Beyoncé’s new album, Cowboy Carter, is out in the wild. In a press release, Beyoncé provided extensive insight into the making of the album and its variety of influences. Plus, read our review the album here.
Each Song Was Inspired by a Western Film
Notably, each song is its own version of a reimagined Western film, including Michael Matthews’ Five Fingers For Marseilles; James Bridges’ Urban Cowboy; Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight; Clint Eastwood’s Space Cowboys; Jeymes Samuel’s The Harder They Fall; and Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon. Often times, they films were playing on a screen during the recording process.
Additionally, some aspects of the album’s percussion were inspired by the Coen Brothers’ ‘O Brother, Where Art Thou?.
Beyoncé also found inspiration in traditional country, R&b, blues, zydeco, and Black folk music, as well as from her childhood trips to the Houston Rodeo.
Each Song Was Inspired by a Western Film
Notably, each song is its own version of a reimagined Western film, including Michael Matthews’ Five Fingers For Marseilles; James Bridges’ Urban Cowboy; Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight; Clint Eastwood’s Space Cowboys; Jeymes Samuel’s The Harder They Fall; and Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon. Often times, they films were playing on a screen during the recording process.
Additionally, some aspects of the album’s percussion were inspired by the Coen Brothers’ ‘O Brother, Where Art Thou?.
Beyoncé also found inspiration in traditional country, R&b, blues, zydeco, and Black folk music, as well as from her childhood trips to the Houston Rodeo.
- 3/29/2024
- by Scoop Harrison
- Consequence - Music
Beyoncé looked to fellow cultural titans to lasso inspiration for her new album “Cowboy Carter.”
The Grammy winner and “Dreamgirls” actress, who recently appeared in theaters with her “Renaissance” concert film, shared that she watched features such as Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon” and Quentin Tarantino’s “The Hateful Eight” to craft her own “character” behind her debut country album.
“This album took over five years,” Beyoncé said in an official press release. “It’s been really great to have the time and the grace to be able to take my time with it. I was initially going to put ‘Cowboy Carter’ out first [before ‘Renaissance’], but with the pandemic, there was too much heaviness in the world. We wanted to dance. We deserved to dance. But I had to trust God’s timing.”
That timing also encompassed the release of additional features that influenced Beyoncé’s vision for the album,...
The Grammy winner and “Dreamgirls” actress, who recently appeared in theaters with her “Renaissance” concert film, shared that she watched features such as Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon” and Quentin Tarantino’s “The Hateful Eight” to craft her own “character” behind her debut country album.
“This album took over five years,” Beyoncé said in an official press release. “It’s been really great to have the time and the grace to be able to take my time with it. I was initially going to put ‘Cowboy Carter’ out first [before ‘Renaissance’], but with the pandemic, there was too much heaviness in the world. We wanted to dance. We deserved to dance. But I had to trust God’s timing.”
That timing also encompassed the release of additional features that influenced Beyoncé’s vision for the album,...
- 3/29/2024
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter was created over the past five years. During that span of time, the world was upended by a global pandemic and social strife; Martin Scorsese grappled with the blood on the hands of American history with Killers of the Flower Moon; and Beyoncé brought diamonds and disco to the dance floor on Renaissance. All these vastly different occurrences are components that informed the creation, imagery, and release of Beyoncé’s first-ever country album.
“My process is that I typically have to experiment,” Beyoncé shared in a...
“My process is that I typically have to experiment,” Beyoncé shared in a...
- 3/29/2024
- by Larisha Paul
- Rollingstone.com
Exclusive: Showmax content chief Yolisa Phahle has revealed how co-producing with international partners has helped the South Africa-based streamer compete with fierce SVoD competition, as a first trailer for its epic fantasy drama Blood Psalms is today unveiled. You can watch it here below.
Blood Psalms, from creators Layla Swart and Jahmil X.T. Qubeka from Yellowbone Entertainment, is a big budget co-production with France’s Canal+ — the latest in several collaborations between the companies — and is billed as Showmax’s “biggest and most ambitious series, completely unlike any other African series you’ve ever seen” by Nomsa Philiso, Executive Head of Programming at the streamer’s parent MultiChoice. The fantasy drama, shot entirely in African languages, has touches of Game of Thrones, set 11,000 years ago in ancient Africa in a world of warring factions and magic.
The synopsis reads: “In Ancient Africa, one thousand days after the fall of Atlantis,...
Blood Psalms, from creators Layla Swart and Jahmil X.T. Qubeka from Yellowbone Entertainment, is a big budget co-production with France’s Canal+ — the latest in several collaborations between the companies — and is billed as Showmax’s “biggest and most ambitious series, completely unlike any other African series you’ve ever seen” by Nomsa Philiso, Executive Head of Programming at the streamer’s parent MultiChoice. The fantasy drama, shot entirely in African languages, has touches of Game of Thrones, set 11,000 years ago in ancient Africa in a world of warring factions and magic.
The synopsis reads: “In Ancient Africa, one thousand days after the fall of Atlantis,...
- 8/17/2022
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Michael Matthews is set to direct Disney’s Merlin, an adaptation of T.A. Barron’s novel series where King Arthur’s wizardry mentor is at the center of the story. Ridley Scott, who directed the 20th Century Medieval pic The Last Duel, which bows today in theaters, was attached to direct at one point but parted ways due to his busy schedule. Sources say the film is still in early development with Disney’s live-action team.
Gil Netter is producing from with the latest draft by Chris Weitz.
Based on the Barron books, the series followed the origin story of a young Merlin who would go on to become the mentor of the classic literary character King Arthur. While several films have focused on the King Arthur legend, the only high-profile story to focus specifically on the story of Merlin was the NBC miniseries Merlin that starred Sam Neill.
Gil Netter is producing from with the latest draft by Chris Weitz.
Based on the Barron books, the series followed the origin story of a young Merlin who would go on to become the mentor of the classic literary character King Arthur. While several films have focused on the King Arthur legend, the only high-profile story to focus specifically on the story of Merlin was the NBC miniseries Merlin that starred Sam Neill.
- 10/15/2021
- by Justin Kroll
- Deadline Film + TV
South Africa’s Local Motion Pictures, whose dystopian sci-fi feature “Glasshouse” will world premiere at the Fantasia Intl. Film Festival this month, has signed a three-picture deal with leading SVOD service Showmax.
Under the agreement, which Local Motion signed in association with Crave Pictures, the company will produce a slate of films to be directed by “Glasshouse” helmer Kelsey Egan.
Associate producer Emma Lungiswa de Wet, who co-wrote “Glasshouse” with Egan, says the trio of films will shine a new and unsettling light on South Africa, which continues to reckon with the legacy of Apartheid nearly three decades since its transition to democracy.
“A dystopian slate allows us to look at the underbelly of the dream – what’s at the end of the Rainbow Nation?” said Lungiswa de Wet. “We have a long brutal history that we’re only beginning to come to terms with. We’re a newish democracy,...
Under the agreement, which Local Motion signed in association with Crave Pictures, the company will produce a slate of films to be directed by “Glasshouse” helmer Kelsey Egan.
Associate producer Emma Lungiswa de Wet, who co-wrote “Glasshouse” with Egan, says the trio of films will shine a new and unsettling light on South Africa, which continues to reckon with the legacy of Apartheid nearly three decades since its transition to democracy.
“A dystopian slate allows us to look at the underbelly of the dream – what’s at the end of the Rainbow Nation?” said Lungiswa de Wet. “We have a long brutal history that we’re only beginning to come to terms with. We’re a newish democracy,...
- 7/29/2021
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: South African filmmaker Michael Matthews has signed with Range Media Partners.
“Tanya Cohen and Rich Cook have been with me since my first feature Five Fingers for Marseilles,” said Matthews. “With their talent and incredible work ethic, I’m excited to join them and the Range Media team!”
Matthews most recently directed the critically-acclaimed adventure film, Love & Monsters starring Dylan O’Brien and Jessica Henwick for Paramount and 21 Laps, which was a hit PVOD release in fall of 2020 and will be released internationally by Netflix in April 2021. The film was hailed by critics as “One of the best surprises of 2020”, “Throwback to the Amblin-era fantasy adventure films”, “With surprising emotional depth” and debuted at #1 on iTunes and Amazon Prime. He first got attention for his contemporary African Spaghetti Western Five Fingers For Marseilles which was written by Drummond and premiered at TIFF in 2017 in the Discovery Program.
“Michael is a...
“Tanya Cohen and Rich Cook have been with me since my first feature Five Fingers for Marseilles,” said Matthews. “With their talent and incredible work ethic, I’m excited to join them and the Range Media team!”
Matthews most recently directed the critically-acclaimed adventure film, Love & Monsters starring Dylan O’Brien and Jessica Henwick for Paramount and 21 Laps, which was a hit PVOD release in fall of 2020 and will be released internationally by Netflix in April 2021. The film was hailed by critics as “One of the best surprises of 2020”, “Throwback to the Amblin-era fantasy adventure films”, “With surprising emotional depth” and debuted at #1 on iTunes and Amazon Prime. He first got attention for his contemporary African Spaghetti Western Five Fingers For Marseilles which was written by Drummond and premiered at TIFF in 2017 in the Discovery Program.
“Michael is a...
- 3/2/2021
- by Justin Kroll
- Deadline Film + TV
By Marc Butterfield
One of the best monster movies has invaded the screens from director Michael Matthews, Love And Monsters.
Seven years after the Monsterpocalypse, Joel Dawson (Dylan O’Brien), along with the rest of humanity, has been living underground ever since giant creatures took control of the land. After reconnecting over radio with his high school girlfriend Aimee (Jessica Henwick), who is now 80 miles away at a coastal colony, Joel begins to fall for her again. As Joel realizes that there’s nothing left for him underground, he decides against all logic to venture out to Aimee, despite all the dangerous monsters that stand in his way. The fun-filled and action-packed adventure also stars Michael Rooker and Ariana Greenblatt.
Love And Monsters starts out with a bang. Literally. The exposition puts you squarely in the “you are here” of the story, and so minimal time is wasted on trying to figure it all out.
One of the best monster movies has invaded the screens from director Michael Matthews, Love And Monsters.
Seven years after the Monsterpocalypse, Joel Dawson (Dylan O’Brien), along with the rest of humanity, has been living underground ever since giant creatures took control of the land. After reconnecting over radio with his high school girlfriend Aimee (Jessica Henwick), who is now 80 miles away at a coastal colony, Joel begins to fall for her again. As Joel realizes that there’s nothing left for him underground, he decides against all logic to venture out to Aimee, despite all the dangerous monsters that stand in his way. The fun-filled and action-packed adventure also stars Michael Rooker and Ariana Greenblatt.
Love And Monsters starts out with a bang. Literally. The exposition puts you squarely in the “you are here” of the story, and so minimal time is wasted on trying to figure it all out.
- 10/17/2020
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
We’re seven years past the apocalypse. Eight years since the world banded together to send every nuclear missile on Earth into the sky to stop an asteroid hell-bent on destroying all life. Things obviously didn’t work out too well if the latter wasn’t able to stop the former. Ends up that that much radioactivity falling back down through the atmosphere was just as cataclysmic—killing off a lot of the population and mutating cold-blooded animals/insects into giant monsters that ultimately killed the rest. Ninety-five percent of humanity was wiped out when all was said and done with the remaining five doing what they could to survive in underground bunkers. So any hope of seeing someone outside your colony starts with braving a suicide run few could ever survive.
And by “few” I mean definitely not Joel Dawson (Dylan O’Brien). At least not on first glance. He...
And by “few” I mean definitely not Joel Dawson (Dylan O’Brien). At least not on first glance. He...
- 10/16/2020
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
It’s tough enough for Joel (The Maze Runner‘s Dylan O’Brien) to get some alone time with Aimee (Jessica Henwick), the young woman he’s smitten with, on a good day. Throw in an apocalypse with giant monsters roaming the land and munching on anyone who crosses their path? Forget about it. Once upon a time, there was an asteroid heading toward our planet that threatened to wipe out all of humanity. The good news is that, having learned a lot from endless viewings of Armageddon, the people of...
- 10/15/2020
- by David Fear
- Rollingstone.com
Premiering at home and just in time for the Halloween season is Love And Monsters, available October 16th from Paramount Pictures.
Seven years after the Monsterpocalypse, Joel Dawson (Dylan O’Brien), along with the rest of humanity, has been living underground ever since giant creatures took control of the land. After reconnecting over radio with his high school girlfriend Aimee (Jessica Henwick), who is now 80 miles away at a coastal colony, Joel begins to fall for her again. As Joel realizes that there’s nothing left for him underground, he decides against all logic to venture out to Aimee, despite all the dangerous monsters that stand in his way. The fun-filled and action-packed adventure also stars Michael Rooker and Ariana Greenblatt.
Get some pizza and your drink of choice. This fun Friday night popcorn flick looks like a blast!
The movie is from director Michael Matthews (Five Fingers For Marseilles) and...
Seven years after the Monsterpocalypse, Joel Dawson (Dylan O’Brien), along with the rest of humanity, has been living underground ever since giant creatures took control of the land. After reconnecting over radio with his high school girlfriend Aimee (Jessica Henwick), who is now 80 miles away at a coastal colony, Joel begins to fall for her again. As Joel realizes that there’s nothing left for him underground, he decides against all logic to venture out to Aimee, despite all the dangerous monsters that stand in his way. The fun-filled and action-packed adventure also stars Michael Rooker and Ariana Greenblatt.
Get some pizza and your drink of choice. This fun Friday night popcorn flick looks like a blast!
The movie is from director Michael Matthews (Five Fingers For Marseilles) and...
- 9/20/2020
- by Michelle Hannett
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
"Listen to your instincts out here, man." Paramount has unveiled the first official trailer for the movie Love and Monsters, formerly known as Monster Problems. This is directed by the South African filmmaker behind Five Fingers for Marseilles previously. Seven years after the Monsterpocalypse, Joel along with the rest of humanity, has been living underground ever since giant creatures took control of the land. After reconnecting over radio with his high school girlfriend Aimee, he realizes that there's nothing left for him underground, he decides against all logic to venture out to Aimee, despite all the dangerous monsters that stand in his way. Starring Dylan O’Brien, Jessica Henwick, Michael Rooker, Ariana Greenblatt, Ellen Hollman, and Melanie Zanetti. This looks fun! Not only a cool post-apocalyptic monster-ravaged land, but a dog, and some fun adventures in an abandoned land. Plus a robot? And tons more - fire this up. Here's the...
- 9/15/2020
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Dylan O’Brien’s “Love and Monsters” will skip theaters to head straight to premium video on demand on Oct. 16.
Paramount Pictures’ science-fiction adventure had been scheduled to open theatrically on Feb. 12, 2021. Paramount made the announcement on Thursday amid ongoing uncertainty over the gradual reopening of movie theaters in North America after being mostly shuttered due to the Covid-19 pandemic since March.
“Given the demand for new, high-quality entertainment right now, Paramount has decided to release ‘Love and Monsters’ widely on digital platforms,” chief operating officer Andrew Gumpert said. “While we eagerly look forward to the reopening of movie theaters, we wanted to make this original and imaginative film available for everyone to enjoy at home.”
The movie takes place seven years after a “monsterpocalypse” forces all of humanity to move into underground colonies. O’Brien’s character decides to brave the surface and face the monsters standing between him and his high school sweetheart,...
Paramount Pictures’ science-fiction adventure had been scheduled to open theatrically on Feb. 12, 2021. Paramount made the announcement on Thursday amid ongoing uncertainty over the gradual reopening of movie theaters in North America after being mostly shuttered due to the Covid-19 pandemic since March.
“Given the demand for new, high-quality entertainment right now, Paramount has decided to release ‘Love and Monsters’ widely on digital platforms,” chief operating officer Andrew Gumpert said. “While we eagerly look forward to the reopening of movie theaters, we wanted to make this original and imaginative film available for everyone to enjoy at home.”
The movie takes place seven years after a “monsterpocalypse” forces all of humanity to move into underground colonies. O’Brien’s character decides to brave the surface and face the monsters standing between him and his high school sweetheart,...
- 8/20/2020
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Joseph Baxter Oct 23, 2019
Iron Fist’s Jessica Henwick and Maze Runner’s Dylan O’Brien will serve as the headliners for sci-fi film Monster Problems.
Monster Problems, a sci-fi film project in the pipeline at contemporary-aimed studio subdivision Paramount Players, appears to be putting a romantic spin on the crowded post-apocalyptic genre. Indeed, it's a coming-of-age tale that centers on a young man searching for the girl of his dreams while navigating a world that, as the title implies, is overrun by monsters.
Jessica Henwick (Iron Fist) will co-star in Monster Problems alongside Dylan O’Brien (The Maze Runner), as first reported by THR. O’Brien is set as the film's protagonist, with Henwick set to play the dream girl for whom he'll brave a global mutant apocalypse.
The film will be directed by Michael Matthews (Five Fingers for Marseilles), working off a screenplay by Matthew Robinson, updated from a previous screenplay by Brian Duffield.
Iron Fist’s Jessica Henwick and Maze Runner’s Dylan O’Brien will serve as the headliners for sci-fi film Monster Problems.
Monster Problems, a sci-fi film project in the pipeline at contemporary-aimed studio subdivision Paramount Players, appears to be putting a romantic spin on the crowded post-apocalyptic genre. Indeed, it's a coming-of-age tale that centers on a young man searching for the girl of his dreams while navigating a world that, as the title implies, is overrun by monsters.
Jessica Henwick (Iron Fist) will co-star in Monster Problems alongside Dylan O’Brien (The Maze Runner), as first reported by THR. O’Brien is set as the film's protagonist, with Henwick set to play the dream girl for whom he'll brave a global mutant apocalypse.
The film will be directed by Michael Matthews (Five Fingers for Marseilles), working off a screenplay by Matthew Robinson, updated from a previous screenplay by Brian Duffield.
- 4/2/2019
- Den of Geek
Jessica Henwick, who played Colleen Wing on Netflix’s Marvel shows Iron Fist and The Defenders, will star opposite Dylan O’Brien in Monster Problems, the romance-tinged sci-fi feature from Paramount Players.
Shawn Levy and Dan Cohen of 21 Laps, the company behind Stranger Things, are producing, while Michael Matthews (Five Fingers for Marseilles) is in the director’s chair.
Written by Brian Duffield and Matthew Robinson, the project is a coming-of-age story about a young man (O’Brien) living in a post-apocalyptic world overrun by monsters who travels through a hostile environment to find the girl of his dreams. Henwick will play the ...
Shawn Levy and Dan Cohen of 21 Laps, the company behind Stranger Things, are producing, while Michael Matthews (Five Fingers for Marseilles) is in the director’s chair.
Written by Brian Duffield and Matthew Robinson, the project is a coming-of-age story about a young man (O’Brien) living in a post-apocalyptic world overrun by monsters who travels through a hostile environment to find the girl of his dreams. Henwick will play the ...
Jessica Henwick, who played Colleen Wing on Netflix’s Marvel shows Iron Fist and The Defenders, will star opposite Dylan O’Brien in Monster Problems, the romance-tinged sci-fi feature from Paramount Players.
Shawn Levy and Dan Cohen of 21 Laps, the company behind Stranger Things, are producing, while Michael Matthews (Five Fingers for Marseilles) is in the director’s chair.
Written by Brian Duffield and Matthew Robinson, the project is a coming-of-age story about a young man (O’Brien) living in a post-apocalyptic world overrun by monsters who travels through a hostile environment to find the girl of his dreams. Henwick will play the ...
Shawn Levy and Dan Cohen of 21 Laps, the company behind Stranger Things, are producing, while Michael Matthews (Five Fingers for Marseilles) is in the director’s chair.
Written by Brian Duffield and Matthew Robinson, the project is a coming-of-age story about a young man (O’Brien) living in a post-apocalyptic world overrun by monsters who travels through a hostile environment to find the girl of his dreams. Henwick will play the ...
Exclusive: Avengers: Infinity War actress Ariana Greenblatt has booked the role of Minnow in the upcoming Paramount Players feature Monster Problems starring Dylan O’Brien and Michael Rooker.
Monster Problems is a coming of age feature film about a young man living in a post-apocalyptic world overrun by monsters. Michael Matthews (Five Fingers for Marseilles) will direct with Shawn Levy producing at 21 Laps off Brian Duffield and Matthew Robinson’s screenplay.
A New York City native, Greenblatt credits also include Stx’s Bad Moms Christmas and the upcoming Walt Disney movie The One and Only Ivan opposite Angelina Jolie and Bryan Cranston. Greenblatt also stars on the Disney Channel series Stuck in the Middle. In Infinity War, Greenblatt played Young Gamora.
As Deadline exclusively announced, Rooker will play Clyde, an expert hunter who teaches Joel Dawson (O’Brien) how to survive the Monster Apocalypse.
Greenblatt is repped by Paradigm, Untitled Entertainment...
Monster Problems is a coming of age feature film about a young man living in a post-apocalyptic world overrun by monsters. Michael Matthews (Five Fingers for Marseilles) will direct with Shawn Levy producing at 21 Laps off Brian Duffield and Matthew Robinson’s screenplay.
A New York City native, Greenblatt credits also include Stx’s Bad Moms Christmas and the upcoming Walt Disney movie The One and Only Ivan opposite Angelina Jolie and Bryan Cranston. Greenblatt also stars on the Disney Channel series Stuck in the Middle. In Infinity War, Greenblatt played Young Gamora.
As Deadline exclusively announced, Rooker will play Clyde, an expert hunter who teaches Joel Dawson (O’Brien) how to survive the Monster Apocalypse.
Greenblatt is repped by Paradigm, Untitled Entertainment...
- 3/22/2019
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Michael Rooker (Guardians of the Galaxy) has been cast in the upcoming post-apocalyptic monster movie Monster Problems.
He joins Dylan O’Brien (The Maze Runner) in the film, which is being directed by Michael Matthews (Five Fingers for Marseilles). Shawn Levy (Stranger Things) is producing the film.
The film is a “coming-of-age story about a young man living in a post-apocalyptic world overrun by monsters.” Rooker will take on the role of a character named Clyde, “an expert hunter who teaches Joel Dawson (O’Brien) how to survive the Monster Apocalypse.”
Rooker is awesome, and this sounds like it could be a fun creature feature project for him to jump on.
Source: Deadline...
He joins Dylan O’Brien (The Maze Runner) in the film, which is being directed by Michael Matthews (Five Fingers for Marseilles). Shawn Levy (Stranger Things) is producing the film.
The film is a “coming-of-age story about a young man living in a post-apocalyptic world overrun by monsters.” Rooker will take on the role of a character named Clyde, “an expert hunter who teaches Joel Dawson (O’Brien) how to survive the Monster Apocalypse.”
Rooker is awesome, and this sounds like it could be a fun creature feature project for him to jump on.
Source: Deadline...
- 3/22/2019
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
Exclusive: Michael Rooker has been set to star alongside Dylan O’Brien in Monster Problems, a potential franchise film that Michael Matthews (Five Fingers for Marseilles) will direct with Shawn Levy producing at 21 Laps. Rooker will play Clyde, an expert hunter who teaches Joel Dawson (O’Brien) how to survive the Monster Apocalypse.
The script by Brian Duffield & Matthew Robinson is a coming-of-age story about a young man living in a post-apocalyptic world overrun by monsters.
Rooker can currently be seen opposite Mahershala Ali in season three of HBO’s True Detective, and he just wrapped production on Sony’s Fantasy Island. The film gives him a shot at another franchise after he completed his turn as Yondu in the Guardians of the Galaxy franchise and as the redneck Merle in The Walking Dead.
Rooker is repped by Link Entertainment and Gersh.
The script by Brian Duffield & Matthew Robinson is a coming-of-age story about a young man living in a post-apocalyptic world overrun by monsters.
Rooker can currently be seen opposite Mahershala Ali in season three of HBO’s True Detective, and he just wrapped production on Sony’s Fantasy Island. The film gives him a shot at another franchise after he completed his turn as Yondu in the Guardians of the Galaxy franchise and as the redneck Merle in The Walking Dead.
Rooker is repped by Link Entertainment and Gersh.
- 3/20/2019
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Dylan O’Brien (Photo credit: Marc Piasecki/WireImage)
Dylan O’Brien will star in Monster Problems, a Paramount Pictures’ post-apocalyptic thriller/romance which will shoot in Queensland.
The production will receive $7.7 million from the federal government’s four-year, $140 million Location Incentive Program and will be the first to use the new $12 million Screen Queensland Studios in the Brisbane bayside suburb of Hemmant.
Shawn Levy’s 21 Laps will produce the film directed by South African Michael Matthews, who made his debut with Five Fingers for Marseilles, a Western about a young lion who kills two corrupt policemen in a South African shanty town.
Matt Robinson rewrote the script by Brian Duffield, described as a coming-of-age tale about a young man in a post-apocalyptic world overrun by monsters. He must overcome the monsters to be with the girl of his dreams.
Minister for Communications and the Arts Mitch Fifield said the production...
Dylan O’Brien will star in Monster Problems, a Paramount Pictures’ post-apocalyptic thriller/romance which will shoot in Queensland.
The production will receive $7.7 million from the federal government’s four-year, $140 million Location Incentive Program and will be the first to use the new $12 million Screen Queensland Studios in the Brisbane bayside suburb of Hemmant.
Shawn Levy’s 21 Laps will produce the film directed by South African Michael Matthews, who made his debut with Five Fingers for Marseilles, a Western about a young lion who kills two corrupt policemen in a South African shanty town.
Matt Robinson rewrote the script by Brian Duffield, described as a coming-of-age tale about a young man in a post-apocalyptic world overrun by monsters. He must overcome the monsters to be with the girl of his dreams.
Minister for Communications and the Arts Mitch Fifield said the production...
- 2/10/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Welcome to Rumorville! Here you can learn about casting news that’s about to break in Hollywood. These speculations might be only rumors, but that doesn’t mean you can’t follow the trail all the way to the audition room. “American Utopia”If you missed your chance to see David Byrne’s recent “American Utopia” tour, those local to New York or London might soon be in luck for more than just a theater ticket. In a recent interview in The Guardian, the former Talking Heads frontman revealed he has had interest from both Broadway and the West End about turning the tour into some kind of show. Whether he means the “Springsteen on Broadway” route or a full jukebox musical hasn’t been revealed. It’s far too early to start any speculation on who could be bringing the show to the stage, but this will certainly be...
- 10/26/2018
- backstage.com
With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options — not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves — we’re highlighting the noteworthy titles that have recently hit platforms. Check out this week’s selections below and an archive of past round-ups here.
Adam Sandler: 100% Fresh (Steven Brill)
All of Adam Sandler’s non-Baumbach-directed Netflix original movies were worth it if it meant we got this. His latest stand-up special is funny, yes, but also honest and emotionally piercing in unexpected ways. It’s a return to form with a sincere dose of nostalgia for both those that grew up with his comedies and for Sandler, who reflects on his career and those that have been with him along the way. I’ve watched it twice this week and nearly teared up both times. Bring on Uncut Gems. – Jordan R.
Where to Stream: Netflix
BlacKkKlansman (Spike Lee)
There are...
Adam Sandler: 100% Fresh (Steven Brill)
All of Adam Sandler’s non-Baumbach-directed Netflix original movies were worth it if it meant we got this. His latest stand-up special is funny, yes, but also honest and emotionally piercing in unexpected ways. It’s a return to form with a sincere dose of nostalgia for both those that grew up with his comedies and for Sandler, who reflects on his career and those that have been with him along the way. I’ve watched it twice this week and nearly teared up both times. Bring on Uncut Gems. – Jordan R.
Where to Stream: Netflix
BlacKkKlansman (Spike Lee)
There are...
- 10/26/2018
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Exclusive: Michael Matthews is set to direct Monster Problems at Paramount Players, with Dylan O’Brien in talks to star. Shawn Levy’s 21 Laps is producing.
Matthews directed Five Fingers for Marseilles. Matt Robinson is rewriting the Monster Problems script by Brian Duffield, who wrote the Black List script Jane Got a Gun. Pic is a post-apocalyptic road movie with heart.
Wme and Management 360 rep Matthews; O’Brien, who’s coming off The Maze Runner and American Assassin, is with Wme and Principal Entertainment. Robinson is repped by 3 Arts and ICM Partners.
Matthews directed Five Fingers for Marseilles. Matt Robinson is rewriting the Monster Problems script by Brian Duffield, who wrote the Black List script Jane Got a Gun. Pic is a post-apocalyptic road movie with heart.
Wme and Management 360 rep Matthews; O’Brien, who’s coming off The Maze Runner and American Assassin, is with Wme and Principal Entertainment. Robinson is repped by 3 Arts and ICM Partners.
- 10/22/2018
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Stars: Zethu Dlomo, Garth Breytenbach, Kenneth Fok, Dean Fourie, Vuyo Dabula, Warren Masemola, Kenneth Nkosi, Brendon Daniels, Jerry Mofokeng, Anthony Oseyemi, Mduduzi Mabaso, Lizwi Vilakazi, Hamilton Dhlamini, Aubrey Poolo | Written by Sean Drummond | Directed by Michael Matthews
A story about five friends who as kids decide that they are charged with the task of saving there home town of Marseilles. As protectors they become known as the Five Fingers. They will stand tall against the police force that has a strangle hold on their town. That is until there fearless and headstrong leader Tau (Vuyo Dabula) realises that catapults, sticks and stones are no use against bullets. During a confrontation Tau takes the life of two officers and feels like the only way to protect his friends is to flee the town he loves.
Cut to 20 years later and life has been a never ending struggle for Tau, after years...
A story about five friends who as kids decide that they are charged with the task of saving there home town of Marseilles. As protectors they become known as the Five Fingers. They will stand tall against the police force that has a strangle hold on their town. That is until there fearless and headstrong leader Tau (Vuyo Dabula) realises that catapults, sticks and stones are no use against bullets. During a confrontation Tau takes the life of two officers and feels like the only way to protect his friends is to flee the town he loves.
Cut to 20 years later and life has been a never ending struggle for Tau, after years...
- 10/3/2018
- by Kevin Haldon
- Nerdly
Hello, readers! October is only a few hours away now, and beyond the fact that most of us have been counting down to the official start of everyone’s favorite month, it also means that we have a brand new batch of horror and sci-fi releases to look forward to on digital and VOD platforms in the coming weeks.
Easily the busiest day of October (and possibly even all of 2018), there are 11 different movies hitting various platforms on October 2nd, with highlights including The First Purge, Tales From the Hood 2, Sleep No More and Molly. On October 5th, one of my favorite films of 2018, Heavy Trip, is making its digital debut, and Knuckleball, featuring Michael Ironside, comes home the same day as well.
Netflix is keeping very busy throughout October, too, with a variety of films and genre-related series that fans are certainly going to want to check out in the coming weeks.
Easily the busiest day of October (and possibly even all of 2018), there are 11 different movies hitting various platforms on October 2nd, with highlights including The First Purge, Tales From the Hood 2, Sleep No More and Molly. On October 5th, one of my favorite films of 2018, Heavy Trip, is making its digital debut, and Knuckleball, featuring Michael Ironside, comes home the same day as well.
Netflix is keeping very busy throughout October, too, with a variety of films and genre-related series that fans are certainly going to want to check out in the coming weeks.
- 9/30/2018
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
Finger Food: Matthews Attempts to Mount a Western in Modern Colonialist Trauma
Kudos to director Michael Matthews and screenwriter Sean Drummond for taking the time to develop the perspective of an indigenous South African population driving the story of their attempted genre thriller in debut Five Fingers for Marseilles. But while pains were obviously taken to keep the development of their central characterizations intact, this Western infused melodrama hemorrhages the tension it so feverishly attempts to distill in the groundwork of its first act.
As a narrator explains the development of a region thanks to a railway system, the displacement of the natives to a hilly terrain renamed Railway finds the inhabitants dependent upon the transportation system for economic well-being.…...
Kudos to director Michael Matthews and screenwriter Sean Drummond for taking the time to develop the perspective of an indigenous South African population driving the story of their attempted genre thriller in debut Five Fingers for Marseilles. But while pains were obviously taken to keep the development of their central characterizations intact, this Western infused melodrama hemorrhages the tension it so feverishly attempts to distill in the groundwork of its first act.
As a narrator explains the development of a region thanks to a railway system, the displacement of the natives to a hilly terrain renamed Railway finds the inhabitants dependent upon the transportation system for economic well-being.…...
- 9/19/2018
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Weekend debuts are minimal as the film industry’s gravity heads north to the Toronto International Film Festival, though some roll outs hope to fill a narrow vacuum of new specialties in the marketplace ahead of the coming fall onslaught. Sundance premiere, Hal, about Oscar-nominated filmmaker Hal Ashby boasts an impressive roster of stars talking about the director behind classics such as Harold and Maude, Shampoo and Being There. Oscilloscope opens the doc exclusively in New York today before heading to L.A. next weekend. Music Box Films is rolling out French drama-mystery The Apparition, which it first viewed in the European Film Market coinciding with the Berlinale in February. And Uncork’d Entertainment is spearheading the stateside launch of South Africa’s Five Fingers for Marseilles, which it picked up out of Toronto last year, heading out Friday in a day and date release.
Also notable is that Ethan Hawke...
Also notable is that Ethan Hawke...
- 9/7/2018
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
There’s an irony to the term “Revisionist Western.” It makes sense within the confines of the genre itself, delving into moral greys and tales of adapting to survive, all while taking the form of cinema once steeped in moral binaries. In a historical context however, it’s essentially re-revisionism — or reclamation, if the term tickles […]
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- 9/4/2018
- by Siddhant Adlakha
- Slash Film
If you’ve already perused our massive fall preview, you’ll be familair with more than a handful of titles as we look deeper into this September’s film offerings. Alongside festival favorites from earlier this year (and beyond) all the way up to films just debuting at Telluride, Venice, and Tiff, it’s a strong start to a promising season for movie-going.
Matinees to See: Science Fair (9/14), A Simple Favor (9/14), White Boy Rick (9/14), I Think We’re Alone Now (9/14), A Boy. A Girl. A Dream. (9/14), Fahrenheit 11/9 (9/21), Love, Gilda (9/21), Monsters and Men (9/28)
15. Museo (Alonso Ruizpalacios; Sept. 15)
After his break-out film Güeros, Alonso Ruizpalacios premiered his latest film at Berlinale this year and now it finally arrives in theaters. Rory O’Connor said in his review, “It is the latest work of Alonso Ruizpalacios, an obliquely political filmmaker with an eye for cinematic homage. His latest is essentially a heist movie,...
Matinees to See: Science Fair (9/14), A Simple Favor (9/14), White Boy Rick (9/14), I Think We’re Alone Now (9/14), A Boy. A Girl. A Dream. (9/14), Fahrenheit 11/9 (9/21), Love, Gilda (9/21), Monsters and Men (9/28)
15. Museo (Alonso Ruizpalacios; Sept. 15)
After his break-out film Güeros, Alonso Ruizpalacios premiered his latest film at Berlinale this year and now it finally arrives in theaters. Rory O’Connor said in his review, “It is the latest work of Alonso Ruizpalacios, an obliquely political filmmaker with an eye for cinematic homage. His latest is essentially a heist movie,...
- 9/4/2018
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
"This is a story about five fighters." Uncork'd Entertainment has debuted a bloody new red band trailer for the South African action western film Five Fingers for Marseilles, which first premiered at the Toronto Film Festival last year. The story follows a young boy whose life is changed forever when he kills two corrupt policemen in a South African shanty town. Decades later, he finally heads home but his return brings out his enemies who go after him and all of his friends. The film stars Vuyo Dabula as our hero Tau, along with Hamilton Dhlamini, Zethu Dlomo, Kenneth Nkosi, Mduduzi Mabaso, Aubrey Poolo, Lizwi Vilakazi, Warren Masemola, Anthony Oseyemi, Jerry Mofokeng, plus Kenneth Fok. This "neo-noir" Western has been getting great reviews and looks like it's worth your time to watch if you want to see something gritty and different and entertaining. Get a final glimpse at this here before it hits theaters soon.
- 8/27/2018
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
As we quickly approach yet another Toronto International Film Festival, which is set to have perhaps its biggest year ever in 2018, it’s time to take a look back to 2017 and a film that surprised many — “Five Fingers for Marseilles.”
Debuting at Tiff as part of the 2017 Discovery section, ‘Five Fingers’ is the feature directorial debut for South African filmmaker Michael Matthews.
Continue reading ‘Five Fingers For Marseilles’ Red Band Trailer: Five Rebels Defend A Town In This Bloody Western From Tiff at The Playlist.
Debuting at Tiff as part of the 2017 Discovery section, ‘Five Fingers’ is the feature directorial debut for South African filmmaker Michael Matthews.
Continue reading ‘Five Fingers For Marseilles’ Red Band Trailer: Five Rebels Defend A Town In This Bloody Western From Tiff at The Playlist.
- 8/27/2018
- by Charles Barfield
- The Playlist
Five Fingers for Marseilles Red Band Trailer Uncork’d Entertainment has released the red band movie trailer for Five Fingers for Marseilles (2017). This trailer is violent. I have seen bloody westerns previously but I don’t think that I have seen anything at this level – inventive and gritty. This western is not all about pistols. Machetes, [...]
Continue reading: Five Fingers For Marseilles Red Band Movie Trailer: Michael Matthews’s Inventive Western is Violent...
Continue reading: Five Fingers For Marseilles Red Band Movie Trailer: Michael Matthews’s Inventive Western is Violent...
- 8/25/2018
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising? This week […]
The post This Week In Trailers: Black 47, Science Fair, Five Fingers For Marseilles, Minding the Gap, Our Man in Tehran, Anthropocene appeared first on /Film.
The post This Week In Trailers: Black 47, Science Fair, Five Fingers For Marseilles, Minding the Gap, Our Man in Tehran, Anthropocene appeared first on /Film.
- 8/4/2018
- by Christopher Stipp
- Slash Film
Durban — With world leaders arriving in Johannesburg this week, with an aim toward boosting trade ties and stimulating the economies of the five member states at the annual Brics summit, delegations from Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa gathered in Durban to highlight the countries’ cultural output at the 3rd annual Brics Film Festival.
Running parallel to the Durban Film Festival, the Brics festival opened Sunday night with a splashy ceremony featuring live performances and short films from each of the member states. At the Durban FilmMart on Monday, a delegation of filmmakers and cultural representatives from each nation gathered to look at how the festival – still in its infant stages – can set the groundwork for greater collaboration in the years ahead.
“We do have a lot more in common with Brics countries than we have with our brothers and sisters in other parts of the world,” said South African filmmaker Xoliswa Sithole,...
Running parallel to the Durban Film Festival, the Brics festival opened Sunday night with a splashy ceremony featuring live performances and short films from each of the member states. At the Durban FilmMart on Monday, a delegation of filmmakers and cultural representatives from each nation gathered to look at how the festival – still in its infant stages – can set the groundwork for greater collaboration in the years ahead.
“We do have a lot more in common with Brics countries than we have with our brothers and sisters in other parts of the world,” said South African filmmaker Xoliswa Sithole,...
- 7/24/2018
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
Durban — Financing African films has always required equal parts imagination and hustle, and as the global movie industry weathers its own seismic upheaval from new financing and distribution challenges, filmmakers on the continent are learning to adapt on the fly.
That was the takeaway of a Durban FilmMart panel July 21, where Dayo Ogunyemi, an investor and founder of 234 Media; Chioma Onyenwe, a producer and the director of the Africa Int’l. Film Festival; Todd Brown, head of international acquisitions at Xyz Films; and Michael Auret, a producer with Spier Films, reckoned with the transformation in how filmmakers today are forced to do business.
“The pre-sales market is becoming progressively harder and harder,” said Brown, whose company was the North American sales agent for recent South African fest hits “Five Fingers for Marseilles” and “Number 37,” and is developing an adaptation of South African sci-fi novel “Apocalypse Now Now.” “That model...
That was the takeaway of a Durban FilmMart panel July 21, where Dayo Ogunyemi, an investor and founder of 234 Media; Chioma Onyenwe, a producer and the director of the Africa Int’l. Film Festival; Todd Brown, head of international acquisitions at Xyz Films; and Michael Auret, a producer with Spier Films, reckoned with the transformation in how filmmakers today are forced to do business.
“The pre-sales market is becoming progressively harder and harder,” said Brown, whose company was the North American sales agent for recent South African fest hits “Five Fingers for Marseilles” and “Number 37,” and is developing an adaptation of South African sci-fi novel “Apocalypse Now Now.” “That model...
- 7/22/2018
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
When the 9th annual Durban FilmMart (Dfm) kicks off on July 20, with a busy four-day program running parallel to the Durban Int’l. Film Festival (Diff), organizers will be looking to build on nearly a decade of steady growth at the continent’s leading finance forum, and the premier springboard for African filmmakers launching into the international marketplace.
“One of the key objectives in establishing Durban FilmMart was to create a platform for African filmmakers to connect with the global markets,” said Toni Monty, head of the Durban Film Office, which jointly organizes the Dfm along with Diff and the eThekwini Municipality. “Durban FilmMart, however, can only take them so far. We work with partner markets in identifying projects that are ready to be exposed to international markets, so in this sense, in many respects, Dfm acts as an introduction and entry point for these filmmakers.”
16 African projects, evenly split between fiction and documentary,...
“One of the key objectives in establishing Durban FilmMart was to create a platform for African filmmakers to connect with the global markets,” said Toni Monty, head of the Durban Film Office, which jointly organizes the Dfm along with Diff and the eThekwini Municipality. “Durban FilmMart, however, can only take them so far. We work with partner markets in identifying projects that are ready to be exposed to international markets, so in this sense, in many respects, Dfm acts as an introduction and entry point for these filmmakers.”
16 African projects, evenly split between fiction and documentary,...
- 7/18/2018
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
In an isolated stronghold of South Africa’s Afrikaaner community, a religious housewife welcomes a hardened street orphan into her home, upsetting a tight-knit family dynamic and setting off a power struggle for a father’s love.
In Etienne Kallos’ feature debut, “The Harvesters,” which premieres in Un Certain Regard, the generational rift at the heart of one conservative household raises broader questions about the role South Africa’s white ethnic minority played in the country’s brutal past, and the place it has in the young nation’s future.
Says Kallos, “There is a wordless legacy that needs to be addressed.”
Born and raised in South Africa, Kallos left the country for the U.S. nearly two decades ago, returning over the course of a career that’s seen him produce two U.S.-lensed shorts that screened in Venice and Cannes. For his feature debut, Kallos saw a...
In Etienne Kallos’ feature debut, “The Harvesters,” which premieres in Un Certain Regard, the generational rift at the heart of one conservative household raises broader questions about the role South Africa’s white ethnic minority played in the country’s brutal past, and the place it has in the young nation’s future.
Says Kallos, “There is a wordless legacy that needs to be addressed.”
Born and raised in South Africa, Kallos left the country for the U.S. nearly two decades ago, returning over the course of a career that’s seen him produce two U.S.-lensed shorts that screened in Venice and Cannes. For his feature debut, Kallos saw a...
- 5/14/2018
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
"Marseilles was never free, but it will be. Change is coming." EntertainmentOne has unveiled a new full-length official trailer for the action western film Five Fingers for Marseilles, which first premiered at the Toronto Film Festival last year. We posted the teaser trailer for this "neo-western" set in South Africa just before the festival last year, now we have a full theatrical trailer. The story follows a young boy whose life is changed forever when he kills two corrupt policemen in a South African shanty town. Decades later, he finally heads home but his return brings out his enemies who go after him and all of his friends. The film stars Vuyo Dabula as Tau, along with Hamilton Dhlamini, Zethu Dlomo, Kenneth Nkosi, Mduduzi Mabaso, Aubrey Poolo, Lizwi Vilakazi, Warren Masemola, Anthony Oseyemi, Jerry Mofokeng, plus Kenneth Fok. This looks very cool, very gritty. I'm quite curious to check it out,...
- 2/18/2018
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Earlier today the folks at the Northwest Film Center announced the full line-up for this year’s Portland International Film Festival, and have published a Pdf for all to read online. The printed copies will be making their way around town this week.
The Northwest Film Center is proud to reveal the 41st Portland International Film Festival (Piff 41) lineup. This year’s Festival begins on Thursday, February 15th and runs through Thursday, March 1st. Our Opening Night selection is the new comedy The Death of Stalin from writer/director Armando Iannucci (Veep, In the Loop). The film, adapted from the graphic novel by Fabien Nury, stars Steve Buscemi, Olga Kurylenko, Jason Isaacs, and Michael Palin. The Death of Stalin will screen simultaneously on Opening Night at the Whitsell Auditorium, located in the Portland Art Museum (1219 Sw Park Ave) and on two screens at Regal Fox Tower 10 (846 Sw Park Ave).
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The Northwest Film Center is proud to reveal the 41st Portland International Film Festival (Piff 41) lineup. This year’s Festival begins on Thursday, February 15th and runs through Thursday, March 1st. Our Opening Night selection is the new comedy The Death of Stalin from writer/director Armando Iannucci (Veep, In the Loop). The film, adapted from the graphic novel by Fabien Nury, stars Steve Buscemi, Olga Kurylenko, Jason Isaacs, and Michael Palin. The Death of Stalin will screen simultaneously on Opening Night at the Whitsell Auditorium, located in the Portland Art Museum (1219 Sw Park Ave) and on two screens at Regal Fox Tower 10 (846 Sw Park Ave).
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- 1/30/2018
- by Ryan Gallagher
- CriterionCast
The opening scenes of director’s Michael Matthews “Five Fingers for Marseilles” — which premiered in the Discovery section of this year’s edition of Toronto International Film Festival, and is now screening at Fantastic Fest — already pay homage to the genre he hopes to breathe new life into. With dazzling wide-open shots, Matthews brings the spaghetti western to South Africa, all the while examining issues of apartheid and colonialism through the native people’s lenses.
Continue reading ‘Five Fingers For Marseilles’ Is A South African Spaghetti Western [Review] at The Playlist.
Continue reading ‘Five Fingers For Marseilles’ Is A South African Spaghetti Western [Review] at The Playlist.
- 9/25/2017
- by Ingrid Oliveira Silva Keller
- The Playlist
Director Michael Matthews and writer Sean Drummond were drawn to the landscapes of South Africa’s Eastern Cape while traveling their homeland, especially the echoes of classic cinematic western environments. Learning about how its current towns arose — from the ashes of Apartheid-era cities mimicking European capitals by name — only cemented the comparison, each a product of the locals taking control once their oppressors left after their government changed hands and the train lines shutdown. This new frontier became the pair’s setting, their story gelling after seven years of research and development to do right by the inhabitants’ history and struggles. Sprinkle in a bit of legend and lore to create an antihero hidden beneath rage and Five Fingers for Marseilles was born.
The title describes a quintet of childhood friends caught within Apartheid’s grip. Too young to feel the effects as greatly as their defeated parents, they’re...
The title describes a quintet of childhood friends caught within Apartheid’s grip. Too young to feel the effects as greatly as their defeated parents, they’re...
- 9/10/2017
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
Five Fingers for Marseilles Trailer Michael Matthews‘ Five Fingers for Marseilles (2017) movie trailer stars Vuyo Dabula, Zethu Dlomo, Kenneth Fok, Warren Masemola, and Garth Breytenbach. Five Fingers for Marseilles‘ plot synopsis: “Apartheid South Africa: The community of Railway, attached to the remote town of Marseilles, are the victims of brutal police oppression and [...]
Continue reading: Five Fingers For Marseilles (2017) Teaser Trailer: A Gritty, Neo-western set in South Africa...
Continue reading: Five Fingers For Marseilles (2017) Teaser Trailer: A Gritty, Neo-western set in South Africa...
- 9/2/2017
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
It was just under two weeks ago that we shared the first teaser for South African urban fantasy Apocalypse Now Now - adapted from Charlie Human's novel by director Michael Matthews and writer-producer Sean Drummond (the creative team behind upcoming western Five Fingers For Marseilles) as a precursor to a feature film currently in development with District Nine writer Terri Tatchell - and with the full short film due to premiere tomorrow on Short Of The Week we've now got some brand new poster art to share. Snarky, monster-porn-dealing teen, Baxter Zevcenko, might be a serial killer. His girlfriend, Esme, is missing, and he’s the prime suspect. To clear his name, he’ll turn to Cape Town’s grizzliest, drunkest bounty hunter, Jackson ‘Jackie’ Ronin. Little does...
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- 8/28/2017
- Screen Anarchy
"You've been sent to judge me." This looks like it could be a big breakout at the Toronto Film Festival this year. A teaser trailer has debuted for the film Five Fingers for Marseilles, a "neo-western" set in South Africa. The story follows a young boy whose life is changed forever when he kills two corrupt policemen in a South African shanty town. Two decades later, he finally heads home but his return brings out his enemies who go after him and all of his friends. Starring Vuyo Dabula, Hamilton Dhlamini, Zethu Dlomo, Kenneth Nkosi, Mduduzi Mabaso, Aubrey Poolo, Lizwi Vilakazi, Warren Masemola, Anthony Oseyemi, Brendon Daniels, and Jerry Mofokeng. The two filmmakers spent 7 years researching and developing this, "including 5,000 miles of cross-country travel, development, and filming amidst the erratic winter weather of the Eastern Cape." From the looks of it, this film might just be as awesome as it sounds.
- 8/25/2017
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Cape Tow's Michael Matthews (Five Fingers For Marseilles) and District 9 writer Terri Tatchell have joined forces with Todd Brown of Xyz Films to adapt Charlie Human's cult novel "Apocalypse Now Now and the results look spectacular!
This teaser, which premiered on ScreenAnarchy, is for a short proof of concept film that will be released exclusively on Short of the Week August 29 so be sure to watch for the whole thing then.
Synopsis:
Snarky, monster- [Continued ...]...
This teaser, which premiered on ScreenAnarchy, is for a short proof of concept film that will be released exclusively on Short of the Week August 29 so be sure to watch for the whole thing then.
Synopsis:
Snarky, monster- [Continued ...]...
- 8/21/2017
- QuietEarth.us
We've been keeping a close eye on Michael Matthews' upcoming South African western Five Fingers For Marseilles for some time now and with word that the film wrapped principal photography at the end of last week comes a further trio of absolutely gorgeous images from the film. Twenty years ago, the young ‘Five Fingers’ fought for the rural town of Marseilles, against brutal police oppression. Now, after fleeing in disgrace, freedom-fighter-turned-‘outlaw’ Tau returns to Marseilles, seeking only a peaceful pastoral life. When he finds the town under new threat, he must reluctantly fight to free it. Will the Five Fingers ride again? This batch of images gives us a fresh look at the young characters we've seen before now fully decked out in action mode,...
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- 8/29/2016
- Screen Anarchy
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