Rourkela, Jan 26 (Ians) South Africa, Wales, Argentina and India registered wins in the first round of classification matches at the Fih Men’s Hockey World Cup 2023 at the Birsa Munda Hockey Stadium, here on Thursday.
With their wins, South Africa, Wales, Argentina and India head into the 9-12 playoff matches while losses for Malaysia, France, Chile and Japan see them go to the 13-16 playoff matches.
All classification matches will take place on January 28.
South Africa vs Malaysia (6-3)
Malaysia were quicker off the blocks with form man Faizal Saari managing to get a shot in the circle inside the first minute, but South Africa survived that early chance and started to get in the game on counter attacks. They got the first goal through Bradley Sherwood who attacked a cross from the left by Nqobile.
With the impetus now on Malaysia, they tried to press higher up the field,...
With their wins, South Africa, Wales, Argentina and India head into the 9-12 playoff matches while losses for Malaysia, France, Chile and Japan see them go to the 13-16 playoff matches.
All classification matches will take place on January 28.
South Africa vs Malaysia (6-3)
Malaysia were quicker off the blocks with form man Faizal Saari managing to get a shot in the circle inside the first minute, but South Africa survived that early chance and started to get in the game on counter attacks. They got the first goal through Bradley Sherwood who attacked a cross from the left by Nqobile.
With the impetus now on Malaysia, they tried to press higher up the field,...
- 1/26/2023
- by News Bureau
- GlamSham
It’s not easy to create a new horror icon, but the title character in “M3GAN” is so perfectly calibrated to deliver maximum shocks and laughs that she seems destined to join the ranks of Freddy, Jason, and fellow killer doll Chucky. Eerily realistic and relatable yet with an uncanny quality that grows more and more unnerving the closer the camera gets to her, M3GAN is a mesmerizing presence whether she’s calmly sitting at the dinner table with her “family” or performing a bizarre dance just before she takes out one of her victims. In this day and age one might assume that such a distinctive, original character is a digital creation, but director Gerard Johnstone quickly puts that theory to rest: “There are only two or three shots in the movie in which M3GAN is entirely CG,” he told IndieWire.
In fact, bringing M3GAN to life involved a combination of visual effects,...
In fact, bringing M3GAN to life involved a combination of visual effects,...
- 1/9/2023
- by Jim Hemphill
- Indiewire
Bringing the titular killer doll from "M3GAN" to life was a labor of love that combined puppeteering, animatronics, and a human actor in a doll mask, but it's that human performance that really takes the creation from mildly creepy to terrifying. (Read our review!) Actor Amie Donald, who was 11 years old at the time of filming, portrays the high-tech toy with a perfect mix of inhuman grace and jerky, robotic movements, and it turns out that much of M3GAN's physicality came directly from Donald, who did her own stunts and helped co-choreograph the dance sequence that has since gone viral on TikTok.
In interviews with the Los Angeles Times detailing the work that went into creating M3GAN, director Gerard Johnstone revealed that some of the most horrifying moments from the trailer were all Donald, who used her training as a gymnast to bring a unique physicality to her inhuman character.
In interviews with the Los Angeles Times detailing the work that went into creating M3GAN, director Gerard Johnstone revealed that some of the most horrifying moments from the trailer were all Donald, who used her training as a gymnast to bring a unique physicality to her inhuman character.
- 1/7/2023
- by Danielle Ryan
- Slash Film
For as much as I love horror and the Halloween season, I am something of a softie at heart, so the Christmas season is the time of year when I really thrive. I love Christmas songs and holiday treats, and I will pretty much watch any and every movie that has some kind of a Yuletide angle to it. That being said, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that Michael Dougherty’s Krampus was a film that immediately captured my heart back when it was released in 2015, and it became one of my required viewings every December once it hit home media, ultimately becoming part of our traditional viewings to celebrate the holiday season. And I think that’s something most genre fans have done as well over the years, so I’m not sure that I have to do much to sell you on the film with this...
- 12/9/2021
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
As someone who adores holiday horror stories and firmly believes Michael Dougherty's Krampus is one of the best movies released in the 2010s, I'm thrilled that Scream Factory's 4K / Blu-ray release of Legendary Entertainment and Universal Pictures’ Krampus: The Naughty Cut (coming out on December 7th) is absolutely brimming with special features, including a bevy of new interviews, a fresh Dolby Atmos track, and additional scenes for fans to unwrap:
From the Press Release: This December, get ready for ho-ho-horror with Scream Factory’s release of Legendary Entertainment and Universal Pictures’ Krampus: The Naughty Cut on December 7th, 2021. Supervised by director Michael Dougherty, this two-disc set includes both 4k Uhd and Blu-ray editions and marks the first time “The Naughty Cut” of the film has been available. This frighteningly festive film comes loaded with bonus features, including a new interview with director/co-writer Michael Dougherty; new interviews with actors David Koechner,...
From the Press Release: This December, get ready for ho-ho-horror with Scream Factory’s release of Legendary Entertainment and Universal Pictures’ Krampus: The Naughty Cut on December 7th, 2021. Supervised by director Michael Dougherty, this two-disc set includes both 4k Uhd and Blu-ray editions and marks the first time “The Naughty Cut” of the film has been available. This frighteningly festive film comes loaded with bonus features, including a new interview with director/co-writer Michael Dougherty; new interviews with actors David Koechner,...
- 11/5/2021
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Warner Bros. has hired “I Am Mother” director Grant Sputore to helm the science-fiction thriller “Augmented” which Margot Robbie is producing, Variety has learned exclusively.
Michael Lloyd Green is rewriting an original script by Mark Townend. Denise Di Novi and Tom Ackerley are also producing. Production companies are Robbie’s LuckyChap and Di Novi’s eponymous Di Novi Pictures. Executive producers are Margaret French Isaac for Di Novi and Josey McNamara for LuckyChap.
The studio acquired the rights to Townsend’s spec script in 2017 and announced Robbie’s attachment to produce that same year. No actors are attached to “Augmented” at this point.
Sputore and Green teamed on the sci-fi thriller “I Am Mother,” which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival this year. Luke Hawker, Clara Rugaard, Rose Byrne and Hilary Swank star in the story of a robot raising a little girl after a mass extinction.
The film, recently released by Netflix,...
Michael Lloyd Green is rewriting an original script by Mark Townend. Denise Di Novi and Tom Ackerley are also producing. Production companies are Robbie’s LuckyChap and Di Novi’s eponymous Di Novi Pictures. Executive producers are Margaret French Isaac for Di Novi and Josey McNamara for LuckyChap.
The studio acquired the rights to Townsend’s spec script in 2017 and announced Robbie’s attachment to produce that same year. No actors are attached to “Augmented” at this point.
Sputore and Green teamed on the sci-fi thriller “I Am Mother,” which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival this year. Luke Hawker, Clara Rugaard, Rose Byrne and Hilary Swank star in the story of a robot raising a little girl after a mass extinction.
The film, recently released by Netflix,...
- 6/26/2019
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Stars: Luke Hawker, Rose Byrne, Maddie Lenton, Summer Lenton, Hazel Sandery, Tahlia Sturzaker, Clara Rugaard, Hilary Swank, Jacob Nolan | Written by Grant Sputore, Michael Lloyd Green | Directed by Grant Sputore
I Am Mother is a Netflix distributed science fiction movie directed by Grant Sputore, who also penned the story, and with a screenplay by Michael Lloyd Green. Sputore put his heart into this, his feature film directorial debut. It is his story, he produced it, and he did a damn good job too. Green, as screenplay writer, delivered too. It is a collaboration between two obviously hungry and passionate creators who have managed to bring a modern sci-fi drama to the surface, something fresh, original and extremely well done.
The story of I Am Mother see’s us in a dystopian world, inside a high-tech futuristic bunker, after the apparent disintegration of humanity on the outside. The bunker is activated...
I Am Mother is a Netflix distributed science fiction movie directed by Grant Sputore, who also penned the story, and with a screenplay by Michael Lloyd Green. Sputore put his heart into this, his feature film directorial debut. It is his story, he produced it, and he did a damn good job too. Green, as screenplay writer, delivered too. It is a collaboration between two obviously hungry and passionate creators who have managed to bring a modern sci-fi drama to the surface, something fresh, original and extremely well done.
The story of I Am Mother see’s us in a dystopian world, inside a high-tech futuristic bunker, after the apparent disintegration of humanity on the outside. The bunker is activated...
- 6/12/2019
- by Chris Cummings
- Nerdly
There’s a long, absolutely delightful history of demented robots and dangerously self-aware A.I. in science fiction, and for a while, it’s hard to tell where I Am Mother‘s title character belongs in the Bad ‘Bot pantheon. It’s tough to pinpoint why, exactly, you don’t trust Mother, an angular android with a single peering eye and a track-runner’s gait. But you sense there’s something unsettling about this caretaker from the moment you see her pull out a tiny palm-sized packet containing a human...
- 6/7/2019
- by David Fear
- Rollingstone.com
A teen girl and a robotic mom deal with parenting issues at the end of the world in I Am Mother.
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I Am Mother is one of those original Netflix movies that feels both ambitious and undercooked. It takes place, we are told at the outset, in an undefined future where an “extinction event” has taken place, wiping out most if not all of the human race. But stored in an underground bunker in case of just such a crisis are some 63,000 frozen human embryos, all carefully tended by an a robot named Mother, who hatches one of the embryos in the bunker’s medical lab and grows it via montage into a teenage girl named Daughter (newcomer Clara Rugaard).
Mother acts as Daughter’s parental figure, friend, playmate, doctor and teacher, and when the girl is naturally curious about what lies outside the bunker, Mother regretfully...
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I Am Mother is one of those original Netflix movies that feels both ambitious and undercooked. It takes place, we are told at the outset, in an undefined future where an “extinction event” has taken place, wiping out most if not all of the human race. But stored in an underground bunker in case of just such a crisis are some 63,000 frozen human embryos, all carefully tended by an a robot named Mother, who hatches one of the embryos in the bunker’s medical lab and grows it via montage into a teenage girl named Daughter (newcomer Clara Rugaard).
Mother acts as Daughter’s parental figure, friend, playmate, doctor and teacher, and when the girl is naturally curious about what lies outside the bunker, Mother regretfully...
- 6/7/2019
- Den of Geek
Following its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival (check here to read Heather Wixson's review), the post-apocalyptic science fiction film I Am Mother has been acquired by Netflix.
Multiple sources, including The Hollywood Reporter, shared the news that Netflix has acquired North American rights to I Am Mother after securing "several international territories" for the film.
Directed by Grant Sputore from a screenplay by Michael Lloyd Green, I Am Mother stars Hilary Swank, Clara Rugaard, and Luke Hawker, who plays an artificial intelligence robot created by Weta Workshop and voiced by Rose Byrne.
The movie's premiere date on the streaming service has not yet been revealed, but we'll keep Daily Dead readers updated as more details are announced. In the meantime, you can read the official synopsis below, and in case you missed it, check here to read Heather Wixson's Sundance coverage of I Am Mother, including her review and interviews with Sputore,...
Multiple sources, including The Hollywood Reporter, shared the news that Netflix has acquired North American rights to I Am Mother after securing "several international territories" for the film.
Directed by Grant Sputore from a screenplay by Michael Lloyd Green, I Am Mother stars Hilary Swank, Clara Rugaard, and Luke Hawker, who plays an artificial intelligence robot created by Weta Workshop and voiced by Rose Byrne.
The movie's premiere date on the streaming service has not yet been revealed, but we'll keep Daily Dead readers updated as more details are announced. In the meantime, you can read the official synopsis below, and in case you missed it, check here to read Heather Wixson's Sundance coverage of I Am Mother, including her review and interviews with Sputore,...
- 2/7/2019
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
With his feature film debut, director Grant Sputore introduces us to a future where all of humanity has been wiped out, leaving only the planet’s robotic residents behind. One of those androids, Mother, is tasked with reviving the human race, and spends 18 years raising Daughter (Clara Rugaard) inside a hidden bunker tucked away in the mountainside. As Daughter learns about morality and other life lessons from her artificial parental unit, a mysterious woman shows up, forcing the teenager to question everything she’s been taught, and whether or not she can exist beyond the realm of her Mother.
While at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival, Daily Dead spent some time chatting with Sputore about how real-life technology inspired I Am Mother and whether or not he sees society headed down a dangerous path with our over-reliance on all our gizmos and gadgets. The up-and-coming filmmaker also discussed putting together the...
While at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival, Daily Dead spent some time chatting with Sputore about how real-life technology inspired I Am Mother and whether or not he sees society headed down a dangerous path with our over-reliance on all our gizmos and gadgets. The up-and-coming filmmaker also discussed putting together the...
- 2/5/2019
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
As a fan of contained and intimately crafted science fiction stories, I was enthralled by Grant Sputore’s unique examination of the human condition and morality in I Am Mother, his stunning feature film debut. Evoking similar feelings I had while watching films like 10 Cloverfield Lane, Moon, Ex Machina, I Am Mother strikes a perfect balance, delivering up an intriguing slice of post-apocalyptic sci-fi coupled with a thoughtful character study that finds new ways to explore the dangers of technology and how it relates to all of humanity as we continue to transition towards greater leaps in automation and electronic sciences.
I Am Mother introduces us to a world where there has been a cataclysmic event that has wiped out all of humanity. Inside a remote bunker, a highly evolved robot named Mother (voiced by Rose Byrne and performed by Luke Hawker) has been tasked with bringing new life...
I Am Mother introduces us to a world where there has been a cataclysmic event that has wiped out all of humanity. Inside a remote bunker, a highly evolved robot named Mother (voiced by Rose Byrne and performed by Luke Hawker) has been tasked with bringing new life...
- 1/30/2019
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
“I Am Mother” director Grant Sputore’s parentage is obvious: James Cameron crossbred with Ridley Scott. There are worse families to come from if you’re a young talent entering the world. Like Mother herself, an artificially intelligent robot who springs to life in an air-locked repopulation facility the day humanity goes extinct. Mother, voiced by Rose Byrne and ambulated by Luke Hawker, selects one thumb-size embryo among 63,000, pops it into a biomedical Instant Pot, and 24 hours later, Daughter (Clara Rugaard) is born — or rather, hatched.
The rest of the embryos stay iced, even after the girl becomes a teenager roaming the long hallways of Sputore and cinematographer Steven D. Annis’ stunning bunker: a steel warren with red, white, and blue lights arranged in tidy grids and lines. It’s lovely and lonely, even with Mother baking birthday cakes and teaching the girl origami, ethics, and ballet. How is an...
The rest of the embryos stay iced, even after the girl becomes a teenager roaming the long hallways of Sputore and cinematographer Steven D. Annis’ stunning bunker: a steel warren with red, white, and blue lights arranged in tidy grids and lines. It’s lovely and lonely, even with Mother baking birthday cakes and teaching the girl origami, ethics, and ballet. How is an...
- 1/26/2019
- by Amy Nicholson
- Variety Film + TV
Greenlit means a project is officially a go, so all you have to do is follow these leads to stay up to date. You never know where you’ll find an opportunity to land an audition! “Your Honor” Robert and Michelle King are bringing their law chops to Showtime with a new Chicago-based legal thriller. Adapted from an Israeli TV series, the U.S. counterpart will be written by Peter Moffat. No casting or staffing announcements have been made, but Mark Saks is a potential CD option based on his work with the Kings on “The Good Wife,” and his other CBS shows like “Elementary,” “Madam Secretary,” and “BrainDead.” “I Am Mother”Hilary Swank was announced as the star of upcoming sci-fi thriller “I Am Mother.” The production has begun filming in Australia at Adelaide Studios, and other cast members include Luke Hawker, Clara Rugaard, and Tahlia Sturzaker. Swank will...
- 10/23/2017
- backstage.com
Hilary Swank has signed on to star in I Am Mother, the Australian sci-fi thriller from director Grant Sputore, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. The film is Sputore's feature film debut.
Swank joins an ensemble cast that includes Clara Rugaard, Luke Hawker and Tahlia Sturzaker. The indie for Southern Lights Films and Penguin Empire is based on a script by Michael Lloyd Green. Kelvin Munro and Timothy White are producing.
Swank is best known for Boys Don't Cry and Million Dollar Baby, both of which netted her Oscars. Her recent work includes 55 Steps and Steven Soderbergh's Logan Lucky.
I Am Mother...
Swank joins an ensemble cast that includes Clara Rugaard, Luke Hawker and Tahlia Sturzaker. The indie for Southern Lights Films and Penguin Empire is based on a script by Michael Lloyd Green. Kelvin Munro and Timothy White are producing.
Swank is best known for Boys Don't Cry and Million Dollar Baby, both of which netted her Oscars. Her recent work includes 55 Steps and Steven Soderbergh's Logan Lucky.
I Am Mother...
- 10/17/2017
- by Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Stars: James Trevena-Brown, Richard Alexander, Dallas Barnett, Renee Cataldo, Kerry Glamsch, Luke Hawker, Rhys Jordan, Tony MacIver, Rob Young | Written by Michael Yee | Directed by Mathew John Pearson
Double-crossed by those he trusted the most, a newbie government hit man discovers that he’s the target for the world’s most dangerous assassin and so begins a ruthless game of kill first of be killed…
In the annals of filmmaking there’s everything from big-budget blockbusters to low-budget indies. Well now welcome the no-budget action movie! Financed through Indiegogo and filmed on the super-cheap in Wellington, New Zealand, Contract Killers at least shares something in common with its low-budget brethren down-under: it’s a damn good film that belies its budget to create what is, essentially, a John Woo-esque action movie that treats gunplay with the same amount of love and respect as the maestro of bullet-ballet did. Only...
Double-crossed by those he trusted the most, a newbie government hit man discovers that he’s the target for the world’s most dangerous assassin and so begins a ruthless game of kill first of be killed…
In the annals of filmmaking there’s everything from big-budget blockbusters to low-budget indies. Well now welcome the no-budget action movie! Financed through Indiegogo and filmed on the super-cheap in Wellington, New Zealand, Contract Killers at least shares something in common with its low-budget brethren down-under: it’s a damn good film that belies its budget to create what is, essentially, a John Woo-esque action movie that treats gunplay with the same amount of love and respect as the maestro of bullet-ballet did. Only...
- 9/7/2017
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
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