Exclusive: Briarcliff Entertainment has acquired North American distribution rights to new musical franchise Verona’s Romeo & Juliet, in partnership with Hero Entertainment and Rainmaker Films. A modern reimagining of one of the most beloved love stories of all time, the first of the films will unspool wide on Valentine’s Day 2025, in one of Briarcliff’s biggest releases to date.
Set in 1301 at the end of Medieval times, Verona’s Romeo & Juliet finds our most famous star-crossed lovers turning the tides on the history Shakespeare based his own story on, as they reveal the truth to the very future of the Empire. But the biggest twist in this most beloved of tales is leaving the poetry of Iambic Pentameter in the past to tell the story with the help of original pop music.
With Clara Rugaard (Love Gets a Room) and Jamie Ward (His Dark Materials) in the lead as Romeo & Juliet,...
Set in 1301 at the end of Medieval times, Verona’s Romeo & Juliet finds our most famous star-crossed lovers turning the tides on the history Shakespeare based his own story on, as they reveal the truth to the very future of the Empire. But the biggest twist in this most beloved of tales is leaving the poetry of Iambic Pentameter in the past to tell the story with the help of original pop music.
With Clara Rugaard (Love Gets a Room) and Jamie Ward (His Dark Materials) in the lead as Romeo & Juliet,...
- 5/15/2024
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
The ominous task that faced Eve Hewson when she first read John Carney’s script for Flora and Son had been accepted before she even realized it.
Sure, she knew Carney’s work, almost exclusively delivering features that baked music into the very fabric of their construction. She’d seen Glen Hansard belting at the top of his lungs in Carney’s debut, Once; Keira Knightley and Mark Ruffalo making sweet music together in Begin Again; Ferdia Walsh-Peelo embracing ’80s pop in Sing Street. She knew what was coming, but still hoped it never would.
She fell madly in love with Flora, a single mum living in a Dublin apartment block with her delinquent teenage son Max, turning each page as Flora salvaged a guitar from a skip, had it tidied up, and gifted it to Max. She followed along as the character started taking guitar lessons by Zoom with...
Sure, she knew Carney’s work, almost exclusively delivering features that baked music into the very fabric of their construction. She’d seen Glen Hansard belting at the top of his lungs in Carney’s debut, Once; Keira Knightley and Mark Ruffalo making sweet music together in Begin Again; Ferdia Walsh-Peelo embracing ’80s pop in Sing Street. She knew what was coming, but still hoped it never would.
She fell madly in love with Flora, a single mum living in a Dublin apartment block with her delinquent teenage son Max, turning each page as Flora salvaged a guitar from a skip, had it tidied up, and gifted it to Max. She followed along as the character started taking guitar lessons by Zoom with...
- 12/21/2023
- by Joe Utichi
- Deadline Film + TV
(Welcome to Tales from the Box Office, our column that examines box office miracles, disasters, and everything in between, as well as what we can learn from them.)
One of the sad truths of the movie business as it exists is that great movies will sometimes slip through the cracks. A movie as good as "Booksmart" deserved a lot better than $25 million at the box office. Both "Blade Runner" and "The Thing" deserved better than getting trounced by "E.T." in 1982. Fortunately, cream tends to rise to the top over time, and good movies often find their audience eventually. Perhaps no movie released theatrically over the last decade deserved to find its audience more than director John Carney's "Sing Street."
Released in 2016, the movie about a kid who starts a band to impress a girl charmed just about every single person who saw it. The only problem is that not...
One of the sad truths of the movie business as it exists is that great movies will sometimes slip through the cracks. A movie as good as "Booksmart" deserved a lot better than $25 million at the box office. Both "Blade Runner" and "The Thing" deserved better than getting trounced by "E.T." in 1982. Fortunately, cream tends to rise to the top over time, and good movies often find their audience eventually. Perhaps no movie released theatrically over the last decade deserved to find its audience more than director John Carney's "Sing Street."
Released in 2016, the movie about a kid who starts a band to impress a girl charmed just about every single person who saw it. The only problem is that not...
- 9/24/2023
- by Ryan Scott
- Slash Film
While it may not have been a big financial hit in its day, director John Carney's 2016 musical "Sing Street" has become a true favorite among those who have seen it in the years since its initial release. It's one of those movies that people don't just like, they absolutely love. Its audience has certainly grown, and Carney is seemingly aware of that -- so much so that he actually considered making a sequel. But don't get your hopes up: The filmmaker is probably not actually going to do it, and he's got a pretty good reason for that.
/Film's own Ben Pearson spoke with Carney in honor of his new movie "Flora and Son," which is in theaters now before it arrives on Apple TV+. During the conversation, which will be published in full next week, Carney was asked if he considered making a "Sing Street" sequel at any point.
/Film's own Ben Pearson spoke with Carney in honor of his new movie "Flora and Son," which is in theaters now before it arrives on Apple TV+. During the conversation, which will be published in full next week, Carney was asked if he considered making a "Sing Street" sequel at any point.
- 9/22/2023
- by Ryan Scott
- Slash Film
"What matters here is being loved, child, not loving..." Buffalo 8 Films has revealed an official US trailer for an indie romantic musical titled Love Gets a Room, the latest film made by Spanish filmmaker Rodrigo Cortés (best known for directing both Buried and Red Lights a decade ago). This first premiered in Spain in 2021, but is only now getting an official US release this summer. Inspired by true events during the 1942 Nazi occupation of Poland, Love Gets a Room is the story of a Jewish stage actress who must make the gut-wrenching decision to follow her heart or escape the Warsaw ghetto. Told in real time like Cortés' acclaimed Buried, the film is a romantic tale of love and survival in the face of harrowing circumstances. This stars Clara Rugaard, Ferdia Walsh-Peelo, Mark Ryder, Anastasia Hille, Magnus Krepper, and Henry Goodman. With cinematography by Rafa García. "With masterful direction and outstanding performances,...
- 5/12/2023
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Exclusive: One notable title up for sale we’re hearing about at the European Film Market is Timothy Scott Bogart’s pop Romeo & Juliet musical, Verona starring Clara Rugaard, Jamie Ward, Rebel Wilson, Rupert Everett, Jason Isaacs and Derek Jacobi.
Verona will be the first film in a original pop musical trilogy based around the real-life 1301 story that inspired Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. A wide theatrical releaser this Christmas is being planned.
Bogart tells us, “We’ve set out to tell the greatest love story of all time, set to the musical pulse of our time. But Shakespeare only told part of that remarkable tale whose events changed the course of history!”
Voltage is handling international sales on Verona.
Bogart recently directed the 1970s-1980s set feature Spinning Gold about his record label exec father Neil Bogart’s rise and fall with Casablanca Records. That pic is coming out on March 31 in theaters.
Verona will be the first film in a original pop musical trilogy based around the real-life 1301 story that inspired Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. A wide theatrical releaser this Christmas is being planned.
Bogart tells us, “We’ve set out to tell the greatest love story of all time, set to the musical pulse of our time. But Shakespeare only told part of that remarkable tale whose events changed the course of history!”
Voltage is handling international sales on Verona.
Bogart recently directed the 1970s-1980s set feature Spinning Gold about his record label exec father Neil Bogart’s rise and fall with Casablanca Records. That pic is coming out on March 31 in theaters.
- 2/2/2023
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Principal photography underway In Italy.
Voltage Pictures is launching international sales at EFM on the pop musical Verona to star Clara Rugaard, Jamie Ward, Rebel Wilson, Rupert Everett, Jason Isaacs and Derek Jacobi
Writer-director Timothy Scott Bogart’s original feature is based on the story that inspired Shakespeare to write Romeo And Juliet.
Production is underway in Italy and the producers have earmarked a wide US theatrical release for Verona in the December holiday season.
Ferdia Walsh-Peelo, Rupert Graves, Dan Fogler and Tayla Parx and Ledisi round out the cast. Evan Bogart is scoring and producing the original music for...
Voltage Pictures is launching international sales at EFM on the pop musical Verona to star Clara Rugaard, Jamie Ward, Rebel Wilson, Rupert Everett, Jason Isaacs and Derek Jacobi
Writer-director Timothy Scott Bogart’s original feature is based on the story that inspired Shakespeare to write Romeo And Juliet.
Production is underway in Italy and the producers have earmarked a wide US theatrical release for Verona in the December holiday season.
Ferdia Walsh-Peelo, Rupert Graves, Dan Fogler and Tayla Parx and Ledisi round out the cast. Evan Bogart is scoring and producing the original music for...
- 2/2/2023
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Working at the opposite end of the spectrum to Baz Luhrmann, Ireland’s John Carney seems content to make low-key, localized musicals that are almost custom-sized for Sundance. True, some fingers were burned when, perhaps emboldened by the slow-burn success of 2007’s Once, he hired a big star (Keira Knightley), filmed in New York, and endured the full horror of a hands-on Harvey Weinstein release for the bigger-budgeted follow-up, Begin Again, in 2013. After whatever went down on that film, however, he returned to Ireland with a bunch of largely unknown actors for his next and arguably best so far: Sing Street (2016), an underrated romantic comedy about a young man (Ferdia Walsh-Peelo) trying to find his identity through his love of music.
The good news about Flora and Son is that it is firmly in the tradition of Sing Street, with edgier humor — unusually dark jokes of the kind that pepper...
The good news about Flora and Son is that it is firmly in the tradition of Sing Street, with edgier humor — unusually dark jokes of the kind that pepper...
- 1/23/2023
- by Damon Wise
- Deadline Film + TV
Sundance Film Festival added several new titles, including a documentary about NBA star Stephen Curry and A24’s sentimental drama “Past Lives,” to its 2023 lineup.
Other newest inclusions are “Beyond Utopia,” a documentary about families escaping oppression, as well as feature films including “Earth Mama” and Flora and Son,” which will screen in the premieres section. “Stephen Curry: Underrated” will play in the special screenings section.
This year’s Sundance Film Festival will take place from Jan. 19-29 in Utah, marking its first return to Park City since the pandemic.
Sundance is also hosting encore screenings of “Coda,” which premiered at the 2021 virtual festival and won the Oscar for best picture, as well as “Klondike,” “Navalny” and “Summer of Soul.” It will be the first time those Sundance award winners will screen at the festival in person, with many of the filmmakers in attendance for post-screening panels. Those films were...
Other newest inclusions are “Beyond Utopia,” a documentary about families escaping oppression, as well as feature films including “Earth Mama” and Flora and Son,” which will screen in the premieres section. “Stephen Curry: Underrated” will play in the special screenings section.
This year’s Sundance Film Festival will take place from Jan. 19-29 in Utah, marking its first return to Park City since the pandemic.
Sundance is also hosting encore screenings of “Coda,” which premiered at the 2021 virtual festival and won the Oscar for best picture, as well as “Klondike,” “Navalny” and “Summer of Soul.” It will be the first time those Sundance award winners will screen at the festival in person, with many of the filmmakers in attendance for post-screening panels. Those films were...
- 1/4/2023
- by Rebecca Rubin
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Buffalo 8 has acquired North American rights to the musical drama Love Gets a Room from director Rodrigo Cortés (Buried) out of the Cannes Film Festival, slating it for a limited theatrical release this fall.
The film starring Clara Rugaard (I Am Mother) and Ferdia Walsh-Peelo (Sing Street) is a romantic tale of love and survival in the face of harrowing circumstances and encompasses themes of perseverance, resilience, and sacrifice. It’s set in 1942 and follows a group of Jewish actors who perform a theatrical play in the heart of the Warsaw Ghetto. Rugaard’s character must make a life-or-death decision in the middle of her stage show—to follow her heart, or to escape the Warsaw ghetto.
Love Gets a Room screened for buyers at Cannes after making its world premiere at the Festival De Sevilla. Cortés wrote the film with David Safier (Damn Karma). Adrián Guerra and Núria Valls produced,...
The film starring Clara Rugaard (I Am Mother) and Ferdia Walsh-Peelo (Sing Street) is a romantic tale of love and survival in the face of harrowing circumstances and encompasses themes of perseverance, resilience, and sacrifice. It’s set in 1942 and follows a group of Jewish actors who perform a theatrical play in the heart of the Warsaw Ghetto. Rugaard’s character must make a life-or-death decision in the middle of her stage show—to follow her heart, or to escape the Warsaw ghetto.
Love Gets a Room screened for buyers at Cannes after making its world premiere at the Festival De Sevilla. Cortés wrote the film with David Safier (Damn Karma). Adrián Guerra and Núria Valls produced,...
- 5/27/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Kit Harington is set to star in Fulwell 73’s biopic of Mary Shelley, titled “Mary’s Monster.
Variety first broke the news that the film was in pre-production earlier this year.
Fulwell 73 have teamed with Rose Pictures on the feature, which will go into production in the U.K. this summer.
Clara Rugaard (“I Am Mother”) will play Shelley while Harington is set to play the monster. Ferdia Walsh-Peelo (“Coda”) has also joined the cast as Shelley’s husband Percy Bysshe Shelley while Sebastian De Souza (“Normal People”) will play the couple’s friend Lord Byron.
As Variety revealed in January, Farren Blackburn (“Daredevil”) will direct based on a screenplay by Deborah Baxtrom (“Living With Frankenstein”). Stephen Hallett co-writes.
Marius de Vries (“La La Land”) has boarded as executive music producer and executive producer; Fulwell 73’s Leo Pearlman and Heather Greenwood will produce, alongside Rose Picture’s Rose Ganguzza (“Afterschool...
Variety first broke the news that the film was in pre-production earlier this year.
Fulwell 73 have teamed with Rose Pictures on the feature, which will go into production in the U.K. this summer.
Clara Rugaard (“I Am Mother”) will play Shelley while Harington is set to play the monster. Ferdia Walsh-Peelo (“Coda”) has also joined the cast as Shelley’s husband Percy Bysshe Shelley while Sebastian De Souza (“Normal People”) will play the couple’s friend Lord Byron.
As Variety revealed in January, Farren Blackburn (“Daredevil”) will direct based on a screenplay by Deborah Baxtrom (“Living With Frankenstein”). Stephen Hallett co-writes.
Marius de Vries (“La La Land”) has boarded as executive music producer and executive producer; Fulwell 73’s Leo Pearlman and Heather Greenwood will produce, alongside Rose Picture’s Rose Ganguzza (“Afterschool...
- 5/17/2022
- by K.J. Yossman
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Clara Rugaard (I Am Mother) and Kit Harington (Game Of Thrones) are set to star in a new movie about the life and circle of Frankenstein scribe Mary Shelley.
The period film, which will have a contemporary sheen to it, will deal with Mary’s mental struggle to write her seminal novel. Rising Danish actress Rugaard will play Mary Shelley and Harington will be ‘the monster.’
The film’s official synopsis reads: “Mary is seduced by her own inner monster catapulting her into a dangerous, destructive psychological romance. Realising the monster is inextricably linked to her own mental state, her only route to salvation is in bringing him to life”.
Ferdia Walsh-Peelo (Coda) will play Mary’s husband Percy Bysshe Shelley and Sebastian de Souza (Normal People) will play Byron. Additional casting is underway.
Described by producers as a “high-concept, rock’n’roll take” on the Romantic period, the...
The period film, which will have a contemporary sheen to it, will deal with Mary’s mental struggle to write her seminal novel. Rising Danish actress Rugaard will play Mary Shelley and Harington will be ‘the monster.’
The film’s official synopsis reads: “Mary is seduced by her own inner monster catapulting her into a dangerous, destructive psychological romance. Realising the monster is inextricably linked to her own mental state, her only route to salvation is in bringing him to life”.
Ferdia Walsh-Peelo (Coda) will play Mary’s husband Percy Bysshe Shelley and Sebastian de Souza (Normal People) will play Byron. Additional casting is underway.
Described by producers as a “high-concept, rock’n’roll take” on the Romantic period, the...
- 5/17/2022
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Emilia Jones as Ruby in “Coda,” premiering globally on Apple TV+ on August 13, 2021. Photo courtesy of Apple TV+
Coda is writer/director Sian Heder’s charming coming of age comedy/drama about the daughter of a family of scrappy, independent fishermen, who all happen to be deaf except her. Coda means “child of deaf adults” but it also has a musical meaning, making it the perfect title for a film about a teen with a passion for singing, something her family neither hears nor comprehends.
With deaf actors in the roles of the girl’s brother and parents, including Oscar-winner Marlee Matlin as her feisty mother, and wonderful performances all around, writer/director Sian Heder’s often-funny, warm tale of a family, different from the ordinary and yet not, is sure to bring smiles and delight audiences.
Coda has been praised by deaf communities both for casting deaf actors in...
Coda is writer/director Sian Heder’s charming coming of age comedy/drama about the daughter of a family of scrappy, independent fishermen, who all happen to be deaf except her. Coda means “child of deaf adults” but it also has a musical meaning, making it the perfect title for a film about a teen with a passion for singing, something her family neither hears nor comprehends.
With deaf actors in the roles of the girl’s brother and parents, including Oscar-winner Marlee Matlin as her feisty mother, and wonderful performances all around, writer/director Sian Heder’s often-funny, warm tale of a family, different from the ordinary and yet not, is sure to bring smiles and delight audiences.
Coda has been praised by deaf communities both for casting deaf actors in...
- 4/1/2022
- by Cate Marquis
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Alexa, play Joni Mitchell's "Both Sides, Now." On Sunday, March 27, the heartwarming drama musical Coda, which featured star Emilia Jones giving a moving rendition of Mitchell's epic anthem, won Best Picture at the 2022 Oscars. The Apple TV+ film starring Eugenio Derbez, Troy Kotsur, Ferdia Walsh-Peelo, Daniel Durant and Marlee Matlin, was a favorite among critics for the top prize as the cast previously won the Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture award at the 2022 SAG Awards. Though the popular film wasn't necessarily a shoo-in, having been nominated against other critically-acclaimed favorites: Belfast, Don't Look Up, Drive My Car, Dune, King Richard,...
- 3/28/2022
- E! Online
Coda on Sunday night beat The Power of the Dog to the punch to become the first movie that premiered on a streaming service to win the Oscar for Best Picture.
An English-language remake of the 2014 French film La Famille Bélier, Coda was day-and-date released in theaters and on Apple TV+ on Aug. 13, 2021.
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Written and directed by Siân Heder...
An English-language remake of the 2014 French film La Famille Bélier, Coda was day-and-date released in theaters and on Apple TV+ on Aug. 13, 2021.
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Written and directed by Siân Heder...
- 3/28/2022
- by Matt Webb Mitovich
- TVLine.com
Deaf representation has taken a major step forward with two Oscar-nominated films this year — one a fictional story, the other entirely real.
Best Picture contender Coda stars Oscar-nominated deaf actor Troy Kotsur as a father who is deaf, and whose daughter is hearing and known as a Coda, or ‘child of deaf adults’. Meanwhile, in the short documentary category, Oscar nominee Audible tells the story of three high school seniors at the Maryland School for the Deaf. They, like Kotsur, grew up deaf in a society that often shunts to the side those without hearing.
Deadline got Kotsur and Audible stars Amaree McKenstry-Hall, Lera Walkup, and Jazie Perry together recently for a video conference call where they shared how moved they were by each other’s films. During the call Kotsur placed his hand on his chest, telling the young people, “When I saw Audible, it hit me hard. It...
Best Picture contender Coda stars Oscar-nominated deaf actor Troy Kotsur as a father who is deaf, and whose daughter is hearing and known as a Coda, or ‘child of deaf adults’. Meanwhile, in the short documentary category, Oscar nominee Audible tells the story of three high school seniors at the Maryland School for the Deaf. They, like Kotsur, grew up deaf in a society that often shunts to the side those without hearing.
Deadline got Kotsur and Audible stars Amaree McKenstry-Hall, Lera Walkup, and Jazie Perry together recently for a video conference call where they shared how moved they were by each other’s films. During the call Kotsur placed his hand on his chest, telling the young people, “When I saw Audible, it hit me hard. It...
- 3/18/2022
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
“The way that we made the film was perfect,” asserts “Coda” director Sian Heder despite acknowledging that the production was “incredibly hard and it was scrappy and we didn’t have enough time or enough days.” She is joined by producer Patrick Wachsberger and supporting actor (and recent SAG Award winner) Troy Kotsur at the Q&a roundtable panel “Gold Derby Presents ‘The Making of “Coda'” featuring the film’s Oscar nominees.
“I had absolute freedom as a filmmaker, so I can own it completely, and Patrick was such a support in that,” she adds. “I remember he watched my director’s cut and got on the phone with me and he said ‘okay, great. We’re done.’ And I said, ‘Nothing? You don’t have any notes?’ And he’s like, ‘No, I love it. I love what you did.’ That never happens. It never happens! You always have...
“I had absolute freedom as a filmmaker, so I can own it completely, and Patrick was such a support in that,” she adds. “I remember he watched my director’s cut and got on the phone with me and he said ‘okay, great. We’re done.’ And I said, ‘Nothing? You don’t have any notes?’ And he’s like, ‘No, I love it. I love what you did.’ That never happens. It never happens! You always have...
- 3/10/2022
- by Rob Licuria
- Gold Derby
The 28th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards took place Sunday night in 15 categories, including film and TV. Film categories: Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture Coda — Eugenio Derbez, Daniel Durant, Emilia Jones, Troy Kotsur, Marlee Matlin, Ferdia Walsh-Peelo (Winner) Belfast — Caitríona Balfe, Judi Dench, Jamie Dornan, Jude Hill, Ciarán Hinds, Colin Morgan Don’t Look Up — Cate Blanchett, Timothée Chalamet, Leonardo DiCaprio, Ariana Grande, Jonah Hill, Jennifer Lawrence, Melanie Lynskey, Scott Mescudi, Rob Morgan, Himesh Patel, Ron Perlman, Tyler Perry, Mark Rylance, Meryl Streep House of Gucci — Adam Driver, Lady Gaga, Salma Hayek, Jack Huston, Jeremy Irons, Jared Leto, Al Pacino King Richard — Jon Bernthal, Aunjanue Ellis, Tony Goldwyn, Saniyya Sidney, Demi Singleton, Will Smith Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role Jessica Chastain (The Eyes of Tammy Faye) (Winner) Olivia Colman (The Lost Daughter) Lady Gaga (House of Gucci) Jennifer Hudson (Respect) Nicole Kidman...
- 2/28/2022
- by HollywoodNews.com
- Hollywoodnews.com
The Screen Actors Guild Awards concluded with expected wins and lots of fanfare.
Earning the first award, Troy Kotsur (Coda) made history by becoming the first deaf actor to win an individual SAG Award.
First, the film categories!
Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
**Winner** Coda — Eugenio Derbez, Daniel Durant, Emilia Jones, Troy Kotsur, Marlee Matlin, Ferdia Walsh-Peelo
Belfast — Caitríona Balfe, Judi Dench, Jamie Dornan, Jude Hill, Ciarán Hinds, Colin Morgan
Don’t Look Up — Cate Blanchett, Timothée Chalamet, Leonardo DiCaprio, Ariana Grande, Jonah Hill, Jennifer Lawrence, Melanie Lynskey, Scott Mescudi, Rob Morgan, Himesh Patel, Ron Perlman, Tyler Perry, Mark Rylance, Meryl Streep
House of Gucci — Adam Driver, Lady Gaga, Salma Hayek, Jack Huston, Jeremy Irons, Jared Leto, Al Pacino
King Richard — Jon Bernthal, Aunjanue Ellis, Tony Goldwyn, Saniyya Sidney, Demi Singleton, Will Smith
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role
**Winner** Jessica Chastain (The Eyes of Tammy Faye...
Earning the first award, Troy Kotsur (Coda) made history by becoming the first deaf actor to win an individual SAG Award.
First, the film categories!
Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
**Winner** Coda — Eugenio Derbez, Daniel Durant, Emilia Jones, Troy Kotsur, Marlee Matlin, Ferdia Walsh-Peelo
Belfast — Caitríona Balfe, Judi Dench, Jamie Dornan, Jude Hill, Ciarán Hinds, Colin Morgan
Don’t Look Up — Cate Blanchett, Timothée Chalamet, Leonardo DiCaprio, Ariana Grande, Jonah Hill, Jennifer Lawrence, Melanie Lynskey, Scott Mescudi, Rob Morgan, Himesh Patel, Ron Perlman, Tyler Perry, Mark Rylance, Meryl Streep
House of Gucci — Adam Driver, Lady Gaga, Salma Hayek, Jack Huston, Jeremy Irons, Jared Leto, Al Pacino
King Richard — Jon Bernthal, Aunjanue Ellis, Tony Goldwyn, Saniyya Sidney, Demi Singleton, Will Smith
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role
**Winner** Jessica Chastain (The Eyes of Tammy Faye...
- 2/28/2022
- by Michael T. Stack
- TVfanatic
The 28th annual SAG Awards wrapped Sunday with Apple’s Coda winning the marquee Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture prize, the latest step for the indie drama centered on the deaf community, which has been on the rise since premiering at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival.
The Eyes of Tammy Faye‘s Jessica Chastain won the Female Actor in a Leading Role prize, topping a loaded category that included Olivia Colman, Nicole Kidman, Jennifer Hudson and Lady Gaga. Will Smith topped Denzel Washington, Andrew Garfield, Javier Bardem and Benedict Cumberbatch to take the Male Actor prize. Both are now immediately front-runners for the Oscars exactly one month from tonight.
As for Supporting Actor and Supporting Actress on the film side, Troy Kotsur of Coda made history with his victory and Oscar frontrunner Ariana DeBose of West Side Story also won.
The actors spread the love tonight, with...
The Eyes of Tammy Faye‘s Jessica Chastain won the Female Actor in a Leading Role prize, topping a loaded category that included Olivia Colman, Nicole Kidman, Jennifer Hudson and Lady Gaga. Will Smith topped Denzel Washington, Andrew Garfield, Javier Bardem and Benedict Cumberbatch to take the Male Actor prize. Both are now immediately front-runners for the Oscars exactly one month from tonight.
As for Supporting Actor and Supporting Actress on the film side, Troy Kotsur of Coda made history with his victory and Oscar frontrunner Ariana DeBose of West Side Story also won.
The actors spread the love tonight, with...
- 2/28/2022
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
The predominantly deaf cast of Apple TV+’s Coda made history on Sunday as it became the first to win one of SAG’s coveted ensemble prizes.
The ensemble comprised of Emilia Jones, Marlee Matlin, Troy Kotsur, Daniel Durant, Ferdia Walsh-Peelo and Eugenio Derbez won out in the category of Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture, besting those of Belfast (Focus Features), Don’t Look Up (Netflix), House of Gucci (MGM/United Artists Releasing) and King Richard (Warner Bros.).
Among those speaking to the watershed moment backstage was Matlin, who said that tonight was a night she’d been waiting for for decades—specifically, since she became the first deaf actor to win an Oscar, with Children of a Lesser God. “It’s a night that I’ve been waiting for for 35 years,” she said. “It has been time and this just validates, among those people who voted for us at SAG-AFTRA,...
The ensemble comprised of Emilia Jones, Marlee Matlin, Troy Kotsur, Daniel Durant, Ferdia Walsh-Peelo and Eugenio Derbez won out in the category of Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture, besting those of Belfast (Focus Features), Don’t Look Up (Netflix), House of Gucci (MGM/United Artists Releasing) and King Richard (Warner Bros.).
Among those speaking to the watershed moment backstage was Matlin, who said that tonight was a night she’d been waiting for for decades—specifically, since she became the first deaf actor to win an Oscar, with Children of a Lesser God. “It’s a night that I’ve been waiting for for 35 years,” she said. “It has been time and this just validates, among those people who voted for us at SAG-AFTRA,...
- 2/28/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Members of the Screen Actors Guild have put their imprimaturs on awards season’s acting races with the 2022 Screen Actors Guild Awards. The ceremony is set to take place on Sunday, February 27, and will bestow acting awards on last year’s best lead and supporting performances on film and television. Here’s everything to know about the 2022 SAG Awards, including who was nominated and how to watch and stream the 2022 SAG Awards online.
Will there be a SAG Awards this year?
Yes, the 2022 Screen Actors Guild Awards are happening, and soon! The show takes place on Sunday, February 27.
What day is the SAG Awards on?
The 2022 SAG Awards air on Sunday, February 27.
How can I watch SAG Awards nominated movies?
The five movies nominated for Best Ensemble at the SAG Awards are available to watch now via various platforms. Here’s how to watch the SAG-nominated movies.
“Belfast” is available...
Will there be a SAG Awards this year?
Yes, the 2022 Screen Actors Guild Awards are happening, and soon! The show takes place on Sunday, February 27.
What day is the SAG Awards on?
The 2022 SAG Awards air on Sunday, February 27.
How can I watch SAG Awards nominated movies?
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- 2/25/2022
- by Christopher Rosen
- Gold Derby
Coda is a 2021 coming-of-age comedy-drama film written and directed by Sian Heder. The film’s title stands for Children of Deaf Adults, which refers to hearing children raised by one or more deaf parents or guardians. They learn Asl as a first language and often serve as interpreters for their parents. The film stars Emilia Jones as 17-year old Ruby, the only hearing member of her deaf family. Eugenio Derbez, Ferdia Walsh-Peelo, and deaf actors Troy Kotsur, Daniel Durant, and Marlee Matlin, are also featured in supporting roles. The film is an English-language remake of the 2014 French film La
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- 2/21/2022
- by A.E. Oats
- TVovermind.com
Apple will re-release its Best Picture nominee “Coda” into theaters starting next weekend and will do so with a series of free screenings open to all audiences.
Beginning next Friday, February 25, and running through Feb. 27, “Coda” will be presented in a limited theatrical run across the U.S. and London, free of charge and on a first-come, first-served basis. And each screening will have open captions so that it’s inclusive of both Deaf and hard of hearing audiences.
Below is the list of theaters offering free screenings, and here is the link to get “Coda” tickets.
The film’s director Siân Heder will also be present at a live Q&a for the film for one of its screenings in Los Angeles, which will also have an interpreter present to translate into Asl.
“Coda” first premiered at Sundance in 2021 and won the Audience Award and the Grand Jury Prize in the Dramatic Competition,...
Beginning next Friday, February 25, and running through Feb. 27, “Coda” will be presented in a limited theatrical run across the U.S. and London, free of charge and on a first-come, first-served basis. And each screening will have open captions so that it’s inclusive of both Deaf and hard of hearing audiences.
Below is the list of theaters offering free screenings, and here is the link to get “Coda” tickets.
The film’s director Siân Heder will also be present at a live Q&a for the film for one of its screenings in Los Angeles, which will also have an interpreter present to translate into Asl.
“Coda” first premiered at Sundance in 2021 and won the Audience Award and the Grand Jury Prize in the Dramatic Competition,...
- 2/18/2022
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
“I remember being on set when we shot it, just the whole crew, it just crushed all of us; it was amazing,” songwriter Nicholai Baxter says bout arguably the most pivotal and talked-about scene in “Coda,” in which high school senior Ruby (Emilia Jones), beautifully croons the Marvin Gaye classic “You’re All I Need to Get By” to her deaf father (Troy Kotsur). “I was definitely inspired by that scene for sure. You know, all the scenes between them, but that one in particular is so powerful,” he reveals. We talked with Baxter as part of Gold Derby’s special film songwriters “Meet the Experts” Q&a event with key Oscar contenders. Watch our exclusive video interview above.
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“Coda” stars Jones as Ruby, a “Child Of Deaf Adults” who is the only hearing member of her family. Kotsur and Oscar winner Marlee Matlin play her deaf parents,...
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“Coda” stars Jones as Ruby, a “Child Of Deaf Adults” who is the only hearing member of her family. Kotsur and Oscar winner Marlee Matlin play her deaf parents,...
- 1/21/2022
- by Rob Licuria
- Gold Derby
Nominations were revealed Wednesday morning for the 28th annual SAG Awards, one of the bellwether guild events in the awards-season calendar.
Rosario Dawson and Vanessa Hudgens are being joined by new SAG-AFTRA president Fran Drescher to announce nominees in 15 film and television categories in a ceremony starting at 7 a.m. Pt on SAG-AFTRA’s Instagram Live page.
The guild also this morning announced its annual stunt ensemble nominees (see the full list of noms below).
After this morning’s nominations, guild members will vote from January 19-25 ahead of the awards ceremony now set to air on TNT and TBS on February 27 at Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, a departure from the guild’s usual Shrine Auditorium locale.
In 2021, the SAG Awards were held as a one-hour virtual ceremony delayed to April because of the constraints of the pandemic; for now, an in-person event is planned, complete with a red carpet.
Rosario Dawson and Vanessa Hudgens are being joined by new SAG-AFTRA president Fran Drescher to announce nominees in 15 film and television categories in a ceremony starting at 7 a.m. Pt on SAG-AFTRA’s Instagram Live page.
The guild also this morning announced its annual stunt ensemble nominees (see the full list of noms below).
After this morning’s nominations, guild members will vote from January 19-25 ahead of the awards ceremony now set to air on TNT and TBS on February 27 at Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, a departure from the guild’s usual Shrine Auditorium locale.
In 2021, the SAG Awards were held as a one-hour virtual ceremony delayed to April because of the constraints of the pandemic; for now, an in-person event is planned, complete with a red carpet.
- 1/12/2022
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
“Coda” is one of the most acclaimed films of the year thanks, in part, to the breakout performance by Emilia Jones. She and five of her cast members will be eligible for the 2022 SAG Award for best ensemble, as revealed to Gold Derby by Apple TV+. The list also includes Academy Award winner Marlee Matlin and critics favorite Troy Kotsur. See the alphabetical list below.
The film tells the story of Ruby (Jones), a child of deaf adults who is the only hearing member of her family. Matlin and Kotsur play her parents, who are both deaf, as is her brother, Leo (Daniel Durant). Ruby helps out her family with their fishing business while also wanting to pursue her dreams of becoming a singer, and she must decide which path she wants to take. At school, she romances one of her classmates, Miles (Ferdia Walsh-Peelo) after developing a connection in the school choir,...
The film tells the story of Ruby (Jones), a child of deaf adults who is the only hearing member of her family. Matlin and Kotsur play her parents, who are both deaf, as is her brother, Leo (Daniel Durant). Ruby helps out her family with their fishing business while also wanting to pursue her dreams of becoming a singer, and she must decide which path she wants to take. At school, she romances one of her classmates, Miles (Ferdia Walsh-Peelo) after developing a connection in the school choir,...
- 12/18/2021
- by Kevin Jacobsen
- Gold Derby
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Updated: Nov 25, 2021
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To see all the latest predictions, of all the categories, in one place, visit The Oscars Collective
Visit each category, per the individual awards show from The Oscars Hub
Revisit the prediction archive of the 2021 season The Archive
Link to television awards is atTHE Emmys Hub
2022 Screen Actors Guild Awards Predictions:
Best Performance By A Cast Ensemble
Updated: Nov 25, 2021
Awards Prediction Commentary: More to come…...
- 11/25/2021
- by Clayton Davis
- Variety Film + TV
Coda Review Video — Coda (2021) Video Movie Review, a movie directed by Sian Heder, written by Sian Heder, and starring Emilia Jones, Eugenio Derbez, Marlee Matlin, Daniel Durant, Ferdia Walsh-Peelo, Amy Forsyth, Kevin Chapman, Molly Beth Thomas, Ayana Brown, and Marlee MatliKyana Fanene. Crew M.B. Traven, Rory Haines, and Sohrab Noshirvani wrote the screenplay [...]
Continue reading: Video Movie Review: Coda (2021): A Film So Moving at Times that it Needs to be Seen...
Continue reading: Video Movie Review: Coda (2021): A Film So Moving at Times that it Needs to be Seen...
- 10/2/2021
- by Thomas Duffy
- Film-Book
Clara Rugaard, a Sundance sensation for her performance “I Am Mother,” and Ferdia Walsh-Peelo, star of “Coda” and “Sing Street,” headline “Love Gets a Room,” a Warsaw Ghetto-set romantic musical drama directed by Rodrigo Cortés.
Shot under the radar in order to magnify impact nearer to release when theaters return, said its producer Adrián Guerra, “Love Gets a Room” is produced and financed by Guerra’s Nostromo Pictures, with Lionsgate International handling international rights and CAA representing U.S. rights. Top Spanish independent A Contracorriente Films will release the film in Spain theatrically at the end of the year.
Written by German bestseller writer David Safier and Cortés, the film captures a group of actors as they perform in the heart of the Warsaw Ghetto, in a life or death context on a run-down stage, “Love Gets a Room,” a real-life musical comedy that was written by playwright Jerzy Jurandot,...
Shot under the radar in order to magnify impact nearer to release when theaters return, said its producer Adrián Guerra, “Love Gets a Room” is produced and financed by Guerra’s Nostromo Pictures, with Lionsgate International handling international rights and CAA representing U.S. rights. Top Spanish independent A Contracorriente Films will release the film in Spain theatrically at the end of the year.
Written by German bestseller writer David Safier and Cortés, the film captures a group of actors as they perform in the heart of the Warsaw Ghetto, in a life or death context on a run-down stage, “Love Gets a Room,” a real-life musical comedy that was written by playwright Jerzy Jurandot,...
- 9/17/2021
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Writer-director Siân Heder makes it very clear she knew the double meaning of “Coda,” the title of her new Apple TV Plus film, an acronym for Child of Deaf Adults. It’s used to describe the movie’s star, Emilia Jones, who plays would-be singer Ruby, a character eking out a living with her father Frank (Troy Kotsur), mother Jackie (Marlee Matlin) and brother Leo (Daniel Durant) — all deaf actors — aboard a fishing boat in scenic Gloucester, Mass.
“When I learned about the use of the term within the deaf community, in the context of music, it resonated for a coming-of-age story,” explains Heder, whose previous film was the gritty 2016 Sundance hit, “Tallulah,” with Allison Janney and Elliot Page. “To me, ‘Coda’ also represents the end of childhood, saying goodbye to the identity which exists within your family, bringing that part of your life to a close.”
From the moment...
“When I learned about the use of the term within the deaf community, in the context of music, it resonated for a coming-of-age story,” explains Heder, whose previous film was the gritty 2016 Sundance hit, “Tallulah,” with Allison Janney and Elliot Page. “To me, ‘Coda’ also represents the end of childhood, saying goodbye to the identity which exists within your family, bringing that part of your life to a close.”
From the moment...
- 8/23/2021
- by Roy Trakin
- Variety Film + TV
Coda Review — Coda (2021) Film Review, a movie directed by Sian Heder and starring Emilia Jones, Marlee Matlin, Troy Kotsur, Daniel Durant, John Fiore, Lonnie Farmer, Kevin Chapman, Amy Forsyth, Molly Beth Thomas, Ferdia Walsh-Peelo, Ayana Brown, Kyana Fanene, Stone Martin and Eugenio Derbez. Coda (the letters of which stands for Child of Deaf [...]
Continue reading: Film Review: Coda (2021): Emilia Jones and Marlee Matlin Shine in a Compelling Tearjerker...
Continue reading: Film Review: Coda (2021): Emilia Jones and Marlee Matlin Shine in a Compelling Tearjerker...
- 8/22/2021
- by Thomas Duffy
- Film-Book
This review of “Coda” was first published on January 31, 2021 after its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival
It’s probably unfair to review the Sundance movie “Coda” in the context of the $25 million deal it made with Apple mid-festival, a record-breaking sale that places enormous expectations on Sian Heder’s gentle family drama. But it’s also inescapable that that kind of money will put pressure on “Coda” to be both an indie landmark and a commercial breakthrough rather than what it really is — a sweet, openhearted coming-of-age story that succeeds in spite of its own predictability.
Heder’s film is modest but thoroughly satisfying, corny but effective, never edgy and always likable. As Sundance dramas go, it dispenses with the indie quirks and idiosyncrasies to focus on a heartwarming story performed by gifted actors; it’s a tear-jerker, to be sure, but you won’t be annoyed at it for jerking those tears.
It’s probably unfair to review the Sundance movie “Coda” in the context of the $25 million deal it made with Apple mid-festival, a record-breaking sale that places enormous expectations on Sian Heder’s gentle family drama. But it’s also inescapable that that kind of money will put pressure on “Coda” to be both an indie landmark and a commercial breakthrough rather than what it really is — a sweet, openhearted coming-of-age story that succeeds in spite of its own predictability.
Heder’s film is modest but thoroughly satisfying, corny but effective, never edgy and always likable. As Sundance dramas go, it dispenses with the indie quirks and idiosyncrasies to focus on a heartwarming story performed by gifted actors; it’s a tear-jerker, to be sure, but you won’t be annoyed at it for jerking those tears.
- 8/12/2021
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
To celebrate the release of the beautiful new film Coda, which arrives this week, we sat down with the irrepressible cast and writer/director Sian Heder to find out more.
Seventeen-year-old Ruby (Emilia Jones) is the sole hearing member of a deaf family—a Coda, child of deaf adults. Her life revolves around acting as an interpreter for her parents and working on the family’s struggling fishing boat every day before school with her father and older brother (Daniel Durant). But when Ruby joins her high school’s choir club, she discovers a gift for singing and soon finds herself drawn to her duet partner Miles (Ferdia Walsh-Peelo). Encouraged by her enthusiastic, tough-love choirmaster (Eugenio Derbez) to apply to a prestigious music school, Ruby finds herself torn between the obligations she feels to her family and the pursuit of her own dreams.
We were delighted to speak to all...
Seventeen-year-old Ruby (Emilia Jones) is the sole hearing member of a deaf family—a Coda, child of deaf adults. Her life revolves around acting as an interpreter for her parents and working on the family’s struggling fishing boat every day before school with her father and older brother (Daniel Durant). But when Ruby joins her high school’s choir club, she discovers a gift for singing and soon finds herself drawn to her duet partner Miles (Ferdia Walsh-Peelo). Encouraged by her enthusiastic, tough-love choirmaster (Eugenio Derbez) to apply to a prestigious music school, Ruby finds herself torn between the obligations she feels to her family and the pursuit of her own dreams.
We were delighted to speak to all...
- 8/11/2021
- by Scott Davis
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Awards
Siân Heder’s “Coda,” an Apple original film, has won the 2021 Sundance Film Festival: London Award presented by BIFA.
The award was voted for by 40 leading professionals from the British film industry assembled by the British Independent Film Awards.
The film follows Ruby, a Coda or Child of Deaf Adults, who is torn between pursuing her love of music and her fear of abandoning her parents. The film stars Emilia Jones, Eugenio Derbez, Troy Kotsur, Ferdia Walsh-Peelo, Daniel Durant, and Marlee Matlin, and is produced by Philippe Rousselet, Fabrice Gianfermi and Patrick Wachsberger.
It had its world premiere at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival in the U.S., where it won best director U.S. dramatic, U.S. grand jury prize: dramatic and the audience award: U.S. dramatic. Walsh-Peelo attended the London event with Heder joining virtually for a Q & A.
The film will debut in cinemas and on Apple TV Plus on Aug.
Siân Heder’s “Coda,” an Apple original film, has won the 2021 Sundance Film Festival: London Award presented by BIFA.
The award was voted for by 40 leading professionals from the British film industry assembled by the British Independent Film Awards.
The film follows Ruby, a Coda or Child of Deaf Adults, who is torn between pursuing her love of music and her fear of abandoning her parents. The film stars Emilia Jones, Eugenio Derbez, Troy Kotsur, Ferdia Walsh-Peelo, Daniel Durant, and Marlee Matlin, and is produced by Philippe Rousselet, Fabrice Gianfermi and Patrick Wachsberger.
It had its world premiere at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival in the U.S., where it won best director U.S. dramatic, U.S. grand jury prize: dramatic and the audience award: U.S. dramatic. Walsh-Peelo attended the London event with Heder joining virtually for a Q & A.
The film will debut in cinemas and on Apple TV Plus on Aug.
- 8/4/2021
- by Naman Ramachandran and Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
New Indie
Emma Seligman’s impressive “Shiva Baby” (Utopia) premieres on Blu-ray this month, and it’s a blisteringly funny, character-based comedy about a young Danielle (played by Rachel Sennott) whose rootless life when she attends a shiva with her parents (Fred Melamed and Polly Draper), only to encounter the boyfriend who’s financially supporting her, his wife — whom Danielle didn’t know existed — and Danielle’s ex-girlfriend. It’s a full buffet of misunderstandings, awkward encounters, and scene-stealing character actors, with a cast that also includes Jackie Hoffman, Dianna Agron, and Molly Gordon.
Also available: A jaded clickbait reporter has an unforgettable encounter in the indie comedy “15 Things You Didn’t Know About Bigfoot” (Kino Lorber); over-the-hill kung fu disciples rouse themselves from mid-life torpor to avenge the death of their master in the martial-arts comedy “The Paper Tigers” (Well Go USA Entertainment).
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Emma Seligman’s impressive “Shiva Baby” (Utopia) premieres on Blu-ray this month, and it’s a blisteringly funny, character-based comedy about a young Danielle (played by Rachel Sennott) whose rootless life when she attends a shiva with her parents (Fred Melamed and Polly Draper), only to encounter the boyfriend who’s financially supporting her, his wife — whom Danielle didn’t know existed — and Danielle’s ex-girlfriend. It’s a full buffet of misunderstandings, awkward encounters, and scene-stealing character actors, with a cast that also includes Jackie Hoffman, Dianna Agron, and Molly Gordon.
Also available: A jaded clickbait reporter has an unforgettable encounter in the indie comedy “15 Things You Didn’t Know About Bigfoot” (Kino Lorber); over-the-hill kung fu disciples rouse themselves from mid-life torpor to avenge the death of their master in the martial-arts comedy “The Paper Tigers” (Well Go USA Entertainment).
New Foreign
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- 7/8/2021
- by Alonso Duralde
- The Wrap
Coda Trailer — Sian Heder‘s Coda (2021) movie trailer has been released by Apple TV+. The Coda trailer stars Emilia Jones, Eugenio Derbez, Marlee Matlin, Daniel Durant, Ferdia Walsh-Peelo, Amy Forsyth, Kevin Chapman, Molly Beth Thomas, Ayana Brown, and Marlee MatliKyana Fanene. Crew Sian Heder wrote the screenplay for Coda. Marius De Vries created the [...]
Continue reading: Coda (2021) Movie Trailer: Emilia Jones is the Only Hearing Member of an All Deaf Family...
Continue reading: Coda (2021) Movie Trailer: Emilia Jones is the Only Hearing Member of an All Deaf Family...
- 6/27/2021
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
In the first trailer for Sian Heder’s inspiring coming-of-age story “Coda,” we meet a teenage girl who pursues her dream of singing while working with and caring for her deaf family. (“Coda” stands for child of deaf adults.)
The film wowed audiences at Sundance, sweeping the audience award and the jury prize and getting scooped up by Apple in a record deal out of the festival. Now, the film is about to burst into the mainstream in a big way. “Coda” stars real deaf actors, including Oscar winner Marlee Matlin, Troy Kotsur and Daniel Durant as the film’s deaf family, alongside hearing actress Emilia Jones.
The movie was praised by critics for its authenticity and attention to detail in depicting the deaf community. And the trailer for “Coda,” released Thursday, features primarily Asl in its dialogue and shows how expressive and hilarious all of the film’s deaf talent are.
The film wowed audiences at Sundance, sweeping the audience award and the jury prize and getting scooped up by Apple in a record deal out of the festival. Now, the film is about to burst into the mainstream in a big way. “Coda” stars real deaf actors, including Oscar winner Marlee Matlin, Troy Kotsur and Daniel Durant as the film’s deaf family, alongside hearing actress Emilia Jones.
The movie was praised by critics for its authenticity and attention to detail in depicting the deaf community. And the trailer for “Coda,” released Thursday, features primarily Asl in its dialogue and shows how expressive and hilarious all of the film’s deaf talent are.
- 6/24/2021
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Apple Original Films has released the official trailer for “Coda,” the heart-tugging coming-of-age dramedy directed by Sian Heder and released to wild acclaim at the (virtual) Sundance Film Festival earlier this year. This big-hearted, inclusive story swept the juried prizes at the festival, winning the Directing Award, the Ensemble Award, and the Grand Jury Prize, as well as the Audience Award.
“Coda” also stands as the biggest Sundance acquisition ever, courtesy of Apple, which picked it up for $25 million. “Coda” smashed the Sundance sales record just a year after “Palm Springs” did the same, courtesy of Hulu and Neon’s estimated $20 million buy.
Per the film’s official synopsis: “Gifted with a voice that her parents can’t hear, 17-year-old Ruby (Emilia Jones) is the sole hearing member of a deaf family — a Coda, which means a Child of Deaf Adults. Her life revolves around serving as an interpreter for...
“Coda” also stands as the biggest Sundance acquisition ever, courtesy of Apple, which picked it up for $25 million. “Coda” smashed the Sundance sales record just a year after “Palm Springs” did the same, courtesy of Hulu and Neon’s estimated $20 million buy.
Per the film’s official synopsis: “Gifted with a voice that her parents can’t hear, 17-year-old Ruby (Emilia Jones) is the sole hearing member of a deaf family — a Coda, which means a Child of Deaf Adults. Her life revolves around serving as an interpreter for...
- 6/24/2021
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
Apple has released a new trailer for the Sundance award-winning film ‘Coda’. You can read our glowing review from Sundance here.
Seventeen-year-old Ruby (Emilia Jones) is the sole hearing member of a deaf family – a Coda, child of deaf adults. Her life revolves around acting as an interpreter for her parents and working on the family’s struggling fishing boat every day before school with her father and older brother (Daniel Durant). But when Ruby joins her high school’s choir club, she discovers a gift for singing and soon finds herself drawn to her duet partner Miles (Ferdia Walsh-Peelo). Encouraged by her enthusiastic, tough-love choirmaster (Eugenio Derbez) to apply to a prestigious music school, Ruby finds herself torn between the obligations she feels to her family and the pursuit of her own dreams.
Written and directed by Siân Heder, the film stars Emilia Jones, Marlee Matlin, Eugenio Derbez, Troy Kotsur,...
Seventeen-year-old Ruby (Emilia Jones) is the sole hearing member of a deaf family – a Coda, child of deaf adults. Her life revolves around acting as an interpreter for her parents and working on the family’s struggling fishing boat every day before school with her father and older brother (Daniel Durant). But when Ruby joins her high school’s choir club, she discovers a gift for singing and soon finds herself drawn to her duet partner Miles (Ferdia Walsh-Peelo). Encouraged by her enthusiastic, tough-love choirmaster (Eugenio Derbez) to apply to a prestigious music school, Ruby finds herself torn between the obligations she feels to her family and the pursuit of her own dreams.
Written and directed by Siân Heder, the film stars Emilia Jones, Marlee Matlin, Eugenio Derbez, Troy Kotsur,...
- 6/24/2021
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
"Do you have something to say?" Apple TV has debuted a wonderful new trailer for the Sundance hit Coda, made by Sian Heder. The film premiered at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival earlier this year and won both the Audience Award and Grand Jury Prize at the fest (and was one of my Top 10). As a Coda (Child of Deaf Adults) Ruby is the only hearing person in her deaf family. When the family's fishing business is threatened, Ruby finds herself torn between pursuing her love of music and singing, and her fear of abandoning her parents and leaving her family behind. The excellent cast in Coda features Emilia Jones as Ruby, Troy Kotsur is a stand out role as her father, the enigmatic Marlee Matlin as her mother, plus Ferdia Walsh-Peelo, Daniel Durant, John Fiore, and Eugenio Derbez. Every family has its own language. I wrote in my review that...
- 6/24/2021
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
“Coda” and “Little America” director Siân Heder will expand her partnership with Apple, inking a multi-year overall deal to write and develop series exclusively for the tech giant’s streaming platform. Under the terms of the deal, Apple will also have a first look at features penned by the Sundance Grand Jury Prize award-winning writer.
Per the logline, the highly anticipated Apple Original film “Coda,” which is set to make its global premiere in theaters and on Apple TV Plus on Aug. 13, follows 17-year-old Ruby (Emilia Jones), who’s the sole hearing member of a deaf family – a Coda, Child of Deaf Adults. Her life revolves around acting as an interpreter for her parents and working on the family’s struggling fishing boat every day before school with her father and older brother (Daniel Durant). But when Ruby joins her high school’s choir club, she discovers a gift for...
Per the logline, the highly anticipated Apple Original film “Coda,” which is set to make its global premiere in theaters and on Apple TV Plus on Aug. 13, follows 17-year-old Ruby (Emilia Jones), who’s the sole hearing member of a deaf family – a Coda, Child of Deaf Adults. Her life revolves around acting as an interpreter for her parents and working on the family’s struggling fishing boat every day before school with her father and older brother (Daniel Durant). But when Ruby joins her high school’s choir club, she discovers a gift for...
- 6/9/2021
- by Mónica Marie Zorrilla
- Variety Film + TV
“Coda” writer and director Siân Heder has signed a multiyear overall deal with Apple, the streamer announced on Wednesday.
Under the deal, Apple will have a first-look on her features, as well as an exclusive deal for series written and developed by Heder.
In January, Apple bought Heder’s film “Coda” for a record-breaking $25 million after an intense bidding war. Heder wrote and directed the drama about a teen girl who is the only hearing person in her deaf family and is stuck keeping their fishing business afloat. It starred Emilia Jones, Troy Kotsur, Ferdia Walsh-Peelo, Daniel Durant, Amy Forsyth, Kevin Chapman and Oscar winner Marlee Matlin. Apple and Heder also collaborated on the critically acclaimed series “Little America.”
Heder is currently serving as executive producer and co-showrunner on “Little America.” Her other credits include writing and producing for “Orange is the New Black” and writing for “Men of a Certain Age,...
Under the deal, Apple will have a first-look on her features, as well as an exclusive deal for series written and developed by Heder.
In January, Apple bought Heder’s film “Coda” for a record-breaking $25 million after an intense bidding war. Heder wrote and directed the drama about a teen girl who is the only hearing person in her deaf family and is stuck keeping their fishing business afloat. It starred Emilia Jones, Troy Kotsur, Ferdia Walsh-Peelo, Daniel Durant, Amy Forsyth, Kevin Chapman and Oscar winner Marlee Matlin. Apple and Heder also collaborated on the critically acclaimed series “Little America.”
Heder is currently serving as executive producer and co-showrunner on “Little America.” Her other credits include writing and producing for “Orange is the New Black” and writing for “Men of a Certain Age,...
- 6/9/2021
- by Beatrice Verhoeven
- The Wrap
Sundance Film Festival: London has revealed that “Zola” and “Coda” will be among the 2021 lineup, when the festival returns to Picturehouse Central next month.
“Coda” — an acronym meaning “Child of Deaf Adults” — features Marlee Matlin (“The West Wing”) and 19-year-old Emilia Jones (“Locke & Key”) navigating their relationship, while “Zola” is based on a 148-tweet viral Twitter thread from 2015 by Aziah “Zola” Wells. It stars Taylor Paige (“Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”) and Riley Keough (“Max Max: Fury Road”) and will close the 4-day festival.
Edgar Wright’s rockumentary “The Sparks Brothers,” described as a “musical odyssey,” opens the festival on July 29.
Other feature film offerings, which have been selected from the longer line-up shown at the Sundance Film Festival, include “The Nest,” starring Jude Law (“Sherlock Holmes”), animation “Cryptozoo,” which features Lake Bell (“BoJack Horseman”) and Michael Cera (“Arrested Development”), and documentary “Writing With Fire,” about a female-run Indian newspaper, which...
“Coda” — an acronym meaning “Child of Deaf Adults” — features Marlee Matlin (“The West Wing”) and 19-year-old Emilia Jones (“Locke & Key”) navigating their relationship, while “Zola” is based on a 148-tweet viral Twitter thread from 2015 by Aziah “Zola” Wells. It stars Taylor Paige (“Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”) and Riley Keough (“Max Max: Fury Road”) and will close the 4-day festival.
Edgar Wright’s rockumentary “The Sparks Brothers,” described as a “musical odyssey,” opens the festival on July 29.
Other feature film offerings, which have been selected from the longer line-up shown at the Sundance Film Festival, include “The Nest,” starring Jude Law (“Sherlock Holmes”), animation “Cryptozoo,” which features Lake Bell (“BoJack Horseman”) and Michael Cera (“Arrested Development”), and documentary “Writing With Fire,” about a female-run Indian newspaper, which...
- 6/2/2021
- by K.J. Yossman
- Variety Film + TV
Vikings fans holding out to watch the back half of Vikings Season 6B on History Channel, we have some good news.
The cable network has announced the final episodes will begin airing Saturday, June 5th, at 8/7c.
Fans were thrown for a loop in December when Amazon Prime announced it would be taking the rights to Vikings to air on streaming and that it would be launching that month.
"Prime Video has already delighted Prime members with all five and a half seasons of Vikings," said Brad Beale, VP worldwide content licensing at Amazon, said in a statement at the time.
“On Dec. 30, Prime members in the U.S., U.K., Germany, Austria, and Ireland will be the first to learn the fates of the beloved characters as the epic drama concludes in the final 10 episodes."
"Our monumental Vikings saga is coming to its conclusion, but not before you’ve...
The cable network has announced the final episodes will begin airing Saturday, June 5th, at 8/7c.
Fans were thrown for a loop in December when Amazon Prime announced it would be taking the rights to Vikings to air on streaming and that it would be launching that month.
"Prime Video has already delighted Prime members with all five and a half seasons of Vikings," said Brad Beale, VP worldwide content licensing at Amazon, said in a statement at the time.
“On Dec. 30, Prime members in the U.S., U.K., Germany, Austria, and Ireland will be the first to learn the fates of the beloved characters as the epic drama concludes in the final 10 episodes."
"Our monumental Vikings saga is coming to its conclusion, but not before you’ve...
- 5/12/2021
- by Paul Dailly
- TVfanatic
The first 79 episodes of the Vikings TV show aired on History. Then, late last year, it was announced that the final 10 episodes of the series would be released on Amazon Prime Video first, on December 30th. Regular cable viewers would have to wait. The final episodes were then released on Hulu on March 30th and regular cable viewers had to keep waiting.
Well, the long wait is finally over. History has quietly announced that the final episodes of Vikings will begin airing on Saturday, June 5th, at 8/7c.
An action-adventure series, the sixth season of Vikings stars Alexander Ludwig, Alex Høgh Andersen, Peter Franzén, Katheryn Winnick, Jordan Patrick Smith, and Marco Ilsø. Danila Kozlovsky, Georgia Hirst, Adam Copeland, Ferdia Walsh-Peelo, Ragga Ragnars, Steven Berkoff, and Eric Johnson have recurring roles. The period drama delves into...
Well, the long wait is finally over. History has quietly announced that the final episodes of Vikings will begin airing on Saturday, June 5th, at 8/7c.
An action-adventure series, the sixth season of Vikings stars Alexander Ludwig, Alex Høgh Andersen, Peter Franzén, Katheryn Winnick, Jordan Patrick Smith, and Marco Ilsø. Danila Kozlovsky, Georgia Hirst, Adam Copeland, Ferdia Walsh-Peelo, Ragga Ragnars, Steven Berkoff, and Eric Johnson have recurring roles. The period drama delves into...
- 5/11/2021
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
Three Dublin lads and their super-smart classmate face an uncertain future in a tale that only hints at dark possibilities
Here is an ensemble coming-of-ager in which someone actually says the line: “That summer may have changed everything …” It’s in a style I associate with the 90s: movies such as Trainspotting or Human Traffic, with people clubbing and yearning and discovering the value of friendship together as the sun comes up. There’s certainly an impressive cast lineup for this one, but there’s also something weirdly formless and frustrating about it as well; the film gestures at some dark and disturbing possibilities in human nature without quite knowing if or how to follow through.
Matthew (Dean-Charles Chapman), Kearney (Finn Cole) and Rez (Ferdia Walsh-Peelo) are three Dublin lads who leave school without much idea of what they want to do – not like their super-smart classmate Jen (Anya Taylor-Joy...
Here is an ensemble coming-of-ager in which someone actually says the line: “That summer may have changed everything …” It’s in a style I associate with the 90s: movies such as Trainspotting or Human Traffic, with people clubbing and yearning and discovering the value of friendship together as the sun comes up. There’s certainly an impressive cast lineup for this one, but there’s also something weirdly formless and frustrating about it as well; the film gestures at some dark and disturbing possibilities in human nature without quite knowing if or how to follow through.
Matthew (Dean-Charles Chapman), Kearney (Finn Cole) and Rez (Ferdia Walsh-Peelo) are three Dublin lads who leave school without much idea of what they want to do – not like their super-smart classmate Jen (Anya Taylor-Joy...
- 4/29/2021
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
“Coda” is coming to theaters and streaming this August, Apple announced today. The company picked up Siân Heder’s acclaimed family drama out of the Sundance Film Festival for a reported $25 million, the biggest purchase in the festival’s history. “Coda” went on to dominate the 2021 Sundance awards, becoming the first movie to win all top prizes in the U.S. Dramatic Competition section: Audience Awrd, Directing Award, Grand Jury Prize, and Special Jury Award for Best Ensemble. “Coda” will debut in theaters and on Apple TV+ on Friday, August 13.
Apple’s official “Coda” synopsis reads: “Seventeen-year-old Ruby (Emilia Jones) is the sole hearing member of a deaf family — a Coda, the child of deaf adults. Her life revolves around acting as interpreter for her parents and working on the family’s struggling fishing boat every day before school with her father and older brother (Daniel Durant). But when Ruby...
Apple’s official “Coda” synopsis reads: “Seventeen-year-old Ruby (Emilia Jones) is the sole hearing member of a deaf family — a Coda, the child of deaf adults. Her life revolves around acting as interpreter for her parents and working on the family’s struggling fishing boat every day before school with her father and older brother (Daniel Durant). But when Ruby...
- 4/21/2021
- by Tyler Hersko
- Indiewire
Siân Heder’s Coda, which Apple Original Films scooped up at this year’s virtual Sundance Film Festival in a record $25M global deal, will debut August 13 in theaters and the streaming service.
The movie, which Heder wrote and directed, was the first in Sundance history to win all the top prizes including the Special Jury Award for Ensemble Cast, the Directing Award, the Audience Award and the Grand Jury Prize in the U.S. Dramatic Competition.
The movie follows 17-year-old Ruby (Emilia Jones), who is the sole hearing member of a deaf family — a Coda, or child of deaf adults. Her life revolves around acting as interpreter for her parents and working on the family’s struggling fishing boat every day before school with her father and older brother (Daniel Durant). But when Ruby joins her high school’s choir club, she discovers a gift...
The movie, which Heder wrote and directed, was the first in Sundance history to win all the top prizes including the Special Jury Award for Ensemble Cast, the Directing Award, the Audience Award and the Grand Jury Prize in the U.S. Dramatic Competition.
The movie follows 17-year-old Ruby (Emilia Jones), who is the sole hearing member of a deaf family — a Coda, or child of deaf adults. Her life revolves around acting as interpreter for her parents and working on the family’s struggling fishing boat every day before school with her father and older brother (Daniel Durant). But when Ruby joins her high school’s choir club, she discovers a gift...
- 4/21/2021
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
“Coda,” the critical darling about a child of deaf adults that swept the top prizes at Sundance and was acquired in a record deal out of the festival, will debut on Apple TV+ and in theaters on Friday, Aug. 13.
Sian Heder directed “Coda,” which played at this year’s Sundance Film Festival in the U.S. Dramatic Competition and won both the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award. The film also picked up the Special Jury Award for Ensemble Cast and the Directing Award for Heder, an unprecedented feat at Sundance.
The hype was so huge that Apple then acquired “Coda” for a whopping $25 million in a bidding war — the most ever spent out of Sundance by a huge margin.
Also Read:
‘Coda’ Film Review: Sundance’s Biggest Hit Is a Heartfelt Crowd Pleaser
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Sian Heder directed “Coda,” which played at this year’s Sundance Film Festival in the U.S. Dramatic Competition and won both the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award. The film also picked up the Special Jury Award for Ensemble Cast and the Directing Award for Heder, an unprecedented feat at Sundance.
The hype was so huge that Apple then acquired “Coda” for a whopping $25 million in a bidding war — the most ever spent out of Sundance by a huge margin.
Also Read:
‘Coda’ Film Review: Sundance’s Biggest Hit Is a Heartfelt Crowd Pleaser
“Coda” stars Emilia Jones as the sole hearing member of a deaf family — or a Coda,...
- 4/21/2021
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
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