by Nathaniel R
Catherine Corsini celebrates her Queer Palm win
The Queer Palm jury this year was led by actor Nicolas Maury (Call My Agent), and included Josza Anjembe, Vahram Murayan, Roxane Mesquida, and Aloïse Sauvage. They've given their prize to La Fracture / The Divide by Catherine Corsini (reviewed here) which is about a fifty-something lesbian couple (inspired by Corsini's own relationship) who are trying to survive a night in a chaotic hospital during a yellow vest protest. The film is also rumored to be a contender for a prize tonight when Spike Lee's jury hands out their awards in the main competition.
The other eligible feature films vying for the unofficial prize were...
Catherine Corsini celebrates her Queer Palm win
The Queer Palm jury this year was led by actor Nicolas Maury (Call My Agent), and included Josza Anjembe, Vahram Murayan, Roxane Mesquida, and Aloïse Sauvage. They've given their prize to La Fracture / The Divide by Catherine Corsini (reviewed here) which is about a fifty-something lesbian couple (inspired by Corsini's own relationship) who are trying to survive a night in a chaotic hospital during a yellow vest protest. The film is also rumored to be a contender for a prize tonight when Spike Lee's jury hands out their awards in the main competition.
The other eligible feature films vying for the unofficial prize were...
- 7/17/2021
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
As with most festivals in a pandemic world, Slamdance Film Festival is changing things up with their 2021 edition. Moving a few weeks back to February 12-25, no longer directly competing with Sundance Film Festival, the festival will be taking place primarily virtually. In quite a feat of accessibility, a full festival pass is also now available for free––if you secure yours by December 31st. After that, they are going up to $10, which is still a steal.
The festival has also announced its full lineup, with 25 features along with 107 shorts and episodic. Films, Q&As, and panels will be available on Slamdance.com, AppleTV, Roku, Firestick, and YouTube, while in-person events will take place in Joshua Tree with drive-ins open to the public on February 13th and 14th as well as the closing night screening at a Los Angeles drive-in on February 25.
Check out the lineup below and reserve your festival pass here.
The festival has also announced its full lineup, with 25 features along with 107 shorts and episodic. Films, Q&As, and panels will be available on Slamdance.com, AppleTV, Roku, Firestick, and YouTube, while in-person events will take place in Joshua Tree with drive-ins open to the public on February 13th and 14th as well as the closing night screening at a Los Angeles drive-in on February 25.
Check out the lineup below and reserve your festival pass here.
- 12/1/2020
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Chicago – Reviving a film from local cinema treasure Michael Glover Smith is always welcome at any time, but especially now. The Gene Siskel Film Center is enhancing their “From Your Sofa” download-from-home film series with Smith’s seminal release, “Mercury in Retrograde” through April 23rd.
The Gangs All Here in a Scene from ‘Mercury in Retrograde’
Photo credit: SiskelFilmCenter.org
The partnership between the film and the Film Center – 50% of the ticket price goes toward the Siskel during the pandemic closure – is a natural one, as Smith’s films have played at the venue frequently in different runs. For more details about the screening, including a live Q&a on April 17th, click here.
“Mercury in Retrograde” involves three Chicago couples, Golda and Jack (Alana Arenas and Jack C. Newell), Richard and Isabelle (Kevin Wehby and Roxane Mesquida ), plus Wyatt and Peggy (Shane Simmons and Najarra Townsend) … they are together...
The Gangs All Here in a Scene from ‘Mercury in Retrograde’
Photo credit: SiskelFilmCenter.org
The partnership between the film and the Film Center – 50% of the ticket price goes toward the Siskel during the pandemic closure – is a natural one, as Smith’s films have played at the venue frequently in different runs. For more details about the screening, including a live Q&a on April 17th, click here.
“Mercury in Retrograde” involves three Chicago couples, Golda and Jack (Alana Arenas and Jack C. Newell), Richard and Isabelle (Kevin Wehby and Roxane Mesquida ), plus Wyatt and Peggy (Shane Simmons and Najarra Townsend) … they are together...
- 4/16/2020
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Garçon chiffon
Actor Nicolas Maury makes his directorial debut with Garçon chiffon (in which he also stars and co-wrote), assembling a notable cast consisting of Nathalie Baye, Roxane Mesquida, Arnaud Valois, Jean-Marc Barr and Laure Calamy. When the project was initially announced, Isabelle Huppert was attached but it seems Baye replaced her as the film’s co-star (Baye and Huppert previously co-starred in Godard’s 1980 title Every Man for Himself). The title is produced by Charles Gillibert and lensed by Raphaël Vandenbussche. Maury has appeared in a number of noted films since the mid-2000s, perhaps most recognizable in the Us thanks to his role in a segment of the 2006 omnibus Paris je t’aime.…...
Actor Nicolas Maury makes his directorial debut with Garçon chiffon (in which he also stars and co-wrote), assembling a notable cast consisting of Nathalie Baye, Roxane Mesquida, Arnaud Valois, Jean-Marc Barr and Laure Calamy. When the project was initially announced, Isabelle Huppert was attached but it seems Baye replaced her as the film’s co-star (Baye and Huppert previously co-starred in Godard’s 1980 title Every Man for Himself). The title is produced by Charles Gillibert and lensed by Raphaël Vandenbussche. Maury has appeared in a number of noted films since the mid-2000s, perhaps most recognizable in the Us thanks to his role in a segment of the 2006 omnibus Paris je t’aime.…...
- 12/30/2019
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Indie auteur Gregg Araki’s outlandishly weird Starz series “Now Apocalypse” has officially been canceled after one season. But there may be a future for the show yet, according to the filmmaker.
“We are shopping for a new home since the show’s cheap, and with the most amazing cast and incredibly passionate fanbase,” said Araki in an email to IndieWire. “The fan reaction let me know that the people who watched it got it exactly as I hoped. The show really is a dream come true for me. I love it so much and am so proud of the work we all did together. And regardless of what happens, I’m happy knowing that it will live forever in the streaming/sharing cosmos.”
Araki continued, “As far as our demo goes, we were told when we got greenlit that, in the wake of their successful app launch, Starz was...
“We are shopping for a new home since the show’s cheap, and with the most amazing cast and incredibly passionate fanbase,” said Araki in an email to IndieWire. “The fan reaction let me know that the people who watched it got it exactly as I hoped. The show really is a dream come true for me. I love it so much and am so proud of the work we all did together. And regardless of what happens, I’m happy knowing that it will live forever in the streaming/sharing cosmos.”
Araki continued, “As far as our demo goes, we were told when we got greenlit that, in the wake of their successful app launch, Starz was...
- 7/28/2019
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
Starz has opted not to proceed with a second season of comedy Now Apocalypse.
“It was a great show, it was a great experiment for us but we have made the decision not to bring it back,” Starz COO Jeff Hirsch said at the top of the network’s TCA session.
To drum up interest in Now Apocalypse, Starz made the entire first season available across its non-linear platforms at launch, and made the premiere episode available for free on a slew of sites, including Starz.com and Starz YouTube channel.
An official selection of Sundance Film Festival 2019 and Canneseries Festival 2019, Now Apocalypse starred Avan Jogia as Ulysses, who is struggling to figure out his life in the surreal city of Los Angeles. Kelli Berglund starred as Carly, Beau Mirchoff as Ford, and Roxane Mesquida as Severine, all of them on quests for love, sex, and fame.
Between sexual and romantic dating-app adventures,...
“It was a great show, it was a great experiment for us but we have made the decision not to bring it back,” Starz COO Jeff Hirsch said at the top of the network’s TCA session.
To drum up interest in Now Apocalypse, Starz made the entire first season available across its non-linear platforms at launch, and made the premiere episode available for free on a slew of sites, including Starz.com and Starz YouTube channel.
An official selection of Sundance Film Festival 2019 and Canneseries Festival 2019, Now Apocalypse starred Avan Jogia as Ulysses, who is struggling to figure out his life in the surreal city of Los Angeles. Kelli Berglund starred as Carly, Beau Mirchoff as Ford, and Roxane Mesquida as Severine, all of them on quests for love, sex, and fame.
Between sexual and romantic dating-app adventures,...
- 7/26/2019
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
“Now Apocalypse” has been canceled after one season, Starz COO Jeffrey Hirsch said during the Television Critics Association press tour Friday.
Hirsch told reporters that the comedy, which premiered in March, is a “great show,” but the premium cable channel does not intend to bring it back for another season. “We have made a decision not to bring it back,” he said.
“Now Apocalypse” starred Avan Jogia as Ulysses, who is struggling to figure out his life in the surreal city of Los Angeles. Kelli Berglund, Beau Mirchoff, Roxane Mesquida also starred.
Also Read: Starz's 'Now Apocalypse' Had No 'Time or Budget' for Intimacy Coordinators, Creator Gregg Araki Says
According to Starz, the series focused on Ulysses and his friends Carly (Berglund), Ford (Mirchoff) and Severine (Mesquida) as they navigated love, sex and fame in Los Angeles. This is all happening as Ulysses is having premonitory dreams about the end of the world,...
Hirsch told reporters that the comedy, which premiered in March, is a “great show,” but the premium cable channel does not intend to bring it back for another season. “We have made a decision not to bring it back,” he said.
“Now Apocalypse” starred Avan Jogia as Ulysses, who is struggling to figure out his life in the surreal city of Los Angeles. Kelli Berglund, Beau Mirchoff, Roxane Mesquida also starred.
Also Read: Starz's 'Now Apocalypse' Had No 'Time or Budget' for Intimacy Coordinators, Creator Gregg Araki Says
According to Starz, the series focused on Ulysses and his friends Carly (Berglund), Ford (Mirchoff) and Severine (Mesquida) as they navigated love, sex and fame in Los Angeles. This is all happening as Ulysses is having premonitory dreams about the end of the world,...
- 7/26/2019
- by Jennifer Maas and Tim Baysinger
- The Wrap
Starz has canceled “Now Apocalypse” after just one season.
The announcement was made at the Television Critics Association summer press tour on Friday. “’Now Apocalypse’ is a great show, as we all know it’s been a really good experiment, but we have made the decision not to bring it back,” said Starz COO Jeffrey Hirsch.
The series, created by Gregg Araki, was described as a surreal, coming-of-age comedy that follows Ulysses (Avan Jogia) and his friends Carly (Kelli Berglund), Ford (Beau Mirchoff), and Severine (Roxane Mesquida), who are on various quests pursing love, sex and fame in Los Angeles. Between sexual and romantic dating app adventures, Ulysses’ foreboding premonitory dreams make him wonder if some kind of dark and monstrous conspiracy going on, or is he just smoking too much weed?
Araki co-wrote each episode with Karley Sciortino, creator and host of “Slutever” on Viceland. Araki also executive produced...
The announcement was made at the Television Critics Association summer press tour on Friday. “’Now Apocalypse’ is a great show, as we all know it’s been a really good experiment, but we have made the decision not to bring it back,” said Starz COO Jeffrey Hirsch.
The series, created by Gregg Araki, was described as a surreal, coming-of-age comedy that follows Ulysses (Avan Jogia) and his friends Carly (Kelli Berglund), Ford (Beau Mirchoff), and Severine (Roxane Mesquida), who are on various quests pursing love, sex and fame in Los Angeles. Between sexual and romantic dating app adventures, Ulysses’ foreboding premonitory dreams make him wonder if some kind of dark and monstrous conspiracy going on, or is he just smoking too much weed?
Araki co-wrote each episode with Karley Sciortino, creator and host of “Slutever” on Viceland. Araki also executive produced...
- 7/26/2019
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
Talent manager Laura Gibson has left Generate and has teamed with former talent agents Hannah Roth and Meghan Shankar to form the talent management company 11:11 Entertainment.
Gibson started her career at UTA, was an agent at ICM and spent the last six years in management at Generate. Roth spent the last twenty years at Buchwald working as an agent in both their NY and La offices. Shankar started her career at Creative Artists Management before moving to La where she worked at Gersh and then Domain as an agent for the last three years.
Their client roster includes Steve Agee, Luke Arnold, Samuel Anderson (Netflix’s Another Life), Brent Antonello (Dynasty), Eli Brown (Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionist), Louis Ozawa Changchien, Kimberly Hébert Gregory Saves the World), Marvin “Krondon” Jones,...
Gibson started her career at UTA, was an agent at ICM and spent the last six years in management at Generate. Roth spent the last twenty years at Buchwald working as an agent in both their NY and La offices. Shankar started her career at Creative Artists Management before moving to La where she worked at Gersh and then Domain as an agent for the last three years.
Their client roster includes Steve Agee, Luke Arnold, Samuel Anderson (Netflix’s Another Life), Brent Antonello (Dynasty), Eli Brown (Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionist), Louis Ozawa Changchien, Kimberly Hébert Gregory Saves the World), Marvin “Krondon” Jones,...
- 7/12/2019
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Stars: Charley Palmer Rothwell, Roxane Mesquida, Hippolyte de Poucques, Daphné Huynh, Thomas Mustin, Marie Zabukovec, Laetitia Chambon, Helena Chambon | Written by Jacques Kluger, Amiel Bartana | Directed by Jacques Kluger
Welcome to Paranoia, the ultimate escape game. Rule #1: Nothing is real. Rule #2: One of you will die.
Play or Die follows Lucas (Charley Palmer Rothwell) and Chloe (Roxane Mesquida) who – after some serious persuasion by Chloe – decide to participate in Paranoia, a very exclusive escape game. After solving a first riddle, they make it to the location of the finale in an abandoned mental hospital, lost in a frightening forest. There, four other participants are waiting on them; participants who, after only a couple of rooms into their “adventure,” all soon realize that only one of them will get out of there alive…
Now you’d be forgiven for thinking that Play or Die was inspired by the likes...
Welcome to Paranoia, the ultimate escape game. Rule #1: Nothing is real. Rule #2: One of you will die.
Play or Die follows Lucas (Charley Palmer Rothwell) and Chloe (Roxane Mesquida) who – after some serious persuasion by Chloe – decide to participate in Paranoia, a very exclusive escape game. After solving a first riddle, they make it to the location of the finale in an abandoned mental hospital, lost in a frightening forest. There, four other participants are waiting on them; participants who, after only a couple of rooms into their “adventure,” all soon realize that only one of them will get out of there alive…
Now you’d be forgiven for thinking that Play or Die was inspired by the likes...
- 7/3/2019
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Starz treated Emmy voters to an all-day Fyc event at the Century City Mall in Los Angeles on June 2, featuring panel discussions for their top contenders. The casts and crews of “American Gods,” “America to Me,” “Now Apocalypse,” “Outlander,” “Power,” “The Spanish Princess” and “Vida” took audience members behind the scenes to discuss their work. Following the talks, which were hosted by Page Six TV’s Bevy Smith and Elizabeth Wagmeister, attendees toured interactive displays from those shows in the shopping center’s open-air plaza. Click on the titles below to be see videos of their full Q&a discussions.
See ‘Outlander’ Emmy submissions: Sam Heughan, Caitriona Balfe, Sophie Skelton and more vie for nominations
“American Gods”: Stars Ricky Whittle, Yetide Badaki, Mousa Kraish and Omid Abtahi; director Salli Richardson-Whitfield; and writer-producer Rodney Barnes discuss this fantasy series about mythical gods and modern deities who walk amongst humans.
“America to Me...
See ‘Outlander’ Emmy submissions: Sam Heughan, Caitriona Balfe, Sophie Skelton and more vie for nominations
“American Gods”: Stars Ricky Whittle, Yetide Badaki, Mousa Kraish and Omid Abtahi; director Salli Richardson-Whitfield; and writer-producer Rodney Barnes discuss this fantasy series about mythical gods and modern deities who walk amongst humans.
“America to Me...
- 6/21/2019
- by Zach Laws
- Gold Derby
In a Gold Derby exclusive, we have learned the category placements of the key Emmy Awards contenders for Starz. For this season, the premium network has newcomer “Now Apocalypse” (Kelli Berglund), “Counterpart” (J.K. Simmons), “Outlander” and “Vida” and limited series “The Spanish Princess” (Charlotte Hope) as part of their 2019 campaign.
Below, the list of Starz lead, supporting and guest submissions for their comedies, dramas and limited series. More names might be added by the network on the final Emmy ballot. Also note that performers not included on this list may well be submitted by their personal reps.
SEESam Heughan and Caitriona Balfe are gorgeous in green in this first photo from ‘Outlander’ Season 5
“America To Me”
Documentary or Nonfiction Series
“American Gods”
Drama Series
Drama Actor – Ian McShane, Ricky Whittle
Drama Supporting Actress – Yetide Badaki, Emily Browning
Drama Supporting Actor – Crispin Glover, Orlando Jones, Bruce Langley, Pablo Schreiber
Drama Guest Actress – Laura Bell Bundy,...
Below, the list of Starz lead, supporting and guest submissions for their comedies, dramas and limited series. More names might be added by the network on the final Emmy ballot. Also note that performers not included on this list may well be submitted by their personal reps.
SEESam Heughan and Caitriona Balfe are gorgeous in green in this first photo from ‘Outlander’ Season 5
“America To Me”
Documentary or Nonfiction Series
“American Gods”
Drama Series
Drama Actor – Ian McShane, Ricky Whittle
Drama Supporting Actress – Yetide Badaki, Emily Browning
Drama Supporting Actor – Crispin Glover, Orlando Jones, Bruce Langley, Pablo Schreiber
Drama Guest Actress – Laura Bell Bundy,...
- 5/13/2019
- by Chris Beachum
- Gold Derby
Based on the thrilling novel "Puzzle" by Franck Thilliez, Jacques Kluger's Play or Die will finally see a release from Samuel Goldwyn Film, who recently stick-handled the release of Xavier Gens' Cold Skin. The escape room style horror thriller stars Charley Palmer (Dunkirk), Roxane Mesquida, Marie Zabukovec, Thomas Mustin (Raw), and Igor Van Dessel. It will be available through On-Demand and on Digital platforms as of July 2. In the story, Lucas and Chloe are two passionate gamers who decide to participate in "Paranoia", a very exclusive escape game. After solving the first riddle, they make it to the location of the finale in an abandoned mental hospital, hidden deep in a frightening forest. There, four other participants are waiting for them. Together, they soon...
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- 4/25/2019
- Screen Anarchy
Welcome to Paranoia, the ultimate escape game. Rule #1: Nothing is real. Rule #2: One of you will die.
Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired North American rights to the horror movie Play or Die, directed by Jacques Kluger. The film stars Charley Palmer (Dunkirk), Roxane Mesquida (“Now Apocalypse”), Marie Zabukovec (Interrail), Thomas Mustin (Raw), and Igor Van Dessel (Racer And The Jailbird).
Play Or Die will be available through On-Demand and on Digital platforms July 2.
Synopsis:
In the story, Lucas and Chloe are two passionate gamers. They decide to participate in Paranoia, a very exclusive escape game. After solving the first riddle, they make it to the location of the finale in an abandoned mental hospital, hidden deep in a frighten...
Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired North American rights to the horror movie Play or Die, directed by Jacques Kluger. The film stars Charley Palmer (Dunkirk), Roxane Mesquida (“Now Apocalypse”), Marie Zabukovec (Interrail), Thomas Mustin (Raw), and Igor Van Dessel (Racer And The Jailbird).
Play Or Die will be available through On-Demand and on Digital platforms July 2.
Synopsis:
In the story, Lucas and Chloe are two passionate gamers. They decide to participate in Paranoia, a very exclusive escape game. After solving the first riddle, they make it to the location of the finale in an abandoned mental hospital, hidden deep in a frighten...
- 4/24/2019
- QuietEarth.us
Film distributor and production house Samuel Goldwyn Films has just announced a release date for the horror thriller Play or Die. Taking a note from the escape room phenomenon, Play or Die will show on digital platforms, this Summer. Play or Die is a film from director Jacques Kluger and this title was shot in Belgium. In the film, there are two rules. When either one is broken, a character will perish in this isolated locale. As well Play or Die stars: Charley Palmer (Dunkirk), Roxane Mesquida ("Now Apocalypse"), Marie Zabukovec (Interrail), Thomas Mustin and Igor Van Dessel. An early look ahead at the film's release is available here. Several stills have been released for Play or Die. They show a masked killer and a room set on fire. This is one escape room which requires more than wits to survive. As well, Samuel Goldwyn will release an updated poster,...
- 4/24/2019
- by noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)
- 28 Days Later Analysis
Starting tonight, Starz will release the full 10-episode premiere of its original series Now Apocalypse across its non-linear platforms, and will make the series premiere episode available for free on its Starz.com, Starz YouTube channel, Reddit and Pride Media platforms, including Pride.com, Out.com and Advocate.com.
The giveaway starts at midnight Et/9 Pm Pacific on Friday, March 22. An official selection of Sundance Film Festival 2019 and Canneseries Festival 2019, Now Apocalypse stars Avan Jogia as Ulysses, who is struggling to figure out his life in the surreal city of Los Angeles. Kelli Berglund stars as Carly, Beau Mirchoff as Ford, and Roxane Mesquida as Severine, all of them on quests for love, sex, and fame.
Between sexual and romantic dating-app adventures, Ulysses grows increasingly troubled as foreboding, premonitory dreams make him wonder if some kind of dark...
The giveaway starts at midnight Et/9 Pm Pacific on Friday, March 22. An official selection of Sundance Film Festival 2019 and Canneseries Festival 2019, Now Apocalypse stars Avan Jogia as Ulysses, who is struggling to figure out his life in the surreal city of Los Angeles. Kelli Berglund stars as Carly, Beau Mirchoff as Ford, and Roxane Mesquida as Severine, all of them on quests for love, sex, and fame.
Between sexual and romantic dating-app adventures, Ulysses grows increasingly troubled as foreboding, premonitory dreams make him wonder if some kind of dark...
- 3/22/2019
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
Brian Berman Mar 21, 2019
At SXSW 2019, we sat down with the cast and creators of Now Apocalypse to learn why the new show is a “ray of light” in dark times.
Now Apocalypse spares no expense to craft a multifarious millennial experience. The Starz series follows four 20-somethings in Los Angeles each pursuing the realization of their own dreams, but it's also packed to the brim with sex, weed, and paranormal conspiracy.
For the primary “hero” (and massive stoner) Ulysses (Avan Jogia) that dream is true love. For his roommate Ford, played by Beau Mirchoff, an acceptable endgame is a fruitful writing career. Ford’s partner, the mystifying Severine (Roxane Mesquida), bends relationship expectations while hunting for scientific success. The trio’s uninhibited friend Carly (Kelli Berglund), like countless others in Los Angeles, simply wants to be a well-known actor.
Director and writer Gregg Araki’s TV foray draws upon his successes in indie filmmaking,...
At SXSW 2019, we sat down with the cast and creators of Now Apocalypse to learn why the new show is a “ray of light” in dark times.
Now Apocalypse spares no expense to craft a multifarious millennial experience. The Starz series follows four 20-somethings in Los Angeles each pursuing the realization of their own dreams, but it's also packed to the brim with sex, weed, and paranormal conspiracy.
For the primary “hero” (and massive stoner) Ulysses (Avan Jogia) that dream is true love. For his roommate Ford, played by Beau Mirchoff, an acceptable endgame is a fruitful writing career. Ford’s partner, the mystifying Severine (Roxane Mesquida), bends relationship expectations while hunting for scientific success. The trio’s uninhibited friend Carly (Kelli Berglund), like countless others in Los Angeles, simply wants to be a well-known actor.
Director and writer Gregg Araki’s TV foray draws upon his successes in indie filmmaking,...
- 3/22/2019
- Den of Geek
The new Starz comedy Now Apocalypse, premiering tonight at 9/8c, sets out to confirm something you’ve likely always suspected: “there are aliens in the Los Angeles dating scene.” It’s a perfectly viable theory, even if the show’s free-spirited protagonist Ulysses (played by Twisted‘s Avan Jogia) might not be the most reliable narrator. “Stoned and paranoid” is pretty much his default mode.
“He’s a sexual astronaut, he’s exploring,” Jogia tells TVLine. “Sexuality is a spectrum, and he moves around it. He definitely has the realms in which he’s most comfortable, but he’s also...
“He’s a sexual astronaut, he’s exploring,” Jogia tells TVLine. “Sexuality is a spectrum, and he moves around it. He definitely has the realms in which he’s most comfortable, but he’s also...
- 3/10/2019
- TVLine.com
Filmmaker Gregg Araki’s new apocalyptic Starz comedy is as original as it is derivative, but at least it’s having some fun.
The following review contains no spoilers.
Much like the James Joyce novel from which his name derives, Now Apocalypse’s Ulysses (Avan Jogia) finds himself on an increasingly surreal-yet-mundane journey that begins in ends in similar fashion. In the first moments of the premiere, he has a vision of sexual violence and quickly escapes from it by bike. Toward the episode’s end, said bike collapses underneath him in front of the very place his vision occurred.
Of course, that’s not all that creator Gregg Araki manages to fit into “This Is the Beginning of the End” and subsequent episodes. Known for his so-called “Teen apocalypse trilogy” of the ‘90s, the filmmaker is widely known for a visual and narrative style that seemingly favors bright colors and hypersexuality.
The following review contains no spoilers.
Much like the James Joyce novel from which his name derives, Now Apocalypse’s Ulysses (Avan Jogia) finds himself on an increasingly surreal-yet-mundane journey that begins in ends in similar fashion. In the first moments of the premiere, he has a vision of sexual violence and quickly escapes from it by bike. Toward the episode’s end, said bike collapses underneath him in front of the very place his vision occurred.
Of course, that’s not all that creator Gregg Araki manages to fit into “This Is the Beginning of the End” and subsequent episodes. Known for his so-called “Teen apocalypse trilogy” of the ‘90s, the filmmaker is widely known for a visual and narrative style that seemingly favors bright colors and hypersexuality.
- 3/7/2019
- Den of Geek
In one episode of the endearingly peculiar and energetic new Starz comedy Now Apocalypse (debuting on March 10th), the show’s directionless hero Ulysses (Avan Jogia), has sex with a hot delivery guy, then asks if his life is some “never-ending porno.” The delivery guy suggests this was an anomaly for him, but it’s not for Ulysses and the show’s other characters, whose lives can at times seem barely distinguishable from adult films.
Ulysses’ friend Carly (Kelli Berglund) is an aspiring actress whose gifts assert themselves more strongly...
Ulysses’ friend Carly (Kelli Berglund) is an aspiring actress whose gifts assert themselves more strongly...
- 3/4/2019
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Rollingstone.com
Gregg Araki said he wanted to make a “crazy, wild ride” of a show like Now Apocalypse for the last 20 years. He was speaking Tuesday at TCA alongside the cast of the Starz sex comedy on a rambunctious panel where topics including the role of the intimacy coach were addressed.
Araki, who has directed films including The Doom Generation and Nowhere and is heavily involved in New Queer Cinema, said that he was a big fan of shows such as Sex and the City, Girls and Insecure.
“I’ve always wanted to make a show like that but I don’t feel like you can do that in 2019 because it’s been done, you run out of stories, they’ve all been done so the whole alien UFO conspiracy, dark David Lynch creepy aspect, all of that is the special sauce that keeps this show [weird],” he said.
Now Apocalypse is...
Araki, who has directed films including The Doom Generation and Nowhere and is heavily involved in New Queer Cinema, said that he was a big fan of shows such as Sex and the City, Girls and Insecure.
“I’ve always wanted to make a show like that but I don’t feel like you can do that in 2019 because it’s been done, you run out of stories, they’ve all been done so the whole alien UFO conspiracy, dark David Lynch creepy aspect, all of that is the special sauce that keeps this show [weird],” he said.
Now Apocalypse is...
- 2/12/2019
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Starz’s ‘Now Apocalypse’ Had No ‘Time or Budget’ for Intimacy Coordinators, Creator Gregg Araki Says
Despite the number of sex scenes in Gregg Araki’s upcoming Starz drama “Now Apocalypse,” the filmmaker said the show had neither the time nor the budget to have intimacy coordinators on set. But the cast and director said it was nonetheless a top priority for everyone on set that actors felt comfortable at all times.
“I’ve done a lot of movies with a lot of sex scenes,” Araki told reporters at the Television Critics Association press tour on Tuesday. “It’s really important that you create an environment where the actors feel safe, where they feel protected. I always tell them to pull me aside and we can have a private conversation if they feel weird about something.”
A stylized look at the romantic, sexual and dating lives of 20-somethings in Los Angeles in the dating app era, “Now Apocalypse” doesn’t shy away from the more adventurous aspects of sex,...
“I’ve done a lot of movies with a lot of sex scenes,” Araki told reporters at the Television Critics Association press tour on Tuesday. “It’s really important that you create an environment where the actors feel safe, where they feel protected. I always tell them to pull me aside and we can have a private conversation if they feel weird about something.”
A stylized look at the romantic, sexual and dating lives of 20-somethings in Los Angeles in the dating app era, “Now Apocalypse” doesn’t shy away from the more adventurous aspects of sex,...
- 2/12/2019
- by Reid Nakamura
- The Wrap
The new Starz series “Now Apocalypse” represents a merger of sorts between the two sides of director Gregg Araki’s career. Between 1987 and 2014, Araki produced multiple cult hit movies — several of which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival — centering around an understanding of modern life, for young people, as fueled by the need for intimacy and the sense of impending disaster. (Not for nothing was his breakthrough film called “The Doom Generation.”) For the past few years, though, Araki has reinvented himself as a journeyman TV director, contributing episodes to series including “American Crime,” “13 Reasons Why,” “Riverdale,” and “Heathers.”
All of those shows, incidentally, take as their guiding premise the idea that youth, in the 2010s, is a time not of promise but of endless threat, as young people, uniquely clear-eyed enough to see the world for as perilous as it really is, are also disempowered to do much about it.
All of those shows, incidentally, take as their guiding premise the idea that youth, in the 2010s, is a time not of promise but of endless threat, as young people, uniquely clear-eyed enough to see the world for as perilous as it really is, are also disempowered to do much about it.
- 1/30/2019
- by Daniel D'Addario
- Variety Film + TV
Starz has released its first trailer for their new original series ‘Now Apocalypse’ from the minds of filmmaking icon Gregg Araki along with Steven Soderbergh and Gregory Jacobs.
‘Now Apocalypse’ explores identity, sexuality and artistry while navigating the strange and oftentimes bewildering city of Los Angeles. Between sexual and romantic dating app adventures, Ulysses grows increasingly troubled as foreboding premonitory dreams make him wonder if some kind of dark and monstrous conspiracy is going on, or if he is just smoking too much weed?
Kelli Berglund, Beau Mirchoff, Roxane Mesquida and Tyler Posey co-star.
Araki co-wrote and directed all 10 half-hour episodes of the sexy, vibrant and fast-moving series that has a flipside of mythic, dreamlike creepiness. Karley Sciortino, Vogue.com sex columnist, and creator and host of ‘Slutever’ on Viceland co-wrote the series with Araki and serves as a consulting producer.
Also in trailers – Juliette Binoche and Robert Pattinson star in U.
‘Now Apocalypse’ explores identity, sexuality and artistry while navigating the strange and oftentimes bewildering city of Los Angeles. Between sexual and romantic dating app adventures, Ulysses grows increasingly troubled as foreboding premonitory dreams make him wonder if some kind of dark and monstrous conspiracy is going on, or if he is just smoking too much weed?
Kelli Berglund, Beau Mirchoff, Roxane Mesquida and Tyler Posey co-star.
Araki co-wrote and directed all 10 half-hour episodes of the sexy, vibrant and fast-moving series that has a flipside of mythic, dreamlike creepiness. Karley Sciortino, Vogue.com sex columnist, and creator and host of ‘Slutever’ on Viceland co-wrote the series with Araki and serves as a consulting producer.
Also in trailers – Juliette Binoche and Robert Pattinson star in U.
- 1/17/2019
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
“I’m Ulysses. Everyone in my life right now is insane.” Judging from the first trailer for the Starz coming-of-age comedy Now Apocalypse, that seems about right. Have a look at it above, and judge for yourself.
Avan Jogia stars as a young man struggling to figure out his life in the surreal and bewildering city of Los Angeles. And having these increasingly troubling sleeptime premonitions. Is there some kind of dark and monstrous conspiracy is going on, or might that just be da kine kicking in? Speaking of which, dig to all those far-out colors, man.
Kelli Berglund, Beau Mirchoff and Roxane Mesquida also star as Ulysses’ respective millennial friends Carly, Ford and Severine — all of whom are on various quests pursuing love, sex and fame.
Gregg Araki created, directs and co-writes Now Apocalypse, which he also executive produces alongside Steven Soderbergh and Gregory Jacobs. Vogue.com sex columnist...
Avan Jogia stars as a young man struggling to figure out his life in the surreal and bewildering city of Los Angeles. And having these increasingly troubling sleeptime premonitions. Is there some kind of dark and monstrous conspiracy is going on, or might that just be da kine kicking in? Speaking of which, dig to all those far-out colors, man.
Kelli Berglund, Beau Mirchoff and Roxane Mesquida also star as Ulysses’ respective millennial friends Carly, Ford and Severine — all of whom are on various quests pursuing love, sex and fame.
Gregg Araki created, directs and co-writes Now Apocalypse, which he also executive produces alongside Steven Soderbergh and Gregory Jacobs. Vogue.com sex columnist...
- 1/16/2019
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
Most days, it feels like the world may end at any moment. In the world of “Now Apocalypse,” visions of that imminent future come with eye-catching bright greens and pinks. Gregg Araki’s ten-part series, coming to Starz later this year, shows a side of Los Angeles that’s dealing just as much with how to navigate daily life as it is with what’s on the horizon.
A new trailer for the show follows Ulysses (Avan Jogia) as he tries to get himself removed from his own personal La rut. His daily dose of weed escapism is eventually leading him to seeing the potential end of the world, a premonition that may or may not have something to do with what he’s smoking. Either way, he’s not alone in his quest to make sense of his present, as friends Ford (Beau Mirchoff), Severine (Roxane Mesquida), and Carly...
A new trailer for the show follows Ulysses (Avan Jogia) as he tries to get himself removed from his own personal La rut. His daily dose of weed escapism is eventually leading him to seeing the potential end of the world, a premonition that may or may not have something to do with what he’s smoking. Either way, he’s not alone in his quest to make sense of his present, as friends Ford (Beau Mirchoff), Severine (Roxane Mesquida), and Carly...
- 1/16/2019
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
Starz is ready for the apocalypse. Today, the network released the premiere date and key art for their new TV show, Now Apocalypse.
From Gregg Araki, the surreal comedy "stars Avan Jogia as Ulysses, who is struggling to figure out his life in the surreal and bewildering city of Los Angeles." The cast also includes Kelli Berglund, Beau Mirchoff, and Roxane Mesquida.
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From Gregg Araki, the surreal comedy "stars Avan Jogia as Ulysses, who is struggling to figure out his life in the surreal and bewildering city of Los Angeles." The cast also includes Kelli Berglund, Beau Mirchoff, and Roxane Mesquida.
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- 12/11/2018
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
Chris Longo Dec 10, 2018
Sex, love, fame and a monstrous conspiracy drive Starz' new late night comedy series Now Apocalypse.
The truth is out there, though you might have to get stoned to see it. Starz announced that its new scripted comedy Now Apocalypse will premiere on Sunday, March 10th at 9:00 p.m. The series will get a lead-in from the long-anticipated American Gods season 2 premiere.
Now Apocalypse was created by indie director Gregg Araki and follows Ulysses (Avan Jogia), who is struggling to figure out his life in the surreal and bewildering (and quite colorful) city of Los Angeles.
The cast also includes Kelli Berglund (Lab Rats) as Carly, Beau Mirchoff (The Fosters) as Ford, and Roxane Mesquida (Gossip Girl) as Severine. Each character is on their own quest for love, sex, and fame, but according to the official logline, Ulysses grows “increasingly troubled as foreboding, premonitory dreams...
Sex, love, fame and a monstrous conspiracy drive Starz' new late night comedy series Now Apocalypse.
The truth is out there, though you might have to get stoned to see it. Starz announced that its new scripted comedy Now Apocalypse will premiere on Sunday, March 10th at 9:00 p.m. The series will get a lead-in from the long-anticipated American Gods season 2 premiere.
Now Apocalypse was created by indie director Gregg Araki and follows Ulysses (Avan Jogia), who is struggling to figure out his life in the surreal and bewildering (and quite colorful) city of Los Angeles.
The cast also includes Kelli Berglund (Lab Rats) as Carly, Beau Mirchoff (The Fosters) as Ford, and Roxane Mesquida (Gossip Girl) as Severine. Each character is on their own quest for love, sex, and fame, but according to the official logline, Ulysses grows “increasingly troubled as foreboding, premonitory dreams...
- 12/10/2018
- Den of Geek
Sirens alum Kevin Daniels and Avra Friedman (Stop the Bleeding) are set for recurring roles opposite Avan Jogia, Kelli Bergland, Beau Mirchoff and Roxane Mesquida on Now Apocalypse, Starz’s upcoming original half-hour comedy series from creator/executive producer Gregg Araki and Steven Soderbergh.
Co-written by Araki, who also directs, and Vogue.com sex columnist Karley Sciortino, Now Apocalypse is a 10-episode surreal, coming-of-age comedy that follows Ulysses (Jogia) and his friends Carly (Berglund), Ford (Mirchoff) and Severine (Mesquida), who are on various quests pursing love, sex and fame while navigating the strange and oftentimes bewildering city of Los Angeles.
Daniels will play Barnabas. He approaches Ford (Mirchoff), who’s diligently working on his screenplay in a coffee shop, and introduces himself as a producer who’d be interested in reading Ford’s script. Friedman will portray Magenta, a very committed but meek and untalented actress in Carly’s (Berglund) acting class.
Co-written by Araki, who also directs, and Vogue.com sex columnist Karley Sciortino, Now Apocalypse is a 10-episode surreal, coming-of-age comedy that follows Ulysses (Jogia) and his friends Carly (Berglund), Ford (Mirchoff) and Severine (Mesquida), who are on various quests pursing love, sex and fame while navigating the strange and oftentimes bewildering city of Los Angeles.
Daniels will play Barnabas. He approaches Ford (Mirchoff), who’s diligently working on his screenplay in a coffee shop, and introduces himself as a producer who’d be interested in reading Ford’s script. Friedman will portray Magenta, a very committed but meek and untalented actress in Carly’s (Berglund) acting class.
- 7/2/2018
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Breaking Bad alum Rj Mitte and Grace Victoria Cox (Under the Dome) are set for recurring roles opposite Avan Jogia, Kelli Bergland, Beau Mirchoff and Roxane Mesquida on Now Apocalypse, Starz’s upcoming original half-hour comedy series from creator/executive producer Gregg Araki and Steven Soderbergh.
Co-written by Araki, who also directs, and Vogue.com sex columnist Karley Sciortino, Now Apocalypse is a 10-episode surreal, coming-of-age comedy that follows Ulysses (Jogia) and his friends Carly (Berglund), Ford (Mirchoff) and Severine (Mesquida), who are on various quests pursing love, sex and fame while navigating the strange and oftentimes bewildering city of Los Angeles.
Mitte will play Leif, a hot guy who becomes a temptation for Carly (Kelly Berglund) after she meets him by the pool in Palm Springs. Cox is Amber, Carly’s (Berglund) roommate, who complains to her about another disastrous Tinder date.
Araki and Soderbergh are executive producing the series with Gregory Jacobs.
Co-written by Araki, who also directs, and Vogue.com sex columnist Karley Sciortino, Now Apocalypse is a 10-episode surreal, coming-of-age comedy that follows Ulysses (Jogia) and his friends Carly (Berglund), Ford (Mirchoff) and Severine (Mesquida), who are on various quests pursing love, sex and fame while navigating the strange and oftentimes bewildering city of Los Angeles.
Mitte will play Leif, a hot guy who becomes a temptation for Carly (Kelly Berglund) after she meets him by the pool in Palm Springs. Cox is Amber, Carly’s (Berglund) roommate, who complains to her about another disastrous Tinder date.
Araki and Soderbergh are executive producing the series with Gregory Jacobs.
- 6/28/2018
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Desmond Chiam (The Shannara Chronicles) and Taylor Hart (House of Lies) are set for recurring roles opposite Avan Jogia, Kelli Bergland, Beau Mirchoff and Roxane Mesquida on Now Apocalypse, Starz’s upcoming original half-hour comedy series from creator/executive producer Gregg Araki and Steven Soderbergh.
Co-written by Araki, who also directs, and Vogue.com sex columnist Karley Sciortino, Now Apocalypse is a 10-episode surreal, coming-of-age comedy that follows Ulysses (Jogia) and his friends Carly (Berglund), Ford (Mirchoff) and Severine (Mesquida), who are on various quests pursing love, sex and fame while navigating the strange and oftentimes bewildering city of Los Angeles.
Chiam will play Jethro, Carly’s (Berglund) boyfriend. He is an actor who is full of himself and believes that his new agey tendencies make him more enlightened.
Hart will portray Klaus, Severine’s (Mesquida) co-worker at Jpl. He is also Lar’s (Evan Hart) twin brother who looks...
Co-written by Araki, who also directs, and Vogue.com sex columnist Karley Sciortino, Now Apocalypse is a 10-episode surreal, coming-of-age comedy that follows Ulysses (Jogia) and his friends Carly (Berglund), Ford (Mirchoff) and Severine (Mesquida), who are on various quests pursing love, sex and fame while navigating the strange and oftentimes bewildering city of Los Angeles.
Chiam will play Jethro, Carly’s (Berglund) boyfriend. He is an actor who is full of himself and believes that his new agey tendencies make him more enlightened.
Hart will portray Klaus, Severine’s (Mesquida) co-worker at Jpl. He is also Lar’s (Evan Hart) twin brother who looks...
- 6/20/2018
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Glee alum Jacob Artist and Chris Aquilino (Silicon Valley) are set for recurring roles opposite Avan Jogia, Kelli Bergland, Beau Mirchoff and Roxane Mesquida on Now Apocalypse, Starz’s upcoming original half-hour comedy series from creator/executive producer Gregg Araki and Steven Soderbergh.
Co-written by Araki, who also directs, and Vogue.com sex columnist Karley Sciortino, Now Apocalypse is a 10-episode surreal, coming-of-age comedy that follows Ulysses (Jogia) and his friends Carly (Berglund), Ford (Mirchoff) and Severine (Mesquida), who are on various quests pursing love, sex and fame while navigating the strange and oftentimes bewildering city of Los Angeles.
Artist will play Isaac, a social worker who cares more about relationships than possessions and helps Ulysses after a fall.
Aquilino will portray Kai, an extremely untalented student in Carly’s acting class.
Araki and Soderbergh are executive producing the series with Gregory Jacobs. Sciortino serves as consulting producer.
Related‘Now Apocalypse’: Kelli Berglund,...
Co-written by Araki, who also directs, and Vogue.com sex columnist Karley Sciortino, Now Apocalypse is a 10-episode surreal, coming-of-age comedy that follows Ulysses (Jogia) and his friends Carly (Berglund), Ford (Mirchoff) and Severine (Mesquida), who are on various quests pursing love, sex and fame while navigating the strange and oftentimes bewildering city of Los Angeles.
Artist will play Isaac, a social worker who cares more about relationships than possessions and helps Ulysses after a fall.
Aquilino will portray Kai, an extremely untalented student in Carly’s acting class.
Araki and Soderbergh are executive producing the series with Gregory Jacobs. Sciortino serves as consulting producer.
Related‘Now Apocalypse’: Kelli Berglund,...
- 6/19/2018
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Teen Wolf alum Tyler Posey is sinking his teeth into a new role, in Starz’s Now Apocalypse.
Described as a “sexy” and “surreal” coming-of-age comedy, the series follows four friends — Ulysses (played by Twisted‘s Avan Jogia), Carly (Lab Rats‘ Kelli Berglund), Ford (Awkward‘s Beau Mirchoff) and Severine (Xiii: The Series‘ Roxane Mesquida) — living in L.A., as they they embark on various exploits pursing love, sex and fame.
Between sexual and romantic adventures, Ulysses grows increasingly troubled as foreboding premonitory dreams make him wonder – is some kind of dark and monstrous conspiracy going on, or is he just smoking too much weed?...
Described as a “sexy” and “surreal” coming-of-age comedy, the series follows four friends — Ulysses (played by Twisted‘s Avan Jogia), Carly (Lab Rats‘ Kelli Berglund), Ford (Awkward‘s Beau Mirchoff) and Severine (Xiii: The Series‘ Roxane Mesquida) — living in L.A., as they they embark on various exploits pursing love, sex and fame.
Between sexual and romantic adventures, Ulysses grows increasingly troubled as foreboding premonitory dreams make him wonder – is some kind of dark and monstrous conspiracy going on, or is he just smoking too much weed?...
- 6/14/2018
- TVLine.com
Former Teen Wolf star Tyler Posey has booked a key recurring role opposite Avan Jogia, Kelli Bergland, Beau Mirchoff and Roxane Mesquida on Now Apocalypse, Starz’s upcoming original half-hour comedy series from creator/executive producer Gregg Araki and Steven Soderbergh.
Co-written by Araki, who also directs, and Vogue.com sex columnist Karley Sciortino, Now Apocalypse is a 10-episode surreal, coming-of-age comedy that follows Ulysses (Jogia) and his friends Carly (Berglund), Ford (Mirchoff) and Severine (Mesquida), who are on various quests pursing love, sex and fame while navigating the strange and oftentimes bewildering city of Los Angeles.
Posey will play Gabriel, an incredibly charismatic and mysterious guy Ulysses matches with on a dating app. During their highly anticipated first date, they can hardly contain themselves.
Araki and Soderbergh are executive producing the series with Gregory Jacobs. Sciortino serves as consulting producer.
Posey starred as Scott McCall (aka Teen Wolf) on...
Co-written by Araki, who also directs, and Vogue.com sex columnist Karley Sciortino, Now Apocalypse is a 10-episode surreal, coming-of-age comedy that follows Ulysses (Jogia) and his friends Carly (Berglund), Ford (Mirchoff) and Severine (Mesquida), who are on various quests pursing love, sex and fame while navigating the strange and oftentimes bewildering city of Los Angeles.
Posey will play Gabriel, an incredibly charismatic and mysterious guy Ulysses matches with on a dating app. During their highly anticipated first date, they can hardly contain themselves.
Araki and Soderbergh are executive producing the series with Gregory Jacobs. Sciortino serves as consulting producer.
Posey starred as Scott McCall (aka Teen Wolf) on...
- 6/14/2018
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Tyler Posey has signed on for a recurring role in the upcoming Starz comedy series “Now Apocalypse.”
The series is described as a surreal, coming-of-age comedy that follows Ulysses and his friends Carly, Ford and Severine, who are on various quests pursing love, sex and fame in Los Angeles. Between sexual and romantic dating app adventures, Ulysses grows increasingly troubled as foreboding premonitory dreams make him wonder if some kind of dark and monstrous conspiracy going on, or is he just smoking too much weed?
Posey will appear as Gabriel, described as an incredibly charismatic and mysterious guy that Ulysses matches with on a dating app. During their highly-anticipated first date, they can hardly contain themselves.
The series stars Avan Jogia, Kelli Berglund, Beau Mirchoff and Roxane Mesquida.
Posey played the lead character on MTV’s “Teen Wolf,” which aired its 100th and final episode in September 2017. Currently, he recurs...
The series is described as a surreal, coming-of-age comedy that follows Ulysses and his friends Carly, Ford and Severine, who are on various quests pursing love, sex and fame in Los Angeles. Between sexual and romantic dating app adventures, Ulysses grows increasingly troubled as foreboding premonitory dreams make him wonder if some kind of dark and monstrous conspiracy going on, or is he just smoking too much weed?
Posey will appear as Gabriel, described as an incredibly charismatic and mysterious guy that Ulysses matches with on a dating app. During their highly-anticipated first date, they can hardly contain themselves.
The series stars Avan Jogia, Kelli Berglund, Beau Mirchoff and Roxane Mesquida.
Posey played the lead character on MTV’s “Teen Wolf,” which aired its 100th and final episode in September 2017. Currently, he recurs...
- 6/14/2018
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
Billy Eichner is reuniting with his former Street gang for a new animated series at FX.
The artist formerly known as Billy on the Street is developing Time Travelin’ Jerk, our sister site Deadline reports. The potential series is described as Back to the Future meets Groundhog Day, and would chronicle the story of Ashley, a millennial who gets stuck time traveling — and hates every minute of it. Eichner would voice male lead Parker, an “awkwardly sweet” accountant who joins Ashley on her time-hopping adventures.
Eichner is credited as a co-creator on the project, which he will executive-produce alongside former...
The artist formerly known as Billy on the Street is developing Time Travelin’ Jerk, our sister site Deadline reports. The potential series is described as Back to the Future meets Groundhog Day, and would chronicle the story of Ashley, a millennial who gets stuck time traveling — and hates every minute of it. Eichner would voice male lead Parker, an “awkwardly sweet” accountant who joins Ashley on her time-hopping adventures.
Eichner is credited as a co-creator on the project, which he will executive-produce alongside former...
- 6/8/2018
- TVLine.com
Kelli Berglund, Beau Mirchoff and Roxane Mesquida have joined lead Avan Jogia in Now Apocalypse, Starz’s upcoming original half-hour comedy series from creator/executive producer Gregg Araki and Steven Soderberg.
Co-written by Araki, who also directs, and Vogue.com sex columnist Karley Sciortino, Now Apocalypse is a 10-episode surreal, coming-of-age comedy that follows Ulysses (Jogia) and his friends Carly (Berglund), Ford (Mirchoff) and Severine (Mesquida), who are on various quests pursing love, sex and fame while navigating the strange and oftentimes bewildering city of Los Angeles.
Berglund’s Carly is a wannabe actress and Ulysses’ best friend, Mirchoff’s Ford is an aspiring screenwriter and Ulysses’ roommate, and Mesquida’s Severine is a French, confident and pragmatic astrobiological theorist.
Araki and Soderbergh are executive producing the series with Gregory Jacobs. Sciortino serves as consulting producer.
Berglund, best known for her lead role on Disney Xd’s Lab Rats, most...
Co-written by Araki, who also directs, and Vogue.com sex columnist Karley Sciortino, Now Apocalypse is a 10-episode surreal, coming-of-age comedy that follows Ulysses (Jogia) and his friends Carly (Berglund), Ford (Mirchoff) and Severine (Mesquida), who are on various quests pursing love, sex and fame while navigating the strange and oftentimes bewildering city of Los Angeles.
Berglund’s Carly is a wannabe actress and Ulysses’ best friend, Mirchoff’s Ford is an aspiring screenwriter and Ulysses’ roommate, and Mesquida’s Severine is a French, confident and pragmatic astrobiological theorist.
Araki and Soderbergh are executive producing the series with Gregory Jacobs. Sciortino serves as consulting producer.
Berglund, best known for her lead role on Disney Xd’s Lab Rats, most...
- 6/7/2018
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
The company has also taken rights to Australia and New Zealand on Justin Daly’s feature debut.
Archstone Distribution has acquired Us, UK, and Australia and New Zealand rights to Justin Daly’s directorial debut The Big Take from the Us’ Bleiberg Entertainment.
Ebon Moss-Bachrach (Netflix’s The Punisher), Zoë Bell, Dan Hedaya (The Usual Suspects) and Robert Forster star in the crime story about a reclusive movie star who hires a private detective after he is anonymously blackmailed.
The Big Take is produced by Jen Gatien through her company DeerJen Films.
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment will handle the VOD,...
Archstone Distribution has acquired Us, UK, and Australia and New Zealand rights to Justin Daly’s directorial debut The Big Take from the Us’ Bleiberg Entertainment.
Ebon Moss-Bachrach (Netflix’s The Punisher), Zoë Bell, Dan Hedaya (The Usual Suspects) and Robert Forster star in the crime story about a reclusive movie star who hires a private detective after he is anonymously blackmailed.
The Big Take is produced by Jen Gatien through her company DeerJen Films.
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment will handle the VOD,...
- 5/11/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Mubi's retrospective, Catherine Breillat, Auteur of Porn?, is showing April 4 - June 3, 2017 in Germany.Sex Is ComedyThroughout her career, Catherine Breillat has provided viewers with a long-form meta-cinema experience. While metacinema is as old as the medium itself, since her debut feature A Real Young Girl in 1976, Breillat has developed a distinct form of it: one that collapses ‘autobiographical’ material, various artistic sensibilities, and the process of filmmaking itself.Like dozens of other English words—such as ‘aesthetic’ or ‘abject’—the word ‘meta’ has been largely misused or misapplied with regard to the film and literary criticism. Regarding the consumption of fiction, the appropriate use of the term 'metafiction,' 'metafilm,' et cetera, has its basis in the Greek meta, which does not translate directly into English but can be understood as a preposition similar to the English word ‘about’ (‘having to do with,’ or ‘on the subject of’). Metafiction is therefore,...
- 4/24/2017
- MUBI
Philippe Grandrieux’s Despite the Night is a relentlessly morose, miasmic thing that, like much of his work, alternately seeks to narcotize and brutalize its viewer into submission until the distinctions between agony and ecstasy, tenderness and violation, are indistinguishable. Grandrieux is, in many respects, a wildly contradictory figure: a tough sell for most audiences; an easy pitch for prospective fans (the maximalist Denis? the haptic Lynch? the narrative Brakhage? the goth Malick? etc); a niche artist even in the realm of “festival cinema”; yet (for instance) a favorite of Marilyn Manson, who once recruited him to direct a music video. In a skeptical piece written for Reverse Shot, Michael Sicinski characterizes Grandrieux as the Scott Walker to Gaspar Noé’s Trent Reznor — the shadowy, marginal alternative to the celebrity provocateur. Facetiously, Sicinski continues, “To judge from his mystique, Grandrieux is that awesome band nobody likes yet, and you secretly hope nobody discovers.
- 8/20/2016
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
When the Night Has Come: Grandrieux Laments Lost Love
Seven years have passed since provocateur Philippe Grandrieux’s 2008 film Un Lac, and he remains somewhat of an acquired taste, though considering the subject matter, Malgré la nuit (Despite the Night) is surprisingly less galvanizing than his early features. The narrative, should we indeed call it thus, couldn’t be more simple, roughly concerning a British bloke returning to Paris to reconnect with his lost love. His reasons for leaving or returning aren’t apparently of importance once he disappears into a sort of Parisian ether, where passionate memories are pierced by a current state of abject degradation upon reconnecting with his troubled object of affection. The take away is more of a cerebral, extrasensory experience, existing as a diluted nightmare where pleasure and punishment are doled out in equal measure, which is hardly a surprise for those accustomed to Grandrieux’s filmography.
Seven years have passed since provocateur Philippe Grandrieux’s 2008 film Un Lac, and he remains somewhat of an acquired taste, though considering the subject matter, Malgré la nuit (Despite the Night) is surprisingly less galvanizing than his early features. The narrative, should we indeed call it thus, couldn’t be more simple, roughly concerning a British bloke returning to Paris to reconnect with his lost love. His reasons for leaving or returning aren’t apparently of importance once he disappears into a sort of Parisian ether, where passionate memories are pierced by a current state of abject degradation upon reconnecting with his troubled object of affection. The take away is more of a cerebral, extrasensory experience, existing as a diluted nightmare where pleasure and punishment are doled out in equal measure, which is hardly a surprise for those accustomed to Grandrieux’s filmography.
- 2/25/2016
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Malgré la nuit
Director: Philippe Grandrieux // Writer: Philippe Grandrieux
French provocateur Philippe Grandrieux may not be an auteur to everyone’s liking, but since debuting with 1998’s visceral Somber, his cinema has always been a point of contention, and he’s since cultivated a growing cult following that includes names like Marilyn Manson. His most infamous work is the Anna Mougalalis headlined A New Life (2002), which is difficult to find copies of. Since then, titles like 2008’s Un Lac (which is available streaming via boutique site Vyer Films) and 2012’s White Epilepsy have waned in peripheral conversations following their limited festival play. But we are excited to see that Grandrieux wrapped a new project in November, Malgré la nuit (Despite the Night), which should receive a more renowned reception as it’s headlined by Ariane Labed, one of the prominent faces from the Greek Weird Wave (Attenberg; Alps), and one...
Director: Philippe Grandrieux // Writer: Philippe Grandrieux
French provocateur Philippe Grandrieux may not be an auteur to everyone’s liking, but since debuting with 1998’s visceral Somber, his cinema has always been a point of contention, and he’s since cultivated a growing cult following that includes names like Marilyn Manson. His most infamous work is the Anna Mougalalis headlined A New Life (2002), which is difficult to find copies of. Since then, titles like 2008’s Un Lac (which is available streaming via boutique site Vyer Films) and 2012’s White Epilepsy have waned in peripheral conversations following their limited festival play. But we are excited to see that Grandrieux wrapped a new project in November, Malgré la nuit (Despite the Night), which should receive a more renowned reception as it’s headlined by Ariane Labed, one of the prominent faces from the Greek Weird Wave (Attenberg; Alps), and one...
- 1/7/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Starring Milo Ventimiglia of "Heroes" fame and directed by Xan Cassavetes (daughter of legendary actor/director John Cassavetes), steamy vampire romp Kiss of the Damned is set to take a bite out of the UK DVD market on January 27th, 2014, courtesy of Eureka! Entertainment.
Thankfully, the only sparkles are those being worn by these erudite blood-suckers.
Synopsis:
Milo Ventimiglia ("Heroes," Rocky Balboa) plays Paolo, a screenwriter who has ensconced himself in a house far away from Hollywood in order to finish what seems like his last stab at writing a commercial screenplay. He’s easily distracted though, and after meeting the beautiful Djuna (Josephine de La Baume; Rush, One Day) during a night out, he’s inextricably infatuated. Djuna digs Paolo too, but she’s got a rare “blood disorder” that doesn’t allow her to venture out into sunlight. Scarily persistent, Milo keeps courting her until she finally relents...
Thankfully, the only sparkles are those being worn by these erudite blood-suckers.
Synopsis:
Milo Ventimiglia ("Heroes," Rocky Balboa) plays Paolo, a screenwriter who has ensconced himself in a house far away from Hollywood in order to finish what seems like his last stab at writing a commercial screenplay. He’s easily distracted though, and after meeting the beautiful Djuna (Josephine de La Baume; Rush, One Day) during a night out, he’s inextricably infatuated. Djuna digs Paolo too, but she’s got a rare “blood disorder” that doesn’t allow her to venture out into sunlight. Scarily persistent, Milo keeps courting her until she finally relents...
- 12/18/2013
- by Pestilence
- DreadCentral.com
Exclusive Updated: Magnolia International has reported brisk sales in Toronto on several of its key titles.
Films Distribution has picked up French rights to Xan Cassavettes’ erotic vampire thriller Kiss Of The Damned (pictured) starring Joséphine de La Baume, Roxane Mesquida and Anna Mouglalis.
The film screens next week at the Strasbourg European Fantastic Film Festival when Cassavettes and Mouglalis will be in attendance.
The French distributor has also picked up ABC’s Of Death 2, the horror sequel that is in production, as well as Don Coscarelli’s John Dies At The End.
Magnolia International sales head Christina Rogers negotiated all deals with the buyers.
Films Distribution has picked up French rights to Xan Cassavettes’ erotic vampire thriller Kiss Of The Damned (pictured) starring Joséphine de La Baume, Roxane Mesquida and Anna Mouglalis.
The film screens next week at the Strasbourg European Fantastic Film Festival when Cassavettes and Mouglalis will be in attendance.
The French distributor has also picked up ABC’s Of Death 2, the horror sequel that is in production, as well as Don Coscarelli’s John Dies At The End.
Magnolia International sales head Christina Rogers negotiated all deals with the buyers.
- 9/13/2013
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Mayhem Film Festival returns to Broadway on 31st October for four days of horror-tinged screenings, previews and guests. The festival opens this year with internationally-acclaimed British director Nicolas Roeg who will be presenting his most recent film Puffball as well as taking part in a very special screening of his masterpiece Don’t Look Now in the eerie settings of St Mary’s Church in the Lace Market.
Other special guests for the festival include American Director Brian Netto who will be presenting Delivery, The Borderlands Director Elliot Goldner and Producer Jennifer Handorf, and director Caradog James and Producer John Giwa-Amu for hi-tech British dark sci-fi The Machine. Mayhem are also hosting a special BAFTA screening of Jeremy Lovering’s In Fear which follows a young couple being tormented while driving in the countryside.
With a total of 17 screenings, Mayhem will present their first silent film screening, Tod Browning’s...
Other special guests for the festival include American Director Brian Netto who will be presenting Delivery, The Borderlands Director Elliot Goldner and Producer Jennifer Handorf, and director Caradog James and Producer John Giwa-Amu for hi-tech British dark sci-fi The Machine. Mayhem are also hosting a special BAFTA screening of Jeremy Lovering’s In Fear which follows a young couple being tormented while driving in the countryside.
With a total of 17 screenings, Mayhem will present their first silent film screening, Tod Browning’s...
- 9/11/2013
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Kiss of the Damned will be heading to Blu-ray and DVD on July 23rd, and we have the full list of bonus features, along with a look at the cover art.
“With her narrative feature debut, Xan Cassavetes (Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession) has crafted a stylish and sensory visual and aural experience that recalls the best of smart and racy European genre films from the 60s and 70s. Kiss Of The Damned is the story of Djuna (Joséphine de La Baume), a beautiful vampire who tries to resist the advances of the handsome, human screenwriter Paulo (Milo Ventimiglia) but eventually gives in to temptation. When her troublemaker sister Mimi (Roxane Mesquida) arrives unexpectedly, Djuna’s love story is threatened, and the whole vampire community becomes endangered.”
Kiss of the Damned was directed by Xan Cassavetes and stars Joséphine de La Baume (One Day), Milo Ventimiglia (Heroes), Roxane Mesquida (Rubber...
“With her narrative feature debut, Xan Cassavetes (Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession) has crafted a stylish and sensory visual and aural experience that recalls the best of smart and racy European genre films from the 60s and 70s. Kiss Of The Damned is the story of Djuna (Joséphine de La Baume), a beautiful vampire who tries to resist the advances of the handsome, human screenwriter Paulo (Milo Ventimiglia) but eventually gives in to temptation. When her troublemaker sister Mimi (Roxane Mesquida) arrives unexpectedly, Djuna’s love story is threatened, and the whole vampire community becomes endangered.”
Kiss of the Damned was directed by Xan Cassavetes and stars Joséphine de La Baume (One Day), Milo Ventimiglia (Heroes), Roxane Mesquida (Rubber...
- 5/21/2013
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
It's the story of Djuna (Josephine de La Baume), an ageless vampire hiding out in an expansive manse outside of the city. A chance encounter at the video store brings her and Paolo (Milo Ventimiglia) together and the two immediately share a connection which rapidly morphs from lust to love to a comfortable existence with the two preparing to share eternity together. Their quiet life is turned upside down by the arrival of Mimi (Roxane Mesquida). Djuna's little sister is a troublemaker. While most vampires are trying to live under the radar, setting up a new society for themselves with rules and regulations, Mimi is wild and uncontrollable, everything her sister is not. [Continued ...]...
- 5/9/2013
- QuietEarth.us
A trashy vampire flick in art-film drag, Kiss of the Damned satisfies on neither level. Drawing on a host of Euro-horror influences including but far from limited to a synth score reminiscent of Dario Argento's Goblin-performed soundtracks, Xan Cassavetes's pastiche follows lonely bloodsucker Djuna (Joséphine de la Baume) as she whiles away her existence in an upstate New York mansion watching classic Hollywood flicks. Meeting handsome screenwriter Paolo (Milo Ventimiglia) at a local video store, she fucks and turns him in rapid succession, and the two seem headed for eternal domestic bliss until the sudden arrival of Djuna's estranged bad-girl sis, Mimi (Roxane Mesquida). The unwelcome visitor's appetites for wild sex and human blood (the other vamps in the movie have an...
- 5/4/2013
- Village Voice
Iron Man 3 isn’t the only movie out today. Xan Cassavetes’ Kiss Of The Damned is also making its rounds in limited fashion. A new trailer for the erotic vampire thriller has come out. To see when it’s coming to your area, go here.
Joséphine de La Baume, Roxane Mesquida, Milo Ventimiglia, Anna Mouglalis, Michael Rapaport and Riley Keough star in the film.
Joséphine de La Baume, Roxane Mesquida, Milo Ventimiglia, Anna Mouglalis, Michael Rapaport and Riley Keough star in the film.
- 5/3/2013
- by Andy Greene
- FamousMonsters of Filmland
Although more recently it’s been turned into a sort of supernatural chastity belt protecting teenage girls from the hunky guys they love, vampirism always served as a deeply erotic foundation for horror stories. Movies capitalizing on this are too numerous to count, but from Jess Franco’s Vampyros Lesbos to Francis Ford Coppola’s Dracula adaptation to, Xan Cassavetes’ Kiss of the Damned, the standouts among them have always infused the curse of becoming an immortal bloodsucker with a humanity and a romanticism that makes it resonate, even if it’s ultimately only in audiences’ loins.
Although it’s destined to draw comparisons to Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight saga, Cassavetes’ film is a significantly more mature – and sexy – take on vampire romance, approaching its subject with sophistication and sensuality even as it indulges in gore and terror that’s as metaphorical as it is visceral.
Josephine de la Baume (One Day) plays Djuna,...
Although it’s destined to draw comparisons to Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight saga, Cassavetes’ film is a significantly more mature – and sexy – take on vampire romance, approaching its subject with sophistication and sensuality even as it indulges in gore and terror that’s as metaphorical as it is visceral.
Josephine de la Baume (One Day) plays Djuna,...
- 5/3/2013
- by Todd Gilchrist
- DailyDead
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