BAFTA has announced the winners of the BAFTA Television Craft Awards, presented at a ceremony held on Sunday night in London. The awards celebrate the creativity, skill, and craft of behind-the-scenes television talent and the best programs of 2023.
The following won two BAFTAs each:
Charlie Brooker and Bisha K Ali won the Writer Drama category and Stephan Pehrsson won for Photography & Lighting Fiction for Demon 79 (Black Mirror). Nikki Parsons, Ollie Bartlett and Richard Valentine won the Director: Multi-camera category, and Julio Himede, Tim Routledge, Kojo Samuel, Michael Sharp and Dan Shipton won Entertainment Craft Team for Eurovision Song Contest 2023. The Editing Team behind Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland won Editing: Factual and the documentary’s composer Simon Russell won Original Music: Factual. Atli Örvarsson won Original Music: Fiction and Gavin Bocquet and Amanda Bernstein won Production Design for their work on Silo. The Sound Team behind Slow Horses won Sound: Fiction,...
The following won two BAFTAs each:
Charlie Brooker and Bisha K Ali won the Writer Drama category and Stephan Pehrsson won for Photography & Lighting Fiction for Demon 79 (Black Mirror). Nikki Parsons, Ollie Bartlett and Richard Valentine won the Director: Multi-camera category, and Julio Himede, Tim Routledge, Kojo Samuel, Michael Sharp and Dan Shipton won Entertainment Craft Team for Eurovision Song Contest 2023. The Editing Team behind Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland won Editing: Factual and the documentary’s composer Simon Russell won Original Music: Factual. Atli Örvarsson won Original Music: Fiction and Gavin Bocquet and Amanda Bernstein won Production Design for their work on Silo. The Sound Team behind Slow Horses won Sound: Fiction,...
- 4/28/2024
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
Saltburn, One Life and Poor Things are all winners in the film categories of the British Film Designers Guild Awards, whose annual prizes were handed out Saturday evening in London.
TV winners include Black Mirror Season 6, Good Omens and Silo.
In total, design excellence was recognized across 14 categories. Full list of winners below.
The Lifetime Achievement Award was presented to production designer Martin Childs – best known for his work on the Netflix series The Crown, as well as The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Kenneth Branagh’s Frankenstein, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas and Shakespeare in Love.
Bfdg Chairperson Blair Barnette said:
“We are so proud to honour the teams and individuals who create a vision that transports audiences to different worlds. Tonight’s winners and nominees are among the best visual storytellers in the industry and we are delighted to be able to celebrate as an Art Department...
TV winners include Black Mirror Season 6, Good Omens and Silo.
In total, design excellence was recognized across 14 categories. Full list of winners below.
The Lifetime Achievement Award was presented to production designer Martin Childs – best known for his work on the Netflix series The Crown, as well as The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Kenneth Branagh’s Frankenstein, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas and Shakespeare in Love.
Bfdg Chairperson Blair Barnette said:
“We are so proud to honour the teams and individuals who create a vision that transports audiences to different worlds. Tonight’s winners and nominees are among the best visual storytellers in the industry and we are delighted to be able to celebrate as an Art Department...
- 2/25/2024
- by Caroline Frost
- Deadline Film + TV
Carrie Fisher took the virginity of Indiana Jones. At least, that's how she told it while she was alive. Specifically, that's what she told me. In her own words: "I wrote it with George [Lucas.] We wrote Indiana Jones losing his virginity to Mata Hari. It went very well."
I had been asking about her work on the "Star Wars" prequel trilogy, so this answer came a bit out of left field. However, it's a little-known fact that Fisher worked as a writer on many George Lucas projects, doing an uncredited polish on the scripts for the prequels and even coming up with adventures for Indiana Jones to go on in his TV series, "The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles."
So, how did Indiana Jones actually lose his virginity, and what part did Fisher play?
Read more: The 18 Best Action Movie Actors Ranked
Bigger Than Life
"She was a bigger-than-life character and...
I had been asking about her work on the "Star Wars" prequel trilogy, so this answer came a bit out of left field. However, it's a little-known fact that Fisher worked as a writer on many George Lucas projects, doing an uncredited polish on the scripts for the prequels and even coming up with adventures for Indiana Jones to go on in his TV series, "The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles."
So, how did Indiana Jones actually lose his virginity, and what part did Fisher play?
Read more: The 18 Best Action Movie Actors Ranked
Bigger Than Life
"She was a bigger-than-life character and...
- 2/13/2024
- by Bryan Young
- Slash Film
Poor Things, Oppenheimer and Saltburn won Art Directors Guild (IATSE Local 800) Awards in the categories for fantasy, period and contemporary live action features, respectively, at the 28th Adg Awards, which were handed out Saturday at the Ray Dolby Ballroom in Ovation Hollywood.
Poor Things and Oppenheimer are additionally nominated for the Oscar in production design, alongside Barbie, Killers of the Flower Moon and Napoleon, which were also Adg nominated in their respective categories.
Over the past five years, the winner of the Adg’s period film prize has gone on to win the Oscar for production design twice: In 2020, for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, and in 2021, for Mank. During that time, the production design Oscar went to the winner of the fantasy category twice, in 2019, for Black Panther, and 2022, for Dune. A year ago, eventual Oscar winner All Quiet on the Western Front was nominated in the period...
Poor Things and Oppenheimer are additionally nominated for the Oscar in production design, alongside Barbie, Killers of the Flower Moon and Napoleon, which were also Adg nominated in their respective categories.
Over the past five years, the winner of the Adg’s period film prize has gone on to win the Oscar for production design twice: In 2020, for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, and in 2021, for Mank. During that time, the production design Oscar went to the winner of the fantasy category twice, in 2019, for Black Panther, and 2022, for Dune. A year ago, eventual Oscar winner All Quiet on the Western Front was nominated in the period...
- 2/11/2024
- by Carolyn Giardina
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Production design Oscar nominees “Barbie,” “Poor Things,” “Killers of the Flower Moon,” “Oppenheimer,” “Napoleon” all competed for the 28th Art Directors Guild Awards February 10 at Ovation Hollywood’s Ray Dolby Ballroom. “Poor Things” prevailed over “Barbie” for fantasy, and is now in the driver’s seat to win the Oscar. Throughout the season, it has been a race between these two big feminist films constructed around rebirth and unconventional world-building.
Meanwhile, “Oppenheimer” took period honors over “Asteroid City,” “Killers of the Flower Moon,” “Maestro,” and “Napoleon.” Contemporary winner “Saltburn,” though, is not in the Oscar running. The animated feature winner was “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse.”
The TV winners for one-hour period, fantasy, and contemporary were “The Great,” “The Last of Us,” and “Succession.” Movie or limited series went to “Beef,” and the half-hour series winner was “Reservation Dogs.”
As previously announced, the Adg Awards honored Mimi Leder (Apple TV’s...
Meanwhile, “Oppenheimer” took period honors over “Asteroid City,” “Killers of the Flower Moon,” “Maestro,” and “Napoleon.” Contemporary winner “Saltburn,” though, is not in the Oscar running. The animated feature winner was “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse.”
The TV winners for one-hour period, fantasy, and contemporary were “The Great,” “The Last of Us,” and “Succession.” Movie or limited series went to “Beef,” and the half-hour series winner was “Reservation Dogs.”
As previously announced, the Adg Awards honored Mimi Leder (Apple TV’s...
- 2/11/2024
- by Bill Desowitz
- Indiewire
“Saltburn,” “Oppenheimer” and “Poor Things” were among the winners at the 28th Annual Art Director’s Guild Awards which took place in Hollywood on Saturday evening.
Hosted by Max Greenfield, the Adg Awards celebrated outstanding production design in theatrical motion pictures, television, commercials, animated features and music videos.
“Poor Things” production designers Shona Heath and James Price drew visual references ranging from the paintings of French futurist Albert Robida to Francis Ford Coppola’s “Dracula” to build Yorgos Lanthimos’ extraordinary sets.
In “Oppenheimer,” Ruth De Jong built Los Alamos from the ground up. But her most challenging task came when she had to build the Oval Office for the film’s third act. Working with supervising art director, Samantha Englander, the two had floated the idea of finding a pre-existing build of the Oval Office. They looked no further than HBO’s beloved political satire “Veep.” Not only was “Veep...
Hosted by Max Greenfield, the Adg Awards celebrated outstanding production design in theatrical motion pictures, television, commercials, animated features and music videos.
“Poor Things” production designers Shona Heath and James Price drew visual references ranging from the paintings of French futurist Albert Robida to Francis Ford Coppola’s “Dracula” to build Yorgos Lanthimos’ extraordinary sets.
In “Oppenheimer,” Ruth De Jong built Los Alamos from the ground up. But her most challenging task came when she had to build the Oval Office for the film’s third act. Working with supervising art director, Samantha Englander, the two had floated the idea of finding a pre-existing build of the Oval Office. They looked no further than HBO’s beloved political satire “Veep.” Not only was “Veep...
- 2/11/2024
- by Jazz Tangcay and Jaden Thompson
- Variety Film + TV
The 2024 Art Directors Guild nominations have been unveiled, mirroring the Oscars shortlists for crafts thus far.
The 28th annual Excellence in Production Design Awards celebrates production design achievements in theatrical motion pictures, television, commercials, music videos, and animated feature films. The 2024 Adg Awards winners will be announced at a ceremony on February 10 at the Ray Dolby Ballroom, Ovation Hollywood, with Emmy-nominated actor and comedian Max Greenfield hosting.
As previously announced, legendary production designer Lawrence G. Paull will be inducted into the Adg Hall of Fame as part of the ceremony.
“It’s our honor and privilege to gather the guild to recognize the excellence among our members,” award show producers Michael Allen Glover, Adg and Megan Elizabeth Bell, Adg said in a joint statement.
In the Period Feature Film category, Wes Anderson’s lush “Asteroid City” is up against Martin Scorsese’s gritty “Killers of the Flower Moon,” with...
The 28th annual Excellence in Production Design Awards celebrates production design achievements in theatrical motion pictures, television, commercials, music videos, and animated feature films. The 2024 Adg Awards winners will be announced at a ceremony on February 10 at the Ray Dolby Ballroom, Ovation Hollywood, with Emmy-nominated actor and comedian Max Greenfield hosting.
As previously announced, legendary production designer Lawrence G. Paull will be inducted into the Adg Hall of Fame as part of the ceremony.
“It’s our honor and privilege to gather the guild to recognize the excellence among our members,” award show producers Michael Allen Glover, Adg and Megan Elizabeth Bell, Adg said in a joint statement.
In the Period Feature Film category, Wes Anderson’s lush “Asteroid City” is up against Martin Scorsese’s gritty “Killers of the Flower Moon,” with...
- 1/9/2024
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
The Art Directors Guild has unveiled nominations for its 28th annual Excellence in Production Design Awards, which celebrate the year’s best achievements in theatrical motion pictures, TV, commercials, music videos and animated features. See the full list below.
The guild divides its top film prizes into Fantasy, Period and Contemporary Feature categories. Since the trophy show launched in 1996, the winner of one of those has gone on to win the Art Direction/Production Design Oscar in 18 of the 27 years. It had a run of nine in a row snapped last year, when All Quiet on the Western Front went on to score the Academy Award after the Art Directors lauded Everything Everywhere All at Once (Fantasy), Babylon (Period) and Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (Contemporary).
Winners will be announced February 10 at Ovation Hollywood’s Ray Dolby Ballroom. The late production designer Lawrence G. Paull, a Blade Runner Oscar...
The guild divides its top film prizes into Fantasy, Period and Contemporary Feature categories. Since the trophy show launched in 1996, the winner of one of those has gone on to win the Art Direction/Production Design Oscar in 18 of the 27 years. It had a run of nine in a row snapped last year, when All Quiet on the Western Front went on to score the Academy Award after the Art Directors lauded Everything Everywhere All at Once (Fantasy), Babylon (Period) and Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (Contemporary).
Winners will be announced February 10 at Ovation Hollywood’s Ray Dolby Ballroom. The late production designer Lawrence G. Paull, a Blade Runner Oscar...
- 1/9/2024
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
“Saltburn,” “Killers of the Flower Moon,” “Asteroid City,” “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” are among the films singled out for excellence by the Art Directors Guild (IATSE Local 800).
The guild announced the nominations for its 28th Excellence in Production Design Awards in motion pictures, television, commercial and music video categories.
Adg Awards winners will be announced at a ceremony on Feb. 10 at Ovation Hollywood’s Ray Dolby Ballroom. Max Greenfield will host the ceremony.
“It’s our honor and privilege to gather the guild to recognize the excellence among our members,” says award show producers Michael Allen Glover, Adg and Megan Elizabeth Bell, Adg in a joint statement.
The Adg divides live-action features into three categories. “Asteroid City,” “Killers of the Flower Moon”
“Maestro,” “Napoleon” and “Oppenheimer” were nominated in the period feature film category.
“Barbie,” “The Creator,” “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3,” “Poor Things” and “Wonka” led the fantasy film category.
The guild announced the nominations for its 28th Excellence in Production Design Awards in motion pictures, television, commercial and music video categories.
Adg Awards winners will be announced at a ceremony on Feb. 10 at Ovation Hollywood’s Ray Dolby Ballroom. Max Greenfield will host the ceremony.
“It’s our honor and privilege to gather the guild to recognize the excellence among our members,” says award show producers Michael Allen Glover, Adg and Megan Elizabeth Bell, Adg in a joint statement.
The Adg divides live-action features into three categories. “Asteroid City,” “Killers of the Flower Moon”
“Maestro,” “Napoleon” and “Oppenheimer” were nominated in the period feature film category.
“Barbie,” “The Creator,” “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3,” “Poor Things” and “Wonka” led the fantasy film category.
- 1/9/2024
- by Jazz Tangcay
- Variety Film + TV
The Art Directors Guild (IATSE Local 800) has revealed the nominations for its 28th annual Excellence in Production Design Awards, which will be handed out Feb. 10 at the Ray Dolby Ballroom in Ovation Hollywood.
The production designers on Asteroid City, Killers of the Flower Moon, Maestro, Napoleon and Oppenheimer were nominated in the category for a period movie. For a fantasy film, the nominees are Barbie, The Creator, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, Poor Things and Wonka. And the Adg chose Beau is Afraid, John Wick: Chapter 4, The Killer, Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One and Saltburn as its contemporary film noms.
Over the past five years, the winner of the Adg’s period film prize has gone on to win the Oscar for production design twice: In 2020, for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, and in 2021 for Mank. The production design Oscar went to the winner of...
The production designers on Asteroid City, Killers of the Flower Moon, Maestro, Napoleon and Oppenheimer were nominated in the category for a period movie. For a fantasy film, the nominees are Barbie, The Creator, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, Poor Things and Wonka. And the Adg chose Beau is Afraid, John Wick: Chapter 4, The Killer, Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One and Saltburn as its contemporary film noms.
Over the past five years, the winner of the Adg’s period film prize has gone on to win the Oscar for production design twice: In 2020, for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, and in 2021 for Mank. The production design Oscar went to the winner of...
- 1/9/2024
- by Carolyn Giardina
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
It seems to tickle Graham Yost when people refer to Silo as a sci-fi drama.
Though the Apple series is as high-concept as it gets—the adaptation of Hugh Howey’s novels is about a futuristic community that exists in a massive underground vault with 144 floors — there are no spaceships in Silo. And there are certainly no lasers.
“It’s not science heavy,” says Yost, the clever mind behind FX’s Justified, who created the Rebecca Ferguson starrer for the streamer. “For me, it’s fantasy, it’s whatever. It’s alternate reality, all that stuff. But the key is to make it feel real and lived-in. I mean honestly, if you pick at the science too much, it falls apart.”
Several studios tried to pick apart Howey’s tomes before Silo finally became a small-screen reality. After Howey self-published Wool, the first book in his dystopian series in 2011, 20th Century Fox...
Though the Apple series is as high-concept as it gets—the adaptation of Hugh Howey’s novels is about a futuristic community that exists in a massive underground vault with 144 floors — there are no spaceships in Silo. And there are certainly no lasers.
“It’s not science heavy,” says Yost, the clever mind behind FX’s Justified, who created the Rebecca Ferguson starrer for the streamer. “For me, it’s fantasy, it’s whatever. It’s alternate reality, all that stuff. But the key is to make it feel real and lived-in. I mean honestly, if you pick at the science too much, it falls apart.”
Several studios tried to pick apart Howey’s tomes before Silo finally became a small-screen reality. After Howey self-published Wool, the first book in his dystopian series in 2011, 20th Century Fox...
- 11/27/2023
- by Lynette Rice
- Deadline Film + TV
The three "Star Wars" prequel films made by George Lucas from 1999 to 2005 detail the story of Anakin Skywalker as he transforms from an idealistic young engineer (played by Jake Lloyd) into an impetuous and angry young man (played by Hayden Christiansen), and eventually into a corrupted and tyrannical killer. Anakin is infused by the Force (a psychic field accessed by microscopic creatures living inside his body called midi-chlorians), so he is in high demand by both the benevolent Jedi Order and the insidious Sith.
Partway through "Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith," the nearly-corrupted Anakin attends a bizarre zero-gravity water ballet show, sitting next to the clearly villainous Chancellor Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid). Palpatine is secretly a Sith Lord who calls himself Darth Sidious, and he is clearly angling to become an evil emperor, but Anakin doesn't much care. He's so full of hate and paranoia (he's had...
Partway through "Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith," the nearly-corrupted Anakin attends a bizarre zero-gravity water ballet show, sitting next to the clearly villainous Chancellor Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid). Palpatine is secretly a Sith Lord who calls himself Darth Sidious, and he is clearly angling to become an evil emperor, but Anakin doesn't much care. He's so full of hate and paranoia (he's had...
- 9/10/2023
- by Witney Seibold
- Slash Film
Plot: Silo is the story of the last ten thousand people on earth, their mile-deep home protecting them from the toxic and deadly world outside. However, no one knows when or why the silo was built and any who try to find out face fatal consequences. Ferguson stars as Juliette, an engineer, who seeks answers about a loved one’s murder and tumbles onto a mystery that goes far deeper than she could have ever imagined, leading her to discover that if the lies don’t kill you, the truth will.
Review: Post-apocalyptics stories are bordering on burnout. After decades of zombies and plagues and reaching for creative twists on the genre, we are getting to the point of animal-human hybrids (Sweet Tooth), blind tribes (See), and even deadly fungus spores (The Last of Us). While the creativity in those aforementioned series is impressive, the genre seems to be petering out.
Review: Post-apocalyptics stories are bordering on burnout. After decades of zombies and plagues and reaching for creative twists on the genre, we are getting to the point of animal-human hybrids (Sweet Tooth), blind tribes (See), and even deadly fungus spores (The Last of Us). While the creativity in those aforementioned series is impressive, the genre seems to be petering out.
- 5/5/2023
- by Alex Maidy
- JoBlo.com
Rebecca Ferguson stars in Apple TV+’s ‘Silo’
The world inhabited by the characters in Apple TV+’s Silo is claustrophobic, devoid of vibrant colors, and incredibly bleak. Based on Hugh Howey’s book series, Silo’s dystopian future finds humans forced to live underground to survive. The surface world is uninhabitable, and the thousands who call the vast underground silo home have learned to adapt to their confinement and exist peacefully in this insulated environment.
Episode one sets up the rules the citizens must abide by, including restrictions on pregnancies. Possessing items from the past (historical artifacts) is strictly forbidden, and what information exists about the history of the silo is kept under lock and key. Punishment is swift and severe for anyone who disobeys the rules. Yet some members of this confined society are quietly skeptical about the limited information they’re being fed.
Some citizens of this...
The world inhabited by the characters in Apple TV+’s Silo is claustrophobic, devoid of vibrant colors, and incredibly bleak. Based on Hugh Howey’s book series, Silo’s dystopian future finds humans forced to live underground to survive. The surface world is uninhabitable, and the thousands who call the vast underground silo home have learned to adapt to their confinement and exist peacefully in this insulated environment.
Episode one sets up the rules the citizens must abide by, including restrictions on pregnancies. Possessing items from the past (historical artifacts) is strictly forbidden, and what information exists about the history of the silo is kept under lock and key. Punishment is swift and severe for anyone who disobeys the rules. Yet some members of this confined society are quietly skeptical about the limited information they’re being fed.
Some citizens of this...
- 5/5/2023
- by Rebecca Murray
- Showbiz Junkies
Culminating in a breathtaking, near-real-time attempted repair on a towering power generator, the third episode of Apple TV+’s Silo is both the longest — 62 minutes — and most exciting in the show’s 10-episode first season.
It isn’t necessarily the best Silo episode, but it’s guaranteed to get your pulse racing. That’s a good thing.
What isn’t so good is that the race to fix the generator erases all momentum for the show’s main murder mystery; it introduces and confirms skills for the series’ main protagonist that are barely paid off in subsequent episodes; and the key figure in the sequence is a character who, unless I’m forgetting something, is never so much as mentioned again.
There’s absolutely nothing wrong with a show doing a standalone episode this early in its run — “Long, Long Time” from The Last of Us is a tremendous recent...
It isn’t necessarily the best Silo episode, but it’s guaranteed to get your pulse racing. That’s a good thing.
What isn’t so good is that the race to fix the generator erases all momentum for the show’s main murder mystery; it introduces and confirms skills for the series’ main protagonist that are barely paid off in subsequent episodes; and the key figure in the sequence is a character who, unless I’m forgetting something, is never so much as mentioned again.
There’s absolutely nothing wrong with a show doing a standalone episode this early in its run — “Long, Long Time” from The Last of Us is a tremendous recent...
- 5/4/2023
- by Daniel Fienberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Like a gorgeously decorated tree with a few too many presents stuffed under it, “Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey” is excessive but never unwelcome. An ambitious original musical packed to the gills with visual delights, it’s the kind of Christmas movie that can charm adults into looking past its flaws while turning delighted children into lifelong fans.
On the heels of his charming ensemble comedy “Almost Christmas,” writer-director David E. Talbert fearlessly marries whimsy and steampunk, sentimentality and science fiction, with big musical numbers composed by Philip Lawrence, Davy Nathan and Michael Diskint, plus one from John Legend (who executive produced the film). That this big, bright Netflix extravaganza features a principally Black cast is not insignificant in the history of cinema, particularly in the history of large-scale family musicals and of Christmas movies.
We open with a grandmother played by Phylicia Rashad, reading a Christmas story to her grandchildren from an extraordinary book,...
On the heels of his charming ensemble comedy “Almost Christmas,” writer-director David E. Talbert fearlessly marries whimsy and steampunk, sentimentality and science fiction, with big musical numbers composed by Philip Lawrence, Davy Nathan and Michael Diskint, plus one from John Legend (who executive produced the film). That this big, bright Netflix extravaganza features a principally Black cast is not insignificant in the history of cinema, particularly in the history of large-scale family musicals and of Christmas movies.
We open with a grandmother played by Phylicia Rashad, reading a Christmas story to her grandchildren from an extraordinary book,...
- 11/5/2020
- by Alonso Duralde
- The Wrap
It’s been 36 years since Jim Henson released the The Dark Crystal, and the rich world of his groundbreaking fantasy film is still fresh in fans’ minds. Which presented somewhat of a challenge for The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance production designer Gavin Bocquet. Bocquet is no stranger to a big fantastical production. He has worked on the […]
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- 8/29/2019
- by Hoai-Tran Bui
- Slash Film
“The Dark Crystal,” the family-oriented fantasy drama directed by Jim Henson and Frank Oz, was groundbreaking when Universal released it in 1982. Now a cult classic, it offered an original blend of Brothers Grimm-style fairy-tale magic and state-of-the-art animatronic puppetry.
Now, 37 years later, Netflix and the Jim Henson Co. revive the world dreamed up by Oz and Henson with “The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance,” a 10-episode prequel series directed by Louis Leterrier (“Now You See Me”) that revisits planet Thra and its mysterious inhabitants via tactile design, puppetry and hand-crafted effects.
“We wanted to make sure what we were doing felt right,” says Toby Froud, design supervisor on “Age of Resistance,” which drops Aug. 30. Froud has a long history with “Dark Crystal”: His father, Brian Froud, was the acclaimed concept artist on the original film, and Froud himself starred as the baby kidnapped by David Bowie in Oz and Henson’s follow-up project,...
Now, 37 years later, Netflix and the Jim Henson Co. revive the world dreamed up by Oz and Henson with “The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance,” a 10-episode prequel series directed by Louis Leterrier (“Now You See Me”) that revisits planet Thra and its mysterious inhabitants via tactile design, puppetry and hand-crafted effects.
“We wanted to make sure what we were doing felt right,” says Toby Froud, design supervisor on “Age of Resistance,” which drops Aug. 30. Froud has a long history with “Dark Crystal”: His father, Brian Froud, was the acclaimed concept artist on the original film, and Froud himself starred as the baby kidnapped by David Bowie in Oz and Henson’s follow-up project,...
- 8/28/2019
- by Calum Marsh
- Variety Film + TV
Looking back on this still-young century makes clear that 2007 was a major time for cinematic happenings — and, on the basis of this retrospective, one we’re not quite through with ten years on. One’s mind might quickly flash to a few big titles that will be represented, but it is the plurality of both festival and theatrical premieres that truly surprises: late works from old masters, debuts from filmmakers who’ve since become some of our most-respected artists, and mid-career turning points that didn’t necessarily announce themselves as such at the time. Join us as an assembled team, many of whom were coming of age that year, takes on their favorites.
Once upon a time in the human kingdom behind the Wall, a structure so profoundly regular it simply had to have some magical properties, there lived a curious and courageous boy who had the potential to combine...
Once upon a time in the human kingdom behind the Wall, a structure so profoundly regular it simply had to have some magical properties, there lived a curious and courageous boy who had the potential to combine...
- 7/29/2017
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
IndieWire ABC may forge a miniseries out of Oscar nominated AIDS doc How to Survive a Plague
Hollywood who said it: The Pope or "Fifty Shades of Grey"?
Mnpp ways not to die celebrates King Kong for his 80th anniversary
The Advocate interesting take on Seth MacFarlane's Oscar night hosting gig, in which the author believes his entire performance was satire of sexism. I think that's an optimistic forgiving stretch but more power to you for enjoying the show so much!
Clothes on Film the shoes in Stoker
Empire Emma Watson may play Cinderella
French Films about Trains points to 14 directors whose films are worth obsessing about in advance
/Film Whoa. They're Still trying to get Pride & Prejudice & Zombies made? You'd think Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter's fate and the free zombies on TV would have finally decapitated that project.
The Talks with Brian de Palma on violence in cinema...
Hollywood who said it: The Pope or "Fifty Shades of Grey"?
Mnpp ways not to die celebrates King Kong for his 80th anniversary
The Advocate interesting take on Seth MacFarlane's Oscar night hosting gig, in which the author believes his entire performance was satire of sexism. I think that's an optimistic forgiving stretch but more power to you for enjoying the show so much!
Clothes on Film the shoes in Stoker
Empire Emma Watson may play Cinderella
French Films about Trains points to 14 directors whose films are worth obsessing about in advance
/Film Whoa. They're Still trying to get Pride & Prejudice & Zombies made? You'd think Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter's fate and the free zombies on TV would have finally decapitated that project.
The Talks with Brian de Palma on violence in cinema...
- 3/2/2013
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Will Jack slay this weekend's box office, or does it belong to a certain sequel's love-starved demon? While we wait for the results, check out our Jack the Giant Slayer review and watch a new featurette for the flick along with some up-to-the-minute TV spots.
Read our Jack the Giant Slayer review here.
Jack the Giant Slayer is in Us theatres Now and arrives in the UK on March 22nd. Concurrent with the film's debut in 35mm and digital theaters, Jack the Giant Slayer: An IMAX 3D Experience was also released in IMAX theaters.
Synopsis:
An age-old war is reignited when a young farmhand unwittingly opens a gateway between our world and a fearsome race of giants.
Unleashed on the Earth for the first time in centuries, the long-banished giants strive to reclaim the land they once lost, forcing the young man, Jack (Nicholas Hoult), into the battle of his life to stop them.
Read our Jack the Giant Slayer review here.
Jack the Giant Slayer is in Us theatres Now and arrives in the UK on March 22nd. Concurrent with the film's debut in 35mm and digital theaters, Jack the Giant Slayer: An IMAX 3D Experience was also released in IMAX theaters.
Synopsis:
An age-old war is reignited when a young farmhand unwittingly opens a gateway between our world and a fearsome race of giants.
Unleashed on the Earth for the first time in centuries, the long-banished giants strive to reclaim the land they once lost, forcing the young man, Jack (Nicholas Hoult), into the battle of his life to stop them.
- 3/1/2013
- by The Woman In Black
- DreadCentral.com
Okay, this day has been madness. Color us officially exhausted. Wait! What? There's more? Oh, all right! Ahem... Time for some video soundbites from this weekend's other genre offering, Jack the Giant Slayer. Check them out!
Jack the Giant Slayer hits Us theatres on March 1st and arrives in the UK three weeks later on March 22nd. Concurrent with its debut in 35mm and digital theaters, Jack the Giant Slayer: An IMAX 3D Experience will be released in IMAX theaters.
Synopsis:
An age-old war is reignited when a young farmhand unwittingly opens a gateway between our world and a fearsome race of giants.
Unleashed on the Earth for the first time in centuries, the long-banished giants strive to reclaim the land they once lost, forcing the young man, Jack (Nicholas Hoult), into the battle of his life to stop them. Fighting for a kingdom, its people, and the love of a brave princess,...
Jack the Giant Slayer hits Us theatres on March 1st and arrives in the UK three weeks later on March 22nd. Concurrent with its debut in 35mm and digital theaters, Jack the Giant Slayer: An IMAX 3D Experience will be released in IMAX theaters.
Synopsis:
An age-old war is reignited when a young farmhand unwittingly opens a gateway between our world and a fearsome race of giants.
Unleashed on the Earth for the first time in centuries, the long-banished giants strive to reclaim the land they once lost, forcing the young man, Jack (Nicholas Hoult), into the battle of his life to stop them. Fighting for a kingdom, its people, and the love of a brave princess,...
- 3/1/2013
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
Ready for another look behind the curtain of Jack the Giant Slayer? Then dig on these three videos which take you directly behind the scenes of this monster sized theatrical epic. Tell us if you'll be climbing this theatrical beanstalk this weekend in our comments section.
Jack the Giant Slayer hits Us theatres on March 1st and arrives in the UK three weeks later on March 22nd. Concurrent with its debut in 35mm and digital theaters, Jack the Giant Slayer: An IMAX 3D Experience will be released in IMAX theaters.
Synopsis:
An age-old war is reignited when a young farmhand unwittingly opens a gateway between our world and a fearsome race of giants.
Unleashed on the Earth for the first time in centuries, the long-banished giants strive to reclaim the land they once lost, forcing the young man, Jack (Nicholas Hoult), into the battle of his life to stop them.
Jack the Giant Slayer hits Us theatres on March 1st and arrives in the UK three weeks later on March 22nd. Concurrent with its debut in 35mm and digital theaters, Jack the Giant Slayer: An IMAX 3D Experience will be released in IMAX theaters.
Synopsis:
An age-old war is reignited when a young farmhand unwittingly opens a gateway between our world and a fearsome race of giants.
Unleashed on the Earth for the first time in centuries, the long-banished giants strive to reclaim the land they once lost, forcing the young man, Jack (Nicholas Hoult), into the battle of his life to stop them.
- 2/28/2013
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
A sixth TV spot has landed for Jack the Giant Slayer that is filled with terror of gigantic proportions. Will you take the climb up the beanstalk to see this remixed fairy tale when it arrives on March 1st? Let us know!
Jack the Giant Slayer hits Us theatres on March 1st and arrives in the UK three weeks later on March 22nd. Concurrent with its debut in 35mm and digital theaters, Jack the Giant Slayer: An IMAX 3D Experience will be released in IMAX theaters.
Synopsis:
An age-old war is reignited when a young farmhand unwittingly opens a gateway between our world and a fearsome race of giants.
Unleashed on the Earth for the first time in centuries, the long-banished giants strive to reclaim the land they once lost, forcing the young man, Jack (Nicholas Hoult), into the battle of his life to stop them. Fighting for a kingdom,...
Jack the Giant Slayer hits Us theatres on March 1st and arrives in the UK three weeks later on March 22nd. Concurrent with its debut in 35mm and digital theaters, Jack the Giant Slayer: An IMAX 3D Experience will be released in IMAX theaters.
Synopsis:
An age-old war is reignited when a young farmhand unwittingly opens a gateway between our world and a fearsome race of giants.
Unleashed on the Earth for the first time in centuries, the long-banished giants strive to reclaim the land they once lost, forcing the young man, Jack (Nicholas Hoult), into the battle of his life to stop them. Fighting for a kingdom,...
- 2/24/2013
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
Curious about what went into the making of Jack the Giant Slayer? Then you'll want to check out this new featurette that's home to interviews with the cast and crew along with a few peeks behind the scenes.
Jack the Giant Slayer hits Us theatres on March 1st and arrives in the UK three weeks later on March 22nd. Concurrent with its debut in 35mm and digital theaters, Jack the Giant Slayer: An IMAX 3D Experience will be released in IMAX theaters.
Synopsis:
An age-old war is reignited when a young farmhand unwittingly opens a gateway between our world and a fearsome race of giants.
Unleashed on the Earth for the first time in centuries, the long-banished giants strive to reclaim the land they once lost, forcing the young man, Jack (Nicholas Hoult), into the battle of his life to stop them. Fighting for a kingdom, its people, and...
Jack the Giant Slayer hits Us theatres on March 1st and arrives in the UK three weeks later on March 22nd. Concurrent with its debut in 35mm and digital theaters, Jack the Giant Slayer: An IMAX 3D Experience will be released in IMAX theaters.
Synopsis:
An age-old war is reignited when a young farmhand unwittingly opens a gateway between our world and a fearsome race of giants.
Unleashed on the Earth for the first time in centuries, the long-banished giants strive to reclaim the land they once lost, forcing the young man, Jack (Nicholas Hoult), into the battle of his life to stop them. Fighting for a kingdom, its people, and...
- 2/21/2013
- by The Woman In Black
- DreadCentral.com
A fifth TV spot has landed for Jack the Giant Slayer that is full of running and jumping and flying through the air. Will you be catching the film when it arrives on March 1st?
Jack the Giant Slayer hits Us theatres on March 1st and arrives in the UK three weeks later on March 22nd. Concurrent with its debut in 35mm and digital theaters, Jack the Giant Slayer: An IMAX 3D Experience will be released in IMAX theaters.
Synopsis:
An age-old war is reignited when a young farmhand unwittingly opens a gateway between our world and a fearsome race of giants.
Unleashed on the Earth for the first time in centuries, the long-banished giants strive to reclaim the land they once lost, forcing the young man, Jack (Nicholas Hoult), into the battle of his life to stop them. Fighting for a kingdom, its people, and the love of a brave princess,...
Jack the Giant Slayer hits Us theatres on March 1st and arrives in the UK three weeks later on March 22nd. Concurrent with its debut in 35mm and digital theaters, Jack the Giant Slayer: An IMAX 3D Experience will be released in IMAX theaters.
Synopsis:
An age-old war is reignited when a young farmhand unwittingly opens a gateway between our world and a fearsome race of giants.
Unleashed on the Earth for the first time in centuries, the long-banished giants strive to reclaim the land they once lost, forcing the young man, Jack (Nicholas Hoult), into the battle of his life to stop them. Fighting for a kingdom, its people, and the love of a brave princess,...
- 2/20/2013
- by The Woman In Black
- DreadCentral.com
The other day we showed you several of the giants Jack will soon be slaying, and now today we have two dozen images from Jack the Giant Slayer that focus on the humans. Check 'em out, and look for Bryan Singer's 3D action adventure on March 1st everywhere.
Jack the Giant Slayer hits Us theatres on March 1st and arrives in the UK three weeks later on March 22nd. Concurrent with its debut in 35mm and digital theaters, Jack the Giant Slayer: An IMAX 3D Experience will be released in IMAX theaters.
Related Story: Jack the Giant Slayer Image Gallery #1: Meet the Monsters
Synopsis:
An age-old war is reignited when a young farmhand unwittingly opens a gateway between our world and a fearsome race of giants.
Unleashed on the Earth for the first time in centuries, the long-banished giants strive to reclaim the land they once lost,...
Jack the Giant Slayer hits Us theatres on March 1st and arrives in the UK three weeks later on March 22nd. Concurrent with its debut in 35mm and digital theaters, Jack the Giant Slayer: An IMAX 3D Experience will be released in IMAX theaters.
Related Story: Jack the Giant Slayer Image Gallery #1: Meet the Monsters
Synopsis:
An age-old war is reignited when a young farmhand unwittingly opens a gateway between our world and a fearsome race of giants.
Unleashed on the Earth for the first time in centuries, the long-banished giants strive to reclaim the land they once lost,...
- 2/18/2013
- by The Woman In Black
- DreadCentral.com
There's one reason and one reason only why we're covering Jack the Giant Slayer: It has monsters. Giant monsters in fact (obviously), and we have here Image Gallery #1 for the film, which is overflowing with giant monstery goodness. Flip through it, and then look for Gallery #2, which is home to the humans, soon.
Jack the Giant Slayer hits Us theatres on March 1st and arrives in the UK three weeks later on March 22nd. Concurrent with its debut in 35mm and digital theaters, Jack the Giant Slayer: An IMAX 3D Experience will be released in IMAX theaters.
Synopsis:
An age-old war is reignited when a young farmhand unwittingly opens a gateway between our world and a fearsome race of giants.
Unleashed on the Earth for the first time in centuries, the long-banished giants strive to reclaim the land they once lost, forcing the young man, Jack (Nicholas Hoult...
Jack the Giant Slayer hits Us theatres on March 1st and arrives in the UK three weeks later on March 22nd. Concurrent with its debut in 35mm and digital theaters, Jack the Giant Slayer: An IMAX 3D Experience will be released in IMAX theaters.
Synopsis:
An age-old war is reignited when a young farmhand unwittingly opens a gateway between our world and a fearsome race of giants.
Unleashed on the Earth for the first time in centuries, the long-banished giants strive to reclaim the land they once lost, forcing the young man, Jack (Nicholas Hoult...
- 2/16/2013
- by The Woman In Black
- DreadCentral.com
If you keep up with our podcast regularly, you know that we’re a bit unsure what to make of Jack the Giant Slayer, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t take a look.
We’re torn, because it looks rather goofy, but has some of our favorite actors in it. Well, and we aren’t opposed to Bryan Singer generally.
It makes for a struggle when trying to solidify our expectations. But, I do have to say that there are elements that look pretty cool. Not to mention that Bill Nighy (one of my favorites) is a giant, so it’s got that going for it.
At any rate, we’ve got a lot of images to check out, and while I don’t always post such things, I’m curious to find out what your take on things is. Does this look any good? Will you be checking it out opening weeked?...
We’re torn, because it looks rather goofy, but has some of our favorite actors in it. Well, and we aren’t opposed to Bryan Singer generally.
It makes for a struggle when trying to solidify our expectations. But, I do have to say that there are elements that look pretty cool. Not to mention that Bill Nighy (one of my favorites) is a giant, so it’s got that going for it.
At any rate, we’ve got a lot of images to check out, and while I don’t always post such things, I’m curious to find out what your take on things is. Does this look any good? Will you be checking it out opening weeked?...
- 2/14/2013
- by Marc Eastman
- AreYouScreening.com
Another TV spot has arrived for Jack the Giant Slayer along with a Valentine's Day greeting from the film's star, Nicholas Hoult, an expanded synopsis, and a new one-sheet we haven't seen yet that looks a lot like the UK quad.
Jack the Giant Slayer hits Us theatres on March 1st and arrives in the UK three weeks later on March 22nd. Concurrent with its debut in 35mm and digital theaters, Jack the Giant Slayer: An IMAX 3D Experience will be released in IMAX theaters.
Synopsis:
An age-old war is reignited when a young farmhand unwittingly opens a gateway between our world and a fearsome race of giants.
Unleashed on the Earth for the first time in centuries, the long-banished giants strive to reclaim the land they once lost, forcing the young man, Jack (Nicholas Hoult), into the battle of his life to stop them. Fighting for a kingdom,...
Jack the Giant Slayer hits Us theatres on March 1st and arrives in the UK three weeks later on March 22nd. Concurrent with its debut in 35mm and digital theaters, Jack the Giant Slayer: An IMAX 3D Experience will be released in IMAX theaters.
Synopsis:
An age-old war is reignited when a young farmhand unwittingly opens a gateway between our world and a fearsome race of giants.
Unleashed on the Earth for the first time in centuries, the long-banished giants strive to reclaim the land they once lost, forcing the young man, Jack (Nicholas Hoult), into the battle of his life to stop them. Fighting for a kingdom,...
- 2/14/2013
- by The Woman In Black
- DreadCentral.com
Giants! Beanstalks! Magic Beans! Ready for a epic adventure? Watch the Ian McKellen narrated, fantasy-filled trailer for director Bryan Singer’s Jack The Giant Slayer.
Jack The Giant Killer tells the story of an ancient war that is reignited when a young farmhand unwittingly opens a gateway between our world and a fearsome race of giants. Unleashed on the Earth for the first time in centuries, the giants strive to reclaim the land they once lost, forcing the young man, Jack, into the battle of his life to stop them. Fighting for a kingdom, its people, and the love of a brave princess, he comes face to face with the unstoppable warriors he thought only existed in legend – and gets the chance to become a legend himself.
A vast improvement over the teaser trailer we showed you last December when the film was scheduled for a June 2012 release. I really like the tailor-made cast.
Jack The Giant Killer tells the story of an ancient war that is reignited when a young farmhand unwittingly opens a gateway between our world and a fearsome race of giants. Unleashed on the Earth for the first time in centuries, the giants strive to reclaim the land they once lost, forcing the young man, Jack, into the battle of his life to stop them. Fighting for a kingdom, its people, and the love of a brave princess, he comes face to face with the unstoppable warriors he thought only existed in legend – and gets the chance to become a legend himself.
A vast improvement over the teaser trailer we showed you last December when the film was scheduled for a June 2012 release. I really like the tailor-made cast.
- 11/21/2012
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
I’m actually quite shocked it has taken me as long as it has to write an article regarding the possible future of the Star Wars franchise. Close friends of mine know how big of a Star Wars geek I am and have even heard some of my excuses for the recent prequels (granted, not everything in those films is excusable). At the same time, I’m still trying to gather my thoughts and restrain my excitement regarding Disney’s recent purchase of the franchise. Keep in mind, this business deal includes everything Lucasfilms Ltd. had the rights to which means the Indiana Jones property is now a Disney title as well; everyone fails to talk about. But the real announcement that has the internet – fans and haters alike – buzzing is that ‘Episode VII’ will officially be released sometime in 2015! Since the announcement late Tuesday afternoon, no details have been...
- 11/2/2012
- by Michael Haffner
- Destroy the Brain
Nicholas Hoult wore blue fur, claws and fangs for his role as Beast in X-Men: First Class but he finds something even more monstrous and deadly in his new film Jack The Giant Killer.
A new poster and synopsis have been sent over for director Bryan Singer's gritty new version of the classic fairy tale and - as you may already have spotted in our video channel on the right - a trailer is also available.
Official synopsis/description
An ancient war is reignited when a young farmhand unwittingly opens a gateway between our world and a fearsome race of giants. Unleashed on the Earth for the first time in centuries, the giants strive to reclaim the land they once lost, forcing the young man, Jack (Nicholas Hoult), into the battle of his life to stop them.
Fighting for a kingdom and its people, and the love of a brave princess,...
A new poster and synopsis have been sent over for director Bryan Singer's gritty new version of the classic fairy tale and - as you may already have spotted in our video channel on the right - a trailer is also available.
Official synopsis/description
An ancient war is reignited when a young farmhand unwittingly opens a gateway between our world and a fearsome race of giants. Unleashed on the Earth for the first time in centuries, the giants strive to reclaim the land they once lost, forcing the young man, Jack (Nicholas Hoult), into the battle of his life to stop them.
Fighting for a kingdom and its people, and the love of a brave princess,...
- 12/27/2011
- by David Bentley
- The Geek Files
Fee-fi-fo-fum! The classic tale gets a new twist in this new trailer and poster for Bryan Singer.s 3D epic action adventure Jack The Giant Killer starring Nicholas Hoult & Ewan McGregor!
Jack The Giant Killer tells the story of an ancient war that is reignited when a young farmhand unwittinglyopens a gateway between our world and a fearsome race of giants. Unleashed on the Earth for the first time in centuries, the giants strive to reclaim the land they once lost, forcing the young man, Jack, into the battle of his life to stop them. Fighting for a kingdom, its people, and the love of a brave princess, he comes face to face with the unstoppable warriors he thought only existed in legend–and gets the chance to become a legend himself.
Hoult and Singer recently collaborated on the Singer-produced .X-Men: First Class.. Jack The Giant Killer also stars Eleanor Tomlinson...
Jack The Giant Killer tells the story of an ancient war that is reignited when a young farmhand unwittinglyopens a gateway between our world and a fearsome race of giants. Unleashed on the Earth for the first time in centuries, the giants strive to reclaim the land they once lost, forcing the young man, Jack, into the battle of his life to stop them. Fighting for a kingdom, its people, and the love of a brave princess, he comes face to face with the unstoppable warriors he thought only existed in legend–and gets the chance to become a legend himself.
Hoult and Singer recently collaborated on the Singer-produced .X-Men: First Class.. Jack The Giant Killer also stars Eleanor Tomlinson...
- 12/16/2011
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Fairy tales, legends and mythology seem to be all the rage these days and the revival of these ancient tales proves that great stories are relevant in any age. Feeding our fascination once again is New Line Cinema and Legendary Pictures. Bryan Singer is going to be directing the 3D version of Jack the Giant Killer which is slated to hit theaters in the summer of 2012.
This version of Jack the Giant Killer will be the second film based on the English fairy tale that has origins that can be traced back to the year 1711. The first Jack the Giant Killer was made in 1962 and starred Kerwin Mathews as Jack complete with Ray Harryhausen-style stop-motion animation.
Nicholas Hoult has been cast in the title role of Jack in the new epic 3D adventure “Jack the Giant Killer”.
Since this new version will be made in 3D, you can bet...
This version of Jack the Giant Killer will be the second film based on the English fairy tale that has origins that can be traced back to the year 1711. The first Jack the Giant Killer was made in 1962 and starred Kerwin Mathews as Jack complete with Ray Harryhausen-style stop-motion animation.
Nicholas Hoult has been cast in the title role of Jack in the new epic 3D adventure “Jack the Giant Killer”.
Since this new version will be made in 3D, you can bet...
- 6/2/2011
- Cinelinx
I guess an apology is in order. Apparently, back in April when we brought you some photos of Ewan Mcgregor, alongside co-star Eddie Marsan (Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows) in their Royal Guard attire, on what we thought was the set of Jack the Giant Killer, we must have been wrong, being that Warner Bros. has just sent out a press release (below), officially announcing the start of production on the film.
The photo of Ewan Mcgregor and Eddie Marsan (below) must have just been the two actors playing dress up on the weekend?
Official Press Release:
Director Bryan Singer in Production on 3D Epic Action Adventure “Jack the Giant Killer” Stars Nicholas Hoult, Eleanor Tomlinson, Stanley Tucci, Ian McShane, Bill Nighy and Ewan McGregor
Burbank, CA, May 27, 2011—Principal photography is underway in London on acclaimed filmmaker Bryan Singer’s 3D epic action adventure Jack The Giant Killer, with...
The photo of Ewan Mcgregor and Eddie Marsan (below) must have just been the two actors playing dress up on the weekend?
Official Press Release:
Director Bryan Singer in Production on 3D Epic Action Adventure “Jack the Giant Killer” Stars Nicholas Hoult, Eleanor Tomlinson, Stanley Tucci, Ian McShane, Bill Nighy and Ewan McGregor
Burbank, CA, May 27, 2011—Principal photography is underway in London on acclaimed filmmaker Bryan Singer’s 3D epic action adventure Jack The Giant Killer, with...
- 5/31/2011
- by Jason Moore
- ScifiMafia
With X-Men: First Class completed and about to be released in cinemas, producer Bryan Singer (pictured) has moved on to directing the 3D fantasy adventure Jack the Giant Killer.
Filming is now taking place in London, with Nicholas Hoult - who plays Hank McCoy aka Beast in the new X-Men movie - in the title role.
New Line Cinema and Legendary Pictures have confirmed that principal photography is under way and revealed the official cast details for the production.
Bill Nighy and John Kassir will together play the two-headed leader of the giants, General Fallon; Stanley Tucci is the king's scheming advisor Lord Roderick; Eleanor Tomlinson is kidnapped Princess Isabelle who is in love with Jack; Ian McShane has been cast as the princess's father King Brahmwell; and Ewan McGregor plays palace guard Elmont.
An official synopsis has also been released and is included below.
The synopsis is as follows:...
Filming is now taking place in London, with Nicholas Hoult - who plays Hank McCoy aka Beast in the new X-Men movie - in the title role.
New Line Cinema and Legendary Pictures have confirmed that principal photography is under way and revealed the official cast details for the production.
Bill Nighy and John Kassir will together play the two-headed leader of the giants, General Fallon; Stanley Tucci is the king's scheming advisor Lord Roderick; Eleanor Tomlinson is kidnapped Princess Isabelle who is in love with Jack; Ian McShane has been cast as the princess's father King Brahmwell; and Ewan McGregor plays palace guard Elmont.
An official synopsis has also been released and is included below.
The synopsis is as follows:...
- 5/30/2011
- by David Bentley
- The Geek Files
Principal photography is underway in London on acclaimed filmmaker Bryan Singer’s 3D epic action adventure “Jack the Giant Killer,” with Nicholas Hoult in the title role of Jack, for New Line Cinema and Legendary Pictures.“Jack the Giant Killer” tells the story of an ancient war that is reignited when a young farmhand unwittingly opens a gateway between our world and a fearsome race of giants. Unleashed on the Earth for the first time in centuries, the giants strive to reclaim the land they once lost, forcing the young man, Jack, into the battle of his life to stop them. Fighting for a kingdom, its people, and the love of a brave princess, he comes face to face with the unstoppable warriors he thought only existed in legend — and gets the chance to become a legend himself.Hoult and Singer recently collaborated on the Singer-produced “X-Men: First Class,” for release later this year.
- 5/28/2011
- LRMonline.com
New Line Cinema and Legendary Pictures announced today that Bryan Singer's new 3D epic fantasy adventure film Jack the Giant Killer has started shooting in London. The film stars starring Nicholas Hoult, Eleanor Tomlinson, Stanley Tucci, Ian McShane, Bill Nighy and Ewan McGregor.
Singer is shooting the film with the Epic Red camera in which he said,
I'm very much looking forward to using the Epic Red for my next movie Jack the Giant Killer which will be shot in, what else, 3D. The camera's incredibly compact size and extraordinary resolution are ideal for the 3D format. But more importantly Jack the Giant Killer is my first movie set in a time before electricity. The Epic's extraordinary exposure latitude will allow me to more effectively explore the use of natural light.
Singer is a great director and I'm looking forward to seeing what he ends up doing with this movie.
Singer is shooting the film with the Epic Red camera in which he said,
I'm very much looking forward to using the Epic Red for my next movie Jack the Giant Killer which will be shot in, what else, 3D. The camera's incredibly compact size and extraordinary resolution are ideal for the 3D format. But more importantly Jack the Giant Killer is my first movie set in a time before electricity. The Epic's extraordinary exposure latitude will allow me to more effectively explore the use of natural light.
Singer is a great director and I'm looking forward to seeing what he ends up doing with this movie.
- 5/28/2011
- by Venkman
- GeekTyrant
Stars Nicholas Hoult, Eleanor Tomlinson, Stanley Tucci,
Ian McShane, Bill Nighy and Ewan McGregor
Burbank, CA, May 27, 2011.Principal photography is underway in London on acclaimed filmmaker Bryan Singer’s 3D epic action adventure Jack The Giant Killer, with Nicholas Hoult in the title role of Jack, for New Line Cinema and Legendary Pictures.
Jack The Giant Killer tells the story of an ancient war that is reignited when a young farmhand unwittingly opens a gateway between our world and a fearsome race of giants. Unleashed on the Earth for the first time in centuries, the giants strive to reclaim the land they once lost, forcing the young man, Jack, into the battle of his life to stop them. Fighting for a kingdom, its people, and the love of a brave princess, he comes face to face with the unstoppable warriors he thought only existed in legend.and gets the chance to become a legend himself.
Ian McShane, Bill Nighy and Ewan McGregor
Burbank, CA, May 27, 2011.Principal photography is underway in London on acclaimed filmmaker Bryan Singer’s 3D epic action adventure Jack The Giant Killer, with Nicholas Hoult in the title role of Jack, for New Line Cinema and Legendary Pictures.
Jack The Giant Killer tells the story of an ancient war that is reignited when a young farmhand unwittingly opens a gateway between our world and a fearsome race of giants. Unleashed on the Earth for the first time in centuries, the giants strive to reclaim the land they once lost, forcing the young man, Jack, into the battle of his life to stop them. Fighting for a kingdom, its people, and the love of a brave princess, he comes face to face with the unstoppable warriors he thought only existed in legend.and gets the chance to become a legend himself.
- 5/27/2011
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
In "YYY" -- oops, that's "$$$" -- the lead's early rally-around-the-rebel-flag yell sets the tone: "I live for this shit!" Played as a punk superman by Vin Diesel, the "Everyman" protagonist of director Rob Cohen's brawny spy film endures many hardships and performs preposterous feats of derring-do, and he tries very hard to be bad.
OK, the Columbia Pictures release is called "XXX" (pronounced "Triple X"), and it's definitely not to be confused with an old-fashioned skin flick. Or anything square like James Bond. Expanding on the multicultural milieu of streetwise tattooed guys with boss cars, hot girls and prison records, Cohen, Diesel and producer Neal H. Moritz -- all of whom scored with "The Fast and the Furious" -- should ignite a late-summer boxoffice inferno that will burn brightly in theaters and in ancillary markets.
Off to a shaky start with an obviously out-of-place National Security Agency agent getting blown away at a music club by psycho Russians in Prague, "XXX" is pitifully written, with flagrant disregard for reality in the fashion of a spoof. For starters, why is the NSA taking on a powerful anarchist group? And who would wear a tux anywhere near a Rammstein gig?
Not only the antithesis of subtle -- with semi-avian Americans (nihilist rogues or otherwise) pretty much having a lock on daredevil coolness and vehicular prowess -- the movie, if it were a sentient entity, would be blissfully unaware of how dumb it comes off about the real world of espionage and counterintelligence. It's really the Diesel Express and the special effects department that keep the X's rolling. An expensive B movie with nuts, "XXX" rarely gets bogged down but still proves less than mind-scorchingly memorable.
The introduction of head-shaven Xander Cage (Diesel) is certainly a rush as he steals the convertible Corvette of a California state senator and then films himself crashing it off a bridge, including his leaping out of the falling car and using a parachute to scoot away unharmed and free to strike again. A legend in the extreme sports world, but no one's fool or an automatically patriotic warrior, Cage is snatched by NSA honcho Augustus Gibbons (Samuel L. Jackson), who is desperate to find a smart but ruthless jock to go back to Prague and finish the job.
After a couple of "tests," which include Cage being drugged and then dropped into a Colombian coca plantation and having to survive an attack by rocket-launching helicopters by doing monumental jumps on a motocross bike, the angry-but-twice-convicted-loser goes to the Czech Republic. Sticking out in a shaggy coat, Cage barges in on Yorgi (Marton Csokas) and Yelena (Asia Argento), two diabolical Russians bent on causing worldwide turmoil. Posing as himself and purchasing a fistful of hot-rodder cars, Cage gets close enough to provide Gibbons with info, as well as see what a formidable female Yelena is. But there's more on Gibbons' agenda, and Cage goes to another techno-rave event at the bad guy's place and is accommodated by an anonymous willing babe waiting in his room. Eventually, Cage brings about the end of Yorgi and his plot by many means, including causing an avalanche and racing in a hopped-up 1967 GTO to stop Ahab, a hydrofoil/submarine loaded with deadly rockets.
Diesel is the man, no doubt about it, but Argento -- who has made many more films and played some very demanding roles -- is quite a woman in her big introduction to English-speaking moviegoers. The chromosomal dynamics of "XXX" are in balance when she trades attitudinal glances and body language with the lead. The supporting performances are unexceptional but acceptable given the lack of importance placed on characterizations. Both of the scarred dudes played by Csokas and Jackson are easily summed up in short sentences.
Featuring superior work by cinematographer Dean Semler, production designer Gavin Bocquet and the demolition crews, with some stunts filmed by a dozen cameras or more, "XXX" has the wheels, weapons and women -- and a surefire best-selling soundtrack -- to bond with hotblooded thrill seekers, or at least guys on a date looking for a role model. Lesson No. 1: Have a neck thick enough to fit a tattoo on.
XXX
Sony Pictures Releasing
Columbia Pictures
Revolution Studios presents a Neal H. Moritz production
Credits:
Director: Rob Cohen
Screenwriter: Rich Wilkes
Producer: Neal H. Moritz
Executive producers: Arne L. Schmidt, Todd Garner, Vin Diesel, George Zakk
Director of photography: Dean Semler
Production designer: Gavin Bocquet
Editors: Chris Lebenzon, Paul Rubell, Joel Negron
Costume designer: Sanja Milkovic Hays
Music: Randy Edelman
Casting: Ronna Kress, Kate Dowd
Cast:
Xander Cage: Vin Diesel
Yelena: Asia Argento
Yorgi: Marton Csokas
Agent Augustus Gibbons: Samuel L. Jackson
Toby Lee Shavers: Michael Roof
Milan Sova: Richy Muller
Kirill: Werner Daehn
Virg: Joe Bucaro III
Running time -- 124 minutes
MPAA rating: PG-13...
OK, the Columbia Pictures release is called "XXX" (pronounced "Triple X"), and it's definitely not to be confused with an old-fashioned skin flick. Or anything square like James Bond. Expanding on the multicultural milieu of streetwise tattooed guys with boss cars, hot girls and prison records, Cohen, Diesel and producer Neal H. Moritz -- all of whom scored with "The Fast and the Furious" -- should ignite a late-summer boxoffice inferno that will burn brightly in theaters and in ancillary markets.
Off to a shaky start with an obviously out-of-place National Security Agency agent getting blown away at a music club by psycho Russians in Prague, "XXX" is pitifully written, with flagrant disregard for reality in the fashion of a spoof. For starters, why is the NSA taking on a powerful anarchist group? And who would wear a tux anywhere near a Rammstein gig?
Not only the antithesis of subtle -- with semi-avian Americans (nihilist rogues or otherwise) pretty much having a lock on daredevil coolness and vehicular prowess -- the movie, if it were a sentient entity, would be blissfully unaware of how dumb it comes off about the real world of espionage and counterintelligence. It's really the Diesel Express and the special effects department that keep the X's rolling. An expensive B movie with nuts, "XXX" rarely gets bogged down but still proves less than mind-scorchingly memorable.
The introduction of head-shaven Xander Cage (Diesel) is certainly a rush as he steals the convertible Corvette of a California state senator and then films himself crashing it off a bridge, including his leaping out of the falling car and using a parachute to scoot away unharmed and free to strike again. A legend in the extreme sports world, but no one's fool or an automatically patriotic warrior, Cage is snatched by NSA honcho Augustus Gibbons (Samuel L. Jackson), who is desperate to find a smart but ruthless jock to go back to Prague and finish the job.
After a couple of "tests," which include Cage being drugged and then dropped into a Colombian coca plantation and having to survive an attack by rocket-launching helicopters by doing monumental jumps on a motocross bike, the angry-but-twice-convicted-loser goes to the Czech Republic. Sticking out in a shaggy coat, Cage barges in on Yorgi (Marton Csokas) and Yelena (Asia Argento), two diabolical Russians bent on causing worldwide turmoil. Posing as himself and purchasing a fistful of hot-rodder cars, Cage gets close enough to provide Gibbons with info, as well as see what a formidable female Yelena is. But there's more on Gibbons' agenda, and Cage goes to another techno-rave event at the bad guy's place and is accommodated by an anonymous willing babe waiting in his room. Eventually, Cage brings about the end of Yorgi and his plot by many means, including causing an avalanche and racing in a hopped-up 1967 GTO to stop Ahab, a hydrofoil/submarine loaded with deadly rockets.
Diesel is the man, no doubt about it, but Argento -- who has made many more films and played some very demanding roles -- is quite a woman in her big introduction to English-speaking moviegoers. The chromosomal dynamics of "XXX" are in balance when she trades attitudinal glances and body language with the lead. The supporting performances are unexceptional but acceptable given the lack of importance placed on characterizations. Both of the scarred dudes played by Csokas and Jackson are easily summed up in short sentences.
Featuring superior work by cinematographer Dean Semler, production designer Gavin Bocquet and the demolition crews, with some stunts filmed by a dozen cameras or more, "XXX" has the wheels, weapons and women -- and a surefire best-selling soundtrack -- to bond with hotblooded thrill seekers, or at least guys on a date looking for a role model. Lesson No. 1: Have a neck thick enough to fit a tattoo on.
XXX
Sony Pictures Releasing
Columbia Pictures
Revolution Studios presents a Neal H. Moritz production
Credits:
Director: Rob Cohen
Screenwriter: Rich Wilkes
Producer: Neal H. Moritz
Executive producers: Arne L. Schmidt, Todd Garner, Vin Diesel, George Zakk
Director of photography: Dean Semler
Production designer: Gavin Bocquet
Editors: Chris Lebenzon, Paul Rubell, Joel Negron
Costume designer: Sanja Milkovic Hays
Music: Randy Edelman
Casting: Ronna Kress, Kate Dowd
Cast:
Xander Cage: Vin Diesel
Yelena: Asia Argento
Yorgi: Marton Csokas
Agent Augustus Gibbons: Samuel L. Jackson
Toby Lee Shavers: Michael Roof
Milan Sova: Richy Muller
Kirill: Werner Daehn
Virg: Joe Bucaro III
Running time -- 124 minutes
MPAA rating: PG-13...
''Kafka, '' Steven Soderbergh's first film since ''sex, lies, and videotape, '' is a self-conscious and artsy fictional foray into both the real and dream worlds of Franz Kafka. A distinguished and able cast headed by Jeremy Irons; beautiful, mostly black-and-white cinematography; and the enchanting Prague backgrounds make for a diverting feature-length eyeful and earful, but the reconstruction of the Kafkaesque worldview never quite takes.
The film's plot plays more like a Hammer horror outing, with shock piled atop unexpected shock, than a tale from Kafka's eerie imagination, in which a disturbing and even violent set-up gives way to an even more disturbing, but madly sedate, destructive logic.
The film discovers Kafka (Irons) at work in the bureacratic confines of the Accident and Insurance Compensation Assn., where he spends his days processing innumerable papers under the watchful eye of the nitpicking supervisor Burgel (Joel Grey).
Disturbed by the absence of his friend, Eduard Raban, Kafka chats up his woman friend, Gabriela (Theresa Russell), a fellow employee who habitually rebuffs male attention. However, pursuing her to her regular cafe haunts, he discovers her outlawed anarchist circle, in which Eduard was also enlisted. Kafka comes to realize that Eduard must have disappeared in the ominous castle that towers over the city and which seems to be the repository of some secret activity run by his employers.
Late one night, with the help of a sympathetic grave cutter (Jeroen Krabbe) who has read some of his few published pieces, Kafka breaks into the castle through a secret tunnel.
While all this is going on, the city is being afflicted by a series of mysterious murders which, we see, are being carried out by shrieking, deformed madmen. These two plot strands intertwine when Kafka finally reaches the laboratory of the evil, monster-making Dr. Murnau (Ian Holm). In the film's only color sequence, Kafka uncovers the doctor's mad plot to control humanity and destroys him and his intricate machinery.
Whatever the film may fail at, it is a triumph of production design. Gavin Bocquet has whipped up a dark symphony of spaces, from closet-like garret rooms to huge regimented office space to Murnau's literally eyepopping laboratory, the last a stunning bit of design virtuosity.
The acting is similarly accomplished. Sir Alec Guinness, who harrumphs no more than a handful of lines, draws a stark picture of a paper-shuffling autocrat.
Grey and Krabbe are authentically colorful and Holm brusquely evil, while Russell manages to be both attractive and harsh. In such company, Armin Mueller-Stahl manages to stand out as a wearily alert policeman investigating Raban's death. Irons is as beguiling as ever, though his Kafka is considerably more possessed of English drollery than middle European irony.
The problem rests entirely in Soderbergh and screenwriter Lem Dobbs' conception of Kafka and his vision, which they reduce to a slightly supercilious social stance. Kafka is trapped all right, but not in one of his own visions, but a pulp adventure story.
KAFKA
Miramax
Director Steven Soderbergh
Producers Stuart Cornfeld, Harry Benn
Writer Lem Dobbs
Director of photography Walt Lloyd
Music Cliff Martinez
Production design Gavin Bocquet
Casting Susie Figgis
Color/Dolby
Cast:
Kafka Jeremy Irons
Gabriela Theresa Russell
Burgel Joel Grey
Dr. Murnau Ian Holm
Inspector Grubach Armin Mueller-Stahl
Bizzlebek Jeroen Krabbe
Chief clerk Alec Guinness
Running time -- 98 minutes
MPAA Rating: PG-13
(c) The Hollywood Reporter...
The film's plot plays more like a Hammer horror outing, with shock piled atop unexpected shock, than a tale from Kafka's eerie imagination, in which a disturbing and even violent set-up gives way to an even more disturbing, but madly sedate, destructive logic.
The film discovers Kafka (Irons) at work in the bureacratic confines of the Accident and Insurance Compensation Assn., where he spends his days processing innumerable papers under the watchful eye of the nitpicking supervisor Burgel (Joel Grey).
Disturbed by the absence of his friend, Eduard Raban, Kafka chats up his woman friend, Gabriela (Theresa Russell), a fellow employee who habitually rebuffs male attention. However, pursuing her to her regular cafe haunts, he discovers her outlawed anarchist circle, in which Eduard was also enlisted. Kafka comes to realize that Eduard must have disappeared in the ominous castle that towers over the city and which seems to be the repository of some secret activity run by his employers.
Late one night, with the help of a sympathetic grave cutter (Jeroen Krabbe) who has read some of his few published pieces, Kafka breaks into the castle through a secret tunnel.
While all this is going on, the city is being afflicted by a series of mysterious murders which, we see, are being carried out by shrieking, deformed madmen. These two plot strands intertwine when Kafka finally reaches the laboratory of the evil, monster-making Dr. Murnau (Ian Holm). In the film's only color sequence, Kafka uncovers the doctor's mad plot to control humanity and destroys him and his intricate machinery.
Whatever the film may fail at, it is a triumph of production design. Gavin Bocquet has whipped up a dark symphony of spaces, from closet-like garret rooms to huge regimented office space to Murnau's literally eyepopping laboratory, the last a stunning bit of design virtuosity.
The acting is similarly accomplished. Sir Alec Guinness, who harrumphs no more than a handful of lines, draws a stark picture of a paper-shuffling autocrat.
Grey and Krabbe are authentically colorful and Holm brusquely evil, while Russell manages to be both attractive and harsh. In such company, Armin Mueller-Stahl manages to stand out as a wearily alert policeman investigating Raban's death. Irons is as beguiling as ever, though his Kafka is considerably more possessed of English drollery than middle European irony.
The problem rests entirely in Soderbergh and screenwriter Lem Dobbs' conception of Kafka and his vision, which they reduce to a slightly supercilious social stance. Kafka is trapped all right, but not in one of his own visions, but a pulp adventure story.
KAFKA
Miramax
Director Steven Soderbergh
Producers Stuart Cornfeld, Harry Benn
Writer Lem Dobbs
Director of photography Walt Lloyd
Music Cliff Martinez
Production design Gavin Bocquet
Casting Susie Figgis
Color/Dolby
Cast:
Kafka Jeremy Irons
Gabriela Theresa Russell
Burgel Joel Grey
Dr. Murnau Ian Holm
Inspector Grubach Armin Mueller-Stahl
Bizzlebek Jeroen Krabbe
Chief clerk Alec Guinness
Running time -- 98 minutes
MPAA Rating: PG-13
(c) The Hollywood Reporter...
- 12/3/1991
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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