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Paul Wall and Termanology are back where they first met, at Brooklyn’s Hub Studios. Before our hourlong conversation starts, various people in their circle shuffle by Termanology’s studio room to greet Wall, the amiable Texan who’s visiting the city to promote the deluxe edition of Start Finish Repeat, their second collaborative project.

Wall is clad in all-black attire, including a Houston Texans hoodie. Lounging on a couch before the interview starts, his demeanor is as chill as his beaming platinum grill looks. Lawrence, Massachusetts, native Termanology is similarly showing hometown pride,...

Exclusive: Alibi Media has snapped up film rights to Juan Gabriel Vásquez’s acclaimed 2014 novel The Sound of Things Falling, tapping House of Gucci screenwriter Roberto Bentivegna to direct the project as his first feature, from his own script.

The novel published by Penguin Group imprint Riverhead Books follows Antonio Yammara, who after being injured in a shootout and witnessing the murder of the mysterious Ricardo Laverde, decides to find out who his friend really was, beginning a journey into the dark heart of Colombia’s drug trade. What follows is an investigation into a dead man’s past, and a pilgrimage to unlock that most elusive thing: the truth.

Widely considered one of the most important Latin American novels of the century, The Sound of Things Falling won Spain’s prestigious Premio Alfaguara in 2011 before going on to win prizes including Italy’s Premio Gregor von Rezzori-Città di Firenze...

Lizzie Borden's Born in Flames (1983) is exclusively showing on Mubi in several countries in the series Rediscovered. This interview took place on May 17, 2021 via Zoom in connection to the Mubi premiere. Into the darkness of the pastWe’ve thrown the shamans of the ruling classThe struggle of the exploitеd massHas broken the oppressors’ lashWе are born in flames.—Red Krayola, “Born in Flames”Honey speaking at the pirate radio station Phoenix Radio in Born in Flames.Notebook: There’s an early scene in Born in Flames of what looks like a consciousness-raising group: women sharing their personal experiences of oppression in a collective setting. How much of the film’s themes came about through group discussions, like the ones in your first film Regrouping (1976)? Or did you approach the film with pre-arranged ideas? Lizzie Borden: Born in Flames was actually a reaction against Regrouping (1976). The original women I...

Project based on New York Times Magazine article The Fight For Gender Equality In One Of The Most Dangerous Sports On Earth.

Producer Charlize Theron, director Niki Caro and Netflix are developing a feature about the battle of four women to compete in big wave surfing.

The project is based on Daniel Duane’s New York Times Magazine article The Fight For Gender Equality In One Of The Most Dangerous Sports On Earth.

The film is inspired by four women in the article – Bianca Valenti, Andrea Moller, Paige Alms, and Keala Kennelly – and follows them as they bond over their shared goal.

Producer Charlize Theron, director Niki Caro and Netflix are developing a feature about the battle of four women to compete in big wave surfing.

The project is based on Daniel Duane’s New York Times Magazine article The Fight For Gender Equality In One Of The Most Dangerous Sports On Earth.

The film is inspired by four women in the article – Bianca Valenti, Andrea Moller, Paige Alms, and Keala Kennelly – and follows them as they bond over their shared goal.

Becky Johnston will adapt the screenplay and producers are Denver and Delilah’s Theron, Aj Dix and Beth Kono, alongside Caro.

Filmmaker Niki Caro and Charlize Theron are teaming up to develop a feature film about women’s fight for equality in big wave surfing for Netflix.

The feature is based on Daniel Duane’s New York Times Magazine article, “The Fight For Gender Equality In One of the Most Dangerous Sports on Earth,” and the four women — Bianca Valenti, Andrea Moller, Paige Alms, Keala Kennelly — who are fighting for the right to compete in big-wave contests.

The four women form a powerful bond as they surf dangerous spots including California’s Maverick’s and Maui’s Jaws while asserting their right to join the male-dominated competitions.

Caro will direct the film, from a screenplay adapted by Becky Johnston, which will focus on the four women’s stories and their powerful bond.

Caro will also produce the film adaptation alongside Theron, Aj Dix and Beth Kono for Denver and Delilah.

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Netflix, Charlize Theron’s Denver and Delilah, and Niki Caro are developing a feature film that is inspired by some of the top female surfers who are fighting for the right to compete in big-wave contests.

Caro, who directed the live-action Mulan feature for Disney, is directing the pic, which is based on the New York Times Magazine article The Fight For Gender Equality In One of the Most Dangerous Sports on Earth by Daniel Duane and the women, Bianca Valenti, Andrea Moller, Paige Alms, and Keala Kennelly.

Becky Johnston is writing the screenplay that will follow four women who form a powerful bond as they surf the world’s most dangerous spots and fight for the right to compete in big-wave contests.

Theron, Aj Dix, and Beth Kono are producing the project for Denver and Delilah alongside Caro.

Caro, whose directorial credits include Whale Rider, McFarland, USA, and The Zookeeper’s Wife,...

Celine Danhier with Joel Coen and Ethan Coen at the table behind us at The Odeon on the evolution of Blank City: "James Nares said 'Let me call Jim Jarmusch.' It was really like that. And then at the same time I had the music scenes and I interviewed Pat Place." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze

Celine Danhier's all-hands-on-deck Blank City, edited to perfection by Vanessa Roworth, enters the world of the No Wave and Cinema of Transgression. We see and hear about the work of Bette Gordon, Casandra Stark Mele, Charlie Ahearn, Michael Oblowitz, Nick Zedd, Sara Driver, Susan Seidelman, Maripol, Patti Astor, Eric Mitchell, Beth B, Vivienne Dick, Vincent Gallo, John Lurie, Steve Buscemi, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Lizzie Borden, Amos Poe, John Waters, James Nares, Jim Jarmusch, Anders Grafstrom, Richard Kern, Ann Magnuson, James Chance, Lydia Lunch, Pat Place, Becky Johnston, Adele Bertei, Scott B, Tommy Turner, Tessa Hughes-Freeland, Kemra Pfahler,...

In the not too distant future, socialism has taken over the U.S., but women still struggle against the established power structures. After a female activist dies in police custody, two rival women radio show hosts battle it out over the airwaves to make sure justice is served.

Starring: Honey, Adele Bertei, Jean Satterfield, Florynce Kennedy, Becky Johnston, Kathryn Bigelow...

Previously on Flavor of Love 3: Prancer won the Total Package Contest, but all that really mattered was a mysterious phone call from a man threatening to come to the house and beat some people up unless Myammee paid him the $1,000 she stole. It was probably a prank by Rayna, but Myammee got eliminated anyway, as did Bunz because she has kids to take care of. Flavor Flav finally had enough of Shy's halitosis and begged her to eat a mint or something.

Flavor Flav announces the girls will be making a Flavor of Love 3 Girls calendar. Prancer thinks this is every girls dream. Yes, I'm certain if Hillary Clinton becomes president, her one great regret will be never posing suggestively for a calendar. Helping out are former Flavor of Love contestants Buckwild (who has her own clothing line) and Saaphyri (who has her own brand of lip chap, whatever...