As Anthony D’Amato preps backstage at Sony Hall in midtown Manhattan, it’s hard not to notice his six-foot height, horn-rimmed glasses — and the name “Amy” in large black letters on the side of his head. It’s not a tattoo, just black liquid eyeliner easy to wash off, but it suits the occasion. In a few minutes, the New Jerseyan and his 12-piece band will walk onstage, take their places beneath an LED sign lit up with Amy Winehouse’s first name and a simulation of her signature beehive,...
- 4/25/2024
- by David Browne
- Rollingstone.com
Bohemian Rhapsody should have been the final nail in the music-biopic coffin––instead, its near-billion box-office gross ensured it became Hollywood’s go-to template for a movie in this mold. Going beyond merely emulating its Walk Hard-like adherence to over-simplifying the highs and lows of a career within a neat three-act structure, director Sam Taylor-Johnson’s Amy Winehouse biopic Back to Black goes one further in how it ghoulishly holds the singer accountable for many of the tragedies and misfortunes she suffered. Remember how the surviving band members of Queen came across as responsible family men as the long-departed Freddie Mercury was chastised for addiction issues? Matt Greenhalgh’s screenplay, his second for Taylor-Johnson after the John Lennon biopic Nowhere Boy, goes one further by obfuscating the full extent of the bad influences in her life that heightened her years-long battle with substance and alcohol abuse, depicting the singer as...
- 4/23/2024
- by Alistair Ryder
- The Film Stage
RankFilm (distributor)Three-day gross (Apr 19-21)Total gross to dateWeek 1. Back To Black (Studiocanal) £1.9m £6.4m 2 2. Civil War (Entertainment Film Distributors) £1.1m £3.8m 3 3. Kung Fu Panda 4 (Universal) £898,807 £18.6m 4 4. Godzilla X Kong: The New Empire (Warner Bros) £649,284 £12.9m 4 5. Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (Sony) £594,971 £594,971 1
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Amy Winehouse biopic Back To Black topped the UK-Ireland box office chart for a second weekend; as horror Abigail started fifth on a weekend dominated by holdover titles.
Back To Black added £1.9m – a decent hold from its opening, falling just 30.1%. This is a better second-weekend hold than recent music biopics, including this...
Gbp to Usd conversion rate: 1.23
Amy Winehouse biopic Back To Black topped the UK-Ireland box office chart for a second weekend; as horror Abigail started fifth on a weekend dominated by holdover titles.
Back To Black added £1.9m – a decent hold from its opening, falling just 30.1%. This is a better second-weekend hold than recent music biopics, including this...
- 4/22/2024
- ScreenDaily
Sam Taylor-Johnson’s Back to Black begins in Camden Town, in north London, where a teenage Amy Winehouse (Marisa Abela) flourishes in a family full of musicians. The most important influence on her is her nan, Cynthia (Lesley Manville), from whom she inherits her vintage style and love of jazz. We first see Amy taking to the stage in a local bar to perform “Stronger Than Me,” a song mocking her then-boyfriend for his lack of machismo with regrettable lines like “Feel like a lady, and you my ladyboy” and “Are you gay?”
It’s a triumphant night, with Amy crooning happily while the crowd laps it up. While it’s hardly a scandal that an 18-year-old wrote some dumb lines about a guy she was sick of, it’s more than a little regressive for a 2024 movie to show them off in such a positive way. Regardless, the song...
It’s a triumphant night, with Amy crooning happily while the crowd laps it up. While it’s hardly a scandal that an 18-year-old wrote some dumb lines about a guy she was sick of, it’s more than a little regressive for a 2024 movie to show them off in such a positive way. Regardless, the song...
- 4/13/2024
- by Ross McIndoe
- Slant Magazine
Cinema for Gaza, a group launched by a small group of female filmmakers and film journalists, has successfully raised more than $315,000 to support medical aid for the civilian population in Gaza.
A celebrity auction, organized by Cinema for Gaza, and supported by the likes of Tilda Swinton, Annie Lennox, Joaquin Phoenix, Spike Lee and Guillermo del Toro, raised some $316,778 (£254,297) for Medical Aid for Palestinians (Map), a U.K.-based charity that provides on-the-ground medical support, from sterile water to cancer drugs, for those on the Gaza Strip. The celebrities donated personal items — from signed film posters to personal Zoom chats to, in the case of Lennox, the handwritten lyrics to her Eurythmics hit “Sweet Dreams” — to be sold off to the highest bidder. (Lennox’s lyrics sheet was the top seller, with a bidder paying $26,222 for the piece of pop music history).
The Zone of Interest filmmaker Jonathan Glazer, who...
A celebrity auction, organized by Cinema for Gaza, and supported by the likes of Tilda Swinton, Annie Lennox, Joaquin Phoenix, Spike Lee and Guillermo del Toro, raised some $316,778 (£254,297) for Medical Aid for Palestinians (Map), a U.K.-based charity that provides on-the-ground medical support, from sterile water to cancer drugs, for those on the Gaza Strip. The celebrities donated personal items — from signed film posters to personal Zoom chats to, in the case of Lennox, the handwritten lyrics to her Eurythmics hit “Sweet Dreams” — to be sold off to the highest bidder. (Lennox’s lyrics sheet was the top seller, with a bidder paying $26,222 for the piece of pop music history).
The Zone of Interest filmmaker Jonathan Glazer, who...
- 4/12/2024
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Amy Winehouse biopic Back To Black sets a new widest UK-Ireland opening record for Studiocanal, starting its run in 719 sites.
The film beats the distributor’s previous record – February release Wicked Little Letters – by 33 venues. It is also the widest opening of the year, beating Warner Bros’ Dune: Part Two by two sites.
Directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson from a script by Matt Greenhalgh, Back To Black depicts the life of music icon Winehouse, from her early career through her turbulent relationship with Blake Fielder-Civil, and her creation of seminal 2006 album Back To Black.
The film stars 2023 Screen Star of Tomorrow Marisa Abela as Winehouse,...
The film beats the distributor’s previous record – February release Wicked Little Letters – by 33 venues. It is also the widest opening of the year, beating Warner Bros’ Dune: Part Two by two sites.
Directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson from a script by Matt Greenhalgh, Back To Black depicts the life of music icon Winehouse, from her early career through her turbulent relationship with Blake Fielder-Civil, and her creation of seminal 2006 album Back To Black.
The film stars 2023 Screen Star of Tomorrow Marisa Abela as Winehouse,...
- 4/12/2024
- ScreenDaily
For anyone who witnessed her tumultuous rise to fame and eventual fall from grace, it’s clear that Amy Winehouse was truly one of a kind. A diamond in the rough that not only needed to be handled with kid gloves, but one who also craved love and attention from all the wrong people. Her sudden death at the age of 27 in the summer of 2011, while not entirely unexpected, was still a huge shock for most of us.
The story of how a bright and talented nice Jewish girl from North London became prime tabloid fodder and a global superstar, is told with a fair amount of contrivance in this slightly disjointed biopic from Fifty Shades of Grey director Sam Taylor-Johnson.
Starring Marisa Abela (Industry) as Amy, Back To Black – the title taken from one of the singer’s most iconic singles and album – focuses the bulk of its narrative...
The story of how a bright and talented nice Jewish girl from North London became prime tabloid fodder and a global superstar, is told with a fair amount of contrivance in this slightly disjointed biopic from Fifty Shades of Grey director Sam Taylor-Johnson.
Starring Marisa Abela (Industry) as Amy, Back To Black – the title taken from one of the singer’s most iconic singles and album – focuses the bulk of its narrative...
- 4/10/2024
- by Linda Marric
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Amy Winehouse’s music endures because of her voice, obviously — that sultry Billie Holiday-esque sound that could lend timelessness to lyrics that referenced Slick Rick. Her regular producers, such as Salaam Remi and Mark Ronson, imbued her classical jazz training with a pop sound that borrowed from ’60s and ’70s soul as well as contemporary garage rock and hip hop. Her image was a knowing collage of vintage looks, but while you can’t talk about Winehouse’s hair without referencing Ronnie Spector, that amalgamation of “bad girl” styles became entirely her own. She had the unique ability to cultivate originality from a self-conscious fusion of different musical designs; any traces of influences disappeared under the weight of sampling and swagger.
The gap between Winehouse’s music and her troubled personal life was never as dichotomous as people insisted; her personal demons fueled her music, and she nurtured a refreshingly rebellious persona.
The gap between Winehouse’s music and her troubled personal life was never as dichotomous as people insisted; her personal demons fueled her music, and she nurtured a refreshingly rebellious persona.
- 4/10/2024
- by Vikram Murthi
- Indiewire
When Sam Taylor-Johnson started working on her Amy Winehouse biopic, Back to Black, she asked screenwriter Matt Greenhalgh to listen to one of Winehouse’s tracks, “Tears Dry on Their Own,” before he started writing. “I kept saying in those early days, ‘I feel like this song is our path to understanding her,’ ” Taylor-Johnson says.
In the deceptively upbeat single about Winehouse’s tumultuous relationship with her on-again, off-again love, Blake Fielder-Civil, she sings, “It’s my responsibility/And you don’t owe nothing to me.”
For Taylor-Johnson, 57, that line spoke to something largely misunderstood about Winehouse, the English singer who died of alcohol poisoning in 2011: Just 27, she left behind an outsize cultural impact. Winehouse’s defining album, Back to Black, sold more than 16 million copies worldwide, and her unique mix of jazz and soul with punk-era defiance would go on to influence artists like Adele, Lady Gaga and Billie Eilish.
In the deceptively upbeat single about Winehouse’s tumultuous relationship with her on-again, off-again love, Blake Fielder-Civil, she sings, “It’s my responsibility/And you don’t owe nothing to me.”
For Taylor-Johnson, 57, that line spoke to something largely misunderstood about Winehouse, the English singer who died of alcohol poisoning in 2011: Just 27, she left behind an outsize cultural impact. Winehouse’s defining album, Back to Black, sold more than 16 million copies worldwide, and her unique mix of jazz and soul with punk-era defiance would go on to influence artists like Adele, Lady Gaga and Billie Eilish.
- 4/10/2024
- by Rebecca Keegan
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
For her “unofficial” 2009 John Lennon biopic Nowhere Boy, Sam Taylor-Johnson had so little music to work with that the opening chord of “Hard Day’s Night” pretty much had to carry the whole movie. You might think that history would repeat for Back to Black, the short but fast-lived story of Amy Winehouse, who rose to international fame in her teens and never saw 28, never mind 30. Surprisingly, the Winehouse estate is all in, and although one might argue that the singer’s trainwreck notoriety has been slightly snow-washed to protect the living, there’s still a surprisingly hard edge here, in a rare film that gives rock ’n’ roll agency to a woman for once, like a reverse-angle Sid & Nancy.
In a way, any music biopic is off to a bad start, since there’s always going to be the curse of symmetry: everything must square with what we already know,...
In a way, any music biopic is off to a bad start, since there’s always going to be the curse of symmetry: everything must square with what we already know,...
- 4/9/2024
- by Damon Wise
- Deadline Film + TV
Fans regularly make film biopics about famous musicians successful, but they also love to nitpick the results. Or to misquote Ian Curtis, the lead singer of Joy Division and the subject of a rather good musical biopic (Control), love will tear apart any work of fan service if it screws up the story, paints the subject in too unflattering a light or, worst of all, mangles the music with impersonations that barely rise above the level of karaoke. (Consider, if you dare, Kevin Spacey as Bobby Darin in Beyond the Sea.)
On the other hand, there’s also something irksome about biopics that have actors lip sync to the original songs, like Naomi Ackie did for I Wanna Dance With Somebody or, much less successfully, Dennis Quaid in Great Balls of Fire! Especially if that means access to the original recordings or even rights to the songs in the first...
On the other hand, there’s also something irksome about biopics that have actors lip sync to the original songs, like Naomi Ackie did for I Wanna Dance With Somebody or, much less successfully, Dennis Quaid in Great Balls of Fire! Especially if that means access to the original recordings or even rights to the songs in the first...
- 4/9/2024
- by Leslie Felperin
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
A growing list of high-profile names from the film and TV world, including Jonathan Glazer, Tilda Swinton, and Succession star Brian Cox, have donated unique gifts to Cinema For Gaza, a fundraising auction supporting aid for people in Gaza, which launched yesterday April 2nd.
As of this morning, the auction has topped £41,650 in cash donations. The gifts and experiences people are donating include a ticket to Ramy Youssef’s live show and afterparty, a porridge tutorial with Challengers actor Josh O’Connor, and a bedtime story read over Zoom with Tilda Swinton.
The auction lot also includes two signed film posters (The Zone Of Interest and Under The Skin) from filmmaker Jonathan Glazer. The British director, who has yet to speak publicly following backlash over his Oscars speech, joined the campaign at the 11th hour before it went live on April 2nd, organizers told Deadline. Veteran filmmaker Ken Loach has also...
As of this morning, the auction has topped £41,650 in cash donations. The gifts and experiences people are donating include a ticket to Ramy Youssef’s live show and afterparty, a porridge tutorial with Challengers actor Josh O’Connor, and a bedtime story read over Zoom with Tilda Swinton.
The auction lot also includes two signed film posters (The Zone Of Interest and Under The Skin) from filmmaker Jonathan Glazer. The British director, who has yet to speak publicly following backlash over his Oscars speech, joined the campaign at the 11th hour before it went live on April 2nd, organizers told Deadline. Veteran filmmaker Ken Loach has also...
- 4/3/2024
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
A number of major names from the U.K. film and TV world and beyond have donated items — and their own time — to an auction raising money for Gaza.
Organized by Cinema for Gaza in support of Medical Aid for Palestinians, the auction has drawn in gifts from likes of Tilda Swinton, Ken Loach, Asia Kapadia, Ramy Youssef, Peter Capaldi, Imelda Staunton, Brian Cox, Joseph Quinn, Mike Leigh, Misan Harriman, Joanna Hogg, Aimee Lou Wood and Josh O’Connor.
Among the lots up for grabs when the auction goes live on April 2 is the chance to have Swinton “read you a soothing bedtime story over Zoom,” a porridge masterclass with O’Connor who will “teach you how to make the perfect bowl” (and apparently get a glimpse of his secret porridge recipe), a chat about astrology with “Sex Education” star Wood, a “restorative drink” with “Saltburn’s” Oliver, and tickets to...
Organized by Cinema for Gaza in support of Medical Aid for Palestinians, the auction has drawn in gifts from likes of Tilda Swinton, Ken Loach, Asia Kapadia, Ramy Youssef, Peter Capaldi, Imelda Staunton, Brian Cox, Joseph Quinn, Mike Leigh, Misan Harriman, Joanna Hogg, Aimee Lou Wood and Josh O’Connor.
Among the lots up for grabs when the auction goes live on April 2 is the chance to have Swinton “read you a soothing bedtime story over Zoom,” a porridge masterclass with O’Connor who will “teach you how to make the perfect bowl” (and apparently get a glimpse of his secret porridge recipe), a chat about astrology with “Sex Education” star Wood, a “restorative drink” with “Saltburn’s” Oliver, and tickets to...
- 3/28/2024
- by Alex Ritman
- Variety Film + TV
Tilda Swinton, Ken Loach and Brian Cox are among the British film and TV VIPs contributing to an online auction to raise money for humanitarian relief for Palestinians in Gaza.
Among the auction lots to bid on are an online bedtime story read by Swinton; tickets to Cox’s London stage performance of A Long Day’s Journey Into Night, including a meet and greet with the Succession star; and a walk-on part in the new film from Bend It Like Beckham director Gurinder Chadha.
Directors Mike Leigh, Asif Kapadia and Joanna Hogg, and actors including Harris Dickinson (The Iron Claw), Alison Oliver (Saltburn) and Aimee Lou Wood (Sex Education), are also taking part in the auction, which will raise money for Medical Aid for Palestinians (Map), a U.K.-based nonprofit that provides medical and humanitarian aid for Palestinians in Gaza.
The auction was set up by Cinema for Gaza,...
Among the auction lots to bid on are an online bedtime story read by Swinton; tickets to Cox’s London stage performance of A Long Day’s Journey Into Night, including a meet and greet with the Succession star; and a walk-on part in the new film from Bend It Like Beckham director Gurinder Chadha.
Directors Mike Leigh, Asif Kapadia and Joanna Hogg, and actors including Harris Dickinson (The Iron Claw), Alison Oliver (Saltburn) and Aimee Lou Wood (Sex Education), are also taking part in the auction, which will raise money for Medical Aid for Palestinians (Map), a U.K.-based nonprofit that provides medical and humanitarian aid for Palestinians in Gaza.
The auction was set up by Cinema for Gaza,...
- 3/27/2024
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Chance to make porridge with Josh O’Connor or be serenaded by Olly Alexander also up for grabs in inaugural online auction to support Medical Aid for Palestinians in Gaza
Directors Mike Leigh, Ken Loach, Asif Kapadia and Joanna Hogg, as well as the cast of shows including Doctor Who and Downton Abbey, are among British film and TV creatives donating lots to a new auction to crowdfund for humanitarian relief in Gaza.
Leigh has given a signed poster of the original 1977 theatre production of Abigail’s Party, while Loach provides signed copies of the poster and script of his latest film, The Old Oak.
Directors Mike Leigh, Ken Loach, Asif Kapadia and Joanna Hogg, as well as the cast of shows including Doctor Who and Downton Abbey, are among British film and TV creatives donating lots to a new auction to crowdfund for humanitarian relief in Gaza.
Leigh has given a signed poster of the original 1977 theatre production of Abigail’s Party, while Loach provides signed copies of the poster and script of his latest film, The Old Oak.
- 3/27/2024
- by Catherine Shoard
- The Guardian - Film News
Jonathan Glazer’s Oscar acceptance speech after Zone of Interest won the Oscar for Best International Feature Film has drawn condemnation from more than a thousand Hollywood actors, creatives and executives over the past few days, but there are also some in the entertainment industry who have spoken in support of Glazer and his speech.
For context, here is the entirety of Glazer’s speech:
Thank you so much. I’m going to read, I’m afraid.
Thank you to the Academy for this honor and to our partners A24 Films for access and Polish Film Institute, to the Stead Museum for their trust and guidance, to my producers, actors, collaborators.
All our choices were made to reflect and confront us in the present, not to say look what they did then, but rather look what we do now.
For context, here is the entirety of Glazer’s speech:
Thank you so much. I’m going to read, I’m afraid.
Thank you to the Academy for this honor and to our partners A24 Films for access and Polish Film Institute, to the Stead Museum for their trust and guidance, to my producers, actors, collaborators.
All our choices were made to reflect and confront us in the present, not to say look what they did then, but rather look what we do now.
- 3/20/2024
- by Tom Tapp
- Deadline Film + TV
More than 1,000 Jewish creatives, executives and Hollywood professionals have signed an open letter denouncing Jonathan Glazer’s “The Zone of Interest” Oscar speech.
The list of co-signees provided to Variety Monday morning covers a broad swath of the industry including actors, executives, creators (Amy Sherman-Palladino), directors, producers and representatives. About 500 more individuals have added their names to the nearly 500 who signed on when the open letter was first published.
The group’s statement says: “We refute our Jewishness being hijacked for the purpose of drawing a moral equivalence between a Nazi regime that sought to exterminate a race of people, and an Israeli nation that seeks to avert its own extermination.”
Glazer declined to comment.
With such high-profile co-signees as Jennifer Jason Leigh, “La La Land” producer Gary Gilbert and “The Americans” creators Joel Fields and Joe Weisberg, the statement adds, “The use of words like ‘occupation’ to describe an...
The list of co-signees provided to Variety Monday morning covers a broad swath of the industry including actors, executives, creators (Amy Sherman-Palladino), directors, producers and representatives. About 500 more individuals have added their names to the nearly 500 who signed on when the open letter was first published.
The group’s statement says: “We refute our Jewishness being hijacked for the purpose of drawing a moral equivalence between a Nazi regime that sought to exterminate a race of people, and an Israeli nation that seeks to avert its own extermination.”
Glazer declined to comment.
With such high-profile co-signees as Jennifer Jason Leigh, “La La Land” producer Gary Gilbert and “The Americans” creators Joel Fields and Joe Weisberg, the statement adds, “The use of words like ‘occupation’ to describe an...
- 3/18/2024
- by Tatiana Siegel
- Variety Film + TV
Roger Federer — who’s about to get the sports doc treatment on Amazon — has had a busy few days in Los Angeles.
On March 10, he attended the Oscars for the second time with his wife Mirka, and afterward hit the Vanity Fair Oscar Party. Two nights later, Federer and eyewear company Oliver Peoples threw a celebrity-studded dinner at Sunset Tower — attended by the likes of Trevor Noah, Sharon Stone, Edgar Ramirez, Maria Sharapova, Jay Ellis and Lindsey Vonn — to celebrate his new sunglasses line with the brand.
And while there’s no date yet set for his documentary, Federer recently saw a screening of the feature-length film, which is helmed by Oscar-winning director Asif Kapadia (Amy) and co-director Joe Sabia.
The tennis great told GQ that he was emotionally walloped by watching the doc and reliving moments that are in the film, which follows the last 12 days of his pro...
On March 10, he attended the Oscars for the second time with his wife Mirka, and afterward hit the Vanity Fair Oscar Party. Two nights later, Federer and eyewear company Oliver Peoples threw a celebrity-studded dinner at Sunset Tower — attended by the likes of Trevor Noah, Sharon Stone, Edgar Ramirez, Maria Sharapova, Jay Ellis and Lindsey Vonn — to celebrate his new sunglasses line with the brand.
And while there’s no date yet set for his documentary, Federer recently saw a screening of the feature-length film, which is helmed by Oscar-winning director Asif Kapadia (Amy) and co-director Joe Sabia.
The tennis great told GQ that he was emotionally walloped by watching the doc and reliving moments that are in the film, which follows the last 12 days of his pro...
- 3/14/2024
- by Degen Pener
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
At this year’s Oscars, “The Zone of Interest” director Jonathan Glazer took the prize for most polarizing speech. And the swirl surrounding exactly what he said and what he meant — still a matter of debate — doesn’t appear to be dying down.
When the British filmmaker took the stage after the Auschwitz-set Holocaust drama was announced as best international film, he was greeted with a standing ovation. He then referred to notes he’d prepared in advance, thanked the requisite players and drew a parallel between “Zone of Interest” and the current conflict in Gaza that was difficult to decipher given the audience applause and his own mumbling.
“All our choices were made to reflect and confront us in the present, not to say look what they did then, but rather look what we do now,” he said, according to the Academy’s official transcript of the speech. “Our...
When the British filmmaker took the stage after the Auschwitz-set Holocaust drama was announced as best international film, he was greeted with a standing ovation. He then referred to notes he’d prepared in advance, thanked the requisite players and drew a parallel between “Zone of Interest” and the current conflict in Gaza that was difficult to decipher given the audience applause and his own mumbling.
“All our choices were made to reflect and confront us in the present, not to say look what they did then, but rather look what we do now,” he said, according to the Academy’s official transcript of the speech. “Our...
- 3/13/2024
- by Tatiana Siegel and Alex Ritman
- Variety Film + TV
The 96th Academy Awards ceremony should be known as the Cannes Oscars, argues Cannes Film Festival director Thierry Frémaux.
He’s got a point.
Frémaux sipped a cocktail at the Charles Finch and Chanel Annual Pre-Oscar Dinner in the Polo Lounge at the Beverly Hills Hotel, and ticked off Justine Triet’s Anatomy of a Fall and Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest as films that played and won the top prizes at last May’s festival.
Michael Barker, Sony Picture Classics co-chair, helped Frémaux out by adding in Martin Scorsese’s The Killers of the Flower Moon, which also premiered on the Croisette.
“Here we are in March, and the top winners at last year’s Cannes are still in the conversation, and are here at the Oscars,” says Frémaux, giving himself a pat on the back.
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He adds that...
He’s got a point.
Frémaux sipped a cocktail at the Charles Finch and Chanel Annual Pre-Oscar Dinner in the Polo Lounge at the Beverly Hills Hotel, and ticked off Justine Triet’s Anatomy of a Fall and Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest as films that played and won the top prizes at last May’s festival.
Michael Barker, Sony Picture Classics co-chair, helped Frémaux out by adding in Martin Scorsese’s The Killers of the Flower Moon, which also premiered on the Croisette.
“Here we are in March, and the top winners at last year’s Cannes are still in the conversation, and are here at the Oscars,” says Frémaux, giving himself a pat on the back.
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He adds that...
- 3/10/2024
- by Baz Bamigboye
- Deadline Film + TV
“Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom” Comes to Max
Following its December theatrical premiere, the recent DC blockbuster “Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom” will make its streaming debut on Max this month!
James Wan returns to the helm in the Jason Momoa-starrer, which sees Aquaman turn to his imprisoned brother and former King of Atlantis Orm (Patrick Wilson) and set aside their differences to save their family and the world as Black Manta (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II) now wields the power of the Black Trident, vowing to stop at nothing to avenge to his father’s death.
In addition to Momoa, Wilson, and Abdul-Mateen II, Amber Heard, Nicole Kidman, Dolph Lundgren, Randall Park, and John Rhys-Davies also reprise their roles in the sequel with Temuera Morrison, Martin Short, Vincent Regan, Jani Zhao, Indya Moore, and others.
The film has earned $433 million at the global box office, a relatively modest sum compared to 2018’s “Aquaman,...
Following its December theatrical premiere, the recent DC blockbuster “Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom” will make its streaming debut on Max this month!
James Wan returns to the helm in the Jason Momoa-starrer, which sees Aquaman turn to his imprisoned brother and former King of Atlantis Orm (Patrick Wilson) and set aside their differences to save their family and the world as Black Manta (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II) now wields the power of the Black Trident, vowing to stop at nothing to avenge to his father’s death.
In addition to Momoa, Wilson, and Abdul-Mateen II, Amber Heard, Nicole Kidman, Dolph Lundgren, Randall Park, and John Rhys-Davies also reprise their roles in the sequel with Temuera Morrison, Martin Short, Vincent Regan, Jani Zhao, Indya Moore, and others.
The film has earned $433 million at the global box office, a relatively modest sum compared to 2018’s “Aquaman,...
- 2/20/2024
- by Ashley Steves
- The Streamable
Mubi has acquired David Hinton’s Made In England: The Films Of Powell And Pressburger for key territories ahead of its world premiere in Berlin this week.
It has picked up the film for Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Latin America, Turkey and India (South Asian Association of Regional Cooperation). Altitude handles world sales.
Made In England has its world premiere as a Berlinale Special title at Berlin Film Festival on Wednesday, February 21.
The documentary is presented by Martin Scorsese, and is a personal journey of how Powell and Pressburger’s work, and later Powell’s friendship,...
It has picked up the film for Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Latin America, Turkey and India (South Asian Association of Regional Cooperation). Altitude handles world sales.
Made In England has its world premiere as a Berlinale Special title at Berlin Film Festival on Wednesday, February 21.
The documentary is presented by Martin Scorsese, and is a personal journey of how Powell and Pressburger’s work, and later Powell’s friendship,...
- 2/19/2024
- ScreenDaily
It’s hard to believe it’s been nearly a decade since the last film from Gore Verbinski, 2016’s A Cure for Wellness, but after being attached to a handful of projects, the director is finally looking to return. Sam Rockwell, Haley Lu Richardson, Michael Peña, Zazie Beetz, and Juno Temple are attached to star in his next feature Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die, Deadline reports.
Scripted by Matthew Robinson (Love & Monsters), the action-adventure film follows “a ‘man from the future’ (Rockwell) who arrives at a diner in Los Angeles where he must recruit the precise combination of disgruntled patrons to join him on a one-night-six-block quest to save the world from the terminal threat of a rogue artificial intelligence.” With production set to kick off this year in Cape Town, South Africa, expect a 2024 release.
With production wrapping on Gladiator 2 ahead of a release this November,...
Scripted by Matthew Robinson (Love & Monsters), the action-adventure film follows “a ‘man from the future’ (Rockwell) who arrives at a diner in Los Angeles where he must recruit the precise combination of disgruntled patrons to join him on a one-night-six-block quest to save the world from the terminal threat of a rogue artificial intelligence.” With production set to kick off this year in Cape Town, South Africa, expect a 2024 release.
With production wrapping on Gladiator 2 ahead of a release this November,...
- 2/19/2024
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Asif Kapadia has been tapped by Amazon’s Prime Video to direct a feature documentary on Roger Federer.
The Amy and Senna helmer and co-director Joe Sabia will capture Federer through the final 12 days of his celebrated pro tennis career. The documentary will exclusively stream on Prime Video in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide.
The feature film is a home video Federer never intended for public viewing, as he says goodbye to the game and his fans, according to a description. The doc will include interviews with tennis rivals and friends, including Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray, with Federer offering access to his sports relationships.
“Initially, the idea was to capture the final moments of my professional tennis career so that I could have it later on to show my family and friends,” Federer said in a statement. In 2022, Federer announced he was retiring from professional tennis...
The Amy and Senna helmer and co-director Joe Sabia will capture Federer through the final 12 days of his celebrated pro tennis career. The documentary will exclusively stream on Prime Video in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide.
The feature film is a home video Federer never intended for public viewing, as he says goodbye to the game and his fans, according to a description. The doc will include interviews with tennis rivals and friends, including Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray, with Federer offering access to his sports relationships.
“Initially, the idea was to capture the final moments of my professional tennis career so that I could have it later on to show my family and friends,” Federer said in a statement. In 2022, Federer announced he was retiring from professional tennis...
- 2/19/2024
- by Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
British filmmaker of Indian origin Asif Kapadia has been greenlit by Amazon Prime Video to do a feature-length documentary chronicling the final 12 days of tennis legend Roger Federer’s professional career, reports ‘Variety’.
The as-yet-untitled documentary was originally planned as a home video never intended for public viewing.
Featuring interviews from Federer’s rivals and friends, notably Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray, the documentary captures Federer at his most vulnerable and candid self, “as he says goodbye to a game and the fans that shaped his life for the last two decades,” a Prime Video press statement said, according to ‘Variety’.
Kapadia, an Oscar and BAFTA winner for his celebrated Amy Winehouse documentary ‘Amy’ (2015), has won BAFTAs for his biographical documentaries on car racing champion Ayrton Senna (‘Senna’; 2010) and the Argentine football legend Diego Maradona (2019).
His debut film, ‘The Warrior’ (2001), featured Irrfan Khan playing a warrior in feudal...
The as-yet-untitled documentary was originally planned as a home video never intended for public viewing.
Featuring interviews from Federer’s rivals and friends, notably Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray, the documentary captures Federer at his most vulnerable and candid self, “as he says goodbye to a game and the fans that shaped his life for the last two decades,” a Prime Video press statement said, according to ‘Variety’.
Kapadia, an Oscar and BAFTA winner for his celebrated Amy Winehouse documentary ‘Amy’ (2015), has won BAFTAs for his biographical documentaries on car racing champion Ayrton Senna (‘Senna’; 2010) and the Argentine football legend Diego Maradona (2019).
His debut film, ‘The Warrior’ (2001), featured Irrfan Khan playing a warrior in feudal...
- 2/19/2024
- by Agency News Desk
- GlamSham
Prime Video has greenlit a feature documentary about tennis icon Roger Federer, to be co-directed by Amy filmmaker Asif Kapadia.
The untitled film will follow the final 12 days of Swiss tennis player Federer’s tennis career, including footage originally intended as a home video. It features interviews from tennis rivals and friends including Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray.
The film will launch exclusively on Prime Video in over 240 countries and territories.
Kapadia will co-direct the film with Joe Sabia, creator of Vogue magazine’s online ’73 Questions’ series. It will be produced by Kapadia and George Chignell.
“Initially, the...
The untitled film will follow the final 12 days of Swiss tennis player Federer’s tennis career, including footage originally intended as a home video. It features interviews from tennis rivals and friends including Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray.
The film will launch exclusively on Prime Video in over 240 countries and territories.
Kapadia will co-direct the film with Joe Sabia, creator of Vogue magazine’s online ’73 Questions’ series. It will be produced by Kapadia and George Chignell.
“Initially, the...
- 2/19/2024
- ScreenDaily
The last 12 days of Roger Federer’s tennis career is the subject of a new documentary, from Asif Kapadia and Joe Sabia.
The final 12 days of tennis star Roger Federer’s career will be the focus of an upcoming documentary, which is the latest such film around the life of a sports star.
Prime Video is backing the film, which is thus far untitled. It’s being directed by the mighty Asif Kapadia, along with Joe Sabia. According to the blurb, this was originally intended to be a home video that wasn’t going to be made publicly available. But Roger Federer changed his mind.
As per the official announcement of the Roger Federer film, he said that “during my career, I tended to shy away from having cameras around me and my family, especially during important moments. But I didn’t see the harm in shooting this as it...
The final 12 days of tennis star Roger Federer’s career will be the focus of an upcoming documentary, which is the latest such film around the life of a sports star.
Prime Video is backing the film, which is thus far untitled. It’s being directed by the mighty Asif Kapadia, along with Joe Sabia. According to the blurb, this was originally intended to be a home video that wasn’t going to be made publicly available. But Roger Federer changed his mind.
As per the official announcement of the Roger Federer film, he said that “during my career, I tended to shy away from having cameras around me and my family, especially during important moments. But I didn’t see the harm in shooting this as it...
- 2/19/2024
- by Simon Brew
- Film Stories
Oscar-winner Asif Kapadia is helming a Prime Video doc about the latter days of tennis legend Roger Federer’s career, which was originally intended as a home movie.
The feature-length doc will chronicle the final 12 days of the career of the man who is deemed by many to be the greatest tennis player of all time.
Amazon said the untitled doc was “originally a home video never intended for public viewing,” which “captures Federer at his most vulnerable and candid self, as he says goodbye to a game and the fans that shaped his life for the last two decades.”
Federer said: “Initially, the idea was to capture the final moments of my professional tennis career so that I could have it later on to show my family and friends”
He added: “During my career, I tended to shy away from having cameras around me and my family, especially during important moments.
The feature-length doc will chronicle the final 12 days of the career of the man who is deemed by many to be the greatest tennis player of all time.
Amazon said the untitled doc was “originally a home video never intended for public viewing,” which “captures Federer at his most vulnerable and candid self, as he says goodbye to a game and the fans that shaped his life for the last two decades.”
Federer said: “Initially, the idea was to capture the final moments of my professional tennis career so that I could have it later on to show my family and friends”
He added: “During my career, I tended to shy away from having cameras around me and my family, especially during important moments.
- 2/19/2024
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Prime Video has greenlit a feature-length documentary chronicling the final 12 days of Roger Federer’s professional tennis career.
The as-yet-untitled documentary is described by Prime Video as “an intimate follow-along through the final 12 days of Roger Federer’s illustrious career. Originally a home video never intended for public viewing, the film captures Federer at his most vulnerable and candid self, as he says goodbye to a game and the fans that shaped his life for the last two decades.” It features interviews from Federer’s rivals and friends, including Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray.
The film is directed by Asif Kapadia, Oscar and BAFTA winner for Amy Winehouse documentary “Amy” (2015), BAFTA winners “Senna” (2010) and “The Warrior” (2001) and “Diego Maradona” (2019). It is co-directed by Joe Sabia (Vogue’s “73 Questions” franchise)
“Initially, the idea was to capture the final moments of my professional tennis career so that I could have...
The as-yet-untitled documentary is described by Prime Video as “an intimate follow-along through the final 12 days of Roger Federer’s illustrious career. Originally a home video never intended for public viewing, the film captures Federer at his most vulnerable and candid self, as he says goodbye to a game and the fans that shaped his life for the last two decades.” It features interviews from Federer’s rivals and friends, including Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray.
The film is directed by Asif Kapadia, Oscar and BAFTA winner for Amy Winehouse documentary “Amy” (2015), BAFTA winners “Senna” (2010) and “The Warrior” (2001) and “Diego Maradona” (2019). It is co-directed by Joe Sabia (Vogue’s “73 Questions” franchise)
“Initially, the idea was to capture the final moments of my professional tennis career so that I could have...
- 2/19/2024
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
How do you tell the story of Amy Winehouse on screen? Not only was it extensively documented by the media before her untimely death at the age of 27 in 2011, but it was also put into sharp focus in Asif Kapadia’s 2015 documentary Amy – an unflinching look at her story, and the media’s complicity in her struggles. The filmmakers tasked with creating a music biopic celebrating the legendary singer’s life, titled Back To Black, are director Sam Taylor-Johnson and writer Matt Greenhalgh, the duo behind John Lennon movie Nowhere Boy – and despite fears that their officially-sanctioned film might shy away from the difficult roles that Amy’s nearest and dearest played in her life, they tell Empire that they weren’t under pressure to tell the story a certain way.
According to Taylor-Johnson, Winehouse’s family didn’t contribute to the film. “It was important to meet with them out of respect,...
According to Taylor-Johnson, Winehouse’s family didn’t contribute to the film. “It was important to meet with them out of respect,...
- 2/13/2024
- by Ben Travis
- Empire - Movies
Barbie’s production designer and set decorator, Sarah Greenwood and Katie Spencer, will receive an honorary fellowship from the UK’s National Film and Television School (Nfts).
The pair will receive the fellowship at the school’s graduation ceremony on February 23. The award recognises an individual’s outstanding contribution to the industry.
Both Greenwood and Spencer are Bafta- and Oscar-nominated for their production design on Barbie, marking their seventh nomination as collaborators. Their other credits include Sherlock Holmes, Atonement, Darkest Hour, Anna Karenina, Pride & Prejudice and the upcoming Amy Winehouse biopic Back To Black.
The Nfts board of governors...
The pair will receive the fellowship at the school’s graduation ceremony on February 23. The award recognises an individual’s outstanding contribution to the industry.
Both Greenwood and Spencer are Bafta- and Oscar-nominated for their production design on Barbie, marking their seventh nomination as collaborators. Their other credits include Sherlock Holmes, Atonement, Darkest Hour, Anna Karenina, Pride & Prejudice and the upcoming Amy Winehouse biopic Back To Black.
The Nfts board of governors...
- 1/31/2024
- ScreenDaily
More than 300 members of the global film community including Justine Triet, Pedro Almodóvar, Aki Kaurismäki, and the Dardennes brothers are protesting new Argentinian president Javier Milei’s proposals to defund the national film and TV body Incaa and scrap the country’s film schools.
Isabelle Huppert, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Kelly Reichardt, Mira Nair, Asif Kapadia, Isabel Coixet, Kleber Mendonca Filho, Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna have also signed a statement against a bill which would bring in sweeping cuts to government arts funding.
Argentinian filmmakers are understood to be in discussions with lawmakers over a bill which, according to Buenos Aires Herald,...
Isabelle Huppert, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Kelly Reichardt, Mira Nair, Asif Kapadia, Isabel Coixet, Kleber Mendonca Filho, Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna have also signed a statement against a bill which would bring in sweeping cuts to government arts funding.
Argentinian filmmakers are understood to be in discussions with lawmakers over a bill which, according to Buenos Aires Herald,...
- 1/22/2024
- ScreenDaily
Argentina’s newly elected president Javier Milei is bent on keeping his chainsaw-wielding campaign promise to cut state spending, including scrapping the country’s national film institute (Incaa) and its film schools (Enerc).
His mega draft bill, aimed at reining in Argentina’s hyper-inflation, has prompted more than 300 directors, producers, actors, critics and colleagues from across the world, led by Academy Award winners Pedro Almodóvar, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Cannes winners Aki Kaurismäki (“Autumn Leaves”) and the Dardenne Brothers (“Rosetta”), to sign a communiqué protesting the far-right libertarian’s proposal.
The other signees include actor-producers Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna, Isabelle Huppert, directors Olivier Assayas, Kelly Reichardt, Kleber Mendonca Filho, Juan Antonio Bayona, Pedro Costa, Asif Kapadia, Corneliu Porumboiu, Abel Ferrara, Mira Nair, Roger Corman and Isabel Coixet, among many other prominent figures in the global film community.
In a statement, the newly formed coalition Cine Argentino Unido, spearheaded by film director associations,...
His mega draft bill, aimed at reining in Argentina’s hyper-inflation, has prompted more than 300 directors, producers, actors, critics and colleagues from across the world, led by Academy Award winners Pedro Almodóvar, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Cannes winners Aki Kaurismäki (“Autumn Leaves”) and the Dardenne Brothers (“Rosetta”), to sign a communiqué protesting the far-right libertarian’s proposal.
The other signees include actor-producers Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna, Isabelle Huppert, directors Olivier Assayas, Kelly Reichardt, Kleber Mendonca Filho, Juan Antonio Bayona, Pedro Costa, Asif Kapadia, Corneliu Porumboiu, Abel Ferrara, Mira Nair, Roger Corman and Isabel Coixet, among many other prominent figures in the global film community.
In a statement, the newly formed coalition Cine Argentino Unido, spearheaded by film director associations,...
- 1/22/2024
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
Marisa Abel plays Amy Winehouse in Sam Taylor-Johnson’s biopic. Here’s the first Back To Black teaser trailer.
Back To Black, Sam Taylor-Johnson’s biopic of late singer Amy Winehouse, is fast approaching, gracing our screens in April. And now we’ve got a first teaser trailer for the film too!
It’s a brief one, hence the word ‘teaser’ before ‘trailer’, but it’s a goodun.
Take a look at the Back To Black teaser trailer below.
Marisa Abel dons Winehouse’s signature big hair and heavy eyeliner in the trailer and we must say, she looks the spitting image of the London-born singer. She’s joined by Eddie Marsan, Lesley Manville and Jack O’Connell in the cast.
The film will chart the beginnings of Winehouse’s rise to fame and judging by the trailer, the ugly aftermath of it as Abel’s Winehouse is chased by the paparazzi.
Back To Black, Sam Taylor-Johnson’s biopic of late singer Amy Winehouse, is fast approaching, gracing our screens in April. And now we’ve got a first teaser trailer for the film too!
It’s a brief one, hence the word ‘teaser’ before ‘trailer’, but it’s a goodun.
Take a look at the Back To Black teaser trailer below.
Marisa Abel dons Winehouse’s signature big hair and heavy eyeliner in the trailer and we must say, she looks the spitting image of the London-born singer. She’s joined by Eddie Marsan, Lesley Manville and Jack O’Connell in the cast.
The film will chart the beginnings of Winehouse’s rise to fame and judging by the trailer, the ugly aftermath of it as Abel’s Winehouse is chased by the paparazzi.
- 1/11/2024
- by Maria Lattila
- Film Stories
Neon has snapped up U.S. rights to Immaculate, a new horror film produced by and starring Sydney Sweeney (Anyone But You), for release in theaters on a date not yet disclosed.
News of the deal comes as Neon & pic’s producer Black Bear await the nationwide Christmas Day release of Michael Mann’s Ferrari. Other forthcoming projects on which the companies have teamed include Osgood Perkins’ Longlegs, starring Nicolas Cage and Maika Monroe, and Asif Kapadia’s 2073.
Directed by Michael Mohan, Immaculate follows Cecilia (Sweeney), a woman of devout faith who is offered a fulfilling new role at an illustrious Italian convent. Her warm welcome to the picture-perfect Italian countryside is soon interrupted as it becomes clearer to Cecilia that her new home harbors some dark and horrifying secrets.
Scripted by Andrew Lobel, the film also stars The White Lotus breakout Simona Tabasco, as well as Alvaro Morte (Money...
News of the deal comes as Neon & pic’s producer Black Bear await the nationwide Christmas Day release of Michael Mann’s Ferrari. Other forthcoming projects on which the companies have teamed include Osgood Perkins’ Longlegs, starring Nicolas Cage and Maika Monroe, and Asif Kapadia’s 2073.
Directed by Michael Mohan, Immaculate follows Cecilia (Sweeney), a woman of devout faith who is offered a fulfilling new role at an illustrious Italian convent. Her warm welcome to the picture-perfect Italian countryside is soon interrupted as it becomes clearer to Cecilia that her new home harbors some dark and horrifying secrets.
Scripted by Andrew Lobel, the film also stars The White Lotus breakout Simona Tabasco, as well as Alvaro Morte (Money...
- 12/19/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Right at the start of this year, we got our first look at the upcoming :a[Amy Winehouse biopic Back To Black]{href='https://www.empireonline.com/movies/news/amy-winehouse-biopic-back-to-black-first-image/' target='blank' rel='noreferrer noopener'} – with _Industry’s Marisa Abela taking on the daunting task of playing Winehouse herself, and :a[Nowhere Boy]{href='https://www.empireonline.com/movies/reviews/nowhere-boy-review/' target='_blank' rel='noreferrer noopener'} director Sam Taylor-Johnson in the director’s chair. And now, almost a year later, we know when it’ll be hitting our screens, bringing Winehouse’s tumultuous life to the big screen. The good news is, it’s not that far off.
Back To Black is confirmed to release in UK cinemas on 12 April 2024, meaning fans of Winehouse’s work won’t be waiting much longer to see how her life is translated to the screen. The film comes with the...
Back To Black is confirmed to release in UK cinemas on 12 April 2024, meaning fans of Winehouse’s work won’t be waiting much longer to see how her life is translated to the screen. The film comes with the...
- 12/5/2023
- by Ben Travis
- Empire - Movies
Sam Taylor-Johnson’s Amy Winehouse biopic, titled Back To Black, will grace our cinema screens on the 12th April, 2024.
A biopic on singer Amy Winehouse’s life has been in the works for a while, but this isn’t the first time the late singer’s life has been portrayed on screen.
Asif Kapadia’s documentary Amy was a critically acclaimed hit, but Winehouse’s father, Mitch Winehouse, was critical of it, calling the experience of watching the film “horrible”. He told the filmmakers as much, too.
Back To Black, directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson, crucially has the support of the Amy Winehouse Estate. Marisa Abel was cast in the lead role after an impressive turn in HBO’s Industry.
Winehouse shot to international fame in 2006 with her second album Back To Black; songs like Rehab resonated with listeners all over the world. Throughout her career, Winehouse sold over 30m records,...
A biopic on singer Amy Winehouse’s life has been in the works for a while, but this isn’t the first time the late singer’s life has been portrayed on screen.
Asif Kapadia’s documentary Amy was a critically acclaimed hit, but Winehouse’s father, Mitch Winehouse, was critical of it, calling the experience of watching the film “horrible”. He told the filmmakers as much, too.
Back To Black, directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson, crucially has the support of the Amy Winehouse Estate. Marisa Abel was cast in the lead role after an impressive turn in HBO’s Industry.
Winehouse shot to international fame in 2006 with her second album Back To Black; songs like Rehab resonated with listeners all over the world. Throughout her career, Winehouse sold over 30m records,...
- 12/5/2023
- by Maria Lattila
- Film Stories
The production had to abandon plans to film in Palestine after the outbreak of the Israel–Hamas war.
Saleh Bakri and Adam Bakri are to star in All That’s Left Of You, the upcoming drama from Palestinian-American filmmaker Cherien Dabis.
Salah is known for Cannes award-winner The Blue Caftan and recent Toronto title The Teacher, which plays in Competition at this year’s Red Sea International Film Festival, while brother Adam made his feature debut in Hany Abu-Assad’s Oscar-nominated Omar, going on to star in Asif Kapadia’s Ali And Nino and award-winning Toronto 2022 title A Gaza Weekend.
Saleh Bakri and Adam Bakri are to star in All That’s Left Of You, the upcoming drama from Palestinian-American filmmaker Cherien Dabis.
Salah is known for Cannes award-winner The Blue Caftan and recent Toronto title The Teacher, which plays in Competition at this year’s Red Sea International Film Festival, while brother Adam made his feature debut in Hany Abu-Assad’s Oscar-nominated Omar, going on to star in Asif Kapadia’s Ali And Nino and award-winning Toronto 2022 title A Gaza Weekend.
- 12/4/2023
- by Mona Sheded
- ScreenDaily
The past 18 months have produced an abundance of celebrity documentaries, but Netflix’s newly released “Robbie Williams” sets out to do something different. Charting Williams’ rise from clueless teenager in British mega-boy band Take That to solo superstar, there’s no talking heads and no glossing over the less salubrious moments in Williams’ 35-year-career, including his relationships, drug-taking and depression.
Director Joe Pearlman, the filmmaker behind last year’s “Harry Potter” reunion and Netflix’s recent Lewis Capaldi documentary, set out to make a series about Williams confronting his extraordinary life head-on. Eschewing traditional documentary formats, the four-part show sees Williams interviewed, mostly in bed, while watching archive footage stretching back three decades.
“We did an initial interview and Rob gave a brilliant interview but it was an interview I’d heard before,” Pearlman says. “We were like, there’s so much more here. We’ve seen the footage, we...
Director Joe Pearlman, the filmmaker behind last year’s “Harry Potter” reunion and Netflix’s recent Lewis Capaldi documentary, set out to make a series about Williams confronting his extraordinary life head-on. Eschewing traditional documentary formats, the four-part show sees Williams interviewed, mostly in bed, while watching archive footage stretching back three decades.
“We did an initial interview and Rob gave a brilliant interview but it was an interview I’d heard before,” Pearlman says. “We were like, there’s so much more here. We’ve seen the footage, we...
- 11/9/2023
- by K.J. Yossman
- Variety Film + TV
Award-winning studio Neon has announced They Follow, the long awaited sequel to the modern horror classic It Follows (2014), from visionary writer/director David Robert Mitchell and starring Maika Monroe. Bloody Disgusting has learned that Monroe will reprise her role of Jay Height, which earned her an Empire Award® nomination for It Follows.
In the first movie, Monroe’s Jay Height is a young woman followed by an unknown supernatural force after a sexual encounter. In 2024, the threat is now Everywhere.
Check out an early piece of poster art for They Follow below.
Neon will introduce the title to international buyers this week at AFM, with principal photography beginning in 2024. Neon will co-produce the film alongside Good Fear Content. Mitchell serves as a producer with Jake Weiner and Chris Bender of Good Fear Content, and the original producers of It Follows, David Kaplan, Erik Rommesmo, Rebecca Green, Laura Smith.
They Follow...
In the first movie, Monroe’s Jay Height is a young woman followed by an unknown supernatural force after a sexual encounter. In 2024, the threat is now Everywhere.
Check out an early piece of poster art for They Follow below.
Neon will introduce the title to international buyers this week at AFM, with principal photography beginning in 2024. Neon will co-produce the film alongside Good Fear Content. Mitchell serves as a producer with Jake Weiner and Chris Bender of Good Fear Content, and the original producers of It Follows, David Kaplan, Erik Rommesmo, Rebecca Green, Laura Smith.
They Follow...
- 10/30/2023
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
Production start scheduled for early 2024. Plot details remain under wraps.
Neon’s new sales division led by Kristen Figeroid is launching worldwide sales at AFM this week on They Follow, David Robert Mitchell’s sequel to his 2014 cult horror It Follows, with Maika Monroe reprising her role.
Monroe returns as Jay Height, who in the original survived a supernatural curse transmitted by sexual contact. Neon CEO Tom Quinn distributed that film when he led RADiUS and it grossed approximately $15m in North America.
They Follow is scheduled to commence shooting in early 2024 and plot details remain under wraps. It is...
Neon’s new sales division led by Kristen Figeroid is launching worldwide sales at AFM this week on They Follow, David Robert Mitchell’s sequel to his 2014 cult horror It Follows, with Maika Monroe reprising her role.
Monroe returns as Jay Height, who in the original survived a supernatural curse transmitted by sexual contact. Neon CEO Tom Quinn distributed that film when he led RADiUS and it grossed approximately $15m in North America.
They Follow is scheduled to commence shooting in early 2024 and plot details remain under wraps. It is...
- 10/30/2023
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Plan B Entertainment has set a joint venture with Oscar-winning documentarian and filmmaker Kevin Macdonald, known for movies including Touching The Void, One Day In September, Whitney, The Last King Of Scotland and State Of Play.
Per the Jv, the two parties will co-develop and co-produce unscripted films and series with both established and emerging directors.
Among Plan B’s current unscripted work is the ongoing Lego Masters series for Fox and the recent Wayne Shorter documentary Zero Gravity for Amazon. French media company Mediawan took a majority stake in the company late last year.
Macdonald’s previous work in documentary also includes Life In A Day, Marley and High & Low — John Galliano. He won a Best Documentary Oscar for One Day in September about the 1972 murder of 11 Israeli athletes at the Summer Olympics In Munich, Germany. His most recent narrative feature was The Mauritanian, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Jodie Foster,...
Per the Jv, the two parties will co-develop and co-produce unscripted films and series with both established and emerging directors.
Among Plan B’s current unscripted work is the ongoing Lego Masters series for Fox and the recent Wayne Shorter documentary Zero Gravity for Amazon. French media company Mediawan took a majority stake in the company late last year.
Macdonald’s previous work in documentary also includes Life In A Day, Marley and High & Low — John Galliano. He won a Best Documentary Oscar for One Day in September about the 1972 murder of 11 Israeli athletes at the Summer Olympics In Munich, Germany. His most recent narrative feature was The Mauritanian, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Jodie Foster,...
- 10/25/2023
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
A group of 55 prominent artists and advocates in the entertainment industry have signed an open letter to President Joe Biden, urging for a call for a ceasefire in Gaza and Israel.
The signatories include names such as Joaquin Phoenix, Cate Blanchett, Jon Stewart, Kristen Stewart, Susan Sarandon, Mahershala Ali, Riz Ahmed, Ramy Youssef and Quinta Brunson.
“We urge your administration, and all world leaders, to honor all of the lives in the Holy Land and call for and facilitate a ceasefire without delay – an end to the bombing of Gaza, and the safe release of hostages,” the letter reads.
The statement, distributed by the organization Artists 4 Ceasefire, also includes a comment from Unicef spokesperson James Elder, emphasizing the devastation inflicted on the population of Gaza by ongoing Israeli air strikes and blockades on water and power.
“Children and families in Gaza have practically run out of food, water, electricity, medicine and safe access to hospitals,...
The signatories include names such as Joaquin Phoenix, Cate Blanchett, Jon Stewart, Kristen Stewart, Susan Sarandon, Mahershala Ali, Riz Ahmed, Ramy Youssef and Quinta Brunson.
“We urge your administration, and all world leaders, to honor all of the lives in the Holy Land and call for and facilitate a ceasefire without delay – an end to the bombing of Gaza, and the safe release of hostages,” the letter reads.
The statement, distributed by the organization Artists 4 Ceasefire, also includes a comment from Unicef spokesperson James Elder, emphasizing the devastation inflicted on the population of Gaza by ongoing Israeli air strikes and blockades on water and power.
“Children and families in Gaza have practically run out of food, water, electricity, medicine and safe access to hospitals,...
- 10/20/2023
- by J. Kim Murphy
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Netflix’s highly-anticipated Senna biopic series has rounded out cast.
Joining previoiusly-announced lead Gabriel Leone and Kaya Scodelario are Alice Wegmann, Camila Márdila, Christian Malheiros, Gabriel Louchard, Hugo Bonemer, Julia Foti, Marco Ricca, Pâmela Tomé and Susana Ribeiro. In addition to the Brazilian actors, Scodelario, who was previously announced, along with Matt Mella, Arnaud Viard, Joe Hurst, Johannes Heinrichs, Keisuke Hoashi, Leon Ockenden, Patrick Kennedy, Richard Clothier, Steven Mackintosh and Tom Mannion are also part of the series.
The large-scale production and some of the actors have just arrived in Brazil, where filming is taking place in São Paulo and Angra dos Reis, Rio de Janeiro, Netflix said. The miniseries, which is one of Netflix’s biggest in Brazil and is produced by Gullane, has already filmed in Argentina and Uruguay and will proceed to the UK after completing filming in the country.
Over the course of six episodes,...
Joining previoiusly-announced lead Gabriel Leone and Kaya Scodelario are Alice Wegmann, Camila Márdila, Christian Malheiros, Gabriel Louchard, Hugo Bonemer, Julia Foti, Marco Ricca, Pâmela Tomé and Susana Ribeiro. In addition to the Brazilian actors, Scodelario, who was previously announced, along with Matt Mella, Arnaud Viard, Joe Hurst, Johannes Heinrichs, Keisuke Hoashi, Leon Ockenden, Patrick Kennedy, Richard Clothier, Steven Mackintosh and Tom Mannion are also part of the series.
The large-scale production and some of the actors have just arrived in Brazil, where filming is taking place in São Paulo and Angra dos Reis, Rio de Janeiro, Netflix said. The miniseries, which is one of Netflix’s biggest in Brazil and is produced by Gullane, has already filmed in Argentina and Uruguay and will proceed to the UK after completing filming in the country.
Over the course of six episodes,...
- 10/20/2023
- by Max Goldbart and Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
The Portuguese doc fesitival has a reputation for showcasing formally bold films with attitude.
As it celebrates its 21st edition this year, Doclisboa is one of the most radical and innovative of the autumn documentary festivals. It opens today (October 19), taking place in the Portuguese capital of Lisbon until October 29.
Festival director Miguel Ribeiro prides himself on programming films with attitude and this year’s international competition includes shorts screening in the same section as features. Six are world premieres.
Whether they are dealing with politics, art or music, the titles screening in Lisbon tend to be opinionated and formally...
As it celebrates its 21st edition this year, Doclisboa is one of the most radical and innovative of the autumn documentary festivals. It opens today (October 19), taking place in the Portuguese capital of Lisbon until October 29.
Festival director Miguel Ribeiro prides himself on programming films with attitude and this year’s international competition includes shorts screening in the same section as features. Six are world premieres.
Whether they are dealing with politics, art or music, the titles screening in Lisbon tend to be opinionated and formally...
- 10/19/2023
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
More than 2,000 figures from the UK’s arts and culture world have signed an open letter calling for the immediate cessation of Israel’s blockade and bombing of Gaza.
“We are witnessing a crime and a catastrophe. Israel has reduced much of Gaza to rubble, and cut off the supply of water, power, food and medicine to 2.3 million Palestinians,” reads the letter. “In the words of the Un’s undersecretary for humanitarian affairs, ‘the spectre of death’ is hanging over the territory.”
The signatories include acting stars Tilda Swinton, Charles Dance, Steve Coogan, Miriam Margolyes, Peter Mullan, Maxine Peake and Khalid Abdalla.
The Israeli action is in retaliation for a brutal terror attack out of Gaza by Hamas on October 7, which killed more than 1,400 people and resulted in the taking of 199 hostages.
More than 2,750 Palestinians are reported to have died in Israel’s subsequent bombing campaign, while electricity, food and...
“We are witnessing a crime and a catastrophe. Israel has reduced much of Gaza to rubble, and cut off the supply of water, power, food and medicine to 2.3 million Palestinians,” reads the letter. “In the words of the Un’s undersecretary for humanitarian affairs, ‘the spectre of death’ is hanging over the territory.”
The signatories include acting stars Tilda Swinton, Charles Dance, Steve Coogan, Miriam Margolyes, Peter Mullan, Maxine Peake and Khalid Abdalla.
The Israeli action is in retaliation for a brutal terror attack out of Gaza by Hamas on October 7, which killed more than 1,400 people and resulted in the taking of 199 hostages.
More than 2,750 Palestinians are reported to have died in Israel’s subsequent bombing campaign, while electricity, food and...
- 10/17/2023
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Netflix has launched the official trailer for the upcoming 4-part documentary ‘Robbie Williams.’ Taking an honest and raw look back on 30 years of his career in the spotlight.
Alongside the trailer release, the streamer has also announced the docu-series will premiere on November 8th.
Coinciding with the 25th anniversary of his solo career, this is the definitive 4-part documentary series on the most successful UK solo artist of all time.
Featuring hundreds of hours of intimate, never-before-seen personal archive spanning 30 years, exclusive access to Robbie and helmed by an acclaimed filmmaking team including Asif Kapadia as an EP; this culture-defining series is the first of its kind to explore the real human being behind the salacious headlines.
Also on trailers – Teaser trailer drops for 6th & final season of ‘The Crown’
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Alongside the trailer release, the streamer has also announced the docu-series will premiere on November 8th.
Coinciding with the 25th anniversary of his solo career, this is the definitive 4-part documentary series on the most successful UK solo artist of all time.
Featuring hundreds of hours of intimate, never-before-seen personal archive spanning 30 years, exclusive access to Robbie and helmed by an acclaimed filmmaking team including Asif Kapadia as an EP; this culture-defining series is the first of its kind to explore the real human being behind the salacious headlines.
Also on trailers – Teaser trailer drops for 6th & final season of ‘The Crown’
The post “The past has me in a headlock…” Full trailer stomps in for docu-series ‘Robbie Williams’ appeared first on HeyUGuys.
- 10/11/2023
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
"I felt like I was giving more and more of myself away... To the point where you are not somebody you recognize." Netflix has unveiled an official trailer for their upcoming music biopic doc series called Robbie Williams, which is clearly all about Robbie Williams. We posted the teaser trailer just a few weeks ago. Coinciding with the 25th anniversary of his solo career, this is the definitive 4-part documentary series on the most successful UK solo artist of all time, spanning his entire music career. Featuring hundreds of hours of intimate, never-before-seen personal archive spanning 30 years, exclusive access to Robbie and helmed by an acclaimed filmmaking team including Asif Kapadia as an EP; this culture-defining series is the first of its kind to explore the real human being behind the salacious headlines. His discography includes seven UK No. 1 singles, and all but one of his 14 studio albums have reached No.
- 10/11/2023
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall erupted into a flurry of cheers this afternoon as filmmaker Martin Scorsese strolled on stage to take part in a career Q&a at the London Film Festival.
The keynote session, hosted by Baby Driver filmmaker Edgar Wright, was the hottest ticket here this week in London. With a completely sold-out crowd of devoted film fans and UK-based filmmakers like Dexter Fletcher and Asif Kapadia, the session unraveled almost like a university lecture, with Scorsese speaking for lengthy periods about his films, career, and the effect both have had on his life.
“I’ve always considered myself a teacher more than a filmmaker,” Scorsese began when quizzed on his voracious appetite for world cinema and why he likes to remain in dialogue with other people about the films he loves.
“I’ve felt a sense of pride that I’ve influenced a couple of...
The keynote session, hosted by Baby Driver filmmaker Edgar Wright, was the hottest ticket here this week in London. With a completely sold-out crowd of devoted film fans and UK-based filmmakers like Dexter Fletcher and Asif Kapadia, the session unraveled almost like a university lecture, with Scorsese speaking for lengthy periods about his films, career, and the effect both have had on his life.
“I’ve always considered myself a teacher more than a filmmaker,” Scorsese began when quizzed on his voracious appetite for world cinema and why he likes to remain in dialogue with other people about the films he loves.
“I’ve felt a sense of pride that I’ve influenced a couple of...
- 10/7/2023
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
Scorsese gave a Screen Talk at the BFI London Film Festival, hosted by Edgar Wright.
Martin Scorsese has said he “didn’t want to be the last line of defence” for auteur-led filmmaking against franchise films, while renewing his criticism of the obsession with “content” over cinema.
Speaking at a Screen Talk at the BFI London Film Festival (Lff) hosted by director Edgar Wright, Scorsese said, “Content is something you eat and throw away. Content is candy. It’s madness.”
The director was asked by Wright about his comments in recent years on the state of the film industry, and...
Martin Scorsese has said he “didn’t want to be the last line of defence” for auteur-led filmmaking against franchise films, while renewing his criticism of the obsession with “content” over cinema.
Speaking at a Screen Talk at the BFI London Film Festival (Lff) hosted by director Edgar Wright, Scorsese said, “Content is something you eat and throw away. Content is candy. It’s madness.”
The director was asked by Wright about his comments in recent years on the state of the film industry, and...
- 10/7/2023
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
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