Disney has announced that Born In China will open in U.S. theaters Earth Day 2017.
Directed by Chinese filmmaker Lu Chuan, Disneynature’s Born In China follows the stories of three animal families, transporting audiences to some of the most extreme environments on Earth to witness some of the most intimate moments ever captured in a nature film. A doting panda bear mother guides her growing baby as she begins to explore and seek independence. A two-year-old golden monkey who feels displaced by his new baby sister joins up with a group of free-spirited outcasts. And a mother snow leopard—an elusive animal rarely caught on camera—faces the very real drama of raising her two cubs in one of the harshest and most unforgiving environments on the planet. Featuring stunning, never-before-seen imagery captured in the remote wilds of China, the film is produced by Disney’s Roy Conli and...
Directed by Chinese filmmaker Lu Chuan, Disneynature’s Born In China follows the stories of three animal families, transporting audiences to some of the most extreme environments on Earth to witness some of the most intimate moments ever captured in a nature film. A doting panda bear mother guides her growing baby as she begins to explore and seek independence. A two-year-old golden monkey who feels displaced by his new baby sister joins up with a group of free-spirited outcasts. And a mother snow leopard—an elusive animal rarely caught on camera—faces the very real drama of raising her two cubs in one of the harshest and most unforgiving environments on the planet. Featuring stunning, never-before-seen imagery captured in the remote wilds of China, the film is produced by Disney’s Roy Conli and...
- 4/22/2016
- by Cate Marquis
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
A24’s A Most Violent Year will dominate the Specialty Box Office New Year’s weekend. The feature began as director J.C. Chandor was releasing his previous feature, All Is Lost. A Most Violent Year will begin its limited run in the New Year, but the title will have a wide release by the end of the month. Also opening this weekend is IFC Films’ doc The Search For General Tso, which has its roots from a New York Times Best Seller. Well Go USA will bow China’s The Taking Of Tiger Mountain in exclusive engagements. The title opened number one at home when it rolled out ahead of Christmas. And Magnolia’s genre label, Magnet, will open Spanish thriller [Rec] 4: Apocalypse in five locations January 2. the title is already available via ultra-vod.
A Most Violent Year
Director-writer: J.C. Chandor
Cast: Oscar Isaac, Jessica Chastain, David Oyelowo, Alessandro Nivola,...
A Most Violent Year
Director-writer: J.C. Chandor
Cast: Oscar Isaac, Jessica Chastain, David Oyelowo, Alessandro Nivola,...
- 1/1/2015
- by Brian Brooks
- Deadline
An already strange race for Congress in New York got even weirder Wednesday night with the release of a video that seemed to show a candidate and staffer assaulting a reporter who was questioning the candidate, Jack Davis, about his decision to drop out of a debate. Repeatedly asked by the unseen reporter "Why did you back out of the debate," Davis answers "do you want punched out?" What follows is a largely off-screen tussle with the reporter crying out in pain as the camera swings wildly. Wednesday night, the video went viral among politicos--some calling for assault charges against the candidate--but now a Davis spokesperson says it's a fake. “There’s nothing going on in this video,” Curtis Ellis tells the Lockport Union-Sun and Journal. “This is the ‘Blair Witch Project’ of tracker videos,” he said. “You don’t see nothing here, but they try to make it seem scary.
- 5/12/2011
- by Mark Joyella
- Mediaite - TV
Balcony Releasing
NEW YORK -- You won't eat corn with the same light heart again after watching this documentary detailing how the vegetable has been co-opted by the food industry in such a way that it is gradually destroying our health. A worthy complement to such thematically related films as Fast Food Nation and Super Size Me, King Corn is an eye-opening indictment of modern farming practices. It recently received its theatrical premiere at New York's Cinema Village and is slated to air on PBS in the spring.
The film, directed by Aaron Woolf, revolves around two longtime friends, Curtis Ellis and Ian Cheney, who share a common background: Both had great-grandfathers who were farmers in the small town of Greene, Iowa.
Deciding to see for themselves just how different modern farming has become, the pair set out to grow an acre of corn, chronicling their crop's journey from the fields into the marketplace.
Much of what they encounter, including the herbicides and genetically modified seeds that now are regularly employed, comes as no surprise. What is surprising is the sheer dominance of corn in our lives, in ways most of us don't recognize. It is particularly prevalent in fast food: high-fructose corn syrup is used to sweeten the sodas, the burgers are made from corn-fed beef that is high in fat, and the fries are made with corn oil.
It's thus not surprising that nearly two-thirds of Americans are classified as overweight or obese and that diabetes is sharply on the rise.
The film also delves into the controversial issues of farm subsidies -- former Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz, who initiated the policy, is interviewed -- and the growing corporatization that is destroying the family farm.
At times the docu becomes a little too simplistic -- we probably didn't need to hear from the Brooklyn cabbie who lost 100 pounds after he stopped drinking soda -- and its concentration on its quirky central figures feels more self-indulgent than illuminating. But the overall importance of its message more than compensates for these minor flaws.
NEW YORK -- You won't eat corn with the same light heart again after watching this documentary detailing how the vegetable has been co-opted by the food industry in such a way that it is gradually destroying our health. A worthy complement to such thematically related films as Fast Food Nation and Super Size Me, King Corn is an eye-opening indictment of modern farming practices. It recently received its theatrical premiere at New York's Cinema Village and is slated to air on PBS in the spring.
The film, directed by Aaron Woolf, revolves around two longtime friends, Curtis Ellis and Ian Cheney, who share a common background: Both had great-grandfathers who were farmers in the small town of Greene, Iowa.
Deciding to see for themselves just how different modern farming has become, the pair set out to grow an acre of corn, chronicling their crop's journey from the fields into the marketplace.
Much of what they encounter, including the herbicides and genetically modified seeds that now are regularly employed, comes as no surprise. What is surprising is the sheer dominance of corn in our lives, in ways most of us don't recognize. It is particularly prevalent in fast food: high-fructose corn syrup is used to sweeten the sodas, the burgers are made from corn-fed beef that is high in fat, and the fries are made with corn oil.
It's thus not surprising that nearly two-thirds of Americans are classified as overweight or obese and that diabetes is sharply on the rise.
The film also delves into the controversial issues of farm subsidies -- former Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz, who initiated the policy, is interviewed -- and the growing corporatization that is destroying the family farm.
At times the docu becomes a little too simplistic -- we probably didn't need to hear from the Brooklyn cabbie who lost 100 pounds after he stopped drinking soda -- and its concentration on its quirky central figures feels more self-indulgent than illuminating. But the overall importance of its message more than compensates for these minor flaws.
- 11/5/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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