In today’s film news roundup, Kristen Stewart’s “Seberg” is getting a prime release date from Amazon and John Simmons, Debra Kaufman and Joe Alves have been selected for guild honors.
Release Date
Amazon Studios has given Kristen Stewart’s independent political thriller “Seberg” an awards-season release date of Dec. 13.
Amazon bought the film at the Berlin Film Festival. Jack O’Connell, Anthony Mackie, Margaret Qualley, Colm Meaney, Zazie Beetz, Vince Vaughn, Stephen Root, and Yvan Attal are also starring. Benedict Andrews directed from a script by Joe Shrapnel and Anna Waterhouse.
Stewart stars as actress Jean Seberg who clashes with the FBI as it attempts to discredit her through its Cointelpro program in retaliation for her support of the Black Panther Party. Those efforts included creating a false story in 1970 that the child Seberg was carrying was not fathered by her husband, but by a member of the Black Panther Party.
Release Date
Amazon Studios has given Kristen Stewart’s independent political thriller “Seberg” an awards-season release date of Dec. 13.
Amazon bought the film at the Berlin Film Festival. Jack O’Connell, Anthony Mackie, Margaret Qualley, Colm Meaney, Zazie Beetz, Vince Vaughn, Stephen Root, and Yvan Attal are also starring. Benedict Andrews directed from a script by Joe Shrapnel and Anna Waterhouse.
Stewart stars as actress Jean Seberg who clashes with the FBI as it attempts to discredit her through its Cointelpro program in retaliation for her support of the Black Panther Party. Those efforts included creating a false story in 1970 that the child Seberg was carrying was not fathered by her husband, but by a member of the Black Panther Party.
- 9/27/2019
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
"One of the most newsworthy items in this year's home-video calendar is the recent discovery of a horde of deleted material, long thought lost, that [David] Lynch cut from Blue Velvet to bring it from its rough length of four hours down to two," writes Jaime N Christley in Slant. Around 50 minutes of this material is included on MGM's new Blu-ray, out today. "Not only is this a Holy Grail for Lynchians, but these scenes can help to enrich anyone's appreciation and understanding of the film as we've come to know it over the past 25 years." Sean Axmaker shows us a 42-second clip we haven't seen before and Yahoo has another (see above). Earlier: Cath Clarke in the Guardian.
When Nick Rombes launched his ongoing year-long Blue Velvet Project at Filmmaker back in August — he's re-watching the film, pausing every 47 seconds and writing out his thoughts — he noted that, upon its theatrical release,...
When Nick Rombes launched his ongoing year-long Blue Velvet Project at Filmmaker back in August — he's re-watching the film, pausing every 47 seconds and writing out his thoughts — he noted that, upon its theatrical release,...
- 11/8/2011
- MUBI
Matt Zoller Seitz at Salon laments the death of the analog film movie camera: An article at the moviemaking technology website Creative Cow reports that the three major manufacturers of motion picture film cameras — Aaton, Arri and Panavision — have all ceased production of new cameras within the last year, and will only make digital movie cameras from now on. As the article’s author, Debra Kaufman, poignantly puts it, “Someone, somewhere in the world is now holding the last film camera ever to roll off the line.” What this means is that, even though purists may continue to shoot movies on film, film itself will may become increasingly hard to come by, use, develop and preserve. It also means that the film camera — invented in 1888 by Louis Augustin Le Prince — will become to cinema what typewriters are to literature. Anybody who still uses a Smith-Corona or Ibm Selectric typewriter knows...
- 10/18/2011
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
Many having been prophecizing the death of film for decades. Not the death of filmmaking, mind you, but the death of movies actually shot on film as opposed to digital technologies. Time and time again, however, film has proven resilient thanks to its higher resolution image quality and longevity. Artists simply won't let it die as it's still widely considered to be the ideal format for filmmaking, but in a few year's time, that decision may not be the artist's to make. A truly excellent article by Debra Kaufman over at Creative Cow Magazine outlines the current state of film production around the world and the future is looking dimmer than ever for fans of the physical medium. Kaufman reveals that the world's leading manufactures of film cameras - Arri...
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- 10/12/2011
- by Peter Hall
- Movies.com
By Debra Kaufman
No, we’re not talking about film festivals that travel around in a truck with a projector and reels.
We’re talking about festivals that screen and award movies made for the mobile platform: phones, laptops, iPods and any other device that travels easily. Some call it “cellphone cinema” and others “mobile moviemaking.” Whatever you call it, it’s growing as fast as the use of smartphones, which Nielsen Research ...
No, we’re not talking about film festivals that travel around in a truck with a projector and reels.
We’re talking about festivals that screen and award movies made for the mobile platform: phones, laptops, iPods and any other device that travels easily. Some call it “cellphone cinema” and others “mobile moviemaking.” Whatever you call it, it’s growing as fast as the use of smartphones, which Nielsen Research ...
- 4/29/2010
- by Lew Harris
- The Wrap
By Debra Kaufman
According to a report by the Open Mobile Video Coalition, which represents 900 broadcast TV stations, 45 U.S. TV stations across the nation are now broadcasting to mobile devices.
Mobile Digital Television, which was standardized and launched in 2009, is currently the most likely "one-to-many" broadcast solution when the "many" is many thousands or even millions of viewers.
Broadcasters utilize the same infrastructure as over-the-air broadcasts, splitting off a portion of the signal to send to mobile Dtv devices.
Mobile Dtv allows consumers to also ...
According to a report by the Open Mobile Video Coalition, which represents 900 broadcast TV stations, 45 U.S. TV stations across the nation are now broadcasting to mobile devices.
Mobile Digital Television, which was standardized and launched in 2009, is currently the most likely "one-to-many" broadcast solution when the "many" is many thousands or even millions of viewers.
Broadcasters utilize the same infrastructure as over-the-air broadcasts, splitting off a portion of the signal to send to mobile Dtv devices.
Mobile Dtv allows consumers to also ...
- 3/25/2010
- by Lisa Horowitz
- The Wrap
By Debra Kaufman
Want to learn how to conceptualize, writer, produce and post produce mobisodes?
If you live in Los Angeles, you’ll have two opportunities to learn from mobile content pioneer Frank Chindamo, President/Chief Creative Officer, Fun Little Movies.
Chindamo’s Fun Little Movies boasts a library of close to 2,000 films for mobile phones. His content is on the Google Android platform, iPhones (thanks to media agency Cross Mediawor...
Want to learn how to conceptualize, writer, produce and post produce mobisodes?
If you live in Los Angeles, you’ll have two opportunities to learn from mobile content pioneer Frank Chindamo, President/Chief Creative Officer, Fun Little Movies.
Chindamo’s Fun Little Movies boasts a library of close to 2,000 films for mobile phones. His content is on the Google Android platform, iPhones (thanks to media agency Cross Mediawor...
- 3/16/2010
- by Lew Harris
- The Wrap
By Debra Kaufman
Why should you care about the TV spectrum? In short, because the battle that’s brewing over it will impact TV, broadband and mobile.
First, some history: U.S. broadcasters moved to high-definition TV, following a 15-year development of the standard. HDTV took more spectrum than standard-definition TV -- which the broadcasters already had -- but allowed viewers to get HDTV or the stations to “multicast” or split the bigger signal into several stations, serving greater audiences.
In the past year, 800 U.S. broadcasters formed the Open Mobile Video Coalition to ...
Why should you care about the TV spectrum? In short, because the battle that’s brewing over it will impact TV, broadband and mobile.
First, some history: U.S. broadcasters moved to high-definition TV, following a 15-year development of the standard. HDTV took more spectrum than standard-definition TV -- which the broadcasters already had -- but allowed viewers to get HDTV or the stations to “multicast” or split the bigger signal into several stations, serving greater audiences.
In the past year, 800 U.S. broadcasters formed the Open Mobile Video Coalition to ...
- 3/11/2010
- by Lisa Horowitz
- The Wrap
By Debra Kaufman
The Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue that just hit newsstands gives readers a way to instantly receive videos of the models on their phones.
They’re called JAGTAGs and TheWrap readers can give it a try by clicking here. Access the exclusive content by sending a photo of a “mobile beauty,” which will return a video via Mms directly to your phone.
Unlike other 2D barcodes, Jagtag delivers swimsuit videos to both standard phones and smartphones wi...
The Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue that just hit newsstands gives readers a way to instantly receive videos of the models on their phones.
They’re called JAGTAGs and TheWrap readers can give it a try by clicking here. Access the exclusive content by sending a photo of a “mobile beauty,” which will return a video via Mms directly to your phone.
Unlike other 2D barcodes, Jagtag delivers swimsuit videos to both standard phones and smartphones wi...
- 2/11/2010
- by Lisa Horowitz
- The Wrap
By Debra Kaufman
If you like documentaries and mobile content, life is about to get much more interesting. Cinelan, a library of three-minute films by award-winning filmmakers, just signed a mobile/Internet distribution deal with Babelgum.
Cinelan, launched the beginning of 2008, is a company founded by filmmaker Morgan Spurlock ("Super Size Me," "Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden" and the soon-to-debut "The Simpsons 20th Anniversary Special - in 3D! On Ice!") got together with branding guru David Wales and Arts Alliance Managing Partner Thomas Hoegh. <img src="/...
If you like documentaries and mobile content, life is about to get much more interesting. Cinelan, a library of three-minute films by award-winning filmmakers, just signed a mobile/Internet distribution deal with Babelgum.
Cinelan, launched the beginning of 2008, is a company founded by filmmaker Morgan Spurlock ("Super Size Me," "Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden" and the soon-to-debut "The Simpsons 20th Anniversary Special - in 3D! On Ice!") got together with branding guru David Wales and Arts Alliance Managing Partner Thomas Hoegh. <img src="/...
- 1/26/2010
- by Lew Harris
- The Wrap
Debra Kaufman is the editor and founder of MobilizedTV , an online newsletter that covers content on mobile devices. She has covered the entertainment industry for over 20 years, writing about new media, entertainment technology and other topics for the Hollywood Reporter, Variety, Film & Video and many others. Her work has also been published in Wired, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times and American Cinematographer.
- 1/26/2010
- by Lew Harris
- The Wrap
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