pontificating about getting older, the majority of these films are an absolute pleasure to watch. Director Michael Winterbottom has locked in on a simple but effective formula: stars Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon cruise across various countrysides eating delicious-looking food and incessantly bantering back and forth. […]
The post ‘The Trip to Spain’ Trailer: Roger Moore Impression and Good Food – What Else Could You Want? appeared first on /Film.
The post ‘The Trip to Spain’ Trailer: Roger Moore Impression and Good Food – What Else Could You Want? appeared first on /Film.
- 6/15/2017
- by Ben Pearson
- Slash Film
Averting the bigger is better approach that plagues most franchises, The Trip series is attuned to life’s simple pleasures: cuisine, comedy, and companionship. For Michael Winterbottom, Steve Coogan, and Rob Brydon, their third outing, The Trip to Spain, refreshingly doesn’t stray from the charismatic formula that has resulted in perhaps the most delightful series of films this decade. Ahead of a release this August, the first full trailer has now arrived.
“In reviewing one of The Trip films, the base criteria is perhaps different than that for any other feature. Are there laughs? Does the food look delectable? Are the vistas magnificent?,” I said after its Tribeca premiere. “Indeed, The Trip to Spain features hysterical impressions of Mick Jagger, Michael Caine, John Hurt, Robert De Niro, Marlon Brando, and half the James Bond actors over exquisitely-presented plates of chorizo, anchovies, flan, and mussels, all while surveying stunning rolling hills and coastal seascapes.
“In reviewing one of The Trip films, the base criteria is perhaps different than that for any other feature. Are there laughs? Does the food look delectable? Are the vistas magnificent?,” I said after its Tribeca premiere. “Indeed, The Trip to Spain features hysterical impressions of Mick Jagger, Michael Caine, John Hurt, Robert De Niro, Marlon Brando, and half the James Bond actors over exquisitely-presented plates of chorizo, anchovies, flan, and mussels, all while surveying stunning rolling hills and coastal seascapes.
- 6/15/2017
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
"We should enjoy this moment guys, we're in the sweet spot." IFC Films has debuted another new official Us trailer for The Trip to Spain, to compliment the first teaser trailer from a few months ago. The Trip to Spain is the second sequel in The Trip series (after The Trip to Italy in 2014), starring Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon as friends who go on a road trip wining and dining and doing impersonations. Early word from critics is that this is just as hilarious and ridiculous as the first two films, and might be a good bit of entertainment to catch at your local art house later this summer. The cast also includes Marta Barrio and Claire Keelan. These films don't seem like they should work as well as they do, but damnit, they are fun. Here's the official Us trailer for Michael Winterbottom's The Trip to Spain,...
- 6/15/2017
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
It’s been four years since The Trip To Italy. Now comes IFC’s third film in the series, The Trip To Spain, from director Michael Winterbottom.
After jaunts through northern England and Italy, Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon embark on another deliciously deadpan culinary road trip. This time around, the guys head to Spain to sample the best of the country’s gastronomic offerings in between rounds of their hilariously off-the-cuff banter. Over plates of pintxos and paella, the pair exchange barbs and their patented celebrity impressions, as well as more serious reflections on what it means to settle into middle age. As always, the locales are breathtaking, the cuisine to die for, and the humor delightfully devilish.
The film opens in theaters August 11, 2017.
Steve’s film career includes five films with Michael Winterbottom.
The Trip To Spain is the third in an occasional series that began with 2011’s The Trip,...
After jaunts through northern England and Italy, Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon embark on another deliciously deadpan culinary road trip. This time around, the guys head to Spain to sample the best of the country’s gastronomic offerings in between rounds of their hilariously off-the-cuff banter. Over plates of pintxos and paella, the pair exchange barbs and their patented celebrity impressions, as well as more serious reflections on what it means to settle into middle age. As always, the locales are breathtaking, the cuisine to die for, and the humor delightfully devilish.
The film opens in theaters August 11, 2017.
Steve’s film career includes five films with Michael Winterbottom.
The Trip To Spain is the third in an occasional series that began with 2011’s The Trip,...
- 6/14/2017
- by Michelle Hannett
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
“Franchise” tends to be a dirty word, but one series we love returning to is “The Trip.” What started as a comedy lark starring Steven Coogan and Rob Brydon, directed by Michael Winterbottom, has become a treasured string of films, and the latest entry, “The Trip To Spain,” has arrived just in time for the summer movie season.
The formula here hasn’t changed much, except this time around, the pair have a new adventure waiting for them in Spain.
Continue reading New Trailer For ‘The Trip To Spain’ Takes Steve Coogan & Rob Brydon Back On The Road at The Playlist.
The formula here hasn’t changed much, except this time around, the pair have a new adventure waiting for them in Spain.
Continue reading New Trailer For ‘The Trip To Spain’ Takes Steve Coogan & Rob Brydon Back On The Road at The Playlist.
- 6/14/2017
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Executives worked on key titles including Boyhood, Personal Shopper, 45 Years.
IFC Films has promoted Mark Boxer and Lauren Schwartz, co-presidents Jonathan Sehring and Lisa Schwartz announced on Wednesday (14).
Boxer is named executive vice-president of sales and distribution, while Lauren Schwartz has been promoted to senior vice-president of publicity and promotions.
Long-time IFC Films executive Boxer oversees theatrical, non-theatrical and Canadian distribution of all IFC Films, as well as titles distributed under the Sundance Selects and IFC Midnight distribution labels.
He has been the chief architect behind the distribution strategy and release of such films as Wakefield starring Bryan Cranston, Personal Shopper with Kristen Stewart, Richard Linklater’s Boyhood, and Michael Winterbottom’s The Trip series.
Boxer worked closely with Sehring and Schwartz to pioneer the day-and-date release model. Prior to joining IFC Films, he worked for Artisan Entertainment covering Central and East Coast film distribution and sales for more than 50 markets.
As head of...
IFC Films has promoted Mark Boxer and Lauren Schwartz, co-presidents Jonathan Sehring and Lisa Schwartz announced on Wednesday (14).
Boxer is named executive vice-president of sales and distribution, while Lauren Schwartz has been promoted to senior vice-president of publicity and promotions.
Long-time IFC Films executive Boxer oversees theatrical, non-theatrical and Canadian distribution of all IFC Films, as well as titles distributed under the Sundance Selects and IFC Midnight distribution labels.
He has been the chief architect behind the distribution strategy and release of such films as Wakefield starring Bryan Cranston, Personal Shopper with Kristen Stewart, Richard Linklater’s Boyhood, and Michael Winterbottom’s The Trip series.
Boxer worked closely with Sehring and Schwartz to pioneer the day-and-date release model. Prior to joining IFC Films, he worked for Artisan Entertainment covering Central and East Coast film distribution and sales for more than 50 markets.
As head of...
- 6/14/2017
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Can’t afford to pack your bags and embark on a vacation adventure in an exotic foreign land? No problem, just travel vicariously at the multiplex. Many different genre films have more than a bit of “travelogue” in them (one of the staples of “golden age” moviegoing was the double feature with several short subjects: cartoons, newsreels, comedy “two-reelers”, and the travelogue, sandwiched between the main films). One type of story often set in “faraway places’ is the “rom-com”. Oh, and a frequent star of such flicks is this film’s leading lady, Diane Lane (Under The Tuscan Sun, Nights In Rodanthe). Yes, we’re talking about Superman’s Earth mum (we’ll see her again in the role soon in Justice League). These stories and many other recent Lane films concern her character re-discovering love and desire, usually after a long-standing relationship has gone “phhfft”. Now she’s on...
- 6/2/2017
- by Jim Batts
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Exclusive: Oliver Parker is directing the synchronised swimming comedy.
Screen can reveal the first look at Dad’s Army director Oliver Parker’s comedy Swimming With Men, produced by Stewart le Maréchal and Anna Mohr-Pietsch (The Infidel) of Met Film and Maggie Monteith of Dignity Film Finance (Brotherhood), in association with Amp Film.
Aschlin Ditta wrote the screenplay.
Exec producers include Paul Webster (Atonement) and Guy Heeley (Locke) of Shoebox Films and Al Morrow (Sour Grapes) and Jonny Persey (Little Ashes) of Met Film. Umedia are also on board as co-producers and financiers
The picture depicts (from left) Thomas Turgoose (This is England), Jim Carter (Downton Abbey), Daniel Mays (Rogue One), Adeel Akhtar (The Night Manager), Rob Brydon (The Trip) and Rupert Graves (Sherlock).
Also starring are Charlotte Riley (Edge Of Tomorrow) and Jane Horrocks (Little Voice).
HanWay handles sales on the movie, currently in production, about a man (Brydon) who finds new meaning in his life...
Screen can reveal the first look at Dad’s Army director Oliver Parker’s comedy Swimming With Men, produced by Stewart le Maréchal and Anna Mohr-Pietsch (The Infidel) of Met Film and Maggie Monteith of Dignity Film Finance (Brotherhood), in association with Amp Film.
Aschlin Ditta wrote the screenplay.
Exec producers include Paul Webster (Atonement) and Guy Heeley (Locke) of Shoebox Films and Al Morrow (Sour Grapes) and Jonny Persey (Little Ashes) of Met Film. Umedia are also on board as co-producers and financiers
The picture depicts (from left) Thomas Turgoose (This is England), Jim Carter (Downton Abbey), Daniel Mays (Rogue One), Adeel Akhtar (The Night Manager), Rob Brydon (The Trip) and Rupert Graves (Sherlock).
Also starring are Charlotte Riley (Edge Of Tomorrow) and Jane Horrocks (Little Voice).
HanWay handles sales on the movie, currently in production, about a man (Brydon) who finds new meaning in his life...
- 5/17/2017
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Filmmaker Oren Moverman has never shied away from tackling difficult, seemingly impossible material to adapt to film with some of his writing work including the screenplays for Todd Haynes’ I’m Not There and the equally intriguing Brian Wilson biopic, Love and Mercy.
As a director and producer he’s followed suit with his 2nd film Rampart starring Woody Harrelson as an L.A. police officer with questionable motives, followed by a meditative look at homelessness with Richard Gere in Time Out of Mind.
For his latest movie, The Dinner, Moverman adapts Dutch author Herman Koch’s novel, which on the surface is about a dinner between two related couples with all the requisite food porn. As it progresses, it explores a variety of topics including mental illness and the battle of Gettysburg.
At the core of the film is Steve Coogan and Richard Gere playing brothers, the former a history professor,...
As a director and producer he’s followed suit with his 2nd film Rampart starring Woody Harrelson as an L.A. police officer with questionable motives, followed by a meditative look at homelessness with Richard Gere in Time Out of Mind.
For his latest movie, The Dinner, Moverman adapts Dutch author Herman Koch’s novel, which on the surface is about a dinner between two related couples with all the requisite food porn. As it progresses, it explores a variety of topics including mental illness and the battle of Gettysburg.
At the core of the film is Steve Coogan and Richard Gere playing brothers, the former a history professor,...
- 5/2/2017
- by Edward Douglas
- LRMonline.com
Michael Winterbottom’s The Trip To Spain expands his foodie-humor franchise into a three-course experience. Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon first jested their way through northern England, then conquered Italy’s coastal delicacies while trading wits. So how does Winterbottom’s third helping measure up to previous cuts? With a bit more fat and gristle than hoped, overcooked until the comedic juices have all but dried out. That’s not to say a dash of Coogan and handfuls of Brydon fail to salvage this slab of comedy, but comparatively, Spain is the least appetizing trip so far.
Which, for the record, is like saying you prefer Gordon Ramsay and Anthony Bourdain to Thomas Keller. It’s still all gravy, baby.
Coogan and Brydon find themselves once again traveling afar, sampling native delicacies and writing about their exploits (Coogan through novelization, Brydon by critique). Spain’s landscape offers an abundance of seafood,...
Which, for the record, is like saying you prefer Gordon Ramsay and Anthony Bourdain to Thomas Keller. It’s still all gravy, baby.
Coogan and Brydon find themselves once again traveling afar, sampling native delicacies and writing about their exploits (Coogan through novelization, Brydon by critique). Spain’s landscape offers an abundance of seafood,...
- 4/26/2017
- by Matt Donato
- We Got This Covered
Firmly cementing its series’ status as the “Before” movies of male friendship, “The Trip to Spain” may seem like nothing more than a third taste of a favorite dish, but the best meals in life are worth eating thrice, and this one has been simmered in some tangy new spices and aged to perfection.
Once again, British comedians Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan eat their way through a week-long drive through some repugnantly gorgeous European countryside. Once again, their playful (but gently existential) rivalry is expressed through dueling impressions of the more famous men who came before them; despite an obligatory appearance from Michael Caine(s), this installment belongs to Mick Jagger and Roger Moore. And once again, a bouquet of melancholy notes results in a bittersweet aftertaste that lingers on the tongue, as our two heroes — recast as Don Quixote and Sancho Panza tilting at wind turbines — struggle to...
Once again, British comedians Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan eat their way through a week-long drive through some repugnantly gorgeous European countryside. Once again, their playful (but gently existential) rivalry is expressed through dueling impressions of the more famous men who came before them; despite an obligatory appearance from Michael Caine(s), this installment belongs to Mick Jagger and Roger Moore. And once again, a bouquet of melancholy notes results in a bittersweet aftertaste that lingers on the tongue, as our two heroes — recast as Don Quixote and Sancho Panza tilting at wind turbines — struggle to...
- 4/24/2017
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
As a sort of litmus test, noted film critic Gene Siskel would ask of a film, “Is it more interesting than a documentary of the actors having lunch?” Michael Winterbottom’s trilogy of “The Trip” films effectively turn the question inside out, rendering the act of watching a pair of actors having lunch as something riotous, a touch melancholic, and yes, infinitely interesting. Limey comic virtuosos Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon have hit the road yet again, bringing their egos, insecurities, and fully loaded arsenals of celebrity impressions with them.
Continue reading ‘The Trip To Spain’ Is Another Treat In The Delightful Food, Travel & Improv Franchise [Tribeca Review] at The Playlist.
Continue reading ‘The Trip To Spain’ Is Another Treat In The Delightful Food, Travel & Improv Franchise [Tribeca Review] at The Playlist.
- 4/23/2017
- by Charles Bramesco
- The Playlist
Averting the bigger is better approach that plagues most franchises, The Trip series is attuned to life’s simple pleasures: cuisine, comedy, and companionship. For Michael Winterbottom, Steve Coogan, and Rob Brydon, their third outing, The Trip to Spain, refreshingly doesn’t stray from the charismatic formula that has resulted in perhaps the most delightful series of films this decade.
Sparing little narrative formalities, as has become part and parcel for these expeditions, Coogan, having concluded a series with Martin Scorsese, and Brydon, eager to take a break from child-rearing duties, set off on another assignment, this time heading to the southwest of Europe. Coogan takes on a Cervantes-inspired “Don Quixote”-esque journey as he reads Laurie Lee’s “As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning” and attempts to write his own book about his voyage, while Brydon is once again filing restaurant reviews. Aside from the expected, but still as-hilarious-as-ever host of impressions,...
Sparing little narrative formalities, as has become part and parcel for these expeditions, Coogan, having concluded a series with Martin Scorsese, and Brydon, eager to take a break from child-rearing duties, set off on another assignment, this time heading to the southwest of Europe. Coogan takes on a Cervantes-inspired “Don Quixote”-esque journey as he reads Laurie Lee’s “As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning” and attempts to write his own book about his voyage, while Brydon is once again filing restaurant reviews. Aside from the expected, but still as-hilarious-as-ever host of impressions,...
- 4/23/2017
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
The Trip to Italy, Michael Winterbottom's second improvised travelogue starring Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan, was the Godfather II of food-porn comedies that revolve around impressions of Michael Caine: It offered all the pleasures of the original (2010's The Trip) while deepening its themes and giving viewers more to look at.
The good news for fans is that The Trip to Spain is no Godfather III. The moderately bad news is that this sometimes hilarious outing is the one in which the conceit comes to resemble a lushly produced, irregularly broadcast TV series, each episode built of recombinations of now-familiar...
The good news for fans is that The Trip to Spain is no Godfather III. The moderately bad news is that this sometimes hilarious outing is the one in which the conceit comes to resemble a lushly produced, irregularly broadcast TV series, each episode built of recombinations of now-familiar...
- 4/23/2017
- by John DeFore
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Every year, celebrities, filmmakers, journalists and movie fans flock to the Tribeca neighborhood in lower Manhattan for the Tribeca Film Festival, an illustrious celebration of film and television that features some of the most exciting projects and panel discussions of any media festival in the country.
Founded by Jane Rosenthal, Robert De Niro and Craig Hatkoff in 2001, shortly after the attacks of 9/11, the festival has helped revitalize the city and remind both filmmakers and fans alike of New York City’s valued place in film and TV while becoming a welcoming community for voices and perspectives from all over the world. “It’s also a fabric of our city. So whether or not it’s a film from Israel or Palestine or something for kids, our festival was about community and it still is,” Rosenthal tells Et. “It’s about bringing community together.”
The 2017 festival, which runs April 19-30, continues to expand beyond film and TV with...
Founded by Jane Rosenthal, Robert De Niro and Craig Hatkoff in 2001, shortly after the attacks of 9/11, the festival has helped revitalize the city and remind both filmmakers and fans alike of New York City’s valued place in film and TV while becoming a welcoming community for voices and perspectives from all over the world. “It’s also a fabric of our city. So whether or not it’s a film from Israel or Palestine or something for kids, our festival was about community and it still is,” Rosenthal tells Et. “It’s about bringing community together.”
The 2017 festival, which runs April 19-30, continues to expand beyond film and TV with...
- 4/17/2017
- Entertainment Tonight
Author: James Kleinmann
The Tribeca Film Festival hits New York next week and runs from April 19 – 30 th. Now in its sixteenth year, the annual event was co-founded by screen legend Robert De Niro in the wake of the September 11th attacks in an effort to revitalise Lower Manhattan. Retaining an element of its original commitment to Us indie cinema, it has evolved to encompass TV, Vr, online work, music and gaming. As ever, the festival will welcome a dizzying array of big name guests including Tom Hanks, Emma Watson, Jon Favreau, Al Pacino, Diane Keaton, Quentin Tarantino, Scarlett Johansson and Ron Howard. Here are just some of the highlights, for the full line up and to buy tickets check out the official festival website here.
Opening and Closing night Galas at Radio City Music Hall
Kicking off the festival is the world premiere of music doc Clive Davis: The Soundtrack of Our Lives.
The Tribeca Film Festival hits New York next week and runs from April 19 – 30 th. Now in its sixteenth year, the annual event was co-founded by screen legend Robert De Niro in the wake of the September 11th attacks in an effort to revitalise Lower Manhattan. Retaining an element of its original commitment to Us indie cinema, it has evolved to encompass TV, Vr, online work, music and gaming. As ever, the festival will welcome a dizzying array of big name guests including Tom Hanks, Emma Watson, Jon Favreau, Al Pacino, Diane Keaton, Quentin Tarantino, Scarlett Johansson and Ron Howard. Here are just some of the highlights, for the full line up and to buy tickets check out the official festival website here.
Opening and Closing night Galas at Radio City Music Hall
Kicking off the festival is the world premiere of music doc Clive Davis: The Soundtrack of Our Lives.
- 4/13/2017
- by James Kleinmann
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Author: Stefan Pape
Here at HeyUGuys we are fortunate enough to spend time with many of our heroes from the silver screen – but this week presented a quite unforgettable opportunity, as we sat down with two of the greatest living actors, Morgan Freeman and Michael Caine.
In London to promote their latest picture, the heist comedy Going in Style, we discussed with the pair the role of the elderly in modern society, and exactly what it is that keeps luring them back to work. They speak about nerves, pensions, hobbies and movie choices – as we just sit down and listen as the pair reminisce on two quite remarkable careers. Plus, Caine reveals who he believes does the very best impression of him – and there’s a been a fair few.
Also be sure to catch our video interview below:
Morgan Freeman & Michael Caine Video Interview
Can you see the correlation between a heist and acting?...
Here at HeyUGuys we are fortunate enough to spend time with many of our heroes from the silver screen – but this week presented a quite unforgettable opportunity, as we sat down with two of the greatest living actors, Morgan Freeman and Michael Caine.
In London to promote their latest picture, the heist comedy Going in Style, we discussed with the pair the role of the elderly in modern society, and exactly what it is that keeps luring them back to work. They speak about nerves, pensions, hobbies and movie choices – as we just sit down and listen as the pair reminisce on two quite remarkable careers. Plus, Caine reveals who he believes does the very best impression of him – and there’s a been a fair few.
Also be sure to catch our video interview below:
Morgan Freeman & Michael Caine Video Interview
Can you see the correlation between a heist and acting?...
- 4/7/2017
- by Stefan Pape
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Rob Leane Apr 6, 2017
Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan chat at length about their next adventure into eateries, The Trip To Spain...
Earlier this year, we were lucky enough to get early access to the first two episodes of The Trip To Spain, and to partake in a pair of group Q&A sessions with Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan, who continue reviewing restaurants and relentlessly ribbing each other in this third series of the show. (If you’re unfamiliar: series 1 was called The Trip and series 2 was The Trip To Italy.)
The episodes, to put it simply, were great; The Trip’s familiar blend of melancholy, meals and mockery slots seamlessly into this new Spanish locale, which serves up some idyllic landscapes to compliment the edibles, the impressions and the introspection.
Creator, writer and director Michael Winterbottom has found a winning formula here, and his stars seem to have an...
Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan chat at length about their next adventure into eateries, The Trip To Spain...
Earlier this year, we were lucky enough to get early access to the first two episodes of The Trip To Spain, and to partake in a pair of group Q&A sessions with Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan, who continue reviewing restaurants and relentlessly ribbing each other in this third series of the show. (If you’re unfamiliar: series 1 was called The Trip and series 2 was The Trip To Italy.)
The episodes, to put it simply, were great; The Trip’s familiar blend of melancholy, meals and mockery slots seamlessly into this new Spanish locale, which serves up some idyllic landscapes to compliment the edibles, the impressions and the introspection.
Creator, writer and director Michael Winterbottom has found a winning formula here, and his stars seem to have an...
- 4/5/2017
- Den of Geek
Festival to open with Berlin Golden Bear winner.
Korea’s second largest film festival, the 18th Jeonju International Film Festival (Jiff), which focuses on independent and arthouse cinema, is set to open April 27 with Berlinale Golden Bear winner On Body And Soul, directed by Ildiko Enyedi.
The Hungarian director is also set to be on the International Competition jury and hold masterclasses at the fest.
Jiff today announced its line-up of 229 films from 58 countries with 50 world premieres and three international premieres, putting an emphasis on its slogan “Outlet for Cinematic Expression.”
“We have always had the identity of a festival for independent and alternative films, but as you all know, the past year has revealed problems such as the [government] blacklist and various forms of censorship that have not been solved, which is why we have put forth this slogan,” said festival director Lee Choong-jik.
Supporting Korean independents
Executive programmer Kim Young-jin noted a recent slump in Korean...
Korea’s second largest film festival, the 18th Jeonju International Film Festival (Jiff), which focuses on independent and arthouse cinema, is set to open April 27 with Berlinale Golden Bear winner On Body And Soul, directed by Ildiko Enyedi.
The Hungarian director is also set to be on the International Competition jury and hold masterclasses at the fest.
Jiff today announced its line-up of 229 films from 58 countries with 50 world premieres and three international premieres, putting an emphasis on its slogan “Outlet for Cinematic Expression.”
“We have always had the identity of a festival for independent and alternative films, but as you all know, the past year has revealed problems such as the [government] blacklist and various forms of censorship that have not been solved, which is why we have put forth this slogan,” said festival director Lee Choong-jik.
Supporting Korean independents
Executive programmer Kim Young-jin noted a recent slump in Korean...
- 3/27/2017
- by hjnoh2007@gmail.com (Jean Noh)
- ScreenDaily
Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon are teaming up again in “The Trip to Spain,” and a new trailer teases more of the same pithy conversations fans love. The duo reunited with director Michael Winterbottom for the series, which will air in the UK, and the subsequent feature-length edit that’s headed to America, set to premiere at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival. “Spain” is the third entry in the series, following 2010’s “The Trip” and 2014’s “The Trip to Italy.”
Read More: Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon’s ‘The Trip To Spain’ To Be Sold At Cannes
Coogan recently spoke to UK publication The Version about how growing older is a central theme in “Spain.”
“There are a lot of universal issues,” he said. “If it were just about Rob and me it wouldn’t be as strong. It has to mean something to other people, so yes it...
Read More: Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon’s ‘The Trip To Spain’ To Be Sold At Cannes
Coogan recently spoke to UK publication The Version about how growing older is a central theme in “Spain.”
“There are a lot of universal issues,” he said. “If it were just about Rob and me it wouldn’t be as strong. It has to mean something to other people, so yes it...
- 3/19/2017
- by William Earl
- Indiewire
While the northeast of the country digs out from a massive blizzard this week, hope remains in the fact that we’re in the back half of March, spring will soon be here, and hopefully some trips on the road. And we hope everyone has as good a time out there as Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon.
Read More: 2017 Tribeca Film Festival Lineup Includes ‘The Trip To Spain,’ ‘Flower,’ ‘The Clapper’ And More
Following “The Trip” and “The Trip To Italy,” the pair are now on “The Trip To Spain” with their regular collaborator Michael Winterbottom.
Continue reading Steve Coogan & Rob Brydon Are Two Middle-Aged Men Looking For Adventure In New Teaser For ‘The Trip To Spain’ at The Playlist.
Read More: 2017 Tribeca Film Festival Lineup Includes ‘The Trip To Spain,’ ‘Flower,’ ‘The Clapper’ And More
Following “The Trip” and “The Trip To Italy,” the pair are now on “The Trip To Spain” with their regular collaborator Michael Winterbottom.
Continue reading Steve Coogan & Rob Brydon Are Two Middle-Aged Men Looking For Adventure In New Teaser For ‘The Trip To Spain’ at The Playlist.
- 3/17/2017
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon will make more impersonations and maybe have another personal revelation or two in The Trip to Spain. They’re once again again playing versions of themselves for director Michael Winterbottom, who directed them in The Trip and The Trip to Italy. For their next adventure, they’ll perhaps get on each other’s nerves now and then (and make us laugh) while drinking some […]
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The post ‘The Trip to Spain’ Trailer: Sing Along With Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon appeared first on /Film.
- 3/17/2017
- by Jack Giroux
- Slash Film
"Roll-around-on-the-floor-funny." The first teaser trailer has debuted for the latest sequel to The Trip, the road trip comedy starring Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon. This latest film is titled The Trip to Spain and it's literally about, as the title says, their trip to Spain. This is fun teaser trailer because it introduces the sequel ever-so-perfectly, not only with quotes and footage of them driving and singing (like idiots), but with the title cards explaining where each film premiered. I wish there was more footage in this teaser, but maybe it's best that we don't see anything else. Better to just go in and experience this. If you loved The Trip or The Trip to Italy before this, make sure you catch this film when it arrives. Hopefully it's just as funny. Dive in. Here's the first teaser trailer for Michael Winterbottom's The Trip to Spain, direct from YouTube:...
- 3/16/2017
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
There are few traveling companions worth taking multiple road trips with, but we’d go anywhere with Steven Coogan and Rob Brydon. The duo left audiences in stitches with “The Trip” and “The Trip To Italy,” and now they’re back for another journey in “The Trip To Spain.”
Read More: The 100 Most Anticipated Films Of 2017
Michael Winterbottom is back behind the camera, and nobody is messing with a formula, as Coogan and Brydon are once again having great meals and volleying one-liners back and forth.
Continue reading Go To The Coast With Steve Coogan & Rob Brydon In First Trailer For ‘The Trip To Spain’ at The Playlist.
Read More: The 100 Most Anticipated Films Of 2017
Michael Winterbottom is back behind the camera, and nobody is messing with a formula, as Coogan and Brydon are once again having great meals and volleying one-liners back and forth.
Continue reading Go To The Coast With Steve Coogan & Rob Brydon In First Trailer For ‘The Trip To Spain’ at The Playlist.
- 3/10/2017
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
There will be no shortage of franchise films arriving this year, but perhaps our most-anticipated is the latest entry into The Trip series. Made for television in the U.K. then released as films over here, Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon are now back with their third entry, The Trip to Spain. Ahead of a premiere at Tribeca Film Festival next month, the first teaser trailer has now been released.
This preview for Michael Winterbottom‘s latest is a simple one, finding the duo making melodies on a drive as quotes flash by along with a brief series recap. Despite being quite the tease, this (and the first clip) is more than enough to sell us on what’s sure to be one of the most enjoyable viewing experiences of the year. Also starring Marta Barrio, Claire Keelan, and Margo Stilley, check out the trailer below.
Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon...
This preview for Michael Winterbottom‘s latest is a simple one, finding the duo making melodies on a drive as quotes flash by along with a brief series recap. Despite being quite the tease, this (and the first clip) is more than enough to sell us on what’s sure to be one of the most enjoyable viewing experiences of the year. Also starring Marta Barrio, Claire Keelan, and Margo Stilley, check out the trailer below.
Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon...
- 3/9/2017
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
[Editor’s Note: This post is presented in partnership with Spectrum. Catch up on this year’s Awards Season contenders and the latest films On Demand. Today’s pick is “Rules Don’t Apply.”]
If it wasn’t already clear that Steve Coogan is an extraordinarily multi-talented man, along came “Philomena.” Perhaps known best as a comic actor in films like “In The Loop,” “The Trip” and “24 Hour Party People,” Coogan took a turn for the dramatic with “Philomena,” both in front of and behind the camera. As producer, writer and star, Coogan helped deliver one of the year’s most heartwarming — and heartbreaking — dramas, detailing the true story of a woman (Judi Dench) who is joined by a journalist (Coogan) to try to find the son who was taken from her 50 years earlier.
A story that easily could have been turned into an overly sentimental tearjerker is handled with a confidence and restraint in both Coogan’s words and performance, resulting in a film that has been winning over audiences and awards groups left and right.
When the film — notably directed by Stephen Frears...
If it wasn’t already clear that Steve Coogan is an extraordinarily multi-talented man, along came “Philomena.” Perhaps known best as a comic actor in films like “In The Loop,” “The Trip” and “24 Hour Party People,” Coogan took a turn for the dramatic with “Philomena,” both in front of and behind the camera. As producer, writer and star, Coogan helped deliver one of the year’s most heartwarming — and heartbreaking — dramas, detailing the true story of a woman (Judi Dench) who is joined by a journalist (Coogan) to try to find the son who was taken from her 50 years earlier.
A story that easily could have been turned into an overly sentimental tearjerker is handled with a confidence and restraint in both Coogan’s words and performance, resulting in a film that has been winning over audiences and awards groups left and right.
When the film — notably directed by Stephen Frears...
- 3/6/2017
- by Peter Knegt
- Indiewire
Author: Stefan Pape
With the third season of The Trip soon upon us, before witnessing Steve Coogan dine with Rob Brydon across a beautiful Spanish landscape, we can see the British actor indulging in fine cuisine of another kind, this time with a somewhat more bitter aftertaste, for he takes the lead role in Oren Moverman’s dark and disturbing thriller The Dinner, based on Herman Koch’s novel of the same name, which proves to be a film stifled by its very own sense of ambition.
Coogan plays Paul Lohman, a school teacher doing all he can to avoid going out for dinner with older brother, and congressman Stan (Richard Gere), and his wife Katelyn (Rebecca Hall). But Paul is persuaded by his own wife Claire (Laura Linney) who is rather insistent they make the trip, and as they set food in the grandiose, pretentious restaurant, it becomes clear why,...
With the third season of The Trip soon upon us, before witnessing Steve Coogan dine with Rob Brydon across a beautiful Spanish landscape, we can see the British actor indulging in fine cuisine of another kind, this time with a somewhat more bitter aftertaste, for he takes the lead role in Oren Moverman’s dark and disturbing thriller The Dinner, based on Herman Koch’s novel of the same name, which proves to be a film stifled by its very own sense of ambition.
Coogan plays Paul Lohman, a school teacher doing all he can to avoid going out for dinner with older brother, and congressman Stan (Richard Gere), and his wife Katelyn (Rebecca Hall). But Paul is persuaded by his own wife Claire (Laura Linney) who is rather insistent they make the trip, and as they set food in the grandiose, pretentious restaurant, it becomes clear why,...
- 2/11/2017
- by Stefan Pape
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Oren Moverman is responsible for two of the most impressive American screenplays of the past 10 years, “I’m Not There.” and “Love & Mercy,” both of which turn ambitious approaches to personal stories into surprisingly accessible dramas. As a director, Moverman has shown a rougher edge.
His first two features, “The Messenger” and “Rampart,” were gritty, intimate stories of angry men screwed by the system that employs them (the military and the police force, respectively), while 2014’s “Time Out of Mind” took a similar approach to a man rejected by the system altogether (Richard Gere, playing a decrepit homeless man in New York). Moverman assembles these rickety dramas in piecemeal, gradually developing psychological tension out from the moments that form their lives, like a series of sparklers ignited one by one until they form a blazing whole.
His latest effort, “The Dinner,” is a firecracker from the start. While hobbled by...
His first two features, “The Messenger” and “Rampart,” were gritty, intimate stories of angry men screwed by the system that employs them (the military and the police force, respectively), while 2014’s “Time Out of Mind” took a similar approach to a man rejected by the system altogether (Richard Gere, playing a decrepit homeless man in New York). Moverman assembles these rickety dramas in piecemeal, gradually developing psychological tension out from the moments that form their lives, like a series of sparklers ignited one by one until they form a blazing whole.
His latest effort, “The Dinner,” is a firecracker from the start. While hobbled by...
- 2/10/2017
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
With all the over-complicated narratives in much of today’s Hollywood output, it’s refreshing when a film can surrender to the basics and still manage to delight. Such is the case with Michael Winterbottom‘s The Trip series. Made for television in the U.K. then released as films over here, they simply find Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon on an adventure at a certain locale, eating food and doing many, many impressions.
The next one on the docket, which shot over the summer, is The Trip to Spain. While it still hasn’t been announced when it will arrive here in the United States, Sky Atlantic have released the first clip ahead of their summer premiere broadcast. Finding Coogan and Brydon doing their best Mick Jagger impression, it’s nice to have this duo back and they seem to be in top form.
“The way we work is...
The next one on the docket, which shot over the summer, is The Trip to Spain. While it still hasn’t been announced when it will arrive here in the United States, Sky Atlantic have released the first clip ahead of their summer premiere broadcast. Finding Coogan and Brydon doing their best Mick Jagger impression, it’s nice to have this duo back and they seem to be in top form.
“The way we work is...
- 12/21/2016
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
The Trip series is one of those small English nuggets that offers a delightful treat to those lucky enough to stumble upon it. The Trip and The Trip To Italy star Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon as fictionalized versions of themselves as they go around tasting delicious foods in scenic locales, and we the audience get to sit in while they converse about life’s intricacies, and compare impressions of famous... Read More...
- 12/21/2016
- by Matt Rooney
- JoBlo.com
It may not have anybody wearing spandex or teasers hidden after the closing credits, but “The Trip” is a legit franchise. After the breakout smash of the first film, director Michael Winterbottom and stars Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon reteamed for “The Trip To Italy.” It was another success and now they’ve packed their bags, once again headed abroad, and this time will be giving audiences “The Trip To Spain.” And it looks like they haven’t missed a beat.
Continue reading Steve Coogan & Rob Brydon Impersonate Mick Jagger & Michael Caine In First Clip From ‘The Trip To Spain’ at The Playlist.
Continue reading Steve Coogan & Rob Brydon Impersonate Mick Jagger & Michael Caine In First Clip From ‘The Trip To Spain’ at The Playlist.
- 12/20/2016
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Exclusive: Veteran UK producer Andrew Eaton, who has been behind films such as Rush and 24 Hour Party People and, more recently, TV shows The Crown and The Trip, is leaving Revolution Films after 22 years. The well-respected industry stalwart co-founded the Brit production banner in 1994 with director Michael Winterbottom. Since then, he's produced a wealth of British and international film and television product that has travelled globally. Eaton is the independent…...
- 12/6/2016
- Deadline
Exclusive: Rob Brydon, Kelly Macdonald and Rebecca Hall are set to star with Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly in Holmes & Watson, the Sony Pictures comedy about the sleuthing duo. Last seen in The Huntsman 2, Cinderella and The Trip, Brydon will play Scotland Yard head Inspector Lestrade. Boardwalk Empire and No Country For Old Men star Macdonald will play Mrs. Hudson, the housekeeper of Holmes & Watson's famous home at 221B Baker Street. The Scottish actress recently…...
- 11/17/2016
- Deadline
Independent boards feature about UK rock band Wolf Alice.
UK sales outfit Independent has boarded international sales on Michael Winterbottom’s music feature On The Road, about UK rock band Wolf Alice.
The film, which gets its world premiere at the London Film Festival, follows the Grammy nominated group on their tour earlier this year.
Producers are Melissa Parmenter (The Trip) and Anthony Wilcox for Revolution Films. Julian Bird, Abi Gadsby at Lorton Entertainment (Oasis: Supersonic) are executive-producing alongside Declan Reddington.
Lorton Distribution will release in the UK in 2017. Independent will be selling the project at the Afm next month.
Independent’s MD Andrew Orr said: “We are thrilled to be working with Michael Winterbottom again. Playful and innovative, On The Road combines his masterful ability to shoot fiction so real, it seems like documentary, and to document a true story so well, it almost seems like fic-tion.”...
UK sales outfit Independent has boarded international sales on Michael Winterbottom’s music feature On The Road, about UK rock band Wolf Alice.
The film, which gets its world premiere at the London Film Festival, follows the Grammy nominated group on their tour earlier this year.
Producers are Melissa Parmenter (The Trip) and Anthony Wilcox for Revolution Films. Julian Bird, Abi Gadsby at Lorton Entertainment (Oasis: Supersonic) are executive-producing alongside Declan Reddington.
Lorton Distribution will release in the UK in 2017. Independent will be selling the project at the Afm next month.
Independent’s MD Andrew Orr said: “We are thrilled to be working with Michael Winterbottom again. Playful and innovative, On The Road combines his masterful ability to shoot fiction so real, it seems like documentary, and to document a true story so well, it almost seems like fic-tion.”...
- 10/6/2016
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
IFC Films and Sundance Selects, the independent film distributors owned by AMC Networks, have promoted Arianna Bocco to executive vice president of acqusitions and production. Bocco has been in charge of acquisitions for IFC, Sundance and IFC Midnight since 2006, snagging the rights to films such as “The Trip” series from Michael Winterbottom, Cannes Grand Jury Prize winner “Gomorrah” and Elyse Steinberg’s “Weiner,” a documentary about the sexting congressman that won the 2016 Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize. In all, IFC/Sundance has acquired more than 400 films in her tenure. Also Read: James Franco's 'King Cobra' Sells...
- 9/14/2016
- by Matt Pressberg
- The Wrap
The industry veteran has been promoted to executive vice-president of acquisitions and production.
Jonathan Sehring and Lisa Schwartz, co-presidents of IFC Films and Sundance Selects, announced the development on Wednesday.
Bocco has spent nearly a decade overseeing acquisitions and production for IFC Films, Sundance Selects and IFC Midnight, the three multi-platform film distribution labels owned and operated by AMC Networks.
Since joining the company in 2006, she has led all acquisitions at the company, acquiring rights to such titles as Certain Women, Michael Winterbottom’s The Trip series, Ken Loach’s Palme d’Or winner I, Daniel Blake, and Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg’s Sundance Film Festival grand jury prize-winner Weiner.
“Arianna is one of the most talented and experienced executives in independent film,” said Sehring and Schwartz. “Her superb creative instincts and great eye for unique material have led to a proud history of IFC Films distributing some of the most celebrated and acclaimed independent films of...
Jonathan Sehring and Lisa Schwartz, co-presidents of IFC Films and Sundance Selects, announced the development on Wednesday.
Bocco has spent nearly a decade overseeing acquisitions and production for IFC Films, Sundance Selects and IFC Midnight, the three multi-platform film distribution labels owned and operated by AMC Networks.
Since joining the company in 2006, she has led all acquisitions at the company, acquiring rights to such titles as Certain Women, Michael Winterbottom’s The Trip series, Ken Loach’s Palme d’Or winner I, Daniel Blake, and Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg’s Sundance Film Festival grand jury prize-winner Weiner.
“Arianna is one of the most talented and experienced executives in independent film,” said Sehring and Schwartz. “Her superb creative instincts and great eye for unique material have led to a proud history of IFC Films distributing some of the most celebrated and acclaimed independent films of...
- 9/14/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Philomena producer is to join Steve Coogan’s Baby Cow Productions.
Christine Langan is set to step down as head of BBC Films and replace Henry Normal as CEO of Baby Cow Productions.
A spokesperson for BBC Films told Screen the organisation “could not comment on speculation” but Screen sources have subsequently confirmed the departure, which was first revealed by Screen’s sister publication Broadcast.
Langan’s contract and a timetable for the exit are currently being ironed out but Screen sources have indicated that a late October departure is possible.
Langan, producer of Oscar winners The Queen and Philomena, will work closely with Baby Cow co-founder and actor Steve Coogan to shepherd the company through its next phase of growth.
Baby Cow co-produced Philomena, in which Coogan starred and co-wrote, as well as other Coogan vehicles including Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa, 24 Hour Party People and A Cock And Bull Story.
At the company...
Christine Langan is set to step down as head of BBC Films and replace Henry Normal as CEO of Baby Cow Productions.
A spokesperson for BBC Films told Screen the organisation “could not comment on speculation” but Screen sources have subsequently confirmed the departure, which was first revealed by Screen’s sister publication Broadcast.
Langan’s contract and a timetable for the exit are currently being ironed out but Screen sources have indicated that a late October departure is possible.
Langan, producer of Oscar winners The Queen and Philomena, will work closely with Baby Cow co-founder and actor Steve Coogan to shepherd the company through its next phase of growth.
Baby Cow co-produced Philomena, in which Coogan starred and co-wrote, as well as other Coogan vehicles including Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa, 24 Hour Party People and A Cock And Bull Story.
At the company...
- 7/19/2016
- ScreenDaily
Warren Beatty’s new romantic comedy “Rules Don’t Apply” follows an aspiring actress, a lovable driver, and the eccentric Hollywood legend Howard Hughes (played by Beatty himself) as they struggle with each other’s own idiosyncrasies. Set in Hollywood in 1958, small town beauty queen and Baptist virgin Marla Mabrey (Lily Collins) arrives to Los Angeles to work under Howard Hughes. At the airport, she meets her driver Frank Forbes (Alden Ehrenreich), a religious Methodist who’s engaged to be married to his middle school sweetheart. Soon they fall for each other, and their attraction puts their respective religious convictions to the test, and also places them in violation of Hughes’ #1 rule: No employee will have a relationship with a contract actress. But as Hughes’ behavior becomes more erratic and strange, it intersects with Marla and Frank’s lives in challenging, compelling ways, leaving no one unchanged. The film also...
- 7/14/2016
- by Vikram Murthi
- Indiewire
Leading pan-Arab distributor adds 24 titles to slate.
Middle East distributor Front Row Filmed Entertainment has announced the acquisition of 24 titles from last month’s Cannes Marche, including Oscar-nominated Denis Gamze Erguven’s Kings, which stars Halle Berry and was one of the most buzzed about projects of the market.
It was among a trio of titles acquired with Beirut-based Teleview International from Wild Bunch offshoot Insiders, alongside David Robert Mitchell La-set crime thriller Under The Silver Lake, starring Dakota Johnson and Andrew Garfield; and Lynne Ramsay’s You Were Never Really Here, starring Joaquin Phoenix as a war veteran who tries to save women trapped in the world of sex trafficking.
Other buzzy acquisitions for the Dubai-based distributor included quirky Sundance comedy Swiss Army Man, starring Paul Dano as a shipwrecked man who befriends a corpse played by Daniel Radcliffe, from New York-based distributor A24.
In its first-ever deal with Verve Ventures, Front Row also...
Middle East distributor Front Row Filmed Entertainment has announced the acquisition of 24 titles from last month’s Cannes Marche, including Oscar-nominated Denis Gamze Erguven’s Kings, which stars Halle Berry and was one of the most buzzed about projects of the market.
It was among a trio of titles acquired with Beirut-based Teleview International from Wild Bunch offshoot Insiders, alongside David Robert Mitchell La-set crime thriller Under The Silver Lake, starring Dakota Johnson and Andrew Garfield; and Lynne Ramsay’s You Were Never Really Here, starring Joaquin Phoenix as a war veteran who tries to save women trapped in the world of sex trafficking.
Other buzzy acquisitions for the Dubai-based distributor included quirky Sundance comedy Swiss Army Man, starring Paul Dano as a shipwrecked man who befriends a corpse played by Daniel Radcliffe, from New York-based distributor A24.
In its first-ever deal with Verve Ventures, Front Row also...
- 6/17/2016
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Goalpost also inks France deal on Kevin Costner classic Dances With Wolves.
Goalpost Film has scored key pre-sales on the The Trip To Spain, the upcoming third instalment in Michael Winterbottom’s popular comedy franchise starring Steve Coogan (Philomena) and Rob Brydon (Cinderella).
Deals have concluded with IFC for the Us, Madman for Australia, eOne for Canada, NonStop for Scandinavia, Front Row for Middle East, Challan for South Korea and Cinesky for Airlines.
IFC, which distributed both prior instalments, took $3m at the Us box office from well received 2014 edition The Trip To Italy.
IFC president Jonathan Sehring said: “We’re very happy to be a key component in what is becoming the most wonderful independent franchise”.
Coogan and Brydon play semi-fictionalised versions of themselves in the improvised comedy which will shoot in late 2016, taking in restaurants, gentle bickering and impersonations in Cantabria, the Basque region, Aragon, Rioja, Castile-La Mancha and Andalusia.
Melissa Parmenter (9 Songs...
Goalpost Film has scored key pre-sales on the The Trip To Spain, the upcoming third instalment in Michael Winterbottom’s popular comedy franchise starring Steve Coogan (Philomena) and Rob Brydon (Cinderella).
Deals have concluded with IFC for the Us, Madman for Australia, eOne for Canada, NonStop for Scandinavia, Front Row for Middle East, Challan for South Korea and Cinesky for Airlines.
IFC, which distributed both prior instalments, took $3m at the Us box office from well received 2014 edition The Trip To Italy.
IFC president Jonathan Sehring said: “We’re very happy to be a key component in what is becoming the most wonderful independent franchise”.
Coogan and Brydon play semi-fictionalised versions of themselves in the improvised comedy which will shoot in late 2016, taking in restaurants, gentle bickering and impersonations in Cantabria, the Basque region, Aragon, Rioja, Castile-La Mancha and Andalusia.
Melissa Parmenter (9 Songs...
- 6/7/2016
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Goalpost also inks France deal on Kevin Costner classic Dances With Wolves.
Goalpost Film has scored key pre-sales on the The Trip To Spain, the upcoming third instalment in Michael Winterbottom’s popular comedy franchise starring Steve Coogan (Philomena) and Rob Brydon (Cinderella).
Deals have concluded with IFC for the Us, Madman for Australia, eOne for Canada, NonStop for Scandinavia, Front Row for Middle East, Challan for South Korea and Cinesky for Airlines.
IFC, which distributed both prior instalments, took $3m at the Us box office from well received 2014 edition The Trip To Italy.
IFC president Jonathan Sehring said: “We’re very happy to be a key component in what is becoming the most wonderful independent franchise”.
Coogan and Brydon play semi-fictionalised versions of themselves in the improvised comedy which will shoot in late 2016, taking in restaurants, gentle bickering and impersonations in Cantabria, the Basque region, Aragon, Rioja, Castile-La Mancha and Andalusia.
Melissa Parmenter (9 Songs...
Goalpost Film has scored key pre-sales on the The Trip To Spain, the upcoming third instalment in Michael Winterbottom’s popular comedy franchise starring Steve Coogan (Philomena) and Rob Brydon (Cinderella).
Deals have concluded with IFC for the Us, Madman for Australia, eOne for Canada, NonStop for Scandinavia, Front Row for Middle East, Challan for South Korea and Cinesky for Airlines.
IFC, which distributed both prior instalments, took $3m at the Us box office from well received 2014 edition The Trip To Italy.
IFC president Jonathan Sehring said: “We’re very happy to be a key component in what is becoming the most wonderful independent franchise”.
Coogan and Brydon play semi-fictionalised versions of themselves in the improvised comedy which will shoot in late 2016, taking in restaurants, gentle bickering and impersonations in Cantabria, the Basque region, Aragon, Rioja, Castile-La Mancha and Andalusia.
Melissa Parmenter (9 Songs...
- 6/7/2016
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon are back at it again with “The Trip To Spain,” a third installment to the popular impromptu comedy series where the popular pair play fictionalized versions of themselves as they wine, dine, chew and squabble their way through some of the most exotic landscapes in the world. As reported by […]
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- 5/15/2016
- by Jason Osiason
- The Playlist
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