Dua Lipa’s new album Radical Optimism has arrived, and though it’s been met with mixed reception from critics and fans alike, it has debuted on the Billboard 200 at No. 2.
Featuring a neo-psychedelia-inspired sound with significant contributions from Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker, Radical Optimism is Lipa’s first full-length release since 2020’s Future Nostalgia. As Consequence’s Mary Siroky wrote in her review, the album’s 11 songs show that Lipa is “ready to soak up the sun and dance,” though the album as a whole “might not be quite as radical as one might have hoped.”
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Nonetheless, the album has performed pretty well, debuting at No. 1 on the UK Official Albums Chart with the biggest week of sales for any British female artist since Adele’s 30 in 2021. Likewise, earning the No. 2 slot on the Billboard 200 marks Lipa’s highest chart debut to date,...
Featuring a neo-psychedelia-inspired sound with significant contributions from Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker, Radical Optimism is Lipa’s first full-length release since 2020’s Future Nostalgia. As Consequence’s Mary Siroky wrote in her review, the album’s 11 songs show that Lipa is “ready to soak up the sun and dance,” though the album as a whole “might not be quite as radical as one might have hoped.”
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Nonetheless, the album has performed pretty well, debuting at No. 1 on the UK Official Albums Chart with the biggest week of sales for any British female artist since Adele’s 30 in 2021. Likewise, earning the No. 2 slot on the Billboard 200 marks Lipa’s highest chart debut to date,...
- 5/13/2024
- by Jo Vito
- Consequence - Music
To call Sfb Games’s Crow Country pleasant would seem to clash with its horror setting, which is played reasonably straight. The game’s setting is an abandoned amusement park, whose ransacked corridors are now home to a horde of rotting mutants. But Crow Country nonetheless exudes a rather cozy atmosphere, with its lo-fi style bathing this house of horrors in a warm glow of nostalgia. The colors pop beneath a hazy PS1-esque filter, and the textures are smooth and shiny, reminiscent of early 3D’s plasticene aesthetics.
Blood pools beneath monsters in a perfect, shimmering circle, and characters like the game’s protagonist, Mara Forest, are squat and cartoonish, more of a piece with the 3D polygonal models from the original Final Fantasy VII than the more realistic character models from the horror touchstones of the PS1 era like Resident Evil or Silent Hill. From the overhead camera perspective,...
Blood pools beneath monsters in a perfect, shimmering circle, and characters like the game’s protagonist, Mara Forest, are squat and cartoonish, more of a piece with the 3D polygonal models from the original Final Fantasy VII than the more realistic character models from the horror touchstones of the PS1 era like Resident Evil or Silent Hill. From the overhead camera perspective,...
- 5/8/2024
- by Steven Scaife
- Slant Magazine
Barbie dolls have had a shockingly huge impact on pop music. Perhaps the most famous example is Dua Lipa‘s “Dance the Night” from the soundtrack of Greta Gerwig’s Barbie. Lipa explained what she was trying to accomplish with the song and how she felt making it.
Dua Lipa’s ‘Dance the Night’ is 1 of many songs inspired by Barbie
For a piece of plastic, Barbie is surprisingly musically influential. She inspired Aqua’s classic bubblegum hit “Barbie Girl” and its various derivatives. In addition, Nicki Minaj calls her fans “Barbies” and repeatedly references the doll in her songs and music videos. Avant-garde director Todd Haynes directed Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story, a film with no actors other than stop-motion animated Barbie dolls.
Perhaps the doll’s greatest musical moment was Barbie: The Album. The album served as the soundtrack for Gerwig’s Barbie and featured contributions from Minaj,...
Dua Lipa’s ‘Dance the Night’ is 1 of many songs inspired by Barbie
For a piece of plastic, Barbie is surprisingly musically influential. She inspired Aqua’s classic bubblegum hit “Barbie Girl” and its various derivatives. In addition, Nicki Minaj calls her fans “Barbies” and repeatedly references the doll in her songs and music videos. Avant-garde director Todd Haynes directed Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story, a film with no actors other than stop-motion animated Barbie dolls.
Perhaps the doll’s greatest musical moment was Barbie: The Album. The album served as the soundtrack for Gerwig’s Barbie and featured contributions from Minaj,...
- 5/7/2024
- by Matthew Trzcinski
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Dua Lipa’s third album is almost here. She’s been teasing a new era since November, when she debuted “Houdini,” the first single from the long-anticipated project. In March, after weeks of speculation, she revealed the album title: Radical Optimism, which finally drops on Friday.
Lipa first shared details about the album when she spoke at length with Rolling Stone for a cover story that was released in January. Here is everything she told us about her new music and what we can expect from her Radical Optimism era.
Lipa first shared details about the album when she spoke at length with Rolling Stone for a cover story that was released in January. Here is everything she told us about her new music and what we can expect from her Radical Optimism era.
- 5/2/2024
- by Brittany Spanos
- Rollingstone.com
The Cannes Film Festival has unveiled the eight jurors who will be joining jury president Greta Gerwig for the event’s 2024 edition (May 14-25).
They are American actress Lily Gladstone, French actress Eva Green, French actor and producer Omar Sy, Lebanese director and screenwriter Nadine Labaki, Spanish director and screenwriter Juan Antonio Bayona, Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda, Turkish screenwriter and photographer Ebru Ceylan, and Italian actor Pierfrancisco Favino.
The jury will award the Palme d’Or to one of the 22 films in competition at the closing ceremony on May 25. Anatomy Of A Fall picked up the top prize last year.
They are American actress Lily Gladstone, French actress Eva Green, French actor and producer Omar Sy, Lebanese director and screenwriter Nadine Labaki, Spanish director and screenwriter Juan Antonio Bayona, Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda, Turkish screenwriter and photographer Ebru Ceylan, and Italian actor Pierfrancisco Favino.
The jury will award the Palme d’Or to one of the 22 films in competition at the closing ceremony on May 25. Anatomy Of A Fall picked up the top prize last year.
- 4/29/2024
- ScreenDaily
Prime Video has announced the full cast for action comedy show “Costiera” set on Italy’s iconic Amalfi Coast being directed by Emmy-winner Adam Bernstein and featuring Jesse Williams (“Take Me Out”) as the lead.
The ensemble cast for the English-language series being co-produced by Amazon Studios and Luca Bernabei for Lux Vide comprises British actor Jordan Alexandra; Spain’s Alejandra Onieva (“Alta Mar”); Italy’s Maria Chiara Giannetta (“Blanca”); Antonio Gerardi; Tommaso Ragno (“Nostalgia”); Amanda Campana; Pierpaolo Spollon; Britain’s Sam Haygarth (“Jojo Rabbit”); and France’s Jean-Hugues Anglade (“Sink or Swim”).
In “Costiera” – which started shooting in Italy in late February and is expected to wrap at the end of May – Williams is playing an Italian-American former Marine named Daniel De Luca, who is a problem solver in one of the most exclusive hotels in the world in the picturesque Amalfi Coast town of Positano. He is a...
The ensemble cast for the English-language series being co-produced by Amazon Studios and Luca Bernabei for Lux Vide comprises British actor Jordan Alexandra; Spain’s Alejandra Onieva (“Alta Mar”); Italy’s Maria Chiara Giannetta (“Blanca”); Antonio Gerardi; Tommaso Ragno (“Nostalgia”); Amanda Campana; Pierpaolo Spollon; Britain’s Sam Haygarth (“Jojo Rabbit”); and France’s Jean-Hugues Anglade (“Sink or Swim”).
In “Costiera” – which started shooting in Italy in late February and is expected to wrap at the end of May – Williams is playing an Italian-American former Marine named Daniel De Luca, who is a problem solver in one of the most exclusive hotels in the world in the picturesque Amalfi Coast town of Positano. He is a...
- 4/10/2024
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Reviving the classic X-Men animated series takes guts. In a list of beloved shows from a bygone era of Saturday Morning television, Marvel’s X-Men stands among select others at the top of Mount Nostalgia, with adamantium claws popped and a dream of equality for mutantkind in its heart. When Marvel announced a return to the fan-favorite animation, it was difficult to imagine the Herculean task of doing justice to the old series while carving a new path. Thankfully, Marvel’s X-Men ’97 launched to rave reviews from critics and fans, and we’ve got the show’s Supervising Producer and Supervising Director, Jake Castorena, to tell us about establishing a new era in mutant-related entertainment.
Speaking with Jake, we discussed the team lineup for X-Men ’97 and who could join the cast. We also talk about how X-Men ’97 is so true to the spirit of the original that...
Speaking with Jake, we discussed the team lineup for X-Men ’97 and who could join the cast. We also talk about how X-Men ’97 is so true to the spirit of the original that...
- 3/28/2024
- by Steve Seigh
- JoBlo.com
Burbank, CA — Season 4: DC’s unlikeliest group of heroes, the Doom Patrol, are ready to save the world… kind of. After suffering horrific accidents that gave them superhuman abilities, Cliff/Robotman (Brendan Fraser), Larry/Negative Man (Matt Bomer), Rita/Elasti-Woman (April Bowlby), Jane/Crazy Jane (Diane Guerrero), and Vic/Cyborg (Joivan Wade) were each left scarred, disfigured, and ostracized – until mad scientist Dr. Niles Caulder (Timothy Dalton) brings the outcasts together to treat and protect them. Gritty and irreverent, Doom Patrol follows this part support group, part superhero team as they take on evil, otherworldly forces determined to destroy humankind – even if it wants nothing to do with them.
Featuring all 12 episodes from the fourth season, Doom Patrol: The Complete Fourth Season is priced to own for $29.00 Srp (Bd) / $19.99 Srp (DVD).
Also available on April 9, is Doom Patrol: The Complete Series on Blu-ray and DVD, which includes all four...
Featuring all 12 episodes from the fourth season, Doom Patrol: The Complete Fourth Season is priced to own for $29.00 Srp (Bd) / $19.99 Srp (DVD).
Also available on April 9, is Doom Patrol: The Complete Series on Blu-ray and DVD, which includes all four...
- 3/25/2024
- by ComicMix Staff
- Comicmix.com
The Union of Italian Exporters Anica, which represents most of the country’s leading sales agents, has expressed concern about the launch of Rai Cinema’s new film sales operation.
Rai Cinema International Distribution makes its market debut at EFM this week with a slate of 10 films. It will handle new features, while existing TV and film sales distribution operation Rai Com will sell library titles.
In a statement issued exclusively to Screen, the Union noted its “concern about the entry into the market of a fully publicly funded operator” which it described as a “giant” compared to other Italian companies.
Rai Cinema International Distribution makes its market debut at EFM this week with a slate of 10 films. It will handle new features, while existing TV and film sales distribution operation Rai Com will sell library titles.
In a statement issued exclusively to Screen, the Union noted its “concern about the entry into the market of a fully publicly funded operator” which it described as a “giant” compared to other Italian companies.
- 2/14/2024
- ScreenDaily
Hazbin Hotel Season 1 Review(Photo Credit – IMDb)
Hazbin Hotel Season 1 Review: Star Rating:
Cast: Erika Henningsen, Stephanie Beatriz, Blake Roman, Keith David, Kimiko Glenn, Amir Talai, and Alex Brightman
Creator: Vivienne Medrano
Director: Vivienne Medrano
Streaming On: Amazon Prime Video
Language: English (with subtitles)
Runtime: 8 episodes, around 25 minutes each.
Hazbin Hotel Season 1 Review(Photo Credit – IMDb) Hazbin Hotel Season 1 Review: What’s It About
Hazbin Hotel is the creation of Vivienne Medrano, an animator, voice actress, and producer who has made a name for herself online, amassing a fandom big enough to get her an animated show on Prime Video. This show follows the adventures of Charlie, the princess of Hell, and her mission of building a hotel that can actually rehabilitate the sinners of Hell so they can find their way to Heaven.
Hazbin Hotel Season 1 Review: Script Analysis
I came to Hazbin Hotel knowing basically nothing about Medrano and her previous work,...
Hazbin Hotel Season 1 Review: Star Rating:
Cast: Erika Henningsen, Stephanie Beatriz, Blake Roman, Keith David, Kimiko Glenn, Amir Talai, and Alex Brightman
Creator: Vivienne Medrano
Director: Vivienne Medrano
Streaming On: Amazon Prime Video
Language: English (with subtitles)
Runtime: 8 episodes, around 25 minutes each.
Hazbin Hotel Season 1 Review(Photo Credit – IMDb) Hazbin Hotel Season 1 Review: What’s It About
Hazbin Hotel is the creation of Vivienne Medrano, an animator, voice actress, and producer who has made a name for herself online, amassing a fandom big enough to get her an animated show on Prime Video. This show follows the adventures of Charlie, the princess of Hell, and her mission of building a hotel that can actually rehabilitate the sinners of Hell so they can find their way to Heaven.
Hazbin Hotel Season 1 Review: Script Analysis
I came to Hazbin Hotel knowing basically nothing about Medrano and her previous work,...
- 2/5/2024
- by Nelson Acosta
- KoiMoi
With the release of the Mobile Suit Gundam Seed Freedom anime film on Friday in Japan, the surprises don't stop with the film's premiere. This time the return of singer Mika Nakashima to the Gundam Seed series has been revealed with the release of a new song being featured within the new film in "Bokyo" ("Nostalgia"), which was written and produced by the film's opening theme composer Tetsuya Komuro. Gundam Seed Freedom insert song "Bokyou" cover and Mika Nakashima portrait In addition to the reveal of the new insert song, multiple campaigns have launched that will see a traveling exhibition in "We're Going To Mobile Suit Gundam Seed Freedom All Over Japan!" This will see characters "travel" in a campaign that will hit all 47 prefectures. There's also a new one-day festival in Mobile Suit Gundam Seed Festival ~Freedom To a New Future~ that will see cast members attend a live...
- 1/25/2024
- by Humberto Saabedra
- Crunchyroll
Toni Servillo, who played Roman socialite Jep Gambardella in Paolo Sorrentino’s Oscar-winning “The Great Beauty,” will star in a drama about Cosa Nostra boss Matteo Messina Denaro, dubbed “the last godfather” directed by Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza (“Sicilian Ghost Story”).
Also starring in the hotly-anticipated drama titled “Iddu” – which means “Him” in Sicilian dialect – is Italian A-list actor Elio Germano, winner of a Cannes best actor prize for Daniele Luchetti’s “Our Life” in 2010 and more recently of Italy’s 2021 David di Donatello Award for Giorgio Diritti’s “Hidden Away.”
The roles respectively being played by Servillo and Elio Germano are being kept under wraps.
After being on the run for three decades, Messina Denaro was arrested in mid-January 2023 outside an upscale medical facility in Palermo, where he had been undergoing cancer treatment for a year under false identity. The top mafioso, convicted of masterminding some of Italy...
Also starring in the hotly-anticipated drama titled “Iddu” – which means “Him” in Sicilian dialect – is Italian A-list actor Elio Germano, winner of a Cannes best actor prize for Daniele Luchetti’s “Our Life” in 2010 and more recently of Italy’s 2021 David di Donatello Award for Giorgio Diritti’s “Hidden Away.”
The roles respectively being played by Servillo and Elio Germano are being kept under wraps.
After being on the run for three decades, Messina Denaro was arrested in mid-January 2023 outside an upscale medical facility in Palermo, where he had been undergoing cancer treatment for a year under false identity. The top mafioso, convicted of masterminding some of Italy...
- 1/18/2024
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
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Screen is listing the 2023 release dates for films in the UK and Ireland in the calendar below.
For distributors who wish to add/amend a date on the calendar, please get in touch with Screen here. Screen is also running a calendar for festival and market dates throughout 2023 here.
December
December 31
Berliner Philharmoniker Live: New Year’s Eve Concert 2023 (Trafalgar - event cinema)
Previous releases January
January 6
Piggy (Vertigo), The Enforcer (Vertigo), Alcarràs (Mubi), A Man Called Otto (Sony), Rashomon (BFI), Till (Universal)
January 7
Andre Rieu In Dublin 2023 (Piece of...
Screen is listing the 2023 release dates for films in the UK and Ireland in the calendar below.
For distributors who wish to add/amend a date on the calendar, please get in touch with Screen here. Screen is also running a calendar for festival and market dates throughout 2023 here.
December
December 31
Berliner Philharmoniker Live: New Year’s Eve Concert 2023 (Trafalgar - event cinema)
Previous releases January
January 6
Piggy (Vertigo), The Enforcer (Vertigo), Alcarràs (Mubi), A Man Called Otto (Sony), Rashomon (BFI), Till (Universal)
January 7
Andre Rieu In Dublin 2023 (Piece of...
- 12/30/2023
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Io Capitano, Pinocchio, Tale Of Tales director Matteo Garrone with Anne-Katrin Titze: “I would say that fairy tales, as Italo Calvino used to say, fairy tales are true. It’s a different way to talk about the human condition.”
Italy’s Oscar submission and Venice Film Festival Unesco and Best Director Silver Lion winner Matteo Garrone’s suspenseful and fleet Io Capitano (Me Captain), co-written with Massimo Ceccherini (Garrone’s Pinocchio), Massimo Gaudioso, and Andrea Tagliaferri, shot by Paolo Carnera stars the naturalistic duo of Seydou Sarr (Marcello Mastroianni Award Best Young Actor) and Moustapha Fall with Ndeye Khady Sy, Oumar Diaw, Issaka Sawadogo.
Matteo Garrone on Io Capitano shot by Paolo Carnera: “Paolo put himself in the service of the story and he worked carefully on the light, but tried always to be natural, …”
Garrone’s Tale of Tales, based on Giambattista Basile’s early 17th century fairy tales,...
Italy’s Oscar submission and Venice Film Festival Unesco and Best Director Silver Lion winner Matteo Garrone’s suspenseful and fleet Io Capitano (Me Captain), co-written with Massimo Ceccherini (Garrone’s Pinocchio), Massimo Gaudioso, and Andrea Tagliaferri, shot by Paolo Carnera stars the naturalistic duo of Seydou Sarr (Marcello Mastroianni Award Best Young Actor) and Moustapha Fall with Ndeye Khady Sy, Oumar Diaw, Issaka Sawadogo.
Matteo Garrone on Io Capitano shot by Paolo Carnera: “Paolo put himself in the service of the story and he worked carefully on the light, but tried always to be natural, …”
Garrone’s Tale of Tales, based on Giambattista Basile’s early 17th century fairy tales,...
- 11/28/2023
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Eslabon Armado and Peso Pluma have scaled major heights with their hit collaboration “Ella Baila Sola.” Spotify crowned the track as the song of the summer, and it quickly jumped to number one on the platform’s global charts. On Thursday at the Latin Grammys in Spain, eight months after the song’s release, Eslabon Armado and Peso Pluma teamed up for their first televised performance of the track.
The two acts teamed up in front of an all-white set, backed by dancers wearing bright red. As they sang, white...
The two acts teamed up in front of an all-white set, backed by dancers wearing bright red. As they sang, white...
- 11/16/2023
- by Julyssa Lopez
- Rollingstone.com
Dua Lipa had to postpone her Future Nostalgia tour three times, but once she got on the road, inspiration for new music came to her quickly. In fact, she began writing her latest song, “Houdini,” while she was on tour, she tells Rolling Stone for the latest episode of “The Breakdown.”
Lipa returned to London’s 5dB, where she wrote a lot of her upcoming third album, to tell the story of how “Houdini” was put together. She explains that she had been spending time in Los Angeles, where Tame...
Lipa returned to London’s 5dB, where she wrote a lot of her upcoming third album, to tell the story of how “Houdini” was put together. She explains that she had been spending time in Los Angeles, where Tame...
- 11/15/2023
- by Brittany Spanos
- Rollingstone.com
Dua Lipa’s psychedelic journey starts now. The pop star finally announced the new single “Houdini,” out Nov. 9 at 7 pm E.T.
The news arrives a day after Lipa teased new music in a teaser, which featured a golden key necklace, several polaroids, and the cryptic message “4 8 9 9 14 15 21.” A snippet of the song was played in the video, featuring Lipa singing the line “Tell me all the ways you’ll need me” over a groovy beat. Back in August, Lipa confirmed with New York Times magazine that a new album was in the works,...
The news arrives a day after Lipa teased new music in a teaser, which featured a golden key necklace, several polaroids, and the cryptic message “4 8 9 9 14 15 21.” A snippet of the song was played in the video, featuring Lipa singing the line “Tell me all the ways you’ll need me” over a groovy beat. Back in August, Lipa confirmed with New York Times magazine that a new album was in the works,...
- 10/31/2023
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
Bad Bunny’s Nadie Sabe Lo Que Va a Pasar Mañana dethroned Drake and For All The Dogs to debut atop the Billboard 200 Albums chart, the publication announced on Sunday, marking the rapper’s third consecutive album to debut atop the chart in an impressive run for one of music’s biggest global superstars.
Nadie opened with 184,000 equivalent album units, driven mostly by its 239.56 million streams, though the digital-only LP also managed to sell about 7,500 copies. The feat comes just a day after the reggaeton star hosted and performed on...
Nadie opened with 184,000 equivalent album units, driven mostly by its 239.56 million streams, though the digital-only LP also managed to sell about 7,500 copies. The feat comes just a day after the reggaeton star hosted and performed on...
- 10/22/2023
- by Ethan Millman
- Rollingstone.com
It comes as no surprise that Drake‘s new album “For All the Dogs” debuted at number-one on the Billboard 200. It’s his 13th number-one album on the chart, which places him third on the list of the most chart-toppers ever, behind only The Beatles (19) and Jay-Z (14). Taylor Swift is close behind with 12, but she’s likely to tie Drake again when she releases her re-recorded “1989” later this month. Read more about this week’s chart here at Billboard.com.
Despite mixed reviews, “For All the Dogs” achieved 402,000 equivalent album units based on its combined record sales, individual track sales and online streams. But really, it was almost all streaming that did it. 391,000 units came from streaming, which equates to 514.01 million streams of the album’s 23 tracks. That’s the biggest streaming week of the year and the fourth biggest week ever. Drake actually accounts for four of the top five streaming weeks of all-time,...
Despite mixed reviews, “For All the Dogs” achieved 402,000 equivalent album units based on its combined record sales, individual track sales and online streams. But really, it was almost all streaming that did it. 391,000 units came from streaming, which equates to 514.01 million streams of the album’s 23 tracks. That’s the biggest streaming week of the year and the fourth biggest week ever. Drake actually accounts for four of the top five streaming weeks of all-time,...
- 10/16/2023
- by Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
In its 31st week on the Billboard 200 albums chart, country singer Morgan Wallen‘s “One Thing at a Time” is back at number-one for the 16th nonconsecutive week. It achieved 74,500 equivalent album units based on its combined record sales, individual track sales and online streams. That’s the lowest total for a number-one album in 2023. The last time an album with fewer units led the chart was Pusha T’s “It’s Almost Dry” with 55,000 units in May of 2022. Read more about this week’s chart here on Billboard.com.
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After two weeks at number-one, rapper Rod Wave‘s “Nostalgia” dropped to number-two with 71,000 units. Pop star Olivia Rodrigo‘s “Guts” fell one spot to number-three with 67,000 units. Close behind in the number-four spot is “Autumn Variations,” singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran‘s second new album of 2023, following “Subtract” which debuted at number-two earlier this year.
SEEBillboard Hot 100: Every #1 song of 2023
After two weeks at number-one, rapper Rod Wave‘s “Nostalgia” dropped to number-two with 71,000 units. Pop star Olivia Rodrigo‘s “Guts” fell one spot to number-three with 67,000 units. Close behind in the number-four spot is “Autumn Variations,” singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran‘s second new album of 2023, following “Subtract” which debuted at number-two earlier this year.
- 10/9/2023
- by Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
Few people have had a better year than Pedro Tovar. The 21-year-old singer is the voice behind Eslabón Armado, one of the biggest bands in the booming música Mexicana scene. This year, Eslabón Armado released Desvelado, a follow up to their 2022 emo sierreño opus, Nostalgia, which made history on the charts.
Desvelado features “Ella Baila Sola,” the track with Guadalajara-raised artist Peso Pluma that also made huge waves: “Ella Baila Sola” was crowned the song of the summer, its first few guitar chords followed by blaring horns reverberating across park barbecues in New York City,...
Desvelado features “Ella Baila Sola,” the track with Guadalajara-raised artist Peso Pluma that also made huge waves: “Ella Baila Sola” was crowned the song of the summer, its first few guitar chords followed by blaring horns reverberating across park barbecues in New York City,...
- 10/3/2023
- by Vita Dadoo
- Rollingstone.com
This week’s Billboard 200 albums chart was decided by one of the narrowest margins of the year. Only 500 equivalent album units separated number-one from number-two based on the combination of album sales, individual track sales and online streams. Read all about this week’s chart here at Billboard.com.
Rod Wave‘s “Nostalgia” stayed at the top of the list with 88,000 units, making this his first album to spend multiple weeks at number-one. It’s the lowest number of units for a number-one album since Sza‘s “Sos” led with 87,000 units on March 4. But it was just enough to hold off Olivia Rodrigo‘s “Guts,” which achieved 87,500 units. Morgan Wallen‘s former 15-week chart-topper “One Thing at a Time” came in third with 73,000 units.
SEEDoja Cat ‘Scarlet’ reviews: Is it ‘hands-down her best album’ or ‘incoherent’?
In fourth place was Doja Cat‘s new hip-hop album “Scarlet,” which achieved 72,000 units.
Rod Wave‘s “Nostalgia” stayed at the top of the list with 88,000 units, making this his first album to spend multiple weeks at number-one. It’s the lowest number of units for a number-one album since Sza‘s “Sos” led with 87,000 units on March 4. But it was just enough to hold off Olivia Rodrigo‘s “Guts,” which achieved 87,500 units. Morgan Wallen‘s former 15-week chart-topper “One Thing at a Time” came in third with 73,000 units.
SEEDoja Cat ‘Scarlet’ reviews: Is it ‘hands-down her best album’ or ‘incoherent’?
In fourth place was Doja Cat‘s new hip-hop album “Scarlet,” which achieved 72,000 units.
- 10/3/2023
- by Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
It was a close race for the top spot on the Billboard 200 albums chart for the tracking week that ended September 21, but rapper Rod Wave‘s “Nostalgia” eked out a win over the second week of Olivia Rodrigo‘s “Guts.” Read all about this week’s chart here at Billboard.com.
“Nostalgia” achieved 137,000 equivalent album units based on the combination of its traditional sales, individual track sales and online streaming performance. In this case, streaming made up the overwhelming majority of its units. This is Rod Wave’s third number-one album, following “SoulFly” (2021) and “Beautiful Mind” (2022).
SEEGrammys Best New Artist race: Is Ice Spice still the front-runner now that eligibility period is over?
“Guts” was next with 134,000 album units, just 3,000 fewer than “Nostalgia.” That’s down 56% from last week when the album debuted with 302,000 units. The rest of the top five is made up of familiar faces. Zach Bryan‘s...
“Nostalgia” achieved 137,000 equivalent album units based on the combination of its traditional sales, individual track sales and online streaming performance. In this case, streaming made up the overwhelming majority of its units. This is Rod Wave’s third number-one album, following “SoulFly” (2021) and “Beautiful Mind” (2022).
SEEGrammys Best New Artist race: Is Ice Spice still the front-runner now that eligibility period is over?
“Guts” was next with 134,000 album units, just 3,000 fewer than “Nostalgia.” That’s down 56% from last week when the album debuted with 302,000 units. The rest of the top five is made up of familiar faces. Zach Bryan‘s...
- 9/25/2023
- by Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
Estevie is bringing the cumbia norteñas of the early 2000s back. On Thursday, the Mexican-American star premieres the music video of her single “Como Yo” with Rolling Stone, ahead of the release of her debut EP, aptly titled Cumbialicious, out Friday.
“Making cumbia is one of the best decisions I’ve ever made in my life… I noticed that there really weren’t any new cumbias coming out. So I was like, ‘I got to make some cumbia for the new generation,'” she tells Rolling Stone. “[It’s about] keeping and respecting...
“Making cumbia is one of the best decisions I’ve ever made in my life… I noticed that there really weren’t any new cumbias coming out. So I was like, ‘I got to make some cumbia for the new generation,'” she tells Rolling Stone. “[It’s about] keeping and respecting...
- 9/21/2023
- by Tomás Mier
- Rollingstone.com
Italian genre specialist Stefano Sollima – who is known in Hollywood for “Sicario: Day of the Soldado,” “Without Remorse” and the TV series “Gomorrah” – is in the Venice competition for the first time with Rome-set crime drama “Adagio.”
This beautifully shot picture features an ensemble cast of Italian A-listers comprising Pierfrancesco Favino (“Nostalgia”), Toni Servillo (“The Great Beauty”), Valerio Mastandrea (“Perfect Strangers”) and Adriano Giannini (“The Ties”). It’s the tale of three old – and once mighty – mobsters searching for redemption in a cutthroat contemporary Rome that is literally burning. They find it in the form of a 16 year old named Manuel who is being blackmailed after venturing too deep in a rotting Roman underworld world that he doesn’t understand.
You often work from books such as “Gomorrah” but this is your original idea. How did it germinate?
“Adagio” – this is no secret – is a gift that I made to myself.
This beautifully shot picture features an ensemble cast of Italian A-listers comprising Pierfrancesco Favino (“Nostalgia”), Toni Servillo (“The Great Beauty”), Valerio Mastandrea (“Perfect Strangers”) and Adriano Giannini (“The Ties”). It’s the tale of three old – and once mighty – mobsters searching for redemption in a cutthroat contemporary Rome that is literally burning. They find it in the form of a 16 year old named Manuel who is being blackmailed after venturing too deep in a rotting Roman underworld world that he doesn’t understand.
You often work from books such as “Gomorrah” but this is your original idea. How did it germinate?
“Adagio” – this is no secret – is a gift that I made to myself.
- 9/7/2023
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Venice Film Festival artistic director Alberto Barbera is adamant about his decision to place six Italian movies in this year’s 23-title festival lineup. “Nobody accused the French of chauvinism because they had seven French films in competition in Cannes this year,” Barbera quipped to a snarky Italian reporter when the Venice lineup was announced in July, though he did concede, “It’s true that in the past I have not done this.” Indeed, Barbera’s previous limit on Italian movies in competition for the Golden Lion was five titles last year, which some local critics considered a stretch.
More importantly, the Venice chief pointed out that he presently sees Cinema Italiano at a particularly favorable juncture largely thanks to the fact that Italians are making movies with bigger budgets, “which means greater quality and the ability to compete in international markets, and to travel beyond our borders,” he said.
More importantly, the Venice chief pointed out that he presently sees Cinema Italiano at a particularly favorable juncture largely thanks to the fact that Italians are making movies with bigger budgets, “which means greater quality and the ability to compete in international markets, and to travel beyond our borders,” he said.
- 9/4/2023
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Rome-based sales agency True Colours has added Edoardo de Angelis’ “Comandante,” which opens the Venice Film Festival, to its slate. The film, which plays in the main competition section, stars Pierfrancesco Favino.
“Comandante” is based on the true story of Italian submarine commander Salvatore Todaro and the events that occurred in October 1940, when Todaro was in command of the Italian Royal Navy submarine Cappellini.
One night, while navigating in the Atlantic, the Italian vessel sinks an armed Belgian merchant ship, and Todaro decides to take the 26 shipwrecked crew members on board his already crowded submarine, aiming for the nearest safe harbor to release them. It is an unexpected action in the context of war, but follows the law of the sea, and endangers his life as well as that of his men, since the submarine has to navigate on the surface of the water for three days, visible to the enemy forces.
“Comandante” is based on the true story of Italian submarine commander Salvatore Todaro and the events that occurred in October 1940, when Todaro was in command of the Italian Royal Navy submarine Cappellini.
One night, while navigating in the Atlantic, the Italian vessel sinks an armed Belgian merchant ship, and Todaro decides to take the 26 shipwrecked crew members on board his already crowded submarine, aiming for the nearest safe harbor to release them. It is an unexpected action in the context of war, but follows the law of the sea, and endangers his life as well as that of his men, since the submarine has to navigate on the surface of the water for three days, visible to the enemy forces.
- 8/10/2023
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
New films by top U.S. directors including David Fincher, Sofia Coppola, Ava DuVernay, Michael Mann, Bradley Cooper and Wes Anderson will be launching from the Venice Film Festival alongside a robust roster of European, Latin American and Asian auteurs, in a clear sign that disruption caused by two ongoing labor strikes in Hollywood is less than some expected.
Though Venice was forced a few days ago to pull its originally planned opener, Zendaya-starrer “Challengers,” due to promotional complications from the SAG-AFTRA strike, the fest’s complete lineup, announced on Tuesday, has certainly not suffered a mass exodus of Hollywood titles. On the contrary, the Lido’s firepower as an awards season pistol seems to have outgunned the probable scarcity of stars that will be on the red carpet for U.S. films, though even this aspect remains to be seen.
“This past week has been a bit turbulent...
Though Venice was forced a few days ago to pull its originally planned opener, Zendaya-starrer “Challengers,” due to promotional complications from the SAG-AFTRA strike, the fest’s complete lineup, announced on Tuesday, has certainly not suffered a mass exodus of Hollywood titles. On the contrary, the Lido’s firepower as an awards season pistol seems to have outgunned the probable scarcity of stars that will be on the red carpet for U.S. films, though even this aspect remains to be seen.
“This past week has been a bit turbulent...
- 7/25/2023
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
The Last Night Of Amore director Andrea Di Stefano on Pierfrancesco Favino: “I wrote it thinking of him. I had his face in my mind.”
The retirement party for police lieutenant Franco Amore (Pierfrancesco Favino of Marco Bellocchio’s The Traitor and Francesca Archibugi’s The Hummingbird) is in full swing, only the one person celebrated is nowhere to be seen in Andrea Di Stefano’s thriller The Last Night Of Amore. He arrives late, in jogging pants, having been out running through the nightly streets of Milan. Almost immediately after his arrival, he is called in to work because his partner Dino (Francesco Di Leva of Mario Martone’s Nostalgia with Favino) has been shot. Nothing is what it seems, we soon are about to find out, when the film jumps ten days back in time.
Andrea Di Stefano with Anne-Katrin Titze: “I’m trying to put together...
The retirement party for police lieutenant Franco Amore (Pierfrancesco Favino of Marco Bellocchio’s The Traitor and Francesca Archibugi’s The Hummingbird) is in full swing, only the one person celebrated is nowhere to be seen in Andrea Di Stefano’s thriller The Last Night Of Amore. He arrives late, in jogging pants, having been out running through the nightly streets of Milan. Almost immediately after his arrival, he is called in to work because his partner Dino (Francesco Di Leva of Mario Martone’s Nostalgia with Favino) has been shot. Nothing is what it seems, we soon are about to find out, when the film jumps ten days back in time.
Andrea Di Stefano with Anne-Katrin Titze: “I’m trying to put together...
- 6/24/2023
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Trent Reznor recently revealed that he “teared up” when listening to a Dua Lipa song. Now, the Nine Inch Nails frontman has identified the song in question: her 2020 hit, “Levitating.”
The original comment was made on Rick Rubin’s podcast, Tetragrammaton, when Reznor shared that he had reassessed his opinion that pop music “sucks generally” after he heard his daughter singing along to one of Lipa’s songs. “She is so into it and it is so cool,” he explained. “It really reminded me of the art of writing a well-crafted song — I teared up listening to a Dua Lipa track, because it was just a really well-done piece of music, you know?”
When an Instagram user commented on a Sterogum post that they needed to know “which Dua Lipa song made Trent fucking Reznor tear up,” Reznor himself replied to the comment, explaining that it was “Levitating,” off Lipa’s 2020 album,...
The original comment was made on Rick Rubin’s podcast, Tetragrammaton, when Reznor shared that he had reassessed his opinion that pop music “sucks generally” after he heard his daughter singing along to one of Lipa’s songs. “She is so into it and it is so cool,” he explained. “It really reminded me of the art of writing a well-crafted song — I teared up listening to a Dua Lipa track, because it was just a really well-done piece of music, you know?”
When an Instagram user commented on a Sterogum post that they needed to know “which Dua Lipa song made Trent fucking Reznor tear up,” Reznor himself replied to the comment, explaining that it was “Levitating,” off Lipa’s 2020 album,...
- 6/20/2023
- by Jo Vito
- Consequence - Music
Italian actor-turned-director Andrea Di Stefano, whose sleek cop thriller “Last Night of Amore” just had its U.S. premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival, is in advanced stages of development on “Karski” a feature about Jan Karski, the World War II Polish resistance fighter who risked his life to blow the whistle on the Holocaust.
Di Stefano’s high-profile project, which is titled “Karski,” is being developed by New York City-based production company Phiphen Pictures, the indie founded by Molly Conners most recently behind Netflix’s “Like Father” and “It’s Bruno!,” the director said. Italy’s expanding Indiana Production, which shepherded “Amore,” is also on board.
Karski in 1942, defying great danger, twice infiltrated Warsaw’s Jewish Ghetto to witness its horrors and managed to give first-hand accounts of the Holocaust from the Warsaw Ghetto to the Allies, including U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1943. But his alarm cries fell on deaf ears.
Di Stefano’s high-profile project, which is titled “Karski,” is being developed by New York City-based production company Phiphen Pictures, the indie founded by Molly Conners most recently behind Netflix’s “Like Father” and “It’s Bruno!,” the director said. Italy’s expanding Indiana Production, which shepherded “Amore,” is also on board.
Karski in 1942, defying great danger, twice infiltrated Warsaw’s Jewish Ghetto to witness its horrors and managed to give first-hand accounts of the Holocaust from the Warsaw Ghetto to the Allies, including U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1943. But his alarm cries fell on deaf ears.
- 6/15/2023
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
One of the most acclaimed albums of the 2010s, Frank Ocean’s “Channel Orange” was innovative and fresh, but still classic-sounding, and it earned a whopping 92 score on Metacritic. The album was also a commercial success, debuting at number-two on the Billboard 200. So it’s not surprising that “Channel Orange” was a big Grammy player, receiving major nominations like Album of the Year and Record of the Year (for “Thinkin Bout You”).
Ocean’s biggest Grammy achievement may have been winning the first Best Urban Contemporary Album award, now renamed Best Progressive R&b Album. Albeit controversial, the category has given us some amazing winners like Beyoncé’s “Lemonade” and, most recently, Steve Lacy’s “Gemini Rights.” And when you look at Ocean’s history, the year he competed, and the state of R&b in the early 2010s, it makes total sense how “Channel Orange” truly was the perfect inaugural winner.
Ocean’s biggest Grammy achievement may have been winning the first Best Urban Contemporary Album award, now renamed Best Progressive R&b Album. Albeit controversial, the category has given us some amazing winners like Beyoncé’s “Lemonade” and, most recently, Steve Lacy’s “Gemini Rights.” And when you look at Ocean’s history, the year he competed, and the state of R&b in the early 2010s, it makes total sense how “Channel Orange” truly was the perfect inaugural winner.
- 6/1/2023
- by Jaime Rodriguez
- Gold Derby
Lunchmeat, Josh Schafer’s independently made horror VHS magazine, is keeping cult flicks alive with a brand new issue, and it’s packed with 64 pages of pure VHS-obsessed content!
Lunchmeat Magazine #12 is available now!
Josh tells Bloody Disgusting, “For 15 years, Lunchmeat has been celebrating cult films from the VHS era. Our flagship magazine features interviews with the actors and filmmakers who made the home video market what it was, along with feature articles that explore home video history and culture, and reviews of movies that are only available on VHS.
“Our latest issue features writing from Co-Editors Josh Schafer and Ted Gilbert, along with Chris Poggiali (These Fists Break Bricks), John Campopiano (Pennywise: The Story of It), Robert Freese (Videoscope), and Grace Lovera (Horror Fashion Review), among others!”
Lunchmeat #12 features interviews with…
Brett McCormick, The creator of the VHS grail, The Abomination, discusses his splatter gem, quantum mechanics, and aliens!
Lunchmeat Magazine #12 is available now!
Josh tells Bloody Disgusting, “For 15 years, Lunchmeat has been celebrating cult films from the VHS era. Our flagship magazine features interviews with the actors and filmmakers who made the home video market what it was, along with feature articles that explore home video history and culture, and reviews of movies that are only available on VHS.
“Our latest issue features writing from Co-Editors Josh Schafer and Ted Gilbert, along with Chris Poggiali (These Fists Break Bricks), John Campopiano (Pennywise: The Story of It), Robert Freese (Videoscope), and Grace Lovera (Horror Fashion Review), among others!”
Lunchmeat #12 features interviews with…
Brett McCormick, The creator of the VHS grail, The Abomination, discusses his splatter gem, quantum mechanics, and aliens!
- 6/1/2023
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
Adrian Wootton, CEO of Film London and the British Film Commission, will preside over the jury of the Malta Film Commission’s inaugural Mediterrane Film Festival celebrating movies from the Mediterranean Basin.
The fest, which will take place in Valletta, Malta’s capital, and other locations on the island between June 25-30, will showcase films from each of the MED9 nations, an alliance of nine Mediterranean and Southern European Union member states. It comprises: Croatia, Cyprus, France, Greece, Italy, Malta, Portugal, Slovenia and Spain.
Besides Wotton the other jury members are “Triangle Of Sadness” actor Zlatko Burić; Cypriot filmmaker Tonia Mishiali; French actor and director Vahina Giocante; Greek producer Amanda Livanou; Italian journalist Boris Sollazzo; Maltese critic Mario Azzopardi; Portuguese journalist and programmer José Vieira Mendes; Slovenian journalist Tina Poglajen; and Spanish programmer Carlos Reviriego.
Alice Diop’s prize-winning Venice 2022 title “Saint Omer” (pictured); Carla Simon’s Berlin Golden Bear...
The fest, which will take place in Valletta, Malta’s capital, and other locations on the island between June 25-30, will showcase films from each of the MED9 nations, an alliance of nine Mediterranean and Southern European Union member states. It comprises: Croatia, Cyprus, France, Greece, Italy, Malta, Portugal, Slovenia and Spain.
Besides Wotton the other jury members are “Triangle Of Sadness” actor Zlatko Burić; Cypriot filmmaker Tonia Mishiali; French actor and director Vahina Giocante; Greek producer Amanda Livanou; Italian journalist Boris Sollazzo; Maltese critic Mario Azzopardi; Portuguese journalist and programmer José Vieira Mendes; Slovenian journalist Tina Poglajen; and Spanish programmer Carlos Reviriego.
Alice Diop’s prize-winning Venice 2022 title “Saint Omer” (pictured); Carla Simon’s Berlin Golden Bear...
- 5/21/2023
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Chinese cinema makes its in-person return to Cannes this year, buoyed by a bounce-back in post-covid box office revenue, and talking up its efforts to engage with the global film community.
Taking center stage is the China Film Pavilion, set up by the China Film Co-Production Corporation (Cfcc), under the guidance of and with the support of the China Film Administration, and the aim is to share with the world insights and updates into the state of play in the Chinese film industry.
“We hope to fully present the latest performances of the Chinese film industry through the China Film Pavilion and to promote exchanges and cooperation between the Chinese and foreign film industries,” said a Cfcc representative.
The initiative comes at a time when the Chinese film market appears to be beginning to claw its way back toward pre-covid levels following the hardships of the global pandemic and the...
Taking center stage is the China Film Pavilion, set up by the China Film Co-Production Corporation (Cfcc), under the guidance of and with the support of the China Film Administration, and the aim is to share with the world insights and updates into the state of play in the Chinese film industry.
“We hope to fully present the latest performances of the Chinese film industry through the China Film Pavilion and to promote exchanges and cooperation between the Chinese and foreign film industries,” said a Cfcc representative.
The initiative comes at a time when the Chinese film market appears to be beginning to claw its way back toward pre-covid levels following the hardships of the global pandemic and the...
- 5/17/2023
- by Mathew Scott
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Belgian directors Felix Van Groeningen and Charlotte Vandermeersch’s Italian-language drama The Eight Mountains and veteran Marco Bellocchio’s Exterior Night topped the 68th edition of Italy’s David di Donatello Awards on Wednesday evening.
The Eight Mountains won best film as well as best non-original screenplay, photography and sound.
Based on the novel of the same name by Paolo Cognetti, it stars Luca Marinelli and Alessandro Borghi as two men from different backgrounds who form a life-long bond during summers spent together as children in a remote mountain village.
The film world premiered in Competition at Cannes last year where it co-won the Jury Prize. Read the Deadline review here.
It is the second time in the history of the awards that a film by non-Italian directors has clinched the best film prize.
The last time was in 1971 when the Dino de Laurentiis-produced epic Waterloo by Russian director Sergei Bonderchuk,...
The Eight Mountains won best film as well as best non-original screenplay, photography and sound.
Based on the novel of the same name by Paolo Cognetti, it stars Luca Marinelli and Alessandro Borghi as two men from different backgrounds who form a life-long bond during summers spent together as children in a remote mountain village.
The film world premiered in Competition at Cannes last year where it co-won the Jury Prize. Read the Deadline review here.
It is the second time in the history of the awards that a film by non-Italian directors has clinched the best film prize.
The last time was in 1971 when the Dino de Laurentiis-produced epic Waterloo by Russian director Sergei Bonderchuk,...
- 5/11/2023
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
“The Eight Mountains,” Belgian directors Felix Van Groeningen and Charlotte Vandermeersch’s Italian-language drama about friendship, mountains and growing up, scored the top prize at Italy’s 68th David di Donatello Awards.
Besides winning best picture, the film also scooped statuettes for best non-original screenplay, photography and sound.
Given that the directors are not Italian, it was a particularly significant victory for “Mountains,” which was praised as “quietly magnificent” by Variety critic Jessica Kiang. The film, which is currently playing well on the U.S. arthouse circuit, tracks the decades-long friendship between two Italian boys named Pietro and Bruno — one from the city, the other a shepherd boy from the Alps.
“It’s pretty incredible,” commented a visibly moved Van Groeningen. “Two Belgians who win this prize in Italy for an Italian movie.” “Thank you for this declaration of love,” added Vandermeersch, his partner in life. “We love Italy very much.
Besides winning best picture, the film also scooped statuettes for best non-original screenplay, photography and sound.
Given that the directors are not Italian, it was a particularly significant victory for “Mountains,” which was praised as “quietly magnificent” by Variety critic Jessica Kiang. The film, which is currently playing well on the U.S. arthouse circuit, tracks the decades-long friendship between two Italian boys named Pietro and Bruno — one from the city, the other a shepherd boy from the Alps.
“It’s pretty incredible,” commented a visibly moved Van Groeningen. “Two Belgians who win this prize in Italy for an Italian movie.” “Thank you for this declaration of love,” added Vandermeersch, his partner in life. “We love Italy very much.
- 5/10/2023
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Last fall, five days before Italy announced its official Oscar submission, filmmakers Felix van Groeningen and Charlotte Vandermeersch were nervous. The Belgian couple, who co-directed the intimate Cannes winner “The Eight Mountains” in the Italian Alps and learned the language for the project, hoped that their commitment was enough to convince the committee tasked with selecting the submission that it fulfilled their requirements.
“We want to make the Italians proud of this film, so we pray that they will feel proud enough to send it,” Vandermeersch told IndieWire at the time. “If our nationality diminishes that pride or that sense of ownership, we can’t help that, but we do think that it’s less and less important in the world of today.”
The following week, the country snubbed “The Eight Mountains” in favor of another Cannes selection, Italian director Mario Matone’s crime drama “Nostalgia;” one month later, it...
“We want to make the Italians proud of this film, so we pray that they will feel proud enough to send it,” Vandermeersch told IndieWire at the time. “If our nationality diminishes that pride or that sense of ownership, we can’t help that, but we do think that it’s less and less important in the world of today.”
The following week, the country snubbed “The Eight Mountains” in favor of another Cannes selection, Italian director Mario Matone’s crime drama “Nostalgia;” one month later, it...
- 4/26/2023
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
On an overcast afternoon in New York City, Jessie Ware is ready to close out a whirlwind 48-hour trip in the city. While having her lunch in a hotel room with huge windows overlooking the Lower East Side, she ticks off the growing list of things she will need to do in the month leading up to her album That! Feels! Good! being released: TikToks, more interviews, generally “promoting the shit out of the record.”
She’ll even find time to take her kids to Cyprus for an “inconvenient” but necessary vacation.
She’ll even find time to take her kids to Cyprus for an “inconvenient” but necessary vacation.
- 4/21/2023
- by Brittany Spanos
- Rollingstone.com
This Star Trek: Picard article contains spoilers.
What started in 1987 has ended. Instead of its original tepid exit in 2002 film Nemesis, the saga of The Next Generation has gone out with a bang in the epic and warm-hearted series finale of Picard. While this series began in 2020 as a somewhat risky Star Trek spinoff, the third season has emerged as a kind of soft reboot, bringing back the tone, aesthetic, and countless elements from ‘90s Star Trek. Season 3 has also emerged as a bona fide hit — becoming the first Star Trek Paramount+ series to break into the Nielsen top 10 of most popular streaming shows — as well as receiving a ton of critical acclaim, even more so than Strange New Worlds last year. Clearly, showrunner Terry Matalas did something right.
The series finale of Picard completes the story of season 3 but also gives the Tng crew a beautiful send-off. And then some.
What started in 1987 has ended. Instead of its original tepid exit in 2002 film Nemesis, the saga of The Next Generation has gone out with a bang in the epic and warm-hearted series finale of Picard. While this series began in 2020 as a somewhat risky Star Trek spinoff, the third season has emerged as a kind of soft reboot, bringing back the tone, aesthetic, and countless elements from ‘90s Star Trek. Season 3 has also emerged as a bona fide hit — becoming the first Star Trek Paramount+ series to break into the Nielsen top 10 of most popular streaming shows — as well as receiving a ton of critical acclaim, even more so than Strange New Worlds last year. Clearly, showrunner Terry Matalas did something right.
The series finale of Picard completes the story of season 3 but also gives the Tng crew a beautiful send-off. And then some.
- 4/20/2023
- by John Saavedra
- Den of Geek
Showtime’s “Yellowjackets” returns for Season 2 beginning tomorrow, March 24, 2023, and today Showtime has kickstarted a brilliant new campaign that’ll hit your nostalgia bone.
Showtime heads back to the 1990s for a faux MTV News broadcast featuring Kurt Loder(!), and they’ve also launched a retro website that’s ripped right from the time period. Both the video and the site – found at WhereAreTheYellowjackets.com – imagine the 90s-set plane crash from “Yellowjackets” as a real event, transporting us back in time in the process.
If this doesn’t make your day, well, you probably don’t have much fondness for the 90s!
Season 2 will return starting Friday, March 24 on streaming and on demand for all Showtime subscribers, before making its on-air debut on Sunday, March 26 at 9 p.m. Et/Pt.
The series was created by Ashley Lyle & Bart Nickerson (“Narcos”), described as being “equal parts survival epic, psychological horror story and coming-of-age drama.
Showtime heads back to the 1990s for a faux MTV News broadcast featuring Kurt Loder(!), and they’ve also launched a retro website that’s ripped right from the time period. Both the video and the site – found at WhereAreTheYellowjackets.com – imagine the 90s-set plane crash from “Yellowjackets” as a real event, transporting us back in time in the process.
If this doesn’t make your day, well, you probably don’t have much fondness for the 90s!
Season 2 will return starting Friday, March 24 on streaming and on demand for all Showtime subscribers, before making its on-air debut on Sunday, March 26 at 9 p.m. Et/Pt.
The series was created by Ashley Lyle & Bart Nickerson (“Narcos”), described as being “equal parts survival epic, psychological horror story and coming-of-age drama.
- 3/23/2023
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
Italian sales company True Colours has closed a raft of sales following Berlin’s European Film Market. Italy’s box office hit “La Stranezza” (“Strangeness”) got picked up for a dozen territories and queer romantic drama “Norwegian Dream” also sold widely, including to North America.
Directed by Roberto Andò, “Strangeness” (pictured) toplines Toni Servillo (“The Great Beauty”) as Nobel-prize-winning playwright Luigi Pirandello. This tragicomic period piece about how Pirandello found inspiration to write his masterpiece “Six Characters in Search of an Author” has been a sleeper hit at the Italian box office, coming from nowhere to pull more than €5.5 million ($5.8 million) and becoming the local 2022 box office champ.
Now “Strangeness,” which is produced by Bibi Film and Tramp Limited with Rai Cinema and Medusa, will be playing in: Spain (Alfa Pictures); Poland (Aurora Film); Portugal (Il Sorpasso); Argentina, Chile, Uruguay and Paraguay (Zeta Film); former Yugoslavia (Stars Media); Taiwan...
Directed by Roberto Andò, “Strangeness” (pictured) toplines Toni Servillo (“The Great Beauty”) as Nobel-prize-winning playwright Luigi Pirandello. This tragicomic period piece about how Pirandello found inspiration to write his masterpiece “Six Characters in Search of an Author” has been a sleeper hit at the Italian box office, coming from nowhere to pull more than €5.5 million ($5.8 million) and becoming the local 2022 box office champ.
Now “Strangeness,” which is produced by Bibi Film and Tramp Limited with Rai Cinema and Medusa, will be playing in: Spain (Alfa Pictures); Poland (Aurora Film); Portugal (Il Sorpasso); Argentina, Chile, Uruguay and Paraguay (Zeta Film); former Yugoslavia (Stars Media); Taiwan...
- 3/10/2023
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Nostalgia has played a significant role in the movies and television series of the modern era. Legacy sequels can wait 20, even 30 years to come to fruition and still make a major impact at the box office. And nowhere is this more apparent than with comic book films.
Spider-Man: No Way Home brought back Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield, The Flash is set to bring back Michael Keaton, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness gave Patrick Stewart one more spin in the hovering yellow wheelchair – and every time, audiences ate it up. At this point, it is safe to assume that if a studio thinks they can have an actor fit into the iconic tights one more time, they will.
Josh Lucas, who played Glenn Talbot in Marvel’s 2003 pre-Marvel Cinematic Universe film Hulk, recently sat down with Den of Geek to discuss the most recent season of Yellowstone. But...
Spider-Man: No Way Home brought back Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield, The Flash is set to bring back Michael Keaton, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness gave Patrick Stewart one more spin in the hovering yellow wheelchair – and every time, audiences ate it up. At this point, it is safe to assume that if a studio thinks they can have an actor fit into the iconic tights one more time, they will.
Josh Lucas, who played Glenn Talbot in Marvel’s 2003 pre-Marvel Cinematic Universe film Hulk, recently sat down with Den of Geek to discuss the most recent season of Yellowstone. But...
- 2/28/2023
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
My childhood memories are far hazier than they should be. There have been numerous times in my life when my family will bring up things that I did or happened to me as a kid that I have absolutely no recollection of, or if I do, it's only fleeting, vague images. And it isn't like I'm repressing things either. It's often innocuous things that have just slipped my mind. I remember the major things — moving across the country twice, performing in my first high school play, seeing "Ocean's Thirteen" in the theater — but the day-to-day stuff isn't that crystal clear.
What I do have vivid recollections of are the various houses I lived in growing up. I can remember every address, every home phone number, and the floor plans for each different house. The images of the tiny two steps down into the living room in one or the odd...
What I do have vivid recollections of are the various houses I lived in growing up. I can remember every address, every home phone number, and the floor plans for each different house. The images of the tiny two steps down into the living room in one or the odd...
- 2/27/2023
- by Mike Shutt
- Slash Film
Italian actor-turned-director Andrea Di Stefano, whose gritty police drama “The Last Night of Amore” is launching from the Berlin Film Festival’s Berlinale Special Gala section, reps an Italian anomaly.
“Amore,” which refers to a police lieutenant named Franco Amore, oddly marks Di Stefano debut directing an Italian-language film after helming well-received U.S. indie thrillers “Escobar: Paradise Lost,” with Benicio del Toro, and “The Informer.”
Sumptuosly shot in 35mm film and set in present-day Milan, “Last Night of Amore” harks back to Italian genre films of the 70s and 80s but has a fresh contemporary feel. The plot sees the good lieutenant, played by Italian A-lister Pierfrancesco Favino being called on the night before retirement to investigate a crime scene where his best friend and long-time partner Dino has been killed during a diamond heist. Complications ensue, things get very frantic, and we learn how his love for his wife Viviana,...
“Amore,” which refers to a police lieutenant named Franco Amore, oddly marks Di Stefano debut directing an Italian-language film after helming well-received U.S. indie thrillers “Escobar: Paradise Lost,” with Benicio del Toro, and “The Informer.”
Sumptuosly shot in 35mm film and set in present-day Milan, “Last Night of Amore” harks back to Italian genre films of the 70s and 80s but has a fresh contemporary feel. The plot sees the good lieutenant, played by Italian A-lister Pierfrancesco Favino being called on the night before retirement to investigate a crime scene where his best friend and long-time partner Dino has been killed during a diamond heist. Complications ensue, things get very frantic, and we learn how his love for his wife Viviana,...
- 2/24/2023
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Today Disney+ has released a new trailer for the upcoming docu-special "Bono & The Edge: A Sort of Homecoming, with Dave Letterman." Not only are we getting a chance to watch U2's Bono and The Edge head back to Dublin, but they're also taking the talk show host with them for his first-ever visit to Ireland. The band members have been friends with Letterman for 25 years, but they've never been off U.S. soil together.
The whole thing is set to coincide with the release of U2's new album "Songs of Surrender," which is "a collection of 40 seminal U2 songs from across the band's catalog, re-recorded and reimagined." The use of "reimagined" is interesting here because, in the trailer, Letterman mentions the changing of lyrics to some of the songs as things have changed in their lives. He introduces the band members to a crowd at a concert, which...
The whole thing is set to coincide with the release of U2's new album "Songs of Surrender," which is "a collection of 40 seminal U2 songs from across the band's catalog, re-recorded and reimagined." The use of "reimagined" is interesting here because, in the trailer, Letterman mentions the changing of lyrics to some of the songs as things have changed in their lives. He introduces the band members to a crowd at a concert, which...
- 2/23/2023
- by Jenna Busch
- Slash Film
Veteran auteur Mario Martone, whose Naples-set drama “Nostalgia” launched last year from Cannes, has quite a lot in common with Massimo Troisi, Italy’s beloved late comic actor-director who is best known internationally as the star of Oscar-winning film “Il Postino.”
Which is why Martone was well-suited to direct the multi-layered doc about Troisi’s legacy “Somebody Down There Likes Me” that is screening in the Berlinale Special sidebar.
For starters, they are both Neapolitan, and were born only a few years a part. Troisi – who in “Il Postino” played the simple postman who rides his bicycle on a sandy Italian island to deliver mail to his sole client, the Nobel Prize-winning poet Pablo Neruda – died tragically of congenital heart failure at age 41 in June 1994, the day after “Il Postino” finished shooting at Rome’s Cinecittà studios.
Martone in Berlin spoke to Variety about capturing Troisi’s combination of humor,...
Which is why Martone was well-suited to direct the multi-layered doc about Troisi’s legacy “Somebody Down There Likes Me” that is screening in the Berlinale Special sidebar.
For starters, they are both Neapolitan, and were born only a few years a part. Troisi – who in “Il Postino” played the simple postman who rides his bicycle on a sandy Italian island to deliver mail to his sole client, the Nobel Prize-winning poet Pablo Neruda – died tragically of congenital heart failure at age 41 in June 1994, the day after “Il Postino” finished shooting at Rome’s Cinecittà studios.
Martone in Berlin spoke to Variety about capturing Troisi’s combination of humor,...
- 2/22/2023
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Italian director Mario Martone, who has been on the festival and awards circuit over the past year with Oscar submission and Cannes title Nostalgia, is at the Berlinale with his passion project Somebody Down There Likes Me.
The documentary pays tribute to late Italian actor and fellow Neapolitan Massimo Troisi who died tragically young at the age of 41 in 1994, just hours after filming wrapped on Michael Radford’s Il Postino (The Postman).
Selected for the Berlinale Specials sidebar, the documentary plays at a sold-out screening on Saturday, on the eve of what would have been the actor’s 70th birthday on February 19. Deadline can reveal a trailer.
Martone says he wants to shed light on the popular actor who he believes has never been properly celebrated.
“Massimo has always remained alive in the collective consciousness because he was a great actor and a great artist,” says the director.
Il Postino,...
The documentary pays tribute to late Italian actor and fellow Neapolitan Massimo Troisi who died tragically young at the age of 41 in 1994, just hours after filming wrapped on Michael Radford’s Il Postino (The Postman).
Selected for the Berlinale Specials sidebar, the documentary plays at a sold-out screening on Saturday, on the eve of what would have been the actor’s 70th birthday on February 19. Deadline can reveal a trailer.
Martone says he wants to shed light on the popular actor who he believes has never been properly celebrated.
“Massimo has always remained alive in the collective consciousness because he was a great actor and a great artist,” says the director.
Il Postino,...
- 2/18/2023
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
In sharp focus: Mario Martone checks out Pierfrancesco Favino on the mini monitor during the filming of Nostalgia in Naples Photo: Film Italia The inexorable sway of his home city Naples casts a long shadow over Neapolitan filmmaker Mario Martone who found himself back on his native turf recently to make Nostalgia, based on author Ermanno Rea’s novel, and for a documentary about the revered Italian icon Massimo Troisi.
Nostalgia was shot in the bustling Sanità area in the heart of the city which has a reputation for crime and poverty but also boasts stunning churches and baroque buildings.
It emerged as Italy’s contender in the race for the best foreign film Oscar but failed to make the final mix. Pairing the director and the material seemed like a perfect match.
Martone who’s also a stage director, was asked by his producer to adapt the novel. “Up...
Nostalgia was shot in the bustling Sanità area in the heart of the city which has a reputation for crime and poverty but also boasts stunning churches and baroque buildings.
It emerged as Italy’s contender in the race for the best foreign film Oscar but failed to make the final mix. Pairing the director and the material seemed like a perfect match.
Martone who’s also a stage director, was asked by his producer to adapt the novel. “Up...
- 2/16/2023
- by Richard Mowe
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Marco Martone’s Cannes competition title has sold to Spain and Switzerland.
True Colours has clinched additional sales on Marco Martone’s Cannes competition title Nostalgia, with Vertigo Film buying rights for Spain and Xenix Filmdistribution for Switzerland.
The film has also sold to Benelux (Paradiso Filmed Entertainment), Poland (Gutek Film), Taiwan (Av-Jet), Baltic territories (Estinfilm), Bulgaria (Beta Film) and Mena (Moving Turtle).
The feature starring Pierfrancesco Favino is set in Martone’s hometown of Naples and revolves around the protagonist Felice Lasco’s return to his origins after some four decades of being away. Nostalgia so far has grossed...
True Colours has clinched additional sales on Marco Martone’s Cannes competition title Nostalgia, with Vertigo Film buying rights for Spain and Xenix Filmdistribution for Switzerland.
The film has also sold to Benelux (Paradiso Filmed Entertainment), Poland (Gutek Film), Taiwan (Av-Jet), Baltic territories (Estinfilm), Bulgaria (Beta Film) and Mena (Moving Turtle).
The feature starring Pierfrancesco Favino is set in Martone’s hometown of Naples and revolves around the protagonist Felice Lasco’s return to his origins after some four decades of being away. Nostalgia so far has grossed...
- 6/10/2022
- by Alina Trabattoni
- ScreenDaily
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