at Rockefeller Center, celebs are in the streets verbally sparring with crowds … December is well underway. Christmas 2023 is here at last. And whether or not you celebrate the holiday, Dec.
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Valerie Wu Intern Directing duo David and Nathan Zellner’s latest film “Sasquatch Sunset,” starring Riley Keough (“Daisy Jones and the Six”) and Jesse Eisenberg (“The Social Network”), is slated for a theatrical release by film distribution company Bleecker Street in 2024. No plot details have yet been announced. The film depicts “a year in the life of a singular family,” according to its description, and Eisenberg will be playing a hairy, big-footed Sasquatch, which he previously relayed to Variety.
“I play a Sasquatch: full makeup, full body hair, no lines. I grunt, but no lines,” Eisenberg told Variety about his role in the upcoming project, which is currently in post-production. “I’m so looking forward to this.” The Zellners, collectively known as The Zellner Brothers, are known for their work on 2014’s “Kumiko: The Treasure Hunter” (both served as co-writers, with David as director) and 2018’s Western “Damsel” as co-writers and co-directors.
They most recently directed three episodes of Emma Stone and Nathan Fielder’s black comedy television series, “The Curse.” The Zellners have long been fans of the large mythical figure of Sasquatch, and in 2010 made a short surrealist film, “Sasquatch Birth Journal 2,” depicting the birth of Sasquatch. “Sasquatch Birth Journal 2” premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival and was nominated for the Sundance Short Filmmaking Award. “Sasquatch Sunset” is the brothers’ eighth feature film production together.
In addition to the Zellners and Eisenberg as producers, “Sasquatch Sunset” is produced by Lars Knudsen, Tyler Campellone, George Rush and David Harrari. Keough, Ari Aster and Gina Gammell serve as executive producers. Production companies are Square Peg, ZBI and The Space
.at Rockefeller Center, celebs are in the streets verbally sparring with crowds … December is well underway. Christmas 2023 is here at last. And whether or not you celebrate the holiday, Dec.
Selome Hailu NBCUniversal has led the way in terms of holiday season programming. Beginning with record viewership of the annual Macy’s Parade and other ratings wins along the way, the company has boasted a total of 82 million viewers of its holiday programming across NBC and Peacock since Thanksgiving, according to the most current measurement available.
Cuckoo (above) from filmmaker Tilman Singer and Johan Renck’s Spaceman with Adam Sandler, a Netflix film for which a trailer just dropped.The seven films are as follows.Cuckooby Tilman Singer | with Hunter Schafer, Dan Stevens, Jessica Henwick, Marton Csókás, Jan Bluthardt Germany 2024Berlinale Special Gala | World premiereDostoevskij (Dostoevsky)by Damiano & Fabio D’Innocenzo | with Filippo Timi, Gabriel Montesi, Carlotta Gamba, Federico Vanni Italy 2024Berlinale Special | World premiere | SeriesSasquatch Sunsetby David & Nathan Zellner | with Riley Keough, Jesse Eisenberg, Nathan Zellner, Christophe Zajac-Denek USA 2024Berlinale Special | International premiereSeven Veilsby Atom Egoyan | with Amanda Seyfried, Rebecca Liddiard, Douglas Smith, Ambur Braid, Michael Kupfer-Radecky Canada 2023Berlinale Special Gala | International premiereSpacemanby Johan Renck | with Adam Sandler, Carey Mulligan, Kunal Nayyar, Isabella Rossellini, Paul Dano USA 2024Berlinale Special Gala | World premiereTreasureby Julia von Heinz | with Lena Dunham, Stephen Fry, Zbigniew Zamachowski Germany / France 2024Berlinale Special Gala | World premiereWu Suo Zhu (Abiding Nowhere)by Tsai Ming-liangTaiwan / USA 2024Berlinale Special | World premiere | Documentary FormArtistic Director Carlo Chatrian announced seven films in all for next year’s festival with the remaining line-up due in mid-January.“It is with special pleasure and pride that we welcome back directors who have presented their work at the festival in the past. Berlinale Special will be home for new films by Julia von Heinz (Treasure) and Tilman Singer (Cuckoo), both with projects involving American stars, for the irreverent comedy by the Zellner brothers (Sasquatch Sunset) and the dark
Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Johan Renck’s Netflix sci-fi drama “Spaceman,” starring Adam Sandler, Carey Mulligan and Paul Dano, and German filmmaker Julia von Heinz’s “Treasure” – formerly titled “Iron Box” – with Lena Dunham and Stephen Fry, are among high-profile titles set to launch from the upcoming Berlin Film Festival. The 74th Berlinale – which will unveil its competition lineup on Jan.
The Berlinale has announced the first seven productions, including one series, to be invited to the Berlinale Specials strand of its 74th edition running February 15 to 25, 2024.
“Poor Things” in which she plays a sex crazed science experiment. The 35-year-old Oscar winner was onstage on Dec.
We often wax effusive about movies, their meaning, their craft, their intention, how they are sculpted and shaped, but sometimes we forget about the director’s mantra: that casting is everything and we arguably sometimes take for granted how some movies that seem so perfect, may not work at all without the actors and performers at their center. READ MORE: The 21 Best Films Of 2023 2023 was a great year for movies, see our Best Films Of 2023 list, but let’s be real, so many of these movies were make or break based on their performances.
Earlier this year at Fantastic Fest, a lean-mean 86-minute stone-age horror/survival thriller called “The Origin” made its mark on the Austin-based genre film festival. Now retitled “Out Of Darkness,” the film, from Scottish writer/director Andrew Cumming (“Payback” “Beneath”) is coming out early next year.
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Ethan Shanfeld The Sundance Institute unveiled the lineup of 53 short films for the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, taking place Jan. 18-28 in Park City and Salt Lake City, Utah. The film fest will happen in person, with a selection of titles available online from Jan.
Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Iconic, multi-Oscar-winning film “La La Land” is headed back to mainland Chinese cinemas in sessions that dance off on Dec. 22. The worldwide release is overseen by Lionsgate release, while the China re-release is to be piloted by local distributor JL Film.
Bleecker Street said it’s extending the theatrical run of Waitress: The Musical through the holiday season after its “exceptional performance and sellouts nationwide.”
Emma Stone was a sex comedy MVP.The “La La Land” actress got her start in raunch-fests such as 2008’s “The House Bunny,” in which she played the leader of a sorority that invited a retired Playboy Playmate to be its house mother, and she took on the part of a teen outcast who faked hooking up with nerds for a quick buck in “Easy A” in 2010.Running time: 141 minutes. Rated R (strong and pervasive sexual content, graphic nudity, disturbing material, gore, and language).
Manodrome, a new film led by Jesse Eisenberg and Odessa Young. This one first hit screens in Berlin earlier this year, where we caught it, and it will start to roll out on screens starting in the US in November.I described the film as Joker and Taxi Driver by way of Uncut Gems at the time and, looking back, probably still stand by that.
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Emma Stone opened up about intimate scenes in her new movie Poor Things.
Martin Scorsese‘s Western historical epic Killers of the Flower Moon on Wednesday was named Best Film by the National Board of Review, the second major awards honor for the Apple Original Films pic this week after it also won the top prize from the New York Film Critics Circle.
Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic Up, up and away! The Sundance Film Festival has announced the lineup for its 40th edition, which will take place in Park City, Utah, from Jan. 18–28, with the online component starting Jan.
Welp, it looks like we need to update our Most Anticipated 2024 List. And maybe this is a big tease for tomorrow’s Sundance 2024 line-up? Because, today, Bleecker Street Studios announced a film we weren’t sure was shot or ready, but it surely is.
Bleecker Street has quietly snapped up U.S. rights to Sasquatch Sunset, the newest feature from renowned brother filmmakers David and Nathan Zellner (Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter), for release in theaters in 2024.