Jackie Chan is a legend, the actor has forged his career mastering the genre of action comedy making his way into Hollywood. However, the actor also has faced certain roadblocks in some of his movies as they were not so impressive both at the box office and critical perspective.
Jackie Chan’s The Medallion
It is hard to walk past bumpy roads, Chan’s The Medallion faced a similar fate but it was primarily due to the director, Gordon Chan failing to recognize one fatal mistake. So, despite Chan being on board, the movie met with fatal doom.
The Reason Why Jackie Chan’s The Medallion Failed
Jackie Chan in The Medallion
Jackie Chan is certainly one of the greatest action stars currently working in the industry. The actor started his acting journey in the 1960s and appeared in over 150 films in his illustrious career with his celebrated titles including Who Am I?...
Jackie Chan’s The Medallion
It is hard to walk past bumpy roads, Chan’s The Medallion faced a similar fate but it was primarily due to the director, Gordon Chan failing to recognize one fatal mistake. So, despite Chan being on board, the movie met with fatal doom.
The Reason Why Jackie Chan’s The Medallion Failed
Jackie Chan in The Medallion
Jackie Chan is certainly one of the greatest action stars currently working in the industry. The actor started his acting journey in the 1960s and appeared in over 150 films in his illustrious career with his celebrated titles including Who Am I?...
- 3/20/2024
- by Lachit Roy
- FandomWire
Popular South Korean trot singer Jung Dong Won, known for his recent stint as an idol under the name ‘JD1’, is all set to venture on a new musical journey as he plans to form an idol group.
The plan entails assembling a dynamic dance ensemble through rigorous audition processes.
Previously embracing the persona of an ‘artificial intelligence idol’ with his alter ego ‘JD1’, Jung Dong Won invested nearly two years into choreography and styling endeavours.
‘Who Am I’ a recent track by them, showcased JD1’s talents in collaboration with Ryan Jeon contributed to the song’s production, reports allkpop.com.
The agency expressed their ambitious vision for JD1, positioning the idol as a formidable contender in the competitive K-pop market, ready to explore diverse avenues alongside JD1.
Now, JD1 is poised to conquer new horizons with the formation of a dance-focused group.
The selection process is currently underway,...
The plan entails assembling a dynamic dance ensemble through rigorous audition processes.
Previously embracing the persona of an ‘artificial intelligence idol’ with his alter ego ‘JD1’, Jung Dong Won invested nearly two years into choreography and styling endeavours.
‘Who Am I’ a recent track by them, showcased JD1’s talents in collaboration with Ryan Jeon contributed to the song’s production, reports allkpop.com.
The agency expressed their ambitious vision for JD1, positioning the idol as a formidable contender in the competitive K-pop market, ready to explore diverse avenues alongside JD1.
Now, JD1 is poised to conquer new horizons with the formation of a dance-focused group.
The selection process is currently underway,...
- 2/20/2024
- by Agency News Desk
- GlamSham
Here’s your guide to every movie and TV show leaving Netflix Canada in February 2024.
In case you missed it, we also covered all the movies and TV shows leaving Netflix Canada in January 2024.
One of the biggest movies to leave Netflix is Matrix Revolutions, the fourth installment of the Matrix franchise.
Please Note: This is not the full list of everything leaving Netflix UK in February 2024. More departures will be announced throughout January 2024 and February 2024.
Movies and TV Shows Leaving Netflix Canada on February 1st, 2023 All My Life (2020) American Assassin (2017) Bending All the Rules (2002) Blow (2001) Blue Valentine (2010) Crazy, Stupid, Love. (2011) Dark Shadows (2012) Did You Hear About the Morgans? (2009) Fury (2014) Guilty (2015) Half Brothers (2020) Here Comes the Boom (2012) John Q. (2002) Legend (2015) Legion (2010) Love Jacked (2018) Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous (2005) Mystic River (2003) Non-Stop (2014) The Pirates! Band of Misfits (2012) Resident Evil: Retribution (2012) Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (2016) Slaughterhouse Rulez (2018) Son of the Mask...
In case you missed it, we also covered all the movies and TV shows leaving Netflix Canada in January 2024.
One of the biggest movies to leave Netflix is Matrix Revolutions, the fourth installment of the Matrix franchise.
Please Note: This is not the full list of everything leaving Netflix UK in February 2024. More departures will be announced throughout January 2024 and February 2024.
Movies and TV Shows Leaving Netflix Canada on February 1st, 2023 All My Life (2020) American Assassin (2017) Bending All the Rules (2002) Blow (2001) Blue Valentine (2010) Crazy, Stupid, Love. (2011) Dark Shadows (2012) Did You Hear About the Morgans? (2009) Fury (2014) Guilty (2015) Half Brothers (2020) Here Comes the Boom (2012) John Q. (2002) Legend (2015) Legion (2010) Love Jacked (2018) Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous (2005) Mystic River (2003) Non-Stop (2014) The Pirates! Band of Misfits (2012) Resident Evil: Retribution (2012) Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (2016) Slaughterhouse Rulez (2018) Son of the Mask...
- 1/11/2024
- by Jacob Robinson
- Whats-on-Netflix
Exclusive: Picture Tree International (Pti) has boarded sales on German Iranian director Alireza Golafshan’s comedy Everything’s Fifty Fifty about a divorced couple who embark on a family vacation, ahead of the AFM.
Laura Tonke (Jupiter) and Moritz Bleitreu play a divorced couple who head to Italy for a family holiday with their young son and the former’s new boyfriend, played by David Kross.
Planned with the best of intentions, the trip exposes cracks in their parenting, forcing them to reappraise their approach and work out how to function as a family again.
The movie follows Golafshan’s Ibiza-set hen party caper Jga and reunites him with producers Justyna Muesch, Quirin Berg and Max Wiedemann at Leonine-company Wiedemann & Berg, best known for The Lives Of Others, Never Look Away and Who am I.
They are lead producing in...
Laura Tonke (Jupiter) and Moritz Bleitreu play a divorced couple who head to Italy for a family holiday with their young son and the former’s new boyfriend, played by David Kross.
Planned with the best of intentions, the trip exposes cracks in their parenting, forcing them to reappraise their approach and work out how to function as a family again.
The movie follows Golafshan’s Ibiza-set hen party caper Jga and reunites him with producers Justyna Muesch, Quirin Berg and Max Wiedemann at Leonine-company Wiedemann & Berg, best known for The Lives Of Others, Never Look Away and Who am I.
They are lead producing in...
- 10/30/2023
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
This joyful game show hosted by Kelly Ripa returns with family teams made up of one junior and one senior battling over how much — or how little — they know about the other’s generation. According to Ripa, one age group has an edge: “The seniors really know what’s going on,” she says. “They have a tremendous bandwidth of knowledge from all generations — not just theirs! We have to go to TikTok to try and stump them.” In Generation Gap Season 2, three family teams compete (up from two), and another change endangers contestants’ cash: If they get zero correct answers in a round, they could lose a portion of their winnings — bad for them but entertaining for us. “From our experience, the wrong answers are the best answers,” says Ripa, chuckling. Besides generation quiz rounds, more secret celebrities show their faces for “Who Am I?” (Anderson Cooper and Donny Osmond appeared last season.
- 6/28/2023
- TV Insider
With some of Germany’s most successful production companies in its stable, Leonine Studios is reaping the rewards with such feature film and television hits as “School of Magical Animals,” “Nightlife,” “Dark” and “Pagan Peak.”
Leonine’s production division includes such well-established companies as Wiedemann & Berg Film, which focuses on theatrical features, W&b Television and Odeon Fiction, which produce movies and series for all broadcasters and streaming platforms in Germany, documentary outfit Gebrueder Beetz and format maker I&u TV.
“We are in for high creative quality and commercial success,” explains Quirin Berg, who, along with Max Wiedemann, serves as Leonine’s chief production officer and managing director of Wiedemann & Berg Film.
“The parameters in each segment we are operating in may be different, but the agenda is not. And that was already the profile when we started out as producers some 20 years ago.”
Indeed, Wiedemann & Berg’s first feature film,...
Leonine’s production division includes such well-established companies as Wiedemann & Berg Film, which focuses on theatrical features, W&b Television and Odeon Fiction, which produce movies and series for all broadcasters and streaming platforms in Germany, documentary outfit Gebrueder Beetz and format maker I&u TV.
“We are in for high creative quality and commercial success,” explains Quirin Berg, who, along with Max Wiedemann, serves as Leonine’s chief production officer and managing director of Wiedemann & Berg Film.
“The parameters in each segment we are operating in may be different, but the agenda is not. And that was already the profile when we started out as producers some 20 years ago.”
Indeed, Wiedemann & Berg’s first feature film,...
- 5/11/2023
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
Hannah Herzsprung reprises her role as piano wunderkind from 2006 film.
Berlin-based Picture Tree International (Pti) has boarded international sales for German director Chris Kraus’ 15 Years, a sequel to the writer and director’s 2006 feature Four Minutes.
15 Years sees Hannah Herzsprung, who went on to star in The Reader and Who Am I, reprising her lead role as the piano wunderkind Jenny von Loeben. It also stars Albrecht Schuch, best known for All Quiet on the Western Front, System Crasher.
Four Minutes launched the acting career of Herzsprung in 2006 and won the best film prize at the Shanghai International Film Festival,...
Berlin-based Picture Tree International (Pti) has boarded international sales for German director Chris Kraus’ 15 Years, a sequel to the writer and director’s 2006 feature Four Minutes.
15 Years sees Hannah Herzsprung, who went on to star in The Reader and Who Am I, reprising her lead role as the piano wunderkind Jenny von Loeben. It also stars Albrecht Schuch, best known for All Quiet on the Western Front, System Crasher.
Four Minutes launched the acting career of Herzsprung in 2006 and won the best film prize at the Shanghai International Film Festival,...
- 4/24/2023
- by Tim Dams
- ScreenDaily
German mini-major Constantin Film has named Martin Bachmann, the former managing director of Sony Pictures Entertainment for German-speaking Europe, to its executive board.
Bachmann will start the role as of July 1 this year.
Inside the German film industry, Bachmann’s name is synonymous with Sony. He has worked with the U.S. major for more than three decades, holding various positions including as managing director of Sony Pictures Entertainment Germany, Austria and Switzerland and managing director of local production division Deutsche Columbia Pictures. He has overseen the releases of some of Sony’s most successful films in the territory, including the Spider-Man and Jumanji franchises, the James Bond films from Casino Royale to Spectre, as well as Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. His German-language production successes include local-language hits Anatomy, Who Am I, The Vampire Sisters and 25 Km/H.
Martin Moszkowicz, chairman of Constantin Film’s executive board,...
Bachmann will start the role as of July 1 this year.
Inside the German film industry, Bachmann’s name is synonymous with Sony. He has worked with the U.S. major for more than three decades, holding various positions including as managing director of Sony Pictures Entertainment Germany, Austria and Switzerland and managing director of local production division Deutsche Columbia Pictures. He has overseen the releases of some of Sony’s most successful films in the territory, including the Spider-Man and Jumanji franchises, the James Bond films from Casino Royale to Spectre, as well as Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. His German-language production successes include local-language hits Anatomy, Who Am I, The Vampire Sisters and 25 Km/H.
Martin Moszkowicz, chairman of Constantin Film’s executive board,...
- 1/30/2023
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Last October, the National Association of Television Program Executives – NATPE – filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, cancelling its January 2023 conference in the Bahamas.
Three conventions contend for NATPE’s crown: Content Americas, organized by C21 International; Discop Miami, announced in October by Basic Lead’s Patrick Zuchowicki, behind Discop Budapest; and January’s NATPE Global itself, bought this month by RealScreen owner Brunico Communications.
For January 2023 at least, only one event has made it across the starting line: Content Americas, which runs Jan. 24-26 at the Hilton Downtown Miami. Following, 10 takes on this year’s inaugural event.
Content Americas: A Pre-Market Take
Founded in 1963, NATPE was born and boomed as a U.S. TV syndication emporium. Moving to Miami in 2011, many of its overseas delegates instantly came from Latin America. Their presence came to dominate the event. Now the tail isn’t just wagging the dog. It’s nearly the whole beast.
Three conventions contend for NATPE’s crown: Content Americas, organized by C21 International; Discop Miami, announced in October by Basic Lead’s Patrick Zuchowicki, behind Discop Budapest; and January’s NATPE Global itself, bought this month by RealScreen owner Brunico Communications.
For January 2023 at least, only one event has made it across the starting line: Content Americas, which runs Jan. 24-26 at the Hilton Downtown Miami. Following, 10 takes on this year’s inaugural event.
Content Americas: A Pre-Market Take
Founded in 1963, NATPE was born and boomed as a U.S. TV syndication emporium. Moving to Miami in 2011, many of its overseas delegates instantly came from Latin America. Their presence came to dominate the event. Now the tail isn’t just wagging the dog. It’s nearly the whole beast.
- 1/24/2023
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
“Who am I” a philosophical drama film that revolves around Narmada parikrama is all set for theatre release on 27th January 2023. The film is directed by Shireesh Khemariya and produced by Shirish Prakash. Narmada is the only river that has the tradition of being circumambulation from source to sea and back, this film celebrates the beauty of yatra and region and that’s the reason why this film is releasing on the auspicious occasion of Narmada Jayanti.
This film is appreciated in international film festivals globally. Screened in festivals like the 24th UK Asian Film festival, Chicago South Asian film festival, and Washington DC South Asian film festival this film was also won for Best Actor and Best Debut Director, Spirit Film festival Israel, Indian film festival of Melbourne, Indo German Film Week Berlin and Vancouver south Asian film festival. One of the most versatile thing about this film is...
This film is appreciated in international film festivals globally. Screened in festivals like the 24th UK Asian Film festival, Chicago South Asian film festival, and Washington DC South Asian film festival this film was also won for Best Actor and Best Debut Director, Spirit Film festival Israel, Indian film festival of Melbourne, Indo German Film Week Berlin and Vancouver south Asian film festival. One of the most versatile thing about this film is...
- 12/12/2022
- by agency
- GlamSham
Updated: Netflix was the big winner on Night Two of the Asian Academy Creative Awards on Thursday in Singapore, which were held concurrently with the Asia Television Forum and Market.
Netflix scored five wins including best feature film for Japan’s “Akakusa Kid” and best actor in a leading role for Korea’s Jung Hae-in for his role in “D.P.” India’s Basil Joseph won best direction for Netflix’s “Minnal Murali” while his compatriot Shreya Dube won the cinematography award for Netflix’s “Thar.” Taiwan won both best actor and actress in a supporting role for Wu Kang Ren in Netflix’s “Light The Night” and a posthumous victory for Liou Yiin-Shang for “Still Me,” respectively.
Jodi Chrissie Sta. Maria won best actress in a leading role for “The Broken Marriage Vow.” Korea won the best drama series for a third consecutive year for Cj Enm’s “Twenty Five Twenty One.
Netflix scored five wins including best feature film for Japan’s “Akakusa Kid” and best actor in a leading role for Korea’s Jung Hae-in for his role in “D.P.” India’s Basil Joseph won best direction for Netflix’s “Minnal Murali” while his compatriot Shreya Dube won the cinematography award for Netflix’s “Thar.” Taiwan won both best actor and actress in a supporting role for Wu Kang Ren in Netflix’s “Light The Night” and a posthumous victory for Liou Yiin-Shang for “Still Me,” respectively.
Jodi Chrissie Sta. Maria won best actress in a leading role for “The Broken Marriage Vow.” Korea won the best drama series for a third consecutive year for Cj Enm’s “Twenty Five Twenty One.
- 12/8/2022
- by Manori Ravindran and Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
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The 2022 Clio Entertainment Awards, recognizing creative excellence in the marketing of film, television, home entertainment, gaming and live entertainment, were handed out on Tuesday night in Hollywood, at a ceremony hosted by Anthony Anderson.
During the Dolby Theater ceremony, Netflix was revealed as the network of the year, Microsoft Studios/Xbox as game publisher of the year, Walt Disney Studios as studio of the year and Trailer Park Group as agency of the year. Twenty-four individual winners were also recognized, with the full list of honorees below.
“Bold ambition was a big theme among this year’s winners — whether it be through mind-bending design or a reimagining of iconic spaces (and outer spaces), it often takes a leap of faith to grab an audience’s attention these days,” Ashley Falls, executive director of Clio Entertainment, said in a statement. “The creative teams that...
The 2022 Clio Entertainment Awards, recognizing creative excellence in the marketing of film, television, home entertainment, gaming and live entertainment, were handed out on Tuesday night in Hollywood, at a ceremony hosted by Anthony Anderson.
During the Dolby Theater ceremony, Netflix was revealed as the network of the year, Microsoft Studios/Xbox as game publisher of the year, Walt Disney Studios as studio of the year and Trailer Park Group as agency of the year. Twenty-four individual winners were also recognized, with the full list of honorees below.
“Bold ambition was a big theme among this year’s winners — whether it be through mind-bending design or a reimagining of iconic spaces (and outer spaces), it often takes a leap of faith to grab an audience’s attention these days,” Ashley Falls, executive director of Clio Entertainment, said in a statement. “The creative teams that...
- 11/16/2022
- by Kirsten Chuba
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
When Jean Deaux says she’s always creating, she means always. The rapper/singer/songwriter from Chicago has made it a goal to put out music every year after releasing her debut EP, Krash, in 2018. Jean Deaux has been like this her entire life in fact. As a kindergartener, she remembers trying to write chapter books. “It’s funny because it was about my Uncle Bo, but I said my uncle had a farm which was totally a lie. Even the teachers were like, ‘Uncle Bo’s Farm? That’s hard,...
- 11/14/2022
- by Nathan Mattise
- Rollingstone.com
ReviewRomance, comedy or reference to colonial history, Telugu director Anudeep Kv’s first foray into Kollywood has no grasp of all three.Bharathy SingaravelCourtesy/SureshProductionsTwitterPrince has lapses in logic that are larger than some of the potholes peppering Chennai streets right now, post the corporation’s work on the storm water drains. Actually, if you find anything that remotely makes sense in the film, it is most likely accidental. In a school somewhere in Puducherry, Anbu (Sivakarthikeyan) and Jessica (Maria Ryaboshapka) teach history and English, respectively. Jessica is British and lives in Puducherry’s French Colony. Anbu is the grandson of a Tamil freedom fighter or so his father Ulaganathan, played by a Sathyaraj leaning hard into his comedic chops, keeps telling anyone who will listen. When Jessica and Anbu fall in love, Ulaganathan, portrayed so far as a ‘progressive’ father, has a meltdown. Because Jessica is British and not French as he’d assumed.
- 10/21/2022
- by BharathyS
- The News Minute
Actor Eddie Redmayne has won a lot of awards but doesn’t think he has made “many” films that are “great”.
The 40-year-old actor whose extensive career has seen him recognised with an Academy Award, a Tony Award, a Golden Globe Award, a BAFTA, and two Laurence Olivier Awards, insisted that he hasn’t done that well in his work and even as a student at Cambridge alongside the likes of Rebecca Hall, Dan Stevens and Tom Hiddleston, he always found his own performances lacking, reports femalefirst.co.uk.
He told The Times’ Saturday Review: “The aspiration is always to make a great film and I don’t think I’ve made many of those (at university) I remember seeing Tom in ‘Arcadia’ and he was amazing. Rebecca was always extraordinary, and I remember Dan doing the Scottish play with extraordinary power too.
“But to be clear, the theatre that...
The 40-year-old actor whose extensive career has seen him recognised with an Academy Award, a Tony Award, a Golden Globe Award, a BAFTA, and two Laurence Olivier Awards, insisted that he hasn’t done that well in his work and even as a student at Cambridge alongside the likes of Rebecca Hall, Dan Stevens and Tom Hiddleston, he always found his own performances lacking, reports femalefirst.co.uk.
He told The Times’ Saturday Review: “The aspiration is always to make a great film and I don’t think I’ve made many of those (at university) I remember seeing Tom in ‘Arcadia’ and he was amazing. Rebecca was always extraordinary, and I remember Dan doing the Scottish play with extraordinary power too.
“But to be clear, the theatre that...
- 10/17/2022
- by Glamsham Bureau
- GlamSham
Actor Chetan Sharma best known for his work in ‘Sacred Games S2’, ‘Binnu Ka Sapna’ ,‘Delhi Crime, ‘Ankhon Dekhi’, ‘Band Baaja Baraat and ‘Meenakshi Sundareshwar’ is now seen in film ‘Who Am I’ which premiered on 24th UK Asian film festival in London. Helmed by 22-year-old director Shireesh Khemariya and produced by Shirish Prakash, the […]...
- 5/14/2022
- by Glamsham Bureau
- GlamSham
With adrenaline-pumping action, Nicholas Tse’s vengeful villain cuts an almost tragic figure
The final film from Hong Kong maverick Benny Chan, who sadly died during post-production, this has all the genre pleasures of an old school bad cop v good cop flick. Honest, stoic cop Bong (Donnie Yen) is about to capture a longtime criminal nemesis when, to his horror, a masked gang annihilate his foe along with a dozen other colleagues. Even more shocking, Bong soon discovers that the leader of this savage ambush – spectacularly shot at an abandoned shopping mall – is none other than Ngo (Nicholas Tse), a former comrade-in-arms whom he sent to jail for misconduct.
Straight out of prison and thirsty for blood, Ngo and his band of cops-turned-criminals are itching to settle the score, which leads to some adrenaline-pumping action pieces. The ageless Yen is as mesmerising as ever in these sequences, one of...
The final film from Hong Kong maverick Benny Chan, who sadly died during post-production, this has all the genre pleasures of an old school bad cop v good cop flick. Honest, stoic cop Bong (Donnie Yen) is about to capture a longtime criminal nemesis when, to his horror, a masked gang annihilate his foe along with a dozen other colleagues. Even more shocking, Bong soon discovers that the leader of this savage ambush – spectacularly shot at an abandoned shopping mall – is none other than Ngo (Nicholas Tse), a former comrade-in-arms whom he sent to jail for misconduct.
Straight out of prison and thirsty for blood, Ngo and his band of cops-turned-criminals are itching to settle the score, which leads to some adrenaline-pumping action pieces. The ageless Yen is as mesmerising as ever in these sequences, one of...
- 11/8/2021
- by Phuong Le
- The Guardian - Film News
Exclusive: 13 Reasons Why stars Alisha Boe and Brandon Flynn have joined Odessa A’zion, Gideon Adlon, Hari Nef, Otmara Marrero, Cliff Powell, Ava McCoy and Isabella Salimpour in the experimental indie Who Am I? The movie marks the feature debut of New York filmmaker Johanna Block. Plot details are being kept under wraps.
The movie is the first from upstart studio Faze, led by producer Adam Faze. It is executive produced by Ace Salvador, Izzy Traub and Jordan Despanie of Outer Heaven Films and co-produced by Emma Buerklin.
The film continues the collaboration between Faze and writer-director Block, who worked together twice last year on the scripted podcast series Day by Day, which he co-created and featured sound design by Becket Cerny. Block’s episode “At the Peak of It All” starred Josephine Langford as a young girl experiencing a panic attack in the midst of quarantine and was the series’ most viral hit,...
The movie is the first from upstart studio Faze, led by producer Adam Faze. It is executive produced by Ace Salvador, Izzy Traub and Jordan Despanie of Outer Heaven Films and co-produced by Emma Buerklin.
The film continues the collaboration between Faze and writer-director Block, who worked together twice last year on the scripted podcast series Day by Day, which he co-created and featured sound design by Becket Cerny. Block’s episode “At the Peak of It All” starred Josephine Langford as a young girl experiencing a panic attack in the midst of quarantine and was the series’ most viral hit,...
- 6/18/2021
- by Justin Kroll
- Deadline Film + TV
Elyas M’Barek, star of Who Am I and hit German comedy franchise Fack ju Göhte, and Deutschland 89 lead Jonas Nay have been cast to star in 1000 Zeilen (1000 Lines), a media satire inspired by the real-life 2018 fake news scandal involving disgraced Der Spiegel journalist Claas Relotius.
Nay will play Lars Bogenius, an award-winning star writer at a major German news magazine who secretly has been faking his interviews and reporting. The only one who suspects him is Romero (M’Barek), a fellow journalist who risks his career, and even his family, to bring the truth to light.
The film is inspired by the book,...
Nay will play Lars Bogenius, an award-winning star writer at a major German news magazine who secretly has been faking his interviews and reporting. The only one who suspects him is Romero (M’Barek), a fellow journalist who risks his career, and even his family, to bring the truth to light.
The film is inspired by the book,...
- 2/15/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Elyas M’Barek, star of Who Am I and hit German comedy franchise Fack ju Göhte, and Deutschland 89 lead Jonas Nay have been cast to star in 1000 Zeilen (1000 Lines), a media satire inspired by the real-life 2018 fake news scandal involving disgraced Der Spiegel journalist Claas Relotius.
Nay will play Lars Bogenius, an award-winning star writer at a major German news magazine who secretly has been faking his interviews and reporting. The only one who suspects him is Romero (M’Barek), a fellow journalist who risks his career, and even his family, to bring the truth to light.
The film is inspired by the book,...
Nay will play Lars Bogenius, an award-winning star writer at a major German news magazine who secretly has been faking his interviews and reporting. The only one who suspects him is Romero (M’Barek), a fellow journalist who risks his career, and even his family, to bring the truth to light.
The film is inspired by the book,...
- 2/15/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
The fourth series of Call My Agent will close the festival.
Dutch actresses Halina Reijn and Carice van Houten’s new drama Red Light and UK supernatural comedy horror tale Truth Seekers are among 10 upcoming series due to compete in the third edition of Canneseries which is taking place as a hybrid event from October 9 to 14.
The annual television festival was originally set to run last April alongside Miptv until the content market cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The festival was rescheduled for October to run alongside MIPCOM instead, which has since moved online due to ongoing health concerns around the virus.
Dutch actresses Halina Reijn and Carice van Houten’s new drama Red Light and UK supernatural comedy horror tale Truth Seekers are among 10 upcoming series due to compete in the third edition of Canneseries which is taking place as a hybrid event from October 9 to 14.
The annual television festival was originally set to run last April alongside Miptv until the content market cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The festival was rescheduled for October to run alongside MIPCOM instead, which has since moved online due to ongoing health concerns around the virus.
- 9/22/2020
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Sofia Bohdanowicz and Deragh Campbell's Ms Slavic 7, which is receiving an exclusive global online premiere on Mubi, is showing from June 4 - July 4, 2020 in Mubi's The New Auteurs series.Above: The above image and those throughout this article are a selection of pages from the notebook Deragh Campbell kept as the character Audrey Benac, toward the creation of the monologues in Ms Slavic 7.Considering Sharon Lockhart’s collaboration with Noa Eshkol, in which she retranslates the deceased artist’s elaborate system of choreographic notation into movement, Daniela Zyman negates the perception of a filmed subject as a singular identity and defines it instead as a figure of two, an encounter between the artist and the protagonist. She applies this to Lockhart’s greater body of work, describing Lockhart’s particular ability to allow the coexistence of the subject’s inherent right to self-representation and the artist’s formal impositions,...
- 6/24/2020
- MUBI
The upcoming Chinese period drama “The Diary”, written, produced and directed by Jackie Chan is expected to be released in autumn 2020.
About the soundtrack:
American composer Nathan Wang and French composer Alan Tyler will curate the score for “The Diary”. The film will also contain original soundtracks. Nathan Wang has already worked several times with Jackie Chan in movies including: “Rumble in the Bronx”, “Who Am I”, “First Strike” or the upcoming “Vanguars”. Alan Tyler is a French composer who works in Los Angeles; he contributed to the music of films and TV like “Curb your Enthusiasm” and “Nurses”, and more recently on Jackie Chan’s production “Project X-Traction” (Sparkle Roll Media). Jackie Chan has chosen the composers himself and in addition to the main theme, the director/actor will sing for the movie’s soundtrack
About the movie:
“The Diary” will be a musical drama set in China and Europe during the 1930s.
About the soundtrack:
American composer Nathan Wang and French composer Alan Tyler will curate the score for “The Diary”. The film will also contain original soundtracks. Nathan Wang has already worked several times with Jackie Chan in movies including: “Rumble in the Bronx”, “Who Am I”, “First Strike” or the upcoming “Vanguars”. Alan Tyler is a French composer who works in Los Angeles; he contributed to the music of films and TV like “Curb your Enthusiasm” and “Nurses”, and more recently on Jackie Chan’s production “Project X-Traction” (Sparkle Roll Media). Jackie Chan has chosen the composers himself and in addition to the main theme, the director/actor will sing for the movie’s soundtrack
About the movie:
“The Diary” will be a musical drama set in China and Europe during the 1930s.
- 4/25/2020
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
Netflix is looking to create more transparency and dispel some of the myths around working with the streaming giant as it ramps up its European operations, though the company’s fast-paced shooting schedules are “not for everyone,” director of international originals Rachel Eggebeen said Tuesday morning at the Berlinale Series Market.
“It’s a fast pace that we work at,” she said. “Once we commission a show, we commit to it. We’re all in, we need partners that are all in, and we go.”
Eggebeen appeared in conversation with a group of leading European TV creators to discuss the realities of producing for the Los Gatos-based streaming service. The panel, moderated by Variety‘s international editor Manori Ravindran, featured writer-producer Laura Buffoni, producer-writer Jantje Friese, producer Meta Soerensen, producer Fatima Varhos, and writer-producer Anna Winger.
As Netflix increases its production in Europe, Eggebeen said the company is committed to...
“It’s a fast pace that we work at,” she said. “Once we commission a show, we commit to it. We’re all in, we need partners that are all in, and we go.”
Eggebeen appeared in conversation with a group of leading European TV creators to discuss the realities of producing for the Los Gatos-based streaming service. The panel, moderated by Variety‘s international editor Manori Ravindran, featured writer-producer Laura Buffoni, producer-writer Jantje Friese, producer Meta Soerensen, producer Fatima Varhos, and writer-producer Anna Winger.
As Netflix increases its production in Europe, Eggebeen said the company is committed to...
- 2/26/2020
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
Variety and the European Film Market are teaming up to host a half-day TV summit as part of this year’s Berlinale Series Market & Conference. Oscar-winning actress Cate Blanchett will participate in a panel with “Stateless” co-creators Elise McCredie and Tony Ares. Startz CEO Jeffrey Hirsch will participate in a keynote conversation at the summit as well.
“Expanding our thought-leadership summit series to international markets is a key initiative for Variety,” said Michelle Sobrino-Stearns, the company’s group publisher and chief revenue officer. “The Efm at Berlinale is the perfect partner for us to expand our brand globally.”
The summit will feature a series of conversations on international TV production and finance. Netflix will hold a panel on the art of producing with Meta Sørensen, Jantje Friese, Fatima Varhos, Laura Buffoni, Anna Winger, and Rachel Eggebeen, director of international originals.
Also, ITV Studios will present a discussion about the global...
“Expanding our thought-leadership summit series to international markets is a key initiative for Variety,” said Michelle Sobrino-Stearns, the company’s group publisher and chief revenue officer. “The Efm at Berlinale is the perfect partner for us to expand our brand globally.”
The summit will feature a series of conversations on international TV production and finance. Netflix will hold a panel on the art of producing with Meta Sørensen, Jantje Friese, Fatima Varhos, Laura Buffoni, Anna Winger, and Rachel Eggebeen, director of international originals.
Also, ITV Studios will present a discussion about the global...
- 2/14/2020
- by BreAnna Bell
- Variety Film + TV
This article marks Part 2 of the Gold Derby series analyzing 84 years of Best Original Song at the Oscars. Join us as we look back at the timeless tunes recognized in this category, the results of each race and the overall rankings of the Academy Awards winners.
The 1940 Oscar nominees in Best Original Song were:
“Down Argentine Way” from “Down Argentine Way”
“Who Am I” from “Hit Parade of 1941”
“It’s a Blue World” from Music in My Heart”
“When You Wish Upon a Star” from “Pinocchio”
“Only Forever” from “Rhythm on the River”
“Love of My Life” from “Second Chorus”
“Waltzing in the Clouds” from “Spring Parade”
“Our Love Affair” from “Strike Up the Band”
“I’d Know You Anywhere” from “You’ll Find Out”
Won and should’ve won: “When You Wish Upon a Star” from “Pinocchio”
Let’s take a moment to stare in wonder at the star-studded nature of this line-up.
The 1940 Oscar nominees in Best Original Song were:
“Down Argentine Way” from “Down Argentine Way”
“Who Am I” from “Hit Parade of 1941”
“It’s a Blue World” from Music in My Heart”
“When You Wish Upon a Star” from “Pinocchio”
“Only Forever” from “Rhythm on the River”
“Love of My Life” from “Second Chorus”
“Waltzing in the Clouds” from “Spring Parade”
“Our Love Affair” from “Strike Up the Band”
“I’d Know You Anywhere” from “You’ll Find Out”
Won and should’ve won: “When You Wish Upon a Star” from “Pinocchio”
Let’s take a moment to stare in wonder at the star-studded nature of this line-up.
- 7/16/2018
- by Andrew Carden
- Gold Derby
This Crazy Heart is directed by Marc Rothemund whose 2005 drama Sophie Scholl was nominated for the best foreign-language film Oscar.
In advance of the Marché, German sales outfit Global Screen has confirmed multiple sales on two of the titles on its Cannes slate.
This Crazy Heart, directed by Marc Rothemund whose 2005 drama Sophie Scholl was nominated for the best foreign-language film Oscar, has gone to Spain (Flins y Peniculas), Portugal (Pris), South Korea (Yejilim Entertainment), Cis (Voxell), Taiwan (Encore Film), Czech Republic, Slovenia and Hungary (Prorom), and Brazil (Globo). Negotiations are underway with distributors for France, Italy, China and Japan,...
In advance of the Marché, German sales outfit Global Screen has confirmed multiple sales on two of the titles on its Cannes slate.
This Crazy Heart, directed by Marc Rothemund whose 2005 drama Sophie Scholl was nominated for the best foreign-language film Oscar, has gone to Spain (Flins y Peniculas), Portugal (Pris), South Korea (Yejilim Entertainment), Cis (Voxell), Taiwan (Encore Film), Czech Republic, Slovenia and Hungary (Prorom), and Brazil (Globo). Negotiations are underway with distributors for France, Italy, China and Japan,...
- 5/8/2018
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
Never order the lobster at a diner, according to “SNL.”
Cast member Pete Davidson made that mistake in a sketch in the show’s April 14 episode, hosted by former “SNL” writer and stand-up comic John Mulaney. When Davidson and Chris Redd head to a diner for lunch, Redd orders a grilled cheese sandwich, while Davidson asks for the lobster special — much to everyone’s shock.
“Did you just order lobster in a diner?” Redd asked, incredulous.
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“Yeah, why?” Davidson replied.
“Because it’s a diner,” Redd returned. “The whole seafood section is on the menu as a joke. I mean the word seafood is in quotes!”
“I don’t see what the big deal is,” Davidson said. “It’s on the menu. I’ll have the lobster.”
“As you wish,” said Mulaney, as the diner’s waiter. “All right everyone, the time has come,” he called to the rest of the restaurant. “We’ve got an order here for one lobster.”
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A moment later, a giant lobster tank rolled out, with Kenan Thompson inside costumed as a gigantic lobster. He sang of his impending death, a riff on the “Les Miserables” song “Who Am I,” with the lobster standing in for Jean Valjean.
When the song ended, Redd and everyone in the restaurant again begged Davidson to reconsider his order.
“I mean, you can’t eat him now, man. They just sang ‘Les Mis!'” Redd said.
“I’m sorry, dude, I’m more of a ‘Mean Girls’ guy — on Broadway now,” Davidson replied with a wink at the audience.
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Kate McKinnon joined the sketch as the lobster’s daughter, Cosette, volunteering to take his place for execution with another song. But it wasn’t enough, so the entire restaurant staff hit the stage, rolling out a barricade set to sing a lobster-ified version of “Do You Hear the People Sing?” in protest of Davidson’s order. Sing-along lyrics popped up at the bottom of the screen, complete with a bouncing lobster to help viewers follow along.
The song finally got the lobster’s plight through to Davidson. In the broadcast version of the sketch, Davidson relented and ordered a tuna melt, but in the version of the sketch “SNL” uploaded to its YouTube channel, there was one last dark added.
“All right, forget the lobster,” he said to cheers from the rest of the cast. “I’ll have the veal instead.”
“All right, everybody, let’s go kill that baby cow!” Mulaney declared as the sketch ended.
Read original story ‘SNL’ Cast Saves a Diner Lobster’s Life With ‘Les Miserables’ Songs (Video) At TheWrap...
Cast member Pete Davidson made that mistake in a sketch in the show’s April 14 episode, hosted by former “SNL” writer and stand-up comic John Mulaney. When Davidson and Chris Redd head to a diner for lunch, Redd orders a grilled cheese sandwich, while Davidson asks for the lobster special — much to everyone’s shock.
“Did you just order lobster in a diner?” Redd asked, incredulous.
Also Read: 'SNL': John Mulaney's Erection Delays National School Walkout (Video)
“Yeah, why?” Davidson replied.
“Because it’s a diner,” Redd returned. “The whole seafood section is on the menu as a joke. I mean the word seafood is in quotes!”
“I don’t see what the big deal is,” Davidson said. “It’s on the menu. I’ll have the lobster.”
“As you wish,” said Mulaney, as the diner’s waiter. “All right everyone, the time has come,” he called to the rest of the restaurant. “We’ve got an order here for one lobster.”
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A moment later, a giant lobster tank rolled out, with Kenan Thompson inside costumed as a gigantic lobster. He sang of his impending death, a riff on the “Les Miserables” song “Who Am I,” with the lobster standing in for Jean Valjean.
When the song ended, Redd and everyone in the restaurant again begged Davidson to reconsider his order.
“I mean, you can’t eat him now, man. They just sang ‘Les Mis!'” Redd said.
“I’m sorry, dude, I’m more of a ‘Mean Girls’ guy — on Broadway now,” Davidson replied with a wink at the audience.
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Kate McKinnon joined the sketch as the lobster’s daughter, Cosette, volunteering to take his place for execution with another song. But it wasn’t enough, so the entire restaurant staff hit the stage, rolling out a barricade set to sing a lobster-ified version of “Do You Hear the People Sing?” in protest of Davidson’s order. Sing-along lyrics popped up at the bottom of the screen, complete with a bouncing lobster to help viewers follow along.
The song finally got the lobster’s plight through to Davidson. In the broadcast version of the sketch, Davidson relented and ordered a tuna melt, but in the version of the sketch “SNL” uploaded to its YouTube channel, there was one last dark added.
“All right, forget the lobster,” he said to cheers from the rest of the cast. “I’ll have the veal instead.”
“All right, everybody, let’s go kill that baby cow!” Mulaney declared as the sketch ended.
Read original story ‘SNL’ Cast Saves a Diner Lobster’s Life With ‘Les Miserables’ Songs (Video) At TheWrap...
- 4/15/2018
- by Phil Hornshaw
- The Wrap
Enter to win a pair of tickets to see the screening of "Who Am I - Kein System Ist Sicher" on Oct. 24th during the German Currents 2015 Film Festival at the Egyptian Theatre.
To participate respond to media@losangeles.goethe.org and send your full name and phone number with the keywords "Who Am I" in the subject line. Then, in addition to the keyword you must add a "random/ lucky" number between 1 and 100 in the subject line!
The organizers will draw a winning number and the ten entries received with the number matching or closest to their chosen number will win a pair of tickets. In case of a tie the earlier entry wins.
Tickets are non-transferable. Please enter Only if you can actually attend the screening! Only the winners will be notified! Winners tickets will then be held in their names at the Egyptian Theatre Box Office Will-Call.
Saturday, October 24 - 5:30 Pm
"Who Am I - Kein System Ist Sicher"
2014, 110 min, Germany, Dir: Baran bo Odar
Los Angeles Premiere!
When the charismatic Max asks young Berlin computer whiz Ben (Tom Schilling) to help him “hack the world,” they form a collective devoted to guerrilla-style pranks. As they take bigger, bolder risks, Ben must learn to evade the German Secret Service - and his new hacker friends. In German with English subtitles.
To participate respond to media@losangeles.goethe.org and send your full name and phone number with the keywords "Who Am I" in the subject line. Then, in addition to the keyword you must add a "random/ lucky" number between 1 and 100 in the subject line!
The organizers will draw a winning number and the ten entries received with the number matching or closest to their chosen number will win a pair of tickets. In case of a tie the earlier entry wins.
Tickets are non-transferable. Please enter Only if you can actually attend the screening! Only the winners will be notified! Winners tickets will then be held in their names at the Egyptian Theatre Box Office Will-Call.
Saturday, October 24 - 5:30 Pm
"Who Am I - Kein System Ist Sicher"
2014, 110 min, Germany, Dir: Baran bo Odar
Los Angeles Premiere!
When the charismatic Max asks young Berlin computer whiz Ben (Tom Schilling) to help him “hack the world,” they form a collective devoted to guerrilla-style pranks. As they take bigger, bolder risks, Ben must learn to evade the German Secret Service - and his new hacker friends. In German with English subtitles.
- 10/19/2015
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
TrustNordisk has picked up the international sales rights for the hacker-thriller WhoAmI.
The company will be introducing an early sneak peek from the upcoming thriller, which is currently in post-production, to international buyers for the first time in Cannes.
Directed by director Baran bo Odar, WhoAmI stars Tom Schilling (Oh Boy, Suite Francaise), Elyas M´Barek and Danish actress Trine Dyrholm (In a Better World) among others.
The outsider Benjamin and the charismatic Max share one mutual interest: hacking. Together with Max‘s friends, they form the subversive hacker group Clay, which provokes with hilarious hacks and connects with a whole generation. But when Clay is suddenly investigated by German Secret Service and Europol, Benjamin must face the consequences of his actions.
WhoAmI is director Baran bo Odar’s second feature film. His debut feature in 2010, The Silence, was nominated for numerous awards and won the Director’s to Watch Award at Palm Springs International Film Festival...
The company will be introducing an early sneak peek from the upcoming thriller, which is currently in post-production, to international buyers for the first time in Cannes.
Directed by director Baran bo Odar, WhoAmI stars Tom Schilling (Oh Boy, Suite Francaise), Elyas M´Barek and Danish actress Trine Dyrholm (In a Better World) among others.
The outsider Benjamin and the charismatic Max share one mutual interest: hacking. Together with Max‘s friends, they form the subversive hacker group Clay, which provokes with hilarious hacks and connects with a whole generation. But when Clay is suddenly investigated by German Secret Service and Europol, Benjamin must face the consequences of his actions.
WhoAmI is director Baran bo Odar’s second feature film. His debut feature in 2010, The Silence, was nominated for numerous awards and won the Director’s to Watch Award at Palm Springs International Film Festival...
- 5/20/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Brian Kirk’s feature debut, sci-fi romance Passengers, starring Keanu Reeves and Rachel McAdams, is set to be Studio Babelsberg’s first international production for 2014.
At last year’s Cannes Marché, The Weinstein Company acquired domestic rights to the story of a man on board a colony-bound spaceship who emerges early from cryogenic sleep and awakens a second passenger for company.
Exclusive Media is handling international sales, Concorde Film Verleih will release the film in Germany.
Studio spokesman Eike Wolf confirmed that the production, which will be co-produced by Studio Babelsberg, will begin principal photography this spring.
This week saw Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg allocate €1m production funding to the project.
The studio between Berlin and Potsdam has one of its co-productions from last year, Brian Percival’s The Book Thief, opening in Germany on March 13, while another three - Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel, George Clooney’s The Monuments Men, and [link=nm...
At last year’s Cannes Marché, The Weinstein Company acquired domestic rights to the story of a man on board a colony-bound spaceship who emerges early from cryogenic sleep and awakens a second passenger for company.
Exclusive Media is handling international sales, Concorde Film Verleih will release the film in Germany.
Studio spokesman Eike Wolf confirmed that the production, which will be co-produced by Studio Babelsberg, will begin principal photography this spring.
This week saw Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg allocate €1m production funding to the project.
The studio between Berlin and Potsdam has one of its co-productions from last year, Brian Percival’s The Book Thief, opening in Germany on March 13, while another three - Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel, George Clooney’s The Monuments Men, and [link=nm...
- 1/31/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
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