Exclusive: After a herniated disc during a Cats performance prompted Rob Marshall to switch from dancer to director, his first feature, Chicago, won Best Picture. It has been a charmed run for Marshall since, with hits from Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides to Memoirs of a Geisha, Nine, Annie, Into the Woods and Mary Poppins Returns. Rarely has Marshall been as charged up as he is after coming through a four-year ordeal to turn Disney’s 1989 2-D animated classic musical The Little Mermaid into a live action feature. Beyond the logistical complexities of staging a musical set half undersea and the other half on land where the title character sacrifices her voice for a chance at life as a human, the film is the most color blind major studio adaptation of a classic property you’ve ever seen.
Start with the title character, here played by Halle Bailey,...
Start with the title character, here played by Halle Bailey,...
- 5/17/2023
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
On the JoBlo Movies YouTube channel, we will be posting one full movie every day of the week, giving viewers the chance to watch them entirely free of charge. Today’s Free Movie of the Day is director Jonathan Straiton’s 2016 horror comedy Night of Something Strange, and you can watch the movie over on the YouTube channel linked above, or you can just watch it in the embed at the top of this article.
Scripted by Straiton with Ron Bonk and Mean Gene, Night of Something Strange has the following synopsis: Five teenage friends set out for the beach on their Spring Break vacation. Good times are cut short when one of the group, Carrie, contracts a deadly sexual transmitted disease during a bathroom stop. When they stop for the night at an isolated motel, the real terror begins when the Std virus starts running rampant, turning those infected into the living dead.
Scripted by Straiton with Ron Bonk and Mean Gene, Night of Something Strange has the following synopsis: Five teenage friends set out for the beach on their Spring Break vacation. Good times are cut short when one of the group, Carrie, contracts a deadly sexual transmitted disease during a bathroom stop. When they stop for the night at an isolated motel, the real terror begins when the Std virus starts running rampant, turning those infected into the living dead.
- 12/29/2022
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
David Brenner, the Oscar-winning film editor who worked on a string of blockbusters as well as nine films for director Oliver Stone, died on Thursday. He was 59. The news was confirmed by Avatar producer Jon Landau, with whom Brenner had been working on the sequels.
Landau called Brenner’s editing skills “extraordinary,” but said what was most impressive about him was “his remarkable compassion for others and the love and commitment he had for his family.”
Over three decades in the film business, Brenner worked with top directors on a remarkable number of big-budget hits, including Independence Day, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, Transformers: Age of Extinction, Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice, Justice League (both versions) and the Avatar sequels.
He first worked with Stone on 1986’s Salvador as an assistant editor. That relationship grew through Platoon and Wall Street until Brenner moved up to co-editor — with Joe Hutshing — on Talk Radio.
Landau called Brenner’s editing skills “extraordinary,” but said what was most impressive about him was “his remarkable compassion for others and the love and commitment he had for his family.”
Over three decades in the film business, Brenner worked with top directors on a remarkable number of big-budget hits, including Independence Day, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, Transformers: Age of Extinction, Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice, Justice League (both versions) and the Avatar sequels.
He first worked with Stone on 1986’s Salvador as an assistant editor. That relationship grew through Platoon and Wall Street until Brenner moved up to co-editor — with Joe Hutshing — on Talk Radio.
- 2/18/2022
- by Tom Tapp
- Deadline Film + TV
It has taken us until 2019 to have a film about Araminta “Minty” Ross. Better known in history as Harriet Tubman. In Kasi Lemmons’ new film “Harriet,” the story breaks away from the typical slave narrative of an upward journey. Rather, we get a story that delves into the woman, her humanity and inspirational life.
The film is defined, as editor Wyatt Smith points out, by “three distinct chapters of her life.” The first is Harriet as a slave woman who “is physically strong but oppressed” as she is abused and torn from her family. We then “watch her escape to freedom.” Smith explains, “She finally gets to experience life as a free woman in Philadelphia, amongst those who grew up so differently from her. At the same time, she is burdened by sadness and solitude without her husband and family. She knows that her freedom would never bring her any...
The film is defined, as editor Wyatt Smith points out, by “three distinct chapters of her life.” The first is Harriet as a slave woman who “is physically strong but oppressed” as she is abused and torn from her family. We then “watch her escape to freedom.” Smith explains, “She finally gets to experience life as a free woman in Philadelphia, amongst those who grew up so differently from her. At the same time, she is burdened by sadness and solitude without her husband and family. She knows that her freedom would never bring her any...
- 12/11/2019
- by Jazz Tangcay
- Variety Film + TV
Taking a courageous icon from the pages of history and placing them into an epic, timeless tale can at times be as challenging as the hero’s original journey. But no matter what occasional hurdles the filmmakers must contend with, the end result can be just as fulfilling as the hero’s original emotional and physical expedition. […]
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The post Toronto International Film Festival 2019 Interview: Wyatt Smith Talks Harriet (Exclusive) appeared first on Shockya.com.
- 11/10/2019
- by Karen Benardello
- ShockYa
Will “Mary Poppins” return to the Oscar race for the first time in 54 years? The 1964 original snagged 13 nominations including Best Picture, and it won five prizes. Now “Mary Poppins Returns” hopes to recapture some of that awards magic. Gold Derby recently spoke with stars Emily Blunt, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Ben Whishaw and Emily Mortimer; director Rob Marshall; screenwriter David Magee; cinematographer Dion Beebe; film editor Wyatt Smith; sound re-recording mixers Michael Keller and Mike Prestwood Smith; and visual effects supervisor Matt Johnson about their work on the film.
See As Oscar nominations voting enters final weekend, what films are on the bubble?
The title role brought Julie Andrews the Best Actress Oscar half a century ago, so Blunt had her work cut out for her. When Marshall called to offer her the part “the air changed in the room because you are just instantly bombarded by these thoughts of how iconic she is,...
See As Oscar nominations voting enters final weekend, what films are on the bubble?
The title role brought Julie Andrews the Best Actress Oscar half a century ago, so Blunt had her work cut out for her. When Marshall called to offer her the part “the air changed in the room because you are just instantly bombarded by these thoughts of how iconic she is,...
- 1/16/2019
- by Zach Laws and Chris Beachum
- Gold Derby
Film editor Wyatt Smith admits that working on “Mary Poppins Returns” was “a little daunting” and “a little scary to be honest because you’re treading on sacred ground.” The 1964 original is “one of the most beloved, perfect movies ever made that’s stood the test of time over 50 years.” Suffice it to say that the stakes were high for this sequel. Watch our exclusive video interview with Smith above.
See Off she goes! Emily Blunt flies up Best Actress Oscar rankings after first ‘Mary Poppins Returns’ screenings
Directed by Rob Marshall, this followup finds the practically perfect nanny (Emily Blunt) once again teaching the Banks clan — the now grownup children Michael and Jane (Ben Whishaw and Emily Mortimer) and Michael’s own kids — some valuable life lessons with the help of a little magic and a few catchy songs.
Though it was a technically ambitious production, Smith knew he...
See Off she goes! Emily Blunt flies up Best Actress Oscar rankings after first ‘Mary Poppins Returns’ screenings
Directed by Rob Marshall, this followup finds the practically perfect nanny (Emily Blunt) once again teaching the Banks clan — the now grownup children Michael and Jane (Ben Whishaw and Emily Mortimer) and Michael’s own kids — some valuable life lessons with the help of a little magic and a few catchy songs.
Though it was a technically ambitious production, Smith knew he...
- 12/5/2018
- by Zach Laws
- Gold Derby
Recently relocated from the relatively calm gridiron realm of corn fed Iowa, Jake Tyler (Sean Faris) has come to the tropical Florida wilds looking to get rid of the massive chip weighing down his shoulder. His mom Margot (Leslie Hope) hopes the change will do her troubled boy some good, and she can't help but worry that the constant fighting is starting to have a negative impact on her younger son, tennis protege Charlie (Wyatt Smith). After Jake is lured into a bout of underground mixed martial arts fighting by Ryan (Cam Gigandet), a local rich kid, things start looking like they're worse than ever. But not all is what it seems and with the help of disciplined Brazilian teacher Jean Roqua (Djimon Hounsou) and the love of fellow student Baja Miller (Amber Heard) this good kid going down a wrong path might just get things going in the right direction.
- 7/23/2008
- by Sara Michelle Fetters
- Rope of Silicon
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