First Brittany Murphy, now River Phoenix. On Halloween 1993, promising young star River Phoenix died at the age of 23, and while most of his devoted fans may have thought that his uncredited appearance in Even Cowgirls Get The Blues would be his final performance, 20 years later we're learning that the long, long delayed Dark Blood is finally getting a theatrical release. THR reports out of Cannes that Lionsgate has bought the rights to Dark Blood, a thriller that had its production halted after River Phoenix's unexpected death. The film, written by Jim Barton and directed by George Sluizer, has Phoenix playing a desperate widower called Boy who lives in the desert on a nuclear testing site. When the Fletchers (Jonathan Pryce and Judy Davis), a married couple on their second honeymoon, show up on his land, he imprisons them to conquer his loneliness and lust. Dark Blood was shot predominantly...
- 5/22/2014
- cinemablend.com
Earlier this week, TiVo co-founders Mike Ramsay and Jim Barton launched Qplay, a digital TV streaming device that specializes in turning YouTube and Vimeo playlists into TV-style 'channels'. Qplay is entering what has become an extremely crowded web-to-tv market, but if the development of online music streaming is any indication, it will be able to find a niche. At launch, the $49 Qplay device only supports YouTube and Vimeo. Instead of offering dozens of apps, Qplay encourages its users to form playlists, which are then streamed to the user's TV. Using his or her iPad as a remote control, the viewer can flip between playlists, turning the web-to-tv game into a more traditional channel-surfing experience. The fundamental problem with Qplay is way its main utility runs against to the entire reason for digital TV devices to exist in the first place. Roku, Chromecast, and Apple TV aren't discovery engines; they're just really clean,...
- 2/28/2014
- by Sam Gutelle
- Tubefilter.com
★★★☆☆ "You're a disturbing young man" says Buffy (Judy Davis) to Boy (River Phoenix). The latter is showing the former around a fallout shelter in the Utah desert, redecorated by him for prosperity as a mystical cave. It's one of the few completed interior scenes in the long-lost but not forgotten Dark Blood, Dutch auteur George Sluizer's unfinished 1993 project, following the death of its star, River Phoenix. Steering clear of sensationalism, Dark Blood is the kind of quirky indie fare that studios would still care to green-light in the 1990s, thanks to an excellent script by Jim Barton and beautiful photography from veteran cinematographer Ed Lachman.
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- 2/14/2013
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Nineteen years after the death of its star, River Phoenix, George Sluizer's fragmentary, uneven and odd film was finally unveiled at the Netherlands film festival
Nineteen years after abandoning Dark Blood when his star River Phoenix died of a drugs overdose shortly before the end of the project, Dutch director George Sluizer has finally completed the film. "Complete" in this case is a relative term. The movie unveiled in Utrecht this week came with a preface in which the director warns us that we are about to watch an "unfinished" work. He likens the movie now salvaged to a chair with three legs. "The fourth leg will always be missing but the chair will be able to stand upright."
Dark Blood is fragmentary, uneven and downright odd in parts but it's also has huge curiosity value. The director's solution for bridging the considerable gaps is to read out descriptions of what is missing.
Nineteen years after abandoning Dark Blood when his star River Phoenix died of a drugs overdose shortly before the end of the project, Dutch director George Sluizer has finally completed the film. "Complete" in this case is a relative term. The movie unveiled in Utrecht this week came with a preface in which the director warns us that we are about to watch an "unfinished" work. He likens the movie now salvaged to a chair with three legs. "The fourth leg will always be missing but the chair will be able to stand upright."
Dark Blood is fragmentary, uneven and downright odd in parts but it's also has huge curiosity value. The director's solution for bridging the considerable gaps is to read out descriptions of what is missing.
- 10/1/2012
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- The Guardian - Film News
TiVo co-founder Jim Barton resigned as the company's chief technology officer and senior vice president on Friday. No formal announcement was made about Barton's departure and the news came in a regulatory filing. "Jim is headed off to pursue his next 'big idea,' but will remain an advisor to the company," Jessica Loebig Monney, a spokeswoman for the company, told TheWrap. Also read: Jennifer Lopez 'Nipple Slip,' Gwyneth Paltrow Skit Top Oscars Most-TiVo'ed Moments List Barton will be paid $25,000 a month as part of his consulting gig, according to the filing. His duties...
- 3/16/2012
- by Brent Lang
- The Wrap
On Halloween night, 1993 River Phoenix cut his own life and acting career short when he died of a drug overdose outside The Viper Room in West Hollywood. Before he died, he had made a strong mark on the movie world with performances in Stand By Me, My Own Private Idaho and an Oscar nomination for his role in Running On Empty. Phoenix appeared in three films that were released in 1993, but there was one left unfinished – a thriller called Dark Blood that dealt with the long-term effects of nuclear testing and saw Phoenix playing a hermit widower living out in the desert awaiting the end of the world. Eighteen years later, director George Sluizer (The Vanishing) is announcing that he plans on editing the film into a completed print and releasing it sometime in 2012. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Sluizer plans on requesting that Joaquin Phoenix do some voice over work as a stand in for his...
- 10/19/2011
- by Cole Abaius
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
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