Exclusive: Matthew Arnold, the creator and executive producer of NBC’s Emerald City and Siberia, will soon unveil his first graphic novel Eden, a sci-fi story exploring a new and controversial approach to incarceration. The graphic novel illustrated by Riccardo Burchielli will become available in digital form via Amazon’s cloud-based service ComiXology Originals on March 29. It’s set for publication in print by Dark Horse, the legendary company behind titles including Black Hammer, Hellboy, Sin City and The Umbrella Academy, on July 12.
Eden is billed as a story told in five chapters about starting over. When a new law declares that convicted criminals should be cryogenically frozen instead of jailed, society thinks it has found a more humane way to deal with inmates. But when Anna Craft, a senator accused of a horrible crime, is imprisoned under this new system, alongside her sheriff husband Ben,...
Eden is billed as a story told in five chapters about starting over. When a new law declares that convicted criminals should be cryogenically frozen instead of jailed, society thinks it has found a more humane way to deal with inmates. But when Anna Craft, a senator accused of a horrible crime, is imprisoned under this new system, alongside her sheriff husband Ben,...
- 1/20/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
The Venice Film Festival has unveiled its official poster by Italian illustrator and author Lorenzo Mattotti, and announced that a film by Venice native Andrea Segre looking at how the fest navigated Covid-19 last year will screen as its pre-opening event.
Titled “La Biennale di Venezia: il cinema al tempo del Covid,” which translates to “The Venice Biennale: Cinema in the time of Covid,” the pre-opener will screen on Aug. 31. The project is a video diary chronicling how Venice pulled off last year’s edition as a physical event, becoming the only top-tier international film festival to do so. Pic is produced by the Venice Biennale, the arts foundation that oversees the Venice fest, with Italy’s Rai Cinema and Istituto Luce Cinecittà.
On its pre-opening night, Venice will also screen a freshly restored copy of 1971 Italian classic “Per grazia ricevuta” (Between Miracles), directed by and starring the late great actor-director Nino Manfredi,...
Titled “La Biennale di Venezia: il cinema al tempo del Covid,” which translates to “The Venice Biennale: Cinema in the time of Covid,” the pre-opener will screen on Aug. 31. The project is a video diary chronicling how Venice pulled off last year’s edition as a physical event, becoming the only top-tier international film festival to do so. Pic is produced by the Venice Biennale, the arts foundation that oversees the Venice fest, with Italy’s Rai Cinema and Istituto Luce Cinecittà.
On its pre-opening night, Venice will also screen a freshly restored copy of 1971 Italian classic “Per grazia ricevuta” (Between Miracles), directed by and starring the late great actor-director Nino Manfredi,...
- 7/20/2021
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Gerardo Naranjo’s “Kokoloko” took home the Premio Mezcal for best Mexican film at the hybrid 35th Guadalajara Film Festival (Ficg), which wrapped Friday, Nov. 27.
The love triangle drama signals a return to the big screen for Naranjo who has spent nearly a decade after his 2011 hit “Miss Bala” directing episodes of such high-profile series as “Narcos,” “The Bridge” and “Fear the Walking Dead.”
Shot in 16 mm, Naranjo’s drama about a woman caught between two men, one a violent cousin holding her captive, first debuted at Tribeca where lead Noe Hernandez won the Best Actor prize. The Match Factory handles international sales.
Chilean film and TV writer-director-producer Andres Wood won the Best Ibero-American film prize with his political thriller “Spider,” that tracks the disparate fates of right-wing radicals in the early ‘70s, prior to the coup d’état that heralds the military regime of Augusto Pinochet in Chile. Drama...
The love triangle drama signals a return to the big screen for Naranjo who has spent nearly a decade after his 2011 hit “Miss Bala” directing episodes of such high-profile series as “Narcos,” “The Bridge” and “Fear the Walking Dead.”
Shot in 16 mm, Naranjo’s drama about a woman caught between two men, one a violent cousin holding her captive, first debuted at Tribeca where lead Noe Hernandez won the Best Actor prize. The Match Factory handles international sales.
Chilean film and TV writer-director-producer Andres Wood won the Best Ibero-American film prize with his political thriller “Spider,” that tracks the disparate fates of right-wing radicals in the early ‘70s, prior to the coup d’état that heralds the military regime of Augusto Pinochet in Chile. Drama...
- 11/29/2020
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
Cannes Jury Prize winner is also France’s submission to the Oscars this year.
Ladj Ly’s debut feature and Cannes Jury Prize winner Les Misérables, revolving around social tensions in a tough Paris suburb, is the frontrunner in the 25th edition of France’s Lumière awards this year, with seven nominations.
The awards which are voted on by some 130 international correspondents hailing from 40 countries are France’s equivalent of the Golden Globes.
Les Misérables has been nominated for best film, director, screenplay, cinematography, first film and twice in the best new actor section for two of its cast members,...
Ladj Ly’s debut feature and Cannes Jury Prize winner Les Misérables, revolving around social tensions in a tough Paris suburb, is the frontrunner in the 25th edition of France’s Lumière awards this year, with seven nominations.
The awards which are voted on by some 130 international correspondents hailing from 40 countries are France’s equivalent of the Golden Globes.
Les Misérables has been nominated for best film, director, screenplay, cinematography, first film and twice in the best new actor section for two of its cast members,...
- 12/3/2019
- by 1100388¦Melanie Goodfellow¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
The Best Film in the Alice nella Città section is The Dazzled, while Lorenzo Mattotti wins the Best Director Award for The Bears' Famous Invasion of Sicily, and Cleo is also a winner. Alessandro Piva’s Santa subito won the BNl Audience Award (the only award given in the Official Selection) at the 14th Rome Film Fest, which ended yesterday, on 27 October, celebrating an 18% increase in box office earnings, a 10% increase in tickets sold, and an 86% increase in visits to its official website. The documentary on the femicide of Santa Scorese, a young, saintly Catholic activist killed in Bari in 1991 by a deranged man, was elected winner of the Audience Award by viewers who voted via myCicero (with the official app of the festival) and on the festival website. Regarding Alice nella Città, the parallel and independent section of the festival dedicated to new generations of...
- 10/28/2019
- Cineuropa - The Best of European Cinema
Illustrator Lorenzo Mattotti is no stranger to film festivals. The artist – a long-time New Yorker cover artist and onetime Lou Reed and Michelangelo Antonioni collaborator – has designed posters for past editions of Venice and Cannes, and has contributed to films that played in Toronto and Rome.
This year, however, he experienced the festival rush from a whole new angle, as he brought his directorial debut, “The Bears’ Famous Invasion of Sicily,” to Cannes and Annecy. The film screened at this week’s Mia market in Rome.
Adapted from a cult 1945 children’s book by Italian poet Dino Buzzati, the film uses hand-drawn 2D to spin a fable-like tale about a group of benevolent bears that descend the mountains of Sicily to bring some sense to the human world.
Pathé International is handling world sales.
You’ve worn many hats in your career. For how long have you wanted to direct?...
This year, however, he experienced the festival rush from a whole new angle, as he brought his directorial debut, “The Bears’ Famous Invasion of Sicily,” to Cannes and Annecy. The film screened at this week’s Mia market in Rome.
Adapted from a cult 1945 children’s book by Italian poet Dino Buzzati, the film uses hand-drawn 2D to spin a fable-like tale about a group of benevolent bears that descend the mountains of Sicily to bring some sense to the human world.
Pathé International is handling world sales.
You’ve worn many hats in your career. For how long have you wanted to direct?...
- 10/20/2019
- by Ben Croll
- Variety Film + TV
Manora's Fantastic TaleA fluffy stick figure in Don Hertzfeldt’s introduction for The Animation Show (2003) plaintively asks, “What’s Animation?”—and what follows in this brilliant short is a staging of the magic and power of animation, its contrarian tendencies towards cuteness and violence, and its delightful defiance of accepted (realist) categories and definitions. While it may seem a bit obvious to ask this question, the problem of “what’s animation” continues to resonate deeply in contemporary film culture. This has been especially true this year with a controversial pick for the Cannes Film Festival’s Un Certain Regard section, Lorenzo Mattotti’s The Bears Famous Invasion of Sicily. Was it too perverse, too demented, or too shoddy to be shown in the festival? No, it seemed too “childish,” provoking some critics to ask how it could be relevant for adults or appropriate for a “serious” film festival. Such rigorous...
- 7/24/2019
- MUBI
Celebrating its 72nd edition this year, the Locarno Film Festival has been the birthplace for the finest in international arthouse cinema and this year’s lineup looks to continue the tradition. Ahead of the festival, running August 7-17, the full slate has been announced.
Top highlights include the world premieres of Pedro Costa’s Vitalina Varela (pictured above), Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s To the Ends of the Earth, Ben Rivers & Anocha Suwichakornpong’s Krabi, 2562, Ben Russell’s Color-blind, Denis Côté’s Wilcox, Fabrice Du Welz’s Adoration, as well as a new 12-minute short film from Yorgos Lanthimos titled Nimic and starring Matt Dillon. Other titles that have caught out eye are Echo, from Sparrows director Rúnar Rúnarsson, and A Girl Missing, from Harmonium director Koji Fukada.
The festival will also kick off with some star power as Patrick Vollrath’s 7500, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, will premiere. Check out the lineup below,...
Top highlights include the world premieres of Pedro Costa’s Vitalina Varela (pictured above), Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s To the Ends of the Earth, Ben Rivers & Anocha Suwichakornpong’s Krabi, 2562, Ben Russell’s Color-blind, Denis Côté’s Wilcox, Fabrice Du Welz’s Adoration, as well as a new 12-minute short film from Yorgos Lanthimos titled Nimic and starring Matt Dillon. Other titles that have caught out eye are Echo, from Sparrows director Rúnar Rúnarsson, and A Girl Missing, from Harmonium director Koji Fukada.
The festival will also kick off with some star power as Patrick Vollrath’s 7500, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, will premiere. Check out the lineup below,...
- 7/17/2019
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Above artwork illustrated by Lorenzo Mattotti Circle of Confusion, the production company that brought you such spine-tingling sensations as The Walking Dead and Fear The Walking Dead have landed the rights to A Wicked Tale, an original script penned by Dan Kay. While Kay's script has been described as a contemporary horror take on the classic Brothers Grimm tale, Hansel &…...
- 6/28/2019
- by Steve Seigh
- JoBlo.com
A classic Italian children’s book from 1945 gets an update in master illustrator Lorenzo Mattotti’s feature debut, “The Bears’ Famous Invasion of Sicily.” Beautifully drawn with bold colors and appealing shapes, the film’s style is classic animation at its best, clear and pleasing, calculated to charm children and adults alike. The revised storyline, however, about how bears and humans clash, make amends, and then realize they’re too different to live together, can lead to unfortunate and inadvertent interpretations neither Mattotti nor the original author Dino Buzzati intended. In addition, the narrative’s pace, whizzing by from one scene to the next, frustrates an adult’s desire to relish the often-striking images, making the film most suitable for kids incapable of critically engaging with metaphor.
“The Bears’ Famous Invasion” first appeared in print toward the end of World War 2, written and illustrated by the multi-talented Buzzati, whose novel...
“The Bears’ Famous Invasion” first appeared in print toward the end of World War 2, written and illustrated by the multi-talented Buzzati, whose novel...
- 6/5/2019
- by Jay Weissberg
- Variety Film + TV
Eclectic Italian artist and illustrator Lorenzo Mattotti has designed everything from comic books to New Yorker covers in his long and acclaimed career, but The Bears’ Famous Invasion of Sicily (La famosa invasione degli orsi in Sicilia) is his first venture into feature filmmaking. Based on novelist Dino Buzzati’s (The Tartar Steppe) only children’s book, which takes its cue from local traditions like the wandering minstrel and storyteller, it is a colorful fairy tale for children that won't keep them up at night. Exactly why the Franco-Italian co-production ended up in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard section needs ...
- 5/25/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Eclectic Italian artist and illustrator Lorenzo Mattotti has designed everything from comic books to New Yorker covers in his long and acclaimed career, but The Bears’ Famous Invasion of Sicily (La famosa invasione degli orsi in Sicilia) is his first venture into feature filmmaking. Based on novelist Dino Buzzati’s (The Tartar Steppe) only children’s book, which takes its cue from local traditions like the wandering minstrel and storyteller, it is a colorful fairy tale for children that won't keep them up at night. Exactly why the Franco-Italian co-production ended up in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard section needs ...
- 5/25/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Quentin Tarantino is officially returning to the Cannes Film Festival with the world premiere of his ninth feature film “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.” The title was not announced during the official Cannes lineup reveal April 18, as Tarantino has been busy in the editing room trying to get the film ready for both a May premiere on the Croisette and its July theatrical release. Returning to Cannes this year was on Tarantino’s wish list as the 2019 event marks the 25th anniversary of his “Pulp Fiction” winning the Palme d’Or.
“We were afraid the film would not be ready, as it wouldn’t be released until late July, but Quentin Tarantino, who has not left the editing room in four months, is a real, loyal and punctual child of Cannes,” Cannes executive Thierry Frémaux said in a statement announcing “Hollywood’s” late inclusion. “Like for ‘Inglourious Basterds,’ he...
“We were afraid the film would not be ready, as it wouldn’t be released until late July, but Quentin Tarantino, who has not left the editing room in four months, is a real, loyal and punctual child of Cannes,” Cannes executive Thierry Frémaux said in a statement announcing “Hollywood’s” late inclusion. “Like for ‘Inglourious Basterds,’ he...
- 5/2/2019
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
After some hestitation if Quentin Tarantino would finish Once Upon a Time in Hollywood in time for a Cannes premiere, the festival announced today that his 1969-set film would officially be ready to have its world bow there. Set to screen in 35mm, it clocks in at 2 hours and 45 minutes, but it’s not the longest film added to the competition line-up. The festival will also premiere Abdellatif Kechiche’s sequel Mektoub, My Love: Intermezzo, which runs a whopping four hours.
It’s also not the only Tarantino update we got this week. Speaking to /Film about his re-edited Netflix version of The Hateful Eight, he revealed that his rumored director’s cut of the Django Unchained is a reality and it’s coming sooner than we thought. “I’ve actually cut a director’s cut of Django. That’s about like three hours and 15 minutes, or three hours and 20 minutes,...
It’s also not the only Tarantino update we got this week. Speaking to /Film about his re-edited Netflix version of The Hateful Eight, he revealed that his rumored director’s cut of the Django Unchained is a reality and it’s coming sooner than we thought. “I’ve actually cut a director’s cut of Django. That’s about like three hours and 15 minutes, or three hours and 20 minutes,...
- 5/2/2019
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” has been added to the competition lineup of this month’s Cannes Film Festival, general delegate Thierry Frémaux announced Thursday.
“We were afraid the film would not be ready, as it wouldn’t be released until late July, but Quentin Tarantino, who has not left the editing room in four months, is a real, loyal and punctual child of Cannes!” Fremaux said in a statement.
“Like for ‘Inglourious Basterds,’ he’ll definitely be there — 25 years after the Palme d’or for ‘Pulp Fiction’ — with a finished film screened in 35mm and his cast in tow. His film is a love letter to the Hollywood of his childhood, a rock music tour of 1969, and an ode to cinema as a whole.”
Also Read: Tarantino's 'Once Upon a Time in Hollywood' Teaser Drops Timely Clues It Goes Back Way Before the Manson Murders...
“We were afraid the film would not be ready, as it wouldn’t be released until late July, but Quentin Tarantino, who has not left the editing room in four months, is a real, loyal and punctual child of Cannes!” Fremaux said in a statement.
“Like for ‘Inglourious Basterds,’ he’ll definitely be there — 25 years after the Palme d’or for ‘Pulp Fiction’ — with a finished film screened in 35mm and his cast in tow. His film is a love letter to the Hollywood of his childhood, a rock music tour of 1969, and an ode to cinema as a whole.”
Also Read: Tarantino's 'Once Upon a Time in Hollywood' Teaser Drops Timely Clues It Goes Back Way Before the Manson Murders...
- 5/2/2019
- by Thom Geier
- The Wrap
Mektoub, My Love: Intermezzo, a 50-minute Gaspar Noé among titles to film join Once Upon A Time In Hollywood in Official Selection.
The Cannes Film Festival has announced a batch of additional titles for the 2019 Official Selection, including new films by Quentin Tarantino, Abdellatif Kechiche and Gaspar Noé.
As Screen exclusively revealed, Tarantino’s hotly anticipated Once Upon A Time In Hollywood will be ready in time and appear in Competition.
Also as has been rumoured, Abdellatif Kechiche’s Mektoub, My Love: Intermezzo – the follow-up to his Mektoub, My Love: Canto Uno has been selected for the Competition. Kechiche won...
The Cannes Film Festival has announced a batch of additional titles for the 2019 Official Selection, including new films by Quentin Tarantino, Abdellatif Kechiche and Gaspar Noé.
As Screen exclusively revealed, Tarantino’s hotly anticipated Once Upon A Time In Hollywood will be ready in time and appear in Competition.
Also as has been rumoured, Abdellatif Kechiche’s Mektoub, My Love: Intermezzo – the follow-up to his Mektoub, My Love: Canto Uno has been selected for the Competition. Kechiche won...
- 5/2/2019
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time In Hollywood will play in Cannes after all. Hallelujah!
The film will have its world premiere at the festival and will play in competition. This comes after the feature was not in the original batch of pictures unveiled last month. The festival has also added Mektoub, My Love: Intermezzo by Abdellatif Kechiche to its competition lineup and additional titles to other strands.
This year’s edition marks 25 years since Tarantino’s iconic Pulp Fiction screened on the Croisette. The director has a long-held affinity for Cannes and was keen that his latest film play at the event.
General Delegate Thierry Frémaux said of the film’s late inclusion, “We were afraid the film would not be ready, as it wouldn’t be released until late July, but Quentin Tarantino, who has not left the editing room in four months, is a real, loyal and punctual child of Cannes.
The film will have its world premiere at the festival and will play in competition. This comes after the feature was not in the original batch of pictures unveiled last month. The festival has also added Mektoub, My Love: Intermezzo by Abdellatif Kechiche to its competition lineup and additional titles to other strands.
This year’s edition marks 25 years since Tarantino’s iconic Pulp Fiction screened on the Croisette. The director has a long-held affinity for Cannes and was keen that his latest film play at the event.
General Delegate Thierry Frémaux said of the film’s late inclusion, “We were afraid the film would not be ready, as it wouldn’t be released until late July, but Quentin Tarantino, who has not left the editing room in four months, is a real, loyal and punctual child of Cannes.
- 5/2/2019
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
The suspense is over: Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” will indeed have its world premiere and compete at the Cannes Film Festival, the fest announced Thursday.
“Intermezzo” from Abdellatif Kechiche, the Palme d’Or-winning director of “Blue Is the Warmest Color,” has also been added to the competition slate.
The star-studded movie has been widely anticipated as a festival highlight but wasn’t included in Cannes’ official selection announcement on April 18. Artistic director Thierry Fremaux told journalists several times that day that he hoped for post-production on Tarantino’s film to be completed in time for the film to be shown at the festival. Fremaux said Tarantino was eager to be back at Cannes and was working hard to finish the film by May, which was a challenge because it was shot in 35mm, which takes longer to edit than digital film, and is slated for a July release.
“Intermezzo” from Abdellatif Kechiche, the Palme d’Or-winning director of “Blue Is the Warmest Color,” has also been added to the competition slate.
The star-studded movie has been widely anticipated as a festival highlight but wasn’t included in Cannes’ official selection announcement on April 18. Artistic director Thierry Fremaux told journalists several times that day that he hoped for post-production on Tarantino’s film to be completed in time for the film to be shown at the festival. Fremaux said Tarantino was eager to be back at Cannes and was working hard to finish the film by May, which was a challenge because it was shot in 35mm, which takes longer to edit than digital film, and is slated for a July release.
- 5/2/2019
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Tarantino heading back to Cannes.
Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie, has been added to the Cannes Film Festival Official Selection line-up, Screen has learned.
The film will play in Competition, the festival has confirmed.
It has been touch and go as to whether Tarantino, who has a long relationship with the Cannes Film Festival, would complete the feature in time.
In a statement, Cannes General Delegate Thierry Frémaux said: ”We were afraid the film would not be ready, as it wouldn’t be ready until late July, but Quentin Tarantino,...
Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie, has been added to the Cannes Film Festival Official Selection line-up, Screen has learned.
The film will play in Competition, the festival has confirmed.
It has been touch and go as to whether Tarantino, who has a long relationship with the Cannes Film Festival, would complete the feature in time.
In a statement, Cannes General Delegate Thierry Frémaux said: ”We were afraid the film would not be ready, as it wouldn’t be ready until late July, but Quentin Tarantino,...
- 5/2/2019
- by Melanie Goodfellow & Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
The animation festival has also launched the Contrechamp competition.
Anders Matthesen and Thorbjørn Christoffersen’s Checkered Ninja, which has taken the Danish box office by storm, will be one of eight features showcased in the Annecy Festival’s new-look Features competition section for animated films later this year (June 10-15).
The Features line-up also includes three titles from Japan – Masaaki Yuasa’s Ride Your Wave, Yuhei Sakuragi’s The Relative Worlds and Keiichi Hara’s The Wonderland.
Annecy has also introduced a parallel competition called Contrechamp, ’for the most unique feature films, as well as those that create more challenges...
Anders Matthesen and Thorbjørn Christoffersen’s Checkered Ninja, which has taken the Danish box office by storm, will be one of eight features showcased in the Annecy Festival’s new-look Features competition section for animated films later this year (June 10-15).
The Features line-up also includes three titles from Japan – Masaaki Yuasa’s Ride Your Wave, Yuhei Sakuragi’s The Relative Worlds and Keiichi Hara’s The Wonderland.
Annecy has also introduced a parallel competition called Contrechamp, ’for the most unique feature films, as well as those that create more challenges...
- 4/16/2019
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
The animation festival has also launched the Contrechamp competition.
Anders Matthesen and Thorbjørn Christoffersen’s Checkered Ninja, which has taken the Danish box office by storm, will be one of eight features showcased in the Annecy Festival’s new-look Features competition section for animated films later this year (June 10-15).
The Features line-up also includes three titles from Japan – Masaaki Yuasa’s Ride Your Wave, Yuhei Sakuragi’s The Relative Worlds and Keiichi Hara’s The Wonderland.
Annecy has also introduced a parallel competition called Contrechamp, ’for the most unique feature films, as well as those that create more challenges...
Anders Matthesen and Thorbjørn Christoffersen’s Checkered Ninja, which has taken the Danish box office by storm, will be one of eight features showcased in the Annecy Festival’s new-look Features competition section for animated films later this year (June 10-15).
The Features line-up also includes three titles from Japan – Masaaki Yuasa’s Ride Your Wave, Yuhei Sakuragi’s The Relative Worlds and Keiichi Hara’s The Wonderland.
Annecy has also introduced a parallel competition called Contrechamp, ’for the most unique feature films, as well as those that create more challenges...
- 4/16/2019
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Disney-Pixar’s “Toy Story 4,” Nickelodeon’s “Spongebob’s Big Birthday Blowout,” work-in progress sneak peeks at Netflix’s “Klaus” and Warner Animation Group’s “Scoob” look set to be some of the highlights at this year’s Annecy Intl. Animation Festival whose lineup was announced in Paris on Monday.
Opening, as already announced, with the world premieres of an episode from Warner Bros. Animation’s “Looney Tunes Cartoons” and Lino Disalvo’s “Playmobil: The Movie,” the biggest French production of 2019, and taking in the first screening of DreamWorks Animation’s short “Marooned,” the 2019 Annecy Festival also features Gaumont/Amazon Studios’ “Do Ré & Me.”
Running June 10-15 in a picturesque lakeside town in the French Alps, Annecy has grown year-on-year for near two decades, driven by the resurgence of animation worldwide.
This year’s event, at first glance, looks to underscore two growth drivers. A larger platform on the lake,...
Opening, as already announced, with the world premieres of an episode from Warner Bros. Animation’s “Looney Tunes Cartoons” and Lino Disalvo’s “Playmobil: The Movie,” the biggest French production of 2019, and taking in the first screening of DreamWorks Animation’s short “Marooned,” the 2019 Annecy Festival also features Gaumont/Amazon Studios’ “Do Ré & Me.”
Running June 10-15 in a picturesque lakeside town in the French Alps, Annecy has grown year-on-year for near two decades, driven by the resurgence of animation worldwide.
This year’s event, at first glance, looks to underscore two growth drivers. A larger platform on the lake,...
- 4/15/2019
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
The Venice Film Festival kicks off one of its most star-studded editions Wednesday with Ryan Gosling, Lady Gaga, Emma Stone and Joaquin Phoenix among the top talent expected to descend on the red carpet, as the Lido boosts its status as an awards season king-maker.
The 75th edition of the world’s oldest film festival is top-heavy with a slew of awards hopefuls, starting with the opener, Damien Chazelle’s space epic “First Man,” in which Gosling plays astronaut Neil Armstrong. The movie’s press screening prompted positive reactions, both on the Lido and on Twitter where, besides Gosling’s performance, praise was being lavished on Claire Foy’s portrayal of Armstrong’s wife, Janet Shearon. But critics have yet to weigh in, abiding by the festival’s new embargo on reviews until a film’s public screening takes place.
Gosling and Chazelle were cheered when they arrived for the film’s press conference,...
The 75th edition of the world’s oldest film festival is top-heavy with a slew of awards hopefuls, starting with the opener, Damien Chazelle’s space epic “First Man,” in which Gosling plays astronaut Neil Armstrong. The movie’s press screening prompted positive reactions, both on the Lido and on Twitter where, besides Gosling’s performance, praise was being lavished on Claire Foy’s portrayal of Armstrong’s wife, Janet Shearon. But critics have yet to weigh in, abiding by the festival’s new embargo on reviews until a film’s public screening takes place.
Gosling and Chazelle were cheered when they arrived for the film’s press conference,...
- 8/29/2018
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Turkish director Sinem Sakaoglu scoops €20,000 Eurimages prize for Kara.
Eric Goossens (Walking The Dog); Amaia Remírez (Kanaki Films); Jaroslaw Sawko (Platige Films); Jarzyna Katarzyna (Platige Films); Raúl De La Fuente (Co-Director Another Day Of Life); Dorota Kobiela (Director Loving Vincent); Oscar Alonso (Latido Films)
The 20th edition of Cartoon Movie, the annual European animation industry event, came to a close today with the announcement of the winners of its key prizes.
The winner of the Eurimages Co-production Development Award, which comes with a cash prize of €20,000, went to Turkish filmmaker Sinem Sakaoglu’s stop-motion animation project Kara, which is being...
Eric Goossens (Walking The Dog); Amaia Remírez (Kanaki Films); Jaroslaw Sawko (Platige Films); Jarzyna Katarzyna (Platige Films); Raúl De La Fuente (Co-Director Another Day Of Life); Dorota Kobiela (Director Loving Vincent); Oscar Alonso (Latido Films)
The 20th edition of Cartoon Movie, the annual European animation industry event, came to a close today with the announcement of the winners of its key prizes.
The winner of the Eurimages Co-production Development Award, which comes with a cash prize of €20,000, went to Turkish filmmaker Sinem Sakaoglu’s stop-motion animation project Kara, which is being...
- 3/9/2018
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire set to direct Addicted To Violence.
Wild Bunch is unleashing sales on French director Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire’s Addicted To Violence, an English-language project about a young photojournalist who develops a deadly obsession with hardcore situations during an assignment in Central America.
It will be Sauvaire’s third narrative feature after 2008 debut Johnny Mad Dog, which premiered in Un Certain Regard, and kick-boxing thriller A Prayer Before Dawn [pictured], which bows in Midnight Screenings tonight (May 19) after going down a storm in early Cannes screenings.
“He is the hot new director to sign,” commented Wild Bunch head of sales Vincent Maraval.
Wild Bunch is producing and handling world sales in all territories apart from North America, where the project is represented by CAA, which is also financing and casting the film. No actors have been confirmed yet.
Further titles
Wild Bunch is also kicking off sales on Lorenzo Mattotti’s The Bears’ Famous Invasion Of Sicily...
Wild Bunch is unleashing sales on French director Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire’s Addicted To Violence, an English-language project about a young photojournalist who develops a deadly obsession with hardcore situations during an assignment in Central America.
It will be Sauvaire’s third narrative feature after 2008 debut Johnny Mad Dog, which premiered in Un Certain Regard, and kick-boxing thriller A Prayer Before Dawn [pictured], which bows in Midnight Screenings tonight (May 19) after going down a storm in early Cannes screenings.
“He is the hot new director to sign,” commented Wild Bunch head of sales Vincent Maraval.
Wild Bunch is producing and handling world sales in all territories apart from North America, where the project is represented by CAA, which is also financing and casting the film. No actors have been confirmed yet.
Further titles
Wild Bunch is also kicking off sales on Lorenzo Mattotti’s The Bears’ Famous Invasion Of Sicily...
- 5/19/2017
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire set to direct Addicted To Violence.
Wild Bunch is unleashing sales on French director Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire’s Addicted To Violence, an English-language project about a young photojournalist who develops a deadly obsession with hardcore situations during an assignment in Central America.
It will be Sauvaire’s third narrative feature after 2008 debut Johnny Mad Dog, which premiered in Un Certain Regard, and kick-boxing thriller A Prayer Before Dawn [pictured], which bows in Midnight Screenings tonight (May 19) after going down a storm in early Cannes screenings.
“He is the hot new director to sign,” commented Wild Bunch head of sales Vincent Maraval.
Wild Bunch is producing and handling world sales in all territories apart from North America, where the project is represented by CAA, which is also financing and casting the film. No actors have been confirmed yet.
Further titles
Wild Bunch is also kicking off sales on Lorenzo Mattotti’s The Bears’ Famous Invasion Of Sicily...
Wild Bunch is unleashing sales on French director Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire’s Addicted To Violence, an English-language project about a young photojournalist who develops a deadly obsession with hardcore situations during an assignment in Central America.
It will be Sauvaire’s third narrative feature after 2008 debut Johnny Mad Dog, which premiered in Un Certain Regard, and kick-boxing thriller A Prayer Before Dawn [pictured], which bows in Midnight Screenings tonight (May 19) after going down a storm in early Cannes screenings.
“He is the hot new director to sign,” commented Wild Bunch head of sales Vincent Maraval.
Wild Bunch is producing and handling world sales in all territories apart from North America, where the project is represented by CAA, which is also financing and casting the film. No actors have been confirmed yet.
Further titles
Wild Bunch is also kicking off sales on Lorenzo Mattotti’s The Bears’ Famous Invasion Of Sicily...
- 5/19/2017
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire set to direct Addicted To Violence.
Wild Bunch is unleashing sales on French director Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire’s Addicted To Violence, an English-language project about a young photojournalist who develops a deadly obsession with hardcore situations during an assignment in Central America.
It will be Sauvaire’s third narrative feature after 2008 debut Johnny Mad Dog, which premiered in Un Certain Regard, and kick-boxing thriller A Prayer Before Dawn [pictured], which bows in Midnight Screenings tonight (May 19) after going down a storm in early Cannes screenings.
“He is the hot new director to sign,” commented Wild Bunch head of sales Vincent Maraval.
Wild Bunch is producing and handling world sales in all territories apart from North America, where the project is represented by CAA, which is also financing and casting the film. No actors have been confirmed yet.
Further titles
Wild Bunch is also kicking off sales on Lorenzo Mattotti’s The Bears’ Famous Invasion Of Sicily...
Wild Bunch is unleashing sales on French director Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire’s Addicted To Violence, an English-language project about a young photojournalist who develops a deadly obsession with hardcore situations during an assignment in Central America.
It will be Sauvaire’s third narrative feature after 2008 debut Johnny Mad Dog, which premiered in Un Certain Regard, and kick-boxing thriller A Prayer Before Dawn [pictured], which bows in Midnight Screenings tonight (May 19) after going down a storm in early Cannes screenings.
“He is the hot new director to sign,” commented Wild Bunch head of sales Vincent Maraval.
Wild Bunch is producing and handling world sales in all territories apart from North America, where the project is represented by CAA, which is also financing and casting the film. No actors have been confirmed yet.
Further titles
Wild Bunch is also kicking off sales on Lorenzo Mattotti’s The Bears’ Famous Invasion Of Sicily...
- 5/19/2017
- ScreenDaily
(Cbr) - Even as a "Sandman" movie takes its first steps at Warner Bros. and "American Gods" moves from HBO to Starz, an adaptation of another Neil Gaiman book is heading into development. Variety reports that Juliet Blake, who partnered with Steven Spielberg and Oprah Winfrey to produce "The Hundred-Foot Journey," has acquired the film rights to "Hansel & Gretel," the forthcoming reimagining of the Brothers Grimm tale by Gaiman and illustrator Lorenzo Mattotti. "For me, retelling 'Hansel and Gretel' was a way of telling an old tale in a way that made it immediate and true, and about us, now," Gaiman said in a statement. "It reminds us of how paper thin civilization really is. It’s about hunger, and about families." "Hansel & Gretel" will be published Oct. 28 by Toon Books. Gaiman’s earlier works "Coraline" and "Stardust" have already been adapted for the big screen. Like the latter,...
- 9/5/2014
- by TJ Dietsch, Comic Book Resources
- Hitfix
Neil Gaiman has written his own version of the classic Grimm fairytale Hansel & Gretel. It hasn't even been published yet, but the feature film rights have already been acquired. They were picked up by Juliet Blake, who recently teamed up with Steven Spielberg and Oprah Winfrey to produce the wonderful film The Hundred-Foot Journey.
The beautifully gloomy artwork you see here was done for the book by artist Lorenzo Mattotti, and it has been described as "a stunning book capturing the terror and longing found in the classic fairy tale: at once as familiar as a dream and as evocative as a nightmare".
I would love to see an animated film in this dark style of art, but the plan is to do it live-action, which is fine. Gaiman had this to say in a statement:
"I’m thrilled and delighted to be working with Juliet Blake to bring Hansel and Gretel...
The beautifully gloomy artwork you see here was done for the book by artist Lorenzo Mattotti, and it has been described as "a stunning book capturing the terror and longing found in the classic fairy tale: at once as familiar as a dream and as evocative as a nightmare".
I would love to see an animated film in this dark style of art, but the plan is to do it live-action, which is fine. Gaiman had this to say in a statement:
"I’m thrilled and delighted to be working with Juliet Blake to bring Hansel and Gretel...
- 9/5/2014
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
Juliet Blake, producer of The Hundred-Foot Journey, is bringing Neil Gaiman's graphic novel Hansel & Gretel to the big screen. As the title suggests, the graphic novel is based on the Brothers Grimm fairy tale.
Perhaps the Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters didn't leave you with much appetite for this fairy tale, but something tells us that this adaptation will be a lot different. After all, Gaiman is the author of works like Coraline and Stardust, which have successful adaptions.
Illustrated by Lorenzo Mattotti and to be released in October, Hansel & Gretel follows the story of a brother and sister who discover a candy house that's actually a trap for kids set up by a wicked witch. The adaptation will be live-action.
Gaiman said in a press release that "retelling Hansel and Gretel was a way of telling an old tale in a way that made it immediate and true, and about us,...
Perhaps the Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters didn't leave you with much appetite for this fairy tale, but something tells us that this adaptation will be a lot different. After all, Gaiman is the author of works like Coraline and Stardust, which have successful adaptions.
Illustrated by Lorenzo Mattotti and to be released in October, Hansel & Gretel follows the story of a brother and sister who discover a candy house that's actually a trap for kids set up by a wicked witch. The adaptation will be live-action.
Gaiman said in a press release that "retelling Hansel and Gretel was a way of telling an old tale in a way that made it immediate and true, and about us,...
- 9/4/2014
- by Laura Frances
- LRMonline.com
Neil Gaiman’s (Stardust, Coraline) graphic novel version of the Hansel & Gretel story isn’t available until October 28 but already has a movie in the works. Producer Juliet Blake (The Hundred-foot Journey) acquired the rights to “Hansel and Gretel”, authored by Gaiman and illustrated by Lorenzo Mattotti. Currently the plan is to make a live-action movie; Steven Spielberg, Oprah Winfrey and Juliet Blake are teaming up to develop the...
- 9/4/2014
- by Graham McMorrow
- JoBlo.com
In 2013, Gary Sanchez Productions brought us Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters, an R-rated take on the classic fairy tale about lost children drawn to a cabin made of candy. Though critically scorned (for the most part), we're awaiting a sequel from this Jeremy Renner/Gemma Arterton vehicle. But Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters 2 could face stiff competition thanks to Steven Spielberg. Variety reports Steven Spielberg, Oprah Winfrey and Juliet Blake are teaming up to develop a live-action Hansel and Gretel movie. But rather than pulling inspiration from Brothers Grimm tale, this producing trio will be adapting an upcoming graphic novel penned by celebrated writer Neil Gaiman. His Hansel and Gretel boasts ink illustrations from fine artist Lorenzo Mattotti, and it's set to hit bookshelves on October 28th. While Spielberg's involvement will score the pic headlines, it was Juliet Blake who got the ball rolling by purchasing Hansel and Gretel's movie rights...
- 9/4/2014
- cinemablend.com
Juliet Blake (who recently teamed with Oprah Winfrey and Steven Spielberg on The Hundred-Foot Journey) has acquired the feature rights to Sandman and Doctor Who scribe Neil Gaiman’s latest graphic novel.
The book will see Gaiman retell the classic Brothers Grimm fairytale Hansel and Gretel about a brother and sister threatened by a witch living in a candy house. The graphic novel features artwork by Lorenzo Mattotti, and is set to be released on October 28th. This latest adaptation of Gaiman’s acclaimed work will join the likes of Coraline and Stardust, and like the latter, the movie will be live-action.
“For me, retelling Hansel and Gretel was a way of telling an old tale in a way that made it immediate and true, and about us, now,” Gaiman said in a statement. “It reminds us of how paper thin civilization really is. It’s about hunger, and about families.
The book will see Gaiman retell the classic Brothers Grimm fairytale Hansel and Gretel about a brother and sister threatened by a witch living in a candy house. The graphic novel features artwork by Lorenzo Mattotti, and is set to be released on October 28th. This latest adaptation of Gaiman’s acclaimed work will join the likes of Coraline and Stardust, and like the latter, the movie will be live-action.
“For me, retelling Hansel and Gretel was a way of telling an old tale in a way that made it immediate and true, and about us, now,” Gaiman said in a statement. “It reminds us of how paper thin civilization really is. It’s about hunger, and about families.
- 9/4/2014
- by Josh Wilding
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Producer Juliet Blake ("The Hundred-Foot Journey") is set to develop a live-action "Hansel and Gretel" movie after her Four Chickens for a Fiver banner acquired feature film rights to Neil Gaiman's upcoming graphic novel about the classic Brothers Grimm fairytale.
The story is "Stardust" and "Coraline" author Gaiman's take on the fairytale about a brother and sister threatened by a witch living in a candy house.
He says: "For me, retelling Hansel and Gretel was a way of telling an old tale in a way that made it immediate and true, and about us, now. It reminds us of how paper thin civilization really is. It’s about hunger, and about families. I’m thrilled and delighted to be working with Juliet Blake to bring Hansel and Gretel to the world again, and to show people how much this story has to say to us."
Gaiman’s book, illustrated by Lorenzo Mattotti,...
The story is "Stardust" and "Coraline" author Gaiman's take on the fairytale about a brother and sister threatened by a witch living in a candy house.
He says: "For me, retelling Hansel and Gretel was a way of telling an old tale in a way that made it immediate and true, and about us, now. It reminds us of how paper thin civilization really is. It’s about hunger, and about families. I’m thrilled and delighted to be working with Juliet Blake to bring Hansel and Gretel to the world again, and to show people how much this story has to say to us."
Gaiman’s book, illustrated by Lorenzo Mattotti,...
- 9/4/2014
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Neil Gaiman's version of the classic Brothers Grimm tale Hansel & Gretel hasn't even been published yet, but the film rights have already been snapped up. Juliet Blake, who joined forces with Steven Spielberg and Oprah Winfrey to produce The Hundred-Foot Journey, is behind the project.Gaiman's version of the story, needless to say, will be rather different to the action/horror Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters, which arrived last year to indifferent reviews but surprisingly good box office. With gloomily beautiful monochrome artwork by Lorenzo Mattotti, we're promised "a stunning book capturing the terror and longing found in the classic fairy tale: at once as familiar as a dream and as evocative as a nightmare".Those illustrations might suggest animation as the way to go for an adaptation, but the plan at the moment is live action. There's no talk yet of casting, nor of a screenwriter or director. But,...
- 9/4/2014
- EmpireOnline
Peur(s) du Noir
Written by Jerry Kramsky, Michel Pirus, Romain Slocombe, Blutch, Charles Burns, Pierre di Scullo
Directed by Blutch, Charles Burns, Marie Caillou, Pierre di Scullo, Lorenzo Mattotti, and Richard McGuire
France, 2007
The French animated horror anthology Peur(s] Du Noir, or Fear(s) of the Dark, is all atmosphere, though it uses this to great purpose.
The film is surprisingly immersive, even as an anthology of six shorts with different animation styles, two of which are used as buffers between the other four, played in sequence. This manner of editing is key to the film’s success, giving it a fresh and cohesive feel. The overarching theme of the universality and perpetuity of childhood fear (signified by its sophomoric yet still effectively simple title) doesn’t quite reach far or deep enough, though, leaving the film kind of stranded in merely watchable territory.
The first short deals with the fear of intimacy,...
Written by Jerry Kramsky, Michel Pirus, Romain Slocombe, Blutch, Charles Burns, Pierre di Scullo
Directed by Blutch, Charles Burns, Marie Caillou, Pierre di Scullo, Lorenzo Mattotti, and Richard McGuire
France, 2007
The French animated horror anthology Peur(s] Du Noir, or Fear(s) of the Dark, is all atmosphere, though it uses this to great purpose.
The film is surprisingly immersive, even as an anthology of six shorts with different animation styles, two of which are used as buffers between the other four, played in sequence. This manner of editing is key to the film’s success, giving it a fresh and cohesive feel. The overarching theme of the universality and perpetuity of childhood fear (signified by its sophomoric yet still effectively simple title) doesn’t quite reach far or deep enough, though, leaving the film kind of stranded in merely watchable territory.
The first short deals with the fear of intimacy,...
- 10/19/2013
- by Simon Opitz
- SoundOnSight
The 2013 Eisner Award Winners have been announced at San Diego Comic-Con with Chris Ware leading the wins for his celebrated work Building Stories, alongside Brian K Vaughan and Fiona Staples’ Saga which also won a number of awards.
The Eisners are awarded each year at the San Diego Comic-Con and are the most prestigious awards in the comics industry, being the comics equivalent of the Oscars.
The Eisners are named after Will Eisner, one of the most celebrated artist/writers in comics whose works included creating the superhero series The Spirit as well as his masterpiece, A Contract with God, one of the best books of the 20th century.
This year saw artist/writer Chris Ware pick up the lion’s share of the awards for his book/construction project Building Stories, winning Best New Graphic Album, Best Writer/Artist, Best Lettering, and Best Publication Design.
Also among the winners...
The Eisners are awarded each year at the San Diego Comic-Con and are the most prestigious awards in the comics industry, being the comics equivalent of the Oscars.
The Eisners are named after Will Eisner, one of the most celebrated artist/writers in comics whose works included creating the superhero series The Spirit as well as his masterpiece, A Contract with God, one of the best books of the 20th century.
This year saw artist/writer Chris Ware pick up the lion’s share of the awards for his book/construction project Building Stories, winning Best New Graphic Album, Best Writer/Artist, Best Lettering, and Best Publication Design.
Also among the winners...
- 7/21/2013
- by Noel Thorne
- Obsessed with Film
Fantagraphics co-publisher Kim Thompson died at 6:30 this morning, June 19, at the age of 56. “He was my partner and close friend for 36 years,” said Fantagraphics co-publisher Gary Groth. Thompson was born in Denmark in 1956. He grew up in Europe, a lifelong comics fan, reading both European and American comics in Denmark, France, and Germany. He was an active fan in his teen years, writing to comics — his letters appeared in Marvel’s letter columns circa early 1970s — and contributing to fanzines from his various European perches. At the age of 21, he set foot, for the first time, on American soil, in late 1977. One “fanzine” he had not contributed to was The Comics Journal, which Groth and Michael Catron began publishing in July of 1976. That was soon to change. “Within a few weeks of his arrival,” said Groth, “he came over to our ‘office,’ which was the spare bedroom of my apartment,...
- 6/20/2013
- by Glenn Hauman
- Comicmix.com
Comic-Con International has released the complete list of nominees for the 2013 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards. The winners of the award will be revealed during the annual ceremony held at Comic-Con International in San Diego on July 19.
Official Press Release
Comic-Con International (Comic-Con) is proud to announce the nominations for the Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards 2013. The nominees, chosen by a blue-ribbon panel of judges, reflect the wide range of material being published in comics and graphic novel form today, from crime noire to autobiographical works to cartoon adventures.
Three titles lead the 2013 list with 5 nominations each. Chris Ware’s critically acclaimed Building Stories (published by Pantheon) has nods for Best Graphic Album–New, Best Writer/artist, Best Coloring, Best Lettering, and Best Publication Design. Also garnering 5 nominations are Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips’s Fatale (published by Image) and Matt Fraction and David Aja’s Hawkeye (published by Marvel...
Official Press Release
Comic-Con International (Comic-Con) is proud to announce the nominations for the Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards 2013. The nominees, chosen by a blue-ribbon panel of judges, reflect the wide range of material being published in comics and graphic novel form today, from crime noire to autobiographical works to cartoon adventures.
Three titles lead the 2013 list with 5 nominations each. Chris Ware’s critically acclaimed Building Stories (published by Pantheon) has nods for Best Graphic Album–New, Best Writer/artist, Best Coloring, Best Lettering, and Best Publication Design. Also garnering 5 nominations are Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips’s Fatale (published by Image) and Matt Fraction and David Aja’s Hawkeye (published by Marvel...
- 4/17/2013
- by Adam B.
- GeekRest
Comic-Con International is proud to announce the nominations for the Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards of 2013. The nominees, chosen by a blue-ribbon panel of judges, reflect the wide range of material being published in comics and graphic novel form today, from crime noir to autobiographical works to cartoon adventures. Three titles lead the 2013 list with 5 nominations each.
Chris Ware’s critically acclaimed Building Stories (published by Pantheon) has nods for Best Graphic Album–New, Best Writer/artist, Best Coloring, Best Lettering, and Best Publication Design. Also garnering 5 nominations are Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips’s Fatale (published by Image) and Matt Fraction and David Aja’s Hawkeye (published by Marvel). Both are nominated for Best Continuing Series, Best New Series, Best Writer, Best Penciller/Inker, and Best Cover Artist. (Fatale also shares the coloring nomination for Dave Stewart.)Close behind with 4 nominations are Boom!/kaboom’s Adventure Time (Best New Series,...
Chris Ware’s critically acclaimed Building Stories (published by Pantheon) has nods for Best Graphic Album–New, Best Writer/artist, Best Coloring, Best Lettering, and Best Publication Design. Also garnering 5 nominations are Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips’s Fatale (published by Image) and Matt Fraction and David Aja’s Hawkeye (published by Marvel). Both are nominated for Best Continuing Series, Best New Series, Best Writer, Best Penciller/Inker, and Best Cover Artist. (Fatale also shares the coloring nomination for Dave Stewart.)Close behind with 4 nominations are Boom!/kaboom’s Adventure Time (Best New Series,...
- 4/16/2013
- by Glenn Hauman
- Comicmix.com
Chicago – Though graphic novels may read like great movie storyboards, they often fail to translate into compelling cinema. From “Sin City” to “Watchmen,” filmmakers have tried replicating graphic art with a reverence more suffocating than exhilarating. Images that reverberated with power on the page become coldly calculated on the big screen. No matter how tightly structured a film may be, it must give viewers the illusion of spontaneity. And there’s nothing more tiresome than a horror film in which all the scares feel telegraphed.
DVD Rating: 3.0/5.0
That’s the interesting challenge facing “Fear(s) of the Dark,” a compilation of short subjects from six of today’s most celebrated graphic artists. As an animation exercise, the film is consistently fascinating. Each artist’s approach to the cinematic medium is as distinctive as their trademark visual styles. Though their films are wildly different from each other, they all grapple with...
DVD Rating: 3.0/5.0
That’s the interesting challenge facing “Fear(s) of the Dark,” a compilation of short subjects from six of today’s most celebrated graphic artists. As an animation exercise, the film is consistently fascinating. Each artist’s approach to the cinematic medium is as distinctive as their trademark visual styles. Though their films are wildly different from each other, they all grapple with...
- 11/2/2009
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Year: 2009
Directors: Adán Aliaga
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: Marina Antunes
Rating: 8 out of 10
It’s difficult, if not nearly impossible, to walk into Adán Aliaga’s full length directorial debut without some consideration of the religious overtones that will undoubtedly appear in a film titled Estigmas (direct translation: stigmata) but Aliagan’s film isn’t concerned with the global apocalypse or the salvation of humanity but rather the exploration of one man’s life.
Bruno is a burly man with a soft demeanour. He’s kind, quiet and in trouble. An alcoholic, on the verge of being evicted and working for a man who takes advantage of his good will, he’s quickly being pushed into edges of life. He awakes one morning to find himself bleeding from wounds that have mysteriously appeared on his hands – stigmata. To Bruno, they are a curse, to his employer they are...
Directors: Adán Aliaga
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: Marina Antunes
Rating: 8 out of 10
It’s difficult, if not nearly impossible, to walk into Adán Aliaga’s full length directorial debut without some consideration of the religious overtones that will undoubtedly appear in a film titled Estigmas (direct translation: stigmata) but Aliagan’s film isn’t concerned with the global apocalypse or the salvation of humanity but rather the exploration of one man’s life.
Bruno is a burly man with a soft demeanour. He’s kind, quiet and in trouble. An alcoholic, on the verge of being evicted and working for a man who takes advantage of his good will, he’s quickly being pushed into edges of life. He awakes one morning to find himself bleeding from wounds that have mysteriously appeared on his hands – stigmata. To Bruno, they are a curse, to his employer they are...
- 10/30/2009
- QuietEarth.us
The French omnibus horror film "Fear(s) in the Dark" comes off a bit as a cataract of gimmicks -- fully animated, using comic artists with distinctive styles, no color allowed (well, a little red to pepper up the black and white palette) and focused on phobias and anxieties. Omnibus films, with which we are suddenly surrounded (Paris this, New York that), are gimmicks themselves, not much like anthologies, because you can't roam at will. Their viewing experiences are predicated on variety instead of consistency, and the often fizzling impact of clumped shorts, each more or less the total sum, which is too often shruggable itself.
But "Fear(s)" is a hypnotic cocktail, and its key liquor may be Frenchness -- some of the materials folded in have no sensible conclusion (the fear of "Tales from the Crypt" moralism is unavoidable), and some aren't stories at all. Some stand entire and alone,...
But "Fear(s)" is a hypnotic cocktail, and its key liquor may be Frenchness -- some of the materials folded in have no sensible conclusion (the fear of "Tales from the Crypt" moralism is unavoidable), and some aren't stories at all. Some stand entire and alone,...
- 10/27/2009
- by Michael Atkinson
- ifc.com
In this incarnation of our Videolog column (which began in 1982 with VHS and Betamax and later laserdisc), Starlog posts information weekly regarding selected genre titles being released (or re-released) now on DVD and Blu-ray. Prices listed are Msrp, though any clickable links lead to Amazon where the savings can be significant.
DVD Releases for October 27, 2009
Adult Swim In A Box (Turner, $69.98): This set includes six full seasons of Adult Swim’s most popular series: Aqua Teen Hunger Force: Volume Two, Space Ghost: Season Three, Moral Oral: Season One, Robot Chicken: Season Two, Metalocalypse: Season One and Sealab 2021: Season Two. Five never-before-released pilots are also included.
The Asphyx (Hen’s Tooth, $19.95): The Private Life Of Sherlock Holmes’ Robert Stephens stars as Sir Hugo Cunningham, a 19th-Century amateur scientist and dabbler in psychic phenomena. His experiments in the new art of photography lead him...
DVD Releases for October 27, 2009
Adult Swim In A Box (Turner, $69.98): This set includes six full seasons of Adult Swim’s most popular series: Aqua Teen Hunger Force: Volume Two, Space Ghost: Season Three, Moral Oral: Season One, Robot Chicken: Season Two, Metalocalypse: Season One and Sealab 2021: Season Two. Five never-before-released pilots are also included.
The Asphyx (Hen’s Tooth, $19.95): The Private Life Of Sherlock Holmes’ Robert Stephens stars as Sir Hugo Cunningham, a 19th-Century amateur scientist and dabbler in psychic phenomena. His experiments in the new art of photography lead him...
- 10/27/2009
- by no-reply@starlog.com (Allan Dart)
- Starlog
Brought to us by the celebrated French graphic house and studio Prima Linea, Fear(s) of the Dark is an omnibus anthology of horror themed animation from some of the industry’s premier graphic designers, artists, and comic book creators. Five self-contained stories spliced together and tied off by a recurring monologue, Fear(s) of the Dark challenged six creative minds to animate the rhythm of the fears in the harsh extremities of black and white and the tonal subtleties that lay in between.
Opening the picture is a charcoal horror from the mind of Blutch (a.k.a. Christian Hincker) where we witness the nighttime stroll of a gaunt 18th century aristocrat and his pack of slavering Hellhounds. Each encounter with a peasant sees a dog break free and devour the helpless individual, until finally the gentlemen finds himself alone, face to face with the final hound.
Charles Burns's...
Opening the picture is a charcoal horror from the mind of Blutch (a.k.a. Christian Hincker) where we witness the nighttime stroll of a gaunt 18th century aristocrat and his pack of slavering Hellhounds. Each encounter with a peasant sees a dog break free and devour the helpless individual, until finally the gentlemen finds himself alone, face to face with the final hound.
Charles Burns's...
- 10/26/2009
- by Neil Pedley
- JustPressPlay.net
Fear(S) Of The Dark, and animated horror anthology with a segment by director Marie Caillou, arrives on DVD (Finally!) on October 27, 2009 from IFC Films.
Fear(s) of the Dark brings together some of the world’s leading graphic artists and cartoonists – Blutch (Christian Hincker), Charles Burns, Marie Caillou, Richard McGuire, Pierre di Sciullo and Lorenzo Mattotti – who breathe life into their nightmares, utilizing stark light and the pitch black of shadows. Their intertwined stories make up an unprecedented film where phobias, disgust and nightmares come to life and reveal Fear at its most naked and intense. Creepy, kinky, sometimes funny and always scary, these films – ranging from the story of a girl forced to relive her nightmarish past, to a haunted house tale in which the striking of a match is enough to make you jump out of your seat - will challenge any home viewer to watch alone in the dark.
Fear(s) of the Dark brings together some of the world’s leading graphic artists and cartoonists – Blutch (Christian Hincker), Charles Burns, Marie Caillou, Richard McGuire, Pierre di Sciullo and Lorenzo Mattotti – who breathe life into their nightmares, utilizing stark light and the pitch black of shadows. Their intertwined stories make up an unprecedented film where phobias, disgust and nightmares come to life and reveal Fear at its most naked and intense. Creepy, kinky, sometimes funny and always scary, these films – ranging from the story of a girl forced to relive her nightmarish past, to a haunted house tale in which the striking of a match is enough to make you jump out of your seat - will challenge any home viewer to watch alone in the dark.
- 10/5/2009
- by Superheidi
- Planet Fury
We first covered reported on this flick back in January of 2008, with the first stills dropping in October, and now we have the first teaser trailer. Directed by Adán Aliaga and adapted from a graphic novel by Lorenzo Mattotti and Claudio Piersanti about an alcoholic with tragic fate whose hands start to bleed, hence the Stigmata.
Estigmas is the story of Bruno, a rough man, strong and alcohol addicted. Bruno simply aims to be a normal person, but his fate is already written. One day he wakes up and his hands start bleeding. This is a trip to redemption through suffering, pain, and death. From now on he has to live with these new stigmas..
Teaser trailer after the break.
Estigmas is the story of Bruno, a rough man, strong and alcohol addicted. Bruno simply aims to be a normal person, but his fate is already written. One day he wakes up and his hands start bleeding. This is a trip to redemption through suffering, pain, and death. From now on he has to live with these new stigmas..
Teaser trailer after the break.
- 6/16/2009
- QuietEarth.us
Canadians are getting a special horror treat this week. According to HorrorMovies.ca, Peur(s) du Noir (Fears of the Dark) is set to premiere in Toronto at The Royal on March 6th.
Fears of the Dark (review here) is a unique collection of six stories by ten of the world’s most cutting-edge, acclaimed graphic artists and cartoonists, all built around their worst nightmares. The collection boasts lots of visually eerie styles and feature both 2-D and 3-D animation.
Featured artists include Blutch, Charles Burns, Marie Caillou, Pierre Di Sciullo, Lorenzo Mattotti, Richard Mc Guire, Romain Slocombe, Jerry Kramsky, Michel Pirus, and Etienne Robial.
There’s no word as to whether or not the flick will be coming to DVD anytime soon, but I know my fingers are crossed. Watch the trailer below, and see if you aren't hooked as well!
- Heather Wixson
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Fears of the Dark (review here) is a unique collection of six stories by ten of the world’s most cutting-edge, acclaimed graphic artists and cartoonists, all built around their worst nightmares. The collection boasts lots of visually eerie styles and feature both 2-D and 3-D animation.
Featured artists include Blutch, Charles Burns, Marie Caillou, Pierre Di Sciullo, Lorenzo Mattotti, Richard Mc Guire, Romain Slocombe, Jerry Kramsky, Michel Pirus, and Etienne Robial.
There’s no word as to whether or not the flick will be coming to DVD anytime soon, but I know my fingers are crossed. Watch the trailer below, and see if you aren't hooked as well!
- Heather Wixson
Check Out Dread Central’S New Poster Store!
- 3/2/2009
- by thehorrorchick
- DreadCentral.com
- Fans of animation, graphic novels and examinations into the darker aspects of the human psyche might want to keep an eye out for IFC Film's latest pick-up. Flying low on the radar screen:Fear(s) of the Dark is a collection of black-and-white animated horror and fantasy shorts by six graphic artists (Blutch, Charles Burns, Marie Caillou, Pierre Di Sciullo, Lorenzo Mattotti and Richard McGuire) - and apparently the best of the collection is the Burns short that the NYTimes describes as "a science-fiction nightmare of erotic slavery, with elements of “Alien” and Kafka’s “Metamorphosis.” Not sure when this will find itself in circulation, but it is preeming at the Rendez-Vous with French Cinema in NYC. ...
- 3/4/2008
- IONCINEMA.com
IFC has acquired the North American rights to the French animated film Fear(s) of the Dark.
Directed by Blutch (Christian Hincker), Marie Caillou, Pierre DiSciullo, Lorenzo Mattotti, Richard McGuire and Charles Burns, the black-and-white film presents the stylized interpretations of nightmares from six graphic artists and cartoonists.
Valerie Schermann and Chrisophe Jankovic of Prima Lenea Prods. produced the film, which will make its U.S. premiere at the Film Society of Lincoln Center's Rendez-Vous with French Cinema on Saturday.
Dark, which currently has no release date, premiered at the Rome film festival and later screened at Sundance.
Directed by Blutch (Christian Hincker), Marie Caillou, Pierre DiSciullo, Lorenzo Mattotti, Richard McGuire and Charles Burns, the black-and-white film presents the stylized interpretations of nightmares from six graphic artists and cartoonists.
Valerie Schermann and Chrisophe Jankovic of Prima Lenea Prods. produced the film, which will make its U.S. premiere at the Film Society of Lincoln Center's Rendez-Vous with French Cinema on Saturday.
Dark, which currently has no release date, premiered at the Rome film festival and later screened at Sundance.
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