Sundance Film Festival is one of the biggest highlights on the calendar for the year in film. Every year, festival-goers venture out to Park City, Utah, and enjoy some of the finest films coming out of the independent industry, from some of the best and most promising filmmakers.
Next month will be no different. We’ve already had a fantastic slew of films announced for the festival in the initial line-up, the Spotlight, Park City at Midnight, and New Frontier categories, and Premiers line-up.
And now the festival has announced a further four films that will be screening next month – Magic Magic, Muscle Shoals, Wrong Cops, and El Mariachi.
Sebastián Silva’s Magic Magic has long been one of my most anticipated films in production, and I am incredibly jealous of those who’ll get to see it first next month. Starring Michael Cera, Juno Temple, and Emily Browning in the leads,...
Next month will be no different. We’ve already had a fantastic slew of films announced for the festival in the initial line-up, the Spotlight, Park City at Midnight, and New Frontier categories, and Premiers line-up.
And now the festival has announced a further four films that will be screening next month – Magic Magic, Muscle Shoals, Wrong Cops, and El Mariachi.
Sebastián Silva’s Magic Magic has long been one of my most anticipated films in production, and I am incredibly jealous of those who’ll get to see it first next month. Starring Michael Cera, Juno Temple, and Emily Browning in the leads,...
- 12/14/2012
- by Kenji Lloyd
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
With Golden Globe nominations finally out, the Sundance Film Festival is revealing more of its 2013 slate, including four more features films announced Thursday: 1993 Robert Rodriguez favorite El Mariachi for the From the Collection screening, new music documentary Muscle Shoals, Michael Cera-starring Magic Magic in the Midnight movie section, and Los Angeles-based Wrong Cops as part of New Frontier designated films.
“With the addition of these four films, the 2013 Sundance Film Festival will present an even more well rounded program of independent films. Each adds to the festival in exciting, challenging and entertaining ways,” said the festival’s director John Cooper in a statement.
“With the addition of these four films, the 2013 Sundance Film Festival will present an even more well rounded program of independent films. Each adds to the festival in exciting, challenging and entertaining ways,” said the festival’s director John Cooper in a statement.
- 12/13/2012
- by Solvej Schou
- EW - Inside Movies
Not sure why these films weren’t part of the original announcements, but as originally predicted (here and here), 2013 Sundance Film Festival has added Quentin Dupieux’s wacko film project Wrong Cops to the New Frontier program and Sebastián Silva will be at Sundance with not one (Crystal Fairy), but two projects (Magic Magic gets added to the Park City at Midnight line-up) featuring Michael Cera. Robert Rodriguez will return with the credit card charged debut film that made a huge impact in his career and in the indie sphere (El Mariachi as ‘From the Collection’ Screening) and the year’s edition is certainly slanted on musical aspect in film as Greg ‘Freddy’ Camalier presents Muscle Shoals in the Documentary premieres section which is perhaps a cousin of the David Grohl film about famed music studios. Here are the last films to be added to a fest which we will...
- 12/13/2012
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
I mean, I haven't seen it yet. But I already like it. I guess I'm prejudiced.
This webseries is in post-production, without even a completed trailer, but I can see something good and awesome in this.
"Agent 88 is the story of the world’s deadliest assassin… an 88-year-old British woman with Alzheimers.
Agent 88 is extreme comic book style cinematic romp full of martial arts action, killer special effects and unforgettable characters.
Throughout recorded history spies, secret agents and assassins have engaged in subterfuge, violence and murder to shape the desired course of mankind for their masters. This deadly craft continues even today, and remarkably, one of its most lethal participants is not a member of the Yakuza, Massad, or the Colombian Drug Cartel, but an 88-year-old British woman currently living the quiet life in Los Angeles.
She may suffer from the occasional bout of forgetfulness, and hasn’t updated her wardrobe since the late 1970’s,...
This webseries is in post-production, without even a completed trailer, but I can see something good and awesome in this.
"Agent 88 is the story of the world’s deadliest assassin… an 88-year-old British woman with Alzheimers.
Agent 88 is extreme comic book style cinematic romp full of martial arts action, killer special effects and unforgettable characters.
Throughout recorded history spies, secret agents and assassins have engaged in subterfuge, violence and murder to shape the desired course of mankind for their masters. This deadly craft continues even today, and remarkably, one of its most lethal participants is not a member of the Yakuza, Massad, or the Colombian Drug Cartel, but an 88-year-old British woman currently living the quiet life in Los Angeles.
She may suffer from the occasional bout of forgetfulness, and hasn’t updated her wardrobe since the late 1970’s,...
- 8/9/2012
- by Superheidi
- Planet Fury
At FM, we love creator success stories. Monster makers who get to do what they love for a living. Musicians who turn pet projects into worldwide phenomena. Writers and actors who give everything to a project they truly believe in. When FM was first launched, it took years for creators to get the exposure they needed to keep going.
Fortunately, sites like Kickstarter now allow that kind of promotion to happen in a matter of days, which seem to have been the case with Agent 88. An avalanche of audience interest in the past week has sent the web series about an aged assassin snowballing towards its projected production goal. It’s the little series that could, continually revving its martial arts-fueled engine of comic book style awesomeness.
A month ago, it was difficult to get a project like Agent 88 off the ground, with its edgy concept and distinct tongue-in-cheek approach to assassination.
Fortunately, sites like Kickstarter now allow that kind of promotion to happen in a matter of days, which seem to have been the case with Agent 88. An avalanche of audience interest in the past week has sent the web series about an aged assassin snowballing towards its projected production goal. It’s the little series that could, continually revving its martial arts-fueled engine of comic book style awesomeness.
A month ago, it was difficult to get a project like Agent 88 off the ground, with its edgy concept and distinct tongue-in-cheek approach to assassination.
- 8/8/2012
- by Holly I.
- FamousMonsters of Filmland
©Paramount Pictures
“My momma always said, .Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get..” That line was immortalized by Tom Hanks in the award-winning movie “Forest Gump” in 1994. Librarian of Congress James H. Billington today selected that film and 24 others to be preserved as cultural, artistic and historical treasures in the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress.
Spanning the period 1912-1994, the films named to the registry include Hollywood classics, documentaries, animation, home movies, avant-garde shorts and experimental motion pictures. Representing the rich creative and cultural diversity of the American cinematic experience, the selections range from Walt Disney.s timeless classic “Bambi” and Billy Wilder.s “The Lost Weekend,” a landmark film about the devastating effects of alcoholism, to a real-life drama between a U.S. president and a governor over the desegregation of the University of Alabama. The selections also...
“My momma always said, .Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get..” That line was immortalized by Tom Hanks in the award-winning movie “Forest Gump” in 1994. Librarian of Congress James H. Billington today selected that film and 24 others to be preserved as cultural, artistic and historical treasures in the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress.
Spanning the period 1912-1994, the films named to the registry include Hollywood classics, documentaries, animation, home movies, avant-garde shorts and experimental motion pictures. Representing the rich creative and cultural diversity of the American cinematic experience, the selections range from Walt Disney.s timeless classic “Bambi” and Billy Wilder.s “The Lost Weekend,” a landmark film about the devastating effects of alcoholism, to a real-life drama between a U.S. president and a governor over the desegregation of the University of Alabama. The selections also...
- 12/28/2011
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
I’m never one to put significant stock in the film-based choices made by any kind of committee — be it an awards group, critics circle, soup kitchen line, etc. — but the National Film Registry is a little different. Not that they’re any different than those aforementioned organization types, but because the government assemblage preserves works deemed “culturally, historically or aesthetically significant.” No small potatoes.
Their latest list — created for both public awareness and the opportunity to grumble, as I’ll do in a second — has been unveiled, and the selections are none too out-of-left-field. The biggest of these 25 would have to be Forrest Gump, a choice I fully understand but completely disagree with on an opinion and moral scale. The only other true objection I can raise is toward El Mariachi, film school-level junk from a director whose finest works are the direct result of working with those more talented.
Their latest list — created for both public awareness and the opportunity to grumble, as I’ll do in a second — has been unveiled, and the selections are none too out-of-left-field. The biggest of these 25 would have to be Forrest Gump, a choice I fully understand but completely disagree with on an opinion and moral scale. The only other true objection I can raise is toward El Mariachi, film school-level junk from a director whose finest works are the direct result of working with those more talented.
- 12/28/2011
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
Can’t get enough zombies? Of course not. So this should make you happy: “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” co-creator Kevin Eastman and “El Mariachi” star Carlos Gallardo are teaming up to bring you … the “Zombie Apocalypse”!!!! Ahem. So what’s better than a new zombie movie? How about a new zombie movie trilogy? Video games? Comic books? That’s what the makers of “Zombie Apocalypse” are envisioning. A tad ambitious, you say? Probably. In Zombie Apocalypse, when zombies start to take control of the world they turn into malevolent versions of their former selves with any previous physical combat skills enhanced to almost superhuman level, making eradication near impossible. Into this seething hell a squad of eight Special Forces soldiers are assigned a suicide mission to rescue a scientist from a city ruled by the undead. The film will be written and directed by Chee Keong Cheung, and produced by Kevin Eastman.
- 7/22/2011
- by Nix
- Beyond Hollywood
Carlos Gallardo, producer of the acclaimed 'El Mariachi', 'Desperado' and 'Once Upon a Time in Mexico' trilogy, and Kevin Eastman, co-creator of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and the owner of Heavy Metal Publishing, are proud to announce their involvement as executive producers on 'Zombie Apocalypse' [working title], a forthcoming movie to be directed by hot new writer/director discovery, Chee Keong Cheung. 'Zombie Apocalypse' was co-written by Mark Strange and Steve Horvath and production is estimated for a Q4 2011 start date in the UK with an expected Fall 2012 release. Casting is currently underway and further announcements are expected shortly. Check out ...
- 7/22/2011
- Horror Asylum
Carlos Gallardo (producer of Robert Rodriguez’s El Mariachi trilogy) and Kevin Eastman (co-creator of The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and owner of Heavy Metal Publishing) have announced out in Comic Con that they will be executive producing Zombie Apocalypse, a new film by hot new writer/director Chee Keong Cheung.
We are told Zombie Apocalypse is just a working title for now but the original screenplay has their full backing for the zombie epic they clearly have high hopes for (a trilogy is planned plus a multi platform graphic novel and merchandise tie ins) – it’s selling point seems to be a zombie film that for the first time will feature mixed martial arts!
A fall 2012 release date is planned for the first movie based on a screenplay by Cheung and co-written by Mark Strange and Steve Horvath and casting is already underway, with a production to kick off...
We are told Zombie Apocalypse is just a working title for now but the original screenplay has their full backing for the zombie epic they clearly have high hopes for (a trilogy is planned plus a multi platform graphic novel and merchandise tie ins) – it’s selling point seems to be a zombie film that for the first time will feature mixed martial arts!
A fall 2012 release date is planned for the first movie based on a screenplay by Cheung and co-written by Mark Strange and Steve Horvath and casting is already underway, with a production to kick off...
- 7/22/2011
- by Matt Holmes
- Obsessed with Film
Miguel Rodriguez talks about his Horrible Imaginings, Horrible Imaginings film festival that is.
I have been following Monster Island Resort podcast from the beginning. It is hosted by self-proclaimed, horror enthusiast Miguel Rodriguez. The podcast itself is great, well done and very smart. It is all across the board as far as horror goes, but don't worry, he is a zombie fan though and though. Miguel Rodriguez seems to not be complacent with just being a podcaster though, he has decided to host his very own movie festival called Horrible Imaginings. I have to say that I am impressed, so I talked to Miguel Rodriguez about his new endeavor and this is what he had to say,
Haz: Tell us a little about yourself, what was your drive to start the Horrible Imaginings film festival in San Diego? I'm sure you must be excited.
Mr: My name is Miguel Rodriguez,...
I have been following Monster Island Resort podcast from the beginning. It is hosted by self-proclaimed, horror enthusiast Miguel Rodriguez. The podcast itself is great, well done and very smart. It is all across the board as far as horror goes, but don't worry, he is a zombie fan though and though. Miguel Rodriguez seems to not be complacent with just being a podcaster though, he has decided to host his very own movie festival called Horrible Imaginings. I have to say that I am impressed, so I talked to Miguel Rodriguez about his new endeavor and this is what he had to say,
Haz: Tell us a little about yourself, what was your drive to start the Horrible Imaginings film festival in San Diego? I'm sure you must be excited.
Mr: My name is Miguel Rodriguez,...
- 10/11/2010
- HugAZombie
Catherine Hicks attending 2009 Summer Hollywood Show at the Burbank Airport Marriott Hotel. Photo copyright by Albert L. Ortega / PR Photos. Kristy Swanson attending 2009 Summer Hollywood Show at the Burbank Airport Marriott Hotel. Photo copyright by Albert L. Ortega / PR Photos. Clifton Collins Jr. attending 2009 Summer Hollywood Show at the Burbank Airport Marriott Hotel. Photo copyright by Albert L. Ortega / PR Photos. DeeDee Bigelow attending 2009 Summer Hollywood Show at the Burbank Airport Marriott Hotel. Photo copyright by Albert L. Ortega / PR Photos. Carlos Gallardo and Tarah Paige attending 2009 Summer Hollywood Show at the Burbank Airport Marriott Hotel. Photo copyright by Albert L. Ortega / PR Photos. 07/18/2009...
- 7/21/2009
- by James Wray
- Monsters and Critics
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