Film will have its European premiere in San Sebastian’s New Directors competition.
Warsaw-based New Europe Film Sales has picked up international rights to Jorunn Myklebust Syversen’s Norwegian drama Disco. The film will have its European premiere in San Sebastian’s New Directors competition.
Disco stars Josefine Frida Pettersen, who has come to prominence through the global success of Norwegian web series Skam. In Disco she plays a dance champion and poster girl for an evangelical movement who, after collapsing at a competition, starts looking for answers in an even more radical church.
The project was backed by the...
Warsaw-based New Europe Film Sales has picked up international rights to Jorunn Myklebust Syversen’s Norwegian drama Disco. The film will have its European premiere in San Sebastian’s New Directors competition.
Disco stars Josefine Frida Pettersen, who has come to prominence through the global success of Norwegian web series Skam. In Disco she plays a dance champion and poster girl for an evangelical movement who, after collapsing at a competition, starts looking for answers in an even more radical church.
The project was backed by the...
- 7/30/2019
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
Madrid — The San Sebastian Intl. Film Festival announced at a press conference on Tuesday morning the fourteen projects selected to participate in this year’s Kutxabank New Directors section at the northern Spanish festival.
Of the participating films, eight are debuts and six are second works, three of the latter from semi-new filmmakers who previously participated in New Directors with their debut features. Notably, this year’s selection includes eight films from nine women filmmakers, a statistic which challenges the selections made by other, similarly-profiled festivals in their competition selections.
The number of returning directors suggests a usefulness of participating in the section. New Directors consolidated as the festival’s major sidebar, whose world premieres often go on to have a vigorous festival circuit career and break out at times to notable foreign territory sales.
Typically, the New Directors sidebar also provides a look at the themes and styles that...
Of the participating films, eight are debuts and six are second works, three of the latter from semi-new filmmakers who previously participated in New Directors with their debut features. Notably, this year’s selection includes eight films from nine women filmmakers, a statistic which challenges the selections made by other, similarly-profiled festivals in their competition selections.
The number of returning directors suggests a usefulness of participating in the section. New Directors consolidated as the festival’s major sidebar, whose world premieres often go on to have a vigorous festival circuit career and break out at times to notable foreign territory sales.
Typically, the New Directors sidebar also provides a look at the themes and styles that...
- 7/30/2019
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
After close to two decades with New Line Cinema, the studio’s Evp of Production Michael Disco is departing to launch his own production company The Disco Factory in an exclusive two-year producing deal with both New Line and Warner Bros.
Disco is a beloved executive on the lot, responsible for 34 movies during his tenure that have racked up $4.5 billion worldwide, and serving as an Ep on such hits as San Andreas (close to half billion worldwide), Rampage ($426M), Central Intelligence, The Horrible Bosses franchise, Game Night and Golden Globe winner The Disaster Artist. Early career successes included Hairspray, Valentine’s Day, and He’s Just Not That Into You. We hear that Disco’s exit was amicable as he was looking to transition to producing.
“Michael Disco started working with us at New Line 19 years ago. He’s one of those people you hope will be on your team throughout their career.
Disco is a beloved executive on the lot, responsible for 34 movies during his tenure that have racked up $4.5 billion worldwide, and serving as an Ep on such hits as San Andreas (close to half billion worldwide), Rampage ($426M), Central Intelligence, The Horrible Bosses franchise, Game Night and Golden Globe winner The Disaster Artist. Early career successes included Hairspray, Valentine’s Day, and He’s Just Not That Into You. We hear that Disco’s exit was amicable as he was looking to transition to producing.
“Michael Disco started working with us at New Line 19 years ago. He’s one of those people you hope will be on your team throughout their career.
- 2/28/2019
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Norway’s Jorunn Myklebust directs.
Josefine Frida Pettersen, who plays Noora in the hit Norwegian teen series Skam, makes her film debut in Disco, the new film directed by Norway’s Jorunn Myklebust Syversen.
Screen can reveal the film’s first image below.
Pettersen stars as 19-year-old Mirjam, the world champion in freestyle disco dancing who starts questioning her faith after suffering panic attacks during a competition. When she is no longer able to dance, she looks for answers with a fundamentalist Christian congregation.
Pettersen, now 22, was also a dancer in her teenage years. She said, “Playing the lead in...
Josefine Frida Pettersen, who plays Noora in the hit Norwegian teen series Skam, makes her film debut in Disco, the new film directed by Norway’s Jorunn Myklebust Syversen.
Screen can reveal the film’s first image below.
Pettersen stars as 19-year-old Mirjam, the world champion in freestyle disco dancing who starts questioning her faith after suffering panic attacks during a competition. When she is no longer able to dance, she looks for answers with a fundamentalist Christian congregation.
Pettersen, now 22, was also a dancer in her teenage years. She said, “Playing the lead in...
- 2/1/2019
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
Betty Who is preparing the release of her third album Betty with the tender new single “Between You and Me.” It will be the first album released by Who as an independent artist.
On the acoustic-pop tune, Who wonders where she stands with a flirtatious friend. “Just between you and me/I can feel something here/Wondering if you do too,” she sings on the infectious hook. The verses detail close encounters between the two and her desire for them to make the spark a full-fledged fire.
“‘Between You and...
On the acoustic-pop tune, Who wonders where she stands with a flirtatious friend. “Just between you and me/I can feel something here/Wondering if you do too,” she sings on the infectious hook. The verses detail close encounters between the two and her desire for them to make the spark a full-fledged fire.
“‘Between You and...
- 11/14/2018
- by Brittany Spanos
- Rollingstone.com
Between 2015 and 2017, it seemed as if the the Nigerian genre afrobeats was ready to storm the American mainstream. Drake released a remix of Wizkid’s “Ojuelegba”; Jay-z’s Roc Nation picked up Tiwa Savage; Wizkid signed in turn to RCA; Columbia put its weight behind Tekno’s great single “Pana.” But despite these endorsements, American listeners’ interest in afrobeats largely failed to materialize.
On Friday, however, two established acts both put out tracks bearing the genre’s influence, suggesting that afrobeats may still capture the international imagination. Janet Jackson served up “Made for Now,...
On Friday, however, two established acts both put out tracks bearing the genre’s influence, suggesting that afrobeats may still capture the international imagination. Janet Jackson served up “Made for Now,...
- 8/22/2018
- by Elias Leight
- Rollingstone.com
Panic! At the Disco delivered a scrappy and endearing cover of Weezer‘s “Say It Ain’t So” during a session for SiriusXM Hits 1.
The band performed a faithful rendition of the tune, with frontman Brendon Urie’s acoustic strumming creating a foundation for guitarist Kenneth Harris to recreate – with a few clever tweaks – the song’s tumbling riff and solos. While Panic! At the Disco didn’t inject the “Say It Ain’t So” chorus with its quintessential distorted crunch, Urie’s massive vocals gave the performance a potent extra kick.
The band performed a faithful rendition of the tune, with frontman Brendon Urie’s acoustic strumming creating a foundation for guitarist Kenneth Harris to recreate – with a few clever tweaks – the song’s tumbling riff and solos. While Panic! At the Disco didn’t inject the “Say It Ain’t So” chorus with its quintessential distorted crunch, Urie’s massive vocals gave the performance a potent extra kick.
- 7/11/2018
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Among the memorable scenes from The Last Days of Disco is the easily discouraged Josh Neff’s (Matt Kesslar) dissection of Lady and the Tramp. Just as Disney released the pups from their vault this year, director Whit Stillman and select cast will celebrate the twentieth anniversary of Disco at select screenings this summer.
The third film in the director’s “Doomed-Bourgeois-in-Love series” follows what today we call “frenemies,” Alice Kinnon (Chloë Sevigny) and Charlotte Pingress (Kate Beckinsale), as they spend their days working their way up the ladder at a New York publishing house and their nights dancing and romancing at a Studio 54-style nightclub.
Cinephiles on both coasts and London (with more screenings to come) have that rare opportunity to see Disco with the filmmakers in person. The Film Society of Lincoln Center kicks off the summer tour with Stillman, Chloë Sevigny, Michael Weatherly, and Mackenzie Astin...
The third film in the director’s “Doomed-Bourgeois-in-Love series” follows what today we call “frenemies,” Alice Kinnon (Chloë Sevigny) and Charlotte Pingress (Kate Beckinsale), as they spend their days working their way up the ladder at a New York publishing house and their nights dancing and romancing at a Studio 54-style nightclub.
Cinephiles on both coasts and London (with more screenings to come) have that rare opportunity to see Disco with the filmmakers in person. The Film Society of Lincoln Center kicks off the summer tour with Stillman, Chloë Sevigny, Michael Weatherly, and Mackenzie Astin...
- 5/24/2018
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
“Avengers: Infinity War” star Letitia Wright took on The Roots’ Black Thought in a freestyle rap battle during her appearance on “The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon.”
The generator popped out words like Disco, Red Lobster and Vibranium, which Wright countered with, “I specialize in that.”
She then rapped: “Check it / Me and Black Thought / Spin your head like a disco ball / Yo, natural disaster / Call your pastor, let him pray for you, yo / Yo, let’s go grab some food at Red Lobster / Roots, tell me how I can win an Oscar / I said Red Lobster / Better tick it off / Ay, yo, yo /And I spit this flow / So free off the dong vibranium got me feelin’ oh so cold / Uh, with this flow/ Ay!”
”Also: ”‘Avengers’
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Black Thought was up next, and the generator spit out words Yodel, Toothbrush and Snuffleupagus.
“This is such a mean game,” Wright said after seeing the latter word.
But Black Thought slayed his turn, even managing to incorporate the difficult third word.
See Video: Doctor Strange and Star-Lord Team Up: See New 'Avengers: Infinity War' Footage
“Call my car, I’m going home,” Wright said in response. “That was so good!”
For her final round, Wright had to use the words Hammer, Burrito and Benedict Cumberbatch. This round didn’t go so well, so Fall0n took the mic and did a surprise freestyle rap, finishing it with “you’re my cumberb—-!”
Wright will reprise her “Black Panther” role of Shuri in “Avengers: Infinity War,” hitting theaters on April 27.
Watch the video above.
Read original story Letitia Wright Raps About Red Lobster and Vibranium With Jimmy Fallon (Video) At TheWrap...
The generator popped out words like Disco, Red Lobster and Vibranium, which Wright countered with, “I specialize in that.”
She then rapped: “Check it / Me and Black Thought / Spin your head like a disco ball / Yo, natural disaster / Call your pastor, let him pray for you, yo / Yo, let’s go grab some food at Red Lobster / Roots, tell me how I can win an Oscar / I said Red Lobster / Better tick it off / Ay, yo, yo /And I spit this flow / So free off the dong vibranium got me feelin’ oh so cold / Uh, with this flow/ Ay!”
”Also: ”‘Avengers’
” target=””]
Black Thought was up next, and the generator spit out words Yodel, Toothbrush and Snuffleupagus.
“This is such a mean game,” Wright said after seeing the latter word.
But Black Thought slayed his turn, even managing to incorporate the difficult third word.
See Video: Doctor Strange and Star-Lord Team Up: See New 'Avengers: Infinity War' Footage
“Call my car, I’m going home,” Wright said in response. “That was so good!”
For her final round, Wright had to use the words Hammer, Burrito and Benedict Cumberbatch. This round didn’t go so well, so Fall0n took the mic and did a surprise freestyle rap, finishing it with “you’re my cumberb—-!”
Wright will reprise her “Black Panther” role of Shuri in “Avengers: Infinity War,” hitting theaters on April 27.
Watch the video above.
Read original story Letitia Wright Raps About Red Lobster and Vibranium With Jimmy Fallon (Video) At TheWrap...
- 4/19/2018
- by Beatrice Verhoeven
- The Wrap
[Warning: This post contains spoilers from Episode 10 of Star Trek: Discovery, "Despite Yourself." Read at your own risk.]
It looks like the Discovery crew is now down a member.
Star Trek: Discovery's jaw-dropping winter premiere, which saw the Disco crew finally enter the Mirror Universe, delivered
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It looks like the Discovery crew is now down a member.
Star Trek: Discovery's jaw-dropping winter premiere, which saw the Disco crew finally enter the Mirror Universe, delivered
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Read More >...
- 1/8/2018
- by Keisha Hatchett
- TVGuide - Breaking News
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