"Grand Theft Auto V" is one of the biggest video games of all time, which in turn paved the way for a huge player base in "Grand Theft Auto Online." For a couple of out-of-work actors, it provided them a space to do the thing they missed the most during the pandemic: acting. While "GTA" is a place to commit crimes in a carefree, digital environment, a couple of guys named Sam and Mark turned it into the most unlikely venue to play host to some of William Shakespeare's work.
"Grand Theft Hamlet" is a new documentary that chronicles Sam and Mark's journey from merely playing "GTA" to hatching a plan to put on a production of "Hamlet" staged entirely in the game. The film recently premiered at SXSW in Austin, Texas, and I am here to tell you that it's unlike any other movie you've ever seen before.
"Grand Theft Hamlet" is a new documentary that chronicles Sam and Mark's journey from merely playing "GTA" to hatching a plan to put on a production of "Hamlet" staged entirely in the game. The film recently premiered at SXSW in Austin, Texas, and I am here to tell you that it's unlike any other movie you've ever seen before.
- 3/15/2024
- by Ryan Scott
- Slash Film
Tracie Laymon’s Bob Trevino Likes It has won the SXSW narrative feature competition while Grand Theft Hamlet has taken home the documentary feature prize.
Laymon’s comedy drama, about a young woman who forms an unlikely bond with a man bearing the same name as her estranged father, was awarded by the jury for feeling “at once familiar and yet surprising” in a ”refreshingly real and wrenchingly bittersweet” watch. John Leguizamo and Euphoria’s Barbie Ferreira star.
The special jury award for performance went to Maria Rodríguez Soto in Liliana Torres’s Spanish family drama Mamifera while Josephine Stewart-Te Whiu...
Laymon’s comedy drama, about a young woman who forms an unlikely bond with a man bearing the same name as her estranged father, was awarded by the jury for feeling “at once familiar and yet surprising” in a ”refreshingly real and wrenchingly bittersweet” watch. John Leguizamo and Euphoria’s Barbie Ferreira star.
The special jury award for performance went to Maria Rodríguez Soto in Liliana Torres’s Spanish family drama Mamifera while Josephine Stewart-Te Whiu...
- 3/14/2024
- ScreenDaily
For the most recent precedent for Grand Theft Hamlet, you’d probably have to go back nearly 20 years, to a 2006 episode of South Park. Titled “Make Love, Not Warcraft,” it found Cartman marshaling his friends to take on a super-advanced rogue player with a posse of killer crabs who has taken to killing everyone in his path in the Tolkienesque greenfields of Azeroth. This virtual psychopath sends shivers down the spines of the programmers at WoW’s corporate HQ.
After Sam Crane and Pinny Grylls’ documentary debuted earlier this week at SXSW, however, it is only a matter of time before directors see the multitude of possibilities to be mined from the gaming world, not least because the technical advances made in recent years mean that even the most basic console games can blow up to fill a cinema-size screen quite comfortably.
After Sam Crane and Pinny Grylls’ documentary debuted earlier this week at SXSW, however, it is only a matter of time before directors see the multitude of possibilities to be mined from the gaming world, not least because the technical advances made in recent years mean that even the most basic console games can blow up to fill a cinema-size screen quite comfortably.
- 3/12/2024
- by Damon Wise
- Deadline Film + TV
To be or not to be. That was the question facing so many artists at the height of the Covid pandemic (let’s call it January 2021), when the crisis seemed as if it might continue forever, and the absence of an audience threatened to chip away at the creative spirit itself. Suddenly unemployed and unable to support his family after landing the biggest role of his life (the titular wizard in the London production of “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child”), British actor Sam Crane couldn’t help but wonder — to quote a certain Danish prince — “whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing end them.” Crane may not have shared Hamlet’s attraction to suicide, but he certainly entertained the idea of laying his career to rest before he was...
- 3/11/2024
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Beloved actor Michael Gambon has passed away at the age of 82, it has been confirmed. Renowned for his performances both on screen and on stage, Gambon died peacefully following an illness. “We are devastated to announce the loss of Sir Michael Gambon,” reads a statement on behalf of his wife Lady Gambon and son Fergus, released via his publicist. “Beloved husband and father, Michael died peacefully in hospital with his wife Anne and son Fergus at his bedside, following a bout of pneumonia. Michael was 82. We ask that you respect our privacy at this painful time and thank you for your messages of support and love.”
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- 9/28/2023
- by Ben Travis
- Empire - Movies
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