Liam Neeson crime thriller In the Land of Saints and Sinners opens on 896 screens this weekend, joined by Sean Penn in Asphalt City — the Godzilla vs. Kong of the specialty market?
Neeson reunites with The Marksman director Robert Lorenz as a newly retired assassin in a remote Irish village who finds himself drawn into a lethal game of cat and mouse with a trio of vengeful terrorists. Ciarán Hinds, Kerry Condon, Colm Meaney and Jack Gleeson also star in Land of Saints and Sinners, which premiered at Venice, and was shot in County Donegal, Ireland. Screenplay by Mark Michael McNally and Terry Loane. Samuel Goldwyn Films’ widest release post-pandemic sits at 80% with critics on Rotten Tomatoes.
Penn stars with Tye Sheridan in Asphalt City, Vertical’s co-release with Roadside Attractions that opens on 297 screens, also with a national footprint. Young paramedic Ollie Cross (Sheridan) is paired with seasoned partner Gene...
Neeson reunites with The Marksman director Robert Lorenz as a newly retired assassin in a remote Irish village who finds himself drawn into a lethal game of cat and mouse with a trio of vengeful terrorists. Ciarán Hinds, Kerry Condon, Colm Meaney and Jack Gleeson also star in Land of Saints and Sinners, which premiered at Venice, and was shot in County Donegal, Ireland. Screenplay by Mark Michael McNally and Terry Loane. Samuel Goldwyn Films’ widest release post-pandemic sits at 80% with critics on Rotten Tomatoes.
Penn stars with Tye Sheridan in Asphalt City, Vertical’s co-release with Roadside Attractions that opens on 297 screens, also with a national footprint. Young paramedic Ollie Cross (Sheridan) is paired with seasoned partner Gene...
- 3/29/2024
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
"You live with a man for 40 years and you don't even know him." Greenwich Ent. has revealed the official US trailer for an Israeli indie comedy called Karaoke, marking the feature directorial debut of filmmaker Moshe Rosenthal. This first premiered at last year's Tribeca Film Festival, and also played at the Jerusalem, Hamptons, Raindance, and Tallinn Black Nights Film Festivals last year. Now it's set for US release in select theaters this November. A bittersweet comedy about a middle-class suburban couple in their 60s who are drawn to their new neighbor, a charismatic bachelor who has karaoke evenings at his apartment. Described in reviews as a "fantastic offbeat comedy" that's "smart, funny, & beautiful." The film stars Sasson Gabay, Rita Shukrun, and Lior Ashkenazi. This looks a smart commentary on modern society in Tel Aviv, not only about gender dynamics, but also about social status and relationships and so much more.
- 10/3/2023
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Charades handles international sales.
Moshe Rosenthal’s 2022 Jerusalem Film Festival audience winner Karaoke has gone to Greenwich Entertainment for distribution in North America.
The comedy of manners centres on an upper-middle-class couple on the outskirts of Tel Aviv whose lives get a much-needed injection of excitement when a flashy talent agency owner moves into the penthouse apartment in their tower block.
The couple get coveted party invitations and find themselves competing for the newcomer’s attention while acting out long dormant ambitions and identities. Israeli actors Lior Ashkenazi, Sasson Gabay (The Band’s Visit) and Rita Shukrun star.
First-time feature director Rosenthal wrote the screenplay.
Moshe Rosenthal’s 2022 Jerusalem Film Festival audience winner Karaoke has gone to Greenwich Entertainment for distribution in North America.
The comedy of manners centres on an upper-middle-class couple on the outskirts of Tel Aviv whose lives get a much-needed injection of excitement when a flashy talent agency owner moves into the penthouse apartment in their tower block.
The couple get coveted party invitations and find themselves competing for the newcomer’s attention while acting out long dormant ambitions and identities. Israeli actors Lior Ashkenazi, Sasson Gabay (The Band’s Visit) and Rita Shukrun star.
First-time feature director Rosenthal wrote the screenplay.
- 8/3/2022
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
By Abe Friedtanzer
We've all had an acquaintance whose influence wasn't necessarily welcome but may have ultimately been for the best. Karaoke follows an older couple whose newfound friendship with an eccentric man living nearby causes them to rethink their situation. Have they accompished what they wanted to over the course of their lives? Though Meir (Sasson Gabay) and Tova (Rita Shukrun) are a theoretically happy couple who have had a healthy marriage for years, they've reached a point of complacency and boredom, with neither of them giving the other what they need. Enter Itzik (Lior Ashkenazi)...
We've all had an acquaintance whose influence wasn't necessarily welcome but may have ultimately been for the best. Karaoke follows an older couple whose newfound friendship with an eccentric man living nearby causes them to rethink their situation. Have they accompished what they wanted to over the course of their lives? Though Meir (Sasson Gabay) and Tova (Rita Shukrun) are a theoretically happy couple who have had a healthy marriage for years, they've reached a point of complacency and boredom, with neither of them giving the other what they need. Enter Itzik (Lior Ashkenazi)...
- 6/24/2022
- by Abe Friedtanzer
- FilmExperience
Sasson Gabay and Rita Shukrun star opposite Lior Ashkenazi in Moshe Rosenthal’s neighbourly Karaoke
Oscar-winning director Martin Strange-Hansen (This Charming Man) and two-time Oscar-winning producer Kim Magnusson (Anders Walter’s Helium and Anders Thomas Jensen’s Election Night) this year had Martin’s Live Action Short On My Mind receive an Oscar nomination. In On My Mind, a man walks into an unfamiliar bar with no patrons. He wants to sing karaoke. It has to be “You were always on my mind” and it has to be right now.
Moshe Rosenthal with Anne-Katrin Titze (wearing a Maserati cap) on Sasson Gabay’s Meir: “The tone of The Graduate and the feeling of disconnection to the environment that you’re living in. Even Fight Club …”
In Moshe Rosenthal’s feature Karaoke, a highlight of the 21st edition of the Tribeca Film Festival, Lior Ashkenazi stars as Itsik, a fun loving,...
Oscar-winning director Martin Strange-Hansen (This Charming Man) and two-time Oscar-winning producer Kim Magnusson (Anders Walter’s Helium and Anders Thomas Jensen’s Election Night) this year had Martin’s Live Action Short On My Mind receive an Oscar nomination. In On My Mind, a man walks into an unfamiliar bar with no patrons. He wants to sing karaoke. It has to be “You were always on my mind” and it has to be right now.
Moshe Rosenthal with Anne-Katrin Titze (wearing a Maserati cap) on Sasson Gabay’s Meir: “The tone of The Graduate and the feeling of disconnection to the environment that you’re living in. Even Fight Club …”
In Moshe Rosenthal’s feature Karaoke, a highlight of the 21st edition of the Tribeca Film Festival, Lior Ashkenazi stars as Itsik, a fun loving,...
- 6/23/2022
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
New York – After the big Red Carpet Opening last Wednesday on June 8th, the Tribeca Film Festival has begun to roll out its diverse and international screenings of narrative films, documentaries and shorts. Film screenings at home are available in this hybrid fest format by clicking TRIBECAatHOME.
The 2022 Tribeca Festival, presented by Crypto Platform Okx, brings artists and diverse audiences together to celebrate storytelling in all its forms, including film, TV, VR, gaming, music, and online work. With strong roots in independent film, Tribeca is a platform for creative expression and immersive entertainment. Throughout the festival, Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago will be reviewing the films of Tribeca.
Still from ‘The Lost Weekend: A Love Story’
Photo credit: TribecaFilm.com
The Tribeca Film Festival was founded in 2002 by Jane Rosenthal, Craig Hatkoff and actor Robert De Niro as a reactive strike back at the September 11th attack in 2001 on New York...
The 2022 Tribeca Festival, presented by Crypto Platform Okx, brings artists and diverse audiences together to celebrate storytelling in all its forms, including film, TV, VR, gaming, music, and online work. With strong roots in independent film, Tribeca is a platform for creative expression and immersive entertainment. Throughout the festival, Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago will be reviewing the films of Tribeca.
Still from ‘The Lost Weekend: A Love Story’
Photo credit: TribecaFilm.com
The Tribeca Film Festival was founded in 2002 by Jane Rosenthal, Craig Hatkoff and actor Robert De Niro as a reactive strike back at the September 11th attack in 2001 on New York...
- 6/13/2022
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
French sales companies are getting behind Mia’s film and TV market in Rome this week.
French sales companies will be out in force at Rome’s Mia film and TV market (October 13-17) as the global film and TV market circuit continues to shift due to the pandemic Covid-19.
French sellers have been busy networking at the Venice and San Sebastian film festivals this autumn, but Mia represents the first physical market since Cannes in July for most after only a handful of European professionals made the trip to Toronto in September.
Mia will also be the last opportunity...
French sales companies will be out in force at Rome’s Mia film and TV market (October 13-17) as the global film and TV market circuit continues to shift due to the pandemic Covid-19.
French sellers have been busy networking at the Venice and San Sebastian film festivals this autumn, but Mia represents the first physical market since Cannes in July for most after only a handful of European professionals made the trip to Toronto in September.
Mia will also be the last opportunity...
- 10/12/2021
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Paris-based sales company will unveil first images for both upcoming films at Mia.
Paris-based Charades has boarded world sales on Israeli director Moshe Rosenthal’s comedy-drama Karaoke, starring Lior Ashkenazi as a charismatic bachelor who casts a strange spell on a middle-class couple in his new apartment block.
Sasson Gabay and Rita Shukrun co-star as the nondescript neighbours who become obsessed with Ashkenazi’s character, a former modelling agent with a penchant for karaoke.
Foxtrot and Valley Of Tears star Ashkenazi previously appeared in Rosenthal’s 2018 short film Our Way Back. Rosenthal’s other credits include millennial dating webseries Confess,...
Paris-based Charades has boarded world sales on Israeli director Moshe Rosenthal’s comedy-drama Karaoke, starring Lior Ashkenazi as a charismatic bachelor who casts a strange spell on a middle-class couple in his new apartment block.
Sasson Gabay and Rita Shukrun co-star as the nondescript neighbours who become obsessed with Ashkenazi’s character, a former modelling agent with a penchant for karaoke.
Foxtrot and Valley Of Tears star Ashkenazi previously appeared in Rosenthal’s 2018 short film Our Way Back. Rosenthal’s other credits include millennial dating webseries Confess,...
- 10/5/2021
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Lior Ashkenazi (Foxtrot and HBO’s Valley Of Tears) and Sasson Gabay (The Band’s Visit and HBO’s Oslo), two of Israel’s most noted actors, will co-star in Karaoke, which is being directed by Moshe Rosenthal (Confess).
The film is produced by Efrat Cohen (The Dive) of Tel Aviv University’s Gaudeamus Productions. Ben Giladi of Rainmaker Entertainment serves as executive producer. Dominique Welinski’s Dw are co-producing. The project is financed by Israel Film Fund and The Steve Tisch Foundation for First Features.
Karaoke tells the story of an older provincial couple (Gabay and Rita Shukrun) who develop an odd infatuation with their flamboyant new neighbour – former modelling agent, Itzik Marziano (Ashkenazi).
The project is now shooting in Israel. It was originally presented at the IFP Project Forum and Deadline understand there are buyers circling.
Rosenthal, alumni of the Steve Tisch School of Film and Television,...
The film is produced by Efrat Cohen (The Dive) of Tel Aviv University’s Gaudeamus Productions. Ben Giladi of Rainmaker Entertainment serves as executive producer. Dominique Welinski’s Dw are co-producing. The project is financed by Israel Film Fund and The Steve Tisch Foundation for First Features.
Karaoke tells the story of an older provincial couple (Gabay and Rita Shukrun) who develop an odd infatuation with their flamboyant new neighbour – former modelling agent, Itzik Marziano (Ashkenazi).
The project is now shooting in Israel. It was originally presented at the IFP Project Forum and Deadline understand there are buyers circling.
Rosenthal, alumni of the Steve Tisch School of Film and Television,...
- 2/25/2021
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
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