Hermann Vaske with 99 Records founder Ed Bahlman and Anne-Katrin Titze on the journey to interview Cate Blanchett for Can Creativity Save the World?: “It started when Cate was shooting The Monuments Men [in 2013] in Berlin with George Clooney. And the Dp was a friend of mine, Phedon Papamichael who works with James Mangold.”
Hermann Vaske’s evermore timely Can Creativity Save The World? (with a lively score by Mark Reeder and Micha Adam) features on-camera interviews with Cate Blanchett, Golshifteh Farahani, Isabella Rossellini, Angelina Jolie, Willem Dafoe, Umberto Eco, Shirin Neshat, Garry Kasparov, Marina Abramović, John Cleese, Salman Rushdie, Luisa Neubauer (of Pussy Riot), Bono (of U2), Oscar Niemeyer, David Bowie, Marlene Knobloch, Sean Penn, Radu Jude, Amos Oz, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Oliviero Toscani, Björk, Campino (of Die Toten Hosen fame), Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker, Lakshmi Thevasagayam, and Lia Mizrahi Goldfarb (co-editor and production designer of the documentary).
Hermann...
Hermann Vaske’s evermore timely Can Creativity Save The World? (with a lively score by Mark Reeder and Micha Adam) features on-camera interviews with Cate Blanchett, Golshifteh Farahani, Isabella Rossellini, Angelina Jolie, Willem Dafoe, Umberto Eco, Shirin Neshat, Garry Kasparov, Marina Abramović, John Cleese, Salman Rushdie, Luisa Neubauer (of Pussy Riot), Bono (of U2), Oscar Niemeyer, David Bowie, Marlene Knobloch, Sean Penn, Radu Jude, Amos Oz, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Oliviero Toscani, Björk, Campino (of Die Toten Hosen fame), Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker, Lakshmi Thevasagayam, and Lia Mizrahi Goldfarb (co-editor and production designer of the documentary).
Hermann...
- 4/17/2024
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Man vs. machine chess thriller Rematch was awarded the International Competition grand prize at the 2024 Series Mania festival on Friday night (March 22) in Lille, France.
Inspired by the true story of the historic confrontation between chess master Garry Kasparov and Ibm’s supercomputer Deep Blue, the AI-themed story created by Yan England, André Gulluni and Bruno Nahon is produced by Unité, Arte France, Federation Studios and Proton and stars Christian Cooke. Federation Studios handles international sales.
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The international competition jury, presided by The Oa creator Zal Batmanglij, also gave awards to the stars...
Inspired by the true story of the historic confrontation between chess master Garry Kasparov and Ibm’s supercomputer Deep Blue, the AI-themed story created by Yan England, André Gulluni and Bruno Nahon is produced by Unité, Arte France, Federation Studios and Proton and stars Christian Cooke. Federation Studios handles international sales.
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The international competition jury, presided by The Oa creator Zal Batmanglij, also gave awards to the stars...
- 3/22/2024
- ScreenDaily
The Series Mania Festival’s top prize for best series went to Rematch, a French-Hungarian drama about the historic match between chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov and Ibm’s Deep Blue computer.
The best actress prize went to Annette Bening for her role in Apples Never Fall, the first major TV role up from the five-time Oscar nominee. Kamel El Basha won best actor for the Australian drama House of Gods, in which he played the charismatic head cleric of a big city mosque.
In the Apples Never Fall adaptation, based on the novel by Big Little Lies author Liane Moriarty, Bening plays Joy Delaney, family matriarch and patient wife to the irascible former tennis pro, Stan (Sam Neill). When Joy disappears, the four adult Delaney children are forced to reassess everything they thought they knew about their parents and their family history. Bening was also a best actress Oscar contender...
The best actress prize went to Annette Bening for her role in Apples Never Fall, the first major TV role up from the five-time Oscar nominee. Kamel El Basha won best actor for the Australian drama House of Gods, in which he played the charismatic head cleric of a big city mosque.
In the Apples Never Fall adaptation, based on the novel by Big Little Lies author Liane Moriarty, Bening plays Joy Delaney, family matriarch and patient wife to the irascible former tennis pro, Stan (Sam Neill). When Joy disappears, the four adult Delaney children are forced to reassess everything they thought they knew about their parents and their family history. Bening was also a best actress Oscar contender...
- 3/22/2024
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
It has been a while since “The Queen’s Gambit,” but as proven by “Rematch,” viewers’ love for chess is certainly not diminishing.
The show, dedicated to confrontation between famous chess player Garry Kasparov and Ibm’s supercomputer Deep Blue, was named the winner at Series Mania.
A somewhat lukewarm reception of “Apples Never Fall” didn’t stop Annette Bening from being crowned as best actress. The Peacock offering, also featuring Sam Neill and Alison Brie, is the latest adaptation of “Big Little Lies” and “Nine Perfect Strangers” scribe Liane Moriarty. Now showing a perfect family who, following its matriarch’s disappearance, needs to face some uncomfortable questions. Including this one: Did their beloved father have something to do with it?
Jury member Berenice Bejo read out a brief message of thanks from Bening who described the series as a “labor of love.”
Kamel El Basha, who plays the more progressive...
The show, dedicated to confrontation between famous chess player Garry Kasparov and Ibm’s supercomputer Deep Blue, was named the winner at Series Mania.
A somewhat lukewarm reception of “Apples Never Fall” didn’t stop Annette Bening from being crowned as best actress. The Peacock offering, also featuring Sam Neill and Alison Brie, is the latest adaptation of “Big Little Lies” and “Nine Perfect Strangers” scribe Liane Moriarty. Now showing a perfect family who, following its matriarch’s disappearance, needs to face some uncomfortable questions. Including this one: Did their beloved father have something to do with it?
Jury member Berenice Bejo read out a brief message of thanks from Bening who described the series as a “labor of love.”
Kamel El Basha, who plays the more progressive...
- 3/22/2024
- by Marta Balaga
- Variety Film + TV
Annette Bening’s first major TV series role has won the five-time Oscar nominee the Best Actress prize at this year’s Series Mania.
Bening was awarded in the past few minutes at the prestigious Lille event for her leading role in Peacock series Apples Never Fall, an adaptation of a novel by Big Little Lies scribe Liane Moriarty.
The coveted grand prize was given to French-Hungarian chess drama Rematch about the historic 1997 chess battle between Garry Kasparov and an Ibm computer. It beat off competition from the likes of Apples Never Fall, MGM+’s Hotel Cocaine and Leonard Cohen show So Long, Marianne.
Apples Never Fall stars Bening as Joy Delaney, a matriarch former tennis coach married to the irritable Stan (Neill), who suddenly goes missing, leaving her four children to piece together everything they thought they knew about their parents.
Speaking to Deadline prior to Series Mania, showrunner...
Bening was awarded in the past few minutes at the prestigious Lille event for her leading role in Peacock series Apples Never Fall, an adaptation of a novel by Big Little Lies scribe Liane Moriarty.
The coveted grand prize was given to French-Hungarian chess drama Rematch about the historic 1997 chess battle between Garry Kasparov and an Ibm computer. It beat off competition from the likes of Apples Never Fall, MGM+’s Hotel Cocaine and Leonard Cohen show So Long, Marianne.
Apples Never Fall stars Bening as Joy Delaney, a matriarch former tennis coach married to the irritable Stan (Neill), who suddenly goes missing, leaving her four children to piece together everything they thought they knew about their parents.
Speaking to Deadline prior to Series Mania, showrunner...
- 3/22/2024
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Amy Forsyth and Christian Cooke have joined the cast of “Plainclothes,” a new independent film from writer-director Carmen Emmi. They will star alongside Tom Blyth and Russell Tovey, who Variety previously reported would lead the project.
Set in the ’90s and inspired by true events, the film follows a working-class undercover officer tasked with entrapping and apprehending gay men, only to find himself drawn to one of his targets. The film is produced by Arthur Landon, Colby Cote, and Eric Podwall on behalf of Page 1 Entertainment and Lorton Entertainment. Alex Wenger and April Kelley will co-produce.
Forsyth will play Emily, ex-girlfriend and trusted confidant to Lucas (Blyth). She received an Independent Spirit Award nomination for best supporting actress for her role in the 2021 film “The Novice.” She was also seen in the Oscar-winning film “Coda” that same year. She currently stars in the recurring role of Carrie Astor on...
Set in the ’90s and inspired by true events, the film follows a working-class undercover officer tasked with entrapping and apprehending gay men, only to find himself drawn to one of his targets. The film is produced by Arthur Landon, Colby Cote, and Eric Podwall on behalf of Page 1 Entertainment and Lorton Entertainment. Alex Wenger and April Kelley will co-produce.
Forsyth will play Emily, ex-girlfriend and trusted confidant to Lucas (Blyth). She received an Independent Spirit Award nomination for best supporting actress for her role in the 2021 film “The Novice.” She was also seen in the Oscar-winning film “Coda” that same year. She currently stars in the recurring role of Carrie Astor on...
- 3/19/2024
- by Katcy Stephan
- Variety Film + TV
A rare flagship indie producer left on the French market, Bruno Nahon’s Paris-based company Unité is preparing to conquer international audiences with “Rematch,” a period psychological thriller chronicling the historical battle between world chess champion Garry Kasparov, and Ibm’s supercomputer Deep Blue in 1997.
The sprawling show, directed by Yan England (“The Red Band Society”) and co-created with Nahon and André Gulluni (“Sam”), was commissioned by Arte in France and has already been sold by Federation Studios to major outlets around the world, including HBO Europe for Spain, Portugal, the Nordics, Iceland, Baltics, Central Europe, Greece and the Netherlands. Disney+ has bought first-window rights for the U.K. and will air the show in France after the Arte broadcast.
Nahon, who created Unité a decade ago, has been making bold shows and movies exploring social, religious and political aspects of societies, and has often captured the zeitgeist in the process.
The sprawling show, directed by Yan England (“The Red Band Society”) and co-created with Nahon and André Gulluni (“Sam”), was commissioned by Arte in France and has already been sold by Federation Studios to major outlets around the world, including HBO Europe for Spain, Portugal, the Nordics, Iceland, Baltics, Central Europe, Greece and the Netherlands. Disney+ has bought first-window rights for the U.K. and will air the show in France after the Arte broadcast.
Nahon, who created Unité a decade ago, has been making bold shows and movies exploring social, religious and political aspects of societies, and has often captured the zeitgeist in the process.
- 2/28/2024
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
International television festival Series Mania unveiled its 2024 lineup Wednesday, with an impressive slate of world premieres that will grace the screens of Lille, France for the event running March 19-21.
Peacock’s Australia-set family drama Apples Never Fall, featuring Nyad Oscar nominee Annette Bening and Jurassic Park veteran Sam Neill as a dysfunctional couple, will screen in competition at year’s fest, as will MGM+’s Hotel Cocaine, from Narcos showrunner Chris Brancato, a crime thriller featuring The Shield star Michael Chiklis and set in the booming cocaine scene in Miami in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
So Long Marianne, a Canadian-Norwegian co-production from Crave and Norway’s Nrk, will also get its first screening in Lille. The series stars Oppenheimer supporting actor Alex Wolff as legendary singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen in a story of his turbulent relationship with Norwegian writer Marianne Ihlen (played by The Last Kingdom‘s Thea Sofie Loch Næss...
Peacock’s Australia-set family drama Apples Never Fall, featuring Nyad Oscar nominee Annette Bening and Jurassic Park veteran Sam Neill as a dysfunctional couple, will screen in competition at year’s fest, as will MGM+’s Hotel Cocaine, from Narcos showrunner Chris Brancato, a crime thriller featuring The Shield star Michael Chiklis and set in the booming cocaine scene in Miami in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
So Long Marianne, a Canadian-Norwegian co-production from Crave and Norway’s Nrk, will also get its first screening in Lille. The series stars Oppenheimer supporting actor Alex Wolff as legendary singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen in a story of his turbulent relationship with Norwegian writer Marianne Ihlen (played by The Last Kingdom‘s Thea Sofie Loch Næss...
- 2/7/2024
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
French TV festival and industry event Series Mania has unveiled the line-up for its 2024 edition, which runs from March 15-22.
Series Mania returns to the northern French city of Lille with 52 unreleased series, 26 world premieres, 15 international premieres, hailing from 21 countries including three new territories – South Africa, Latvia and New Zealand.
Netflix sci-fi series 3 Body Problem opens the festival. The adaptation of the best-selling book series by Cixin Liu from David Benioff, D.B. Weiss and Alexander Woo follows a group of brilliant scientists to join forces with a detective to confront the greatest threat in humanity’s history.
Series Mania organisers...
Series Mania returns to the northern French city of Lille with 52 unreleased series, 26 world premieres, 15 international premieres, hailing from 21 countries including three new territories – South Africa, Latvia and New Zealand.
Netflix sci-fi series 3 Body Problem opens the festival. The adaptation of the best-selling book series by Cixin Liu from David Benioff, D.B. Weiss and Alexander Woo follows a group of brilliant scientists to join forces with a detective to confront the greatest threat in humanity’s history.
Series Mania organisers...
- 2/7/2024
- ScreenDaily
Lille-based Series Mania, Europe’s biggest TV festival and forum, has revealed its impressive 2024 main competition, which includes three U.S. streamer bows – from Peacock, and MGM+ and Disney+/HBO Europe world premieres.
The starry lineup features, for example, the much-anticipated new Liane Moriarty adaptation “Apples Never Fall” with Annette Bening as the matriarch who suddenly disappears, leaving her picture-perfect family in disarray. Currently celebrating Oscar nomination for “Nyad,” Bening is joined in the series be by Sam Neill and Alison Brie.
Alex Wolff, recently spotted in another Oscar hopeful “Oppenheimer,” will put on his deepest voice for “So Long, Marianne” about the tumultuous relationship between Leonard Cohen and Norwegian writer Marianne Ihlen, from Norway’s Nrk.
With Wolff currently set to attend, Zal Batmanglij – behind Netflix’s “The Oa” – “The Artist’s” Bérénice Bejo, “Gossip Girl” alumni Kelly Rutherford, novelist Douglas Kennedy and France’s Laurent Lafitte will also deliver masterclasses.
The starry lineup features, for example, the much-anticipated new Liane Moriarty adaptation “Apples Never Fall” with Annette Bening as the matriarch who suddenly disappears, leaving her picture-perfect family in disarray. Currently celebrating Oscar nomination for “Nyad,” Bening is joined in the series be by Sam Neill and Alison Brie.
Alex Wolff, recently spotted in another Oscar hopeful “Oppenheimer,” will put on his deepest voice for “So Long, Marianne” about the tumultuous relationship between Leonard Cohen and Norwegian writer Marianne Ihlen, from Norway’s Nrk.
With Wolff currently set to attend, Zal Batmanglij – behind Netflix’s “The Oa” – “The Artist’s” Bérénice Bejo, “Gossip Girl” alumni Kelly Rutherford, novelist Douglas Kennedy and France’s Laurent Lafitte will also deliver masterclasses.
- 2/7/2024
- by Marta Balaga
- Variety Film + TV
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- 1/3/2024
- by Ben Bowman
- The Streamable
New Delhi, June 10 (Ians) The inaugural edition of the Global Chess League is all set to be held from June 21 – July 2, 2023 at the Dubai Chess & Culture Club in association with the Dubai Sports Council.
The tournament will see some of the best chess proponents in the world competing against each other in a league-styled format – and Chess Grandmaster, Teimour Radjabov, who has been named as one of the participants, is excited to become a part of the tournament.
“The idea itself is great. In my opinion, this is the professional way of doing a Chess league. Hopefully everything will work out perfectly,” Teimour said when asked about his reasons for becoming a part of the Global Chess League.
Another factor that excited Teimour about the Gcl was the fact that the tournament is being organised by Tech Mahindra in collaboration with Fide. To Teimour, who garnered quite a fan following...
The tournament will see some of the best chess proponents in the world competing against each other in a league-styled format – and Chess Grandmaster, Teimour Radjabov, who has been named as one of the participants, is excited to become a part of the tournament.
“The idea itself is great. In my opinion, this is the professional way of doing a Chess league. Hopefully everything will work out perfectly,” Teimour said when asked about his reasons for becoming a part of the Global Chess League.
Another factor that excited Teimour about the Gcl was the fact that the tournament is being organised by Tech Mahindra in collaboration with Fide. To Teimour, who garnered quite a fan following...
- 6/10/2023
- by Agency News Desk
- GlamSham
When Deep Blue, a computer, beat world chess champion Garry Kasparov in 1997 some journalists found comfort in the thought that A.I. would never be able to write like Shakespeare.
Well, think again. Or, better, check out the title sequence of Series Mania live action entry “Red Skies.”
Shared with Variety, it is being hailed by the series’ makers, including designer Merav Shaham, as the first ever title sequence made solely with Artificial Intelligence.
What’s so impressive – and perhaps even preoccupying for those who fear A.I. – is that the sequence is, more than technically brilliant or absolutely incoherent, highly touching in human terms and unexpectedly and sometime mysteriously poetic – the last qualities you might expect from A.I.
This is a major series as well, playing Series Mania main competition, backed in a just-announced deal by Len Blavatnik and Danny Cohen’s Access Entertainment, and counting among its creators on Ron Leshem,...
Well, think again. Or, better, check out the title sequence of Series Mania live action entry “Red Skies.”
Shared with Variety, it is being hailed by the series’ makers, including designer Merav Shaham, as the first ever title sequence made solely with Artificial Intelligence.
What’s so impressive – and perhaps even preoccupying for those who fear A.I. – is that the sequence is, more than technically brilliant or absolutely incoherent, highly touching in human terms and unexpectedly and sometime mysteriously poetic – the last qualities you might expect from A.I.
This is a major series as well, playing Series Mania main competition, backed in a just-announced deal by Len Blavatnik and Danny Cohen’s Access Entertainment, and counting among its creators on Ron Leshem,...
- 3/21/2023
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
“Tom, a young high school student, has a crush on his classmate Harmony. When he learns about her passion for chess, Tom quickly decides to sign up for the school’s chess club. But he doesn’t even know the rules! To impress Harmony, he is left with no choice: he must learn quickly and train seriously. Soon Tom discovers the existence of Garry Kasparov, the greatest player in the history of chess. He stumbles upon a virtual reality machine that promises to help him analyze the most legendary matches of the master! In an unexpected twist of event, Tom soon is granted access to the highest echelons of the chess…” (Ablaze)
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Hey everyone look! It is Garry Kasparov, the teen sensation here to make chess cool again with his new project, a manga called “Blitz” that...
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Hey everyone look! It is Garry Kasparov, the teen sensation here to make chess cool again with his new project, a manga called “Blitz” that...
- 12/24/2022
- by Adam Symchuk
- AsianMoviePulse
Comics publisher Ablaze has announced that Barnes & Noble will be among the key national retailers stocking an acclaimed quartet of manga/manhwa/webtoon titles that includes Blitz (manga), Heavenly Demon Reborn! (manhwa/webtoon), The Breaker (manhwa) and Zombie Makeout Club (webtoon).
These Ablaze titles are sure to delight readers and will make appropriate gift selections as the 2022 holiday season begins. All titles will be available at Barnes & Noble beginning November 22nd.
Readers are invited to go to their local Barnes & Noble store, or order their copies directly from Barnes & Noble online at:
Blitz Vol. 1:
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/blitz-vol-1-c-dric-biscay/1141223671
Heavenly Demon Reborn! Vol. 1:
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/heavenly-demon-reborn-vol-1-oemperor/1140949723
The Breaker Omnibus Vol. 4 (latest volume):
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-breaker-omnibus-vol-4-keuk-jin-jeon/1140949725
Zombie Makeout Club Vol. 1:
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/zombie-makeout-club-vol-1-peter-richardson/1141088174
Ablaze titles are distributed in-print in North America and...
These Ablaze titles are sure to delight readers and will make appropriate gift selections as the 2022 holiday season begins. All titles will be available at Barnes & Noble beginning November 22nd.
Readers are invited to go to their local Barnes & Noble store, or order their copies directly from Barnes & Noble online at:
Blitz Vol. 1:
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/blitz-vol-1-c-dric-biscay/1141223671
Heavenly Demon Reborn! Vol. 1:
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/heavenly-demon-reborn-vol-1-oemperor/1140949723
The Breaker Omnibus Vol. 4 (latest volume):
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-breaker-omnibus-vol-4-keuk-jin-jeon/1140949725
Zombie Makeout Club Vol. 1:
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/zombie-makeout-club-vol-1-peter-richardson/1141088174
Ablaze titles are distributed in-print in North America and...
- 11/17/2022
- by Adam Symchuk
- AsianMoviePulse
Two months after Magnus Carlsen, the reigning five-time World Chess Champion, announced that he would not defend his title next year because he prefers tournament play, he made a shocking exit from a major tournament, the Sinquefield Cup. The Norwegian grandmaster’s withdrawal came after a surprise loss to an American, Hans Niemann, earlier this month, which ended his 53-game winning streak in classical chess.
That would have caused a stir in itself, but Carlsen opened the door to feverish speculation when he tweeted about quitting and attached a video...
That would have caused a stir in itself, but Carlsen opened the door to feverish speculation when he tweeted about quitting and attached a video...
- 9/14/2022
- by Miles Klee
- Rollingstone.com
London, April 27 (Ians) Garry Kasparov, the all-time great Russian chess grandmaster, has criticised world No.1 tennis player Novak Djokovic for supporting Russian athletes, saying that all those who do not condemn President Vladimir Putin’s “war of extermination in Ukraine are supporting it with silence”. Serbia’s Djokovic, while speaking on the issue of the All […]...
- 4/27/2022
- by Glamsham Bureau
- GlamSham
Ablaze Makes June “Manga Month” with Solicitations for the Summer Debuts of Heavenly Demon Reborn! and Blitz
Publisher Ablaze opens its June solicitations by highlighting a pair of notable new manhwa/manga series – Heavenly Demon Reborn! and Blitz – both set to launch in print and digital formats this summer.
The action/revenge manhwa series, Heavenly Demon Reborn!, by writer O’Emperor and artist Gom-Guk, launches first on August 17th, followed by the debut on September 14th of Blitz, a new shonen manga series that explores the elite world of chess and features chess grandmaster Gary Kasparov, by writers by Cédric Biscay, Harumo Sanazaki and artist Daitaro Nishihara.
Heavenly Demon Reborn!, Vol. 1 by O’Emperor and Gom-Guk • Msrp: $19.99 • Release Date: August 17th • 330 Pages
Another Manhwa global hit comes to print!
The Webtoon sensation Heavenly Demon Reborn! arrives this summer…the story of a hero and his journey of revenge!
In an...
Publisher Ablaze opens its June solicitations by highlighting a pair of notable new manhwa/manga series – Heavenly Demon Reborn! and Blitz – both set to launch in print and digital formats this summer.
The action/revenge manhwa series, Heavenly Demon Reborn!, by writer O’Emperor and artist Gom-Guk, launches first on August 17th, followed by the debut on September 14th of Blitz, a new shonen manga series that explores the elite world of chess and features chess grandmaster Gary Kasparov, by writers by Cédric Biscay, Harumo Sanazaki and artist Daitaro Nishihara.
Heavenly Demon Reborn!, Vol. 1 by O’Emperor and Gom-Guk • Msrp: $19.99 • Release Date: August 17th • 330 Pages
Another Manhwa global hit comes to print!
The Webtoon sensation Heavenly Demon Reborn! arrives this summer…the story of a hero and his journey of revenge!
In an...
- 3/3/2022
- by Adam Symchuk
- AsianMoviePulse
The chairman and CEO of the Human Rights Foundation are calling for Justin Bieber to cancel a scheduled performance in Saudi Arabia “as a symbol of solidarity with the ongoing suffering of the Saudi people.”
In a letter dated Nov. 2 and shared with Bieber’s representatives, the nonprofit’s chairman, Garry Kasparov, and CEO, Thor Halvorssen, take issue with the “Stay” singer’s reported performance at the Formula One Saudi Arabian Grand Prix 2021 on Dec. 5. The Formula One event will also feature performances from A$AP Rocky, Jason Derulo, Tiesto and David Guetta, and Hrf says that it ...
In a letter dated Nov. 2 and shared with Bieber’s representatives, the nonprofit’s chairman, Garry Kasparov, and CEO, Thor Halvorssen, take issue with the “Stay” singer’s reported performance at the Formula One Saudi Arabian Grand Prix 2021 on Dec. 5. The Formula One event will also feature performances from A$AP Rocky, Jason Derulo, Tiesto and David Guetta, and Hrf says that it ...
- 11/9/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The chairman and CEO of the Human Rights Foundation are calling for Justin Bieber to cancel a scheduled performance in Saudi Arabia “as a symbol of solidarity with the ongoing suffering of the Saudi people.”
In a letter dated Nov. 2 and shared with Bieber’s representatives, the nonprofit’s chairman, Garry Kasparov, and CEO, Thor Halvorssen, take issue with the “Stay” singer’s reported performance at the Formula One Saudi Arabian Grand Prix 2021 on Dec. 5. The Formula One event will also feature performances from A$AP Rocky, Jason Derulo, Tiesto and David Guetta, and Hrf says that it ...
In a letter dated Nov. 2 and shared with Bieber’s representatives, the nonprofit’s chairman, Garry Kasparov, and CEO, Thor Halvorssen, take issue with the “Stay” singer’s reported performance at the Formula One Saudi Arabian Grand Prix 2021 on Dec. 5. The Formula One event will also feature performances from A$AP Rocky, Jason Derulo, Tiesto and David Guetta, and Hrf says that it ...
- 11/9/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Rome’s new concept Mia Market dedicated to international TV series, feature films, documentaries and more kicked off Wednesday in the Eternal City’s 17th century Palazzo Barberini with 1,700 registered industry execs – roughly 600 of whom have made the trek from abroad – and 350 new titles of various types, in development and production, on display.
At a press conference attended by Italian Culture Minister Dario Franceschini and all top Italian industry reps, organizers also boasted a 30% increase in completed films screening at the Mia film market where about 80 mostly European titles will be having their market – or, in some cases, even world – premieres.
While the Oct. 11-14 Mipcom market in Cannes is suffering a reduced presence, and the AFM this year has gone entirely online, Mia seems to be reaping the benefits of being conceived more congenially to how the global content industry is evolving.
“Mia was born as a challenge,” said...
At a press conference attended by Italian Culture Minister Dario Franceschini and all top Italian industry reps, organizers also boasted a 30% increase in completed films screening at the Mia film market where about 80 mostly European titles will be having their market – or, in some cases, even world – premieres.
While the Oct. 11-14 Mipcom market in Cannes is suffering a reduced presence, and the AFM this year has gone entirely online, Mia seems to be reaping the benefits of being conceived more congenially to how the global content industry is evolving.
“Mia was born as a challenge,” said...
- 10/13/2021
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Rome’s growing Mia market, dedicated to international TV series, feature films and documentaries, has secured a rich roster of fresh international product in various stages and announced a clutch of prominent U.S. and European execs set to make the trek for the mostly in-person Oct. 13-17 event.
While companies such as ITV Studios, Banijay and Fremantle are either bowing out or reducing their presence at the Oct. 11-14 Mipcom market in Cannes — and the AFM has gone entirely online — Mia seems to be succeeding in luring a robust group of international industry heavyweights. They are also boasting a 30% increase in completed films screening on its film market side while some 80 new European film, TV and doc projects will be pitched to prospective partners.
Joe Russo, who with his older brother Anthony became the creative superheroes of the Marvel Universe with a string of four blockbusters climaxing with 2019’s “Avengers: Endgame,...
While companies such as ITV Studios, Banijay and Fremantle are either bowing out or reducing their presence at the Oct. 11-14 Mipcom market in Cannes — and the AFM has gone entirely online — Mia seems to be succeeding in luring a robust group of international industry heavyweights. They are also boasting a 30% increase in completed films screening on its film market side while some 80 new European film, TV and doc projects will be pitched to prospective partners.
Joe Russo, who with his older brother Anthony became the creative superheroes of the Marvel Universe with a string of four blockbusters climaxing with 2019’s “Avengers: Endgame,...
- 9/23/2021
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Netflix is celebrating its first Emmys series wins with the trophies for “The Crown” for outstanding drama series and “The Queen’s Gambit” for outstanding limited or anthology series at the 2021 ceremony on Sept. 19.
Netflix was nominated for the most Emmys out of any network this year, with 29 nods. For outstanding series honors, the streamer also received nominations for “Cobra Kai,” “Emily in Paris” and “The Kominsky Method” in the comedy category, and “Bridgerton” in the drama category.
Accepting the award for “The Crown,” creator Peter Morgan kept his speech brief.
“Thank you to the Television Academy,” he said. “Thank you, Netflix. Thank you, Sony. Thanks a lot. Thank you to one or two people not here because we start shooting in a couple of hours. Michael Casey, in particular. Andy Stebbing, Eve Swannell. Thank you, Ben Caron, who is in New York, a wonderful director. Julian Jarrold, Paul Whittington… anybody else?...
Netflix was nominated for the most Emmys out of any network this year, with 29 nods. For outstanding series honors, the streamer also received nominations for “Cobra Kai,” “Emily in Paris” and “The Kominsky Method” in the comedy category, and “Bridgerton” in the drama category.
Accepting the award for “The Crown,” creator Peter Morgan kept his speech brief.
“Thank you to the Television Academy,” he said. “Thank you, Netflix. Thank you, Sony. Thanks a lot. Thank you to one or two people not here because we start shooting in a couple of hours. Michael Casey, in particular. Andy Stebbing, Eve Swannell. Thank you, Ben Caron, who is in New York, a wonderful director. Julian Jarrold, Paul Whittington… anybody else?...
- 9/20/2021
- by William Earl
- Variety Film + TV
Film editor Michelle Tesoro likens constructing the tense chess matches in The Queen’s Gambit — Netflix’s limited series about fictional chess prodigy Beth Harmon, played by Anya Taylor-Joy — to cutting dialogue scenes, even though few words are spoken during the hushed games.
Writer-director Scott Frank set a goal: Make the competitive matches dramatic, as well as something that both pros and the uninitiated could follow. To that end, chess consultants Bruce Pandolfini, who worked with exec producer William Horberg on 1993’s Searching for Bobby Fischer, and Garry Kasparov, a Russian chess grandmaster and former world champion, helped ...
Writer-director Scott Frank set a goal: Make the competitive matches dramatic, as well as something that both pros and the uninitiated could follow. To that end, chess consultants Bruce Pandolfini, who worked with exec producer William Horberg on 1993’s Searching for Bobby Fischer, and Garry Kasparov, a Russian chess grandmaster and former world champion, helped ...
- 1/12/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Film editor Michelle Tesoro likens constructing the tense chess matches in The Queen’s Gambit — Netflix’s limited series about fictional chess prodigy Beth Harmon, played by Anya Taylor-Joy — to cutting dialogue scenes, even though few words are spoken during the hushed games.
Writer-director Scott Frank set a goal: Make the competitive matches dramatic, as well as something that both pros and the uninitiated could follow. To that end, chess consultants Bruce Pandolfini, who worked with exec producer William Horberg on 1993’s Searching for Bobby Fischer, and Garry Kasparov, a Russian chess grandmaster and former world champion, helped ...
Writer-director Scott Frank set a goal: Make the competitive matches dramatic, as well as something that both pros and the uninitiated could follow. To that end, chess consultants Bruce Pandolfini, who worked with exec producer William Horberg on 1993’s Searching for Bobby Fischer, and Garry Kasparov, a Russian chess grandmaster and former world champion, helped ...
- 1/12/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
A version of this story about “The Queen’s Gambit” first appeared in the December issue of TheWrap magazine.
Beth Harmon, the chess prodigy played by Anya Taylor-Joy in Netflix’s breakout hit “The Queen’s Gambit,” knows how to properly execute a perfect Fork Maneuver and beat any unsuspecting newcomer with a Scholar’s Mate. But before Taylor-Joy could feel comfortable doing either of those things, she had to take a crash course in all things chess from the hypercompetitive players around which the series is centered.
“I had never played chess before,” she said. “I knew that the chess community was a very passionate one, and I applaud that. It was really important to me that I understood the theory of chess really well.”
Taylor-Joy’s Harmon is a Cold War-era orphan who, after getting addicted to tranquilizer pills at a way-too-young age, takes up the game under the tutelage of Mr.
Beth Harmon, the chess prodigy played by Anya Taylor-Joy in Netflix’s breakout hit “The Queen’s Gambit,” knows how to properly execute a perfect Fork Maneuver and beat any unsuspecting newcomer with a Scholar’s Mate. But before Taylor-Joy could feel comfortable doing either of those things, she had to take a crash course in all things chess from the hypercompetitive players around which the series is centered.
“I had never played chess before,” she said. “I knew that the chess community was a very passionate one, and I applaud that. It was really important to me that I understood the theory of chess really well.”
Taylor-Joy’s Harmon is a Cold War-era orphan who, after getting addicted to tranquilizer pills at a way-too-young age, takes up the game under the tutelage of Mr.
- 12/24/2020
- by Tim Baysinger
- The Wrap
Netflix’s stylish drama The Queen’s Gambit might just be the surprise hit of the fall. As adapted by a 1983 Walter Tevis novel of the same name, the show’s storytelling is on point, its production design spectacular, and star Anya Taylor Joy’s outfits…truly staggering.
But the real key to The Queen’s Gambit appeal is its focus on one of the world’s oldest and most popular games: chess. Thanks to the show (and also probably the global pandemic), chess is having a bit of a moment right now. According to eBay, the retail site saw a remarkable 273% surge in sales of chess sets in the first 10 days of the Netflix series’ release.
This makes some sense given how The Queen’s Gambit is able to make the classic game feel fresh, kinetic, and damn near sensual. There’s no doubt that the series’ treatment of chess highlights the...
But the real key to The Queen’s Gambit appeal is its focus on one of the world’s oldest and most popular games: chess. Thanks to the show (and also probably the global pandemic), chess is having a bit of a moment right now. According to eBay, the retail site saw a remarkable 273% surge in sales of chess sets in the first 10 days of the Netflix series’ release.
This makes some sense given how The Queen’s Gambit is able to make the classic game feel fresh, kinetic, and damn near sensual. There’s no doubt that the series’ treatment of chess highlights the...
- 11/13/2020
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
Netflix’s period piece miniseries The Queen’s Gambit spans a decade in the life of fictional chess prodigy Beth Harmon (Anya Taylor-Joy), a wunderkind whose natural aptitude for anticipating her opponents’ moves is blunted by her addiction to the tranquilizer pills with which she credits her wins. Following gawky teenage Beth through her early tournaments in the 1950s to the aloof redheaded beauty wowing spectators in Europe in the ’60s—and leaving a trail of defeated men in her wake—the seven-hour series was faced with the challenge of making every chess scene equally thrilling to enthusiasts and non-fans alike.
The key, Taylor-Joy explains to Den of Geek, was in having every single game be recognizably unique. “[Series creator and director] Scott [Frank] and I would have a lot of conversations about both the chess and the addiction scenes, and how we were going to make each of them different and each of them fresh,...
The key, Taylor-Joy explains to Den of Geek, was in having every single game be recognizably unique. “[Series creator and director] Scott [Frank] and I would have a lot of conversations about both the chess and the addiction scenes, and how we were going to make each of them different and each of them fresh,...
- 10/19/2020
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
Leading documentary festival Idfa has selected a diverse lineup for Idfa Forum, the festival’s co-production and co-financing market, which will be entirely online this year, as will the rest of the industry program. Among the 63 projects to pitch at Idfa Forum, there is a strong representation of female pitch teams.
In the Forum, women make up 64% of the producers and directors; in the DocLab Forum, the market’s new media strand, 46% are women. The entire Forum selection includes projects from 45 different production and co-production countries.
Many of the projects center on women. “How to Build a Library,” directed by Maia Lekow and Christopher King, follows two women as they transform a dilapidated, junk-filled library in downtown Nairobi into a vibrant space for the city’s residents.
“Queen of Chess,” directed by Bernadett Tuza-Ritter, tells the story of the relationship and mind games of Judit Polgar, the greatest female chess player of all time,...
In the Forum, women make up 64% of the producers and directors; in the DocLab Forum, the market’s new media strand, 46% are women. The entire Forum selection includes projects from 45 different production and co-production countries.
Many of the projects center on women. “How to Build a Library,” directed by Maia Lekow and Christopher King, follows two women as they transform a dilapidated, junk-filled library in downtown Nairobi into a vibrant space for the city’s residents.
“Queen of Chess,” directed by Bernadett Tuza-Ritter, tells the story of the relationship and mind games of Judit Polgar, the greatest female chess player of all time,...
- 10/13/2020
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
It’s late February and Abel Ferrara is sitting on the couch of a Berlin hotel room, slouched beside is his friend, muse, and confidante Willem Dafoe. They look as giddy and disinterred as schoolboys. Then a journalist asks a question regarding the director’s radicalism––to which Ferrara, suddenly alert, responds, “I don’t believe in psychology, I’m just looking for the next move.”
The line is a charming misquote from the former chess champion Bobby Fischer––who actually said “good moves” when asked about the mind games involved in playing the Russian Garry Kasparov. It could hardly matter less, although I do like the story. What’s interesting is that so much about late Ferrara could be distilled from this sentiment: his belief in not overthinking things and his willingness to throw his religion; his private life; his desires and addictions; and anything else at the wall to see what sticks.
The line is a charming misquote from the former chess champion Bobby Fischer––who actually said “good moves” when asked about the mind games involved in playing the Russian Garry Kasparov. It could hardly matter less, although I do like the story. What’s interesting is that so much about late Ferrara could be distilled from this sentiment: his belief in not overthinking things and his willingness to throw his religion; his private life; his desires and addictions; and anything else at the wall to see what sticks.
- 9/8/2020
- by Rory O'Connor
- The Film Stage
After a week that saw air travel worldwide grounded by the coronavirus pandemic and a powerful earthquake strike the Croatian capital, the organizers of ZagrebDox Pro had something to celebrate on Tuesday, as the annual workshop and pitching competition announced the awards from its first ever online edition.
“After 10 editions of conducting our pitching lab in Zagreb, we were afraid the human interaction, so important in our work, would have been missing,” said workshop mentors Leena Pasanen and Stefano Tealdi. “To our surprise, we did not lose the peer-to-peer and group feedback needed to give strength to the pitch of a project and therefore foster its development.”
Pasanen, who is director of the Biografilm Festival in Bologna and former managing and artistic director of Dok Leipzig, joined director and producer Tealdi to lead a four-day intensive training program for 12 documentary projects in different stages of development and production. The selections,...
“After 10 editions of conducting our pitching lab in Zagreb, we were afraid the human interaction, so important in our work, would have been missing,” said workshop mentors Leena Pasanen and Stefano Tealdi. “To our surprise, we did not lose the peer-to-peer and group feedback needed to give strength to the pitch of a project and therefore foster its development.”
Pasanen, who is director of the Biografilm Festival in Bologna and former managing and artistic director of Dok Leipzig, joined director and producer Tealdi to lead a four-day intensive training program for 12 documentary projects in different stages of development and production. The selections,...
- 3/24/2020
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
Producers and filmmakers pitched via pre-made videos.
Hungarian documentary Queen Of Chess has won the HBO Europe award at ZagrebDox Pro, which moved its industry platform online for the first time following the coronavirus outbreak.
Selected from 12 projects, director Bernadett Tuza-Ritter and producers Gabor Harmi and Peter Stern will receive a diploma and €2,000 for project development. Tuza-Ritter’s first feature, A Woman Captured, played in competition at Sundance 2018.
Queen Of Chess centres on the life and the tournaments of Judit Polgar - considered the greatest female chess player of all time - and her sometimes controversial matches against legendary grandmaster Garry Kasparov.
Hungarian documentary Queen Of Chess has won the HBO Europe award at ZagrebDox Pro, which moved its industry platform online for the first time following the coronavirus outbreak.
Selected from 12 projects, director Bernadett Tuza-Ritter and producers Gabor Harmi and Peter Stern will receive a diploma and €2,000 for project development. Tuza-Ritter’s first feature, A Woman Captured, played in competition at Sundance 2018.
Queen Of Chess centres on the life and the tournaments of Judit Polgar - considered the greatest female chess player of all time - and her sometimes controversial matches against legendary grandmaster Garry Kasparov.
- 3/24/2020
- by 1100453¦Michael Rosser¦9¦
- ScreenDaily
“I was told not to do this.” – Billy Mitchell, Saturday, June 9th, 2018
Billy Mitchell is the best at what he does.
You might know him as one of the most famous players of video games in the world. In 2007, he featured prominently in the documentary “King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters,” about the world of competitive arcade players who chase high scores. Mitchell held the world record high score for “Donkey Kong” at the time; in the film, an unknown upstart named Steve Wiebe takes him on, turning Mitchell into the de facto villain. In the decade since, even as his scores fell off the top ranks, Mitchell’s charismatic personality and lanky presence — most always seen in his all-white suit and stars-and-stripes necktie– have dominated a certain corner of retro game culture.
But what he’s really good at is talking.
This past Saturday night, in the Marriott...
Billy Mitchell is the best at what he does.
You might know him as one of the most famous players of video games in the world. In 2007, he featured prominently in the documentary “King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters,” about the world of competitive arcade players who chase high scores. Mitchell held the world record high score for “Donkey Kong” at the time; in the film, an unknown upstart named Steve Wiebe takes him on, turning Mitchell into the de facto villain. In the decade since, even as his scores fell off the top ranks, Mitchell’s charismatic personality and lanky presence — most always seen in his all-white suit and stars-and-stripes necktie– have dominated a certain corner of retro game culture.
But what he’s really good at is talking.
This past Saturday night, in the Marriott...
- 6/11/2018
- by Jon Irwin
- Variety Film + TV
Donald Trump is facing blowback after The Washington Post reported that the president gave “marching orders” to White House and Pentagon officials to put on a massive military parade in Washington, D.C.
Trump has spoken publicly and privately in the past about having a parade to showcase the might of the military, most notably after attending the annual Bastille Day military parade in Paris last July with French President Emmanuel Macron. According to the Post, aides said at the time that Trump was “dazzled” by the parade of uniformed French troops, military tanks, armored vehicles and fighter jets and...
Trump has spoken publicly and privately in the past about having a parade to showcase the might of the military, most notably after attending the annual Bastille Day military parade in Paris last July with French President Emmanuel Macron. According to the Post, aides said at the time that Trump was “dazzled” by the parade of uniformed French troops, military tanks, armored vehicles and fighter jets and...
- 2/7/2018
- by Tierney McAfee
- PEOPLE.com
Twitter Has Feelings About Donald Trump’s Face-to-Face Meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin
Donald Trump met with Russian President Vladmir Putin for the first time on Friday, cordially shaking the former spy’s hand and giving the fellow leader a pat on the back before the pair’s official sit-down at the G20 Leaders’ Summit in Hamburg, Germany.
The 71-year-old business mogul and the former Kgb foreign intelligence officer, 64, came face-to-face in a closely watched encounter ahead of the summit’s meetings. Naturally, footage of the brief greeting has caught the attention of the Twittersphere.
“Trump and Putin ‘if you still don’t have a place to stay, remember, you have my room key,...
The 71-year-old business mogul and the former Kgb foreign intelligence officer, 64, came face-to-face in a closely watched encounter ahead of the summit’s meetings. Naturally, footage of the brief greeting has caught the attention of the Twittersphere.
“Trump and Putin ‘if you still don’t have a place to stay, remember, you have my room key,...
- 7/7/2017
- by Char Adams
- PEOPLE.com
Garry Kasparov, the chess grandmaster and political activist famous for being the first World Chess Champion to lose to a computer 20 years ago this month, isn’t worried about robots making humans obsolete just yet. In an interview Wednesday with TechCrunch at Disrupt 2017, Kasparov said artificial intelligence — the development of computer systems able to perform tasks like or better than humans — is something workers should not be concerned over. “The biggest challenge is not that jobs are being lost, but that they’re not being lost fast enough,” said Kasparov. “Because unless you have a cycle moving fast, you will not.
- 5/17/2017
- by Sean Burch
- The Wrap
John Oliver explained why it wouldn't be so "nice if we actually got along with Russia," as Donald Trump often says, in a Last Week Tonight exposé that examines Vladimir Putin's misdeeds and the president's obsession with the Russian autocrat.
"It's a bit weird that you've been objectively nicer to Vladimir Putin than you have to Meryl Streep," Oliver said of Trump.
"I know that over here, we think of Putin like a cartoon character that stages photo ops where he's shirtless on a horse or swimming like a...
"It's a bit weird that you've been objectively nicer to Vladimir Putin than you have to Meryl Streep," Oliver said of Trump.
"I know that over here, we think of Putin like a cartoon character that stages photo ops where he's shirtless on a horse or swimming like a...
- 2/20/2017
- Rollingstone.com
A documentary about Norway’s boy genius Magnus Carlsen is one for the fans
Magnus Carlsen is a Norwegian chess prodigy with Brando-ish good looks and an intuitive skill that allowed him to bamboozle Garry Kasparov and play 10 games while blindfolded and win every one. His supporters have branded him the “Mozart of chess”, which also implies that he might be more than a little unhinged, although Carlsen himself balks at the suggestion (“I’m not one of these borderline nutcases,” he insists at one point). Documentaries about decent, quiet boy geniuses might have a nice novelty value. But it risks leaving Magnus looking niche interest at best.
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Magnus Carlsen is a Norwegian chess prodigy with Brando-ish good looks and an intuitive skill that allowed him to bamboozle Garry Kasparov and play 10 games while blindfolded and win every one. His supporters have branded him the “Mozart of chess”, which also implies that he might be more than a little unhinged, although Carlsen himself balks at the suggestion (“I’m not one of these borderline nutcases,” he insists at one point). Documentaries about decent, quiet boy geniuses might have a nice novelty value. But it risks leaving Magnus looking niche interest at best.
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- 11/27/2016
- by Xan Brooks
- The Guardian - Film News
In 2004, at 13 years old, chess prodigy Magnus Carlsen squared off against Garry Kasparov, first ranked in the world at the time, at a tournament in Iceland. And the barely teenaged child wowed onlookers by pulling Kasparov into a draw in their first match, before being defeated in their second game. But it was clear Carlsen was a talent with tremendous promise. This is an important moment in the early career of Carlsen, and yet, in the documentary “Magnus,” it’s just another brief stop the disappointing, cinematic Wikipedia entry overview of the player’s career.
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Continue reading Threadbare Documentary ‘Magnus’ Is An Unsatisfying Sketch Of The Chess Mastermind [Review] at The Playlist.
- 11/16/2016
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Actor’s recent trip to visit Nicolás Maduro ‘may have been motivated by financial interests’, says former chess grandmaster and human rights activist
The human rights activist and former world chess champion Garry Kasparov has attacked the actors Jamie Foxx and Lukas Haas for visiting Venezuela’s socialist president, Nicolás Maduro, suggesting their presence in the country was connected to financial gain.
Kasparov, chair of the Human Rights Foundation, wrote a letter to Foxx and Haas – seen by the Hollywood Reporter – saying: “We have reason to believe that your visit with one of Latin America’s most notorious strongmen of the last few decades may have been motivated by financial interests and we would like you to clarify this to your millions of fans across the world.”
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The human rights activist and former world chess champion Garry Kasparov has attacked the actors Jamie Foxx and Lukas Haas for visiting Venezuela’s socialist president, Nicolás Maduro, suggesting their presence in the country was connected to financial gain.
Kasparov, chair of the Human Rights Foundation, wrote a letter to Foxx and Haas – seen by the Hollywood Reporter – saying: “We have reason to believe that your visit with one of Latin America’s most notorious strongmen of the last few decades may have been motivated by financial interests and we would like you to clarify this to your millions of fans across the world.”
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- 10/7/2016
- by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
Exclusive: Shia Labeouf and Sverrir Gudnason star as John McEnroe and Bjorn Borg.
Pretty Pictures has acquired French rights to the newly announced Borg/McEnroe film to be directed by Janus Metz and starring Shia Labeouf as John McEnroe, Sverrir Gudnason as Bjorn Borg and Stellan Skarsgard as Borg’s coach.
Sf Studios handles sales and Pretty Pictures president James Velaise negotiated the deal with Sf head of international sales Anita Simovic.
Pretty Pictures has also boarded Benjamin Ree’s documentary Magnus from TrustNordisk in a deal that Velaise negotiated with sales manager Nicolai Korsgaard. That Tribeca hit documentary is about chess champion Magnus Carlsen.
Velaise told Screen that Borg/McEnroe “is one of the best scripts we’ve read in a long time, combined with very good ideas on the casting front and an excellent director.
“Both actors are the spitting image of Borg and McEnroe. Having grown up with all these tennis players, I’m instinctively...
Pretty Pictures has acquired French rights to the newly announced Borg/McEnroe film to be directed by Janus Metz and starring Shia Labeouf as John McEnroe, Sverrir Gudnason as Bjorn Borg and Stellan Skarsgard as Borg’s coach.
Sf Studios handles sales and Pretty Pictures president James Velaise negotiated the deal with Sf head of international sales Anita Simovic.
Pretty Pictures has also boarded Benjamin Ree’s documentary Magnus from TrustNordisk in a deal that Velaise negotiated with sales manager Nicolai Korsgaard. That Tribeca hit documentary is about chess champion Magnus Carlsen.
Velaise told Screen that Borg/McEnroe “is one of the best scripts we’ve read in a long time, combined with very good ideas on the casting front and an excellent director.
“Both actors are the spitting image of Borg and McEnroe. Having grown up with all these tennis players, I’m instinctively...
- 5/18/2016
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Child prodigies are the curiosities of the celebrity world – and while those amazing little actors and singers might impress us, it’s even more remarkable when children excel in those cerebral endeavors typically left to adults.
The world of chess has seen its share of brilliant children: Bobby Fischer, Garry Kasparov, and now Magnus Carlsen, the 25-year-old subject of Benjamin Ree’s documentary Magnus, a tense but uneven glimpse into the world of champion chess via the so-called “Mozart of Chess.”
Magnus does what many documentaries cannot do: it follows its subject from a very young age, using archival footage and interviews to fill in the gaps of Magnus’s childhood in Norway, through his multiple championships and becoming a chess Grand Master at the age of 13, and finally to his competition with the reigning World Chess Champion Viswanathan Anand. The film creates a unique look at a child genius,...
The world of chess has seen its share of brilliant children: Bobby Fischer, Garry Kasparov, and now Magnus Carlsen, the 25-year-old subject of Benjamin Ree’s documentary Magnus, a tense but uneven glimpse into the world of champion chess via the so-called “Mozart of Chess.”
Magnus does what many documentaries cannot do: it follows its subject from a very young age, using archival footage and interviews to fill in the gaps of Magnus’s childhood in Norway, through his multiple championships and becoming a chess Grand Master at the age of 13, and finally to his competition with the reigning World Chess Champion Viswanathan Anand. The film creates a unique look at a child genius,...
- 4/15/2016
- by Lauren Humphries-Brooks
- We Got This Covered
Magnus, The Model, Pyromaniac [pictured] and Devil’s Bride have all sold to multiple territories.
Scandinavian sales powerhouse TrustNordisk has closed deals on four titles at the Efm.
Magnus, Benjamin Ree’s documentary about chess player Magnus Carlsen featuring high profile grandmasters including Garry Kasparov, has sold to Germany (Nfp), Hong Kong (Edko films Ltd), former Yugoslavia (Discovery Film) and Benelux (September Film Rights).
The film is produced by Sigurd M. Karoliussen for Moskus Film in co-production with Vgtv, Nordisk Film Production and Main Island Production.
The Model, directed by Mads Matthiesen, has sold to Latin America (California Fil ms), China (Hgc Entertainment), Russia Cis (Voxell Media), Hungary (Vertigo Media), Turkey (Ozen Film), Estonia (Estin Film), Lithuania (Incognito Film) and Former Yugoslavia (2i Film d.o.o.).
Starring Ed Skrein (Deadpool) and debutant Maria Palm, the drama tells the story of an emerging model who develops a dangerous obsession with a male fashion photographer.
TrustNordisk previously...
Scandinavian sales powerhouse TrustNordisk has closed deals on four titles at the Efm.
Magnus, Benjamin Ree’s documentary about chess player Magnus Carlsen featuring high profile grandmasters including Garry Kasparov, has sold to Germany (Nfp), Hong Kong (Edko films Ltd), former Yugoslavia (Discovery Film) and Benelux (September Film Rights).
The film is produced by Sigurd M. Karoliussen for Moskus Film in co-production with Vgtv, Nordisk Film Production and Main Island Production.
The Model, directed by Mads Matthiesen, has sold to Latin America (California Fil ms), China (Hgc Entertainment), Russia Cis (Voxell Media), Hungary (Vertigo Media), Turkey (Ozen Film), Estonia (Estin Film), Lithuania (Incognito Film) and Former Yugoslavia (2i Film d.o.o.).
Starring Ed Skrein (Deadpool) and debutant Maria Palm, the drama tells the story of an emerging model who develops a dangerous obsession with a male fashion photographer.
TrustNordisk previously...
- 2/14/2016
- ScreenDaily
TV Picks: Garry Kasparov, Joseph Stiglitz Topline ‘Real Time with Bill Maher’ May 1 on HBO. The series continues its 13th season Friday, May 1 (10:00-11:00 p.m. live Et/tape-delayed Pt), with a replay at 11:30 p.m., exclusively on HBO. Maher riffs on contemporary issues during an opening monologue, with subsequent roundtable discussions with panelists, and interviews with guests.Nobel prize-winning economist (Columbia University) Joseph Stiglitz is the top-of-show interview guest. Income inequality and economic mobility have already emerged as hot topics for the 2016 presidential election, with candidates on both sides of the aisle offering their prescriptions for solving the growing […]...
- 4/28/2015
- by April Neale
- Monsters and Critics
"We thought of it as: man the tool-maker vs man the artist." If you're looking for a short film that makes you think, don't miss this one. Nate Silver's blog FiveThirtyEight has premiered the full short film The Man vs. The Machine, directed by legendary producer & filmmaker Frank Marshall of Kennedy/Marshall, telling the story of chess champion Garry Kasparov battling Ibm's computer Deep Blue. The short explores the setup behind why this challenge was presented to begin with and the implications of the outcome, which most thought might go the other direction. Knowing that machines are more powerful than humans, does it really make a difference? Maybe not. Find out more in the fascinating short doc The Man vs. The Machine. Full synopsis via FiveThirtyEight: "Seventeen years ago in New York City, brooding chess champion Garry Kasparov sat down to take on an opponent he had vanquished just a year earlier: the Ibm computer,...
- 10/22/2014
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
For sci-fi fans around the world, Arthur C. Clarke is more than an author. His contributions to science fiction played a pivotal role in establishing it as a respectable pursuit and legitimizing it as a genre for professional writers. By extension, his work also influenced an entire generation of filmmakers interested in the intersection of science and fantasy. The British born Clarke’s imagination was unparalleled, and throughout his career he made dozens of predictions considering the future might look like. His most well-known work was the famous 2001: A Space Odyssey.
For those familiar with the rest of his catalog, you’ll have undoubtedly heard of his book Profiles of the Future – and know that a remarkable number of his “educated guesses” came to fruition. So, in honor of this creative genius, let’s take a look back at what he imagined the future to be like, and whether...
For those familiar with the rest of his catalog, you’ll have undoubtedly heard of his book Profiles of the Future – and know that a remarkable number of his “educated guesses” came to fruition. So, in honor of this creative genius, let’s take a look back at what he imagined the future to be like, and whether...
- 10/22/2014
- Shadowlocked
Frank Marshall, known for producing such projects as Raiders of the Lost Ark, Back to the Future, The Goonies, The Sixth Sense and The Color Purple, to name a few, as well as directing such films as Arachnophobia, Congo and Alive – is the first director on board for FiveThirtyEight’s new documentary short series Signals, as series modeled after Espn’s popular sports docs 30 for 30. The first instalment helmed by Marshall is titled The Man vs. The Machine, and chronicles the epic mid-’90s showdown between chess champion Garry Kasparov and Ibm computer Deep Blue. The Man vs. The Machine which had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in September will debut October 22 at 11 Am Eastern time on FiveThirtyEight.com. New instalments are expected to arrive about every six weeks after. Watch the trailer below.
The post Trailer for ‘The Man vs. The Machine’ part of a...
The post Trailer for ‘The Man vs. The Machine’ part of a...
- 10/17/2014
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
He gives nerds a good name. Magnus Carlsen was crowned the new world chess champion on Friday, ousting Indian champ Viswanathan Anand by a score of 6.5-3.5, which offered him the highest rating of all time. At 22, Carlsen, of Norway, is the second-youngest world champion and has already earned the nickname as the game's Harry Potter from former chess master and coach Garry Kasparov, who called his talent "limitless" in a column for Business Insider. The youthful star, who looks like he could be related to Matt Damon, has already earned praise for adding new and modern appeal to the...
- 11/22/2013
- by Andrea Billups
- PEOPLE.com
Odd List Ryan Lambie Simon Brew 31 Oct 2013 - 07:01
We train our sights on the year 1996, and the 25 underappreciated films it has to offer...
Independence Day managed to revive both the alien invasion movie and the disaster flick in 1996, and just about every other mainstream picture released that year lived in its saucer-shaped shadow.
Yet beyond the aerial battles of Independence Day, the flying cows in Twister, and the high-wire antics of Tom Cruise in Brian De Palma's Mission: Impossible, there sat an entire library of lesser-known and underappreciated movies.
As part of our attempts to highlight the unsung greats of the 90s, here's our selection of 25 such films from 1996 - the year chess champion Garry Kasparov lost to the might of the computer Deep Blue, and the year comedy star Jim Carrey starred in an unexpectedly dark tale of obsession...
25. The Cable Guy
We can't sit here and...
We train our sights on the year 1996, and the 25 underappreciated films it has to offer...
Independence Day managed to revive both the alien invasion movie and the disaster flick in 1996, and just about every other mainstream picture released that year lived in its saucer-shaped shadow.
Yet beyond the aerial battles of Independence Day, the flying cows in Twister, and the high-wire antics of Tom Cruise in Brian De Palma's Mission: Impossible, there sat an entire library of lesser-known and underappreciated movies.
As part of our attempts to highlight the unsung greats of the 90s, here's our selection of 25 such films from 1996 - the year chess champion Garry Kasparov lost to the might of the computer Deep Blue, and the year comedy star Jim Carrey starred in an unexpectedly dark tale of obsession...
25. The Cable Guy
We can't sit here and...
- 10/30/2013
- by ryanlambie
- Den of Geek
Emily the Strange
Kealan O’Rourke ('The Houdini Box,' 'Bolivar') is set to pen a rewrite of Melisa Wallack's script for the film adaptation of the comic 'Emily the Strange' at Universal Pictures. Chloe Grace Moretz stars. [Source: The Wrap]
Night Film
"Carrie" remake scribe Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa has been hired to pen the adaptation of Marisha Pessl' noir novel "Night Film" for Chernin Entertainment.
Rupert Wyatt is helming the film about a journalist investigating the suspected suicide of a young beauty. She soon discovers she is the daughter of a reclusive horror film helmer, and someone is seeking revenge. [Source: Deadline]
The Machine
Disney's Mandeville has acquired the screen rights to Matthew Charman's play 'The Machine' which David Hoberman and Todd Lieberman will produce.
Charman will pen the adaptation of his play about the 1997 chess match between the Ibm computer Deep Blue and chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov. [Source: Deadline]
Preemptive Strike
Barry L. Levy ("Paranoia,...
Kealan O’Rourke ('The Houdini Box,' 'Bolivar') is set to pen a rewrite of Melisa Wallack's script for the film adaptation of the comic 'Emily the Strange' at Universal Pictures. Chloe Grace Moretz stars. [Source: The Wrap]
Night Film
"Carrie" remake scribe Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa has been hired to pen the adaptation of Marisha Pessl' noir novel "Night Film" for Chernin Entertainment.
Rupert Wyatt is helming the film about a journalist investigating the suspected suicide of a young beauty. She soon discovers she is the daughter of a reclusive horror film helmer, and someone is seeking revenge. [Source: Deadline]
The Machine
Disney's Mandeville has acquired the screen rights to Matthew Charman's play 'The Machine' which David Hoberman and Todd Lieberman will produce.
Charman will pen the adaptation of his play about the 1997 chess match between the Ibm computer Deep Blue and chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov. [Source: Deadline]
Preemptive Strike
Barry L. Levy ("Paranoia,...
- 9/28/2013
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
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