“McCarthy,” the upcoming biopic of Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy, has secured multiple international deals ahead of EFM.
HanWay Films, who are handling international sales, have closed a multi-territory deal with Vértice Cine as well as The Jokers (France), Paradiso (Benelux), Icon (Australia and New Zealand), Tohokushinsha (Japan), Arna Media (Cis), Front Row (Middle East), Bir (Turkey), Cinemania (former Yugoslavia) and Shaw (Singapore).
CAA Media Finance is overseeing U.S sales.
“McCarthy” stars two-time Oscar winner Michael Shannon (“Nine Perfect Strangers”) as the Republican Senator whose name became a byword for political intolerance while “Game of Thrones'” Emilia Clarke plays his ambitious wife Jean Kerr.
Joining Shannon and Clarke are Dane DeHaan (“The Stranger”) as “ruthless young lawyer” Roy Cohn and Scoot McNairy (“Narcos: Mexico”) as Ray Kiermas, McCarthy’s trusted friend and colleague.
Václav Marhoul (“The Painted Bird”) directs from a screenplay by “The Hitman’s Bodyguard” scribe Tom O’Connor.
“[‘McCarthy’ is] the...
HanWay Films, who are handling international sales, have closed a multi-territory deal with Vértice Cine as well as The Jokers (France), Paradiso (Benelux), Icon (Australia and New Zealand), Tohokushinsha (Japan), Arna Media (Cis), Front Row (Middle East), Bir (Turkey), Cinemania (former Yugoslavia) and Shaw (Singapore).
CAA Media Finance is overseeing U.S sales.
“McCarthy” stars two-time Oscar winner Michael Shannon (“Nine Perfect Strangers”) as the Republican Senator whose name became a byword for political intolerance while “Game of Thrones'” Emilia Clarke plays his ambitious wife Jean Kerr.
Joining Shannon and Clarke are Dane DeHaan (“The Stranger”) as “ruthless young lawyer” Roy Cohn and Scoot McNairy (“Narcos: Mexico”) as Ray Kiermas, McCarthy’s trusted friend and colleague.
Václav Marhoul (“The Painted Bird”) directs from a screenplay by “The Hitman’s Bodyguard” scribe Tom O’Connor.
“[‘McCarthy’ is] the...
- 2/7/2022
- by K.J. Yossman
- Variety Film + TV
Director Václav Marhoul (The Painted Bird) has tapped two-time Oscar nominee Michael Shannon (Nocturnal Animals) to star as controversial U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy in the biopic we first revealed last year.
McCarthy will look at the man behind anti-communist doctrine McCarthyism to understand what drove a lawyer and decorated former U.S. Marine down an unprecedented path of demagoguery, show-trials and venomous populism.
Emmy nominee Emilia Clarke (Game of Thrones), Dane DeHaan (The Place Beyond the Pines) and Scoot McNairy (C’mon C’mon) will star together with Shannon.
Clarke will play McCarthy’s politically ambitious wife Jean Kerr; DeHaan will be his ruthless young lawyer Roy Cohn. Pic is slated to go into production in the fall 2022 in Prague and the U.S.
Tom O’Connor (The Hitman’s Bodyguard franchise) wrote the original screenplay. The film is produced by Zach Studin together with O’Connor. Rick McCallum, producer of the three...
McCarthy will look at the man behind anti-communist doctrine McCarthyism to understand what drove a lawyer and decorated former U.S. Marine down an unprecedented path of demagoguery, show-trials and venomous populism.
Emmy nominee Emilia Clarke (Game of Thrones), Dane DeHaan (The Place Beyond the Pines) and Scoot McNairy (C’mon C’mon) will star together with Shannon.
Clarke will play McCarthy’s politically ambitious wife Jean Kerr; DeHaan will be his ruthless young lawyer Roy Cohn. Pic is slated to go into production in the fall 2022 in Prague and the U.S.
Tom O’Connor (The Hitman’s Bodyguard franchise) wrote the original screenplay. The film is produced by Zach Studin together with O’Connor. Rick McCallum, producer of the three...
- 10/13/2021
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Although The Painted Bird is only director Vaclav Marhoul’s third film (his previous works include Smart Phillip [2003] and Tobruk [2008]), it is, in short, an epic masterpiece of cinematic accomplishment.
In an effort to spare their child the horrors of the Holocaust, a Jewish couple send their son Joska (Petr Kotlár) to live out the war in safety with a relative somewhere in the Eastern European countryside. But, when the child’s guardian unexpectedly dies, the now homeless boy is forced take to the open road and endure a hostile world now governed by hate, fear, and violence. Struggling for survival, he journeys through a world besot by locals and villagers driven by prejudice, superstition, and their own rules. But, when the war ends, his fight for survival may just become one for his soul as well as his life.
Based on Jerzy Kosiński’s 1965 novel, Marhoul’s script is...
In an effort to spare their child the horrors of the Holocaust, a Jewish couple send their son Joska (Petr Kotlár) to live out the war in safety with a relative somewhere in the Eastern European countryside. But, when the child’s guardian unexpectedly dies, the now homeless boy is forced take to the open road and endure a hostile world now governed by hate, fear, and violence. Struggling for survival, he journeys through a world besot by locals and villagers driven by prejudice, superstition, and their own rules. But, when the war ends, his fight for survival may just become one for his soul as well as his life.
Based on Jerzy Kosiński’s 1965 novel, Marhoul’s script is...
- 7/17/2020
- by Mike Tyrkus
- CinemaNerdz
Further prizes awarded to Quentin Tarantino, Edward Norton, Peter Greenaway and Richard Gere.
Joker cinematographer Lawrence Sher won the Golden Frog at Poland’s EnergaCamerimage International Film Festival on Saturday (November 16).
The box-office hit, starring Joaquin Phoenix and directed by Todd Phillips, also won the audience award at the festival, which returned to Torun, Poland.
Scroll down for full list of winners
The Silver Frog went to cinematographer César Charlone for his work on Fernando Meirelles’ The Two Popes, while Vladimír Smutný won the Bronze Frog for Vaclav Marhoul’s The Painted Bird.
Second World War drama The Painted Bird,...
Joker cinematographer Lawrence Sher won the Golden Frog at Poland’s EnergaCamerimage International Film Festival on Saturday (November 16).
The box-office hit, starring Joaquin Phoenix and directed by Todd Phillips, also won the audience award at the festival, which returned to Torun, Poland.
Scroll down for full list of winners
The Silver Frog went to cinematographer César Charlone for his work on Fernando Meirelles’ The Two Popes, while Vladimír Smutný won the Bronze Frog for Vaclav Marhoul’s The Painted Bird.
Second World War drama The Painted Bird,...
- 11/18/2019
- by 1100613¦Tiffany Pritchard¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
Joker lenser Lawrence Sher scooped the top prize this weekend at Camerimage, the Polish film festival dedicated to the art of cinematography.
Sher picked up the Golden Frog for his work on the Todd Philips-directed pic, which stars Joaquin Phoenix as the iconic Batman villain and has been heavily tipped to be a major contender this coming awards season. It has grossed more than $1B globally. The film also won the audience award at the Polish festival.
Elsewhere at Camerimage, DoP César Charlone picked up the Silver Frog prize for his work on Fernando Meirelles’ The Two Popes, while Vladimír Smutný got the Bronze Frog for Václav Marhoul’s The Painted Bird.
In the event’s Polish Films Competition, Marcin Krzyształowicz’s Mister T was awarded best Polish film; it was lensed by Adam Bajerski. Luke Lorentzen’s Midnight Family was named best documentary feature. Paxton Winters’s Pacficied...
Sher picked up the Golden Frog for his work on the Todd Philips-directed pic, which stars Joaquin Phoenix as the iconic Batman villain and has been heavily tipped to be a major contender this coming awards season. It has grossed more than $1B globally. The film also won the audience award at the Polish festival.
Elsewhere at Camerimage, DoP César Charlone picked up the Silver Frog prize for his work on Fernando Meirelles’ The Two Popes, while Vladimír Smutný got the Bronze Frog for Václav Marhoul’s The Painted Bird.
In the event’s Polish Films Competition, Marcin Krzyształowicz’s Mister T was awarded best Polish film; it was lensed by Adam Bajerski. Luke Lorentzen’s Midnight Family was named best documentary feature. Paxton Winters’s Pacficied...
- 11/18/2019
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Camerimage, the festival in Toruń, Poland dedicated to the art of cinematography, handed out its prestigious Frog prizes this evening. The big winner was “Joker” cinematographer Lawrence Sher, who won the top prize, the Golden Frog, in addition to the Audience Prize. The Bronze Frog was awarded to “The Painted Bird” Dp Vladimír Smutný, while “The Two Popes” Dp César Charlone won the Silver Frog. A full list of winners at the end of this article.
Now in its 27th year, Camerimage has become homecoming week for cinematographers from around the globe, with a vast number of the best DPs, past and present, in attendance. From an awards perspective — considering cinematographers nominate their colleagues — it’s hard to overestimate the value of DPs presenting their work and discussing their craft with their tight-knit community during the week-long celebration.
Sher — whose “Joker” screened early in the fest, and has been in...
Now in its 27th year, Camerimage has become homecoming week for cinematographers from around the globe, with a vast number of the best DPs, past and present, in attendance. From an awards perspective — considering cinematographers nominate their colleagues — it’s hard to overestimate the value of DPs presenting their work and discussing their craft with their tight-knit community during the week-long celebration.
Sher — whose “Joker” screened early in the fest, and has been in...
- 11/16/2019
- by Chris O'Falt
- Indiewire
Anyone depending on the kindness of strangers is going nowhere fast in “The Painted Bird,” a child’s-eye Holocaust drama of such unrelenting brutality as to make even the vaguest gestures of humanity — a held hand, a shared crust of bread — feel in context like miracles of grace. Only the third directorial effort in 17 years from Czech multi-hyphenate Václav Marhoul, this stonily imposing adaptation of Jerzy Kosiński’s contentious 1965 novel is by some measure his most ambitious and accomplished: a 169-minute panorama of violent societal breakdown, following a nameless boy through a cruel obstacle course of survival and abuse in an unidentified Eastern European country at the frenzied close of the Second World War.
The extreme lashings of suffering and sadism shown here are scarcely ameliorated by the exacting beauty of their presentation. Shooting in ravishing 35mm monochrome, apt enough for illustrating a world drawn into stark black-and-white polarities of good and evil,...
The extreme lashings of suffering and sadism shown here are scarcely ameliorated by the exacting beauty of their presentation. Shooting in ravishing 35mm monochrome, apt enough for illustrating a world drawn into stark black-and-white polarities of good and evil,...
- 9/3/2019
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
The Czech festival gets underway on Friday June 28.
Eight feature film projects will be presented at the second edition of Karlovy Vary International Film Festival’s Works in Development project showcase.
The event is for filmmakers from Central and Eastern Europe to present projects in development to potential co-producers.
All eight titles have been developed across two previous workshops of the Midpoint Feature Launch program - at Trieste Film Festival in January and in Kaunas, Lithuania in May this year. They will participate in a third workshop focusing on pitching, which starts in Prague on June 27.
They will then be...
Eight feature film projects will be presented at the second edition of Karlovy Vary International Film Festival’s Works in Development project showcase.
The event is for filmmakers from Central and Eastern Europe to present projects in development to potential co-producers.
All eight titles have been developed across two previous workshops of the Midpoint Feature Launch program - at Trieste Film Festival in January and in Kaunas, Lithuania in May this year. They will participate in a third workshop focusing on pitching, which starts in Prague on June 27.
They will then be...
- 6/25/2019
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Cinematographer Vladimír Smutný Photo: Courtesy of Kviff/Ludek Hudec Karlovy Vary Film Festival has made its first programme announcements this week - including tributes to Egyptian filmmaker Youssef Chahine and Czech cinematographer Vladimír Smutný.
The Czech festival - which runs from June 28 to July 6 - will also commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution by screening a selection of films shot between 1989 and 1992. It will also hold a premiere screening of restored Czech classic The Cremator, directed by Czechoslovak New Wave filmmaker Juraj Herz, which describes the transformation of an ordinary man into a psychopathic killer.
Smutný will receive the President's Award for his contribution to cinema, with his work on films including Encounter With The Shadows (1982), End Of The Lonely Farm Berghof (1983) and Kolya (1996) as well as more recent work Dark Blue World (2001), Barefoot (2017) and Golden Sting (2018).
The retrospective dedicated to Chahine, who died in 2008, will feature...
The Czech festival - which runs from June 28 to July 6 - will also commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution by screening a selection of films shot between 1989 and 1992. It will also hold a premiere screening of restored Czech classic The Cremator, directed by Czechoslovak New Wave filmmaker Juraj Herz, which describes the transformation of an ordinary man into a psychopathic killer.
Smutný will receive the President's Award for his contribution to cinema, with his work on films including Encounter With The Shadows (1982), End Of The Lonely Farm Berghof (1983) and Kolya (1996) as well as more recent work Dark Blue World (2001), Barefoot (2017) and Golden Sting (2018).
The retrospective dedicated to Chahine, who died in 2008, will feature...
- 4/18/2019
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Festival will also pay tribute to Velvet Revolution, unveils industry strands.
The 54th Karlovy Vary Film Festival (June 28-July 6) will honour Czech cinematographer Vladimír Smutný and Egyptian director Youssef Chahine.
Smutný, a seven-time winner of the Czech Lion for best cinematography, will receive the Kviff President’s Award. His best-known work includes films with Jiří Svoboda and Jan and Zdeněk Svěrák.
Egyptian filmmaker Youssef Chahine (1926-2008), a five-time Palme d’Or nominee and Silver Bear winner (for Alexandria Why? in 1979), will be honoured at Kviff with a retrospective of 11 remastered films, comprising early lesser-known works and internationally recognised classics.
The...
The 54th Karlovy Vary Film Festival (June 28-July 6) will honour Czech cinematographer Vladimír Smutný and Egyptian director Youssef Chahine.
Smutný, a seven-time winner of the Czech Lion for best cinematography, will receive the Kviff President’s Award. His best-known work includes films with Jiří Svoboda and Jan and Zdeněk Svěrák.
Egyptian filmmaker Youssef Chahine (1926-2008), a five-time Palme d’Or nominee and Silver Bear winner (for Alexandria Why? in 1979), will be honoured at Kviff with a retrospective of 11 remastered films, comprising early lesser-known works and internationally recognised classics.
The...
- 4/17/2019
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
Karlovy Vary Intl. Film Festival is to honor Czech cinematographer Vladimír Smutný, whose credits include Jan Svěrák’s Oscar-winning “Kolya.” The festival will also pay tribute to the career of the late Egyptian filmmaker Youssef Chahine.
Smutný will receive the festival’s President’s Award. He started his career in the 1980s working with directors Jiří Svoboda, on films like “End of the Lonely Farm Berghof” (1983), winner of the jury prize at Karlovy Vary, and Karel Kachyňa.
As well as “Kolya” (1996), he worked with Svěrák on “Dark Blue World” (2001), “Empties” (2007), “Kooky” (2010), “Three Brothers” (2014), and “Barefoot” (2017).
Other directors he worked with include Ivan Fíla, Jiří Vejdělek and Václav Marhoul.
A Chahine retrospective at Karlovy Vary will feature 11 films restored by the director’s production house, Misr International Films, along with other institutions such as La Cinémathèque française and Cineteca di Bologna.
“A thorough look at the work of Youssef Chahine has...
Smutný will receive the festival’s President’s Award. He started his career in the 1980s working with directors Jiří Svoboda, on films like “End of the Lonely Farm Berghof” (1983), winner of the jury prize at Karlovy Vary, and Karel Kachyňa.
As well as “Kolya” (1996), he worked with Svěrák on “Dark Blue World” (2001), “Empties” (2007), “Kooky” (2010), “Three Brothers” (2014), and “Barefoot” (2017).
Other directors he worked with include Ivan Fíla, Jiří Vejdělek and Václav Marhoul.
A Chahine retrospective at Karlovy Vary will feature 11 films restored by the director’s production house, Misr International Films, along with other institutions such as La Cinémathèque française and Cineteca di Bologna.
“A thorough look at the work of Youssef Chahine has...
- 4/16/2019
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
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