Creative film

(Photo by Warner Bros.) Director James Wan and his creative partner Leigh Whannell burst into the industry with their 2003 short Seen, which they remade a year later as a Lionsgate feature film. Introducing the horror icon Jigsaw (the moral and vengeful architect of an escape room with plenty of free time, played with aplomb by Tobin Bell), SeenThe high-level ...

Demonic didn’t wow critics as Neill Blomkamp’s sci-fi horror teased armed exorcists and nightmarish worlds, for breaking any promises. by Neill Blomkamp Demonic wasted not one, but two of the most promising vanities teased by the film’s promotional material, turning a potentially compelling premise into a disappointing and all-too-familiar finished film. Blomkamp’s first feature film District 9 was a breath ...

September 1 – A new year, a new 72 Film Fest! Every year is a different theme, and this year is no different. The theme for 2021 is “The Interpretation and Recreation of Dreams”. What exactly will be asked of each filmmaker will be kept a secret until the online launch party on September 23. Will filmmakers choose to tell ...

So you have an idea for a scenario. It’s really great, isn’t it? And while there has never been a better chance to make your film run – the industry is hungry for great stories, the technology you need to make it is literally in your hands – Hollywood is 1,129 miles away. and you don’t know where to start. ...

The Spider-Man: No Way Home trailer reveals the premise of the film, but given Marvel’s marketing history, it’s best not to be taken at face value. Given the history of Marvel’s cheats, it’s best not to take the Spider-Man: No Path Home trailer at face value. The first look at Tom Holland’s third solo film as a wall-crawler was long ...

Ot over the past six years, famous filmmaker Neill Blomkamp (District 9, Elysium) was attached to the suites of Aliens and RoboCop, two of the most beloved series in modern science fiction. Yet despite considerable online interest in both projects – which allegedly ignored subsequent installments and resumed immediately after 1986 Aliens and 1987 RoboCop, respectively, neither looks likely to ...

Ranveer Singh shared this photo. (Image courtesy: ranveersingh) Strong points Sanjay Leela Bhansali completed 25 years in the film industry Ranveer Singh dedicated two special Instagram posts to the filmmaker “His pursuit of excellence is relentless,” wrote Ranveer Singh New Delhi: Filmmaker Sanjay Leela Bhansali has spent 25 years in the Hindi film industry today and actor Ranveer Singh, who ...

With the release of a third new Rick & Morty animated short in tandem with Season 5, Adult Swim confirms that more shorts are on the way. Adult Swim confirms that it will produce Rick and morty animated shorts after the creative success of the three existing animated shorts in the series. Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland’s adult sci-fi cartoon ...

This week’s Ketchup brings you more headlines from the world of film development news, covering titles such as Blue beetle, Flash Gordon, and the Hunger games prequel. TOP STORY OF THE WEEK TAIKA WAITITI IS ANIMATED GORDON FLASH WILL BE LIVE ACTION INSTEAD (Photo by Rodin Eckenroth / Getty Images) In the summer of 2019, we learned for the first ...

Alphonse Pierre’s writer Pitchfork rap chronicle covers songs, mixtapes, albums, Instagram freestyles, memes, weird tweets, fashion trends–and anything that catches his eye. Four possible storylines for Travis Scott’s A24 movie I was starting to worry. We are eight months into 2021 and partnerships with the Travis Scott brand have been rare. So I’m grateful to A24, everyone’s favorite movie studio ...

KUCHING: A total of RM 54 million of the RM 89.2 million allocated under the Malaysian Creative Industry Stimulation Program (PRISMA) has so far been distributed to creative industry practitioners in the country . Communications and Multimedia Minister Datuk Saifuddin Abdullah (pix) said the government aims to distribute the remaining funds to creative industry practitioners before the end of the ...

Become Led Zeppelin, the documentary about the iconic rock band, has been added to the lineup at the Venice Film Festival (September 1-11) in an out-of-competition niche. Directed by Bernard Mac Mahon (American epic), and co-written and produced by Allison mcgourty, the film features members of the group Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones, John Bonham and Robert Plant. The film ...

As the coronavirus continues to wreak havoc on production in the UK, with show closures including Bridgerton, a new report has shed light on the extent of the damage caused by the pandemic. The non-profit Creative UK Group has partnered with research firm Oxford Economics to assess the screen sector’s contribution to the UK economy. They concluded that the gross ...

“The day of freedom has become a day of closure. “ Lamented Andrew Lloyd Webber so much when he revealed on Monday – the same day all remaining lockdown restrictions were lifted across England – that he was shutting down his West End musical Cinderella after an actor tested positive for COVID-19. The theater manager did nothing to blame the ...

EXCLUSIVE: In an intriguing partnership that signals the continuing trend of high-profile international collaborations in the film and television industry, Japan’s leading multiplatform entertainment company Nippon TV is teaming up with London-based premium media company Envision Entertainment to form a common list. The first will be a series inspired by the successful Japanese series Double booking, and a pair of ...

Authors and university professors Samantha N. Sheppard and JE Smyth were named Academy Film Scholars on Monday 2021 by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The grant, presented annually by the organization, is awarded to established academics whose projects focus on one aspect of film and the film industry. The Academy’s Education Grants Committee will award Sheppard and ...

MILAN – Can a meeting on a film set lead to a love story? Yes, according to Wim Wenders and Salvatore Ferragamo. The acclaimed director and the luxury brand have teamed up to create the Florentine label’s fall 2021 ad campaign, promoting the latest collection designed by former creative director Paul Andrew. More from WWD True to the futuristic vibe ...

“Space Jam: A New Legacy” reworks the core 1996 “Space Jam” storyline, replacing Michael Jordan with LeBron James and giving the plot a 21st century twist. This time, LeBron recruits Bugs Bunny and the rest of the Looney Tunes to play basketball against a team of monsters created by the uncontrollable computer AI Al G. Rhythm (Don Cheadle) to save ...

The documentary “Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain”, which opened on Friday, is an angry, elegant and often extremely emotional chronicle of the TV star’s life and its impact on those close to him. Directed by Morgan Neville, the film portrays Bourdain as intense, self-disgusting, relentlessly driven, supernatural charismatic, and – in his life and in his death, by suicide, ...

Game of thrones Star Peter Dinklage is stepping up the television side of his production company with a first deal with eOne. Estuary Films, which Dinklage directs with David Ginsberg, has entered into a multi-year agreement with the Sharp objects producer to develop television series for broadcast, cable and streaming. Brad Saunders, TV director and former HBO executive, will oversee ...

A trio of music icons and a legendary racehorse are among the subjects of 10 projects that will receive $ 2.3 million in documentary production funding from Screen Australia. Of those earmarked for funding, eight will be supported through the Producer program and two through the commissioned program. They include documentaries on John Farnham, Ruby Hunter and Archie Roach, as ...

(CNN) – Disney has finally returned to its jungle cruise after being criticized for years for the attraction’s controversial portrayals of indigenous people. In January, the company announced it would rethink the classic jungle cruise, in which a skipper transported visitors along a waterway while making funny jokes and commentary. One of the sites visited by visitors involved a scene ...

Daveed Diggs made his Broadway debut when his rapper friend and colleague Lin-Manuel Miranda hired him on a show as the Marquis de Lafayette and a very sassy Thomas Jefferson. Diggs won a Tony and a Grammy for those performances, and he could add an Emmy nomination for the movie version of “Hamilton,” which premiered on Disney + last year. ...

Up-and-coming film producer Yaw Basoah is a south Londoner with long-term memories of Brixton. Simone richardson told him about movies, art and the importance of life outside of work Yaw Basoah Yaw Basoah’s parents are from the village of Besorol in the Ashanti region of Ghana, but he grew up in South London. “They moved in the ’60s and’ 70s. ...

After the crew are done playing with the magnets and collect Tej (Chris Bridges) and Roman (Tyrese Gibson) from space, Dom (Vin Diesel) hosts a barbecue to honor their success. After saying a brief prayer, Dom indicates that a member of their crew has disappeared, pointing to an empty seat left for Brian, the character once played by the late ...

1. Steering wheel laser light show Did you know that the first major laser art exhibition in the United States was curated by Dr. Leon Goldman at the Cincinnati Art Museum in 1969? The Laser Light: A New Visual Art exhibition allowed artists Rockne Krebs, Baron Kody and Mike Campbell to build rooms with mirrors and smoke to make laser ...

Disney’s latest animated offerings have produced a string of box office hits. Whether they are from Pixar or Walt Disney Animation, films like Forward, Luca, and Raya and the last dragon received favorable reactions from fans and critics alike. Then, as first reported by DiscussingFilm, Walt Disney Animations Studios brought in Don Hall to run their next business. Don Hall ...

The reason I jump to the Palace cinema A special event will take place at the Palace Cinema in Broadstairs next week with a Q&A filmmaker. Producer Stevie Lee and part of the creative team behind The Reason I Jump will be in theaters Tuesday, July 6 at 7:30 p.m. The film will then be screened at 8:15 p.m. Harbor ...

As normalcy begins to return in many industries after the end of the second wave of Covid-19, the only sector that is still faltering is the cinema. People are afraid to venture out of their homes, and with the dominance of OTT platforms, that doesn’t seem to change anytime soon. However, what has happened because of this is that many ...

Dynasty Warriors is now streaming on Netflix. Dynasty Warriors isn’t the video game-to-movie adaptation you’ve come to expect. Dating back to 1997, and made up of nine separate games, the hack-n-slash action franchise is a tactical, single-player role-playing game that, at first glance, offers some potential for a cinematic feel. On the one hand, exaggerated battles should correspond to action ...

Liam McBurney – PA Images Think being the best-selling role-playing game of all time earns you a half-decent screen adaptation? Think again. Despite its ubiquity in popular culture, Dungeons & Dragons failed both on the big screen and the small screen, with the 2000 feature film starring Jeremy Irons and Marlon Wayans taking on the most relentless of them all. ...

FANGORIA can’t give director Josh enough love (Scare me) Ruben Werewolves inside (the magazine’s latest darling cover and podcast) – and rightly so. Earning rave reviews at its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival this spring, the entertaining horror comedy (now in select theaters and on VOD July 2 from IFC) puts a fun twist on both a murder ...

The creative director and writer of the Mass Effect series said that a film or television adaptation is “not a question of if, but of when”. Speaking to Business Insider, Mac Walters – who was creative director for Legendary Edition and Andromeda, and narrative lead for 3 and 2 – claimed that BioWare had generated a lot of interest from ...

Sam suchmann and Mattie Zufelt are the best friends who met when they were 8 years old. They share a deep passion for movies and for years they were determined to make one. They presented their dream film to whoever wanted to hear it. Imagine a racy 1990-flavored teen zombie flick that explodes with action, stunts, comedy, drama, love, gore ...

Josh ruben, the Los Angeles-based creator who has released a thousand viral music videos, speaks to me from a farm in the Hudson Valley near Woodstock. It’s the same house where his mother grew up, in the same neighborhood where he made his two feature films; eventually, he hopes, he will complete a Edgar wright–Esque “Cornetto Trilogy” of connected horror ...

Spider-Man is one of the most popular, if not the most popular, superhero characters on the planet. Spider-Man is Marvel’s most recognizable hero with plenty of feature films, merchandise, and even theme park attractions featuring the web slinger. But Sony owns the film rights to Spider-Man, and Disney is in no rush to buy them back. Credit: Marvel Related: Saint ...

Sign up for our PoliticsNY newsletter for the latest coverage and to stay informed about the 2021 elections in your district and across New York The Queens World Film Festival returns for the 11th season, from June 23 to July 3, and opens the festival with two narrative films at the Museum of the Moving Image as well as online ...

SANTA BARBARA, CA – June 22, 2021 – TV Santa Barbara (TVSB), the area’s community media access center, is proud to announce that it has produced a spectacular one-hour video for Summer Solstice Celebration Inc as part of the TVSB program “2021 Donner en avant le program”. The video will premiere at the historic Arlington Theater on Saturday, June 26. ...

The equity deal with RedBird and CJ Entertainment valued Skydance at around $ 2.3 billion. At its current rate of growth – revenues are expected to increase by over 40% this year from last year, the company said – Skydance could be worth $ 5 billion or more in a few years. Mr. Ellison would most likely pursue a sale ...

“What we have achieved at the USC academy is that to be more effective we need to reach out to these kids earlier,” said Mr. Iovine. Mr Clooney and his producing partner, Grant Heslov, said they came to a similar conclusion as they sought to diversify hiring on their productions. “You want a more diverse crew,” Heslov said, “but there ...