Enhypen dove headfirst into the 2023 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, appearing on the Baby Shark float for a performance of “Keep Swimmin’ Through,” a track they contributed to the soundtrack for Baby Shark’s Big Movie.
Enhypen’s performance of ‘Keep Swimmin’ Through’ at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in Macy’s Herald Square!
Enhypen Makes Big Waves At MacYs#ENHYPEN_MACYSPARADE2023 #MacysParade #Enhypen #엔하이픈 @ENHYPEN_members @Enhypen pic.twitter.com/2yPBKJJ72D
— Asia Enhypen (@AsiaEnhypen) November 23, 2023
Enhypen are one of several musical acts involved in Baby Shark’s Big Movie.
Enhypen’s performance of ‘Keep Swimmin’ Through’ at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in Macy’s Herald Square!
Enhypen Makes Big Waves At MacYs#ENHYPEN_MACYSPARADE2023 #MacysParade #Enhypen #엔하이픈 @ENHYPEN_members @Enhypen pic.twitter.com/2yPBKJJ72D
— Asia Enhypen (@AsiaEnhypen) November 23, 2023
Enhypen are one of several musical acts involved in Baby Shark’s Big Movie.
- 11/23/2023
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
A week after Taylor Swift‘s deluxe edition of “Midnights” knocked Morgan Wallen‘s “One Thing at a Time” off its Billboard 200 perch comes another album to steal the country star’s thunder. K-pop band Stray Kids have achieved their third chart-topper as “5-Star” debuts at number-one. Read more about this week’s chart here at Billboard.com.
“5-Star” achieved 249,500 equivalent album units based on its combined record sales, individual track sales, and online streams, with traditional sales making up the lion’s share of its total. Stray Kids previously debuted at number-one with “Oddinary” in March 2022 and “Maxident” that October, so the group has achieved its hat trick in just a little over a year’s time.
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“One Thing at a Time” held on to number-two despite substantial competition.
“5-Star” achieved 249,500 equivalent album units based on its combined record sales, individual track sales, and online streams, with traditional sales making up the lion’s share of its total. Stray Kids previously debuted at number-one with “Oddinary” in March 2022 and “Maxident” that October, so the group has achieved its hat trick in just a little over a year’s time.
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“One Thing at a Time” held on to number-two despite substantial competition.
- 6/12/2023
- by Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
The boys of Enhypen are set for an international tour this summer with shows taking place in South Korea, Japan, and the United States. A two-night concert in Seoul’s Kspo Dome will kick off the trek in July, according to their announcement on Tuesday.
The septet will then head to Japan to perform at the Kyocera Dome Osaka for two nights, before another two nights at the Tokyo Dome. Enhypen will embark on their seven-date tour of the U.S. in the fall, starting at Los Angeles’ Dignity Health Sports Park in October.
The septet will then head to Japan to perform at the Kyocera Dome Osaka for two nights, before another two nights at the Tokyo Dome. Enhypen will embark on their seven-date tour of the U.S. in the fall, starting at Los Angeles’ Dignity Health Sports Park in October.
- 5/31/2023
- by Charisma Madarang
- Rollingstone.com
Russian cinematographer Mikhail Krichman, renowned for his collaborations with Andrey Zvyagintsev on films like Oscar nominees “Leviathan” and “Loveless,” shared some of his secrets during the Imago masterclass at EnergaCamerimage Film Festival, all the while engaging in a friendly dialogue with two-time Oscar nominee Ed Lachman. They both won Golden Frogs at the Polish festival, for “Leviathan” and “Carol” respectively.
Unable to be in Toruń in person, Krichman opened up about his upcoming project, Joshua Oppenheimer’s musical “The End,” starring Tilda Swinton.
“I haven’t done musicals before, with all these dance numbers. This is Joshua’s first fiction film and his approach is very interesting,” he said, admitting he was “amazed and frightened” by Oppenheimer’s documentaries “The Look of Silence” and “The Act of Killing.”
Music is also on Lachman’s mind, working on Todd Haynes’ film about singer Peggy Lee. “It’s a drama, but seen through music.
Unable to be in Toruń in person, Krichman opened up about his upcoming project, Joshua Oppenheimer’s musical “The End,” starring Tilda Swinton.
“I haven’t done musicals before, with all these dance numbers. This is Joshua’s first fiction film and his approach is very interesting,” he said, admitting he was “amazed and frightened” by Oppenheimer’s documentaries “The Look of Silence” and “The Act of Killing.”
Music is also on Lachman’s mind, working on Todd Haynes’ film about singer Peggy Lee. “It’s a drama, but seen through music.
- 11/20/2021
- by Marta Balaga
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: John Leguizamo (John Wick) crime movie Dark Blood has been picked up for distribution in North and South America by FilmRise.
Spanish-language film Dark Blood, directed by Colombian filmmaker Harold Trompetero (Diastole y systole: Los movimientos del Corazon), follows a father who is imprisoned after committing a brutal revenge crime. During his confinement he must adapt to a new life of abuse, including injury and humiliation by guards and other prisoners. You can check out the film’s first trailer above.
The pact was negotiated by Katie Carroll, Manager, Independent Film Acquisition at FilmRise and Priscilla Ross Smith, CEO of recently-launched France-based sales firm The Coven. The deal gives FilmRise theatrical, digital and broadcast rights in North and Sound America.
The film will have its North American premiere this September coinciding with National Hispanic Heritage Month.
Danny Fisher, President and CEO at FilmRise, stated: “John Leguizamo’s performance in...
Spanish-language film Dark Blood, directed by Colombian filmmaker Harold Trompetero (Diastole y systole: Los movimientos del Corazon), follows a father who is imprisoned after committing a brutal revenge crime. During his confinement he must adapt to a new life of abuse, including injury and humiliation by guards and other prisoners. You can check out the film’s first trailer above.
The pact was negotiated by Katie Carroll, Manager, Independent Film Acquisition at FilmRise and Priscilla Ross Smith, CEO of recently-launched France-based sales firm The Coven. The deal gives FilmRise theatrical, digital and broadcast rights in North and Sound America.
The film will have its North American premiere this September coinciding with National Hispanic Heritage Month.
Danny Fisher, President and CEO at FilmRise, stated: “John Leguizamo’s performance in...
- 6/29/2021
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Dark Blood, Unearth on sales roster.
In the run-up to the virtual Cannes market, veteran sales agent Priscilla Ross Smith has launched genre film sales agency The Coven based in Lyon, France.
Smith, who previously served as president of sales at Archstone in Los Angeles for nearly six years, has acquired We Need To Do Something produced by Peter Block who was integral in building the Saw franchise, and Ryan Lewis (Bird Box). The film gets it world premiere at Tribeca this month and IFC Midnight holds US rights.
The Coven has also picked up 2020 Fantasia Film Festival selection Unearth,...
In the run-up to the virtual Cannes market, veteran sales agent Priscilla Ross Smith has launched genre film sales agency The Coven based in Lyon, France.
Smith, who previously served as president of sales at Archstone in Los Angeles for nearly six years, has acquired We Need To Do Something produced by Peter Block who was integral in building the Saw franchise, and Ryan Lewis (Bird Box). The film gets it world premiere at Tribeca this month and IFC Midnight holds US rights.
The Coven has also picked up 2020 Fantasia Film Festival selection Unearth,...
- 6/3/2021
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Congrats to Joaquin Phoenix and Rooney Mara, who recently welcomed a healthy baby boy into the world and chose to name the little one after Joaquin's beloved late brother, River Phoenix.
The news of baby River's birth was announced by director Victor Kossakovsky during the Zurich Film Festival while promoting the film Gunda, on which Joaquin is an executive producer. "He just got a baby, by the way, his name was. . . . a beautiful son called River, so he cannot promote [the film] right now," he said.
The Joker and The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo actors met on the set of Her in 2013 and kept their relationship very low-key until becoming engaged in May 2019. Although the pair did not announce their pregnancy, it was confirmed by the public when Rooney was seen with a baby bump in early 2020.
Joaquin's brother River died in 1993 of a drug overdose outside of a West Hollywood nightclub.
The news of baby River's birth was announced by director Victor Kossakovsky during the Zurich Film Festival while promoting the film Gunda, on which Joaquin is an executive producer. "He just got a baby, by the way, his name was. . . . a beautiful son called River, so he cannot promote [the film] right now," he said.
The Joker and The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo actors met on the set of Her in 2013 and kept their relationship very low-key until becoming engaged in May 2019. Although the pair did not announce their pregnancy, it was confirmed by the public when Rooney was seen with a baby bump in early 2020.
Joaquin's brother River died in 1993 of a drug overdose outside of a West Hollywood nightclub.
- 9/28/2020
- by Kara Kia
- Popsugar.com
Exclusive: Writer/producer Latoya Morgan has signed a major exclusive overall deal with Warner Bros. Television Group.
Wbtvg landed Morgan in a competitive situation. No one is commenting but I hear the deal is for three years and is valued in the high-seven figures.
Under the pact, Morgan will develop, write and produce new television projects via her newly launched TinkerToy Productions for all platforms — on-demand/streaming services (including WarnerMedia’s HBO Max), broadcast, premium and basic cable networks.
Morgan is already in business with Wbtvg. She is collaborating with J.J. Abrams and his studio-based Bad Robot banner on Duster. Morgan and Abrams are co-writing and executive producing the drama project, which has a series order at HBO Max. Set in the 1970s Southwest, Duster revolves around the life of a gutsy getaway driver for a growing crime syndicate that goes from awful to wildly,...
Wbtvg landed Morgan in a competitive situation. No one is commenting but I hear the deal is for three years and is valued in the high-seven figures.
Under the pact, Morgan will develop, write and produce new television projects via her newly launched TinkerToy Productions for all platforms — on-demand/streaming services (including WarnerMedia’s HBO Max), broadcast, premium and basic cable networks.
Morgan is already in business with Wbtvg. She is collaborating with J.J. Abrams and his studio-based Bad Robot banner on Duster. Morgan and Abrams are co-writing and executive producing the drama project, which has a series order at HBO Max. Set in the 1970s Southwest, Duster revolves around the life of a gutsy getaway driver for a growing crime syndicate that goes from awful to wildly,...
- 7/1/2020
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Samantha Mathis is opening up about the tragic night her boyfriend, actor River Phoenix, died in 1993 on Halloween at the age of 23.
The American Psycho actress was with Phoenix and his younger brother Joaquin Phoenix when the Running on Empty actor died of a drug overdose outside of the Viper Room in Los Angeles.
Mathis, 48, told The Guardian in a phone interview that she accompanied Phoenix to the Viper Room, a Los Angeles club then-owned by Johnny Depp.
The actress said she thought they were there to drop off his siblings “but when we arrived he said to me, ‘Oh,...
The American Psycho actress was with Phoenix and his younger brother Joaquin Phoenix when the Running on Empty actor died of a drug overdose outside of the Viper Room in Los Angeles.
Mathis, 48, told The Guardian in a phone interview that she accompanied Phoenix to the Viper Room, a Los Angeles club then-owned by Johnny Depp.
The actress said she thought they were there to drop off his siblings “but when we arrived he said to me, ‘Oh,...
- 10/25/2018
- by Alexia Fernandez
- PEOPLE.com
Tuesday marks the 24th anniversary of River Phoenix’s untimely death on Oct. 31, 1993.
The actor was just 23 when he died outside the Viper Room in West Hollywood due to a drug overdose, but made his mark on the world after starring in beloved films Stand By Me (1986), Running on Empty (1988) and My Own Private Idaho (1991). His final film, Dark Blood, was completed in 2012.
In Phoenix’s honor, we’re taking a look back at his quick rise to fame and the best work of the gone-but-never-forgotten star.
An Unusual Childhood
Phoenix was born on August 23, 1970 in Madras, Oregon. His family...
The actor was just 23 when he died outside the Viper Room in West Hollywood due to a drug overdose, but made his mark on the world after starring in beloved films Stand By Me (1986), Running on Empty (1988) and My Own Private Idaho (1991). His final film, Dark Blood, was completed in 2012.
In Phoenix’s honor, we’re taking a look back at his quick rise to fame and the best work of the gone-but-never-forgotten star.
An Unusual Childhood
Phoenix was born on August 23, 1970 in Madras, Oregon. His family...
- 10/31/2017
- by Caroline Redmond
- PEOPLE.com
Nostromo Pictures/Twentieth Century Fox/Janus Films
It’s hard to ever imagine landmark movies such as Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho, Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane or Elia Kazan’s On The Waterfront (to name a few), missing from the cinematic timeline. But what of the many potential classics that never even made it to the screen? Cinema history has given birth to countless movies that were never allowed to come into fruition, or were otherwise delayed for an eye-wateringly long time.
Like George Sluizer’s Dark Blood, some films make compromises just so that it can see some form of release years down the line (twenty years on, the remnants of River Phoenix’s final performance was cobbled together). However, in doing so, the film sacrifices its integrity and results in being only a loose representation of what great thing it was originally meant to be.
In a bid to...
It’s hard to ever imagine landmark movies such as Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho, Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane or Elia Kazan’s On The Waterfront (to name a few), missing from the cinematic timeline. But what of the many potential classics that never even made it to the screen? Cinema history has given birth to countless movies that were never allowed to come into fruition, or were otherwise delayed for an eye-wateringly long time.
Like George Sluizer’s Dark Blood, some films make compromises just so that it can see some form of release years down the line (twenty years on, the remnants of River Phoenix’s final performance was cobbled together). However, in doing so, the film sacrifices its integrity and results in being only a loose representation of what great thing it was originally meant to be.
In a bid to...
- 3/11/2015
- by Anthony Lowery
- Obsessed with Film
Bloodsucking creatures of the night take a bite out of the professional dancing world with dire consequences when vampire Charlotte Neville gets a taste of ballerina Violette Lenoir in Freda Warrington’s The Dark Blood of Poppies, her follow-up to A Dance in Blood Velvet. Titan Books has provided us with an exclusive excerpt that sees Sebastian Pierse facing sinister seductions in 1700’s Ireland.
“The ballerina Violette Lenoir has fallen victim to the bite of the vampire Charlotte. Her fire and energy have fuelled a terrifying change and a dreadful realisation; that Violette has become Lilith, the demon mother of all vampires. Haunted both by what she has done and by Violette’s dark sensuality, Charlotte and her immortal lover Karl are drawn towards the dancer and the terrible destiny that has fallen on her shoulders. But other, far more dangerous shadows are gathering around Violette. To the vampire Sebastian...
“The ballerina Violette Lenoir has fallen victim to the bite of the vampire Charlotte. Her fire and energy have fuelled a terrifying change and a dreadful realisation; that Violette has become Lilith, the demon mother of all vampires. Haunted both by what she has done and by Violette’s dark sensuality, Charlotte and her immortal lover Karl are drawn towards the dancer and the terrible destiny that has fallen on her shoulders. But other, far more dangerous shadows are gathering around Violette. To the vampire Sebastian...
- 10/13/2014
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
This time last year we shared an excerpt from the first book in Freda Warrington’s “Blood Books” series, A Taste of Blood Wine, which was followed up in April by a look at A Dance in Blood Velvet. Now we’re… Continue Reading →
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- 10/13/2014
- by Debi Moore
- DreadCentral.com
The man who made Spoorloos, one of the best thrillers of the past few decades, has died at the of 82.
Here's some sad news. George Sluizer, the director of Spoorloos, has died at the age of 82. He had been ill for many years, and the Dutch filmmaker reportedly passed away on Saturday.
Sluizer leaves behind one of the most chilling thrillers we've ever seen in the shape of Spoorloos. The kind of film where the less you know the better, Sluizer himself directed the English language version, The Vanishing, although the Hollywood version was a pale imitation of the stunning original.
Sluizer also directed River Phoenix's final movie, Dark Blood, which has been seeing the light over the past year or two. He also had a rich background in documentary feature making.
Rest in peace, Mr Sluizer. And thanks for leaving behind one of the best thrillers we've ever seen.
Here's some sad news. George Sluizer, the director of Spoorloos, has died at the age of 82. He had been ill for many years, and the Dutch filmmaker reportedly passed away on Saturday.
Sluizer leaves behind one of the most chilling thrillers we've ever seen in the shape of Spoorloos. The kind of film where the less you know the better, Sluizer himself directed the English language version, The Vanishing, although the Hollywood version was a pale imitation of the stunning original.
Sluizer also directed River Phoenix's final movie, Dark Blood, which has been seeing the light over the past year or two. He also had a rich background in documentary feature making.
Rest in peace, Mr Sluizer. And thanks for leaving behind one of the best thrillers we've ever seen.
- 9/23/2014
- by simonbrew
- Den of Geek
The Dutch filmmaker best known stateside for The Vanishing and the River Phoenix Western Dark Blood died Saturday in Amsterdam. George Sluizer was 82. He won a Silver Bear at Berlin for his 1961 debut, the documentary short Hold Back The Sea, and returned to the festival four more times in the ensuing decades. Three of Sluizer’s films were nominated for the Golden Bear: The Commissioner (1998), John, The Knife And The River (1972) — both of which he also scripted — and Utz (1992). The latter won three awards at the Berlinale, including Best Actor for star Armin Mueller-Stahl. “We mourn the loss of a great filmmaker, who has been equally active in fiction and documentary film,” Berlin fest Director Dieter Kosslick said. “With his passion for filmmaking and exceptional versatility, George Sluizer will live on in our memories forever.”
Sluizer’s best known film remains The Vanishing (1988), about a man whose girlfriend goes missing...
Sluizer’s best known film remains The Vanishing (1988), about a man whose girlfriend goes missing...
- 9/22/2014
- by The Deadline Team
- Deadline
George Sluizer, who directed two versions of the thriller The Vanishing — one a Dutch-French production, the other American and each with a different ending — has died. He was 82. Sluizer, a native of the Netherlands who also helmed River Phoenix’s final film, Dark Blood, died Saturday in Amsterdam, his wife told the Dutch news site Nl Times. Sluizer’s first crack at The Vanishing — the story of a man who is obsessed with finding out what happened to his wife after she’s abducted at a roadside oasis — was for a mostly French-language film titled Spoorloos in
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- 9/22/2014
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
George Sluizer, the Dutch filmmaker behind The Vanishing and River Phoenix's final film Dark Blood, has died at the age of 82.
The director passed away in Amsterdam on Saturday (September 20) after a long illness, according to local media reports. Sluizer's relatives told Dutch broadcaster Nos that his health had "remained fragile" after suffering a ruptured artery in 2007.
Sluizer shot to fame in the late '80s when his Dutch-language thriller Spoorloos (later known as The Vanishing) - about a man doggedly searching to find his kidnapped girlfriend - became a hit with critics and mainstream audiences.
In 1993, he directed the Hollywood remake of the film with Jeff Bridges, Kiefer Sutherland, Nancy Travis and Sandra Bullock.
Later that year, Sluizer began filming Dark Blood with River Phoenix, but the young actor died during production, leaving the film unfinished.
Dark Blood was never completed, but after years of legal disputes (involving...
The director passed away in Amsterdam on Saturday (September 20) after a long illness, according to local media reports. Sluizer's relatives told Dutch broadcaster Nos that his health had "remained fragile" after suffering a ruptured artery in 2007.
Sluizer shot to fame in the late '80s when his Dutch-language thriller Spoorloos (later known as The Vanishing) - about a man doggedly searching to find his kidnapped girlfriend - became a hit with critics and mainstream audiences.
In 1993, he directed the Hollywood remake of the film with Jeff Bridges, Kiefer Sutherland, Nancy Travis and Sandra Bullock.
Later that year, Sluizer began filming Dark Blood with River Phoenix, but the young actor died during production, leaving the film unfinished.
Dark Blood was never completed, but after years of legal disputes (involving...
- 9/22/2014
- Digital Spy
Dutch director was best known for The Vanishing and River Phoenix’s last film, Dark Blood.
George Sluizer, the Dutch director best known for The Vanishing and Dark Blood, River Phoenix’s last film, died in Amsterdam on Saturday (Sept 20) following a long illness, according to Dutch media. He was 82.
“Sluizer had been ill for a long time. In 2007 he barely survived a ruptured artery and after that his health remained fragile,” according to Dutch public broadcaster Nos, quoting relatives.
The director, producer and screenwriter was born in Paris, where he attended the Idhec film academy.
He made his first film in 1961, Hold Back the Sea, a documentary that won the Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival.
Up until the early 1980s, Sluizer produced and directed many documentaries and TV specials. He also worked as a producer on numerous films, including Werner Herzog’s Fitzcarraldo and Cancer Rising with Rutger Hauer.
As a writer...
George Sluizer, the Dutch director best known for The Vanishing and Dark Blood, River Phoenix’s last film, died in Amsterdam on Saturday (Sept 20) following a long illness, according to Dutch media. He was 82.
“Sluizer had been ill for a long time. In 2007 he barely survived a ruptured artery and after that his health remained fragile,” according to Dutch public broadcaster Nos, quoting relatives.
The director, producer and screenwriter was born in Paris, where he attended the Idhec film academy.
He made his first film in 1961, Hold Back the Sea, a documentary that won the Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival.
Up until the early 1980s, Sluizer produced and directed many documentaries and TV specials. He also worked as a producer on numerous films, including Werner Herzog’s Fitzcarraldo and Cancer Rising with Rutger Hauer.
As a writer...
- 9/22/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Movie News: Drew Goddard will not be overseeing the Daredevil TV show (which will star Charlie Cox), but will direct The Sinister Six movie. Speaking of not directing things, Alfonso Cuaron is not doing Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 is happening. Word has it that Quentin Tarantino will make The Hateful Eight after all, and sooner than you'd think. Josh Brolin will be playing Thanos in Guardians of the Galaxy. The Geek Stuff and Videos: The trailers: The Equalizer, Dark Blood, The Congress, Trip to Italy, the Cannes 2014 winners, App, Earth to Echo, Annie, Book of Life, Walk Among the Tombstones, Left Behind, Here's what the Sentinels in X-Men were originally going to look like. Visual proof American...
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- 5/31/2014
- by Peter Hall
- Movies.com
It's been over 20 years since River Phoenix passed away, and the last film that he shot, Dark Blood, is finally getting released. Lionsgate picked up the rights to the film and will be distributing if through VOD.
The thriller was directed by George Sluizer, and the story follows a character played by Phoenix named Boy, "a young widower who retreats to the desert after his wife dies of radiation following nuclear tests near their home. Boy is waiting for the end of the world and carves Katchina dolls that supposedly contain magical powers. Harry (Jonathan Pryce) and Buffy (Judy Davis) travel to the desert on a second honeymoon in an attempt to save their marriage. Their Bentley breaks down in the middle of nowhere and the couple is rescued by Boy. Boy holds them prisoner because of his desire for the woman and his ambition to create a better world with her.
The thriller was directed by George Sluizer, and the story follows a character played by Phoenix named Boy, "a young widower who retreats to the desert after his wife dies of radiation following nuclear tests near their home. Boy is waiting for the end of the world and carves Katchina dolls that supposedly contain magical powers. Harry (Jonathan Pryce) and Buffy (Judy Davis) travel to the desert on a second honeymoon in an attempt to save their marriage. Their Bentley breaks down in the middle of nowhere and the couple is rescued by Boy. Boy holds them prisoner because of his desire for the woman and his ambition to create a better world with her.
- 5/28/2014
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
As bittersweet as it is that River Phoenix's final, uncompleted film is coming to us now, we can't help but be pleased that "Dark Blood" appears to be a riveting drama that showcases the troubled actor at his best. In this trailer we see the Oscar nominated actor ("Running on Empty") play Boy, a widower who lives on a desert that also serves as a nuclear test site. When a honeymooning couple, played by Jonathan Pryce and Judy Davis, come to town, trouble ensues. Phoenix died in 1993, leaving the film incomplete. Following his death, director George Sluizer struggled to find a way to get his project out out to the public. Now, he's completed the unfinished work, adding narration over the parts that Phoenix was unable to finish. Luckily, "Dark Blood" looks great and seems to be a proper sendoff for the beloved actor. Lionsgate will release "Dark Blood" on VOD.
- 5/27/2014
- by Eric Eidelstein
- Indiewire
Over twenty years after his death, River Phoenix‘s final film is finally getting a release. Dark Blood, directed by George Sluizer, has just been scooped up by Lionsgate for VOD distribution in the near future. The thriller follows Boy (Phoenix), who leads an isolated life in the desert. When a vacationing couple (Jonathan Pryce and […]
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- 5/27/2014
- by Angie Han
- Slash Film
In 2011, we first reported on the “lost” River Phoenix film that the actor was shooting right before he tragically died from drug-induced heart failure in 1993. Dark Blood has a strange, long history — and audiences will finally get to see the movie when it is released by Lionsgate, 20 years after it was made. THR reports that the company picked up rights to Phoenix’s final film at Cannes this week. After Phoenix’s death, producers shut down production on Dark Blood, the Phoenix family sued to prevent it ever seeing the light of day, and the insurance company locked it away. Dutch director George Sluizer (The Vanishing) claims he discovered the footage in a warehouse in London and recovered the reels in the middle of the night. There was some...
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- 5/26/2014
- by Alison Nastasi
- Movies.com
First Brittany Murphy, now River Phoenix. On Halloween 1993, promising young star River Phoenix died at the age of 23, and while most of his devoted fans may have thought that his uncredited appearance in Even Cowgirls Get The Blues would be his final performance, 20 years later we're learning that the long, long delayed Dark Blood is finally getting a theatrical release. THR reports out of Cannes that Lionsgate has bought the rights to Dark Blood, a thriller that had its production halted after River Phoenix's unexpected death. The film, written by Jim Barton and directed by George Sluizer, has Phoenix playing a desperate widower called Boy who lives in the desert on a nuclear testing site. When the Fletchers (Jonathan Pryce and Judy Davis), a married couple on their second honeymoon, show up on his land, he imprisons them to conquer his loneliness and lust. Dark Blood was shot predominantly...
- 5/22/2014
- cinemablend.com
Entertainment One has picked up North American rights to fashion documentary "Dior And I" for a theatrical release later this year. Frederic Tcheng's behind-the-scenes dock looks at the creation of Raf Simons’ first Haute Couture collection for the House of Christian Dior.
Magnolia Pictures has acquired North American rights for Susanna Fogel's "Life Partners". Leighton Meester, Gillian Jacobs, Adam Brody and Gabourey Sidibe star in the story of a straight woman and a lesbian best friend who find their relationship dynamics changing after the former falls for a new man.
Lionsgate has acquired U.K. rights to Adam Smith's directorial debut "Trespass Against Us" which begins shooting this Summer. Michael Fassbender, Brendan Gleeson, Lyndsey Marshal and Rory Kinnear star in the story of three generations of the rowdy outlaw Cutler family.
The Weinstein Company has payed an estimated $3 million for U.S. rights to the Irish filmmaker John Carney...
Magnolia Pictures has acquired North American rights for Susanna Fogel's "Life Partners". Leighton Meester, Gillian Jacobs, Adam Brody and Gabourey Sidibe star in the story of a straight woman and a lesbian best friend who find their relationship dynamics changing after the former falls for a new man.
Lionsgate has acquired U.K. rights to Adam Smith's directorial debut "Trespass Against Us" which begins shooting this Summer. Michael Fassbender, Brendan Gleeson, Lyndsey Marshal and Rory Kinnear star in the story of three generations of the rowdy outlaw Cutler family.
The Weinstein Company has payed an estimated $3 million for U.S. rights to the Irish filmmaker John Carney...
- 5/17/2014
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
• Lionsgate has purchased the North American rights for Dark Blood, the last film starring River Phoenix (My Own Private Idaho) before he passed away in 1993. Directed and written by George Sluizer (The Vanishing), the upcoming thriller follows the story of Boy (Phoenix), a young widower living as a hermit on a nuclear testing site in the desert. While traveling solo on his “second” honeymoon, Boy discovers a stranded Hollywood couple. Desiring the woman, Boy decides to hold them captive because he finds himself under the impression that he can create a better world with her. The upcoming drama, set to be released via VOD,...
- 5/16/2014
- by Pamela Gocobachi
- EW - Inside Movies
Cinemavault has licensed North American VOD rights to Lionsgate for Dark Blood, the film ended production abruptly in 1993 when River Phoenix died.
Writer-director George Sluizer spent years finishing the film after his star died.
Judy Davis and Jonathan Pryce also star in the story of a young widower living in the desert who takes a couple hostage.
Dark Blood is currently in theatres in Japan via Culture Convenience Club and is scheduled to open in Brazil through Esfera Filmes, South Korea via Aud Cinema and Turkey through Digiturk.
Writer-director George Sluizer spent years finishing the film after his star died.
Judy Davis and Jonathan Pryce also star in the story of a young widower living in the desert who takes a couple hostage.
Dark Blood is currently in theatres in Japan via Culture Convenience Club and is scheduled to open in Brazil through Esfera Filmes, South Korea via Aud Cinema and Turkey through Digiturk.
- 5/16/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Cinemavault has announced the sale of North American rights to "Dark Blood," River Phoenix's final film which had been delayed for two decades due to the actor's tragic death in 1993. Director and co-writer George Sluzier spent years battling to complete the film after the insurance company attacked Phoenix for drug abuse, lost the claim in 1998, and allegedly destroyed the negatives. Sluizer managed to save the film and preserve the creative talent from being lost. In 2012 he was able, using the existing negatives, to edit and finally give life to the unfinished movie. Read More: River Phoenix's Final Film 'Dark Blood' to Premiere at Miami Film Festival "Dark Blood" co-stars Judy Davis and Jonathan Pryce and tells the story of Boy (Phoenix) a young widower who retreats to the desert after his wife dies of radiation following nuclear tests near their home. Boy is waiting for the...
- 5/16/2014
- by Casey Cipriani
- Indiewire
Twenty-one years ago, River Phoenix died at the age of 23 — leaving his last movie project, a desert-set drama called Dark Blood, in a state of limbo. In 2011, director George Sluzier revived the project by editing the footage he had shot and using a voiceover to fill in the movie’s narrative gaps. The finished product premiered in the Netherlands in 2012, had its North American premiere last January, drew a standing ovation at the Berlin Film Festival the following month – and now Cinemavault has announced that Lionsgate has bought Dark Blood’s American distribution rights.
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- 5/16/2014
- by Hillary Busis
- EW - Inside Movies
Dutch director George Sluizer’s 20-year quest to complete River Phoenix’s final movie -- including rescuing rolls of film from a London warehouse before they were burned -- has culminated with Lionsgate buying North American rights to Dark Blood. “When River died, the movie was totally cancelled and everyone went away. It was declared impossible to finish,” Sluizer recalls in an interview with THR. Lionsgate is planning a VOD release. Photos: Stars at the Airport: Cannes Edition Indeed, after Phoenix died in 1993 of a drug overdose at Los Angeles’ Viper Room, his family and a lawyer for the movie sued to
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- 5/16/2014
- by Pamela McClintock, Amelie Cherlin
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Lionsgate has acquired North American rights to River Phoenix's final film “Dark Blood” from Cinemavault and is planning a VOD release this year, it was announced Friday at Cannes. George Sluizer (“The Vanishing”) co-wrote and directed the movie, which halted production following Phoenix's death in 1993. Sluizer subsequently spent years battling to complete the film. In 1993, the insurance company behind the film attacked Phoenix for drug abuse. After losing the claim in 1998, it allegedly decided to destroy the negative of “Dark Blood,” but Sluizer managed to save the film and preserve the creative talent from being lost. In 2012, he...
- 5/16/2014
- by Jeff Sneider
- The Wrap
In October we treated you to an excerpt from Freda Warrington's A Taste of Blood Wine, and now in April we're showering you with an exclusive look at its follow-up, A Dance in Blood Velvet.
A Dance in Blood Velvet, out Today (4/8/2014) from Titan Books, is the second installment in Warrington's "Blood Wine" series of novels.
Click Here to download a Pdf of our exclusive A Dance in Blood Velvet excerpt.
Synopsis:
For the love of her vampire suitor, Karl, Charlotte has forsaken her human life. Now her only contact with humans is when she hunts them down to feed. Her thirst for blood repulses her, but its fulfilment brings ecstasy.
The one light in the shadows is the passion that burns between her and Karl. A love that it seems will last for eternity - until Karl's former lover, the seductively beautiful Katerina, is rescued from the Crystal Ring.
A Dance in Blood Velvet, out Today (4/8/2014) from Titan Books, is the second installment in Warrington's "Blood Wine" series of novels.
Click Here to download a Pdf of our exclusive A Dance in Blood Velvet excerpt.
Synopsis:
For the love of her vampire suitor, Karl, Charlotte has forsaken her human life. Now her only contact with humans is when she hunts them down to feed. Her thirst for blood repulses her, but its fulfilment brings ecstasy.
The one light in the shadows is the passion that burns between her and Karl. A love that it seems will last for eternity - until Karl's former lover, the seductively beautiful Katerina, is rescued from the Crystal Ring.
- 4/8/2014
- by Debi Moore
- DreadCentral.com
George Sluizer talks abut working with River Phoenix on Dark Blood. Photo: Eoin Carey
Monday at the Glasgow Film Festival started off a little more quietly than the previous few days but soon picked up, with a second chance to see the celebrated 20 Feet From Stardom and an early screening of The Book Thief, which has since opened in cinemas nationwide. The evening saw the Scottish première of Dark Blood, the last film to star River Phoenix. The young actor, whom more than one Eye For Film staff member has described as their first crush, was part way through filming when he overdosed and died on the steps of Johnny Depp's Viper Room. It was assumed that he film would be abandoned but director George Sluizer somehow managed to put it together and was present at the screening to tell the audience how he did it.
Margret Tait Award winner Rachel Maclean.
Monday at the Glasgow Film Festival started off a little more quietly than the previous few days but soon picked up, with a second chance to see the celebrated 20 Feet From Stardom and an early screening of The Book Thief, which has since opened in cinemas nationwide. The evening saw the Scottish première of Dark Blood, the last film to star River Phoenix. The young actor, whom more than one Eye For Film staff member has described as their first crush, was part way through filming when he overdosed and died on the steps of Johnny Depp's Viper Room. It was assumed that he film would be abandoned but director George Sluizer somehow managed to put it together and was present at the screening to tell the audience how he did it.
Margret Tait Award winner Rachel Maclean.
- 2/26/2014
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Tenth edition of Glasgow Film Festival, running Feb 20-March 2 announces guest lineup.
Award-winning actor Richard Dreyfuss and film-maker Terry Gilliam are among the guests set to attend the upcoming Glasgow Film Festival.
Dreyfuss will be attending the UK premiere of Cas & Dylan on Feb 22, where he will also be accompanied by the film’s director, Beverly Hills 90210’s Jason Priestley.
Gilliam will be in attendance at the screening of The Zero Theorem on Feb 27.
Other guests confirmed include Under the Skin director Jonathan Glazer and star Paul Brannigan for the festival’s closing gala on March 2; director David Mackenzie for Starred Up; magician Rickey Jay for the UK premiere of new documentary Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay; Mary Queen of Scots director Thomas Imbach; and Brontis Jodorowsky to talk about his father’s latest film The Dance of Reality.
Guests previously announced for this year’s tenth edition include The Double director [link=nm...
Award-winning actor Richard Dreyfuss and film-maker Terry Gilliam are among the guests set to attend the upcoming Glasgow Film Festival.
Dreyfuss will be attending the UK premiere of Cas & Dylan on Feb 22, where he will also be accompanied by the film’s director, Beverly Hills 90210’s Jason Priestley.
Gilliam will be in attendance at the screening of The Zero Theorem on Feb 27.
Other guests confirmed include Under the Skin director Jonathan Glazer and star Paul Brannigan for the festival’s closing gala on March 2; director David Mackenzie for Starred Up; magician Rickey Jay for the UK premiere of new documentary Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay; Mary Queen of Scots director Thomas Imbach; and Brontis Jodorowsky to talk about his father’s latest film The Dance of Reality.
Guests previously announced for this year’s tenth edition include The Double director [link=nm...
- 2/5/2014
- by ian.sandwell@screendaily.com (Ian Sandwell)
- ScreenDaily
Screenings of Wes Anderson's new comedy and the first Scottish showing of Scarlett Johansson in Under the Skin among the films on offer
• Under the Skin – first look review
• The Grand Budapest Hotel: first look at Wes Anderson's new movie
The tenth edition of the Glasgow film festival has announced its full lineup for an event that is increasing challenging Edinburgh's supremacy as Scotland's major film festival.
The festival's headline films are Wes Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel, which opens the festival with its UK premiere after debuting at Berlin, while the closing gala is the hotly anticipated Under the Skin, directed by Jonathan Glazer and starring Scarlett Johansson, about an alien roaming Scotland preying on hitchhikers. Under the Skin will be a Scottish premiere: after screening at Venice, Toronto and London film festivals last year.
Other notable screenings at the festival include UK premieres for...
• Under the Skin – first look review
• The Grand Budapest Hotel: first look at Wes Anderson's new movie
The tenth edition of the Glasgow film festival has announced its full lineup for an event that is increasing challenging Edinburgh's supremacy as Scotland's major film festival.
The festival's headline films are Wes Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel, which opens the festival with its UK premiere after debuting at Berlin, while the closing gala is the hotly anticipated Under the Skin, directed by Jonathan Glazer and starring Scarlett Johansson, about an alien roaming Scotland preying on hitchhikers. Under the Skin will be a Scottish premiere: after screening at Venice, Toronto and London film festivals last year.
Other notable screenings at the festival include UK premieres for...
- 1/23/2014
- by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
Tenth edition of the Glasgow Film Festival to host a record 60 UK premieres; Under the Skin to receive Scottish premiere as closing film.
Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel will receive its UK premiere as the opening film of this year’s Glasgow Film Festival (Gff) on Feb 20.
With the festival celebrating its tenth edition this year, its opening gala recalls their first-ever closing gala, Anderson’s The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, which will also receive a screening during the festival on Glasgow’s Tall Ship.
Jonathan Glazer’s Under the Skin, which was partly shot in Glasgow and stars Scarlett Johansson as a predatory alien seductress, will receive its Scottish premiere as the closing film on March 2.
Premieres
This year’s edition (supported by Glasgow City Marketing Bureau, EventScotland and Creative Scotland) will feature a record 60 UK premieres, including Michel Gondry’s Mood Indigo; Sandra Nettelbeck’s Mr. Morgan’s [link...
Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel will receive its UK premiere as the opening film of this year’s Glasgow Film Festival (Gff) on Feb 20.
With the festival celebrating its tenth edition this year, its opening gala recalls their first-ever closing gala, Anderson’s The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, which will also receive a screening during the festival on Glasgow’s Tall Ship.
Jonathan Glazer’s Under the Skin, which was partly shot in Glasgow and stars Scarlett Johansson as a predatory alien seductress, will receive its Scottish premiere as the closing film on March 2.
Premieres
This year’s edition (supported by Glasgow City Marketing Bureau, EventScotland and Creative Scotland) will feature a record 60 UK premieres, including Michel Gondry’s Mood Indigo; Sandra Nettelbeck’s Mr. Morgan’s [link...
- 1/21/2014
- by ian.sandwell@screendaily.com (Ian Sandwell)
- ScreenDaily
The line-up for the 10th edition of the Glasgow Film Festival has been announced, featuring numerous UK or Scottish premieres, European premieres, restoration screenings, and outdoor events. The festival kicks off with the UK premiere of Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel and closes with the Scottish debut of the Scotland-set Under the Skin, from director Jonathan Glazer.
UK premiere highlights include Michel Gondry’s Mood Indigo, Jason Priestley’s Cas & Dylan, John Sayles’ Go for Sisters, music documentary 20 Feet from Stardom, and Wolf Creek 2 as part of the FrightFest strand. Ti West’s The Sacrament also plays FrightFest, and the director will be present for an ‘in conversation’ event.
Other notable films playing include Richard Ayoade’s The Double, Jia Zhangke’s A Touch of Sin, Cannes prize winner Heli, River Phoenix’s final film Dark Blood, Alejandro Jodorowsky’s The Dance of Reality, David MacKenzie’s Starred Up,...
UK premiere highlights include Michel Gondry’s Mood Indigo, Jason Priestley’s Cas & Dylan, John Sayles’ Go for Sisters, music documentary 20 Feet from Stardom, and Wolf Creek 2 as part of the FrightFest strand. Ti West’s The Sacrament also plays FrightFest, and the director will be present for an ‘in conversation’ event.
Other notable films playing include Richard Ayoade’s The Double, Jia Zhangke’s A Touch of Sin, Cannes prize winner Heli, River Phoenix’s final film Dark Blood, Alejandro Jodorowsky’s The Dance of Reality, David MacKenzie’s Starred Up,...
- 1/21/2014
- by Josh Slater-Williams
- SoundOnSight
The Grand Budapest Hotel
This year's Glasgow Film Festival was officially launched tonight with the news that Wes Anderson's latest, The Grand Budapest Hotel, will be its opening gala. Other UK premières screening there will include Mr Morgan's Last Love and agnès b's My Name is Hmmm…. The popular Frightfest weekender will return in all its gory glory and there's a new strand dedicated to the very best new cinema from Chile.
Guests at this year's festival will include George Sluizer, introducing his recently completed film Dark Blood, which stars River Phoenix. Richard Ayoade will present his new film, The Double, and there will be a chance to meet legendary set designer Roger Christian, who gave us Star Wars and Alien.
"In the decade since the Festival began, it’s grown almost beyond recognition," said co-director Allan Hunter. "One thing remains essential, though – Gff is and will always be an access-all-areas event,...
This year's Glasgow Film Festival was officially launched tonight with the news that Wes Anderson's latest, The Grand Budapest Hotel, will be its opening gala. Other UK premières screening there will include Mr Morgan's Last Love and agnès b's My Name is Hmmm…. The popular Frightfest weekender will return in all its gory glory and there's a new strand dedicated to the very best new cinema from Chile.
Guests at this year's festival will include George Sluizer, introducing his recently completed film Dark Blood, which stars River Phoenix. Richard Ayoade will present his new film, The Double, and there will be a chance to meet legendary set designer Roger Christian, who gave us Star Wars and Alien.
"In the decade since the Festival began, it’s grown almost beyond recognition," said co-director Allan Hunter. "One thing remains essential, though – Gff is and will always be an access-all-areas event,...
- 1/21/2014
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
It’s not an easy thing, to finish a movie without one of your lead actors. When Heath Ledger died midway through filming The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, director Terry Gilliam seized on the film’s magical-real aesthetic and finished off the movie with Colin Farrell and Johnny Depp fake-Shemping Ledger. When Oliver Reed died before filming key scenes in Gladiator, Ridley Scott pasted Reed’s head onto a body double using digital effects. It’s a tricky thing, morbid and money-grubbing but also well-intentioned and even a little sacred. You want to honor the dead actor’s final work...
- 1/6/2014
- by Darren Franich
- EW.com - PopWatch
In 1993, shortly before the completion of shooting on his latest movie Dark Blood, River Phoenix died. After the insurers and financiers decided there wasn't enough footage to finish the movie, the project was shelved until a number of years ago when director George Sluizer, likely best known for the excellent abduction thriller The Vanishing, revisited the footage. Though some minor scenes were missing, Sluizer felt he had enough material to complete the film and Dark Blood re-emerged last year at the Netherlands Film Festival.
Phoenix stars as Boy, a young widower whose wife died of radiation poisoning from nuclear tests near their home. He's since moved out to the desert where he lives as a hermit, spending his time carving dolls and building a fall out shelter f [Continued ...]...
Phoenix stars as Boy, a young widower whose wife died of radiation poisoning from nuclear tests near their home. He's since moved out to the desert where he lives as a hermit, spending his time carving dolls and building a fall out shelter f [Continued ...]...
- 12/8/2013
- QuietEarth.us
Thursday marks the 20th anniversary of River Phoenix's untimely death on Oct. 31, 1993. The actor was just 23 when he died outside the Viper Room in West Hollywood due to a drug overdose, but made his mark on the world after starring in beloved films Stand By Me (1986), Running on Empty (1988) and My Own Private Idaho (1991). His final film, Dark Blood, was completed in 2012. In Phoenix's honor, we're taking a look back at a few of our favorite clips of the gone-but-never-forgotten star. Watch the clips below and share your favorite memories in the comments below. Classic: Check out this Stand By Me tribute.
- 10/31/2013
- by Erin Clements
- PEOPLE.com
There's a moment of sharp emotional poignancy towards the end of Rob Reiner's beloved coming of age drama Stand by Me. After a summer he'll never forget Gordie (Wil Wheaton) waves goodbye to his friend Chris Chambers, and as the latter strides off, his image fades away from the screen.
It's a scene that cuts deep for anyone who's seen and loves Stand by Me; not only does it foreshadow Chris's untimely death, years later it all draws parallels between the character and the actor who so memorably brought him to life, River Phoenix.
It has been 20 years since Phoenix died tragically outside the Viper Room club in Los Angeles, but his filmography grows all-the-more impressive over time. Phoenix has a spectacular list of collaborations with directors, racking up films with the likes of Joe Dante, Steven Spielberg, Peter Bogdanovich, Gus Van Sant, Sidney Lumet and Peter Weir in his all-too brief 23 years.
It's a scene that cuts deep for anyone who's seen and loves Stand by Me; not only does it foreshadow Chris's untimely death, years later it all draws parallels between the character and the actor who so memorably brought him to life, River Phoenix.
It has been 20 years since Phoenix died tragically outside the Viper Room club in Los Angeles, but his filmography grows all-the-more impressive over time. Phoenix has a spectacular list of collaborations with directors, racking up films with the likes of Joe Dante, Steven Spielberg, Peter Bogdanovich, Gus Van Sant, Sidney Lumet and Peter Weir in his all-too brief 23 years.
- 10/31/2013
- Digital Spy
Back in October of 2011, news surfaced that Director George Sluizer was hoping to finish Dark Blood, a film that was in production in 1993 featuring the final performance of River Phoenix before he died of a drug overdose that same year. Though Phoenix's family was not supporting the move to finish and release the film, Sluzier took the drama to the Netherlands Film Festival last September, the Berlin Film Festival in February and Miami Film Festival in March. The film didn't snag any buyers for theatrical distribution, but now you can watch it in full on YouTube, complete with an introduction from the director himself. Watch! Here's George Sluzier's full film Dark Blood from YouTube (via La Times): Sluzier compared the film to a two-legged chair which he hoped would make stand upright adding, "The fourth leg will always be missing but with three legs the chair will stand upright.
- 9/13/2013
- by Ethan Anderton
- firstshowing.net
Actor with a talent for conveying her characters' rich and troubled inner lives
The New Hollywood movement was primarily a male, auteur-led phenomenon. But the contribution of performers as adventurous and vital as Karen Black, who has died aged 74 from complications from cancer, should not be overlooked. Black was electrified as well as electrifying: her tornado of hair, her fearless physicality and those indelible feline eyes combined to create a woozy and unapologetic sexual energy. She looked offbeat, and she knew how to use that. "I couldn't have been an actress in the 1930s," she said, reflecting on her role as a movie extra in The Day of the Locust (1975). "My face moves around too much."
It was in the late 1960s and 70s that she became one of the great character actors of Us cinema in a series of performances in key New Hollywood works. Partly it was that...
The New Hollywood movement was primarily a male, auteur-led phenomenon. But the contribution of performers as adventurous and vital as Karen Black, who has died aged 74 from complications from cancer, should not be overlooked. Black was electrified as well as electrifying: her tornado of hair, her fearless physicality and those indelible feline eyes combined to create a woozy and unapologetic sexual energy. She looked offbeat, and she knew how to use that. "I couldn't have been an actress in the 1930s," she said, reflecting on her role as a movie extra in The Day of the Locust (1975). "My face moves around too much."
It was in the late 1960s and 70s that she became one of the great character actors of Us cinema in a series of performances in key New Hollywood works. Partly it was that...
- 8/9/2013
- by Ryan Gilbey
- The Guardian - Film News
Judy Davis is one of the fiercest film actors around. She talks about the flaws in her new film, feeling let down by Woody Allen, and her distaste over the release of River Phoenix's last movie
Judy Davis sounds vaguely discombobulated when she picks up the phone. The 58-year-old actor is at home in Sydney on a Friday evening. What have I interrupted? "Oh, nothing," she sighs. "I was just tidying." She asks how I am. I tell her I just got up (it's the time difference), and she sighs again and says: "Oh God."
Anyone who knows Davis's work will appreciate the disdain she can bring to a simple exhalation. Withering contempt is her on-screen stock-in-trade; her repertoire for expressing it includes an array of tics and twitches, a drop-dead stare and a temper seen to blistering effect in some of her films for Woody Allen, including Husbands and Wives and Deconstructing Harry.
Judy Davis sounds vaguely discombobulated when she picks up the phone. The 58-year-old actor is at home in Sydney on a Friday evening. What have I interrupted? "Oh, nothing," she sighs. "I was just tidying." She asks how I am. I tell her I just got up (it's the time difference), and she sighs again and says: "Oh God."
Anyone who knows Davis's work will appreciate the disdain she can bring to a simple exhalation. Withering contempt is her on-screen stock-in-trade; her repertoire for expressing it includes an array of tics and twitches, a drop-dead stare and a temper seen to blistering effect in some of her films for Woody Allen, including Husbands and Wives and Deconstructing Harry.
- 4/26/2013
- by Ryan Gilbey
- The Guardian - Film News
In October of 2012, at the Dutch Film Festival in Utrecht, the famous Dutch director George Sluizer presented to the public what will quite probably be his last film: the unfinished-for-twenty-years Dark Blood. The thriller starred River Phoenix but the production was abruptly stopped when the young actor suddenly died in 1993. However, George famously had the footage stolen and recently worked to make it as finished as it will ever be. Since then, the film has gone on a world tour, having been screened in Berlin and being scheduled for festivals worldwide. What makes these screenings of Dark Blood doubly poignant is that George Sluizer (80) is dying, suffering from an affliction which may finish him off on any given day. Nevertheless he tries...
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- 3/27/2013
- Screen Anarchy
The Berlinale has come and gone so quickly, so intensely. Everyone was catching the flu or a cold, and I was left with the sniffles. My last two days I was lucky to be able to catch some films. Before that I only saw Don Jon’s Addiction which I was charmed by. Scarlett Johanssen played the best role of her life, she is a great comedienne. And Joseph Gordon-Levitt was delightful. Upstream Color bit off more than it could chew. The reviews express my feelings about it better than I can.
A quick list of films seen by me and by other discerning women:
Concussion, starring Catherine Deneuve, a bored house wife story has been told before. This time, the two protagonists were attractive lesbian women and it was beautifully filmed, but nothing beats Belle de Jour also starring Catherine Deneuve.
The Weimar Touch is a series of films from the Weimar era in Germany which preceded the Nazi era and films which were influenced by filmmakers of the Weimar era. MoMA Chief Curator of Film, Rajendra Roy and Laurence Kardish, the former Senior Curator of Film at MoMA were members of the Curatorial Board (along with Rainer Rother, Artistic Director of the Deutsche Kinemathek, Connie Betz (Deutsche Kinemathek, Programme Coordinator Retrospective, and Hans-Michael Bock (Cinegraph, Hamburg). Maybe I could catch more of these fantastic sounding films in New York.
Hangmen Also Die! by Fritz Lang sounded so great. I got the ticket, but damn I missed the film because of a meeting. The notes written for Hangmen Also Die by Rainer Rother of the Deutsche Kinemathek, "Prague 1942. Following the assassination of Nazi Reich Protector Heydrich...a professor’s daughter hides the culprit in her parents’ apartment…sadistic, elegant and effeminate." Doesn’t that sound great? The gender bending in Vicktor Viktoria was charming and funny. Julie Andrews saw this actress and copied her style perfectly. They look like twins. Other films in the Restrospective had me going to the Film Museum to ask for the boxed set, but the prints are from so many places, the clearance on them would be nearly impossible I guess…no boxed set. Other films in The Weimar Touch were so enticing! I had seen A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Max Reinhardt himself and William Dieterle, (U.S. 1935) the last time when I was in high school and then didn’t know who Max Reinhardt was. Car of Dreams was a favorite of those who saw it. Casablanca in which Victor Lazlo and Ilse Lund play out their doomed love was directed by Hungarian born director Mihaly Kertesz (Michael Curtiz) and Humphrey Bogart is almost the only “real” American in the ensemble. I had never been aware of how The Weimar Touch formed that film. Others: The Chase, Confessions of a Nazi Spy, Le Corbeau – what a great film that is, a film that was saved only by Sartre and Cocteau’s speaking out in favor of director Henri-Georges Clouzot. This is a film Michael Haneke saw when he created The White Ribbon. A Dutch film, Somewhere in the Netherlands by Ludwig Berger in 1940, Gerhard Lamprecht’s Einmal Eine Grosse Dame Sein, British film, First a Girl, by Victor Saville, Fury by Fritz Lang, Gado Bravo from Portugal 1934, Gluckskinder from Germany in 1936, The Golem, The Mystery of Moonlight Sonata, Hitler’s Madman, How Green Was My Valley by John Ford in 1941 which was influenced by his friend F.W. Murnau, Max Ophuls’ Comedy About Gold, Letter from an Unknown Woman by Max Ophuls, M by Joseph Losey, Mollenard by Robert Siodmak, None Shall Live by Andre de Toth, Out of the Past by Jacques Tourneur, Peter, Pieges, The Queen of Spades, The Small Back Room, Some Like it Hot, To Be or Not to Be by Lubitsch, Touch of Evil by Orson Welles, Cabaret by Bob Fosse, Dial M for Murder, On the Waterfront, The Student of Prague, Tokyo Story were all touched by The Weimar Touch. What a collection!
Tokyo Kazoku (Tokyo Story) by Yoji Yamada was sweet and sad as the parents travel from their hometown of Hiroshima to visit their grown children in Tokyo – different from Ozu’s Tokyo Story, but “the story of family estrangement and the isolation inherent in modern society” as expressed in the story notes of Rainer Rother along with the reminders of the recent tsunami and its losses make this story deeply touching.
Interesting was Dark Blood by George Sluizer. It was not as spooky as The Vanishing, but to see River Phoenix, so beautiful in this role with such a sexy Judy Davis was a treat, if a bit dated. Elle s’en va with a Catherine Deneuve, aged after Umbrellas of Cherbourg and perhaps the same character takes a funny tour through rural France that I enjoyed. I missed Pourquoi Israel, part of the Homage to Claude Lanzmann but got to see Sobibor, 14 Octobre 1943 which was astounding. The bravery of the hero who was on screen the entire time, Yehuda Lerner, looked like a movie star. The entire story was so unexpected for me; how did it happen that I had never heard the story of the uprising at Sobibor before? I know Shoah and sat through it without a minute of disinterest – but that was in college. Claude Lanzmann justifiably said that this story was too unique and special to include in Shoah.
An odd Romanian film, the comedy A Farewell to Fools directed by Goodan Dreyer and starring child actor Boodan Iancu, Gerard Depardieu, Harvey Keitel and a cruelly beautiful Laura Morante, (and dubbed!) it is being sold in the market by Shoreline. It stands out in contrast to the Golden Bear Winner, the Romanian film Child’s Pose directed by Calin Peter Netzer and produced by Ada Solomon. This feisty portrayal of the nouveau riche seems like a fictional continuation of the doc her husband directed and which she produced in 2010: Kapitalism: Our Improved Formula.
Ada Solomon’s speech at the Awards Ceremony Closing Night deserves an award itself. Starting with the comment that she is more used to fighting than to winning, she pointedly thanked not only those who helped her but also those who did not help her whose resistance to her making this film made her stronger and more powerful. She pointed out the great need to have equal representation of women in the ranks of directors and producers as well, a theme which has been expressed repeatedly during this festival in many forms. (Read Melissa Silverstein’s blog on the joint meeting of women's films festivals initiated in Berlin by The International Women's Film Festival Dortmund|Cologone and the Athena Film Festival entitled "You Cannot Be Serious" in which women from many countries discussed the statistics and the status of women directors and other positions in the industry and continued the creation of a worldwide network pushing towards a more level playing field. Check out The International Women's Film Festival Network for more information).
Child's Pose, good in the vein of Separation, went head to head with the Chilean critic's choice, Gloria whose star Paulina Garcia, won the Best Actress Award. Could have gone both ways. The two older women were both great.
By the Way, Gloria was produced by Fabula, the Chilean company of the Lorrain Brothers who produced No as well as Crystal Fairy and director Sebastian Silva’s other films.
Jay Weissberg of Variety describes Child's Pose best as a "dissection of monstrous motherly love" and a "razor-sharp jibe at Romania's nouveau riche (the type is hardly confined to one country), a class adept at massaging truths and ensuring that the world steps aside when conflict arises."
I would like to suggest to the festival event planners that next year the Awards Ceremony’s onscreen presentation (which goes on simultaneously with the announcements of the prize winners) post the name of the winner along with the film title in its own language and in English as well as the country of origin. It’s difficult enough to follow the film with simultaneous translation in English via earphones; at least put the film titles in English for us foreigners.
A friend of mine remarks that the 2 most prestigious prizes at the festival went not to American or West European films, but to those from smaller countries with developing film cultures, Child’s Pose from Romania and Denis Tanovic’s Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker from Bosnia/ Herzogovina.
She goes on with her commentary of what she saw:
"Competition film Gold by Thomas Arslan provoked mixed response, but I liked it – Nina Hoss as the lead is excellent, plus there are long passages of the group on horseback trekking thru Alaska to the Klondike amidst spectacular landscapes. And the camerawork is wonderful. So that’s enough to keep me in my seat.
Night Train to Lisbon has been panned by virtually every trade publication critic as boring at the least. Nevertheless I enjoyed all the famous actors –Jeremy Irons, Lena Olin, Charlotte Rampling, Tom Courtenay, and yes Bruno Ganz. It is a story about the oppressive regime and a secret resistance group of in 1970s Portugal. Circles is a powerful and tough film by Srdan Folubovic about the revelations amidst survivors of a terrible event 12 years after the end of the war in Yugoslavia. Terrific performances support a complex and tough tale of how history permeates memory and behavior down thru the generations. Cold Bloom is the 4th feature of Atsushi Funahashi, who made last year’s powerful Nuclear Nation documentary about the effects if the tsunami. A drama about how the tsunami affected young workers and small businesses in the region is told thru the tragedy of a young couple. The title refers to a fantastic closing sequence under the cherry trees at night illuminated by street lamps, at once beautiful and bizarre. Gloria winner of the Golden Bear was clearly everyone’s favorite (although I could not get into the screening). Portrait of a middle aged woman in Chile (and winner of Best Actress award) it will hopefully make it across the ocean to these shores.
And finally, it is worth noting that the Forum Expanded section was extensive this year, showing diverse kinds of work including off site installations from every corner of the globe. Probably it is the single most important showcase for artists work in the film festival world. Kudos to the curators and the artist/filmmakers for keeping this exciting new work in front of the public year after year!"
Another friend who can’t decide whether to be credited here, a transplanted Los Angeleno who was born in Germany and lives in Berlin now had a very interesting insight into Two Women, wondering out loud if the two women and the two boys were transferring their homosexual feelings upon their cross parental lovers and likewise whether the two mothers were not actually acting out their lesbian affinities.
She also noted the sexual complexities of many of the films was of great interest to her. Examples she sites are the homosexual (But Not) pedophiliac feelings of a priest as depicted in In The Name Of; Gloria – not breaking news that a 58 woman is sexually alive – this film has a popular crowd pleasing charm which almost disqualifies it from the “festival” seriousness of a film like Child’s Pose, but both women are stellar.
My unnamed friend also said that, Camille Claudel failed to engage as did The Nun.
I would like to take this further, but it is very late for Berlin and now on to Guadalajara, a fascinating city and the seat of international, Iberoamerican co-productions which I think will become my obsession for the rest of the year.
Adios!
A quick list of films seen by me and by other discerning women:
Concussion, starring Catherine Deneuve, a bored house wife story has been told before. This time, the two protagonists were attractive lesbian women and it was beautifully filmed, but nothing beats Belle de Jour also starring Catherine Deneuve.
The Weimar Touch is a series of films from the Weimar era in Germany which preceded the Nazi era and films which were influenced by filmmakers of the Weimar era. MoMA Chief Curator of Film, Rajendra Roy and Laurence Kardish, the former Senior Curator of Film at MoMA were members of the Curatorial Board (along with Rainer Rother, Artistic Director of the Deutsche Kinemathek, Connie Betz (Deutsche Kinemathek, Programme Coordinator Retrospective, and Hans-Michael Bock (Cinegraph, Hamburg). Maybe I could catch more of these fantastic sounding films in New York.
Hangmen Also Die! by Fritz Lang sounded so great. I got the ticket, but damn I missed the film because of a meeting. The notes written for Hangmen Also Die by Rainer Rother of the Deutsche Kinemathek, "Prague 1942. Following the assassination of Nazi Reich Protector Heydrich...a professor’s daughter hides the culprit in her parents’ apartment…sadistic, elegant and effeminate." Doesn’t that sound great? The gender bending in Vicktor Viktoria was charming and funny. Julie Andrews saw this actress and copied her style perfectly. They look like twins. Other films in the Restrospective had me going to the Film Museum to ask for the boxed set, but the prints are from so many places, the clearance on them would be nearly impossible I guess…no boxed set. Other films in The Weimar Touch were so enticing! I had seen A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Max Reinhardt himself and William Dieterle, (U.S. 1935) the last time when I was in high school and then didn’t know who Max Reinhardt was. Car of Dreams was a favorite of those who saw it. Casablanca in which Victor Lazlo and Ilse Lund play out their doomed love was directed by Hungarian born director Mihaly Kertesz (Michael Curtiz) and Humphrey Bogart is almost the only “real” American in the ensemble. I had never been aware of how The Weimar Touch formed that film. Others: The Chase, Confessions of a Nazi Spy, Le Corbeau – what a great film that is, a film that was saved only by Sartre and Cocteau’s speaking out in favor of director Henri-Georges Clouzot. This is a film Michael Haneke saw when he created The White Ribbon. A Dutch film, Somewhere in the Netherlands by Ludwig Berger in 1940, Gerhard Lamprecht’s Einmal Eine Grosse Dame Sein, British film, First a Girl, by Victor Saville, Fury by Fritz Lang, Gado Bravo from Portugal 1934, Gluckskinder from Germany in 1936, The Golem, The Mystery of Moonlight Sonata, Hitler’s Madman, How Green Was My Valley by John Ford in 1941 which was influenced by his friend F.W. Murnau, Max Ophuls’ Comedy About Gold, Letter from an Unknown Woman by Max Ophuls, M by Joseph Losey, Mollenard by Robert Siodmak, None Shall Live by Andre de Toth, Out of the Past by Jacques Tourneur, Peter, Pieges, The Queen of Spades, The Small Back Room, Some Like it Hot, To Be or Not to Be by Lubitsch, Touch of Evil by Orson Welles, Cabaret by Bob Fosse, Dial M for Murder, On the Waterfront, The Student of Prague, Tokyo Story were all touched by The Weimar Touch. What a collection!
Tokyo Kazoku (Tokyo Story) by Yoji Yamada was sweet and sad as the parents travel from their hometown of Hiroshima to visit their grown children in Tokyo – different from Ozu’s Tokyo Story, but “the story of family estrangement and the isolation inherent in modern society” as expressed in the story notes of Rainer Rother along with the reminders of the recent tsunami and its losses make this story deeply touching.
Interesting was Dark Blood by George Sluizer. It was not as spooky as The Vanishing, but to see River Phoenix, so beautiful in this role with such a sexy Judy Davis was a treat, if a bit dated. Elle s’en va with a Catherine Deneuve, aged after Umbrellas of Cherbourg and perhaps the same character takes a funny tour through rural France that I enjoyed. I missed Pourquoi Israel, part of the Homage to Claude Lanzmann but got to see Sobibor, 14 Octobre 1943 which was astounding. The bravery of the hero who was on screen the entire time, Yehuda Lerner, looked like a movie star. The entire story was so unexpected for me; how did it happen that I had never heard the story of the uprising at Sobibor before? I know Shoah and sat through it without a minute of disinterest – but that was in college. Claude Lanzmann justifiably said that this story was too unique and special to include in Shoah.
An odd Romanian film, the comedy A Farewell to Fools directed by Goodan Dreyer and starring child actor Boodan Iancu, Gerard Depardieu, Harvey Keitel and a cruelly beautiful Laura Morante, (and dubbed!) it is being sold in the market by Shoreline. It stands out in contrast to the Golden Bear Winner, the Romanian film Child’s Pose directed by Calin Peter Netzer and produced by Ada Solomon. This feisty portrayal of the nouveau riche seems like a fictional continuation of the doc her husband directed and which she produced in 2010: Kapitalism: Our Improved Formula.
Ada Solomon’s speech at the Awards Ceremony Closing Night deserves an award itself. Starting with the comment that she is more used to fighting than to winning, she pointedly thanked not only those who helped her but also those who did not help her whose resistance to her making this film made her stronger and more powerful. She pointed out the great need to have equal representation of women in the ranks of directors and producers as well, a theme which has been expressed repeatedly during this festival in many forms. (Read Melissa Silverstein’s blog on the joint meeting of women's films festivals initiated in Berlin by The International Women's Film Festival Dortmund|Cologone and the Athena Film Festival entitled "You Cannot Be Serious" in which women from many countries discussed the statistics and the status of women directors and other positions in the industry and continued the creation of a worldwide network pushing towards a more level playing field. Check out The International Women's Film Festival Network for more information).
Child's Pose, good in the vein of Separation, went head to head with the Chilean critic's choice, Gloria whose star Paulina Garcia, won the Best Actress Award. Could have gone both ways. The two older women were both great.
By the Way, Gloria was produced by Fabula, the Chilean company of the Lorrain Brothers who produced No as well as Crystal Fairy and director Sebastian Silva’s other films.
Jay Weissberg of Variety describes Child's Pose best as a "dissection of monstrous motherly love" and a "razor-sharp jibe at Romania's nouveau riche (the type is hardly confined to one country), a class adept at massaging truths and ensuring that the world steps aside when conflict arises."
I would like to suggest to the festival event planners that next year the Awards Ceremony’s onscreen presentation (which goes on simultaneously with the announcements of the prize winners) post the name of the winner along with the film title in its own language and in English as well as the country of origin. It’s difficult enough to follow the film with simultaneous translation in English via earphones; at least put the film titles in English for us foreigners.
A friend of mine remarks that the 2 most prestigious prizes at the festival went not to American or West European films, but to those from smaller countries with developing film cultures, Child’s Pose from Romania and Denis Tanovic’s Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker from Bosnia/ Herzogovina.
She goes on with her commentary of what she saw:
"Competition film Gold by Thomas Arslan provoked mixed response, but I liked it – Nina Hoss as the lead is excellent, plus there are long passages of the group on horseback trekking thru Alaska to the Klondike amidst spectacular landscapes. And the camerawork is wonderful. So that’s enough to keep me in my seat.
Night Train to Lisbon has been panned by virtually every trade publication critic as boring at the least. Nevertheless I enjoyed all the famous actors –Jeremy Irons, Lena Olin, Charlotte Rampling, Tom Courtenay, and yes Bruno Ganz. It is a story about the oppressive regime and a secret resistance group of in 1970s Portugal. Circles is a powerful and tough film by Srdan Folubovic about the revelations amidst survivors of a terrible event 12 years after the end of the war in Yugoslavia. Terrific performances support a complex and tough tale of how history permeates memory and behavior down thru the generations. Cold Bloom is the 4th feature of Atsushi Funahashi, who made last year’s powerful Nuclear Nation documentary about the effects if the tsunami. A drama about how the tsunami affected young workers and small businesses in the region is told thru the tragedy of a young couple. The title refers to a fantastic closing sequence under the cherry trees at night illuminated by street lamps, at once beautiful and bizarre. Gloria winner of the Golden Bear was clearly everyone’s favorite (although I could not get into the screening). Portrait of a middle aged woman in Chile (and winner of Best Actress award) it will hopefully make it across the ocean to these shores.
And finally, it is worth noting that the Forum Expanded section was extensive this year, showing diverse kinds of work including off site installations from every corner of the globe. Probably it is the single most important showcase for artists work in the film festival world. Kudos to the curators and the artist/filmmakers for keeping this exciting new work in front of the public year after year!"
Another friend who can’t decide whether to be credited here, a transplanted Los Angeleno who was born in Germany and lives in Berlin now had a very interesting insight into Two Women, wondering out loud if the two women and the two boys were transferring their homosexual feelings upon their cross parental lovers and likewise whether the two mothers were not actually acting out their lesbian affinities.
She also noted the sexual complexities of many of the films was of great interest to her. Examples she sites are the homosexual (But Not) pedophiliac feelings of a priest as depicted in In The Name Of; Gloria – not breaking news that a 58 woman is sexually alive – this film has a popular crowd pleasing charm which almost disqualifies it from the “festival” seriousness of a film like Child’s Pose, but both women are stellar.
My unnamed friend also said that, Camille Claudel failed to engage as did The Nun.
I would like to take this further, but it is very late for Berlin and now on to Guadalajara, a fascinating city and the seat of international, Iberoamerican co-productions which I think will become my obsession for the rest of the year.
Adios!
- 3/10/2013
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Miami — When actor Jonathan Pryce first received a copy of River Phoenix's last film "Dark Blood," it sat unwatched on his desk for months. He worried about how he would feel reliving Phoenix's death, growing nostalgic about memorable dinners the two shared after long days of filming in Utah and recalling the shocking 5 a.m. phone call telling him the young actor had died.
"It's very hard to comprehend for a while. It was a terribly sad time," said Pryce, who starred in the film alongside Phoenix and Judy Davis.
Now, 20 years later, "Dark Blood" made its U.S. premiere at the Miami International Film Festival on Wednesday, a testament to the endurance of 80-year-old director George Sluizer, who almost died before the film was completed, and a tribute to Phoenix's timeless charisma. It's uncertain whether the film will ever go to a general release. Sluizer said negotiations are...
"It's very hard to comprehend for a while. It was a terribly sad time," said Pryce, who starred in the film alongside Phoenix and Judy Davis.
Now, 20 years later, "Dark Blood" made its U.S. premiere at the Miami International Film Festival on Wednesday, a testament to the endurance of 80-year-old director George Sluizer, who almost died before the film was completed, and a tribute to Phoenix's timeless charisma. It's uncertain whether the film will ever go to a general release. Sluizer said negotiations are...
- 3/8/2013
- by AP
- Huffington Post
I didn't even know that River Phoenix had made a final movie prior to his sudden death in 1993 of drug overdose. But now, THR is saying that the actor, a shining star during his heyday (and truth be told, he could have given Johnny Depp and Robert Downey Jr. a run for their money), shot three weeks of a movie called "Dark Blood" before he died.
Now, the film is making its North American debut at the Miami International Film Festival even though Phoenix's family said no. But why? Wouldn't they want to share with us his final performance?
Here's what happened -- in 2007, George Sluizer, the Dutch director behind the movie, was told by his doctors that he didn't have long to live because of aneurysm. So now, Sluizer wanted to showcase his film prior to his own imminent death.
Oh my gosh, how morbid is this movie? And...
Now, the film is making its North American debut at the Miami International Film Festival even though Phoenix's family said no. But why? Wouldn't they want to share with us his final performance?
Here's what happened -- in 2007, George Sluizer, the Dutch director behind the movie, was told by his doctors that he didn't have long to live because of aneurysm. So now, Sluizer wanted to showcase his film prior to his own imminent death.
Oh my gosh, how morbid is this movie? And...
- 3/6/2013
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
Miami -- As Dark Blood prepares to make its North American premiere at the Miami International Film Festival on Wednesday, controversy continues to swirl around the film that marks River Phoenix’s final performance. Sources say that festival organizers felt pressure to drop the George Sluizer-helmed drama, which continues to draw the ire of the late actor’s family. In 1993, a 23-year-old Phoenix was in the final three weeks of shooting Dark Blood when he died of a drug overdose. Photos: 15 Stars Who Appeared on the Big Screen After Their Death The film’s footage remained fallow for 14
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- 3/6/2013
- by Tatiana Siegel
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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