London’s Leicester Square was transported to The Ton for Netflix’s garden party-themed screening of Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story.
Rainfall gave way to sunshine just in time on Friday night as the newest members of London high society graced the red carpet for the Bridgerton prequel series, which follows the origins of a mischievous Queen Charlotte and her arranged marriage to King George III.
“I could not tell you,” Rhimes told The Hollywood Reporter on what makes her stories so special —Bridgerton’s first season totted up 625 million hours of viewing within the first four weeks of its release. “Only that I know we really try hard to make shows that we want to watch, things that we’re passionate about… I am always amazed that other people like them too.”
With no foot-tall wigs or regency-inspired petticoats to reckon with, the cast, including India Amarteifio and Corey Mylchreest...
Rainfall gave way to sunshine just in time on Friday night as the newest members of London high society graced the red carpet for the Bridgerton prequel series, which follows the origins of a mischievous Queen Charlotte and her arranged marriage to King George III.
“I could not tell you,” Rhimes told The Hollywood Reporter on what makes her stories so special —Bridgerton’s first season totted up 625 million hours of viewing within the first four weeks of its release. “Only that I know we really try hard to make shows that we want to watch, things that we’re passionate about… I am always amazed that other people like them too.”
With no foot-tall wigs or regency-inspired petticoats to reckon with, the cast, including India Amarteifio and Corey Mylchreest...
- 4/21/2023
- by THR Staff
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: Lisa Hamilton Daly, who was most recently Director, Original Series at Netflix, has joined Bedrock Entertainment, the production company set up by Tony To Dan Sackheim after leaving the streamer.
Hamilton Daly, who oversaw development and production of series including Virgin River and Sweet Magnolias at Netflix, joins the company as EVP, Creative Affairs. She left the streamer in October 2020.
Band of Brothers producer To and True Detective director and exec producer Sackheim teamed up with ITV Studios America to launch the venture last year.
It is currently developing projects including an adaptation of Barry Eisler’s book series, starting with A Clean Kill in Tokyo, centered around Japanese-American assassin John Rain with Stuart Beattie (Collateral) and is also working with writers and executive producers such as Julia Ruchman (The Walking Dead), Paul Tamasy and Eric Johnson (The Outpost), and David Arata (Spy Game).
Prior to joining Netflix, where...
Hamilton Daly, who oversaw development and production of series including Virgin River and Sweet Magnolias at Netflix, joins the company as EVP, Creative Affairs. She left the streamer in October 2020.
Band of Brothers producer To and True Detective director and exec producer Sackheim teamed up with ITV Studios America to launch the venture last year.
It is currently developing projects including an adaptation of Barry Eisler’s book series, starting with A Clean Kill in Tokyo, centered around Japanese-American assassin John Rain with Stuart Beattie (Collateral) and is also working with writers and executive producers such as Julia Ruchman (The Walking Dead), Paul Tamasy and Eric Johnson (The Outpost), and David Arata (Spy Game).
Prior to joining Netflix, where...
- 2/16/2021
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Assassin novel adaptation Rain will see Keanu Reeves on both sides of the camera.
Making a bit of a career shift, former Neo actor Keanu Reeves is now executive-producing his own action TV series Rain for Slingshot Global Media.
Described as a ‘globe-trotting action drama,’ Rain is an adaptation on the best-selling book series by Barry Eisler of the same name. A 2009 feature film based on the same material, Rain Fall, has already been produced, but didn't make much of a - ready for it? - splash. Ahem.
Reeves will play the eponymous anti-hero John Rain, who in the books is a half-Japanese, half-American former-soldier-turned-assassin.
Rain is a freelance killer-for-hire, who lives by the rules that he’ll kill anyone, as long as they fit these rules: 'No women or children', 'no secondary team working separately on Rain's project' and 'Principal actors only' (as in: no hits on family members...
Making a bit of a career shift, former Neo actor Keanu Reeves is now executive-producing his own action TV series Rain for Slingshot Global Media.
Described as a ‘globe-trotting action drama,’ Rain is an adaptation on the best-selling book series by Barry Eisler of the same name. A 2009 feature film based on the same material, Rain Fall, has already been produced, but didn't make much of a - ready for it? - splash. Ahem.
Reeves will play the eponymous anti-hero John Rain, who in the books is a half-Japanese, half-American former-soldier-turned-assassin.
Rain is a freelance killer-for-hire, who lives by the rules that he’ll kill anyone, as long as they fit these rules: 'No women or children', 'no secondary team working separately on Rain's project' and 'Principal actors only' (as in: no hits on family members...
- 8/19/2014
- by rleane
- Den of Geek
Full credit for this concept belongs to Mark Kermode…
Given the law of averages, it’s fairly common that as film fans we’re far more likely to run into a stinker than we are a new classic, or worse still a underwhelming slice of anti-climax that promised so much more. Quite often that leaves us deciphering a mess and hanging on to small morsels of consolation from an ultimately wasted couple of hours.
The end result of this is that you, on occasion, may stumble across a disproportionately good turn from the only actor in the movie who seemed to be taking their work seriously. You could make a legitimate claim that this is far more worthy than excellent acting in Oscar bait, but such feats are so often ignored and dismissed along with its mediocre surround.
Here is a run down of ten such performances, a rare moment...
Given the law of averages, it’s fairly common that as film fans we’re far more likely to run into a stinker than we are a new classic, or worse still a underwhelming slice of anti-climax that promised so much more. Quite often that leaves us deciphering a mess and hanging on to small morsels of consolation from an ultimately wasted couple of hours.
The end result of this is that you, on occasion, may stumble across a disproportionately good turn from the only actor in the movie who seemed to be taking their work seriously. You could make a legitimate claim that this is far more worthy than excellent acting in Oscar bait, but such feats are so often ignored and dismissed along with its mediocre surround.
Here is a run down of ten such performances, a rare moment...
- 7/2/2012
- by Scott Patterson
- SoundOnSight
A visual accompaniment to Kevin Rudolf's latest single "You Make the Rain Fall" has been out for viewing pleasure. It features a number of tiny, yet shining drops moving to the upbeat song in front of black backdrop. They are quickly changing from one graphic to another, including forming the Cash Money singer with his signature guitar and also his featured guest Flo Rida.
"You Make the Rain Fall" is taken from Kevin Rudolf's second studio album "To the Sky" which has been in stores since June this year. Released as the second single to follow up "I Made It (Cash Money Heroes)" which features Birdman, Lil Wayne and Jay Sean, it is also featured in the promo ad of professional wrestling show "WWE Nxt".
Previously, Rudolf's claim-fame single "Let It Rock" was used as a theme song for WWE's 2009 Royal Rumble and the star-studded "I Made It...
"You Make the Rain Fall" is taken from Kevin Rudolf's second studio album "To the Sky" which has been in stores since June this year. Released as the second single to follow up "I Made It (Cash Money Heroes)" which features Birdman, Lil Wayne and Jay Sean, it is also featured in the promo ad of professional wrestling show "WWE Nxt".
Previously, Rudolf's claim-fame single "Let It Rock" was used as a theme song for WWE's 2009 Royal Rumble and the star-studded "I Made It...
- 9/2/2010
- by AceShowbiz.com
- Aceshowbiz
Rain Fall is what you would get if you took The Bourne Identity and stripped it of its tactful direction and smart writing, then slapped on a pun-tastically goofy title. The titular character, John Rain, is a recurring half-Japanese character used by author Barry Eisler in several of his novels, such as Rain Storm, Killing Rain, and Hard Rain, in order to be a super-secret spy working for, well, maybe John doesn’t even know. Writers and directors alike should pay attention to titles. Eisler’s plays on words are obvious but what are they playing on? I cannot speak for the book, but in the movie Rain Fall, there is no significant rainfall, nor is there any kind of downfall of John Rain’s character. I guess Rain Fall just sounded cool. Fair enough.
Back to the main character, John Rain: who is he? The movie describes him only...
Back to the main character, John Rain: who is he? The movie describes him only...
- 6/13/2010
- by Ryan Katona
- JustPressPlay.net
Dear John: "After an interminable five weeks of studio movies, Dear John was a most unexpected surprise: It was a film. I would stop far short of calling it a good film, but it had the elements of one: It had actual performances, instead of line readings mixed with funny and/or serious faces; it had a story, instead of a high concept; and it had a director. An honest to God director." - Dustin Rowles
The Road: "The problem with The Road is that Hillcoat, screenwriter Joe Penhill, and the Weinstein Company tried to produce the most faithful adaptation possible and, in doing so, made a mediocre film based on a mediocre book. After seeing No Country for Old Men (2007), I immediately went to the bookstore and picked up McCarthy's Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West and The Road. I read the latter novel first and...
The Road: "The problem with The Road is that Hillcoat, screenwriter Joe Penhill, and the Weinstein Company tried to produce the most faithful adaptation possible and, in doing so, made a mediocre film based on a mediocre book. After seeing No Country for Old Men (2007), I immediately went to the bookstore and picked up McCarthy's Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West and The Road. I read the latter novel first and...
- 5/25/2010
- by Intern Rusty
Dear John
Lasse Halstrom brings us another Nicholas Sparks romance. Channing Tatum is a soldier on leave who falls for a college student (Amanda Seyfried). They meet, they love, and then spend the next seven years meeting only briefly in between deployments and sending a long sea of love letters. William Goss gave the film a favorable review, noting that it's not "nearly as saccharine or heavy-handed as any movie about autism, cancer and a love divided by duty inherently threatens to be. In fact, in director Lasse Hallstrom's hands, the material comes off with some measure of grace and restraint, as do the performances of Channing Tatum and Amanda Seyfried, and it's all enough to have even us certain cynics rooting for their eventual reunion." Rent it on DVD or Blu-ray.
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The Road
The apocalypse has hit earth, and Viggo Mortensen journeys across the U.
Lasse Halstrom brings us another Nicholas Sparks romance. Channing Tatum is a soldier on leave who falls for a college student (Amanda Seyfried). They meet, they love, and then spend the next seven years meeting only briefly in between deployments and sending a long sea of love letters. William Goss gave the film a favorable review, noting that it's not "nearly as saccharine or heavy-handed as any movie about autism, cancer and a love divided by duty inherently threatens to be. In fact, in director Lasse Hallstrom's hands, the material comes off with some measure of grace and restraint, as do the performances of Channing Tatum and Amanda Seyfried, and it's all enough to have even us certain cynics rooting for their eventual reunion." Rent it on DVD or Blu-ray.
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The Road
The apocalypse has hit earth, and Viggo Mortensen journeys across the U.
- 5/25/2010
- by Monika Bartyzel
- Cinematical
We're hitting a bit of a summer lull with DVD releases this week, but the good news is you now have absolutely no excuse not to check out The Road! Aside from John Hillcoat's fantastic adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's grim novel, other major releases include the Channing Tatum / Amanda Seyfried romance Dear John, and the second season of HBO's vampire soap opera True Blood. Sundance hit Mystery Team, starring Donald Glover of Community fame, is also out this week, plus a new Criterion release of John Ford's Stagecoach and the 50th Anniversary Blu-ray release of Stanley Kubrick's Spartacus. What will you be buying or renting this week? The Road [1] (+ Blu-ray [2]) Dear John [3] (+ Blu-ray [4]) Mystery Team [5] Tell Tale [6] (+ Blu-ray [7]) Rain Fall [8] Stagecoach: Criterion Collection [9] (+ Blu-ray [10]) By Brakhage: An Anthology Volume 2: Criterion Collection [11] David Cross: Bigger and Blackerer [12] Hoarders: Season 1 [13] True Blood: Season 2 [14] (+ Blu-ray...
- 5/25/2010
- by Sean
- FilmJunk
UK distributor Momentum Pictures will be releasing Max Mannix’s Rain Fall on DVD later this month.
Based on the first novel of Barry Eisler’s popular series, the film stars Kippei Shiina as a half-Japanese assassin named John Rain who specializes in clean kills which mimic the appearance of natural deaths. Rain is forced to serve as bodyguard to a beautiful young woman named Midori (Kyoko Hasegawa), who happens to be the daughter of one of his victims, when it’s revealed that she may hold the key to exposing high-level governmental corruption.
Rain is a former member of the U.S. Special Forces. While serving in Vietnam, he was betrayed by a man who later became the head of CIA operations in Tokyo, William Holtzer (Gary Oldman). With nowhere to run, and his old nemesis gunning for both him and Midori, Rain depends on a trustworthy former adversary...
Based on the first novel of Barry Eisler’s popular series, the film stars Kippei Shiina as a half-Japanese assassin named John Rain who specializes in clean kills which mimic the appearance of natural deaths. Rain is forced to serve as bodyguard to a beautiful young woman named Midori (Kyoko Hasegawa), who happens to be the daughter of one of his victims, when it’s revealed that she may hold the key to exposing high-level governmental corruption.
Rain is a former member of the U.S. Special Forces. While serving in Vietnam, he was betrayed by a man who later became the head of CIA operations in Tokyo, William Holtzer (Gary Oldman). With nowhere to run, and his old nemesis gunning for both him and Midori, Rain depends on a trustworthy former adversary...
- 3/22/2010
- Nippon Cinema
Based on the novel by author Barry Eisler, “Dance of the Dragon” director Max Mannix’s 2009 political thriller “Rain Fall” marks the first cinematic adventure of freelance assassin John Rain. Having never read any of the six books in the series, I can’t say for sure whether or not Mannix and crew have faithfully transported the character from the printed page to the big screen. That being said, the film is an exciting, briskly-paced head-scratcher that takes several stylish pages from the last two Jason Bourne movies. Can you guess which ones? If you selected intense fight sequences and needlessly shaky camera work, pat yourself on the back a few times. I think you’ve earned it. From what I’ve gathered from reading through Eisler’s official website and studying a few lengthy Wikipedia entries on the subject, John Rain is one seriously dangerous individual. In addition to...
- 3/16/2010
- by Todd
- Beyond Hollywood
You can’t go wrong with Gary Oldman in a movie about a hitman, a pretty girl, and evil CIA assassins. The film, which we reported on last year but have heard nothing about since, is called “Rain Fall”, and my guess is that Gary Oldman either plays the head of those evil CIA guys, or, well, he’s probably the head of the evil CIA guys. I’m just guessing, of course, but you don’t pay Gary Oldman and not have him play the heavy. It’s just wrong. Directed by the very cool-sounding Max Mannix, the movie is based on a novel by Barry Eisler, and has an assassin protecting the daughter of one of his victims against other assassins. Probably because he feels bad for whacking her old man or something. That seems to happen a lot in movies about assassins, if you haven’t noticed.
- 2/18/2009
- by Nix
- Beyond Hollywood
Reportedly budgeted at a final of $12m and currently in post-production after shooting in both New York and Tokyo, Rain Fall headlines Gary Oldman as a CIA agent in a Tokyo bureau who is up against the assassin John Rain played by Kippei Shiina. As I'm a big fan of Gary Oldman's work, I'm definitely looking forward to this. "Based on the best-selling novel by Barry Eisler, the film stars Japanese actor Kippei Shiina (Shinobi, Sakuran) as the assassin John Rain who is forced to protect the daughter of one of his own targets. Oldman plays the chief officer of the CIA Tokyo bureau, while Kyoko Hasegawa (Nanayo) plays the daughter." If you head over to the official website which is linked after the break, you can find a few production stills.
Rain Fall official website
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Rain Fall official website
via KFC Cinema (registration required)...
- 10/2/2008
- QuietEarth.us
"The Lonely Maiden," starring Morgan Freeman and Christopher Walken; "The Killing Room," starring Timothy Hutton; and "Powder Blue," starring Forest Whitaker, will all screen for the first time at the 29th American Film Market, running Nov. 5-12 at the Loews Santa Monica Beach Hotel and Le Merigot Beach Hotel in Santa Monica.
The market will present 513 films, including 102 world premieres and 375 market premieres.
In addition to Freeman and Walken, the Yari Film Group's "Maiden" stars William H. Macy; "Killing Room," from ContentFilm International, stars Chloe Sevigny, Nick Cannon and Peter Stormare along with Hutton; Qed International's "Powder Blue" boasts a cast that includes Whitaker, Jessica Biel, Kris Kristofferson, Ray Liotta and Patrick Swayze.
Other pictures set for world premieres include "Baby on Board," with Lara Flynn Boyle, John Corbett, Heather Graham and Jerry O'Connell (Entertainment 7); "Evil Angel," starring Ving Rhames (Arrow Entertainment); "High Life," with Timothy Olyphant (Shoreline Entertainment); "La Linea,...
The market will present 513 films, including 102 world premieres and 375 market premieres.
In addition to Freeman and Walken, the Yari Film Group's "Maiden" stars William H. Macy; "Killing Room," from ContentFilm International, stars Chloe Sevigny, Nick Cannon and Peter Stormare along with Hutton; Qed International's "Powder Blue" boasts a cast that includes Whitaker, Jessica Biel, Kris Kristofferson, Ray Liotta and Patrick Swayze.
Other pictures set for world premieres include "Baby on Board," with Lara Flynn Boyle, John Corbett, Heather Graham and Jerry O'Connell (Entertainment 7); "Evil Angel," starring Ving Rhames (Arrow Entertainment); "High Life," with Timothy Olyphant (Shoreline Entertainment); "La Linea,...
- 10/2/2008
- by By Gregg Kilday
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Jim Gordon gives the bat signal a workout
Photo: Warner Bros. Pictures Gary Oldman is back for his second turn as Lt. Jim Gordon in The Dark Knight and this time his character is given a lot more to do and when asked, Gary isn't afraid to admit he loved the expanded role. He also talks about how great it is working with director Chris Nolan, he gives heartfelt comments regarding Heath Ledger and lets us in a little bit on his future projects. Enjoy! How was it stepping back into character, especially considering you were given so much more to do in this one? Gary Oldman (Go): Yeah, it was very nice of Chris Nolan to write me such a good part. It was great to come back because I really enjoyed working on the first one. I was just actually saying that [Chris] doesn't shout, he doesn't scream,...
Photo: Warner Bros. Pictures Gary Oldman is back for his second turn as Lt. Jim Gordon in The Dark Knight and this time his character is given a lot more to do and when asked, Gary isn't afraid to admit he loved the expanded role. He also talks about how great it is working with director Chris Nolan, he gives heartfelt comments regarding Heath Ledger and lets us in a little bit on his future projects. Enjoy! How was it stepping back into character, especially considering you were given so much more to do in this one? Gary Oldman (Go): Yeah, it was very nice of Chris Nolan to write me such a good part. It was great to come back because I really enjoyed working on the first one. I was just actually saying that [Chris] doesn't shout, he doesn't scream,...
- 7/21/2008
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
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