Exclusive: Indie-focused company debuts at festival with four films on slate.
Blackfin Productions’ Xie Meng and Wang Zijian have launched a Beijing-based sales company, Rediance, to grow the international market for Chinese independent films.
The new outfit is launching at the Shanghai International Film Festival (Siff) with a debut slate of four projects, including Geng Jun’s Manchurian Tiger, which has been selected for Siff’s film financing platform, Siff Project.
Produced by Blackfin, the film is a dark comedy about a man seeking revenge against people who owe him money. Geng previously directed Free And Easy, which won a...
Blackfin Productions’ Xie Meng and Wang Zijian have launched a Beijing-based sales company, Rediance, to grow the international market for Chinese independent films.
The new outfit is launching at the Shanghai International Film Festival (Siff) with a debut slate of four projects, including Geng Jun’s Manchurian Tiger, which has been selected for Siff’s film financing platform, Siff Project.
Produced by Blackfin, the film is a dark comedy about a man seeking revenge against people who owe him money. Geng previously directed Free And Easy, which won a...
- 6/22/2017
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
Screenwriter Allan Weiss, who was on hand to witness Elvis Presley's first Hollywood screen test and worked on six of the singer's movies in the 1960s, has died. He was 90.
Weiss died Thursday at a nursing facility in Mission Viejo, Calif., his nephew, Ken Maas, told The Hollywood Reporter.
Weiss provided the story for Presley's Blue Hawaii (1961) and wrote or co-wrote the screenplays for the films Girls! Girls! Girls! (1962), Fun in Acapulco (1963), Roustabout (1964), Paradise, Hawaiian Style (1966) and Easy Come, Easy Go (1967).
Weiss once noted that to write a screenplay for an Elvis movie,...
Weiss died Thursday at a nursing facility in Mission Viejo, Calif., his nephew, Ken Maas, told The Hollywood Reporter.
Weiss provided the story for Presley's Blue Hawaii (1961) and wrote or co-wrote the screenplays for the films Girls! Girls! Girls! (1962), Fun in Acapulco (1963), Roustabout (1964), Paradise, Hawaiian Style (1966) and Easy Come, Easy Go (1967).
Weiss once noted that to write a screenplay for an Elvis movie,...
- 3/27/2017
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
At the Sundance Film Festival, Amazon made aspiring filmmakers an offer that many of them couldn’t refuse. Post your film to our Amazon Video Direct platform, the digital retailer said, and we’ll pay you $100,000 and offer you two-times our typical royalty rate. Ultimately, 12 Sundance films, including several that won awards at the festival, chose to opt-into what Amazon is referring to as its Film Festival Stars program. As a result, the offer will now be extended to filmmakers at other festivals, including South By Southwest (SXSW), the Tribeca Film Festival, and the Toronto International Film Festival (Tiff).
The Sundance films whose creators took Amazon up on its offer include Manifesto, which stars Cate Blanchett and won the Special Jury Award for Cinematic Vision, and Free and Easy, which won the Special Jury Award for Cinematography. As per the terms of the deal, those films must be Amazon exclusives for at least two years.
The Sundance films whose creators took Amazon up on its offer include Manifesto, which stars Cate Blanchett and won the Special Jury Award for Cinematic Vision, and Free and Easy, which won the Special Jury Award for Cinematography. As per the terms of the deal, those films must be Amazon exclusives for at least two years.
- 3/2/2017
- by Sam Gutelle
- Tubefilter.com
Distribution: Separately, Universal dates Trolls 2; FilmRise acquires Free And Easy, The Good Postman; IFC takes Rebel In The Rye.
The Mexican comedy 3 Idiotas will launch in “moderate release on June 2.
Carlos Bolado directs the Spanish-language film based on the 2009 Bollywood blockbuster 3 Idiots (pictured), about three old college friends who set out to find their long-lost pal who taught them to think differently about life.
Greenlight Productions produces 3 Idiotas alongside Neverending Media, BoBo Producciones, Credix, Cutting Edge and Eficine
Antonio Abascal, Carlos Bolado, Martha Higareda and Cory Brusseau wrote the screenplay and Higareda stars with Alfonso Dosal, Christian Vázquez, Germán Valdés, Vadhir Derbez and Rodrigo Murray.
Miguel Mier, Bernardo Rugama and Jimena Rodríguez produce.
Universal Pictures and DreamWorks Animation’s Trolls 2 will open on April 10, 2020. Anna Kendrick and Justin Timberlake reprise their roles in the musical comedy sequel to the 2016 animation that grossed $339m worldwide.FilmRise has picked up North American rights to recent Sundance world premiere [link=tt...
The Mexican comedy 3 Idiotas will launch in “moderate release on June 2.
Carlos Bolado directs the Spanish-language film based on the 2009 Bollywood blockbuster 3 Idiots (pictured), about three old college friends who set out to find their long-lost pal who taught them to think differently about life.
Greenlight Productions produces 3 Idiotas alongside Neverending Media, BoBo Producciones, Credix, Cutting Edge and Eficine
Antonio Abascal, Carlos Bolado, Martha Higareda and Cory Brusseau wrote the screenplay and Higareda stars with Alfonso Dosal, Christian Vázquez, Germán Valdés, Vadhir Derbez and Rodrigo Murray.
Miguel Mier, Bernardo Rugama and Jimena Rodríguez produce.
Universal Pictures and DreamWorks Animation’s Trolls 2 will open on April 10, 2020. Anna Kendrick and Justin Timberlake reprise their roles in the musical comedy sequel to the 2016 animation that grossed $339m worldwide.FilmRise has picked up North American rights to recent Sundance world premiere [link=tt...
- 2/28/2017
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
This year’s Sundance Film Festival capped off this evening with the fest’s annual awards show, held at Park City, Utah’s own Basin Recreation Field House. The ceremony opened at 7:00Pm Mt, featuring host (and Sundance premiere “The Incredible Jessica James” star) Jessica Williams shepherding along the festivities in predictably amusing fashion.
Macon Blair’s playful suspense film “I don’t feel at home in this world anymore.” won the U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury Prize, while the U.S. Documentary Grand Jury Prize went to “Dina.”
“I don’t feel at home in the world anymore.” marks the directorial debut of Blair, previously best known for his acting collaborations with director Jeremy Saulnier (“Blue Ruin”). The movie stars Melanie Lynskey as a woman who embarks on a darkly comic adventure as she seeks out the identity of the person who robbed her apartment, joining forces with...
Macon Blair’s playful suspense film “I don’t feel at home in this world anymore.” won the U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury Prize, while the U.S. Documentary Grand Jury Prize went to “Dina.”
“I don’t feel at home in the world anymore.” marks the directorial debut of Blair, previously best known for his acting collaborations with director Jeremy Saulnier (“Blue Ruin”). The movie stars Melanie Lynskey as a woman who embarks on a darkly comic adventure as she seeks out the identity of the person who robbed her apartment, joining forces with...
- 1/29/2017
- by Eric Kohn and Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
A former industrial town in northeastern China, now deserted and covered in snow, is the picturesque backdrop of the unexpectedly funny and dryly absurd Free and Easy, from Chinese director Geng Jun (Youth). The film focuses on a small cast of rural characters, most of them crooked in one way or another and thus all deserving of one another, as they chase each other around town. Shot with a painterly eye and a deadpan sense of humor, this modest independent film should be of interest on the festival circuit and makes one curious about what its director will do next.
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- 1/27/2017
- by Boyd van Hoeij
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Author: Ty Cooper
We hear about the Chinese film revolution in the news almost weekly. Studios raking in the millions at a rate that could potentially rival that of the United States. But as much as we hear about this booming industry, we have yet to see it bleed through into the western film consciousness. Sure, the minute a new Ip Man film comes out, loads of fanboys will run flocking to their DVD import site, but what about the Asian films that speak to the heart of the human condition? In an age where digital media and social media have reduced the once unfathomable size of the earth to something that can be traversed at the speed of light, you would think that a much richer exchange of culture and art would be going on. Thankfully, there is hope as a delightful film from Hong Kong has trickled through...
We hear about the Chinese film revolution in the news almost weekly. Studios raking in the millions at a rate that could potentially rival that of the United States. But as much as we hear about this booming industry, we have yet to see it bleed through into the western film consciousness. Sure, the minute a new Ip Man film comes out, loads of fanboys will run flocking to their DVD import site, but what about the Asian films that speak to the heart of the human condition? In an age where digital media and social media have reduced the once unfathomable size of the earth to something that can be traversed at the speed of light, you would think that a much richer exchange of culture and art would be going on. Thankfully, there is hope as a delightful film from Hong Kong has trickled through...
- 1/23/2017
- by Ty Cooper
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
After becoming a go to vocalist for Shaun Frank on tracks like his Dvbbs collaboration “La La Land” and “Heaven” with Kshmr, Delaney Jane is back to contribute her distinctive brand of topline melodies for the latest Grandtheft original. Titled “Easy Go,” the new single sees the two musicians delivering a pop tinged future bass effort with an irresistibly catchy sound.
“Easy Go” kicks off with some light percussion and a scratchy bassline as Delaney Jane’s gentle crooning takes the lead. The drums drop away as the speakers are filled with a soaring chord progression, before rolling snares and rising synths push the tune forward into the drops. Grandtheft takes over with an impressive future bass workout, utilizing the singer’s acapella to craft a winding melody over splashy chord flourishes and trap rhythms.
It’s no secret that future bass has taken over the dance scene as the “it” sound of the moment,...
“Easy Go” kicks off with some light percussion and a scratchy bassline as Delaney Jane’s gentle crooning takes the lead. The drums drop away as the speakers are filled with a soaring chord progression, before rolling snares and rising synths push the tune forward into the drops. Grandtheft takes over with an impressive future bass workout, utilizing the singer’s acapella to craft a winding melody over splashy chord flourishes and trap rhythms.
It’s no secret that future bass has taken over the dance scene as the “it” sound of the moment,...
- 11/7/2016
- by Connor Jones
- We Got This Covered
You might find Dierks Bentley somewhere on a beach - or he could also pop up in Knoxville, Tennessee, for a little crowd surfing. The singer/pilot delighted fans in the area when he flew into town for a surprise, free concert at the University of Tennessee campus. It was all filmed for an episode of Cmt: Instant Jam, airing May 28 at 9 p.m. Et. Don't miss a beat of country music news, photos and videos! Click here to get all this and more in the People Country Newsletter.These Are Our Top 3 Songs Off of Dierks Bentley's New...
- 5/26/2016
- by Danielle Anderson, @dak5000
- PEOPLE.com
You might find Dierks Bentley somewhere on a beach - or he could also pop up in Knoxville, Tennessee for a little crowd surfing. The singer/pilot delighted fans in the area when he flew into town for a surprise, free concert at the University of Tennessee campus. It was all filmed for an episode of Cmt: Instant Jam, airing May 28 at 9p.m. Et. Don't miss a beat of country music news, photos and videos! Click here to get all this and more in the People Country Newsletter.The one-hour special shows thousands of fans swarming the stage as Bentley,...
- 5/26/2016
- by Danielle Anderson, @dak5000
- PEOPLE.com
Umbrella Entertainment is restoring Australian classic Jedda plus Angel Baby and Burke & Wills for re-issue in HD on DVD and VOD platforms as part of an ongoing preservation program.
The distributor is also working with producer Jane Scott and distributor Andrew Pike on an HD version of Scott Hicks. Shine, and with Scott on Goodbye Paradise.
As part of its restoration program which covers around 200 titles, Umbrella plans to release on one DVD two musical films produced by Peter Clifton, one on The Easybeats. tour of England in 1967, the other looking at a concert by The Rolling Stones at Sydney Showground in 1966, hosted by DJ Ward ..Pally.. Austin.
Shot in 1955, Jedda was the last film from Australian filmmaker Charles Chauvel, who died four years later. The first Australian feature made in colour, it starred Indigenous actors Robert Tudawali and Ngarla Kunoth in the saga of an Aboriginal woman who is...
The distributor is also working with producer Jane Scott and distributor Andrew Pike on an HD version of Scott Hicks. Shine, and with Scott on Goodbye Paradise.
As part of its restoration program which covers around 200 titles, Umbrella plans to release on one DVD two musical films produced by Peter Clifton, one on The Easybeats. tour of England in 1967, the other looking at a concert by The Rolling Stones at Sydney Showground in 1966, hosted by DJ Ward ..Pally.. Austin.
Shot in 1955, Jedda was the last film from Australian filmmaker Charles Chauvel, who died four years later. The first Australian feature made in colour, it starred Indigenous actors Robert Tudawali and Ngarla Kunoth in the saga of an Aboriginal woman who is...
- 3/23/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
In 2002, 23 million viewers tuned in to watch Kelly Clarkson win the first season of American Idol, which translated to her debut post-show album, Thankful, selling 2.8 million albums to date, more than 2 million of which were sold in the first two years after its release. In 2011, 11.1 million viewers tuned in to watch Javier Colon win The Voice, which translated to his first album, Come Through for You, selling 46,000 copies to date, almost exactly two years later. So is Idol really just a better platform for musicians, or do these stats simply reveal the issue of a changing music industry?
No one can say for sure,...
No one can say for sure,...
- 6/14/2013
- by Samantha Highfill
- EW - Inside TV
It’s been 15 years since Carrie Bradshaw clicked her Manolo Blahniks three times and transported legions of fans to New York City.
Carrie and company turned a 30-minute show on HBO into two movies, a Sex and the City tour and an overall phenomenon - and in honor of the 15th anniversary since this cultural icon premiered, I've tackled the amazing but impossible task of naming the top 15 episodes in series history.
Scroll down for my chronological list and let the opinions fly in the Comments section below...
Valley of the Twenty Something Guys: Early Carrie and Big, a young Timothy Olyphant and one of the funniest conversations the series has ever displayed. Hint: it’s the four ladies in the cab, talking about a certain kind of sex and then the cab stops short. Charlotte asks “What’s that?” They giggle and say “a preview!”
Take Me Out to the Ball Game...
Carrie and company turned a 30-minute show on HBO into two movies, a Sex and the City tour and an overall phenomenon - and in honor of the 15th anniversary since this cultural icon premiered, I've tackled the amazing but impossible task of naming the top 15 episodes in series history.
Scroll down for my chronological list and let the opinions fly in the Comments section below...
Valley of the Twenty Something Guys: Early Carrie and Big, a young Timothy Olyphant and one of the funniest conversations the series has ever displayed. Hint: it’s the four ladies in the cab, talking about a certain kind of sex and then the cab stops short. Charlotte asks “What’s that?” They giggle and say “a preview!”
Take Me Out to the Ball Game...
- 6/6/2013
- by leigh.raines@gmail.com (Leigh Raines)
- TVfanatic
Country singer George Strait announced Wednesday (Sept. 26) that he's calling it quits on touring, but he's not retiring from making music.
"I've decided I'm not going to tour anymore after these next two years," Strait, 60, says at a press conference at Nashville's Country Music Hall of Fame (per Reuters). "Don't think I'm retiring because I'm not. I'm still going to make records as long as the label will let me. I'm going to write."
The "Easy Come, Easy Go" crooner adds that he may do one-off performances and special events, but "as far as a structured tour goes, after the last date in 2014, that will be it for the touring."
Strait's "Cowboy Rides Away" tour kicks off Jan. 18 in Lubbock, Texas. Martina McBride joins Strait on the 2013 leg of the tour. Dates for 2014 haven't been announced yet.
"I didn't want to book a tour and nobody came. It was important...
"I've decided I'm not going to tour anymore after these next two years," Strait, 60, says at a press conference at Nashville's Country Music Hall of Fame (per Reuters). "Don't think I'm retiring because I'm not. I'm still going to make records as long as the label will let me. I'm going to write."
The "Easy Come, Easy Go" crooner adds that he may do one-off performances and special events, but "as far as a structured tour goes, after the last date in 2014, that will be it for the touring."
Strait's "Cowboy Rides Away" tour kicks off Jan. 18 in Lubbock, Texas. Martina McBride joins Strait on the 2013 leg of the tour. Dates for 2014 haven't been announced yet.
"I didn't want to book a tour and nobody came. It was important...
- 9/27/2012
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
John Rich (right) with producer Norman Lear, 1973.
This almost escaped us but reader Bill Parisho alerted us that Emmy winning director John Rich died on January 30 at age 86. Rich was lauded for his work on The Dick Van Dyke Show, All in the Family, Gunsmoke, Gilligan's Island, Barney Miller and other beloved programs. Rich also directed Elvis Presley in the feature films Easy Come, Easy Go. For more click here...
- 2/5/2012
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
Emmy Award-winning director John Rich has died at the age of 86.
He passed away after a brief illness at his Los Angeles home on Sunday.
Born in Rockaway Beach, New York, Rich studied at the University of Michigan and served in the Army Air Forces during World War II.
He went on to direct a number of popular U.S. TV shows throughout his career, among them The Brady Bunch, Mister Ed, Gilligan's Island and The Jeffersons, and he won two Emmy Awards for episodes of All in the Family and The Dick Van Dyke Show.
Rich also directed Elvis Presley in hit movies Roustabout and Easy Come, Easy Go.
He later teamed up with Happy Days star Henry Winkler to produce the series MacGyver and eventually retired from the industry in 1999.
He passed away after a brief illness at his Los Angeles home on Sunday.
Born in Rockaway Beach, New York, Rich studied at the University of Michigan and served in the Army Air Forces during World War II.
He went on to direct a number of popular U.S. TV shows throughout his career, among them The Brady Bunch, Mister Ed, Gilligan's Island and The Jeffersons, and he won two Emmy Awards for episodes of All in the Family and The Dick Van Dyke Show.
Rich also directed Elvis Presley in hit movies Roustabout and Easy Come, Easy Go.
He later teamed up with Happy Days star Henry Winkler to produce the series MacGyver and eventually retired from the industry in 1999.
- 1/30/2012
- WENN
Marianne Faithfull. By Patrick Swirc.Depending on the era in which your playlist resides, you know Marianne Faithfull as a beautiful, blonde pop ingenue on the arm of Mick Jagger (60s), a strung-out New Waver with a cigarette hanging from her lips (80s), or a sophisticated chanteuse interpreting the likes of Kurt Weill and Tom Waits (90s). After nearly 50 years, why not put her on shuffle? After kicking drugs and surviving cancer, the 64-year-old, 21st-century Marianne sounds stronger than ever. She’s re-teamed with collaborator Hal Willner—producer of 2008’s Easy Come, Easy Go—for the new Horses and High Heels, her 18th album. It’s a mix of smart covers (the Shangri-La’s “Past, Present, Future”) and searching originals. I rang her while she was enjoying a cup of tea in her Paris home, and discussed politics, kitsch, the sticky Rolling Stones myth, and why it’s wise to always wear Chanel.
- 6/24/2011
- Vanity Fair
Typography by Julie Teninbaum
September is National Yoga Month, when twisting, toe-touching yogis will roll out their mats at more than 1,500 free classes and events across America. Here's a look at the vital stats of this 5,000-year-old practice from the East turned booming business in the West.
Americans spend more than $5.7 Billion A Year on yoga classes and products annually, up 87% since 2004.
The average cost of a Yoga Class is $12.
Lululemon Athletica, the world's biggest yoga-inspired retailer, posted $452.9 million in net revenue for fiscal 2009, up 28% from 2008. Its stores generate an average of $1,800 in sales per square foot, about three times as much as apparel retailer J.Crew.
On June 22, New York's Central Park hosted the largest-ever group yoga session, with more than 10,000 people gathered on the Great Lawn.
For his 1967 film "Easy Come, Easy Go," Elvis Presley recorded the song "Yoga Is as Yoga Does." Other artists who have recorded...
September is National Yoga Month, when twisting, toe-touching yogis will roll out their mats at more than 1,500 free classes and events across America. Here's a look at the vital stats of this 5,000-year-old practice from the East turned booming business in the West.
Americans spend more than $5.7 Billion A Year on yoga classes and products annually, up 87% since 2004.
The average cost of a Yoga Class is $12.
Lululemon Athletica, the world's biggest yoga-inspired retailer, posted $452.9 million in net revenue for fiscal 2009, up 28% from 2008. Its stores generate an average of $1,800 in sales per square foot, about three times as much as apparel retailer J.Crew.
On June 22, New York's Central Park hosted the largest-ever group yoga session, with more than 10,000 people gathered on the Great Lawn.
For his 1967 film "Easy Come, Easy Go," Elvis Presley recorded the song "Yoga Is as Yoga Does." Other artists who have recorded...
- 8/11/2010
- by Suzy Evans
- Fast Company
Josh Wolk's Pop Culture Club talks 'Hoarders': Do you now feel better about your old Pog collection?
Welcome back to the Pop Culture Club, where every week we meet to discuss a TV show, movie, or DVD assigned the previous Thursday. Have you been a member the whole time? Do you print out each week's discussion as well as all the comments and then set it aside because, who knows, maybe you'd want to give them out as gifts some day? Or perhaps you might sit down and edit them and take out all the spelling mistakes, and then make a mint selling them on eBay? Then this week's TV assignment — A&E's Hoarders — was just for you. In the same way that Bravo discovered that their audience wanted to see people compete and excel in different fields (cooking, designing, selling real estate), A&E has found its own niche: making their audience feel comparatively good about their lives. First came Intervention, which, with its hit-rock-bottom subjects,...
- 9/3/2009
- by Josh Wolk
- EW.com - PopWatch
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