Exclusive: The first fruits of Wheel of Time executive producer Ted Field’s Radar Pictures and N4XT Experience’s joint venture are emerging with the development of a non-scripted reality competition based on Gameloft’s Asphalt video game series.
Radar, which is also behind the Jumanji franchise, and N4XT Experiences unveiled their RadarN4XT partnership in January, with a focus on developing new IP for video games and adapting existing game IP for TV and film.
Asphalt, the first project to emerge, is a driving competition series.
Gamers, car enthusiasts and adrenaline-seekers will compete to earn a spot on the track. From there, finalists will move into Asphalt House and hone their driving skills and face challenges at the Asphalt Driving Academy in order to face off in real-life races in their supercars. The gamers will battle each other and surprise guests, until one is left to claim...
Radar, which is also behind the Jumanji franchise, and N4XT Experiences unveiled their RadarN4XT partnership in January, with a focus on developing new IP for video games and adapting existing game IP for TV and film.
Asphalt, the first project to emerge, is a driving competition series.
Gamers, car enthusiasts and adrenaline-seekers will compete to earn a spot on the track. From there, finalists will move into Asphalt House and hone their driving skills and face challenges at the Asphalt Driving Academy in order to face off in real-life races in their supercars. The gamers will battle each other and surprise guests, until one is left to claim...
- 8/3/2022
- by Andreas Wiseman and Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Radar Pictures, the TV and film production company behind the Jumanji franchise and Amazon’s Wheel of Time series, is expanding into the video game sphere with a new partnership. Radar will join with LevelN4XT to form Radar-N4XT, focused on developing new IP for video games and adapting existing game IP for television and film.
The Radar-N4XT joint effort will create transmedia exposure to build audiences for game properties with its varied expertise in film/television, branding, fashion, music, and live entertainment. With a slate of dynamic original and established IP, Radar-N4XT will create a new way to create, game, and entertain through the power of transmedia convergence.
Radar Pictures founder Ted Field said, “By partnering from the inception stage with video game creators we believe we can create a better fit among all verticals from the right kind of initial IP.“
Enthusiasm for the...
The Radar-N4XT joint effort will create transmedia exposure to build audiences for game properties with its varied expertise in film/television, branding, fashion, music, and live entertainment. With a slate of dynamic original and established IP, Radar-N4XT will create a new way to create, game, and entertain through the power of transmedia convergence.
Radar Pictures founder Ted Field said, “By partnering from the inception stage with video game creators we believe we can create a better fit among all verticals from the right kind of initial IP.“
Enthusiasm for the...
- 1/11/2022
- by Valerie Complex
- Deadline Film + TV
"Oxygen" is an OK cop movie with a poisonous streak of sadism running through the melodrama. Writer-director Richard Shepard has willfully limited his film's audience appeal with this perverse approach. Theatrical prospects will undoubtedly reflect these artistic decisions. Cable TV and video loom as better venues for this film's rough charms.
What Shepard wants to do is set up a cat-and-mouse mind game within an edge-of-the-seat thriller. But along with stretching credulity to its outer limits, he has chosen to emphasize cruelty at every juncture.
Adrien Brody ("Summer of Sam", "The Thin Red Line") plays Harry, a young sociopath who plans an audacious crime. He kidnaps a wealthy woman (Laila Robins) in broad daylight off a street in one of Manhattan's tonier neighborhoods, then buries her alive in upstate New York woods and demands $1 million from her husband to tell him where his wife lies buried.
Maura Tierney ("Instinct", TV's "NewsRadio") plays Madeline, Harry's unlikely police opponent in the ensuing game of will and wits -- unlikely because she has just come off an all-day shift in which she chased and shot a perp, got drunk and did a little S&M before wearily heading home.
Harry is captured in short order but takes a liking to Madeline and refuses to divulge where he buried the woman to anyone but her -- and she must figure this out from clues and his behavior. Somewhere along the line, someone says the woman will run out of oxygen in 24 hours.
Admittedly, this is a preposterous story line. But good movies have been fashioned from sillier plots. What "distinguishes" this cop movie is its writer-director's insistence on dwelling on the sickest elements: the lengthy process by which the terrified kidnap victim is stripped and buried alive, the female cop's penchant for sadomasochism and the psychological torture Harry subjects Madeline to in exchange for vital information.
Tierney is a beautiful and capable actress, but the over-plotted though psychologically undernourished screenplay provides no blueprint for her character. Plus, it's a simple fact that when an audience knows one character is buried alive and running out of oxygen, they will have little patience for hearing of another character's innermost secrets. These scenes of pop psychology simply work against the thriller format.
Brody is convincing as the sicko punk, though such characters are more creatures of the movies than real life. Also, by movie's end, audiences will have to swallow the notion that the punk anticipated everything that transpires once he kidnaps the woman -- including running into a psychologically damaged female cop he can manipulate!
Technical credits are top notch in this indie production.
OXYGEN
Unapix Films
Curb Entertainment International Corp.
in association with Paddy Wagon Prods.
and Abandon Pictures
Producer:Jonathan Stern, Richard Shepard, Carole Curb Nemoy, Mike Curb
Writer-director:Richard Shepard
Executive producers:Eric Reichenbaum, Marcus Ticotin, Karen J. Lauder
Director of photography:Sarah Cawley
Production designer:Rowena Rowlings
Music:Rolfe Kent
Editor:Adam Lichtenstein
Costume designer:Barbara Presar
Color/stereo
Cast:
Madeline:Maura Tierney
Harry:Adrien Brody
Clarke Hannon:James Naughton
Tim Kirkman:Terry Kinney
Frances Hannon:Laila Robins
Jesse:Paul Calderon
Jackson:Dylan Baker
Running time -- 92 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
What Shepard wants to do is set up a cat-and-mouse mind game within an edge-of-the-seat thriller. But along with stretching credulity to its outer limits, he has chosen to emphasize cruelty at every juncture.
Adrien Brody ("Summer of Sam", "The Thin Red Line") plays Harry, a young sociopath who plans an audacious crime. He kidnaps a wealthy woman (Laila Robins) in broad daylight off a street in one of Manhattan's tonier neighborhoods, then buries her alive in upstate New York woods and demands $1 million from her husband to tell him where his wife lies buried.
Maura Tierney ("Instinct", TV's "NewsRadio") plays Madeline, Harry's unlikely police opponent in the ensuing game of will and wits -- unlikely because she has just come off an all-day shift in which she chased and shot a perp, got drunk and did a little S&M before wearily heading home.
Harry is captured in short order but takes a liking to Madeline and refuses to divulge where he buried the woman to anyone but her -- and she must figure this out from clues and his behavior. Somewhere along the line, someone says the woman will run out of oxygen in 24 hours.
Admittedly, this is a preposterous story line. But good movies have been fashioned from sillier plots. What "distinguishes" this cop movie is its writer-director's insistence on dwelling on the sickest elements: the lengthy process by which the terrified kidnap victim is stripped and buried alive, the female cop's penchant for sadomasochism and the psychological torture Harry subjects Madeline to in exchange for vital information.
Tierney is a beautiful and capable actress, but the over-plotted though psychologically undernourished screenplay provides no blueprint for her character. Plus, it's a simple fact that when an audience knows one character is buried alive and running out of oxygen, they will have little patience for hearing of another character's innermost secrets. These scenes of pop psychology simply work against the thriller format.
Brody is convincing as the sicko punk, though such characters are more creatures of the movies than real life. Also, by movie's end, audiences will have to swallow the notion that the punk anticipated everything that transpires once he kidnaps the woman -- including running into a psychologically damaged female cop he can manipulate!
Technical credits are top notch in this indie production.
OXYGEN
Unapix Films
Curb Entertainment International Corp.
in association with Paddy Wagon Prods.
and Abandon Pictures
Producer:Jonathan Stern, Richard Shepard, Carole Curb Nemoy, Mike Curb
Writer-director:Richard Shepard
Executive producers:Eric Reichenbaum, Marcus Ticotin, Karen J. Lauder
Director of photography:Sarah Cawley
Production designer:Rowena Rowlings
Music:Rolfe Kent
Editor:Adam Lichtenstein
Costume designer:Barbara Presar
Color/stereo
Cast:
Madeline:Maura Tierney
Harry:Adrien Brody
Clarke Hannon:James Naughton
Tim Kirkman:Terry Kinney
Frances Hannon:Laila Robins
Jesse:Paul Calderon
Jackson:Dylan Baker
Running time -- 92 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
- 11/4/1999
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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