Exclusive: In the biggest acquisition to emerge so far at the nascent EFM, we understand Amazon Prime Video has sewn up a deal with XYZ for international rights to Eiza González (Baby Driver) and Aaron Paul (Breaking Bad) sci-fi thriller Ash, the sophomore feature from producer, rapper and filmmaker Flying Lotus (Kuso).
We hear this is a high-seven figure pact, nearing $10M. Talks had been underway for a little while and the deal closed up this week.
Gonzalez will play a woman who wakes up on a distant planet and finds the crew of her space station viciously killed. She must decide whether she can trust the man (Paul) sent to rescue her. Iko Uwais, Beulah Koale, and Kate Elliott also star. The movie is in post-production.
As we previously revealed, Flying Lotus is composing an original score for the movie, which is based on an original screenplay by Jonni Remmler.
We hear this is a high-seven figure pact, nearing $10M. Talks had been underway for a little while and the deal closed up this week.
Gonzalez will play a woman who wakes up on a distant planet and finds the crew of her space station viciously killed. She must decide whether she can trust the man (Paul) sent to rescue her. Iko Uwais, Beulah Koale, and Kate Elliott also star. The movie is in post-production.
As we previously revealed, Flying Lotus is composing an original score for the movie, which is based on an original screenplay by Jonni Remmler.
- 2/15/2024
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
On Friday nights, IndieWire After Dark takes a feature-length beat to honor fringe cinema in the streaming age.
First, the spoiler-free pitch for one editor’s midnight movie pick — something weird and wonderful from any age of film that deserves our memorializing.
Then, the spoiler-filled aftermath as experienced by the unwitting editor attacked by this week’s recommendation.
The Pitch: Deathly Afraid of Tits? I’ve Got Just the Movie for You
Not since “The Idol” has the city of Los Angeles been hit with something as overhyped as Hurricane Hilary — and the 5.1 magnitude earthquake that followed it. A week of hysterical doomsday prepping from a populace conditioned to expect climate perfection concluded in a tepid rainstorm that would be completely unremarkable in any other state. And it’s quite possible that the constant alert vibrations from our cell phones shook the city more than the actual earthquake did.
I...
First, the spoiler-free pitch for one editor’s midnight movie pick — something weird and wonderful from any age of film that deserves our memorializing.
Then, the spoiler-filled aftermath as experienced by the unwitting editor attacked by this week’s recommendation.
The Pitch: Deathly Afraid of Tits? I’ve Got Just the Movie for You
Not since “The Idol” has the city of Los Angeles been hit with something as overhyped as Hurricane Hilary — and the 5.1 magnitude earthquake that followed it. A week of hysterical doomsday prepping from a populace conditioned to expect climate perfection concluded in a tepid rainstorm that would be completely unremarkable in any other state. And it’s quite possible that the constant alert vibrations from our cell phones shook the city more than the actual earthquake did.
I...
- 8/26/2023
- by Christian Zilko and Alison Foreman
- Indiewire
Flying Lotus (aka Steven Ellison) has already made a name for himself in the music business as a Grammy Award-winning rapper, producer, and composer. But the multi-hyphenate dabbles in film production, too, like his 2017 feature debut “Kuso,” which had its world premiere at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. There’s also his installment in the “V/H/S/99” horror anthology from last year, which he wrote, directed, and scored himself.
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Continue reading ‘Ash’ First Look: Eiza González & Aaron Paul Star In Upcoming Sci-Fi Thriller From Flying Lotus at The Playlist.
- 7/7/2023
- by Ned Booth
- The Playlist
Exclusive: Eddie Alcazar’s Sundance-lauded feature Divinity will premiere internationally at the Taormina Film Festival on June 29th in Italy. Writer and Director Alcazar and stars Bella Thorne, Karrueche Tran and Moises Arias are set to appear at the Teatro Antico for the celebration.
The feature, produced by Steven Soderbergh, was acquired at Sundance by Utopia and Sumerian for 7 figures, Deadline hears. It will also screen in Germany at the Munich Film Festival and in Canada at Fantasia Film Festival this summer.
Divinity is set in an otherworldly human existence where scientist Sterling Pierce (Scott Bakula) is on a quest for immortality, slowly creating the building blocks of a groundbreaking serum named “Divinity.” Jaxxon Pierce (Stephen Dorff), his son, now controls and manufactures his father’s once-benevolent dream.
Society on this barren planet has been entirely perverted by the supremacy of the drug, whose true origins are shrouded in mystery.
The feature, produced by Steven Soderbergh, was acquired at Sundance by Utopia and Sumerian for 7 figures, Deadline hears. It will also screen in Germany at the Munich Film Festival and in Canada at Fantasia Film Festival this summer.
Divinity is set in an otherworldly human existence where scientist Sterling Pierce (Scott Bakula) is on a quest for immortality, slowly creating the building blocks of a groundbreaking serum named “Divinity.” Jaxxon Pierce (Stephen Dorff), his son, now controls and manufactures his father’s once-benevolent dream.
Society on this barren planet has been entirely perverted by the supremacy of the drug, whose true origins are shrouded in mystery.
- 6/12/2023
- by Rosy Cordero
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Actors Iko Uwais, Beulah Koale, and Kate Elliott have signed on to star in Ash, the sophomore feature from producer, rapper, and filmmaker Flying Lotus (Kuso).
The trio round out the cast alongside Flying Lotus, who will now also act in the pic alongside serving as director. As Deadline previously revealed, Eiza González (Baby Driver) and Aaron Paul (Breaking Bad) lead the project, which comes from an original screenplay written by Jonni Remmler.
Production on the pic began this week in New Zealand, with Nate Bolotin of XYZ Films and Matthew Metcalfe of Gfc Films producing. Neill Blomkamp (District 9) and Echo Lake are onboard as exec producers. XYZ Films is co-financing alongside Ipr.Vc. Flying Lotus is also set to compose an original score for the film.
Plot follows a woman (González) who wakes up on a distant planet and finds the crew of her space station viciously killed.
The trio round out the cast alongside Flying Lotus, who will now also act in the pic alongside serving as director. As Deadline previously revealed, Eiza González (Baby Driver) and Aaron Paul (Breaking Bad) lead the project, which comes from an original screenplay written by Jonni Remmler.
Production on the pic began this week in New Zealand, with Nate Bolotin of XYZ Films and Matthew Metcalfe of Gfc Films producing. Neill Blomkamp (District 9) and Echo Lake are onboard as exec producers. XYZ Films is co-financing alongside Ipr.Vc. Flying Lotus is also set to compose an original score for the film.
Plot follows a woman (González) who wakes up on a distant planet and finds the crew of her space station viciously killed.
- 5/15/2023
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
Aaron Paul and Eiza Gonzalez are replacing Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Tessa Thompson in 'Ash'.The 'Breaking Bad' actor and the 'Baby Driver' actress have joined the cast of 'Kuso' filmmaker Flying Lotus' sci-fi thriller, taking over the roles that were previously announced for the other two stars last summer.Production is set to begin in New Zealand on May, with the movie telling the tale of a woman (Gonzalez) who wakes up on a distant planet to find the rest of the crew on her space station have been killed, and she has to decide if she can trust the person (Paul) sent to rescue her.Flying Lotus - who is also composing an original score for his film - said in a statement: "We are building something fresh and unique with Ash and having Eiza and Aaron in this world just makes it flames.
- 3/29/2023
- by Viki Waters
- Bang Showbiz
Exclusive: Eiza González (Baby Driver) and Aaron Paul (Breaking Bad) are attached to star in sci-fi thriller Ash, the sophomore feature from producer, rapper and filmmaker Flying Lotus (Kuso).
Paul and González will replace Tessa Thompson and Joseph Gordon-Levitt who were previously announced last summer.
Gonzalez will play a woman who wakes up on a distant planet and finds the crew of her space station viciously killed. She must decide whether she can trust the man (Paul) sent to rescue her.
Flying Lotus is also set to compose an original score, with production due to start in New Zealand in May.
Based on an original screenplay by Jonni Remmler, XYZ Films and Gfc Films are producing, with Neill Blomkamp (District 9) and Echo Lake onboard as exec producers. XYZ Films is co-financing alongside Ipr.Vc.
Baby Driver and Ambulance actress González will next be seen in Benioff and Weiss series Three...
Paul and González will replace Tessa Thompson and Joseph Gordon-Levitt who were previously announced last summer.
Gonzalez will play a woman who wakes up on a distant planet and finds the crew of her space station viciously killed. She must decide whether she can trust the man (Paul) sent to rescue her.
Flying Lotus is also set to compose an original score, with production due to start in New Zealand in May.
Based on an original screenplay by Jonni Remmler, XYZ Films and Gfc Films are producing, with Neill Blomkamp (District 9) and Echo Lake onboard as exec producers. XYZ Films is co-financing alongside Ipr.Vc.
Baby Driver and Ambulance actress González will next be seen in Benioff and Weiss series Three...
- 3/28/2023
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
The odds are not good for “V/H/S” — which is to say it’s the even-numbered entries in this horror omnibus franchise that have been by far the best to date. As No. 5, “V/H/S/99” unfortunately maintains that pattern, providing an uninspired extension of the series that had rebounded after a seven-year lull with last fall’s “V/H/S/94.”
That installment was typically uneven, but the better segments were terrific. Here, nothing stands out: The best episodes are merely good enough, and the worst just tiresome. Nonetheless, this brand has proven viewer appeal for genre streaming platform Shudder, where it should do well when launched in various territories on Oct. 20. Set in 1999 — the tail of the titular format’s commercial reign, since DVDs were introduced two years prior — the film is unlikely to be the series’ last.
If this “V/H/S” has any binding theme, it would appear to be bullying. All...
That installment was typically uneven, but the better segments were terrific. Here, nothing stands out: The best episodes are merely good enough, and the worst just tiresome. Nonetheless, this brand has proven viewer appeal for genre streaming platform Shudder, where it should do well when launched in various territories on Oct. 20. Set in 1999 — the tail of the titular format’s commercial reign, since DVDs were introduced two years prior — the film is unlikely to be the series’ last.
If this “V/H/S” has any binding theme, it would appear to be bullying. All...
- 9/16/2022
- by Dennis Harvey
- Variety Film + TV
Get ready to witness something out of this world. It was recently announced that Flying Lotus, the pseudonym of music producer and director Steven Ellison, will return to filmmaking with a science-fiction thriller entitled "Ash."
While a tentative release date has not been announced, Variety reports that it will be shopped around to various distributors at the upcoming Toronto International Film Festival and is eying a 2023 start date for production.
What We Know About Ash
The exact details of its plot are still being kept under wraps, but there are some details that have been released upon its announcement. It will largely follow two astronauts, one that has been awakened to find her entire crew murdered and another that is sent to rescue her. When the two meet up, however, their distrust of each other grows as more questions surrounding the mysterious murders surface.
If that's enough to entice you,...
While a tentative release date has not been announced, Variety reports that it will be shopped around to various distributors at the upcoming Toronto International Film Festival and is eying a 2023 start date for production.
What We Know About Ash
The exact details of its plot are still being kept under wraps, but there are some details that have been released upon its announcement. It will largely follow two astronauts, one that has been awakened to find her entire crew murdered and another that is sent to rescue her. When the two meet up, however, their distrust of each other grows as more questions surrounding the mysterious murders surface.
If that's enough to entice you,...
- 8/29/2022
- by Erin Brady
- Slash Film
Tessa Thompson (Westworld) and Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Super Pumped) are attached to star in the sci-fi thriller Ash, which the Grammy-winning musician and filmmaker Flying Lotus — otherwise known as Steven Ellison — will direct as his sophomore feature, as we first reported in January. Neill Blomkamp (District 9) has since then come aboard to exec produce the pic, which its financier XYZ Films will rep for worldwide sales at the upcoming Toronto Film Festival.
While at TIFF to meet with key buyers for Ash, Flying Lotus will appear in support of his segment of V/H/S/99, which is having its world premiere in the Midnight section of the festival.
The new film, for which the multi-hyphenate will also compose an original score, watches as a woman (Thompson) wakes up on a distant planet and finds the crew of her space station viciously killed, and must then decide if she can trust...
While at TIFF to meet with key buyers for Ash, Flying Lotus will appear in support of his segment of V/H/S/99, which is having its world premiere in the Midnight section of the festival.
The new film, for which the multi-hyphenate will also compose an original score, watches as a woman (Thompson) wakes up on a distant planet and finds the crew of her space station viciously killed, and must then decide if she can trust...
- 8/29/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Tessa Thompson and Joseph Gordon-Levitt are teaming up for “Ash,” a sci-fi thriller directed by filmmaker and musician Steven Ellison, better known as Flying Lotus.
Written by Jonni Remmler, the film follows an astronaut (Thompson) who wakes up on the distant planet she’s stationed on to find that the rest of her crew has been brutally murdered. After another astronaut (Gordon-Levitt) comes to rescue her, they begin to investigate what happened, setting into motion a horrifying series of events that leave them wondering if they can really trust each other.
Flying Lotus will compose an original score. XYZ Films and Gfc Films are set to produce. XYZ is handling worldwide sales at next month’s TIFF, where Flying Lotus’ anthology horror film “V/Hs/99,” will premiere in the Midnight Madness program. Executive producers on “Ash” are “District 9” writer-director Neill Blomkamp and Echo Lake.
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Tessa Thompson and...
Written by Jonni Remmler, the film follows an astronaut (Thompson) who wakes up on the distant planet she’s stationed on to find that the rest of her crew has been brutally murdered. After another astronaut (Gordon-Levitt) comes to rescue her, they begin to investigate what happened, setting into motion a horrifying series of events that leave them wondering if they can really trust each other.
Flying Lotus will compose an original score. XYZ Films and Gfc Films are set to produce. XYZ is handling worldwide sales at next month’s TIFF, where Flying Lotus’ anthology horror film “V/Hs/99,” will premiere in the Midnight Madness program. Executive producers on “Ash” are “District 9” writer-director Neill Blomkamp and Echo Lake.
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- 8/29/2022
- by Harper Lambert
- The Wrap
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Thor: Love and Thunder star Tessa Thompson and Inception actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt have signed on to star in Ash, an upcoming sci-fi thriller from rapper and filmmaker Flying Lotus, aka Steven Ellison.
Thompson will play a woman who wakes up on a distant planet to find the rest of the crew of her space station viciously murdered. She has to decide whether to trust the man (Gordon-Levitt) sent to rescue her. During their investigation into the killings, however, he begins to wonder if she is as innocent as she pretends to be.
Flying Lotus will direct from an original screenplay by German-Brazilian writer Jonni Remmler.
XYZ Films and Gfc Films are producing Ash, with Echo Lake and District 9 and Elysium director Neill Blomkamp on board as executive producers. XYZ Films is financing and handling worldwide sales, kicking off presales at the Toronto International Film Festival next month.
Thor: Love and Thunder star Tessa Thompson and Inception actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt have signed on to star in Ash, an upcoming sci-fi thriller from rapper and filmmaker Flying Lotus, aka Steven Ellison.
Thompson will play a woman who wakes up on a distant planet to find the rest of the crew of her space station viciously murdered. She has to decide whether to trust the man (Gordon-Levitt) sent to rescue her. During their investigation into the killings, however, he begins to wonder if she is as innocent as she pretends to be.
Flying Lotus will direct from an original screenplay by German-Brazilian writer Jonni Remmler.
XYZ Films and Gfc Films are producing Ash, with Echo Lake and District 9 and Elysium director Neill Blomkamp on board as executive producers. XYZ Films is financing and handling worldwide sales, kicking off presales at the Toronto International Film Festival next month.
- 8/29/2022
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Multi-hyphenate Flying Lotus and his company Brainfeeder Films has linked with Paris-based Logical Pictures and XYZ Films for a multi-picture development deal covering a slate of films that the artist will produce and direct.
Logical Content Ventures, the co-production fund backed by Logical Pictures, will finance the development of the films, which will focus on genres in the horror, thriller and sci-fi universe. Logical also secured a first-look agreement to finance and produce. The slate will span multiple projects, with XYZ Films set to produce and handle sales.
The deal was negotiated by Frédéric Fiore and Grace Adams from Logical Pictures, and by Nate Bolotin, partner at XYZ Films, on behalf of Brainfeeder Films.
Flying Lotus, also known as Steven Ellison, is a genre-bending, Grammy Award-winning producer, composer, filmmaker and rapper. He founded Brainfeeder Records in 2008.
Since 2006, Ellison has released six studio albums and composed much of the music heard...
Logical Content Ventures, the co-production fund backed by Logical Pictures, will finance the development of the films, which will focus on genres in the horror, thriller and sci-fi universe. Logical also secured a first-look agreement to finance and produce. The slate will span multiple projects, with XYZ Films set to produce and handle sales.
The deal was negotiated by Frédéric Fiore and Grace Adams from Logical Pictures, and by Nate Bolotin, partner at XYZ Films, on behalf of Brainfeeder Films.
Flying Lotus, also known as Steven Ellison, is a genre-bending, Grammy Award-winning producer, composer, filmmaker and rapper. He founded Brainfeeder Records in 2008.
Since 2006, Ellison has released six studio albums and composed much of the music heard...
- 3/3/2022
- by Manori Ravindran
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Musician and filmmaker Flying Lotus has set the sci-fi horror film Ash as his second feature, on the heels of his body horror anthology Kuso, which made its world premiere at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival.
The new film, for which the multi-hyphenate will also compose an original score, watches as a woman wakes up on a distant planet and finds the crew of her space station viciously killed, her investigation into what happened setting in motion a terrifying chain of events.
Jonni Remmler penned the original screenplay. XYZ Films and Gfc Films will produce, with Echo Lake on board as exec producer. XYZ is also financing and handling worldwide sales. Casting will get underway later this month, with production slated for this summer.
Ash follows XYZ’s collaboration with Gfc on Toa Fraser’s New Zealand Oscar entry The Dead Lands, which was presented to the U.S. market by James Cameron,...
The new film, for which the multi-hyphenate will also compose an original score, watches as a woman wakes up on a distant planet and finds the crew of her space station viciously killed, her investigation into what happened setting in motion a terrifying chain of events.
Jonni Remmler penned the original screenplay. XYZ Films and Gfc Films will produce, with Echo Lake on board as exec producer. XYZ is also financing and handling worldwide sales. Casting will get underway later this month, with production slated for this summer.
Ash follows XYZ’s collaboration with Gfc on Toa Fraser’s New Zealand Oscar entry The Dead Lands, which was presented to the U.S. market by James Cameron,...
- 1/26/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Filmmaker/producer Steven Soderbergh is on board to executive produce a feature-length adaptation of buzzy Directors’ Fortnight short film “The Vandal,” Variety can reveal.
Directed by American helmer Eddie Alcazar, the Quinzaine-premiering film — which is presented by filmmaker/producer Darren Aronofsky — is being tipped as an early contender for the best animated short Oscar. It stars Bill Duke and uses both stop-motion animation and live action in a unique process. Alcazar coins it “meta-scope,” a visual technique where “the closer you get to a subject, the more real it becomes,” he explains.
Set in a world not unlike mid-20th century America, Duke stars in the film as Harold, whose tormented search for peace from traumatic loss results in an unexpectedly destructive awakening after he undergoes a lobotomy. When the procedure “turns his mind inside out” and his great love is suddenly gone, Harold’s search intensifies.
CAA is representing...
Directed by American helmer Eddie Alcazar, the Quinzaine-premiering film — which is presented by filmmaker/producer Darren Aronofsky — is being tipped as an early contender for the best animated short Oscar. It stars Bill Duke and uses both stop-motion animation and live action in a unique process. Alcazar coins it “meta-scope,” a visual technique where “the closer you get to a subject, the more real it becomes,” he explains.
Set in a world not unlike mid-20th century America, Duke stars in the film as Harold, whose tormented search for peace from traumatic loss results in an unexpectedly destructive awakening after he undergoes a lobotomy. When the procedure “turns his mind inside out” and his great love is suddenly gone, Harold’s search intensifies.
CAA is representing...
- 7/11/2021
- by Manori Ravindran
- Variety Film + TV
Writer/director/producer Eddie Alcazar is known for the documentary Tapia (2013), which he directed, and Kuso (2017), directed by Flying Lotus, which he was a producer on. Alcazar has directed a new science fiction film, Perfect, which he co-wrote with Ted Kupper. Perfect is executive-produced by Steven Soderbergh and Flying Lotus did the music for the […] The post Interview: Director Eddie Alcazar on Breathtaking Style and Grotesquely Fascinating Body Horror in Perfect appeared first on Dread Central.
- 6/23/2019
- by Michelle Swope
- DreadCentral.com
In Eddie Alcazar’s debut feature “Perfect,” beautiful nymph-like models lounge around a Lautner house digitally transported into a waterfall fantasy land, and not a whole lot seems to mean anything. Alcazar has flip-flopped roles with his collaborator, musician-filmmaker Flying Lotus, for whom Alcazar acted as producer on the gross-out horror anthology film “Kuso.” Now Flying Lotus is producing (and acting as composer) for this sci-fi anti-morality tale — released under the “Steven Soderbergh Presents” banner — that frustrates as much as it visually dazzles.
The film opens with a distraught young man calling his chilly mother (Abbie Cornish) on a 1980s landline to beg her to come home and fix his mess. The mess in question is the nude corpse of his girlfriend, drenched in her own blood. When mom whisks her son away to a kind of modernist rehab, it seems as though he might go through the motions of repentance or soul-searching,...
The film opens with a distraught young man calling his chilly mother (Abbie Cornish) on a 1980s landline to beg her to come home and fix his mess. The mess in question is the nude corpse of his girlfriend, drenched in her own blood. When mom whisks her son away to a kind of modernist rehab, it seems as though he might go through the motions of repentance or soul-searching,...
- 5/17/2019
- by April Wolfe
- The Wrap
Flying Lotus unveiled a cosmic mini-suite of two new songs, “Spontaneous” and “Takashi,” from his upcoming album, Flamagra, out May 24th via Warp.
“Spontaneous” features Little Dragon vocalist Yukimi Nagano singing over a roiling low-end groove shot through with dusty drums and and a galaxy of various synth sounds. After just a couple minutes, “Spontaneous” fades out and gives way to the opening thump of “Takashi.” The song — a dense, dizzying jam centered around a skittering clavichord — is named for Takashi Kudo, an artist in the teamLab collective, whose worked...
“Spontaneous” features Little Dragon vocalist Yukimi Nagano singing over a roiling low-end groove shot through with dusty drums and and a galaxy of various synth sounds. After just a couple minutes, “Spontaneous” fades out and gives way to the opening thump of “Takashi.” The song — a dense, dizzying jam centered around a skittering clavichord — is named for Takashi Kudo, an artist in the teamLab collective, whose worked...
- 4/23/2019
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Shudder is looking to warm the hearts of horror fans in the Us this February with a wide range of titles, including the new documentary Horror Noire, Eli Roth's History of Horror TV series (for those that missed it on its initial AMC run), 1981's Bloody Birthday, Frank Henenlotter's Brain Damage, and Sean Byrne's The Loved Ones.
Below, check out the full list of titles coming to Shudder in the Us this February, and visit Shudder online to learn more about the streaming service.
"Horror’s past comes to life this month on Shudder, first in the new Shudder Original documentary Horror Noire: A History Of Black Horror, and then in the seven-part series Eli Roth’S History Of Horror. After that, step into horror’s future with the Shudder Exclusive films The Crucifixion, offering a new take on the demonic possession genre from the director of Frontier(s),...
Below, check out the full list of titles coming to Shudder in the Us this February, and visit Shudder online to learn more about the streaming service.
"Horror’s past comes to life this month on Shudder, first in the new Shudder Original documentary Horror Noire: A History Of Black Horror, and then in the seven-part series Eli Roth’S History Of Horror. After that, step into horror’s future with the Shudder Exclusive films The Crucifixion, offering a new take on the demonic possession genre from the director of Frontier(s),...
- 1/23/2019
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
In today’s film news roundup, “Deadpool 2” hits a box office milestone, SingularDTV buys a sci-fi thriller, and Jared Mass is re-hired by Reel FX.
Box Office
Fox’s “Deadpool 2” has topped $500 million at the worldwide box office in less than two weeks.
“Deadpool 2” has taken in $218.5 million domestically and another $287 million in international markets, led by $28 million in the U.K. and $27 million in South Korea.
The original “Deadpool” stunned the industry two years ago with a $132.4 million debut weekend, which holds the record for an R-rated title, and went on to finish with $330 million domestically and $420 million internationally. Fox decided in January to open the Ryan Reynolds sequel two weeks earlier to get it into theaters a week ahead of “Solo: A Star Wars Story.”
Acquisitions
Blockchain entertainment studio SingularDTV has acquired worldwide rights to the sci-fi thriller “Perfect,” starring Garrett Wareing, Courtney Eaton, and Abbie Cornish.
Box Office
Fox’s “Deadpool 2” has topped $500 million at the worldwide box office in less than two weeks.
“Deadpool 2” has taken in $218.5 million domestically and another $287 million in international markets, led by $28 million in the U.K. and $27 million in South Korea.
The original “Deadpool” stunned the industry two years ago with a $132.4 million debut weekend, which holds the record for an R-rated title, and went on to finish with $330 million domestically and $420 million internationally. Fox decided in January to open the Ryan Reynolds sequel two weeks earlier to get it into theaters a week ahead of “Solo: A Star Wars Story.”
Acquisitions
Blockchain entertainment studio SingularDTV has acquired worldwide rights to the sci-fi thriller “Perfect,” starring Garrett Wareing, Courtney Eaton, and Abbie Cornish.
- 5/30/2018
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
This year’s Sundance audience had no idea what they had signed up for when they entered the Egyptian Theatre on January 21st, the midnight premiere of Kuso. While Flying Lotus has established a well-earned legacy through his music, feature films are a fresh venture for him – and his first effort was transgressive enough to […]
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- 11/29/2017
- by Ben Larned
- DreadCentral.com
AMC Networks has announced a new series called The Core, hosted by Mickey Keating (Carnage Park), which will debut on Shudder, the network's streaming service. Each week, Mickey and other creatives in the genre will unpack all the elements that go into genre filmmaking. Check out the gory, funny trailer now:
Press Release: New York, New York — Thursday, November 2nd, 2017 —On Thursday Nov 16, AMC Networks’ subscription streaming video service Shudder, debuts new original series The Core, a weekly dissection of genre filmmaking hosted by director and fierce genre fan Mickey Keating (Psychopaths, Carnage Park). Alongside filmmakers from the world of horror, Keating examines the onscreen techniques and real-life psychologies that strike fear into our very core. The 10-episode series will premiere Thursday, November 16th, with new episodes releasing every week.
“The Core is a twisted celebration of the magic of genre filmmaking, and I can honestly say there has never been anything like it,...
Press Release: New York, New York — Thursday, November 2nd, 2017 —On Thursday Nov 16, AMC Networks’ subscription streaming video service Shudder, debuts new original series The Core, a weekly dissection of genre filmmaking hosted by director and fierce genre fan Mickey Keating (Psychopaths, Carnage Park). Alongside filmmakers from the world of horror, Keating examines the onscreen techniques and real-life psychologies that strike fear into our very core. The 10-episode series will premiere Thursday, November 16th, with new episodes releasing every week.
“The Core is a twisted celebration of the magic of genre filmmaking, and I can honestly say there has never been anything like it,...
- 11/3/2017
- by Tamika Jones
- DailyDead
Hot off the release of his feature-length film Kuso, Flying Lotus (aka Steve Ellison) is embarking on a North American tour that kicks off October 14th in Los Angeles and wraps up November 22nd in Portland. What makes this tour… Continue Reading →
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- 8/22/2017
- by Jonathan Barkan
- DreadCentral.com
Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim will revive their beloved sketch show Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! for a 10th anniversary special that will air August 27th at midnight Et on Adult Swim. Per a statement, the half-hour episode will feature "new sketches, familiar faces and the same old Awesome Show."
Heidecker and Wareheim shared a short teaser for the special in which they perform a snippet of a song ostensibly titled "Tiny Lamborghini." While singing the expertly cheesy New Wave parody, the duo drive around a green-screened beach...
Heidecker and Wareheim shared a short teaser for the special in which they perform a snippet of a song ostensibly titled "Tiny Lamborghini." While singing the expertly cheesy New Wave parody, the duo drive around a green-screened beach...
- 8/10/2017
- Rollingstone.com
Steven Ellison, better known to the public as the incredible musician Flying Lotus, is behind Kuso, which was getting all sorts of press for the walk-outs. Kuso is allegedly so gross and disgusting that there was a huge walkout at its Sundance world premiere — making this my most anticipated genre film of the year. In fact, our […]...
- 7/22/2017
- by Brad Miska
- bloody-disgusting.com
Earlier in 2017, acclaimed hip hop artist Flying Lotus (who is also known as Steve) celebrated the world premiere of his directorial debut, Kuso, at the Sundance Film Festival, and now, the film is heading home exclusively to Shudder today (and it also begins a one-week engagement at Cinefamily in Los Angeles too). Daily Dead had the chance to speak with Steve about transitioning from the realm of music to filmmaker, taking chances as an artist, working with his cast and more.
Great to speak with you, Steve, and congrats on finding a home for Kuso with Shudder. I would love if you could start off discussing how much your work in the music industry helped prepare you to transition to the world of film. I know you’ve been doing videos, and doing video and music work with Adult Swim too, so this seems like a natural progression for your career.
Great to speak with you, Steve, and congrats on finding a home for Kuso with Shudder. I would love if you could start off discussing how much your work in the music industry helped prepare you to transition to the world of film. I know you’ve been doing videos, and doing video and music work with Adult Swim too, so this seems like a natural progression for your career.
- 7/21/2017
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
Today marks the release of Kuso, the debut film of Steve, the filmmaking alter-ego of Steve Ellison, better known as music producer, DJ, and rapper Flying Lotus, which premieres on AMC’s horror streaming service Shudder. The film has gained quite… Continue Reading →
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- 7/21/2017
- by Jonathan Barkan
- DreadCentral.com
With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options — not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves — we’ve taken it upon ourselves to highlight the titles that have recently hit platforms. Every week, one will be able to see the cream of the crop (or perhaps some simply interesting picks) of streaming titles (new and old) across platforms such as Netflix, iTunes, Amazon, and more (note: U.S. only). Check out our rundown for this week’s selections below.
Cameraperson (Kirsten Johnson)
Kirsten Johnson brings us her memoirs by way of a videographic scrapbook. Bits and pieces of the numerous documentaries she’s shot in her years as a Dp have been woven together into a travelogue / ethnographic study / commentary on the nature of cinematic framing. What was an establishing shot in one doc becomes, here, a study of the vagaries of a camera operator’s job. Documentary...
Cameraperson (Kirsten Johnson)
Kirsten Johnson brings us her memoirs by way of a videographic scrapbook. Bits and pieces of the numerous documentaries she’s shot in her years as a Dp have been woven together into a travelogue / ethnographic study / commentary on the nature of cinematic framing. What was an establishing shot in one doc becomes, here, a study of the vagaries of a camera operator’s job. Documentary...
- 7/21/2017
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Here's the problem with Kuso, a drugged-out horror film directed by Steve Ellison, the rapper known as Flying Lotus: There are no geysers of snot in it.
There's no caked-up ear wax, either; no rancid toe jam. But just about every other excretion and fluid a human body can produce is represented here, measurable in gallons and quarts rather than milliliters. And for each actual substance the film avoids, it has at least one imagined ooze to replace it, like the jet of viscous cream shooting out of the antenna of a giant cockroach that has just crawled...
- 7/20/2017
- by John DeFore
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Most aspiring filmmakers who have sunk $400,000 of their own money into their first movie, and then have the chance to premiere it in a high-profile slot Sundance, do not want initial viewer reactions to be swift, violent and highly negative. They do not want reports that numerous audience members had walked, perhaps even ran, out of the theater in Park City during its first-ever showing, unwilling to tangle with some a movie that might be described "difficult," or "in-your-face," or "gross-as-fuck."
To be fair, however, most filmmakers are nothing like Steven Ellison,...
To be fair, however, most filmmakers are nothing like Steven Ellison,...
- 7/19/2017
- Rollingstone.com
The largely nonsensical debut by the electronic musician follows the survivors of an earthquake and inflicts on them unimaginable cruelty of the corporeal sort
There are horror films in which the persistence of violence and torture serves as a vehicle for a broader social commentary, like Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Saló, which, when I first saw it, was perhaps the most unruly thing I’d ever witnessed. It was equal parts captivating and unwatchable, driven by a withering critique of fascism and its practitioners’ cruel, sadistic thirst for power and pleasure.
Then there are ones like Kuso, the debut feature by the electronic musician Flying Lotus. Kuso could scarcely be called a film proper; it’s more like a feature-length sequence of moving pictures and disparate narratives that seem perpetually engaged in a game of one-upmanship, the point being for each image to be grosser than the one that came before.
There are horror films in which the persistence of violence and torture serves as a vehicle for a broader social commentary, like Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Saló, which, when I first saw it, was perhaps the most unruly thing I’d ever witnessed. It was equal parts captivating and unwatchable, driven by a withering critique of fascism and its practitioners’ cruel, sadistic thirst for power and pleasure.
Then there are ones like Kuso, the debut feature by the electronic musician Flying Lotus. Kuso could scarcely be called a film proper; it’s more like a feature-length sequence of moving pictures and disparate narratives that seem perpetually engaged in a game of one-upmanship, the point being for each image to be grosser than the one that came before.
- 7/18/2017
- by Jake Nevins
- The Guardian - Film News
If you haven't heard about the film Kuso yet, just wait until you see this latest insane trailer! This movie seriously looks bat-shit crazy and it seems like it's going to give audiences a unique movie going experience that they will never forget. I'm just watching this trailer and thinking that this is the thing that freak show nightmares are made of. Just watch the trailer and you'll see what I mean. Here's the synopsis:
Broadcasted through a makeshift network of discarded televisions, this story is tangled up in the aftermath of Los Angeles's worst earthquake nightmare. Travel between screens and aftershocks into the twisted lives of the survived.Welcome to the weird and wild mind of filmmaker Steven Ellison. Already acclaimed for his expansive psychedelic albums as musician Flying Lotus, Ellison steps behind the camera to direct this mind-altering freakshow of a first feature, co-written with David Firth and Zach Fox.
Broadcasted through a makeshift network of discarded televisions, this story is tangled up in the aftermath of Los Angeles's worst earthquake nightmare. Travel between screens and aftershocks into the twisted lives of the survived.Welcome to the weird and wild mind of filmmaker Steven Ellison. Already acclaimed for his expansive psychedelic albums as musician Flying Lotus, Ellison steps behind the camera to direct this mind-altering freakshow of a first feature, co-written with David Firth and Zach Fox.
- 7/12/2017
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
You know you’re in for something weird when the sight of Tim Heidecker, covered in boils, is the least-upsetting visual a new trailer has to offer. Such is the case for Kuso, the first film from Steven Ellison, a.k.a. rapper Flying Lotus. And while the trailer’s promo copy says it takes place in L.A., in the aftermath of a massive earthquake, in actual practice, it seems to be streaming straight out of someone’s Technicolor fever dream.
Honestly, we have no fucking clue what’s happening here; the trailer blends live-action, animation, and body horror into some sort of David Cronenberg-meets-Who Framed Roger Rabbit hybrid. Is George Clinton’s crazy-sounding doctor a good guy? Does that woman’s vagina have teeth? Can this movie congeal into something more than 90 minutes of out-there imagery and screaming? Hopefully, we’ll have a better idea when...
Honestly, we have no fucking clue what’s happening here; the trailer blends live-action, animation, and body horror into some sort of David Cronenberg-meets-Who Framed Roger Rabbit hybrid. Is George Clinton’s crazy-sounding doctor a good guy? Does that woman’s vagina have teeth? Can this movie congeal into something more than 90 minutes of out-there imagery and screaming? Hopefully, we’ll have a better idea when...
- 7/11/2017
- by William Hughes
- avclub.com
"I survived, and I can barely believe it." Shudder has debuted a new trailer for the trippy new film made by musician Flying Lotus, making his feature directorial debut. Kuso is about a few events that occur after an earthquake destroys Los Angeles. The story is told through various discarded televisions and a number of quirky characters still left alive. It's described as having hallucinations that are "half-Cronenberg, half-Ren & Stimpy", though even that may not properly sum up the film. I heard nothing but weird things about this, as it premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and seems to be an acquired taste, definitely not for everyone. The cast includes Hannibal Buress, Anders Holm, Tim Heidecker, as well as funk legend George Clinton, among others. It's a good trailer with all the crazy quotes, but I don't think I'll be seeing this film. Here's the official trailer (+ poster) for Flying Lotus' film Kuso,...
- 7/11/2017
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
The sobriquet Sundance Movie conjures up some familiar elements: low budgets, a blend of drama and comedy, and usually some kind of predictably mapped out catharsis. However, when electronic musician Flying Lotus landed in Park City this year with “Kuso,” his film was genuinely uncategorizable. Weird, surreal, and gross, the movie prompted lots of raised eyebrows and walkouts, but has sustained as a must-see future midnight classic.
Featuring Hannibal Buress, Anders Holm, Tim Heidecker, and funk legend George Clinton, the plot, such as it is, looks at the lives at a bunch of twisted citizens in Los Angeles, but, really, “Kuso” is something you experience.
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Featuring Hannibal Buress, Anders Holm, Tim Heidecker, and funk legend George Clinton, the plot, such as it is, looks at the lives at a bunch of twisted citizens in Los Angeles, but, really, “Kuso” is something you experience.
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- 7/11/2017
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
While some have lamented that Sundance Film Festival has skewed more celebrity-focused in recent years, giving credence to star wattage over quality, those people often don’t explore the sidebars, and they certainly didn’t go see Lemon and Kuso. The two most peculiar films of the festival — and amongst the year, so far — will arrive this summer and new trailers have landed for both.
First up, Lemon comes from Janicza Bravo and Brett Gelman, following the latter as his life unravels in the strangest of ways. Also starring Judy Greer, Michael Cera, Fred Melamed, Rhea Perlman, Gillian Jacobs, Jon Daly, Martin Starr, Megan Mullally, Jeff Garlin, and Nia Long, it was actually one of the few films at the festival I didn’t review because I was left dumbfounded at what I just saw, for better or worse.
The next film, which hits theaters and Shudder shortly, is Kuso,...
First up, Lemon comes from Janicza Bravo and Brett Gelman, following the latter as his life unravels in the strangest of ways. Also starring Judy Greer, Michael Cera, Fred Melamed, Rhea Perlman, Gillian Jacobs, Jon Daly, Martin Starr, Megan Mullally, Jeff Garlin, and Nia Long, it was actually one of the few films at the festival I didn’t review because I was left dumbfounded at what I just saw, for better or worse.
The next film, which hits theaters and Shudder shortly, is Kuso,...
- 7/11/2017
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Steven Ellison, better known to the public as the incredible musician Flying Lotus, is behind Kuso, which is getting all sorts of press for the walk-outs. Kuso is allegedly so gross and disgusting that there was a huge walkout at its Sundance world premiere — making this my most anticipated genre film of the year. […]...
- 7/10/2017
- by Brad Miska
- bloody-disgusting.com
Sundance goes online in July, with a trio of buzzy, well-reviewed indie pictures from the festival surfacing on streaming sites. Meanwhile, Netflix drops a star-studded dramedy, a cult video-game series adaptation awash in blood and Jason Bateman breaking bad; Amazon presents both an original F. Scott Fitzgerald adaptation; and Shudder offers a tour of the unhinged, psychotronic mind of Flying Lotus. You need a guide to July's streaming highlights? Boom. We've got your back.
Altered States (Hulu, July 1st)
During the Sixties, scientist John C. Lilly was a pioneer on the frontier of consciousness,...
Altered States (Hulu, July 1st)
During the Sixties, scientist John C. Lilly was a pioneer on the frontier of consciousness,...
- 6/29/2017
- Rollingstone.com
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.
– The Orchard has acquired the North American rights to Jordan Ross’s directorial debut “Thumper,” starring “Orange is the New Black’s” Pablo Schreiber. The gritty crime thriller debuted at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival and was written and directed by Ross. The movie also stars Eliza Taylor, Lena Headey, Ben Feldman, Grant Harvey and Daniel Webber. Set in a town of low-income and fractured families, “Thumper” is centered around a group of teens that are lured into working for a dangerous drug dealer. A new girl arrives into town hiding a dangerous secret that will impact everybody and change their lives forever.
Read More: Film Acquisition Rundown: Mubi Buys Philippe Garrel’s ‘Lover for a Day,’ FilmRise...
– The Orchard has acquired the North American rights to Jordan Ross’s directorial debut “Thumper,” starring “Orange is the New Black’s” Pablo Schreiber. The gritty crime thriller debuted at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival and was written and directed by Ross. The movie also stars Eliza Taylor, Lena Headey, Ben Feldman, Grant Harvey and Daniel Webber. Set in a town of low-income and fractured families, “Thumper” is centered around a group of teens that are lured into working for a dangerous drug dealer. A new girl arrives into town hiding a dangerous secret that will impact everybody and change their lives forever.
Read More: Film Acquisition Rundown: Mubi Buys Philippe Garrel’s ‘Lover for a Day,’ FilmRise...
- 6/9/2017
- by Graham Winfrey
- Indiewire
Brainfeeder Films earthquake story to launch in July.
Shudder has acquired North American and UK rights to Flying Lotus’ psychedelic horror Kuso.
The film will open day-and-date theatrically in Los Angeles and New York on July 21 and run on Shudder’s thriller, suspense and horror video streaming service.
Music producer and rapper Flying Lotus makes his feature directorial debut as Steve Ellison on the film, which depicts the aftermath of a catastrophic earthquake in Los Angeles.
Hannibal Buress, Anders Holm, Tim Heidecker and funk musician George Clinton are among the cast as Kuso recounts survival stories through a network of television screens in what the filmmakers describe as a hallucination-like effect. Eddie Alcazar served as producer.
Shudder’s previous acquisitions include Alice Lowe’s Prevenge. “Kuso pushes the boundaries of filmmaking and we’re delighted to be working with Steve on this highly unique film, as Shudder continues its commitment to bringing new and innovative programming to its...
Shudder has acquired North American and UK rights to Flying Lotus’ psychedelic horror Kuso.
The film will open day-and-date theatrically in Los Angeles and New York on July 21 and run on Shudder’s thriller, suspense and horror video streaming service.
Music producer and rapper Flying Lotus makes his feature directorial debut as Steve Ellison on the film, which depicts the aftermath of a catastrophic earthquake in Los Angeles.
Hannibal Buress, Anders Holm, Tim Heidecker and funk musician George Clinton are among the cast as Kuso recounts survival stories through a network of television screens in what the filmmakers describe as a hallucination-like effect. Eddie Alcazar served as producer.
Shudder’s previous acquisitions include Alice Lowe’s Prevenge. “Kuso pushes the boundaries of filmmaking and we’re delighted to be working with Steve on this highly unique film, as Shudder continues its commitment to bringing new and innovative programming to its...
- 6/6/2017
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
AMC's genre streaming service Shudder has picked up the rights to stream Flying Lotus' dose of what-the-fuckery Kuso. Those of you looking to melt your minds and fry your brains on some good old fashioned psychadelic cinema should not have to wait much longer. Just as long as you live in North America and UK/Ireland. Shudder will stream the film in North America and UK/Ireland starting on July 21st. Read the full press release below and the trailer is further down. I feel I should warn you about it but I do not know what to really single out as specifically worrying. It's all, just, well it's there. Toronto (Tuesday, June 6, 2017) — Shudder announced today that it is acquiring North American and...
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- 6/6/2017
- Screen Anarchy
Sick and twisted for the sake of being sick and twisted, Kuso is a certainly not a film for everyone, or perhaps anybody. I imagine the experience is like being high on something spiked with an agent that can induce awful nightmares. Though I’m not sure being drunk or high will make Kuso a delightful experience. Having seen the film stone-cold sober with an Earl Grey Tea Latte at an afternoon press-and-industry screening, I can confirm that, indeed, many critics and acquisition executives gave up at various points throughout. It’s a film that won’t been seen at a theater near you anytime soon, as it may, in fact, be in violation of many lease agreements, edging towards pornographic. But, if you came for the blood, sweat, tears, semen, and amniotic fluid, then Flying Lotus will give you your money’s worth in a nasty piece of work...
- 1/29/2017
- by John Fink
- The Film Stage
Musician’s first feature-length film prompted some to leave screening due to its graphic content, with one site calling it the ‘grossest movie ever made’
Electronica star turned film-maker Flying Lotus (Steven Ellison) says he tried to warn people about the nature of his first feature-length film after reports of mass walkouts during screenings at this year’s Sundance film festival.
The film, Kuso, which was described as “a mix of live action, puppetry and animation” in its promotional material, was screened as part of the film festival’s Midnight selection.
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Electronica star turned film-maker Flying Lotus (Steven Ellison) says he tried to warn people about the nature of his first feature-length film after reports of mass walkouts during screenings at this year’s Sundance film festival.
The film, Kuso, which was described as “a mix of live action, puppetry and animation” in its promotional material, was screened as part of the film festival’s Midnight selection.
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- 1/27/2017
- by Guardian staff
- The Guardian - Film News
More than a dozen people walked out of a screening of Flying Lotus’ “Kuso” at the Sundance Film Festival, Pitchfork reports. The feature debut for the musician, whose real name is Steve Ellison, “Kuso” is a psychedelic dream movie set in Los Angeles after a devastating earthquake. The film premiered last Saturday in Sundance’s Midnight section.
Read More: IFC Midnight Acquires ‘Killing Ground’ — Sundance 2017
“Kuso’s” grotesque humor and trippy animated sequences proved to be too much for certain audience members at Sundance. Still, Lotus tweeted that the amount of people who left the screening was not significant given how many people were in attendance.
It was only like 20 people out of like 400 who walked out. Wasn’t as dramatic as they make it out to be. I tried to warn folks. https://t.co/j3GTtO906o
— Flylo (@flyinglotus) January 26, 2017
“Kuso” stars Anders Holm, Hannibal Buress, Tim Heidecker and George Clinton.
Read More: IFC Midnight Acquires ‘Killing Ground’ — Sundance 2017
“Kuso’s” grotesque humor and trippy animated sequences proved to be too much for certain audience members at Sundance. Still, Lotus tweeted that the amount of people who left the screening was not significant given how many people were in attendance.
It was only like 20 people out of like 400 who walked out. Wasn’t as dramatic as they make it out to be. I tried to warn folks. https://t.co/j3GTtO906o
— Flylo (@flyinglotus) January 26, 2017
“Kuso” stars Anders Holm, Hannibal Buress, Tim Heidecker and George Clinton.
- 1/26/2017
- by Graham Winfrey
- Indiewire
I've got a seriously bonkers trailer for you to watch today for a batshit crazy looking film called Kuso. The film is screening up at Sundance this week, and I'm hoping catch a screening of this complete madness. You'll have to watch the trailer to understand the kind of insanity I'm trying to convey to you, but before you watch it, here's a synopsis:
Broadcasted through a makeshift network of discarded televisions, this story is tangled up in the aftermath of Los Angeles's worst earthquake nightmare. Travel between screens and aftershocks into the twisted lives of the survived.Welcome to the weird and wild mind of filmmaker Steven Ellison. Already acclaimed for his expansive psychedelic albums as musician Flying Lotus, Ellison steps behind the camera to direct this mind-altering freakshow of a first feature, co-written with David Firth and Zach Fox. Their unbridled imaginations plunge the audience into a magical...
Broadcasted through a makeshift network of discarded televisions, this story is tangled up in the aftermath of Los Angeles's worst earthquake nightmare. Travel between screens and aftershocks into the twisted lives of the survived.Welcome to the weird and wild mind of filmmaker Steven Ellison. Already acclaimed for his expansive psychedelic albums as musician Flying Lotus, Ellison steps behind the camera to direct this mind-altering freakshow of a first feature, co-written with David Firth and Zach Fox. Their unbridled imaginations plunge the audience into a magical...
- 1/24/2017
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
Flying Lotus is already a wildly creative musical talent, bending electronic music (and more) to his will across albums like Cosmogramma, Until The Quiet Comes, and You’re Dead! So it would only follow that his foray into feature filmmaking with “Kuso” wold be equally adventurous.
Read More: The 30 Most Exciting Films In The Sundance 2017 Lineup
Gearing up to make its Sundance Film Festival premiere, the trailer for the movie might leave you a little dazed, offering little on plot and plenty on mindbending visuals.
Continue reading Sundance: New Trailer For Flying Lotus’ Debut Feature ‘Kuso’ Will Melt Your Brain at The Playlist.
Read More: The 30 Most Exciting Films In The Sundance 2017 Lineup
Gearing up to make its Sundance Film Festival premiere, the trailer for the movie might leave you a little dazed, offering little on plot and plenty on mindbending visuals.
Continue reading Sundance: New Trailer For Flying Lotus’ Debut Feature ‘Kuso’ Will Melt Your Brain at The Playlist.
- 1/20/2017
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
After an earthquake shakes up the lives of Los Angeles residents, things get strange and surreal for survivors in the official, Nsfw trailer for Kuso, the new film from Steven Ellison, aka Flying Lotus, that will have its world premiere at Sundance.
Synopsis: “Broadcasting through a makeshift network of discarded televisions, this story is tangled up in the aftermath of Los Angeles’s worst earthquake nightmare. Travel between screens and aftershocks into the twisted lives of the survived.”
Directed by Steven Ellison, Kuso stars Iesha Coston, Zack Fox, Hannibal Buress, The Buttress, Tim Heidecker, Mali Matsuda, and George Clinton.
Kuso makes its world premiere on Saturday, January 21st at the Sundance Film Festival. Stay tuned to Daily Dead for our live Sundance coverage from Park City, and click here to see when and where Kuso will be screening at the fest.
Nsfw trailer:
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Synopsis: “Broadcasting through a makeshift network of discarded televisions, this story is tangled up in the aftermath of Los Angeles’s worst earthquake nightmare. Travel between screens and aftershocks into the twisted lives of the survived.”
Directed by Steven Ellison, Kuso stars Iesha Coston, Zack Fox, Hannibal Buress, The Buttress, Tim Heidecker, Mali Matsuda, and George Clinton.
Kuso makes its world premiere on Saturday, January 21st at the Sundance Film Festival. Stay tuned to Daily Dead for our live Sundance coverage from Park City, and click here to see when and where Kuso will be screening at the fest.
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- 1/20/2017
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
It was just last week that Screen Anarchy premiered the poster for Sundance selected bit of weirdness Kuso, noting at the time that the imagery was - to put it mildly - a little bit odd. Well, you aint seen nuthin' until you've seen the trailer. Directed by Steven Ellison - credited here simply as steve but better known in musical circles as Flying Lotus - and starring Hannibal Buress, George Clinton, Anders Holm, Tim Heidecker, and Zach Fox (aka Bootymath), Sundance describes it like this: Broadcasting through a makeshift network of discarded televisions, this story is tangled up in the aftermath of Los Angeles's worst earthquake nightmare. Travel between screens and aftershocks into the twisted lives of the survived. This does not prepare you...
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- 1/20/2017
- Screen Anarchy
Heading to Sundance next week is Sydney Freeland’s coming-of-age dramedy “Deidra & Laney Rob a Train,” starring newcomers Ashleigh Murray and Rachel Crow.
The movie follows Deidra, a whip-smart high school senior, and her younger sister Laney who, after their mother Marigold (Danielle Nicolet) is thrown in jail for a minor offense, hatch a plan to rob trains to get money and support their family. Things seem to be working out for them until a railroad detective (Tim Blake Nelson) starts sniffing around.
Written by Shelby Farrell, “Deidra & Laney Rob a Train” also co-stars Sasheer Zamata, David Sullivan, Missi Pyle, Arturo Castro, Brooke Markham and Sharon Lawrence.
Read More: ‘I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore’ Filmmaker Macon Blair Turns His Talents Behind the Camera — Sundance Springboard
Murray previously mentioned that she hopes the film helps audiences see that people can always get through hard times – just don’t break the law.
The movie follows Deidra, a whip-smart high school senior, and her younger sister Laney who, after their mother Marigold (Danielle Nicolet) is thrown in jail for a minor offense, hatch a plan to rob trains to get money and support their family. Things seem to be working out for them until a railroad detective (Tim Blake Nelson) starts sniffing around.
Written by Shelby Farrell, “Deidra & Laney Rob a Train” also co-stars Sasheer Zamata, David Sullivan, Missi Pyle, Arturo Castro, Brooke Markham and Sharon Lawrence.
Read More: ‘I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore’ Filmmaker Macon Blair Turns His Talents Behind the Camera — Sundance Springboard
Murray previously mentioned that she hopes the film helps audiences see that people can always get through hard times – just don’t break the law.
- 1/19/2017
- by Liz Calvario
- Indiewire
Anne Hathaway’s upcoming film “Colossal” is something different for the Oscar-winning actress. As someone who has taken on a variety of roles, her latest one is of an alcoholic named Gloria who finds out that her movements are controlling a giant monster terrorizing South Korea. Entertainment Weekly has shared the first teaser trailer for the sci-fi, action film, which is just as wacky as it sounds.
Written and directed by Nacho Vigalondo, the film also co-stars Dan Stevens, Jason Sudeikis, Austin Stowell, and Tim Blake Nelson.
Hathaway previously explained that she took on the role of Gloria for her 16-year-old self. “I would have loved this movie and felt so cool knowing it existed,” she said, calling it the “sci-fi companion” to “Rachel Getting Married.”
Read More: Tiff 2016: Anne Hathaway Made Monster Movie ‘Colossal’ For Her 16-Year-Old Self
The movie had its world premiere at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival,...
Written and directed by Nacho Vigalondo, the film also co-stars Dan Stevens, Jason Sudeikis, Austin Stowell, and Tim Blake Nelson.
Hathaway previously explained that she took on the role of Gloria for her 16-year-old self. “I would have loved this movie and felt so cool knowing it existed,” she said, calling it the “sci-fi companion” to “Rachel Getting Married.”
Read More: Tiff 2016: Anne Hathaway Made Monster Movie ‘Colossal’ For Her 16-Year-Old Self
The movie had its world premiere at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival,...
- 1/19/2017
- by Liz Calvario
- Indiewire
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