And now for something completely different. Maverick Korean auteur Kim Kim-duk is hopping over to China for his next project, and after years of working on microbudgets and failing to crack his own country's commercial realm, he's getting a supersized $24 million budget (+$6 million in P&A) to do it. The project is a war film with the tentative title Who Is God.After 21 films and a slew of international festival awards, including the Golden Lion from the Venice International Film Festival for Pieta (2012), Kim is one of the most well-known Korean filmmakers, but until now, he has strictly confined himself to the independent realm. Beyond the title, the only thing known about Who Is God is that it will focus on buddhism and...
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- 10/6/2015
- Screen Anarchy
So sweet! Kanye reveals his intense love for Kim in his new ‘Bound 2′ music video, which he sees as the ‘ultimate’ love letter to his fiance, a source tells HollywoodLife.com Exclusively.
Kanye West pulled out all the stops for fiance Kim Kardashian is his new music video for “Bound 2.” While the controversial video is sexy and incredibly intense, Kanye says its ultimate purpose is to profess his love to his future wife, a source tells HollywoodLife.com. Read on for all the Exclusive details!
Kanye West Loves Kim Kardashian — ‘Bound 2′ Video Is His Love Letter To Kim Kim Naked In Kanye 'Bound 2' Video Take Our Poll
Kanye, 36, wants Kim, 33, — and the rest of the world — to know how deep his love for her is, and he took the opportunity to show her just that in his new music video.
“He’s paying homage to his future wife and...
Kanye West pulled out all the stops for fiance Kim Kardashian is his new music video for “Bound 2.” While the controversial video is sexy and incredibly intense, Kanye says its ultimate purpose is to profess his love to his future wife, a source tells HollywoodLife.com. Read on for all the Exclusive details!
Kanye West Loves Kim Kardashian — ‘Bound 2′ Video Is His Love Letter To Kim Kim Naked In Kanye 'Bound 2' Video Take Our Poll
Kanye, 36, wants Kim, 33, — and the rest of the world — to know how deep his love for her is, and he took the opportunity to show her just that in his new music video.
“He’s paying homage to his future wife and...
- 11/19/2013
- by ericraymitchellhl
- HollywoodLife
Ready for one of the ugliest battles in "Housewives" history?
On this Sunday's episode of "Real Housewives Of New Jersey" (July 14 at 8 p.m. Et on Bravo), brother-in-laws Joe Gorga annd Joe Giudice will have it out after years of built-up anger.
In Bravo's extended preview (above), Gorga calls his sister Teresa Giudice scum, setting her husband off.
When Giudice walks up to Gorga and says, "Hey Joe, apologize!" Gorga charges and it's not pretty. Get a sneak peek of the epic physical brawl that ensues above.
Sadly, this isn't the last physical fight fans will see on "Real Housewives of New Jersey" in its current fifth season. It was previously reported that a "bloody brawl" broke out at the opening of "Rhonj" regular Kim Kim DePaola's Posche 2 boutique in Ridgewood, N.J. in March. Joe Gorga confronted a man named Jonathan who had been spreading rumors about his wife Melissa,...
On this Sunday's episode of "Real Housewives Of New Jersey" (July 14 at 8 p.m. Et on Bravo), brother-in-laws Joe Gorga annd Joe Giudice will have it out after years of built-up anger.
In Bravo's extended preview (above), Gorga calls his sister Teresa Giudice scum, setting her husband off.
When Giudice walks up to Gorga and says, "Hey Joe, apologize!" Gorga charges and it's not pretty. Get a sneak peek of the epic physical brawl that ensues above.
Sadly, this isn't the last physical fight fans will see on "Real Housewives of New Jersey" in its current fifth season. It was previously reported that a "bloody brawl" broke out at the opening of "Rhonj" regular Kim Kim DePaola's Posche 2 boutique in Ridgewood, N.J. in March. Joe Gorga confronted a man named Jonathan who had been spreading rumors about his wife Melissa,...
- 7/12/2013
- by Leigh Weingus
- Huffington Post
Stars of "The Real Housewives of New Jersey" have not even finished filming Season 5 and a bloody brawl has already been caught on camera.
The fight went down on March 30 at the opening of "Real Housewives" regular Kim Kim DePaola's Posche 2 boutique in Ridgewood, N.J., and Teresa Giudice's feud with Melissa Gorga was at the center of it all, according to RadarOnline.com.
The drama began when Melissa's husband, Joe, confronted a man named Jonathan who has been spreading rumors about his wife. That man claimed Teresa was giving him the information. Then Jacqueline Laurita's husband, Chris, got involved to confront Jonathan about making fun of his autistic son, and things turned violent.
“Jonathan was not backing down, and that’s when they all started to exchange blows!” a source told Radar. “Jacqueline kicked off her shoes and bitch smacked Jonathan on the back of his head!
The fight went down on March 30 at the opening of "Real Housewives" regular Kim Kim DePaola's Posche 2 boutique in Ridgewood, N.J., and Teresa Giudice's feud with Melissa Gorga was at the center of it all, according to RadarOnline.com.
The drama began when Melissa's husband, Joe, confronted a man named Jonathan who has been spreading rumors about his wife. That man claimed Teresa was giving him the information. Then Jacqueline Laurita's husband, Chris, got involved to confront Jonathan about making fun of his autistic son, and things turned violent.
“Jonathan was not backing down, and that’s when they all started to exchange blows!” a source told Radar. “Jacqueline kicked off her shoes and bitch smacked Jonathan on the back of his head!
- 4/4/2013
- by Cavan Sieczkowski
- Huffington Post
(As promised, we still have a couple of straggler reviews left to wind down our Venice coverage, kicking off with the film that wound up taking the gold -- and which I caught up with on the festival's final evening.) Venice -- As a general rule of thumb, no film that opens on an image of a rusty meat hook is going to rival “The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel” in the innocuous-crowdpleaser stakes. Sweatily, almost loving lit in such a way that suggests the “Saw” franchise hasn't entirely missed batty Korean auteur Kim Kim-duk's cultural radar, that hook – which almost...
- 9/11/2012
- by Guy Lodge
- Hitfix
Kim and Kanye are obsessed with each other right now but not everyone is a huge fan of their relationship -- read on to find out what her friends are saying! Kim Kardashian is plowing full speed ahead with her relationship but her friends are concerned. HollywoodLife.com can tell you that Kim's friends are very happy with Kim dating Kanye West. "I just don't get it," a source tell us. "There relationship is so strange and none of her friends understand what she's thinking right now. They just are an odd fit." We told you how they publicly flaunted their love in NYC and went to see The Hunger Games and how Kim slept over at Kanye's West Village apartment. Kim has been pretty quiet about the relationship but she isn't denying it! We also told you that Kim is planning an exotic trip with Kanye -- do you...
- 4/18/2012
- by Chloe Melas
- HollywoodLife
A paranoid parade of conspiracy theories has sprung up around the whirlwind marriage of Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries, which lasted a mere 72 days but nevertheless netted the couple a big payday. However, a new possibility for the quick break-up of the marriage emerges from a close viewing of Monday’s season premiere of Koopa and Koolio Annex New Haven: Maybe Humphries just didn’t want to live with insane people. A source close to Humphries tells EW, “In the episode, Kris reacted like any normal newlywed husband would when a new sister-in-law brings a naked yoga instructor into his...
- 11/29/2011
- by Darren Franich
- EW.com - PopWatch
Dv8 Films
There is a certain scrappy charm to "Bunny Chow: Know Thyself", the story of three struggling Johannesburg stand-up comics who take a road trip to a gig at an outdoor rock festival and discover that life has a way of delivering sharply executed punch lines of its own.
Shot in no-frills black and white by first-timer John Barker, this slice-of-life picture has a loose, youthful energy recalling early Spike Lee that is entirely fitting for a country that is enjoying a cultural growth spurt.
In its more polite, culinary vernacular, a bunny chow is a hollowed-out hunk of bread filled with a mixture of meat and vegetables that is meant for sharing. It also serves as a handy metaphor for the melting pot of cultures that is contemporary South Africa.
Playing casually autobiographical versions of themselves are David Kibuuka as Dave, a dishwasher who is determined to hit it big as a comic even though he has yet to have a decent set onstage; Kagiso Lediga as Kags, Dave's more established mentor whose womanizing ways are putting an understandable strain on his relationship with the beautiful but insecure Kim Kim Engelbrecht).
Rounding out the trio is Joey Yusuf Rasdien as Joey, a Muslim finding it tricky to reconcile his faith with the various temptations that go with the stand-up territory, much to the irritation of his Chinese girlfriend, Angela (Angela Chow).
Director Barker and his three lead characters all worked the same sketch comedy show ("The Pure Monate Show"), and that previous relationship serves their improvisational approach effectively here though there are the occasional times when those now-you-see-'em-now-you-don't subtitles go AWOL just when some of that hip Johannesburg dialect kicks into overdrive.
There is a certain scrappy charm to "Bunny Chow: Know Thyself", the story of three struggling Johannesburg stand-up comics who take a road trip to a gig at an outdoor rock festival and discover that life has a way of delivering sharply executed punch lines of its own.
Shot in no-frills black and white by first-timer John Barker, this slice-of-life picture has a loose, youthful energy recalling early Spike Lee that is entirely fitting for a country that is enjoying a cultural growth spurt.
In its more polite, culinary vernacular, a bunny chow is a hollowed-out hunk of bread filled with a mixture of meat and vegetables that is meant for sharing. It also serves as a handy metaphor for the melting pot of cultures that is contemporary South Africa.
Playing casually autobiographical versions of themselves are David Kibuuka as Dave, a dishwasher who is determined to hit it big as a comic even though he has yet to have a decent set onstage; Kagiso Lediga as Kags, Dave's more established mentor whose womanizing ways are putting an understandable strain on his relationship with the beautiful but insecure Kim Kim Engelbrecht).
Rounding out the trio is Joey Yusuf Rasdien as Joey, a Muslim finding it tricky to reconcile his faith with the various temptations that go with the stand-up territory, much to the irritation of his Chinese girlfriend, Angela (Angela Chow).
Director Barker and his three lead characters all worked the same sketch comedy show ("The Pure Monate Show"), and that previous relationship serves their improvisational approach effectively here though there are the occasional times when those now-you-see-'em-now-you-don't subtitles go AWOL just when some of that hip Johannesburg dialect kicks into overdrive.
- 11/7/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
This sequel to "The Blair Witch Project" boldly eschews nearly everything that made the original film a phenomenon. None of the original characters returns -- which makes sense because the first movie assumes their demise -- the no-budget, faux documentary conceit is completely dropped, and an entirely new story is created. In other words, "Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2" is a conventional horror flick.
It's better made than the original, and its writing contains subtlety and wit the original film lacked. However, these pluses may be minuses for "Blair Witch" fans. After all, what they liked about original film was its rule-breaking approach and crude production technique. This sequel seems almost perversely designed to be liked by those who hated the original.
"Shadows" is destined to win terrific opening-weekend numbers. But a movie that looks like a traditional horror film might well act like one at the boxoffice, with a sizable drop-off in the second week. Artisan will do fine once all the numbers are in from ancillary business, but "Blair Witch" fans might feel disappointment that an anticipated confrontation with the Witch never takes place.
One curiosity is that the film marks the feature directorial debut of documentary filmmaker Joe Berlinger, whose "Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills" tells the true story of teenage boys in a small Southern town accused of gruesome ritualistic murders.
The movie begins with an amusing mini-documentary about the first film and the impact it has had on the mythical small town of Burkittsville, Md. The story then picks up five characters who are obsessed with the first movie.
Jeff (Jeff Donovan), newly released from a mental institute (but of course), has turned "The Blair Witch Project" into a business. He sells memorabilia on the Internet and takes adventurers on a tour of the Witch's Black Hills sites.
His clients include grad students Tristen (Tristen Skyler), fretting over her unwanted pregnancy, and her anal boyfriend Stephen Stephen Barker Turner). The two are writing a book about the Witch but can't agree on a theme. Others include Erica (Erica Leerhsen), a practicing witch, and Kim Kim Director), a goth aficionado with psychic abilities.
The quintet is afflicted with a time-honored horror-movie disease, rampant stupidity. Spooky signs fail to dissuade them from camping for the night at one of the Witch's more sinister sites and, worse, getting loaded on pot and beer.
They wake up to the realization they cannot account for five hours during the night. All of their camera equipment has been trashed, but Kim the psychic immediately finds the tapes buried nearby. After a quick trip to the hospital so Tristen can take care of her miscarriage, they retreat to Jeff's home in an abandoned warehouse. Here they replay the tapes to recapture what happened.
Soon, the little group unravels. They are plagued by weird skin rashes, strange visions of bloodshed and images of the Witch herself. Vicious fights break out. Then the tapes reveal them to have participated in orgiastic rites. When the police discover that another group of Blair Witch tourists was gruesomely slaughtered in the woods, the quintet are immediate suspects.
Berlinger, working from his and Dick Beebe's well-structured script, turns the story into a nifty essay on mass hysteria.
The film is not without its stylish flourishes as Berlinger mixes in bits of digital video, Hi-8 video and computer graphics. In fact, without revealing too much, one can say that the key to the plot and its resolution revolves around the difference between video and film.
BOOK OF SHADOWS:
BLAIR WITCH 2
Artisan Entertainment
Artisan Entertainment
and Haxan Entertainment
Producer: Bill Carraro
Director: Joe Berlinger
Screenwriters: Dick Beebe, Joe Berlinger
Executive producers: Daniel Myrick,
Eduardo Sanchez
Director of photography: Nancy Schreiber
Production designer: Vince Peranio
Music: Carter Burwell
Costume designer: Melissa Toth
Editor: Sarah Flack
Color/stereo
Cast:
Jeff: Jeff Donovan
Tristen: Tristen Skyler
Stephen: Stephen Barker Turner
Erica: Erica Leerhsen
Kim: Kim Director
Sheriff Cravens: Lanny Flaherty
Running time - 90 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
It's better made than the original, and its writing contains subtlety and wit the original film lacked. However, these pluses may be minuses for "Blair Witch" fans. After all, what they liked about original film was its rule-breaking approach and crude production technique. This sequel seems almost perversely designed to be liked by those who hated the original.
"Shadows" is destined to win terrific opening-weekend numbers. But a movie that looks like a traditional horror film might well act like one at the boxoffice, with a sizable drop-off in the second week. Artisan will do fine once all the numbers are in from ancillary business, but "Blair Witch" fans might feel disappointment that an anticipated confrontation with the Witch never takes place.
One curiosity is that the film marks the feature directorial debut of documentary filmmaker Joe Berlinger, whose "Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills" tells the true story of teenage boys in a small Southern town accused of gruesome ritualistic murders.
The movie begins with an amusing mini-documentary about the first film and the impact it has had on the mythical small town of Burkittsville, Md. The story then picks up five characters who are obsessed with the first movie.
Jeff (Jeff Donovan), newly released from a mental institute (but of course), has turned "The Blair Witch Project" into a business. He sells memorabilia on the Internet and takes adventurers on a tour of the Witch's Black Hills sites.
His clients include grad students Tristen (Tristen Skyler), fretting over her unwanted pregnancy, and her anal boyfriend Stephen Stephen Barker Turner). The two are writing a book about the Witch but can't agree on a theme. Others include Erica (Erica Leerhsen), a practicing witch, and Kim Kim Director), a goth aficionado with psychic abilities.
The quintet is afflicted with a time-honored horror-movie disease, rampant stupidity. Spooky signs fail to dissuade them from camping for the night at one of the Witch's more sinister sites and, worse, getting loaded on pot and beer.
They wake up to the realization they cannot account for five hours during the night. All of their camera equipment has been trashed, but Kim the psychic immediately finds the tapes buried nearby. After a quick trip to the hospital so Tristen can take care of her miscarriage, they retreat to Jeff's home in an abandoned warehouse. Here they replay the tapes to recapture what happened.
Soon, the little group unravels. They are plagued by weird skin rashes, strange visions of bloodshed and images of the Witch herself. Vicious fights break out. Then the tapes reveal them to have participated in orgiastic rites. When the police discover that another group of Blair Witch tourists was gruesomely slaughtered in the woods, the quintet are immediate suspects.
Berlinger, working from his and Dick Beebe's well-structured script, turns the story into a nifty essay on mass hysteria.
The film is not without its stylish flourishes as Berlinger mixes in bits of digital video, Hi-8 video and computer graphics. In fact, without revealing too much, one can say that the key to the plot and its resolution revolves around the difference between video and film.
BOOK OF SHADOWS:
BLAIR WITCH 2
Artisan Entertainment
Artisan Entertainment
and Haxan Entertainment
Producer: Bill Carraro
Director: Joe Berlinger
Screenwriters: Dick Beebe, Joe Berlinger
Executive producers: Daniel Myrick,
Eduardo Sanchez
Director of photography: Nancy Schreiber
Production designer: Vince Peranio
Music: Carter Burwell
Costume designer: Melissa Toth
Editor: Sarah Flack
Color/stereo
Cast:
Jeff: Jeff Donovan
Tristen: Tristen Skyler
Stephen: Stephen Barker Turner
Erica: Erica Leerhsen
Kim: Kim Director
Sheriff Cravens: Lanny Flaherty
Running time - 90 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
- 10/25/2000
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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