When it was announced that Issa Lopez would be taking over "True Detective" season 4 from show creator Nic Pizzolatto, some fans were understandably skeptical. Pizzolatto had created arguably the finest season of TV with the first installment of his crime thriller anthology series, though the second and third seasons failed to garner the same level of critical praise and fan adoration. Regardless, to many Pizzolatto was "True Detective," and whatever Lopez's project was going to be, it was difficult to see how it fit into the series' evolution.
In reality, however, after season 1, the varying quality of subsequent seasons proved that Pizzolatto was not some sort of infallible crime-writing god. In that sense, bringing on a new showrunner to write and direct seemed like a decent idea, especially if that new showrunner could restore what fans loved about the original series while providing a fresh take on the material. Which,...
In reality, however, after season 1, the varying quality of subsequent seasons proved that Pizzolatto was not some sort of infallible crime-writing god. In that sense, bringing on a new showrunner to write and direct seemed like a decent idea, especially if that new showrunner could restore what fans loved about the original series while providing a fresh take on the material. Which,...
- 1/22/2024
- by Joe Roberts
- Slash Film
For the last six seasons, horror writer/director Mick Garris and his producer Joe Russo have given fans an insight into movie making, and some amazing interviews. Mick has interviewed the likes of Stephen King, Clive Barker, and Mary Lambert. During its seven-year run on Dread Central family “Post Mortem” has stacked up around 180 interviews. Those interviews and past episodes will live on the Dread Podcast Network and will be available to all to listen to whenever you want.
Mick Garris announced on his social media accounts that The final “Post Mortem on @DreadCentral will be recorded on December 9th at The Egyptian Theater with Tons of past guests and a screening of Sleepwalkers. Mick also thanked Thanks to @BeyondFest and the @am_cinematheque. Mick directed the classic Stephen King film, Sleepwalkers, so it should be a great time. Thank you Mick and Joe for all the years and the podcasts.
Mick Garris announced on his social media accounts that The final “Post Mortem on @DreadCentral will be recorded on December 9th at The Egyptian Theater with Tons of past guests and a screening of Sleepwalkers. Mick also thanked Thanks to @BeyondFest and the @am_cinematheque. Mick directed the classic Stephen King film, Sleepwalkers, so it should be a great time. Thank you Mick and Joe for all the years and the podcasts.
- 12/1/2023
- by Stephen Nepa
- Age of the Nerd
The National Award-Winning film, Kastoori (The Musk), is all set to hit the theatres on 8 December 2023. The Vinod Kamble directorial, presented by eminent filmmakers Nagraj Popatrao Manjule and Anurag Kashyap, has already won hearts at film festivals across the world with several accolades on both national and international stages.
Anurag Kashyap, Filmmaker and Actor, said, “Kastoori is an important film of our times. It’s a kind of a story which very few filmmakers can tell well. Vinod is a director who understands the world well, and thus has made a beautiful film around a heart-breaking story. That’s what brought me and Nagraj to together present it to the world. We are sure that the audience will love the film as much as we did.”
Kastoori is a movie that follows a 14-year-old boy who is prejudiced and teased for the smell of his body, highlighting his struggles for...
Anurag Kashyap, Filmmaker and Actor, said, “Kastoori is an important film of our times. It’s a kind of a story which very few filmmakers can tell well. Vinod is a director who understands the world well, and thus has made a beautiful film around a heart-breaking story. That’s what brought me and Nagraj to together present it to the world. We are sure that the audience will love the film as much as we did.”
Kastoori is a movie that follows a 14-year-old boy who is prejudiced and teased for the smell of his body, highlighting his struggles for...
- 11/21/2023
- by Editorial Desk
The National Award-Winning film, Kastoori (The Musk), is all set to hit the theatres on 8 December 2023. The Vinod Kamble directorial, presented by eminent filmmakers Nagraj Popatrao Manjule and Anurag Kashyap, has already won hearts at film festivals across the world with several accolades on both national and international stages.
Anurag Kashyap, Filmmaker and Actor, said, “Kastoori is an important film of our times. It’s a kind of a story which very few filmmakers can tell well. Vinod is a director who understands the world well, and thus has made a beautiful film around a heart-breaking story. That’s what brought me and Nagraj to together present it to the world. We are sure that the audience will love the film as much as we did.”
Kastoori is a movie that follows a 14-year-old boy who is prejudiced and teased for the smell of his body, highlighting his struggles for...
Anurag Kashyap, Filmmaker and Actor, said, “Kastoori is an important film of our times. It’s a kind of a story which very few filmmakers can tell well. Vinod is a director who understands the world well, and thus has made a beautiful film around a heart-breaking story. That’s what brought me and Nagraj to together present it to the world. We are sure that the audience will love the film as much as we did.”
Kastoori is a movie that follows a 14-year-old boy who is prejudiced and teased for the smell of his body, highlighting his struggles for...
- 11/21/2023
- by Editorial Desk
- GlamSham
Post Mortem is celebrating its seventh and final season. Post Mortems host writer/director Mick Garris recently sat down with legendary director John Carpenter to celebrate the forty-fifth anniversary of Carpenter’s classic film Halloween. Carpenter recently returned to the director’s chair with Suburban Screams, which explores true tales of terror that took place in seemingly perfect small towns. Suburban Screams is now streaming on Peacock.
John Carpenter and Debra Hill created a film dynasty with Halloween back in the late seventies. The pair wrote the screenplay originally titled “The Babysitter Murders,” which later turned into Halloween. Carpenter directed the film which gave birth to Michael Myers and its numerous sequels. Give the podcast and listen to how the birth of Michael Myers came to be.
Sad to hear the Post Mortem is leaving us at the end of the year. Mick Garris and producer Joe Russo have given...
John Carpenter and Debra Hill created a film dynasty with Halloween back in the late seventies. The pair wrote the screenplay originally titled “The Babysitter Murders,” which later turned into Halloween. Carpenter directed the film which gave birth to Michael Myers and its numerous sequels. Give the podcast and listen to how the birth of Michael Myers came to be.
Sad to hear the Post Mortem is leaving us at the end of the year. Mick Garris and producer Joe Russo have given...
- 10/25/2023
- by Stephen Nepa
- Age of the Nerd
Paramount Audio announced Wednesday its launch of 48 Hours+, a premium true crime subscription service on Apple Podcasts, TheWrap can reveal exclusively.
The new offering, available for $2.99 per month or $28.99 annually, will give subscribers access to CBS News’ full slate of “48 Hours” programming, including their popular “48 Hours Post Mortem” podcast and “My Life of Crime With Erin Moriarty” — the fourth season of which also launched Wednesday.
“We aim to serve our fans, and as our listeners grow, it felt time to collaborate with Apple to give our most passionate followers more content options,” Steve Raizes, Paramount’s EVP of Podcasting and Audio said in a statement. “This is just the beginning, as we learn and grow, we hope to offer more exclusive programming to our subscribers through Apple Podcasts.”
The new development comes after downloads for “48 Hours” podcasts doubled in 2021 and 2022, per Paramount’s measurement.
In addition to “Post Mortem,...
The new offering, available for $2.99 per month or $28.99 annually, will give subscribers access to CBS News’ full slate of “48 Hours” programming, including their popular “48 Hours Post Mortem” podcast and “My Life of Crime With Erin Moriarty” — the fourth season of which also launched Wednesday.
“We aim to serve our fans, and as our listeners grow, it felt time to collaborate with Apple to give our most passionate followers more content options,” Steve Raizes, Paramount’s EVP of Podcasting and Audio said in a statement. “This is just the beginning, as we learn and grow, we hope to offer more exclusive programming to our subscribers through Apple Podcasts.”
The new development comes after downloads for “48 Hours” podcasts doubled in 2021 and 2022, per Paramount’s measurement.
In addition to “Post Mortem,...
- 10/18/2023
- by Raquel 'Rocky' Harris
- The Wrap
Cinematographer Ed Lachman doesn’t often work with new directors, but for someone he considers “the most important filmmaker in South America,” he’ll make an exception. El Conde marks the first collaboration between Lachman and Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larraín, but Lachman had followed his career dating back to his Pinochet trilogy: Tony Manero (2008), Post Mortem (2010) and No (2012). Lachman clocked similarities to Larraín and a frequent collaborator of his: “Pablo always finds the subtext in the story through the language of how he tells the story through images. That’s something I’ve done with Todd Haynes. Those are the directors I’m drawn to, directors looking to create a language that’s unique to that story.”
This trilogy introduced Lachman to Augusto Pinochet, the Chilean dictator who ruled Chile from 1973 to 1990. While those films dealt with his reign indirectly, El Conde, is Larraín’s first to tackle Pinochet head on.
This trilogy introduced Lachman to Augusto Pinochet, the Chilean dictator who ruled Chile from 1973 to 1990. While those films dealt with his reign indirectly, El Conde, is Larraín’s first to tackle Pinochet head on.
- 9/20/2023
- by Caleb Hammond
- The Film Stage
Death Becomes Him: Larrain Resurrects a Dictator in Bizarre Black Comedy
For his most subversive film to date (and likely the most beautiful and perverse deliberation on a dictator), Pablo Larraín returns to the subject of Augusto Pinochet, the unifying element of his breakout thematic trilogy. Strange can’t rightly describe this narrative, co-written by his regular scribe Guillermo Calderon, channeling some of the same elements from their 2015 collaboration The Club. In short, this portrait of Pinochet imagines the dictator as a 250 year old vampire, purportedly who has made a decision to die, therefore allowing his five human children to claim their rightful inheritance.…...
For his most subversive film to date (and likely the most beautiful and perverse deliberation on a dictator), Pablo Larraín returns to the subject of Augusto Pinochet, the unifying element of his breakout thematic trilogy. Strange can’t rightly describe this narrative, co-written by his regular scribe Guillermo Calderon, channeling some of the same elements from their 2015 collaboration The Club. In short, this portrait of Pinochet imagines the dictator as a 250 year old vampire, purportedly who has made a decision to die, therefore allowing his five human children to claim their rightful inheritance.…...
- 9/19/2023
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
CBS News today announced its fall slate of new and returning podcasts. The lineup consists of new shows and new seasons produced by Paramount Audio and features veteran correspondents such as Erin Moriarty (“48 Hours”) and Mo Rocca (“CBS News Sunday Morning”) hosting podcasts about life, death, and true crime.
The new slate expands CBS News’ position as a leading brand in on-demand audio content. This original content compliments the world-class journalism CBS News is producing across all platforms. In fact, downloads for podcasts tied to the “48 Hours” franchise doubled from 2021 to 2022, and in 2023, those numbers are already outpacing total annual downloads from the previous year.
“CBS News is one of the most trusted news sources around the world, and we are committed to making sure all audiences, not just our broadcast fans, have access to our reporting and the interesting stories they expect from our team,” said Steve Raizes,...
The new slate expands CBS News’ position as a leading brand in on-demand audio content. This original content compliments the world-class journalism CBS News is producing across all platforms. In fact, downloads for podcasts tied to the “48 Hours” franchise doubled from 2021 to 2022, and in 2023, those numbers are already outpacing total annual downloads from the previous year.
“CBS News is one of the most trusted news sources around the world, and we are committed to making sure all audiences, not just our broadcast fans, have access to our reporting and the interesting stories they expect from our team,” said Steve Raizes,...
- 9/14/2023
- Podnews.net
September. Labor Day, come and gone. Fall… theoretically. Back to school, back to theaters. That’s right: despite Hollywood’s ongoing labor shutdown, new product continues to leech out from the national Don’t-Miss Indies reserves, spilling its way onto screens in art houses cinemas worldwide. And yeah, a piping hot pumpkin-spice latte probably sounds like the last thing you want to consume after a long, hot day on the picket line. But you gotta admit: it’s nice to have the option.
Scouts Honor: The Secret Files Of The Scouts Of America
When You Can Watch: September 6
Where You Can Watch: Netflix
Director: Brian Knappenberger
Executive Producers: Diane Becker, Nan Goldin, Amy Ziering
Why We’re Excited: “The length certain people were going to [in order to] try and get you to shut up got me the angriest.” So says one of the 80,000+ documented survivors embroiled in the Boy Scouts of America...
Scouts Honor: The Secret Files Of The Scouts Of America
When You Can Watch: September 6
Where You Can Watch: Netflix
Director: Brian Knappenberger
Executive Producers: Diane Becker, Nan Goldin, Amy Ziering
Why We’re Excited: “The length certain people were going to [in order to] try and get you to shut up got me the angriest.” So says one of the 80,000+ documented survivors embroiled in the Boy Scouts of America...
- 9/6/2023
- by Su Fang Tham
- Film Independent News & More
Everyone knows that Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet died in December 2006 at the age of 91, more than 30 years after he seized power from Salvador Allende in a coup d’état that was followed by censorship, torture, mass internments, and forced disappearances at the pleasure of an unelected regime that drained the country of its lifeblood for generations to come. What Pablo Larraín’s cheeky and grotesque “El Conde” (or “The Count”) presupposes is… what if he didn’t?
Directly addressing a figure whose dark shadow has fringed some of the director’s previous work, this fanged satire about the persistence of evil imagines that Pinochet is still alive and kicking. Or, more accurately: undead and loathing it. In Larraín’s conception, Pinochet is a 250-year-old vampire who first developed his lust for blood during the French Revolution, during which he so fetishized Marie Antoinette’s indifference towards the common man that...
Directly addressing a figure whose dark shadow has fringed some of the director’s previous work, this fanged satire about the persistence of evil imagines that Pinochet is still alive and kicking. Or, more accurately: undead and loathing it. In Larraín’s conception, Pinochet is a 250-year-old vampire who first developed his lust for blood during the French Revolution, during which he so fetishized Marie Antoinette’s indifference towards the common man that...
- 8/31/2023
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
As Chile prepares to mark 50 years since the Sept. 11, 1973 coup by Augusto Pinochet, Chilean auteur Pablo Larraín is back in Venice – following “Spencer” in 2021 – with scathing satire “El Conde,” in which Pinochet, a symbol of global fascism, resurfaces as a 250-year old vampire living in a rundown rural mansion after faking his death.
“Pinochet had never been portrayed in film or TV before,” Larrain said. “The approach we chose led us to combine elements of farce and satire,” he added. “It’s probably the only way. If you avoid satire there is a risk of creating empathy, and that’s not acceptable.”
A local journalist asked how the cast thinks the potent allegorical film will play in Chile. In a vote last May, Chileans rejected a proposal to rewrite the country’s dictatorship-era constitution. In other words, Pinochet still seems to have a lot of local fans.
“It will either...
“Pinochet had never been portrayed in film or TV before,” Larrain said. “The approach we chose led us to combine elements of farce and satire,” he added. “It’s probably the only way. If you avoid satire there is a risk of creating empathy, and that’s not acceptable.”
A local journalist asked how the cast thinks the potent allegorical film will play in Chile. In a vote last May, Chileans rejected a proposal to rewrite the country’s dictatorship-era constitution. In other words, Pinochet still seems to have a lot of local fans.
“It will either...
- 8/31/2023
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
The Chilean filmmaker’s dark satire premieres in Venice competition.
It has been more than a decade since No, Pablo Larraín’s last feature about former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, and the filmmaker returns to the territory with his dark satire El Conde, which receives its world premiere in Venice today (August 31).
The territory was familiar and uncharted. Whereas 2012’s No and the two earlier films in Larraín’s Pinochet trilogy – Tony Manero (2008) and Post Mortem (2010) – steered clear of depicting the tyrant on screen and focused on how his violent rule (1973-1990) bled into the psyche of Chileans, El Conde is something very different.
It has been more than a decade since No, Pablo Larraín’s last feature about former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, and the filmmaker returns to the territory with his dark satire El Conde, which receives its world premiere in Venice today (August 31).
The territory was familiar and uncharted. Whereas 2012’s No and the two earlier films in Larraín’s Pinochet trilogy – Tony Manero (2008) and Post Mortem (2010) – steered clear of depicting the tyrant on screen and focused on how his violent rule (1973-1990) bled into the psyche of Chileans, El Conde is something very different.
- 8/31/2023
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Paula Hernández’s “A Ravaging Wind” (“El viento que arrasa”) has debuted a poster and trailer ahead of its premieres at Toronto and San Sebastian.
Based on the novel by Selva Almada – and written by Hernández and Leonel D’Agostino – “A Ravishing Wind” will play Toronto’s Centrepiece program, before opening San Sebastian’s Horizontes Latinos, a showcase of many of the best Latin American movies of the last year. It sees Alfredo Castro as Reverend Pearson, an evangelical pastor who travels Argentina by car in the 1990s with his daughter Leni. When it breaks down, they end up at the auto repair shop run by Gringo (Sergi López) and his son (Joaquín Acebo).
Hernán Musaluppi, Santiago López Rodríguez, Diego Robino, Lilia Scenna, Natacha Cervi and Sandino Saravia Vinay produce for Cimarron, Rizoma and Cinevinay, while Film Factory Entertainment handles sales.
“When I was offered to adapt Selva Almada’s book,...
Based on the novel by Selva Almada – and written by Hernández and Leonel D’Agostino – “A Ravishing Wind” will play Toronto’s Centrepiece program, before opening San Sebastian’s Horizontes Latinos, a showcase of many of the best Latin American movies of the last year. It sees Alfredo Castro as Reverend Pearson, an evangelical pastor who travels Argentina by car in the 1990s with his daughter Leni. When it breaks down, they end up at the auto repair shop run by Gringo (Sergi López) and his son (Joaquín Acebo).
Hernán Musaluppi, Santiago López Rodríguez, Diego Robino, Lilia Scenna, Natacha Cervi and Sandino Saravia Vinay produce for Cimarron, Rizoma and Cinevinay, while Film Factory Entertainment handles sales.
“When I was offered to adapt Selva Almada’s book,...
- 8/28/2023
- by Marta Balaga
- Variety Film + TV
Alfredo Castro, an absolute lead or co-star in seven Pablo Larraín films and one of the highest-regarded of actors in Latin America, is set to head the choral cast of “Three Dark Nights” (“Tres noches negras”), the third feature from Spanish-Chilean Theo Court.
“Three Dark Nights” follows up Court’s “White on White,” also starring Castro, an actor described by Variety as “reliably superb,” which won a best director and Fipresci Prize at 2019’s Venice Horizons. It went on to become Chile’s submission for the international feature Oscar, establishing Court as a talent to track.
In further news, Samuel M. Delgado, co-writer and co-director of “They Carry Death” and a writer with Court of “White on White,” has been brought on board as script consultant.
“Three Dark Nights” is one of the highest-profile of 15 projects which will be brought to market at September’s Europe-Latin American Co-Production Forum.
Like “White on White,...
“Three Dark Nights” follows up Court’s “White on White,” also starring Castro, an actor described by Variety as “reliably superb,” which won a best director and Fipresci Prize at 2019’s Venice Horizons. It went on to become Chile’s submission for the international feature Oscar, establishing Court as a talent to track.
In further news, Samuel M. Delgado, co-writer and co-director of “They Carry Death” and a writer with Court of “White on White,” has been brought on board as script consultant.
“Three Dark Nights” is one of the highest-profile of 15 projects which will be brought to market at September’s Europe-Latin American Co-Production Forum.
Like “White on White,...
- 8/18/2023
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
On September 11, 1973, Chilean military commander Agosto Pinochet orchestrated a coup and seized power over President Salvador Allende. Nearly 50 years later, the undead vampire Pinochet has absconded to the countryside, having faked his death after the end of his regime.
It didn’t quite happen that way, but it’s the fantastic twist of director Pablo Larraín’s gothic satire “El Conde” (“The Count”), the filmmaker’s latest and most ambitious response to the lingering trauma of the Pinochet years. A black-and-white blend of atmospheric silent-era horror and dark humor, the movie confronts the impact of the Pinochet years by transforming the man into a literal bloodsucker who drained the life out of his country.
The Netflix production, which premieres in competition at the Venice Film Festival later this month, adds a provocative new angle to Chile’s relationship with its former ruler. The scope of that history is so vast...
It didn’t quite happen that way, but it’s the fantastic twist of director Pablo Larraín’s gothic satire “El Conde” (“The Count”), the filmmaker’s latest and most ambitious response to the lingering trauma of the Pinochet years. A black-and-white blend of atmospheric silent-era horror and dark humor, the movie confronts the impact of the Pinochet years by transforming the man into a literal bloodsucker who drained the life out of his country.
The Netflix production, which premieres in competition at the Venice Film Festival later this month, adds a provocative new angle to Chile’s relationship with its former ruler. The scope of that history is so vast...
- 8/10/2023
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
Exclusive: Veteran Actor Alfredo Castro is in the middle of what could be described as a mid-career boom, but he doesn’t think it’ll bring him many plaudits in his native country.
“I think I will have to leave Chile,” Castro joked as he sat down with Deadline virtually from Santiago.
Last month, Castro was out in Cannes with The Settlers (Los Colonos), a tight and shrewd historical drama from Felipe Gálvez. Set in Chile at the beginning of the 20th century, the pic follows a wealthy landowner, played by Castro, who hires three horsemen to mark out the perimeter of his extensive property and open a route to the Atlantic Ocean across vast Patagonia. The expedition, composed of a young Chilean mestizo, an American mercenary, and led by a reckless British lieutenant, soon turns into a “civilizing” raid against Chile’s indigenous population.
“I think I will have to leave Chile,” Castro joked as he sat down with Deadline virtually from Santiago.
Last month, Castro was out in Cannes with The Settlers (Los Colonos), a tight and shrewd historical drama from Felipe Gálvez. Set in Chile at the beginning of the 20th century, the pic follows a wealthy landowner, played by Castro, who hires three horsemen to mark out the perimeter of his extensive property and open a route to the Atlantic Ocean across vast Patagonia. The expedition, composed of a young Chilean mestizo, an American mercenary, and led by a reckless British lieutenant, soon turns into a “civilizing” raid against Chile’s indigenous population.
- 6/12/2023
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
Argentine production company StoryLab and Latin American group Cimarrón have teamed up to jointly co-produce TV series and feature films for the international market over the next three years.
The agreement includes development, production of both existing formats and original projects, including both scripted and non-scripted series as well as films.
StoryLab and Cimarrón, which operates in Uruguay, Argentina and Mexico, aim to strengthen each other as they expand internationally, taking advantage of the former’s success in content development and the latter’s impressive production capacity. The companies additionally plan to take advantage of tax incentives and cash rebates offered by Uruguay for filming in that country, a proposal they describe as highly attractive for the original production of content in an increasingly competitive industry.
Cimarrón’s recent works include Matías Lucchesi’s 2021 film “Las Rojas”; among StoryLab’s large portfolio of scripted and non-scripted productions is crime series “Post Mortem.
The agreement includes development, production of both existing formats and original projects, including both scripted and non-scripted series as well as films.
StoryLab and Cimarrón, which operates in Uruguay, Argentina and Mexico, aim to strengthen each other as they expand internationally, taking advantage of the former’s success in content development and the latter’s impressive production capacity. The companies additionally plan to take advantage of tax incentives and cash rebates offered by Uruguay for filming in that country, a proposal they describe as highly attractive for the original production of content in an increasingly competitive industry.
Cimarrón’s recent works include Matías Lucchesi’s 2021 film “Las Rojas”; among StoryLab’s large portfolio of scripted and non-scripted productions is crime series “Post Mortem.
- 5/15/2023
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
It’s 5 p.m. early in April, and there’s already a crowd of teens in blood-splattered clothes lining the sidewalk around Antiguo Hotel Reforma, the once glorious art-deco monolith where Argentine rap star Dillom is set to take the stage for his first ever Mexico City show. The gory attire has become a sort of uniform among his devoted fanbase, who scream-sing and mosh wildly at each of the rapper’s heart-pounding concerts. Inside the dilapidated hotel-turned-eerie art space, a production manager leads Dillom and I into a ripped-up guest room to chat,...
- 4/11/2023
- by Richard Villegas
- Rollingstone.com
Variety has been given exclusive access to the trailer (below) for “Power Play,” which world premieres in the main competition section at next month’s series festival Canneseries. The fiction series is a raucous satire inspired by the real-life goings on behind the scenes when politician Gro Harlem Brundtland came to power in Norway in 1981. The power struggles and backroom bickering in the show bring to mind “Veep” and “In the Loop.”
Brundtland was the first female prime minister of any Nordic country, not just Norway, and one of Scandinavia’s leading figures in the fight for women’s rights, gender equality and abortion rights, with a standing on a par with Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Gloria Steinem in the U.S., or Simone Veil in France.
REinvent International Sales is handling world rights. The company is also selling romantic dramedy “Out of Touch,” which has been selected for the Short Form Competition at Canneseries,...
Brundtland was the first female prime minister of any Nordic country, not just Norway, and one of Scandinavia’s leading figures in the fight for women’s rights, gender equality and abortion rights, with a standing on a par with Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Gloria Steinem in the U.S., or Simone Veil in France.
REinvent International Sales is handling world rights. The company is also selling romantic dramedy “Out of Touch,” which has been selected for the Short Form Competition at Canneseries,...
- 3/31/2023
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Aussie Oscar winner Nicole Kidman has landed the plum role of Virginia medical examiner Kay Scarpetta in a TV series adaptation of the popular Patricia Cornwell novels.
Furthermore, our sister site Deadline is reporting, Oscar nominee Jamie Lee Curtis will play Kay’s flighty sister Dorothy (aka the mom of the forensic whiz’s niece Lucy).
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The Amazon Studios and Blumhouse...
Furthermore, our sister site Deadline is reporting, Oscar nominee Jamie Lee Curtis will play Kay’s flighty sister Dorothy (aka the mom of the forensic whiz’s niece Lucy).
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The Amazon Studios and Blumhouse...
- 2/8/2023
- by Matt Webb Mitovich
- TVLine.com
Blumhouse has just set two powerhouse actors to lead their upcoming Amazon series “Kay Scarpetta,” with Deadline reporting that Jamie Lee Curtis and Nicole Kidman will star.
The series is based on Patricia Cornwell‘s novel series about forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta, the role Kidman will be playing. Jamie Lee Curtis is playing her sister Dorothy.
Kidman is executive producing through Blossom Films and Curtis through Comet Pictures. Liz Sarnoff (Barry) is the writer-showrunner for the Blumhouse TV/Amazon series.
Deadline details in their report, “Kidman’s Kay Scarpetta is a brilliant forensic pathologist, inspired by former Virginia Chief Medical Examiner Marcella Farinelli Fierro, who uses forensic technology to solve crimes. Curtis will play Kay’s flighty sister, Dorothy, the mother of Lucy Farinelli who is a recurring character in the book series.”
Patricia Cornwell’s series features 26 books. The first, Postmortem, was published in 1990.
The post “Kay Scarpetta” – Jamie...
The series is based on Patricia Cornwell‘s novel series about forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta, the role Kidman will be playing. Jamie Lee Curtis is playing her sister Dorothy.
Kidman is executive producing through Blossom Films and Curtis through Comet Pictures. Liz Sarnoff (Barry) is the writer-showrunner for the Blumhouse TV/Amazon series.
Deadline details in their report, “Kidman’s Kay Scarpetta is a brilliant forensic pathologist, inspired by former Virginia Chief Medical Examiner Marcella Farinelli Fierro, who uses forensic technology to solve crimes. Curtis will play Kay’s flighty sister, Dorothy, the mother of Lucy Farinelli who is a recurring character in the book series.”
Patricia Cornwell’s series features 26 books. The first, Postmortem, was published in 1990.
The post “Kay Scarpetta” – Jamie...
- 2/8/2023
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
Exclusive: Patricia Cornwell’s Kay Scarpetta books have completed their long journey to the screen with a blockbuster TV series starring Oscar winner Nicole Kidman in the title role and Oscar nominee Jamie Lee Curtis as the famous forensic pathologist’s sister Dorothy, I have learned. Kidman is executive producing through Blossom Films and Curtis through Comet Pictures the drama, from writer-showrunner Liz Sarnoff (Barry) and Blumhouse Television, which I hear is nearing a two-season straight-to-series order at Prime Video. A rep for the streamer declined comment as deals for the project, to be produced by Amazon Studios and Blumhouse, are still being finalized. It is expected to receive an order for two eight-episode seasons, sources said.
Liz Sarnoff
Kidman’s Kay Scarpetta is a brilliant forensic pathologist, inspired by former Virginia Chief Medical Examiner Marcella Farinelli Fierro, who uses forensic technology to solve crimes. Curtis will play Kay’s flighty sister,...
Liz Sarnoff
Kidman’s Kay Scarpetta is a brilliant forensic pathologist, inspired by former Virginia Chief Medical Examiner Marcella Farinelli Fierro, who uses forensic technology to solve crimes. Curtis will play Kay’s flighty sister,...
- 2/8/2023
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Sin and Damnation – How Scott Derrickson’s Underrated ‘Hellraiser: Inferno’ Rises Above Expectations
At the recent Silver Scream Con, I was surprised to hear Hellraiser star Doug Bradley remark, “The only one in the series I feel doesn’t work is Inferno, for various reasons.” I had always considered the 2000 effort one of the franchise’s stronger offerings, but it had been a while since I revisited the series, so I thought it may not hold up as well as I remembered.
As I’m working my way through the series ahead of David Bruckner‘s reboot, which drops October 7 on Hulu, I can confirm my support for the fifth installment. I have no doubt that Bradley has his reasons for disliking the film – it being the first installment to be released straight to video no doubt required adjustments, not to mention his minuscule screen time as Pinhead – but, even with its shortcomings, I think Hellraiser: Inferno is better than he gives it credit for.
As I’m working my way through the series ahead of David Bruckner‘s reboot, which drops October 7 on Hulu, I can confirm my support for the fifth installment. I have no doubt that Bradley has his reasons for disliking the film – it being the first installment to be released straight to video no doubt required adjustments, not to mention his minuscule screen time as Pinhead – but, even with its shortcomings, I think Hellraiser: Inferno is better than he gives it credit for.
- 9/15/2022
- by Alex DiVincenzo
- bloody-disgusting.com
The 18th Santiago Int’l Film Festival (Sanfic) is paying tribute to Chile’s most internationally renowned and arguably hardest working actor, the peripatetic Alfredo Castro who will attend Sanfic’s inauguration Aug. 14 to receive his lifetime achievement award and kick off a retrospective of his films.
Also a playwright and theater director, Castro has worked across Europe and Latin America, acting in French, Spanish, Portuguese and a number of accents and dialects from Latin America, including neutral Spanish. “I haven’t worked in English but I certainly hope to one day,” he says. Meanwhile, he has won a boatload of awards from festivals and award events across the world.
Yet, he would also be high up the order of figures who have helped shape Chile’s post-Pinochet film, theater and now TV scene into one of the most vibrant, surprising and constantly questioning of any country in Latin America.
Also a playwright and theater director, Castro has worked across Europe and Latin America, acting in French, Spanish, Portuguese and a number of accents and dialects from Latin America, including neutral Spanish. “I haven’t worked in English but I certainly hope to one day,” he says. Meanwhile, he has won a boatload of awards from festivals and award events across the world.
Yet, he would also be high up the order of figures who have helped shape Chile’s post-Pinochet film, theater and now TV scene into one of the most vibrant, surprising and constantly questioning of any country in Latin America.
- 8/11/2022
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
You only know if you’ve been to the other side Post Mortem Acclaimed New Thriller Available on Blu-ray and DVD on September 20 Be ready for the road where death is merely the first step. This September, Scream Factory and Shout! Studios will release the haunting, award-winning horror film Post Mortem. The Hungarian Oscar entry …
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- 8/5/2022
- by Adrian Halen
- Horror News
The South American dictatorships of the Seventies continue to provide fertile ground for the makers of tense psychological thrillers, with actress-turned-director Manuela Martelli’s impressive female-centric film following in the footsteps of the likes of Andres Wood (in whose Machuca she features) Pablo Larraín, Benjamín Naishtat (Rojo) and Federico Veiroj (The Moneychanger).
Her focus is Carmen (Aline Küppenheim), the well-heeled wife of a doctor, who used to be a nurse and who is heading with a pot of newly mixed paint to redecorate the family’s beach house, ready for a gathering of her grown up children and grandkids. Martelli flashes her style from the start, a couple of pink paint drops on a shoe almost idly reminiscent of blood, as somewhere outside the shop, someone is being plucked off the street and “disappeared” by Augusto Pinochet’s regime.
As Martelli immerses us in the atmosphere of...
Her focus is Carmen (Aline Küppenheim), the well-heeled wife of a doctor, who used to be a nurse and who is heading with a pot of newly mixed paint to redecorate the family’s beach house, ready for a gathering of her grown up children and grandkids. Martelli flashes her style from the start, a couple of pink paint drops on a shoe almost idly reminiscent of blood, as somewhere outside the shop, someone is being plucked off the street and “disappeared” by Augusto Pinochet’s regime.
As Martelli immerses us in the atmosphere of...
- 6/6/2022
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
After a two year absence Horrorant was back in Athens, Greece, ready to feed the needs of its audience. Over eleven days attendees got to catch up on some of the best offerings from the international genre community these past two years. Favorites like Luz: The Flower of Evil, Post Mortem, The Sadness and Mosquito State came to town. All four were winners at this year's festival. After careful consideration, the jury of festival- which I was honored to be a part of this year- chose Mosquito State for best picture with best director honors going to Filip Jan Rymsza. The beauty of Luz: The Flower of Evil is still pretty unmatched two years later which is why we gave the Cinematography...
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- 5/19/2022
- Screen Anarchy
It is good to see our friends at the Horrorant Film festival in Greece back in the game. The festival took the previous two years off because of the global health crisis. They also showed a grim determination to show movies on the big screen, never digitally, so moving to a virtual platform was never an option for them. So here we are, two years later, four nights longer than previous years, a newly renovated theatre, twenty-five feature films, thirty-seven short films, all raring to go in Athens, Greece. Horrorant will take place one week from tonight, May 5th, and run through to the 15th. The festival will open with Peter Bergendy’s Post Mortem and close with Mathiey Turi’s Meandre. In between attendees...
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- 4/28/2022
- Screen Anarchy
I was listening to Mick Garris’s podcast Post Mortem, and he was interviewing a director whose movie I had just watched the nigh before. The movie was X and the director Ti West. I was super stoked when I found out that the director was born and raised in my hometown of Wilmington, Delaware. If …...
- 4/14/2022
- by Stephen Nepa
- Age of the Nerd
If you’re sick of finding pandemic parallels in everything, no need to worry about Péter Bergendy’s period horror “Post Mortem,” the Hungarian Oscar entry. It manages to avoid saying anything about our current moment despite being set during the Spanish Flu outbreak of 1918, when that virus was well on its way to killing 50 million people globally. Worry instead that, as good as it looks with its fun special effects and promisingly creepy premise, this oddly un-scary ghost story is going to devolve into a hopeless muddle: Can a horror-movie village ever just be too haunted? It would seem it can.
There is a clever idea nestled in the film’s bleak setting, however. At the end of the then-unprecedented loss of life occasioned by the Great War, with a pandemic raging, it’s quite believable that unquiet spirit activity might be at an all-time high. The constant death...
There is a clever idea nestled in the film’s bleak setting, however. At the end of the then-unprecedented loss of life occasioned by the Great War, with a pandemic raging, it’s quite believable that unquiet spirit activity might be at an all-time high. The constant death...
- 12/18/2021
- by Jessica Kiang
- Variety Film + TV
“Spencer” director Pablo Larraín has thrown his weight behind Chilean Oscar entry “White on White” (“Blanco en Blanco”), hailing it as a “really interesting, strange and highly violent film.”
“White on White” also addresses issues that are “highly unsettling and complex and which haven’t been resolved or at least discussed at sufficient length,” Larraín adds.
His words come from a conversation, which he moderates, with “White on White’s” director Théo Court and star Alfredo Castro that forms the latest Academy Awards Edition of CinemaChile Talks.
Some sort of sympathy for “White and White” may be inevitable.
Larraín was once a student of Castro’s, a notable theater director who has acted in six of Larraín’s nine films, starring in four: “Tony Manero,” Larrain’s 2008 breakout; 2010’s “Post Mortem”; 2012’s Oscar-nominated “No,” playing opposite Gael García Bernal; and 2015 Berlin Grand Jury Prize winner “The Club,” which persuaded Natalie Portman...
“White on White” also addresses issues that are “highly unsettling and complex and which haven’t been resolved or at least discussed at sufficient length,” Larraín adds.
His words come from a conversation, which he moderates, with “White on White’s” director Théo Court and star Alfredo Castro that forms the latest Academy Awards Edition of CinemaChile Talks.
Some sort of sympathy for “White and White” may be inevitable.
Larraín was once a student of Castro’s, a notable theater director who has acted in six of Larraín’s nine films, starring in four: “Tony Manero,” Larrain’s 2008 breakout; 2010’s “Post Mortem”; 2012’s Oscar-nominated “No,” playing opposite Gael García Bernal; and 2015 Berlin Grand Jury Prize winner “The Club,” which persuaded Natalie Portman...
- 12/4/2021
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: BritBox North America has picked up exclusive North American rights to Game of Thrones star Gemma Whelan’s upcoming ITV thriller The Tower.
All episodes of Mammoth Screen/Windhover Films’ three-parter, which also stars The Haunting of Bly Manor’s Tahirah Sharif and Kate & Koji lead Jimmy Akingbola, will be released simultaneously on the platform on December 1 in North America.
The series will debut shortly on BritBox co-owner ITV in the UK and is distributed internationally by ITV Studios.
Based on former Detective Kate London’s debut novel Post Mortem and penned by Homeland writer and exec Patrick Harbinson, The Tower starts with Detectives Sarah Collins (Whelan) and Steve Bradshaw (Akingbola) being called to a shocking incident at Portland Tower in South London. Two people have fallen to their deaths: a veteran police officer and a teenage Muslim girl, and Collins sets out to uncover the truth.
Harbinson is...
All episodes of Mammoth Screen/Windhover Films’ three-parter, which also stars The Haunting of Bly Manor’s Tahirah Sharif and Kate & Koji lead Jimmy Akingbola, will be released simultaneously on the platform on December 1 in North America.
The series will debut shortly on BritBox co-owner ITV in the UK and is distributed internationally by ITV Studios.
Based on former Detective Kate London’s debut novel Post Mortem and penned by Homeland writer and exec Patrick Harbinson, The Tower starts with Detectives Sarah Collins (Whelan) and Steve Bradshaw (Akingbola) being called to a shocking incident at Portland Tower in South London. Two people have fallen to their deaths: a veteran police officer and a teenage Muslim girl, and Collins sets out to uncover the truth.
Harbinson is...
- 11/4/2021
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Set at the end of the First World War, the film follows Tomás, a traveling photographer who wanders through Hungary and photographs the recently deceased. Following the premonitory call of a 10-year-old orphan girl, Anna, arrives in a small town where an unusual number of supernatural phenomena occur. The spirits need to tell him something, so Thomas decides to find out what is happening. Black Mandala has acquired the Oscar nominated Hungarian horror Post Mortem, directed by Péter Bergendy. Bergendy directed a script written by himself, Gábor Hellebrandt, and Piros Zánkay. The film recently played during this year's online edition of the Toronto After Dark Film Festival, returning after a year off from the global health crisis. Post Mortem had a definite impact on...
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- 10/28/2021
- Screen Anarchy
Hungary has picked Post Mortem, a period horror movie set at the end of World War I, to be its official contender for the 2022 Oscars in the best international feature category.
Directed by Peter Bergendy, Post Mortem premiered at last year’s Warsaw Film Festival and screened at Spain’s Sitges and several international fantasy film fests. It won four trophies at the Hungarian Motion Picture Awards, including for best cinematography, best editing, best make-up, and best production design.
The film follows Tomás (Viktor Klem), a post-mortem photographer wandering through Hungary in the freezing winter of 1918, when the country has been devastated by ...
Directed by Peter Bergendy, Post Mortem premiered at last year’s Warsaw Film Festival and screened at Spain’s Sitges and several international fantasy film fests. It won four trophies at the Hungarian Motion Picture Awards, including for best cinematography, best editing, best make-up, and best production design.
The film follows Tomás (Viktor Klem), a post-mortem photographer wandering through Hungary in the freezing winter of 1918, when the country has been devastated by ...
- 10/6/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Hungary has picked Post Mortem, a period horror movie set at the end of World War I, to be its official contender for the 2022 Oscars in the best international feature category.
Directed by Peter Bergendy, Post Mortem premiered at last year’s Warsaw Film Festival and screened at Spain’s Sitges and several international fantasy film fests. It won four trophies at the Hungarian Motion Picture Awards, including for best cinematography, best editing, best make-up, and best production design.
The film follows Tomás (Viktor Klem), a post-mortem photographer wandering through Hungary in the freezing winter of 1918, when the country has been devastated by ...
Directed by Peter Bergendy, Post Mortem premiered at last year’s Warsaw Film Festival and screened at Spain’s Sitges and several international fantasy film fests. It won four trophies at the Hungarian Motion Picture Awards, including for best cinematography, best editing, best make-up, and best production design.
The film follows Tomás (Viktor Klem), a post-mortem photographer wandering through Hungary in the freezing winter of 1918, when the country has been devastated by ...
- 10/6/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Hungary Selects Oscar Entry
Hungary has selected Péter Bergendy’s Post Mortem as its official entry for the International Oscar race this year. The period horror tells the supernatural story of a post mortem photographer and a little girl confronting ghosts in a haunted village after the First World War. The film premiered at Warsaw Iff and Stiges Film Festivals last year and earned awards at Trieste, Fantasporto, Sombra and Parma genre festivals, while winning the 2021 Hungarian Motion Picture Awards for Best Cinematography, Best Editing, Best Production Design and Best Make-Up. Int’l sales are handled by Nfi World Sales.
Apc launches Israeli drama at MIPCOM
Boutique distributor About Premium Content (Apc) will debut Israeli social drama series Unknowns at next week’s MIPCOM, following its international competition premiere at Canneseries. The nine-parter, which is produced by Rabel Films for Israeli broadcaster Kan and created by HBO’s Our Boys’ Nirit Yaron and Tawfik Abu-Wael,...
Hungary has selected Péter Bergendy’s Post Mortem as its official entry for the International Oscar race this year. The period horror tells the supernatural story of a post mortem photographer and a little girl confronting ghosts in a haunted village after the First World War. The film premiered at Warsaw Iff and Stiges Film Festivals last year and earned awards at Trieste, Fantasporto, Sombra and Parma genre festivals, while winning the 2021 Hungarian Motion Picture Awards for Best Cinematography, Best Editing, Best Production Design and Best Make-Up. Int’l sales are handled by Nfi World Sales.
Apc launches Israeli drama at MIPCOM
Boutique distributor About Premium Content (Apc) will debut Israeli social drama series Unknowns at next week’s MIPCOM, following its international competition premiere at Canneseries. The nine-parter, which is produced by Rabel Films for Israeli broadcaster Kan and created by HBO’s Our Boys’ Nirit Yaron and Tawfik Abu-Wael,...
- 10/6/2021
- by Max Goldbart and Diana Lodderhose
- Deadline Film + TV
Keep track of all the submissions for best international feature at the 2022 Academy Awards.
Entries for the 2022 Oscar for best international feature are underway, and Screen is profiling each one on this page.
Scroll down for profiles of each Oscar entry
The 94th Academy Awards will take place on March 27, 2022 at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. This is the first time since 2018 that the ceremony will take place in March, having moved to avoid conflicting with the Winter Olympics.
An international feature film is defined as a feature-length motion picture produced outside the US with a predominantly non-English dialogue...
Entries for the 2022 Oscar for best international feature are underway, and Screen is profiling each one on this page.
Scroll down for profiles of each Oscar entry
The 94th Academy Awards will take place on March 27, 2022 at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. This is the first time since 2018 that the ceremony will take place in March, having moved to avoid conflicting with the Winter Olympics.
An international feature film is defined as a feature-length motion picture produced outside the US with a predominantly non-English dialogue...
- 10/6/2021
- by Ben Dalton¬Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
Keep track of all the submissions for best international feature at the 2022 Academy Awards.
Entries for the 2022 Oscar for best international feature are underway, and Screen is profiling each one on this page.
Scroll down for profiles of each Oscar entry
The 94th Academy Awards will take place on March 27, 2022 at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. This is the first time since 2018 that the ceremony will take place in March, having moved to avoid conflicting with the Winter Olympics.
An international feature film is defined as a feature-length motion picture produced outside the US with a predominantly non-English dialogue...
Entries for the 2022 Oscar for best international feature are underway, and Screen is profiling each one on this page.
Scroll down for profiles of each Oscar entry
The 94th Academy Awards will take place on March 27, 2022 at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. This is the first time since 2018 that the ceremony will take place in March, having moved to avoid conflicting with the Winter Olympics.
An international feature film is defined as a feature-length motion picture produced outside the US with a predominantly non-English dialogue...
- 10/5/2021
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Festival
The 65th BFI London Film Festival (Oct. 6 – 17) has added George Clooney’s “The Tender Bar,” starring Ben Affleck, Tye Sheridan and Lily Rabe, to the program. Clooney is expected to be in attendance. The film follows a boy growing up on Long Island who seeks out father figures among the patrons at his uncle’s bar.
Also added to the programme is Indonesian filmmaker Edwin‘s film adaptation of Eka Kurniawan’s acclaimed novel about an impotent aspiring assassin – “Vengeance is Mine, All Others Pay Cash.”
The festival has also revealed the first of its 2021 Screen Talk line-up, which is supported by The Liberation Initiatives, with acclaimed directors Jane Campion, Ryusuke Hamaguchi and Asghar Farhadi joining “Succession” creator Jesse Armstrong and Norwegian actor Anders Danielsen Lie for a series of in-person talks.
Meanwhile, the surprise film at the ongoing San Sebastian Film Festival is Pablo Larraín‘s “Spencer,” with Kristen Stewart playing Diana,...
The 65th BFI London Film Festival (Oct. 6 – 17) has added George Clooney’s “The Tender Bar,” starring Ben Affleck, Tye Sheridan and Lily Rabe, to the program. Clooney is expected to be in attendance. The film follows a boy growing up on Long Island who seeks out father figures among the patrons at his uncle’s bar.
Also added to the programme is Indonesian filmmaker Edwin‘s film adaptation of Eka Kurniawan’s acclaimed novel about an impotent aspiring assassin – “Vengeance is Mine, All Others Pay Cash.”
The festival has also revealed the first of its 2021 Screen Talk line-up, which is supported by The Liberation Initiatives, with acclaimed directors Jane Campion, Ryusuke Hamaguchi and Asghar Farhadi joining “Succession” creator Jesse Armstrong and Norwegian actor Anders Danielsen Lie for a series of in-person talks.
Meanwhile, the surprise film at the ongoing San Sebastian Film Festival is Pablo Larraín‘s “Spencer,” with Kristen Stewart playing Diana,...
- 9/23/2021
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Norway’s famous landscapes will be gracing screens around the world in a fresh crop of blockbusters and domestic productions set to be released internationally.
Premiering in Venice out of competition, Denis Villeneuve’s long-awaited “Dune” features scenes shot on the West Cape plateau, one of the most spectacular view points on the coast of Norway. The $165 million film will hit U.S. theaters Oct. 22 afters its premiere at the Venice Film Festival.
Also scheduled for a fall release, the long-delayed James Bond pic “No Time to Die” takes 007 on a car chase reportedly filmed on Norway’s spectacular wind-swept Atlantic Ocean Road. MGM has confirmed it will have its world premiere at London’s Royal Albert Hall Sept. 28.
It’s international productions like these and Netflix hit series “Ragnarok,” filmed in the small town of Odda in the fjords of southwest Norway, that have fueled a boom in film tourism to Norway,...
Premiering in Venice out of competition, Denis Villeneuve’s long-awaited “Dune” features scenes shot on the West Cape plateau, one of the most spectacular view points on the coast of Norway. The $165 million film will hit U.S. theaters Oct. 22 afters its premiere at the Venice Film Festival.
Also scheduled for a fall release, the long-delayed James Bond pic “No Time to Die” takes 007 on a car chase reportedly filmed on Norway’s spectacular wind-swept Atlantic Ocean Road. MGM has confirmed it will have its world premiere at London’s Royal Albert Hall Sept. 28.
It’s international productions like these and Netflix hit series “Ragnarok,” filmed in the small town of Odda in the fjords of southwest Norway, that have fueled a boom in film tourism to Norway,...
- 9/4/2021
- by Lise Pedersen
- Variety Film + TV
Powered by its famed partners, Oslo-based Motion Blur, one of Norway’s top producers of commercials, features and TV shows, has never been that busy with projects both on home turf and in the U.S.
That activity in part rolls off the pulling power of the company’s pedigreed partners: “Karate Kid” helmer Harald Zwart; “Kon-Tiki” and “Pirates of the Caribbean-Dead Men Tell No Tales” co-helmer Espen Sandberg: and producer Espen Horn.
Minority shareholder Sf Studios lends Motion Blur adds financial stability. The genre-bending outfit also boasts a unique bond with Netflix that has translated into three Norwegian-language orders over the past year-and-a -half from the U.S. giant.
Helmed by rising talent Jarand Herdal, chiller “Cadaver,” Netflix’s first Norwegian feature, premiered last October. Motion Blur’s vampire comedy show “Post Mortem: No One Dies in Skarnes” is launching on the giant streamer on Aug. 25. A third Netflix title,...
That activity in part rolls off the pulling power of the company’s pedigreed partners: “Karate Kid” helmer Harald Zwart; “Kon-Tiki” and “Pirates of the Caribbean-Dead Men Tell No Tales” co-helmer Espen Sandberg: and producer Espen Horn.
Minority shareholder Sf Studios lends Motion Blur adds financial stability. The genre-bending outfit also boasts a unique bond with Netflix that has translated into three Norwegian-language orders over the past year-and-a -half from the U.S. giant.
Helmed by rising talent Jarand Herdal, chiller “Cadaver,” Netflix’s first Norwegian feature, premiered last October. Motion Blur’s vampire comedy show “Post Mortem: No One Dies in Skarnes” is launching on the giant streamer on Aug. 25. A third Netflix title,...
- 8/22/2021
- by Annika Pham
- Variety Film + TV
This article includes spoilers about the plot of “The Suicide Squad.”
On the surface, “The Suicide Squad” is not a movie with geopolitics on its mind. Writer/director James Gunn’s hard-r supervillain romp is a loud, bloody, men-on-a-mission riff that owes more to Sam Peckinpah and Gunn’s own zany “Guardians of the Galaxy” than anything with complex historical connotations. Nevertheless, they’re hiding in plain sight, whether or not Gunn intended them to be there. Shot in Panama with signifiers that speak directly to its history with military dictatorships, “The Suicide Squad” has more layers than its absurd concept would suggest, even if it reduces them to B-movie conceits along with everything else on the screen.
The bulk of the movie takes place on the fictional island nation of Corto Maltese, and while its protagonists spend much of the time battling their way through scores of baddies and one giant kaiju menace,...
On the surface, “The Suicide Squad” is not a movie with geopolitics on its mind. Writer/director James Gunn’s hard-r supervillain romp is a loud, bloody, men-on-a-mission riff that owes more to Sam Peckinpah and Gunn’s own zany “Guardians of the Galaxy” than anything with complex historical connotations. Nevertheless, they’re hiding in plain sight, whether or not Gunn intended them to be there. Shot in Panama with signifiers that speak directly to its history with military dictatorships, “The Suicide Squad” has more layers than its absurd concept would suggest, even if it reduces them to B-movie conceits along with everything else on the screen.
The bulk of the movie takes place on the fictional island nation of Corto Maltese, and while its protagonists spend much of the time battling their way through scores of baddies and one giant kaiju menace,...
- 8/7/2021
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
Arrow Video FrightFest, the UK’s biggest horror and fantasy film festival, is back at the Cineworld Leicester Square from Thursday August 26th – Monday 30th August 2021 for five days of the very best of global genre cinema.
The internationally renowned event leads the way in attesting to the versatility of the genre and, despite the interruptions caused by the pandemic, this year is no exception as the twenty-five films to be presented in the main screens are revealed. They include four world premieres and eight International / European premieres. Global events over the past eighteen months have not only altered most people’s lives but have had a profoundly influential effect on a lot of genre filmmakers and both the opening and closing films this year reflect that.
From the press release:
It’s Full Scream ahead as Arrow Video FrightFest 2021 announces its second wave of hugely anticipated Discovery Screen and...
The internationally renowned event leads the way in attesting to the versatility of the genre and, despite the interruptions caused by the pandemic, this year is no exception as the twenty-five films to be presented in the main screens are revealed. They include four world premieres and eight International / European premieres. Global events over the past eighteen months have not only altered most people’s lives but have had a profoundly influential effect on a lot of genre filmmakers and both the opening and closing films this year reflect that.
From the press release:
It’s Full Scream ahead as Arrow Video FrightFest 2021 announces its second wave of hugely anticipated Discovery Screen and...
- 7/22/2021
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Mick Garris has long been a champion of horror, developing platforms for icons in the genre through series like Masters of Horror and the Post Mortem podcast. As a talented director in his own right, Garris had the unenviable task of holding down the fort in what many deem to be horror’s “rebuilding years” of the late ’ 80s and early ’90s. But he did so with style, producing work that tiptoed deftly between dark and fun in films like the bizarre, campy, incestuous feline flick Sleepwalkers. Apart from being a great movie, Sleepwalkers also kicked off a creative relationship between Garris and Stephen King, as Garris would go on to adapt not one, but two of King’s books into miniseries in an era when “event television” was still a thing. The first of which was a bold undertaking in bringing one of King’s biggest, most epic tales...
- 7/21/2021
- by Bryan Christopher
- DailyDead
The awards were held on the closing night of the first Hungarian Motion Picture Festival (Hmpf).
Balázs Krasznahorkai’s Ravine was named best feature film at the Hungarian Motion Picture Awards, held at Balatonfüred’s Anna Grand Hotel on Saturday night as the closing event of the first Hungarian Motion Picture Festival.
Krasznahorkai’s feature debut had previously been shown this year at the Sofia International Film Festival and the Goa International Film Festival, whilst lead Levente Molnár picked up the best male actor award at the CineFantasy festival in Sao Paulo last month.
The story revolves around a Hungarian obstetrician and soon-to-be father,...
Balázs Krasznahorkai’s Ravine was named best feature film at the Hungarian Motion Picture Awards, held at Balatonfüred’s Anna Grand Hotel on Saturday night as the closing event of the first Hungarian Motion Picture Festival.
Krasznahorkai’s feature debut had previously been shown this year at the Sofia International Film Festival and the Goa International Film Festival, whilst lead Levente Molnár picked up the best male actor award at the CineFantasy festival in Sao Paulo last month.
The story revolves around a Hungarian obstetrician and soon-to-be father,...
- 6/29/2021
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
Mick Garris’s podcast Post Mortem recently landed on the Dread Central Network and has had everyone from Clive Barker to Frank Darabont on it. But Garris has been interviewing people in the filmmaking business for year’s. And if you get a chance please check out his past interviews with legends like Wes Craven ,David Cronenberg, and many more. Kevin Smith is the latest to sit down with Garris to discuss everything from his early days as an indie filmmaker to his near death heart attack. A heart attack that Garris admitted during the interview that he could relate too. This was my first time hearing anything like this had even happened to Garris, and I’m glad both men are still here telling tales for the world to see. I could listen to Garris and Smith talk for hours. I greatly admire both storytellers, because they are like...
- 5/26/2021
- by Stephen Nepa
- Age of the Nerd
Exclusive: Game Of Thrones and Killing Eve star Gemma Whelan has been cast as the lead in ITV’s drama series The Tower, Homeland writer Patrick Harbinson’s three-part adaptation of Kate London’s Metropolitan Police novel Post Mortem.
Whelan will play Detective Sergeant Sarah Collins, who investigates after a veteran beat cop and teenage girl fall to their deaths from a tower block in south-east London, leaving a five-year-old boy and rookie police officer Lizzie Griffiths on the roof, only for them to go missing.
Collins works to find Lizzie before she comes to serious harm, but also to uncover the truth behind the grisly tower block deaths. Collins and Griffiths later become the central characters in three books written by former Met officer London.
Whelan is best known for playing Yara Greyjoy in HBO mega-franchise Game Of Thrones, but has appeared in other high-profile series, including Season 3 of Killing Eve,...
Whelan will play Detective Sergeant Sarah Collins, who investigates after a veteran beat cop and teenage girl fall to their deaths from a tower block in south-east London, leaving a five-year-old boy and rookie police officer Lizzie Griffiths on the roof, only for them to go missing.
Collins works to find Lizzie before she comes to serious harm, but also to uncover the truth behind the grisly tower block deaths. Collins and Griffiths later become the central characters in three books written by former Met officer London.
Whelan is best known for playing Yara Greyjoy in HBO mega-franchise Game Of Thrones, but has appeared in other high-profile series, including Season 3 of Killing Eve,...
- 4/19/2021
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Homeland writer and executive producer Patrick Harbinson is to adapt Kate London’s Metropolitan Police novel Post Mortem into a three-part ITV series, which will be housed at Harbinson’s new UK-based production firm and Mammoth Screen.
The drama will be titled The Tower, in a nod to the novel’s thrilling opening sequence in which a veteran beat cop and teenage girl fall to their deaths from a tower block in south-east London, leaving a five-year-old boy and rookie police officer Lizzie Griffiths on the roof, only for them to go missing.
Detective Sergeant Sarah Collins is drafted in to investigate, working to find Lizzie before she comes to serious harm, but also to uncover the truth behind the grisly tower block deaths. Collins and Griffiths later become the central characters in three books written by former Met officer London.
The Tower will be produced by Harbinson’s...
The drama will be titled The Tower, in a nod to the novel’s thrilling opening sequence in which a veteran beat cop and teenage girl fall to their deaths from a tower block in south-east London, leaving a five-year-old boy and rookie police officer Lizzie Griffiths on the roof, only for them to go missing.
Detective Sergeant Sarah Collins is drafted in to investigate, working to find Lizzie before she comes to serious harm, but also to uncover the truth behind the grisly tower block deaths. Collins and Griffiths later become the central characters in three books written by former Met officer London.
The Tower will be produced by Harbinson’s...
- 3/11/2021
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
Both Mick Garris and Clive Barker have been staples in celluloid for decades. Both have experience in the written page and behind the camera. They are maverick storytellers. And it is in horror they choose to tell the majority of their tales. And as a fan of both men, I was thrilled to hear the news that they could be working together on something. Garris, along with film writer and producer Joe Russo, host a podcast called Post Mortem. On their latest episode of Ask Mick Anything, Garris revealed that he was working with Clive Barker to create a new anthology series. The two have put a treatment together and a philosophical point of view on how to do it. The unnamed anthology series will be made in the UK, according to Garris. Anthology series are very popular right now, so hopefully, the duo can sell the idea to the big wigs.
- 2/20/2021
- by Stephen Nepa
- Age of the Nerd
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