Hot projects on Screenbase this week include German-Canadian co-production In The Lost Lands, twin brothers Mohammed Abou Nasser and Ahmad Abou Nasser’s Dégradé, spy-thriller Damascus Cover and documentary Tomorrow.
Fantasy adventure In The Lost Lands
Milla Jovovich will star alongside Justin Chatwin in this new feature based on short stories from the creator of Game Of Thrones. The German-Canadian co-production is directed by Constantin Werner.
The story revolves around a series of magical and fantastic tales centring on a sorceress in search of a spell, a warrior girl on a quest and a young barbarian who encounters a witch in a spacecraft.
Steve Hoban, Oliver Luer and Nico Bruinsma produce. Myriad Pictures chief Kirk D’Amico will serve as an executive producer.
Terrence Malick’s Voyage Of Time
Malick’s documentary features the voices of Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett. Dede Gardner, Nicolas Gonda, Sarah Green, Grant Hill, Brad Pitt, Bill Pohlad and [link...
Fantasy adventure In The Lost Lands
Milla Jovovich will star alongside Justin Chatwin in this new feature based on short stories from the creator of Game Of Thrones. The German-Canadian co-production is directed by Constantin Werner.
The story revolves around a series of magical and fantastic tales centring on a sorceress in search of a spell, a warrior girl on a quest and a young barbarian who encounters a witch in a spacecraft.
Steve Hoban, Oliver Luer and Nico Bruinsma produce. Myriad Pictures chief Kirk D’Amico will serve as an executive producer.
Terrence Malick’s Voyage Of Time
Malick’s documentary features the voices of Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett. Dede Gardner, Nicolas Gonda, Sarah Green, Grant Hill, Brad Pitt, Bill Pohlad and [link...
- 2/9/2015
- by maud.le-rest@sciencespo-toulouse.net (Maud Le Rest)
- ScreenDaily
Efm: UK sales outfit The Works International has boarded world rights to documentary Elstree 1976, about the effect Star Wars had on the lives of those involved in even the smallest roles in the film.
Directed by Jon Spira, whose previous documentary Anyone Can Play Guitar was named one of the top 10 music films of 2011 by the NME, and produced by Hank Starrs (Dust), the film features Star Wars actors and extras from Dave Prowse (Darth Vader) and Jeremy Bulloch (Boba Fett) to Derek Lyons (Massassi Temple Guard) and Pam Rose (Leesub Sirlin).
The film will explore ten actors’ lives and explore the eccentric community they have formed.
The Works will be screening a promo of the film, currently in post-production, during the Efm in Berlin.
The Kickstarter-funded project is due to be released ahead of J.J Abrams’ Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens.
Director Jon Spira said: “I’ve always been interested in those...
Directed by Jon Spira, whose previous documentary Anyone Can Play Guitar was named one of the top 10 music films of 2011 by the NME, and produced by Hank Starrs (Dust), the film features Star Wars actors and extras from Dave Prowse (Darth Vader) and Jeremy Bulloch (Boba Fett) to Derek Lyons (Massassi Temple Guard) and Pam Rose (Leesub Sirlin).
The film will explore ten actors’ lives and explore the eccentric community they have formed.
The Works will be screening a promo of the film, currently in post-production, during the Efm in Berlin.
The Kickstarter-funded project is due to be released ahead of J.J Abrams’ Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens.
Director Jon Spira said: “I’ve always been interested in those...
- 1/30/2015
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Do you consider yourself a true Star Wars fanatic? Think you know every bit of trivia, not just from the films but from the expanded world of novels and spin-off series? Maybe. But do you know Derek Lyons? He played Medal Bearer and Massassi Guard in Star Wars: Episode IV: A New Hope. And he's at the center of Elstree 1976, an in-the-works documentary about the bit players whose faces were hidden by masks, but whose presence helped make Star Wars the modern movie marvel it is today. Documentarian Jon Spira (Anyone Can Play Guitar) has watched almost any Star Wars doc you could name. But he noticed they fell into two camps, either talking about the production itself or about the fan culture that has grown from it. He wanted to do something different, looking to how Star Wars impacted the lives of some of its smaller players. He...
- 5/12/2014
- cinemablend.com
I think it was Andy Warhol who said that everyone associated with Star Wars will be world-famous for 15 trillion minutes. Maybe I made that up, and maybe I have a personal reason for knowing it’s not necessarily true of everyone associated with George Lucas’s game-changing movie, but it does at least seem that Star Wars mania allows for anyone involved in the first or any subsequent installment to be an icon of sorts for the millions of fans out there. Even Jake Lloyd and Ahmed Best are embraced by many at conventions. And according to a new documentary in the works, plenty of extras can show up to events and have a line of people waiting to get their autograph. Of course, almost every extra appearing on screen in the original Star Wars movie plays a character with a name and maybe even an action figure. Very few are recognizable by name and most aren...
- 5/8/2014
- by Christopher Campbell
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Radiohead is probably the greatest band of the past two decades and I know music is subjective but everyone has at least one Radiohead song that they like. Radiohead’s sound is so broad and experimental yet somehow they’ve been a mainstay on the mainstream pop charts for well over a decade now. I realize it is an arduous task to rank their albums in terms of quality since each one sounds nothing like the one that came before yet still has a familiar sound. For the record I don’t believe they have a bad album in the bunch, every one is amazing in its own way. When I listen to a Radiohead record and I don’t like it I just think to myself “when will I like this record?” because I always end up loving their music no matter what era or album it was for the band.
- 2/27/2013
- by Dolan Reynolds
- Obsessed with Film
Dead By Dawn, Edinburgh
If you go down in the woods these days, you're sure of werewolves, axe-wielding psychos, hostile locals or wisecracking scientists monitoring your every move. The latter concerns underpin Joss Whedon's bracing meta-horror The Cabin In The Woods, the highly anticipated climax to this long, painful weekend of scary movies. Elsewhere, you'll find reasons not to lock yourself in a meat freezer to overcome writer's block in Below Zero, or to visit Galicia, even if you're from there, in Spanish comedy Lobos De Arga. Throw in vintage outdoor-deterrent Deliverance, and the message is, basically, don't go out at all – except to the cinema.
Filmhouse, Thu to 1 Apr
See Documentary Festival, Brighton
Confrontation is very much in the air across the week of this festival. There are sub-categories entitled Conflict and Revolution, and new documentaries from around the world covering all kinds of serious topics including protest movements,...
If you go down in the woods these days, you're sure of werewolves, axe-wielding psychos, hostile locals or wisecracking scientists monitoring your every move. The latter concerns underpin Joss Whedon's bracing meta-horror The Cabin In The Woods, the highly anticipated climax to this long, painful weekend of scary movies. Elsewhere, you'll find reasons not to lock yourself in a meat freezer to overcome writer's block in Below Zero, or to visit Galicia, even if you're from there, in Spanish comedy Lobos De Arga. Throw in vintage outdoor-deterrent Deliverance, and the message is, basically, don't go out at all – except to the cinema.
Filmhouse, Thu to 1 Apr
See Documentary Festival, Brighton
Confrontation is very much in the air across the week of this festival. There are sub-categories entitled Conflict and Revolution, and new documentaries from around the world covering all kinds of serious topics including protest movements,...
- 3/24/2012
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
Grimm Up North, Manchester
Why wait till Halloween to wallow in the guts? This early autumn festival brings you fresh horror meat that's bound to be figuring later in the season. Like the promising opener Retreat, starring Thandie Newton, Cillian Murphy and Jamie Bell, or Stalker, the surprisingly nasty directorial debut of Martin Kemp. The four-day event spans the spectrum from lighthearted gore (slacker psycho comedy Some Guy Who Kills People) to really-not-funny-at-all dystopian nightmare (nuclear apocalypse horror The Divide), with special guests and horror gaming in between.
AMC Cinema, Thu to 9 Oct
Bicycle Film Festival, London
If you thought the topic of bicycles on film was rather limited, you'd be underestimating this resourceful global festival, which seems to find something new in the field of human-powered two-wheeled transportation every year. Did you know, for example, about the post-bmx street stunt scene in Accra, Ghana? If not, you need to see Bikelordz.
Why wait till Halloween to wallow in the guts? This early autumn festival brings you fresh horror meat that's bound to be figuring later in the season. Like the promising opener Retreat, starring Thandie Newton, Cillian Murphy and Jamie Bell, or Stalker, the surprisingly nasty directorial debut of Martin Kemp. The four-day event spans the spectrum from lighthearted gore (slacker psycho comedy Some Guy Who Kills People) to really-not-funny-at-all dystopian nightmare (nuclear apocalypse horror The Divide), with special guests and horror gaming in between.
AMC Cinema, Thu to 9 Oct
Bicycle Film Festival, London
If you thought the topic of bicycles on film was rather limited, you'd be underestimating this resourceful global festival, which seems to find something new in the field of human-powered two-wheeled transportation every year. Did you know, for example, about the post-bmx street stunt scene in Accra, Ghana? If not, you need to see Bikelordz.
- 9/30/2011
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
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Indie GoGo is a website that allows musicians, filmmakers and others with ideas to connect with an audience willing to fund their ideas. Jon Spira is looking for money to finish the film Anyone Can Play Guitar. This documentary about the Oxford, England music scene that spawned bands like Radiohead, Supergrass and Ride. Help them by donating $30 to finish the film and they’ll send you a copy of the DVD when it’s done! Here’s the trailer:
Anyone Can Play Guitar Trailer from video jon on Vimeo.
Sometimes, I don’t have enough cuteness in my day. Then I watch a short film about cephalopods. Forget having six hearts between them, they also have at least fourteen tentacles.
I loved Scott Pilgrim vs. The World.
Indie GoGo is a website that allows musicians, filmmakers and others with ideas to connect with an audience willing to fund their ideas. Jon Spira is looking for money to finish the film Anyone Can Play Guitar. This documentary about the Oxford, England music scene that spawned bands like Radiohead, Supergrass and Ride. Help them by donating $30 to finish the film and they’ll send you a copy of the DVD when it’s done! Here’s the trailer:
Anyone Can Play Guitar Trailer from video jon on Vimeo.
Sometimes, I don’t have enough cuteness in my day. Then I watch a short film about cephalopods. Forget having six hearts between them, they also have at least fourteen tentacles.
I loved Scott Pilgrim vs. The World.
- 10/22/2010
- by Megan Lehar
- The Scorecard Review
Anyone Can Play Guitar
Directed by Jon Spira
Starring Colin Greenwood, Ed O’Brien, Gaz Coombes, Nick Cope, Mark Cope
Canal Cat Films
Release date: October 9, 2010 (Limited UK)
In the last couple of years there have been a number of music documentaries which have breathed life into what was becoming a tired genre, unleashing new or once forgotten bands and music into the world. Last year’s Anvil!: The Story of Anvil and Rush: Beyond The Lighted Stage, released earlier this year, were particularly impressive, highlighting a human story full of years of struggle and ultimate joy to the soundtrack of awesome music. Continuing this trend comes Anyone Can Play Guitar, which tells the story of the 30-year history of music in Oxford, England.
English cities have long been synonymous with great music: Liverpool gave rise to The Beatles; Manchester Oasis and the Stone Roses; the East Midlands area...
Directed by Jon Spira
Starring Colin Greenwood, Ed O’Brien, Gaz Coombes, Nick Cope, Mark Cope
Canal Cat Films
Release date: October 9, 2010 (Limited UK)
In the last couple of years there have been a number of music documentaries which have breathed life into what was becoming a tired genre, unleashing new or once forgotten bands and music into the world. Last year’s Anvil!: The Story of Anvil and Rush: Beyond The Lighted Stage, released earlier this year, were particularly impressive, highlighting a human story full of years of struggle and ultimate joy to the soundtrack of awesome music. Continuing this trend comes Anyone Can Play Guitar, which tells the story of the 30-year history of music in Oxford, England.
English cities have long been synonymous with great music: Liverpool gave rise to The Beatles; Manchester Oasis and the Stone Roses; the East Midlands area...
- 10/16/2010
- by Obi-Dan
- Geeks of Doom
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