Jerry Foley, the Late Show with David Letterman director who helmed close to 4,000 hours of late-night television and was nominated for two dozen Emmys, has died. He was 68. He’s understood to have died last week as a result of ski accident.
He worked with Letterman for more than 25 years, having started as technical director of NBC’s Late Night with David Letterman before moving to CBS’ Late Show with David Letterman. He succeeded Hal Gurnee as director of the show in 1995 and helmed the late-night series until it ended in 2015.
Foley received 21 Emmy nominations as well as nine DGA Award nominations.
In addition to The Late Show, he directed all 72 episodes of Live on Letterman, and also worked on The Alec Baldwin Show, Tony Bennett Celebrates 90: The Best Is Yet To Come and Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons: A Life on Stage.
Watch Foley’s favorite moments from...
He worked with Letterman for more than 25 years, having started as technical director of NBC’s Late Night with David Letterman before moving to CBS’ Late Show with David Letterman. He succeeded Hal Gurnee as director of the show in 1995 and helmed the late-night series until it ended in 2015.
Foley received 21 Emmy nominations as well as nine DGA Award nominations.
In addition to The Late Show, he directed all 72 episodes of Live on Letterman, and also worked on The Alec Baldwin Show, Tony Bennett Celebrates 90: The Best Is Yet To Come and Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons: A Life on Stage.
Watch Foley’s favorite moments from...
- 3/12/2024
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Harry Belafonte’s Daughters Criticize Grammys for Not Doing More to Recognize Singer During Ceremony
Harry Belafonte’s daughters, Shari and Gina, are calling out the Grammys for not doing more to recognize the late singer during the 2024 awards ceremony Sunday.
During the In Memoriam segment, Stevie Wonder, Annie Lennox, Fantasia Barrino and Jon Batiste took to the stage to perform emotional tributes for Tina Turner, Tony Bennett, Sinead O’Connor, Clarence Avant and more.
While they performed, images of other artists the music industry lost last year were displayed onscreen behind them, including Belafonte, while Batiste sang “The Best Is Yet to Come.”
But Shari and Gina feel the Grammys should have given the singer a special tribute, similar to the ones for Turner, Bennett, O’Connor and Avant.
“While the folks who had a bit more of a #shoutout on the #GrammyAwards this year were absolutely deserving of accolades, I’m a bit appalled that our father was not included in a #SpecialTribute and...
During the In Memoriam segment, Stevie Wonder, Annie Lennox, Fantasia Barrino and Jon Batiste took to the stage to perform emotional tributes for Tina Turner, Tony Bennett, Sinead O’Connor, Clarence Avant and more.
While they performed, images of other artists the music industry lost last year were displayed onscreen behind them, including Belafonte, while Batiste sang “The Best Is Yet to Come.”
But Shari and Gina feel the Grammys should have given the singer a special tribute, similar to the ones for Turner, Bennett, O’Connor and Avant.
“While the folks who had a bit more of a #shoutout on the #GrammyAwards this year were absolutely deserving of accolades, I’m a bit appalled that our father was not included in a #SpecialTribute and...
- 2/8/2024
- by Carly Thomas
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Music legend Stevie Wonder led the charge as stars paid tribute to the music legends the world lost last year at the 2024 Grammy Awards.
He kicked off the ceremony’s annual ‘In Memoriam’ segment by paying tribute to his late friend and fellow musical icon, Tony Bennett, who died in July 2023 at age 96, reports ‘People’ magazine.
“I remember hearing Tony Bennett singing ‘For Once in My Life’ when I was like 13 or 14 years old,” Stevie, 73, began the tribute. “But what’s amazing is I was able to actually sing the song with someone that I admired for so long, not just because of his voice, which was incredible, but because of his art, his love for art, his love for peace, his love for unity, his love for civil rights.”
“I remember as a little boy him being in places where most people would not even go stand for the right of freedom for everyone,...
He kicked off the ceremony’s annual ‘In Memoriam’ segment by paying tribute to his late friend and fellow musical icon, Tony Bennett, who died in July 2023 at age 96, reports ‘People’ magazine.
“I remember hearing Tony Bennett singing ‘For Once in My Life’ when I was like 13 or 14 years old,” Stevie, 73, began the tribute. “But what’s amazing is I was able to actually sing the song with someone that I admired for so long, not just because of his voice, which was incredible, but because of his art, his love for art, his love for peace, his love for unity, his love for civil rights.”
“I remember as a little boy him being in places where most people would not even go stand for the right of freedom for everyone,...
- 2/5/2024
- by Agency News Desk
- GlamSham
The Recording Academy recognized many of the musicians and people who worked behind the scenes in the music industry who have died in the past year during the Grammy Awards on Sunday night. Tony Bennett, Sinead O’Connor, Clarence Avant, Jimmy Buffet, and Tina Turner were among those celebrated.
Stevie Wonder, who on Thursday presented Mariah Carey with the Global Impact Award at the Black Music Collective Ceremony, performed a touching piano-backed rendition of Bennett’s “For Once in My Life,” reviving a duet together as a video of Bennett played in the background,...
Stevie Wonder, who on Thursday presented Mariah Carey with the Global Impact Award at the Black Music Collective Ceremony, performed a touching piano-backed rendition of Bennett’s “For Once in My Life,” reviving a duet together as a video of Bennett played in the background,...
- 2/5/2024
- by Kory Grow and Charisma Madarang
- Rollingstone.com
Stevie Wonder, Annie Lennox, Fantasia Barrino and Jon Batiste helped pay tribute to late musical icons during Sunday’s 2024 Grammys.
Tina Turner, Tony Bennett, Sinead O’Connor and Clarence Avant were remembered in emotional performances by the group of singers, each performing a hit song from each of the artists.
Wonder kicked off the tribute to Bennett onstage with a mash-up performance of “For Once In My Life” and “The Best Is Yet To Come.”
Sinead O’Connor was honored by Lennox with a performance of “Nothing Compares 2 U,” who was also joined by Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman, the Grammy-and-Emmy-winning musicians who played in Prince’s band The Revolution. (Prince also wrote the song.) At the end of her performance, Lennox called for a ceasefire and peace in the world.
Batiste honored music executive Clarence Avant with a performance introduced by Lenny Kravitz. Batiste performed a medley of “Ain’t No Sunshine,...
Tina Turner, Tony Bennett, Sinead O’Connor and Clarence Avant were remembered in emotional performances by the group of singers, each performing a hit song from each of the artists.
Wonder kicked off the tribute to Bennett onstage with a mash-up performance of “For Once In My Life” and “The Best Is Yet To Come.”
Sinead O’Connor was honored by Lennox with a performance of “Nothing Compares 2 U,” who was also joined by Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman, the Grammy-and-Emmy-winning musicians who played in Prince’s band The Revolution. (Prince also wrote the song.) At the end of her performance, Lennox called for a ceasefire and peace in the world.
Batiste honored music executive Clarence Avant with a performance introduced by Lenny Kravitz. Batiste performed a medley of “Ain’t No Sunshine,...
- 2/5/2024
- by Lexy Perez and Christy Piña
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: Mediawan Africa, the Republic of Benin and French-language international channel TV5 Monde are partnering to co-develop original daily fiction series The Best Is Yet To Come.
The ambitious project – which has set an initial target of 220 episodes of 26 minutes – aims to break fresh ground for drama production in Africa to create a daily show featuring and developing pan-African talent across all disciplines.
The drama will revolve around students on a fictional campus in Benin – hailing from the country as well as wider Africa and further afield – as they navigate the path to adulthood, caught between tradition and modernity.
The opening premise revolves around five young people who have nothing in common but are forced to live together in a villa while waiting for their student accommodation.
This creates an explosive situation that will have consequences for all the characters in the series including professors, other students, parents and residents...
The ambitious project – which has set an initial target of 220 episodes of 26 minutes – aims to break fresh ground for drama production in Africa to create a daily show featuring and developing pan-African talent across all disciplines.
The drama will revolve around students on a fictional campus in Benin – hailing from the country as well as wider Africa and further afield – as they navigate the path to adulthood, caught between tradition and modernity.
The opening premise revolves around five young people who have nothing in common but are forced to live together in a villa while waiting for their student accommodation.
This creates an explosive situation that will have consequences for all the characters in the series including professors, other students, parents and residents...
- 10/24/2023
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
The “Best is Yet to Come” is based on the life of Han Fudong, a young journalist who exposed the fact that the social stigma against people suffering from hepatitis B in China was actually indoctrinated in the system. Considering that the sickness is endemic in China, and that in 2003 around 100 million people had it, the story resulted in a scandal which also made its author a kind of a star reporter in the country. The movie however, focuses more on his story up to that point.
“The Best is Yet to Come” is screening at Asian Pop Up Cinema
In that fashion, it begins by showing Han Dong, the protagonist, a high school dropout, trying to get an interview at a newspaper in a job fair, but being completely neglected due to his lack of credentials and experience. The life of both him and his girlfriend, Xiao Zhu, is...
“The Best is Yet to Come” is screening at Asian Pop Up Cinema
In that fashion, it begins by showing Han Dong, the protagonist, a high school dropout, trying to get an interview at a newspaper in a job fair, but being completely neglected due to his lack of credentials and experience. The life of both him and his girlfriend, Xiao Zhu, is...
- 9/29/2023
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Sales will begin at Busan’s Asian Contents & Film Market (Acfm).
Chinese sales agent Parallax Films is set to launch sales of Gao Peng’s A Long Shot at Busan’s Asian Contents & Film Market (Acfm), ahead of its world premiere in competition at Tokyo International Film Festival.
The Chinese crime drama is set in the 1990s, when the country underwent rapid societal changes, and stars Zu Feng, Qin Hailu and young actor Zhou Zhengjie. The protagonist is a former shooting athlete who finds himself in a profound state of self-doubt when he must forego his impressive skills and is...
Chinese sales agent Parallax Films is set to launch sales of Gao Peng’s A Long Shot at Busan’s Asian Contents & Film Market (Acfm), ahead of its world premiere in competition at Tokyo International Film Festival.
The Chinese crime drama is set in the 1990s, when the country underwent rapid societal changes, and stars Zu Feng, Qin Hailu and young actor Zhou Zhengjie. The protagonist is a former shooting athlete who finds himself in a profound state of self-doubt when he must forego his impressive skills and is...
- 9/28/2023
- by Silvia Wong
- ScreenDaily
Lady Gaga’s Las Vegas residency promises only two things: Jazz & Piano. But judging from the photos she posted of Thursday’s opening night performance and video that’s surfaced online, it contains so much more.
On Instagram, she posted a photo of herself holding a Broadway-style Playbill with anticipation in her eyes and a photo of Miles Davis (who plays jazz but not piano) blowing his trumpet over her shoulder. When the show was done, she shared another in which she was wearing a shiny tux (bowtie included) and her hairstylist,...
On Instagram, she posted a photo of herself holding a Broadway-style Playbill with anticipation in her eyes and a photo of Miles Davis (who plays jazz but not piano) blowing his trumpet over her shoulder. When the show was done, she shared another in which she was wearing a shiny tux (bowtie included) and her hairstylist,...
- 9/1/2023
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
Lady Gaga is giving fans a behind-the-scenes look at what goes into a hard day at work as she prepares for her upcoming Las Vegas residency.
The “Born This Way” singer took to her Instagram account on Wednesday, sharing “before,” “during” and “after” rehearsal footage in three separate posts, taking her followers along a run-through of her show “Lady Gaga: Jazz & Piano”.
Gaga’s first post sees the singer-songwriter posing for a selfie in her car, donning a black outfit and cat-eye sunglasses, to which she captioned “Before rehearsal” alongside a fitting smiley face emoticon wearing sunglasses.
Read More: Lady Gaga Celebrates ‘Tony Bennett Day’ On What Would Have Been His 97th Birthday: ‘A Day For Smiling’
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The second post contained a series of photos capturing Gaga, 37, mid-rehearsal, beginning with a snapshot of her completed vintage-styled updo and bold makeup,...
The “Born This Way” singer took to her Instagram account on Wednesday, sharing “before,” “during” and “after” rehearsal footage in three separate posts, taking her followers along a run-through of her show “Lady Gaga: Jazz & Piano”.
Gaga’s first post sees the singer-songwriter posing for a selfie in her car, donning a black outfit and cat-eye sunglasses, to which she captioned “Before rehearsal” alongside a fitting smiley face emoticon wearing sunglasses.
Read More: Lady Gaga Celebrates ‘Tony Bennett Day’ On What Would Have Been His 97th Birthday: ‘A Day For Smiling’
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The second post contained a series of photos capturing Gaga, 37, mid-rehearsal, beginning with a snapshot of her completed vintage-styled updo and bold makeup,...
- 8/25/2023
- by Melissa Romualdi
- ET Canada
‘Love Is A Gun’ set to play in competition in Critics’ Week at Venice.
Chinese sales agent Parallax Films has boarded actor Lee Hong-Chi’s directorial debut Love Is A Gun, ahead of its premiere at Venice, and Liang Ming’s Carefree Days, the opening film of San Sebastian’s New Directors strand.
Love Is A Gun, also starring and written by Lee, follows a young man who is determined to start afresh after getting out of jail, but his turbulent past comes back to haunt him, including a gun of which he cannot get rid.
It will premiere in...
Chinese sales agent Parallax Films has boarded actor Lee Hong-Chi’s directorial debut Love Is A Gun, ahead of its premiere at Venice, and Liang Ming’s Carefree Days, the opening film of San Sebastian’s New Directors strand.
Love Is A Gun, also starring and written by Lee, follows a young man who is determined to start afresh after getting out of jail, but his turbulent past comes back to haunt him, including a gun of which he cannot get rid.
It will premiere in...
- 8/11/2023
- by Silvia Wong
- ScreenDaily
Germany’s biggest local star has been accused of assault and drunkenness in Der Speigel report.
Leading German production company Constantin Film has launched an investigation into allegations of abuse and bullying by Til Schweiger, one of the country’s biggest actor-directors, during the shoot of Constantin’s hit feature Manta Manta 2.
The company has contracted an independent law film to conduct an external compliance analysis following a report by German weekly news magazine Der Spiegel that, among other things, Schweiger had been intoxicated on set on several occasions, had assaulted a staff member of Constantin Film, and forced a...
Leading German production company Constantin Film has launched an investigation into allegations of abuse and bullying by Til Schweiger, one of the country’s biggest actor-directors, during the shoot of Constantin’s hit feature Manta Manta 2.
The company has contracted an independent law film to conduct an external compliance analysis following a report by German weekly news magazine Der Spiegel that, among other things, Schweiger had been intoxicated on set on several occasions, had assaulted a staff member of Constantin Film, and forced a...
- 5/9/2023
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
China, 2003. Society is restless with excitement; everyone is eager to prove themselves. The Internet has yet to take over. Newspaper is king. Bright-eyed and bushy-tailed journalism intern Han Dong (Bai Ke) decides to change the fate of 100 million people with a single article. This film is inspired by true events. (Source: Venice International Film Festival 2020)
The movie premiered at the 77th Venice International Film Festival on September 8, 2020. It is finally scheduled for a theatrical release in China on March 24, 2023.
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77th Venice Film Review: The Best is Yet to Come (2020) by Wang Jing...
The movie premiered at the 77th Venice International Film Festival on September 8, 2020. It is finally scheduled for a theatrical release in China on March 24, 2023.
Check the film review
77th Venice Film Review: The Best is Yet to Come (2020) by Wang Jing...
- 3/25/2023
- by Suzie Cho
- AsianMoviePulse
[Warning: The below contains Major spoilers for the Chesapeake Shores Season 6 premiere “The Best Is Yet to Come.”] After a brief misunderstanding — check your voicemail, Evan (Robert Buckley)! — we not only found out Abby’s (Meghan Ory) choice, but we also saw them on their first date! The Chesapeake Shores Season 6 premiere ended with Evan showing up at the O’Briens with a yacht for his and Abby’s first date. But the night wouldn’t end with a kiss — impulsiveness has wrecked his past relationships, just ask Scarlett Johansson. But that moment is coming, “when it’s time,” they agree. Elsewhere in the episode, Connor (Andrew Francis) begins his recovery following his heart attack, and Mick (Treat Williams) has us worried as he continues to pop painkillers. Executive producer Phoef Sutton teases what’s next as we prepare to say goodbye to the O’Brien family. Talk about deciding Abby’s choice, especially since you’re looking...
- 8/15/2022
- TV Insider
Paris and Mumbai-based production service company La Fabrique Films is looking forward to a further surge in business in the wake of new Indian filming incentives that were announced in Cannes.
International productions filming in India can be reimbursed up to 35 of qualifying production spend in the country.
La Fabrique, which specializes in European films shooting in India, has been operational since 2013 and films they have provided production services for include “Les Cowboys,” “The Best Is Yet to Come” and “And Tomorrow We Will Be Dead.” La Fabrique has just wrapped work on Laetitia Colombani’s “The Braid” and company principals Déborah Benattar and Javed Wani are currently attending the Cannes Film Market.
The initial reimbursement for international shoots in India is 30, which can go up by an additional 5 for productions employing 15 or more manpower in India.
“The incentives will be a great advantage for foreign producers who decide to...
International productions filming in India can be reimbursed up to 35 of qualifying production spend in the country.
La Fabrique, which specializes in European films shooting in India, has been operational since 2013 and films they have provided production services for include “Les Cowboys,” “The Best Is Yet to Come” and “And Tomorrow We Will Be Dead.” La Fabrique has just wrapped work on Laetitia Colombani’s “The Braid” and company principals Déborah Benattar and Javed Wani are currently attending the Cannes Film Market.
The initial reimbursement for international shoots in India is 30, which can go up by an additional 5 for productions employing 15 or more manpower in India.
“The incentives will be a great advantage for foreign producers who decide to...
- 5/22/2022
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Matthieu Laclau is a French editor who has been working in China since 2008. He studied Film Theory in Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle and received his Master’s degree in 2008. He’s currently living in Taipei. In 2013, he won the Golden Horse Best Editing for ‘A Touch Of Sin’ directed by Jia Zhang-ke and in 2017, the American Chlotrudis Awards Best Editing for ‘Mountains May Depart’ directed by Jia Zhang-ke. Both films were selected in Cannes Film Festival (Competition) and ‘A Touch Of Sin’ won the Best Screenplay.
Since then, he edited ‘Ash Is Purest White’ by Jia Zhang-ke (Cannes Film Festival / Competition), “The Wild Goose Lake” directed by Diao Yinan (Cannes Film Festival / Competition), “Nina Wu” directed by Midi Z (Cannes Film Festival / Un Certain Regard), “The Best Is Yet to Come” directed by Wang Jing (Venice Film Festival / Orrizonti).
We speak with him about the path that led him to edit film in China,...
Since then, he edited ‘Ash Is Purest White’ by Jia Zhang-ke (Cannes Film Festival / Competition), “The Wild Goose Lake” directed by Diao Yinan (Cannes Film Festival / Competition), “Nina Wu” directed by Midi Z (Cannes Film Festival / Un Certain Regard), “The Best Is Yet to Come” directed by Wang Jing (Venice Film Festival / Orrizonti).
We speak with him about the path that led him to edit film in China,...
- 5/12/2022
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
This article contains spoilers for “Winning Time” Episode 3.
“Truth is terrific, reality is even better, but believability is best of all.” That’s what the screenwriter and author William Goldman once said when describing why it’s sometimes necessary to downplay the details of a true story. Paradoxically, the truth might be too incredible to seem true.
That’s why the wildest anecdote yet to be showcased in HBO’s “Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty” – the murder of Vic Weiss – is likely to raise some questions.
As writer and executive producer Max Borenstein told TheWrap, “Our rule going in was, for the things that are going to make the audience’s jaws drop and think, ‘Wait, this couldn’t possibly have happened’ – those things had to be true one hundred percent and we followed that rule in the case of Vic Weiss.”
“Because you can’t go...
“Truth is terrific, reality is even better, but believability is best of all.” That’s what the screenwriter and author William Goldman once said when describing why it’s sometimes necessary to downplay the details of a true story. Paradoxically, the truth might be too incredible to seem true.
That’s why the wildest anecdote yet to be showcased in HBO’s “Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty” – the murder of Vic Weiss – is likely to raise some questions.
As writer and executive producer Max Borenstein told TheWrap, “Our rule going in was, for the things that are going to make the audience’s jaws drop and think, ‘Wait, this couldn’t possibly have happened’ – those things had to be true one hundred percent and we followed that rule in the case of Vic Weiss.”
“Because you can’t go...
- 3/21/2022
- by Harper Lambert and Jolie Lash
- The Wrap
Jerry Douglas, the actor best known for playing patriarch John Abbott on the long-running soap opera “The Young and the Restless,” died Nov. 9 in Los Angeles after a brief illness. He was 88.
Douglas was a mainstay of CBS’ top-rated daytime serial for more than 30 years in the role of the square-jawed cosmetics magnate and pillar of “Y&r’s” fictional Genoa City. He also racked up dozens of TV guests shots and supporting roles in movies over his long career, ranging from “The Bionic Woman,” “Barnaby Jones” and “The Streets of San Francisco” to “Arrested Development,” “Cold Case” and “Melrose Place.”
Douglas was a regular on “Y&r” from 1982 to 2006. Even after his character died, Abbott appeared in flashbacks from time to time, most recently in 2006 when he returned as a ghost to guide his children from the afterlife.. “Y&r” has been a mainstay of CBS’ daytime lineup since 1973. The serial topped the 20,000-episode mark last year.
Douglas was a mainstay of CBS’ top-rated daytime serial for more than 30 years in the role of the square-jawed cosmetics magnate and pillar of “Y&r’s” fictional Genoa City. He also racked up dozens of TV guests shots and supporting roles in movies over his long career, ranging from “The Bionic Woman,” “Barnaby Jones” and “The Streets of San Francisco” to “Arrested Development,” “Cold Case” and “Melrose Place.”
Douglas was a regular on “Y&r” from 1982 to 2006. Even after his character died, Abbott appeared in flashbacks from time to time, most recently in 2006 when he returned as a ghost to guide his children from the afterlife.. “Y&r” has been a mainstay of CBS’ daytime lineup since 1973. The serial topped the 20,000-episode mark last year.
- 11/11/2021
- by Katie Song
- Variety Film + TV
Jerry Douglas, who played patriarch John Abbott on CBS’ The Young and the Restless for more than 30 years, died November 9 after a brief illness, his family announced Wednesday. He was 88.
Born Jerry Rubenstein on November 12, 1932, in Chelsea, Ma, Douglas launched his acting career upon graduating from Brandeis University, studying acting with Uta Hagen in New York and Jeff Corey in Los Angeles.
He joined the cast of The Young and the Restless in March 1982 as John Abbott, patriarch of the Abbott family and wealthy chairman of Jabot Cosmetics. When viewers first met him, he was a single father helping children Jack, Ashley and Traci navigate adulthood.
In later years, John Abbott wed Jill Foster and they had a son, Billy. John also had several romantic reunions with estranged ex-wife, Dina Mergeron.
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John Abbott was a mainstay in Genoa City until the...
Born Jerry Rubenstein on November 12, 1932, in Chelsea, Ma, Douglas launched his acting career upon graduating from Brandeis University, studying acting with Uta Hagen in New York and Jeff Corey in Los Angeles.
He joined the cast of The Young and the Restless in March 1982 as John Abbott, patriarch of the Abbott family and wealthy chairman of Jabot Cosmetics. When viewers first met him, he was a single father helping children Jack, Ashley and Traci navigate adulthood.
In later years, John Abbott wed Jill Foster and they had a son, Billy. John also had several romantic reunions with estranged ex-wife, Dina Mergeron.
Showbiz & Media Figures We’ve Lost In 2021 – Photo Gallery
John Abbott was a mainstay in Genoa City until the...
- 11/11/2021
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Renée Zellweger has come attached to star in The Back Nine, a comedy that Sex and the City’s Michael Patrick King will direct from a script he wrote with Jhoni Marchinko and Krista Smith. The film is set at Landline Pictures, the new label of MRC Film formed by Amy Baer, the former senior executive at Sony Pictures and CBS Films.
Baer will make this her first film, and she will produce with King. Zellweger and Carmella Casinelli will be executive producers for Big Picture Co., along with Marchinko and Smith.
Zellweger, who is coming off the Best Actress Oscar win for Judy, plays Casey Jones, who gave up a golf career so that her husband could have one. When she wakes up one morning to find her 25-year old marriage in free fall and her son off to college, she dusts off the clubs she tossed aside...
Baer will make this her first film, and she will produce with King. Zellweger and Carmella Casinelli will be executive producers for Big Picture Co., along with Marchinko and Smith.
Zellweger, who is coming off the Best Actress Oscar win for Judy, plays Casey Jones, who gave up a golf career so that her husband could have one. When she wakes up one morning to find her 25-year old marriage in free fall and her son off to college, she dusts off the clubs she tossed aside...
- 4/14/2021
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
MRC Film has launched Landline Pictures, a new label targeting audiences over 50. Veteran producer Amy Baer has been tapped to lead the new venture.
According to a release announcing the news, Landline Pictures “will focus on uplifting and entertaining stories that are about and targeting the over 50 demographic, yet commercial and conceptual enough to cross over to a broader audience.”
Baer, who will report to MRC Film Co-Presidents Brye Adler and Jonathan Golfman, will oversee Landline Pictures’ creative and strategic agenda and serve in a producer capacity on all the label’s projects, with the goal to generate multiple films per year for both theatrical and streaming distribution.
“Amy is a total pro’s pro and we are proud to be partnered with her on this venture. There is a huge opportunity to make humorous and thoughtful movies for this underserved audience,” Adler and Golfman said, announcing the new venture and Baer’s appointment.
According to a release announcing the news, Landline Pictures “will focus on uplifting and entertaining stories that are about and targeting the over 50 demographic, yet commercial and conceptual enough to cross over to a broader audience.”
Baer, who will report to MRC Film Co-Presidents Brye Adler and Jonathan Golfman, will oversee Landline Pictures’ creative and strategic agenda and serve in a producer capacity on all the label’s projects, with the goal to generate multiple films per year for both theatrical and streaming distribution.
“Amy is a total pro’s pro and we are proud to be partnered with her on this venture. There is a huge opportunity to make humorous and thoughtful movies for this underserved audience,” Adler and Golfman said, announcing the new venture and Baer’s appointment.
- 4/5/2021
- by Angelique Jackson
- Variety Film + TV
Other winners included Russian drama ‘Conference’ and Egyptian documentary ‘Lift Like A Girl’.
Ben Sharrock’s UK drama Limbo was awarded three top prizes at the Cairo International Film Festival (Ciff) on Thursday, including the Golden Pyramid for best film.
The asylum seeker drama, which received a Cannes 2020 label and world premiered at Toronto, also won the Henry Barakat award for best artistic contribution and the Fipresci critics award. It follows a best film win at the Macao international film festival in China earlier this week.
The 47th edition of the festival, which took place as a physical event in the Egyptian capital,...
Ben Sharrock’s UK drama Limbo was awarded three top prizes at the Cairo International Film Festival (Ciff) on Thursday, including the Golden Pyramid for best film.
The asylum seeker drama, which received a Cannes 2020 label and world premiered at Toronto, also won the Henry Barakat award for best artistic contribution and the Fipresci critics award. It follows a best film win at the Macao international film festival in China earlier this week.
The 47th edition of the festival, which took place as a physical event in the Egyptian capital,...
- 12/11/2020
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
British film “Limbo,” a wry refugee drama, directed by Edinburgh-born director Ben Sharrock and produced by Spain’s Irune Gurtubai, won the Golden Pyramid for best film at the Cairo Film Festival on Thursday.
Told in a pleasing deadpan style, “Limbo” recounts the story of a Syrian musician, played by the BIFA nominated rising star Amir El-Masry, who is placed on a Scottish island when awaiting his request for asylum to be processed. The film, which recently picked up the top prize at the Macau Film Festival, also picked up Cairo’s Henry Barakat Award for best artistic contribution. The film, sold by Protagonist Pictures and staged by Caravan Cinema and presented by Film 4, Screen Scotland and BFI, also took home the Fipresci award.
Russian director Alexander Sokurov was president of the seven-person jury, featuring German director Burhan Qurbani, Egyptian producer Gaby Khoury, Mexican actress Naian Gonzalez Norvind, Brazilian director Karim Ainouz,...
Told in a pleasing deadpan style, “Limbo” recounts the story of a Syrian musician, played by the BIFA nominated rising star Amir El-Masry, who is placed on a Scottish island when awaiting his request for asylum to be processed. The film, which recently picked up the top prize at the Macau Film Festival, also picked up Cairo’s Henry Barakat Award for best artistic contribution. The film, sold by Protagonist Pictures and staged by Caravan Cinema and presented by Film 4, Screen Scotland and BFI, also took home the Fipresci award.
Russian director Alexander Sokurov was president of the seven-person jury, featuring German director Burhan Qurbani, Egyptian producer Gaby Khoury, Mexican actress Naian Gonzalez Norvind, Brazilian director Karim Ainouz,...
- 12/10/2020
- by Kaleem Aftab
- Variety Film + TV
‘Normal People’ star Paul Mescal will play the male lead in Benjamin Millepied’s film “Carmen,” a modern-day reimagining of one of the world’s most celebrated operas. Mescal will star opposite Melissa Barrera (“Vida”), who will play the titular role of Carmen.
Mescal replaces “Fifty Shades” star Jamie Dornan, who was previously attached to the role.
“Carmen” will mark the feature debut of Millepied, a former principal dancer from the New York City Ballet who choreographed Darren Aronofsky’s “Black Swan.”
The adaptation was penned by Oscar-winning screenwriter Alexander Dinelaris Jr (“Birdman”), together with Millepied and Loic Barrère.
Dimitri Rassam is financing and producing via his banner Chapter 2, a Mediawan company, together with Rosemary Blight at Goalpost Pictures, one of Australia’s most dynamic independent film companies. TF1 Studio is co-producing and handling worldwide sales.
The movie will start shooting on Jan. 18 in Australia for seven weeks. Goalpost Pictures will handle the production locally.
Mescal replaces “Fifty Shades” star Jamie Dornan, who was previously attached to the role.
“Carmen” will mark the feature debut of Millepied, a former principal dancer from the New York City Ballet who choreographed Darren Aronofsky’s “Black Swan.”
The adaptation was penned by Oscar-winning screenwriter Alexander Dinelaris Jr (“Birdman”), together with Millepied and Loic Barrère.
Dimitri Rassam is financing and producing via his banner Chapter 2, a Mediawan company, together with Rosemary Blight at Goalpost Pictures, one of Australia’s most dynamic independent film companies. TF1 Studio is co-producing and handling worldwide sales.
The movie will start shooting on Jan. 18 in Australia for seven weeks. Goalpost Pictures will handle the production locally.
- 11/11/2020
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Cash prizes for best film in the Roberto Rossellini and Fei Mu awards are split between the director and the winners’ Chinese distributor.
Russian director Philipp Yuryev’s The Whaler Boy was awarded best film in the Roberto Rossellini Awards at this year’s Pingyao International Film Festival, while Chinese filmmaker Li Dongmei’s Mama took best film in the Fei Mu Awards.
The Roberto Rossellini Awards are presented to films in the festival’s Crouching Tigers section (international directorial debuts or second features), while the Fei Mu Awards are for debut and second Chinese-language features in both the Crouching Tigers and Hidden Dragons sections.
Russian director Philipp Yuryev’s The Whaler Boy was awarded best film in the Roberto Rossellini Awards at this year’s Pingyao International Film Festival, while Chinese filmmaker Li Dongmei’s Mama took best film in the Fei Mu Awards.
The Roberto Rossellini Awards are presented to films in the festival’s Crouching Tigers section (international directorial debuts or second features), while the Fei Mu Awards are for debut and second Chinese-language features in both the Crouching Tigers and Hidden Dragons sections.
- 10/19/2020
- by Liz Shackleton
- ScreenDaily
The competition section of China’s Pingyao Intl. Film Festival on Friday awarded top prizes to Russia’s Philipp Yuryev, Serbia’s Ivan Ilkic, and Chinese directors Li Dongmei and Wang Jing. The films of the first three helmers debuted at the Venice Film Festival’s independently run Venice Days section in September, where Yuryev’s “The Whaler Boy” won the top prize.
Screenings are still ongoing at the Chinese festival in the central Chinese province of Shanxi, co-founded by Chinese helmer Jia Zhangke and former Venice head Marco Muller, whose full line-up of 63 films runs from Oct. 10 to 19. Few international guests attended, as China continues to limit travel into the country and requires a 14-day quarantine period for new arrivals.
The Robert Rossellini Awards are a set of prizes given to the dozen international directorial debuts or second features in the “Crouching Tigers” section.
“The Whaler Boy” from Philipp...
Screenings are still ongoing at the Chinese festival in the central Chinese province of Shanxi, co-founded by Chinese helmer Jia Zhangke and former Venice head Marco Muller, whose full line-up of 63 films runs from Oct. 10 to 19. Few international guests attended, as China continues to limit travel into the country and requires a 14-day quarantine period for new arrivals.
The Robert Rossellini Awards are a set of prizes given to the dozen international directorial debuts or second features in the “Crouching Tigers” section.
“The Whaler Boy” from Philipp...
- 10/17/2020
- by Rebecca Davis
- Variety Film + TV
The Pingyao International Film Festival, founded by Chinese helmer Jia Zhangke and former Venice head Marco Muller, has released its full lineup of global and local films. The selections in the two main sections focus on first or second features.
The festival is set to take place from Oct. 10-19 in the ancient city of Pingyao in central Shanxi province, not far from Jia’s own hometown. Few foreigners will be present, as China continues to maintain travel and quarantine restrictions for those entering the country, despite lifting some measures.
A dozen films are set to compete in the international “Crouching Tigers” section. They include a number of titles that first bowed at Venice: “Residue,” from American director Merawi Gerima, which debuted to a special mention earlier this month in the independent Venice Days section before being picked up by Ava DuVernay’s film company and released on Netflix; “The Book of Vision,...
The festival is set to take place from Oct. 10-19 in the ancient city of Pingyao in central Shanxi province, not far from Jia’s own hometown. Few foreigners will be present, as China continues to maintain travel and quarantine restrictions for those entering the country, despite lifting some measures.
A dozen films are set to compete in the international “Crouching Tigers” section. They include a number of titles that first bowed at Venice: “Residue,” from American director Merawi Gerima, which debuted to a special mention earlier this month in the independent Venice Days section before being picked up by Ava DuVernay’s film company and released on Netflix; “The Book of Vision,...
- 10/6/2020
- by Rebecca Davis
- Variety Film + TV
In Jing Wang’s debut feature film “The Best is Yet to Come”, Jia Zhangke isn’t only listed as the producer, he also slips in one of the episode roles, playing a ruthless, coal-mine owner who puts the families of the people deceased in an accident into their “right place”.
But the film actually addresses the laws dating back from the turn of the millennium, which had a heavy impact on 100 million people in the country. Not new or nearly outdated in many countries that still levitate between dictatorship and democracy, “The Best is Yet to Come” takes on the phenomena of the “healthy nation” that outcasts its vulnerable citizens impacted by infectious diseases, in this concrete case by Hepatitis B.
The film is based on true events that shook the Chinese society when a young amateur journalist Han Fudong (Bai-Ke) uncovered the discriminatory campaign against the carriers to...
But the film actually addresses the laws dating back from the turn of the millennium, which had a heavy impact on 100 million people in the country. Not new or nearly outdated in many countries that still levitate between dictatorship and democracy, “The Best is Yet to Come” takes on the phenomena of the “healthy nation” that outcasts its vulnerable citizens impacted by infectious diseases, in this concrete case by Hepatitis B.
The film is based on true events that shook the Chinese society when a young amateur journalist Han Fudong (Bai-Ke) uncovered the discriminatory campaign against the carriers to...
- 10/1/2020
- by Marina D. Richter
- AsianMoviePulse
The festival will open with Sun Hong’s This Is Life, while Zhang Yang’s So Far So Close will screen as the Special Presentation.
Pingyao International Film Festival (Pyiff) has unveiled the full line-up for its fourth edition (October 10-19), which like many Asian festivals during the Covid-19 pandemic is taking place as a physical event without international guests.
The festival’s opening film and Special Presentation are both world premieres of Chinese productions – Sun Hong’s This Is Life will open the festival, while Zhang Yang’s So Far So Close will screen as the Special Presentation title...
Pingyao International Film Festival (Pyiff) has unveiled the full line-up for its fourth edition (October 10-19), which like many Asian festivals during the Covid-19 pandemic is taking place as a physical event without international guests.
The festival’s opening film and Special Presentation are both world premieres of Chinese productions – Sun Hong’s This Is Life will open the festival, while Zhang Yang’s So Far So Close will screen as the Special Presentation title...
- 10/1/2020
- by Liz Shackleton
- ScreenDaily
Li’s third film premiered in competition at this year’s Shanghai International Film Festival.
Beijing-based sales agent Rediance has picked up international rights to Li Xiaofeng’s Back To The Wharf, which premiered in competition at this year’s Shanghai International Film Festival.
Executive produced by leading actor/producer Huang Bo, the film revolves around a former top high school student returning to the hometown he left 15 years ago following an accident. After meeting an old classmate, he decides to face the wounds of the past and take back control of his life.
Starring Zhang Yu (An Elephant Sitting Still...
Beijing-based sales agent Rediance has picked up international rights to Li Xiaofeng’s Back To The Wharf, which premiered in competition at this year’s Shanghai International Film Festival.
Executive produced by leading actor/producer Huang Bo, the film revolves around a former top high school student returning to the hometown he left 15 years ago following an accident. After meeting an old classmate, he decides to face the wounds of the past and take back control of his life.
Starring Zhang Yu (An Elephant Sitting Still...
- 9/28/2020
- by Liz Shackleton
- ScreenDaily
There are still idealistic young writers out there aiming to transform the world, at least in China, and the newsroom drama The Best Is Yet to Come (Bu zhi bu xiu) catches the viewer up in the fast-paced story of an untutored youth from the provinces who breaks a scoop on hepatitis B. It’s entertaining to see made-in-Hollywood genre codes from All the President’s Men to The Post reworked in the exotic setting of a big Beijing daily during the heyday of print journalism, in a country one normally doesn’t associate with investigative reporting. Wang Jing’s rousing directing debut, shot in rough ...
- 9/13/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
‘The Best Is Yet to Come’ Is A Messy, But Affecting Look At Post-Pandemic Journalism [Venice Review]
Mining the well-worn tropes of the crusading journalist, Jing Wang’s “The Best is Yet to Come” is an investigatory look at Beijing in the aftermath of the Sars epidemic. Taking place in 2003, the film follows aspiring journalist Han Dong (Bai-Ke), as he hustles his way into an internship at the prestigious Jingcheng Daily and eventually lands on a possible front-page story, before being torn between his loyalty between journalistic ethics and a friend whose future might be jeopardized by Dong’s reporting.
Read More: 2020 Venice Film Festival Preview: All The Must-See Films To Watch
While scattershot in its narrative approach (it takes over an hour before the actual plot clarifies), Jing’s feature debut is an affecting dive into the post-pandemic anxiety that swelled through Beijing, as Dong stumbles upon a bombshell story of Hepatitis B patients paying for forged medical records in order to land jobs in a...
Read More: 2020 Venice Film Festival Preview: All The Must-See Films To Watch
While scattershot in its narrative approach (it takes over an hour before the actual plot clarifies), Jing’s feature debut is an affecting dive into the post-pandemic anxiety that swelled through Beijing, as Dong stumbles upon a bombshell story of Hepatitis B patients paying for forged medical records in order to land jobs in a...
- 9/10/2020
- by Christian Gallichio
- The Playlist
A film about an infection and the upset, paranoia, and unease that follows is, well, tailor-made for right now. There is no better time, then, to see director Jin Wang’s The Best Is Yet to Come, a selection at both the 2020 Venice Film Festival and the Toronto International Film Festival. It is a complex study of the illegal blood trade that helped hepatitis B carriers circumvent the discrimination they faced when seeking jobs and applying for school in early-2000s Beijing. While there is not a direct correlation to the Covid-19 pandemic, it is impossible not to make connections between both the story itself and even its creation. As Wang explains in the film’s press notes, “Due to the pandemic, post-production took place online. The editor and I were 1300km apart. Distance sparks reflection.”
The Best Is Yet to Come is the feature directorial debut from Wang, who...
The Best Is Yet to Come is the feature directorial debut from Wang, who...
- 9/10/2020
- by Christopher Schobert
- The Film Stage
Disease Beat: Jing Revisits the Turn of the Century with Saccharine Debut
Whenever the protégé of a major contemporary auteur branches out into their own cinematic endeavor, it becomes an immediate item of interest, and such is the initial major selling point of The Best Is Yet to Come, the directorial debut of Wang Jing, who worked as an assistant director on the last three features from Jia Zhang-ke (A Touch of Sin; Mountains May Depart; Ash is Purest White). Zhang-ke himself provides a producer credit on the feature (and also appears in cameo on-screen), and even as the narrative would suggest this to be subject matter in the vein of Zhang-ke’s wheelhouse, who has turned to genre-tinged narratives of late in deliberations on contemporary issues facing China’s working class, such comparisons are short-lived.…...
Whenever the protégé of a major contemporary auteur branches out into their own cinematic endeavor, it becomes an immediate item of interest, and such is the initial major selling point of The Best Is Yet to Come, the directorial debut of Wang Jing, who worked as an assistant director on the last three features from Jia Zhang-ke (A Touch of Sin; Mountains May Depart; Ash is Purest White). Zhang-ke himself provides a producer credit on the feature (and also appears in cameo on-screen), and even as the narrative would suggest this to be subject matter in the vein of Zhang-ke’s wheelhouse, who has turned to genre-tinged narratives of late in deliberations on contemporary issues facing China’s working class, such comparisons are short-lived.…...
- 9/10/2020
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
First-time director Jing Wang sees the pain that his mentor Jia Zhangke has experienced on the movie set as motivation for his filmmaking journey. The perfection, precision and attention to details that he aspires to in his directorial debut “The Best Is Yet to Come” are the fruits born from being on the set with the Chinese auteur.
Wang, who has worked as assistant director on Jia’s “Ash Is Purest White,” “Mountains May Depart” and “Touch of Sin,” recalls that the director would sometimes get furious on the set over what was seen as something very minor, such as a prop letter without a stamp chop, or a tiny maltreatment of an actor’s costume.
“He blasted on the set, telling the crew that he did not want any irreversible mistakes to stay in this film should this film live and be revisited by people in the future. It...
Wang, who has worked as assistant director on Jia’s “Ash Is Purest White,” “Mountains May Depart” and “Touch of Sin,” recalls that the director would sometimes get furious on the set over what was seen as something very minor, such as a prop letter without a stamp chop, or a tiny maltreatment of an actor’s costume.
“He blasted on the set, telling the crew that he did not want any irreversible mistakes to stay in this film should this film live and be revisited by people in the future. It...
- 9/9/2020
- by Vivienne Chow
- Variety Film + TV
In the aftermath of a crisis, even the most rigid and socially immobilized of countries are vulnerable to a certain degree of tumult; a major breakdown of any kind always provide opportunists with a chance to change things (for themselves and/or for others) before society hardens back into a less porous state. The Sars epidemic, for example, created any number of tiny fractures in the Chinese economy, and the first scene of “The Best Is Yet to Come” finds a massive throng of people descending upon a Beijing job fair in the hopes of filling them.
The year is 2003 — a time that one columnist dubbed the “Age of Ambition” — and all of Beijing is suddenly buzzing with the sense that anything is now possible. But individual change is hard to come by in a nation of billions; under the surface and behind the scenes, hopes for a brighter tomorrow...
The year is 2003 — a time that one columnist dubbed the “Age of Ambition” — and all of Beijing is suddenly buzzing with the sense that anything is now possible. But individual change is hard to come by in a nation of billions; under the surface and behind the scenes, hopes for a brighter tomorrow...
- 9/9/2020
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
The early-2000s was an interesting time in the world of journalism. With the internet becoming more and more ubiquitous by the day, that era saw the beginning of the shift from traditional newspaper/magazine journalism to a younger generation of hungry writers looking to use technology to their advantage. It’s that era of journalism that is highlighted in the upcoming feature, “The Best Is Yet To Come” from Chinese filmmaker Jing Wang.
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- 9/8/2020
- by Charles Barfield
- The Playlist
"Our duty is to report the facts accurately." A festival promo trailer has debuted for a Chinese indie drama titled The Best Is Yet To Come, marking the feature directorial debut of filmmaker Jing Wang. This is premiering at the Venice Film Festival this month, then will play at the Toronto Film Festival. Set in Beijing in 2003. Society is restless with excitement; everyone is eager to prove themselves. The internet has yet to take over. Newspaper is king. Bright-eyed and bushy-tailed journalism intern Han Dong decides to change the fate of 100 million people with a single article. This film is inspired by true events. Jing Wang worked as an assistant director for Jia Zhangke for years, who states that "[Jing Wang's] perspective on the world is determined and twofold: the change of the world depends on the efforts of every individual, and the vitality of cinema lies in the continuation of consciousness.
- 9/8/2020
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
A young Chinese journalist battles corruption, state power, and his own conscience in The Best is Yet to Come, the debut feature from Chinese director Jing Wang.
The drama, which premieres in the Orizzonti section of the Venice Film Festival on Wednesday, before moving on to Toronto’s Discovery sidebar, is set in 2003 in the aftermath of the Sars epidemic in China. 26-year-old middle school dropout and cub investigative reporter Han Dong (Bai-Ke) discovers evidence of medical fraud connected to the crisis. Publishing the story will win him a permanent job at his paper, but could have nasty repercussions for ...
The drama, which premieres in the Orizzonti section of the Venice Film Festival on Wednesday, before moving on to Toronto’s Discovery sidebar, is set in 2003 in the aftermath of the Sars epidemic in China. 26-year-old middle school dropout and cub investigative reporter Han Dong (Bai-Ke) discovers evidence of medical fraud connected to the crisis. Publishing the story will win him a permanent job at his paper, but could have nasty repercussions for ...
A young Chinese journalist battles corruption, state power, and his own conscience in The Best is Yet to Come, the debut feature from Chinese director Jing Wang.
The drama, which premieres in the Orizzonti section of the Venice Film Festival on Wednesday, before moving on to Toronto’s Discovery sidebar, is set in 2003 in the aftermath of the Sars epidemic in China. 26-year-old middle school dropout and cub investigative reporter Han Dong (White K) discovers evidence of medical fraud. Publishing the story will win him a permanent job at his paper, but could have nasty repercussions for millions.
In the ...
The drama, which premieres in the Orizzonti section of the Venice Film Festival on Wednesday, before moving on to Toronto’s Discovery sidebar, is set in 2003 in the aftermath of the Sars epidemic in China. 26-year-old middle school dropout and cub investigative reporter Han Dong (White K) discovers evidence of medical fraud. Publishing the story will win him a permanent job at his paper, but could have nasty repercussions for millions.
In the ...
Produced by Jia Zhangke, the film follows an aspiring journalist facing a moral dilemma while investigating a story.
Beijing-based sales agent Rediance has picked up international rights to Wang Jing’s debut feature, The Best Is Yet To Come, which has been selected for the Orizzonti Competition of Venice Film Festival as well as Toronto International Film Festival.
Produced by Jia Zhangke, the film is set in Beijing 17 years ago and tells the story of an aspiring journalist who faces a huge career dilemma while investigating a story about carriers of Hepatitis B.
Wang was born in Taiyuan, capital of Shanxi Province,...
Beijing-based sales agent Rediance has picked up international rights to Wang Jing’s debut feature, The Best Is Yet To Come, which has been selected for the Orizzonti Competition of Venice Film Festival as well as Toronto International Film Festival.
Produced by Jia Zhangke, the film is set in Beijing 17 years ago and tells the story of an aspiring journalist who faces a huge career dilemma while investigating a story about carriers of Hepatitis B.
Wang was born in Taiyuan, capital of Shanxi Province,...
- 8/7/2020
- by 89¦Liz Shackleton¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
Wife of a SpyThe programme for the 2020 edition of the Venice Film Festival has been unveiled, and includes new films from Gia Coppola, Lav Diaz, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Alice Rohrwacher, Gianfranco Rosi, Frederick Wiseman, Chloé Zhao, and more.COMPETITIONIn Between Dying (Hilal Baydarov)Le sorelle Macluso (Emma Dante)The World to Come (Mona Fastvold)Nuevo Orden (Michel Franco)Lovers (Nicole Garcia)Laila in Haifa (Amos Gitai)Dear Comrades (Andrei Konchalovsky)Wife of a Spy (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)Sun Children (Majid Majidi)Pieces of a Woman (Kornél Mundruczó)Miss Marx (Susanna Nicchiarelli)Padrenostro (Claudio Noce)Notturno (Gianfranco Rosi)Never Gonna Snow AgainThe Disciple (Chaitanya Tamhane)And Tomorrow The Entire World (Julia Von Heinz)Quo Vadis, Aida? (Jasmila Zbanic)Nomadland (Chloé Zhao)Out Of COMPETITIONFeaturesThe Ties (Daniele Luchetti)Lasciami Andare (Stefano Mordini)Mandibules (Quentin Dupieux)Love After Love (Ann Hui)Assandria (Salvatore Mereu)The Duke (Roger Michell)Night in Paradise (Park Hoon-jung)Mosquito...
- 8/3/2020
- MUBI
The 77th Venice International Film Festival is one of the first “big” Festivals that will open its physical doors after the Covid-19 pandemic. The Festival is organised by La Biennale di Venezia and directed by Alberto Barbera; it will take place at Venice Lido from 2 – 12 September 2020.
Here are all the Asian Titles on the Programme:
Competition/Venezia 77
“In Between Dying” by Hilal Baydarov
“Laila In Haifa” by Amos Gitai
“Wife of a Spy” by Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Japan)
“Sun Children” by Majid Majidi (Iran)
“The Disciple” by Chaitanya Tamhane (India)
“Nomadland” by Chloe Zhao (USA)
Out of Competition (Fiction)
“Love After Love” by Ann Hui (China)
“Night in Paradise” by Park Hoon-Jung (South Korea)
Horizons
“Milestone” by Ivan Ayr (India)
“The Wasteland” by Ahmad Bahrami (Iran)
“Genus Pan” by Lav Diaz (Philippines)
“Careless Crime” by Shahram Mokri (Iran)
“Gaza Mon Amour” by Tarzan Nasser and Arab Nasser (Palestine/Qatar)
“The Best Is Yet to Come...
Here are all the Asian Titles on the Programme:
Competition/Venezia 77
“In Between Dying” by Hilal Baydarov
“Laila In Haifa” by Amos Gitai
“Wife of a Spy” by Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Japan)
“Sun Children” by Majid Majidi (Iran)
“The Disciple” by Chaitanya Tamhane (India)
“Nomadland” by Chloe Zhao (USA)
Out of Competition (Fiction)
“Love After Love” by Ann Hui (China)
“Night in Paradise” by Park Hoon-Jung (South Korea)
Horizons
“Milestone” by Ivan Ayr (India)
“The Wasteland” by Ahmad Bahrami (Iran)
“Genus Pan” by Lav Diaz (Philippines)
“Careless Crime” by Shahram Mokri (Iran)
“Gaza Mon Amour” by Tarzan Nasser and Arab Nasser (Palestine/Qatar)
“The Best Is Yet to Come...
- 7/31/2020
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
The 45th edition of the Toronto Film Festival is still very much a go, although made up of a reduced programme. After announcing that Spike Lee’s filmed version of the Broadway-acclaimed David Byrne’s ‘American Utopia’ will open the festival the full line-up has now been released.
Taking place between September 10 – 19, the festival will see the first 5 days made up of physical screenings. The program will also be made up of drive-ins, digital screenings, virtual red carpets, press conferences, industry talks.
The highlights of this year’s festival will include ‘God’s Own Country’ helmer Francis Lee’s ‘Ammonite,’Chloe Zhao’s ‘Nomadland,’ Florian Zeller’s ‘The Father’ and Werner Herzog’s doco “Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds as well as films directed by Regina King, Viggo Mortensen and Halle Berry.
Also in news – Netflix release first look images from Ryan Murphy’s ‘Ratched’
See the full line-up below;
“180 Degree...
Taking place between September 10 – 19, the festival will see the first 5 days made up of physical screenings. The program will also be made up of drive-ins, digital screenings, virtual red carpets, press conferences, industry talks.
The highlights of this year’s festival will include ‘God’s Own Country’ helmer Francis Lee’s ‘Ammonite,’Chloe Zhao’s ‘Nomadland,’ Florian Zeller’s ‘The Father’ and Werner Herzog’s doco “Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds as well as films directed by Regina King, Viggo Mortensen and Halle Berry.
Also in news – Netflix release first look images from Ryan Murphy’s ‘Ratched’
See the full line-up below;
“180 Degree...
- 7/31/2020
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Naomi Watts in ‘Penguin Bloom’ (Photo credit: Hugh Stewart.)
Glendyn Ivin’s Penguin Bloom, the adaptation of Bradley Trevor Greive and Cameron Bloom’s novel starring Naomi Watts, The Walking Dead’s Andrew Lincoln and Jacki Weaver, will have its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival.
The drama produced by Emma Cooper, Watts and Made Up Stories’ Bruna Papandrea, Jodi Matterson and Steve Hutensky is among 50 features in the line-up.
The festival’s 45th edition will run from September 10–19, a combination of physical, socially-distanced screenings, drive-ins, digital screenings, virtual red carpets, press conferences and industry talks.
Penguin Bloom’s selection is another welcome boost for Australian cinema after the news that Roderick MacKay’s The Furnace will have its world premiere in the Horizons section of the Venice International Film Festival.
Scripted by Shaun Grant and Harry Cripps, the film follows Watts as Sam Bloom, a young Sydney...
Glendyn Ivin’s Penguin Bloom, the adaptation of Bradley Trevor Greive and Cameron Bloom’s novel starring Naomi Watts, The Walking Dead’s Andrew Lincoln and Jacki Weaver, will have its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival.
The drama produced by Emma Cooper, Watts and Made Up Stories’ Bruna Papandrea, Jodi Matterson and Steve Hutensky is among 50 features in the line-up.
The festival’s 45th edition will run from September 10–19, a combination of physical, socially-distanced screenings, drive-ins, digital screenings, virtual red carpets, press conferences and industry talks.
Penguin Bloom’s selection is another welcome boost for Australian cinema after the news that Roderick MacKay’s The Furnace will have its world premiere in the Horizons section of the Venice International Film Festival.
Scripted by Shaun Grant and Harry Cripps, the film follows Watts as Sam Bloom, a young Sydney...
- 7/30/2020
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
After unveiling a few of the works that would be at the fest, the Toronto International Film Festival has today releases their full lineup for 2020. Obviously, this comes in the wake of Covid-19 and the coronavirus pandemic changing what film festivals will be like this year. Toronto had already detailed that their festival will be a hybrid of limited in person screenings and virtual ones, but now we have a better idea of what will be playing. At first glance, the fest does seem to have less in the way of overt Oscar bait than usual, but that might be deceiving. After all, the Academy Awards will be picking through a different crop than planned, to begin with, so perhaps TIFF will still debut some major players? Joining the previously announced flicks like Francis Lee’s Ammonite (as well as Chloe Zhao’s Nomadland), Toronto has added movies like Regina King...
- 7/30/2020
- by Joey Magidson
- Hollywoodnews.com
Nicolás Pereda's FaunaToronto International Film Festival have unveiled a dramatically reduced selection of films from their upcoming 2020 edition, including new films by Spike Lee, Nicolás Pereda, Naomi Kawase, and Werner Herzog. The festival's tailored lineup of 50 features, plus five programs of to-be-announced shorts, will screen both physically (for the festival's first five days) and virtually (for the festival's full 10 days.) As previously announced, selected films—such as Chloé Zhao's Nomadland—will premiere in a non-competitive alliance with other major fall festivals in Venice, Telluride, and New York.Opening Night FILMDavid Byrne’s American Utopia (Spike Lee)Closing Night Filma Suitable Boy (Mira Nair)Official SELECTION180 Degree Rule (Farnoosh Samadi)76 Days (Hao Wu, Anonymous, Weixi Chen)Ammonite (Francis Lee)Another Round (Thomas Vinterberg)Bandar Band (Manijeh Hekmat)Beans (Tracey Deer)Beginning (Dea Kulumbegashvili)The Best Is Yet To Come (Wang Jing)Bruised (Halle Berry)City Hall (Frederick Wiseman)Concrete Cowboy...
- 7/30/2020
- MUBI
As announced last month, the Toronto International Film Festival will look quite different this year in the era of Covid-19. Featuring a drastically reduced lineup, physical screenings for only the first half of the festivals, and more changes, the festival has now unveiled their complete feature film lineup.
Along with previously announced films like the opener, Spike Lee’s filmed version of David Byrne’s American Utopia, Francis Lee’s Ammonite, and Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland, the festival also includes directorial debuts by Halle Berry and Regina King as well as new work by Werner Herzog, Mira Nair, Reinaldo Marcus Green, Frederick Wiseman, and more.
“We began this year planning for a 45th Festival much like our previous editions,” said Cameron Bailey, Artistic Director and Co-Head of TIFF, “but along the way we had to rethink just about everything. This year’s lineup reflects that tumult. The names you already...
Along with previously announced films like the opener, Spike Lee’s filmed version of David Byrne’s American Utopia, Francis Lee’s Ammonite, and Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland, the festival also includes directorial debuts by Halle Berry and Regina King as well as new work by Werner Herzog, Mira Nair, Reinaldo Marcus Green, Frederick Wiseman, and more.
“We began this year planning for a 45th Festival much like our previous editions,” said Cameron Bailey, Artistic Director and Co-Head of TIFF, “but along the way we had to rethink just about everything. This year’s lineup reflects that tumult. The names you already...
- 7/30/2020
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
The feature directorial debuts of Halle Berry and Regina King will be part of the lineup at the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival, organizers announced on Thursday.
Berry’s film, “Bruised,” features the actor and director as a mixed martial arts star fighting for custody of her young daughter. King’s “One Night in Miami” is based on a play that fictionalizes a night in 1964 in which boxer Cassius Clay (soon to be Muhammad Ali), singer Sam Cooke, football player Jim Brown and activist Malcolm X met in a Florida hotel room.
Nearly half of the 50 selected features, 23, have a female director or co-director.
Other films among the 50 titles announced by TIFF include Chloé Zhao’s “Nomadland,” a drama from “The Rider” director that stars Frances McDormand; Francis Lee’s “Ammonite,” a female romance set in 1840s England and starring Saoirse Ronan, Kate Winslet and Fiona Shaw; Reinaldo Marcus Green’s “Good Joe Bell,...
Berry’s film, “Bruised,” features the actor and director as a mixed martial arts star fighting for custody of her young daughter. King’s “One Night in Miami” is based on a play that fictionalizes a night in 1964 in which boxer Cassius Clay (soon to be Muhammad Ali), singer Sam Cooke, football player Jim Brown and activist Malcolm X met in a Florida hotel room.
Nearly half of the 50 selected features, 23, have a female director or co-director.
Other films among the 50 titles announced by TIFF include Chloé Zhao’s “Nomadland,” a drama from “The Rider” director that stars Frances McDormand; Francis Lee’s “Ammonite,” a female romance set in 1840s England and starring Saoirse Ronan, Kate Winslet and Fiona Shaw; Reinaldo Marcus Green’s “Good Joe Bell,...
- 7/30/2020
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
The Toronto Film Festival (September 10-19) has revealed the lineup for its hybrid 2020 edition, which has had to be pared back due to the impact of coronavirus.
Joining movies previously announced for the festival are new projects by the likes of Werner Herzog, Regina King, Francois Ozon and Naomi Kawase. Mira Nair’s BBC-Netflix TV series A Suitable Boy has been set as the festival’s closing night event. Scroll down for the list in full.
As revealed earlier this month, the slimmed down festival will open with Spike Lee’s concert movie version of David Byrne show American Utopia. Movies previously announced for Sundance and Venice which are also heading to Toronto include Viggo Mortensen’s Falling, Olivia Colman-Anthony Hopkins starrer The Father, Kornél Mundruczó’s Pieces Of A Woman and Frederick Wiseman’s City Hall. Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland will debut at Toronto and Venice simultaneously.
Joining movies previously announced for the festival are new projects by the likes of Werner Herzog, Regina King, Francois Ozon and Naomi Kawase. Mira Nair’s BBC-Netflix TV series A Suitable Boy has been set as the festival’s closing night event. Scroll down for the list in full.
As revealed earlier this month, the slimmed down festival will open with Spike Lee’s concert movie version of David Byrne show American Utopia. Movies previously announced for Sundance and Venice which are also heading to Toronto include Viggo Mortensen’s Falling, Olivia Colman-Anthony Hopkins starrer The Father, Kornél Mundruczó’s Pieces Of A Woman and Frederick Wiseman’s City Hall. Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland will debut at Toronto and Venice simultaneously.
- 7/30/2020
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
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