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The latest in our ScreenDaily Talks live Q&a series will take place on Tuesday, January 26 at 4pm UK time and will explore France as an international shooting destination, using Netflix’s hit show Emily In Paris as a case study.
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Speakers are US film and TV producer Stephen Joel Brown and French producer and production manager Raphaël Benoliel, who both took producer credits on the series, created and executive produced by Sex And The City creator Darren Star.
The latest in our ScreenDaily Talks live Q&a series will take place on Tuesday, January 26 at 4pm UK time and will explore France as an international shooting destination, using Netflix’s hit show Emily In Paris as a case study.
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Speakers are US film and TV producer Stephen Joel Brown and French producer and production manager Raphaël Benoliel, who both took producer credits on the series, created and executive produced by Sex And The City creator Darren Star.
- 1/20/2021
- by Screen staff
- ScreenDaily
For the first time in a while, Netflix is adding no new titles today, so let’s instead take the opportunity to recap what’s gone up on the streaming site over the past week, from Saturday, August 1st to Saturday, August 8th. As that encompasses the first day of the month, there was a huge amount of fresh content added to Netflix’s library over this period. To be exact, there were 49 movies and 24 TV shows.
On the film side of things, this haul includes many an acclaimed or cult favorite flick from across the decades in all kinds of genres. The highlight is probably the entire Jurassic Park trilogy, which has proved popular with Netflix users as the first two entries have been hanging around the top 10 most-watched movies list almost ever since arriving. 80s classic fantasy flick The NeverEnding Story and its sequel were added on the 1st as well,...
On the film side of things, this haul includes many an acclaimed or cult favorite flick from across the decades in all kinds of genres. The highlight is probably the entire Jurassic Park trilogy, which has proved popular with Netflix users as the first two entries have been hanging around the top 10 most-watched movies list almost ever since arriving. 80s classic fantasy flick The NeverEnding Story and its sequel were added on the 1st as well,...
- 8/9/2020
- by Christian Bone
- We Got This Covered
With the summer starting to wind down, Netflix appear to be taking their foot off the gas a little bit when it comes to releasing high-profile original movies. Over the last few months, the streaming service has debuted a string of in-house projects that have either been subjected to widespread critical acclaim or racked up huge viewing numbers, and frequently both.
Netflix can sometimes be fairly secretive about their viewership data unless they’re shouting their success from the rooftops, and having recently revealed their Top 10 most-watched original movies ever, you can understand why they went public. If you include the reported 72 million streams for Charlize Theron’s The Old Guard that would see it claim sixth spot in the rankings, then four of the Top 10 were released between March and July of this year alone.
However, despite having a huge number of high-profile originals scheduled for the rest of the year,...
Netflix can sometimes be fairly secretive about their viewership data unless they’re shouting their success from the rooftops, and having recently revealed their Top 10 most-watched original movies ever, you can understand why they went public. If you include the reported 72 million streams for Charlize Theron’s The Old Guard that would see it claim sixth spot in the rankings, then four of the Top 10 were released between March and July of this year alone.
However, despite having a huge number of high-profile originals scheduled for the rest of the year,...
- 8/3/2020
- by Scott Campbell
- We Got This Covered
As we finish up July and head into August, Netflix has a bunch of great new content coming this week. Though Monday doesn’t feature anything fresh, Tuesday through Sunday will deliver a ton of exciting titles, including a lot of classic movies and a bunch of Netflix Originals.
The highlights of what’s to come in the last days of July include Transformers War for Cybertron: Siege season 1, the beginning of a new trilogy exploring the final hours of the civil war that was fought between the Autobots and the Decepticons on their homeworld, and also The Umbrella Academy season 2, in which things are set to get even weirder for the Hargreeves clan.
For more, the full list of everything that’s due on Netflix this week can be found below:
July 28th Inside the World’s Toughest Prisons (Season 4) N Jeopardy! (Collection 6) Last Chance U: Laney (Season 5) N July...
The highlights of what’s to come in the last days of July include Transformers War for Cybertron: Siege season 1, the beginning of a new trilogy exploring the final hours of the civil war that was fought between the Autobots and the Decepticons on their homeworld, and also The Umbrella Academy season 2, in which things are set to get even weirder for the Hargreeves clan.
For more, the full list of everything that’s due on Netflix this week can be found below:
July 28th Inside the World’s Toughest Prisons (Season 4) N Jeopardy! (Collection 6) Last Chance U: Laney (Season 5) N July...
- 7/26/2020
- by Christian Bone
- We Got This Covered
Now that we’re two thirds of the way through July, we’ve got a pretty good idea of what’s coming to Netflix next month. New titles are being added all the time and while some days remain lacking in content at present, on the whole we know what to expect on the streaming service in August. As always, there’s a huge variety, too, from foreign titles to documentaries to new TV series to much-anticipated Netflix originals.
Some of the more notable additions to the line-up that have been added since it was first announced last week include 2003’s Seabiscuit, the jockey drama starring Tobey Maguire, and the next season of Transformers Rescue Bots Academy, both coming on the first day of the month. And remember, this is far from the full list of new arrivals for August, as it only encompasses what’s been announced so far,...
Some of the more notable additions to the line-up that have been added since it was first announced last week include 2003’s Seabiscuit, the jockey drama starring Tobey Maguire, and the next season of Transformers Rescue Bots Academy, both coming on the first day of the month. And remember, this is far from the full list of new arrivals for August, as it only encompasses what’s been announced so far,...
- 7/20/2020
- by Christian Bone
- We Got This Covered
Josh Hartnett is a dad again!
The 39-year-old actor and Tamsin Egerton have reportedly welcomed their second child together.
Watch: Exclusive: Josh Hartnett Like You’ve Never Seen Him Before -- Get a First Look at ‘The Ottoman Lieutenant’
Per The Daily Mail, the couple was spotted in London on Monday, pushing a double stroller while shopping in Hampstead. The actors have yet to confirm the birth of their second baby.
Hartnett and Egerton have been together since 2012 and welcomed a daughter in December 2015. The pair slyly confirmed they were expecting a second child while attending the Vanity Fair Oscars party earlier this year, where the 28-year-old actress looked stunning in a black, body-hugging dress that showed off her growing baby bump.
Related: Scott Porter and Wife Welcome Baby Girl -- See the Sweet Pics!
During an appearance on Live With Kelly and Michael in April, the Penny Dreadful actor gushed about his baby girl.
"Your ego melts...
The 39-year-old actor and Tamsin Egerton have reportedly welcomed their second child together.
Watch: Exclusive: Josh Hartnett Like You’ve Never Seen Him Before -- Get a First Look at ‘The Ottoman Lieutenant’
Per The Daily Mail, the couple was spotted in London on Monday, pushing a double stroller while shopping in Hampstead. The actors have yet to confirm the birth of their second baby.
Hartnett and Egerton have been together since 2012 and welcomed a daughter in December 2015. The pair slyly confirmed they were expecting a second child while attending the Vanity Fair Oscars party earlier this year, where the 28-year-old actress looked stunning in a black, body-hugging dress that showed off her growing baby bump.
Related: Scott Porter and Wife Welcome Baby Girl -- See the Sweet Pics!
During an appearance on Live With Kelly and Michael in April, the Penny Dreadful actor gushed about his baby girl.
"Your ego melts...
- 8/16/2017
- Entertainment Tonight
Turkish casting director one of 16 nominated for prize.
Turkish casting director Harika Uygur [pictured] has won the Locarno Film Festival’s European Casting award for her work on Cannes 2015 hit Mustang.
The Oscar-nominated drama charts the coming-of-age of five carefree girls whose conservative guardians confine them while forced marriages are arranged.
Uygur was one of 16 European casting directors nominated for the award, which was decided on by the 83 members of the International Casting Directors Network (Icdn), which represents casting directors in 24 countries.
“This casting director created an organic family that was totally believable; the match of characters and actresses was perfect,” the Icdn told Screen in a statement.
The inexperienced young actresses in lauded drama Mustang - Elit Iscan, Gunes Nezihe Sensoy, Doga Zeynep Doguslu, Ilayda Akdogan, and Tugba Sunguroglu - were widely praised for their performances.
Uygur’s recent credits include The Ottoman Lieutenant and Lady Winsley. She is also a member of the Academy of Motion...
Turkish casting director Harika Uygur [pictured] has won the Locarno Film Festival’s European Casting award for her work on Cannes 2015 hit Mustang.
The Oscar-nominated drama charts the coming-of-age of five carefree girls whose conservative guardians confine them while forced marriages are arranged.
Uygur was one of 16 European casting directors nominated for the award, which was decided on by the 83 members of the International Casting Directors Network (Icdn), which represents casting directors in 24 countries.
“This casting director created an organic family that was totally believable; the match of characters and actresses was perfect,” the Icdn told Screen in a statement.
The inexperienced young actresses in lauded drama Mustang - Elit Iscan, Gunes Nezihe Sensoy, Doga Zeynep Doguslu, Ilayda Akdogan, and Tugba Sunguroglu - were widely praised for their performances.
Uygur’s recent credits include The Ottoman Lieutenant and Lady Winsley. She is also a member of the Academy of Motion...
- 8/4/2017
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Author: Competitions
To mark the release of The Ottoman Lieutenant on 7th August, we’ve been given 3 copies to give away on Blu-ray.
The Ottoman Lieutenant tells the wartime story of a strong-willed woman Lillie (Hera Hilmar) who leaves the United States after meeting Jude (Josh Hartnett) an American doctor who runs a remote medical mission within the exotic Ottoman Empire. There, she finds her loyalty tested to both Jude and the mission’s sagacious founder (Ben Kingsley) when she falls in love with Ismail (Michiel Huisman), a Lieutenant in the Ottoman Imperial Army. Set among the backdrop of World War 1 and tied together with epic battles and mind-blowing fight sequences, Lillie must decide if she wants to be what other people want her to be, or to be herself.
Please note: This competition is open to UK residents only
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To mark the release of The Ottoman Lieutenant on 7th August, we’ve been given 3 copies to give away on Blu-ray.
The Ottoman Lieutenant tells the wartime story of a strong-willed woman Lillie (Hera Hilmar) who leaves the United States after meeting Jude (Josh Hartnett) an American doctor who runs a remote medical mission within the exotic Ottoman Empire. There, she finds her loyalty tested to both Jude and the mission’s sagacious founder (Ben Kingsley) when she falls in love with Ismail (Michiel Huisman), a Lieutenant in the Ottoman Imperial Army. Set among the backdrop of World War 1 and tied together with epic battles and mind-blowing fight sequences, Lillie must decide if she wants to be what other people want her to be, or to be herself.
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- 8/4/2017
- by Competitions
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Our resident VOD expert tells you what's new to rent and/or own this week via various Digital HD providers such as cable Movies On Demand, Amazon, iTunes, Vudu, Google Play and, of course, Netflix. Cable Movies On Demand: Same-day-as-disc releases, older titles and pretheatrical Going in Style (comedy; Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine, Alan Arkin; rated PG-13) The Circle (drama-thriller; Emma Watson, Tom Hanks; rated PG-13) The Lovers (romantic comedy; Debra Winger, Tracy Letts; rated R) One Week and a Day (drama-comedy; Shai Avivi, Evgenia Dodina; not rated) Phoenix Forgotten (horror/sci-fi; Florence Hartigan, Josh Bishop, Ashley Foster; rated PG-13) The Ottoman Lieutenant (war drama; Michiel Huisman, Hera Hilmar; rated R) Colossal (sci-fi comedy; Anne...
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- 8/1/2017
- by Robert B. DeSalvo
- Movies.com
This weekend marks the moment of truth for “The Promise,” when Open Road Films’ $100 million love story set against the Armenian genocide of World War I will open on 2,000 screens. Directed by Terry George, best known for directing 2004’s “Hotel Rwanda,” the film follows a romantic triangle between an Armenian medical student (Oscar Isaac), an Armenian artist (Charlotte Le Bon) and an American photojournalist (Christian Bale).
Read More: Gilbert Gottfried On Getting Fired and Feeling ‘Miserable’ About Life — Tribeca 2017
Early critics’ reviews of the film have been very mixed, and in the seven months since the movie’s premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, a campaign of Armenian genocide deniers have attacked the movie by voting down its scores on IMDb and Rotten Tomatoes. While online ratings can reflect honest opinion, more than 60,000 online accounts gave “The Promise” the lowest possible score on IMDb the day after its Toronto...
Read More: Gilbert Gottfried On Getting Fired and Feeling ‘Miserable’ About Life — Tribeca 2017
Early critics’ reviews of the film have been very mixed, and in the seven months since the movie’s premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, a campaign of Armenian genocide deniers have attacked the movie by voting down its scores on IMDb and Rotten Tomatoes. While online ratings can reflect honest opinion, more than 60,000 online accounts gave “The Promise” the lowest possible score on IMDb the day after its Toronto...
- 4/21/2017
- by Graham Winfrey
- Indiewire
The two films — released just over a month apart — look remarkably similar. Both promise sweeping love stories, both boast Hollywood talent, and both are set against the massacre of Armenians in Turkey during and after World War I, a gruesome period of history that led to the creation of one of the dictionary’s most horrific terms, genocide, coined by Raphael Lemkin in the wake of World War II.
But the similarities between The Ottoman Lieutenant, which opened March 20, and The Promise, which arrives in theaters Friday, may be more than just coincidence. In fact, the filmmakers behind The Promise charge...
But the similarities between The Ottoman Lieutenant, which opened March 20, and The Promise, which arrives in theaters Friday, may be more than just coincidence. In fact, the filmmakers behind The Promise charge...
- 4/21/2017
- by Alex Ritman,Mia Galuppo
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
In the realm of “docudramas”, the one war that seems to be a bottomless well of stories is that second World War (and usually the sequel comes up short). Film makers bring us tales often unknown by the general public. Last (and endured) week, we were given a new spin on II’s predecessor Ww I in The Ottoman Lieutenant (mind you a fiction story with a real historical backdrop). This week sees another little known story of the war in Europe. Less than a year ago, an assassination plot against a high-ranking Nazi stationed in Czechoslovakia was dramatized in Anthropoid (still sounds like a monster movie to me). And at last year’s Academy Awards the story of the Sonderkommandos, Son Of Saul, took home the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. This week’s new release travels a bit north for a view of the war. Actually, it’s not the war,...
- 3/17/2017
- by Jim Batts
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
One year ago, the post-Oscar specialized rebound began with the release of “Eye in the Sky” and “Hello, My Name Is Doris.” Each opened with per-theater averages over $20,000; then, with support from older audiences all across the country, made $19 million and $14 million, respectively.
This year it’s “Personal Shopper,” with the French film starring Kristen Stewart showing unexpected interest. “Raw” (Focus) and “A Sense of the Ending” (Lionsgate) also managed PTAs over $10,000, indicating some chance for future success.
Ahead of any other new release in PTA was a single theater, premiere-event boosted initial date for “A Very Sordid Wedding” in Palm Springs. This week also saw the very limited opening of “Burning Sands,” the second film in the Sundance 2017 U.S. dramatic competition to find its home on Netflix. As usual, no gross for this, which is sort of beside the point.
Opening
Personal Shopper (IFC) – Metacritic: 77; Festivals include: Cannes,...
This year it’s “Personal Shopper,” with the French film starring Kristen Stewart showing unexpected interest. “Raw” (Focus) and “A Sense of the Ending” (Lionsgate) also managed PTAs over $10,000, indicating some chance for future success.
Ahead of any other new release in PTA was a single theater, premiere-event boosted initial date for “A Very Sordid Wedding” in Palm Springs. This week also saw the very limited opening of “Burning Sands,” the second film in the Sundance 2017 U.S. dramatic competition to find its home on Netflix. As usual, no gross for this, which is sort of beside the point.
Opening
Personal Shopper (IFC) – Metacritic: 77; Festivals include: Cannes,...
- 3/12/2017
- by Tom Brueggemann
- Indiewire
MaryAnn’s quick take… Odious propagandistic attempt to enshrine Turkish denial of the Armenian genocide of World War I into cinematic history via a tepid and unconvincing romance. I’m “biast” (pro): nothing
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
In a land on the brink of war,” goes the marketing tagline of the odious The Ottoman Lieutenant, “the most dangerous place to be is in love.” That would not be true in, shall we say, the best of wars, if there is such a thing. But here, young American nurse Lillie (Hera Hilmar: Anna Karenina), volunteering at a hospital in a remote region of the Ottoman Empire, finds herself in the middle of World War I and the genocide of Armenians by the Turks. Except the latter is not happening here at all! This propagandistic production, financed primarily from Turkey...
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
In a land on the brink of war,” goes the marketing tagline of the odious The Ottoman Lieutenant, “the most dangerous place to be is in love.” That would not be true in, shall we say, the best of wars, if there is such a thing. But here, young American nurse Lillie (Hera Hilmar: Anna Karenina), volunteering at a hospital in a remote region of the Ottoman Empire, finds herself in the middle of World War I and the genocide of Armenians by the Turks. Except the latter is not happening here at all! This propagandistic production, financed primarily from Turkey...
- 3/10/2017
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
Kristen Stewart worked with French filmmaker Olivier Assayas in Clouds of Sils Maria in 2014, earning her a French César for the role. She's back with the filmmaker in their latest collaboration, Personal Shopper, which IFC Films opens today. The weekend has a number of new Specialty releases of various sizes. Paladin is going out with a fairly sizable initial run for The Ottoman Lieutenant featuring Michiel Huisman, Hera Hilmar, Josh Hartnett and Ben Kingsley in over two…...
- 3/10/2017
- Deadline
Plot: An American nurse finds herself torn between the belief of others and her own heart, when she falls in love with a Turkish officer on the brink of Wwi. Review: There is so much that should work in the new romantic war drama The Ottoman Lieutenant. Many of the Turkish locations are marvelous. Plus there are a couple of solid performances. And finally, it tells the story of a time in... Read More...
- 3/10/2017
- by JimmyO
- JoBlo.com
As giant apes and mutant loners battle it out at the box office, the multiplex can still spare a screen or two for a love story. Okay, albeit a love story set during a time of violent conflict. Yes, it’s a romance in the trenches, a war-time story of love. But which war (unfortunately we’ve got too many to choose from). World War II was the backdrop for two big flicks last year, Allied and Hacksaw Ridge (mainly in the first half before the near constant carnage). No, this new film goes back a tad further, to that “war to end all wars” World War I. We’ve got to go back a couple of years for that, with 2014’s Testament Of Youth and 2015’s Sunset Song. And while they focused on the great battles on European soil, this new film explores a much warmer climate, in the arid desert lands of Turkey.
- 3/10/2017
- by Jim Batts
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
“Betting on Zero” is not here to make you a believer. In fact, if there’s anything that Ted Braun’s examination of the meteoric, global rise of Herbalife shows, it’s that belief in other individuals is a dangerous task, whether that person is promising financial windfall, long-term stability or thorough justice. It may not be entirely inspiring, but “Betting on Zero” captures the everyone-for-themselves desperation that would make any wronged individual furious, be they jilted employee or frustrated stockholder.
Ever since the prevalence of Amway, multi-level marketing (Mlm) firms have long been the subject of alternating popularity and concern. Companies that base their economic model on recruitment, rather than the maintenance and consumption of inventory, leave in their wake a bevy of unsatisfied former employees, some of whom are highlighted in the “Betting on Zero” clips used in a popular segment last fall on “Last Week Tonight.”
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Ever since the prevalence of Amway, multi-level marketing (Mlm) firms have long been the subject of alternating popularity and concern. Companies that base their economic model on recruitment, rather than the maintenance and consumption of inventory, leave in their wake a bevy of unsatisfied former employees, some of whom are highlighted in the “Betting on Zero” clips used in a popular segment last fall on “Last Week Tonight.”
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- 3/9/2017
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
“The Other Half” is a film built on withholding. Whether it’s writer/director Joey Klein’s general approach to dispensing key character details or the information that two lovers choose to keep hidden from each other, there’s a pervasive kind of obfuscation that can be at turns refreshing and frustrating. It’s a series of preludes and aftermaths, following an arc of persistent loss and newfound love. But when Klein trusts his actors and leans on the strength of the genuine moments they’re able to create together, the story of Emily (Tatiana Maslany) and Nickie (Tom Cullen) moves beyond the usual constraints of characters with similar pasts.
True to form with the rest of the film’s strongest elements, Nickie and Emily’s relationship has a simple beginning. After making eyes at each other across the room at the café where Nickie works, the two strike up a relationship.
True to form with the rest of the film’s strongest elements, Nickie and Emily’s relationship has a simple beginning. After making eyes at each other across the room at the café where Nickie works, the two strike up a relationship.
- 3/9/2017
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
Et has your exclusive first look at The Ottoman Lieutenant.
The film tells the story of Lillie (Hera Hilmar), an American nurse who moves across the world at the brink of World War I to work at a hospital run by an American doctor, Jude (Josh Hartnett), in the heart of the Ottoman Empire. Lillie’s loyalty to Jude is tested when she falls for a lieutenant in the Ottoman Imperial Army, Ismael (Game of Thrones star Michiel Huisman).
In Et’s first look, Lillie and Ismael come back to the hospital after a horseback ride, and Jude asks for a word with the Turkish officer. The exchange turns heated, as Jude confronts Ismael about his possibly inappropriate relationship with Lillie.
The Ottoman Lieutenant hits theaters on March 10, 2017. Check out the full trailer for the movie below.
The film tells the story of Lillie (Hera Hilmar), an American nurse who moves across the world at the brink of World War I to work at a hospital run by an American doctor, Jude (Josh Hartnett), in the heart of the Ottoman Empire. Lillie’s loyalty to Jude is tested when she falls for a lieutenant in the Ottoman Imperial Army, Ismael (Game of Thrones star Michiel Huisman).
In Et’s first look, Lillie and Ismael come back to the hospital after a horseback ride, and Jude asks for a word with the Turkish officer. The exchange turns heated, as Jude confronts Ismael about his possibly inappropriate relationship with Lillie.
The Ottoman Lieutenant hits theaters on March 10, 2017. Check out the full trailer for the movie below.
- 3/9/2017
- Entertainment Tonight
A limp and lifeless historical melodrama that aspires to be the “Pearl Harbor” of the preamble to World War I and still falls well short of that ignoble goal, Joseph Ruben’s “The Ottoman Lieutenant” tries to snatch a love triangle from out beneath the Armenian Genocide but fails to get any of the angles right. Beginning in a Philadelphia hospital circa 1914 (Prague plays the city well), the film is tawdry from the very top, taking the same reckless approach to clichés that pre-war doctors took to general hygiene.
You can hear the trouble before you can see it, our wide-eyed heroine introducing herself via such startlingly trite voiceover that she’s a lost cause by the time she first appears on screen. “I thought I was going to change the world,” she says, “but of course it was the world that changed me.” Get comfortable, it’s going to be a bumpy night.
You can hear the trouble before you can see it, our wide-eyed heroine introducing herself via such startlingly trite voiceover that she’s a lost cause by the time she first appears on screen. “I thought I was going to change the world,” she says, “but of course it was the world that changed me.” Get comfortable, it’s going to be a bumpy night.
- 3/9/2017
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Reverent and ridiculous in equal measure, Martin Koolhoven’s “Brimstone” is a wild pseudo-Western that trembles beneath the biblical weight of its comically grim story. Told with a steady tone that marries the anivine retribution of the Old Testament with the heightened slickness of a graphic novel, this gruesome carnival of debasement may be set in the lawless frontiers of 19th century America, but it might be more accurately located somewhere between Sodom and Gomorrah and “Sin City.” It’s the kind of movie in which an actor from “Game of Thrones” murders someone who’s taking a shit in an outhouse — the kind of movie in which a dying man, choking on a noose made out of his own intestines, still finds the spirit to tell his wife that he loves her.
Even after four discrete chapters (each of which is saddled with a subtitle like “Revelation” or “Exodus...
Even after four discrete chapters (each of which is saddled with a subtitle like “Revelation” or “Exodus...
- 3/8/2017
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Welcome back to the Weekend Warrior, your weekly look at the new movies hitting theaters this weekend, as well as other cool events and things to check out….but mostly movies.
This Past Weekend:
It was absolutely no surprise that Hugh Jackman’s last Wolverine movie Logan would top the box office, but it actually ended up doing even better than my prediction when actual numbers came in, grossing $88.3 million over the weekend. That makes it the fourth highest X-Movie opening (including Deadpool) but also the biggest R-rated opening for March, defeating 300’s once-impressive $70 million opening. It’s also the fourth highest R-rated opening of all time after Deadpool, The Matrix Reloaded and American Sniper.
The bigger surprise was how well Jordan Peele’s thriller Get Out held up in its second weekend, not only because it was going up against Logan, but also because high-profile horror films tend...
This Past Weekend:
It was absolutely no surprise that Hugh Jackman’s last Wolverine movie Logan would top the box office, but it actually ended up doing even better than my prediction when actual numbers came in, grossing $88.3 million over the weekend. That makes it the fourth highest X-Movie opening (including Deadpool) but also the biggest R-rated opening for March, defeating 300’s once-impressive $70 million opening. It’s also the fourth highest R-rated opening of all time after Deadpool, The Matrix Reloaded and American Sniper.
The bigger surprise was how well Jordan Peele’s thriller Get Out held up in its second weekend, not only because it was going up against Logan, but also because high-profile horror films tend...
- 3/8/2017
- by Edward Douglas
- LRMonline.com
Having made a few subpar thrillers (Sleeping With the Enemy, The Forgotten), Joseph Ruben turns to romantic drama with the unabashedly old-fashioned The Ottoman Lieutenant, which sets a young American nurse at the center of a love triangle amid the chaos of war. The by-the-numbers story never achieves its aimed-for grandeur or intensity, and the striking Turkish locations prove far more interesting than the characters.
Most of the action revolves around an American mission hospital in the Anatolian village of Van, where 23-year-old Lillie (Icelandic actress Hera Hilmar) works beside a devoted young doctor, Jude Gresham (Josh Hartnett). It was...
Most of the action revolves around an American mission hospital in the Anatolian village of Van, where 23-year-old Lillie (Icelandic actress Hera Hilmar) works beside a devoted young doctor, Jude Gresham (Josh Hartnett). It was...
- 3/2/2017
- by Sheri Linden
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Tamsin Egerton is pregnant!
The actress’s baby belly was on full display while attending the Vanity Fair Oscars party alongside partner Josh Hartnett on Sunday, where she happily noshed on beignets.
“This is not feeding the baby nourishment,” joked Egerton, 28.
The couple posed for photos during the evening, where the Camelot star wore a long-sleeve black gown with a high neckline.
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Egerton and Hartnett, 38, have been together since 2012 and welcomed a daughter in late 2015.
“She...
The actress’s baby belly was on full display while attending the Vanity Fair Oscars party alongside partner Josh Hartnett on Sunday, where she happily noshed on beignets.
“This is not feeding the baby nourishment,” joked Egerton, 28.
The couple posed for photos during the evening, where the Camelot star wore a long-sleeve black gown with a high neckline.
Want all the latest pregnancy and birth announcements, plus celebrity mom blogs? Click here to get those and more in the People Babies newsletter.
Egerton and Hartnett, 38, have been together since 2012 and welcomed a daughter in late 2015.
“She...
- 2/27/2017
- by Jen Juneau
- PEOPLE.com
The Ottoman Lieutenant Paladin Reviewed by: Harvey Karten, Shockya Grade: B Director: Joseph Ruben Written by: Jeff Stockwell Cast: Michiel Huisman, Hera Hilmar Josh Hartnett, Ben Kingsley Screened at: Review 2, NYC, 2/24/17 Opens: March 10, 2017 If you learned in high school that World War One pitted the Ottoman Empire, Austria and Germany against […]
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- 2/27/2017
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
Having worked together in big productions such as “Suicide Squad” and the “Hannibal” TV series, design and FX veterans Steven Kostanski and Jeremy Gillespie are ready for their writing/directing duo debut with “The Void.”
Read More: Michiel Huisman Finds All’s Fair in Love and World War I in ‘The Ottoman Lieutenant’— Trailer
“[We’re] committed to introducing audiences to a unique horror-mythology,”Kostanski and Gillespie told Empire Online. According to the duo, this film “combines the aesthetic attitude of modern horror cinema as it emerged in the 1970s with the splatter and sophisticated practical special effects that ruled the creature features of the 1980s and early ’90s.”
The indie horror film follows the story of officer Daniel Carter, who, in the middle of a routine patrol finds a young man soaked in blood limping down a deserted road. When he rushes the man to the hospital, he discovers that some...
Read More: Michiel Huisman Finds All’s Fair in Love and World War I in ‘The Ottoman Lieutenant’— Trailer
“[We’re] committed to introducing audiences to a unique horror-mythology,”Kostanski and Gillespie told Empire Online. According to the duo, this film “combines the aesthetic attitude of modern horror cinema as it emerged in the 1970s with the splatter and sophisticated practical special effects that ruled the creature features of the 1980s and early ’90s.”
The indie horror film follows the story of officer Daniel Carter, who, in the middle of a routine patrol finds a young man soaked in blood limping down a deserted road. When he rushes the man to the hospital, he discovers that some...
- 2/15/2017
- by Yoselin Acevedo
- Indiewire
A World War I love story with Josh Hartnett? No, this isn’t a prequel to “Pearl Harbor” (thank the gods), it’s the trailer to the upcoming film, “The Ottoman Lieutenant.” The film, starring Hera Hilmar tells the story of a strong-willed American woman who decides to leave the United States after meeting Jude (Hartnett), an American doctor who runs a hospital within the Ottoman Empire as the first World War looms.
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As depicted in the dramatic trailer (filled with fezzes!), it is there where she falls for an Ottoman soldier played by “Game of Thrones” star Michiel Huisman (Daario, your love life’s a mess), inevitably causing friction between her and her Armenian allies. If the trailer’s tagline –“When the world is at war the worst place to be is in love”– is any indication, this love...
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As depicted in the dramatic trailer (filled with fezzes!), it is there where she falls for an Ottoman soldier played by “Game of Thrones” star Michiel Huisman (Daario, your love life’s a mess), inevitably causing friction between her and her Armenian allies. If the trailer’s tagline –“When the world is at war the worst place to be is in love”– is any indication, this love...
- 2/14/2017
- by Juan Diaz
- Indiewire
It’s not everyday Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh – two parts of the creative driving force behind The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit trilogies – pledge their support to a budding film franchise, so it’s small wonder why Mortal Engines has already generated so much excitement.
An adaptation of Philip Reeve’s dystopian novel series, Jackson and Walsh initially signed on to produce the big-screen rendition of Mortal Engines many moons ago, and are currently in the process of constructing a screenplay with Philippa Boyens and Christian Rivers. The latter was elected director on the project late last year, and just recently we learned that Robert Sheehan and Fantastic Beasts star Ronan Raftery had climbed on board. According to Variety, we can now add Hera Hilmar’s name to that preliminary cast list, as the up-and-coming actress has been set as the film’s female lead.
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An adaptation of Philip Reeve’s dystopian novel series, Jackson and Walsh initially signed on to produce the big-screen rendition of Mortal Engines many moons ago, and are currently in the process of constructing a screenplay with Philippa Boyens and Christian Rivers. The latter was elected director on the project late last year, and just recently we learned that Robert Sheehan and Fantastic Beasts star Ronan Raftery had climbed on board. According to Variety, we can now add Hera Hilmar’s name to that preliminary cast list, as the up-and-coming actress has been set as the film’s female lead.
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- 2/7/2017
- by Michael Briers
- We Got This Covered
Hera Hilmar has been set as the lead female role in Mortal Engines, the Christian Rivers-directed movie adaptation of the book series by British author Philip Reeve. Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh (The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit trilogies) are producing the film adaptation. Hilmar's recent credits include The Ottoman Lieutenant and The Oath, and she spent three seasons on the Starz series Da Vinci's Demons. Mortal Engines is set in a world many thousands of years in…...
- 2/7/2017
- Deadline
A total of 145 scores were recently announced as being eligible for this year’s Academy Award, with everything from perceived frontrunner “La La Land” (Justin Hurwitz) and “Jackie” (Mica Levi) to outliers like “Sausage Party” and “Elle.” The final five will be nominated on January 24. In the meantime, avail yourself of this Spotify playlist featuring selections from 110 of the eligible scores — as well as the full list of every eligible score.
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The Abolitionists,” Tim Jones, composer
“Absolutely Fabulous The Movie,” Jake Monaco, composer
“The Accountant,” Mark Isham, composer
“Alice through the Looking Glass,” Danny Elfman, composer
“Allied,” Alan Silvestri, composer
“Almost Christmas,” John Paesano, composer
“American Pastoral,” Alexandre Desplat, composer
“The Angry Birds Movie,” Heitor Pereira, composer
“Anthropoid,” Robin Foster, composer
“Armenia, My Love,...
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The Abolitionists,” Tim Jones, composer
“Absolutely Fabulous The Movie,” Jake Monaco, composer
“The Accountant,” Mark Isham, composer
“Alice through the Looking Glass,” Danny Elfman, composer
“Allied,” Alan Silvestri, composer
“Almost Christmas,” John Paesano, composer
“American Pastoral,” Alexandre Desplat, composer
“The Angry Birds Movie,” Heitor Pereira, composer
“Anthropoid,” Robin Foster, composer
“Armenia, My Love,...
- 1/3/2017
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that 145 scores from eligible feature-length motion pictures released in 2016 are in contention for nominations in the Original Score category for the 89th Academy Awards.
The eligible scores along with their composers are listed below, in alphabetical order by film title:
“The Abolitionists,” Tim Jones, composer
“Absolutely Fabulous The Movie,” Jake Monaco, composer
“The Accountant,” Mark Isham, composer
“Alice through the Looking Glass,” Danny Elfman, composer
“Allied,” Alan Silvestri, composer
“Almost Christmas,” John Paesano, composer
“American Pastoral,” Alexandre Desplat, composer
“The Angry Birds Movie,” Heitor Pereira, composer
“Anthropoid,” Robin Foster, composer
“Armenia, My Love,” Silvia Leonetti, composer
“Assassin’s Creed,” Jed Kurzel, composer
“Autumn Lights,” Hugi Gudmundsson and Hjörtur Ingvi Jóhannsson, composers
“The Bfg,” John Williams, composer
“Believe,” Michael Reola, composer
“Ben-Hur,” Marco Beltrami and Buck Sanders, composers
“Bilal,” Atli Ӧrvarsson, composer
“Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk,” Mychael Danna and Jeff Danna,...
The eligible scores along with their composers are listed below, in alphabetical order by film title:
“The Abolitionists,” Tim Jones, composer
“Absolutely Fabulous The Movie,” Jake Monaco, composer
“The Accountant,” Mark Isham, composer
“Alice through the Looking Glass,” Danny Elfman, composer
“Allied,” Alan Silvestri, composer
“Almost Christmas,” John Paesano, composer
“American Pastoral,” Alexandre Desplat, composer
“The Angry Birds Movie,” Heitor Pereira, composer
“Anthropoid,” Robin Foster, composer
“Armenia, My Love,” Silvia Leonetti, composer
“Assassin’s Creed,” Jed Kurzel, composer
“Autumn Lights,” Hugi Gudmundsson and Hjörtur Ingvi Jóhannsson, composers
“The Bfg,” John Williams, composer
“Believe,” Michael Reola, composer
“Ben-Hur,” Marco Beltrami and Buck Sanders, composers
“Bilal,” Atli Ӧrvarsson, composer
“Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk,” Mychael Danna and Jeff Danna,...
- 12/14/2016
- by Melissa Thompson
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) has announced the 145 scores eligible in the Best Original Score category, includeing work from “Jackie” and “La La Land.” The latter film, a musical directed by “Whiplash” helmer Damien Chazelle, picked up the Los Angeles Film Critics Association’s award for Best Music earlier this month; “Jackie” was the category’s runner-up. Notably absent, meanwhile, are “Arrival” (which just landed a Golden Globe nod), “Manchester by the Sea” and “Silence.”
Read: ‘La La Land’: Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling’s ‘City of Stars’ Duet Will Sweep You Off Your Feet – Listen
Justin Hurwitz composed and orchestrated the “La La Land” score, while “Jackie” marks “Under the Skin” composer Mica Levi’s second silver-screen effort. Decades after becoming one of the world’s most renowned film composers, Ennio Morricone won last year’s Oscar for his work on Quentin Tarantino’s “The Hateful Eight.
Read: ‘La La Land’: Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling’s ‘City of Stars’ Duet Will Sweep You Off Your Feet – Listen
Justin Hurwitz composed and orchestrated the “La La Land” score, while “Jackie” marks “Under the Skin” composer Mica Levi’s second silver-screen effort. Decades after becoming one of the world’s most renowned film composers, Ennio Morricone won last year’s Oscar for his work on Quentin Tarantino’s “The Hateful Eight.
- 12/14/2016
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
"You have your mission, Doctor, and I have mine." Paladin has debuted a trailer for the film The Ottoman Lieutenant, another historical war drama, this one directed by Joseph Ruben. Set during the first World War (or "The Great War"), the film is about a woman who ends up in a love triangle between an American doctor and a dashing lieutenant for the Ottoman Imperial Army. Josh Hartnett stars as the American, Michiel Huisman as the lieutenant, and Hera Hilmar as the woman who comes between them. The cast includes Ben Kingsley, Haluk Bilginer, Affif Ben Badra, Paul Barrett, Jessica Turner and Peter Hosking. For whatever reason this reminds me of Bitter Harvest, and sadly both films look quite mediocre. Here's the first official trailer for Joseph Ruben's The Ottoman Lieutenant, originally from Yahoo: A beautiful, strong-willed woman (Hera Hilmar), who, frustrated by ongoing injustice at home, leaves the...
- 11/30/2016
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Joseph Baxter Nov 8, 2018
Mortal Engines, a sci-fi epic written by Peter Jackson, depicts an apocalyptic world of giant roving cities.
The 2018 film adaptation of Philip Reeve’s popular teen-aimed apocalyptic novel series Mortal Engines appears to be running on all cylinders. With the legendary visionary of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit film trilogies Peter Jackson working on the script with his repertory team of (his wife) Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens, we know the screenplay is being tackled by a trio who understand what it takes to adapt epic fantasies.
Here's everything we know so far!
Mortal Engines Trailer
Another Mortal Engines trailer has arrived, this time in the form of an "extended look" clip, showcasing more of the film's post-apocalyptic Steampunk aesthetics.
Video of Mortal Engines - Extended Look (HD)
You can check out the previous trailer below:
Video of Mortal Engines - Official Trailer 2 (HD...
Mortal Engines, a sci-fi epic written by Peter Jackson, depicts an apocalyptic world of giant roving cities.
The 2018 film adaptation of Philip Reeve’s popular teen-aimed apocalyptic novel series Mortal Engines appears to be running on all cylinders. With the legendary visionary of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit film trilogies Peter Jackson working on the script with his repertory team of (his wife) Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens, we know the screenplay is being tackled by a trio who understand what it takes to adapt epic fantasies.
Here's everything we know so far!
Mortal Engines Trailer
Another Mortal Engines trailer has arrived, this time in the form of an "extended look" clip, showcasing more of the film's post-apocalyptic Steampunk aesthetics.
Video of Mortal Engines - Extended Look (HD)
You can check out the previous trailer below:
Video of Mortal Engines - Official Trailer 2 (HD...
- 10/25/2016
- Den of Geek
Joseph Baxter Oct 5, 2018
Mortal Engines, a sci-fi epic written by Peter Jackson, depicts an apocalyptic world of giant roving cities.
The 2018 film adaptation of Philip Reeve’s popular teen-aimed apocalyptic novel series Mortal Engines appears to be running on all cylinders. With the legendary visionary of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit film trilogies Peter Jackson working on the script with his repertory team of (his wife) Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens, we know the screenplay is being tackled by a trio who understand what it takes to adapt epic fantasies.
Here's everything we know so far!
Mortal Engines Trailer
The new Mortal Engines trailer has arrived!
Video of Mortal Engines - Official Trailer 2 (HD)
You can check out the previous trailer below:
Video of Mortal Engines Official Trailer [HD]
While some people can claim to have been swallowed by London, the post-apocalyptic existence of characters in Mortal Engines...
Mortal Engines, a sci-fi epic written by Peter Jackson, depicts an apocalyptic world of giant roving cities.
The 2018 film adaptation of Philip Reeve’s popular teen-aimed apocalyptic novel series Mortal Engines appears to be running on all cylinders. With the legendary visionary of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit film trilogies Peter Jackson working on the script with his repertory team of (his wife) Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens, we know the screenplay is being tackled by a trio who understand what it takes to adapt epic fantasies.
Here's everything we know so far!
Mortal Engines Trailer
The new Mortal Engines trailer has arrived!
Video of Mortal Engines - Official Trailer 2 (HD)
You can check out the previous trailer below:
Video of Mortal Engines Official Trailer [HD]
While some people can claim to have been swallowed by London, the post-apocalyptic existence of characters in Mortal Engines...
- 10/25/2016
- Den of Geek
Keep up with the wild and wooly world of indie film acquisitions with our weekly Rundown of everything that’s been picked up around the globe. Check out last week’s Rundown here.
– L.A.-based outfit Strand Releasing has acquired U.S. rights to Michael O’Shea’s Cannes premiere “The Transfiguration.” The film was sold by Protagonist Pictures at Toronto, and it marks the feature debut of writer-director Michael O’Shea. The atmospheric feature puts a new spin on the vampire movie.
“Mr. O’Shea’s film is a unique hybrid that audiences and critics will be compelled by,” said Strand Releasing’s partner Jon Gerrans, who discovered the film at Cannes. No word yet on release plans.
– Oscilloscope Laboratories has announced that Joel Potrykus’s latest dark comedy, “The Alchemist Cookbook,” will be available worldwide for pay-what-you-wish via BitTorrent Now on October 7, before it screens in select theaters across the country.
– L.A.-based outfit Strand Releasing has acquired U.S. rights to Michael O’Shea’s Cannes premiere “The Transfiguration.” The film was sold by Protagonist Pictures at Toronto, and it marks the feature debut of writer-director Michael O’Shea. The atmospheric feature puts a new spin on the vampire movie.
“Mr. O’Shea’s film is a unique hybrid that audiences and critics will be compelled by,” said Strand Releasing’s partner Jon Gerrans, who discovered the film at Cannes. No word yet on release plans.
– Oscilloscope Laboratories has announced that Joel Potrykus’s latest dark comedy, “The Alchemist Cookbook,” will be available worldwide for pay-what-you-wish via BitTorrent Now on October 7, before it screens in select theaters across the country.
- 9/16/2016
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Exclusive: Stephen Brown’s Y Production just sealed a distribution deal with Mark Urman's Paladin for the war epic The Ottoman Lieutenant, likely the first movie to look at those on the other side of World War I. The film will be released for an Oscar-qualifying run in December before going wide in February of 2017. Starring, Michiel Huisman (Game of Thrones, Age of Adeline), Hera Hilmar (Anna Karenina), Josh Hartnett and Ben Kingsley, the film was lensed at the famed…...
- 9/9/2016
- Deadline
Paladin has picked up Us rights from CAA to Y Production’s The Ottoman Lieutenant starring Michiel Huisman, Hera Hilmar, Josh Hartnett and Ben Kingsley.
The World War I-set drama will receive its North American premiere in Toronto on September 13 and Paladin will stage a limited qualifying run in December prior to the release proper in February 2017.
Y Production produced the film in association with Eastern Sunrise Films. Joseph directed from a screenplay by Jeff Stockwell, and Stephen Joel Brown produced.
Gravitas Ventures has secured North American rights from ICM Partners to Katie Holmes’ feature directorial debut All We Had about a struggling mother and daughter who draw strength from each other. Stefania Owen also stars and the film will open day-and-date theatrically and on VOD on December 9.Kino Lorber has acquired all North American rights to director Oren Shai’s debut noir thriller The Frontier by Rocking Films and Dana Lustig Productions. Select theatrical...
The World War I-set drama will receive its North American premiere in Toronto on September 13 and Paladin will stage a limited qualifying run in December prior to the release proper in February 2017.
Y Production produced the film in association with Eastern Sunrise Films. Joseph directed from a screenplay by Jeff Stockwell, and Stephen Joel Brown produced.
Gravitas Ventures has secured North American rights from ICM Partners to Katie Holmes’ feature directorial debut All We Had about a struggling mother and daughter who draw strength from each other. Stefania Owen also stars and the film will open day-and-date theatrically and on VOD on December 9.Kino Lorber has acquired all North American rights to director Oren Shai’s debut noir thriller The Frontier by Rocking Films and Dana Lustig Productions. Select theatrical...
- 9/9/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
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