“Sister Sister” by way of A24?
The studio’s first musical film, “Dicks the Musical,” boasts a star-studded cast with killer original songs and a twist on “Parent Trap.”
In the film set to premiere at TIFF this September, two self-obsessed businessmen (writers Aaron Jackson and Josh Sharp) discover they’re long-lost identical twins and come together to plot the reunion of their eccentric divorced parents, in this riotously funny and depraved musical from comedy icon Larry Charles (“Borat”), also starring Megan Thee Stallion, Nathan Lane, Megan Mullally, and Bowen Yang as God.
Lead actors Jackson and Sharp wrote the original songs for the film with Karl Saint Lucy; the film is based on Jackson and Sharps’s two-man show from Upright Citizens Brigade in 2014.
Megan Thee Stallion is also tied to an upcoming Netflix movie directed by Josh Safdie and co-starring Adam Sandler. The rapper previously guest-starred on shows like “Good Girls,...
The studio’s first musical film, “Dicks the Musical,” boasts a star-studded cast with killer original songs and a twist on “Parent Trap.”
In the film set to premiere at TIFF this September, two self-obsessed businessmen (writers Aaron Jackson and Josh Sharp) discover they’re long-lost identical twins and come together to plot the reunion of their eccentric divorced parents, in this riotously funny and depraved musical from comedy icon Larry Charles (“Borat”), also starring Megan Thee Stallion, Nathan Lane, Megan Mullally, and Bowen Yang as God.
Lead actors Jackson and Sharp wrote the original songs for the film with Karl Saint Lucy; the film is based on Jackson and Sharps’s two-man show from Upright Citizens Brigade in 2014.
Megan Thee Stallion is also tied to an upcoming Netflix movie directed by Josh Safdie and co-starring Adam Sandler. The rapper previously guest-starred on shows like “Good Girls,...
- 8/3/2023
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
There are other Egger filmmakers in the woodwork. Brothers to the filmmaker behind The Witch, The Lighthouse, The Northman, Screen Daily reports Max Eggers and Sam Eggers have began production on The Front Room — which is based on a short story found in Susan Hill’s The Travelling Bag. Unsurprisingly a film that falls in the horror wheelhouse, this will feature Brandy Norwood, Kathryn Hunter (The Tragedy Of Macbeth), Andrew Burnap and Neal Huff. A24 is distribute in the U.S. and is financing the film and will produce alongside another horror fiend in Babak Anvari, Lucan Toh, and Bryan Sonderman of Two & Two Pictures plus Julia Oh and David Hinojosa of 2Am.…...
- 8/26/2022
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
The Northman director Robert Eggers worked with production company / distributor A24 on his first two features, The Witch and The Lighthouse. And now his younger brothers Max and Sam Eggers are following in his footsteps. Max and Sam are writing and directing a psychological horror film called The Front Room for A24, and Variety reports that Brandy Norwood will be starring in the film.
Based on a short story by Susan Hill, The Front Room centers on
a young, newly pregnant couple forced to take in an ailing stepmother who has long been estranged from the family.
Norwood is joined in the cast by Kathryn Hunter (The Tragedy of Macbeth), Andrew Burnap (WeCrashed), and Neal Huff (Spotlight).
Production begins on new horror The Front Room, The Eggers Brothers' feature debut starring Brandy Norwood (The Brandy), Kathryn Hunter, and Andrew Burnap. pic.twitter.com/iF5brnJqkb
— A24 (@A24) August 25, 2022
The Front Room...
Based on a short story by Susan Hill, The Front Room centers on
a young, newly pregnant couple forced to take in an ailing stepmother who has long been estranged from the family.
Norwood is joined in the cast by Kathryn Hunter (The Tragedy of Macbeth), Andrew Burnap (WeCrashed), and Neal Huff (Spotlight).
Production begins on new horror The Front Room, The Eggers Brothers' feature debut starring Brandy Norwood (The Brandy), Kathryn Hunter, and Andrew Burnap. pic.twitter.com/iF5brnJqkb
— A24 (@A24) August 25, 2022
The Front Room...
- 8/25/2022
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
Click here to read the full article.
A24 is teaming up with the Eggers brothers — The Lighthouse co-writer Max Eggers and Sam Eggers (Olympia) — for the psychological horror The Front Room.
The screenwriting brothers, for their joint directorial debut, will adapt Susan Hill’s short story of the same name. The Front Room follows a young, newly pregnant couple forced to take in an ailing stepmother who has long been estranged from the family.
The ensemble cast will be led by Grammy Award-winning musician and actress Brandy Norwood, Kathryn Hunter, Andrew Burnap and Spotlight actor Neal Huff. The producer credits are shared by Lucan Toh, Babak Anvari, Bryan Sonderman, Julia Oh and David Hinojosa.
A24 will finance and handle worldwide releasing for The Front Room.
Max Eggers co-wrote The Lighthouse with Robert Eggers, who directed the drama about two lighthouse keepers, Thomas Wake (Willem Dafoe) and Ephraim Winslow (Robert Pattinson...
A24 is teaming up with the Eggers brothers — The Lighthouse co-writer Max Eggers and Sam Eggers (Olympia) — for the psychological horror The Front Room.
The screenwriting brothers, for their joint directorial debut, will adapt Susan Hill’s short story of the same name. The Front Room follows a young, newly pregnant couple forced to take in an ailing stepmother who has long been estranged from the family.
The ensemble cast will be led by Grammy Award-winning musician and actress Brandy Norwood, Kathryn Hunter, Andrew Burnap and Spotlight actor Neal Huff. The producer credits are shared by Lucan Toh, Babak Anvari, Bryan Sonderman, Julia Oh and David Hinojosa.
A24 will finance and handle worldwide releasing for The Front Room.
Max Eggers co-wrote The Lighthouse with Robert Eggers, who directed the drama about two lighthouse keepers, Thomas Wake (Willem Dafoe) and Ephraim Winslow (Robert Pattinson...
- 8/25/2022
- by Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
A24 is teaming up with filmmakers Max Eggers (The Lighthouse) and Sam Eggers (Olympia) — otherwise known as The Eggers Brothers — on their feature directorial debut The Front Room, a psychological horror pic that will star Brandy Norwood (Queens), Kathryn Hunter (The Tragedy of Macbeth), Andrew Burnap (Snow White) and Neal Huff (Waves).
The film based on Susan Hill’s short story follows a young, newly pregnant couple forced to take in an ailing stepmother who has long been estranged from the family.
The Eggers Brothers will direct from their own script, with A24 producing alongside Lucan Toh, Babak Anvari and Bryan Sonderman of Two & Two Pictures, and Julia Oh and David Hinojosa of 2Am. A24 is also financing the film and handling global distribution.
Norwood is a Grammy-winning musician and actress who stars in the ABC series Queens, and has also been seen on shows like Star, Zoe Ever After,...
The film based on Susan Hill’s short story follows a young, newly pregnant couple forced to take in an ailing stepmother who has long been estranged from the family.
The Eggers Brothers will direct from their own script, with A24 producing alongside Lucan Toh, Babak Anvari and Bryan Sonderman of Two & Two Pictures, and Julia Oh and David Hinojosa of 2Am. A24 is also financing the film and handling global distribution.
Norwood is a Grammy-winning musician and actress who stars in the ABC series Queens, and has also been seen on shows like Star, Zoe Ever After,...
- 8/25/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Brandy Norwood is set to star in A24’s “The Front Room,” a psychological horror film from directors Max and Sam Eggers.
The Eggers brothers, whose older sibling Robert Eggers has collaborated with A24 on “The Witch” and “The Lighthouse,” will be directing in their feature filmmaking debut. They adapted the screenplay from Susan Hill’s short story of the same name.
“The Front Room” follows a young, newly pregnant couple forced to take in an ailing stepmother who has long been estranged from the family.
Along with Norwood, the ’90s music icon who is also of “I Know What You Did Last Summer,” “Moesha” and Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “Cinderella” fame, is co-starring alongside Kathryn Hunter (“The Tragedy of Macbeth”), Andrew Burnap and Neal Huff (“Spotlight”).
Norwood later shared the news on Instagram, telling audiences “ can’t wait for ya’ll to see this.”
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The Eggers brothers, whose older sibling Robert Eggers has collaborated with A24 on “The Witch” and “The Lighthouse,” will be directing in their feature filmmaking debut. They adapted the screenplay from Susan Hill’s short story of the same name.
“The Front Room” follows a young, newly pregnant couple forced to take in an ailing stepmother who has long been estranged from the family.
Along with Norwood, the ’90s music icon who is also of “I Know What You Did Last Summer,” “Moesha” and Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “Cinderella” fame, is co-starring alongside Kathryn Hunter (“The Tragedy of Macbeth”), Andrew Burnap and Neal Huff (“Spotlight”).
Norwood later shared the news on Instagram, telling audiences “ can’t wait for ya’ll to see this.”
View this post on Instagram...
- 8/25/2022
- by Rebecca Rubin
- Variety Film + TV
Brandy, Andrew Burnap and Kathryn Hunter to Star in ‘The Front Room’ for The Eggers Brothers and A24
A24 has tapped Brandy Norwood, Andrew Burnap and Kathryn Hunter to star in the “The Front Room,” with Neal Huff also joining the cast.
The Eggers Brothers – consisting of director Robert Eggers’ twin younger brothers Max and Sam – will make their directorial debut with the psychological horror film. They will also write the screenplay.
Adapted from Susan Hill’s short story of the same name, “The Front Room” revolves around a young, newly pregnant couple who is forced to take in a sickly stepmother who has long been estranged from the family.
Also Read:
Phoebe Bridgers, Fred Durst and Lindsey Jordan of Snail Mail to Appear in A24 Horror Movie ‘I Saw the TV Glow’
A24 is set to produce and handle the film’s global release. Lucan Toh, Babak Anvari and Bryan Sonderman of Two & Two Pictures and Julia Oh and David Hinojosa of 2Am will also produce.
The Eggers Brothers – consisting of director Robert Eggers’ twin younger brothers Max and Sam – will make their directorial debut with the psychological horror film. They will also write the screenplay.
Adapted from Susan Hill’s short story of the same name, “The Front Room” revolves around a young, newly pregnant couple who is forced to take in a sickly stepmother who has long been estranged from the family.
Also Read:
Phoebe Bridgers, Fred Durst and Lindsey Jordan of Snail Mail to Appear in A24 Horror Movie ‘I Saw the TV Glow’
A24 is set to produce and handle the film’s global release. Lucan Toh, Babak Anvari and Bryan Sonderman of Two & Two Pictures and Julia Oh and David Hinojosa of 2Am will also produce.
- 8/25/2022
- by Harper Lambert
- The Wrap
Company finances, produces and handles worldwide distribution.
A24 is teaming up with The Eggers Brothers Max Eggers and Sam Eggers on psychological horror The Front Room to star Brandy Norwood, Kathryn Hunter and Andrew Burnap.
The brothers – twin younger siblings of The Northman, The Witch and The Lighthouse director Robert Eggers – will direct from a screenplay they adapted from Susan Hill’s short story of the same name.
The Front Room follows a young, newly pregnant couple forced to take in an ailing stepmother who has long been estranged from the family.
A24 is financing the project and will produce alongside Lucan Toh,...
A24 is teaming up with The Eggers Brothers Max Eggers and Sam Eggers on psychological horror The Front Room to star Brandy Norwood, Kathryn Hunter and Andrew Burnap.
The brothers – twin younger siblings of The Northman, The Witch and The Lighthouse director Robert Eggers – will direct from a screenplay they adapted from Susan Hill’s short story of the same name.
The Front Room follows a young, newly pregnant couple forced to take in an ailing stepmother who has long been estranged from the family.
A24 is financing the project and will produce alongside Lucan Toh,...
- 8/25/2022
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Julia Oh has been hired by 2Am, the full-service production and management company founded by Christine D’Souza Gelb, David Hinojosa and Kevin Rowe, as a producer.
Oh will be based in NY with the company’s production team, working alongside Hinojosa and Zach Nutman.
2Am’s film and TV production division, overseen by Hinojosa, is currently in post-production on Halina Reijn’s English-language debut, Bodies Bodies Bodies, starring Amandla Stenberg, Maria Bakalova, Rachel Sennott, and Pete Davidson, and on Emmy winner Billy Porter’s directorial debut, What If?, at Orion Pictures. It’s also finishing principal photography on Past Lives, a feature drama written and directed by Celine Song.
The company’s management division represents such acclaimed writers and directors as Amalia Ulman (El Planeta), Radha Blank (The Forty-Year-Old Version), Ari Aster (Hereditary), Janicza Bravo (Zola), Jeremy O. Harris (Slave Play), Kota Eberhardt (X-Men: Dark Phoenix), Leilah Weinraub (The Shakedown...
Oh will be based in NY with the company’s production team, working alongside Hinojosa and Zach Nutman.
2Am’s film and TV production division, overseen by Hinojosa, is currently in post-production on Halina Reijn’s English-language debut, Bodies Bodies Bodies, starring Amandla Stenberg, Maria Bakalova, Rachel Sennott, and Pete Davidson, and on Emmy winner Billy Porter’s directorial debut, What If?, at Orion Pictures. It’s also finishing principal photography on Past Lives, a feature drama written and directed by Celine Song.
The company’s management division represents such acclaimed writers and directors as Amalia Ulman (El Planeta), Radha Blank (The Forty-Year-Old Version), Ari Aster (Hereditary), Janicza Bravo (Zola), Jeremy O. Harris (Slave Play), Kota Eberhardt (X-Men: Dark Phoenix), Leilah Weinraub (The Shakedown...
- 11/11/2021
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Greta Gerwig’s screenwriting style starts in the middle and fans out.
“I don’t write in a straight line,” admits the “Little Women” writer-director. “It’s like a quilt I try to stitch together.”
But one piece was more important than the others: the opening scene.
“Getting the opening just right was so important,” says Gerwig. “When I had it, I thought, ‘There’s a movie here.’ I knew I could make that movie.”
Direction, performances and technical details are all critical to a film, but it’s the opening scene that sells the picture — or sinks it. And every writer has a different approach to start telling their stories.
Early on, “Queen & Slim” began with the execution of Queen’s client, recalls screenwriter Lena Waithe. “I thought, ‘I have to show that, so when she shows up on her date you know this won’t go well.’” Instead,...
“I don’t write in a straight line,” admits the “Little Women” writer-director. “It’s like a quilt I try to stitch together.”
But one piece was more important than the others: the opening scene.
“Getting the opening just right was so important,” says Gerwig. “When I had it, I thought, ‘There’s a movie here.’ I knew I could make that movie.”
Direction, performances and technical details are all critical to a film, but it’s the opening scene that sells the picture — or sinks it. And every writer has a different approach to start telling their stories.
Early on, “Queen & Slim” began with the execution of Queen’s client, recalls screenwriter Lena Waithe. “I thought, ‘I have to show that, so when she shows up on her date you know this won’t go well.’” Instead,...
- 1/3/2020
- by Randee Dawn
- Variety Film + TV
The Detroit Film Critics Society is pleased to announce the Best of 2019 winners in twelve categories. The Detroit Film Critics Society was founded in Spring 2007 and consists of a group of 19 film critics from Michigan who write or broadcast in the metro-Detroit area as well as other major cities including Ann Arbor; Grand Rapids; and Toledo, Ohio.
Each critic submitted their top five (5) picks in the following twelve (12) categories: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Ensemble, and Breakthrough in any category, Best Screenplay, Best Documentary, Best Animated Feature, and Best Use of Music.
From these submissions, each entry was given a point value and the top five entries in each category were placed on the final ballot. In the event of a tie, more than five entries were placed on the ballot. The final ballots were then given to each critic to rank in order.
Each critic submitted their top five (5) picks in the following twelve (12) categories: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Ensemble, and Breakthrough in any category, Best Screenplay, Best Documentary, Best Animated Feature, and Best Use of Music.
From these submissions, each entry was given a point value and the top five entries in each category were placed on the final ballot. In the event of a tie, more than five entries were placed on the ballot. The final ballots were then given to each critic to rank in order.
- 12/9/2019
- by Mike Tyrkus
- CinemaNerdz
The Detroit Film Critics Society is pleased to announce the Best of 2019 nominees in twelve categories. The winners will be announced on Monday, December 9, 2019. The Detroit Film Critics Society was founded in the Spring of 2007 and consists of a group of 19 film critics with a Michigan connection who write or broadcast in the Detroit area as well as other major cities including Ann Arbor, Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo, Lansing, and Flint, Michigan; and Toledo, Ohio.
Each critic submitted their top five (5) picks in the following categories: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Ensemble, and Breakthrough in any category, Best Screenplay, Best Documentary, Best Animated Feature, and Best Use of Music.
From these submissions, each entry was given a point value and the top five entries in each category were placed on the final ballot.
The final ballots will now be given to...
Each critic submitted their top five (5) picks in the following categories: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Ensemble, and Breakthrough in any category, Best Screenplay, Best Documentary, Best Animated Feature, and Best Use of Music.
From these submissions, each entry was given a point value and the top five entries in each category were placed on the final ballot.
The final ballots will now be given to...
- 12/6/2019
- by Mike Tyrkus
- CinemaNerdz
[Editor’s note: The following post contains minor spoilers for “The Lighthouse.”]
Robert Eggers’ “The Lighthouse” is one of the year’s most acclaimed genre offerings, and the behind-the-scenes stories from the film’s grueling production are quickly becoming as insane as the film itself (see Robert Pattinson eating mud and vomiting). For Eggers, filming his follow-up to “The Witch” began with Pattinson simulating masturbation on camera and only got crazier from there. The director tells The Daily Beast that Pattinson self-pleasuring was the first scene that was on the “The Lighthouse” shooting schedule, which anyone who has seen the film knows is appropriately twisted.
“On day one we shot Rob masturbating in the shed — it’s the very first thing we shot — and Rob really, really went for it,” Eggers said. “And you know, it was inspiring.”
Pattinson relived the first-day experience himself in a new interview with The New York Times. “Well, my first shot was this ferocious masturbation scene.
Robert Eggers’ “The Lighthouse” is one of the year’s most acclaimed genre offerings, and the behind-the-scenes stories from the film’s grueling production are quickly becoming as insane as the film itself (see Robert Pattinson eating mud and vomiting). For Eggers, filming his follow-up to “The Witch” began with Pattinson simulating masturbation on camera and only got crazier from there. The director tells The Daily Beast that Pattinson self-pleasuring was the first scene that was on the “The Lighthouse” shooting schedule, which anyone who has seen the film knows is appropriately twisted.
“On day one we shot Rob masturbating in the shed — it’s the very first thing we shot — and Rob really, really went for it,” Eggers said. “And you know, it was inspiring.”
Pattinson relived the first-day experience himself in a new interview with The New York Times. “Well, my first shot was this ferocious masturbation scene.
- 10/17/2019
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
David Crow Oct 14, 2019
Robert Eggers talks The Lighthouse's influences, its relationship with The Witch, and why it's the rare movie that needed a square frame.
By his own admission, director Robert Eggers wanted to achieve a level of craft on his second film that was beyond his years in experience. While already considered a budding auteur for his work on The Witch, the masterful chiller that won him the Directing Award at the Sundance Film Festival, he and cinematographer Jarin Blaschke chose to escalate the challenge of The Lighthouse by shooting the new movie on black and white film stock and in a 1.19:1 aspect ratio—an almost perfectly square frame not widely seen since German talkies in the early 1930s.
As Eggers explains to us, “I remember saying to Craig Lathrop, the production designer of The Witch, when we were kind of finishing up that movie, ‘I want to make this lighthouse movie,...
Robert Eggers talks The Lighthouse's influences, its relationship with The Witch, and why it's the rare movie that needed a square frame.
By his own admission, director Robert Eggers wanted to achieve a level of craft on his second film that was beyond his years in experience. While already considered a budding auteur for his work on The Witch, the masterful chiller that won him the Directing Award at the Sundance Film Festival, he and cinematographer Jarin Blaschke chose to escalate the challenge of The Lighthouse by shooting the new movie on black and white film stock and in a 1.19:1 aspect ratio—an almost perfectly square frame not widely seen since German talkies in the early 1930s.
As Eggers explains to us, “I remember saying to Craig Lathrop, the production designer of The Witch, when we were kind of finishing up that movie, ‘I want to make this lighthouse movie,...
- 10/14/2019
- Den of Geek
Anyone who saw Robert Eggers’ prior outing The Witch knows that he’s a pretty weird dude. His film are odd, to say the least. Well, opening this week, his newest outing, The Lighthouse, manages to make The Witch appear mainstream by comparison. Ponder that for a moment. Though featuring a pair of bigger names in his cast this time, Eggers is doubling down on bizarre imagery and unusual filmmaking. A24 is going to have an interesting time convincing audiences to see this one. Luckily, one thing they have on their side is that, if you gird your loins and subject yourself to its weirdness, a certain type of cinematic nirvana takes over. It’s hard to explain, but while this isn’t a great work, it’s a good and, more importantly, an interesting one. Sometimes, that’s all that matters. The movie is described on IMDb as “The...
- 10/14/2019
- by Joey Magidson
- Hollywoodnews.com
Robert Egger‘s “The Lighthouse,” which screened as part of the BFI London Film Festival, was hailed by the critics. This black-and-white picture is an intense psychological study of two men — Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe — working as lighthouse keepers in the 1890s. Eggers, who wrote and directed the 2015 thriller “The Witch,” pulled double duty on this film as well, with his brother, Max Eggers, as co-writer. The film, which debuted in Cannes, will be released stateside by A24 on Oct. 18.
Owen Gleiberman (Variety) observes that the film “is made with extraordinary skill and says that “both actors are sensational (and they work together like one).” However, he notes “in terms of sheer showboating power it’s Dafoe’s movie.” As he explains, “Dafoe plays Thomas Wake, the aging ‘wickie,’ as a knowing piece of kitsch — a crusty, bearded, limping old seaman with his pipe held upside-down and a brogue marinated in gin.
Owen Gleiberman (Variety) observes that the film “is made with extraordinary skill and says that “both actors are sensational (and they work together like one).” However, he notes “in terms of sheer showboating power it’s Dafoe’s movie.” As he explains, “Dafoe plays Thomas Wake, the aging ‘wickie,’ as a knowing piece of kitsch — a crusty, bearded, limping old seaman with his pipe held upside-down and a brogue marinated in gin.
- 10/7/2019
- by Jacob Sarkisian
- Gold Derby
"What made your last keeper leave?" The answer to that question may be more murky than initially expected, as Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson go head to head amidst hallucinatory (or perhaps all too real) horrors in the new trailer for The Lighthouse, the anticipated second feature-length film from The Witch director Robert Eggers.
Directed by Eggers from a screenplay he wrote with Max Eggers, The Lighthouse stars Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson. A24 will release the film in theaters on October 18th.
Check out the new trailer below, and in case you missed it, you can listen to Eggers discuss the film with Ari Aster on an episode of The A24 Podcast.
Synopsis: "From Robert Eggers, the visionary filmmaker behind modern horror masterpiece The Witch, comes this hypnotic and hallucinatory tale of two lighthouse keepers on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s."
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Directed by Eggers from a screenplay he wrote with Max Eggers, The Lighthouse stars Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson. A24 will release the film in theaters on October 18th.
Check out the new trailer below, and in case you missed it, you can listen to Eggers discuss the film with Ari Aster on an episode of The A24 Podcast.
Synopsis: "From Robert Eggers, the visionary filmmaker behind modern horror masterpiece The Witch, comes this hypnotic and hallucinatory tale of two lighthouse keepers on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s."
The post Seek...
- 9/9/2019
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Robert Eggers’ The Lighthouse builds off the contradictory nature of its vocational beacon. Designed to steer sea voyagers away from the cusps of danger, it’s a heralded symbol of security, marking the end of a journey. But sailors who use the light as a guide do so with the knowledge that the threat only grows the nearer the light gets. With his highly anticipated follow-up to 2015’s The Witch, Eggers confirms that this tenet applies beyond the rocky barriers of sea travel all the way to the source, where insanity boils into practice.
Much like his 2015 debut, the thrill comes in observing unseen menaces take their toll on an intimate cast of characters. The acute descent into madness is propelled once again by isolation, unforgiving elements, and twirling suspicions. But set against the backdrop of late 19th century New England, the addition of booze barrels leaves plenty of room...
Much like his 2015 debut, the thrill comes in observing unseen menaces take their toll on an intimate cast of characters. The acute descent into madness is propelled once again by isolation, unforgiving elements, and twirling suspicions. But set against the backdrop of late 19th century New England, the addition of booze barrels leaves plenty of room...
- 9/6/2019
- by Luke Parker
- We Got This Covered
Eager as ever to attend Tiff, a festival I have missed only once in the last 29 years, because a cat bite sent me to the hospital, I am looking forward to discoveries and have booked my calendar tight with films!
I am lucky to have seen three films already, two in Cannes, both wonderful, memorable funny and absurd films, Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite, So. Korea’s submission for Academy Award Nomination for Best Foreign Language Film, and a likely winner, as well as So. Korea’s first-ever Palm d’Or winner in Cannes this year; and Elia Suleiman’s This Must Be Heaven, sweetly surreal, as funny as a Jacques Tati film, wryly observing our human race and with a funny little cameo with Gael Garcia Bernal introducing Suleiman to his agent. The third, Synonyms, won this year’s Berlinale Golden Bear. A coproduction of France, Israel and Germany, it...
I am lucky to have seen three films already, two in Cannes, both wonderful, memorable funny and absurd films, Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite, So. Korea’s submission for Academy Award Nomination for Best Foreign Language Film, and a likely winner, as well as So. Korea’s first-ever Palm d’Or winner in Cannes this year; and Elia Suleiman’s This Must Be Heaven, sweetly surreal, as funny as a Jacques Tati film, wryly observing our human race and with a funny little cameo with Gael Garcia Bernal introducing Suleiman to his agent. The third, Synonyms, won this year’s Berlinale Golden Bear. A coproduction of France, Israel and Germany, it...
- 9/3/2019
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
"There is enchantment in the light" in the official trailer for The Lighthouse, the anticipated second feature-length film from The Witch director Robert Eggers.
Directed by Eggers from a screenplay he wrote with Max Eggers, The Lighthouse stars Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson. A24 will release the film in theaters on October 18th.
Check out the official poster and trailer below, and in case you missed it, you can listen to Eggers discuss the film with Ari Aster on an episode of The A24 Podcast.
Synopsis: "From Robert Eggers, the visionary filmmaker behind modern horror masterpiece The Witch, comes this hypnotic and hallucinatory tale of two lighthouse keepers on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s."
The post Watch the Trailer for Robert Eggers’ The Lighthouse, Coming to Theaters on October 18th from A24 appeared first on Daily Dead.
Directed by Eggers from a screenplay he wrote with Max Eggers, The Lighthouse stars Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson. A24 will release the film in theaters on October 18th.
Check out the official poster and trailer below, and in case you missed it, you can listen to Eggers discuss the film with Ari Aster on an episode of The A24 Podcast.
Synopsis: "From Robert Eggers, the visionary filmmaker behind modern horror masterpiece The Witch, comes this hypnotic and hallucinatory tale of two lighthouse keepers on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s."
The post Watch the Trailer for Robert Eggers’ The Lighthouse, Coming to Theaters on October 18th from A24 appeared first on Daily Dead.
- 7/30/2019
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
David Crow Sep 9, 2019
Robert Eggers’ follow-up to The Witch, The Lighthouse reveals its final creepy trailer with Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson.
I tend to resist the term “elevated horror”—as it suggests horror is by default unsophisticated—but there is no denying we are living in a renaissance of smart, atmospheric, and bewitching horror cinema. And few have risen to immediate attention in this era as quickly as Robert Eggers, director of The Witch, one of the wickedest chillers ever made. Thus production on his next movie was always a curiosity, but everything we’ve heard, and now seen, about The Lighthouse promises something just as startlingly original.
Shot in black and white 35mm, and in the same aspect ratio of 1.19 : 1 that Fritz Lang filmed M (1931) in, there is something nefariously old-fashioned afoot. Here's what you need to know.
The Lighthouse Trailer
In the below trailer, we get...
Robert Eggers’ follow-up to The Witch, The Lighthouse reveals its final creepy trailer with Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson.
I tend to resist the term “elevated horror”—as it suggests horror is by default unsophisticated—but there is no denying we are living in a renaissance of smart, atmospheric, and bewitching horror cinema. And few have risen to immediate attention in this era as quickly as Robert Eggers, director of The Witch, one of the wickedest chillers ever made. Thus production on his next movie was always a curiosity, but everything we’ve heard, and now seen, about The Lighthouse promises something just as startlingly original.
Shot in black and white 35mm, and in the same aspect ratio of 1.19 : 1 that Fritz Lang filmed M (1931) in, there is something nefariously old-fashioned afoot. Here's what you need to know.
The Lighthouse Trailer
In the below trailer, we get...
- 7/30/2019
- Den of Geek
A24, the studio behind films such as Ladybird, Eighth Grade and Moonlight, released the trailer for the hypnotic film The Lighthouse on Tuesday. Robert Eggers and his brother Max Eggers wrote the film about the two men (Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe) on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.
The trailer begins with the dark scene of an ocean with a lighthouse shining and foghorn blaring to the distance. Thomas Wake (Dafoe) and Ephraim Winslow (Pattinson) appear looking straight at the camera holding boxes and carrying bags with the lighthouse behind. The trailer shows Pattinson’s character sneaking around the ...
The trailer begins with the dark scene of an ocean with a lighthouse shining and foghorn blaring to the distance. Thomas Wake (Dafoe) and Ephraim Winslow (Pattinson) appear looking straight at the camera holding boxes and carrying bags with the lighthouse behind. The trailer shows Pattinson’s character sneaking around the ...
- 7/30/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
A24, the studio behind films such as Ladybird, Eighth Grade and Moonlight, released the trailer for the hypnotic film The Lighthouse on Tuesday. Robert Eggers and his brother Max Eggers wrote the film about the two men (Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe) on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.
The trailer begins with the dark scene of an ocean with a lighthouse shining and foghorn blaring to the distance. Thomas Wake (Dafoe) and Ephraim Winslow (Pattinson) appear looking straight at the camera holding boxes and carrying bags with the lighthouse behind. The trailer shows Pattinson’s character sneaking around the ...
The trailer begins with the dark scene of an ocean with a lighthouse shining and foghorn blaring to the distance. Thomas Wake (Dafoe) and Ephraim Winslow (Pattinson) appear looking straight at the camera holding boxes and carrying bags with the lighthouse behind. The trailer shows Pattinson’s character sneaking around the ...
- 7/30/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
After making a big splash at the Cannes Film Festival back in May, Robert Eggers’ new film The Lighthouse finally has its first official trailer. The “nautical psychodrama” arrives in theaters October 18th.
The film, shot on 35mm black-and-white film and presented in Academy (“square”) ratio, stars Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson as a lighthouse keeper and his apprentice, who are stationed on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s. Naturally, the two men start to experience hallucinations, lunacy and psychological turmoil during their prolonged isolation. And yes,...
The film, shot on 35mm black-and-white film and presented in Academy (“square”) ratio, stars Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson as a lighthouse keeper and his apprentice, who are stationed on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s. Naturally, the two men start to experience hallucinations, lunacy and psychological turmoil during their prolonged isolation. And yes,...
- 7/30/2019
- by Claire Shaffer
- Rollingstone.com
“The Lighthouse,” the second feature directed by Robert Eggers (“The Witch”), is a gripping and turbulent drama that draws on a number of influences, though it merges them into its own fluky gothic historical ominoso art-thriller thing. Set in the 1890s, and suffused with foghorns and epic gusts of wind, as well as a powerfully antiquated sense of myth and legend, the movie is shot in shimmeringly austere black-and-white, with a radically old-fashioned 1.19:1 aspect ratio. That lends everything that happens a weird immersive clarity. The entire film is set on a desolate island of jagged black rock, where a gnarly old sea dog, played by Willem Dafoe, declaiming his lines like Captain Ahab on a bender, is tending the lighthouse there for four weeks along with his new assistant, played with surly reticence — and then an aggression that bursts out of him like a demon — by Robert Pattinson.
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- 5/19/2019
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
For his follow-up to The Witch, Robert Eggers launches a salty story of two men trapped in a turret. Think Steptoe and Son at sea and in hell
Robert Eggers’s gripping nightmare shows two lighthouse-keepers in 19th-century Maine going melancholy mad together: a toxic marriage, a dance of death. It is explosively scary and captivatingly beautiful in cinematographer Jarin Blaschke’s fierce monochrome, like a daguerreotype of fear. And the performances from Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson have a sledgehammer punch – Pattinson, in particular, just gets better and better.
There is rare excitement in seeing these two actors butt heads and trade difficult, complex period dialogue with such mastery and flair. And the screenplay by Robert and Max Eggers is a delicious and often outrageous homage to maritime speech and sea-dog lore, saltier than an underwater sodium chloride factory. Their script is barnacled with resemblances to Coleridge, Shakespeare, Melville...
Robert Eggers’s gripping nightmare shows two lighthouse-keepers in 19th-century Maine going melancholy mad together: a toxic marriage, a dance of death. It is explosively scary and captivatingly beautiful in cinematographer Jarin Blaschke’s fierce monochrome, like a daguerreotype of fear. And the performances from Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson have a sledgehammer punch – Pattinson, in particular, just gets better and better.
There is rare excitement in seeing these two actors butt heads and trade difficult, complex period dialogue with such mastery and flair. And the screenplay by Robert and Max Eggers is a delicious and often outrageous homage to maritime speech and sea-dog lore, saltier than an underwater sodium chloride factory. Their script is barnacled with resemblances to Coleridge, Shakespeare, Melville...
- 5/19/2019
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Focus Features has taken international rights to Robert Eggers’ “The Lighthouse,” ahead of its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival. Universal Pictures International will distribute the film internationally. The film, which stars Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson, will debut at the festival in Director’s Fortnight on May 19.
Eggers highly-anticipated sophomore feature following his 2015 breakout “The Witch,” “The Lighthouse” is described as an hypnotic and hallucinatory story of two lighthouse keepers on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s. It is co-written by Eggers with his brother Max Eggers.
“The Lighthouse” is produced by Jay Van Hoy for Parts & Labor, Rodrigo Teixeira and Lourenço Sant’ Anna for Rt Features, and Youree Henley. A24 and New Regency co-financed the production.
A24, which co-financed the film with New Regency, will distribute the film in North America. Focus and A24 also collaborated on Eggers’ “The Witch.”...
Eggers highly-anticipated sophomore feature following his 2015 breakout “The Witch,” “The Lighthouse” is described as an hypnotic and hallucinatory story of two lighthouse keepers on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s. It is co-written by Eggers with his brother Max Eggers.
“The Lighthouse” is produced by Jay Van Hoy for Parts & Labor, Rodrigo Teixeira and Lourenço Sant’ Anna for Rt Features, and Youree Henley. A24 and New Regency co-financed the production.
A24, which co-financed the film with New Regency, will distribute the film in North America. Focus and A24 also collaborated on Eggers’ “The Witch.”...
- 5/15/2019
- by Robert Mitchell
- Variety Film + TV
Film has world premiere in Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes.
Focus Features has acquired international rights to The Lighthouse, the second feature from The Witch director Robert Eggers, in a deal struck with Us production company A24.
Focus’ parent company Universal Pictures International will distribute the film internationally, with A24 handling the North American release.
The film will have its world premiere in the Directors’ Fortnight section at Cannes Film Festival (May 14-25) on Sunday, May 19.
The black-and-white film stars Willem Dafoe and Screen Star of Tomorrow 2005 Robert Pattinson, in a hallucinatory tale of two lighthouse keepers on a remote New England island in the 1890s.
Focus Features has acquired international rights to The Lighthouse, the second feature from The Witch director Robert Eggers, in a deal struck with Us production company A24.
Focus’ parent company Universal Pictures International will distribute the film internationally, with A24 handling the North American release.
The film will have its world premiere in the Directors’ Fortnight section at Cannes Film Festival (May 14-25) on Sunday, May 19.
The black-and-white film stars Willem Dafoe and Screen Star of Tomorrow 2005 Robert Pattinson, in a hallucinatory tale of two lighthouse keepers on a remote New England island in the 1890s.
- 5/15/2019
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Focus Features has acquired the international rights to Robert Eggers' The Lighthouse, which is premiering at the Cannes Film Festival on Sunday as part of the Directors’ Fortnight.
A24 already has North American rights on the film. Focus acquired, and Universal Pictures International will distribute the film internationally.
Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson star in The Lighthouse as two lighthouse keepers on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s. The film, shot entirely on black and white 35mm film, was written by Eggers and his brother Max Eggers.
The film, which is Eggers' follow-up to his acclaimed 2015 ...
A24 already has North American rights on the film. Focus acquired, and Universal Pictures International will distribute the film internationally.
Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson star in The Lighthouse as two lighthouse keepers on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s. The film, shot entirely on black and white 35mm film, was written by Eggers and his brother Max Eggers.
The film, which is Eggers' follow-up to his acclaimed 2015 ...
- 5/15/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Focus Features has acquired the international rights to Robert Eggers' The Lighthouse, which is premiering at the Cannes Film Festival on Sunday as part of the Directors’ Fortnight.
A24 already has North American rights on the film. Focus acquired, and Universal Pictures International will distribute the film internationally.
Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson star in The Lighthouse as two lighthouse keepers on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s. The film, shot entirely on black and white 35mm film, was written by Eggers and his brother Max Eggers.
The film, which is Eggers' follow-up to his acclaimed 2015 ...
A24 already has North American rights on the film. Focus acquired, and Universal Pictures International will distribute the film internationally.
Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson star in The Lighthouse as two lighthouse keepers on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s. The film, shot entirely on black and white 35mm film, was written by Eggers and his brother Max Eggers.
The film, which is Eggers' follow-up to his acclaimed 2015 ...
- 5/15/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Billed as a fantasy/horror/drama, Robert Eggers' (The Witch) next film looks to be a sparsely populated, black and white historical piece centered around two men and a Nova Scotia lighthouse. It was co-written with Max Eggers. Currently, the film only lists two actors: Willem Dafoe, who plays a character named "Old", and Robert Pattinson who, if I were to wager a guess based on his costuming, is either his protégé or his son. In case there was any doubt that Eggers was a stickler for creating a sense of authenticity, Pattinson and Dafoe recently confirmed that filming conditions for The Lighthouse were "harsh" and the two hardly talked outside of their scenes together. In an interview with Interview Magazine, Pattison even claimed he wanted to...
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- 4/24/2019
- Screen Anarchy
After teaming up with Robert Eggers for his renowned 2015 film, The Witch, Rt Features and A24 will reunite with the visionary filmmaker for his next movie, a horror fantasy film called The Lighthouse, starring Robert Pattinson:
Press Release: (Los Angeles, CA) February 15, 2018 - Rt Features and A24 announced today they will reteam with Robert Eggers on The Lighthouse, the renowned filmmaker’s eagerly anticipated follow-up to The Witch. The new project is a fantasy horror story set in the world of old sea-faring myths, and will go into production this spring. Robert Pattinson, coming off his highly touted performance for Good Time, has joined the project.
The script was written by Robert Eggers and Max Eggers. Rt Features’ Rodrigo Teixeira and Lourenço Sant’ Anna developed the project with Eggers and will produce, alongside Parts & Labor’s Jay Van Hoy, and Youree Henley. A24 acquired worldwide rights and will distribute the film in the U.
Press Release: (Los Angeles, CA) February 15, 2018 - Rt Features and A24 announced today they will reteam with Robert Eggers on The Lighthouse, the renowned filmmaker’s eagerly anticipated follow-up to The Witch. The new project is a fantasy horror story set in the world of old sea-faring myths, and will go into production this spring. Robert Pattinson, coming off his highly touted performance for Good Time, has joined the project.
The script was written by Robert Eggers and Max Eggers. Rt Features’ Rodrigo Teixeira and Lourenço Sant’ Anna developed the project with Eggers and will produce, alongside Parts & Labor’s Jay Van Hoy, and Youree Henley. A24 acquired worldwide rights and will distribute the film in the U.
- 2/19/2018
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Kung Fury: Earlier this week, we heard that Michael Fassbender will be starring in Kung Fury and now comes word that Arnold Schwarzenegger (Killing Gunther, above) will be joining him in the action comedy. David Sandberg will direct the feature, which is a sequel to his short film, an homage to martial arts and police action thrillers made in the 1980s. Reportedly, Schwarzenegger will play the American president. [THR] The Lighthouse: Robert Pattinson (Good Time, above) has joined the cast of The Lighthouse. He will play a lead role opposite Willem DaFoe. Robert Eggers (The Witch) will direct; he and Max Eggers wrote the original script, described as "a fantasy horror story set in the world of old seafaring myths." Production will begin in the spring...
- 2/16/2018
- by Peter Martin
- Movies.com
David Crow Feb 16, 2018
Robert Pattinson will be joining Willem Dafoe in the New England set horror, The Lighthouse, the next film from The Witch's Robert Eggers.
At least in the world of indies and 'micro-budget' studio efforts, we’re experiencing something of a horror and thriller renaissance. In the last few years alone, films like It Follows, Get Out, and The Babadook have broken through. And then there's also The Witch, a self-described New England folktale whose passion for historic accuracy (and mythological fidelity) made you believe that goats could speak. It made us wonder what its writer-director Robert Eggers does next. And now we've got the answer.
Eggers has cemented his relationship with indie studio A24 with the upcoming “seafaring” horror, The Lighthouse. And the film has now lured Robert Pattinson to live deliciously on its shores.
As relayed via Deadline, Pattinson has signed on to star alongside...
Robert Pattinson will be joining Willem Dafoe in the New England set horror, The Lighthouse, the next film from The Witch's Robert Eggers.
At least in the world of indies and 'micro-budget' studio efforts, we’re experiencing something of a horror and thriller renaissance. In the last few years alone, films like It Follows, Get Out, and The Babadook have broken through. And then there's also The Witch, a self-described New England folktale whose passion for historic accuracy (and mythological fidelity) made you believe that goats could speak. It made us wonder what its writer-director Robert Eggers does next. And now we've got the answer.
Eggers has cemented his relationship with indie studio A24 with the upcoming “seafaring” horror, The Lighthouse. And the film has now lured Robert Pattinson to live deliciously on its shores.
As relayed via Deadline, Pattinson has signed on to star alongside...
- 2/15/2018
- Den of Geek
Production on The Witch follow-up to commence in spring.
Robert Pattinson has joined Willem Dafoe on The Lighthouse, Robert Eggers’ follow-up to The Witch that also reunites Rt Features and A24.
The project is a fantasy horror story set in the world of sea-faring myths and is scheduled to start production this spring.
Robert Eggers and Max Eggers wrote the screenplay, and Rt Features’ Rodrigo Teixeira and Lourenço Sant’ Anna developed the project with Eggers and will produce alongside Parts & Labor’s Jay Van Hoy, and Youree Henley.
A24 acquired worldwide rights and New Regency has joined The Lighthouse as a co-financier.
Eggers said: “I am extremely happy to be working with Rt, A24, and Parts & Labor again. Along with New Regency, they are providing me and my collaborators with the support and freedom to make this film the way it needs to be made. It’s a privilege.”
Teixeira added: “Pattinson is one of the most talented...
Robert Pattinson has joined Willem Dafoe on The Lighthouse, Robert Eggers’ follow-up to The Witch that also reunites Rt Features and A24.
The project is a fantasy horror story set in the world of sea-faring myths and is scheduled to start production this spring.
Robert Eggers and Max Eggers wrote the screenplay, and Rt Features’ Rodrigo Teixeira and Lourenço Sant’ Anna developed the project with Eggers and will produce alongside Parts & Labor’s Jay Van Hoy, and Youree Henley.
A24 acquired worldwide rights and New Regency has joined The Lighthouse as a co-financier.
Eggers said: “I am extremely happy to be working with Rt, A24, and Parts & Labor again. Along with New Regency, they are providing me and my collaborators with the support and freedom to make this film the way it needs to be made. It’s a privilege.”
Teixeira added: “Pattinson is one of the most talented...
- 2/15/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Rt Features and A24 have firmed their reteam with director Robert Eggers on The Lighthouse, the filmmaker’s follow-up to his sleeper hit The Witch. The new project, a fantasy horror story set in the world of old sea-faring myths, will go into production in the spring. Robert Pattinson, coming off Good Time, joins the project in a lead role alongside Willem Dafoe. The script was written by Robert Eggers and Max Eggers. Rt Features' Rodrigo Teixeira and Lourenço…...
- 2/15/2018
- Deadline
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