Italy’s Open Reel has taken on international sales for Giulio Donato’s debut feature Labyrinths and has also unveiled a string of US deals for titles on its slate.
Written and directed by Donato, Labyrinths tells the story of two friends who take opposite paths in life from the repressed, difficult society they were born into in the rugged mountains of Italy’s southern region of Calabria.
Donato has previously worked as an assistant director to directors such as Abel Ferrara and Mimmo Calopresti. The film is produced by Life Cinema and with the support of Italy’s Ministry of Culture.
Written and directed by Donato, Labyrinths tells the story of two friends who take opposite paths in life from the repressed, difficult society they were born into in the rugged mountains of Italy’s southern region of Calabria.
Donato has previously worked as an assistant director to directors such as Abel Ferrara and Mimmo Calopresti. The film is produced by Life Cinema and with the support of Italy’s Ministry of Culture.
- 5/1/2024
- ScreenDaily
Italy’s Open Reel has taken on international sales for Julio Donato’s debut feature Labyrinths and has also unveiled a string of US deals for titles on its slate.
Written and directed by Donato, Labyrinths tells the story of two friends who take opposite paths in life from the repressed, difficult society they were born into in the rugged mountains of Italy’s southern region of Calabria.
Donato has previously worked as an assistant director to directors such as Abel Ferrara and Mimmo Calopresti. The film is produced by Life Cinema and with the support of Italy’s Ministry of Culture.
Written and directed by Donato, Labyrinths tells the story of two friends who take opposite paths in life from the repressed, difficult society they were born into in the rugged mountains of Italy’s southern region of Calabria.
Donato has previously worked as an assistant director to directors such as Abel Ferrara and Mimmo Calopresti. The film is produced by Life Cinema and with the support of Italy’s Ministry of Culture.
- 5/1/2024
- ScreenDaily
Italy’s Open Reel has taken on international sales for Julio Donato’s debut feature Labyrinths and has also unveiled a string of US deals for titles on its slate.
Written and directed by Donato, Labyrinths tells the story of two friends who take opposite paths in life from the repressed, difficult society they were born into in the rugged mountains of Italy’s southern region of Calabria.
Donato has previously worked as an assistant director to directors such as Abel Ferrara and Mimmo Calopresti. The film is produced by Life Cinema and with the support of Italy’s Ministry of Culture.
Written and directed by Donato, Labyrinths tells the story of two friends who take opposite paths in life from the repressed, difficult society they were born into in the rugged mountains of Italy’s southern region of Calabria.
Donato has previously worked as an assistant director to directors such as Abel Ferrara and Mimmo Calopresti. The film is produced by Life Cinema and with the support of Italy’s Ministry of Culture.
- 5/1/2024
- ScreenDaily
“Los caminantes de la calle,” directed by Argentina’s Juan Martín Hsu, Chilean Ignacio Pávez’s docu-fiction drama “An Amputee” and Uruguayan Lorenzo Tocco’s “For God’s Sake” proved the biggest winners at the Malaga Festival’s Mafiz industry area awards, announced at a ceremony on Friday night.
Covering Malaga’s Work in Progress showcase, its Málaga Festival Fund Co-Production forum (Maff) and the Spanish Screenings Content – Málaga Short Corner, prizes were divvied up among a slew of titles, with ‘Sometimes,’ by Sara Fantova and Enrique Buleo’s ‘Still Life With Ghosts,’ both scoring multiple awards.
From his first feature, 2015’s “La Salada,” a patchwork narrative tale of immigrants’ lives, dreams and suffering in Argentina, to 2021’s “La Luna Reprenta Mi Corazon,” a docu feature record of the rencounter with his mother in Taiwan, Hsu has carved out a niche depicting the immigrant experience in Argentina. In “Los caminantes de la calle,...
Covering Malaga’s Work in Progress showcase, its Málaga Festival Fund Co-Production forum (Maff) and the Spanish Screenings Content – Málaga Short Corner, prizes were divvied up among a slew of titles, with ‘Sometimes,’ by Sara Fantova and Enrique Buleo’s ‘Still Life With Ghosts,’ both scoring multiple awards.
From his first feature, 2015’s “La Salada,” a patchwork narrative tale of immigrants’ lives, dreams and suffering in Argentina, to 2021’s “La Luna Reprenta Mi Corazon,” a docu feature record of the rencounter with his mother in Taiwan, Hsu has carved out a niche depicting the immigrant experience in Argentina. In “Los caminantes de la calle,...
- 3/8/2024
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Netflix Celebrating 1974 Cinema With 50th Anniversary Collection Including Horror Movie ‘It’s Alive’
Netflix may be the top streaming service on the planet but they’ve never been great at putting classic movies into the feeds of their subscribers. A quick glance at the streaming service at any given time will mostly assault your eyeballs with new originals and recent hits, with older movies from the 70s, 60s, 50s and earlier being almost completely absent from the service.
That’s why it’s great to hear that Netflix is currently celebrating the cinema of 1974, and it’s the first phase of their Milestone Movies: The Anniversary Collection initiative.
Netflix explains the project, “Starting this month on Netflix in the US, you can watch a robust roster of movies released in 1974 and turning the big 5-0 this year.”
Additionally, “More offerings from 1984 (turning 40), 1994 (turning 30), and 2004 will follow in April, July, and October, respectively.”
Netflix’s 1974 Collection is now streaming, and it includes Larry Cohen’s killer baby horror movie,...
That’s why it’s great to hear that Netflix is currently celebrating the cinema of 1974, and it’s the first phase of their Milestone Movies: The Anniversary Collection initiative.
Netflix explains the project, “Starting this month on Netflix in the US, you can watch a robust roster of movies released in 1974 and turning the big 5-0 this year.”
Additionally, “More offerings from 1984 (turning 40), 1994 (turning 30), and 2004 will follow in April, July, and October, respectively.”
Netflix’s 1974 Collection is now streaming, and it includes Larry Cohen’s killer baby horror movie,...
- 1/17/2024
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
erea Barros, both make their market debut at next March’s Malaga Festival Fund & Co-Production Event (Maff), one of the top forums for arthouse projects in the Spanish-speaking world.
Some seven further projects have been added to the initial opine announced at December’s Ventana Sur, including a pair from Paraguay, Málaga’s country of honour, and “Women in the City,” a doc feature exec produced by Rafael Cobos, creator, director and showrunner of the Canneseries-awarded show, “El hijo zurdo.”
Proving the possibility to carve out an international film career based out of Panama, “The Simple Life” (“La Vida Simple”) marks the sixth feature from Benaim, Oscar shortlisted for “Plaza Catedral.”
Marking a departure, “The Simple Life” looks like a more personal turn, about a film director, sans camera and crew, in Panama, compelled by unforeseen circumstances to live the very movie he’s longed to capture on film, suffering existential crisis.
Some seven further projects have been added to the initial opine announced at December’s Ventana Sur, including a pair from Paraguay, Málaga’s country of honour, and “Women in the City,” a doc feature exec produced by Rafael Cobos, creator, director and showrunner of the Canneseries-awarded show, “El hijo zurdo.”
Proving the possibility to carve out an international film career based out of Panama, “The Simple Life” (“La Vida Simple”) marks the sixth feature from Benaim, Oscar shortlisted for “Plaza Catedral.”
Marking a departure, “The Simple Life” looks like a more personal turn, about a film director, sans camera and crew, in Panama, compelled by unforeseen circumstances to live the very movie he’s longed to capture on film, suffering existential crisis.
- 1/12/2024
- by John Hopewell and Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
Hey, "Today Show" fans. It's that time again. We're back to let you know that NBC will indeed drop another new episode of the Today Show on you this morning, July 20, 2023, and we've got some new preview information for it straight from NBC's official, July 20, 2023 episode press release. So, let's get into it. The first description for the 6am to 8am central standard time slot episode reveals that there will be a segment titled, "Shark Watch on Today: Marine Biologist Andriana Fragola Up Close and Personal with Sharks Shares What She Has Learned About the Apex Predators." The second description reveals that there will be a segment featuring A Friend Honors a Fallen Cop on the Anniversary. The 3rd description reveals that there will be a segment titled, "Shop All Day: Soak Up Summer."...
- 7/20/2023
- by Andre Braddox
- OnTheFlix
International sales agency The Open Reel has unveiled the first trailer for director-producer Quentin Lee’s “Last Summer of Nathan Lee.”
Inspired by a real life incident from Lee’s high school years, the film follows the titular Nathan Lee, a teenager who finds out that he has brain cancer just before he turns 18, vows to live the remains of his life with passion and refuses to die a virgin.
The cast includes Harrison Xu, Matthew Mitchell Espinosa, Natasha Tina Liu, Aaron Guest and Dru Perez. The film is produced by Lee’s Margin Films, with screenwriter Dennis Escobedo and casting director Kit DeZolt also serving as producers alongside Lee.
“Last Summer of Nathan Lee” will have its world premiere at The Center for Asian American Media (Caam)’s CAAMFest 2023, which will take place from May 11 to 21.
Meanwhile, The Open Reel has also closed a number of sales on its slate titles.
Inspired by a real life incident from Lee’s high school years, the film follows the titular Nathan Lee, a teenager who finds out that he has brain cancer just before he turns 18, vows to live the remains of his life with passion and refuses to die a virgin.
The cast includes Harrison Xu, Matthew Mitchell Espinosa, Natasha Tina Liu, Aaron Guest and Dru Perez. The film is produced by Lee’s Margin Films, with screenwriter Dennis Escobedo and casting director Kit DeZolt also serving as producers alongside Lee.
“Last Summer of Nathan Lee” will have its world premiere at The Center for Asian American Media (Caam)’s CAAMFest 2023, which will take place from May 11 to 21.
Meanwhile, The Open Reel has also closed a number of sales on its slate titles.
- 4/12/2023
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Many have tried to define Bette Davis, but few have succeeded. Nobody stormed into Hollywood and changed it forever as she did. She took great delight in playing tough, complicated women, the kind of women who loved men, like most female characters in early Hollywood. And although these were women who loved men, they didn't need them to survive. Davis was exceptionally confident and was never afraid to speak the truth. Whether it was a bad script or a director she didn't like, Bette Davis made sure they knew they weren't up to her talents.
Davis brought incredible honesty to her roles, making the characters she played seem like real human beings. That's all the more impressive, considering that many female parts at the time were two-dimensional. She earned an incredible 11 Oscar nominations throughout her career, though somehow, she only won two.
While there will always be talk about the...
Davis brought incredible honesty to her roles, making the characters she played seem like real human beings. That's all the more impressive, considering that many female parts at the time were two-dimensional. She earned an incredible 11 Oscar nominations throughout her career, though somehow, she only won two.
While there will always be talk about the...
- 2/19/2023
- by Barry Levitt
- Slash Film
“full of claustrophobic dread and psychological mystery” – Bloody-Disgusting
Rlje Films, a business unit of AMC Networks, has picked up select rights to the horror film, Caveat fromShudder, AMC Networks’ premium streaming service for horror, thriller and the supernatural. Rlje Films will release CAVEATon VOD, Digital HD, DVD and Blu-ray on November 16, 2021.
Now you can win the Win the Blu-ray of Caveat. We Are Movie Geeks has two to give away. Just leave a comment below telling us what your favorite scary movie that starts with the letter ‘C’ is (I’d say Carnival Of Souls. It’s so easy!)
1. You Must Be A US Resident. Prize Will Only Be Shipped To US Addresses. No P.O. Boxes. No Duplicate Addresses.
2. Winner Will Be Chosen From All Qualifying Entries. No Purchase Necessary
Written and directed by Damian Mc Carthy in his feature directorial debut, Caveat stars Ben Caplan (“Band of Brothers...
Rlje Films, a business unit of AMC Networks, has picked up select rights to the horror film, Caveat fromShudder, AMC Networks’ premium streaming service for horror, thriller and the supernatural. Rlje Films will release CAVEATon VOD, Digital HD, DVD and Blu-ray on November 16, 2021.
Now you can win the Win the Blu-ray of Caveat. We Are Movie Geeks has two to give away. Just leave a comment below telling us what your favorite scary movie that starts with the letter ‘C’ is (I’d say Carnival Of Souls. It’s so easy!)
1. You Must Be A US Resident. Prize Will Only Be Shipped To US Addresses. No P.O. Boxes. No Duplicate Addresses.
2. Winner Will Be Chosen From All Qualifying Entries. No Purchase Necessary
Written and directed by Damian Mc Carthy in his feature directorial debut, Caveat stars Ben Caplan (“Band of Brothers...
- 11/9/2021
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
The summer movie season may be winding down, but HBO Max is keeping the movie ball rolling in September 2021. HBO Max’s list of new releases this month is heavy on the film side of things – both in library and original offerings.
Two Warner Bros. films of note arrive this month. The James Wan-directed horror tale Malignant premieres on Sept. 10 and is followed by Clint Eastwood’s Cry Macho on Sept. 17. The next installment in Adventure Time: Distant Lands (which is kind of like a film series!) is titled Wizard City and opens the month on Sept. 2
Of course, it wouldn’t be a new month of HBO Max releases without some interesting evergreen Warner movie titles. Sept. 1 finds all eight Harry Potter movies returning to WarnerMedia’s streaming service. They will be accompanied by The Goonies, The Evil Dead, Cloverfield, and more. Later on in the month, Mortal Kombat (Sept.
Two Warner Bros. films of note arrive this month. The James Wan-directed horror tale Malignant premieres on Sept. 10 and is followed by Clint Eastwood’s Cry Macho on Sept. 17. The next installment in Adventure Time: Distant Lands (which is kind of like a film series!) is titled Wizard City and opens the month on Sept. 2
Of course, it wouldn’t be a new month of HBO Max releases without some interesting evergreen Warner movie titles. Sept. 1 finds all eight Harry Potter movies returning to WarnerMedia’s streaming service. They will be accompanied by The Goonies, The Evil Dead, Cloverfield, and more. Later on in the month, Mortal Kombat (Sept.
- 8/30/2021
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
Legendary screenwriter collaborated with scores of filmmakers including Jacques Tati, Luis Buñuel, Milos Foreman and Louis Malle.
French screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière, whose 60-year career spanned more than 150 writer credits and collaborations with Jacques Tati, Luis Buñuel, Milos Foreman and Louis Malle, has died in Paris aged 89.
Born into a family of winegrowers in south-western France, Carrière moved to the outskirts of Paris at the age of 14 when his parents took over the running of a bar.
After obtaining a degree in history and literature, he embarked on a writing career, publishing debut novel Lezard in 1957. Set against the backdrop of a restaurant in the suburbs,...
French screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière, whose 60-year career spanned more than 150 writer credits and collaborations with Jacques Tati, Luis Buñuel, Milos Foreman and Louis Malle, has died in Paris aged 89.
Born into a family of winegrowers in south-western France, Carrière moved to the outskirts of Paris at the age of 14 when his parents took over the running of a bar.
After obtaining a degree in history and literature, he embarked on a writing career, publishing debut novel Lezard in 1957. Set against the backdrop of a restaurant in the suburbs,...
- 2/9/2021
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Bette Davis must have enjoyed making The Nanny, as she returned for a second Hammer Films project, this one a black comedy written by studio workhorse Jimmy Sangster. She’s another monstrous mom who torments her dysfunctional brood. We at Tfh like this one a lot more than David DeCoteau does.
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- 12/20/2019
- by TFH Team
- Trailers from Hell
Lucía Puenzo, Julio Hernández Cordón among participants
Six female directors and 11 female producers development projects in this year’s Proyecta co-production programme organised by Ventana Sur and San Sebastian Film Festival.
The event, set to take place in Buenos Aires on December 4, aims to match 16 feature projects at development stage from filmmakers in Latin America and Europe with financing and international distribution.
For the second consecutive year, producers will present selected projects at a pitching session to professionals from the international film industry, followed by a series of meetings to discuss the work and potential collaborations in greater depth.
Proyecta...
Six female directors and 11 female producers development projects in this year’s Proyecta co-production programme organised by Ventana Sur and San Sebastian Film Festival.
The event, set to take place in Buenos Aires on December 4, aims to match 16 feature projects at development stage from filmmakers in Latin America and Europe with financing and international distribution.
For the second consecutive year, producers will present selected projects at a pitching session to professionals from the international film industry, followed by a series of meetings to discuss the work and potential collaborations in greater depth.
Proyecta...
- 11/14/2019
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
Shooting for the film is underway on location in Malta.
UK actress Natascha McElhone has joined the cast of Valerie Buhagiar’s Maltese-Canadian drama Carmen in the titular role, with shooting underway on location on Malta.
Carmen is Maltese-Canadian filmmaker Buhagiar’s third feature, after 2014’s The Anniversary and 2018’s It’s Hard To Be Human.
McElhone most recently starred with Sean Penn in Hulu and Channel 4 series The First. She joins Steven Love, Michaela Farrugia, Richard Clarkin, Henry Zammit Cordina and Peter Galea on the film.
Shooting began on location in Malta at the start of this month.
UK actress Natascha McElhone has joined the cast of Valerie Buhagiar’s Maltese-Canadian drama Carmen in the titular role, with shooting underway on location on Malta.
Carmen is Maltese-Canadian filmmaker Buhagiar’s third feature, after 2014’s The Anniversary and 2018’s It’s Hard To Be Human.
McElhone most recently starred with Sean Penn in Hulu and Channel 4 series The First. She joins Steven Love, Michaela Farrugia, Richard Clarkin, Henry Zammit Cordina and Peter Galea on the film.
Shooting began on location in Malta at the start of this month.
- 7/19/2019
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Say what you will about Ryan Murphy’s Feud: Bette and Joan, which concludes its 8-episode run this Sunday, but for cinephiles it has been extraordinary to have had a major television series so steeped in the lore of Hollywood’s Golden Age. Dramatizing the production of Robert Aldrich’s 1962 Warner Brothers hit What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, the animosity of its rival stars, Joan Crawford and Bette Davis, and the aftermath of both, Feud requires a measure of familiarity with all the major players and their past lives in order to truly appreciate the poignancy of its moment.Despite its potential for high camp—and if nothing else Feud is a masterpiece of fabulous production and costume design—the show has proved to be remarkably alert to the predicament of women in Hollywood and the paranoia and regret that accompanies the back nine of the life of a Hollywood star.
- 4/21/2017
- MUBI
In a novel effort to stress that film noir wasn’t a film movement specifically an output solely produced for American audiences, Kino Lorber releases a five disc set of obscure noir examples released in the UK. Spanning a near ten year period from 1943 to 1952, the titles displayed here do seem to chart a progression in tone, at least resulting in parallels with American counterparts. Though a couple of the selections here aren’t very noteworthy, either as artifacts of British noir or items worthy of reappraisal, it does contain items of considerable interest, including rare titles from forgotten or underrated auteurs like Ronald Neame, Roy Ward Baker, and Ralph Thomas.
They Met in the Dark
The earliest title in this collection is a 1943 title from Karel Lamac, They Met in the Dark, a pseudo-comedy noir that barely meets the criteria. Based on a novel by Anthony Gilbert (whose novel...
They Met in the Dark
The earliest title in this collection is a 1943 title from Karel Lamac, They Met in the Dark, a pseudo-comedy noir that barely meets the criteria. Based on a novel by Anthony Gilbert (whose novel...
- 8/24/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Since the hubbub of Oscar season has finally died away and we can look past the strategy of campaigns, August: Osage County arrives on Blu-ray for reexamination. Perhaps distance and time will finally melt those rosy-tinted glasses so many seem to have donned for the experience of the film, as multiple viewings only enhance its creaky strokes of forced melodrama. As with her nomination for 1999’s Music of the Heart, her unnecessary accolades for this appear to be overwhelmingly kiss ass. It’s a mode we’ve seen Ms. Streep in before, that of the highly nuanced harpy with complicated and convoluted depth; only it all feels so incredibly constrained and affected that it’s difficult to believe a single minute of it.
When something sounds too good to be true, it often is, and while John Wells certainly wasn’t the most inspired choice to helm the adaptation of...
When something sounds too good to be true, it often is, and while John Wells certainly wasn’t the most inspired choice to helm the adaptation of...
- 4/8/2014
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Suffer the Children: Wells’ Adaptation Enjoyable Camp, Hinges on Grandiose Performances
When something sounds too good to be true, it often is, and while John Wells certainly wasn’t the most inspired choice to helm the adaptation of Tracy Letts’ Pulitzer Prize Winning play August: Osage County, its delirious cast lineup trumps all else. The film belongs to a bygone tradition of cinema adapted from famous stage plays, such as when Tennessee Williams and Edward Albee and Paul Zindel were all names on the tips of everyone’s tongues. While Letts has the potential to be as perversely humorous as any of them, this adaptation only shines in a handful of scenes, gummed up with disingenuous mortar on the way to each to one. Several cast members are in fine form, but most of them have the potential to distract rather than homogenize, and thus, Wells seems to have let...
When something sounds too good to be true, it often is, and while John Wells certainly wasn’t the most inspired choice to helm the adaptation of Tracy Letts’ Pulitzer Prize Winning play August: Osage County, its delirious cast lineup trumps all else. The film belongs to a bygone tradition of cinema adapted from famous stage plays, such as when Tennessee Williams and Edward Albee and Paul Zindel were all names on the tips of everyone’s tongues. While Letts has the potential to be as perversely humorous as any of them, this adaptation only shines in a handful of scenes, gummed up with disingenuous mortar on the way to each to one. Several cast members are in fine form, but most of them have the potential to distract rather than homogenize, and thus, Wells seems to have let...
- 12/26/2013
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
The unstoppable philistine known as Death claims another Trailers From Hell patron saint.
Horror legend Jimmy Sangster has died, which should — in your exploration of genre classics (or just watching through the numerous trailers for films that feature his name) — mean something to you. If it doesn’t, Tim Lucas has an all-encompassing reminder of why it should:
After his first screenwriting credit (Joseph Losey’s A Man On The Beach, 1955), Sangster’s list of screenplay credentials form an impressive overview of Britain’s contribution to fantastic cinema over four decades:
X – The Unknown (1956), Blood Of The Vampire (1958), The Mummy (1959), The Man Who Could Cheat Death (1959), The Hellfire Club (1959), Jack The Ripper (1960), The Terror Of The Tongs (1960), Taste Of Fear (aka Scream Of Fear, 1961), The Pirates Of Blood River (1961), Maniac (1963), Paranoiac (1963), Hysteria (1964), The Devil-ship Pirates (1964), The Nanny (1965, his personal favorite), the Bulldog Drummond adventure Deadlier Than The Male (1967), The Anniversary...
Horror legend Jimmy Sangster has died, which should — in your exploration of genre classics (or just watching through the numerous trailers for films that feature his name) — mean something to you. If it doesn’t, Tim Lucas has an all-encompassing reminder of why it should:
After his first screenwriting credit (Joseph Losey’s A Man On The Beach, 1955), Sangster’s list of screenplay credentials form an impressive overview of Britain’s contribution to fantastic cinema over four decades:
X – The Unknown (1956), Blood Of The Vampire (1958), The Mummy (1959), The Man Who Could Cheat Death (1959), The Hellfire Club (1959), Jack The Ripper (1960), The Terror Of The Tongs (1960), Taste Of Fear (aka Scream Of Fear, 1961), The Pirates Of Blood River (1961), Maniac (1963), Paranoiac (1963), Hysteria (1964), The Devil-ship Pirates (1964), The Nanny (1965, his personal favorite), the Bulldog Drummond adventure Deadlier Than The Male (1967), The Anniversary...
- 8/20/2011
- by Danny
- Trailers from Hell
We are saddened to hear of the passing of Jimmy Sangster today, at the age of 83. While Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing may be the first names Hammer Horror fans think of, Sangster was just as influential when it came to the success of Hammer’s films in the 50′s and 60′s.
Having written The Mummy, Horror of Dracula, and The Curse of Frankenstein, Jimmy Sangster was one of the men responsible for the creating some of Hammer’s most beloved films and horror franchises. After the success of those films, Sangster worked consistently with Hammer as a writer on dozens of films in the 60′s, including Dracula: Prince of Darkness. In the 70′s, Sangster tried his hand at directing and took on The Horror of Frankenstein and Lust For a Vampire.
Jimmy Sangster was married to his longtime wife and actress Mary Peach and they lived together in London.
Having written The Mummy, Horror of Dracula, and The Curse of Frankenstein, Jimmy Sangster was one of the men responsible for the creating some of Hammer’s most beloved films and horror franchises. After the success of those films, Sangster worked consistently with Hammer as a writer on dozens of films in the 60′s, including Dracula: Prince of Darkness. In the 70′s, Sangster tried his hand at directing and took on The Horror of Frankenstein and Lust For a Vampire.
Jimmy Sangster was married to his longtime wife and actress Mary Peach and they lived together in London.
- 8/19/2011
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
“My name is Bond - James Bond". That classic introduction to the cinema’s greatest secret agent is as famous as “I am Dracula, I bid you welcome.” When the box office success of Dr No (1962) turned the unknown Sean Connery into a movie legend, Hammer was never far away from the franchise. With their own films running parallel to the Bond series, Hammer and Eon Productions often made use of the same talent.
Dr No also marked the debuts of Bernard Lee (the first of 11 films as M) and Lois Maxwell (the first of 14 as Miss Moneypenny). Lee had a brief turn as Tarmut in Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell (1973) and despite never starring in a Hammer horror, Maxwell turned up in their early fifties thrillers Lady in the Fog (1953) and Mantrap (1954).
As doomed double-agent Professor Dent, Anthony Dawson is best known as the vile Marquis in Curse...
Dr No also marked the debuts of Bernard Lee (the first of 11 films as M) and Lois Maxwell (the first of 14 as Miss Moneypenny). Lee had a brief turn as Tarmut in Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell (1973) and despite never starring in a Hammer horror, Maxwell turned up in their early fifties thrillers Lady in the Fog (1953) and Mantrap (1954).
As doomed double-agent Professor Dent, Anthony Dawson is best known as the vile Marquis in Curse...
- 6/1/2011
- Shadowlocked
To quote The Art of Hammer introduction (which quotes the poster for the Hammer Films flick Creatures the World Forgot): “They don’t make them like this anymore.” Bloody, heaving boobs, wild-eyed vampires, lusty werewolves – nothing promises such lurid poster art like a Hammer Films collection.
Edited by Marcus Hearn, The Art of Hammer is a collection of rare Hammer Films posters from the golden age of the British studio’s output of glorious B (and sometimes C or D) horror flicks, creature features and quickie-noirs. The surprisingly brief introduction tells you just enough about the book’s intentions and the studio’s history to ground you, then steps aside and lets the posters tell their story.
And what a marvelous collection it is. For fans of schlocky old horror flicks, Hammer Studios is nothing short of legendary. They gave the world the Dracula movies with Christopher Lee as...
Edited by Marcus Hearn, The Art of Hammer is a collection of rare Hammer Films posters from the golden age of the British studio’s output of glorious B (and sometimes C or D) horror flicks, creature features and quickie-noirs. The surprisingly brief introduction tells you just enough about the book’s intentions and the studio’s history to ground you, then steps aside and lets the posters tell their story.
And what a marvelous collection it is. For fans of schlocky old horror flicks, Hammer Studios is nothing short of legendary. They gave the world the Dracula movies with Christopher Lee as...
- 12/14/2010
- by Anthony Vieira
- The Film Stage
Veteran British actress Sheila Hancock marvelled at how the acting industry had "changed immeasurably" as she collected her lifetime achievement honour at the 20th Women in Film and TV Awards on Friday.
The 77 year old made her West End debut in 1958 and has since carved out a successful career in TV and film, most notably starring alongside Bette Davis in 1968 movie The Anniversary.
She picked up a career tribute at the annual awards show in London and used her acceptance speech to share her delight at seeing so many women in top positions in the modern film and TV industry, noting the big change since she started out in showbusiness.
Joking about how she had been banished to playing a "ditzy blonde" for the first 20 years of her career, she said, "When I started in the business, there were no women in executive positions, no women producers or directors and certainly no camera women.
"We were destined to do very archetypal roles, very cliched things, so I was a dizzy blonde for years. It has changed immeasurably, not enough, but it has changed immeasurably."
Other winners at the awards included Carey Mulligan, who picked up the Best Performance trophy for her turn in last year's An Education, while Kick-Ass writer Jane Goldman won the writing prize.
The awards show was hosted by Julie Walters.
The 77 year old made her West End debut in 1958 and has since carved out a successful career in TV and film, most notably starring alongside Bette Davis in 1968 movie The Anniversary.
She picked up a career tribute at the annual awards show in London and used her acceptance speech to share her delight at seeing so many women in top positions in the modern film and TV industry, noting the big change since she started out in showbusiness.
Joking about how she had been banished to playing a "ditzy blonde" for the first 20 years of her career, she said, "When I started in the business, there were no women in executive positions, no women producers or directors and certainly no camera women.
"We were destined to do very archetypal roles, very cliched things, so I was a dizzy blonde for years. It has changed immeasurably, not enough, but it has changed immeasurably."
Other winners at the awards included Carey Mulligan, who picked up the Best Performance trophy for her turn in last year's An Education, while Kick-Ass writer Jane Goldman won the writing prize.
The awards show was hosted by Julie Walters.
- 12/5/2010
- WENN
Veteran British actress Sheila Hancock will be handed a lifetime achievement honour at the upcoming Women in Film and Television (Wftv) Awards.
The 77 year old made her West End debut in 1958 and has since carved out a successful career in TV and film, most notably starring alongside Bette Davis in 1968 movie The Anniversary.
She's recently ended a highly-acclaimed stint playing Mother Superior in the Sister Act musical in London, and now she's being honoured for her longstanding work in showbiz.
The Wftv Awards ceremony, hosted by Julie Walters, will take place in London on 3 December. Previous recipients of the lifetime achievement honour include Diana Rigg, Dame Judi Dench and Dame Maggie Smith.
The 77 year old made her West End debut in 1958 and has since carved out a successful career in TV and film, most notably starring alongside Bette Davis in 1968 movie The Anniversary.
She's recently ended a highly-acclaimed stint playing Mother Superior in the Sister Act musical in London, and now she's being honoured for her longstanding work in showbiz.
The Wftv Awards ceremony, hosted by Julie Walters, will take place in London on 3 December. Previous recipients of the lifetime achievement honour include Diana Rigg, Dame Judi Dench and Dame Maggie Smith.
- 11/26/2010
- WENN
By Lee Pfeiffer
Roy Ward Baker, the esteemed British film director, has died at age 93. Baker was one of the few remaining representatives of the golden age of British filmmaking. He worked in his early years with such giants as Alfred Hitchcock and Carol Reed before embarking on a directing career of his own. He was one of the pioneers in the early use of 3-D in the 1950s and directed Marilyn Monroe in Don't Bother to Knock, a film that greatly boosted her status as a leading lady. Baker was best known for his direction of the 1958 film A Night to Remember starring Kenneth More, Honor Blackman and David McCallum. The low-budget film was shot primarily at Pinewood Studios and depicted the sinking of the Titanic. Many film historians still believe it's the most dramatic and moving depiction of the tragedy ever brought to the screen. He also directed...
Roy Ward Baker, the esteemed British film director, has died at age 93. Baker was one of the few remaining representatives of the golden age of British filmmaking. He worked in his early years with such giants as Alfred Hitchcock and Carol Reed before embarking on a directing career of his own. He was one of the pioneers in the early use of 3-D in the 1950s and directed Marilyn Monroe in Don't Bother to Knock, a film that greatly boosted her status as a leading lady. Baker was best known for his direction of the 1958 film A Night to Remember starring Kenneth More, Honor Blackman and David McCallum. The low-budget film was shot primarily at Pinewood Studios and depicted the sinking of the Titanic. Many film historians still believe it's the most dramatic and moving depiction of the tragedy ever brought to the screen. He also directed...
- 10/13/2010
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
A Night To Remember director Roy Ward Baker has died. He was 93.
The British filmmaker passed away in his sleep at a London hospital on Tuesday.
Baker got his start making tea at Gainsborough Studios in the British capital before he was hired as an assistant director on Alfred Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.
He moved to Hollywood after World War II and directed Marilyn Monroe in the thriller Don't Bother to Knock as well as Bette Davis in The Anniversary, before notching up TV credits helming episodes of The Avengers, The Persuaders and Jason King.
Baker's best-known work was the 1958 movie A Night To Remember, which recreated the sinking of the Titanic.
The British filmmaker passed away in his sleep at a London hospital on Tuesday.
Baker got his start making tea at Gainsborough Studios in the British capital before he was hired as an assistant director on Alfred Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.
He moved to Hollywood after World War II and directed Marilyn Monroe in the thriller Don't Bother to Knock as well as Bette Davis in The Anniversary, before notching up TV credits helming episodes of The Avengers, The Persuaders and Jason King.
Baker's best-known work was the 1958 movie A Night To Remember, which recreated the sinking of the Titanic.
- 10/8/2010
- WENN
Film director whose quirky career covered sci-fi, westerns, drama and Hammer horror
Roy Ward Baker, who has died aged 93, progressed from teaboy to director of sturdy British dramas to weird Hammer horrors, via Hollywood. It was a rather quirky career for a very straightforward man. Baker – who directed Marilyn Monroe in Don't Bother to Knock and made the camp Mexican western The Singer Not the Song, the lesbian The Vampire Lovers and the transsexual Dr Jekyll and Sister Hyde – insisted on calling himself "a simple-minded English lad". Perhaps the film closest to his personality was A Night to Remember (1958), which many would argue is the best of the cinematic versions of the story of the sinking of the Titanic.
Roy Horace Baker (he frequently replaced his middle name with Ward, his mother's maiden name) was born in London into a middle-class family. As a boy, he was sent to study...
Roy Ward Baker, who has died aged 93, progressed from teaboy to director of sturdy British dramas to weird Hammer horrors, via Hollywood. It was a rather quirky career for a very straightforward man. Baker – who directed Marilyn Monroe in Don't Bother to Knock and made the camp Mexican western The Singer Not the Song, the lesbian The Vampire Lovers and the transsexual Dr Jekyll and Sister Hyde – insisted on calling himself "a simple-minded English lad". Perhaps the film closest to his personality was A Night to Remember (1958), which many would argue is the best of the cinematic versions of the story of the sinking of the Titanic.
Roy Horace Baker (he frequently replaced his middle name with Ward, his mother's maiden name) was born in London into a middle-class family. As a boy, he was sent to study...
- 10/8/2010
- by Ronald Bergan
- The Guardian - Film News
Marilyn Monroe, Don't Bother to Knock Roy Ward Baker, best known for directing Marilyn Monroe in her first dramatic lead, Don’t Bother to Knock (1952), for the 1958 Titanic drama A Night to Remember, and for handling an eyepatched Bette Davis in The Anniversary (1968), died on Oct. 5. Ward Baker (born on Dec. 16, 1914, in London) was 93. Among the filmmaker's other efforts — many of which for Hammer — are the sci-fier Quatermass and the Pit / Five Million Years to Earth (1967), with Andrew Keir as Professor Quatermass; Dr Jekyll & Sister Hyde (1971), in which Ralph Bates is turned into Martine Beswick; and the omnibus horror/sci-fier Asylum (1972), with an all-star cast that included Peter Cushing, Britt Ekland, Barbara Parkins, Charlotte Rampling, Herbert Lom, Richard Todd, and Sylvia Syms. On television, Ward Baker directed episodes for some of the best known British series, including The Saint and [...]...
- 10/8/2010
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Sheila Hancock is one of the UK’s best loved and most prolific actors. Her work spans theatre, radio, television and film and she is also a successful writer. Sheila is currently performing as Mother Superior in Sister Act to rave reviews.
Her other theatre credits include: The Birthday Party at the Lyric Hammersmith, the role of ‘Fraulein Schneider’ in Cabaret in the West End, for which she won an Olivier Award, and the Clarence Derwent award.
She played ‘Mum’ in the Liverpool Playhouse production of The Anniversary (a role played by Bette Davis, while Sheila played the daughter-in-law, in the original film version), which then transferred to the West End and appeared in The Arab Israeli Cookbook at the Gate Theatre, Under The Blue Sky at the Royal Court Theatre, Vassa at the Albery Theatre in the West End and In Extremis at the Royal National Theatre.
Earlier work...
Her other theatre credits include: The Birthday Party at the Lyric Hammersmith, the role of ‘Fraulein Schneider’ in Cabaret in the West End, for which she won an Olivier Award, and the Clarence Derwent award.
She played ‘Mum’ in the Liverpool Playhouse production of The Anniversary (a role played by Bette Davis, while Sheila played the daughter-in-law, in the original film version), which then transferred to the West End and appeared in The Arab Israeli Cookbook at the Gate Theatre, Under The Blue Sky at the Royal Court Theatre, Vassa at the Albery Theatre in the West End and In Extremis at the Royal National Theatre.
Earlier work...
- 3/18/2010
- by Lisa McGarry
- Unreality
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