Exclusive: Kamikaze Dogfight and Gravitas Ventures has acquired the North American rights to distribute action drama, Haymaker. The movie is set to open in theaters and on demand on January 29, 2021.
The film, which marks the feature directorial debut of Nick Sasso, follows a retired Muay Thai fighter (Sasso) working as a bouncer, who rescues an alluring transgender performer (Nomi Ruiz) from a nefarious thug, eventually becoming her bodyguard, protector, and confidant. The relationship leads Sasso’s character to make an unexpected return to fighting, risking not only his relationship but his life.
“While my passion for the martial art of Muay Thai is at the center of the film, the story drives a deeper message about the importance of love and respect,” said Sasso, who also wrote the script. “It’s about acknowledging the human connections people need despite their differences and the words and actions that go unsaid that...
The film, which marks the feature directorial debut of Nick Sasso, follows a retired Muay Thai fighter (Sasso) working as a bouncer, who rescues an alluring transgender performer (Nomi Ruiz) from a nefarious thug, eventually becoming her bodyguard, protector, and confidant. The relationship leads Sasso’s character to make an unexpected return to fighting, risking not only his relationship but his life.
“While my passion for the martial art of Muay Thai is at the center of the film, the story drives a deeper message about the importance of love and respect,” said Sasso, who also wrote the script. “It’s about acknowledging the human connections people need despite their differences and the words and actions that go unsaid that...
- 11/20/2020
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
Eminem rarely does interviews, and a conversation about last night’s surprise performance of “Lose Yourself” at the Academy Awards — some 17 years after the song won him an Oscar — would seem rarer still. The performance in many ways was a belated do-over: He’d decided not to attend the ceremony in 2003, leaving his collaborator Luis Resto to accept the award — from Barbra Streisand, no less — in his place.
Last night’s appearance — which immediately followed a montage celebrating the sound editing/mixing award, which wound down with footage from “8 Mile” — got a rapturous reaction from many screen stars in the crowd. Some of the relatively younger ones were seen singing along, and everyone from Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio to Billie Eilish and Anthony Ramos standing and applauding at the end.
Eminem (real name: Marshall Mathers) has made a habit out of surprises in recent years. His last two albums,...
Last night’s appearance — which immediately followed a montage celebrating the sound editing/mixing award, which wound down with footage from “8 Mile” — got a rapturous reaction from many screen stars in the crowd. Some of the relatively younger ones were seen singing along, and everyone from Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio to Billie Eilish and Anthony Ramos standing and applauding at the end.
Eminem (real name: Marshall Mathers) has made a habit out of surprises in recent years. His last two albums,...
- 2/10/2020
- by Jem Aswad
- Variety Film + TV
Look/If you had/One shot/Or one opportunity/to totally make up for that 2003 thing/Would you capture it/Or just let it slip? Eminem chose “capture” for his surprise make-good Oscars moment, and that decision made “Lose Yourself” skyrocket all the way to No. 1 on the iTunes charts — 18 years after the song’s initial release.
Marshall Mathers rocked the 92nd Academy Awards on Sunday, 17 years after the emcee skipped the event where he was awarded Best Original Song for the “8 Mile” hit. Find out why Eminem no-showed those Oscars here.
This morning, the hit song from 2002 is looking down at Justin Bieber, Nicki Minaj, Meek Mill, Post Malone and everyone else on the Apple music-buying service’s “Top Songs” Top 10.
Slim Shady’s Sunday performance on ABC was not just well-received on iTunes — it was met with a standing ovation from the Dolby Theatre crowd. Find some of the best reactions here.
Marshall Mathers rocked the 92nd Academy Awards on Sunday, 17 years after the emcee skipped the event where he was awarded Best Original Song for the “8 Mile” hit. Find out why Eminem no-showed those Oscars here.
This morning, the hit song from 2002 is looking down at Justin Bieber, Nicki Minaj, Meek Mill, Post Malone and everyone else on the Apple music-buying service’s “Top Songs” Top 10.
Slim Shady’s Sunday performance on ABC was not just well-received on iTunes — it was met with a standing ovation from the Dolby Theatre crowd. Find some of the best reactions here.
- 2/10/2020
- by Tony Maglio
- The Wrap
Eminem made a surprise appearance on the Academy Awards show Sunday night, delivering a rousing rendition of “Lose Yourself,” his hit from the 2002 film “8 Mile” in which he starred — some 17 years after it won an Oscar. His appearance immediately followed a montage celebrating the sound editing/mixing award, which wound down with footage from “8 Mile” and concluded with Burt Reynolds in “Deliverance,” saying the famous line, “Sometimes you have to lose yourself before you can find anything.”
Eminem’s appearance was a tightly kept secret: Sources say the Dolby Theater was put on lockdown during rehearsals, and that if the news of his appearance leaked to the media, he had the option to cancel.
The reaction of the crowd was impressively ecstatic — the song is nearly 20 years old, after all, and several of the evening’s stars who sang along probably remember it from their teens — with everyone...
Eminem’s appearance was a tightly kept secret: Sources say the Dolby Theater was put on lockdown during rehearsals, and that if the news of his appearance leaked to the media, he had the option to cancel.
The reaction of the crowd was impressively ecstatic — the song is nearly 20 years old, after all, and several of the evening’s stars who sang along probably remember it from their teens — with everyone...
- 2/10/2020
- by Jem Aswad
- Variety Film + TV
GÖTEBORG, Sweden — Norway’s leading independent production company Motlys (“Louder than Bombs”), which won Saturday night best Nordic film, and best actor (Henriette Steenstrup) with Dag Johan Haugerud’s “Beware of Children,” is preparing feature film “Doppler” with Stian Kristiansen set to direct.
Prominent Norwegian author-scriptwriter Erlend Loe, attached to HBO Nordic’s first Danish Original “Kamikaze,” is adapting from his own best-selling novel, sold to 30 territories and named Book of the Year by The Guardian newspaper in 2012.
“Doppler” is a satirical comedy about Andreas Doppler who leaves his family and a comfortable existence in Oslo to start a new life in the forest. There he reconnects with nature and bonds with a baby moose.
Motlys producer Yngve Sæther said: “When I first read the novel, what I fell in love with was the dark and original humor, and Doppler’s weird and funny confrontations with civilization. The criticism of...
Prominent Norwegian author-scriptwriter Erlend Loe, attached to HBO Nordic’s first Danish Original “Kamikaze,” is adapting from his own best-selling novel, sold to 30 territories and named Book of the Year by The Guardian newspaper in 2012.
“Doppler” is a satirical comedy about Andreas Doppler who leaves his family and a comfortable existence in Oslo to start a new life in the forest. There he reconnects with nature and bonds with a baby moose.
Motlys producer Yngve Sæther said: “When I first read the novel, what I fell in love with was the dark and original humor, and Doppler’s weird and funny confrontations with civilization. The criticism of...
- 2/1/2020
- by Annika Pham
- Variety Film + TV
The first five directors talked with festival director Bero Beyer and programmer Muge Demir.
”They can cut the flowers, but spring will always come,” was the defiant response to increasing nationalism and reduced state funding, from a press conference with five directors participating in the Tiger Competition at International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr).
The directors were discussing a speech by then Brazilian culture minister Roberto Alvim last week, that borrowed heavily from one made in 1933 by Nazi minister of propaganda Joseph Goebbels, in which Alvim said Brazilian art must be “heroic and national… it will be deeply committed to the urgent aspirations of our people,...
”They can cut the flowers, but spring will always come,” was the defiant response to increasing nationalism and reduced state funding, from a press conference with five directors participating in the Tiger Competition at International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr).
The directors were discussing a speech by then Brazilian culture minister Roberto Alvim last week, that borrowed heavily from one made in 1933 by Nazi minister of propaganda Joseph Goebbels, in which Alvim said Brazilian art must be “heroic and national… it will be deeply committed to the urgent aspirations of our people,...
- 1/27/2020
- by 1101321¦Ben Dalton¦26¦
- ScreenDaily
Oh, this what we doin'? Alright
M.A
I like a b***h that like to wobble, wobble
Shake it,?shake?it, break it,?break it, uh
Nigga, we made it,?made it, they hate it, hate it
Pro professional, pure persistent, I'm paper chasing
I hate complaining, I hated waiting, I'll pay for patience
But I hate to pay a bill (Hate that)
And I made a mil' without a major deal (I made that)
Yeah, her ass fake, but she came for real
Money ain't a thing, that ain't a thing for real
It's the broke lingo (Huh)
And no, ain't nothing Saweetie, this is no Quavo (Migo)
Man, I just get high, let my hoes lay low (Ooh)
I just want some face but this is no facial (Ooh)
Do right and kill er'body, Drake mode (Hello)
Bitch, I'm tryna eat out, take your plate mode (Hello...
M.A
I like a b***h that like to wobble, wobble
Shake it,?shake?it, break it,?break it, uh
Nigga, we made it,?made it, they hate it, hate it
Pro professional, pure persistent, I'm paper chasing
I hate complaining, I hated waiting, I'll pay for patience
But I hate to pay a bill (Hate that)
And I made a mil' without a major deal (I made that)
Yeah, her ass fake, but she came for real
Money ain't a thing, that ain't a thing for real
It's the broke lingo (Huh)
And no, ain't nothing Saweetie, this is no Quavo (Migo)
Man, I just get high, let my hoes lay low (Ooh)
I just want some face but this is no facial (Ooh)
Do right and kill er'body, Drake mode (Hello)
Bitch, I'm tryna eat out, take your plate mode (Hello...
- 1/21/2020
- GlamSham
For the second time in the span of a handful of years, Eminem has surprised the musical world by abruptly dropping an album onto his legion of fans, pretty much in the middle of the night. But whereas 2018's Kamikaze included—amid a fresh stew of warmed-over beefs—the Detroit rapper’s homage to that beloved monster of…...
- 1/17/2020
- by William Hughes on News, shared by William Hughes to The A.V. Club
- avclub.com
Eminem surprise-released his 11th album on midnight Thursday, ending weeks of rumors and speculation on when the rapper would unveil the follow-up to 2018’s Kamikaze.
The 20-song album features guest appearances by Ed Sheeran, Black Thought, Q-Tip, Royce Da 5’9″, Anderson .Paak, Young M.A. and a posthumous appearance by Juice Wrld. The album also finds the rapper enlisting three-quarters of the Em-affillated supergroup Slaughterhouse with “I Will,” featuring Royce, Joell Ortiz and Kxng Crooked.
To accompany the album’s release, the rapper unveiled the anti-gun violence video for “Darkness,” in...
The 20-song album features guest appearances by Ed Sheeran, Black Thought, Q-Tip, Royce Da 5’9″, Anderson .Paak, Young M.A. and a posthumous appearance by Juice Wrld. The album also finds the rapper enlisting three-quarters of the Em-affillated supergroup Slaughterhouse with “I Will,” featuring Royce, Joell Ortiz and Kxng Crooked.
To accompany the album’s release, the rapper unveiled the anti-gun violence video for “Darkness,” in...
- 1/17/2020
- by Rolling Stone
- Rollingstone.com
Nazi hunter thriller wins best film at the annual ‘Lolas’.
Lars Kraume’s Nazi hunter thriller, The People Vs. Fritz Bauer, won six Lola statuettes at this year’s German Film Awards after being tipped as the evening’s hot ticket with nine nominations.
The co-production between Berlin’s zero one film and Cologne-based Terz Film picked up the evening’s top award - the Lola in Gold for Best Film - as well as the statuettes for Best Screenplay, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor (Ronald Zehrfeld), Best Production Design (Cora Pratz), and Best Costume Design (Esther Walz).
Accepting the Gold statuette from the hands of Germany’s State Minister for Culture and Media Monika Grütters, producer Thomas Kufus dedicated the award to the memory of Fritz Bauer.
Kurth knocks out Klaußner
While many thought that it was foregone conclusion that Burghart Klaußner would take the Lola home for his portrayal of the state prosecutor Fritz Bauer, nobody...
Lars Kraume’s Nazi hunter thriller, The People Vs. Fritz Bauer, won six Lola statuettes at this year’s German Film Awards after being tipped as the evening’s hot ticket with nine nominations.
The co-production between Berlin’s zero one film and Cologne-based Terz Film picked up the evening’s top award - the Lola in Gold for Best Film - as well as the statuettes for Best Screenplay, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor (Ronald Zehrfeld), Best Production Design (Cora Pratz), and Best Costume Design (Esther Walz).
Accepting the Gold statuette from the hands of Germany’s State Minister for Culture and Media Monika Grütters, producer Thomas Kufus dedicated the award to the memory of Fritz Bauer.
Kurth knocks out Klaußner
While many thought that it was foregone conclusion that Burghart Klaußner would take the Lola home for his portrayal of the state prosecutor Fritz Bauer, nobody...
- 5/31/2016
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
German actor best known for his roles in the films of Fassbinder
Filmgoers familiar with the work of Rainer Werner Fassbinder will certainly know Günther Kaufmann, who has died of a heart attack aged 64. Kaufmann had parts great and small in more than a dozen of the prolific German director's movies. He was what the Germans call a "Besatzungskind", one of the many children born between 1945 and 1949 as a result of relationships between German women and American soldiers. Kaufmann's black GI father, whom he never knew, returned to the Us before he was born in Munich. According to Fassbinder: "Günther thinks Bavarian, feels Bavarian and speaks Bavarian. And that's why he gets a shock every morning when he looks in the mirror." Kaufmann, whom Fassbinder always called "my Bavarian negro", played an important role in his life.
They first met in the autumn of 1969 on the set of Volker Schlöndorff's television film of Baal,...
Filmgoers familiar with the work of Rainer Werner Fassbinder will certainly know Günther Kaufmann, who has died of a heart attack aged 64. Kaufmann had parts great and small in more than a dozen of the prolific German director's movies. He was what the Germans call a "Besatzungskind", one of the many children born between 1945 and 1949 as a result of relationships between German women and American soldiers. Kaufmann's black GI father, whom he never knew, returned to the Us before he was born in Munich. According to Fassbinder: "Günther thinks Bavarian, feels Bavarian and speaks Bavarian. And that's why he gets a shock every morning when he looks in the mirror." Kaufmann, whom Fassbinder always called "my Bavarian negro", played an important role in his life.
They first met in the autumn of 1969 on the set of Volker Schlöndorff's television film of Baal,...
- 5/15/2012
- by Ronald Bergan
- The Guardian - Film News
COLOGNE -- Veteran German producer Regina Ziegler, film musician Willy Sommerfeld, photographer Erika Rabau and German Federal Film Board chairman Rolf Baehr will be this year's recipients of the Berlinale Camera awards, presented by the Berlin International Film Festival for excellence in the German film industry, organizers announced Monday. Topics in panel discussions that will run alongside the festival (Feb. 5-15) were also announced: the impact of digital in the spread of piracy, the boom in foreign production in South Africa and Canada and the impact of celebrity culture on national politics. Ziegler is one of Germany's most successful film and television producers with more than 250 productions under her belt, including Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Kamikaze, Wolf Gremm's Oscar-nominated Fabian and Andrzej Wajda's Korczak.
- 1/27/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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