Exclusive: Night Kitchen Films and Phillm Productions have announced Emmy and Grammy nominated comedian Margaret Cho (Showtime’s Margaret Cho: PsyCHO) has joined DJ Qualls and Marisé Álvarez (Disney+’s Obi-Wan Kenobi) in the dark comedy Evilou.
This is the feature directorial debut of Andrew Zappin who also penned the script. Production is now underway in Los Angeles with the film slated for release in 2024 with North American and international rights still available.
Evilou is a dark comedy love story about Lou Vile (Qualls) – a bitter, shock-jock podcaster who has devoted his life to waging war on love. When he falls for a charming single-mother (Álvarez), Lou decides to undergo a personality-altering medical procedure in a desperate attempt to win her affection.
This is the feature directorial debut of Andrew Zappin who also penned the script. Production is now underway in Los Angeles with the film slated for release in 2024 with North American and international rights still available.
Evilou is a dark comedy love story about Lou Vile (Qualls) – a bitter, shock-jock podcaster who has devoted his life to waging war on love. When he falls for a charming single-mother (Álvarez), Lou decides to undergo a personality-altering medical procedure in a desperate attempt to win her affection.
- 3/29/2023
- by Valerie Complex
- Deadline Film + TV
First films of important directors usually feel like warm-ups, but not so this suspenseful story of ‘twilight’ people living in and around casinos. Paul Thomas Anderson writes and directs in a style that guarantees our full attention at all times. Philip Baker Hall, John C. Reilly, Gwyneth Paltrow and Samuel L. Jackson assay riveting main characters, with Philip Seymour Hoffman in for a brief turn at the crap tables. It’s all behavior and relationship detail — are we reading each individual correctly? Are we going to learn more about them? When the surprises come, the story takes shape in its own unique way.
Hard Eight
Blu-ray
Viavision [Imprint] 14
1996 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 102 min. / Street Date October 28, 2020 / Sydney / Available from ViaVision
Starring: Philip Baker Hall, John C. Reilly, Gwyneth Paltrow, Samuel L. Jackson, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Melora Walters.
Cinematography: Robert Elswit
Film Editor: Barbara Tulliver
Original Music: Jon Brion, Michael Penn
Produced by Robert Jones,...
Hard Eight
Blu-ray
Viavision [Imprint] 14
1996 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 102 min. / Street Date October 28, 2020 / Sydney / Available from ViaVision
Starring: Philip Baker Hall, John C. Reilly, Gwyneth Paltrow, Samuel L. Jackson, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Melora Walters.
Cinematography: Robert Elswit
Film Editor: Barbara Tulliver
Original Music: Jon Brion, Michael Penn
Produced by Robert Jones,...
- 12/22/2020
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
The American Cinema Editors (Ace) revealed the nominations for their 64th Annual Ace Eddie Awards for all categories including film, television, and documentaries. We'll find out the winners on Feb. 7 with the Ace Eddie Awards annual ceremony to be held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.
Here's your full list of nominees of the 64th Annual Ace Eddie Awards:
Best Edited Feature Film (Dramatic):
12 Years a Slave
Joe Walker
Captain Phillips
Chris Rouse, A.C.E.
Gravity
Alfonso Cuarón & Mark Sanger
Her
Eric Zumbrunnen, A.C.E. & Jeff Buchanan
Saving Mr. Banks
Mark Livolsi, A.C.E.
Best Edited Feature Film (Comedy Or Musical):
American Hustle
Jay Cassidy, A.C.E., Crispin Struthers & Alan Baumgarten, A.C.E.
August: Osage County
Stephen Mirrione, A.C.E.
Inside Llewyn Davis
Roderick Jaynes
Nebraska
Kevin Tent, A.C.E.
The Wolf of Wall Street
Thelma Schoonmaker, A.C.E.
Best Edited...
Here's your full list of nominees of the 64th Annual Ace Eddie Awards:
Best Edited Feature Film (Dramatic):
12 Years a Slave
Joe Walker
Captain Phillips
Chris Rouse, A.C.E.
Gravity
Alfonso Cuarón & Mark Sanger
Her
Eric Zumbrunnen, A.C.E. & Jeff Buchanan
Saving Mr. Banks
Mark Livolsi, A.C.E.
Best Edited Feature Film (Comedy Or Musical):
American Hustle
Jay Cassidy, A.C.E., Crispin Struthers & Alan Baumgarten, A.C.E.
August: Osage County
Stephen Mirrione, A.C.E.
Inside Llewyn Davis
Roderick Jaynes
Nebraska
Kevin Tent, A.C.E.
The Wolf of Wall Street
Thelma Schoonmaker, A.C.E.
Best Edited...
- 1/10/2014
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
American Cinema Editors (Ace) today announced nominations for the 64th Annual Ace Eddie Awards recognizing outstanding editing in ten categories of film, television and documentaries. Winners will be revealed during Ace’s annual black-tie awards ceremony on Friday, February 7, 2014 in the International Ballroom of the Beverly Hilton Hotel.
The Ace Eddie Awards is considered an integral precursor to the Oscars. No film has won Best Picture at the Oscars without also having received at least a Best Editing nomination since Ordinary People in 1981. Since the Ace membership boasts a very high crossover within its membership of Academy members, it represents a very accurate bellwether for the eventual Oscar outcome.
The Ace Eddie Award nominees are listed below.
Nominees For 64th Annual Ace Eddie Awards
Best Edited Feature Film (Dramatic):
12 Years a Slave
Joe Walker
Captain Phillips
Chris Rouse, A.C.E.
Gravity
Alfonso Cuarón & Mark Sanger
Her
Eric Zumbrunnen,...
The Ace Eddie Awards is considered an integral precursor to the Oscars. No film has won Best Picture at the Oscars without also having received at least a Best Editing nomination since Ordinary People in 1981. Since the Ace membership boasts a very high crossover within its membership of Academy members, it represents a very accurate bellwether for the eventual Oscar outcome.
The Ace Eddie Award nominees are listed below.
Nominees For 64th Annual Ace Eddie Awards
Best Edited Feature Film (Dramatic):
12 Years a Slave
Joe Walker
Captain Phillips
Chris Rouse, A.C.E.
Gravity
Alfonso Cuarón & Mark Sanger
Her
Eric Zumbrunnen,...
- 1/10/2014
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Chicago – Sometimes a film is so good that it casts a shadow over all the other pictures that have the misfortune of sharing striking similarities. HBO’s star-studded adaptation of Andrew Ross Sorkin’s book, “Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System—and Themselves” does its titular subject matter justice—but not nearly as well as J.C. Chandor’s “Margin Call.”
Both films came out in 2011 and were largely ignored, though writer/director Chandor deservedly earned critical accolades for his astonishingly assured debut feature. Despite its lengthier running time, “Margin Call” feels considerably shorter than “Too Big to Fail.” That’s because it views the impending financial crisis through the agonized eyes of workers at a single, fictionalized bank. By confining the story to a single 24-hour period, the film perfectly encapsulated the origins of the crisis...
Both films came out in 2011 and were largely ignored, though writer/director Chandor deservedly earned critical accolades for his astonishingly assured debut feature. Despite its lengthier running time, “Margin Call” feels considerably shorter than “Too Big to Fail.” That’s because it views the impending financial crisis through the agonized eyes of workers at a single, fictionalized bank. By confining the story to a single 24-hour period, the film perfectly encapsulated the origins of the crisis...
- 6/19/2012
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Here’s a rather creepy brand new UK trailer and poster for Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz’s new movie, Dream House. It starts off similar to the Us one that we saw earlier in the year but then gives us quite a bit of new footage.
Dream House is directed by Jim Sheridan and also stars Naomi Watts. It’s released here in the UK November 25th. Find out more about the film on their official website.
Once upon a time, there were two little girls who lived in a house. Daniel Craig (Cowboys & Aliens, upcoming The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo), Naomi Watts (The Ring, Fair Game) and Oscar® winner Rachel Weisz (The Constant Gardener, The Lovely Bones) star in Dream House, a suspense thriller about a family that unknowingly moves into a home where grisly murders were committed…only to uncover even darker mysteries within its walls.
Dream House is directed by Jim Sheridan and also stars Naomi Watts. It’s released here in the UK November 25th. Find out more about the film on their official website.
Once upon a time, there were two little girls who lived in a house. Daniel Craig (Cowboys & Aliens, upcoming The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo), Naomi Watts (The Ring, Fair Game) and Oscar® winner Rachel Weisz (The Constant Gardener, The Lovely Bones) star in Dream House, a suspense thriller about a family that unknowingly moves into a home where grisly murders were committed…only to uncover even darker mysteries within its walls.
- 9/21/2011
- by David Sztypuljak
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
The Sundance Institute has announced fourteen projects for its 30th director and screenwriting labs. To be held at the Sundance Resort in Utah from May 30-June 30, 2011, the lucky lab participants are listed below, along with details of their selves and their feature projects. Here’s the official word from the Institute:
Sundance Institute today announced the 14 projects selected for its annual June Directors and Screenwriters Labs, taking place at the Sundance Resort in Utah May 30 – June 30, 2011. Under the leadership of Michelle Satter, Director of the Sundance Feature Film Program, and the artistic direction of Gyula Gazdag, the projects selected for this year’s program include emerging filmmakers and projects from the United States, Israel, Romania, Mexico, the Philippines and Algeria. Sundance Institute is marking the 30thanniversary of its first Directors Lab, led by Robert Redford and Satter in 1981.
Over the course of the Directors Lab, Fellows work with an accomplished group of Creative Advisors,...
Sundance Institute today announced the 14 projects selected for its annual June Directors and Screenwriters Labs, taking place at the Sundance Resort in Utah May 30 – June 30, 2011. Under the leadership of Michelle Satter, Director of the Sundance Feature Film Program, and the artistic direction of Gyula Gazdag, the projects selected for this year’s program include emerging filmmakers and projects from the United States, Israel, Romania, Mexico, the Philippines and Algeria. Sundance Institute is marking the 30thanniversary of its first Directors Lab, led by Robert Redford and Satter in 1981.
Over the course of the Directors Lab, Fellows work with an accomplished group of Creative Advisors,...
- 5/2/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Magazine
The Sundance Institute has announced fourteen projects for its 30th director and screenwriting labs. To be held at the Sundance Resort in Utah from May 30-June 30, 2011, the lucky lab participants are listed below, along with details of their selves and their feature projects. Here’s the official word from the Institute:
Sundance Institute today announced the 14 projects selected for its annual June Directors and Screenwriters Labs, taking place at the Sundance Resort in Utah May 30 – June 30, 2011. Under the leadership of Michelle Satter, Director of the Sundance Feature Film Program, and the artistic direction of Gyula Gazdag, the projects selected for this year’s program include emerging filmmakers and projects from the United States, Israel, Romania, Mexico, the Philippines and Algeria. Sundance Institute is marking the 30thanniversary of its first Directors Lab, led by Robert Redford and Satter in 1981.
Over the course of the Directors Lab, Fellows work with an accomplished group of Creative Advisors,...
Sundance Institute today announced the 14 projects selected for its annual June Directors and Screenwriters Labs, taking place at the Sundance Resort in Utah May 30 – June 30, 2011. Under the leadership of Michelle Satter, Director of the Sundance Feature Film Program, and the artistic direction of Gyula Gazdag, the projects selected for this year’s program include emerging filmmakers and projects from the United States, Israel, Romania, Mexico, the Philippines and Algeria. Sundance Institute is marking the 30thanniversary of its first Directors Lab, led by Robert Redford and Satter in 1981.
Over the course of the Directors Lab, Fellows work with an accomplished group of Creative Advisors,...
- 5/2/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
Chicago – In our latest crime/drama edition of HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film, we have 25 admit-two run-of-engagement movie passes and one signed poster for one grand-prize winner for the new film “Brooklyn’s Finest” from the director of “Training Day”! The movie passes can be used at any Chicago screening at participating theaters.
“Brooklyn’s Finest” stars Richard Gere, Don Cheadle, Ethan Hawke, Wesley Snipes, Vincent D’Onofrio, Brian F. O’Byrne, Will Patton, Jesse Williams, Lili Taylor, Ellen Barkin, Shannon Kane, Wass Stevens, Armando Riesco, Wade Allain-Marcus and Logan Marshall-Green from director Antoine Fuqua and writer Michael C. Martin. The film opened on March 5, 2010.
To win your free “Brooklyn’s Finest” movie pass and for your chance to win our signed poster courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, all you need to do is answer a question in this Web-based submission form. That’s it! Directions to enter this HollywoodChicago.com Hookup...
“Brooklyn’s Finest” stars Richard Gere, Don Cheadle, Ethan Hawke, Wesley Snipes, Vincent D’Onofrio, Brian F. O’Byrne, Will Patton, Jesse Williams, Lili Taylor, Ellen Barkin, Shannon Kane, Wass Stevens, Armando Riesco, Wade Allain-Marcus and Logan Marshall-Green from director Antoine Fuqua and writer Michael C. Martin. The film opened on March 5, 2010.
To win your free “Brooklyn’s Finest” movie pass and for your chance to win our signed poster courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, all you need to do is answer a question in this Web-based submission form. That’s it! Directions to enter this HollywoodChicago.com Hookup...
- 3/21/2010
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Chicago – I am an unabashed defender of nearly everything that David Mamet has ever made and the arrival of another one of his films under the Criterion banner makes for a special occasion in this critic’s household. The new release of Mamet’s “Homicide” (1991) is a must-own for fans of one of the most important playwrights of the last fifty years and an underrated filmmaker as well.
DVD Rating: 4.0/5.0 Mamet's films almost always deal with figures of authority and men who try to achieve excellence within classic roles like teacher, salesman, or, in the case of "Homicide," police officer. Of course, Mamet isn't interested in a traditional "man in blue" story of good guy fighting crime, even if the film starts by promising such a structure. Ultimately, the fight in "Homicide" is an internal one.
Homicide was released on DVD on September 8th, 2009.
Photo credit: Courtesy of the Criterion...
DVD Rating: 4.0/5.0 Mamet's films almost always deal with figures of authority and men who try to achieve excellence within classic roles like teacher, salesman, or, in the case of "Homicide," police officer. Of course, Mamet isn't interested in a traditional "man in blue" story of good guy fighting crime, even if the film starts by promising such a structure. Ultimately, the fight in "Homicide" is an internal one.
Homicide was released on DVD on September 8th, 2009.
Photo credit: Courtesy of the Criterion...
- 9/14/2009
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Bangkok International
Film Festival
BANGKOK, Thailand -- The political thriller genre is given a typically oblique David Mamet makeover in the initially intriguing but ultimately unsatisfying "Spartan".
Given its world premiere at the Bangkok International Film Festival, where it was the closing-night selection, the picture stars Val Kilmer as a hardened special ops officer who is assigned to track down the kidnapped daughter of a high-ranking government official assumed to be the president, though that distinction is deliberately never made clear.
Somewhat clearer is the Warner Bros. Pictures release's boxoffice prognosis: Despite a solid Kilmer performance, "Spartan" is destined to draw sparse audiences.
Writer-director Mamet establishes the serious-minded picture's urgent pace from the beginning, dropping the viewer in the middle of a clandestine training exercise overseen by Kilmer's career Secret Service type, the uncompromising Robert Scott.
One of Scott's fresh recruits, Curtis (Derek Luke), is quickly pressed into action when word comes down that Laura Newton (Kristen Bell), daughter of the (at least inferred) president of the United States, has gone missing from Harvard.
Determined to get to Laura before the media does, Scott and Curtis -- along with various FBI, CIA and Secret Service sorts -- pick up a scent that leads to a sleazy bar frequented by older men and much younger women and, subsequently, to a white slavery ring that regularly ships blond American girls off to Dubai.
Scott and Curtis have good reason to believe that Newton could be one of those girls, until a shocker news report would suggest otherwise.
Or does it?
With all its unexpected twists and turns, "Spartan" forces the viewer into playing a game of catch-up, only to finally arrive at the convoluted ending and realize that many questions will remain unanswered.
Despite a promising setup, the journey leads to the same kind of dramatic dead end found at the end of the playwright-filmmaker's last screen effort, "Heist", another exercise in which the Mamet-speak spoke louder than the action.
Give Kilmer credit for proving to be a quick study when it comes to mastering those patented verbal rhythms, while Luke gives another fine, committed performance as his astute apprentice.
Mamet-movie main man William H. Macy also briefly figures into the snaky storytelling as a political operative with his own agenda.
Behind the scenes, cinematographer Juan Ruiz Anchia and editor Barbara Tulliver keep things visually uncluttered and propulsive, while Mark Isham's low-key score does likewise on the audio end.
Spartan
Warner Bros. Pictures
Franchise Pictures presentation
Credits:
Director-screenwriter: David Mamet
Producers: Art Linson, Moshe Diamant, Elie Samaha
Executive producer: Frank Hubner
Director of photography: Juan Ruiz Anchia
Production designer: Gemma Jackson
Editor: Barbara Tulliver
Costume designer: Shay Cunliffe
Music: Mark Isham
Cast:
Robert Scott: Val Kilmer
Laura Newton: Kristen Bell
Curtis: Derek Luke
Stoddard: William H. Macy
Running time -- 106 minutes
No MPAA rating...
Film Festival
BANGKOK, Thailand -- The political thriller genre is given a typically oblique David Mamet makeover in the initially intriguing but ultimately unsatisfying "Spartan".
Given its world premiere at the Bangkok International Film Festival, where it was the closing-night selection, the picture stars Val Kilmer as a hardened special ops officer who is assigned to track down the kidnapped daughter of a high-ranking government official assumed to be the president, though that distinction is deliberately never made clear.
Somewhat clearer is the Warner Bros. Pictures release's boxoffice prognosis: Despite a solid Kilmer performance, "Spartan" is destined to draw sparse audiences.
Writer-director Mamet establishes the serious-minded picture's urgent pace from the beginning, dropping the viewer in the middle of a clandestine training exercise overseen by Kilmer's career Secret Service type, the uncompromising Robert Scott.
One of Scott's fresh recruits, Curtis (Derek Luke), is quickly pressed into action when word comes down that Laura Newton (Kristen Bell), daughter of the (at least inferred) president of the United States, has gone missing from Harvard.
Determined to get to Laura before the media does, Scott and Curtis -- along with various FBI, CIA and Secret Service sorts -- pick up a scent that leads to a sleazy bar frequented by older men and much younger women and, subsequently, to a white slavery ring that regularly ships blond American girls off to Dubai.
Scott and Curtis have good reason to believe that Newton could be one of those girls, until a shocker news report would suggest otherwise.
Or does it?
With all its unexpected twists and turns, "Spartan" forces the viewer into playing a game of catch-up, only to finally arrive at the convoluted ending and realize that many questions will remain unanswered.
Despite a promising setup, the journey leads to the same kind of dramatic dead end found at the end of the playwright-filmmaker's last screen effort, "Heist", another exercise in which the Mamet-speak spoke louder than the action.
Give Kilmer credit for proving to be a quick study when it comes to mastering those patented verbal rhythms, while Luke gives another fine, committed performance as his astute apprentice.
Mamet-movie main man William H. Macy also briefly figures into the snaky storytelling as a political operative with his own agenda.
Behind the scenes, cinematographer Juan Ruiz Anchia and editor Barbara Tulliver keep things visually uncluttered and propulsive, while Mark Isham's low-key score does likewise on the audio end.
Spartan
Warner Bros. Pictures
Franchise Pictures presentation
Credits:
Director-screenwriter: David Mamet
Producers: Art Linson, Moshe Diamant, Elie Samaha
Executive producer: Frank Hubner
Director of photography: Juan Ruiz Anchia
Production designer: Gemma Jackson
Editor: Barbara Tulliver
Costume designer: Shay Cunliffe
Music: Mark Isham
Cast:
Robert Scott: Val Kilmer
Laura Newton: Kristen Bell
Curtis: Derek Luke
Stoddard: William H. Macy
Running time -- 106 minutes
No MPAA rating...
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