Neon has purchased distribution rights to Brady Corbet’s “Vox Lux” out of the Toronto International Film Festival. The film has earned universal acclaim for Natalie Portman’s performance as a pop diva. Variety reports the indie distributor is now in the process of figuring out a release date, with an eye on a possible launch this year to qualify the movie for Oscar consideration.
“Vox Lux” stars Portman as Celeste, a struggling international pop star whose comeback plans are threatened by a tragedy that links to her past. The drama is the latest from indie actor Brady Corbet, who made his feature debut with “The Childhood of a Leader.” While the subject matter in “Vox Lux” has proven polarizing, Portman’s performance has been hailed as one of her most ferocious turns yet. The actress doesn’t appear in the film until the halfway point, so it’s unclear...
“Vox Lux” stars Portman as Celeste, a struggling international pop star whose comeback plans are threatened by a tragedy that links to her past. The drama is the latest from indie actor Brady Corbet, who made his feature debut with “The Childhood of a Leader.” While the subject matter in “Vox Lux” has proven polarizing, Portman’s performance has been hailed as one of her most ferocious turns yet. The actress doesn’t appear in the film until the halfway point, so it’s unclear...
- 9/11/2018
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
[Editor’s note: The “Vox Lux” footage can be viewed on Vanity Fair. The video will be embedded below once it becomes public].
If Natalie Portman’s Oscar-winning performance in “Black Swan” taught moviegoers anything, it’s the actress is willing to go an extra mile when it comes to transforming into her onscreen characters. “Vox Lux,” the Portman-starring music drama hitting the fall festival circuit, finds the actress tackling an emotionally challenging role that is already earning comparisons to “Swan.” Vanity Fair has debuted a short teaser for the movie which provides the first footage from the movie.
“Vox Lux” stars Portman as Celeste, an international pop star who must confront her legacy in the hours leading up to a major concert. Celeste is the survivor of a violent tragedy and first gained attention for her music after she performed a song at a memorial event (“The Killing of a Sacred Deer” star...
If Natalie Portman’s Oscar-winning performance in “Black Swan” taught moviegoers anything, it’s the actress is willing to go an extra mile when it comes to transforming into her onscreen characters. “Vox Lux,” the Portman-starring music drama hitting the fall festival circuit, finds the actress tackling an emotionally challenging role that is already earning comparisons to “Swan.” Vanity Fair has debuted a short teaser for the movie which provides the first footage from the movie.
“Vox Lux” stars Portman as Celeste, an international pop star who must confront her legacy in the hours leading up to a major concert. Celeste is the survivor of a violent tragedy and first gained attention for her music after she performed a song at a memorial event (“The Killing of a Sacred Deer” star...
- 8/28/2018
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Red carpet protest highlighted fact only 82 women have been honoured in Official Selection over 71 editions of festival.
Cate Blanchett and Agnes Varda led 82 female industry figures in a silent ascent of the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival on Saturday protesting the lack of female representation at the event over its 71 editions.
Moving, historic, 82 women from all countries and professions in cinema have just made the red carpet entrance for Les Filles Du Soleil (Girls Of The Sun) by Eva Husson. #Cannes2018 #Competition pic.twitter.com/0YY9SNbRqg
— Festival de Cannes (@Festival_Cannes) May 12, 2018
Other stars joining the protest...
Cate Blanchett and Agnes Varda led 82 female industry figures in a silent ascent of the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival on Saturday protesting the lack of female representation at the event over its 71 editions.
Moving, historic, 82 women from all countries and professions in cinema have just made the red carpet entrance for Les Filles Du Soleil (Girls Of The Sun) by Eva Husson. #Cannes2018 #Competition pic.twitter.com/0YY9SNbRqg
— Festival de Cannes (@Festival_Cannes) May 12, 2018
Other stars joining the protest...
- 5/12/2018
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Frédérique Rouault joins ahead of the European Film Market next week.
Paris-based Playtime has appointed Frédérique Rouault as its director of international sales ahead of the European Film Market next week.
The experienced sales executive arrives from Celluloid Dreams where she was head of sales from November 2016 and helped to contribute to its recent expansion.
Prior to that, Rouault was VP international Sales at TF1 Studio where she worked on hits such as Serial (Bad) Weddings.
She originally cut her teeth in sales at Paulo Branco’s Alfama Films after attending Sciences Po and then France’s prestigious La Fémis film school, where she studied distribution.
In her new role, Rouault will work alongside Playtime partners François Yon, Sébastien Beffa and Nicolas Brigaud-Robert, taking over the responsibility of the international film sales department.
“Frédérique is a seasoned professional,” said Brigaud-Robert. “She is versatile in her capabilities and has proven her talent, selling both mainstream...
Paris-based Playtime has appointed Frédérique Rouault as its director of international sales ahead of the European Film Market next week.
The experienced sales executive arrives from Celluloid Dreams where she was head of sales from November 2016 and helped to contribute to its recent expansion.
Prior to that, Rouault was VP international Sales at TF1 Studio where she worked on hits such as Serial (Bad) Weddings.
She originally cut her teeth in sales at Paulo Branco’s Alfama Films after attending Sciences Po and then France’s prestigious La Fémis film school, where she studied distribution.
In her new role, Rouault will work alongside Playtime partners François Yon, Sébastien Beffa and Nicolas Brigaud-Robert, taking over the responsibility of the international film sales department.
“Frédérique is a seasoned professional,” said Brigaud-Robert. “She is versatile in her capabilities and has proven her talent, selling both mainstream...
- 2/9/2018
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
A North Carolina pastor and his wife who lost their two sons in a tragic accident on the way home from a family wedding in 2015 welcomed twins Monday.
Hadley and Gentry Eddings, a pastor at Forest Hill Church in Charlotte, named the twin boys Isaiah Dobbs and Amos Reed in honor of their older brothers.
“We are thrilled for Gentry and Hadley and are continually amazed at how God continues to redeem their story. From the tragic loss of their sons, Dobbs and Reed to the remarkable birth of their twins, Isaiah and Amos — God is creating beauty from ashes,...
Hadley and Gentry Eddings, a pastor at Forest Hill Church in Charlotte, named the twin boys Isaiah Dobbs and Amos Reed in honor of their older brothers.
“We are thrilled for Gentry and Hadley and are continually amazed at how God continues to redeem their story. From the tragic loss of their sons, Dobbs and Reed to the remarkable birth of their twins, Isaiah and Amos — God is creating beauty from ashes,...
- 7/11/2017
- by Erin Hill
- PEOPLE.com
“Resistance” the story of the famed mime Marcel Marceau and how he learned to mime in order to survive and to save the lives of Jewish orphans in World War II France, written and to be directed by “Hands of Stone” director Jonathan Jakubowicz and produced by Claudine Jakubowicz and Carlos Garcia de Paredes, will star the curly haired and fast talking Jesse Eisenberg who played Mark Zuckerberg in the 2010 film “The Social Network”. Baptiste Marceau, the oldest son of Marcel, has been closely involved in the research for this European coproduction that CAA is packaging and representing in Cannes. Marceau the artist of silence gave his first major performance to 3,000 American troops after the liberation of Paris in August 1944.
Michael Jackson and Marcel Marceau
The producers of last year’s Norwegian hit, “The Wave”, have turned their attention to Marius Holst’s “Betrayed”, the story of the Norwegian Jews...
Michael Jackson and Marcel Marceau
The producers of last year’s Norwegian hit, “The Wave”, have turned their attention to Marius Holst’s “Betrayed”, the story of the Norwegian Jews...
- 6/5/2017
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
BAFTA celebrated the second edition of its annual endorsement of U.K. rising talent on Monday night, naming its "Breakthrough Brits" of 2014. At a special reception held at Burberry’s flagship London store 18 newcomers from the film, television and gaming industries were honored, as selected by a panel of experts. The 18 names comprised actors Stacey Martin (Nymphomaniac), Katie Leung (who plays Cho Chang in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and other movies in the franchise) and Callum Turner (Ripper Street), directors Destiny Ekaragha (Gone Too Far!) and Sarah Walker, producer/directors Mike Brett & Steve Jamison (The War
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- 10/27/2014
- by Alex Ritman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
• Zero Dark Thirty star Edgar Ramirez is in talks to replace Gerard Butler in the Point Break reboot as Bodhi, originally played by Patrick Swayze in Kathryn Bigelow’s 1991 pic. “We consider Edgar one of the finest actors in the world today, and we are thrilled he will be creating a fresh new take on the iconic character of Bodhi,” Alcon principals Andrew Kosove and Broderick Johnson said in a statement. Luke Bracey will be playing undercover FBI agent Johnny Utah in the new take and Ericson Core is set to direct. [Variety]
• After dropping out of Point Break, Gerard Butler...
• After dropping out of Point Break, Gerard Butler...
- 5/15/2014
- by Lindsey Bahr
- EW - Inside Movies
Cannes is underway, and it's a quieter place without Lars Von Trier there. Despite guesses from some, the Danish auteur isn't on the Croisette with his latest, "Nymphomaniac," but it's not because of the outrage he caused in 2010 with his comments about Hitler, but instead because the sex-laced two-part epic simply isn't ready. Still, there is a presence of some kind, as the films' backers have used the festival to unveil an image that shows the film's starry cast in various suggestive positions. The tableaux includes Von Trier himself (tape over his mouth, camera in hand) looking over much of his cast, including Charlotte Gainsbourg in the title role, Stacey Martin as her younger self, Stellan Skarsgard, Jamie Bell, Christian Slater, Willem Dafoe, Uma Thurman, Connie Nielsen and Udo Kier (nowhere to be seen: Shia Labeouf). There's a certain amount of fun to be had in finding the not-exactly-hidden phallic images,...
- 5/16/2013
- by Oliver Lyttelton
- The Playlist
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