“We Were the Lucky Ones” has its warning built into the title. The Hulu series based on the book by Georgia Hunter and adapted by Erica Lipez is about how one family survived and separated during the Holocaust, all of it underscored by that title — this is what they went through, the horror they witnessed and endured, the sadness that befell them, and they were lucky.
The series kicks off in Radom, Poland before the War, with the Kurc family: Siblings Halina (Joey King), Addy (Logan Lerman), Genek (Henry Lloyd-Hughes), Jakob (Amit Rahav), and Mila (Hadas Yaron) — and their parents, Sol (Lior Ashkenazi) and Nechuma (Robin Weigert). The Kurcs are close-knit, their home echoing with overlapping voices and laughter at the holidays, and they already feel the pangs of missing Addy, who lives in Paris.
War creeps in, but at first, life continues. Lipez limits the show’s scope exactly right,...
The series kicks off in Radom, Poland before the War, with the Kurc family: Siblings Halina (Joey King), Addy (Logan Lerman), Genek (Henry Lloyd-Hughes), Jakob (Amit Rahav), and Mila (Hadas Yaron) — and their parents, Sol (Lior Ashkenazi) and Nechuma (Robin Weigert). The Kurcs are close-knit, their home echoing with overlapping voices and laughter at the holidays, and they already feel the pangs of missing Addy, who lives in Paris.
War creeps in, but at first, life continues. Lipez limits the show’s scope exactly right,...
- 3/28/2024
- by Proma Khosla
- Indiewire
‘Outlander: Blood of My Blood’ starts production (Photo Credit: Starz)
Filming has begun on Starz’s Outlander prequel Outlander: Blood of My Blood which dives into the lives of Jamie’s parents, Ellen and Brian, and Claire’s parents, Julia and Henry. The network’s start of production announcement confirmed Harriet Slater (Pennyworth) will star as Ellen and Jamie Roy (Condor’s Nest) is playing Brian. Hermione Corfield (The Road Dance) is on board as Julia and Jeremy Irvine (War Horse) stars as Henry.
“We’re thrilled to be telling the stories of these two couples. The origins of their relationships explore universal themes that transcend time periods, and we’re so excited for fans to discover and fall in love with these characters and their love stories the way they have with Claire and Jamie,” said Matthew B. Roberts, showrunner, executive producer, and writer on both series.
Season one will...
Filming has begun on Starz’s Outlander prequel Outlander: Blood of My Blood which dives into the lives of Jamie’s parents, Ellen and Brian, and Claire’s parents, Julia and Henry. The network’s start of production announcement confirmed Harriet Slater (Pennyworth) will star as Ellen and Jamie Roy (Condor’s Nest) is playing Brian. Hermione Corfield (The Road Dance) is on board as Julia and Jeremy Irvine (War Horse) stars as Henry.
“We’re thrilled to be telling the stories of these two couples. The origins of their relationships explore universal themes that transcend time periods, and we’re so excited for fans to discover and fall in love with these characters and their love stories the way they have with Claire and Jamie,” said Matthew B. Roberts, showrunner, executive producer, and writer on both series.
Season one will...
- 2/5/2024
- by Rebecca Murray
- Showbiz Junkies
Plot: The Power is our world, but for one twist of nature. Suddenly, and without warning, teenage girls develop the power to electrocute people at will. The series features a cast of remarkable characters from London to Seattle, Nigeria to Eastern Europe, as the Power evolves from a tingle in teenagers’ collarbones to a complete reversal of the power balance of the world.
Review: The Power is a series I fully expect will rankle a vocal minority online who will complain about this being a series that castrates masculinity and promotes extreme points of view. Those people clearly need to watch this series for that very reason. The Power is a cautionary tale that has a global scale. Looking at the impact of a shift in the male-female dynamic offers a unique look at how we treat gender as a society and how it differs across the planet. Abiding by...
Review: The Power is a series I fully expect will rankle a vocal minority online who will complain about this being a series that castrates masculinity and promotes extreme points of view. Those people clearly need to watch this series for that very reason. The Power is a cautionary tale that has a global scale. Looking at the impact of a shift in the male-female dynamic offers a unique look at how we treat gender as a society and how it differs across the planet. Abiding by...
- 3/30/2023
- by Alex Maidy
- JoBlo.com
Fearne Cotton Behind Sky Kids Drama As Channel Goes Linear
British presenter Fearne Cotton is exec producing a Sky Kids drama as the channel launches ad-free on linear TV, moving in the opposite direction to older-skewing BBC kids rival Cbbc, which will soon be online only. The Sky Kids channel will roll out to Sky linear TV as a 24 hour channel in February with originals including the Cotton-exec produced My Friend Misty, following an animated character who sets out to build emotional resilience in kids. Misty surprises a group of children in the show with magical visits, helping them to deal with their feelings both good and bad by providing a series of tips and practical exercises to support them in difficult situations. Cotton has presented on Cbbc, GMTV and Citv as well as the likes of Top of the Pops and Celebrity Juice. The show will be joined by new originals Ready,...
British presenter Fearne Cotton is exec producing a Sky Kids drama as the channel launches ad-free on linear TV, moving in the opposite direction to older-skewing BBC kids rival Cbbc, which will soon be online only. The Sky Kids channel will roll out to Sky linear TV as a 24 hour channel in February with originals including the Cotton-exec produced My Friend Misty, following an animated character who sets out to build emotional resilience in kids. Misty surprises a group of children in the show with magical visits, helping them to deal with their feelings both good and bad by providing a series of tips and practical exercises to support them in difficult situations. Cotton has presented on Cbbc, GMTV and Citv as well as the likes of Top of the Pops and Celebrity Juice. The show will be joined by new originals Ready,...
- 11/22/2022
- by Max Goldbart, Jesse Whittock and Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Skydance Media has named industry veteran Carin Sage to the newly created role of Executive Vice President of Feature Film for the company. With more than 30 years of agency experience, Sage will be responsible for bringing in new feature projects and overseeing films through all phases from inception to production.
“When you find yourself time and time again chasing writers and directors from only one agent’s list, after a while, you kind of realize the common denominator,” said Don Granger, President of Feature Film Production at Skydance. “Carin’s taste is impeccable, her ability to work with filmmakers is unparalleled, and her deep relationships within the creative community are unmatched, and I am thrilled to welcome her to Skydance.”
Prior to Skydance, Sage was a manager at 3 Arts Entertainment and an agent at CAA. She represented a number of notable filmmakers and talent at both companies including Ang Lee,...
“When you find yourself time and time again chasing writers and directors from only one agent’s list, after a while, you kind of realize the common denominator,” said Don Granger, President of Feature Film Production at Skydance. “Carin’s taste is impeccable, her ability to work with filmmakers is unparalleled, and her deep relationships within the creative community are unmatched, and I am thrilled to welcome her to Skydance.”
Prior to Skydance, Sage was a manager at 3 Arts Entertainment and an agent at CAA. She represented a number of notable filmmakers and talent at both companies including Ang Lee,...
- 8/29/2022
- by Justin Kroll
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Larsen Thompson (The Midnight Club) and Olwen Fouéré (The Northman) have joined the cast of the upcoming film Horrorscope, from Screen Gems and Alloy Entertainment. The actors join an ensemble which also includes Jacob Batalon, Alana Boden, Adain Bradley, Avantika, Humberly González and Wolfgang Novogratz, as previously announced.
The film based on Alloy’s same-name novel penned by Nicholas Adams follows a group of college friends who get their horoscopes read, and then begin dying in ways connected to their fortunes. Are their fates fatal or can they change what’s written in the stars?
Details as to Thompson and Fouéré’s roles are being kept under wraps. But Anna Halberg and Spenser Cohen wrote the script and will direct, in their feature debut, with production set to kick off this fall. Leslie Morgenstein and Elysa Koplovitz Dutton are producing through Alloy, along with Scott Glassgold of Ground Control,...
The film based on Alloy’s same-name novel penned by Nicholas Adams follows a group of college friends who get their horoscopes read, and then begin dying in ways connected to their fortunes. Are their fates fatal or can they change what’s written in the stars?
Details as to Thompson and Fouéré’s roles are being kept under wraps. But Anna Halberg and Spenser Cohen wrote the script and will direct, in their feature debut, with production set to kick off this fall. Leslie Morgenstein and Elysa Koplovitz Dutton are producing through Alloy, along with Scott Glassgold of Ground Control,...
- 8/29/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
The Fangoria Chainsaw Awards Return to Shudder Sunday, May 15: "Fangoria, Fangoria Studios and Shudder announced today that the 2022 Fangoria Chainsaw Awards will premiere on Sunday, May 15th at 7pm Et, exclusively on Shudder, AMC Networks’ premium streaming service for horror, thrillers, and the supernatural.
The ceremony, which recognizes outstanding achievements in horror film and television, will once again be hosted by actor and writer David Dastmalchian, and will feature Dee Wallace, Joe Lo Truglio, Joe Dante, Tracie Thoms, Jim Cummings, Rachel True and the directing team known as Radio Silence among its presenters. (See below for the full presenters list.) This year’s nominees include Candyman, Last Night in Soho, Titane, Chucky, and Midnight Mass. The special is produced by Armen Aghaeian, produced and directed by Ama Lea, and written by Michael Varrati. Executive Producers are Tara Ansley, Abhi Goel, and Phil Nobile Jr.
“Last year’s Chainsaw Awards...
The ceremony, which recognizes outstanding achievements in horror film and television, will once again be hosted by actor and writer David Dastmalchian, and will feature Dee Wallace, Joe Lo Truglio, Joe Dante, Tracie Thoms, Jim Cummings, Rachel True and the directing team known as Radio Silence among its presenters. (See below for the full presenters list.) This year’s nominees include Candyman, Last Night in Soho, Titane, Chucky, and Midnight Mass. The special is produced by Armen Aghaeian, produced and directed by Ama Lea, and written by Michael Varrati. Executive Producers are Tara Ansley, Abhi Goel, and Phil Nobile Jr.
“Last year’s Chainsaw Awards...
- 4/20/2022
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
The Dublin International Film Festival is running until March 6.
Irish directors Colm Bairéad (The Quiet Girl), Kate Dolan (You Are Not My Mother) and Rioghnach Ní Ghrioghair (short film Don’t Go Where I Can’t Find You) have been presented with this year’s Discovery Awards at the Dublin International Film Festival. The awards celebrate exceptional emerging talent in Irish cinema as the festival approaches the mid-way mark.
Bairéad, whose Irish-language feature comes to Diff following plaudits at Berlin, was singled out for his work on the drama told through the eyes of a young girl in 1980s Ireland.
Irish directors Colm Bairéad (The Quiet Girl), Kate Dolan (You Are Not My Mother) and Rioghnach Ní Ghrioghair (short film Don’t Go Where I Can’t Find You) have been presented with this year’s Discovery Awards at the Dublin International Film Festival. The awards celebrate exceptional emerging talent in Irish cinema as the festival approaches the mid-way mark.
Bairéad, whose Irish-language feature comes to Diff following plaudits at Berlin, was singled out for his work on the drama told through the eyes of a young girl in 1980s Ireland.
- 2/28/2022
- by Esther McCarthy
- ScreenDaily
HBO Max released the official trailer for the upcoming reality dating series “Fboy Island,” which will premiere on July 29.
Hosted by Nikki Glaser, the series follows three women, Nakia Renee, Cj Franco and Sarah Emig, who move to a tropical island where they’re joined by 24 men. Half of the men are “nice guys” also looking for a real relationship, while the others are self-proclaimed “f-boys” competing for a cash prize. By the finale, all will be revealed — who is a nice guy, who is an “f-boy” and who will the women ultimately choose. The series is a social experiment that asks the age-old question: can “f-boys” truly reform or do nice guys always finish last?
Glaser will executive produce alongside creator Elan Gale, Jason Goldberg, Ben Bitonti and showrunner Sam Dean.
Also in today’s TV news roundup:
Dates
Paramount Plus announced that the live-action musical “The J Team” will premiere on Sept.
Hosted by Nikki Glaser, the series follows three women, Nakia Renee, Cj Franco and Sarah Emig, who move to a tropical island where they’re joined by 24 men. Half of the men are “nice guys” also looking for a real relationship, while the others are self-proclaimed “f-boys” competing for a cash prize. By the finale, all will be revealed — who is a nice guy, who is an “f-boy” and who will the women ultimately choose. The series is a social experiment that asks the age-old question: can “f-boys” truly reform or do nice guys always finish last?
Glaser will executive produce alongside creator Elan Gale, Jason Goldberg, Ben Bitonti and showrunner Sam Dean.
Also in today’s TV news roundup:
Dates
Paramount Plus announced that the live-action musical “The J Team” will premiere on Sept.
- 7/12/2021
- by Antonio Ferme
- Variety Film + TV
Paul Mescal emerged as one of the breakout stars of 2020 thanks to his performance in BBC and Hulu drama “Normal People.”
Ireland has seen a slew of such acting talent establish themselves in recent years, like Jessie Buckley with her star turn as the pregnant wife of a doomed Russian fireman in “Chernobyl” and Barry Keoghan, who won attention with lead roles in two 2017 films, “Killing of a Sacred Deer” and “Dunkirk.” Keoghan is now BAFTA-nominated for “Calm with Horses,” as is Niamh Algar, whose credits include “The Virtues” and “Raised by Wolves.” Elsewhere Domhnall Gleeson has made a name for himself as General Dux in recent “Star Wars” films, and also in “The Revenant” and “Ex Machina.”
Among the new generation of actors to watch are Fionn O’Shea, chosen as one of the Berlin Film Festival’s Shooting Stars of 2021. A “Normal People” alumnus, O’Shea will next be...
Ireland has seen a slew of such acting talent establish themselves in recent years, like Jessie Buckley with her star turn as the pregnant wife of a doomed Russian fireman in “Chernobyl” and Barry Keoghan, who won attention with lead roles in two 2017 films, “Killing of a Sacred Deer” and “Dunkirk.” Keoghan is now BAFTA-nominated for “Calm with Horses,” as is Niamh Algar, whose credits include “The Virtues” and “Raised by Wolves.” Elsewhere Domhnall Gleeson has made a name for himself as General Dux in recent “Star Wars” films, and also in “The Revenant” and “Ex Machina.”
Among the new generation of actors to watch are Fionn O’Shea, chosen as one of the Berlin Film Festival’s Shooting Stars of 2021. A “Normal People” alumnus, O’Shea will next be...
- 3/16/2021
- by Tim Dams
- Variety Film + TV
Rob Delaney (“Catastrophe”) and Alice Eve (“Belgravia”) have joined the cast of Amazon Studios’ upcoming drama thriller “The Power” as recurring guest stars.
Edwina Findley (“Treme”), Jacob Fortune-Lloyd (“The Queen’s Gambit”) and Simbi Ajikawo (“Top Boy”) also feature in the cast as recurring guest stars alongside series regulars Zrinka Cvitešić (“London Spy”), Archie Rush (“Black Mirror”) and Gerrison Machado (“Prank”) and Pietra Castro (“Jingle Bell Bride”).
Previously announced cast members include Leslie Mann, Auli’i Cravalho, Tim Robbins, John Leguizamo, Eddie Marsan and Daniela Vega.
“The Power,” is a 10-part series based on Naomi Alderman’s international bestselling novel of the same name, produced by Sister for Amazon Studios, with Emmy Award-winning executive producer and director Reed Morano (“The Handmaid’s Tale”).
In the series, teenage girls around the world develop the power to electrocute people at will. The power is hereditary, inbuilt and can’t be taken away from them. The...
Edwina Findley (“Treme”), Jacob Fortune-Lloyd (“The Queen’s Gambit”) and Simbi Ajikawo (“Top Boy”) also feature in the cast as recurring guest stars alongside series regulars Zrinka Cvitešić (“London Spy”), Archie Rush (“Black Mirror”) and Gerrison Machado (“Prank”) and Pietra Castro (“Jingle Bell Bride”).
Previously announced cast members include Leslie Mann, Auli’i Cravalho, Tim Robbins, John Leguizamo, Eddie Marsan and Daniela Vega.
“The Power,” is a 10-part series based on Naomi Alderman’s international bestselling novel of the same name, produced by Sister for Amazon Studios, with Emmy Award-winning executive producer and director Reed Morano (“The Handmaid’s Tale”).
In the series, teenage girls around the world develop the power to electrocute people at will. The power is hereditary, inbuilt and can’t be taken away from them. The...
- 2/8/2021
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
A big trend in 2020 genre releases has been scary movies that take place on the water, but forsake the traditional aquatic horror tropes. William Eubank’s Underwater is a cautionary tale about what happens when you awaken a sleeping giant; Jeffrey A. Brown’s The Beach House is a Lovecraftian home invasion thriller; Neasa Hardiman’s Sea […]
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- 9/9/2020
- by Kalyn Corrigan
- Slash Film
Exclusive: Longtime CAA agent Carin Sage is joining 3 Arts Entertainment. She becomes the latest of a number of prominent agents there to move to the management side of the representation business.
Sage is a 32-year agency veteran who represents such filmmakers as Ang Lee, Gina Prince-Bythewood, Peter Hedges, George Tillman, Thea Sharrock, Zoya Akhtar, Nikole Beckwith, and Neasa Hardiman, among others. Details are still being finalized, but it is expected she will continue with her clients as manager, while most stay with CAA. I’m told it’s an amicable exit and they are working out the client situation now.
“We are so happy to welcome Carin to 3 Arts,” said 3 Arts Entertainment partner Erwin Stoff in confirming to Deadline. “Many of us have had a long relationship with her over the years, and admire her taste, as well as her fierce dedication to her clients. Carin’s style of...
Sage is a 32-year agency veteran who represents such filmmakers as Ang Lee, Gina Prince-Bythewood, Peter Hedges, George Tillman, Thea Sharrock, Zoya Akhtar, Nikole Beckwith, and Neasa Hardiman, among others. Details are still being finalized, but it is expected she will continue with her clients as manager, while most stay with CAA. I’m told it’s an amicable exit and they are working out the client situation now.
“We are so happy to welcome Carin to 3 Arts,” said 3 Arts Entertainment partner Erwin Stoff in confirming to Deadline. “Many of us have had a long relationship with her over the years, and admire her taste, as well as her fierce dedication to her clients. Carin’s style of...
- 9/1/2020
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
As the cinema of celestial brutes and space-set horrors goes, Ridley Scott’s 1979 classic “Alien” still retains a gold-standard status among its kind, continuing to lend its DNA to various sci-fi quests beyond the atmosphere. The latest film to ingest a piece of its eerie spirit — albeit, with varying degrees of success — is “Sputnik,” a tense genre exploit by debuting Russian director Egor Abramenko.
A claustrophobic character study with gripping set pieces, serviceable spatters of gross-out B-movie gore and plenty of red-lit corridors, “Sputnik” doesn’t quite deliver upon the juicy potential of its paranoia-induced Cold War-era backdrop. Still, Abramenko maintains the film’s finite appeal throughout, mostly thanks to a familiar aura and a charismatic lead performance by Oksana Akinshina, a fine surrogate for the tough-as-nails heroine Ellen Ripley.
Despite its limitations — among them is an inelegantly designed extraterrestrial antagonist and simplistic special effects created on a small budget...
A claustrophobic character study with gripping set pieces, serviceable spatters of gross-out B-movie gore and plenty of red-lit corridors, “Sputnik” doesn’t quite deliver upon the juicy potential of its paranoia-induced Cold War-era backdrop. Still, Abramenko maintains the film’s finite appeal throughout, mostly thanks to a familiar aura and a charismatic lead performance by Oksana Akinshina, a fine surrogate for the tough-as-nails heroine Ellen Ripley.
Despite its limitations — among them is an inelegantly designed extraterrestrial antagonist and simplistic special effects created on a small budget...
- 8/12/2020
- by Tomris Laffly
- Variety Film + TV
Titles include Neasa Hardiman’s ‘Sea Fever’.
Switzerland’s Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival (Nifff) has unveiled the programme for its 2020 event, which will take place online from July 3-11.
Eighteen titles have been announced for the event, including the world premiere of Emre Akay’s Turkish thriller Av: The Hunt.
The film tackles the topic of honour killings, through the story of a young woman who escapes the police officer who kills her lover, only to find her loved ones have abandoned her and she must run for her life.
There will be two international premieres and three European premieres.
Switzerland’s Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival (Nifff) has unveiled the programme for its 2020 event, which will take place online from July 3-11.
Eighteen titles have been announced for the event, including the world premiere of Emre Akay’s Turkish thriller Av: The Hunt.
The film tackles the topic of honour killings, through the story of a young woman who escapes the police officer who kills her lover, only to find her loved ones have abandoned her and she must run for her life.
There will be two international premieres and three European premieres.
- 6/19/2020
- by 1101321¦Ben Dalton¦26¦
- ScreenDaily
Deals announced in run-up to Cannes virtual market.
Raven Banner has swooped on Canadian distribution rights to horror Z, contagion thriller Sea Fever starring Hermione Corfield, Connie Nielsen and Dougray Scott, and supernatural thriller and Fantasia audience award winner Dead Dicks.
Z (pictured) explores what happens when a young mother begins to fear her introverted son’s imaginary friend may be terrifyingly real.
Keegan Connor Tracy (Bates Motel), Sean Rogerson (Grave Encounters), Jett Klyne (The Boy), Sara Canning (The Vampire Diaries) and Stephen McHattie (Pontypool) star. Brandon Christensen directed Z, and wrote the screenplay with Colin Minihan. Chris Ball, Kurtis David Harder,...
Raven Banner has swooped on Canadian distribution rights to horror Z, contagion thriller Sea Fever starring Hermione Corfield, Connie Nielsen and Dougray Scott, and supernatural thriller and Fantasia audience award winner Dead Dicks.
Z (pictured) explores what happens when a young mother begins to fear her introverted son’s imaginary friend may be terrifyingly real.
Keegan Connor Tracy (Bates Motel), Sean Rogerson (Grave Encounters), Jett Klyne (The Boy), Sara Canning (The Vampire Diaries) and Stephen McHattie (Pontypool) star. Brandon Christensen directed Z, and wrote the screenplay with Colin Minihan. Chris Ball, Kurtis David Harder,...
- 6/15/2020
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
Ten films have been chosen, produced by 14 different European nations.
Neasa Hardiman’s sci-fi thriller Sea Fever is one of the 10 female-directed features chosen for Sydney Film Festival (Sff) and European Film Promotion (Efp)’s Europe! Voices of Women in Film initiative, which will run online from June 10-21.
Chosen by Sff director Nashen Moodley, the 10 films are produced by 14 European countries.
Hardiman’s film premiered at Toronto International Film Festival last September, and is an Ireland-Sweden-Belgium-uk co-production. It stars Connie Nielsen, Hermione Corfield and Dougray Scott in the story of a West of Ireland trawler crew who struggle for...
Neasa Hardiman’s sci-fi thriller Sea Fever is one of the 10 female-directed features chosen for Sydney Film Festival (Sff) and European Film Promotion (Efp)’s Europe! Voices of Women in Film initiative, which will run online from June 10-21.
Chosen by Sff director Nashen Moodley, the 10 films are produced by 14 European countries.
Hardiman’s film premiered at Toronto International Film Festival last September, and is an Ireland-Sweden-Belgium-uk co-production. It stars Connie Nielsen, Hermione Corfield and Dougray Scott in the story of a West of Ireland trawler crew who struggle for...
- 5/26/2020
- by 1101321¦Ben Dalton¦26¦
- ScreenDaily
Here’s the latest episode of the The Filmmakers Podcast, part of the ever-growing podcast roster here on Nerdly. If you haven’t heard the show yet, you can check out previous episodes on the official podcast site, whilst we’ll be featuring each and every new episode as it premieres.
For those unfamiliar, with the series, The Filmmakers Podcast is a podcast about how to make films from micro budget indie films to bigger budget studio films and everything in-between. Our hosts Giles Alderson, Dan Richardson, Andrew Rodger and Cristian James talk how to get films made, how to actually make them and how to try not to f… it up in their very humble opinion. Guests will come on and chat about their film making experiences from directors, writers, producers, screenwriters, actors, cinematographers and distributors.
The Filmmakers Podcast #164: The Joy of Filmmaking with BAFTA winning filmmaker Neasa Hardiman...
For those unfamiliar, with the series, The Filmmakers Podcast is a podcast about how to make films from micro budget indie films to bigger budget studio films and everything in-between. Our hosts Giles Alderson, Dan Richardson, Andrew Rodger and Cristian James talk how to get films made, how to actually make them and how to try not to f… it up in their very humble opinion. Guests will come on and chat about their film making experiences from directors, writers, producers, screenwriters, actors, cinematographers and distributors.
The Filmmakers Podcast #164: The Joy of Filmmaking with BAFTA winning filmmaker Neasa Hardiman...
- 5/25/2020
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
The star and the writer/director of Sea Fever talk about a diverse array of influential films in a double episode.
Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode
Sea Fever (2020)
Soldier (1998)
Unforgiven (1992)
Blade Runner (1982)
Gladiator (2000)
The Ice Harvest (2005)
Wonder Woman (2017)
Ordet (1955)
Ditte, Child of Man (1946)
Frances (1982)
The Accused (1988)
The Deer Hunter (1978)
My American Uncle (1980)
8 ½ (1963)
Ikiru (1952)
Heaven’s Gate (1980)
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974)
Europa (1991)
Diva (1981)
The Sacrifice (1986)
Saturday Night Fever (1977)
The Party (1968)
Westworld (1973)
The Searchers (1956)
Alien (1979)
Cool Hand Luke (1967)
The Exterminating Angel (1962)
Contagion (2011)
Idiocracy (2006)
The Company of Wolves (1984)
Mona Lisa (1986)
King Kong (1933)
Arrival (2016)
In The Cut (2003)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
Zero Dark Thirty (2012)
Mandy (2018)
Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
Dune (1984)
Dune (2020… maybe)
Bright Star (2009)
Basic Instinct (1992)
Innerspace (1987)
American Gigolo (1980)
Thelma and Louise (1991)
Wild Things (1998)
Ginger Snaps (2000)
Life of Pi (2012)
Hulk (2003)
Die Hard (1988)
The Hurt Locker (2009)
Psycho (1960)
1917 (2019)
Shane (1953)
Other Notable Items
Brendan McCarthy
David Peoples
Kurt Russell
Lars Von Trier
Carl Theodor Dreyer
Bjarne Henning-Jensen...
Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode
Sea Fever (2020)
Soldier (1998)
Unforgiven (1992)
Blade Runner (1982)
Gladiator (2000)
The Ice Harvest (2005)
Wonder Woman (2017)
Ordet (1955)
Ditte, Child of Man (1946)
Frances (1982)
The Accused (1988)
The Deer Hunter (1978)
My American Uncle (1980)
8 ½ (1963)
Ikiru (1952)
Heaven’s Gate (1980)
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974)
Europa (1991)
Diva (1981)
The Sacrifice (1986)
Saturday Night Fever (1977)
The Party (1968)
Westworld (1973)
The Searchers (1956)
Alien (1979)
Cool Hand Luke (1967)
The Exterminating Angel (1962)
Contagion (2011)
Idiocracy (2006)
The Company of Wolves (1984)
Mona Lisa (1986)
King Kong (1933)
Arrival (2016)
In The Cut (2003)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
Zero Dark Thirty (2012)
Mandy (2018)
Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
Dune (1984)
Dune (2020… maybe)
Bright Star (2009)
Basic Instinct (1992)
Innerspace (1987)
American Gigolo (1980)
Thelma and Louise (1991)
Wild Things (1998)
Ginger Snaps (2000)
Life of Pi (2012)
Hulk (2003)
Die Hard (1988)
The Hurt Locker (2009)
Psycho (1960)
1917 (2019)
Shane (1953)
Other Notable Items
Brendan McCarthy
David Peoples
Kurt Russell
Lars Von Trier
Carl Theodor Dreyer
Bjarne Henning-Jensen...
- 4/28/2020
- by Kris Millsap
- Trailers from Hell
We may be tucked away in isolation at the moment, but that doesn’t stop good quality movies being released, they’re just having to find a different home. One of which is Sea Fever, a film steeped in superstition, set out in the ocean, and starring the likes of Hermione Corfield, Dougray Scott and Connie Nielsen. To celebrate the film’s home entertainment release, we spoke to the director Neasa Hardiman, on Zoom.
We discuss her own superstitions, and given she’s promoting a film that is difficult to define, genre-wise – the frustrating inclination for cinema to be condensed into labels. She also talks about the value of science, and why she fought to keep her central protagonist just as she intended her to be…
Watch the full interview below:
Synopsis
Solitary marine-biology student Siobhán endures a week on a ragged fishing trawler, miserably at odds with the close-knit crew.
We discuss her own superstitions, and given she’s promoting a film that is difficult to define, genre-wise – the frustrating inclination for cinema to be condensed into labels. She also talks about the value of science, and why she fought to keep her central protagonist just as she intended her to be…
Watch the full interview below:
Synopsis
Solitary marine-biology student Siobhán endures a week on a ragged fishing trawler, miserably at odds with the close-knit crew.
- 4/23/2020
- by Stefan Pape
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Stars: Connie Nielsen, Hermione Corfield, Dougray Scott, Olwen Fouéré, Jack Hickey, Ardalan Esmaili, Dag Malmberg, Elie Bouakaze | Written and Directed by Neasa Hardiman
There’s not actually a whole lot of horror movies based on a boat at sea for nearly its entire length. Obviously you have things like Jaws or this years Underwater but they are slightly different beasts. As are things like Ghost Ship or even films like Mary or Triangle, which while based on boat have a threat that is also on the boat. In Sea Fever the threat is coming from a parasite in the sea which keeps the crew of the boat stuck on it for the foreseeable future.
Sea Fever has plenty of things going for it other than how unique it feels. The rusty old boat is a great setting and I very much enjoyed how authentic everything felt. The boat did look old and rusty,...
There’s not actually a whole lot of horror movies based on a boat at sea for nearly its entire length. Obviously you have things like Jaws or this years Underwater but they are slightly different beasts. As are things like Ghost Ship or even films like Mary or Triangle, which while based on boat have a threat that is also on the boat. In Sea Fever the threat is coming from a parasite in the sea which keeps the crew of the boat stuck on it for the foreseeable future.
Sea Fever has plenty of things going for it other than how unique it feels. The rusty old boat is a great setting and I very much enjoyed how authentic everything felt. The boat did look old and rusty,...
- 4/14/2020
- by Alain Elliott
- Nerdly
This weekend’s slate of specialty streaming titles is a variety pack of a crime thriller, a documentary about mindfulness, an obsessive-compulsive dark comedy and…a movie titled Butt Boy.
Sonejuhi Sinha’s feature directorial debut Stray Dolls is set debut this weekend on a multitude of VOD platforms. The crime thriller, which bowed last year at the Tribeca Film Festival, follows Riz (Geetanjali Thapa), who has left her life of petty crime in India and is now working as a housekeeper at the Tides Plaza Motel managed by Una (Cynthia Nixon).
More from DeadlineRom-Com 'Almost Love' Makes Debut, IFC Serves Horror With 'The Other Lamb' - Specialty Streaming Preview'Resistance' Pivots To Digital Release, 'Tape' Sets Virtual Premiere, Kino Lorber And Music Box Films Launch Online Exhibitions - Specialty Streaming PreviewSearchlight, A24, Focus Features Alter Release Slate; 'Dosed', 'Human Capital' And More Shift Theatrical Plans - Specialty Box...
Sonejuhi Sinha’s feature directorial debut Stray Dolls is set debut this weekend on a multitude of VOD platforms. The crime thriller, which bowed last year at the Tribeca Film Festival, follows Riz (Geetanjali Thapa), who has left her life of petty crime in India and is now working as a housekeeper at the Tides Plaza Motel managed by Una (Cynthia Nixon).
More from DeadlineRom-Com 'Almost Love' Makes Debut, IFC Serves Horror With 'The Other Lamb' - Specialty Streaming Preview'Resistance' Pivots To Digital Release, 'Tape' Sets Virtual Premiere, Kino Lorber And Music Box Films Launch Online Exhibitions - Specialty Streaming PreviewSearchlight, A24, Focus Features Alter Release Slate; 'Dosed', 'Human Capital' And More Shift Theatrical Plans - Specialty Box...
- 4/10/2020
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
In Neasa Hardiman’s Sea Fever, which played at last year’s Fantastic Fest, Hermione Corfield plays Siobhán, a young marine science student who’s working on her doctorate. But not everything is theory, she has to get her “hands dirty”, try to “make friends” and join the crew of an Irish fishing boat, in order to help them detecting potential anomalies in their catch. Soon enough we get to know the unique characteristics of the crew, which is lead by both Gerard (Dougray Scott) and his wife Freya (Connie Nielsen). For example, they’re for the most part superstitious and consider bad luck the fact that our protagonist is a redhead. It’s also evident that their economic situation is far from ideal. Knowing that coming home without fish...
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- 4/9/2020
- Screen Anarchy
Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Hardiman Finds Humanity in the Horror
We’ve seen countless films about bands of isolated humans in claustrophobic confines with some terrible monster or entity killing them off, with seminal titans like Ridley Scott’s Alien (1979), itself a riff on Agatha Christie’s Ten Little Indians, and John Carpenter’s The Thing (1981), a remake, as the standards which all predecessors are often (unfavorably) compared to.
Director Neasa Hardiman extends the conversation with her sophomore film Sea Fever, which earns comparisons to both those classic titles and adds a timely, evidence-based spin to her tale of a crew accosted by a creature of unknown origin aboard an Irish fishing vessel.…...
We’ve seen countless films about bands of isolated humans in claustrophobic confines with some terrible monster or entity killing them off, with seminal titans like Ridley Scott’s Alien (1979), itself a riff on Agatha Christie’s Ten Little Indians, and John Carpenter’s The Thing (1981), a remake, as the standards which all predecessors are often (unfavorably) compared to.
Director Neasa Hardiman extends the conversation with her sophomore film Sea Fever, which earns comparisons to both those classic titles and adds a timely, evidence-based spin to her tale of a crew accosted by a creature of unknown origin aboard an Irish fishing vessel.…...
- 4/9/2020
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
The time is always right for a creature movie. In good times it's fun to get cozy with a loved one and get a little frightened together. In bad times, it's reassuring to see people working together to defeat a common evil, real or perceived. The most effective of these are the stories that focus on the individuals, their motivation and how the decisions they make affect them and the outside world.
Multi-disciplinary writer/direct Neasa Hardiman's feature film debut Sea Fever is one of these. The movie stars Hermione Corfield as Siobhán, a smart and solitary marine biology student who as part of her studies, finds herself cooped up on a fishing boat with a tight-knit crew for an entire week.
Under the leadership of veteran skippers Freya (Connie Nielsen) and Gerard (Dougray...
Multi-disciplinary writer/direct Neasa Hardiman's feature film debut Sea Fever is one of these. The movie stars Hermione Corfield as Siobhán, a smart and solitary marine biology student who as part of her studies, finds herself cooped up on a fishing boat with a tight-knit crew for an entire week.
Under the leadership of veteran skippers Freya (Connie Nielsen) and Gerard (Dougray...
- 4/9/2020
- QuietEarth.us
“Alien, but on a ship in the high seas” — for some folks, that description alone is enough to have them rolling their eyes and ready to dismiss a project for being too formulaic, too reductive. For others, it’s the perfect logline to get them salivating, Pavlovian-doggy style. (Remember, Ridley Scott’s classic was just “a haunted house movie in space.”) The good news is that Sea Fever, the Irish genre exercise that earned this concise comparison after it premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival last year, should please...
- 4/8/2020
- by David Fear
- Rollingstone.com
Sea Fever will be available on Digital and On Demand on April 10th.
Review by Matthew Lowery
Stories about aquatic terrors are certainly nothing new, dating back to the ancient Greek legend of the Hydra. Authors like H.P. Lovecraft, Jules Verne, and Herman Melville became famous for writing such tales about underwater monsters. In films, there have been tons about undersea creatures terrorizing people, most famously being Spielberg’s 1975 classic, Jaws. However, after the release of 1979’s Alien, people were more focused on outer space terrors than those from the depths. Around the late 1980s, there was a string of underwater creature films released, including The Abyss, Leviathan, and Deepstar Six. Most recently, we had the surprisingly effective deep-sea thriller, Underwater, and now we have another one straight from Ireland. This time, it’s from writer-director Neasa Hardiman, who previously directed TV shows like Happy Valley, The Inhumans, and Jessica Jones.
Review by Matthew Lowery
Stories about aquatic terrors are certainly nothing new, dating back to the ancient Greek legend of the Hydra. Authors like H.P. Lovecraft, Jules Verne, and Herman Melville became famous for writing such tales about underwater monsters. In films, there have been tons about undersea creatures terrorizing people, most famously being Spielberg’s 1975 classic, Jaws. However, after the release of 1979’s Alien, people were more focused on outer space terrors than those from the depths. Around the late 1980s, there was a string of underwater creature films released, including The Abyss, Leviathan, and Deepstar Six. Most recently, we had the surprisingly effective deep-sea thriller, Underwater, and now we have another one straight from Ireland. This time, it’s from writer-director Neasa Hardiman, who previously directed TV shows like Happy Valley, The Inhumans, and Jessica Jones.
- 4/8/2020
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Writer/director Neasa Hardiman’s Sea Fever had enjoyed a successful festival run throughout 2019, but she had no idea just how topical her tale of aquatic horror would become this year back when she was originally making the film. Sea Fever centers around a marine biology student named Siobhán (played by Hermione Corfield), who is tasked with traveling on a fishing trawler, but quickly finds herself out of place alongside the rest of the ship’s crew. As they travel into unchartered waters, a biological entity takes hold of the vessel, infecting the unsuspecting passengers, and it’s up to Siobhán to figure out just what exactly they’re dealing with before it’s too late for everyone aboard.
Daily Dead recently had the opportunity to speak with Hardiman about her approach to the story of Sea Fever, and during our interview, she discussed exploring the themes of taking responsibility for our communities,...
Daily Dead recently had the opportunity to speak with Hardiman about her approach to the story of Sea Fever, and during our interview, she discussed exploring the themes of taking responsibility for our communities,...
- 4/7/2020
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
Never before has the idea of an horror/eco-thriller centered on a parasite been scarier. Hell, just leaving your house can feel like entering a fright flick. So, Sea Fever is either coming this week at the best possible, or worst possible, time. Luckily, if this sort of title interests you, it’s a quality film, offering up a familiar, though well crafted, take on a small group fighting for survival against an unknown entity. Coming to On Demand platforms at the end of the week, it will certainly hit the spot if you’re looking for a genre effort to unsettle you, especially one of this sort. The film is a mix of horror and thriller, with some science fiction thrown in for good measure. For the grizzled crew of a trawler out on the seas west of Ireland, the arrival of Siobhan (Hermione Corfield) is greeted with indifference,...
- 4/7/2020
- by Joey Magidson
- Hollywoodnews.com
Okay. Yesterday we shared news with you that for the first time ever a feature film will live stream premiere. That film is Neasa Hardiman's sea creature feature, Sea Fever. Siobhán's a marine biology student who prefers spending her days alone in a lab. She has to endure a week on a ragged fishing trawler, where she’s miserably at odds with the close-knit crew. But out in the deep Atlantic, an unfathomable life form ensnares the boat. When members of the crew succumb to a strange infection, Siobhán must overcome her alienation and anxiety to win the crew’s trust, before everyone is lost. Here is the official information about this first-of-its-kind event. After that find out how you can win one of three...
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- 4/3/2020
- Screen Anarchy
In today’s film news roundup, MGM beefs up its executive ranks, “Sea Fever” gets a live-streaming premiere, “Pigeon Kings” finds a home and The 92nd Street Y has started an online film course.
Executive Hires
Metro Goldwyn Mayer’s Film Group Chairman Michael De Luca has hired Elishia Holmes and Johnny Pariseau — both who were executives at De Luca’s eponymous production company.
De Luca joined MGM earlier this year. Holmes will serve as an executive vice president at MGM and Pariseau joins the studio as senior vice president. Both are already underway in their new roles.
Holmes joined Michael De Luca productions in 2015 overseeing projects including “Reminiscence,” starring Hugh Jackman and Rebecca Ferguson, and Rachel Morrison’s “Flint Strong,” written by Barry Jenkins and starring Ice Cube. Holmes previously worked for Ridley Scott as a producer at Scott Free and worked on “Exodus: Gods and Kings,” “Alien Covenant,...
Executive Hires
Metro Goldwyn Mayer’s Film Group Chairman Michael De Luca has hired Elishia Holmes and Johnny Pariseau — both who were executives at De Luca’s eponymous production company.
De Luca joined MGM earlier this year. Holmes will serve as an executive vice president at MGM and Pariseau joins the studio as senior vice president. Both are already underway in their new roles.
Holmes joined Michael De Luca productions in 2015 overseeing projects including “Reminiscence,” starring Hugh Jackman and Rebecca Ferguson, and Rachel Morrison’s “Flint Strong,” written by Barry Jenkins and starring Ice Cube. Holmes previously worked for Ridley Scott as a producer at Scott Free and worked on “Exodus: Gods and Kings,” “Alien Covenant,...
- 4/3/2020
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Have you ever seen photographs of red-carpet events and wished you could be there? Next week, you are invited to the live streaming premiere of Sea Fever. No more Fomo! Directed by Neasa Hardiman, Sea Fever revolves around Siobhán, "a marine biology student (Hermione Corfield) who prefers spending her days alone in a lab," according to the official synopsis. "She has to endure a week on a ragged fishing trawler, where she's miserably at odds with the close-knit crew." I'm pausing the synopsis at this point to note that we all may have even greater empathy nowadays, since many of us are, well, stuck at home. Anyway, back to the sea: "But out in the deep Atlantic, an unfathomable life form ensnares the boat. When...
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- 4/2/2020
- Screen Anarchy
While the Covid-19 pandemic is keeping movie theaters empty right now, Gunpowder & Sky will bring the magic of the cinema into viewers' homes with their livestream premiere of the new sci-fi horror film Sea Fever, along with a cast and crew Q&a.
Taking place on Gunpowder & Sky's sci-fi label Dust, the Sea Fever livestream will take place on Thursday, April 9th at 8:00pm Et, followed by a Q&a with director Neasa Hardiman and co-stars Hermione Corfield and Connie Nielsen.
Sea Fever will then be released on VOD and Digital on April 10th. We have the previously released trailer and official press release with full details below, and keep an eye on Gunpowder & Sky's Dust on Thursday for the livestream.
Press Release: New York – April 1, 2020 -- Gunpowder & Sky, a fast growing independent global entertainment company, through its sci-fi label Dust, will bring audiences the ultimate at-home experience to...
Taking place on Gunpowder & Sky's sci-fi label Dust, the Sea Fever livestream will take place on Thursday, April 9th at 8:00pm Et, followed by a Q&a with director Neasa Hardiman and co-stars Hermione Corfield and Connie Nielsen.
Sea Fever will then be released on VOD and Digital on April 10th. We have the previously released trailer and official press release with full details below, and keep an eye on Gunpowder & Sky's Dust on Thursday for the livestream.
Press Release: New York – April 1, 2020 -- Gunpowder & Sky, a fast growing independent global entertainment company, through its sci-fi label Dust, will bring audiences the ultimate at-home experience to...
- 4/1/2020
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Gunpowder & Sky, through its sci-fi label Dust, will bring audiences the ultimate at-home experience to be the first to participate in the live stream premiere of the sci-fi thriller Sea Fever, followed by a Q&a with the film’s stars Hermione Corfield, Connie Nielsen and BAFTA award-winning director Neasa Hardiman (Jessica Jones),
The live stream event will take place on https://seafever.watchdust.com on Thursday, April 9 at 5pm Pt (8pm Et).
For a small pay-per-view fee, fans can tune in to watch the official film premiere together, post their comments in a chatroom, and have their q...
The live stream event will take place on https://seafever.watchdust.com on Thursday, April 9 at 5pm Pt (8pm Et).
For a small pay-per-view fee, fans can tune in to watch the official film premiere together, post their comments in a chatroom, and have their q...
- 4/1/2020
- QuietEarth.us
Exclusive: Like many indie distributors, Gunpowder & Sky are adapting quickly to the ever-changing theatrical landscape. The entertainment company is set to have the first-ever live streaming premiere their horror Sea Fever on their sci-fi channel Dust. The premiere will allow the audience to participate in a fully interactive Q&a with director Neasa Hardiman and members of the cast led by Connie Nielsen. The event will take place on April 9 at 5 pm Pt/8 pm Et ahead of its digital release on April 10.
Sea Fever made its world premiere at the 2019 Toronto Film Festival and Deadline exclusively reported that it was acquired by Gunpowder & Sky. The film was slated to have a theatrical release in partnership with Alamo Drafthouse and Fantastic Fest, but plans shifted due to coronavirus and the closure of theaters.
More from Deadline'Sea Fever' To Sail Into Theaters In Deal With Gunpowder & Sky's...
Sea Fever made its world premiere at the 2019 Toronto Film Festival and Deadline exclusively reported that it was acquired by Gunpowder & Sky. The film was slated to have a theatrical release in partnership with Alamo Drafthouse and Fantastic Fest, but plans shifted due to coronavirus and the closure of theaters.
More from Deadline'Sea Fever' To Sail Into Theaters In Deal With Gunpowder & Sky's...
- 4/1/2020
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
Well, a lot has happened since our last monthly preview. The complete shutdown of film exhibition as we know it due to curb the spread of coronavirus resulted in the delay of numerous films and many others to move up their digital release. So, while we’re not getting Martin Eden, Saint Maud, Promising Young Woman, and No Time to Die, among others, there are still a handful of recommended new releases that will be arriving digitally this month.
11. Slay the Dragon
A new documentary arriving this week explores the fight to make sure democracy doesn’t die. Jared Mobarak said in his review that Slay the Dragon explores those “guilty of gerrymandering (redrawing district lines to benefit the incumbent party) many times in the past themselves, but never had either side been so desperate as the Gop was in 2010. They flipped specific state legislatures through targeted attacks before secretively...
11. Slay the Dragon
A new documentary arriving this week explores the fight to make sure democracy doesn’t die. Jared Mobarak said in his review that Slay the Dragon explores those “guilty of gerrymandering (redrawing district lines to benefit the incumbent party) many times in the past themselves, but never had either side been so desperate as the Gop was in 2010. They flipped specific state legislatures through targeted attacks before secretively...
- 4/1/2020
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Irish writer/director Neasa Hardiman started her career in the world of documentaries but for the last few years she's been on a deep-dive into TV, shooting everything from teen dramas ("Tracy Beaker Returns") and crime dramas ("Happy Valley") to superheroes ("Inhumans" and "Jessica Jones"), but for her sophomore effort, Hardiman is directing an original script she also wrote, one which has a decisively different feel.
Sea Fever stars Hermione Corfield as Siobhán, a marine biology student who finds herself aboard a fishing trawler captained by Gerard (Dougray Scott) and Freya (the great Connie Nielsen). Shiobhán is there to observe changes in sea life by photographing the crew's catch but when the crew becomes infected by a mysterious parasite, the movie turns int...
Sea Fever stars Hermione Corfield as Siobhán, a marine biology student who finds herself aboard a fishing trawler captained by Gerard (Dougray Scott) and Freya (the great Connie Nielsen). Shiobhán is there to observe changes in sea life by photographing the crew's catch but when the crew becomes infected by a mysterious parasite, the movie turns int...
- 3/10/2020
- QuietEarth.us
Dust, part of the Gunpower & Sky family, will be releasing Neasa Hardiman's feature debut Sea Fever in U.S. cinema and on Digital on April 10th. Yesterday, Dust released the official trailer and poster for the sea creature feature. Have a look for yourselves below. Deep deep down below. Siobhán's a marine biology student who prefers spending her days alone in a lab. She has to endure a week on a ragged fishing trawler, where she’s miserably at odds with the close-knit crew. But out in the deep Atlantic, an unfathomable life form ensnares the boat. When members of the crew succumb to a strange infection, Siobhán must overcome her alienation and anxiety to win the crew’s trust, before everyone is lost. ...
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- 3/10/2020
- Screen Anarchy
World premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival last fall, Irish director Neasa Hardiman’s creature feature Sea Fever is an intriguing tale of mayhem in the ocean. Following a marine biology student who is aboard a fishing ship when a mysterious parasite makes its way into the cabin, the first trailer has now arrived ahead of a release early next month.
Jared Mobarak said in his Tiff review, “The way the suspense unfolds reminded me of Danny Boyle’s Sunshine—subtler and without the high octane finale. A problem arises and everyone takes it lightly (save one) even after irrefutable evidence says they shouldn’t. The sea fever is somehow so prevalent a possibility that the smallest shred of deniability leads Gerard and Freya to chalk things up to paranoia instead. It’s interesting that Hardiman keeps this line of uncertainty going well after we see what the creature...
Jared Mobarak said in his Tiff review, “The way the suspense unfolds reminded me of Danny Boyle’s Sunshine—subtler and without the high octane finale. A problem arises and everyone takes it lightly (save one) even after irrefutable evidence says they shouldn’t. The sea fever is somehow so prevalent a possibility that the smallest shred of deniability leads Gerard and Freya to chalk things up to paranoia instead. It’s interesting that Hardiman keeps this line of uncertainty going well after we see what the creature...
- 3/10/2020
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Directed and penned by Neasa Hardiman, Sea Fever centers on Siobhán (Hermione Corfield), a marine biology student who is doing research out on the ocean by spending a week on a fishing trawler. At odds with the close-kint crew (which includes Dougray Scott and Connie Nielsen),
Siobhán’s research turns nightmarish after a mysterious life form takes [...]
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- 3/10/2020
- by Hollywood Outbreak
- HollywoodOutbreak.com
‘I Am Woman’.
This year’s Gold Coast Film Festival will be bookended by two Aussie features, opening with Unjoo Moon’s Helen Reddy biopic I Am Woman, and closing with the locally shot comedic thriller Bloody Hell, directed by Alister Grierson.
The April festival dropped its full program today, announcing more than 100 films, including four world premieres: Kriv Stenders’ documentary on Silm Dusty’s wife Joy McKean, Slim & I; Hayley MacFarlane’s Swimming for Gold; Josh Hale’s House of Inequity and Serhat Caradee’s A Lion Returns.
Other local films to screen include Never Too Late, Smoke Between Trees, Disclosure, Hearts and Bones, Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks, Tommy Emmanuel: The Endless Road, Dark Whispers Vol 1, The Show Must Go On, Ellie and Abbie (and Ellie’s Dead Aunt), Morgana, and Love Opera.
Ahead of its premiere on the ABC April 19, the festival will also screen...
This year’s Gold Coast Film Festival will be bookended by two Aussie features, opening with Unjoo Moon’s Helen Reddy biopic I Am Woman, and closing with the locally shot comedic thriller Bloody Hell, directed by Alister Grierson.
The April festival dropped its full program today, announcing more than 100 films, including four world premieres: Kriv Stenders’ documentary on Silm Dusty’s wife Joy McKean, Slim & I; Hayley MacFarlane’s Swimming for Gold; Josh Hale’s House of Inequity and Serhat Caradee’s A Lion Returns.
Other local films to screen include Never Too Late, Smoke Between Trees, Disclosure, Hearts and Bones, Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks, Tommy Emmanuel: The Endless Road, Dark Whispers Vol 1, The Show Must Go On, Ellie and Abbie (and Ellie’s Dead Aunt), Morgana, and Love Opera.
Ahead of its premiere on the ABC April 19, the festival will also screen...
- 3/10/2020
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
"It went into the water! We're all vulnerable to get infected." Dust has revealed another official Us trailer for the indie sci-fi thriller Sea Fever, which will be getting a Us debut in early April. It's definitely worth a watch. This originally premiered at the Toronto Film Festival last year, and we just posted a UK trailer last week. Described as "reminiscent of cult classics The Thing and The Abyss," with an original script about a marooned boat overtaken by this strange sea parasite that attaches itself to the vessel. Hermione Corfield stars as a marine biology student who steps aboard a ship captained by Freya, played by Connie Nielsen. The small cast also includes Dougray Scott, Olwen Fouéré, Jack Hickey, Ardalan Esmaili, and Elie Bouakaze. It's as good as it looks in the trailers, so gather up friends for a movie night and enjoy this one. Here's the official...
- 3/9/2020
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Fantastic Films’ credits include Cannes titles Last Days On Mars and Vivarium.
Ireland’s Fantastic Films, whose credits include Cannes titles Last Days On Mars and Vivarium, is planning its first foray into TV with zombie apocalypse story Zom-b by Irish author Darren Shan.
Fantastic is developing the series with London-based Electric Shadow Company, with development support from Screen Ireland.
The Zom-b series of 12 books is told in the first person by a teenage girl who discovers the sinister truth behind the outbreak.
The move into episodic work was revealed at a Glasgow Film Festival industry talk this week by...
Ireland’s Fantastic Films, whose credits include Cannes titles Last Days On Mars and Vivarium, is planning its first foray into TV with zombie apocalypse story Zom-b by Irish author Darren Shan.
Fantastic is developing the series with London-based Electric Shadow Company, with development support from Screen Ireland.
The Zom-b series of 12 books is told in the first person by a teenage girl who discovers the sinister truth behind the outbreak.
The move into episodic work was revealed at a Glasgow Film Festival industry talk this week by...
- 3/5/2020
- by 1100142¦Wendy Mitchell¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
"Something's getting through the hull." Signature Entertainment UK has debuted an official UK trailer for an Irish sci-fi thriller titled Sea Fever, which originally premiered at the Toronto Film Festival last year. It has been described as "reminiscent of cult classics The Thing and The Abyss," with an original script about a marooned boat overtaken by this strange sea parasite that attaches itself to the vessel. Hermione Corfield stars as a marine biology student who steps aboard a ship captained by Freya, played by Connie Nielsen. The small cast also includes Dougray Scott, Olwen Fouéré, Jack Hickey, Ardalan Esmaili, and Elie Bouakaze. I caught this last fall and it's an excellent little film - a very clever, thrilling stuck-on-a-boat sci-fi feature. If this trailer intrigues you, I really recommend giving it a watch when it opens in cinemas soon. Here's the official UK trailer (+ poster) for Neasa Hardiman's Sea Fever,...
- 3/3/2020
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Tiff selection lands at Signature in UK, Icon in Australia/New Zealand, Gussi in Mexico, Colombia, Central America
Epic Pictures Group has closed key territories on deals on the sci-fi thriller Sea Fever that premiered in Toronto and stars Hermione Corfield, Connie Nielsen, and Dougray Scott.
Director of international sales Kalani Dreimanis has licensed rights on Neasa Hardiman’s debut feature debut to the UK (Signature), Australia and New Zealand (Icon), Cis (Kinologistika), Mexico, Colombia and Central America (Gussi), South Korea (Challan), Japan (Inter Film), Middle East (Eagle), and Philippines (Pioneer).
Gunpowder & Sky’s sci-fi label Dust previously acquired Us rights.
Epic Pictures Group has closed key territories on deals on the sci-fi thriller Sea Fever that premiered in Toronto and stars Hermione Corfield, Connie Nielsen, and Dougray Scott.
Director of international sales Kalani Dreimanis has licensed rights on Neasa Hardiman’s debut feature debut to the UK (Signature), Australia and New Zealand (Icon), Cis (Kinologistika), Mexico, Colombia and Central America (Gussi), South Korea (Challan), Japan (Inter Film), Middle East (Eagle), and Philippines (Pioneer).
Gunpowder & Sky’s sci-fi label Dust previously acquired Us rights.
- 11/7/2019
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
Our own Jaime Grijalba Gomez found that director Neasa Hardiman's feature debut, Sea Fever, "immediately puts us in a hostile place, at least psychologically." (Read his recent review here from the Brooklyn Horror Film Festival.) Now the rest of us can experience the film for ourselves. Or, to be accurate, those of us who live in the U.S., near a theater that will be screening it next year, as entertainment company Gunpowder & Sky has acquired the rights to Sea Fever and will release it theatrically in the U.S. in early 2020 through its sci-fi label, Dust. From its title, one might guess that the horror drama has something to do with the sea. And a fever. Yet that only hints at what lies within....
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- 11/7/2019
- Screen Anarchy
Gunpowder & Sky announced today that it has acquired U.S. rights to filmmaker Neasa Hardiman’s critically-acclaimed Irish sci-fi/thriller Sea Fever following its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Gunpowder & Sky will release the film theatrically in the U.S. in early 2020 through its sci-fi label, Dust.
Sea Fever stars Hermione Corfield as Siobhan, a young marine biology student who boards a trawler run by a couple played by Connie Nielsen and Dougray Scott (Bat...
Gunpowder & Sky will release the film theatrically in the U.S. in early 2020 through its sci-fi label, Dust.
Sea Fever stars Hermione Corfield as Siobhan, a young marine biology student who boards a trawler run by a couple played by Connie Nielsen and Dougray Scott (Bat...
- 11/6/2019
- QuietEarth.us
The 5th annual Ax Wound Film Festival wants to keep the frights coming now that, sadly, Halloween is over. Continue reading for more details before the festival kicks off on Friday, November 15th. Also: Sea Fever acquisition news, This is Our Home release details, and info on the new comic series The Traveller .
Ax Wound Film Festival 2019 Announced: "Need a cure for your post-spooky-season blues? The Ax Wound Film Festival (Awff)— now in its fifth year—is ushering in more scares deep into the Fall 2019 season. Spend Friday evening, November 15th and all-day Saturday, November 16th at the Hooker-Dunham Theater & Gallery (https:// www.hookerdunham.org) in downtown Brattleboro, Vermont with some of the most riveting and intense shorts directed by women.
“Many films are darkly funny and more likely to utilize experimental storytelling over the traditional narratives,” says festival director Hannah “Neurotica” Forman. Neurotica’s vision each year is focused...
Ax Wound Film Festival 2019 Announced: "Need a cure for your post-spooky-season blues? The Ax Wound Film Festival (Awff)— now in its fifth year—is ushering in more scares deep into the Fall 2019 season. Spend Friday evening, November 15th and all-day Saturday, November 16th at the Hooker-Dunham Theater & Gallery (https:// www.hookerdunham.org) in downtown Brattleboro, Vermont with some of the most riveting and intense shorts directed by women.
“Many films are darkly funny and more likely to utilize experimental storytelling over the traditional narratives,” says festival director Hannah “Neurotica” Forman. Neurotica’s vision each year is focused...
- 11/6/2019
- by Tamika Jones
- DailyDead
Gunpowder & Sky, a fast-growing independent global entertainment company, announced today that it has acquired U.S. rights to filmmaker Neasa Hardiman’s critically-acclaimed Irish sci-fi/thriller Sea Fever following its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival. Gunpowder & Sky will release the film theatrically in the U.S. in early 2020 through its sci-fi label, Dust. […]
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- 11/6/2019
- by Josh Millican
- DreadCentral.com
Exclusive: Gunpowder & Sky has acquired U.S. rights to the Irish sci-fi thriller Sea Fever, the Neasa Hardiman-directed pic that had its world premiere this fall at the Toronto Film Festival. It will now get a U.S. release in early 2020 via G&s’ multiplatform sci-fi label Dust.
Hermione Corfield (Star Wars: The Last Jedi) stars as Siobhan, a young marine biology student who boards a trawler run by a couple. When the ship hits an unseen object, a mysterious bioluminescent force infiltrates the vessel, and the crew begins a fight for survival while marooned at sea.
Hardiman calls her debut feature film “a dreamlike and devastating parable, where a neurodivergent heroine struggles with individual responsibility and threat in our increasingly fragile world.”
Fantastic Films’ Brendan McCarthy and John McDonnell produced in a co-production with Borje Hansson of Bright Pictures (Sweden), Jean-Yves Roubin and Cassandre Warnauts...
Hermione Corfield (Star Wars: The Last Jedi) stars as Siobhan, a young marine biology student who boards a trawler run by a couple. When the ship hits an unseen object, a mysterious bioluminescent force infiltrates the vessel, and the crew begins a fight for survival while marooned at sea.
Hardiman calls her debut feature film “a dreamlike and devastating parable, where a neurodivergent heroine struggles with individual responsibility and threat in our increasingly fragile world.”
Fantastic Films’ Brendan McCarthy and John McDonnell produced in a co-production with Borje Hansson of Bright Pictures (Sweden), Jean-Yves Roubin and Cassandre Warnauts...
- 11/5/2019
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
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