From his breakthrough work Family Viewing, which dates back to 1987, Atom Egoyan has been exploring the possibilities of different communication technologies by showing screens within screens, stories within other stories and the ways unconnected stories may merge with each other and with real life. Seven Veils is named for the biblical character Salome, whose seductive dancing as she shed those veils earned her a grisly prize: the severed head of John the Baptist, the ascetic prophet who predicted the coming of Jesus Christ.
The title is just as suggestive, however, of Egoyan’s approach to storytelling. One diaphanous layer of Salome’s wrappings drops to reveal another beneath; in the same way, Egoyan story is peeled back, one reveal after another. It is understandable that, after its world premiere in Toronto, some critics described the film as muddled; for anyone unfamiliar with his source stories, this dense thicket of magic-lantern slides could well be bewildering.
The title is just as suggestive, however, of Egoyan’s approach to storytelling. One diaphanous layer of Salome’s wrappings drops to reveal another beneath; in the same way, Egoyan story is peeled back, one reveal after another. It is understandable that, after its world premiere in Toronto, some critics described the film as muddled; for anyone unfamiliar with his source stories, this dense thicket of magic-lantern slides could well be bewildering.
- 2/22/2024
- by Stephanie Bunbury
- Deadline Film + TV
There’s an old, old joke about the prestigious New York City concert venue Carnegie Hall, which opened in 1891.
“How do you get to Carnegie Hall?”
“Practice, practice, practice.”
Over the past 130 years, such renowned composers as Antonin Dvorak, Richard Strauss, Samuel Barber, Aaron Copland, Philip Glass and Milton Babbitt debuted their works at the Carnegie.
The new Netflix documentary “American Symphony,” which has been Oscar shortlisted for best documentary, best original score and song, follows Academy and multiple Grammy Award-winning composer/musicians/singer Jon Batiste as he prepares to debut his first symphony at Carnegie Hall while his wife Suleika Jaouad battles a recurrence of leukemia. The heart-on-your-sleeve documentary ends with the triumphant premiere Sept. 22, 2022, that even a power outage on stage couldn’t top. Variety noted in its review: “It wasn’t just the story of America, and its collage-like charms and vices. This was also Batiste’s story,...
“How do you get to Carnegie Hall?”
“Practice, practice, practice.”
Over the past 130 years, such renowned composers as Antonin Dvorak, Richard Strauss, Samuel Barber, Aaron Copland, Philip Glass and Milton Babbitt debuted their works at the Carnegie.
The new Netflix documentary “American Symphony,” which has been Oscar shortlisted for best documentary, best original score and song, follows Academy and multiple Grammy Award-winning composer/musicians/singer Jon Batiste as he prepares to debut his first symphony at Carnegie Hall while his wife Suleika Jaouad battles a recurrence of leukemia. The heart-on-your-sleeve documentary ends with the triumphant premiere Sept. 22, 2022, that even a power outage on stage couldn’t top. Variety noted in its review: “It wasn’t just the story of America, and its collage-like charms and vices. This was also Batiste’s story,...
- 1/2/2024
- by Susan King
- Gold Derby
The traditionally celebrity-heavy Toronto Film Festival has unveiled its list of Canada’s best indie films for 2023, which includes a host of first-time directors that have come to the fore as the Hollywood actors strike put local movies and talent front and center at TIFF last September.
Canadian filmmakers were able to grab the spotlight after SAG-AFTRA members barred from promoting studio or streamer projects allowed them to fill the vacuum on TIFF red carpets and at industry events.
New directors were also favorites of Toronto programmers as a shifting TIFF film market with few American celebrities in town also allowed the marquee festival to double down on finding new creative voices.
So here’s the top Canadian feature films of 2023, as decided by film pickers in Toronto.
1. BlackBerry
Matt Johnson’s drama about the meteoric rise of the world’s first smartphone, before its competitive collapse, bowed in Berlin.
Canadian filmmakers were able to grab the spotlight after SAG-AFTRA members barred from promoting studio or streamer projects allowed them to fill the vacuum on TIFF red carpets and at industry events.
New directors were also favorites of Toronto programmers as a shifting TIFF film market with few American celebrities in town also allowed the marquee festival to double down on finding new creative voices.
So here’s the top Canadian feature films of 2023, as decided by film pickers in Toronto.
1. BlackBerry
Matt Johnson’s drama about the meteoric rise of the world’s first smartphone, before its competitive collapse, bowed in Berlin.
- 12/20/2023
- by Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
A documentary film centered on the Ohio State University (Osu) sexual abuse scandal is currently in production and aims to bring renewed attention to the alleged role of then-osu coach and current right-wing Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio).
Produced by George Clooney and directed by Academy Award-winner Eva Orner, the untitled documentary will provide a comprehensive account of the decades-long abuse perpetrated by former Osu sports doctor Richard Strauss, as narrated by the victims, which include former All-American wrestlers and football players who have chosen to speak out for the first time.
Mike Schyck, one of the over 300 victims of Strauss’ abuse, recently told reporters that he was extensively interviewed by Orner and the production crew. Schyck expressed his hope that the documentary will have a profound impact on the current efforts to hold Osu accountable.
However, he noted that some cynically exploit the focus on Jordan’s involvement for political...
Produced by George Clooney and directed by Academy Award-winner Eva Orner, the untitled documentary will provide a comprehensive account of the decades-long abuse perpetrated by former Osu sports doctor Richard Strauss, as narrated by the victims, which include former All-American wrestlers and football players who have chosen to speak out for the first time.
Mike Schyck, one of the over 300 victims of Strauss’ abuse, recently told reporters that he was extensively interviewed by Orner and the production crew. Schyck expressed his hope that the documentary will have a profound impact on the current efforts to hold Osu accountable.
However, he noted that some cynically exploit the focus on Jordan’s involvement for political...
- 12/12/2023
- by Baila Eve Zisman
- Uinterview
The Philharmonia announces the second half of its 2023/24 Season at Southbank Centre, with Santtu-Matias Rouvali as Principal Conductor of the Orchestra.
To open the second half of the season, Santtu-Matias Rouvali will conduct singer Julia Bullock, one of the Philharmonia’s Featured Artists, taking on life’s big topics – love, death, nature, heaven – in a Romantic pairing of Berlioz and Mahler (1 Feb).
The Philharmonia conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen with soprano Julia Bullock perform Ravel and Britten in the Royal Festival Hall, which is being live streamed on Thursday 29 October 2020. Photo by Mark Allan
Julia Bullock brings her mixed-media project History’s Persistent Voice to London on 2 February, shining a light on the words, work and experiences of Black American artists. Bullock commissioned the songs in the project from leading Black women composers. Jessie Montgomery reimagines songs from an anthology collected just after the American Civil War, recording the music of...
To open the second half of the season, Santtu-Matias Rouvali will conduct singer Julia Bullock, one of the Philharmonia’s Featured Artists, taking on life’s big topics – love, death, nature, heaven – in a Romantic pairing of Berlioz and Mahler (1 Feb).
The Philharmonia conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen with soprano Julia Bullock perform Ravel and Britten in the Royal Festival Hall, which is being live streamed on Thursday 29 October 2020. Photo by Mark Allan
Julia Bullock brings her mixed-media project History’s Persistent Voice to London on 2 February, shining a light on the words, work and experiences of Black American artists. Bullock commissioned the songs in the project from leading Black women composers. Jessie Montgomery reimagines songs from an anthology collected just after the American Civil War, recording the music of...
- 10/24/2023
- by Music Martin Cid Magazine
- Martin Cid Music
On Friday, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) was nominated by the House GOP caucus to replace Kevin McCarthy as speaker of the House – third in line to the presidency. He was endorsed by former President Donald Trump.
But a cloud hangs over Jordan. He has been accused of failing to report abuse at Ohio State University, where he worked as an assistant wrestling coach from 1987 to 1995.
An upcoming documentary about abuse at Ohio State — directed by and starring George Clooney for HBO — may draw more attention to the scandal and prompt more questions about Jordan’s involvement.
Though Jordan has repeatedly denied knowing about the allegations against Dr. Richard Strauss, who allegedly abused at least 177 male students at the university between 1979 and 1996, former wrestlers have claimed that Jordan was present when players spoke about Strauss, who died by suicide in 2005.
“I remember a couple of occasions when we would bring up...
But a cloud hangs over Jordan. He has been accused of failing to report abuse at Ohio State University, where he worked as an assistant wrestling coach from 1987 to 1995.
An upcoming documentary about abuse at Ohio State — directed by and starring George Clooney for HBO — may draw more attention to the scandal and prompt more questions about Jordan’s involvement.
Though Jordan has repeatedly denied knowing about the allegations against Dr. Richard Strauss, who allegedly abused at least 177 male students at the university between 1979 and 1996, former wrestlers have claimed that Jordan was present when players spoke about Strauss, who died by suicide in 2005.
“I remember a couple of occasions when we would bring up...
- 10/14/2023
- by Ava Lombardi
- Uinterview
Rep. Nancy Mace announced she plans to support Rep. Jim Jordan to replace ousted House speaker Kevin McCarthy, whom she voted to remove from office last week. When pressed about the allegations that Jordan ignored sexual assaults by a team doctor while he was a wrestling coach at Ohio State University, the Republican congresswoman claimed to not “know anything” about the issue, despite it being widely reported.
“I know you’ve been outspoken about defending victims of sexual assault,” Face the Nation host Margaret Brennan said to Mace on Sunday.
“I know you’ve been outspoken about defending victims of sexual assault,” Face the Nation host Margaret Brennan said to Mace on Sunday.
- 10/8/2023
- by Peter Wade
- Rollingstone.com
Donald Trump has thrown his support behind Ohio Congressman Jim Jordan in the race to replace former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. In his endorsement, the former president largely skipped over highlighting Jordan’s record in government, instead choosing to laud his achievements as a collegiate wrestler.
“Congressman Jim Jordan has been a Star long before making his very successful journey to Washington, D.C.,” Trump wrote early Friday morning on Truth Social.
“So much is learned from sports, and Jim was a master!” Trump added, before diving into a crash...
“Congressman Jim Jordan has been a Star long before making his very successful journey to Washington, D.C.,” Trump wrote early Friday morning on Truth Social.
“So much is learned from sports, and Jim was a master!” Trump added, before diving into a crash...
- 10/6/2023
- by Nikki McCann Ramirez
- Rollingstone.com
Atom Egoyan’s “Seven Veils,” which had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival this week is built around this year’s Canadian Opera Company production of Richard Strauss’s “Salome,” which Egoyan also directed.
The film repurposes the stage production’s performers, props and sets, but this is far from one of those Fathom Events concert films. It continues Egoyan’s exploration of familiar themes such as semiotics, authorship, trauma, video vs. memory, and the personal vs. the communal.
Egoyan doesn’t play the director here. Rather, Amanda Seyfried stars as theater director Jeanine, who has spent an extended time away from opera and is tasked to remount the Coc production of “Salome” and recreate the vision of her mentor, Charles, who died last year. She has to deal with a difficult primo donno, Johann. Meanwhile, Clea (Rebecca Diddiard), who works in the props department, must create...
The film repurposes the stage production’s performers, props and sets, but this is far from one of those Fathom Events concert films. It continues Egoyan’s exploration of familiar themes such as semiotics, authorship, trauma, video vs. memory, and the personal vs. the communal.
Egoyan doesn’t play the director here. Rather, Amanda Seyfried stars as theater director Jeanine, who has spent an extended time away from opera and is tasked to remount the Coc production of “Salome” and recreate the vision of her mentor, Charles, who died last year. She has to deal with a difficult primo donno, Johann. Meanwhile, Clea (Rebecca Diddiard), who works in the props department, must create...
- 9/14/2023
- by Martin Tsai
- The Wrap
Art and life are inextricably entangled in Atom Egoyan’s Seven Veils, a wildly ambitious, visually intoxicating reinterpretation of the Richard Strauss opera, Salome, that proves to possess almost as many layers as the Biblical princess’ famous dance routine.
After spending the past two and a half decades struggling to get his groove back following the 1997 success of The Sweet Hereafter, the filmmaker reconnects with his pet themes of alienation and family trauma, taking inspiration from his own revisionist staging of the opera, which he remounted for the Canadian Opera Company earlier this year. Using that production as a leap-off point, Egoyan interweaves a behind-the-scenes narrative involving a young director (Amanda Seyfried) who is challenged to put her own stamp on the oft-interpreted material while exorcising a number of personal demons in the process.
Handed its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival at the very same venue that...
After spending the past two and a half decades struggling to get his groove back following the 1997 success of The Sweet Hereafter, the filmmaker reconnects with his pet themes of alienation and family trauma, taking inspiration from his own revisionist staging of the opera, which he remounted for the Canadian Opera Company earlier this year. Using that production as a leap-off point, Egoyan interweaves a behind-the-scenes narrative involving a young director (Amanda Seyfried) who is challenged to put her own stamp on the oft-interpreted material while exorcising a number of personal demons in the process.
Handed its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival at the very same venue that...
- 9/9/2023
- by Michael Rechtshaffen
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Amanda Seyfried has revealed that she will not be attending the world premiere of her film Seven Veils at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival amid the historic dual Hollywood strikes.
The actress took to Instagram on Saturday to share her appreciation for the Atom Egoyan-directed movie, writing, “I am So Proud of this movie and it hurts my heart not to stand next to the beautiful people who helped create this special film at our @tiff_net premiere next week.”
Seyfried noted that while the film was given a “wavier” by SAG-AFTRA to “promote this fully, magically independent Canadian movie,” it still “doesn’t feel right to head to the fest in light of the strike.”
She added, “I can’t wait to show you all Seven Veils when the time is right (and we’ve come to a fair agreement for actors and writers).”
Since actors joined writers...
The actress took to Instagram on Saturday to share her appreciation for the Atom Egoyan-directed movie, writing, “I am So Proud of this movie and it hurts my heart not to stand next to the beautiful people who helped create this special film at our @tiff_net premiere next week.”
Seyfried noted that while the film was given a “wavier” by SAG-AFTRA to “promote this fully, magically independent Canadian movie,” it still “doesn’t feel right to head to the fest in light of the strike.”
She added, “I can’t wait to show you all Seven Veils when the time is right (and we’ve come to a fair agreement for actors and writers).”
Since actors joined writers...
- 9/2/2023
- by Carly Thomas
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
This post contains spoilers for "Barbie."
Greta Gerwig's "Barbie" movie is a cinematic marvel. The first film in the newly-minted Mattel cinematic universe, "Barbie" mines corporate history and IP while still managing to be original, subversive, and even laugh-out-loud funny. Frankly, it's shocking the film got made at all, especially considering the fact that Will Ferrell plays a highly satirical version of Mattel's very own CEO. In fact, when she first read the script, star Margot Robbie's first thought was "We'll never make this movie," because of how much it pokes fun at the company behind the (in)famous doll.
Working under both the constraints of a big Hollywood studio and a billion-dollar toy corporation, Gerwig and her co-writer Noah Baumbach came up with a script that is wholesome enough to appeal to the bosses but witty enough to tickle even the most cynical of viewers. Robbie is perfection in the lead role,...
Greta Gerwig's "Barbie" movie is a cinematic marvel. The first film in the newly-minted Mattel cinematic universe, "Barbie" mines corporate history and IP while still managing to be original, subversive, and even laugh-out-loud funny. Frankly, it's shocking the film got made at all, especially considering the fact that Will Ferrell plays a highly satirical version of Mattel's very own CEO. In fact, when she first read the script, star Margot Robbie's first thought was "We'll never make this movie," because of how much it pokes fun at the company behind the (in)famous doll.
Working under both the constraints of a big Hollywood studio and a billion-dollar toy corporation, Gerwig and her co-writer Noah Baumbach came up with a script that is wholesome enough to appeal to the bosses but witty enough to tickle even the most cynical of viewers. Robbie is perfection in the lead role,...
- 7/24/2023
- by Kira Deshler
- Slash Film
Canadian director Atom Egoyan is bringing his latest movie, Seven Veils, to the Toronto Film Festival for a world premiere, with Amanda Seyfried in the lead role as a tortured opera director.
Seyfried reteamed with her Chloe director Egoyan for the opera-themed drama where she plays Jeanine, a theatre director remounting her former mentor’s most famous work, an adaptation of the opera Salome from composer Richard Strauss, based on the play by Oscar Wilde. As Jeanine reenters the opera world after years away, she is haunted by dark and disturbing memories from her past as her repressed trauma colors the present.
Rebecca Liddiard, Douglas Smith, Mark O’Brien and Vinessa Antoine also star in Seven Veils, which was shot in and around Toronto earlier this year. Should the ongoing strikes by the WGA and SAG-AFTRA continue into the fall, American actors will be barred from publicizing any big-ticket studio movies...
Seyfried reteamed with her Chloe director Egoyan for the opera-themed drama where she plays Jeanine, a theatre director remounting her former mentor’s most famous work, an adaptation of the opera Salome from composer Richard Strauss, based on the play by Oscar Wilde. As Jeanine reenters the opera world after years away, she is haunted by dark and disturbing memories from her past as her repressed trauma colors the present.
Rebecca Liddiard, Douglas Smith, Mark O’Brien and Vinessa Antoine also star in Seven Veils, which was shot in and around Toronto earlier this year. Should the ongoing strikes by the WGA and SAG-AFTRA continue into the fall, American actors will be barred from publicizing any big-ticket studio movies...
- 7/19/2023
- by Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
On 18 June 2023, the Hungarian State Opera celebrates the greatest Hungarian soprano of the 20th century on the occasion of her birthday with performances by her former and current students, as well as the winners of the Éva Marton International Singing Competition. Special guest star of the evening is one of today’s most exciting rising tenors, Jonathan Tetelman. The Hungarian State Opera Orchestra is conducted by general music director Balázs Kocsár, the gala is directed by artistic director András Almási-Tóth.
Éva Marton, one of the most outstanding dramatic sopranos in the world, has sung the most beautiful and difficult roles of Verdi, Puccini, Richard Strauss and Wagner, as well as verismo, in the most renowned opera houses of Europe and America for more than 30 years, including London’s Covent Garden, Frankfurt, Hamburg, the Vienna State Opera, Bayreuth, La Scala in Milan, the Verona Arena, the Salzburg Festival, and the San Francisco and Chicago Operas.
Éva Marton, one of the most outstanding dramatic sopranos in the world, has sung the most beautiful and difficult roles of Verdi, Puccini, Richard Strauss and Wagner, as well as verismo, in the most renowned opera houses of Europe and America for more than 30 years, including London’s Covent Garden, Frankfurt, Hamburg, the Vienna State Opera, Bayreuth, La Scala in Milan, the Verona Arena, the Salzburg Festival, and the San Francisco and Chicago Operas.
- 6/6/2023
- by Music Martin Cid Magazine
- Martin Cid Music
This article contains spoilers for various sci-fi movies
“In the end? Nothing ends, Adrian. Nothing ever ends.” If you’re a geek reading Den of Geek, you probably recognize those words as the final ones between Dr. Manhattan and Adrian Veidt in Alan Moore and David Gibbons’s Watchmen. Manhattan’s statement comes as a warning to Veidt, who tried to save humanity from itself by manufacturing an alien invasion at the cost of nearly half of the world’s population. Viedt, of course, wants to know if it’s over, if he did truly save the world. But for Manhattan, who exists at all points on his timeline at once, the answer isn’t so simple. Nothing ends because nothing begins. It all simply is, at least from his perspective.
Get it? Yeah, me neither. But that’s part of the deal with sci-fi stories like Watchmen. Branching timelines,...
“In the end? Nothing ends, Adrian. Nothing ever ends.” If you’re a geek reading Den of Geek, you probably recognize those words as the final ones between Dr. Manhattan and Adrian Veidt in Alan Moore and David Gibbons’s Watchmen. Manhattan’s statement comes as a warning to Veidt, who tried to save humanity from itself by manufacturing an alien invasion at the cost of nearly half of the world’s population. Viedt, of course, wants to know if it’s over, if he did truly save the world. But for Manhattan, who exists at all points on his timeline at once, the answer isn’t so simple. Nothing ends because nothing begins. It all simply is, at least from his perspective.
Get it? Yeah, me neither. But that’s part of the deal with sci-fi stories like Watchmen. Branching timelines,...
- 5/15/2023
- by Kirsten Howard
- Den of Geek
Updated, 9:22 Am: Warner Bros has unveiled the latest trailer and posters for Greta Gerwig’s highly anticipated Barbie film, which bows in theaters on July 21. Check a gallery of the new character posters here.
Whereas the teaser was a memorable homage to Kubrick’s iconic film 2001: A Space Odyssey narrated by Helen Mirren, the new one shows a bit more of the dazzling Day-Glo world of Barbie Land, inhabited by the iconic Mattel doll Barbie (Margot Robbie) and her boyfriend Ken (Ryan Gosling), before going on to tease their departure into the so-called “Real World.”
Gerwig’s latest, written with her husband Noah Baumbach, is poised to open against Christopher Nolan’s anticipated historical drama Oppenheimer for Universal, as well as Lionsgate’s horror-thriller Cobweb starring Lizzy Caplan, Antony Starr and Cleopatra Coleman. View the new Barbie trailer above and read more about the project below.
Previously, December...
Whereas the teaser was a memorable homage to Kubrick’s iconic film 2001: A Space Odyssey narrated by Helen Mirren, the new one shows a bit more of the dazzling Day-Glo world of Barbie Land, inhabited by the iconic Mattel doll Barbie (Margot Robbie) and her boyfriend Ken (Ryan Gosling), before going on to tease their departure into the so-called “Real World.”
Gerwig’s latest, written with her husband Noah Baumbach, is poised to open against Christopher Nolan’s anticipated historical drama Oppenheimer for Universal, as well as Lionsgate’s horror-thriller Cobweb starring Lizzy Caplan, Antony Starr and Cleopatra Coleman. View the new Barbie trailer above and read more about the project below.
Previously, December...
- 4/4/2023
- by Dade Hayes and Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Succession is back for its fourth and final season. That means only 10 more chances to hear the memorable theme song, which got Showbiz Cheat Sheet thinking. HBO has quite a track record of memorable theme songs. They date back to linear TV, before skipping the credits was even an option, but even so, these are so good you wouldn’t want to skip them anyway.
Brian Cox | Macall Polay/HBO
Here are the 7 best theme songs to HBO original shows we thought of. Succession is on the list and its final season airs Sundays at 9 p.m. on HBO.
‘The Larry Sanders Show’ theme song was better than real late night talk shows
Garry Shandling’s showbiz spoof The Larry Sanders Show got everything right about the industry. Shandling played a late night talk show host and the satire showed how fake everything was both on the stage and behind the scenes.
Brian Cox | Macall Polay/HBO
Here are the 7 best theme songs to HBO original shows we thought of. Succession is on the list and its final season airs Sundays at 9 p.m. on HBO.
‘The Larry Sanders Show’ theme song was better than real late night talk shows
Garry Shandling’s showbiz spoof The Larry Sanders Show got everything right about the industry. Shandling played a late night talk show host and the satire showed how fake everything was both on the stage and behind the scenes.
- 3/26/2023
- by Fred Topel
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Exclusive: Smokehouse TV and 101 Studios have made a multiyear overall deal for original scripted and unscripted content for television.
This formalizes a relationship that got underway with Smokehouse Pictures and 101 Studios already teaming on the upcoming docuseries about the decades-long abuse scandal in the athletic department at Ohio State University. Based on the Sports Illustrated article by Jon Wertheim, this docuseries will be distributed by HBO. Its focus is on the victims of Richard Strauss, a former sports physician at Ohio State who’s accused of sexually abusing more than 300 athletes over decades working at and with the university. Oscar and Emmy winner Eva Orner (Taxi to the Dark Side) directed the feature length docu.
Next up is The Department, which Clooney is directing and is EP. Showtime has given a straight-to-series order. The Department is based on the acclaimed French espionage political thriller The Bureau. Smokehouse Pictures produces...
This formalizes a relationship that got underway with Smokehouse Pictures and 101 Studios already teaming on the upcoming docuseries about the decades-long abuse scandal in the athletic department at Ohio State University. Based on the Sports Illustrated article by Jon Wertheim, this docuseries will be distributed by HBO. Its focus is on the victims of Richard Strauss, a former sports physician at Ohio State who’s accused of sexually abusing more than 300 athletes over decades working at and with the university. Oscar and Emmy winner Eva Orner (Taxi to the Dark Side) directed the feature length docu.
Next up is The Department, which Clooney is directing and is EP. Showtime has given a straight-to-series order. The Department is based on the acclaimed French espionage political thriller The Bureau. Smokehouse Pictures produces...
- 2/23/2023
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Richard Wagner was born on May 22nd, 1813, in Leipzig, Germany.
Richard Wagner
His father died when he was 6 years old and his mother raised him and his two siblings alone.
He composed his first opera, “Die Feen” at the age of 19.
Wagner wrote both the music and libretto for all of his operas.
He is most famous for his “Ring Cycle”, a series of four operas based on Norse mythology.
Wagner is credited with introducing the concept of “Gesamtkunstwerk”, or the total work of art, in which all aspects of a production unite to form one artistic experience.
Wagner’s works are considered to be some of the most influential in musical history, having inspired such composers as Gustav Mahler and Richard Strauss.
His music is thought to have been an influence on modern art and music, including rock and roll.
Wagner had several controversial views and relationships during his life,...
Richard Wagner
His father died when he was 6 years old and his mother raised him and his two siblings alone.
He composed his first opera, “Die Feen” at the age of 19.
Wagner wrote both the music and libretto for all of his operas.
He is most famous for his “Ring Cycle”, a series of four operas based on Norse mythology.
Wagner is credited with introducing the concept of “Gesamtkunstwerk”, or the total work of art, in which all aspects of a production unite to form one artistic experience.
Wagner’s works are considered to be some of the most influential in musical history, having inspired such composers as Gustav Mahler and Richard Strauss.
His music is thought to have been an influence on modern art and music, including rock and roll.
Wagner had several controversial views and relationships during his life,...
- 2/9/2023
- by Music Martin Cid Magazine
- Martin Cid Music
Production scheduled to start in Toronto next week.
Atom Egoyan will direct Amanda Seyfried in Seven Veils, which the project’s co-financier XYZ Films will introduce to worldwide buyers at the EFM next week.
Production is scheduled to start in Toronto next week on the feature that sees Seyfried star as an earnest theatre director tasked with remounting her former mentor’s most famous work, the opera Salome, as she struggles with repressed trauma.
Seven Veils reunites XYZ Films with Ipr.Vc and Rhombus Media after their collaboration on the upcoming Berlin world premiere BlackBerry.
The project announcement also dovetails with...
Atom Egoyan will direct Amanda Seyfried in Seven Veils, which the project’s co-financier XYZ Films will introduce to worldwide buyers at the EFM next week.
Production is scheduled to start in Toronto next week on the feature that sees Seyfried star as an earnest theatre director tasked with remounting her former mentor’s most famous work, the opera Salome, as she struggles with repressed trauma.
Seven Veils reunites XYZ Films with Ipr.Vc and Rhombus Media after their collaboration on the upcoming Berlin world premiere BlackBerry.
The project announcement also dovetails with...
- 2/7/2023
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Production scheduled to start in Toronto next week.
Atom Egoyan will direct Amanda Seyfried in Seven Veils, which the project’s co-financier XYZ Films will introduce to worldwide buyers at the EFM next week.
Production is scheduled to start in Toronto next week on the feature that sees Seyfried star as an earnest theatre director tasked with remounting her former mentor’s most famous work, the opera Salome, as she struggles with repressed trauma.
Seven Veils reunites XYZ Films with Ipr.Vc and Rhombus Media after their collaboration on the upcoming Berlin world premiere BlackBerry.
The project announcement also dovetails with...
Atom Egoyan will direct Amanda Seyfried in Seven Veils, which the project’s co-financier XYZ Films will introduce to worldwide buyers at the EFM next week.
Production is scheduled to start in Toronto next week on the feature that sees Seyfried star as an earnest theatre director tasked with remounting her former mentor’s most famous work, the opera Salome, as she struggles with repressed trauma.
Seven Veils reunites XYZ Films with Ipr.Vc and Rhombus Media after their collaboration on the upcoming Berlin world premiere BlackBerry.
The project announcement also dovetails with...
- 2/7/2023
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Amanda Seyfried is reteaming with her Chole director Atom Egoyan on Seven Veils, an opera-themed drama that will begin shooting in Toronto next week.
The Mank and The Dropout star will play Jeanine, an earnest theatre director tasked with remounting her former mentor’s most famous work, an adaptation of the opera Salome from composer Richard Strauss, based on the play by Oscar Wilde. As she reenters the opera world after so many years away, Jeanine is haunted by dark and disturbing memories from her past and allows her repressed trauma to color the present.
Rhombus Media (Possessor, Enemy) will produce Seven Veils together with Ego Film Arts in association with Cinetic Media, Ipr.Vc, XYZ Films and the Canadian Opera Company. XYZ Films is selling worldwide rights to the film, introducing the project to buyer at Berlin’s European Film Market February 16. Elevation Pictures will release Seven Veils in Canada.
The Mank and The Dropout star will play Jeanine, an earnest theatre director tasked with remounting her former mentor’s most famous work, an adaptation of the opera Salome from composer Richard Strauss, based on the play by Oscar Wilde. As she reenters the opera world after so many years away, Jeanine is haunted by dark and disturbing memories from her past and allows her repressed trauma to color the present.
Rhombus Media (Possessor, Enemy) will produce Seven Veils together with Ego Film Arts in association with Cinetic Media, Ipr.Vc, XYZ Films and the Canadian Opera Company. XYZ Films is selling worldwide rights to the film, introducing the project to buyer at Berlin’s European Film Market February 16. Elevation Pictures will release Seven Veils in Canada.
- 2/7/2023
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
So how in the heck are they going to make a “Barbie” movie? The plot of Greta Gerwig’s upcoming film, which stars Margot Robbie as the titular toy and Ryan Gosling as her beau Ken, is still a mystery, but a teaser trailer released on Friday gives us a sense of the tone—clever and fun.
Aping (ha!) the “Dawn of Man” prologue of Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey,” the teaser shows a group of moppety little girls playing with dolls somewhere in the prehistoric desert, stuck in the doldrums of boredom. A voiceover (provided by Helen Mirren in the classic tone of “nature film”) explains that since the beginning of time, little girls have always played with dolls, but they were always baby dolls. Harrumph!
Richard Strauss’s “Thus Spake Zarathustra” booms on the soundtrack and then, echoing the famous shot in which the eerie black monolith appears,...
Aping (ha!) the “Dawn of Man” prologue of Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey,” the teaser shows a group of moppety little girls playing with dolls somewhere in the prehistoric desert, stuck in the doldrums of boredom. A voiceover (provided by Helen Mirren in the classic tone of “nature film”) explains that since the beginning of time, little girls have always played with dolls, but they were always baby dolls. Harrumph!
Richard Strauss’s “Thus Spake Zarathustra” booms on the soundtrack and then, echoing the famous shot in which the eerie black monolith appears,...
- 12/16/2022
- by Jordan Hoffman
- Gold Derby
War. Death. Existential annihilation. "Surfin' Bird" by The Trashmen. To some, one of these things is not like the other. To Stanley Kubrick, the director of the Oscar-nominated 1987 Vietnam War film "Full Metal Jacket," they are indelibly linked.
Critics were not all kind to Kubrick's second-to-last movie (his final film released before his death), with Roger Ebert calling the film "strangely shapeless" in his initial review, and "too little and too late" after other Vietnam War films had already made statements about the conflict.
But time has been kind to "Full Metal Jacket," and as is often the case in Kubrick films, the filmmaker's unusual music choices play a large part in shaping this allegedly "shapeless" picture.
Kubrick's Ironic Sonics
Stanley Kubrick's long, but not especially prolific career spans just thirteen films over nearly fifty years, three of which — his freshman efforts "Fear and Desire" and "Killer's Kiss," and his...
Critics were not all kind to Kubrick's second-to-last movie (his final film released before his death), with Roger Ebert calling the film "strangely shapeless" in his initial review, and "too little and too late" after other Vietnam War films had already made statements about the conflict.
But time has been kind to "Full Metal Jacket," and as is often the case in Kubrick films, the filmmaker's unusual music choices play a large part in shaping this allegedly "shapeless" picture.
Kubrick's Ironic Sonics
Stanley Kubrick's long, but not especially prolific career spans just thirteen films over nearly fifty years, three of which — his freshman efforts "Fear and Desire" and "Killer's Kiss," and his...
- 11/4/2022
- by William Bibbiani
- Slash Film
Ground-breaking France-based British theater director Peter Brook, who revolutionized 20th-century theater, has died at the age of 97-years-old in Paris.
The director, who pioneered taking theater outside of traditional theatre houses, mounting productions in unexpected venues such as gymnasiums, abandoned factories and old gas works, was renowned for his experimental and out-of-the box approach to staging classic and new works alike.
He was born in West London to parents of Lithuanian Jewish heritage on March 21, 1925. After attending Westminster School and Oxford, he put on his first production, Dr Faustus at the Torch Theatre in London in 1943.
By his early 20s, he had been appointed director of production at the Royal Opera House, where he distinguished himself with an experimental production of Richard Strauss’s Salome featuring sets by Spanish surrealist artist Salvador Dali.
In the 1950s, he started working with the Royal Shakespeare Company, directing Sir Lawrence Olivier in Titus...
The director, who pioneered taking theater outside of traditional theatre houses, mounting productions in unexpected venues such as gymnasiums, abandoned factories and old gas works, was renowned for his experimental and out-of-the box approach to staging classic and new works alike.
He was born in West London to parents of Lithuanian Jewish heritage on March 21, 1925. After attending Westminster School and Oxford, he put on his first production, Dr Faustus at the Torch Theatre in London in 1943.
By his early 20s, he had been appointed director of production at the Royal Opera House, where he distinguished himself with an experimental production of Richard Strauss’s Salome featuring sets by Spanish surrealist artist Salvador Dali.
In the 1950s, he started working with the Royal Shakespeare Company, directing Sir Lawrence Olivier in Titus...
- 7/3/2022
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
A documentary feature is in the works based on the 2020 Sports Illustrated story about alleged sexual abuse scandal at the Ohio State University that spanned three decades.
Production has begun on the untitled film produced by George Clooney and Grant Heslov of Smokehouse Pictures and David C. Glasser of 101 Studios. It will debut on HBO and stream on HBO Max.
Taxi to the Dark Side Oscar winner Eva Orner will direct, telling the story through the experiences of the victims of Osu’s former athletics physician, Dr. Richard Strauss. They include some of the hundreds of male student-athlete victims, including All-American wrestlers and football players, many of whom have not spoken out until now. One of those voices – who spoke out for the first time to Sports Illustrated’s Jon Wertheim for his explosive cover story headlined “Why Aren’t More People Talking About the Ohio State Sex Abuse Scandal?...
Production has begun on the untitled film produced by George Clooney and Grant Heslov of Smokehouse Pictures and David C. Glasser of 101 Studios. It will debut on HBO and stream on HBO Max.
Taxi to the Dark Side Oscar winner Eva Orner will direct, telling the story through the experiences of the victims of Osu’s former athletics physician, Dr. Richard Strauss. They include some of the hundreds of male student-athlete victims, including All-American wrestlers and football players, many of whom have not spoken out until now. One of those voices – who spoke out for the first time to Sports Illustrated’s Jon Wertheim for his explosive cover story headlined “Why Aren’t More People Talking About the Ohio State Sex Abuse Scandal?...
- 6/7/2022
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
Click here to read the full article.
George Clooney and HBO are teaming up to tell the story of a decades-long abuse scandal at Ohio State University.
HBO has joined Clooney and Grant Heslov’s Smokehouse Pictures, Sports Illustrated Studios and 101 Studios on the project, which will premiere on the premium cable outlet and stream on HBO Max. Oscar and Emmy winner Eva Orner (Taxi to the Dark Side, Out of Iraq) will direct.
Clooney and Heslov’s company announced the project in February 2021. At the time, they were planning a docuseries based on the scandal involving Richard Strauss, a former sports physician at Ohio State who’s accused of sexually abusing more than 300 athletes over decades of working at and with the university. The HBO project will be a feature-length documentary.
“Grant and I are very proud to be working on this project with HBO,” said Clooney in a statement.
George Clooney and HBO are teaming up to tell the story of a decades-long abuse scandal at Ohio State University.
HBO has joined Clooney and Grant Heslov’s Smokehouse Pictures, Sports Illustrated Studios and 101 Studios on the project, which will premiere on the premium cable outlet and stream on HBO Max. Oscar and Emmy winner Eva Orner (Taxi to the Dark Side, Out of Iraq) will direct.
Clooney and Heslov’s company announced the project in February 2021. At the time, they were planning a docuseries based on the scandal involving Richard Strauss, a former sports physician at Ohio State who’s accused of sexually abusing more than 300 athletes over decades of working at and with the university. The HBO project will be a feature-length documentary.
“Grant and I are very proud to be working on this project with HBO,” said Clooney in a statement.
- 6/7/2022
- by Rick Porter
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
HBO has acquired the feature documentary about the alleged Ohio State sexual abuse scandal from Sports Illustrated and George Clooney’s Smokehouse Pictures, it was announced Tuesdsay. The film, first reported as a docuseries last year, is produced by Clooney and Grant Heslov of Smokehouse Pictures and David C. Glasser of 101 Studios. The documentary will debut on HBO and be available to stream on HBO Max, though no premiere date has been announced.
Oscar and Emmy winner Eva Orner (“Taxi to the Dark Side”) will direct the film, which will explore the experiences of the victims of Osu’s former athletics physician, Dr. Richard Strauss. These include hundreds of male student athlete victims, ranging from All-American wrestlers to football players and beyond, many of whom are speaking out publicly for the first time in this documentary. Former UFC heavyweight champion and Osu alum Mark Coleman, who first spoke with...
Oscar and Emmy winner Eva Orner (“Taxi to the Dark Side”) will direct the film, which will explore the experiences of the victims of Osu’s former athletics physician, Dr. Richard Strauss. These include hundreds of male student athlete victims, ranging from All-American wrestlers to football players and beyond, many of whom are speaking out publicly for the first time in this documentary. Former UFC heavyweight champion and Osu alum Mark Coleman, who first spoke with...
- 6/7/2022
- by Brandon Katz
- The Wrap
Stars: Shea Whigham, Olivia Munn, Taryn Manning, Frank Grillo, Bruce Dern, Keith David, Mark Boone Junior, Zach Avery, Alexander Wraith, Jay Hieron, Taegen Burns, Nick Daly, Richard Strauss, Shannon Adawn | Written by Michele Civetta, Andrew Levitas, Alex Felix Bendaña | Directed by Michele Civetta
I have been known from time to time watch a flick based solely on its cast. Take Sam Rockwell for instance, the trailer could be awful but I’m still going to watch it because it’s Sam ‘freaking’ Rockwell. Recently Frank Grillo has made his way onto this list after a string of spot on supporting roles and the odd leading man performance… So you can imagine my giddy glee to see the man teaming up with The Newsroom‘s Olivia Munn for an “action thriller” romp. The movie is called The Gateway and I’m about to get into it for you all right now!
I have been known from time to time watch a flick based solely on its cast. Take Sam Rockwell for instance, the trailer could be awful but I’m still going to watch it because it’s Sam ‘freaking’ Rockwell. Recently Frank Grillo has made his way onto this list after a string of spot on supporting roles and the odd leading man performance… So you can imagine my giddy glee to see the man teaming up with The Newsroom‘s Olivia Munn for an “action thriller” romp. The movie is called The Gateway and I’m about to get into it for you all right now!
- 9/7/2021
- by Kevin Haldon
- Nerdly
George Clooney and Grant Heslov’s Smokehouse Pictures and Sports Illustrated Studios will produce a docuseries about a sports doctor at Ohio State University who was accused of sexual abuse over the last three decades and how the ensuing scandal was covered up.
The documentary series is based on reporting by Jon Wertheim, who for the October 5, 2020 cover story of Sports Illustrated wrote the article “Why Aren’t More People Talking About the Ohio State Sex Abuse Scandal?” The article uncovered over 350 reported cases of student athletes accusing Ohio State’s sports doctor Richard Strauss of sexual assault and manipulation, as well as how the scandal remained concealed for years.
“This article uncovers the most widespread sexual abuse scandal in the history of American higher education. It is a story about power, abuse, enabling and the hierarchy of college sports that had been concealed for far too long,” Wertheim said in a statement.
The documentary series is based on reporting by Jon Wertheim, who for the October 5, 2020 cover story of Sports Illustrated wrote the article “Why Aren’t More People Talking About the Ohio State Sex Abuse Scandal?” The article uncovered over 350 reported cases of student athletes accusing Ohio State’s sports doctor Richard Strauss of sexual assault and manipulation, as well as how the scandal remained concealed for years.
“This article uncovers the most widespread sexual abuse scandal in the history of American higher education. It is a story about power, abuse, enabling and the hierarchy of college sports that had been concealed for far too long,” Wertheim said in a statement.
- 2/22/2021
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
George Clooney and Grant Heslov’s Smokehouse Pictures will produce a docuseries about a decades-long abuse scandal in the athletic department at Ohio State University.
The series, which hasn’t found an outlet yet, is based on an October 2020 Sports Illustrated story by Jon Wertheim, which detailed a long list of allegations against former Ohio State sports doctor Richard Strauss and university officials’ lack of response. Sports Illustrated Studios and 101 Studios are producing alongside Smokehouse Pictures.
“This article uncovers the most widespread sexual abuse scandal in the history of American higher education. It is a story about power, abuse,...
The series, which hasn’t found an outlet yet, is based on an October 2020 Sports Illustrated story by Jon Wertheim, which detailed a long list of allegations against former Ohio State sports doctor Richard Strauss and university officials’ lack of response. Sports Illustrated Studios and 101 Studios are producing alongside Smokehouse Pictures.
“This article uncovers the most widespread sexual abuse scandal in the history of American higher education. It is a story about power, abuse,...
- 2/22/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
George Clooney and Grant Heslov’s Smokehouse Pictures will produce a docuseries about a decades-long abuse scandal in the athletic department at Ohio State University.
The series, which hasn’t found an outlet yet, is based on an October 2020 Sports Illustrated story by Jon Wertheim, which detailed a long list of allegations against former Ohio State sports doctor Richard Strauss and university officials’ lack of response. Sports Illustrated Studios and 101 Studios are producing alongside Smokehouse Pictures.
“This article uncovers the most widespread sexual abuse scandal in the history of American higher education. It is a story about power, abuse,...
The series, which hasn’t found an outlet yet, is based on an October 2020 Sports Illustrated story by Jon Wertheim, which detailed a long list of allegations against former Ohio State sports doctor Richard Strauss and university officials’ lack of response. Sports Illustrated Studios and 101 Studios are producing alongside Smokehouse Pictures.
“This article uncovers the most widespread sexual abuse scandal in the history of American higher education. It is a story about power, abuse,...
- 2/22/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
In our 100th episode, Edgar Wright takes us on a musical journey through some of his favorite cinematic needle drops.
Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode
Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls (1970)
Baby Driver (2017)
Reservoir Dogs (1992)
Vanishing Point (1971)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Deja Vu (2006)
Man On Fire (2004)
The Bourne Supremacy (2004)
The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)
Alien (1979)
The Mexican (2001)
Gremlins (1984)
American Graffiti (1973)
Star Wars (1977)
Jaws (1975)
The Exorcist (1973)
Halloween (1978)
The Amityville Horror (1979)
Dawn of the Dead (1978)
Deep Red (1976)
Suspiria (1977)
Shaun of the Dead (2004)
Monty Python And The Holy Grail (1975)
An American Werewolf In London (1981)
The Long Goodbye (1973)
The Evil Dead (1983)
Face/Off (1997)
The Wizard Of Oz (1939)
Mandy (2018)
The Hallow (2015)
The Nun (2018)
Mulholland Drive (2001)
Christine (1983)
Blue Collar (1978)
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986)
Mauvais Sang (1986)
Frances Ha (2012)
The Lovers On The Bridge (1991)
Holy Motors (2012)
Annette (Tbd)
Goodfellas (1990)
Mean Streets (1973)
Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (1974)
Raging Bull (1980)
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
Mad Max (1979)
Babe (1995)
Happy Feet (2006)
Dr. Strangelove...
Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode
Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls (1970)
Baby Driver (2017)
Reservoir Dogs (1992)
Vanishing Point (1971)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Deja Vu (2006)
Man On Fire (2004)
The Bourne Supremacy (2004)
The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)
Alien (1979)
The Mexican (2001)
Gremlins (1984)
American Graffiti (1973)
Star Wars (1977)
Jaws (1975)
The Exorcist (1973)
Halloween (1978)
The Amityville Horror (1979)
Dawn of the Dead (1978)
Deep Red (1976)
Suspiria (1977)
Shaun of the Dead (2004)
Monty Python And The Holy Grail (1975)
An American Werewolf In London (1981)
The Long Goodbye (1973)
The Evil Dead (1983)
Face/Off (1997)
The Wizard Of Oz (1939)
Mandy (2018)
The Hallow (2015)
The Nun (2018)
Mulholland Drive (2001)
Christine (1983)
Blue Collar (1978)
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986)
Mauvais Sang (1986)
Frances Ha (2012)
The Lovers On The Bridge (1991)
Holy Motors (2012)
Annette (Tbd)
Goodfellas (1990)
Mean Streets (1973)
Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (1974)
Raging Bull (1980)
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
Mad Max (1979)
Babe (1995)
Happy Feet (2006)
Dr. Strangelove...
- 6/30/2020
- by Kris Millsap
- Trailers from Hell
Rep. Jim Jordan (R.-Ohio) is many things: an ardent climate change denier, a fierce opponent of reproductive rights, an advocate for “traditional” marriage and a staunch defender of the President’s right to straight-up lie to the American people. He is also alleged to be something else: an ignorer of rampant campus sexual abuse, per 2018 reports that Jordan turned a blind eye to Ohio State University wrestlers’ allegations against a team doctor during his time as an assistant coach at Osu. (In 2018, Ohio State hired a law firm to...
- 2/27/2019
- by EJ Dickson
- Rollingstone.com
Alec Bojalad Jan 16, 2019
Steve Carell and The Office Creator, Greg Daniels, are shepherding a series about the government's "Space Force" for Netflix.
When Donald Trump and the executive branch of the U.S. government announced the creation of a sixth division of the armed forced called "Space Force," many of us had the same idea. Space...Force? That's the name? That sounds like a generic Star Trek ripoff you'd find on the front of a DVD in a Lagos street market.
Steve Carell and Greg Daniels, star of and creator of NBC's The Office, respectively, had a slightly different idea altogether. This is going to get us that sweet Netflix money.
Netflix announced today that it has greenlit a new series from Carell and Daniels based on the Space Force idea. Carell and Daniels will produce and Carell will star. The series is described as a workplace comedy about the...
Steve Carell and The Office Creator, Greg Daniels, are shepherding a series about the government's "Space Force" for Netflix.
When Donald Trump and the executive branch of the U.S. government announced the creation of a sixth division of the armed forced called "Space Force," many of us had the same idea. Space...Force? That's the name? That sounds like a generic Star Trek ripoff you'd find on the front of a DVD in a Lagos street market.
Steve Carell and Greg Daniels, star of and creator of NBC's The Office, respectively, had a slightly different idea altogether. This is going to get us that sweet Netflix money.
Netflix announced today that it has greenlit a new series from Carell and Daniels based on the Space Force idea. Carell and Daniels will produce and Carell will star. The series is described as a workplace comedy about the...
- 1/16/2019
- Den of Geek
When “First Man,” about the events surrounding Neil Armstrong taking his first steps on the lunar surface in 1969, touched down at film festivals in the fall, critics in attendance were over the moon for its visual effects and technical achievements as well as for the performances of Ryan Gosling as Armstrong and Claire Foy as his wife, Janet.
But Damien Chazelle‘s follow-up to “La La Land” didn’t quite blast off box-office-wise when it opened in theaters on Oct. 12. It came in third with a gross of $16 million in its first weekend, but ended up with a disappointing total of $45 million domestic and $55 million overseas. In comparison, 2016’s “La La Land” took in $151 domestic and $446 million worldwide. The festival frenzy never carried over to the public and its hopes for picture, directing screenplay and acting nominations — save for Foy, who was up for supporting actress at the Golden Globes — fizzled
There are,...
But Damien Chazelle‘s follow-up to “La La Land” didn’t quite blast off box-office-wise when it opened in theaters on Oct. 12. It came in third with a gross of $16 million in its first weekend, but ended up with a disappointing total of $45 million domestic and $55 million overseas. In comparison, 2016’s “La La Land” took in $151 domestic and $446 million worldwide. The festival frenzy never carried over to the public and its hopes for picture, directing screenplay and acting nominations — save for Foy, who was up for supporting actress at the Golden Globes — fizzled
There are,...
- 1/15/2019
- by Susan Wloszczyna
- Gold Derby
“Star Trek” composer Michael Giacchino has written a concert work commemorating the 60th anniversary of Nasa. The National Symphony Orchestra will debut the piece as part of a pops concert Friday night at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.
Giacchino, composer of the three feature films in the rebooted “Star Trek” franchise and of “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story,” calls the 11-minute work “Voyage.” It’s a musical description of “what is going through your mind when you wake up on the morning of a launch, going out to the pad, being buckled in, waiting for launch, blasting off, weightlessness, reaching your destination, and coming home,” says the longtime space buff.
“It’s my version of that story, having talked to friends who have either done it or designed the equipment to do it — what all that means, emotionally,” Giacchino adds.
Actor John Cho, who plays Sulu in the “Star Trek” films,...
Giacchino, composer of the three feature films in the rebooted “Star Trek” franchise and of “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story,” calls the 11-minute work “Voyage.” It’s a musical description of “what is going through your mind when you wake up on the morning of a launch, going out to the pad, being buckled in, waiting for launch, blasting off, weightlessness, reaching your destination, and coming home,” says the longtime space buff.
“It’s my version of that story, having talked to friends who have either done it or designed the equipment to do it — what all that means, emotionally,” Giacchino adds.
Actor John Cho, who plays Sulu in the “Star Trek” films,...
- 6/1/2018
- by Jon Burlingame
- Variety Film + TV
People always say it, and I often do myself: “Seeing (Movie X) on the big screen again was like seeing it for the first time!” This was emphatically not true for me last night when I took my daughter to see 2001: A Space Odyssey at the Arclight Cinemas in Hollywood.
I first saw 2001 about a year after it was released—this was the amount of time it usually took big new releases to make it out to our patch of sticks in the small Oregon where I grew up. That would put me at about the ripe ol’ age of nine years old when I took my first trip with Stanley Kubrick to Jupiter and Beyond the Infinite. The presentation was what it always was at the Alger Theater when I was a kid—images were projected on a screen, sound came from speakers behind the screen, and I was damn grateful for that.
I first saw 2001 about a year after it was released—this was the amount of time it usually took big new releases to make it out to our patch of sticks in the small Oregon where I grew up. That would put me at about the ripe ol’ age of nine years old when I took my first trip with Stanley Kubrick to Jupiter and Beyond the Infinite. The presentation was what it always was at the Alger Theater when I was a kid—images were projected on a screen, sound came from speakers behind the screen, and I was damn grateful for that.
- 5/24/2018
- by Dennis Cozzalio
- Trailers from Hell
Richard Strauss’s well known composition, Also Sprach Zarathustra, has since the dawn of movies and TV become one of the most overused and yet still anticipated pieces of music in history. It’s typically used when something needs to seem epic, or simply more prominent than it would have been on its own. Stanley Kubrick used it to great effect once and this led to a lot of other filmmakers deciding that it would be a great idea to follow suit. Sometimes it’s classic, other times it’s meant as a parody. 5. Zoolander Male models are simply not this dumb. Some
The Top Uses of Also Sprach Zarathustra by Richard Strauss in Movies or TV...
The Top Uses of Also Sprach Zarathustra by Richard Strauss in Movies or TV...
- 4/22/2018
- by Tom
- TVovermind.com
Love’s Labours Found: Pacino’s Wilde Meditations at Long Last Find Life
Oscar Wilde’s 1891 tragedy Salome (originally written in French) has generated countless resurrections since its inception. Most prominently, Richard Strauss’ famed 1905 opera remains a theatrical staple. But there’s a long cinematic romance with the play, including Russian stage and film star Nazimova in the infamous 1922 version directed by Charles Bryant (which reputedly was assembled by an all Lgbtq cast and crew in its entirety). Other bright spots include Ken Russell’s version, who re-fashioned it for his infamous 1988 title Salome’s Last Dance; and Julianne Moore does a…...
Oscar Wilde’s 1891 tragedy Salome (originally written in French) has generated countless resurrections since its inception. Most prominently, Richard Strauss’ famed 1905 opera remains a theatrical staple. But there’s a long cinematic romance with the play, including Russian stage and film star Nazimova in the infamous 1922 version directed by Charles Bryant (which reputedly was assembled by an all Lgbtq cast and crew in its entirety). Other bright spots include Ken Russell’s version, who re-fashioned it for his infamous 1988 title Salome’s Last Dance; and Julianne Moore does a…...
- 4/6/2018
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Stanley Kubrick's space saga is 50 this week! Here's Chris on its iconic music...
bwaamm bwaaammm bwaamMMM...
Bah Bahhhh!!...
It’s as memorable a music cue as any in film history. Out of darkness, Stanley Kubrick opens his abract space opus 2001: A Space Odyssey to the stirrings of Richard Strauss’s Also sprach Zarathustra (the “Sunrise” movement specifically) with the sonic weight of impending creation. Or is it destruction?
Strauss’s composition carries throughout the final, creating an a link that ties its ambitious, fractured narrative together. By repeating the track, Kubrick shows how innovation, exploration, and even violence come from the same lifeforce, like a spiritual Big Bang. The music is a key to understand how the film explores human instincts against the nature of the universe: can they be both at odds while also being the same? The sheer force of the sound, the kind of music...
bwaamm bwaaammm bwaamMMM...
Bah Bahhhh!!...
It’s as memorable a music cue as any in film history. Out of darkness, Stanley Kubrick opens his abract space opus 2001: A Space Odyssey to the stirrings of Richard Strauss’s Also sprach Zarathustra (the “Sunrise” movement specifically) with the sonic weight of impending creation. Or is it destruction?
Strauss’s composition carries throughout the final, creating an a link that ties its ambitious, fractured narrative together. By repeating the track, Kubrick shows how innovation, exploration, and even violence come from the same lifeforce, like a spiritual Big Bang. The music is a key to understand how the film explores human instincts against the nature of the universe: can they be both at odds while also being the same? The sheer force of the sound, the kind of music...
- 4/4/2018
- by Chris Feil
- FilmExperience
Don Kaye Apr 3, 2019
Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey changed the face of science fiction cinema.
Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey premiered in Washington D.C. on April 2, 1968 and opened in New York and Los Angeles a day later. Four years in the making, Kubrick’s epic spanned all of time and space and spun an awe-inspiring tale of humankind’s evolution from primitive hominid to spacefaring superbeing -- and how we were helped along the way by an unseen alien presence beyond our comprehension.
While cinematic science fiction had produced landmark movies in previous years, such as Forbidden Planet, The Day the Earth Stood Still, and the Quatermass trilogy, 2001 elevated the genre in terms of its depiction of the future, its stunning visual effects, and its sheer scope. 2001 ensured that sci-fi would never be dismissed as simple “kiddie fare” ever again, while the movie’s imagery,...
Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey changed the face of science fiction cinema.
Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey premiered in Washington D.C. on April 2, 1968 and opened in New York and Los Angeles a day later. Four years in the making, Kubrick’s epic spanned all of time and space and spun an awe-inspiring tale of humankind’s evolution from primitive hominid to spacefaring superbeing -- and how we were helped along the way by an unseen alien presence beyond our comprehension.
While cinematic science fiction had produced landmark movies in previous years, such as Forbidden Planet, The Day the Earth Stood Still, and the Quatermass trilogy, 2001 elevated the genre in terms of its depiction of the future, its stunning visual effects, and its sheer scope. 2001 ensured that sci-fi would never be dismissed as simple “kiddie fare” ever again, while the movie’s imagery,...
- 4/3/2018
- Den of Geek
The Last Time I Saw Ron by Leslie Thornton (1994).
The “Ron” of The Last Time I Saw Ron is late actor Ron Vawter who passed away in 1994. Vawter was appearing in the play Philoktetes Variations at the Kaaitheater in Brussels at the time; and all images in Thornton’s film were created for the play.
An essay written by Chris Holmund that is published in the book Feminism and Documentary focuses on Thornton’s avant-garde biographical documentaries and says that the “superimpositions, focus shifts, sound overlays, and silences” of The Last Time I Saw Ron “hint at the different dimensions that exist in, around, and even after life.”
The film opens with three title cards that read:
This footage was originally shot for the play Philoktetes Variations, directed by Jan Ritsema, and produced by by the Kaaitheater in Brussels. Ron Vawter played the lead role.
Philoktetes is a figure from Greek mythology,...
The “Ron” of The Last Time I Saw Ron is late actor Ron Vawter who passed away in 1994. Vawter was appearing in the play Philoktetes Variations at the Kaaitheater in Brussels at the time; and all images in Thornton’s film were created for the play.
An essay written by Chris Holmund that is published in the book Feminism and Documentary focuses on Thornton’s avant-garde biographical documentaries and says that the “superimpositions, focus shifts, sound overlays, and silences” of The Last Time I Saw Ron “hint at the different dimensions that exist in, around, and even after life.”
The film opens with three title cards that read:
This footage was originally shot for the play Philoktetes Variations, directed by Jan Ritsema, and produced by by the Kaaitheater in Brussels. Ron Vawter played the lead role.
Philoktetes is a figure from Greek mythology,...
- 3/10/2018
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
In this edition of Canon Of Film, we dive into Stanley Kubrick’s science fiction masterpiece, ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’. For the story behind the genesis of the Canon, you can click here.
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Screenplay: Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke
One of the things that most people don’t realize about the best of the Star Trek series, particularly the original and ‘Star Trek: The Next Generation,’ is that they aren’t about space travel, what they are about is what can happen when one expands the human limits of the mind. The capabilities of the structure, and trying to find the most faraway point within us; what Roddenberry did were use the metaphor of traveling through space to illustrate this thought. This is a strange way to begin discussing Stanley Kubrick’s ‘2001: A Space Odyssey,’ but in it’s own magical way,...
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Screenplay: Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke
One of the things that most people don’t realize about the best of the Star Trek series, particularly the original and ‘Star Trek: The Next Generation,’ is that they aren’t about space travel, what they are about is what can happen when one expands the human limits of the mind. The capabilities of the structure, and trying to find the most faraway point within us; what Roddenberry did were use the metaphor of traveling through space to illustrate this thought. This is a strange way to begin discussing Stanley Kubrick’s ‘2001: A Space Odyssey,’ but in it’s own magical way,...
- 2/27/2018
- by David Baruffi
- Age of the Nerd
Every week, IndieWire asks a select handful of film critics two questions and publishes the results on Monday. (The answer to the second, “What is the best film in theaters right now?”, can be found at the end of this post.)
This week’s question: “Wonder Woman” and “Black Panther” have helped to reinvigorate the superhero genre as a social and creative force, and the success of those films can be at least partially attributed to their directors. With that in mind, which filmmaker would you most like to see direct a blockbuster superhero movie next, and why?
Max Weiss (@maxthegirl), Baltimore Magazine
I’m firmly in the camp of not wanting my favorite actors or directors to either star in or helm superhero films. (I audibly groaned yesterday when the news surfaced that Joaquin Phoenix was going to be playing The Joker.) Yes, Waititi, Coogler, Jenkins, et al managed...
This week’s question: “Wonder Woman” and “Black Panther” have helped to reinvigorate the superhero genre as a social and creative force, and the success of those films can be at least partially attributed to their directors. With that in mind, which filmmaker would you most like to see direct a blockbuster superhero movie next, and why?
Max Weiss (@maxthegirl), Baltimore Magazine
I’m firmly in the camp of not wanting my favorite actors or directors to either star in or helm superhero films. (I audibly groaned yesterday when the news surfaced that Joaquin Phoenix was going to be playing The Joker.) Yes, Waititi, Coogler, Jenkins, et al managed...
- 2/12/2018
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Much like the life of the mammoth pro wrestling personality it profiles, “Nature Boy” is both a celebration and a warning siren for would-be aspirants to fame and fortune. The latest installment of Espn’s “30 for 30” documentary series is under no delusion that Ric Flair didn’t enjoy (or at many points, bask in) his popularity as one of the biggest pro athletes in the world. But Rory Karpf‘s film also provides some helpful and needed context for the man that he was when he wasn’t landing pile drives. Those two figures may have eventually blurred together to the point of being unrecognizable, but the film does an admirable job of trying to distinguish between the two.
In true biographical fashion, “Nature Boy” charts Flair’s upbringing in an adoptive home, through his less-than-stellar academic career, to the origins of his wrestling superstardom. Eventually embracing a career that he initially shied away from,...
In true biographical fashion, “Nature Boy” charts Flair’s upbringing in an adoptive home, through his less-than-stellar academic career, to the origins of his wrestling superstardom. Eventually embracing a career that he initially shied away from,...
- 11/7/2017
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
It's not often that listening to a cast album makes one think of Richard Strauss, but such is the genius of Scott Frankel and Michael Korie. The composer-lyricist team best known for the brilliant Grey Gardens is back with War Paint, the story of rival beauty moguls Helena Rubinstein and Elizabeth Arden. Here both story and emotion are thinner, but the music is gorgeous--Straussian in its elegiac beauty and bell-like notes--and worthy of its two stars, Patti LuPone and Christine Ebersole, two of the most unique and exciting voices in musical theater. Like a golden-age Hollywood director 'managing' the two stars of a women's picture, the score has to find ways to manage its two leads, giving each an equal role. Ebersole gets an old-fashioned entrance--her Red Door spa staff sings breathlessly, 'She's coming, she's coming...,' bursting into a triumphant 'She's here' LuPone's entrance is less heralded but equally dramatic and separate,...
- 5/30/2017
- by Remy Holzer
- BroadwayWorld.com
Author: Andy Furlong
When Guardians of the Galaxy was first released in 2014 for all its quirk and swagger the thing that really separated it from the rest of the Marvel pack was its use of music. Director James Gunn revealed that the film’s composer, Tyler Bates, had written large chunks of the score first so that they could film to the actual music. In many ways the film’s personality is its score, and with the release of the sequel Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 in cinemas this week audiences can expect more of the same.
Music is probably the most important thing in cinema for instantly establishing mood, tone and visual cues. From the menacing piano keys of John Williams’ memorable score in Jaws to the sheer elation of Alan Silvestri’s triumphant overture in Back to the Future, a film’s accompanying score is often as unforgettable as the movie itself.
When Guardians of the Galaxy was first released in 2014 for all its quirk and swagger the thing that really separated it from the rest of the Marvel pack was its use of music. Director James Gunn revealed that the film’s composer, Tyler Bates, had written large chunks of the score first so that they could film to the actual music. In many ways the film’s personality is its score, and with the release of the sequel Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 in cinemas this week audiences can expect more of the same.
Music is probably the most important thing in cinema for instantly establishing mood, tone and visual cues. From the menacing piano keys of John Williams’ memorable score in Jaws to the sheer elation of Alan Silvestri’s triumphant overture in Back to the Future, a film’s accompanying score is often as unforgettable as the movie itself.
- 4/28/2017
- by Andy Furlong
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
These are challenging times for any filmmaker who doesn’t want to be told what to do. Chasing a slice of the Hollywood studio pie almost always brings compromise, and many foreign-born directors return to their home countries and assemble independent film and television projects.
That was the path of Dutch-born Paul Verhoeven, whose career began in his own language with “Soldier of Orange” and the Oscar-nominated “Turkish Delight.” From there he forged an A-list career that included “Basic Instinct” (which played competition in Cannes) “RoboCop,” “Total Recall,” “Starship Troopers,” and, yes, “Showgirls.” His last Hollywood movie was “Hollow Man” with Kevin Bacon in 2000.
When Verhoeven could no longer find material that suited him, he went back to Holland. His 2006 Dutch World War II drama “Black Book” (Sony Pictures Classics) starred Carice Van Houten, before she joined “Game of Thrones,” and was shortlisted for the foreign Oscar.
Now he has...
That was the path of Dutch-born Paul Verhoeven, whose career began in his own language with “Soldier of Orange” and the Oscar-nominated “Turkish Delight.” From there he forged an A-list career that included “Basic Instinct” (which played competition in Cannes) “RoboCop,” “Total Recall,” “Starship Troopers,” and, yes, “Showgirls.” His last Hollywood movie was “Hollow Man” with Kevin Bacon in 2000.
When Verhoeven could no longer find material that suited him, he went back to Holland. His 2006 Dutch World War II drama “Black Book” (Sony Pictures Classics) starred Carice Van Houten, before she joined “Game of Thrones,” and was shortlisted for the foreign Oscar.
Now he has...
- 11/18/2016
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
These are challenging times for any filmmaker who doesn’t want to be told what to do. Chasing a slice of the Hollywood studio pie almost always brings compromise, and many foreign-born directors return to their home countries and assemble independent film and television projects.
That was the path of Dutch-born Paul Verhoeven, whose career began in his own language with “Soldier of Orange” and the Oscar-nominated “Turkish Delight.” From there he forged an A-list career that included “Basic Instinct” (which played competition in Cannes) “RoboCop,” “Total Recall,” “Starship Troopers,” and, yes, “Showgirls.” His last Hollywood movie was “Hollow Man” with Kevin Bacon in 2000.
When Verhoeven could no longer find material that suited him, he went back to Holland. His 2006 Dutch World War II drama “Black Book” (Sony Pictures Classics) starred Carice Van Houten, before she joined “Game of Thrones,” and was shortlisted for the foreign Oscar.
Now he has...
That was the path of Dutch-born Paul Verhoeven, whose career began in his own language with “Soldier of Orange” and the Oscar-nominated “Turkish Delight.” From there he forged an A-list career that included “Basic Instinct” (which played competition in Cannes) “RoboCop,” “Total Recall,” “Starship Troopers,” and, yes, “Showgirls.” His last Hollywood movie was “Hollow Man” with Kevin Bacon in 2000.
When Verhoeven could no longer find material that suited him, he went back to Holland. His 2006 Dutch World War II drama “Black Book” (Sony Pictures Classics) starred Carice Van Houten, before she joined “Game of Thrones,” and was shortlisted for the foreign Oscar.
Now he has...
- 11/18/2016
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
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