At this point, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ governors election looks more like a round-up than a race; more than 180 members have declared their interest in filling 17 contested spots on the 54-member Board of Governors.
Voting in the run-off round starts on Monday and ends May 18. That will narrow the present field to a maximum of four nominees per branch in the final round, which follows.
For now, there are on average about 11 candidates in the running for each slot. In the casting directors and costume design branches, only three members have declared for each slot. But not so in the actors branch, where 17 members — including Brie Larson, Jacki Weaver and Meg Ryan — are vying for the spot being vacated by termed-out Tom Hanks; or the producers, executives, and public relations branches, all of which have a bumper crop of candidates. Marvin Levy, currently a governor in the public relations branch,...
Voting in the run-off round starts on Monday and ends May 18. That will narrow the present field to a maximum of four nominees per branch in the final round, which follows.
For now, there are on average about 11 candidates in the running for each slot. In the casting directors and costume design branches, only three members have declared for each slot. But not so in the actors branch, where 17 members — including Brie Larson, Jacki Weaver and Meg Ryan — are vying for the spot being vacated by termed-out Tom Hanks; or the producers, executives, and public relations branches, all of which have a bumper crop of candidates. Marvin Levy, currently a governor in the public relations branch,...
- 5/11/2018
- by Michael Cieply
- Deadline Film + TV
Over the next two months, Scream Factory’s releases include five Blu-rays limited to 1,000 units apiece. Each release will highlight an obscure and underseen sci-fi, horror, or fantasy film from the ’70s and ’80s, and the cover artwork and details on each Blu-ray have been revealed.
Deathstalker Double Feature (August 30th): “Deathstalker (1983)
Deathstalker (Richard Hill) is a mighty warrior chosen to battle the evil forces of a medieval kingdom who sets off on a journey to the most challenging tournament in the land. To the winner will go the throne of the evil wizard, the ultimate mystical power and the love of the beautiful Princess Codille (Barbi Benton). But first Deathstalker must prove himself worthy of his legacy . . . and treachery lurks at every turn.
Deathstalker II (1987)
Deathstalker II (John Terlesky) has a mission: to save the kingdom from the wicked grip of the immoral wizard Jerak and his queen Sultana,...
Deathstalker Double Feature (August 30th): “Deathstalker (1983)
Deathstalker (Richard Hill) is a mighty warrior chosen to battle the evil forces of a medieval kingdom who sets off on a journey to the most challenging tournament in the land. To the winner will go the throne of the evil wizard, the ultimate mystical power and the love of the beautiful Princess Codille (Barbi Benton). But first Deathstalker must prove himself worthy of his legacy . . . and treachery lurks at every turn.
Deathstalker II (1987)
Deathstalker II (John Terlesky) has a mission: to save the kingdom from the wicked grip of the immoral wizard Jerak and his queen Sultana,...
- 8/11/2016
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Producer Dimitri Villard, whose credits include Flight Of The Navigator and In Love And War, is moving ahead with his Frank Herbert adaptation with the hire of the Sundance-winning filmmaker.
Eyre (pictured) won the Sundance Audience Award and Filmmaker’s Trophy for his 1998 entry Smoke Signals and will direct from an adapted screenplay by John Sayles. Villard optioned the 1972 novel from the author’s estate late last year.
Soul Catcher charts the abuse of Native Americans and an activist’s attempt to even the score by kidnapping the son of a Washington politician.
“I’m so excited to have assembled this all-star team to translate Frank Herbert’s brilliant novel to the screen,” said Villard.
“There is no better director of Native American films than Chris; John has an incredibly rich history of writing socially important screenplays and Rene [Hayes] is hands-down the leading casting director of Native American films and actors.
“We now have...
Eyre (pictured) won the Sundance Audience Award and Filmmaker’s Trophy for his 1998 entry Smoke Signals and will direct from an adapted screenplay by John Sayles. Villard optioned the 1972 novel from the author’s estate late last year.
Soul Catcher charts the abuse of Native Americans and an activist’s attempt to even the score by kidnapping the son of a Washington politician.
“I’m so excited to have assembled this all-star team to translate Frank Herbert’s brilliant novel to the screen,” said Villard.
“There is no better director of Native American films than Chris; John has an incredibly rich history of writing socially important screenplays and Rene [Hayes] is hands-down the leading casting director of Native American films and actors.
“We now have...
- 6/15/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Producer Dimitri Villard ("Flight Of The Navigator") has optioned the film rights to "Dune" author Frank Herbert's acclaimed 1972 novel "Soul Catcher".
The story follows a militant Native American student who kidnaps the thirteen-year-old white son of a U.S. politician, intending to sacrifice the child for vengeance against wrongs committed against his people.
As the captor and the captive flee from hunters across the Pacific Northwest, they form a bond that throws the planned act into question.
Villard pursued the rights to the project in the 1980s before his career took him away from film altogether. Now he's back and after a year of negotiation with the Herbert estate he scored the rights. He's currently seeking a director.
Source: Deadline...
The story follows a militant Native American student who kidnaps the thirteen-year-old white son of a U.S. politician, intending to sacrifice the child for vengeance against wrongs committed against his people.
As the captor and the captive flee from hunters across the Pacific Northwest, they form a bond that throws the planned act into question.
Villard pursued the rights to the project in the 1980s before his career took him away from film altogether. Now he's back and after a year of negotiation with the Herbert estate he scored the rights. He's currently seeking a director.
Source: Deadline...
- 8/15/2014
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Frank Herbert's Soul Catcher has been optioned for film.
The rights to the Dune writer's novel have been acquired by producer Dimitri Villard, reports Deadline.
Villard is best known as the producer of '80s cult hits Flight of the Navigator and the Jim Carrey-starring Once Bitten.
Soul Catcher centres around a young Native American student who kidnaps the 13-year-old son of a Us politician, planning to sacrifice him in vengeance for the wrongs committed against his people.
As the pair flee from federal hunters, they form a bond which threatens to derail the plan.
"The book is an extraordinary example of Frank Herbert's brilliant writing, and it is something I've always wanted to turn into a film," said Villard.
"I remember the rights being unavailable when I first pursued the Soul Catcher project in the '80s, but as my producing career developed I never forgot...
The rights to the Dune writer's novel have been acquired by producer Dimitri Villard, reports Deadline.
Villard is best known as the producer of '80s cult hits Flight of the Navigator and the Jim Carrey-starring Once Bitten.
Soul Catcher centres around a young Native American student who kidnaps the 13-year-old son of a Us politician, planning to sacrifice him in vengeance for the wrongs committed against his people.
As the pair flee from federal hunters, they form a bond which threatens to derail the plan.
"The book is an extraordinary example of Frank Herbert's brilliant writing, and it is something I've always wanted to turn into a film," said Villard.
"I remember the rights being unavailable when I first pursued the Soul Catcher project in the '80s, but as my producing career developed I never forgot...
- 8/15/2014
- Digital Spy
Exclusive: Four decades after Dune scribe Frank Herbert published his acclaimed 1972 novel Soul Catcher, the book has been optioned for the big screen by producer Dimitri Villard. The Flight Of he Navigator and Once Bitten producer first pursued the Herbert tome during the 1980s but tabled his film career to run music company ArtistDirect until last year. Now he’s returning to the screen biz with Soul Catcher, about a militant Native American student who kidnaps the 13-year-old white son of a U.S. politician, intending to sacrifice the child for vengeance against wrongs committed against his people. As the captor and the captive flee from hunters across the Pacific Northwest, they form a bond that throws the planned act into question.
The late Herbert’s seminal Dune remains the best-selling science fiction of all time and was adapted into a 1984 feature film by David Lynch and a TV miniseries and sequel in the 2000s.
The late Herbert’s seminal Dune remains the best-selling science fiction of all time and was adapted into a 1984 feature film by David Lynch and a TV miniseries and sequel in the 2000s.
- 8/14/2014
- by Jen Yamato
- Deadline
On September 27th, Shout! Factor will be releasing another Roger Corman’s Cult Classics set, which includes The Velvet Vampire, Lady Frankenstein, Grotesque, and Time Walker. We’ve included the official press release, which contains disc information and cover art.
“In The Velvet Vampire, a couple accepts an invitation from the mysterious Diane LeFanu (Celeste Yarnall, The Mechanic) to visit her in her secluded desert estate. Unaware that Diane is actually a centuries-old vampire, the couple soon realize that they are both the objects of her seduction and cravings . . .
When Baron Frankenstein is killed by his creation, his daughter Tania (Rosalba Neri, a/k/a Sarah Bay) creates her own creature using the brilliant mind of her assistant and the body of her dimwitted servant in Lady Frankenstein. She not only ends up with the perfect lover, but one that can destroy her father’s killer. Also starring Joseph Cotten...
“In The Velvet Vampire, a couple accepts an invitation from the mysterious Diane LeFanu (Celeste Yarnall, The Mechanic) to visit her in her secluded desert estate. Unaware that Diane is actually a centuries-old vampire, the couple soon realize that they are both the objects of her seduction and cravings . . .
When Baron Frankenstein is killed by his creation, his daughter Tania (Rosalba Neri, a/k/a Sarah Bay) creates her own creature using the brilliant mind of her assistant and the body of her dimwitted servant in Lady Frankenstein. She not only ends up with the perfect lover, but one that can destroy her father’s killer. Also starring Joseph Cotten...
- 8/12/2011
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
Shout! Factory has not let up delivering fans quality editions of writer/director/producer Roger Corman films, and it continues in their latest set, a series of four films in what’s being called Roger Corman’s Cult Classics – All-Night Marathon: Vampires, Mummies, & Werewolves.
The four titles included in this set are: Lady Frankenstein, The Velvet Vampire, Time Walker, and Grotesque. Here’s the press release (via Dread Central), along with the extras:
Roger Corman’S Cult Classics: Vampires, Mummies & Monsters 2-disc Special Edition: The Velvet Vampire, Lady Frankenstein (theatrical cut and a longer international cut), Grotesque, and Time Walker! Own It On DVD September 27, 2011, From Shout! Factory. Featuring new anamorphic widescreen transfers and bonus features!
In The Velvet Vampire, a couple accept an invitation from the mysterious Diane LeFanu (Celeste Yarnall, The Mechanic) to visit her in her secluded desert estate. Unaware that Diane is actually a centuries-old vampire,...
The four titles included in this set are: Lady Frankenstein, The Velvet Vampire, Time Walker, and Grotesque. Here’s the press release (via Dread Central), along with the extras:
Roger Corman’S Cult Classics: Vampires, Mummies & Monsters 2-disc Special Edition: The Velvet Vampire, Lady Frankenstein (theatrical cut and a longer international cut), Grotesque, and Time Walker! Own It On DVD September 27, 2011, From Shout! Factory. Featuring new anamorphic widescreen transfers and bonus features!
In The Velvet Vampire, a couple accept an invitation from the mysterious Diane LeFanu (Celeste Yarnall, The Mechanic) to visit her in her secluded desert estate. Unaware that Diane is actually a centuries-old vampire,...
- 8/12/2011
- by Jon Peters
- Killer Films
Even more Roger Corman spawned mayhem is on its way from our favorite purveyors of schlock, Shout! Factory, and this is one package you are not going to want to miss!
From the Press Release: Roger Corman’S Cult Classics: Vampires, Mummies & Monsters 2-disc Special Edition: The Velvet Vampire, Lady Frankenstein (theatrical cut and a longer international cut), Grotesque, and Time Walker! Own It On DVD September 27, 2011, From Shout! Factory. Featuring new anamorphic widescreen transfers and bonus features!
In The Velvet Vampire, a couple accept an invitation from the mysterious Diane LeFanu (Celeste Yarnall, The Mechanic) to visit her in her secluded desert estate. Unaware that Diane is actually a centuries-old vampire, the couple soon realize that they are both the objects of her seduction and cravings ...
When Baron Frankenstein is killed by his creation, his daughter Tania (Rosalba Neri, a/k/a Sarah Bay) creates her own creature using...
From the Press Release: Roger Corman’S Cult Classics: Vampires, Mummies & Monsters 2-disc Special Edition: The Velvet Vampire, Lady Frankenstein (theatrical cut and a longer international cut), Grotesque, and Time Walker! Own It On DVD September 27, 2011, From Shout! Factory. Featuring new anamorphic widescreen transfers and bonus features!
In The Velvet Vampire, a couple accept an invitation from the mysterious Diane LeFanu (Celeste Yarnall, The Mechanic) to visit her in her secluded desert estate. Unaware that Diane is actually a centuries-old vampire, the couple soon realize that they are both the objects of her seduction and cravings ...
When Baron Frankenstein is killed by his creation, his daughter Tania (Rosalba Neri, a/k/a Sarah Bay) creates her own creature using...
- 8/12/2011
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
Skip Schoolnik is the director behind the 80's slasher Hide and Go Shriek. Hide and Go Shriek is one of those films that featured some up and coming talent along with some actors that dropped off the face of the earth. The cast included Bunky Jones, Brittain Frye (Slumber Party Massacre III), Sean Kanan (The Karate Kid Part III), Ria Pavia (Candyman), Annette Sinclair, Donna Baltron (Shallow Grave 1987), Scott Fults, and George Thomas. Hide and Go Shriek deals with a group of teenagers who sneak into a furniture store to have an after hours graduation party unaware that a killer has followed them and is picking people off one by one as they play a game of hide and seek. Here is what Skip had to say about making his first film, Hide and Go Shriek.
So who is Skip Schoolnik and what are you all about?
I'm all about doing great work.
So who is Skip Schoolnik and what are you all about?
I'm all about doing great work.
- 9/23/2010
- by Big Daddy aka Brandon Sites
- Big Daddy Horror Reviews - Interviews
Ernest Hemingway was a crack cub reporter for the Kansas City Star, one of the two venerable media institutions in K.C.; the other is the Hallmark Greeting Card Co. Unfortunately, this saga of the young writer's World War I romance with an older nurse is told in terms more befitting the greeting card folks than the hard-hitting newspaper.
Starring Chris O'Donnell as Ernest Hemingway and Sandra Bullock as nurse Agnes Von Kurowsky -- whom the writer fell in love with and who inspired his "A Farewell to Arms" -- this New Line release will likely be an early boxoffice casualty, owing to its cliched, picture-postcard portrait of young love.
Based on "Hemingway in Love and War: The Lost Diary of Agnes Von Kurowsky," this story is back-dropped by the last carnages of World War I, when Hemingway and Agnes were Red Cross volunteers in Italy. A triumvirate of credited screenwriters (Allan Scott, Clancy Sigal, Anna Hamilton Phelan) has distilled the letters to a romantic dimension. Essentially, the scenario shows us Ernie (as everyone calls him) and Agnes are cut from the same cloth -- both yearn for adventure and are risk-takers. When Ernie is wounded, Agnes saves his leg from amputation by manipulating her superior into letting her undertake an anti-gangrene procedure.
Other than the fact that this saga is based on a famous personage, the story itself is a standard-issue, nurse-patient love story that eventually swoons into a similarly standard refrain, the older woman-younger man boondoggle.
Further diminishing its individuality and poignancy is the bland, expositional dialogue. While warriors and writers, including Hemingway, have duly noted that "War is hell", in this depiction, war is more an aphrodisiac. With the cannon booming in the distance and only a few perfunctory forays into the trenches, the actual war, as pictured in this beauteous mountainscape setting, seems more a romantic stimulant than a life-threatening nightmare.
Indeed, under Richard Attenborough's warm and diffident hand, "In Love and War" emerges more as a progression of Hallmark-like moments as the lovers picnic on the lake, banter in the fresco, quarrel at the cabin, etc.
As the wet-behind-the-ears Hemingway, O'Donnell seems in keeping with the writer's brash bravado. Oddly enough, from the side profile, O'Donnell looks a lot like F. Scott Fitzgerald. Should anyone wish to produce a series centered around the romances of the great writers of the Midwest, O'Donnell could play them all.
Bullock is similarly hamstrung by the strict confines of her role as a conflicted "older woman," torn between young pup Ernie and an older, stuffed shirt. She acquits herself well, however, smartly evincing the quandary of a woman torn between her head and her heart.
Singly, the technical contributions are sublime, but under Attenborough's mix, they emerge as overripe and trite, diminishing the pain and passion of the love-struck duo.
IN LOVE AND WAR
New Line Cinema
A New Line production
in association with Dimitri Villard Prods.
Producers Dimitri Villard,
Richard Attenborough
Director Richard Attenborough
Screenwriters: Allan Scott, Clancy Sigal,
Anna Hamilton Phelan
Screen story Allan Scott, Dimitri Villard
Based on the book "Hemingway in Love and War" by Henry S. Villard and James Nagel
Executive producer Sara Risher
Supervising producer Chris Kenny
Director of photography Roger Pratt
Production designer Stuart Craig
Co-producer Diana Hawkins
Editor Lesley Walker
Costume designer Penny Rose
Casting Jeremy Zimmerman, Rene Haynes,'
Clare Walker
Sound Simon Kaye, Jonathan Bates,
Gerry Humphreys
Color/stereo
Cast:
Ernest Hemingway Chris O'Donnell
Agnes Von Kurowsky Sandra Bullock
Mac Ingrid Lacey
Henry Villard Mackenzie Astin
Domenico Carracciolo Emilio Bonucci
McBride Ian Kelly
Rosie Margot Steinberg
Miss De Long Tara Hugo
Running time -- 115 minutes
MPAA rating: PG-13...
Starring Chris O'Donnell as Ernest Hemingway and Sandra Bullock as nurse Agnes Von Kurowsky -- whom the writer fell in love with and who inspired his "A Farewell to Arms" -- this New Line release will likely be an early boxoffice casualty, owing to its cliched, picture-postcard portrait of young love.
Based on "Hemingway in Love and War: The Lost Diary of Agnes Von Kurowsky," this story is back-dropped by the last carnages of World War I, when Hemingway and Agnes were Red Cross volunteers in Italy. A triumvirate of credited screenwriters (Allan Scott, Clancy Sigal, Anna Hamilton Phelan) has distilled the letters to a romantic dimension. Essentially, the scenario shows us Ernie (as everyone calls him) and Agnes are cut from the same cloth -- both yearn for adventure and are risk-takers. When Ernie is wounded, Agnes saves his leg from amputation by manipulating her superior into letting her undertake an anti-gangrene procedure.
Other than the fact that this saga is based on a famous personage, the story itself is a standard-issue, nurse-patient love story that eventually swoons into a similarly standard refrain, the older woman-younger man boondoggle.
Further diminishing its individuality and poignancy is the bland, expositional dialogue. While warriors and writers, including Hemingway, have duly noted that "War is hell", in this depiction, war is more an aphrodisiac. With the cannon booming in the distance and only a few perfunctory forays into the trenches, the actual war, as pictured in this beauteous mountainscape setting, seems more a romantic stimulant than a life-threatening nightmare.
Indeed, under Richard Attenborough's warm and diffident hand, "In Love and War" emerges more as a progression of Hallmark-like moments as the lovers picnic on the lake, banter in the fresco, quarrel at the cabin, etc.
As the wet-behind-the-ears Hemingway, O'Donnell seems in keeping with the writer's brash bravado. Oddly enough, from the side profile, O'Donnell looks a lot like F. Scott Fitzgerald. Should anyone wish to produce a series centered around the romances of the great writers of the Midwest, O'Donnell could play them all.
Bullock is similarly hamstrung by the strict confines of her role as a conflicted "older woman," torn between young pup Ernie and an older, stuffed shirt. She acquits herself well, however, smartly evincing the quandary of a woman torn between her head and her heart.
Singly, the technical contributions are sublime, but under Attenborough's mix, they emerge as overripe and trite, diminishing the pain and passion of the love-struck duo.
IN LOVE AND WAR
New Line Cinema
A New Line production
in association with Dimitri Villard Prods.
Producers Dimitri Villard,
Richard Attenborough
Director Richard Attenborough
Screenwriters: Allan Scott, Clancy Sigal,
Anna Hamilton Phelan
Screen story Allan Scott, Dimitri Villard
Based on the book "Hemingway in Love and War" by Henry S. Villard and James Nagel
Executive producer Sara Risher
Supervising producer Chris Kenny
Director of photography Roger Pratt
Production designer Stuart Craig
Co-producer Diana Hawkins
Editor Lesley Walker
Costume designer Penny Rose
Casting Jeremy Zimmerman, Rene Haynes,'
Clare Walker
Sound Simon Kaye, Jonathan Bates,
Gerry Humphreys
Color/stereo
Cast:
Ernest Hemingway Chris O'Donnell
Agnes Von Kurowsky Sandra Bullock
Mac Ingrid Lacey
Henry Villard Mackenzie Astin
Domenico Carracciolo Emilio Bonucci
McBride Ian Kelly
Rosie Margot Steinberg
Miss De Long Tara Hugo
Running time -- 115 minutes
MPAA rating: PG-13...
- 12/18/1996
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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