Moore was in Karlovy Vary to accept the festival’s honourary Crystal Globe award.
Julianne Moore and her husband, director Bart Freundlich, talked about the joys and challenges of working together for the fourth time on After The Wedding, which opened the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival on Friday (June 28).
“We always say that the writer in me speaks to the actor in her,” said Freundlich of working with Moore. “Words are very important. I always know that she’s going to add so much that I couldn’t even see.”
“When you work in the film industry you spend...
Julianne Moore and her husband, director Bart Freundlich, talked about the joys and challenges of working together for the fourth time on After The Wedding, which opened the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival on Friday (June 28).
“We always say that the writer in me speaks to the actor in her,” said Freundlich of working with Moore. “Words are very important. I always know that she’s going to add so much that I couldn’t even see.”
“When you work in the film industry you spend...
- 6/29/2019
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Abe Fried-Tanzer reporting from Sundance
Danish director Susanne Bier won an Oscar for her incredible film In a Better World (2010), her second time contending for Best Foreign Language Film. The first was her equally involving and magnetic After the Wedding (2006). That earlier film is actually one of two popular foreign hits remade for Us audiences with Julianne Moore in the lead role this year. Taking over Bier’s duties on this other do-over is Moore’s husband Bart Freundlich, whose last film was the underrated 2016 Tribeca entry Wolves. In addition to bringing this story back on the screen, this is a reunion for the real-life couple with leading man Billy Crudup after the three of them collaborated on both World Traveler (2001) and Trust the Man (2005).
What’s most changed – of surprisingly few modifications overall – from the Danish original to the 2019 remake that premiered at Sundance are the genders...
Danish director Susanne Bier won an Oscar for her incredible film In a Better World (2010), her second time contending for Best Foreign Language Film. The first was her equally involving and magnetic After the Wedding (2006). That earlier film is actually one of two popular foreign hits remade for Us audiences with Julianne Moore in the lead role this year. Taking over Bier’s duties on this other do-over is Moore’s husband Bart Freundlich, whose last film was the underrated 2016 Tribeca entry Wolves. In addition to bringing this story back on the screen, this is a reunion for the real-life couple with leading man Billy Crudup after the three of them collaborated on both World Traveler (2001) and Trust the Man (2005).
What’s most changed – of surprisingly few modifications overall – from the Danish original to the 2019 remake that premiered at Sundance are the genders...
- 1/27/2019
- by Abe Fried-Tanzer
- FilmExperience
Exclusive: Tonight’s Sundance kickoff film, After The Wedding, fits a festival emphasis on inclusion and diversity. Even though director Bart Freundlich didn’t set out to do that when he made a film inspired by the 2006 Danish film by Susanne Bier, his decision to swap the gender of the two principal characters opened a wealth of creative complexities for the characters.
The principal characters in Bier’s Oscar-nominated film were male. Here, the leads are Michelle Williams and Julianne Moore, the latter of whom is the wife and a fixture of Freundlich’s films. Williams plays a woman who fled New York and has devoted her life to running an orphanage in the slums of Calcutta. She’s lured back to Gotham by an offer from a media mogul and philanthropist – played by Moore – to donate millions of dollars. Soon, the mogul has her accompanying her opulent Oyster Bay estate,...
The principal characters in Bier’s Oscar-nominated film were male. Here, the leads are Michelle Williams and Julianne Moore, the latter of whom is the wife and a fixture of Freundlich’s films. Williams plays a woman who fled New York and has devoted her life to running an orphanage in the slums of Calcutta. She’s lured back to Gotham by an offer from a media mogul and philanthropist – played by Moore – to donate millions of dollars. Soon, the mogul has her accompanying her opulent Oyster Bay estate,...
- 1/24/2019
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
This is what we can already confirm. 2016 will be an epic year for Michael Shannon and not because he just received an Indie Spirit nom for Best Supporting Actor in 99 Homes (see pic above). With his services enlisted by Jeff Nichols, Liza Johnson, Tom Ford, Robert Scott Wildes, Werner Herzog and Matthew M. Ross, the versatile actor will be everywhere…including Bart Freundlich‘s sixth feature film. Freundlich got his big start at Sundance back in 1997 for The Myth of Fingerprints and would follow that up by bringing World Traveler (2002) to the fest but he hasn’t been back since. Shot this past June in NYC, Wolves stars Shannon, Carla Gugino and newcomer Taylor John Smith in this tragi-family drama.
Gist: Taylor John Smith will star as an 18-year-old basketball star who is being recruited by Cornell University. He seems to have it all figured out: captain of his team,...
Gist: Taylor John Smith will star as an 18-year-old basketball star who is being recruited by Cornell University. He seems to have it all figured out: captain of his team,...
- 11/26/2015
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
by Seth Metoyer, MoreHorror.com
Brain Damage Films will be releasing a Neo-Giallo Thriller on July 1st called City of Lust. One of my favorite indie actresses Heather Dorff is in it, so I'm looking forward to checking it out on that merit alone.
The film is Directed by David A. Holcombe and stars Margaret Grace, Jill Oliver, Derek Ryan, Shelley Nixon, and Kyle Greer among others. Check out the full details and trailer below, and watch for the film to release on DVD and VOD on July 1st.
From the Press Release:
On July 1st, Brain Damage Films will release the indie horror-thriller City of Lust (previously titled "Yellow"), an imaginative and intense film styled in homage to Giallo horror films from the 1970's but set in the present. DVD availability is set to include many retailers and websites including Amazon, as well as rental chains including Family Video.
Brain Damage Films will be releasing a Neo-Giallo Thriller on July 1st called City of Lust. One of my favorite indie actresses Heather Dorff is in it, so I'm looking forward to checking it out on that merit alone.
The film is Directed by David A. Holcombe and stars Margaret Grace, Jill Oliver, Derek Ryan, Shelley Nixon, and Kyle Greer among others. Check out the full details and trailer below, and watch for the film to release on DVD and VOD on July 1st.
From the Press Release:
On July 1st, Brain Damage Films will release the indie horror-thriller City of Lust (previously titled "Yellow"), an imaginative and intense film styled in homage to Giallo horror films from the 1970's but set in the present. DVD availability is set to include many retailers and websites including Amazon, as well as rental chains including Family Video.
- 6/18/2014
- by admin
- MoreHorror
The Tribeca Film Festival announced its jurors for this year’s event, which runs from April 16-27. The list includes Toni Collette, Lake Bell, Whoopi Goldberg, Catherine Hardwicke, Heather Graham, Anton Yelchin, Paul Wesley and 26 other leaders of the filmmaking community.
In addition to the Festival’s main competition juries in seven categories, Tribeca named Delia Ephron, Natasha Lyonne, and Gary Ross to select the second annual Nora Ephron Prize, which awards $25,000 to a female writer or director.
Click below for the entire list of jurors, with biographical information courtesy of the Tribeca festival:
World Competition Categories
The jurors for...
In addition to the Festival’s main competition juries in seven categories, Tribeca named Delia Ephron, Natasha Lyonne, and Gary Ross to select the second annual Nora Ephron Prize, which awards $25,000 to a female writer or director.
Click below for the entire list of jurors, with biographical information courtesy of the Tribeca festival:
World Competition Categories
The jurors for...
- 4/8/2014
- by Jeff Labrecque
- EW - Inside Movies
World traveler! Prince George is getting his first taste of a family vacation. Kate Middleton and her baby boy have jetted away to the Caribbean, a source confirms to Us Weekly. Middleton, 32, and 6-month-old George traveled to the island of Mustique, and have also been joined by her parents Carole and Michael Middleton, brother James, and sister Pippa and her boyfriend Nico Jackson. Prince William joined the group last year at the same villa, but unfortunately couldn't make it this time around. "William is staying back in [...]...
- 2/1/2014
- Us Weekly
We are just several weeks away from the return of The Big Bang Theory on CBS television, and so it’s time again to take a look ahead at what we can expect from the series as it enters it’s 7th season on broadcast television. Season 6 was a mixed bag of some fine moments and mostly minor character development, but on the whole the show was sort of stuck in neutral, with very little moving forward in the way of the overall stories for our main cast of characters.
So let’s take a look at what we had, what we can expect and ultimately hope for, as Season 7 is set to take off within the next few weeks.
8. Leonard Hofstadter: World Traveler
As Season 6 drew to a close back in May of 2013, the great Leonard Hofstadter had left Pasadena in order to go to work halfway across the world,...
So let’s take a look at what we had, what we can expect and ultimately hope for, as Season 7 is set to take off within the next few weeks.
8. Leonard Hofstadter: World Traveler
As Season 6 drew to a close back in May of 2013, the great Leonard Hofstadter had left Pasadena in order to go to work halfway across the world,...
- 9/12/2013
- by JD Shrader
- Obsessed with Film
“Bond. James Bond.” Since the moment those words were spoken James Bond has been a mainstay in pop culture. What started as a novel series written by Ian Fleming has grown into one of the biggest franchises ever. Bond has been everywhere and has continued to rule the world since his arrival. When looking back at the lucrative history of James Bond one wonders what is the secret of this overwhelming success. I attempt to answer that question by looking at the Top 10 Reasons Why James Bond Rules the World.
- Dan Clark
1. Longevity
As one would think Bond has some staying power. Fifty years is quite a long time to stay relevant as a movie franchise. That’s longer than both Star Trek and Star Wars. While there certainly have been some ups and downs Bond has made it through it all. To put it in perspective when Dr. No...
- Dan Clark
1. Longevity
As one would think Bond has some staying power. Fifty years is quite a long time to stay relevant as a movie franchise. That’s longer than both Star Trek and Star Wars. While there certainly have been some ups and downs Bond has made it through it all. To put it in perspective when Dr. No...
- 11/11/2012
- by Guest
- Nerdly
Tim York is the man heard crooning about Bigfoot during the opening credits of Blood Beast of Monster Mountain Aka Monster Mountain Aka The Legend of McCullough’s Mountain. The lyrics talk of how the tale of the creature changes. Not nearly as many changes as the movie itself went through.
The 1976 docudrama Blood Beast of Monster Mountain is actually the 1965 horror comedy Demon Hunter: The Legend of Blood Mountain retitled and chopped up with new footage inserted by Donn Davison, who appears in the film billed as “World Traveler, Lecturer, and Psychic Investigator”. Really more like a producer who made a go of it in the Seventies repackaging obscure, older movies with new footage for re-release.
Demon Hunter: The Legend of Blood Mountain was the starring vehicle for a little known 1960’s Georgia horror movie host who went by the name “Bestoink Dooley”. Sort of a bumbling...
The 1976 docudrama Blood Beast of Monster Mountain is actually the 1965 horror comedy Demon Hunter: The Legend of Blood Mountain retitled and chopped up with new footage inserted by Donn Davison, who appears in the film billed as “World Traveler, Lecturer, and Psychic Investigator”. Really more like a producer who made a go of it in the Seventies repackaging obscure, older movies with new footage for re-release.
Demon Hunter: The Legend of Blood Mountain was the starring vehicle for a little known 1960’s Georgia horror movie host who went by the name “Bestoink Dooley”. Sort of a bumbling...
- 8/25/2012
- by Foywonder
- DreadCentral.com
Courtesy Sánchez-Winter Family
Sebella Rose: World traveler?
Taking to the skies for the first time at only two months old, the daughter of actors Eric Winter and Roselyn Sánchez is already racking up the pages in her passport.
“We went to Bogotá, Colombia where my wife was shooting a miniseries. We were very nervous because the flight was long and it was the first time traveling with Sebella, but she did amazing!” the proud father, 35, tells People. “She slept pretty much the entire time.”
With Winter recently wrapping his new film, Fire with Fire, and Sánchez, 39, currently working on Devious Maids,...
Sebella Rose: World traveler?
Taking to the skies for the first time at only two months old, the daughter of actors Eric Winter and Roselyn Sánchez is already racking up the pages in her passport.
“We went to Bogotá, Colombia where my wife was shooting a miniseries. We were very nervous because the flight was long and it was the first time traveling with Sebella, but she did amazing!” the proud father, 35, tells People. “She slept pretty much the entire time.”
With Winter recently wrapping his new film, Fire with Fire, and Sánchez, 39, currently working on Devious Maids,...
- 7/11/2012
- by Anya
- People - CelebrityBabies
Julianne Moore, who appears with Amanda Seyfried in the new film "Chloe" (opening in limited release next week), will act opposite another hot young starlet in a film titled "Backwoods." According to Roger Friedman at Showbiz411, the four-time Oscar-nominated actress will be joined by "Twilight" star Kristen Stewart in the film, which Moore's husband, Bart Freundlich, is directing.
All that is revealed about the plot of "Backwoods" is that it involves the end of the world, a concept Moore has dealt with previously in "Children of Men" and "Blindness," two very different stories. I immediately presumed the actresses would play mother and daughter, but there's no actual reasoning for this. I just think it'd be neat to have Stewart, who played daughter to Jodie Foster in "Panic Room," now have the same role opposite the actress who replaced Foster in the "Silence of the Lambs"/"Hannibal" franchise.
Both Moore and...
All that is revealed about the plot of "Backwoods" is that it involves the end of the world, a concept Moore has dealt with previously in "Children of Men" and "Blindness," two very different stories. I immediately presumed the actresses would play mother and daughter, but there's no actual reasoning for this. I just think it'd be neat to have Stewart, who played daughter to Jodie Foster in "Panic Room," now have the same role opposite the actress who replaced Foster in the "Silence of the Lambs"/"Hannibal" franchise.
Both Moore and...
- 3/16/2010
- by Christopher Campbell
- MTV Movies Blog
Just a few months ago, Keith Lee was the Lead Producer on "Diablo 3." Before that he was Lead Programmer at Insomniac Games, in charge of the "Ratchet & Clank" series. His new company, called Booyah, is much smaller than either of those development houses, but it's allowed him to delve into a space he's always been curious about: Real-life achievements. You know that feeling you get when you unlock a particuarly difficult achievement in, say, "Halo 3"? Keith wants you to get the same feeling of accomplishment from, say, climbing a mountain or seeing an exclusive movie screening. And thus "Booyah Society" was born.
"Booyah Society" is a free app for the iPhone. Inside the app you can create an alien-like avatar (pictured above) and write about what you're up to. That's currently it. Say you're going to see the new "Transformers" movie. You'll go into "Booyah Society" and write a status...
"Booyah Society" is a free app for the iPhone. Inside the app you can create an alien-like avatar (pictured above) and write about what you're up to. That's currently it. Say you're going to see the new "Transformers" movie. You'll go into "Booyah Society" and write a status...
- 7/27/2009
- by Russ Frushtick
- MTV Multiplayer
Catch That Kid
Opens
Friday, Feb. 6
With its athletic 12-year-old female lead, Catch That Kid is an action romp with heart. If that heart is somewhat misguided, it's hard to deny the family-friendly thrills and spills along the way.
A low-wattage cast helps conjure resemblance to a video game masquerading as a theatrical release (the character names of the three young leads even flash onscreen when each is introduced). The film, from prolific producer Andrew Lazar (Space Cowboys, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind), looks to have more of a future as a home rental than catch fire at the boxoffice.
The movie is a remake of the 2002 popular Danish film Klatretosen. In view of the success of the Spy Kids franchise, American youngsters may enjoy this heist story in which the three preteen leads are rarely offscreen. Most intriguing of all is fact that the director of this broadly comedic CGI caper is indie filmmaker Bart Freundlich (The Myth of Fingerprints, World Traveler).
Maddy (Kristen Stewart) and her 2-year-old brother, Max, have a busy security-consultant mom (Jennifer Beals) and a loving dad (Sam Robards), the owner of a popular go-kart track. Dad once climbed Mount Everest, but he discourages his own daughter's dangerous zeal for rock climbing. When he suffers a medical trauma that necessitates coming up with $250,000 for an operation in Copenhagen, Maddy opts to rob the high-security vault in the monolithic Harderbach Bank headquarters -- her mother's current client. Maddy and her two best friends -- and prepubescent romantic rivals -- Austin (Corbin Bleu) and Gus (Max Thieriot) do their homework and case the joint.
Thanks to Maddy's agility, reaching the 100-foot-high (!) state-of-the-art tower vault is a no-brainer. Austin is a videographer and, apparently, a Silicon Valley-caliber computer genius, while Gus knows his way around mechanical engineering from the hours spent in the pit at the go-kart track. The combined high-tech skills of our young heroes and the bank's security measures provide some sharp visual effects during the elaborate heist.
The less said about the acting the better, though Stewart (Panic Room) is earnest in the lead. (Between the confined set of the Jodie Foster thriller and the vault here, Stewart must be Hollywood's go-to teen actress for scripts featuring "safe rooms.")
Also in support are an over-the-top Michael Des Barres (channeling Terence Stamp) as the dastardly bank president and John Carroll Lynch (channeling Robert De Niro), as a sympathetic executive whose lifelong dream is to be a method actor. Stark Sands is Chad, a bank security intern -- and Gus' obnoxious older brother -- who helps keep an eye on the video monitors and the attack dogs. Chad's boss is played by Freundlich regular James Le Gros, who seems to be giddily overacting in his own personal movie.
Catch That Kid may captivate very young audiences but more for its cartoonish storytelling than any high quality of production.
CATCH THAT KID
20th Century Fox
Fox 2000 Pictures
Mediastream III presents a Mad Chance/Nimbus Film production
Credits:
Director: Bart Freundlich
Screenwriters: Michael Brandt, Derek Haas
Based on the film Klatretosen written by: Nikolaj Arcel, Hans Fabian Wullenwebe, Erlend Loe
Producer: Andrew Lazar
Executive producers: Damien Saccani, James Dodson, Mikkel Bondesen
Director of photography: Julio Macat
Production designer: Tom Meyer
Costume Designer: Salvador Perez
Co-producers: Gym Hinderer, Jeff Graup
Music by: George S. Clinton
Editor: Stuart Levy
Cast:
Maddy: Kristen Stewart
Austin: Corbin Bleu
Gus: Max Thieriot
Molly: Jennifer Beals
Tom: Sam Robards
Mr. Hartmann: John Carroll Lynch
Ferrell: James Le Gros
Brisbane: Michael Des Barres
Chad: Stark Sands
Running time -- 91 minutes
MPAA rating: PG...
Friday, Feb. 6
With its athletic 12-year-old female lead, Catch That Kid is an action romp with heart. If that heart is somewhat misguided, it's hard to deny the family-friendly thrills and spills along the way.
A low-wattage cast helps conjure resemblance to a video game masquerading as a theatrical release (the character names of the three young leads even flash onscreen when each is introduced). The film, from prolific producer Andrew Lazar (Space Cowboys, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind), looks to have more of a future as a home rental than catch fire at the boxoffice.
The movie is a remake of the 2002 popular Danish film Klatretosen. In view of the success of the Spy Kids franchise, American youngsters may enjoy this heist story in which the three preteen leads are rarely offscreen. Most intriguing of all is fact that the director of this broadly comedic CGI caper is indie filmmaker Bart Freundlich (The Myth of Fingerprints, World Traveler).
Maddy (Kristen Stewart) and her 2-year-old brother, Max, have a busy security-consultant mom (Jennifer Beals) and a loving dad (Sam Robards), the owner of a popular go-kart track. Dad once climbed Mount Everest, but he discourages his own daughter's dangerous zeal for rock climbing. When he suffers a medical trauma that necessitates coming up with $250,000 for an operation in Copenhagen, Maddy opts to rob the high-security vault in the monolithic Harderbach Bank headquarters -- her mother's current client. Maddy and her two best friends -- and prepubescent romantic rivals -- Austin (Corbin Bleu) and Gus (Max Thieriot) do their homework and case the joint.
Thanks to Maddy's agility, reaching the 100-foot-high (!) state-of-the-art tower vault is a no-brainer. Austin is a videographer and, apparently, a Silicon Valley-caliber computer genius, while Gus knows his way around mechanical engineering from the hours spent in the pit at the go-kart track. The combined high-tech skills of our young heroes and the bank's security measures provide some sharp visual effects during the elaborate heist.
The less said about the acting the better, though Stewart (Panic Room) is earnest in the lead. (Between the confined set of the Jodie Foster thriller and the vault here, Stewart must be Hollywood's go-to teen actress for scripts featuring "safe rooms.")
Also in support are an over-the-top Michael Des Barres (channeling Terence Stamp) as the dastardly bank president and John Carroll Lynch (channeling Robert De Niro), as a sympathetic executive whose lifelong dream is to be a method actor. Stark Sands is Chad, a bank security intern -- and Gus' obnoxious older brother -- who helps keep an eye on the video monitors and the attack dogs. Chad's boss is played by Freundlich regular James Le Gros, who seems to be giddily overacting in his own personal movie.
Catch That Kid may captivate very young audiences but more for its cartoonish storytelling than any high quality of production.
CATCH THAT KID
20th Century Fox
Fox 2000 Pictures
Mediastream III presents a Mad Chance/Nimbus Film production
Credits:
Director: Bart Freundlich
Screenwriters: Michael Brandt, Derek Haas
Based on the film Klatretosen written by: Nikolaj Arcel, Hans Fabian Wullenwebe, Erlend Loe
Producer: Andrew Lazar
Executive producers: Damien Saccani, James Dodson, Mikkel Bondesen
Director of photography: Julio Macat
Production designer: Tom Meyer
Costume Designer: Salvador Perez
Co-producers: Gym Hinderer, Jeff Graup
Music by: George S. Clinton
Editor: Stuart Levy
Cast:
Maddy: Kristen Stewart
Austin: Corbin Bleu
Gus: Max Thieriot
Molly: Jennifer Beals
Tom: Sam Robards
Mr. Hartmann: John Carroll Lynch
Ferrell: James Le Gros
Brisbane: Michael Des Barres
Chad: Stark Sands
Running time -- 91 minutes
MPAA rating: PG...
- 2/23/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Julianne to Wed
Far From Heaven star Julianne Moore is starting the new year off on a happy note - by announcing her engagement to longtime boyfriend Bart Freundlich. The twice-married Hollywood A-lister already has two children by the moviemaker, who she met while starring in The Myth Of Fingerprints in 1997, which he directed. The two also collaborated on World Traveler in 2001, which co-starred Billy Crudup.
- 1/6/2003
- WENN
ThinkFilm, CTHE pact on vid releases
TORONTO -- Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment and ThinkFilm on Wednesday said they had signed a three-picture home entertainment distribution deal for the United States and Canada, beginning with the DVD and home video release of The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys, which Jodie Foster stars in and produced. That release will be followed by CTHE handling the video releases of World Traveler, starring Billy Crudup and Julianne Moore, and Merchant-Ivory's Mystic Masseur, starring James Fox and Om Puri. The distribution arrangement was brokered by ThinkFilm president Jeff Sackman and Benedict Carver, vp of acquisition for Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group, a division of Sony Pictures Entertainment. Newly launched ThinkFilm has offices in New York City and Toronto, and has a film release slate that includes Gus Van Sant's Gerry, The Event by Thom Fitzgerald, and Love in the Time of Money, by Peter Mattei.
- 9/5/2002
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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