Films from Oliver Stone, Michel Hazanavicius and Arnaud Desplechin have been added to the Official Selection of the 77th Cannes Film Festival. They join previously announced titles from David Cronenberg, Yorgos Lanthimos, Francis Ford Coppola and Paul Schrader. Greta Gerwig is the president of this year’s jury.
Stone’s film, “Lula” is a documentary about Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and will have its world premiere as part of the Special Screenings section, which also features “Spectators,” from Arnaud Desplechin. His latest stars “Anatomy of a Fall” child actor Milo Machado Graner as well as Mathieu Amalric (“The Diving Bell and the Butterfly”).
Hazanavicius, a Best Director Oscar winner for “The Artist,” joins the Competition lineup with “La Plus Précieuse des Marchandises” (“The Most Precious of Cargoes”), an animated film about a Jewish child during World War II whose father, in a desperate attempt to save his son’s life,...
Stone’s film, “Lula” is a documentary about Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and will have its world premiere as part of the Special Screenings section, which also features “Spectators,” from Arnaud Desplechin. His latest stars “Anatomy of a Fall” child actor Milo Machado Graner as well as Mathieu Amalric (“The Diving Bell and the Butterfly”).
Hazanavicius, a Best Director Oscar winner for “The Artist,” joins the Competition lineup with “La Plus Précieuse des Marchandises” (“The Most Precious of Cargoes”), an animated film about a Jewish child during World War II whose father, in a desperate attempt to save his son’s life,...
- 4/22/2024
- by Missy Schwartz
- The Wrap
We (mostly) kept JFK conspiracy talk out of our 11/22/63 episodes, as the story is best enjoyed on Stephen King‘s terms. We did, however, think it would be enriching to chat with some smart people about King’s assertion that “it is very, very difficult for a reasonable person to believe” that Lee Harvey Oswald wasn’t the lone shooter.
Previously, we spoke with Brendan James of Blowback about the book, Oswald, and King’s political evolution. You can find that episode just a bit further down the feed. Now, we’re speaking with Jim Dieugenio, one of the leading experts on the political assassinations of the 1960s. Jim is the author of two books about the Kennedy Assassination, one of which was the basis for Oliver Stone’s documentary JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass. He also has a new book out, The JFK Assassination Chokeholds and a website,...
Previously, we spoke with Brendan James of Blowback about the book, Oswald, and King’s political evolution. You can find that episode just a bit further down the feed. Now, we’re speaking with Jim Dieugenio, one of the leading experts on the political assassinations of the 1960s. Jim is the author of two books about the Kennedy Assassination, one of which was the basis for Oliver Stone’s documentary JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass. He also has a new book out, The JFK Assassination Chokeholds and a website,...
- 12/27/2023
- by Randall Colburn
- bloody-disgusting.com
One of the most iconic scenes in Oliver Stone‘s 1991 classic “JFK” involves Donald Sutherland as a mysterious operative filling Kevin Costner‘s Jim Garrison in on the forces behind the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy. In an exhilarating tour de force performance for which Sutherland should have been Oscar-nominated, the actor tells a mesmerizing story packed with dense information that blows Garrison’s — and by extension, the viewer’s — mind, shifting the movie into an intense higher gear that propels the film’s final hour. The scene is unthinkable without Sutherland, and yet it could have gone a very different way.
At a live edition of IndieWire’s Filmmaker Toolkit podcast presented by the American Cinematheque in Los Angeles, writer, producer, and director Stone revealed that he had discussed the role Sutherland eventually played with one of his childhood heroes. “I had been dumb enough to go to Marlon Brando,...
At a live edition of IndieWire’s Filmmaker Toolkit podcast presented by the American Cinematheque in Los Angeles, writer, producer, and director Stone revealed that he had discussed the role Sutherland eventually played with one of his childhood heroes. “I had been dumb enough to go to Marlon Brando,...
- 8/31/2023
- by Jim Hemphill
- Indiewire
Oliver Stone settled into a sofa on the terrace of the Radisson Blu Hotel in Cluj, Romania, apologizing for the jetlag and gazing at a downcast sky that had briefly parted over the Transylvanian hillside. “Let’s see if we can find some blue,” he said, describing himself — despite ample evidence to the contrary — as a “hopeful” person. But after a week of steady downpours in this picturesque medieval city, the weather refused to cooperate. From the hotel terrace it was gray as far as the eye could see.
Stone was in Romania to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Transilvania Film Festival, which also programmed a small retrospective in honor of the three-time Academy Award-winning director including his latest film, the pro-nuclear-energy documentary “Nuclear Now,” which Variety’s Owen Gleiberman described as an “intensely compelling, must-see” doc after its premiere at the Venice Film Festival last year.
Before receiving the award,...
Stone was in Romania to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Transilvania Film Festival, which also programmed a small retrospective in honor of the three-time Academy Award-winning director including his latest film, the pro-nuclear-energy documentary “Nuclear Now,” which Variety’s Owen Gleiberman described as an “intensely compelling, must-see” doc after its premiere at the Venice Film Festival last year.
Before receiving the award,...
- 6/19/2023
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) has revealed its longlist of nominees across 24 categories for its upcoming film awards.
“No Time to Die,” “Belfast,” and “West Side Story| are among the leading films announced on Wednesday following the first round of votes.
As revealed on Monday, not included in the long-list is “Spider-Man: No Way Home” after “failing to meet eligibility criteria,” according to BAFTA. The film had originally sought consideration for the best picture and best special effects categories. Sony declined to comment.
Round Two voting, to determine the nominations in the member voted categories, will open between Feb. 14 and 27 2022. Nominations will be announced on Feb 3.
Round Three voting, to determine the winners, will open between Feb. 9 and March 8.
The BAFTA Awards are set to take place in central London on March 13.
Check out the full longlist below:
Best Film
15 films go through to the Round Two of voting,...
“No Time to Die,” “Belfast,” and “West Side Story| are among the leading films announced on Wednesday following the first round of votes.
As revealed on Monday, not included in the long-list is “Spider-Man: No Way Home” after “failing to meet eligibility criteria,” according to BAFTA. The film had originally sought consideration for the best picture and best special effects categories. Sony declined to comment.
Round Two voting, to determine the nominations in the member voted categories, will open between Feb. 14 and 27 2022. Nominations will be announced on Feb 3.
Round Three voting, to determine the winners, will open between Feb. 9 and March 8.
The BAFTA Awards are set to take place in central London on March 13.
Check out the full longlist below:
Best Film
15 films go through to the Round Two of voting,...
- 1/12/2022
- by K.J. Yossman
- Variety Film + TV
Also opening: Disney’s ‘Encanto’, ‘Bad Luck Banging’.
Ridley Scott’s House Of Gucci and Reggie Yates’ Pirates head the openers at the UK-Ireland box office, in another bumper week of 17 theatrical debuts.
House Of Gucci is Scott’s second film to arrive in cinemas in six weeks, after medieval epic The Last Duel in mid-October.
Like that title, House Of Gucci tells a true story and boasts a stellar cast, led by Lady Gaga as Patrizia Reggiani, an ambitious woman who marries fashion heir Maurizio Gucci, played by Adam Driver. She pushes him to take over the family business,...
Ridley Scott’s House Of Gucci and Reggie Yates’ Pirates head the openers at the UK-Ireland box office, in another bumper week of 17 theatrical debuts.
House Of Gucci is Scott’s second film to arrive in cinemas in six weeks, after medieval epic The Last Duel in mid-October.
Like that title, House Of Gucci tells a true story and boasts a stellar cast, led by Lady Gaga as Patrizia Reggiani, an ambitious woman who marries fashion heir Maurizio Gucci, played by Adam Driver. She pushes him to take over the family business,...
- 11/26/2021
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
"There is now so much more that we know." Madman Films in Australia has debuted an official trailer for a seemingly different cut of Oliver Stone's new JFK documentary follow-up this year. Their version is officially titled JFK: Destiny Betrayed, which is described as a "four-part 'deep dive' into the infamous Kennedy assassination." The original version, titled JFK Revisited: Through The Looking Glass (watch that trailer) premiered at the Cannes Film Festival this year and is still set to be released later (likely in 2022) in the US. Maybe it will be re-cut, too? Fresh evidence reveals the truth behind the lies and misinformation like no other JFK documentary has done before. The Cannes premiere cut is two hours, but this "four-part" version seems to include even more footage. "Viewers are also given a behind-the-scenes glimpse into the post-assassination actions and initial suspicions of Kennedy's brother, Robert, as well as...
- 11/24/2021
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Sony’s comedy sequel “Ghostbusters: Afterlife” debuted atop the U.K. and Ireland box office, collecting £4.3 million ($5.7 million), according to numbers released by Comscore.
Disney release ‘Eternals,’ the latest addition to the Marvel Cinematic Universe dropped to second position in its third weekend and collected £1.2 million for a total of £12.8 million.
James Bond film “No Time to Die” also dropped a place to third with £940,075. Daniel Craig’s swan song now has a massive £94.4 million after eight weekends at the box office.
Warner Bros.’ “Dune” collected £634,843 in fourth place and now has £20.1 million after five weekends.
Another Warner Bros. title, the acclaimed “King Richard,” starring Will Smith, debuted in fifth position with a modest £570,316.
Of the upcoming releases, Disney’s animated film “Encanto,” gets a wide, mid-week release on Nov. 24, opening across more than 300 locations.
Universal’s “House of Gucci,” directed by Ridley Scott, and featuring an all-star cast of Lady Gaga,...
Disney release ‘Eternals,’ the latest addition to the Marvel Cinematic Universe dropped to second position in its third weekend and collected £1.2 million for a total of £12.8 million.
James Bond film “No Time to Die” also dropped a place to third with £940,075. Daniel Craig’s swan song now has a massive £94.4 million after eight weekends at the box office.
Warner Bros.’ “Dune” collected £634,843 in fourth place and now has £20.1 million after five weekends.
Another Warner Bros. title, the acclaimed “King Richard,” starring Will Smith, debuted in fifth position with a modest £570,316.
Of the upcoming releases, Disney’s animated film “Encanto,” gets a wide, mid-week release on Nov. 24, opening across more than 300 locations.
Universal’s “House of Gucci,” directed by Ridley Scott, and featuring an all-star cast of Lady Gaga,...
- 11/23/2021
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
"JFK Revisited: Through The Looking Glass", is the new documentary feature from Oscar winner Oliver Stone ("JFK"), offering recently declassified evidence in the November 22, 1963 killing of US President Kennedy:
"...thirty years after his film 'JFK', filmmaker Oliver Stone takes viewers on a journey though recently declassified evidence in the assassination of President Kennedy - the most consequential American murder mystery of the twentieth century.
"Joined by narrator Donald Sutherland, plus a distinguished team of forensics, medical and ballistics experts, historians, and witnesses, Stone presents compelling evidence proving that in the Kennedy case 'conspiracy theory' is now 'conspiracy fact'...
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"...thirty years after his film 'JFK', filmmaker Oliver Stone takes viewers on a journey though recently declassified evidence in the assassination of President Kennedy - the most consequential American murder mystery of the twentieth century.
"Joined by narrator Donald Sutherland, plus a distinguished team of forensics, medical and ballistics experts, historians, and witnesses, Stone presents compelling evidence proving that in the Kennedy case 'conspiracy theory' is now 'conspiracy fact'...
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- 11/22/2021
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
Oliver Stone once made brilliant movies like Platoon, which won Oscars for best picture and best director. These days, he’s a tinfoil-hatted fabricator. His new documentary — JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass, premiering on Showtime on, you guessed it, Nov. 22 — is rooted in a big lie. It comes 30 years after the premiere of JFK, a film unrivaled in the annals of American cinematic propaganda. Both are based on the undying delusion that President Kennedy was murdered by the Deep State: The Central Intelligence Agency, backed by the military-industrial complex.
- 11/22/2021
- by Tim Weiner
- Rollingstone.com
Still looking for a North American release after screening in Cannes France, July 2021 "JFK Revisited: Through The Looking Glass", is the new documentary feature from Oscar winner Oliver Stone ("JFK"), offering recently declassified evidence in the 1963 killing of President Kennedy:
"...thirty years after his film 'JFK', filmmaker Oliver Stone takes viewers on a journey though recently declassified evidence in the assassination of President Kennedy - the most consequential American murder mystery of the twentieth century.
"Joined by narrator Donald Sutherland, plus a distinguished team of forensics, medical and ballistics experts, historians, and witnesses, Stone presents compelling evidence proving that in the Kennedy case 'conspiracy theory' is now 'conspiracy fact'...
Click the images to enlarge...
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- 11/8/2021
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
Awards
The upcoming “2021 MTV EMAs” have unveiled a second group of artists set to perform during the Nov. 14 ceremony, including Ed Sheeran, Imagine Dragons, Yungblud, Griff and Girl in Red. Sheeran recently tested positive for Covid-19, and was cleared to perform on “Saturday Night Live” after serving a quarantine period.
This year Sheeran is nominated for five awards, and will be performing at the awards for the third time. In 2015 he performed and hosted the awards in Milan after performing the year before when the ceremony was held in Glasgow.
Imagine Dragons, nominated for two prizes this year, make their second trip to the Ema stage this year. The group released their fifth album “Mercury – Act 1” earlier this year, and will perform their new single “Enemy” from the record with an appearance from rapper J.I.D.
Yungblud, nominated for best alternative, is performing at the EMAs for the second year in...
The upcoming “2021 MTV EMAs” have unveiled a second group of artists set to perform during the Nov. 14 ceremony, including Ed Sheeran, Imagine Dragons, Yungblud, Griff and Girl in Red. Sheeran recently tested positive for Covid-19, and was cleared to perform on “Saturday Night Live” after serving a quarantine period.
This year Sheeran is nominated for five awards, and will be performing at the awards for the third time. In 2015 he performed and hosted the awards in Milan after performing the year before when the ceremony was held in Glasgow.
Imagine Dragons, nominated for two prizes this year, make their second trip to the Ema stage this year. The group released their fifth album “Mercury – Act 1” earlier this year, and will perform their new single “Enemy” from the record with an appearance from rapper J.I.D.
Yungblud, nominated for best alternative, is performing at the EMAs for the second year in...
- 11/4/2021
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
New outfit has picked up titles by Park Chan-wook and Oliver Stone.
Capella Film boss Nadezda Motina has launched Arna Media, a Moscow-based independent distribution company that will distribute local language and international feature films for the Russian market.
Arna is planning to theatrically release 12 titles a year starting from 2022, and has picked up Lionsgate’s Good Luck To You, Leo Grande starring Emma Thompson and Daryl McCormack; Park Chan-wook’s Decision To Leave; comedy Enter The Dragons with Gemma Arterton; Oliver Stone’s JFK Revisited: Through The Looking Glass, narrated by Donald Sutherland and Whoopi Goldberg; and Studiocanal’s...
Capella Film boss Nadezda Motina has launched Arna Media, a Moscow-based independent distribution company that will distribute local language and international feature films for the Russian market.
Arna is planning to theatrically release 12 titles a year starting from 2022, and has picked up Lionsgate’s Good Luck To You, Leo Grande starring Emma Thompson and Daryl McCormack; Park Chan-wook’s Decision To Leave; comedy Enter The Dragons with Gemma Arterton; Oliver Stone’s JFK Revisited: Through The Looking Glass, narrated by Donald Sutherland and Whoopi Goldberg; and Studiocanal’s...
- 10/28/2021
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
Eminent Russian media industry executive Nadezda Motina has launched Arna Media, a Moscow-based independent distribution company that will distribute local language and international feature films for the Russian market.
Arna, which plans to release 12 films a year from 2022, already has a strong line-up as part of its inaugural distribution slate. These include Lionsgate’s “Good Luck to You, Leo Grande,” starring Emma Thompson and Daryl McCormack, BAFTA winning director Park Chan-wook’s “Decision to Leave,” Marjane Satrapi’s “Enter the Dragons” with Gemma Arterton, Oliver Stone’s documentary “JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass,” narrated by Donald Sutherland and Whoopi Goldberg and StudioCanal’s “Not Bloody Likely,” starring Pierce Brosnan and Helena Bonham Carter.
Arna also has plans to expand its operations into co-productions and Motina is in advanced talks with partners on a number of co-productions ahead of formal announcements to come.
“Arna Media will serve as a window...
Arna, which plans to release 12 films a year from 2022, already has a strong line-up as part of its inaugural distribution slate. These include Lionsgate’s “Good Luck to You, Leo Grande,” starring Emma Thompson and Daryl McCormack, BAFTA winning director Park Chan-wook’s “Decision to Leave,” Marjane Satrapi’s “Enter the Dragons” with Gemma Arterton, Oliver Stone’s documentary “JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass,” narrated by Donald Sutherland and Whoopi Goldberg and StudioCanal’s “Not Bloody Likely,” starring Pierce Brosnan and Helena Bonham Carter.
Arna also has plans to expand its operations into co-productions and Motina is in advanced talks with partners on a number of co-productions ahead of formal announcements to come.
“Arna Media will serve as a window...
- 10/28/2021
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Oliver Stone believes we will never really get to the bottom of the many conflicting accounts of the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963 – but he will never let the issue go, he says.
Speaking via video link to a small but fascinated audience at the Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival, who had just seen his doc “JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass,” Stone also confessed he feels “helpless” in getting at the full story as the slow drip of declassified documents have emerged since that fateful Nov. 22 day in Dallas.
“All we could do was occasionally raise our little voices,” the Oscar-winning former Vietnam soldier recalled of his 30-year quest to get to the bottom of America’s most public crime in modern history.
One major burst of once-secret records, the four-year investigation of some 60,000 documents by the U.S. House of Representatives Assassination Records Board in 1994, has led to scores of revelations,...
Speaking via video link to a small but fascinated audience at the Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival, who had just seen his doc “JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass,” Stone also confessed he feels “helpless” in getting at the full story as the slow drip of declassified documents have emerged since that fateful Nov. 22 day in Dallas.
“All we could do was occasionally raise our little voices,” the Oscar-winning former Vietnam soldier recalled of his 30-year quest to get to the bottom of America’s most public crime in modern history.
One major burst of once-secret records, the four-year investigation of some 60,000 documents by the U.S. House of Representatives Assassination Records Board in 1994, has led to scores of revelations,...
- 10/28/2021
- by Will Tizard
- Variety Film + TV
As the Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival’s 25th-anniversary edition launches in the Czech Republic, fest director and founder Marek Hovorka shows no signs of complacency. Reformatted and streamlined this year, with the former regional section Between the Seas folded into the main Opus Bonum competition, and with new prizes awarded for documentary cinematography, editing and sound design, Hovorka is also honoring the work of several veteran filmmakers and is committed to building connections between doc filmmakers worldwide.
With more than 1,000 film professionals expected as usual, Jihlava’s long-established elements, from its Emerging Producers industry program to the East Silver online market, and Conference Fascinations, focused on experimental cinema, make it a major meeting place for the doc sector and a critical regional hub.
The fest’s opening film, “When Flowers Are Not Silent” by Belarusian director Andrei Kutsila, capturing the brutal suppression of demonstrations against last year’s...
With more than 1,000 film professionals expected as usual, Jihlava’s long-established elements, from its Emerging Producers industry program to the East Silver online market, and Conference Fascinations, focused on experimental cinema, make it a major meeting place for the doc sector and a critical regional hub.
The fest’s opening film, “When Flowers Are Not Silent” by Belarusian director Andrei Kutsila, capturing the brutal suppression of demonstrations against last year’s...
- 10/26/2021
- by Will Tizard
- Variety Film + TV
Oscar-nominated filmmaker Tanel Toom (“Truth and Justice”) has wrapped production in Estonia on sci-fi thriller “Sentinel.”
The film stars Kate Bosworth (“Force of Nature”), Thomas Kretschmann (“The Pianist”), Lucien Laviscount (“Emily in Paris”) and Martin McCann (“The Survivalist”).
Written by Malachi Smyth (“The Score”), the film is set in the future on a war-ravaged Earth where four soldiers man Sentinel – a remote military base in a vast ocean that separates two warring continents. While they await their relief or the enemy, the simmering tension amongst them escalates when a mysterious boat drifts into range.
“Sentinel” is presented by Altitude Film Entertainment in association with Head Gear Film and Metrol Technology in association with Br/Arte, Tallifornia, Ichiban Films, Sentinel Entertainment and Vertical Entertainment.
Altitude Film Sales are handling international sales and will introduce the project to buyers at the AFM Virtual Market (Nov. 1-5).
The film is produced by Ben Pullen...
The film stars Kate Bosworth (“Force of Nature”), Thomas Kretschmann (“The Pianist”), Lucien Laviscount (“Emily in Paris”) and Martin McCann (“The Survivalist”).
Written by Malachi Smyth (“The Score”), the film is set in the future on a war-ravaged Earth where four soldiers man Sentinel – a remote military base in a vast ocean that separates two warring continents. While they await their relief or the enemy, the simmering tension amongst them escalates when a mysterious boat drifts into range.
“Sentinel” is presented by Altitude Film Entertainment in association with Head Gear Film and Metrol Technology in association with Br/Arte, Tallifornia, Ichiban Films, Sentinel Entertainment and Vertical Entertainment.
Altitude Film Sales are handling international sales and will introduce the project to buyers at the AFM Virtual Market (Nov. 1-5).
The film is produced by Ben Pullen...
- 10/26/2021
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Docuseries
Amazon Prime Video and Rtg Features have dropped the trailer for “Pau Gasol: It’s About the Journey,” announced by Variety in April of this year, a four-part docuseries covering the twilight of the former NBA star’s career which will premiere on Prime Video in more than 200 countries on Nov. 12.
A Lakers legend, Gasol’s last NBA game was in March of 2019 when, shortly after signing with the Milwaukee Bucks, a team that looked perhaps one star short of their first NBA title in nearly half a century, Gasol’s season and NBA career were ended prematurely by a stress fracture. A year later, he signed for Fc Barcelona’s men’s basketball team, where he began his professional career more than 20 years ago, to prepare for his final appearance with the Spanish Men’s National Team at the Tokyo Olympic Games.
“In this documentary, I tell the...
Amazon Prime Video and Rtg Features have dropped the trailer for “Pau Gasol: It’s About the Journey,” announced by Variety in April of this year, a four-part docuseries covering the twilight of the former NBA star’s career which will premiere on Prime Video in more than 200 countries on Nov. 12.
A Lakers legend, Gasol’s last NBA game was in March of 2019 when, shortly after signing with the Milwaukee Bucks, a team that looked perhaps one star short of their first NBA title in nearly half a century, Gasol’s season and NBA career were ended prematurely by a stress fracture. A year later, he signed for Fc Barcelona’s men’s basketball team, where he began his professional career more than 20 years ago, to prepare for his final appearance with the Spanish Men’s National Team at the Tokyo Olympic Games.
“In this documentary, I tell the...
- 10/21/2021
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Still looking for a North American release after screening in France, "JFK Revisited: Through The Looking Glass", is the new documentary feature from Oscar winner Oliver Stone ("JFK"), offering recently declassified evidence in the 1963 killing of President Kennedy:
"...thirty years after his film 'JFK', filmmaker Oliver Stone takes viewers on a journey though recently declassified evidence in the assassination of President Kennedy - the most consequential American murder mystery of the twentieth century.
"Joined by narrator Donald Sutherland, plus a distinguished team of forensics, medical and ballistics experts, historians, and witnesses, Stone presents compelling evidence proving that in the Kennedy case 'conspiracy theory' is now 'conspiracy fact'...
Click the images to enlarge...
"...thirty years after his film 'JFK', filmmaker Oliver Stone takes viewers on a journey though recently declassified evidence in the assassination of President Kennedy - the most consequential American murder mystery of the twentieth century.
"Joined by narrator Donald Sutherland, plus a distinguished team of forensics, medical and ballistics experts, historians, and witnesses, Stone presents compelling evidence proving that in the Kennedy case 'conspiracy theory' is now 'conspiracy fact'...
Click the images to enlarge...
- 10/16/2021
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
"JFK Revisited: Through The Looking Glass", is a new documentary from Oscar winner Oliver Stone ("JFK"), offering recently declassified evidence in the 1963 killing of President Kennedy, currently prepping for a wide release:
"...thirty years after his film 'JFK', filmmaker Oliver Stone takes viewers on a journey though recently declassified evidence in the assassination of President Kennedy - the most consequential American murder mystery of the twentieth century.
"Joined by narrator Donald Sutherland, plus a distinguished team of forensics, medical and ballistics experts, historians, and witnesses, Stone presents compelling evidence proving that in the Kennedy case 'conspiracy theory' is now 'conspiracy fact'...
Click the images to enlarge...
"...thirty years after his film 'JFK', filmmaker Oliver Stone takes viewers on a journey though recently declassified evidence in the assassination of President Kennedy - the most consequential American murder mystery of the twentieth century.
"Joined by narrator Donald Sutherland, plus a distinguished team of forensics, medical and ballistics experts, historians, and witnesses, Stone presents compelling evidence proving that in the Kennedy case 'conspiracy theory' is now 'conspiracy fact'...
Click the images to enlarge...
- 8/30/2021
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
When you think reliable narrator, Oliver Stone doesn’t exactly come to mind. Since his start as a director in the 1970s, the lightning-rod filmmaker, now 74, has leaned into fiction narratives with political points of view, from “Salvador,” “Wall Street,” and “W.” to Best Director Oscar-winners “Platoon” and “Born on the Fourth of July.” His last Oscar nomination came in 1996, for “Nixon,” arguably his peak of high regard in Hollywood. It’s hard to recall that in 1992, controversial global smash “JFK” earned three Oscar nominations including Best Picture.
Times change, and Stone’s complex historic and global point of view is far more layered and nuanced than current American partisanship will accept. That’s why the Yale-grad-turned-Vietnam-vet has managed to alienate folks on every side of the political spectrum, including accusations of promulgating violence with “Natural Born Killers,” promoting a whistleblower in “Snowden,” and conducting friendly documentary interviews with dictators,...
Times change, and Stone’s complex historic and global point of view is far more layered and nuanced than current American partisanship will accept. That’s why the Yale-grad-turned-Vietnam-vet has managed to alienate folks on every side of the political spectrum, including accusations of promulgating violence with “Natural Born Killers,” promoting a whistleblower in “Snowden,” and conducting friendly documentary interviews with dictators,...
- 7/24/2021
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
When you think reliable narrator, Oliver Stone doesn’t exactly come to mind. Since his start as a director in the 1970s, the lightning-rod filmmaker, now 74, has leaned into fiction narratives with political points of view, from “Salvador,” “Wall Street,” and “W.” to Best Director Oscar-winners “Platoon” and “Born on the Fourth of July.” His last Oscar nomination came in 1996, for “Nixon,” arguably his peak of high regard in Hollywood. It’s hard to recall that in 1992, controversial global smash “JFK” earned three Oscar nominations including Best Picture.
Times change, and Stone’s complex historic and global point of view is far more layered and nuanced than current American partisanship will accept. That’s why the Yale-grad-turned-Vietnam-vet has managed to alienate folks on every side of the political spectrum, including accusations of promulgating violence with “Natural Born Killers,” promoting a whistleblower in “Snowden,” and conducting friendly documentary interviews with dictators,...
Times change, and Stone’s complex historic and global point of view is far more layered and nuanced than current American partisanship will accept. That’s why the Yale-grad-turned-Vietnam-vet has managed to alienate folks on every side of the political spectrum, including accusations of promulgating violence with “Natural Born Killers,” promoting a whistleblower in “Snowden,” and conducting friendly documentary interviews with dictators,...
- 7/24/2021
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
Hello, and welcome to International Insider, I’m Jake Kanter. As the Cannes Film Festival draws to a close, join me in reflecting on the past week’s film and TV news. Want to get in touch? I’m on jkanter@deadline.com. And to get this delivered every Friday, sign up here.
Cannes Week Two
Testing times: Cannes was inevitably going to have a high-profile brush with coronavirus, and sure enough it came last weekend when we revealed that Léa Seydoux’s attendance was in doubt due to her testing positive in Paris. She canceled on Wednesday, meaning the Croisette was robbed of its rendezvous with an actress showcasing four features at the fest, including Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch and Arnaud Desplechin’s Deception. Generally, though, organizers did a good job of containing the virus, with our Tom Grater learning that the dreaded spit tests were producing...
Cannes Week Two
Testing times: Cannes was inevitably going to have a high-profile brush with coronavirus, and sure enough it came last weekend when we revealed that Léa Seydoux’s attendance was in doubt due to her testing positive in Paris. She canceled on Wednesday, meaning the Croisette was robbed of its rendezvous with an actress showcasing four features at the fest, including Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch and Arnaud Desplechin’s Deception. Generally, though, organizers did a good job of containing the virus, with our Tom Grater learning that the dreaded spit tests were producing...
- 7/16/2021
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
Thirty years after his dramatic feature JFK, innumerable interviews and an untold number of related texts, you might have thought Oliver Stone had had his say on the Kennedy assassination. However, with his latest treatment of the subject in the riveting documentary JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass that’s playing in the Cannes Film Festival’s Premiere section, the intrepid filmmaker has, at long last, essentially won me over to his impassioned, obsessive and tirelessly researched views on one of the most devastating and consequential crimes of modern times.
No matter how skeptical one might choose to be about conspiracy theories, there is simply too much evidence to ignore, too many suspicious details that undermine the lone gunman theory, too many credible reasons to believe that bigger players and masterminds than Lee Harvey Oswald were behind the act that changed the tenor of the country and arguably sent the...
No matter how skeptical one might choose to be about conspiracy theories, there is simply too much evidence to ignore, too many suspicious details that undermine the lone gunman theory, too many credible reasons to believe that bigger players and masterminds than Lee Harvey Oswald were behind the act that changed the tenor of the country and arguably sent the...
- 7/14/2021
- by Todd McCarthy
- Deadline Film + TV
With the pandemic still impeding world travel, the Cannes Film Festival chose five key cities for its satellite events, with Mexico City, Beijing, Melbourne, Seoul and Tokyo screening a selection of titles world premiering at the French event.
From July 8 to 16, Mexico City’s Diana arthouse cinema, of giant exhibition circuit Cinepolis, has hosted a dozen Cannes titles that were not available online.
In a statement, Cannes director general Thierry Fremaux said: “This exceptional year gives us the chance, for the first time, to present the films of the Cannes Selection to Mexican buyers in a theater in Mexico City, while the festival takes place in Cannes. I have no doubt that these screenings will help the films find a distributor.”
“With the realization of this important event, Mexico is confirmed as a vital business platform in the audiovisual industry,” said Cannes en Cdmx producer Daniel de la Vega.
“The...
From July 8 to 16, Mexico City’s Diana arthouse cinema, of giant exhibition circuit Cinepolis, has hosted a dozen Cannes titles that were not available online.
In a statement, Cannes director general Thierry Fremaux said: “This exceptional year gives us the chance, for the first time, to present the films of the Cannes Selection to Mexican buyers in a theater in Mexico City, while the festival takes place in Cannes. I have no doubt that these screenings will help the films find a distributor.”
“With the realization of this important event, Mexico is confirmed as a vital business platform in the audiovisual industry,” said Cannes en Cdmx producer Daniel de la Vega.
“The...
- 7/14/2021
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
Check out TheWrap’s digital Cannes magazine issue here. You can find all of TheWrap’s Cannes coverage here.
Oliver Stone headed to the Cannes Film Festival this week 30 years after the release of his dramatic saga “JFK,” this time with a documentary about the John F. Kennedy assassination murder that aims to get more answers about the 1963 event. But Stone, who was last in the official selection at Cannes with his 2010 sequel “Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps,” returned to the festival in a combative mood.
In his Tuesday morning Cannes press conference, Stone bemoaned the fact that Hollywood and American financiers didn’t step up to fund his latest film, “JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass.” “We have to go, for our own history, to Europe,” he said (via Deadline), alluding that he had the same problem when funding his 2016 drama “Snowden,” about Nsa whistleblower Edward Snowden.
His producer,...
Oliver Stone headed to the Cannes Film Festival this week 30 years after the release of his dramatic saga “JFK,” this time with a documentary about the John F. Kennedy assassination murder that aims to get more answers about the 1963 event. But Stone, who was last in the official selection at Cannes with his 2010 sequel “Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps,” returned to the festival in a combative mood.
In his Tuesday morning Cannes press conference, Stone bemoaned the fact that Hollywood and American financiers didn’t step up to fund his latest film, “JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass.” “We have to go, for our own history, to Europe,” he said (via Deadline), alluding that he had the same problem when funding his 2016 drama “Snowden,” about Nsa whistleblower Edward Snowden.
His producer,...
- 7/13/2021
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Oliver Stone has argued that American financiers appear reluctant to support films about U.S. political history after he had to turn to Europe to fund his documentary JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass.
Stone is at the Cannes Film Festival to promote his assassination pic, which was bankrolled by UK firm Ingenious Media and is distributed by another British outfit in the shape of Altitude Film Sales. “We have to go, for our own history, to Europe,” he told a press conference on Tuesday. “England has played a large role in this.”
Producer Robert S. Wilson went further, telling delegates: “There’s a real problem in the U.S. with this side of the film industry owning our history. It’s depressing that we have to go to England to get money to tell the story that’s very intrinsically American.”
Stone said he had encountered the issue before on 2016’s Snowden,...
Stone is at the Cannes Film Festival to promote his assassination pic, which was bankrolled by UK firm Ingenious Media and is distributed by another British outfit in the shape of Altitude Film Sales. “We have to go, for our own history, to Europe,” he told a press conference on Tuesday. “England has played a large role in this.”
Producer Robert S. Wilson went further, telling delegates: “There’s a real problem in the U.S. with this side of the film industry owning our history. It’s depressing that we have to go to England to get money to tell the story that’s very intrinsically American.”
Stone said he had encountered the issue before on 2016’s Snowden,...
- 7/13/2021
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
Oliver Stone is not pleased that American financiers refused to step up and help make his new documentary about the late John F. Kennedy.
Stone and his producer Robert S. Wilson discussed the Cannes Film Festival premiere “JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass” at a Tuesday press conference, bemoaning a lack of domestic financial support.
“It’s depressing that we have to go to England to get money to tell this story that’s intrinsically American,” Wilson said. “There’s a real problem with the U.S., this side of the film industry owning our history in a way.”
Stone agreed, “It was difficult. England played a larger role.” U.K.-based Ingenious Media produced the documentary, and English sales agency Altitude is shopping it to worldwide territories. Stone said the process was familiar, as his 2016 whistleblower epic “Snowden” was also snubbed by American money and instead mounted by France,...
Stone and his producer Robert S. Wilson discussed the Cannes Film Festival premiere “JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass” at a Tuesday press conference, bemoaning a lack of domestic financial support.
“It’s depressing that we have to go to England to get money to tell this story that’s intrinsically American,” Wilson said. “There’s a real problem with the U.S., this side of the film industry owning our history in a way.”
Stone agreed, “It was difficult. England played a larger role.” U.K.-based Ingenious Media produced the documentary, and English sales agency Altitude is shopping it to worldwide territories. Stone said the process was familiar, as his 2016 whistleblower epic “Snowden” was also snubbed by American money and instead mounted by France,...
- 7/13/2021
- by Matt Donnelly
- Variety Film + TV
John F. Kennedy, according to director Oliver Stone, was the last true president who strived to achieve world peace.
Speaking at the Cannes press conference for his latest doc JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass, exploring Kennedy’s 1963 assassination in forensic detail to reach the veteran filmmaker’s conclusion that “conspiracy theory has now become conspiracy fact,” he compared the late president to U.S. political leaders since, claiming that none had had his strength to carry through any worthy intentions they may have held prior to taking office.
Obama, he claimed, feared for his life.
“I think one ...
Speaking at the Cannes press conference for his latest doc JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass, exploring Kennedy’s 1963 assassination in forensic detail to reach the veteran filmmaker’s conclusion that “conspiracy theory has now become conspiracy fact,” he compared the late president to U.S. political leaders since, claiming that none had had his strength to carry through any worthy intentions they may have held prior to taking office.
Obama, he claimed, feared for his life.
“I think one ...
- 7/13/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
John F. Kennedy, according to director Oliver Stone, was the last true president who strived to achieve world peace.
Speaking at the Cannes press conference for his latest doc JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass, exploring Kennedy’s 1963 assassination in forensic detail to reach the veteran filmmaker’s conclusion that “conspiracy theory has now become conspiracy fact,” he compared the late president to U.S. political leaders since, claiming that none had had his strength to carry through any worthy intentions they may have held prior to taking office.
Obama, he claimed, feared for his life.
“I think one ...
Speaking at the Cannes press conference for his latest doc JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass, exploring Kennedy’s 1963 assassination in forensic detail to reach the veteran filmmaker’s conclusion that “conspiracy theory has now become conspiracy fact,” he compared the late president to U.S. political leaders since, claiming that none had had his strength to carry through any worthy intentions they may have held prior to taking office.
Obama, he claimed, feared for his life.
“I think one ...
- 7/13/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
“There is a four-hour version if you want to dig deeper,” said Oliver Stone when introducing his documentary “JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass” in the Cannes Premiere section on Monday afternoon.
Those words were reminiscent of that dull best man’s speech gag about if you haven’t struck oil after ten minutes, stop boring. Because even after this two-hour version of talking heads, photostats of redacted files and some shocking shots of President Kennedy’s brain, we are no closer to anything like the truth.
Stone’s film is not a companion piece, making-of or follow-up to his all-star 1991 drama “JFK” (a director’s cut of which played in the Cinema de la Plage section on the beach the night before) but a procession of white, male authors and experts in boring shirts hectoring you with their theories and old books. Tarantino cinematographer Robert Richardson is credited with the photography,...
Those words were reminiscent of that dull best man’s speech gag about if you haven’t struck oil after ten minutes, stop boring. Because even after this two-hour version of talking heads, photostats of redacted files and some shocking shots of President Kennedy’s brain, we are no closer to anything like the truth.
Stone’s film is not a companion piece, making-of or follow-up to his all-star 1991 drama “JFK” (a director’s cut of which played in the Cinema de la Plage section on the beach the night before) but a procession of white, male authors and experts in boring shirts hectoring you with their theories and old books. Tarantino cinematographer Robert Richardson is credited with the photography,...
- 7/12/2021
- by Jason Solomons
- The Wrap
“JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass” lives up to its title. Directed by Oliver Stone, it’s a kind of documentary companion-piece sequel to “JFK,” and yes, it takes you through the looking glass again. There are moments when it gives you that heady, tingling, oh-my-God-i-have-seen-the-truth-that-was-hidden! sensation of revelatory immersion, the kind that hits you when you’re confronted with an autopsy photo in which a wound is said to have mysteriously disappeared, or when you’re staring at a declassified page from the Warren Commission Report in which Gerald Ford, with a few penciled-in words, literally shifts by six inches the place where the first bullet entered JFK. At moments like that, you feel the frisson of the junkie-hit injections that conspiracy theory is built upon. They’re the moments you can feel yourself slipping through the looking glass, or down the rabbit hole, or wherever else it is...
- 7/12/2021
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
Oliver Stone returns to the scene of the crime in his new documentary, JFK Revisited: Through The Looking Glass, a fresh reappraisal of the mounting evidence surrounding John F. Kennedy’s assassination in Dallas in 1963. World premiering in Cannes, this investigative essay film draws on the vast archive of material that has been declassified, re-examined and placed in the public records since Stone’s fictionalized historical thriller JFK became an unlikely box-office smash 30 years ago. “Conspiracy theory”, the veteran director claims here with characteristic modesty, has now become “conspiracy fact.”
But does the world really need to hear any more from Stone ...
But does the world really need to hear any more from Stone ...
- 7/12/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Oliver Stone returns to the scene of the crime in his new documentary, JFK Revisited: Through The Looking Glass, a fresh reappraisal of the mounting evidence surrounding John F. Kennedy’s assassination in Dallas in 1963. World premiering in Cannes, this investigative essay film draws on the vast archive of material that has been declassified, re-examined and placed in the public records since Stone’s fictionalized historical thriller JFK became an unlikely box-office smash 30 years ago. “Conspiracy theory”, the veteran director claims here with characteristic modesty, has now become “conspiracy fact.”
But does the world really need to hear any more from Stone ...
But does the world really need to hear any more from Stone ...
- 7/12/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
"JFK Revisited: Through The Looking Glass", is a new documentary from Oscar winner Oliver Stone ("JFK"), offering recently declassified evidence in the 1963 killing of President Kennedy, now screening at the Cannes film festival before a wide theatrical release:
"...thirty years after his film 'JFK', filmmaker Oliver Stone takes viewers on a journey though recently declassified evidence in the assassination of President Kennedy - the most consequential American murder mystery of the twentieth century.
"Joined by narrator Donald Sutherland, plus a distinguished team of forensics, medical and ballistics experts, historians, and witnesses, Stone presents compelling evidence proving that in the Kennedy case 'conspiracy theory' is now 'conspiracy fact'...
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"...thirty years after his film 'JFK', filmmaker Oliver Stone takes viewers on a journey though recently declassified evidence in the assassination of President Kennedy - the most consequential American murder mystery of the twentieth century.
"Joined by narrator Donald Sutherland, plus a distinguished team of forensics, medical and ballistics experts, historians, and witnesses, Stone presents compelling evidence proving that in the Kennedy case 'conspiracy theory' is now 'conspiracy fact'...
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- 7/10/2021
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
Oliver Stone is in Cannes this year premiering his documentary JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass, which re-examines the murder of President John F. Kennedy using new information that has come to light since the filmmaker’s seminal 1991 picture JFK. Deadline sat down here with Stone to discuss why he felt the need to revisit the assassination 30 years on from his original film, and how the project has made his conscience “feel better”.
As per usual, Stone is candid in his assessment of the current geopolitical situation, and says that “censorship” and “a fear of offending” is clashing with the American Dream. He also delivers a scathing opinion of a few recent award-winning documentaries, and talks about which of his unmade projects he regrets most.
JFK Revisited debuts in the Cannes Premieres program on July 12. Altitude is handling sales. We can also unveil an exclusive clip from the documentary below.
As per usual, Stone is candid in his assessment of the current geopolitical situation, and says that “censorship” and “a fear of offending” is clashing with the American Dream. He also delivers a scathing opinion of a few recent award-winning documentaries, and talks about which of his unmade projects he regrets most.
JFK Revisited debuts in the Cannes Premieres program on July 12. Altitude is handling sales. We can also unveil an exclusive clip from the documentary below.
- 7/10/2021
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
This year’s Cannes promises to be an edition unlike any other. More movies, fewer guests, plus a slew of logistical hurdles all add up to an epic case of Fomo — fear of missing out — for those too cautious to attend.
For those who do make the trek, however, Cannes artistic director Thierry Frémaux and his cohortsdown the Croisette seem determined to make it worth their while.
They’ve served up a slate that, sight unseen, has cinephiles salivating: The festival will kick off with “Annette,” a musical from “Holy Motors” director Leos Carax; and includes Wes Anderson’s “The French Dispatch” (a film we could scarcely imagine premiering anywhere else); Paul Verhoeven’s portrait of a nun on fire, “Benedetta”; three films featuring auteur darling Tilda Swinton; four starring Léa Seydoux; plus a bounty of anticipated titles from leading international directors.
It’s a sampling that would get audiences excited in any year,...
For those who do make the trek, however, Cannes artistic director Thierry Frémaux and his cohortsdown the Croisette seem determined to make it worth their while.
They’ve served up a slate that, sight unseen, has cinephiles salivating: The festival will kick off with “Annette,” a musical from “Holy Motors” director Leos Carax; and includes Wes Anderson’s “The French Dispatch” (a film we could scarcely imagine premiering anywhere else); Paul Verhoeven’s portrait of a nun on fire, “Benedetta”; three films featuring auteur darling Tilda Swinton; four starring Léa Seydoux; plus a bounty of anticipated titles from leading international directors.
It’s a sampling that would get audiences excited in any year,...
- 7/6/2021
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
Altitude Film Sales has sold forthcoming Oliver Stone documentary “JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass” in a number of territories including Australia, Italy and Spain.
Thirty years after Stone’s wildly successful “JFK,” the director returns with an in-depth look at the assassinated president’s death with new, recently-declassified evidence as well as testimonies from witnesses, historians and experts. Academy Award-winners Whoopi Goldberg and Donald Sutherland will narrate the documentary.
A sales promo was shown during the Pre-Cannes Screenings last week, with the feature scheduled to make its debut at Cannes Premiere, the new festival section, this month.
DocPlay, a subsidiary of Madman Entertainment, have taken the doc for Australia and New Zealand, A Contracorriente Films in Spain and I Wonder Pictures in Italy.
In Scandinavia, Nonstop Entertainment have bought the feature, as well as Monolith in Poland. Altitude Film Distribution are set to release the film in the U.
Thirty years after Stone’s wildly successful “JFK,” the director returns with an in-depth look at the assassinated president’s death with new, recently-declassified evidence as well as testimonies from witnesses, historians and experts. Academy Award-winners Whoopi Goldberg and Donald Sutherland will narrate the documentary.
A sales promo was shown during the Pre-Cannes Screenings last week, with the feature scheduled to make its debut at Cannes Premiere, the new festival section, this month.
DocPlay, a subsidiary of Madman Entertainment, have taken the doc for Australia and New Zealand, A Contracorriente Films in Spain and I Wonder Pictures in Italy.
In Scandinavia, Nonstop Entertainment have bought the feature, as well as Monolith in Poland. Altitude Film Distribution are set to release the film in the U.
- 7/5/2021
- by K.J. Yossman
- Variety Film + TV
Altitude Film Sales has closed deals for Stone’s documentary, which has its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival.
Altitude Film Sales has closed the first distribution deals for Oliver Stone’s documentary JFK Revisited: Through The Looking Glass ahead of its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival (July 6-17).
The UK-based sales agent has sold the film to Australia and New Zealand (DocPlay), Spain (A Contracorriente Films), Italy (I Wonder Pictures), Scandinavia (Nonstop Entertainment), Poland (Monolith) and ex-Yugoslavia (Blitz). Altitude Film Distribution will release in the UK and Ireland in late 2021.
The documentary, made 30 years after the...
Altitude Film Sales has closed the first distribution deals for Oliver Stone’s documentary JFK Revisited: Through The Looking Glass ahead of its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival (July 6-17).
The UK-based sales agent has sold the film to Australia and New Zealand (DocPlay), Spain (A Contracorriente Films), Italy (I Wonder Pictures), Scandinavia (Nonstop Entertainment), Poland (Monolith) and ex-Yugoslavia (Blitz). Altitude Film Distribution will release in the UK and Ireland in late 2021.
The documentary, made 30 years after the...
- 7/5/2021
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
Set to unfold during the busy summer break, the Cannes Film Festival will roll out a lineup of screenings, including world premieres and concerts on the beach aimed at holiday-makers and red carpet-jaded festival attendees.
Called Le cinema de la plage, the open-air screenings will run every evening at 9:30 p.m. on the beach across from the Majestic hotel and will be free and accessible to all.
As previously reported by Variety, the lineup of beach screenings boasts the European premiere of “F9,” the latest instalment of Universal’s action-packed “Fast & Furious” franchise with Vin Diesel, John Cena and Michelle Rodriguez.
Besides “F9,” Cannes will also host the screening of Steve McQueen’s “Lovers Rock” and Spike Lee’s “David Byrne’s American Utopia,” an entrancing big-screen version of David Byrne’s “American Utopia.” Both McQueen and Lee, who heads this year’s competition jury, will be there to present their respective films,...
Called Le cinema de la plage, the open-air screenings will run every evening at 9:30 p.m. on the beach across from the Majestic hotel and will be free and accessible to all.
As previously reported by Variety, the lineup of beach screenings boasts the European premiere of “F9,” the latest instalment of Universal’s action-packed “Fast & Furious” franchise with Vin Diesel, John Cena and Michelle Rodriguez.
Besides “F9,” Cannes will also host the screening of Steve McQueen’s “Lovers Rock” and Spike Lee’s “David Byrne’s American Utopia,” an entrancing big-screen version of David Byrne’s “American Utopia.” Both McQueen and Lee, who heads this year’s competition jury, will be there to present their respective films,...
- 6/30/2021
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Altitude Film Sales has taken worldwide sales rights, excluding Australia/New Zealand, for “Wolf Creek 3,” the latest instalment of the Wolf Creek franchise, and will introduce the project to buyers this week at the Virtual Cannes Market.
Altitude will also distribute the film in the U.K.
In the film, an American family takes a dream trip to the Australian outback and soon draws the attention of notorious serial killer Mick Taylor. A hellish nightmare ensues as the couple’s two children escape only to be hunted by Australia’s most infamous killer.
John Jarratt will reprise his role of Mick Taylor. Rachele Wiggins will direct from a screenplay by Duncan Samarasinghe.
Wolf Creek creator Greg McLean will produce through his Emu Creek Pictures banner, alongside Bianca Martino (“The Darkness”) and Kristian Moliere (“The Babadook”).
Production will commence late 2021 in South Australia.
Inspired by real events, “Wolf Creek” (2005) was...
Altitude will also distribute the film in the U.K.
In the film, an American family takes a dream trip to the Australian outback and soon draws the attention of notorious serial killer Mick Taylor. A hellish nightmare ensues as the couple’s two children escape only to be hunted by Australia’s most infamous killer.
John Jarratt will reprise his role of Mick Taylor. Rachele Wiggins will direct from a screenplay by Duncan Samarasinghe.
Wolf Creek creator Greg McLean will produce through his Emu Creek Pictures banner, alongside Bianca Martino (“The Darkness”) and Kristian Moliere (“The Babadook”).
Production will commence late 2021 in South Australia.
Inspired by real events, “Wolf Creek” (2005) was...
- 6/21/2021
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Altitude Film Sales has boarded “JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass,” Oliver Stone’s forthcoming examination of the assassination of President John F Kennedy.
The London-based sales agent will debut footage and launch worldwide sales at the Cannes Virtual Market later this month. Meanwhile, Altitude Film Distribution will also release the film in the U.K. and Ireland in late 2021.
Funded by Ingenious Media and produced by Stone’s own Ixtlan Productions, alongside Pantagruel Productions, “JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass” will take viewers through recently declassified evidence and testimony in the infamous case.
Joined by Academy Award-winning narrators Whoopi Goldberg and Donald Sutherland, as well as a team of forensics, medical and ballistics experts, historians, and witnesses, Stone presents evidence that in the Kennedy case, the “conspiracy theory” is now “conspiracy fact.”
“Oliver Stone continues to deliver fascinating and challenging detail on the assassination of President Kennedy, and Altitude...
The London-based sales agent will debut footage and launch worldwide sales at the Cannes Virtual Market later this month. Meanwhile, Altitude Film Distribution will also release the film in the U.K. and Ireland in late 2021.
Funded by Ingenious Media and produced by Stone’s own Ixtlan Productions, alongside Pantagruel Productions, “JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass” will take viewers through recently declassified evidence and testimony in the infamous case.
Joined by Academy Award-winning narrators Whoopi Goldberg and Donald Sutherland, as well as a team of forensics, medical and ballistics experts, historians, and witnesses, Stone presents evidence that in the Kennedy case, the “conspiracy theory” is now “conspiracy fact.”
“Oliver Stone continues to deliver fascinating and challenging detail on the assassination of President Kennedy, and Altitude...
- 6/14/2021
- by Manori Ravindran
- Variety Film + TV
Company’s Lady Boss: The Jackie Collins Story lined up for world premiere at Tribeca in June.
AGC Studios has hired two-time Emmy winner B.J. Levin as EVP, non-fiction, to oversee the company’s development and production of non-fiction content for film and television.
Levin has worked as a producer and creative executive for more than 15 years and was most recently showrunner of FX’s Hip Hop Uncovered.
He was showrunner on HBO’s Emmy winner Vice for four seasons and has worked at networks including A&e, Bravo, BBC of Americas, Discovery, MTV, Hulu and National Geographic.
Levin will...
AGC Studios has hired two-time Emmy winner B.J. Levin as EVP, non-fiction, to oversee the company’s development and production of non-fiction content for film and television.
Levin has worked as a producer and creative executive for more than 15 years and was most recently showrunner of FX’s Hip Hop Uncovered.
He was showrunner on HBO’s Emmy winner Vice for four seasons and has worked at networks including A&e, Bravo, BBC of Americas, Discovery, MTV, Hulu and National Geographic.
Levin will...
- 5/3/2021
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
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