SyFy’s The Magicians features costumes by Magali Guidasci. She talks to Awards Daily TV’s Jazz Tangcay about what it takes to outfit this magical world. Magali Guidasci got...
- 4/16/2017
- by Jazz Tangcay
- AwardsDaily.com
In the high-stakes, edge-of-your-seat thriller The Call, a thin thread of survival separates a teenage kidnap victim from her only hope: a compassionate, steady voice on the other end of a cell phone marshaling all the resources she can to find her.
Veteran 911 Emergency Call Center operator Jordan (Halle Berry) has the kind of job that’s not for the faint of heart: navigating the public’s distress in order to save lives. But when a young woman’s frantic report of a prowler ends tragically, Jordan is devastated. Reassessing her life, Jordan wonders if perhaps she’s experienced her last fraught-filled phone call. With a supportive cop (Morris Chestnut) for a boyfriend, maybe it’s time to step back, enjoy life, and teach others the ins and outs of her high-pressure profession.
That lifeline to strangers isn’t over yet, though. When average American teenager Casey (Abigail Breslin), is...
Veteran 911 Emergency Call Center operator Jordan (Halle Berry) has the kind of job that’s not for the faint of heart: navigating the public’s distress in order to save lives. But when a young woman’s frantic report of a prowler ends tragically, Jordan is devastated. Reassessing her life, Jordan wonders if perhaps she’s experienced her last fraught-filled phone call. With a supportive cop (Morris Chestnut) for a boyfriend, maybe it’s time to step back, enjoy life, and teach others the ins and outs of her high-pressure profession.
That lifeline to strangers isn’t over yet, though. When average American teenager Casey (Abigail Breslin), is...
- 3/7/2013
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Larger-than-life: Nina Simone film writer-director, others, on beauty, challenge of musician biopics
Even just watching YouTube videos of jazz-soul singer Nina Simone – playing her political hit Four Women in 1969, big heavy-metal hoop earrings dangling, or pounding out civil rights anthem Mississippi Goddam on the piano, in no makeup and a sparkling sleeveless gown, in 1988 – you feel the intensity of her eyes, the way her deep voice slinks up and down, always rooted.
How do you recreate or reinterpret that, the breath of a musician’s life, their art, as a biopic, on film?
“It’s a beautiful genre, if you do it right, and capture the essence of that person,” said Cynthia Mort,...
How do you recreate or reinterpret that, the breath of a musician’s life, their art, as a biopic, on film?
“It’s a beautiful genre, if you do it right, and capture the essence of that person,” said Cynthia Mort,...
- 8/25/2012
- by Solvej Schou
- EW - Inside Movies
Presented by Us and our Awesomeness Glory! FusedFilm presents a really awesome giveaway for Warner Brothers and DC Entertainment’s The Losers.
One the most bad-ass films to come out this year, The Losers, finally hits theaters everywhere April 23 and you can fit right in with some sweet swag. Directed by Sylvain Wright it stars, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Zoe Saldana, Chris Evans, Idris Elba, Columbus Short, Oscar Jaenada and Jason Patric.
This bevy of bountiful prizes includes custom knife push-pins, a grenade shaped lighter, a ladies dark grey tank top, men’s black tees, a super heavyweight duffle bag and a bad ass! macho tea stain cowboy hat. Learn how to enter‘for a chance to win below.
The Giveaway
3 — Set of Custom Knife Push Pins in Box – Arv $25
3 — Grenade Shaped Lighter – Arv $15
3 — Ladies Dark Grey Tank Top – Arv $18
3 — Men’s Black Tee – Arv $20
1 — Tea Stain Brown Cowboy Hat – Arv...
One the most bad-ass films to come out this year, The Losers, finally hits theaters everywhere April 23 and you can fit right in with some sweet swag. Directed by Sylvain Wright it stars, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Zoe Saldana, Chris Evans, Idris Elba, Columbus Short, Oscar Jaenada and Jason Patric.
This bevy of bountiful prizes includes custom knife push-pins, a grenade shaped lighter, a ladies dark grey tank top, men’s black tees, a super heavyweight duffle bag and a bad ass! macho tea stain cowboy hat. Learn how to enter‘for a chance to win below.
The Giveaway
3 — Set of Custom Knife Push Pins in Box – Arv $25
3 — Grenade Shaped Lighter – Arv $15
3 — Ladies Dark Grey Tank Top – Arv $18
3 — Men’s Black Tee – Arv $20
1 — Tea Stain Brown Cowboy Hat – Arv...
- 4/9/2010
- by Fused Film Staff
- FusedFilm
Paradigm literary and talent agency co-head Jonathan Silverman gave up his post at the agency Wednesday. "We've decided to part ways", said Sam Gores, president and CEO. "We wish him well." As a result of Silverman's departure, former co-head Frank Balkin has taken over as Paradigm's head of production. It hasn't determined which of Silverman's clients will remain with Paradigm. He recently signed producer Barrie Osborne (The Lord of the Rings trilogy) for representation and counts cinematographers Julio Macat (Wedding Crashers), John Lindley (Mr. Brooks) and Alik Sakharov (HBO's Rome) and costume designers Magali Guidasci (Jumper) and Cynthia Summers (Rogue) among his clients.
- 6/15/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Paradigm literary and talent agency co-head Jonathan Silverman gave up his post at the agency Wednesday. "We've decided to part ways", said Sam Gores, president and CEO. "We wish him well." As a result of Silverman's departure, former co-head Frank Balkin has taken over as Paradigm's head of production. It hasn't determined which of Silverman's clients will remain with Paradigm. He recently signed producer Barrie Osborne (The Lord of the Rings trilogy) for representation and counts cinematographers Julio Macat (Wedding Crashers), John Lindley (Mr. Brooks) and Alik Sakharov (HBO's Rome) and costume designers Magali Guidasci (Jumper) and Cynthia Summers (Rogue) among his clients.
- 6/15/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Badly in need of more humor and humanity, like that found in his best Hong Kong features, Tsui Hark's long-awaited big-budget debut "Double Team" is doubly problematic.
Beyond a few sequences with some of the Hark magic and the formidable presence of NBA superstar Dennis Rodman, the Columbia Pictures release is not exactly an airball, but it bounces around the rim and finally fails to go in.
The track record of emergent Hong Kong filmmakers working with Jean-Claude Van Damme and producer Moshe Diamant is anything but inspiring -- John Woo's "Hard Target" and Ringo Lam's "Maximum Risk" were both tepidly received by fans and failed to generate much heat in the marketplace. The same will happen to "Double Team", although action-film devotees might pump up the opening-weekend numbers.
Hark has made some of the finest Hong Kong features of the past 20-odd years ("Peking Opera Blues", "Once Upon a Time in China"), and he's been involved with more than 50 features as director, producer, writer and/or actor.
But Hark struggles with the material here, and Van Damme plays another cold, barely articulate hero. There is a halfhearted attempt to personalize the mayhem, with Van Damme's crack counterterrorist on the verge of retirement and looking forward to quieter days with his wife (Natacha Lindinger).
"Double Team" tips off with a big chase scene as Quinn (Van Damme) drives a "super truck" with stolen plutonium through and over numerous obstacles. Not long after, by the pool with his pregnant mate, Quinn is called upon to vanquish a ruthless international terrorist and is told: "You can't retire until he dies".
This perfunctory setup leads to an early showdown with said terrorist Stavros (Mickey Rourke) at an amusement park, after Quinn visits a funky arms dealer played by Rodman. In the elaborate firefight with Stavros, the villain's wife and child are killed and Quinn is nearly blown to bits. The bad guy lives on and the good guy is sent to the Colony, a think tank/prison for spies who are removed from active service but deemed too dangerous to be left alone in the world.
Unhappy with the turn of events -- his wife thinks he's dead and she's vulnerable to Stavros' revenge -- Quinn sets out to escape from the Colony. He accomplishes this by hitching a ride on a C-130 cargo plane in a wild sequence that's arguably the best in the film. Hooking up again with Rodman's character, the duo agree that the "best defense is offense."
Jokes alluding to basketball and Rodman's colorful costumes and comic asides are the extent of the film's stabs at humor.
DOUBLE TEAM
Sony Pictures Releasing
Columbia Pictures and
Mandalay Entertainment present
a Moshe Diamant production
a One Story Pictures production
a Tsui Hark film
Director Tsui Hark
Producer Moshe Diamant
Writers Don Jakoby, Paul Mones
Exec producers Don Jakoby, David Rodgers
Co-producers Rick Nathanson, Nansun Shi
Director of photography Peter Pau
Editor Bill Pankow
Production designer Marek Dobrowolski
Music Gary Chang
Costume designer Magali Guidasci
Casting Penny Perry, Illana Diamant
Color/stereo
Cast:
Quinn Jean-Claude Van Damme
Yaz Dennis Rodman
Stavros Mickey Rourke
Goldsmythe Paul Freeman
Running time -- 93 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
Beyond a few sequences with some of the Hark magic and the formidable presence of NBA superstar Dennis Rodman, the Columbia Pictures release is not exactly an airball, but it bounces around the rim and finally fails to go in.
The track record of emergent Hong Kong filmmakers working with Jean-Claude Van Damme and producer Moshe Diamant is anything but inspiring -- John Woo's "Hard Target" and Ringo Lam's "Maximum Risk" were both tepidly received by fans and failed to generate much heat in the marketplace. The same will happen to "Double Team", although action-film devotees might pump up the opening-weekend numbers.
Hark has made some of the finest Hong Kong features of the past 20-odd years ("Peking Opera Blues", "Once Upon a Time in China"), and he's been involved with more than 50 features as director, producer, writer and/or actor.
But Hark struggles with the material here, and Van Damme plays another cold, barely articulate hero. There is a halfhearted attempt to personalize the mayhem, with Van Damme's crack counterterrorist on the verge of retirement and looking forward to quieter days with his wife (Natacha Lindinger).
"Double Team" tips off with a big chase scene as Quinn (Van Damme) drives a "super truck" with stolen plutonium through and over numerous obstacles. Not long after, by the pool with his pregnant mate, Quinn is called upon to vanquish a ruthless international terrorist and is told: "You can't retire until he dies".
This perfunctory setup leads to an early showdown with said terrorist Stavros (Mickey Rourke) at an amusement park, after Quinn visits a funky arms dealer played by Rodman. In the elaborate firefight with Stavros, the villain's wife and child are killed and Quinn is nearly blown to bits. The bad guy lives on and the good guy is sent to the Colony, a think tank/prison for spies who are removed from active service but deemed too dangerous to be left alone in the world.
Unhappy with the turn of events -- his wife thinks he's dead and she's vulnerable to Stavros' revenge -- Quinn sets out to escape from the Colony. He accomplishes this by hitching a ride on a C-130 cargo plane in a wild sequence that's arguably the best in the film. Hooking up again with Rodman's character, the duo agree that the "best defense is offense."
Jokes alluding to basketball and Rodman's colorful costumes and comic asides are the extent of the film's stabs at humor.
DOUBLE TEAM
Sony Pictures Releasing
Columbia Pictures and
Mandalay Entertainment present
a Moshe Diamant production
a One Story Pictures production
a Tsui Hark film
Director Tsui Hark
Producer Moshe Diamant
Writers Don Jakoby, Paul Mones
Exec producers Don Jakoby, David Rodgers
Co-producers Rick Nathanson, Nansun Shi
Director of photography Peter Pau
Editor Bill Pankow
Production designer Marek Dobrowolski
Music Gary Chang
Costume designer Magali Guidasci
Casting Penny Perry, Illana Diamant
Color/stereo
Cast:
Quinn Jean-Claude Van Damme
Yaz Dennis Rodman
Stavros Mickey Rourke
Goldsmythe Paul Freeman
Running time -- 93 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
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