Tom Ripley remains one of the most enigmatic characters to ever cross from literature to both the big and small screen, with a wealth of portrayers – from Alain Delon to Andrew Scott – bringing Patricia Highsmith’s character to life. With Ripley out on Netflix, one of the stars of 1999’s The Talented Mr. Ripley, Jude Law, has some major praise for the latest adaptation. (You can also read our own Alex Maidy’s 9/10 review here.)
Jude Law may not have played Tom Ripley (he portrayed the conned Dickie Greenleaf), but he recognizes just how good Steven Zaillian’s version is while also praising the source material. “I’ve watched at least five or six of [the episodes]…Like any great source material, it’s really rewarding and interesting to watch something from a new perspective, a new angle…I’m enjoying it…How can one not? It’s such great material. You...
Jude Law may not have played Tom Ripley (he portrayed the conned Dickie Greenleaf), but he recognizes just how good Steven Zaillian’s version is while also praising the source material. “I’ve watched at least five or six of [the episodes]…Like any great source material, it’s really rewarding and interesting to watch something from a new perspective, a new angle…I’m enjoying it…How can one not? It’s such great material. You...
- 4/17/2024
- by Mathew Plale
- JoBlo.com
The character of Tom Ripley first appeared in Patricia Highsmith's 1955 novel "The Talented Mr. Ripley," a salacious story about a con man who is hired to locate an old school chum named Dickie Greenleaf but who ends up becoming obsessed with him, killing him, and supplanting him. Ripley is not a charming con man, but he is staggeringly clever and possesses a talent for subterfuge. He's also driven by his baser desires, unable to resist pursuing the women and men he lusts after (Ripley is likely bisexual) or stealing the money he so desperately wants. Each time, Ripley gets away with it, as evidenced by the fact that he starred in five novels published through to 1991.
A critic once pointed out that Tom Ripley's character arc is a direct inversion of traditional storytelling. A typical crime novel protagonist will learn new things as the story progresses and then use...
A critic once pointed out that Tom Ripley's character arc is a direct inversion of traditional storytelling. A typical crime novel protagonist will learn new things as the story progresses and then use...
- 4/13/2024
- by Witney Seibold
- Slash Film
Tom Ripley is back and in a big way. First introduced in Patricia Highsmith’s 1955 psychological thriller novel, Ripley is a sociopath, murderer, and con artist. He’s also the character Highsmith identified with-no wonder she wrote four more novels featuring Ripley. A 2023 New York Times article stated, “her concepts are daring, her portrayals of men in the throes of personality disorder and psychopathic leanings are equally repulsive and propulsive…she was a lesbian who identified more with men; an ardent pursuer of pleasure, especially in her youth…a raging antisemite…she could never hold on to happiness.”
Andrew Scott, the “hot priest” of “Fleabag,” is the latest actor to play the character described as having “an elusive sexuality,” in Netflix’s “Ripley,” a handsome, black-and-white limited series from Oscar-winning screenwriter/director Steve Zaillian (“Schindler’s List”).
Ripley’s a small-time con man living in a seedy room in New York...
Andrew Scott, the “hot priest” of “Fleabag,” is the latest actor to play the character described as having “an elusive sexuality,” in Netflix’s “Ripley,” a handsome, black-and-white limited series from Oscar-winning screenwriter/director Steve Zaillian (“Schindler’s List”).
Ripley’s a small-time con man living in a seedy room in New York...
- 4/12/2024
- by Susan King
- Gold Derby
Last week, the Netflix streaming service released Ripley, a limited series adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s novel The Talented Mr. Ripley that sees Andrew Scott taking on the title role. (You can read our review Here). Tom Ripley is a character who has been fascinating readers and viewers for decades, as he was at the center of multiple novels written by Highsmith. Ripley was originally set up Showtime, where Schindler’s List Oscar winner Steven Zaillian – who wrote and directed all eight episodes of Ripley – was planning to use all of the Ripley novels as “a road map to showcase Ripley’s transformation from con artist to serial killer” over the course of an on-going series. Now that Ripley has made its way out into the world on Netflix, Scott and Zaillian have both said that it’s possible the show could return for more seasons that could adapt more of the books…...
- 4/10/2024
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
Tom Ripley has become a genre in himself. In 1955, author Patricia Highsmith published “The Talented Mr. Ripley,” a viciously smart psychological thriller featuring an all-time villain at its center. A small-time con artist who slithers him way into the social circle of a rich playboy he develops a consuming obsession with. Both charming and horrifying, with a thirst for wealth that’s equally as relatable as it is repulsive, Ripley burns on the page as an absolutely indelible character.
Unsurprisingly, Ripley has become the type of juicy role that actors kill to play. And that’s lead to three genuinely great adaptations of the novel. The book first found its way onto screen as “Purple Noon,” starring a prime Alain Delon as Tom Ripley. And then, of course, there’s the acclaimed 1999 adaptation from director Anthony Minghella, featuring an all-star cast led by Matt Damon as the title character with Jude Law,...
Unsurprisingly, Ripley has become the type of juicy role that actors kill to play. And that’s lead to three genuinely great adaptations of the novel. The book first found its way onto screen as “Purple Noon,” starring a prime Alain Delon as Tom Ripley. And then, of course, there’s the acclaimed 1999 adaptation from director Anthony Minghella, featuring an all-star cast led by Matt Damon as the title character with Jude Law,...
- 4/8/2024
- by Wilson Chapman
- Indiewire
“I’m not someone who takes advantage of people,” Tom Ripley tells his new friend Dickie Greenleaf in the second episode of the new Netflix thriller Ripley. By this point, viewers have ample evidence that Tom is, in fact, exactly the kind of someone who takes advantage of people, even if Dickie and his girlfriend Marge are charmed by his company and oblivious to the threat he poses to them.
Many viewers will go into Ripley already understanding that Tom is, as one character will put it later in the show,...
Many viewers will go into Ripley already understanding that Tom is, as one character will put it later in the show,...
- 4/4/2024
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Rollingstone.com
Tom Ripley is a character who has been fascinating readers and viewers for decades. Not only was he at the center of multiple novels written by Patricia Highsmith, but those novels have also received multiple adaptations: the 1960 film Purple Noon (where Ripley was played by Alain Delon), the 1977 film The American Friend (with Dennis Hopper as Ripley), the 2002 film Ripley’s Game (John Malkovich was Ripley in that one), the 2005 film Ripley Under Ground (with Barry Pepper as Ripley), a 1956 episode of the TV series Studio One, and perhaps most famously, the 1999 film The Talented Mr. Ripley, where Ripley was played by Matt Damon. Now Andrew Scott is taking on the role for Ripley, a limited series adaptation of The Talented Mr. Ripley that will be released through the Netflix streaming service on April 4th – and during an interview with Empire, Scott said he didn’t judge or try to diagnose his questionable character.
- 3/12/2024
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
Dakota Fanning’s Marge Sherwood describes Tom Ripley as an untrustworthy liar who takes advantage of people in the official trailer for Netflix’s Ripley. The limited series stars All of Us Strangers‘ Andrew Scott in the titular role and is based on Patricia Highsmith’s popular Tom Ripley novels.
“Tom Ripley (Scott), a grifter scraping by in early 1960s New York, is hired by a wealthy man to travel to Italy to try to convince his vagabond son to return home,” reads Netflix’s synopsis. “Tom’s acceptance of the job is the first step into a complex life of deceit, fraud, and murder.”
In addition to Scott and Fanning, the series stars Johnny Flynn (Lovesick) as Dickie Greenleaf, Eliot Sumner (Pretty Red Dress), Maurizio Lombardi (Monterossi), Margherita Buy (Mia Madre), and two-time Oscar nominee John Malkovich. Oscar winner Steven Zaillian (Schindler’s List) wrote, directed, and executive produced the limited series.
“Tom Ripley (Scott), a grifter scraping by in early 1960s New York, is hired by a wealthy man to travel to Italy to try to convince his vagabond son to return home,” reads Netflix’s synopsis. “Tom’s acceptance of the job is the first step into a complex life of deceit, fraud, and murder.”
In addition to Scott and Fanning, the series stars Johnny Flynn (Lovesick) as Dickie Greenleaf, Eliot Sumner (Pretty Red Dress), Maurizio Lombardi (Monterossi), Margherita Buy (Mia Madre), and two-time Oscar nominee John Malkovich. Oscar winner Steven Zaillian (Schindler’s List) wrote, directed, and executive produced the limited series.
- 3/4/2024
- by Rebecca Murray
- Showbiz Junkies
Twenty-five years after serving as the basis for a film that starred Matt Damon, Jude Law, and Gwyneth Paltrow, Patricia Highsmith’s novel The Talented Mr. Ripley is now getting a limited series adaptation from the Netflix streaming service. The show, titled Ripley, is set to premiere on April 4th – and with that date just one month away, a trailer for the show has made its way online. You can check it out in the embed above.
Schindler’s List Oscar winner Steven Zaillian has written and directed all eight episodes of Ripley. In the series, Tom Ripley, a grifter scraping by in early 1960s New York, is hired by a wealthy man to travel to Italy to try to convince his vagabond son Dickie Greenleaf to return home. Tom’s acceptance of the job is the first step into a complex life of deceit, fraud and murder.
Dickie Greenleaf...
Schindler’s List Oscar winner Steven Zaillian has written and directed all eight episodes of Ripley. In the series, Tom Ripley, a grifter scraping by in early 1960s New York, is hired by a wealthy man to travel to Italy to try to convince his vagabond son Dickie Greenleaf to return home. Tom’s acceptance of the job is the first step into a complex life of deceit, fraud and murder.
Dickie Greenleaf...
- 3/4/2024
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
Andrew Scott is receiving accolades for his work in All of Us Strangers. Despite being the dark horse at the awards shows under the shadow of larger profile nominations, Scott’s recognition is adding to the fuel of his career fire. Scott is now taking up the identity of Thomas Ripley in the new Netflix limited series, Ripley. Netflix has just released the teaser which is showcasing the beautiful and moody black and white aesthetic of the show. The project comes from Steven Zaillian, who had also created, directed and executive produced the hit HBO show, The Night Of, as well as penning films like The Irishman, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and Gangs of New York.
The official synopsis from Netflix reads,
“Tom Ripley (Andrew Scott), a grifter scraping by in early 1960s New York, is hired by a wealthy man to travel to Italy to try to...
The official synopsis from Netflix reads,
“Tom Ripley (Andrew Scott), a grifter scraping by in early 1960s New York, is hired by a wealthy man to travel to Italy to try to...
- 1/22/2024
- by EJ Tangonan
- JoBlo.com
Twenty-five years after serving as the basis for a film that starred Matt Damon, Jude Law, and Gwyneth Paltrow, Patricia Highsmith’s novel The Talented Mr. Ripley is now getting a limited series adaptation from the Netflix streaming service. The show, titled Ripley, is set to premiere sometime in 2024, and today a batch of images have arrived online to give us an early look at Spectre‘s Andrew Scott as the title character. You can check them out at the bottom of this article.
Schindler’s List Oscar winner Steven Zaillian has written and directed all eight episodes of Ripley. In the series, Tom Ripley, a grifter scraping by in early 1960s New York, is hired by a wealthy man to travel to Italy to try to convince his vagabond son Dickie Greenleaf to return home. Tom’s acceptance of the job is the first step into a complex life of deceit,...
Schindler’s List Oscar winner Steven Zaillian has written and directed all eight episodes of Ripley. In the series, Tom Ripley, a grifter scraping by in early 1960s New York, is hired by a wealthy man to travel to Italy to try to convince his vagabond son Dickie Greenleaf to return home. Tom’s acceptance of the job is the first step into a complex life of deceit,...
- 12/12/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
The works of author Patricia Highsmith have inspired such films as Strangers on a Train, Purple Noon, Enough Rope, The American Friend, Tell Her That I Love Her, The Glass Cell, a couple different versions of Deep Water, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Ripley’s Game, Ripley Under Ground, The Cry of the Owl, The Two Faces of January, Carol, and A Kind of Murder, among others. Her stories have also served as the basis for a lot of television, including an upcoming Showtime mini-series titled Ripley. Now, Deadline reports that Shailene Woodley (The Spectacular Now) has signed on to star in a film about Highsmith’s life – but this biopic is said to “reimagine the author’s life as a horror movie”. The title is The Murderous Miss Highsmith, and Woodley is being joined in the cast by Cara Delevingne (Carnival Row) and Noémie Merlant (Portrait of a Lady on Fire).
According to Deadline,...
According to Deadline,...
- 5/12/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
Deadline has reported that Ripley, the upcoming drama series based on The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith, has moved from Showtime to Netflix. The jump to Netflix is still being finalized, but it comes as Showtime begins to merge with Paramount+.
Ripley stars Andrew Scott as Tom Ripley, “a grifter scraping by in early 1960s New York, who is hired by a wealthy man to try to convince his vagabond son, Dickie Greenleaf, who is living a comfortable, trust-funded ex-pat life in Italy, to return home. Tom’s acceptance of the job is the first step into a complex life of deceit, fraud and murder.” Johnny Flynn plays Dickie Greenleaf, with Dakota Fanning also starring as Marge Sherwood, an American living in Italy who suspects darker motives underlie Tom’s affability. When Showtime began focusing on building out their pre-existing franchises, such as multiple spinoffs of Dexter and Billions,...
Ripley stars Andrew Scott as Tom Ripley, “a grifter scraping by in early 1960s New York, who is hired by a wealthy man to try to convince his vagabond son, Dickie Greenleaf, who is living a comfortable, trust-funded ex-pat life in Italy, to return home. Tom’s acceptance of the job is the first step into a complex life of deceit, fraud and murder.” Johnny Flynn plays Dickie Greenleaf, with Dakota Fanning also starring as Marge Sherwood, an American living in Italy who suspects darker motives underlie Tom’s affability. When Showtime began focusing on building out their pre-existing franchises, such as multiple spinoffs of Dexter and Billions,...
- 2/10/2023
- by Kevin Fraser
- JoBlo.com
Outsider Pictures has secured the international rights to co-directors Pablo Aragüés and Marta Cabrera’s genre feature “Para entrar a vivir” ahead of the Malaga Film Festival this March.
It will showcase the film’s trailer at the Next from Spain section of the Malaga Festival; the whole film will screen at the Cannes Film Market this May.
Paul Hudson, Outsider Pictures founder and CEO, shared with Variety the comedy-horror film’s trailer, which follows the troubles of a couple moving into a magical new home. The trailer begins by asking, “what if the dream house gave everything you wanted,” setting a light mood.
The couple, played by Barbara Goenaga (Goya-nominated for “Oviedo Express”) and Gorka Otxoa (“Fe de etarras”), moves into their dream house, which they soon realize magically grants any wish they request. However, they begin to learn that although the house gives, it also must take, as...
It will showcase the film’s trailer at the Next from Spain section of the Malaga Festival; the whole film will screen at the Cannes Film Market this May.
Paul Hudson, Outsider Pictures founder and CEO, shared with Variety the comedy-horror film’s trailer, which follows the troubles of a couple moving into a magical new home. The trailer begins by asking, “what if the dream house gave everything you wanted,” setting a light mood.
The couple, played by Barbara Goenaga (Goya-nominated for “Oviedo Express”) and Gorka Otxoa (“Fe de etarras”), moves into their dream house, which they soon realize magically grants any wish they request. However, they begin to learn that although the house gives, it also must take, as...
- 3/18/2022
- by Justin Morgan
- Variety Film + TV
Independent film sales and distribution firm Outsider Pictures has acquired the international sales rights to Peruvian director V. Checa’s neo-noir film “Tiempos Futuros” (“The Shape of Things to Come”) and will lead sales to potential buyers at this March’s Málaga Film Festival.
Playing Zonazine, which focuses on bolder plays by up-and-coming cineastes, “Tiempos Futuros” serves as Checa’s debut feature film. It follows the relationship between an obsessive father, Luiz, and his resourceful son, Teo (Lorenzo Molina), as they build a weather-controlling machine in a dystopian Lima, Peru.
To ease financial troubles, Teo joins a gang of teenage spies who lend him money to support him and his father but strain the relationship between the two.
To Checa, the film “was nourished by the context we live in,” referencing the silence brought by the Covid-19 pandemic and the authoritarian nature of governments and parents, with the smile of...
Playing Zonazine, which focuses on bolder plays by up-and-coming cineastes, “Tiempos Futuros” serves as Checa’s debut feature film. It follows the relationship between an obsessive father, Luiz, and his resourceful son, Teo (Lorenzo Molina), as they build a weather-controlling machine in a dystopian Lima, Peru.
To ease financial troubles, Teo joins a gang of teenage spies who lend him money to support him and his father but strain the relationship between the two.
To Checa, the film “was nourished by the context we live in,” referencing the silence brought by the Covid-19 pandemic and the authoritarian nature of governments and parents, with the smile of...
- 3/10/2022
- by Justin Morgan
- Variety Film + TV
Key Chilean projects being moved at this year’s European Film Market:
Alis
Directors: Clare Weiskopf and Nicolás van Hemelryck
Casatarántula produced this Chile-Colombia-Romania doc along with Pantalla Cines and Defilm. Produced by Alexandra Galvis and Radu Stancu, it world premieres at Berlinale’s Generation 14plus sidebar. The Bogota, Colombia-set doc follows 10 teens at a public boarding school in a therapy exercise where they construct a narrative around a make-believe classmate dubbed Alis.
International sales: Latido Films
Cazadora
Director: Martín Duplaquet
A thriller set in a dystopian future in which a mother and her teen, on a hunting trip in the mountains, have a chance encounter with a woman that triggers some bizarre changes, merging the personalities of the two women. The film is penned by Valeria Hofmann and Antonio Luco, produced by Francisca Barraza of Funky Films with Platforma Post.
International sales: House of Film
The Cow Who Sang a Song into the Future...
Alis
Directors: Clare Weiskopf and Nicolás van Hemelryck
Casatarántula produced this Chile-Colombia-Romania doc along with Pantalla Cines and Defilm. Produced by Alexandra Galvis and Radu Stancu, it world premieres at Berlinale’s Generation 14plus sidebar. The Bogota, Colombia-set doc follows 10 teens at a public boarding school in a therapy exercise where they construct a narrative around a make-believe classmate dubbed Alis.
International sales: Latido Films
Cazadora
Director: Martín Duplaquet
A thriller set in a dystopian future in which a mother and her teen, on a hunting trip in the mountains, have a chance encounter with a woman that triggers some bizarre changes, merging the personalities of the two women. The film is penned by Valeria Hofmann and Antonio Luco, produced by Francisca Barraza of Funky Films with Platforma Post.
International sales: House of Film
The Cow Who Sang a Song into the Future...
- 2/10/2022
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
Chilean filmmaker Roberto Doveris’ “Phantom Project” vies for the top Tiger prize at the Rotterdam film festival’s online edition this year and leads a robust Chilean delegation in other sections of the festival. Co-produced by Doveris’ Niña Niño Films and Aura Sinclair’s Agencia Rekia (“La Isla de las Gaviotas”), “Phantom Project” (previously titled “Ghost Project”) has world premiered at the fest, which began Jan. 26 and wraps on Feb. 6. Variety has snagged an exclusive first look at its teaser. Patra Spanou Film is handling international sales rights.
Filmed in early 2021 when pandemic restrictions were still in full force in Chile, “Phantom Project” pivots on Pablo, an aspiring 30-year-old actor who works as a simulated patient and in alternative therapy sessions to make ends meet. His situation gets even more precarious when his flat mate moves out without paying two months’ rent. On top of that, the guy who used...
Filmed in early 2021 when pandemic restrictions were still in full force in Chile, “Phantom Project” pivots on Pablo, an aspiring 30-year-old actor who works as a simulated patient and in alternative therapy sessions to make ends meet. His situation gets even more precarious when his flat mate moves out without paying two months’ rent. On top of that, the guy who used...
- 1/28/2022
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
Spanish-Chilean filmmaker Théo Court is prepping the follow-up to his Venice prize-winner “White on White,” which won the Silver Lion for best director in the festival’s Horizons strand in 2019, and was Chile’s submission in the best international feature film Oscar race this year.
Court spoke exclusively to Variety about “Tres Noches Negras,” which he’ll be presenting during the Rotterdam Film Festival’s CineMart co-production market this week.
Set in the Chilean countryside, the film tells the story of a peasant who asks the devil to grant him a wish beneath a full moon. A young Haitian man soon appears dead on the grounds of the mansion that looms over the peasant’s feudal, rural community, setting off an investigation that will unravel the complex social and human fabric of modern-day Chile.
“Tres Noches Negras” is deeply inspired by the central Chilean region where Court was raised after...
Court spoke exclusively to Variety about “Tres Noches Negras,” which he’ll be presenting during the Rotterdam Film Festival’s CineMart co-production market this week.
Set in the Chilean countryside, the film tells the story of a peasant who asks the devil to grant him a wish beneath a full moon. A young Haitian man soon appears dead on the grounds of the mansion that looms over the peasant’s feudal, rural community, setting off an investigation that will unravel the complex social and human fabric of modern-day Chile.
“Tres Noches Negras” is deeply inspired by the central Chilean region where Court was raised after...
- 1/26/2022
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
New feature films from Japanese auteur Koji Fukada, Spanish-Chilean filmmaker Théo Court, and rising Georgian director Elene Naveriani are among the 28 projects selected for this year’s CineMart co-production market, which takes place online Jan. 30-Feb. 2, alongside the Rotterdam Film Festival.
One of Europe’s leading confabs for new and established filmmakers, CineMart will host a virtual 2022 edition after a dramatic rise in Covid-19 cases in the Netherlands in December forced organizers to scrap plans for a physical event. The Rotterdam Film Festival, which was planning to hold screenings in Dutch cinemas, also announced it was going virtual after concerns about the fast-spreading Omicron variant shuttered the country’s movie theaters.
Though the last-minute reversal came as a disappointment to organizers, IFFR Pro, CineMart and Rotterdam Lab manager Inke van Loocke remains upbeat about this year’s edition of the market, which in previous years has offered a launching pad...
One of Europe’s leading confabs for new and established filmmakers, CineMart will host a virtual 2022 edition after a dramatic rise in Covid-19 cases in the Netherlands in December forced organizers to scrap plans for a physical event. The Rotterdam Film Festival, which was planning to hold screenings in Dutch cinemas, also announced it was going virtual after concerns about the fast-spreading Omicron variant shuttered the country’s movie theaters.
Though the last-minute reversal came as a disappointment to organizers, IFFR Pro, CineMart and Rotterdam Lab manager Inke van Loocke remains upbeat about this year’s edition of the market, which in previous years has offered a launching pad...
- 1/25/2022
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
Traveling photographer Pedro is a drawn, taciturn type, who prefers to let his camera do the talking. Whether he’s shooting a coy bride or a gang of white huntsmen posing with their Indigenous human kill, his mien is impassive, his brow furrowed, seeking composed perfection in the most rattling of images. “White on White” likewise conjures ravishing beauty from hellish historical ugliness, though it’s mindful throughout of the camera’s conspiratorial capacity for violence. As cold and quiet and witchily mesmerizing as a nighttime snowfall, Spanish-Chilean director Théo Court’s formidable second feature considers a devastating chapter of South America’s colonialist history through the eyes of someone at once a perpetrator and an observer — tacitly asking, at a certain point, what the difference even is.
An arresting and subtly challenging Chilean submission for the international feature Oscar, “White on White” first popped on the festival circuit in...
An arresting and subtly challenging Chilean submission for the international feature Oscar, “White on White” first popped on the festival circuit in...
- 12/7/2021
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
“Spencer” director Pablo Larraín has thrown his weight behind Chilean Oscar entry “White on White” (“Blanco en Blanco”), hailing it as a “really interesting, strange and highly violent film.”
“White on White” also addresses issues that are “highly unsettling and complex and which haven’t been resolved or at least discussed at sufficient length,” Larraín adds.
His words come from a conversation, which he moderates, with “White on White’s” director Théo Court and star Alfredo Castro that forms the latest Academy Awards Edition of CinemaChile Talks.
Some sort of sympathy for “White and White” may be inevitable.
Larraín was once a student of Castro’s, a notable theater director who has acted in six of Larraín’s nine films, starring in four: “Tony Manero,” Larrain’s 2008 breakout; 2010’s “Post Mortem”; 2012’s Oscar-nominated “No,” playing opposite Gael García Bernal; and 2015 Berlin Grand Jury Prize winner “The Club,” which persuaded Natalie Portman...
“White on White” also addresses issues that are “highly unsettling and complex and which haven’t been resolved or at least discussed at sufficient length,” Larraín adds.
His words come from a conversation, which he moderates, with “White on White’s” director Théo Court and star Alfredo Castro that forms the latest Academy Awards Edition of CinemaChile Talks.
Some sort of sympathy for “White and White” may be inevitable.
Larraín was once a student of Castro’s, a notable theater director who has acted in six of Larraín’s nine films, starring in four: “Tony Manero,” Larrain’s 2008 breakout; 2010’s “Post Mortem”; 2012’s Oscar-nominated “No,” playing opposite Gael García Bernal; and 2015 Berlin Grand Jury Prize winner “The Club,” which persuaded Natalie Portman...
- 12/4/2021
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
As new Covid protocols bedeviled travel to the U.K. and other parts of Europe, 3,000 lucky souls, including several hundred execs from Europe, were able to enjoy summer sun and post-lockdown reunions at Buenos Aires’ Ventana Sur. Latin America’s biggest film and TV market and forum, it wrapped Friday Dec. 3 with an humungous, though thankfully rapid, awards ceremony. Following, 10 takeaways from the hybrid event:
The Way the Market’s Going
Is this the shape of things to come? At least in the short-term?Big films and deals were announced at or during Ventana Sur: Vis revealed it’s teaming with El Estudio and Infinity Hill on the Rob Schneider-directed “Love Is Love,” now a Paramount Plus Original; Pantelion Films unveiled its “most ambitious undertaking to date,” “Usurpadora, the Musical,” a modern movie adaptation of the Televisa classic; FilmSharks confirmed deals with Netflix and HBO Max on Veronica Chen’s “High Tide.
The Way the Market’s Going
Is this the shape of things to come? At least in the short-term?Big films and deals were announced at or during Ventana Sur: Vis revealed it’s teaming with El Estudio and Infinity Hill on the Rob Schneider-directed “Love Is Love,” now a Paramount Plus Original; Pantelion Films unveiled its “most ambitious undertaking to date,” “Usurpadora, the Musical,” a modern movie adaptation of the Televisa classic; FilmSharks confirmed deals with Netflix and HBO Max on Veronica Chen’s “High Tide.
- 12/4/2021
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Starring Pablo Larraín regular Alfredo Castro, Chilean-Spanish writer-director Theo Court’s “White on White” (“Blanco en Blanco”) has been acquired for distribution in North America by Outsider Pictures.
The deal follows on the film’s world premiere this September at the Venice Film Festival’s Horizons sidebar, where Court won a Silver Lion for the section’s best director and a film writers’ Fipresci Prize. “White on White” was selected earlier this month as Chile’s submission for 2022’s Academy Awards in the international best feature film category.
Starring in Pablo Larrain’s 2008 breakthrough, “Tony Manero,” as well as his 2015 Berlin Grand Jury Prize winner “The Club,” Castro also headed Lorenzo Vigas’ 2015 Venice Golden Lion laureate “From Afar.”
It takes an actor of his stature to tease out the contradictions of his character, Pedro, in “White and White.” Set in the late 19th century, it begins with a portrait photographer,...
The deal follows on the film’s world premiere this September at the Venice Film Festival’s Horizons sidebar, where Court won a Silver Lion for the section’s best director and a film writers’ Fipresci Prize. “White on White” was selected earlier this month as Chile’s submission for 2022’s Academy Awards in the international best feature film category.
Starring in Pablo Larrain’s 2008 breakthrough, “Tony Manero,” as well as his 2015 Berlin Grand Jury Prize winner “The Club,” Castro also headed Lorenzo Vigas’ 2015 Venice Golden Lion laureate “From Afar.”
It takes an actor of his stature to tease out the contradictions of his character, Pedro, in “White and White.” Set in the late 19th century, it begins with a portrait photographer,...
- 11/29/2021
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
New Europe Film Sales, handling international sales for Matías Rojas Valencia’s “A Place Called Dignity,” “Un lugar llamado dignidad” in Spanish, which is currently playing in competition at this year’s Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, have given Variety exclusive access to the film’s international trailer.
The film presents a dramatized look at events surrounding Paul Schaefer, a former Nazi soldier who fled to rural Chile after WWII. There, he established the German-speaking Colonia Dignidad (Dignity Colony) and reigned over a generations-long culture of torture, child abuse and murder, thanks to the protection of Chile’s former dictator Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship. Under Schaefer’s leadership the community entrenched itself, becoming indispensable to the locals and providing schooling and medical services in an area where there would otherwise be none.
Rojas’ film is a dramatized look at real-life events surrounding Schaefer’s time in Chile from the perspective of Pablo,...
The film presents a dramatized look at events surrounding Paul Schaefer, a former Nazi soldier who fled to rural Chile after WWII. There, he established the German-speaking Colonia Dignidad (Dignity Colony) and reigned over a generations-long culture of torture, child abuse and murder, thanks to the protection of Chile’s former dictator Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship. Under Schaefer’s leadership the community entrenched itself, becoming indispensable to the locals and providing schooling and medical services in an area where there would otherwise be none.
Rojas’ film is a dramatized look at real-life events surrounding Schaefer’s time in Chile from the perspective of Pablo,...
- 11/22/2021
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Giancarlo Nasi’s Quijote Films, one of the lead producers of Chile’s current Oscar entry “White on White,” has closed a co-production deal with France’s Les Valseurs at the American Film Market for “The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo,” the first feature from Diego Cespedes, the Cannes Festival’s 2018 Cinefondation first prize winner.
Mexico’s Varios Lobos, led by Pablo Zimbron, is also a co-producer.
In addition, the pact includes the financing and co-production of a short film by Cespedes, with a budget that exceeds $116,000, making it one the most expensive short films to be ever made in Chile’s cinematic history. Titled “The Most Wretched Man in the Desert,” it is slated to shoot by January next year. According to Nasi, who has been in Los Angeles for the AFM and other meetings, the short will feature a good number of special effects, which drive up the budget.
Mexico’s Varios Lobos, led by Pablo Zimbron, is also a co-producer.
In addition, the pact includes the financing and co-production of a short film by Cespedes, with a budget that exceeds $116,000, making it one the most expensive short films to be ever made in Chile’s cinematic history. Titled “The Most Wretched Man in the Desert,” it is slated to shoot by January next year. According to Nasi, who has been in Los Angeles for the AFM and other meetings, the short will feature a good number of special effects, which drive up the budget.
- 11/5/2021
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
The Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum has previously yielded ‘The Mole Agent’ and ’La Llorona’.
San Sebastian is hosting the 10th Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum from September 20-22, showcasing projects from Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Uruguay, France and Spain.
Fourteen fiction and non-fiction works are being pitched this year, both at industry sessions and one-to-ones, with prizes including the best project award; the Dale! award (Development Latin America-Europe) and the ArteKino international prize.
Organised as an extension to the San Sebastian Forum, some 148 projects have previously been selected, with 70 of those being completed and 40 selected for festivals including the Berlinale, Cannes,...
San Sebastian is hosting the 10th Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum from September 20-22, showcasing projects from Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Uruguay, France and Spain.
Fourteen fiction and non-fiction works are being pitched this year, both at industry sessions and one-to-ones, with prizes including the best project award; the Dale! award (Development Latin America-Europe) and the ArteKino international prize.
Organised as an extension to the San Sebastian Forum, some 148 projects have previously been selected, with 70 of those being completed and 40 selected for festivals including the Berlinale, Cannes,...
- 9/20/2021
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
The 10th edition of the Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum includes projects from Cristian Leighton and Johnny Ma.
San Sebastian will host the 10th Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum from September 20-22, showcasing projects from Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Uruguay, France and Spain.
A total of 14 fiction and non-fiction works will be pitched this year, both at industry sessions and one-to-ones, with prizes including the Best Project Award; the Dale! Award (Development Latin America-Europe) and the ArteKino International Prize.
Organised as an extension to the San Sebastian Forum, some 148 projects have previously been selected, with 70 of those being completed and 40 selected for festivals including the Berlinale,...
San Sebastian will host the 10th Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum from September 20-22, showcasing projects from Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Uruguay, France and Spain.
A total of 14 fiction and non-fiction works will be pitched this year, both at industry sessions and one-to-ones, with prizes including the Best Project Award; the Dale! Award (Development Latin America-Europe) and the ArteKino International Prize.
Organised as an extension to the San Sebastian Forum, some 148 projects have previously been selected, with 70 of those being completed and 40 selected for festivals including the Berlinale,...
- 9/20/2021
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Mubi has unveiled their lineup for next month, featuring the exclusive streaming premiere of Frederick Wiseman’s masterful documentary City Hall, the late Monte Hellman’s final film Road to Nowhere, a trio of works by Stephen Cone, two films by Alain Resnais, the multi-month series Sex, Truth, and Videotape: French Feminist Activism, and Abel Ferrara’s Bad Lieutenant.
As a special addition in addition to the regular programming listed below, the new restoration of Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris will be available as a free presentation celebrating Juneteenth, from June 18-19. Timed with the release of his latest gem Undine, a Christian Petzold retrospective continues with his earlier, essential films Yella, Barbara, Ostwärts, and The Warm Money.
Check out the lineup below, with links to reviews where available, and get 30 days of Mubi for free here. One can also check back for our new streaming picks every Friday here.
As a special addition in addition to the regular programming listed below, the new restoration of Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris will be available as a free presentation celebrating Juneteenth, from June 18-19. Timed with the release of his latest gem Undine, a Christian Petzold retrospective continues with his earlier, essential films Yella, Barbara, Ostwärts, and The Warm Money.
Check out the lineup below, with links to reviews where available, and get 30 days of Mubi for free here. One can also check back for our new streaming picks every Friday here.
- 5/19/2021
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Sheffield Doc/Fest, the key UK documentary event, has revealed its full line-up for this year, including an international competition comprised of 11 features.
Those titles are: Charm Circle by Nira Burstein; Rancho by Pedro Speroni; Factory to the Workers by Srđan Kovačević; Summer by Vadim Kostrov; Equatorial Constellations by Silas Tiny; From the 84 Days by Philipp Hartmann; This Stained Dawn by Anam Abbas; Nũhũ Yãg Mũ Yõg Hãm: This Land Is Our Land! by Isael Maxakali, Sueli Maxakali, Carolina Canguçu and Roberto Romero; White on White by Viera Čákanyová; Double Layered Town / Making a Song to Replace Our Positions by Komori Haruka and Seo Natsumi; and My Dear Spies by Vladimir Léon.
The program of special screenings includes the world premiere of Steve McQueen’s Uprising, a three-part BBC series co-directed with James Rogan chronicling three events in 1981: in January, the New Cross Fire which killed 13 black teenagers; in March, Black People’s Day of Action, which saw more than 20,000 people join the first organised mass protest by black British people; and the Brixton riots in April.
In total, the fest will screen 55 world premieres, 22 International premieres, 15 European premieres and 59 UK premieres. It is taking place in both a virtual and physical form, with UK cinemas re-opening today (May 17). As previously announced, the fest will open with the European premiere of Questlove’s Sundance prize winner Summer Of Soul, and close with The Story of Looking, the latest documentary from prolific filmmaker Mark Cousins.
Those titles are: Charm Circle by Nira Burstein; Rancho by Pedro Speroni; Factory to the Workers by Srđan Kovačević; Summer by Vadim Kostrov; Equatorial Constellations by Silas Tiny; From the 84 Days by Philipp Hartmann; This Stained Dawn by Anam Abbas; Nũhũ Yãg Mũ Yõg Hãm: This Land Is Our Land! by Isael Maxakali, Sueli Maxakali, Carolina Canguçu and Roberto Romero; White on White by Viera Čákanyová; Double Layered Town / Making a Song to Replace Our Positions by Komori Haruka and Seo Natsumi; and My Dear Spies by Vladimir Léon.
The program of special screenings includes the world premiere of Steve McQueen’s Uprising, a three-part BBC series co-directed with James Rogan chronicling three events in 1981: in January, the New Cross Fire which killed 13 black teenagers; in March, Black People’s Day of Action, which saw more than 20,000 people join the first organised mass protest by black British people; and the Brixton riots in April.
In total, the fest will screen 55 world premieres, 22 International premieres, 15 European premieres and 59 UK premieres. It is taking place in both a virtual and physical form, with UK cinemas re-opening today (May 17). As previously announced, the fest will open with the European premiere of Questlove’s Sundance prize winner Summer Of Soul, and close with The Story of Looking, the latest documentary from prolific filmmaker Mark Cousins.
- 5/17/2021
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
The festival will take place in Sheffield, across the UK, and online.
The programme for the 28th edition of Sheffield Doc/Fest includes the world premiere of the first episode of Uprising, a three-part documentary series from UK filmmakers Steve McQueen and James Rogan.
Doc/Fest 2021 will play 55 world premieres and 22 international premieres, for the event running in Sheffield, across the UK and online from June 4-13.
Scroll down for the Competition titles
First announced last week and playing at the festival as a Special Screening, Uprising will examine three events from 1981 - in January, the New Cross Fire which killed 13 black teenagers; in March,...
The programme for the 28th edition of Sheffield Doc/Fest includes the world premiere of the first episode of Uprising, a three-part documentary series from UK filmmakers Steve McQueen and James Rogan.
Doc/Fest 2021 will play 55 world premieres and 22 international premieres, for the event running in Sheffield, across the UK and online from June 4-13.
Scroll down for the Competition titles
First announced last week and playing at the festival as a Special Screening, Uprising will examine three events from 1981 - in January, the New Cross Fire which killed 13 black teenagers; in March,...
- 5/17/2021
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
The 2021 Sheffield Doc/Fest has announced its competition contenders alongside its full program.
The international competition includes “Charm Circle” “Rancho”, “Factory to the Workers” and “Summer”.
Also competing are “Equatorial Constellations”, “From the 84 Days”, “This Stained Dawn”, “Nũhũ Yãg Mũ Yõg Hãm: This Land Is Our Land!”, “White on White”, “Double Layered Town / Making a Song to Replace Our Positions” and “My Dear Spies”.
The festival’s complete program includes 55 world premieres, 22 international premieres, 15 European premieres and 59 U.K. premieres from 57 countries with 63 languages represented, spread over 78 features and 88 shorts.
Being presented as special screenings this year are five world premieres. Steve McQueen and James Rogan’s new series “Uprising”; Clive Patterson’s “Sing, Freetown”; and working with U.K. poet laureate Simon Armitage, Brian Hill presents “Where Did The World Go.” Additionally, three films will offer different perspectives on 9/11 and its consequences — “My Childhood, My Country – 20 Years in Afghanistan...
The international competition includes “Charm Circle” “Rancho”, “Factory to the Workers” and “Summer”.
Also competing are “Equatorial Constellations”, “From the 84 Days”, “This Stained Dawn”, “Nũhũ Yãg Mũ Yõg Hãm: This Land Is Our Land!”, “White on White”, “Double Layered Town / Making a Song to Replace Our Positions” and “My Dear Spies”.
The festival’s complete program includes 55 world premieres, 22 international premieres, 15 European premieres and 59 U.K. premieres from 57 countries with 63 languages represented, spread over 78 features and 88 shorts.
Being presented as special screenings this year are five world premieres. Steve McQueen and James Rogan’s new series “Uprising”; Clive Patterson’s “Sing, Freetown”; and working with U.K. poet laureate Simon Armitage, Brian Hill presents “Where Did The World Go.” Additionally, three films will offer different perspectives on 9/11 and its consequences — “My Childhood, My Country – 20 Years in Afghanistan...
- 5/17/2021
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Dakota Fanning is doubling down on Showtime roles.
The Alienist: Angel of Darkness and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood actress is joining drama Ripley opposite Andrew Scott.
It comes after she was cast in Showtime’s scripted anthology drama series The First Lady (w/t) as Susan Elizabeth Ford, the only daughter and youngest child of President Gerald and Betty Ford.
In Ripley, Fanning will play Marge Sherwood, an American living in Italy who suspects darker motives underlie the affability of Tom Ripley, played by Fleabag star Scott.
Based on Patricia Highsmith’s books, the show comes from The Night Of’s Steven Zaillian.
2020-21 Showtime Pilots & Series Orders
The series follows Tom Ripley, a grifter scraping by in early 1960s New York, who is hired by a wealthy man to try to convince his vagabond son, Dickie Greenleaf (Johnny Flynn), who is living a comfortable, trust-funded ex-pat life in Italy,...
The Alienist: Angel of Darkness and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood actress is joining drama Ripley opposite Andrew Scott.
It comes after she was cast in Showtime’s scripted anthology drama series The First Lady (w/t) as Susan Elizabeth Ford, the only daughter and youngest child of President Gerald and Betty Ford.
In Ripley, Fanning will play Marge Sherwood, an American living in Italy who suspects darker motives underlie the affability of Tom Ripley, played by Fleabag star Scott.
Based on Patricia Highsmith’s books, the show comes from The Night Of’s Steven Zaillian.
2020-21 Showtime Pilots & Series Orders
The series follows Tom Ripley, a grifter scraping by in early 1960s New York, who is hired by a wealthy man to try to convince his vagabond son, Dickie Greenleaf (Johnny Flynn), who is living a comfortable, trust-funded ex-pat life in Italy,...
- 3/11/2021
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
First they conquered Hollywood film shoots, now they’re aiming to drive up local production, adding a new local edge to one of Europe’s most popular big shoot locales.
A decade ago, Spain’s Canary Islands started to become a top shoot destination for big international films, offering wide-ranging landscapes and unique tax advantages.
An influx of international film and TV shoots served to establish an industrial base, nurturing high-profile crew talent and sparking the creation of competitive production services companies.
Now in second stage growth, the Atlantic Ocean islands are raising the ante, boosting local industry’s production subsidies and their international exposure.
Early fruit of new ambitious measures, the Canary Islands Audiovisual Cluster is introducing at next week’s virtual Berlin European Film Market an 80-minute promo reel dubbed Canarias Unleashed which offers a sneak preview of six upcoming features produced on the Islands by local companies tapping into local talent.
A decade ago, Spain’s Canary Islands started to become a top shoot destination for big international films, offering wide-ranging landscapes and unique tax advantages.
An influx of international film and TV shoots served to establish an industrial base, nurturing high-profile crew talent and sparking the creation of competitive production services companies.
Now in second stage growth, the Atlantic Ocean islands are raising the ante, boosting local industry’s production subsidies and their international exposure.
Early fruit of new ambitious measures, the Canary Islands Audiovisual Cluster is introducing at next week’s virtual Berlin European Film Market an 80-minute promo reel dubbed Canarias Unleashed which offers a sneak preview of six upcoming features produced on the Islands by local companies tapping into local talent.
- 2/26/2021
- by Emiliano De Pablos
- Variety Film + TV
The largest festival for creative documentary films in Central and Eastern Europe has handed out accolades but continues streaming films until 8 November. The 24th edition of the Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival, which was transformed into a virtual affair owing to the outbreak of the pandemic (see the news), maintained its original structure and handed out its awards on Saturday 31 October. The main Opus Bonum competition was judged by one sole juror, the director of In Between Dying, Hilal Baydarov. Baydarov picked White on White, a film by Slovakian director Viera Čákanyová, as Best World Documentary Film 2020. Baydarov said he picked the film for the top prize for “being a very honest, brave and inspirational film. The feature shows us how difficult and almost impossible it is to make a film about oneself.” White on White is the sophomore feature by Čákanyová, a follow-up to her feature...
Other winners include documentary ‘A New Shift’.
Viera Cakanyova’s White On White has won the top prize at the Czech Republic’s Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival, which is taking place entirely online this year due to Covid-19.
The Arctic-shot video diary, co-produced by the Czech Republic and Slovakia, was awarded the Opus Bonum prize. A special mention was given to Olivier Dury and Marie-Violaine Brincard’s A Man Leaning, which is based on a written diary by late French poet Thierry Metz.
The winner of the best central and east European documentary film in the Between The...
Viera Cakanyova’s White On White has won the top prize at the Czech Republic’s Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival, which is taking place entirely online this year due to Covid-19.
The Arctic-shot video diary, co-produced by the Czech Republic and Slovakia, was awarded the Opus Bonum prize. A special mention was given to Olivier Dury and Marie-Violaine Brincard’s A Man Leaning, which is based on a written diary by late French poet Thierry Metz.
The winner of the best central and east European documentary film in the Between The...
- 11/2/2020
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
Fearless truth-seeking and empathy won the day at the 24th Ji.hlava Intl. Documentary Film Festival Saturday, with Viera Cakanyova’s Arctic-shot video diary “White on White” taking the Opus Bonum main prize. The top Czech doc fest, which continues online through Nov. 8, when the audience prize will be announced, awarded filmmakers early this year as it forged its first-ever hybrid edition owing to Covid-19 restrictions.
Juror Hilal Baydarov called Cakanyova’s film “honest, brave and inspirational” for her determination to chart her own emotional state as she filmed in the frozen Polish outpost, a feat showing how “almost impossible it is to make a film about oneself.”
Baydarov, adjudicating films online from Egypt, granted a special mention to the French account of poet Thierry Metz’ last musings, “A Man Leaning” by Olivier Dury and Marie-Violaine Brincard, “for its beautiful structure and well-performed editing.”
In the Between the Seas competition...
Juror Hilal Baydarov called Cakanyova’s film “honest, brave and inspirational” for her determination to chart her own emotional state as she filmed in the frozen Polish outpost, a feat showing how “almost impossible it is to make a film about oneself.”
Baydarov, adjudicating films online from Egypt, granted a special mention to the French account of poet Thierry Metz’ last musings, “A Man Leaning” by Olivier Dury and Marie-Violaine Brincard, “for its beautiful structure and well-performed editing.”
In the Between the Seas competition...
- 10/31/2020
- by Will Tizard
- Variety Film + TV
Slovak director Viera Čákanyová, about to present her documentary “White on White” at Ji.hlava Intl. Documentary Film Festival – which sees her conversing with A.I. during her stay at a Polish Antarctic station – will come back to the topic of artificial intelligence in “Brand New World.” This time opting for a broader social perspective, she will try to determine how new technologies, like blockchain for example, can transform society and the way we communicate. All the while giving a wink to one Aldous Huxley.
“Is it possible to use it as an infrastructure, also in politics for example? To be able to have a direct democracy?,” wonders Čákanyová, when talking to Variety. Promising to look at the problem from the futuristic perspective in the film, when “new rules” are already in place. Described by the director as “fiction with elements of a documentary or a documentary sci-fi,” the project...
“Is it possible to use it as an infrastructure, also in politics for example? To be able to have a direct democracy?,” wonders Čákanyová, when talking to Variety. Promising to look at the problem from the futuristic perspective in the film, when “new rules” are already in place. Described by the director as “fiction with elements of a documentary or a documentary sci-fi,” the project...
- 10/31/2020
- by Marta Balaga
- Variety Film + TV
The 24th Ji.hlava Intl. Documentary Film Festival, which had to pivot into a digital only event at the last minute, has unveiled a lineup (see link here) with more than 220 films, including 59 world and 26 international premieres.
The festival, which runs from Oct. 27 to Nov. 8, includes a South Korean film retrospective, and a comprehensive showcase of documentaries by African-American filmmakers.
“We are sorry that we can’t screen the films in cinemas but we want to see the current situation as an opportunity. One positive aspect is that everyone will be able to get to see the films,” said Marek Hovorka, the festival director. “Fifteen years ago, the same year when YouTube was launched, Ji.hlava Idff founded the first VOD portal dedicated to documentaries. Today, DAFilms.com is one of the leading European VOD platforms,” he said, referring to the partnership with DAFilms, which will be the festival’s streaming platform this year.
The festival, which runs from Oct. 27 to Nov. 8, includes a South Korean film retrospective, and a comprehensive showcase of documentaries by African-American filmmakers.
“We are sorry that we can’t screen the films in cinemas but we want to see the current situation as an opportunity. One positive aspect is that everyone will be able to get to see the films,” said Marek Hovorka, the festival director. “Fifteen years ago, the same year when YouTube was launched, Ji.hlava Idff founded the first VOD portal dedicated to documentaries. Today, DAFilms.com is one of the leading European VOD platforms,” he said, referring to the partnership with DAFilms, which will be the festival’s streaming platform this year.
- 10/14/2020
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Santiago Segura’s Father There Is Only One sequel is a major new opener in Spain.
South Korea, opening Wednesday July 29
In South Korea, where theatrical releases open on Wednesdays and Thursdays, the new films in cinemas this weekend with top ticket reservation rates, according to the Korean Film Council (Kofic), are led by Lotte Cultureworks’ Jung Woo-sung-starrer Steel Rain 2: Summit - director Yang Woo-suk’s sequel to his North-South Korea political action thriller.
The film opened Wednesday, July 29 and as of Thursday has clocked up $1.2m atop the box office chart.
Further new titles include Chinese shark...
South Korea, opening Wednesday July 29
In South Korea, where theatrical releases open on Wednesdays and Thursdays, the new films in cinemas this weekend with top ticket reservation rates, according to the Korean Film Council (Kofic), are led by Lotte Cultureworks’ Jung Woo-sung-starrer Steel Rain 2: Summit - director Yang Woo-suk’s sequel to his North-South Korea political action thriller.
The film opened Wednesday, July 29 and as of Thursday has clocked up $1.2m atop the box office chart.
Further new titles include Chinese shark...
- 7/31/2020
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- ScreenDaily
Latin-American focused works-in-progress event will showcase six upcoming films.
The 37th edition of the Latin American-focused works in-progress meeting Cinema en Construction will take place online this week following its cancellation due to the covid-19 pandemic.
The event was due to unfold as part of the Cinélatino, Rencontres de Toulouse festival in south-west France on March 26-27.
As in previous years, Cinema en Construction will showcase six Latin American projects in post-production.
They include Costa Rican director Paz Fábrega’s drama Restless (Desasosiego), about a woman in her 40s and a teenager who are thrown together by the latter’s unwanted pregnancy.
The 37th edition of the Latin American-focused works in-progress meeting Cinema en Construction will take place online this week following its cancellation due to the covid-19 pandemic.
The event was due to unfold as part of the Cinélatino, Rencontres de Toulouse festival in south-west France on March 26-27.
As in previous years, Cinema en Construction will showcase six Latin American projects in post-production.
They include Costa Rican director Paz Fábrega’s drama Restless (Desasosiego), about a woman in her 40s and a teenager who are thrown together by the latter’s unwanted pregnancy.
- 3/30/2020
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- ScreenDaily
David Crow Jan 22, 2020
Production continues on Andrew Scott and Steve Zaillian's TV adaptation of The Talented Mr. Ripley, with Johnny Flynn joining.
Murder on premium cable is about to become quite fashionable, old sport. At least it would appear so with Showtime partnering with screenwriter Steve Zaillian to bring Patricia Highmore’s legendarily amoral protagonist to the small screen. Here’s what you need to know about Ripley.
Ripley Cast
Johnny Flynn has just been cast as Dickie Greenleaf, across from Andrew Scott, in Ripley. It also might be a get for Showtime as Flynn is clearly on the upswing. Set to appear in this spring’s Emma adaptation from Focus Features, he is coming off shooting Stardust, in which he plays a young David Bowie.
The series is of course led by Andrew Scott, who will play the resilient and clever Tom Ripley. The lead of the series, Tom...
Production continues on Andrew Scott and Steve Zaillian's TV adaptation of The Talented Mr. Ripley, with Johnny Flynn joining.
Murder on premium cable is about to become quite fashionable, old sport. At least it would appear so with Showtime partnering with screenwriter Steve Zaillian to bring Patricia Highmore’s legendarily amoral protagonist to the small screen. Here’s what you need to know about Ripley.
Ripley Cast
Johnny Flynn has just been cast as Dickie Greenleaf, across from Andrew Scott, in Ripley. It also might be a get for Showtime as Flynn is clearly on the upswing. Set to appear in this spring’s Emma adaptation from Focus Features, he is coming off shooting Stardust, in which he plays a young David Bowie.
The series is of course led by Andrew Scott, who will play the resilient and clever Tom Ripley. The lead of the series, Tom...
- 1/22/2020
- Den of Geek
Johnny Flynn (Beast) is set to star opposite Andrew Scott in Steven Zaillian’s drama series Ripley, based on Patricia Highsmith’s bestselling quintet of Tom Ripley novels at Showtime. Oscar and Golden Globe winner and Emmy nominee Zaillian will write and direct the entire first season.
In the series, Tom Ripley (Scott), a grifter scraping by in early 1960s New York, is hired by a wealthy man to try to convince his vagabond son, Dickie Greenleaf (Flynn), who is living a comfortable, trust-funded ex-pat life in Italy, to return home. Tom’s acceptance of the job is the first step into a complex life of deceit, fraud and murder.
Ripley is co-produced by Showtime and Endemol Shine North America in association with Entertainment 360 and Filmrights. Executive producers are Zaillian, Garrett Basch, Guymon Casady, Ben Forkner, Sharon Levy and Philipp Keel of Diogenes. Scott...
In the series, Tom Ripley (Scott), a grifter scraping by in early 1960s New York, is hired by a wealthy man to try to convince his vagabond son, Dickie Greenleaf (Flynn), who is living a comfortable, trust-funded ex-pat life in Italy, to return home. Tom’s acceptance of the job is the first step into a complex life of deceit, fraud and murder.
Ripley is co-produced by Showtime and Endemol Shine North America in association with Entertainment 360 and Filmrights. Executive producers are Zaillian, Garrett Basch, Guymon Casady, Ben Forkner, Sharon Levy and Philipp Keel of Diogenes. Scott...
- 1/22/2020
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Steven Zaillian is getting ready to start shooting his “Ripley” TV series in September 2020 in Italy. The eight-episode Showtime series stars Andrew Scott in the titular role.
“Ripley” will mark the multi-hyphenate Zaillian’s return to television after creating HBO’s award-winning miniseries “The Night Of.” He is currently on the Italian island of Capri, where he is being honored by the Capri Hollywood International Film Festival as the author of the screenplay of Martin Scorsese’s “The Irishman,” for which Zaillian is in the running for a Golden Globe.
Zaillian told Variety that he and his team are also in Italy to scout locations for “Ripley” in Capri and on the nearby island of Ischia, as well as on the Amalfi Coast and in Rome and Palermo. “The bulk of the show will be shot in Italy,” Zaillian said, noting that “there are several parts for Italian talents.”
After Italy,...
“Ripley” will mark the multi-hyphenate Zaillian’s return to television after creating HBO’s award-winning miniseries “The Night Of.” He is currently on the Italian island of Capri, where he is being honored by the Capri Hollywood International Film Festival as the author of the screenplay of Martin Scorsese’s “The Irishman,” for which Zaillian is in the running for a Golden Globe.
Zaillian told Variety that he and his team are also in Italy to scout locations for “Ripley” in Capri and on the nearby island of Ischia, as well as on the Amalfi Coast and in Rome and Palermo. “The bulk of the show will be shot in Italy,” Zaillian said, noting that “there are several parts for Italian talents.”
After Italy,...
- 12/31/2019
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Kirsten Howard Sep 26, 2019
After Sherlock, Black Mirror and Fleabag, Andrew Scott is set for another plum role.
Showtime is pressing ahead with its new adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's Tom Ripley novels, announcing this week that Andrew Scott will play the lead role in the first eight-episode season.
Steven Zaillian (The Night Of) has created the new drama series from the author's first five books - The Talented Mr. Ripley, Ripley Under Ground, Ripley’s Game, The Boy Who Followed Ripley, and Ripley Underwater - and will direct every episode.
"We are so thrilled to have the supremely talented filmmaker, Steve Zaillian, adapt the singular saga of Tom Ripley from Patricia Highsmith’s novels as an ongoing series for Showtime," said Gary Levine, President of Entertainment, Showtime Networks, in a statement. "With Andrew Scott, whose charisma knows no bounds, inhabiting the iconic lead role, we feel confident that this will be a special one.
After Sherlock, Black Mirror and Fleabag, Andrew Scott is set for another plum role.
Showtime is pressing ahead with its new adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's Tom Ripley novels, announcing this week that Andrew Scott will play the lead role in the first eight-episode season.
Steven Zaillian (The Night Of) has created the new drama series from the author's first five books - The Talented Mr. Ripley, Ripley Under Ground, Ripley’s Game, The Boy Who Followed Ripley, and Ripley Underwater - and will direct every episode.
"We are so thrilled to have the supremely talented filmmaker, Steve Zaillian, adapt the singular saga of Tom Ripley from Patricia Highsmith’s novels as an ongoing series for Showtime," said Gary Levine, President of Entertainment, Showtime Networks, in a statement. "With Andrew Scott, whose charisma knows no bounds, inhabiting the iconic lead role, we feel confident that this will be a special one.
- 9/26/2019
- Den of Geek
Showtime has given a formal eight-episode order to Steven Zaillian’s drama series Ripley, based on Patricia Highsmith’s bestselling quintet of Tom Ripley novels, with Andrew Scott, hot off his starring turn on the Emmy-winning second season of Fleabag, set to star in the title role. Oscar and Golden Globe winner and Emmy nominee Zaillian will write and direct the entire first season.
In the series, Tom Ripley (Scott), a grifter scraping by in early 1960s New York, is hired by a wealthy man to travel to Italy to try to convince his vagabond son to return home. Tom’s acceptance of the job is the first step into a complex life of deceit, fraud and murder.
Zaillian will use the five novels written by Highsmith — The Talented Mr. Ripley, Ripley Under Ground, Ripley’s Game, The Boy Who Followed Ripley and Ripley...
In the series, Tom Ripley (Scott), a grifter scraping by in early 1960s New York, is hired by a wealthy man to travel to Italy to try to convince his vagabond son to return home. Tom’s acceptance of the job is the first step into a complex life of deceit, fraud and murder.
Zaillian will use the five novels written by Highsmith — The Talented Mr. Ripley, Ripley Under Ground, Ripley’s Game, The Boy Who Followed Ripley and Ripley...
- 9/25/2019
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
After blessing the television world with his “hot priest,” Andrew Scott is about to make viewers sweat some more.
The “Fleabag” star has been cast as the titular lead in “Ripley,” a drama based on Patricia Highsmith’s bestselling Tom Ripley novels, which has been handed an eight-episode series order at Showtime.
Scott’s Ripley is described as a grifter scraping by in early 1960s New York, who is hired by a wealthy man to travel to Italy to try to convince his vagabond son to return home. Ripley’s acceptance of the job is the first step into a complex life of deceit, fraud and murder.
Steve Zaillian is in place to write and direct the entire first season as previously reported, marking his return to television after creating HBO’s award-winning mini-series “The Night Of.” The casting and series order were announced by Showtime presidents of entertainment Gary Levine and Jana Winograde.
The “Fleabag” star has been cast as the titular lead in “Ripley,” a drama based on Patricia Highsmith’s bestselling Tom Ripley novels, which has been handed an eight-episode series order at Showtime.
Scott’s Ripley is described as a grifter scraping by in early 1960s New York, who is hired by a wealthy man to travel to Italy to try to convince his vagabond son to return home. Ripley’s acceptance of the job is the first step into a complex life of deceit, fraud and murder.
Steve Zaillian is in place to write and direct the entire first season as previously reported, marking his return to television after creating HBO’s award-winning mini-series “The Night Of.” The casting and series order were announced by Showtime presidents of entertainment Gary Levine and Jana Winograde.
- 9/25/2019
- by Will Thorne
- Variety Film + TV
Showtime appears to be set to bring Tom Ripley, the serial killer antihero of Patricia Highsmith’s novels, to the small screen.
Sources say the cabler is in final negotiations for a straight-to-series order from Steve Zaillian, who will return to writing and directing TV for the first time since creating HBO’s award-winning mini-series “The Night Of.” Zaillian is reportedly in position to write and direct the majority of the first season.
The prospective series will center on the eventual serial killer Ripley, and will likely draw from five of Highsmith’s crime novels: “The Talented Mrs. Ripley,” “Ripley’s Game,” “Ripley Under Ground,” “The Boy Who Followed Ripley,” and “Ripley Underwater.”
Highsmith’s series of Ripley novels have been adapted for the big screen several times, but never for U.S. television. The character was most famously played by Matt Damon in the 1999 psychological thriller “The Talented Mr. Ripley,...
Sources say the cabler is in final negotiations for a straight-to-series order from Steve Zaillian, who will return to writing and directing TV for the first time since creating HBO’s award-winning mini-series “The Night Of.” Zaillian is reportedly in position to write and direct the majority of the first season.
The prospective series will center on the eventual serial killer Ripley, and will likely draw from five of Highsmith’s crime novels: “The Talented Mrs. Ripley,” “Ripley’s Game,” “Ripley Under Ground,” “The Boy Who Followed Ripley,” and “Ripley Underwater.”
Highsmith’s series of Ripley novels have been adapted for the big screen several times, but never for U.S. television. The character was most famously played by Matt Damon in the 1999 psychological thriller “The Talented Mr. Ripley,...
- 4/2/2019
- by Will Thorne
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Showtime is in final negotiations to make a straight-to-series commitment for a drama that Oscar-winning screenwriter Steve Zaillian will write and direct that focuses on Tom Ripley, the sociopath anti-hero of the Patricia Highsmith crime novel series. Sources said that this will go in a straight-to-series deal and that Zaillian is expected to write and direct most of the first season’s worth of episodes. It will be the first major series for Zaillian since the acclaimed HBO mini The Night Of.
Zaillian will use the five novels written by Highsmith — The Talented Mrs. Ripley, Ripley Under Ground, Ripley’s Game, The Boy Who Followed Ripley and Ripley Underwater — as a road map to show Ripley’s progression from con artist to serial killer.
The series will be produced by Endemol Shine North America and Entertainment 360, with Sharon Levy overseeing. The series will be executive produced by Zaillian,...
Zaillian will use the five novels written by Highsmith — The Talented Mrs. Ripley, Ripley Under Ground, Ripley’s Game, The Boy Who Followed Ripley and Ripley Underwater — as a road map to show Ripley’s progression from con artist to serial killer.
The series will be produced by Endemol Shine North America and Entertainment 360, with Sharon Levy overseeing. The series will be executive produced by Zaillian,...
- 4/2/2019
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Oscar-winning screenwriter Steven Zaillian is set to develop a new crime series that focuses on the character Tom Ripley. You might recognize the name from Matt Damon’s film The Talented Mr. Ripley, which is based on a character from the Patricia Highsmith book series.
Zaillian, who will write and direct the series, has worked on some great projects in his career. He’s written scripts for Schindler’s List, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, Moneyball, American Gangster, Gangs of New York, and more. The guy is a super talented writer, so there’s a good chance that this series is going to be great.
According to Deadline, “this will go in a straight-to-series deal,” and it will be the first major series for Zaillian since the acclaimed HBO miniseries The Night Of.
It’s also explained that Zaillian will use the five novels in the series, and those...
Zaillian, who will write and direct the series, has worked on some great projects in his career. He’s written scripts for Schindler’s List, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, Moneyball, American Gangster, Gangs of New York, and more. The guy is a super talented writer, so there’s a good chance that this series is going to be great.
According to Deadline, “this will go in a straight-to-series deal,” and it will be the first major series for Zaillian since the acclaimed HBO miniseries The Night Of.
It’s also explained that Zaillian will use the five novels in the series, and those...
- 3/22/2019
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
Exclusive: The hot package that has several networks salivating is a series that Oscar-winning screenwriter Steve Zaillian will write and direct that focuses on Tom Ripley, the sociopath anti-hero of the Patricia Highsmith crime novel series. Sources said that this will go in a straight-to-series deal and that Zaillian is expected to write and direct most of the first season’s worth of episodes. It will be the first major series for Zaillian since the acclaimed HBO mini The Night Of.
Zaillian will use the five novels written by Highsmith — The Talented Mrs. Ripley, Ripley Under Ground, Ripley’s Game, The Boy Who Followed Ripley and Ripley Underwater — as a road map to show Ripley’s progression from con artist to serial killer. The series will be produced by Endemol Shine North America, with Sharon Levy overseeing. The series will be executive produced by Zaillian, Garrett Basch, Philipp Keel, and...
Zaillian will use the five novels written by Highsmith — The Talented Mrs. Ripley, Ripley Under Ground, Ripley’s Game, The Boy Who Followed Ripley and Ripley Underwater — as a road map to show Ripley’s progression from con artist to serial killer. The series will be produced by Endemol Shine North America, with Sharon Levy overseeing. The series will be executive produced by Zaillian, Garrett Basch, Philipp Keel, and...
- 3/21/2019
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
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