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Experienced U.K. personal publicist Ellie Norton, previously at the London-based agency Public Eye, has set up her own company, Track Publicity.
Track launches with an already impressive roster of clients, including Paul Mescal, Kit Connor, David Jonsson, Alison Oliver, Sarah-Sofie Boussnina, Hannah Dodd, Richard Rankin, Clara Rugaard and Viola Prettejohn.
“I’m so excited to launch Track Publicity, a new agency dedicated to representing actors and creatives,” said Norton. “It’s particularly inspiring to continue crafting unique publicity campaigns and collaborate with clients in an impactful way.”
Norton said that Track will specialize in representing actors and creatives both in the U.K. and internationally and, whether they are a new or already established name, will “craft quality, distinctive publicity campaigns by offering personalized strategies tailored to each client.”
Track’s launch coincides with a busy period for some of its biggest clients. “Normal People” breakout Mescal is on...
Track launches with an already impressive roster of clients, including Paul Mescal, Kit Connor, David Jonsson, Alison Oliver, Sarah-Sofie Boussnina, Hannah Dodd, Richard Rankin, Clara Rugaard and Viola Prettejohn.
“I’m so excited to launch Track Publicity, a new agency dedicated to representing actors and creatives,” said Norton. “It’s particularly inspiring to continue crafting unique publicity campaigns and collaborate with clients in an impactful way.”
Norton said that Track will specialize in representing actors and creatives both in the U.K. and internationally and, whether they are a new or already established name, will “craft quality, distinctive publicity campaigns by offering personalized strategies tailored to each client.”
Track’s launch coincides with a busy period for some of its biggest clients. “Normal People” breakout Mescal is on...
- 8/22/2024
- by Alex Ritman
- Variety Film + TV
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Australian film director Justin Kurzel has adopted fresh perspectives on directing after undertaking two recent documentary films. Kurzel directed Ellis Park, a documentary about musician Warren Ellis and the animal sanctuary he co-founded in Indonesia. He has also worked on the thriller The Order.
Kurzel found the experience of filming Ellis Park to be profoundly impactful. “Going there changed me, I was not the same person when I left,” he said afterward. Observing the sanctuary required Kurzel to adapt his methods. Rather than following a strict plan, he learned to let the people and animals guide the story organically. “I had to be open to what emerged,” Kurzel noted.
This experience shaped Kurzel’s approach to The Order. The film tells the true story of bank robberies in 1980s America. Though the settings contrasted drastically, Kurzel applied the same flexibility. He collaborated more with actors to allow scripts to freely evolve throughout production.
Kurzel found the experience of filming Ellis Park to be profoundly impactful. “Going there changed me, I was not the same person when I left,” he said afterward. Observing the sanctuary required Kurzel to adapt his methods. Rather than following a strict plan, he learned to let the people and animals guide the story organically. “I had to be open to what emerged,” Kurzel noted.
This experience shaped Kurzel’s approach to The Order. The film tells the true story of bank robberies in 1980s America. Though the settings contrasted drastically, Kurzel applied the same flexibility. He collaborated more with actors to allow scripts to freely evolve throughout production.
- 8/18/2024
- by Naser Nahandian
- Gazettely
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Straight off the plane from New York, where he is mid-production on the Netflix series “Black Rabbit,” director Justin Kurzel debuted his new documentary “Ellis Park” at the Melbourne International Film Festival.
“Ellis Park” follows the eventful life of composer Warren Ellis and the wildlife sanctuary he co-founded on the Indonesian island of Sumatra. Combining Ellis’ irreverent humor and unbounded creativity with the moving story of the sanctuary’s role as a home for animals rescued from the black market, “Ellis Park” is set to be one of the most impactful Australian documentaries of recent years.
Following the film’s premiere at Melbourne’s Astor Theatre, Kurzel said making the documentary has profoundly influenced his forthcoming productions. Alongside “Black Rabbit” these include “The Order” — a wintry thriller starring Jude Law, Nicholas Hoult, Tye Sheridan, Jurnee Smollett, and Marc Maron set to premiere at the Venice Film Festival — and the series...
“Ellis Park” follows the eventful life of composer Warren Ellis and the wildlife sanctuary he co-founded on the Indonesian island of Sumatra. Combining Ellis’ irreverent humor and unbounded creativity with the moving story of the sanctuary’s role as a home for animals rescued from the black market, “Ellis Park” is set to be one of the most impactful Australian documentaries of recent years.
Following the film’s premiere at Melbourne’s Astor Theatre, Kurzel said making the documentary has profoundly influenced his forthcoming productions. Alongside “Black Rabbit” these include “The Order” — a wintry thriller starring Jude Law, Nicholas Hoult, Tye Sheridan, Jurnee Smollett, and Marc Maron set to premiere at the Venice Film Festival — and the series...
- 8/18/2024
- by Andy Hazel
- Indiewire
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Phantom Blade Zero‘s initial announcement at ChinaJoy 2023 excited fans; combat dynamics inspired by Chinese Kung Fu attracted a lot of attention. Although developer S-game hasn’t revealed many details about the game, fans know enough to put it on their radar.
Developer S-Game allegedly told some YouTubers that the action RPG would be released in 2026, things may not be as they seem. Latest information suggests a new release date and shows that players may have to wait a little longer.
Phantom Blade Zero Release Date May Not Be As Close As We Expected
The yet unknown release date of Phantom Blade Zero is fueling plenty of speculation. Multiple sources are circulating rumors that the game is planned for a Fall 2026 release on PS5 and PC.
Related“This game is a ways off”: Phantom Blade Zero Demo Forces Apology from the Devs at BiliBiliWorld and It Has Fans Worried...
Developer S-Game allegedly told some YouTubers that the action RPG would be released in 2026, things may not be as they seem. Latest information suggests a new release date and shows that players may have to wait a little longer.
Phantom Blade Zero Release Date May Not Be As Close As We Expected
The yet unknown release date of Phantom Blade Zero is fueling plenty of speculation. Multiple sources are circulating rumors that the game is planned for a Fall 2026 release on PS5 and PC.
Related“This game is a ways off”: Phantom Blade Zero Demo Forces Apology from the Devs at BiliBiliWorld and It Has Fans Worried...
- 8/13/2024
- by Tunahan Karakis
- FandomWire
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When The Order: 1886 was released in 2015, it was met with a mixed reception. Players praised its display of the PS4’s hardware capabilities. The game had stunning visuals and a great setting but fell short in its gameplay and story.
Despite this, the game’s unique steampunk vision of an alternate London is something that fans wanted more of. The game’s developer, Ready At Dawn, had plans for a sequel that could have done that. But with the recent closure of Ready At Dawn by Meta, those plans will never see the light of day.
1. The Story Had Unfinished Business
One of the reasons why a sequel to The Order: 1886 could have been great lies in the lessons learned from the original. The narrative depth of The Order: 1886 was something that could have been expanded upon in a sequel.
The original game ended on a cliffhanger, leaving many plot threads unresolved.
Despite this, the game’s unique steampunk vision of an alternate London is something that fans wanted more of. The game’s developer, Ready At Dawn, had plans for a sequel that could have done that. But with the recent closure of Ready At Dawn by Meta, those plans will never see the light of day.
1. The Story Had Unfinished Business
One of the reasons why a sequel to The Order: 1886 could have been great lies in the lessons learned from the original. The narrative depth of The Order: 1886 was something that could have been expanded upon in a sequel.
The original game ended on a cliffhanger, leaving many plot threads unresolved.
- 8/13/2024
- by Daniel Royte
- FandomWire
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Peter Morgan is a playwright, screenwriter and TV series creator and showrunner who has been described by The Guardian as “Britain’s leading contemporary screen dramatist,” and about whom the publication wrote, “There is no one who works quite like him. Actually, there might be nobody who has worked quite like him in British drama since Shakespeare. He specializes in taking the lives of public figures, mingling the events and words of their lives with his own imaginings, and recasting it as drama that is as close to documentary as possible without actually being a docudrama.”
Morgan wrote the theatrical productions Frost/Nixon, which was on the West End in 2006 and Broadway in 2007; The Audience, which was on the West End in 2013 and Broadway in 2015; and Patriots, which was on the West End in 2023 and Broadway in 2024. He was also the screenwriter of TV films including 2003’s The Deal, 2006’s Longford...
Morgan wrote the theatrical productions Frost/Nixon, which was on the West End in 2006 and Broadway in 2007; The Audience, which was on the West End in 2013 and Broadway in 2015; and Patriots, which was on the West End in 2023 and Broadway in 2024. He was also the screenwriter of TV films including 2003’s The Deal, 2006’s Longford...
- 8/12/2024
- by Scott Feinberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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Kevin Costner’s Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 2 will premiere at the 81st Venice Film Festival.
The second installment of the Civil War saga starring Costner alongside Sienna Miller, Sam Worthington, Jena Malone and Danny Huston, will screen out-of-competition on Saturday, September 7.
In an unprecedented move, Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1, which world premiered in rival festival Cannes in May, will be screened earlier in the day.
Venice’s decision to celebrate Chapter 2 comes just weeks after plans to launch the second installment theatrically August 16 in the U.S. were delayed after a sluggish box office performance for Chapter 1 following its July 4 release.
“My dream was always to show Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 2 at the Venice Film Festival,” said Costner.
“The fact that now they have decided to show Chapter 1 earlier in the day and then the world premiere of Chapter 2 that evening...
The second installment of the Civil War saga starring Costner alongside Sienna Miller, Sam Worthington, Jena Malone and Danny Huston, will screen out-of-competition on Saturday, September 7.
In an unprecedented move, Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1, which world premiered in rival festival Cannes in May, will be screened earlier in the day.
Venice’s decision to celebrate Chapter 2 comes just weeks after plans to launch the second installment theatrically August 16 in the U.S. were delayed after a sluggish box office performance for Chapter 1 following its July 4 release.
“My dream was always to show Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 2 at the Venice Film Festival,” said Costner.
“The fact that now they have decided to show Chapter 1 earlier in the day and then the world premiere of Chapter 2 that evening...
- 7/31/2024
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
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Cutting it fine before the July 31 expiration of their current contract, Teamsters Local 399 said on Saturday night they had reached a tentative deal with the Hollywood studios and streamers.
“After a long last 48-hours [sic], we are proud to report that all Hollywood Basic Crafts locals have reached atentative agreement with the AMPTP this evening,” the union announced on social media.
“The Basic Crafts spent today working with our member-led negotiating committees to finalize a deal with the AMPTP that we can now say is being unanimously recommended by our member-led bargaining committees.”
The unions represent drivers and professionals like electricians,...
“After a long last 48-hours [sic], we are proud to report that all Hollywood Basic Crafts locals have reached atentative agreement with the AMPTP this evening,” the union announced on social media.
“The Basic Crafts spent today working with our member-led negotiating committees to finalize a deal with the AMPTP that we can now say is being unanimously recommended by our member-led bargaining committees.”
The unions represent drivers and professionals like electricians,...
- 7/28/2024
- ScreenDaily
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Screen has learned of further international licencing deals on Justin Kurzel’s upcoming Venice world premiere The Order starring Jude Law and Nicholas Hoult.
AGC International has licenced rights to the crime thriller in Middle East (Selim Ramia), Thailand (Sahamongkol), Turkey (Fabula), Philippines (Tap Digital Media Ventures), Cis and Baltic States (Mgn/Paradise Films), Israel (United King Film), and Mongolia (Filmbridge).
As previously reported, AGC licensed the bulk of international rights to Prime Video, and Vertical Entertainment will distribute in the US.
The 1983-set film stars Law as an FBI agent convinced that a domestic terror group is behind a...
AGC International has licenced rights to the crime thriller in Middle East (Selim Ramia), Thailand (Sahamongkol), Turkey (Fabula), Philippines (Tap Digital Media Ventures), Cis and Baltic States (Mgn/Paradise Films), Israel (United King Film), and Mongolia (Filmbridge).
As previously reported, AGC licensed the bulk of international rights to Prime Video, and Vertical Entertainment will distribute in the US.
The 1983-set film stars Law as an FBI agent convinced that a domestic terror group is behind a...
- 7/26/2024
- ScreenDaily
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Screen has learned of further international licencing deals on Justin Kurzel’s upcoming Venice world premiere The Order starring Jude Law and Nicholas Hoult.
AGC International has licenced rights to the crime thriller in Middle East (Selim Ramia), Thailand (Sahamongkol), Turkey (Fabula), Philippines (Tap Digital Media Ventures), Cis and Baltic States (Mgn/Paradise Films), Israel (United King Film), and Mongolia (Filmbridge).
As previously reported, AGC licensed the bulk of international rights to Prime Video, and Vertical Entertainment will distribute in the US.
The 1983-set film stars Law as an FBI agent convinced that a domestic terror group is behind a...
AGC International has licenced rights to the crime thriller in Middle East (Selim Ramia), Thailand (Sahamongkol), Turkey (Fabula), Philippines (Tap Digital Media Ventures), Cis and Baltic States (Mgn/Paradise Films), Israel (United King Film), and Mongolia (Filmbridge).
As previously reported, AGC licensed the bulk of international rights to Prime Video, and Vertical Entertainment will distribute in the US.
The 1983-set film stars Law as an FBI agent convinced that a domestic terror group is behind a...
- 7/26/2024
- ScreenDaily
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Videos have emerged of Francis Ford Coppola trying to kiss young female extras on the set of his Cannes selection Megalopolis.
Variety published two videos on Friday that the outlet said were shot by a member of the crew during a nightclub scene in Coppola’s self-funded saga about two men fighting for the soul of the titular city.
According to Variety a call sheet for the scene, which was filmed on February 14 2023 at the Tabernacle concert hall in Atlanta, Georgia, said the actors playing female nightclub attendees were cleared for topless nudity and others were cleared to be scantily-clad.
Variety published two videos on Friday that the outlet said were shot by a member of the crew during a nightclub scene in Coppola’s self-funded saga about two men fighting for the soul of the titular city.
According to Variety a call sheet for the scene, which was filmed on February 14 2023 at the Tabernacle concert hall in Atlanta, Georgia, said the actors playing female nightclub attendees were cleared for topless nudity and others were cleared to be scantily-clad.
- 7/26/2024
- ScreenDaily
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Videos have emerged of Francis Ford Coppola trying to kiss young female extras on the set of his Cannes selection Megalopolis.
Variety published two videos on Friday that the outlet said were shot by a member of the crew during a nightclub scene in Coppola’s self-funded saga about two men fighting for the soul of the titular city.
According to Variety a call sheet for the scene, which was filmed on February 14 2023 at the Tabernacle concert hall in Atlanta, Georgia, said the actors playing female nightclub attendees were cleared for topless nudity and others were cleared to be scantily-clad.
Variety published two videos on Friday that the outlet said were shot by a member of the crew during a nightclub scene in Coppola’s self-funded saga about two men fighting for the soul of the titular city.
According to Variety a call sheet for the scene, which was filmed on February 14 2023 at the Tabernacle concert hall in Atlanta, Georgia, said the actors playing female nightclub attendees were cleared for topless nudity and others were cleared to be scantily-clad.
- 7/26/2024
- ScreenDaily
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El Festival Internacional de Cine de Venecia anuncia su programación para la edición 81.
El Festival Internacional de Cine de Venecia ha desvelado hoy su programación para la edición 81 y ya se conocen los títulos que competirán por el codiciado León de Oro.
Entre los más destacados se encuentra el drama “La Habitación de al Lado”, dirigida por Pedro Almodóvar y protagonizada por Julianne Moore y Tilda Swinton; “Joker: Folie à Deux”, de Todd Phillips, con Joaquin Phoenix y Lady Gaga encabezando el reparto; la película romántica “Queer”, de Luca Guadagnino, protagonizada por el dúo Daniel Craig y Drew Starkey; el drama “The Brutalist”, dirigido por Brady Corbet y con un elenco que incluye a Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones, Joe Alwyn, Alessandro Nivola, Jonathan Hyde y Guy Pearce; la película basada en hechos reales “The Order”, dirigida por Justin Kurzel y protagonizada por Nicholas Hoult y Jude Law; el biopic “Maria”, dirigido por Pablo Larraín,...
El Festival Internacional de Cine de Venecia ha desvelado hoy su programación para la edición 81 y ya se conocen los títulos que competirán por el codiciado León de Oro.
Entre los más destacados se encuentra el drama “La Habitación de al Lado”, dirigida por Pedro Almodóvar y protagonizada por Julianne Moore y Tilda Swinton; “Joker: Folie à Deux”, de Todd Phillips, con Joaquin Phoenix y Lady Gaga encabezando el reparto; la película romántica “Queer”, de Luca Guadagnino, protagonizada por el dúo Daniel Craig y Drew Starkey; el drama “The Brutalist”, dirigido por Brady Corbet y con un elenco que incluye a Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones, Joe Alwyn, Alessandro Nivola, Jonathan Hyde y Guy Pearce; la película basada en hechos reales “The Order”, dirigida por Justin Kurzel y protagonizada por Nicholas Hoult y Jude Law; el biopic “Maria”, dirigido por Pablo Larraín,...
- 7/23/2024
- by Marta Medina
- mundoCine
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The selection for the 81st Venice Film Festival (Aug 28-Sept 7) was unveiled today by festival president Pietrangelo Buttafuoco and artistic director Alberto Barbera.
Screen International rounds up the key talking points from this year’s line-up, including the return of stars, the lack of streaming titles and a slight improvement in the number of female directors.
Stage is set for the return of A-list stars
This year’s edition more than makes up for 2023’s strike-hit festival. A-list stars including Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Angelina Jolie, Joaquin Phoenix, Lady Gaga, Cate Blanchett, Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore, Adrien Brody, Guy Pearce,...
Screen International rounds up the key talking points from this year’s line-up, including the return of stars, the lack of streaming titles and a slight improvement in the number of female directors.
Stage is set for the return of A-list stars
This year’s edition more than makes up for 2023’s strike-hit festival. A-list stars including Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Angelina Jolie, Joaquin Phoenix, Lady Gaga, Cate Blanchett, Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore, Adrien Brody, Guy Pearce,...
- 7/23/2024
- ScreenDaily
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The lagoon setting, starry red carpets and summer dates of the Venice film festival don’t lend it a reputation as the most political of festivals. But Venice Film Festuval’s 81’s line-up collectively mirrors many of the challenges of the times – from Ukraine-Russia and Israel-Hamas wars, through to migration, climate catastrophe and the rise of far-right movements.
Many of these themes are explored in documentaries playing out of competition. Asif Kapadia’s 2073 asks what the world will be like in 50 years and shows, according to Venice artistic director Alberto Barbera, “how the world is rapidly plunging into a vortex of lies,...
Many of these themes are explored in documentaries playing out of competition. Asif Kapadia’s 2073 asks what the world will be like in 50 years and shows, according to Venice artistic director Alberto Barbera, “how the world is rapidly plunging into a vortex of lies,...
- 7/23/2024
- ScreenDaily
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David Gordon Green y Rebel Wilson en la inauguración y clausura.
El Festival Internacional de Cine de Toronto (TIFF) ha revelado su programación para la edición de 2024.
La nueva película de David Gordon Green, “Nutcrackers”, protagonizada por Ben Stiller, inaugurará el Festival, mientras que la nueva película musical “The Deb”, dirigida y protagonizada por Rebel Wilson, será la encargada de clausurarlo.
Entre las películas que harán su debut mundial en TIFF, se encuentran el drama deportivo “Unstoppable”, dirigido por William Goldenberg y protagonizado por Jharrel Jerome y Jennifer Lopez; la película dramática “Hard Truths”, de Mike Leigh y con Marianne Jean-Baptiste; el terror psicológico de A24, “Heretic”, de Scott Beck y Bryan Woods con Hugh Grant, Sophie Thatcher y Chloe East; la comedia criminal “Riff Raff”, de Dito Montiel, con Jennifer Coolidge, Dustin Hoffman, Brian Cox, Gabrielle Union, Pete Davidson, Ed Harris y Bill Murray; la película de animación “The Wild Robot”, de Chris Sanders,...
El Festival Internacional de Cine de Toronto (TIFF) ha revelado su programación para la edición de 2024.
La nueva película de David Gordon Green, “Nutcrackers”, protagonizada por Ben Stiller, inaugurará el Festival, mientras que la nueva película musical “The Deb”, dirigida y protagonizada por Rebel Wilson, será la encargada de clausurarlo.
Entre las películas que harán su debut mundial en TIFF, se encuentran el drama deportivo “Unstoppable”, dirigido por William Goldenberg y protagonizado por Jharrel Jerome y Jennifer Lopez; la película dramática “Hard Truths”, de Mike Leigh y con Marianne Jean-Baptiste; el terror psicológico de A24, “Heretic”, de Scott Beck y Bryan Woods con Hugh Grant, Sophie Thatcher y Chloe East; la comedia criminal “Riff Raff”, de Dito Montiel, con Jennifer Coolidge, Dustin Hoffman, Brian Cox, Gabrielle Union, Pete Davidson, Ed Harris y Bill Murray; la película de animación “The Wild Robot”, de Chris Sanders,...
- 7/23/2024
- by Marta Medina
- mundoCine
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Alberto Barbera, it must be said, has done it again.
The long-running director of the Venice Film Festival, who successfully repositioned the august Italian cinema event as an awards-season launchpad, on Tuesday unveiled another top-shelf lineup for the 81st Biennale (Aug. 28-Sept. 7). And, as Kendall Roy would say, it’s “all bangers, all the time.”
Alongside tentpole studio sequels — Warner Bros. will kick off the festival with the out-of-competition screening of Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice Beetlejuice and Todd Phillips returns to the Lido competition with Joker: Folie à Deux, the follow-up to his 2019 Golden Lion-winner Joker — Barbera has selected a tasty mix of established auteurs and up-and-coming talent that looks to appeal both to critics and international buyers.
Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga in Joker: Folie À Deux.
Pedro Almodóvar is back in Venice with The Room Next Door, the hotly-anticipated English-language feature debut from the Oscar-winning Spanish director. Tilda Swinton...
The long-running director of the Venice Film Festival, who successfully repositioned the august Italian cinema event as an awards-season launchpad, on Tuesday unveiled another top-shelf lineup for the 81st Biennale (Aug. 28-Sept. 7). And, as Kendall Roy would say, it’s “all bangers, all the time.”
Alongside tentpole studio sequels — Warner Bros. will kick off the festival with the out-of-competition screening of Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice Beetlejuice and Todd Phillips returns to the Lido competition with Joker: Folie à Deux, the follow-up to his 2019 Golden Lion-winner Joker — Barbera has selected a tasty mix of established auteurs and up-and-coming talent that looks to appeal both to critics and international buyers.
Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga in Joker: Folie À Deux.
Pedro Almodóvar is back in Venice with The Room Next Door, the hotly-anticipated English-language feature debut from the Oscar-winning Spanish director. Tilda Swinton...
- 7/23/2024
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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UK and Irish directors, actors, producers and locations are peppered throughout the official selection of the 2024 Venice Film Festival, which was unveiled today.
Harvest, produced by Rebecca O’Brien of the UK’s Sixteen Films, alongside New York-based Louverture Films, and Germany’s The Match Factory, is in competition. It is directed by Greek filmmaker Athina Rachel Tsangari and shot in Scotland, with a UK cast including Harry Melling, Rosy McEwen and Thalissa Teixeira. BBC Film and Screen Scotland are among the backers.
Another competition title with UK ties is US filmmaker Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist, which is co-produced by...
Harvest, produced by Rebecca O’Brien of the UK’s Sixteen Films, alongside New York-based Louverture Films, and Germany’s The Match Factory, is in competition. It is directed by Greek filmmaker Athina Rachel Tsangari and shot in Scotland, with a UK cast including Harry Melling, Rosy McEwen and Thalissa Teixeira. BBC Film and Screen Scotland are among the backers.
Another competition title with UK ties is US filmmaker Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist, which is co-produced by...
- 7/23/2024
- ScreenDaily
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UK and Irish directors, actors, producers and locations are peppered throughout the official selection of the 2024 Venice Film Festival, which was unveiled today.
Harvest, produced by Rebecca O’Brien of the UK’s Sixteen Films, alongside New York-based Louverture Films, and Germany’s The Match Factory, is in competition. It is directed by Greek filmmaker Athina Rachel Tsangari and shot in Scotland, with a UK cast including Harry Melling, Rosy McEwen and Thalissa Teixeira. BBC Film and Screen Scotland are among the backers.
Another competition title with UK ties is US filmmaker Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist, which is co-produced by...
Harvest, produced by Rebecca O’Brien of the UK’s Sixteen Films, alongside New York-based Louverture Films, and Germany’s The Match Factory, is in competition. It is directed by Greek filmmaker Athina Rachel Tsangari and shot in Scotland, with a UK cast including Harry Melling, Rosy McEwen and Thalissa Teixeira. BBC Film and Screen Scotland are among the backers.
Another competition title with UK ties is US filmmaker Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist, which is co-produced by...
- 7/23/2024
- ScreenDaily
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The Venice Film Festival, known officially in Italian as Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica della Biennale di Venezia, has officially announced its selection of films playing at the historic film festival in 2024. Celebrating their 81st year (the oldest film festival in the world), Venezia returns with fascinating line-up and compelling selection of films. Venice 2024 runs from August 28th to September 7th in just a few months. The biggest highlights are major competition films: Todd Phillips' Joker: Folie à Deux, Brady Corbet's shot-on-70mm-film The Brutalist, Luca Guadagnino's Queer starring Daniel Criag, Pablo Larrain's Maria starring Angelina Jolie, Halina Reijn's Babygirl starring Nicole Kidman, and Justin Kurzel's surprise entry The Order (set in the Pacific Northwest). And, of course, many of other movies to discover when they premiere on the Lido in Venice in a few months. I'll be back again as always for this fall festival...
- 7/23/2024
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
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We’re just about five weeks away from the opening of the 81st Venice International Film Festival, the oldest such celebration of international cinema and the official kickoff to awards season in earnest. A gondola loaded with news about this year’s titles washed up on our shores this morning, and this year’s competition slate is packed.
It’s no surprise that Todd Phillips will bring his “Joker” sequel, “Joker: Folie à Deux,” back to the late-summer Italian event. The first dark comic book film won the top prize there in 2019, slapping a huge international halo on it released to the public, eventually netting Joaquin Phoenix the Best Actor Oscar, as well as a Best Original Score trophy for Hildur Guðnadóttir and nine other nominations, including Best Picture. The sequel, which was not a foregone conclusion when the first movie was made, but a Mack truck of Warner Bros....
It’s no surprise that Todd Phillips will bring his “Joker” sequel, “Joker: Folie à Deux,” back to the late-summer Italian event. The first dark comic book film won the top prize there in 2019, slapping a huge international halo on it released to the public, eventually netting Joaquin Phoenix the Best Actor Oscar, as well as a Best Original Score trophy for Hildur Guðnadóttir and nine other nominations, including Best Picture. The sequel, which was not a foregone conclusion when the first movie was made, but a Mack truck of Warner Bros....
- 7/23/2024
- by Jordan Hoffman
- Gold Derby
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Außerhalb des Wettbewerbs der Mostra wird Andres Veiels Dokumentarfilm „Riefenstahl“ zu sehen sein und dort seine Weltpremiere feiern. In den Wettbewerb wurde u.a. Pablo Larrains „Maria“ eingeladen, bei dem Komplizen Film als Koproduzent an Bord war.
Andres Veiel ist mit seinem Dokumentarfilm „Riefenstahl“ nach Venedig eingeladen worden
Andres Veiels Dokumentarfilm „Riefenstahl“ wird im Rahmen der 81. Mostra (28. August bis 7. September) außerhalb des Wettbewerbs zu sehen sein und dort seine Weltpremiere feiern. Das gab Festivaldirektor Alberto Barbera heute bekannt.
In den Wettbewerb wurden insgesamt 21 Titel eingeladen, zwei weniger als im vergangenen Jahr: Pablo Larrains Maria Callas gewidmeter „Maria“, bei dem Komplizen Film wie schon zuvor bei Larrains „Spencer“ als Koproduzent fungiert hat, Todd Phillips‘ „Joker: Folie A Deux“, dessen Vorgänger „Joker“ 2019 den Goldenen Löwen gewonnen hatte, Pedro Almodovars „The Room Next Door“, Gianni Amelios „Campo di Battaglia“, „Leurs Enfants Apres Eux“ von Ludovic und Zoran Boukherma, Brady Corbets „The Brutalist“, „Jouer avec le Feu...
Andres Veiel ist mit seinem Dokumentarfilm „Riefenstahl“ nach Venedig eingeladen worden
Andres Veiels Dokumentarfilm „Riefenstahl“ wird im Rahmen der 81. Mostra (28. August bis 7. September) außerhalb des Wettbewerbs zu sehen sein und dort seine Weltpremiere feiern. Das gab Festivaldirektor Alberto Barbera heute bekannt.
In den Wettbewerb wurden insgesamt 21 Titel eingeladen, zwei weniger als im vergangenen Jahr: Pablo Larrains Maria Callas gewidmeter „Maria“, bei dem Komplizen Film wie schon zuvor bei Larrains „Spencer“ als Koproduzent fungiert hat, Todd Phillips‘ „Joker: Folie A Deux“, dessen Vorgänger „Joker“ 2019 den Goldenen Löwen gewonnen hatte, Pedro Almodovars „The Room Next Door“, Gianni Amelios „Campo di Battaglia“, „Leurs Enfants Apres Eux“ von Ludovic und Zoran Boukherma, Brady Corbets „The Brutalist“, „Jouer avec le Feu...
- 7/23/2024
- by Jochen Müller
- Spot - Media & Film
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Just a day after New York Film Festival and Toronto International Film Festival made major announcements, Venice Film Festival is here with their full lineup ahead of the festival taking place August 28 through September 7.
Highlights include Pedro Almodóvar’s The Room Next Door, Luca Guadagnino’s Queer, Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist, Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Cloud, Alex Ross Perry’s Pavements, Harmony Korine’s Baby Invasion, Pablo Larraín’s Maria, Takeshi Kitano’s Broken Rage, Errol Morris’ Separated, Lav Diaz’s Phantosmia, Thomas Vinterberg’s Families Like Ours, Dea Kulumbegashvili’s April, and more.
Check out the lineup below with a hat tip to Cineuropa.
Competition
The Room Next Door – Pedro Almodóvar
Campo di battaglia – Gianni Amelio
Leurs enfants après eux – Ludovic & Zoran Boukherma
The Brutalist – Brady Corbet
Jouer avec le feu – Delphine & Muriel Coulin
Vermiglio – Maura Delpero
Iddu (Sicilian Letters) – Fabio Grassadonia & Antonio Piazza
Queer – Luca Guadagnino
Love – Dag Johan Haugerud...
Highlights include Pedro Almodóvar’s The Room Next Door, Luca Guadagnino’s Queer, Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist, Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Cloud, Alex Ross Perry’s Pavements, Harmony Korine’s Baby Invasion, Pablo Larraín’s Maria, Takeshi Kitano’s Broken Rage, Errol Morris’ Separated, Lav Diaz’s Phantosmia, Thomas Vinterberg’s Families Like Ours, Dea Kulumbegashvili’s April, and more.
Check out the lineup below with a hat tip to Cineuropa.
Competition
The Room Next Door – Pedro Almodóvar
Campo di battaglia – Gianni Amelio
Leurs enfants après eux – Ludovic & Zoran Boukherma
The Brutalist – Brady Corbet
Jouer avec le feu – Delphine & Muriel Coulin
Vermiglio – Maura Delpero
Iddu (Sicilian Letters) – Fabio Grassadonia & Antonio Piazza
Queer – Luca Guadagnino
Love – Dag Johan Haugerud...
- 7/23/2024
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
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The lineup for the 81st Venice International Film Festival is here. Artistic director Alberto Barbera and Biennale president Pietrangelo Buttafuoco revealed the complete list of titles across sections early on Tuesday, July 23. Watch the live stream here or on YouTube.
Competition highlights included, as expected, Todd Phillips’ “Joker: Folie à Deux,” Pablo Larraín’s “Maria” with Angelina Jolie, Luca Guadagnino’s “Queer” with Daniel Craig, and Pedro Almodóvar’s first English-language feature, “The Room Next Door.” Other gems in the lineup include “April,” from Georgian “Beginning” director Dea Kulumbegashvili; Brady Corbet’s “Fountainhead”-inspired epic “The Brutalist,” which runs a whopping 215 minutes and will present in 70mm; Aussie auteur Justin Kurzel’s thriller “The Order”; “Chevalier” director Athina Rachel Tsangari’s “Harvest” with Caleb Landry Jones; and Halina Reijn’s psychosexual thriller for A24, “Babygirl,” starring Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson.
Out of competition across series and features, there’s new work from Harmony Korine,...
Competition highlights included, as expected, Todd Phillips’ “Joker: Folie à Deux,” Pablo Larraín’s “Maria” with Angelina Jolie, Luca Guadagnino’s “Queer” with Daniel Craig, and Pedro Almodóvar’s first English-language feature, “The Room Next Door.” Other gems in the lineup include “April,” from Georgian “Beginning” director Dea Kulumbegashvili; Brady Corbet’s “Fountainhead”-inspired epic “The Brutalist,” which runs a whopping 215 minutes and will present in 70mm; Aussie auteur Justin Kurzel’s thriller “The Order”; “Chevalier” director Athina Rachel Tsangari’s “Harvest” with Caleb Landry Jones; and Halina Reijn’s psychosexual thriller for A24, “Babygirl,” starring Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson.
Out of competition across series and features, there’s new work from Harmony Korine,...
- 7/23/2024
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
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The full list of titles set for the 81st edition of the Venice Film Festival has been revealed, and it’s another powerhouse lineup — scroll below to check it out.
The venerable event in 2023 took place under the cloud of the SAG-AFTRA strike, which prevented many stars coming out in support of their movies. With the labor action resolved and this year’s roster now formalized, we can expect a tidal wave of talent to wash over the Lido at the end of next month and into early September.
Many of the films announced this morning by La Biennale President Pietrangelo Buttafuoco and Venice Film Festival Artistic Director Alberto Barbera were widely anticipated, including Todd Phillips’ Joaquin Phoenix/Lady Gaga starrer Joker: Folie à Deux. The Warner Bros sequel arguably is the highest-profile movie of the competition bunch, coming five years after Phillips’ Joker won the Golden Lion before going on to 11 Oscar nominations,...
The venerable event in 2023 took place under the cloud of the SAG-AFTRA strike, which prevented many stars coming out in support of their movies. With the labor action resolved and this year’s roster now formalized, we can expect a tidal wave of talent to wash over the Lido at the end of next month and into early September.
Many of the films announced this morning by La Biennale President Pietrangelo Buttafuoco and Venice Film Festival Artistic Director Alberto Barbera were widely anticipated, including Todd Phillips’ Joaquin Phoenix/Lady Gaga starrer Joker: Folie à Deux. The Warner Bros sequel arguably is the highest-profile movie of the competition bunch, coming five years after Phillips’ Joker won the Golden Lion before going on to 11 Oscar nominations,...
- 7/23/2024
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
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Buckle in, film buffs, we’re not done with festival season yet. The 2024 Venice Film Festival lineup was announced on Tuesday, and rest assured there will be plenty of glamorous movie stars waving from boats. The lineup includes expected entries like Joker: Folie à Deux, starring Oscar winner Joaquin Phoenix...
- 7/23/2024
- by Mary Kate Carr
- avclub.com
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The Venice Film Festival on Tuesday unveiled its official, star-packed lineup for its 81st edition, which runs from Aug. 28 to Sept. 7.
Joker: Folie à Deux, Todd Phillips’ sequel to his 2019 Golden Lion-winning Joker, will also bow in Venice. Joaquin Phoenix, who won a best actor Oscar for his portrayal of Arthur Fleck, aka Joker, in the original, returns in the musical sequel, with Lady Gaga playing Harley Quinn, his love interest and partner in crime. Zazie Beetz, Brendan Gleeson and Catherine Keener co-star.
Venice favorites Brad Pitt and George Clooney will return to the Lido with Wolfs, an action drama from Jon Watts (Spider-Man: No Way Home) about two lone-wolf fixers assigned to the same job. The film, an Apple Original Films production that Columbia/Sony will release theatrically worldwide, will screen out of competition, as will Broken Rage, the latest feature from legendary Japanese director Takeshi Kitano.
Angelina Jolie...
Joker: Folie à Deux, Todd Phillips’ sequel to his 2019 Golden Lion-winning Joker, will also bow in Venice. Joaquin Phoenix, who won a best actor Oscar for his portrayal of Arthur Fleck, aka Joker, in the original, returns in the musical sequel, with Lady Gaga playing Harley Quinn, his love interest and partner in crime. Zazie Beetz, Brendan Gleeson and Catherine Keener co-star.
Venice favorites Brad Pitt and George Clooney will return to the Lido with Wolfs, an action drama from Jon Watts (Spider-Man: No Way Home) about two lone-wolf fixers assigned to the same job. The film, an Apple Original Films production that Columbia/Sony will release theatrically worldwide, will screen out of competition, as will Broken Rage, the latest feature from legendary Japanese director Takeshi Kitano.
Angelina Jolie...
- 7/23/2024
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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Boatloads of high-wattage stars are set to disembark at this year’s Venice Film Festival.
Lady Gaga, Joaquin Phoenix, Julianne Moore, Tilda Swinton, Angelina Jolie, Daniel Craig, Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones, Cate Blanchett, George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Monica Bellucci, Michael Keaton and Jenna Ortega are among A-list talents toplining high-profile titles that will premiere at the Lido’s Palazzo del Cinema.
But besides being a glitzy affair, Venice’s upcoming 81st edition – which features a rich mix of known names and potential discoveries across a wide range of genres – also looks set to bolster the event’s status as the top destination for studios and streamers to build Oscar campaigns and a prime launchpad for the cream of the year’s cinematic crop.
As anticipated by Variety, “Joker 2: Folie à Deux” — Todd Phillips’ edgy musical sequel to his 2019 Golden Lion prizewinning “Joker,” starring Gaga and Phoenix — is once again...
Lady Gaga, Joaquin Phoenix, Julianne Moore, Tilda Swinton, Angelina Jolie, Daniel Craig, Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones, Cate Blanchett, George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Monica Bellucci, Michael Keaton and Jenna Ortega are among A-list talents toplining high-profile titles that will premiere at the Lido’s Palazzo del Cinema.
But besides being a glitzy affair, Venice’s upcoming 81st edition – which features a rich mix of known names and potential discoveries across a wide range of genres – also looks set to bolster the event’s status as the top destination for studios and streamers to build Oscar campaigns and a prime launchpad for the cream of the year’s cinematic crop.
As anticipated by Variety, “Joker 2: Folie à Deux” — Todd Phillips’ edgy musical sequel to his 2019 Golden Lion prizewinning “Joker,” starring Gaga and Phoenix — is once again...
- 7/23/2024
- by Nick Vivarelli and Ellise Shafer
- Variety Film + TV
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Venice Film Festival has revealed the programme for its 81st edition, featuring a 21-strong Competition that includes new films from Todd Phillips, Pedro Almodovar, Luca Guadagino, Pablo Larrain, Brady Corbet and Justin Kurzel.
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The selection was unveiled by festival president Pietrangelo Buttafuoco and artistic director Alberto Barbera. It marked Buttafuoco’s first time at the annual press conference, after replacing Roberto Cicutto in October 2023.
Further filmmakers in Competition include Wang Bing, Luis Ortega, Dea Kulumbegashvili, Dag Johan Haugerud, Athina Rachel Tsangari and Walter Salles.
The line-up also includes Jon Watt’s Wolfs, starring Brad Pitt and George Clooney,...
Scroll down for full line-up
The selection was unveiled by festival president Pietrangelo Buttafuoco and artistic director Alberto Barbera. It marked Buttafuoco’s first time at the annual press conference, after replacing Roberto Cicutto in October 2023.
Further filmmakers in Competition include Wang Bing, Luis Ortega, Dea Kulumbegashvili, Dag Johan Haugerud, Athina Rachel Tsangari and Walter Salles.
The line-up also includes Jon Watt’s Wolfs, starring Brad Pitt and George Clooney,...
- 7/23/2024
- ScreenDaily
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Pünktlich kurz vor Bekanntgabe des Venedig-Programms gibt das 49. Toronto International Film Festival schon einmal einen dicken Schwung neuer großer Titel aus den Vorzeigereihen „Gala Presentations“ und „Special Presentations“ bekannt. Darunter befindet sich auch der neue Film von Edward Berger, „Conclave“, und die Weltpremieren neuer Arbeiten von Angelina Jolie und Mike Leigh.
Brían F. O’Byrne und Ralph Fiennes in Edward Bergers „Conclave“ (Credit: Focus Features)
Man kann immer viel lernen aus diesem ersten dicken Schwung Ankündigungen, die das Toronto International Film Festival traditionell immer kurz vor der Bekanntgabe des Programms der Mostra in Venedig veröffentlicht. Hauptsächlich um dem Erzkonkurrenten aus good old Europe ein bisschen in die Suppe zu spucken. Wenn einer der 63 Titel in diesem dicken Konvolut als „nordamerikanische“, „kanadische“ oder „internationale“ Premiere betitelt wird und der Titel vorher noch nicht in Cannes oder Berlin gelaufen ist, kann man ablesen, ob er vor Toronto bereits in Venedig und/oder Telluride gezeigt wird.
Brían F. O’Byrne und Ralph Fiennes in Edward Bergers „Conclave“ (Credit: Focus Features)
Man kann immer viel lernen aus diesem ersten dicken Schwung Ankündigungen, die das Toronto International Film Festival traditionell immer kurz vor der Bekanntgabe des Programms der Mostra in Venedig veröffentlicht. Hauptsächlich um dem Erzkonkurrenten aus good old Europe ein bisschen in die Suppe zu spucken. Wenn einer der 63 Titel in diesem dicken Konvolut als „nordamerikanische“, „kanadische“ oder „internationale“ Premiere betitelt wird und der Titel vorher noch nicht in Cannes oder Berlin gelaufen ist, kann man ablesen, ob er vor Toronto bereits in Venedig und/oder Telluride gezeigt wird.
- 7/22/2024
- by Thomas Schultze
- Spot - Media & Film
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The 49th edition of the Toronto International Film Festival have unveiled their lineup of 63 films from the Gala and Special Presentations programs. Notable titles include the world premieres of Mike Leigh’s Hard Truths and The Last Showgirl, the North American premieres of Athina Rachel Tsangari’s Harvest and Justin Kurzel’s The Order, the Canadian premiere of Joshua Oppenheimer’s The End, along with many favorites from this year’s Cannes Film Festival.
Check out the lineup below.
Galas 2024 (in alphabetical order)
*Previously announced
Andrea Bocelli: Because I Believe Cosima Spender | UK
World Premiere
Better Man Michael Gracey | USA
Canadian Premiere
Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight Embeth Davidtz | South Africa
Canadian Premiere
Sales Title
*Eden Ron Howard | USA
World Premiere
Sales Title
*Elton John: Never Too Late R.J. Cutler, David Furnish | USA
World Premiere
*Harbin Woo Min-ho | South Korea
World Premiere
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Check out the lineup below.
Galas 2024 (in alphabetical order)
*Previously announced
Andrea Bocelli: Because I Believe Cosima Spender | UK
World Premiere
Better Man Michael Gracey | USA
Canadian Premiere
Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight Embeth Davidtz | South Africa
Canadian Premiere
Sales Title
*Eden Ron Howard | USA
World Premiere
Sales Title
*Elton John: Never Too Late R.J. Cutler, David Furnish | USA
World Premiere
*Harbin Woo Min-ho | South Korea
World Premiere
Meet the Barbarians...
- 7/22/2024
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
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Exclusive: Odessa Young is set to join the ensemble cast of Deliver Me From Nowhere, the upcoming Bruce Springsteen pic from 20th Century. While not confirmed, sources say she will be playing Springsteen’s love interest.
Jeremy Allen White is set to play Springsteen and Scott Cooper is directing the biopic, which tells the story of the making of the classic Springsteen album Nebraska. Paul Walter Hauser is also on board.
In April, the studio closed a deal to finance and distribute the pic, which follows the rock ‘n’ roll icon who, after grappling with personal demons and trying to wrap his arms around becoming a global superstar, wrote and recorded Nebraska, the 1982 album that rivals Joni Mitchell’s Blue as one of the most emotionally raw, dark and honest albums in recent music history.
Scott Stuber, in his first move since exiting as longtime Netflix Film head, is producing...
Jeremy Allen White is set to play Springsteen and Scott Cooper is directing the biopic, which tells the story of the making of the classic Springsteen album Nebraska. Paul Walter Hauser is also on board.
In April, the studio closed a deal to finance and distribute the pic, which follows the rock ‘n’ roll icon who, after grappling with personal demons and trying to wrap his arms around becoming a global superstar, wrote and recorded Nebraska, the 1982 album that rivals Joni Mitchell’s Blue as one of the most emotionally raw, dark and honest albums in recent music history.
Scott Stuber, in his first move since exiting as longtime Netflix Film head, is producing...
- 6/20/2024
- by Justin Kroll
- Deadline Film + TV
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Fantasy is a genre that can entice millions of fans with its world-building, imaginative elements, and larger-than-life characters. With the biggest library of shows and movies in the industry, Netflix has many great fantasy shows that the fans would find entertaining. While many of them were canceled before they could conclude their story, they are still entertaining. So, we considered compiling a list of the best fantasy shows you can find on Netflix.
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The Witcher is a dark fantasy action-adventure series created by Lauren Schmidt Hissrich. Based on a series of fantasy novels of the same name by Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski, the Netflix series is set in a fantasy world, and it follows the story of Geralt of Rivia, a Witcher (a mutated human who hunts monsters), as his fate gets entangled with the Crown Princess Ciri and a mage Yennefer, while a...
The Witcher (Only Season 1) Credit – Netflix
The Witcher is a dark fantasy action-adventure series created by Lauren Schmidt Hissrich. Based on a series of fantasy novels of the same name by Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski, the Netflix series is set in a fantasy world, and it follows the story of Geralt of Rivia, a Witcher (a mutated human who hunts monsters), as his fate gets entangled with the Crown Princess Ciri and a mage Yennefer, while a...
- 6/16/2024
- by Kulwant Singh
- Cinema Blind
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While, Netflix has made a name for itself by canceling our favorite shows like I Am Not Okay With This and The Order, the streaming service still serves as one of the biggest content machines on the planet. That’s why when a series clicks with the audience Netflix has to renew it so let’s check out the lucky names of the shows that have been given the green light for future seasons in 2024.
Survival of the Thickest Season 2
Survival of the Thickest is a comedy-drama series created by Michelle Buteau and Danielle Sanchez-Witzel. Based on Buteau’s memoir of the same name, the Netflix series follows the story of a recently single plus-sized woman as he tries to rebuild her life while struggling as a stylist. Survival of the Thickest came out with its first on the streamer in July 2023 and nearly seven months later Netflix announced that...
Survival of the Thickest Season 2
Survival of the Thickest is a comedy-drama series created by Michelle Buteau and Danielle Sanchez-Witzel. Based on Buteau’s memoir of the same name, the Netflix series follows the story of a recently single plus-sized woman as he tries to rebuild her life while struggling as a stylist. Survival of the Thickest came out with its first on the streamer in July 2023 and nearly seven months later Netflix announced that...
- 5/27/2024
- by Kulwant Singh
- Cinema Blind
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Laura Linney, Ben Semanoff and Justin Kurzel have all signed on to direct multiple episodes of the upcoming Netflix limited series “Black Rabbit.”
The trio will each direct two episodes of the series, which was picked up at Netflix in March. It will mark a reunion for Linney and “Black Rabbit” co-lead Jason Bateman, who previously starred as Wendy and Marty Byrde in the Netflix crime drama “Ozark” for four seasons. Semanoff also directed episodes of “Ozark.” Jude Law will also star in “Black Rabbit.” Law, Kurzel, and “Black Rabbit” co-creator Zach Baylin have also collaborated on the upcoming true crime film “The Order.”
The official logline for the series states that it follows “the owner of a New York City hotspot (Law) who allows his turbulent brother (Bateman) back in his life, only to realize he’s opened the door to escalating dangers that threaten to bring down everything he’s built.
The trio will each direct two episodes of the series, which was picked up at Netflix in March. It will mark a reunion for Linney and “Black Rabbit” co-lead Jason Bateman, who previously starred as Wendy and Marty Byrde in the Netflix crime drama “Ozark” for four seasons. Semanoff also directed episodes of “Ozark.” Jude Law will also star in “Black Rabbit.” Law, Kurzel, and “Black Rabbit” co-creator Zach Baylin have also collaborated on the upcoming true crime film “The Order.”
The official logline for the series states that it follows “the owner of a New York City hotspot (Law) who allows his turbulent brother (Bateman) back in his life, only to realize he’s opened the door to escalating dangers that threaten to bring down everything he’s built.
- 5/23/2024
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
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Laura Linney (Ozark), Ben Semanoff (Ozark) and Justin Kurzel (Macbeth) round out the director lineup for Netflix’s upcoming limited series Black Rabbit, starring and executive produced by Jude Law and Jason Bateman, the streamer announced Thursday. Each is slated to helm two episodes of the 8-episode series, which hails from Bateman and Michael Costigan’s Aggregate Films, Law and Ben Jackson’s Riff Raff Entertainment, Zach Baylin and Kate Susman’s Youngblood Pictures and Automatik Entertainment.
Black Rabbit marks a reunion for Bateman and Linney, who previously worked together on Netflix’s Emmy-winning series Ozark as co-stars, producers and directors, as well as with Semanoff, who also directed. It also reunites Kurzel with Law and Baylin, who star in and wrote, respectively, the upcoming true crime thriller, The Order.
As previously announced, Bateman will direct the first two episodes. Linney will direct episodes 3 and 4; Semanoff episodes 5 and 6 and Kurzel...
Black Rabbit marks a reunion for Bateman and Linney, who previously worked together on Netflix’s Emmy-winning series Ozark as co-stars, producers and directors, as well as with Semanoff, who also directed. It also reunites Kurzel with Law and Baylin, who star in and wrote, respectively, the upcoming true crime thriller, The Order.
As previously announced, Bateman will direct the first two episodes. Linney will direct episodes 3 and 4; Semanoff episodes 5 and 6 and Kurzel...
- 5/23/2024
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
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If you’ve been keeping up with distribution news recently, there’s been one name you’ll have seen pop up again and again: Vertical.
Since the pandemic, the bottom has fallen out of the film business, with more quality indie packages hitting the marketplace than there are distributors willing to take them on. Stepping up, in the years since, to offer many of them a home, is this indie distributor, which appears to be in the midst of its biggest year yet.
Founded in 2012 by Rich Goldberg and Mitch Budin, Vertical comes from humble beginnings, according to partner Peter Jarowey, who notes that the team at one point operated out of “a literal broom closet.” Initially working to establish itself as a resource in securing ancillary revenue for indies, the company has of late has become a theatrical player in its own right. Aspiring from the beginning to be a purveyor of “commercial,...
Since the pandemic, the bottom has fallen out of the film business, with more quality indie packages hitting the marketplace than there are distributors willing to take them on. Stepping up, in the years since, to offer many of them a home, is this indie distributor, which appears to be in the midst of its biggest year yet.
Founded in 2012 by Rich Goldberg and Mitch Budin, Vertical comes from humble beginnings, according to partner Peter Jarowey, who notes that the team at one point operated out of “a literal broom closet.” Initially working to establish itself as a resource in securing ancillary revenue for indies, the company has of late has become a theatrical player in its own right. Aspiring from the beginning to be a purveyor of “commercial,...
- 5/17/2024
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
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After “Nitram” wowed critics at the Cannes Film Festival three years ago, with Caleb Landry Jones winning Best Actor for his role, many expected Justin Kurzel‘s would return to the Croisette with his next film, “The Order.” But Deadline reports that Kurzel’s upcoming true crime movie won’t hit the festival circuit yet, if it even is at all.
Continue reading ‘The Order’ First Look: Jude Law, Nicholas Hoult & Tye Sheridan Star In Justin Kurzel’s Upcoming True Crime Thriller at The Playlist.
Continue reading ‘The Order’ First Look: Jude Law, Nicholas Hoult & Tye Sheridan Star In Justin Kurzel’s Upcoming True Crime Thriller at The Playlist.
- 5/16/2024
- by Ned Booth
- The Playlist
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Vertical is getting ahead of the crowds as this year’s Cannes market starts wheeling and dealing for Hollywood’s hottest projects and properties. The studio acquired the U.S. rights from AGC Studios to The Order, with Justin Kurzel in the director’s chair. Based on Kevin Flynn and Gary Gerhardt’s novel The Silent Brotherhood, The Order stars Jude Law, Nicholas Hoult, and Tye Sheridan.
Here’s a synopsis of Flynn and Gerhardt’s novel courtesy of Library Journal:
Two courageous investigative journalists have created an insider’s account of the “silent brotherhood,” the anti-Jewish, white supremacist underground that, with the justification of some perversely interpreted Christian teachings, conducts an all-out race war. The movement has gathered a group of superpatriots, zealots, malcontents, as well as, rather disturbingly, a large majority of ordinary people. These followers see the underground’s survivalist creed as the way whites can protect...
Here’s a synopsis of Flynn and Gerhardt’s novel courtesy of Library Journal:
Two courageous investigative journalists have created an insider’s account of the “silent brotherhood,” the anti-Jewish, white supremacist underground that, with the justification of some perversely interpreted Christian teachings, conducts an all-out race war. The movement has gathered a group of superpatriots, zealots, malcontents, as well as, rather disturbingly, a large majority of ordinary people. These followers see the underground’s survivalist creed as the way whites can protect...
- 5/16/2024
- by Steve Seigh
- JoBlo.com
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Exclusive: Vertical has acquired U.S. rights from AGC Studios to The Order, a dramatic thriller directed by Australia’s Justin Kurzel (Macbeth), on which we were first to report. Starring Jude Law (Firebrand), Nicholas Hoult (X-Men franchise), Tye Sheridan (The Card Counter), Jurnee Smollett (Birds of Prey) and more, the film will will have an exclusive release in theaters nationwide later this year.
Written by Oscar and BAFTA nominee Zach Baylin (King Richard), the film adapts Kevin Flynn and Gary Gerhardt’s book The Silent Brotherhood, chronicling the escalating crimes of the titular white supremacist domestic terror group. It’s set in 1983, when a series of increasingly violent bank robberies, counterfeiting operations, and armored car heists frightened communities throughout the Pacific Northwest. As baffled law enforcement agents scrambled for answers, a lone FBI agent (Law), stationed in the sleepy, picturesque town of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, came to believe...
Written by Oscar and BAFTA nominee Zach Baylin (King Richard), the film adapts Kevin Flynn and Gary Gerhardt’s book The Silent Brotherhood, chronicling the escalating crimes of the titular white supremacist domestic terror group. It’s set in 1983, when a series of increasingly violent bank robberies, counterfeiting operations, and armored car heists frightened communities throughout the Pacific Northwest. As baffled law enforcement agents scrambled for answers, a lone FBI agent (Law), stationed in the sleepy, picturesque town of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, came to believe...
- 5/16/2024
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
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Denzel Washington is one of the most respected and prolific actors in Hollywood. The two-time Oscar winner is often considered to be one of the greatest actors of the generation. He has worked with acclaimed directors such as Spike Lee, Tony Scott, Ridley Scott, Antoine Fuqua, and more. He won the Oscar for the films Glory and Training Day.
While Washington established himself as a dramatic actor, the Malcolm X star also broke boundaries and stereotypes as a bankable action star. He featured in films such as The Equalizer franchise and Inside Man. One of Washington’s most memorable performances was when he starred in Tony Scott’s action cult classic Man on Fire.
Screenwriter Brian Helgeland Had A Different Ending In Mind For Man On Fire Denzel Washington and Dakota Fanning in Man on Fire
Denzel Washington was reportedly cast as John Crease in Man on Fire by director...
While Washington established himself as a dramatic actor, the Malcolm X star also broke boundaries and stereotypes as a bankable action star. He featured in films such as The Equalizer franchise and Inside Man. One of Washington’s most memorable performances was when he starred in Tony Scott’s action cult classic Man on Fire.
Screenwriter Brian Helgeland Had A Different Ending In Mind For Man On Fire Denzel Washington and Dakota Fanning in Man on Fire
Denzel Washington was reportedly cast as John Crease in Man on Fire by director...
- 4/24/2024
- by Nishanth A
- FandomWire
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Photo: Jocelyn Hudon, Dan Jeannotte Credit: ©2024 Hallmark Media/Photographer: Courtesy of Johnson Production Group
Hallmark Channel has now released details of its new, original movie, Falling in Love in Niagara, starring Jocelyn Hudon and Dan Jeannotte.
Airing as part of the network’s annual Spring into Love programming event, the movie features a recently dumped fiancée and her tour guide finding the hidden wonders of Niagara Falls together.
Read on to find out more about the movie and its cast and see images taken from the film set and a fun trailer.
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According to the official synopsis, Maddie (Jocelyn Hudon) is a recently dumped fiancée who decides to take her sister, Harley (Maša Lizdek) on her planned honeymoon to Niagara Falls. While there, Maddie meets Mike (Dan Jeannotte), a tour guide,...
Hallmark Channel has now released details of its new, original movie, Falling in Love in Niagara, starring Jocelyn Hudon and Dan Jeannotte.
Airing as part of the network’s annual Spring into Love programming event, the movie features a recently dumped fiancée and her tour guide finding the hidden wonders of Niagara Falls together.
Read on to find out more about the movie and its cast and see images taken from the film set and a fun trailer.
Falling in Love in Niagara coming to Hallmark Channel Photo: Maša Lizdek, Jocelyn Hudon Credit: ©2024 Hallmark Media/Photographer: Courtesy of Johnson Production Group
According to the official synopsis, Maddie (Jocelyn Hudon) is a recently dumped fiancée who decides to take her sister, Harley (Maša Lizdek) on her planned honeymoon to Niagara Falls. While there, Maddie meets Mike (Dan Jeannotte), a tour guide,...
- 4/4/2024
- by Anne King
- Celebrating The Soaps
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Exclusive: AGC Television is dropping a hot TV project into this week’s Series Mania market in Lille.
The Stone Quarry’s Zack Snyder (Zack Snyder’s Justice League), Deborah Snyder (Wonder Woman) and Wesley Coller (Rebel Moon) are among producers of French Foreign Legion series Until The Last One, whose pilot is being directed by Eli Snyder, most recently second unit director on his father’s Rebel Moon.
The series will follow a British deserter from the infamous French Foreign Legion who is found twenty years after fleeing the harsh reality of his mercenary service and forced back with the new recruits in the thick of danger. The series will chart the violence and the politics of the global hotspots where the Legion are sent to fight and the emotional stories and scars carried by its recruits.
The Foreign Legion is famed for its uniqueness as a military outfit,...
The Stone Quarry’s Zack Snyder (Zack Snyder’s Justice League), Deborah Snyder (Wonder Woman) and Wesley Coller (Rebel Moon) are among producers of French Foreign Legion series Until The Last One, whose pilot is being directed by Eli Snyder, most recently second unit director on his father’s Rebel Moon.
The series will follow a British deserter from the infamous French Foreign Legion who is found twenty years after fleeing the harsh reality of his mercenary service and forced back with the new recruits in the thick of danger. The series will chart the violence and the politics of the global hotspots where the Legion are sent to fight and the emotional stories and scars carried by its recruits.
The Foreign Legion is famed for its uniqueness as a military outfit,...
- 3/19/2024
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
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AGC Studios chief creative officer Lourdes Diaz has signed a new multi-year employment agreement and has been elevated to partner with a seat on the board of the independent film and television studio.
The promotion comes on the back of founders Stuart Ford, chairman and CEO, and Miguel Palos, chief operating office, themselves signing new multi-year agreements late last year.
Since AGC launched in 2018, it has become one of Hollywood’s leading production and financing players, with 41 major film and TV productions under its belt.
In a statement, Ford and Palos said Diaz had been a “hugely influential contributor to the company’s explosive growth.”
They added: “Aside from building a highly respected scripted television operation, in her broader role as chief creative officer she has shaped key decisions on the feature film and unscripted sides of the company, helped kickstart our Family and YA division and has made us...
The promotion comes on the back of founders Stuart Ford, chairman and CEO, and Miguel Palos, chief operating office, themselves signing new multi-year agreements late last year.
Since AGC launched in 2018, it has become one of Hollywood’s leading production and financing players, with 41 major film and TV productions under its belt.
In a statement, Ford and Palos said Diaz had been a “hugely influential contributor to the company’s explosive growth.”
They added: “Aside from building a highly respected scripted television operation, in her broader role as chief creative officer she has shaped key decisions on the feature film and unscripted sides of the company, helped kickstart our Family and YA division and has made us...
- 3/18/2024
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
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Deadline reports that Jude Law and Jason Bateman are set to star in Black Rabbit, a limited series for Netflix created by Zack Baylin (King Richard) and Kate Susman (The Order).
The official description for Black Rabbit reads: “When the owner of a New York City hotspot (Law) allows his turbulent brother (Bateman) back in his life, he opens the door to escalated dangers that threaten to bring down everything he’s built.” In addition to Law and Bateman, the one-hour drama will also star Cleopatra Coleman (Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire), Amaka Okafor (Bodies), Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù (Gangs of London), and Dagmara Dominczyk (Succession).
Jason Bateman will also direct the first two episodes of Black Rabbit, as well as executive produce with Michael Costigan for Aggregate Pictures. Law will also executive produce with Ben Jackson for Riff Raff Entertainment, along with Zach Baylin and Kate Susman for Youngblood Pictures.
The official description for Black Rabbit reads: “When the owner of a New York City hotspot (Law) allows his turbulent brother (Bateman) back in his life, he opens the door to escalated dangers that threaten to bring down everything he’s built.” In addition to Law and Bateman, the one-hour drama will also star Cleopatra Coleman (Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire), Amaka Okafor (Bodies), Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù (Gangs of London), and Dagmara Dominczyk (Succession).
Jason Bateman will also direct the first two episodes of Black Rabbit, as well as executive produce with Michael Costigan for Aggregate Pictures. Law will also executive produce with Ben Jackson for Riff Raff Entertainment, along with Zach Baylin and Kate Susman for Youngblood Pictures.
- 3/14/2024
- by Kevin Fraser
- JoBlo.com
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Jason Bateman is returning to Netflix (albeit in a limited capacity).
The Ozark vet will star opposite Jude Law in the forthcoming limited series Black Rabbit. Bateman will direct the first two episodes and serve as an executive producer, along with Law.
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Hailing from series creators Zach Baylin (King Richard) and Kate Susman (The Order), the one-hour drama centers on “the...
The Ozark vet will star opposite Jude Law in the forthcoming limited series Black Rabbit. Bateman will direct the first two episodes and serve as an executive producer, along with Law.
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Hailing from series creators Zach Baylin (King Richard) and Kate Susman (The Order), the one-hour drama centers on “the...
- 3/14/2024
- by Ryan Schwartz
- TVLine.com
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Exclusive: Netflix has greenlighted Black Rabbit, a limited series headlined and executive produced by Jason Bateman and Jude Law in their first on-screen pairing. Cleopatra Coleman (Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire), Amaka Okafor (Bodies), Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù (Gangs of London) and Dagmara Dominczyk (Succession) have joined the cast of the one-hour drama, from showrunners and executive producers Zach Baylin and Kate Susman and Bateman’s Aggregate Films under the company’s creative partnership with Netflix.
Bateman will direct the first two episodes of the series, created and written by Baylin and Susman based on an original idea. In it, when the owner of a New York City hotspot (Law) allows his turbulent brother (Bateman) back in his life, he opens the door to escalating dangers that threaten to bring down everything he’s built.
Executive producing are Bateman and Michael Costigan for Aggregate Films; Law and Ben Jackson...
Bateman will direct the first two episodes of the series, created and written by Baylin and Susman based on an original idea. In it, when the owner of a New York City hotspot (Law) allows his turbulent brother (Bateman) back in his life, he opens the door to escalating dangers that threaten to bring down everything he’s built.
Executive producing are Bateman and Michael Costigan for Aggregate Films; Law and Ben Jackson...
- 3/14/2024
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
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Jurnee Smollett (“Lovecraft Country”) has joined the cast of Apple TV+’s “Firebug,” in which she’ll star opposite Taron Egerton. Smollett will play Michelle, a “rising star detective.”
“Firebug,” loosely based on true events and inspired by a podcast of the same name, stars Egerton as an “enigmatic arson investigator.” The two characters pursue two serial arsonists. Egerton is also an exec producer on the Apple original series (from Apple Studios), from creator Dennis Lehane.
Lehane also developed and executive produces “Firebug,” which reps a reunion of the team behind Apple TV+’s “Black Bird.” Other exec producers include Richard Plepler (via Eden Productions), Dan Friedkin and Bradley Thomas (through Imperative Entertainment), and Kary Antholis.
Apple points out that the series, set in the contemporary Pacific Northwest, is fictional — although it does take some of the events included in in truth.media’s “Firebug” podcast, which was hosted by Antholis,...
“Firebug,” loosely based on true events and inspired by a podcast of the same name, stars Egerton as an “enigmatic arson investigator.” The two characters pursue two serial arsonists. Egerton is also an exec producer on the Apple original series (from Apple Studios), from creator Dennis Lehane.
Lehane also developed and executive produces “Firebug,” which reps a reunion of the team behind Apple TV+’s “Black Bird.” Other exec producers include Richard Plepler (via Eden Productions), Dan Friedkin and Bradley Thomas (through Imperative Entertainment), and Kary Antholis.
Apple points out that the series, set in the contemporary Pacific Northwest, is fictional — although it does take some of the events included in in truth.media’s “Firebug” podcast, which was hosted by Antholis,...
- 3/13/2024
- by Michael Schneider
- Variety Film + TV
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Emmy nominee Jurnee Smollett is set to lead the new Apple Original drama series Firebug, loosely inspired by events surrounding notorious California arsonist John Leonard Orr. She will star alongside Taron Egerton in the project developed, written and executive produced by Dennis Lehane.
Firebug will follow a troubled detective and an enigmatic arson investigator (Egerton) as they pursue the trail of two serial arsonists. Smollett will play Michelle, a rising-star detective. Set in the contemporary Pacific Northwest the fictional series uses as its launching pad some events documented in truth.media’s acclaimed Firebug podcast. Orr, the inspiration for the podcast, worked for the Glendale Fire Department in Southern California as a fire captain and arson investigator who later was convicted of being a serial arsonist and mass murderer.
In addition to starring, Egerton will serve as executive producer alongside Richard Plepler through Eden Productions, Dan Friedkin and...
Firebug will follow a troubled detective and an enigmatic arson investigator (Egerton) as they pursue the trail of two serial arsonists. Smollett will play Michelle, a rising-star detective. Set in the contemporary Pacific Northwest the fictional series uses as its launching pad some events documented in truth.media’s acclaimed Firebug podcast. Orr, the inspiration for the podcast, worked for the Glendale Fire Department in Southern California as a fire captain and arson investigator who later was convicted of being a serial arsonist and mass murderer.
In addition to starring, Egerton will serve as executive producer alongside Richard Plepler through Eden Productions, Dan Friedkin and...
- 3/13/2024
- by Rosy Cordero
- Deadline Film + TV
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Apple TV+ has added Jurnee Smollett to its forthcoming drama series Firebug.
The Emmy-nominated Lovecraft Country star joins Taron Egerton in the series from writer and executive producer Dennis Lehane (Mystic River, Apple’s Black Bird). The show is loosely based on real-life events chronicled in Truth.Media’s Firebug podcast hosted by Kary Antholis (who is an executive producer of the series).
Firebug, produced in house by Apple Studios, will follow a troubled detective (Smollett) and an enigmatic arson investigator (Egerton) who are pursuing two serial arsonists in the Pacific Northwest. Smollett’s charcter, named Michelle, is also a rising star in her department.
The series marks a reunion for much of the core team behind the Emmy-winning Black Bird, including Lehane, Egerton, Antholis and executive producers Richard Plepler of Eden Productions and Dan Friedkin and Bradley Thomas of Imperative Entertainment. Marc Smerling will also exec produce for Truth Podcasting Corp.
The Emmy-nominated Lovecraft Country star joins Taron Egerton in the series from writer and executive producer Dennis Lehane (Mystic River, Apple’s Black Bird). The show is loosely based on real-life events chronicled in Truth.Media’s Firebug podcast hosted by Kary Antholis (who is an executive producer of the series).
Firebug, produced in house by Apple Studios, will follow a troubled detective (Smollett) and an enigmatic arson investigator (Egerton) who are pursuing two serial arsonists in the Pacific Northwest. Smollett’s charcter, named Michelle, is also a rising star in her department.
The series marks a reunion for much of the core team behind the Emmy-winning Black Bird, including Lehane, Egerton, Antholis and executive producers Richard Plepler of Eden Productions and Dan Friedkin and Bradley Thomas of Imperative Entertainment. Marc Smerling will also exec produce for Truth Podcasting Corp.
- 3/13/2024
- by Rick Porter
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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