The term "nepo baby" tends to carry a negative connotation, but it doesn't have to. Take the Deschanel sisters, Emily and Zooey. Their mother, Mary Jo Deschanel (née Weir), began acting in the 1960s and has dozens of film and TV credits to her name, from "2010: The Year We Make Contact" to "Twin Peaks." Their father, Caleb Deschanel, is likewise a decorated director and cinematographer whose career spans 50 years, having collaborated with filmmakers like Philip Kaufman, Carroll Ballard, William Friedkin, Richard Donner, Roland Emmerich, and Christopher McQuarrie.
In the face of that, "nepo babies" Emily and Zooey Deschanel have emerged as artists fully worthy of admiration on their own merits. On top of forming one-half of the successful indie pop group She & Him, Zooey Deschanel spring-boarded from her early breakout roles in the hits "Almost Famous" and "Elf" into an ongoing career as a movie star, in addition to...
In the face of that, "nepo babies" Emily and Zooey Deschanel have emerged as artists fully worthy of admiration on their own merits. On top of forming one-half of the successful indie pop group She & Him, Zooey Deschanel spring-boarded from her early breakout roles in the hits "Almost Famous" and "Elf" into an ongoing career as a movie star, in addition to...
- 1/1/2024
- by Sandy Schaefer
- Slash Film
Synopsis
From producer Peter Jackson (The Lord of the Rings Trilogy) and director, Neill Blomkamp comes a startlingly original science fiction thriller that “soars on the imagination of its creators”. With stunning special effects and gritty realism, the film plunges us into a world where the aliens have landed… only to be exiled to a slum on the fringes of Johannesburg. Now, one lone human discovers the mysterious secret of the extraterrestrial weapon technology. Hunted and hounded through the bizarre back alleys of an alien shantytown, he will discover what it means to be the ultimate outsider on your own planet.
Bonus Material
4K Ultra HD Bonus Materials:
Comic-Con Extravaganza Featurette Original Theatrical Trailers
Blu-ray Bonus Materials:
Hours of Archival Special Features Including: Deleted Scenes Director’s Commentary The Alien Agenda: A Filmmaker’s Log – Three-Part Documentary Metamorphosis: The Transformation of Wikus Innovation: Acting and Improvisation Conception and Design: Creating...
From producer Peter Jackson (The Lord of the Rings Trilogy) and director, Neill Blomkamp comes a startlingly original science fiction thriller that “soars on the imagination of its creators”. With stunning special effects and gritty realism, the film plunges us into a world where the aliens have landed… only to be exiled to a slum on the fringes of Johannesburg. Now, one lone human discovers the mysterious secret of the extraterrestrial weapon technology. Hunted and hounded through the bizarre back alleys of an alien shantytown, he will discover what it means to be the ultimate outsider on your own planet.
Bonus Material
4K Ultra HD Bonus Materials:
Comic-Con Extravaganza Featurette Original Theatrical Trailers
Blu-ray Bonus Materials:
Hours of Archival Special Features Including: Deleted Scenes Director’s Commentary The Alien Agenda: A Filmmaker’s Log – Three-Part Documentary Metamorphosis: The Transformation of Wikus Innovation: Acting and Improvisation Conception and Design: Creating...
- 7/10/2020
- by ComicMix Staff
- Comicmix.com
Newly launched Capacitor Studios is fast-tracking development of a television/streaming series with Cosmic Kids, the YouTube channel whose yoga and meditation exercises have become exceedingly popular with parents of small children during the coronavirus-induced lockdown.
Variety has learned that the new project, a mix of live action and animation, will “take kids on exciting yoga adventures and help them overcome challenges through movement and mindfulness.” Cosmic Kids Yoga creator and host Jaime Amor will anchor the series alongside animated characters and an interactive set.
The eight-year-old brand’s YouTube views now top 30 million a month, on average, and have brought in 250,000 new monthly subscribers amid the ongoing pandemic that has sent parents scrambling to find ways to keep their kids active and entertained while schools remain closed. The channel’s videos currently include yoga sessions inspired by “Frozen,” “Moana,” “Harry Potter,” “Star Wars,” and more.
“We are thrilled to...
Variety has learned that the new project, a mix of live action and animation, will “take kids on exciting yoga adventures and help them overcome challenges through movement and mindfulness.” Cosmic Kids Yoga creator and host Jaime Amor will anchor the series alongside animated characters and an interactive set.
The eight-year-old brand’s YouTube views now top 30 million a month, on average, and have brought in 250,000 new monthly subscribers amid the ongoing pandemic that has sent parents scrambling to find ways to keep their kids active and entertained while schools remain closed. The channel’s videos currently include yoga sessions inspired by “Frozen,” “Moana,” “Harry Potter,” “Star Wars,” and more.
“We are thrilled to...
- 4/14/2020
- by Elaine Low
- Variety Film + TV
Veteran Hollywood executive Paul Hanson is launching Capacitor Studios a pair of projects based on toy lines — a Kid Robot movie and a Feisty Pets animated series, Variety has learned exclusively.
Hanson, the former CEO of Cover Media and chief operating officer at Annapurna Pictures, is partnering with Elan Freedman of Surge Licensing, development executive Ian McGloin, and content financing executive Asa Greenberg.
Former Sony Animation President Michelle Raimo Kouyate is attached as a producer to “Feisty Pets.” The “Kid Robot” movie, will be directed by Rob Rugan from a script by Matt Ember and Tom Astle.
“It all starts with great storytelling that turns audiences into rabid fans,” Hanson said. “That passion drives a desire for further engagement with a brand or franchise, potentially including toys and other consumer products, video games, hobby games, and publishing. With world-class production and licensing groups under the same roof, we are uniquely...
Hanson, the former CEO of Cover Media and chief operating officer at Annapurna Pictures, is partnering with Elan Freedman of Surge Licensing, development executive Ian McGloin, and content financing executive Asa Greenberg.
Former Sony Animation President Michelle Raimo Kouyate is attached as a producer to “Feisty Pets.” The “Kid Robot” movie, will be directed by Rob Rugan from a script by Matt Ember and Tom Astle.
“It all starts with great storytelling that turns audiences into rabid fans,” Hanson said. “That passion drives a desire for further engagement with a brand or franchise, potentially including toys and other consumer products, video games, hobby games, and publishing. With world-class production and licensing groups under the same roof, we are uniquely...
- 3/10/2020
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Principal photography commenced earlier this week in New Orleans.
Covert Media has reported a strong response to The Secret Movie starring Katie Holmes and Josh Lucas based on the global self-help publishing phenomenon The Secret, led by deals in Australia, Germany and Spain.
Covert has licensed the Afm sales title in: Australia (Village Roadshow); Germany and Spain (Wild Bunch); Scandinavia (Sandrew Metronome); Middle East (Gulf Films); Latin America (Imagem); Taiwan (Moviecloud); Benelux (Dutch Film Works); Cis (Top Film); Portugal (Lusomundo); India (PVR); and Indonesia (Cgv).
Further details have closed in: Switzerland (Ascot Elite); South Africa (Empire Entertainment); Singapore (Shaw); Philippines...
Covert Media has reported a strong response to The Secret Movie starring Katie Holmes and Josh Lucas based on the global self-help publishing phenomenon The Secret, led by deals in Australia, Germany and Spain.
Covert has licensed the Afm sales title in: Australia (Village Roadshow); Germany and Spain (Wild Bunch); Scandinavia (Sandrew Metronome); Middle East (Gulf Films); Latin America (Imagem); Taiwan (Moviecloud); Benelux (Dutch Film Works); Cis (Top Film); Portugal (Lusomundo); India (PVR); and Indonesia (Cgv).
Further details have closed in: Switzerland (Ascot Elite); South Africa (Empire Entertainment); Singapore (Shaw); Philippines...
- 11/2/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Indie horror director Nicholas Verso will tackle the new feature The Ice Cream Man for Covert Media and Broken Road Productions.
The high-concept horror project from writers Justin Powell and David Charbonier follows two brothers who are terrorized by a sinister being.
Covert's Paul Hanson will produce alongside Todd Garner and Ryan Lewis[/link] of Broken Road. Covert’s Elissa Friedman, Media Content Capital’s Sasha Shapiro and Anton Lessine and Broken Road’s Sean Robins will executive produce.
Covert, which was at this year's Sundance Film Festival with the Hamlet reimagining Ophelia, will fully finance Ice Cream Man and will handle worldwide sales on the...
The high-concept horror project from writers Justin Powell and David Charbonier follows two brothers who are terrorized by a sinister being.
Covert's Paul Hanson will produce alongside Todd Garner and Ryan Lewis[/link] of Broken Road. Covert’s Elissa Friedman, Media Content Capital’s Sasha Shapiro and Anton Lessine and Broken Road’s Sean Robins will executive produce.
Covert, which was at this year's Sundance Film Festival with the Hamlet reimagining Ophelia, will fully finance Ice Cream Man and will handle worldwide sales on the...
- 3/8/2018
- by Mia Galuppo
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The gym of the Hollywood United Methodist Church is dressed to the nines. Paper and foam fish hang from the ceiling. Blue and silver streamer curtains line the walls. A statue of Poseidon towers over tables strewn with punch bowls. About 100 people add a rainbow’s array of color to the gym with 1950s-era dresses and suits. But they’re not doing the hand jive or the bop – they’re busting out their ’80s moves as the band plays Whodini’s 1984 funk-rap song “Freaks Come Out At Night.” The scene is a nighttime shoot in mid-March 1985 on the set of “Back to the Future.” Harry Waters Jr., who played Marvin Berry, the leader of the band at the dance, recalled the surreal experience of jamming with contemporary songs in between takes for a gym full of extras in 30 years out-of-date clothes. “It was a party! It was entirely too much fun,...
- 10/21/2015
- by Emily Rome
- Hitfix
Once upon a time, Arnold Schwarzenegger announced that he’ll “be back” and while that was true in that film, it seems it also applied to his film career. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Arnold has agreed to star in David Ayer’s (Street Kings) action flick ‘Ten’. The original screenplay was written by Skip Woods (X-Men Origins: Wolverine) and is being produced by Bill Block, Paul Hanson, Joe Roth, Palak Patel and Al Ruddy. Alex Ott of Ayer’s Crave Films is executive producing.
- 5/8/2012
- by Kerry Fleming
- GetTheBigPicture.net
Leonard Stone has died, aged 87. The actor was perhaps most famous for his role as Violet Beauregard's father in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, opposite Gene Wilder in 1971. One of his most famous lines in the movie was: "Violet, you're turning Violet!" Stone was a prolific character actor who appeared in over 120 television shows and 35 films. He appeared as Judge Paul Hanson in L.A. (more)...
- 11/3/2011
- by By Tom Eames
- Digital Spy
Character actor Leonard Stone, who played Sam Beauregard, the brash American father of gum-smacking Violet Beauregard in the 1971 children's movie musical Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, died from cancer on Wednesday, it is reported. He would have turned 88 on Thursday. With extensive TV credits dating back to the mid-1950s, Stone, a native of Salem, Oregon, appeared on such shows as L.A. Law (as Judge Paul Hanson), General Hospital, M*A*S*H, Hill Street Blues, Night Court, Alice, Barney Miller, All in the Family and Mission: Impossible, according to the Internet Movie Database. In Willy Wonka, based on...
- 11/3/2011
- by Stephen M. Silverman
- PEOPLE.com
Arnold Schwarzenegger is set to star in 'Black Sands'. The former Governor of California will play a loner who wages war against a weapons manufacturer and his private army in the Southwest in the movie, which will be co-directed by former stuntmen Scott Waugh and Mike McCoy, who will also executive produce. 'A Good Day To Die Hard' writer Skip Woods has penned the script while Al Ruddy will produce with Bill Block and Paul Hanson. The thriller is scheduled for release on February 17, which is President's Day Weekend in America. This...
- 10/31/2011
- Virgin Media - Movies
Arnold Schwarzenegger is set to star in the dramatic action feature "Black Sands" at Qed says Deadline.
Arnie will play a loner who wages war against a ruthless weapons manufacturer and his private army in the American Southwest.
Scott Waugh and Mike McCoy ("Act Of Valor") are directing from a script by Sergio Altieri and Kevin Elders which Skip Woods ("A Good Day To Die Hard") recently performed re-writes on.
Al Ruddy and Paul Hanson will produce and shooting is slated to kick off April 1st.
Arnie will play a loner who wages war against a ruthless weapons manufacturer and his private army in the American Southwest.
Scott Waugh and Mike McCoy ("Act Of Valor") are directing from a script by Sergio Altieri and Kevin Elders which Skip Woods ("A Good Day To Die Hard") recently performed re-writes on.
Al Ruddy and Paul Hanson will produce and shooting is slated to kick off April 1st.
- 10/30/2011
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Exclusive: Arnold Schwarzenegger is set to star in Black Sands, an action film that will be directed by Scott Waugh and Mike McCoy. Financed by Bill Block’s Qed, the film will begin production April 1, 2012. In the script that Skip Woods has rewritten, Schwarzenegger will play a loner who wages war against a ruthless weapons manufacturer and his private army in the Southwest. The tone is Man On Fire meets High Plains Drifter. Block will be selling worldwide territories starting today. Woods scripted A Good Day To Die Hard, which Fox is readying for production. Waugh and McCoy most recently directed Act Of Valor, an action adventure that features actual Navy SEALs. That film was acquired at an auction for distribution by Relativity Media, which paid a $13 million minimum guarantee and a $30 million P&A commitment, and scheduled the film for release on February 17, which is President’s Day Weekend.
- 10/28/2011
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
Open Road Films has scored the U.S. rights to the thriller script "The Key Man", described as a tonal blend of "Three Days Of The Condor" and "National Treasure" says Deadline.
The story follows a single father who's targeted by U.S. government agents because his body contains answers to important national secrets.
Joby Harold penned the script and will produce along with Bill Block, Tory Tunnell and Paul Hanson. Shooting begins early next year.
The story follows a single father who's targeted by U.S. government agents because his body contains answers to important national secrets.
Joby Harold penned the script and will produce along with Bill Block, Tory Tunnell and Paul Hanson. Shooting begins early next year.
- 7/12/2011
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Tyler Perry, best known for his comic "Madea" character, has signed on to play the role of Alex Cross, a detective and psychologist in Washington, D.C., TheWrap has confirmed. James Patterson, who wrote the bestselling novels that feature the character of Cross, wrote the first draft of the script with Kerry Williamson. Marc Moss is working on the script. In the movie, Cross tracks the rapist who may have murdered his pregnant wife years earlier. The film is titled, "I, Alex Cross," and is produced by Bill Block, Paul Hanson and Leopoldo Gout,...
- 2/1/2011
- by Joshua L. Weinstein
- The Wrap
Exclusive: Days after he scored a seven-figure deal from Universal for Snow White and the Huntsmen, producer Joe Roth is in the center of another auction. In a competitive situation, Qed and financier/producer Norton Herrick have committed to fund Ten, a drama that will begin shooting in December with Bruce Willis starring. Patrick Allesandrin is directing a script by Skip Woods. Roth and Palak Patel will produce with Qed principals Bill Block and Paul Hanson, Herrick and Woods. Basically, the backers committed to fund a picture with an under $35 million budget. They'll set a distributor shortly. This becomes the seventh film collaboration for Roth and Willis either while Roth was producer or studio exec. It was Roth who bailed Willis out of a Disney jam after the actor abruptly dropped out of the in-progress Broadway Brawler because of disputes with director Lee Grant. Facing a lawsuit and on the...
- 10/5/2010
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
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