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Black Spot Books announces a new anthology, Mother Knows Best: Tales Of Homemade Horror [Black Spot Books, May 7, 2024], a collection of original stories and poems inspired by the scariest monster of them all—our mothers—from some of today’s fiercest women in horror, coming Mother’s Day 2024.

Edited by Lindy Ryan [Into The Forest], Mother Knows Best includes seventeen original stories and ten original poems from women in horror. Featured contributors include Gwendolyn Kiste, Rachel Harrison, Kristi DeMeester, and Kelsea Yu, with an introduction from Mother Horror, Sadie Hartmann, and cover art from Najla Qamber.

“In our previous women-in-horror anthology, Into The Forest, Baba Yaga provided a ready muse for tales of wildness and wickedness,” says editor Ryan. “Mothers—good, bad, or otherwise—are likewise powerful creatures. Sometimes Mother is the savior tucking us into our warm beds, other times she is the monster waiting beneath it. Mother Knows Best is an exploration...

Exclusive: Montreal-based film sales and marketing consultancy Film Associates International has unveiled a slew of international deals on new 4K restorations of the work of celebrated Canadian director Patricia Rozema.

New York-based arthouse distributor Kino Lorber has acquired North America for her second and third features White Room (1990) and When Night Is Falling (1995) and U.S. rights for more recent work Mouthpiece (2018).

Regarded as a classic in the LGBTQ+ cinema canon, the lesbian love story When Night Is Falling revolves around a literature professor in a religious college, in a relationship with a male colleague, who embarks on a passionate affair with a female circus performer.

Following its debut at the Berlinale in 1995, its North American release prompted unexpected controversy after Canada’s ‘The Globe and Mail’ dropped an advertisement for the film showing two women kissing, and in the U.S. the Motion Picture Assn. of America applied an Nc-17 rating.

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Varèse Sarabande Records is excited to announce the LP release of The Iron Giant (Deluxe Edition) Original Motion Picture Score with music by Michael Kamen. Varèse Sarabande has previously released Kamen’s The Iron Giant score as a 49-minute program single LP. The 2-lp Deluxe Edition is now available for pre-order at all retailers, with a green vinyl version exclusive to VareseSarabande.com and Intl.VareseSarabande.com. The album will release August 5.

The 2-lp package taps directly into the ethos of the film, with a pull tab opening the Giant’s die-cut eyes on the front jacket. Depending on which inner sleeve has been slotted in the first position directly behind the cover, the reveal is different. Open the eyes in normal or defense mode!

Watch the unboxing video.

Preorder here: https://found.ee/theirongiant

Creating The Iron Giant’s beautiful, sympathetic score was Michael Kamen—one of his last...

Black Spot Books announces a new anthology, Into The Forest: Tales Of The Baba Yaga [Black Spot Books, November 8, 2022], featuring new and exclusive stories inspired by the Baba Yaga—the witch of Slavic folklore—written by some of today’s leading women-in-horror. Edited by Lindy Ryan [Under Her Skin], Into The Forest includes twenty-three original stories [...]

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Black Spot Books announces a new anthology, Into The Forest: Tales Of The Baba Yaga [Black Spot Books, November 8, 2022], featuring new and exclusive stories inspired by the Baba Yaga—the witch of Slavic folklore—written by some of today’s leading women-in-horror. Edited by Lindy Ryan [Under Her Skin], Into The Forest includes twenty-three original stories …

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One of the most intriguing film actors of his generation, and a pioneering advocate for numerous social causes, Elliot Page has spent the majority of his life in front of cameras. A native of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Page notched his first role at the age of 10, earning a Young Artist Award nomination for a part in the Halifax-set Canadian TV movie “Pit Pony,” which eventually spun off into a two-season series.

After a few other scattered television parts, his feature film debut came three years later, and was the first of several emotionally weighty roles that the thesp tackled at a very young age. Directed by Wiebke von Carolsfield, “Marion Bridge” saw Page take on the role of a young girl – conceived as the result of a rape and given up for adoption – who reunites with her birth mother as a teenager. The film allowed Page to make the first...

Exclusive: Haroon Saleem, who was President of Production at Trevor Noah’s production company Day Zero Productions, has left the company.

Deadline understands that Saleem, who joined the company in 2019, exited last week.

Saleem, who was based in LA, reported to The Daily Show host Noah and worked with the comedian to build out his ViacomCBS-backed production company. He worked on projects including docuseries The Tipping Point and a remake of political feature film The President’s Analyst.

In a note to peers, Saleem said it was with “great sadness” that he was parting ways with Noah and Day Zero Productions.

“I’m so incredibly proud of the team that I was able to lead and the many successes we had in the almost three years I’ve spent with the company. We built a company from the ground up, with and for Trevor, and while many of us are moving on,...

Elliot Page has inked a first-look deal with UCP to develop scripted and unscripted projects across broadcast, cable and streaming platforms for the Universal Studio Group division.

“I’ve always had great experiences working with UCP,” the Academy Award nominee said in a statement announcing the deal. “Beatrice and the rest of the leadership team support my desire to tell compelling and authentic stories from historically marginalized perspectives — stories that are desperately needed at this moment in time. I’m honored to continue my relationship with UCP in this capacity and I can’t wait to get to work.”

Page stars in “The Umbrella Academy,” a UCP and Netflix collaboration that has gone on to receive four Emmy nominations across various categories and was greenlit for a Season 3 return. It follows a disbanded group of superheroes who reunite after their adoptive father dies.

“Elliot Page is a changemaker in film and television,...

Exclusive: Elliot Page has signed a first-look deal with UCP to develop scripted and unscripted projects across broadcast, cable and streaming platforms.

The pact, which was competitive, expands the Oscar-nominated actor’s relationship with UCP, run by President Beatrice Springborn. Page stars in the studio’s hit Netflix series The Umbrella Academy. The drama, which follows a disbanded group of superheroes who reunite after their adoptive father dies, is headed into its third season and recently received four Emmy nominations.

“I’ve always had great experiences working with UCP,” said Page. “Beatrice and the rest of the leadership team support my desire to tell compelling and authentic stories from historically marginalized perspectives – stories that are desperately needed at this moment in time. I’m honored to continue my relationship with UCP in this capacity and I can’t wait to get to work.”

In addition to Page’s extensive acting resume,...

There’s a load of great content coming to Netflix in November, but just as is always the case, there are also a bunch of titles being removed from the streaming service at the same time. Next month, the platform is losing 53 movies and TV shows. There are some classics amongst them, too, unfortunately, so you might want to fit in a last minute rewatch before they vanish from Netflix’s library.

On the first day of November, four titles are being removed, including horror remake Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark, children’s animated sequel Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs. Evil and Gerard Butler action movie Olympus Has Fallen. 2017 horror Death House is also leaving on the 4th, while drama Into the Forest departs Netflix on the 6th and Jamie Foxx vehicle Sleepless is among those disappearing the following day.

Here’s the full list of everything leaving in November:...

Exclusive: UTA has signed director, producer, writer, advocate and Academy Award-nominated actor Ellen Page for worldwide representation in all areas.

Page was nominated for an Oscar for her role in the Jason Reitman-directed comedy Juno and starred in Christopher Nolan’s Oscar-winning film Inception. She recently made her directorial debut alongside co-director Ian Daniel for Netflix’s There’s Something In The Water. The documentary is based on the novel of the same name by Ingrid Walton. The film explores the scourge of environmental racism through the lens of Indigenous and African Nova Scotian women fighting to protect their communities, their land and their futures.

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Netflix has added three to the cast of its upcoming dramedy series “Sex/Life.”

Mike Vogel, Adam Demos and Margaret Odette will join previously announced star Sarah Shahi in the series based on the Bb Easton book “44Chapters About 4 Men.”

The series tells the story of “a love triangle between a woman, her husband, and her past, which takes a deliciously steamy new look at female identity and desire,” according to Netflix.

Also Read: 'Love Is Blind' Reunion: 7 Most Shocking Moments, From a Surprise Proposal to 'B--, You're Sheisty'

Vogel will play Cooper Connelly, Demos will play Brad Simon, and Odette will play Sasha Snow.

Shahi plays Billie Connelly, described as “a woman with everything to lose, a suburban mother of two who goes in search of that sexy, single girl in the city she used to be ten years ago. She takes a fantasy-charged trip down memory lane...

Alec Bojalad Oct 17, 2019

After creating perhaps the first ever first-person post apocalyptic zombie comic in Daybreak, Brian Ralph discusses the Netflix adaptation.

The first thing that happens in Brian Ralph's 2011 graphic novel Daybreak is a character greeting you. Yes, in the very first panel a man in ragged clothing and missing an arm says "Hello" to you, the reader. In a novel approach to perspective, the reader is the main character of Daybreak as the story has you head off on a post-apocalyptic adventure filled with common dangers and a mass of zombie-like creatures called "ghoulies."

"It was always the intention for the story to be written in the first-person point of view," Ralph, the Savannah based cartoonist and professor at the Savannah College of Art and Design (Scad) says. Daybreak was Ralph's third graphic novel after Cave In and Climbing Out and is now set to become the first to be adapted.

Following its world premiere at Tiff last year, the first trailer for the unique experimental film Mouthpiece has arrived for Mouthpiece, coming from director Patricia Rozema. The film delves into the conflict surrounding a young woman named Catherine (Amy Nostbakken) and her personified inner conflict, which is embodied by another woman also named Catherine (Norah Sadava). She struggles with heartache and contemplation after the death of her mother (Maev Beaty), who gave up her career to have children, a facet that dispels Catherine’s worldview as a headstrong single writer playing by her own rules.

Jared Mobarak wrote in his Tiff review, “Rozema does a great job adapting things to the needs of a cinematic medium. She keeps them close, but not always together. While they ride her bike on two seats, they can also find themselves watching the other make a fool of herself or speak a necessary truth...

The proliferation of reality TV talent contests seem to have given young people (and older people) a false idea of what it means to have artistic talent: mainly, that you don't. All you need to do is win a contest and you'll be famous, without all that messy business in-between of actually developing and improving your skills. Teen Spirit tries to have it both ways, with a girl with some talent that is developed in record time in order for her to win that fateful contest. In his directorial debut, Max Minghella plays it safely down the middle in a predictable, often dull, but still mildly entertaining film about a young girl trying to pursue her...

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Heads up on what's newly available to you this week. Links go to previous coverage / reviews here at Tfe.

DVD/Blu-Ray

• Bel Canto -Julianne Moore as an opera singer. It was barely released

• BlacKkKlansman - Spike Lee's best in ages. We think it might be competitive for Picture, Director, Adapted Screenplay, and Editing nominations. Do you?

• Christopher Robin - Ewan McGregor stars as the boy all grown up revisited by Pooh, Tigger, and the Hundred Acre Woods gang.

• Incredibles 2 - The year's fourth biggest hit globally with 1.2 billion in the bank

• Loving Pablo - Penelope Cruz & Javier Bardem star in this drama about a journalist and a drug lord.

• Papillon - Rami Malek and Charlie Hunnam remake the Dustin Hoffman and Steve McQueen prison drama

• Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood - a salacious documentary about a man who allegedly secured same-sex sex for the movie stars of Old Hollywood.

Amazon Prime Video has confirmed that several of its original series will be debuting new episodes on the streaming service in November, including the first season of the Julia Roberts drama “Homecoming” and the sophomore edition of “Patriot.”

Likewise, there will be plenty of movies making their first appearances on Amazon Prime Video including those featuring Oscar-winning turns by Nicolas Cage (“Leaving Las Vegas”), Tilda Swinton (“Michael Clayton) and Shirley Maclaine (“Terms of Endearment”).

Unlike Netflix, Amazon does not disclose the shows and movies leaving the service in any given month. We’ve done some digging and unearthed a few titles that will be exiting Amazon Prime Video in the first week of November. News of these is detailed at the bottom of this post.

See Netflix schedule: Here’s what is coming and leaving in November

Available November 1

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2001 Maniacs

Alice

Assault on Precinct 13

Candyman: Day of the Dead

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Netflix has confirmed that 57 new original series, movies and specials will be debuting on the streaming service in November, including the first season of “The Kominsky Method” and the sixth and final season of “House of Cards.” Likewise, there will be plenty of movies making their first Netflix appearances including the red-hot Oscar contenders “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs” and “Outlaw King.”

Available November 1

Angela’s Christmas (Netflix Original)

Bram Stoker’s Dracula

Bring It On: In It to Win It

Cape Fear

Children of Men

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Cloverfield

Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo

Doctor Strange

Fair Game – Director’s Cut

Follow This: Part 3 (Netflix Original)

From Dusk Till Dawn

Good Will Hunting

Jet Li’s Fearless

Julie & Julia

Katt Williams: The Pimp Chronicles: Pt. 1

National Lampoon’s Animal House

Next Avengers: Heroes of Tomorrow

Planet Hulk

Scary Movie 2

Scary Movie 3

Sex and the...

Christmas is coming early to Netflix, with the streaming platform adding a host of new holiday movies to its November lineup.

Kicking off the month is “Angela’s Christmas” — an animated feature about a young Irish girl — followed by another heartwarming holiday tale, “The Holiday Calendar,” about a young photographer who discovers a magical advent calendar that can predict the future. Later on, Netflix is releasing the much anticipated follow-up to “A Christmas Prince,” revisiting the characters of Prince Richard (Ben Lamb) and Amber (Rose McIver), as she begins to question her upcoming wedding and the ascension to royalty that comes with it.

Viewers who aren’t in the mood for Christmas cheer will also be able to watch the final season of “House of Cards” on Nov. 2 — this time sans Kevin Spacey and with Claire Underwood serving as president. A number of popular films are also coming to the streaming platform,...

Christmas may be more than a month away, but that isn’t stopping streaming platforms from adding some holiday cheer to their November lineups.

Beginning with the animated film “Angela’s Christmas” on Nov. 1, Netflix is adding several holiday movies to its streaming slate, including “The Holiday Calendar,” “The Princess Switch,” and “A Christmas Prince: The Royal Wedding.” Hulu and Amazon Prime are also following suit with “A Cinderella Christmas” on Nov. 15 and “Christmas With the Kranks” on Nov. 1, respectively.

November is also seeing the premiere of several platform originals, including the final season of Netflix’s “House of Cards” and Julia Roberts’ Amazon Prime debut, “Homecoming.” The documentary “McQueen” is also joining Amazon’s slate while Netflix will launch “Doctor Strange,” “Sixteen Candles,” and “Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End.” Hulu will see a similarly large influx of new films, including “Goldeneye,” “Amelie,” and “Kick-Ass.”

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Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga’s remake of A Star is Born, Ryan Gosling’s Neil Armstrong biopic, First Man, as well as new films from Barry Jenkins and Steve McQueen will show at the 2018 Toronto Film Festival.

A Star Is Born marks Cooper’s directorial debut and finds the actor playing an alcoholic country singer-songwriter whose life and career suddenly change after he meets a fledgling musician, played by Lady Gaga. The pop star wrote a handful of original songs for the film, which will make its North American premiere at Tiff.

Lagardere Studios’ production label Imagissime is developing several internationally-driven documentaries, including “Living Under the Third Reich” and “The Rise of Modern Cooking.”

“The Rise of Modern Cooking,” which has been commissioned by Franco-German network Arte, as well as Belgian and Canadian broadcasters, pays homage to Auguste Escoffier — the restaurateur and culinary writer who modernized traditional French cooking methods. The documentary, directed by Olivier Julien, mixies archival, animated, and live-action footage.

The doc will start shooting soon. Elodie Polo Ackermann, the founder and president of Imagissime, said she aimed at creating an edgy, fun documentary that could lure young audiences. Polo Ackermann, who previously worked at Doc en Stock and Film en Stock on programs such Olivier Assayas’ “Carlos,” said she strived to deliver documentaries boasting sharply-written scripts.

“The line between fiction and documentary is blurrier than ever today so we’re looking to enlist authors who work in fiction and...

Exclusive: In the second sassy project we can reveal this morning in Cannes, Birdman star Andrea Riseborough and fast-rising Christopher Abbott (First Man) will lead Brandon Cronenberg’s sophomore feature Possessor.

Cronenberg’s 2012 body-horror debut Antiviral played at festivals including Cannes, Toronto and London and he has corralled a duo in hot form for his next movie with Abbott currently leading cast in George Clooney’s Hulu drama series Catch 22 and Riseborough currently in production on Amazon’s international drugs trade series ZeroZeroZero.

We understand shoot is due to kick off in early 2019 on the movie, which Arclight Films is launching world sales on in Cannes. Cronenberg is directing from a script he wrote about Tasya Vos (Riseborough), an agent for a secretive organization who uses brain-implant technology to inhabit other people’s bodies, driving them to commit assassinations for the benefit of high-paying clients. But something goes wrong on a routine job,...

Exclusive: Haroon 'Boon' Saleem has been hired to be executive vice president of production at Red Hour, the company run by Ben Stiller and Nicky Weinstock. Saleem has 20 years of experience, and served as an executive on such films as The Chronicles of Narnia, Ray, Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D, Into the Forest, I Am Legend and Hancock. Saleem will report to Weinstock and Stiller and will develop, package and manage Red Hour projects. The company, which has a…...

Exclusive: Haroon 'Boon' Saleem has been hired to be executive vice president of production at Red Hour, the company run by Ben Stiller and Nicky Weinstock. Saleem has 20 years of experience, and served as an executive on such films as The Chronicles of Narnia, Ray, Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D, Into the Forest, I Am Legend and Hancock. Saleem will report to Weinstock and Stiller and will develop, package and manage Red Hour projects. The company, which has a…...

Star Trek: Discovery Into The Forest I Go Review Star Trek: Discovery: Season 1, Episode 9: Into The Forest I Go is competently enough made, but lacks the awe-inspiring quality of previous episodes and makes for a mediocre winter finale. Up until this point, there hasn’t really been a bad episode of Discovery. In fact, there still hasn’t [...]

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James Hunt Nov 14, 2017

Star Trek Discovery signs off for its winter hiatus with an episode that has it all. Spoilers ahead in our review...

This review contains spoilers.

See related Designated Survivor: a show well worth checking out

1.9 Into The Forest I Go

Well, I think it’s fair to say that Discovery has completely found its feet. This episode had it all: character drama, plot twists, the rich tapestry of all human life on display, and a space ship blowing the hell up. Tng took three seasons to put my heart in my throat during an action sequence. Disco has done it after fewer than ten episodes.

At this point, I feel naught but pity for Trek fans who can’t engage with the show, because they’re missing out on a great experience: a progressive and optimistic show, but one which is also nuanced and subtle. Complaints...

The last 2017 episode of Star Trek: Discovery, “Into the Forest I Go,” has put several things to bed, while only keeping us gleefully agitated until the next half of the season. Let’s just hit spore drive and jump right into it. Star Trek: Discovery finally found its way I’m so glad that, at the […]

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[Editor’s Note: Spoilers for “Star Trek: Discovery” Season 1 Episode 9, “Into the Forest I Go,” follow.]

“Star Trek: Discovery” fans thrown off guard by the midseason finale’s ending, guess what? That was the plan. According to showrunners Gretchen Berg and Aaron Harberts, that’s exactly what they wanted.

“Every couple of episodes, right around the time the audience feels like, ‘Oh, I know what you’re doing,’ we switch it up,” Berg told IndieWire. “It became a natural rhythm for the show, and it makes it really fun for us, the writers, everybody, really. Because it’s a way to keep it lively.”

The final moments of Episode 9, “Into the Forest I Go,” find the Discovery lost in unknown territory following a massive malfunction with the ship’s spore drive. “It felt like a great place to end the first half of the season, too,” Harberts said. “We had a lot of fun tracking the debate that the fans are having about where they think...

[Editor’s Note: Spoilers for “Star Trek: Discovery” Season 1 Episode 9, “Into the Forest I Go,” follow.]

As the way we watch television changes, so does the way many TV shows define the release of episodes. That’s why we’re going to acknowledge that CBS All Access refers to the first nine episodes of “Star Trek: Discovery” Season 1 as “Chapter 1,” with the next batch, “Chapter 2,” set to premiere in January 2018.

How does that affect our experience watching the mid-season finale? Thanks to the ending, there’s a very clear endpoint for at least one storyline, but plenty more to be explored going forward. It’s always a fools’ game to look for complete answers at this point in the season — as “Discovery” is very much a modern version of “Star Trek,” which means it’s determined to keep us on our toes.

Read More:‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Review: An Intriguing Episode Readies the Crew for a Major Showdown Mission Brief

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Star Trek: Discovery Into The Forest I Go Trailer CBS‘s Star Trek: Discovery: Season 1, Episode 9: Into the Forest I Go TV Show Trailer stars Sonequa Martin-Green. The Discovery endeavors to take the fight to the Klingons in the trailer for the show’s winter finale. Star Trek: Discovery: Season 1’s plot synopsis from [...]

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Sony Classical announces the release of Goodbye Christopher Robin (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) with an original score by Academy Award®-nominated composer Carter Burwell.

The soundtrack will be released digitally on October 13 and on CD on October 27, 2017. The film will be released in the Us on October 13, 2017.

Pre-order here.

Goodbye Christopher Robin is directed by Simon Curtis (My Week with Marilyn, Woman in Gold) and will be released in Us theaters by Fox Searchlight Pictures on October 13, 2017.

Carter Burwell said about the score:

“One of the riskier decisions Simon Curtis and I made with the score was to withhold the main theme until the middle of the film, when A. A. Milne begins to write and his friend Ernest Shepard begins to illustrate “Winnie The Pooh”. We did this to make that moment especially noteworthy, to make it the turning point of the story. Before that point, the music plays...

Sony Pictures has debuted five new "Flatliners" character posters ! Opening in North America on September 29, the new "Flatliners" movie stars Academy Award nominee Ellen Page ("Inception", "Into The Forest", "X-men: Days Of Future Past"), Diego Luna ("Rogue One: A Star Wars Story", "Elysium"), Keifer Sutherland ("Melancholia", "Mirrors", "Flatliners" the original one), Nina Dobrev ("The Vampire Diaries", "The Roommate"), James Norton ("Black Mirror") and Kiersey Clemens ("Justice League"). "Flatliners" is being helmed by Niels Arden Oplev, (original Swedish version of "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo"). The film boasts a screenplay from "Source Code" writer Ben Ripley. The original "Flatliners", released in 1990, was directed by Joel Schumacher. Starring Keifer Sutherland,...

In the three years since she came out as a lesbian in 2014, Ellen Page has taken on projects that feel closer to her authentic self. She played gay opposite Julianne Moore in last year’s “Freeheld,” played sister to fellow out queer Evan Rachel Wood in “Into the Forest,” and spearheaded the complicated feminist drama “Tallulah” as executive producer and star. She is also a producer and host of Vice’s “Gaycation,” a documentary series exploring gay lives around the world.

Read More‘Flatliners’ Trailer: Ellen Page Stops Hearts In the Horror Version of ‘The Oa’ — Watch

The raw emotion Page channels in “Slack Jaw,” a short dance film set to the haunting music of electronic pop duo Sylvan Esso, may be the most intimate performance the “Juno” star has yet to put to screen. Set in a spare studio with only a metal folding chair as a prop, Page...

Remake has evidently become a dirty word in Hollywood; the preferred marketing description is "re-imagining" or "re-thinking" or "re-revision" or somesuch nonsense. In any event, a new version of Flatliners is on its way and the first trailer has been unleashed. Two aspects draw my attention. The first is Ellen Page, who has the lead role and looks very authentic; the actress has been focusing on indie films like Into the Forest and Freeheld and Tallulah of late, and it's a pleasure to see her at the center of a big Hollywood production. (I can't help remembering that she was touted for the lead in Sam Raimi's Drag Me to Hell, and this reminds me of that.) The second aspect is the presence of Danish...

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A24 cemented its perception as the new-model indie distributor when Barry Jenkins’ “Moonlight” won three Oscars, including that dramatic best-picture win. So what does the upstart indie, hailed for holding the skeleton key that unlocks the precious millennial demo, do for an encore?

The Tribeca Film Festival showcased two upcoming A24 releases, both of which seem oddly retro: World War II costume drama “The Exception,” starring Oscar-winner Christopher Plummer as Kaiser Wilhelm II, and “The Lovers,” starring Debra Winger and Tracy Letts as an unhappy older married couple. They also dropped the trailer for Yiddish-language Hasidic family drama “Menashe” and suddenly, the new boss looks a lot like the old one.

What gives? This older-demo arthouse trio could easily carry the signature blue-and-white logo of venerable specialty distributor Sony Pictures Classics. But don’t be deceived by appearances. A24 is a far cry from older-generation studio indies like Spc and Fox Searchlight,...

A24 cemented its perception as the new-model indie distributor when Barry Jenkins’ “Moonlight” won three Oscars, including that dramatic best-picture win. So what does the upstart indie, hailed for holding the skeleton key that unlocks the precious millennial demo, do for an encore?

The Tribeca Film Festival showcased three upcoming A24 releases, all of which seem oddly retro. There’s Yiddish-language Hasidic family drama “Menashe,” World War II costume drama “The Exception,” starring Oscar-winner Christopher Plummer as Kaiser Wilhelm II, and “The Lovers,” starring Debra Winger and Tracy Letts as an unhappy older married couple. Suddenly, the new boss looks a lot like the old one.

What gives? This older-demo arthouse trio could easily carry the signature blue-and-white logo of venerable specialty distributor Sony Pictures Classics. But don’t be deceived by appearances. A24 is a far cry from older-generation studio indies like Spc and Fox Searchlight, which tend to follow an established playbook.

04.27.17: This list is now final. While I may in the future see additional films that were released in the awards year of 2016, no more films will be added to this list. (I may add links to reviews of films listed here.)

This ranking includes only new theatrical releases viewed for the awards year of 2016 (for eligibility for the Academy Awards and the Ofcs and Awfj awards); some films released in the UK without Us releases (and so ineligible for those awards this year) may also be included, for my own bookkeeping purposes. Links go to my review. Numbers after each entry are Date First Viewed/NYC Release Date/London Release Date; year is 2016 unless otherwise noted.

worth paying multiplex prices for

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Arrival (10.10/11.11/11.10)

La La Land (10.07/12.09/01.13.17)

A Monster Calls (10.06/12.23/01.01.17)

The Lobster (07.16.15/05.13/10.16.15)

Zootropolis (aka Zootopia) (02.22/03.04/03.25)

A Bigger Splash (10.08.15/05.04/02.12)

Miss Sloane (11.20/11.25/05.12.17)

London Road (06.03.15/09.09/06.12.15)

The Girl with All the Gifts (07.26/02.24.17/09.23)

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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.

– Gravitas Ventures has acquired the U.S. theatrical, digital and video rights to “Elián,” the story of Elián González, a five-year-old Cuban boy plucked from the Florida Straits on Thanksgiving Day in 1999, and how the fight over his future sparked a flashpoint for U.S. and Cuban tensions. Directed by Ross McDonnell and Tim Golden, the film is executive produced by Alex Gibney’s Jigsaw Productions.

Read More: Film Acquisition Rundown: Fox Searchlight Picks Up ‘The Spy With No Name,’ FilmRise Buys ‘Marjorie Prime’ and More

“Elián” is slated for a platform theatrical release beginning in New York and Los Angeles on May 19. The film will also be premiering at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival on...

Exclusive: Breathe and Submergence seller appoints former Celsius and Independent executive.

UK sales outfit Embankment Films has appointed former Celsius and Independent executive Calum Gray as head of sales with immediate effect.

At Embankment Gray will work on a slate including Andrew Garfield drama Breathe, James McAvoy and Alicia Vikander love story Submergence, Glenn Close drama The Wife and biopic Churchill starring Brian Cox.

Former head of sales Sharon Lee is to temporarily relocate to Amsterdam from where she will continue to oversee sales in a number of key territories, including all Asian markets.

Recently headed into production for Embankment are Melanie Laurent’s Galveston, written by True Detective creator Nic Pizzolatto and starring Ben Foster and Elle Fanning, and Ian Bonhôte’s Alexander McQueen feature doc McQueen.

Embankment co-chief Tim Haslam said: “Hugo and I value Calum highly - and our dynamic team thoroughly embrace his highly positive energy and multi-talented personality. And we’re thrilled...

French writer-director Gilles Marchand broke out onto the scene back in 2000 with the clever comic thriller With a Friend Like Harry…, which he wrote for Dominik Moll. He followed it up with his well-received directorial debut Who Killed Bambi?, and has since penned several genre-benders for Moll and other filmmakers – including Cedric Kahn’s excellent Simenon adaptation Red Lights – while taking a second stab behind the helm with the shaky virtual reality thriller Black Heaven.

In his third directorial outing, Into the Forest (Dans la foret), Marchand offers up a mélange of family psychodrama and supernatural storytelling with...

“Don’t Judge a Book by Its Cover” is a proverb whose simple existence proves the fact impressionable souls will do so without fail. This monthly column (with a special year-end retrospective today) focuses on the film industry’s willingness to capitalize on this truth, releasing one-sheets to serve as not representations of what audiences are to expect, but as propaganda to fill seats. Oftentimes they fail miserably.

2016 wasn’t just a great year for films — the posters advertising them were quite fantastic too. That’s not to say we weren’t inundated at the multiplex with character sheets spanning Disney cartoon and photo-real superheroes to boring portraits on loud backgrounds, though. It was simply easier to ignore them.

I could put together a completely different list sorted by typography (The Alchemist Cookbook, La La Land, The Land, and Peter and the Farm) or illustration (Childhood of a Leader, Knight of Cups,...

The Most Underrated Films of 2016The Most Underrated Films of 2016Adriana Floridia12/28/2016 11:21:00 Am

In our humble opinion, there were a few films this year that did not get the recognition that they deserved.

Not every film is going to be a hit, but the following list highlights some of the films that we loved that didn't seem to gain either the critical consensus, popularity, or viewership that we would've hoped for. In support of these films, and as we reflect on the year of movies in 2016, we're singling out some of our favourites that we feel you may have missed as they may have got lost under the shadows of showier flicks.

Here are our picks for the most underrated films of 2016:

Nerve

A surprisingly clever and suspenseful commentary on the negative effects of social media, Nerve was not the movie that we were expecting. Starring Emma Roberts and Dave Franco,...

Houda Benyamina [pictured], Jessica Hausner and Rebecca Daly among directors due to attend the festival.

The Les Arcs European Film Festival will champion female filmmakers at its eighth edition unfolding in the heart of the French Alps Dec 10-17.

A sidebar titled The New Women of Cinema will screen features by 10 female directors including Houda Benyamina’s Caméra d’Or-winning Divines, Rebecca Daly’s Mammal and Rachel Lang’s Baden Baden.

Older titles such as Jessica Hausner’s Lourdes, Agnes Kocsis’ Fresh Air and Nanouk Leopold’s Brownian Movement are also included in the line-up

The initiative is an extension of the festival’s Femme de Cinema award introduced in 2013, the recipients of which have included Bosnian director Jamila Zbanic and Poland’s Małgorzata Szumowska.

Alongside the screenings, there will also be a presentation on a specially-commissioned study of emerging female directors, as well as round-tables and a master-class by one of the attending female directors.

The programme...

Houda Benyamina [pictured], Jessica Hausner and Rebecca Daly among directors due to attend the festival.

The Les Arcs European Film Festival will champion female filmmakers at its eighth edition unfolding in the heart of the French Alps Dec 10-17.

A sidebar titled The New Women of Cinema will screen features by 10 female directors including Houda Benyamina’s Caméra d’Or-winning Divines, Rebecca Daly’s Mammal and Rachel Lang’s Baden Baden.

Older titles such as Jessica Hausner’s Lourdes, Agnes Kocsis’ Fresh Air and Nanouk Leopold’s Brownian Movement are also included in the line-up

The initiative is an extension of the festival’s Femme de Cinema award introduced in 2013, the recipients of which have included Bosnian director Jamila Zbanic and Poland’s Małgorzata Szumowska.

Alongside the screenings, there will also be a presentation on a specially-commissioned study of emerging female directors, as well as round-tables and a master-class by one of the attending female directors.

The programme...

What if your life's dream, a goal you had been working years to achieve, was suddenly made impossible by, say, the end of civilization as we know it? What if a global war meant that any semblance of your old life disappeared? How would you live out, day to day, if your crushed dream was the only piece of sanity you could cling to? Marc Lahore's post-apocalyptic drama The Open looks at the lives of three people, clinging to a shred of their former lives even as the war planes fly above them. A quiet, understated drama, it follows in a line of recent science fiction films such as Into the Forest and Embers that eschew the technological and focus on the introspective, human aspect...

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Academy Award nominee Ellen Page (Best Actress, Juno, 2007) and Golden Globe nominee Evan Rachel Wood star as sisters fighting for survival in Into the Forest, arriving on Blu-ray (plus Digital HD) and DVD (plus Digital) on October 4 from Lionsgate. The heartfelt adaptation of Jean Hegland’s best-selling novel had its world premiere at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival, and was theatrically released by A24. Also starring Max Minghella and Callum Keith Rennie, Into the Forest will be available on Blu-ray and DVD for the suggested retail price of $24.99 and $19.98, respectively. Official Synopsis

Set in the near future, this riveting and suspenseful apocalyptic drama follows two sisters whose peaceful lives are disrupted one day by a world-wide power outage. The sisters must work together in order to survive in their increasingly treacherous new world, fighting intruders, disease, loneliness, and starvation.

Blu-ray/DVD Special Features “The Making of Into the Forest” Featurette...

Writer/director Patricia Rozema’s Into the Forest had an exclusive run on DirecTV in June and received a limited theatrical release in July, which means a lot of us haven’t had a chance to see it yet; but that changes in… Continue Reading →

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