This episode of the Horror TV Shows We Miss video series was Written and Narrated by Niki Minter, Edited by Adam Walton, Produced by John Fallon, and Executive Produced by Berge Garabedian.
The Chiller Channel was a huge gateway for me. I had been exposed to whatever my mom watched previous to that, or whatever weird shit I found at 2Am… it’s more than you think. Chiller brought me the things I missed out on when they originally aired. One of those is Night Visions.
Night Visions originally aired in 2001, though it was meant to air the year prior, but one of our previous series, Freakylinks took its place. I’m not upset about this– Freakylinks was the series we deserved. Then on July 6th, 2001, brooding punk poet and man of many black tees, Henry Rollins entered our homes through the small screen. He’d probably give me shit for using the word brooding.
The Chiller Channel was a huge gateway for me. I had been exposed to whatever my mom watched previous to that, or whatever weird shit I found at 2Am… it’s more than you think. Chiller brought me the things I missed out on when they originally aired. One of those is Night Visions.
Night Visions originally aired in 2001, though it was meant to air the year prior, but one of our previous series, Freakylinks took its place. I’m not upset about this– Freakylinks was the series we deserved. Then on July 6th, 2001, brooding punk poet and man of many black tees, Henry Rollins entered our homes through the small screen. He’d probably give me shit for using the word brooding.
- 8/15/2023
- by Niki Minter
- JoBlo.com
This episode of Wtf Really Happened to This Horror Movie was Written and Narrated by Andrew Hatfield, Edited by Mike Conway, Produced by Lance Vlcek and John Fallon, and Executive Produced by Berge Garabedian.
“Don’t let them bury me, I’m not dead!”
When we think of zombies, it’s only natural to first go right into everyone’s favorite flesh-eating ghouls that were popularized by George Romero in his genre classic Night of the Living Dead. But the idea of zombies has been around much longer and is actually steeped in fact. Haitian voodoo has claimed to create zombies for hundreds of years and in film, these were represented in some of our earliest horror movies. White Zombie and I Walked with a Zombie are two of the more famous ones, but the entire sub-genre has some fascinating watches. Horror legend Wes Craven brought a return to Voodoo...
“Don’t let them bury me, I’m not dead!”
When we think of zombies, it’s only natural to first go right into everyone’s favorite flesh-eating ghouls that were popularized by George Romero in his genre classic Night of the Living Dead. But the idea of zombies has been around much longer and is actually steeped in fact. Haitian voodoo has claimed to create zombies for hundreds of years and in film, these were represented in some of our earliest horror movies. White Zombie and I Walked with a Zombie are two of the more famous ones, but the entire sub-genre has some fascinating watches. Horror legend Wes Craven brought a return to Voodoo...
- 3/31/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
Exclusive: Sony Pictures Television has acquired Faust, the superhero horror comic book from writer David Quinn and artist Tim Vigil, to develop as an animated series. Godkiller writer Matteo Pizzolo will write the adaptation under his first-look deal with Spt.
Released by Quinn and Vigil’s Rebel Studios in 1987, Faust follows John Jaspers, a tormented vigilante who sells his soul in exchange for super powers and must then rise against Mephistopheles to rescue his lover Dr. Jade DeCamp and win back his soul.
Comic’s creators Quinn and Vigil will serve as consulting producers on the adaptation, with Black Mask Entertainment’s Brian Giberson executive producing.
Faust was a deconstructed superhero comic contemporaneous with Watchmen, Dark Knight Returns and The Crow. The first issue sold over 100,000 copies, with later issues averaging 50,000. The core series and its various spinoffs ran for 25 years from a host of publishers including Northstar Comics, Caliber Comics,...
Released by Quinn and Vigil’s Rebel Studios in 1987, Faust follows John Jaspers, a tormented vigilante who sells his soul in exchange for super powers and must then rise against Mephistopheles to rescue his lover Dr. Jade DeCamp and win back his soul.
Comic’s creators Quinn and Vigil will serve as consulting producers on the adaptation, with Black Mask Entertainment’s Brian Giberson executive producing.
Faust was a deconstructed superhero comic contemporaneous with Watchmen, Dark Knight Returns and The Crow. The first issue sold over 100,000 copies, with later issues averaging 50,000. The core series and its various spinoffs ran for 25 years from a host of publishers including Northstar Comics, Caliber Comics,...
- 7/7/2021
- by Alexandra Del Rosario
- Deadline Film + TV
George R.R. Martin, who is allegedly hard at work on his much-anticipated follow-ups in the Game of Thrones book series, is suing an L.A. production company over the film rights to his werewolf novella The Skin Trade.
A complaint filed with the Los Angeles Superior Court on Wednesday indicates Mike The Pike Productions optioned the film rights to Martin’s novella in 2009. It subsequently assigned the option to Blackstone Manor, LLC., the named defendants in the lawsuit.
The Skin Trade was part of the 1988 horror anthology Night Visions 5, a collection that included works by Stephen King and Dan Simmons. In the Martin story, private investigator Randi Wadeis looking into a series of brutal killings in her small town. It leads to discovery of werewolves and other creatures.
The complaint states Blackstone exercised the option on Sept. 2, 2014. Per the 2009 agreement, it had five years to start principal photography on a...
A complaint filed with the Los Angeles Superior Court on Wednesday indicates Mike The Pike Productions optioned the film rights to Martin’s novella in 2009. It subsequently assigned the option to Blackstone Manor, LLC., the named defendants in the lawsuit.
The Skin Trade was part of the 1988 horror anthology Night Visions 5, a collection that included works by Stephen King and Dan Simmons. In the Martin story, private investigator Randi Wadeis looking into a series of brutal killings in her small town. It leads to discovery of werewolves and other creatures.
The complaint states Blackstone exercised the option on Sept. 2, 2014. Per the 2009 agreement, it had five years to start principal photography on a...
- 8/22/2020
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
The producer of Narcos takes us on a walk through some of the movies that made him.
Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode
Contagion (2011)
Panic In The Streets (1950)
Rififi (1955)
Night And The City (1950)
Thieves’ Highway (1949)
Never on Sunday (1960)
The Karate Kid (1984)
The Game (1997)
The Dirty Dozen (1967)
The Great Escape (1963)
Children of Men (2006)
Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory (1971)
If It’s Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium (1969)
Charlie And The Chocolate Factory (2005)
The Wild Bunch (1969)
The Godfather (1972)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Animal House (1978)
An American Werewolf In London (1981)
Trading Places (1983)
Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession (2004)
Fellini Satyricon (1969)
The Beastmaster (1982)
Sheena (1984)
High Risk (1981)
Ghostbusters (1984)
The Masque of the Red Death (1964)
Piranha (1978)
Gallipoli (1981)
Witness (1985)
The Killing Fields (1984)
Mad Max (1980)
Max Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981)
Picnic At Hanging Rock (1975)
The Last Wave (1978)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
The Lord of the Rings (1978)
The Hobbit (1977)
The Return of the King (1980)
Class (1983)
The Great Santini (1979)
Fast Times At Ridgemont High...
Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode
Contagion (2011)
Panic In The Streets (1950)
Rififi (1955)
Night And The City (1950)
Thieves’ Highway (1949)
Never on Sunday (1960)
The Karate Kid (1984)
The Game (1997)
The Dirty Dozen (1967)
The Great Escape (1963)
Children of Men (2006)
Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory (1971)
If It’s Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium (1969)
Charlie And The Chocolate Factory (2005)
The Wild Bunch (1969)
The Godfather (1972)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Animal House (1978)
An American Werewolf In London (1981)
Trading Places (1983)
Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession (2004)
Fellini Satyricon (1969)
The Beastmaster (1982)
Sheena (1984)
High Risk (1981)
Ghostbusters (1984)
The Masque of the Red Death (1964)
Piranha (1978)
Gallipoli (1981)
Witness (1985)
The Killing Fields (1984)
Mad Max (1980)
Max Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981)
Picnic At Hanging Rock (1975)
The Last Wave (1978)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
The Lord of the Rings (1978)
The Hobbit (1977)
The Return of the King (1980)
Class (1983)
The Great Santini (1979)
Fast Times At Ridgemont High...
- 6/16/2020
- by Kris Millsap
- Trailers from Hell
Genre festival to open with Bong Joon-ho’s ‘Parasite’.
Genre festival Night Visions has revealed the line-up for this year’s event, which will run from November 20-24 in Helsinki, Finland.
The opening film is Bong Joon-ho’s Cannes Palme d’Or winner Parasite while other highlights include Rian Johnson’s whodunnit Knives Out and Vaclav Marhoul’s World War II drama The Painted Bird, starring Udo Kier, Harvey Keitel and Stellan Skarsgard.
The festival will celebrate the work of Us director Jack Sholder by screening three of his 1980s horror films: The Hidden, Alone in the Dark and A...
Genre festival Night Visions has revealed the line-up for this year’s event, which will run from November 20-24 in Helsinki, Finland.
The opening film is Bong Joon-ho’s Cannes Palme d’Or winner Parasite while other highlights include Rian Johnson’s whodunnit Knives Out and Vaclav Marhoul’s World War II drama The Painted Bird, starring Udo Kier, Harvey Keitel and Stellan Skarsgard.
The festival will celebrate the work of Us director Jack Sholder by screening three of his 1980s horror films: The Hidden, Alone in the Dark and A...
- 11/5/2019
- by 1100453¦Michael Rosser¦9¦
- ScreenDaily
Calum Worthy is one of the stars of Hulu’s gripping new limited series, “The Act,” based on a true story. Worthy plays Nicholas Godejohn in the series, the boyfriend of a girl named Gypsy Rose Blanchard (Joey King), whose mother is abusing her.
Worthy recently spoke with Gold Derby contributing editor Riley Chow about what “The Act” has become such a hit, diving into the psychology of Godejohn and what’s up next for him. Watch the exclusive webchat above and read the complete interview transcript below.
SEEJoey King Interview: ‘The Act’
Gold Derby: Calum, why has “The Act” been such a hit?
Calum Worthy: You never know. I think there’s something magical in the air when something actually works out like that. I’d love to say that it’s because of the amazing cast and the incredible crew and Hulu, who’s just been so supportive and Universal as well.
Worthy recently spoke with Gold Derby contributing editor Riley Chow about what “The Act” has become such a hit, diving into the psychology of Godejohn and what’s up next for him. Watch the exclusive webchat above and read the complete interview transcript below.
SEEJoey King Interview: ‘The Act’
Gold Derby: Calum, why has “The Act” been such a hit?
Calum Worthy: You never know. I think there’s something magical in the air when something actually works out like that. I’d love to say that it’s because of the amazing cast and the incredible crew and Hulu, who’s just been so supportive and Universal as well.
- 6/30/2019
- by Kevin Jacobsen
- Gold Derby
“You could call it method in many ways, but for me, it’s just trying to commit to the character in the best way possible and whatever that entails,” Calum Worthy tells Gold Derby in an exclusive interview (watch the video above). He discusses his approach to portraying convicted murder Nicholas Godejohn in the true crime anthology series “The Act” headlined by Joey King and Patricia Arquette for Hulu. The supporting actor explains about taking on the part two decades into his career: “It’s kind of a full circle because my first role, I actually played a cannibal in a show called ‘Night Visions’ when I was nine and Bill Pullman cast me in it and I had to eat him, so I feel like it actually might be more of a through line in my career than I’d like to admit.”
SEEour interview with “The Act” co-creator Nick Antosca.
SEEour interview with “The Act” co-creator Nick Antosca.
- 6/10/2019
- by Riley Chow
- Gold Derby
Hey,Riverdale and Luke Perry fans. Today is a very sad day as we've just learned that the current Riverdale Fred Andrews and former Beverly Hills 90210 Dylan McKay star Luke Perry did not recover from the massive stroke that he suffered this past Wednesday morning, February 27, 2019. According to the folks over at TMZ, Luke sadly passed away earlier today, March 4, 2019 at St. Joseph's Hospital in Burbank, California. TMZ was able to get some information from Luke's rep. The rep told them that Luke was surrounded by his children Jack and Sophie, fiance Wendy Madison Bauer, ex-wife Minnie Sharp, mother Ann Bennett, step-father Steve Bennett, brother Tom Perry, sister Amy Coder, and other close family and friends. TMZ supplied some other details about what happened during Luke's stroke. He was responsive and talking when the EMTs arrived to take him to the hospital. However afterwards, his condition deteriorated. Luke's rep said...
- 3/4/2019
- by Andre Braddox
- OnTheFlix
Genre festival will screen the Nordic premiere of Stivaletti’s ‘Rabbia Furiosa’.
Genre festival Night Visions has revealed the line-up for this year’s event which will run from Nov 21-25 in the Finnish capital of Helsinki.
The screenings will include Luca Guadagnino’s Suspiria, Gaspar Noe’s Climax, Yann Gonzalez’s Knife + Heart, Jim Hosking’s An Evening With Beverly Luff Linn, Quentin Dupieux’s Keep An Eye Out, Leigh Whannell’s Upgrade, Joel Potrykus’ Relaxer, Emma Tammi’s The Wind, Jimmy Henderson’s The Prey, Jonas Akerlund’s Lords of Chaos, and omnibus The Field Guide to Evil.
Genre festival Night Visions has revealed the line-up for this year’s event which will run from Nov 21-25 in the Finnish capital of Helsinki.
The screenings will include Luca Guadagnino’s Suspiria, Gaspar Noe’s Climax, Yann Gonzalez’s Knife + Heart, Jim Hosking’s An Evening With Beverly Luff Linn, Quentin Dupieux’s Keep An Eye Out, Leigh Whannell’s Upgrade, Joel Potrykus’ Relaxer, Emma Tammi’s The Wind, Jimmy Henderson’s The Prey, Jonas Akerlund’s Lords of Chaos, and omnibus The Field Guide to Evil.
- 10/31/2018
- by Screen staff
- ScreenDaily
Before Hellraiser came The Hellbound Heart, Clive Barker’s horror novella that ultimately laid the foundations for Pinhead and his army of Cenobites.
Initially released in 1986, the spine-chilling yarn was actually the third installment in the Night Visions anthology series, and it wasn’t until the following year that Barker and Doug Bradley (Pinhead) began formulating an idea for a live-action adaptation. And with that, Hellraiser was born.
But in light of Judgment‘s release, Bafflegab Productions has announced plans to circle back to the very beginning and release an audio drama adaptation of The Hellbound Heart. As reported by Bloody Disgusting, it’ll hit store shelves on April 27th, and feature the voices of Alice Lowe (Prevenge), Tom Meeten, and Neve McIntosh of Doctor Who fame. Here’s a rundown of what to expect:
When Frank Cotton (Tom Meeten) finally acquires a fabled puzzle box, he gets more than he bargained for.
Initially released in 1986, the spine-chilling yarn was actually the third installment in the Night Visions anthology series, and it wasn’t until the following year that Barker and Doug Bradley (Pinhead) began formulating an idea for a live-action adaptation. And with that, Hellraiser was born.
But in light of Judgment‘s release, Bafflegab Productions has announced plans to circle back to the very beginning and release an audio drama adaptation of The Hellbound Heart. As reported by Bloody Disgusting, it’ll hit store shelves on April 27th, and feature the voices of Alice Lowe (Prevenge), Tom Meeten, and Neve McIntosh of Doctor Who fame. Here’s a rundown of what to expect:
When Frank Cotton (Tom Meeten) finally acquires a fabled puzzle box, he gets more than he bargained for.
- 3/1/2018
- by Michael Briers
- We Got This Covered
A lovely lineup of 43 features has been lined up for the fall edition of the Night Visions International Film Festival in Helsinki, Finland, which will be held during the final week of November. The leading titles of the fall festival season, including Guillermo del Toro's The Shape of Water and Justin Benson & Aaron Moorhead's The Endless, are featured. Also notable are Finnish premieres of locally-produced films Teemu Nikki's Euthanizer and Marko Mäkilaakso's It Came from the Desert. Here are all the details in the full statement from the festival: Scandinavia's biggest genre film festival Night Visions unveiled today the full lineup of its fall 2017 edition, taking place in Helsinki, Finland from November 22nd to November 26th, 2017. The Official Selection of this...
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- 10/31/2017
- Screen Anarchy
Fans of H. P. Lovecraft have ample reason to rejoice these days. Even if Guillermo del Toro’s At the Mountains of Madness never got made, there’s no shortage of writers and directors dipping their toes in Lovecraftian waters. Just ask Jordan Peele and J. J. Abrams who are set to adapt Matt Ruff’s “Lovecraft Country” into an HBO anthology series. And if last year saw the premieres of The Void and An Eldritch Place, then this year Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead’s The Endless will descend upon the international film festival circuit as a very unique example of cosmic dread. Joining these ranks is Sound from the Deep, co-directed by Antti Laakso and Joonas Allonen. The Finnish short had its world premiere at Night Visions...
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- 6/29/2017
- Screen Anarchy
We are pleased to present the internet premiere of The Contract, a short comedy written and directed by Finnish filmmaker Chrzu. His short film Nightsatan and the Loops of Doom first caught our attention back in 2014 and he's been chipping away at making a feature version since then. But he's also been busy developing other projects. The Contract was made in 2015 and enjoyed its world premiere at the wonderful Morbido Film Festival in Mexico. It also won The Golden Lomax award at Monster Fest's Trasharama section last year in Australia. A sequel, The Consequence, is set to make its world premiere at the upcoming spring edition of the Night Visions International Film Festival in Helsinki, Finland on April 22. Before that happens, you...
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- 4/17/2017
- Screen Anarchy
You may recall that our own Heather Buckley was fortunate enough to attend the fall 2016 edition of the Night Visions film fest in Finland, and with a lineup that includes over 30 features and a half-dozen short films (including… Continue Reading →
The post Night Visions Spring 2017 Lineup Includes Raw, Prevenge, Xx, Gary Sherman Retrospective, and Lots More appeared first on Dread Central.
The post Night Visions Spring 2017 Lineup Includes Raw, Prevenge, Xx, Gary Sherman Retrospective, and Lots More appeared first on Dread Central.
- 4/1/2017
- by Debi Moore
- DreadCentral.com
The "Twelfth Doctor" Peter Capaldi will be in attendance at this year's Wizard World Minneapolis convention. Continue reading for more details on his appearance and the event itself. Also in today's Highlights: Night Visions Film Festival spring 2017 lineup, Jurassic Games production details, and trailers for Home Education and The Alienators.
Peter Capaldi to Appear at Wizard World Minneapolis: Press Release: "Minneapolis, March 30, 2017 – Peter Capaldi, who portrays the Twelfth and current iteration of "The Doctor" on the long-running science fiction series "Doctor Who," will make his Wizard World debut next month when he attends Wizard World Comic Con Minneapolis, May 6-7 at the Minneapolis Convention Center. Capaldi will greet fans, pose for photo ops, sign autographs and conduct an interactive fan Q&A during the pop culture extravaganza.
Capaldi has appeared as the title character in the BBC program since being introduced in the 50th Anniversary special, "The Day of the Doctor" and the 2013 Christmas episode,...
Peter Capaldi to Appear at Wizard World Minneapolis: Press Release: "Minneapolis, March 30, 2017 – Peter Capaldi, who portrays the Twelfth and current iteration of "The Doctor" on the long-running science fiction series "Doctor Who," will make his Wizard World debut next month when he attends Wizard World Comic Con Minneapolis, May 6-7 at the Minneapolis Convention Center. Capaldi will greet fans, pose for photo ops, sign autographs and conduct an interactive fan Q&A during the pop culture extravaganza.
Capaldi has appeared as the title character in the BBC program since being introduced in the 50th Anniversary special, "The Day of the Doctor" and the 2013 Christmas episode,...
- 4/1/2017
- by Tamika Jones
- DailyDead
The superbly-curated Night Visions International Film Festival has announced the lineup for its spring edition, which is led by Prevenge, Raw and X in the "Killer Female Directors" section. The biggest genre festival in Scandinavia takes over the lovely city of Helsinki, Finland from April 19-23. The temperatures may be chilly this time of year -- I attended a couple of years ago and had to bundle up heavily! -- but the films should provide all the heat that is needed. In addition to the aforementioned trio, all highly-recommended and all making their Finnish debuts, Jonna Nilsson's Drip Drop, from Sweden, will screen; it's described as an original take on the monster in the house theme. Charlotte Brodthagen's Lau & Laudrup, from Denmark, is one...
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- 3/30/2017
- Screen Anarchy
Seven films selected for scheme, which awards projects a $24,000 development fund.
Nordisk Film & TV Fond has confirmed the seven genre film projects selected for its popular Nordic Genre Boost scheme.
Scroll down for a full list of projects
Selections include the second feature from When Animals Dream (pictured) director Jonas Arnby of Denmark; the third feature from Finnish director Ulrika Bengts (The Disciple) and the directorial debut feature of Swedish producer Olivier Guerpillon, whose producing credits include Sound of Noise.
A total of 61 projects applied for the third and final round of Nordic Genre Boost development support.
Each project receives a $24,000 (NOK200,00) development grant, and access to two residential workshops: one held in collaboration with Night Visions International Festival in Helsinki (April 5-9), and a second during New Nordic Films’ Co-Production and Finance Market in Haugesund (Aug 22-25).
Guest tutors at the workshops include Jinga Films’ Julian Richards, Xyz Films’ Todd Brown, Lindsay Peters...
Nordisk Film & TV Fond has confirmed the seven genre film projects selected for its popular Nordic Genre Boost scheme.
Scroll down for a full list of projects
Selections include the second feature from When Animals Dream (pictured) director Jonas Arnby of Denmark; the third feature from Finnish director Ulrika Bengts (The Disciple) and the directorial debut feature of Swedish producer Olivier Guerpillon, whose producing credits include Sound of Noise.
A total of 61 projects applied for the third and final round of Nordic Genre Boost development support.
Each project receives a $24,000 (NOK200,00) development grant, and access to two residential workshops: one held in collaboration with Night Visions International Festival in Helsinki (April 5-9), and a second during New Nordic Films’ Co-Production and Finance Market in Haugesund (Aug 22-25).
Guest tutors at the workshops include Jinga Films’ Julian Richards, Xyz Films’ Todd Brown, Lindsay Peters...
- 2/17/2017
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
A hard-working actor with over 100 screen credits to his name, actor Miguel Ferrer has sadly passed away at the age of 61.
Earlier today, Deadline reported the very sad news that Ferrer has passed away after a battle with cancer.
Since he began acting on screen in the early ’80s, Ferrer has lent his commanding presence as a performer to many TV series and films. Viewers know him as Dr. Garret Macy in Crossing Jordan, Owen Granger in NCIS: Los Angeles, and FBI Agent Albert Rosenfield in Twin Peaks—a role he reprised in both Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me and the upcoming revival series on Showtime.
Ferrer was a familiar face to horror and sci-fi fans over the years, appearing in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, RoboCop, DeepStar Six, The Guardian, Night Visions, and several episodes of Tales From the Crypt.
He also helped bring life to several Stephen King adaptations,...
Earlier today, Deadline reported the very sad news that Ferrer has passed away after a battle with cancer.
Since he began acting on screen in the early ’80s, Ferrer has lent his commanding presence as a performer to many TV series and films. Viewers know him as Dr. Garret Macy in Crossing Jordan, Owen Granger in NCIS: Los Angeles, and FBI Agent Albert Rosenfield in Twin Peaks—a role he reprised in both Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me and the upcoming revival series on Showtime.
Ferrer was a familiar face to horror and sci-fi fans over the years, appearing in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, RoboCop, DeepStar Six, The Guardian, Night Visions, and several episodes of Tales From the Crypt.
He also helped bring life to several Stephen King adaptations,...
- 1/19/2017
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Mexico’s renowned Morbido Fest is moving forward with its latest brand extension as brass prepare to launch the long-awaited pay-tv channel backed by Alex Garcia’s Ag Studios and have set their sights on reaching Us audiences by late 2017.
Morbido Fest CEO Pablo Guisa Koestinger and Mexican genre master Adrián Garciá Bogliano are in Buenos Aires at the Ventana Sur market to secure rights from producers to a raft of new and catalogue horror, fantasy and sci-fi content.
Scherzo Diabolico and Here Comes The Devil director Bogliano acts as general coordinator of the channel, which is scheduled to launch in Mexico in two weeks and in March as an app-based streaming platform throughout Latin America, excluding Brazil.
Speaking on Wednesday on a genre festival panel at the market’s Blood Window sidebar, Koestinger said all films will play in their original language with subtitles.
Morbido TV plans to include Brazilian content once it can afford to provide...
Morbido Fest CEO Pablo Guisa Koestinger and Mexican genre master Adrián Garciá Bogliano are in Buenos Aires at the Ventana Sur market to secure rights from producers to a raft of new and catalogue horror, fantasy and sci-fi content.
Scherzo Diabolico and Here Comes The Devil director Bogliano acts as general coordinator of the channel, which is scheduled to launch in Mexico in two weeks and in March as an app-based streaming platform throughout Latin America, excluding Brazil.
Speaking on Wednesday on a genre festival panel at the market’s Blood Window sidebar, Koestinger said all films will play in their original language with subtitles.
Morbido TV plans to include Brazilian content once it can afford to provide...
- 11/30/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
We hereby declare today Festival Announcement Day! The first wave of announcements from the November 2016 edition of the Night Visions International Film Festival has arrived, joining a bevy of other festivals making known their lineups in what could easily be described as a tidal wave of genre goodness. Night Vision is the biggest genre film fest in the Nordic region. It's celebrating its 20th anniversary, which is truly remarkable. I attended the spring edition last year, surrounded by rabid fans who were very open to anything new and fresh. This November's edition features Finnish premieres of titles that should look splendid on the screens of Kinopalatsi cinema, located in the heart of Helsinki, a most beautiful city. Here's the official verbiage: ----- From the...
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- 9/8/2016
- Screen Anarchy
Last year I was present for the first edition of Nordic Genre Industry Days in Helsinki, Finland and this year our own Todd Brown is living it up behind closed doors. (Photo above: Jongsuk Thomas Nam, Todd Brown, Rodney Perkins, Sten Saluveer and Mikko Aromaa at the 2nd edition of the Nordic Genre Industry Days in Helsinki, Finland.) To be more accurate than needed, I was in Helsinki to attend and report on the Night Visions International Film Festival, the largest genre film event in the Nordic region. It takes place concurrently with the Nordic Genre Industry Days event at the same location during the day. Here's the official description: "The two-day event focuses on upcoming genre cinema emerging from Scandinavia in the form of...
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- 4/13/2016
- Screen Anarchy
The lucky streak continues for The Ghostest with the Mostest. Get lost in the netherworld and escape man-eating sandworms with this Beetlejuice plush from Mezco Toyz. Also in this round-up: a new trailer for Luciano and Nicolás Onetti’s Francesca and details on Funko’s new BioShock Dorbz figures.
Beetlejuice Plush Figure: From Mezco Toyz: “From Tim Burton’s Oscar-winning film Beetlejuice, the afterlife’s leading bio-exorcist is back and he’s bringing the creepy and the crazy!
Beetlejuice stands 8″ tall and features his black and white striped suit and tangled mass of mossy green hair. His sardonic grimace reveals his trademark yellowed teeth. We’ve captured every detail of the rambunctious spookiness and transformed him into the cuddliest ghoul in purgatory.
Expected to Ship: Sep – Oct 2016 – $16.00.”
To learn more about Mezco’s Beetlejuice plush figure, visit:
http://www.mezcotoyz.com/beetlejuice-8-inch-plush
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Francesca: Press Release: “Unearthed Films has...
Beetlejuice Plush Figure: From Mezco Toyz: “From Tim Burton’s Oscar-winning film Beetlejuice, the afterlife’s leading bio-exorcist is back and he’s bringing the creepy and the crazy!
Beetlejuice stands 8″ tall and features his black and white striped suit and tangled mass of mossy green hair. His sardonic grimace reveals his trademark yellowed teeth. We’ve captured every detail of the rambunctious spookiness and transformed him into the cuddliest ghoul in purgatory.
Expected to Ship: Sep – Oct 2016 – $16.00.”
To learn more about Mezco’s Beetlejuice plush figure, visit:
http://www.mezcotoyz.com/beetlejuice-8-inch-plush
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Francesca: Press Release: “Unearthed Films has...
- 3/24/2016
- by Tamika Jones
- DailyDead
City State director Olaf de Fleur and Returning Home director Henrik Martin Dahlsbakken among those backed.Scroll down for the full list
Seven titles have been selected by the Nordisk Film & TV fund for the second round of its Nordic Genre Boost initiative.
Three sci-fi films, City State director Olaf de Fleur’s new project East By Eleven, Returning Home director Henrik Martin Dahlsbakken’s Substitute and To Guard A Mountain director Izer Aliu’s Deep Down, have been picked.
Also on the list are Thordur Palsson’s debut feature psychological horror The Damned, Saara Saarela’s dystopian drama Memory Of Water, Hanna Bergholm’s horror-drama Birds Of A Feather and Tor Fruergaard’s animation Bente And The Mutant Scouts.
A total of 83 titles applied for the second round of the initiative, with the selected projects receiving a grant of $23.3k (Nok 200,000) for development support, access to two residential workshops with script tutoring, and assistance...
Seven titles have been selected by the Nordisk Film & TV fund for the second round of its Nordic Genre Boost initiative.
Three sci-fi films, City State director Olaf de Fleur’s new project East By Eleven, Returning Home director Henrik Martin Dahlsbakken’s Substitute and To Guard A Mountain director Izer Aliu’s Deep Down, have been picked.
Also on the list are Thordur Palsson’s debut feature psychological horror The Damned, Saara Saarela’s dystopian drama Memory Of Water, Hanna Bergholm’s horror-drama Birds Of A Feather and Tor Fruergaard’s animation Bente And The Mutant Scouts.
A total of 83 titles applied for the second round of the initiative, with the selected projects receiving a grant of $23.3k (Nok 200,000) for development support, access to two residential workshops with script tutoring, and assistance...
- 2/19/2016
- ScreenDaily
Earlier this month I went to the future. I mean this somewhat literally, as my flight from Toronto to Helsinki, Finland put me 8 hours ahead, but also because I was attending the Night Visions Film Festival, a biannual celebration of genre cinema that endearingly dates its Halloween editions 1000 years into the future (there's also a June edition that sets its date in the 21st century). This tradition goes back to the festival's inauguration in the late 90s, when the late Mike Vraney and Lisa Petrucci visited Helsinki with a programme of Something Weird titles. Despite preceding the new millennium, the programme was billed as "Something Weird 2000," anecdotally because Vraney thought 2000 sounded so much cooler. Mikko Aromaa, the editor-in-chief of GoreHound, a...
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- 11/18/2015
- Screen Anarchy
Fresh from its world premiere at Fantastic Fest - from whence it traveled to both Sitges and London and will next be seen as part of the Scary Movies program at the Lincoln Center in NYC, the Los Cabos festival, Stockholm's Twilight Zone and Night Visions in Helsinki - the first poster has arrived for Bo Mikkelsen's Danish horror film What We Become.Designed by Toronto's Phantom City Creative it's a striking piece of work, I'd say. Check the artwork below - remember you can click to enlarge - as well as the links to additional coverage....
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- 10/21/2015
- Screen Anarchy
Before he penned sprawling, licentious, violent fantasy epics, George R. R. Martin penned slimmer but equally licentious and violent werewolf stories. The Skin Trade, his celebrated 1989 novella that predates his Song of Ice and Fire series, has now been optioned by HBO's sister channel Cinemax. (No word yet if Cinemax will work The Skin Trade into their Skinemax programming yet, but what a howl that would be.) The novella appears in the short-story anthology Dark Visions, also known as Night Visions 5, which also features stories by Stephen King and Dan Simmons and was later reissued as The Skin Trade after Martin's ascension to genre icon. The noirish novella concerns a private investigator and his friend, a collections agent who also happens to be a werewolf, as they investigate a series of grisly murders. Martin will not be writing or running the show, however, as he has a book to...
- 10/12/2015
- by Greg Cwik
- Vulture
Robert Rodriguez's El Rey Network continues to cement itself as a go-to hub of genre entertainment. Today the channel announced that it has acquired the rights to air episodes of Freddy's Nightmares, The Twilight Zone, Night Visions, Constantine, and more:
Press Release: Austin, TX (October 1, 2015) - El Rey Network, the 24-hour English-language cable network founded by filmmaker Robert Rodriguez, has finalized an acquisition deal with Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution to license the exclusive off-network cable rights for all episodes of the popular series, "Constantine," and "Almost Human," which will make their basic cable debuts beginning November 2015. Also under this multi-year agreement, El Rey Network will acquire several additional high-profile properties rolling out in 2015 and 2016. This includes the basic cable premiere of "Human Target," plus "V: The Series," "Mortal Kombat: Conquest," "Freddy's Nightmares," "The Twilight Zone," "V Miniseries" and "Night Visions."
"We are proud to have these extremely popular...
Press Release: Austin, TX (October 1, 2015) - El Rey Network, the 24-hour English-language cable network founded by filmmaker Robert Rodriguez, has finalized an acquisition deal with Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution to license the exclusive off-network cable rights for all episodes of the popular series, "Constantine," and "Almost Human," which will make their basic cable debuts beginning November 2015. Also under this multi-year agreement, El Rey Network will acquire several additional high-profile properties rolling out in 2015 and 2016. This includes the basic cable premiere of "Human Target," plus "V: The Series," "Mortal Kombat: Conquest," "Freddy's Nightmares," "The Twilight Zone," "V Miniseries" and "Night Visions."
"We are proud to have these extremely popular...
- 10/1/2015
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Robert Rodriguez’s El Rey Network has acquired off-network cable rights for all episodes of series Constantine and Almost Human in a multiyear deal with Warner Bros Domestic TV Distribution. Both will roll out in November. The network also acquired V: The Series, the V miniseries, Mortal Kombat: Conquest, Freddy's Nightmares, The Twilight Zone (2002) and Night Visions. Freddy’s Nightmares and Mortal Kombat also will bow this year on El Rey, with the others premiering in…...
- 10/1/2015
- Deadline TV
We heard about Teenage Jesus a few months ago, when it was announced that Marie Grahto's proposed feature project was one of seven chosen for Nordic Genre Boost, an initiative to promote and support genre films in the region. All the projects were discussed behind closed doors in a workshop at the Night Visions International Film Festival in Helsinki in April -- I was in the lobby, and no one told me anything -- and then again in Haugesund, Norway during New Nordic Films' Co-Production and Finance Market, which concludes today. Now comes word that the project was awarded Best Pitch in Haugesund. In their report, Variety updates details on the project. Back in March, it was described like this: TeenlandDenmark. Science Fiction. First feature film by Marie...
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- 8/20/2015
- Screen Anarchy
Later this week, Jalmari Helander's Big Game will open in select U.S. theaters, representing the first notable Finnish genre production (or co-production) to hit the States since the director's Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale a few years ago. But Helander is hardly the only Finnish filmmaker on the genre scene. Back in April, I was grateful for the opportunity to sit in on the sessions held during the inaugural edition of Nordic Genre Industry Days, held in conjunction with the Night Visions film festival in Helsinki, Finland. Then in May, Nordic genre cinema got another boost from its presence at the Cannes International Film Festival and Marche du Film, where the focus shifted to three more films that drew interest from attendees. What follows is...
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- 6/22/2015
- Screen Anarchy
Held in conjunction with the Night Visions film festival in Helsinki, Finland, the inaugural edition of Nordic Genre Industry Days presented panel discussions and pitch sessions for projects that are currently in development. As might be imagined from the title, the sessions held on April 16 and 17 were targeted directly at filmmakers and industry professionals. But the discussions have broader implications as well, in that they cover topics that affect everyone who loves genre movies. After all, if you love horror, science fiction, fantasy, and/or action movies -- not to forget high-strung mystery and suspense thrillers -- then you're open to good genre movies irregardless of their country or countries of origin. Read more about the event, including panel discussions on Nordic genre festivals,...
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- 4/19/2015
- Screen Anarchy
Peter Franzen is not the star of The Gunman -- that would be the clench-jawed Sean Penn, unbelievably bulked up, muscle groups well defined, as though he were auditioning for an art house version of The Expendables -- yet the Finnish actor might as well have been, judging by the warm reaction he received from the crowd gathered for the screening of the film, which opened this spring's edition of Night Visions. Franzen makes a strong impression as a bad guy, which is not a spoiler in view of the high percentage of villainous characters in the cast. The Gunman is intended to be a twisty action thriller, with Penn as Jim Terry, a formerly murderous mercenary who went on the run after killing a...
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- 4/16/2015
- Screen Anarchy
The biggest and oldest genre festival in Finland, Night Visions, will kick off tomorrow, Wednesday, April 15, and run through Sunday, April 19. Because I drew the lucky straw, I will be attending the fest for the first time, and sharing my impressions of the films and the scene in Helsinki. The festival is held twice a year and focuses on horror, fantasy, science fiction, and action cinema. This year the spring edition of the program is themed as "Back to Basics," which is a call to action that I always support. I'm looking forward to seeing films we haven't covered yet, along with ones that I've missed so far, and some that I want to see again. In addition to the screenings, the festival...
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- 4/14/2015
- Screen Anarchy
Fans of Nordic fantastic film have reason to celebrate because the Nordic Genre Boost initiative will provide development grants and access to two residential workshops to a handful of genre films projects. Of the 113 entries this year seven were chosen to receive the grant and invitation to the workshops at the Night Visions International Film Festival in Helsinki (April 15 - 19, 2015) and then in Haugesund during New Nordic Films' Co-Production and Finance Market (August 19 - 20, 2015).So what does the boost get us? Well, Aleksander Nordaas we give us a sequel to Thale. We get an adaptation of another novel by John Ajvide Lindqvist (Let the Right One In). We will get new films from TrollHunter director André Øvredal and Metalhead director...
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- 3/6/2015
- Screen Anarchy
Imagine Dragons is back with a new album, tour and outlook.
"We really had a lot more time to draw the creative blueprint for Smoke + Mirrors and what the live show would be like," lead singer Dan Reynolds tells ETonline. "For the first album, it was blowing up so fast we didn't have time to really decide anything -- it was just lights and a show in a new country every day. For this record, we were able to take the time to paint it all out."
Watch: Behind the Scenes of Imagine Dragons' Live GRAMMYs Ad
Fans looking for a preview of the band's new show will find it in their video for "Shots," which was inspired by surrealist artist Tim Cantor's paintings. Imagine Dragons worked closely with Cantor on the upcoming tour, which kicks off Feb. 20 in Los Angeles.
But if you're looking for a repeat of last year's incredible Kendrick Lamar collaboration at the...
"We really had a lot more time to draw the creative blueprint for Smoke + Mirrors and what the live show would be like," lead singer Dan Reynolds tells ETonline. "For the first album, it was blowing up so fast we didn't have time to really decide anything -- it was just lights and a show in a new country every day. For this record, we were able to take the time to paint it all out."
Watch: Behind the Scenes of Imagine Dragons' Live GRAMMYs Ad
Fans looking for a preview of the band's new show will find it in their video for "Shots," which was inspired by surrealist artist Tim Cantor's paintings. Imagine Dragons worked closely with Cantor on the upcoming tour, which kicks off Feb. 20 in Los Angeles.
But if you're looking for a repeat of last year's incredible Kendrick Lamar collaboration at the...
- 2/17/2015
- Entertainment Tonight
Imagine Dragons set the world ablaze with their 2012 smash hit “Radioactive.” Appearing in literally everything, from Video Game ads, to Beats by Dre commercials. “Radioactive” would go on to be nominated for two Grammys, and capturing one for Best Rock Performance. The album it was featured on, Night Visions went double platinum and pushed […]
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- 2/15/2015
- by John McFarlan
- Uinterview
The Baltic Event is twelve years old. Can you talk about the creation of the industry platform as part of the Black Nights Film Festival four years ago and the reasons behind it?
Sten-Kristian Saluveer: Sure! The Baltic Event was created at that time to strengthen this region as well as a to create sense of collaboration, community and coproduction between places like Germany, Scandinavia, the Baltics and Russia. What we then started to see -- already in 2010 and 2011-- was that the audiovisual landscape – not only in this region but also in the whole world – was changing so much that it wasn't really enough.
Of course, there was an oversaturation of markets; films were being made and projects were happening but we kind of felt that we needed to refresh it all and look at different territories, different collaborators, different sources of information and knowledge. What also happened is the territories we specifically had in mind – America and Asia – were starting to look at Europe and this was the time when these interesting collaborations between North American independents and Europe started happening: television started to kick off with “Game of Thrones”, “Hannibal” and other series that were being shot in Europe.
Moreover, many Asian productions started coming to Europe so we realized there was a kind of feasible collaboration and possibility between two things. Simultaneously, big changes were also going on in the Estonian market as well. We actually started in 2010 as a kind of forum for a change of film policy and I remember very well that our first panel that year was "What should small countries do to break through to big business?" This year, we really achieved this great balance. The Baltic Event’s aim is still to develop this sort of regional collaboration and regional competitiveness but the industry platform sort of snaps on to it like a Lego piece: we open up new territories, bring other collaborators and slot in some crazy ideas and collaborations. I think it's a very, very unique mix that gives it a more cosmopolitan ambiance, so to speak.
The motivation is still the same, right?
S.-K. S.: Of course...
To be bigger and better?
I think it's not really the question of getting bigger because bigger is not necessary better… Something that is very unique about Tallinn is that it's exactly the right size and it has almost exactly the right people. The most important thing that sometimes gets lost in the festival business and the film market business is the kind of benefit you are providing to the film industry. You know that you can invite 200 people and if every person leaves from here with a deal, a new contact, a new business opportunity, or something else, then this matters. We are not only progressing on very important topics for filmmakers right now, but we are also trying to get the right mix of people, and so we work very closely on whom to invite, what kind of people… So, the idea for me really is to have more quality people coming in, you know, more people who are interested in the region, people who are interested in overseas collaboration and who try to influence a little bit, say, the public funding and government mechanisms to invest in this area.
I am very happy to say that we are already in a position that we can pretty much invite anybody and, this year, we had big Hollywood executives coming in, going to see Estonian locations, market directors, A-class festival programmers… So, it's great!
Has it fulfilled your expectations so far? Can you give us some numbers and tell us what deals have been made?
S.-K. S.: We're just putting it together... There have been deals... I want to talk separately about something that we started this year: a pilot project, called the European Genre Forum. This is basically a creative campus for young genre film professionals and it gathers directors, producers, postproduction people, composers, sound designers, etc. When we started that, the idea was that we were going to flip the coproduction market like a model upside down because I think a) there are too many coproduction markets and b) there's not enough money anywhere and I think especially for young – and I mean those who have made up to three completed feature films. Using a coproduction market model creates a wrong expectation so we figured out that if we bring a lot of talented people together from different areas of filmmaking maybe they will not work on these projects that they bring along but maybe they will start working on something else and there is a fine possibility of making stuff happen.
I think it's a very novel idea and, of course, it's a pilot year… We are doing it together with the Helsinki Night Visions Film Festival, the Zagreb Fantastic Film Festival, and Screen Division in Paris. It's specifically European. Of course, we are a little bit worried about how it will turn out, what the quality of the projects is, but the public pitching session was absolutely fabulous! It was full house with a hundred producers and sales agents who have been listening carefully. Lionsgate has been having meetings, Gaumont has been having fruitful meetings too… Other sales agents as well… Also, for example, the Frontières International Coproduction Market has shown interest in certain projects as well so I would say that it has been a tremendous success!
And, will you continue it next year?
S.-K. S.: Of course... We will have a next big announcement in Berlin, and then we will have satellite events in Helsinki and Zagreb also coming up in spring and in the middle of the summer. For next year, we will be fine tuning the model and there are a couple of really, really great ideas but I think it will still be the same structure of getting the people here, teaching them how to develop and pitch their projects. But, we also had script doctoring and we put these projects in touch with sales agents. We had very interesting panels and many friends (sales agents) say that nowadays they are not very interested in projects but in cultivating long-term relationships with directors and this is exactly what we are doing: bringing people in very, very early stages of development so that they can foster these relationships and develop the projects together.
Do you plan to include the U.S. or your aim is to only remain European?
S.-K. S.: Of course… What we will do is definitely increase the U.S. part as well in an independent sector because this is where the market is, where the money is. There are companies specifically Xyz or IFC or even Radius and Magnolia that are interested in investing and distributing these films. So, what we are definitely going to do is that we will be increasing the percentage of attending sales agents and buyers coming to Tallinn. Apart from the Genre Forum, we are developing Tallinn as a kind of presale platform for the Berlinale because people already have a clear of idea what the line-ups will be; they will be able to see the coming-soons, doing yearly slates and that would take a lot of stress out of Berlin as well.
Do you think the Industry@Tallinn is indispensable for the growth and development of the Baltic Film Industry and by extension, the international film industry?
S.-K. S.: Yeah, absolutely… This year, we got into the club of A-list festivals and the reason why we were actually accepted in that category was that each large territory in the world basically has one festival that kind of operates as a gateway. What we do through the festival is bring more projects, more work to the local filmmakers and help them connect with the international circuit. That's exactly the reason why we're doing the International Film Festival Confab. In Estonia, Serbia and any of these regions, not many filmmakers have a great connection with Cannes or Venice and programmers.
Ultimately, you have to have a great film but it's also about creating a relationship with the festival and since people don't have much of that knowledge, what we do is that we actually bring these programmers here so they can be able to say "Oh! I want to send my film to Locarno" - " Please go see there's this person". And it is, you know, important to have a healthy life for the film - that's why you have to develop these relationships - and Tallinn is precisely the place where we help foster these relationships for filmmakers and film institutions. We also work with our government and regional film organizations as well to really develop a competitiveness and kind of uniqueness of this region...
In that sense, how involved are the Estonian Film Institute and the Baltic Film and Media School in the industry part of the festival?
S.-K. S.: We have a fantastic collaboration with the Baltic Film and Media School. Our Sleepwalkers Student and Short Film Festival is now part of the Baltic Film and Media School. We also have a fantastic collaboration with the Estonian Film Institute. So, of course, when we are planning our program we are communicating with them quite closely to see what their needs are. I think the history, especially in the post Soviet countries, in terms of the relationship between the filmmaking community and the government and the financing institutions, has been a rather rocky road but, in the end of the day, everybody's in the same boat. Also, every year, we discuss with them what is the most pressing topic. For instance, next year, Estonia will probably be building a big regional sound stage and a studio and the Film Institute and the film communities will be involved. So, what we did in relation to that was to dedicate a panel on how sound stages operate; we brought in foreign experts on that not only to do a panel but also to meet the local people. We always look at how we can provide benefits for everybody.
What is your stand on the Baltic film industry? What are its weakest and strongest points?
S.-K. S.: I think that - but this is strictly my opinion - the weakest point is that our film industry is very fragmented. It's not really about the size because in Iceland there are 300.000 people and Iceland is producing all these big Hollywood films; Interstellar was shot there, and they have nature as their advantage but also it's the point where there's a certain coherence in the film community. Like I said, I think that the issue in the Baltic is that it's very, very fragmented and the industries in each of the respective countries are very fragmented and as a whole we are also very fragmented so that has also prevented a very clear communication from the government side. Indeed, everybody likes to complain that the government doesn't give enough money but the government also has to meet some goals and I perfectly understand that governments don't want to deal with a group of angry people who can't form consensus, right?
I think it's not really the lack of money because, you know, the lack of money can also be compensated for by some clever policies. I believe the coherence and the communication within the film industry have to be clearer and more uniform and people have to understand that support systems are not like social security. It's slowly changing and things are getting better but we are somewhere in-between a generational shift, not in terms of age maybe, but primarily in terms of a certain mindset; there are positive signs surfacing and especially now with this whole idea of Creative Europe, people have to think outside the box again. I mean, at least we're trying to create this sense of excitement and potential...
What are your aims and focuses for the future? Where do you see it going in long and short terms?
S.-K. S.: We are being involved in collaborations with several exciting markets like Latin America and Asia as well and we're preparing a few audience development projects and exchanges where we will be introducing European films to Latin American territories and vice-versa. With Asia, we also have some plans in the pipeline. We are also leaning toward audience development and trying to find ways to engage more audiences in film, specifically children, youth and disabled communities, because we're participating in a few pilot projects that could revolutionize the way children have access to cinema so this is something that we will be pushing quite a lot. The second direction we're going in is that we are going to have a closer connection with the sales community and try to understand what their needs are and how we can give them more benefits and get more films out to the market. It's a bit like a reciprocal relationship.
The festival has always been focused on films with a very clear author's voice; I'm not saying that these are primarily art films or hard to watch films but also commercial films which express the very clear vision of the author. It's more how we can bring more exposure to the filmmakers and again have more films made. I think that would be a great challenge and Estonia has a very, very small market so we're not really operating locally but regionally. Of course, the big challenge is how we will take this European Genre Forum and how we will make it more beneficial, more concise and have good projects and good talent coming out of here. If more films are made, we're very happy...
Sten-Kristian Saluveer: Sure! The Baltic Event was created at that time to strengthen this region as well as a to create sense of collaboration, community and coproduction between places like Germany, Scandinavia, the Baltics and Russia. What we then started to see -- already in 2010 and 2011-- was that the audiovisual landscape – not only in this region but also in the whole world – was changing so much that it wasn't really enough.
Of course, there was an oversaturation of markets; films were being made and projects were happening but we kind of felt that we needed to refresh it all and look at different territories, different collaborators, different sources of information and knowledge. What also happened is the territories we specifically had in mind – America and Asia – were starting to look at Europe and this was the time when these interesting collaborations between North American independents and Europe started happening: television started to kick off with “Game of Thrones”, “Hannibal” and other series that were being shot in Europe.
Moreover, many Asian productions started coming to Europe so we realized there was a kind of feasible collaboration and possibility between two things. Simultaneously, big changes were also going on in the Estonian market as well. We actually started in 2010 as a kind of forum for a change of film policy and I remember very well that our first panel that year was "What should small countries do to break through to big business?" This year, we really achieved this great balance. The Baltic Event’s aim is still to develop this sort of regional collaboration and regional competitiveness but the industry platform sort of snaps on to it like a Lego piece: we open up new territories, bring other collaborators and slot in some crazy ideas and collaborations. I think it's a very, very unique mix that gives it a more cosmopolitan ambiance, so to speak.
The motivation is still the same, right?
S.-K. S.: Of course...
To be bigger and better?
I think it's not really the question of getting bigger because bigger is not necessary better… Something that is very unique about Tallinn is that it's exactly the right size and it has almost exactly the right people. The most important thing that sometimes gets lost in the festival business and the film market business is the kind of benefit you are providing to the film industry. You know that you can invite 200 people and if every person leaves from here with a deal, a new contact, a new business opportunity, or something else, then this matters. We are not only progressing on very important topics for filmmakers right now, but we are also trying to get the right mix of people, and so we work very closely on whom to invite, what kind of people… So, the idea for me really is to have more quality people coming in, you know, more people who are interested in the region, people who are interested in overseas collaboration and who try to influence a little bit, say, the public funding and government mechanisms to invest in this area.
I am very happy to say that we are already in a position that we can pretty much invite anybody and, this year, we had big Hollywood executives coming in, going to see Estonian locations, market directors, A-class festival programmers… So, it's great!
Has it fulfilled your expectations so far? Can you give us some numbers and tell us what deals have been made?
S.-K. S.: We're just putting it together... There have been deals... I want to talk separately about something that we started this year: a pilot project, called the European Genre Forum. This is basically a creative campus for young genre film professionals and it gathers directors, producers, postproduction people, composers, sound designers, etc. When we started that, the idea was that we were going to flip the coproduction market like a model upside down because I think a) there are too many coproduction markets and b) there's not enough money anywhere and I think especially for young – and I mean those who have made up to three completed feature films. Using a coproduction market model creates a wrong expectation so we figured out that if we bring a lot of talented people together from different areas of filmmaking maybe they will not work on these projects that they bring along but maybe they will start working on something else and there is a fine possibility of making stuff happen.
I think it's a very novel idea and, of course, it's a pilot year… We are doing it together with the Helsinki Night Visions Film Festival, the Zagreb Fantastic Film Festival, and Screen Division in Paris. It's specifically European. Of course, we are a little bit worried about how it will turn out, what the quality of the projects is, but the public pitching session was absolutely fabulous! It was full house with a hundred producers and sales agents who have been listening carefully. Lionsgate has been having meetings, Gaumont has been having fruitful meetings too… Other sales agents as well… Also, for example, the Frontières International Coproduction Market has shown interest in certain projects as well so I would say that it has been a tremendous success!
And, will you continue it next year?
S.-K. S.: Of course... We will have a next big announcement in Berlin, and then we will have satellite events in Helsinki and Zagreb also coming up in spring and in the middle of the summer. For next year, we will be fine tuning the model and there are a couple of really, really great ideas but I think it will still be the same structure of getting the people here, teaching them how to develop and pitch their projects. But, we also had script doctoring and we put these projects in touch with sales agents. We had very interesting panels and many friends (sales agents) say that nowadays they are not very interested in projects but in cultivating long-term relationships with directors and this is exactly what we are doing: bringing people in very, very early stages of development so that they can foster these relationships and develop the projects together.
Do you plan to include the U.S. or your aim is to only remain European?
S.-K. S.: Of course… What we will do is definitely increase the U.S. part as well in an independent sector because this is where the market is, where the money is. There are companies specifically Xyz or IFC or even Radius and Magnolia that are interested in investing and distributing these films. So, what we are definitely going to do is that we will be increasing the percentage of attending sales agents and buyers coming to Tallinn. Apart from the Genre Forum, we are developing Tallinn as a kind of presale platform for the Berlinale because people already have a clear of idea what the line-ups will be; they will be able to see the coming-soons, doing yearly slates and that would take a lot of stress out of Berlin as well.
Do you think the Industry@Tallinn is indispensable for the growth and development of the Baltic Film Industry and by extension, the international film industry?
S.-K. S.: Yeah, absolutely… This year, we got into the club of A-list festivals and the reason why we were actually accepted in that category was that each large territory in the world basically has one festival that kind of operates as a gateway. What we do through the festival is bring more projects, more work to the local filmmakers and help them connect with the international circuit. That's exactly the reason why we're doing the International Film Festival Confab. In Estonia, Serbia and any of these regions, not many filmmakers have a great connection with Cannes or Venice and programmers.
Ultimately, you have to have a great film but it's also about creating a relationship with the festival and since people don't have much of that knowledge, what we do is that we actually bring these programmers here so they can be able to say "Oh! I want to send my film to Locarno" - " Please go see there's this person". And it is, you know, important to have a healthy life for the film - that's why you have to develop these relationships - and Tallinn is precisely the place where we help foster these relationships for filmmakers and film institutions. We also work with our government and regional film organizations as well to really develop a competitiveness and kind of uniqueness of this region...
In that sense, how involved are the Estonian Film Institute and the Baltic Film and Media School in the industry part of the festival?
S.-K. S.: We have a fantastic collaboration with the Baltic Film and Media School. Our Sleepwalkers Student and Short Film Festival is now part of the Baltic Film and Media School. We also have a fantastic collaboration with the Estonian Film Institute. So, of course, when we are planning our program we are communicating with them quite closely to see what their needs are. I think the history, especially in the post Soviet countries, in terms of the relationship between the filmmaking community and the government and the financing institutions, has been a rather rocky road but, in the end of the day, everybody's in the same boat. Also, every year, we discuss with them what is the most pressing topic. For instance, next year, Estonia will probably be building a big regional sound stage and a studio and the Film Institute and the film communities will be involved. So, what we did in relation to that was to dedicate a panel on how sound stages operate; we brought in foreign experts on that not only to do a panel but also to meet the local people. We always look at how we can provide benefits for everybody.
What is your stand on the Baltic film industry? What are its weakest and strongest points?
S.-K. S.: I think that - but this is strictly my opinion - the weakest point is that our film industry is very fragmented. It's not really about the size because in Iceland there are 300.000 people and Iceland is producing all these big Hollywood films; Interstellar was shot there, and they have nature as their advantage but also it's the point where there's a certain coherence in the film community. Like I said, I think that the issue in the Baltic is that it's very, very fragmented and the industries in each of the respective countries are very fragmented and as a whole we are also very fragmented so that has also prevented a very clear communication from the government side. Indeed, everybody likes to complain that the government doesn't give enough money but the government also has to meet some goals and I perfectly understand that governments don't want to deal with a group of angry people who can't form consensus, right?
I think it's not really the lack of money because, you know, the lack of money can also be compensated for by some clever policies. I believe the coherence and the communication within the film industry have to be clearer and more uniform and people have to understand that support systems are not like social security. It's slowly changing and things are getting better but we are somewhere in-between a generational shift, not in terms of age maybe, but primarily in terms of a certain mindset; there are positive signs surfacing and especially now with this whole idea of Creative Europe, people have to think outside the box again. I mean, at least we're trying to create this sense of excitement and potential...
What are your aims and focuses for the future? Where do you see it going in long and short terms?
S.-K. S.: We are being involved in collaborations with several exciting markets like Latin America and Asia as well and we're preparing a few audience development projects and exchanges where we will be introducing European films to Latin American territories and vice-versa. With Asia, we also have some plans in the pipeline. We are also leaning toward audience development and trying to find ways to engage more audiences in film, specifically children, youth and disabled communities, because we're participating in a few pilot projects that could revolutionize the way children have access to cinema so this is something that we will be pushing quite a lot. The second direction we're going in is that we are going to have a closer connection with the sales community and try to understand what their needs are and how we can give them more benefits and get more films out to the market. It's a bit like a reciprocal relationship.
The festival has always been focused on films with a very clear author's voice; I'm not saying that these are primarily art films or hard to watch films but also commercial films which express the very clear vision of the author. It's more how we can bring more exposure to the filmmakers and again have more films made. I think that would be a great challenge and Estonia has a very, very small market so we're not really operating locally but regionally. Of course, the big challenge is how we will take this European Genre Forum and how we will make it more beneficial, more concise and have good projects and good talent coming out of here. If more films are made, we're very happy...
- 12/23/2014
- by Tara Karajica
- Sydney's Buzz
Filmmakers from across Europe to take part in pilot forum.
The European Genre Forum (Nov 24-28), a new creative camp for film talent, is to be piloted during the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (Nov 13-30).
A total of 16 filmmakers with projects in development will take part in panels on sales, promotion and festival strategy, a storytelling workshop, a business development workshop, networking events, one-to-one meetings and a pitching session for on-going projects.
The directing and producing talents include:
Seth Ickerman (Spain)Helen Lõhmus & Oskar Lehemaa (Estonia)Talal Selhami (France)Aleksi Hyvärinen, Misha Jaari and Vesa Virtanen (Finland)Nevio Marasovic and Vanja Vascarac (Croatia)Tea Korolija (Serbia)Aik Karpetian (Latvia)
The pilot forum is organized in partnership with Night Visions Film Festival (Helsinki), Zagreb Fantastic Ff (Zagreb) and Screen Division Consultancy (Paris).
The European Genre Forum (Nov 24-28), a new creative camp for film talent, is to be piloted during the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (Nov 13-30).
A total of 16 filmmakers with projects in development will take part in panels on sales, promotion and festival strategy, a storytelling workshop, a business development workshop, networking events, one-to-one meetings and a pitching session for on-going projects.
The directing and producing talents include:
Seth Ickerman (Spain)Helen Lõhmus & Oskar Lehemaa (Estonia)Talal Selhami (France)Aleksi Hyvärinen, Misha Jaari and Vesa Virtanen (Finland)Nevio Marasovic and Vanja Vascarac (Croatia)Tea Korolija (Serbia)Aik Karpetian (Latvia)
The pilot forum is organized in partnership with Night Visions Film Festival (Helsinki), Zagreb Fantastic Ff (Zagreb) and Screen Division Consultancy (Paris).
- 11/12/2014
- ScreenDaily
This time last year, Timo Vuorensola promised us "Hitler riding a dinosaur in the centre of the Earth" in his forthcoming Iron Sky sequel The Coming Race. Twelve months later he's already blown his money shot in this promo, just unveiled at Helsinki's Night Visions festival and the American Film Market. "Yeah, but that's a money shot worth blowing," Vuorensola grins.Not intended to be part of the film itself, the promo serves as a bridge between the end of Iron Sky and the start of the new movie, set 20 years later. Following a holocaust, "All that’s left of humanity survives in the Moon Fortress," Vuorensola explained to Empire last week. "It’s the survival of mankind: a small group of ex-Nazis, kids, old women... basically anyone who didn't leave for the war, plus those who were rich enough to get off Earth with their private space shuttle tickets.
- 11/7/2014
- EmpireOnline
Another Thursday (July 24), another elimination in the “Big Brother” house. The outcome of tonight’s vote certainly seems all but assured, but in a world where Victoria managed to take herself off the block, anything’s possible. Let’s get into Stealth Cowboy Mode and spy in on the housemates…. 9:00 pm Est: Julie Chen’s shoulders are here to greet you! 9:01 pm: Previously on “Big Brother”: Cody said “blood on my hands” 300 times, vowed to put Caleb on the block, but backed down thanks to Frankie and Derrick. Sorry, Cody’s brother. Also Donnie. Sorry, Donnie. 9:02 pm: The announcer just said "offish" instead of "official". I hate everything. 9:04 pm: Brittany, the “Big Brother” Debbie Downer, realizes that Donny is probably the worst person she could be competing with at this point. Elsewhere in the house, Cody is still crying as if he’s just seen...
- 7/25/2014
- by Ryan McGee
- Hitfix
The Hong Kong global premiere of Transformers: Age of Extinction was the other night and after the screening Imagine Dragons held an amazing concert, which included the band's first live performance of "Battle Cry." The Grammy Award-winning rock band Imagine was one of 2013's breakout artists, having played to sold-out audiences in North America, South America, Europe, Japan, Australia and New Zealand. Night Visions, their debut full length album, reached #2 on the Billboard Top 200 and had the best first-week sales for a full-length debut by a new rock band in over six years. Selling over 4 million copies worldwide, the album's success was due in large part to the multi-platinum single "It's Time" and hit follow-up singles "Radioactive" and "Demons". Transformers: Age of Extinction features the New song “Battle Cry” by Imagine Dragons now available via iTunes on KIDinaKORNER/Interscope Records. Transformers: Age Of Extinction is the fourth film in director...
- 6/21/2014
- ComicBookMovie.com
The Grammy Award-winning rock band Imagine was one of 2013's breakout artists, having played to sold-out audiences in North America, South America, Europe, Japan, Australia and New Zealand. Night Visions, their debut full length album, reached #2 on the Billboard Top 200 and had the best first-week sales for a full-length debut by a new rock band in over six years. Selling over 4 million copies worldwide, the album's success was due in large part to the multi-platinum single "It's Time" and hit follow-up singles "Radioactive" and "Demons". Paramount has released an exclusive Transformers: Age of Extinction featurette via iTunes Trailers which highlights the bands work on the film, including their song "Battle Cry", their thoughts on the film and what it was like to work with Michael Bay, Steve Jablonsky and Hans Zimmer. Transformers: Age of Extinction is the fourth film in director Michael Bay’s global blockbuster franchise. Mark Wahlberg, Stanley Tucci,...
- 6/19/2014
- ComicBookMovie.com
It's one of the biggest nights in music and the 2014 Billboard Music Awards went off without a hitch on Sunday night (May 18).
Featuring performances by Miley Cyrus, Katy Perry, Shakira and a hologram version of Michael Jackson, the MGM Grand in Las Vegas was definitely filled with plenty of energy.
Ludacris hosted the star-studded event and celebrated with winners including Lorde who took home Top New Artist and Top Rock Artist.
Meanwhile, the Top Artist prize went home to Justin Timberlake, who scored the win with singles including "Mirrors" and "Suit and Tie."
Check out the full list of Billboard Music Awards winners below:
Top artist:
Miley Cyrus
Imagine Dragons
Bruno Mars
Katy Perry
Winner Justin Timberlake
Top new artist:
Bastille
Capital Cities
Ariana Grande
Winner Lorde
Passenger
Top male artist:
Luke Bryan
Drake
Eminem
Bruno Mars
Winner Justin Timberlake
Top female artist:
Beyonce
Miley Cyrus
Lorde
Winner Katy Perry...
Featuring performances by Miley Cyrus, Katy Perry, Shakira and a hologram version of Michael Jackson, the MGM Grand in Las Vegas was definitely filled with plenty of energy.
Ludacris hosted the star-studded event and celebrated with winners including Lorde who took home Top New Artist and Top Rock Artist.
Meanwhile, the Top Artist prize went home to Justin Timberlake, who scored the win with singles including "Mirrors" and "Suit and Tie."
Check out the full list of Billboard Music Awards winners below:
Top artist:
Miley Cyrus
Imagine Dragons
Bruno Mars
Katy Perry
Winner Justin Timberlake
Top new artist:
Bastille
Capital Cities
Ariana Grande
Winner Lorde
Passenger
Top male artist:
Luke Bryan
Drake
Eminem
Bruno Mars
Winner Justin Timberlake
Top female artist:
Beyonce
Miley Cyrus
Lorde
Winner Katy Perry...
- 5/19/2014
- GossipCenter
Complete list of winners and nominees for the 2014 Billboard Music Awards, held in Las Vegas at the MGM Grand Garden & Arena May 18. Winners will be updated as they are announced. Top Artist: Miley Cyrus Imagine Dragons Bruno Mars Katy Perry Winner: Justin Timberlake Milestone Award presented by Chevrolet: Ellie Goulding OneRepublic Winner: Carrie Underwood Top Country Song: Luke Bryan “Crash My Party” Luke Bryan “That’s My Kind Of Night” Winner: Florida Georgia Line Featuring Nelly “Cruise” Darius Rucker “Wagon Wheel” Blake Shelton Featuring Pistol Annies & Friends “Boys ‘Round Here” Top Streaming Artist: Winner: Miley Cyrus Imagine Dragons Macklemore & Ryan Lewis Katy Perry Psy Top R&B Song: Beyoncé Feat. Jay Z “Drunk In Love” Drake Featuring Majid Jordan “Hold On, We’re Going Home” Pharrell Williams “Happy” Winner: Robin Thicke Featuring T.I. & Pharrell Williams “Blurred Lines” Justin Timberlake Feat. Jay Z “Suit & Tie” Top Hot 100 Song: Miley Cyrus...
- 5/19/2014
- by Melinda Newman
- Hitfix
The Billboard Music Awards celebrated and recognized the most successful artists in the music industry and provided a number of memorable performances Sunday night.
Billboard Music Awards Recap
Imagine Dragons' Night Visions beat out Lana Del Rey’s Born to Die; Fall Out Boy’s Save Rock and Roll, Lorde’s album Pure Heroine; and, Mumford and Sons’ Babel, for the Billboard Music Awards Album of the Year.
The Top Billboard 200 Album Award went to Justin Timberlake’s The 20/20 Experience, which was up against Beyonce’s album, Beyonce; Luke Bryan’s album, Crash My Party; Nothing Was The Same by Drake; and, Eminem’s MMLP2. Timberlake also won the Billboard Music Awards Top Artist Award.
Check Out The Billboard Music Awards Slideshow Here
Lorde won the Billboard Music Awards Top New Artist Award, as well as for the Billboard Music Awards top Rock Song Award for “Royals.” Lorde lost...
Billboard Music Awards Recap
Imagine Dragons' Night Visions beat out Lana Del Rey’s Born to Die; Fall Out Boy’s Save Rock and Roll, Lorde’s album Pure Heroine; and, Mumford and Sons’ Babel, for the Billboard Music Awards Album of the Year.
The Top Billboard 200 Album Award went to Justin Timberlake’s The 20/20 Experience, which was up against Beyonce’s album, Beyonce; Luke Bryan’s album, Crash My Party; Nothing Was The Same by Drake; and, Eminem’s MMLP2. Timberlake also won the Billboard Music Awards Top Artist Award.
Check Out The Billboard Music Awards Slideshow Here
Lorde won the Billboard Music Awards Top New Artist Award, as well as for the Billboard Music Awards top Rock Song Award for “Royals.” Lorde lost...
- 5/19/2014
- Uinterview
The Billboard Music Awards celebrated and recognized the most successful artists in the music industry and provided a number of memorable performances Sunday night.
Billboard Music Awards Recap
Imagine Dragons' Night Visions beat out Lana Del Rey’s Born to Die; Fall Out Boy’s Save Rock and Roll, Lorde’s album Pure Heroine; and, Mumford and Sons’ Babel, for the Billboard Music Awards Album of the Year.
The Top Billboard 200 Album Award went to Justin Timberlake’s The 20/20 Experience, which was up against Beyonce’s album, Beyonce; Luke Bryan’s album, Crash My Party; Nothing Was The Same by Drake; and, Eminem’s MMLP2. Timberlake also won the Billboard Music Awards Top Artist Award.
Check Out The Billboard Music Awards Slideshow Here
Lorde won the Billboard Music Awards Top New Artist Award, as well as for the Billboard Music Awards top Rock Song Award for “Royals.” Lorde lost...
Billboard Music Awards Recap
Imagine Dragons' Night Visions beat out Lana Del Rey’s Born to Die; Fall Out Boy’s Save Rock and Roll, Lorde’s album Pure Heroine; and, Mumford and Sons’ Babel, for the Billboard Music Awards Album of the Year.
The Top Billboard 200 Album Award went to Justin Timberlake’s The 20/20 Experience, which was up against Beyonce’s album, Beyonce; Luke Bryan’s album, Crash My Party; Nothing Was The Same by Drake; and, Eminem’s MMLP2. Timberlake also won the Billboard Music Awards Top Artist Award.
Check Out The Billboard Music Awards Slideshow Here
Lorde won the Billboard Music Awards Top New Artist Award, as well as for the Billboard Music Awards top Rock Song Award for “Royals.” Lorde lost...
- 5/19/2014
- Uinterview
With a little over a month until the big night, the 2014 Billboard Music Awards just unveiled the illustrious list of hopefuls.
Relative newcomers Lorde and Imagine Dragons are each up for 12 trophies, trailed by Justin Timberlake (11), Katy Perry (10) and Macklemore & Ryan Lewis (8).
The 2014 Billboard Music Awards will air live on May 18th at 8pm from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.
And the nominees are…
Top Artist:
Miley Cyrus
Imagine Dragons
Bruno Mars
Katy Perry
Justin Timberlake
Top New Artist:
Bastille
Capital Cities
Ariana Grande
Lorde
Passenger
Top Male Artist:
Luke Bryan
Drake
Eminem
Bruno Mars
Justin Timberlake
Top Female Artist:
Beyoncé
Miley Cyrus
Lorde
Katy Perry
Rihanna
Top Duo/Group:
Florida Georgia Line
Imagine Dragons
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
One Direction
OneRepublic
Top Billboard 200 Artist:
Beyoncé
Luke Bryan
Eminem
One Direction
Justin Timberlake
Top Hot 100 Artist:
Miley Cyrus
Imagine Dragons
Lorde
Katy Perry
Justin Timberlake
Top Digital Songs...
Relative newcomers Lorde and Imagine Dragons are each up for 12 trophies, trailed by Justin Timberlake (11), Katy Perry (10) and Macklemore & Ryan Lewis (8).
The 2014 Billboard Music Awards will air live on May 18th at 8pm from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.
And the nominees are…
Top Artist:
Miley Cyrus
Imagine Dragons
Bruno Mars
Katy Perry
Justin Timberlake
Top New Artist:
Bastille
Capital Cities
Ariana Grande
Lorde
Passenger
Top Male Artist:
Luke Bryan
Drake
Eminem
Bruno Mars
Justin Timberlake
Top Female Artist:
Beyoncé
Miley Cyrus
Lorde
Katy Perry
Rihanna
Top Duo/Group:
Florida Georgia Line
Imagine Dragons
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
One Direction
OneRepublic
Top Billboard 200 Artist:
Beyoncé
Luke Bryan
Eminem
One Direction
Justin Timberlake
Top Hot 100 Artist:
Miley Cyrus
Imagine Dragons
Lorde
Katy Perry
Justin Timberlake
Top Digital Songs...
- 4/9/2014
- GossipCenter
With help from pop R&B singer Jason Derulo live this morning on “Good Morning America,” dick clark productions and Billboard, the ultimate authority in music and home of the iconic Billboard charts defining success in music, today announced the finalists for the 2014 Billboard Music Awards, honoring the year’s most successful artists in 40 categories. The 2014 Billboard Music Awards will broadcast Live from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on Sunday, May 18, on ABC from 8:00 Pm–11:00 Pm Et, with performances from music’s biggest stars. The “2014 Billboard Music Awards” is produced by dick clark productions. Allen Shapiro and Mike Mahan are Executive Producers. Larry Klein and Barry Adelman are Producers. Derulo appeared in the 8:00 Am Et hour of “Good Morning America” today, to announce his participation as a performer in this year’s Billboard Music Awards. Derulo also announced five of the 40 finalist categories, including: Top Artist,...
- 4/9/2014
- by Josh Abraham
- Hollywoodnews.com
Alternative rock quartet Imagine Dragons and New Zealand-born teen singer-songwriter Lorde lead the finalists announced Wednesday morning for the 2014 Billboard Music Awards, which honor musical artists across 40 categories. Both earned nods in 12 categories for breakthrough records, including Imagine Dragons's Night Visions record and Lorde's album Pure Heroine. Others named as finalists in 11 categories each were Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Katy Perry and Justin Timberlake, who is vying for his first win in the solo artist category. Other first-time finalists this year are Lorde, Avicii, Capital Cities, Zedd and Sidewalk Prophets. The top country artist, earning nods in seven categories,...
- 4/9/2014
- by Andrea Billups
- PEOPLE.com
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