The Sun Valley Film Festival announced their 2023 award winners, with National Geographic’s Documentary “Wild Life” taking home the audience award, “Fancy Dance” winning best narrative and “Nascondino” earning the documentary feature film prize. The annual Idaho Awards Bash took place from March 29 to April 2 at Whiskey Jacques.
In addition to the film awards, the festival hosted a performance by Blair Gun and Variety honored this year’s 10 Producers to Watch. Other highlights include Josh Brolin receiving the Vision award, Emilio Estevez receiving the Pioneer award, Sophie Thatcher receiving the Rising Star award and Nina Yang Bongiovi receiving the Creative Impact Honoree in Producing.
Since 2012, each spring has brought another Svff celebration of groundbreaking new films and television premieres, with opportunities for filmmakers to connect with one another and find mentorship through industry panels, coffee talks and screenwriting workshops. Svff also works year-round to bring special projects to Sun Valley.
In addition to the film awards, the festival hosted a performance by Blair Gun and Variety honored this year’s 10 Producers to Watch. Other highlights include Josh Brolin receiving the Vision award, Emilio Estevez receiving the Pioneer award, Sophie Thatcher receiving the Rising Star award and Nina Yang Bongiovi receiving the Creative Impact Honoree in Producing.
Since 2012, each spring has brought another Svff celebration of groundbreaking new films and television premieres, with opportunities for filmmakers to connect with one another and find mentorship through industry panels, coffee talks and screenwriting workshops. Svff also works year-round to bring special projects to Sun Valley.
- 4/3/2023
- by Sophia Scorziello
- Variety Film + TV
Edu-tainment
Sony Pictures Television‘s YouTube channel Impossible Science, fronted by magician Jason Latimer, has partnered with the Los Angeles County Office of Education and the Los Angeles Unified School District to provide programming blocks in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (Stem) subjects.
The lesson plans, which are funded via Sony Pictures Global Relief Fund for Covid-19, can be used as part of the Klcs summer and winter learning programming blocks, which are focused on supporting children’s education through home school periods and vacations.
Over 30 bespoke plans, based on existing ‘Impossible Science’ YouTube videos, are available for educators and parents to download via a free-to-access website.
Impossible Science was launched with Latimer at the helm in fall 2020. Since then it has grown exponentially with nearly 220 Stem-inspired videos, amassing over 40 million views worldwide.
Award
David Gulpilil, the iconic Indigenous actor who died earlier this week, is to be given a...
Sony Pictures Television‘s YouTube channel Impossible Science, fronted by magician Jason Latimer, has partnered with the Los Angeles County Office of Education and the Los Angeles Unified School District to provide programming blocks in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (Stem) subjects.
The lesson plans, which are funded via Sony Pictures Global Relief Fund for Covid-19, can be used as part of the Klcs summer and winter learning programming blocks, which are focused on supporting children’s education through home school periods and vacations.
Over 30 bespoke plans, based on existing ‘Impossible Science’ YouTube videos, are available for educators and parents to download via a free-to-access website.
Impossible Science was launched with Latimer at the helm in fall 2020. Since then it has grown exponentially with nearly 220 Stem-inspired videos, amassing over 40 million views worldwide.
Award
David Gulpilil, the iconic Indigenous actor who died earlier this week, is to be given a...
- 12/3/2021
- by K.J. Yossman
- Variety Film + TV
Comedy Central has snapped up rights to three National Lampoon feature films ahead of their theatrical release.
The companies have struck a deal that will give the network the first broadcast-window premiere rights to the films that will kick in just a year after they are released in theaters. All three are set for theatrical release next year.
The deal includes National Lampoon's Bag Boy, which centers on an underdog on a quest to become the top grocery bagger; National Lampoon's Ratko: The Dictator's Son, about the party animal son of Eastern Europe's most despicable tyrant who comes to the U.S. to get a college education; and "National Lampoon's 301: The Legend of Awesomest Maximus Wallace Leonidas," a spoof of 300. Bag Boy, executive produced by Conundrum Entertainment and directed by Mort Nathan, will be released first, coming out in the first quarter.
What's unusual about the deal is that Comedy Central will get the rights to each title just a year after its release.
The companies have struck a deal that will give the network the first broadcast-window premiere rights to the films that will kick in just a year after they are released in theaters. All three are set for theatrical release next year.
The deal includes National Lampoon's Bag Boy, which centers on an underdog on a quest to become the top grocery bagger; National Lampoon's Ratko: The Dictator's Son, about the party animal son of Eastern Europe's most despicable tyrant who comes to the U.S. to get a college education; and "National Lampoon's 301: The Legend of Awesomest Maximus Wallace Leonidas," a spoof of 300. Bag Boy, executive produced by Conundrum Entertainment and directed by Mort Nathan, will be released first, coming out in the first quarter.
What's unusual about the deal is that Comedy Central will get the rights to each title just a year after its release.
- 9/21/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Opens Friday, March 21
Gags in the insipid sex comedy "Boat Trip" are both lame and crass, meaning you not only don't laugh but stifle groans. If a woman says to a man, "Spit it out", you know he'll throw up. If a banana appears on camera, some idiot will discover its phallic possibilities. And any swimming pool requires a person to fall in. How did Oscar-winning actor Cuba Gooding Jr. get marooned in this misfired mess?
The lowbrow comedy directed by Mort Nathan (from his and William Bigelow's script) will mostly appeal to under-25 males and, thanks to Gooding and Vivica A. Fox, to blacks. Business for Artisan will be iffy in theatrical release, but it may clean up in video, where no-brainer comedies work best.
To shake his buddy Jerry (Gooding) out of a six-month funk over his breakup with girlfriend Felicia Fox), Nick (Horatio Sanz) arranges a singles cruise in the Medi-terranean for both men. Only they wind up on a gay cruise ship. After exhausting every imaginable joke about homophobia, the filmmakers allow the two buddies to meet real women. For Jerry, this means Gabriella (Roselyn Sanchez), an I'm-through-with-love dance instructor. For Nick, it's the Swedish bikini tanning team, whose helicopter he accidentally shoots down with a flare gun. The team, a tribute to the benefits of plastic surgery, is lead by the pneumonic Inga (Victoria Silvstedt) and her tough-as-painted-nails coach Sonya (Lin Shaye).
Jerry falls in love but must pretend to be gay to stay in the company of man-phobic Gabriella. Nick reveals himself to be a flaming heterosexual right away to Inga but runs afoul of her coach's training regimen.
One could complain about the gay stereotypes, but the heterosexual ones are much worse. Indeed the one redeeming element here is the presence of Roger Moore, more or less playing James Bond as an aging queen. Otherwise, a more apt complaint would focus on tired gags and frantic overacting by Gooding and Sanz, who play most scenes with barely contained hysteria. Ditto Fox, as a high-strung, pampered Beverly Hills bitch. By contrast, Sanchez plays her character in a lower key, which allows her to be smooth and sexy without trying half as hard.
For Gooding fans, the highlight -- or low light, depending on one's point of view -- comes when he performs a lip-sync dance routine to "I'm Coming Out", garbed in gold chains, jockstrap, white boots, peacock feathers and a headdress worthy of Mardi Gras.
BOAT TRIP
Artisan Entertainment
Motion Picture Corporation of America/Gemini Group/Apollo Media
Credits:
Director: Mort Nathan
Screenwriters: Mort Nathan, William Bigelow
Producers: Brad Krevoy, Gerhard Schmidt, Frank Hubner, Andrew Sugerman
Executive producer: Sabine Muller
Director of photography: Shawn Maurer
Production designer: Charles Breen
Music: Robert Folk
Costume designer: Tim Chappel
Editor: John Axness
Cast:
Jerry: Cuba Gooding, Jr.
Nick: Horatio Sanz
Felicia: Vivica A. Fox
Gabriela: Roselyn Sanchez
Hector: Maurice Godin
Sonja: Lin Shaye
Inga: Victoria Silvstedt
Lloyd: Roger Moore
Malcolm: Richard Roundtree
Running time -- 95 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
Gags in the insipid sex comedy "Boat Trip" are both lame and crass, meaning you not only don't laugh but stifle groans. If a woman says to a man, "Spit it out", you know he'll throw up. If a banana appears on camera, some idiot will discover its phallic possibilities. And any swimming pool requires a person to fall in. How did Oscar-winning actor Cuba Gooding Jr. get marooned in this misfired mess?
The lowbrow comedy directed by Mort Nathan (from his and William Bigelow's script) will mostly appeal to under-25 males and, thanks to Gooding and Vivica A. Fox, to blacks. Business for Artisan will be iffy in theatrical release, but it may clean up in video, where no-brainer comedies work best.
To shake his buddy Jerry (Gooding) out of a six-month funk over his breakup with girlfriend Felicia Fox), Nick (Horatio Sanz) arranges a singles cruise in the Medi-terranean for both men. Only they wind up on a gay cruise ship. After exhausting every imaginable joke about homophobia, the filmmakers allow the two buddies to meet real women. For Jerry, this means Gabriella (Roselyn Sanchez), an I'm-through-with-love dance instructor. For Nick, it's the Swedish bikini tanning team, whose helicopter he accidentally shoots down with a flare gun. The team, a tribute to the benefits of plastic surgery, is lead by the pneumonic Inga (Victoria Silvstedt) and her tough-as-painted-nails coach Sonya (Lin Shaye).
Jerry falls in love but must pretend to be gay to stay in the company of man-phobic Gabriella. Nick reveals himself to be a flaming heterosexual right away to Inga but runs afoul of her coach's training regimen.
One could complain about the gay stereotypes, but the heterosexual ones are much worse. Indeed the one redeeming element here is the presence of Roger Moore, more or less playing James Bond as an aging queen. Otherwise, a more apt complaint would focus on tired gags and frantic overacting by Gooding and Sanz, who play most scenes with barely contained hysteria. Ditto Fox, as a high-strung, pampered Beverly Hills bitch. By contrast, Sanchez plays her character in a lower key, which allows her to be smooth and sexy without trying half as hard.
For Gooding fans, the highlight -- or low light, depending on one's point of view -- comes when he performs a lip-sync dance routine to "I'm Coming Out", garbed in gold chains, jockstrap, white boots, peacock feathers and a headdress worthy of Mardi Gras.
BOAT TRIP
Artisan Entertainment
Motion Picture Corporation of America/Gemini Group/Apollo Media
Credits:
Director: Mort Nathan
Screenwriters: Mort Nathan, William Bigelow
Producers: Brad Krevoy, Gerhard Schmidt, Frank Hubner, Andrew Sugerman
Executive producer: Sabine Muller
Director of photography: Shawn Maurer
Production designer: Charles Breen
Music: Robert Folk
Costume designer: Tim Chappel
Editor: John Axness
Cast:
Jerry: Cuba Gooding, Jr.
Nick: Horatio Sanz
Felicia: Vivica A. Fox
Gabriela: Roselyn Sanchez
Hector: Maurice Godin
Sonja: Lin Shaye
Inga: Victoria Silvstedt
Lloyd: Roger Moore
Malcolm: Richard Roundtree
Running time -- 95 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
- 3/21/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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