Richard Franklin has been called “The Australian Hitchcock” and 1981’s Road Games is the movie that earned him that title. Unlike many of his contemporaries, however, Franklin did not particularly emulate Hitchcock’s visual style. Instead, he learned how to structure a story and effectively build a sense of dread from the Master of Suspense. He also learned the importance of adding healthy doses of humor along the way to make the suspense even more effective. Though Hitchcock is Franklin’s greatest influence, there is plenty of John Ford and Howard Hawks, along with contemporaries like John Carpenter and Steven Spielberg to be found in his style. This is not to say that Franklin’s work is derivative. Every good filmmaker has influences that they synthesize into their own style. Franklin’s style is more difficult to pinpoint than, say, Scorsese or DePalma’s, but it is no less effective in its narrative capabilities.
- 6/13/2023
- by Brian Keiper
- bloody-disgusting.com
Jennifer Salke, head of Amazon Studios, has been tapped to receive the Variety Vanguard Award at the Mipcom international content sales conference set for Oct. 17-20 in Cannes.
The kudo recognizes television industry leaders who have made a significant contribution to the global business of entertainment. Salke will receive the award, presented by Variety and Mipcom, on Oct. 18 as part of her keynote conversation at the Palais de Festivals, moderated by Variety co-editor in chief Cynthia Littleton.
“Jennifer Salke has steered Amazon Studios growth into a powerhouse player in the content business,” said Michelle Sobrino-Stearns, CEO and group publisher of Variety. “She has had an undeniable track record of success throughout her career, and she is one of the highest-ranking women in an industry that still has a long way to go toward gender parity in the C-suites.”
Salke is approaching her fifth year at the helm of Amazon Studios,...
The kudo recognizes television industry leaders who have made a significant contribution to the global business of entertainment. Salke will receive the award, presented by Variety and Mipcom, on Oct. 18 as part of her keynote conversation at the Palais de Festivals, moderated by Variety co-editor in chief Cynthia Littleton.
“Jennifer Salke has steered Amazon Studios growth into a powerhouse player in the content business,” said Michelle Sobrino-Stearns, CEO and group publisher of Variety. “She has had an undeniable track record of success throughout her career, and she is one of the highest-ranking women in an industry that still has a long way to go toward gender parity in the C-suites.”
Salke is approaching her fifth year at the helm of Amazon Studios,...
- 8/10/2022
- by William Earl
- Variety Film + TV
We return with another edition of the Indie Spotlight, highlighting recent independent horror news sent our way. Today’s feature includes a teaser trailer for The House of Forbidden Secrets, UK distribution details for Banshee Chapter, information on a line of handcrafted zombie dolls, a trailer for In Fear, first details on Dead Bounty, and much more:
The House of Forbidden Secrets Teaser: “The House of Forbidden Secrets had it’s national premiere in Las Vegas, Nv at the PollyGrind Film Festival on October 11th, 2013, where it won 6 awards, and has also been chosen for the South African Horror Festival this Spring, the Italian Fantafest in 2014, the British Raindance Film Fest for 2014 as well as the X-Fest with many more festivals to follow. It was shot last Winter and Spring in Kansas City. The film stars many local actors and actresses to Kansas City, but also includes genre icons such as Lew Temple (Walking Dead,...
The House of Forbidden Secrets Teaser: “The House of Forbidden Secrets had it’s national premiere in Las Vegas, Nv at the PollyGrind Film Festival on October 11th, 2013, where it won 6 awards, and has also been chosen for the South African Horror Festival this Spring, the Italian Fantafest in 2014, the British Raindance Film Fest for 2014 as well as the X-Fest with many more festivals to follow. It was shot last Winter and Spring in Kansas City. The film stars many local actors and actresses to Kansas City, but also includes genre icons such as Lew Temple (Walking Dead,...
- 11/10/2013
- by Tamika Jones
- DailyDead
Tick Tock Trick is a ghostly tale from the United Kingdom. The film involves a group of friends and a haunted 17th Century mansion. These friends find what they are looking for, when they go in search of the paranormal. A nightmare awaits them. Tick Tock Trick has been in development over several years. The film is now in post-production. Most recently, this title released the film's first trailer and it can be viewed here. The clip offers some dark poetry, sounds of torture and some strange imagery. View the reel below. Director: Bronwyn Edwards. Writer: Marlon Edwards. Cast: Ed Johnson, Bhawana Jimi, Samuel Webster, Jack Beale, Felicity Wren, Kimberly Jaraj, Lennard Sillevis, and Jonny Kight. The film's first trailer is here: The film's website is here: The Tick Tock Trick Official Website Source: Tick Tock Trick at Horror Society | | Advertise Here - Contact me Michael Allen at 28Dla Subscribe to 28 Days.
- 1/30/2013
- by noreply@blogger.com (Michael Allen)
- 28 Days Later Analysis
New York, Nov 16: Special concoctions that combine natural aphrodisiacs and health-food ingredients to improve the stamina of men and give them a virility boost are must-haves on the menu at juice bars across Central Brooklyn.
Men are said to flock to Brooklyn juice bars for all-natural drinks with suggestive names like "Armageddon" and "Gun Shot Reload" that boost sexual stamina
"A lot of customers out there need help with their sex drive, and they expect us to provide the help," the New York Daily News quoted Marlon Edwards, the manager of Punch Line Juice Bar in Crown Heights, as saying.
Potions to improve stamina in the sack are especially popular at juice bars in sections of Crown Heights, Bedford-Stuyvesant.
Men are said to flock to Brooklyn juice bars for all-natural drinks with suggestive names like "Armageddon" and "Gun Shot Reload" that boost sexual stamina
"A lot of customers out there need help with their sex drive, and they expect us to provide the help," the New York Daily News quoted Marlon Edwards, the manager of Punch Line Juice Bar in Crown Heights, as saying.
Potions to improve stamina in the sack are especially popular at juice bars in sections of Crown Heights, Bedford-Stuyvesant.
- 11/16/2011
- by Meeta Kabra
- RealBollywood.com
In a deal that is valued at Rs.100 crores, 20th Century Fox has licensed Anil Kapoor Films Company to remake 24, one of the post popular television series in United States of America and other western markets. Anil Kapoor Films Company will be adapting the series for Indian market. Anil Kapoor had acted in the recent season of the Us television series. It's a first of its kind deal where a studio has licensed the remake of a series to an actor. Anil Kapoor is planning to make it into a high budget television series which will be shot on a big canvass. Speaking about this development, Anil says, "It will be a great honour for me to play Jack Bauer. Kiefer has created an iconic character which has inspired me to bring the franchise to India. This will be my first foray to Indian television and I look forward to...
- 11/9/2011
- by Bollywood Hungama News Network
- BollywoodHungama
In a deal that is valued at Rs.100 crores, 20th Century Fox has licensed Anil Kapoor Films Company to remake 24, one of the post popular television series in United States of America and other western markets. Anil Kapoor Films Company will be adapting the series for Indian market. Anil Kapoor had acted in the recent season of the Us television series. It's a first of its kind deal where a studio has licensed the remake of a series to an actor. Anil Kapoor is planning to make it into a high budget television series which will be shot on a big canvass. Speaking about this development, Anil says, "It will be a great honour for me to play Jack Bauer. Kiefer has created an iconic character which has inspired me to bring the franchise to India. This will be my first foray to Indian television and I look forward to...
- 11/9/2011
- by Bollywood Hungama News Network
- BollywoodHungama
More Mipcom news
Cannes -- Storm clouds lifted literally and figuratively here this week as 12,000 Mipcom-goers hunkered down to do business after two years of tentativeness, even at times trepidation.
While no one was ready to say that the financial worth of transactions had returned to pre-2007 levels, most participants at the five-day sales bazaar on the French Riviera reported reasonably upbeat results, including plenty of program sales, new partnerships and, crucially, new funding sources for content.
Hollywood came to town with outsized suitcases, including their pieces de resistance: new fall drama series.
All six majors could point to one or two good ratings stories from back home, with Disney, for example, high on "No Ordinary Family" and NBC Universal betting on "The Event" to boost their fortunes abroad. Each brought along the respective exec producers of those shows, Greg Berlanti and Steve Stark, to reinforce the point.
In key...
Cannes -- Storm clouds lifted literally and figuratively here this week as 12,000 Mipcom-goers hunkered down to do business after two years of tentativeness, even at times trepidation.
While no one was ready to say that the financial worth of transactions had returned to pre-2007 levels, most participants at the five-day sales bazaar on the French Riviera reported reasonably upbeat results, including plenty of program sales, new partnerships and, crucially, new funding sources for content.
Hollywood came to town with outsized suitcases, including their pieces de resistance: new fall drama series.
All six majors could point to one or two good ratings stories from back home, with Disney, for example, high on "No Ordinary Family" and NBC Universal betting on "The Event" to boost their fortunes abroad. Each brought along the respective exec producers of those shows, Greg Berlanti and Steve Stark, to reinforce the point.
In key...
- 10/6/2010
- by By Elizabeth Guider and Mimi Turner
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
HBO's "Boardwalk Empire," a Prohibition-era period piece for which Martin Scorsese directed the pilot, is one of the hot titles to come out of the just-wrapped L.A. Screenings, the annual bazaar in which foreign TV program buyers pick and choose from among new U.S. shows for their stations abroad.
Other titles cited by a random survey of a dozen buyers who sat through the marathon screenings this past week were CBS Studios' "Hawaii Five-o" revamp, Warner Bros.' sexy spy caper "Undercovers," Disney's jungle-set medical drama "Off the Map" and Fox's politically incorrect sitcom "Bob's Burgers."
In some cases, buyers cited the shows they have to take anyway because they have output deals with the relevant major studio; in others, buyers fingered shows they wished they had dibs on but which go to a rival.
Among the licensing deals inked during the weeklong event for "Empire" were...
Other titles cited by a random survey of a dozen buyers who sat through the marathon screenings this past week were CBS Studios' "Hawaii Five-o" revamp, Warner Bros.' sexy spy caper "Undercovers," Disney's jungle-set medical drama "Off the Map" and Fox's politically incorrect sitcom "Bob's Burgers."
In some cases, buyers cited the shows they have to take anyway because they have output deals with the relevant major studio; in others, buyers fingered shows they wished they had dibs on but which go to a rival.
Among the licensing deals inked during the weeklong event for "Empire" were...
- 5/31/2010
- by By Elizabeth Guider
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Los Angeles, April 1, 2010—Fox Networks Group (Fng) has established Fox Look, a new business unit specializing in the international licensing and production of unscripted programming from Fox Broadcasting Company and Fox Cable Networks, it was announced today by Fng Chairman and CEO Tony Vinciquerra. Veteran Fox executive David Lyle will serve as President of Fox Look and report to Vinciquerra. Lyle will also work closely with Marion Edwards, President of International Television. “There is a strong demand for this type of content internationally and Fox Look was created to maximize our footprint in this ever-growing category,” said Vinciquerra. “David Lyle [...]...
- 4/1/2010
- by Nikki Finke
- Deadline Hollywood
By Josef Adalian
Hey, look: News Corp. has found a new gig for ex-Fox Reality Channel chief David Lyle.
The feisty Australian will head up Fox Look, a new unit of the Fox Network Group "specializing in the international licensing and production of unscripted programming from Fox Broadcasting Company and Fox Cable Networks," the company said. Lyle will report to the equally-feisty Fng chairman and CEO Tony Vinciquerra, and will work hand-in-hand with Marion Edwards, president of international television at the Fng.
Fox Look -- we're not sure why the caps, either. Maybe it stands for '...
Hey, look: News Corp. has found a new gig for ex-Fox Reality Channel chief David Lyle.
The feisty Australian will head up Fox Look, a new unit of the Fox Network Group "specializing in the international licensing and production of unscripted programming from Fox Broadcasting Company and Fox Cable Networks," the company said. Lyle will report to the equally-feisty Fng chairman and CEO Tony Vinciquerra, and will work hand-in-hand with Marion Edwards, president of international television at the Fng.
Fox Look -- we're not sure why the caps, either. Maybe it stands for '...
- 4/1/2010
- by Adalian
- The Wrap
Fox Networks Group is launching a unit dedicated to the exploitation of Fox's broadcast and cable unscripted formats internationally, tapping Fox Reality Channel president David Lyle to run it.
Called Fox Look, the division will represent internationally new unscripted formats from Fox Broadcasting Co. and Fox cable networks, including National Geographic, FX and Speed. It will license them, partner with foreign production companies to co-produce local versions or handle the production itself by launching production entities in some countries.
Additionally, the new unit -- the first of its kind at a major TV studio -- will take over the unscripted formats in the 20th Century Fox library, including "Temptation Island," "Beauty and the Geek," "My Big Fat Obnoxious Fiance" and "Celebrity Spelling Bee."
Lyle will introduce Look to foreign broadcasters and producers at the upcoming Mip market.
The division, to be based in Los Angeles with additional staffers in several foreign territories,...
Called Fox Look, the division will represent internationally new unscripted formats from Fox Broadcasting Co. and Fox cable networks, including National Geographic, FX and Speed. It will license them, partner with foreign production companies to co-produce local versions or handle the production itself by launching production entities in some countries.
Additionally, the new unit -- the first of its kind at a major TV studio -- will take over the unscripted formats in the 20th Century Fox library, including "Temptation Island," "Beauty and the Geek," "My Big Fat Obnoxious Fiance" and "Celebrity Spelling Bee."
Lyle will introduce Look to foreign broadcasters and producers at the upcoming Mip market.
The division, to be based in Los Angeles with additional staffers in several foreign territories,...
- 4/1/2010
- by By Nellie Andreeva
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Steve Brennan talks with U.S.-Ireland Alliance president Trina Vargos about the history of the Irish in Hollywood. Listen Note: The Hollywood Reporter would like to invite friends and colleagues of Steve Brennan to a remembrance from 6:30-8:30 p.m. Monday, July 13, at Steve's favorite watering hole, Tom Bergin's Tavern, at 840 S. Fairfax Ave.
Steve Brennan, a 20-year veteran reporter and editor at The Hollywood Reporter, died Thursday at Cedars Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles after a yearlong battle with cancer. He was 57.
Brennan was well-known in the entertainment industry as a tenacious and fair-minded reporter who tirelessly covered the entertainment industry, with a particular focus on the paper's domestic TV syndication and international beats.
"Steve often dazzled with his colorful style, but his insights into the biz were even brighter," THR editor Elizabeth Guider said. "He was one of a disappearing breed of old-school newsmen...
Steve Brennan, a 20-year veteran reporter and editor at The Hollywood Reporter, died Thursday at Cedars Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles after a yearlong battle with cancer. He was 57.
Brennan was well-known in the entertainment industry as a tenacious and fair-minded reporter who tirelessly covered the entertainment industry, with a particular focus on the paper's domestic TV syndication and international beats.
"Steve often dazzled with his colorful style, but his insights into the biz were even brighter," THR editor Elizabeth Guider said. "He was one of a disappearing breed of old-school newsmen...
More L.A. Screenings coverage
Key program buyers are, in a word, full of "Glee" about the shows on offer at the L.A. Screenings. Uplift and escape are in and medical shows are out -- at least according to public comments from a clutch of buyers who are spending the week traipsing from one Hollywood studio to another to assess the new primetime series.
ITV's head buyer Zai Bennett said the fare on offer is "the strongest display from the Screenings in the last three years."
"The major studios have all got strength and depth in drama. While there aren't a huge amount of comedies, of those that have made it on to the schedules there are some laugh out loud ones like 'Modern Life' and 'The Middle.' "
Unless they're all sending out disinformation to confuse their competitors, British buyers appear to give the biggest thumbs-up so far to Disney's drama "Flash Forward.
Key program buyers are, in a word, full of "Glee" about the shows on offer at the L.A. Screenings. Uplift and escape are in and medical shows are out -- at least according to public comments from a clutch of buyers who are spending the week traipsing from one Hollywood studio to another to assess the new primetime series.
ITV's head buyer Zai Bennett said the fare on offer is "the strongest display from the Screenings in the last three years."
"The major studios have all got strength and depth in drama. While there aren't a huge amount of comedies, of those that have made it on to the schedules there are some laugh out loud ones like 'Modern Life' and 'The Middle.' "
Unless they're all sending out disinformation to confuse their competitors, British buyers appear to give the biggest thumbs-up so far to Disney's drama "Flash Forward.
- 5/28/2009
- by By Steve Brennan and Elizabeth Guider
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
London -- Amid plunging advertising revenue, pink slips by the thousands and an ever-worsening economic outlook, it's little wonder that buyers and sellers heading to Miptv at month's end expect to do business in a radically changed world.
"The credit crunch has forced a revolution in the industry," said James Burstall, CEO of London-based Leopard Films. "The establishment is breaking up, fat cats are being thrown out of their ivory towers. We are having to rethink how we restructure television companies and how we make programming."
Still, he contends that however painful the changes might be, they also promise huge creative and commercial opportunities.
Longer runs of returnable series and cleverly structured commissions can offer broadcasters a better economic equation, Burstall said, citing Leopard's "Missing Live," a 20-part live interactive daytime show on BBC1 that tracks missing persons. It was coupled with the five-part procedural drama series "Missing," which explored...
"The credit crunch has forced a revolution in the industry," said James Burstall, CEO of London-based Leopard Films. "The establishment is breaking up, fat cats are being thrown out of their ivory towers. We are having to rethink how we restructure television companies and how we make programming."
Still, he contends that however painful the changes might be, they also promise huge creative and commercial opportunities.
Longer runs of returnable series and cleverly structured commissions can offer broadcasters a better economic equation, Burstall said, citing Leopard's "Missing Live," a 20-part live interactive daytime show on BBC1 that tracks missing persons. It was coupled with the five-part procedural drama series "Missing," which explored...
- 3/19/2009
- by By Mimi Turner
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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