Brian Berman Jan 23, 2020
We're giving away Five copies of Vengeful, the brilliant follow-up to Vicious, of V.E. Schwab's Villains series.
Den of Geek is hosting this giveaway in partnership with Tor Books.
V.E. Schwab is one of our favorite authors here at Den of Geek. From the Shades of Magic series to spooky middle grade read City of Ghosts to her "In Search of Doors" speech delivered at the J.R.R. Tolkien Lecture on Fantasy Literature, we're really just big Schwab fans.
We're particularly excited about her Villains series, which begins with the clever, heartbreaking Vicious. Schwab paints the story of two college roomates, Victor Vale and Eli Ever, who discover the secret to supernatural abilities lies in near death experiences. The discovery proves to be the very thing that splits them apart, turning them into ExtraOrdinary persons, sure, but also turning them against one another.
Schwab's follow-up, Vengeful,...
We're giving away Five copies of Vengeful, the brilliant follow-up to Vicious, of V.E. Schwab's Villains series.
Den of Geek is hosting this giveaway in partnership with Tor Books.
V.E. Schwab is one of our favorite authors here at Den of Geek. From the Shades of Magic series to spooky middle grade read City of Ghosts to her "In Search of Doors" speech delivered at the J.R.R. Tolkien Lecture on Fantasy Literature, we're really just big Schwab fans.
We're particularly excited about her Villains series, which begins with the clever, heartbreaking Vicious. Schwab paints the story of two college roomates, Victor Vale and Eli Ever, who discover the secret to supernatural abilities lies in near death experiences. The discovery proves to be the very thing that splits them apart, turning them into ExtraOrdinary persons, sure, but also turning them against one another.
Schwab's follow-up, Vengeful,...
- 1/22/2020
- Den of Geek
Netflix will release the animated short Sitara: Let Girls Dream from two-time Oscar-winning and three-time Emmy-winning director Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy.
The short tells the story of Pari, a 14-year-old girl who dreams of becoming a pilot while growing up in a society that doesn’t allow her to dream.
“Young girls everywhere still face considerable hurdles in achieving their dreams,” Obaid-Chinoy said Friday. Sitara embodies that struggle; it is the story of Pari, a young girl who dreams of becoming a pilot and is robbed of it. For me, Sitara is more than a film; it is a movement that we want to start across the world, that encourages parents to invest in their girls’ dreams, freeing their daughters from the burdens of early marriage.”
Vice Studios financed and produced Sitara. Imke Fehrmann serves as producer on the film. Women’s rights activist Gloria Steinem and Darla Anderson — the Academy Award-winning...
The short tells the story of Pari, a 14-year-old girl who dreams of becoming a pilot while growing up in a society that doesn’t allow her to dream.
“Young girls everywhere still face considerable hurdles in achieving their dreams,” Obaid-Chinoy said Friday. Sitara embodies that struggle; it is the story of Pari, a young girl who dreams of becoming a pilot and is robbed of it. For me, Sitara is more than a film; it is a movement that we want to start across the world, that encourages parents to invest in their girls’ dreams, freeing their daughters from the burdens of early marriage.”
Vice Studios financed and produced Sitara. Imke Fehrmann serves as producer on the film. Women’s rights activist Gloria Steinem and Darla Anderson — the Academy Award-winning...
- 10/25/2019
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Sanjay Patel’s new series Ghee Happy has been greenlit by Netflix. The animated show from director-animator-illustrator Patel is a playful reimagining of the Hindu deities as little kids discovering their powers in a deity daycare appropriately called Ghee Happy.
Patel’s resume includes an array of iconic Pixar films including Monsters Inc., Ratatouille, Cars, Toy Story 2 as well as both installments of The Incredibles. Inspired by his own childhood, Sanjay helmed the short animated film Sanjay’s Super Team, which was paired with The Good Dinosaur. The short was nominated for Best Animated Short Film at the 88th Academy Awards and for Best Animated Short Subject at the 43rd Annie Awards.
“For the past 25 years I’ve been working in kids and family entertainment without having kids of my own,” said Patel. “Having finally become a parent, I’m so excited and lucky to be able to create...
Patel’s resume includes an array of iconic Pixar films including Monsters Inc., Ratatouille, Cars, Toy Story 2 as well as both installments of The Incredibles. Inspired by his own childhood, Sanjay helmed the short animated film Sanjay’s Super Team, which was paired with The Good Dinosaur. The short was nominated for Best Animated Short Film at the 88th Academy Awards and for Best Animated Short Subject at the 43rd Annie Awards.
“For the past 25 years I’ve been working in kids and family entertainment without having kids of my own,” said Patel. “Having finally become a parent, I’m so excited and lucky to be able to create...
- 10/9/2019
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
A student documenting the siege of Aleppo kept filming when she became pregnant. The result is a profoundly moving study of horror and hope
Unconstrained by notions of balance, non-fiction cinema has done a more complete job of describing the devastation wrought by the Syrian conflict than swathes of the broadcast and print media. Sean McAllister’s A Syrian Love Story plotted the ups and downs of a couple forced into European exile; Matthew Heineman’s City of Ghosts starkly laid out the agonies of citizen journalists trying to break the story internationally.
Those films achieved their power through an awareness of distance, whether between director and subject or subject and homeland. Framed as a mother’s letter to her young daughter and opening with footage of an airstrike as experienced from inside the target zone, the exceptional For Sama drops us into the thick of things from the start.
Unconstrained by notions of balance, non-fiction cinema has done a more complete job of describing the devastation wrought by the Syrian conflict than swathes of the broadcast and print media. Sean McAllister’s A Syrian Love Story plotted the ups and downs of a couple forced into European exile; Matthew Heineman’s City of Ghosts starkly laid out the agonies of citizen journalists trying to break the story internationally.
Those films achieved their power through an awareness of distance, whether between director and subject or subject and homeland. Framed as a mother’s letter to her young daughter and opening with footage of an airstrike as experienced from inside the target zone, the exceptional For Sama drops us into the thick of things from the start.
- 9/12/2019
- by Mike McCahill
- The Guardian - Film News
Netflix has closed a multi-year overall agreement for film and TV with Kuku Studios, a Berkeley, CA-based animation house founded by former Pixar senior creative and production staffers. Under the pact, Netflix has ordered an animated feature film from Kuku, which explores the power and magic of dreams.
The overall deal stems from the first commission for Kuku made by Netflix last year — preschool series Go! Go! Cory Carson, based on the hit toy line Go! Go! Smart Wheels from VTech Electronics, which will debut on the streamer in early 2020.
Under the overall pact, Kuku, led by founders Alex Woo, Stanley Moore and Tim Hahn and director Erik Benson, will exclusively produce animated films and series for Netflix.
“With Go! Go! Cory Carson, the creative team at Kuku proved that they can bring their vast cinematic experience into the preschool realm, and the result is a breathtaking show that we...
The overall deal stems from the first commission for Kuku made by Netflix last year — preschool series Go! Go! Cory Carson, based on the hit toy line Go! Go! Smart Wheels from VTech Electronics, which will debut on the streamer in early 2020.
Under the overall pact, Kuku, led by founders Alex Woo, Stanley Moore and Tim Hahn and director Erik Benson, will exclusively produce animated films and series for Netflix.
“With Go! Go! Cory Carson, the creative team at Kuku proved that they can bring their vast cinematic experience into the preschool realm, and the result is a breathtaking show that we...
- 9/11/2019
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
The “Halo” series at Showtime is rounding out its main cast.
The premium cabler announced Friday that Natascha McElhone, Bokeem Woodbine, Shabana Azmi, Bentley Kalu, Natasha Culzac, and Kate Kennedy have all joined the series adaptation of the megahit video game. They join previously announced series lead Pablo Schreiber, who will play the Master Chief, and Yerin Ha, who is playing a new character named Kwan Ha.
McElhone will star as two characters: Dr. Catherine Halsey, the creator of the Spartan supersoldiers, and Cortana, the most advanced AI in human history, and potentially the key to the survival of the human race.
In addition her role in the Showtime series “Californication,” McElhone has appeared on shows such as “The First” and “Designated Survivor” in addition to films like “The Truman Show,” “Ronin,” “Solaris,” and “City of Ghosts.”
Woodbine will play Soren-066, a privateer at the fringes of human civilization whose...
The premium cabler announced Friday that Natascha McElhone, Bokeem Woodbine, Shabana Azmi, Bentley Kalu, Natasha Culzac, and Kate Kennedy have all joined the series adaptation of the megahit video game. They join previously announced series lead Pablo Schreiber, who will play the Master Chief, and Yerin Ha, who is playing a new character named Kwan Ha.
McElhone will star as two characters: Dr. Catherine Halsey, the creator of the Spartan supersoldiers, and Cortana, the most advanced AI in human history, and potentially the key to the survival of the human race.
In addition her role in the Showtime series “Californication,” McElhone has appeared on shows such as “The First” and “Designated Survivor” in addition to films like “The Truman Show,” “Ronin,” “Solaris,” and “City of Ghosts.”
Woodbine will play Soren-066, a privateer at the fringes of human civilization whose...
- 8/2/2019
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
Towards the beginning of Waad al-Kateab and Edward Watts’ “For Sama” — a bracingly horrific yet resiliently beautiful documentary about al-Kateab’s experience as a woman, a patriot, and a mother living in the ruined heart of Aleppo during the ongoing war in Syria — a few medical volunteers are seen messing around in a hospital during a break from the shelling. They’re young and smiling and you would never know what they were living through if not for the blasted concrete on the floor and the wet blood on their clothes. A few years earlier, they were regular university students pursuing regular careers; now, a normal day consists of avoiding bombs and burying friends.
Why don’t they leave? How could they stay? What inspires someone to scrap for the ashes of a country where local jihadists, foreign warplanes, and even their own president are competing to exterminate them? The...
Why don’t they leave? How could they stay? What inspires someone to scrap for the ashes of a country where local jihadists, foreign warplanes, and even their own president are competing to exterminate them? The...
- 7/26/2019
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Women in Animation, Les Femmes s’Animent announce June 10 date, programme line-up.
Celebrated academic and inclusion expert Stacy Smith and French actor and women’s activist Julie Gayet will be among the speakers at the Women in Animation World Summit in Annecy, France, on June 10.
Organised by Women in Animation (Wia) and Les Femmes s’Animent (Lfa), the third summit takes place in conjunction with the Annecy International Animation Festival and Mifa 2019 and has chosen the notion of belonging as this year’s theme.
The Walt Disney Studios vice-president of multicultural audience engagement and Wia secretary Julie Ann Crommett will kick off the day-long,...
Celebrated academic and inclusion expert Stacy Smith and French actor and women’s activist Julie Gayet will be among the speakers at the Women in Animation World Summit in Annecy, France, on June 10.
Organised by Women in Animation (Wia) and Les Femmes s’Animent (Lfa), the third summit takes place in conjunction with the Annecy International Animation Festival and Mifa 2019 and has chosen the notion of belonging as this year’s theme.
The Walt Disney Studios vice-president of multicultural audience engagement and Wia secretary Julie Ann Crommett will kick off the day-long,...
- 5/24/2019
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Netflix has ordered a new kids animated series, City of Ghosts, from first-time showrunner Elizabeth Ito
City of Ghosts is described as a hybrid documentary and animated series in which a group of kids discover stories around their city by communicating directly with the ghosts who inhabit it.
Ito, an Emmy-winning director and writer on Cartoon Network’s animated series Adventure Time and creator of the Cartoon Network short Welcome to My Life, will executive produce and serve as showrunner.
Ito is a Los Angeles native and City of Ghosts explores her personal experience growing up as a yonsei (a 4th generation Japanese American) living in various multicultural neighborhoods across L.A. In the series, Ito takes an entertaining look at how generations of diverse inhabitants can affect the changing dynamics of neighborhoods and the communities that form in them.
City of Ghosts joins...
City of Ghosts is described as a hybrid documentary and animated series in which a group of kids discover stories around their city by communicating directly with the ghosts who inhabit it.
Ito, an Emmy-winning director and writer on Cartoon Network’s animated series Adventure Time and creator of the Cartoon Network short Welcome to My Life, will executive produce and serve as showrunner.
Ito is a Los Angeles native and City of Ghosts explores her personal experience growing up as a yonsei (a 4th generation Japanese American) living in various multicultural neighborhoods across L.A. In the series, Ito takes an entertaining look at how generations of diverse inhabitants can affect the changing dynamics of neighborhoods and the communities that form in them.
City of Ghosts joins...
- 5/23/2019
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Netflix has greenlit a children's animated series called City of Ghosts from first-time showrunner Elizabeth Ito, an Emmy-winning director and writer on Cartoon Network's animated series Adventure Time and creator of the Cartoon Network short Welcome to My Life.
City of Ghosts is described as a "hybrid documentary and animated series," featuring a group of kids who discover stories around their city by communicating with the ghosts that inhabit it.
In the story, Ito, also an exec producer on the series, explores her personal experience growing up as a Yonsei (fourth-generation Japanese American) living in various multicultural neighborhood ...
City of Ghosts is described as a "hybrid documentary and animated series," featuring a group of kids who discover stories around their city by communicating with the ghosts that inhabit it.
In the story, Ito, also an exec producer on the series, explores her personal experience growing up as a Yonsei (fourth-generation Japanese American) living in various multicultural neighborhood ...
- 5/23/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
In a lot of ways, the Cannes Film Festival premiere of “For Sama” should have felt like nothing new. After all, the film had premiered in March at the South by Southwest Film Festival and also screened earlier in May at the Hot Docs festival in Canada, making it the rare Cannes film to not premiere on the Croisette.
Beyond that, “For Sama” is a documentary about the bloody conflict in Syria, which has already been the subject of a string of notable nonfiction films, among them Feras Fayyad’s “Last Men in Aleppo,” Evgeny Afineevsky’s “Cries From Syria,” Matthew Heineman’s “City of Ghosts,” Talal Derki’s “The Return to Homs” and Sebastian Junger’s “Hell on Earth” in the feature realm, as well as the Oscar-nominated short docs “The White Helmets” (which won) and “Watani: My Homeland.”
What else, you could ask, is left to say about Syria,...
Beyond that, “For Sama” is a documentary about the bloody conflict in Syria, which has already been the subject of a string of notable nonfiction films, among them Feras Fayyad’s “Last Men in Aleppo,” Evgeny Afineevsky’s “Cries From Syria,” Matthew Heineman’s “City of Ghosts,” Talal Derki’s “The Return to Homs” and Sebastian Junger’s “Hell on Earth” in the feature realm, as well as the Oscar-nominated short docs “The White Helmets” (which won) and “Watani: My Homeland.”
What else, you could ask, is left to say about Syria,...
- 5/15/2019
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
Joe Cornish returns with his second feature.
Joe Cornish’s sophomore feature The Kid Who Would Be King opens in UK cinemas this weekend, with Warner Bros’ sequel The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part currently holding the number one spot.
Cornish previously directed 2011 inner city sci-fi Attack The Block starring Screen Star of Tomorrow 2011 John Boyega. The film opened to £1.1m in May 2011 with a £3,221 screen average, going on to hit £2.5m in the UK.
Fantasy adventure The Kid Who Would Be King stars Louis Ashbourne Serkis (son of actor Andy Serkis) as a young boy who discovers he...
Joe Cornish’s sophomore feature The Kid Who Would Be King opens in UK cinemas this weekend, with Warner Bros’ sequel The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part currently holding the number one spot.
Cornish previously directed 2011 inner city sci-fi Attack The Block starring Screen Star of Tomorrow 2011 John Boyega. The film opened to £1.1m in May 2011 with a £3,221 screen average, going on to hit £2.5m in the UK.
Fantasy adventure The Kid Who Would Be King stars Louis Ashbourne Serkis (son of actor Andy Serkis) as a young boy who discovers he...
- 2/15/2019
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
One of the biggest surprises on Oscar nominations morning was the snub of “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” from Best Documentary Feature. But that doesn’t seem to indicate a lack of support from the industry. The film actually won Best Documentary at the Producers Guild Awards, and now we think director Morgan Neville will be avenged at the Directors Guild Awards.
“Neighbor” is a biographical film about the life and career of children’s television host Fred Rogers, placing his work in the larger context of children’s education and cultural change through the second half of the 20th century. It was a box office blockbuster by documentary standards, grossing $22 million. And it was admired by critics, scoring 85 on MetaCritic and winning top honors at the Critics’ Choice Documentary Awards.
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But the academy decided to look the other way,...
“Neighbor” is a biographical film about the life and career of children’s television host Fred Rogers, placing his work in the larger context of children’s education and cultural change through the second half of the 20th century. It was a box office blockbuster by documentary standards, grossing $22 million. And it was admired by critics, scoring 85 on MetaCritic and winning top honors at the Critics’ Choice Documentary Awards.
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But the academy decided to look the other way,...
- 2/1/2019
- by Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
Bradley Cooper is all but certain to win Best First-Time Director at Saturday’s DGA Awards for his remake of the Hollywood classic “A Star is Born.” This will make a nice consolation prize for Cooper as he is likely to lose the main race to “Roma” director Alfonso Cuaron.
Cooper enjoys an overwhelming lead in our DGA odds. They are generated by the predictions of more than 1,000 Gold Derby readers plus film journalists who are experts at these awards, our in-house team of nine editors, the two dozen readers who did the best at forecasting last year’s DGA awards and those 24 readers who were tops for two years running.
Best First-Time Director was introduced at the 2016 DGA Awards. The first winner — Alex Garland (“Ex Machina”) — didn’t contend in the top category. However, the last two champs did — Luke Davies (“Lion”) and Jordan Peele (“Get Out”) — albeit unsuccessfully.
Cooper enjoys an overwhelming lead in our DGA odds. They are generated by the predictions of more than 1,000 Gold Derby readers plus film journalists who are experts at these awards, our in-house team of nine editors, the two dozen readers who did the best at forecasting last year’s DGA awards and those 24 readers who were tops for two years running.
Best First-Time Director was introduced at the 2016 DGA Awards. The first winner — Alex Garland (“Ex Machina”) — didn’t contend in the top category. However, the last two champs did — Luke Davies (“Lion”) and Jordan Peele (“Get Out”) — albeit unsuccessfully.
- 1/29/2019
- by Paul Sheehan
- Gold Derby
By all accounts, Bradley Cooper (“A Star Is Born”) should be walking away with the DGA prize for Best First-Time Director. The actor-turned-auteur won rave reviews for helming and starring in this romantic drama about a fading musician (Cooper) and his rising protege (Lady Gaga), scoring nominations both in this category and in Best Director. Yet he’ll have to watch out for four other debut filmmakers at the Directors Guild of America Awards who just might give him a run for his money.
See Bradley Cooper (‘A Star Is Born’) could win Oscars as actor, director and producer, but are we underestimating him as a writer?
According to our racetrack odds, Bo Burnham (“Eighth Grade”) is the likeliest challenger to Cooper’s victory with second place odds of 19/5. Like his rival, Burnham is a performer who stepped behind the camera to create a tender portrait of an awkward pre-teen...
See Bradley Cooper (‘A Star Is Born’) could win Oscars as actor, director and producer, but are we underestimating him as a writer?
According to our racetrack odds, Bo Burnham (“Eighth Grade”) is the likeliest challenger to Cooper’s victory with second place odds of 19/5. Like his rival, Burnham is a performer who stepped behind the camera to create a tender portrait of an awkward pre-teen...
- 1/15/2019
- by Zach Laws
- Gold Derby
Bo Burnham makes cut for Eighth Grade in first-time category.
The Directors Guild Of America (DGA) has nominated Alfonso Cuarón, Bradley Cooper, Spike Lee, Peter Farrelly and Adam McKay for its Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film for 2018 – a group that contains no women despite acclaimed work from Debra Granik, Marielle Heller and Karyn Kusama.
Tuesday’s (8) nominations immediately bolsters the contenders’ prospects of earning an Oscar nomination as the DGA is a strong indicator of Academy Awards voting.
Cuarón is regarded among the industry as the front-runner for Roma and has been nominated once before when he won for...
The Directors Guild Of America (DGA) has nominated Alfonso Cuarón, Bradley Cooper, Spike Lee, Peter Farrelly and Adam McKay for its Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film for 2018 – a group that contains no women despite acclaimed work from Debra Granik, Marielle Heller and Karyn Kusama.
Tuesday’s (8) nominations immediately bolsters the contenders’ prospects of earning an Oscar nomination as the DGA is a strong indicator of Academy Awards voting.
Cuarón is regarded among the industry as the front-runner for Roma and has been nominated once before when he won for...
- 1/8/2019
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
The Directors Guild of America has nominated Alfonso Cuaron for “Roma,” Bradley Cooper for “A Star Is Born,” Spike Lee for “BlacKkKlansman,” Adam McKay for “Vice,” and Peter Farrelly for “Green Book” for its top feature film award.
Cooper also received a DGA nomination for its first-time director award on Tuesday, along with Bo Burnham for “Eighth Grade,” Carlos Lopez Estrada for “Blindspotting,” Matthew Heineman for “A Private War,” and Boots Riley for “Sorry to Bother You.”
Cuaron won the DGA and Academy Award for directing five years ago for “Gravity.” It’s the first DGA nomination for Cooper, Farrelly, and Lee. It’s McKay’s third DGA nom, three years after he received a nod for “The Big Short.” He also received a television nomination Monday for directing an episode of “Succession.”
There were no surprises in the DGA’s announcement, which came two days after Cuaron won the...
Cooper also received a DGA nomination for its first-time director award on Tuesday, along with Bo Burnham for “Eighth Grade,” Carlos Lopez Estrada for “Blindspotting,” Matthew Heineman for “A Private War,” and Boots Riley for “Sorry to Bother You.”
Cuaron won the DGA and Academy Award for directing five years ago for “Gravity.” It’s the first DGA nomination for Cooper, Farrelly, and Lee. It’s McKay’s third DGA nom, three years after he received a nod for “The Big Short.” He also received a television nomination Monday for directing an episode of “Succession.”
There were no surprises in the DGA’s announcement, which came two days after Cuaron won the...
- 1/8/2019
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
When Robert Richardson, a three-time Oscar-winning cinematographer, started work on “A Private War,” he wasn’t the only one who had their hands on the camera. The film is the first narrative feature by documentarian Matthew Heineman, who DPed his own docs, including “Cartel Land” (2015) and “City of Ghosts” (2017), and was a littler reluctant to relinquish control, Richardson revealed at Gold Derby’s Meet the Experts: Cinematographers panel, moderated by this author (watch above).
“The beginning of the journey was a little more complicated. The first few days was like, ‘Hmm.’ He wasn’t 100 percent sure he wanted Richardson to be operating his camera,” Richardson said. “And then he finally went ‘All right. Do it.’ We’d have conversations. I’d say, ‘Work with the actors. Don’t worry. You tell me what you want to do with the camera, I’ll do it.’”
What they both wanted to do...
“The beginning of the journey was a little more complicated. The first few days was like, ‘Hmm.’ He wasn’t 100 percent sure he wanted Richardson to be operating his camera,” Richardson said. “And then he finally went ‘All right. Do it.’ We’d have conversations. I’d say, ‘Work with the actors. Don’t worry. You tell me what you want to do with the camera, I’ll do it.’”
What they both wanted to do...
- 12/5/2018
- by Joyce Eng
- Gold Derby
Kayti Burt Jan 31, 2019
While the spinoff would not center around any existing Jane the Virgin characters, it would be helmed by writer Valentina Garza.
The Jane the Virgin spinoff is officially ago at The CW. The network announced that the newly-titled Jane the Novela is among four pilots it is picking up for the 2019-2020 TV season.
Vulture previously reported that the network was considering a Jane the Virgin spin-off, to carry on the spirit of Jane the Virgin after the show makes its final bow this television season. Now the details have emerged and they're pretty great.
Jane the Novela will be a telenovela-inspired anthology series. Each season of the show will be a different telenovela written by Jane Villanueva (Gina Rodriguez) and narrated by the author herself. The first season of the show will take place at Napa Valley vineyard. That, my friends, is how you spinoff.
At the 2019 TCA winter press tour,...
While the spinoff would not center around any existing Jane the Virgin characters, it would be helmed by writer Valentina Garza.
The Jane the Virgin spinoff is officially ago at The CW. The network announced that the newly-titled Jane the Novela is among four pilots it is picking up for the 2019-2020 TV season.
Vulture previously reported that the network was considering a Jane the Virgin spin-off, to carry on the spirit of Jane the Virgin after the show makes its final bow this television season. Now the details have emerged and they're pretty great.
Jane the Novela will be a telenovela-inspired anthology series. Each season of the show will be a different telenovela written by Jane Villanueva (Gina Rodriguez) and narrated by the author herself. The first season of the show will take place at Napa Valley vineyard. That, my friends, is how you spinoff.
At the 2019 TCA winter press tour,...
- 12/4/2018
- Den of Geek
Kayti Burt Nov 30, 2018
This is not the only literary adaptation in the works at The CW.
We love City of Ghosts, V.E. Schwab's middle grade series about a girl who can see ghosts who is dragged to the most haunted places in the world by her ghost-hunter TV personality parents. Now, it's in development to get a CW TV adaptation!
According to Variety, The CW is developing the novel that will be a series as a TV show. If eventually picked up, the series will be a one-hour drama. Notably, The CW has aged protagonist Cassidy Blake up to the network's key demo age. In the books, Cassidy is 12; in the proposed CW adaptation, she will be college-aged.
According to the news announcement, Cassidy moves to Scotland not with her parents, but to study paranormal psychology at the University of Edinburgh "in hopes of learning more about her strange connection to the afterlife.
This is not the only literary adaptation in the works at The CW.
We love City of Ghosts, V.E. Schwab's middle grade series about a girl who can see ghosts who is dragged to the most haunted places in the world by her ghost-hunter TV personality parents. Now, it's in development to get a CW TV adaptation!
According to Variety, The CW is developing the novel that will be a series as a TV show. If eventually picked up, the series will be a one-hour drama. Notably, The CW has aged protagonist Cassidy Blake up to the network's key demo age. In the books, Cassidy is 12; in the proposed CW adaptation, she will be college-aged.
According to the news announcement, Cassidy moves to Scotland not with her parents, but to study paranormal psychology at the University of Edinburgh "in hopes of learning more about her strange connection to the afterlife.
- 11/30/2018
- Den of Geek
A Private War could not be timed more fittingly for its release given the current climate of criticism aimed at journalists from all walks of life reporting the political strife that persists. Specifically, the imperiled journalists spotlighted in director Matthew Heineman's ("City of Ghosts") clear-eyed yet nightmarish drama detailing the dangerous frontline reporting duties of war correspondents is resoundingly received with dramatic urgency. A Private War is hauntingly involving in its depiction of the scarred psyches of journalists acting as devoted mouthpieces commenting on the battlefield madness that eerily surrounds them. Indeed, A Private War is a horrific telling of one Marie Colvin--an eye-patched renegade of a woman daring to challenge the boundless limits of journalism in some of the most notorious parts of the world. Instinctively feisty and determined,...
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- 11/30/2018
- Screen Anarchy
The CW is developing a one-hour drama series based on the book “City of Ghosts” by Victoria Schwab, Variety has learned exclusively.
In the series, after a near-death experience, college grad Cassidy moves to Scotland to study paranormal psychology at the University of Edinburgh in hopes of learning more about her strange connection to the afterlife. There she meets the enigmatic Dr. Barrow and discovers that her gift is more powerful that she ever thought possible.
Karen Wyscarver and Sanford Golden serve as writers and executive producers on the adaptation. Their previous TV credits include “Taken,” “NCIS: New Orleans,” “Bones,” and “Bones.”
I. Marlene King, who developed and served as showrunner on the popular Freeform series “Pretty Little Liars,” will executive produce along with Lauren Wagner of King’s Long Lake Media. Long Lake Media will produce in association with Warner Bros. Television.
This is the latest literary adaptation to...
In the series, after a near-death experience, college grad Cassidy moves to Scotland to study paranormal psychology at the University of Edinburgh in hopes of learning more about her strange connection to the afterlife. There she meets the enigmatic Dr. Barrow and discovers that her gift is more powerful that she ever thought possible.
Karen Wyscarver and Sanford Golden serve as writers and executive producers on the adaptation. Their previous TV credits include “Taken,” “NCIS: New Orleans,” “Bones,” and “Bones.”
I. Marlene King, who developed and served as showrunner on the popular Freeform series “Pretty Little Liars,” will executive produce along with Lauren Wagner of King’s Long Lake Media. Long Lake Media will produce in association with Warner Bros. Television.
This is the latest literary adaptation to...
- 11/30/2018
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
“A Private War” is expanding this month after its Nov. 2 launch in New York and L.A. The film, starring an excellent Rosamund Pike, is the perfect calling card for the new Aviron Pictures. The film embodies what Aviron is doing, but it’s also an exception to its rules.
“Most of our films are mid-budget feature films that we believe have the ability to be wide releases,” says Aviron president David Dinerstein. “But ‘A Private War’ is a little different.”
Aviron execs knew this film would depend on word-of-mouth. It is a complex, adult drama, centering on war correspondent Marie Colvin, who reported from war zones in Africa and the Middle East for Sunday Times of London; the film covers her work for a decade, concluding in 2012.
Reviewing the film out of Toronto, Variety’s Peter Debruge praised it as an “incredibly sophisticated, psychologically immersive” film, adding that director...
“Most of our films are mid-budget feature films that we believe have the ability to be wide releases,” says Aviron president David Dinerstein. “But ‘A Private War’ is a little different.”
Aviron execs knew this film would depend on word-of-mouth. It is a complex, adult drama, centering on war correspondent Marie Colvin, who reported from war zones in Africa and the Middle East for Sunday Times of London; the film covers her work for a decade, concluding in 2012.
Reviewing the film out of Toronto, Variety’s Peter Debruge praised it as an “incredibly sophisticated, psychologically immersive” film, adding that director...
- 11/15/2018
- by Tim Gray
- Variety Film + TV
Matthew Heineman, the 35-year-old filmmaker best known for his gritty documentaries — especially 2015's Cartel Land, for which he received a best documentary feature Oscar nomination, and 2017's City of Ghosts — sat down with The Hollywood Reporter earlier this month at the Savannah Film Festival to discuss his narrative directorial debut A Private War, which was greeted with a standing ovation at the fest and will open in theaters across America on Friday.
A Private War is a gritty docudrama about the late, great war correspondent Marie Colvin, played in the film by Oscar nominee Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl). The first major release of Aviron ...
A Private War is a gritty docudrama about the late, great war correspondent Marie Colvin, played in the film by Oscar nominee Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl). The first major release of Aviron ...
- 11/14/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Matthew Heineman, the 35-year-old filmmaker best known for his gritty documentaries — especially 2015's Cartel Land, for which he received a best documentary feature Oscar nomination, and 2017's City of Ghosts — sat down with The Hollywood Reporter earlier this month at the Savannah Film Festival to discuss his narrative directorial debut A Private War, which was greeted with a standing ovation at the fest and will open in theaters across America on Friday.
A Private War is a gritty docudrama about the late, great war correspondent Marie Colvin, played in the film by Oscar nominee Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl). The first major release of Aviron ...
A Private War is a gritty docudrama about the late, great war correspondent Marie Colvin, played in the film by Oscar nominee Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl). The first major release of Aviron ...
- 11/14/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Why did veteran cinematographer Robert Richardson, a three-time Oscar winner, agree to work on “A Private War,” the first narrative feature directed by documentarian Matthew Heineman?
It had a lot to do with Heineman’s courage and sense of purpose, says the Dp. Heineman was nominated for an Oscar himself for his documentary feature “Cartel Land,” about the Mexican-American border drug wars. “City of Ghosts,” which took on the crisis in Syria, was also well received. “A Private War,” out Nov. 2, is based on the life of the late reporter Marie Colvin, who died in 2012 in Syria while covering the siege of Homs.
Prior to reading the script for “A Private War,” Richardson — who has lensed films ranging from “JFK” to “Inglourious Basterds” to “The Hateful Eight” — watched Heineman’s “Ghosts,” which at the time had not been publicly released.
“It had a profound emotional impact on me,” he says.
It had a lot to do with Heineman’s courage and sense of purpose, says the Dp. Heineman was nominated for an Oscar himself for his documentary feature “Cartel Land,” about the Mexican-American border drug wars. “City of Ghosts,” which took on the crisis in Syria, was also well received. “A Private War,” out Nov. 2, is based on the life of the late reporter Marie Colvin, who died in 2012 in Syria while covering the siege of Homs.
Prior to reading the script for “A Private War,” Richardson — who has lensed films ranging from “JFK” to “Inglourious Basterds” to “The Hateful Eight” — watched Heineman’s “Ghosts,” which at the time had not been publicly released.
“It had a profound emotional impact on me,” he says.
- 11/9/2018
- by Valentina I. Valentini
- Variety Film + TV
Joel Edgerton’s drama Boy Erased from Focus Features handily topped the weekend’s slate of specialty releases. The Telluride and Toronto debut starring Lucas Hedges, Nicole Kidman, Russell Crowe, and Edgerton grossed a robust $220K in five New York and Los Angeles locations. It averaged an estimated $44K, the thirteenth-highest opening weekend per-theater average of 2018 as of Sunday morning. Focus reported a strong Friday to Saturday boost.
Aviron Pictures bowed director Matthew Heineman’s drama A Private War in several theaters, grossing $72K Friday to Sunday for an $18K PTA. Sony Classics opened first-time director Tom Volf’s documentary Maria By Callas in four U.S. theaters, grossing $50,891, for a solid $12,723 average. Together with its Canadian runs, the New York Film Festival title grossed $94,280 from 16 locations for a $5,893 PTA.
Neon opened Bodied in 14 locations, grossing $50,528 in 14 locations. Doc Searching For Ingmar Bergman from Oscilloscope played an exclusive run...
Aviron Pictures bowed director Matthew Heineman’s drama A Private War in several theaters, grossing $72K Friday to Sunday for an $18K PTA. Sony Classics opened first-time director Tom Volf’s documentary Maria By Callas in four U.S. theaters, grossing $50,891, for a solid $12,723 average. Together with its Canadian runs, the New York Film Festival title grossed $94,280 from 16 locations for a $5,893 PTA.
Neon opened Bodied in 14 locations, grossing $50,528 in 14 locations. Doc Searching For Ingmar Bergman from Oscilloscope played an exclusive run...
- 11/4/2018
- by Brian Brooks
- Deadline Film + TV
Growing up with a journalist for a mother and making his name as an Oscar-nominated documentarian — behind the likes of Cartel Land and City of Ghosts — Matthew Heineman makes his narrative feature debut with Aviron Pictures’ A Private War. As an artist with a journalist’s eye for meaningful, real-world stories and a great deal of personal bravery, it’s no wonder Heineman delved into this new filmmaking arena with the story of Marie Colvin, a journalist whose values mirrored his own.
In the film, Rosamund Pike gives an electrifying turn as the fearless war correspondent, who repeatedly arrived at the front lines of global conflicts to shine a light on the facts of war, giving voice to the voiceless. Setting out to cover the Syrian civil war from the city of Homs with renowned war photographer Paul Conroy (Jamie Dornan), the reporter finds her most dangerous assignment yet — the...
In the film, Rosamund Pike gives an electrifying turn as the fearless war correspondent, who repeatedly arrived at the front lines of global conflicts to shine a light on the facts of war, giving voice to the voiceless. Setting out to cover the Syrian civil war from the city of Homs with renowned war photographer Paul Conroy (Jamie Dornan), the reporter finds her most dangerous assignment yet — the...
- 11/3/2018
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Marie Colvin lived and died in war zones. One of the most renowned combat correspondents of the past 50 years, distinguished by her empathetic prose and her omnipresent eyepatch, this Queens-born, Oyster Bay-bred journalist for the Sunday Times felt at home in hot spots around the world. Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Sri Lanka (where she would lose her eye from an explosion while tagging along with the Tamil Tigers), Syria (where she’d lose her life during a 2011 bombing in Homs) — these were the places that Colvin needed to be in order...
- 11/2/2018
- by David Fear
- Rollingstone.com
Altitude Film Distribution has acquired UK and Irish distribution rights to A Private War, the Matthew Heineman film about American-born war correspondent Marie Colvin who was killed on assignment in Syria while working for the Sunday Times. The film will be released in the territories in February 2019, which follows a U.S. release that begins today in New York and Los Angeles via Aviron Pictures before going nationwide.
Rosamund Pike stars as Colvin along with Jamie Dornan, Tom Hollander and Stanley Tucci. The film marks’ the narrative feature directing debut for Heineman, the Oscar-nominated helmer of documentaries including Cartel Land and City of Ghosts. Arash Amel penned the script.
The biopic, which just had a gala screening at the London Film Festival, tells the true tale of Colvin, a fearless and rebellious spirit driven to the front lines of conflicts across the globe to give voice to the voiceless, while...
Rosamund Pike stars as Colvin along with Jamie Dornan, Tom Hollander and Stanley Tucci. The film marks’ the narrative feature directing debut for Heineman, the Oscar-nominated helmer of documentaries including Cartel Land and City of Ghosts. Arash Amel penned the script.
The biopic, which just had a gala screening at the London Film Festival, tells the true tale of Colvin, a fearless and rebellious spirit driven to the front lines of conflicts across the globe to give voice to the voiceless, while...
- 11/2/2018
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Rosamund Pike was in the middle of portraying the late war journalist Marie Colvin when the circumstances suddenly became so real she wasn’t sure if she could finish the project. As Colvin, Pike plays the tough, embattled reporter as she survives countless war zones, even after one explosive injury leaves her with an eye patch and Ptsd assaults her mind. Director Matthew Heineman, making his narrative debut after the Oscar-nominated documentary “Cartel Land” and its followup “City of Ghosts,” cast Pike in multiple scenarios alongside real refugees. In one scene, Jordan stood in for Syria, and Pike acted in a scene alongside a Syrian refugee whose nephew had been shot from his shoulders during a rally in Homs. The script called for the man to react to a dead child in the reenacted war zone, while Pike’s character looked on.
“The upswell of grief from this man was so painful,...
“The upswell of grief from this man was so painful,...
- 11/2/2018
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
November’s first weekend is usually a crowded one at the Specialty box office, and this year is no different. Lucas Hedges stars with Nicole Kidman, Russell Crowe and director Joel Edgerton in Boy Erased from Focus Features. Filmmaker Matthew Heineman’s A Private War from Aviron Pictures is the first narrative feature from the director of Oscar-nominated documentary Cartel Land. Starring Rosamund Pike, Jamie Dornan, Stanley Tucci and Tom Hollander, the film opens in four locations Friday ahead of a fairly wide roll out. Sony Pictures Classics is opening recent New York Film Festival doc Maria By Callas from first-time director Tom Volf about the legendary opera singer. Neon and YouTube Originals are launching music video veteran Joseph Kahn’s rap battle feature Bodied. And Oscilloscope is opening Margarethe von Trotta’s Searching for Ingmar Bergman with an initial exclusive New York weekend run.
Other limited releases this weekend...
Other limited releases this weekend...
- 11/2/2018
- by Brian Brooks
- Deadline Film + TV
War is War is War: Heineman Tackles the Controversial Marie Colvin in Narrative Debut
Oscar nominated documentarian Matthew Heineman (2015’s Cartel Land), follows up recent noted projects City of Ghosts (2017) and the 2018 mini-series “The Trade” with one of the first significant cinematic portrayals of American journalist and war reporter Marie Colvin, who famously worked for Britain’s The Sunday Times from 1985 to her death in Syria in 2012. Based on the Vanity Fair article about her by Marie Brenner, A Private War attempts to lionize Colvin’s drastic war correspondences from 2001 to her untimely death, mostly by showcasing how her personal demons often influenced and motivated her passion for such a dangerous occupation.…...
Oscar nominated documentarian Matthew Heineman (2015’s Cartel Land), follows up recent noted projects City of Ghosts (2017) and the 2018 mini-series “The Trade” with one of the first significant cinematic portrayals of American journalist and war reporter Marie Colvin, who famously worked for Britain’s The Sunday Times from 1985 to her death in Syria in 2012. Based on the Vanity Fair article about her by Marie Brenner, A Private War attempts to lionize Colvin’s drastic war correspondences from 2001 to her untimely death, mostly by showcasing how her personal demons often influenced and motivated her passion for such a dangerous occupation.…...
- 11/2/2018
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
To judge by Matthew Heineman’s occasionally clumsy but thoroughly harrowing biopic, renowned war reporter Marie Colvin was only afraid of two things: Dying young, and growing old. It’s a dilemma that would bind the American ex-pat to her job until the day she lost her life while covering the Syrian Civil War. For “Cartel Land” director Heineman — a notable documentary filmmaker whose recent “City of Ghosts” chronicled the ongoing atrocities committed against the people of Raqqa — Colvin’s plight offers a natural way in to the world of narrative storytelling (and the excuse to restage a half-dozen of the bloodiest modern conflicts that predated his career).
But there’s nothing opportunistic about “A Private War.” Watching the film scramble towards its inevitable conclusion, one gets the sense that Heineman sees Colvin as a kindred spirit. And while even he struggles to make sense of how she lived — or...
But there’s nothing opportunistic about “A Private War.” Watching the film scramble towards its inevitable conclusion, one gets the sense that Heineman sees Colvin as a kindred spirit. And while even he struggles to make sense of how she lived — or...
- 10/12/2018
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
From Vietnam to the Iraq War, Hollywood has struggled to find the appropriate way to depict ongoing wars, typically taking years, if not decades, to put the proper perspective on modern political quagmires. In the case of such conflicts as the Arab Spring and the Syrian civil war — front and center in “A Private War” — the challenge is further complicated by Western forces being all but absent from the scene, making it difficult for American filmmakers to find fellow American heroes to shadow into that particular heart of darkness.
In his commitment to capturing the ongoing Syrian crisis, “City of Ghosts” director Matthew Heineman takes the next most logical route, building an incredibly sophisticated, psychologically immersive film around late real-life war correspondent Marie Colvin, the rock-star Sunday Times reporter fictionalized earlier this year in “Girls of the Sun,” and ferociously embodied here by Rosamund Pike. Best known as the porcelain sociopath in “Gone Girl,...
In his commitment to capturing the ongoing Syrian crisis, “City of Ghosts” director Matthew Heineman takes the next most logical route, building an incredibly sophisticated, psychologically immersive film around late real-life war correspondent Marie Colvin, the rock-star Sunday Times reporter fictionalized earlier this year in “Girls of the Sun,” and ferociously embodied here by Rosamund Pike. Best known as the porcelain sociopath in “Gone Girl,...
- 9/30/2018
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
The Ed Asner Family Center, dedicated to promoting mental health and enrichment programs to special needs children and their families, presents its first annual A Night Of Dreams Gala, honoring Emmy-winning actor Ed Asner, world renowned chef Art Smith and Emmy-winner Elaine Frontain Bryant, Executive Vice President and Head of Programming for A&E Network, for their dedication to the special needs communities.
A Night Of Dreams Gala will take place on November 15, 2018 at Exchange La Downtown.
The headline attraction of the evening will be a special set by Grammy Award-winning music legend Peter Frampton. In addition, Naia Izumi, NPR’s 2018 Tiny Desk Contest Winner, will perform. Hosting the event will be Emmy-winning comedian Wanda Sykes.
“Autism and special needs touches all of us personally. Our honorees, Ed Asner, Art Smith and Elaine Frontain Bryant, each in their own unique way, personify our organization’s mission and we are so proud...
A Night Of Dreams Gala will take place on November 15, 2018 at Exchange La Downtown.
The headline attraction of the evening will be a special set by Grammy Award-winning music legend Peter Frampton. In addition, Naia Izumi, NPR’s 2018 Tiny Desk Contest Winner, will perform. Hosting the event will be Emmy-winning comedian Wanda Sykes.
“Autism and special needs touches all of us personally. Our honorees, Ed Asner, Art Smith and Elaine Frontain Bryant, each in their own unique way, personify our organization’s mission and we are so proud...
- 9/19/2018
- Look to the Stars
Director and cast were no longer able to attend the festival.
Toronto International Film Festival (Tiff) have released a statement explaining why Mélanie Laurent’s Galveston has been withdrawn from its 2018 line-up.
The film, which stars Elle Fanning, Ben Foster and Lili Reinhart, was set to appear as a Gala Presentation, but has now been replaced with the world premiere of Matthew Heineman’s A Private War. Galveston is written by Nic Pizzolatto (based on his novel of the same name), and had its world premiere at South by Southwest in March.
The statement reads: “We have recently learned director...
Toronto International Film Festival (Tiff) have released a statement explaining why Mélanie Laurent’s Galveston has been withdrawn from its 2018 line-up.
The film, which stars Elle Fanning, Ben Foster and Lili Reinhart, was set to appear as a Gala Presentation, but has now been replaced with the world premiere of Matthew Heineman’s A Private War. Galveston is written by Nic Pizzolatto (based on his novel of the same name), and had its world premiere at South by Southwest in March.
The statement reads: “We have recently learned director...
- 9/4/2018
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
Rosamund Pike’s Marie Colvin finds herself in the middle of a hellish war in the majority of the intense first trailer for “A Private War.”
The trailer opens with Pike in a devastated combat zone, yelling, “I’m not armed.”
“A Private War” chronicles the life of the late American-born British war correspondent Marie Colvin, portrayed by Pike, and is based on Marie Brenner’s 2012 Vanity Fair article “Marie Colvin’s Private War.” Colvin died in 2012 while covering the siege of Homs in Syria.
The trailer, released on Monday, focuses on Colvin’s commitment to reporting from dangerous locations.
“I hate being in a war zone, but I also feel compelled,” Pike says. “Maybe I would have liked a normal life. Maybe I just don’t know how.”
Aviron Pictures will release “A Private War” on Nov. 2 in Los Angeles and New York, with a Nov. 16 wide launch. The cast includes Jamie Dornan,...
The trailer opens with Pike in a devastated combat zone, yelling, “I’m not armed.”
“A Private War” chronicles the life of the late American-born British war correspondent Marie Colvin, portrayed by Pike, and is based on Marie Brenner’s 2012 Vanity Fair article “Marie Colvin’s Private War.” Colvin died in 2012 while covering the siege of Homs in Syria.
The trailer, released on Monday, focuses on Colvin’s commitment to reporting from dangerous locations.
“I hate being in a war zone, but I also feel compelled,” Pike says. “Maybe I would have liked a normal life. Maybe I just don’t know how.”
Aviron Pictures will release “A Private War” on Nov. 2 in Los Angeles and New York, with a Nov. 16 wide launch. The cast includes Jamie Dornan,...
- 8/27/2018
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
"Our mission is to speak the truth to power." Aviron Pictures has just released the first full trailer for the journalism drama A Private War, the first feature film made by acclaimed Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker Matthew Heineman. The film stars Rosamund Pike as world renowned war journalist Marie Colvin, iconically identified by an eye-patch she wore after being injured covering a war. She was killed in 2012 in Syria, and the film documents her life and career and experiences leading up to her deciding to go into Syria to cover the Siege of Homs. The cast includes Jamie Dornan, Stanley Tucci, Tom Hollander, Alexandra Moen, Corey Johnson, and Jérémie Laheurte. I've been looking forward to seeing some footage from this, and it definitely looks promising. Colvin is an iconic journalist and it should be incredible to see her story told by Heineman, who has an impressive vérité style. Here's the first...
- 8/27/2018
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Rosamund Pike’s “A Private War” has been selected as one of two opening night movies at the Mill Valley Film Festival on Oct. 4, Variety has learned exclusively.
Pike and director Matthew Heineman are expected to attend the event, which mark be the U.S. premiere for “A Private War,” at the Marin Country Mart. The festival, now in its 41st year, will run through Oct. 14.
“A Private War” chronicles the life of the late American-born British war reporter Marie Colvin, portrayed by Pike, and is based on Marie Brenner’s 2012 Vanity Fair article “Marie Colvin’s Private War.” Colvin died in 2012 while covering the siege at Homs in Syria.
Aviron Pictures plans to release “A Private War” on Nov. 2 in Los Angeles and New York, with a Nov. 16 wide launch. The cast includes Jamie Dornan, Stanley Tucci, and Tom Hollander. Producers are Basil Iwanyk, Marissa McMahon, Matthew George, Charlize Theron and Heineman.
Pike and director Matthew Heineman are expected to attend the event, which mark be the U.S. premiere for “A Private War,” at the Marin Country Mart. The festival, now in its 41st year, will run through Oct. 14.
“A Private War” chronicles the life of the late American-born British war reporter Marie Colvin, portrayed by Pike, and is based on Marie Brenner’s 2012 Vanity Fair article “Marie Colvin’s Private War.” Colvin died in 2012 while covering the siege at Homs in Syria.
Aviron Pictures plans to release “A Private War” on Nov. 2 in Los Angeles and New York, with a Nov. 16 wide launch. The cast includes Jamie Dornan, Stanley Tucci, and Tom Hollander. Producers are Basil Iwanyk, Marissa McMahon, Matthew George, Charlize Theron and Heineman.
- 8/22/2018
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
In 2005, when the public’s love affair with theatrical feature documentaries was at an all-time high, the Television Academy decided to create a juried Emmy award for nonfiction projects. The new kudo, called exceptional merit in documentary filmmaking, would not be part of the overall Primetime Emmy ballot. Instead the category’s nominated films, up to five, would be selected by a nominating and voting jury of “experienced filmmakers” selected from the TV Academy’s Nonfiction Peer Group.
That same group recommended the new award, which, according to the Academy “honors and encourages exceptional achievement in one or more of the traditional components of documentary filmmaking, including profound social impact, significant innovation of form and remarkable mastery of filmmaking technique.”
While the nonfiction community cheered the new award, others were puzzled: What distinguished it from the award already established, the documentary or nonfiction special?
According to the Academy, the juried...
That same group recommended the new award, which, according to the Academy “honors and encourages exceptional achievement in one or more of the traditional components of documentary filmmaking, including profound social impact, significant innovation of form and remarkable mastery of filmmaking technique.”
While the nonfiction community cheered the new award, others were puzzled: What distinguished it from the award already established, the documentary or nonfiction special?
According to the Academy, the juried...
- 8/17/2018
- by Addie Morfoot
- Variety Film + TV
Charleston, South Carolina native Paige Goldberg Tolmach is a local girl made good. She co-founded a successful eco products business in La and recently earned an Emmy nomination for her directorial debut, the documentary What Haunts Us.
Those accomplishments might seem enough for Charleston to take pride in Paige, but to hear Tolmach tell it, the city has decidedly mixed feelings about her.
“Still, in my hometown, right now, they’re really angry at me,” Tolmach tells Deadline. That anger stems from the very film she made, the one that earned recognition in the prestigious Emmy category of Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking.
Tolmach’s film probes a serial molestation scandal that took place at Charleston’s distinguished Porter-Gaud prep school, a subject she says some would prefer go unmentioned.
“People told me, ‘How dare you talk about this?’” she recounts. “‘We worked so hard to sweep it under the rug.
Those accomplishments might seem enough for Charleston to take pride in Paige, but to hear Tolmach tell it, the city has decidedly mixed feelings about her.
“Still, in my hometown, right now, they’re really angry at me,” Tolmach tells Deadline. That anger stems from the very film she made, the one that earned recognition in the prestigious Emmy category of Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking.
Tolmach’s film probes a serial molestation scandal that took place at Charleston’s distinguished Porter-Gaud prep school, a subject she says some would prefer go unmentioned.
“People told me, ‘How dare you talk about this?’” she recounts. “‘We worked so hard to sweep it under the rug.
- 8/9/2018
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
As the gap between great TV and great film narrows, so does the gap between their respective awards organizations. Can a project receive Oscars and Emmys? In some cases, the answer is a resounding “No”: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences changed its rules after Ezra Edelman’s acclaimed ESPN documentary “O.J.: Made in America” won the 2017 Oscar. Never again, said AMPAS, will a multi-part TV “series” cross our stage.
Still, many two-hour documentary films see theatrical debuts before they hit television, which makes them eligible for both Oscars and Emmys. This year’s Oscar winner, “Icarus,” came from Netflix, as did Oscar-nominee “Strong Island.” And they are among the five films in the Documentary Emmy race, along with “Jane” (National Geographic), Matt Heinemann’s “City of Ghosts” (A&E) and “What Haunts Us” (Starz).
“Jane” has a chance at seven Emmys, including Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking, Directing,...
Still, many two-hour documentary films see theatrical debuts before they hit television, which makes them eligible for both Oscars and Emmys. This year’s Oscar winner, “Icarus,” came from Netflix, as did Oscar-nominee “Strong Island.” And they are among the five films in the Documentary Emmy race, along with “Jane” (National Geographic), Matt Heinemann’s “City of Ghosts” (A&E) and “What Haunts Us” (Starz).
“Jane” has a chance at seven Emmys, including Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking, Directing,...
- 7/30/2018
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
As the gap between great TV and great film narrows, so does the gap between their respective awards organizations. Can a project receive Oscars and Emmys? In some cases, the answer is a resounding “No”: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences changed its rules after Ezra Edelman’s acclaimed ESPN documentary “O.J.: Made in America” won the 2017 Oscar. Never again, said AMPAS, will a multi-part TV “series” cross our stage.
Still, many two-hour documentary films see theatrical debuts before they hit television, which makes them eligible for both Oscars and Emmys. This year’s Oscar winner, “Icarus,” came from Netflix, as did Oscar-nominee “Strong Island.” And they are among the five films in the Documentary Emmy race, along with “Jane” (National Geographic), Matt Heinemann’s “City of Ghosts” (A&E) and “What Haunts Us” (Starz).
“Jane” has a chance at seven Emmys, including Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking, Directing,...
Still, many two-hour documentary films see theatrical debuts before they hit television, which makes them eligible for both Oscars and Emmys. This year’s Oscar winner, “Icarus,” came from Netflix, as did Oscar-nominee “Strong Island.” And they are among the five films in the Documentary Emmy race, along with “Jane” (National Geographic), Matt Heinemann’s “City of Ghosts” (A&E) and “What Haunts Us” (Starz).
“Jane” has a chance at seven Emmys, including Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking, Directing,...
- 7/30/2018
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
The 2018 Emmy talk, sketch and unscripted categories could look a lot similar to last year. Categories like the reality races remain mostly unchanged, while the Variety/Talk competition has just one notable switch: “The Daily Show with Trevor Noah,” replacing “Real Time with Bill Maher.”
Incumbents such as RuPaul (as best reality host), “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” (variety/talk series) and “Saturday Night Live” (variety/sketch series) are all expected to repeat their wins.
But there are a few potential changes on the horizon: Sadly, CNN’s “Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown” will likely win the Outstanding Informational Series Or Special category as a posthumous tribute to the show’s host.
Also, if the outstanding reality competition category is finally ready for a switch, “RuPaul’s Drag Race” seems like the likely contender.
Just like last year, IndieWire’s Screen Talk podcast will launch a weekly Emmy edition...
Incumbents such as RuPaul (as best reality host), “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” (variety/talk series) and “Saturday Night Live” (variety/sketch series) are all expected to repeat their wins.
But there are a few potential changes on the horizon: Sadly, CNN’s “Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown” will likely win the Outstanding Informational Series Or Special category as a posthumous tribute to the show’s host.
Also, if the outstanding reality competition category is finally ready for a switch, “RuPaul’s Drag Race” seems like the likely contender.
Just like last year, IndieWire’s Screen Talk podcast will launch a weekly Emmy edition...
- 7/18/2018
- by Michael Schneider
- Indiewire
Tonight, A&E IndieFilms’ latest documentary, Matt Tyrnauer’s “Studio 54,” opens Outfest in Los Angeles before hitting theaters via Zeitgeist Films and Kino Lorber in October. Unusually, A&E IndieFilms senior VP Molly Thompson believes in theatrical play for her documentaries as a way to build awareness before they hit the air.
With streaming, she said, “it’s harder for the films to stand out. Theatrical is good for films. You have a whole year to go out to festivals and theaters before they come to A&E. We’re the opposite of HBO and Netflix.”
All these funding and distribution options make it “a great time for documentary filmmakers,” she said. “Even seven years ago people were starving. It was a difficult time. We were a big whale for filmmakers. Now they have so many options, and people are able to pay their bills.”
Thompson’s first job was...
With streaming, she said, “it’s harder for the films to stand out. Theatrical is good for films. You have a whole year to go out to festivals and theaters before they come to A&E. We’re the opposite of HBO and Netflix.”
All these funding and distribution options make it “a great time for documentary filmmakers,” she said. “Even seven years ago people were starving. It was a difficult time. We were a big whale for filmmakers. Now they have so many options, and people are able to pay their bills.”
Thompson’s first job was...
- 7/12/2018
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
Tonight, A&E IndieFilms’ latest documentary, Matt Tyrnauer’s “Studio 54,” opens Outfest in Los Angeles before hitting theaters via Zeitgeist Films and Kino Lorber in October. Unusually, A&E IndieFilms senior VP Molly Thompson believes in theatrical play for her documentaries as a way to build awareness before they hit the air.
With streaming, she said, “it’s harder for the films to stand out. Theatrical is good for films. You have a whole year to go out to festivals and theaters before they come to A&E. We’re the opposite of HBO and Netflix.”
All these funding and distribution options make it “a great time for documentary filmmakers,” she said. “Even seven years ago people were starving. It was a difficult time. We were a big whale for filmmakers. Now they have so many options, and people are able to pay their bills.”
Thompson’s first job was...
With streaming, she said, “it’s harder for the films to stand out. Theatrical is good for films. You have a whole year to go out to festivals and theaters before they come to A&E. We’re the opposite of HBO and Netflix.”
All these funding and distribution options make it “a great time for documentary filmmakers,” she said. “Even seven years ago people were starving. It was a difficult time. We were a big whale for filmmakers. Now they have so many options, and people are able to pay their bills.”
Thompson’s first job was...
- 7/12/2018
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
Three-day conference to run in Los Angeles in September.
Documentarian Frederick Wiseman will take part in a masterclass and A&E IndieFilms founder and head Molly Thompson will deliver a keynote at the International Documentary Association’s (Ida) three-day Getting Real ’18 conference in Los Angeles in September.
The event, held in partnership with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, is a biennial conference on documentary media and takes place from September 25-27.
Getting Real ‘18 will kick off with a pre-conference screening to mark the 10th anniversary of Robert Kenner’s Food, Inc., presented by the Academy, Participant Media and River Road Entertainment.
Documentarian Frederick Wiseman will take part in a masterclass and A&E IndieFilms founder and head Molly Thompson will deliver a keynote at the International Documentary Association’s (Ida) three-day Getting Real ’18 conference in Los Angeles in September.
The event, held in partnership with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, is a biennial conference on documentary media and takes place from September 25-27.
Getting Real ‘18 will kick off with a pre-conference screening to mark the 10th anniversary of Robert Kenner’s Food, Inc., presented by the Academy, Participant Media and River Road Entertainment.
- 6/25/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
When I spoke to Anthony Bourdain on May 31, eight days before he committed suicide, I mostly wanted to talk about movies. While not everyone associated the food-show host with cinema, it informed every episode of CNN’s “No Reservations,” from the echoes of “Happy Together” in Buenos Aires to “City of Ghosts” in Thailand. He was a brilliant filmmaker in disguise.
Our conversation got granular. He shared references to revered and obscure filmmakers, recalled his youth experiences working through the Janus film library, and mused about a few new releases. It was a neat opportunity to explore the creative mindset behind a program that became more of a cultural investigation than a culinary one.
Food experts can assess how Bourdain brought a personable edge to highbrow cuisine, and pushed beyond fine-dining formulas to explore the value of food at every level of society. However, what defines his legacy may have...
Our conversation got granular. He shared references to revered and obscure filmmakers, recalled his youth experiences working through the Janus film library, and mused about a few new releases. It was a neat opportunity to explore the creative mindset behind a program that became more of a cultural investigation than a culinary one.
Food experts can assess how Bourdain brought a personable edge to highbrow cuisine, and pushed beyond fine-dining formulas to explore the value of food at every level of society. However, what defines his legacy may have...
- 6/10/2018
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
Media company A+E Networks has delivered its 2018 Emmy Fyc mega-mailer to the TV academy membership highlighting many of its original programs across a trio of networks: A&E, Lifetime and History. Among the 25 total shows included on DVDs are A&E’s reigning Emmy champ “Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath,” Lifetime’s WGA-winning TV movie “Flint” and History’s drama series “Knightfall.” A link is also provided for Emmy voters to view more submissions at its online screening room. Get the full details below, including which specific episodes have been included on DVD.
SEELeah Remini talks backstage about sharing her Creative Arts Emmy win with ‘brave’ Scientology victims [Full Transcript]
A&E Disc One
Structured reality program “Live Pd” — episode “Live Pd-87”
Informational series “Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath” — episode “The ‘Perfect’ Scientology Family”
A&E Disc Two
Documentary/nonfiction series “Marcia Clark Investigates The First 48” — episode “Drew Peterson...
SEELeah Remini talks backstage about sharing her Creative Arts Emmy win with ‘brave’ Scientology victims [Full Transcript]
A&E Disc One
Structured reality program “Live Pd” — episode “Live Pd-87”
Informational series “Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath” — episode “The ‘Perfect’ Scientology Family”
A&E Disc Two
Documentary/nonfiction series “Marcia Clark Investigates The First 48” — episode “Drew Peterson...
- 6/7/2018
- by Marcus James Dixon
- Gold Derby
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